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‘We in the west were blinded’: China crackdown on business has Maoist roots
‘Anti-spying’ raids on consulting firms and attacks on tech companies are being driven by party ideology, says academic Chris Marquis
Verna Yu
21, May, 2023 @11:50 AM
Chinese activist sentenced to eight years on subversion charges
Yang Maodong called it a ‘score-settling’ punishment for his two decades of rights advocacy
Verna Yu
12, May, 2023 @11:38 AM
Hong Kong political cartoonist axed after 40 years following criticism from officials
Wong Kei-kwan, known as Zunzi, says it was a ‘mutual decision’ after the Ming Pao newspaper ended his column
Verna Yu
12, May, 2023 @1:21 AM
Hong Kong passes law to limit work of foreign lawyers amid ongoing Jimmy Lai case
Amended legislation gives chief executive power to veto any foreign lawyer working on cases brought under national security law
Helen Davidson in Taipei and Verna Yu
11, May, 2023 @9:41 PM
Hong Kong schools in crisis as teachers and students flee ‘toxic’ political climate
Parents and teachers say the national security law, including the intensification of ‘patriotic education’, have prompted them to leave the city they love
Verna Yu
08, May, 2023 @11:03 PM
How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state
Experts say Xu Zhiyong’s fate symbolises the rise and fall of China’s ill-fated rights movement
Verna Yu
16, Apr, 2023 @11:23 PM
Outcry over lengthy jail terms handed to China human rights lawyers
UN rights chief voices concern over sentencing of Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong
Helen Davidson, Amy Hawkins, Verna Yu and agencies
11, Apr, 2023 @8:15 AM
Hong Kong: two arrested for possessing ‘seditious’ children’s book
Arrests believed to be first time police have detained citizens for possessing literature deemed seditious by authorities
Verna Yu
17, Mar, 2023 @11:53 AM
Doctor who exposed China’s cover-up of Sars crisis dies aged 91
Dr Jiang Yanyong revealed true extent of 2003 outbreak and was put under house arrest for denouncing Tiananmen Square massacre
Verna Yu
14, Mar, 2023 @5:58 PM
‘A defeated person’: sidelined by Xi, China’s Li Keqiang bows out as premier
Hopes that Li would be a liberal reformer were curbed by Xi Jinping as the president became more and more powerful
Verna Yu
11, Mar, 2023 @1:01 AM
Trial of the ‘Hong Kong 47’ symbolises China’s attempts to dissolve civil society
Experts say Chinese authorities want to send the message that critical voices deemed a threat to the regime will be erased
Verna Yu
15, Feb, 2023 @7:00 PM
China ‘spy balloon’ wakes up world to new era of war at edge of space
The ‘poor man’s satellite’ offers a relatively cheap way of exploiting a previously inaccessible high-altitude level of the skies
Luke Taylor in Bogotá, Verna Yu , Hugo Lowell and Julian Borger in Washington
10, Feb, 2023 @6:55 PM
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