Thursday, October 22, 2015

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China investigates senior military logistics officer
Reuters, October 21, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/21/us-china-corruption-military-idUSKCN0SF0BV20151021

No golf, “extravagant eating” or extra-marital sex: China's Communist Party lays down the law to its members on “corrupt practices”
South China Morning Post, October 22, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1870770/no-golf-or-extra-marital-sex-chinas-communist-party

Time to end China's one-child policy urgently: government advisers warn of demographic crisis ahead
South China Morning Post, October 21, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1870195/its-time-allow-more-babies-china-urged-government

Human rights: What is China accused of?
British Broadcasting Corporation, October 21, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34592336

Xi Jinping: World has “room for improvement” on human rights—video
The Guardian, October 22, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/oct/21/xi-jinping-china-has-room-for-improvement-on-human-rights-video

Related:
【習近平訪英】英記者尖銳問人權 習:人權保障沒有最好 只有更好 (Xi Jinping’s visit to UK: BBC journalist asks pointed question about human rights, Xi says, globally, there’s no “best human rights protection,” only “better”)
Mingpao, October 21, 2015
http://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20151021/s00005/1445440893664

Critics slam U.K. government for “selling out” to China on rights
Radio Free Asia, October 21, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-britain-10212015122638.html