The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Friday, August 03, 2018

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Interview: “I felt that sense of threat very keenly”
Radio Free Asia, August 2, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/threat-08022018111401.html

胡鞍钢被讽“给帝王唱赞歌” 千人联名要求清华将其开除 (Thousands sign petition to remove Tsinghua professor, stout advocate of China supremacy)
British Broadcasting Corporation, August 3, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-45058201

Related:
胡鞍钢、中美贸易战与“厉害了,我的国” (Professor Hu Angang, trade war, and “My Superior Homeland”)
Deutsche Welle, August 3, 2018
https://p.dw.com/p/32aVF

纽时称有谷歌员工不满公司推中国“净身版”搜寻器愤而辞职 (Google employees rumored to quit job and refuse to participate in developing censored version of search engine)
Radio France Internationale, August 3, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180803-纽时称有谷歌员工不满公司推中国净身版搜寻器愤而辞职