China places top energy official, a senior Uighur, under investigation
Channel NewsAsia, September 21, 2018
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-places-top-energy-official--a-senior-uighur--under-investigation-10744128
China detains, “disappears” parents of faulty vaccine victims
Radio Free Asia, September 20, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/vaccine-parents-09202018124833.html
China looks to restrict imported current affairs TV content
Reuters, September 20, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-censorship-content/china-looks-to-restrict-imported-current-affairs-tv-content-idUSKCN1M02G0
China expunges unapproved, foreign content from school textbooks
Reuters, September 20, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-education/china-expunges-unapproved-foreign-content-from-school-textbooks-idUSKCN1M00D9
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中国审查教科书 欲删除未经允许的外国教材 (Ministry of Education conducts a comprehensive review of textbooks, prepares to remove foreign textbook content to counter so-called Western influence)
Voice of America, September 20, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/China-Expunges-Unapproved-Foreign-Content-From-School-Textbooks-20180920/4579552.html
两部门开展网络文学专项整治 三个月责令整改230余家单位 (In special rectification campaign of literature online, more than 230 companies ordered to reform in 3 months)
Beijing News, September 20, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/09/20/506715.html
China’s Global Times plays a peculiar role
The Economist, September 20, 2018
https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/20/chinas-global-times-plays-a-peculiar-role
The decline and fall of Chinese Buddhism: how modern politics and fast money corrupted an ancient religion
South China Morning Post, September 21, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2165088/decline-and-fall-chinese-buddhism-how-modern-politics-and-fast
New era for religion in China as party tightens controls
Voice of America, September 20, 2018
https://www.voanews.com/a/new-era-for-religion-in-china-as-party-tightens-controls/4580289.html
Police hold kindergarten principal in China's Yunnan amid sexual abuse probe
Radio Free Asia, September 20, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/yunnan-abuse-09202018135042.html
Hong Kong cardinal calls for Vatican official to resign over China dealings
Voice of America, September 20, 2018
https://www.voanews.com/a/hong-kong-cardinal-calls-for-vatican-official-to-resign-over-china-dealings/4579794.html
老兵集结北京等地维权 当局维稳压力山大 (Hundreds of veterans from multiple provinces gather in Beijing to protest their treatment)
Voice of America, September 20, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/4579792.html
敏感时刻：自由派经济学者抱团发声 (Prominent Chinese liberal economists call on government to continue reforms at important forum in Beijing)
Radio Free Asia, September 19, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/jingmao/xql-09192018133233.html
Pakistan asks China to soften restrictions on Muslims
The Nation, September 20, 2018
https://nation.com.pk/20-Sep-2018/pakistan-asks-china-to-soften-restrictions-on-muslims
Beijing complains as U.S. “orders Chinese media to register as foreign agents”
The Guardian, September 20, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/beijing-complains-as-us-orders-chinese-media-to-register-as-foreign-agents
China says booming tourism shows everything is fine in crackdown-hit Xinjiang
Reuters, September 20, 2018
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/20/china-says-booming-tourism-shows-everything-fine-crackdown-hit/
Weidmann urges lawmakers to remain open to Chinese takeovers of German firms
Financial Times, September 20, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/56c83526-bce8-11e8-8274-55b72926558f
China distances children from families to subdue Muslim west
Washington Post, September 20, 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/china-distances-children-from-families-to-subdue-muslim-west/2018/09/20/87aec924-bd3e-11e8-8243-f3ae9c99658a_story.html
中國駐瑞典大使：瑞典人想了解新疆 應親自去看 無人強迫桂民海認罪 (Chinese ambassador to Sweden denies detaining Uyghurs in Xinjiang or forcing Swedish citizen to confess on TV)
The Stand News, September 20, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/china/新疆再教育營-中國駐瑞典大使-瑞典人想了解新疆-應親自去看-無人強迫桂民海認罪/
财政部原党组副书记、副部长张少春严重违纪违法被开除党籍和公职 (Former vice CPC secretary of Ministry of Finance expelled from party, public office for serious disciplinary, legal violations)
People's Daily, September 20, 2018
http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0920/c1001-30305973.html
贵州省委原常委、省政府原副省长王晓光严重违纪违法被开除党籍和公职 (Former member of CPC Standing Committee and former lieutenant governor of Guizhou expelled from party, public office for serious disciplinary, legal violations)
People's Daily, September 20, 2018
http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0920/c1001-30305555.html
Translation: How public security databases sort China’s citizens
China Digital Times, September 19, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/09/translation-how-public-security-databases-sort-chinas-citizens/
Beijing recruits Hong Kong artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime to lead tech drive
South China Morning Post, September 20, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/2165105/beijing-recruits-sensetime-ai-start-hong-kong-lead
President and CTO of internet data analysis company iResearch “disappear” for investigation
TechNode, September 20, 2018
https://technode.com/2018/09/20/iresearch-data-analysis-dissapear/
U.S. sanctions Chinese agency for buying Russian military equipment
Voice of America, September 20, 2018
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-sanctions-chinese-agency-for-buying-russian-military-equipment/4580252.html
Do more to market mainland China express rail link to Hongkongers, MTR told
South China Morning Post, September 21, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/2165102/do-more-market-mainland-china-express-rail-link-hongkongers
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China tightens embrace of Hong Kong with bullet train, other mega projects
Reuters, September 21, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-politics-integration/china-tightens-embrace-of-hong-kong-with-bullet-train-other-mega-projects-idUSKCN1M1005
Hong Kong’s “umbrella movement” activists focus of new film, Last Exit to Kai Tak
South China Morning Post, September 21, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2164971/hong-kongs-umbrella-movement-activists-focus-new
Will Taiwan trap itself into “One China” again?
The Diplomat, September 20, 2018
https://thediplomat.com/2018/09/will-taiwan-trap-itself-into-one-china-again/
Learning to survive without WeChat
The New York Times, September 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/opinion/learning-to-survive-without-wechat-in-china.html
Uighurs in the laogai: How China's persecution of a minority turned my fiction into fact
Global Voices, September 20, 2018
https://globalvoices.org/2018/09/20/uighurs-in-the-laogai-how-chinas-persecution-of-a-minority-turned-my-fiction-into-fact/
學術爭論的基本倫理 (Basic ethics of academic debate)
Ming Pao, September 17, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/pns/dailynews/web_tc/article/20180918/s00012/1537209496585
Uyghur Woman held in airport in Turkey now free to join family
Radio Free Asia, September 19, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/airport-09192018170131.html
Cyberspace controls set to strengthen under China’s new internet boss
South China Morning Post, September 20, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2164923/cyberspace-controls-set-strengthen-under-chinas-new-internet/
广电总局：拟禁止广播电视机构在黄金时间段播境外视听节目 (National Radio and Television Administration drafts regulation to ban foreign television shows from prime time)
The Paper, September 20, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2461018
New Zealand China expert's office swept for bugs
Sydney Morning Herald, September 20, 2018
https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/nz-china-expert-s-office-swept-for-bugs-20180920-p504xx.html
Editor wanted by police from China's Jiangxi over “coffin-snatching” video
Radio Free Asia, September 19, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/editor-wanted-by-police-from-chinas-jiangxi-09192018101837.html
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曝光赣官是贪“棺” 粤编遭跨省追捕 (Guangdong editor chased by Jiangxi police for exposing Jiangxi local officials plan to destroy villager’s coffin after funeral policy reform)
Radio Free Asia, September 19, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql1-09192018100957.html
The struggles of reporting on China's secret Uighur “re-education camps”
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, September 16, 2018
http://www.abc.net.au/news/about/backstory/television/2018-09-16/inside-chinas-secret-re-education-camps-cracking-down-on-islam/10249426
中国公民发起万里行寻找被失踪人权律师高智晟 (Chinese citizens start “ten-thousand-mile walk” for disappeared human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng)
Voice of America, September 20, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/news-chinese-activists-searching-missing-rights-attorney-gao-zhisheng-20180919/4578379.html
Wife of Chinese cartoonist calls for pressure on Beijing, alleges torture
Radio Free Asia, September 19, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/pressure-09192018115822.html
“苦难忧患属于我”：许志永详述狱中生活 (“Suffering and hardship belong to me”: A voice from a Chinese prison)
The New York Times, September 19, 2018
EN: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/world/asia/china-dissident-xu-zhiyong.html
CN: https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20180908/china-builds-a-vast-network-of-detention-camps-to-transform-muslims/zh-ha/
Protest meets party control: Renegotiating social norms online in present-day China
Jamestown Foundation, September 19, 2018
https://jamestown.org/program/protest-meets-party-control-renegotiating-social-norms-online-in-present-day-china/?mc_cid=e24a9b5ebd&mc_eid=a762503c8c
Beijing Marathon organizers investigate claim of sexual harassment of volunteer cheerleader
South China Morning Post, September 19, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2164899/beijing-marathon-organisers-investigate-claim-sexual-harassment
Europe unveils its answer to China’s Belt and Road plan
Financial Times, September 20, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/bbcda96a-bc1b-11e8-8274-55b72926558f
Xinjiang human rights crisis draws global condemnation
China Digital Times, September 19, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/09/xinjiang-human-rights-crisis-draws-global-condemnation/
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中国特色解决民族问题正确道路的辉煌宁夏篇 (The correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics - Ningxia)
People’s Daily, September 20, 2018
http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0920/c1001-30303891.html
国办发文要求建立全国短缺药品监测系统(General Office of the State Council requests establishment of national drug shortage monitoring system)
Beijing News, September 19, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/09/19/506448.html
司法部整顿律师业：统统姓党(Ministry of Justice wants legal profession to accept CPC leadership)
Radio Free Asia, September 19, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/hj-09182018103501.html
United States takes swipe at China’s media curbs with foreign agent orders on CGTN and Xinhua
South China Morning Post, September 19, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2164919/united-states-takes-swipe-chinas-media-curbs-foreign-agent
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China urges United States not to put up barriers to reporting
Reuthers, September 19, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-media/china-urges-united-states-not-to-put-up-barriers-to-reporting-idUSKCN1LZ170?
Huang Kunming: China willing to cooperate with world in human rights
State Council Information Office, September 19, 2018
http://english.scio.gov.cn/topnews/2018-09/19/content_63613743.htm
Facial recognition technology installed at Hong Kong International Airport
South China Morning Post, September 19, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/2164901/facial-recognition-technology-installed-hong-kong
Germany considers billion euro fund to stop China buying up vital tech firms
Reuters, September 19, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2164895/germany-considers-billion-euro-fund-stop-china-buying-vital
Chinese cyber spies target Taiwan's leader before elections
Sydney Morning Herald, September 20, 2018
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/chinese-cyber-spies-target-taiwan-s-leader-before-elections-20180920-p504xc.html
New University of Hong Kong chief Zhang Xiang: “Campus should not be a platform for political advocacy”
South China Morning Post, September 19, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2164896/new-university-hong-kong-chief-campus-should-not-be
Ousted lawmaker Lau Siu-lai to run in November’s Legislative Council by-election
Hong Kong Free Press, September 20, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/20/ousted-lawmaker-lau-siu-lai-run-novembers-legislative-council-election
Muslims in Xinjiang are facing human rights abuses: Time for China scholars to break the silence
South China Morning Post, September 20, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2164698/muslims-xinjiang-are-facing-human-rights-abuses-time-china-scholars
Is the Hong Kong judiciary being lenient with young activists?
South China Morning Post, September 20, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2164861/hong-kong-judiciary-being-lenient-young-activists
中共速朽论和习近平无能论为何是错的 (Why liberals are wrong in their theories on Xi Jingping’s rapid decay and incompetence)
The New York Times, September 19, 2018
https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20180919/why-the-liberals-get-it-wrong/
China is at risk of becoming a colonialist power
Financial Times, September 19, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/186743b8-bb25-11e8-94b2-17176fbf93f5
Report: China’s long game on human rights at the United Nations
Brookings, September 19, 2018
https://www.brookings.edu/research/chinas-long-game-on-human-rights-at-the-united-nations/
China has chosen cultural genocide in Xinjiang—For now
Foreign Policy, September 19, 2018
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/19/china-has-chosen-cultural-genocide-in-xinjiang-for-now/
Five Uyghur professors from Xinjiang University held in political “re-education camps”
Radio Free Asia, September 18, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/professors-09182018151339.html
黄琦案云里雾里 一被告控罪减轻 (Three defendants in Huang Qi case now being dealt with separately, one to receive lesser charge)
Radio Free Asia, September 18, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql1-09182018095239.html
“毒糖杀人案” 当事人李锦莲：精神损害赔偿压得太低 将进行申诉 (Li Jinlian to appeal inadequate compensation for 20 years’ imprisonment on wrongful murder conviction)
Beijing News, September 18, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/09/18/506069.html
北京通州法院：未成年人受侵害 六成系“熟人作案 (Beijing Tongzhou Court: 60% of crimes against minors are committed by teachers, relatives, neighbors)
Beijing News, September 18, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/09/18/506015.html
司法部部长：进一步提高政治站位，狠抓律师党建工作 (Minister of Justice: Further elevate politics, fiercely enforce party-work among lawyers)
The Paper, September 18, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2450392
最高法部署司法解释工作:“个别条文”需适时修订 (Supreme People’s Court issues new work plan for fully implementing socialist core values in judicial interpretations)
Beijing News, September 18, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/09/18/505973.html
Uyghur mother of 3 detained in Turkey, fate uncertain
Radio Free Asia, September 17, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/turkey-09172018153034.html
Ailing Chinese democracy activist probed for “subversion” over art auction
Radio Free Asia, September 17, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/auction-09172018113425.html
China's Xinjiang Muslims live in fear of disappearing into camps
Deutsche Welle, September 17, 2018
https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-xinjiang-muslims-live-in-fear-of-disappearing-into-camps/a-45525980
Watchdog urges United Nations to defy Chinese pressure and let Taiwanese journalists cover events
Hong Kong Free Press, September 19, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/19/watchdog-urges-united-nations-defy-chinese-pressure-let-taiwanese-journalists-cover-events/
The breakdown of the feedback loop
China Media Project, September 19, 2018
http://chinamediaproject.org/2018/09/19/the-breakdown-of-the-feedback-loop/
教育部：坚决清理以境外课程教材替代国家课程教材行为 (Ministry of Education to penalize those using foreign teaching materials in place of domestic ones)
The Paper, September 19, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2456807
Justice Department has ordered key Chinese state media firms to register as foreign agents
The Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2018
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-has-ordered-key-chinese-state-media-firms-to-register-as-foreign-agents-1537296756?mod=e2twp
中国网友微信转发非洲猪瘟疫情消息遭处罚 (Five netizens recently summoned or detained for reposting news about “African swine fever” on WeChat group)
Voice of America, September 18, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/news-chinese-netizens-detained-for-posting-news-on-african-swine-fever-20180918/4576345.html
China’s propaganda mission in 15 characters
China Media Project, September 17, 2018
http://chinamediaproject.org/2018/09/17/chinas-propaganda-mission-in-15-characters/
疑似范冰冰刚说我还活着就又被消声了 (“I am still alive” message on Fan Bingbing’s Weibo appears briefly before being deleted)
Radio France Internationale, September 17, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180917-疑似范冰冰刚说我还活着就又被消声了
藏维蒙台港大陆人士联合国前联合抗议习近平 (Human rights organizations from 13 countries protest Xi Jinping outside UN as General Assembly convenes new session)
Voice of America, September 19, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/demonstration-20180918/4577312.html
Identifying the trends in workers’ collective action 2015-17
China Labour Bulletin, September 19, 2018
https://www.clb.org.hk/content/identifying-trends-workers%E2%80%99-collective-action-2015-17
Chinese feminists welcome progress after anti-harassment adverts on Beijing subway win widespread backing
South China Morning Post, September 18, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2164717/chinese-feminists-welcome-progress-after-anti-harassment-adverts
709抓不尽？“律师后俱乐部”再战江湖
China's embattled human rights lawyers set up legal consultancy
Radio Free Asia, September 18, 2018
EN: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/chinas-embattled-human-rights-lawyers-set-up-legal-consultancy-09182018113025.html
CH: https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf2-09182018095145.html
Ejection of Chinese tourists in Sweden sparks outcry, embarrassment
Radio Free Asia, September 18, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/tourists-09182018113737.html
敢言教授杨绍政遭开除后又被“断粮” (Against rules, university stops paying professor appealing his dismissal for criticizing authorities)
Radio Free Asia, September 17, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-09172018092113.html
Four Tibetan Monks Detained Over Land Protest in Ngaba
Radio Free Asia, September 17, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/land-09172018154340.html
浙江著名异议人士、中国民主党人朱虞夫先生或因慈善捐款被当局传唤、抄家 (Zhejiang dissenter summoned, house raided for making charitable donation to political prisoners)
China Human Rights Defenders, September 17, 2018
http://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2018/09/blog-post_69.html
Former top Chinese officials call for better protection of human rights and justice for all
South China Morning Post, September 18, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2164770/former-top-chinese-officials-call-better-protection-human-rights
河南南召一村民在看守所羁押期间死亡，家属称死者因上访被刑拘（Villager in Henan dies in detention center, family claims he was detained for petitioning）
Beijing News, September 18, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/inside/2018/09/18/506142.html
13批次药品不合格遭药监局通报 涉吉林双星等8家药企（State Food and Drug Administration lists 13 batches of substandard drugs）
Beijing News, September 18, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/09/18/506106.html
US, EU and China vie for influence in Eastern Europe
Associated Press, September 18, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2164611/us-eu-and-china-vie-influence-eastern-europe
Chinese foreign minister to attend 73rd UN general assembly session
Sina English, September 18, 2018
http://english.sina.com/china/d/2018-09-18/detail-ifxeuwwr5491631.shtml
中澳关系紧张下 孔子学院触发的争议 (Controversy over Confucius Institutes as China-Australia tensions rise)
BBC News, September 18, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/world-45543977
China accuses Taiwan of using students for espionage
The New York Times, September 17, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/world/asia/china-taiwan-espionage-students.html