CCP Centennial (中国共产党一百周年)

Xi honours Tibet, Xinjiang officials as Communist Party turns 100
Al Jazeera, June 29, 2021

Reading Between the Lines of the CCP’s Centennial Propaganda Blitz
The Diplomat, June 29, 2021

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THE PARTY WORKS TO ENSURE NOTHING, ESPECIALLY NOT HISTORY, WILL SPOIL 100TH ANNIVERSARY
China Digital Times, June 28, 2021

中共百年大事记：反右 饥荒 文革 六四...受害者被抹掉 (The victims of the Anti-rightist Campaign, Great Famine, Cultural Revolution, and June Fourth are erased from the CPC's Centennial Memorabilia)
Radio France Internationale, June 28, 2021

Xinjiang (新疆)

US ban on China’s Xinjiang solar products linked to alleged forced labour heaps pressure on supply chains
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2021

Is China’s Human Rights Diplomacy Backfiring?
Human Rights Watch, June 28, 2021

Government Accountability (政府问责)

How China Is Trying to Fight Back Against Sanctions
Bloomberg, June 29, 2021

联合国人权专家担忧中国人权捍卫者被判长期监禁和遭受酷刑 (UN Special Rapporteur is concerned that human rights defenders in China are subject to long-term imprisonment and torture)
Radio France Internationale, June 28, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong police may shut down Victoria Park, will put 10,000 officers on streets for July 1 double anniversary of handover, Communist Party’s founding
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2021

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Requests for July 1 march shot down
The Standard, June 29, 2021

National security law: self-censorship concerns mount after Hong Kong’s Stand News purges comment pieces, some touching on sanctions
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2021

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Hong Kong Journalists Expect More Media Arrests, Say Freedom 'in Free Fall'
Radio Free Asia, June 29, 2021

前《蘋果日報》主筆馮偉光准保釋(Bail granted to former Apple Daily editorial writer Fung Wai-kong)
Ming Pao, June 29, 2021

Winandmac 撤出香港、《852 郵報》下架影片　記協：白色恐怖籠罩新聞業界(In response to Winandmac’s decision to leave Hong Kong and “Post 852” move to take down all its videos, the Hong Kong Journalists Association says: white terror is covering Hong Kong media)
Stand News, June 29, 2021

Hong Kong’s RTHK fires veteran radio phone-in host as more shows are axed
Hong Kong Free Press, June 29, 2021

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獲港台通知不再主持節目　區家麟：百分百政治判斷(Allan Au is fired as RTHK radio host, says it is a 100% political decision)
Radio Television Hong Kong, June 28, 2021

消息：The Pulse停播　港台：不時檢視更新節目組合(News: RTHK takes English-language current affairs program, The Pulse, off air)
Ming Pao, June 29, 2021

許智峯：遭匯豐凍結戶口逾半年　「 猶如永久侵吞資產」　促公開交代(Pro-democracy ex-lawmaker Ted Hui calls for accountability saying HSBC has frozen his bank accounts for more than half a year)
Stand News, June 29, 2021

Hong Kong’s judiciary should uphold country’s will, advance its interests, says Beijing’s national security chief in city
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2021

Civil servants' pension threat gains traction
The Standard, June 29, 2021

香港少年犯被逼接受洗脑教育 学者忧成“再教育营”翻版 (Hong Kong to mandate juvenile offenders to receive “national education”; scholar concerned about a Hong Kong version of the “re-education camps”)
Radio Free Asia, June 29, 2021

Hong Kong national security police have watch list of residents to be arrested if they try to flee, sources say
South China Morning Post, June 28, 2021

Crossing the Red Line: Behind China’s Takeover of Hong Kong
The New York Times, June 28, 2021

Commentary (评论)

The Build Back Better World Partnership Could Finally Break the Belt and Road
Foreign Policy, June 28, 2021

评论 | 王丹： 如何认识共产党（二） (Wang Dan: Understanding the Communist Party of China Part 2)
Radio Free Asia, June 28, 2021

CCP Centennial (中国共产党一百周年)

With propaganda push, China’s Communist Party celebrates 100 years
Agence France-Presse, June 28, 2021

Chinese system is the ‘cat that catches most rats’, says Communist Party ahead of centenary celebrations
South China Morning Post, June 25, 2021

期盼中共不再有党庆这一天 美两党众议员推出决议谴责中共践踏人权史(U.S. House introduces bipartisan resolution condemning CPC human rights violations, hoping to see no more CPC celebrations)
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2021

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Gallagher Leads Bipartisan Effort to Highlight CCP's 100 Years of Human Rights Abuses
U.S. House, June 25, 2021

Xinjiang (新疆)

Beijing using its financial muscle to target Uyghurs living abroad – report
The Guardian, June 25, 2021

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No Space Left to Run: China’s Transnational Repression of Uyghurs
Uyghur Human Rights Project, June 24, 2021

China welcomes Ukraine U-turn on Xinjiang human rights call
South China Morning Post, June 27, 2021

China May Open Up to More Foreign Cotton After Xinjiang Ban
Bloomberg, June 24, 2021

How Pakistan Is Helping China Crack Down on Uyghur Muslims
The Diplomat, June 28, 2021

美媒: 中国以疫苗逼迫乌克兰退出新疆人权声明(U.S. media: China uses vaccines to force Ukraine to withdraw from joint statement on Xinjiang human rights)
Deutsche Welle, June 26, 2021

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AP Exclusive: Diplomats say China puts squeeze on Ukraine
AP, June 25, 2021

专栏 | 解读新疆：维吾尔慈善企业家遭判刑入狱(Understanding Xinjiang: Uyghur entrepreneurs sentenced for their charitable contributions)
Radio Free Asia, June 25, 2021

Tibet (西藏)

New President of the Tibetan Exile Government Hopes to Resume Talks With China
The Diplomat, June 25, 2021

四川阿坝僧人仁青持真因煽动分裂国家罪被判处有期徒刑4年零6个月(Sichuan Aba monk Rinchen Tsultrim is sentenced to 4 years, 6 months in prison for inciting splittism)
Weiquanwang, June 26, 2021

Access to Information (公众知情权)

Primary School in China's Shandong Calls on Parents to Search Out Foreign Books
Radio Free Asia, June 28, 2021

Counterterrorism (反恐)

Chinese Hui Muslims trigger storm by wearing traditional dress to event to promote ethnic unity
South China Morning Post, June 27, 2021

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Beijing seems unlikely to rein in its aggressive Wolf Warrior diplomats
South China Morning Post, June 27, 2021

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Furious patriots: China’s diplomatic makeover backfires
Agence France-Presse, June 27, 2021

France and U.S. Agree on the Perils of a Rising China, Blinken Says
美国务卿布林肯：美法就中国崛起风险达成共识
The New York Times, June 28, 2021

新冠病毒溯源研究三项新发现：条条不利中共掩盖真相的努力(Three new findings in Covid-19 origin study go against CPC’s efforts to cover up the truth)
Voice of America, June 27, 2021

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Xi Jinping’s Complicated Quest for the State-Corporate Technology Complex
The Diplomat, June 28, 2021

Hong Kong (香港)

Security law: Stand News opinion articles axed, directors resign amid reported threats to Hong Kong digital outlets
Hong Kong Free Press, June 28, 2021

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Hong Kong pro-democracy media buckles under China pressure
BBC News, June 28, 2021

《立場新聞》公告(Stand News announcement)
Stand News, June 27, 2021

National security law: Apple Daily editorial writer arrested at airport while trying to leave Hong Kong
South China Morning Post, June 27, 2021

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Apple Daily Stays Alive in Taiwan After Closure in Hong Kong
The Diplomat, June 26, 2021

逾百人領養《蘋果》大樓盆栽 市民：信有日可物歸原主(Over 100 adopt plants from Apple Daily headquarters)
inmedia.hk, June 27, 2021

Hong Kong needs law to tackle ‘hostility against the police’, says force’s new chief
The Guardian, June 26, 2021

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Explainer | National security: what is Article 23 in Hong Kong and why is the issue back in the spotlight?
South China Morning Post, June 28, 2021

耀東邨單位鐵閘貼疑違《港區國安法》貼紙　37歲男涉作具煽動意圖作為被捕(37-year old man arrested under National Security Law for alleged incitement over sticker at metal gate of housing flat)
Ming Pao, June 28, 2021

Is Hong Kong’s national security law being weaponised? Questions being asked as first case out of 61 goes before courts
South China Morning Post, June 28, 2021

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Beijing's national security law takes a toll in Hong Kong
AXIOS, June 28, 2021

最新數據揭示《港區國安法》的拘捕規律(Latest statistics reveal pattern of arrests under National Security Law)
Stand News, June 27, 2021

Hong Kong Neo Democrats party disbands citing security law and ‘much worse’ political environment
Hong Kong Free Press, June 28, 2021

Hong Kong police ban annual July 1 democracy demo, citing Covid-19
Hong Kong Free Press, June 28, 2021

Commentary (评论)

Rest in peace Apple Daily Hong Kong: Raucous, independent and proud
Hong Kong Free Press, June 26, 2021

CPC Centennial (中国共产党一百周年)

Between chaos and control: China’s century of revolutions
Financial Times, June 25, 2021

'Red Tourism' Flourishes in China Ahead of Party Centennial
The New York Times, June 25, 2021

Xinjiang (新疆)

Xinjiang forced labour bill moves ahead as it clears key US Senate committee
South China Morning Post, June 25, 2021

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Exclusive | In windfall for Xinjiang, huge US mutual funds invest millions in its companies
South China Morning Post, June 25, 2021

Nike chief executive says brand is ‘of China and for China’
Financial Times, June 25, 2021

China blasts US over trade restrictions on Xinjiang firms
Radio France Internationale, June 25, 2021

Unions join call for Australian anti-slavery law to prevent profiting from forced labour, including in Xinjiang
The Guardian, June 25, 2021

China’s Transnational Repression Leaves Uyghurs No Space to Run
The Diplomat, June 24, 2021

Ferocious birth-control policies in Xinjiang are racially targeted
The Economist, June 26th 2021 edition

联合国人权专员:中国不合作也要调查新疆拘押营(U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights: Even if China does not cooperate, UN will investigate Xinjiang detention camps)
Deutsche Welle, June 25, 2021

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UN rights boss signals she may move on Xinjiang without China nod
Reuters, June 25, 2021

最新报告揭示中共加速和扩大在全球迫害新疆穆斯林(Latest report reveals that CPC steps up its global persecution of Muslims from Xinjiang)
Voice of America, June 25, 2021

Access to Justice (司法公正)

TRANSLATION: “PROGRAM-THINK,” NOTORIOUS ANONYMOUS CHINESE BLOGGER, FEARED DETAINED
China Digital Times, June 24, 2021

Access to Information (公众知情权)

POLITICS AND PROMOTIONS WEIGH ON CHINESE ACADEMICS
China Digital Times, June 24, 2021

中国封杀台山核电站燃料棒破损信息(China blocks information about damaged fuel rods at Taishan Nuclear Power Plant)
Radio France Internationale, June 25, 2021

Government Accountability (政府问责)

China is contributing to the ‘Cold War mentality,’ too
The Washington Post, June 25, 2021

众议院外委会定于下周审议范围广泛的抗衡中国法案(U.S. House Foreign Affairs Cmte to consider sweeping China bill next week )
Voice of America, June 25, 2021

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U.S. House committee due to consider sweeping China bill next week
Reuters, June 24, 2021

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

路透社：太平洋岛国在拒绝华为投标后寻求澳大利亚协助修建海底电缆(Reuters: Pacific island nation Nauru seeks Australia's help in building undersea cable after rejecting Huawei’s bid)
Voice of America, June 25, 2021

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EXCLUSIVE Pacific island turns to Australia for undersea cable after spurning China
Reuters, June 24, 2021