For China’s web platforms, the future is sanitized
Sixth Tone, December 26, 2018
British publisher pulls academic journals from China after government complaint
Reuters, December 24, 2018
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Access to Information (信息公开)
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
Tibetan passport restrictions limit attendance at Dalai Lama prayer gathering
Radio Free Asia, December 26, 2018
“我们不会抛弃信仰”：政府严打下的中国地下教会
As China cracks down on churches, Christians declare, “We will not forfeit our faith”
The New York Times, December 25, 2018
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圣诞在中国：多地再颁圣诞禁令 “洋节”争议显官方对宗教忧虑 (Christmas in China: Multiple provinces issue “Christmas ban,” full police surveillance on public spaces, schools encourage boycott against festival)
BBC News, December 25, 2018Protestant “house churches” raided in China on Christmas Eve
Radio Free Asia, December 25, 2018
Hong Kong activists send more than 1,000 cards to political prisoners
Radio Free Asia, December 25, 2018
Government Accountability (政府问责)
CPC meeting underlines core status of Xi
Sina English, December 27, 2018
China accuses France of siding with its allies after Paris call for Canadians’ release
South China Morning Post, December 25, 2018
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Germany concerned “political motives” behind China’s detention of Canadians
Agence France-Presse, December 24, 2018
UN members thwart China’s bid to gut funds for Myanmar probe
Human Rights Watch, December 24, 2018
ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)
Company says “smart uniforms” won’t track students
Sixth Tone, December 26, 2018
Huawei vows to push on with 5G development despite bans, Meng Wanzhou arrest
South China Morning Post, December 25, 2018
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华为事件发酵：英国应急服务核心网移除华为设备 (British Telecom confirms removal of Huawei equipment from emergency services network)
BBC News, December 26, 2018
Hong Kong (香港)
Single mainland mothers with children born in city join Christmas Day march to ask for Hong Kong ID cards
South China Morning Post, December 25, 2018
Why Hong Kong rejected Taiwanese singer Freddy Lim’s visa application
South China Morning Post, December 24, 2018
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Taiwan band Chthonic live streams to HK after visa rejection
Focus Taiwan, December 26, 2018入境處拒林昶佐屬越權兼非法 (Visa denial for Chthonic Freddy Lim is ultra-vires and against the law)
Inmediahk.net, December 24, 2018
Hong Kong justice chief Teresa Cheng under fire after rejecting calls to further explain CY Leung’s UGL payment case
South China Morning Post, December 26, 2018
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鄭若驊說法違背律政司一貫政策 亦違反法治精神 (Teresa Cheng’s explanation is against Department of Justice common practice and spirit of the rule of law, says scholar)
The Stand News, December 27, 2018
Commentary (评论)
Human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang’s secret trial
Jerome Cohen, December 27, 2018
Why the Jasic dispute matters: This year and in the years to come
China Labour Bulletin, December 24, 2018
My declaration: The faith of disobedience
China Change, December 24, 2018
Monday, December 24, 2018
Xinjiang (新疆)
“We are very scared”: Chinese Muslims in Ningxia fear they are next for internment camps
The Telegraph, December 21, 2018
Indonesian Muslims protest China’s detention of Uyghurs
Associated Press, December 21, 2018
Popular Uyghur comedian disappears, believed detained
Radio Free Asia, December 21, 2018
Beijing slams reports of forced labor in Muslim detention camps
The Telegraph, December 21, 2018
Access to Justice (司法公正)
China’s death penalty is popular and releasing data will fuel calls for more executions, judge says
Reuters, December 21, 2018
Tiananmen Square protest leader charged with subversion in China's Guangxi
Radio Free Asia, December 21, 2018
加强维稳 广东驱逐异议人士
Dissidents forced to leave China's Guangdong in “stability maintenance” crackdown
Radio Free Asia, December 21, 2018
Access to Information (信息公开)
Chinese tech under the microscope: U.S. agencies step up reviews of research activity on American campuses
South China Morning Post, December 21, 2018
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
Hong Kong Christians don all black in show of support for mainland Chinese believers facing crackdown ahead of Christmas
South China Morning Post, December 23, 2018
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China's campaign against Christmas makes celebrating a difficult choice for citizens
Global Voices, December 22, 2018The crackdown on Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church: A backgrounder
China Change, December 21, 2018
Translation: Monitoring and harassment of Renda workers’ rights group
China Digital Times, December 21, 2018
Government Accountability (政府问责)
China’s State Council makes big changes as heads of nine of 15 agencies are replaced in 2018
South China Morning Post, December 23, 2018
Canada presses China on “arbitrary” detention of citizens
The New York Times, December 22, 2018
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加拿大强烈要求中国放人 美英欧盟齐齐声援 (Canada demands release of detained citizens in China, with support from U.S., U.K., EU)
Voice of America, December 22, 2018
桂林一对夫妻违反“限制消费令”，儿子被迫转学 (Guilin student forced to change schools because education fees violated parents’ “expenses limitations” under social credit blacklist)
The Paper, December 22, 2018
China boosts childcare and maternal health services in bid to lift birth rate
South China Morning Post, December 21, 2018
China says “resolutely opposes” new U.S. law on Tibet
Reuters, December 20, 2018
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President Trump signs Tibet Reciprocity Act into law
Radio Free Asia, December 21, 2018
Hong Kong (香港)
稱團隊早思輪住選立會 朱凱廸：做不到議員做議助 (“If not legislator, then assistant,” says Eddie Chu in face of possible further disqualification in 2020)
Ming Pao, December 24, 2018
Taiwanese heavy metal band Chthonic led by pro-independence lawmaker cancels Hong Kong show over work visa issue
South China Morning Post, December 22, 2018
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台湾闪灵乐队不能入境 盘点近期被香港拒签的那些人 (A summary of Hong Kong’s visa denials as Taiwan’s “Chthonic” band barred from entering for concert performance)
BBC News, December 24, 2018
Bar Assoc. urges prosecutors to review decision to drop corruption case against ex-Hong Kong leader CY Leung
Hong Kong Free Press, December 22, 2018
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【UGL事件．短片】民主派稱1200人遊行促鄭若驊交代不檢控梁振英原因 警：高峰時525人 (Protestors march to demand Department of Justice explain decision not to prosecute CY Leung)
Ming Pao, December 23, 2018
Four who attacked ex-lawmaker Nathan Law jailed immediately as judge dismisses “frivolous and vexatious” appeal
Hong Kong Free Press, December 21, 2018
鄭若驊住宅僭建 刑事檢控專員指證據不足不起訴 僅控丈夫潘樂陶 (Secretary of Justice not prosecuted for unauthorized building works for insufficient evidence, only husband charged)
The Stand News, December 21, 2018
Commentary (评论)
中共正在改变改革开放的历史叙事 (CPC is rewriting the history of Reform and Opening Up)
The New York Times, December 24, 2018
Dear Xi Jinping, Hong Kong people are quite gullible…
Hong Kong Free Press, December 23, 2018
China’s Canadian hostages
The New York Times, December 23, 2018
Muslim cleansing: A global pandemic?
Al Jazeera, December 22, 2018
专访艾未未: 人权像空气和水分 (Interview with Ai Weiwei: Human rights are like air and water)
Deutsche Welle, December 21, 2018
A look back at China in 2018
ChinaFile, December 21, 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
Xinjiang (新疆)
The Uyghur on the front page
China Media Project, December 20, 2018
Muslim Pakistan says outcry over China’s Xinjiang detention camps has been “sensationalised”
Agence France-Presse, December 20, 2018
China's information war against the Uyghurs
The Diplomat, December 20, 2018
How to hide illegal detentions? China gets creative
Bitter Winter, December 19, 2018
陕西省市场监督管理局: 关于废止陕西省地方标准《清真食品认证通则》的通告
(Shaanxi abolishes regulations on halal classification of food products)
Shaanxi Administration for Market Regulation, December 18, 2018
Access to Justice (司法公正)
China: UN human rights experts gravely concerned about Huang Qi’s health
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, December 20, 2018
Canadian detained in China questioned daily, no lawyer access, not allowed to turn lights out at night: Sources
Reuters, December 21, 2018
China executes petitioner who killed police officer bringing him home
Radio Free Asia, December 20, 2018
Access to Information (信息公开)
Please welcome China’s WeChat to the #resistance
Buzzfeed, December 19, 2018
Millions employed to manipulate public opinion
Bitter Winter, December 19, 2018
Citizen Participation (公民参与)
海外维吾尔人白宫前抗议北京的新疆政策 (Uyghurs in U.S. hold rally in front of White House to protest Beijing’s Xinjiang policy)
Voice of America, December 21, 2018
美国华人削发 声援709案家属 (Supporters in U.S. shave heads in support of 709 lawyers’ families)
Radio Free Asia, December 20, 2018
Tracking the ever-present danger for workers on the streets of China
China Labour Bulletin, December 20, 2018
Pre-Christmas crackdown on Christians as China escalates religious persecution
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, December 20, 2018
LGBT parents challenge stereotypes in China
Reuters, December 20, 2018
Government Accountability (政府问责)
China's top legislature expresses strong indignation at U.S. act on Tibet
Sina English, December 21, 2018
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美国反制西藏旅行限制 中方警告“后果自负” (China responds to U.S. Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act, warning of consequences)
BBC News, December 20, 2018
“一带一路”在巴基斯坦：中国暴露军事野心
China’s “Belt and Road” plan in Pakistan takes a military turn
The New York Times, December 21, 2018
Sinopsis: The CCP’s model of social control goes global
China Digital Times, December 20, 2018
BRI language disappears from UN documents
MERICS Newsletter, December 20, 2018
U.S. warns of Chinese influence at multilateral lenders
Financial Times, December 20, 2018
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China should address U.S. concerns on investment and tech transfer to defuse trade war, says World Bank
South China Morning Post, December 20, 2018
Exclusive: Detained Canadian in China also Hungarian, Hungary seeks access - sources
Reuters, December 20, 2018
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Third detained Canadian Sarah McIver given “administrative punishment” for working illegally in China
South China Morning Post, December 21, 2018
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