湖南娄底市政协原副主席肖扬被诉：12年间受贿数额特别巨大 (Former vice chairman of Loudi’s Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference indicted for bribery involving vast sums over 12 years)
The Paper, September 7, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2418860
原黑龙江肇东书记赵胜利获刑12年：中央党校学习时还在受贿 (Party secretary in Zhaodong sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribery)
The Paper, September 7, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2417642
又一波区块链公号被封，有人筹备海外内容，强监管下区块链自媒体前路未卜 (More blockchain public accounts suspended)
Beijing News, September 7, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/finance/2018/09/07/503860.html
杜绝妄议中央官网习消息切断评论留言功能 (Official websites cut off comment function related to Xi Jinping’s speech of supporting Africa)
Radio France Internationale, September 7, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20180907-杜绝妄议中央官网习消息切断评论留言功能
騰訊手遊將啟動嚴格實名制 《王者榮耀》接入公安數據庫 (Tencent implements strict real-name verification for mobile games, to be linked with public security database for monitoring gaming habits)
The Stand News, September 6, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/finance/騰訊手游將啟動嚴格實名制-王者榮耀-接入公安數據庫/
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China’s Tencent plans ID system to limit minors’ video game usage
Financial Times, September 6, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/81a8b948-b197-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c
Police in China's Wuhan beat, detain protesters angry over power project
Radio Free Asia, September 6, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/protest-beatings-09062018124710.html
吁疫苗立法 受害儿童家长遭打压 (Parents calling for vaccine legislation are detained, put under surveillance)
Radio Free Asia, September 6, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/huanjing/yf1-09062018093346.html
留学生发公开信吁释放维吾尔学者伊力哈木 (Overseas students issue open letter calling for release of Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti)
Radio Free Asia, September 6, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/nu-09062018110133.html
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An Open Letter on Ilham Tohti’s Life
China Change, September 4, 2018
https://chinachange.org/2018/09/04/an-open-letter-on-ilham-tohtis-life/
Young #MeToo activists broaden calls for equality
China Digital Times, September 6, 2018
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/09/young-metoo-activists-broaden-calls-for-equality/
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China’s online #MeToo is changing the offline world, even if just a little
TechNode, September 6, 2018
https://technode.com/2018/09/06/chinas-metoo-is-changing-reality/
全球死刑执行数量减少 中国仍居榜首 (The number of death penalty executions in the world is decreasing. China still tops the list)
Deutsche Welle, September 7, 2018
https://p.dw.com/p/34Sla
China’s little-noticed “new police law” gives vastly expanded legal powers to public security apparatus
China Change, September 6, 2018
https://chinachange.org/2018/09/06/chinas-little-noticed-new-police-law-gives-vastly-expanded-legal-powers-to-public-security-apparatus/
最高法出台互联网法院审理案件规定 明确案件管辖范围等内容 (Supreme Court issues provisions on Internet court specifying rules on mechanisms, case contents, appeals)
Beijing News, September 7, 2018
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/finance/2018/09/07/503763.html
Sieren's China: The race for 5G coverage
Deutsche Welle, September 6, 2018
https://www.dw.com/en/sierens-china-the-race-for-5g-coverage/a-45388011
【東北案終極上訴】13示威者上訴得直 即時釋放 (13 activists jailed for protest against New Territories development freed immediately in successful final appeal)
Inmediahk.net, September 7, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1059343
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Pro-democracy activists freed by Hong Kong's highest court on grounds that they suffered a grave injustice after jailing for “extremely violent” protest
South China Morning Post, September 7, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2163223/pro-democracy-hong-kong-activists-jailed-over-extremely
Ousted Hong Kong lawmaker says pro-democracy groups in city forming alliance to help her as she considers Legco comeback
South China Morning Post, September 7, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2163119/ousted-hong-kong-lawmaker-says-pro-democracy-groups-city
Hong Kong independence advocacy will be regulated under Article 23 law, says Chinese official
Hong Kong Free Press, September 7, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/07/hong-kong-independence-advocacy-will-regulated-article-23-law-says-chinese-official/
法国专家抵港向香港警方提供水炮车使用培训 (Hong Kong police receives training on newly purchased riot-control trucks with water cannons)
Radio France Internationale, September 6, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/港澳台/20180906-法国专家抵港向香港警方提供水炮车使用培训
英外交部报告忧香港言论自由受压 (U.K. half-year report on Hong Kong warns of pressure on autonomy and freedom of speech)
Deutsche Welle, September 6, 2018
https://p.dw.com/p/34SPK
“娘炮”讨论与缺席的性别平等教育 (Discussion on "Sissy" and the absence of sexual equality education in China)
Financial Times, September 7, 2018
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001079305?full=y
維權怎麼就是鬧事了？ 佳士工友組建工會被捕的前因後果 (Does rights defense equal troublemaking? The cause and effect of the arrest of Jasic workers demanding to form trade union)
Mingpao, September 7, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20180907/s00022/153632054374
Why do people in China give so little to charity? The Communist Party is too afraid of letting NGOs flourish
The Economist, September 6, 2018
https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/08/why-do-people-in-china-give-so-little-to-charity
“Human impulses run riot”: China’s shocking pace of change
The Guardian, September 6, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/06/human-impulses-run-riot-chinas-shocking-pace-of-change
Taiwan: Spies, Lies and Cross-straits Ties
Al Jazeera, September 6, 2018
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2018/09/taiwan-spies-lies-cross-straits-ties-180906054720310.html
时事大家谈：耒阳冲突：中国教育百年大计出了什么问题？ (The conflict in Leiyang: What’s wrong with the 100-year education plan in China?)
Voice of America, September 6, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/voaweishi-20180906-io-what-did-protests-over-city-s-school-plans-in-leiyang-revealed/4560415.html
Chinese activist who shared anti-censorship techniques in secret trial
Radio Free Asia, September 6, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/activist-trial-09062018130014.html
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人权网站网主甄江华遭秘密庭审 国际特赦促无条件释放 (Human rights website owner was secretly tried, Amnesty International urges unconditional release)
Voice of America, September 6, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/Chinese-Citizen-Journalist-Secretly-Tried-Facing-Long-Sentence-20180906/4560032.htmlUrgent action: Chinese rights defender faces 15 years in jail
Amnesty International, September 6, 2018
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA1790492018ENGLISH.pdf
珠海原市长李泽中涉嫌受贿、国有公司人员滥用职权案被公诉 (Former mayor of Zhuhai indicted for bribery and abuse of power)
The Paper, September 6, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2415062
公安系统反腐加码：两月内超20名局长副局长被查，多人涉黑 (Public security system strengthens anti-corruption action: Over 20 directors and deputy directors investigated in two months)
The Paper, September 6, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2413895
民法典各分编草案5日公布，开始向社会公开征求意见 (Civil code draft opens for public consultation)
The Paper, September 5, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2412946
报告：中国打压学术自由影响西方学者对华研究 (Report: Suppression of academic freedom in China affects Western scholars' research on China)
Voice of America, September 6, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/academic-china-20180905/4559100.html
Inspired by #MeToo, student activists target inequality in China
Reuters, September 5, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-students-labour-insight/inspired-by-metoo-student-activists-target-inequality-in-china-idUSKCN1LL0FB
Professor fired after tweeting that Chinese “lie, commit fraud and poison each other”
Radio Free Asia, September 4, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/xiamen-professor-09042018130814.html
河南強拆4000教會十字架 官方教會亦難避劫 強制掛國旗 (Henan authorities forcibly replace crosses from 4000 churches with national flag and socialism paintings)
Ming Pao, September 6, 2018
https://news.mingpao.com/pns/dailynews/web_tc/article/20180906/s00013/1536172035299
菏泽市委原常委、宣传部部长王永江受贿千万，一审获刑11年 (Shandong Heze city head of propaganda department sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for graft of RMB 10 million)
The Paper, September 6, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2413986
记者来鸿：新疆“再教育营”受害者恐怖经历(Victim from Xinjiang “re-education camp” tells of horrific experience)
BBC, September 6, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/fooc-45434483
US-Taiwan council risks Beijing’s anger by inviting Taipei minister to defense industry conference
South China Morning Post, September 6, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2162973/us-taiwan-council-risks-beijings-anger-inviting-taipei-minister
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US senators introduce legislation to punish Taiwan allies who switch sides, accusing Beijing of “bullying”
South China Morning Post, September 6, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2162961/us-senators-introduce-legislation-discourage-taiwan-allies-switching
Bloomberg forum in Beijing for business elites is put off, Chinese hosts confirm
The New York Times, September 5, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/world/asia/beijing-forum-economic-bloomberg.html
中国政法系统办网军 “五毛”有望收编整合(“Fifty-cent party” stands to be integrated into expanded online presence of CPC's Political and Legal Affairs system)
Voice of America, September 6, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/news-china-build-up-web-forces-20180906/4560222.html
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defend Chinese partnerships to US Congress probe into foreign efforts to influence politics
South China Morning Post, September 5, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2162957/facebook-coo-sheryl-sandberg-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey
Chinese company says they are bringing Google Cloud to China then swiftly denies the news
Technode, September 5, 2018
https://technode.com/2018/09/05/google-cloud-china-capital-online/
外国学者：中国以反恐为名推广国家安全政策 (Scholar: China is pushing national security policies in name of counterterrorism efforts)
Radio Free Asia, September 5, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shehui/hj-09052018203157.html
律师黄思敏被禁出境 维权危害国家安全？(Authorities bar 709 lawyer from leaving China, say her exit would "endanger national security")
Radio Free Asia, September 5, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf-09052018092633.html
Beijing official pushes Article 23 enactment
The Standard, September 6, 2018
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=199901&sid=4&sid=4
鄧龍威已向菲方提交上訴書 (Hong Konger jailed in Philippines files appeal after receiving new entry-record evidence from government)
Radio Television Hong Kong, September 6, 2018
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1416337-20180905.htm
Chinese officials attend editorial meeting of Hong Kong newspaper
Radio Free Asia, September 5, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/newspaper-09052018110721.html
“Talking politics”
China Media Project, September 5, 2018
http://chinamediaproject.org/2018/09/05/talking-politics/
A people’s banana republic: Peak Xi Jinping
China Heritage, September 5, 2018
http://chinaheritage.net/journal/a-peoples-banana-republic/?lang=zh
709律师余文生案审查起诉再延期 (Deadline for decision to prosecute further delayed in 709 lawyer Yu Wenshen's case)
Radio Free Asia, September 4, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf1-09042018093932.html
【甄江華案】檢察院上月宣布已開庭審理後刪帖 關注群批：鬼鬼祟祟 (Rights defender Zhen Jianghua still held incommunicado as notice of her “open” trial in August is deleted)
The Stand News, September 5, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/china/甄江華案-檢察院上月宣布已開庭審理後刪帖-關注群批-鬼鬼祟祟/
坚持“八种理念”实现“八个转变”加快政法网络新媒体创新发展 (Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission on need to accelerate innovative use of new media to shape narratives, serve CPC)
Legal Daily, September 5, 2018
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2018-09/05/content_7637863.htm?node=5955
Overseas social scientists “face real repression” during research in China
South China Morning Post, September 5, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2162950/overseas-social-scientists-face-real-repression-during-research
China’s workers aren’t fighting a trade war–they’re fighting a labor war
The Nation, September 4, 2018
https://www.thenation.com/article/chinas-workers-arent-fighting-a-trade-war-theyre-fighting-a-labor-war/
Beijing targets independent religions as party control tightens
Financial Times, September 5, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/1f7264b0-b0af-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c
司法局副局长王文生被查(Deputy director of Guangzhou Justice Bureau investigated for serious disciplinary and legal violations)
Guangzhou Daily, September 5, 2018
http://gzdaily.dayoo.com/pc/html/2018-09/05/content_99278_541499.htm
专访: 中国系统性干预外国大学自主(Interview: China systematically interferes with autonomy of foreign universities)
Deutsche Welle, September 5, 2018
https://p.dw.com/p/34JNO
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Beijing accused of pressuring Spanish university to drop Taiwanese cultural event
South China Morning Post, September 5, 2018
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2162875/beijing-accused-pressuring-spanish-university-drop-taiwanese
China’s Repression of Muslim Uighurs is Apparently Growing More Intense
NPR, September 4, 2018
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/04/644617905/chinas-repression-of-muslim-uighurs-is-apparently-growing-more-intense
Hong Kong Journalists Assoc. protests lack of media invites to joint checkpoint ceremony
Hong Kong Free Press, September 5, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/09/05/hong-kong-journalists-assoc-protests-lack-media-invites-joint-checkpoint-ceremony/
學術自由學者聯盟：聯署反對以法律訴訟箝制批評(Scholars' Alliance for Academic Freedom: Objection to silencing criticisms through lawsuits)
inmediahk.net, September 5, 2018
https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1059312a
外交部官員旁聽《南早》編採會議 無國界記者憂慮干預 (Reporters Without Borders raises concerns over Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials attending SCMP editorial meeting)
The Stand News, September 4, 2018
https://thestandnews.com/politics/外交部官員旁聽-南早-編採會議-無國界記者憂慮干預/
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RSF concerned about the presence of Chinese officials at Hong Kong daily SCMP’s editorial meeting
Reporters Without Borders, September 4, 2018
https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-concerned-about-presence-chinese-officials-hong-kong-daily-scmps-editorial-meeting
內地「失信人名單」制度 港高鐵適用 (Mainland's credit blacklist system applicable to high-speed rail Hong Kong section despite MTR's objections)
Sing Tao Daily, September 4, 2018
http://std.stheadline.com/daily/news-content.php?id=1868116&target=2