Xinjiang (新疆)

Uyghur leaders warn China's actions could be “precursors to genocide”
The Guardian, December 7, 2018

Spying on the Uyghurs: A first-person account from a Han Chinese student
Initium, December 4, 2018

Hong Kong’s anti-terrorism task force goes to Xinjiang to study local methods, as China rejects international calls to investigate mass internment centres
South China Morning Post, December 6, 2018

Related:
【向新疆學反恐】保安局副局率反恐專責組　訪問新疆考察反恐措施 (Hong Kong security chief leads task force to Xinjiang to study counter-terrorism methods)
The Stand News, December 6, 2018

Access to Information (信息公开)

Inside China’s audacious plan for global media dominance
The Guardian, December 7, 2018

China cools Meng Wanzhou arrest story
China Media Project, December 6, 2018

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

#MeToo in China: “If we lose, there might be no more women speaking out for years”
Financial Times, December 6, 2018

Guangzhou Gender and Sexuality Education Center shuts down
SupChina, December 6, 2018

Related:
Chinese anti-sexual violence center shuts down
Inkstone News, December 7, 2018

Government Accountability (政府问责)

The Tiananmen crackdown ignited a decade of debate on the Chinese military’s role, and where its loyalties should lie
South China Morning Post, December 7, 2018

China’s “nationalist bubble” partly to blame for suspicions over global role, envoy to U.S. concedes
South China Morning Post, December 7, 2018

Uruguay halted visa-free entry due to PRC pressure
Taipei Times, December 7, 2018

“天网”行动已追回外逃人员4833人 (Skynet campaign catches almost five thousand people from over 120 countries)
People’s Daily, December 7, 2018

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Google faces internal rift over Chinese re-entry
China Digital Times, December 6, 2018

National Security & Counterterrorism (国家安全和反恐)

日本拟禁止本国政府采购华为与中兴的电信产品--读卖新闻
Japan to ban Huawei, ZTE from government contracts: Sources
Reuters, December 7, 2018

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美国为何封杀华为？安全只是其一 (Why did the U.S. ban Huawei? Security is only one reason)
Radio Free Asia, December 6, 2018

Hong Kong (香港)

Hong Kong student leader warns of “dire situation” for city's democracy
Radio Free Asia, December 6, 2018

Small fraction of Occupy protesters were there because of calls from movement’s founding trio, trial hears
South China Morning Post, December 6, 2018

Major Hong Kong drinks manufacturers join forces with green groups for initiative aimed at increasing city’s dismal recycling rate
South China Morning Post, December 6, 2018

Related:
Vitasoy told to take responsibility for recycling after sample shows 74 per cent of drinks cartons in Hong Kong landfills from firm
South China Morning Post, November 28, 2018

Commentary (评论)

反思佳士运动背后的经济与社会矛盾 (A reflection on the economic, social conflicts behind the Jasic movement)
Financial Times, December 6, 2018

Xinjiang (新疆)

新疆模式扩散 甘肃关闭阿拉伯语学校 (Xinjiang model spreads as Gansu Province shuts down Arabic school)
Radio Free Asia, December 5, 2018

Related
Gansu shuts down Arabic school over regulations
Global Times, December 4, 2018

UN seeking access to China's re-education camps in Xinjiang - Bachelet
Reuters, December 5, 2018

China “rejects German human rights delegation’s request” to visit Xinjiang
South China Morning Post, December 5, 2018

Related:
German human rights commissioner to visit Tibet
The Washington Post, December 5, 2018

“As if you’ve spent your whole life in prison”: Starving and subdued in Xinjiang detention centers
SupChina, December 5, 2018

Access to Justice (司法公正)

China holds top journalist, family under criminal detention
Radio Free Asia, December 5, 2018

Access to Information (信息公开)

How Australians set up Communist China's official propaganda tool
Sydney Morning Herald, December 5, 2018

第十三届孔子学院大会在成都举行，孙春兰出席并致辞 (Vice Premier of State Council: Confucius Institutes contribute to “community of shared future”)
The Paper, December 4, 2018

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

China’s hotel and catering workers need strong trade union support too
China Labour Bulletin, December 5, 2018

In Taiwan's upset election, a complicated message for Beijing
Christian Science Monitor, December 5, 2018

一个针对同性扭转“治疗”的抗议计划 (“Lovers”: A protest project against conversion therapy in China)
Matters, November 30, 2018

Government Accountability (政府问责)

International China-watchers express alarm over Brady affair
New Zealand Herald, December 6, 2018

Related
New Zealand professor Anne-Marie Brady who wrote about China’s foreign influence seeks government protection after year-long harassment campaign
The Guardian, December 6, 2018

Huawei C.F.O. is arrested in Canada for extradition to the U.S.
The New York Times, December 5, 2018

Students who fail anti-religion test may not graduate
Bitter Winter, December 5, 2018

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

Britain’s BT to strip China's Huawei from core networks, limit 5G access
Reuters, December 5, 2018

How the Chinese government is helping Google sell ads in China
The Information, December 5, 2018

National Security & Counterterrorism (国家安全和反恐)

Canadian Security Intelligence Service director warns of state-sponsored espionage threat to 5G networks
Globe and Mail, December 4, 2018

Hong Kong (香港)

Former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho Chi-ping convicted in U.S. court on 7 of 8 counts in bribery and money-laundering case
South China Morning Post, December 6, 2018

Hong Kong cardinal praises commitment of Occupy protest leaders in court
Agence France-Presse, December 5, 2018

Hong Kong is planning a $60 billion city in the sea nearly everyone opposes
Quartz, December 6, 2018

Commentary (评论)

“East Turkestan through the eyes of a Tibetan” by Woeser
High Peaks Pure Earth, December 5, 2018

EU: Suspend deportations of Turkic Muslims to China
Human Rights Watch, December 3, 2018

Xinjiang (新疆)

Xinjiang authorities holding hundreds from Kyrgyz village in “political” re-education camps
Radio Free Asia, December 4, 2018

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Infamous Chinese scientist who created gene-edited babies has now gone missing
Shanghaiist, December 4, 2018

China to prevent major tax evaders from leaving the country
ECNS, December 4, 2018

Access to Information (信息公开)

澳洲大学因中国施压取消放映《假孔子之名》(Australian university cancels screening of documentary exposé of Confucius Institutes due to pressure from Chinese embassy)
Radio Free Asia, December 4, 2018

China partly censors U.S. Embassy statement on trade truce
Bloomberg, December 3, 2018