Press Reviews
From 2007 to 2018, and in 2021, the CEFC Research Assistants produced a regular review of the press covering news in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
The news clippings below were collected from both Chinese and English newspapers and now constitute a useful and original resource for researchers.
21 April 2016
Keywords: anti-corruption campaign, Panama Paper, Internet censorship, economic slowdown, control over vaccine distribution, Hong Kong independence, the deportation of Taiwanese to Mainland China. CHINA - POLITICS 1. Anti-corruption campaign A number of provincial-level officials have been arrested by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection since April. Others include...
EN SAVOIR PLUS06 April 2016
Keywords: Panama Papers, China central leadership, anti-corruption, internet regulation, medical security, Hong Kong localism, Causewaybay Bookstore, Joshua Wong, Kuomintang, Hung Hsiu-chu. CHINA - POLITICS 1. Panama Papers and its relevancy to China On 3 April, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published some of the information leaked out from...
EN SAVOIR PLUS14 March 2016
Keywords: National People’s Congress, National People’s Political Consultative Conference, labor protest, economic reform, media censorship, draft Charity Law, energy consumption cap, South China Sea, Causeway Bay Bookstore, One Country Two Systems. CHINA 1. The National People’s Congress in Session (05-16 March) ECONOMY The Premier Li Keqiang pledged to ensure the economic...
EN SAVOIR PLUS29 February 2016
Keywords: Pastor Gu Yuese; state-owned media; Xiao Gang; private property right in China; left-behind children; Mongkok disturbance; Hong Kong Indigenous; localism; By-election of Legislative Council; HSBC.CHINA - POLITICS1. Leading China pastor Gu Yuese under investigationGu Yuese (顧約瑟), who is the pastor of the largest Protestant church in Zhejiang Province as well as in...
EN SAVOIR PLUS27 January 2016
Keywords: human rights lawyer, Peter Dahlin, televised confession, China’s capital outflow, polar vortex, Hong Kong publishers’ disappearance, Gui Minhai, Lee Bo, presidential and legislative election of 2016 in Taiwan, Democratic Progressive Party, Tsai Ing-wen. CHINA - POLITICS The arrest of a foreigner who trained human-rights lawyers Peter Dahlin, a Swedish who cofounded...
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