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Press Reviews
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.
15 October 2015
Keywords:5th Plenary Session; Trans-Pacific Partnership; Nobel Prize in Psychology/Medicine; Operation Sky Net; Repatriation; Zhou Yongkang; Tianjin blast; Donald Tsang; University of Hong Kong; Academic freedom; Presidential election; Kuomintang; Hung Hsiu-chu.CHINA - POLITICSThe 5th Plenary Session of 18th Central Committee of the CCP The 5th Plenary Session of 18th Central...
READ MORE2 October 2015
Keywords:Xi Jinping ’s first visit to the US; cybersecurity; Climate change; NGOs in China; Xinjiang; Chen Zuoer; University of Hong Kong; Johannes Chan Man-mun; academic freedom.CHINA - DIPLOMACYPresident Xi’s first visit to the USBackground: From 22 to 28 September 2015, President Xi Jinping made his first state visit to the United States after he had assumed presidency. In...
READ MORE18 September 2015
Keywords:Stock market turbulence; Wang Qishan; Party discipline; Tianjin’s explosion; Human Rights activists; Guo Yushan; Asia Television; Chief Executive of Hong Kong; Basic Law; judicial independence; rule of law; constitutionalismCHINA - ECONOMY1. Prospect of China’s economy after stock market turbulencesBackground: At The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New...
READ MORE4 September 2015
Keywords: RMB de-valuation, stock market rout, journalist arrest, Tianjin explosion, internet censorship, China’s military parade, forced demolition of church, University of Hong Kong, academic freedom, One Country Two Systems, Lien Chan.CHINA - ECONOMYRMB Devaluation and global stock market turbulencesBackground: A sudden devaluation of RMB by the Central Bank on August 11...
READ MORE3 August 2015
Keywords: Ai Weiwei, Winter Olympics, Chinese Media, Taiwan Textbooks Controversy, Hong Kong government, Johannes Chan's delayed appointment.CHINA - POLITICS Ai Weiwei and his visa problemAfter having his passport returned from the Chinese authorities after his 81-day detention in 2011, Chinese activist artist Ai Weiwei boarded a flight bound for Munich to meet his son....
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