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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.
17 July 2015
Keywords: Crackdown on lawyers and activists, anti-graft campaign, Internet Security Law, Stock Market Crash, SCO, Hong Kong.CHINA - SOCIETY 1. Nationwide crackdown on rights lawyersChinese authorities conducted a nationwide crackdown against dozens of rights lawyers and activists since late last week. Nearly 200 have been reportedly detained, put under house arrest or...
READ MORE29 June 2015
Keywords: Environment, Xinjiang, censorship, human rights, HK electoral reform.CHINA - ENVIRONMENTShanghai environmental protest against paraxylene (PX) plant// Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Shanghai this week, as protests against proposals to relocate a paraxylene (PX) plant to the city's Jinshan district showed no signs of abating amid calls for a...
READ MORE8 June 2015
Keywords: NGO Law, Strikes in China, June Fourth, Yangtze ship disaster, Internet, Hong KongCHINA - POLITICSNew CPC regulation stresses role of leading Party members' groups// A meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Friday passed a regulation stressing the need to strengthen the Party's role in state organs and non-Party...
READ MORE26 May 2015
Keywords: United Front, Linshui Protest, Internet, PLA, NGOs, Peter Hessler, Taiwan, Hong KongCHINA - POLITICSXi vows to develop the widest patriotic united frontAt a three-day meeting of united front work, Xi has asked authorities to // befriend and recruit more non-Communist Party of China (CPC) intellectuals and representatives, stressing their role in economic development...
READ MORE11 May 2015
Keywords: Reforms, NGO Law, Xinjiang, New Silk Road, Hong Kong, TaiwanCHINA - POLITICS1. Xi highlights "big picture" in reform drive// Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on officials to view the country's reform drive in the context of "a larger picture" in order to deepen reforms (共同把全面深化改革这篇大文章做好). Xi made the remarks at the 12th meeting of the Central Leading...
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