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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.
06 December 2013
Keywords: Chinese economy, Diaoyudao, anti-corruption, NGO, media censorship, Hong Kong political reform, stability maintainance CHINA - POLITICS What will follow after the Third Plenum? On Tuesday December 3, Xinhua reported that Xi Jinping and other key party leaders have convened a meeting with non-party representatives (黨外人士) to collect their thoughts on the upcoming...
READ MORE21 November 2013
Keywords: local politics, economic reform, power centralization, national security CHINA - POLITICS What to make of the Third Plenum Last Friday, Beijing released the 20-page, 60-point, 20000+ words ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution Concerning Some Major Issues in Comprehensively Deepening Reform‘ （中共中央关于全面深化改革若干重大问题的决定）, which is translated into English by Rogier Cremeers....
READ MORE12 November 2013
Keywords: anti-corruption, terrorism, Xinjiang, media censorship, cultural revolution, Bo Xilai, Tibet, CHINA - POLITICS Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC closing on 12 Nov Some economic and administrative reforms are expected (most likely on fiscal, financial and administrative), focusing on state withdrawal from market and cutting red tapes, but expectations on...
READ MORE28 October 2013
Keywords: propaganda, anti-corruption, activism, Tibet, media censorship, South China Sea, Hong Kong protest, Pollution, Chinese theology CHINA - POLITICS Party journal denounces 'Western democracy trap' Qiushi, an influential Communist Party journal, published an article on 16/10 which denounced Western calls for political reform, saying such pressure was aimed at getting rid...
READ MORE07 October 2013
Keywords: Bo Xilai, anti-corruption, censorship, propaganda, U.S. shutdown, Hong Kong income gap CHINA - POLITICS Bo Xilai sentenced to life imprisonment On Sept 22, the Jinan Intermediate Court announced that Bo Xilai would be sentenced to life imprisonment. After the announcement of the verdict, he cried out that the trial was “unfair” and “unjust”. Throughout the trial, and...
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