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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.
10 June 2013
Keywords: June Fourth, ideology, activism, aging population, China-Africa relationship, Occupy Central CHINA - POLITICS June Fourth in China Ming Pao: “內地在六四前夕的氣氛則趨緊張，北京警方加強管控，力度之大往年罕見，「天安門母親」昨被公安阻止前往兒子遇難的木樨地拜祭，丁子霖發出公開信譴責當局。本報記者昨午到木樨地附近時亦被公安攔截、查驗證件，並要求記者離開，至傍晚更被公安約談。無綫電視駐北京辦事處更被公安登門造訪，重申採訪「規矩」，有線電視的採訪車則被人跟蹤。” Analysis: Johnny Lau: “平反「六四」的阻力”: “三種中共自我設限的阻力”...
READ MORE29 May 2013
Keywords: Arctic, South China Sea, ideology, urbanization, media censorship, localism, China-Taiwan relationship CHINA - DIPLOMACY China and the Arctic The Arctic Council admitted China as an observer member after having turned it down twice before. The Council is a platform for determining territorial claims to the Arctic Ocean, whose rapidly thawing sea-ice cover has...
READ MORE7 May 2013
Keywords: crisis management, Red-Cross, anti-corruption, pension system, activism, labour CHINA - SOCIETY Natural disaster and crisis management Response to emergency ISun Affairs: The PLA has reacted to the disaster much more speedily compared with 2008 due to the current administration’s fuller control over the army. However, the speed of reaction by no means implied that...
READ MORE17 April 2013
Keywords: anti-corruption, Belt and Road initiative, Tibet, security, illness, autism, the pension system, Hong Kong election, gender and sex CHINA -POLITICS Liu Zhijun charged with corruption. He was removed from office in Feb 2011 after reports that he had embezzled $152 million over the years. Commemorating Hu Yaobang: Xinhua:...
READ MORE26 March 2013
Keywords: diplomacy, NPC, economic reform, offshore loan, farming, gender and sex, Hong Kong land supply CHINA - POLITICS New foreign policy team Wang Yi as new foreign minister: 59-year-old son-in-law of late leader Zhou Enlai's secretary Qian Jiadong; Diplomat experienced in Asian affairs. Was a sent-down youth, spending eight years on a farm in northeastern China. Career...
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