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The organizer of Hong Kong’s now-banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil has missed a deadline to remove a statue on the campus of the University of Hong Kong that commemorates the victims of a bloody end to China’s 1989 pro-democracy movement. The university set a Wednesday deadline for the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic…

In her latest policy address on Wednesday, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam unveiled a plan to transform northern Hong Kong into a metropolis covering about 300 square kilometers. Experts noted that it is the best time in Hong Kong for this ambitious plan, which is expected to be a historic opportunity for the city to get back on track.

City’s chief executive says there is a need to enact a a local security law amid fears of more political crackdowns.

The Biden administration sparked an instant crisis with Beijing by inviting Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the White House for the president-elect’s... 05.10.2021, Sputnik International

After a US guided missile destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait in late July, Beijing slammed the US and Taiwan - the island that Beijing views as its province ...

The White House insisted Thursday that US policy toward Taiwan “has not changed” following Joe Biden’s remarks in an interview that the US would not shy away from a...

The Chinese Communist party’s origin story, like so many of its official lines, appears to be an apocryphal tale. But a month-long patriotic extravaganza leading up to its centennial celebration has featured military parades, skyscrapers emblazoned with hammer-and-sickle decor and propaganda blitzes on TV. None of the agitprop raised eyebrows as much as the main speech delivered by the Chinese president and general secretary of the party, Xi Jinping, in which he marked the milestone and prais...

BEIJING – Presiden Xi Jinping mengatakan akan terus membangun kekuatan militer China dan mewujudkan reunifikasi dengan Taiwan dalam pidatonya di Peringatan Hari Ulang Tahun (HUT) ke-100 Partai Komunis negara itu (PKC), Kamis (1/7/2021). “Kita harus mempercepat modernisasi pertahanan nasional dan angkatan bersenjata,” kata Xi, yang juga ketua menjabat sebagai Komisi Militer Pusat, yang mengendalikan angkatan bersenjata China. Xi menegaskan bahwa mempertahankan kedaulatan dan teritori China...

Timing of Tiananmen vigil sentences unmistakable: Samuel Chu Hong Kong civil society faces repression In the eyes of some exiled Hong Kong activists, the series of moves targeting the Tiananmen commemoration and related events reflects the deterioration of the state of freedom in the Chinese special administrative region. "Beijing is trying to form a more authoritarian government and society in Hong Kong," said Nathan Law, a Hong Kong activist currently living in exile in the UK. Following the ...

Europe, the US and Japan are strengthening economic ties with Taiwan. On 1 June, Japan announced a massive investment in joint research into cutting-edge chip technology with the island's leading sem…