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SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Wang Yi Briefs CFR Forum on Need for ‘Focusing on Cooperation and Managing Differences’ April 24 , 2021 (EIRNS)—China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended an international virtual dialogue with members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) today, explaining China’s policy and his view on U.S.-China relations. Under the title, “Focusing on Cooperation and Managing Differences: Bringing China-U.S. Relations Back to the Track ...

CCP Targets Hong Kong Epoch Times Out of Fear: Author and Translator of Wild Swans The Epoch Times is one of the main targets of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Hong Kong because it makes the CCP afraid, a Chinese author has said. Pu Zhang, writer, and novelist from Chengdu, China, is the Chinese translator of the award-winning autobiography “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China,” and the younger brother of its author Jung Chang. Pu Zhang (L), Jung Chang (R), and their mother in Cheng...

One Country, Two Systems Has Changed Into A 1.5 System "When speaking of the change in Hong Kongs electoral system, Chao Shao-kang bluntly criticized it as subverting Deng Xiaopings speech and asked how there could be two systems in this way. "Chao went on to say that that One Country, Two Systems had changed into a 1.5 system, and now only a 1.1 system is left. Hong Kong is still not exactly the same as the mainland, but almost the same. Hong Kongs Legislative Council is dead and replaced by t...

Hong Kong celebrated its first "National Security Education Day" by having children learn the basics of a Beijing-imposed anti-protest law.

Hong Kong Court Hands Down Hefty Sentences to Pro-Democracy Activists, Drawing International Criticism Martin Lee, an 82-year-old barrister who has been dubbed the “father of democracy” in Hong Kong, was among a group of activists being sentenced for organizing and participating in an unauthorized assembly in 2019 during the height of the anti-Beijing, pro-democracy movement. Lee was handed a suspended sentence of 11 months for being part of a protest on Aug. 18, 2019. Three other activists...

14 Apr 2021 Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong, already serving over a year in prison for his role in organizing anti-communist protests in 2019, received another four-month sentence Tuesday for wearing a mask in public. Hong Kong outlawed the use of masks in public during protests in October 2019 to help police better identify and repress political dissidents. The ordinance compromised the city when the Chinese coronavirus pandemic arrived there the next year, leading to the city also mandat...

Crisis of the Two Constitutions. Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness, refers to what the respected Claremont McKenna College professor calls a struggle “between two rival cultures, two constitutions, two ways of life”. This linkage between culture and constitution, between how we live and our laws, is often tragically neglected in conservative thought. But there’s no constitution without a culture. The “self-evident” truths of the...

Posted: Apr 03, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 3 Pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan arrives at the West Kowloon Courts for verdicts in a landmark unlawful assembly case, in Hong Kong, China on Thursday. He was among seven veteran protesters found guilty of unauthorized assembly in August 2019, the latest blow to the citys beleaguered democracy movement.(Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Theyve seen it coming for months, perhaps years, but this weeks official crackdown on democratic rights by China s...

Guilty verdict for Hong Kong defenders spells end of local democracy Issued on: 01/04/2021 - 20:12 Ex legislator and "father of Hong Kongs democracy" Martin Lee (82) at the court in Hong Kong. Isaac Lawrence AFP Text by: Jan van der Made with RFI 5 min Seven of Hong Kongs top pro-democracy advocates, including a media tycoon and an 82-year-old veteran of the movement, were convicted Thursda...

(0) HONG KONG, March 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chinas top legislature endorsed on Thursday a decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which marks another major step to improve the regions legal and political systems, said Lv Jian-she, President of the Hong Kong-based Chinese Culture and Arts Association. The plan was initiated by the vice chairman of the NPC (National Peoples Congress) Standing Committee Wang Chen at the opening meeting of ...