European companies concerned over China s anti-sanctions law ANI | Updated: Jun 10, 2021 02:55 IST
Beijing [China], June 10 (ANI): European companies have expressed discontent over a new Chinese anti-sanctions law, saying they are alarmed by the lack of transparency in the process.
The law is expected to pass on Thursday at the closing session of the National People s Congress Standing Committee.
According to South China Morning Post, this will be the first major legal move by Beijing to retaliate against sanctions imposed by Western nations over China s handling of Xinjiang and Hong Kong. European companies in China are alarmed by the lack of transparency in this process - the first reading was never announced, and there is no draft to examine, said Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.
Hong Kong police yesterday detained one of the organizers of the annual vigil commemorating Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Massacre, as authorities sought to prevent any show of pro-democracy on the anniversary.
About 7,000 officers were placed on standby to stamp out any attempt to hold a mass candlelight vigil that Hong Kongers have attended in their thousands each anniversary for the past three decades.
The first arrest came early yesterday morning when lawyer Chow Hang-tung (鄒幸彤), one of the few remaining prominent democracy campaigners not already in jail or in exile, was detained by four police officers outside her work.
Chow, 37, is one
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Against Beijing tyranny: workers solidarity Submitted by AWL on 1 June, 2021 - 3:10
June 4 2021 marks 32 years since the Chinese state’s massacre of hundreds or thousands of pro-democracy protesters around Tiananmen Square. Workers’ Liberty will join the vigil in London to commemorate the movement and its bloody suppression, and to re-affirm our solidarity with everyone still struggling today for the liberation sought by the 1989 movement.
Repression
Today, the Chinese “Communist” Party (CCP) continues to brutally repress the people under the rule of its dictatorial party-state.
Its economy is characterised by rampant exploitation of workers and peasants for the profits of big capitalists and state bureaucrats. Wealth inequality approaches that of the USA. The state-backed trade union almost never supports workers in disputes, instead serving the CCP and employers. Independent trade unions are illeg
The Chinese government should acknowledge and take responsibility for the massacre of pro-democracy protesters in June 1989, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately allow commemorations of the occasion in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau, and cease censoring discussions of the crackdown.