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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Newsday 20170416

Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, Midnight In London and 2 00am in the morning across turkey, where a referendum has granted the president a wide range of new powers, but with the narrowest of majorities, just 51. 3 of the vote. It means the role of Prime Minister will be scrapped, and turkey will become a president ial democracy. But opponents say it wont have the checks and balances of similar systems around the world, and are disputing the results, alleging widespread irregularities. From istanbul, our World Affairs Editorjohn Simpson sent this report. Tonight, the victors were out in force, celebrating as though they had won by a big majority, instead of by a whisker. In fact, here in istanbul, and in turkeys two other largest cities, izmir and ank ....

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"It's Too Convenient to Say That Xi Jinping Is a Second Mao"

The Chinese Communist Party, an organization of over ninety million members, remains opaque to many outsiders, even within China. Wall Street Journal reporter Chun Han Wong spent years in Beijing documenting social, political, and economic changes as General Secretary Xi Jinping consolidated his power over the Party and country. Last year, Wong published Party of One, a ....

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Anti-China Candidate Wins Taiwan's Presidential Election

ANN WANGFormer vice president and ruling-party candidate Lai Ching-te won Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday, even though he is strongly opposed by Chinese leadership. Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party appealed to issues of social justice and self-determination in the shadow of China’s sovereignty claims over the island. Beijing has refused to meet with Lai and other members of his party, and one spokesperson said that Beijing would not accept the election results, but offered no justif ....

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Dear Chairman Xi, It's Time for You to Go

In this open letter, the author urges Xi Jinping to step down. Xu Zhiyong went into hiding in late 2019. The following open letter, which was released on 4 February 4, 2020, was written while he was on the run. On February 15, Xu was detained in the southern city of Guangzhou. ....

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