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Pandemic year points to more crisis for Australia and China 21 April 2021 2020 marked a year of rolling crises for both Australia and China that have shaken the two nations and their relationship, a new book from The Australian National University (ANU) argues. The China Story Yearbook: Crisis surveys multiple crises in both countries during the year of the metal rat, which symbolises a 'new day', including the COVID-19 pandemic, catastrophic floods in China and devastating bushfires in Australia. Produced by the ANU Centre for China in the World (CIW), the book is available for free downloa...

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 were given suspended sentences: Margaret Ng (12 months), Albert Ho (12 months), and Leung Yiu-chung...

Hong Kong court convicts veteran rights activists including 'father of democracy' The group face jail for their roles in an unauthorised protest during the pro-democracy movement that roiled Hong Kong in 2019 1 April 2021 • 1:30pm Martin Lee, who helped write Hong Kong's mini-constitution, was convicted over his role in an unauthorised assembly Credit: Anthony Kwan/Getty Images Nine veteran Hong Kong activists face jail after they were convicted on Thursday over their roles in an unauthorised assembly at the height of the protest movement that engulfed the city in 2019.  The defendants fea...

China demands love as it represses Hong Kong ANI | Updated: Mar 15, 2021 19:28 IST Hong Kong, March 15 (ANI): If you can believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), then the former British colony of Hong Kong is thriving because of the former's magnanimity. The truth is that Beijing is determinedly stifling Hong Kong and turning it into a mimeograph of the rest of authoritarian China. Interestingly, Xi Jinping's Party Work Report in 2017 stated (emphasis added), "Since Hong Kong and Macao's return to the motherland, the practice of 'One Country, Two System...

Brussels [Belgium], March 13 (ANI): The European Union has hit out at China for the political conditions in Hong Kong, describing it as an "alarming political deterioration" and a "severe erosion of autonomy, democracy and fundamental freedoms".