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Far Eastern Economic Review: Nothing More To Lose
2002-11-07
"It isn't surprising that the urban masses in the ruined industrial heartland are angry with the health service in tatters and education in decline...Despair over unemployment angers many and official corruption helps to fuel their rage, especially when it involves unpaid wages or being cheated on redundancy agreements." -
WSJ: Hackers May Get U.S. Funds To Fight China's Web Curbs [Excerpt]
2002-11-07According to a recent study by the Rand Corp. think tank, China has about 46 million Internet users, while at least 25 people have been arrested in the past two years for online activities. And after a deadly fire in an Internet cafe in Beijing earlier this year, the authorities closed thousands of Internet cafes and demanded that those allowed to reopen install surveillance and firewall software to block [...] Web sites [that Jiang’s regime dislikes]. -
FDI: Husband of New York City Resident Sentenced to Ten Years in Chinese Prison for Authoring Pro-Falun Gong Articles
2002-11-06
Ms. Wang says that recent news from Mr. Zhang's lawyer, however, confirms that Mr. Zhang had actually been secretly sentenced to ten years in prison...[and] that he has been suffering "long term torture" that she says their lawyer describes as "beyond imagination." -
Reuters: CHINA: Key facts about China
2002-11-06"These are key facts about China, set for a sweeping leadership change during its 16th Communist Party Congress that opens on November 8." -
AWSJ (The Asian Wall Street Journal): Notable & Quotable
2002-11-06Related anti-subversion laws under Article 23 directly affect the freedom of expression and civil liberties of those who live in, work in or visit Hong Kong. They also risk permanently undermining confidence in the place, say critics [of the law]. -
Newsmax.com: President Bush's Bipolar Human Rights Policy (Extract)
2002-11-05"Jiang is also an enthusiastic persecutor of religious and spiritual groups, especially the meditation movement Falun Gong. Banned […] in July 1999, over 500 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death and tens of thousands sent to labor camps and mental institutions." -
Geneva Family Information Newspaper: Geneva Parliament Members Condemn China’s Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners
2002-11-05According to a report in the Geneva Family Information Newspaper, the Falun Gong practitioners living in China are suffering. Not only have some practitioners been tortured and beaten to death, but there are also more than five thousand practitioners being detained in mental hospitals. -
New York Times: Plan to Crack Down on Dissent Stirs Debate in Hong Kong
2002-11-04China's deputy prime minister, Qian Qichen, fanned the dispute when he said in a recent television interview that opponents of the new rules must have something to hide. The opponents must have "devils in their hearts," he warned... -
Financial Times: Hong Kong's plans for sedition laws cause alarm
2002-11-02The likely effect of the new laws is to raise growing levels of self-censorship in Hong Kong on issues sensitive to China such as Taiwan and Tibet and the Falun Gong, a spiritual group banned in China but legal in Hong Kong. -
Forbes: Subverting Hong Kong's Markets
2002-11-02"Five years after Britain handed Hong Kong over to China, the Hong Kong government says it will enact a law prohibiting acts of treason, secession, sedition and subversion against the Chinese government. The business community--particularly the foreign business community--worries that China's definition of these crimes will be far stricter than that of most liberal democracies." -
FDI: Husband Disappears in China after Wife Files Lawsuit with UN against Jiang Zemin
2002-11-02
Mrs. Zeng said: "Given that my husband is not a Falun Gong practitioner, I can imagine no other reason for his arrest except for the purpose to keep him as a hostage to threaten me. I would like to ask: if this is not terrorism, what is?" -
AFP: Falun Gong member says husband taken hostage by China
2002-11-02A Falun Gong practitioner claims that her husband has been taken hostage by Beijing police after she filed a lawsuit against China's leadership for human rights abuses..."I can't imagine any other reason for his arrest except to keep him as a hostage to threaten me," she said. -
Eloy News (US): Open-Web policy for China
2002-11-01"Contrary to the drumbeat sounded in recent years by some advocates of engagement, China's willingness to engage in the world economy has not translated into evolution toward democracy, nor an improvement in religious, human, or worker rights.Indeed, the government of China remains in many respects the enemy of its own people, imprisoning dissidents and clamping down on nearly all forms of free expression." -
Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) : Counters to Chinese Checkers
2002-11-01"The Communist Party has always seen the media's primary role as rallying public support for the party and its policies. So when the Internet came along, it was no surprise that the party wanted to control it, too, even as it recognized the Net's economic and educational benefits. The party's biggest concern is that the Internet could be used by foreign or indigenous organizations, such as the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement." -
BusinessWeek: In Hong Kong, Security or Suffocation?
2002-11-01"It's almost as if officials are deliberately setting out to subvert Hong Kong's international image. Why does the government want to accelerate the process if, as it professes, the proposed new laws will be rarely utilized, and there's no immediate plan to use them? It's almost as if Ip and her crowd are trying to scare investors away from Hong Kong."
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