Hong Kong Customs Reject Allegations of ‘Repressive, Disproportionate’ Action After Pro-democracy Retail Chain Raided
AbouThai sells imported products from Thailand and its founder, Mike Lam, is one of 47 democrats charged under the national security law. Lam is currently on bail accused of conspiring to subvert state power in February over his participation in a primary election for the since-postponed Legislative Council election.
Facebook Removes Fake Chinese Accounts That Posted on US Election, Spread Beijing Propaganda
On the upcoming U.S. election, these accounts posted content both “in support of and against presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump,” Gleicher stated.
How Zimbabwe Biometric ID Scheme and China’s AI Aspirations Threw a Wrench into the 2018 Election
<!–[CDATA[ Kudzai Chimhangwa | Advox Global Voices For some, digital ID became a tool of voter intimidation. This piece is part of a series on digital ID systems, built in partnership with The Engine Room. Visit the Digital ID microsite to read a full research report on this global trend, and case studies on five countries that have deployed […]
How China Will Dominate Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Election Campaign
Ralph Jennings | Voice of America TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Taiwan’s presidential race kicked off Monday with China the top issue as a Beijing-friendly mayor won the chief opposition party’s primary to face an incumbent who wants Beijing to keep a distance. The opposition Nationalists announced that Han Kuo-yu, now mayor of the Taiwanese port city […]
Beijing Rigged the Hong Kong Chief Election, Says Marco Rubio
Paul Huang | Epoch Times As Hong Kong elected yet another pro-Beijing proxy to be the city’s leader, Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a China-monitoring unit under the US Congress condemned the election as rigged and a gross violation of Hong Kong’s right to autonomy. Voting on Sunday by Hong Kong’s 1,194-member Election Committee elected […]
China’s Great Firewall Gives Rise to a Robust Industry of Information Smugglers
Oiwan Lam | Global Voices More often than not, information smugglers prioritize things like click rates over hard-hitting public interest journalism It is common knowledge that China’s so-called Great Firewall bars Chinese netizens from accessing overseas websites. A chief side effect of the firewall that is less commonly known among foreigners are the many social media outlets that “smuggle” news from […]
Wife, Daughter of Jailed Dissidents Say They Are Kept Isolated
Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Li Yue is the daughter of the writer Li Tie, who was jailed for 10 years on subversion charges in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in 2012 after he wrote articles online calling for political reform and for the human dignity of ordinary people to be respected. She told […]
Deprived of Voting Rights, What Do Hong Kongers Think of the Chief Executive Race?
Global voices | Originally Ellie Ng, Hong Kong Free Press The election of Hong Kong’s top leader, called the chief executive, is set for March 26, 2017. In order to enter the race, potential candidates have to gain 150 nomination votes from the 1,200-member election committee of representatives of different professional sectors. That same committee will decide the winner […]
Classic Christmas Carols, Satirically Reimagined as Songs About Hong Kong Politics
Oiwan Lam | Global Voices A set of Christmas Songs has gone viral on Hong Kong social media during the holiday season. Shared more than 1,470 times and viewed more than 190,000 times, the songs are no ordinary Christmas carols. The lyrics are rewritten with wit to capture major social and political sagas that have […]
Police in Shanghai, Beijing Detain More Independent Election Candidates
Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia Police in Shanghai have detained three people after they tried to canvass for an independent candidate in forthcoming elections to district-level People’s Congress legislative bodies. Veteran rights activists Feng Zhenghu, Zheng Peipei, Xu Peiling and Cui Fofang were taken away by local police as they canvassed potential voters in […]