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 […]

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 […]