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Political Reform Regressing Under Emperor Xi Jinping
Growing consensus of a regression in the already lacking basic freedoms for the Chinese people (1/6th of humanity)
Film Details Struggles of Wukan: China’s Voting Village
How China’s voting village of Wukan sought to carve out a local democracy inside the world’s biggest dictatorship
Challenges of Chinese Foreign Policy Multiplying
Chinese foreign policy strategy of influence peddling with heavy handed approach finds few takers
Chinese Students Protest Academic Freedom Decline
Ban on teaching ‘Western values’ in Marxist nation sparks new Chinese students protest movement
China’s Cultural Revolution: An Ode to My Burning Family
Familiar red imagery of Cultural Revolution propaganda to create something that speaks more truth to violence rather than the false utopia it represented
China Blocks Gmail in Battle Against US Tech Giant
Analysts claim China blocks Gmail using its Great Firewall to prevent free flow of information
China Identifying Legal Religions in New Bid for Control
Dictatorship in China identifying legal religions in dangerous exercise of state cultural control
12 Arrested at Latest Occupy Hong Kong Marches
Peaceful protest remains practically illegal after arrests during local Occupy Hong Kong marches
Outspoken China Lawyer Tortured in Jail Despite Innocence
Pu Zhiqiang’s heroic defense of dictatorship’s targets takes nasty turn as China lawyer tortured