Pondering pandemic’s political potency
The world’s leading democracies will not be judged by how they initially responded to Covid-19, but by their success in post-crisis reconstruction, according to a leading analyst. We always knew… Read more »
Tag: Citizen Power Initiatives for China
China’s ‘biological Chernobyl’ puts CCP legitimacy on the line
In the fall of 2017, Xi took the podium at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to claim that China’s version of one-party autocracy offered an option for “countries that… Read more »
China’s ‘sprint for soft power’ provokes backlash
Xi Jinping promotes the view that China’s system presents an alternative to free-market democracy. And yet Beijing’s sprint for soft power* has been less successful than one might assume, The New… Read more »
Hong Kong’s ‘last-straw movement’ vs. dystopian China Dream
Hong Kong’s leader must “serve two masters,” Chief Executive Carrie Lam told a group of businesspeople in the city, according to a transcript is taken from an audio recording of… Read more »
Another Tiananmen? Alarming echoes of 1989 in Hong Kong protests
An estimated 1.7 million people took part in a peaceful pro-democracy protest (NYT/CFR) in the city center yesterday, the second-largest demonstration since the protest movement began more than two months… Read more »
Three key lessons of Hong Kong protests: Xi’s brittle power
As the Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post in 1989, Dan Southerland covered the Tiananmen massacre and stayed on in China for more than a year afterward to report on… Read more »
China’s ‘thuggish regime’ pushes conspiracy theories on Hong Kong protests
Pro-democracy unrest sweeping Hong Kong is threatening to tip the trading hub into recession for the first time since the global financial crisis a decade ago, as uncertainty grips an… Read more »
‘China is not an enemy’? Barefoot lawyer’s death puts focus on CCP regime
Ji Sizun received the news that he had won a prestigious human rights distinction, the Cao Shunli Memorial Award, in honour of the veteran Chinese activist who died in 2014… Read more »
China blinks: what Beijing’s Hong Kong retreat says about Taiwan’s future
Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers aren’t satisfied with leader Carrie Lam’s public apology for how the government handled a highly unpopular extradition bill. Legislator Claudia Mo said Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s apology… Read more »