Publications
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Calgary Herald: Google in China and the real Internet censors
2002-10-07
"The interesting thing about China's recent efforts to block access to Google, the U.S. Internet search engine, is not the Beijing leadership's readiness to censor. We already knew about that. No, the interesting thing is the readiness of Web sites such as Yahoo! to censor themselves to survive in the Chinese market. That's where the lesson lies, and the true disgrace..." -
Christian Science Monitor: China's Move on Hong Kong
2002-10-05"China's slow march toward openness took a big leap backward last week. Beijing forced the leaders in Hong Kong, which China took over in 1997, to put forth tough new laws that would end up stifling political dissent and the media in that major Asian city." -
Washington Post: Banned in Hong Kong
2002-10-04'Not only has political freedom not expanded significantly in China, it is steadily shrinking in Hong Kong, despite Beijing's promise to respect the formula of "one nation, two systems." Moreover, many of those who promised to be vigilant about Hong Kong's rights at the time of the hand-over -- or to fight for their expansion -- have been apathetic about their erosion.' -
AFP: Hong Kong's Chan calls for debate on subversion law
2002-10-04'Chan called on Hong Kong's people to have the courage to speak up to defend their freedoms, saying "we will not serve the best interests of our country, nor those of our children and grandchildren, if we allow them to be gradually chipped away for the sake of expedience, or a short-sighted solution to a far-reaching problem."' -
Far Eastern Economic Review: Hong Kong - A Time for Prayer
2002-10-04'The Falun Gong spiritual movement is seen as one of the more likely potential targets of Hong Kong's proposed new national security laws.' -
Associated Press: Hackers hit Hong Kong newspaper; Falun Gong suspected
2002-10-04'But a Hong Kong-based spokesman for Falun Gong said the meditation [group] was not responsible for the hacking. "Just because the users are redirected to the Falun Gong Web site doesn't mean Falun Gong did it," Kan Hung-cheung said. "We suspect others are trying to frame Falun Gong with these kinds of tricks. In a free and open society, you don't have to resort to these tactics."' -
US Congressional Commission calls on President Bush to press Jiang Zemin on the issue of human rights
2002-10-04A congressional panel has issued a report criticizing human-rights abuses in China and recommending ways the United States can help China improve its rule of law. The panel also calls on President Bush to press China on the issue of human rights when he meets later this month in Texas with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.[read full text] -
Reuters: Panel urges active US role on China human rights
2002-10-03In its first report, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China took Chinese leaders to task for human rights abuses..."China's leaders still do not respect fundamental international standards on many rights for the Chinese people," the commission said...the panel highlighted Beijing's suppression of the Falun Gong spiritual group. -
South China Morning Post: Multinationals Making a Mint from China’s Great Firewall
2002-10-03"There is a growing trend towards holding multinational corporations accountable for any degree of complicity with repressive governments in human-rights abuses...The United Nations, meanwhile, is exploring ways to bring corporations under the same umbrella of human-rights laws that apply to states." -
Association for Asian research: Beijing's think-tanks: China re-enters a period of social instability
2002-10-03"Three 40-something scholars with substantial influence over the Chinese leadership have co-authored their newest report on China’s social dilemma [..] entitled “Social Instability behind the Economic Prosperity"[..]. In it, they send their most serious warning yet to the Chinese leadership that its society has entered into a period of instability wherein terrible turmoil and crisis loom." -
Ha’aretz (a daily newspaper in Israel): Members of Falun Gong protest in Tel Aviv
2002-10-03
Falun Gong practitioners protesting yesterday outside the Chinese Embassy in Tel Aviv against the Chinese government's crack down on the meditation movement. -
Financial Times: National security move makes it hard for HK to claim it is business as usual
2002-10-02"Hong Kong, a city with civil liberties enshrined in its post-colonial constitution, stands poised to enact laws on sedition and subversion that would in many cases allow its Communist sovereign, which has been often- criticised on civil liberties grounds, to define what sort of behaviour crosses the line." -
Reuters: Hong Kong activists protest China's violation of rights [Excerpt]
2002-10-02"The planned law, unveiled last week, has raised concerns it could be used against anyone whom China or Hong Kong's Beijing-backed government finds objectionable, such as political dissidents and Falun Gong adherents. "This would allow a dictator to impose his own will on the government and people, and spread the human rights abuses, persecution of Falun Gong and other peaceful groups to Hong Kong,"" -
Time Magazine: Subverting Hong Kong's Autonomy
2002-10-02"It's taken a few years, but now Beijing has what it wants: complete control." -
International Herald Tribune: China's 'Great Firewall' limits Internet
2002-10-02E-mail sent containing sensitive words such as 'Falun Gong,' for example, have been blocked from being downloaded. In some users' experience, all subsequent e-mail messages in their accounts remained blocked until the offending e-mail was deleted via a Web-based e-mail system.
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