• The government has also used the law to reshape Hong Kong's civil service , to reform the education sector, and to restrict press freedom. (chinafile.com)
  • Hong Kong's government has made regular use of the NSL since its first full day as binding law. (chinafile.com)
  • and to target opposition politicians and activists, many of whom are longtime pillars of Hong Kong's political scene. (chinafile.com)
  • First, free expression: Over the past nine months, the NSL has been used repeatedly as a tool to threaten and suppress political expression, in particular speech that advocates for Hong Kong's independence from mainland China. (chinafile.com)
  • It was not until their third attempt during the September 2016 LegCo elections that Hong Kong's student activists were successful in entering the political mainstream. (asiapacific.ca)
  • In recent years, Beijing has cracked down on Hong Kong's freedoms, stoking mass protests in the city and drawing international criticism. (cfr.org)
  • But in recent years, Beijing has taken increasingly brazen steps to encroach on Hong Kong's political system and crack down on dissent. (cfr.org)
  • President Jiang Zemin's government was preparing to celebrate Hong Kong's return and wanted to lock in Beijing's emergence from diplomatic isolation after its 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. (the-independent.com)
  • For Beijing's critics, it was the clearest sign yet that Hong Kong's political institutions were defenceless against the will of the Chinese Communist Party. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The disqualifications "show that the central government has completely abandoned the Basic Law and 'One Country, Two Systems'," Wu said in a press conference, referring to Hong Kong's constitutional guarantee of autonomy. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Hong Kong's Legislative Council has never been fully democratic: only 40 of its 70 seats are directly elected by one-person-one-vote, while the rest are allocated to different industries and sectors, which are mostly dominated by pro-Beijing business interests. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The Liaison Office promotes the Central People's Government's interests in Hong Kong politics, and is responsible for liaising between Hong Kong and mainland officials. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chinese officials bristled when Chen introduced a "defensive referendum" asking voters whether they wanted to request that Beijing redirect 500 missiles aimed at the island. (latimes.com)
  • 8 Indeed, Chinese state media, government officials, and affiliated companies are achieving increased influence over key nodes in the global information flow, exploiting the more sophisticated technological environment, and showing a readiness to meddle in the internal political debates and electoral contests of other countries. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Business groups say party members and government officials who might offer feedback that could temper the economic cost of such political initiatives feel pressure to downplay that and show their loyalty to Xi's program. (dailysabah.com)
  • Central government must intervene to coordinate collaborative policy among states and hold officials accountable for inaction. (org.in)
  • The high-profile hearing, held in the cavernous room that housed the historic Jan. 6 committee hearings, began with a video presentation detailing numerous human rights abuses committed by Chinese government officials, from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre to the alleged rape and torture of the Uyghurs. (nbcnews.com)
  • The NPC is typically a highly choreographed event, and while journalists use rare access to prod officials for unscripted comments, it is not known for political drama. (time.com)
  • Party officials on Monday heaped praise on President Xi Jinping, who has established himself as China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, and has eliminated any limits on his term in office. (news4jax.com)
  • When states voted on the resolution in 1971, they only voted on one question and one question only: which government was the legitimate representative of China in the United Nations. (thediplomat.com)
  • Should it be the Republic of China (ROC) government on Taiwan or the PRC government on the mainland? (thediplomat.com)
  • The resolution "recognize[d] that the representatives of the Government of the People's Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations. (thediplomat.com)
  • In 1971, the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek were expelled from the United Nations because they insisted that the ROC government was the only legitimate representative of China. (thediplomat.com)
  • The current government of the Democratic Progressive Party under President Tsai Ing-wen does not seek to represent China. (thediplomat.com)
  • By Damien Ma Amid growing fears that China is now shunning foreign investment, Beijing unveiled a new foreign direct investment (FDI) blueprint in mid-April aimed at calming jitters. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • When the comic turned from bawdy punch lines to President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan and his supposed plans for the island's independence from China, the crowd launched into a profane political chant. (latimes.com)
  • For years, despite a cold war that has generated belligerent political rhetoric, Taiwan and China have established lucrative economic ties across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait, a growing but vulnerable flow of trade and investment that quietly benefits both sides. (latimes.com)
  • Working in Beijing, he tells most business contacts that he is from southern China, where the accents are similar to those of Taiwan. (latimes.com)
  • These examples, which have come to light over the past three years, illustrate the various ways in which Chinese Communist Party (CCP) media influence-in the form of censorship, propaganda, and control over content-delivery systems-extend beyond the borders of mainland China to reach countries and audiences around the globe. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The CCP and various Chinese government entities have long sought to influence public debate and media coverage about China outside the country, particularly among Chinese- language communities and through obstruction of foreign correspondents within China. (freedomhouse.org)
  • That bid was in the spotlight like never before last month in Beijing, when Xi, flanked by Russian President Vladimir Putin, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and some two dozen top dignitaries from around the world, hailed China as the only country capable of navigating the challenges of the 21st century. (cnn.com)
  • And as the procession of world leaders who have visited Beijing in recent months, including for Xi's gathering last month, make clear: while many nations may be skeptical of a world order pitched by autocratic China - others are listening. (cnn.com)
  • Last June, the two "unofficial" organizations representing Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) signed an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) on behalf of their respective governments. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The opposition Democratic People's Party (DPP) in Taiwan, however, believes that it will be difficult in the long term to resist the political pull of China given the economic ties under the ECFA, and that the government is playing a dangerous game. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Politics weighs more heavily on foreign companies in China than it has in nearly three decades. (dailysabah.com)
  • Last year, Beijing destroyed South Korean retailer Lotte's business in China after the company sold land to the Seoul government to install an anti-missile system Chinese leaders opposed. (dailysabah.com)
  • Xi Jinping has taken politics to a heightened level," said James Zimmerman, managing partner in Beijing for law firm Sheppard Mullin and a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, in an email. (dailysabah.com)
  • China is also soliciting foreign investment in green energy technologies , and has intensified inspections of major polluters around Beijing. (org.in)
  • Another difference between India and China is the level of apathy among the government and general public. (org.in)
  • On March 9, National People's Congress chairman Wu Bangguo declared to the NPC that China would never introduce a system of 'multiple parties holding office in rotation', never allow separation of powers between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, or allow a legislature made up of lower and upper houses. (scmp.com)
  • WASHINGTON - House Republicans and Democrats on the new select China committee held their first hearing Tuesday night, vowing to investigate the numerous technological, economic and military threats from the Chinese Communist Party. (nbcnews.com)
  • Both Gallagher and the panel's top Democrat, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, made it clear that the committee is targeting the Chinese communist government - not the people of China who have been victimized by the regime's oppressive tactics. (nbcnews.com)
  • Lydia Wong is the pen name of a political science scholar and former rights activist from China. (chinafile.com)
  • State media has accused US-based search engine and technology services company Google (GOOG.NASDAQ) of becoming a "political tool" by insinuating that Beijing was behind a series of hacking attacks against its users, the South China Morning Post reported. (chinaeconomicreview.com)
  • China's Foreign Ministry denied the allegations, and the People's Daily accused Google of "deliberately pandering to negative Western perceptions of China" and warned that "when the political winds shift direction, it may become sacrificed to politics and will be spurned by the marketplace. (chinaeconomicreview.com)
  • Gone are the days when China Central Television broadcast nothing but party propaganda. (thecairoreview.com)
  • BEIJING (AP) - China won't sell weapons to either side in the war in Ukraine, the country's foreign minister said Friday, responding to Western concerns that Beijing could provide military assistance to Russia. (princegeorgecitizen.com)
  • China will not provide weapons to relevant parties of the conflict, and manage and control the exports of dual-use items in accordance with laws and regulations. (princegeorgecitizen.com)
  • In recent days, European leaders have issued similar warnings, even as they visited China , and the European Union's foreign policy chief lashed out at Beijing , saying its support of Russia during the invasion was "a blatant violation" of its United Nations commitments. (princegeorgecitizen.com)
  • China insists that self-governing Taiwan submit to its rule, either peacefully or by force, and Qin said the pursuit of independence by Taiwan's government and its foreign supporters - a veiled reference to chief ally the United States - were the reason for the tensions. (princegeorgecitizen.com)
  • A series of investigations even reached the politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a member of which was implicated in the vast corruption network via his divorced wife. (opendemocracy.net)
  • In 2019, both governments signed several cooperation agreements just before the China-Pacific Island Countries Economic Development and Cooperation Forum was held in Apia. (isdp.eu)
  • Since there is no end in sight for the political crisis, China may need to prepare for a further setbacks in Sino-Samoan relations. (isdp.eu)
  • At the heart of his speech was the notion that now is the time for China to truly rise up onto the global stage and lead the world on political, economic, military and environmental issues. (treasurytoday.com)
  • China is marking the centenary of its ruling Communist Party this week by heralding what it says is its growing influence abroad, along with success in battling corruption at home. (news4jax.com)
  • China has seen huge improvements in living standards over the past four decades, accompanied by rising international economic and political heft. (news4jax.com)
  • Senior Conservative MPs have launched an 'alliance' with Parliamentarians across the world to raise 'grave concerns' about China and pressure governments to adopt a tougher stance toward Beijing. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Hong Kong is now being directly intervened in by China and they don't even allow a candlelit vigil to condemn the massacre, to condemn the Communist Party. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Han is a member of the KMT-which holds the view that Taiwan and China are part of the same country-and was largely unknown until the party pushed him to run for mayor of Kaohsiung, the largest city in southern Taiwan, in 2018. (thenation.com)
  • Before the British government handed over Hong Kong in 1997, China agreed to allow the region considerable political autonomy for fifty years under a framework known as "one country, two systems. (cfr.org)
  • The concept was intended to help integrate Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau with sovereign China while preserving their unique political and economic systems. (cfr.org)
  • Nicholas Burns, U.S. ambassador to China, also extended his condolences to Li's family, the Chinese government and the Chinese people in both English and Chinese on X, formerly known as Twitter. (kdvr.com)
  • With no opposition standing in the way, the Hong Kong government led by Chief Executive Carrie Lam is expected to rush through controversial legislative proposals, including a law to set up voting stations for Hong Kong elections in mainland China. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • China urges "relevant parties in the U.K. to stop their anti-China political manipulation," the statement said. (yahoo.com)
  • In November, the head of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency , Ken McCallum, said "the activities of the Chinese Communist Party pose the most game-changing strategic challenge to the U.K." Foreign intelligence chief Richard Moore of MI6 said in July that China was his agency's "single most important strategic focus. (yahoo.com)
  • China has repeatedly criticized what it calls British interference in its internal affairs and denied meddling in the politics of foreign nations. (yahoo.com)
  • Sunak and Li met days after Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visited Beijing, the highest-level trip by a British politician to China for several years. (yahoo.com)
  • In 1938 he became the minister of military affairs of the Japanese-controlled North China Political Committee. (rulers.org)
  • He became commander of the 1st Brigade of the Nationalist Army in Guangdong and helped repress anti-government insurrections in southern China by deposed, yet still-powerful, warlords. (rulers.org)
  • Lest the word "socialist" in their names fool you, the first four groups support the People's Republic of China, while DSA is allied to several European communist parties, including the former Stalinist East German ruling party now known as Die Linke. (trevorloudon.com)
  • Another reason is the current political atmosphere in Sweden, with political parties and ideologies far to both left and right on the political scale growing in popularity, feminism included, and that in China, with rapidly growing income gaps and social unrest to match. (lu.se)
  • With my own study I hope to provide an example of how the same political movement uses different methods in propagating different immediate changes depending on its historical and political context, in this case the contexts of China and Sweden. (lu.se)
  • Beijing accepted Taiwan's participation because of its political rapprochement with the then-Taiwan government ruled by the Nationalist Party (KMT). (thediplomat.com)
  • In a nutshell, Taiwan has the legal capacity to take part in international organizations but is shut out of most of them because of politics, not legal barriers. (thediplomat.com)
  • Fifty-five years later, Beijing still considers Taiwan a renegade province that could be retaken by force if it seeks formal independence. (latimes.com)
  • In June, the government-run People's Daily ran a sharply worded attack on entrepreneurs who supported independence for Taiwan, branding a well-known Taiwanese tycoon as a "persona non grata" for his connections to Chen. (latimes.com)
  • In Beijing, the ECFA is clearly seen as an extension of the mainland's political influence, with the long-term goal to bring Taiwan formally under Beijing's control. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Within Taiwan there is a broad political consensus on the importance of retaining the island's autonomy from the mainland, although significant political divisions exist around the question of how Taiwan should deal with the rise of the PRC. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • For most within the governing Nationalist Party (Kuomintang - KMT), the ECFA is a realistic acknowledgement that the mainland's growing economic might holds significant business opportunities for Taiwan. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • If the ECFA succeeds in boosting Taiwanese growth and Taiwan manages to hold on to its autonomy, the KMT will have scored an impressive political victory. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Chao Yung-mau is currently Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. (iias.asia)
  • In addition to his seminal work Change and Special Characteristics of Local Government in Taiwan (1997), Prof. Chao has written many books and articles in Chinese and English, most notably on local government and elections in Taiwan. (iias.asia)
  • The three leaders are also expected to release a statement reaffirming commitments to ensuring "peace and stability" across the Taiwan Strait - key language warning Beijing against aggressive action in the waterway or against the island of Taiwan. (kdvr.com)
  • Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation in 1997 when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan , the island democracy claimed by the mainland's ruling Communist Party as its own territory. (the-independent.com)
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping's government is richer, more heavily armed and less willing to compromise over Taiwan following news reports the current speaker, Nancy Pelosi, might become the most senior U.S. official since Gingrich to visit the island. (the-independent.com)
  • Beijing sees any official contact with Taiwan as recognition of its democratically elected government, which the mainland says has no right to conduct foreign relations. (the-independent.com)
  • One of Asia's (and the world's) most dynamic economies and highest-functioning democracies is prevented from representing its people's interests or sharing its developmental best practices with the world because of Beijing's political whims. (thediplomat.com)
  • Bo's potential ascendance in Chinese politics should bode well for the future development of Chongqing, which will likely continue to draw Beijing's attention and resources. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • A Soviet concept is also useful to describe Beijing's repertoire: "active measures," which includes disinformation, counterfeiting, sabotage, discredit operations, destabilizing foreign governments, provocations, false-flag operations and manipulation aimed at weakening social cohesion, the recruitment of "useful idiots," and the creation of front organizations. (dialogo-americas.com)
  • For many observers, this campaign has raised concern that a world modeled on Beijing's rules is also one where features of its iron-fisted, autocratic rule - like heavy surveillance, censorship and political repression - could become globally accepted practices. (cnn.com)
  • Beijing's hyped 'successful' 2008 Olympics crystallised this perception of a global financial and political tectonic shift. (scmp.com)
  • Many hoped both the Hong Kong government and Beijing might see the enactment of the law itself as a sufficient deterrent, a signal of Beijing's resolve to turn the page on the widespread public protests in 2019. (chinafile.com)
  • Additionally, the "no strings attached" narrative benefitted Malielegaoi and the HRPP who were subsequently able to convert Beijing's lavish support into political capital. (isdp.eu)
  • Those nations are tightly interlocked with the Chinese economy, while standing at odds with Beijing's authoritarian political ideology and its policies toward Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. (news4jax.com)
  • Beijing had decreed that sitting lawmakers could remain in office in the meantime, but in the eyes of many Hongkongers, any politician who agreed to serve until 2021 was playing the game by Beijing's rules. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Yet, contrary to the myth promoted by Beijing, the resolution does not actually provide any legal basis to exclude Taiwan's international participation. (thediplomat.com)
  • The resolution did not determine other questions such as Taiwan's participation in U.N. bodies in its own right so long as Taiwan's government does not claim China's U.N. seat. (thediplomat.com)
  • At the time, neither the WHO nor the Chinese government claimed Taiwan's observer status to be a violation of any U.N. principles or international law. (thediplomat.com)
  • Does the ECFA enhance or restrict Taiwan's free trade with other parties? (wilsoncenter.org)
  • At the same news conference, Qin also blamed Taiwan's government for heightened regional tensions after Beijing held large-scale military drills in an attempt to intimidate the island it claims as its own territory. (princegeorgecitizen.com)
  • Han Kuo-yu (center), the presidential candidate for Taiwan's Kuomintang party, attends a campaign rally in Taipei, January 5, 2020. (thenation.com)
  • For supporters of incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) , national doom would mean the loss of Taiwan's sovereignty and an end to its democratic freedoms. (thenation.com)
  • Taiwanese critics have slammed the agreement as a further surrender to Beijing of their island's autonomy by allegedly pro-mainland President Ma Ying-jeou. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Despite his positive view of the ECFA in general, Cooke also noted that it is insufficient: outstanding issues such as the lack of stable platforms for dispute resolution have left little recourse for Taiwanese firms when they have felt that their business on the mainland has been targeted for political reasons. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Beijing said it would give Hong Kong fifty years to keep its capitalist system and enjoy many freedoms not found in mainland Chinese cities. (cfr.org)
  • But in 2012, the pressure on China's capitalist elite really ramped up when Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party, announced a crackdown on corruption. (abc.net.au)
  • Chinese leader Xi Jinping addresses visiting dignitaries during the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing last month. (cnn.com)
  • Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders pose for a group photo during the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing last month. (cnn.com)
  • A visit to Moscow last month by Chinese leader Xi Jinping underscored how Beijing is increasingly becoming the senior partner in the relationship as it provides Russia with an economic lifeline and political cover. (princegeorgecitizen.com)
  • It is a policy that Chinese president Xi Jinping and his minions have used to fortify China's aspirations to global leadership and to solidify Xi's unchallenged political position atop the Chinese Communist Party. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Cross-strait tensions flared after the reelection of Chen and his pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party in March. (latimes.com)
  • The packed hearing came amid escalating tensions with Beijing. (nbcnews.com)
  • Yoon and Kishida are credited with expending significant political capital to ease tensions between the two Pacific countries, with longtime grievances ranging from Tokyo's human rights atrocities against Koreans during World War II, territorial disputes and more modern-day problems of bilateral economic and environmental issues. (kdvr.com)
  • China's Communist Party wants its citizens to know about the world's human rights abuses. (abc.net.au)
  • Beijing is also aiming to reduce coal consumption from the current 11 million tons per year to under 5 million by 2020. (org.in)
  • Beijing imposed a national security law in 2020 that gave it broad new powers to punish critics and silence dissenters, which has fundamentally altered life for Hong Kongers. (cfr.org)
  • In 2020, Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong. (cfr.org)
  • That debate resurfaced in July, when the Hong Kong government delayed the 2020 legislative elections by a year, citing public health concerns around Covid-19. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • An opposition Labour Party lawmaker, Barry Gardiner, received more than 500,000 pounds ($685,000) from Lee between 2015 and 2020, mostly for office costs, and her son worked in Gardiner's office. (yahoo.com)
  • In a recent article by the leftist "Truthout" titled "A Left Strategy for the 2020 Elections and Beyond," two prominent American Marxists Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Carl Davidson laid out their ideas for conquering and even eventually replacing the Democratic Party. (trevorloudon.com)
  • se seleccionaron 11 estudios publicados en el período 2019-2020. (bvsalud.org)
  • The 1989 crackdown in Beijing saw tanks roll into the city and hundreds, if not thousands, of pro-democracy student protesters killed. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Under the system "one institution with two names", it is the external name of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Hong Kong Work Committee. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fan BingBing and Jack Ma have both spent several months out of public view after running afoul of the Chinese Communist Party. (abc.net.au)
  • But Mr Ma is not the only high-profile person to run afoul of the Chinese Communist Party. (abc.net.au)
  • Not "losing face" remains very important for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). (dialogo-americas.com)
  • The panel also heard from Tong Yi, a Chinese human rights advocate who was an assistant to one of China's best-known political dissidents, and Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, who argued that "the economic policies of the Chinese Communist Party represent a clear and present danger to the American worker, innovation base and our national security. (nbcnews.com)
  • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) told Chinese media practitioners that it would be unrealistic to expect the West to promote China's cause and perspective. (thecairoreview.com)
  • The Hong Kong-born member of Parliament has been outspoken against human-rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party and often advocates for the country's Uyghur Muslim minority. (ctvnews.ca)
  • In January 2022, MI5 issued a rare public alert , saying a London-based lawyer was trying to "covertly interfere in U.K. politics" on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. (yahoo.com)
  • He turned to Zhang Zuolin in 1927 as his defense area was occupied by the southern army, and was involved in the execution of Li Dazhao, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, in Beijing. (rulers.org)
  • James Tien of the Liberal Party criticised the Liaison Office for circulating the recommendation lists, the Democratic Party's Martin Lee viewed it as a "shadow government" meddling in elections in all levels, including the Chief Executive elections, coordinating with pro-Beijing parties in Legislative Council and District Council elections, and raising funds for the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB). (wikipedia.org)
  • The city's current Party Secretary Bo Xilai , whose charismatic persona is unusual for the typical stolid Chinese politician, has a good shot of returning to Beijing as one of the most powerful players in the Politburo during the party's 2012 political transition. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • But companies face pressure on many sides from President Xi Jinping's more nationalistic stance and twin campaigns to tighten the ruling Communist Party's political control and have it play a direct role in business. (dailysabah.com)
  • In a December speech to its ruling Politburo, Xi called for "strengthening the party's leadership of economic work," according to the party website. (dailysabah.com)
  • Communists can sum up their theory in one sentence: eliminate private ownership," wrote Zhou Xincheng, a professor of Marxism at the party's Renmin University in Beijing. (dailysabah.com)
  • Sakine Cansız, a prominent figure of the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) European wing, Leyla Söylemez and Fidan Doğan were murdered in an execution-style hit last week amid a new round of talks between the Turkish government and Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • People cycle past Chinese paramilitary police standing in formation near seating and a platform with a Communist Party's logo setup on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Monday, June 28, 2021. (news4jax.com)
  • The Chinese Communist Party's international influence, appeal and attraction have continually increased, placing it at the forefront of world politics," Guo Yezhou, deputy head of the party's external liaison department told reporters at a news conference held at the opening of a media center for the centenary celebrations. (news4jax.com)
  • And yet, Beijing is also increasingly comfortable with infiltration and coercion: its influence operations have been considerably hardened in recent years and its methods increasingly resemble Moscow's. (dialogo-americas.com)
  • Viewed as a rival by those countries as its grows increasingly assertive and authoritarian, Beijing has come to believe that now is the time to shift that system and the global balance of power to ensure China's rise - and reject efforts to counter it. (cnn.com)
  • Passing Power Two forces-the market's invisible hand and the tendency for people to hold their governments and corporations to higher standards as they feel increasingly secure-will ensure Chinese business practices improve. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • The country's ruling party, the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) under Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi, suffered a stinging defeat on April 9th. (isdp.eu)
  • On the contrary, this study highlights China's adaptive strategies in dealing with a host of Pakistani actors (including political parties, local communities, and the military) against the backdrop of Pakistan's evolving political landscape and change in leadership following the country's 2018 elections. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Becoming the first female premier in her country's history, Yingluck rode the coattails of her brother Thaksin to Government House in July 2011. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • In those elections, the country's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was ushered into Parliament after her party, the National League for Democracy, scored major victories. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • The warning appeared in the international edition of official Party newspaper the People's Daily . (chinaeconomicreview.com)
  • Beijing also strengthened the Liaison Office to influence day-to-day affairs in Hong Kong and effectively operated as a "second government" in Hong Kong, reviewing and approving all potential candidates in the elections. (wikipedia.org)
  • September 28th marked the anniversary of the Umbrella Movement , when students occupied the streets of Hong Kong after Beijing restricted the roster of candidates that could stand for the 2017 Chief Executive elections. (asiapacific.ca)
  • The results, however, of the 2016 September LegCo elections represents the entrance of student activists into mainstream politics. (asiapacific.ca)
  • RUSH: And the accompanying news story - we got two of them here - one of them from the Washington Post: 'President Barack Obama will declare his stake in the November midterm elections for the first time today as his Democratic Party announces an ambitious strategy to appeal to independent voters in its quest to maintain control of Congress. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • But in return for prosperity, its citizens have had to submit to a government that, despite occasional elections, functions as one-party state with little tolerance of dissent. (theworld.org)
  • German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, center left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, center right, attend a joint press conference at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Friday, April 14, 2023. (princegeorgecitizen.com)
  • In the 2004 Legislative Council election, the Liaison Office mobilised the members of the pro-Beijing interest groups and housing associations, including the Hokkien community, to support and vote for the DAB and the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) candidates. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, then, ahead of next month's Legislative Council election, is my stab at a 10-point guide to Hong Kong politics for the ingenue and the bystander - and the hordes on social media baffled as to why the city has its own Olympic team. (scmp.com)
  • There are currently 16 parties represented in the Legislative Council, alongside 10 independent lawmakers. (scmp.com)
  • Many of those countries have substantially enhanced their economic ties with Beijing during Xi's rule, including under a decade of his up to $1 trillion global infrastructure building drive, which leaders gathered to celebrate last month in the Chinese capital. (cnn.com)
  • It is notable that during the same period, Xi further consolidated his power at the 19th Communist Party Congress in October 2017 and won approval for constitutional amendments that removed presidential term limits in March 2018. (freedomhouse.org)
  • All eyes were on Beijing in October as the 19th Communist Party Congress took place. (treasurytoday.com)
  • It is in accord with the pan-democrat parties, however, in seeking to defenestrate Leung Chun-ying, the city's current chief executive. (scmp.com)
  • That's because the city's freedoms have shrunk since Beijing imposed a tough national security law following massive pro-democracy protests in 2019. (ctvnews.ca)
  • After more than a century and a half of colonial rule, the British government returned Hong Kong in 1997. (cfr.org)
  • The Liberal Party is not liberal on social issues and also opposes democracy. (scmp.com)
  • It coordinates pro-Beijing candidates, mobilising supporters to vote for pro-Beijing political parties and clandestinely orchestrating electoral campaigns. (wikipedia.org)
  • It succeeded Xinhua to promote the pro-Beijing united front and coordinate with the pro-Beijing camp, mobilising supporters to vote for "patriotic" political parties and clandestinely orchestrating electoral campaigns. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pan-democrats gather for a photo-op at the Legco chamber after the electoral reform package, including a proposal for the pre-screening of chief executive candidates, was rejected following a walkout by pro-Beijing lawmakers, on June 18, 2015. (scmp.com)
  • The pan-democrats were well aware of this structural unfairness, but for years that didn't stop them from making electoral politics the core of their strategy. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • While scrapping the multi-million-dollar project will not upend close ties between Beijing and Apia, the pandemic has brought deep running concerns about Chinese development assistance in the South Pacific to the fore. (isdp.eu)
  • For Beijing the close cultural ties provide an inroad for bilateral relations. (isdp.eu)
  • Yet, by sustaining Pyongyang, Beijing prolongs the suffering of the Korean people and ties itself to an anachronistic Stalinist state. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Gingrich, a booster of closer U.S.-Chinese ties, had just helped that campaign by meeting Jiang in Beijing. (the-independent.com)
  • But over the last decade, Beijing has blazed new trails that link Shanghai with the desert entrepot of Xinjiang . (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This year, China's ruling Communist Party also begins a once-in-a-decade transition of its top leaders, giving delegates in Beijing further incentive to avoid controversy. (time.com)
  • Wen Jiabao, the just-retired premier (whose replacement is Li Kexiang), made stirring utterances about corruption being a threat to the very existence of the party over his decade in office. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Li had been seen as former Communist Party leader Hu Jintao's preferred successor as president about a decade ago. (kdvr.com)
  • A condolence visit main opposition party lawmaker Hüseyin Aygün paid to the family of Sakine Cansız, a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who was assassinated in Paris last week along with two other activists, has drawn a reaction from the party chairman. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • According to Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, there are fundamental contradictions in the way the agreement is viewed by Taipei on one hand, and Beijing on the other. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Politics always has overshadowed China's state-dominated economy. (dailysabah.com)
  • Western analysts pondered China's juxtaposed economy and politics. (scmp.com)
  • Bad Politics Beijing also supplies Rangoon with arms and dominates Burma's economy. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Britain's Conservatives are divided on how tough a line to take with Beijing and on how much access Chinese firms should have to the U.K. economy. (yahoo.com)
  • The differences are sometimes in the intensity of the stereotypes, but also in the way inequalities manifest themselves in society in fields such as economy, legislation, politics and cultural peculiarities. (lu.se)
  • Foreign companies worry the "whims of political institutions" will erode their ability to make decisions, Zimmerman wrote. (dailysabah.com)
  • Taiwanese entrepreneurs recently have found themselves caught in political turmoil. (latimes.com)
  • The political chill has even spread to the Taiwanese businesspeople. (latimes.com)
  • Beijing maintains that Taiwanese spies could be among the emigrating entrepreneurs. (latimes.com)
  • The Chinese and Taiwanese can disagree and even show open hostility in the political sphere but cooperate effectively in the commercial sphere as nations, and do so quite amicably on the personal level. (latimes.com)
  • If it fails, the DPP can claim that the government sacrificed Taiwanese autonomy for little gain. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • In Japan, a new government led by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will become more assertive on foreign policy issues. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In response to the perceived lack of political change in the aftermath of the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong youth have created new political parties based on the ideology of localism, prioritizing local interests and ushering in a new " third force " in Hong Kong politics. (asiapacific.ca)
  • One can assume that the core ideology of a movement such as feminism, with the fundamental political goal of women's equal rights with men in all aspects of society, is similar in most parts of world today. (lu.se)
  • He was next promoted to be party head of Zhejiang, then briefly of Shanghai, and then onto the politburo's standing committee - the elite club of China's elites . (opendemocracy.net)
  • Then, enter US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, with much talk, during her trip to Beijing, about mutually solving the global financial crisis - and silence on human rights. (scmp.com)
  • Is Judicial Politics Suffering from an Identity Crisis? (umich.edu)
  • When news broke that Samoa's prime minister elect, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, would suspend a multi-million-dollar port project financed by the Chinese government it added fuel to the flames of an already existing political crisis . (isdp.eu)
  • The political crisis has challenged a relatively stable, albeit only partially democratic, political system . (isdp.eu)
  • Aside from being regularly steamrolled by the pro-Beijing camp, they were also facing a crisis of relevance with their own base: younger, more radical activists accused the pan-democrats of only putting up token resistance in the legislative chamber, while clinging to a broken system out of inertia. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The crisis communication has been thrust into a new era, namely "mass self-communication" that brings grand challenges to governments or corporates in the networked society (Castells, 2009). (lu.se)
  • The contextual factors beyond organizations, the political, cultural, economic factors in this case, function as modifiers that altered the attribution generated by basic crisis types. (lu.se)
  • La coordinación de los sistemas de salud en el nivel de atención primaria, la preparación de los gestores y el mantenimiento de la asignación continua de recursos financieros al sector de la salud son factores importantes para garantizar una respuesta satisfactoria a crisis como la causada por la pandemia de COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • 9. Most localist groups adopt an openly hostile stance towards the central government. (scmp.com)
  • In this piece, which originally appeared in the East Asia Forum , David Dollar analyzes China's domestic and international challenges for economic growth over the next several decades, and reviews potential policy avenues that Beijing may take to address them. (brookings.edu)
  • For the first time in more than two decades an opposition party was able to actually challenge the incumbent HRPP, albeit by a narrow margin. (isdp.eu)
  • It seems that if any given political leader can survive beyond the first year or two without being overthrown, imprisoned, exiled, or killed, they might very well stick around and maintain their grip on power for decades. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • As Samoa continues to struggle with the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, political wrangling between Mata'afa and Malielegaoi adds yet another level of uncertainty. (isdp.eu)
  • Staged in the Great Hall of the People every five years, the congress brought together over 2,000 party members to shape policy, decide on political positioning and set the agenda for the years ahead. (treasurytoday.com)
  • Bo Xilai, the charismatic but controversial Communist Party secretary of Chongqing, waits for a question from the media during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 9, 2012. (time.com)
  • Bo Xilai, the high-profile Chinese politician whose rise has been damaged by a scandal involving a key deputy, spoke at a press conference Friday in Beijing and denied that he had offered to resign or is himself under investigation. (time.com)
  • For where Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao had to wait between one and two years to collect the full suite of titles - Communist Party secretary, chair of the central military commission, and presidency - Xi has gathered these in under six months. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Xi has made fighting corruption - and ensuring political loyalty - a hallmark of his nine years in office. (news4jax.com)
  • More than 30 years later, the Chinese government has still not acknowledged a day on which hundreds - possibly thousands - died, instead unleashing extensive efforts to erase it from history, a campaign that accelerates around the anniversary each year. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Beijing has tightened its grip on Hong Kong in recent years, dimming hopes that the financial center will ever become a full democracy. (cfr.org)
  • And like Chicago, Chongqing is a place of high political intrigue. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Last year, lawmakers sank proposals that would have allowed Beijing to prescreen candidates, reasoning this would be against the Basic Law. (scmp.com)
  • In the upcoming election, at least three dozen parties have put candidates forward. (scmp.com)
  • 7. The largest single party in Legco since 2004, The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, does everything it can to block democratic reform. (scmp.com)
  • 8. The last few months have seen the pace of party formation accelerate, primarily under the banner of "localism" - a reaction, in large part, to the stalled delivery of democratic reforms. (scmp.com)
  • We are facing a totally new paradigm," said Wu Chi-wai, head of the Democratic Party and convenor of the opposition camp. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The United States' four major communist groups: Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) (and its close affiliate LeftRoots), and America's largest Marxist organization, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), are all working together in the innocuously named "Left Inside/Outside Project" to mobilize their 65,000-plus members to take over the Democratic Party . (trevorloudon.com)
  • Unfortunately, in the United States today, the infiltration is on a much larger scale and neither the mainstream media nor the Democratic Party seems at all interested in exposing or countering it. (trevorloudon.com)
  • Given how unlikely Trump's resignation or impeachment is, the election of the candidate running on the Democratic Party line seems like the likeliest path toward his removal. (trevorloudon.com)
  • The paper will analyze the discourses regarding sterilization and reproduction of political and Catholic religious leaders, national and international media and conservative and "progressive" individuals in two different political scenarios: the Fujimori government and the current Toledo democratic regimen. (bvsalud.org)
  • Though they have been charged with various breaches of national security ranging from inciting secession to terrorism, their primary crime appears to be peaceful criticism of the government. (chinafile.com)
  • China's political transition will make it more difficult for Beijing to be flexible on foreign policy issues. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Even more significant than Xi Jinping's ascent and accumulation of job titles, however, is the sense he conveys of possessing considerable political will. (opendemocracy.net)
  • In an October 2015 article, media studies professor Anne-Marie Brady found that Xi has used his highly concentrated political power to personally initiate this change, raising China's foreign propaganda efforts to "a new level of assertiveness, confidence, and ambition. (freedomhouse.org)
  • But China's push comes as American wars overseas, unstable foreign policy election-to-election, and deep political polarization have intensified questions about US global leadership. (cnn.com)
  • If Beijing faces a foreign policy test, the incoming administration might feel the need to demonstrate its foreign policy mettle and avoid being seen as capitulating to outside interests. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • With neither candidate willing to concede , everyday-politics are stifled, also impacting foreign relations. (isdp.eu)
  • China's authorities have recently come under fire by foreign governments and human rights groups. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Cooperating with pariah states, however, forces Beijing to incorporate despots' interests into its foreign policy in an effort to secure its investments. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • In Sudan, Beijing has invested heavily, supplied arms and military technology and leveraged its veto in the United Nations Security Council to thwart any moves by the international community to enforce sanctions or deploy peacekeepers in the war-torn Darfur region. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • provided a wellspring of propaganda for Beijing to declare the superiority of its policies and political system as competitors, most notably the United States, struggled at times to contain the disease. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • In 2016 and 2017, the Hong Kong government disqualified six pro-democracy lawmakers on the basis that they didn't properly take their oath of office. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • A more than 13,000-word policy document released by Beijing in September outlines China's vision for global governance and identifies what it sees as the source of current global challenges: "Some countries' hegemonic, abusive, and aggressive actions against others … are causing great harm" and putting global security and development at risk, it reads. (cnn.com)
  • Authorities closed most of the South Korean company's 99 supermarkets and other outlets after it sold land for the U.S.-supplied THAAD anti-missile system Beijing worried would allow American forces to see into Chinese territory. (dailysabah.com)
  • The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's current political system is divided between the pro-establishment parties that are broadly supportive of China's policies in Hong Kong as a way to promote business and political interests, and the pan-democrats who wish to expedite the process of democratization in the city. (asiapacific.ca)
  • Although she noted that she wishes to maintain good relations with Beijing, she campaigned on catering to local needs , including improving the nation's health care system . (isdp.eu)
  • Undertake other matters at the direction of the central government. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a result, the central government removed and replaced a number of deputy directors of the Liaison Office. (wikipedia.org)
  • The central government has taken a systematic and coordinated approach to managing air pollution. (org.in)
  • This has led state governments to demand compensation from central government for losses farmers incur by ceasing burning. (org.in)
  • The central government has remained largely silent about pollution while state leaders indulge in meaningless inter-party squabbling and political theatre. (org.in)
  • Central government should also reinforce state-level initiatives to minimise burning and promote sustainable farming. (org.in)
  • Lam and the central government in Beijing have dismissed those measures as interference in China's internal affairs. (news4jax.com)
  • The final goal and challenge is to deconstruct the concept of reproductive rights in the context of political violence, poverty, human rights violations, and economic, gender and ethnic inequalities in Peru. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, PM2.5 levels decreased by 27% between 2013 and 2016. (org.in)
  • In the end, up to eight of the Umbrella Soldiers were elected but many hid their affiliation fearing a backlash of anti-Umbrella Movement campaigns from pro-establishment parties. (asiapacific.ca)
  • In Beijing alone, fines for pollution topped USD$ 28 million in 2015. (org.in)
  • LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chastised China's premier on Sunday for "unacceptable" interference in British democracy, after a newspaper reported that a researcher in Parliament was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of spying for Beijing. (yahoo.com)
  • In 2013, the party said for the first time that market forces would play the "decisive role" in allocating resources - a declaration welcomed by businesspeople. (dailysabah.com)
  • Metal barricades went up in Victoria Park to bar people from gathering to remember the lives lost when the military gunned down peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators, seen as a threat to the ruling Communist Party, in the square. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • More hawkish Tories want Beijing declared a threat, but Sunak has referred to China's growing power as a "challenge. (yahoo.com)
  • The Marxist takeover of an existing mainstream politic party in a First World Western country should not be easy. (trevorloudon.com)
  • This is done by comparing the agendas and actions of feminist networks in the two countries, as well as response in mainstream media and politics. (lu.se)
  • But the need to balance party factions prompted the leadership to choose Xi, the son of a former vice premier and party elder, as the consensus candidate. (kdvr.com)
  • In a sign Chinese government opinion-makers are still feeling out the boundaries of identity politics, the Global Times has vacillated between celebrating China's new aggressive style of 'Wolf Warrior' diplomacy and claiming the term is a racist Western concept. (abc.net.au)
  • The municipality could also become a key logistics artery, as the local government has ambitious plans to expand ports, high-speed rail, and highways . (foreignpolicy.com)