• He has often criticized the Democratic Progressive Party, leading some to consider him to be a Pan-Blue supporter. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cross-strait tensions flared after the reelection of Chen and his pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party in March. (latimes.com)
  • Despite claims by Democratic Progressive Party leaders that Taiwan is "already independent," the ROC constitution has never delimited its territory to the island of Taiwan and its offshore islands. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • The Democratic Progressive Party takes power ahead of the presidential elections in 2016. (asianews.it)
  • In Taipei the independent candidate Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) - supported in the election race by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP, 民進黨) - defeated nationalist, Sean Lien (連勝 文). (asianews.it)
  • This occurs as the ruling Democratic Progressive Party is taking an increasingly defiant stance toward China. (ijnet.org)
  • The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)'s return to power signifies shifting political preferences among the general public in Taiwan, but contradictory preferences and circumstances surrounding Taiwan threaten to face the new government with a dilemma. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Although the candidates have not yet been finalized, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) suffered a setback in last year's local elections. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • Further he identified the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities' attempts to seek independence and external forces' interference in China's internal affairs as the root cause of tensions across the Taiwan Straits. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Wu'erkaixi eventually settled in Taiwan, where he works as a political commentator. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's not that they like the idea that Beijing claims Taiwan as part of them. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island. (apnews.com)
  • Moreover, it is one thing to support independence in an anonymous poll and quite another to engage in a political process by which Taiwan codifies independence. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • The political parties that do support de jure independence, such as the New Power Party, the Formosa Alliance, and the Taiwan Statebuilding Party, are among the island's least popular . (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • It is true, as Cohen argues, that Taiwan has many of the trappings of an independent state: "its own currency, a thriving economy, lively democratic politics, sizable armed forces. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • But it is the best way for the United States to contribute to a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic future for Taiwan. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • Taipei (AsiaNews) - The Prime Minister of Taiwan, Jiang Yi-Huah, has resigned after the defeat suffered by his Nationalist Party (currently in government) in the municipal elections of last November 29 . (asianews.it)
  • The KMT's campaign was based on the fact that "Korea thanked Taiwan" (韓國 謝謝 台灣) for being in the lead in trade agreements with other countries , while the island has stalled in recent months in signing pacts with Beijing (the subject of protests by young people, who occupied Parliament, last March). (asianews.it)
  • Most KMT party members and supporters seem not to believe that China actually means any harm to Taiwan- and especially not now that there will be a unified KMT government. (foolsmountain.com)
  • They think that if Taiwan's government can just behave, quietly cooperate with Beijing and give up the quest for de jure independence, that China will reciprocate by allowing Taiwan to indefinitely maintain the "status quo" of de facto independence. (foolsmountain.com)
  • The problem for me personally is that China has, in my opinion, shown no flexibility or good will on the key issues that would allow Taiwan to seriously consider a closer political relationship. (foolsmountain.com)
  • Amid misinformation originating in China and pressure from the mainland on media owners in Taiwan, Beijing is waging an increasingly sophisticated information war against the island of 24 million inhabitants. (ijnet.org)
  • With its goal likely being to annex Taiwan, which it considers part of its territory , China uses information war tactics to influence public opinion in Taiwan. (ijnet.org)
  • The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) believes the island nation of Taiwan belongs to Beijing. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • The PRC has spent decades planning and arming for the invasion of Taiwan and the restoration of the island to its rule. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • But as Easton details with maps, charts and great familiarity with Chinese military journals, Taiwan is the first national priority of the PRC government, if for no other reason than that a flourishing democracy in Taiwan provides Chinese people with a model for life inconsistent with communist rule. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • The Chinese government sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will, eventually, be part of the country. (hksar.org)
  • There are two main political parties in Taiwan and they have differing approaches to China. (hksar.org)
  • Tsai has taken a strong stance towards China, saying Beijing needed to show Taiwan respect and that Taipei would not bow to pressure. (hksar.org)
  • The DPP is experiencing diminishing returns to its traditional brand of Taiwanese nationalism," said Wen-ti Sung, a Taiwan politics analyst in Taipei who works for the Australian National University. (hksar.org)
  • It's a three-way race for the mayorship, with the KMT and DPP candidates being challenged by a technocrat who is backed by the Taiwan People's Party and Terry Gou, the founder of technology manufacturing giant Foxconn. (hksar.org)
  • As demonstrated by recent polls, as well as social movements such as the Sunflower Movement, people in Taiwan display an increasing trend toward a Taiwanese identity, and a general hope for the island to move toward being a normal sovereign state, or at least retaining de facto independence from China. (nationalinterest.org)
  • An outspoken China hawk who is seeking the White House is due to become the first 2024 presidential hopeful to visit Taiwan as American political positions toward Beijing harden ahead of next year's U.S. election. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • Austin Wang of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies East Asia politics, said that current polls in the United States show that American voters' unfavorable view towards China is increasing and their support for Taiwan is rising. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • Bolton's visit to Taiwan as a presidential candidate carries two significant meanings: firstly, it could help him in the primaries of his party, and secondly, it reflects the importance of Taiwan issues for supporters of various political parties," Wang said. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • Tough talk on Taiwan, however, has become a rite of passage for those who are running for office in the U.S., regardless of their political party. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • Republicans have been more aggressive in their stance on Taiwan than the Democrats, but members of both of the political parties agree that a robust defense of Taiwan's autonomy sends an important message: U.S. leaders are standing up for political freedom - and against the Chinese government on this issue. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • A recent official poll conducted in Taiwan in March has shed light on the political sentiments of the population. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • China's State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu shared with a world audience what can be considered as the country's definitive Taiwan policy position going forward. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Established in 1997, its mission according to a wikipedia post, is to analyse the Cross-Taiwan-Strait relations and international politics and economy and provide suggestions of policies for Taiwan government. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The visit of the then Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, in 2022 to the island of Taiwan was seen as a provocation by Beijing, which considers the island a rebellious province. (newslite.tv)
  • Among these and other measures of US foreign policy, tensions in the Pacific point to a process of ukrainization of Taiwan: given the troubled relations of the island with the rival US power, Washington's plan is to transform it into a puppet of the West to destabilize and demolish the Chinese rise. (newslite.tv)
  • It's no surprise that Taiwan was top of the agenda, with Beijing threatening "serious consequences" if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi follows through on a planned visit to the self-governing island. (patterico.com)
  • The Chinese government has repeatedly vowed to take control of the island, by force if necessary, and it reacts furiously to any gesture that seems to treat Taiwan as an independent state. (patterico.com)
  • But the official did say that Beijing and Washington had "managed" their differences over Taiwan for over 40 years. (patterico.com)
  • China's top diplomat in Australia has declared "there's absolutely no room for us to compromise" over Taiwan and warned the Albanese government more work needs to be done to repair ties between Canberra and Beijing, offering no indication when bans on Australian exports could be ended or detained Australian citizens freed. (afr.com)
  • China has not ruled out using force to take control of Taiwan but says it is a "last resort", according to a new white paper that maps out a Hong Kong-style strategy for bringing the island nation under Communist Party rule. (afr.com)
  • The whirlwind visit of the U.S House speaker, 82 year-old Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan despite protestations from Beijing have raised fresh concerns about how the world's most important bilateral relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America is managed. (ccs-ng.org)
  • Just as playing the Taiwan card has become a key menu in U.S politics, especially when crucial elections beckons, it is important to clarify the origin of the Taiwan question and how it has evolved as a political game among U.S politicians. (ccs-ng.org)
  • However, under the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895) which ended the first Sino-Japanese war, Taiwan and its subsidiary Islands, including the Penghu Islands were ceded to Japan. (ccs-ng.org)
  • The Cairo declaration released on the 1st of December, 1943 and agreed by China, Britain and U.S clearly stipulated that all China's territories, including Taiwan and its subsidiary Islands were to be returned to China. (ccs-ng.org)
  • In addition, the Potsdam proclamation, prelude to the end of second war and Japan's surrender unequivocally committed to the terms of Cairo declaration and on August 15th 1945 Taiwan was liberated from Japan's rule and the central government under the regime of General Chiang Kai Shek restored the administrative agencies in Taiwan and the then China's defense minister, Chen Cheng was appointed governor of the Taiwan province. (ccs-ng.org)
  • What gave rise to the contemporary Taiwan question began in 1949 when the Chinese civil war was drawing to a close and a group of military and political officials of the Kuomintang or Nationalist party dictatorship retreated to Taiwan after losing the war to a broad united front under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, CPC. (ccs-ng.org)
  • As the war in Korea broke out in 1950, the U.S seventh fleet entered Taiwan to prevent the People's Liberation Army from liberating Taiwan under the new government in Beijing. (ccs-ng.org)
  • By December 1954, U.S signed Mutual Defense Treaty with the rump of the previous KMT regime that escaped to Taiwan, thereby putting the island under the U.S protection. (ccs-ng.org)
  • Despite leaving office, he remained influential within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and continued to be a force on Japan's political landscape. (npr.org)
  • He ultimately failed to achieve his most cherished political goal, and that of his party: to revise Japan's pacifist, post-World War II constitution. (npr.org)
  • Furthermore, from the 1970s, determined to expand economic ties, a strong China lobby had its place in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • Abe felt the political values imposed by the U.S.-backed constitution were alien to some of Japan's traditions, such as reverence for the emperor. (ijpr.org)
  • TOKYO, Japan (AP) - Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in a landslide election victory Sunday, Dec. 16, after three years in opposition, according to unofficial results, signaling a rightward shift in the government that could further heighten tensions with China, a key economic partner, as well as rival. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • He has repeatedly said in the past that he will protect Japan's "territory and beautiful seas" amid a territorial dispute with China over some uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that Japan calls Senkaku and China calls Daioyu. (nwasianweekly.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)
  • Taiwanese want to now and always be the sole masters of their political fate, and the only people with the authority to choose their leader, and this Bejing understands. (foolsmountain.com)
  • These stations do not reflect the policies of the Taiwanese government, which is pro-independence and was re-elected by a large majority in 2020 . (ijnet.org)
  • Originally a citizen's project, the G0V hacker community now collaborates with the Taiwanese government to combat misinformation from the mainland. (ijnet.org)
  • Yes, if it could get the Taiwanese government to capitulate peacefully, China would take it. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • But many Taiwanese people consider their self-ruled island - with its own form of government and a democratic system - to be distinct. (hksar.org)
  • The failure of the Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as Kuomintang (KMT), in the last elections can be partly attributed to its China-friendly attitude, which was realized through cross-Strait integration, while the DPP is usually seen as a promoter of Taiwanese identity. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Meetings between Taiwanese and U.S. officials perennially inflame relations with Washington, as Beijing claims that these events undermine Beijing's so-called "One China" policy. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • How much money and perks is paid by the foundation to import foreign wolves to support the current Taiwanese government in its bid to seek independence from China and retain power in the country by villifying China is not public knowledge. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Taiwan's de facto autonomy has allowed it to become the strong, democratic, and prosperous partner that many Americans admire. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • Respecting Taiwan's unofficial status may not satisfy the desire by some to see the flourishing of democratic self-determination around the globe. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • Taiwan's media environment reflects its political landscape: it questions its ties with mainland China and is divided over its concept of the country itself. (ijnet.org)
  • This entails, for example, portraying the island as potentially wealthier after uniting with the Chinese mainland, or pointing out the inability of Taiwan's government to provide adequate diplomatic services, and therefore unable to protect its citizens. (ijnet.org)
  • 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)
  • Finally, the Cross-Strait Act , amended most recently in 2022, still considers mainland China to be "territory of the Republic of China. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • The weekend elections were considered by many analysts a sort of "litmus test" on rapprochement with mainland China led by the incumbent government. (asianews.it)
  • Protests about changes to extradition laws , which would allow Hong Kong residents accused of crimes could be extradited to mainland China for trial, erupted across the region amid demands for strengthened democratic institutions. (vox.com)
  • Hong Kong's leader has unveiled the most ambitious policy blueprint of her political career, setting out measures aimed at tackling the housing shortage, re-energising the economy through closer integration with mainland China's development strategy, and further ramping up national security. (scmp.com)
  • While it was not the same big extravaganza as in 2008, the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was still highly politicised and delivered national as well as political messages, writes Stanis Elsborg, senior analyst at Play the Game. (playthegame.org)
  • It was a different China that welcomed the world at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Friday 4 February 2022 than the China that hosted the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics 14 years earlier. (playthegame.org)
  • Zhang Yimou was also in charge of the 2022 Beijing opening ceremony and therefore expectations were high in terms of what he and the Chinese organisers had planned for the audience and viewers 14 years on from the opening ceremony in 2008. (playthegame.org)
  • In 2022, China has become a recognised global superpower that no longer seeks entry into the international community, but the state still took advantage of the unique public relations opportunity that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is, and in this article, I will highlight some of the most significant national and political messages. (playthegame.org)
  • One of the big take-home messages from the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was China's wish to frame itself as a technological superpower. (playthegame.org)
  • Before the 2022 Olympics, China launched the world's first high-speed train with 5G coverage, allowing athletes, journalists, and other attendees to move between the two competition zones of Beijing and Zhangjiakou. (playthegame.org)
  • FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China February 4, 2022. (newslite.tv)
  • He was one of the main leaders of the pro-reform Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation and helped lead abortive negotiations with 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)
  • The officials said they believed it would be Xi's first visit to San Francisco since he was a young Communist Party leader. (wjbf.com)
  • As of April 14, the CERC had only four members - all unelected government officials - and three non-official members, according to a government press release . (vox.com)
  • The LDP will stick with its long-time partner New Komeito, backed by a large Buddhist organization, to form a coalition government, party officials said. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America's dysfunctional two-party system. (patterico.com)
  • The island considers itself a sovereign state, but Beijing claims it as a part of the People's Republic of China. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • But Beijing's fury reflects a much deeper problem for the Party: any list of factors contributing to the development of a distinct identity among Hong Kong people would have to include civil liberties, independent courts, press freedom, and political parties. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Unlike military actions, Beijing's nonviolent economic reprisals would leave no third party, such as Washington, able to intervene. (nationalinterest.org)
  • In a more than two-hour address on Wednesday to a legislature without any opposition members left following Beijing's overhaul of the city's electoral system, Lam laid down objectives for her administration that would have to be followed up by the next government, but gave no hint as to whether she would seek a second term. (scmp.com)
  • In Bangkok, Thai K-Pop fandoms were the biggest economic contributors to the Thai anti-government protests that started in 2020 and called for the resignation of the military leadership and reforms of the monarchy. (isdp.eu)
  • Their main rival is the governing Democratic People's Party (DPP) whose leader Tsai Ing-wen won by a landslide in the 2020 national election. (hksar.org)
  • She was re-elected in 2020 on a promise to stand up to Beijing. (hksar.org)
  • Americans generally think of Khomeini as having been a raving lunatic, but somehow think of the Communist Party of China as a responsible partner for trade and politics. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • Drafted in 1947, when the Kuomintang-led government claimed to be the legal representative for all of China, the ROC constitution states that the "territory of the Republic of China within its existing national boundaries shall not be altered except by a resolution of the National Assembly. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • Results show that the Kuomintang (KMT) lost control of several districts across the island, including the capital Taipei. (asianews.it)
  • Beijing, always wary of Hong Kong's loyalty because of its colonial heritage, ratchets up the rhetoric even higher during 'election' season. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • While Hong Kong doesn't have what Americans would recognize as a democratic electoral system, previous elections have seen multiple candidates vie for Hong Kong's top job. (vox.com)
  • Prior to joining Hong Kong's government as Chief Secretary for Administration - the second-most powerful position in the government - Lee was the deputy head of the police force and a career cop, having joined the force in 1977 . (vox.com)
  • 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)
  • He added: 'The time has come for democratic countries around the world to mount a common defence of our shared principles as a response to China's increasing belligerent foreign policy. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • He begins not with U.S.-China trade or political positions, but with the fundamental point of communist China's policy. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • He noted that Beijing might simply be "very busy in dealing with its own domestic problems", referring to China's soaring COVID cases. (hksar.org)
  • If these "natural partners" or albeit slightly exaggerated "quasi-allies" were to do so, it would serve as an important political signal given China's assertive actions in the Indo-Pacific. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • But this year, Lee was the only person Beijing apparently deemed sufficiently loyal to China's Communist Party under its new electoral policies for Hong Kong, unveiled last March . (vox.com)
  • commonly known by his pinyin name Wu'erkaixi) is a political commentator known for his leading role during the Tiananmen protests of 1989. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 64-year-old ran the only approved campaign to succeed Carrie Lam, the embattled head of the Chinese territory who oversaw a dramatic degradation to democratic institutions throughout 2019's pro-democracy protests. (vox.com)
  • Consider, for example, the problem of democratic elections. (commondreams.org)
  • The municipal elections punish the ruling party, guilty of having ignored young people's demands and of bowing to the wishes of Beijing. (asianews.it)
  • The young electorate, between the ages of 20 and 40, voted en mass in the elections. (asianews.it)
  • Both for the government and the opposition, in fact, these elections are an important indicator in view of the presidential elections of 2016. (asianews.it)
  • The new government will need to quickly deliver results ahead of upper house elections in the summer. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • They combine widely accepted forms of public diplomacy with more covert, corrupt, and coercive activities that undermine democratic norms, reduce national sovereignty, weaken the financial sustainability of independent media, and violate the laws of some countries. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Beijing, on the other hand, clearly seeks to undermine the status quo, as evidenced by official statements and military coercion toward the island. (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  • Growing cross-Strait economic ties have become a useful source of leverage for Beijing to exert power on Taipei. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Thus, the bilateral economic interdependence between the two is in fact asymmetrical, providing excellent conditions for Beijing to launch an economic war on Taipei. (nationalinterest.org)
  • 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)
  • His standpoint has been defending the growing democracy in the island, and promoting civil society. (wikipedia.org)
  • Democracy and identity politics aren't mutually exclusive. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • A new and powerful consensus formed around the notion that market capitalism was the only way to organize the economy and democracy was the only way to organize political life. (commondreams.org)
  • 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)
  • The Hong Kong students, who have legitimate grievances and are trying their best to prevent what they rightly see as increasing Chinese meddling in Hong Kong local affairs and laws, and as a reneging by Beijing on promises for more local democracy in the city's governance made in 1997. (opednews.com)
  • The nationalist president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) "will not resign" but promises to reform the party "to meet the electorate signals and prepare for future challenges. (asianews.it)
  • The federal government has scrapped the $9 million COVIDSafe app , amid a shift away from contact tracing and criticisms by health researchers the program was not useful at identifying potential COVID-19 cases. (afr.com)
  • Both the Japanese and South Korean governments, however, feel the urgent need to cooperate for their own national security, and for economic reasons. (ciaonet.org)
  • 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)
  • Last fall, pro-Beijing candidates won local district-level polls overwhelmingly, although an investigation has been opened into possible vote-rigging. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Standing Committee of the NPC also created an institution to vet potential political candidates, the Candidate Eligibility Review Committee , or CERC. (vox.com)
  • Money is essential for the operations of political parties, and particularly affects candidates in electoral processes. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • Political financing regulations can effect women's access to run as candidates, be elected, campaign and reach out to the population. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • Are there adverse effects for women candidates in the existing laws on political finance? (iknowpolitics.org)
  • In his book, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is transforming China and Changing the Balance of Power, David Aikman claims Wu'erkaixi converted to Christianity in 2002, but this has never been substantiated and Wu'erkaixi himself has made no public statements about the issue of faith. (wikipedia.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)
  • 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)
  • In 2008, China, which in this article is to be understood as the Chinese Communist Party under the rule of the president, introduced itself with an opening ceremony that might go down as one of the most impressive theatrical performances in the history of the Olympic movement. (playthegame.org)
  • Zhang Yimou, the famous Chinese film maker, was hired by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as producer of the ceremony and created an extraordinary, intricately choreographed extravaganza that showcased China and its 5,000-year history to the world. (playthegame.org)
  • Back then, China was an upcoming political and economic power in need of international recognition and therefore produced an opening ceremony showing a stage imaged of the nation's historical contribution to the world community. (playthegame.org)
  • Young people have told the BBC they're directly being driven by the "China threat" - an issue that has been a big part of the political conversation throughout their lives. (hksar.org)
  • The government has claimed, ahead of the vote, that election meddling and interference from China was less than previously recorded. (hksar.org)
  • On one hand, Tokyo has been relatively more reluctant to confront China, as it continues to pursue its policy of Seikei Bunri, i.e., the separation of politics from economics. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • In 2021, China passed a problematic new coast guard law, which clarifies when the Chinese coast guard can use force and could allow Beijing to strengthen its claims to disputed islands. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • Yellen, who visited China in July, said she accepted an invitation to make a return trip to Beijing next year. (wjbf.com)
  • China and South Korea began 2023 with the temporary imposition of tit-for-tat restrictions by both governments on travel to the other country after China lifted its zero-COVID policy. (ciaonet.org)
  • China claims the island as its territory. (abc4.com)
  • His bid for the White House is considered a long-shot, but his position on China is politically astute. (redstatetalkradio.com)
  • Since 2019, the Chinese government has instituted laws and policies which have eroded the relative autonomy that Hong Kong enjoyed after the territory was returned from the UK to China in 1997. (vox.com)
  • We must strengthen our alliance with the U.S. and also improve relations with China, with a strong determination that is no change in the fact the Senkaku islands are our territory," Abe said in the interview. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • Under President and Communist Party Secretary-General Xi Jinping, China has become more authoritarian. (gmfus.org)
  • Prime Minister resigns, President Ma announces "changes" in national politics. (asianews.it)
  • There is no major political figure in Japan arguing for a different direction, other than tactical changes, from what Abe put in place when he was prime minister. (npr.org)
  • The results were a sharp rebuke for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan, reflecting widespread unhappiness with its failure to keep campaign promises and get the stagnant economy going during its three years in power. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • According to the British newspaper Mirror, the former prime minister was paid £65,751.62 to attend a conference in India for just four hours on top of paid hotel, flights and expenses ( https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-earns-16500-per-29784243 ) This figure is twice the annual average salary in Britain! (eurasiareview.com)
  • Lam began her address by hailing the "favourable era" that the national security law imposed by Beijing had created following the anti-government protest turmoil of 2019. (scmp.com)
  • Omer Carmi writes: On the other hand, the Supreme Leader may fear that high turnout in an inclusive election process might produce a Majlis dominated by pragmatists and reformists, who could prove to be more skeptical of the regime's current hardline approach and more willing to challenge Raisi's government. (fdd.org)
  • LDP, the most pro-nuclear power party, had 118 seats before the election. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • Hundreds of people were attending the event by the government-allied conservative Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl party, which is known for its links to hardline Islamists. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is writing a book called "Manhood: The Masculine Virtues Americans Need," building off a speech he gave at a conservative conference claiming the political left is waging a war on masculinity. (patterico.com)
  • The new party, called Forward and whose creation…will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. (patterico.com)
  • Regulations on political funding are used to level the playing field in electoral competition. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • As an expert in political anthropology and the issues of kind since this country expanded global expertise (the glass ceiling and electoral parity in a global context, a more than universal global concern), the question of the representation of women in political parties demand course of reforms and national actions. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • However, one of the great points of agreement between the Putin government and the Xi Jinping government is the discomfort with the US global offensive, in several aspects. (newslite.tv)
  • Well, Xi Jinping visited Moscow between March 20 and 22 at the invitation of Vladimir Putin's government to discuss strategic cooperation between the two countries. (newslite.tv)
  • How are governmental and nongovernmental actors responding to the challenges to press freedom and democratic governance posed by the covert, corrupt, and coercive aspects of the CCP's transnational media influence? (freedomhouse.org)
  • Our political differences exacerbate our misunderstanding of Chinese policy - or at least, our understanding of the PRC commitment to winning. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • Because of the necessity of thinking in terms of party interests, politicians rarely sit down across ideological lines to address problems of national interest. (commondreams.org)
  • The response to this nosedive in public support for political elites has invariably been: 'we need leadership' or 'we need politicians with vision. (commondreams.org)
  • In other words, our democratic politicians have not transcended the short-term demands of politics to offer transformative policies that go beyond quick fixes. (commondreams.org)
  • He achieved prominence while studying at Beijing Normal University as a hunger striker who rebuked Chinese Premier Li Peng on national television. (wikipedia.org)
  • In her speech inaugurating her second term in office, President Tsai Ing-wen emphasized the determination of her independence-minded government to fight the information war as an integral part of its national defense program. (ijnet.org)
  • The executive director of the Paris-based research group EuropaNova attributes the general disenchantment to "a mood of angry impotence as the real power to shape events largely shifted from national political leaders [who, in principle at least, are subject to democratic politics] to the market, the institutions of the European Union and corporations," quite in accord with neoliberal doctrine. (salon.com)
  • 3 - Women that were political activists that have built their career step by step and wherever they have been working they had great performance, but did not have sufficient financial means to develop the campaign. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • After introducing the basic assumptions of the economic method, the book considers the analysis of market failure, the role of government in a market economy, behavioural economics, bargaining in government, bureaucracy, interest groups, and levels of government. (edu.au)
  • KHALID: When Biden says downtown Kabul, he means the area around government buildings, buildings that are, in fact, controlled by the current rulers, the Taliban. (wunc.org)
  • Professor Chen says: "Perhaps the most profound lesson is that the young voters no longer believe in the blue or green division (KMT against DPP) but wants a new form of political participation that makes them protagonists of their own future and not puppets of the great economic interests. (asianews.it)
  • The Covid-19 pandemic poses a profound challenge for political leaders around the world. (edu.au)
  • Novel Politics takes the relationship between literature and politics seriously, analysing the work of six writers, each the author of a classic text about Australian society. (edu.au)
  • Significantly, an appreciation of traditionally feminine attributes in women political leaders has also been displayed in much media coverage, providing a more favourable coverage of female political leaders than has often previously been the case. (edu.au)
  • Globally, women hold only 7 per cent of government leadership positions, yet four of the top 10 countries identified as frontrunners in their response to Covid-19 are led by a woman.39 A similar pattern can be observed at other levels of leadership, leading to widespread media speculation that women are simply better leaders. (edu.au)
  • Johnson, Carol and Blair Williams Gender and Political Leadership in a Time of COVID . (edu.au)
  • States of course have complex internal structures, and the choices and decisions of the political leadership are heavily influenced by internal concentrations of power, while the general population is often marginalized. (salon.com)
  • There are risks to a U.S. strategy that prioritizes the dignity of the individual, civil society actors, and non-government stakeholders over entrenched leaders, who will see this type of assistance as a threat to their patronage networks. (csis.org)
  • we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are states, primarily the great powers, and we consider their decisions and the relations among them. (salon.com)
  • The European Union (EU), one of the more promising developments of the post-World War II period, has been tottering because of the harsh effect of the policies of austerity during recession, condemned even by the economists of the International Monetary Fund (if not the IMF's political actors). (salon.com)
  • Actions, even symbolic ones, that suggest the city's independence to be a goal, like waving American flags or burning the Chinese flag, are like waving a red cloth in front of a charging bull to the rulers in Beijing. (opednews.com)
  • Of course some leaders didn't quite fit the new consensus - in Beijing, Tehran, Harare, Riyadh - but these outliers were clearly on the wrong side of history. (commondreams.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has undermined the division between the private sphere of the home and public sphere of politics that has traditionally disadvantaged women political leaders. (edu.au)
  • Whereas male political leaders drew on their traditional role as the male head of household to display forms of masculine protectionism towards citizens, women leaders have now been able to draw on their traditional motherly role, for example as the member of the household who traditionally compassionately cares for the sick, to display forms of feminine protectionism. (edu.au)
  • As a result, various women leaders internationally have managed to leverage women's role in the home to their advantage in the political sphere. (edu.au)
  • This made me to think deeper about young women who have ambitions to enter the political career or young women leaders which lead to the path of policy. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • Every alluring idea to emerge, including an EU style merger, a East-West Germany model, and a North-South Korea model have all been roundly rejected over the last several years by both the Chinese government and mouthpieces (Xinhua editorials). (foolsmountain.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)
  • Welcome to Monday, where West African countries issue a one-week ultimatum to Niger's junta, the death toll is expected to rise after a suicide bombing at a political rally in Pakistan killed at least 45, and Michelle Yeoh marries her Swiss beau Jean Todt some 19 years after he first proposed. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Rather, they reflect 'no votes' to the DPJ's politics that stalled everything the past three years," he told NHK. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • Moreover, voters are tired of the traditional political divisions. (asianews.it)
  • They even consider that the Russian defeat is the maintenance of the current world order, in which the autonomy of the States is harassed by US imperialism. (newslite.tv)
  • And if Khamenei aims to prioritize longer-term succession maneuvers, he may be even less inclined to help his rivals notch political achievements in parliament or the Experts Assembly, since that could better position them for the eventual game of thrones. (fdd.org)
  • As political commentators of a particular kind, all six authors offer unique insights into the deeper roots of politics in Australia, beyond the theatre of parliament and out into the wider social world, as imagined by its dreamers and criticised by its most incisive discontents. (edu.au)
  • Side effects of non-functioning of these laws and regulations has created weak women in political positions in parliament. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • The lion's share of political power in Hong Kong, whether under British or Chinese control, has always been and still is kept with the business elite in the city. (opednews.com)
  • Unchecked power The result is unchecked government power to rifle through individuals' financial records, medical histories, Internet usage, bookstore purchases, library usage, travel patterns, or any other activity that leaves a record. (blogspot.com)
  • The government no longer has to show evidence that the subjects of search orders are an "agent of a foreign power," a requirement that previously protected Americans against abuse of this authority. (blogspot.com)
  • A new, staunchly anti-nuclear power party won just nine seats, according to NHK. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • According to Eddie Cheng, at a hastily convened meeting to form the Beijing Students Autonomous Federation and elect its leader, Zhou Yongjun of the University of Political Science and Law narrowly defeated Wu'erkaixi to be its first president. (wikipedia.org)
  • In March, 1200 mostly pro-Beijing loyalists will choose the next chief executive, and in September, Hong Kong citizens will go to the polls to choose 35 of 70 seats in the partially-democratic legislature. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Together, they now control 325 seats, securing a two-thirds majority that would make it easier for the government to pass legislation. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • they have voted with the hope that we can learn to live side by side, that we can bridge the political/economic/cultural gap that currently divide us. (foolsmountain.com)
  • Alongside the eight-member West African Economic and Monetary Union, ECOWAS imposed financial sanctions and closed borders in response to the junta's coup that ousted democratic President Mohamed Bazoum (who has been photographed for the first time since the upheaval, smiling and in apparent good health during a meeting with the president of neighboring Chad). (worldcrunch.com)
  • Dowding, Keith and Taylor Brad R Economic Perspectives on Government , Foundations of Government and Public Administration. (edu.au)
  • By providing a balanced introduction to and overview of economic approaches to government, the book will be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students in public administration and public policy, as well as academics and practitioners in these fields interested in the application of the economic way of thinking. (edu.au)
  • In the end, economic concerns won out, said Kazuhisa Kawakami, a political science professor at Meiji Gakuin University. (nwasianweekly.com)
  • Specifically she called for an "economic Nato" to tackle Beijing. (eurasiareview.com)
  • They are aware of the escalation of the war, with the resounding economic and military aid from the West to the Zelensky government, especially with the recent agreement to send war tanks. (newslite.tv)