Monthly Archives: 11 月 2014

Remarks by Hu Yaobang’s son removed from Weibo

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The following post from Professor Dong Zengshou (董增寿教授) was deleted from Sina Weibo sometime before 9:32AM today, November 13, 2014. Professor Dong Zengshou currently Continue reading →

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Benny Tai’s daughter writes of ‘unbearable pain’ seeing her father’s ‘white hair, coarse voice’

Posted on 11/12/2014 by | Benny Tai’s daughter writes of ‘unbearable pain’ seeing her father’s ‘white hair, coarse voice’已关闭评论

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 11 November, 2014, 9:59pm

UPDATED : Wednesday, 12 November, 2014, 11:06am

Tony Cheung, Joyce Ng and Jeffie Lam

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Benny Tai with Tonya as a little girl. Photo: SCMP Pictures

The daughter of Occupy Central co-founder Benny Continue reading →

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CDT Bookshelf: Howard French on China in Africa

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The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises mechanically dispensing stadiums according to blueprints wired from Beijing. Continue reading →

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‘A Map of Betrayal,’ by Ha Jin

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By BEN MACINTYRE  NOV. 7, 2014

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Credit Asaf Hanuka

Many years ago, the F.B.I. coined an acronym, MICE, to describe the motivations of the spy. Continue reading →

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East German officer Harald Jaeger explains why he opened the Berlin Wall

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November 8, 2014
Erik Kirschbaum

Balloons mark anniversary of Berlin Wall
Thousands of balloons, tracing the path where the former Berlin Wall once stood, are released into the air, in a symbolic gesture marking the collapse of the Cold War barrier, 25 years on.
Berlin balloons soar away in tribute to fall of the wall

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East and West German citizens celebrate as they climb the Berlin wall at the Brandenburg Gate on November 9, 1989. Photo: Reuters
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China 1945：Mao’s Revolution and America’s Fateful Choice

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RICHARD BERNSTEIN11.05.14

A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations.

As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial Continue reading →

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China’s constitution roller-coaster

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By Qian Gang | Posted on 2014-11-06

The recent 4th Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party introduced a policy document with the long-winded title, Decision on Major Issues Concerning the Comprehensive Promotion of Rule of the Nation in Accord with the Law (关於全面推进依法治国若干问题的决定). Continue reading →

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An Internet Where Nobody Says Anything

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Ilham Tohti’s unjust fate says much about the Chinese Communist Party’s dark vision for the web’s future.

BY DAVID WERTIME SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Here is what a court in Urumqi, the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, concludes Ilham Tohti, a balding, thick-set, 44-year-old professor, did: “Using ‘Uighur Online’ as a platform, and taking advantage of his role as a university professor,” Tohti “spread separatist notions” and “bewitched and coerced” seven of his students to join into an eight-person, web-powered splittist clique with international reach. Here is what Tohti, by all appearances, actually did: He created and maintained a Chinese-language website, called Uighur Online, that provided a bridge between China’s Han majority and its Uighur minority, a Turkic-language-speaking, predominantly Muslim group that mostly lives in Xinjiang and has an uneasy history of coexistence with the growing number of Han who live among them, one marred by violent clashes. Continue reading →

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