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Hong Kong Poll Site Hacked As Beijing Steps Up Pressure

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2014-06-16

A billboard promotes an unofficial referendum calling for full democracy and universal suffrage in Hong Kong, June 14, 2014.
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Garbage Plants Draw Fresh Ire in China’s Guangdong

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2014-06-18

Chinese police at the scene of protests against a waste disposal plant by residents of Fairview Peninsula in Guangdong’s Panyu city, June 18, 2014. Continue reading →

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Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China (Revision Draft, Submission Version)

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June 6, 2014

National Copyright Administration

Revision Draft, Submission Version

Chapter I: General Principles

Chapter II: Copyright

Section I: Copyright holders and their rights

Section II: Copyright entitlement

Section III: The term of protection of copyright

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Yang Hengjun: China Is Not the Soviet Union

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Chinese analysts should stop asking China to follow in the footsteps of the USSR.

By Yang Hengjun

June 18, 2014
Right now there’s an interesting phenomenon: whenever something happens in China, there will always Continue reading →

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MURONG XUECUN: China’s Clampdown on ‘Evil Cults’

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JUNE 17, 2014

By MURONG XUECUN

On June 1, my friend Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain Reformed Church in Chengdu was arrested while distributing anti-forced-abortion leaflets. The stated grounds for detaining him were “illegal advertising.” Continue reading →

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U.S. Professors Call on Colleges to Re-evaluate Confucius Institutes

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By AMY QIN JUNE 17, 2014 7:09 AM

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