Free Speech In China
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What motivates Chinese activists and journalists to tell the truth in the face of repression?
There is a deep incompatibility between liberal democratic values and Beijing’s one-party rule.
Tao Zhang, The Conversation
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Journalists bear the brunt as China’s relations with Australia and the US worsen
The Communist state is either detaining or expelling scribes.
Rowan Callick, The Conversation
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China’s ruling party expels academic who accused president of provoking conflict with India
Academic Cai Xia had also called Xi Jinping a ‘mafia boss’ and a ‘political zombie’ who turned the party into his personal tool.
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Hong Kong’s new security law is an existential threat to its press freedom
Journalists are losing the ‘freedom from fear’.
Yuen Chan, The Conversation
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China: Human rights activist sentenced to eight years in prison for ‘subverting state power’
Wu Gan’s sentence is the harshest since the government began its crackdown on activists in 2015.
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