Über Annie Luman Ren
Annie Luman Ren war Stipendiatin am Australian Centre on China in the World und Mitherausgeberin von The China Story.
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Über Graeme Smith
Graeme Smith ist Fellow am Department of Pacific Affairs der Australian National University. Seine Forschungen umfassen chinesische Investitionen, Migration, militärisches Engagement, Technologie und Hilfe im asiatisch-pazifischen Raum. Er moderiert auch den Little Red Podcast mit Louisa Lim.
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Über Linda Jaivin
Linda Jaivin ist die Autorin von The Shortest History of China sowie von 11 weiteren Büchern, Übersetzerin und Redaktionsmitarbeit bei the Australian Centre on China in the World.
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A common saying regarding communist regimes is that their leaders tend to overlook the intelligence provided to them. Martin Dimitrov explores the different internal reference materials under Xi and asserts their ongoing importance. In China, similar to other communist regimes, there are two categories of media: one that is publicly available and another that is restricted, accessible solely to regime insiders with the necessary clearances. This second category, referred to as neibu 内部 or 'internal circulation,' has not been as thoroughly examined by scholars.
China's social credit initiatives originated twenty-five years ago, as officials and companies aimed to address issues such as the prevalence of counterfeit goods, triangular debt situations—where A lends to B, B lends to C, and C lends back to A, resulting in a stalemate of problematic debts that jeopardize financial stability—and a general lack of respect for the nation's laws and regulations. As a result, the central government and multiple ministries dedicated many years to creating data-sharing frameworks among typically segmented governmental bodies, along with establishing blacklists to penalize substantial offenders and incentives to encourage 'trustworthy' conduct.
In April 2024, the Taiwan Constitutional Court conducted a hearing regarding the potential violation of constitutional human rights guarantees by the death penalty. On September 20, it decided to maintain the death penalty, introducing some new safeguards for its application. Although a coalition of abolitionist non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and research institutions, spearheaded by the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), has spent twenty years campaigning for its abolition, numerous polls have consistently shown significant public resistance to eliminating the death penalty.
I was one of the organizers of the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement and received a sixteen-month prison sentence for encouraging people to participate in a seventy-nine-day occupation of major roads in Hong Kong. Life in prison was challenging. The food was poor, and the summer heat was unbearable while winters were excessively cold. There were numerous regulations governing prison life. Sharing food, books, or even keeping an orange overnight could lead to punishment through solitary confinement, where one would have no access to books, snacks, radio, or television. Inmates were stripped not only of their freedom but also of their dignity, frequently scolded by guards and monitored naked by surveillance cameras.
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As US TikTok users seek solace in an alternative Chinese app named Xiaohongshu, we explore the app's background, its distinctive features, and its growing global impact.
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