A human tragedy caused by the lockdown in Xi’an is currently making waves in China and sparked a debate about the proportionality of Covid regulations. The municipal government of the city of 13 million people has fired the head of a local hospital and suspended other employees. The action happened over the death of an […]
Whoever perceives Germany as a dictatorship, what is the People’s Republic of China in their opinion? Anyone who doesn’t want to understand where the differences lie has been served up the autocratization of a democracy in real time for the past year and a half using Hong Kong as a case study. The radical approach […]
Motorsport is on the rise in China. This year, a Chinese driver will compete in Formula 1 for the first time. At the Dakar Rally, on the other hand, Chinese drivers and vehicles have been part of the race for quite some time. Ranked 24th, Zhang Guoyu and his co-driver Pan Hongyu in their BAIC […]
Critical Hong Kong media has already been eliminated. Now, the city’s government is beginning to slander foreign media. Security chief John Lee attacked Wall Street Journal for its criticism of the arrests of seven current and former employees of the online portal Stand News shortly before the new year. In familiar CP fashion, Lee ranted […]
On Tuesday, Uyghur and Tibetan activist groups campaigned worldwide for a political boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing (February 4-20). Exactly one month before the opening ceremony, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Berlin, New York, Paris, Washington, Brussels, London, Brisbane, Chicago, and other cities to draw attention to the dramatic human rights situation in […]
One weekday earlier than usual, you will find the new issue of China.Table Human Rights in your mailbox. Too many relevant events have taken place in the past few days, so we wanted to shorten the planned Christmas break by a few days instead of taking a break. For example, Hong Kong has elected a […]
Former Hong Kong politicians interpret the low turnout in the general election as a clear rejection by citizens of the growing authoritarian influence of the People’s Republic of China. In an interview with China.Table, activist Sunny Cheung said he considered the absence of many voters to be a clear message that they considered the ballot […]
World-class Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has distanced herself from her rape allegations against former Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli. A roughly four-minute-long video from last Sunday, which has been circulating on social media since the start of the week, shows the 35-year-old talking to a Singaporean journalist. In it, Peng stated that “I have never said […]
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam called the announcement that public transport will be free for all citizens next Sunday a “gesture of collective responsibility”. The idea is to get people to vote, Lam said. This incentive is unlikely to be of much significance, as most polling stations are close to where voters live. But […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) likes to see itself in the role of the great string puller of the good cause. In the Peng Shuai case, they are relying on “quiet diplomacy”. IOC Vice President Dick Pound also praises the organization’s exclusive access to the tennis player who is probably being held. In fact, no […]
