Tag: authoritarianism
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Lam Wing-Kee, Who Fled to Taiwan After Defying Beijing, Dies
Lam Wing-kee, founder of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay Books, recently passed away in Taiwan. The sequence...
After Lam Wing-kee’s Death, Reporters Without Borders Urges Sweden to Free Gui Minhai from China
Eleven years have passed since the Causeway Bay Books incident. Lam Wing-kee, the bookstore's founder...
The Cultural Revolution Wounds That Haunted Hu Yaobang to His Grave
Hu Yaobang led the Chinese Communist Party as general secretary in the 1980s and became the face of its...
Xi Jinping Makes First Domestic Inspection of 2026, Visiting Rural China’s Dezhou
Chinese leader Xi Jinping traveled to Dezhou in eastern China's Shandong Province on June 24 for his...
China’s Ethnic Unity Law Sparks Concerns Over Extraterritorial Reach
A law passed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March this year, the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity...
Why Did Xi Choose Cai Qi to Lead the Central Party School? Three Unusual Signals Raise Questions
Cai Qi, a prominent Chinese leader made his first public appearance on June 5 in his new capacity as...
Chinese Teen Who Called Xi Jinping a Dictator Surfaces After a Year of Detention
A 15-year-old from Hebei province who publicly called China's leader Xi Jinping a dictator and demanded...
China’s ‘Dual-Peak Politics’: How Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun Shaped the Tiananmen Crisis
To understand the evolution of Chinese politics in the post-Mao era and the historic events that led...
‘Never Let Taiwan Fall Into the Hands of Thugs’: Mainland Chinese Mock Beijing’s Unification Pitch on
At a routine briefing on June 10, 2026, Zhang Han, a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office,...
Taiwan’s Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim Meets European Delegation, Urges Democracies to Defend Freedom
On Friday, June 12 Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim met with a delegation attending the 58th General...
Xi Jinping’s Secret War: How China Is Bankrolling Russia’s Assault on Ukraine
In mid-May, Xi Jinping hosted US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing...
China Is Not Becoming North Korea — It Already Is One on a Global Scale
Xi Jinping's latest visit to Pyongyang has set off a wave of online commentary about China "North Koreanizing...