Colonial state doing colonial stuff 'Uyghurs, Turkic and other non-Han people’s account for 1% of the overall population of China, but comprise 33.7% of the national prison population'
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Hong Kong’s century and a half under British rule was no more than a mere “interlude” in the grand sweep of Chinese civilisation, writes deputy chair of the CPPCC’s Hong Kong liaison committee Tu Haiming.

I wonder what that makes the Party’s 75 year rule.
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Sounds like Lamma Island District Councillor Chow Yuk-tong just hasn’t turned up for work all year?

The ex-officio (i.e. unelected) member has missed 7/7 of the meetings for committees he’s on. 6 of those he took approved holidays though 👌

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1/ JUST IN: #HongKong has again ranked near the bottom of a global press freedom index, as watchdog Reporters Without Borders cited an “unprecedented series of setbacks” including newsroom closures & journalist arrests under the security law.
#PressFreedomDay @rsf_inter

Chinese-owned media are distancing themselves from Asia's highest-profile journalism prize amid rising domestic pressure on those seen to be 'colluding with foreign forces.' asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media…

Yesterday, subscribers got the latest edition of our Lingua Sinica newsletter.

This week, we look at the non-story surrounding Chiang Kai-shek statues in Taiwan, online nationalists fuming about 'high-level Chinese,' and how 'comrades' acquired new meanings via Singapore and HK.

People talk a lot about how Hong Kong's been plummeting in every human rights, press freedom, and happiness index and how badly the economy has been doing but perhaps we've forgotten about the true measure of any place's success: the number of Americans.

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New on Lingua Sinica: an interview with acclaimed author Chi Ta-wei (紀大偉).

Chi opens up about what makes Taiwanese queer literature unique in the world, his own journey as a writer and translator, and his thoughts on the rise of new genres like boy love (BL) graphic novels.

Bloomberg was on fire at yesterday’s MFA presser 🔥

In its latest internet crackdown, China is targeting both 'images of extravagant wealth' and images of extreme poverty ('soliciting of public sympathies').

Not the reality, mind — just the images.

This follows an earlier crackdown on 'class antagonism': chinamediaproject.org/2023/11/29/no-…