Tag Archives: China

By Clare Doyle The mass movement in Hong Kong against the local stooges of the Beijing regime appears to be an unstoppable force coming up against an immovable object. Over the past nine weeks, around 600 people have been arrested, over forty of them on charges of riot that can carry a ten year prison sentence. On Saturday (10 August) ...

By Robin Clapp Last week, US President Donald Trump announced that under the rarely invoked International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and seventy of its affiliated companies are set to be added to the ‘Entity List’. This effectively bans them from acquiring components and technology from American firms without obtaining prior government approval. This has massively ...

Editorial from Socialist (社会主义者‏) magazine issue 50, Winter 2018 Government abandons its campaign against financial risk as private companies queue for a bailout The Chinese economic slowdown is intensifying amid the most serious crisis in US-China relations for four decades. But so far the trade war with America’s volatile president Donald Trump is not the main cause of China’s economic ...

The decision by Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung on July 14 to expel four legislators from the Legislative Council (Legco), including veteran democracy campaigner, ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung, is a massive blow against the democracy struggle in Hong Kong and, by extension, also in China. This was nothing short of a coup by the right-wing authoritarian pro-Beijing establishment. What does the ...