Day: April 3, 2018

The Case of Hong Kong’s Missing Booksellers – By ALEX W. PALMER – NYT

April 3, 2018 / China

By ALEX W. PALMER Lam Wing-kee knew he was in trouble. In his two decades as owner and manager of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay Books, Lam had honed a carefully nonchalant routine when caught smuggling books into mainland China: apologize, claim ignorance, offer a cigarette to the officers, crack a joke. For most of his career, …

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Opinion | China’s Communist Party Is Abandoning Workers – The New York Times

April 3, 2018 / China

By Harvey Thomlinson April 2, 2018 HONG KONG — China is a sea of labor unrest. During the first 10 weeks of this year there were more than 400 publicly reported strikes, more than double the number during the comparable period last year. President Xi Jinping’s government has responded with a firm hand: Labor activists …

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