A recollection of the 1989 student movement in Tianjin
To almost any college student at that time, 1989 was a life changing year.. Many ordinary Tianjiners lined up the street to show their support but I did hear some negative comments from the crowd such as ���the more chaos, the better��� (������������), ���another cultural revolution is coming��� (������������),... Ralph McGehee wrote some books and some articles of how they got involved in CIA/NED sponsored pro-democracy movement within China that ultimately failed.
Public Protests Around The World ��� Global Issues
But others argue that in order to at least appeal to the wider audience, they may need representatives who appear as leaders while trying to ensuring and retaining peaceful, democratic ways... This small community garden in the centre of the southern Spanish city of M��laga was created by the Indignados protest movement, which is celebrating its first anniversary Saturday by taking to the streets across the country... These are just a small number of examples.
The most one-sided elections in recent history
The Occupy Movements tents may have been cleared away in December but earlier this year thousands of peaceful demonstrators took to the streets again to protest against the governments unveiling of proposed reforms which have been criticised as.
OCCUPY CENTRAL OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 18: Full coverage of the days.
6.45pm: Causeway Bay: Protesters are discussing whether to let trams through Yee Wo Street after Hong Kong Tramways managing director Emmanuel Vivant came to visit and requested that the passage be allowed so that tram cars could undergo maintenance.
Chinas New Identity Crisis
Today, students are attempting to occupy the streets outside Hong Kongs central government complex; 25 years ago, the students occupied Tiananmen in Beijing. However, Hong Kong is not Beijing, and 2014 is not 1989. These similar actions have taken .
The hockey world hates a downer. But lets face it: Ottawa is in dire straits
A group of pro-democracy lawmakers has vowed to veto the legislation, raising the prospect that the pitched rhetoric and lengthy protests of the past year will achieve precisely nothing. In past conflicts with. But Chan Kin-man, one of the main.
9 May, 2015: The Day Russia Showed The World How To.
This emotional outpouring of historical memory saw over half a million people take to the streets in Moscow alone, including President Putin , demonstrating that the Great Patriotic War was truly the great equalizer in.. As such, its forecasted that repeat scenarios of the historical destabilization that was witnessed in Ukraine, for example, will soon become the new fifth column norm in opening the gates for further information (���pro-democracy���) infiltration and its��.
Is there an end in sight?
Walking on eggshells: Over in Hong Kong there are reports that the authorities are planning to block the appointment of a pro-democracy academic as a pro vice chancellor at Hong Kong University. Pro-Beijing newspapers has already slagged off the .
Tiananmen Square - New World Encyclopedia
His forthright calls for rapid reform and his almost open contempt of Maoist excesses had made him a suitable scapegoat in the eyes of Deng Xiaoping and others, after the pro-democracy student protests of 1986���1987. Included in his.. large number of people. Similar numbers were found in major cities throughout mainland China such as Urumqi, Shanghai and Chongqing; and later in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Chinese communities in North America and Europe.
London Irvine Report: What Happens Next?
With China about to head off for a week of holidays, and the Hong Kong Federation of Students calling for more street demonstrations on October 1st and October 2nd, the next few days are critical.. The benchmark Straits Times index lost 0.8 percent. Prior to the. Small numbers of protesters continued to block roads in central Hong Kong in the fifth day of pro-democracy demonstrations as leaders warned the standoff would escalate if their demands are not met.
Oppression at a price
In August, Beijing announced that, after years of delay, voters in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China may finally, for the first time, elect their chief executive, roughly the equivalent of a mayor, in 2017.
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests - If Only Singaporeans.
TUESDAY night marked one month since the day Hong Kongs police attacked peaceful pro-democracy protesters with tear gas and pepper spray, inadvertently inspiring thousands more people to occupy the streets for the right to freely... Mr Robert Chow, one of the founders of the alliance, a coalition of Beijing-friendly groups, including business associations and mainland university alumni and clan groups, told The Straits Times they decided to take action because��.
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The present situation is damaging to Hong Kongs international reputation, may harm Hong Kongs international competitiveness, and is creating an uncertain environment that may be detrimental to investment, to job creation and to Hong Kongs.
How Might Hong Kongs Pro-Democracy Protests End?
HONG KONG���A month ago, the liberal Chinese law professor Zhang Qianfan penned an essay urging Hong Kongs students to pack up and get off the streets. ���The Wisdom of Democracy is Quitting When Youre Ahead,��� the��.
Protester, 19, claims police officers beat her after arrest on.
Vancouvers housing crisis: No, not like before, and not like anywhere else (except Hong Kong). A 19-year-old pro-democracy activist has alleged plain-clothes officers slapped her in the head until she bled as she was driven to the Mong Kok police station just after midnight on Christmas Eve. Amy But Wai-fan. But said she was one of 500 people on a shopping tour protest - in which crowds walk slowly to disrupt commercial areas - on Shantung Street. She was��.
OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 18: Full coverage of the days.
6.45pm: Causeway Bay: Protesters are discussing whether to let trams through Yee Wo Street after Hong Kong Tramways managing director Emmanuel Vivant came to visit and requested that the passage be allowed so that. 5.30pm: A number of pro-democracy groups plan to hold a series of protests outside the police headquarters in Wan Chai to denounce what they see as abuse of power, after videos circulate of the police crackdown on protesters this morning.
Patient? PAP. Diagnosis? Democracy-induced Schizophrenia
The venerable McCutcheon was referring to a hellish episode that befell both her husband and herself in Holland Village, where they saw a middle-aged couple handing out pro-democracy brochures and shouting, ���Support democracy���.. Lee Yi Shyans Democracy. On 3 Sep 2010, in a feature on the East Coast constituency in the Straits Times, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Manpower and MP for Kampung Chai Chee ward, Lee Yi Shyan remarked that��.
Hong Kongs silent majority critical of protests
Tear gas and pepper spray in Hong Kong recall pro-democracy turmoil in Taiwan in an earlier era that changed the political calculation across the Taiwan Strait.. The scale and youthfulness of the movement, the largest and most dramatic since the.
Global Support Pours In for Hong Kong Democracy Protests
The Wall Street Journal reported that a group called the Hong Kong Overseas Alliance organized protests Saturday in various cities to show their solidarity with the Occupy Central movement ��� now being dubbed the Umbrella Revolution because of the .
Peace and Security Report 10/17/2014 - Peace and.
CHINA: Police take action to end Hong Kong protests. Tensions between Hong Kong protesters and police rose this week after police began dismantling blockades and arresting dozens of protesters. The pro-democracy��.
Suggested Readings, Dr. Robert Kapp ��
KEYWORDS=A+Beijing+House+of+Cards The Wall Street Journals somewhat contemptuous take on the meaning of Zhou Yongkangs formal arrest... A System Bitch Dissents: A writer for a local newspaper goes on a pro-democracy rant, and the roof falls in. A peek at.. http://japanfocus.org/-Ho_fung-Hung/4207 For readers with sufficient time and comfort with academic discourse, this is a very significant review article on three books dealing with Hong Kong.
Remains of US airmen killed in 1945 crash could still be on Hong Kong hillside
This was the ninth intensive air strike on Japanese positions around the South China Sea since January 2, when Vice-Admiral John McCains Task Force 38 sailed through the Straits of Luzon as part of Operation Gratitude, designed to support General.
Joshua Wong leads Hong Kong protesters on hunger strike after violent clashes
HONG KONG (AFP) - Joshua Wong, the teenage face of Hong Kongs pro-democracy movement, and two other student demonstrators went on hunger strike on Monday, raising the stakes after one of the worst nights of violence to hit the demonstrations. Wong.
One country, two systems right formula for Taiwan, Xi Jinping reiterates
Xi told the Taiwanese visitors, from more than 20 pro-unification groups including the islands New Party, that cross-strait unification has long been our firm and unwavering stance, and it is also an unchangeable fact that both Taiwan and the.
The Umbrella Movement turns | Fulbright|������������
Im not exactly a statistician, but I find these numbers very, very small (especially the survey based on 513 people, which the Commissioners Office of Chinas Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong has highlighted) compared to the total 7.2. They werent able to actually get in ��� a number of fellow pro-democracy individuals attempted to stop them from committing an act contrary to the movements principles of nonviolence, such as the famous Long Hair and the Labour��.
Running to the police not a mark of committed citizenry.
He cautioned that ���[it] does not take much to destroy inter-racial and inter-religious trust and harmony, but it will take a lot of hard work and time to build these up again.. For the record, although my quote reappeared in The Straits Times last week, the columnist got it from an article I wrote in 2011, before I moved to Hong Kong. But that is beside the point. I remain a citizen with a home and family back. Which racial group was the target of the ���two is enough policy��� ?
Hong Kong pro-democracy groups take to the streets, but in smaller numbers.
HONG KONG (AFP) - Pro-democracy campaigners took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday, but in far smaller numbers than expected, before a vote on a political reform package that has divided the city and sparked mass protests. More than 1,000 people .
Protester, 19, claims police officers beat her after arrest on Christmas Eve
But said she was one of 500 people on a shopping tour protest - in which crowds walk slowly to disrupt commercial areas - on Shantung Street. She was taken to a police car by five plain-clothes officers after she failed to show her identity card. She.
Taiwan Groups See Red Flag in Hong Kong Election Ruling
Beijings decision to restrict who can run to be Hong Kongs leader was closely watched by civic groups across the Taiwan Strait, where ties with some Hong Kong political factions have strengthened. The decision should serve as a red flag for Taiwan.
Talking past each other on injustice in Hong Kong | South.
The people who support the former stance are usually the conservative pro-establishment types, while those who support the latter are often pro-Occupy or pro-democracy. As a principle, I believe in the moral duty argument,��.
Occupy Central is about so much more than democracy.
A great time was had by all. We sent a message to Beijing in a grander style than anyone had imagined. But do not expect Beijing to read it your way. You want genuine democracy? Forget it. It was never going to happen. Those who think the mass demonstrations will make the NPC reverse its electoral reform decision for Hong Kong are deluding themselves.. Only when we accept this reality and who we are dealing with can we move towards what is possible.
Talking past each other on injustice in Hong Kong
The people who support the former stance are usually the conservative pro-establishment types, while those who support the latter are often pro-Occupy or pro-democracy.. Tai has repeatedly cited injustice as the reason for the need to take action.