Category Archives: Awaiting a Democratic HK

My New Column in Popmatters is Accelerated Asia. For the launch piece I tackled Internet Censorship, Tiananmen Square as well as Free Speech in China. ..

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong It’s happenning as we Speak Tue May 11,10:45 PM ET Add World – Reuters to My Yahoo! BEIJING (Reuters) – A freelance Chinese journalist, who posted Internet essays commemorating the ill-fated 1989 pro-democracy protests, has been jailed for two years without trial, a U.S. rights group said on Wednesday. LiuContinue reading “News: China Jails Journalist for Two Years Without Trial”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong (repost from May 4th) Today marks the May 4th movement, some scholars have called it “the Chinese Enlightenment.” A time when Chinese students and intellectuals banded together and attempted to rid China of feudalism and colonialism at the dawning of the democracy in China and the fall of the QingContinue reading “May 4th, the Chinese Renaissance of 1919.”

Tell the World Here is a list of sites which TURNED BLACK and/or reported the inccidents of the Typepad banning in China in May of 2003. Those who participated in the blackout remained black/black bordered until world press freedom day on May 3rd 2004 forty days from the start of the protest. All Typepad SitesContinue reading “100 Plus Sites and 40 Days”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong News: China rules out universal suffrage for Hong Kong in 2007 and 2008 Although for the piece on the blog, Still Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong, I manage to utter the words of hope, and a person who could still see universal suffrage unfolding in the future if not inContinue reading “Eight Months a Democracy Movement Does Not Make, it’s just Begun.”

April 28, 2004 By KEITH BRADSHER New York Times A brilliant article on the democracy in Hong Kong during the British rule, American lack of Interests at the time, and China asking why the fuss now. A nice reminder all three countries are ruled by hypocrites. HONG KONG, April 27 – China’s foreign minister respondedContinue reading “News: China Bristles at Criticism of Hong Kong Restrictions”

Front Page of SCMP today NEWS: China rules out universal suffrage for Hong Kong in 2007 and 2008 My very honest first response: Blah, Blah, No Direct Elections for Hong Kong, blah, Blah Call me naive. For a long time I honestly, honestly thought China would keep its promises to us, that we would haveContinue reading “Still Awaiting A Democratic Hong Kong.”

I hate my government. I really do. HONG KONG (AFP) – China’s parliament ruled out giving the people of Hong Kong the right to elect their chief executive in 2007 and legislature in 2008 by universal suffrage, a parliamentary delegate said. Tsang Hin-chi, who represents Hong Kong in the Chinese parliament, known as the NationalContinue reading “NEWS: China rules out universal suffrage for Hong Kong in 2007 and 2008”

This is what the Chinese Government “representatives” said about direct elections in HK for 2008 Today: “Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah,, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah,Continue reading “Blah, Blah, No Direct Elections for Hong Kong, blah, Blah”