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Press Conference of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Swiss Peace Summit. Screenshot from UATV's YouTube Channel. Fair Use. The Ukraine Peace Summit, hosted by Switzerland between June 15 and 16, concluded with a joint declaration calling for Ukraine's territorial integrity as the basis of a peace deal. Though 78 countries signed the declaration, Russia was uninvited ahead of the summit, China and many African countries were absent, Brazil, India and South Africa from the BRICS alliance, and a few other countries, including Indonesia, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, refused to sign. They ...
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Hong Kong government file image via HKFP. Less than two weeks after a Hong Kong High Court convicted 14 pro-democracy politicians of “conspiracy to commit subversion” in the city’s landmark national security case involving 47 pro-democracy advocates, three overseas judges of the Court of Final Appeal handed in their resignations. As a former British colony, Hong Kong continued adopting the Common Law system after its handover to China in 1997. The appointment of non-permanent judges (NPJs) from other Common Law jurisdictions is a mechanism to ensure the independence of the city’s judiciary und...
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Collective fishing mission near Masinloc, Zambales. Photo by John Carlo Magallon. Source: Altermidya, used with permission Several groups led by Filipino fishers organized a sail mission towards the South China Sea (known locally as West Philippine Sea) on May 30 and 31 to challenge China’s four-month fishing ban. The annual fishing moratorium took effect on May 1 as China issued a warning that it will detain “trespassers” and other ships intruding on its maritime territories. According to Chinese state media outlets, the 3.5-month yearly fishing ban, which started in 1999, is an effort to “pr...
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Oil wells in Balkan Provence, Turkmenistan. Image via Wikicommons license (CC BY-SA 4.0) China is the biggest energy consumer and importer in the world. Oil, gas and coal imports to China account for around 85 percent, 40 percent and 7 percent of the country’s domestic consumption, respectively; and about 18 percent, 16 percent and 18 percent of the global trade of these commodities. China’s economy and energy industries were and still are heavily reliant on coal, which is posing environmental and health risks both at home and abroad. In order to reduce the country’s dependency on coal, the St...
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The image is a courtesy of Laís Martins. For years, Chinese solar panels were king in Brazil. In 2022, around 99 percent of all photovoltaic panels purchased in Brazil were imported from China, which is the leading global manufacturer of solar energy equipment. Only 1 percent was produced locally. Now, thanks to a government decision to scrap a tax exemption that reduced the cost of importing solar energy equipment that had been ongoing since 2020, this landscape could start changing. The explanation for this wide-ranging adoption of Chinese products is multifaceted. It is partly due to tax re...
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Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. 2015. Photo by Matt Hewit. License CC BY 2.0. Last August, Ecuadorians made history by voting to permanently keep over 700 million barrels of crude oil in the ground beneath one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth. This made Ecuador the first country in the world to halt oil exploitation through a referendum. Ayer Ecuador aprobó dejar bajo tierra para siempre un yacimiento de petróleo que se ubicaba justo en una de las áreas más biodiversas #Yusuní ¿Por qué este resultado? Acá el Preámbulo de su constituciónhttps://t.co/OqvDZlzRVZ pic.twitter.com/ozz2SRQi2R — H...
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Chow Hang-tung at the Victoria Park in 2019. Photo from Chow's Club on Facebook Hong Kong Human rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung, 39, along with five of her supporters, were arrested and imprisoned on May 28, 2024, for publishing seditious posts on social media that allegedly incited hatred against both Hong Kong and mainland Chinese governments. The arrests marked the first application of the newly enacted domestic security law, dubbed Article 23. Chow was the vice-chair of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HK Alliance), the host behind th...
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Screenshot from Chow Hang-tung's club on Facebook. Fair use. Detained Hong Kong rights activist Chow Hang-tung was among six people arrested by national security police on May 28, 2024, marking the first apprehensions under the city’s new security law, which was enacted in March. Secretary for Security Chris Tang confirmed on May 28 that the arrests were made in connection with a Facebook group that called for support for barrister and human rights activist Chow, who has been detained under the Beijing-imposed national security law since September 2021. The group was created on May 18, 2023, a...
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Thousands of Taiwanese attended the inauguration event for Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, in Taipei, on May 20, 2024. Photo taken by Howard Yu via Office of Taiwanese President's Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Deed. This report was written by Mercedes Hutton and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on May 20, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Residents of Taipei largely went about their commutes as normal on May 20 morning, aside from those who found their routes blocked by road closures around the Presidential Office Buil...
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Khuuchir performance with Tsendsuren Enkhtur. Photo used with permission. Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in the north and China in the south, sharing a common history as a power that once dominated those two empires. One less known trace of Mongolian–Chinese cultural hybridity can be found in music, as both nations have a tradition of performing on bowed string instruments. To understand the links but also differences in this repert...
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