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Macau Exhibition Showing Hong Kong Protest Photos Shuts

2021-01-02T04:12:42Z

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One of the pictures in the exhibition was by AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri and was taken on September 11, 2019 An annual World Press Photo exhibition featuring images from Hong Kong's huge [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pro-democracy%20protests,creativecommons pro-democracy protests] last year has been shut down in Macau without explanation, sparking speculation of political pressure from Beijing. The exhibition has been hosted by the Association Casa de Portugal Macao every year since 2008 and was scheduled to run from late September until October 18. The exhibition showcased "the best visual journalism" of the past year and included prize-winning images of the Hong Kong protests captured by AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri. The World Press Photo Foundation said in a statement that they "regret" the premature closure and "haven't been able to confirm the reasons" for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/tham-quan-tu-cam-thanh-nguy-nga-va-huyen-bi.html tử cấm thành bắc kinh] it. "While the reasons for the closing remain unclear, we are following local media reports suggesting that it might be the result of external pressure on the content of the exhibition," said Laurens Korteweg, director of Exhibitions at the World Press Photo Foundation. "Supporting the conditions for freedom of expression, freedom of enquiry, freedom of the press is a fundamental part of our work," he added. The exhibition featured photographs from the massive pro-democracy protests that brought Hong Kong to a standstill for months last year. Macau's English and Portuguese Speaking Press Association told local media that the city is "facing something serious and a worrying episode that signals an erosion of the space for freedom and expression", if the closure was due to political pressure. In May, the gambling enclave banned a photo exhibition of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy activists for the first time in three decades. Both Macau and nearby Hong Kong are former colonies that were granted certain freedoms unseen in the Chinese mainland when they returned to communist China's rule. But many fear such rights are disappearing under Beijing's tightening grip. After last year's huge and often violent democracy protests, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/tham-quan-tu-cam-thanh-nguy-nga-va-huyen-bi.html kynghidongduong.vn] Beijing launched a crackdown on its critics in Hong Kong. In late June, it also imposed a broadly worded security law that outlawed certain views and ushered in a new political chill.

A Chinese Company Which Was Banned In The US Over Security Fears And Tied To The Nation s Belt And Road Initiative Will Build

2021-01-02T01:04:49Z

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ANALYSIS-China Struggles To Fill Trump apos;s apos;America First apos; Leadership...

2021-01-01T14:08:36Z

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By Tony Munroe BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) - As Donald Trump has pulled the United States inward under his "America First" presidency, China has had only halting success at capitalising on a global leadership vacuum, presenting openings for a more internationalist Joe Biden administration if he wins next month's election. Under Trump, Washington abandoned the Paris climate pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the UN Human Rights Council and UNESCO, and ditched the Iran nuclear deal. It has announced that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) next July and has crippled the World Trade Organization by blocking appointments to its appeals panel. Beijing, which accuses Washington of being "addicted to quitting", has struck a more globalist posture under President Xi Jinping: Chinese officials head four of the 15 UN agencies, and Beijing has boosted its WHO commitment by $2 billion. As it has sought a seat at the table more befitting its status as the world's number-two economy, China has also formed its own multilateral institutions, including the Belt and Road Initiative and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/tham-quan-tu-cam-thanh-nguy-nga-va-huyen-bi.html tử cấm thành bắc kinh] Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). "China has been trying its best to take advantage of the U.S. retreat to advance its own goals," said Paul Haenle, director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing. "Nevertheless, China has had difficulty translating its growing influence into foreign policy success," he said. While China has all-but-quashed the spread of coronavirus and is a leader in vaccine efforts, its early mishandling of the outbreak that began in Wuhan has triggered a global backlash. Beijing's clampdown on Hong Kong, its mass detention of Uighur Muslims, its island-building in the South China Sea and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/tham-quan-tu-cam-thanh-nguy-nga-va-huyen-bi.html kynghidongduong.vn] sabre-rattling towards Taiwan as well as more aggressive "wolf warrior" diplomacy, have also eroded sentiment towards China - even as Trump's policies have undermined U.S. standing. China has struggled to leverage the exasperation of some U.S. allies towards Washington under Trump, with State Councillor Wang Yi, the government's top diplomat, facing pushback over Hong Kong and other issues during a recent five-country visit to Europe. "Many see the U.S. retreat from global institutions under Trump as ceding fertile ground to China in this area, but what is striking is how much China's so-called 'wolf-warrior' diplomacy has undercut their ability to take advantage," said Susan Thornton, the top U.S. diplomat for Asia early in the Trump administration. GLOBAL OPINION A survey by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center found that unfavourable views towards China in advanced economies including the United States had soared over the past year. In April, an internal Chinese report warned that Beijing faced a rising wave of hostility in the aftermath of the coronavirus, with global anti-China sentiment at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, Reuters reported in May, citing people familiar with the matter. If Biden wins, he is expected to maintain a tough stance on China but also to engage with allies and international bodies in a more traditional way. He has said he would keep the United States in the WHO and rejoin the Paris climate accord. "On many issues of global governance, there is still much room for cooperation between the two countries," such as climate and COVID-19, said Jia Qingguo, a professor at Peking University School of International Studies who has advised China's government. MIXED SUCCESS Despite its [https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=growing%20economic&btnI=lucky growing economic] and military might, China has been a sometimes-awkward multilateral leader, insisting that it is still a developing country and does not want to replace the United States. Its diplomatic ties tend to be transactional, with a policy of non-interference in the domestic affairs of other countries and a demand that it gets the same treatment, blasting what it calls Washington's "long-arm jurisdiction." Its Belt & Road initiative has been criticised for a lack of transparency, environmental concerns, and the financial sustainability of projects, although the AIIB has been credited with adhering to global standards. China's success at putting one of its own as head of France-based police coordination agency Interpol ended disastrously when the chief, Meng Hongwei, [http://www.ehow.com/search.html?s=resigned resigned] after going missing in China, where he was sentenced to jail this year for graft. "China's explicit ambitions to 'lead the reform of the global governance system' have not been clearly defined," said Julian Gewirtz, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "These statements are often swaddled in gauzy platitudes - and that means the rest of the world should judge China by its track record rather than its promises." (Reporting by Tony Munroe; additional reporting by Gao Liangping; editing by Richard Pullin)

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2020-12-29T18:22:13Z

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