The temporary return to daily rhythm and social order in Hong Kong does not mean that the movement is over, but may show Hong Kong’s pragmatic nature, and demonstrate that the protesters may have learned something from March’s Sunflower Student Movement in Taipei.
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Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards on the continuing protests in Hong Kong.
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Austrian cartoonist Marain Kamensky on Hong Kong’s ongoing Umbrella Revolution.
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Italian cartoonist Paolo Lombardi presents a portrait of student activist Joshua Wong, leader of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism.
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Beijing wants to turn Hong Kong into a little China and put it under the central government’s direct control. It broke its promise to allow citizens suffrage in Hong Kong’s first general election. The 2017 general election will be like chicken ribs: flavorless, but not bad enough to throw out.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao recounts this year’s June 4 vigil in Hong Kong and she counters the vacillation of a journalist who is seemingly “kowtowing to his patron”, the Chinese Communist Party.
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This week: Egyptian army shuts down media outlets, Iran’s President-elect against internet censorship, and Hong Kong journalists fear erosion of press freedom.
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