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November 27 , 2017
  • Quartz：What you need to know about Beijing's crackdown on its "low-end population"
    Quartz reports: "Tens of thousands of migrant workers are being forced out of their homes in Beijing under a citywide clean-up campaign in the aftermath of a fire that killed over a dozen people earlier this month. The forced demolitions and evictions—the biggest the Chinese capital has ever seen in over a decade—have raised concerns that the government no longer even tepidly welcomes people from poorer parts of the country dwell in its crowded mega cities. The term 'low-end population' is now taking over China's internet in reference to the migrants who are believed to be targeted during the campaign... The Beijing government has dismissed the idea (link in Chinese) that the latest safety crackdown is targeting its "low-end population," after the internet overwhelmingly referred to the term, associated with harboring prejudice against migrants, to criticize the government for driving these workers out of the city... Censors have ordered media outlets to follow the official line in reporting the Nov. 18 fire. Numerous social media posts about the forced evacuation have been deleted."
  • The New York Times：China's Trojan Train Into Hong Kong
    The New York Times comments: "Not that slowly and very steadily, the Chinese government is making political inroads in Hong Kong. Over the past year or so, it maneuvered to expel pro-democracy legislators from Hong Kong's lawmaking body, sidelined a popular candidate for the city's top post to give the job to a proven hard-liner and got local high schools to beam to their students an ideologue's speech about the Chinese Communist Party's latest national congress. Now it is demanding that the Hong Kong legislature, known as LegCo, pass a law, modeled after one in force on the mainland, to enforce respect for the Chinese national anthem. Worse, under the guise of an innocuous train-transit project, the Chinese government is trying to exercise a form of extraterritoriality in the very heart of the city — an apparent dry run for eventually passing security laws limiting political freedoms in Hong Kong. Starting in late 2018, high-speed trains will connect Hong Kong to Guangzhou, a megacity on the mainland, and there is a plan to place inside the terminus in Hong Kong an immigration and customs checkpoint that would include Chinese security personnel enforcing Chinese law, with search-and-arrest authority. The proposed arrangement is known in Chinese as 'one location, two checkpoints" — an ominous play on 'one country, two systems,' the principle supposed to guarantee a measure of self-rule for Hong Kong."
  • TIME：Three Things to Know About China's Kindergarten Abuse Scandal
    TIME reports: "A public firestorm has erupted in China over allegations of teachers abusing children at a kindergarten in Beijing. At the kindergarten in Xintiandi run by RYB Education, a New York-listed education chain that is well known in China, children were allegedly given pills, pierced with needles, forced to strip naked, and possibly sexually molested, according to the New York Times. One teacher has been detained in relation to the allegations, though the public anger does not look likely to soon dissipate... RYB Education issued a statement on Thursday apologizing for the 'severe disquiet' of the matter, according to the BBC. 'If any wrongdoing is found, we will not shake off the responsibility. And we have also reported to the police some false accusations against us,' the statement read. Beijing police and education officials have not confirmed any of the allegations, but Xinhua, China's official news agency, reported that a 22-year-old teacher had been fired 'on suspicion of mistreating persons in her care,' according to the New York Times."
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