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What To Know About China's Annual Parliamentary Meeting

Thousands of delegates from across China will convene in Beijing next week for the start of the country's annual legislative meetings known as the "Two Sessions".

International Business Times

Beijing Crushing Tibetans, Exiled Political Leader Says

As Tibetans prepare to mark 65 years since a failed uprising against Chinese rule and questions loom over the Dalai Lama's successor, the diaspora's elected leader said Beijing is crushing his people.

International Business Times

A year after China ended its harsh COVID policies, it's struggling to rebound

A year ago, China lifted its draconian COVID restrictions. Many expected the country to bounce back quickly. That hasn't happened.

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Leader of Tibetan government in exile warns France over China's policies

Penpa Tsering, the political leader of Tibet's government in exile, was in Paris this week to raise awareness about the increased repression faced by Tibetans living in Chinese-controlled areas. He spoke to RFI about issues such as intense surveillance and the destruction of Tibetan cultural identity.

Radio France Internationale

Ex-Deputy Governor of Guizhou Accused of Reckless Debt Borrowing

Li Zaiyong, under investigation by graft busters, gets kicked out of the Communist Party and expelled from public office

Caixin Global

Bodybuilding, fast cars and misogyny: Slovakia’s populist Robert Fico returns to power

A fan of Vladimir Putin and fast cars, Robert Fico should return as prime minister of Slovakia following parliamentary elections on Saturday. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the career of a politician who was ousted from power five years ago after a journalist was murdered for revealing government…

France 24

‘My Fears and Hatred’: Navalny lambasts the 1990s democrats of Russia

Jailed opposition leader slams those charged with rebuilding Russia’s politics and economy after the Soviet collapse.

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Conflict over clocks: China among countries where time is political

Keeping of time in Asia has often been subject more to the geopolitics of time zones than considerations of geography.

Al Jazeera

New Hampshire is sued over removal of marker dedicated to Communist Party leader

Supporters of a former historical marker dedicated to a feminist and labor activist from New Hampshire who also led the Communist Party have sued the state

The Independent UK

Milan Kundera's 'remarkable' work explored oppression, inhumanity – and the absurdity of being human

Milan Kundera, that remarkable novelist, essayist, poet, philosopher and political critic, has died at the age of 94. It feels too soon, perhaps because in everything he wrote, he opened up new ways of thinking, writing and reading. In his literary presence, the world seemed tuned to a higher frequency.

The Conversation

A Kannadiga communist who was at the vanguard of peasant movement in Tamil land

The Hindu

Indonesian rights abuse compensation plan fans fears of impunity

Concerns compensation programme for victims of abuses from 1965 mass killings to Aceh conflict will hinder justice.

Al Jazeera

Xi’s bet on Putin looks even more risky after Russian rebellion

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Xi Jinping’s gamble on a “no limits” friendship with Vladimir Putin has looked like it could backfire. This weekend’s brief uprising against Moscow again underscored the risks facing the Chinese leader.

Tribune News Service

China spinning a ‘web’ of influence campaigns to win over Taiwan

Away from the headline grabbing military threats, Beijing’s propaganda department is working to woo hearts and minds.

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The Conversation

Succession on the Tibetan plateau: what's at stake in the battle over the Dalai Lama's reincarnation?

In China, a group of atheists (the Chinese Communist Party) has long dictated how the country’s religious groups should practice their faiths.

Bangkok Post

AstraZeneca China boss pledges to ‘love the Communist Party’

BEIJING: The global drugmaker AstraZeneca will seek to be a patriotic company in China that “loves the Communist Party”, its China president said on Friday.

The Independent UK

Historical marker dedicated to feminist, Communist Party leader removed in New Hampshire

A historical marker in New Hampshire dedicated to a feminist and labor activist who also led the Communist Party has been removed just two weeks after it was unveiled

The Independent UK

Sign of the times? History marker for communist draws anger

Republican officials in New Hampshire are objecting to a historical marker dedicated to labor activist who championed women’s rights and was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, but who also led the Communist Party and was sent to prison

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Barred from polls, a Greek neo-Nazi seeks way back to politics

Ex-Golden Dawn member Ilias Kasidiaris launches a party before the May 21 vote, but the Supreme Court disqualifies it.

The Guardian - AU

‘Brothers in arms, a long way from home’: the first Australians to fight fascism overseas

The discovery of a rare photo from the Spanish civil war raises questions about why volunteers from Australia are not commemorated

The Conversation

Friday essay: Stan Grant on how tyrants use the language of germ warfare – and COVID has enabled them

It is 2019. There is a virus lurking in China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is warning that if it is not contained, it could infect the entire country. It could turn the country upside down. Tear at the social fabric. The CCP’s dream of harmony cannot withstand this. So…

Bangkok Post

Any peaceful solutions to the conflict over Taiwan?

The conflict about the status of the island of Taiwan is once again featuring prominently in the news. The recent exercises by the military of the People's Republic of China around the island are raising tensions that have been latent since 1949. As the government of mainland China has been…

The Conversation

'Esterno Notte': Marco Bellochio's series grapples with ghost of assassinated Italian prime minister Aldo Moro

Central Rome, 9 May 1978. A crowd of curious passersby spills out by an open car boot. There lies the bullet-riddled body of Aldo Moro, Italy’s Prime Minister, parked mid-way between the party headquarters of the Christian Democrats and those of the Communist Party. The scene concludes 55 days of…

Reuters

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel re-elected by lawmakers

Cuban lawmakers on Wednesday easily re-elected Miguel Diaz-Canel as president for a second term as the country faces one of the biggest social and economic crisis since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

Reuters

Cuban President Diaz-Canel expected to win second term despite crises

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is widely expected to be chosen this week by assembly lawmakers to lead the country for another five years, despite a rocky first term marked by the coronavirus pandemic and a near-unprecedented economic crisis.

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