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12.11.17Forced Evictions in China's Capital Spark a Rare Display of Dissent
Time
The protests in Feijia, a village in Beijing’s northeastern Chaoyang district, follow a controversial clean-up campaign that began after an apartment block fire killed 19 people last month, the South China Morning Post reports.
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12.05.17The Underclass That Threatens Xi's 'China Dream'
Wall Street Journal
Beijing’s mass evictions of migrants cast a chill over Xi’s lofty equality goals.
Conversation
11.30.17
The Beijing Migrants Crackdown
After a fire in a Beijing apartment building catering to migrant workers killed at least 19 people on November 18, the city government launched a 40-day campaign to demolish the capital’s “unsafe” buildings. Many Beijing residents view the campaign...
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11.27.17Mass Evictions in Freezing Beijing Winter Sparks Public Outrage but Little Official Remorse
Washington Post
In his nationwide address to usher in the start of 2017, China’s President Xi Jinping said he was “seriously concerned” about people living in hardship in his country — those who struggle to find jobs, housing, health care and education for their...
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08.07.13Chinese Judges Disciplined for Cavorting With Prostitutes
New York Times
Two judges and an official of the Shanghai high court have been expelled from the Communist Party and dismissed from their jobs after being seen on video apparently consorting with prostitutes in glitzy nightclubs.
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10.11.12
Standing Their Ground
Amnesty International
The forced eviction of people from their homes and farmland has become a routine occurrence in China and represents a gross violation of China’s international human rights obligations on an enormous scale. Despite international scrutiny and censure...