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The Ministry of Public Security’s 2019 list of eligible PSUs does not include the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office functional hierarchy (or xitong). This makes a total of seven xitongs that are currently sponsoring foreign NGOs at some level, despite not being included on the 2019 eligible PSU list.Read more
The Chinese government plans to sanction at least five U.S. NGOs for alleged misdeeds in Hong Kong, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson told reporters at a press conference on December 2. Hua Chunying described the move as a response to the U.S. president’s signing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act into law on November 27. Hua said that China’s government would impose sanctions on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), National...Read more
According to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Beijing police recently took disciplinary action against the U.S.-based NGO Asia Catalyst, for what a Chinese government spokesperson described as a violation of China’s Foreign NGO Law. While this represents the first case in which Chinese authorities have publicly and formally announced that a foreign NGO received punishment under the Foreign NGO Law, it is not the first case in which authorities have taken disciplinary measures under...Read more
As we have done for the past two years, The China NGO Project reconciled all the temporary activity information in our databases with that provided on the MPS website. Last year, this process allowed us to see that two temporary activities previously in the MPS’s dataset had subsequently been removed from it. Our data reconciliation for this year showed no such irregularities.Read more
How the Foreign NGO Law Is Affecting European NGOs
17 Case Studies Show the Range of Effects and Responses
The Asia Research Institute at the University of Nottingham recently published 17 case studies that help document the “intended and unintended consequences” of the Foreign NGO Law. These anonymized case studies are based on interviews conducted with leaders and employees of 24 organizations in Germany, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy.Read more