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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Return is the theme for APEX Express as Host Miko Lee talks with artists from  APAture, Kearny Street Workshops annual celebration of emerging artists from the Bay Area. Miko also speaks with exiled Hong Kong activist Nathan Law about the new documentary film “Who's Afraid of Nathan Law.” Special Thanks to Jose Ng for insight into the Hong Kong movement for democracy. For more information about the subjects in tonight's show: APAture, KSW – October 13 to November 9th venues throughout the Bay Area Jalena Keane-Lee and her film: Standing Above the Clouds playing October 12 Mill Valley Film Festival October 22 Roxie Cinema – APAture Ian Santillano playing October 13, DNA Lounge – APAture Kim Requesto performing November 3, Joe Goode Anex – APAture Who's Afraid of Nathan Law playing on POV   Return Show Transcript Opening: [00:00:00] Apex Express Asian Pacific expression. Community and cultural coverage, music and calendar, new visions and voices, coming to you with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view. It's time to get on board the Apex Express.   Miko Lee: [00:00:38] Welcome to Apex Express. I'm your host Miko Lee and tonight our subject is return, which is the theme of the 25th annual APAture Kearny Street Workshop Annual Festival. It's running October 13th through November 9th, and there's going to be six showcases in venues across San Francisco. We're going to put a link in our show notes at kpfa.com backslash program apex. We're going to hear from three of the featured artists; filmmaker, Jalena Keane-Lee, dancer, Kim Requesto, and musician, Ian Santillano. Then we speak with someone who cannot return to his Homeland, exiled Hong Kong activist, Nathan Law. First off, we're going to check in with my usual co-host as PowerLeeGirls and my always daughter, filmmaker Jalena Keane-Lee. Good evening and welcome to Apex Express. Tonight On Apex Express, we're talking with my daughter, Jalena Keane-Lee, and usual co host, but tonight we're going to be talking with Jalena as a filmmaker. Welcome, Jalena, to Apex Express as a guest.   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:01:48] Thank you so much for having me.   Miko Lee: [00:01:50] And I would like to talk with you about APAture, Kearny Street Workshop's annual festival. This year, you're one of several artists that are getting a showcase. The theme for this year is around Return. Can you tell us what return means to you and what you will be presenting at APAture?   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:02:11] Yes, so the theme for Kearny Street Workshop's APAture festival this year is Return and I am the featured artist for the film showcase, which is such an honor and I'm really excited about that. And I've screened previous work there in the past—short films, but it was really yeah, such an honor and privilege to be asked to be the featured artist this year. And I'll be playing my first feature documentary, which is called Standing Above the Clouds. And it follows native Hawai'ian mother-daughter activists that are standing to protect their sacred mountain called Mauna Kea from the building of a massive 30 meter telescope. And the film chronicles intergenerational healing and how to build and sustain a movement. And so I hope people come to see it and it will also be playing with a series of short films from other Asian American and Pacific Islander filmmakers. And the film showcase is October 22nd at 6 PM at the Roxy Theater in the Mission. To me, the theme of return, it's, it reminds me a lot of, I think last year's theme too, which I think was homecoming. And just thinking about, you know, returning to yourself, returning to your ancestors, returning to your sacred land. Standing Above the Clouds is all about the movement to protect Mauna Kea, which is one of the most sacred places in all of Oceania. And the highest peak in the world from the seafloor. And the summit of the mountain stands at 14,000 feet and it's also tied to Native Hawai'ian genealogy and seen as the ancestor of the people. And so the film is really all about that place that you want to return to, that place that represents, you know, home and spirituality and is an anchor and a training ground and a teacher and a leader and so many other things that, you know, our sacred places are and that they teach us. And really about, you know, protecting that space and making sure that that's a place that future generations will be able to return to. And also reflecting and processing all the ways and all the times that you have returned there and what that has taught you and brought into your life.   Miko Lee: [00:04:26] So this festival runs for multiple weeks. It actually is at the Roxy and at DNA Lounge and at the Joe Goode Annex and at Arc Gallery and Studios. We're also in the show featuring Kim Requesto, who is one of the performing artists that's featured, and then music by, the musical guest, which is Ian Santillano. And Jalena, tell me about, are you getting a chance to communicate with all the other artists and to be able to work with the other artists that are part of this festival?   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:04:58] It's the 25th year of the APAture Festival and there's a lot of really cool events for artists. I know they had a kind of orientation event and they had headshot opportunity to like get your headshot taken there. I unfortunately was out of town, so I was not able to make it and have that opportunity to mix and mingle with the other artists. But I'm excited to go to some of the events, as they happen. And there's a bunch of different showcases for, like, each different discipline. Mine is film, and then there's visual arts, music, performing arts, I believe.   Miko Lee: [00:05:33] Were you at Kearny Street Workshop last year as well? You were part of APAture last year as well.   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:05:38] Yes, I was.   Miko Lee: [00:05:40] How many years have you participated?   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:05:43] I think I've participated three years, but yeah, as I said before, this is my first time being a featured artist, so that's very special. And I know it's the 25th year of the APAture Arts Showcase, and that it's the oldest running Asian American arts showcase in the US.   Miko Lee: [00:06:03] And if folks aren't able to make this amazing APAture event, where else can they see your film Standing Above the Clouds?   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:06:10] My film will also be available through the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 12th, and it's going to play at the San Rafael Film Center at 3pm on the 12th, and then I'll also be leading a workshop on October 19th. It's a teen documentary filmmaking and activism workshop, which should be really fun. And that's with SF Film, and we'll be at their location, Filmhouse, on, yeah, October 19th. And we should be having more screenings coming up, so if you're interested in, you know, following along with the film, you can find us at Standing Above the Clouds on Instagram and Facebook, and standingabovetheclouds.com. And we'll post our screenings and different opportunities. You can also request a screening for your organization or group or school. And we'll be implementing our screening tour and impact plans in the next few years as well. And you can follow me at Jalena.KL on Instagram and other platforms as well and I post about it too. And you can also follow at Protect Mauna Kea, if you want to keep up to date with the movement to protect Mauna Kea. And there is a petition, a change.org petition to sign to push for the stopping of the telescope, which is currently still trying to be built, even though there has been over a decade of indigenous resistance and resistance that we see as successful because they have been able to stall the telescope up until this point. But yes, there's a change.org petition that you can sign that is @protectmaunakea and also @standingabovetheclouds in both of their linkinbios.   Miko Lee: [00:07:46] Thank you. And we'll put links to all of those in the show notes for Apex Express. So I know that you've been touring with the film to different cities and indeed different countries. And I'm wondering if you have felt a different reception based on the places you've been to from Toronto to Seattle to Los Angeles. What has been, what has stood out to you as you've toured this film to different locations?   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:08:06] Yeah, it's been such a blessing to be able to bring the film across the world. And I think we're really excited to we're bringing the film home to Hawai'i with the Hawai'i International Film Festival, and then also home to the Bay Area with APAture and Mill Valley. So it's really nice to have this, you know, homecoming and return, so to speak, to the places where, you know, the film is from. And touring it around, I think it's been really beautiful just seeing all the like resonance and the connections across other lines of difference with different activists, different local activists, whether it is in Toronto, or Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, or Seattle, And one thing that has been a really beautiful reflection from audiences is that the film is a representation of hope and that, you know, it's a realistic portrait of organizing and movement building, which certainly is not, you know, always glamorous or easy, but one that shows the beauty of the struggle and the beauty of being in community and pushing towards something and how being in movement spaces, you know, can shape and heal and revive different parts of who you are.   Miko Lee: [00:09:16] Can you talk a little bit about what healing means to you in relationship with social justice work?   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:09:22] Standing Above the Clouds, it is about, you know, healing. And Havane, who's one of the main protagonists of the film, she has a really great line in the film, that is we don't just have to heal from this work, we heal through it too. And I think that speaks a lot to what it means to heal in movement spaces and part of the intergenerational healing that we show in the film is, you know, our, our parents generation, and this kind of older generation of women who really paved the way, and who didn't have the opportunity to really take breaks or care for themselves and their own bodies, oftentimes, and there just wasn't really any other option or it wasn't really a choice. And in the film we can see passing down to the next generation and wanting people to be able to have the opportunity to care for themselves and to, you know, have boundaries around their time and their energy and show up in these spaces when they feel completely ready and that being something that the kind of mother generation wants to pass down to the younger generation and also something that the younger generation is able to point out. In the older generation and see for themselves and I think that really plays into movement sustainability and healing is such an important part of creating movements that can be sustainable and that won't just burn people out and then kind of, you know, fizzle and fall away. So making sure that we have the space to heal and in all the different ways, like through tears, through laughter, through joy. I think is such an important part and also letting movements and work for social justice heal us and have, you know, a positive impact on us and teach us about ourselves.   Miko Lee: [00:11:19] Thank you for sharing that. I just finished reading the amazing Healing Justice Lineages book by Erica Woodard and Cara Page, and you and I just went to see Cara's exhibit about the impact of the medical industrial complex. And one of the things both Cara and Erica talk about in the book is ancestral technologies and the impact that ancestral technologies can have on healing us and the next generation. And I resonated with that so much being the mother age obviously of you, but also of the women in Standing Above the Clouds. And I'm wondering if you have thoughts on ancestral technologies that you grew up with, or that you felt like you learned from being involved with this filmmaking process for so long.   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:12:08] That's a really, ooh that's such an interesting point. I think in the film, the ancestral technology that comes to mind immediately is oli or chanting, and that is like, you know, an ancient Hawai'ian way of recording knowledge and passing down information and also praying. And, in the film, it's talked about in a few different places, how that is an ancient technology and how we only know the things that we know today, because someone passed it down orally as an oli or as a chant. And a really, a really beautiful thing about the process of making the film was being able to, to witness that and also to learn oli myself, and also to learn that Havane and Auntie Pua, who are two of the main protagonists in the film, they both write a lot of oli too. So it's an ancestral technology that's still very much alive and breathing in the present day. And I think that's so beautiful and that yeah, I hope with, you know, all of our different ancestral technologies that we access and learn about at different times that we also can see them as things that are like ever changing and kept current in the present.   Miko Lee: [00:13:29] And what would you like people to walk away with after seeing Standing Above the Clouds?   Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:13:34] I want people to walk away feeling and believing that collective liberation is possible. And that the worlds that we want to create that are centered on care, that don't discriminate based on, you know, any lines of difference, are possible. And it's our responsibility to enact those worlds and protect the things that are sacred to us and important to us. And I want people to walk away thinking about, you know, their own mom and thinking about the importance of sisterhood and community. And I want people to walk away wanting to call their best friend or their mom or reconnect with someone and talk about how it made them feel and what they want to do and what they want to stand for in their own communities. Yeah, I also want people to walk away, you know, fired up about protecting Mauna Kea and other sacred places and signing the petition to stop the 30 meter telescope, which we'll link in the show notes.   Miko Lee: [00:14:44] Thank you so much for joining us.   Next up, listen to APAture feature musician, Ian Santillano. Ian is a Filipino American singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and producer from Hayward, California. So check out his song, “End of the Earf.”   MUSIC   That was APAture featured musician Ian Santillano with “End of the Earf.”  Now let's check in with dancer Kim Requesto. Kim, welcome to Apex Express.   Kim Requesto: [00:18:12] Hi Miko, thank you so much for having me.   Miko Lee: [00:18:20] I'm starting first with my question I love asking all people: Kim, tell me about who are your people and what legacy do you carry with you?   Kim Requesto: [00:18:26] I was born in the Philippines and I immigrated to the US when I was three years old, but my entire life has been in the Bay Area. A lot of it has been informed by my family and what we've brought over from the Philippines, and that is a lot of dance and specifically Philippine folk dance, because both of my parents were actually dancers. I continue to share Philippine folkloric dance. And I've gotten deeper into that practice by doing research with different indigenous communities in the Philippines. My legacy, I feel, has expanded beyond just the stories of my family and the stories that I come from, but also, the dances and music and culture of the different indigenous communities that I've created connections and relationships with in the Philippines. And then of course, how I've been able to share that with the community here in the Bay Area, and also in the diaspora.   Miko Lee: [00:19:32] Thank you. Kim, you're a multidisciplinary artist. I know you do dance and photography and music and sharing this cultural traditions. Can you tell us a little bit about what you'll be sharing during APAture?   Kim Requesto: [00:19:45] Yes, of course. So what I hope to share during APAture is more of my performance work. Showcasing movement that I've learned while doing research in the Philippines and honing in on Philippine dance and the various traditional dance styles from the different communities in the Philippines. But also, a lot of my work is also involving my experience as someone who's grown up in the Bay area. The work that I'm presenting is really around my experience as a Filipinx American and sharing that through movement that is not just traditional, not necessarily contemporary, but a mixture and a fusion of both. I also do hope to share specifically traditional movement, just because to honor the people I've worked with in the Philippines they requested, you know, before people see this fusion part, it's important that they know what the traditional part looks like as well. I'm really excited to share dance and also some music and I'm part of the Performing Diaspora residency at CounterPulse so I'll be previewing a small work in progress that'll be showcased in December. But I'm really looking forward to just sharing movement with others, and also sharing the stage with the other artists who's part of the festival.   Miko Lee: [00:21:09] I love that. I used to study traditional Japanese noh and kyogen, and I remember one of the things that the elders used to talk about is you're not allowed to derivate from the form until you have the traditional forms down absolutely and understand what they are in your bones. And I feel like that's what your elders are saying, too. Showcase the traditional work so that the fusion work makes sense to other folks.   Kim Requesto: [00:21:34] Mhmm. And it's also, I think, just to honor the cultures back in the Philippines, just to honor them as well.  Because within, in my work, I do feel that it's important that there's a way for me to also uplift what they've taught me and then not just like what I've been doing. [Laughs] So yeah, I guess similar to, to what your elders said too, or I guess in this sense, both of our elders.   Miko Lee: [00:22:02] Yeah, I'm wondering how this fits with the theme of APAture this year, which is Return. Kearny Street Workshop says, from the Palestinian right to return, the call for the indigenous land back movement, the various migrant histories and struggles for justice in our Pacific Islander and Asian communities, and the returns we face in our personal lives. So what does return mean to you? And how is this going to showcase in the work that you're presenting?   Kim Requesto: [00:22:28] For myself, returning means finding our truth. At least to me in this present day and age [laughs] of my life, it's really finding that truth or finding our truth and being able to also share and connect with others. The theme of returning also is being able to connect and understand, not just the histories that we've experienced, but also the histories that our bodies have experienced. I guess the way we'll be seeing it in what I'm going to be sharing with everyone is really looking through the lens of movement and how I fuse my experiences as someone who is Filipino, but also who is positioned here in the Bay Area. And being able to also find my truth in that movement, because even though a lot of the movement I'll be showcasing is from the southern part of the Philippines, I'm sharing it here in the Bay Area. And also to fuse it with my experience as someone who has grown up in San Francisco. There's a different positionalities in that. My movement is also different. I think in that idea of fusion and in the idea of also learning traditional movement, but also understanding my positionality and my body and my identity and fusing that together. It's the idea of finding, going back to finding my truth and you know, for me, it's like finding that in movement.   Miko Lee: [00:24:01] Thank you so much. My last question is, what are you reading, watching, or listening to? Is there something that is sparking your imagination right now?   Kim Requesto: [00:24:11] What I'm listening to, it's a lot of like melodic, soft, instrumental music. I'm back at a period of wanting to listen to jazz or to even like classical music. And it's just been helping me breathe and I think breathing, being able to find rest, being able to find like calm. Especially since I think for my personal life, I'm getting busy. Being able to rest gives me a lot of like opportunity to be creative after I've rested. So yeah. I think listening to music that makes me happy has been really great for me finding calmness and happiness. If I had to name an artist, it would be Olivia Dean grooves. Yes.   Miko Lee: [00:25:01] Thank you. Is there anything else you'd like to add?   Kim Requesto: [00:25:04] I'm just really looking forward to APAture this year and seeing everything from all the different artists and disciplines. I think having a space in APAture with Kearny Street Workshop and just being able to continue to share art with, like, the community. The greater Bay Area community is such a privilege because it really does feel like a place where people can connect with other artists and also audience members, and I'm just really thankful to APAture and to KSW and also just thank you, Miko, for talking with me.   Miko Lee: [00:25:37] Thanks so much. I look forward to seeing your work at APAture this year. Thanks, Kim.   Kim Requesto: [00:25:42] Thanks, Miko.   Miko Lee: [00:25:43] You're listening to apex express on 94.1, KPFA Berkeley, 89.3, KPF B in Berkeley, 88.1 KFCF in Fresno and online@kpfa.org. Once again, we hear from APAture featured musician Ian Ian Santillano with “Movin' Nowhere.”   MUSIC   That was APAture featured musician Ian Santillano with “Movin' Nowhere.” Finally tonight, I speak with the person who is unable to return to his Homeland, Hong Kong activist, Nathan Law. And I also speak with filmmaker Joe Piscatella. Nathan Law was one of the student leaders during the 79 day Umbrella Movement in 2014. He is also the founder and former chair of Demosisto a new political party derived from the 2014 protests. And now he is an exile in London. I speak with both Nathan Law and documentary filmmaker, Joe Piscatella. Today we're speaking about the documentary film Who's Afraid of Nathan Law, and I'm so thrilled that we have with us both the filmmaker and Nathan Law himself. So Nathan, I want to start with you. First off, this is a question I ask many guests. Can you please tell me who are your people and what legacy do you carry with you?   Nathan Law: [00:31:26] Yeah, thank you so much for the invitation, Miko. This movie is about the struggle of Hong Kong's democratic movement. As we all know, there's been decades of the Hong Kong democratic movement, in which we fight for the right to elect our leaders and universal suffrage. And this is deeply embedded into our culture because we often see Hong Kong as somewhere the East meets the West. The East is of course, the Chinese heritage, our culture, our languages. But, the Western part is that there's a big part of it that's about freedom, liberty, and the democratic way of life. So, the fight for democracy in Hong Kong has been deeply ingrained in our culture and becomes essential part of who we are. So this movie is about my story, but it's also a reflection of the way of life of Hong Kong people and what are the struggles and difficulties that they've been through and how the city of Hong Kong is being demolished by the authoritarian regime, Chinese Communist Party.   Miko Lee: [00:32:29] Nathan thanks so much. I love that you gave a little blip about what the film is about, which is powerful. I was lucky to have a chance to be able to see it, but Nathan, I'm wondering about you personally, who are your people and for you, what do you carry? Like, what's your earliest memory of social justice?   Nathan Law: [00:32:47] For me, I grew up in Hong Kong, but I was born in mainland China. So I moved to Hong Kong when I was six. I lived in the most blue collar neighborhood. I lived in public housing. My father was a construction worker and my mother was a cleaner. So when I grew up, I was not taught about social justice or democracy. My parents had the mentality that I call refugee mentality, which they only want their kids to get into a good school and get a good job and don't rock the boat. So I've not been encouraged to do anything that I'm currently doing. But, in my high school, I had a political enlightenment moment, which inspired me to get into the arena of activism in college. So when I was in high school, I learned about Liu Xiaobo the Chinese human rights activist who got the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, and the stories of Tiananmen Massacre, which was a tragedy in 1989 when there were so many workers and students, they fought for China's democracy, and then they were brutally massacred, and there were hundreds to thousands of people died because of the crackdown. So all these moments make me feel like, as a college student and as a half intellectual, I had responsibility to engage in social affairs and be involved in social activism. So that was the start of my story and the people, my people, certainly people of Hong Kong and those people who have the pursuit of freedom and democracy.   Miko Lee: [00:34:33] Thanks, Nathan. And filmmaker Joe Piscatella, can you tell us how you got the first inspiration to create this documentary around the Umbrella Movement and around Nathan?   Joe Piscatella: [00:34:44] Sure. So, in 2017 my team and I made a film prior to this called Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower and that film documents the rise of Joshua Wong in the national education movement and then through the Umbrella movement and that film won Sundance in 2017 and is still currently on Netflix. And when we were looking to do our next film we realized one, the story of Hong Kong was, was continuing. There was more story to tell as the 2019 anti extradition protests were happening, and we wanted to be able to tell that story until the next chapter. And we also were so impressed. When we were making the Joshua Wong film, we were so impressed with Nathan. We were moved by his story, we were moved by his passion, we were all inspired by what he was doing. And we realized, hey, Nathan has a phenomenal story to tell in his own right. Let's tell the story of Hong Kong through the lens of Nathan Law.   Miko Lee: [00:35:48] Thank you. And Nathan, what was the decision making factor that you decided to go along with being part of this documentary film?   Nathan Law: [00:35:58] First of all, Joe and I and the other film crew, we had a connection when the Joshua Wong documentary, uh, was being produced. So I had already had the opportunity to work with them. I think, for the team, they're not only just producing, like, a documentary, But they genuinely do care about human rights and the story of Hong Kong and the struggles. So I think that gave a huge confidence to me and my fellow Hong Kong activists that they're definitely going to tell a story that make more people to understand what we are struggling and the fight for democracy. So I think this is a great collaboration and I think this documentary encapsulates past 10 years of my life and pretty much, the struggles to democracy and I think that that has a lot of reflection on it, but also like a lot of Hong Kong people would echo what was being covered in the documentary, because my life is pretty much also the lives of many other Hong Kong people being through all these big times, democratic struggles and ending up needing to leave their hometown and to resettle in somewhere else.   Miko Lee: [00:37:14] Thank you. It's really enlightening, especially for someone like me who is fifth generation Chinese American, does not speak Chinese, and it's very hard to actually get any kind of, you know, quote unquote, accurate information about what's happening in Hong Kong and the activist movement. How would you suggest people get accurate news of what's happening in Hong Kong?   Nathan Law: [00:37:37] For now, it's extremely difficult because the press freedom in Hong Kong is being squashed. There have been a multiple actions taken by the government that they disbanded, the most free and crowd sourced and critical news outlets to the Chinese regime. And for now, most of the media in Hong Kong have to follow the orders of the government and only express certain point of view that do not upset Beijing. So we don't have much room, but still we have some very small independent media that they can still operate with a very limited resources, for example, Hong Kong Free Press. This is one channel that we can get more impartial news. But at the end of the day, there has been a vacuum of independent journalism, and that is in, like, intentionally made by the government because the government doesn't want information to be circulated. They want to control the narratives and the information that people know. And by controlling it, they can effectively push forward the propaganda. So that is a predicament of Hong Kong people. And we do want more genuine independent journalism, but the reality of Hong Kong doesn't allow.   Miko Lee: [00:39:04] And Joe, how is this film being released in Asia? What's the reception to this film in Asia?   Joe Piscatella: [00:39:12] The film has not been released yet in Asia. it is about to, it actually premieres tonight, on PBS, on, POV on PBS, and then it'll stream at pbs.org/POV for the foreseeable future. So I have not gotten what the reaction is yet in Asia to this film.   Miko Lee: [00:39:33] Okay, we'll have to wait and see. It is exciting that people can have easy access to be able to see the film on public broadcasting, at least in the United States, and we'll wait and see what happens in Asia. Nathan, you are now, with Political Asylum living in London, and I'm wondering how you practice activism there in Hong Kong when you are living in London.   Nathan Law: [00:39:56] When the political crackdown in Hong Kong took place. The activism in the diaspora community becomes much more important because we can say something that you cannot say in Hong Kong and we can raise awareness by interacting with foreign government officials and international NGOs. If you do it in Hong Kong under the restriction of the national security law now, by meeting, for example, a congressman in the US, you can easily be incarcerated and be sentenced to years of imprisonment in Hong Kong. That is how strict the political sentiment there. And also if you speak about critical things towards the government or express supportive statement to the 2019, protest, you will also be targeted, sentenced, and maybe ended up in months or years in the prison. So we've had all these court cases where people only do peaceful advocacy work without inciting violence or committing violence, but they are being thrown to jail because of speech. And it's common to have speech crime in Hong Kong. So the diaspora community shoulders certain responsibility to speak out all those demands and, and the push for Hong Kong and China's democracy. So for me, in London, there's been a growing population of Hong Kong people because of the fact that people voted with their feet, there has been a exodus of Hong Kong people for now that's already been more than 200,000 of them that have come to the UK because of the worsening liberty situation in Hong Kong. And with that many amounts of people we have a lot of community and cultural events. One of the biggest goal is to preserve the story and the history and the identity of Hong Kong people, which is being erased in Hong Kong actively by the government.   Miko Lee: [00:42:02] And what's going on with the Umbrella Movement now? Like I said, it's very hard for us outside of your film to get information about what is happening right now. Can you give us an update?   Nathan Law: [00:42:14] Yeah, the Umbrella Movement was the occupation movement 10 years ago in pursuit for democracy. It's been 10 years, but I think its legacy is still impacting Hong Kong. It's the very first civil disobedience movement in a massive scale in Hong Kong. There were hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people camping in the BCS runway in order to fight for a free and democratic society. Fast forward five years ago, there was a big, anti extradition law protest in Hong Kong in 2019 to 2020. It was the latest big uprising of Hong Kong people where you encounter much more ferocious and militant protests. And of course, it triggered a series of response from the government, which includes the implementation of the national security law, which in effect curtailed the city's freedom and civil society. So, it's been 10 years. We had more optimistic outlook of Hong Kong 10 years ago. But for now, the situation in Hong Kong is really bad, as I mentioned. Speech crime is in place, civil liberties and individual freedoms are being heavily restricted, civil society is disbanded. Some of the interviewees in the documentary, including my dearest friend, Joshua Wong, and Gwyneth Ho, they are now being in jail for more than three and a half years just because of joining a primary election, which is the thing that all democratic countries do, but in Hong Kong, it becomes a crime. And they are expecting to be sentenced, at the end of this year, to up to five to ten years of imprisonment just because they do, they do the exact same thing that other politicians in democratic countries do. So this is a really sad reality that we've put up so much effort, so much sacrifices to the democratic movement, but for now, as the Chinese regime is just so powerful. So it's difficult for us to get some progress in our democracy.   Miko Lee: [00:44:32] Is there anything that folks over here that believe and want to support the movement? Is there anything that we can do to help support the folks that are incarcerated or support the movement?   Nathan Law: [00:44:44] First of all, attention and support is really important. So by spreading words of the theme or the current situation of Hong Kong, it helps a lot. And of course we need more representative in the hill to push over Hong Kong agenda and there are a few bills about advancing Hong Kong's advocacy in the hill that's being discussed. Those are the things that we can write to our representative and ask them for support. But at the end of the day, it's also that the struggle of Hong Kong is a puzzle, a piece of puzzle in a broad picture of the struggles against authoritarianism and autocracy. We've been through a decade or two of democratic decline around the world and Hong Kong was part of it. So one thing to raise awareness of the issue of Hong Kong is also to protect your democracy. We are in an election year and you should do your homework, be educated, and be decided to come out to vote. This is an act of safeguarding our democracy.   Miko Lee: [00:45:52] And from your perspective as a Hong Kong person who's now living in London, do you have thoughts on the upcoming American presidential campaign?   Nathan Law: [00:46:03] Well, of course, this is a particularly important, election as the world has been, in like a chaotic situation as we've seen the warfare in Ukraine, in Gaza, and also all the political crackdowns in Hong Kong and around China, and also the threat to Taiwan. So for me, as a person who dedicated myself into the fight for human rights and democracy, definitely, I do hope that people can, American people can elect someone who upholds the values that we share and is very determined to, to support Taiwan and the struggle of Hong Kong. So that would be my parameter when it comes to the US election, but at the end of the day, I'm not a US citizen, so I don't really have a stake in this. campaign. But, yeah, I think we we need a leader that that can lead the free world and to do good things   Miko Lee: [00:47:06] And Nathan I know as an activist as a leader, you've gotten a lot of attention. And I know that there have been personal attacks against you for both yourself and people that are close to you, including your family members. How do you persevere through that?   Nathan Law: [00:47:26] It's difficult to cope with the harms that that's exerted, not only to you, but to your family, because they actually have nothing to do with everything I do. This collective punishment is evil, and it's intentionally used to hurt you. So it's difficult to persevere and navigate myself in these attacks, including personal attacks and also collective punishment to my family and my former colleagues. So, yeah, I think for me, it takes a lot of time to digest and to find a way to balance it. And it's not easy. One thing that I think is great to be portrayed in the film is that for us, we are activists, we are leaders, but we're not, we're not invincible. We're not without any pains and struggles. So as an activist, I think most of my time is actually being used to cope with anxiety, cope with fear, and how I can maintain as mentally healthy as possible in these political storms.   Miko Lee: [00:49:04] And how do you do that?   Nathan Law: [00:49:05] It's not easy, yeah.   Miko Lee: [00:49:06] How do you do that, Nathan? How do you cope with the anxiety and the fear? What's do you have a process that helps you?   Nathan Law: [00:49:16] I think first of all, you have to recognize that is it's normal to have these emotions. This these are definitely emotions that disturb your lives, your work, but they're normal because you are situated in an extraordinary situation and people from all corners, they want a piece of you or they want to attack you to achieve their purpose. And I think as long as you recognize it, as you, as, as long as you know that you are suffering from it, first of all, having a support group is really important for those people who understand who you are and who support you unconditionally, and also seeking professional help, no matter if it's a therapist or a psychiatrist, those who can listen to you and, and just try out. I don't think there is a one set of measures that fit for all, and that there is such a rich combination of how you can deal with anxiety and pressure. But I think the very first thing is you, you have to recognize that it's normal to have these emotion. You need to seek help and you need to try them out.  Otherwise, it's difficult for the others to help you, and those who love you would also be hurt, seeing you suffering from all these negative emotions.   Miko Lee: [00:50:47] Thank you for sharing. My last question for you, Nathan, is what was it like the first time you saw the finished documentary, seeing yourself up there on the big screen? What did that feel like for you?   Nathan Law: [00:50:58] It feels extremely weird. I still cannot get around the idea that, yeah, there's a big screen and there's my face and there's my voice. Even though I've been doing all these interviews and, and like video-taking for the past decades, it is still difficult to kind of get used to it. But also I'm, I'm glad that Joe and the team have produced a wonderful documentary. That's been a really good reception and people are understand more about Hong Kong through the lens of my story, and I'm grateful for that. So, yeah, as long as I can introduce that film to the others, go to Q&A and chat about it, I would love to do it, and I'm really proud of the result.   Miko Lee: [00:51:52] Thank you so much. And Joe, for you as the filmmaker, what is it that you want people to understand about this film?   Joe Piscatella: [00:52:01] What I want the audiences to take away is that, yes, this is the story of Hong Kong. Yes, this is the story of Nathan Law and other activists fighting for Hong Kong. But in so many ways, this is also a story for the rest of the world. Right now, we are at a point where, you know, democracy is in peril in many parts of the world. And what I want audiences to take away from this film is, if you don't participate in your democracy, if you do not do what you can to fight for and safeguard your freedoms. They can disappear very, very quickly.   Miko Lee: [00:52:37] Thank you very much, filmmaker Joe Piscatella and Nathan Law for talking with me about the new documentary film, Who's Afraid of Nathan Law?, which people can catch on POV PBS. We are so happy to see the film, to see that it's out there. I look forward to hearing more about the world's response to this powerful work. Thank you so much.   Nathan Law: [00:53:03] Yeah, thank you, Miko.   Joe Piscatella: [00:53:05] Thank you.   Ayame Keane-Lee: [00:53:07] Let's listen to one more song from APAture's 2024 featured musician Ian Santillano. This is “Overthinkings.”   MUSIC   You just listen to Ian Santillano and Āish's “Overthinkings.” You can check out Ian on Sunday, October 13th at the DNA Lounge for the APAture Music Showcase.   Miko Lee: [00:56:53] Please check out our website, kpfa.org to find out more about our show tonight. We think all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world because your voices are important. APEX Express is created by Miko Lee, Jalena Keane-Lee, Preeti Mangala Shekar, Anuj Vaidya, Swati Rayasam, Aisa Villarosa, Estella Owoimaha-Church, Gabriel Tangloao, Cheryl Truong and Ayame Keane-Lee.  Tonight's show was produced by Miko Lee and edited by Ayame Keane-Lee. Have a great night.   The post APEX Express – 10.10.24 – Return appeared first on KPFA.

Amanda Holmes reads Liu Xiaobo's “One Letter,” translated from the Mandarin by Jeffrey Yang. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

China's epic transformation over the past four decades has seen cities expand, fortunes rise, and expectations change. It has left Chinese people to either ride the waves of change, or scramble -- perhaps struggle -- to keep up. In the midst of it all, Chinese fiction has reflected and riffed on life on the ground, with humor, satire, pathos, and good old-fashioned story-telling. At times in the Reform and Opening Up era, Chinese fiction has even driven a national conversation.This episode offers a conversation on all of this with two deeply knowledgeable guests: Jianying Zha is a contributor to The New Yorker, and the critically acclaimed author of China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and  Bestsellers are Transforming a Culture (1996), Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (2011), and other books and writing, both fiction and non-fiction, in both English and Chinese. Jianying was born and raised in Beijing, where she studied Chinese literature before moving to the United States in the early 1980s to study English literature. She has, in most of the years since, split time between China and the United States.Perry Link is a deeply respected expert in Chinese language and literature,  Chancellorial Chair Professor for Innovative Teaching Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages in College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, and an emeritus professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University.  His books include Stubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature After the Cultural Revolution (Chinese Literature in Translation)  (1984), Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament (1992), The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System (2000),  An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics (2013), and I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo (2023). The China Books podcast is hosted and produced by Mary Kay Magistad, a former award-winning China correspondent for NPR and PRI/BBC's The World, now deputy director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. This podcast is a companion of the China Books Review, which offers incisive essays, interviews, and reviews on all things China books-related. Co-publishers are Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, headed by Orville Schell, and The Wire China, co-founded by David Barboza, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times China correspondent. The Review's editor is Alec Ash, who can be reached at editor@chinabooksreview.com.

To lead into the third season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education.  We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In this episode I speak with renowned China scholar Perry Link, the Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside, about his now classic 2002 essay “China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier.” We discuss the origins of the essay and its initial reception, as well as Professor Link's blacklisting and why this was actually a kind of liberation. We dig into the system of psychological control and censorship that the Chinese Communist Party relies on and contrast that with the more mechanical, ideological training that has been used in other totalitarian regimes. Link explains how the vagueness of the ideological rules and arbitrary application of those rules are essential aspects of this system of control. We talk in depth about his anaconda metaphor and what it communicates about the character of the repression. Professor Link and I also discuss the repression of the Uyghurs in East Turkistan. Link explains what the leaders of the Party might be thinking in order to justify their actions. We end with a discussion of the great dissident Liu Xiaobo—Link has recently completed a biography with Wu Dazhi tentatively titled Long March Toward Freedom: The Life, Times, and Thought of Liu Xiaobo.

El 13 de julio del año 2017, debido a un cáncer muere el escritor y Premio Nobel de la paz, Liu Xiaobo, activista en pro de los derechos humanos chino, disidente del regimen comunista y que cumplía al momento de su muerte una pena de carcel por subversión.

Earlier, Jay spoke with Perry Link about Liu Xiaobo, the great Chinese democracy leader, of whom he has co-authored a biography. For that episode, go here. In the present episode, Jay speaks with Professor Link about being a China scholar—the language, the political pitfalls, and so on. As Jay says in his introduction, it is […]

Earlier, Jay spoke with Perry Link about Liu Xiaobo, the great Chinese democracy leader, of whom he has co-authored a biography. For that episode, go here. In the present episode, Jay speaks with Professor Link about being a China scholar—the language, the political pitfalls, and so on. As Jay says in his introduction, it is “a joy” to listen to Perry Link—“a joy and an education.”

Liu Xiaobo was one of the great men of our age. He was a Chinese intellectual and democracy leader. In 2010, while in prison, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He died, still a prisoner, in 2017. Perry Link and Wu Dazhi have written a new biography: “I Have No Enemies: The Life and […]

Liu Xiaobo was one of the great men of our age. He was a Chinese intellectual and democracy leader. In 2010, while in prison, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He died, still a prisoner, in 2017. Perry Link and Wu Dazhi have written a new biography: “I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo.” Jay talks with Professor Link, who is very interesting on this subject, as on so many others.

Only twice has a Nobel peace laureate died in state custody. The first time was in 1938, when German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky died in Berlin of mistreatment at the hands of his Nazi captors. The second was in the summer of 2017.Click here to read the article by James Carter.Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Paul Jacob is on the road, so this weekend's podcast is about another of his "road trips" — the one to Hong Kong and Taiwan. We begin with Liu Xiaobo and end with the week's commentary at ThisIsCommonSense.org.

Cette semaine, 500 reçoit la Ouïghour Dilnur Reyhan. Née dans le début des années 80 au Turkestan, Dilnur est une excellente élève. Elle poursuit ses études en chine où elle découvre la difficulté d'être Ouïghour. En effet, victime d'agressions, de discriminations... elle a un but : rejoindre l'occident et dénoncer le génocide des Ouïghours. C'est en 2004 qu'elle pose ses valises en France. Après une période d'adaptation, elle décide de créer une association OGHOUZ et fut présidente jusqu'en 2019. Cette doctorante en sociologie se bat afin de faire reconnaître ce génocide contre comme crime contre l'humanité. 

Il dissenso di un diplomatico russo ci insegna che la dittatura si può combattere anche con gesti individuali. Come fece Benedetto Croce contro Mussolini, Solzenicyn contro Stalin, Liu Xiaobo contro il partito comunista cinese.

The concluding part of this idiom-inspired doublepod about human rights in China. We start at Tiananmen Square, and weave through the current Shanghai lockdown to troubled, outspoken businessmen and recent events in Hong Kong. And of course, the saint of human rights in China, Liu Xiaobo, makes an appearance.

Am 13. Juli jährt sich der Todestag des chinesischen Schriftstellers Liu Xiaobo zum vierten Mal. Er hat sich für Freiheit und Menschenrechte eingesetzt.

The pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong is facing its most severe crisis today. The Chinese government has been tightening its grip over the island to stifle political protest, impose restrictions on freedom of press, and hamper free and fair elections. Activists have been fighting for civil liberties and democratic rights, from the Umbrella Revolution of 2014 to the huge anti-extradition law demonstrations in 2020. Jean-Pierre Cabestan (Hong Kong Baptist University) explores the events leading up to the backlash against civic activism, the current state of democracy in Hong Kong and its future prospects.Since the recording of this episode, the Apple Daily has been forced to close. It was the last print news outlet openly critical of the Chinese government.Democracy in Question? is brought to you by:• The Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna: IWM• The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD• The Excellence Chair and Soft Authoritarianism Research Group in Bremen: WOC• The Podcast Company: Earshot StrategiesFollow us on social media!• Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna: @IWM_Vienna• Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: @AHDCentreSubscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review and sharing our podcast in your networks! BIBLIOGRAPHY• China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship? (2019).• Hong Kong: The Second Handover (2020). GLOSSARYWhat happened to Apple Daily News?(00:01:30 or p. 1 in the transcript)To learn more about the events leading up to the newspaper's closure click here. What was the Umbrella Revolution?(00:01:30 or p. 1 in the transcript)On September 26, 2014, Hong Kong students led a strike against the government, demanding change after recent reforms to their election system. The changes would restrict who would be allowed to run for Chief Executive, effectively allowing only pro-China candidates. The protests escalated as time went on, resulting in nearly 100,000 people protesting at any given moment, and nearly two months of student occupation of city centers. Source. What are the Tiananmen Square commemorations?(00:01:30 or p. 2 in the transcript)The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was a deadly crackdown by Chinese soldiers on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing with estimates of the dead varying from a few hundred to several thousand. Macau and Hong Kong are the only places in China where people can commemorate the anniversary of the massacre. However, in 2020 and now in 2021, authorities in Hong Kong banned an annual vigil for the event, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic for the restrictions. The 2021 anniversary was the first since a new controversial security law was approved, aimed at ending the city's pro-democracy movement and criminalizing dissent. Learn more. To learn more about the massacre itself, click here. Who are Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping?(00:10:00 or p. 6 and 00:17:15 or p. 11 in the transcript)Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from December 1978 to November 1989. After Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng gradually rose to supreme power and led China through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms, earning him the reputation as the "Architect of Modern China.”Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician and government official who served as vice president of the People's Republic of China (2008–13), general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012– ), and president of China (2013– ). Source. Learn more. What is happening in Xinjiang?(00:20:00 or p. 12 in the transcript)The human rights organization Amnesty International recently said that China is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the north-western region that is home to the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. Their report says that China subjects Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims to mass detention, surveillance, and torture. Learn more.  What was the Charter 08 Movement?(00:21:00 or p. 13 in the transcript)In 2008 hundreds of Chinese activists signed a public appeal for democratic reforms, called “Charter 08.” Many involved activists were incarcerated, including later Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo who was behind bars when he received the prize and died 2017 at age 61 in Chinese custody. Charter 08 was inspired by Charter 77, a manifesto published by Czechoslovakian dissidents in 1977. Click here or here to learn more. 

In this episode I speak with renowned China scholar Perry Link, the Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside, about his now classic 2002 essay “China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier.”   We discuss the origins of the essay and its initial reception, as well as Professor Link's blacklisting and why this was actually a kind of liberation. We dig into the system of psychological control and censorship that the Chinese Communist Party relies on and contrast that with the more mechanical, ideological training that has been used in other totalitarian regimes. Link explains how the vagueness of the ideological rules and arbitrary application of those rules are essential aspects of this system of control. We talk in depth about his anaconda metaphor and what it communicates about the character of the repression.   Professor Link and I also discuss the repression of the Uyghurs in East Turkistan. Link explains what the leaders of the Party might be thinking in order to justify their actions. We end with a discussion of the great dissident Liu Xiaobo—Link has recently completed a biography with Wu Dazhi tentatively titled Long March Toward Freedom: The Life, Times, and Thought of Liu Xiaobo.

Epost: Laernorsknaa@gmail.com Teksten til episoden: https://laernorsknaa.com/67-norges-forhold-til-kina Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/laernorsknaa Twitter: https://twitter.com/MariusStangela1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdRJ5lW2QlUNRfff-ZoE-A/videos Historisk har Kina og Norge hatt veldig lite med hverandre å gjøre. Det er kanskje ikke så merkelig. Norge ligger veldig langt ifra Kina, mange tusen kilometer. Norge er et lite land, mens Kina er verdens største. Hvorfor skulle Kina bry seg om et lite land som Norge? I tillegg var lenge Kina et fattig land, men dette har endra seg mye de siste årene. Kina har stadig blitt et viktigere land i verdens økonomien. Kinas økonomi er omtrent like stor som USA sin. Og Kina har begynt å bry seg mer og mer om verden rundt seg. De holder på å bli en stormakt, spesielt når det gjelder handel. Dette har derfor gjort Kina til en langt viktigere handelspartner for Norge de siste årene. Kinas økonomi vokser også veldig kjapt. Det gjør det til en veldig interessant handelspartner. Her var det muligheter for Norge. Kina er nok også interessert i å utvide sin innflytelse rundt omkring i verden. I 2008 begynte Norge og Kina å forhandle en frihandelsavtale med hverandre. Men hva er det egentlig Norge og Kina handler med hverandre? Vel, 39% av den norske eksporten til Kina i 2018 var kjemiske produkter, 19% var maskiner og transportmidler og 18% var sjømat. I tillegg kjøper Norge mange varer fra Kina. For eksempel importerer Norge mange mobiltelefoner, PCer og nettbrett. Kina produserer veldig mye, så det er vanskelig å nevne alt Norge importerer fra Kina. Men det er mye, og det vokser hvert år. Norge så at det var lurt å være nærme Kina. Kina ville bare bli en viktigere handelspartner. Dette gjorde at Kina og Norge begynte å diskutere en frihandelsavtale i 2008. Landene møtte hverandre åtte ganger for å diskutere avtalen. Alt så ut til å gå bra. Det så ut som om Norge og Kina kom til å skrive under på en frihandelsavtale. Men så skjedde det noe i 2010. Norge ga fredsprisen til den kinesiske menneskerettsforkjemperen Liu Xiaobo. Dette kunne ikke Kina godta. Det blei ikke noe av avtalen. Kina brøt forhandlingene og forholdet mellom Kina og Norge nådde et historisk lavpunkt. Forholdet mellom Kina og Norge har aldri vært så dårlig som det var i 2010.

Depuis que sa puissance économique augmente, la Chine est tentée de l’utiliser comme une arme politique. Au début des années 2010, Pékin avait mis en place des sanctions commerciales contre Oslo après la remise du prix Nobel de la paix au dissident chinois Liu Xiaobo. Ce fut ensuite au tour de la Corée du Sud pour avoir accepté en 2016-2017 le déploiement sur son sol du système de défense antimissile américain Thad. Depuis un an, dans des proportions bien plus importantes, l’Australie fait les frais du courroux de Pékin pour avoir demandé une enquête sur l’origine du coronavirus. Mais le divorce entre les deux pays, un temps très proches, couvait en fait depuis des années… Lorsqu’en 2015, l’Australie et la Chine signent un accord de libre-échange, c’est le pic de leurs relations, qui dans les années 2000 s’étaient considérablement développées. Pékin est alors le premier partenaire commercial de Canberra, et la Chine est extrêmement populaire chez les Australiens, qui vont vite changer d’avis… « Les relations ont commencé à se détériorer à partir de 2017 », explique Antoine Bondaz, chercheur à la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique. « Canberra a interdit les dons étrangers à des partis politiques australiens, alors qu’à l’époque 80% de ces dons venaient de Chine. En 2018 une législation a été adoptée pour limiter les interférences étrangères, et puis la même année l’Australie a été l’un des premiers pays à interdire à Huawei la construction de son réseau 5G. » L’Australie a aussi dénoncé des attaques informatiques visant son Parlement et ses principaux partis. Des tensions politiques D’ailleurs, plus récemment, c’est sur le plan politique que les tensions n’ont cessé de croître. Canberra est un de ceux qui ont condamné le plus fermement la politique chinoise à l’égard des Ouïghours au Xinjiang. L'Australie a aussi soutenu les manifestants de Hong Kong, et critiqué la militarisation chinoise de la mer de Chine orientale. Pékin n’appréciait déjà pas ces prises de position sur des sujets que la Chine estime être des « affaires internes », mais en avril dernier, lorsque l'Australie a été le premier pays à demander une enquête sur l’origine du Covid-19, la coupe était pleine. « Le président Xi Jinping veut que les autres pays acceptent les politiques et les actions chinoises, et qu’ils restent silencieux ou s’en réjouissent. », estime Michael Shoebridge, spécialiste des questions de défense au sein de l’Australian Strategic Policy Institute. « L’Australie n’est restée silencieuse et ne s’est réjouie de rien de tout cela. Pékin a donc fait un calcul : punir l’Australie pourrait l’aider à faire taire d’autres voix, et à stopper les gouvernements qui voudraient prendre les mêmes décisions que Canberra – la plus emblématique étant celle sur la 5G. » La punition Faire pression sur l’Australie était facile : en juin dernier, près de la moitié de ses exportations partaient encore en Chine. Pékin met donc en place toute une série de taxes sur l’orge, le bœuf, le homard, ou le vin, taxé lui à 200%. Résultat : en janvier 2020, l’Australie exportait 50% de son vin vers la Chine ; un an plus tard, plus qu’1%. « Cela a eu un impact sur certains secteurs, reconnaît Michael Shoebridge, mais globalement, notre économie a surtout démontré qu’il y avait des marchés alternatifs pour de nombreux produits de très haute qualité. Un exemple : une de nos grosses compagnies vinicoles estime qu’il lui faudra peut-être trois ans pour se remettre de cette situation, mais avec de nouveaux marchés comme la Corée du Sud, le Japon, le Vietnam, et des marchés déjà existant comme l’Europe et l’Amérique du nord, cela paraît garanti. » Le minerai de fer, lui, représente une exception. « La Chine en a besoin pour ses infrastructures, et son secteur automobile. Et il lui est beaucoup plus difficile de trouver des substituts », explique l’analyste. La Chine n’a donc que peu taxé le fer australien, dont le prix a par ailleurs augmenté. Du coup, note Antoine Bondaz, la balance commerciale, de manière un peu artificielle, est restée stable entre les deux pays même si des pans entiers de l’économie australienne ont été affectés. Diversifier pour résister Alors quels résultats pour cette « punition » ? L’Australie, si elle a peut-être adouci certains éléments de langages, n’a pas changé ses positions estime Antoine Bondaz. Pour Michael Shobridge, le gouvernement et les intellectuels australiens ont estimé que « si nous ne pouvons pas parler de nos valeurs et de nos intérêts parce qu’un autre pays nous l’interdit, ce n’est pas le genre de monde dans lequel l’Australie veut vivre ». Dans le pays, l’opposition travailliste a soutenu chacun des lois proposées par les conservateurs au pouvoir, souligne Michael Shoebridge : celle sur les interférences étrangères, la décision d’interdire à Huawei d’installer sa 5G en Australie, la politique gouvernementale face aux sanctions économiques chinoises... Cette politique bipartisane s’est développée en raison d’un « fort soutien du public australien », remarque l’analyste, même s’il note aussi que « certains chercheurs et businessmen voudraient continuer à donner la priorité à l’engagement économique, comme c’était le cas auparavant. » Avec ces sanctions, Pékin voulait aussi isoler l’Australie : elle pensait que les alliés de Canberra (la Nouvelle-Zélande, les États-Unis, les Européens) allaient se tourner vers la Chine pour lui vendre propres produits, l’Australie étant dorénavant quasiment interdite de marché chinois… « Cela a été un facteur important, mais qui n’a pas empêché d’autres pays de prendre position, note Antoine Bondaz. On l’a vu par exemple en Europe, avec des parlementaires qui parlaient du vin australien ». Et on l’a surtout vu ces dernières semaines de la part des États-Unis, qui quelques jours avant le sommet entre diplomates américains et chinois en Alaska, ont indiqué « qu’il n’y aurait pas d’amélioration des relations commerciales bilatérales entre la Chine et les États-Unis s’il n’y avait pas une levée des sanctions commerciales chinoises sur l’Australie ». Un soutien marqué qu’Antoine Bondaz met sur le compte de l’arrivée au pouvoir aux États-Unis de l’administration Biden, qui veut « accroître la coordination à l’étranger avec les partenaires ». D’où cette rencontre virtuelle le mois dernier entre les dirigeants de l’Australie, l’Inde, le Japon et les États-Unis à l’occasion du Quad, cette alliance informelle née dans les années 2000 pour contrebalancer la montée en puissance chinoise. L’Australie avait déjà de son côté, l’an dernier, signé de nouveaux accords de défense avec l’Inde et elle s’était entendue avec le Japon pour renforcer les liens militaires et mener des exercices et des opérations conjoints. Avec toujours la même idée : renforcer ses liens avec les puissances régionales face à la Chine. Un message contre-productif ? « Leurs intérêts convergent, estime Michael Shoebridge, évoquant la rencontre du Quad. Il y a quatre ans, une entente entre ces pays pour mettre en place des actions concrètes au bénéfice de notre région, comme la production de vaccins et leur distribution, aurait été impensable, à cause des sensibilités sur la Chine. Mais le chemin sur lequel Xi Jinping a engagé son pays a rendu cela non seulement possible, mais aujourd’hui bien réel ». Même état d’esprit du côté de l’Europe : Antoine Bondaz estime que ces pays ne vont pas arrêter de critiquer la Chine, comme Pékin l’espérait, mais « essayer de mieux faire face aux pressions économiques chinoises, notamment potentiellement en diversifiant leurs partenaires et en partageant le coût de sanctions chinoises ». « Tout cela ce sont des discussions qui ont lieu désormais en Europe, et qui n’avaient pas lieu il y a encore quelques années », estime le chercheur, pour qui cette opération dirigée contre l’Australie risque au final de se révéler contreproductive pour Pékin. Michael Shoebridge dresse le même constat : « Nous sommes tous aujourd’hui plus à l’aise pour évoquer les problèmes, et parler des défis que la Chine nous pose ».

Today on 365 days with mxmtoon, Maia talks about the life, work, and Nobel Prize of a Chinese activist and writer, Liu Xiaobo. She also revisits a recent release. Join this episode today and make sure you’re following along with the daily updates @365daysmxmtoon on all platforms.

durée : 00:02:31 - Grand angle - À l’occasion du 10e anniversaire de l’attribution du Prix Nobel de la Paix à Liu Xiaobo, le Théâtre du Soleil inaugure "La Chaise Vide de la Liberté", une une sculpture de Wang Keping dédiée à celui qui est mort en détention en Chine le 13 juillet 2017. Depuis, les caractères 空椅子 (chaise vide) sont censurés.

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Beijing's plan to introduce a hugely controversial national security law in Hong Kong has sparked widespread fears over its potential impact on the city's much-cherished freedoms.Residents of the semi-autonomous city only need to look across the border at mainland China to get a glimpse of how "national security" -- broadly and vaguely defined -- can be used as a convenient pretext for the political prosecution of dissidents, activists, human rights lawyers and journalists.Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, for example, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power." Prior to his arrest, Liu helped draft a manifesto calling for democracy and political reform in China. Liu died of multiple organ failure in 2017 after being diagnosed with liver cancer, making him the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in state custody since Carl von Ossietzky, who was imprisoned by Nazi Germany.China enacted its first National Security Law in 1993, which focused on issues relating to espionage activities. That law was replaced by the Counterespionage Law in 2014 with updated rules that more closely targeted foreign spies -- as well as Chinese individuals and organizations who collaborate with them.In 2015, China passed a sweeping new National Security Law covering a much wider array of areas, including, but not limited to defense, politics, the economy, the environment, technology, cyberspace, outer space, culture, ideology and religion.The new law is part of a broader push by Chinese President Xi Jinping to strengthen national security. A year after he came to office, Xi set up a powerful National Security Commission -- which he heads himself -- to lead the effort and increase coordination among the various wings of the country's security bureaucracy.But long before the new National Security Law went into effect, the Chinese government had been throwing dissidents, activists, human rights lawyers and journalists in jail for national security crimes -- a trend that has only intensified under Xi's crushing crackdown on activism and dissent.Jailed on national security groundsIn 2014, Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment for "separatism." Before he was imprisoned, Tohti was known for his research on Uyghur-Han relations and has been a vocal critic of the government's ethnic policies in Xinjiang, a resource-rich region long inhabited by the Uyghur minority.In 2015, veteran journalist Gao Yu was handed a seven-year jail sentence for "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities." She was accused of disclosing an internal party document in 2013 to an overseas Chinese-language news organization.Known as "Document No.9," it revealed the Chinese Communist Party's ideological battle plan to counter advocates of constitutional democracy, banning public discussions on topics ranging from press freedom, civil rights to judicial independence.In November 2015, Gao's term was reduced to five years, and was allowed to serve her sentence outside prison on medical grounds. She also served more than five years in jail in the 1990s on similar charges.More recently, China sentenced Wang Yi, a prominent pastor of one of China's largest house churches, to nine years in jail at the end of December. He was convicted of "inciting subversion of state power."National security crimes of subversion and inciting subversion were also used by the Chinese government to imprison human rights lawyers and activists detained in July 2015 -- a nationwide roundup later became known as the infamous "709 crackdown."In the summer of 2016, Lawyer Zhou Shifeng was sentenced to seven years in prison for "subverting state power," and democracy advocate Hu Shigen was jailed for seven and a half years for the same crime.In 2017, lawyer Jiang Tianyong was sentenced to two years in jail for "inciting subversion of state power," and human rights activist Wu Gan was handed a jail term of eight years for...

Beijing's plan to introduce a hugely controversial national security law in Hong Kong has sparked widespread fears over its potential impact on the city's much-cherished freedoms.Residents of the semi-autonomous city only need to look across the border at mainland China to get a glimpse of how "national security" -- broadly and vaguely defined -- can be used as a convenient pretext for the political prosecution of dissidents, activists, human rights lawyers and journalists.Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, for example, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power." Prior to his arrest, Liu helped draft a manifesto calling for democracy and political reform in China. Liu died of multiple organ failure in 2017 after being diagnosed with liver cancer, making him the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in state custody since Carl von Ossietzky, who was imprisoned by Nazi Germany.China enacted its first National Security Law in 1993, which focused on issues relating to espionage activities. That law was replaced by the Counterespionage Law in 2014 with updated rules that more closely targeted foreign spies -- as well as Chinese individuals and organizations who collaborate with them.In 2015, China passed a sweeping new National Security Law covering a much wider array of areas, including, but not limited to defense, politics, the economy, the environment, technology, cyberspace, outer space, culture, ideology and religion.The new law is part of a broader push by Chinese President Xi Jinping to strengthen national security. A year after he came to office, Xi set up a powerful National Security Commission -- which he heads himself -- to lead the effort and increase coordination among the various wings of the country's security bureaucracy.But long before the new National Security Law went into effect, the Chinese government had been throwing dissidents, activists, human rights lawyers and journalists in jail for national security crimes -- a trend that has only intensified under Xi's crushing crackdown on activism and dissent.Jailed on national security groundsIn 2014, Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment for "separatism." Before he was imprisoned, Tohti was known for his research on Uyghur-Han relations and has been a vocal critic of the government's ethnic policies in Xinjiang, a resource-rich region long inhabited by the Uyghur minority.In 2015, veteran journalist Gao Yu was handed a seven-year jail sentence for "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities." She was accused of disclosing an internal party document in 2013 to an overseas Chinese-language news organization.Known as "Document No.9," it revealed the Chinese Communist Party's ideological battle plan to counter advocates of constitutional democracy, banning public discussions on topics ranging from press freedom, civil rights to judicial independence.In November 2015, Gao's term was reduced to five years, and was allowed to serve her sentence outside prison on medical grounds. She also served more than five years in jail in the 1990s on similar charges.More recently, China sentenced Wang Yi, a prominent pastor of one of China's largest house churches, to nine years in jail at the end of December. He was convicted of "inciting subversion of state power."National security crimes of subversion and inciting subversion were also used by the Chinese government to imprison human rights lawyers and activists detained in July 2015 -- a nationwide roundup later became known as the infamous "709 crackdown."In the summer of 2016, Lawyer Zhou Shifeng was sentenced to seven years in prison for "subverting state power," and democracy advocate Hu Shigen was jailed for seven and a half years for the same crime.In 2017, lawyer Jiang Tianyong was sentenced to two years in jail for "inciting subversion of state power," and human rights activist Wu Gan was handed a jail term of eight years for...

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“El amor al saber de algunos ha estado ligado desde tiempos inmemoriales al afán de otros por destruir todo aquello que suponía un avance del pensamiento. No sólo el libro de forma aislada fue destruido; el hogar de este por excelencia, la biblioteca, a pesar de ser uno de los lugares más apasionantes y misteriosos que ha edificado el hombre, no ha corrido mejor suerte que los escritos que se ocupó de cobijar entre sus paredes, propensas a ser reducidas a escombros por las tristes acciones de la intolerancia del ser humano. Uno de los episodios más apasionantes y a la vez oscuros de la insigne obra de Miguel de Cervantes, “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha”, trata de la purga de libros de la biblioteca de Alonso Quijano por sus allegados – el cura, el barbero, el ama y la sobrina -. Cervantes vivió una época en la que la noche solía iluminarse con la quema de libros y la Inquisición estaba al acecho en cada esquina, aunque el afán por quemar no sólo los libros sino bibliotecas enteras, data de los tiempos en que aparecieron las primeras de ellas. Así, la historia de la construcción de estos templos del saber aparece irremediablemente ligada a la historia de su destrucción”. La existencia de la biblioteca de Alejandría está irremediablemente ligada a los intentos por destruirla. La primera destrucción del edificio data del año 48 a.C. por las fuerzas del emperador romano Julio César. En el año 391 d.C. , los cristianos, comandados por Teófilo, arrasaron de nuevo la biblioteca. A la acción de los cristianos se debe también uno de los más tristemente célebres de ataque al conocimiento, relacionado con la biblioteca alejandrina: el asesinato de Hipatia, calificado por algunos historiadores como “la muerte del mundo clásico”. En el año 425 d.C., una muchedumbre de monjes cristianos enfurecidos, seguidores del obispo Cirilo de Alejandría, secuestraron a la hija del entonces bibliotecario, Teón, llamada Hipatia de gran belleza, según las crónicas, poseía una impresionante erudición. Dominó las matemáticas, la geometría y la astrología de su tiempo y escribió diferentes textos sobre estas materias. La turba de cristianos la secuestró y acabó con su vida de forma brutal, quemando finalmente sus restos. Con la muerte de Hipatia no sólo se asesinó a una mujer sino a todo lo que esta representaba: la sabiduría, la independencia respecto al hombre y la libertad que ofrece el conocimiento. Siglos después, la persecución, la tortura y el asesinato se convirtieron en hábitos bajo bajo la oscura sombra proyectada por la Inquisición, que encontró en aquella muchedumbre enviada por Cirilo el antecedente de su política destructiva. Cuando los nazis, en 1.933, movilizados por Josef Goebbels, el implacable jefe de propaganda del Partido de Hitler, encendieron gigantescas hogueras por toda Alemania para quemar miles de libros – principalmente los textos sagrados del pueblo judío -, marcaron el preludio de una destrucción moderna que poco tenía que envidiar a las antiguas persecuciones y quemas de bibliotecas. No fueron muchas, después de las alemanas, las piras que se levantaron para reducir a cenizas exclusivamente libros, pero las innumerables guerras que asolaron (y siguen asolando) el mundo dejaron no solo un número de muertos que daría vergüenza reseñar aquí, sino también millones de textos desaparecidos, a una escala mucho mayor que en siglos anteriores. Las dos guerras mundiales, la árabe-israelí, los conflictos que asolaron África o los más recientes de Yugoslavia, Irak o Afganistán, entre otros, acabaron con millones de textos y enormes bibliotecas que contenían siglos de la sabiduría del hombre. Las dictaduras que se instalaron en Sudamérica con financiación estadounidense para alejar de aquellas tierras el espectro del comunismo no fueron más benévolas con los escritos de sus enemigos políticos. España, el país que persiguió con brazo de hierro la disidencia en tiempos de Felipe II, sufrió durante cuarenta años, con el general Francisco Franco, una persecución similar, en ocasiones incluso más cruenta, contra aquellos que se oponían al régimen que decía ostentar “la verdad más absoluta”. Las guerras y las dictaduras, no obstante, no son las únicas causantes de la destrucción y maldición de determinados escritos en nuestros aciagos tiempos. En plena era de la igualdad, la libertad y la justicia, se continúa prohibiendo y censurando libros, intentando condenarlos al olvido – lo que a veces, paradójicamente, los catapulta al éxito – y convirtiendo a sus autores en proscritos que deben esconderse para no ser asesinados. En el país que afirma velar constantemente por la democracia y los derechos humanos, los Estados Unidos de América, se llegó a prohibir en algunas escuelas estatales que la obra infantil “Harry Potter” fuera leído, acusado de “incitar a la brujería y a los malos pensamientos” a los pequeños. Por suerte, ya no se encienden hogueras para quemar a los autores disidentes, aunque en nuestro civilizado Occidente siguen existiendo libros prohibidos y autores malditos. En ocasiones, la censura por parte de alguna institución no provoca sino el efecto contrario del deseado: el libro, maldito e incómodo, se convierte en un auténtico éxito de ventas; vean el caso de “El código Da Vinci”, best seller sobre el que arremeten constantemente la Santa Sede y el Opus Dei, no consiguiendo otra cosa que acrecentar su fama. Todavía hoy se condenan textos de forma abierta y se persigue a algunos autores al que no les queda más remedio que convertirse en prófugos, no ya solo de la justicia, sino, también, de la intolerancia. El integrismo islámico todavía tiene puesto precio a la cabeza de Salman Rushdie, quién desafiara – según los radicales – con su obra “Los Versos Satánicos” el status quo promulgado por “El Corán”, todo esto en pleno siglo XXI. Hace unos años vimos cómo el chino Liu Xiaobo no pudo recibir el premio Nobel de la Paz correspondiente al año 2010 por la censura del estado supuestamente comunista de su país. Y también el caso, mundialmente conocido, del escritor italiano Roberto Saviano, que por narrar en su magnífico libro “Gomorra” los trapos sucios de la Camorra napolitana, fue amenazado de muerte por sus esbirros y sus capos, lo que le obligaría a cambiar constantemente de domicilio y a ser escoltado por miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad. El libro volvía a ser vehículo de protesta, y objeto de ira de aquellos que no comulgaban con su contenido, por lo general escrupulosamente real. Parece que hoy resulta mucho más fácil que ayer acercarse a un texto prohibido, al menos en los países de nuestro entorno social y cultural, aunque no deja de conllevar cierto riesgo. El fantasma de la censura está presente en cada esquina y cualquiera puede ser señalado con el dedo. Cuentan que cuando el psicoanalista Sigmund Freud conoció la noticia de que sus obras estaban siendo quemadas por los nazis – él mismo tuvo que huir in extremis de Alemania y varias de sus hermanas fallecieron en los campos de concentración de horroroso recuerdo – le comentó a un periodista que dicha quema suponía un avance en la historia de la humanidad ya que “En la Edad Media ellos me habrían quemado, ahora se contentan con quemar mis libros”. Sin duda era uno de los últimos sarcasmos del padre del Psicoanálisis, que moría en 1.939, cuando la máquina del terror nacionalsocialista avanzaba por los campos y las ciudades de media Europa dejando tal rastro de sangre y fuego en su demencial camino que ni el más oscuro de los grimorios, ni el más eficiente libro revelado, podría haber previsto jamás.

"We answer the small insignificant stupid questions that no one else has the GUTS to answer." This episode we talk about Christopher Columbus' destiny, PeePee powers, fish tornados, little shop of coom, mean green mommy, chums like us, lazy eyes, 1940s podcasting, splashback damage and other Stupid Questions. 动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门 [Sources] https://theweek.com/articles/456790/best-way-pee-into-urinal-according-science https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Urinal-Without-Splashing-Yourself https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24820279 Check out the website for links to our shows on iTunes, GooglePlay and Spotify ► http://www.lmtya.com ► https://spoti.fi/2Q55yfL Peep us on Twitter ► @LetMeTellYouPD Official Discord ► https://discord.gg/SqyXJ9R /////// SHILL CORNER /////// ► https://www.patreon.com/LMTYA LMTYA shirts! ► https://represent.com/lmtya /////// SHILL CORNER ///////

This week, while Kaiser is vacationing on the Carolina coast, we are running a March 2014 interview with Orville Schell and David Moser. Orville is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York and formerly served as dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The discussion in this episode centers on the book co-authored by Schell and John Delury, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century, and the role of select members of the Chinese intelligentsia in the formation of modern China. What to listen for on this week’s Sinica Podcast: 7:56: Orville opens the discussion describing how he and John Delury arrived at Wealth and Power as the title for their book: “For us, to try to sense what was the main current flowing through Chinese history — it was in fact, we concluded, this desire to see China great again. To become a country of consequence, and ‘wealth’ and ‘power’ really described it. And it was something that almost everybody in some form or [another] — whether nationalist, communist, dynastic, anarchist, Christian — they all understood that aspect, and I think that was a tremendously important, animating impulse that got us to the present.” 25:21: Orville recalls sitting in the front row at a summit held between Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton, the dialogue of which is included in Wealth and Power: “I was sitting right there during [the summit], in the front row, watching Jiang Zemin with ‘Bubba,’ the master of repartee, and trying to imitate him. It was quite touching, he did quite well. And looking back on it, there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Hu Jintao or Xi Jinping would risk such a wager.” 41:56: Jeremy asks Orville about his placement of Liu Xiaobo at the end of his book, and what Liu’s question is for China and China’s future. He responds candidly: “I think the question that he poses for China, and indeed all of us, is: What’s the real goal? For him, the real goal is not to simply be wealthy and powerful…and I think also what’s lurking in the back of his critique is something that the leaders now sort of see but are quite surprised by. Namely that getting wealthy and getting powerful doesn’t, as everybody thought for these 170 years, create ipso facto respect. And that is what is really wanted. That’s why there’s such an incredible fixation on soft power.” Recommendations: Orville: Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground, by Emily Parker, and Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos. David: Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China, by Anne-Marie Brady. Jeremy: The blog East by Southeast.    Kaiser: The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919, by Vera Schwarcz.

Robert is joined by Cheuk Kwan, former chairperson of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China, to discuss the demonstrations in Hong Kong and commemoration of Liu Xiaobo.A production of LIU Public Radio. Visit us at WCWP.org

SupChina.direct — China consultants, on demand. Submit your project needs, and we will match you with qualified China consultants. This week, Kaiser sits down with Jude Blanchette in the Sinica South Studio in Durham, North Carolina, to talk about Jude's new book, China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong, which just came out on June 3. Jude explains the origins of the neo-Maoists and others on the left opposition, and how overlooking the conservative reaction to reform and opening impoverishes our understanding of China and its politics. What to listen for on this week’s Sinica Podcast: 9:33: The show begins with a discussion on Diāo Wěimíng 刁伟铭, an editor of the prominent neo-Maoist website Utopia (乌有之乡 wūyǒu zhī xiāng), and his untimely death in a vehicle collision while leading a group of Chinese tourists in North Korea visiting the grave of Mao Zedong’s grandson. Jude states: “Not only is his story fascinating and the story of why the heck they were in North Korea, but also [because] the news of the bus crash was originally suppressed.” The sensitivity of information about neo-Maoists reflects how their relationship with the Communist Party is “fraught” and “complex,” Jude says, who adds that this relationship “has been evolving for decades and continues to evolve now.” 18:48: Are there online platforms that lend themselves to radicalization in China? Jude explains how individuals find these communities organically, and moments around the turn of the millennium that prompted galvanization, the 1999 NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade among them. “Several key print publications were shut down by Jiang Zemin in 2002 and 2003, and these were old, established, thick theoretical journals that essentially had been the only remaining outlets for the conservative intellectuals…and after those publications were shut down, they really cast about to see what to do next, and I think had there been no internet, it would have been quite difficult to reconstitute a movement. But they saw this fledgling piece of information technology…this provided a public square, so to speak, where people could come together.” 27:34: What is neo-authoritarianism? What are the linkages between this ideology, the neo-Maoists, and the increasing prominence of technology? Jude tells the story of this theory in China and of the early progenitors, one of whom now sits on the Politburo Standing Committee. 31:21: How does the radical left in China view the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989? Jude notes: “You would think given what we know about the current political program of neo-Maoism that they would either minimize or deny that there was any sort of massacre on June 4th, but in fact that’s actually not the case…there’s actually a much more nuanced position on things like the Cultural Revolution and June 4th than you would originally think.” 57:32: During Wen Jiabao’s tenure in office, Jude claims there is a reason why he pointed to the Cultural Revolution — to warn against the increase in radical leftist political views: “I do think there is a reason Wen Jiabao chose to invoke the spirit of the cultural revolution when essentially he wanted to warn about the neo-Maoists and Bo Xilai. That there is this thread of radical politics, which is always a threat to the Communist Party. And the most powerful fuel for this radical style of politics is not this sort of Liu Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei [style of] constitutional democracy. That’s not what the Party is really afraid of. It’s more afraid of people who outflank it from the left.” Recommendations: Jude: Behind the Curve, a film investigation into the “Flat Earth” community.   Kaiser: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr, a story of the United States beyond the lower 48 states.  

durée : 00:33:38 - La Grande table (2ème partie) - La promesse de prospérité a-t-elle tué le combat pour la démocratie en Chine ? La lutte pour la liberté est-elle morte avec le dissident Liu Xiaobo? Le journaliste Pierre Haski nous en parle dans "Liu Xiaobo. L’homme qui a défié Pékin" (ARTE Editions / Hikari Edition, 2019).

Kendrick Ray Castillo gave his life to save others at Denver area STEM school. Communist Chinese Regime's evils to Liu Xiaobo & Liu Xia, but his dying wish is realized!. The world champion of Freedom USA & other western nuclear powers' most favored nation relations with the bloody Communist Chinese Regime and opposition to Free Chinese Taiwan! This disgraceful evil is 45+ years and counting!

author photo credit: Hafiz Hamzah Jeffrey Yang is the author of three poetry collections Hey, Marfa; Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium. He is the translator of Bei Dao's autobiography City Gate, Open Up, Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies, Ahtmajan Osman's Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile, and Su Shi's East Slope. He is also the editor of The Sea Is a Continual Miracle: Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman; Time of Grief: Mourning Poems; and Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions. Here is a link to recent Hey, Marfa review, also a link to a Vanishing-Line review,and finally a link to Porter's book where the review can be found that was mentioned in the interview. Cover of Hey, Marfa

Raquel Vaz Pinto é uma das maiores especialistas em Portugal em política externa e estratégia da China.  O mote para este episódio era a política externa chinesa, mas acabámos por falar de muito mais do que isso. A política externa chinesa, que era muito discreta durante as primeiras décadas de desenvolvimento, tem-se tornado cada vez mais conspícua, de tal forma que a rivalidade entre a China e os EUA é, provavelmente, o grande tema das Relações Internacionais para as próximas décadas. Apoie o podcast a partir de 2€! https://www.patreon.com/quarentaecincograus Inquérito de feedback dos ouvintes: https://pt.surveymonkey.com/r/GNWLB97 Agradecimentos a patronos do podcast: Gustavo Pimenta; João Vítor Baltazar; Salvador Cunha; Ana Mateus; Ricardo Santos; Nelson Teodoro e Paulo Ferreira João Gil; Vasco Sá Pinto; “Falcão Milenar”; David; Pedro Vaz; Luís Ferreira; Helena Teixeira; André Gamito, Rui Baldaia Links: Houve contacto entre o Império Romano e a China Antiga? https://www.quora.com/Did-Rome-Empire-ever-contact-with-China Pessoas e episódios referidos: O Homem e o Tanque na praça de TianAnMen: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/jun/05/tank-man-what-happened-at-tiananmen-square-video-explainer Liu XiaoBo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo Deng Xiaoping e o chapéu de cowboy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/25/how-a-10-gallon-hat-helped-heal-relations-between-china-and-america/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d8c62a862b88 Bo XiLai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai Quando a Guerra Nuclear quase começou: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident Livro recomendado: https://www.wook.pt/livro/as-rotas-das-seda-peter-frankopan/21418695 Outros livros referidos: Gideon Rachman “Easternization”: https://www.amazon.com/Easternization-Asias-Americas-Decline-Beyond/dp/1590518519 Graham T. Allison “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?”: https://www.amazon.com/Destined-War-America-Escape-Thucydidess/dp/0544935276 John J. Mearsheimer “Can China Rise Peacefully?”: https://nationalinterest.org/commentary/can-china-rise-peacefully-10204 Tim Marshall “Prisioneiros da Geografia”: https://www.wook.pt/livro/prisioneiros-da-geografia-tim-marshall/19597654 Robert Kaplan “A Vingança da Geografia”: https://www.fnac.pt/mp8589109/A-Vinganca-Da-Geografia Tucidides “História da Guerra do Peloponeso” (pp. 315-320) : https://www.wook.pt/livro/historia-da-guerra-do-peloponeso-tucidides/10644477 Bio: Raquel Vaz-Pinto é Investigadora do Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Foi Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política de 2012 a 2016. Os seus artigos têm sido publicados no Brazilian Journal of International Politics e The American Interest online, entre outros. É autora de «A Grande Muralha e o Legado de Tiananmen, a China e os Direitos Humanos» (Tinta-da-china, 2010), «Os Portugueses e o Mundo» (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2014) e editou em 2016 pela Tinta-da-china «Administração Hillary» (com Bernardo Pires de Lima) e «Para Lá do Relvado, o que podemos aprender com o futebol». Os seus interesses de investigação são política externa e estratégia chinesa; grande estratégia EUA e a Ásia-Pacífico; religião em relações internacionais; os portugueses e o mundo; e o futebol e as relações internacionais. Actualmente, lecciona a disciplina de Estudos Asiáticos na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Nå er kongeparet på statsbesøk i Kina for første gang på 21 år. På slep har de 300 politikere, næringslivstopper og andre. Dette kan bety at forholdet mellom Norge og Kina endelig er normalt igjen, åtte år etter at vi ble uvenner da den kinesiske demokrati- og menneskerettighetsforkjemperen Liu Xiaobo fikk fredsprisen i 2010.Hvorfor er det så viktig for Norge å ha et godt forhold til Kina? Hva betyr det at kongen i dag møter en av verdens mektigste menn, den kinesiske presidenten?I dagens episode møter du Aftenposten-journalist Kristoffer Rønneberg og kommentator Therese Sollien See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Questa settimana Liu Xia, la vedova del premio Nobel per la Pace del 2010, Liu Xiaobo, è arrivata a Berlino, lasciando quindi dopo 8 anni la sua "custodia", come viene chiamata la sua reclusione in assenza di specifiche accuse. Si tratta di una vittoria di Angela Merkel o di un "regalo" di Pechino? Forse entrambe le cose, ma il tutto diventa ancora più interessante se si pensa al momento in cui è avvenuta questa liberazione: durante la visita del premier Li Keqiang proprio in Germania, nel pieno della guerra commerciale con gli Stati Uniti di Donald Trump, che nel frattempo ha ulteriormente peggiorato i propri rapporti con gli storici alleati europei.

Recently, Katrina sat down to speak with Mr. Jared Genser and Dr. Yang Jianli. Jared is the founder of Freedom Now, an independent nongovernmental organization that works to free prisoners of conscience around the world. He is often referred to in the media as "the extractor" for his work as a leading human rights lawyer on behalf of prisoners of conscience. Dr. Yang Jianli, founder of Initiatives for China, is a Chinese dissident who was detained and imprisoned by the Chinese government in the early 2000's for his activism. Katrina spoke with these two extraordinary men about how they came to be human rights activists, the shameful death of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo in Chinese custody, the Chinese governments moral bankruptcy, the underlying political weakness that the regime is desperate to hide, and a bold prediction from Jianli regarding the Chinese regime's inevitable end.FREEDOM NOWINITIATIVES FOR CHINAJARED GENSER TWITTERYANG JIANLI TWITTER

On Oct 12, Hudson Institute convened a panel to remember Liu Xiaobo and discuss his ideas and the prospects for peaceful political change inside Xi�s PRC.

On Oct 12, Hudson Institute convened a panel to remember Liu Xiaobo and discuss his ideas and the prospects for peaceful political change inside Xi�s PRC.

Der Tod des chinesischen Friedensnobelpreisträgers Liu Xiaobo erschütterte die Welt: trotz seines Wunsches nach medizinischer Behandlung im Ausland ließ Peking ihn nicht ausreisen. Jetzt machen sich Freunde Sorgen um seine Witwe Liu Xia.

In 2010, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who had called for political reforms in China for decades. At the time of his award, he was incarcerated as a political prisoner in China, and was unable to attend the peace award ceremony. Liu Xiaobo, died Thursday, July 13 at age 61 while on medical parole in China, where he was being treated for liver cancer. He was 7 years into an 11-year prison sentence for trying to overthrow the Chinese government. In this rebroadcast of our 2012 program, we talk with poet Jeffrey Yang who is editing a collection of Xiaobo's poetry to learn more about the prize winner's life and commitment to peace. Also Chinese writer Tienchi Liao, a literary colleague of Xiaobo, details Xiaobo's key role in the Tiananmen Square turmoil of 1989, and offers perspective on Xiaobo's political writing. Paul Ingles hosts.

In 2010, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who had called for political reforms in China for decades. At the time of his award, he was incarcerated as a political prisoner in China, and was unable to attend the peace award ceremony. Liu Xiaobo, died Thursday, July 13 at age 61 while on medical parole in China, where he was being treated for liver cancer. He was 7 years into an 11-year prison sentence for trying to overthrow the Chinese government. In this rebroadcast of our 2012 program, we talk with poet Jeffrey Yang who is editing a collection of Xiaobo's poetry to learn more about the prize winner's life and commitment to peace. Also Chinese writer Tienchi Liao, a literary colleague of Xiaobo, details Xiaobo's key role in the Tiananmen Square turmoil of 1989, and offers perspective on Xiaobo's political writing. Paul Ingles hosts.

Has the last half year of turbulent U.S.-China relations and Chinese politics passed you by? Confused you? Perhaps you’d like a clear recap in plain English? If yes, then this is the podcast episode for you. Susan Shirk is a professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, where she’s also the chair of the 21st Century China Center. Susan served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia during the Clinton administration, and is the author of several influential books on China, including most notably China: Fragile Superpower. Stan Rosen is a professor of political science at the University of Southern California and a close observer of the interplay between culture and politics in China. He writes on subjects as varied as the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese legal system, public opinion, youth, gender, human rights, Sino-American relations, and film and the media. Kaiser spoke to them in front of a live studio audience, a notably not wonky group of teachers and China-curious folk at the 1990 Institute’s Teachers Workshop in San Mateo, California. Topics covered include how China has dealt with Trump, trade negotiations between the U.S. and China, Chinese soft power and Belt and Road, leadership transition in China, and the country’s push into Hollywood. Recommendations: Susan: The website of the UC San Diego 21st Century China Center, and also The Noise of Time: A Novel, written by Julian Barnes about the perspective of famed Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and what he endured under Stalin. The oppression of artists and writers in that time and place is newly relevant to China, after the death of Liu Xiaobo. Stan: If you want to know more about Shostakovich, read his memoir, Testimony, or watch the film of the same name. Also check out three Chinese films, the first of which is the famous To Live by Zhang Yimou. Watch the film, but also read the book by Yu Hua, a much tougher version, which was toned down in its adaption to the screen. Second, The Mermaid, by Stephen Chow, by far the top-grossing film in China — until Wolf Warriors 2 overtook it this month. Finally, Lost in Thailand, which Stan describes as “like The Hangover, but without all the raunchiness.” Of course, that is a big part of the reason why Chinese films aren’t quite making it overseas. Kaiser: Czech composer Antonín Dvořák and his Seventh and Eighth Symphonies — get the whole collection of his symphonies and concertos. (You may already be familiar with the Ninth, the famous New World Symphony.) And the Chinafornia newsletter, a great free weekly roundup of U.S. state-level engagement with China.

Peter Horse is back ready to talk about all kinds of things that could get us carted off to prison, including Liu Xiaobo, Taylor Swift T-shirts vs The Chinese Communist Party, the hidden world of the Taiwanese pop/rock industry, Lin Yutang, enormous typewriters, Christianity and that “incident” that went down at Tiananmen Square. To hear on iTunes, click here!

It's 50 years this summer since the artist Richard Long took steps across a Wiltshire field to create A Line Made By Walking, now regarded as a classic piece of conceptual art. John meets him in a rare interview in his studio near Bristol.Theatre director Marcus Romer and former arts funder and marketing consultant Roger Tomlinson discuss the holy grail of arts funding bodies: how to measure the quality of art that the public is paying for. For our Queer Icons series, Stella Duffy champions the novel Carol, Patricia Highsmith's love story set in fifties New York. And Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra, comes in to tell us about the poetry of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died earlier this month.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah Johnson.

Perry Link is one of the great China scholars of today. There have been two sides to his career: He is an expert on Chinese literature and language; and he has been a boon to Chinese dissidents. With Jay, he talks about Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel laureate and political prisoner, who died last week. And about other dissidents. And about various aspects of today's China, and its relation to the West. Source

Chinese kunstenaar - Vrijlating activist Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo, Nobelprijswinnaar voor de vrede en één van de bekendste politieke gevangenen in China, is ernstig ziek. Hij lijdt aan leverkanker en heeft daarom deze week de gevangeniscel verruild voor een ziekenhuisbed. We spreken met Nicole Sprokel van Amnesty International over Liu's strijd voor een democratisch China. Foto: AFP / Anthony Wallace

Last year it was Barack Obama. This year it's imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. We hear about the Nobel Peace Prize, who gets it and why. Also, the Bank of America halts its foreclosures across the US, and the legacy of John Lennon.