22 Apr 2021
Eyck Freymann & Ralph Su
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At the all-important two sessions (lianghui) meetings last month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials adopted a new and surprisingly unambitious Five-Year Plan, reoriented the country’s technology strategy and redoubled the crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong. All of this was documented in the English-language media. But another crucial CCP announcement flew below the media’s…
10 Oct 2020
Chitra Subramaniam
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No, the system is not broken. For most Indians there never existed a system except one that took the subjugation and acquiescence of millions of Indians for granted. From one generation to the next, the obligation to obey has been transmitted without words as if genetically coded. The instructions were and are in the air.…