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Keith Richburg
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Hong Kong Police Arrests A Prominent Pro-Democracy Figure, Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Keith Richburg, a journalism professor at the University of Hong Kong, about the arrest of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy…
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The Atlantic – Hong Kong’s Most Brazen Arrest Yet
As Hong Kong began to absorb the gravity of a new national-security law forced upon it by Beijing, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, told…
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Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai, raid newspaper in crackdown by Beijing
SHANGHAI — Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken supporter of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, was arrested Monday along with his sons and several colleagues at…
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Hong Kong Arrests Jimmy Lai, Media Mogul, Under National Security Law
HONG KONG — In a high-profile attack on free speech and dissent in Hong Kong, the police on Monday arrested Jimmy Lai, a prominent pro-democracy…
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Asia’s New Normal: Curbing Press Freedom
By almost every measure, press freedom in East Asia has suffered a depressing erosion lately. Professional journalists and citizen bloggers have been jailed or slapped…
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AFP – Hong Kong security law sends jitters through city’s feisty press
Hong Kong’s status as a bastion of press freedom is in crisis as authorities toughen their line against international media and fears grow about local…
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Ground-up versus top-down: how the US and China effect social change
THE STRATEGIST – China’s Communist Party leaders have long understood the potency of symbols and the power to write history. It’s why Hong Kong protesters…
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FCC – What the National Security Law Means for Press Freedom
Former Washington Post bureau chief, Keith Richburg, lawyer Sharron Fast, and author Antony Dapiran on the potential threats to press freedom posed by Hong Kong’s…
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The Hong Kong we know is dead
Hong Kong’s first handover to China, in 1997, came with fireworks, lion dances and a mood of cautious optimism that this former British colony would…