“In a statement after Trump’s signing of the bill, the Chinese embassy said clauses of the legislation ‘severely violate the one-China principle, the political foundation of the China-U.S. relationship’.”
Monthly Archives: March 2018
A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act
“A dangerous bill called the CLOUD Act would allow police at home and abroad to seize cross-border data without following the privacy rules where the data is stored.”
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/new-backdoor-around-fourth-amendment-cloud-act
Xi Jinping says China’s authoritarian system can be a model for the world
“Under Xi—the most powerful Chinese leader in four decades—China’s own one-party system is one that is ready to be exported to regimes everywhere.”
No, Trump, More Executions Won’t Win the Drug War
“Keep in mind, Trump adamantly supported the legalization of drugs, long before he made a serious run at the presidency.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-evidence-is-in-the-death-penalty-wont-win-the-drug-war/
Secret NYPD Files: Officers Allowed To Lie And Brutally Beat People
“Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers’ lives.”
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious
South Africa votes to seize land from white farmers without compensation
“Critics have compared the move to the disastrous redistribution of land in neighbouring Zimbabwe, which was often accompanied by violence and left farms neglected.”
China banned the letter N after people used it to attack president’s plan to rule forever
“The Chinese Communist Party on Sunday proposed to abolish the two-term term limit for the president and vice-president, sparking an online backlash which it has been trying to control. Critics flooded Weibo and WeChat — China’s version of Twitter and WhatsApp — to protest the plan, but were swiftly met by the country’s censors. Various Chinese characters for terms like ’emigrate,’ ‘lifelong,’ and ‘I disagree’ were banned, alongside … the letter N.”
Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-banned-letter-n-internet-114000473.html