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Downtown Hong Kong waterfront. Photo by 蓝茶 Bluetea on Pexels, used under Pexels licence. This post first appeared in The Hong Konger on July 2, 2024. The Hong Konger is an independent global English-language platform that explores Hong Kong identity and the discourse of the diaspora through rich and diverse content about society, politics, business, culture and lifestyle. This edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. “Exile is a heavy word,” I told my friend when she asked if I considered myself an exile. She urged me not to label myself as su...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attendance at NATO's 75th annual summit in Washington once again underlined the fundamental ways in which Ankara seeks to undermine the alliance’s vital security interests. NATO is a military alliance, consisting of 32 countries, which came into existence in 1950, with the premier mission to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union. While this alliance has historically been fairly unified, Ankara is pursuing a strategy of hedging against NATO, thereby endangering the group's efforts to mitigate the security challenges of great pow...
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Image via Canva Pro. China controls over 75 percent of Tajikistan’s output of gold and for the last 30 years, it has remained the biggest foreign investor in the country’s struggling economy. There are currently 40 known gold deposits in the country with an estimated 500 tons of total gold resources — much of which has remained unexplored. The government of Tajikistan has strategically focused on increasing mining production for the three decades since its independence in 1991. This is because 93 percent of its territory consists of mountainous areas that contain more than 50 types of minerals...
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A Nissan leaf electric vehicle operating as a taxi in Rio de Janeiro. Image from Wikipedia license CC BY-SA 3.0 Brazil has the sixth-highest greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, with transport alone responsible for around 16 percent of the country's total emissions. One of the main reasons for this is the significant consumption of diesel and gasoline. Research shows that electric vehicles (EVs), despite requiring more energy to manufacture due to their batteries, produce significantly less carbon emission over their lifetimes compared to gasoline-powered vehicles. Because of this difference in...
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Workers pick cotton in Uzbekistan. Image via Wikipedia. Creative Commons license CC0 1.0 In recent years, the international community has boycotted cotton sourced from Xinjiang, a vast region in northwestern China, due to concerns over human rights violations. Under the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing has subjected Xinjiang’s Muslim minorities to arbitrary detention and forced labor. Some global cotton buyers, in response, have turned to other regions to fulfill cotton demands. The boycotting of Xinjiang cotton has created something of a ripple effect in other parts of the ...
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The ceremony of signing the agreement on the joint construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway in Beijing, China. Photo from the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan. Fair use. This article was written by Andrew Gundal for Vlast.kz and published on June 21, 2024. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway plans are back on track. On June 6, representatives from the three countries signed off on the project in Beijing, setting in motion a key transportation project that has been in t...
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Image created from Public Domain Pictures by Oiwan Lam. License CC0 Public Domain China issued a set of guidelines for its judiciary on handling crimes related to advocating Taiwan's independence last Friday, June 21 2024. The new guidelines, jointly issued by China’s judicial and security authorities, list out acts of secession and authorize absentia trials and the punishment of “diehard” Taiwan separatists with the death penalty and no statute of limitations. Although the Chinese courts have no jurisdiction over Taiwan, the guidelines state that security authorities can issue global warrants...
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Caption of Youtube video Mina de Buriticá: minería moderna de Colombia para el mundo. By Zijin-Continental Gold. Fair use. On May 30, 2024, four communities in Buriticá, home to 10,000 residents in western Colombia, sent an SOS letter to public authorities, urging action against the increasing violence near the country’s largest gold mine. This mine is operated by Zijin Continental Gold, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Zijin Mining, which sued the Colombian government in November 2023 for not protecting it from attacks by local miners. These local miners do traditional and small-scale mini...
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Dr. David Robie. Image: Asia Pacific Media Network, used with permission Global Voices interviewed veteran writer and educator David Robie who discussed the state of Pacific media, journalism education, and the role of the press in addressing decolonization and the climate crisis. Professor Robie is among this year’s New Zealand Order of Merit awardees and is on the King’s Birthday Honours list for his “services to journalism and Asia-Pacific media education.” His career in journalism has spanned five decades. He was the founding editor of the Pacific Journalism Review journal in 1994 and in 1...
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Image © 2024 Appcensorship. Used with permission. When the US House of Representatives passed the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok, a popular video app, to an American company or face being banned in the US, citing national security concerns, the Chinese government criticized the move as “an act of bullying.” Yet, ironically, TikTok, along with other globally popular social media platforms, is also unavailable in China. Conversely, ByteDance tailor-made a local version, Douyin, for Chinese users, to comply with the country’s stringent censorship rules. In fact, TikTok is n...
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