March 2, 2020
The Chinese government is using “visas as weapons” against foreign journalists on an unprecedented scale amid a marked deterioration in working conditions for international media, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) says in its annual report.
More than 80% of correspondents surveyed...
February 19, 2020
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong, condemns the expulsion of three Wall Street Journal staff from China over the publication of an opinion column.
Deputy Bureau Chief Josh Chin and reporter Chao Deng, both Americans, and reporter Philip Wen, an Australian, have been given five days to l...
January 9, 2020
China and the United States are embroiled in a Cold War in which a naval showdown in 2025 is plausible, according to historian and author, Professor Niall Ferguson.
This was one of several predictions made by the Harvard fellow and visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing during a con...
December 9, 2019
Former BBC reporter Andrew Shaw is proof that there is life after journalism, even if it took extreme changes for him to achieve it. Kate Whitehead tells his unusual story.
Master jade carver Andrew Shaw in his workshop in Suzhou
Plenty of hardened hacks fantasise at some point or other about...
28 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK
China: Seventy Years and My Vision for the Future
SPEAKER
C.Y. Leung
Vice Chairman, National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
Thursday, November 28, 2019
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:10pm – Address
1st Floor
As Chi...
November 14, 2019
China won’t become more liberal anytime soon because its people are satisfied with the way the Chinese Communist Party has lifted many out of poverty, according to a China expert.
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Professor in Political Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, told the November 14 club lunch...
14 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK
China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship?
SPEAKER
Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Professor in Political Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
Thursday, November 14, 2019
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:10pm – ...
November 6, 2019
A growing distrust of China’s technological prowess is underpinning some of the tension around its trade war with the US, which has led to the threat of Chinese companies being prohibited from publicly listing in the United States, according to experts.
Whereas five years ago there was closer col...
November 5, 2019
China will likely promulgate Article 23 in Hong Kong via an interpretation of the Basic Law rather than through the Legislative Council, predicts a veteran China watcher.
Professor Willy Lam at the FCC. Photo: Sarah Graham/FCC
Professor Willy Wo-Lap Lam, adjunct professor at the Chinese Univer...
6 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL
Digital Standoff:
The Fight for Tech Supremacy Between Silicon Valley and China
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:00pm – Panel
1st Floor
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