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China Plays ‘Fight the Landlord’ to Tame Hong Kong

China, Communist Party of China, Economic Conditions and Trends, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Protests (2019), Landlords, Li Ka-shing, Politics and Government, Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Technology NEWS /

“Fight the Landlord” is one of the most popular card games in China. The name comes from the 1950s, when the Chinese Communist Party confiscated property from landowners, often violently, in the name of the masses. As many as two million people were killed. China’s state-controlled media is playing a new game of “Fight the […]

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Governments Shut Down the Internet to Stifle Critics. Citizens Pay the Price.

Cameroon, censorship, Computer Network Outages, Computers and the Internet, Congo, Democratic Republic of (Congo-Kinshasa), Economic Conditions and Trends, Politics and Government, Technology NEWS, Wireless Communications, Zimbabwe /

HARARE, Zimbabwe — When Zimbabwe turned off the internet during a recent crackdown, Obert Masaraure, a prominent government critic, had no way of knowing when it was safe to emerge from hiding. He waited one day, then another. On the third day he broke cover, hoping that a wave of arrests had come to an

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