China: where is Peng Shuai?

Peng Shuai is alive but no one knows exactly where she is. This 35-year-old Chinese tennis player pays dearly for her audacity, or her recklessness, to have revealed in early November on her Weibo messenger that she had been raped by one of the highest dignitaries of the Chinese nomenklatura. The Beijing authorities have done … Read more

Beijing steps up military pressure on Taiwan

“People’s Liberation Army planes will not only fly around the island of Taiwan. They can also, sooner or later, fly over the island,” warned the Chinese authorities on Tuesday, January 25 through an editorial published in the Communist Party daily Global Times. Beyond Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recurring verbal threats about an upcoming military invasion … Read more

In Kazakhstan, the flash operation of the Russian contingent

A week and then go away. Arrived in Kazakhstan on January 6, the 2,300 soldiers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) contingent, a kind of post-Soviet NATO led by Russia, began their withdrawal on Thursday, January 13. → ANALYSIS. In Kazakhstan, President Tokayev puts an end to the Nazarbayev era A ceremony was organized … Read more

In Kazakhstan, President Tokayev puts an end to the Nazarbayev era

After almost a week of almost total blackout, authorities reconnected Kazakhstan’s largest city to the Internet. For a few hours only, on January 10, the time for the inhabitants of Almaty to send reassuring messages to their relatives, friends and colleagues. And also to send photos of streets strewn with cartridge cases and strewn with … Read more

the Omicron variant threatens the Beijing Olympics

The threat of an imminent general quarantine hangs over the megalopolis of Tianjin, where 14 million inhabitants live. “As these are the first cases in China of the Omicron variant, as Tianjin is only 150 km from Beijing and the secretary general of the local Communist Party is very close to leader Xi Jinping, we … Read more

Kazakhstan, a troubled cryptocurrency paradise

Demonstrations Against Rising Fuel Prices, Total Internet Cutoff to Facilitate Brutal Crackdown, and Bitcoin’s Drop in Value – from $ 46,000 to $ 42,000 – Between January 5-7: The Financial World made the connection this week between the protest movement in Kazakhstan and the fall of the most popular cryptocurrency on the planet. Because this … Read more

Chow Hang-tung, “human rights in the skin”

Tenacious, the accused Hang-tung defended herself to the end. Before the judges of the West Kowloon District Court of Justice, this brilliant Hong Kong lawyer confronted her accusers on their own ground: the law. But despite the strong legal arguments she made, the battle was lost. → READ. Hong Kong: how the national security law … Read more