• Censors in China keep mainlanders in dark about Hong Kong protests

Censors in China keep mainlanders in dark about Hong Kong protests

• China's state-run media almost totally ignores Hong Kong protests, or stresses that they are 'illegal'
• Instagram, one of the few Western-based major social media sites that was available in China, is now blocked
• Disgusting kowtow: Reuters Chinese and Wall Street Journal Chinese are not reporting anything related to the Hong Kong protests

Los Angeles Times

• Hong Kong Protests Threat to Xi and his 'Chinese Dream' By Dexter Roberts

Hong Kong Protests Threat to Xi and his 'Chinese Dream'
By Dexter Roberts

Demonstrators gather near central government offices during a protest in Hong Kong on Sept. 28
The swelling protests in Hong Kong that have gripped the world’s attention are Xi Jinping’s and the Chinese Communist Party’s worst nightmare. 

The fear is that if not properly contained, the street protests could flare into China’s own version of a color revolution (like the Orange Revolution in Ukraine) and prove an existential threat to the leadership.

• Beijing faces a choice in Hong Kong between repression and climbdown

This is China’s biggest challenge since Tiananmen
Beijing faces a choice in Hong Kong between repression and climbdown
By Gideon Rachman

 The mass demonstrations on the streets of Hong Kong present China with its biggest political challenge since the pro-democracy movement was crushed in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989. The parallels between the demonstrations in Hong Kong now and those in Beijing, 25 years ago are eerie – and must be profoundly unsettling to the Communist party leadership. 

• Hong Kong Protesters Take Inspiration from Paris to Taipei

Hong Kong Protesters Take Inspiration from Paris to Taipei

"When dictatorship is a reality, revolution is a duty."
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE

Angus Li, 19, a student at Hong Kong Baptist University. His shirt reads: "When dictatorship is a reality, revolution is a duty."

Hong Kong students launch mass classroom boycott to protest against Beijing rule

 

PHOTO: Students from more than 20 universities and colleges packed into the grounds of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.(Reuters: Tyrone Siu)
Thousands of students in Hong Kong have protested against Chinese government plans to vet candidates for the next leadership election.

• Thousands of Hong Kong students on strike for democracy By Aaron Tam

Thousands of Hong Kong students on strike for democracy
By Aaron Tam

Hong Kong students launch boycott over China election ruling
Hong Kong -- Hong Kong students on Monday began a week-long boycott of classes, gathering in their thousands for what democracy activists say will be a wider campaign of civil disobedience against China's refusal to grant the city unfettered democracy.

Student activists crowded onto a campus on the northern outskirts of the city, many sheltering from the hot summer sun under umbrellas and waving their faculty flags, as their leaders vowed to ratchet up their campaign if their demands were not met.

• Digging In on Election Fight, Hong Kong Students Prepare for Boycott By ALAN WONG

Digging In on Election Fight, Hong Kong Students Prepare for Boycott
By ALAN WONG

A poster calling university students to join a meeting for a planned strike to protest Beijing's limits on how the territory's next leader will be chosen.

In September 2012, some 8,000 black-clad students assembled in front of the main library of The Chinese University of Hong Kong to protest the government’s push to introduce so-called national education into Hong Kong schools. 

• Hong Kong Protests Beijing's 'Backward' Democracy By Robert Olsen

Hong Kong Protests Beijing's 'Backward' Democracy
By Robert Olsen

 
Supporters of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central movement participated in a “black cloth march” on Sunday afternoon to call for genuine universal suffrage for the city’s chief executive election.

• Only Rich Rats Can Leave The Sinking Ship - By Ben Hadler

Only Rich Rats Can Leave The Sinking Ship
How Chinese millionaires are buying their way out of China
By Ben Hadler

The jury may have gone out permanently on the old question of whether money can buy happiness, but that hasn't stopped wealthy Chinese families from trying. 

There is a growing trend among China's richest to use their wealth to move themselves and their families abroad. 

• China Restricts Voting Reforms for Hong Kong

China Restricts Voting Reforms for Hong Kong

“After having lied to Hong Kong people for so many years, China finally revealed itself today.” -- Alan Leong
By CHRIS BUCKLEY and MICHAEL FORSYTHE
Protesters switched on their cellphones at a rally in Hong Kong on Sunday night after China curbed election reforms in the city.