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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Communist Party

Participants hold signs in support of TikTok outside the US Capitol Building, in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)
March 13, 2024, 6:56 pm
US House passes bill that could lead to TikTok ban, citing security concerns over app
Legislation, which now passes to Senate, says China-based owner of app must sell or be taken off market in US; company decries ban, Beijing condemns ‘bullying behavior’
By Agencies
A vendor wearing a face mask checks her smartphone at her store selling Chinese Lunar New Year decorations in Beijing, January 7, 2023. (AP/Andy Wong)
January 7, 2023, 12:49 pm
China cracks down on social media accounts of COVID policy critics
China facing surge in cases as it ends strict virus control, bracing for further spread over Lunar New Year; Beijing also ends criminal charges against border quarantine violators
By AP
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, October 23, 2022. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
October 23, 2022, 8:10 am
Granted a third term, China’s President Xi Jinping expands powers, promotes allies
Breaking tradition of leaving after a decade in power, Xi takes on another 5 years as head of Communist Party; powerful seven-member Standing Committee filled with his supporters
By Joe McDonald
A guard tower and barbed wire fence surround a detention facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. AP found that the Chinese government was carrying out a birth control program aimed at Uighurs, Kazakhs and other largely Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, even as some of the country's Han majority was encouraged to have more children. The measures included detention in prisons and camps, such as this facility in Artux, as punishment for having too many children, Dec. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
March 24, 2021, 9:51 pm
Facebook: Chinese hackers tried to break into Uighur Muslims’ phones, computers
During routine security work, social media giant identifies network of hackers using suspicious links and fake websites; under 500 people targeted
By AP
Parents of Graham Stokes (seated, left and center) with their children, children-in-law, and grandchildren at their Adirondack estate in 1907. Graham is standing, hands crossed on counter; Rose Pastor Stokes is on floor, second from right. (Stokes Records, vol. 3, by Anson Phelps Stokes)
August 17, 2020, 4:18 am
Tale of a ‘rebel Cinderella’: How a firebrand Jewish immigrant shocked the world
New book chronicles the life of Rose Pastor Stokes, a factory worker who became a wealthy 20th-century American activist, brushing elbows with intellectual elite
By Rich Tenorio
Joseph Stalin in July, 1941. (Public domain)
June 23, 2020, 3:21 pm
Far from toppling statues, former Soviet Union puts up new monuments to Stalin
After Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces almost unveiled a mural of late dictator on June 22, Moscow-born former MK Ksenia Svetlova explores a troubling new trend of Stalin worship
By Ksenia Svetlova
Policemen wear face masks as they march in formation outside the Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, February 15, 2020 (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
February 16, 2020, 9:04 am
China’s Xi was aware of potential coronavirus danger weeks before sounding alarm
President says he gave instructions on fighting the virus as early as January 7, but was not until later in month that officials told the public it can spread between humans
By Yanan WANG
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visit Epic Games Lab, in London on January 30, 2020. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)
January 30, 2020, 4:42 pm
Mike Pompeo calls China Communist Party the ‘central threat of our times’
US secretary of state warns next century must be governed by ‘democratic principles,’ has previously asserted that China is a bigger long-term worry than Russia or Iran
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Anti-government protesters set fire to block traffic in Hong Kong, October 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe )
October 1, 2019, 3:02 pm
Police shoot protester in Hong Kong day of rage
Violent demonstrations break out in semi-autonomous territory as China marks 70 years of Communist rule
By EILEEN NG and John Leicester
Former Joint (Arab) List MK Dov Khenin attends a protest of Ethiopians from the Absorption Center in Mevaseret Zion near the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 20, 2019, 10:26 am
The MK who says he’s leaving the Knesset to save Israel’s democracy
Dov Khenin, the opposition’s most prolific legislator, laments that in 13 years he ‘failed to change the general direction of society.’ He’s not giving up; he is altering course
By Raoul Wootliff
File: Joint Arab List MK Dov Khenin in the Knesset. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 1, 2019, 12:38 pm
Sole Jewish lawmaker on Arab list to retire from Knesset
Communist activist and progressive attorney Dov Khenin says he will ‘join the grassroots and try to change country’s direction from the bottom up’
By ToI Staff
In this July 18, 2015, file photo, Chinese Hui Muslims pray during Eid al-Fitr prayers at Niujie Mosque in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
August 11, 2018, 1:46 am
Thousands in China mosque standoff over demolition plan
Protest comes as faith groups that were largely tolerated in the past have seen their freedoms shrink
By Yanan WANG
China's President Xi Jinping arrives for the third plenary session of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 11, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO)
March 12, 2018, 3:56 am
China’s Xi Jinping gets expanded mandate, may rule for life
Rubber-stamp legislature votes to eliminate presidential term limits, shattering faint hopes for liberalization and political reform
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Patrice Leclerc, mayor of the Parisian suburb of Gennevilliers. (YouTube screenshot)
March 1, 2018, 6:30 pm
Paris suburb rescinds symbolic recognition of ‘Palestine’
Communist mayor, who hoped other municipalities would follow suite, caves to pressure from President Macron’s party
By JTA
A Jewish political gathering in Russia around the time of the Russian Revolution. (Courtesy Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow)
October 28, 2017, 3:55 pm
100 years on, international conferences debate Jewish role in Russian Revolution
The Jews in Stalin’s secret police, and where to lay blame for pogroms that killed thousands, are among topics up for discussion in academies from New York to Ukraine
By Julie Masis
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