Didi Tang

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In this photo taken Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014, Chinese paramilitary policemen march across Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China. The most important meeting of the year for the 205 members of Chinaâs ruling Communist Partyâs Central Committee, beginning Monday, Oct 20, 2014, will focus on how to rule the country in accordance with law.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Low expectations as China considers legal reforms

Didi Tang · October 19, 2014 1:06 pm

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, customers walk past portraits of Mao Zedong displayed at a bookstore in Beijing. Authorities in China have ordered books by Chinese-American scholar Yu Ying-shih and several others to be removed from sale, as Beijing expresses its displeasure with writers showing support for pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong and elsewhere, bookstores and publishers said. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China bans books by pro-Hong Kong protest author

Didi Tang · October 14, 2014 11:57 am

Hong Kong and Taiwanese demonstrators gatheres to support pro-democracy protests taking place in Hong Kong at the Liberty Square in front of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwan throws support behind HK democracy demands

Didi Tang · October 1, 2014 2:14 pm

Hong Kong, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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No images of Hong Kong protests in China’s media

Didi Tang · September 30, 2014 7:15 pm

Riot police fire tear gas on student protesters occupying streets surrounding the government headquarters in Hong Kong, early Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Riot police in Hong Kong on Saturday arrested scores of students who stormed the government headquarters compound during a night of scuffles to protest China's refusal to allow genuine democratic reforms in the semiautonomous city. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

China faces tricky balance in Hong Kong’s protests

Didi Tang · September 29, 2014 4:50 pm

In this undated photo supplied by Amnesty International, side handled and telescopic batons and spike batons are displayed at a police equipment exhibition, at an undisclosed location. Chinese production and export of police equipment primarily used for torture, such as electric shock wands and neck-and-wrist cuffs connected by a chain, has grown dramatically, enabling human rights violations at home and abroad, Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Amnesty International)

Amnesty blasts China’s torture tool industry

Didi Tang · September 23, 2014 4:23 am

In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 photo, China outspoken Ai Weiwei speaks during an interview at his home in Beijing, China. Ai says Communist Party-run China has lost its basic principles and that it thwarts critics with underhanded ploys such as the dissident artistâs back-taxes case chronicled in a new documentary. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Artist says tax case shows China’s dark side

Didi Tang · September 19, 2014 2:49 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2014 file photo, Li Na of China holds the championship trophy after defeating Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia in their women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Li, a two-time Grand Slam champion from China who took tennis in Asia to a new level, announced her retirement on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

2-time Grand Slam winner Li Na retires from tour

Didi Tang · September 19, 2014 11:46 am

In this photo taken Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, residents look at a sign with the words "China's First Cellphone Lane" explaining the use of a lane which separates those using their phones as they walk from others in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. The Chinese city took a cue from a U.S. TV program and created a sidewalk with a separate lane for those with heads tucked into smartphones, as a reminder not to tweet while walking the street.(AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Chinese city creates cellphone sidewalk lane

Didi Tang · September 15, 2014 1:28 pm

A Chinese man checking on his smartphone walks past an "at" sign on display on a street in Beijing, China Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The editor-in-chief and several employees of an influential Chinese financial news site were taken away by police in an investigation over allegations that the executives and journalists had extorted money from companies by threatening to publish negative news about them, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China police probe alleged extortion by reporters

Didi Tang · September 4, 2014 1:56 pm

HOLD FOR STORY CHINA COLLECTIVE COERCION BY DIDI TANG In this photo taken Friday, Aug 29, 2014 and released by Xiao Yong, Xiao Yong poses for a photo in Wugang county in central China's Hunan province. Xiao Yong used to hold up placards to demand that Chinaâs leaders declare their assets, but the 39-year-old withdrew from all activism last year when men started following his father around. (AP Photo/Xiao Yong)

China targets family, friends to coerce activists

Didi Tang · September 4, 2014 7:45 am

Chinese security guards stand on duty near a police car at a junction leading to the venue for the Beijing Independent Film Festival in Beijing Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Chinese authorities blocked the annual independent film festival from opening on Saturday, said organizers of an event that has become a rare and influential venue for the showing of films that could be critical of the government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China shuts down Beijing Independent Film Festival

Didi Tang · August 24, 2014 2:03 am