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As reported by Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP), David Missal, a German citizen and journalism student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, was forced to leave China last month after authorities refused to renew his visa. Missal was studying at Tsinghua under a German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) scholarship and had one year remaining under the scholarship. According to Ministry of Public Security information, DAAD has two registered foreign NGO representative offices in...Read more
The Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions recently published an official document listing foreign NGO management work under the rubric of “social stability and preventing enemy infiltration.” Given the timing, it is unlikely the document was fully drafted in response to recent labor-related protests in Guangdong province, but it does hew to previous government portrayals of foreign labor NGOs in China.Read the full analysis here.Read more
As reported by the South China Morning Post, the official Chinese media outlet Xinhua last week asserted that Hong Kong-based organization Worker Empowerment helped a Chinese NGO organize a labor strike in Shenzhen. Worker Empowerment denied the allegations in an August 27 statement, saying that it “has never been involved in organizing or financially supporting workers or their supporters.”The August 24 Xinhua report states that the Chinese NGO in question, Dagongzhe Zhongxin (打工者中心), or “Workers’...Read more
In trying to understand charity work in China, contributor Caitlin Schultz explores what Chinese citizens think of as “charitable activity.” The 2016 Charity Law does not offer a clear-cut definition of exactly what the Party-state might consider “charitable,” meaning that social expectations play a big role in the sector going forward.Read more
The Ministry of Civil Affairs recently released draft regulations related to domestic “social organizations” in China. When completed and put into effect, they will form an updated regulatory framework for the registration and oversight of domestic non-governmental groups (a subset of which carry out charitable activities and are additionally governed by the Charity Law). The draft regulations are open for public comment through September 1; China Law Translate has provided an English translation.Read more