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[Euros du Village]
When China appears in the European media, it is usually either with enthusiasm over what regimes can achieve without the restrictions of civil rights, or with outrage over the lack of these civil rights. Three years after the completing of the third terminal at Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK), the Chinese government announced that since PEK is already operating close to its capacity limit, a new airport, Beijing Daxing, with 8 runways and a capacity of up to 200 million passengers per year is already under construction and scheduled to replace PEK by 2017. While the government was announcing this, thousands of residents were already being relocated against their will and without knowledge of what they would have to leave their homes for.
On the other side, there is the issue of the state of autonomy of Tibet, the relations with the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and the status of the many ethnic minorities like the Uyghurs remains as unclear as those of religious groups. And then there is the issue of Taiwan, which China still considers as part of the People’s Republic, while Taiwan does not acknowledge the independence of Mainland China, hence its official name, « The Republic of China ».
Lire : eurosduvillage.eu
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