Pulitzer Center Update March 28, 2017
This Week: Is It Too Late for Hong Kong?
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![A workday street scene from the "Central" neighborhood, in Hong Kong, which was the scene of unprecedented anti-government protests in 2014. Image by Howard W. French. China, 2017.](/sites/default/files/01-18-17/french_china.jpg "A workday street scene from the "Central" neighborhood, in Hong Kong, which was the scene of unprecedented anti-government protests in 2014. Image by Howard W. French. China, 2017.")
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China's Frayed Perimeter
Why, despite growing vastly richer and steadily more powerful over the last generation, has China...
Is China Losing Its Grip—or Tightening It?
Howard W. French
The deal was billed as "One country, two systems." But 20 years after Hong Kong's handover to China by the British, things have not gone according to plan. That much was clear after Sunday's election. "As China has grown richer and more powerful, it has also become less patient and less willing to sacrifice control," writes grantee Howard French in this piece for The Guardian. Howard, a China expert, has a new book on Chinese power, "Everything Under the Heavens."
Xyza Bacani
Grantee Xyza Bacani, who spent a decade as a domestic helper in Hong Kong, says that conditions for migrant workers are worse in Singapore. Her images of Chinese migrants in Singapore appear on The New York Times China site.
Cassandra Vinograd
Grantee Cassandra Vinograd reports for Newsweek that a civil war in South Sudan is still recruiting children to do the killing. The Trump administration's planned cuts in aid to the beleaguered nation won't help.
