![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The challenge is to re-politicize the state and bureaucracy, and in this the villagers have a lesson for Hong Kong. and entered into an agreemer.t with a New- York based development eompanyom. It is not that the Chinese version is more true but that its relative legitimacy and actuality must be used to further citizens’ ends. 1/ Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. In so far as convergence is also about hegemony and rivalry, the events also show the fading of the latter, liberal one and the rise of the Chinese state as something which must be reckoned with analytically. Per the company’s press release, a group of new investors also partook. Sumo Logic, a cloud data analytics and log analysis company, announced a 110 million Series G investment today. Yet the global media events expose the limits of convergence thinking, both official/PRC and Western/liberal. Timescale, a New York-based creator of TimescaleDB, a relational database for time-series, raised 110M in Series C funding at a valuation of over 1 billion. The funding round was led by venture capital firm Accomplice with other repeat participants including FirstMark, Revolution, First American and Juxtapose. They failed to usher in ‘democracy’ in an unnamed, ‘Western’ procedural sense. This article examines the applicability of convergence thinking via two protests in South China: the Wukan ‘Uprising’ and the ‘Umbrella Revolution’. This article develops a scholarly vocabulary to describe media capture from the perspective of local journalists and from the academic literature on media and power in Hong Kong and China since 1997. It highlights how corporate-owned legacy media outlets are increasingly deferential to the Beijing government's news agenda, while social media is fostering alternative spaces for more skeptical and aggressive voices. Building on the literature on media and politics in Hong Kong post-handover and drawing on interviews with journalists in Hong Kong, this article examines the dynamics of media capture in Hong Kong. Yet Hong Kong's comparatively small size, close proximity, and broad economic exposure to the authoritarian markets and politics of neighboring Mainland China, which practices strict censorship, place unique pressures on Hong Kong's nominally free press. On one hand, Hong Kong offers a case of media capture in an uncensored media sector and open market economy similar to those of Western industrialized democracies. In the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, a former British territory in southern China returned to the People's Republic as a semi-autonomous enclave in 1997, media capture has distinct characteristics. ![]()
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