A report prepared by a cross-party committee of Canadian MPs has pegged China as one of the most significant national security cyber threats to the country. It accuses Beijing of mobilizing Chinese students and using businesspeople to influence Canada’s politics. The Chinese threat to Canada “China is known globally for its efforts to influence Chinese ...
China’s subjugation of the Xinjiang Uyghur Muslim community has to be one of the worst racial, religious persecutions of the decade. What makes it even more unique and horrifying is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used cutting-edge technology to suppress Uyghurs. AI surveillance The most important component of CCP’s surveillance of Uyghurs is ...
Lei Jun, the founder of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi, will be receiving a huge US$1 billion bonus for his contributions to the company. The billionaire entrepreneur has pledged to donate it all to charity. Charity or good PR? “As set out in the annual report of the Company, one individual obtained emoluments falling within the ...
Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun, who has been detained in China since January this year, was warned by John Garnaut, a security adviser to an Australian PM, not to travel to the communist country. Yang Hengjun is known to have written extensively against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Detaining Yang Hengjun The 53-year-old Yang Hengjun is ...
A recent phenomenon in the Xinjiang region has surprised people — the Han and Uyghurs are developing an unlikely friendship because of parkour. Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in ...
The tall and robust Olympic athlete Martins Rubenis is a sports celebrity in Latvia. The master of the luge program has won many awards in international competitions — first place in the 1998 World Youth Championship, two more silver medals in 2003, bronze medals in the 2004 World Championships, and bronze medals in the 2005 ...
Meng Hongwei, the former Chief of Interpol, will be prosecuted on bribery charges by the Chinese government. He was reported missing last year during a trip to China from France, where he was living with his family. Chinese authorities later revealed that Meng Hongwei was placed under arrest. He was the first person of Chinese ...
Hu Ping, the editor for the New York-based pro-democracy Beijing Spring journal, divulged during a Voice of America program that the secret to high-level Chinese officials shouldering both work and studies simultaneously was due to fraud. The only difference was by what means and to what extent. An official might sit in a few classes, ...
During Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Italy, China signed several agreements related to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with the Italian government. However, Beijing let its authoritarian tendencies run wild as it threatened an Italian journalist and warned her not to publish negative news about China. Threatening journalists Giulia Pompili works for the popular Italian ...
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) obsession with censorship has now resulted in a complete ban of all costume drama series from TV. The shows were banned because they lead impressionable young Chinese onto “wrong paths.” Banning TV dramas Since 2012, the Chinese government has placed strict rules on broadcasting palace dramas. Such shows only account ...
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