Cai Xia used to be one of the elite members of the Chinese Communist Party (CPP), holding an influential status as a member of the Party think-tank. She was recently expelled from the CCP following her criticism of the Party, as well as the country’s leader Xi Jinping. Cai Xia now believes that China is ...
This is part two of a two-part series about a recent presentation given by Hong Kong industrialist Elmer Yuen in San Francisco. Part one can be read here. Hong Kong industrialist Elmer Yuen confirms that he is actually not anti-communist; he just wants to eliminate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He explains: “Talk without action ...
On August 6, President Trump passed an Executive Order banning U.S. transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese corporation that owns TikTok. The ban will come into effect 45 days from the issue of the order. In retaliation, TikTok recently filed a lawsuit against the executive order in a California court, naming the U.S. Department of Commerce, ...
This is part one of a two-part series about a recent presentation given by Hong Kong industrialist Elmer Yuen in San Francisco. Recently, Hong Kong industrialist Elmer Yuen, or Daddy Yuen, as most people are used to calling him, flew from Washington to San Francisco where he was invited to deliver a presentation on August ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is co-opting elites in Europe to increase its influence in the region, warns a recent report published by the think-tank Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). For this purpose, Beijing is setting up Friendship Association (FA) groups throughout Europe that bring the elites close to communist ideology. Friendship infiltration ...
On Aug. 9, U.S. health secretary Alex Azar arrived in Taiwan for a three-day visit, making him the most senior American official to visit the self-ruled island in four decades. In a meeting the next day with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, Azar praised the local response to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that it was “a ...
Torture is commonly used by Chinese security to force a person to participate in a televised confession, says a new report submitted to the United Nations. Rights group Safeguard Defenders and several other NGOs submitted a comprehensive review on forced televised confessions before trial in China to nine United Nations Special Procedures on August 11. ...
The discussion about the distinction between China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as part of the United States-China strategy continues to be heated. Some scholars and DPP officials in Taiwan agree that the CCP does not represent China and even that China is a colony of the CCP. The New York Times recently reported ...
On July 21, the United States gave the Chinese Consulate in Houston 72 hours to close. Beijing retaliated on the 25th by ordering the U.S. to close its consulate in Chengdu. Weighing up the present situation between the two superpowers, Taiwan economist Wu Jialong said that the U.S. still has at least 10 powerful strategies ...
Chinese state-sponsored hackers have targeted the Vatican and other Catholic organizations since May this year, a U.S. cybersecurity firm has said. The Vatican and the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong were among several Catholic Church-related organizations hacked by RedDelta, a Chinese-state-sponsored threat activity group, said a report by Insikt Group, which tracks state-backed cyberattacks. “Our ...