Inside China’s Crackdown On Human Rights Advocates
September 7, 2019By Emily Feng, National Public Radio, 6 September 2019, Read the original article here. Cheng Hao is struggling to understand why his younger brother was arrested. The 50-year-old retiree and occasional deliveryman says he was living a quiet, unremarkable existence … Continued The post Inside China’s Crackdown On Human Rights read more →
Chandrayaan-2 lander goes silent but orbiter is where the Moon mission is
September 7, 2019India Today Web Desk, 7 September 2019, Read the original article here. Even though Isro may have lost contact with Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram moments before touchdown, all is not lost. Don’t worry, Vikram may not have landed but the Chandrayaan-2 … Continued The post Chandrayaan-2 lander goes silent but orbiter read more →
Weaving 5G Networks Amid Superpowers’ Battle
September 6, 2019Authors: Holger Roonemaa and Mari Eesmaa (Postimees), Inese Liepiņa, Sabīne Bērziņa (Re: Baltica), Naglis Navakas (Verslo Žinios). Link to the article here. Squeezed between geopolitics and wary of Chinese espionage threats, the Baltic countries look to Brussels for guidance on … Continued The post Weaving 5G Networks Amid Superpowers’ Battle read more →
Angela Merkel Faces a Delicate Balancing Act in Beijing
September 5, 2019By Birgit Jennen,Patrick Donahue, and Arne Delfs. Bloomberg, 5 September 2019, Read the original article here. As deputy foreign minister, Wolfgang Ischinger had unique insight into Germany’s friendly approach to Beijing. “Our China policy had one key component: how can we … Continued The post Angela Merkel Faces a Delicate Balancing read more →
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists call on Angela Merkel for help
September 5, 2019By Nadine Schmidt and Begona Blanco Munoz, CNN, 4 September 2019, Read the original article here. (CNN)Hong Kong pro-democracy activist leader Joshua Wong has appealed to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel for help ahead of her upcoming visit to China. The open … Continued The post Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists call on read more →
China hacked iPhones and Android devices to target Uyghur Muslims
September 5, 2019By Kevin Collier, CNN, 5 September 2019, Read the original article here. New York (CNN)Hackers associated with the Chinese government compromised websites frequented by ethnic minority Uyghurs earlier this year, programming them to install monitoring implants to spy on the phones of … Continued The post China hacked iPhones and Android devices read more →
BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: ADVANCING CHINA’S DEBT-TRAP DIPLOMACY?
September 5, 2019By Bob Koigi, Fair Planet, 4 September 2019, Read the original article here. Six years since Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the New Silk Road infrastructure project dubbed , BRI, a labyrinth of overland corridors and shipping lanes that make … Continued The post BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: ADVANCING CHINA’S read more →
Hong Kong: Lam withdraws extradition bill that sparked months-long protests
September 4, 2019Lily Kuo in Beijing and Verna Yu in Hong Kong, The Guardian, 4 September 2019 Read original article here. Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam formally withdrew an extradition bill on Wednesday that has sparked month of protests and plunged the territory into its biggest political … Continued The post Hong Kong: Lam withdraws extradition bill read more →
Opinion: The Challenges Of Being A Foreign Reporter In China
September 4, 2019By Frank Langfitt, National Public Radio, 3 September 2019, Read the original article here. When I worked as a newspaper reporter in Beijing in the late 1990s, I received a tip about something extraordinary: China’s paramilitary People’s Armed Police had shot … Continued The post Opinion: The Challenges Of Being A read more →
Marco Rubio: China is showing its true nature in Hong Kong. The U.S. must not watch from the sidelines.
September 4, 2019By Marco Rubio, The Washington Post, 3 September 2019, Read the original article here. By choosing violence and intimidation to silence Hong Kong, the Chinese Communist Party is once again showing its true nature. Beijing recently reinforced its People’s Liberation Army garrison … Continued The post Marco Rubio: China is showing its read more →