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Pompeo: No US response ruled out in Hong Kong
BY LAURA KELLY, The Hill, 15 November 2019 Read original news here. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said all options are on the table for U.S. intervention in Hong Kong if China uses military action against protestors. Extreme anti-government protesters … Continued The post Pompeo: No US response ruled out read more →
Australia issues guidelines for universities on foreign meddling amid China fears
South China Morning Post, 14 November 2019 Read original news here. A supporter of Hong Kong’s anti-government protests posts a note on a makeshift ‘Lennon Wall’ at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Photo: AFP Australia unveiled new guidelines for universities … Continued The post Australia issues guidelines for universities on read more →
Australia Universities Adopt Guidelines to Foil Foreign Interference Amid Concerns Over China’s Activities
By Colin Packham, The Epoch Times, 14 November 2019 Read original news here. SYDNEY—Australia laid out new guidelines on Nov. 14 to counter foreign powers exerting influence in its universities, amid mounting concerns over China’s activities. Universities committed to the … Continued The post Australia Universities Adopt Guidelines to Foil read more →
For Tibetans, 60 years of Chinese rule has been a story of repression and occupation: Tsewang Gyalpo Arya
By Shri Ram Shaw, Daily Hunt, Read original news here. New Delhi, Nov 13 (HS) : “For Tibetans, the sixty years of Chinese rule has not been a story of progress, development and religious freedom. On the contrary, it has been a … Continued The post For Tibetans, 60 years of Chinese read more →
Dreams and Infrastructure – Common Destiny, the first Belt and Road movie
PandaPawDragonClaw, 13 November 2019 Read original news here. Common Destiny, a movie-documentary about the modern Silk Road, tells the story of lives transformed by dreams realised through persistence and the enabling power of infrastructure development. In many ways the movie … Continued The post Dreams and Infrastructure – Common Destiny, read more →
Hong Kong university under ‘siege’ from police as violence spreads
James Griffiths for CNN. Read the article here. Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong woke to a third consecutive day of travel chaos and debris littering the streets Wednesday, following fiery clashes across the city overnight and a prolonged and violent standoff at a university … Continued The post Hong Kong university under ‘siege’ from read more →
Hong Kong faces more protests after clashes at university
Hong Kong, 13 November 2019 Read original news here. Hong Kong is facing another day of anti-government action after a night of pitched battle at a top university. At the Chinese University of Hong Kong police fired tear gas and … Continued The post Hong Kong faces more protests after read more →
Uighur activists say China running hundreds more camps
Fled by Al Jazeera. Read the article here. A group said it assessed images from Google Earth and found 182 suspected ‘concentration camps’. Uighur activists said they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain the ethnic group, alleging … Continued The post Uighur activists say China running hundreds read more →
China’s Grand Plan To Take Over The World
John Mauldin for Forbes. Read the article here. When the US and ultimately the rest of the Western world began to engage China, resulting in China finally being allowed into the World Trade Organization in the early 2000s, no one … Continued The post China’s Grand Plan To Take Over read more →
An ode to Tibet
Nirtika Pandita, Asian Age. Read the article here. Artist Sudhir Katkar adds modern elements to traditional Tibetan Thangka art, which usually has a religious undertone. Spiritual, intricate, and alluring are among the words that define Thangka, a Tibetan Buddhist art … Continued The post An ode to Tibet appeared first read more →
China, Greece agree to push ahead with COSCO’s Piraeus Port investment
Reuters, Read original article here. 12 November 2019 ATHENS (Reuters) – China and Greece agreed on Monday to push ahead with a 600 million euros investment by COSCO Shipping into Greece’s largest port, Piraeus, as part of efforts to boost … Continued The post China, Greece agree to push ahead read more →
How Xi Jinping’s brand of authoritarianism is stifling China
By John Pomfret, The Washingon Post, November 7, 2019 Read original news here. China’s president, Xi Jinping, should be feeling pretty pleased with himself. Since assuming power as the chief of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi has only grown … Continued The post How Xi Jinping’s brand of authoritarianism read more →
How Bad Is China’s Debt? A City Hospital Is Asking Nurses for Loans
By Alexandra Stevenson and Cao Li, New York Times, Nov. 10, 2019 Read original news here. RUZHOU, China — When the call came for local doctors and nurses to step up for their troubled community, the emergency wasn’t medical. It was financial. Ruzhou, a city … Continued The post How Bad Is China’s Debt? A read more →
Tibetan Man Detained in March, No Word Given to Family
Radio Free Asia, 7 November 2019, Read the original article here. A Tibetan man detained by Chinese authorities in March has vanished in custody, with no word on his present whereabouts or charges made against him given to his family, … Continued The post Tibetan Man Detained in March, No read more →
‘Crimes against humanity’: is China killing political prisoners for their organs?
By Tim Elliott, 7 November 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald, Read the original article here. In China, it’s possible to pre-book an organ transplant, something that would be impossible under a voluntary donor system – raising suspicions of widespread organ harvesting. … Continued The post ‘Crimes against humanity’: is China killing read more →