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Chandrayaan-2 lander goes silent but orbiter is where the Moon mission is
India 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
Authors: 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
By 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
By 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
By 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?
By 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
Lily 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
By 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.
By 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 →
‘A blunt-force influence operation’: China’s misinformation campaign may have been going for years
By Fergus Hunter, THE AGE, 3 September 2019, Read the original article here. New analysis of a coordinated misinformation campaign targeting Hong Kong protesters suggests the Chinese government has been running covert online operations for years, using spam accounts to … Continued The post ‘A blunt-force influence operation’: China’s misinformation read more →
China’s human rights abuses pose challenges
By Carlo Svaluto Moreolo, Read the original article here. Investment in China generates huge excitement, despite the concerns about rising trade tensions with the US. Chinese authorities are taking down barriers to foreign ownership of Chinese firms at a rapid … Continued The post China’s human rights abuses pose challenges read more →
Special Report: Hong Kong leader says she would ‘quit’ if she could, fears her ability to resolve crisis now ‘very limited’
By Greg Torode, James Pomfret, Anne Marie Roantree, Reuters, 2 September 2019 Read original article here. HONG KONG (Reuters) – Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has caused “unforgivable havoc” by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would … Continued The post Special Report: Hong Kong leader says read more →
Changes on the Indo-Pacific’s geopolitical chessboard
BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Japan Times, 2 September 2019 Read original article here. NEW DELHI – The Indo-Pacific region’s geopolitical flux is being highlighted by several developments. The escalating U.S.-China trade war is setting in motion a gradual “decoupling” of the world’s top … Continued The post Changes on the Indo-Pacific’s geopolitical chessboard read more →
China’s Forced Sterilization of Uighur Women Is Cultural Genocide
By Olivia Enos, The Daily Signal, 29 August 2019, Read the original article here. Unknown pills and forced injections. Those are not fictional horrors from scary movies, but the reality many Uighurs in mass arbitrary internment are faced with today … Continued The post China’s Forced Sterilization of Uighur Women read more →
China Intercepts WeChat Texts From U.S. And Abroad, Researcher Says
By Emily Feng, 29 August 2019, Read the original article here. The popular Chinese messaging app WeChat is Zhou Fengsuo’s most reliable communication link to China. That’s because he hasn’t been back in over two decades. Zhou, a human rights … Continued The post China Intercepts WeChat Texts From U.S. read more →