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How China controls Hollywood scripts
When was the last time you watched a movie with a Chinese villain? If you can’t remember, that may not be too surprising. Take the 2012 remake of the Cold War drama Red Dawn. It depicted…continued
How China controls Hollywood scripts
By Amy Qin and Audrey Carlsen, 19 November 2018 Read original news here When was the last time you watched a movie with a Chinese villain? If you can’t remember, that may not be too surprising. Take the 2012 remake of the … Continued
China, Brexit, India Elections: Your Monday Briefing
By Alisha Haridasani Gupta, Nov. 19, 2018 Good morning. Another politically tumultuous week for Britain, an unprecedented ending to the APEC summit and a letter from our Asia editor. Here’s what you need to know: CreditAdrian Dennis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images • Theresa … Continued
How China Is Rewriting Its Own Script
By AMY QIN and AUDREY CARLSEN Nov. 18, 2018 Read original news here China’s booming box office and seemingly inexhaustible cash reserves have provided a much-needed boost to Hollywood as it faces slowing ticket sales in the United States and … Continued
China’s Belt and Road hits problems but is still popular
Financial Times Raffaello Cantucci, 16 Nov 2018 Countries that criticise the Belt and Road Initiative overlook the real need in developing nations for foreign investment There is a narrative of pushback against the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s programme to finance … Continued
China Abolishes Top Beijing Law Firm Known For Human Rights Cases
Radio Free Asia, 13 November 2018, Read original news here The Chinese law firm raided at the start of a nationwide police operation targeting rights attorneys, law firms and activists in July 2015 has now “ceased to exist,” RFA has … Continued
US-China relations will never be what they once were: Kissinger
By Duncan DeAeth,Taiwan News, Staff Writer, 14 November 2-18 Read original news here TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, at 95 years old, made a visit to China last week where he met with several top … Continued
Trump’s tariff battle with China is spurring record dollar-yuan trading
Huileng Tan | @huileng_tan, 14 November 2018 Read original news here The dollar-yuan will strengthen to 6.82 by end-2019: Standard Chartered Bank 18 Hours Ago | 02:08 Market uncertainty tied to the ongoing U.S.–China trade war has spurred more transactions than ever before between the … Continued
The Chinese dichotomy
Claude Arpi The Pioneer, 12 November 2018 | Read original news here Though China is keen to become the world leader in promotion of Buddhism, it will never happen because of the gap between the Marxist theory and repression on the ground … Continued
Amnesty International withdraws human rights award from Aung San Suu Kyi
Amnesty International, 12 November 2018 Read original news here Amnesty International announced today that it has withdrawn its highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, from Aung San Suu Kyi, in light of the Myanmar leader’s shameful betrayal of the … Continued
Beijing’s secret plot to infiltrate UN used Australian insider
By Nick McKenzie, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Zach Dorfman & Fergus Hunter, 11 November 2018, Read original news here Earlier this year, a petite 62-year-old woman dubbed the ‘‘queen of the Australian-China social scene’’ walked out of a US federal prison. Charming and gregarious, … Continued
From student to drone swarms: how the Chinese Communist Party trains its cadres in Australia
Alex Joski, The Sunday Morning Herald, Read original news here In 2009, a student called Wang Xiangke came to the Australian National University as a visiting PhD scholar. It was a year after the Olympic torch relay passed through Canberra, attracting thousands … Continued
China’s growing influence swallows global criticism on human rights
By Dave Lawler, Axios, 9 November 2018 Read original news here China’s government is cracking down on dissent at an alarming pace and detaining up to 1 million Muslims in “re-education camps,” but at a UN Human Rights Council review this week, … Continued
DAMS, POWER GRIDS, GEOENGINEERING TIBETAN CLIMATE
By rukor-admin, November 9, 2018 Read original news here MORE HYDRO DAMMING, POWER GRIDS & CLOUD SEEDING GEOENGINEERING IN TIBET Updating recent www.rukor.org reports: RUKOR ANALYSIS: New hydro dams on Tibetan rivers, new propaganda for geoengineering, by cloud seeding the source area of China’s … Continued
UN grills China over detainment of Uighurs, Tibet
AFP, 8 November 2018 Read original news here China faced harsh criticism over its rights record during a review before the UN yesterday, with countries voicing alarm at the country’s mass detainment of ethnic Uighurs and its crackdown on civil … Continued