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UK and China: how the love affair faded
Osborne-era hopes for trade have been eclipsed by worries over national security and human rights abuses Patrick Wintour | The Guardian | 18 Dec 2020 | Read the original news here In 2003, the Cabinet Office decided to allow the Chinese … Continued The post UK and China: how the love read more →
EU should not rush investment deal with China
By A GROUP OF EU-CHINA EXPERTS | Euobserver | 18. December 2020 | Read the original news here Before the end of the year, European countries have to decide on an investment agreement with China. A tentative document was rushed through a … Continued The post EU should not rush investment deal read more →
Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks
Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian | 15 December 2020 | Read the original news here China appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil US mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage campaign against Americans, according to a mobile … Continued The post Revealed: China suspected of spying on read more →
China building 2000-km long Great Wall along border of this country; know Xi Jinping’s real intention
Zee Media Bureau. Edited by Ankita Bhandari. Read the article here. A top American Think Tank said that the effort by China reflects its expansionist thinking and that conflict in South Asia could increase considerably in the coming decades. NEW … Continued The post China building 2000-km long Great Wall read more →
The angry pop song calling out China’s domestic violence problem
By Yvette Tan and Waiyee Yip, BBC News. December 18, 2020. Read original news here. “This is how you describe us: banshee, shrew, whore, hooker, man-eater…” Standing still on a stage, growling out her words, Chinese singer Tan Weiwei cuts a … Continued The post The angry pop song calling out read more →
Tomlinson: American businesses should stand up to China’s human rights abuses
Chris Tomlinson | Houston Chronicle | Dec. 14, 2020 | Read the original news here The stronger China’s economy grows, the more the world depends on Chinese trade and the worse the human rights abuses become. President Xi Jinping is cracking down … Continued The post Tomlinson: American businesses should stand up read more →
How WeChat is helping the CCP control Australian media outlets
By Anthony Galloway | Sydney Morning Herald | December 17, 2020 | Read the original news here At least four Chinese-language media companies operating in Australia have financial links to the Chinese Communist Party and at least 17 are connected to Beijing’s … Continued The post How WeChat is helping the CCP read more →
Covid-19: 10 Milestones Of The Pandemic That Shook The World
India confirmed its first case in Kerala on January 30 – a 20-year-old medical student who just came back from Wuhan in China. Edited by Arun Nair, NDTV News. December 15, 2020. Read original news here. New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic was first … Continued The post Covid-19: 10 Milestones Of The Pandemic read more →
China stoops to a new low, plans this move to achieve its political ambitions
Manish Shukla for Zee News. Read the article here. In the post-COVID-19 era, Chinese President Xi Jinping has recently announced that the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by China will become a ‘global public good’. Chinese officials have begun to use … Continued The post China stoops to a new low, read more →
WHO-led team expected in China in January to probe COVID-19 origins
Reuters. Read the article here. The United States, which has accused China of having hidden the outbreak’s extent, has called for a “transparent” WHO-led investigation and criticised its terms, which allowed Chinese scientists to do the first phase of preliminary … Continued The post WHO-led team expected in China in read more →
Seven branches of China’s ruling party have India link
At least one CPC member was hired by the Indian consulate in Shanghai using the services of a Chinese state-owned recruitment agency, according to data shared by a source with an international consortium of journalists including The Indian Express. Written … Continued The post Seven branches of China’s ruling party read more →
China worst offender in record-breaking year for jailing of journalists
Helen Davidson for The Guardian. Read the article here. China is the world’s leading jailer of journalists for the second year in a row, according to an annual survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which also found that 2020 … Continued The post China worst offender in record-breaking year read more →
China is scaling up its weather modification programme – here’s why we should be worried
Arwa Mahdawi for The guardian. Read the article here. Beijing is aiming to control rain and snow across half of the country. But it is the reason it wants to do this that is really frightening. Remember when Donald Trump … Continued The post China is scaling up its weather read more →
China warns of interference over Bloomberg journalist arrest
BBC News. December 14, 2020. Read original news here. China has said the arrest of a journalist working for the newswire Bloomberg is an “internal affair”, warning others not to interfere. Chinese citizen Haze Fan was detained last week, accused … Continued The post China warns of interference over Bloomberg read more →
Poverty Alleviation: China Forcing Tibetans Into Mass, Military-Style ‘Training’ Programs (Part I)
RFA | 13 December 2020 | Read the original news here China declared in late November that it had officially met the target of eliminating extreme poverty by 2020, one of Communist Party chief Xi Jinping’s signature initiatives to reach … Continued The post Poverty Alleviation: China Forcing Tibetans Into read more →