BRASILIA—Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has canceled a high-profile trip to China due to medical reasons, and the March 27-31 visit will be rescheduled for a later date, his press secretary said on Saturday. The press secretary released a medical note stating that after a clinical evaluation, the 77-year-old Lula was diagnosed with…
Brazil’s Lula Cancels Trip to China Due to Pneumonia: Press Secretary
Honduras’s Castro Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan, Recognizes China
Honduras’s leftist government has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the Latin American country announced Saturday, saying it recognizes “only one China in the world” under pressure from China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The announcement by Honduras’s Foreign Ministry posted on Twitter, and also reported by China’s state-controlled media CCTV, comes amid rising tensions between…
Hong Kong Government Demands to Take Down American Artwork
A large LED display outside SOGO Department Store in Hong Kong Causeway Bay recently exhibited works of the Italian art institution Art Innovation Gallery as part of Art Basel 2023. Patrick Amadon, a renowned Los Angeles artist in the United States, was asked to submit a contribution. Still, Art Innovation Gallery said it was taken…
‘Everything Has a Connection to the Communist Party’: Stilwell on TikTok
In this special episode, we sat down with David Stilwell, retired brigadier general and former assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He sheds light on the TikTok hearing, whether it’s for entertainment or for warfare, and how to understand the Chinese Communist Party more broadly. On the TikTok hearing’s…
Deaths of Chinese Transplant Specialists Shine a Light on Forced Organ Harvesting
At least eight organ transplant specialists in China died in 2023. Six were eminent physicians in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and several were suspected of involvement in forced organ harvesting. Their deaths highlight China’s burgeoning transplant industry, which is accused of using persecuted groups such as Falun Gong as living organ banks. On March…
TikTok Banned on London City Hall Devices
TikTok will no longer be available on official London City Hall devices, the Greater London Authority (GLA) said as the Chinese social media app faces a global purge from official institutions. London’s TikTok ban comes after Westminster and Holyrood banned the app on government devices in England and Scotland over security concerns. Under the UK’s…
Select Committee on the CCP Hears Abuse of Uyghurs in China’s ‘Re-Education’ Camps
Two prison camp survivors recounted how Uyghur women were subjected to sterilization, sexual abuse, electric shocks, and brainwashing in China’s “re-education” camps during a hearing held by House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on March 23. “Genocide is occurring, this time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” said Rep. Mike…
House China Committee Hears Abuse of Uyghurs in CCP’s ‘Re-Education’ Camps
Two prison camp survivors recounted how Uyghur women were subjected to sterilization, sexual abuse, electric shocks, and brainwashing in China’s “re-education” camps during a hearing held by House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on March 23. “Genocide is occurring, this time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” said Rep. Mike…
Rand, Roy Proposal Would Break Fauci’s Former Domain Into Three Institutes With Senate-Confirmed Chiefs
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former long-time National Institutes of Health (NIH) empire would be divided into three separate operational divisions with presidentially appointed leaders serving time-limited terms under legislation (pdf) introduced in Congress by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). The proposed NIH Reform Act would divide NIH’s current National Institute of Allergy…
Rand, Roy Proposal Would Split NIH Into 3 Institutes With Senate-Confirmed Chiefs
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be divided into three separate operational divisions with presidentially appointed leaders serving time-limited terms under legislation (pdf) introduced in Congress by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). The proposed NIH Reform Act would divide NIH’s current National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which…
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