Tag: International Relations

Texas Teachers’ Retirement System Moves to Distance Pensions From Chinese Stocks

October 14, 2022
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The largest public retirement system in Texas is moving to remove Chinese companies from the list of stocks it invests in as part of its pension fund for teachers. The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) gained approval last month to move forward with a new benchmark that proportionally mixes two emerging markets indexes, including…

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China Conducting Influence Campaigns to Interfere in US Midterm Elections: Report

October 14, 2022
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China’s communist leadership is attempting to interfere in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections by spreading propaganda and disinformation, according to researchers. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is conducting influence campaigns with the apparent intent of increasing political polarization among Americans and damaging the reputations of people running for Congress who have been critical of the…

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Australia’s Pacific Pivot Continues to Counter Beijing’s Pacific Push

October 13, 2022
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The Australian government is continuing its counter to Beijing’s Pacific push, with the Foreign Minister Penny Wong announcing a new media deal with the Marshall Islands on Oct. 14. Wong is carrying out her eighth official bilateral visit, since her appointment in May, to the Pacific region where she is visiting the nations of the…

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Solomons Police Officers Heading to China for Month of ‘Training’

October 13, 2022
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The Solomon Islands has dispatched 32 officers to China for training in policing techniques and to improve their understanding of Chinese culture. The officers will visit different police stations in China during the visit, according to a statement from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force obtained by Reuters. Officers will stay in the country for…

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Commercial Technology Vital to Deterrence of Taiwan Invasion: Experts

October 13, 2022
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The Pentagon will need to more swiftly integrate commercial technologies with military applications if it is to deter China’s communist regime from invading Taiwan, according to two experts. The rapid pace at which modern technologies are advancing means that traditional defense acquisition processes, which can take decades to develop new systems, are too slow, according…

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Confucius Institutes Threaten UK’s Capacity to Understand China: Report Says

October 13, 2022
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Confucius Institutes (CI) in British Universities are damaging the UK’s understanding of China, a report said on Wednesday. The report (pdf), published by foreign policy and national security think tank Henry Jackson Society (HJS), said that out of the 3o CIs in the UK only four were found to be operating within their remit of “language and…

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Hong Kong Reduces COVID Measures as Its International Shine Dims

October 13, 2022
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Hong Kong was saved by a group of Wall Street executives, who forced Beijing to allow the city to drop draconian quarantine policies which have lasted for two years. In a bid to revive Hong Kong’s rapidly eroding status as a financial center due to strict quarantine policies, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) plans…

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Taiwan Says China Looking at Ukraine War to Develop ‘Hybrid’ Strategies

October 12, 2022
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TAIPEI—China is looking at the experience of the war in Ukraine to develop “hybrid warfare” strategies against Taiwan including using drones and psychological pressure, a senior Taiwanese security official said on Wednesday. Taiwan has been carefully studying the lessons of the Ukraine war to inform how it may react should China, which views the democratically…

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Federal Police Seeking Information on 2 Men and a Woman Who Allegedly Assaulted Chinese Human Rights Activist

October 12, 2022
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Canberra police are seeking public assistance to identify two men and one woman who are alleged to have assaulted a woman and damaged her car that had signage criticising the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “About 4.10 p.m., a woman returned to her vehicle parked in Acton near Corkhill Street to find three people spray painting the…

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‘The Post-Cold War Era Is Over’: White House National Security Advisor

October 12, 2022
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The international order has entered a new epoch and the United States will need to vigorously defend its way of life from encroaching authoritarianism from China and Russia, according to a senior U.S. official. How the United States acts over the course of the next decade will make or break its efforts to preserve a…

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