Category: China

Hong Kong’s Degree of Freedom Continued to Decline, Scored Just 42 Points out of 100

March 13, 2023
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Hong Kong’s political rights and civil liberties have further deteriorated, with the score provided by Freedom House, a U.S. NGO, showing it is going down repeatedly. In Freedom House’s latest Freedom in the World 2023 report, Hong Kong’s degree of freedom score is only 42 out of 100. The latest report reviews Hong Kong’s situation…

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UK Foreign Policy Update Says Communist China Poses ‘Epoch-Defining Challenge’

March 13, 2023
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The UK will launch a new MI5 unit to help businesses manage security risks and a new initiative to improve sanctions enforcement, and increase funding to build expertise on China, the government said on Monday as it designated communist China as an “Epoch-Defining challenge.” In a long-anticipated update to the UK’s major foreign policy revamp in…

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Biden Announces Australia Submarine Deal as Part of Trilateral Pact Aimed at Countering China Threat

March 13, 2023
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SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Australia will purchase up to five nuclear-powered attack submarines in the next decade as part of a much-anticipated deal formally announced on March 13 by U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in California. Under the agreement, Australia will buy three Virginia-class hunter submarines by…

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Biden, Allies Unveil Australia Submarine Deal, Part of Trilateral Pact Aimed at Countering China

March 13, 2023
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SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Australia will purchase up to five nuclear-powered attack submarines in the next decade as part of a much-anticipated deal formally announced on March 13 by U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in California. Under the agreement, Australia will buy three Virginia-class hunter submarines by…

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EXCLUSIVE: Quebec Cut Funding to Groups Doubling as Alleged Chinese Police Stations

March 13, 2023
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Montreal area organizations under police investigation as presumed Chinese police stations have had their government funding cut after an audit, the Quebec Ministry of Immigration has indicated. The ministry undertook verification work in 2020-21 with the Centre Sino-Québec de la Rive-Sud (CSQRS) in Brossard and the Service à la famille chinoise du Grand Montréal (SFCGM)….

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Republicans Ask Energy Secretary to Retract ‘Alarming’ Praise of China’s Climate Efforts

March 13, 2023
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After Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm praised China on Friday for its efforts to combat climate change, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are seeking a retraction of those remarks and demanding that Granholm “testify immediately.” Granholm, during a March 10 interview for the 2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, said…

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China Top of Mind in NRL’s Pacific Push

March 13, 2023
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China is top of mind for Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) as it begins deliberations around whether to put a team in the South Pacific region—the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between Beijing and democratic nations. The move to grant a license to a “Pasifika” club would be the latest “soft power” initiative by the…

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Many Countries Return Giant Pandas, as China’s ‘Panda Diplomacy’ Comes to an End

March 13, 2023
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Japan, Finland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have recently announced that they will return leased giant pandas to China. The United States and Taiwan each lost one of their giant pandas due to illness. Japan Returned Four Giant Pandas According to Japan’s Kyodo News agency, 30-year-old male panda Eimei and his twin daughters…

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China’s True COVID-19 Death Toll Could Reach 36 Times the Official Estimate: Expert

March 13, 2023
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As of Jan. 8, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) only reported a cumulative total of 5,272 COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. But after the Chinese communist regime relaxed its zero-COVID restrictions, the same institution suddenly announced that from Dec. 8, 2022, to Jan. 12, 2023, China had accumulated…

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Reconciliation for South Korea and Japan Over WWII Forced Labor May Signal More United Front Against Communist Aggression

March 13, 2023
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On March 6, the South Korean government announced a compensation plan for Korean victims of forced labor by Japanese companies during World War II. The Japanese government welcomed the proposal and invited South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to visit Japan in mid-March for a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. President Joe Biden…

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