Category: Chinese Communist Party

Exiled Artist Ai Weiwei on Beijing Games

January 19, 2022
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Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most famous artists, and many regard him as one of the world’s greatest living ones. Working with the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, he helped design the Bird’s Nest Stadium, the centerpiece of Beijing’s 2008 Summer Olympics. The stadium in northern Beijing, instantly recognizable for its weave…

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Fauci Invested in Chinese Companies With Ties to Beijing, According to Financial Disclosures

January 17, 2022
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Dr. Anthony Fauci invested in the Chinese regime’s corporate “national champions,” large Chinese companies that advance Beijing’s interests and benefit from state policies, in a 2020 investment portfolio, according to recently disclosed financial records. ​​Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) obtained the records (pdf) and published them on Jan. 14, which showed that Fauci had $10.4 million in investments,…

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Fauci Invested in Chinese Companies With Ties to Beijing Through Fund, According to Financial Disclosures

January 17, 2022
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Dr. Anthony Fauci invested in the Chinese regime’s corporate “national champions,” large Chinese companies that advance Beijing’s interests and benefit from state policies, in a 2020 investment portfolio, according to recently disclosed financial records. ​​Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) obtained the records (pdf) and published them on Jan. 14, which showed that Fauci had $10.4 million in investments,…

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Chinese Nationals Charged in LA with Operating Illegal Money Transfer Business

January 14, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Two Chinese nationals from West Covina have been charged with operating an illegal money transfer business that moved funds from China to the United States, in some cases using proceeds of romance scams to provide money to their U.S.-based customers, federal prosecutors announced Jan. 13. An updated indictment filed Wednesday charges Dianwei Wang, 31,…

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China Asserts ‘Unlawful’ Claims in South China Sea: US State Dept Study

January 13, 2022
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The State Department is calling on Beijing to stop its “unlawful and coercive activities” in the South China Sea, after releasing a study rejecting China’s maritime claims in the sea, which the regime continues to push. “With the release of this latest study, the United States calls again on the PRC [People’s Republic of China]…

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Canada’s Spy Agency Warns Parliamentarians of China’s Influence Operations

January 12, 2022
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For the first time, Canada’s intelligence agency is briefing individual parliamentarians who could be targeted by the clandestine influence operations conducted by China and other authoritarian regimes. John Townsend, a spokesperson for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told The Globe and Mail that the agency is increasingly alarmed by efforts by Beijing and its…

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Chinese Communists Lied and Hong Kong Died

January 12, 2022
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Commentary In late December, the Voice of America reported that Hong Kong’s Dec. 19, 2021, election had “almost completely eliminated pro-democracy voices from the former British colony’s Legislative Council”—colloquially called the Legco. VOA’s evidence: pro-Beijing candidates and their local allies took 89 of the council’s 90 seats. I prefer the word “took,” for in this…

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Award-Winning Filmmaker Exposes China’s Persecution in New Movie ‘Unsilenced’

January 9, 2022
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A college student in China is told by his school’s party official to turn against his good friend and classmate, when he speaks in front of a class on how his pal has been “led astray” by a moral belief system that the communist regime has banned. That is one of the gripping moments in…

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Taiwan Should Destroy Island’s Semiconductor Plants If China Invades, Paper Says

January 5, 2022
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A scorched-earth policy involving Taiwan destroying its own advanced semiconductor plants in the event of a Chinese invasion would be a good deterrence strategy for the self-ruled island against warmongering China, according to a recent paper published by the U.S. Army War College. “In practice, this strategy means assuring China an invasion of Taiwan would…

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Hong Kong Leader Rebukes ‘Extinction’ Assertion of City’s Press Freedom

January 4, 2022
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Pro-Beijing Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam claimed that press freedom was still there in her city, after two local independent media outlets shut down in recent days, following a police clampdown against one of them in late December. “This morning I read news about, because of the closure of online medium, press freedom in Hong…

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