At least 11 people were killed when the roof of a middle school gymnasium collapsed in northern China, authorities said. The incident occurred in the city of Qiqihar on July 23, and the last trapped student was pulled from the wreckage without vital signs on July 24, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The cause is…
At Least 11 Killed as China School Gym Roof Collapses During Girl’s Volleyball Team Training
Xi Jinping Warns of a Ruling Crisis, Fearing CCP Will Share the Fate of the Soviet Union
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping warned in early July that if communist party members lose their belief in Marxism and communism the CCP will collapse and disintegrate, suffering the same fate as the Soviet Union. On July 4, Mr. Xi told the state members at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit by video connection…
Universities Should Be Mandated to Disclose Research Ties With Foreign Actors, Government Committee Hears
Witnesses testifying before a government committee Tuesday said universities across Canada have partnered with Chinese agencies and will continue to do so unless Parliament mandates educational institutes to disclose these relationships. Lawyer James Hinton, associate professor at Western University and senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, appeared as a witness at the…
Universities Should Be Mandated to Disclose Research Ties With Foreign Actors, House Committee Hears
Witnesses testifying before a government committee Tuesday said universities across Canada have partnered with Chinese agencies and will continue to do so unless Parliament mandates educational institutes to disclose these relationships. Lawyer James Hinton, associate professor at Western University and senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, appeared as a witness at the…
Feds Need to Mandate Universities to Disclose Research Ties With Foreign Actors, Government Committee Hears
A government committee heard from witnesses that universities across Canada have partnered with Chinese agencies and would continue to do so unless Parliament mandates educational institutes to disclose these relationships. Lawyer James Hinton, associate professor at Western University and senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation of Waterloo, Ontario, who appeared as a…
Former ByteDance Executive Says Chinese Communist Party Tracked Hong Kong Protesters via Data
HONG KONG—A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong. Yintao Yu, formerly head of engineering for ByteDance in the United…
How China Harnesses Private Tech Giants for Overseas Intelligence Use
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is tightening the reins on private high-tech giants by acquiring voting shares or using party branches within the companies as the military’s intelligence assistant. The move to exert greater control over private industries has the United States and EU on alert. On March 11, Belgium’s prime minister said the country…
First Vietnamese Liberal Victorian MP Warns Australia Is Heading Towards ‘Big Government’
Liberal MP Trung Luu escaped to Australia 44 years ago in search of freedom, but he said the country that had granted him a safe haven is leaning towards a more authoritarian style of government, despite still maintaining a democratic political system. The first Australian-Vietnamese Liberal member of the Victorian parliament, Luu’s family was amongst…
First Vietnamese Victorian MP Warns Australia Is Heading Towards ‘Big Government’
Liberal MP Trung Luu escaped to Australia 44 years ago in search of freedom, but he now says the country he adopted now risks adopting a more authoritarian government. The first Australian-Vietnamese MP in the Victorian Parliament, Luu’s family was among thousands of refugees fleeing communist Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, with nothing but…
China National Soccer Boss Arrested on Corruption Charges
BEIJING—The head of China’s national soccer federation has been arrested on corruption charges in the latest blow to the country’s effort to grow its standing at home and internationally. A one-sentence statement from the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog body said Chen Shuyuan had been placed under investigation by national and Hubei provincial sports bodies….
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