Category: Special Topics

Using Night-Time Light Data Researcher Finds Chinese GDP Is Exaggerated by About 35 Percent

November 2, 2022
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been known to alter its economic data. A study published in October used night-time light to determine that China, as well as other autocracies, overstate their gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates. The U.S. study gathered night-time light (NTL) data from satellites and used that to measure the exaggeration…

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China Likely Poses ‘Single Biggest’ Cybersecurity Threat to UK: NCSC

November 2, 2022
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While the threat from Russia has been “particularly obvious,” China will likely be “the single biggest factor” affecting the UK’s technology, Britain’s cybersecurity boss said on Tuesday. It comes as a government minister confirmed again that China has become a “long-term strategic threat” to the UK. Launching the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) sixth annual…

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Shanghai Disney Guests Kept in Closed Park for Virus Testing

November 1, 2022
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BEIJING—Visitors to Shanghai Disneyland were temporarily blocked from leaving as part of virus testing that extended to more than 400,000 people, the city government announced Tuesday. The park closed Monday for testing of staff and visitors, Walt Disney Co. and the government said in separate statements. The city health bureau said guests all tested negative…

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Beijing Wary of B-52 Bomber Deployment to Australia: Expert

November 1, 2022
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A defence expert says the U.S. decision to deploy six B-52 nuclear-capable bombers in northern Australia is a practical sign of the superpower’s deterrence strategy towards Beijing. Michael Shoebridge, the director of Strategic Analysis Australia, told The Epoch Times that the move was part of the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (pdf). The comments come in response to…

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Australia Pledges Extra $103 Million in Aid to the Solomons Despite Its Pro-Beijing Ties

November 1, 2022
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Australia’s diplomatic representative to the Solomon Islands has announced an extra $US103 million in aid to the Pacific country as part of an ongoing diplomatic offensive against Beijing’s influence with the Sogavare government. Australian High Commissioner Lachlan Strahan said the package will include support for health, education, governance, elections among several other initiatives, reported RNZ on Oct. 31….

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UK Investigating Unofficial Chinese Police Outposts

November 1, 2022
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British police are investigating reports of three unofficial Chinese police stations operating in the UK, a Home Office minister confirmed on Tuesday. Security Minister Tom Tugendhat also told MPs that the government is assessing the reports, as well as other actions by Chinese officials that are “incompatible with diplomatic status.” According to a report published in September…

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Communist China’s Sprawling Plan to Infiltrate American College Campuses

November 1, 2022
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News Analysis The Chinese regime is ramping up efforts to infiltrate U.S. universities to gain access to valuable research and mold the minds of the next generation of America’s thought leaders, advocates and experts warn. American colleges’ ties to China have drawn heightened scrutiny in recent years, in particular over Beijing-funded Confucius Institutes that have…

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Tibetan Businessman Condemns Chinese Regime for Long Lockdowns

November 1, 2022
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A business owner in Tibet who was infected with COVID-19 in September condemned the Chinese regime’s draconian zero-COVID policies as the “biggest hindrance to people’s livelihood” and demands relaxation of the lockdown measures. Xiao Qiang (pseudonym) is a resident of Lhasa, the seat of China’s western region of Tibet. He owns a motorcycle sports club…

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Indictment of 7 Chinese Nationals for ‘Forced Repatriation’ of US Resident to China Shows Similar Operations in Canada

November 1, 2022
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A federal court in New York has charged seven Chinese nationals for harassing and coercing a U.S. resident to return to China as part of Beijing’s international extralegal repatriation campaign known as Operation Fox Hunt. The indictment, recently unsealed by a Brooklyn, N.Y. court, shows that similar operations were carried out on Canadian soil. In…

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Son of Wuhan COVID-19 Victim Insists on Holding CCP Accountable, Is Threatened by Police

November 1, 2022
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Zhang Hai, a Wuhan native living in Shenzhen who has been trying to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities accountable for his father’s death during the initial COVID-19 outbreak, was recently threatened by CCP police. Zhang told The Epoch Times on Oct. 29, “The police came to my home after 10 p.m. last night…

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