Category: Special Topics

Xi Jinping Secures Another 5-Year Term as CCP Leader

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will remain in power for five more years, extending his 10-year reign over the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) until at least 2028. Xi, 69, will be the general secretary of the CCP for an unprecedented third term, breaking a two-term norm set by his predecessors. The Chinese regime unveiled its…


Xi Jinping Secures Unprecedented Third Term as CCP Leader

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will remain in power for five more years, extending his 10-year reign until at least 2028. Xi, 69, will be the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for an unprecedented third term, breaking a two-term norm set by his predecessors. The Chinese regime unveiled its new leadership on Oct….


Shanghai Spends Big Money Constructing Makeshift Quarantine Facilities, Tightens COVID-19 Curbs

Shanghai plans to invest over one billion yuan ( about $138 million ) to build a quarantine facility on an islet near the city center, according to a tendering document released on Oct. 13. The construction project, titled “Fuxing Island Preparatory Makeshift Hospital and Isolation Site of Close Contacts,” was awarded to state-owned builder China…


Nearly 5 Million CCP Officials Probed for Graft in the Past Decade, Systemic Corruption Revealed: China Observers

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) disciplinary watchdog claims to have investigated almost five million Chinese officials of all levels for possible corruption since Xi Jinping became the paramount leader in 2012. Xiao Pei, deputy secretary of the CCP’s Committee for Discipline and Inspection, said in Beijing on Oct. 17 that the top disciplinary body filed…


CCP Seeks to Use TikTok Data Against Americans: Former Pentagon Official

China’s communist regime is in a cold war with the United States and seeks to use data gathered by companies like TikTok against American interests, according to a former Pentagon official. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will use apps like TikTok as weapons of mass manipulation and misinformation, according to Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software…


TikTok Failed to Prevent 90 Percent of Election Misinformation: Report

Social media giant TikTok approved most political advertisements containing false and misleading information about U.S. elections despite assurances from the company that it had a robust mechanism for detecting such content, a new report has found. TikTok approved 90 percent of advertisements that featured misleading and outright false information about the upcoming 2022 U.S. midterm…


EU Leaders Harden Position on China, Move to Break Technology Dependency

Leaders from the European Union jointly expressed trepidation this week about Europe’s increasing economic dependence on China. The foreign policy service of the EU said in a prepared statement that China’s communist leadership should be considered a competitor promoting “an alternative vision of the world order.” The hardening stance of European leaders against China comes…


Illinois Law Firm Prepares Lawsuit Against Wuhan City for Losses Caused by COVID-19

Almost three years after the COVID-19 pandemic started, an Illinoisian legal group is setting up a civil class lawsuit against the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first COVID cases were reported. “Based on the latest statistics, almost 40,000 Illinoisans died from COVID,” stated the press release from Kent Gray, an attorney practicing laws…


Beijing Headhunting Military Forces for PLA Training Instigates Defence Inquiry

The Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles has requested the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) launch an investigation into allegations Beijing has been headhunting former and serving members. This comes after the BBC reported that up to 30 former UK military pilots were believed to have been recruited by the Chinese regime to train members of the…


7 Indicted in Alleged CCP Plot to Force US Resident to China

Seven people, including two New York residents, have been indicted in connection with an alleged plot by the Chinese regime to coerce a dissident in the United States to return to China, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Oct. 20. An Quanzhong, 55, and his daughter An Guangyang, 34, of Roslyn, New York, were arrested on…