Category: Special Topics

China Conducting Influence Campaigns to Interfere in US Midterm Elections: Report

October 14, 2022
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China’s communist leadership is attempting to interfere in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections by spreading propaganda and disinformation, according to researchers. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is conducting influence campaigns with the apparent intent of increasing political polarization among Americans and damaging the reputations of people running for Congress who have been critical of the…

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Strategic Intent: China Pushes to Commercialize In-House BeiDou Satellite System

October 13, 2022
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The Chinese mapping service application Baidu Maps now prioritizes the use of China’s in-house BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) over the U.S.-operated Global Positioning System (GPS). Analysts believe the move would allow the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to expand the reach and use of its in-house satellite navigation system to more countries. According to Chinese media…

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Australia’s Pacific Pivot Continues to Counter Beijing’s Pacific Push

October 13, 2022
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The Australian government is continuing its counter to Beijing’s Pacific push, with the Foreign Minister Penny Wong announcing a new media deal with the Marshall Islands on Oct. 14. Wong is carrying out her eighth official bilateral visit, since her appointment in May, to the Pacific region where she is visiting the nations of the…

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Solomons Police Officers Heading to China for Month of ‘Training’

October 13, 2022
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The Solomon Islands has dispatched 32 officers to China for training in policing techniques and to improve their understanding of Chinese culture. The officers will visit different police stations in China during the visit, according to a statement from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force obtained by Reuters. Officers will stay in the country for…

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Commercial Technology Vital to Deterrence of Taiwan Invasion: Experts

October 13, 2022
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The Pentagon will need to more swiftly integrate commercial technologies with military applications if it is to deter China’s communist regime from invading Taiwan, according to two experts. The rapid pace at which modern technologies are advancing means that traditional defense acquisition processes, which can take decades to develop new systems, are too slow, according…

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Rare Protest Against Xi Appears in Beijing Days Before CCP’s Congress

October 13, 2022
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A rare protest against Chinese leader Xi Jinping took place in Beijing on Oct. 13, widely-circulated images and photos show, just days ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th National Congress. Two white banners bore slogans, including a call for Xi’s ouster and an end to the draconian “zero-COVID” policy, according to numerous images…

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China Poised to Be More Belligerent and Dangerous Following CCP Congress: Author

October 13, 2022
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As current leader of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term in power this month. If he succeeds, the United States will see a more belligerent and dangerous China, according to Bradley Thayer, the director of China policy at the Center for Security Policy and co-author of the book…

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Confucius Institutes Threaten UK’s Capacity to Understand China: Report Says

October 13, 2022
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Confucius Institutes (CI) in British Universities are damaging the UK’s understanding of China, a report said on Wednesday. The report (pdf), published by foreign policy and national security think tank Henry Jackson Society (HJS), said that out of the 3o CIs in the UK only four were found to be operating within their remit of “language and…

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Taiwan Says China Looking at Ukraine War to Develop ‘Hybrid’ Strategies

October 12, 2022
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TAIPEI—China is looking at the experience of the war in Ukraine to develop “hybrid warfare” strategies against Taiwan including using drones and psychological pressure, a senior Taiwanese security official said on Wednesday. Taiwan has been carefully studying the lessons of the Ukraine war to inform how it may react should China, which views the democratically…

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Global Transplantation Communities Urged to Ban Research From China

October 12, 2022
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Medical professionals and advocates are calling on their global transplantation societies to stop collaboration and ban transplant-related research papers from China, citing concerns over the human rights atrocity of forced organ harvesting. The appeal followed a first-of-its-kind restriction issued by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), a nonprofit transplantation association. The group announced…

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