Category: Special Topics

China’s Chongqing City Forced to Lift Lockdown Amid Strong Protests

August 30, 2022
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Large crowds of people took to the street on the night of Aug. 27, preparing to storm the barricades that blocked them from leaving their community in a subdistrict in China’s southwestern metropolis Chongqing. Lianfang subdistrict of Chongqing’s Shapingba district was locked down on Aug. 18. After 10 consecutive days of negative PCR tests of…

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Taiwan Fires Warning Shots at Chinese Drone; President Tsai Vows ‘Strong Countermeasures’

August 30, 2022
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Taiwan’s military fired warning shots at a Chinese drone as it buzzed a small Taiwanese island on Aug. 30. The incident came shortly after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said that she ordered “strong countermeasures” against China’s ongoing military provocations. The drone returned to China following the shots, a spokesperson for Taiwan’s military said. The incident…

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Kyle Bass: Pull Your Money Out of China

August 30, 2022
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Anybody holding an investment in China should withdraw it or face the risk of losing the money altogether, warned hedge funder Kyle Bass. Not only is the Chinese economy in a precarious position, but if its increasingly aggressive stance toward Taiwan spills into a military conflict, the country could quickly become dislocated from dollar-denominated financial…

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CCP Announces 20th Party Congress to Take Place Oct. 16

August 30, 2022
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China’s communist regime announced that it will hold its 20th Congress on Oct. 16. The meeting is expected to end with the anointing of Xi Jinping to a historic third term as leader. About 2,300 members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will convene in Beijing, mostly behind closed doors. The event, which occurs every…

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SEC Chairman Warns Chinese Companies to Play by Rules or Face Delisting

August 30, 2022
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The U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and the Ministry of Finance have reached an agreement on the audit supervision of Chinese concept stocks, which Chinese media described as “great news for investors.” However, the SEC chairman warned that Chinese companies still face the risk of delisting if they…

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Solomon Islands Suspends All US Naval Visits

August 30, 2022
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The Solomon Islands has informed U.S. authorities that all naval visits have been suspended until further notice following an earlier incident on Aug. 23 when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, the Oliver Henry, was denied permission for a scheduled port call. The incident comes amid mounting concerns about Beijing’s influence in the region and Solomons…

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China’s Shenzhen Shuts Electronics Market Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

August 29, 2022
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SHENZHEN, China—Authorities in China’s southern city of Shenzhen shut the world’s largest electronics market of Huaqiangbei and suspended service at 24 subway stations on Monday in a bid to curb an outbreak of COVID-19. Three key buildings in the sprawling area, comprised of thousands of stalls selling microchips, telephone parts, and other components to manufacturers,…

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COVID-Testing Everything in China: Draconian Measures Gone Too Far; Ryan Girdusky on Populism

August 29, 2022
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Geese, fish, and diesel trucks must all test for COVID-19 in China. China’s COVID policy continues to hammer in anxiety and financial trouble for the country. I speak with Ryan Girdusky, author of “They’re Not Listening,” on the rise of populism in the United States. We compare that to China’s political state and discuss what…

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US Deluded About Threat Posed by China: Center for Security Policy

August 29, 2022
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The threat imposed on the United States by the Chinese regime far exceeds the Soviet nuclear threat, according to executive chairman at the Center for Security Policy Frank Gaffney. “The Soviet nuclear threat …. was nothing, nothing, compared to what we now face in terms of the comprehensive threat …. from the Chinese Communist Party,”…

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TikTok Is a ‘Weaponized Military Application’: Expert

August 29, 2022
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Chinese-owned video app TikTok could be covertly sending users’ passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to one expert. “When you’re actually doing keystrokes, typing each letter, each number, those are being recorded back in China, and under supervision of the Chinese Communist Party,” Casey Fleming, CEO…

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