Category: Special Topics

CCP Seeks to ‘Replace’ US With ‘Tech-Powered Dystopia’: Select Committee Testimony

China’s communist regime is engaged in a concerted effort to undermine and replace the United States by weaponizing Americans against one another, according to testimony received by a new congressional committee focused on competition with the regime. The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held…


Bill Combating Beijing’s Forced Organ Harvesting Advances to House Floor

A bill aimed at combating the Chinese regime’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting has cleared the committee and is headed for a vote on the House floor. H.R. 1154, also known as the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, passed unanimously through the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Feb. 28 and is now advancing to…


US Gives Go Ahead for New Lethal Hardware for Australia

The Australian Defence Forces (ADF) just became more lethal after the United States government greenlit the sale of long-range guided missiles and their supporting equipment. The sale, which is estimated to cost the federal government around $750 million (US$506 million), will see Australia acquire up to 63 of the U.S. new medium-range air-to-ground Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles-Extended Range…


Trudeau Skirts Questions as to Whether He was Warned About MP’s Alleged Beijing Ties

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 27 addressed questions about whether he could confirm if he was warned about a Liberal Party MP being linked to a Beijing foreign interference network by making points about racism. Trudeau said during a press conference in Mississauga, Ont., that Chinese-Canadians “should always be welcomed as full Canadians, and…


Defence Committee Chair Calls for Inquiry After Chinese-Made Security Cameras Found at British Army Bases

Chair of Defence Committee Tobias Ellwood called for an inquiry on Saturday after an investigation found that surveillance cameras from China’s Hikvision and Dahua are still in use at British Army bases. It comes months after the UK government banned the installation of new surveillance equipment from China on sensitive government sites and more than a year…


UK Defence Committee Chair Calls for Inquiry After Chinese-Made Security Cameras Found at Army Bases

Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the UK Defence Select Committee, has called for an inquiry after an investigation found that surveillance cameras from Chinese technology companies Hikvision and Dahua are still in use at British army bases, months after they should have been replaced over security concerns. In November 2022, the UK government banned the installation of…


Tories Pressing for Trudeau’s Top Adviser to Testify on Beijing Interference

The Conservative Party says it will make another attempt to have the prime minister’s chief of staff testify on Beijing foreign interference before a House of Commons committee, after the NDP helped the Liberals defeat two recent attempts. “It would be beyond outrageous if the Prime Minister of our country was made aware that one…


Republicans Alarmed by Beijing’s Efforts to Spread Propaganda on Western Outlets

Republican lawmakers are expressing alarm over Beijing’s persistent efforts to use Western outlets to spread its narratives, including claims that Washington had overreacted to a “wandering balloon” and damaged the bilateral relationship. In an op-ed recently published in the Washington Post, Xu Xueyuan, the chargé d’affaires at the Chinese regime’s embassy in Washington, repeated Beijing’s…


Republicans Sound Alarm on Beijing’s Efforts to Spread Propaganda in Western Outlets

Republican lawmakers are expressing alarm over Beijing’s persistent efforts to use Western outlets to spread its narratives, including claims that Washington had overreacted to a “wandering balloon” and damaged the bilateral relationship. In an op-ed recently published in the Washington Post, Xu Xueyuan, the chargé d’affaires at the Chinese regime’s embassy in Washington, repeated Beijing’s…


Xi Jinping Has ‘Doubts’ Regarding Success of Taiwan Invasion: CIA Chief

William Burns, director of the CIA, claimed that Beijing is doubtful whether its potential invasion of Taiwan would be successful, with the ongoing Russia–Ukraine conflict strengthening such concerns. In an interview with CBS on Sunday, Burns was asked whether China would commit to an outright invasion or seek to slowly strangle Taiwan’s democracy. “I think our…