Tag: China News

LIVE NOW: Senate Banking Committee Hearing on ‘Countering China: Advancing US National Security, Economic Security, and Foreign Policy’

U.S. Senate Banking Committee holds a hearing on ‘Countering China: Advancing U.S. National Security, Economic Security, and Foreign Policy’ at 10:00 a.m. ET on May 31. Elizabeth Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Paul M. Rosen, Assistant Secretary for Investment Security, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Thea…


Senate Banking Committee Hearing on ‘Countering China: Advancing US National Security, Economic Security, and Foreign Policy’

U.S. Senate Banking Committee holds a hearing on ‘Countering China: Advancing U.S. National Security, Economic Security, and Foreign Policy’ at 10:00 a.m. ET on May 31. Elizabeth Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Paul M. Rosen, Assistant Secretary for Investment Security, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Thea…


Republicans Call for Action as China Turns US into ‘Hunting Ground’ for Dissidents

The recent indictments of two suspected Chinese agents in California are examples of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to turn the United States into a “hunting ground” for dissidents, according to Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.). The two individuals attempted to bribe an undercover officer posing as an IRS agent, in a plot…


Malaysia Authority Says 1MDB Fugitive Jho Low Hiding in Macau: Report

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency has revealed that Jho Low, the Malaysian financier wanted for his role in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, is currently hiding in Macau. The financier, whose full name is Low Taek Jho, has been a fugitive since 2015 when investigations into the theft of billions of dollars from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund 1MDB…


AFP Invites Chinese Police for Cooperation Visit While Ending Agreement With Beijing

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has invited Chinese police to Australia for an enforcement cooperation meeting while confirming that it will end an agreement with China over human rights concerns. “At the invitation of the Australian Federal Police, from April 25 to 28, 2023, the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China…


Chinese Muslims Clash With Police Over Partial Demolition of Mosque in Yunnan

Chinese Muslims in Yunnan Province clashed with armed police in an attempt to stop the communist regime’s forced partial demolition of a local mosque. Several viral videos on social media showed that many protesters gathered at the entrance of Najiaying Mosque in Nagu Town of Yuxi City in China’s southwestern province Yunnan on May 27….


Chinese Ambassador Tries to Give Australia a Tax Lesson

Commentary It is consoling to learn that the Chinese ambassador to Australia is concerned about how we spend our taxes. What, I wondered, could he impart to us about the expenditure of taxes by the Chinese authorities? Perhaps we could be building dozens of coal-fired power stations, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doing?…


Taiwan Believes China Won’t Shift Australia on Trade Pact

Taiwan’s Trade Minister John Deng has said he does not expect the Australian government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, will bow to pressure from Beijing to block Taipei’s bid to enter the newest and largest trading block in the Pacific region. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is a free trade agreement…


We Hope Freedom Will Come Someday For Tibet, Democratic China and Hong Kong

I have become an “accidental activist” since the Occupy Central/ Umbrella Movement days of 2013-2014 in Hong Kong. With political persecution getting more intense in the once-famed financial city, I have stepped out of my comfort zone and spoken vehemently on human rights and democracy over the last ten years. Do not get me wrong….


US ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ to Cover Taiwan?

Weapons of mass destruction may be on the table for a certain Indo-Pacific island. Reports say Taiwan could be in talks to come under Washington’s “nuclear umbrella.” That would trigger the United States to retaliate in kind if Taiwan were to come under nuclear attack from Beijing. For decades, the U.S. nuclear umbrella has shielded…