Tag: Chinese Regime

People Locked Down in Xinjiang Unable to Visit Hometowns for China’s National Day Holiday

October 2, 2022
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Many people in China’s Xinjiang region can’t leave to visit their hometowns during the week-long “October First” holiday– the regime’s “National day” under its restrictive zero-COVID-19 control measures. Meanwhile, protests broke out against the indefinite lockdowns. Most of Xinjiang, which is in China’s northwest and home to an ethnic Uyghur majority, has now been under COVID-19…

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Box Office Hit ‘Return to Dust’ Disappears From Chinese Theatres and Streaming Services

October 1, 2022
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A popular Chinese love-story movie was removed from all Chinese theatres and streaming services only weeks after its release. The arthouse movie “Return to Dust,” with a budget of 2 million yuan (about $280,000), tells the story of a couple in an arranged marriage who live in a rural area of China’s northwestern Gansu Province….

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Suspected Chinese Hackers Tampered With Widely Used Customer Chat Program: Researchers

September 30, 2022
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Suspected Chinese hackers tampered with widely used software distributed by a small Canadian customer service company, another example of a “supply chain compromise” made infamous by the hack on U.S. networking company SolarWinds. U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said in a blog post it had discovered malicious software being distributed by Vancouver-based Comm100, which provides customer…

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TikTok Is ‘Everything That You Do Not Want in a Modern Democracy’: Tech Expert

September 30, 2022
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Social media giant TikTok and its nebulous connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) present a threat to U.S. national security, according to one expert. Geoffrey Cain, an independent investigative journalist and author of a book on the CCP’s efforts to build a totalitarian surveillance state, believes that TikTok’s troubled emergence, shadowy corporate structure, and…

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Republicans Probe Whether China Quarantined US Diplomats to Steal Intelligence, Demand Investigation

September 30, 2022
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Two Republican Congressmen requested that the State Department preserve documents linked to the forced quarantine of more than a dozen U.S. diplomats in China, citing concerns that the communist regime may have pressured them into surrendering intelligence. The Sep. 29 letter (pdf), which was addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and signed by Reps….

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Beijing Arrested 1.43 Million People in a 100-Day Security Campaign Ahead of National Meeting

September 30, 2022
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Beijing has detained 1.43 million Chinese in a three-month security campaign ahead of the Party’s national meeting. However, not all those arrested were criminals. Tightened security is required  as the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), scheduled for October, approaches. The regime set up a “100-day Operation” that started on June 25….

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The TikTok Trojan Horse and China’s Long Arm of Artificial Intelligence: Geoffrey Cain

September 29, 2022
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 In this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sit down with Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning journalist, technologist, and author of “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.” “Everybody was constantly being watched by an artificial intelligence system, which was called the IJOP,” says Cain, referring to a…

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8 Lawmakers Call on State Department to Help Free Florida Resident’s Detained Father in China

September 29, 2022
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Eight Florida lawmakers are urging the State Department to help free the father of a Sunshine State resident who has been detained in China for over a year amid the communist regime’s ongoing campaign targeting his faith. Zhou Deyong, a geological engineer, was one among nearly two dozen Falun Gong practitioners rounded up by police…

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Chinese State-Run Media Disapproves of Italy’s Newly Elected Meloni

September 29, 2022
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The coalition led by the Brothers of Italy won Italy’s general election on Sept. 25. The party’s leader Giorgia Meloni will become the country’s first female prime minister. The Chinese communist regime and its official media reacted to Meloni’s victory with a warning and negative prediction, as Meloni has expressed strong support for Taiwan and…

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Advanced Economies Have ‘No Confidence’ in China’s Xi Jinping: Global Survey

September 29, 2022
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Public opinion of China has plummeted among the world’s most advanced economies under the reign of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping. A new global survey by the Pew Research Center found that the opinions of large majorities in the world’s developed nations had turned “precipitously more negative” regarding China due to the leadership…

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