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The international community has begun to realize that they must stand united against “China’s invasion”, which came in the form of “arbitrary, dictatorial value” instead of military weaponry, said media tycoon and democracy activist Jimmy Lai on Tuesday.
Full story: https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200818/
Full story: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-xinjiang-hospitals-abort-uighur-pregnancies-killed-
A senior ally of Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for a Mao-style purge of China’s domestic-security apparatus last month, saying it was time to “turn the blade inwards and scrape the poison off the bone.”
The cleansing commenced swiftly.
Within the first week after the call to action, Communist Party enforcers had launched investigations…
Full story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-xi-jinping-tightens-grip
It’s time for Western universities to close their Confucius Institutes and end their academic cooperation with China. In the three decades following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, one of the ways China sought to rebuild its image abroad was by systematically forging partnerships with Western universities.
At first, these partnerships mainly focused on research collaboration. Later, they grew to include the Confucius Institutes for language education, generous funding for various joint projects, and the establishment of Western universities’ branch campuses in China.
Full Story: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/19/universities-confucius-institutes-china/
A new U.S. intelligence report says top officials in Beijing were in the dark in early January on the true dangers of the virus. That could affect U.S. policy on China.
Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/world/asia/china-coronavirus-beijing-trump.html
#China‘s consulate in #Houston promoted riot techniques among BlackLivesMatter protesters through social media micro-targeting:
Radio Free Asia (RFA) published an article explaining the reason that the U.S. closed China’s Consulate in Houston.
The article stated that the U.S. has known that the staff members at the consulate were conducting suspicious activities, but, for a while, it did not take any action. The Second Department of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which is the PLA’s intelligence unit, sent staff members from a large network company, with fake IDs, to China’s Consulate in Houston. Those technicians used a large video platform’s backend data to identify people who might participate in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA’s protests and then created and sent them customized videos on how to organize riots and how to do promotions.
The purpose was to “weaponize” big data technology. It delivered relevant materials precisely to those people who were most likely to participate in the protests, while other people could not even find those videos.
RFA did not spell out the company names. A Twitter account said the technicians were from Huawei and the video platform they used to identify candidates and push videos to was TikTok.
Sources:
1. Radio Free Asia, August 7, 2020
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/ear/ear-straw-08062020081345.html
2. Twitter, @Raymond999USA
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military said on Wednesday the latest U.S. navy sailing near Chinese-claimed Taiwan was “extremely dangerous” and stirring up such trouble was in neither country’s interests.
The U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin sailed through the narrow and sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the U.S. navy said, in what have become relatively routine trips in recent months, though they always anger China.
Full story: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-china-taiwan/china
The Global Times is a daily tabloid newspaper and voice of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
On Thursday (China time), on the same day as Joe Biden’s much anticipated Democrat Party convention speech, the Chinese Communist newspaper endorsed Joe Biden for President of the United States.
The Global Times says Joe Biden may reactivate the job-killing TPP and the Iran nuclear deals pushed by the Obama administration.
China is rooting for a weak America.
Trump is rooting for a strong America.
More: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/confirmed-chinese-communist-newspaper-endorses-joe-biden
TAIPEI—With China closing in on a coronavirus vaccine, Beijing’s top officials and some of its drugmakers have begun promising early access to countries of strategic interest as it seeks to shore up its global standing after a pandemic that has strained geopolitical ties.
Full story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-to-use-access-to-covid-19-vaccines-for-diplomacy-11597690215
The stance would mirror that at the World Cup in Russia 2018 two months after the Novichok gas attack in Salisbury.
A senior minister said: “Awkward conversations are having to be had about it.”
On Tuesday night a government source insisted that no decision had yet been made.
However ex-Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith urged the Government to lobby the International Olympic Committee to change the venue.
Full story: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12438854/britain-may-boycott-2022-winter-olympics
