The bipartisan INFORM Act is a bill that directs the U.S. executive branch to share clear, independent information with Chinese citizens in a bid to prioritize meaningful engagement.
Can “journey to the West” help explain a spate of killings in China?
As random acts of violence grip the country, netizens connect the events to an underclass venting rage on itself with antecedents in literary tradition.
Independent bookstores under pressure; Taiwanese books shut out
Independent bookstores are in the crosshairs of the CCP’s crackdown on free expression. One bookseller likens his situation to “smuggling drugs instead of selling books.”
“Confessions of a Collegiate ‘Zhengzhou-to-Kaifeng Night-Cyclist’”
A first-person account by one student who joined a night ride to Kaifeng, its origins, and the descent of a fun-filled experience into authoritarian control.
China’s second mass attack spurs soul-searching
Another revenge attack within one week of the car ramming in Zhuhai shocks nation.
Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks
Happy-hour huddles give Chinese students “a place without authority…to speak their mind.”
Car ramming in Chinese city leaves 35 dead, dozens wounded
One of China’s deadliest attacks in decades continues spate of violence targeting members of the public at random.
Brussels’ global infrastructure plan isn’t challenging Beijing — it’s relying on it
EU-funded projects abroad are being built by Chinese companies.
The tipping point
Foreign companies face a reckoning in China as the risks of staying are generating diminishing returns.
JF Books returns
The rise and fall of an independent bookstore and the fate of civil society in China.
Canada unanimously passes motion to reject China’s sovereignty claim over Taiwan
The unanimous passage of the motion demonstrates Canada’s bipartisan support for Taiwan and concerns about Beijing’s distortion of international law: MP Yves Perron.
Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars
Iran has created a complex network to evade sanctions and finance its military and political activities, with China as a major partner.
Feckless CRTC failed to regulate PRC TV forced confessions: Nuttall
A former Toronto Star reporter finds regulators “seem to have deliberately obfuscated” duty to investigate forced confession broadcast.
China ‘compromised’ Canadian government networks and stole valuable info: spy agency
China-sponsored threat actors have infiltrated at least 20 networks associated with federal government: CSE.
Some Parliament Hill suspects in foreign interference named
“How can Canada have an election if Canadians don’t know whether the people they’re voting for have their best interest at heart, or if they’re serving a foreign master?” ~ Independent MP […]
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