“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 145

China Advances Its Biowarfare Program Through Infiltration of US Virus Labs: Retired US Army Colonel

Chinese scientists, with military links, infiltrate American virology research institutions and feed the research results to the Chinese military to benefit China’s development of biological weapons, said retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.

In China, there is no difference between military and civilian research, and in 2016 the Chinese regime even mandated the fusion of both types of research even if they are carried out by different institutions, Sellin said in a recent interview on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program.

by Blazingcatfur•July 17, 2022July 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China’s new spy army has invaded — and we’re not fighting back

MI5 and the FBI have issued a warning that would be devastating to ignore, writes Ian Williams

China’s first homegrown narrow-body passenger jet recently completed its debut test flight, a triumph of local innovation, according to China’s communist leaders. It is better described as a stolen plane, developed by plundering secrets from western aerospace companies on a breathtaking scale.

Chinese cyberspies from a group nicknamed “Turbine Panda” because of their targeting of aero-engine secrets have been indicted in absentia by the US justice department, while a top Chinese agent named Xu Yanjun was jailed last year after an FBI sting operation lured him to Belgium, ostensibly to meet a mole at the American company GE Aviation. According to Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, Xu’s “prolific” network has also been active in Britain. “MI5 worked with those being targeted in the UK.

by Blazingcatfur•July 17, 2022July 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Western companies face ‘existential crisis’ as fears grow of Chinese invasion of Taiwan

A standoff over Taiwan threatens far more collateral damage than the conflict in Ukraine

Days after the Ukraine conflict erupted, Apple, BMW, McDonald’s and other Western giants lined up to announce they were quitting Russia in protest.

“This moment calls for unity, it calls for courage,” declared Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive.

That it only caused a relatively small financial hit must also have helped. The decision reportedly cost the iPhone maker less than 1pc of its global sales, while some foreign businesses, including France’s Renault, chose to sell off their Russian operations for a symbolic one rouble. Oil giant Shell, which made almost $300bn (£254bn) in sales last year, said its losses would not top $5bn.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Taiwan

Chinese Researchers Develop New AI Tech to Screen ‘Loyalty’ of Communist Party Members

Chinese researchers recently developed artificial intelligence technology that can gauge Chinese officials’ loyalty to the ruling Communist Party. The technology could be a tool for Beijing’s anti-corruption campaign to monitor further and purge “corrupt” Party members, indicating the regime’s growing fear of losing its legitimacy and power.

More than 4.7 million officials at all levels were investigated, subjected to various forms of disciplinary punishment, or prosecuted in the past 10 years, according to data released by China’s top watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), on June 20.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2022July 15, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China uses AI to ‘improve’ courts – with computers ‘correcting perceived human errors in a verdict’

China is using artificial intelligence to ‘improve’ its court system by recommending laws, drafting documents and alerting ‘perceived human errors’ in rulings.

Judges must now consult the AI on every case by law, Beijing’s Supreme Court said in an update on the system published this week, and if they go against its recommendation they must submit a written explanation for why.

The AI has also been connected to police databases and China’s Orwellian social credit system, handing it the power to punish people – for example by automatically putting a thief’s property up for sale online.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2022July 14, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China Urges World to Disregard Protesters Storming Banks for Cash

China’s state-run Global Times claimed on Tuesday that Western media was unnecessarily “hyping” protests by roughly 1,000 people in Zhengzhou, China, on Sunday in which participants demanded several rural banks release millions of dollars of deposits after unceremoniously freezing them in April, ignoring the fact that Chinese security personnel physically abused and injured several demonstrators during the rally.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2022July 14, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back

Chinese authorities on Sunday violently dispersed a peaceful protest by hundreds of depositors, who sought in vain to demand their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash crisis.

Since April, four rural banks in China’s central Henan province have frozen millions of dollars worth of deposits, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of customers in an economy already battered by draconian Covid lockdowns.

h/t Mauser 98

by Sarcasticat•July 13, 2022July 13, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", China, Economy, ESG

America’s Retreat by 1,000 Small Steps

President Joe Biden has been lying about his knowledge and likely his involvement in his son’s business dealings since at least 2018.

That is the inescapable conclusion to draw from a short voicemail recording discovered on the laptop computer that belonged to his son, Hunter and reported by The Daily Mail and The New York Post recently.

It begins innocently enough. “Hey pal, it’s Dad,” Joe Biden begins. “It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance, just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2022July 13, 2022•0•"Biden Family Sleaze", "China - Communist Slave State", USA

Americans in the crosshairs of Communist China’s spy game

As a long-time dissident and California-based opponent of the Chinese government, Arthur Liu – the father of US Olympic figure skater Alyssa Liu – was not particularly surprised when a phone call came from the FBI.

“They told me that the Chinese government had sent spies over to the Bay Area to gather me and my daughter’s passport information,” he told the BBC. “I wouldn’t say I was shocked. But I thought to myself, ‘wow’ – they’re taking this very seriously.”

At first, Mr Liu didn’t make the connection: A “fishy” phone call from a man claiming to be from the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, claiming to be conducting a “preparedness check” ahead of his daughter’s trip to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022.

by Blazingcatfur•July 10, 2022July 10, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Two Homeland Security Workers Charged In Alleged Chinese Spying Scheme

U.S. prosecutors charged two men with professional ties to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with participating in what federal officials have described as a “transnational repression scheme” that involved spying on and harassing political dissidents in the United States on behalf of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC).

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2022July 8, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

European Scientists Empowering China’s Military

New research done by Follow the Money, a Dutch platform for investigative journalism, and ten other European media outlets, found that European scientists have “shared militarily sensitive knowledge with the Chinese army on a large scale.”

The project, known as the China Science Investigation, collected a staggering 353,000 scientific collaborations between Europe and China and found that, of these, 2,994 have taken place with the Chinese military, defined as, “studies where scientists from Western European universities collaborated with Chinese colleagues directly linked to an institute that is part of the Chinese army.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2022July 8, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Europe

Biden Sold a Million Barrels From US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China-Owned Gas Giant

The Biden administration sold roughly one million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-controlled gas giant that continues to purchase Russian oil, a move the Energy Department said would “support American consumers” and combat “Putin’s price hike.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2022July 8, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

China: MI5 and FBI heads warn of ‘immense’ threat

The heads of UK and US security services have made an unprecedented joint appearance to warn of the threat from China.

FBI director Christopher Wray said China was the “biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security” and had interfered in politics, including recent elections.

MI5 head Ken McCallum said his service had more than doubled its work against Chinese activity in the last three years and would be doubling it again.

MI5 is now running seven times as many investigations related to activities of the Chinese Communist Party compared to 2018, he added.

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2022July 6, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", UK, USA

Under Biden, U.S. Pushed Further Back in Latin America

China has overtaken the United States in trade terms “in large swathes of Latin America,” according to a recent Reuters analysis of UN trade data from 2015-2021. Reuters added that “outside of Mexico, the top U.S. trade partner, China has overtaken the United States in Latin America and widened the gap last year.”

Although US President Joe Biden pledged to give Latin America higher priority, “current and former officials told Reuters that the United States had been slow to take concrete action and that China, a major buyer of grains and metals, simply offered more to the region in terms of trade and investment.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2022July 6, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", South America, USA

Federally funded Canadian group used by China to spread propaganda on Uyghurs: report

Any strong words Trudeau may mouth about China are to be taken with a very large grain of salt.

Two Canadian community organizations — one of which has received thousands of dollars in federal funding — are prime examples of how the Chinese government has tried to covertly shape opinions worldwide about human rights abuses in Xinjiang province, says a new report by Australian academics.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2022July 6, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class