“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 155

Despite Years of Hollywood Kowtowing, Beijing Censors Reject Blockbusters

Communist officials are increasingly blocking American films.

Chinese cultural controllers blocked LeBron James’s shot at cinematic success last summer by refusing to release the NBA star’s $150 million film Space Jam: A New Legacy, providing a preview of the Middle Kingdom’s new, but poorly publicized, media policies.

American blockbuster films are no longer in fashion from Shanghai to Beijing, and the number of U.S. movies given distribution in the 1.4 billion-person nation has been nearly cut in half over the past two years.

by Blazingcatfur•March 1, 2022March 1, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Hollywood

In Leaks About Failed Russian Diplomacy, Biden Exposed Dangerous Weakness On China

The Biden administration’s weakness and incompetence were on full display in a New York Times article last week recounting the White House’s repeated—and failed— attempts to urge China to help avert war in Ukraine. The purpose of the article was to allow senior administration officials to take their duplicitous Chinese counterparts to task, but the account reveals above all that White House officials are out of their depth in dealing with China.

by Blazingcatfur•March 1, 2022March 1, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Ukraine - Russia", USA

Anti-China for thee but not for we

Washington has in recent years given Israel an earful about its economic ties to China. Israel has responded positively, even at the risk of inviting short-term economic harm. Recently, Israel rejected a bid by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation to build a light rail system. In a bizarre twist, CRRC is now more welcome in the United States thanks to a decision by the Biden administration to remove it from a list of Communist Chinese military companies.

by Blazingcatfur•February 28, 2022February 28, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Over $154M tied to detained Chinese-Canadian oligarch invested in GTA real estate

A drab, bluish-green glass office tower just north of Toronto, 50 Minthorn Blvd. is unassuming save for a “Bank of China” sign that sits atop the eight-storey building.

But inside, on the first and second floors, is the footprint of companies tied to one of China’s most high-flying oligarchs, Xiao Jianhua. Beijing security agents whisked the Chinese-Canadian billionaire from the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong in a wheelchair five years ago. He hasn’t been heard from since.

by Blazingcatfur•February 28, 2022February 28, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Bank of China cuts off Russian oil trades?

Call this one the Mother Of All Signals, if true. China’s financial entities have cut off credit for Russian energy sales, Bloomberg reports, following an avalanche of Western sanctions over Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine…

by Blazingcatfur•February 28, 2022February 28, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Ukraine - Russia"

China ponders how Russia’s actions in Ukraine could reshape world order

The news came as a surprise to many in Beijing. Barely 24 hours ago, Chinese pundits predicted that a war in Ukraine was not inevitable. In New York, as Russia geared up for a full-on assault on its neighbour, China’s UN envoy, Zhang Jun, urged in a security council meeting that “the door to a peaceful solution to the Ukraine issue is not fully shut, nor should it be shut”.

But when people in Kyiv woke up to sound of bombs in what the Nato chief called a “deliberate, cold-blooded” invasion, the door had clearly been closed. China’s state media, however, insisted it was a “special military action” by Russia. Quoting Vladimir Putin, China’s central television tweeted: “Russia was left with no other choice.”

This guy is good to follow on Twitter.

A destroyed group of Rosgvardia vehicles. The use of Rosgvardia and riot police units in this operation has thus far been puzzling to say the least. https://t.co/Gc0yyviIU0

— Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael) February 26, 2022

Scenes of urban warfare in Melitopol. https://t.co/etLIRuI8VD

— Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael) February 26, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•February 26, 2022February 26, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Ukraine - Russia"

Chinese Censorship on American Soil

Billionaire tech investor David Sacks recently summed up the present state of Communist Chinese intimidation of American business, sports leagues like the NBA, and anyone else with commercial interests in China. He sees it getting worse, not better.

Appearing on a podcast hosted by former Fox News anchor and NBC talk show host Megyn Kelly, Sacks was asked to address the backlash against his friend, Chamath Palihapitiya, for saying “no one cares” about repression and ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs by China’s communist regime. Sacks told Kelly he accepts his friend’s later explanation that his words simply came out wrong. But Sacks’s larger response to the question of Chinese intimidation really hit the nail on the head:

“The CCP is essentially depriving Americans of their free speech rights – not in China, but on American soil – as a condition of doing business over there.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 25, 2022February 25, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Biden Admin Ends Effort to Stop China Spying Because Black Men are Attacking Asians

This DOJ speech from Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen is the kind of nonsensical virtue signaling you expect from a San Fran or New York politician, not a key figure justifying an end to the China Initiative which began to cut off the PRC’s spy program in America. The early sign that this was coming came when the Biden DOJ began dropping prosecuting of academics who lied about their ties to Communist China.

by Blazingcatfur•February 25, 2022February 24, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

America Can Defend Both Ukraine and Taiwan

It is doubtful that Beijing is poised to invade Taiwan or that it would assume that the deployment of sizable U.S. ground forces to Europe provided an opportunity to strike the island.

In a February 13, 2022, essay that was published in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Ukraine Is a Distraction From Taiwan,” Elbridge Colby and Oriana Skylar Mastro argue that the United States will increase the danger of prompting an opportunistic Chinese attack on Taiwan if it deploys military forces to deal with Russia’s threat to Ukraine.

To support this argument, the authors assert that “…China poses an increasingly imminent [emphasis added] threat to Taiwan,” and, given its huge military power, “…reasonably doubt[s] that the U.S or anyone else would mount a meaningful response to an invasion of Taiwan.” In addition, the authors assert that any additional U.S. ground troop deployments to Europe will weaken the U.S. capacity to defend Taiwan, and hence will indeed tempt China to attack.

by Blazingcatfur•February 24, 2022February 23, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Russia, USA

Chinese government agency that works with Canadians involved in espionage, Federal Court affirms

The outfit has worked with a top Canadian scientist, a member of the Ontario legislature and children in the Toronto area.

Its name sounds more bureaucratic than menacing.

But the Chinese government’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO) is involved in espionage that harms Canada’s interests, a Federal Court judge has affirmed in what appears to be a precedent-setting new ruling.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2022February 23, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Bill Maher on Eileen Gu and the “sh*thole superpower”

“Traitor” is too strong a word to describe Gu but I understand why some of her critics have reached for it to capture the depth of the betrayal of which she’s guilty.

Gu is the breakout star of the Olympics, having won two golds and a silver in skiing. She’s also a talented pianist, scored 1580 on her SATs, got into Stanford, and is so gorgeous that she models professionally. She’s a California girl, born in San Francisco to a Chinese-American mother. She should be the pride of the U.S.

She’s a national disgrace. She chose to compete for a genocidal regime, China, at the Genocide Games rather than for her home country.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2022February 21, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China’s Olympic propaganda show ends in global shame

The Russian doping committee set Beijing on fire

It was only fitting that China’s hopes of putting on the perfect Olympics should ultimately be dashed by its new partner in crime, Russia. The two countries started the Beijing Winter Olympics by announcing a “no-limits” partnership against the West, and ended them with one of the biggest sporting scandals in recent Olympic history.

by Blazingcatfur•February 20, 2022February 20, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Elite Capture

While researching how Americans having been getting rich by helping the Chinese Communist Party achieve its outspoken aim of replacing the US as the “world’s No.1 power,” I came across the phrase “elite capture” — their term to describe the actions of influential people in the US towards China.

“Elite capture” can refer to different things, but to the Chinese Communist Party, China’s intelligence apparatus, or those involved in quasi-private business ventures, it is a crucial tool of their success. The idea is simple enough: by tempting another country’s elite with money, access and favors, you move them to see their interests and China’s interests as intertwined or even the same.

The Chinese are not subtle about this, and they barely try to hide it. They practice it around the world, most notably in Africa in pursuit of their Belt and Road Initiative. But elites in Western democracies have proved to be a soft touch, particularly among non-governmental elites.

by Blazingcatfur•February 20, 2022February 20, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "The China Class", "The Ruling Class"

Voices from the Fields of Xinjiang

It was a September day, hot and dusty, normal. Meryem Sultan was lined up in front of the school with three classes of Uyghur schoolkids waiting for the buses. Back when she was nine, Meryem hated these school trips to the country. She had to pick caterpillars off the crops because, she was told, Chinese people liked to eat them. Kind of weird. When she was ten, what bugged her was that she was the smartest kid in the class, but now the teachers said they had to pick cotton. Then they told Meryem off, right in front of everyone — “Meryem, your results at school mean nothing. If you can’t pick cotton? You’re useless.” It was humiliating, but other kids were getting regular beatings for slacking off. Anyway, it was “just part of going to school” so Meryem did it. Turned out, she could pick faster than almost anyone in the class, especially the boys. Once she got going, she was “an addict.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 20, 2022February 19, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

The myth of Chinese supremacy

Strategic incompetence has always plagued Beijing

When I first arrived in China in 1976, four years had passed since Nixon and Kissinger had gone to Beijing to meet Mao, kicking off what Nixon would label “the week that changed the world”. But that interval was not long enough to dispel the thick fog of misrepresentations and outright lies spun during that visit by both the Americans and Chinese — though none of those tales concerned what really mattered: the geopolitical victory that came from that trip.

by Blazingcatfur•February 19, 2022February 19, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"