“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 60

How China plans to invade Europe — with electric vehicles

As it makes its maiden voyage up the English Channel next week, not much will visibly distinguish the BYD Explorer No 1 from any of the other giant cargo ships ploughing through the world’s busiest shipping lane.

In fact, it heralds a revolution. When it deposits its contents in the Dutch port of Vlissingen on Wednesday, the Explorer will start either the next wave of Chinese worldwide manufacturing dominance or a trade war, depending on the tolerance of voters and politicians in Brussels and London.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2024February 16, 2024•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles"

China’s Infiltrators: ‘They Are Coming Here to Kill Us’

There is no Second Amendment in China, and Chinese citizens are not permitted to possess firearms. So is it possible that the shooters in the videos are merely taking advantage of a new-found freedom in their new home country ?

Unlikely.

One of the migrants videoed was in America for only three weeks and arrived in the country with no money and no identification.

If you had just landed somewhere as a migrant with nothing to your name, you would undoubtedly be preoccupied with finding your next meal, getting a place to live, making a livelihood.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2024February 13, 2024•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer

China’s BYD was a battery manufacturer trying its hand at building cars when it showed off its newest model in 2007. American executives at the Guangzhou auto show gaped at the car’s uneven purple paint job and the poor fit of its doors.

“They were the laughingstock of the industry,” said Michael Dunne, a China auto industry analyst.

Nobody is laughing at BYD now.

The company passed Tesla in worldwide sales of fully electric cars late last year. BYD is building assembly lines in Brazil, Hungary, Thailand and Uzbekistan and preparing to do so in Indonesia and Mexico. It is rapidly expanding exports to Europe. And the company is on the cusp of passing Volkswagen Group, which includes Audi, as the market leader in China.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2024February 12, 2024•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles"

China is winning the battle for the Red Sea

Hardly for the first time, remote Arab tribesmen are reshaping the world. Piratical attacks on international shipping by Yemen-based Houthi rebels have created a significant security crisis in the Red Sea. The world’s largest shipping lines have been forced to suspend transit through the Red Sea and thus the Suez Canal. And with nearly a third of global container traffic typically flowing through Suez, this has seriously disrupted world trade. Yet the most enduring impact of the crisis may be on the geopolitical balance between two great powers, each many thousands of kilometres away from the scorching sands of the Arabian Peninsula: China and the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•February 11, 2024February 10, 2024•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

The West hasn’t grasped the scale of the disaster facing China

Our treasured illusions about how Xi will react to his country sinking are about to unravel

China’s Spring Festival has huge demographic and political significance.

It’s the last surviving relic of a past world, where extended families gathered at their home villages to share respectful greetings to the old, wishes for prosperity (“Gong xi fa cai” in Mandarin) among the younger generation, and joy at the births of new heirs and descendants.

Nearly 40 years of the coercive One Child Policy, not to speak of uncounted deaths from Covid-19 among the elderly last Spring Festival, has taken an irreversible demographic toll on festival jollity.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2024February 10, 2024•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Former Official of China’s Gestapo-Like Religious Persecution Agency Lived in Vancouver at Time of Death

A former Chinese official who worked for a notorious religious persecution agency controlled by the Chinese communist regime resided in Vancouver at the time of his death, according to an official obituary. The agency, known as the “610 Office,” has been a key part of the persecution campaign against Falun Gong practitioners in China since 1999.

Zhang Guoqiang, originally from Zhejiang Province, had served in various Chinese military and government roles, including as the director of the provincial 610 Office, according to the obituary published on local online news outlet Zhejiang Daily. He died at the age of 70 in Vancouver on Nov. 15, 2021, reportedly succumbing to an illness after unsuccessful medical treatments.

Looks like Justin will have another guest in parliament

by Blazingcatfur•February 9, 2024February 8, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, WTF?

Western allies chilled by China’s new Antarctic base

President Xi has lauded the inauguration of a Chinese scientific research base in Antarctica which the US fears could be developed to monitor military activity in the southern hemisphere.

The Qinling research centre will “contribute to enhancing humanity’s scientific understanding of Antarctica, provide a platform for China’s co-operation with other countries in Antarctic scientific exploration, and promote peace and sustainable development in Antarctica”, according to the foreign ministry.

by Blazingcatfur•February 8, 2024February 7, 2024•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

“Fake Chinese income” mortgages fuel Toronto Real Estate Bubble: HSBC Bank Leaks

The whistleblower, a Canadian business school graduate, was staggered by the suspicious home loans he discovered in 2022 when he joined a mortgage approval team in a small HSBC branch on the outskirts of Toronto.

He knew of suspicions surrounding Chinese capital in British Columbia real estate, but had never witnessed shady lending while working at an HSBC branch in Campbell River, a bucolic town on the coast of Vancouver Island.

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2024February 6, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Chinese migrants now the fastest-growing group trying to cross into the U.S.

After China’s prolonged and strict COVID lockdown destroyed her business, a woman decided to leave her two young children with family to travel to Mexico and cross into the U.S. through a hole at the border.

She’s far from alone: Chinese migrants are the fastest growing group trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico. Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 37,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended as they illegally crossed the border; that’s 50 times more than two years earlier.

Many of the migrants say they made the journey to escape China’s increasingly repressive political climate and sluggish economy. The mom, through a translator, told “60 Minutes” that what motivated her was more than economic reasons and could be summed up in one word.

“Freedom,” she said.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2024February 5, 2024•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

CSIS director’s brief to Trudeau Cabinet says 117 Canadian Politicians warned of interference since May 2021

Last February, while Justin Trudeau pushed back against media investigations into Chinese election interference, citing anti-Asian racism, a brief for Trudeau’s Cabinet confirmed China’s clandestine influence in the 2019 and 2021 federal contests, and that current Members of Parliament were targeted in hostile state activity, and China leverages a “vast range of tools” to undermine “Canadian values, electoral processes, and Charter Rights.”

This definitive confirmation of Ottawa’s awareness of China’s deep attacks in recent Canadian elections comes from a newly released “Canadian Eyes Only” CSIS document called “Briefing to the Minister of Democratic Institutions on Foreign Interference.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2024February 4, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

ANALYSIS: Leaked CSIS Doc That Spurred Interference Inquiry Has Now Been Disclosed (In Part)

A series of national security leaks in the press led to the current public inquiry on foreign interference, but the leak of one CSIS report indicating Beijing was targeting MPs—a report ignored by the government—had a major role in forcing Ottawa to hold an inquiry.

That Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) assessment has now been partially disclosed by the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2024February 3, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadian intelligence knows China meddled in last two elections, says report released by CSIS

Canada knows China tried to influence the last two federal elections, according to a top secret briefing report obtained by Global News that said the government “must do more” to fight foreign interference.

“We know that the PRC sought to clandestinely and deceptively influence the 2019 and 2021 federal elections,” according to the briefing released by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2024February 1, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Uyghur Canadians pull out of public inquiry into foreign interference

An organization representing Uyghur Canadians is withdrawing from the public inquiry into foreign interference, a development that threatens to undermine Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue’s ability to hear testimony from all vulnerable diaspora communities facing persecution from China.

The Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project wrote to Justice Hogue Wednesday to serve notice it is formally withdrawing because she granted party standing to former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister Michael Chan, now deputy mayor of Markham, Ont., and independent MP Han Dong. This type of standing means they can cross-examine witnesses and gain access to all evidence collected, including that presented to the inquiry outside of hearings.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2024February 1, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

China Trapping Biden on Artificial Intelligence

“China has signaled interest in joining discussions on setting rules and norms for AI, and we should welcome that,” said Bonnie Glaser of the German Marshall Fund to the Breaking Defense site. “The White House is interested in engaging China on limiting the role of AI in command and control of nuclear weapons.”

“Nobody wants to see AI controlled nuclear weapons, right?” asked Joe Wang, a former State Department and NSC staffer now at the Arlington, Virginia-based Special Competitive Studies Project, which specializes in AI and emerging technologies. “Like, even the craziest dictator can probably agree.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 31, 2024•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence", "China - Communist Slave State", USA

Canada Should Exit CCP Leader Xi’s Imperial Bank

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017 ignored multiple warnings and committed Canada to membership in Xi Jinping’s pet project—an infrastructure bank that finances Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative and furthers China’s bid to become an imperial power.

The bank, known as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), pretends to be benign—just another multilateral development bank, such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank—but its corporate structure belies such “business-as-usual” claims.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2024January 30, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government