Chinese social media filled with anti-black racist content, says watchdog

Chinese social media is littered with racist videos, particularly content that mocks black people or portrays them through offensive racial stereotypes, research by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found.

The human rights watchdog analysed hundreds of videos posted on Chinese social media since 2021 and found that major platforms, including Bilibili, Douyin, Kuaishou, Weibo and Xiaohongshu, “do not routinely address racist content”.

One type of video that is popular on Chinese social media portrays people in African countries as primitive or impoverished, with Chinese people – often the content creators – being shown as wealthy saviours.

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VIDEO: A good, quick analysis about China’s serious internal problems

China is a problem. It’s an immediate problem for Taiwan, but it’s also a long-term problem for America, given that it’s our greatest geopolitical enemy (no matter what Democrats say about Russia! Russia! Russia!). However, Ben Shapiro has put together an excellent short video detailing the structural problems that bedevil China and that put it both at risk of implosion and explosion.

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China snubs Canada on its list of approved travel spots, setting back tourism’s post-COVID recovery

In an apparent snub, the Chinese government has left Canada off a list of countries approved as international travel destinations for tour groups — a decision that threatens to leave Canada’s travel industry at a competitive disadvantage as it continues its post-pandemic recovery.

In a media statement, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on August 10 that an additional 78 countries had been added to a list of destinations approved for group tours and package travel. Travel agents from mainland China work from this list when they promote and book foreign travel for Chinese nationals.

Poor Justin! h/t Shasta

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Davos Man Becomes Beijing Man: The World Economic Forum Meets in China

These charlatans and grifters know how to get around in a world just like them. But in their hearts and souls, they are dead.

Members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) are often referred to as “Davos Men” because they convene their annual huddle-ups in Davos, Switzerland. But Davos Man is a misnomer because Davos is not the only place where they get together each year to figure out how to save the world from itself. During the warm months, they also meet in China. Apparently, it’s a Summer/Winter Olympics sort of thing.

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11 Parliamentarians Demand Investigation Into Why Hong Kong Police Were Granted Visas to Attend Winnipeg Games

Eleven parliamentarians from different parties have united in calling on cabinet ministers to investigate why visa waivers were issued to nearly 300 Hong Kong police to attend a sporting event in Winnipeg.

Members of the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) attended the World Police and Fire Games (WPFG) in Winnipeg that ran from July 28 to Aug. 6, despite protests from local Hong Kong communities.

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Douglas Todd: Vancouver authors pour out books on China’s impact

Many local authors are currently producing hard-hitting books about China’s sway on Canada and the world.

As Ottawa finally debates launching an inquiry into China’s interference in Canadian elections, three Vancouver-based journalists have been at the forefront of getting Canadians and others up to speed on the global impact of China’s increasingly authoritarian leaders.

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Foreign interference inquiry must get access to all cabinet confidences, former spies say

An organization representing retired Canadian spies says a public inquiry into Beijing foreign-interference operations must be given access to all cabinet documents and transcripts of discussions to determine whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was ever informed of China’s attempts to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

The Pillar Society, which represents retired Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers and former members of the RCMP Security Service, has joined calls for a public inquiry and expressed concern that further delay could end up scuttling one.

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David Krayden: How Serious Do Beijing’s Threats Against Canadian Lawmakers Have to Get Before Ottawa Acts?

Even as the Trudeau government had its “special rapporteur,” David Johnston, supposedly investigating foreing interference in Canada’s electoral process, China was harassing MP Michael Chong.

This is incredible and demonstrates how little China cares about any repercussions of its surveillance, interference, spying, and intimidation of Canadians who dare to question Beijing’s dictatorial and genocidal policies.

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US Navy sailor accused of selling documents to China was encouraged by mother: feds

A China-born US Navy sailor accused of selling sensitive ship information to the Chinese government was denied bail on Tuesday after prosecutors said his mother encouraged him to participate in the scheme.

Jinchao Wei, 22, faces four charges in San Diego federal court related to his alleged deal with an unnamed Chinese military intelligence officer to provide “documents, sketches, plans, notes and information” in exchange for cold, hard cash.

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MP Michael Chong targeted in ‘information operation’ likely from China

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) says it has detected an “information operation” targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong and it is “highly probable” — but not conclusive — that came from China.

I bet it came from the PMO.

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Trudeau having difficult time finding reliable Patsy to oversee inquiry into foreign interference by ChiComs and Canada’s China Class

Multiple candidates to oversee foreign interference inquiry have rejected the job: sources

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is having trouble finding a potential commissioner to oversee a possible public inquiry into foreign interference, with at least half a dozen current or retired judges having declined the offer, multiple sources have confirmed to the National Post.

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FINTRAC Says China Behind Many Canadian Money Laundering Operations: Report

China is behind many money-laundering transactions and other fraudulent financial activity in Canada, according to a July report from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC).

The report identified students, homemakers, lawyers, and business owners as some of the occupations involved in receiving funds from China.

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Legal Threats Ramp Up Against Those Reporting on CCP interference

Threats of legal action have recently been made targeting journalists who are focused on exposing foreign interference by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Canada

In June, Sen. Victor Oh proposed to create a national Chinese foundation to collect donations for launching lawsuits “against those unreasonable journalists, news outlets, and politicians who slander and defame Chinese people.”

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B.C. case exposes corporate ties to Chinese criminal underworld

The 12 apartments above a sporting goods shop in Vancouver appear unremarkable, blending in with thousands of others in the beachfront Kitsilano neighbourhood.

But the building’s bland, beige exterior hides a dark secret.

Authorities say the apartments are a key part of a money laundering operation run by Paul King Jin, an alleged member of a Chinese organized crime group, and a self-described loan shark.

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China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say

In the fall of 2020, the National Security Agency made an alarming discovery: Chinese military hackers had compromised classified defense networks of the United States’ most important strategic ally in East Asia. Cyberspies from the People’s Liberation Army had wormed their way into Japan’s most sensitive computer systems.

The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on — plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

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