“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 96

Covid pandemic sparked by accidental leak from Wuhan lab, US investigation concludes

The 300-page report into Covid origins finds leak was likely ‘unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment’

The pandemic was probably the result of a “research-related incident” at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a lengthy US Senate report concluded.

It said the theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market no longer deserved the “presumption of accuracy”.

The 300-page report, released to Axios, was the full version of a 35-page summary published in October by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

by Blazingcatfur•April 18, 2023April 17, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

FBI finds Canadian link in covert Chinese police station probe

One of two men arrested for allegedly operating a secret police station for China in Manhattan had photographic evidence on his phone of the opening of a similar covert station in Canada, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says.

Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, were arrested Monday on charges of conspiring to act as agents of China’s government without informing U.S. authorities, and obstruction of justice.

by Blazingcatfur•April 18, 2023April 18, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Beyond TikTok: Let’s Talk About Another Chinese Trojan Horse

Unless you happen to live under a rock or on an oil rig, you’re no doubt familiar with TikTok, the Chinese-owned video sharing app that has been accused of being a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The vast majority of Americans, according to recent Pew findings, now support a ban on TikTok. Some Democrats, however, believe a ban would be “racist.”

In truth, banning TikTok has absolutely nothing to do with racism. It is a matter of national security. Beyond the U.S., countries like France, Norway, and The Netherlands are pushing forward with plans to ban the app. In 2020, India imposed a nationwide ban on TikTok (as well as a number of other Chinese apps), citing privacy and security concerns. More recently, Taiwan imposed a public sector ban on the controversial app.

by Blazingcatfur•April 18, 2023April 17, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China’s Stateside ‘Rent-A-Womb’ Industry Poses Yet Another National Security Nightmare

American policymakers need to get serious about countering the threat from communist China. While the House China Select Committee has announced it will be investigating Chinese investment in U.S. research and academia, farmland, entertainment, social media, and defense contracts, it should also examine the Chinese “rent-a-womb” industry in America.

Increasingly, Chinese nationals are using American surrogates to bear their children. Thanks to in vitro fertilization, they don’t even need to leave China.

by Blazingcatfur•April 17, 2023April 17, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Biden Is Emboldening China to Invade Taiwan

China just substantially reduced a three-day no-fly zone it had declared northeast of Taiwan. The zone, originally scheduled to run from the 16th to the 18th of this month, was scaled back to just 27 minutes on the 16th.

China’s Maritime Safety Administration said the closure was due to “aerospace activities.” Apparently, the initial stage of a Chinese space launch vehicle will be falling back to earth at that time.

Taiwan said it had objected to the duration of the Chinese zone as initially announced. Others, including aviation authorities, complained to Beijing as well.

by Blazingcatfur•April 17, 2023April 17, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Taiwan

U.S. charges two with setting up Chinese ‘secret police station’ in New York

NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials have arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn said in a statement on Monday.

Liu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, face charges of conspiring to act as an agent of China’s government without informing U.S. authorities and obstruction of justice, prosecutors said. They are expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn federal court later on Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•April 17, 2023April 17, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

Meet the Chinese billionaire who donated to the Trudeau Foundation

Useful Idiot Justin Trudeau with Zhang Bin.

Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman, finds himself in the middle of a controversial 2016 donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation that The Globe and Mail has reported was linked to the Chinese government, allegedly part of Beijing’s meddling in Canadian democratic processes.

A Chinese citizen with a home in Quebec, Mr. Zhang is president of the China Cultural Industry Association, a government-backed body that promotes Chinese soft power around the world. He is also a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body, and, according to a now-deleted profile of him on the industry association website, a member of the ruling Communist Party.

More like “Meet the Chinese billionaire who bought Justin Trudeau.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 17, 2023April 17, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Grappling with foreign interference allegations at home, MPs look to Taiwan for ideas

As a multi-party delegation of Canadian politicians returns home from Taiwan, MPs say Canada can learn lessons from the island when it comes to dealing with the threat of foreign interference from China.

Speaking to CBC’s The House from Taiwan as they prepared to depart, Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong and Liberal MP John McKay — who chairs the parliamentary committee on national defence — said they had been impressed by the Taiwanese approach to resisting disinformation campaigns.

“I think there’s a lot of lessons that Canada can learn about foreign interference and how society and government should respond to harden Canadian society against this meddling that we’re experiencing from Beijing,” Chong told host Catherine Cullen.

by Blazingcatfur•April 17, 2023April 16, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

China Trashing the Global Environment: ‘There Is No Fish in the Waters’

China’s overseas infrastructure projects present high-impact risks to the environment, a new study has found.

The report — conducted by researchers from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, the University of Queensland, the University of California Santa Barbara, and Colorado State University — focused on the risks to coastal and marine ecological systems posed by 114 of China’s overseas development projects between the years 2008-2019. According to the document, those 114 projects represent only 20% of all Chinese development finance projects in that time period, meaning that the results of the study are probably just the tip of the iceberg.

by Blazingcatfur•April 16, 2023April 16, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Green-Scam

Leaked Pentagon docs show the shot-down Chinese spy balloon may have had a feature known as ‘synthetic aperture radar’ that can see through certain materials, WaPo reports

In February, a high-altitude balloon with surveillance capabilities connected to China flew over the continental US before being shot down over the Atlantic.

At the time, much about the balloon wasn’t known publicly, but a new trove of Pentagon documents leaked on Discord show it — and up to four other previously unknown spy balloons like it — could have had a feature known as “synthetic aperture radar” that can see through certain objects, the Washington Post reported.

Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old US National Guard airman, was arrested Thursday in connection to the leaks.

h/t DM

by Blazingcatfur•April 16, 2023April 16, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA, WTF?

What is the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and what does it do?

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has been mired in a political controversy that pushed the organization’s president and board to resign last week.

At the centre of the controversy is a 2016 donation from two donors with links to the Chinese government. The donors pledged $200,000 to the foundation at the time.

While the donation spurred an initial controversy in 2016, interest in the story revived in the wake of recent media reports stating Beijing interfered in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. The foundation said it would reimburse the funds but apparently ran into administrative roadblocks. (Radio-Canada has confirmed the donation has since been returned.)

by Blazingcatfur•April 16, 2023April 16, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Conrad Black: Totalitarian China has no serious chance at world dominance

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the end of his visit to China this past week volunteered that the West is in a state of decline and that China is on the rise. My own belief is that the West is at a plateau from which it will resume its advance when the United States surmounts its current state of nervosity. Nor am I convinced of the inexorable rise of China: it is a totalitarian state prone to frequent errors in almost all aspects of its foreign and domestic policy and brutalizes its own population. Apart from the armed forces, and those with some reservation, no Chinese institution is much admired and no utterance or statistic published by the government of the People’s Republic is worthy of being believed.

by Blazingcatfur•April 16, 2023April 15, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Taiwan: Baerbock, Macron comments raise questions on EU ties

First, France’s Macron said Europe shouldn’t follow the US on Taiwan. Then, Germany’s top diplomat said France’s China policy reflected the policy of the EU as a whole. How are these comments seen in Taiwan?

France’s Emmanuel Macron has prompted backlash by saying that Europeans should not be “followers” of either US or China when it comes to Taiwan and urging for more EU autonomy in international policy.

His statements came as China was conducting a massive three-day military drill around the self-ruled island, which Beijing sees as a part of its own territory. On Wednesday, Macron said he was standing by his comments and that “being an ally does not mean being a vassal” of the US. At the same time, he emphasized that France supported “the status quo in Taiwan” and was in favor of solving the situation peacefully.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2023April 15, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", France, Germany, Taiwan, USA

The Sino-Forming of the Global South

Why did Saudi Arabia and Iran go to Beijing to restore diplomatic relations?

Why did Brazil’s President Lula visit Huawei headquarters in Shanghai this week, after declaring that the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) should launch a global currency to replace the dollar?

Why did French President Emmanuel Macron declare after his meeting with Xi Jinping: “For the French president… it is crucial for the European nations to avoid becoming ‘vassals’ when Europe can be ‘the third pole’ vis-à-vis the United States and China. We do not want to adopt a ‘bloc-to-bloc logic’… and submit to ‘the extraterritoriality of the dollar.’”

Victor Davis Hanson: Our Allies Are Distancing Themselves From Us, Will Stay Neutral Or Look At A New Coalition

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2023April 14, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Michael Higgins: Katie Telford and the Liberal doctrine of secret government

There was no sunlight, Canadians are still left in the dark

Thanks to the prime minister’s chief of staff we now know that Justin Trudeau reads everything that is put in front of him. What is put in front of him and when, who wrote it, what it contains, and what did he do with the information remains a mystery.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2023April 14, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government