Category: China
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India takes significant action to combat China’s danger of surveillance camera eavesdropping.
After a series of deliberations on how to check alleged snooping by Beijing through a web of Chinese-origin CCTV cameras installed across India, including government and military establishments, the Union government has come out with safety guidelines keeping national security as top priority. To date, the Indian government had no mechanism to check the installation…
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Chinese internet finds a skyscraper that resembles a sanitary pad amusing.
The proposed design of a train station in the Chinese city of Nanjing has attracted the attention of Chinese internet users – for all the wrong reasons. Authorities say the design of the North Nanjing station takes inspiration from plum blossoms, which the city is known for. But online, others are pointing out its resemblance…
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Chinese Central Banks run out of money
China’s economy is in recession with news of layoffs and salary cuts constantly emerging. Currently not only are workers experiencing wage arrears and layoffs, but these issues are also affecting the financial and banking system. Many cases have been reported of employees being terminated without receiving their owed wages. Furthermore, depositors have found themselves unable…
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The Oppressive Ccp Methods To Harass Foreign Journalists
The oppressive Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has found new methods to harass foreign journalists operating in China, while continuing to employ its authoritarian tactics to stifle press freedom, according to a new report exposing the CCP’s suppression of free speech. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) released its yearly member survey on April 8,…
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Forced labour still haunts Xinjiang: Chinese fashion retailer faces boycott amid allegations of exploiting Uyghurs
The Save Uyghur Organization, which is powered by Chicago-based human rights organisation ‘Justice for All’, has started a boycott campaign against Chinese online fast-fashion retail Shein alleging it is involved in the forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in China. ‘Justice for All’, advocates for stopping “China’s genocide of the Uyghurs and other Turkic people of…
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The Dystopian Reality Of Hong Kong’s New National Security Law
Hong Kong has enacted a new national security law, immediately raising international concern about worsening prospects of human rights. Critics fear the new law, which is called Article 23 and came into effect at midnight on March 23rd, will restrict freedoms and damage Hong Kong’s reputation as a global financial center. Passed unanimously by pro-Beijing…
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Uyghur in Xinjiang are prevented from observing Ramzan
The Uyghur in Xinjiang in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) face a dual challenge of domestic curbs in the way they lead their lives and lack of international attention to their plight. As is the norm, the Uyghur also observe Ramadan, but are prevented by State Authorities in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Further, countries…
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The Chinese economy’s oversupply crisis and the CCP’s distortionary hand
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently took aim at a symptom of a much larger economic malady plaguing China. In upcoming talks with Beijing, Yellen vowed to raise concerns over China’s rampant oversupply of environmental products like solar panels, which are flooding global markets at artificially low prices. However, this surplus affliction extends far beyond just…
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The perils of being a dissidence in China
Before the Covid Pandemic in China, there was the AIDS/HIV pandemic which affected many people in the 1990s. Around this time, AIDS had already emerged in other parts of the world, including Europe and the United States, where cases were transmitted mostly through sexual contact. In China, however, people were infected after selling their blood…
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Safeguarding civil society against CCP influence
“Mitigating risk” has emerged as a prominent term within China’s policy discourse following its endorsement by G-7 leaders in May of the previous year. The imperative to reassess the intricate global supply chain involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has swiftly risen to the forefront of the agendas of elites spanning from Washington to…