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Moscow, Beijing strengthening ties based on mutual respect

17 days ago -

Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted this during a significant meeting with Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping during a meeting that took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Kazakhstan's capital Astana.

Putin emphasized that the current state of Russia-China relations represents the most prosperous period in their history, emphasizing their comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation. He stressed that these ties are guided ...

Beijing warns Washington against crossing “red lines” to avoid CONFRONTATION

May 03, 2024 -

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued this warning during his April 25 meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Wang remarked that even though the "giant ship" of China-U.S. ties had stabilized, negative factors in the relationship are still increasing and building.

According to Wang, the U.S. has been challenging China's core interests and suppressing the country's development. Despite this, Beijing ...

Beijing plans to INTERFERE with Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections on Jan. 13

January 05, 2024 -

According to a Reuters report, this interference campaign has extended to public opinion – with the mainland's National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) allegedly tapping the services of popular Taiwanese rock band Mayday. The NRTA reportedly asked the band to publicly make pro-Beijing statements, support the CCP's "One China Policy," cooperate with anti-Taipei propaganda efforts and provide other unspecified "political services" ahead of the elections. Mayday ...

Beijing bribed Taiwanese military officer to STEAL Chinook chopper

December 14, 2023 -

According to the Epoch Times, the details of the plot were disclosed in a Taiwan court on Dec. 11. The scheme involved 10 people, mostly active-duty and retired members of the ROCAF, who were allegedly recruited spies from Beijing.

The Taiwan High Prosecutors Office said a lieutenant colonel surnamed Hsieh, who was part of the 10 individuals indicted for espionage in November, was the pilot bribed by CCP operatives. The military officer was recruited by Taiwanese ...

Beijing-owned newspaper paying huge money to publish propaganda in leftist-owned Time magazine

December 07, 2022 -

Disclosures under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) revealed that China Daily paid $656,885 in advertising costs to Time between May 1 and Oct. 31. Six months before the said time frame, the newspaper owned by the CCP's Central Propaganda Department paid $649,603 to the mainstream media (MSM) publication.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, the MSM magazine has published pro-China articles in both its print and online publications since 2020 as part of ...

Beijing influencing media outlets in a bid to create a more positive reputation for China

September 15, 2022 -

A Sept. 8 report from Freedom House titled "Beijing's Global Media Influence" showed the extent of this campaign. It revealed that the Chinese regime and its proxies were using "more sophisticated, covert and coercive tactics" to propagate pro-Beijing narratives, spread disinformation, and block unfavorable news.

Freedom House President Michael J. Abramowitz said in a press release that Beijing is "doubling down on its campaign to control ...

Beijing deploys TANKS to quell angry depositors wanting to withdraw their savings

July 24, 2022 -

Depositors, who had been barred from withdrawing money since April, were demanding the release of their frozen funds. Footage circulating in Chinese social media showed armored PLA tanks purportedly deployed to protect the banks and prevent locals from reaching them.

Meanwhile, local media reports confirmed large-scale protests by affected depositors across Henan province. A July 10 protest saw more than 1,000 demonstrators gathering outside the People's Bank of China (PBOC) ...

Beijing residents stockpiling food and other essentials as new LOCKDOWN orders loom

April 26, 2022 -

Beijingers rushed to grocery stores and other businesses in anticipation of possible lockdowns, the Guardian reported. Supermarket chains Carrefour and Wumart said they increased inventories to more than double and extended their business hours on April 24. The Meituan online grocer platform likewise increased inventory and added the number of its staffers for sorting and delivery.

The rush to purchase food and other essential items came after mass COVID-19 testing ...

Beijing lashes out against its own population using authoritarian measures amid coronavirus resurgence

September 27, 2021 -

International events that were supposed to be held in the country have been postponed, many districts are reimposing the country's iconic severe lockdowns and residents in outbreak areas are being tested in massive numbers.

Most of the outbreak reports are coming from the northeastern province of Liaoning. Local media reported that on Friday, May 14, the province of Liaoning had 14 new COVID-19 cases. The next day, there were 18 new cases. On Monday, May 17, the province ...

Beijing announces new measures for French travelers after EU excludes China-made vaccines

July 05, 2021 -

In a June 14 announcement, the Chinese Embassy in France reminded Chinese citizens of the new regulations. An embassy staffer told Radio Free Asia (RFA) that Beijing will implement "reciprocal sanctions" on French citizens. According to the staffer, China will not recognize French citizens' vaccination with non-Chinese COVID-19 vaccines.

Meanwhile, media outlets in mainland China reported on Beijing's sanctions against France on June 15. According to them, ...

Beijing threatens historians who wish to highlight China’s disastrous early response to the coronavirus

July 01, 2021 -

The comments were made by Wang Binglin, an official from the Ministry of Education, during a closed-door meeting with more than 100 government workers and scholars. The meeting was convened to discuss the centenary of the establishment of the CCP.

Wang went through what topics the CCP will most likely mark as classified and banned from study. For example, Wang said the scholars in the room should avoid talking about the party's violent land redistribution campaign in the ...

Beijing Biden’s press secretary gets all questions in advance so she can give canned answers

February 05, 2021 -

This is what Americans have to look forward to under the fraudulent Biden regime, which has no intention of being accountable to anything other than itself. Ask the easy questions and you can stay in the press pool, is how this circus act plans to run things – just so long as those easy questions are disclosed before the cameras start rolling.

During an information White House Correspondents Association Zoom call last Friday, multiple sources told the media that they ...

Beijing caught in another lie? Wuhan lab researchers fell ill, displayed COVID-19 symptoms before outbreak

January 25, 2021 -

It contradicted claims by a senior researcher from the facility who said there were no infections among the staff scientists.

"The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illnesses. This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli's public claim that there was ...

Beijing using US newspapers to push “insidious” narratives, says China affairs expert

December 30, 2020 -

The advertorials, called China Watch, were paid for by Chinese state-run English language paper China Daily. They typically contain articles with a pro-Beijing slant that tackle U.S.-China relations, the Chinese economy and Chinese culture. According to Chang, the China Watch inserts allow the regime to propagate its own narratives to American readers.

The China affairs expert gave one example: The Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times from carried a China ...

Beijing views Biden as vulnerable to its influence – will he let Communist China run the U.S.?

November 18, 2020 -

Historian Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a think tank based at Stanford University, told The Epoch Times' American Thought Leaders program that Beijing views Biden as “a sign of weakness to be exploited.”

He said he believes that Beijing will be a lot more confident given Biden's potential victory because it would mean the end of their current big worry, Donald Trump.

The Trump administration has not shied away ...

Beijing using the coronavirus pandemic to expand internet surveillance apparatus

October 25, 2020 -

In its annual Freedom of the Net report, which details the state of digital surveillance in over 60 countries, the nonprofit ranked China last with a score of 10 out of 100. This is the sixth consecutive year in which the country was crowned as the “worst abuser of internet freedom” in the world.

“This pandemic is normalizing the sort of digital authoritarianism that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long sought to mainstream,” wrote Freedom House in a statement....

Beijing censored Pence’s comments on China during VP debate, restored signal on Harris’ turn

October 23, 2020 -

Nathan VanderKlippe, a Beijing-based correspondent for Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail, tweeted about the live censorship a day after the debates. Without the censure, Chinese people would have heard Pence claim that China banned staff members gathering information about the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic to enter the country until February. “China and the World Health Organization did not play straight with the American people,” he said. (Related: Chinese Communist ...

Beijing selling tainted, heavy metal-laced fish to Kenya – report

August 20, 2020 -

According to Kenyan broadsheet The Nation, China has flooded the Kenyan fish market with high volumes of tilapia and other farmed fish for the past three years. This congestion, the paper said, has made it virtually impossible for locals to compete with the imports which are being sold at cheaper price points.

Aside from hurting to the African nation’s already beleaguered economy, an investigation conducted in 2018 suggested that the Beijing imports – repackaged ...

Beijing’s latest report says it “wasted no time” in coronavirus response, but remains mum on cover-up allegations

July 13, 2020 -

According to the 84-page report, which the State Council Information Office published on Sunday, the country “wasted no time” in sharing the genome sequence for SARS-CoV-2 with the World Health Organization. The report also said that the global health agency, as well as relevant countries and organizations, have been receiving detailed updates since Jan. 3.

An investigation from the Associated Press revealed that Beijing sat on releasing the genetic map of the ...

Beijing residents fear catching the coronavirus from unsafe testing centers

June 23, 2020 -

Talking to the Epoch Times, some residents have voiced concerns that the testing is actually exposing them to the coronavirus, saying that authorities did not provide them with basic safety protection during the testing.Conditions at testing centers put people at risk

During a June 20 press conference, officials in the city government's team for virus containment efforts stated that there were 474 testing sites in Beijing and that they had been able to test 2.3 ...