“China – Communist Slave State”

The man who oversees cybersecurity for the federal government says Canadians should be wary of apps that could leave their data in the “wrong hands” — a warning that comes as the wildly popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok faces claims that it has spied on its users.

Sami Khoury, head of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, said users need to be aware of what they’re agreeing to when they download an app, and should ask whether it enables access to their personal data.

The Chinese regime has the largest hacking program in the world, and its artificial intelligence program is built on sensitive data the regime stole over the years, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wray warned of the cybersecurity threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) use of technological advances against the United States.

China steals everything.

It is a wholly predictable consequence of the one-child policy.

Communist China’s guiding ideology, epitomized first by “Mao Zedong Thought,” and now by “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” has always been predicated on the notion of unceasing struggle. “Marxism,” Chairman Mao maintained, “can develop only through struggle, and this is not only true of the past and the present, it is necessarily true of the future as well.” Class struggle, factional struggle, the struggle against foreign invaders, the struggle against obsolescent traditions, and the struggle for production, all these struggles were meant to pave the way for a new social system upon which the very salvation of the world was said to depend…

A shrinking population pushes Beijing on course for a future of ‘pedestrian’ growth

For decades, China’s growth stunned the world. The country’s transformation into the “workshop of the world” unlocked what has been dubbed an economic miracle.

Now, however, the clouds are gathering over the world’s second-largest economy.

For the first time in more than 60 years, China’s population is shrinking. Growth is slowing. Western investors, for years a source of capital for growth-hungry Chinese businesses, are shunning the country. China’s lucrative tech sector is stumbling. And a slow motion implosion is playing out in the country’s debt fuelled property sector, triggering billions in losses across the financial sector.

BEIJING/HONG KONG, Jan 17 (Reuters) – China’s population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications for its economy and the world.

The country’s National Bureau of Statistics reported a drop of roughly 850,000 people for a population of 1.41175 billion in 2022, marking the first decline since 1961, the last year of China’s Great Famine.

HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Living under China’s stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.

When China abruptly dismantled its “zero COVID” regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite “No”, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.

Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.

China Has 10 Years Left, Says Geopolitical Analyst Peter Zaihan

A longer more wide ranging interview that also includes discussion of China