“China – Communist Slave State”

The book publishing industry, especially on the lower end, has taken to outsourcing cheaper and smaller print runs to Communist China. While print-on-demand was supposed to revolutionize publishing, instead what we have tended to see are smaller presses, vanity presses and smaller-scale projects being routed through to China. Most of the big publishers still handle their big projects in America, but some have begun moving children’s books offshore to China. And when you do that, China gets to decide what can be printed.

President Xi Jinping opened the 20th Communist Party Congress on Sunday. In his speech, Xi said China has not ruled out the use of force regarding Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing considers Chinese territory.

“We insist on striving for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the greatest sincerity and with the greatest efforts,” he said. “However, we are not committed to abandoning the use of force and we reserve the option to take all necessary measures,” he said.

He added that “the resolution of the Taiwan issue is a matter for the Chinese themselves to decide.”

An unidentified man unfurled a banner over a bridge in Beijing calling for the removal of President Xi in a rare protest three days before China’s leader is set to begin an unprecedented third term.

“No PCR tests but food, no controls but freedom, no lies but dignity, no cultural revolution but reforms, no leader but ballots, don’t be slaves but citizens,” read the banner. Another banner called for the removal of Xi as a dictator and a traitor and urged the public to go on strike.

Sitong Bridge, Haidian District, Beijing, a man displayed banners and shouted slogans against Xi Jinping. He had been arrested and voice disappeared, but maybe in the future, everyone who crosses this bridge will remember that there was once a man…#TheGreatTranslationMovement pic.twitter.com/Fr20sF9XFK

— The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动官方推号 (@TGTM_Official) October 13, 2022

The environmental damage the Chinese Communist Party is causing through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is immeasurable. According to Professor William Laurance of James Cook University in Cairns, Australia:

“Across the globe, on nearly every continent, China is involved in a dizzying variety of resource extraction, energy, agricultural, and infrastructure projects — roads, railroads, hydropower dams, mines — that are wreaking unprecedented damage to ecosystems and biodiversity,”

LONDON — The head of Britain’s cyber-intelligence agency is accusing Communist China of using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad, saying Beijing’s aggressive stance is driven by fear and poses “a huge threat to us all.”

The director of Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, an intelligence agency, Jeremy Fleming, says Beijing’s Communist authorities are seeking to “shape the global tech ecosystem,” using technologies such as digital currencies and satellite systems to control China’s population and increase its influence around the world.

China is doubling down on its efforts to influence state and local government leaders in the United States by exploiting the existing web of regional and local US-China relations, the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) warned in July.