“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 154

US bars ‘advanced tech’ firms that receive tax payer funding from building China factories for 10 years

US tech companies that receive federal funding will be barred from building “advanced technology” facilities in China for 10 years, the Biden administration has said.

The guidelines were unveiled as part of a $50bn (£43bn) plan aimed at building up the local semiconductor industry.

It comes as business groups have pushed for more government support in an effort to reduce reliance on China.

They are faced with a global microchip shortage which has slowed production.

So they were receiving tax payer funds but building in China? Sweet, sounds like a Hunter Biden deal.

by Blazingcatfur•September 7, 2022September 7, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "The China Class", USA

As China Imposes More Covid Lockdowns, ‘Everyone Is Scared’

In the hours before the southern Chinese city of Chengdu entered a coronavirus lockdown, Matthew Chen visited four vegetable markets in an attempt to stock up on fresh food. But seemingly the entire city had the same idea, and by the time he got to each place, most of the shelves had been stripped bare, except for hot peppers and fruit, he said.

Mr. Chen, a white-collar worker in his 30s, managed to scavenge enough cherry tomatoes, meat and greens for about one day, and since then has been ordering grocery deliveries to tide him through the lockdown, which began on Friday. But he worries about whether that supply will remain stable, and how much longer he will have to rely on it.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2022September 5, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

China seeks ‘naval outpost’ in Nicaragua to threaten US, Taiwan warns

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China aspires to open a “naval outpost” in Nicaragua as part of a plan to dominate the Indo-Pacific, Taiwan has warned.

“The Chinese are talking with them about also potentially setting up a naval outpost,” Taiwanese Vice Foreign Minister Alexander Yui told reporters this week. “So they have a very large plan.”

by Blazingcatfur•September 4, 2022September 4, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Nicaragua, USA

Does China believe its own propaganda on Uyghurs?

The US has welcomed a long-awaited report by the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, which concludes that China’s policies in Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity. The BBC’s John Sudworth, who spent many years covering the story and was eventually forced out of China as a result, considers what it tells us about the country.

At the heart of the Xinjiang story is one of the most important questions of our time. What is China?

A rising superpower, growing ever more prosperous and now deeply embedded into our economies and supply chains, but one that runs a programme of draconian mass incarceration.

How do we understand the relationship between these two realities?

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2022September 2, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Claims That Communist Chinese Are Torturing Uyghurs Credible Says UN

The UN has accused China of “serious human rights violations” in a long-awaited report into allegations of abuse in Xinjiang province.

China had urged the UN not to release the report – with Beijing calling it a “farce” arranged by Western powers.

The report assesses claims of abuse against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, which China denies.

But investigators said they found “credible evidence” of torture possibly amounting to “crimes against humanity”.

by Blazingcatfur•September 1, 2022September 1, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Dozens of Fifth Columnist Communist Chinese “Canadian” groups side with Beijing’s stance on Taiwan

When a group of Canadian parliamentarians recently announced plans to visit Taiwan, Beijing‘s response was swift, with its Ottawa embassy vowing “resolute and forceful measures” against any country interfering in China’s territorial integrity.

Beijing’s Foreign Ministry had earlier summoned Canadian diplomat Jim Nickel over a G7 statement that called on China to peacefully resolve tensions surrounding U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan, telling Nickel the statement was helping “a villain do evil.”

by Blazingcatfur•September 1, 2022September 1, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

China Is Torturing Critics in Psychiatric Hospitals

China’s regime is torturing and killing critics, petitioners, activists, dissidents, and religious adherents in psychiatric hospitals, thereby bypassing its horribly misdescribed criminal justice system. The “barbaric practice,” as a Madrid-based NGO termed it this month, is still widespread.

Safeguard Defenders, in “Drugged and Detained: China’s Psychiatric Prisons,” details how police and government agents are sending Chinese citizens “for medically unnecessary involuntary hospitalizations” in the police-run ankang system, which was established in the 1980s.

by Blazingcatfur•August 31, 2022August 31, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China Threatens to Destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink

Chinese military researchers recently called for the destruction of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, an extraordinary threat for a state to make against a private foreign enterprise.

In December 2021, China filed a complaint with the United Nations, claiming that two of Musk’s Starlink satellites had nearly collided with the Tianhe module of its Tiangong Space Station — in April and October of 2021– and that Chinese astronauts had been forced to maneuver the module of the station to avoid the collision. Starlink is part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the satellites are part of a plan to make internet coverage from the satellites available worldwide, with the goal of launching nearly 12,000 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.

I dunno. Elon and the Communist Chinese seem to understand one another.

by Blazingcatfur•August 30, 2022August 30, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Solomon Islands turns away western naval ships after China security pact

The Solomon Islands Campaign: Guadalcanal

The Solomon Islands has suspended visits from western naval ships less than six months after signing a security pact with Beijing that raised fears that China would establish a military base there.

A US Coast Guard cutter, the Oliver Henry, received no response when it requested permission to refuel in the Pacific nation a week ago.

Manasseh Sogavare, prime minister of the Solomons, confirmed the suspension of visits. He said that HMS Spey, a British offshore patrol vessel on Indo-Pacific duties, had also aborted its planned visit because of “approval delays”.

Hope they enjoy the co-prosperity sphere.

by Blazingcatfur•August 30, 2022August 30, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Chinese Canadian ‘Leaders’ Spread Disinformation about Taiwan on TV

Two prominent Chinese Canadians, including one on a B.C. government Advisory Council, have appeared on a partially China-owned television station telling Chinese viewers that Canada recognizes Taiwan is part of China, a false statement.

The statements also suggest that Canadian government’s actions might lead to war with China if Canada doesn’t tow the Beijing line on the Taiwan issue, an extrapolation of threats of “forceful measures’ by Beijing against Canada if a group of lawmakers visit Taiwan.

Disturbing to see wealthy British Columbian David Choi, of the Institute of Asian Research at #UBC and CEO of the Royal Pacific Realty Group, taking a distorted pro-Beijing position on #Taiwan.
Same goes for #Vancouver‘s Chinese Benevolent Assoc.#BCpoli https://t.co/iqzMN9d6BR

— DouglasTodd (@DouglasTodd) August 27, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•August 29, 2022August 29, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State"

Ottawa has continued its mysterious deference to China. What happened to the promised ‘reset’?

As we mark the six-month anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine and on world order, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the creation of a special team in Canada to counter the Kremlin’s raging disinformation campaign.

There is a real need to address this threat to the concept of truth, which is the basis of democracy and human rights. But why limit the team’s mandate to the lies of just one offender? This essentially tells China that Ottawa will not be responding to the more richly funded propaganda scheme being run out of Chinese embassies and consulates across Canada.

Becuz LPC Luv Xi Long Time.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2022August 28, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

US ship unable to get Solomon Islands’ permission to dock, says Washington

A United States coast guard vessel was unable to enter Solomon Islands for a routine port call because its government did not respond to a request to refuel and provision, a US official said.

The Solomons government did not immediately answer a Reuters request for comment. It has had a tense relationship with the US and its allies since striking a security pact with China in May.

The USCGC Oliver Henry was on patrol for illegal fishing in the South Pacific for a regional fisheries agency when it failed to obtain entry to refuel at Honiara, the Solomons’ capital, a US coast guard press officer said in an emailed statement.

by Blazingcatfur•August 27, 2022August 26, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA, WTF?

China’s ‘staggering’ military build-up is a wake-up call for US

China is investing heavily in combat drones, including electronic warfare versions that would play a significant role in any attack on Taiwan.

However, more than anything else, the huge inventory of anti-ship ballistic missiles poses the gravest threat to United States aircraft carrier strike groups that represent America’s most potent projection of naval firepower in the Indo-Pacific region.

China has taken giant steps towards its dream of maritime superpower status with a warship-building programme that outmatches the US.

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2022August 25, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Adam Zivo: Justin Trudeau’s reprehensible jab at pro-Taiwanese diplomacy

Last Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a news conference that his government will ensure that Canadian parliamentarians planning to visit Taiwan as part of an upcoming trade mission “reflect” on the “consequences” of their visit. Trudeau’s euphemistic jab at pro-Taiwanese diplomacy was reprehensible, undermining the independence of Canada’s parliamentary associations and tacitly validating China’s threat this week to punish Canadians should the visit occur.

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2022August 24, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

What China’s worst drought on record looks like

A month-long heatwave and record low rainfall have resulted in an unprecedented drought along the Yangtze, China’s longest river.

Lakes and tributaries have receded as a result of the drought, exposing riverbeds and even a 600-year-old Buddhist stone carving and rocks below the famous Guanyin Pavilion, in Wuhan, Hubei province.

by Blazingcatfur•August 24, 2022August 24, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Mother Nature Hates You"