Nancy Pelosi is the highest-ranking US official to visit the self-governed island in 25 years. China warned of repercussions in a bid to prevent the visit, which is seen in Beijing as support for Taiwan’s independence.
“China – Communist Slave State”
TikTok can’t escape its China problem
Cheap entertainment is not worth the CCP using your phone as a listening device
In 2020, then-president Donald Trump attempted to ban the wildly popular social media app TikTok. Its Gen Z influencers were horrified — how dare the bad orange man take away their right to vogue to teen beats in search of internet fame?
Unfortunately, we would not be shielded from TikTok’s insane viral trends (the latest involves users getting food poisoning after purchasing one creator’s mysterious and apparently highly perishable “pink sauce“). Trump’s order was stalled by legal proceedings and ultimately overturned by President Biden when he took office. Yet America still faces serious national security issues from TikTok due to its ownership by a Chinese company, ByteDance.
China military posts missile strike video as Taiwan preps for Pelosi arrival
China’s military posted ominous video of missile strikes, troops hurriedly grabbing their weapons and jet fighters taking off from airfields Monday, one day ahead of an expected visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Taiwanese media outlets reported that Pelosi (D-Calif.) would arrive on Tuesday night local time after visiting Malaysia on the second leg of her ongoing Asia trip, making the speaker the highest-ranking US elected official to visit the country since then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.
Nancy Pelosi Touches Down in Singapore to Begin Asia Tour
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Singapore early Monday to start her Asia tour with questions remaining as to whether Taiwan is included in the lightning trip.
AP reports “a person familiar with the matter” confirmed Pelosi and her diplomatic entourage landed in the city-state before dawn as tension with Beijing continues over exactly where she will be going next and when.
Nancy Pelosi To Meet Taiwan’s President On Wednesday
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, plans to meet Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday, in a controversial visit that has triggered concern about a possible military response from China.
Enough of Joe Biden’s ‘He said-Xi said’
In a sign of how far and fast relations between China and the United States are falling, the nations can’t even agree on what their leaders said to each other in a conversation. It’s a tale of two versions of one telephone call.
The White House insists President Biden scolded Chinese President Xi Jinping about forced labor and genocide involving the Uyghur Muslims. China says that’s fake news and that Biden never raised either topic during the Thursday call between the two men.
A terrible feeling giving Communist China the benefit of the doubt.
The great fall of China
Will a housing revolt, jobs crisis and ‘zero Covid’ douse the dragon’s fire?
China is being swept by a new kind of protest — stealthy, rapid and difficult for the country’s communist leaders to suppress. Tens of thousands of homebuyers are withholding mortgage payments on their unfinished homes, fearing their money is being stolen by property developers.
The mortgage strike is snowballing and has reached more than 100 cities. Nine out of ten new properties in China are sold before they are finished, and advance payments are a lifeline for developers and banks. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is rattled and attempting to erase news of the protest from social media to stop the strikers organising.
The authorities have summoned China’s beleaguered banks to emergency talks to find a way out of a morass that threatens the health of the country’s tottering financial system.
The Trudeau Foundation is partnered with a scholarship program at Xi Jinping’s alma mater
Well, it’s actually true.
The Trudeau Foundation is partnered with a scholarship program at Xi Jinping’s alma mater.
He recused himself from his “dealings” with the Trudeau Foundation in 2014, yet he sent messages to graduates of the program in China in 2018.
How did he know? https://t.co/nzdNQRx5oE pic.twitter.com/xfDzQm5l4g
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) July 30, 2022
Tom Cotton Says Biden Leaked Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip to Beijing
In her Friday press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) remained mum about whether her trip to Asia would include a stop in Taiwan citing security concerns for her congressional delegation of lawmakers heading abroad to show emphasis on the U.S. interest in Asia. According to U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), though, not everyone has been so tight-lipped about Pelosi’s travel plans.
Douglas Todd: Why China’s woes matter to Canada
Opinion: China’s economic problems and tough COVID measures have more Chinese people longing for Canada
China is in turmoil. The once-roaring housing market of the world’s second-largest economy is collapsing.
The regime’s harsh zero-COVID restrictions are causing bitterness and anger.
Beijing’s stepped-up quest for “common prosperity” has many worried their savings and assets aren’t being treated as actually theirs — and could be confiscated by Communist party rulers in the name of equality.
More people, especially the rich, want to escape.
And this is a good thing why?
China: Biden’s White House Is Lying, Joe Never Brought Up Genocide and Forced Labor with Xi
Faux-president Old Joe Biden spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping for over two hours on Thursday, but what they talked about is a matter of some dispute. The White House, understandably given Joe’s marginal grasp on the English language and rational discourse these days, released no transcript, instead giving us a terse one-paragraph “readout” on the call. Then Karine Jean-Pierre told the assembled Leftist media sycophants and Peter Doocy that Tough Old Joe called out Xi for genocide and forced labor in China, and China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was annoyed: Joe, the Chinese said, did no such thing. Now, who are you gonna trust? The Chinese Communist Party, or Lyin’ Joe Biden?
Biden is an enfeebled dupe.
China Warns: Pelosi Trip Marks ‘Invasion’ and Military Has Right to Fire on Her Plane
A Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece said on Friday that it could shoot down Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plane if she makes a stop in Taiwan, a move he said is tantamount to an “invasion” of the island.
‘Play with fire and you will get burned’: China’s Xi’s fierce warning to Biden on Taiwan
China’s President Xi Jinping warned Joe Biden ‘those who play with fire will get burned’ during a two-hour call Thursday morning amid rising tensions over Taiwan, according to Chinese state media.
The fifth call between the world leaders since President Biden took office comes amid simmering tensions and a potential impending visit to Taiwan from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Biden released an image on Twitter of him in the Oval Office on the phone with Xi.
China and the US: Whose Side Is the Administration On?
China this weekend, according to reports, privately delivered a message to US national security officials reinforcing an earlier Chinese Foreign Ministry statement: if US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi goes ahead with her planned August visit to Taiwan, it would be met with a “resolute and strong measures.”
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian stated on July 19 that the visit “would seriously undermine Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Confucius Institutes 2.0: Chinese Government Money Speaks Loudly
In the book Red Handed, we meet a remarkable young man named Nathan Law, the Chinese-born, Hong Kong-raised leader of a pro-democracy effort called the “Umbrella Movement,” which protested Beijing’s crackdowns on freedom in Hong Kong. His efforts were brutally crushed by the Chinese government and Nathan Law went to prison for eight months. TIME Magazine named him one of “the 100 Most Influential People of 2020.”
Once freed from Chinese prison, he decided to attend graduate school at Yale University, an institution whose history of educating Chinese students goes back to 1850, when the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university took his degree from there.
China wanted to build 70ft pagoda in ‘perfect spying spot’ near US Capitol
FBI investigators say they have seen a “dramatic escalation” of Chinese espionage and claim Huawei technology ‘threat to national security’
China wanted to build a 70ft pagoda on a hill close to the Capitol in Washington DC but was stopped amid fears the “perfect spot” could be used to spy on the US government, according to leaked FBI documents.
Beijing had also reportedly been attempting to snoop on US military and government facilities using the cover of Huawei installations, according to CNN, which first published the story.