Japan PM begins SE Asia trip, urges open seas, response on Ukraine
Indonesia is host of this year’s Group of 20 summit in November, an engagement that has placed Jakarta in a diplomatic bind, amid opposition to the participation of Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine and alleged war crimes there.
European Parliament Calls for Tougher Stance Toward Chinese Regime
“We must not be naive when dealing with China,” said MEP Hilde Vautmans after the vote on Sept. 15. “Economic gains should not make us blind to the Chinese Communist Party’s ambitious political agenda, its increasingly assertive foreign policy, and its repressions in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.”
South Korea: Quitting the CCP in Front of the Chinese Consulate
Not long after the peaceful protest began, the Chinese Consulate began interfering and exhausted all means to harm Ms. Nam. For example, someone from the Chinese Consulate would curse at Ms. Nam in Korean, among other tactics. They also called the police and reported Ms. Nam.
An Open Letter to the People’s Republic of China Ministry of Public Security and Minister Zhao Kezhi
During the period he was held in the Gaoxin branch of the Baoji PS, he was tortured to extract a confession. This included being forced to sit in an interrogation chair for 10 days, 24 hours a day, which resulted in the swelling of his legs and irreversible loss of feeling in two fingers of his right hand. He was also deprived of sleep and food.
Chinese Hackers Carried Out Coordinated Cyberattacks in Israel, Report Says
The group took steps to deliberately mislead researchers, and attempted to hide their nationality. They tried to do this by using methods such as planting Farsi in the parts of code which could be recovered by incident response teams, and using malware tools linked to Iranian groups that had previously been leaked online, FireEye said.
International Public Opinion Gives the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping, Low Ratings: Report
“All the countries in the free world are well aware that, far from maintaining any so-called international order, the CCP is creating a new set of ‘international norms’ of its own that cares nothing for human rights and doesn’t respect freedom or democracy,” Democracy activist and Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) consultant Joey Siu told RFA.
Department of State Religious Freedom Report: China Is Guilty of “Crimes against Humanity”
Secretary Blinken introduced the report on May 12 by singling out China as a country that “criminalizes religious expression” in general. Blinken did not avoid two politically significant definitions: “crimes against humanity” for how China treats religion, and “genocide” for what is being done to “Uyghurs and members of other religious and ethnic minority groups.”
Hong Kong Immigration Department Refuses to Explain Months-long Work Visa Delays for Journalists
The spokesperson did not answer questions as to whether Beijing was now overseeing the processing of visas for journalists, nor did they reply when asked how long applicants or employers could be expected to wait. “Routine applications for extension of stay will normally be finalised within two to three weeks upon receipt of all necessary documents
I Have the Obligation to Speak for the Dead
<![CDATA[ Xiao Yu | Voice of America Born and raised in the 1990s, Wuhan resident Tu Long once believed that as long as he didn’t make any politically sensitive remarks or do anything out of line, as long as he was the “obedient citizen” the government wanted him to be, his path would lead upward. […]
Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows
The Epoch Times Editorial Board | New Tang Dynasty Severe COVID-19 outbreaks highlight different countries’ entanglements with Beijing In the final weeks of 2019, a novel coronavirus outbreak occurred in the city of Wuhan, in central China. As the world welcomed a new decade, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opted to suppress information about the emerging crisis […]