Xi takes off the mask
Xi Jinping's recent European tour was an unprecedented spectacle in international affairs: an Asian leader was arriving as representative of a great power to lesser nations of an anxious continent.
Read MoreXi Jinping's recent European tour was an unprecedented spectacle in international affairs: an Asian leader was arriving as representative of a great power to lesser nations of an anxious continent.
Read MoreChinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to deepen their strategic partnership in Beijing on Thursday, in a stark show of their growing alignment as Moscow’s troops advance in Ukraine.
Read More“The fact that IPAC as 'witnesses' or 'accomplices' to an alleged crime have never been approached by the Hong Kong authorities is revelatory of the degree to which the integrity of this trial is in question," said Luke De Pulford, the executive director of the IPAC.
Read MoreBeing in detention was not new to Yan. He had already spent 19 months in a Chinese prison for his part in 1989’s Tiananmen Square protests. Students had called for greater democracy and freedom, but the Communist Party sent in tanks to crush them. At the end of June 1989, the Chinese government said that 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel had died. Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to many thousands. On his release, Yan had made his way to southern China where, in scenes that could have been taken from a spy film, he was sent from one public phone booth to another, to be put in touch with the people who could get him out.
Read MoreA European diplomat said Xi was the "winner" of the visit, having "cemented his image as the 'ruler of the world' where Westerners are begging him to solve European problems in Ukraine".
Read MoreChina under Xi Jinping is making use of all the vulnerabilities it can find or create in liberal Western societies. Its tactics include coercive diplomacy, proxy war through hostile states, political espionage and influence operations, disinformation and propaganda, data theft, cyber attacks and more in pursuing its goals.
Read MoreFormer Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, who now works for Club for Growth, has spent time on Capitol Hill lobbying on behalf of TikTok. Jeff Yass, a billionaire and one of the biggest donors to Club for Growth, owns a 15% stake in ByteDance.
Read MorePentagon's 0.9% budget growth pales in comparison to China's 7.2%
Read MoreChina is reportedly building a fourth aircraft carrier, making it the second largest carrier power behind the United States.
Read More“There have been communication devices that have been found on the cranes. They can be remotely controlled,” Alperovitch said. “First of all, for intelligence collection purposes, you can use it to figure out what is going on in a port. And then you might have the ability to actually destroy that infrastructure and prevent logistics, for example, from flowing into the Indo-Pacific if there’s some sort of conflict with China.” The report comes amid an announcement from the Department of Justice revealing a former Army intelligence analyst has been indicted on six counts for sharing confidential information with China, and a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China.
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