The construction now includes a scattering of permanent features like seawalls, airfields and buildings across numerous islands. Although China originally claimed the island construction projects were for scientific research, satellite imagery has revealed military infrastructure.
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What would the global implications be if China were to launch an attack?
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A graffiti wall in London’s bustling street art hub of Brick Lane has become an unlikely canvas for protest messages against China’s authoritarian rule
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China is shaping global markets to incentivize adherence to its authoritarian geopolitical objectives.
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The Solomon Star newspaper received Chinese money after giving assurances it would push messages favorable to Beijing.
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At TDC in Copenhagen, senior managers were potential suspects. The company’s offices were compromised, people were getting tailed. And then there were the drones …
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Deals surrounding the plant put Jordan on the hook for billions of dollars in debt to China for a plant that is no longer needed
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One of the other exiled activists - Anna Kwok, executive director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council - said the bounty was aimed at intimidating her and her fellow activists. She said in a statement they were all "united in our fight for freedom and democracy in our home, Hong Kong". She told the BBC's Newshour programme she had felt initial shock on hearing of the bounties but wanted to speak out. "That's exactly the kind of thing the Hong Kong government and the Chinese Communist party would do - which is to intimidate people into not doing anything, silencing them.
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In 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled against Beijing’s claims but there are no clear mechanisms to enforce the arbitration ruling and China refuses to recognise it.
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The previously unreported shipments between a state-owned Chinese company and a Russian munitions factory last year raise new questions about Beijing’s role in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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