Uganda loses its only international airport to China for failing to repay loan
Last week, Ugandan Finance Minister Matia Kasaija had apologised to Parliament for “mishandling” the multi-million dollar loan.
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Woman connected to Chinese Communist Party ‘seeking to covertly interfere in UK politics,’ MI5 says
MI5 had warned House Speaker Lindsay Hoyle that an "agent of the Chinese government" has been actively working to "subvert" the processes of Parliament. "This is a matter of grave concern," Duncan Smith said. Lee is extensively connected to "individuals across the UK political spectrum, including through the now-disbanded All-Party Parliamentary Chinese in Britain Group, and they may aspire to establish further APPGs to further the CCP's agenda," MI5 said.
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U.S. Olympian Shaun White Poses with Tibetan Flag Weeks Before Beijing Genocide Olympics
Tibetan, Uyghur, and Hong Kong activists are meeting with Olympic athletes at the final qualifying events for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to talk about China’s human rights abuses, Students for a Free Tibet said Saturday.
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MI5 warning over ‘Chinese agent’ in Parliament
But MI5 said that activity "had been undertaken in covert coordination with the United Front Work Department [of the CCP], with funding provided by foreign nationals located in China and Hong Kong".
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US-China: Could There Be War Over Taiwan?
It’s one of the most daunting questions of the 21st century: Will there be war over Taiwan? Tensions in the Taiwan Strait are at their worst in 40 years. October 2021 saw a record number of Chinese military jets fly into Taiwan’s air buffer zone. Things between Beijing and Taipei have been acrimonious. Washington’s strained relations with China make matters even more fraught. Will China’s President Xi Jinping use force to settle the Taiwan issue once and for all? And if he does, will the US come to Taiwan’s defence, as President Biden seems to have promised? Is Taiwan under Tsai Ing-Wen prepared for war? We hear from political analysts, military experts and more.
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Promise Me the Middle Kingdom
A young boy reflects on how the decisions of his county's politicians and business elites lead to the destruction of his city.
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The Middle Kingdom Meets Higher Education
How U.S. Universities Support China’s Military-Industrial Complex
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Inside China’s brutal quarantine camps where families are made to live in metal boxes
Where ‘families are made to live in metal boxes in world’s worst Covid lockdown’
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3 ways China is growing its media influence in Indonesia
Around the world, the Chinese government is dispersing its version of information through content-sharing deals under media partnership, censorship and training of foreign journalists.
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China and America prepare for a human-rights showdown at the UN
At the UN dozens of governments—including America’s, Germany’s and Britain’s—have made annual joint statements decrying China’s behaviour, and calling for free access to Xinjiang for Michelle Bachelet, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights. (She has had to investigate without going there.) Independent human-rights experts appointed by the UN have also issued a rare statement deploring China’s abuses in Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang. But UN institutions have said and done nothing about China. There has never been any chance of action against China in the Security Council, where China holds a veto. Under Xi Jinping, China has become active and influential in the organisation, placing diplomats in senior and junior jobs throughout the entire UN system. And China is now the second-largest contributor, after America, to the UN’s general budget.
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