Swedish author and photographer Jojje Olsson was astonished to receive a personal message from online professional network LinkedIn in his digital inbox. The provider informed him that “prohibited content” had been discovered in the education subsection. This was the reason for blocking his profile in the People’s Republic of China with immediate effect. Olsson had […]
The Chinese foreign TV broadcaster CGTN is looking for potential employees at British universities. According to a report in the Times of London, the state-owned network, which recently had its broadcasting license for the UK revoked due to excessive influence by the Chinese government, is offering up to $10,000 for cooperation. The students are supposed […]
Alibaba founding member Joseph Tsai has explicitly endorsed the introduction of the National Security Law in Hong Kong in an interview. The Taiwanese with Canadian citizenship, who is responsible for strategic acquisitions and investments at the world’s largest internet company, defended the new legal framework’s extensive deprivation of the democratic rights of Hong Kong citizens […]
For months, the US and China have been weakening their shared economic framework of global trade with mutual punitive measures. The anti-foreign sanctions law from Beijing, which was passed last week (China.Table reported), leads to scenarios in which European and other companies find themselves in a quandary. In the worst scenario, companies are forced to […]
So far, more than 200,000 foreigners have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in China, according to official figures. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said foreign nationals in the eligible age groups have been integrated into the national vaccination program. Cooperation will be stepped up with “some relevant countries” next, the spokesman announced. The government wants to make […]
The Japanese Ministry of Education has announced an official investigation into the 14 Confucius Institutes in the country. The agency wants to investigate suspicions about whether the institutions are being used by the Chinese government for propaganda purposes and may be collaborating with the country’s intelligence services, the Nikkei agency reported. The host Japanese universities […]
After decades of rearmament, China’s military arsenal has reached a technically highly sophisticated level with considerable destructive power. However, instead of intercontinental ballistic missiles, stealth bombers, or aircraft carriers, President Xi Jinping declared the United Labor Front, as Xi put it a few years ago, as the “magic weapon” of the People’s Republic.This department, also […]
The Chinese government’s birth control policies could drastically reduce the number of newborns in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region by 2040. An analysis by German anthropologist Adrian Zenz, obtained by Reuters ahead of its publication, predicts 2.6 to 4.5 million prevented births over the next 20 years.The figures support the thesis that the Chinese government wants […]
The Chinese government has already let more than a year pass to prove its willingness to be unconditionally transparent in the search for the origin of the Covid-19 virus to the rest of the world. Contrary to its announcement of full support for the World Health Organization (WHO), it gave the impression of having predetermined […]
Prominent Chinese blogger Qiu Ziming has been sentenced to eight months in prison for denigrating martyrs. In February, Qiu challenged the official death toll of Chinese soldiers killed in a border skirmish with Indian forces in June 2020. Chinese authorities had only belatedly acknowledged that four People’s Liberation Army soldiers had died in the clash. […]