By Matthew Richter

In short: A Chinese PhD student has been denied a visa to study in Canada, formally on the grounds he could potentially, at some point in the future, maybe become or be forced to act as a, spy, informally on the grounds that Canada is buying into US imperialism, deliberate provocation of war with China and informal technology ( Read more... )

Posted by Cindy Carter

按时开会1984：Dr. Wenliang, I haven’t been here for a long time. I thought your Weibo had disappeared, but I came today to have a look, and it turns out that everyone is here, keeping a watch over you, pouring their hearts out to each other, and showing each other warmth ( Read more... )

Posted by Alexander Boyd

A solitary protestor hung two banners calling for Xi Jinping to be removed from office and exhorting the populace to “Be citizens, not slaves,” an extremely rare act of overt political defiance on the eve of the 20th Party Congress. The unknown protester hung the banners from busy Sitong Bridge in Beijing’s northwestern ( Read more... )

By Scott Ritter

Intent, Motive And Means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.Circumstantial evidence, just like direct proof, can be used to prove the elements of a crime, the existence or completion of ( Read more... )

By Hamish McDonald

Has the Australian Strategic Policy Institute been pushed off course by the China hawks?[...]The Australia Institute’s Allan Behm, another former senior defence official, is among those who think ASPI has strayed far from its original mandate. Howard’s aim, he says, was to create “a freestanding and independent commentator on ( Read more... )

By Joseph Brouwer

Popular health-focused outlet DXY is the latest popular science outlet to run afoul of China’s censors and online nationalists. Five DXY Weibo accounts, with a combined total of more than 30 million followers, were simultaneously suspended for unstated reasons earlier this week. There is widespread speculation that DXY’s ( Read more... )

Immediately following the 1988 downing of Iranian Air Flight 655 by USS Vincennes (290 deaths), The Thatcherite cult mockingly known as a government defended the Reagan regime with recently declassified documents revealing Thatcher helped cover it up, ingenuously supporting embarrassingly ridiculous US claims that the plane was “outside the ( Read more... )

- Iran and USA sign JCPOA ( Read more... )

Well, shit. Propaganda, fearmongering etc.

By Adam Ni

How do Australians see China in 2022?

Last week, the Lowy Institute published the results of its annual polling of Australian public opinion on foreign policy. The results confirm what we know: Australian public opinion on China has soured over the last five years. Today, more Australians ( Read more... )

"China are kleptomaniacs when it comes to user data ( Read more... )