This China:
Media smears against the Communist Party of China have misinformed Canadians, says Ambassador Cong Peiwu. The envoy in webinar remarks to a Beijing-friendly group in Ottawa complained of poor press coverage: “Speak out.”
Certainly, Mr. Cong:
State-sponsored hackers targeted Vatican computer networks just weeks before the provisional agreement between China and the Holy See is due to be renewed, according to a report released Tuesday.
(Sidebar: maybe the Vatican should not renew this travesty then.)
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A prominent Hong Kong dissident has warned foreign media in Hong Kong could soon face the same harassment that compelled two Australian journalists to leave mainland China this month.
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Wong said activists in her group had a foretaste of the impotence of Canadian police in the face of such harassment on August 17, 2019, when members of the Hong Kong diaspora rallied in 30 cities around the world to back Hong Kong's anti-extradition protests. They were met by counter-protesters waving Chinese flags.
Wong said she was one of a number of protest participants who were subsequently "doxxed" by online antagonists. "They took photos of me and started digging up my personal information, my email address, where I was living, my phone number," she said. "And [they] shared that kind of information maliciously through WeChat channels."
Look, Mr. Cong. I spoke out.
It's a gift that keeps on giving!:
Thousands of people in northwestern China have tested positive for brucellosis, a disease that commonly infects livestock, after a pharmaceutical factory accidentally vented bacteria into the air last year, officials say.
At least 3,245 people have contracted the disease in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, according to a statement from the city’s health commission. More than 1,000 are suspected to have the disease. No fatalities have been reported since the problem was first identified last November.
The latest numbers are much higher than initially thought, the state-run Global Times reports.
The last time Mongolia had a problem with China, a wall had to be built:
Ethnic Mongolians, including students and parents, in China’s Inner Mongolia region are demonstrating their anger in rare public protests against a new bilingual education policy that they say is endangering the Mongolian language.
China may not want to anger Russia:
China is already successfully challenging Russia for influence among the post-Soviet states in Central Asia, particularly in Tajikistan. China's establishment of a military base inside Tajikistan near its border with Afghanistan appears to have bested Russia's effort to provide the Tajik government with security against Afghanistan-based jihadists just across the border.
Another area of disagreement is China's opposition to Russia's seizure of Crimea and its subsequent invasion of Ukraine.
A major plank of disingenuously articulated Chinese foreign policy is the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. While disapproving of Russia's assaults on sovereign states, China seems to have no problem asserting its own will in and around other states, for instance, in the South and East China Seas, India and the Galapagos Islands.
Russia, in turn, has not supported China's aggressive moves in the South China Sea, in an attempt not to alienate Vietnam, the Philippines or Malaysia.
Mainly, this bilateral condominium might be doomed to collapse because there is no trust in the relationship. Russian security officers recently arrested a Russian scientist accused of spying for China. Russia and China act far more like competitors than allies. Their common antipathy for the United States most likely presents a distorted image of a coordinated policy agreement. These two authoritarian rivals could eventually assume their normal historical role as adversaries, even enemies. Consequently, Western intelligence agencies and policymakers might want to be wary of not overestimating the solidity and longevity of the Chinese-Russian friendship.
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