Australia’s Climate Ambitions Have a Modern Slavery Problem: Examining the Origins of Our Big Batteries
Several big battery projects in Australia vital for storing renewable energy to meet the nation’s climate goals are highly likely to be using materials sourced through the forced labour of Uyghur and other Turkic ethnic groups in China, ASPI research has found. ASPI has examined the supply chains for big battery projects across various Australian […]
Mid-Autumn Festival, the Most Romantic Holiday of The Middle Kingdom
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the second largest traditional festival, after the Lunar New Year. It is one of the most humane and poetic traditional Chinese festivals, and has been celebrated for over 3,000 years, long before the Chinese Communist Party took control the Mainland China. Origins of the Mid-Autumn Festival According to historical […]
China Deflects After UN Renews Calls to Investigate Xinjiang Abuses (Video)
By William Echols Lin Jian Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson “People of all ethnic groups in China are equal and their legitimate rights and interests are fully protected. Xinjiang today enjoys social stability and economic growth and the people there live a happy life. It is at its best in history where people of all ethnic […]
Domestic, Foreign Efforts to Disrupt US Presidential Election Are Up, Researchers Say
By Veronica Balderas Iglesias Two reports released this week sound the alarm about an increase in efforts to disrupt the U.S. presidential election. They say information manipulation, political violence and intimidation are on the rise. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias reports.
China’s All-of-Society Procurement Strategy
The People’s Republic of China is in the midst of the fastest military buildup since the Second World War. By: Gordon G. Chang The People’s Republic of China is in the midst of the fastest military buildup since the Second World War. Expect the rapid expansion to continue. China’s regime is building an industrial base […]
Explainer: Tim Walz’s Long Track Record in China
By William Yang Taipei, Taiwan —From teaching at a high school in China to his experience serving on a key congressional committee that focuses on relations between Beijing and Washington, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz has a decades-long connection with China dating back to the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. As an educator, […]
INTERVIEW: How the West has Been Misreading China for Years
By Chen Zifei Frank Dikötter, author of the “People’s Trilogy” about China under of Mao Zedong, has been chair professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong since 2006. He recently published “China After Mao,” in which he argues that claims that the Chinese Communist Party has significantly changed direction in the post-Mao era […]
Vice Presidential Nominee Vance Calls China ‘Biggest Threat to Our Country’
By Lin Yang WASHINGTON —In his short time in the U.S. Senate, J.D. Vance, the newly tapped Republican vice presidential nominee, has been a hawk on China. He has introduced legislation to restrict Chinese access to U.S. financial markets and to protect U.S. higher education from Chinese influence. In an interview with Fox News shortly […]
Silicon Valley Steps up Screening on Chinese Employees to Counter Espionage
By Stella Hsu WASHINGTON —Leading U.S. technology companies reportedly have increased security screening of employees and job applicants, which experts say is necessary to counter the cyber espionage threat from China. While the enhanced screening is being applied to employees and applicants of all races, those with family or other ties to China are thought […]
Rep. Scott Perry’s Initiates a Bill of Protection Falun Gong Practitioners (Video)
Congressman Scott Perry is a combat Veteran representing the 760,000 People of the 10th Congressional District of Pennsylvania since 2013. He presently serves on the U.S. House Committees on: Transportation and Infrastructure – of which he is also Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, and serves on the Subcommittee […]