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China Develops Helmets For Soldiers with Remote Self-Destruct Kill Button
✪ The Chinese military is equipping soldiers stationed in Tibet with newly developed helmets embedded with a self-destruct button. The button remotely triggers an embedded bomb to detonate, killing the soldier…
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✪ About 50 pro-democracy activists, former lawmakers, and politicians were arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning, drawing international condemnation. They were arrested on suspicion of subversion, a crime under Beijing’s national security law, for their roles in a primary vote held by the pan-democracy camp ahead of the Legislative Council (LegCo) elections in September last year, according to a Facebook post by local pro-democracy group Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF)...
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Xi Jinping Orders China Military To Focus On ‘Preparing For War’ As His CCP Approaches 100th Anniversary
✪ Chinese leader Xi Jinping has commanded the regime’s military to focus on “preparing for war,” as Beijing looks to make a splash in 2021—the year marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
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27 Dogs Rescued From The Meat Trade In China Are Headed To New Family Homes In California
✪ Dozens of dogs saved from slaughterhouses in China will soon meet their new fur-ever families in California this weekend thanks to a Big Apple-based rescue group…
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✪ Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe is considering not signing an intelligence report to Congress if it does not accurately reflect an ongoing debate among intelligence community career analysts over Chinese attempts to influence American voters in the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the issue…
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China’s Combative Nationalists See The World Begin To Turn Their Way
✪ China’s Communist Party, under its leader, Xi Jinping, has promoted the idea that the country is on a trajectory to power past Western rivals…
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✪ China intends to “deepen” its partnership with Russia as a bulwark against the United States over the next year, according to a top diplomat in Beijing. “We must deepen China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperation … so as to build a Sino-Russian pillar for world peace and security and global strategic stability,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday...
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✪ Documents revealed Wednesday by Canada’s Rebel News Network suggest that Canada planned to train China’s military in cold weather tactics at a military base in Ontario — and canceled the program, reluctantly, at the Trump administration’s request.
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Intelligence Chief Ratcliffe: China Targeting Members Of Congress As Part Of ‘Massive Influence Campaign’
✪ John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, said Thursday that the Chinese government is targeting multiple members of Congress as part of a “massive” foreign influence campaign. In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Ratcliffe said that Beijing is targeting lawmakers with six times the frequency of Russia and 12 times more than the government of Iran…
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✪ Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a “global mechanism” that would use QR codes to open up international travel. “We need to further harmonize policies and standards and establish ‘fast tracks’ to facilitate the orderly flow of people,” he said. The codes will be used to help establish a traveller’s health status…
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