Sun Yi took a lot of risks in helping make Letter from Masanjia, an hour-long documentary about his experiences in China’s most notorious labor camp. Not that Sun was there to watch the film’s premiere screening in Canada recently. He died last year in the Indonesian city of Jakarta where he had sought refuge after ...
A former Central Intelligence Agency agent faces life in prison. Thr former CIA officer was found guilty of supplying Chinese agents with classified information. Kevin Mallory, 61, a former CIA officer, was found guilty by a federal jury of espionage charges in a court in northern Virginia on June 8. He was convicted of conspiracy ...
Beijing’s political influence activities in New Zealand have reached a critical level and are a threat to the country’s sovereignty, warns a report released by Canada’s intelligence service. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) compiled the report based on views and short papers contributed by unnamed experts at a March 6 workshop focused on the repercussions ...
While it may sound like something from an Orwellian story, government officials were sent to live with Uyghurs in their homes in Xinjiang so that they could watch them and ask questions about their lives and political views. That is currently the reality for families in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang. Toward the end of ...
The U.S. has warned Beijing there will be consequences for its installation of missiles in the South China Sea on contested islands. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told media that: “We’re well aware of China’s militarization of the South China Sea.” Huckabee Sanders said that the U.S. has raised their concerns with the Chinese ...
David Kilgour faced skepticism from various quarters when he first co-authored one of several reports that said prisoners of conscience were being killed on demand for organ harvesting in China. Twelve years from the release of his first report in 2006, the former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) and other independent researchers have gone on ...
A coalition of experts — including lawyers, academics, and medical ethicists — have called upon the Australian government to close down a Sydney dead bodies exhibition displaying flayed, plastinated human corpses sourced from China that they say could be the remains of executed prisoners, including prisoners of conscience. Members of the Australian Committee of the ...
A leading Australian academic has urged liberal democracies to “muscle up” in dealing with Beijing’s interference by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the below interview with China Uncensored, Professor Clive Hamilton, author of the recently released Silent Invasion, said Beijing has been conducting comprehensive influence operations on Australia and its institutions. When researching the book, ...
Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced a law aimed at pressuring Chinese state-run Confucius Institutes operating in American education institutions over concerns that they’re pushing propaganda. U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton, along with Congressman Joe Wilson, who are all Republican, introduced the Foreign Influence Transparency Act on March 22. In a statement, the GOP ...
Beijing announced on March 5 that it is raising its armed forces defense budget by 8.1 percent, a figure doubted by outside analysts who say the amount for is much higher than Beijing’s official military budget announcement. The defense budget for 2018 officially is 1.11 trillion yuan ($175 billion), making China the world’s second biggest ...
© 2024 nspirement. All rights reserved
