In the last two weeks, U.S. military fighter jets shot down at least four aerial objects, including a Chinese spy balloon that flew across country from Alaska to South Carolina over an eight-day stretch.
President Biden addressed the situation for the first time on Thursday, more than two weeks after the initial Chinese spy flight that traveled across the continental United States for several days. Biden said the additional objects were “most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research,” and not Chinese spy aircraft.
But the Biden administration is still assessing the three unknown objects, and White House National Security Council Director of Strategic Communications John Kirby said Friday they might never know what the objects were.
National Security Council Coordinator Admiral John Kirby speaks at a White House Press Briefing following the U.S. downing of a number of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenas (UAPs), at the White House on February 13th, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Americans shouldn’t be concerned about aerial object risks: Kirby Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich asks the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, John Kirby, about Americans’ safety if they see an aerial object in the sky.
“There are major security concerns with a lot of these cameras, both in terms of the technology they contain and what happens to the data that comes from them. If you buy a system like this, you have to be able to trust the company you are buying from.”
He added that using Chinese-made cameras also presents ethical concerns, since some have been implicated in helping the Chinese government monitor detainment camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.
His comments came after Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, said the UK should “wake up” to the threat posed by China, following last week’s decision by Washington to shoot down a balloon officials believed to be carrying out surveillance.
In a press conference on Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice detailed(Opens in a new tab) newly-unsealed charges against two alleged spies(Opens in a new tab) from China. According to the DOJ brief, Chinese intelligence officers Guochun He and Zheng Wang had attempted to obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation of a “global telecommunications company” based in China through bribery and espionage.
China’s healthcare system has been overwhelmed by a surge in Covid cases since abandoning its zero-Covid policy last month. Now there are fears that the Covid crisis could worsen amid Lunar New Year celebrations. CNN’s Ivan Watson reports.
TikTok is a formidable tool for espionage and mass control, and the Chinese communist dictatorship could do whatever they want with it. These, in brief, are the concerns expressed by FBI director Christopher Wray while attending an event at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
— Read on www.techspot.com/news/96859-fbi-director-tiktok-could-china-best-espionage-tool.html
While local governments have been much more ambitious with their innovative regulations, causing more controversies and public pushback, the countrywide social credit system will still take a long time to materialize. And China is now closer than ever to defining what that system will look like. On November 14, several top government agencies collectively released a draft law on the Establishment of the Social Credit System, the first attempt to systematically codify past experiments on social credit and, theoretically, guide future implementation.
China accelerates global campaign to sway foreign media
As part of the campaign, Chinese diplomats and state media outlets have “openly promoted falsehoods or misleading content,” the report said.
“[T]here was a concerted effort to whitewash and deny the human rights atrocities and violations of international law being committed against members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” Freedom House said, calling this “the most disturbing result of the CCP’s global media influence campaign.”
The Xinjiang isolation camp, filmed on 4-Oct, it is so wide that you can’t see the end of it … Looks like a concentration camp to experts, but China claims it is just covid isolation camp
Chinese internet users detained over Xinjiang Covid-19 outbreak ‘rumours’
4 people in Yining ordered to serve up to 10 days behind bars for various offences, including ‘inciting opposition’Announcement comes just days after authorities in the prefecture admit failings in access to medical services
与该运动有关的一些账户还发布了捏造的内容，例如据称是参议员马可·卢比奥的办公室寄给人类学家阿德里安·曾茨（Adrian Zenz）的信，后者是中国对待新疆维吾尔人的著名批评者。在一个现已暂停帐户的推文中，伪造信件的三张图片试图“抹黑”人类学家 Adrian Zenz，暗示他从卢比奥和前白宫首席战略家史蒂夫班农以及共产主义受害者纪念基金会获得资金.
“Baidu Maps show that there are 38 Shandong dumpling restaurants and 67 Shanxi noodle restaurants in Taipei,” China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying tweeted on Sunday.
“Palates don’t cheat. #Taiwan has always been a part of China. The long lost child will eventually return home,” said Hua, who has the @SpokespersonCHN handle on Twitter.
One of the most popular response came from Morgan Ortagus, who served as State Department spokesperson during the administration of former President Donald Trump.
“There are over 8,500 KFC restaurants in China. Palates don’t cheat. #China has always been a part of Kentucky. The long lost child will eventually return home,” Ortagus said in her now viral tweet.
In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself
Taiwan, Covid, “color revolutions,” the classroom: everywhere, China’s leader sees threats that foreign forces can exploit, and he has enlisted the whole nation to defend against them.
The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reached the climax of its lengthy battle with the Media Research Center’s video division by entirely axing it from the platform without notice.
An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find that the account was “banned” — again — but not before the platform removed five more videos.
No 10 should follow parliament and ditch TikTok, says Tory MP
…The group, who have all been banned from China and Hong Kong, pointed to TikTok’s ownership by a Chinese company, ByteDance, and warned that under a Chinese security law, the company would be obliged to supply the personal data of users to Beijing…..
China’s cyberspace watchdog reports ‘significant results’ in online platform regulation
The Cybersecurity Administration of China said it summoned more than 3,400 internet platforms during the first half of 2022A Politburo meeting this week concluded that the government would ‘normalise’ regulatory efforts aimed at tech platforms
Ridiculous! China is promoting its propaganda in Canada campus! Chinese teacher poisoned Canada kids with Chinese movie “My People, My Country”.The movie was produced by Chinese Communist Party(CCP)with a single purpose of brainwashing people by beautifying itself
The CCP begins brainwashing their children with propaganda and forced indoctrination at a very young age. By the time they are adults, many Chinese believe the CCP is god. The few who don’t can’t say otherwise for fear of retaliation from the CCP.
Former employees who worked at the English-language news aggregator told the publication that ByteDance ordered staff members to “pin” content that showed China in a positive light or content that promoted the country to the top of the app. They were even reportedly required to provide proof, such as screenshots of the live content, to show that they had complied with the company’s orders. TopBuzz managed to reach 40 million monthly active users by 2018.
Video: This Chinese man says he immigrated from a Han province of China to Turpan Prefecture of Uyghur homeland & was given 2000 acres of grape-vine land as in this video. He says this is a typical situation. What happened to the original owners of the lands, the #Uyghurs? pic.twitter.com/eVPTLi5mXy
Xi Jinping has nurtured an ugly form of Chinese nationalism
习近平培养了一种丑陋的中国民族主义
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A group of researchers at Beijing Jiaotong University in China have developed and tested a ‘mind-reading’ device that will help implement the country’s policy of censoring porn, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
A Night Club in #China celebrating assassination of #ShinzoAbe. There are restaurants offering “Free Food” & Bars offering “Free Booze”🍸 all across China to Celebrate his Death. That’s the kind of Society it is. You behave worse than Animals & accuse others of Racism. Not Done. pic.twitter.com/IH5OnAqufD
Famous Chinese ‘lipstick king’ is suddenly yanked offline and loses millions of fans over a live stunt with a classic Australian dessert – and he hasn’t been seen since
A new leaked file containing thousands of images of #Uyghurs, titled "#Xinjiang Police File," offers significant new insights into #China's internment of the region’s Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities. https://t.co/Z0ADYfW93X
Enhanced Brainwashing for Xi JinPing’s China Dream: To study Xi’s words/theory in Little Red Book manner as what Mao did in Culture Revolution. Propaganda is CCP’s most evil & powerful weapon. At least 1-2M of unnatural deaths happened at that time. What will happen this time⁉️ pic.twitter.com/doCPUgqbbU
1/N This is one of the most disturbing videos i saw today. China is brainwashing its kids to justify Russia‘s invasion in Schools. Teacher askes “whose soliders are u？Kids reply：I am ur soilder. This type of “education” video is flooding on China’s internet…
Xinjiang Police Files: Inside a Chinese internment camp
China insists the network of secure facilities built across its far western region of Xinjiang are simply “schools” for combatting extremism to which “students” sign up willingly. But the contents of the leaked Xinjiang Police Files suggest a different story.
Taking information from the leaked documents, the BBC has reconstructed one of the camps – the Shufu County New Vocational Skills Education and Training Centre – to reveal the methods used inside.
Several provinces in China are under #屏蔽来自中国大陆以外的来电和短信 . The move is seen as an attempt by the Beijing government to prevent unfiltered information from entering China.
China 🇨🇳 Of C'mon Man 😂 The China Covid Propaganda Machine is once again in full swing… Now they are Covid Testing Catfish 🐟…It's all Covid Theatre and it's all 100% staged… 🤡👇 pic.twitter.com/CmTftZ2feh
From my friends who are still trapped inside their apartments. Shanghai residents were yelling behind the iron gate: “End the lockdown, we want to go out.” This is happening in several communities. I Hope their resistance prevails. #Shanghai#lily4congress @DianaGlebova pic.twitter.com/5lreoCgTqV
American Merchant mariner Giancarlo Thomae reveals that his ship has been trapped outside Shanghai port for two months during lockdown. They are nearly running out of food and water.#China#COVID19pic.twitter.com/jm5aI9FVn3
Censors in China Are Having a Hard Time Silencing All the Rage Right Now.
Censors on social media platforms are cracking down on photos and videos of sick people not getting sufficient access to healthcare, or even being mistreated by healthcare workers. Hashtags of people complaining about food shortages are being outright banned.
” No ‘Negative’ News: How China Censored the Coronavirus Thousands of internal directives and reports reveal how Chinese officials stage-managed what appeared online in the early days of the outbreak.
This Young Pop Star Set Himself on Fire in Public. Then His Body Disappeared. Tsewang Norbu was the poster child of the Chinese assimilation campaign in Tibet. Now fans are trying to piece together what happened to him. 这位年轻的流行歌星在公共场合自焚。然后他的身体消失了。 次旺诺布是西藏中国同化运动的典型代表。现在粉丝们正试图拼凑发生在他身上的事情。 www.vice.com/en/article/qjb5xp/pop-star-norbu-self-immolation-china-tibet
Fears Persist for Shanghai Doctor Who Blasted ‘Political Virus’
It's not so much that many people oppose centralized quarantine, it's just that the situations at many Shanghai facilities are so bad: lack of supplies, lack of staff, lack of hygiene. These photos were posted on Weibo by a Shanghai resident quarantined in Pudong today. pic.twitter.com/mWQUed3T7A
Tourists smiled and posed in traditional dress on camels for photographs amid billboards extolling the ruling Communist Party.
China is trying to move on from a security crackdown in Xinjiang in which more than a million ethnic Uyghurs were detained in re-education centres since 2016, according to U.N. experts and researchers – part of what Beijing has described as an effort to eradicate extremism.
It wants to build a patriotic, multi-ethnic region that is secular, Mandarin-speaking and attractive to domestic tourists who spend trillions of yuan a year on group tours and curated experiences.
The Chinese government continues to be the worst abuser of internet freedom, according to the 2019 Freedom on the Net report, released in November. Its oppressive censorship is increasingly affecting people outside of China.
Remaking Hong Kong: The Order from Beijing is to Brainwash Students
“The job of a teacher became exclusively to raise patriots. Only foreign countries were allowed to be criticized,” says a Hong Kong teacher of 20 years
If there is one thing we can learn from the Xi Jinping led Chinese Communist Party (CCP), it is how to manipulate existing sources of information into making them portray China as the benevolent leader; a patriotic state willing to protect its citizens against the perils that ail the “Western” world. For a long time now, the Chinese state has had but one purpose – to control how domestic and international markets narrativise the nature of this state. This is done through intensive state-backed military, technological and economic exercises, with no use of Soft-power, whatsoever. Herewith, I discuss how the CCP exercises nationalism as an ideology to cater to the masses, along with the past and the processes that have led to the successful implementation of this propaganda.
On this Video, Reporter asked the girl who got in the way of reporter’s filming even take a video of reporter “Are you a Media ?” several times, then She told ” I’m a Chinese, I’m a Chinese “. She might need video to upload on their own social media to show how she was bravely argued with foreign reporter protecting her own country, then thousand of thousand Chinese Young generation praise her as true patriot. After for a short time, She call more people and they surround a reporter with With their foul language and behavior.
Worst flood suffering in Zhengzhow, Henan, China now by record heavy raining. This is the worst disaster in Zhengzhou city but bot in China. There were more bigger damaged flood disasters in 2020 in China.
An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find that the account was “banned” — again — but not before the platform removed five more videos. 
