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Nov 16 2021
News
Biden exits three-hour Xi summit with no White House mention of China’s growing nuke arsenal
President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met via video teleconference for more than three hours on Monday night, discussing a wide slate of issues at a moment of growing international concern over Cold War prospects between the U.S. and the world’s biggest communist power.
While China‘s military muscle-flexing and advancements — including its rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal and a
Washington TimesSep 23 2020
News
Facebook Removes Chinese Accounts Posting About Foreign Policy, 2020 Election
Facebook says it has taken down a network of China-based fake accounts whose posts included content about the U.S. presidential election.
Most of the activity by the more than 180 fake accounts, groups and pages was focused on Southeast Asia, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, said in a blog post Tuesday.
The network posted in Chinese, Filipino and English
NPR (Online News)Dec 31 2020
News
China Looks To Cartoons, Social Media To Form A Patriotic Generation
China has a long history of focusing on the political education of new generations. Under the guidance of President Xi Jinping, however, the Chinese Communist Party has turned to social media and cartoons to instill sympathetic attitudes in the nation’s children.
Pro-China propaganda has become the norm in recent years. A multi-pronged effort to spread nationalistic sentiment across the
International Business TimesJun 06 2015
News
Snowden sees 'profound' public shift against electronic spying
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, pointing to new curbs by Congress on electronic surveillance, says he sees a "profound" change in public opinion on the issue since he leaked details of NSA intelligence gathering two years ago.
Snowden, 31, also a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, was an NSA contractor when he provided information on such programs to
USA TODAYSep 30 2021
Opinion
Amnesty Is Unfair to Legal Immigrants Like Me
Lawmakers in Congress are still trying to use their $3.5 trillion spending bill to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens — even after the Senate parliamentarian ruled that their initial proposal was ineligible for inclusion, due to the complex rules surrounding the filibuster-proof budget “reconciliation” process that Democrats are using to pass their agenda on a strict party-line vote
National Review (News)Oct 09 2019
News
NBA Kowtows to China
“An increasing number of U.S. lawmakers voiced anger on Monday over the NBA’s response to a Houston Rockets official’s tweet backing Hong Kong democracy protests… The National Basketball Association, which has built a huge following and burgeoning business in China, said in a statement it regretted the remarks by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey. A Chinese-language version seemed to
The Flip SideJul 01 2013
News
Snowden's Options for Refuge Narrow
As Edward Snowden entered his second week of limbo in Moscow's airport on Sunday, his decision to go to Russia is looking riskier than it first appeared, and may have left him in a worse situation than if he had stayed in Hong Kong.
Even with his next move uncertain, the former National Security Agency contractor caused fresh uproar over the weekend. On Sunday, German weekly Der Spiegel
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 01 2014
News
Snowden's asylum status in Russia ends
Edward Snowden's temporary asylum status in Russia expired at midnight Thursday, but the former U.S. National Security Agency systems administrator appears set to stay on until authorities decide on his application for an extension.
Snowden was stranded in a Moscow airport last year en route from Hong Kong to Cuba, shortly after he revealed the NSA's sprawling program of tapping phones
USA TODAYNov 19 2019
News
Xinjiang Abuses Exposed
Last Saturday, The New York Times released “more than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents [that] provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.” (New York Times)
Both sides condemn China and call for a forceful response:
“The echo of ‘1984,’ ‘Brave New World’ or ‘Fahrenheit 451’ is unmistakable. But this is not dystopian
The Flip SideDec 03 2019
News
Why tyrants really block the internet
For five days in mid-November, during one of the largest protests in Iran’s history, the regime in Tehran blocked access to almost the entire internet for the first time. In effect, it imposed an information blackout to the rest of the world. Now we know why. Videos and other reports sent out since then show police on a killing spree against peaceful protesters. Yet the crackdown is not a big
Christian Science Monitor