China Sent 52 Warplanes Into Taiwan’s Air Defense Zone in its Largest Show of Force Yet
This display of Chinese military power comes just one day after the State Department issued a statement on Chinese military activities near Taiwan.
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The Big Bluff: China Threatening Taiwan Is a Dead Giveaway
China is huffing and puffing threats about invading Taiwan. But the very fact that they’re rattling the saber shows how idle the threat is.
Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s lawsuit claims US government ban violates its constitutional rights
Chinese telecom giant Huawei filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, claiming the National Defense Authorization Act banning the installation of their hardware in federal defense systems is unconstitutional. The lawsuit complaint states: Plaintiffs Huawei Technologies USA, Inc., and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (collectively, “Plaintiffs” or “Huawei”), by and through their attorneys, bring this action […]
Taiwan jails mainland Chinese student on national security charge
A Taiwan district court on Friday sentenced a mainland Chinese student to 14 months imprisonment for breaching national security laws. The sentencing of Zhou Hongxu follows months of strained relations over the detention of a Taiwanese national in China. On Monday, a Taiwanese activist, Li Ming-che, confessed in a Chinese court to attempting to subvert […]
China warns military recruits to stop beating off all day
Evidently it is not just the US military that is a faced with a epidemic of fat bodies and unhealthy life choices that is disqualifying potential recruits. The People’s Republic of China is issuing a series of public service announcements stating that 8% of recruits are automatically disqualified due to varicocele, a condition with unknown causes […]
China restricting internet access by banning virtual private networks (VPN)
The Chinese government is moving to ban the use of VPNs for individual Chinese citizens by 2018, in an effort to exert “internet sovereignty” according to President Xi Jinping. VPN’s, or virtual private networks, have been used as a workaround for internet users in China to access internet content beyond the government censors. The censorship […]
China signals that it is ready for war with America in the Pacific
The People’s Liberation Army of China recently made an official statement saying that, “‘A war within the president’s term’ or ‘war breaking out tonight’ are not just slogans, they are becoming a practical reality.” Such a public statement was not made off the cuff by a reckless PLA official; this signals a deliberate warning from the […]
Chinese communists take over American movie theaters
One thing that is important to remember when people talk about business, is that unlike in the United States, there really is no such thing as free enterprise in the People’s Republic of China. Like the telecommunications company Huawei, Wanda takes direction from the Chinese communist party. This is not an accident or an aberration […]
China kidnaps dissidents from foreign countries
The growing number of kidnapped and unlawfully detained dissidents in China were at the center of the attention of the UN Human Rights Council’s 33rd session last week in Geneva. Addressing the council, Angela Gui, a 22-year old student and daughter of bookseller and free expression advocate Gui Minhai, asked the Council to make sure […]
Quantum stealth buster? China claims it has new radar which can detect stealth aircraft at 100+ Km
A quantum radar, generating a large number of entangled photon pairs and shooting one twin into the air, would be capable of receiving critical information about a target, including its shape, location, speed, temperature and even the chemical composition of its paint, from returning photons.
China builds first overseas military outpost
Naval facility under construction in Djibouti shows Beijing’s ambitions to be a global maritime power and protect its expanding interests abroad
China to begin train, advise, assist mission in Syria to back Assad Regime
A few years ago, relatively early on in the war against ISIS, I was smuggled into Northern Syria along a PKK re-supply route. Taking a small inflatable boat across the river which acted as the border between Syria and Iraq, my first stop in the Kurdish held areas of Syria (known as Rojava) was a […]
