#CCPRules #NationalSecurityLaw
Hong Kong critics warned by #UK to avoid #extradition locations

//The UK government is alerting people in Britain who were named in a Hong Kong national security case to avoid travelling to countries that have extradition treaties with the Chinese territory...

The warnings underscore concern among US allies that China might reach beyond its borders to prosecute people for crimes under a Beijing-drafted national security law imposed on Hong Kong last year.

The sweeping legislation asserts global jurisdiction for cases involving terrorism, secession, subversion and collusion with foreign powers, which carry sentences as long as life in prison

Nine countries, including Germany, the UK and the US, suspended their extradition treaties with Hong Kong following the imposition of the sweeping legislation in June 2020.

Still, China has almost doubled its extradition treaties to more than 50 since 2012, as the country pursued fugitives overseas as part of a years-long graft crackdown under President #XiJinping.

Beijing ratified an extradition pact with #Cyprus last year, and approved a similar one with Belgium earlier this year.//

Source: The Strait Times; Bloomberg #Sept22

Read full article:
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/hong-kong-critics-warned-by-uk-to-avoid-extradition-locations

#Crackdown

#ReportersWithoutBorders and 44-NGO coalition urge Chinese President #XiJinping to release #Covid19 reporter on #hungerstrike

//On September 17, 2021, Reporters Without Borders (#RSF) and a coalition of 44 human rights NGOs urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to exonerate and release Covid-19 reporter #ZhangZhan, who has been on hunger strike since May 2020, for which she was forced-fed.

“Zhang Zhan did not commit any crime but instead courageously risked her life to inform the public on the health crisis. She should never have been arrested, let alone subjected to a harsh prison sentence”, says the head of RSF East Asia bureau, Cédric Alviani, who urges President Xi Jinping to “ensure that Zhang Zhan is released before it’s too late.”//

Source: RSF #Sept17

https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-and-44-ngo-coalition-urge-chinese-president-xi-jinping-release-covid-19-reporter-hunger-strike

Related news:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/28615

#PoliticalProsecution #PressFreedom #Regime #CCPRules

Xi Jinping Is Using Party Outreach to Build an Anti-U.S. Bloc

On July 6, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a keynote speech at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and World Political Parties Summit, proclaiming the CCP “is willing to continue to work with parties and political organizations of all countries.” As with other Beijing-led forums, the CCP is using this summit as an opportunity to promote its own foreign-policy objectives, including creating a less liberal democratic world order. But Xi’s messaging at the summit, now held for the fourth time, has evolved; whereas before it focused on cooperation and development, today China is looking to build a political bloc directed against the United States and other liberal democracies.

Source: Foreign Policy #Aug02

https://t.co/NbArZSsjDI

#XiJinping #CCP #Speech

Hongkongers protest outside Chinese embassies in Washington and San Francisco, burning China flags and photos of Xi Jinping

Yesterday, 1 October, China's National Day, was marked by demonstrations by Hong Kong people in exile or abroad in the UK and the US. In Washington, a few dozen people, including Hong Kong Liberation Coalition (HKLC) founder Sixtus Leung Chung-Hang and Director of China Affairs at the World Uighur Congress Ilshat H. Kokbore, joining the demonstration at the Chinese Embassy in the US on Thursday (30th September), local time. In an interview with Radio Free Asia (RFA), Leung said that their demands were threefold: to call on the US and the international community to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics; to strengthen sanctions against China; and to lobby the US Congress to push an ethics investigation bill against US companies, that forbidden them to invest in Chinese companies that undermine human rights.

In San Francisco, overseas Hongkongers demonstrated outside the Chinese Consulate General on Friday (1st October), raising flags such as "Hong Kong Independence" and "Liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of Our Times", while some reiterated the "Five Demands" of the 2019 Anti-Extradition movement. Demonstrators also burned a China National Flag and a photo of President Xi Jinping outside the consulate.

Source: Stand News #Oct20

https://bit.ly/2ZMyQFE

#ChinaNationalDay #OverseasHongkongers #HongKongLiberationCoalition #HKLC #USA #Washington #SanFrancisco #ChinaNationalFlag #Uyghurs #WorldUyghurCongress #XiJinping #LiberateHK #RevolutionofOurTimes #FiveDemandsNotOneLess #FDNOL #Boycott2022BeijingWinterOlympics

Bloomberg: Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity” makes investors uneasy, Chinese regulators meet with Wall Street executives to defend against technology companies  
 
According to Bloomberg, China recently defends against technology companies and the “common prosperity” from Chinese President Xi Jinping makes global investors feel disturbed. Chinese regulators and Wall Street executives had a closed meeting on Thursday, which defending the recent suppression of multiple industries, claiming that its regulatory measures are not aimed at technology or private companies. 
 
According to quoted resources from the report, Fang Xinghai, Vice Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, Senior Officials of the People’s Bank of China, and financial companies such as Goldman Sachs, Citadel, and BlackRock, held a 3-hour closed-door meeting on Thursday.  
 
During the meeting, Fang Xinghai stated the supervision from Chinese government to Chinese companies should not be interpreted as being decoupled from the US or international financial markets. He stated that, China recent measures are targeting at companies operating consumer platforms and strengthens the supervision to improve privacy safety and national security. For measures that are aiming at education training industries and gaming industries, it is aiming to reduce the concerns of society.  
 
Source: Stand News #Sep19

https://bit.ly/3GRsUvQ
 
#Bloomberg #XiJinping #WallStreet #China #Technology #Supervision #Privacy #NationalSecurity #Education #GamingIndustries  

#Propaganda
China Ordered #Amazon to Delete Reviews of #XiJinping’s Book

Source: Bloomberg; Reuters #Dec17

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#Propaganda
China Ordered #Amazon to Delete Reviews of #XiJinping’s Book

//Amazon.com Inc.’s efforts to curry favor with the Chinese government included quieting criticism of President Xi Jinping’s book on its Chinese outlet, according to a Reuters report.

The Amazon.cn entry for Xi’s “The Governance of China” had its ratings, comments and reviews scrubbed and disabled roughly two years ago in response to an edict from Beijing, the report said. Triggering the request were reviews rating the work at less than the maximum five stars, according to one of the unidentified people familiar with the incident...

The experience recounted in the report mirrors that of Apple Inc., which has grown increasingly compliant with Beijing in recent years. Apple complied with 97% of requests from the Chinese government for user device information in 2019, up significantly from 65% in 2014.

Reviews for Xi’s book of speeches and writings are blocked only on Amazon’s Chinese website. One Amazon.com entry has received 74% five-star reviews.

Other U.S. firms, such as Yahoo! and Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn, have, by contrast, exited the Chinese market this year, citing an increasingly challenging business and legal environment in the country.//

Read Reuters' report:
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/amazon-partnered-with-china-propaganda-arm-win-beijings-favor-document-shows-2021-12-17/

Source: Bloomberg; Reuters #Dec17

#CCP #Censorship #Kowtow

China's President Xi Jinping warns of 'grim' Taiwan situation in letter to opposition

The situation in the Taiwan Strait is "complex and grim", Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote in a congratulatory letter on Sunday to the newly elected leader of Taiwan's main opposition party, who has pledged to renew talks with Beijing.

Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) elected as their leader on Saturday former New Taipei City mayor Eric Chu who said he would rekindle stalled high-level contacts with China's ruling Communist Party.

China claims Taiwan as its own territory and has stepped up military and political pressure to force the democratically ruled island to accept Chinese sovereignty, even though most Taiwanese have shown no interest in being governed by Beijing.

Source: NBC News #Sep26

https://t.co/VYI5LYO2NI

#China #President #XiJinping #Taiwan #Kuomintang #KMT

Chinese Official Calls For Upgrade to Nationwide Security Network

A top Chinese law enforcement official has called on police and local governments to step up their use of big data, artificial intelligence, and networked security cameras to stem potential social unrest in times of "growing uncertainty."

Chen Yixin, secretary general of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s political and legal affairs commission that overseas domestic security, called on law enforcers to "lay a solid foundation for social governance and security now."

He told a meeting on grassroots governance on the southern province of Guangdong on Sept. 19 that the move would implement instructions from CCP leader Xi Jinping to "study new measures to improve grassroots social governance capabilities."

Source: RFA #Sep24

https://t.co/gGscSuLQWQ

#Chinese #Nationwide #CCP #XiJinping

#RussianInvasion
#Beijing Remains Silent Despite Nuclear Pact Signed with #Ukraine

//On February 27, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin dramatically escalated East-West tensions by ordering Russian nuclear forces put on high alert, while Ukraine’s embattled leader agreed to talks with Moscow as Putin’s troops and tanks drove deeper into the country, closing in around the capital.

Citing “aggressive statements” by NATO and tough financial sanctions, Putin issued a directive to increase the readiness of Russia’s nuclear weapons, raising fears that the invasion of Ukraine could lead to nuclear war, whether by design or mistake.//

However, in 2013, China actually signed a joint declaration with Ukraine to "provide Ukraine nuclear security guarantee when Ukraine encounters an invasion involving nuclear weapons or Ukraine is under threat of a nuclear invasion."

According to a report released by Washington Times in 2013:

//On December 5, 2013 [Ukrainian President] Viktor Yanukovych and President #XiJinping signed a bilateral treaty officially pronouncing that China and Ukraine are now “strategic partners.”

“China pledges unconditionally not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against the nuclear-free Ukraine and China further pledges to provide Ukraine nuclear security guarantee when Ukraine encounters an invasion involving nuclear weapons or Ukraine is under threat of a nuclear invasion,” said a joint statement on the pact.

China’s official media, including Xinhua and Global Times, touted the deal with the headline “China Pledges Nuclear Umbrella to Protect Ukraine.”

Still, the Ukraine-China security pact ignores the elephant in the room, namely, that the country most likely to even contemplate threatening to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine is Russia, China’s other “strategic partner.”

In the hypothetical scenario of a Russian nuclear threat against Moscow’s former satellite Ukraine, would China keep its pledge to confront Moscow with its nuclear weapons?//

On February 27, 2022, the question posed by Washington Times in 2013 has become an actual scenario.

In a report releasedon on February 28, 2022, the same newspaper pointed out China's stance in Russian invasion of Ukraine:

//China has tacitly supported the Russian military operation against Ukraine by not condemning the military operation and repeatedly insisting that Moscow had “legitimate security concerns” with Ukraine and NATO that the U.S. and its allies failed to address. Beijing abstained on a U.N. Security Council measure last week condemning Russia’s actions, a measure that failed when Moscow used its veto.//

Source: Washington Times #Feb28

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Read the full article:
https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/feb/28/putins-war-tests-chinas-nuclear-pact-ukraine/

News Recap from Washington Times, December 12, 2013:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/12/inside-china-ukraine-gets-nuke-umbrella/