Chinese Businessman Suspected To Be CCP's Agent Sent To Silence Daughter of Jailed Hong Kong Bookseller
Apple Daily requested documents from the Stockholm court on the case relating to Anna Lindstedt, Sweden’s former ambassador to Beijing, after she brokered an unauthorized meeting between Angela Gui and two businessmen who claimed to be able to release Gui's father, Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong bookseller with Swedish citizenship who went missing in 2015 and was jailed in China.
The documents revealed that the “two businessmen” were Kevin Liu, chairman of MiNiSV Holding Ltd. and John Meewella, a Sri Lankan CEO.
In fact, the Swedish personnel had found Liu’s identity suspicious before the incident and had banned his entry into Sweden. Liu had used multiple names and listed different birth dates and birthplace on the official documents.
Experts suspected that Liu is an agent (similar to those in the KGB) appointed by the CCP to silence Angela Gui.
Source: Apple Daily
#Mar19 #CCP #CausewaybayBookstore #KGB
Apple Daily requested documents from the Stockholm court on the case relating to Anna Lindstedt, Sweden’s former ambassador to Beijing, after she brokered an unauthorized meeting between Angela Gui and two businessmen who claimed to be able to release Gui's father, Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong bookseller with Swedish citizenship who went missing in 2015 and was jailed in China.
The documents revealed that the “two businessmen” were Kevin Liu, chairman of MiNiSV Holding Ltd. and John Meewella, a Sri Lankan CEO.
In fact, the Swedish personnel had found Liu’s identity suspicious before the incident and had banned his entry into Sweden. Liu had used multiple names and listed different birth dates and birthplace on the official documents.
Experts suspected that Liu is an agent (similar to those in the KGB) appointed by the CCP to silence Angela Gui.
Source: Apple Daily
#Mar19 #CCP #CausewaybayBookstore #KGB
James Bond Has No Time for China
The final James Bond outing for Daniel Craig, “No Time to Die,” also marks a notable milestone for Bondian geopolitics: The franchise just completed a five-movie arc with a single lead actor, and amid all the globe-trotting and intrigue you would barely know that China existed. Shanghai and Macau were brief backdrops, and one villain had been tortured, offstage and in the past, by Chinese security forces — but overall a series released across the years of China’s rise gave little hint that America’s leading rival mattered any more than any other exotic Bondian locale.
Source: NYTimes #Oct16
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/opinion/james-bond-china.html
#JamesBond #China #Russia #KGB
The final James Bond outing for Daniel Craig, “No Time to Die,” also marks a notable milestone for Bondian geopolitics: The franchise just completed a five-movie arc with a single lead actor, and amid all the globe-trotting and intrigue you would barely know that China existed. Shanghai and Macau were brief backdrops, and one villain had been tortured, offstage and in the past, by Chinese security forces — but overall a series released across the years of China’s rise gave little hint that America’s leading rival mattered any more than any other exotic Bondian locale.
Source: NYTimes #Oct16
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/opinion/james-bond-china.html
#JamesBond #China #Russia #KGB