#Sanction #US
#Trump Signs Executive Order to Ban Investment in 31 #PLA related Companies

The US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order prohibiting Americans from investing in 31 Chinese companies allegedly tied with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), including China Mobile, China Telecom, and the China Aviation Industry Corporation, covering industries such as telecommunication technology, aerospace, shipbuilding, and construction.

This executive order will take effect on Jan 11, 2021. All companies listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as owned or controlled by the Chinese military, are banned from US corporate, pension and personal investments.

The executive order covers stocks, funds, and derivatives. U.S. investors who hold these securities are required to sell them before November next year. In addition, investors will have 60 days to clear their holdings for any Chinese companies added to the list in the future.

#US #ChineseCompanies #DonaldTrump #InvestmentBan #ExecutiveOrder

Source: Stand New #Nov13

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Medicine Professor Faces Five Years in Jail for Smuggling Research from US to China

Source: Apple Daily #Nov13

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Medicine Professor Faces Five Years in Jail for Smuggling Research from US to China

Zheng Guosong, a Chinese American professor at the Ohio State University in the US, has been prosecuted for smuggling research funded by an American subsidy to China. He plead guilty at a court on Thursday, 12 November and faces up to five years in prison. The US Department of Justice accuses him of engaging in “a sophisticated medical research grant fraud”.

Zheng, 58, and his research team received over a fund of over 4.3 million US dollars (about 33 million HK dollars) from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for rheumatism and immunology research while concealing a second fund they had received from China’s National Natural Science Foundation. Zheng admitted that he had lied when applying for the American fund, which he intended to use to support China’s research on rheumatism and immunology. He also admitted that he had made false statements to federal investigators.

Source: Apple Daily #Nov13

#US #China #NIH #OhioStateUniversity #OhioState #OSU #Research #Espionage

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#PressFreedom
Hong Kong denies visa to Economist journalist in latest blow to press freedom

#NationalSecurityLaw #NSL #FailedState #Visa #Economist

Source: Stand News, Reuters; #Nov13

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Hong Kong denies visa to Economist journalist in latest blow to press freedom

The #Economist said on November 13 that Hong Kong authorities declined to renew the visa of one its journalists, #WongSueLin, urging the city to maintain foreign media access as concerns grow about media freedoms in the global financial hub.

Wong, originally from Australia, was based in Hong Kong and covered China and the southern semi-autonomous city.

In a statement shared on Twitter, Wong said she was “very sad” at not being able to continue reporting from Hong Kong.

Since Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong in July 2020, democracy activists, newspaper editors and journalists have been arrested. Critics of the legislation say it is being used to crush dissent in the city.

#NationalSecurityLaw #NSL #FailedState #Visa #Economist

Source: Stand News, Reuters; #Nov13
https://thestandnews.page.link/Avtr3X9JJR3QSDeL6

#Art
#Brescia Exhibits #Badiucao's Artwork that Mocks Beijing’s #Propaganda

Source: Radio Free Asia; #Nov13

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#Brescia Exhibits #Badiucao's Artwork that Mocks Beijing’s #Propaganda

Defying the calls of the Chinese government to cancel an exhibition in a northern Italian city, #Brescia is hosting the first international solo exhibition by the 35-year-old artist, #Badiucao, an exile from China who now lives in Australia.

Displaying a torture instrument such as a rocking chair, dissident artist Badiucao mocks the propaganda of Beijing in this exhibition named “China is (not) near”.

The show denounces political repression in China and the country’s censorship of the origin of #Covid19.

Beijing responded to the exhibition in anger, accusing Badiucao’s works of being “full of anti-Chinese lies” that “jeopardise the friendly relations between China and Italy”. The PRC's embassy in Rome sent a letter to Brescia’s town hall.

Deputy Mayor #LauraCastelletti responded, “None of us in Brescia, neither in the city council nor among the citizens, had the slightest doubt about this exhibition going ahead.”

"Brescia, known for its Roman ruins, has a long tradition of welcoming dissidents, painters and writers, in defence of artistic freedom”, she added.

In an interview, Badiucao, who is nicknamed the Chinese #Banksy said he is “very happy and proud” that the city “had the courage to say ‘no’ to China to defend fundamental rights.”

Source: Radio Free Asia; #Nov13
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/11-11132021172450.html/ampRFA

#ProtestArt #WolfWarrior #FreedomofExpression #Creativity #Italy #NoToChina #Culture #Exhibition

#Court
Another 20 Hong Kong youngsters convicted of rioting near #ChinaLiaisonOffice during 2019 #AntiELAB Movement

During the Anti-ELAB movement, fierce confrontations between pro-democracy civilians and riot police erupted on July 28, 2019 in Shang Wan, Hong Kong near the China Liaison Office.

The intense clash ended with the arrest of 44 pro-democracy civilians. They were charged for rioting. The group were trialed in court in three court cases to be handled by different judges.

Of the 24 protesters charged in the second court cases, only one plead guilty to rioting.

On November 13, 2021, the Hong Kong District Court found 20 out of these 24 defendants guilty of participating in a riot.

In his verdict, the District judge affirmed that the 20 convicted individuals had participated in a riot based on the clothes they wore, the tools in their possession, as well as the time and place of their arrests.

“It can be concluded beyond reasonable doubt that the defendants were participants in a riot, and were not bystanders or people who happened to pass by a protest site.”

Among the 20 convicts, 16 were seen on the protest frontlines in a stand-off against the police. One of the convicted was found guilty of illegal possession of radio apparatus while another was charge of assaulting a police officer who turned out to be the son of former Police Commissioner.

Source: Stand News; #Nov13
https://thestandnews.page.link/AiULTR6zMBkRbXgd7

#PoliticalProsecution #Rioting #PoliceState #July28