Actor Donnie Yen’s invitation to join the presenter list at the 2023 Oscars has been attacked by critics after he derided the 2019 pro-democracy Hong Kong protests in an interview.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the coronavirus came from a lab leak in China.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said this week he supports the Chinese Communist Party’s “political settlement” proposal for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a document urging “dialogue and negotiation” with little detail.
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day state visit. Lukashenko endorsed China’s nebulous “peace plan” for Ukraine during a meeting with fellow dictator Xi Jinping, shoring up the rising China-dominated axis of authoritarianism.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Tuesday to advance a bill to sanction individuals implicated in China’s decades-long scheme of harvesting organs from political prisoners, a gruesome practice experts believe expanded significantly after the establishment of concentration camps for Muslims in 2017.
The Chinese government’s annual “two sessions” – simultaneous meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) – are scheduled to begin on Saturday, March 4.
Alexander Lukashenko will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday, kicking off a three-day trip in which he will meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
(AFP) – China called Friday for urgent peace talks as it released its plan to end the war in Ukraine, but several Western powers rebuffed the proposals while warning against Beijing’s closening ties to Moscow.
China debuted its heavily promoted “Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis” blueprint on Friday, using state media to declare that the solution to the year-long full-scale invasion is for both Russia and Ukraine to “calm down as soon as possible.”
Chinese state media reported on Thursday that at least five people were killed and 48 are missing after an open-pit coal mine in northern Inner Mongolia collapsed in a landslide.
A YouTube channel called “RutersXiaoFanQi” vanished from the platform on Monday after years of satirizing Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. Internet freedom advocates are concerned the channel was taken down by Chinese Communist Party censors who weaponized YouTube’s copyright infringement rules.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper marked the Tibetan New Year, known as Losar, on Wednesday with a forceful declaration that the officially atheist Chinese Communist Party must have full control over the selection of the next Dalai Lama, the highest authority in Tibetan Buddhism.
Wang Yi, a high-ranking member of China’s oppressive Communist government’s Politburo, arrived in Moscow on Tuesday after a week spent touring Europe.
Human rights organization Freedom House is struggling to rapidly document protests in China as “the government is constantly censoring new words or interfering with online dissent movements to demobilize aggrieved citizens,” Kevin Slaten, the research lead for the group’s China Dissent Monitor, told Breitbart News last week.
South African officials confirmed last week that the BRICS coalition – South Africa, China, India, Russia, and Brazil – are actively considering expanding membership, a proposal that would potentially force arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran into an alliance.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi published a joint statement on Thursday affirming their desire to “boost cooperation in the battle against terrorism,” as well as strengthen commercial and national security ties.
The UK government is currently rehearsing an economic response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, a report on Wednesday has claimed.
The human rights organization Freedom House documented over 1,000 acts of protest in China between June and December 2022, attracting at least 23,000 participants nationwide, in a report released Tuesday – listing coronavirus lockdowns, the central Chinese real estate crisis, and general opposition to communist repression as fueling causes.
Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping welcomed his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi to Beijing on Tuesday with a ceremony to sign 20 cooperation documents and a vow that China would help pressure the world to return to the failed 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a radical Islamist notorious for leading the massacre of up to 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, will visit China on Tuesday at Beijing’s invitation, the latter country confirmed on Sunday.
Joe Biden tried to sound tough on Chinese President Xi Jinping during his State of the Union speech but ended up confusing viewers.
The four top English-language Chinese government media outlets – the Global Times, the People’s Daily, China Daily, and the Xinhua News Agency – displayed as their top story on Wednesday morning U.S. time a boilerplate speech by dictator Xi Jinping on “modernization,” ignoring left-wing American President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
Senior Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs reported on Friday morning that Secretary of State Antony Blinken has canceled a planned visit to China in the wake of the discovery of a Chinese surveillance balloon in Montana.
The Russian Foreign Ministry appeared to confirm a visit to Moscow by Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Monday, calling Xi’s presence in the country “the central event in the bilateral agenda for 2023.”
A four-star Air Force general is predicting the U.S. will be at war with China in 2025 and has already told officers to prepare. “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025,” Gen. Mike Minihan,
Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made calls on Wednesday for the South American trade bloc Mercosur, which Brazil helped establish, to “urgently” seal a long-awaited trade deal with the European Union so that it can move on to the same with communist China.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping addressed this week’s Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit on Tuesday, urging the Western Hemisphere to embrace the Belt and Road Chinese debt trap program and emphasizing that China sees the region as a “key partner in enhancing solidarity.”
Chinese Communist Party officials, including dictator Xi Jinping, spent much of the week downplaying the intensity of the ongoing outbreak of Chinese coronavirus in the country, claiming on Thursday that case rates were “relatively low” and millions traveling for the Lunar New Year should not cause a meaningful surge.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times celebrated radical leftist New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a “politician who truly understands international politics” on Thursday, following her announcement she would resign next month.
Cuba announced on Wednesday that China has formalized a 700 million Chinese Yuan ($100 million) “donation” to the communist Castro regime.
First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska told reporters on Wednesday that her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, had used her to send a personal letter to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said on Tuesday that his government is willing to consider alternatives to the U.S. dollar for international trade.
A top Chinese Foreign Ministry official said on Monday that China is “working on settlement projects” to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine, allegedly designed to address “root causes” of the conflict from the perspective of the Communist Party.
China’s trade deficit with Russia tripled in 2022, a report revealed on Friday, thanks in part to skyrocketing energy prices that made Russia’s discounted oil and gas irresistible to Chinese buyers.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) announced his plans to summon Disney CEO Bob Iger and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to appear before the Select Committee on China.
The Supreme Court of the Philippines invalidated a 2005 agreement on Tuesday between the Philippines, Vietnam, and China that would have allowed a Chinese government corporation to explore for oil in Filipino waters, unconstitutionally exploiting the country’s national resources.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., often referred to by his nickname “Bongbong,” made his first visit in office to China this week, holding meetings with dictator Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.
The Chinese government propaganda newspaper Global Times on Thursday compared the ongoing procedure to select a speaker of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, accusing the “electoralization” of choosing party leadership of causing chaos.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry applauded convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday for becoming president of Brazil again and expressed hope that Beijing’s influence in South America’s largest economy would grow tremendously during his third term in power.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping urged his subjects to seek “unity” with each other even while holding “different views on the same issue” in his New Year’s Eve address this weekend, an apparent acknowledgment of growing anti-communist sentiment after a year of historic protests in his country.
