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A number of religious freedom advocates have stepped forward to criticize the Vatican’s new “provisional agreement” with China on the appointment of bishops, arguing that it betrays naïveté concerning “the evil of communism.”

October 1 is National Day in China, kicking off a week-long holiday marking the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

Beijing is demolishing crosses and replacing them with Chinese flags as part of Xi Jinping’s efforts to “Sinicize” Christianity — ensuring the religion is completely subordinate to the atheist Communist Party, the U.S. government and independent experts told American lawmakers on Thursday.

President Donald Trump took a strong stance against China on Tuesday, during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday that officials have drafted a new regulation banning foreign news from distribution in China. The goal is to “prevent Western ideology infiltration and destabilization of China.”

Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen has called for the resignation of Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, saying a deal he is brokering with the Chinese Communist party amounts to an “incredible betrayal” of the Catholic faith.

Pakistan urged its ally China this week to take steps against the alleged human rights abuses and repression of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, marking one of the first public criticisms from a predominantly Muslim country of Beijing’s policy in the province.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper boasted of Beijing’s expanded presence in Venezuela on Sunday, noting that the “U.S. is skeptical for geopolitical reasons” of growing ties between socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping.

Chinese citizens in Beijing, Shanghai, and other major population hubs throughout the country spent the weekend observing Nationwide National Defense Education Day, forced to practice air raid drills to know how to react to a military invasion.

Contents: Zambia denies defaulting on infrastructure loans from China; Zambia faces long term corruption concerns

A Chinese official dismissed reports of Beijing establishing “political re-education camps” for Uighur Muslims in western Xinjiang province on Thursday, telling reporters that the camps are “vocational centers” necessary to integrate less wealthy citizens into the Chinese economy.

China agreed to provide Venezuela with a $5 billion credit line in return for future oil payments ahead of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s visit to Beijing, the country’s finance minister announced on Wednesday. 

Russia’s biggest military exercise since the end of the Cold War is now underway, with a sizable contingent of elite Chinese and Mongolian troops participating. Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok on Tuesday for a bilateral summit on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper reported on Tuesday that the government will shut down all its family planning administrative departments to spend more money on caring for the elderly, relegating family planning control to a new “Department of Demographic Surveillance and Family Development.”

Contents: Russia, with China’s participation, launches biggest war games in decades; Russia’s Vostok-2018 war games send a message to Chinal Has Vladimir Putin forgotten the lessons of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?

Contents: Tensions grow in Philippines as Duterte turns against China in South China Sea; China increasingly rejects Duterte’s ‘diplomatic actions’; Zambia becomes the next nation to fall victim to China’s ‘debt trap’

A new letter from North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un to U.S. President Donald Trump sought to renew plans for a second meeting between the two leaders, and those plans are now in motion, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters Monday.

The Chinese government’s campaign to “Sinicize” organized religion – in other words, make religion completely subordinate to the Communist Party – grew more aggressive this year and featured the destruction of Bibles, crosses, and entire churches. Religious freedom activists call it the worst crackdown on Christianity since religious freedom was nominally granted by the 1982 Chinese constitution.

North Korea held a significantly toned-down parade on Sunday for the 70th anniversary of its founding; it lacked the usual display of nuclear-capable weapons but prominently featured China’s special envoy to the country, representing communist leader Xi Jinping.

Contents: Britain ‘provokes’ China by sending warship into South China Sea; China’s ‘nine-dash line map’ makes absurd claims to South China Sea

China is continuing to undermine international sanctions on North Korea by increasing trade with their close communist ally, NBC News revealed in a report Wednesday.

Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has carefully crafted an image of himself as a big-picture visionary, tasked with turning China into the world’s preeminent superpower. While Xi has focused on taking over the world, however, the average Chinese citizen appears increasingly frustrated with his inability to provide competent government functions like adequate education and health care.

Contents: China courts African nations as charges of ‘neo-colonialism’ grow; Is Kenya the next Sri Lanka?; Why China’s mothers are refusing to have a second child

China is reportedly increasing access to Spanish and Portuguese language study to better expand its footprint across Latin America, The Guardian revealed in a report Sunday.

A protest against problems with the education system in the southern Chinese city of Leiyang turned violent on Sunday, with bottles, bricks, and firecrackers reportedly thrown at police by a crowd of 600 demonstrators. The police detained 46 people and said only one of them was actually the parent of a school-age child.

China’s Global Times newspaper published a commentary on Sunday complaining that Western countries warning of debt traps Beijing is setting in impoverished African countries seem “like a loser covering up its own problems,” namely that “African countries do not want to be enslaved to the outside world anymore.”

“We are much stronger,” Trump replied. “Nobody is waiting us out.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper announced a series of “grass-roots” measures to diminish the influence of religion in the lives of individuals, particularly designed to weaken “overseas influence” and manage “illegal” religious practices that do not promote communism.

Extreme Maoist labor activists in China are increasingly facing government repression for demanding that the Communist Party allow workers to unionize and assert their rights, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Tuesday.

Contents: China ends two-child policy, but considers a ‘wacky’ three-child policy; China evaluates the failure of the two-child policy; China may adopt a ‘wacky’ policy with a ‘reproduction fund’

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper declared in a column Tuesday that the future of world construction will be in China’s hands after the world embraces “One Belt, One Road,” (OBOR), the communist dictatorship’s sprawling infrastructure project threating to send the developing world into insurmountable debt.

China’s Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen spent two days in Washington last week, resuming U.S.-China trade talks that broke down three months ago.

President Donald Trump has instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to return to North Korea until China begins again helping to make significant progress on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

The Vostok 2018 military exercise in eastern Russia was already billed as Russia’s largest war game since 1981. China’s Defense Ministry announced on Thursday it will send 3,200 troops from the People’s Liberation Army to join over 100,000 Russians in exercises from September 11 to 15.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte told soldiers at an event Thursday that the United States is offering military gear for sale, which he is considering buying, but fears Washington would break its commitment to delivery.

Xi Jinping demanded his officials “reject the vulgar, the base and the kitsch” on the internet, government media reported Wednesday.