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Shadow Games: US Covertly Arms Taiwan to The Teeth

Shadow Games: US Covertly Arms Taiwan to The Teeth

  In a subtle yet potentially perilous move, the United States is covertly funneling an $80 million (£63 million) grant into Taiwan for the acquisition of American military equipment. While this may appear as a routine transaction, the implications of Washington using its own funds to arm a region it officially doesn’t acknowledge are profound. China’s vehement opposition, a departure[Read More…]

Justin Trudeau Admires China Dictatorships?

Justin Trudeau Admires China Dictatorships?

In 2013, the Liberal candidate who was, at the time, running for Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau made a comment that propelled the Asian-Canadian community to demand an apology from him. During a Liberal “Ladies Night” meet and greet and fundraiser in Toronto, he was asked what nation he looked up to the most besides Canada.  To this prompt,[Read More…]

Mass re-education camps in China used to hold Muslim minorities

Mass re-education camps in China used to hold Muslim minorities

Mass re-education camps used to hold Uighur and other Muslim minorities in China are being run like “wartime concentration camps”, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group said that up to one million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps in the far-west Xinjiang region. Inmates at these camps have been forced to eat[Read More…]

China vaccine crisis as thousands of children injected with faulty jabs

China vaccine crisis as thousands of children injected with faulty jabs

The Chinese government has admitted that hundreds of thousands of doses of children’s vaccines are faulty, it has been reported. The State Council of China announced that yet another batch of vaccines for diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) that were produced by the firm Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology, were considered “substandard.” Most of the doses were sold to authorities in the[Read More…]

Minority-report comes to China with powerful supercomputers used to ‘predict’ crime

Minority-report comes to China with powerful supercomputers used to ‘predict’ crime

China has been utilising powerful supercomputers that can scan the country’s entire population in 1 second. And the Chinese government has been putting it to good use too. Over the last two years, the system has been used to arrest 2,000 people. Local police have already been using the technology to track people’s movements, friends, and even try to predict[Read More…]