A parliamentary committee will hold hearings on the RCMP’s use of spyware and potential risks to the privacy rights of Canadians. The House of Commons privacy committee voted Tuesday to determine which “device investigation tools” the Mounties use and seek a list of judicial warrants obtained for deploying such software. The committee also requested a…
US Olympic Figure Skater, Father Targeted in Alleged Chinese Spy Plot
An American Olympic figure skater and her father were among those targeted in an alleged conspiracy by secret agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to silence dissidents abroad, according to a report by the Associated Press (AP). Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu and her father Arthur Liu were allegedly targeted in an effort by…
Chinese Regime Selected Olympics Spectators, Followed Confidentiality Rules
Although the Beijing Winter Olympics are now over, they happened amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We have learned that the Chinese communist authorities canceled tickets sales to the public and instead gave tickets to carefully selected employees of Chinese state-owned enterprises. Organizers didn’t want the venues to look empty, so the day before the opening ceremony…
Chinese Regime Handpicked Olympic Spectators Who Were Made to Follow Confidentiality Rules: Reports
After the Chinese regime barred Winter Olympics ticket sales to the general public over COVID-19 concerns, it ended up ging tickets to carefully selected employees of Chinese state-owned enterprises instead. Organizers didn’t want the venues to look empty, so the day before the opening ceremony of the Games they invited about 150,000 people to attend various…
Beijing 2022 Closes Curtain on ‘Closed Loop’ Games
How will the Beijing Olympic Games be remembered? Draconian anti-CCP-virus measures? A doping scandal? Or will other controversies take the spotlight? NBA free agent Enes Kanter Freedom has no regrets. He says the NBA has tried to silence him for speaking against Beijing—something that cost him his career. Chinese genomics companies are expanding in the…
Former Olympian Calls Out Beijing Abuses While in China
A former Olympic medalist tells us his experience at the Beijing Games and why he spoke out on the regime’s forced organ harvesting at a press conference, next to Chinese police. Unemployment data is in, and one out of every seven Chinese citizens has no stable job. Chinese authorities have a new name for the…
The Reason Why No One Is Watching the Beijing Olympics
Commentary The Beijing Winter Olympics are heading toward the lowest TV viewership in the history of the games. Right now, it’s about half the audience that watched the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Why so low? Organizers and TV executives say it’s because the United States and other nations have declined to send official…
Racism Powers Communist China’s Drive for Dominance
Commentary China’s communist leaders have clamped down on coverage and commentary of the Winter Olympic games. Ask Dutch correspondent Sjoerd den Daas, who was manhandled by a security guard during a live report. The dictatorship has attempted to gag foreign athletes, banning mention of Chinese aggression (e.g., territorial theft in Asia) and repression of domestic…
Detention Centers Located 10 Minutes From Olympics
A new bill introduced in the House looks to sanction thousands of China’s top officials, including Xi Jinping and his family. A quarantined journalist longs for a cup of coffee, after more than a week in Olympic isolation. We look at what athletes say about the scene in Beijing. The Olympics seek to build a…
Gold Medal in Propaganda: China’s Games Can’t Hide Long-Term Decline
Commentary The Olympic Games in Beijing seem impressive but taking a moment to look at long-term economic trends suggest that China’s moment might be in the past already. During the Olympics, the Chinese regime is making it seem like China is the center of the world. It has the luxury of highlighting its grand venues….
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