Category: Beijing

China in Focus (March 31): Viral Speech Reveals Beijing’s Shortcut to Success

A Chinese expert says Beijing copied its way to the world’s front row. And now, the Chinese regime uses that leverage to get away with aggression toward the West. Hong Kong’s special status is still long gone, in keeping with former President Donald Trump’s policy. The city is now considered no different than mainland China,…


How Net Zero by 2050 Dovetails With Beijing’s ‘Hundred-Year Marathon’

Commentary “What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among the dogs?” demands the Chinese Communist Party’s consul in Rio about Canada and the Trudeau dynasty. Or rather, over a picture of Little Potato (the nickname Trudeau was given during…


Olympic Committee Rejects Hong Kong Activist Group’s Call for Beijing Boycott

A call by Hong Kong activists in Australia to relocate the 2022 Winter Olympics away from China to a country not tarnished by genocide and human right abuses has been knocked back by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Australia-Hong Kong Link, a group that supports democracy, freedom, rule of law, and human rights in Hong Kong,…


Beijing Enveloped in Hazardous Sandstorm, 2nd Time in 2 Weeks

BEIJING—The Chinese capital of Beijing woke on Sunday morning shrouded in thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles, as a second sandstorm in two weeks hit the city due to winds from drought-hit Mongolia and northwestern China. Visibility in the city was reduced, with the tops of some skyscrapers obscured by the sandstorm,…


‘Retaliation’ Is ‘Not Okay’: Aussie PM Rejects Beijing’s Wine Tariff

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that it’s “not okay” that Beijing is putting up the price of Australian wine in “retaliation” for Australians “standing up for our values.” The move is the latest example of what U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week labelled Beijing’s “blatant economic coercion” of Australia. Morrison told reporters…


Canada’s Sanctions on XUAR Officials Should Be Springboard for New Strategy on China

Commentary In a rare piece of good news on the Canadian foreign policy front, the government has finally taken action that is consistent with its frequently professed enthusiasm for strong multilateralism. Canada, in co-ordination with the United States and the United Kingdom, has decided to impose sanctions on some of the Chinese officials responsible for…


Beijing’s ‘Blatant Economic Coercion’ of Australia Threatens Security, Shared Values, US’s Blinken Says

The Beijing regime’s “blatant economic coercion” against Australia is one of the three most urgent threats facing the world, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says. Speaking at NATO headquarters in Belgium on March 24, he noted that China poses a growing military and non-military threat that can no longer be ignored. “Beijing’s military ambitions are…


Beijing’s ‘Blatant Economic Coercion’ of Australia Threatens Security, Shared Values, Blinken Says

The Beijing regime’s “blatant economic coercion” against Australia is one of the three most urgent threats facing the world, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says. Speaking at NATO headquarters in Belgium on March 24, he noted that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses a growing military and non-military threat that can no longer be ignored….


Beijing’s ‘Blatant Economic Coercion’ of Australia Threatens Security and Shared Values: Antony Blinken

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has named Beijing’s “blatant economic coercion” against Australia as one example of the three most urgent threats the world faces today. Speaking at NATO headquarters in Belgium on March 24, Blinked noted that Beijing posed a growing military and non-military threat that could no longer be ignored. “Beijing’s military…


Rep. Steel, Sen. Cruz Call to Move Olympics Out of China

Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) insisting the 2022 Olympics be moved out of Beijing due to gross human rights violations in the China. Steel told The Epoch Times: “[In China,] you can see lots of victims. They have human rights abuses,…