Category: International Relations

Head of Japanese Nonprofit Arrested for Facilitating Unauthorized Organ Transplants Overseas

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on Feb. 7 arrested the head of a nonprofit organization for allegedly violating Japan’s organ transplant law. The organization sent its patients to China for organ transplants between 2017 and 2020, which highlights the Chinese regime’s practice of forced organ harvesting among prisoners of conscience. Hiromichi Kikuchi, 62, is the…


Biden to ‘Engage with China,’ Seeks Meeting with Xi on Chinese Spy Balloon

U.S. President Joe Biden is seeking a meeting with Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping to discuss developments related to the United States’ shooting down a Chinese spy balloon earlier this month, and to pursue regular relations with China. Biden ordered the balloon to be shot down when it entered airspace over the continental United States…


Defector Reveals 2 Incidents Where Beijing’s Military Stole and Made Great Leaps Forward

Chinese defector Chen Yonglin has revealed that during two international incidents, Beijing was able to steal U.S. technology that led to major breakthroughs in its military development. “One is the year [of] the U.S.-led NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia,” he told a panel following the screening of The Epoch Times’ investigative film, The Final…


Taiwan Finds Crashed Weather Balloon on Remote Island, Likely Chinese

TAIPEI—Taiwan’s military said on Thursday it had found the remains of a probable crashed weather balloon likely from China on a remote and strategically located island near the Chinese coast, amid a dispute between China and the United States over spy balloons. Taiwan has complained of increased harassment by the Chinese regime’s armed forces over…


Sanction Chinese Officials Involved in Human Rights Abuses: Former PM

Australia should sanction Chinese officials involved in human rights abuses against Uyghurs, says former Prime Minister Scott Morrison. “The question naturally arises whether our new sanctions regime should be applied to any Chinese nationals for human rights abuses, especially in Xinjiang,” Morrison told attendees of an Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China meeting in Tokyo on Feb….


US Must Shift Focus Away From Europe to Deter China War for Taiwan: Hawley

The United States would lose a war against China over the future of Taiwan unless it shifts its defense priorities away from Europe, according to one senior Republican. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said the United States had overextended itself with its support for Ukraine’s defense against the Russian invasion, and that it would not be…


Biden Says 3 Objects Shot Down Likely Not Related to Chinese Spy Program, But Tied to Private Companies

President Joe Biden is creating a team to develop rules of engagement to govern how the nation responds to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in U.S. airspace. The announcement comes 12 days after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, and nearly a week after it intercepted and…


Biden Orders Creation of Classified Rules of Engagement for Unidentified Aerial Objects

President Joe Biden is creating a team to develop rules of engagement to govern how the nation responds to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in U.S. airspace. The announcement comes 12 days after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, and nearly a week after it intercepted and…


US Senate Formally Condemns ‘Invasion’ of US by Chinese Spy Balloon

The U.S. Senate is passing two resolutions formally condemning China’s communist regime for illegally incurring into American airspace with a spy balloon and demanding transparency on the issue from the Biden administration. Senators approved two resolutions on Feb. 15 condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its efforts to spy on American citizens and military…


Senate Formally Condemns ‘Invasion’ of US by Chinese Spy Balloon

The U.S. Senate is passing two resolutions formally condemning China’s communist regime for illegally incurring into American airspace with a spy balloon and demanding transparency on the issue from the Biden administration. Senators approved two resolutions on Feb. 15 condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its efforts to spy on American citizens and military…