Tag: Social Control

WeChat Deepens Partnership with the CCP over Digital Yuan Expansion

WeChat, China’s Twitter-like social media app, announced on April 6 that it has embraced digital Chinese yuan in certain pilot regions as part of its intensified cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In recent years WeChat has increasingly become the regime’s tool for monitoring citizens, censoring speech, and clamping down on dissidents. According to the…


Shanghai Residents Trade Food to Survive Lockdown; Can Japan Join AUKUS to Deter China?

Shanghai’s residents in lockdown have resorted to bartering for food—exchanging Diet Cokes for garlic, a bottle of soy sauce for eggs. We explore how the city’s lockdown has impacted the livelihood of the people. Australia is getting more help with AUKUS. The security pact between the United States, the UK, and Australia will help to…


Big Tech Allowing Pro-China Influencers on Social Media; China’s Spy Operation in America

Shanghai’s lockdown is not ending. Videos show people fed up with the draconian measure. Meanwhile, Guangzhou, a city of 15 million people, prepares to go into lockdown.  China’s continuous spying operation is using technology to steal American secrets. The DOJ tries to arrest those involved.  I spoke with Kara Frederick, from the Heritage Foundation, on…


US Warns Travelers of China’s ‘Arbitrary’ Enforcement of Laws, COVID-19 Measures

The U.S. State Department on April 9 warned Americans to think twice before traveling to China owing to the Chinese regime’s “arbitrary” COVID-19 measures. It also authorized nonessential government employees and their families to leave its Shanghai consulate amid a citywide lockdown. “American citizens are asked to reconsider travel to the PRC [People’s Republic of…


91-Year-Old Shanghai Dissident Receives Not ‘A Cent’ of Food Amid Lockdown

A 91-year-old Shanghai resident found no one came to her aid amid a prolonged citywide COVID lockdown—a sharp contrast to last year when four police guarded her home during the country’s biggest annual political meetings. Nonagenarian Liu Shuzhen, who lives alone, has received “not a cent of food” while stuck at home during the city’s biggest…


Jimmy Lai, Beijing’s Fearless Foe and a Prisoner of Conscience With God on His Side

Index on Censorship, a global magazine campaigning for freedom of expression, recently released six letters written by Jimmy Lai in prison. Lai is the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, an outspoken Hong Kong newspaper critical of Beijing. He was arrested on Aug. 10, 2020, after being accused of “collusion with foreign forces” following the…


What the CCP Tells Students About Ukraine and Russia; Joseph Bosco Discusses Taiwan’s Imminent Crisis

Have you ever thought about why engagement with China failed? Part of the reason is the internal propaganda China tells its students. We explore how teachers have to teach the “correct” Ukraine-Russia story to children.  Then I spoke with Joseph Bosco, a Taiwan expert. We focused on the policies in the United States and what…


Chinese Regime Further Eroded Freedom in Hong Kong: US State Department

Freedom continues to deteriorate in Hong Kong as the Chinese regime tightens its grip on the global financial hub, “directly threatening U.S. interests” in the city, the State Department said in the annual report released on March 31. “Over the past year, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has continued to dismantle Hong Kong’s democratic…


CCP’s Lockdown Propaganda Ignites Fury Among Sealed-In Chinese Residents

As many locals struggled to secure their next meal under China’s harsh COVID lockdowns, officials urged calm by launching a social media campaign aimed at showing how well stocked sealed-in residents were. It didn’t end well. It started with a leaked official memo instructing Chinese Communist Party officials in a northeastern Chinese city to flood…


The ‘Great Translation Movement’ Unveils CCP Domestic Propaganda, Faces Crackdown from Beijing

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “Great Firewall” has long controlled public access to uncensored information on the internet and thus, opinion within China, imbuing its citizens with values that differ from the universal values. However, a new grassroots movement is pushing to unveil the CCP’s domestic propaganda to the Western world. A so-called “Great Translation…