Tag: Social Control

Time for Serious Counter-Propaganda Operations Against Communist China

News Analysis Countering Chinese communist propaganda is an imperative for the United States and others. This is part I of a two-part series about countering Chinese communist propaganda in a concerted fashion. This part discusses the basic propaganda apparatus, purposes, and methods of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda. Part II will discuss countering CCP propaganda…


Pelosi Slams IOC for Turning Blind Eye to Beijing’s Genocide

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) condemned the Chinese regime for gross human rights violations on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. “If we do not speak out against human rights violations in China because of commercial interests, we lose all moral authority to speak out against human rights violations anywhere,” Pelosi said. The remarks came during…


Video of Mentally-Ill Mother-of-8 Chained in Hut Sparks Outrage in China

A video of a mentally-ill Chinese mother of eight locked in a village shack and chained around her neck has ignited outrage in the country. The footage, posted last week on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, showed the woman wearing a light layer of clothing despite freezing winter temperatures. A man visiting her then gives…


Beijing Olympics App Records Audio and Collects Data, Revealed by Experts | China Insider With David Zhang

The invasion of privacy is serious. Should we be worried about our data being watched by China? A mobile app riddled with trouble, “My 2022” is mandated for all that attend the Winter Games this week. What will Beijing do with the data collected from the athletes, officials, and journalists there? And how easy is…


Censorship in China and 5 Other Countries Hurts US Businesses: Report

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) released part of an investigation into six foreign countries’ censorship affecting American firms, with a focus on China. Two senators have urged the United States to fight back with trade tools. On Jan. 27, USITC unveiled the first report of the investigation (pdf), calling out China, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, India,…


Media Freedom in China Declining at ‘Breakneck Speed’: Report

Foreign journalists face “unprecedented hurdles” covering China as the communist regime has stepped up intimidation, harassment, and lawsuits against them, a reporters group said in a new report. The vast majority, 99 percent, of foreign correspondents surveyed by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said the reporting conditions in China didn’t meet international standards….


Olympians Face ‘Multidimensional Threats’ Under China’s Digital Surveillance: Expert

A former senior U.S. intelligence official warned Olympic athletes to be wary of “multidimensional threats” in the run-up to the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, including potential digital surveillance. “Take a clean phone,” suggested Nicholas Eftimiades, a retired senior American intelligence officer in an interview with EpochTV’s “China Insider” program. “Don’t put any passwords in…


CCP May Collect Top American Athletes’ DNA at Beijing Olympics, Experts Say

Sealed from the rest of Beijing in a “closed-loop” bubble, over 200 American athletes are receiving daily COVID screening for the Winter Olympics. But some expert worry that US Olympians’ DNA might be collected by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Patricia Adams, executive director of Canada-based non-profit Probe International, said “it’s a very likely possibility”…


Republican Rep. Tenney Slams ‘Malicious’ China-Run Tech Giant for Manipulating Congress

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) criticized Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision as being “very malicious and malevolent” for attempting to manipulate the U.S. government protocols and silence dissenting voices. “It is really just no business of a foreign Chinese-backed company to be interfering and trying to use and exploit our Ethics Committee to try to spy on…


GOP Rep. Tenney Slams ‘Malicious’ China-Run Tech Giant for Allegedly Manipulating Congress

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) criticized Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision as being “very malicious and malevolent” for attempting to manipulate the U.S. government protocols and silence dissenting voices. “It is really just no business of a foreign Chinese-backed company to be interfering and trying to use and exploit our Ethics Committee to try to spy on…