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A Chinese student in Canada had two followers on Twitter. He still didn’t escape Beijing’s threats over online activity

24Sep

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A Chinese student in Canada had two followers on Twitter. He still didn’t escape Beijing’s threats over online activity

In “China Unbound: A New World Disorder,” Toronto Star reporter Joanna Chiu examines China’s growing influence around the world, including in western countries, and its surveillance and human rights abuses that increasingly extend beyond its borders. Dear Joanna Chiu, I am (Dan). I am from China. I just graduated from (a Quebec university). I hesitated for a whole night before deciding to write this email … Now I am living in Canada, but I am living with fear from the Chinese government. Dan, whose name I’ve changed to protect his identity, hails from one of China’s picturesque and relatively laidback southwestern provinces. He studied English diligently and was elated when a top Canadian university accepted his application to study law. About a month before the start of the September

Biden’s pivot to free, open Indo-Pacific

23Sep

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Biden’s pivot to free, open Indo-Pacific

Biden's pivot to free, open Indo-Pacific US soldiers take down a flag after a memorial service for a fallen comrade in Afghanistan's Kunar province on April 23, 2009. The last American flight from Afghanistan on Monday left behind a host of unfulfilled promises and anxious questions about the country's fate. (Photo: NYT) If former United States President Barack Obama is known for his "pivot to Asia" geostrategy and President Donald Trump for the Free and Open Indo-Pacific, there is now a geostrategic synthesis under President Joe Biden. It can be aptly called the US "pivot to the Free and Open Indo-Pacific". While Asia remains the scope and the Indo-Pacific the main arena of US-China rivalry and competition, the Biden pivot focuses on China's shadows and influence in Southeast Asia. Doi...

Taiwan’s wax apples and sugar banned by China

23Sep

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Taiwan’s wax apples and sugar banned by China

Taipei: Taiwan’s sugar and wax apples banned by China recently are increasing the tension between the two governments. China announced that the products would be suspended from Monday, claiming quarantine pests were detected on multiple inspections, reports ABC News. The move follows a similar ban on pineapples earlier this year, prompting Taiwan to threaten to take mainland China to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the news channel reported. Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council told ABC News that the decision was made to protect agricultural production and ecological security. But Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council argues that "the ban is inconsistent with WTO and international trade regulations". Wu Muluan, a China scholar a

Protest in Tokyo to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

22Sep

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Protest in Tokyo to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Tokyo, Japan: The activists and the citizens from Tibet, Mongolia, Uyghurs, Hong Kong and Chinse are protesting in Tokyo against the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics Despite the city facing the impact of incoming typhoon Chanthu, nearly 40 Uyghurs, Tibetan, Mongolian, Hong Kong and Chinese dissident activists, supported by a few Japanese activists, marched through central Tokyo on Saturday.Carrying banners seeking the boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the activists urged the global community to note the human rights abuses by China in ethnic minority areas, as well as in Hong Kong. They claimed that the rest of the world needed to wake up to China’s violation of basic human rights and to refrain from rewarding China despite being aware of its activities. Comparing the 2022

Myanmar military convoy hit by roadside bomb near Yangon: junta

22Sep

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Myanmar military convoy hit by roadside bomb near Yangon: junta

Myanmar military convoy hit by roadside bomb near Yangon: junta People attempt to extinguish a fire as houses burn in Namg Kar village in Magwe region's Gangaw township on Saturday, as fighting continues between the Myanmar military and protesters against the military coup. (AFP PHOTO / ANONYMOUS SOURCE) Myanmar anti-junta dissidents have carried out a bomb attack on security forces near Yangon, with several killed in an ensuing firefight, the military and media said. The neighbouring nation has been in turmoil since the military toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government in February, sparking mass pro-democracy protests and a bloody crackdown by the military. Various townships across Myanmar have formed so-called "people defence forces" to fight back against the junta, although the...

Japan claimed the disputed land with China

21Sep

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Japan claimed the disputed land with China

Defence Minister of Japan has warned China over the penetration of Chinese in Japanese Land, Japan has also claimed it land and has strongly stated to protect it. Nobuo Kishi said the territories, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China, unquestionably belong to Japan and warned any provocation from Beijing will be fully matched. His warnings come as a new three-way nuclear submarine pact between the US, UK and Australia aimed at combatting China was unveiled, to the delight of Japan and Taiwan. 2 It has added state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jets and converted warships to aircraft carriers, while building new destroyers, submarines and missiles. Kishi: 'Against Chinese action to Senkaku Islands and other parts of the East China Sea... we have to demonstrate that t...

Taiwan prepare its military for suspected threat from China

20Sep

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Taiwan prepare its military for suspected threat from China

Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwan has been training its forces amid the tension with China, country recently has organised a five-day military training exercise which makes the forces ready to deal with for any invasion in the country.The live-fire portion of Han Kuang exercise kicked off early Monday morning in eastern Taiwan, an area China considers a weak link, Nikkei Asia reported. F-16V and Mirage 2000 fighter jets were dispatched to simulate a response to an armed invasion.This comes as China has ramped up diplomatic and military pressure on Taiwan. Taiwan has reported almost daily incursions by Chinese military aircraft in its air defence identification zone. According to Nikkei Asia, Taipei is responding by pouring money into missiles and other investments that it hopes will help le...

Geelani, Kashmir’s staunchest anti-India leader, dies at 91

13Sep

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Geelani, Kashmir’s staunchest anti-India leader, dies at 91

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Syed Ali Geelani, an icon of disputed Kashmir’s resistance against Indian rule and a top separatist leader who became the emblem of the region’s defiance against New Delhi, died late Wednesday. He was 91. Geelani died surrounded by family members at his home in Srinagar, the region’s main city, an aide and his relative told The Associated Press. Shortly after the news broke, scores of Kashmiris converged at his home in the Hyderpora neighborhood of Srinagar to mourn the death of Geelani, who lived the final decade of his life mostly under house arrest and suffered from various ailments. Authorities announced a communication blockade and the restriction of public movement, a common tactic employed by Indian officials in anticipation of anti-India protests. They swi

The Latest: Elders leader tells UN council to protect rights

12Sep

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The Latest: Elders leader tells UN council to protect rights

UNITED NATIONS — Former Irish president Mary Robinson, who heads the group of prominent former leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, called on China and Russia especially to tell the Taliban that participation of women in Afghan society and the education of girls are “non-negotiable and must be respected.” Robinson recalled visiting Afghanistan in March 2002 as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and being with the then minister of women’s affairs and other Afghan women who had been active before the Taliban ruled from 1996-2001 when they drafted a charter of women’s rights. Now chair of The Elders, Robinson told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday this was “an important reminder that women’s rights are not Western rights — they are fundamental human rights that these Afghan women had

Air raid sirens sound in Israel after rocket fired from Gaza

12Sep

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Air raid sirens sound in Israel after rocket fired from Gaza

JERUSALEM (AP) — Air raid sirens sounded in southern Israel on Monday after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip, the first since the 11-day war between Israel and Palestinian militants in May. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket fire. It came hours after Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian gunmen during a late-night arrest raid in the occupied West Bank, killing four Palestinians in one of the deadliest battles in the area in years. The Israeli military said in a statement that it identified one rocket launch that was intercepted by aerial defense batteries. Amateur video footage appeared to show the rocket being intercepted over the southern town of Sderot. The rocket fire could jeopardize three months of relative calm since Israel and the militant grou

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