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25 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
🔥In Solomons Islands, protesters were angry about lack of promised development and the central government’s 2019 decision to cut ties with Taiwan and establish a formal relationship with China.

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More than 1,000 protesters, mostly from the pro-Taiwan Malaita province, demand the resignation of Manasseh Sogavare, the pro-Beijing prime minister.

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thetimes.co.uk/article/solomo…
There were also riots in 2006 after general elections with much of Honiara's Chinatown razed amid rumors of Beijing's involvement in rigging the vote.

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23 members of the Australian Federal Police will be deployed to Solomon Islands immediately, with a further 50 personnel to enforce security at critical infrastructure. Another 43 military troops would be sent to aid the Australian police officers.

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25 Nov
5 members of the US House of Representatives — chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Mark Takano, Colin Allred, Elissa Slotkin, Sara Jacobs and Nancy Mace — are expected to arrive in Taiwan for a short trip focused on meetings with

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👇🏻 ⁦latest report from @SafeguardDefend⁩ on how China uses (and misuses) INTERPOL tools such as Red Notices, especially after Xi Jinping launched his "anti-corruption" campaign

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Safeguard Defenders, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and exiled activists from China, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang have launched appeals to governments to prevent the election of Hu Binchen to INTERPOL's 13-member Executive Committee, to be decided by its

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General Assembly on Nov 23-25. Hu Binchen is a police officer with 🇨🇳 Ministry of Public Security, and works specifically for its International Cooperation Department, which is heavily involved in China's Fox Hunt and Sky Net operations.

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15 Nov
🔥 WTA Chairman & CEO Steve Simon speaks out in support of Peng Shuai.

A small step in the right direction for international sports organizations to speak out against injustice and human rights violations in China.

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WTA Chairman & CEO Steve Simon’s comments could endanger the tour’s extensive business relationship with China, where the WTA has 11 tournaments and a lucrative, long-term deal to hold its tour finals in Shenzhen.

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nytimes.com/2021/11/14/spo…
“I think everybody fully understands what’s at stake here on many different fronts as we’re going through it. I think we’re certainly, from players to board to council, fully united that the only acceptable approach is that of doing what is right. If at the end of

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Since 2005, China's three largest state investment banks have loaned some US$140B to countries in Latin American to pay for everything from nuclear power stations to dams, roads to railways, ports and phone networks.

Chinese trade with Latin America

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has shot up more than 25 times, rising from $12B in 2000 to $315B in 2020 as almost half of the countries in the region saw their largest trading partner flip from being the US to China - including 3 of the 4 largest economies, in Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.

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All of these gives China leverage that it uses to get its own way on the international stage, from winning votes at the UN to isolating its enemies - most notably Taiwan, as Beijing often requires countries to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan before it will hand over money.

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19 Oct
ASPI’s new report on CCP’s repression against the Uyghurs by ⁦@xu_xiuzhong⁩ ⁦@jleibold⁩ ⁦@DariImpio⁩

“An astounding number of offices are involved in key aspects of the Chinese party-state’s crackdown in Xinjiang: propaganda,

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re-education, at-home surveillance and indoctrination, forced labour and population control ... Xinjiang’s stability maintenance tools are increasingly replicated by other Chinese provinces and regions including Hong Kong.”

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Yao Ning, a local party secretary of the CCP who was honoured this year by Beijing for his work in Xinjiang, studied as an Asia fellow at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation between 2010 and 2011.

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🚨🚨🚨 WTF! Joey Siu, Hong Kong Watch’s Policy Advisor, and a Tibetan activist have been arrested at the Acropolis in Greece!

Does Greece have any extradition treaty with China? hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2021…
🚨🚨🚨 If Joey and the Tibetan activist are handed over to China, they will undoubtedly be charged and jailed for breaking China’s national security law!!!
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