🇨🇳 consulate in NYC has hired PR firm Vippi Media to run an influence campaign that recruits prominent American social media influencers on Instagram, TikTok and Twitch to tout the Beijing Olympics and promote China-US cooperation on issues like
For US$300K, Vippi will hire 8 influencers to produce at least 24 posts about the Olympics, Beijing's history, and relations between the US and China. 20% of the content should focus on cooperation and any good things in China-US relations.
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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
🔥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.
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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👇🏻 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
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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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.
“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.
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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