Hungary's Orban is not a conservative - and America's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) shouldn't go near him with a 10-foot pole. Orban undermines democracy and liberty in Europe - and is close to Putin and friendly with China.
cbsnews.com/amp/news/vikto… That Orban's government paid for a CPAC conference in Hungary is highly questionable - CPAC is an American political organization and should be purely American funded.

Canada finally bans China's Huawei telecom from its networks. But the company still employs about 1,500 people, mostly in research and development, on Canadian soil. As Huawei is controlled by the CCP - all of its operations globally should be shut down. theepochtimes.com/canada-and-the… Huawei cannibalized Nortel - a Canadian telecom with 70% of global business - that went bankrupt due to China's hacking of the company in 2004. Canada's government didn't protect Nortel even though Nortel's security asked. Read @scoopercooper globalnews.ca/news/7275588/i…

CNN and apparently a Stanford prof (@RobertCrews22) are trying to blame the Kabul chaos on Trump - a sorry distortion. If you blame any past president, blame Obama for
precipitously expanding, then drawing down U.S. forces from their height in 2011 (I was there then). Trump raised troops briefly, perhaps to get a deal, then lowered them in line with the downward trend Obama started. Biden fumbled logistics and tactics at the goal line.

The reason why Kabul fell so quickly to the Taliban is that the Taliban had infiltrated and compromised Afghanistan's leadership. China is trying to do the same in Washington, DC. Over three weeks ago, I warned British diplomats to get out of Kabul. express.co.uk/news/uk/146690…

Shame on the @NYTimes for platforming propaganda by a genocidal regime in China. Cooperation with the CCP is leading to ever weaker democracies, economically and militarily. nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opi… The @NYTimes is happy to publish an op-ed by a leader of China's CCP (which is committing genocide against the Uyghurs), but not by a member of the US Senate. Those editors need to get their priorities straight. politico.com/news/2020/06/0…

The most underreported story of 2020: the US printed about $3 trillion USD and pumped it into the economy (about 5x the US trade deficit). The effect on inflation? Not much because everybody's got it under their mattresses. cnbc.com/2020/08/05/the… The Euro area money supply, by contrast, increased by about 1 trillion euro (1.2 trillion USD) over the same period.

The signing of the BECA defense pact yesterday by the US and #India is a truly historic agreement as India has been a leader of the non-aligned movement (NAM) that arose at the Bandung Conference of 1955 in Indonesia... tribuneindia.com/news/nation/in… ... and was formalized at the Cairo Conference of 1961. During the entire Cold War with the #SovietUnion, India was non-aligned with the western world despite the fact that it was a democracy.

"State of War, State of Mind: Reconsidering Mobilization in the Information Age", the latest from LCDR Robert “Jake” Bebber, USN in @JpolRisk. #China
jpolrisk.com/state-of-war-s… "Recently, American policy-makers and national security thinkers have begun to recognize that revisionist powers in Communist China and Russia have no interest in preserving the current liberal order, and instead have embarked on a course to challenge and supplant the U.S...."

#Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Liberal Party) linked to #China influence operations, billionaires, and a crime network in Canada, including one that engages in illegal gambling and prostitution. globalnews.ca/news/7416772/m… "In 2016 and 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participated in at least a handful of fundraising events in the Toronto and Vancouver regions that featured wealthy entrepreneurs such as Wei."

600 groups in the US are in regular contact with #China's consulate and purposively influencing the policy environment leading up to November elections according to Newsweek. Meanwhile Biden fails to treat China as a serious threat. #2020Election newsweek.com/2020/11/13/exc… "The scope of alleged activities is enormous, involving social and business gatherings, extensive information campaigns and building political and economic ties that can be leveraged to Beijing's gain ..." -Newsweek

.@UCNZ's current gagging of Brady and the fatal car crash against her petition coauthors two months ago are covered by Sky News in Australia. Brady's house has also been burglarized and her car tampered with - both suspicious occurrences. Photos of the fatal car crash two months ago in which a Brady coauthor died.

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U of Canterbury professor @Anne_MarieBrady is being administratively harassed by @UCNZ for her work on #China's influence operations. The China Democracy Foundation is crowd-financing $20,000 NZD in legal support. Please donate and spread the word here: chinadem.org/take-action .@james_t_quinn said of AMB, "foreigners with an interest in preserving their ties to the CCP suppress scholarship inconvenient to its strategic aims on their own, the regime’s aggressive, malignant foreign policy becomes that much harder to counteract." nationalreview.com/2020/10/intern…

Financial links found between a pro-#China group in the USA and #BlackLivesMatter. The linking group is called "Black Futures Lab". Excellent investigation by @Gundisalvus @Heritage. dailysignal.com/2020/09/15/thi… The Chinese Progressive Association was in 1982 described as a place for 'revolutionary-minded people". unityarchiveproject.org/article/chines…

"We have little illusion about our chance of success … but we simply refuse to let #HongKong succumb to tyranny. We try anything and everything; we soldier on,” it said. -LIHKG statement. theguardian.com/world/2020/may… While I admire and honor anyone who chooses to remain in Hong Kong under siege by the fascist #CCP, sometimes tactical retreat is a smart move. I hope activists who can live to fight another day by getting out of #HK do so and are honored to equal degree. #BeWater #DontGetCaught

#NewZealand @jacindaardern why didn't you sign the joint statement on #HongKong with the US, UK, Canada and Australia? You don't really agree with freedom and democracy at the cost of renminbi? #jacindaardern #turnardern #nz #nzpol #5eyes - 1=4eyes state.gov/joint-statemen… theguardian.com/world/commenti…

.@NPR still hopes that engagement with #China will soften Beijing in the future. It's not paying attention to the #CCP's uncooperative drive for advantage in nearly all of its global interactions. @emilyzfeng @amy_23_cheng npr.org/2020/05/11/852… NPR authors: "While assigning blame might score points with populist elements in both China and the U.S., it comes at a cost for an important geopolitical relationship." Yet, not assigning blame risks a repeat by the CCP.

"The sooner #China was included into the international community, the earlier it would learn to play along with international norms, the argument went. But, China’s current measures indicate otherwise. International norms are the ones being played." thediplomat.com/2020/04/how-ch… "China’s attempts to make the @UN a tool for achieving its hegemonic ambition would erode the institution’s trustworthiness from within and render international cooperation parochial."

An article by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (@CBCNews) implied that "Canadians" (plural) see an @EpochTimes edition as racist, but only cited a single reader and did not provide any evidence from the edition itself. That hardly seems fair. archive.is/OBNUt Then they corrected the headline to something more accurate (and humorously unnewsworthy). @andreabellemare @jason_ho_to @KatieNicholson cbc.ca/news/canada/ep…

A billionaire Chinese national, Liu Dian Bo, bought 34 Australian hospitals in 2015 for $900 million. They have 8000 beds. Now that the country needs them most, the billionaire is shutting them down. His company wants more money from the government. 9news.com.au/national/coron… Looming shutdowns aren't limited to his co, "Healthe Care". Other hospitals are also facing financial difficulties. According to the article, "Ramsay Health Care has 25,000 beds at 72 private hospitals and is now sending staff on leave. Healthscope has 4400 beds at 43 hospitals."

Most governments have prioritized over the past decades, in their lack of pandemic planning, the economy and immediate consumption. They ignored the long-term health of their populations by not arranging for sufficient masks and ventilators, for example, in case of pandemic. In the early stages of the pandemic, many governments again prioritized the economy through their efforts at minimizing the threat even as the #COVID2019 pandemic developed. #XiJinping is the worst in this regard, but was followed by @realDonaldTrump @BorisJohnson @DrTedros.

#China's total exports in 2018 were $2.65 trillion, of which approximately $477 billion went to the #USA, $441 billion went to the #EU, and $157 billion to #Japan. Add #SouthKorea and #India, and that is over 50% of Chinese exports. China's strong economy depends on the good will of a handful of governments. Gradually increasing tariffs (or economic sanctions) on Chinese imports in these and other like-minded countries and the EU, if linked to demands for: 1) human rights improvements in #HongKong, ...