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Myanmar Anti-Coup Protesters Target Chinese Embassy

Wednesday saw the largest protests to date against the coup in Myanmar, despite a ban on large gatherings imposed by the military. Many of the demonstrators gathered outside the Chinese embassy in the city of Yangon and accused China of supporting the junta, or even using the junta as puppets so Beijing could take control of Myanmar.

YANGON, MYANMAR - FEBRUARY 17: Protesters wave flags and shout anti-coup slogans on Februa

GOP Rep. Waltz on 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: ‘I Don’t See How We Participate’

During a Tuesday appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) discussed his House resolution calling on the United States to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics if the event is not moved out of China. The resolution is in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s various human rights violations, censorship and cover-ups regarding the coronavirus.

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Report: China Refused to Share Coronavirus Data with W.H.O. Investigators

More leaks emerged Friday from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) team sent to investigate the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. According to the Wall Street Journal, some of the W.H.O. investigators had “heated exchanges” with Chinese officials who refused to share data that could help pinpoint the origins of the pandemic.

WUHAN, CHINA - JANUARY 28: An aerial view of the city sunset on January 28, 2021 in Wuhan,

Disney Silent on Revelations of Abuses in China’s Concentration Camps

In the latest example of corporate complicity through silence, the Walt Disney Co. has refused to comment on a recent report that China is overseeing the systematic rape of ethnic minority women in the western Xinjiang region. The BBC News reported earlier this month that women in China’s concentration camps for Uyghurs have been repeatedly raped, sexually abused, and tortured.

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China Airs Blackface Show — Again! — for Lunar New Year

Chinese broadcaster CCTV opened its annual four-hour-long Lunar New Year variety show Friday with a “multicultural” dance performance featuring ethnically Han Chinese performers in black skin paint pretending to be African. The use of blackface prompted global ire, as it was not the first instance of it appearing in the program.

WUHAN, CHINA - JANUARY 01: (CHINA OUT) Children show their calligraphy during New Year cel

BBC World News Banned from Airing in China

Communist China’s state broadcasting regulator has pulled Britain’s BBC World News from its airways for alleged content violation, including on impartiality and undermining the repressive regime’s ‘ethnic solidarity’.

Paramilitary police officers stand guard in front of a poster of late communist leader Mao