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Health workers in Hong Kong accused police of spreading “terror” by arresting at least five anti-communist protesters while they received treatment at local hospitals for police-inflicted wounds. Police also allegedly eavesdropped on doctors’ treatments and made arrests without showing a warrant.

The “collapse of Western values,” a “massive case of denial” in the free world, and “religious bigotry” towards the Falun Gong spiritual movement have allowed China to potentially expand its industrial-scale harvesting of live organs to Uighur Muslims imprisoned in concentration camps, Ethan Gutmann, author of several seminal reports on the topic, told Breitbart News.

Contents: Hong Kong protests show historic split between northern and southern China; Similarities with 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests; Differences with 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests; Southern China vs Northern China; No good choices for Xi Jinping

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday released the International Religious Freedom Report for 2018 and announced the expansion of the State Department’s efforts to address religious liberty around the globe.

Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to Pyongyang to meet with dictator Kim Jong-un on Thursday, the first Chinese leader to visit North Korea in 14 years. Xi expressed strong support for Kim and said he wanted denuclearization talks between North Korea and the U.S. to “move forward and bear fruit.”

Government and independent officials in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, have dismissed assertions by the United States and human rights group that China is abusing millions of predominantly Uighur Muslims in internment camps as “American propaganda,” a report by an Indonesian think-tank revealed this week.

The export ban could cripple Beijing’s plan to dominate the manufacturing of high-performance supercomputers.

A Taliban delegation recently traveled to Beijing to discuss U.S.-backed peace efforts as well as “mutual” counterterrorism concerns in Afghanistan, the Chinese foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday.

The success of the current protest movement inspired by Hong Kong’s controversial extradition bill may offer a glimmer of hope for democracy activists, but many residents have already chosen to escape mainland China’s iron grip by emigrating to other countries, with Taiwan an especially popular destination.

Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, is being sued by an Arkansas woman alleging that he is the father of her baby. 

Attorneys for Hunter Biden confirmed to ABC News that Hunter Biden remains in his position despite questions about his role at the Chinese investment fund Bohai Harvest RST.

Democrat frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden (D) refused to answer questions about the deal Hunter Biden’s private equity firm and the Chinese government made, instead promising to address potential conflicts of interest on his first day in office, ABC News reported.

The government of China published images Thursday of a hearing in Tianjin for Meng Hongwei, the former president of Interpol, in which Meng allegedly confessed to taking over $2 million in bribes while being in charge of China’s national police forces.

Chinese state media claimed that Communist Party chief Xi Jinping landed in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday to “hundreds of thousands” of people lined up to greet him, waving Chinese flags and chanting communist slogans.

Hundreds of Chinese and local workers clashed at the construction site of a Beijing-funded power plant near Dhaka, Bangladesh, leaving one person dead and dozens of others wounded, law enforcement reportedly revealed on Wednesday.

Dozens of angry Philippine protesters urged President Duterte to act more decisively against increasingly common illegal activity by Chinese vessels in the South China Sea on Tuesday, burning Chinese flags in response to the sinking of a Philippine ship last week.

Belgium this week dispatched a diplomat to the Xinjiang province of China to search for a Uighur woman named Horiyat Abula and her four children, who Chinese police disappeared from the Belgian embassy in Beijing last month.

A nonpartisan tribunal published a report Tuesday accusing China of “crimes against humanity,” cutting organs out of Falun Gong practitioners alive to transplant into paying clients, and potentially preparing an “organ bank” using the millions of mostly Uighur Muslims believed trapped in concentration camps in western China.

Silicon Valley tech giant Apple is reportedly considering moving iPhone production out of China in an attempt to reduce its exposure to the trade war between the United States and China and to diversify its supply chain.

Donald Trump Jr. hypothetically remarked that the media would exhaustively cover a business agreement between China and himself had he struck a deal like Biden’s son Hunter.

Hong Kong demonstrators have adopted “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord” as their unofficial anthem, singing it constantly as they march before the legislative headquarters and demand a permanent end to the recently suspended extradition bill.

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping penned an opinion piece published on the front page of North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Wednesday in anticipation for his arrival there this week, vowing “unswervable support” to dictator Kim Jong-un.

While General Motors (GM) is set to expand its manufacturing in China and South Korea, CEO Mary Barra is asking that the most recently laid-off American workers stay loyal to the multinational automaker.

The U.S. State Department on Friday was strongly critical of United Nations Under-Secretary General for Counterterrorism Vladimir Voronkov for paying a visit to China’s Xinjiang province, where much of the Muslim population has been herded into re-education camps and the rest is under constant state surveillance.

A senior city official in Hong Kong told Reuters on Tuesday that China will not allow chief executive Carrie Lam to resign as protesters demanded, even if she wants to. Lam offered more unqualified contrition in her latest public statement but said she intends to remain in office.

After weeks of speculation about whether President Trump and Xi would meet in Japan, Trump says the meeting will happen.

The Taliban’s political chief visited China days ahead of what some news outlets have described as a crucial round of peace negotiations with the United States — the seventh in about a year, scheduled to take place in Qatar early this week. 

China is using its clout over the United Nations to promote and legitimize its so-called “re-education” centers in Xinjiang where communist authorities are subjecting Uighurs and other Muslim minorities to extrajudicial incarceration, torture, forced political indoctrination, the renunciation of their faith, and other human rights abuses, Chinese state media revealed on Monday. 

A spokesman for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte suggested Monday that the country could invoke a mutual defense treaty with the United States to involve America in its ongoing dispute with China over a Philippine fishing vessel sunk in a “hit and run” accident in sovereign Philippine territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Chinese Premier Xi Jinping with a giant box of ice cream for his 66th birthday on Saturday, telling Xi he was “delighted to have a friend like you.” 

Sen. Lindsey Graham is siding with President Donald Trump in 2020 over his longtime friend Joe Biden, according to a recent interview.

Chinese and North Korean state media announced on Monday that Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping will visit North Korea this week to meet with dictator Kim Jong-un. It will be Xi’s first visit to North Korea and the first time China’s leader has made such a trip since Xi’s predecessor Hu Jintao visited Pyongyang in 2005.

The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the group organizing protests against a proposed extradition law in Hong Kong, announced that nearly 2 million people attended protests on Sunday, the largest recorded assembly in the history of Hong Kong, according to the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP).

Twenty-two-year-old Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was released from prison on Monday after serving one month of a two-month sentence for his role in the Umbrella Movement demonstrations of 2014.

The government of Hong Kong issued a statement Sunday apologizing to its people for triggering widespread protests with a proposed extradition bill many fear could result in the mass incarceration of pro-democracy Hong Kongers to communist China. The apology appeared to do little to quell calls for chief executive Carrie Lam to resign.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Saturday that a proposed extradition bill will be suspended, handing a stunning victory to thousands of protesters who packed the streets for a week to oppose legislation strongly desired by the mainland Chinese government.