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The Taiwanese government praised Pope Francis’ diplomatic outreach to Beijing this week while sharply criticizing “China’s deteriorating religious freedom and human rights.”

President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday approved a first military transfer to Taiwan under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF)  program normally used for sovereign states.

Beijing published a “standard map of China,” labeling nearly the entire South China Sea, Taiwan, and large areas of India under its rule.

The Beijing Municipal Health Commission has drafted regulations that would “strictly prohibit” using A.I. to produce medical prescriptions.

Angry Chinese citizens this week defied massive government propaganda, and challenged China’s vast army of censors, to blame state policies and mismanagement for deaths from typhoon flooding.

The Chinese Communist Party’s ruling elite, including dictator Xi Jinping, have utterly vanished while typhoon floods ravage provinces like Hebei this week.

Heavy rains from Typhoon Doksuri flooded western Beijing on Monday, forcing more than 30,000 people to evacuate. At least two fatalities were reported in the district of Mentougou, where the worst flooding occurred.

The Vatican announced this weekend that it will accept China’s autonomous appointment of a Catholic bishop without Church approval.

Far-left American President Joe Biden is “desperately seeking talks with China on all fronts” to prevent an unforeseen controversy between Washington and Beijing from hurting his 2024 reelection bid, the Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper contended on Thursday.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Beijing on Thursday afternoon, beginning a four-day visit that included a meeting with Premier Li Qiang on Friday.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng on Monday, ahead of Yellen’s scheduled trip to Beijing this weekend. According to Chinese state media, Xie strove to send a “clear and positive message” that China is ready to improve bilateral relations.

China abrputly cancels visit to Beijing by EU top diplomat amid ongoing disagreements over trade, human rights and Ukraine.

Antony Blinken failed to get China to agree to restart U.S.-China military-to-military communications during his trip to Beijing.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates arrived in Beijing, lavishly praised China, and visited with his “old friend,” dictator Xi Jinping.

After meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping announced a new “Chinese-Palestinian strategic partnership,” and presented China as an impartial broker for peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians. Xi’s foreign minister Qin Gang said a dash of “Chinese wisdom” might be just what the stalled “peace process” needs.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), the chairman of the newly created U.S. House Select Committee on China, told Breitbart News exclusively that the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are deep into a “new Cold War.”

China rejected a request from Austin to meet his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum.

Chinese social media sites banned a Malaysian comedian based in the United Kingdom named Nigel Ng on Monday for making jokes about China’s dystopian surveillance state, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, and Taiwan.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Thursday took note of a Chinese government study that recommended building a second national capital in Xinjiang province to decisively “end the historical concept that the region is the Uyghur people’s motherland.”

A top Chinese government propagandist, former Global Times editor Hu Xijin, lamented the censorship of information related to a deadly fire at a Beijing hospital this week – then rapidly deleted his social media post and replaced it with an innocuous post calling for police to investigate the incident.

Blackburn will press for more congressional oversight of U.S-China “sister cities,” Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

A senior Chinese diplomat has demanded that Germany support its “peaceful” conquest of neighbouring Taiwan.

“Threatening military gestures” increase “the risk of unintentional military confrontations,” a spokesperson said in Berlin.

The Chinese Communist Party has once again violated its 2018 agreement with the Vatican, unilaterally naming a new bishop of Shanghai without the Vatican’s approval.

A New York-based consulting firm called the Mintz Group said on Friday that Chinese police raided its offices in Beijing for unclear reasons and arrested all five of the Chinese nationals who worked there. Mintz said the Chinese government has “closed our operations there” and will not allow the company to contact its imprisoned employees.

Officials are warning about the potential use of giant Chinese-made and operated cranes as spy tools at U.S. ports.

A Chinese military company that was linked to Hunter Biden’s investment firm is now assisting the Russian military in the war in Ukraine.

The top Chinese health official in charge of population monitoring on Friday called for “bold” action to reverse China’s population decline, specifically including programs to reduce the cost of childbirth so Chinese families will begin having more babies.

Piece by piece the scattered elements of the downed Chinese spy balloon emerged from the ocean depths Tuesday, with U.S. Navy divers using sophisticated reconnaissance drones dubbed the Kingfish and the Swordfish to hasten the job.

An indignant China on Monday used diplomatic channels to accuse the U.S. of indiscriminate use of force when the American military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon, saying the act had “seriously impacted and damaged both sides’ efforts and progress in stabilizing Sino-U.S. relations.”

Pope Francis has denounced the “murderous, illegal exploitation” of the wealth of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where China has appropriated an ever-greater share of the nation’s resources.

NPR reported on Wednesday that the Chinese Communist Party is quietly, but relentlessly, rounding up and imprisoning people it sees as ringleaders in the huge nationwide protests against dictator Xi Jinping’s coronavirus lockdowns.

Chinese state media over the weekend highlighted huge New Year’s Eve celebrations across the country, with one of the biggest at Shougang Park in the capital of Beijing – even though China claims to be experiencing a ravaging national outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Even as Chinese citizens mourn their loved ones and hearses pile up outside overworked crematoriums, the Chinese Communist government claimed there were absolutely zero fatalities from coronavirus on Tuesday. In fact, Communist officials retracted one of only seven deaths they have admitted to over the past two weeks.

Chinese social media users are smuggling out videos of bodies piling up in hospital morgues this week as the Wuhan coronavirus allegedly sweeps the country, while the Chinese Communist regime is dispatching police to secure crematoriums in a losing battle to conceal the number of fatalities.

Despite a brutal crackdown by the Chinese Communist regime, anti-lockdown protests continued in cities across China on Tuesday, including a band of courageous “blank paper” protesters who assembled on a pedestrian bridge in Beijing, inspired by the courageous dissident who hung banners critical of dictator Xi Jinping from a bridge in October.