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.
A Chinese government representative declared this week that he was “not aware” of the demotion and relocation of a Catholic bishop in violation of the 2018 Sino-Vatican accord on the appointment of bishops.
The Vatican has registered its “surprise and regret” over China’s unilateral decision to demote and relocate a Catholic bishop without the approval of Pope Francis.
Beijing health officials on Monday denied the Chinese capital has been placed under a coronavirus lockdown but nevertheless ordered residents “not to go out unless necessary, including not go to crowded places, and not go out to meals and parties,” which will doubtless leave many of them feeling locked down in all but name.
Chinese health officials insisted over the weekend that 20 new rules released by the National Health Commission (NHC) were intended to “optimize” the strict regime of coronavirus lockdowns, not “loosen” the authoritarian government’s “zero-Covid” approach.
China’s mega-city of Guangzhou, which became the “epicenter” of the current Chinese coronavirus outbreak this week, announced on Thursday it would shutter schools and universities.
Chinese flight cancellations, already vexing travelers in a few coronavirus hot spots like the city of Guangzhou, expanded greatly throughout the week. On Wednesday, the state-run Global Times said some airports are seeing 98 percent flight cancellation rates, while massive Guangzhou was up to 89 percent canceled.
The DoD’s reported plan to replace permanently-based fighter jets with rotational ones in the Indo-Pacific will be perceived as “weakness.”
The U.S. will deploy up to six nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress bombers to a remote Australian airbase in a move experts say is aimed directly at China, a report Monday details.
The Chinese Communist regime announced on Wednesday that Universal Beijing Resort will be closed indefinitely, and several districts in the major cities of Wuhan and Guangzhou have been locked down, due to surging coronavirus cases.
Religious freedom champion Nina Shea warned Tuesday that the U.S. lacks the necessary resolve to counter Xi Jinping’s “ideological war” on the West.
Peng Lifa, identified as a Chinese physicist and dissident responsible for hanging banners against communism in Beijing last week, has reportedly inspired a wave of copycat protest messages in at least eight Chinese citizens, Australia’s news.com.au reported on Wednesday.
After claims China is recruiting former UK combat pilots through a company in South Africa, attention is turning to Navy and Army veterans.
Coronavirus lockdowns returned to the Chinese mega-city of Xi’an on Tuesday, as classes were suspended, public venues shut down, and tourist attractions closed. Chinese citizens, both those residing in Xi’an and outside the city, flooded social media with angry and frightened posts at the latest twist in China’s seemingly endless lockdown horror show.
The Chinese Communist government on Monday attempted to hijack the prestige of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by holding a sideshow webinar at which hand-picked experts in “Living Buddha Reincarnation” agreed the next Dalai Lama should be selected by Beijing, rather than actual Tibetan Buddhists.
Sen. Maggie Hassan’s husband, Tom Hassan, has served as president of School Year Abroad (SYA) since 2016, which sends American high schoolers around the world to foreign campuses, including one in Beijing, China — overseen by the Ministry of Education and has ties to the military.
China’s state-run People’s Daily on Thursday ran an editorial bragging about “remarkable ecological progress over the past ten years,” even though China remains the world’s worst polluter by a wide margin, and burns more dirty coal for electric power than ever before.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday as she was en route to Taiwan for a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “emboldened” right now and that the United States has to step to stop them.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) landed in Taipei, Taiwan, late Tuesday evening local time in defiance of the Biden administration’s and China’s warnings not to go.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Singapore early Monday to start her Asia tour with questions remaining as to whether Taiwan is included in the lightning trip.
Beijing’s government announced on Wednesday plans to enforce a Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate on select members of its population of roughly 21.3 million starting next week, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
The huge city of Xi’an in northwestern China on Tuesday became the latest to impose lockdowns in China’s growing coronavirus outbreak.
Cai Qi, the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Beijing, told state media Monday that the city would adhere to its “zero-Covid” policy of lockdowns and quarantines for the next five years.
The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Urban Management and Law Enforcement recently targeted over 3,500 local businesses — including restaurants, shopping malls, and commercial venues — for allegedly failing to enforce anti-epidemic prevention measures during the city’s latest outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported Sunday.
