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The Chinese government on Wednesday published a rare “white paper” adjusting its stance on Taiwan by rescinding a long-standing promise that People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces would not be sent to garrison the island if Beijing takes control, by either political or military means.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reported on efforts to eliminate the Cantonese language from Hong Kong, replacing it with the Mandarin language preferred by the Chinese Communist Party.

Chinese investors are gobbling up homes, farms and other properties in the U.S., statistics in a real estate market report show

An attorney for Australian activist Drew Pavlou, who has spent years advocating against Chinese Communist Party atrocities, accused the “Chinese state” in an interview on Monday of framing his client with a fake bomb threat email to London’s Chinese embassy.

Hong Kong human rights protesters say fervent Chinese Communist Party supporters assaulted them during the FIBA World Cup qualifier basketball match between China and Australia in Melbourne on Thursday night.

Former police officer and ardent Communist Party loyalist John Lee became the chief executive of Hong Kong on Friday, the 25th anniversary of China’s takeover of the once-British city, with a mandate from Beijing to ensure that pro-democracy protests never return.

25 years ago, Britain’s Union Jack flag was lowered in Hong Kong for the final time, replaced with the yellow and red of Communist China.

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) on Tuesday announced the Chinese Communist Party had barred at least ten local and international media organizations — including Reuters, Bloomberg News, AFP, and the South China Morning Post — from covering the 25th anniversary of the United Kingdom handing Hong Kong over to China.

The United Kingdom was never the colonial ruler of Hong Kong according to textbooks reportedly produced for the communist puppet government.

The newly formed Dissident Project seeks to connect those who have fled socialism with America’s young people in order to learn about the “evils of socialism.”

China’s effort to impose Communist ideology on the formerly free island of Hong Kong accelerated this week with the introduction of new textbooks that will teach “citizenship” — and edited Communist history — to students.

Hong Kong police arrested six people for “public order offenses” on Saturday, the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Messaging and social networking app Telegram, which has built a reputation for guarding users from invasive government surveillance and censorship, appears to be buckling under official pressure, shutting down two dissident channels in Hong Kong following threats from regulators.

China’s top English-language government propaganda outlets completely ignored the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this weekend, a return to a standard Beijing disposed of in 2019 when it began celebrating the mass murder following the rise of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.

The Pillar of Shame, a haunting memorial to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, stood proudly in Hong Kong for over twenty years until Communist goons finally managed to tear it down last December. The original statue has been buried in storage by the Chinese Communists, who are desperately trying to erase the Tiananmen massacre from history, but replicas are rising around the world with the blessing of the artist.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced this week that his league lost “hundreds of millions” after Chinese TV outlets imposed a television blackout on all NBA games following Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong in 2019.

Hong Kong police warned the public Thursday not to “test” police officers with “unauthorized assemblies” on the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported.

Outgoing Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that vigils for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre could violate not only coronavirus safety protocols, but also the draconian “national security law” imposed on the island by Beijing in 2020.

The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) told Chinese state media on Thursday it will replace its traditional British-style foot drills with the marching style favored by Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) beginning on July 1, which marks the 25th anniversary of the United Kingdom handing control of Hong Kong to Beijing.

Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday that the Leisure and Cultural Service Department (LCSD) has suspended any bookings at Victoria Park for June 4, effectively shutting down the famous vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre for the third year running. 2022 marks the 33rd anniversary of the savage Communist slaughter of dissident students.

Hong Kong’s security minister has defended the arrest of 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, insisting that everyone is equal under the law and exceptions should not be made.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday complained that the free world does not understand the genocidal, oppressive, slave-taking Chinese Communist Party’s unique “concept” of human rights – a failure of understanding that might be corrected with more propaganda to “promote mutual learning between China and the West.”

A new report finds that the NBA and its various owners have more than $10 billion invested in genocidal, Red China.

An anti-racist organisation given taxpayer funding by Sadiq Khan is under investigation after one of its directors reportedly denied the communist genocide of Uyghurs in China.

The president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences has condemned the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen, accusing Hong Kong of having become a “police state.”

Condemnations poured in from around the world on Wednesday as Hong Kong’s newly “elected” chief executive John Lee invoked China’s authoritarian “national security law” to arrest 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen and two other prominent opposition figures.

ROME — Hong Kong police arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen on Wednesday evening, then released him on bail hours later.

China’s communist regime cemented its stranglehold over Hong Kong on Sunday with an election to replace Chief Executive Carrie Lam that featured one candidate, John Lee, who allegedly received over 99 percent of the vote.

The city of Shanghai is in danger of losing its status as a financial hub, as international bankers and traders consider fleeing the city to escape its brutal coronavirus lockdown – and the perpetual threat of further lockdowns imposed without notice under China’s “dynamic zero-Covid” policies.

Kenneth Tsang, a stalwart of the “Golden Age” of Cantonese cinema, was found dead in a Hong Kong hotel room on Wednesday while undergoing mandatory quarantine after returning from overseas, local media reported.

Despite Conservative Party talk of securing the border, 2022 is likely to see record immigration when compared to pre-Brexit Britain.

Hong Kong health officials confirmed this week that 1,100 cadavers remained in municipal cold storage facilities unclaimed because local funeral parlors have failed to keep up with the surging demand for funerals caused by Hong Kong’s latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Friday.

The future of Florida’s Disney World is the subject of much speculation this week after its parent corporation decided to meddle in politics and met unexpectedly stiff resistance, but Disney can take some solace in knowing its Hong Kong park reopened on Thursday after three months of coronavirus shutdown, and the response from Hong Kong patrons was very enthusiastic.

Prominent Chinese neurologist Rao Yi, president of Capital Medical University in Beijing, on Wednesday criticized the government’s decision to ship millions of doses of a traditional Chinese herbal cure to Shanghai, even as the city’s captive population struggles to find food and medicine during a grueling coronavirus lockdown.

Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists arrested for opposing communism told Voice of America in a report published Tuesday that they faced extreme indoctrination while in prison consisting of Chinese communist propaganda films meant to encourage them to abandon their identity as Hongkongers.

According to a report, the Brooklyn Nets tried to ban former Rockets GM Daryl Morey after his support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy groups