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C.A. Yeung

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This is Catherine. I write about China.

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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | U.S. Forces Raid Ship, Seize Cargo Headed to Iran From China
A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, an operation aimed at blocking Tehran ...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Chinese Embassy in Cambodia warned Chinese nationals not to travel to the O’sma Casino area in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province. Local news said that the Casino was bombarded and some Chinese nationals were injured. kh.china-embassy.gov.cn/lsfws/lingsh...
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领事提醒|再次提醒靠近柬泰边境的中国公民加强安全防范
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
New media report revealed that Max Lu, VC of Wollongong University, served as a Director of a research centre in a Chinese university that specialises in weapons research. His appointment at the Beijing Institute of Technology was from 2005 to 2009. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nationa...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Australia’s defence officials were quizzed during Senate hearings about contracts awarded to Pioneer Computers which is also supplying surveillance drones to the WA Police Force. Pioneer Computers’ Jeff Li had been identified as a member of the UFWD linked Guangdong Overseas Exchange Association
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
ASPI report reveals new ways that the Chinese Communist Party is using large language models (LLMs) and other AI systems to automate censorship, enhance surveillance and pre‑emptively suppress dissent. Congratulations to @fergus.bsky.social 👍 www.aspi.org.au/report/the-p...
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The party’s AI: How China’s new AI systems are reshaping human rights - ASPI
This report shows how the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming China’s state control system into a precision instrument for managing its population and targeting groups at home and abroad.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A Finnish-Chinese businessman acted as a middleman in a spy ring targeting NATO military secrets. He warned a journalist not to investigate the matter. yle.fi/a/74-20195820
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”Tämä on liian vaarallista” – vakoiluvyyhtiin sotkeutunut liikemies varoittaa Ylen toimittajaa tutkimasta aihetta
Suomalais-kiinalainen liikemies toimi välikätenä vakoiluvyyhdissä, jonka kohteena olivat Naton sotilassalaisuudet. Hän varoitti toimittajaa tutkimasta aihetta.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A China-linked TV streaming devices currently on sale in the USA does much more than facilitating illegal online media streaming, they are also used to hijack household networks to create botnets krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is-y...
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Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet?
On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming ser...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Chinese regime enlisted Jack Ma’s help in an intimidation campaign to press a businessman to help in the purge of a top official. This is just one of the stories revealed in an ICiJ report on the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics beyond its borders. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma implicated in intimidation campaign by Chinese regime
Billionaire appears to have been asked to pressure friend to return to China to help pursue out-of-favour official
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon and its intrusion last year into sensitive networks belonging to multiple US telecommunications companies arstechnica.com/security/202...
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FBI offers $10 million for information about Salt Typhoon members
FBI accepts tips by TOR in likely attempt to woo China-based informants.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Australian officials are investigating reports that Russia has lodged an official request to base several long-range aircraft in Indonesia, just 1300 kilometres away from the Australian mainland. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Vladimir Putin seeks access to Indonesian air force base: reports
Australian officials are investigating reports that Russia is seeking to base several long-range aircraft in Indonesia, just 1300 kilometres from Darwin.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Six Hong Kong government officials responsible for the implementation of national security laws have been sanctioned by the USA for undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy. www.state.gov/u-s-sanction...
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U.S. Sanctions Six Individuals for Undermining Hong Kong’s Autonomy - United States Department of State
Beijing and Hong Kong officials have used Hong Kong national security laws extraterritorially to intimidate, silence, and harass 19 pro-democracy activists who were forced to flee overseas, including ...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Singapore has a problem: China had set up a “back door” into Western markets via financial intermediaries – such as trading firms, shell companies, and holding companies, including in Singapore and elsewhere – to act as the listed buyer for restricted goods www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Chipping away at controls: Singapore’s challenge with China-linked companies
A tech fraud case has again put the Southeast Asian nation in the spotlight.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
An investigation by Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice found SMIC uses Samoan companies to recruit Taiwanese engineers. Others Chinese firms pretend to be Taiwanese or Singaporean companies to evade scrutiny. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
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SMIC, other Chinese companies accused of illegal operations in Taiwan
Massive six-city investigation comes amid concerns over Beijing aggression
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows
A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A hot topic of discussion on China’s social media today is military invasion of Australia. This follows the unannounced military exercises that the PLA’s navy conducted off the coast of Australia last month chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/03/tran...
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Translation: “Why is Everyone Talking About China ‘Seizing’ Australia?”
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there has been a noticeable increase in Chinese social media content promoting the invasion (or “nabbing/seizi...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Self-exiled Hong Kongers in Australia face daily threats and harassment for speaking out against Beijing. A bounty letter sent to random residents in Melbourne targeting Kevin Yam mark the latest instance of efforts to silence critics abroad asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...
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Australian foreign minister condemns Hong Kong 'bounty letters'
Hong Kong police silent on letters offering reward for information on dissident
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
US DoJ indicted 12 Chinese nationals for cyber crimes. On the list are 2 MPS officials, 8 i-Soon employees and 2 members of the notorious APT27. Check this press release for their names. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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Justice Department Charges 12 Chinese Contract Hackers and Law Enforcement Officers in Global Computer Intrusion Campaigns
The Justice Department, FBI, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Departments of State and the Treasury announced today their coordinated efforts to disrupt and deter the malicious cyber activiti...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state. Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threats. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state
Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threats
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Australia's Global Lithium Resources is pressing the government to halt a takeover attempt by investors from the Sincerity Group 籴信集团. My research indicates that these investors have close links to Perth’s pro-China united front network. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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Australia's Global Lithium seeks government help, alleging Chinese control attempt
Australia's Global Lithium Resources is pressing the government to halt what it calls a takeover attempt by Chinese investors of its cornerstone asset ahead of a shareholder meeting this week.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek has been banned from Australian government systems and devices, following an assessment by intelligence agencies that the software poses an “unacceptable risk” to national security. Security ban for DeepSeek AI www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Taiwan’s top diplomat in Canberra has said Taipei stands by to offer Australia advice in tackling disinformation campaigns as the nation braces for a surge in conspiracy theories and fake news in the run up to the Federal election. thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...
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Taiwan offers advice for Australia to help fight fake news
Taiwan’s top diplomat in Canberra says Taipei stands by to offer advice in tackling disinformation campaigns as Australia braces for a surge in conspiracy theories and fake news ahead of the election.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Is this another sign that Beijing is preparing for war? Satellite images suggest that China’s military is building a massive complex in western Beijing that US intelligence believes may serve as a wartime command centre www.ft.com/content/f376...
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China builds huge new wartime military command centre in Beijing
Complex will be bigger than Pentagon and include bombproof bunkers for leaders, say US intelligence officials
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MW Hyde @mwhyde.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The Taiwanese navy should have boarded and seized this ship and arrested the captain. It's staggering what the Chinese government is allowed to get away with around the world. What a fiasco.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The USA is sanctioning a China-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group 北京永信至诚科技集团 for its involvement in malicious botnet operations www.state.gov/sanctioning-...
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Sanctioning PRC Cyber Company Involved in Malicious Botnet Operations - United States Department of State
The United States is imposing sanctions today on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated (Integrity Tech), which has links to the People’s Republic of China (P...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas!
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MW Hyde @mwhyde.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Who paid for Professor Carr's trip to Guangzhou, I wonder?
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Former Australia FM Bob Carr echoed views of Zheng Bijian 郑必坚, a think tanker with links to China’s spy agency the MSS, during a MSS sponsored event. Carr said Australia will not follow US curb on trade with China because Australia needs China-made solar cells m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/c...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
More scandals from the British Royal Family: Sarah Ferguson and Zara Tindall were found receiving payments from HK businessman Sei Hoe HON (Johnny) 韓世灝 who has multiple titles from China’s foreign influence agencies. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Fergie and Zara paid thousands by tycoon with shady Chinese links
A Hong Kong tycoon who paid Sarah Ferguson and Zara Tindall hundreds of thousands is linked to China's shadowy foreign influence network, The Mail on Sunday reveals.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The US government has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated Chinese cyber attacks, people familiar with the matter said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Probes China-Founded Router Maker on National Security Fears
The US government has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated Chines...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would decide the constitutionality of a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. if the social-media app doesn’t shed its Chinese ownership www.wsj.com/tech/supreme...
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Supreme Court to Consider TikTok Ban
The court scheduled fast-track oral arguments for Jan. 10 on whether the law violates the First Amendment.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Chen Jinping pleaded guilty to running a secret police station at Lower Manhattan under instructions from China’s Ministry of Public Security www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-y...
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New York Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government in Lower Manhattan
Chen Jinping, 60, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to act as an illegal agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in connection with opening and operati...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
UNESCO is partnering with Chau Chak Wing’s Kingold in offering a new youth leadership program. China Daily said the announcement was made during the 2024 Imperial Springs International Forum in Madrid www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202412/14/...
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UNESCO launches new youth leadership program
Gabriela Ramos, assistant director-general for social and human sciences at UNESCO, announced a new youth leadership program on the sideline of the 2024 Imperial Springs International Forum in Madrid ...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Those who think Prince Andrew’s Chinese spy scandal is dreadful will be shocked by recent events in Spain. King Felipe VI of Spain received a delegation led by Dr Chau Chak Wing at the Royal Palace in Madrid. This is what the king said about Dr Chau casareal.es/EU/ArchivoMu...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Alleged Chinese spy linked to Prince Andrew is YANG Tengbo, also known as Chris Yang www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...
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Alleged Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew named as Yang Tengbo - live updates
Senior Tory Sir Iain Duncan Smith says he could be
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A dive into the toolkit of China’s infamous technology transfer strategy: The Shapeshifting Evolution of Chinese Technology Acquisition by Matthew Brazil jamestown.org/program/the-...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The story of Peter Dukes aka Tom Fowdy continues over at the Too Simple Sometimes Naive Substack open.substack.com/pub/toosimpl...
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Mini-update. "Peter Dukes"
As the story finally hit the internet, I got hit with a BlueSky ban.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sam Lim, an Australian politician who holds the most marginal Labor seat, was caught distributing a fabricated quote from PM Albanese in a WhatsApp message that whitewashes the Melbourne synagogue firebombing. Mr Lim has since deleted his WhatsApp. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/labor...
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johnraff @johnraff.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Great Power geopolitics again. China seems determined to copy America .
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A Chinese national has been arrested on suspicion of flying a drone to take photographs over a US Space Force base. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024...
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Chinese national arrested after ‘drone flown over US air base’
Aircraft said to have taken photographs on same day SpaceX rocket launched with ‘sensitive payload’
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Dmitry Medvedev started his 2 day Beijing visit to discuss partnerships with Chinese leaders. His talks follow the October visit of Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov. Medvedev is known for his hardline stance on Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/russia...
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Russian security official Medvedev arrives in China, Russian agencies report
Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Beijing for two days of talks with Chinese leaders, Russian news agencies reported late on Tuesday.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A preliminary investigation into the deployment of private Chinese security/military forces in Myanmar and its strategic implications. Hope someone will follow up with a more detailed report. theconversation.com/chinese-secu...
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Chinese security companies are putting boots on the ground in Myanmar. It could go disastrously wrong
China wants to use private security contractors to protect its investment projects in the war-ravaged country.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Trump taps former Sen. David Perdue as next ambassador to China www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...
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Trump taps former Sen. David Perdue as next ambassador to China
Former Sen. David Perdue pushed President-elect Donald Trump's debunked lies about electoral fraud during his failed bid for Georgia governor in 2022.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Paraguay on Thursday kicked out a Chinese envoy for allegedly interfering in its domestic affairs and urging the South American nation to break off ties and long friendship with Taiwan. The Chinese diplomat was given 24 hours to leave the country. apnews.com/article/para...
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Paraguay kicks out a visiting Chinese envoy for urging its lawmakers to turn their backs on Taiwan
Paraguay has accused a Chinese diplomat of interfering in its domestic affairs and given him 24 hours to leave the country, escalating tensions over the South American nation’s long friendship with Ta...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In the first meeting of the subcommittee on Arctic shipping routes, representatives from China and Russia pledged to deepen cooperation in Arctic shipping, safety, and polar shipbuilding technology www.ecns.cn/news/politic...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
U.S. and U.K. authorities on Wednesday targeted a money-laundering network that they said enabled Russian elites to evade international sanctions through the use of cryptocurrency, particularly the stablecoin tether. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
Authorities Target Russian Criminal Gangs Who Used Crypto to Move Cash
The groups worked with money launderers to convert bulk deliveries of cash into cryptocurrencies for clients, U.S. and U.K. law enforcement agencies said.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law,” Tuesday accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities. apnews.com/article/sout...
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South Korean president declares emergency martial law, accusing opposition of anti-state activities
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared an “emergency martial law," accusing the country's opposition of controlling the parliament and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Latest at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: A packed MSO statement released late Friday details changes to governance review, a new CEO and the departure of four senior Board figures, including Chair David Li. limelight-arts.com.au/news/melbour...
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra announces major shake-up
A packed MSO statement released late Friday details changes to governance review, a new CEO and the departure of four senior Board figures, including Chair David Li.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Interesting reading: A comprehensive scholarly study of the mechanisms through which China forms coalitions with other weaker states to control leadership personnel appointments at the United Nations link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Mapping China’s influence at the United Nations - The Review of International Organizations
How do emerging powers secure international leadership posts? How do these international civil service positions contribute to an emerging power’s influence in multilateral institutions? Focusing on C...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Dong Jun became the third Defence Minister in China to be placed under investigation for corruption since 2023. This is yet another wide-ranging probe that has roiled the top ranks of the People's Liberation Army. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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China defence minister Dong Jun under investigation for corruption, FT reports
China Defence Minister Dong Jun has been placed under investigation as part of a wide-ranging anti-corruption probe that has roiled the top ranks of the People's Liberation Army, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Xi Jinping added new “red lines” to US-China relations and warned Joe Biden against challenging them. Xinhua named the 4 red lines as: (1) Taiwan question, (2) democracy and human rights, (3) China's path and system, and (4) China's development right
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