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“I don’t understand: what does ‘stepping down’ mean?”
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Congrats to Chinese Beijing!
BREAKING: 🇨🇳 China wins first gold medal of the Paris Olympics
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It’s true that in the 14 years since he came to power, Xi’s security forces have arrested, sentenced, or executed approximately 2.3 million government officials.
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Let
@jk_rowling
’s hate be your fuel: How the Harry Potter author helped Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting win gold says her coach, who also called the IBA ‘lunatics’. #🇹🇼
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5 years after China's crackdown on democracy, "the Hong Kong we used to know is gone".
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So much for solidarity: "Ukraine supports China's position on the Taiwan issue and will continue to adhere to the one-China principle."
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China is out of control: China Coast Guard vessel "directly and intentionally rammed the Philippine vessel" without provocation. The ramming damaged the Philippines' largest coast guard cutters, but no personnel were injured
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‘Just say you’re from Thailand’: A Taiwanese woman in New Zealand applying for her learner driver’s licence told by staff member she couldn’t list Taiwan as her birthplace.
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Donald Trump's questioning of U.S. security arrangements for Taiwan appears to be at odds with Republican sentiment about protecting the island from a possible invasion by China
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Former NZ defence minister Andrew Little has fired back at AUKUS critics, saying China is a threat that New Zealand must respond to: “I strongly disagree with those who argue that China is a benign presence and poses no threat.”
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Told ya so. 🇦🇺🇹🇼
Australia does not recognise China and Taiwan as one country.
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🚨 Excited to announce I’ll be re-joining the Australian Strategic Policy Institute as a ‘China Analyst’ next month. See you soon, Canberra!
@ASPI_org
🇦🇺✌🏻🇨🇳
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The US Democratic Party’s 2024 platform included the “Six Assurances” to Taiwan for the first time, and avoided discussing the “One China Policy”. By contrast, the US Republican Party did not mention Taiwan in its party platform.
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“Australia has long supported Taiwan’s meaningful participation in international organisations. It is not in the interest of the international community to have 24 million Taiwanese excluded,” said Labor senator
@Deborah_ONeill
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"China is much more exposed to the global economy than Russia was, and this gives the West leverage over China that its leaders absolutely do not want," Nathan Attrill, an analyst at
@ASPI_org
, told Newsweek.
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Nancy Pelosi has said what PM Anthony Albanese and his increasingly feckless cabinet won’t — Paul Keating’s attacks on Taiwan, support for the CCP and constant trashing of the US is ‘stupid’, ‘ridiculous’ and not in the interests of security in our region.
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Why is China platforming — indeed, treating as a renowned expert — a 24-year-old whose ideas more closely resemble edgy conspiracy-theory memes than any coherent ideological alternative?
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Taiwanese investment in Fujian fell 80 per cent year on year to just $220mn last year. Across the whole of China, Taiwanese investment fell 40 per cent to just over $3bn. Both levels represented 22-year lows.
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China's kindergarten closures foreshadow economic hit from falling births: 20,000 schools shut in two years; Beijing seeks urgent solutions as workforce shrinks.
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The New Zealand probation officer fired for "unauthorised access" to the files of persons with Chinese names, also worked closely with alleged spy and former NZ National Party MP Yang Jian for nine years.
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A new
@NZStuff
Circuit documentary finds Chinese Communist Party influence and interference operations in New Zealand have been going on for decades, unabated, including violent acts on our soil described as being “the extreme sharp end”.
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The Chinese Government is accused of an attempted kidnapping in Auckland of a Chinese man who was left hospitalised with serious injuries after he fought back.
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Doesn’t seem to appear in the English readout from the Ukraine MFA.
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Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr claims China is "weaponising tourism" in a bid to get the nation to sever its ties with Taiwan. Whipps said he has been told by Beijing "the sky is the limit" if they ditch their association with Taipei.
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The attacks on
@veryvickyxu
are typical of those that online researchers say are sponsored by the Chinese government on critics abroad as a form of transnational repression, even if those behind them may be individuals rather than state employees.
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New Chinese textbooks playing up national security, Xi Jinping Thought and Vietnam, India wars to be handed out to junior and primary students at start of autumn semester.
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China is set to switch off a live feed of foreign flows for stocks as early as Monday, the latest policy move to shore up confidence by removing a potential source of negative data.
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The university where future leaders of the Australian Defence Force are sent to study has moved to limit research collaboration with China, including ending visits from academics to its Canberra campus, amid growing military tensions with Beijing.
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Though it is not even recognised as a country, Taiwan holds the status of an all-but-official ally in much of Washington. Europe has much to learn from Taiwan.
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Kudos to the
@business
reporter for posing a sharp and well-structured question to China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on China’s opposition to growing Indo-Pacific cooperation with NATO as the bloc meets in DC this week.
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France asks the top Ministry of State Security official in Paris and his deputy to leave the country after attempt to forcibly repatriate man back to China.
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Edinburgh’s councillors have backed a move to strengthen relations with a Taiwanese city – but stopped short of signing a formal agreement in the face of pressure from China.
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International students who cannot speak “basic English” are walking away from Australian universities with prestigious degrees, academics say, a situation one described as “mind-blowing”.
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"Chinese and Russian elites do share a conservative, statist worldview. They both see attacks on their history as Western plots to delegitimize their regimes and consider democracy promotion an existential threat." |
@JosephTorigian
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As China’s aggressive actions toward Taiwan heighten tensions and spark global concern, much more needs to be done through the trilateral relationship among the United States, Japan, and Australia to maintain stability in the Taiwan Strait.
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“New Zealand has not changed, it is China under Xi Jinping that has changed. The Government is responding to that. New Zealand, like other countries in the world, is facing up to China as it is under Xi.” -
@Anne_MarieBrady
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WeChat has censored posts mentioning clashes between Chinese Australians over Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia, heightening calls from cybersecurity experts for the social media platform to be banned.
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Hundreds of Uyghur villages and towns have been renamed by Chinese authorities to remove religious or cultural references, with many replaced by names reflecting Communist party ideology, a report has found.
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My piece for
@ASPI_org
on stabilisation: "There is little evidence that prioritising engagement for engagement’s sake is getting us closer on the big issues ‘where we must disagree’—the other half of the Australian government’s diplomatic formulation."
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The Chinese swimming team were tested for doping almost 200 times in 10 days after arriving in France for the Olympics, a member of support staff said in a since-deleted social media post.
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Australia has a stake in democratic Taiwan’s success. And should continue to play its key role in maintaining the status quo of regional stability and peace, encouraging differences to be resolved peacefully through dialogue.
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Activist
@DrewPavlou
and journalist
@veryvickyxu
told the
@smh
that the AFP asked them not to speak to anyone about the investigation, but they had decided to go public out of frustration that no arrests had been made, or charges laid in 10 months.
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Chinese embassy in Wellington declares China unswervingly innocent since ancient times on the issue of foreign interference in New Zealand.
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I expect this kind of spontaneous and genuine welcome upon my return to Australia.
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New Zealand will increasingly disclose cases of Chinese espionage as part of a strategy to boost awareness in the country about the security threat, Prime Minister
@chrisluxonmp
said.
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Chinese diplomats are pressuring lawmakers from at least six countries not to attend a
@ipacglobal
China-focused summit in Taiwan.
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Calls to denounce “die hard" Taiwanese secessionists, a tipline to report them and punishments that could include the death penalty for “ringleaders” – Beijing’s familiar rhetoric against Taiwan is turning dangerously real.
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The basis of Australia’s one-China policy is the 1972 communiqué issued by the Commonwealth of Australia and the PRC, which states:
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A New Zealand National MP was mentored and endorsed by a predecessor who departed politics under a cloud of his ties with the Chinese Communist Party.
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New Zealand Prime Minister
@chrisluxonmp
is looking to bolster defence ties with Australia amid growing concerns about China which run counter to the views of NZ left wing Twitter.
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The swelling ranks of badge-wearing communists at a Chinese investment bank—roughly a third of its bankers are now CCP members, insiders say—underscore the hard new realities for Wall Street-style capitalists in the China of Xi Jinping.
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Harris needs to purge her rivals and remove term limits to demonstrate real leadership of the party.
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澳洲智庫戰略政策研究所（ASPI）中國研究員阿特里爾（Nathan Attrill）昨天在社群平台發文恭喜中國隊，但刻意稱「中國北京」，讓小粉紅大崩潰。
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NZ's
@ipacglobal
co-chairs have penned a letter to the foreign affairs and trade select committee chair outlining their concerns about China's foreign interference, saying they have “good reason to understand” there are more examples yet to be uncovered.
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A probation officer in New Zealand has been dismissed for accessing information about dozens of offenders “without authority to do so”.
@NZStuff
Circuit understands the 43 offenders' records accessed without authorisation were all Chinese names.
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"Thank you for putting the spotlight on Taiwan's pride."
Lin Yu-ting's coach thanks J.K. Rowling after the boxer's golden victory in Paris.
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The Albanese government is under pressure to confront Beijing over accusations of cyberespionage, after its main counterintelligence agency for the first time publicly named a hacking group linked to the MSS for sustained attacks on Australian networks.
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China’s coast guard has confiscated a Taiwanese fishing vessel near the Taipei-controlled island of Kinmen, according to the Taiwan government.
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An app that allows users to track trucks across China has been disabled after a scandal in which reporters discovered that tankers used to transport fuel were also being used to transport cooking oil, without proper cleaning in between.
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Dong Jun accused Taiwan’s leaders of “fanatical statements”, while employing fevered language of his own: “They [‘separatists’] will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history,” he said.
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Blinken said China was helping fuel “the biggest security threat … since the end of the Cold War” for Europe, a threat that is echoed by China’s neighbours in Asia.
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@davidcapie
(whispered) ...Beefing up NZ's defence force would actually give it a more independent foreign policy.
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Ideologically committed. Acknowledged Mandarin speaker. True China expert.
These barbed comments about ASPI from University of Melbourne’s Michael Wesley are wholly inaccurate. In a long article meant to be about China Matters they are also totally out of place.
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Taiwan’s hourly changing of the guard before a giant statue of former leader Chiang Kai-shek has now formally ended.
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A Chinese military aircraft was confirmed for the first time to have violated Japanese territorial airspace on Monday morning, the Defense Ministry in Tokyo said.
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An independent New Zealand Chinese journalist, who worked on a documentary about CCP interference in New Zealand, is facing accusations of being ‘anti-Chinese’ with attempts to block her access to the Chinese community.
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China’s threat against activists is ‘constant and unrelenting’: Hong Kong democracy campaigners in Britain are targeted by Chinese agents posing as fake journalists and direct threats against family and colleagues.
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Not a smart phone in sight. People just living in the moment...
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected northwest China's Qinghai Province on Tuesday.
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"What this is all about is the Chinese laying claim to Taiwan, and the Americans are going to say 'no, no, we're going to keep these Taiwanese people protected', even though they're sitting on Chinese real estate," a confused old man said.
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As anti-lockdown protests flared across China’s cities in November 2022, hundreds of thousands around the world were glued to an unlikely source: a mysterious X account (
@whyyoutouzhele
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Xi Jinping told Ursula von der Leyen that Washington was trying to goad Beijing into attacking Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter. Xi has also delivered the warning to domestic officials in his own country, one person said.
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Former
@SpeakerPelosi
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In early May, Sing Tao Daily reported that China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan seemed to have become a member of the Central Military Commission's examination and evaluation commission.
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Beijing has officially announced that former defence minister Li Shangfu is under investigation for corruption and has been expelled from the Communist Party. The announcement came months after his abrupt dismissal from office.
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The report said China believes it has a quid pro quo relationship with some Canadian MPs who will engage with the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for Beijing mobilising its vast networks in their favour.
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Might be easier to purge Human Resources…
#Breaking
Beijing announced the expulsion of former Ministers of Defense, Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe, from the Chinese Communist Party. They are being sent to military procuratorial authorities for prosecution on alleged bribery charges. (Infographic: Jarrod Fankhauser, ABC News)
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Italian Prime Minister
@GiorgiaMeloni
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NORAD intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers flying near Alaska in what a US defense official said was the first time the two countries have been intercepted while operating together.
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Latest from me: Xi is pushing for AI to be China’s deus ex machina, turbo-charging its economy out of a malaise, transforming its military power and capabilities, and catapulting the Chinese nation to the top of the global order.
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Taiwanese authorities are investigating reports that a Chinese state-backed journalist has been wielding her influence behind the scenes at a Taiwanese broadcaster to push Chinese propaganda surreptitiously to Taiwanese audiences.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will impose punitive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles — copying a similar initiative that the US is already pursuing.
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Can Xi get China's economy moving again?
@BethanyAllenEbr
, head of China Investigations and Analysis at
@ASPI_org
, on what to expect from the Chinese Communist Party's third plenum meeting next week.
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Australian political consultancy Crosby Textor provided advice used by pro-Beijing officials in Hong Kong ahead of a crucial election in 2020.
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Foreign investors pulled a record amount of money from China last quarter, reflecting deep pessimism about the world’s second-largest economy.
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NATO head
@jensstoltenberg
said China should face consequences for supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and that Beijing was "trying to get it both ways" by supporting Russia's war effort, while also trying to maintain relationships with European allies.
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Edinburgh city council has put on hold a proposed friendship agreement with a city in Taiwan after businesses expressed concerns about a backlash from the Chinese government.
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"Chinese companies can really leverage the US legal system for their interests in a way that US companies can’t in China. Huawei, BYD and others can use and even abuse the system, and there’s not much the system can do about it."
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"In the face of the enemy's threats, we will do our best to obtain equipment, weapons and platforms that meet operational needs and are suitable for asymmetric warfare,” said Taiwan’s defence minister.
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Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols.
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Solomon Islands will push to have
#Taiwan
stripped of its status as an observer at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga this week, as China looks to assert its influence over the region’s premier diplomatic grouping.
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China’s representative in Edinburgh, Zhang Biao, warned councillors in an email that entering a formal friendship with Taiwan would “hurt the feeling of the Chinese people and bring about serious consequences to our bilateral relations, which we do not want to see”.
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Australian MPs attending an international gathering of parliamentarians supporting
#Taiwan
have said Australia’s future is also in peril if China attacks it, with one describing the disputed island as “the canary in the coal mine”.
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Australia has some of the world’s biggest known reserves of critical minerals. But China has had a near-monopoly on processing these minerals to make them suitable for manufacturing.
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Ursula von der Leyen said she would seek to “deter China” from invading Taiwan as part of her bid for a second term as European Commission president.
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Tim Walz has visited China numerous times and has emerged as a sharp critic of Beijing on human rights and other issues. The pick may have come as a surprise to China and could force the authorities there to rethink their diplomatic approach.
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China enlists Tencent, Weibo and Douyin to protect state secrets. Law taking effect Wednesday will require internet companies to help curb leaks.
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