Day: October 17, 2022

When people started realizing that the Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes were not just promoting culture and language, Confucius Institutes closed down all around the US. By 2022, only about 14 colleges and universities still had their original Confucius Institute programs. But that doesn’t mean they went away. Similar programs and/or partnership with China remained intact. In this episode of China Uncensored, we look at how China rebranded Confucius Institutes to hide their subversive past, wh

Ahead of a meeting of Chinese Communist Party leaders, China flooded the airwaves with propaganda about Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The over-the-top projection of Xi as a man of the people could not have been more ironic. In this just us episode of China Unscripted, we talk about security, protests and propaganda in the lead-up to the 20th Party Congress, the US cutting China off from its semiconductor technology, and Elon Musk’s solution for the China-Taiwan conflict.

On October 7, Bloomberg reported that an unnamed U.S. official revealed that the U.S. has been conducting various military simulations to prevent the Chinese Communist Party or the CCP from invading Taiwan by force and that the White House is even planning an emergency response plan for TSMC. President Tsai Ing-wen also expressed her great concern for Taiwan’s semiconductor industry during her National Day speech on October 10 in the Republic of China, “the concentration of the semiconductor sector in Taiw

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China’s property crisis is reaching a point where there’s no turning back. For the past 12 months, the country’s monthly home prices have kept falling. Developers have defaulted one after another, leaving countless projects unfinished. Homebuyers are now protesting and refusing to pay their mortgage, which is deemed a danger to social stability in the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). To save the real estate market, the CCP stepped in with waves of stimulus support for developers and homebuyers. —

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Due to the seeping of salt tides, the chloride concentration in the water at many reservoirs along the Yangtze river estuary in Shanghai exceeded the standard. The incident caused panic among Shanghai citizens, and many began to stock up on water. Shanghai officials then refuted the rumor, but citizens said that officials have refuted the rumors, so hurry up stock up on water. ————————–

Anthony Albanese is the new Prime Minister of Australia. After nine years, Labor has regained power in the Oceania giant and they do so at a time when relations with China, its main trading partner, are going through their worst period after the signing of the AUKUS agreement. So the question is: What will this shift to the left in Australia translate into? How can the change of government affect its relations with China? In this video we tell you.