During the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in San Francisco, California, many U.S. executives spent $40,000 to dine with Chinese President Xi at a business dinner. At the same time, Chinese diplomats paid patriotic flag-wavers (about $200 per person) to greet Xi as his convoy arrived in San Francisco; nearly 1,000 flag-wavers, mostly overseas […]
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The United States has announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China. The White House said no official delegation would be sent to the Games because of concerns over China’s human rights record. As of December 2021, following the U.S., Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, New Zealand, have announced diplomatic boycotts. […]
Three decades ago, the joint declaration between China and Great Britain over Hong Kong laid the blueprint over how the city would be ruled after its return to China in 1997. However, in 2017 the Chinese authorities openly claimed that the declaration was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance. Now, the […]
The Chinese government recently put out a video titled “If you wanted China to be changed like those (countries, such as Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Libya and Turkey), please walk all over us.” After presenting images of war-torn countries, the video argues that “behind all these things, we can see the deep shadow of the star-spangled […]