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"Trump Is Wrong About #TikTok, China’s Plans Are Much More Sinister; The West still doesn’t understand the scale of Beijing’s #SoftPower ambitions"
New York Times #17Sept2020
//The danger posed by TikTok is real: In fact, it is only a stand-in for far greater risks...
- The tech giant Huawei — which the U.S. government blacklisted last year, calling it a threat to America’s national security — is another company with close connections to China
- Zoom, the U.S.-based teleconferencing service provider established by a billionaire Chinese immigrant... uses software partially developed in China
- the Confucius Institutes [are] also an instrument of Beijing’s propaganda and pressure tactics
- A Chinese company now has a 99-year lease over the port of Darwin in northern Australia — next to an Australian naval base that hosts U.S. Navy warships.//
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/tiktok-china-strategy.html
New York Times #17Sept2020
//The danger posed by TikTok is real: In fact, it is only a stand-in for far greater risks...
- The tech giant Huawei — which the U.S. government blacklisted last year, calling it a threat to America’s national security — is another company with close connections to China
- Zoom, the U.S.-based teleconferencing service provider established by a billionaire Chinese immigrant... uses software partially developed in China
- the Confucius Institutes [are] also an instrument of Beijing’s propaganda and pressure tactics
- A Chinese company now has a 99-year lease over the port of Darwin in northern Australia — next to an Australian naval base that hosts U.S. Navy warships.//
Read More Examples In:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/tiktok-china-strategy.html
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China’s soft power has ‘collapsed globally’ due to ‘anger and hysteria’
China’s reaction to the cancelling of the dangerous Belt and Road agreement in a “wolf warrior fashion” will end up being a large “own goal” for Beijing, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Michael Shoebridge.
The controversial Belt and Road Initiative agreement between Beijing and the Andrews government in Victoria was cancelled last night by the foreign affairs minister using the new foreign relations bill powers.
The deal was amongst four agreements with countries such as Iran, Syria, and China that the federal government opted to cancel after they were deemed inconsistent with Australia’s national interests.
Source: SkyNews #Apr22
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6249801238001
#China #SoftPower #BeltRoad #Iran #Syria
China’s reaction to the cancelling of the dangerous Belt and Road agreement in a “wolf warrior fashion” will end up being a large “own goal” for Beijing, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Michael Shoebridge.
The controversial Belt and Road Initiative agreement between Beijing and the Andrews government in Victoria was cancelled last night by the foreign affairs minister using the new foreign relations bill powers.
The deal was amongst four agreements with countries such as Iran, Syria, and China that the federal government opted to cancel after they were deemed inconsistent with Australia’s national interests.
Source: SkyNews #Apr22
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6249801238001
#China #SoftPower #BeltRoad #Iran #Syria