A joke we found on a Chinese social media:
China has many friends: North Korea, Pakistan, Myanmar, Uganda, Tanzania...
China also has many enemies: US, UK, Australia, Canada...
Chinese officials love sending their kids to study and storing their assets in their enemy countries, never their friends. 🙃🙃
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#China #CCP #UK #britain #US #america #australia #canada #diplomacy #hypocrisy #meme #english #diyms

China links pose a threat to academic freedom in Britain

The writer is Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling and chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee

Cardiff University published a job advertisement last month with an unusual requirement: prospective applicants “must have native or near-native fluency in Mandarin”. Perhaps not so unusual in a language school, but this was for the position of lecturer in music composition.

Britain’s universities have changed. Over the past decade, our higher education system has become increasingly reliant on China for a steady stream of students, research partnerships and funding.

Source: Financial Times #Jun20

https://t.co/tCXkY7Efac

#China #Academic #Freedom #Britain

Britain to permanently deploy two warships in Asian waters

Britain said on Tuesday it would permanently deploy two warships in Asian waters after its Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and escort ships sail to Japan in September through seas where China is vying for influence with the United States and Japan.

Plans for the high-profile visit by the carrier strike group come as London deepens security ties with Tokyo, which has expressed growing alarm in recent months over China's territorial ambitions in the region, including Taiwan.

"Following on from the strike group's inaugural deployment, the United Kingdom will permanently assign two ships in the region from later this year," Britain's defence minister, Ben Wallace, said in a joint announcement in Tokyo with his Japanese counterpart, Nobuo Kishi.

Source: Reuters #Jul21

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-permanently-deploy-two-warships-asian-waters-2021-07-20/

#China #Japan #Britain #QueenElizabeth #Taiwan

Universities hire planes to fly in China students

Britain’s top universities are chartering flights to get Chinese students to the UK next month amid fears that global travel restrictions could cost hundreds of millions of pounds in overseas fees.

The universities are worried that their income from overseas students — which is more than £1 billion, partly because of the premium on domestic fees the institutions are able to charge — could be undermined by travel problems.

More than 50 UK universities — including many of the elite Russell Group of 24 leading institutions such as Imperial College London, Bristol and Exeter — have already chartered four flights to bring in 1,200 Chinese students in time to start their degrees next month.

Source: The Times #Aug29

 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/universities-hire-planes-to-fly-in-china-students-gfq2cc9j0

#China #Britain #University #Student

Foreign media: Kosovo diplomatically boycotts Beijing Winter Olympics

Following the #UnitedStates, #Australia, #Britain, #Canada and other countries, foreign media said #Kosovo also expressed support for the US diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing #WinterOlympics and joined the boycott on Thursday.

According to the report from Alast, Kosovo President #VjosaOsmani supports the US decision on diplomatically boycotting #China, and she joined the boycott due to China's violation of #HumanRights.

Even though the Kosovo delegation will resist all official ceremonies and events during the Beijing Winter Olympics, the athletes will still participate in the game.

Source: Stand News #Dec10

#CCP warned #Britain after having trade talks with #Taiwan.

Given the history of how #CCPChina has used bribery to control over #WTO & #UN, will the free countries still want China, rather than Taiwan to join CPTPP?

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-discussion-taiwan-trade-cptpp-anger-china/

#ccppropaganda
#taiwanisnotchina
#taiwanisacountry