On banners, in the streets, and through cyberspace: people in China are speaking out. For a regime constantly flaunting its “over 90% approval rate,” what does dissent really look like in China—from angry flood victims smashing the walls of state buildings, to a seven-year high in Chinese factory strikes? Faith versus police: a standoff between residents and officers in a Chinese Muslim town. What does the apparent unrest signify for China’s future? Topics in this episode: ‘Wage Hunting’: Unpaid Workers Protest Across China Real Estate Crisis Sparks Protest Across China China’s Iconic Protest: the Blank Paper Movement Rewind: Residents Protest Health Insurance Curbs, Launch China’s ‘White Hair Revolution’ Chinese Banking Scandal Victims Held Rally With Banners Taiwan an ‘Independent Country’: UK Parliament Doc Senate Not Following UK’s Taiwan Statement: Schumer Asean Summit: China’s Sea Standoff with Philippines ‘China’s Economy Is in Big Trouble’: Miles Yu on How to Ensure a U.S. Victory ...Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/wage-hunting-unpaid-workers-protest-across-china-5488667
HONG KONG—The heaviest rain since records began 140 years ago drenched Asian financial hub Hong Kong on Friday, killing two people and injuring more than 140, state media reported, as unusually wet weather caused by typhoons brought more disruption to southern China. As of 8:15 pm (1215 GMT) on Friday, 144 residents aged between eight and 94 years old were injured amid the heavy rainfall, the Hong Kong government said in a statement. Videos showed water cascading down steep hillsides in the former British colony, flooding waist-deep in narrow streets, and inundating malls, metro stations and tunnels. The extreme weather also brought chaos to the nearby Chinese city of Shenzhen, a tech hub of more than 17.7 million people, with business and transport links across the economically important Pearl River Delta severely hit....
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he raised human rights concerns during his recent trip to China, but did not confirm whether he addressed Beijing’s foreign interference in Canada. Mr. Guilbeault, who recently returned from a trip to China to participate in the Beijing-led Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), was questioned by independent journalist Keean Bexte on whether he had taken the opportunity during his visit to bring up concerns about the regime’s foreign interference in Canada. In a video posted Sept. 8 on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr. Bexte asked the minister, “Did you ask your colleagues on the Chinese Communist Party climate committee whether or not they would quit interfering in Canadian democracy, or did you leave that alone?”...
The U.S. Department of Commerce has vowed to protect national security in the wake of China’s reported breakthrough in manufacturing a 7-nanometer chip without access to advanced equipment. “Let’s be clear: export controls are just one tool in the U.S. government’s toolbox to address the national security threats presented by the PRC. The restrictions in place since 2019 have knocked Huawei down and forced it to reinvent itself—at a substantial cost to the PRC government,” a Commerce Department spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement, using the acronym for the regime’s official name, the People’s Republic of China....