The CCP’s National Security Bureau (NSB) released an article on its official WeChat account on Nov. 2 criticizing the market “bears” who are forever the pessimists targeting China’s financial institutions to shake the international community’s confidence in investing in China, with the sole intention of causing financial turmoil. It warned that these “criminal activities” to endanger the state’s financial stability will be seriously dealt with according to law. The bureau’s statement claimed that certain countries were using finance “as a geopolitical tool” to impose sanctions on China. They condemned the “bearish forecasters, short sellers, market skeptics, and market manipulators” for profiting amid the turmoil, accusing them of “trying to undermine the international community’s confidence in investing in China” and “provoking financial turmoil in China.” The article also emphasized that national security authorities should “give higher priority to preventing and resolving financial risks,” and crack down on and punish illegal and criminal activities in the financial sector that may endanger national security in accordance with the law....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/chinas-national-security-bureau-threatens-the-market-bears-5526127
Australia may need to educate employees within its own government about what the “One China policy” is when it comes to relations with Taiwan. “What exactly is your One China policy?” Roger Lee Huang, a senior lecturer at Macquarie University, asked at a Dialogue titled “The Prospect of Taiwan-Australia Relations” at the University of Technology Sydney on Nov. 10. Australia follows the United States’ strategic ambiguity policy when it comes to Taiwan, where leadership will neither confirm nor deny whether the country will come to Taiwan’s military aid if the self-governed island is attacked, despite Beijing’s increasing military actions in the Taiwan Strait....
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping will go to San Francisco from Nov. 14 to Nov. 17 to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden and also attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, the Chinese communist regime’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Nov. 10. This will be Mr. Xi’s first visit to the United States in six years. At the same time, more than a hundred rights groups in the United States are preparing for the largest protests against the CCP and Mr. Xi during his visit. On Nov. 7, 59 human rights organizations issued an open letter calling on Biden to prioritize human rights issues during the talk with Mr. Xi. They demanded the release of prisoners of conscience, such as Peng Lifa, Xu Zhiyong, Ding Jiaxi, and Jimmy Lai, and urged the CCP to stop violating human rights and forced disappearances of Chinese citizens....
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund is using billions of taxpayer dollars to fund at least 50 high-risk Chinese companies that pose serious human rights and national security threats. Future Fund, whose aim is to “invest for the benefit of future generations of Australians,” was exposed to have stakes in 22 companies linked with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and 14 companies linked to the oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The $243 billion (US$164 billion) fund also invested in 14 companies that invested in countries that Australia has sanctioned, including Russia, Iran and North Korea. A further six companies were identified as raising ethical or governance-related concerns....