John Lee Chi-kin, the new president of the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), said his top priority was to enhance prospective teachers’ awareness of ethics and to promote national security education, further tightening Beijing’s ideological grip over the former British colony. Mr. Lee, a member of Beijing’s Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Hong Kong, told media on Sept. 15 that the university would reform its education curriculum from the 2024–2025 academic year and strengthen “teacher ethics training.” All students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education program are required to take a guidance course on conduct before starting their internship....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/hong-kong-student-exodus-worsens-amid-national-education-5494833
A Shanghai company with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) background is building mega-solar power plants near Japan’s most important U.S. military base in Iwakuni. The city’s council member raised the alarm that the CCP was posing a threat to national security. Takashi Ishimoto, a member of Iwakuni city council, said that the major solar power plants that the Chinese firm is involved in are located in Yamaguchi Prefecture—one in Miwa-cho, Iwakuni city (or Iwakuni-shi) in the north, and the other in Yanai city (or Yanai-shi) in the south—sandwiching the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni is the most paramount U.S. military facility in the Far East, shared by the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force....
While the United Nations was convening its 78th General Assembly on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with an address from President Joe Biden on Sept. 19, another forum was gathered in Midtown’s St. Regis Hotel. That group noted that in the year since the international body concluded that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may be engaging in “crimes against humanity” against Uyghurs and other Muslim Turkic peoples, nothing has happened. Nothing, that is, except continued reports of CCP “crimes against humanity” against Uyghurs and other Muslim Turkic peoples, forum speakers said. “You know, I think the stories about Xinjiang have faded a little from the headlines or from the front pages. Despite all of the different policies and proposals and speeches, it has slipped down a little bit as a political priority,” said The Economist Senior Editor Gady Epstein, who moderated a nearly three-hour panel discussion designed to prod “a robust international response to the atrocities against the Uyghurs.”...
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) has sent a second letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging the State Department to extend a formal invitation to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to a U.S.-hosted summit in November. The Sept. 19 letter, co-signed by 24 House Republicans, stated that Ms. Tsai should be entitled to a seat at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit in San Francisco, despite opposition from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “Denying the inclusion of Taiwanese leadership in APEC will only further embolden the CCP and be remembered as an immense failure of the Biden administration’s mission to uphold peace and stability in the region,” the letter says....