They certainly will when China finally decides to send a DF missile to parliament but let Australis make the fatal mistake first. If will then finally end the whole media is a weapon thing because then the angry Australia makes China, the more that Australia becomes target practice and the more that well, it becomes a sad conclusion that China wants the land more then its racist people. Again, Australia will never learn to no poke the dragon, until the dragon finally takes a big bite and by then, no amount of begging tis going to save them
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The US is just using Xinjiang as an excuse to sabotage the Chinese government attempt to elevate Uighurs living standard.
Chinese factories have typically preferred to hire Han Chinese, often explicitly discriminating against Tibetans and Uyghurs in job advertisements, as many assume ethnic minority workers aren’t proficient in Mandarin or come with additional management and security risks, according to labor-rights groups.
State-run labor transfer programs have attracted interest from factories by not only offering a stable supply of workers—appealing to places with high turnover—but also providing subsidies for each worker hired. Xinjiang governments typically transfer minority workers en masse to factories, usually with accompanying security personnel and cadres from the region, according to online job advertisements and labor transfer guidelines.
Chinese factories have typically preferred to hire Han Chinese, often explicitly discriminating against Tibetans and Uyghurs in job advertisements, as many assume ethnic minority workers aren’t proficient in Mandarin or come with additional management and security risks, according to labor-rights groups.
State-run labor transfer programs have attracted interest from factories by not only offering a stable supply of workers—appealing to places with high turnover—but also providing subsidies for each worker hired. Xinjiang governments typically transfer minority workers en masse to factories, usually with accompanying security personnel and cadres from the region, according to online job advertisements and labor transfer guidelines.
I feel that china should combat this the same way it combated the sanction on Xinjiang cotton and rally the domestic shoppers to support xinjiang labour! There must be a response to this. As an overseas Chinese, I will even support it just like I supported Xinjiang cotton. They should give more incentives for domestic companies to use Xinjiang labour. We need to prevent unemployment which can lead to further resentment and riots.
FIRST the leak started from here...
THE PEGASUS PROJECT
Forbidden Stories gathered ALL THE ARTICLES from the Pegasus Project here
AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected for surveillance with Pegasus, a spyware sold by Israeli company NSO Group, shows how this technology has been systematically ABUSED FOR YEARS to spy on journalists, human rights defenders, academics, business people, lawyers, doctors, union leaders, diplomats, politicians and several heads of states.
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What is Pegasus Spyware and Why Have the World's Journalists Woken Up So Angry and Scared by It? (19 JULY 2021)
A worldwide scandal has broken after it emerged that thousands of journalists around the world may have been spied on by their governments using their iPhones or Android phones.
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What is Pegasus, the chosen tool for ‘total surveillance’? (NOV 2019)
The PEGASUS SPYWARE, developed by Israel-based security company, NSO Group Technologies, was used to hack and snoop on journalists, lawyers and activists, presumably by the government. What does Pegasus do? How does it work?
According to the spyware’s product details, PEGASUS IS MEANT TO INFILTRATE SMARTPHONES SILENTLY and work on three things -- collect historic data on device, continuously monitor activity and transmit this data to a third party.
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Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon (18 JULY 2021)
The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of Israeli surveillance company NSO Group’s hacking spyware, PEGASUS, which the company insists is only intended for use against criminals and terrorists.
PEGASUS IS A MALWARE that infects iPhones and Android devices to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones.
The leak contains a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that, it is believed, have been identified as those of people of interest by clients of NSO SINCE 2016.
By accessing GPS and hardware sensors in the phone, NSO’s clients could also secure a log of a person’s past movements and track their location in real time with pinpoint accuracy, for example by establishing the direction and speed a car was travelling in.
The latest advances in NSO’s technology enable it to penetrate phones with “ZERO-CLICK” attacks, meaning a user DOES NOT EVEN NEED TO CLICK on a malicious link for their phone to be infected.
Claudio Guarnieri, who runs Amnesty International’s Security Lab, said once a phone was infected with Pegasus, a client of Israeli surveillance company NSO Group COULD IN EFFECT TAKE CONTROL OF A PHONE, enabling them to extract a person’s messages, calls, photos and emails, secretly activate cameras or microphones, and read the contents of encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.
Guarnieri has identified evidence NSO has been exploiting vulnerabilities associated with iMessage, which comes INSTALLED ON ALL IPHONES, and has been able to penetrate even the MOST UP-TO-DATE IPHONE running the LATEST VERSION of iOS. His team’s forensic analysis discovered successful and attempted Pegasus infections of phones as recently as this month.
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China’s exit in October 1949, from the sphere of US control, was perhaps the heaviest blow to strike American post-World War II global hegemony. China’s successful drive for independence had been anticipated in Washington for many months.
In September 1948, the far-sighted American diplomat GEORGE KENNAN noted that “there are considerable limitations on what we can do to affect the course of events in China”. Over the elapsing seven decades since, the scale of American influence in China’s domestic affairs has been restricted at best, but continues apace nonetheless. Washington has implemented a range of policies in the hope of DESTABILISING and SPLINTERING China.
The Pentagon’s strategies towards China have somewhat mirrored those they directed against the USSR: Utilisation of proxy groups, extremists and ethnic minorities, along with client states.
High profile Uyghur separatists, like the Xinjiang-born Anwar Yusuf Turani, founder of the East Turkestan Government in exile, is himself living in the state of Virginia, on America’s east coast. Turani has been a willing tool in Washington’s power game with China; in June 1999, he met with president Bill Clinton and asked him to back political movements seeking independence for Xinjiang; and Turani later enjoyed dialogue with Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush, who promised to support the “fundamental human rights” of “Uyghurs and others living in China”.
Further prominent Uyghur exiles living in America have called for Xinjiang’s independence from China, such as Rebiya Kadeer, a five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, born in Xinjiang, and who also resides in the US state of Virginia.
For 11 years until November 2017, she was the leader of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), headquartered in Munich, and which is partly funded by the National Endowment For Democracy (NED). The NED, partially subsidised by the United States Congress, has a long history of “soft power” interference in sovereign states around the world.
The World Uyghur Congress was established in April 2004 by Erkin Alptekin, a former adviser to the CIA.
Kadeer’s husband has previously worked as a commentator for the US government-run broadcaster, Radio Free Asia. Like Turani, Kadeer is something of a pawn for Washington in the growing US-China geopolitical rivalry. In the past, she accepted invitations to meet president George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, so as to seek backing for Uyghur independence from China. During a June 2019 visit to US ally Japan, she called on Tokyo to provide more political support for Xinjiang.
One of the central reasons for Beijing’s strong focus on Xinjiang, is because this region is rich in both oil (21 billion tonnes) and coal deposits (40% of China’s entire reserves). Some Uyghur natives have complained that Beijing simply dispatches the raw materials from Xinjiang directly towards the Chinese capital, and to other relatively affluent cities like Shanghai, without providing adequate compensation in response. Even a small surtax could be enough to significantly improve the living conditions of Uyghurs.
The experienced Brazilian historian, Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira, wrote that Beijing’s vested concerns in Xinjiang are also partly due to its position as a pipeline hub; a territory through which natural resources pour into China from Central Asia, and which Bandeira states “was one of the factors behind the ethnic tensions that erupted over the course of the 1990s, and the beginning of the 21st century, with China investing $15 billion in the region’s infrastructure and development until 2001, including petrochemical plants and gas transports to Shanghai”.
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), a state-owned company based in Beijing, “sought to transform Xinjiang into the country’s largest oil and gas production base until 2020”. Unsurprisingly, Beijing’s exploitation of Xinjiang’s resources has been increasing, while the province is a focal point too for China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) industrial project.
Furthermore, Xi Jinping’s government retains strong ambitions in linking Xinjiang to Gwadar, a strategic port situated in southern Pakistan and which rests on the Arabian Sea. For a number of years, Beijing have been investing heavily in Pakistan, also reaching south to Gwadar, which could provide China’s administration with a field of scope into some of the planet’s most vital oil shipping lanes; with the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf waters positioned tantalisingly close to Gwadar.
China is Pakistan’s largest trading partner, and Beijing views its neighbour as an important ally, borne out by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – an infrastructural program between these two nations valued at tens of billions of dollars.
Focusing on the Pentagon’s efforts again to destabilise China, we turn our attention to Tibet: A glorious region in south-western China whose landscapes are dominated by towering, snow-filled Himalayan mountain tops, vast uninhabited plains, while in size Tibet is almost twice as large as France.
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I am also not against it. What I am against is using it as a stealth tax to Chinese products. The EU and China should sit down and make a deal on this.
If the EU really thinks that it can tax Chinese products without consequences, then it is dreaming.
China should also learn some tricks from the Jews state to add her own mixing now the AAZ is ganging up and trying to encircle her!