It's been a big year—from massive protests in Hong Kong, to trade war politics, and a growing awareness in the US government that the Chinese Communist Party represents the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the 21st century. 2019 was a crazy year for China news, and a crazy year for us. Thanks for joining us for the wild ride. 2020 will be extra.

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Independent journalist and radical Islam expert Olsi Jazexhi was invited to see first hand a Xinjiang "Vocational Training Camp" for Uighur Muslims in China's Xinjiang regions. What he saw shocked him. This comes as the US Congress debates The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019.

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Watch his videos from Xinjiang
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-agGJ4DKGjmbvkJKfs4f6w/search?query=xinjiang

Vocational training, definitely not forced labor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXq8_3zy2aA
Happy ethnic minorities singing in Mandarin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_cmrgostu4

Read his latest article
https://www.dailysabah.com/op-ed/2019/12/02/what-can-the-muslim-world-do-to-save-the-uighurs-and-islam-in-china?fbclid=iwar3kjbgqlen1dqcjjkqx0qsq1jf61zojfmurfmb0t6qp2baomuolx_7nklm

Global Times criticism:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1172044.shtml

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China is colonizing Africa. We do a deep dive into China's role in the African nation of Mauritania, where corruption is leaving the country strip mined of natural resources, while becoming a potential Chinese military base. Plus, is the Richat Structure the remains of the ancient city of Atlantis? Mauritanian activist Nasser Weddady discloses all!

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The Chinese Communist Party is spying on US Universities. That's just one part of an overall campaign against academic freedom both inside China and out.
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English Edition of Report:
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Scholars-at-Risk-Obstacles-to-Excellence_EN.pdf

Chinese Edition:
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Scholars-at-Risk-Obstacles-to-Excellence_CN.pdf

 

Activists in Bolivia have just forced the "president" to resign and flee the country. And they did it through strategic nonviolence. How can this be applied to other places, like Hong Kong? And what role did China play in this revolution? Protest leader Jhanisse Vaca-Daza joins us a second time. You can also listen to her on our podcast #13 "Bolivia's President Sells Out to China" from October 5, 2018.

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China is trying to take control of blockchain technology by creating it's own digital currency, the digital yuan. But while Bitcoin promised a truly democratized currency, the Chinese cryptocurrency could spell the beginning of a new dawn of technological authoritarianism. Chief strategy officer for the Human Rights Foundation and bitcoin expert Alex Gladstein joins us to talk about whether blockchain will bring freedom or tyranny to China.

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https://www.amazon.com/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-ebook/dp/B07W957N7T

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#bitcoin #blockchain cryptocurrency news libra btc hong kong protests

The officially atheist Chinese Communist Party has launched an unprecedented crackdown on religion. Concentration camps for Uighurs. Organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. And now they're going after Christians, using the oddest excuse imaginable...

Whether it's the NBA and players like Lebron James or James Harden, Hollywood, Apple, or Activision Blizzard, there are a lot of American companies and people selling out to the Chinese Communist Party. But the US House has passed landmark legislation supporting the Hong Kong protesters, so it's the politicians who ended up showing some backbone.

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Hong Kong protests are getting increasingly violent, whether its riot police shooting tear gas and protesters setting fires and defacing Pro-Beijing businesses. Has a line been crossed?

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We're entering "the Decade of Concern," according to Captain Jim Fanell, the Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It's a period of time when the Chinese Navy will become more powerful and aggressive, with the goal of asserting China's influence in the South China Sea and conquering Taiwan. Just how big a threat is China's Navy? And can the United States military rival it? — China Unscripted