China Unscripted

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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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

Ever wonder what China will be like after the fall of the Chinese Communist Party? There are people already planning the next government of China. Today we speak with Tiananmen Square Survivor and former Chinese Communist Party official turned democracy activist Yang Jianli. He recently met with Vice President Mike Pence to discuss human rights in China. He also shares the role of Hong Kong protests and President Trump's US China Trade War.

Dr. Kevin Carrico teaches China Studies at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. And his research has focused on Hong Kong-China issues. Today we talk about how he ran from police tear gas in Hong Kong, and how police there are losing their minds.

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Thanks to help from Western tech companies, China has one of the world's most advanced and repressive online censorship systems in the world. It's called the Great Firewall of China. Firewall Cafe is an art exhibition that gives people a chance to compare a normal Google search to what someone inside China would see searching on the Chinese search engine Baidu.

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