Byron Wan
@Byron_Wan
Beijing is now directly intervening in the transaction. Will the Trump administration let Beijing have its way even when the Panama Canal is viewed as vital to US national security?
🚨🚨🚨 State-owned 🇨🇳 China Cosco Shipping is set to join the global consortium that’s acquiring Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s overseas ports — including two strategically important ones along the Panama Canal, and is requesting a powerful role in the group in order to secure…
🚨🚨🚨 State-owned 🇨🇳 China Cosco Shipping is set to join the global consortium that’s acquiring Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s overseas ports — including two strategically important ones along the Panama Canal, and is requesting a powerful role in the group in order to secure…
🚨 China is pushing for state-owned 🇨🇳 Cosco to be an equal partner and shareholder of the ports with 🇺🇸 BlackRock and international shipping line Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC); 🇨🇳 officials have told BlackRock, MSC and Hutchison that if Cosco is left out of the deal,…
July 22: Amazon Web Services Shanghai AI Lab’s Senior Applied Scientist Wang Minjie (王敏捷) says in a WeChat post that the lab is being dissolved. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aMeGuY6CTaVN…
Only 90 satellites have been launched into low Earth orbit for the 🇨🇳 Qianfan (千帆 “Thousand Sails”) mega-constellation — officially Spacesail Constellation aka G60 Starlink, well short of the project’s goal of 648 by the end of this year. 🇨🇳 Shanghai Yuanxin Satellite…
🇺🇸 National Nuclear Security Administration, a 🇺🇸 Department of Energy arm responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons, was among those US agencies breached by a hack of Microsoft’s SharePoint document management software. Microsoft has…
ICE Los Angeles arrested 🇨🇳 national Hang Ling for immigration violations on July 17. Ling has been arrested for felony theft of utility services, vandalism, possession of marijuana for sale, and cultivation of marijuana plants. He is in ICE custody pending removal.
🇨🇳 Rong Yunhua came to the US from China on a tourist visa — it expired in February, but he didn’t leave. Instead, within three months, he was arrested for MURDER & MAYHEM! ICE Los Angeles special agents got him off California streets with help from ATF.
BlackRock has told staff traveling to China for business trips to use temporary loaner phones and not to bring company laptops. The world’s largest asset manager detailed the “policy enhancement” on business travel to China in an internal memo, saying it is effective July 16.…
🇨🇳 intelligence officers began tracking an employee of 🇺🇸 Department of Commerce in April when he was in Sichuan where he has family members, at one point interrogating him about his prior service in the US military. The man, an American citizen, has been prevented from leaving…
🚨🚨🚨 a Chinese American man who works for the Commerce Department and traveled to China several months ago is being prevented from leaving the country after he failed to disclose on his visa application that he worked for the US government. The American, an employee of the…
July 21: Chenguang Gong (龚晨光), a dual 🇺🇸/🇨🇳 citizen and a former engineer at Malibu-based HRL Laboratories, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of trade secrets — technologies developed for use by the US government to detect nuclear missile launches, track ballistic and…
HRL Laboratories LLC is the company which Gong Chenguang worked at. HRL Laboratories is a R&D lab specializing in sensors and applied electromagnetics in Malibu, owned by Boeing and General Motors. "When HRL became aware of suspicious activity being conducted by Gong, the…
Google has removed nearly 11,000 YouTube channels and other accounts tied to state-linked propaganda campaigns from 🇨🇳 China, 🇷🇺 Russia and more in the second quarter. The takedown included more than 7,700 YouTube channels linked to China. These campaigns primarily shared…
Has anyone heard anything about SCMP reporter Minnie Chan (陳敏莉))? She’s last seen in Beijing in late Oct 2023; then she just vanished without a trace… Is she being imprisoned? Is she being tortured? Is she still alive?
🚨🚨🚨 Hong Kong reporter Minnie Chan (with South China Morning Post) has been missing since the end of October last year… she’s last seen in Beijing…
Against a backdrop of tour participants dancing with Uyghurs in folk costume, Princeton University Press director Christie Henry was filmed saying: “So many cultures exist and meet here, and it’s a way for the world to see how cultures can peacefully co-exist and exist in…
🚨 June 23: Princeton University Press Director Christie Henry, Marketing and Sales Director Katie Hope (lower right pic), and Managing Director of PUP China Lingxi Li joined a delegation of Special Book Award of China recipients on a tour of Xinjiang — note how they danced…
In this video posted on Douyin on July 19, the man said he was beaten up during a trip in Mongolia after proclaiming Mongolia is an inherent territory of China while showing off the Chinese flag 🇨🇳, and the 🇨🇳 embassy didn’t even try to help… 😂😂😂 (There’s no way for me to…