Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a Chinese newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has said that China must be “militarily and morally” ready for war. Mr Hu made the comments in an editorial published in the Global Times on Friday. The Global Times has a daily circulation of […]
“The Chinese Communist Party now regards ethnic Mongolians as the ‘enemy within’, who are planning to incite separatism in China.” These are the words of ethnic Mongolian Boronruh Tsinrh, who grew up in China but is now studying in Paris. Mongolian rights activists have documented persistent problems in Inner Mongolia including “arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial detention, violation of […]
Police in Hong Kong have arrested 289 people and used pepper spray and pepper balls to disperse pro-democracy demonstrators. Amongst those caught on camera being brutalised by the police was a 12 year old girl who was said to be shopping for crayons. The demonstration was called Sunday to challenge the postponement of elections, and the imposition of […]
A doctor has told ITV that she participated in forced abortion and sterilsations on Uighur women in China, including the removal of women’s wombs. Many Uighers are now forced to live in concentration camps in China as a persecuted minority. “In twenty years, I participated in at least 500 to 600 operations, included forced contraception, forced abortion […]
It would appear that the plans to build a new city in Ireland, as reported here last on July 28, are not quite as dead in the water as some suggested. The Hong Kong property developer Ivan Ko of the Victoria Harbour Group is to visit Ireland within the next few weeks to focus on […]
A lawyer and leading political expert on China says that the United States, and Western democracies, should focus on defeating Chinese communism, not accommodating it. Gordon Chang said that the “audaciousness, ruthlessness, and maliciousness” of China’s Communist Party (CCP) was being emboldened by the “feebleness” and “timidity” of the response from the rest of the world. Writing for […]
As reported previously on Gript, a foreign development group is in ongoing discussions regarding the establishment of a new city in Ireland with a “target population” of fifty percent Hong Kongers and the remaining being from the host country. Now, it seems, Dundalk might be the latest spot under scrutiny for such a city. Local […]
International surrogacy is often reviled as a system in which Western, mostly white people, exploit the bodies of women in underdeveloped countries, who are often women of colour. A typical feature in the media will display images of poor, heavily pregnant, sari-clad women sleeping in a crowded dormitory. But this is not the image of […]
Serious questions have been raised about a conference call between the First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill, and the Beijing Consul General Zhang Meifang, where it is alleged both politicians indicated support for the current repression of Hong Kong by the authoritarian government in China. The Consulate claimed that during the […]
The security law imposed by China on Hong Kong has been used to arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who has been a critic of Chinese oppression. Mr Lai’s newspaper offices were raided by police over allegations of collusion with foreign forces, and he and other employees were arrested, including two of his sons according to […]
Twenty TDs and Senators have signed a letter to an Taoiseach, an Tánaiste and to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney expressing serious concern about the mistreatment of the Uighur Muslim people by the Chinese authorities. The letter, addessed to Mícheál Martin and Leo Varadkar as well as the Foreign Affairs Minister says that the […]
The development group which was reported to be in talks with the Irish government regarding the possibility of building a city for Hong Kongers in Ireland, has now confirmed that the discussion is ongoing. While the Department of Foreign Affairs seemed to downplay the possibility, Mark Lutter, the Chief Strategy Officer for the Victoria Harbor […]