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21Oct

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China, USA

Turmoil in Hong Kong, Terrorism in Xinjiang: America’s Covert War on China

NOVANEWS By Tony Cartalucci Global Research China is facing increasing pressure along two fronts. In its western province of Xinjiang, terrorists have been stepping up destabilization and separatist activities. In China’s southeast Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, protests have disrupted normality in the dense urban streets, with protest leaders seeking to directly confront Beijing while dividing and destabilizing both Hong Kong society and attempting to “infect” the mainland. What is more troubling is the greater geopolitical agenda driving both of these seemingly “internal” conflicts – and that they both lead back to a single source beyond China’s borders. With the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) now implicated in receiving, training, and employing terrorists from China’...

12Oct

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Cult members face execution after guilty verdict for beating woman to death at McDonald’s in China

NOVANEWS Victim attacked with mops and chairs while customers told not to intervene FREDDY MAYHEW Two members of a radical religious cult who beat a woman to death in a McDonald’s restaurant after she refused to join them will be executed under a court order. Zhang Fan, 29, and her father Zhang Lidon, 55, were given the death sentence on Saturday, following trial at the Yantai Intermediate People’s Court in Shandong, eastern China, state media have reported. Both are members of the banned “All-powerful Spirit” cult in China, also known as the Church of Almighty God, which believes Jesus has been resurrected as a Chinese woman who is also the founder’s wife. Together with three fellow cult members they were found guilty of murdering 37-year-old Wu Shuoyan who they...

9Oct

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China Overtakes US as World’s Single Largest Economy

NOVANEWS 'The days when the IMF, World Bank, and U.S. Treasury could essentially dictate international finances and intimidate or crush opponents ... are drawing to a close.' by: Jon Queally, staff writer The purchasing power of Chinese consumers has now surpassed that of American consumers and its overall economy, by some measures, is now the largest in the world. Despite those declarations, the deeply intertwined nature of the American consumer-based economy and China's role as the world's leading manufactuter, means the narrative about overall financial strength is never straight-forward. (Image: therealsingapore) China has overtaken the United State to become the world's largest economy, according to new data and an analysis by the International Monetary Fun...

9Oct

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Educational background material on Hong Kong crisis prepared by the PSL

NOVANEWS By PSL Central Committee The corporate-owned media, and imperialist governments, are expressing their support for the protest movement in Hong Kong, which they are describing simply as “pro-democracy.” This stands in stark contrast to how these same media outlets and governments handle protests in their countries against the government, corporations and police violence. The Occupy Wall Street movement — after which Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” was named — was repressed with mass and targeted arrests, numbering in the thousands. That movement’s encampments in public parks were permanently broken up in a matter of weeks and months in the name of “public safety” and “order.” These are the same media outlets and governments now reporting favorably on protesters who have threate...

9Oct

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Hong Kong crisis analyzed – Statement from the Central Committee of the PSL

NOVANEWS By PSL Central Committee The protests in Hong Kong have subsided Monday as negotiations continue between the opposition movement and the local government. There are unconfirmed reports of the basic framework of an agreement, details of which have not yet been released. Discussions are continuing on the basis that the police will not forcefully break up the protesters’ encampments and the protesters will in turn reopen the streets they had blocked. Over the last week, the corporate-owned media, and imperialist governments, have expressed their support for the opposition movement, which they described simply as “pro-democracy.” Their hypocrisy cannot be starker. The Occupy Wall Street movement — after which Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” was named — was repressed with mass and...

7Oct

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China, Far East, USA

US lifts 40-year arms ban to boost Vietnam sea defense

NOVANEWS By Agence France-Presse In a decision likely to anger China, the US is partly lifting a 40-year ban on arms sales to former foe Vietnam to help boost defenses in the tense South China Sea. The historic easing of the ban in place since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 will only apply to maritime equipment, State Department officials stressed, and comes amid warming ties and as Hanoi makes “modest” improvements to human rights. “What’s driving this is not a sudden desire to transfer military equipment to Vietnam writ large, but a specific need in the region,” said one official, highlighting what he called Vietnam’s lack of capacity in the disputed waters and America’s own national security interests. “It’s useful in trying to deal with the territorial disputes in the South ...

5Oct

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China, Russia

US firepower surrounding Russia, China

NOVANEWS US firepower surrounding Russia, China … by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor The United States has been placing its firepower around Russia and China as part of a new Cold War policy which is aimed at beleaguering the two countries, says an American journalist. YouTube - Veterans Today - “What we are seeing now with this talk of a new missile deployment by the US to South Korea it just the same old game of deploying firepower as part of the new Cold War trying to surround Russia and China,” said Jim W Dean, a managing editor and columnist at Veterans Today. He made the remarks as a high-ranking American defense official said on Wednesday that Washington is trying to find an appropriate site for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense or THAAD in South Korea. US Deputy Secretary of Defen...

4Oct

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Violence Erupts in Hong Kong as Counter-Protesters Storm Sit-In

NOVANEWS Anti-democracy protesters fight Occupy Central activists, other demonstrators as Umbrella Revolution continues by: Nadia Prupis, staff writer Anti-democracy protesters stormed the Occupy Central camps late Friday, causing violent clashes. (Photo: Twitter/AP) About 1,000 counter-protesters who support Chinese rule stormed a pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong's Mongkok district on Friday, ripping down banners and starting violent scuffles with about 100 activists who had staged a sit-in in the highly populated district. The counter-protesters spit and threw water bottles at the pro-democracy activists until police formed a human chain between the two groups to settle the clashes. The Beijing supporters shouted at police for failing to remove the other activ...

3Oct

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US Now Admits it is Funding “Occupy Central” in Hong Kong

NOVANEWS By Tony Cartalucci Global Research Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called “Arab Spring” began spreading chaos across the Middle East that it had fully funded, trained, and equipped both mob leaders and heavily armed terrorists years in advance, it is now admitted that the US State Department through a myriad of organizations and NGOs is behind the so-called “Occupy Central” protests in Hong Kong. The Washington Post would report in an article titled, “Hong Kong erupts even as China tightens screws on civil society,” that: Chinese leaders unnerved by protests elsewhere this year have been steadily tightening controls over civic organizations on the mainland suspected of carrying out the work of foreign powers. The campaign aims to insulate China from subversive W...

30Sep

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China, Europe

De-Dollarization: Europe and China Start Direct Trading In Euros and Renminbi

NOVANEWS By Tyler Durden Global Research De-dollarization has been an ongoing theme hidden just below the surface of the mainstream media for more than a year as Russia and China slowly but surely attempt to “isolate” the US Dollar. Until very recently, direct trade agreements with China (in other words, bypassing the US Dollar exchange in bilateral trade) had been with smaller trade partners. On the heels of Western pressure, Russia and China were forced closer together and de-dollarization accelerated from Turkey to Argentina as an increasing number of countries around the world realize the importance of this chart. However, things are about to get even more dramatic. As Bloomberg reports, China will start direct trading between the yuan and the euro tomorrow as the world’s second...