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FROM BING
Posted on 12/01/2023

A bipartisan letter asked that the 2024 NDAA include language that addresses outbound investments in China "and ideally strengthen the language." ...

FROM THE GUARDIAN
Posted on 12/01/2023

After 12 years in Scotland, pandas to fly home amid ongoing dispute about purpose of zoos and ethics of China’s panda diplomacy
As soon as she heard that Edinburgh’s pandas were about to be flown home, Sarah Greenwood knew she had to see them. “I love everything about pandas,” she said. “I absolutely couldn’t miss it.”
Wrapped in a thick coat and hat to guard against the freezing temperatures and the first snow flurries of winter, Greenwood, an events manager, 52, travelled from Cambridge on Wednesday to watch Tian Tian and her partner, Yang Guang, grazing on bamboo, sleeping and exercising.

FROM THE GUARDIAN
Posted on 12/01/2023

Beijing’s strained relations with the west are less easily mollified by loans of cuddly endangered bears
As the UK’s only giant pandas leave Edinburgh zoo , returning to their native country after a 12-year sojourn away from China, the era of panda diplomacy also looks to be coming to an end.
Tian Tian and Yang Guang will board the panda express back to Sichuan less than a month after three giant pandas left the Smithsonian national zoo in Washington DC, ending the zoo’s five-decade panda programme.

FROM THE GUARDIAN
Posted on 12/01/2023

Minnie Chan has reportedly been out of contact since travelling to Xiangshan Forum a month ago
Friends and colleagues of a Hong Kong journalist have raised concerns after she failed to return from a defence and security forum in Beijing a month ago.
Minnie Chan, a reporter for the South China Morning Post, has not been in contact since she went to the , Japan’s Kyodo News reported on Thursday. Chan filed several stories from the forum, the most recent of which was published on 2 November.

FROM SCMP.COM ON MSN
Posted on 12/01/2023

American fashion blogger Diane Pernet has run A Shaded View On Fashion Film for 15 years. The Chinese fashion film winner at this year’s festival is about immigrant women making garments in the West.

FROM EATER ON MSN
Posted on 12/01/2023

Kenny Yang, the owner of Strings Ramen Shop, has tirelessly worked toward opening his new River West grocery store, Gangnam Market, by bringing in more Chinese, Korean, and Japanese items. Over the ...

FROM THE GUARDIAN
Posted on 12/01/2023

UK brand says investigation shows individual was paid employee, not inmate, as Derbyshire customer raises concern over prison labour [update - see footnote]
An ID card that appears to belong to a Chinese prisoner was found inside the lining of a coat from the British brand Regatta, raising concerns that the clothing was manufactured using prison labour.
The waterproof women’s coat was bought online by a woman in Derbyshire in the Black Friday sale. When it arrived on 22 November, she could feel a hard rectangular item in the right sleeve, which restricted the movement of her elbow.

FROM BING
Posted on 12/01/2023

Federal and local prosecutors and advocates for the Asian American community are encouraging crime victims to come forward and file reports, with the goal of reducing hate crimes. Over the summer, ...

FROM THE GUARDIAN
Posted on 11/30/2023

Tech company said accounts impersonating Americans spread political content aiming to divide country ahead of election year
Someone in China created thousands of fake Facebook and Instagram accounts designed to impersonate Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the US ahead of next year’s elections, Meta said on Thursday.
The network of nearly 4,800 fake accounts was attempting to build an audience when it was identified and eliminated by the tech company, which owns Facebook and Instagram. The accounts sported fake photos, names and locations as a way to appear like everyday American Facebook users weighing in on political issues.

FROM BING
Posted on 11/30/2023

In a Pew survey, Asian Americans reported facing the "model minority" stereotype, which assumes they're smarter and more well off, as well as being treated as outsiders even if they were U.S. born.

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