Diversity never included me, because I don’t want to belong to any socio-politically identifiable group. I am an individual human being. I find it demeaning to be characterised, purely based on the colour of my skin, as a “racialised visible minority”.

Unsurprisingly, political prisoners were nowhere to be mentioned at the Trump-Xi summit. Meanwhile, countless people continue to languish in prison simply for exercising basic freedoms. It is a deeply sad reflection of where things stand.

As President Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Washington, families of Americans detained in China hope they will speak their loved ones’ names: Youlin Chen. Min Zin. Dawn Michelle Hunt. Nelson Wells Jr. nbcnews.com/world/asia/trump…

Most Americans have no clue what “Communism” means, let alone what the Chinese are up to.

It’s not easy to be American-Chinese nowadays. Better to stay under the radar?

🚨China has reportedly taken possession of the parts from the F-35 being shipped from Australia. Not surprising but it is further proof of how western supply chains are deeply compromised. The parts, including a canopy, were somehow sent to Hong Kong instead of the US.

“China has a surveillance network that George Orwell couldn’t have dreamed of.” Grant Newsham says we have to stop being naive about the CCP. China is one of the most tightly controlled societies on Earth. And he says the CCP knows exactly what is happening with the fentanyl killing Americans. “The suggestion that somehow you have these drug makers and sort of drug pushers actually operating without the Chinese Communist Party knowing… that is fantastic in the sense that you just can’t believe it.” “They know what they’re doing.” “Chinese organized crime does not operate without the support and the protection of the Chinese state, and that’s just the reality of it.” “The Chinese have a direct involvement in the fentanyl that comes into the United States.” @NewshamGrant

Chinese officials look on as some final adjustments to the red carpet are made for President Xi.

🚨 BREAKING: Iran has been elected by secret ballot to the General Committee of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA. The election comes shortly after the same body condemned Tehran over its failure to comply with its nuclear obligations. Iran will now sit on a committee involved in steering the proceedings of the agency tasked with monitoring its nuclear program.

In pointed floor speech, Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker says that as Xi visits that Trump "should keep in mind that his guest is a brutal, unelected and oppressive dictator who seeks to dominate his neighbors and whose massive military arsenal is aimed directly" at the USA Wicker says had Trump asked him he "would have suggested the president not invite [Xi] to Washington for such a lavish welcome here in the United States of America" Says Trump should ask Xi about China military build-up, the thousands of Uighur people who "have been sent to concentration camps," political prisoners and China's "interference in the internal affairs of nations around the world"

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker ripped the decision to invite Xi for a state dinner. "Had the White House asked me for advice, I would have suggested the president not invite Xi Jinping to Washington for such a lavish welcome," he said. politico.com/live-updates/20…

An oldie, but a goodie Good luck British Columbia You guys better mobilize if you want a new regime They will

Beijing poses a greater threat to US security and prosperity than ever before. It's providing Iran with the intelligence it has used to kill American troops while using American chips and stolen IP to accelerate its drive for AI dominance and frontier models.

Is Eby @csiscanada ‘Candidate 3’ ? thebureau.news/p/former-vanc…

Trump should raise the ethnic unity law directly with Xi and make clear that attempts to enforce it against people in the United States will not be tolerated. buff.ly/vMDBEcX

China just claimed legal jurisdiction over you protesting Xi in Washington DC next week. China's Ethnic Unity Law asserts Beijing's authority to prosecute anyone anywhere, including U.S. citizens, whose speech it decides "undermines ethnic unity." Freedom House's read is blunt: this gives China a legal basis to go after anyone who shows up to protest Xi's visit on September 24th. This isn't theoretical. Last time Xi was on U.S. soil, in San Francisco in 2023, hundreds of protesters, many of them American citizens, were documented being beaten and harassed by individuals and groups tied to the Chinese government. Police reportedly stood by. China runs the most extensive transnational repression campaign of any government on earth, responsible for nearly a quarter of every documented case worldwide since 2014. Illegal overseas police stations. Stalking convictions in U.S. courts. A U.S. Olympic athlete's own father, targeted by a Chinese spy ring, for his daughter's public support of Tibet. Xi gets a state dinner at the White House next week. The people planning to stand outside it exercising a constitutional right are the ones Beijing is asserting the power to come after. freedomhouse.org/article/xi-…

"Trump’s biggest gift to the People’s Republic of China was his decision to go to war with Iran."

I’m ready to assess that the current trade negotiation breakdown between Ottawa and Washington does involve the Carney Government embracing Chrétien Era deep PRC engagement policies. There are factors on both sides including Trump’s aggressive rhetoric, but Ottawa’s PRC policy must be accounted for. Canadians don’t need to give the ‘benefit of the doubt’ to their political class, they must demand results.

There are rumors on Chinese social media that Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and his daughter Meng Wanzhou both fell to their deaths on Sep 20… It’s getting wild… 🤔

Just rumours? 😉

WSJ Editors try to guess what Trump wants from Xi: “Consider Iran. Mr. Trump wants a non-nuclear regime in Tehran and a peace deal in Ukraine, and the impediment to both is war support from Beijing. China masks its provision of satellite data for targeting as a commercial operation, and it buys Iranian oil and sells semiconductors for weapons. And why did China join Russia last week in vetoing the U.S. resolution extending the mandate of experts monitoring Iran’s compliance with international sanctions? These aren’t the actions of a friend, and Mr. Trump can say so.”