Chinese dissidents say they’re being harassed by a businessman with links to Steve Bannon

Chinese dissidents say they’re being harassed by a businessman with links to Steve Bannon

Guo has publicly claimed past ties to Chinese intelligence agencies, stating on YouTube that he delivered messages and carried out work on their behalf in years past. Before Guo left China, the authorities there said that he enjoyed a years-long alliance with senior Chinese intelligence official Ma Jian, who received a life sentence for corruption in 2018.

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Government Efforts to Counter Propaganda Risk Undermining Public Trust

Government Efforts to Counter Propaganda Risk Undermining Public Trust

This is not helped by worrying statements in recent UK Government documents on ‘information manoeuvre’ and Integrated Operating Concept for 2025. Former clarity has been replaced by declarations that “the old distinction between foreign and domestic defence is increasingly irrelevant.” Calls for “innovation and experimentation” accompany statements that “our legal, ethical and moral framework needs updating to deny our adversaries the opportunity to undermine our values.” Britain’s MOD must provide citizens with clearer information on how it intends to ‘update’ its moral framework.

Trump sells out future of global food security for Morocco-Israel normalization deal

Trump sells out future of global food security for Morocco-Israel normalization deal

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Israel, Morocco agree to normalise relations in US-brokered deal

As part of the agreement, US President Donald Trump agreed to recognise Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara, where there has been a decades-old territorial dispute with Morocco pitted against the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, a breakaway movement that seeks to establish an independent state in the territory.

The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%

The top 1% of households globally own 43% of all personal wealth while the bottom 50% have only 1%. The 1% are all millionaires in net wealth (after debt) and there are 52m of them. Within this 1%, there are 175,000 ultra-wealthy people with over $50m in net wealth – that’s a miniscule number of people (less than 0.1%) owning 25% of the world’s wealth!

The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%

Canada sinks ever deeper into mire: China Daily editorial

Canada sinks ever deeper into mire

Testifying that US President Donald Trump had departed from longstanding legal policies designed to promote the “impartial administration of justice” with his comments that he was willing to use Meng as a bargaining chip in trade talks with China, Gottlieb’s affidavit exposes the nature of the charges against Meng which have been fabricated for political convenience.