Sweden responds firmly to China threats

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Sweden responds firmly to China threats

FPI / May 4, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo While communist China has long touted its alleged “peaceful rise” as a global power, its increasingly brutish and bullying behavior toward less powerful countries has shown a harsher reality. Sweden is just the most recent example. Fortunately, Sweden is pushing back. As Axios reports, “a series […]

Weak China? Abductions of quiet academic on national security grounds questioned

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Weak China? Abductions of quiet academic on national security grounds questioned

by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2018 In January of this year, for the second time in less than three years, academic and poet Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish citizen, was abducted. Gui “was riding a train from Shanghai to Beijing in the company of two Swedish diplomats” when “10 Chinese plainclothesmen stormed aboard, lifted him […]