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Canadians who were detained by China attend Biden speech, receive ovation

Two Canadian men whom China had detained for more than 1,000 days and were at the center of a dispute between Washington and Beijing attended President Joe Biden's speech to parliament in Ottawa on Friday, and received applause and a standing ovation.

Reuters

China detains staff, raids office of US due diligence firm Mintz Group

Chinese authorities raided the office of U.S. corporate due diligence firm Mintz Group in Beijing and detained five local staff, the company said, putting foreign companies in China on alert just as the country hosts an international economic forum.

Reuters

China accuses Canada of smearing over secret police stations

China has accused Canada of smearing its reputation over allegations China is secretly operating two overseas Chinese police stations in Quebec

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Canada police probe alleged Chinese 'police stations' in Montreal

Police in Canada said on Thursday they are investigating allegations that two Montreal-area centers are being used as Chinese state-backed "police stations" to intimidate or harass Canadians of Chinese origin.

Reuters

China should scrap ‘picking quarrels’ crime, says leading lawyer

Suggestion to abolish catch-all offence will be among thousands considered at Chinese Communist party summit

The Guardian - UK

Beijing needs to be ‘more honest about what happened in Wuhan’, US envoy tells China

China’s foreign ministry rejects lab leak theory, calling on US to ’stop smearing China’

The Independent UK

Reuters reporters' online accounts faked to approach China activists

Two Reuters journalists had their identities faked by an unknown person or people who then used sham social media accounts to engage with Chinese activists on several online platforms over several months.

Reuters

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China should be barred from Coronation, sanctioned parliamentarians say

A ‘litany of crimes against humanity’ would make the attendance of Chinese officials unacceptable, senior Tory Sir Iain Duncan Smith said.

The Independent UK

Thin blue square: video shows apparent Chinese police drill against protester

Footage seems to show 10 officers training to neutralise one man using fabric banners

The Guardian - UK

China faces grilling in review of key rights by UN committee

China has come in for a grilling over its human rights record as a two-day hearing opened at the United Nations human rights office

The Independent UK

Anger of China's zero-Covid generation remains intact

In November 2022, thousands of young Chinese people took to the streets to protest repeated Covid-19 lockdowns, constant PCR tests and to demand greater freedom. The movement was stifled in a few days and authorities abandoned their strict zero-Covid policy. But if China's youth took the risk to voice their…

France 24

‘We just want to live in a normal world’: China’s young protesters speak out, and disappear

‘Blank Paper movement’ decrying government policies rekindles dissent after Xi Jinping’s decade of iron-fisted crackdowns

The Guardian - UK

China says it's looking into report of spy balloon over US

China says it is looking into reports that a Chinese spy balloon has been spotted over U.S. airspace

The Independent UK

Rights group says several Chinese 'white paper' protestors still in detention

Several demonstrators who were apprehended for publicly protesting China's then-ongoing zero-COVID policy remain in detention, face charges or have not been heard from, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.

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China announces lunar new year censorship crackdown to silence Covid ‘rumours’

Plan to target ‘gloomy sentiments’ across festival period comes as independent health forecasters estimate over 600,000 deaths from Covid

Reuters

China's pessimistic Gen Z poses challenge for Xi post-COVID

The first weekend after COVID-19 restrictions ended last month, dozens of young Chinese jostled in the dark at a heavy-metal concert in a tiny Shanghai music venue that reeked of sweat and hard liquor.

Axios

As protests fade in China, organizers abroad vow to fight on

Several overseas organizers told Axios about their experiences. They said the fight is far from over.

Reuters

Britain criticises 'erosion of freedoms' in Hong Kong, draws rebuke from China

Britain criticised on Thursday what it said was the systematic erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong by the Chinese government and a crackdown on free speech by authorities in the former British colony, drawing an angry response from China.

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China's authorities are quietly rounding up people who protested against COVID rules

Residents held vigils to commemorate people who have died in lockdown. Several have been arrested.

The News Lens

China: Zhang Zhan’s Prison Letter Offers Hope and Fear

The rare insight into prison life comes over two years after the citizen journalist was handed a four-year sentence. She was imprisoned after covering the Covid-19 lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan in early 2020.

The Guardian - UK

China isn’t following the science in dealing with its Covid outbreak

Letters: Readers take issue with an article by the Chinese ambassador to the UK about his country’s coronavirus response

Al Jazeera

China’s ‘zero-COVID’ U-turn leads to loss of faith in leadership

Chinese people were told they were fighting the virus together, now some are disillusioned by the abrupt policy change.

France 24

Debunking claims that Western media is 'exaggerating' Covid-19 in Shanghai

As China eases its zero-Covid policy amidst international fears of a new wave, a report by an anglophone journalist in China from late December is being used online as "proof" that the coronavirus figures in Shanghai are hardly cause for concern. But is all as it seems? We take a…

France 24

No, this video is not proof that Shanghai's new wave of Covid-19 is fake

Some Twitter accounts have been refuting claims that the Covid-19 pandemic is resurging in China. Their proof: a report from a state media outlet that they say shows relatively empty emergency rooms. But the images in the report were taken out of context.

The Independent UK

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