In recent months, China has won Russian involvement in threatening military exercises near Japan. In return, Russia has won Chinese political support for its threats against Europe.
Wang Jingyu was in Istanbul when he used his Weibo account to ask the Chinese government why it had taken eight months to acknowledge the deaths of four Chinese soldiers in a border clash with Indian troops.
Communist China loves to pretend that it seeks only "win-win" cooperation with the rest of the world. For some of the world's poorest nations, however, "win-win" might as well translate as "beware loan shark."
China’s authoritarian regime ruthlessly deploys the very latest in surveillance and artificial intelligence technology to monitor and control its 1.4 billion citizens. This is unsurprising since any totalitarian communist state must exert maximum control over its people in order to survive.