Fox, now on the backbenches, has since fiercely denounced China s oppression of the Muslim Uighurs and democracy campaigners in Hong Kong, and has blamed Chinese secrecy for Britain s Covid death toll.
And Tencent, bigger than Facebook and worth close to $1 trillion, is proving to be a controversial trading partner. This week it swooped on UK video games firm Sumo in a £920million takeover.
But even as it builds up influence throughout universities, businesses, and the fashion and entertainment industries, its purported links to the Chinese intelligence services are steadily emerging.
As the Mail has revealed, CIA sources and the Pentagon have flagged serious concerns, pointing to military investment. Among other stinging criticisms, Donald Trump, in an executive order last year, said WeChat, the firm s social media app, was collecting vast swathes of data, helping the Communist Party keep tabs on Chinese citizens abroad.
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https://www.afinalwarning.com/495926.html (Natural News) A prestigious professorship of physics at the
From now on, Oxford’s Wykeham chair of physics will officially be known as the Tencent-Wykeham chair in honor of the Chinese Tencent corporate conglomerate, which owns China’s WeChat messaging app.
Tencent reportedly gave £700,000, or about $968,000, to Oxford in exchange for Oxford public recognizing the partnership.
First established in 1900, the Wykeham chair of physics comes with a fellowship at 14th-century New College. Under its new designation, the Tencent-Wykeham fellowship will pay new homage to its Chinese overlords.
When asked about the new name, Lord Patten, Oxford’s Chancellor and the last British governor of Hong Kong, said he did not even know about it until he was contacted by the