How Chinese Propaganda Colonized Italian Media

This collaboration between the CCP’s agencies and the Italian media brought the latter to feature two kinds of news from China: amenities and leisure-time information on a variety of subjects, and Communist Party propaganda on hotly debated topics such as the policy about the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, COVID-19, democracy in Hong Kong, and threats to Taiwan.

How China Lost Central and Eastern Europe

Emilian Kavalski, University of Nottingham | The Conversation Bulgaria became the most recent country from central and eastern Europe (CEE) to show hostility toward China. In the latest sign of relations souring between the region and the Asian superpower, Bulgaria’s prime minister, Boïko Borissov, claimed that a series of compromising pictures, appearing to show him sleeping with […]

Is China ‘House of Cards’ in the Czech Republic Beginning to Wobble?

<!–[CDATA[ Filip Noubel | Global Voices From Tibet to Taiwan, Beijing’s insecurities have often found a stage in faraway Prague Back in 2015, when Czech President Miloš Zeman was the only leader of a European Union member state to attend a military parade in Beijing marking the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, it seemed China and the […]

Why Is the CCP Coronavirus Less Severe in the Czech Republic?

<!–[CDATA[ VISION TIMES The Czech Republic, located in central Europe and bordering the countries of Germany, Austria, and Poland, has reported 23 deaths from the CCP coronavirus as of this writing, which is one of the lowest rates of death in Europe It’s interesting to note that on October 7, 2019, Prague, the capital of […]

Prague, Taipei Sign Sister-City Deal as Shanghai Cuts Ties in Response

<!–[CDATA[ Chung Kuang-cheng  | Radio Free Asia The mayor of the Czech capital has signed a sister-city agreement with Taiwan’s capital Taipei, rejecting China as “an unreliable partner” in the wake of President Tsai Ing-wen’s election victory at the weekend. Prague mayor Zdeněk Hřib, of the anti-establishment Pirate Party, announced the move after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen won […]

Prague, Czech Republic, Ends ‘Sister City’ Relationship With Beijing

Vision Times The capital of the Czech Republic is canceling its sister city agreement with Beijing after disagreements about Prague’s relationship with Taiwan remained an impasse.  On Oct. 4, Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib announced that the relationship would come to an end, as the Chinese Communist Party refused to discuss renegotiating a clause stating that […]

Organ Harvesting in China Assisted by Western Medical Corruption

VISION TIMES China analyst and human-rights investigator Ethan Gutmann gave the following speech at the at the Czech Republic Senat on March 1. His speech was part of the “Persecution of Families in Times of Unfreedom,” event which is part of the Mene Tekel festival in Prague. As the son of two American psychiatrists — […]