ISRAEL UPDATE:
Israeli Knesset Dispersed, Lapid Is Prime Minister from Midnight: Gadi Zaig and Eliav Breuer, Jerusalem Post, June 30, 2022 — The 24th Knesset voted to disperse on Thursday morning in a 92-0 vote and to hold the next election on November 1.
Interview: How Much Is China Helping Russia Finance Its War in Ukraine?: Reid Standish, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, June 26, 2022
China’s Latest Power Grab Threatens Entire Pacific: Lawrence A. Franklin, Gatestone Institute, May 23, 2022
Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed from China: Emily Baker White, BuzzFeed News, June 17, 2022
Canada Naive in the Face of China’s Infiltration and Disinformation Campaigns: Expert: Andrew Chen, The Epoch Times, June 8, 2022
For Further Reference:
TikTok Is China’s Trojan Horse: John Mac Ghlllionn, National Review, June 16, 2021 — More than one in three Americans believe that Joe Biden is weak on China. With the president recently opting to revoke a Trump-era attempt to ban Chinese-owned apps, their beliefs appear to be valid.
Chinese Staff Can Access TikTok’s US Data: Report: Times of India staff, Times of India, June 20, 2022 – India’s decision to ban the Chinese short-form video app TikTok on security concerns, and former US President Donald Trump’s threats to do so may have been well founded.
China Starting Next Global Crisis By Gobbling Up Sri Lanka: Gordon G. Chang, Gatestone Institute, May 20, 2022 — On May 12, India confirmed that it would provide a desperate Sri Lankan government 65,000 metric tons of urea, pursuant to an existing $1 billion credit line. The sale, which overrides New Delhi’s ban on the exports of the commodity, relieves severe pressure on the government of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Marco Rubio, US Senator for Florida: Press Release, June 16, 2022 — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Dr. Lawrence Bacow, President of Harvard University, regarding a potential quid pro quo agreement in which officials from the real estate company, Evergrande, which has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, donated $115 million to Harvard Medical School in exchange for access to influential American virology experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, who were studying the origins of COVID-19. Just days after Harvard received the donation, Harvard-linked virology experts, some of whom had previously hypothesized that the virus may have been engineered in and leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, privately and publicly condemned and erroneously discounted the possibility that the virus may have emerged as a result of a research-related incident at the state-run Wuhan Institute of Virology.
