China Using Military to Illegally ‘Push’ Nations Out of International Waters: Rep. WittmanCommunist China is illegally using its military to expand its territory and force neighboring nations away from natural resources, according to one congressman. Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), who serves on the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said that the regime is using military facilities to dominate the nations of Southeast Asia and to undermine American influence. “China’s intent is to impede and weaken the United States,” Mr. Wittman said during a Sept. 28 interview with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. “They are almost over the top in their aggressiveness.” Mr. Wittman’s comments follow several high-profile incidents involving China in the South China Sea last month....

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The World Bank has cut China’s growth forecast as the world’s second-largest economy faces multiple issues, ranging from ongoing property crisis to weakening domestic demand and deflation, which is dragging down the economy. The report, released on Oct. 1, lowered China’s gross domestic product growth forecast for 2024 to 4.4 percent, down from 4.8 percent in its April forecast. The World Bank expects China’s GDP growth in 2023 to stand at 5.1 percent, slightly aligning with other surveys of 5 percent for the year. It also cut the 2024 growth forecast for developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific, including China, to 4.5 percent, compared with 4.8 percent in April....

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Universities Group Head Says Canadian Research Programs Cleared of China RisksCanadian research programs have now been cleared of security risks posed by China, a university association executive told MPs at a House of Commons committee. This claim follows security alerts about research partnerships with Chinese technology firms and a military academy. “We hear about potential threats, we hear about attempts to influence and so on and we take them very, very seriously,” said Chad Gaffield, chief executive officer of U15, an association representing Canada’s top 15 research universities. During his testimony at the House science committee, he further asserted that the measures implemented to mitigate security risks associated with Beijing “are working,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter....

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Chinese Authorities 'Actually Want to Get Rid of the Uyghurs,' Says Rights AdvocateChina’s communist regime is effectively using a “misinformation campaign” to put a patina of palatability on its genocide, according to Omer Kanat, the executive director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. The misinformation includes scripted foreign dignitary visits to what the regime calls the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” and a trickle of visits abroad by muzzled Uyghurs who are instructed only to say good things about Xinjiang. Meanwhile, the regime is relocating hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs from reeducation camps, where they are put through a brainwashing program, to state prisons and forced labor factories where they can work over 10 hours per day in addition to political indoctrination sessions....

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