European and Japanese legislators call for the release of a Chinese citizen arrested for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual practice heavily persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Ding Yuande and his wife, Ma Rumei, were illegally detained on May 12 in Shandong Province along with roughly 70 Falun Gong practitioners. The detentions were part of a mass arrest campaign for the 24th anniversary of World Falun Dafa Day, celebrated annually on May 13, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center. Their son, Ding Lebin, a Berlin resident, immediately started an advocacy campaign for the release of his parents. The International Society for Human Rights—a nongovernmental organization in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council—wrote to the Chinese ambassador to Germany, the former Chinese foreign minister, and CCP officials, urging for the release of the couple. Volunteers with the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) also called the detention center, requesting they be freed....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/falun-gong/international-campaign-seeks-the-release-of-persecuted-falun-gong-adherent-in-china-5501950
Meta shut down over 8,000 social media accounts covertly run by China which targeted the UK, a new EU transparency report has revealed. The Facebook and Instagram profiles were part of network being coordinated in Bejing, according to the data disclosed by the social media giant. “One or more” of the 930 Facebook pages identified by Meta had amassed more than 560,000 followers, according to its report published by the European Commission. Over 7,700 Facebook accounts were identified and shut down by Meta from April to May this year, along with 15 groups and 15 Instagram accounts for “inauthentic behaviour.” Meta said in its EU report: “This network originated in China and targeted many regions around the world, including Taiwan, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and global Chinese-speaking audiences.... 
From Yunnan, one of the poorest provinces in China, and 30 years ago, an impoverished w0man sold her own child and then abducted a dozen other children to sell over three years. A local court recently sentenced her to death. On Sept. 18, a court in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, accused Yu Huaying and her partner of abducting 11 children from 1993 to 1996 in Guizhou Province and Chongqing city, then selling them to Handan and another place in north China’s Hebei Province. The 60-year-old woman confessed that she started the human trafficking business with her biological child for a transaction price of 5,000 yuan (about $684). Since then, she has never found out what happened to the child, according to state media....
After Japanese air-conditioning giant Daikin and technology giant Sony left China, Japanese media reported that Mitsubishi Motors may cease production in China. In recent years, Japanese companies have left China one after another. Experts believe that as geopolitical tensions intensify, the”political cold yet economic hot” relations between Japan and China will change. Japan’s key supply chains will gradually separate from China, derisking in the short term and decoupling from China in the long term. Mitsubishi Motors has been reported that it may end its car production in China and is discussing exiting with local joint venture partner Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC). Mitsubishi Motors responded that the company is “discussing future plans” with the shareholders of the joint venture, and “no decision has been made yet.”...