Hong Kong

Months after the owner of the Pro-democracy “Apple Daily” newspaper in Hong Kong’s owner Jimmy Lai was arrested and a week after other executives were arrested, the newspaper printed an extraordinary 1 million copies of their final edition. The publication usually prints 80,000 copies. Long lines had already formed outside newspaper stands shortly after midnight.

Is this the final nail in the coffin of Hong Kong’s democratic values?

In the second hour, we are excited to have Founder/Director of the Trends Research Institute and Publisher of the weekly Trends Journal magazine Gerald Celente.

‘Forbidden Fruit’: Apple Daily, Pro-Democracy Newspaper in Hong Kong, Is Forced to Close
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/world/asia/apple-daily-hong-kong.html

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily signs off in “painful farewell”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-security-apple-daily/hong-kong-pro-democracy-paper-apple-daily-to-print-last-edition-on-thursday-idUSKCN2DZ0BR

Gordon G Chang on Chinese politics: “Xi is probably a lot weaker than we have been led to believe…when you have this amount of internal infighting, it could very well spell the end of the Communist Party.”
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1407375738291081219

Has a top Chinese official defected to the US with Wuhan lab secrets? Rumors swirl vice minister of State Security fled Beijing in February with information that sparked Biden u-turn on COVID origins
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9699221/Has-Chinese-official-defected-Rumors-swirl-diplomat-told-DC-Wuhan-lab.html

Feds Shoot Down Rumor China’s Missing Spymaster Defected to U.S.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-shoot-down-rumor-chinas-missing-spymaster-dong-jingwei-defected-to-us

White House says China risks isolation by opposing virus origin probe
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/21/china-risks-isolation-opposing-virus-origin-probe-/

Grains analyst missing as China shuts down information on failed crop
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-17/missing-china-grains-analyst/100219524

Google’s reported ties to Wuhan linked scientist points to one of the ‘biggest scandals’ of our time: Hilton
https://www.foxnews.com/media/google-ties-to-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-daszak

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Defector’s Identity Confirmed, Was Top Counterintelligence Official
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/06/17/breaking-chinese-defector-confirmed-as-top-counterintelligence-official-n398374

Please! Someone Set Biden Straight on China ‘Squeezing’ Russia
https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2021/06/20/please-someone-set-biden-straight-on-china-squeezing-russia/

Visualizing 50 Years Of Global Steel Production
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/visualizing-50-years-global-steel-production

Turn Off, Drop Out: Why Young Chinese Are Abandoning Ambition
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000407/turn-off%2C-drop-out-why-young-chinese-are-abandoning-ambition

Parliaments in Czech Republic and Belgium Pass Motion Condemning Beijing’s Crimes Against Uyghurs
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/parliaments-czech-republic-and-belgium-pass-motion-condemning-beijings-crimes-against

“There Is A Serious Possibility China Will Occupy A Taiwanese Island”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/there-serious-possibility-china-seeks-occupy-taiwanese-island

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