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Posts published in “Day: May 26, 2016

Don’t let China carry out illegal operations on foreign soil, daughter of missing Hong Kong bookseller urges US panel By Phila Siu in South China Morning Post, May 25, 2016

The daughter of detained publisher Gui Minhai took her fight for her father’s release to Washington on Tuesday, calling on the international community to confront Beijing and accusing Chinese agents of abducting the publisher on foreign soil. Testifying at a US Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing, Angela Gui also confirmed a Post report that the Chinese government had told the Swedish authorities of her father’s wish to give up his Swedish citizenship, raising suspicions about…

Degree of dishonesty: Authorities urged to take action on fake universities that continue to proliferate Global Times, May 24, 2016

Ahead of this year’s national college entrance examinations, which falls on June 7 and 8, sdaxue.com, a website that provides guidance to students applying to Chinese universities, has revealed another 73 fake universities. Such schools typically include “Beijing,” “China” or “Capital” in their names in an attempt to fool applicants into thinking they are more prestigious schools. Among the 73 fake universities in 16 provinces and regions, 23 are located in Beijing and seven are…

House Lawmakers Blast Saudi Arabia for Spreading Extremism BY JOHN HUDSON in Foreign Policy, MAY 24, 2016

Several House lawmakers angrily accused the Saudi government of stoking extremism as they considered a new Senate bill Tuesday to allow victims of the 9/11 terror attacks to sue the oil-rich monarchy. It was the latest sign of Capitol Hill’s growing frustration with the Saudi kingdom, which lawmakers criticized for financing the spread of Wahhabism, an ultraconservative form of Islam. “The Saudis and the Saudi royal family have been right up to their eyeballs in…