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* Gordon G. Chang: Close All China Consulates, Slash Embassy Staff
* Uzay Bulut: Turkey Using Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds?
* Lawrence A. Franklin: How Iran Has Been Attempting to Suppress the Great Hijab Rebellion


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by Gordon G. Chang • November 9, 2022 at 5:00 am
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* Beijing reportedly has... used the station to track Chinese individuals of interest to the regime and, short-circuiting legal procedures, to persuade those Chinese to voluntarily return to China.
* "[T]hey are very bold because they know they can do as they like and the State Department won't do a damn thing." — Maura Moynihan, author, to Gatestone, October 2022.
* Prior to the recent indictments, the U.S. government often let off Chinese agents with only a warning, sometimes because of intervention by the State Department.
* Law enforcement is essential, but it is hardly an answer to China's massive campaigns against the United States.
* One solution is to deny Chinese wrongdoers the safe havens they enjoy in America. China's principal safe heavens are its embassy and consulates.
* [T]he U.S. should also be closing China's non-diplomatic presences — primarily banks and companies — to even out the situation.
* China uses every point of contact to try to bring down America, and American institutions are now being overwhelmed by the onslaught. It may sound drastic to some, but the survival of freedom and democracy in America critically depends on getting the Chinese regime out of the U.S.
* The best way to do that is to expel the military officers, spies, agents, provocateurs and criminals finding protection in China's diplomatic presences in the United States. Nothing else would better communicate resolve to Beijing than getting dangerous Chinese actors off American soil.
* The Biden administration should of course be shutting down the Chinatown police station, as well.

China's regime has established a police station in Manhattan, and reportedly has used it to track Chinese individuals of interest to the regime and, short-circuiting legal procedures, to persuade them to voluntarily return to China. One solution is to deny Chinese wrongdoers the safe havens they enjoy in America. China's principal safe heavens are its embassy and consulates. Pictured: China's consulate in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

Americans in recent weeks have been outraged by reports that China's regime has established a police station on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in Chinatown.

The New York Post last month reported that the IRS-blacklisted ChangLe Association NY Inc., which had failed to file required reports for three consecutive years and thereby lost tax-exempt status in May, still owns and operates a "service station" at 107 East Broadway.

The location houses the Fuzhou Police Overseas Chinese Affairs bureau. The bureau's stated purpose is to help China's nationals with Chinese-government identification cards and drivers' licenses.

Beijing reportedly has also used the station to track Chinese individuals of interest to the regime and, short-circuiting legal procedures, to persuade those Chinese to voluntarily return to China.

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by Uzay Bulut • November 9, 2022 at 5:00 am
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* "I have examined the images and obviously, one of the toxic gasses, poisonous gasses, chemical gasses that directly affect the nervous system has been used." — Şebnem Korur Fincancı, professor of forensic medicine, and president of the Turkish Medical Association, and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, interview with Medya Haber TV, October 2022.
* The question is: If the Turkish army does not use any chemical weapons, why does the Turkish government not allow an independent committee to investigate the claims?
* Turkish prosecutors have not initiated any investigation to find out whether the Turkish military used chemical weapons -- but they have taken legal action against those who have called for an investigation. A lawyer, Aryen Turan, currently being investigated by prosecutors over the speech she delivered on October 22 at an Izmir Bar Association Meeting. "Allegations," she had said, "that the Turkish Armed Forces used chemical weapons against the PKK should be investigated".
* The government of Turkey, which is legally obliged to serve and protect Kurds the same as its other citizens, uses every tool to silence and oppress them and to destroy their political will. Yet, they are the ones accused of being "terrorists" and "criminals".
* The tyrannical political environment in Turkey does not allow any dissenting persons -- particularly Kurds -- to breathe freely. The international organizations and governments urgently need to cease ignoring the Kurds and investigate the allegations regarding the Turkey's use of chemical weapons.

Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a professor of forensic medicine who is also president of the Turkish Medical Association and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, said this month that allegations of the recent use of prohibited chemical weapons by the Turkish military should be examined by independent committees in accordance with the principles of the UN's Minnesota Protocol. In response, on October 26, Fincanci was arrested on charges of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization" and "insulting the Turkish nation, the State of the Republic of Turkey, state institutions and organs." Pictured: Fincancı speaks to journalists on July 17, 2019 in front of Istanbul's courthouse, after the court acquitted her on charges of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization." (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images)

The Kurdish Firat News Agency (ANF) released on October 18 a video showing, according to the ANF, two PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) members suffering from exposure to prohibited chemical weapons being used by the Turkish military. The two individuals were allegedly caught in a Turkish chemical weapons attack in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; they eventually died. "It is seen that the chemical weapon paralyzes the nervous and respiratory systems and causes memory loss," the ANF reported.

The People's Defence Forces (HPG), the military wing of the PKK, claimed that 17 PKK members were killed by Turkey's chemical weapons.

Citing a PKK statement, the ANF report stated that the Turkish Army has used banned bombs and chemical weapons at least 2,476 times within the last six months of its military operation against the Kurdish group.

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by Lawrence A. Franklin • November 9, 2022 at 4:00 am
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* Regime leadership shrewdly did not attempt to suppress the women-led protests in Iran with massive deployments of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and shoot-to-kill orders. Such a response might have run the risk of galvanizing even more Iranian men to join the protests.
* Instead, Tehran dispatched local police units and specially trained civilian, paramilitary Basij units -- the regime's civilian-clad regime protection forces, to engage the protestors. While the Basij are authorized to shoot-to-kill... Basijis also infiltrate the crowds of protestors to identify the ringleaders.
* President Ebrahim Raisi on October 8... was greeted with chants of "Get lost!" Simultaneously the regime was energizing pro-regime members of the student Basij forces to bully students and report on anti-regime campus leaders.
* The tyrannical theocracy's judicial institutions are killing and arresting dissidents, which was filmed at several sites. Many anti-regime activists will most likely be tried in special revolutionary court sham trials, at least 1,000 of which will reportedly be public.... Presumably everyone under arrest will be "found" guilty.
* If the demonstrations gather momentum or spring up in areas once apparently pacified, the regime might finally deploy massive and deadly force to extinguish their unimaginably courageous citizens -- whose "crime" is to be fighting for their freedom from a brutal, tyrannical dictatorship.
* Where are the strong, powerful actions backing up the protestors from the US, President Biden and his apparently pro-Russia, pro-China and pro-despot administration?

Iran's tyrannical theocratic regime is killing and arresting dissidents. Many anti-regime activists will most likely be tried in special revolutionary court sham trials. Where are the strong, powerful actions backing up the protestors from the Biden administration? Pictured: Iranian policemen chase anti-regime protestors and beat them with batons in Tehran, on September 19, 2022. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's security forces have skillfully been trying to prevent the latest series of anti-regime protests from spinning out of control. After decades of suppressing challenges to regime stability, the regime's militias and law enforcement agencies are doubtless hoping to have perfected their strategy and tactics against opposition movements.

After the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, opposition demonstrations exploded across Iran. The "Morals Police" had ostensibly arrested Amini for failing to cover her hair adequately – or "bad hijab."

Women, especially professional women, have long expressed their contempt for the hair-covering mandate ever since the start of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when tens of thousands of them marched in Tehran to denounce the ruling by the newly installed "mullahcracy."

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