Beijing Weaponizes Health Care and Mobile Apps to Target Individuals: Expert
The communist regime in China uses health care and mobile apps as weapons against political dissent, according to an expert on China and the Indo-Pacific. Cleo Paskal, an associate fellow at Chatham House, said that lessons could be learned from China’s neighbors—particularly India and the Solomon Islands—in understanding the threats posed by the Chinese Communist […]
The communist regime in China uses health care and mobile apps as weapons against political dissent, according to an expert on China and the Indo-Pacific. Cleo Paskal, an associate fellow at Chatham House, said that lessons could be learned from China’s neighbors—particularly India and the Solomon Islands—in understanding the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in a recent interview on Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “It is understanding how invasive and destructive and coercive the mentality of the Chinese Communist Party is—in terms of an individual’s right to think anything they want or believe anything they want, is imperative for understanding what we’re dealing with,” she said. “In a Chinese-run world or Chinese-influenced world, health care is used as a weapon to punish political dissidents.” Paskal pointed to the example of Daniel Suidani, the premier of Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands and a prominent China critic. ...
