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China's Quad-G Plan For Global Hegemony Involves The UN And AI Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, The regime in China denies that it has plans for "hegemony or expansion," but its history - from the peasant land seizures of the 1920s to claims on the entire South China Sea today - is replete with land grabs and territorial expansion. Starting in 2021 with its first of four global initiatives, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used ideas for such initiatives and Beijing-led international organizations as engines to extend its...

'Digital ID Checks For All': Ofcom's Plan For UK's Under-16 Social Media Ban Puts Adults In The Age-Check Line Too Privacy campaigners have argued for months that this is where an age ban ends up. In March, Big Brother Watch titled a post "A social media ban for under-16s = digital ID checks for all" and argued that because the alternatives are intrusive and unreliable, ID would be required in many millions of cases. "All of the online age verification options are highly invasive and the biometric and behavioural profiling...

South Korea Gives Almonty's Major Tungsten Mine Final Green Light To Supply The West Bloomberg reports that Almonty Industries has secured final administrative approval from South Korean authorities to commercially process tungsten at its Sangdong mine. The approval positions Sangdong to begin supplying major Western customers and accelerate supply chain decoupling from China for the critical industrial metal. As Beijing restricts tungsten exports, the West's looming rearmament cycle adds urgency to securing conflict-free supplies. South Korea granted Almonty inspection certificates last Thursday that authorize commercial operation of Sangdong's processing plant and...