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clashes at a protest site in San Francisco and one of our own journalists attacked this man vandalized one of the group's radios he then turned around and took a swing at me this as protesters gathered at ape before President Biden's meeting with the Chinese regime leader a powerful term times two Biden again calling Xi Jinping a dictator that comment in China's latest reactions the Chinese regime is censoring a US Performing Arts group in Korea we bring in the host of ntid's capital report to bring us the details of his investigation there and a pair of iconic bamboo munching Bears could soon return to American soil with a Chinese leader calling Panda onvo of friendship is the so-called pan a diplomacy making a comeback what do you think let us know below and subscribe if you haven't already [Music] welcome to China in Focus I'm Tiffany Meyer before we dive into today's news make sure to use the link down below to subscribe to our newsletter each week we round up the highlights and controversies happening around China and the world and share an exclusive behind the scenes snapshot with our readers keep an eye up the newsletter will land in your inbox Friday morning protesters gathered at the Apex Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday a had President Biden's sit down with the head of the Chinese Communist party they were holding banners calling to end the ccp's persecution of fall gong in China but the event took a turn when an unidentified man started vandalizing the group's equipment and attacked ntid reporter Jason Blair take a look this man vandalized one of the group's radios I then took out my phone and started filming him trying to deter any more vandalism but he still came back and grabbed one of the banners he then turned around and took a swing at me aiming for my phone just then a plane closed police officer restrained him and got him to leave the area the incident unfolded just a few blocks from the mcone center around there are heads of state and CEOs are met for Apec meetings protesters also seized the opportunity to make their voices heard human rights demonstrations started to heat up outside of the hotel where the Chinese regime head is staying on Wednesday a few hundred Pro Tibet protesters marched up Fifth Street in downtown they were shouting from quote shiin ping is not welcome here to down with the CCP and free tiet a few groups of Fallen gone practitioners also held banners there calling to end the ccp's persecution of the practice in China That's until a man likely in his 20s showed up at around 10:00 some Pro CCP group came over here one of them a boy kicked in destroy our speakers he also pulled down one of our banners and assaulted someone that's a crime in the US and we already called the police the proc CCP group is reported to be hired by the New York Chinese Consulate in this case it it definitely felt like he had premeditated this it wasn't like he was walking by and you know got in the spur of the moment the CCP is known for carrying out transnational repression operations on us soil Lar said the attack reminded him of an incident in New York City's flushing neighborhood in 2022 an Asian man attacked information stands that s to shed light on the ccp's persecution of Fallen gong he has since been charged with a hate crime and criminal mischief in the fourth degree in America we have freedom of speech freedom of the press but they don't have the right to you know attack somebody and and and violently try to silence somebody or intimidate someone to not using their right for free speech fallenone also known as Fallen dafa is a peaceful cultivation practice based on the principles of Truth compassion and tolerance the practice gained popularity in China during the 1990s that's until the Chinese regime turned the State against the practice in 1999 and started mass jailing and torturing the group President Biden doubling down on an early comment calling the head of the CCP a dictator while Biden says he's trying to avoid conflicts he also stresses the need to compete with Beijing and counter its aggression entities Iris TAA has more from the FI estate in San Francisco where the US China meeting took place so right before Biden left the press conference it says that the head of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping is a dictator adding that China is a communist countryid after today would you still refer to President Chief as a dictator this is a term that you used earlier well look he is I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he he is a guy who runs a country that is Comm country that's based on former government totally different than ours he also says that he brought up human rights issues China's wrong detainment of US citizens as well as China's aggressive behaviors in the South China Sea and as I always do I raised areas where the United States has concerns about the prc's actions including detained and ex and and exit banned us citizens human rights and corrective uh coercive activities in the South China Sea Biden also says that the US rejects China's non-market practices and th as a senior B Administration official told me that the US is concerned over China's economic coercion toward us allies such as Japan and South Korea the two sides also agreed to resume military to military Communications which were cut off aits but China's aggression is still at the center of the spotlight as the FBI have been warning about a rise in Chinese buy activities here in the US and as there has been some 200 incidents of China's aggressive military actions where pla operators have performed Reckless Maneuvers or discharged chaff or shot off flares or approached too rapidly or too close to US aircraft and thus as Republican presidential candidate Ronda santz warning in a recent op ad that two parties both parties in the US have been treating the CCP like a friendly competitor while in fact it's a hostile Marxist regime that will only continue to steal us technology if the US doesn't act strongly against it reporting in San Francisco Iris to andd news President Biden calling xiin ping a dictator once again and China isn't pleased the Chinese foreign Ministry labeled Biden's remark quote extremely wrong and irresponsible political manipulation on Thursday also in the news the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles reportedly turned its back on the students it hired to welcome she screenshots of group chat conversations posted online said the consulate promised them $400 stipend but students say they only got $100 it also said some students wanted to pull out of participating in the event but were threatened if they tried to leave outside of San Francisco the Chinese Embassy has announced a report suggesting a heightening us China rivalry a Washington advisory panel made that conclusion after examining rounds of highle talks between the two superpowers in the last year and the report was released just one day before President Biden's meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San Francisco the commission says that not only has China yet to take steps to better relations the regime is also mobilizing its resources to advance Global dominance from building up its military to running influence operations on us soil all of which make Beijing a top National Security rival according to the panel the only Only Way Forward is long-term strategic competition American Business Leaders applauding a propaganda speech by Chinese Communist Regime leader Xi Jinping a member of Congress is now demanding answers saying she commits genocide against innocent people and's Aran pusar has more hundreds of American Business Leaders gave Chinese communist leader xiin ping a standing ovation after a speech on Wednesday night that's even though he offered no hints of concessions to business business the speech was propaganda at its finest that's according to a business executive who spoke with the Wall Street Journal on condition of anonimity Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher told the journal that it's unethical for Americans to celebrate a regime committing genocide against millions of innocent men women and children in Jin Jang among the attendees of the dinner were Executives from Apple Black Rock fiser FedEx Boeing and many others some of them paid over $40,000 just to sit at the same table as the Communist dictator something Gallagher today criticized heavily he now wants the organizers of the dinner to release the names of all attendees Arian pastar NTD news during the dinner with major US Business Leaders a number of absences have raised some eyebrows in a 2015 visit xiin ping invited Jack ba founder of Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba to join him but this time barely any Chinese entrepreneurs were present at the dinner despite being hosted nearby Silicon Valley US tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg also didn't attend just stay after saying farewell a pair of iconic black and white Bears May soon be returning to the US during a dinner speech with Business Leaders in San Francisco Wednesday Chinese Communist Regime leader Xi Jinping said China is ready to continue cooperation with the US on Panda conservation calling the Bears envoys a friendship he went on to say he was told that Californians were looking forward to welcoming pandas back hinting that the next couple of Bears might end up in the states San Diego Zoo beijing's panda lending program has long been seen as a form of soft diplomacy the Bears are loaned out to Nations friendly to China for certain lengths of time and withheld as punishment for going against Beijing Three Pandas at Washington's national zoo returned to China last week that's after Beijing remained silent on renewing its Panda contract which expires in early December San Diego Bid Farewell to its pandas back in 2019 while the Bears staying at the Memphis Tennessee zoo returned to China this year just four are left in the US but they too are expected to leave the Atlanta Zoo when their visiting contract expires late next year a surprising influx of Chinese Nationals crossing the border legally is Raising concerns from lawmakers nd's Molina Weiss cup reports from Capitol Hill for the third year in a row the US has hit a record high number of apprehensions at the border 2.4 million in 20123 and that's not including the number of people who evaded border patrol and many say they are the most dangerous one Chinese Nationals were apprehended at a rate of 24,000 in 2023 that's 12 times more than last year and a 7,000 per increase from 2021 I mean a lot of them are military AED guys with former uh ties not only to the CCP but also the people's Liberation Army the pla that's not to say that if we were to defend Taiwan against a Chinese Invasion there weren't sabors wouldn't be sabots here Chinese Nationals on average pay $75,000 to be smuggled into the United States and it makes you wonder where they get that money special interest aliens from China what are they doing here are they being directed is there some larger intelligence and when FBI director Christopher Ray was asked specifically about this issue he pointed to the non-traditional tactics that are used by the CCP to undermine our national security there are individuals uh who are affiliated with the Chinese government who are at the subject of Investigations that we have here and some of those are people that we're searching for Ray was also pressed on a different point specifically the threat of Hamas related terrorists in the United States congresswoman margorie Taylor green pressed the agency to do more to investigate the issue and this hearing comes at a time when the committee is pressing forward to hold second impeachment vote on DHS secretary May workus the chairman of the committee Mark green tells me that they're aiming to have this vote by the end of the year reporting from Capitol Hill Molina weup NTD news next we shift to South Korea there the Chinese regime is censoring a Performing Arts company based in the US capital report host Steve Lance just returned from Soul where he and our Korean news Bureau dug deeper nd's Evelyn Lee spoke to Steve to hear more on what he found so it wasn't just what we're seeing this year it's been kind of a cumulation effect uh there have been reports shenin has traveled to South Korea performed before but over the years things have gradually gotten worse for them uh in 2016 uh KBS the largest broadcasting uh uh platform in South Korea owns one of the nicest theaters there and Shen Yun had sold out shows and just two days before they they were perform soldout performances they were cancelled and so that that initially caught our attention cancelling a soldout show just doesn't make any sense and so we went there to investigate and you know the things that we found after talking to uh multiple people uh even an official from the Chinese Embassy in Soul uh really lifted the uh the curtain here as to what's taking place how strong of a grip do you think does a CCP have on Korea since you mentioned that it's been years well yeah I mean to that point um when we first arrived we actually uh had a phone number for a CCP official uh from the embassy and we we called him to find out uh exactly what the the the Chinese Communist part's policy is specifically with regard to what they're doing with influencing South Korean officials and government and uh private businesses to cancel shenin and he was open and told us their their stance and what they do and that they will continue to do it so I think that that actually speaks to the fact that the CCP is just so emboldened in South Korea uh let alone that you know they don't take our phone calls here when we when we call for uh you know inquiring about issues but yet he picked up my phone knew who I was continued to talk to me and told me straight out what their policy is so I think that that kind of speaks volumes right there that's all for today's China info get 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for watching China in Focus I'm Tiffany Meyer see you tomorrow