"No war in China" campaigners may be foreign agents: NYT
"No war in China" campaigners may be foreign agents: NYT
Nury Vittachi

"No war in China" campaigners may be foreign agents: NYT

Peace groups campaigning against a US war on China might be paid foreign agents, the New York Times alleged.

But the allegation triggered a backlash from readers shocked at what some people are calling a neo-McCarthyist stance. In a separate story, a senior HSBC executive has been forced to apologise after he said that the UK should defend its own interests rather than simply accepting US instructions to harm China. And in a related tale, the EU admits that it made a mistake in accepting vassal status to the US in areas such as technology instead of developing an independent tech ecosystem, like China did.

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Nury Vittachi

Nury Vittachi is the editor of Fridayeveryday.com, a new media and events group based in Hong Kong. He wrote the comedy-crime novel series The Feng Shui Detective as well as non-fiction works and novels for children.

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