China's reported overseas police service stations and their operations to persuade citizens to return to the homeland mark a dangerous expansion of the regime’s international reach, according to a human rights advocate. Safeguard Defenders, a pan-Asian human rights organization, published an investigation last month detailing a Chinese campaign to combat "fraud and telecom fraud" crimes committed by its citizens living abroad.The report indicated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has established at least 54 police stations across 30 different countries, including the U.S. "I think it shows how brazen the CCP is getting and how little regard they have for other governments," Laura Harth, Safeguard Defenders' campaign manager, told Fox News.
SHINee’s Key asks Conan Gray to join K-pop agency SM Entertainment
19.09.2022 - 13:41 / nme.com
Conan Gray recently journeyed through K-pop agency SM Entertainment’s building with a tour led by SHINee’s Key.In a new video released on SHINee’s official YouTube channel, Gray paid a visit to the K-pop agency’s headquarters while he was in South Korea for the Haus of Wonder Festival last month. The ‘Maniac’ singer met up with SHINee member and soloist Key, who led him on a tour of SM Entertainment’s building.“I’ve heard about [SM] obviously, so many of the greats have been created here,” said Gray, who shared that it was also his first time in South Korea.“Please do sign a contract with our company,” said Key, gifting the singer with a key pass to the building before commencing their tour.
The idol first showed Gray to a room called the “artist’s house”, where SM artists hold their livestreams before heading to the agency’s in-house photobooth, cafe and music rooms, along with its recording and practice studios.“It’s nice, I’m gonna move in,” comments the singer at one point, to which Key responded by asking him to join the agency again.At the end of the tour, Gray compared the K-pop’s agency’s process to his own music-making experience in the US. “It was so different from the way I make my music, so it was interesting to see the way you guys made such a gigantic world of K-pop over here,” he said, promising to return to South Korea “hopefully very very soon”.Key later gifted Gray with a vinyl copy of his 2021 mini-album ‘Bad Love’, which had been his last release before his second studio album ‘Gasoline’ arrived late last month.In a four-star review of the record, NME’s Tanu I.
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China still benefits from Russia relationship, even with international reputation at risk: experts
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Elon Musk Reveals Plan to Fold Twitter Into ‘X,’ a Super-App Modeled After China’s WeChat
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‘American Horror Story: New York City’ Gets FX Premiere Date, Key Art
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