Sharon's Straight Talk: Recent Episodes
David Bu
I’ve lived and worked in many parts of the world, including mainland China, the United States, Hong Kong and England. I worked for leading financial institutions for nearly 20 years and was involved in international media companies for over 10 years. While I haven’t a clue where my next destination is going to be, as we navigate the crazy times today when truth often gets buried under political correctness and when narratives are increasingly set by the big media, I hope to offer a voice of reason, and bring to you relevant facts and analyses to consider so you can form well-informed opinions.
A popular Chinese restaurant Haidilao had a disturbing secret. What about other Chinese restaurants?
Has China gone too far with India this time? Why does India find China's offer to help suspicious?
Why did China drop Oscars coverage? How did Hollywood's major studios change plot to please the CCP?
China's Belt Road Initiative has turned into DEBT Road Initiative. Montenegro is the newest victim.
Concerns about Chinese vaccine efficacy are rising. Chinese vaccine diplomacy may be backfiring.
China's covert plan of banning bitcoin and supporting overseas crypt exchanges like Huobi.
China takes over social media with paid posts, keyboard warriors; erodes UK Chinese-language media.
17 private schools were already sold to Chinese and many more may be in the pipeline. You will learn interesting but alarming stories about who the buyers are, who is behind them, why they are buying schools, and their possible plans for their purchases.
Elon Musk opened Tesla Gigaplant in Shanghai in the middle of a fierce US-China Trade War. He did so against the warnings of his own government. Watch and find out the harsh terms that Elon Musk was forced to sign up to with the Chinese government. Like many other CEOs, Musk was deeply drawn to the opportunities offered by the vast Chinese market. And everything seemed to be going well, until last month. Early February, in a surprising move, five Chinese government bodies joined forces and demanded that Tesla abides by Chinese laws. Tesla was even accused of spying on the Chinese for the US army. Will innovation and efficiency be enough for Tesla to win the hearts of the Chinese government? Can Elon Musk succeed in one of the trickiest places to do business in the world?
H&M and other Western brands are boycotted in China for rejecting Xinjiang cotton over forced labor.
Did you know our DNA has the power to cause changes outside of our body? that our DNA may not be the only place to store our genetic codes? Also, did you know positive emotions may change DNA and physical distance cannot stop the effect?
I’d really like to share with you some ground-breaking scientific experiments on DNA. You may find that they are not taught or discussed in schools or in the media much. Some people feel that it is because these findings challenge the conventional wisdom and status quo.
Director Xu Bing made history when he produced the first film ever in the world without any actors or camera crews.
We all know the saying there are only two things you can’t avoid in life: death and taxes. But in China, surveillance camera has become the third thing that haunts people from cradle to grave.
And guess what, with huge investments in artificial intelligence and big data, those cameras are doing a lot more than just recording.
I will show you the terrifying technology that China is using to watch and control people. This could be our future if technology and data are misused or fall into the wrong hands.
For years, Jack Ma was untouchable. He was the richest man in China, the Chinese Jeff Bezos, who built from scratch a business empire worth hundreds of billions.
His Ant Group was slated to be the world’s largest IPO ever, looking to raise $35 billion.
He was the new face of China, a living proof that entrepreneurs and free enterprises still thrive under the communist government.
Until two months ago.
So what happened to him? His story of rising and falling is nothing short of epic. As the rest of the world has set its eyes on China, his story has become more relevant to all of us than you might think.
How Western Mainstream Media in the US, have fallen to where they are now?
And how Chinese President Xi Jinping stole the freedom of speech from the Republic?
We received this sad news that acclaimed British pianist Fou Ts’ong died of coronavirus at the age of 86 in London this week.
Mr. Fou is one of the first Chinese-born soloists to achieve international stardom. He had won numerous international awards. He was particularly revered for his interpretation of Chopin.
Major data leaked from China. The lid of how the Chinese Communist Party operates in the West has been lifted. Britain heavily infiltrated. A story of a leading UK university headed by a Chinese senior CCP member, and you heard it here first.
John Ratcliffe did something unprecedented on the 3rd of December. He provided an intel briefing to the American public on the biggest national threat--China.
Communist China wants to dominate the earth in the economy, military, and technology, through rob, replicate and replace.
China’s communist regime has no ethical boundaries and has been testing on humans to create soldiers with enhanced abilities, and using biotech as part of its unrestricted warfare.
Lines between civilians and military blurred. Redcliffe preps America for serious actions against the Communist Regime in the near future.