Beijing-based Nuctech is known as “the Huawei of airport security.” But will it face the same backlash?
On December 19, 2016, during a routine inspection of a foreign shipping container, customs officials in Melbourne noticed a suspicious blip on their x-ray scanner.
The container had arrived from South Africa carrying industrial mining equipment and an “anomaly” inside one of the machines — an iron-ore extractor — led to a physical inspection. Concealed within the extractor, inside a seven-inch-thick metal crate lined with charcoal, were 358 one-kilogram packages of cocaine and m
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Bob Fu's relationship with China has gone through phases. First, he thought money would solve his problems there; then he joined protesters at Tiananmen Square, thinking the politics could change. In the end, he determined, only God could save China, and he's been fighting for religious freedom in China ever since he resettled in Texas. With his nonprofit, ChinaAid, prospering like never before, he says the U.S. is finally catching on.
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