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CHINA-LEADERSHIP: GUANGMING DAILY PRAISES XI JINPING THOUGHT A lengthy article by Dong Zhenhua, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Philosophy Professor of the National School of Administration Department of the Central Party School in Guangming Daily (January 8) captioned: 'Persevere and cast your soul with great ideas' asserted that "A country and a nation cannot be without a soul.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: CHINA ISSUES WHITE PAPER ON FOREIGN AID China's State Council Information Office issued a White Paper on January 10, titled "China's International Development Cooperation in the New Era". The 8-chapter 45-page White Paper outlined areas where China would provide aid including the BRI.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S MINISTRY OF COMMERCE ISSUES ORDER TO COUNTERACT EFFECTS OF ANY UNJUSTIFIED FOREIGN LEGISLATION China's Ministry of Commerce issued Order No. 1 of 2021 on January 9, 2021, for the purpose of counteracting the impact on China caused by unjustified extra-territorial application of foreign legislation and other measures, safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations of China.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: XI JINPING ORDERS PLA TO 'FOCUS ON PREPARATIONS FOR WAR' AND BE 'READY TO FIGHT AT ANY TIME' Xinhua (January 4) and Newsweek (January 4) separately reported that the recent military orders that Beijing issued appear to suggest that China might be preparing to launch a war in the South China Sea or Taiwan or against U.S. military targets.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER RETURNS TO BASE The PLA Navy aircraft carrier 'Shandong' returned to the Sanya Naval Base on January 7, 2021.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: TAIWAN INSTITUTE SAYS CHINA HAS ADDED "BRAIN DOMINANCE" TO ITS "THREE WARFARES" STRATEGY The Taipei Times said (January 6) that Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research said in its latest 200-page report titled '2020 Annual Assessment of the People’s Republic of China’s Political and Military Developments' on Chinese political and military developments that Chinese academics have added: “brain dominance” to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s traditional “three warfares” strategy: public opinion warfare, psychological warfare and legal warfare.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: US SECRETARY OF STATE ANNOUNCES LIFTING OF ALL RESTRICTIONS ON CONTACTS BY US GOVERNMENT WITH TAIWAN US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced (January 10) the lifting of all restrictions on contacts with Taiwan by any arm of the US Government. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan foreign Minister both promptly welcomed the announcement.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN'S POPULATION SHRANK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2020 Taiwan government data showed that Taiwan’s population shrank for the first time ever in 2020, and it faces a burgeoning demographic crisis similar to those affecting South Korea and Japan.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-TIBET: TIBET TIMES REPORTS ARREST OF 18 TIBETANS FOR 'SEPARATIST' ACTIVITIES A report in Tibet Times disclosed (January 7) that Tsona Dzong (County) arrested 18 Tibetans on the charges of separatism on January 2 from Shingyon village, Tsonga Dzong, Lhoka (in Chinese: Shannan). 11 of those arrested are females and 7 are males.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-MIDDLE EAST: FORMER CHINESE DIPLOMAT'S ASSESSMENT OF SITUATION IN MIDDLE EAST IN 2021 Liu Baolai, former Ambassador to the UAE and Jordan, former Vice President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and presently a senior researcher at the China Foundation for International Studies (CFIS), wrote an article titled “The Middle East: inscrutable in 2021", in Guojiwang on January 6, 2021.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE POLITBURO MEMBER YANG JIECHI IS SCHEDULED TO VISIT WASHINGTON THIS WEEK An article in the Wall Street Journal (January 9) revealed that Politburo member and former Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is scheduled to visit Washington this week.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING PRESIDES OVER POLITBURO STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING Xinhua reported (January 7) that the Politburo Standing Committee held a day-long meeting on January 7 to listen to the work reports of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Supreme People’s Court, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the work of the Central Secretariat report.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING SIGNS CMC ORDER NO:1 OF 2021 ORDERING TRAINING MOBILISATION OF ENTIRE PLA AND PAP On January 4, Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, signed the Central Military Commission’s Order No. 1 of 2021, issuing a training mobilization order to the entire army.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NATIONAL PROPAGANDA MINISTERS MEETING HELD IN BEIJING ON JANUARY 6 The Global Times (Chinese version - January 7) reported that the state-owned CCTV (January 6) had covered the meeting of the National Propaganda Ministers held in Beijing on January 6.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP ISSUES NEW RULES FOR CCP MEMBERS Xinhua disclosed (January 5) that the CCP had issued a new rule book for CCP members on January 4, which said that cadres can make complaints about their superiors but are prohibited from airing them in public. China Daily (January 5) said the rules list 13 rights of CCP members.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT ISSUES NEW RULE BOOK Xinhua (January 5) reported that the CCP CC had issued a circular confirming the revisions comprising 14 Chapters and 61 Articles approved at a meeting of the CCP CC Political Bureau in November 2020.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CDIC ANNOUNCES FOUR "TIGERS" EXPELLED FROM PARTY AND REMANDED FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION On January 4, the Central Discipline Inspection Commission/National Supervisory Commission official website announced that Deng Huilin, Deputy Mayor of Chongqing, had been expelled from the party, sacked, and remanded to the Procuratorate for a criminal investigation.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ALL-CHINA WOMEN'S FEDERATION COMPLAINS AT LOW REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSTS The All-China Women’s Federation, recently said that women comprise 37.5 per cent of the 4 million members of the Party’s neighbourhood and village committees, which enforce Party mandates and maintain social order. But, the higher women move up the rungs of government hierarchy, the fewer their female peers.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: CHINA'S BLOGGERS AND NETIZENS SEVERELY CRITICISE MAO'S "GO TO THE COUNTRYSIDE" MOVEMENT On December 22, the Chinese Academy of History, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), published a highly controversial 4,000-character article entitled "Being Down to Earth, Youth Without Regrets! Educated youth going to the countryside is a great feat to promote social progress!".
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA'S HIGHEST POST ON SINO-INDIAN BORDER IS AT GAMBA OPPOSITE NORTH SIKKIM Global Times (January 4) said the state-owned CCTV had revealed (January 3) that China's military post at the highest altitude in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) was the Gamba Post north of Sikkim at an altitude of 5,592 meters.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: NEW BOX-TYPE ROCKETS TO BE DEPLOYED IN TIBET According to the Chinese Media Observer network, a new box-type rocket launcher has been inducted in the PLA.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA ROCKET FORCE (PLARF)'S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ON DECEMBER 31, 2020 On the fifth anniversary of the PLA Rocket Force (PLARF) on December 31, 2020, Bayi TV, a subsidiary of the Chinese military media "China Military Network," launched five short films, which showed conventional warheads, short-range, medium-range, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and long-range cruise missiles.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-HEALTH: CHINA DENIES VISAS TO 10-MEMBER W.H.O. TEAM TO ENQUIRE INTO ORIGINS OF PANDEMIC Asia Times reported (January 6) that China had denied visas to a 10-member WHO team leaving for China to enquire into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was quoted saying he was "shocked" by the visa ban.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-TIBET: TIBETANS-IN-EXILE VOTE FOR NEW TIBETAN PARLIAMENT Several thousand Tibetans in exile voted on January 3, 2021, in the first round of the two-round elections for the President (Sikyong) and the parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration. This primary round was to elect candidates for the two offices, with the main elections to be held on Sunday, April 11, 2021.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG POLICE ARREST 50 MORE HONGKONG OPPOSITION LEGISLATORS AND ACTIVISTS Hongkong Police arrested dozens of Hong Kong’s opposition lawmakers and activists on January 6, morning under a major National Security Law operation, with local media reporting as many as 50 were being detained.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REVEALS PLAN TO HOLD SECOND ROUND OF CLOSED-DOOR TALKS WITH TAIWAN ON JANUARY 7 The South China Morning Post (January 6) reported that in a rare move, the US State Department made public the schedule of the closed-door talks, to be held online at 6.30 pm on January 6, in Washington (7.30 am Thursday in Taipei) with Clarke Cooper, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, among those taking part.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE NEWS PORTAL CLAIMS INDIAN GOVERNMENT HAS INFORMALLY ASKED FOREIGN AIRLINES NOT TO FLY IN CHINESE NATIONALS Well-known Chinese news site NetEase reported on December 28, that, according to multiple Indian media sources, the Indian government has informally asked all airlines not to fly in any Chinese customers. It said this includes domestic airlines as well as foreign airlines.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-INDIA: SENIOR CHINESE RESEARCHER WARNS INDIA OF CONSEQUENCES OF GETTING CLOSER TO U.S. Zhao Gancheng, a senior researcher at the Shanghai Institute of International Studies posted an article on China's social media on January 3, where he said: "The downward trend in Sino-Indian relations does not seem to be over yet".
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE REPORT RIOTS IN WASHINGTON WITH GLEE China's state-owned CCTV on January 5 telecast a programme on the rioting in Washington DC with the caption: "Pressure recording reveals that Trump still wants to "turnover" Will Washington become a "battlefield"?
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-US: NYSE BACKTRACKS ON PLAN TO DELIST SHARES OF CHINESE TELECOM GIANTS Bloomberg reported (January 5) that, in a surprise move, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it will no longer delist China’s three biggest state-owned telecommunications companies, backtracking on its earlier decision.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER IN LONDON CALLS FOR ENHANCED TIES In an Op-Ed published by London’s Daily Telegraph, George Brandis, Australia’s High Commissioner in London and former senior Australian government minister, offered sharp observations on the significance of the dispute between Canberra and Beijing that intensified over the course of 2020 and saw China restrict a raft of Australian exports.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-AFGHANISTAN: AFGHANISTAN ALLOWS 10 CHINESE SPIES TO LEAVE BY CHARTERED CHINESE AIRCRAFT The 10 Chinese nationals caught on December 10, for operating a terror cell in the capital city of Kabul have been allowed by the Afghan authorities to leave the country on January 3.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: YEAR END REVIEW BY CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI A Chinese Foreign Ministry press release reported Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's speech on December 11, 2020, at the opening ceremony of the Symposium on the International Situation and China's Foreign Relations in 2020 in Beijing entitled "China's Diplomacy in the Midst of Once-in-a-Century Changes and Pandemic: Being Responsible to the Country and Doing its Part for the World".
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-AGRICULTURE: PEOPLE'S DAILY HIGHLIGHTS XI JINPING'S REMARKS ON FOOD SECURITY People's Daily (January 2) highlighted CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping's remarks at the Central Rural Work Conference where he said: "Food security is an important foundation for national security, and ensuring food security is always the top priority of the country's governance".
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: CMC ISSUES NEW REGULATIONS FOR PLA Xinhua (January 2) reported that after Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission's approval the CMC had issued the "Interim Regulations on the Management of Active Duty Officers".
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: VETERANS PROTEST 38 PLA veteran soldiers staged a protest on New Year's Day in Shandong province.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: CCTV PUBLICISES PLA EXERCISE IN TIBET CCTV Channel 13 broadcast a military news item on December 27, 2020, about an information-based integrated combat drill held by a light and high-mobility Integrated brigade of the Tibet Military Command at an altitude of more than 4,500 meters.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA'S MINISTER FOR S&T EMPHASISES IMPORTANCE OF S&T FOR CHINA In a lengthy interview to the People's Daily (January 2), China's Minister for Science and Technology Wang Zhizhang emphasised, inter alia, the leading role envisaged for S & T. He said that "The influence and support of strategic scientific and technological forces are directly related to the improvement of China's comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-TIBETAN EXILES AROUND THE WORLD GETTING READY TO VOTE The Tibetan diaspora is getting ready to vote in its elections to be held later this year. Seven candidates, including one woman, from 26 countries are enrolled for the 2021 elections.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE COMPANIES INVEST HEAVILY IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERIES China’s largest producer of electric vehicle batteries, The Fujian province-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), is boosting its capacity with investments totalling 39 billion yuan ($6 billion) in three centres around the country.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-US: US NAVY SHIPS TRANSIT TAIWAN STRATIS PROVOKING CHINESE PROTEST Two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers USS John S. McCain and USS Curtis Wilbur sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on December 31 provoking a protest from Beijing. This is the 13th sailing through the strait by the U.S. Navy this year.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE PROFESSOR CRITICISES U.S. FOR SLANDERING CHINA Writing in the Guangming Daily (January 3), Su Xiaohui, Department of China Institute of International Studies, Deputy Director of the Institute of American Studies, stressed that China's foreign policy is based on the tradition of five thousand years of outstanding civilization and it has been recognized as a country of etiquette since ancient times.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-JAPAN: CHINESE SHIPS INTRUDE JAPANESE WATERS OFF SENKAKU ISLANDS The Yomiuri Shimbun reported (January 3) that 4 Chinese government ships were confirmed by the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in Naha as sailing in the contiguous zone off the Senkaku Islands, which are part of Okinawa Prefecture, on January 1, night.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPAN'S BEGINS DEVELOPMENT OF UNMANNED, AUTOMATED FIGHTER AIRCRAFT AND DRONES TO COUNTER CHINA Nikkei reported (January 1) that Japan has begun to develop unmanned, remote-controlled fighter aircraft capable of breakneck manoeuvres that will be deployed as early as 2035, to counter advancements in China's military technologies and the rise of drone warfare.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S NEW YEAR ADDRESS Chinese President Xi Jinping's 1,106-word New Year Address delivered on the China Central Radio and Television Station and the Internet was reported by China's entire official media on December 31.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-CPPCC: CPPCC HOSTS NEW YEARS TEA PARTY The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held a New Year's tea party in the CPPCC Auditorium on December 31.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: REVIVAL OF POPULAR INTEREST IN MAO ZEDONG AMONG CHINA'S YOUTH Global Times (December 28) publicised, to mark the 127th birth anniversary of Mao Zedong, that a discussion group comprising younger generations of post-1990s or 2000s has been formed mainly for reading the Selected Works of Mao Zedong together on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo. Some Sina Weibo posts displayed photos of young people reading the book.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-NPC STANDING COMMITTEE HAS SOUGHT COMMENTS ON DRAFT LAWS The NPC Standing Committee (NPCSC) has sought comments from the public till January 29 on the following draft Laws among 4 others: draft amendment to the NPC Organic Law [全国人民代表大会组织法]; draft Anti–Food Waste Law [反食品浪费法]; draft Anti–Organized Crime Law [反有组织犯罪法]; draft revision to the Military Facilities Protection Law [军事设施保护法]; and draft Law on the Protection of the Status, Rights, and Interests of Military Personnel [军人地位和权益保障法].
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: GLOBAL TIMES PUBLICISES PLA MODERNISATION AND NEW WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT FOR 2021 The Global Times (December 28) publicised that the PLA is making progress in modernizing and expanding its arsenal and this will continue over the upcoming year.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PLA: INSTANCES OF CIVIL MILITARY FUSION Epoch Times (December 2) disclosed that an internal document it had obtained revealed that a delegation from Hebei province used official visits to foreign countries to help private companies gain access to advanced technologies overseas.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S EFFORT TO BOOST SALES OF SOES Nikkei Asia reported on December 24, 2020, that Moutai (aka Maotai) Liquor, one of China’s most famous baijiu, a 100 proof distilled spirit made of wheat and sorghum, often appears on the gift list of wealthy individuals, and sometimes of corrupt officials.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA CLAIMS BRI, CPEC & ISRAEL-CPEC ARE BOTH PROGRESSING China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at the regular press conference on December 28, that Indian media reports that China seems to be gradually abandoning its initial funding commitments to Pakistan under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor [CPEC] are groundless.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG YOUTH ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE TO TAIWAN SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS IN PRISON Ten Hong Kong fugitives, arrested at sea in August by mainland Chinese authorities while trying to flee to Taiwan, were sentenced to between seven months and three years’ jail by a Shenzhen court on December 29, 2020. The two younger persons were handed over to the local police.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: PLAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER TRANSITS THROUGH TAIWAN STRAITS The PLA Navy announced (December 28) that China's indigenous aircraft carrier Shandong has passed through the Taiwan Strait to conduct training in the South China Sea.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-EU: EU SIGNS EU-CHINA COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT The EU concluded the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment in Brussels on December 30, 2020. Justifying the controversial deal, a Press Release that day said the cumulative EU foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from the EU to China over the last 20 years have reached more than €140 billion.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-US: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CRITICISES WEST FOR ENCOURAGING CHINESE CITIZEN JOURNALIST ZHANG ZHAN Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of the Global Times, in an article in the newspaper on December 29, criticised individuals in the West and the Western media for encouraging the Chinese citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan to break Chinese laws and post reports on the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in February and the Hongkong protests on the social media.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-US: US PRESIDENT TRUMP ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER PROHIBITING PURCHASE, SALE AND TRADING OF SHARES INVOLVING CHINESE MILITARY COMPANIES In the last week of December, US President Trump issued an Executive Order "to protect American investors and pension holders from funding Communist Chinese military companies (CCMCs)".
Jan 2021 |
CHINA--UK: UK AMBASSADOR TO U.S. SAYS UK AND US MUST WORK TOGETHER TO PREVENT CHINA AND RUSSIA EMERGING AS WINNERS FROM THE COVID PANDEMIC Bloomberg reported (January 1) that the British Ambassador to the U.S., Ms Karen Pierce had said in an interview that China and Russia must not emerge as the winners from the coronavirus pandemic.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO CHINA SAYS RUSSIA-CHINA COOPERATION ALREADY BEYOND TRADITIONAL ALLIANCE The South China Morning Post highlighted (December 30) the remarks of Russia's Ambassador to China, Andrey Denisov at the Russian Embassy in Beijing on December 29 that China and Russia do not need to establish a military alliance because their relationship is strong enough already.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: BALOCHISTAN GOVERNMENT STOPS FENCING OF GWADAR PORT Dawn (December 30) quoted the Home Minister of Balochistan as saying (December 29) that the provincial government has stopped the fencing work in Gwadar and “The local people will not be kept away from decision-making about Gwadar and a decision about fencing would now be taken after taking the local people into confidence over the issue.”
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-TURKEY: BRI RAIL LINE TO CONNECT XINJIANG WITH TURKEY Speaking on condition of strict anonymity, a Pakistani government official told Nikkei (December 29) that the ITI railroad will connect to China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region through Pakistan's ML-1 railway line.
Jan 2021 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING PRESIDES OVER POLITBURO 'DEMOCRATIC LIFE' MEETING ON MAO'S BIRTH ANNIVERSARY The People's Daily and authoritative Xinhua news agency front-paged reports (December 26) that the Politburo held a 'Democratic Life' meeting (December 24-25) on the occasion of Mao Zedong's birth anniversary on December 26.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT ISSUES STATEMENT ASSERTING IT DOES NOT EXPORT A spokesperson of the CCP CC's United Front Work Department (UFWD) unusually issued an 873-character statement on December 25, responding to an announcement by US Secretary of State Pompeo imposing visa restrictions on United Front Work Department (UFWD) officials.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: HAN CADRE APPOINTED HEAD OF NATIONAL ETHNIC AFFAIRS COMMISSION 66-year-old Chen Xiaojiang, a Han majority cadre, was appointed head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, the body responsible for ethnic minority affairs on December 14, breaking a tradition followed since 1954 of having a member of the minority groups heading the body.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: 6 PROVINCIAL PARTY SECRETARIES RETIRED AND MOVED TO APPOINTMENTS IN NPC On December 26, the Party Secretaries of Jilin, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Fujian and Hainan on reaching the retirement age were appointed to new positions.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: TANG RENJIAN, VICE AGRICULTURE MINISTER APPOINTED SECRETARY OF MINISTRY'S PARTY COMMITTEE The CCP CC decided on December 1, to appoint 58-year old Tang Renjian, Vice Minister of Agriculture, as Secretary of the Communist Party Committee in the Ministry.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: TURKEY SAYS EFFICACY OF CHINESE ANTI-COVID VACCINE IS 91.25 PER CENT Officials in Ankara said (December 24) that Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate has shown an efficacy rate of 91.25% in Turkey, as per the latest results of clinical trials of the Chinese-developed shot outside China.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA EASES HITHERTO STRINGENT REGULATIONS ON CHARITABLE DONATIONS Caixin (December 26)) reported that China’s NPC is expected to revise the Charity Law in an effort to loosen overly stringent regulations governing online donations that threaten to throttle the fast-growing practice.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: ALIBABA'S US-LISTED STOCKS FALL IN US SHARE MARKET Alibaba Group Holding’s U.S.-listed shares tumbled the most ever, according to Caixin (December 26) due to concern over China’s inquiry into alleged monopolistic practices at the e-commerce company. The stock fell 13% in its biggest one-day drop on record. The decline took Alibaba to its lowest level since July, and the stock is now down 30% from an October peak.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR 30 PERSONS FOR VIOLATING NATIONAL SECURITY LAW The South China Morning Post reported (December 27) that Hongkong Police is searching for nearly 30 people on suspicion of violating the national security law.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-NEPAL: CCP CC INTERNATIONAL LIAISON DEPARTMENT VICE MINISTER IN KATHMANDU TO PATCH UP DIFFERENCES WITHIN NCP An 11-member team of senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials led by Guo Yechau, Vice Minister of the CCP CC International Department, reached Kathmandu on December 7.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE PORTS DO NOT ALLOW INDIAN SHIPS CARRYING AUSTRALIAN COAL ACCESS Japan's Kyodo news agency (December 25) asked at the regular Chinese Foreign Ministry press briefing (December 25) in Beijing for China's response to the Indian Foreign Ministry said the previous day that two Indian freighters arrived near ports in Hebei in June and September respectively, but China hasn't allowed them to harbour in the port and go through clearance citing pandemic regulations.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: GWADAR PORT BEING SEALED-OFF Asia Times (December 25) said that citing security concerns in Balochistan, Pakistan authorities have planned to fence off the entire 24-square-kilometre area surrounding the Gwadar seaport to secure what they call the “crown jewel” of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: EXTREMISTS ATTACK CHINESE PERSONNEL ON OUTSKIRTS OF KARACHI On December 22, a Chinese citizen and his interpreter survived a gun assault on a car showroom in the outskirts of Karachi.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC STANDING COMMITTEE HOLDS 24TH PLENARY MEETING The 24th meeting of the 13th National People's Congress Standing Committee held its second plenary meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of December 23.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XINHUA COMMENTARY HINTS AT CONTINUING INNER-PARTY DIFFERENCES ON XI JINPING'S STANCE TOWARDS U.S. An 826-character sharply worded commentary by "Xin Zhiping" -- a pseudonym for a Xinhua media platform dedicated to promoting Xi Jinping thought -- published on December 16, 2020, appeared to be directed at people who have been critical of China's more assertive stance towards America.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP:CPPCC OFFICIAL PROPOSES INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE TARGETS IN 14TH FIVE YEAR PLAN Liu Shijin, Deputy Director of Economic Affairs at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), suggested that targets for carbon emissions reduction should be included in the 14th Five Year plan with progress posted as the country seeks to achieve carbon neutrality.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-AGRICULTURE: CHINA RESUMES STATE CORN SALES Caixin (December 23) reported that a rally in Chinese corn prices has spurred the government to take the unusual step of bolstering supply at a time when sales from farmers are poised to expand. The Chinese government disclosed a plan last week to resume state corn sales, the first time in years it is doing so during a seasonal peak period for farmers’ sales.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA STRENGTHENS SECURITY OVERSIGHT ON FOREIGN INVESTMENTS Caixin (December 21) quoted Bloomberg as reporting that China had introduced a new regulation that will allow government agencies to preview, deny and punish foreign investment activities in areas that are deemed as important to national security.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CENTRAL ECONOMIC WORK CONFERENCE PUT FORWARD 'FIVE FUNDAMENTALS' The annual Central Economic Work Conference (December 16-18) put forward the “five fundamentals “五个根本”. They make up one of the key themes in the propaganda consequent to the Central Economic Work Conference.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S FINTECH COMPANIES REMOVE SAVINGS PRODUCTS FROM ONLINE PAYMENT PLATFORMS Caixin reported (December 21) that China’s biggest fintech companies removed savings products linked to regional banks from their online platforms amid heightened scrutiny from regulators concerned that the funds are being raised by unstable smaller lenders and could fuel financial risks.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PEKING UNIVERSITY ECONOMIST ESTIMATES UNEMPLOYMENT IN CHINA AT TWENTY PERCENT Radio Free Asia reported (December 18) that in a recent interview with Tencent Finance, a well-known Chinese economist Yao Yang, head of Peking University’s National School of Development, said that the epidemic has had a profound impact on the domestic economy.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA'S NEW LONG MARCH-8 CARRIER ROCKET SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES 5 SATELLITES The China National Space Administration announced that China's new medium-lift carrier rocket Long March-8 made its maiden flight on December 22, sending five satellites into the planned orbit.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE IN LHASA ON DECEMBER 10 AS TIBETANS CELEBRATE GADEN NGAMCHOE FESTIVAL During the Gaden Ngamchoe annual festival in Lhasa on December 10, there was heavy police presence in front of Tsuglakhang and on Barkhor street to keep a close watch over a large group of Tibetans circumambulating the holy sites.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-AFGHANISTAN: AFGHAN SECURITY SERVICES FOR THE FIRST TIME UNCOVER 10-MEMBER CHINESE ESPIONAGE MODULE Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) recently arrested 10 Chinese citizens on charges of espionage and running a terror cell. They are believed to be linked to China’s Ministry of State Security. The crackdown by the NDS started on 10 December.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: CHINESE AND RUSSIAN AIR FORCES CARRY OUT SECOND JOINT AERIAL STRATEGIC PATROL IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION In an article published by the Global Times on December 23, Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of the Global Times, commented on the second joint aerial strategic patrol in the Asia-Pacific region by the air forces of China and Russia on December 22 over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: CCTV CLAIMS PUTIN HAS ASKED RUSSIAN ARMY TO PROMPTLY RESPOND TO ANY THREATS BY NATO The State-owned CCTV-4's International News Channel on December 22, telecast a news report that noted the United States had put 45 Russian companies on the sanctions list and will also close the last two consulates in Russia. It said US-Russian relations have 'once again fallen to a freezing point' and that 'Putin asked the Russian army to make military preparations for NATO threats and promptly respond if necessary'.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-GERMANY: ALTERCATION BETWEEN GERMANY'S PRESIDENT OF THE UNSC AND CHINA'S AMBASSADOR ON DECEMBER 23 Germany’s U.N. envoy Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, during his last scheduled U.N. Security Council meeting on December 23, appealed to China to free two detained Canadians for Christmas. Germany finishes a two-year term on the 15-member council at the end of this month and Ambassador Christoph Heusgen plans to retire after more than 40 years as a diplomat.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA DAILY EDITORIAL CALLS FOR IMPROVING SINO-US TIES, REBUILDING MUTUAL TRUST AND U.S. TO REMEMBER "BOTTOM LINE" IS THAT CCP IS CHINA'S RULING PARTY The English-language China Daily (December 24) in an editorial said China-U.S. relations have undergone the most difficult period since the establishment of diplomatic relations and whether bilateral relations can get back on track is the focus of the world.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: HUANQIU EDITORIAL ADVISES "DO YOUR OWN THING WELL AND NOT BE CONSTRAINED BY THE ATTITUDES OF THE U.S. AND THE WEST" Huanqiu, the Chinese-language version of the Global Times, on December 20, published an editorial captioned "Do your own thing well and not be constrained by the U.S. and the West."
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SENATE PASSED THE 'TIBETAN POLICY AND SUPPORT ACT OF 2020' WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 (TPSA) was passed by the United States Senate on December 22, with bipartisan support. The TPSA makes it official United States policy that decisions regarding the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama are exclusively within the authority of the current Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist leaders and the Tibetan people.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SANCTIONS 58 CHINESE COMPANIES INCLUDING 7 SUBSIDIARIES OF AVIC The U.S. Commerce Department on December 21, added more than 58 Chinese and 45 Russia companies to a new list of companies it said to have links to their nations’ militaries.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SATELLITES BEGIN MONITORING MEKONG RIVER FLOWS AND DATA REVEALS CHINA DID NOT CONSIDER IMPACT OF DAMS ON LOWER RIPARIAN COUNTRIES Kwongwah, the world’s oldest privately owned Chinese daily newspaper in Malaysia, reported (December 14) that the U.S. State Department sponsored the Mekong Dam Monitor Plan, which it just introduced.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE EMBASSY PUBLICISES THERE WERE 3,69,548 CHINESE STUDENTS IN US IN 2018-19 The Chinese Embassy in the USA publicised (December 23) that according to a report released by the Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State, China was the largest source of international students in the United States in 2018/19 with 369548 students, contributing $14.9 billion to the U.S. economy in 2018.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA STATES IT EXPELLED US NAVY DESTROYER AFTER IT "TRESPASSED" CHINESE TERRITORIAL WATERS Senior Colonel Tian Junli, the spokesman for the PLA Southern Theatre Command, claimed on December 22 that its military had "expelled" a US destroyer after it "trespassed" into Chinese territorial waters close to the Spratly Islands.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING PRESIDES OVER CENTRAL ECONOMIC WORK CONFERENCE The Central Economic Work Conference was held under Chinese President Xi Jinping's chairmanship from December 16-18, 2020. Chinese officials proposed tougher antitrust restrictions at the key economic planning meeting, as the Chinese government targets the growing power of the country's technology groups.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: NUMBER OF POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL THEORY TEACHERS RISES AS CHINA LAYS STRESS ON IDEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND MARXIST THEORY According to the Chinese Ministry of Education, as of November 2020, the total number of full-time and part-time registered teachers of ideological and political theory courses in higher education institutions in the country exceeded 100,000, an increase of nearly 60 per cent since 2015.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA APPOINTS ZHANG XUDONG AS NEW COMMANDER OF THE PLA WESTERN THEATRE COMMAND At a promotion ceremony at the PLA Hqrs in Beijing on December 18, Lt General Zhang Xudong was promoted to full General and appointed Commander of the Western Theatre Command replacing General Zhao Zongqi, who has retired on reaching 65 years of age.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: TIBET MILITARY REGION GETS LATEST Z-20 HELICOPTERS Z-20 helicopters entered service this week with PLA’s Tibet Military District (TMD). First displayed in China’s 2019 military day parade, the TMD is only second army aviation unit to operate the Z-20 advanced helicopters.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: THREE NEW BORDER DEFENCE VILLAGES NEAR BUMLA PASS Earlier in December, China set up three new villages near the Bum La pass near the India-China-Tibet Tri-junction.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA--PLA: PLA ROCKET FORCES HAVE INCREASED BY 35 PER CENT IN THREE YEARS A report titled, “Chinese nuclear forces, 2020” published by the Federation of American Scientists on December 10 examines China’s nuclear arsenal, which is estimated to have surpassed France’s as the world’s third largest.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA WILLING TO SHARE ROCK SAMPLES FROM MOON WITH OTHER COUNTRIES Wu Yanhua, a Vice Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), told reporters at a press conference on December 17, that the Chinese government is willing to work with international institutions and scientists and share the lunar samples and relevant detection data collected by the Chang’e 5 moon probe, which returned to earth this week.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA TO RELEASE NEW PAPER ON ENERGY China's State Council Information Office will release a white paper on the country's Energy development on December 18 afternoon.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-EU: CHINA-EU TRADE ACT IN FINAL PHASE Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said during a press conference on December 18, that bilateral investment treaty talks between China and the EU had entered the “final phase.”
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: PLA CONDUCTS MOCK COMBAT EXERCISE FOR TAKE-OVER OF TAIWAN The South China Morning Post (December 17) quoted a CCTV report which disclosed that the previous week the PLA had deployed Type 96A main battle tanks and Type 04 infantry fighting vehicles in a mock street combat exercise in a possible war against Taiwan.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: PROTESTS OUTSIDE HOUSE OF CHINESE DISSIDENT TENG BIAO The Washington Post (December 18) reported that Mandarin-speaking protesters shouting profanities and carrying signs with a variety of false accusations have been arriving every day since December 1, outside the suburban home in New Jersey of widely respected Chinese dissident and scholar at Hunter College in New York, Teng Biao.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: MARITIME NAVAL COOPERATION The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) declined to participate in the virtual Military Maritime Consultative Agreement (MMCA) Work Group and Flag Officer Plenary session with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command scheduled for December 14-16, 2020.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING ON DECEMBER 11 Xinhua reported (December 11) that CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee to listen to reports on the work of the CDIC's State Supervision Commission in 2020 and the preparations for the fifth plenary meeting of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CDIC).
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO MEETING ON DECEMBER 11 & POLITBURO STUDY SESSION ON DECEMBER 11 AFTERNOON Xinhua (December 11) reported that Chinese President and CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Politburo in Beijing on December 11 to analyze and study the economic work in 2021.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING CHAIRS CCP CC's NON-PARTY FORUM ON DECEMBER 8 IN ZHONGNANHAI CCTV News (December 11) reported that on December 8, the CCP CC held a non-party symposium in Zhongnanhai to listen to the opinions of the central committees of the democratic parties, the heads of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and representatives of non-party personalities on the economic situation this year and the economic work next year.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING'S SPEECH ON CLIMATE CHANGE The state-owned CCTV news (December 13) telecast Chinese President Xi Jinping's "important" speech entitled "Continuing the past and opening a new journey of the global response to climate change" at the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-CCP: CCP EFFECTS LARGE SCALE PERSONNEL APPOINTMENTS IN 2020 2020 is likely to regarded as the "big year" of the local political reshuffle of the CCP.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-SECURITY: AFTER ITS 26TH STUDY SESSION POLITBURO DECIDES ON TEN MEASURES TO ENHANCE NATIONAL SECURITY Xinhua (December 12) reported that after its 26th 'collective study session' on December 11, the Politburo meeting chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping decided on a series of ten measures to tighten security.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-SECURITY: CONTROL ON ACCESS TO INTERNET Radio Free Asia reported (November 27) that China's Ministry of Public Security announced that China has launched a new pilot program on “Internet ID Cards” in Fujian and Guangdong provinces. Instead of using the personal ID to register for internet service, the new technology uses the applicants’ biometrics.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: JILIN IS PILOT PROVINCE FOR "RED GENES VILLAGES" PROJECT The CCP CC's Organisation Department and the Ministry of Finance have named Jilin as a pilot province for the 3-year “red village” project, which aims to promote the core values of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: TIANANMEN PROTESTOR ACCUSES XI JINPING OF PROMOTING PERSONALITY CULT In an Opinion piece in Radio Free Asia (October 22), US-based 'Tiananmen democracy protestor' Wang Dan outlined how the CCP CC was flouting its own decision of October 20, 1980, which explicitly stated: “Portraits of the current Communist Party leader are forbidden to be displayed in public, no personality cult will be tolerated.”
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S AGEING POPULATION HAS ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES Having replaced its one-child policy with the two-child policy, China expects to abolish population control soon. Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, however, says the impact of the one-child policy on China’s economy, society, politics and national mentality will last for a long time.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA PREPARES TO RAISE RETIREMENT AGES Xinhua (December 14) published an article addressing key public concerns about an upcoming rise in the retirement age. It recalled that raising the retirement age was explicitly mentioned in the Party's recommendations for the 14th Five-Year Plan.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: NDRC TRYING TO REGULATE COAL PRICES China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), after summoning people from the country’s 10 top electricity utilities including Huaneng Group, Datang Group, Huadian Group, and State Power Investment Corporation to a meeting on December 12, stipulated that coal purchase prices for power companies should not exceed 640 yuan ($97.7) per ton.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S AUTOMOBILE SALES PROJECTED TO INCREASE The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers projected on December 11, that sales of new-energy vehicles in China, which include electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles, will jump 40% in 2021 to 1.8 million units as Tesla’s expansion of local production and price cuts help to lift that market.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: XI JINPING SIGNS NEW REVISED 'ARMY MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS' TO BECOME EFFECTIVE FROM JANUARY 1, 2021 The People's Daily and CCTV (December 17) announced that Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping signed an order to issue the newly revised "Army Measurement Regulations"] The Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping signed an order a few days ago to issue the newly revised "Army Measurement Regulations", which will come into effect on January 1, 2021.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHANG'E-5 RETURNS FROM SPACE EXPLORATION The state-owned CCTV on December 17, announced the safe return of China's spacecraft Chang'e-5 carrying lunar samples. It said the landing was in accordance with the three-step plan of the Chinese lunar exploration project "circle, fall, and return".
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA'S INVESTMENT IN SPACE FOR FIRST TIME SURPASSES THAT OF RUSSIA China's investment in Space has this year for the first time surpassed that of Russia. A recent tabulation by the US-China Institute shows that while the US invests 58% of the world total or US$ 41 billion in Space exploration, this year China invested US$ 5.8 billion exceeding Russia's US$ 4.2 billion. The rest of the world together accounts for US$ 19.8 billion.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA CLAIMS TO HAVE DEVELOPED A SODRAMJET ENGINE At the end of November, the team of Professor Jiang Zonglin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Mechanics published a research paper in the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, a peer-reviewed academic publication.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA ESTABLISHES SPACECRAFT TO MONITOR ARCTIC SHIPPING ROUTES On December 11, China announced plans to launch a new imaging satellite to monitor Arctic shipping routes. The satellite will employ Synthetic Aperture Radar technology able to observe the Earth’s surface even during night time and through cloud layers or smoke. The spacecraft will be placed into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 720 kilometres and produce high-quality imagery.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: 600,000 HONGKONG RESIDENTS EXPECT TO MIGRATE TO BRITAIN WITHIN 2 YEARS A recent survey by 'The Hongkongers' found that over 600,000 Hongkong residents eligible for the earlier BN(O)C status now expect to migrate to the UK within two years. They are mainly educated and earn higher wages than the average in the UK, but have no friends or family in the UK.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-SWEDEN: SWEDEN PLANS TO DEPORT SOUTHERN MONGOLIA ACTIVIST TO CHINA Baolige Wurina, an Inner Mongolian activist who escaped to Sweden from Inner Mongolia ten years ago due to persecution by the authorities for his activism on rights issues for ethnic Mongols, is now at risk of being deported following the Swedish Migration Court’s decision in late November, to turn down his appeal for a review of the Migration Board’s decision from January 2019 not to grant him a new residence permit.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-FRANCE: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING AND FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON AGREE TO COOPERATE ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES Xinhua reported (December 9) that Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron had reached important consensus on China-France cooperation in the next stage during their phone conversation on December 9 evening.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SANCTIONS 14 CHINESE OFFICIALS FOR THEIR ACTIONS IN TIBET AND XINJIANG The US Departments of State and Treasury announced (December 14) sanctions on 14 Chinese officials for their actions in Xinjiang province, Tibet, Taiwan and the South China Sea and the crackdown on pro-democracy advocates in Hong Kong.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SANCTIONS CHINESE OFFICIAL FOR PERSECUTION OF FALUNGONG ACTIVISTS Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported (December 11) that on December 10, World Human Rights Day, the U.S. State Department had announced sanctions on 17 foreign government officials and their immediate family members for "serious human rights violations".
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEMBER WANG HUNING DELIVERS SPEECH AT MARXIST THEORETICAL CONFERENCE IN BEIJING CCTV telecast the 'Marxist Theoretical Research and Construction Engineering Work Conference' held in Beijing on December 10. Politburo Standing Committee member and Secretary of the CCP CC Secretariat Wang Huning attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PREMIER LI KEQIANG CHAIRS NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LEADING SMALL GROUP Chinese Premier Li Keqiang chaired a meeting of the National Science and Technology Leading Small Group (NS&TLG) on December 7.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-MEDIA: BEIJING DAILY PUBLISHES ARTICLE ON CONFUCIUS An article by Renmin University Professor Han Xing was published by the Beijing Daily on December 7, with the caption 'What is the starting point of Confucianism for learning? This article makes it clear'.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: CHINESE HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS ARRESTED BY PUBLIC SECURITY OFFICERS Tang Jitian, a Human Rights lawyer in China was taken away by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security officers on December 8.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: BLOOMBERG JOURNALIST DETAINED IN BEIJING UNDER NATIONAL SECURITY LAW Bloomberg reported (December 11) that Chinese authorities on December 7, detained Haze Fan, who works for the Bloomberg News bureau in Beijing, on suspicion of endangering national security.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S STATE COUNCIL APPOINTS LIU GUIPING AS NEW VICE GOVERNOR OF PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA China's State Council announced (December 7) that Liu Guiping had been appointed Vice Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) replacing Zhu Hexin, who left the PBoC to become Party secretary of CITIC Group back in March.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA--ECONOMY: HUAWEI MOBILE SALES IN EUROPE DROP SHARPLY Major Taiwanese news network Liberty Times Network (LTN) reported on November 30, that, according to the latest numbers from IDC, Huawei sold 2.5 million smartphones in the Western Europe market, representing a year-over-year free fall of 58.7 per cent.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: SIPRI REPORTS FOUR CHINA'S DEFENCE SALES COMPANIES AMONG 25 TOP SELLERS IN THE WORLD The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) issued a report on December 7, 2020, on the state of the global arms industry in 2019.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: MORE PRO-DEMOCRACY LEGISLATORS ARRESTED ON DECEMBER 8 On December 8, Hong Kong Island Regional Criminal Unit officers arrested Leung Kwok-hung, Figo Chan and Tang Sai-lai of the League of Social Democrats, and Eastern District Councillors Tsang Kin-sing, Andy Chui and Lancelot Chan bringing to eight the number of pro-democracy figures arrested so far on suspicion of the unauthorised assembly during a July 1 protest.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: SHAHEEN-IX SINO-PAK AIR FORCE EXERCISES COMMENCE IN PAKISTAN China and Pakistan started the Shaheen -- or Falcon -- IX joint air force exercises at the newly operational Bholari airbase in Sindh, less than 200 kilometres from the Indian border, on December 9.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHINA BY CHINESE ECONOMIST Professor Mao Zhenhua, founder-Chairman of the China Chengxin Group, Chief Economist of China Chengxin International, and Co-Director of the Institute of Economics, Renmin University of China, delivered an interesting speech on how China can reduce US pressure at the 20th Yabuli Forum -2020 on November 18-20, 2020.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE MEDIA OFFICIAL URGES US TO STOP 'TARGETING' CHINESE STUDENTS Ji Tao, Editor-in-Chief and President China Daily USA, on December 7, tweeted that "It's time to stop targeting Chinese students in the US. The damage has been done. In the first nine months this year, student visa visits from China to the US fell by almost 70%, as compared with that of 2019."
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI URGES STABILISATION OF US-CHINA RELATIONS Speaking via video-link to the US-China Business Council on December 7, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed the hope that US-China relations would stabilise with the Biden Administration. He said, “We expect and believe that the US’ China policy will return to objectivity and rationality sooner or later.”
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE ACADEMIC CLAIMS CHINA HAS INFLUENCE AT TOP OF "AMERICA'S CORE INNER CIRCLE OF POWER AND INFLUENCE" Di Dongsheng, Professor of International Relations at Renmin University, asked during a speech attended by hundreds of people at an event on November 28, in Shanghai hosted by Guancha.cn, while discussing the trade war started by Trump: “So why can’t we fix the Trump administration? Why between 1992 and 2016 were China and the US able to settle all kinds of issues?”
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: FORMER MAYOR BUTTIGUEG TIPPED AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA Former Democratic presidential candidate and former Mayor of South Bend, Idaho, Pete Buttigieg may be headed for China as the incoming Biden Administration’s ambassador to Beijing. He is also tipped as in the running for a number of other leadership positions in the Biden Administration.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: JAPANESE INSTITUTE ANTICIPATES THAT CHINA WILL OVERTAKE U.S. BY 2030 The Japan-China Economic Research (JCER) institute in a recent study forecast that in 2020, only China, Vietnam and Taiwan are on track to maintain positive year-on-year growth rates.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-GERMANY: GERMANY STOPS ACQUISITION OF GERMAN SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY BY CHINESE ENTITY Global Times (December 5) reported that, in the name of national security, the German government prohibited the Chinese acquisition of a German satellite technology company IMST. IMST developed the critical components of Germany’s TerraSAR-X observation satellite.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPANESE GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO REPLACE ALL FOREIGN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT The Hong Kong online news media HK01 Network on November 30, reported that the Japanese government had decided to replace all unmanned aircraft that provincial governments operated with more secure Japanese products.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-INDONESIA: CHINA'S COVID-19 VACCINE DIPLOMACY Reuters and The Associated Press quoted Indonesian President Joko Widodo on December 6, said he was "very grateful" to China for supplying the first batch of 1.2 million doses of the new crown vaccine.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING ADDRESSES MILITARY IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION WORK CONFERENCE CCTV reported (December 4) that Chinese President Xi Jinping met representatives of the plenary session of the Military Ideological and Political Education Work Conference held in Beijing from December 3 to 4. Xi Jinping met and had a group photograph with them on December 4, at the Jingxi Hotel.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC CHAIRMAN WANG YANG CHAIRS MEETING OF ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE The People's Daily on December 3, reported that CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang chaired a meeting of its Ethnic and Religious Committee on December 2 in Beijing. The meeting discussed "building a common spiritual home for all ethnic groups and forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation".
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-'WOLF DIPLOMACY: CHINESE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER LI YUCHENG EXPLAINS STAND ON 'WOLF DIPLOMACY' AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THINK-TANKS Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng delivered the keynote speech at the International Influence Forum of Think Tanks and the 6th Symposium on the Construction of New Think Tanks hosted by the Chongyang Institute of Finance of Renmin University of China and the Literature and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on December 5.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: FORMER CENTRAL PARTY SCHOOL FACULTY AND CRITIC OF XI JINPING PUBLISHES ARTICLE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS Foreign Affairs (December 4) published a lengthy article captioned 'The Party that Failed' by the presently US-based Professor Cai Xia, a former senior faculty member of the Central Party School who became a critic of Xi Jinping who had her pension and other financial benefits seized. Her article gives a vivid account of the policies of China's leaders and particularly her disappointment with Xi Jinping.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-CONSTITUTION DAY: CONSTITUTION WEEK AND CONSTITUTION DAY CELEBRATED IN CHINA The People's Daily (December 4) highlighted that various parts of the country had carried out "in-depth study and publicity of Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law, and vigorously promote the spirit of the constitution" theme activities, creating a good atmosphere of respect for law, study and law-abiding in the whole society during the third national "Constitution Propaganda Week" from November 30 to December 6.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CONSTRUCTION PLANS OF PLA NAVY (PLAN) China's military media disclosed (November 29) that according to reports, the Chinese Navy’s latest plan shows that by 2025, the Chinese Navy will have 16 Type 055 destroyers, 50 Type 054A frigates, and 40 Type 052C/D. In addition, construction of the improved version of the Type-054A and Type-054B frigates will start next year.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: HURUN'S LIST OF WEALTHY REVEALS THERE ARE 878 BILLIONAIRES IN CHINA The Hurun Rich List data compiled in October 2020 shows that the number of Chinese billionaires is growing at the fastest pace in the country's history. There are now 878 billionaires under 40 in China -- including 257 newly minted billionaires this year -- worth a total of $4 trillion, breaking their own previous records.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA DOMINATES WORLD SUPPLY OF COBALT Nedal Nassar, chief of the Materials Flow Analysis Section at the National Minerals Information Center at the U.S. Geological Survey, told POLITICO (December 2) that a USGS review of 50 commodities identified cobalt as one of the materials at highest risk of supply disruptions.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-EU: CHINA REPLACES UNITED STATES AS EU'S LARGEST TRADING PARTNER Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said at the regular press briefing on December 4, that latest Eurostat data showed that China had edged past the US in the third quarter to become the EU's largest trade partner.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: FORMER CHINESE OFFICIAL SUGGESTS USE OF FORCE FOR REUNIFYING TAIWAN WITH THE MAINLAND Radio France International (November 9) reported that In an article published in the state media People’s Political Consultative Conference Newspaper, the former Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office under China’s State Council, Wang Zaixi said, “It may be difficult to achieve the purpose of reunification across the strait if we do not use military force and rely solely on political negotiations, non-governmental exchanges, and unconditionally making compromises.”
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN EXPELS MAINLAND CHINESE REPORTER Taiwan’s Central News Agency announced (December 3) that the ROC government had expelled a reporter from China’s Southeast Television who was stationed in Taiwan. He was expelled for violating relevant regulations that prohibit renting a studio in Taiwan in order to host a political program.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG LEGCO'S DEMOCRAT LEGISLATOR FLEES TO U.K AND HAS BANK ACCOUNTS FROZEN According to UK media reports former Democratic Party Legislative Council (Legco) member, Xu Zhifeng suddenly withdrew from the Democratic Party and went into exile .
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS DISCUSSING RELEASE OF MENG WANZHOU, CFO OF HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES, WITH HER REPRESENTATIVES The Wall Street Journal reported (December 4) that the US Justice Department is talking to representatives of Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Technologies Co. and daughter of its founder, that could see her freed to return home from Canada after her detention in December 2018, in exchange for signing a deferred prosecution agreement.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US ENDS FIVE CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES Reuters (December 4) reported that the US State Department announced on December 4 that it has ended five cultural exchange programs with China because they are "soft power propaganda tools."
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE RESEARCHER REACTS TO US RESTRICTIONS ON VISAS FOR CCP MEMBERS Writing in the Global Times (December 4) Zhang Tengjun, Assistant Research Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, described the imposition of restrictions on members of the CCP and their family members "as yet another hysterical anti-China policy" and "part of the all-out China containment strategy advocated by the Trump administration since the beginning of this year".
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: YAN XUETONG ANTICIPATES INTENSIFIED TENSION BETWEEN US AND CHINA UNDER BIDEN Speaking at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum on December 2, Yan Xuetong, Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Beijing’s Tsinghua University cautioned against “wishful thinking” about the incoming Biden administration and anticipated that “Unpredictability, uncertainty will still be the basic characteristic of the coming years” and “The world will definitely become more chaotic.”
Dec 2020 |
CHINA--US: CHINA DAILY EDITORIAL ANTICIPATES NO IMPROVEMENT IN US-CHINA BILATERAL TIES An editorial in China's official English-language China Daily (December 3) observed that "Although everyone seems to be ready for China-US relations to worsen each passing day for the remainder of the current administration's term, such developments are worrisome signs that bilateral ties are being effectively shifted onto a dangerous path".
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA'S TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR LI DAOKUI CAUTIONS THAT BIDEN MAY CONTINUE TRUMP'S TOUGH POLICIES AGAINST CHINA The Liberty Times reported on November 29, that while speaking at the China Macroeconomic Forum held at Renmin University in Beijing, Professor Li Daokui of Beijing’s Tsinghua University and a former advisor to the People’s Bank of China, said the recent memoirs published by former US President Obama showed that the Democrats are worried about the rise of China’s technological power.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: 54 JAPANESE UNIVERSITIES HAVE ACADEMIC, RESEARCH AND STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES WITH SEVEN CHINESE DEFENCE-RELATED UNIVERSITIES According to a Kyodo News report on November 29, seven defense-related Chinese universities that conduct military technological research have academic and student exchange agreements with a total of 45 public and private universities in Japan, among which nine Japanese universities have joint research programs.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEETING DISCUSSED 'REGULATIONS ON POLITICAL WORK IN THE ARMY' The CCP CC Politburo met on November 30 to review the "Regulations on Political Work in the Army," "Regulations on the Work of the United Front of the Communist Party of China," and "Regulations on the Protection of the Rights of Party Members of the Communist Party of China."
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEMBER YANG JIECHI LAUDS FIFTH PLENUM IN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN PEOPLE'S DAILY ON NOVEMBER 30 A lengthy 4225-character article captioned 'Actively create a good external environment (study and implement the spirit of the 5th Plenum of the 19th Central Committee)', by Politburo Member and former Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was published in the People's Daily on November 30.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POSTERS CRITICISING XINJIANG PARTY SECRETARY CHEN QUANGUO APPEAR IN LONDON ANI (November 28) reported that several Billboards have appeared in the streets of London on November 28 demanding the arrest of Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Quanguo.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PARTY DISCIPLINE: HU XIJIN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF GLOBAL TIMES ACCUSED OF FATHERING TWO CHILDREN WITH EMPLOYEES Foreign Policy Magazine's China Brief (December 2) reported that Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of the CCP-owned Global Times faces potential political trouble after an accusation by his Deputy Editor-in-Chief Duan Jingtao, that he has fathered two children with employees.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-CDIC: FORMER VICE GOVERNOR OF XINJIANG REN HUA EXPELLED FROM PARTY FOR "SERIOUS VIOLATIONS" OF PARTY DISCIPLINE The official website of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) recently reported that following an investigation by the CCP CC and the State Supervision Commission of the CDIC, Ren Hua, the former Party member and Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Government, had been expelled from the Party.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: CHINA'S "INK GIRL" PROTESTS AGAIN BUT ALLOWED TO MEET FATHER 31-year old Dong Yaoqiong, the girl who posted a video of her throwing ink on a poster and defacing the image of Xi Jinping in Shanghai in December 2018 in protest against his “authoritarian dictatorship”, once again on December 1, 2020, posted a two-minute video, which has been widely circulated on social media platforms including Twitter.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: OWNER OF CHINA'S TUBER APP, ZHOU HONGYI, IS MEMBER OF CPPCC Tuber, China's app for Android mobiles that bypasses China's Great Firewall and allows access to banned sites like Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Netflix was developed by the Shanghai Fengxuan Information Technology Co., Ltd., in which Qihoo 360, the Beijing-based cybersecurity firm founded by entrepreneur Zhou Hongyi, holds a 70 per cent stake.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-AGRICULTURE: CHINA'S MUYUAN GROUP PLANS TO BUILD 84 PIG FARMS IN 13 COUNTIES IN HENAN PROVINCE The state-owned 'Voice of China' reported that China's largest pig producer, the pig-farming giant Muyuan Group announced plans to build 84 industrialized pig farms in 13 counties surrounding its headquarters in Nanyang, a city in the hinterland of Henan Province to alleviate China's meat shortage.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-POVERTY ALLEVIATION: CHINA CLAIMS TO HAVE SHIFTED 10 MILLION POOR PEOPLE FROM INHOSPITABLE AREAS BETWEEN 2016-2020 CCTV reported (December 3) that the Politburo Standing Committee met on December 3 to listen to a summary and evaluation report on poverty alleviation.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: RAILWAY LINKING LHASA WITH NYINGCHI Xinhua (December 1) reported that workers are overcoming difficulties to build the first electric railway in Tibet, China. It said the 435-km railway linking Lhasa and Nyingchi is expected to open next year.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: OWNER OF APPLE DAILY, JIMMY LAI, ARRESTED Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, the founder of the Apple Daily and media group Next Digital, was charged with fraud on December 2 night in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and was to appear in West Kowloon Court on December 3.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA'S PLANS FOR BIG HYDEL PROJECT NEAR MEDOG ON BRAHMAPUTRA SUGGEST A DAM AT THE 'GREAT BEND' On November 30, the CCP-owned Global Times disclosed that China is going ahead with construction of a major hydropower project on the Brahmaputra river.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-NEPAL: CHINESE DEFENCE MINISTER GENERAL WEI FENGHE'S VISIT TO NEPAL Remarking on Chinese Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe's one-day visit to Kathmandu, Qian Feng, Director of the Research Department of the National Institute of Strategic Studies, Tsinghua University was quoted by Global Times (November 29) as saying that the visit fully demonstrated the importance of China Nepal relations and will greatly improve the trust between the two countries and twp militaries.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINESE DEFENCE MINISTER VISITS PAKISTAN AND IS AWARDED THE 'NISHAN-E-IMTIAZ' (MILITARY) Chinese Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe paid a 2-day (December 1-3) visit to Pakistan where he met the Pakistan Prime Minister, President and the Chief of Army Staff.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-AUSTRALIA: VITRIOLIC RHETORIC BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND CHINA HAS ESCALATED Sparked by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian's remarks and release on November 30, of a photograph found objectionable by the Australian Government, angry rhetoric between the two escalated with calls in Australia for a boycott of Chinese goods.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN BACKS AUSTRALIA IN ONGOING TENSION WITH CHINA Before chairing the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Central Standing Committee meeting in Taipei on December 2, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said that Taiwan would take action to back Australians at a time when they are “under tremendous pressure.”
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SAYS CHINA HAS INCREASED INFLUENCE OPERATIONS IN UNITED STATES The US Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliff, in an article in the Wall Street Journal on December 3 identifying China as the No: 1 threat and a once-in-a-generation challenge, said he had shifted resources inside the $85 billion annual intelligence budget to increase the focus on China.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US ADDS ANOTHER CHINESE SOE TO ITS ENTITIES LIST The US has added the China National Electronics Import and Export Corporation, a midsize State-owned Enterprise specializing in civil and defense engineering with close ties with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), to the US entity list, freezing its assets in the United States and banning US firms from doing business with it.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US BUSINESSES LOBBY AGAINST BILL TO PREVENT IMPORT OF GOODS MADE WITH FORCED LABOUR The New York Times (November 29) cited US Congressmen as saying that Nike and Coca-Cola are among the major companies and business groups lobbying Congress to weaken a bill that would ban imported goods made with forced labour in China’s Xinjiang region as well as lobbying records that show vast spending on the legislation.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PRESIDENT ELECT BIDEN COMMENTS ON HIS CHINA POLICY TO NEW YORK TIMES In an interview (December 2) to New York Times' Tom Friedman, the US President-elect Joe Biden said on China that he would not act immediately to remove the 25 per cent tariffs that Trump imposed on about half of China’s exports to the United States — or the Phase 1 agreement Trump inked with China that requires Beijing to purchase some $200 billion in additional U.S. goods and services during the period 2020 and 2021 — which China has fallen significantly behind on.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-UK: UK TO SPEND 250 MILLION POUNDS TO REPLACE HUAWEI'S 5G EQUIPMENT The Hongkong Economic Times (HKET) reported on November 26, that the British government just introduced the Communications Security Bill, which is designed to monitor the nation’s 5G mobile network and its fiber network.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING ADDRESSES 'MODEL AND ADVANCED WORKERS' CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the National Commendation Conference for Model Workers and Advanced Workers held in Beijing on November 24, where he was quoted by CCTV in its Focus Programme on November 28, as saying "Socialism is done, and the new era is a struggle. Model workers are national elites and people.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: CENTRAL PARTY SCHOOL CADRES TOLD BY XI JINPING THAT POLITICAL ABILITY IS FIRST AMONG ABILITIES REQUIRED BY PARTY CADRES Qiu Shi (November 27) published an article which said that at the opening ceremony of the training class for young and middle-aged cadres at the Central Party School (National School of Administration) in the Fall semester of 2020, CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that political ability is the first among the various abilities required for cadres to do their jobs well.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA DAILY PUBLICISES XI JINPING'S SPEECH AT CMC'S MILITARY TRAINING CONFERENCE The PLA Daily (November 27) published a report on Xi Jinping's "important" speech at the Military Training Conference of the Central Military Commission held in Beijing on November 25, 2020.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-CCP 19th CC'S FIFTH PLENUM: 13th FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR VERY FIRST TIME CONTAINS SPECIAL CHAPTER ON ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN CCTV (November 27) telecast a report publicising that the development of women's cause was for the very first time included in the "13th Five-Year Plan" outline as a special chapter for the first time, said this was to promote the all-round development of women.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-CCP CC'S FIFTH PLENUM: CCP CC'S PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT PUBLICISING FIFTH PLENUM DOCUMENTS THROUGHOUT CHINA Stating that the CCP CC's Fifth Plenary Session drew a magnificent blueprint for China's future development, Xinhua (November 27) said it has overall and historical significance in the development of the party and the country.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA'S FIFTH PLENUM INSTRUCTS PLA TO ENSURE ITS MODERNISATION GOALS ARE ACHIEVED BY 2027 The communique issued after the Fifth Plenum (October 26-29, 2020) of the CCP CC says that China is still in a period of important strategic opportunity as the world is “undergoing changes unseen in a century”. The last few paragraphs of the Communique focus on the PLA modernisation and China’s national security.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S NATIONAL STATISTICS BUREAU REVEALS NEW INCOME FIGURES OF CHINA'S MIDDLE CLASS Writing in the Asia Times (November 28), Frank Chen claimed that China's National Statistics Bureau was cited by China's State Council at a press conference marking China's 71st anniversary in October, that China now has no less than 400 million middle-class consumers.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA'S DEEP-SEA MANNED SUBMERSIBLE VESSEL 'THE STRUGGLE' CONGRATULATED BY XI JINPING ON ITS RETURN The state-owned CCTV on November 28 reported that China's all-sea deep manned submersible the "Struggle", successfully completed the 10,000-meter sea trial and returned successfully on November 28.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: XIAOMI EDGES OUT HUAWEI IN MOBILE SMARTPHONE SALES AT COUNTY-LEVEL Caixin (November 28) reported that Xiaomi Inc. is looking to seize a greater share of its home smartphone market as the market adjusts to the vacuum left by sanctions-struck Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Xiaomi China's President Lu Weibing said (November 26) that every county-level city in China will have a Mi Home store — which sells the company’s smart home products as well as its handsets — in one year.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA FAILS TO MEET TARGETS OF PHASE ONE OF CHINA-U.S. TRADE DEAL Bloomberg reported (November 28), based on China Customs Administration data, showed that China’s imports of U.S. goods under the phase one trade deal slowed last month after hitting a high in September, leaving the full-year target well out of reach.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA'S MEDIA PUBLICISES PREPAREDNESS OF PLA TROOPS IN LADAKH The South China Morning Post reported (November 28) that the PLA Daily had on November 23 said that all Chinese outposts at altitudes of more than 3,000 metres altitudes had been equipped with oxygen generators and troops stationed higher than 4,000 metres would receive mandatory oxygen therapy for an hour each day.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN-ROK: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI TRAVELS TO TOKYO AND SEOUL Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Seoul on November 25, after a two-day visit to Japan.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN BEGINS BUILDING SUBMARINES Taiwan's state-run shipbuilder China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSBC) and the arms developer Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, who were awarded the contract for building eight indigenous submarines in 2016, have started building the first of the submarines at the Kaohsiung shipyard.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-NEPAL: CHINESE DEFENCE MINISTER GENERAL WEI FENGHE VISITS NEPAL Chinese State Councillor and Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe made a one-day visit to Kathmandu on November 29, when he met Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Prime Minister K.P.S. Oli and Army Chief General Purna Chandra Thapa.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-BHUTAN: CHINA CREATES NEW VILLAGE 2.5 KMS INSIDE BHUTAN Shen Shiwei, a news producer of the State-owned CGTN, last week tweeted and later deleted four images establishing that China had formed Pangda village, a new residential area.
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-AUSTRALIA: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN POSTS PHOTOGRAPH OF AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER IN AFGHANISTAN WITH KNIFE AT GIRL'S THROAT Following the release of the Brereton report, which found Australian special forces committed at least 39 unlawful killings during the war in Afghanistan, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) spokesman and Deputy Director of MoFA's Information Department, Zhao Lijian at last week's regular weekly press briefing said China "strongly condemned" the soldiers' actions, and said the report "fully exposed the hypocrisy of the human rights and freedom these Western countries are always chanting".
Dec 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING ORDERS PLA TO STRENGTHEN TRAINING AND ENHANCE CAPABILITY TO WIN WARS Attending a meeting on Military Training in Beijing on November 25, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and Chinese President, Xi Jinping ordered the armed forces to strengthen training under real combat conditions and raise their capability of winning wars.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING EXHORTS WORKING CLASS TO STRIVE FOR NEW ACHIEVEMENTS IN BUILDING A MODERN SOCIALIST COUNTRY AND REJUVENATING CHINA Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 24, addressed a gathering to honour model workers and exemplary individuals where he said China must closely rely on the working class to promote high-quality development and urged the country's working class and working people to strive for new and historic achievements in fully building a modern socialist country.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEMBER AND CCP CC PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT CHIEF HUANG KUNMING PUBLISHES ARTICLE IN PEOPLE'S DAILY The People's Daily published (November 23) an article by Politburo member and Head of China's Publicity (Propaganda) Department, Huang Kunming captioned 'Promote the building of a socialist cultural power (study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party)'.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE VICE PREMIER LIU HE URGES CHINA TO QUICKLY BECOME TECHNOLOGICALLY SELF-RELIANT The Chinese version of the flagship newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 'People’s Daily', published (November 25) an article by Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is calling for China to move faster toward becoming technologically self-reliant, a goal that he said will play a decisive role in the country’s economic development agenda for the next 15 years.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-COMMISION FOR DISCIPLINE INSPECTION (CDIC) ISSUES STATEMENT EMPHASISING INCREASED SUPERVISION OVER "LEADING CADRES" AFTER FIFTH CC PLENUM On November 23, the CDIC issued a statement on its official website emphasising that the 19th CCP CC's Fifth Plenary Session had "clearly forecast the long-term goal of basically achieving socialist modernization by 2035, and clearly put forward the guidelines, main goals, and key tasks for my country's economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period".
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: CHINA'S NATIONAL PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED ON OCTOBER 30 THAT 205,000 CHINESE JOURNALISTS HAD PASSED THE 'XI THOUGHT' EXAM Radio Free Asia reported on November 6, that China's National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) had announced (October 30) that a total of 205,000 Chinese journalists had passed the “Xi Thought” exam and obtained a passport-sized Chinese journalist ID card with gold letters against a red background.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-CASS MEMBER EXPLAINS 'CORE MEANING OF XI JINPING'S RULE OF LAW' The CCP CC's Comprehensive Rule of Law Work Conference was held on November 16 - 17, 2020 in Beijing where CCP CC General Secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered an "important" speech emphasising that China will unswervingly follow the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities on the track of the rule of law, so as to provide a powerful force for building a modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CMC ISSUES NEW JOINT OPERATIONS GUIDELINES FOR PLA The People's Daily on November 14 reported that China's Central Military Commission (CMC) had on November 13, issued the “Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Joint Operations Guideline (Trial Version).” The “Guideline” aims to build the PLA into a world-class army force, with a focus on the establishment of a system of laws and regulations for joint operations.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-BRI: CHINA'S MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY IS TRAINING STUDENTS FROM BRI COUNTRIES AT YUNNAN POLICE ACADEMY A document obtained by the Epoch Times and dated May 28, 2020, from the Yunnan Police Academy titled, “Activities on Promoting the Joint Development of the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative” reveals that since 2015, the Academy has trained 56 foreign students from Afghanistan, Argentina, Angola, Pakistan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, and Myanmar and has granted them Master’s degrees.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: CHINA'S MINISTRY OF EDUCATION ISSUES CODE OF CONDUCT TO TRY AND PREVENT SUICIDES BY GRADUATE SCHOOL STUDENTS The Chinese Edition of Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported (November 11) that, after several incidents of graduate school students committing suicide this year, China's Ministry of Education issued 'The Code of Conduct for Graduate School Teachers'.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S PENSION FUND WILL BE INSUFFICIENT IN NEXT DECADE Professor Zheng Gongcheng, a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), wrote in the Guangming Ribao (November 23) that it is expected that by 2035, China will be considered a “super-aged society.”
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: CCTV CLAIMS MAJOR STRIDES IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN TIBET The official China Central Television (CCTV) on November 22, claimed major strides in poverty alleviation in Tibet.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE CARRIE LAM'S POLICY SPEECH TO LEGCO MAKES LITTLE IMPACT HK CE Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor delivered a 24,000-word speech with a number of Chinese Communist Party words over 2 hours 20 minutes to the Hongkong Legislative Council (Legco) on November 25 which was interrupted by pro-democracy legislators who forced her to complete her speech virtually. Her fourth policy speech was described by political observers and Legco members as "underwhelming".
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: FORMER OFFICIAL OF CHINA'S TAIWAN AFFAIRS OFFICE SAYS MILITARY FORCE MAY BE ESSENTIAL TO EFFECT REUNIFICATION Radio France International reported on November 9, that Wang Zaixi, former Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office under China’s State Council, had recently published an article in the official People’s Political Consultative Conference Newspaper.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT CONGRATULATE US PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA HARRIS Xinhua reported (November 25) that Chinese President Xi Jinping had sent a message on November 25, to congratulate U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on his election.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-US: FORMER CHINESE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER FU YING WRITES OP-ED IN NEW YORK TIMES Fu Ying, a former Chinese Ambassador and Vice Foreign Minister and presently the Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy and an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University and also a Vice Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress, published an Op-Ed in the New York Times (November 24).
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-US: US NAVY DESTROYER COMMENCES FOURTH ROUTINE TRANSIT THROUGH TAIWAN STRAITS The National Interest (November 25) reported that the USS Barry (DDG-52), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, conducted its fourth routine transit through the Taiwan Strait and entered the South China Sea on November 20.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-US: US STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES REPORT TITLED 'THE ELEMENTS OF THE CHINA CHALLENGE' The Office of Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State (DOS) issued a 70-page research report on November 17, which summarized the behaviour of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), analysed the ideological roots behind the behaviour and the vulnerabilities that the Chinese Communist regime faces, and suggested how the United States should respond to China’s challenges.
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-UK: CHINESE MILITARY WEBSITE CLAIMS BRITISH INTELLIGENCE IS NOW FOCUSSING ON CHINA Well-known Chinese news site Sina reported on October 30, that based on British media reports, UK intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) are establishing a new program that is currently hiring “mandarin linguists.”
Nov 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING VIRTUALLY ADDRESSES G-20 SUMMIT Chinese President Xi Jinping virtually sat down with other heads of state for the G20 Riyadh Summit on November 22 where he opened with some general comments.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING SAYS AT APEC SUMMIT THAT CHINA IS OPEN TO JOINING TPP Addressing the 32nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit hosted virtually from Kuala Lumpur on November 20, Xinhua reported that Chinese President “highlighted promoting openness and inclusiveness, accelerating innovation-driven growth, enhancing regional connectivity, and pushing for mutually beneficial cooperation.”
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG MEETS FIVE PROVINCIAL GOVERNORS TO GET SUGGESTIONS ON ECONOMIC POLICY On November 21, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang convened a meeting with five provincial governors to get their suggestions on economic policy in preparation for the Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) to be held in December.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PBSC MEMBER AND EXECUTIVE VICE PREMIER HAN ZHENG PUBLISHES ARTICLE IN PEOPLE'S DAILY The People’s Daily on November 19, published an article by Executive Vice Premier Han Zheng, laying out his thoughts on the Party’s 2035 vision.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PBSC MEMBER AND NPC CHAIRMAN LI ZHANSHU VISITS SHANXI TO PROPAGATE 'XI JINPING THOUGHT ON RULE OF LAW' National People’s Congress Chairman and PBSC member Li Zhanshu concluded a three day inspection tour to Shanxi Province on November 18. Li Zhanshu stressed that policymakers everywhere need to get to work implementing Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PB MEMBER AND PARTY SECRETARY OF XINJIANG CHEN QUANGUO MISSES TWO MEETINGS IN BEIJING Chen Quanguo, Party Secretary of the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region and Politburo member did not attend the Chinese Communist Party's 2-day meeting to implement "Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law" held earlier in the week beginning November 16. Normally, the 25 members of the Politburo, including all seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee, would attend.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: DIRECTOR OF THE CCP CC GENERAL OFFICE SAYS IN PEOPLE'S DAILY ARTICLE THAT THE PARTY IS MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF OFFICIALS The People’s Daily published (November 20) an editorial by Ding Xuexiang explaining the Party’s recommendations for the 14th Five-Year Plan. Ding Xuexiang reminded officials that they are meant to be implementing six big economic programs over the next 15 years.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH: CHINA VACCINATES 1 MILLION PEOPLE WITH COVID-19 VACCINES On November 17, Sinopharm Chairman Liu Jingzhen revealed that nearly one million people had been given its COVID-19 vaccines, which are still under Phase III clinical trials.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: NEW TASK FORCE TO TIGHTEN SCRUTINY OF UNFAIR COMPETITION AND MARKET DOMINANCE BY TECH GIANTS LIKE ALIBABA AND TENCENT Caixin reported (November 21) that China's State Council approved the establishment of a new committee led by the State Administration for Market Regulation and comprising 17 central government ministries and departments to combat unfair competition as regulators tighten scrutiny of market dominance built up by tech giants such as Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE SOE INITIATES RESTRUCTURING PLAN TO RESOLVE NEARLY 150 BILLION YUAN (US$ 22 BILLION) DEBT Creditors of Peking University Founder Group Corp. (PUFG) approved a plan (November 19) to restructure the state-owned industrial and investment conglomerate as part of its efforts to resolve its nearly 150 billion yuan ($22 billion) debt pile.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ETHIOPIA: CHINESE WORKERS EVACUATED FROM TIGRAY IN ETHIOPIA The South China Morning Post (November 24) reported that about 600 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from the conflict-ridden Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-CANADA: CONFERENCE IN CANADA TO DEMAND THE RELEASE OF MENG WANZHOU OF HUAWEI A Zoom conference with a scheduled six speakers is being held in Canada on November 24 evening to 'Free Meng Wanzhou', CFO of Huawei on the second anniversary of her house arrest.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI TO VISIT JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Tokyo (Japan) and Seoul (RoK) from November 24 - 27. This will be Wang Yi's first visit to Japan since Yoshihide Suga became Japan's new prime minister. He is expected to meet with Suga during his two-day trip and also meet his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi on November 24.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN'S SUPPORTERS RESTART SEMI-OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH BEIJING According to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (November 13), after the US presidential election, China and the United States restarted their stalled behind-the-scenes diplomacy.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE ACADEMIC CAUTIONS THAT US-CHINA RELATIONS UNLIKELY TO RETURN TO PRE-TRUMP TIMES Zheng Yongnian, Dean of the Shenzhen-based think tank 'Advanced Institute of Global and Contemporary China Studies', was quoted by South China Morning Post (November 22) as saying on the sidelines of the 'Understanding China Conference' in Guangzhou, that there was now a bipartisan consensus in the US on containing China.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: US ADMINISTRATION HOSTS LOBSANG SANGAY, PRIME MINISTER OF TIBETAN GOVT-IN-EXILE, AT WHITE HOUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME The newly appointed US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Robert Destro, hosted Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister (also called Sikyong) for an unprecedented meeting at the White House on November 20, 2020. This was the first time in six decades that the leader of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile was invited to the White House.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SENATOR BROWNBACK ASSERTS TIBETAN COMMUNITY HAS RIGHT TO PICK THEIR NEXT DALAI LAMA Addressing the 2020 Ministerial to Advance Freedom of Religion or Belief hosted by the Government of Poland on November 17, US Senator and Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback opposed China’s intervention in picking the next Dalai Lama saying, “The United States supports – that religious community has the right to pick their own leadership.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE MEDIA PAYMENTS TO AMERICAN MEDIA OUTLETS The Epoch Times (November 23) revealed that the China Daily has spent millions for the past six months on U.S. publications, according to its statement filed last week with the US Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-MALAYSIA: MALAYSIA CANCELS US$ 10.5 BILLION MEGA HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Caixin reported (November 21) that Malaysia’s state government of Melaka has terminated a $10.5 billion worth agreement with a local developer who partnered with three Chinese companies over a sea reclamation project involving the building of mixed harbour development, including three man-made islands, in the strategic Malacca Strait.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA INSTRUCTED NOT TO DISCUSS OR COMMENT ON U.S. ELECTIONS AT ALL Quoting a Chinese a military source, the South China Morning Post said the PLA has instructed its 'propagandists' to steer clear of US election coverage to ensure their reports are not “misread as taking sides” in the presidential race.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: TIBET MILITARY REGION IS TOP PRIORITY FOR RECEIVING MILITARY EQUIPMENT, WINTER CLOTHING AND FOR CONSTRUCTION OF BARRACKS The South China Morning Post (October 10) cited a Chinese military source as saying that, counter to the usual practice of giving the latest equipment first to army units of the Eastern and Northern Theatre Commands, frontline troops in western Tibet are now “the top priority” for the PLA logistics department.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-HUMAN RIGHTS: 39 COUNTRIES CONDEMN CHINA'S HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN TIBET, XINJIANG AND HONGKONG IN UNGA In the declaration drafted by Germany and presented at the UN General Assembly in New York on October 6, 39 predominantly Western countries denounced China for gross human rights violations in Xinjiang and the Tibet Autonomous Region and for limiting political and personal freedoms in Hong Kong.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: XINJIANG RECEIVES OVER 15 MILLION VISITORS DURING GOLDEN WEEK HOLIDAYS Local authorities said that tourism to Xinjiang during the Golden week went up 10.78 per cent from the same period last year on a comparable basis. Xinjiang's Culture and Tourism Department said that the tourism revenue during the holiday from October 1 to 8 reached 8.41 billion yuan (about US$ 1.24 billion).
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S DOMESTIC TOURISM PICKS UP Data from China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism showed that there were 637m trips in China over the eight-day holiday this year, which ended on October 8, generating revenue of Rmb466.6bn ($69.5bn).
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S BOX OFFICE TAKINGS HIT SECOND HIGHEST EARNINGS EVER DURING 'GOLDEN WEEK' The Chinese box office raked in CNY3.9 billion (US$ 581 million) over the eight-day public holiday that ended on October 8, the second highest amount ever for the golden week after last year's takings of CNY4.5 billion. Patriotic blockbuster 'My People, My Homeland', the sequel to last year's 'My People, My Country', hit the screens on October 1. It came top with takings of CNY1.9 billion (US$ 283 million).
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SHENZHEN WILL BE THE FIRST CHINESE CITY TO TEST PBoC'S NEW DIGITAL YUAN China’s megacity of Shenzhen will use the People's Bank of China's new digital yuan to provide 10 million yuan (US$ 1.5 million) of coupons to residents as part of ongoing pilot programs to test the virtual currency in a sign that it is approaching widespread rollout.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: MING PAO QUOTES CHINESE THINK-TANK AS SAYING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN US AND CHINA NEARLY SUSPENDED BUT GLOBAL TIMES SAYS THEY ARE OPEN Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao on October 8, quoted Wu Shicun, President of the National Institute for the South China Sea Studies, as saying that bilateral crisis management and control mechanisms between China and the US were nearly suspended amid all-out confrontation between the two sides, which could lead to misfires if soldiers on both sides clash at sea.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN PRESIDENT TSAI ING-WEN'S NATIONAL DAY SPEECH DOESN'T MENTION "CHINESE PRESIDENT" BUT REFERS ONLY TO "THE LEADER ACROSS THE STRAIT" Taiwan President Tsai ing-wen's National Day speech (October 10) in its penultimate section on International Relations included the comment For some time we have all been paying close attention to changes in regional security.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: CHINA ACCUSES TAIWAN OF ESPIONAGE OPERATIONS AGAINST IT The CCP-owned Global Times on October 11 -- the day after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's National Day speech -- introduced the first of is 3-part expose on Taiwan's espionage activities in China with an editorial comment.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-EUROPE: CHINESE MEDIA CONGLOMERATE CMG OPENS OFFICE IN BRUSSELS Politico reported on September 8 that the China Media Group (CMG), the state media super-conglomerate created in March 2018 through the merger of three major media groups, including China Central Television, China National Radio and China Radio International, is planning to open a European office in Brussels.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING SEEKS OPINIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FROM THE PEOPLE IN FINALISING 14TH FIVE YEAR PLAN The People's Daily on September 26, reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping had for the first time in history issued "important instructions" that opinions and suggestions be solicited "from all of society" in the process of drawing up the five-year plan.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-APPOINTMENTS: NEW ASSISTANT MINISTER IN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (MoFA) Wu Jianghao who was Director of the Department of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2017-2020 has been promoted as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA OFFICER SAYS PARTY COMMITTEES IN PLA UNITS ARE IMPROVING THEIR SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES Liu Haitao, identified only as an officer of a Brigade of the PLA's 79th Group Army wrote in China Militarynet on October 5, highlighting that "the method of military training is the most important thing and plays a key role in determining whether the army can fight and win battles".
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: DRONES SUPPLY FOOD TO POSTS ON BATTLEFRONT AT MOTUO IN TIBET The Global Times (October 6) reported that the PLA ground forces had for the first time used 10 UAVs — or drones — to provide logistic support to soldiers stationed at the remote Motuo region in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: PEOPLE'S DAILY COMMENTARIES 'EXPANDING' XI JINPING'S SPEECH AT THIRD CENTRAL XINJIANG WORK SYMPOSIUM The People's Daily published four commentaries 'expanding' Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the recent Third Central Xinjiang Work Symposium between September 28 and October 1.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: TAR PARTY SECRETARY VISITS BAYI IN NYINGCHI TAR Party Secretary Wu Yingjie visited Bayi, capital of Nyingchi Prefecture, on October 1, where he met the Secretaries of all the Party Committees and briefed them on the 'spirit' of the Seventh Tibet Work Forum.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: CHINA OFFICIALLY CLAIMED HIGH VOLUME OF VISITORS TO LHASA OVER NATIONAL DAY Official Chinese figures estimated that over 1.4 million domestic visitors visited Lhasa, capital of the TAR, over the National Day weekend.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA PURCHASES HIGHEST NUMBER OF JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BONDS IN THREE AND A HALF YEARS China has raised its purchases of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) to the highest level in three and a half years, in an apparent effort to reap greater yields on Beijing’s massive reserves of foreign currencies.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: NUMBER OF BILLIONAIRES IN CHINA RISES BY 41 PERCENT IN ONE YEAR The Nikkei Asian Review on October 7, reported that the wealth of China's ultrarich had jumped 41% from April 2019 to the end of July 2020, helping the country's richest citizens to collectively break the $1.5 trillion mark and boost global billionaire wealth to a record high.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S LARGEST CHIP MANUFACTURER IMPACTED BY U.S. TRADE RESTRICTIONS ON SMIC'S SUPPLIERS Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China’s largest computer chipmaker, has been caught in the escalating China-U.S. tech war as it was hit by U.S. trade restrictions limiting access to American suppliers.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-AGRICULTURE: SICHUAN ISSUES REGULATIONS TO REGULATE ALL ASPECTS OF FOOD SUPPLY Well-known Chinese news site Sohu reported (September 27) that the Sichuan provincial people’s congress proposed a new law to regulate all aspects of the food supply, including agricultural production, storage, distribution, quality assurance, emergency safeguards, and legal responsibilities for key players.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-AGRICULTURE: CHINA'S AGRICULTURE IMPORTS RISE BETWEEN JANUARY AND JULY 2020 Earlier, the Agricultural Trade Promotion Center of China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced on September 9, 2020, that China's agricultural imports for January-July 2020 totalled $96.2 billion, up 13 per cent from the same period a year earlier.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-AGRICULTURE: CASS ANTICIPATES SHORTFALL OF 135 MILLION METRIC TONS IN GRAIN SUPPLIES FOR 2035 At a "China Rural Development Report 2020" conference and the "14th Five-Year Plan" China Rural Development High-level Forum in Beijing on August 17, jointly held by the Rural Development Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the China Social Sciences Press the "Report on China's Rural Development 2020" was issued in preparation for writing the 14th five-year plan for 2021-25.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CASS RESEARCHER SAYS LADAKH WILL NOW BE A DISPUTED AREA AND ITS OWNERSHIP WILL BECOME PART OF BORDER NEGOTIATIONS An important statement was made by Zhang Ning, a Research Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), in an article in the 'China Industry Circle' magazine on October 3.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: LEADING CHINESE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLAR ADVISES CHINA NOT TO FIGHT IDEOLOGICAL BATTLES WITH U.S. The South China Morning Post on October 7 reported that Yan Xuetong, Dean of Tsinghua University’s Institute of Modern International Relations in Beijing, published an article in the latest issue of its Quarterly Journal of International Politics which said China should stop fighting ideological battles with the United States and trying to prove the superiority of its political system.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IN ITS FIRST EVER THREAT ASSESSMENT DECLARES U.S. FACES "MOST LONG-TERM STRATEGIC THREAT" FROM CHINA The Voice of America reported (October 7) that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a first-of-its-kind Homeland Threat Assessment on October 7.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: THREE MEASURES AGAINST THE CCP ANNOUNCED AROUND CHINA'S NATIONAL DAY ON OCTOBER 1 The Epoch Times (October 3) reported that the U.S. released three major measures against the CCP around October 1, which is China’s National Day. On October 2, the U.S. Immigration Service issued a policy announcement prohibiting Communist Party members and those who have joined the Communist Party from applying for U.S. immigration status.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: PEOPLE'S DAILY'S 'ZHONG SHENG' COMMENTARY CALLS ON U.S. FOR DIALOGUE A People's Daily 'Zhong Sheng' commentary on August 31 said "There’s no doubt that communication is the only thing that stops lies, and dialogues the only way to avoid misjudges. Slandering others doesn't proves one's innocence, and blame games won’t help solve problems.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: USCESRC LIST REVEALS THERE ARE 13 CHINESE SOES AMONG 217 CHINESE COMPANIES LISTED ON NASDAQ, NY STOCK EXCHANGE AND NYSE AMERICAN The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCESRC) released an updated list of Chinese companies listed on the three largest U.S. stock exchanges i.e. NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange, and NYSE American on October 2.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-GERMANY: HIGH-RANKING GERMAN OFFICIAL SUPPRESSED SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE REPORT ON CHINA'S GROWING INFLUENCE IN GERMANY The business news service Axios disclosed on October 6, that it had learnt that a high-ranking German official suppressed a sensitive intelligence report in 2018 on China’s growing influence in Germany out of fear it would damage business ties with China.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPAN TO EXERCISE STRICTER CONTROLS ON GRANT OF VISAS TO PREVENT TECHNOLOGY THEFT BY CHINA According to the Yomiuri Shimbun (October 5), the Japanese government will from 2021, be more strict in reviewing the visa applications of international university students and foreign researchers in order to prevent advanced technology and information from flowing to China.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-SOUTH KOREA: SOUTH KOREAN COMPANIES RELUCTANT TO MOVE OPERATIONS BACK TO ROK South Korea’s ramped-up efforts to get companies to relocate home from China are failing to gain momentum even as the pandemic and U.S.-China trade tensions highlight the risks of over-reliance on China as a manufacturing base.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING THOUGHT NOW COMPULSORY COURSE IN 37 ELITE UNIVERSITIES ACROSS CHINA Nikkei Asia Review reported (October 4) that the Party theoretical fortnightly in its September 1 edition publicised that Chinese President Xi Jinping's philosophy will henceforth be taught at elite universities.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE VICE PRESIDENT WANG QISHAN'S AIDE BEING INVESTIGATED FOR CORRUPTION The South China Morning Post reported on October 2, that the National Supervisory Commission (NSC) had announced on October 2, that Dong Hong, a senior Chinese government inspector and long-time colleague of Vice-President Wang Qishan including when the latter was President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft tsar, has been placed under a corruption probe.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE APPREHEND US PRESIDENT TRUMP MIGHT SPARK CONFLICT IN THE DAYS PRIOR TO US ELECTIONS A Beijing-based Chinese observer said in the third week of September that many people residing in China and Taiwan are anticipating an ’October Surprise’ as the U.S. election nears this year.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE DISSIDENT CLAIMS CCP "HARDLINERS" HAVE CIRCULATED 8 MEASURES PURPORTEDLY DISCUSSED AT BEIDAIHE Writing in the Apple Daily's Special Column on September 2, Chinese TAM dissident Wang Dan said that a rumour circulating on the internet claimed that after the August 2020 Chinese leadership conference at the Beidaihe seaside resort, some unidentified "hardliners" in the CCP had posted “Eight Policies to Resist the United States" They claimed these had been proposed at Beidaihe.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: CHINA-APPOINTED PANCHEN LAMA HAS HECTIC PROGRAMME (SEPTEMBER 15-27) IN SHIGATSE PREFECTURE The China-appointed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu, who has been in Tibet for probably the longest uninterrupted stay yet, reached Shigatse on September 15, and gave an audience to the monks of the Tashi Lhunpo monastery the same day.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-MONGOLIA: FORMER MONGOLIAN PRESIDENT PUBLICISES HIS LETTER ADDRESSED TO CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING HAS BEEN RETURNED BY THE CHINESE EMBASSY The Central News Agency reported (September 26) that former Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj recently wrote to Chinese President Xi Jinping to protest against the authorities’ push for the use of Chinese teaching materials in Inner Mongolia.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: POLITICAL COMMISSAR OF NDU WRITES IN GUANGMING DAILY URGING PARTY'S ABSOLUTE LEADERSHIP OVER ARMY AND STUDY OF XI JINPING'S MILITARY THOUGHTS Wu Jieming, Political Commissar of the National Defense University and Director of the Research Center of Xi Jinping thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics and an Alternate Member of the 19th CCPCC wrote an important lengthy 3079-word article in the Guangming Daily (October 4) emphasising the that "Mastering ideological education is the central link in uniting the whole party in a great political struggle."
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S ONLY CHIP MANUFACTURER INCREASES IMPORTS TO BUILD A STOCKPILE FOR FUTURE Sina reported on October 4, that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China's partially state-owned publicly-listed semiconductor foundry company, is scaling up its procurement from upstream suppliers in the United States, Europe, and Japan, with a size exceeding a full-year’s demand for 2020.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: US STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES RULES THAT ANYONE BELONGING OR AFFILIATED TO A COMMUNIST PARTY OR OTHER TOTALITARIAN PARTY IS INADMISSABLE TO THE U.S. The US State Department issued a notice on October 2, 2020, which states that "The inadmissibility ground for membership in or affiliation with the Communist or any other totalitarian party1 is part of a broader set of laws passed by Congress to address threats to the safety and security of the United States.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: PLA LT. GENERAL HE LEI WRITES IN GLOBAL TIMES ON OCTOBER 1 LAUDING THE CHINESE ARMED FORCES ROLE AGAINST THE U.S. IN THE KOREAN WAR Lt General He Lei, a former Deputy Commander of the Lanzhou Military Region and Vice President of the PLA Academy of Military Science, published an article in the Global Times on October 1, highlighting China's role in the Korean War against the U.S. Saying that the People's Volunteer Army (PVA) "won a great victory in the war", which demonstrated the national prestige of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the military power of the people's army.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-BANGLADESH: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING AND BANGLADESH COUNTERPART EXCHANGE CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES Exchanging congratulatory messages on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Bangladesh on October 4, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that he stands ready to work with his Bangladeshi counterpart, Md. Abdul Hamid, to better align the two countries' strategies and jointly promote the construction of the Belt and Road, so as to take the China-Bangladesh strategic partnership of cooperation to new heights.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-EU: EUROPEAN POLITICIANS AND INTELLECTUALS PUBLISH OP-ED IN LE MONDE CRITICISING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN XINJIANG European politicians and intellectuals, mostly on the progressive Left, published a powerful October 1 Op-Ed in Le Monde denouncing the crime against humanity in Xinjiang.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-FOUNDING DAY The People's Daily front-paged a report on October 1, of the flag-raising ceremony to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China on October 1, 2020. Other national newspapers like China Economic Daily etc. also carried similar reports on their front pages.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEETING RESOLUTION FURTHER ELEVATES XI JINPING'S POSITION The Politburo meeting held on September 28, said that the “enactment of the regulations on the work of the CPC Central Committee 《中国共产党中央委员会工作条例》 is essential to upholding the authority of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, and its centralized and unified leadership, according to the meeting.”
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP 19TH CC PLENUM ON OCTOBER 26-29, 2020 At a meeting on September 28, the CCP CC Politburo announced that the Fifth Plenary session of the CCP's 19th Central Committee will be held in Beijing from October 26 - 29, 2020.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC STANDING COMMITTEE TO MEET FOR ITS 22ND SESSION IN BEIJING FROM OCTOBER 13-17 The 13th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee will convene for its 22nd session from October 13 to 17.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC TO MEET IN NOVEMBER Xinhua reported on September 29, that the Standing Committee of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will convene its 14th meeting in early November in Beijing.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINA TO ISSUE COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS ON 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF KOREAN WAR The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee (CC), State Council and Central Military Commission (CMC) announced (September 24) that commemorative medals will be issued on the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's participation in the Korean War (1950-53) against the US and will be awarded to living Volunteer Army veterans who had fought in the war.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: CURBS ON PRACTICE OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM BY ETHNIC TIBETANS IN CCP AND TAR GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL RFA quoted (September 28) sources as reporting that ethnic Tibetan members of the CCP, government workers, and students are now routinely denied access to monasteries and temples in many parts of Tibet. Penpa Dhondup, Director of the Archives of the Tibet Autonomous Region, was recently fired from his post for affirming his faith in Tibetan Buddhism.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-RELIGION: CHINESE AUTHORITIES NOW TARGET UTSULS COMMUNITY OF MUSLIMS IN HAINAN The South China Morning Post reported on September 28 that the latest moves of Chinese authorities are now to target the small and little-known community of Utsuls, who are Muslims, in Hainan.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY SHOWING SIGNS OF PLATEAUING IN SEPTEMBER Caixin said (September 28) that China’s economic rebound showed signs of plateauing in September, weighed down by lacklustre home and car sales, a weaker stock market and worsening business confidence.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE SELLER OF BOTTLED SPRING WATER BECOMES CHINA'S RICHEST MAN Zhong Shanshan, President of Hangzhou-based Nongfu Spring, has overtaken Alibaba's Jack Ma to become the nation's richest person after a surge in his company's share price boosted his fortune to almost $60bn according to Bloomberg estimates.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: VICE PRESIDENT OF CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY THINK-TANK WARNS AGAINST "MISJUDGEMENT" AND SAYS THAT AMERICAN POWER IS NOT ON THE WANE The South China Morning Post (September 30) reported the remarks of Yuan Nansheng, China's former Consul General in San Francisco and Vice President of the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), a think-tank of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), in an article posted on September 20, 2020, on the official Wechat account of Peking University's Institute of International and Strategic Studies outlining what he assessed would be the key changes that would reset bilateral relations once the pandemic is over.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE OFFICIAL MEDIA RECALLS KOREAN WAR AND SAYS CHINA THEN WAS NOT AFRAID TO FIGHT THE U.S. Xiakedao, the WeChat account of People’s Daily overseas edition, wrote that it is necessary for the Chinese public to re-study the Korean War and China’s decision to fight the Americans.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA RETALIATES WITH RESTRICTIONS ON US DIPLOMATS MEETING HONGKONG OFFICIALS OR EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY PERSONNEL The South China Morning Post reported (September 27) that Beijing has put in place retaliatory measures that American diplomats must obtain approval from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs before they can meet with Hong Kong government officials or personnel from the city’s educational institutions and societies.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: LEADING CHINESE A.I. EXPERT IN U.S. RETURNS TO PEKING UNIVERSITY Professor Zhu Songchun, an award-winning expert in computer vision at the University of California at Los Angeles, has joined Peking University to lead its Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the university said in a statement issued on September 25.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: US IMPOSES RESTRICTIONS ON TAIWAN'S SMIC The U.S. imposed export restrictions on Taiwan's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) adding to tensions between with China over the critical industry. U.S. firms must now apply for a license to export certain products to China’s largest chipmaker, the Commerce Department said in a letter dated September 25, reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: US FEDERAL TEMPORARILY BLOCKS BAN ON TIK TOK A US Federal district judge blocked a key part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s TikTok ban from going into effect on September 27 night, even as its Chinese parent ByteDance has yet to form a plan for the popular video app that would satisfy either Washington or Beijing.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-US: PEOPLE'S DAILY SPECIAL COMMENTARY CRITICISES "EXTREME ANTI-CHINA US POLITICIANS" FOR "ATTACKING CCP AND CHINA'S POLITICAL SYSTEM" The People’s Daily on September 20, published the eighth Zhong Sheng commentary in its series on “Correctly Viewing and Properly Handling China-US Relations.”
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-TAJIKSTAN: CHINA'S CLAIMS EXPAND TO INCLUDE TAJIKSTAN'S PAMIR MOUNTAINS In an article published in The Interpreter of the Sydney-based Lowy Institute, on September 23, Suzanne Levi-Sanchez said that a Chinese diplomat recently stated that the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan belonged to China and always have.
Oct 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: THIRD CENTRAL XINJIANG WORK CONFERENCE HELD IN BEIJING ON SEPTEMBER 25-26, 2020 Speaking at the Third Central Work Conference on Xinjiang, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed 'that China will work hard to build a Xinjiang that follows the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and is united, prosperous, culturally advanced, harmonious & beautiful'.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-RELIGION: OFFICIALLY APPROVED TEXT BOOK CHANGES BIBLICAL VERSION OF GOSPEL OF JOHN UCA News (September 25) said that Catholics in mainland China are upset about the distortion of a Bible story in a school textbook, which claims Jesus Christ stoned to death a sinner woman in order to respect the law of the time.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ENVIRONMENT: XI JINPING'S CLAIM AT UNGA TO MAKE CHINA CARBON FREE BY 2060 RAISES DOUBTS Chinese President Xi Jinping's assertion in his speech to the UNGA on September 22, that "We aim to have [carbon dioxide] emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060” was questioned in an article in Foreign Policy on September 25 by Adam Tooze who said "Thanks to the gigantic surge in economic growth since 2000 and its reliance on coal-fired electricity generation, China is now by far the largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: FORMER CHINESE FINANCE MINISTER PROPOSES MEASURES FOR 'DUAL CIRCULATION STRATEGY' Former Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei spoke at the closed-door symposium of the influential 'China Economists 50 Forum' on September 15, when he shared some thoughts on China’s new economic framework – the dual circulation strategy (DCS).
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: EFFORT TO REVITALISE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL SECTOR On September 24, China's leadership attended the 7th Congress of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (ACFSMC). Chinese President Xi Jinping praised the ACFSMC on the state-owned CCTV saying it has a “Long history, glorious tradition, and role as an important force in developing agriculture and rural areas.”
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA INCREASES FOOD IMPORTS Bloomberg reported on September 25, that the world’s largest agricultural commodity traders are making the most money in years exporting everything from soybeans to corn and wheat from American ports to China.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA HOLDS ITS SIXTH MILITARY EXPO IN BEIJING China Daily reported that Sixth China (Beijing) Military Intelligent Technology and Equipment Expo opened in Beijing on September 22. This Expo is organised by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and hosted by the China Command and Control Society, and the Beijing Insight Future Exhibition Co., Ltd. The 8th China Command and Control Conference will be held at the same time.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: HUAWEI DEVELOPING UNIT TO FOCUS ON SMART CAR SOLUTIONS Caixin (September 26) reported that there are plenty of companies in China wanting to compete with Tesla. These, it said, include Alibaba-backed Xpeng to Nvidia partner Li Auto. Caixin assessed that the real Tesla challenger may be Huawei Technologies Co.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLE CALLS ON CHINA TO BE TOUGHER WITH INDIA Writing a tough article in the Global Times (September 26), Liu Zongyi, Secretary-General of the Research Center for China-South Asia Cooperation at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, a Visiting Fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, and Distinguished Fellow of China (Kunming) South Asia & Southeast Asia Institute, commented on a remark in the Hindu of a "senior [Indian] government official" that suggested, "If PLA (People's Liberation Army) comes close, Indian troops can fire."
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: RETIRED CHINESE LT. GENERAL WARNS CHINA TO BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE "SURPRISE ATTACK" BY INDIA Hongkong's South China Morning Post (September 26) reported that Retired Lt General Wang Hongguang, former Commander of the PLA Eastern Theatre Command and Deputy Commander of the Nanjing Military Region, warned on his social media account on September 23, that China should stay on the alert for surprise attacks by India along its disputed Himalayan border with India.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-NEPAL: NEPAL'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO CHINA DISMISSES INDIAN MEDIA REPORTS ON NEPAL-CHINA RELATIONS AS "FAKE" In an interview with Global Times (September 27), Nepal's new Ambassador to China, Mahendra Bahadur Pandey (Pandey) said "Nepal and China are good neighbours and good friends. Diplomatically, we established the relations in 1955.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEMBER AND VICE PREMIER LIU HE VISITS CHINESE ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING PHYSICS Duowei News reported (September 19) that as China-US relations have got strained and Chinese technology companies such as Huawei have been hit by the US one after another, top CCP leaders held a symposium of scientists on September 11.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: REN ZHIQIANG SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS IMPRISONMENT AND HUGE FINE The Second Intermediary Court of Beijing announced on its website September 22, that 69-year old Ren Zhiqiang, 'princeling', real estate tycoon and outspoken critic of Chinese President Xi Jinping was sentenced to 18 years prison and fined about $619,000 for corruption and bribery in his previous position as chairman of Huayuan Real Estate Group.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: CCP CC GENERAL OFFICE ISSUES GUIDELINES ON EDUCATION CAMPAIGN THAT BEGAN IN JUNE 2019 The People's Daily publicised (September 15) that the CCP CC General Office issued guidelines for deepening the achievements of the “Remain True to the Original Aspiration, Keep the Mission Firmly in Mind” education campaign that began in June 2019.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S STATE COUNCIL DECIDES TO ADD THREE MORE FREE TRADE ZONES China's State Council announced a plan on September 21, to further expand the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) programme to attract foreign investment and boost trade.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: ARTICLE IN STRAITS TIMES IDDENTIFIES DIFFICULTIES IN CHINA SHIFTING TO A DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION-LED ECONOMY An article by Vikram Khanna, Associate Editor of the Straits Times on September 23 said "Economist Teng Tai, President of the Chinese think-tank Winbro New Economic Thinking Institute, was quoted as saying in a report in the state-owned Securities Times.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-AVIATION: PRODUCTION OF COMAC C-919, CHINA'S FIRST LARGE PASSENGER AIRLINER FACES LIKELY DELAYS AMID U.S. SANCTIONS The Central News Agency (September 22) reported that the Comac C919, which aerospace manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) developed, is China’s first domestically-made large passenger aircraft.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA TO LOSE ACCESS TO YATHARAGGA SATELLITE STATION IN AUSTRALIA ON EXPIRY OF CONTRACT Quoting the Asahi Shimbun, Reuters reported (September 21) that China will lose access to the strategic space tracking Yatharagga Satellite Station, located about 350 km north of the Australian city of Perth when its contract expires. The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) had a contract allowing Beijing access to the satellite antenna at the ground station since at least 2011.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST JOSHUA WONG ARRESTED ON SEPTEMBER 24 Joshua Wong, Hongkong Democracy activist and politician was arrested by Hongkong Police on September 24 evening and released on bail a few hours later.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: AUSTRALIAN THINK-TANK IDENTIFIES 380 NEW SUSPECTED DETENTION FACILITIES IN XINJIANG The Washington Post reported (September 25) that the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) used satellite images and official construction tender documents to map more than 380 suspected detention facilities in the remote Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, highlighting reeducation camps, detention centers and prisons that have been newly built or expanded since 2017.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: JOINT STATEMENT ON INDIA-CHINA BORDER TALKS AT LAC After the border commander talks at the Chinese Moldo post opposite Chushul, on September 21 the two sides issued a joint press statement.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA'S OVERSEAS MEDIA COMMENT ON COMPOSITION OF INDIAN DELEGATION FOR BORDER TALKS The overseas Chinese news outlet on September 21 commented on the altered composition of the Indian team to the border talks on September 21.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WARNS IN TWITTER POST THAT INDIAN MILITARY IS NO MATCH FOR PLA In a Twitter post on September 21, the Editor-in-Chief of the CCP-owned Global Times Hu Xijin said "The PLA released the latest video of joint land-sea-air drill in Tibet region.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HU XIJIN ON WEIBO POSTS SAYS PEOPLE HAVE LOST PATIENCE AND TAIWAN NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON The Editor-in-Chief of Global Times Hu Xijin said on his Weibo account on September 21 that the 'whole mainland society has lost patience with the Taipei authorities' and they generally believe that “Taiwan independence” forces 'need to be taught a fundamental lesson'. He said 'if the other side dared to shoot the PLA fighters first, the PLA can attack Taiwan'.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN'S KMT MISSES ATTENDING STRAITS FORUM FOR THE FIRST TIME Radio Free Asia reported (September 15) that Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) political party originally planned that Wang Jin-pyng, a former legislator, would lead a delegation to Xiamen of Fujian province to participate in the Straits Forum on September 16.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN'S REPRESENTATIVE TO WASHINGTON DESIGNATES HERSELF AS "AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON" Taiwan's Representative to Washington DC, Ms. Bi-khim Hsiao designated herself on her personal Twitter account as Taiwan's "Ambassador to Washington". She subsequently clarified that she is not an official ambassador, but "like one".
(Comment: Bi-Khim Hsiao is a close confidante of Taiwan President Tsai-Ing wen.)
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: PLA AIR FORCE RELEASES SHORT VIDEO DEPICTING AN ATTACK BY NUCLEAR-CAPABLE H-6 BOMBERS ON A TARGET RESEMBLING THE U.S. ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE IN GUAM The PLAAF released a two minute and 15-second video titled “The god of war H-6K goes on the attack!” on September 19, of two nuclear-capable H-6 bombers carrying out a simulated attack on what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam. as regional tensions continue to rise.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: NATURALISED U.S. CITIZEN WHO IS ETHNIC TIBETAN NATIVE OF PRC ARRESTED BY U.S. AUTHORITIES ON CHARGES OF SPYING FOR CHINA A 33-year old New York City Police officer and United States Army reservist of Tibetan origin, Baimadajie Angwang, was charged on September 21, in federal court in the Eastern District of New York for espionage on behalf of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as well as committing wire fraud, making false statements and obstructing an official proceeding.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: MORE JAPANESE COMPANIES APPLY TO MOVE OUT OF CHINA The Chinese-language transmission of Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on September 14, that the Japanese government’s aid program to assist Japanese companies to leave China is gaining in popularity. The first batch of approved applicants consisted of nearly 90 companies. However, by the end of July, the program received almost 1,700 applications in the second batch.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S VISIT TO HUNAN PROVINCE During his visit (September 17-18) to Hunan Province, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a stop in Changsha, where he visited: an advanced manufacturing company producing intelligent equipment; a cultural industry park; and a university.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: STATE COUNCIL MEETING PROPOSES BUREAUCRATIC REFORM A State Council executive meeting chaired by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on September 18, told provinces to reform procedures and make it easy for people and businesses that operate across province lines.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: STATE COUNCIL MEETING PROPOSES SOE REFORM The State Council Executive meeting of September 18 also had SoE reform on its agenda.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINA'S STATE COUNCIL PUBLISHED WHITE PAPER ON 'EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR RIGHTS IN XINJIANG' The State Council published a White Paper on 'Employment and labor rights in Xinjiang' on September 16, 2020.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: YOU QUAN, HEAD OF CCP CC UFWD VISITS SICHUAN PROVINCE Secretary of the CCP CC and Head of the CCP CC's United Front Work Department (UFWD) You Quan visited (September 14-15) Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, and had discussions with the provincial party and government leaders.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: GUANGMING DAILY ARTICLE COUNTERS U.S. ALLEGATIONS OF FORCED LABOUR IN XINJIANG An article by Jia Chunyang, Research Associate of the Chinese Institutes of Contemporary International Relations in the Guangming Daily (September 20) insisted that "Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: IDEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN CHINA'S PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION Writing in the China Education Daily (September 17) Jia Hongxia, Associate Professor at Beijing Open University, stressed that preschool education is the foundation stage of basic education and lifelong education.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL DEVELOPMENT RELEASES YEARBOOK LISTING DETAILS OF URBAN POPULATION INCREASE China's 21st Century Business Herald on September 12, cited statistics from the Urban and Rural Statistics Yearbook issued by China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, which disclosed that between 2014 and 2018, 451 cities had “urban expansion and population growth,” 87 cities had “urban expansion and population shrinkage,” 18 cities had “urban contraction and population growth,” and 13 cities had “urban contraction and population shrinkage.”
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: REPUTATION OF CHINA-OWNED VOLVO AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER DAMAGED BY LARGE NUMBER OF RECALLS China Economy (September 8) reported that China-owned Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo issued multiple recalls for a total of 380,000 cars in the Chinese domestic market in the last month alone. Volvo ranked number one on the recall list in August in China.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA NAVY TO BUILD 2 MORE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Li Jie, a Beijing-based senior researcher at the PLA's Naval Military Studies Research Institute, confirmed at a national defense education event in Beijing, that the PLA Navy “will continue to develop and build the third, and even the fourth aircraft carriers".
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINESE ANALYSTS CALL FOR MORE TYPE-15 TANKS IN PLA WESTERN THEATRE COMMAND Following the release recently by 'Yangguang Military' of photographs of comprehensive exercises in the PLA Western Theater, Chinese military analysts on September 17 complained there were too few Type-15 tanks in the PLA Western Theatre Command in contrast to the large reserves of Type-59 tanks.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: ARTICLE CLAIMS HIGH DEGREE OF DIGITISATION IN PLA WESTERN THEATRE COMMAND WITH ARTILLERY LINKED TO J-10 FIGHTER AIRCRAFT A discussion among Chinese military analysts on September 18 claimed that the PLA Western Theatre Command had a high degree of digitisation with Artillery linked to J-10 fighter aircraft. They claimed the digital combat system is not only equipped with some walkie-talkies and the like in the squad, battalion and company units, but a complete architecture built on the concept of "network cloud".
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: RETIRED PLA OFFICER IN GLOBAL TIMES SAYS INDIAN ARMY CANNOT FIGHT WITHOUT US SUPPORT Writing in Global Times (September 20) retired PLA Navy Senior Captain Li Jie said that despite 20,000 military personnel being infected with COVID, the Indian Army "may still insist on sending troops to the India-China border".
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE MEDIA ARTICLE CRITICAL OF BHUTAN An article captioned 'Bhutan is making trouble in Donglang? India frequently provokes neighbouring countries, Pakistan and Nepal' and criticising the India-Bhutan relationship was posted on the Chinese government-maintained Bajiahao portal on September 5.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: PLA HOLDS MILITARY EXERCISES IN TAIWAN STRAITS The PLA commenced joint maritime and aerial exercises and combat-readiness patrols in the Taiwan Straits on September 18.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. PROPOSES ONE OF THE LARGEST ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN The New York Times (September 17) reported that the Trump administration is pushing the sale of seven large packages of weapons to Taiwan, including long-range missiles that would allow Taiwanese jets to hit distant Chinese targets in the event of a conflict.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. BANS NEW DOWNLOADS OF CHINESE APPS AND CASH TRANSFERS VIA WECHAT The U.S. Commerce Department said (September 18) that the US will block new downloads and updates of Chinese-owned social apps WeChat and TikTok with effect from September 200. Cash transfers through WeChat in the U.S. will also be banned.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: EXTREME POST BY CHINESE BLOGGER CALLS FOR "ANNIHILATION" OF U.S. A Weibo post in Chinese and English on September 12, by a prominent blogger “Big V” went to the most extreme of extremes, advocating global nuclear annihilation in the event that the United States curtails China’s ambitions.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-UK: UK'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO CHINA ATTRACTS CRITICISM BEFORE DEPARTING FOR BEIJING Caroline Wilson, Britain's new Ambassador to China after she posted a photograph on social media holding a copy of the book 'Governance of China' authored by Xi Jinping presented by Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming when she met him. Viewers interpreted that as an endorsement of the hard-line policies of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC CHAIRMAN WANG YANG VISITS QINGHAI PROVINCE CPPCC Chairman and PBSC member Wang Yang just completed a two-day tour of Qinghai. He went there to spread the message of the 7th central Tibet Work Conference held in Beijing from August 28-29.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PBSC MEMBER AND VICE PREMIER HAN ZHENG INSPECTS WUHAN Han Zheng, PBSC Member and Vice Premier went on tour to Wuhan, Hubei Province, where he pointed out that Hubei Province and Wuhan City have resolutely implemented the spirit of General Secretary Jinping’s important instructions, and coordinated the promotion of normalized epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW COLLECTION OF CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S RELEASED AS A BOOK ON SEPTEMBER 10 A new book presenting a collection of Xi Jinping's speeches titled 'Excerpts from Xi Jinping's statements on Preventing Risks and Challenges and Responding to Emergencies' edited by the CCP CC's Institute of Party History and Documentation and published by the Central Literature Publishing House was released on September 10 for nationwide distribution.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-UNITED FRONT WORK: NEW GUIDELINES STRENGTHEN UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES IN PRIVATE SECTOR The All-Private Economy United Front Work Conference was held via video conference in Beijing on September 16 and prominently covered by the state-owned CCTV.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: BACKGROUND OF POLITBURO MEMBER AND XINJIANG PARTY SECRETARY CHEN QUANGUO An article in the South China Morning Post (December 13, 2019) gave the personal background of Xinjiang Party Secretary and Politburo member Chen Quanguo. It said Chen Quanguo was born into a working-class family in Henan province, a region dependent on agriculture and coal mining. In 1977, he got a firm foot on the rung of the ladder out of obscurity when he passed the college entrance exam.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: GENG XIAONIAN, PUBLISHER AND SUPPORTER OF PROF. XU ZHANGRUN LIKELY TO RECEIVE SEVERE PUNISHMENT An article in the Diplomat (September 15) said that Geng Xiaonan, a well-known Beijing publisher and outspoken supporter of the famously harassed former Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun presently under detention, is reportedly destined for “very heavy” punishment, not the 15 day maximum in an unpleasant detention cell usually imposed for minor offences not deemed sufficiently grave to constitute a “crime.”
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: NINE TIBETANS CHARGED WITH 'SPLITTIST' ACTIVITIES Citing a reliable Chinese government source, the Dui Hua Foundation reported (September 14) that nine Tibetans have been convicted of inciting splittism by the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Intermediate People’s Court in Sichuan Province since the end of June 2020. Three of the Tibetans were also convicted of arson in a case first heard by the court in 2019.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA: CHINESE AUTHORITIES START SEVERE CRACKDOWN TO QUELL PROTESTS BY MONGOLIANS Chinese authorities have issued a list of 'wanted' protesters and arrested more than 130, according to Foreign Policy (September 16).
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IDENTIFIES FOCUS AREAS AFFECTED BY US SANCTIONS At a press conference in Beijing on September 16, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Bai Chunli, Secretary-General of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wang Keqiang and Director of the Development and Planning Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Xie Pengyun spoke about the progress made in the first phase of China's "First Action" plan.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINESE CHIP MANUFACTURER SMIC LIKELY TO FACE US SANCTIONS Taiwanese news site NewTalk reported (September 10) that U.S. Pentagon officials advised that the Trump administration is considering blacklisting Chinese domestic chip maker SMIC due to its ties to the Chinese military.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: ANBANG INSURANCE CO., TO APPLY FOR DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATION China’s once-highflying Anbang Insurance Group Co. Ltd. will apply to the country’s top insurance regulator for dissolution and liquidation, Anbang said on September 14.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: OFFICIAL DATA REVEALS UNEMPLOYMENT IS LOWER China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) published the August unemployment data on September 15 which, according to Caixin, showed that nationally, unemployment fell to 5.6%, not too far above last year's 5.2% and disclosed that only 4.8% of workers between 25-59 years are unemployed.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: AIR RAID ALERT TEST IN LHASA ON SEPTEMBER 19 The Lhasa City government announced on September 14 that there would be an air raid test around noon on September 19 “ to improve the general public's conception of national defense and civil air defense awareness and in order to implement the air defense alarm test day system and test our air defense alarm facility.”
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLE CLAIMS MORALE OF PLA TROOPS IS HIGH AND THEY ARE FULLY PREPARED In an article in Global Times, its Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin sought to hype Chinese morale by saying that PLA soldiers deployed on the frontlines receive hot meals, are fit and can stay through the winter. They have modern arms and equipment. He said "Most of them were born in the 1990s, or even 2000s.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-EU: POSITIVE VIRTUAL SUMMIT BETWEEN CHINESE AND EU LEADERS ON SEPTEMBER 14 Chinese and European leaders agreed on September 14 in a virtual summit to speed up and conclude negotiations on a bilateral investment agreement within the year in a sign that the two sides are willing to cooperate in the pandemic recovery despite disputes over technology and geopolitical tensions.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: US TREASURY DEPARTMENT SANCTIONS CHINESE SOE UDG GROUP The United States Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on the Chinese state-owned Tianjin-based Union Development Group (UDG) for human rights abuses and the seizure of land in Cambodia used in a $3.8 billion property development.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: TIK TOK'S ACQUISITION BY ORACLE DOESN'T QUELL AMERICAN CONCERNS Foreign Policy reported (September 16) that after weeks of speculation about Microsoft acquiring TikTok, the Chinese-owned app will instead be acquired by the corporate technology company Oracle. The firm will remain majority-owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance, with a “partnership” with Oracle.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: ANOTHER SENIOR US OFFICIAL TO VISIT TAIWAN The US State Department announced that U.S. Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach will visit Taiwan for a memorial service for former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui on September 19.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CHAIRS CONFERENCE OF SCIENTISTS On September 11, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted a symposium for scientists in Beijing. In his speech, he emphasised that China's economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihood more than ever require scientific and technological solutions, as well as the first driving force of innovation.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG PRESIDES OVER STATE COUNCIL EXECUTIVE WEEKLY MEETING Chinese Premier Li Keqiang presided over the State Council’s weekly executive meeting on September 9, when boosting consumption and stimulating domestic demand was discussed. Li Keqiang acknowledged that “COVID-19 has made a big impact on consumption” and that “for China to achieve positive growth this year, boosting consumption is vitally important.” He said, “Efforts should be made in line with our own national conditions to expand channels of consumption and stimulate domestic demand.”
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG PRESIDES OVER STATE COUNCIL EXECUTIVE WEEKLY MEETING TO DISCUSS ADVANCING MEDICAL EDUCATION Presiding over the State Council meeting on September 9, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang described the shortage of qualified medical personnel as a big problem.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-MARITIME: PEOPLE'S DAILY ARTICLE ADVOCATES CHINA BUILDING ITS MARITIME STRENGTH Writing in the People's Daily (September 11) Zhao Yibing of the School of International Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, said it is time for China to build maritime power.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-SECURITY CONTROLS: SUZHOU INTRODUCES NEW 'CIVILISATION CODE' The Chinese media reported that Suzhou, a city west of Shanghai, introduced a “Civilization Code” on September 3. It consists of a “civil transport index” and a “volunteer index,” with more indices and functions to be added in the future to create a “personal portrait” for each resident to promote civility and social responsibility which would later cover civilised dining, social courtesy, online behaviour, law-abiding behaviour and food saving.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-TECH: CHINA'S CHIP MANUFACTURING COMPANIES ARE IN DIFFICULTIES Sina.com reported (August 25) that a number of 'scandalous' projects in China’s semi-conductor chip industry recently came to a halt mostly due to a lack of funding. Local governments often desperately scramble for chip projects to show their political achievements.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CCTV PUBLICISES 'STATE OF WAR' EXERCISES BY 'INTEGRATED' BRIGADE OF TIBET MILITARY REGION The state-owned China CCTV News reported on September 11 that a 'composite' (integrated) brigade of the Tibet Military Region recently organized a full-staff, multi-subject, live-fire drill in an unfamiliar area at an altitude of 4,600 meters.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HU XIJIN CLAIMS THAT THE INDIANS ARRESTED AND RELEASED BY CHINA ARE INTELLIGENCE AGENTS On the morning of September 12, Beijing time, Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of the CCP-owned "Global Times" posted on Chinese social media Weibo that sources had revealed that the Indians released by China in Arunachal Pradesh were Indian intelligence agents dressed as hunters.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HU XIJIN WRITES ARTICLE STRESSING NEED FOR 'MORALITY' AS CHINA RISES On September 11 -- the day the joint press statement was issued after the meeting between India's EAM Jaishankar and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi -- the Editor-in-Chief of the CCP-owned Global Times Hu Xijin authored an article captioned 'China must be militarily and morally ready for a potential war'.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: PEOPLE'S DAILY REFUSES TO PUBLISH U.S. AMBASSADOR'S OP-ED U.S. Ambassador to China,Terry Branstad, recently sent an Op-Ed titled “Resetting the Relationship Based on Reciprocity,” but the People’s Daily rejected his request. On September 10, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and People’s Daily said the U.S. Ambassador’s article was “full of loopholes” and accused the U.S. of being ” illogical, overbearing and unreasonable” in this matter.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-SWITZERLAND: CONTROVERSY OVER AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN SWITZERLAND AND CHINA ON IDENTIFICATION AND REPATRIATION OF ILLEGAL CHINESE RESIDENTS Controversy has risen in Switzerland after revelations by the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper (September 12) of a little known bilateral agreement concluded in December 2015 between the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) and it is equivalent in the Chinese Ministry of Public Security.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING PRESIDES OVER MEETING OF CENTRAL COMMISSION FOR FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC STRATEGIES On September 9, Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), the Party’s top body for deliberating economic strategies which typically meets three times a year. On top of its agenda was creating a more efficient logistics system.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CONFERS STATE HONOURS ON FOUR CHINESE DOCTORS Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top leaders gathered in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 8, to honour citizens who have contributed to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Xinhua reported that renowned respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan received the Medal of the Republic, the highest state honour.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: QIU SHI REPRINTS CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S SPEECH STRESSING IMPORTANCE OF IDEOLOGY Qiushi (17/2020 dated August 31) reprinted a speech Chinese President Xi Jinping gave on March 18, 2019, at a symposium for teachers of ideological and political theory classes in schools.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ZHENG SHANJIE APPOINTED NEW GOVERNOR OF ZHEJIANG PROVINCE 58-year old Zheng Shanjie was appointed Governor of Zhejiang Province on September 4. He took over from Yuan Jiajun, who was promoted as Party Secretary of Zhejiang earlier last week.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEMBER GUO SHENGKUN HOLDS FORUM ON POLITICAL AND LEGAL PROPAGANDA The People's Daily (September 3) reported that Politburo member and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission Guo Shengkun held a forum on September 2, on political and legal propaganda and public opinion, emphasizing the importance of implementing Xi Jinping’s guidance on political and legal work and public opinion.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: REN ZHIQIANG'S TRIAL SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 11 IN BEIJING The Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court announced on September 8 that the Ninth Court of the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court will hold the trial of Ren Zhiqiang at 9:30 on September 11, 2020.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: GENG XIAONAN, SUPPORTER OF PROF XU ZHANGRUN, ARRESTED IN BEIJING On September 9, 2020, which was also the forty-fourth death anniversary of Mao Zedong, Geng Xiaonan and her husband Qin Zhen (秦真) were detained by the Beijing police, prompting Prof. Xu Zhangrun to publish an 'open' letter appealing for her release.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-APPOINTMENTS: DENG LI IS NEW ASSISTANT MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS The appointment of Deng Li (邓励) as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs was announced on September 8.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-DIPLOMACY: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HU XIJIN ASKS WHY CHINA HAS NO FRIENDS A South China Morning Post article (September 9) by Shi Jiangtao observed that as China faces mounting criticism, including over its aggressive diplomacy and initial handling of the outbreak, as its rift with the US worsens, Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of Global Times in an article over the weekend asked: “How come the whole world is China’s enemy?
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-DIPLOMACY: YANG JIECHI VISITS GREECE, SPAIN AND MYANMAR Prior to leaving on his visits to Greece, Spain, and Myanmar, Politburo member Yang Jiechi gave a written interview to Xinhua on September 6.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-FILMS & TV: HOLLYWOOD FILMS TO BE SHOWN IN CHINA HAVE MORE LIGHT-SKINNED ACTORS A Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Research Paper published in February 2020 has found that since 2012, when the Chinese government began allowing more foreign films into the country, Hollywood movies have cast more light-skinned actors in starring roles.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: GLOBAL TIMES REPORTS CHINA REINFORCES TROOS IN TIBET A Global Times (September 9) article reported that the PLA has been reportedly mobilizing forces, including bombers, air defense troops, artillery, armoured vehicles, paratroopers, special forces and infantry units, from different parts of the country to the bordering plateau region, a move that, it said, shows the PLA's capability and determination to safeguard the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE FOREIGN STATEMENT ISSUED STATEMENT SIMULTANEOUS WITH THE JOINT STATEMENT ON MEETING BETWEEN THE INDIAN AND CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTERS Almost simultaneous with the issue of the Joint Statement after the meeting between India's Foreign Minister Dr. S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing issued the following statement.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED AFTER EAM JAISHANKAR'S MEETING WITH CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 H.E. Dr. S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India met H.E. Wang Yi, State Councillor and Foreign Minister of China on 10th September in Moscow on the side-lines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting. Both Ministers had a frank and constructive discussion on the developments in the India-China border areas as well as on India-China relations.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HU XIJIN'S ARTICLE IN GLOBAL TIMES Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of Global Times wrote (September 8) an interesting and less strident, but yet tough, article in the Global Times.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: SITUATION ALONG THE LAC BECOMES MORE TENSE IN CHUSHUL SECTOR Following the incident on September 7, when Indian troops forced Chinese troops advancing on the Indian position at Mukhpari Peak north of Rezang La to retreat, the spokesman of the PLA Western Theatre Command Colonel Zhang Shuili made a statement on September 7 "on the provocation of the Indian army’s illegal crossing of the line again".
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ASEAN: WANG YI TO ATTEND ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM ON FINAL DAY Nikkei Asian Review (September 1) reported that Vietnam will host the meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum from September 9 to discuss Asia-Pacific security.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINESE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY SPEAKS TO PAKISTANI COUNTERPART Xinhua (September 8) reported that China's Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi and Pakistani Interior Minister Ijaz Ahmed Shah spoke to each other on September 7.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN FISHERMEN PROTEST CHINESE DEEP-SEA TRAWLERS FISHING NEAR PAKISTAN'S COAST Nikkei Asian Review reported (September 1) that fishermen in Pakistan will protest the arrival of 20 Chinese deep-sea trawlers that will fish in the exclusive economic zone off Sindh and Baluchistan provinces. The pressure group Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) has announced a campaign against the trawlers' arrival near Karachi as they fear the trawlers will further deplete Pakistan's marine resources.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-AUSTRALIA: CHINA-AUSTRALIA DIPLOMATIC TENSIONS ESCALATE The ABC has uncovered the identities of senior Chinese journalists and academics who have been drawn into the joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER'S ARTICLE IN PEOPLE'S DAILY CALLS FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE WITH U.S. In a nearly 4,000-character article in the Communist Party mouthpiece, People’s Daily, on September 7, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng called upon the US for a security dialogue to prevent strategic misjudgments between the countries, as well as exchanges between their think tanks and media.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-SINGAPORE: YANG JIECHI MAKES UNDISCLOSED STOP-OVER IN SINGAPORE Writing in the South China Morning Post (September 9), Shi Jiangtao disclosed that Yang Jiechi had travelled to Singapore on August 20, when his hosts arranged a special excursion for him, which he suggested could have been a message about how Beijing’s assertiveness is perceived in the city-state, to a commemorative marker for China’s late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping along the Singapore River.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING SPEAKS AT CHINA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE TRADE FAIR GLOBAL SUMMIT The state-owned CCTV telecast (September 5) Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the 2020 China International Service Trade Fair Global Service Trade Summit.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: EXECUTIVE VICE MPS MINISTER REFERS TO "DOUBLE-FACED" CADRES IN ARTICLE IN CHINA POLICE DAILY Wang Xiaohong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) wrote an article in the China Police Daily on August 28, two days after CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping presented the flag to the People’s Police force and delivered a 649-character (in Chinese) speech stressing the "revolutionization, regularization, professionalization of the People's Police force".
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: XINHUA PUBLICISES CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING'S NEW BOOK Xinhua (September 6) publicised that the book "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's Statements on Preventing Risks and Challenges and Responding to Emergencies" edited by CCP CC's Institute of Party History and Documentation was recently published and distributed nationwide by the Central Literature Publishing House.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: PEOPLE'S DAILY COMMENTATOR'S ARTICLE ON CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING'S SPEECH ON SEPTEMBER 4 The People's Daily published a commentator's article on September 6, captioned: 'We must insist on the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party to move forward unimpededly'.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-DISCIPLINE: CHINESE PROFESSOR'S CONTRACT TERMINATED ON CHARGES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT The South China Morning Post on September 5, reported that one of China’s top political scientists, Zheng Yongnian, is being investigated by the National University of Singapore (NUS) over allegations of sexual harassment by a female employee at its East Asian Institute (EAI) think-tank.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: SUCCESSFUL RETURN OF CHINA'S REUSABLE SPACE VEHICLE AFTER 2 DAYS IN ORBIT Quoting Xinhua, the China Daily (September 7) reported that China's reusable experimental spacecraft had successfully returned after 2 days in orbit and landed at a preset site on September 6 morning. No details of the mission were released, but it was described as a complete success.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA- S&T: CHINA TO LAUNCH NEW-GENERATION POSITIONING CHIP FOR BEIDOU NAVIGATION SYSTEM BY 2021 The State-owned CCTV reported (September 7) that China will launch a new-generation positioning chip for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) by the end of 2020.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF LIAONING PROVINCE AWARDED USD 1 MILLION FOR DISCOVERING TWO NEW TYPES OF NANO STRUCTURES "The Beijing News" reported on September 6, that the US$ 1 million Future Science Award was given to Lu Ke, Deputy Governor of Liaoning Province responsible for science and technology, health, sports etc. and Academician and Researcher of the Institute of Metal Research of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CCTV REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA The state-owned CCTV had as the caption for its programme 'Focus' on September 5, "US military aircraft "transformed" into the South China Sea, intends to escalate, provoking and causing trouble?"
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: STATISTICS OF INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN CHINA According to the calculations of the Income Distribution Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, 964 million Chinese people earn a monthly income below 2,000 yuan (US$ 292.50); 364 million earn a monthly income between 2,000 (US$ 292.50) and 5,000 yuan (US$ 731.10); and only 72 million people, or 5.13 per cent of the total population, have a monthly income of more than 5,000 yuan (US$ 731.10).
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: DUAL CIRCULATION STRATEGY An article in Caixin on September 5, said the idea of 'dual circulation' first came up at a Politburo meeting May 14 presided over by Xi Jinping. At the meeting, the nation was urged to “fully bring out the advantage of China’s super-large market scale and the potential of domestic demand to establish a new development pattern featuring domestic and international dual circulations that complement each other.”
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA: MONGOLIAN COMMITS SUICIDE TO PROTEST PLANS TO PHASE OUT MONGOLIAN EDUCATION Surnaa, a 33-year-old ethnic Mongolian woman who worked for a panel of the Chinese Communist Party in Inner Mongolia's Alxa administrative unit, died by suicide on September 4, in what her family members said was an act of protest over the ruling Chinese Communist Party's plans to phase out Mongolian-medium education and language teaching in schools.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PROTESTS IN HONGKONG AGAINST NSL Thousands of people took to the streets in Hongkong on Sunday September 6 to protest against the imposition of the National Security Law (NSL). The police resorted to tear gas firing. Clashes occurred between protestors and the police.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-UN: CHINESE EMBASSY IN U.S. CLAIMS IT IS SECOND HIGHEST CONTRIBUTOR TO UN BUDGETS The Chinese Embassy in the US on September 4, said on its official Twitter account that China has become the 2nd largest contributor to the UN's regular and peacekeeping budgets, and the largest contributor of peacekeepers among the 5 permanent members of the Security Council, taking part in the handling of almost all major international and regional hotspot issues.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-DIPLOMACY: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CONTESTS CHARGES OF CHINA'S ISOLATION Hu Xijing, Editor-in-Chief of Global Times on September 6 wrote an article contesting the charge that China is diplomatically isolated. Calling it a serious misperception, he said the biggest change is the change in the attitude of the US and its 'Five Eyes' allies towards China and the intensification of border disputes between China and India which has led to a hardening of India's attitude towards China.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL PARTY SCHOOL WRITES IN ECONOMIC DAILY China's Economic Daily published (August 31) an article by He Yiting, Executive Deputy Dean of the CCP CC's Central Party School and the Director of Xi Jinping's Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, on the recent symposium of experts in the economic and social fields.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PEOPLE'S DAILY ON AUGUST 28 PUBLISHES FRONTPAGE ARTICLE ON IMPROVEMENTS IN TIBET SINCE 18TH PARTY CONGRESS The People's Daily on August 28 published a front page article under the caption: 'The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core is concerned about the work in Tibet', which summarized Tibet work conducted by Xi Jinping and the CCP Central Committee since the 18th Party Congress.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCTV FOCUS ON TIBET In its 8 pm Focus programme on August 31, the state-owned CCTV declared that according to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s evaluation at the Seventh Central Tibet Work Forum there had been "All-round progress, historic achievement" in Tibet since the Sixth Central Tibet Work Forum.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: INVITEES TO THE SEVENTH TIBET WORK CONFERENCE Among those attending the seventh Tibet Work Conference (August 29 - 30) were TAR Party and government officials, the 'principal comrades' in charge of the Party and government of various cities and provinces, officials in charge of the Party and government of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, and Qinghai provinces and principal officials of the Party and government of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: SENIOR APPOINTMENTS Li Xiaoxin (李小新) was appointed deputy head of the CCP CC Organization Department. Ke Yousheng (柯友生) was appointed Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S MINISTRY OF COMMERCE PLACES OBSTACLES IN SALE OF TIK TOK The Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) released a revised export control catalogue on August 28.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: FORMER FINANCE MINISTER SAYS GENERAL PUBLIC DEFICIT IS 6.1 PER CENT AND NOT 3.6 PER CENT AS STATED BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT Sina reported (August 27) and the Shanghai-based 'The Paper (August 30) that at a recent symposium of the Global Wealth Management Forum (GAMF) on “Global Economic and Financial Situation and the Future Development of the Financial Industry in Crisis”, former Chinese Finance Minister and current Director of the CPPCC Foreign Affairs Committee, Lou Jiwei, said in a speech recently that the real general public deficit is 6.1 per cent.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: TWO MORE CHINESE STATE OWNED BANKS JOIN TESTING OF DIGITAL YUAN Caixin (August 31) reported that the Postal Savings Bank of China Co. Ltd. and China Citic Bank Corp. Ltd., two of China's largest state-owned banks, have joined the pilot program to create services for the digital currency developed by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and conduct initial tests.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CCTV REPORTS J-15 LANDING EXERCISES ON LIAONING AIRCRAFT CARRIER CCTV on August 30, telecast the latest training images of the Liaoning aircraft carrier where the J-15 carrier aircraft with mounted missiles took off and landed on the Liaoning and formed a formation of seven aircraft to fly in the air as part of the PLA's 'four sea areas live-fire exercise.'
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA FRONTIER DIVISION REGIMENT IN TIBET TESTS MULTI-ARMS COMBAT CAPABILITIES AT HEIGHT OF 4500 METRES Kangba TV (Shannan) telecast a report on August 31 that a Frontier Defense Regiment of the Tibet Shannan (Lhoka) Army Division recently organized a practical and comprehensive exercise at an altitude of 4,500 meters to test the combat capabilities of the multi-arms coordinated cooperation and joint strikes systems with multiple new weapons and equipment.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS TO INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE IN PARIS THAT PROBLEMS WILL RECUR WITH INDIA TILL BORDER IS DEMARCATED Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councillor Wang Yi told (September 1) an international audience in Paris that there will always be problems with India of the kind witnessed in eastern Ladakh because the boundary wasn't demarcated yet even as he claimed China wouldn’t be the first to escalate the situation and was committed to managing all issues through dialogue.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: INDIAN AND CHINESE TROOPS CLASH ON SOUTHERN BANK OF PANGONG TSO Reports essay that approx. 400-500 PLA soldiers came to the southern bank of the LAC and were challenged by Indian soldiers who saw them coming and had laid an ambush for them.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE PAPER ON CHINA-INDIA TIES In a lengthy article captioned 'From Donglang to Galwan River Valley: Beware of Three Changes in the Sino-Indian Border Issue' in the official Shanghai 'The Paper' on August 29, Dr. Tongyu Tao of the School of International Studies at Peking University said that there would be frequent clashes on the border between India and China because the balance of power between the two in the border area has changed.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS TELLS CHINESE STUDENTS TO RETURN TO CHINA IMMEDIATELY 15 Chinese researchers have apparently been told on September 1, that they must leave the country as soon as possible after the University of North Texas (UNT) abruptly cut ties with the organization that funds them — the Chinese Scholarship Council, which is under the Chinese Ministry of Education. UNT hasn't said why.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA CONTINUES CRITICISM OF US SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO China's Guangming Daily on August 31 published an article under the caption "Why "Worst Secretary of State in American History" Gets Its Name", which referred to a recent Washington Post article which, the Guangming Daily said "listed a series of Pompeo's "actions" after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in the United States-including ignoring the severity of the epidemic, evading one's own political responsibility, refusing international cooperation, and trying to "throw away" China, etc., thinking that "since the end of World War II" Since then, perhaps no one has performed worse than Pompeo (Secretary of State)."
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-AUSTRALIA: CHINA DETAINS AUSTRALIAN TV ANCHOR The Australian media reported (August 31) that Chinese authorities had notified the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs that Chinese-Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei was arrested in China on August 14.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPAN'S BROKERAGE HOUSE DAIWA SECURITIES GROUP TO SET UP JOINT VENTURE IN BEIJING Nikkei Asia reported (August 31) that Japanese brokerage house Daiwa Securities Group had received clearance on August 31 to launch a majority-owned joint venture in Beijing. Daiwa is to set up a joint venture, Daiwa Securities (China), with 1 billion yuan ($146 million) in capital.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CHAIRS WORK CONFERENCE ON TIBET Speaking at the 2-day Seventh Central Work Conference on Tibet in Beijing on August 29-30, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for efforts to build a new modern socialist Tibet.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC ORGANISATION DEPARTMENT URGES PARTY MEMBERS TO PROMOTE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR 'TWO UPHOLDS' OR 'TWO SAFEGUARDS' An important article in the People's Daily on August 27, by the Party Building Institute of the CCP CC Organisation Department, emphasised the 'two upholds' or 'two safeguards'.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA NAVY LAUNCHES TWO NEW TYPE-55 DESTROYERS Global Times (August 30) reported the launch of China's reportedly eighth Type 055 and 25th Type 052D destroyers on August 30, just two days after the PLAN decommissioned two Type 051 destroyers.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: RARE EARTH EXPORTS PLUMMET China's Customs data showed (August 27) that China’s rare earth exports plunged 69.1% year-on-year to 1,620 tons in July, marking the lowest monthly volume since January 2015, as the coronavirus pandemic heavily hit demand for the minerals.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CRYPTOCURRENCY VALUED AT OVER US$ 50 BILLION LEFT CHINA IN PAST ONE YEAR According to a report from the blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis released on August 20, stated that due to the impact of the US-China trade war and the devaluation of the renminbi, over $50 billion worth of cryptocurrency has left China in the past 12 months.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: WEALTHY CHINESE ILLEGALLY SHIFT CAPITAL OUT OF CHINA Deutsche Welle (August 25) and Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit obtained copies of documents that were leaked and which reveal that Cyprus, an EU country, approved 1,400 “golden passports” between 2017 and 2019, among which more than 500 were issued to Chinese.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA: PROTESTS ERUPT IN NEI MONGOL AUTONOMOUS REGION The 'Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center' (SMHRIC) reported (August 30) that following the central Chinese government's decision to replace Mongolian with Mandarin as the medium of instruction in schools, hundreds of students in school uniform gathered in front of the Tongliao Mongolian Middle School, one of the largest Mongolian schools in Inner Mongolia, chanting “Our mother tongue is Mongolian.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG REVISES SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS Global Times reported (August 19) that seven Hong Kong publishers have submitted changes to their General Studies Textbooks. General Studies is a core course in Hong Kong high schools.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-PANAMA: CCP HAS VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (DRP) OF PANAMA TO STRENGTHEN FRATERNAL TIES The People’s Daily (August 26) reported that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Democratic Revolutionary Party (RPD) of Panama held the opening ceremony of an online seminar for party cadres on August 25.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE ASSESSMENT OF US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOE BIIDEN'S LIKELY CHINA POLICY In an article (August 26) captioned 'Inside Biden’s China Policy' published by US-China Focus, Yang Wenjing of CICIR analysed the 92-page Democratic Party platform and said the Democrats seem to have already inherited this premise of the 'China threat'.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA'S PEOPLE'S DAILY ATTACKS US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO On August 25, the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece People’s Daily, in three full pages out of a total of 20, published an extremely lengthy opinion that runs through a barrage of criticisms against U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as a response to his speech on July 23, 2020, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA BLAMES US FOR LACK OF GLOBAL COOPERATION IN FIGHTING CORONAVIRUS A paper by Tian Ye, Professor of the Department of International Politics, School of International Relations, Renmin University of China and Chen Zhaoyuan, an assistant researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published by CASS on August 29, criticised the US for obstructing international cooperation to fight the coronavirus.
Sep 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CONFERS POLICE FLAG AT CEREMONY AT GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE On August 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping conferred the police flag on China's police force at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. He ordered them to be loyal to the Party, serve the people and be impartial in law enforcement and strict in discipline.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING EMPHASISES PLA MUST ENSURE "HIGH DEGREE OF CENTRALISED UNITY AND SECURE STABILITY" A People's Daily (August 20) report on the symposium hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Anhui on August 20 said that in addition to discussing flood control and the role of the PLA, Xi Jinping also talked about the broader goals for the army for the rest of 2020, which included concentrating energy on training troops, strengthening ideological and political construction, as well as “ensuring the army’s high degree of centralized unity and secure stability.” (Para 1 of CCAS China News dated August 24 refers.)
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PEOPLE'S DAILY PUBLISHES CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S LETTER TO ALL-CHINA YOUTH FEDERATION AND ALL-CHINA STUDENT FEDERATION People’s Daily (August 18) published a letter by Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed to the All-China Youth Federation (全国青联委会) National Committee and the All-China Student Federation (全国学联).
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER TO TRAVEL ABROAD FROM AUGUST 25 TO SEPTEMBER 1 The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) announced (August 24)) that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, France, and Germany from August 25 to September 1.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PARTY DISCIPLINE: CENTRAL DISCIPLINE INSPECTION COMMISSION COMMENTARY STRESSES SUPERVISION OF "TOP RANKED LEADERSHIP GROUPS" The Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) and National Supervision Commission (NSC) published a commentary (August 20) in their official magazine titled “Strengthening Supervision of the ‘Top-Ranked Leader (一把手) and Leadership Groups.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: ADDITIONAL CONTROLS ON ACADEMICS AND UNIVERSITIES Peking University issued a “Notice on Regulating the Declaration and Approval of Participation in Online International Conferences Organized by Foreign Parties” on August 20, 2020.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: 12 HONGKONG PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS ARRESTED BY CHINA COAST GUARD ON HIGH SEAS The China Coast Guard arrested 12 Hongkong pro-democracy activists on August 27 night on the high seas 10 km from Hongkong as they were fleeing to Taiwan.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: SENIOR CPPCC LEADERS VISIT LHASA FOR DISCUSSIONS WITH TAR LEADERSHIP The TAR Party Committee disclosed on August 21, that TAR Party Secretary Wu Yingjie, TAR Deputy Secretary and TAR Chairman Che Dhala (also known as Che Zala and Qizhala) recently met Zheng Jianbang, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and Vice Chairman of the Soong Ching Ling Foundation Discussion, in Lhasa.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA: PROTESTS IN INNER (SOUTH) MONGOLIA OVER CLOSURE OF SOLITARY MONGOLIAN LANGUAGE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM Following the disclosure of a 'secret plan' to wipe out Mongolian-language education in the Nei Mongol Autonomous Region in the final phase of a decades-long cultural campaign, protests erupted in Southern Mongolian society.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: MAJOR MILITARY PARA EXERCISE IN TIBET PLATEAU A report datelined (Lhasa, August 25) reported that recently, a special operations brigade and an army aviation brigade under the PLA Xizang (Tibet) Military Command jointly organized the first large-scale parachute drill in an unfamiliar area on the plateau at an elevation of about 4,000 meters above sea level, in a bid to further hone the troops’ joint combat capabilities.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA FIRES TWO MISSILES IN WARNING TO UNITED STATES The South China Morning Post reported (August 26) that the PLA fired the 4000-kms range DF-26B, launched from the northwestern province of Qinghai, and a DF-21D, launched from Zhejiang province in the South China Sea in a ‘warning to the United States’ on August 25.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: ASPI REPORT ESTABLISHES CHINA HAS 600 OVERSEAS STATIONS TO 'RECRUIT' SCIENTIFIC TALENT A report by Alex Joske entitled 'Hunting the Phoenix' and published by The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on August 20, 2020, establishes that the CCP has at least 600 stations around the world that identify and recruit scientists and technologists who would be valuable to China’s quest for technological dominance.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: JP MORGAN AND PETERSON INSTITUTE ANALYSTS FORECAST AN UPTICK IN CHINA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH The Wall Street Journal reported (August 24) that J.P. Morgan recently boosted its 2020 China growth forecast to 2.5% from 1.3% in April. Economists at the World Bank and elsewhere have also upgraded their forecasts for China.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS: CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY ELECTED TO INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR LAW OF THE SEA Xinhua (August 24) reported the election of China's Ambassador to Hungary, Duan Jielong, as a member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on August 24.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: TENSIONS ESCALATE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA U.S.-China tensions over the South China Sea escalated on August 26, with Beijing firing four medium-range ballistic missiles into the disputed area between Hainan Island and the Paracel Islands.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US DEFENCE SECRETARY'S ARTICLE CAPTIONED 'THE PENTAGON IS PREPARED FOR CHINA' WAS PUBLISHED IN WALL STREET JOURNAL The Wall Street Journal published (August 24) an article by US Defence Secretary Mark Esper with the caption 'The Pentagon is prepared for China'.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE BUSINESSES GUILTY OF BRIBING US CONGRESSMAN IN US REAL ESTATE DEALS An investigation of corruption allegations against suspended Los Angeles Councilman Jose Huizar, brought to light a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving several Chinese developers seeking the politician’s backing for lucrative property deals in Los Angeles.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: TIK TOK CHALLENGES PRESIDENTIAL ORDER IN LOS ANGELES COURT TikTok and its Chinese parent, ByteDance Ltd., on August 24, sued in federal court in Los Angeles to challenge an August 6 order from President Donald Trump prohibiting U.S. residents from doing business with TikTok.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINESE MEDIA SAYS FIRST CHINA-BUILT FRIGATE FOR PAKISTAN LAUNCHED AND WILL BECOME MAIN FORCE FOR PAK NAVY "TO FIGHT INDIA" A Chinese media platform reported on August 25 that the first of the four advanced frigates built by China for Pakistan was launched on August 22.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINESE AND PAKISTANI OFFICIALS DISCUSS CPEC International Department Head Song Tao and Jiangxi Party Secretary Liu Qi attended the second meeting of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Political Parties Joint Consultation Mechanism via video call on August 20.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CHAIRS MEETING TO DISCUSS PLA EFFORTS AT FLOOD CONTROL On August 20, Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting to discuss the PLA’s efforts at flood control and disaster relief. A Xinhua report (Hefei, August 20) said that “As of Wednesday, dispatches totalling more than 1.2 million head counts from the PLA and the People's Armed Police Force and more than 300,000 from the militia had been made in flood control missions in 17 provincial-level regions.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S VISIT TO ANHUI PROVINCE During his visit to Anhui province, on August 19 Chinese President Xi Jinping went to the Xuejiawa ecological park in Ma’anshan, a dam in Feidong county to inspect flood control efforts, a memorial hall in Hefei marking the PLA's campaign to cross the Yangtze River during the Chinese Civil War and the Anhui Innovation Center.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE VENTURE CAPITALIST ERIC X LI WRITES ARTICLE EXTOLLING XI JINPING IN FOREIGN POLICY Chinese venture capitalist and staunch supporter of Chinese President Xi Jinping has written an article in Foreign Policy (August 14) extolling Xi Jinping and his leadership, especially in handling the Coronavirus epidemic.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PREMIER LI KEQIANG VISITS CHONGQING TO INSPECT DAMAGE CAUSED BY FLOODS Premier Li Keqiang was in Chongqing on August 20, talking to local people and inspecting the impact of the aforementioned catastrophic seasonal flooding.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEMBER YANG JIECHI TRAVELS TO SINGAPORE AND SOUTH KOREA Politburo member and Director of the CCP's Foreign Affairs Office, Yang Jiechi, was in Singapore on a two-day (August 19-20) visit at the invitation of the Singapore government.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: SHANGHAI DEPUTY MAYOR CAUGHT IN ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN The Central Discipline Inspection Commission website (August 18) announced that Gong Daoan, Deputy Mayor of Shanghai City and head of its Public Security Bureau is under investigation for corruption.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: LONG-RANGE PRECISION STRIKE EXERCISES IN NGARI (ALI) IN TIBET TAR Troops stationed at the Ngari (Ali) Border Defence frontlines with elevations of more than 4,000 metres conducted long-range precision strikes exercises from August 10-14. A Combat capabilities competition was also held on August 11.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA BRIGADE OF TIBET MILITARY REGION CONDUCTS HIGH ALTITUDE FIELD TRAINING The state-owned CGTN reported (August 17) that a brigade of the PLA Tibet Military Region recently conducted field training at an altitude of 5,600 meters.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA CONSTRUCTS SAM SITES NEAR MANSAROVAR LAKE IN TIBET The Print, based on the latest available satellite imagery provided by an anonymous analyst using the twitter handle @detresfa_, reports that the Chinese military is constructing a surface-to-air missile site as well as other infrastructure on the banks of the Mansarovar Lake in the India-Nepal-China tri-junction area near the Lipulekh pass.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PBOC TO STOP EXTENDING CREDIT TO SMALL BUSINESSES A senior People’s Bank of China (PBOC) official said (August 21) that China’s central bank does not plan to expand its efforts to extend credit to small businesses in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic as the tools involved have already provided the support they needed and the economy has returned to normal.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: GLOBAL TIMES WARNS US AND TAIWAN TO EASE TENSIONS IN TAIWAN STRAITS AND SOUTH CHINA SEA Stating that "The situation in the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea is getting increasingly tense" and citing overseas media outlets that US military planes have flown to the South China Sea 67 times in a month; that the PLA started military exercises in the Yellow Sea on August 22, following its just-concluded military drills in the Taiwan Straits and will also conduct military exercises in the South China Sea and the Bohai Sea on August 24, the Global Times (August 23) said, "There have been increasing discussions on the risk of military conflicts".
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS MOVES BILL TO FORBID DESIGNATING CHINESE PRESIDENT AS 'PRESIDENT' The South China Morning Post (August 21) reported that Representative Scott Perry (Rep-Pennsylvania), who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has introduced a bill to change the way the federal government refers to the leader of China, prohibiting the use of the term “president”.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE AMBASSADOR CUI TIANKAI DELIVERS KEYNOTE SPEECH AT VIDEO CONFERENCE IN BROOKINGS INSTITUTION The Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, published (August 20) the text of the keynote speech delivered by Cui Tiankai, Beijing’s Ambassador to the United States, at a webinar hosted by the Brookings Institution on August 20.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: OFFICIAL OF CHINESE INSTITUTE BLAMES US FOR DETERIORATION IN BILATERAL RELATIONS AND URGES IMPROVEMENT IN TIES In an article captioned 'The worse the colour, the better the inside' in the Guangming Daily (August 22), Shen Yamei, Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the China Institute of International Studies, criticised US Secretary of State Pompeo for attempting to "resurrect the "ghost" of the Cold War by launching an ideological offensive against China".
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING VISITS ANHUI PROVINCE On August 18, Chinese President Xi Jinping travelled to Anhui province to inspect the extent of flooding and preventive measures taken.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: STATE GRID SOE SUPPORTS GRASSROOT PARTY BUILDING Mao Weiming, Chairman and Party Secretary of one of China's largest SoEs, State Grid, wrote an article in the People's Daily (August 19) on effective ways for State-owned Enterprises (SoEs) to strengthen Party building at grassroots.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: RETIRED FORMER CENTRAL PARTY SCHOOL PROFESSOR CAI XIA EXPELLED FROM CCP AND IS DISALLOWED PENSION 68-year old outspoken retired Professor Cai Xia, a former senior faculty member of the Central Party School in Beijing for 15 years was expelled from the CCP on August 17 and lost her pension as punishment for speeches “that damaged the reputation of the country”.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S FOUR MAJOR BANKS ARE TESTING DIGITAL CURRENCY IN SHENZHEN BBC (August 11) said that according to China’s English language official media CGTN, four major state-owned banks, including the Bank of China, China Construction Bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Agricultural Bank of China, have started testing digital currencies in Shenzhen.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA ANNOUNCES IT HAS A 'NEW ADVANCED WEAPON' The state-owned CCTV-7's Defence Programme on August 14, amid worsening tensions between Beijing and Taipei, revealed what a Chinese analyst described as ‘one of the most important advanced weapons for the Chinese military right now’.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA QUESTIONS INTENT OF PACIFIC RIM EXERCISE China's state-owned CCTV-7 on August 18 questioned the intention behind the United States' 'Pacific Rim-2020' exercise which commenced in Hawaii on August 17. It said that 10 countries, 20 ships and 5300 officers and men were participating.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: STUDY BY IISS' DEFENCE NEWS REVEALS THAT REVENUES OF CHINA'S DEFENCE SoEs DECLINED LAST YEAR A report released on August 17, by two IISS researchers Meia Nouwens and Dr Lucie Beraud-Sudreau showed that while in 2018 all eight Chinese Defence SoEs ranked in the top 22 of the Defense News global list with three in the top ten, in 2019 only two Chinese Defence SoEs ranked in the top ten though all 25 figured in the top 25 of the Defense News global list.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CAST ANNUAL MEETING ENDED ON AUGUST 15 Guangming Daily reported (August 16) that the closing ceremony of the annual meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) was held on August 15.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: POLITBURO MEMBER AND VICE PREMIER HU CHUNHUA VISITS TIBET The Beijing Youth Daily on August 4 reported CCP CC Politburo member, Vice Premier and 'Leader of the Leading Group of the National Census for Poverty Alleviation' Hu Chunhua's visit to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: GUANGMING DAILY ASSERTS "HISTORY IS UNSTOPPABLE'' Apparently reacting to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's tweet of June 30 saying effectively that the 'one country, two systems' is no longer valid, China's Guangming Daily (August 19) published an editorial captioned 'History is Unstoppable'.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-UK: GLOBAL TIMES EXPANDS REACH OF HONGKONG'S NEW NATIONAL SECURITY LAW IN WARNING TO U.K. The CCP-owned Global Times (August 17) warned that "Hong Kong secessionists fleeing to the UK and promoting the "parliament in exile" severely breach and blatantly defy Article 29 of the national security law for Hong Kong" and "that those people, along with UK organizations or individuals who sponsored them, will face legal punishment no matter their whereabouts and face severe sanctions from China".
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US ADDS 38 MORE HUAWEI AFFILIATES IN 21 COUNTRIES TO ITS 'ENTITY LIST' TO EXPAND RESTRICTIONS ON HUAWEI The US Department of Commerce announced (August 16) that it would expand existing restrictions by preventing Huawei from acquiring chips made outside the US but developed or produced with US software or technology. It also added another 38 Huawei affiliates in 21 countries to its Entity List.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: FORMER CIA OFFICER CHARGED WITH SPYING FOR CHINA Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested on August 14, 2020, on a charge that he conspired with a relative of his who also was a former CIA officer to communicate classified information up to the Top Secret level to intelligence officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA'S OFFICIAL MEDIA CRITICISES MARK ZUCKERBERG OF FACEBOOK China's popular online portal 163.com on August 4, said an article captioned “This ‘TikTok Slaughter Battle’ completely tore off Zuckerberg’s mask as the ‘Chinese people’s good son-in-law’” was published widely in China's official media.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: FBI AND US SECURITIES COMMISSION PROBE FUNDRAISING FIRM LINKED TO STEVE BANON AND GUO WENGUI The Wall Street Journal (August 19) reported that the GTV Media Group linked to former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon and exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui which raised more than $300 million in a private offering this spring that is now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING WRITES IN QIU SHI'S 16TH ISSUE DATED AUGUST 16 Xinhua (August 15) publicised that an article by President Xi Jinping on opening new horizons of the Marxist political economy in contemporary China would be published in the 16th issue of the Qiushi Journal to be issued on August 16.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING VISITS YUCUN VILLAGE IN ZHEJIANG PROVINCE AND EMPHASISES A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT A Commentator's article in China's Economic Daily (August 15) reported the visit by CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping to Yucun, Anji County, Zhejiang Province.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CALLS FOR ATTRACTING AND DEVELOPING MORE S&T TALENT The Study Times (August 14) reported that addressing the expert and scholar symposium on June 2, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasised the need to deepen the reform of the scientific research personnel development system and mechanism, improve the discovery, training, and incentive mechanism for strategic scientists and innovative scientific and technological personnel, and attract more outstanding talents to the scientific research team.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI VISITS TIBET The South China Morning Post on August 16 reported that Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi had visited Tibet where he praised Tibet’s achievements under President Xi Jinping, especially in securing the border with India.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: TIBET BUILDS BORDER DEFENCE VILLAGE AT TSONA ON BORDER WITH INDIA'S ARUNACHAL PRADESH A report in the Global Times (August 11) mentioned that border regions including Shannan Prefecture are stepping up efforts in relocating people to the border to boost both national security and quality of life. Budo, Deputy Party Secretary and Chief of the County told Global Times that Cona plans to relocate 3,222 people of 960 families to the "weakly controlled areas on the borders" on a voluntary basis.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: RADIO FREE ASIA REPORTS CHINA HAS BUILT TOILET ON SITE OF DEMOLISHED MOSQUE Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported (August 13) that a public toilet has been erected on the site of the demolished Tokul mosque in Atush (in Chinese, Atushi) city, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CCTV REPORTS ON MILITARY EXERCISES IN TAIWAN STRAIT AND SOUTH CHINA SEA The state-owned CCTV (August 13) reported that China's Ministry of National Defense (MND) website had released the news that the PLA Eastern Theater Command recently 'deployed multiple services and multiple directions in a system to organize actual combat exercises in the Taiwan Strait and the north and south to further test and enhance the joint combat capabilities of multiple services'.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S FEARS RISE OF POTENTIAL U.S. PUNITIVE ACTION IN FINANCIAL SECTOR Reuters reported (August 15) that fears are rising in China of a deepening financial war as relations with the US deteriorate. Chinese officials and economists have in recent months been unusually public in discussing worst-case scenarios under which China is blocked from dollar settlements, or Washington freezes or confiscates a portion of China’s huge U.S. debt holdings.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA-US OCEAN FREIGHT RATES RISE AS CHINESE EXPORTERS AND U.S. CUSTOMERS STOCK UP ON GOODS TO AVOID POSSIBLE TARIFF INCREASES Chinese Customs data, according to Caixin (August 14) showed that ocean shipping rates between China and the U.S. have soared in the last three months as Chinese exporters and their American customers' race to stock up on goods over concerns about potential new tariffs during a season that is already one of the industry’s busiest.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US-CHINA BUSINESS COUNCIL SURVEY CLAIMS 70 PER CENT OF U.S. COMPANIES IN CHINA ARE POSITIVE ABOUT OUTLOOK FOR NEXT 5 YEARS Caixin (August 15) that a US-China Business Council survey released on August 11 showed that nearly 70% of member companies said they are optimistic about the five-year business outlook in China. The survey showed that 83% counted China as either the top priority for their company’s global strategy or among the top five.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA'S AMBASSADOR TO INDIA PLAYS DOWN CHINESE INTRUSIONS AT LAC AND PUTS ONUS FOR THE SITUATION ON INDIA China's Ambassador to India Sun Weidong wrote in the July issue of the China-India Review published by the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi that: "In any relationship, there are ups and downs.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE NATIONAL ARRESTED FOR ILLEGAL FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES AND ESPIONAGE Indian authorities arrested Luo Sang, a Chinese national, on charges of money laundering on August 4, night in a raid by the Income Tax Department for money laundering and representing fake Chinese companies in hawala transactions. He was earlier reported to have been arrested by the Delhi Police on spying charges in 2018.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: TRADE & ECONOMY Chinese government Customs data shows that exports to India since January 2020 have fallen by 24.7% year-on-year to $32.28 billion. China's imports from India have also gone up 6.7% since January this year to $11.09 billion. Consequently, total trade with India has registered a slightly lower 18.6% drop since the beginning of 2020 to $43.47 billion.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: KMT LOSES KAOHSIUNG MAYORAL SEAT Reuters (August 15) reported that DPP's Chen Chi-mai, a former vice-premier, won 70% of the votes in the by-election for Mayor of Kaohsiung on August 15, roundly defeating the pro-Beijing KMT candidate Jane Lee. Voter turnout was low.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN FINDS THREE TAIWAN LEGISLATIVE AIDES GUILTY OF ESPIONAGE FOR CHINA The Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted three former legislative aides on August 13 charged for involvement in developing a spy network in Taiwan for Chinese intelligence.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: TAIWAN CONCLUDES AGREEMENT WITH U.S. TO PURCHASE LATEST F-16 FIGHTER AIRCRAFT Bloomberg reported (August 15) that Taiwan formally signed an agreement to buy 66 of the latest model F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp. Taiwan’s purchase of the F-16s marks the first sale of advanced fighter jets to the island since President George H.W. Bush announced approval for 150 F-16s in 1992.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: AMERICAN NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS SUPPORT BY U.S. CORPORATIONS TO CHINESE TRAINING COLLEGE FOR JOURNALISTS The American National Pulse reported (July 31) that Several U.S. corporations and media companies have been supporting Tsinghua University’s Global Business Journalism School.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING RECENTLY ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS TO AVOID WASTAGE OF FOOD Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily reported (August 11 & 12 respectively) that the CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping had recently issued an “important instruction” on food waste.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP CC PROPAGANDA CHIEF WRITES ARTICLE IN PEOPLE'S DAILY PRAISING XI JINPING The official CCP mouthpiece People's Daily on August 13 published a lengthy signed article by Huang Kunming, Politburo member and Head of the CCP CC Propaganda Department, on page 6.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: PROVINCIAL COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIAL CITES XI JINPING'S LETTER ON "RED GENES" IN ARTICLE IN CHINA EDUCATION DAILY Lu Yanqin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang Jiaxing University, writing in the China Education Daily (August 13) said CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping had recently sent a letter to congratulate the Eighth National Congress of the Chinese Young Pioneers and pointed out that it is necessary to "inherit the red gene, cultivate new generations, unite, educate, and lead the young pioneers to be the successors of the cause of communism."
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: BEIJING DAILY ARTICLE DERIDES U.S. SYSTEM OF DEMOCRACY An article by Li Qingsi, a researcher at the National Institute of Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China and Deputy Director of the American Studies Center, in the Beijing Daily (August 13) personally and severely criticised US President Trump, including for not handling the Coronavirus epidemic competently, and said the U.S.'s "democratic system is the democracy of capital.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: FORMER CHAIRMAN OF ONE OF CHINA'S "BIG FOUR" BAD ASSET MGT COMPANIES CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION Lai Xiaomin, a former Chairman of China Huarong Asset Management, one of China’s “Big Four” state-owned bad-asset managers, has been accused of taking a record 1.79 billion yuan ($258 million) of bribes over 10 years as he stood trial in Tianjin Municipality on August 10.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: NATIONAL SUPERVISORY COMMISSION (NSC) FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHES DETAILS OF CHINA ANTI CORRUPTION DRIVE Caixin reported (August 11) that China's National Supervisory Commission (NSC), the top government anti-graft agency, had reported to the NPC Standing Committee that China had seized 7,831 fugitives over the past 6½ years and recouped losses of 19.7 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) under a government campaign to pursue "corrupt officials and dodgy business people" who fled abroad.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: DETERIORATING TIES WITH U.S. SERIOUSLY WORRY CHINESE ECONOMISTS Reflecting the growing concern among Chinese researchers and officials of an all-out “financial war” between China and the US, with many saying the US side would have a clear advantage thanks to the dominant role of the US dollar in cross-border investments and payments, a senior Chinese economist warned of likely consequences.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: NET PROFITS OF CHINA'S COMMERCIAL BANKS DECLINE IN FIRST HALF According to Caixin (August 12) data from the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) showed (August 9) that China’s commercial banks reported a 9.4% decline in first-half net profits to 1 trillion yuan ($143 billion), reflecting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TECH: CHINESE COMPANIES HIRE TAIWAN CHIP DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS Nikkei Asian Review reported (August 12) that Quanxin Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (Jinan), better known as QXIC, and Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or HSMC, two Chinese government-backed chip projects, have together hired more than 100 veteran engineers and managers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s leading chipmaker, since last year.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: 'SPECIAL ARTICLE' IN GLOBAL TIMES REPORTS PLA EASTERN THEATRE COMMAND'S WARNING TO TAIWAN A toughly-worded "special article" published by the Global Times (August 13) reported a statement issued by the PLA Eastern Theater Command on August 13 that it would continuously organize actual combat exercises in the Taiwan Strait and "the north and south sides".
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN AUTHORITIES CONTEMPLATING NEW REGULATIONS TO BAR CHINESE ILLEGAL DREDGING OPERATIONS Wen Lii, Director of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter based on the Matsu Islands, wrote in The Diplomat (August 12) that because of growing public concern over thousands of illegal Chinese sand dredging ships in the Taiwan Strait, the Taiwan government is considering new regulations that would facilitate "sinking" Chinese dredgers seized by Taiwan’s coast guard, including for use as artificial reefs or as target ships in military exercises.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA'S SECURITIES REGULATORY COMMISSION (CSRC) RESPONDS TO US ANNOUNCEMENT THAT COMPANIES MUST COMPLY WITH ITS AUDIT REGULATIONS Reacting to the US announcement of August 6, that it would de-list companies failing to meet auditing requirements, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said (August 9) the right way to improve cross-border cooperation on audit inspections is to have a frank dialogue.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: GLOBAL TIMES ACCUSES US CUSTOMS OF "BRUTALLY" INSPECTING A CONSIGNMENT OF CHINA'S UN PERMANENT MISSION A Global Times (August 11) article captioned 'US rudely unpacks official furniture ordered by Chinese Mission to UN', reported that the 'US brutally unpacked a container with 60 pieces of furniture (official supplies) ordered by the Chinese delegation to the United Nations and dismantled the wrappings of 12 pieces' delivering the consignment a month after the request.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLE ADVISES CHINA TO EXERCISE RESTRAINT AGAINST U.S. The Global Times on August 12 published an article by Zhu Feng, Executive Director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea at Nanjing University, which suggested that 'the China-US relationship shouldn't be kidnapped by US right-wing forces.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING ADDRESSES POLITBURO'S 21ST COLLECTIVE 'STUDY SESSION' ON JUNE 29 Qiu Shi (Seeking Truth; 2020/15 dated August 1)published the speech Xi Jinping made at the 21st collective study session of the Politburo on 29 June.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: WANG YI WRITES ARTICLE IN QIU SHI PRAISING XI JINPING AND STRESSING THE NEED TO "UNITE AROUND THE CCP CC WITH XI JINPING AS ITS CORE" Qiu Shi (2020/15; August 1) published a lengthy two-part article by Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi that ostensibly deals with foreign affairs but substantively serves to signal loyalty and obedience to Xi Jinping.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-NATURAL DISASTER: FLOODS CHINA'S MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES DAMAGE WORTH 144.43 BILLION YUAN BY JULY 28 China's Ministry of Emergency Management reported on July 28 that the floods affected Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei and other 27 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE NEWS SITE SINA REPORTS DROP IN SHARE VALUES OF CHINESE TECH COMPANIES Well-known Chinese news site Sina (NASDAQ: SINA) reported (August 7) that, as soon as U.S. President Trump officially signed the executive order to ban WeChat, the stock price of WeChat’s owner, Tencent, instantly suffered a free fall of 10 per cent on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE).
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CMC URGES PLA OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS TO STUDY THIRD VOLUME OF XI JINPING'S 'GOVERNANCE OF CHINA' The People's Daily (August 1) reported that "a few days ago" a notice issued by the Central Military Commission (CMC) urged officers and soldiers to carefully study the third volume of Xi Jinping.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: RECRUITMENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported (August 10) that China’s Ministry of Education issued a notice in July requiring students at local schools and colleges to watch a promotional video and a mini film that the Recruitment Office of the Defense Ministry produced.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA GETS ITS FIRST MILITARY HOSPITAL TRAIN China's first military hospital train was inaugurated on August 6, 2020 marking the opening of China's first railway line and railway station exclusively dedicated to the military hospital train. The train's two dedicated railway tracks are connected to China’s railway network through the adjacent Chongqing-Guizhou Railway.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PROMINENT PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST ARRESTED IN HONGKONG Prominent pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow was arrested on the charge of 'inciting secession' under the National Security Law on August 10 morning. Jimmy Lai, the owner of the Apple Daily who was also arrested on August 10 morning, was however released on bail of HK$300,000 (US$38,708), along with a HK$200,000 surety, on August 11 following the Apple Daily's declaration on its front page: “Apple Daily will fight on.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US IMPOSES RESTRICTIONS ON GOODS MADE IN HONGKONG FOR EXPORT TO U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported (August 11) that all goods made in Hong Kong for export to the United States will need to be labeled as made in China after September 25, according to a U.S. government notice posted on August 11.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CARRIE LAM'S SON SUDDENLY LEAVES BOSTON AND RETURNS TO HONGKONG Joshua Lam Yeuk-hay, the younger son of HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam, one among 11 Mainland and Hong Kong officials recently sanctioned by the US government, and a graduate student in the US, pursuing a PhD in mathematics at Harvard, seems to have abruptly left Boston in late July to return to Hongkong.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: CHINA VILIFIES ADRIAN ZENZ, GERMAN SCHOLAR ON XINJIANG Global Times (August 9) personally attacked Adrian Zenz and criticised him for accusing China of "detaining" Uygurs and other minority groups or imposing "sterilization" on ethnic minorities in its Xinjiang region.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA SANCTIONS ELEVEN U.S. CITIZENS Bloomberg reported (August 10) that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian stated at the weekly press briefing on August 10 that “In response to the U.S.’s wrong behaviors, China has decided to impose sanctions on those individuals who behaved badly on Hong Kong-related issues.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. TREASURY ANNOUNCES THAT COMPANIES NOT COMPLYING WITH US ACCOUNTING STANDARDS WILL BE DELISTED FROM US STOCK EXCHANGES BY END OF 2021 US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on August 10 that companies from China and other countries that do not comply with U.S. accounting standards will be delisted from U.S. stock exchanges from the end of 2021.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: REPORTS THAT CHINA HAS INSTRUCTED ITS MILITARY PERSONNEL NOT TO FIRE THE FIRST SHOT IN ANY SITUATION WITH THE U.S. The South China Morning Post (SCMP - August 11) quoting sources said Beijing had ordered pilots and naval officers to exercise restraint in the increasingly frequent stand-offs with US planes and warships and told them “not to fire the first shot” as Beijing looks to de-escalate tensions with the United States in the South China Sea.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: CHINESE RESEARCHER AT SHANGHAI ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SUGGESTS NEED FOR CHANGE IN CHINA'S APPROACH IN FOREIGN POLICY Writing in the Washington Times (August 8), Gerry Shih quoted Li Kaisheng, a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, saying in an op-ed in the Global Times newspaper this week that China should focus on its “primary conflict” — with the United States — rather than respond to every slight from other countries. Li Kaisheng said: “A lion does not swat a fly as soon as it lands on it, but a porcupine pricks up as soon as anything brushes against its back.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: NEW SENIOR APPOINTMENTS AT CHINA'S FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS i) Caixin reported (August 8) that 53-year old Zhou Xuedong, former Director of the General Executive Office of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), was named Vice President of the China Development Bank (CDB). He has 12 years of experience in financial regulation and managing financial risks at the PBoC. He started at the CDB on August 4 and his duties at the central bank were taken over by his deputy Zhong Ping.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: HUAWEI CLOSES MOBILE PHONE MANUFACTURE DUE TO NO SUPPLY OF CHIPS Asia Times (August 10) reported that Chinese telecom giant Huawei said production of its most advanced smartphone chips would stop in September due to US sanctions, causing a “huge loss”.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SAMSUNG TO CLOSE ITS PC FACTORY IN CHINA Voice of America (VOA)'s Chinese Edition reported on August 1, that Samsung had announced (August 1) that it is closing its last personal computer manufacturing factory in China – Samsung Electronics Suzhou Computer. Over 800 employees may see their contracts end. The Suzhou factory was established in 2002.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: TIK TOK AND BYTEDANCE'S LINKS TO CCP The Epoch Times (August 7) said a list obtained by it had partially uncovered names of members of Party committees in the headquarters of TikTok's parent company ByteDance.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S EXIM BANK RECALLS US$ 10 MILLION LOAN TO MALDIVES' M.P. Maldives 'The Edition' reported (July 27) that China's Exim Bank ordered the Maldivian government to pay US$ 10 million (MVR 154 million), from a loan issued to the parliament representative for Dhaalu Atoll's Meedhoo constituency Ahmed Siyam (Sun Siyam), granted via a sovereign guarantee provided by the previous administration.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: REPORTS THAT CHINA PLANS LARGE SCALE LANDING EXERCISE AT PRATAS ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA Amidst reports that China's PLA Navy (PLAN) is planning a large-scale landing exercise in the South China Sea later this month which will specifically simulate an invasion of Taiwan’s Dongsha Islands (Pratas Islands, 東沙群島), Taiwan has sent additional Marines to the Pratas Islands.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: RETIRED CHINESE PLARF OFFICER CLAIMS CHINA HAS EARLY WARNING SYSTEM THAT CAN DETECT NUCLEAR MISSILE ATTACKS Kyodo News Agency reported (August 2) that Yang Chengjun (杨承军) a retired PLA Rocket Force officer and nuclear missile expert said that China has an early warning system that can detect nuclear missiles before they land and can use nuclear weapons to counterattack. The expert pointed out that at present only the United States and Russia possess this technology.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: TEN PERSONS ARRESTED UNDER HONGKONG'S NEW NATIONAL SECURITY LAW Ten persons including Jimmy Lai, owner of Hongkong's largest media house 'Next Digital' along with his son and senior executives, were arrested on August 10 morning in Hongkong under the new National Security Law.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PLACES HONGKONG OFFICIALS ON SPECIAL LIST The US Office of Foreign Assets Control has placed the following Hongkong officials on its updated Specially Designated Nationals List on August 7.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN ANI reported (August 7) that China and Pakistan have begun an unprecedented intelligence sharing agreement to secure Beijing's influence in Afghanistan and that as China needs Pakistan's influence in Afghanistan as well as its connections to the terrorist groups operating there, Beijing has invited a Pakistan Army General to sit in at its highly restricted meetings as an observer.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US HEALTH SECRETARY ARRIVES IN TAIWAN BY SPECIAL PLANE US Health Secretary Alex Azar arrived at 12.30 on August 9, at Taiwan's Songshan (Matsuyama) airport where he has received by Taiwan's Deputy Foreign Minister Tien Chung-kuang (田中光) MOHW Centers for Disease Control Director-General Chou Chih-hao (周志浩) and MOFA Department of North American Affairs Hsu You-tien (徐佑典). He was introduced to them by Chris Christensen.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: BOTH DEFENCE MINISTERS TALK ON TELEPHONE ON AUGUST 6 A US Defence Department statement issued on August 6 reported that Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper held a telephone call with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Minister of National Defense, General Wei Fenghe on August 6, 2020.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING SPEAKS ON MILITARY MATTERS AT PBSC 'STUDY' MEETING ON JULY 30 On July 30, President Xi Jinping attended a Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) 'study' meeting on the consolidation of defence and military modernization.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: BEIDAIHE MEETING SEEMS TO BE UNDERWAY None of the seven Members of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) has appeared in public since July 31. Also, the weekly State Council executive meeting that normally convenes on Wednesdays didn’t take place on August 5. Observers feel these indicate that the Beidaihe meeting is underway.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA ISSUES NEW RULES TO BOOST IC AND SOFTWARE INDUSTRIES Caixin (August 6) reported that on July 27, China’s State Council issued new rules to bolster the country’s integrated circuit and software industries in support of the push to expand and upgrade domestic chip-making capacity.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA TAKES TANGIBLE STEP TOWARDS SETTING UP A DIGITAL CENTRAL BANK Caixin reported (August 6) that the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) took another step forward in its strategy to build a digital central bank by setting up a financial technology subsidiary, Chengfang Financial Technology Co. Ltd.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA REACTS TO PROPOSAL TO CLOSE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES i) A second Global Times editorial (August 6) again commented on the proposal with India's education ministry to review the establishment of China's Confucius Institutes in association with seven local colleges and universities after intelligence agencies raised security concerns over cooperation.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US HEALTH SECRETARY TO VISIT TAIWAN IN "COMING DAYS" US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar will lead a delegation to Taiwan “in the coming days” to discuss the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as supplies of medical equipment and technology, according to a statement on August 5, from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER BANNING TIKTOK AND WECHAT IN U.S. US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on August 6, effectively banning video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the U.S., saying the country must take aggressive action against the Chinese-owned platform “to protect our national security.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SECRETARY OF STATE ON AUGUST 5, CALLS FOR "CLEAN NETWORK TO SAFEGUARD AMERICA'S ASSETS" On August 5, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a statement calling for a “Clean Network to safeguard America’s assets” against the threat of Chinese infiltration.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI SPEAKS TO XINHUA ON CHINA-US RELATIONS Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in an interview with Xinhua (August 5) talked about worsening US-China relations saying, according to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), “Ultimately, [some American politicians] want to drag China and the US into renewed conflict and confrontation and plunge the world into chaos and division again.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPANESE DEFENCE MINISTER WARNS CHINA AGAINST CHINESE FISHING VESSELS Asahi Shimbun (August 4) quoted Japan's Defense Minister Taro Kono saying at a news conference on August 4, that “The SDF will act firmly when necessary while joining hands with the Japan Coast Guard.” Asked to elaborate on what such action might entail, Kono declined, saying, “We do not want to show our cards.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ADVISES INDIA AGAINST BECOMING CANNON FODDER FOR U.S. Global Times Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin on August 1, wrote that India's eight core industries indices fell by 15% year-on-year in the second quarter.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-AUSTRALIA: ARTICLE IN GLOBAL TIMES REACTS TO AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER TO INDIA'S SUPPORT TO INDIA IN STAND-OFF AT LAC An article in Global Times (August 2) cited Chinese experts warning India of Australia's instigation on "the eased border standoff with China" after Australia's High Commissioner to India Barry O'Farrell said in an interview on July 30 that "Australia supports continued moves by India for de-escalation" at the LAC (Line of Actual Control) and "opposes any attempts to unilaterally alter the status quo".
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO SESSION ON JULY 30 Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a Politburo meeting on July 30, where he urged Politburo members to take the long view. The meeting decided that in October, the Party will set goals for China to be achieved by 2035.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO SESSION ON JULY 31 On July 31, Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a "study" session of the Politburo. Speaking at the session, he said that the “modernization of national defense and armed forces must be in step with the country’s modernization process, and the military capabilities must fit national strategic needs.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING ATTENDS NON-PARTY FORUM The People's Daily (July 28) reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a forum of China’s non-Communist political parties on July 28.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING PROMOTES PLARF POLITICAL COMMISSAR TO FULL GENERAL Taiwan's Liberty Times News commented (July 31) on the promotion of Xu Zhongbo, Political Commissar of the PLA Rocket Force (PLARF), to the rank of a full General. It said video footage from CCTV showed that Xu was the only officer at the ceremony accepting a promotion.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: EVENTS MARK 93RD ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING OF PLA The People’s Daily (July 31) published three items on the PLA highlighting the significance of the Party’s control over the PLA. Lt General Liu Nianguang, Political Commissar of the National University of Defense Technology, stressed that “absolute loyalty must be rooted in the mind and more importantly implemented in the action.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLAN EXERCISES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA The spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defence, Senior Colonel Ren Guojiang said (August 1) at the routine weekly press briefing that the Naval Aviation of the PLA Southern Theatre Command during a 'recent exercise' had deployed new-type aircraft including H-6G and H-6J bombers to conduct high-intensity training during day and night time in the relevant waters of the South China Sea.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: EXERCISE IN TIBET China's Ministry of National Defence, Senior Colonel Ren Guojiang said (August 1) that “the PLA Tibet Military Command has organised day-and-night fire strike drills involving multiple types of artillery and artillery fire assault drills in high altitude areas, aiming to test the troops' long-range precision strikes and fire assault capabilities in plateau environment. The exercises mentioned above are within the annual training plan and are not targeted at any specific country.”
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-AGRICULTURE: FOOD SHORTAGES ANTICIPATED DUE TO HEAVY FLOODING World Journal reported (July 29) that about one-sixth of China’s land is soaked in water after the severe flooding. Much of these lands serve as the main grain-growing regions.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: CHINA-APPOINTED PANCHEN LAMA ARRIVES IN LHASA Norbu Gyaltsen, the China-appointed Panchen Lama arrived in Lhasa on July 31. He visited the Jokhang Temple on August 3. The Panchen Lama is in Tibet for religious and cultural festivals to be held in 2020.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: TOUGHLY WORDED ARTICLE IN GLOBAL TIMES CASTIGATES INDIA FOR CONSIDERING CLOSURE OF CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES Liu Zongyi, Secretary-General of the Research Center for China-South Asia Cooperation at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, a visiting fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China and a distinguished fellow of China (Kunming) South Asia & Southeast Asia Institute, wrote in the Global Times (August 4) that after the Galwan Valley clash on June 15, "China-India relations are even deteriorating".
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES REPORTS THAT INDIA IS TO SEND MORE TROOPS TO LADAKH The Global Times reported (August 1) that, according to Indian media quoting anonymous sources, India plans to send 35,000 more troops to strengthen its military presence along its border with China. The reasoning behind the decision is that the Indian government found the probability of quickly reducing the tension between the two countries is getting lower.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN URGES U.S. TO WITHDRAW SANCTIONS AGAINST XPCC AND ITS OFFICIALS China's Foreign Ministry spokesman on August 4, urged the United States to withdraw the sanctions against the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) and two of its officers as the organisation and its functioning was a purely internal matter.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA THREATENS RETALIATION IF US BLOCKS TIK TOK On August 4, Beijing announced that any attempt to ban Tiktok or WeChat in the US would result in bans on Facebook, Twitter, Google, Youtube, Instagram, Tumbler, NY Times, Washington Post, and Pinterest in the PRC.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: HOOVER INSTITUTION IDENTIFIES 7 CHINESE UNIVERSITIES LINKED TO CHINA'S DEFENCE-INDUSTRIAL BASE AND RECOMMENDS STOP TO SUCH COLLABORATION A report released by the Hoover Institution identifies more than 250 published research collaborations between scholars based in the United States and counterparts from seven universities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that are integral to that nation’s defense research and industrial base.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE FIRMS REPORTEDLY BENEFIT FROM US' PPP RELIEF PROGRAMME A review of public PPP loan data by consultancy firm Horizon Advisory found that $192 million to $419 million in loans were given to more than 125 Chinese-owned or -invested companies operating in the United States. It found that many of the loans were substantial, with at least 32 Chinese-owned firms receiving over $1 million under the program, totalling between $85 million and $180 million.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: PLAN OFFICER SAYS CCP WILL COLLAPSE IN EVENT OF WAR BETWEEN US AND CHINA IN SOUTH CHINA SEA Radio Free Asia reported (July 31) that, in an interview with retired PLA Navy Lieutenant Colonel Yao Chen, he said that if China and the U.S. start a war in the South China Sea, the CCP will soon collapse.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: 13 LEADING CCP CADRES PUBLISH ARTICLES IN QIU SHI EULOGISING CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING The latest (August 1) issue of the CCP's leading theoretical fortnightly magazine Qiu Shi (Seeking Truth) published 13 articles by ranking CCP cadres expressing fealty to Xi Jinping, in addition to another article by Xi Jinping urging Party cadres and members to "Implement the party's organizational line in the new era and continue to build the party stronger".
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: HALF OF THE RESEARCHERS AT HEFEI INSTITUTE OF MATERIAL SCIENCE OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES QUIT ON SAME DAY A WeChat post on July 21, 2020, revealed that 90 out of 180 researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology of the Hefei Institute of Material Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) all quit their job on June 15, 2020.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA PLANNING AGAINST U.S. IMPOSING FINANCIAL SANCTIONS According to Reuters (July 29), a report by the investment banking unit of Bank of China said China should prepare for potential U.S. sanctions by the increasing use of its own financial messaging network for cross-border transactions in the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI TELLS FRENCH COUNTERPART THAT BEIJING WANTS TO MAINTAIN THE STABILITY OF CHINA-US RELATIONS Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on July 28 talked to French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian about the severe problem in US-China relations.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US NOMINATES OFFICER TO MONITOR CHINESE ACTIVITIES IN ARCTIC Wall Street Journal reported (July 29) that the US State Department had nominated James DeHart, a career diplomat, as the first U.S. coordinator for the Arctic region to coordinate Arctic policy and engaging other Arctic nations in regional talks efforts to bolster the U.S. position in the Arctic.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SANCTIONS XPCC AND TWO CHINESE OFFICIALS The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corporation (XPCC), an eco- paramilitary organization that plays a central role in the development of the Xinjiang region, and two associated officials, Peng Jiarui and Sun Jinlong.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-US: GLOBAL TIMES QUOTES CHINESE RESEARCHER SUGGESTING REDUCTION OF STAFF IN U.S. CONSULATES IF U.S. ORDERS CLOSURE OF MORE CHINESE CONSULATES Huanqiu (Chinese version of the Global Times) on July 24, quoted Lu Xiang, a researcher at the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, taking a softer tone and suggesting that from the perspective of confronting China, it is not impossible for the U.S. to close more Chinese consulates (e.g. the San Francisco Consulate).
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-MALAYSIA: MALAYSIA TOUGHENS POSITION IN U.N. ON CHINA'S MARITIME CLAIMS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA In a note verbale dated July 26, the Malaysian mission to the U.N. wrote to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that it "rejects China's claims to historic rights, or other sovereign rights or jurisdiction, with respect to the maritime areas of the South China Sea encompassed by the relevant part of the 'nine-dash line.'
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-GERMANY: GERMAN UNIVERSITIES BEGIN CLOSING CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES The German daily newspaper Die Welt reported (July 31) that the University of Hamburg and the University in Bonn in Germany are reportedly cutting ties with the Confucius Institute (CI) by the end of this year.
Aug 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING INSPECTS JILIN PROVINCE Xinhua reported (July 23) that Chinese President Xi Jinping travelled to Jilin on July 22 on an inspection visit.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY EXPELS 'PRINCELING' AND ENTREPRENEUR REN ZHIQIANG ON JULY 23 PAVING THE WAY FOR HIS PROSECUTION The New York Times reported (July 24) that the CCP had "expelled" outspoken and prominent 69-year old property tycoon and 'princeling' Ren Zhiqiang who had denounced Chinese President Xi Jinping in an open letter posted on WeChat earlier this year saying “I see not an emperor standing there exhibiting his ‘new clothes,’ but a clown who stripped naked and insisted on continuing to be an emperor.”
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA LIFTS RESTRICTIONS IN MOST OF ITS US$ 45 TRILLION FINANCIAL SECTOR Nikkei Asian Review reported (July 23) that China has removed foreign ownership limits in almost all areas of its $45 trillion financial sectors, taking the country a step closer to its long-promised "big bang" reforms.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG ANNOUNCES MEASURES TO TACKLE UNEMPLOYMENT At a meeting of the State Council on July 22, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang also talked about boosting employment. Acknowledging that the job market is presently difficult, LiKeqiang asked struggling job seekers to be flexible and consider starting their own businesses.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: TIK-TOK SPENDS LOTS OF MONEY IN LOBBYING HARD IN US The Chinese owner of the popular TikTok video app, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., spent $500,000 in the three months ended June 30, up from its previous record of $300,000 in the first quarter, in a bid to fend off allegations that it is funnelling Americans’ data to Beijing.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA LAUNCHES UNMANNED PROBE TO MARS China launched its first independent unmanned probe to Mars on July 23. The probe is expected to reach Mars in February where it will attempt to deploy a rover to explore the planet for 90 days.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO IN TOUGH SPEECH ON JULY 24 ACCUSES CHINA OF "NEW TYRANNY" Speaking at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on July 23 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in provocative remarks said the free world must change China or 'China will change us'.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US ORDERS CLOSURE OF CHINESE CONSULATE IN HOUSTON AND CHINA RETALIATES BY CLOSING US CONSULATE IN CHENGDU The US State Department on July 23 ordered the closure within 72 hours of the Chinese Consulate in Houston. In retaliation, China on July 24 ordered the shut down of the US Consulate in Chengdu.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE RESEARCHER TAKES REFUGE IN CHINESE CONSULATE IN SAN FRANCISCO AFTER AUTHORITIES UNCOVERED SHE IS A PLA OFFICER Tang Juan, who came to the U.S. on a J-1 visa and was a researcher at the University of California, Davis, entered the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after being interviewed by the FBI on June 20 about alleged visa fraud and has remained there, according to the FBI assessment.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XINJIANG PARTY SECRETARY PUBLICLY DISMISSES US SANCTION Chen Quanguo, Party Secretary of the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region and Politburo member, was reported by Mingjing News on July 21 to have recently made a rare appearance and made shocking remarks: "The people who sanctioned me are disgusting, and I am honoured to be sanctioned".
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: RACE ON FOR CHINA'S NEXT SECURITY CZAR CCP cadres have begun competing for elevation to the Politburo and Politburo Standing Committee at the 20th Party Congress in 2022. A strong, leading contender is Chen Yixin, an Alternate Member of the CCP's 19th CC and current secretary-general of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC).
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI'S SPEECH AT INAUGURATION OF 'XI JINPING RESEARCH CENTRE FOR DIPLOMATIC THOUGHT' In a nearly 2460-word speech on July 22 at the inauguration ceremony of the 'Xi Jinping Research Center for Diplomatic Thought', Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi mentioned Xi Jinping 22 times and said "General Secretary Xi Jinping used the foresight of a great strategist" and in "Xi Jinping’s Diplomatic Thought, has pointed out the direction and provided fundamental follow for the Chinese diplomacy entering the new era".
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: SENIOR APPOINTMENTS Liu Zhao was appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Security on July 10, 2020.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: XU ZHIYONG FORMER TSINGHUA PROFESSOR AND CRITIC OF CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING WAS FORMALLY ARRESTED ON JUNE 19 Former Tsinghua University Professor, prominent legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong, who has been held incommunicado for five months, was formally arrested on June 19 for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: NEW CAMPAIGN FOR STUDY OF CHINA'S NATIONAL CIVIL CODE The People's Daily reported (July 14) that on July 13, central departments including the Propaganda Department, Organization Bureau, Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Cyberspace Administration of China, General Office of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice, and National Legal Awareness Office published a joint notice launching a program of study and education about the national civil code.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: NEW CAMPAIGN MANDATES STUDENTS TO STUDY 'FOUR HISTORIES' According to Radio Free Asia (RFA - July 15), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has launched a new campaign requiring its members and school students to study the “Four Histories,” which refers to “the history of the CCP, the history of new China, the history of the reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development.”
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: CCP CC GENERAL OFFICE AND PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT INSTRUCT PARTY ORGANISATIONS AT ALL LEVELS TO STUDY XI JINPING'S THIRD VOLUME ON GOVERNANCE Xinhua (July 8) reported that the CCP CC General Office forwarded the “Notice of the Central Propaganda Department and the Central Organization Department on Earnestly Organizing and Studying the Third Volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China”.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CCTV TELECASTS FOOTAGE RELEASED BY PLA OF Y-9 AIRCRAFT TRANSPORTS INJURED OFFICER FROM TIBET TO HOSPITAL IN XIAN The state-owned CCTV telecast a video released by the PLA on its WeChat account on July 17 for the first time showing a Y-9 aircraft deployed by China's Western Theatre Command transferring a critically injured officer from a base in Tibet to a hospital in Xian.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-NATURAL DISASTER: FLOODING IN CHONGQING, JIANGSU AND ANHUI IN CHINA A new round of heavy rain that started on July 17 is wreaking havoc on the middle and lower reaches along the Yangtze River.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S COMMERCE MINISTRY CLAIMS INVESTMENT IN 'ONE BELT, ONE ROAD' (BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE - BRI) HAVE RISEN The Guangming Daily (July 17) said data for the first half of this year released by China's Ministry of Commerce on July 16, showed that Chinese domestic investors made non-financial direct investments in 159 countries and regions around the world, for a total investment of 362.14 billion yuan (US$51.79 billion), a decrease of 0.7 per cent compared to the same period in 2019.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES REACTS TO JOINT INDIA-US NAVY EXERCISES OFF ANDAMAN ISLANDS Reacting to the joint India-US Naval exercises near the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago on July 20, in an interview in Global Times (July 21) Tian Shichen, a retired PLA Navy Captain, Vice President of the Grandview Institution and Director of the Center for International Law of Military Operations, noted Indian media reports interpreting the joint exercise as an effort by New Delhi to step up pressure on Beijing in the sea to "acquire leverage over China" and as a "strong strategic signal to China" and "a show of solidarity" between the US and India amid tensions both countries face with China.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE RESEARCHER CHARGED WITH VISA FRAUD FOR CONCEALING EMPLOYMENT WITH PLA Song Chen, a 38-year old visiting Stanford University researcher on a J-1 visa meant for work- and study-based exchange programs, supposedly as a neurologist interested in studying brain disease, has been charged with visa fraud for allegedly concealing her job as a member of the Chinese military.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO U.S. CUI TIANKAI SPEAKS ON SINO-US RELATIONS TO FARID ZAKARIA ON CNN China's state-owned CGTN quoted China's Ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai as saying (July 18) during an interview with Farid Zakaria on CNN that “Actually, the Chinese civilization has been there for about 5,000 years, much longer than the United States.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TOUGHLY WORDED GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLE WARNS OF DETERIORATION IN POLITICAL AND SECURITY SITUATION BETWEEN TAIWAN AND CHINA A toughly worded Global Times (July 20) article by Zhou Wenxing, a research fellow at Shang Dao Institute for Social Research who holds a doctorate in Public Administration from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and was Asia Fellow at Harvard University, said Taiwan's 36th annual 'Han Kuang' military exercise, which began on July 13 and is based on the scenario of an "invasion" by the mainland military reveals the US role behind the island's display of its military power.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-EU: ICT REPORTS EU STATEMENT ON DALAI LAMA'S SUCCESSION The International Campaign for Tibet reported (July 20) the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell's statement of July 16 expressing the EU’s position on the Dalai Lama's succession. He said “The selection of religious leaders should happen without any government interference and in respect of religious norms.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-UK: UK SUSPENDS EXTRADITION TREATY WITH HONGKONG The British Foreign Secretary announced (July 20) that the UK had suspended its extradition treaty with Hongkong.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: DRIVE AGAINST 'LIBERAL' IDEAS IN HONGKONG An article in the Wall Street Journal (July 19) said that in its effort to stamp out dissent the CCP has reprimanded and, in some cases, fired teachers who backed anti-government protests in the city or supported the demonstrators on social media.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING PRESIDES OVER PBSC MEETING TO DISCUSS FLOODS CCP CC General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) on July 17 to discuss flood management and response as the worst flooding in decades has been ravaging southern China since June and looks set to continue until August.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: NOTIFICATION OF TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY FIRING PROF XU ZHANRUN RELEASED South China Morning Post (July 18) reported that Tsinghua University's notification dated July 15, terminating the services of 57-year old Prof. Xu Zhangrun, was sent to him by courier on July 18, according to a friend who requested anonymity for fear of retribution.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: CHINA LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN IN CCP AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has once again launched a brainwashing campaign. According to Radio Free Asia (July 15), its members and school students are required to study the “Four Histories,” which refers to “the history of the CCP, the history of new China, the history of the reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development.”
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLAAF PILOT RECRUITMENT The PLAAF announced (July 16) that its pilot recruitment campaign for 2020 has begun and that more than 3,800 fresh high school graduates who have passed the preliminary and second round of selection are now in the final-stage test.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S ECONOMY REGISTERS GROWTH Caixin reported (July 17) that China’s economy grew 3.2% year-on-year in the second quarter this year, returning to growth after a record 6.8% contraction in the first quarter, official data (link in Chinese) showed on July 16, as the world’s second-largest economy recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE CHIP MANUFACTURER'S STOCKS RISE Caixin (July 17) reported that shares of China’s leading contract computer chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) more than tripled from their offering price in their Shanghai trading debut on July 16, as investors raced to buy into the mainland’s largest new listing in a decade.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER NINE FINANCIAL FIRMS WITH ASSETS TOTALLING OVER US$ 171.5 BILLION Caixin reported (July 18) that the Chinese government had taken over nine financial companies formerly controlled by the mysteriously fallen tycoon Xiao Jianhua for alleged infractions in an unusually aggressive move to attack risks from his once free-wheeling financial empire.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: EFFECTS OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME Caixin (July 17) reported "dramatic changes" in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in recent years, as Beijing’s ambitious campaign to end absolute poverty by the end of this year has led to greater urbanization and generous subsidies being handed out to those deemed deserving.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: FORMER DEPUTY COMMANDER OF NANJING MILITARY REGION COMMANDER SAYS INDIA'S TROOPS IN LADAKH ARE ONLY FOR 'SHOW' In an article on China's social media posted on July 16, Lt. General Wang Hongguang, former Deputy Commander of the Nanjing Military Region, claimed that the 100,000 Indian troops deployed in Ladakh are just a show and they will not be able to sustain themselves in Ladakh in the winters.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US AMBASSADOR TO INDIA KEN JUSTER MEETS HEAD OF DALAI LAMA'S BUREAU IN DELHI ON JULY 18 US Ambassador to India, Ken Juster, on July 18, said he met Ngodup-la, Representative of Tibetan Spiritual leader Dalai Lama in Delhi and Secretary Gyalpo.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SECRETARY OF STATE ANNOUNCES PROPOSAL TO IMPOSE VISA RESTRICTIONS ON HUAWEI EMPLOYEES AND PUTS TECH COMPANIES ON NOTICE The U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said (July 15) in a press briefing that the US will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese technology companies, including Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPAN APPOINTS NEW AMBASSADOR TO CHINA Citing government sources Asahi Shimbun (July 15) reported that 59-year old Hideo Tarumi, a Foreign Ministry official with close connections in Beijing has been selected as Japan's next Ambassador to China at a time of increasing uncertainty over the bilateral relationship.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI CRITICISES U.S. BY NAME IN CONVERSATION WITH RUSSIAN COUNTERPART China's Foreign Ministry website on July 18 posted a report on Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on July 17.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING'S ARTICLE IN LATEST EDITION OF QIU SHI Chinese President Xi Jinping's new article in the latest edition (2020/14 dated15 July 2020) flagship CCP Party ideological journal Qiushi is important. In addition to the CCP CC Propaganda Department describing it as such, it is the lead article on all China’s major state media channels on July 16 – CCTV evening news, Xinhua, People’s Daily, etc.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-SOCIAL ORDER: BUS ACCIDENT CAUSED PROBABLY BY MENTALLY DISTURBED DRIVER 21 people died and 37 were injured when a bus crashed through the guard rails and drove into the Hongshan Lake Reservoir, Anshun City at noon on July 7.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS APPOINT 'SUPPLY CHAIN CHIEFS' The government of Nanjing, Jiangsu announced (July 13) that it will appoint eight 'Supply Chain Chiefs'.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-UK: HUAWEI PAYS OFF ENTITIES IN UK TO CLEAN UP ITS IMAGE The British newspaper The Times reported on July 10 that Cambridge University’s Jesus College produced a paper accused of “reputation laundering” for Huawei and that it had received £200,000 (US $255,000) from the Chinese state and £155,000 (US $198,000) from Huawei.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-UK: GLOBAL TIMES REACTS TO BRITISH PLANS TO DEPLOY NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER 'QUEEN ELIZABETH' IN FAR EAST Zhang Junshe, senior research Fellow at the PLA Naval Research Institute wrote in the Global Times (July 15) that British plans to base the HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of the UK's new aircraft carriers as the centrepiece of a carrier strike group in the Far East, is to play a part in countering "an increasingly assertive China".
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA REACTS TO US REJECTION OF CHINA'S CLAIM ON SOUTH CHINA SEA AND WARNS US NOT TO TEST IT IN SOUTH CHINA SEA Reacting to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement on July 13 of the US' formal rejection of China's claims in the South China Sea, an article in the the CCP-owned Global Times (July 14) said "The US now stands on the opposite side of China and is aiming to turn the waters into a hot spot again".
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA SANCTIONS LOCKHEED MARTIN FOR U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT DEAL TO UPGRADE TAIWAN'S PATRIOT MISSILES China's ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) announced (July 15) that it would sanction US aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin, the principal contractor in a US$ 620 million arms deal to Taiwan.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-VATICAN: POPE'S SPEECH DELETES ALL REFERENCES TO HONGKONG Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported (July 7) that, according to the Italian newspapers 'Il Tempo' and 'La Verite', Pope Francis’ speech on July 5 removed the content related to the Hong Kong situation from the original draft that was released.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: 'RECTIFICATION' DRIVE IN CHINA'S PUBLIC SECURITY APPARATUS On July 9, China's Ministry of Public Security convened a meeting on mobilization for the new “Persist in Political Construction of Police, Comprehensively and Strictly Govern Police” education and rectification campaign, which included a speech by Ministry of Public Security Head Zhao Kezhi.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CENTRAL DISCIPLINE INSPECTION COMMISSION (CDIC) AND NATIONAL SUPERVISORY COMMISSION (NSC) NOTIFY THAT RETIREMENT IS NO PROTECTION AGAINST CHARGES OF CORRUPTION The Central Discipline Inspection CommissioN (CDIC) and National Supervisory Commission (NSC) published an article on their website about party retirees who were found guilty of corruption after retiring.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: XU ZHANGRUN DISMISSED BY TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported (July 15) that outspoken Chinese Professor Xu Zhangrun has been fired from his post at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University after being released from police detention.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW SENIOR APPOINTMENTS Wu Yongjie (吴永杰) was appointed General Manager of China National Machinery Industry Corporation; Xu Qiang (徐强) was appointed General Manager of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation; Liu Liehong (刘烈宏) was appointed Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Liu Zhao (刘钊) was appointed Vice Minister of the Ministry of Public Security; Chang Zhengguo (常正国) was appointed Vice Minister of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs; and Wang Jingtao (王京涛) was appointed deputy head of the National Administration of State Secrets Protection.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PEOPLE'S DAILY PUBLISHED FIVE COMMENTARIES BETWEEN JULY 1 AND JULY 5 DEFENDING ENACTMENT OF NEW NATIONAL SECURITY LAW People’s Daily published a series of Commentator Articles between July 1 and 5, eulogising and defending the decision to pass national security legislation for Hong Kong against international criticism.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINA APPOINTS SENIOR HONGKONG OFFICIALS AFTER ANNOUNCING NEW NATIONAL SECURITY LAW Eric Chan (陈国基) was appointed secretary general of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-UK: UK RULES OUT HUAWEI FOR 5G Britain will stop using equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in the country’s 5G telecom network and will completely eliminate all existing Huawei gear by the end of 2027, the U.K. government said on July 14.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US IMPOSES RESTRICTIONS ON HONGKONG SAR On July 14, the US President imposed severe restrictions on the Hongkong SAR restricting its relationship with the US.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: PLAN SR. COLONEL WRITES COMMENTARY ON US MILITARY MOVES IN SCS In commentary in the PLA Daily (July 12) PLA Navy Senior Colonel Zhang Junshe, who is also a senior research fellow at the People’s Liberation Army Naval Military Studies Research Institute, said the US should stop its provocative acts in the South China Sea and Beijing was determined to safeguard its maritime sovereignty.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA'S GLOBAL TIMES SAYS INDIA HAS NOW SOUGHT CONFRONTATION IN ECONOMIC FIELDS Dai Yonghong, Director of the Institute of Global Governance and Area Studies at Shenzhen University, wrote in the Global Times (July 14) that by "echoing the US' attempt to decouple from China, India has recently sought confrontation with China in economic fields.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO'S 21ST 'COLLECTIVE STUDY' MEETING ON JUNE 29 The CCP Politburo held its twenty-first collective study on "In-depth Study, Understanding and Implementing the Organizational Line of the New Era Party" on the afternoon of June 29. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee, emphasized that organization building is an important foundation for party building.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO MEETING ON JUNE 29 Xi Jinping presided over a CCP Politburo meeting on June 29, which discussed two new regulations. The first, titled “CCP Military Party Building Regulations” (中国共产党军队党的建设条例), is intended to “carry out the Central Military Commission Chairman responsibility system (军委主席负责制) and ensure the Party’s absolute leadership over the military” as well as maintain the goals and missions of the military.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: REPORT ON FIRST MEETING OF 'SAFE CHINA CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION GROUP POLITICAL SECURITY TASK FORCE' The first meeting of the Ping An China Construction Coordination Group Political Security Task Force was held on July 6, 2020, in Beijing.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: TSINGHUA LAW PROFESSOR XU ZHANGRUN RELEASED ON JULY 12 Tsinghua University Law Professor Xu Zhangrun, who has been a trenchant critic of Chinese President XI Jinping since at least 2016, was released by the authorities on July 12.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLAN CONCLUDES 5-DAY EXERCISES AROUND PARACELS ISLANDS ON JULY 5 China's People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) wrapped up five days of drills around the Paracel Islands, (Xisha Islands), a chain also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan on July 5, 2020. China did not give details about the Paracel drills involved, but the Global Times (July 5) called them "intensive".
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-BHUTAN: CHINA RAISES NEW BORDER ISSUE WITH BHUTAN At the 58th meeting of the Council of the Global Environment Facility, created after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, China’s delegate unexpectedly raised objections to Bhutan’s having placed the entire Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary on its side of the Bhutan-China border, claiming that is a “disputed area.”
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: PAKISTAN ARMY OFFICER COMMENTS ON ONGOING CHINA-INDIA FACE-OFF ALONG LAC Lt Col. Khalid Masood (Retd) of the Pakistan Army wrote in 'The Nation' (July 13), that "The present Sino-Indian crisis can be attributed to multidimensional factors.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-IRAN: CHINA SIGNS 25 YEAR AGREEMENT FOR IRANIAN OIL The New York Times (July 13) reported that it had in its possession the copy of an 18-page agreement signed between Iran and China envisioning a sweeping economic and security partnership.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-UK: UK TO BAN HUAWEI FROM ITS 5G NETWORKS The UK is expected to announce on July 14 that it will bar new deployments of Huawei equipment in its fledgeling high-speed 5G network.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-UK: CHINESE AMBASSADOR WARNS BRITAIN OF CONSEQUENCES IF IT BANS HUAWEI China’s Ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming told reporters on July 6: “We hope that they will reconsider their position. With regard to what the response China is going to make, we have to wait and see what will be the specific actions of the British side.”
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA'S TIT-FOR-TAT SANCTIONS AGAINST FOUR AMERICANS FOR INTERFERENCE IN CHINA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS In a tit-for-tat retaliation, China on July 13 announced sanctions on four American officials for “interfering in China’s internal affairs” through their condemnation of Beijing’s human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US STATE DEPARTMENT ADVISES US NATIONALS TO BE CAREFUL WHILE VISITING CHINA The US State Department issued a notice (July 13) advising its nationals to: "Exercise increased caution in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) due to arbitrary enforcement of local laws for purposes other than maintaining law and order.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. TAKES POSITION ON SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE On July 13, the U.S. Department of State unveiled an important set of clarifications concerning U.S. policy in the South China Sea.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: SECRETARY GENERAL OF CCP CC'S POLITICAL AND LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (PLAC) LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN A protege of Chinese President Xi Jinping and 60-year-old Zhejiang native, Chen Yixin, Secretary-General of the Party’s Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC), convened a meeting in Beijing on July 8 to launch a new nationwide “education and rectification” campaign.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC CHAIRMAN AND PBSC MEMBER WANG YANG VISITS TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION (TAR) PBSC Member and CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang visited the Tibet Autonomous Region from July 6-8, 2020.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA WTC ARMY'S DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF VISITS XIDE COUNTY IN TAR TO INSPECT POVERTY ALLEVIATION WORK Major General Lai Wenyi, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army in the PLA Western Theatre Command went to Xide County on July 3 to investigate poverty alleviation.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: CHINESE ANALYSTS RECOMMEND BEIJING SHOULD An Gang of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Wang Yiming of Renmin University and Hu Xin of China's National Defence University (NDU) co-authored a lengthy 5-part article, which was published on July 6, 2020, in a journal.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: FORMER DEPUTY MINISTER OF CCP CC ILD ASSESSES INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND SUGGESTS STEPS CHINA SHOULD TAKE China Social Science Network (June 22) reproduced an article by Zhou Li, a former Deputy Minister of the CCP’s International Liaison Department (now called the International Department), entitled, “Proactively Responding to Changes in the External Environment” and published the same day (June 22) in the China Social Science News magazine brought out by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS FOR IMPROVING CHINA-US TIES AT THINK-TANK FORUM On July 9, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi addressed a forum on China-US relations. In the audience were participants from think tanks of both countries.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: HONGKONG-BASED CHINESE SCIENTIST AND VIROLOGIST FLEES TO U.S. Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a respected doctor who specialized in virology and immunology at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, boarded a Cathay Pacific flight to the United States on April 28.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG VISITS (JULY 6 - 7) GUIZHOU PROVINCE Chinese Premier Li Keqing inspected Tongren and Guiyang during his visit (July 6 & 7) to Guizhou province. He was accompanied by Guizhou Provincial Party Committee Secretary Sun Zhigang and Governor Chen Yiqin. Li Keqiang advocated promoting the government’s “new infrastructure” drive.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE LEADERS SANCTIONED BY U.S. FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN XINJIANG-UYGHUR AR Under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which enables the U.S. government to place travel bans and asset freezes on human rights abusers, the US Treasury Department on July 9, 2020, named Chen Quanguo, the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) Party Secretary, and Zhu Hailun, a former XUAR Deputy Party Secretary as on the list of those sanctioned.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: NO NEW COVID-19 CASES IN BEIJING Beijing (Caixin, July 7) reported no additional confirmed Covid-19 cases on July 7.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: HUBEI PROVINCE ANNOUNCES PLANS TO REVAMP HEALTH SYSTEM Health officials of Hubei province, that had the highest number of coronavirus deaths in China, on July 6 held a press conference to announce its plans to reform its disease control systems as policymakers mull a public health overhaul in the wake of the pandemic.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: MORE TIBETANS IN TAR ENROLL TO BECOME CCP MEMBERS Radio Free Asia (July 6) quoted the state-run China's Tibet portal as saying on July 1, that following the drive last year by China to enrol ethnic Tibetans in the ruling Chinese Communist Party, at least 16,000 Tibetans joined the CCP bringing the total Tibetan membership number to 398,000. Almost 8,000 new members are Tibetan nomads and farmers.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SAFE APPOINTS NEW DEPUTY CHIEF Born in 1969, Ms Wang Chunying was appointed Deputy Chief of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), which manages more than US$ 3 trillion in reserves, on July 6.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SHANGHAI FORUM ON CHINA'S CAPITAL MARKETS Xiao Gang, former Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), speaking at a financial forum in Shanghai about the development of China’s capital markets, said he had a message from the leaders in Beijing.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: GLOBAL AI CONFERENCE OPENS IN SHANGHAI The Global AI Conference opened in Shanghai on July 2. Despite its title, the forum will see almost entirely Chinese attendees because of travel bans and geopolitical tensions.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA: CHINESE OFFICIAL CLAIMS TENSIONS HAVE MOUNTED IN SOUTH CHINA SEA Wu Shicun, President of China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies and Chairman of Board of Directors of China-Southeast Asia Research Center on the South China Sea, writing in China Military on July 7, 2020, anticipated that 2020 will witness the situation in the South China Sea shift from "stabilizing" to "turbulent".
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN ASSERTS CHINA HAS CONFIDENCE IN HONGKONG'S FUTURE At the regular weekly press conference in Beijing on July 7, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian, responding to a question about the status of Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Zoom and others in the wake of the National Security Law (NSL) said: "I recall what Deng Xiaoping noted in 1982 when he met with Margaret Thatcher, after Hong Kong's return to the motherland, "Horses will still run, stocks will still sizzle, and dancers will still dance" in Hong Kong.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-FRANCE: FRANCE RESTRICTS USE OF HUAWEI EQUIPMENT IN FRANCE Guillaume Poupard, head of the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI, was quoted by Reuters (July 6) saying there would not be a total ban on using equipment from Huawei in the rollout of the French 5G telecoms network, but that it was pushing French telcos to avoid switching to the Chinese company.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINA-PAK-AFGHAN VIRTUAL MEETING ON JULY 7 Pakistan's News International on July 8, reported that the China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Vice Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue’s third round was convened virtually on July 7.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINA'S STATE COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS TO NEW OFFICES IN HONGKONG China's State Council announced the formation of the new apparatus to enforce the newly passed Hong Kong national security law. On July 3, the Hong Kong government established its new Committee for Safeguarding National Security.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CRITICISM OF XI JINPING Chinese social media’s nickname for Xi Jinping is 加速器/Accelerant.” He’s accelerating the downfall of the Chinese Communist Party. It’s a pun on the nickname for reform and opening “Chief Architect“/總設計師 Deng Xiaoping.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: PROF. XU ZHANGRUN FORMALLY DETAINED IN BEIJING ON JULY 6 Reliable reports state that Tsinghua University Law Professor Xu Zhangrun has been formally detained in Beijing. He was arrested on July 6.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: PROF XU ZHANGRUN PROTESTS DEMOLITION OF BEIJING'S ART DISTRICT Radio Free Asia reported (June 26) that Xu Zhangrun, a Professor at Tsinghua University who has published articles critical of Xi Jinping and the CCP many times, on June 25, criticized the Beijing authorities for the demolition of the art district, which was actually for the benefit of the land, and even more to crack down on the art world and monopolize ideas.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-CENSORSHIP: HONGKONG'S EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ASKS SCHOOLS TO REMOVE BOOKS THAT MAY VIOLATE NATIONAL SECURITY LAW FROM LIBRARIES The South China Morning Post reported (July 6) that Hong Kong education officials have told schools to review their book collections and immediately remove those titles that might breach Beijing’s National Security Law.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: COUNTRIES SUPPORTING AND AGAINST CHINA'S CRACKDOWN ON HONGKONG Axios compiled the following list of countries supporting and against China's crackdown on Hongkong.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CAMBRIDGE CONSIDERING WITHDRAWING HK CHIEF EXECUTIVE CARRIE LAM'S HONY. FELLOWSHIP Major Taiwanese news network China Times reported (July 2) that Cambridge Wolfson College President, Professor Jane Clarke, issued an announcement that the College paid strong attention to the series of events that happened after China passed the Hong Kong National Security Law.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO UK HINTS THAT HONGKONG RESIDENTS COULD REQUIRE EXIT VISA TO LEAVE HONGKONG PRC Ambassador to UK Li Shaoming hinted (July 6) that HK people who try to use their BNO passport to leave Hongkong for the UK could be subject to an exit ban.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE STOCKS TRADED AT US$ 215 BILLION ON JULY 6 China's official media reported that China’s stock market recorded its biggest rally in more than a year on July 6, after state media encouraged investors to invest and reap the benefits of a post- coronavirus economic boom.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES REPORTS ON STATEMENTS ISSUED BY INDIA AND CHINA TO DEFUSE BORDER TENSIONS The Global Times report (July 6) on the statements issued by India and China: "The Chinese Special Representative of the China-India Boundary Question, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval spoke July 5 night, and the two sides reached a consensus on de-escalating border tensions.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR WARNS INDIA AGAINST WORSENING AN ALREADY BAD SITUATION Li Hong, an editor with the CCP-owned Global Times, wrote (July 5) a hard-hitting article captioned 'India should not make a bad situation worse', which warned the "Indian leadership to ponder the outcome of continuously antagonizing China" adding that "It should not make a bad situation worse".
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-UK: CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO UK URGES CHINESE STUDENTS TO PRACTICE "PATRIOTISM" China’s Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming has told the 120,000 Chinese students to “leverage their strength” as the UK overtakes the US as the most popular destination for Chinese students for the first time.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA-US BILATERAL TRADE DROPS BY 6.6 PER CENT The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on July 6, 2020, reported that U.S. goods imports from China stood at $36.6 billion in May 2020, down 6.6 per cent year-on-year; the U.S. and that global demand for Chinese exports is likely to remain weak through the summer.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US STATE DEPARTMENT ENFORCES RATA On July 7, the US State Department announced that the Chinese Communist Party and government officials responsible for keeping Americans out of Tibet will be denied entry to the US. In his statement US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the department restricted visas for the officials under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act (RATA), which forbids entry to the US by Chinese authorities “substantially involved” in creating and enforcing policies that keep American citizens out of Tibet.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: CHINA CHANGES NAME OF CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES Taking cognisance of the growing global backlash against the Confucius Institutes promoted by China's Hanban, China issued a notice on July 4, announcing that the name of the Confucius Institutes has been changed to the 'Centre for Language Exchange and Cooperation'.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA DEVELOPING CAPABILITY IN A.I National Interest (July 3) in an article on China's A.I., said that under General Secretary Xi Jinping, China has invested heavily in AI-related technologies, making it a core focus for the modernization of Chinese industry.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHENGDU AGRICULTURAL BUREAU ASKS FARMERS TO PRODUCE GRAIN NOT FRUITS Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported (July 2) the Chengdu Municipal Agriculture and Rural Bureau had issued a document encouraging farmers to stop producing fruit and cultivating gardens and to start producing rice grains instead.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: CHINA ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION OF ITS THIRD AIRCRAFT CARRIER China's military media on July 4 announced that construction of its third aircraft carrier Type-003 has now been almost completed and it is getting closer to the launch of outfitting!
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: DALAI LAMA CELEBRATED HIS 85TH BIRTHDAY ON JULY 6, 2020 The 85th birthday of the Tibetan spiritual leader, HH the XIV Dalai Lama was celebrated globally as World Tibet Day on July 6, 2020.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: LEADER OF PRO-DEMOCRACY 'DEMISISTO' MOVEMENT FLEES HONGKONG One of Demisisto's founding leaders Nathan Law told (July 2) the US's National Public Radio (NPR) that he has fled Hongkong in order to carry on his pro-democracy movement abroad. He did not disclose where he was. Demosisto and Studentlocalism have also announced their disbandment.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN OPENS OFFICE TO FACILITATE MIGRATION OF HONGKONG RESIDENTS On July 1, Taipei opened the new Taiwan Hong Kong Service Exchange Office to facilitate large-scale migration of Hongkongers to the island. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council minister, Chen Ming-tong, described the move as “not only a statement on Taiwan’s support to Hong Kong’s democracy and freedom but also highlights our determination to care for Hong Kong people.”
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: COMMENT ON PRIME MINISTER MODI'S VISIT TO LADAKH China's popular social media platform Baidu on July 3 carried the following post: On June 30, China and India held more than 12 hours of army commander-level talks. The third round of talks reached a consensus that the two parties organized a batch of front-line troops to "disengage" and the talks have made positive progress.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: INDIA CRITICISES IMPOSITION OF CHINA'S NATIONAL SECURITY LAW ON HONGKONG The Times of India (July 2) reported that India's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Rajiv Chander said, "We have heard several statements expressing concern on these developments.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: CHINA RECALLS ITS CLAIM ON VLADIVOSTOK South China Morning Post (July 2) reported that after the Russian embassy posted a video on Weibo of a party held on July 2, to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the founding of the city, whose name means “ruler of the east” in Russian, it prompted an online backlash.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ANALYSIS OF CHINESE LEADERS MOVEMENTS Hongkong's Apple Daily and the Epoch Times separately reported some interesting data about the whereabouts of China's leaders in recent days. They said that since June 11, when Beijing reported its coronavirus cases, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) top leaders have rarely appeared in public settings.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC SESSION CONCLUDED ON JUNE 24 CPPCC Chairman and PBSC member Wang Yang presided over the 12th meeting of the 13th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee Standing Committee in Beijing on June 24.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEMBER AND VICE PREMIER SUN CHUNLAN INSPECTS EPIDEMIC PREVENTION WORK IN BEIJING Politburo member and Vice Premier Ms. Sun Chunlan inspected the epidemic prevention and control work in Beijing on June 23, and emphasised the need to keep an eye on the key parts and key links and said the prevention and control points should be moved forward, prevention and control measures should be more precise, and all-out efforts must be made to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Politburo member and Beijing Party Secretary Cai Qi accompanied her.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: COMMENTARY ASSERTS CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT WILL NOT BE OBSTRUCTED BY CHALLENGES LIKE CORONAVIRUS AND TENSIONS WITH U.S. PLA Daily published (June 22) a lengthy nine-part 'Xie Xinping' commentary affirming that China’s development would not be obstructed by challenges such as the novel coronavirus epidemic and the tensions with the US that the disease exacerbated.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ETHNIC MINORITIES: CHINA REPORTED TO BE IMPOSING BIRTH CONTROL IN XINJIANG-UYGHUR AR The Associated Press reported (June 30) that population control measures backed by mass detention, both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply, are being imposed across the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CANTON FAIR HELD VIRTUALLY CLOSED ON JUNE 24 Singapore’s main Chinese language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao on June 26, reported on the China Import Export Fair (also known as The Canton Fair), which concluded on June 24.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE-OWNED US-BASED MEDIA DESCRIBES SITUATION ON LAC AS "CONFUSING" The Chinese-owned US-based Duowei (June 30) said that the "dispute over the Galwan River Valley caused tensions between China and India.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLES SAYS "HINDU NATIONALISM" WANTS TO WIN OVER CHINA TO BECOME A "BIG COUNTRY OF HINDUISM" An unusual article in the Global Times (July 1) by Yang Jirong, a former correspondent of the Global Times, commenting on the ban on 59 Apps saying they are "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the state and public order", said "we can see that anti-China sentiment among Indians stems from something more than just the border clashes between the two countries.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLE BLAMES "RIGHT WING NATIONALISM" FOR INDIA'S POOR RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBOURS Writing in the Global Times (June 28) Xie Chao, an Assistant Professor at the Institute for International and Area Studies, Tsinghua, said while "Modi came to power with a lot of charm and confidence and his "Neighborhood First" initiative.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG RESIDENTS PROTEST IMPOSITION OF NEW 'NATIONAL SECURITY LAW' The South China Morning Post (July 1) and Bloomberg (July 2) reported that on July 1, the first full day of the new National Security Law (NSL) being in force in Hong Kong and despite police raising a new flag warning the crowds that they were violating the national security law, campaigners still gathered in Causeway Bay.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: 56 PERCENT OF HONGKONG RESIDENTS OPPOSE NEW SECURITY LAW United Daily News (UDN), one of Taiwan's main newsgroups, reported on June 26, that the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) had released the results of a poll that Reuters commissioned on the National Security Law that the Mainland communists imposed on Hong Kong. Around 56 per cent of the people polled were against the new law. Among them, 49 per cent were “strongly against” it.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US STOPS EXPORTS OF DEFENCE EQUIPMENT AND DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGY TO HONGKONG In a statement on June 29, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the “United States will today end exports of U.S.-origin defense equipment and will take steps toward imposing the same restrictions on U.S. defense and dual-use technologies to Hong Kong as it does for China.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US NAVY CONDUCTS DUAL CARRIER OPERATIONS IN "PHILIPPINE SEA" The US Navy announced (June 28) that the Nimitz and Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Groups are conducting dual-carrier operations in the Philippine Sea.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PERSONNEL CHANGES IN MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY Following personnel changes over the past two years in China's Ministry of Public Security, the official website of China's Ministry of Public Security lists a total of 9 'leaders'.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: SURVEILLANCE OF TEACHERS BY STUDENTS The LA Times reported (June 27) that Sun Peidong, a teacher in Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University, was turned in to the authorities by her students.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-NATURAL CALAMITY: CHINESE HYDROLOGIST WARNS THAT THREE GORGES DAM IS AT RISK OF COLLAPSE The Chinese government is denying that the infamous Three Gorges Dam is at risk of collapse after heavy flooding and a warning from notable Chinese hydrologist Wang Weiluo — raising suspicions that it is in fact at risk.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-NATURAL CALAMITY: HEAVY RAINFALL FLOODS 26 PROVINCES The National Flood Control and Drought Relief Department hosted a video conference and disclosed that, as of June 23, flooding was reported in 26 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Guangxi, Guizhou, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Chongqing.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: GOLD SCAM IN CHINA More than a dozen Chinese financial institutions, mainly trust companies, loaned 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) over the past five years to Wuhan Kingold Jewelry Inc. with pure gold as collateral and insurance policies to cover any losses. Recently at least some of 83 tons of gold bars used as loan collateral turned out to be nothing but gilded copper.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PRO-DEMOCRACY MARCH ON JULY 1 BANNED IN HONGKONG In a letter to Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) convenor Jimmy Sham, the Hong Kong police have prohibited the annual pro-democracy march on July 1 on the basis of coronavirus social distancing measures and previous unrest.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: PLA DEPLOYS MARTIAL ARTS 'TRAINERS' TO LHASA The South China Morning Post (June 27) reported that official Chinese news outlets on June 20, disclosed news of the PLA sending martial arts trainers to Tibet. China's state-owned CCTV said 20 fighters from the Enbo Fight Club would be based in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. There is no indication of whether they would be training troops on the border with India.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: TENSION ON LAC COULD LEAD TO CLASHES The South China Morning Post (June 27) said hawkish Chinese military strategists have called on Beijing to be better prepared for an escalation in its border dispute with India, saying the potential for armed conflict between the two nuclear powers is on the rise.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: US-BASED CHINESE OUTLET SAYS INDIA BEGAN TO ENCROACH ON CHINESE TERRITORY AFTER CHINA "PEACEFULLY LIBERATED" TIBET LEADING TO "ARMED CONFLICT" IN 1962 The US-based Chinese-owned Duowei News on June 28 published an article titled 'Coveting Tibet: The First Diplomatic Friction in China and India in 1950'.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: PLAAF FIGHTERS ENTER TAIWAN AIR SPACE China's military media reported (June 26) that PLA Air Force aircraft had entered and exited Taiwan's airspace eight times in two weeks. It said in the southeast coastal area, between June 9 to June 21 in just 13 days, the PLA Air Force fighters carried out eight tactical pieces of training in the Taiwan Strait and the airspace south of Taiwan.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN UNVEILS ITS FIRST FIFTH GENERATION ADVANCED JET TRAINER Taiwan's first indigenous fifth-generation advanced jet trainer (AJT), codenamed Brave Eagle, is unveiled at the Ching Chuan Kang airbase in Taichung on Monday.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SECRETARY OF STATE ANNOUNCES VISA RESTRICTIONS ON CCP OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR OR COMPLICIT IN UNDERMINING HONGKONG'S AUTONOMY US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced (June 26) the imposition of "visa restrictions on current and former CCP officials who are believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy, as guaranteed in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, or undermining human rights and fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong. Family members of such persons may also be subject to these restrictions".
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-US: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHAMA SHUTS DOWN CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION University of Oklahoma spokesperson Kesha Keith said (June 23) that "In March 2019, the U. S. Department of State conducted an inquiry into the Confucius Institute housed at OU and made certain operational recommendations.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-AUSTRALIA: CHIEF OF XINHUA CANBERRA BUREAU SPARKS ROW WHEN SHE BLOCKS PUBLIC BROADCASTER FROM FILMING HER Tensions flared in the Australian Prime Minister's courtyard on June 26, when Bai Xu, Chief of Xinhua's Canberra bureau, became angry that an SBS [public broadcaster] cameraman was filming her.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-VATICAN: CHINESE BILLIONAIRE DISSIDENT CLAIMS CHINA PAYING VATICAN US$ 2 BILLION A YEAR Exiled Chinese billionaire dissident Guo Wengui in an interview (June 20) with Breitbart (June 23) alleged that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “allocates $2 billion a year” to pay off the Vatican for its silence concerning Chinese atrocities.
Jul 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION TO STOP USE OF MONGOLIAN AS MAJOR LANGUAGE FOR ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Radio Free Asia reported (June 24) the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is to issue regulations later this year curbing the use of Mongolian.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: ARREST OF CITIZEN JOURNALIST WHO CRITICISED RESPONSE DURING CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN WUHAN The China Media Project on June 22 reported that Shanghai-based citizen journalist Zhang Zhan (张展), who was arrested in May after posting a video criticizing the government’s epidemic response measures, was formally charged on June with the crime of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA PORTAL 'ATTACKS' CITIZEN JOURNALIST AND CRITIC FANG FANG China Media Project on June 23 reported that on June 10, the website chinamil.com.cn, a PLA news portal, published an 'attack' piece on the author Fang Fang, whose diary documenting 74 days under quarantine in Wuhan during the coronavirus epidemic was recently published in both English and German editions.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S MINISTRY OF FINANCE ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR USING RMB 1 TRILLION SPECIAL TREASURY BONDS China's Ministry of Finance (MoF) on June 23, clarified how it plans to use proceeds from its Special Treasury Bonds (STBs) which the government announced at the 'Two Sessions' in May, to support the economy. This marks the first STB issuance since 2007.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA PREPARING FOR DECOUPLING FROM U.S. South China Morning Post (June 21) reported that China Securities Regulatory Commission Vice Chairman Fang Xinghai warned that China needs to guard against the risk of the US cutting it off from the dollar payments system.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: HUAWEI COULD CUT STAFF BY 50% The Hong Kong new online media HK01 Network reported (June 15) that, according to unverified internal sources from Huawei, the company is planning a mid-July announcement that it will cut its workforce in half.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA SEEKING 'NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS MODEL' The Central News Agency reported on June 25, that on June 23, the website of the “Military Weapon and Equipment Procurement Information Network” (http://www.weain.mil.cn/), headed by the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, released “nine new procurement needs and 53 procurement announcements.”
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: INDIAN ARMY CHIEF VISITS BORDER FORMATIONS IN LADAKH Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane visited the forward areas in Ladakh on June 24 and 25 when he awarded Commendation Certificates to the soldiers who fought in the action at Galwan Valley.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF'S TWEET REMINDS INDIA ITS GDP IS ONLY ONE FIFTH OF CHINA'S In a tweet on June 25, Hu Jixin, Editor-in-Chief, that Indian public opinion is impulsive and overbearing on international issues, putting own dignity & pride above others’ & not understanding importance of mutual respect.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WARNS INDIA As de-escalation talks are underway between India and China, Hu Jixin, Editor-in-Chief of the Party-owned Global Times tweeted on June 23 evening: "New Delhi has loud voices, but needs to restrain actions.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US IMPOSES RESTRICTIONS ON 4 MAJOR CHINESE NEWS OUTLETS On June 22, the US State Department notified that four major Chinese state-owned media outlets will be required to inform the U.S. State Department of their personnel rosters and real-estate holdings as if they were foreign embassies.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: FRESH OUTBREAK OF COVID-19 IN BEIJING Medical staff were dispatched from other parts of the country to help treat COVID-19 patients in Beijing as the city launched more travel restrictions.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC STANDING COMMITTEE SOLICITS COMMENTS FROM PUBLIC ON TWO BILLS BUT NOT ON LAW REGARDING HONGKONG The NPC Standing Committee (NPCSC) is soliciting public comments on the draft 'Veterans Support Law' and draft 'Rural Revitalisation Promotion Law' through July 21, 2020.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: HUBEI UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DISMISSED FROM PARTY MEMBERSHIP AND SUSPENDED FROM TEACHING Radio France Internationale reported (June 20, 2020) that Ms Liang Yanping, a Professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Hubei University in China, was dismissed from her CCP party membership and suspended from teaching.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG TO GET NEW COMMISSION FOR SAFEGUARDING NATIONAL SECURITY An editorial in the South China Morning Post (June 23) observed that a summary of the new national security law for Hongkong was published over the weekend by the official Xinhua News Agency.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ENERGY: CONCERN OVER INCREASING CARBON EMISSIONS DUE TO PROJECTS BY CHINESE SOEs As China’s Energy Authority announced in May that a public consultation would be held for a draft energy law, setting the agenda for “green, low-carbon” production and a “safe and efficient” energy system, there is concern about compliance by China's State-owned Enterprises.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE ACADEMIC COMMENTS THAT CHINESE PEOPLE NOT INTERESTED IN INDIA-CHINA BORDER CLASH A Reuters report of June 24, said Chinese analysts have said, following the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers in hand-to-hand fighting in the Galwan Valley, that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces strident calls for a strong response, but Chinese President Xi Jinping is under no such public pressure.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF GLOBAL TIMES HU JIXIN STATES CHINA NOT INTERESTED IN ESCALATION Hu Jixin, Editor-in-Chief of Global Times in an article in the newspaper (June 22), referring to Indian media reports that India had given "complete freedom of action" to commanders deployed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) to "handle situations at the tactical level", described it as seriously violating the Agreement on Confidence Building Measures in the Military Field along the Line of Actual Control in the China-India Border Areas.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: US NEWSPAPER CITES US INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAYING PLA WESTERN THEATRE COMMANDER GENERAL ZHAO ZONGQI APPROVED ACTION AT GALWAN VALLEY ON JUNE 15 Writing in US News on June 23, 2020, Paul D. Shinkman claimed that according to a U.S. intelligence assessment senior Chinese General Zhao Zongqi, head of the PLA Western Theater Command, authorized his forces to attack Indian troops in the Galwan River valley last week, resulting in a brutal skirmish that killed dozens and dramatically escalated tensions between the two Asian powerhouses.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN:JAPAN'S ISHIGAKI CITY BEGINS TO COMPLETE INTEGRATION OF SENKAKUS ISLAND CHAIN Japan on June 21 is reported to have begun the legal process of complete integration of the Senkakus island chain, approx.1,931 km southwest of Tokyo, that Beijing has long claimed.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: MS CHEN CHU APPOINTED HEAD OF TAIWAN'S CONTROL YUAN AND NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Ms Chen Chu, former longtime Mayor of Kaohsiung, who shared a prison cell with former Taiwan Vice President Annette Lu for many years after they were arrested December 10, 1979, for their Human Rights Day rally, is to head Taiwan’s Control Yuan and the recently-established National Human Rights Commission.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC STANDING COMMITTEE TO MEET FROM JUNE 28 - 30, 2020 Xinhua reported (June 21) that the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, will convene its 20th session from June 28 to 30 in Beijing, within a week of its 19th session. The decision was made during a meeting of the Council of Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee Saturday, which was presided over by Li Zhanshu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: INCREASED WHEAT HARVEST TO HELP FARMERS China is completing one of the biggest wheat harvests ever this month and the government is expected to purchase a significant chunk of the crop to prop up the price and keep its farmers happy. China's official media reports that the summer grain harvest is 90 per cent complete.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: US$ 7.1 BILLION OF FUNDS LIE UNUSED IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS China's National Audit Office found that 50.4 billion yuan ($7.1 billion) of funds local governments raised from new special-purpose bonds (SPBs) went unused last year, including 13.2 billion yuan that had been left idle for more than a year, after it examined the books of 18 provincial-level governments and 36 cities and counties.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA DELETES INDIAN EMBASSY'S PRESS RELEASE OF INDIAN PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT FROM WECHAT On June 20 afternoon the Chinese authorities got the Chinese social media platform WeChat to delete the Indian PM's statement, read out of Wang Yi-Jaishankar meeting and MEA reaction on India-China stand-off, released by the Indian Embassy in Beijing.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF GLOBAL TIMES AND CHINESE MILITARY COMMENTATOR CALL INDIAN ARMY The US-based Chinese-owned Duowei News reported that Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese official media "Global Times", tweeted on June 17, mocking the Indian army.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: SECURITY MEASURES IN THE TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION Zhang Yangqing, Vice Chairman of the TAR People’s Government and Party Secretary of the Shigatse Municipal Party Committee inspected the border checkpoints and met frontline officers on May 21.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: PLA ESTABLISHES 5 NEW MILITIA UNITS IN TIBET MILITARY COMMAND On the background of the conflict between the Chinese and Indian armed forces on the border and damage to both sides, the PLA Tibet Military Command and the Tibet Autonomous Region organized five militia units in Lhasa on June 15. According to a Chinese military media report on June 18, the Tibetan military on June 15 held a militia unit flag-giving ceremony at the Lhasa police district militia training base.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: PLA TIBET MILITARY REGION STEPS UP MILITARY EXERCISES A pro-Beijing Hong Kong media reported that the PLA Tibet Military Region has conducted joint exercises frequently during this time.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: PAKISTAN THINK-TANK HOSTS WEBINAR ON CHINA-INDIA STAND-OFF Pakistan's Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS) hosted a webinar titled “China-India standoff: Implications for Regional Security” to discuss the rapidly evolving situation on the China-India border and risks of further escalation.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN'S 'NATION' CRITICISES CLASH OF JUNE 15 AT GALWAN AND SAYS SITUATION IS OF BJP GOVERNMENT'S MAKING An opinion by Samson Simon Sharaf in the Nation (June 20) titled " Bereaving hearts of Galwan heights" is critical of the recent clash between the Chinese and Indian forces in the Galwan valley.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-WTO: CHINA LOSES DISPUTE IN WTO FOR EU TO RECOGNISE IT AS A 'MARKET ECONOMY' Bloomberg reported (June 16) that the Chinese government allowed a landmark World Trade Organization dispute aimed at forcing the European Union to recognize it as a market economy in trade investigations to lapse on June 15.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: FORMER CHINESE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER FU YING WRITES ON CHINA-US RELATIONS Former Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ms Fu Ying published an important article in the latest edition of China Newsweek (June 17) titled “Sino-US relations after the pandemic: Is it possible to realize benign competition?.”
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA PERMITS US CARRIERS TO RESUME FLIGHTS TO CHINA Caixin (June 17) reported that the Shanghai government has allowed United Airlines Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. to resume flights to China after months of suspension amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The two American airlines were cleared to operate two flights a week.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: CHINESE SUBMARINE IN JAPANESE WATERS Japan's Defence Ministry reported (June 20) that on June 18 a submarine of foreign origin, presumed to belong to the Chinese Navy, was spotted passing through the contiguous zone off the coast of Amami-Oshima island in southern Japan.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY IN BEIJING Caixin (June 18) said Beijing reported 31 new Covid-19 cases on June 17, four more than the day before, as other parts of China imposed restrictions on people entering from the capital.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: CHINA TIGHTENS CONTROLS ON INDIVIDUALS SUBSCRIBING FOR LITERATURE The official Xinhua News Agency reported (June 15) that China’s National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) issued a “Notice on Further Strengthening the Administration of Online Literature Publishing.”
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA PLANS TO BAIL OUT MEDIUM AND SMALL BANKS BURDENED WITH BAD DEBTS Caixin (June 18) disclosed that small and midsize banks in China worried about the bad debts on their balance sheets may soon get a helping hand from local governments.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CLARIFICATION ON NATIONAL SECURITY LAW Commencing on the National Security Law recently passed by the NPC plenum in Beijing in May, the Guardian (June 17) said that Deng Zhonghua, the deputy head of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, told a conference that “in very special circumstances” and in “very few cases”, China must have the power to exercise jurisdiction over offences in Hong Kong that “seriously endanger national security”.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: HU ZHIYONG, A SHANGHAI THINK-TANK RESEARCHER WARNS THAT IF BORDER TENSIONS ESCALATE INDIA COULD FACE PRESSURE FROM PAKISTAN AND NEPAL Global Times (June 17) quoted Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Institute of International Relations of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, as saying on June 17, that China has no intention to change the border situation at all, and the incident happened on the Chinese side of the LAC, so the confrontation causing the deaths of 20 Indian military personnel was entirely provoked by the Indian side.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE REACTIONS TO SITUATION AND KILLINGS ON LAC The South China Morning Post (June 17) quoted a source close to the PLA as saying that Beijing was “very sensitive” about military casualties, saying all numbers had to be approved by President Xi Jinping, who heads the Central Military Commission, before being released.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: TOUGHLY WORDED GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLE ASKS INDIA TO A Global Times article (June 17) noted that the Chinese Foreign Minister had pointed out to the Indian Foreign Minister during their conversation that "it was the Indian side that intentionally provoked and started a violent attack.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CASS RESEARCHER SAYS CALL FOR BOYCOTT OF CHINESE GOODS PLACES The Global Times (June 17) quoted Liu Xiaoxue, an Associate Research Fellow at the National Institute of International Strategy under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reacting to the calls for boycott said some extreme anti-China groups and individuals in India have been promoting a China "boycott."
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO AND CHINESE POLITBURO MEMBER YANG JIECHI ARE MEETING IN WASHINGTON THIS (JUNE 18) AFTERNOON The Washington Post reported (June 18) that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese Politburo member in charge of foreign affairs, Yang Jiechi are meeting in Hawaii on June 18 afternoon.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US ADDS MORE CHINESE TECH COMPANIES TO ENTITIES LIST IN MAY The US Department of Commerce added more Chinese technology companies/institutes to its Entities List in May 2020.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-EU: EU TIGHTENS FOREIGN INVESTMENT POLICIES Well-known Chinese news site Sina reported (June 6) that the European Union is considering further tightening up foreign investment policies. It is aiming at the Chinese government’s subsidies to Chinese companies’ international acquisitions.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHONGQING POLICE CHIEF UNDER INVESTIGATION The Central Discipline Inspection Commission announced on June 14, that 55-year old Deng Huilin, police chief of the Chinese Municipality of Chongqing is under investigation for suspected “serious violations” of the Communist Party’s code of conduct.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: CHINA DIGITAL TIMES POSTS 20 MINUTE RECORDING BY RETIRED SENIOR CENTRAL PARTY SCHOOL PROFESSOR CALLING CCP A “POLITICAL ZOMBIE” China Digital Times posted the 20-minute recording by a retired senior Central Party School Professor Cai Xia that has circulated widely on China's internet through May 2020.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: CHINA DIGITAL TIMES POSTS 20 MINUTE RECORDING BY RETIRED SENIOR CENTRAL PARTY SCHOOL PROFESSOR CALLING CCP A “POLITICAL ZOMBIE” China Digital Times posted the 20-minute recording by a retired senior Central Party School Professor Cai Xia that has circulated widely on China's internet through May 2020.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: WECHAT POST OF WIFE OF DECEASED CHINESE DR LI WENLIANG OF WUHAN HOSPITAL ATTRACTS 52 MILLION VIEWS The wife of Wuhan whistle-blower Dr. Li Wenliang, Ms Fu Xuejie, 付雪洁 (pure as snow), an optometrist at Wuhan Aier Eye Hospital, on June 12 gave given birth to their second child. She wrote on WeChat:
老公你在天堂看到了吗?你送给我的最后的礼物今天出省了。我一定会好好的爱护他们。
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: CHINESE CITIZEN SUES WUHAN MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT FOR DEATH OF HIS FATHER DUE TO CORONAVIRUS Kyodo News Agency reported (June 10) that 50-year-old Zhang Hai had sent a complaint against the municipal governments of Wuhan and Hubei Province to the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court on June 10, but it is uncertain whether it will be accepted.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS CASES FOUND IN CENTRAL BEIJING As new Coronavirus cases became known on June 3, the authorities swabbed 1,940 workers in major supermarkets and other food markets in the capital and collected 5,424 environmental samples.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: POLITICAL COMMISSAR OF PLA ROCKET FORCE HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF HIGH STANDARDS OF POLITICAL LOYALTY Yue Jijun, Political Commissar of a research institute of the PLA Rocket Army, wrote in a commentary in the People's Daily (June 10) that political loyalty is at the heart of assessing cadre performance, even when it comes to the response to Covid-19.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-REPATRIATION OF CHINESE NATIONALS: 80,000 CHINESE SAILORS ARE STRANDED ABOARD SHIPS AT FOREIGN PORTS An Epoch Times report (June 12) stated that numerous Chinese crew members of civilian ships and cruises have been stranded for months due to entry restrictions amid the pandemic.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US COMMERCE DEPTT ADDED TWO CHINESE UNIVERSITIES ON The South China Morning Post reported (June 12) that the US Department of Commerce added the Harbin Institute of Technology and Harbin Engineering University to its “entity list” late last week, barring them from access to products subjected to US Export Administration Regulations.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PLACES CHINESE PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES UNDER SCRUTINY A report in OpIndia.com dated June 12 reported that China Daily, a propaganda outlet of the Chinese government, is under scrutiny by US authorities. It said China Daily has reportedly paid $19 million to American newspapers in advertisement and printing charges in the past 4 years.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US ARRESTS CHINESE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER FOR CONCEALING LINKS TO PLA Xin Wang, a Chinese scientific researcher suspected of espionage was arrested in Los Angeles on June 7 as he prepared to board a flight to Tianjin, China, the US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco and the local FBI office said in a joint statement.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: REPUBLICAN PARTY ISSUES NEW NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY PUSHING BACK AGAINST CCP The Republican Study Committee, which includes 147 members of Congress, published a new national security strategy on June 10, aiming to “push back against the [Chinese Communist Party] and its efforts to undermine U.S. interests, remake the world order, and promote an alternative form of governance.”
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CICIR ARTICLE CITED BY CHINESE EMBASSY SPOKESMAN IN ISLAMABAD; ARTICLE ACCUSES INDIA OF INCORPORATING CHINESE TERRITORY IN A NEW MAP The Spokesman and Press Officer of the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad, Wang Xianfeng, on June 11 tweeted: "India's actions of unilaterally changing the status quo of Kashmir and continuing to exacerbate regional tensions have posed a challenge to the sovereignty of China and Pakistan and made the India-Pakistan relations and China-India relations more complex."
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG'S VISITS YANTAI IN SHANDONG PROVINCE The Beijing Daily (June 6), People's Daily (June 6) and CCTV (June 7) all carried reports on Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the city of Yantai in Shandong province on June 1 and 2, 2020, when he said street stalls and small shops “are important sources of jobs.”
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER TO MEET EU LEADERS ON JUNE 22 Caixin (June 11) reported that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will meet with European Union leaders online during the week starting June 22, clearing the way for a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and leaders of the 27-country bloc previously scheduled for September in Leipzig, Germany.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CCP AND CHINA'S STATE COUNCIL ISSUE INTERNAL DOCUMENT LISTING 20 'DONT'S' FOR PARTY MEMBERS The New York-based New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) on June 7, 2020 reported that a six-page internal document was issued by the CCP Central Committee and the State Council on May 20.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY'S BUREAU NO: 1 CHANGES ITS NAME Hong Kong based Sing Tao Daily reported that the Domestic Security Bureau (DSB), code-named Bureau No. 1 under China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS), has been renamed the “Political Security Bureau (PSB).”
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: CHINA'S CYBER ADMINISTRATION PUNISHES SINA WEIBO The Paper reported (June 10) that the State Cyberspace Administration instructed the Beijing Cyberspace Administration to interview and punish Sina Weibo according to law.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGICAL EDUCATION: NEW GUIDELINES ISSUED FOR IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL 'DEVELOPMENT' OF STUDENTS The Central News Agency (June 5) reported that China's Ministry of Education announced (June 5) the introduction of “Guidelines for the Ideological and Political Development of the Higher Education Curriculum,” which will modify the contents of courses around the issues of political identity and national feelings.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: FORECLOSURES ON MORTGAGE PAYMENTS INCREASE IN CHINA RAISING WORRIES OF UNEMPLOYMENT China Finance Online reported on June 1, that with the destructive pandemic and a very weak reopening and economic come-back, average Chinese are seeing significantly reduced income.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOW CONSUMER INFLATION EASES Caixin (June 11) reported that data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on June 10, showed that China’s consumer inflation eased to a 14-month low in May, dragged down by moderating gains in pork and food costs, while the decline in prices at the factory gate deepened to a four-year low as oil prices slumped.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: PEOPLE'S DAILY SAYS CHINA'S MINISTRY OF COMMERCE RESPONDS TO US SANCTIONS People’s Daily (June 5) reported that the spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce responded to the recent actions taken by the U.S. Department of Commerce to list additional Chinese individuals and agencies on the “Entity List” for sanction.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: CHINA'S COMMENT ON US OFFER TO RUSSIA FOR DISARMAMENT TALKS On June 10, the Global Times (Chinese version) reported that the US and Russia would be holding a new round of Russian-US military control and strategic stability consultations in Vienna on June 22.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-CANADA: TWO CANADIAN COMPANIES REJECT PARTNERING WITH HUAWEI The Well-known Chinese news site NetEase reported on June 3, that Canada’s two largest telecommunications providers, Bell Canada and Telus Corp., announced they will partner with Ericsson and Nokia for their core 5G networks. Both companies had said earlier in the year that they would still use Huawei’s 5G technology.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING VISITS NINGXIA-HUI A.R. Xinhua reported (June 8) that CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on June 8.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PEOPLE'S DAILY ARTICLE EULOGISES XI JINPING'S LEADERSHIP IN FIGHT AGAINST CORONAVIRUS Writing in the People's Daily on June 5, Gao Xian, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Academic Adviser of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 'Xi Jinping's New Age Socialism Thought Research Center with Chinese Characteristics', described the sudden outbreak of Coronavirus as "an extremely severe test for a great civilisation like China".
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH: CHINA ISSUES WHITE PAPER ON COVID-19 EXONERATING ITSELF Xu Lin, Deputy Head of the CCP CC's Publicity Department released China's 4-chapter, 37,000-word White Paper on fighting COVID-19 during a press conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing on June 7, 2020.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: CHINESE LOCAL ADMINISTRATION'S ACTIVITY ON PANGONG TSO TAR official government sources (April 21, 2020) reported that Dorjee Tsedup, Deputy Chairman of the TAR People’s Government and Head of Pangong Lake Governance went to Rutok County of Ngari to conduct ‘on-site inspections of the water level of Pangong lake and overall environment of the lake.’
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: RUDOK AUTHORITIES EXPLAIN CONSTITUTION AND BOUNDARY ON BORDER TO LOCAL VILLAGERS Ngari News publicised (April 30) that The Judicial Bureau of Rutok County and Ngari Regional Customs and Commerce Bureau, were reported (April 30) by the Ngari (Ali) government, to have conducted propaganda campaigns in the border villages of Deru and Jaggang also known as Chagkang village, not far from Demchok of Ladakh, India.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: NGARI PUBLIC SECURITY TRAINS PERSONNEL IN 'REAL COMBAT' In late May, the Municipal Public Security Bureau of Ngari revealed it had organised a three-stage intensive ‘real combat training’ of all Public Security organs in Ngari.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA CONSTRUCTING MILITARY TRAINING BASE ON BORDER WITH BHUTAN A report (May 25) disclosed that China started construction of a new military training base (Base No: 32) at Drowa village, Lodrak, Lhuntze County from May 8.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA'S OFFICIAL MEDIA CONTINUES PROPAGANDA WAR AGAINST INDIA The CCP-owned Global Times (June 9) publicised the conduct of military manoeuvres by the PLA. It said PLA paratroopers held intensive tactical drills and mock battles in June.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA PUBLICISES MILITARY EXERCISE THE DAY SENIOR COMMANDERS MEET AT LAC China released video clips of a military exercise in which thousands of paratroopers, armoured vehicles and equipment were mobilised, saying they could be deployed “within hours” to the border with India in the Himalayas.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG'S SECRETARY FOR CIVIL SERVICE SAYS CIVIL SERVANTS HAVE "DUAL IDENTITIES" AND MUST BE LOYAL TO SAR AND PRC At a round-table meeting hosted by the pro-Beijing DAB party on Sunday, Nip said that – under One Country, Two Systems – the city’s civil servants also served the Chinese government.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HKMAO DEPUTY DIRECTOR ASSURED THAT NATIONAL SECURITY LAW WILL TARGET ONLY Zhang Xiaoming, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) said, according to the South China Morning Post (June 8) that the new national security law for Hong Kong is meant to strengthen, not undermine, the “one country, two systems” principle and will ensure the freedoms granted to the city can be extended beyond 2047.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US CUSTOMS SEIZES COUNTERFEIT DOLLAR BILLS SHIPPED FROM CHINA CNN reported (January 28) that United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized $900,000 in counterfeit US currency from a commercial rail shipment from China. They were packed in 45 cartons of counterfeit $1 bills.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: OVERSEAS CHINESE SPORTSMEN 'DELETED' FROM CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA SITES China’s all-time record goalscorer Hao Haidong and his wife Ye Zhaoying, an ex-badminton world champion, both face being wiped from the country’s record books after denouncing the Chinese Communist Party and announcing an intention to overthrow the government.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: INSTRUCTIONS FOR RECRUITMENT OF GRADUATES People's Daily (June 3) reported that China’s Ministry of Education and the CMC's National Defense Mobilization Department jointly issued a notice on enlisting college graduates in 2020.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-TECH: HUAWEI IS SHORT ON SUPPLY OF CUSTOM-MADE CHIPS FOLLOWING US SANCTIONS Caixin (June 4) reported that Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., which has long been stocking up on custom-made chips as a hedge against U.S. sanctions, should have enough to last at least until the end of the year.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: CHINA TO ALLOW FOREIGN AIRLINES A day after the US banned seven Chinese airlines from flying to the US in retaliation for China prohibiting two US airlines flying to China, China announced (June 4) it will allow foreign airlines that previously operated flights to the country but are now barred under virus control measures to resume limited flights.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG: RESIDENTS PROTEST ON JUNE 4 Thousands of people in Hong Kong defied a police ban on June 4 evening, breaking through barricades to mark the 31st anniversary of the crushing of a democracy movement cantered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE LEADERSHIP SETS UP NEW LEADING GROUP FOR HONGKONG AFFAIRS The Central News Agency reported (June 3) that after the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Coordination Group for Hong Kong and Macau Affairs was recently elevated to the Central Leading Group for Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, the group leader Han Zheng met with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam in Beijing.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST EDITORIAL CALLS FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF CONFRONTATION AT LAC An intriguing editorial in the Hongkong-based South China Morning Post of June 4 claimed that nationalists in China and India eager to deflect attention from their countries’ Covid-19 crises are pushing deployment of soldiers to the border.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLE WARNS INDIA AGAINST JOINING G-7 An article based on an interview given by Liu Zongyi, Secretary General of the Research Centre for China-South Asia Cooperation at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, a visiting fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China and a distinguished fellow of the China (Kunming) South Asia & Southeast Asia Institute, was published by the Global Times on June 5, which warned India against joining the G-7.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE DISSIDENT ACADEMIC XU ZHIYONG HONOURED WITH PEN 2020 AWARD The PEN organisation announced (June 5) that they are bestowing the 2020 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award on Chinese essayist and human rights defender Xu Zhiyong.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S VISIT TO TOKYO WILL PROBABLY BE POSTPONED Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi suggested in a television interview (June 3) that Xi Jinping's visit would wait until after the Group of Seven summit, now being rescheduled for September, and the Group of 20 summit slated for November.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG'S COMMENTS ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION At a press conference on the side-lines of the 13th NPC on May 28, People's Daily (May 28) reported that China’s Premier Li Keqiang said the government would focus its stimulus measures on domestic economics while admitting that China is a developing a country with a large population, with an average annual per capita disposable income of 30,000 yuan (US$4,213.30).
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER INSTRUCTS REGIONS AND DEPARTMENTS TO FIND MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYING GRADUATES In a written instruction to a teleconference held in Beijing on June 3, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang observed that "college graduates are facing grim employment prospects due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic".
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XIA BAOLONG INFORMS CPPCC DELEGATES OF CHINA'S POSITION ON HONGKONG Ta Kung Pao reported (May 28) that meeting 200 members of the CPPCC on May 28 in Beijing, Xia Baolong said that it is "Hong Kong independence", tyranny and external hostile forces that cause harm to Hong Kong.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HKSAR CHIEF EXECUTIVE CARRIE LAM VISITS BEIJING AND MEETS TOP OFFICIALS Carrie Lam told reporters in Beijing on June 3, after a three-hour meeting with Chinese officials including Vice Premier Han Zheng, Public Security Minister Zhao Kezhi and Xia Baolong.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: PLA EXERCISES IN TIBET Main battle tanks (MBTs) and infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) attached to an armoured brigade under the PLA 76th Group Army were on exercise in a high altitude area in Tibet on May 19, 2020.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. BANS SEVEN CHINESE AIRLINES FROM FLYING TO US The Washington Post reported (June 3) that in a move bound to exacerbate tensions between the US and China, the US Department of Transportation said (June 3) it will ban all commercial passenger flights by Chinese carriers beginning June 16.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES STATEMENT TO MARK TIANANMEN PROTESTS The US State Department issued a statement on June 3 to mark the Tiananmen protests in which thousands of Chinese lost their lives.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: GLOBAL TIMES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF REACTS TO U.S. STATEMENT Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of the Global Times, a nationalistic tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party’s People’s Daily, said the United States was marking the Tiananmen anniversary “in a unique way”.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO COLLECTIVE STUDY SESSION TO STUDY 'CIVIL CODE' Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired the Politburo's 20th Collective Study Session on May 29, on China’s newly enacted Civil Code, during which he emphasised the important role of the Civil Code in the “legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING MEETS PLA DELEGATION DURING NPC Xinhua (May 26) reported that Chinese President and CMC Chairman Xi Jinping attended the plenary meeting of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the People’s Armed Police (PAP) delegations to the third session of the 13th NPC. He appreciated the military's response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PEOPLE'S DAILY EDITORIAL COMMENDS CPPCC PLENARY SESSION The People’s Daily published (May 28) a front page editorial commending the conclusion of the third session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee on May 27.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: NEW WESTERN THEATRE AIR FORCE COMMANDER APPOINTED Official Chinese media reports on May 23, 2020 disclosed that Lieutenant General Wang Qiang, Deputy Commander of the PLA Western Theatre Command has succeeded Lieutenant General Zhan Houshun (战厚顺), who was 63 years old, as the new Commander of the PLA Western Theatre Command Air Force.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: TIBET MILITARY REGION ORGANISED COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT DRILL ON MAY 20 The Tibet Military Region Support Department organised a comprehensive support practice drill with the transfer of wounded personnel and airdropped medical supplies to explore new methods of support in the Plateau and cold environment on May 20.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: FIVE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY HEADS SUPPORT NATIONAL SECURITY LAW RTHK reported (June 1) that the heads of five universities in Hongkong issued a statement supporting Beijing's imposition of the National security Law for Hongkong while also stressing that they cherish the city's freedoms.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-TECH: CHINA'S XIAOMI LOOKING TO DEVELOP 6G Xiaomi's co-founder and Chairman Lei Jun has, according to South China Morning Post (June 1) already started pre-research into the next generation of mobile connectivity.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY'S COMMENTS ON TENSIONS ON LAC Global times (June 1) reported that China's Foreign Ministry had stressed that "the situation on the China-India border is stable and controllable, and diplomatic and military channels of communication between the two sides are unimpeded".
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: FIRST COMMENTS BY US CONGRESSMAN ON CHINA-INDIA TENSION ALONG LAC In a statement on June 1 night, US Congress’ House Committee Chair Eliot L Engel said, “I am extremely concerned by the ongoing Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control on the India-China border.”
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: XINHUA COMMENTARY ACCUSES US OF MCCARTHYISM A Xinhua commentary (May 31) said by prohibiting entry of Chinese students and researchers into the United States, the US Administration had broken the U.S. leadership's promise of welcoming Chinese students who want to pursue studies there.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: WASHINGTON ACCUSES CHINA OF BLOCKING AMERICAN CARRIERS FROM RESUMING FLIGHTS TO CHINA CNN Business News (May 25) reported that Washington has accused Beijing of blocking American carriers from resuming flights to China, prompting US authorities to more heavily scrutinise Chinese airlines.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ESTIMATED TO SHRINK US ECONOMY BY APPROX US$ 8 TRILLION OVER NEXT DECADE Projections released by the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on June 1 estimated that the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will shrink the size of the U.S. economy by roughly $8 trillion over the next decade.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LATIN AMERICA: CHINA TO CUT BACK LENDING IN LATIN AMERICA The Global Times (May 31) quoting Chinese experts said that China may scale back direct lending to the region to minimise credit risks, but the long-term infrastructure projects will likely boost local economies after the Covid-19 outbreak is contained.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-CAMBODIA: CAMBODIA DENIES GIVING NAVY BASE TO CHINA The South China Morning Post (June 2) reported that speaking at a road construction ceremony in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said (June 1) that China has not been given exclusive rights to use a naval base on the country’s southern coast, and said that warships from all nations, including the United States, are welcome to dock there.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ON SIDELINES OF CPPCC/NPC MEETINGS CPPCC MEMBER FROM XINJIANG CRITICISES US HOUSE EFFORTS TO "DEMONISE" CHINA Mutanlip Khasem, a member of the CPPCC and Deputy Head of the AR Congress Standing Committee, said on the side-lines of the 'Big Two' meetings that the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has recorded no terror-related incidents in the past three and half years.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-NPC: CHINESE GENERAL ASSERTS THAT OPTION TO USE MILITARY FORCE TO REUNIFY TAIWAN WITH MAINLAND STILL EXISTS Speaking at Beijing's Great Hall of the People during the NPC and on the 15th anniversary of the Anti-Secession Law, General Li Zuocheng, Chief of the Joint Staff Department and member of the Central Military Commission (CMC) told the NPC that an attack on Taiwan with help from people on the island was a possibility.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: MAO'S TRANSLATOR JI CHAOZHU DIES IN BEIJING Ji Chaozhu, long-time Chinese Communist Party cadre translator and diplomat, died on April 29, 2020, aged 90 in Beijing.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SURVEY BY CHINA FILM ASSOCIATION SHOWS HUGE LOSSES FOR CINEMAS IN CHINA BECAUSE OF PANDEMIC Sina.com publicised (May 29) that according to a survey released by the China Film Association on May 27, 2020, the pandemic has had a severe adverse impact on the entire Chinese film industry.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE VILLAGES IN DEBT China's plans to improve its own countryside, namely the public works, environmental protection, and beautification projects under the Rural Revitalization Campaign have visibly improved China's rural landscape but put the villages under huge hidden debts.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: NGARI PUBLIC SECURITY TRAINS PERSONNEL IN 'REAL COMBAT' In late May, the Municipal Public Security Bureau of Ngari revealed it had organised a three-stage intensive ‘real combat training’ of all Public Security organs in Ngari.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE BLACK-TOPPING TRACK IN FINGER 4 AREA ON PANGONG TSO IN LADAKH Writing in The Print (May 30) Snehesh Alex Philip wrote that fresh construction activity of blacktopping of a motorable road by the Chinese has been spotted happening around Finger 4, a disputed territory.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO US CUI TIANKAI JUSTIFIES IMPOSITION OF NATIONAL SECURITY LAW ON HONGKONG The People's Daily (June 1) published the highlights of an Op-Ed (May 31) by Chinese Ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai in which he justified the NPC's approval of the National Security Law for Hongkong.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-UK: UK ALLOWS 350,000 BN(O) PASSPORT HOLDERS IN HONKONG TO GET EXTENDED VISAS On May 28, British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, said the UK would extend visa rights for about 350,000 British national (overseas) (BNOs) passport holders if Beijing went ahead with its plans to impose a national security law on Hong Kong.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES WITHDRAWAL OF SPECIAL EXEMPTIONS GRANTED TO HONGKONG US President Donald Trump announced on May 29 that the US government will begin eliminating special policy exemptions it grants Hong Kong, following its determination earlier this week that the city is “no longer autonomous” from mainland China.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN ANNOUNCES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PLAN FOR HONGKONG CITIZENS Radio Free Asia reported (May 28) that as Beijing pushed forward and imposed a new national security law on Hong Kong, Chen Ming-Tong, Minister of the Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), announced on May 29 that Taiwan developed the Hong Kong Humanitarian Assistance.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PHILIPPINES: VIDEO PROMOTED BY CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO PROMOTE CHINESE-PHILIPPINES COLLABORATION IN FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 CRITICISED BY THE PEOPLE On April 23, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) posted a song on YouTube with the Filipino name “Lisang Dagat” (meaning “One Ocean,” the song’s Chinese name is “海的那邊”).
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC & NPC - NPC PASSES HONGKONG NATIONAL SECURITY LAW The plenary session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) officially closed in Beijing on May 28, 2020, and Li Zhanshu, PBSC member and Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, delivered the closing speech.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: MPS TO OVERSEE HONGKONG POLICE China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced on May 29 evening that they will "DIRECT and support" the Hong Kong police force.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-NPC: WORK REPORT'S REFERENCE TO CHINA'S UNIFICATION WITH TAIWAN The China Youth Daily (May 28) reported that the final version of the Government Work Report contained 89 revisions to the version delivered by the Chinese Premier on May 22.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-NPC: FINANCE REPORT - HIGHLIGHTS OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS China's central government expenditures approved by the NPC on May 28 are projected at 3.5035 trillion yuan, down 0.2%.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: CHINA'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER SHANDONG LEAVES FOR SEA TRIALS State-owned CCTV said (May 27) that China's second aircraft carrier and the first domestically built one, the Shandong, is now conducting testing and training missions in an undisclosed location at sea.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: US-BASED DUOWEI PUBLISHES ARTICLE ON CHINA-INDIA BORDER CONFRONTATION The US-based Chinese news outlet 'Duowei' published a detailed article on May 27 on the Sino-Indian border confrontation, which it said, "is still continuing".
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: US CANCELS STUDENT VISAS FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS LINKED TO PLA UNIVERSITIES Bloomberg reported (May 28) that the US intends to cancel student visas for students and researchers with direct ties to universities affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA-US: PLAN "EXPELS" US WARSHIP FROM WATERS NEAR XISHA ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA Senior Colonel Li Huamin, spokesperson of the PLA Southern Theatre Command, said (May 26) that the PLA Southern Theatre Command organised naval and aerial forces to follow the US guided missile destroyer USS Mustin when it illegally trespassed into China's territorial waters off the Xisha Islands on May 21 without authorisation from the Chinese government.
Jun 2020 |
CHINA--LEADERSHIP: CPPCC CONCLUDES PLENARY SESSION ON MAY 27, 2020 The closing meeting of the third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 27.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: “XI JINPING TALKS TO ECONOMIC PLANNERS IN BEIJING OF NEW DEVELOPMENT PLAN” South China Morning Post (May 26) said Chinese President Xi Jinping told dozens of top economic advisers in Beijing over the weekend that China was pursuing a new development plan in which "domestic circulation plays the dominant role".
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT AND CMC CHAIRMAN XI JINPING ASKS PLA TO SPEED UP ANTI-COVID VACCINE AND THINK OF WORST CASE SCENARIOS Xinhua reported (May 26) that speaking to PLA and PAP Deputies to the NPC on May 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the delegates to accelerate research and development of COVID-19 drugs and vaccines.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PROPOSAL TO MAKE PERMANENT SURVEILLANCE OF MOBILE PHONE USERS AT 'BIG TWO' MEETINGS The Wall Street Journal (May 25) reported that anger spread across Chinese social media sites over the weekend following an announcement that officials in Hangzhou could create a permanent version of a smartphone-based health-rating system developed to fight Covid-19.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA TO GIVE COMPENSATION TO AIRLINES China's Ministry of Finance and the Civil Aviation Administration issued a notice to compensate airlines for costs associated with international cargo shipping.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: TAIWAN COMPANY REJECTS CHINA'S ORDER FOR MICROCHIPS Chinese technology news site Moore reported (May 19) that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) received a US$ 700 million emergency order from Huawei on May 18.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA CONSTRUCTING MILITARY TRAINING BASE ON BORDER WITH BHUTAN A report (May 25) disclosed that China started construction of a new military training base (Base No: 32) at Drowa village, Lodrak, Lhuntze County from May 8. Construction of the base was to commence in February but has been delayed due to Covid-19 till now.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PAK DEFENCE ANALYST ASSESSES THE CHINA-BUILT JF-7 'THUNDER' Lahore-based Defence and Security analyst Ammad Malik wrote in the Diplomat (May 27) that while the Pakistan Air Force needs additional platforms to balance the Indian Air Force.
May 2020 |
CHINA--HONGKONG: PLA GARRISON COMMANDER SAYS THEY ARE READY TO SAFEGUARD NATIONAL SECURITY IN HONGKONG The South China Morning Post (May 26) reported Chen Daoxiang, Commander of the PLA’s Hong Kong garrison, saying it would “act with firm resolve to implement the central government’s decision and plans” as well as continuing to implement the “one country, two systems” policy in the city.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS "OVERALL SITUATION IN CHINA-INDIA BORDER AREA IS STABLE AND UNDER CONTROL" The overall situation in the China-India border area is stable and under control, and the two countries are capable of resolving border issues through dialogue and negotiations, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, following reports claiming China had moved 5,000 troops to the China-India border area.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN REACTS TO CHINA IMPOSING NATIONAL SECURITY LAW IN HONGKONG Reuters (May 25) reported that China's planned national security law may prompt Taiwan to revoke the special status it extends to Hong Kong, in a move that could anger Beijing and make it harder for Hong Kongers to visit and invest.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE STOCKS DECLINE IN US STOCK EXCHANGE Writing in the Diplomat, New York City financial analyst Chutian Zhou said (May 26) while the U.S. stock market is recovering amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Chinese companies listed in the country have just received a severe blow.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ZAMBIA: THREE CHINESE NATIONALS MURDERED IN LUSAKA Chinese Ambassador to Zambia, Li Jie made representations to the Zambian Foreign Ministry on May 25, after three Chinese nationals were murdered in the capital Lusaka, demanding the Zambian authority solve the case immediately.
May 2020 |
CHINA-CANADA: CANADIAN PUBLIC OPINION TURNS AGAINST CHINA Hong Kong Economic Times (HKET), the leading financial daily in Hong Kong, reported (May 14) that, based on the latest polls conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, the number of Canadians with positive views about China reached a record low.
May 2020 |
CHINA-CANADA: CANADIAN JUDGE ALLOWS EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HUAWEI FOUNDER'S DAUGHTER MENG WANZHOU A Canadian judge ruled (May 27) that Meng’s actions could be considered a crime in Canada, thereby removing an important barrier to her deportation to the United States to stand trial.
May 2020 |
CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG'S GOVT. WORK REPORT TO NPC -HIGHLIGHTS Premier Li Keqiang announced in the Government Work Report he delivered to the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature, on May 22 in Beijing that China will not this year set annual economic growth targets as it used to since 1994.
May 2020 |
CHINA-NPC: 17 NPC DEPUTIES DISMISSED DUE TO 'VIOLATIONS OF DISCIPLINE AND LAW' In a surprise move, the NPC dismissed 17 Deputies, who held higher positions in the past, due to 'violations of discipline and law'.
May 2020 |
CHINA--NPC: 4 PLA DEPUTIES TO NPC ORDERED TO RESIGN DUE TO 'VIOLATIONS OF DISCIPLINE AND LAW' Of the 17 NPC Deputies dismissed in a surprise move "due to violations of discipline and law", 4 were senior former officers of the PLA who held high positions in the past.
May 2020 |
CHINA-NPC: NPC DEPUTY AND RESEARCH DIRECTOR OF PLA NAVY ACADEMY REVEALED RECENTLY THAT SUGGESTIONS HAD BEEN OFFERED FOR AI-BASED FUTURE NAVAL WARFARE REQUIREMENTS TO PLAN Cao Jingyi, a Deputy to the NPC and Research Director with the PLA Navy Academy, in a recent interview, said that her team has extensively researched and offered strategic suggestions to PLAN on its requirements for AI-based future naval warfare.
May 2020 |
CHINA-NPC: COMMENTS AND PROPOSALS BY CPPCC AND NPC DEPUTIES i) Zhang Chuanwei, a Deputy to the NPC who is also Chairman of Mingyang Smart Energy, a wind turbine manufacturer and clean energy integrated solution provider based in South China's Guangdong Province, proposed on May 23 that China should accelerate the pace in the adjustment of its energy structure to shape a clean energy support belt around the sea by building multiple wind power projects on the sea.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. SANCTIONS 33 CHINESE ENTITIES The US Department of Commerce on May 22 announced that the US Government has sanctioned 33 Chinese companies and institutions, putting them on two so-called entity lists.
May 2020 |
CHINA-GLOBALISATION: CASS ANTICIPATES MAJOR CHANGES IN NEXT 5 YEARS Writing in the SCMP (May 23), Finnbarr Bermingham said 'A recent advisory paper by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government-linked think tank, suggested that the next five years would present “major changes unseen in a century” for China, as “the strategic game between superpowers has intensified, while international systems and orders are reshuffled”.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: PLA TROOPS VIOLATED LAC AND INTRUDED UPTO 5 KMS INTO INDIAN TERRITORY IN LADAKH PLA troops violated the LAC in 5 places at Hot Spring, Galwan Valley and Gogra in Ladakh and Naku La in north Sikkim on May 5. The intrusions were deliberate and preplanned.
May 2020 |
CHINA-CPPCC: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING MEETS ECONOMIC DELEGATES AT CPPCC MEETING President Xi Jinping on May 23 morning et CPPCC Delegates from the economic sector attending a joint group meeting at the third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
May 2020 |
CHINA-CPPCC: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG DROPS MENTION OF "PEACEFUL" WHILE TALKING OF REUNIFICATION OF TAIWAN TO CPPCC In his speech to the CPPCC, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang dropped the word 'peaceful' whilst talking about the unification of Taiwan.
May 2020 |
CHINA-NPC: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING MEETS NPC DEPUTIES FROM INNER MONGOLIA Chinese President Xi Jinping took part on May 22 afternoon in a deliberation with his fellow Deputies from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region delegation attending the third session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC).
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC VICE CHAIRMAN AND NPC SPOKESMAN WANG CHEN SPEAKS ON DRAFT CIVIL CODE AND HONGKONG Xinhua (May 22) reported that Wang Chen, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on May 22, explained the draft civil code to NPC Deputies and explained the draft decision on establishing and improving the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
May 2020 |
CHINA-NPC: CHINA'S DEFENCE BUDGET HIKED TO US$ 179 BILLION China in its draft defence budget hiked the allocation from last year’s US$ 177.6 billion by only 6.6 per cent to 1.268 trillion yuan (US$ 178.2 billion), the lowest increment in recent years apparently due to the heavy disruption caused to its economy by the COVID-19.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: NEW UAV DESIGNED FOR HIGH ALTITUDES MAKES FIRST TEST FLIGHT The first flight of AV500C UAV, designed for high altitudes, has been successfully completed by the Chinese group AVIC.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: NEW TYPE-052 DESTROYER LIKELY TO BE COMMISSIONED BY PLAN IN AUGUST The ninth of Type 052D destroyers of PLAN, Tangshan (Pennant no 122) is in the final stages of her trials and is likely to be commissioned in Aug 2020.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ESPIONAGE: CHINESE SPY ACTIVITIES IN BELGIUM Radio Free Asia (May 15) and EU Observer (May 6) reported that the Veiligheid van de Staat (VSSE), a Belgian state Intelligence agency, recently disclosed China’s spy activities in the military and scientific arena posing threats to EU security.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S MINISTRY OF FINANCE REPORTS DECLINE IN REVENUES IN FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 2020 People's Daily (May 18) reported that according to the statistics released by China’s Ministry of Finance on May 18, in the first four months of this year, Mainland China’s general public budget revenue fell by 14.5 percent year-on-year, indicating that the Chinese economy has been hit hard by the Wuhan virus and its fiscal revenue has also declined.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: TENSION MOUNTS AS CHINESE TROOPS INTRUDE ACROSS LAC AT THREE PLACES Tensions have increased since the end of April with Chinese troops crossing the Line of Actual Control (LAC). disputed Sino-Indian boundary remain high.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: TWO INDIAN MPS FOR FIRST TIME "VIRTUALLY" ATTEND TAIWAN PRESIDENT'S INAUGURAL CEREMONY Two BJP MPs — Meenakshi Lekhi and Rahul Kaswan — virtually attended the swearing-in ceremony of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and even sent her congratulatory messages, in a departure from the Modi government’s position on the country that China claims is its territory.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: TWO INDIAN MPS FOR FIRST TIME "VIRTUALLY" ATTEND TAIWAN PRESIDENT'S INAUGURAL CEREMONY Two BJP MPs — Meenakshi Lekhi and Rahul Kaswan — virtually attended the swearing-in ceremony of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and even sent her congratulatory messages, in a departure from the Modi government’s position on the country that China claims is its territory.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: INDIA MENTIONED BY GLOBAL TIMES WHILE DISCUSSING CHINA'S DEFENCE BUDGET Commenting on the interest taken by foreign countries in China's defence budget, Song Zhongping was quoted by Global Times (May 22) as saying "People should ask first, which countries are threatening China's national security in the first place?
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SENATE PASSES BILL THAT COULD DELIST 800 COMPANIES FROM U.S. STOCK EXCHANGES The Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation on May 20 that could lead to Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. being barred from listing on U.S. stock exchanges amid increasingly tense relations between the US and China.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: US NAVY SUBMARINE FLEET IN SOUTH CHINA SEA The US Pacific Fleet Submarine Force announced (May 18) that all its forward-deployed subs were simultaneously conducting “contingency response operations” in the Western Pacific.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: US APPROVES ARMS SALE TO TAIWAN In a statement on May 20, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said that the U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale to Taiwan of 18 MK-48 Mod6 Advanced Technology Heavy Weight Torpedoes and related equipment for an estimated cost of $180 million.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC OPENS ON MAY 21 AND WILL CLOSE ON MAY 27 The spokesman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Guo Weimin said at a press conference the CPPCC's annual session will begin on May 21 afternoon in Beijing, and conclude on May 27.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC CHAIRMAN WANG YANG ANNOUNCES CHINA WILL ENSURE LONG-TERM STABILITY OF HONGKONG On May 21, the opening day of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, CPPCC Chairman and PBSC member Wang Yang in his Report announced: “We will ensure the long-term stability of ‘one country, two systems.’ We will continue to support the improvement of the implementation of the systems and mechanisms of the constitution and Basic Law.”
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC SESSION OPENS ON MAY 22 AND WILL CLOSE ON MAY 28 A day before its inaugural session on May 22, the NPC elected a 174-member presidium, with Wang Chen as the Secretary General of the NPC session.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHAIRMAN OF HIKVISION AND NPC DEPUTY CHEN ZONGNIAN Hikvision Chairman and Communist Party Secretary Chen Zongnian joined the National People's Congress in 2018.
May 2020 |
CHINA-CCP: CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS CONTRIBUTE TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS The state-owned CCTV reported that CCP members donated 8.36 billion RMB (US$ 1.18 billion) for the fight the coronavirus in the past three months. All the money has been sent to the party central for redistribution.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: NEW US$ 1.4 TRILLION MASTER PLAN TO PROMOTE DOMESTIC TECHNOLOGY OVER 6 YEARS TILL 2025 Bloomberg (May 21) reported that a new masterplan backed by Chinese President Xi Jinping himself, China will invest an estimated $1.4 trillion over six years to 2025, calling on urban governments and private tech giants like Huawei Technologies Co. to lay 5G wireless networks, install cameras and sensors, and develop AI software that will underpin autonomous driving to automated factories and mass surveillance.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: CHINA REVEALS A LITTLE MORE ABOUT DALAI LAMA-NOMINATED PANCHEN LAMA Responding to US Secretary of State Mike Pompo's strong statement demanding disclosure of the whereabouts of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the then 6-year old boy recognised by the Dalai Lama as the Panchen Lama, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman responded on May 20.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: NANCHANG DESTROYER COMPLETES FIRST UNDERWAY FUELLING TRIALS The PLA Navy's public WeChat account disclosed (May 20) that the PLAN's first Type-055 large 10,000-ton class destroyer Nanchang (101) and supply ship Taihu completed the first replenishment training (underway fuelling trials), which experts said is crucial for the newly commissioned warship's combat capability.
May 2020 |
CHINA-SHIPBUILDING: CSSC DELIVERS NEW OIL TANKER TO CNOOC A 150,000 T FPSO (Haiyangshi You) designed by CSSC was delivered to China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) on May 18.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: US GOVERNMENT ISSUES 16-PAGE DOCUMENT SAYS U.S. IS "FUNDAMENTALLY REEVALUATING" ITS RELATIONS WITH CHINA A 16-page document issued by the White House "fundamentally re-evaluates" the US relationship with China and declares it to be "competitive".
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: USCIRF IMPLICATES HIKVISION CHAIRMAN IN RELIGIOUS VIOLATIONS IN XINJIANG The US government's religious freedom watchdog, USCIRF, has criticised Hikvision for being "credibly implicated in serious religious freedom violations". Three US Congressmen have requested Hikvision chairman Chen Zongnian be sanctioned over Hikvision's "complicity in human rights abuses" in Xinjiang.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: NEW US STUDY ASSESSES INCREASING CHINA-JAPAN NAVAL RIVALRY IN COMING YEARS The Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments published a report on May 19, 2020 titled 'Dragon Against the Sun: Chinese Views of Japanese Seapower' authored bySenior Fellow Toshi Yoshihara.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: 70 PER CENT OF GLOBAL TIMES EDITORIALS CRITICISE USA The Central News Agency (May 18) reported that as the 2019 coronavirus epidemic continues its worldwide rampage, China’s official media has concentrated on criticizing the United States.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: NEPAL ISSUES NEW MAP SHOWING LIPULEKH, KALAPANI AND LIMPIYADHURA AS NEPALESE TERRITORY Nepal on May 20 published a new, authoritative political map showing the areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani, and Limpiyadhura as part of its territory.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S SPEECH AT W.H.O. ON MAY 18 Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered the opening speech at an annual meeting of the World Health Organisation on May 18 via a video feed, where he portrayed China as an exemplar of “transparency” during the pandemic and a champion of the developing world.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC & CPPCC PLENUMS IN BEIJING ON MAY 21 AND 22 RESPECTIVELY The 'Big Two', as the annual CPPCC and NPC plenary sessions are called, will open on May 21 and 22 respectively in Beijing with the unusual provision, because of the Coronavirus pandemic, for Deputies and officials to participate via videoconference.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO MEETING TO REVIEW WORK REPORT TO BE PRESENTED TO NPC Xinhua (May 15) reported that the Politburo met on May 15 to discuss the draft of the "Government Work Report" that the State Council intends to submit to the third meeting of the 13th National People's Congress.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: APPOINTMENTS OF SENIOR CADRES China's State Council on May 9 appointed Shen Haixiong (慎海雄) as Chief Editor of China Media Group and Wang Junzheng (王君正) was appointed Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) and Chairman of the China Xinjian Group.
May 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: SHANGHAI POLICE DETAINS LAWYER-TURNED-CITIZEN JOURNALIST Radio Free Asia reported (May 18) that police from Shanghai have detained Zhang Zhan, a lawyer-turned-citizen journalist who reported on the emerging coronavirus epidemic in the city of Wuhan.
May 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINA'S NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION REPORTS THAT TESTING HAS BEEN RAMPED UP China's National Health Commission announced (May 18) that testing has been ramped up. Citing Hubei as an example, Xinhua said the province had 11 institutions capable of conducting nucleic acid tests at the beginning of February. Now there are 216 such institutions.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: 15-YEAR PLAN FOR WESTERN REGION DEVELOPMENT UNVEILED The CCP Central Committee and the State Council on May 17, issued a document announced for development of China’s western regions for the next 15 years.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE BANKS CLOSE BRANCHES Caixin reported (May 19) that in order to cut costs, China's banks had closed a number of branches.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: SMIC TO RAISE FUNDS TO RAMP UP PRODUCTION OF CHIPS China's leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) announced two fundraising plans so far this month in a bid to ramp up production.
May 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: VIGIL PLANNED FOR JUNE 4 WILL PROBABLY BE BANNED The news outlet HK01 reported (May 19) that as the new coronary pneumonia epidemic continues there are indications that the Hongkong government intends to extend the "restriction order" for 14 days to June 4. It said this means that the annual June 4th party may not be held.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA ALLEGES INDIA BUILDING DEFENCES IN GALWAN VALLEY The Global Times (May 18) front-paged an article quoting Chinese military sources alleging that "Chinese border defense troops have bolstered border control measures and made necessary moves in response to India's recent, illegal construction of defense facilities across the border into Chinese territory in the Galwan Valley region."
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE ACADEMIC YAN XUETONG SAYS US-CHINA RIVALRY WILL NOT BE THROUGH PROXIES In an interview with Caixin (May 18) Yan Xuetong, Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University and general secretary of the Beijing-based World Peace Forum, anticipated that that the U.S. and China will compete over the coronavirus vaccine and digital technology, including advanced telecommunications networks.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINA'S AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL FOUND DEAD ON MAY 17 The Israeli media on May 17, reported that China's Ambassador to Israel Du Wei was found dead in his official residence in Herzliya on the morning of May 17. He was 58 years old.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: FORMER HEAD OF CSIC CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION The Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) announced at midnight on May 12 that Hu Wenming, former Chairman and Party branch secretary of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), is now under investigation for “being suspected of serious violations of discipline and the law.”
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHANGES OF PLA REPRESENTATION IN BEIJING MUNICIPAL PARTY STANDING COMMITTEE Xinhua announced on May 10, that Major General Zhang Fandi, the Political Commissar of Beijing Garrison replaced Lt. General Wang Chunning as a Beijing Communist Party Committee Member and a Standing Committee Member.
May 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: ENTRANCE EXAMS FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS WAIVED BY CHINESE UNIVERSITIES TO COUNTER PRESSURE FOR CLOSURE OF CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES Radio Free Asia (May 11) reported that Undergraduate programs in a few top universities in China are cancelling their entrance exams for foreign students.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: BABY FOOD ADULTERATION CAUSES CONCERN IN HUNAN PROVINCE Asia Nikkkei (May 15) reported that the Hunan provincial government is investigating allegations of Bei An Min, a protein drink, being sold as milk formula in the city of Chenzhou.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN REJECTS CHINA'S CONDITION FOR ITS PARTICIPATION IN W.H.O. Responding to Mainland China's insistence that Taiwan can participate in the W.H.O. as "part of China", Taiwan's Health Minister Chen Shih-chung at a news conference in Taipei (May 15) rejected China’s condition, saying: “I have no way to accept something which does not exist.”
May 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINA OBJECTS TO HONGKONG EXAM QUESTION WHETHER JAPAN DID BETTER THAN HARM TO CHINA IN 20TH CENTURY The South China Morning Post reported (May 15) that a question set by the Diploma of Secondary Examination world history subject committee in Hongkong's University Entrance Examinations sparked furious controversy on May 14-15, 2020.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PRESIDENT TRUMP'S THREAT TO CUT RELATIONS Amid rapidly worsening relations, US President Trump in an interview with Fox TV on May 14 threatened: “We could cut off the whole relationship.”
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA THREATENS US WITH SERIOUS COUNTERMEASURES The CCP paper Global Times (May 15) threatened the US with a series of countermeasures if the US went ahead with plans to block shipments of semiconductors to Chinese telecom firm Huawei.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: ETHNIC CHINESE PROFESSOR ARRESTED IN US FOR NOT DECLARING FUNDS FROM CHINESE SOURCES The Cleveland media on May 14 reported that Dr. Qing Wang, a former Cleveland Clinic employee, was arrested by the FBI today at his home in Shaker Heights and charged in federal court on allegations that he failed to disclose funding and employment in China to the National Institute of Health.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC AND NPC MEETINGS TO USE VIDEO-CONFERENCING FOR THOSE DEPUTIES AND OFFICIALS NOT ATTENDING IN PERSON China's State Council announced (May 13) that arrangements will be made for those Deputies and officials not physically attending the third plenary session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) scheduled to start on May 21.
May 2020 |
CHINA-DIPLOMACY: CHINA'S 'WOLF WARRIORS' ASKED TO TONE DOWN RHETORIC Yan Xuetong said that more “rationality” was needed and warned against the influence of nationalist sentiment on policymaking.
May 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: QUESTIONS RAISED ON TESTING ALL 11 MILLION WUHAN RESIDENTS WITHIN TEN DAYS Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak, began its programme to test all 11 million of its residents on May 14.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: PLA NAVY PLANS 11-WEEK EXERCISE TIILL JULY 31 The PLA Navy announced on May 13 that after delays in the training schedule due to Covid-19, the PLA Navy will resume training exercises in the area off Tangshan’s coast in the Yellow Sea till July 31.
May 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: BEIJING ALLOWS UNIVERSITIES TO REOPEN FROM JUNE 6 The Beijing Municipal Education Commission announced (May 13) that universities will reopen universities from June 6.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S FINANCE MINISTER LIU KUN CALLS FOR MORE PROACTIVE FISCAL POLICY China's Minister of Finance Liu Kun published an editorial in People’s Daily (May 14) signalling a more proactive fiscal policy.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S COLLEGE GRADUATES FACE UNEMPLOYMENT With the 6.8 per cent contraction in China's economy in the first quarter of this year and a Peking University survey showing that the number of jobs on offer
shrank by 27 per cent in the first quarter in the the entertainment and services sector, followed by education, sports, information technology and finance, the 8.7 million Chinese students graduating this year are finding it difficult to get jobs.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE SOE CONCLUDES YUAN DOMINATED DEAL China Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., also known as Baosteel, announced (May 11) on its public social media account that it had made a Yuan-denominated iron ore purchase worth more than 100 million yuan ($14 million) from Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Group using blockchain technology.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: US-BASED DISSIDENTS PROJECT XI JINPING'S IMAGE ON CHINESE CONSULATE BUILDING IN LOS ANGELES An organisation of Chinese dissidents based in the US and calling itself the 'Anti-Totalitarian Chinese Alliance', on May 12, 2020, projected onto the exterior of the building housing the Chinese Consulate the words "CCP virus", along with a graphic of Chinese President Xi Jinping with viral spike proteins growing from his head.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: PHASE-I OF US-CHINA TRADE DEAL ON SHAKY GROUND China's financial magazine Caixin disclosed (May 14) that China's State-run companies have purchased more than 20 cargoes, or over 1 million metric tons, of American soybeans in the past two weeks. The beans were bought using tariff waivers previously issued.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING VISITS SHANXI PROVINCE Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Shanxi province on May 11 on his fourth visit outside Beijing in two months.
May 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER ZHANG XUEZHONG DETAINED FOR POSTING OPEN LETTER ON INTERNET TO NPC DEPUTIES CALLING FOR REFORM 43-year old Zhang Xuezhong, a Shanghai-based Chinese Constitutional lawyer, was taken away by public security authorities on May 10 after he posted an 'open' letter on WeChat on May 9 addressed to all NPC Deputies calling for reforms and freedom of speech.
May 2020 |
CHINA-DISSENT: HARBIN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR 'NAMED AND SHAMED' FOR CRITICISING KARL MARX RFA (May 8) reported that Yu Linqi, a History professor at Harbin Normal University, Heilongjiang, was recently named and shamed for criticising Karl Marx, whose theory is viewed as the founding ideology of Communist China.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PSB MINISTER ZHAO KEZHI OUTLINES PUBLIC SECURITY TASKS FOR "NEW ERA" China's State Councillor and Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi wrote a lengthy article in the Party official newspaper People’s Daily (May 6) discussing a speech Xi Jinping delivered at the National Conference on Public Security last year on May 7.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: WUHAN TO TEST ALL 11 MILLION INHABITANTS FOR COVID-19 Caixin reported (May 13) that Wuhan, the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, intends to test all its 11 million population after new infections appeared more than a month after the city ended a lockdown.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: CENSORSHIP OF US DY NSA POTTINGER'S MAY4th SPEECH On May 5, the CCP CC Propaganda (now called 'Publicity') Department issued instructions to all Chinese media to: Strictly delete any reposts, comments, and content related to U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger’s Chinese speech from all platforms, websites, and interactive comment sections, leaving no dead corners.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: CENTRAL PARTY SCHOOL PUBLICATION 'STUDY TIMES' SEEKS TO COOL DOWN NATIONALIST SENTIMENT INSISTING ON MILITARY TAKEOVER OF TAIWAN The South China Morning Post reported (May 10) that the Central Party School's publication 'Study Times' published a 5000-word article by historian Deng Tao reminding readers how the Qing had spent 20 years repairing for the invasion and conquest of Taiwan and that they had used political, diplomatic and economic measures to achieve their goal rather than just relying on force.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA LAUNCHES KUAIZHOU-1A ROCKET ON MAY 12 China launched the Kuaizhou-1A rocket with XingYun-2-01 and XingYun-2-02 satellites on 12 May 20 at 0712 Hr.
May 2020 |
CHINA--ECONOMY: CHINA'S FILM AND TV INDUSTRY SUFFERS HUGE LOSSES DUE TO COVID-19 Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that China’s film and television industry's box office revenues is expected to show a loss of 30 billion yuan (US$4.2 billion) this year. The latest data shows that, since the beginning of this year, more than 6,600 film and television companies have closed down.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: US FEDERAL RETIREMENT FUND STOPPED FROM INVESTING IN CHINA Associated Press reported (May 12) that The Trump administration has directed the U.S. Federal Employee Retirement Fund to scrap its plan to place more than $4 billion into Chinese investments.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: TWO US PROFESSORS ARRESTED FOR TAKING FUNDS FROM CHINA The New York Times (May 11) reported that the US Justice Department had arrested Simon Ang of the University of Arkansas of improperly accepting funds from the Chinese government.
May 2020 |
CHINA-AUSTRALIA: CHINA SUSPENDS BEEF IMPORTS FROM FOUR AUSTRALIAN ABATTOIRS Caixin reported (may 12) that China on may 12, suspended meat imports from four Australian abattoirs accounting for 35 per cent of China''s beef imports from Australia on May 12, citing the need to protect the health and safety of Chinese consumers, as relations between the two nations hit a low point.
May 2020 |
CHINA-GOVERNMENT: CHINA COMMEMORATES MARTYRS OF US BOMBING OF CHINESE EMBASSY IN BELGRADE IN 1999 The Global Times front-paged an article on May 8, marking the twenty-first anniversary of the "brutal missile attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999" which, it said, "Chinese people still cannot forget the sorrows and humiliation it caused" and "the US claimed" was a mistake. Chinese netizens commemorated the martyrs online on May 8, the 21th anniversary of the attack, and the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade too marked the event.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: FINANCIAL STABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE (FSDC) MEETS ON MAY 4 Vice Premier Liu He presided over a meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Committee (FSDC) in Beijing on May 4.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: FOREIGN INVESTORS UNLOAD OVER US$ 31 BILLION WORTH CHINESE STOCKS AND BONDS Well-known Chinese news site Sina reported (April 30), based on data released by the People's Bank of China (PBoC) that, in the month of March, international investors unloaded around RMB 208.4 billion (US$29.5 billion) in stocks and around RMB 20 billion (US$2.83 billion) in bonds.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PLA DAILY WARNS OF INTENSIFICATION OF FINANCIAL CONFLICT The PLA Daily on May 5 published an essay on page 3 on the importance of financial security. The essay was titled: "We should guard against the "high explosive point" of the strategic game of the financial "chess game" and earnestly safeguard the national financial security" (警惕金融博弈这一战略博弈高爆点,切实维护国家金融安全 - 中国军网).
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE ECONOMY REGISTERS Caixin (May 8) reported that China’s goods exports unexpectedly rose in April, breaking a three-month decline and boosted by a surge in shipments of medical supplies to countries fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
May 2020 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: CASS ADVISES CHINESE LEADERSHIP HOW TO COUNTER GROWING ANTI-CHINA SENTIMENT IN THE WORLD The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on April 24, 2020 published an article analysing foreign media attacks, especially in the United States, against China during the Covid-19 pandemic which, it said, had made it difficult for China to cooperate with other countries and fight the pandemic globally.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: CHINA COAST GUARD TO GET ANOTHER 10,000 TON SHIP A report disclosed that China Coast Guard is scheduled to get another 10,000-ton ship later this year. Christening ceremony of the ship was held at the Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard on April 28, 2020.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA-US TIES IN "NEW COLD WAR" Shi Yinhong, an International Relations Professor at China’s Renmin University and an adviser to China’s State Council, was quoted by South China Morning Post (May 5) as saying “The United States and China are actually in the era of a new Cold War.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. OFFICIALS EXAMINING HOW US REPRESENTATIVES CAN WORK WITH HUAWEI IN STANDARDS BODIES Reuters reported (May 6) that US regulators are working to clarify how American companies can work with China’s sanctioned Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in setting standards for next generation 5G wireless networks.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: MOVE TO PROPOSE OBSERVER STATUS FOR TAIWAN IN W.H.O. World Health Organisation legal counsel Steven Solomon said on May 4 that two WHO member nations have proposed the organisation grant observer status to Taiwan.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLAN: TAIWAN SAYS CHINA WILL ESTABLISH ADIZ OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA China's Ministry of National Defense (MND) on May 4 confirmed that China is planning to set up an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the South China Sea.
May 2020 |
CHINA-EU: EU BACKS INVESTIGATION IN TO COVID-19 The South China Morning Post reported on May 5 that the European Union has called for a worldwide investigation into the origins and spread of Covid-19 in a move its foreign policy chief described as “standing aside from the battlefield between China and the US”.
May 2020 |
CHINA-EU: EU AMBASSADORS TO CHINA WRITE JOINT OP-ED IN CHINA DAILY The EU ambassador to China and Ambassadors of the 27 EU member states to China jointly wrote an Op-Ed in China Daily on May 6, on the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the European Union and China.
May 2020 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGY: CHINA TO VET POLITICAL VIEWS OF TV AND FILM ARTISTES AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES PERSONNEL FROM HONGKONG AND TAIWAN According to a Voice of America report (May 6), China has again tightened its ideological control over the film and television circles in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: CHINA PUTS 'THOUSAND TALENTS PLAN' ON HOLD Taiwan's Central News Agency (May 6) stated that China's 'Thousand Talents Plan' (TTP), designed to attract overseas talent, is now not being mentioned. on total radio silence.
May 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: MEDIA CRITICISES CCP FOR NOT ALLOWING CHINESE TO RETURN FROM RUSSIA Epoch Times (April 18), Beijing News (April 25) and Epoch Times (May 1) disclosed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has refused to bring Chinese citizens in Russia home.
May 2020 |
CHINA-GOVERNMENT: CITIZENS PROTEST AT GOVERNMENT'S FAILURE TO REPATRIATE THEM Chinese nationals and parents of students studying abroad staged small-scale protests over a lack of government support outside consulates and embassies in Nepal, Dubai, Kenya, Pakistan and Russia as well as in Beijing.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: OFFICIAL CHINESE NEWSPAPER GLOBAL TIMES CALLS FOR INCREASING NUCLEAR ARSENAL In a front-page article in the official Global Times on May 8, its Editor-in-Chief He Xijin argued that China needs to expand the number of its nuclear warheads to 1,000 in a relatively short time.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: COMMENTS BY CHINESE EXPERTS ON TWITTER AND CHINESE MEDIA Captioned 'China-US war unlikely despite rising hostility' an article in Global Times (May 10) said Washington's hostility toward China and escalated concern that worsening bilateral ties might lead to a China-US war, had prompted Chinese experts to assert that Beijing has sufficient nuclear capacity to assure mutually assured destruction (MAD) and create deterrence to reduce the risks of any direct conflict.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLAA: PLA ARMY DEPLOYS ZTQ-15 LIGHT TANKS IN TIBET Reports indicate that PLA light ZTQ-15 tanks have been positioned at Kamba County/ Shigatse in Tibet.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLAN: CONSTRUCTION OF HELIPORT CONTINUES AT PLA SUPPORT BASE AT DJIBOUTI Satellite imagery of March 2020 available online indicated that construction on the heliport and a possible new quay continued through the pandemic months has continued at the PLA Support Base at Djibouti base.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLAN: CHINESE OIL COMPANY COMMENCES OPERATIONS AT ITS NEW OIL DEPOT AT HAMBANTOTA The China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation has operationalised its Oil Depot at Hambantota port. It successfully refuelled its first ship, MV Melody, on April 7, 2020.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA STEPS UP IMPORT OF SOYBEANS FROM USA China's financial news magazine Caixin reported (May 8) that China is boosting its purchases of U.S. soybeans to fulfil commitments under a trade deal signed by the world’s two largest economies in January.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: TESLA SUSPENDS PRODUCTION OF ELECTRIC CAR AT ITS FACTORY IN SHANGHAI Tesla Inc. suspended production at its plant on the outskirts of Shanghai, according to Caixin news magazine (May 8) quoting people familiar with the matter, bringing to a halt all of the company’s vehicle manufacturing globally.
May 2020 |
CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA: HEAD OF CHINESE THINK-TANK SAYS SOUTH CHINA SEA IS INDISPENSABLE FOR U.S. HEGEMONY IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC Wu Shicun, President of China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies and Chairman of the board of directors of the China-Southeast Asia Research Centre on the South China Sea, writing in the South China Morning Post (May 9) said though Covid-19 has dealt a "body blow to the United States, including its military combat capabilities and deployment" and "the virus has been found in at least 150 US military bases and on four aircraft carriers", nevertheless, the US military has continued its relentless pursuit of hegemony in the Western Pacific.
May 2020 |
CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA: CHINA COAST GUARD ANNOUNCES DRIVE TO STOP VIOLATIONS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA The South China Morning Post (May 4) reported that the China Coast Guard, on April 1, launched an eight-month law enforcement campaign named “Blue Sea 2020”, with one of its stated aims being to crackdown on “violations in offshore oil exploration and exploitation”, as well as marine and coastal project construction.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: US CONGRESS PROPOSES TO CHANGE ADDRESS OF CHINESE EMBASSY TO 1, LI WENLIANG PLAZA FROM 3505, INTERNATIONAL PLACE New Bills have been introduced on May 8, in both, the US Senate and House, proposing that the official address of the Chinese embassy in Washington’s leafy northwest be changed from 3505 International Place to 1 Li Wenliang Plaza.
May 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: CHINA COAST GUARD CHASES JAPANESE FISHING VESSEL INSIDE JAPAN'S TERRITORIAL WATERS Nikkei Asia (May 10) reported the Japanese Coast Guard as saying (May 9) that two China Coast Guard ships had approached and chased a Japanese fishing vessel, which was about 12 km southwest of Uotsuri Island, within Japanese territorial waters in the East China Sea on May 8.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING CHAIRS MEETING OF COMMITTEE ON DEEPENING REFORM AND EMPHASISES THAT PARTY LEADERSHIP AND CHINA'S SOCIALIST SYSTEM HELPED CONTROL THE EPIDEMIC Xinhua (April 26) reported that Xi Jinping, "General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State Chairman, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Director of the Central Comprehensive Deepening Reform Committee", chaired the 13th meeting of the Central Comprehensive Deepening Reform Committee on April 27 and delivered an "important" speech.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: QIU SHI PUBLISHES XI JINPING'S FEBRUARY 12 SPEECH ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION The April 30 issue of the Party theoretical fortnightly 'Qiu Shi' published the February 12 speech that Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered at the 12 February symposium on “fighting the tough battle against poverty well.”
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC CHAIRMAN WANG YANG EMPHASISES POVERTY ALLEVIATION DURING TOUR OF YUNNAN AND GUIZHOU Xinhua (April 26) reported that PBSC member and CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang "recently investigated poverty alleviation in Yunnan and Guizhou".
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: APPOINTMENTS The following were among the appointments announced recently:
i) Huang Runqiu (黄润秋): appointed Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
ii) Tang Yijun (唐一军): appointed Minister of the Ministry of Justice.
iii) He Rong (贺荣): appointed Vice President of the Supreme People’s Court.
May 2020 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: CHINESE SECURITY THINK-TANK WARNS CHINESE LEADERS OF GROWING ANTI-CHINA SENTIMENT IN THE WORLD Reuters (May 4) reported that an internal Chinese report prepared by the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a think tank affiliated with the Ministry of State Security (MoSS), was presented in early April by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders including President Xi Jinping.
May 2020 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: CO-AUTHOR OF 'UNRESTRICTED WARFARE' WARNS AGAINST TAKING OVER TAIWAN BY FORCE The South China Morning Post (May 4) reported that in an interview on May 4, retired PLAAF Major General Qiao Liang, co-author of the book 'Unrestricted warfare' and a Chinese foreign policy 'hawk', has warned that the coronavirus pandemic should not be seen as a chance for Beijing to take back Taiwan by force.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF LONG MARCH 5B ROCKET WITH TWO PAYLOADS ON MAY 5 China successfully launched the Long March 5B rocket on May 5, 2020 and with it the insertion of the prototype new-generation crewed spacecraft into its planned orbit.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PBoC GOVERNOR SAYS CHINA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH DEPENDENT ON HOW REST OF WORLD RECOVERS Speaking at an online roundtable organized by Caixin on April 17, China’s PBoC Governor Yi Gang said rebound from the Covid-19 epidemic has so far been better than expected and economic growth in the second half of the year will continue to gradually improve to “more or less the potential growth rate.”
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF CUSTOMS STATES CHINA EXPORTED 71.2 BILLION YUAN OF ANTI-EPIDEMIC MATERIALS BETWEEN MARCH 1 - APRIL 30 China's General Administration of Customs disclosed on May 1 that following the spread of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, according to customs statistics China exported a total of 71.2 billion yuan of major anti-epidemic materials between from March 1 to April 30.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S FILM INDUSTRY WILL LOSE OVER 30 BILLION YUAN (US$ 4.3 BILLION) THIS YEAR DUE TO COVID-19 The China Film Administration — which decides what films are released in China and when — estimated on April 29 that the country’s box office will lose over 30 billion yuan ($4.3 billion) this year.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PAPER BY PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS ASSESSES DIFFICULT ECONOMIC RECOVERY FOR CHINA Reuters quoted (May 4) economists Nicholas Lardy and Tianlie Huang of the Peterson Institute for International Economics as observing that China’s domestic institutions, notably its weak social safety net, are not up to the task of supporting private consumption, which is critically important for its economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA, AUSTRALIA AND EU SET UP NEW MULTI-PARTY TRADE APPELLATE BODY Citing the Australian Financial Review, China's financial magazine reported (May 4) that China, the European Union and Australia have teamed up to back a new global trade dispute resolution mechanism.
May 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HKMAO CALLS HONGKONG PROTESTORS A Reuters (May 6) reported that in a strongly worded statement China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office warned on May 6, that the city will never be calm unless “black-clad violent protesters” were all removed, describingthem as a “political virus” that seeks independence from Beijing.
May 2020 |
CHINA-NEPAL: CHINA'S ILD HOLDS TELECONFERENCE WITH NEPAL'S LEADERS ON CORONAVIRUS On April 29, the Head of the CCP CC International Department Song Tao attended and delivered a speech at a teleconference between the ruling parties of China and Nepal on novel coronavirus diagnosis and treatment plans and prevention and control measures.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: CHINA TO IMPOSE CENSORSHIP AND MONITORING OF TWITTER, YOUTUBE AND FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS On April 25, Han Lianchao, a former employee of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a screenshot on Twitter of a notice from the Publicity Department of the Party Committee of the Beijing International Studies University.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: ZTQ15 105MMM LIGHT TANK DEPLOYED WITH 54TH HEAVY ARMOUR COMBINED BRIGADE OF TIBET MILITARY COMMAND A Chinese blog published photographs of the ZTQ15 105mm Light Tank built specifically to operate under the mountainous and wet jungle regions of China. It disclosed the tank is now with the 54th Heavy Armor Combined-Arms Brigade, Tibet Military Area Command, and displays their new unit-code of "LZ".
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: AIRCRAFT CARRIER LIAONING RETURNS TO HOME PORT China's first aircraft carrier the 'Liaoning', Type-001, accompanied by 2 frigates, 2 missile destroyers and a supply ship sailed through waters between Okinawa main island and Miyako island and through the sea area to the East China Sea on April 20.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: ICE-BREAKER 'XUELONG-2' RETURNS FROM ANTARCTIC MISSION China's ice-breaker the Xuelong-2 was photographed on April 29, in harbour on its return from a mission to the Antarctica.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PBSC DECIDES TO SUPPORT HUBEI'S ECONOMY April 29, Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) where the main agenda item was supporting the Hubei economy.
May 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: LIAISON OFFICE OF HKSAR WARNS HONGKONG WILL HAVE NO FUTURE IF PROTESTORS RETURN TO VIOLENCE Beijing’s Liaison Office of HKSAR reacted sharply to report by the US Congress-funded National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), and blamed “anti-China” politicians and foreign forces for opposing national security legislation and glorifying the criminal acts of the city’s radical protesters.
May 2020 |
CHINA-NEPAL: CHINESE ENVOY MEETS NEPAL'S SENIOR COMMUNIST LEADERS DAYS PRIOR TO NEPAL COMMUNIST PARTY MEETING The Kathmandu Post reported (May 2) that Chinese Ambassador Ms Hou Yanqi met Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma, NCP Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal on April 30 in Kathmandu just days before a crucial meeting of the party's Secretariat.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: GLOBAL TIMES ALLEGES TAIWAN PAID HUGE AMOUNTS TO HAVE TAIWAN ACT PASSED China's official Global Times (May 1, 2020) alleged that Taiwan authorities had made huge "donations" to the US in order to promote the passage of the "Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative Act of 2019" on March 26.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: RFA CLAIMS EMERGENCY MEETING OF PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTRY DECIDES TO INCREASE MONITORING OF TOP CCP LEADERS Radio Free Asia reported (April 27) that, after taking down Sun Lijun, the Deputy Minister of Public Security, Xi Jinping’s followers held three emergency meetings: an emergency meeting of the Ministry of Public Security on April 20, an emergency meeting of the Secret Service Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security on April 21, and an emergency meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political and Legal Affairs Commission on April 22.
May 2020 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: CHINESE THINK-TANK'S VIEW OF CHINA-US RELATIONS The Beijing-based think-tank 'Minzhi International Research Institute' on April 24, published an article on Sino-US relations by Megn Weizhan (孟维瞻), Assistant Researcher at the China Research Institute at Fudan University.
May 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: AMNESTY CLAIMS CHINESE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST LI QIAOCHU HAS BEEN DETAINED Amnesty initiated a campaign on April 29 for Chinese human rights defender Ms Li Qiaochu, who is reported to have been taken away by Beijing police on February 16, 2020.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PBoC TESTING DIGITAL CURRENCY Xinhua (April 20) reported that a Guangzhou Daily report said that the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), is testing the use of digital currency in the accounts of the Bank of Agriculture through transportation subsidies.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PBoC TIES UP WITH AI SPECIALIST 'SENSE TIME' TO TEST DIGITAL YUAN Caixin reported on April 30 that, amid rumours that PBoC is planning a pilot programme for a Digital Yuan,the agreement between Hong Kong-headquartered Artificial Intelligence specialist SenseTime and the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), which oversees the development of the country’s sovereign digital currency, sets a target of “enhancing financial institutions’ capabilities in risk control and operations. No further details were given.
May 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: STATE GRID'S FIRST LOSS IN 5 YEARS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19 China's financial magazine Caixin reported (April 30) that State Grid Corp. of China, one of China’s two largest state-owned power utilities, posted a net loss of 920 million yuan ($130 million) for the first quarter, compared with net profit of 15.3 billion yuan a year ago.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: CHINA LAUNCHES NEW TYPE-055 FRIGATE AND TYPE075 AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP A Type-055 destroyer was launched at the Jiangnan Shipyard on April 28, 2020.
May 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: TWO TYPE-094 NUCLEAR SUBMARINES JOIN PLAN Quoting two Chinese military sources the South China Morning Post disclosed (April 29) that two new upgraded Type 094, or Jin-class, nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) have gone into service in China in time for the 71st anniversary of the Navy. One of the sources said "The subs had upgrades to technology such as radar, sonar and torpedoes.”
May 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: HUAWEI LOOKING FOR ALTERNATE SUPPLIES China Times (April 22) reported that, despite the news about the U.S. planning to expand the export ban on Huawei, Huawei commented that it can still purchase critical chips from South Korea’s Samsung, Taiwan’s MediaTek and China’s own Spreadtrum Communications, instead of U.S. suppliers.
May 2020 |
CHINA-CCP: TAIWANESE PUBLICATION SURVEY CLAIMS 81.8 PER CENT OF THOSE POLLED SUPPORT A US BID TO TAKE DOWN CCP Taiwan's Liberty Times disclosed (April 5) that on April 3, a Chinese language media New Highland Vision conducted an online survey, with the question: “If the United States wanted to take down the communist regime in China, in case of a war, would you support the American army or the communist army?”
May 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE MILITARY ACTIVITY ACROSS DEMCHOK (LADAKH) The Chairperson of the BDC of Nyuma-Changthang reported on April 27 that between 300-500 Chinese military vehicles were in the Tashigong area opposite Demchok. Flying activity by fighter jets during the day was also reported.
May 2020 |
CHINA-US: US DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SAYS COVID-19 NOT MANMADE The Office of the Director of National Intelligence of the US issued a press release on April 30, which stated “The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China.
May 2020 |
CHINA-COVID-19: FOREIGN ENTITIES FILE LAWSUITS AGAINST CHINA The Epoch Times (April 29) reported that on April 16, attorney Alejandro Sánchez Kalbermatten of Argentina filed a criminal lawsuit against China in Argentina’s Criminal and Correctional Court 12.
May 2020 |
CHINA-TANZANIA: TANZANIAN PRESIDENT CANCELS REQUEST FOR US$ 10 BILLION TO EXPAND BAGAMOYO PORT The Hongkong Oriental Daily reported (April 24) that China’s “Belt and Road” economic strategy faced a setback. it said African media reported that Tanzanian President John Magufuli terminated the US $10 billion loan with China that was to be used to expand the Bagamoyo port.
May 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: DATES ANNNOUNCED FOR CPPCC & NPC PLENUMS Dates were announced in Beijing on April 29 for the 'Big Two', or the plenary sessions of China's top advisory body, the CPPCC and its version of a parliament, the NPC.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-GOVERNMENT: CHINA TO RELEASE "CHINA STANDARDS 2035" China is set to release an ambitious 15-year blueprint that will lay out its plans to set the global standards for the next-generation of technologies. CNBC (April 26) quoted experts as saying the move could have wide-ranging implications for the power Beijing wields on the global stage in areas from artificial intelligence, to telecommunications networks and the flow of data.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINA'S NHC SENDS INSPECTORS TO PROVINCES Beijing News reported (April 27) that the Inspector General of China's National Health Commission (NHC)’s Disease Control Bureau, Wang Bin, announced (April 27) that that the NHC had “Sent a working group of 16 experts to Yunnan, Guangxi and Tibet to provide on-site guidance on prevention and control of border areas and help formulate implementation plans.”
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: WORK CONTINUING ON CHINA'S THIRD AIRCRAFT CARRIER An open source image of March 2020 showed progress on China's third aircraft carrier (CV-003) being built at the Jiangnan shipyard.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: JIANGNAN SHIPYARD ARTICLE REVEALS IT TAKES 8 HOURS TO FIT RADARS ON TYPE-052 & TYPE-055 DESTROYERS An article published by the Changxing Jiangnan Shipyard revealed that fitment of the four APAR Type 346A radars and on the Type-052 and Type-055 Destroyers takes approx. 8 hours or 2 hours per side of the radar.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-SPACE: CHINA'S SPACE ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES MISSION TO MARS On April 24, 2020 on the occasion of Space Day for China, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of China announced the program, "Mission to Mars". The series has been named as the 'Tianwen series' and the first mission has been named as 'Tianwen-1'.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: FIRST FOREIGNER TO BE PROSECUTED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN HONGKONG PROTESTS Guangdong province’s state newspaper, the Nanfang Daily disclosed on April 24 that Guangzhou City’s National Security Bureau had finished investigations into Lee Henley Hu Xiang, a Belizean national and Taiwan resident, and his case had been transferred to the Guangzhou People’s Procuratorate for prosecution.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-US: PLA SOUTHERN THEATRE COMMAND CLAIMS IT "EXPELLED" USS BARRY FROM SOUTH CHINA SEA A spokesperson of the PLA Southern Theatre Command Senior Colonel Li Huamin on April 28, said 'The PLA Southern Theatre Command organised naval and aerial forces to follow the US guided missile destroyer USS Barry when it trespassed into China's territorial waters off the Xisha Islands on April 28'.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: MANDARIN REPLACING TIBETAN AS MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS IN TAR The ICT reported that Human Rights Watch has issued a document in March 2020 detailing the rapid replacement of Tibetan by Chinese Mandarin in schools and educational institutions in TAR.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-NETHERLANDS: NETHERLANDS RENAMES ITS OFFICE IN TAIWAN Apparently upgrading its presence in Taiwan, The Hague has renamed its 'Netherlands Trade and Investment Office' as the "Netherlands Office Taipei” on April 27. The PRC media are publishing strident criticism that observers say reminds them of the beginning of the Dutch-Taiwan submarine crisis of 1980.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-VIETNAM: PRIVATE CYBER SECURITY FIRM ALLEGES ’INTRUSIONS CAMPAIGN' AGAINST CHINESE TARGETS BY VIETNAMESE HACKERS On April 22, the cyber security firm 'FireEye' reported that “From at least January to April 2020, suspected Vietnamese actors APT32 carried out intrusion campaigns against Chinese targets that… [were] designed to collect intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis.”
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-G-20: G-20 SUMMIT POSTPONED DUE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN US-CHINA OVER WHO South China Morning Post (April 25) reported that the video conference of the second 'virtual' Group of 20 (G20) leaders’ summit planned for May 1 and to be attended by President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump was called off amid the US-China row over the World Health Organisation (WHO). It could, however, happen in the near future.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: 10-MEMBER CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM REACHES PAKISTAN A team of Chinese doctors led by PLA Major General Huang Qingzhen arrived in Pakistan in two special aircraft, carrying medical supplies to help Pakistan fight the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW LEADING SMALL GROUP SET UP TO OVERSEE SECURITY Reflecting the Party's anxieties about domestic social unrest, the Party has established a new high-level coordination group called the 'Safe China Construction Coordinating Small Group'.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: VICE PREMIER & PB MEMBER HU CHUNHUA TRAVELS TO XINJIANG, HENAN AND SHANDONG China's PB member and Vice Premier Hu Chunhua has recently travelled to Xinjiang from April 18-20 and Henan and Shandong on April 21-22. In Xinjiang, Hu Chunhua inspected poverty alleviation efforts while in Henan and Shandong the focus was on agriculture.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINA APPOINTS NEW MINISTER OF JUSTICE Tang Yijun, former Governor of Liaoning, has been approved for appointment as China's new Minister of Justice, but he will formally take over after receiving the NPC Standing Committee's approval when it meets from April 25 - 29, 2020.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: WORLD BANK FORECASTS 4% DROP IN CHINA'S GROWTH RATE BBC (April 17) quoted official Chinese data that say China's GDP shrank by 6.8% for the first three months of the year. The World Bank says in the base case scenario, China will see growth fall to 2% this year from 6% last year - and if things get worse, it would see growth fall to 0.1%.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE CENTRAL SOE'S GENERATE 58.8% LESS PROFITS IN FIRST QUARTER China's State Council said at a press conference on April 20, that profits of central state-owned enterprises plunged by more than half in the first quarter as demand evaporated and supply chains were disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: HUAWEI'S GROWTH SLOWS AS REVENUES DROP Caixin (April 23) reported that Huawei Technologies Co.’s rapid growth had slowed to a crawl in the first quarter after Covid-19 depressed demand for smartphones and networking gear around the globe.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE UNIVERSITY SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD FINANCES IN FIRST 3 MONTHS OF 2020 The Daily Economic News reported ( released on April 21) that a survey of household finances done jointly by the China Family Finance Survey and Research Center of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and the Research Institute of Ant Financial Services Group and released as a Report.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: BANK OF CHINA STOPS BETTING ON CRUDE OIL FUTURES In a statement issued (April 22) the Bank of China Ltd. (BoC) said it had temporarily stopped taking bets from clients on oil futures via one of its financial products in the wake of the collapse in global crude prices this week that cost some investors millions of Yuan.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECNOMY: CHINESE OIL COMPANIES STORE CRUDE On April 21, the Shanghai International Energy Exchange permitted a South China-based subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp. Ltd. to increase storage for crude oil by 20% to 500,000 cubic meters.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLAN: PLAN RELEASES VIDEO ON IT'S 71ST ANNIVERSARY On the occasion of its 71st anniversary on April 21, the PLAN released a video showing PLAN activities.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER RETURNS TO CHINA AFTER 10-DAY EXERCISES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA The aircraft carrier Liaoning and its escort ships are on the way back to their port in China after 10 days of exercises in the South China Sea. They passed through the Bashi Strait on April 22, 2020.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SENDS PSYCHOLOGISTS TO FIERY CROSS REEF AND OTHER OCCUPIED ISLANDS AND REEFS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA (SCS) China has set up mental health stations on its occupied islands and reefs in the SCS. A PLA website disclosed April 17, 2020 that a psychologist from the PLAN Medical University went to Fiery Cross Reef on April 7. PLA is devoting attention to the psychological well-being of soldiers/ sailors/ airmen posted in far-flung areas and remote outposts.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: NEW CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS Erick Tsang, the former Head of Hongkong's Immigration Department was appointed new Head of the Constitutional Affairs Department on April 22, 2020.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: TRADE UNIONS AND PROTESTORS PLAN TO RESUME PROTESTS The South China Morning Post reported (April 22) that organisers of a major Labour Day protest in Hong Kong have decided to go ahead with their march defying a police warning to cancel it because of the coronavirus epidemic.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-DIPLOMACY: CHINESE DIPLOMATS FOLLOW AGGRESSIVE OR "WOLF" DIPLOMACY Of late some Chinese diplomats have adopted an aggressive response to comments by senior officials of foreign Governments.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA REACTS TO US SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO'S REFERENCE TO 'WET MARKETS' China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) reacted to a remark on April 22, by US Secretary of State Pompeo in a speech on the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, where he said "wildlife wet markets create risks for the generation and spread of diseases, and may have played a critical role in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic" and urged their closure.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA: AUTRALIAN WARSHIP JOINS 3 US WARSHIPS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA IN 'SHOW OF FORCE' UK's Daily Telegraph reported (April 23) that the Australian frigate HMAS Parramatta joined the USS America, an amphibious assault ship, and the USS Bunker Hill, a guided missile cruiser and the USS USS Barry this week close to where the Chinese government survey ship Haiyang Dizhi 8 is suspected to be exploring for oil.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING VISITS XI'AN, SHAANXI During his visit to Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province on April 21, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasised ecological environment.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITBURO MEETING ENUNCIATES "SIX ENSURES" Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Politburo on April 17, when they said that COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges to the economy and forced the Party to change their policy priorities.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE The Financial times (April 19) reported that a new cluster of coronavirus cases in Harbin city has forced authorities to impose new lockdowns. By April 19, Heilongjiang said it had 61 active cases of Covid-19 from local transmission, including non-symptomatic cases, 54 of which were in Harbin.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-SOVEREIGNTY: CHINA 'UPDATES' OFFICIAL 1989 DIGITAL MAP AND REDRAWS BOUNDARIES OF COUNTIES IN TIBET The national geographic information public service platform "Tianditu", established and operated by the National Basic Geographic Information Center, a unit directly under the National Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Bureau of China, is China's authority in the field of digital maps.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-SOVEREIGNTY: CHINA REASSERTS SOVEREIGNTY OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS The Global Times (April 19) reported that China's State Council had announced the establishment of two new districts in the city of Sansha "to administer waters in the South China Sea" and "for better scientific management and to safeguard territorial sovereignty."
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: CHINESE BLOGGER COMMENTS ON COVID-19 Chinese blogger "Ms. V" said in an episode of "China View" that was published by CGTN Arabic TV (China) on March 17, 2020 that the presence of multiple coronavirus strains in the United States, the coincidence between the initial coronavirus outbreak and the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan in which the U.S. participated, the possibility that the U.S. may have had many coronavirus deaths that have been documented as influenza deaths, and the CDC's shut down of former U.S. biological weapons research lab Fort Detrick, all suggest that COVID-19 originated in the United States, and not in China.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA ANNOUNCES FALL OF 14.3 PER CENT GENERAL PUBLIC REVENUES FOR JAN-MAR 2020 On April 20, 2020, China's Ministry of Finance held a press conference on fiscal revenue and expenditure in the first quarter of 2020, to introduce fiscal revenue and expenditure in the first quarter of 2020,January-March and release the figures. It said the total the national general public budget income was 4.5984 trillion yuan, down 14.3 percent year on year.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CALL FOR 10 PER CENT REDUCTION IN MINING OF ANTHRACITE COAL A statement published (April 18) on the website of the China Coal Transport & Distribution Association said a dozen Chinese anthracite coal mining companies had called on the industry to slash production by 10% from current levels amid weak demand caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The statement said while anthracite coal output is now back at last year’s levels, demand recovery has lagged, leading to a “severe mismatch” in market fundamentals. It quoted the 12 companies as saying Coal producers should limit output, focus on reducing inventory and eliminate outdated capacity to resolve the supply-demand imbalance.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NPC MEETINGS The well informed Hongkong newspaper Singtao reported (April 17) that the 'Two Sessions' (i.e. the CPPCC and NPC) will be held in late May.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI AUTHORS ESSAY FLATTERING CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING China's State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on April 16, 2020, published a 3711-word essay flattering Chinese President Xi Jinping' s leadership which "has won high recognition from the international community".
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CHINA REVISES DEATH RATE IN WUHAN UPWARD 'The Paper' (April 17) reported that China has revised its official count of deaths from the coronavirus, adding some 1,290 deaths in Wuhan, the city where the virus first emerged last December.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: TWO OLDER MONASTERIES IN SHANNAN CLOSED DUE TO COVID-19 In separate but similar notifications issued on April 14 and 15, the Samye and Yasang Monastery Management Committees respectively said that as “per circular from higher authorities, and in accordance with the need of work relating to the prevention of the infectious coronavirus” the monasteries will be closed from those dates including for "visitation and purification ritual and providing support".
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CSRC INCREASES NUMBER OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) issued a statement on April 15 that there will be 20 new appointees to the 21-member committee, who will join shortly.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: REVIVAL OF BUSINESS STILL SLOW The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce provided a detailed picture on the resumption of businesses.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: DESPITE RESUMING OPERATIONS PRODUCTION IN CHINESE COS. IS STALLED BECAUSE OF DISRUPTED SUPPLY CHAINS Xu Kemin, Director of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Department of Industrial Policy and Regulations (MIIT) recently warned that "Due to the poor flow of international personnel and logistics, enterprises that have returned to work and resumed production are again faced with the risk of having to reduce production or shutting down.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: ANNUAL RECRUITMENT RESUMES China Military Online reported on April 13 that the PLA has officially started the military recruitment registration for the second half of 2020 in April.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: COMPRESSOR OF NEW FL-62 WIND TUNNEL PROJECT SUCCESSFULLY TESTED Global Times (April 14) reported that the Aerodynamics Research Institute, under the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), announced (April 11) that it had successfully conducted a test run on the main compressor of the FL-62 wind tunnel at maximum speed on April 1.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: BEIJING ANNOUNCES CHINA IS NOT BOUND BY BASIC LAW The official Radio Hongkong (RTHK) announced on April 17 that: "Beijing’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong declared on Friday that it is not subject to Basic Law restrictions that bar central government departments from interfering in local affairs – saying it has the responsibility and the right to comment as it wishes on Hong Kong matters."
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PRO-DEMOCRACY FIGURES 'ARRESTED' IN HONGKONG ON APRIL 19 MORNING The following pro-democracy figures including lawyers, former Legco members and democracy 'activists' have been arrested in Hongkong on April 19 morning.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-WHO: W.H.O. IN DAMAGE CONTROL MODE WITH TAIWAN Going into a damage control mode after its Director General Tedros’ irrational outburst against Taiwan last week, Dr. Van Kerkhove and another official called the Taiwan CECC / Ministry of Health and had an hour-long discussion with them, asking how Taiwan had handled the crisis.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-WHO: W.H.O. IN DAMAGE CONTROL MODE WITH TAIWAN Going into a damage control mode after its Director General Tedros’ irrational outburst against Taiwan last week, Dr. Van Kerkhove and another official called the Taiwan CECC / Ministry of Health and had an hour-long discussion with them, asking how Taiwan had handled the crisis.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-NUCLEAR: WALL STREET JOURNAL SAYS CHINA HAS RESUMED NUCLEAR TESTING AT LOP NOR The Wall Street Journal reported on April 15 that Beijing might secretly be conducting small nuclear tests at its Lop Nur site in Xinjiang.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: SECOND WAVE OF COVID-19 LIKELY IN WINTER Zhang Wenhong, who heads Shanghai’s Covid-19 clinical expert team and directs the infectious disease department at one of the city’s top hospitals, said during an online livestream broadcast by popular short-video platform Kuaishou on April 11, that while countries may be able to bring the deadly pandemic under adequate control by autumn, the coming winter may bring a “second wave” of infections in China and elsewhere.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: COLLEGES TO REOPEN AFTER COVID-19 Xinhua reported (April 14) that China has issued a 'technical' guideline for universities and colleges nationwide to reopen in an orderly manner on the premise that local COVID-19 epidemic is "well tamed".
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE PREMIER ASKS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT MEASURES At the State Council's weekly executive meeting on April 14, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said“The support measures we have rolled out since the start of this year are adequate and robust and what is crucial is to ensure their full delivery.”
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: MAJOR LEAK OF PRIVATE DATA COULD COMPROMISE CHINESE BANKS China's financial news service magazine Caixin disclosed (April 15) that an online post openly offered to sell more than 1 million pieces of customer information allegedly belonging to several Chinese financial institutions fuelling fears of potentially massive leaks of private data.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S STATE GRID TO INSTALL NEW HI-TECH INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCT BATTERY CHARGING PILES AT GOVERNMENT'S REQUEST State Grid Co. of China pledged 2.7 billion yuan ($382 million) for the construction of electric vehicle (EV) battery charging piles this year, responding to a push from the central government to develop high-tech infrastructure.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: EUROPEAN BUSINESSES WILL FIND IT DIFFICULT TO LEAVE CHINA European business people in China told Caixin (April 15) that they are generally not looking to move their operations outside of the world’s biggest manufacturing nation. In some countries the idea was raised that manufacturers should move factories back home after disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S DECIDES ON SUPPORT MEASURES TO HELP COLLEGE GRADUATES AND COMPANIES INCLUDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT Xinhua stated (April 14) that an executive meeting of China's State Council had decided that China will take "solid steps" to implement supportive measures for enterprises to help them through challenges, and boost employment for college graduates.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S GROWTH LIKELY HIT 44 YEAR LOW Reuters reported (April 14) that according to the median of 62 analysts surveyed by it, growth in the world’s second-biggest economy for 2020 was forecast at 2.5%, which would mark the weakest since 1976, the final year of the decade-long Cultural Revolution that wrecked the economy.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. ANNOUNCES SUSPENSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO WHO On April 14, US President Trump announced that the U.S. would suspend funding for the World Health Organisation, pending a review. Rising scrutiny of the WHO, and especially the perception that China wields strong influence over it, has led GOP leaders to call for funding cuts.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE WRITINGS ASSERT THAT WEST'S EFFORTS TO BLAME CHINA ARE PART OF U.S. ORCHESTRATED PR CAMPAIGN The tenor of US-China relations is reflected in the recent writings of some prominent Chinese. Zhou Xiaoming, former Deputy Head of China’s mission in Geneva, wrote that the West’s efforts to blame China for the global outbreak is “a carefully coordinated PR campaign” initiated by American government to contain China. It is a new battle ground carved out by the US in its war to contain China’s rise. We must not underestimate it.”
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINESE POST CLAIMS TEN THOUSAND CHINESE TROOPS GO TO PAKISTAN A post captioned 'Ten thousand Chinese troops rushed to Pakistan, attracting local residents cheers' appeared on a Chinese website on April 9.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC CHAIRMAN TAKES CHARGE OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION Wang Yang, Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) Member and Chairman of the CPPCC) chaired a meeting on poverty alleviation on April 14, 2020.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT SUN JINLONG On April 13, Sun Jinlong was appointed Party Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Ecology (MEE).
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW DEPUTY HEAD OF CCP CC PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT Fu Hua, of Han nationality born in August 1964, born in Rudong, Jiangsu, joined the party in December 1993, and joined the work in July 1985 was appointed the Deputy Minister of the CCP CC Propaganda Department on April 7, 2020.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: CHINESE CONTINUE TO MOURN DR LI WENLIANG OF WUHAN HOSPITAL An article in the New York Times (April 13) reported that hundreds of Chinese ''netizens' continue to virtually mourn and post flowers the deceased Dr Li Wenliang of Wuhan Hospital who blew the whistle on the Coronavirus.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA COMMENTARY LAUDS CHINA'S MANAGEMENT OF CORONAVIRUS The PLA Daily published (April 8) a front-page Xie Xinping (解辛平 --a pen name that stands for PLA news commentary -- about China’s “extraordinary journey” in the management of the coronavirus outbreak.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: CHINESE TECH COMPANY CLAIMS IT WILL CATCH UP WITH FOREIGN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURERS IN A YEAR Caixin reported (April 15) that the up-and-coming Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. unveiled its latest 3D NAND memory chip with cutting-edge 128-layer technology as it plays catch-up with global leaders like Samsung in China’s drive to become a semiconductor powerhouse.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: AUTO SALES SLUMP Caixin reported (April 15) that the SAIC Motor Corp., the biggest automaker in China, reported a 28.9% drop in earnings for 2019 as an industrywide sales slump undermined manufacturers’ profitability in the world’s largest market.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-EONOMY: UNEMPLOYMENT RISES IN CHINA The South China Morning Post reported (April 13) that a recent monthly survey showed that the unemployment rate had already hit a record high last month.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: MANUFACTURERS RAISE COSTS OF PRODUCTS The Chinese financial magazine reported (April 15) that as the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic moves outside China, multiple major construction equipment makers raised the prices of their excavators amid rebounding domestic demand and the rising cost of imported components.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINA TO GIVE PAKISTAN RS 2.04 BILLION FOR SMART UNIVERSITY China will provide Pakistan with an unrequited assistance of Rs 2.048 billion for completion of a smart university transformation project.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: REN ZHIQIANG BEING INVESTIGATED BY BEIJING DISCIPLINE INSPECTION COMMISSION The Beijing Western District Supervision Commission/Party Disciplinary Commission announced (April 8) that it is 'investigating' Ren Zhiqiang, the 'princeling' real estate tycoon, for serious violations of Communist Party discipline and law.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW GOVERNOR OF SHANDONG TO BE APPOINTED cpc.gov announced (April 9) that China's Minister of Ecology and Environment (MEE) Li Ganjie will be taking over as deputy Party secretary of Shandong. He would soon be appointed Governor. At age 55, Li Ganjie will become one of the youngest provincial Governors.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: MEASURES TO REVIVE ECONOMY CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) on April 8 when he told them that things in the rest of the world are really bad and that is bad for China.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: COUPONS/VOUCHERS ISSUED TO REVIVE ECONOMY China Daily and Beijing News reported (April ) that more regions are releasing numbers on their voucher programs.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: STATE COUNCIL ISSUES RULES TO CONTAIN SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS China's State Council at its meeting on April 8, instructed local governments to be “prudent” in allowing gatherings of people. It also issued its first set of rules to local governments on how to contain the spread of asymptomatic cases.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: SMALL TOWN OF SUIFENHE, HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE ON BORDER WITH RUSSIA CLOSED Following China's National Health Commission (NHC) revealing that from March 21 to April 7, over 2,400 people passed through the Suifenhe border alone and that 45 new COVID-19 cases were detected among returning Chinese nationals on April 6 and 7, authorities of the small city of Suifenhe, Heilongjiang province, sealed off the city’s border with Russia.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN CHINA PICKING UP As of April 9 the Trivium National Business Activity Index indicates that China’s economy is operating at 81.2% of typical output, up from 80.6% on April 8; the Trivium National Large Enterprise Activity Index indicates that China’s large enterprises are operating at 81.8% of typical output, the same proportion as on April 8; and the Trivium National SME Activity Index indicates that China’s small businesses are operating at 80.7% of typical output, up from 79.7% on April 8.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: RESEARCH PAPERS REVEAL DEVELOPMENTS BY CHINA IN NUCLEAR SUBMARINES The Jane''s Defence Weekly reported (April 9) that two Chinese research papers that emerged in early April through social media provide further evidence of significant technological developments in PLAN’s next generation of nuclear submarines.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: TENSIONS IN THE RELATIONSHIP The Diplomat reported (April 10) that Japan Air Self Defence Force’s (JASDF) fighter jets scrambled 675 times in 2019 to intercept PLA AF and PLAN’s aircraft.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE 'PRINCELING' REN ZHIQIANG OFFICIALLY ADMITTED TO BE UNDER INVESTIGATION After his disappearance on March 12, it has been officially disclosed that 69-year old real estate tycoon and frequent CCP critic Ren Zhiqiang, is under investigation probably presaging his arrest and seizure of his assets.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA APPREHENDS FOOD IMPORTS COULD BE IMPACTED 'Beijing News' reported (April 1) that, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), food safety may become an issue in some countries and regions due to the lack of labor and to supply chain disruptions.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: EMPLOYMENT FORECAST FOR CHINA IS BLEAK The independent Chinese financial magazine Caixin (March 31) assessed that China is facing a severe economic slowdown and massive unemployment because the coronavirus hit it so badly.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS STILL SLOW A survey of business activity in China till April 8 showed that recovery of China's economy is slow.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN CHINA POST COVID-19 HawkEye360 data recently showed that as China locked down for the coronavirus, activity at ports around the country slowed to a crawl. A strong recovery is, however, now underway in some places, including Shanghai. Wuhan's port activity remains suppressed, though it began to tick upward at the end of March.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CURBS IMPOSED DUE TO COVID-19 EASED IN WUHAN Starting at 12 am on April 8, the Wuhan City government lifted the lockdown which had been in place since January 23.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA FEARS THAT US MAY IMPOSE MORE HI-TECH SANCTIONS ON CHINA The Global Times on April 3, published a commentary written by Ni Guangnan, one of the founding members of the China Engineering Academy and the former Chief Engineer of the Legend Group.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: NATIONAL REVIEW CLAIMS PHOENIX TV OWNED BY CCP The US publication National Review on April 7 stated that Phoenix TV is owned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The report said at the White House briefing on April 6, a Phoenix Television reporter asked President Trump whether he is “personally working directly with China” on securing medical supplies. “Only last week, there were multiple flights coming from China full of medical supplies,” the reporter said.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-US: THREAT TO US IMPORTS OF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES Globalization has resulted in the manufacturing of many medical products and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) moving to China.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: INDIAN LAWYER SUES CHINA FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY COVID-19 Radio France International reported (April 5), based on multiple sources, that the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in India and the All India Bar Association (AIBA) have filed a complaint in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) seeking $20 trillion as reparations from China over the global spread of the coronavirus.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINA TO TEST COVID-19 VACCINE ON PATIENTS ABROAD The South China Morning Post reports (April 3) that China hopes to conduct a large-scale test of a possible Covid-19 vaccine abroad in the worst-hit countries.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINA'S NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMITTEES ARE HELPING CONTROL CORONAVIRUS Global Times (March 31) reported that the neighbourhood committee, which began as urban grassroots civil organisations in the 1950s and are the lowest level of governance in charge of civil affairs, were helping in controlling the Coronavirus.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-AVIATION: CHINA SAYS 'AIRSHOW CHINA' WILL BE HELD IN NOVEMBER ON SCHEDULE Organisers of the Airshow China, which is scheduled in November this year, said it will not be cancelled More than 400 companies from China and the world have already confirmed their participation in the airshow.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-SECURITY: NEW COMMUNICATIONS APP 'ZOOM' IS FOUND TO BE COMPROMISED BY CHINA The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab published an interesting report on Nasdaq's teleconference app Zoom, a Silicon Valley based company.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: AGRICULTURE SHORTFALL IN GRAIN PRODUCTION WORRYING CHINA LEADERSHIP Agricultural worries threaten to undermine China's plan to eliminate rural poverty in 2020. Chinese journalists warn that Chinese farmers need higher subsidies to prevent them from abandoning grain production, and rice and soybean supplies from abroad could be interrupted during the Covid-19 crisis.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE SoEs IMPORT HUGE QUANTUMS OF SOYBEANS China's State-owned companies significantly increased their purchases of U.S. soybeans, while other Chinese companies bought mainly from South America last year.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: FORMER CHONGQING MAYOR SAYS CORONAVIRUS COULD BE "ONCE IN A CENTURY" OPPORTUNITY FOR CHINA Writing in the Chinese publication 'First Financial Daily', (March 27) the former Mayor of Chongqing Huang Qifan wrote that, the global virus outbreak could be a “once in a century” opportunity for Chinese economy.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: DEBATE ON GOVERNMENT MENTIONING GROWTH RATE TARGET In the wake of the unprecedented economic damage caused by the Coronavirus, debate has been intensifying in China as to whether China should set a growth target this year.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA EXPORTS FRST BATCH OF THIRD GENERATION 'RED ARROW' ANTI-TANK MISSILE (HJ-12) The Russian Satellite News Agency on April 3, stated that China's arms exporter Norinco Corp announced that the first batch of the third-generation anti-tank missile complex "Red Arrow-12 Anti-tank Missile" (HJ-12) was sold.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLAAF CONDUCTS 36 HOUR EXERCISE NEAR TAIWAN The PLA Daily reported (April 1) that the PLAAF had conducted a 36-hour long-endurance early warning exercise simulating countering enemy planes during wartime and placing increasing emphasis on airborne early-warning and control aircraft.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-XENOPHOBIA: WESTERN JOURNALISTS ARE REPORTING GROWING XENOPHOBIA IN CHINA Vagabondjourney.com cited (April 4) western journalists reporting increasing instances of xenophobic behaviour by Chinese including in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: CHINA'S MASK DIPLOMACY Radio France International (March 29, 2020) and Global News (March 31, 2020) published reports that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been conducting a “mask diplomacy.”
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-VIETNAM: CHINESE VESSELS SINK VIETNAMESE FISHING BOATS Li Shiqu, spokesman of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said (April 3) that two Chinese maritime police ships stopped and sank the Vietnamese fishing vessel QNg 90617 TS and 8 fishermen who were on board, during their normal fishing activities on Fulin Island.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: REPARATIONS FROM CHINESE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY CORONAVIRUS An Indian advocate in the has filed an appeal (April 3) for payment of damages by the Chinese government and agencies for the damage caused by the Coronavirus.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: STATE COUNCIL DECLARES 4TH APRIL DAY OF NATIONAL MOURNING FOR COVID-19 VICTIMS China's State Council, declared Saturday the 4th April a national day of mourning for citizens who died in the fight against the coronavirus and patients who died from the disease.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: 'IMPORTANT COMMENTARY' IN PEOPLE'S DAILY PRAISES CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S LEADERSHIP A People’s Daily commentary under the highly authoritative pen name Ren Zhongping (任仲平), standing for “important People’s Daily commentary”, while reflecting on the Chinese nation’s responses to the COVID-19 epidemic, specifically praised Xi Jinping’s leadership, listing his key meetings and inspection tours, as well as several of his “powerful and resonating” remarks on the epidemic.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: SENIOR APPOINTMENTS Li Yi, was appointed Deputy Head of the Central Party School in Beijing in March. Of Han nationality, he was born in 1963 in Tianjin and joined the Chinese Communist Party and work in July 1984.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: WUHAN ACTIVIST FANG FANG CONCLUDES 60TH ENTRY IN HER DIARY Fang Fang, an activist blogger resident in Wuhan, posted the final episode of her diary captioned 'Conscience of Wuhan' on March 25. Fang Fang who has been attacked by ultra-leftists daily said 'that the extreme left threatens Chinese society with a national calamity.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: CHINESE STUDENT IN SHANDONG CALLS ON CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING TO STEP DOWN Radio Free Asia reported (March 31) that Zhang Wenbin, a university student in Shandong Province due to graduate this academic year and who described himself as "once a little pink" supporter of the CCP, posted a video to social media calling on President Xi Jinping to step down.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: COUNTY IN HENAN PROVINCE INSTRUCTS THAT RESIDENTIAL COMPOUNDS BE SEALED BECAUSE OF FRESH CASES OF CORONAVIRUS Bloomberg reported (April 2) that Jia county, Henan province, whose population numbers around 640,000, issued a directive on April 1, asking all residential compounds to be sealed off and those visiting and leaving homes to produce identity cards, wear masks and submit to temperature checks. Car traffic will also be limited.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-DIPLOMACY: VETERAN CHINESE DIPLOMAT ADVISES SOPHISTICATION IN DIPLOMACY On April 2, the official 'The Paper' published an article by veteran diplomat and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Fu Ying.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA ESTABLISHES NEW CENTRAL SoE The State-owned Assets Administrator (SASAC) announced the formation on March 31, of a new central SoE called the 'China Rongtong Asset Management Group'.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA RELEASES LIQUIDITY INTO MARKET TO HELP ECONOMY The Chinese financial magazine reported on April 3, that to help economic recovery China’s central bank cut the amount of cash that banks need to hold in reserve for the third time this year, releasing about 400 billion yuan ($56.4 billion) of liquidity into the financial system.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: INSTRUCTIONS TO SoEs OPERATING ABROAD ON GUARDING AGAINST COVID-19 The Department of Cooperation of China's Ministry of Commerce on April 1, issued "Guidelines on the Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in Overseas Enterprises and Projects" listing 16 specific measures under Six requirements. It said the Guideline represents "the motherland's deep concern for overseas enterprises and staff in the project".
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: INTERNAL DEBATE WHETHER GOVERNMENT SHOULD SET TARGET GROWTH RATE The Chinese magazine Caixin reported (April 2) that a major debate is heating up among economists and Chinese government advisers over whether the country should abandon its annual growth target this year given the huge uncertainties facing both domestic and external demand as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE WARNS CHINA WILL GET NO ORDERS TILL U.S. AND EUROPE RECOVER FROM CORONAVIRUS The Chinese website Sina quoted (March 30) Xu Xiaonian, a Professor of Economics and Finance at the China Europe International Business School, said that as long as the pandemic in Europe and America is not over, Chinese export companies will have no orders, and a recession is inevitable.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: MINISTRY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS CLAIMS 55,000 EX-SERVICEMEN REHABILITATED Xinhua (March 31) reported a claim by China's Ministry of Veterans Affairs that it has secured 55,000 jobs for ex-service personnel in four leading Chinese companies in the private sector, in accordance with agreements signed online between the ministry and the four job providers.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINESE EMBASSY IN LONDON EVACUATING STUDENTS FROM UK BY AIR Caixin reported (April 2) on the basis of reports from families that the Chinese Embassy in UK is chartering a plane to bring home Chinese students attempting to flee the country’s Covid-19 outbreak.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: MONASTERIES IN TAR REOPEN AFTER CORONAVIRUS Xinhua quoted (March 31) the Buddhist Association of Lhasa as announcing (March 30) that a total of 214 religious venues in suburban areas of Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, which were temporarily closed due to the novel coronavirus epidemic, will reopen to the public starting from March 31.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-COVID-19: WUHAN AUTHORITIES HELD EXERCISE ON HANDLING EPIDEMICS IN JULY 2019 New York Times on Match 29 reported that the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention held the country’s biggest infectious outbreak training exercise since the SARS epidemic in 2002 and 2003, in n July, to showcase the strides made since the virus killed hundreds and traumatised the nation.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: STATE COUNCIL APPROVES INCREASED RELENDING BY BANKS AND LOANS AT CONCESSIONAL RATES TO MICRO, SMALL AND MIDSIZE COMPANIES China’s State Council decided at a meeting on March 31 to enhance the country’s monetary response to Covid-19, including a further reduction in the amount of cash some banks must hold in reserve to provide further assistance to small and midsize businesses.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: RECOVERY IN MFG SECTOR According to a Caixin sponsored survey of April 1, China’s manufacturing activity recovered in March as workers returned to businesses, despite the expanding coronavirus outbreak overseas denting foreign demand.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA MOBILE BOOSTS SALES OF HUAWEI AND ZTE AMID US RESTRICTIONS ON HUAWEI Chinese telecom giant Huawei and hometown rival ZTE won China Mobile’s latest tender of 5G contracts to build 232,143 fifth-generation wireless network base stations in 28 provincial-level regions.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: EXPORT OF VENTILATORS Xu Kemin, an official of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said at a news conference in Beijing on March 30 that in the 10 days starting March 19, China shipped around 1,700 mechanical ventilators to markets outside the country.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: XI JINPING SAYS CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS AT NEW STARTING POINT Xinhua (April 2) reported Chinese President Xi Jinping as saying in his congratulatory message to India's President Ramnath Kovind on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties that China-India relations are standing at a new starting point and facing new opportunities.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN DONATES 5.6 MILLION MASKS TO EU; MORE TO FOLOW TO OTHERS i) EU President Ursula von der Leyen Tweeted on April 2, thanking Taiwan on behalf of the European Union for its donation of 5.6 million masks to help fight the Coronavirus, describing it as a gesture of solidarity.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-MYANMAR: MYANMAR CARDINAL CRITICISES CHINA FOR COVID-19 UCA News reported (April 2) that Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon, who heads the Federation of Asian Bishop's Conferences, launched a searing attack on the CCP over the COVID virus, branding it "moral culpable", demanding an apology and reparations. His statement also attacks Beijing's human rights record.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-UN: UN DECIDES TO USE TENCENT FOR 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS The United Nations has decided to partner with the Chinese technology giant Tencent to hold online meetings for its 75th anniversary celebrations, despite the company’s role in state surveillance and censorship within China.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM ARRIVES IN ISLAMABAD FOR 2 WEEKS A team of Chinese health experts reached Islamabad on March 28 to assess the preventive measures taken by the government so far to fight the COVID-19.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: NEW MILITARY DISCIPLINE INSPECTION REGULATIONS China National Defence News reported (March 23) that with the CMC's approval the CMC Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision issued the "Code of Daily Conduct for Party Members and Cadres in the Army Discipline Inspection and Supervision System".
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: EXECUTIVE VICE PREMIER HAN ZHENG CHAIRS MEETING ON STABILISING INVESTMENT Xinhua reported (March 27) that China’s Executive Vice Premier Han Zheng chaired a meeting on March 26 in Beijing on stabilising investment.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S INDUSTRIAL PROFITS DROPPED IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2020 China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed that industrial profits for January and February had dropped.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CONFUSION LEADS TO CLOSURE OF CINEMAS IN CHINA Following government approval, China's 600 cinemas reopened for business early this week, but they were directed to be closed again on March 27.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: CHINESE SCIENTIST GAO QUANXI SAYS GOVERNMENT FAILED TO STIMULATE SOCIAL SOCIETY Prof. Gao, now Chair Professor Law at Koguan School of Law, Jiaotong University, was quoted by Xinjing bao on February 29, 2020 as saying ”Improve social mechanisms, let conscience and rule of law prevail”.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: PROVINCES BEGIN REOPENING SCHOOLS Caixin reported (March 27) that kindergartens in Jiangsu province will reopen on April 7, the third grades will start on March 30th, and the high school starts on April 13. Jiangsu said colleges and universities will start on April 13.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-DISCONTENT: CLASHES ON HUBEI-JIANGXI BORDER Late on March 27, reports and videos were publicised via Twitter by Hubei residents who were trying to leave the province after the authorities had eased travel restrictions and the Jiangxi provincial traffic police who tried to stop them at the check-post.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PBSC MEETING ON MARCH 27 Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee n march 27 to discuss 'Dealing with the Coronavirus'. The meeting discussed keeping imported cases from entering the country and staying vigilant against the virus at home. It announced that the government will be rolling out a basket of supportive measures to help the economy.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING VISITS NINGBO On March 29, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Ningbo port in Zhejiang province – one of the world’s busiest ports and a trade hub for eastern China.
Apr 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE STUDENTS LEAVING U.S. TO RETURN TO CHINA Chinese students based in the US are paying upto UK Pounds 22,000 to charter aircraft in a bid to escape the potential Coronavirus epidemic in the US and get to China. China has, in turn, prohibited all charter flights from the US.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: US DESTROYER PASSES THROUGH TAIWAN STRAIT Anthony Junco, a spokesman for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, said the guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell conducted “a routine Taiwan Strait transit” on March 25, in line with international law. He said “The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES SAYS CHINESE COMPANIES IN INDIA CAN HELP BUILD HOSPITALS Global Times (March 25) quoted Chinese experts as suggesting that Chinese companies already in India can offer help including aiding the locals to build makeshift hospitals like those in Wuhan if asked. It quoted an expert from the China Railway Construction Corp. as saying Chinese companies can help countries undergoing coronavirus lockdowns like India. "Chinese companies working on existing projects in India, with sufficient supply networks in place, can take over the construction of makeshift hospitals like those in Wuhan upon India's invitation."
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-GERMANY: XI JINPING CALLS GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERKEL Chinese President Xi Jinping placed a call to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on March 25, to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic. He expressed a desire for deeper Sino-German cooperation and said “China is willing to share prevention, control and treatment experience with Germany, strengthen cooperation in vaccine and drug research and development, and contribute to the health and well-being of the two peoples and global public health and safety.” Angela Merkel agreed and said “Germany thanks China for its timely and valuable help and hopes to carry out scientific research cooperation with China in the areas of vaccine and drug research and development and other fields, so as to set an example of solidarity.”
(Comment: Over the last two weeks, Xi Jinping has called various foreign leaders each day to express support and offer medical aid and expertise.)
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA FILLS ALL ITS OIL STORAGE CAPACITY With oil prices dropping to an 18-year low, demand in China’s oil storage sector has soared as companies hoard the fossil fuel. Data from energy information provider OilChem China showed that since March 7, the day after talks between oil-producers cartel OPEC and Russia collapsed and prices began to plummet, Chinese ports have added around 1.5 million tons of commercial crude oil to their stockpiles. A manager at a Chinese oil storage company said “All of China’s coastal storage tanks and those near rivers are all booked, wherever they are in the country”. The total quantum of oil in OilChem China's storage is now 29.45 million tonnes.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: WORKERS COMPETE FOR GETTING BENEFITS APPROVED BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT Foreign Policy reported (March 25) that in most Chinese cities, offices and factories have reopened, but many workers have reported slashed salaries or the loss of benefits. To avoid catastrophic unemployment, the authorities have tightened already restrictive laws around layoffs, pushing the financial burden onto businesses. There is aid in place for many hard-hit enterprises, but a lot of political competition around who gets it. Chinese labor laws have always been excellent on paper: It’s hard to fire workers without cause or carry out mass layoffs. But they are highly difficult to enforce in practice.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SURVEY SHOWS SHARP DECLINE IN JOB OPENINGS Lu Hai, Professor at Peking University, who organised a recent survey under a joint project between Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management and Zhaopin, one of China’s largest hiring platforms, revealed (March 25) that job openings in China for the first two months of 2020 dropped by more than 30% as the coronavirus epidemic severely disrupted economic activity.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE ECONOMY CONTRACTS YIELDING LOWER REVENUES Bloomberg financial services reported that “The income of central and local governments contracted 9.9% in the first two months of the year compared to a year ago”, describing it as the deepest fall since February 2009.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: BUSINESS INDEXES REGISTER VERY SLOW GROWTH Xinhua reported (March 26) that according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology by March 24, only 71.7% of small and medium-sized enterprises had resumed operations. Another National Business Activity Index shows that as of March 25, the economy was operating at 73.9% of pre-crisis levels. These figures have prompted estimates that the economy is running at less than three-fourths normal levels and that if the economy doesn’t get rebooted quickly, the damage will be intense and long-lasting.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-TIBET: TAR RELAXES QUARANTINE REGULATIONS The Lhasa City Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Committee issued an official notice dated March 23, saying that people from “low-risk” areas who are quarantined in hotels or elsewhere can move outside if they have already been in quarantine for a week. The notice, a copy of which was posted on Chinese social media, also says that while people arriving from “low-risk” places may not have to stay in quarantine, people arriving from medium- and high-risk places should be quarantined for seven and 14 days respectively. Tibetans quarantined for 14 days would be kept at their own expense.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: 27 CHINESE PROVINCES RELAX RESTRICTIONS At a press conference in Beijing on March 26, China's Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Xu Nanping, said that it is not yet time to summarize China ’s experience in science and technology against epidemics.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: HUBEI PROVINCE BEGINS LOOSENING TRANSPORT CURBS Caixin reported (March 25) that “Hubei provincial authorities issued a notice on March 24 announcing that they will end restrictions on outbound traffic" starting March 25, with the exception of its capital city of Wuhan, which will block departures for two more weeks.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-CIVIL AVIATION: CHINA SUSPENDS MOST INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS The Civil Administration of China (CAAC) announced (March 26) that it will drastically cut back the number of international flights from March 29. It said all domestic airlines that fly internationally can keep only one international route in operation, with just one flight on that route per week. Meanwhile, foreign carriers flying to China can also keep only one route, which can also not fly more than once a week.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: FEARS OF A SECOND WAVE OF COVID-19 PROMPTS CHINA TO STOP ENTRY OF ALMOST ALL FOREIGNERS FT reported (March 27) that China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) announced (March 26) it would temporarily suspend visits from almost all foreign nationals amid mounting fears that those returning to China after the country eased its travel restrictions were sparking a second wave of cases.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG WARNS ABOUT RECURRENCE OF CORONAVIRUS On March 24, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned officials “not to hide cases for the sake of reporting zero.” He told officials "Everywhere you want to be truthful and publicly and transparently release epidemic information."
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: PROPAGANDA WAR OVER CORONAVIRUS Following the accusation on March 12, by Zhao Lijian, Spokesman & Deputy Director General of the Information Department, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the United States is the origin of the novel Coronavirus, Chinese bots took to Twitter to spread the accusation.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPANESE DEFENCE MINISTRY REPORTS PLA NAVY FLEET SAILING BETWEEN OKINAWA'S MAIN ISLAND AND MIYAKOJIMA ON MARCH 19 Japan's Defence Ministry reported that on March 19 in an area about 80 kilometers southeast of Miyako Island a PLA Navy Type-052D guided missile destroyer, two Type-054A frigates and a Type-903A integrated supply ship were spotted by its PC-3 patrol aircraft sailing eastward. The Japanese Ministry of Defense said that afterwards, these Chinese warships sailed northward from the sea between Okinawa's main island and Miyakojima and headed for the East China Sea.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNATIONAL AID: CHINA PROVIDES EMERGENCY HEALTH ASSISTANCE TO EUROPE The Wall Street Journal reported (March 20) that a group of 300 Chinese intensive-care doctors began to arrive in Italy on March 18. China has also sent supplies to Serbia and Brussels at their request offering to provide more than two million medical masks and 50,000 coronavirus testing kits. The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have assured assistance to European countries. Pakistan says that China has provided it with “grant assistance of $4 million along with 300,000 medical face masks, 10 ventilators, and other equipment” to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-EMPLOYMENT: JOB LOSSES IN WAKE OF CORONAVIRUS CNBC reported (March 16) that 5 million Chinese had lost jobs in the first two months of 2020, pushing the unemployment rate up to 6.2%. China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) also revealed that retail sales plunged 20.5% over the same period in 2019, industrial output was down 13.5%, fixed asset investment fell by nearly 25%, real estate construction slid 44.9%, home sales fell 34.7% and investment in the real-estate sector was off 16.3%. The NBS said the shock of all of this is likely to last for some time, a recovery won’t be rapid or easy.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: ONE HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE DIES IN WUHAN The Chinese magazine Caixin reported (March 20) that 45 year-old Liu Li, an employee of the Central Hospital of Wuhan who worked on the hospital’s Ethics Committee and was a colleague of the late whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang, died from the Coronavirus disease, becoming the fifth since the epidemic broke out. She was first diagnosed with viral pneumonia on January 28 after running a high temperature for nearly a week, and was later diagnosed as having Covid-19. More than 230 of the hospital’s 4,000 employees have been diagnosed with the disease.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: PARTY TRIES TO RECTIFY WRONG DONE TO DR. LI WENLIANG TO ASSUAGE PUBLIC ANGER More than a month after launching an investigation into local authorities’ handling of the case of Dr. Li Wenliang, a whistleblower doctor in Wuhan, the National Supervisory Commission (NSC) reported their findings on March 19.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW PARTY SECRETARY AT STATE-OWNED CITIC The trillion dollar State-owned conglomerate Citic Group Corp. on March 20 announced the appointment of Zhu Hexin, a Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), as its new Communist Party secretary. The Citic Group said at a management meeting that Zhu became party chief, replacing Chang Zhenming. Caixin cited sources to say that Zhu Hexin will also succeed Chang Zhenming as Chairman shortly. A regulator told Caixin that it seems to be “an important task to have the deputy governor of the central bank lead Citic Group at the moment.”
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW SHANGHAI MAYOR IS GONG ZHENG On March 19, it was announced that Shandong Governor Gong Zheng will be taking over as Deputy Party Secretary in Shanghai. Gong Zheng is likely to soon be appointed Mayor of Shanghai. Shanghai has been without a Mayor since Ying Yong was appointed Party Secretary of Hubei on February 13.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING ADDRESSES PBSC MEETING ON COVID-19 ON MARCH 18 Addressing the PBSC meeting on March 18, Chinese President Xi Jinping said there has been a positive trend in preventing and controlling the epidemic and restoring normal production. Everyday life has quickened.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: US WHITE HOUSE TRADE ADVISOR PETER NAVARRO PUSHES DRAFT PLAN FOR DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF MEDICAL GOODS AND EQUIPMENT The Daily Beast reported (March 19) that White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro with President Trump's encouragement is pushing a slew of policies to ultimately curb the importing of foreign goods and create conditions that would allow for the increased production of American medicines, raw materials, and vaccines.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: CHINA DEVELOPS NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION WHEN MASKS ARE WORN Xinhua (March 11) that the China Railway Science Research Institute just developed a new technology that can perform facial recognition even when the individual wears a regular mask and a helmet.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-CZECH REPUBLIC: MEDICAL AID TO OVERSEAS CHINESE SEIZED BY AUTHORITIES IN USTI STATE, CZECH REPUBLIC The WeChat public account "Lishui Qiaolian" of China's Guancha magazine on March 20, reported that according to Czech media reports on March 19, the Czech Usti State Customs on March 17 inspected the Lovosicích na Litomě icku Industrial Park and found that there were about 680,000 breathing masks and 28,000 masks in a warehouse.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: DEVELOPMENT OF VACCINES AND CONTROL MEASURES i) Shao Yiming, a prominent virologist who is chief HIV/AIDS expert at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was reported by Caixin on March 20 as saying that Chinese health authorities initially failed to identify and control the threats posed by Covid-19 because of faulty assumptions and weaknesses in a carefully constructed direct reporting system.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: PROMINENT CHINESE VIROLOGIST SAYS AUTHORITIES FAILED TO IDENTIFY AND CONTROL CORONAVIRUS BECAUSE OF FAULTY ASSUMPTIONS Shao Yiming, a prominent virologist who is chief HIV/AIDS expert at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was reported by Caixin on March 20 as saying that Chinese health authorities initially failed to identify and control the threats posed by Covid-19 because of faulty assumptions and weaknesses in a carefully constructed direct reporting system.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINA RECORDS NO NEW LOCALLY TRANSMITTED CASES Official figures showed (March 18) that for the first day since the virus took hold late last year, China has recorded no locally transmitted cases.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT CHAIRS PBSC MEETING AND SAYS CRISIS MAY NOT BE OVER Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) on March 18 when the agenda was preventing the spread of the coronavirus.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN PRESIDENT VISITS CHINA Global times reported (March 17) that as the world is facing challenges brought about by COVID-19, Pakistani President Arif Alvi chose this special time to visit China to show solidarity between the two "iron brothers.
Mar 2020 |
US PRESIDENT'S REACTION TO CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN ACCUSING US OF BEING THE ORIGIN OF THE CORONAVIRUS The official website of the White House posted the following on March 13. It said on March 12, Zhao Lijian, Spokesman & Deputy Director General of the Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accused the United States of being the origin of the novel coronavirus, stating, “It might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.
Mar 2020 |
VOICE OF AMERICA REPORTS STORY OF A RESIDENT OF WUHAN The Voice of America (VOA) on March 12, claimed that a young man in Wuhan, in his twenties, with the pseudonym “Tulong,” had decided not to remain silent in front the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) propaganda and thought control, but to speak out for the people who died from the coronavirus.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA EXPELS US JOURNALISTS China announced (March 18) the following measures, effective immediately:
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: US LEGAL FIRM FILES CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST CHINA FOR CORONAVIRUS CBS and the Palm Beach Post both reported (March 13) that the Berman Law Group, a law firm in Boca Raton, Florida, filed a class-action lawsuit on March 12, to hold the Chinese government accountable for the deadly coronavirus now sweeping America.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINA SENDS PEOPLE'S ARMED POLICE (PAP) OFFICERS TO HONGKONG Reuters quoted (March 18) senior foreign diplomats as saying that officers from China’s People’s Armed Police (PAP) had joined Hong Kong police on the frontlines to observe anti-government protests that peaked last year.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE MEDIA COMMENTS ON US DOLLARS STRONG POSITION WHILE OTHER CURRENCIES SUFFER Well-known Chinese news site Sina reported on March 14, that the U.S. Dollar Index has frequently reached highs when the financial market saw free falls across the globe. Key non-U.S. currencies suffered most, including the Euro, the British Pound, the Canadian Dollar, and the Australian Dollar.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE MOBILE PHONE MARKET SHARPLY DECLINES AND APPPLE iPHONE SALES DROP 61 PER CENT Shanghai-based Chinese financial news site East Money reported on March 9, that according to statistics released by the China Academy of Information and Communication Technologies, the Chinese smartphone market declined by 54.7 percent, year-over-year.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: POOR HOUSEHOLD CANNOT SURVIVE BEYOND 2.3 MONTHS WITHOUT INCOME A survey of 120,000 people conducted last week by the Chengdu-based China Household Finance Survey and Research Centre said that a fifth of Chinese households can survive only 2.3 months without any income, while 40 per cent cannot last past three months.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S ECONOMY TO SHRINK BY 9% Goldman Sachs said on March 17, that China’s economy will likely shrink 9% in the first quarter, underscoring how the coronavirus has disrupted normal business activities, while China reported an uptick in new cases of the disease, most of them imported.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: CHINESE PROTEST AT XINHUA REPORTER BEING PRAISED FOR HER REPORTING ON CORONAVIRUS The Wall Street Journal on March 19 reported that as China’s government promotes its successes in containing the coronavirus to audiences abroad, a heated backlash against a state-media reporter’s coverage of the pathogen shows that Beijing still faces a tough task selling its narrative at home.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINESE SCIENTISTS RACING TO DEVELOP VACCINE Wang Junzhi, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said (March 18) that Chinese scientists have been racing to develop COVID-19 vaccines by five approaches, namely inactivated vaccines, genetic engineering subunit vaccines, adenovirus vector vaccines, nucleic acid vaccines, and vaccines using attenuated influenza virus as vectors.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINESE SCIENTISTS RACING TO DEVELOP VACCINE Wang Junzhi, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said (March 18) that Chinese scientists have been racing to develop COVID-19 vaccines by five approaches, namely inactivated vaccines, genetic engineering subunit vaccines, adenovirus vector vaccines, nucleic acid vaccines, and vaccines using attenuated influenza virus as vectors.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINESE S & T OFFICIAL SAYS JAPANESE FLU DRUG "CLEARLY EFFECTIVE" IN TREATING CORONAVIRUS The Guardian reported (March 18) that a Chinese official of the S&T Ministry said the Japanese flu drug called ' ' and developed by a subsidiary of Fujifilm, was 'clearly effective' in treating coronavirus.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHONGQING IMPOSES 14-DAY QUARANTINE ON ALL OVERSEAS ARRIVALS China’s Chongqing city announced (March 17) it will require all overseas arrivals to be quarantined in designated locations or residences for 14 days.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CHINA BEGINS WITHDRAWING MEDICAL PERSONNEL FROM HUBEI The first batch of medical assistance teams started leaving Hubei Province early on March 17 as the epidemic outbreak in the hard-hit province has been subdued. The 3,675 medical staffers belonging to 41 medical teams from across China have assisted 14 temporary hospitals and seven designated hospitals in Wuhan.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: RELAXING OF ISOLATION MEASURES An unconfirmed report (March 18) states that cinemas are being reopened in order to keep the economy humming. The film distributors have agreed to waive their fee to distribute some top domestic films. The revenue split is normally 49% to the distributor and 51% to the local cinema. One of the first regions to open the cinemas was reportedly Xinjiang.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: BEIJING SAYS NO PLANS TO REOPEN SCHOOLS AND KINDERGARTENS Beijing has no plan for reopening schools and kindergartens at present, said (March 17) the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. It said it is still too early to consider any plans for reopening of schools and the timetable will be decided considering the situation of the coronavirus outbreak.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE DEFENCE MINISTER AND US DEFENCE SECRETARY CONVERSE The PLA Daily reported (March 4) that Chinese State Councillor and Defense Minister General
Wei Fenghe held a phone talk with US Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark Esper on March 3,
2020. Gen. Wei Fenghe said that the Chinese people are waging an arduous battle to prevent
and control the epidemic.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS LAW BANNING US TELECOM CARRIERS FROM BUYING EQUIPMENT FROM HUAWEI On March 13, US President Donald Trump signed legislation barring U.S. telecom carriers
from using government subsidies to buy networking equipment from Huawei, just days after
his administration said it would extend a license allowing Huawei’s U.S.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-TOURISM: CHINA CANCELS PERMITS FOR MT. EVEREST AFP reported that China has cancelled climbing permits for Mount Everest, as the spring
climbing season for the world's highest peak approaches.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: COMPANIES BEGIN TO REOPEN China's industry regulator said nearly all of China’s largest companies have reopened and the
majority of the country’s labour force has returned to work, though they will have to contend
with ongoing subdued demand as virus fears linger at home and bring other economies to a
halt. Chinese auto manufacturers are, however, operating at less than 40% of capacity, even
with most of their production facilities back online, Chinese shares opened sharply lower on
the last day of the trading week after the worst U.S. sell-off in more than 30 years but later pared
losses amid signs that markets in Europe and North America were stabilizing.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: COMPANIES RESUME OPERATIONS On March 8, the Hubei Airport Group issued a notice to prepare for resuming operations.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-FINANCIAL RELIEF: HEALTH EMERGENCY Caixin reported (March 14) that China’s policymakers are trying to shore up the economy as
the coronavirus pandemic continues to shake global markets. The central bank decided on
March 13 to once again cut the amount of money banks must keep in reserve to cover
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losses, unleashing 550 billion yuan ($78.5 billion) of long-term liquidity into the banking
system.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CONTAINMENT MEASURES AGAINST 'IMPORTED' CASES Chinese officials on March 15, drastically tightened restrictions on travellers arriving in Beijing
as fears mounted that China could see a renewed uptick in imported cases from travellers
bringing the disease back to China.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S NEW YORK-BASED CRITIC REN ZHIQIANG DISAPPEARS New York Times reported (March 14) that friends of Chinese property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang,
also known as 'The Canon', who has been a vociferous critic of Chinese President Xi Jinping
and recently wrote a scathing essay calling him a power-hungry “clown”, said he
had disappeared from his New York apartment on March 14. His whereabouts, it said, are
unknown.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: US PROFESSOR ARRESTED FOR WORKING IN CHINA'S 'THOUSAND TALENTS' PROGRAMME James Patrick Lewis, a former Physics Professor at West Virginia University was reported on March 11 to have pleaded guilty to fraud charges based on his work for a Chinese global talent program.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ITALY: CHINA DONATES MASKS TO ITALY TO COMBAT CORONAVIRUS Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told Italian Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio on March 10, that Beijing was willing to donate 100,000 high-tech masks to Italy, 20,000 protective suits and 50,000 diagnostic tests.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: GOVERNMENT RUNS HNA The Stock Times on February 29 reported that the HNA Group is a rapidly expanding airline and conglomerate in China. After the high-profile mysterious death of its Chairman, Wang Jian, in France in last year, the Hainan Provincial government has been leading its restructuring.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: HUAWEI NAMED FOR ILLEGAL TRADING WITH IRAN Deutsche Welle Chinese Edition reported on March 3 that newly obtained Huawei internal documents showed that the company did supply Iran with banned goods such as computer equipment that the US company HP had made.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: HUAWEI LOSES TOP SPOT AMONG PHONES Hong Kong Economic Times (HKET), the leading financial daily in Hong Kong, reported on March 2 that, according to market researcher Counterpoint, the Apple iPhone XR was ranked number one in the 2019 global top ten best seller of the smartphone market.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE DROPS Foreign Policy's China Brief reported (March 11) that Chinese trade dropped 17.2 percent in January and February, according to official data. The government is hoping for a recovery in May, but that is dependent the rest of the world not being swept up by coronavirus panic and slowed production.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: AMERICAN BUSINESS INVESTMENT IN CHINA SLOWS The annual China Business Climate Survey, conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in China late last year, found that 21% of member companies reported declines in revenue in 2019, compared with 7% in 2017.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: RHODIUM GROUP ASSES BLEAK FUTURE FOR CHINA'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY A recent assessment by the Rhodium Group maintained that while the pace of new COVID-2019 transmissions is coming down in China, but the pathway to economic recovery remains deeply uncertain.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: STATE COUNCIL EXECUTIVE MEETING CALLS FOR STABILISING FOREIGN INVESTMENT A State Council Executive Meeting convened by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on March 10 called for more efforts to stabilise foreign investment.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC IN CHINA Caixin reported (March 12) that Chinese officials are relaxing restrictions to allow business activities to recover in many places across Hubei province, the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak, amid signs that the domestic spread of the disease is under control. Officials in several other Hubei cities also confirmed that local businesses would be encouraged to resume production starting March 10 if they meet certain criteria.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: HEALTH EMERGENCY & INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION On March 12, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by phone when he said China is prepared to help the world tackle COVID-19.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: UNCONFIRMED REPORTS STATE CORONAVIRUS INFECTS COUPLE OF HIGH RANKING CCP LEADERS' RELATIVES i) An unconfirmed Internet posting (Rolia.net on February 21, 2020) stated that Cai Erjin, who is the son of Cai Qi (蔡奇), Beijing Communist Party Secretary is infected with the Coronavirus. It claimed that Cai Erjin’s lover was infected with the coronavirus and later transmitted it to Cai Erjin and his wife. Cai Qi and his wife have been put under 14 days of quarantine.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION: SINGAPORE'S CANDIDATE BEATS CHINESE RIVAL TO HEAD WIPO Daren Tang of Singapore has won a hotly contested election to lead the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) defeating China’s Wang Binying. The WIPO General Assembly will now meet on May 7-8 to formally approve the nomination by its coordination committee.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES PUBLISHES ARTICLE CRITICAL OF INDIA Writing in the official Global Times (March 8) Liu Zhongyi, Secretary General of the Research Center for China-South Asia Cooperation at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: MAJOR CHINESE COMPANIES RENEGE ON IMPORT COMMITMENTS CITING FORCE MAJEUR Bloomberg financial services reported (March 6) that in a rare and major step, China National Offshore Oil Corp., China's biggest LNG buyer, invoked force majeure and told some suppliers it won’t take delivery of cargoes because of constraints caused by the coronavirus. French oil and gas giant Total SA have rejected the declaration. Hours later, the Chinese copper smelter Guangxi Nanguo also declared it would refuse to take delivery of raw materials. China’s biggest oil refiner, Sinopec Group, is similarly likely to ask Saudi Arabia to reduce crude supplies next month.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-PLAAF: PLAAF CADETS TRAIN ON NEWLY COMMISSIONED JL-10 FALCON The Global Times reported on March 9 that jet fighter pilot cadets at the PLAAF's Shijiazhuang Flight Academy have received intensified training with the newly commissioned JL-10 Falcon to familiarise cadets with the country's top combat planes like the J-16 and J-20. Weihutang, a columnist on military affairs affiliated with China Central Television, said (March 5) the Shijiazhuang Flight Academy was satisfied with the JL-10 and recognised its performance during the specialised training.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: FOURTH DOCTOR DIES FROM COVID-19; CHINA DONATES US$ 20 MILLION TO WHO Zhu Heping, a colleague of whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang, has become the fourth doctor at Wuhan Central Hospital to die from Covid-19. Separately, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Geng Shuang said on March 9, that China will donate US$ 20 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) to support international cooperation in the fight against Covid-19.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: TWO NEW MAJOR STRAINS OF CORONAVIRUS DETECTED IN CHINA The Chinese financial magazine Caixin reported (March 8) that a new study by Chinese researchers published in the National Science Review, a peer reviewed journal affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences suggests not only that two major strains of the deadly new coronavirus exist but also that China’s intrusive lockdown measures at the center of the outbreak may have concentrated the more infectious strain in the disease-hit city of Wuhan.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: ARREST OF XU ZHIYONG FOR CRITICISING XI JINPING Prominent Chinese activist Xu Zhiyong, a former law lecturer and founder of the social campaign New Citizens Movement, has been detained on a state security charge that carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in jail for criticising President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PUBLIC ANGER OVER WUHAN PARTY SECRETARY'S CALL TO "CARRY OUT GRATITUDE EDUCATION" Wang Zhonglin (王忠林), a close associate of Chinese President Xi Jinping who was appointed Party Secretary of Wuhan in February, has evoked sharp and widespread anger for his remarks during a video conference on March 6, saying it was necessary to “carry out gratitude education among the citizens of the whole city, so that they thank the General Secretary [Xi Jinping], thank the Chinese Communist Party, heed the Party, walk with the Party, and create strong positive energy.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING PRESIDES OVER PBSC MEETING IN BEIJING Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) meeting on March 4, to 'study the current epidemic prevention and control work and economic and social stability'.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING VISITS ACADEMY OF MILITARY SCIENCES IN TIANJIN Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the PLA Academy of Military Medical Sciences and Tsinghua University Medicine School in Beijing on March 6, to inspect scientific research work related to the coronavirus. Xi Jinping called for treating the pursuit of scientific breakthroughs as a “major and urgent” task and stressed the importance of technology in increasing the cure rate and lowering the mortality rate. Xi Jinping held a meeting after his visit to listen to work briefings by the Ministry of Science and Technology and National Health Commission.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING VISITS WUHAN FOR FIRST TIME SINCE OUTBREAK OF EPIDEMIC Chinese President Xi Jinping on March 10, made his first visit to Wuhan, the city that has been hit hardest by the new virus epidemic. State media reported Xi Jinping arrived in the morning in Wuhan, which is currently under lockdown along with several nearby cities. State media showed him inspecting the epidemic prevention and control work and visiting medical workers, community volunteers, patients and others on the 'front lines'.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING'S VISIT TO JAPAN DEFERRED The Japanese government announced (March 5) that Chinese President Xi Jinping has postponed his state visit to Japan in April. Xi Jinping would have been the first Chinese President received by Japan as a state guest in more than a decade and was due to have a meeting with Emperor Naruhito and hold a summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: FREEDOM MOVEMENT SUPPORTERS DETAINED BY HONGKONG POLICE BBC Chinese reported (February 28) that Hong Kong police had very recently detained Hong Kong Next Digital Group founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, former HK Legislative Council Member and former Democratic Party Chairman Yeung Sum
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: UK FIRM TESCO EXITS CHINA Well-known new Chinese newspaper The Paper reported on February 26, that the British retail giant Tesco had recently announced the sale of a 20 percent stake in Gain Land to China Resources Group (also known as CRC). Gain Land is a joint venture between Tesco and CRC. This 275 million Pound deal marked the final exit for Tesco in leaving the Chinese market.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-MONGOLIA: MONGOLIAN PRESIDENT AND HIS DELEGATION QUARANTINED AFTER RETURNING FROM VISIT TO BEIJING Hongkong's Apple Daily reported (February 28) that the President of Mongolia, Khaltmaa Battulga, who visited Beijing and met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on February 27
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: 'THE PAPER' SURVEYS REOPENING OF BUSINESSES The official 'The Paper' observed (March. ) that while businesses are re-opening, the economy remains severely depressed.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: MEASURES TO ALLEVIATE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF PEOPLE Chinese Premier Li Keqiang chaired a meeting of the Central Leading Small Group (CLSG) for the Work to Counter the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic on March 5, to alleviate the financial hardship of people because of the coronavirus.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PURCHASE OF US$ 1.92 MILLION WORTH BULLET PROOF VESTS BY PLA ARMY (PLAA) The Hongkong-based Apple Daily reported on February 26, that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) opened a bid for suppliers to provide 1.4 million bullet proof vests, including 930,000 general vests and 467,000 vests with enhanced functions. The price may be up to 13.4 billion yuan (US $1.92 billion).
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA PERSONNEL ILLEGALLY IN PHILIPPINES Filipino Senator Panfilo Lacson On March 4, 2020, expressed concerns about the 2000 to 3000 Chinese PLA personnel in the country. Lacson said the PLA members might be here for an 'immersion mission', of which the exact purpose remains unknown.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLAAF AIRCRAFT OVERFLY TAIWAN AND US AIRCRAFT AND SHIP RESPOND Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said that on February 28, an unspecified number of People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft flew over the sea southwest of Taiwan.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA OFFCERS IN QUARANTINE IN BEIJING The Epoch Times reported (March 5) that a large number of Chinese military officers have been forcibly isolated since the end of January to ensure that they won’t be infected with the novel coronavirus. It quoted a source who resides in an apartment complex reserved for ranking and retired senior PLA Air Force officers in the Haidian District of Beijing, who said family members can only visit them twice a week to deliver food and clothes.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS CASES Caixin reported (March 6) that according to the count of Johns Hopkins University in the US, there are now 101,598 confirmed cases of Coronavirus and 3,460 deaths around the world as of March 6 morning.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PB MEMBER AND VICE PREMIER SUN CHUNLAN VISITS WUHAN Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, one of the most senior government officials to visit the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, toured a residential community in Wuhan’s Qingshan district on March 5 when, according to state media, Sun Chunlan inspected the operations of the neighbourhood committee to supply residents each day with necessities like medicine, food and fresh vegetables.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA REACTS TO LIMIT PLACED BY US ON NUMBER OF CHINESE JOURNALISTS Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on March 2, said that the US was conducting “political oppression” on Chinese media in the US, and the move would seriously harm ties between the two countries.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: US financial magazine's report on BRI The US financial news service Bloomberg published (March 2) a report that there had been little progress on the BRI or the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS An employee of the State-owned CNPC Economics & Technology Research Institute (CNPC ETRI) recently said they were exploring the possibility of a Beijing-led global health organization that would rival the WHO.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: AUTO SALES DROP IN CHINA IN FIRST HALF OF FEBRUARY Beijing Daily reported (February 21) that the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) had released data showing that, in the first half of February, Chinese passenger car sales saw a landslide decline.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS INFECTION CASES & CONTROL MEASURES i) China's financial news magazine Caixin reported (March 4) that confirmed cases of coronavirus in China had climbed to 80,303 as of March 3, with the death toll reaching 2,947.
Mar 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINESE EXPERTS TO ASSIST PAKISTAN IN FIGHTING LOCUSTS Global Times (February 20) quoted Chinese officials as saying China is sending a team of locust extermination experts to Pakistan this week to help the country end the ongoing locust outbreak there. It said China possesses world-leading technologies in locust control, and can provide pesticide and machines that are much needed in Pakistan.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: CHINESE REACTION TO RUSSIA CLOSING ITS BORDER WITH CHINA BECAUSE OF CORINAVIRUS Global Times on February 19, observed that Russia's new precautionary move amid the coronavirus epidemic starting from February 18, 'is a bit of an overreaction' and it is regrettable, 'but due to Russia's basic medical conditions and shortage of medical resources, it is also understandable for Moscow to make the hard decision for the health of its own people'.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA SUSPECTS U.S. EAGERNESS TO SEND EXPERTS FOR CONTROLLING EPIDEMIC TO CHINA China’s state-run media Global Times published an article (February 10) -- which was rrepeated by Wenxuecity the same day -- asking why the United States is very eager to send its experts to China (to help control the epidemic of Wuhan pneumonia.) The article listed three possible reasons that are being discussed:
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE THINK-TANK ANALYSES PRO AND ANTI-CHINA U.S. STATE GOVERNORS Captioned 'The U.S. Governors Report', 'D&C Think', a think tank based in Beijing, in collaboration with Tsinghua University released a Report on June 22, 2019, which stated that while a hardline attitude toward China now prevails in Washington, the American federal system means that state-level governments may not be in lockstep.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA PERSONNEL ISOLATED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC The Liberty Times of Taiwan on February 19 reported that personnel at the Sanya Naval Base, Erya PLA Navy Base and the Northeast shipyard have been diagnosed and accepted for isolation.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-CORONAVIRUS: CHINA'S NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION DISCLOSES INFECTION AND FATALITIES AMONG MEDICAL PERSONNEL
i) Caixin reported that by February 21, China's patient count had climbed to 75,567 and the death toll had reached 2,239. Outside China, 1,153 confirmed cases and eight deaths were reported in 26 countries. Feb 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS IMPACTS BUSINESSES; CENTRAL GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO EASE RESTRICTIONS
The Foreign Policy China Brief (February 19) says the central government in Beijing is pushing for reopening businesses, but there is conflict emerging at the local level. Feb 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: WUHAN PLANS TO BUILD 19 HOSPITALS IN WUHAN Hu Yabo, Deputy Mayor of Wuhan at a press briefing on epidemic prevention and control on February 21 said that another 19 makeshift hospitals to receive more infected patients are to built in Wuhan. Upon completion, all the makeshift hospitals in Wuhan are expected to offer 30,000 beds by February 25.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: STABILITY MEASURES IN HUBEI Epoch Times reported (February 19) that Ying Yong, the newly appointed Hubei Province Party Secretary, directed the Hubei Provincial Department of Publicity and CCP to organise 1,600 people to monitor, delete posts, and find people, and used so-called positive publicity to hedge negative public opinion.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PREMIER LI KEQIANG CHAIRS CLSG MEETING FOR CORONAVIRUS On February 21, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang chaired another meeting of the Central Leading Small Group (CLSG) for the Work to Counter the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: US DESIGNATES 5 CHINESE NEWS AGENCIES AS 'FOREIGN MISSIONS' On February 18, 2020, the US State Department designated five Chinese state-run media organizations as foreign missions.These are the: Xinhua News Agency; China Global Television Network which falls under China Central Television, CCTV; China Radio International; China Daily Distribution Corporation; and Hai Tian Development USA, which is the distributor for the People’s Daily here in the United States.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: INDIAN CUSTOMS SEIZES CHINESE SHIP CARRYING MISSILE LAUNCH EQUIPMENT Indian Custom officials on February 3, 2020, intercepted the ship named Da Cui Yun going to Karachi port in Kandla port Gujarat. The ship sailed from the Jiangyin port on the Yangtze river in China’s Jiangsu province to Qasim port in Karachi.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SINGAPORE LOWERS GROWTH FORECAST DUE TO CORONAVIRUS Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on February 17, downgraded its economic growth forecast to between -0.5% and 1.5% — indicating a possible recession — reflecting a weakened outlook after the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PUNITIVE MEASURES TO CHECK MONEY LAUNDERING China’s central bank has increased the punishment for financial institutions that fail to adequately guard against money laundering, imposing fines of more than 10 million yuan ($1.4 million) for the first time.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-CORONAVIRUS: PROVINCES CONFISCATE EACH OTHERS' MEDICAL SUPPLIES BECAUSE OF SHORTAGE OF SUPPLIE The shortage of medical supplies has created tension between local governments as everyone works on control and prevention of the novel coronavirus. Several places have been reported for confiscating other locality’s medical supplies.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS CASES INCREASE IN CHINA The Chinese magazine Caixin reported that confirmed cases of the coronavirus had increased by February 18 to 70,643 with the official death toll at 1772.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: LOSSES CAUSED BY THE CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC A broad survey of American companies in China released on February 18, showed that more than three-quarters also have insufficient staff to run a full production line. Global electronics giant Foxconn, which employs more than 400,000 on the Chinese mainland, is struggling to fill its factory floors after officially resuming operations February 17.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PEOPLES BANK OF CHINA IS SANITISING CURRENCY NOTES The Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), Fan Yifei disclosed on February 15 that the PBoC was sanitizing bank notes as well as blocking their movement between cities in regions most affected by the outbreak to limit the transmission of the virus.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC CASES The Chinese magazine Caixin quoting official reports released on February 18 night revealed that confirmed cases of coronavirus in China had climbed to 72,531 with the official death toll reaching 1,871. Outside China, 896 confirmed cases and three deaths were reported in 25 countries. Liu Zhiming, 51, the head of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, died of the virus at 10:54 a.m. on February 18 according to a statement released by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: REMARKS ON CORONAVIRUS The Party's official mouthpiece People's Daily between February 8 and 14 each day published a commentary on the coronavirus drawing mainly on Chinese President Xi Jinping's remarks made on February 3 and 10.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: AUTOMOBILE SALES DOWN Xinhua reported (February 13) that according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) data released for January, Chinese national automobile manufacturing volume declined 33.5 percent, month-over-month, and 24.6 percent, year-over-year. The sales volume declined 27 percent, month-over-month and 18 percent, year-over-year. Passenger car sales declined 27.1 percent month-over-month and 20.2 percent, year-over-year.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: PLAN WARSHIPS EXERCISE IN PACIFIC OCEAN The Global Times on February 18, reported that a fleet of PLA Navy warships recently conducted an air defense exercise in the far seas of the Pacific Ocean.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: ANOTHER CHINESE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR CALLS FOR PRESS FREEDOM The South China Morning Post reported (February 18) that He Weifang, Professor of law at Peking University, wrote a 2-page handwritten article which he shared with friends on WeChat on February 17, 2020, calling for press freedoms. He Weifang said “I hope the heavy price [of the outbreak] will make Chinese authorities come to realise that without press freedom, people will live in distress and the government in mendacity.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING MAKES PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN BEIJING ON FEBRUARY 10 Chinese President and CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping made a public appearance in Beijing on February 10, and called for “resolutely winning the people’s war, overall battle, and defensive battle for epidemic prevention and control.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: ECONOMIC COST OF CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC Some of China’s major internet companies, including Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu and Didi, have further pushed back the date for their employees to return to their offices to February 17 or 24, though work has resumed remotely.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONAVIRUS CASUALTIES i) By February 13, China's Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) patient cases had reached 44,763 and the death toll to 1,115. A total of 24 other countries have confirmed a combined more than 398 cases of infections.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: POST ON PUBLIC ACCOUNT BY SUPREME COURT JUDGE A Judge of China's Supreme People's Procratorate, Duan Zhanjiang on February 13, unprecedentedly posted a lengthy article on his public social media account criticising the shortcomings in governance, not allowing civil society to have a larger role, suppression of free speech, prediction of a far serious fallout for Chinese economy etc. He referred also Tsinghua University Professor Xu Zhangrun's recent lengthy article.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW DIRECTOR OF HONGKONG AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE Xia Baolong, an ally of Chinese President Xi Jinping, was appointed Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office under the State Council on February 13, replacing Zhang Xiaoming. Zhang Xiaoming has become the most senior Beijing-appointed official to lose his job in the wake of months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong. Xia Baolong was Xi Jinping’s deputy when he was the Party Secretary of Zhejiang Province from 2003 to 2007.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW PARTY BOSES FOR HUBEI PROVINCE Following the Politburo Standing Committee meeting on February 12, the Party announced the dismissal of two top officials in Hubei:
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING REAPPEARS IN BEIJING Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first public appearance for nearly a week February 10, as he touried Beijing wearing a mask.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: EFFORTS TO 'RATIONALISE' SHUTDOWN AND ISOLATION OF CITIES, FACTORIES ETC AND ESTIMATES OF GROWTH
Chinese President Xi Jinping told local officials during a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee on February 3, that some of the actions taken to contain the virus are harming the economy. He urged them to refrain from “more restrictive measures”, the two people said. Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: TELECON BETWEEN TRUMP AND XI JINPING China's official 'The Paper' reported there was a telephone conversation beteen US Prresident Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 7, 2020. No further details are available yet.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE AUTHORITIES ISSUE NEW LABOUR REGULATIONS Well-known Chinese news site Sina reported on January 27, that China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security had just released new regulations to relax certain labor laws for the period when the nation is combating the coronavirus.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CORONAVIRUS PROMPTS CLOSURE OF NUMBER OF HIGH-PROFILE COMPANIES IN CHINA Singapore’s primary Chinese language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao reported (January 31) that, with the spread of the coronavirus across China, several high profile international companies have suspended their Chinese operations.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-CYBER ADMINISTRATION: CLOSER SUPERVISION OF CYBER A notice issued on February 5, by the Cyberspace Administration of China, provides a glimpse not just of the actions being taken now by the authorities to control information about the coronavirus epidemic, but also of the platforms and activities that have threatened the Party’s dominance of information in recent days.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONA VIRUS CONTINUES TO SPREAD Caixin reported on February 6, that the patient count for the coronavirus rose to 24,421, and the death toll reached 493. however, Ten Cent posted far higher numbers and reported cases with . deaths. The posts were quickly taken down but not before some people had taken photographs.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: CHINESE INTELLECTUALS CRITICESE XI JINPING South China Morning Post reported (February 6) that prominent Chinese intellectual Xu Zhiyong published an article on social media on February 3, in which he urged Xi Jinping to step down for his “inability to handle major crises”.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: GROWING DISSIDENCE IN CHINA Well known Chinese Professor of Beijing's Tsinghua University, Xu Zhangrun, on February 5, posted a scathing criticism of Xi Jinping and the Chinese authorities in a 6246-character article captioned 'Angry People No Longer Fear', that has gone viral on China's social media.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-GERMANY: FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN CRITICISED BY GERMAN PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR ACCEPTING FUNDS WITH STRINGS ATTACHED
The Free University of Berlin (FU) has been criticised by German parliamentarians on the basis of a report by the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel for accepting terms stipulated by Hanban which runs the Confucius Institutes and which critics fear give the Chinese government leverage to prevent teaching about subjects such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and Tibet. On January 20, a group of FU alumni signed a joint letter expressing grave concerns about the university’s academic independence. Berlin’s Senate has said it will investigate the contract, which is worth almost €500,000 (£420,000) over five years, and is designed to train up to 20 Chinese teachers a year. Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: TAIWAN'S VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT TO VISIT WASHINGTON ON FEBRUARY 5-6, 2020 Taiwan Vice President-elect Lai Ching-te is scheduled to attend the National Prayer Meeting Breakfast in Washington DC on February 5-6, 2020. It will be the first time in decades for such a high level visit to the U.S. by a Taiwan official. He will be accompanied by, Bikhim Hsiao, a close confidant of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN GIVES MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO CHINA Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the Pakistani side firmly supports China's efforts to combat the epidemic and expresses gratitude to China for providing help to Pakistani citizens in China.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-CCP: PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE ISSUES CIRCULAR ON COMBATTING EPIDEMIC The Politburo Standing Committee under the chairmanship of Chinese President Xi Jinping held a closed-door meeting on January 27, on the epidemic of new coronary methamphetamine in Wuhan and measures to combat it. Xi Jinping warned that those failing to perform their duties will be severely punished.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: 2019-nCoV (CORONA) VIRUS EPIDEMIC The corona virus continues to spread rapidly across China with 17,332 confirmed, another 21,558 suspected cases and 361 deaths in China by the 4th February. In a bid to tackle the epidemic, Chinese authorities have fast-tracked clinical trials by the pharmaceutical drug company Gilead.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: USAF B-52 H BOMBER ENTERED CHINA AND EAST CHINA SEA REGION Aircraft Spots, an aircraft monitoring website, disclosed on January 31 that a U.S. military B-52H bomber flew into the Taipei Flight Information District and entered mainland China and the East China Sea region of Taiwan. The bomber flew back to the U.S. Guam Anderson Air Force Base .
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. SENATORS SEEK TAIWAN'S ADMISSION IN WHO A number of U.S. Senators, including Cory Gardner, Chairman of the Asia-Pacific group of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee,Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, John Cornyn, James Inhofe, Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, etc signed a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General Tan Desai, urging WHO to invite Taiwan to become an observer, and asking WHO to provide Taiwan with the information and assistance needed to respond to the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: US LIFTS SANCTIONS ON ONE CHINESE SHIPPING COMPANY The U.S. Treasury Departmen on January 31, deleted the COSCO Shipping Tanker (Dalian) Co. from its sanctions list, but continues to blacklist the second unit - COSCO Shipping Tanker (Dalian) Seaman & Ship Management Co Ltd.of COSCO.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: US SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO IN DISCUSSIONS WITH BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY DOMINIC RAAB POINTS TO CCP AS THREAT
US Secretary of State Pompeo, during discussions on the special relationship between the US and UK, stated that 'the Chinese Communist Party presents the central threat of our times. It is an enormous economy to which the American economy is deeply tied. There is huge opportunity for us to do really great, creative, innovative business work between our two countries. But the Chinese Communist Party, under President Xi, has made clear that they have an agenda that is not always consistent with the very values that Dominic and I have been speaking about this morning'. Feb 2020 |
CHINA-US: U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY'S COMMENT ON CORONAVIRUS CAUSING RELOCATION OF JOBS TO U.S. On January 30, US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said the coronavirus outbreak in China, which has killed more than 100 people and sickened thousands there, will help bring jobs back to the U.S. He said “The fact is, it does give businesses yet another thing to consider when they go through their review of their supply chain. On top of all the other things, because you had SARS, you had the African Swine virus there, now you have this.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: INTERNATIONAL ARMS SALES The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported (January 27) that, based on data from 2015 to 2017, China is the world’s second-biggest arms producer, behind the United States and ahead of Russia. It added that four Chinese companies had combined estimated arms sales of $54.1 billion for 2017, which would put them among the top 20 arms producers in the world. It said “Three of the companies would be ranked in the top 10”. Total U.S. arms sales in 2017 were $226.6 billion, and in Russia, $37.7 billion, according to the think tank’s Top 100 list for that year. Aircraft and avionics group Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) would rank as the sixth-largest arms producer, with estimated 2017 sales of $20.1 billion.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POLITICAL FALL-OUT ON CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING Xi Jinping has not figured on the front pages of the People's Daily since the 29th January and neither has he been seen on the state-owned CCTV telecasts.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH EMERGENCY: CORONA VIRUS The WHO declared a global health emergency on January 31, while the US promptly issued a travel advisory advising against unnecessary travel to China and suspended entry of foreign nationals returning from the center of the outbreak in China to be quarantined for two weeks.
Feb 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: PLA DAILY CLAIMS SENTIMENTS FAVOURING FORCEFUL REUNIFICATION OF TAIWAN ARE RISING IN C Ma Xiaoguang, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council , was quoted by PLA Daily on January 16, as saying that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Taiwan secessionist forces have provoked a growing sentiment in the Chinese mainland of reunifying with the island of Taiwan by military force, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said on Wednesday.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-US: US ARRESTS LEADING U.S. ACADEMIC FOR CONCEALING DETAILS OF WORKING FOR CHINA Dr. Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was charged on January 28, with making false statements about money he had received from a Chinese government-run program ( the Ten Thousand Talents Programme), as part of a broad-ranging F.B.I. effort to root out theft of biomedical research from American laboratories.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-US: US CONGRESS RESOLUTION ON TIBET The US House of Representatives on January 28, 2020, voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill bolstering Washington’s support for human rights and environmental protection in Tibet. The Bill introduced and voted upon as a stand-alone piece of legislation, passed 392 to 22 and serves as an amendment to the Tibet Policy Act of 2002.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH CRISIS: BEIJING CLOSES SCHOOLS The State Council General Office has extended the holidays for schools and universities till February 2, because of the Coronavirus.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-US: NEW U.S.ENVOY TO COUNTER CHINA The U.S. State Department on January 22, appointed Mark Lambert as a new special envoy with a mandate to stall China’s growing influence at the United Nations and other international organizations. His mandate includes countering the BRI.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA DEBUNKS INDIA'S ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSSILE SYSTEM Fang Xiaozhi, a researcher at the BRI Institute of Strategy and International Security, Fudan University, wrote in the PLA Daily (January 21) that India 'has adopted the most conservative plan in all its anti-
missile tests -- only intercepting a target whose launching spot, flying velocity and direction, altitude or ballistic parameters are all known and there is no actively maneuvering and changing trajectory.
This testing approach of “hitting a fixed target” doesn’t comply with real combat situation, nor can it truly test the anti-missile system’s stability and reliability, so the testing results are hardly
reliable. Besides, India heavily relies on developed countries for ballistic missile defense technology, and many parts of its homemade missile defense system use foreign technologies, which has seriously
restricted the system’s combat capability.' He concluded that 'New Delhi has a long way to go before it can establish a truly effective ballistic missile defense system and fully exert its real combat force.'
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: TERRORISM AND FATF An FATF meeting was held in Beijing this week. Indication is that Pakistan could be getting off the graylist. Pakistan's News International reports that the FATF was “showed satisfaction over
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CPEC Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to travel to Pakistan around May or June this year. The NDRC has asked Pakistan to convene the 10th Joint Cooperation Committee meeting under
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA DEVELOPS NEW 3--ENGINE DRONE The Global Times reported (January 20) that China had indigenously developed the world's first large, three-engine utility drone which recently made its first flight and can be used in transport and attack missions.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: A PLARF COMMANDER SAYS PLA ENTERING NEW ESCALATED PHASE OF TRAINING PLARF Major General Xue Jinfeng wrote in the PLA Daily (January 22) about the military training and sharpening of the battlefield in the background of Xi Jinping’s directive at the beginning of the year to train more and in harsh conditions.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CMC RELEASES NEW OUTLINES TO STRENGTHEN MILITARY AT PRIMARY LEVEL China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) released a new Outline to strengthen the military at the primary level. The Outline, approved by Chinese President Xi Jinping, will take effect from February 1.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: FOODGRAIN RESERVES ARE SECRET China's Administration of Food and Commodity Reserves announced (January 25, 2020) on its web site that the State Secrets bureau had awarded the Grain Reserve Bureau for its "secrecy work" in January 2019. The award given in January 2019 is a recognition of the bureau's work in maintaining secrecy that is given out only once every five years. The reserves administration is responsible for overseeing the procurement, storage and distribution of government grain and cotton reserves.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PROVINCES REPORT LOWER GDP Reuters reported (January 22) that about two-thirds of China’s provinces, regions and municipalities have cut their 2020 growth targets from last year, despite easing trade tensions with the United States.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH CRISIS: CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY By midnight of January 25, Hubei Province had reported nearly 700 cases of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus infection; 31 patients have been discharged from the hospital; and 24 have died. At present, 494 patients are still being treated in the hospital.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PBSC SETS UP CENTRAL LEADING GROUP TO TACKLE HEALTH EMERGENCY The CCP CC Politburo Standing Committee met on January 25, on the prevention and control of the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus. CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping chaired the meeting. The meeting decided to set up a CCP Central Committee Leading Group to oversee the work.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-DISSIDENCE: CHINESE NATIONAL ARRESTED FOR POSTING OFFENSIVE TWEET WHILE IN U.S A 20-year-old University of Minnesota student, Luo Daiqing, was arrested in in July 2019 in Wuhan, China and sentenced to six months in prison for tweets he posted while in the United States, according to an official Chinese court document dated November 5, 2019. Some of the tweets contained images deemed to be unflattering portrayals of a "national leader."
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S POPULATION IN AUGUST IS 1.4 BILLION China News reported (January 17) that, according to newly released data of the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, Mainland China’s total population exceeded 1.4 billion in 2019.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: SoE APPOINTMENTS Mao Weiming (毛伟明) was appointed Chairman of State Grid Corporation of China and Secretary of its Party group. Born in May 1961, Mao Weiming is Alternate Member of the 19th CCP CC.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLAAF: PLAAF PLANES FLY THROUGH BASHI STRAIT Reuters reported quoting Taiwan's Ministry of Defence that People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force aircraft, including H-6 bombers and KJ-500 early warning and control aircraft, passed through the narrow Bashi Channel to the south of Taiwan on a long-range exercise on January 23.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITIES TO PRODUCE TALENT FOR CRITICAL AREAS OF NATIONAL DEFENCE On January 15, 2020, China’s Ministry of Education released the “Opinion on the Pilot Work of Basic Subject Enrollment Reform in Some Universities,”
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CMC CDIC EMPHASISES ADVANCES IN PLA'S ARMY BUILDING The Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Military Commission (CMC) convened in Beijing to discuss “resolutely implementing the requirement of comprehensively governing the Party strictly” and “providing a strong guarantee for advancing the cause of a strong army in the new era.”
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: FOURTH PLENUM OF 19TH CENTRAL DISCIPLINE INSPECTION COMMISSION (CDIC) The 4th Plenary session of the 19th CCP CC was held in Beijing from January 13 - 15, 2020 and presided over by CCP CC General Secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH CRISIS: CORONAVIRUS By 10.00pm on the 23rd January evening, China had confirmed 639 cases of coronavirus while the official death toll rose to 18. All recorded deaths were in Hubei, where there were 444 confirmed cases.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING CHAIRS POLITBURO MEETING The Xinhua News Agency reported on January 16, that Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Political Bureau to review the "Report on the Work of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central People's Congress Listening to and Studying the Work of the National People's Congress Standing Committee,
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PBoC STATEMENT ON US-CHINA TRADE DEAL China's central People's Bank of China (PBoC) in an official statement on January 16, on the section of the phase one trade deal covering financial services stated, inter alia, that “[We want to] broaden market access for financial services…which is consistent with many opening measures introduced in China in the past two years.”
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: US-CHINA TRADE DEAL A firm of financial analysts assessed the US-China Trade Deal concluded on January 15 as follows:
We are still in a trade war. Tariffs remain levied on hundreds of billions of USD worth of goods.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: US-CHINA TRADE NEGOTIATIONS The South China Morning Post on December 14, scooped the terms of the long-awaited phase one trade deal between the US and China. According to several US sources, China will agree to purchase an additional USD 200 billion of American goods per year, including: USD 75 billion of manufactured goods; USD 50 billion worth of energy; USD 40 billion of agricultural goods; and USD 35-40 billion worth of services.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA RECRUITMENT NOW TWICE A YEAR Global Times reported (January 16) that starting 2020 onwards China will increase the frequency of its military recruitment and retirement to twice a year, to maintain a smooth flow of troops, the military's high vigilance and to better train new recruits.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA ROCKET FORCES CONDUCT NUCLEAR EXERCISE State-owned China Central Television (CCTV) disclosed (January 15) that the PLA Rocket Force conducted a nuclear attack survival exercise where troops in an underground missile facility had to endure extreme conditions and make sure they could still launch nuclear counterattacks.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: JOINT SEA EXERCISES 'SEA GUARDIAN' China and Pakistan are holding their first nine-day (January 6-14) naval exercises featuring anti-submarine and submarine rescue training in the Arabian Sea titled “Sea Guardians 2020”. Chinese media reports state that PLA Southern Theater Command Navy troops are participating in the drills.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-INDIA: VISIT BY INDIAN ARMY NORTHERN AREA COMMANDER TO CHINA India's Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh travelled to China on a 5-day official (January 7-12) visit to China when he met the Commander of the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) ground forces, General Han Weiguo.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINA-US TRADE DEAL The state-affiliated social media account Taoran Notes published (January 13) an op-ed commenting on the expected signing of phase one of the US-China Trade Deal by Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on January 15.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-US: US DELEGATION IN UK ON JANUARY 13 TO CAUTION AGAINST ACCEPTING 5G A 6-member American delegation including Matthew Pottinger, the Deputy National Security Advisor, Robert Blair, Special Representative on International Telecommunications Policy, and Dr Christopher Ford, Assistant Secretary of State met senior British ministers on January 13, with discussions focusing on 5G.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-POPULATION: AGEING China has 166 million seniors aged 65 and above, and 25% of the population is expected to be over 60 by 2030.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: OIL EXPLORATION China's Vice Minister of Natural Resources Yao Huajun, said at a press briefing in Beijing on January 9 that effective May 1, all companies registered in China with net assets of 300 million yuan ($43 million), no matter whether domestically or foreign funded, will be allowed to apply for licenses to conduct oil and gas exploration and production.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: CHINESE REACTION TO DPP'S TSAI ING-WEN'S WIN IN ELECTIONS China's official news agency Xinhua on January 11 reported DPP leader Tsai Ing-wen's victory in Taiwan's national elections, results of which came in on January 11 night, where Taiwan President secured an unprecedented win of nearly a million votes over her next rival.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: FUDAN UNIVERSITY'S FORECAST POSTED ON OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF TSAI ING-WEN'S ELECTION VICTORY IN TAIWAN TAKEN DOWN
A study by China's Fudan University forecasting a decisive win for President Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan’s election on Saturday was been deleted from its website, hours after it was released. Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: UPGRADATION OF PLA POLITICAL WARFARE China’s 79th army started its wartime political drills with newer equipment and weapons from January 1. PLA Daily said the leaders realised that the existing wartime political work equipment was of a single and relatively old type incapable of matching the pace of information warfare and they took the initiative to upgrade some existing equipment and innovate tactics.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLAN: NEW TYPE-055 DESTROYER COMMISSIONED AT QINGDAO PORT China Central Television (CCTV) reported (January 12) that a commissioning ceremony for the domestically developed Type-055 destroyer Nanchang, was held on January 12, at Qingdao naval port, Shandong Province.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW VICE GOVERNOR FOR GUANGDONG PROVINCE Rising financial star Zhang Xin has been appointed a new vice governor of Guangdong province. Zhang Xin has a PhD in Economics from Colombia Business School; in 1997-2001, Zhang Xin worked as a senior economist at the World Bank; in 2001, he returned to China to work at the China Securities Regulatory Commission; in 2004, he was promoted to People’s Bank of China (PBoC) where he worked until 2017; for the past three years, he was Vice Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: NEW YEAR RESOLVE China Defence News Network publicised (January 1, 2020) that of national defense and the army will have been basically realised by 2020 and major progress will be made in informationization.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-AIR DEFENCE: CHINA REACTS TO U.S. DRONE ATTACK ON IRANIAN OFFICIAL IN BAGHDAD China's official Global Times reacted swiftly to the U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad and said (January 5) that it has raised concerns from Chinese netizens of drones being an increasingly dangerous instrument of war that could one day threaten China.
Jan 2020 |
TIBET MILITARY REGION BEGINS MAJOR HIGH ALTITUDE EXERCISES AND DISPLAYS NEW WEAPONS IN NEW YEAR The official Global Times (January 6) reported that the PLA Tibet Military Command has begun major military exercises in the New Year in the high-altitude Tibet region bordering India.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: CHINA'S SECOND AIRCRAFT CARRIER 'SHANDONG' JOINS SERVICE South China Morning Post reported (December 25) that about 30 carrier-based fighter jet pilots were present on December 24 when Chinese President Xi Jinping commissioned the Shandong in Sanya, Hainan province, according to footage aired by state broadcaster CCTV.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA AIR FORCE: CHINA'S NEW UPGRADED JF-17 'THUNDERBIRD' COMPLETES MAIDEN FLIGHT The Global Times (January 1, 2020) reported that the latest upgraded version of the JF-17 Thunderbird co-produced by China and Pakistan completed its maiden flight last week.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PLA HONGKONG GARRISON EXERCISES The South China Morning Post quoted (December 25, 2019) that China’s state-owned CCTV as releasing a video on Christmas Eve of Hong Kong’s PLA garrison conducting live-fire sea drills in the South China Sea.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINA APPOINTS NEW HEAD OF LIAISON OFFICE IN HONGKONG On January 4, the Chinese government announced that Luo Huining, born in October 1954, will be taking over as head of the Liaison Office in Hong Kong replacing Wang Zhimin.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE VICE PREMIER LIU HE TO VISIT USA IN MID-JANUARY 2020 Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is scheduled to visit Washington, US from January 13-16, 2020. Separately, US President Trump tweeted on December 31, that the US-China trade deal would be signed in Washington on January 15 by “high level representatives of China”.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN NAVY AND PLA NAVY START JOINT 'SEA GUARDIANS-2020' EXERCISE The Pakistan Navy (PN) and PLAN Bilateral Exercise, code-named Sea Guardians-2020, kicked off at the Pakistan Navy Dock Yard in Karachi, Pakistan on January 6 morning.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-CZECH REPUBLIC: CHINA'S INFLUENCE BUYING OPERATIONS IN CZECH REPUBLIC The Czech Republic’s richest man Petr Kellner, owner of a domestic loans company 'Home Credit' is reported to be at the centre of a suspected foreign influence campaign by the Chinese government after one of his businesses financed an attempt to boost China’s image in the central European country.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN ELECTIONS ON JANUARY 11, 2020 Taiwan will hold its national elections on January 11, 2020 at a time when public sentiment is anti-China resulting in a boost to incumbent Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's chances of victory.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-US: US IMPOSES REQUIREMENT OF LICENCE FOR AI-RELATED EXPORTS TO CHINA Reuters reported (January 6, 2020) that the U.S. government imposed new restrictions on exports of American-made Artificial Intelligence software.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: XINHUA COMMENCES URDU SERVICE IN PAKISTAN Nikkei asia reported (January 4, 2020) that China's authoritative, official news agency Xinhua launched its Urdu service in Pakistan to promote cooperation with local media, ostensibly to counter criticism against the major projects under the BRI in the country, known as China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINA-MADE J-7 FIGHTER JET CRASHES IN PAKISTAN A China-built J-7P fighter jet in the Pakistan Air Force crashed in Mianwali on January 7, 2020 killing a Squadron Leader and Flying Officer.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA'S JIANGNAN SHIPYARD BUILDS 4 NEW GENERATION (VLGC) SUPERTANKERS FOR SINGAPORE On January 7, 2020, Jiangnan Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, built 4 new generation utra-large 84000 cubic meters of (ultra-large liquefied petroleum gas ship) VLGC for Singapore-based LPG trader PETREDEC HOLDINGS (EASTERN) PTE. The series ship is officially named.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE APPLICANTS FOR U.S. VISAS DROPS Xinhua (January 2, 2020) published a commentary on the visa issues Chinese students face in the U.S. The commentary disclosed statistics showing that the U.S. issued a total of 78,100 student visas in fiscal year 2018.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINA SPEEDS UP DEVELOPMENT OF JL-3 MISSILES The South China Morning Post quoted Chinese military sources (January 4, 2020) as saying that China has accelerated development of its most advanced submarine-launched nuclear missile, a weapon capable of striking the US mainland.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE INVESTMENTS DROP TO 10-YEAR LOW Singapore’s primary Chinese language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao reported (December 31) that China saw its lowest level of overseas acquisitions in 2019, with a total value of US$41 billion.
Jan 2020 |
SCHOOL CHILDREN PROHIBITED FROM PARTICIPATING IN RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES DURING WINTER VACATIONS The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said that a directive issued on December 31, 2019 by the Lhasa Chengguan Haicheng Elementary School contained 7-point guidelines on winter break school tasks and projects, healthcare and forbidden behaviour, including religious activities.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-KENYA: CHINA COMPLETES AID PROJECT People's Daily on December 22 quoted China’s official news agency Xinhua to report that the completion ceremony for Kenya’s “10,000 Villages Connected” project was held at the Kinyanjui Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya, on December 20, 2019. The “10,000 Villages Connected” project is an African aid project that China launched in 2019. The plan was to install satellite receiving antennas, set-top boxes, digital televisions, projection televisions, solar systems, and other facilities in 800 villages in 47 counties in Kenya.
Jan 2020 |
TAIWAN-HELICOPTER CRASH: TAIWANESE MILITARY OFFICERS KILLED IN HELICOPTER CRASH ON JANUARY 2 A UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter purchased by Taiwan from the United States in 2010 and carrying 13 people crashed in a mountainous region in the northern part of the island on January 2 morning.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE On the evening of December 31, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a congratulatory message for the New Year 2020, where he referred to many topics such as poverty alleviation, the situation in Hong Kong, and the Sino-US trade war.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PLA GENERAL'S SON ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN ILLEGALLY TRANSFER OF FUNDS ABROAD The Epoch Times reported (December 14, 2019) that "a person" has been instrumental in helping some top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and their families move their money out of China. It said he remains low-key, rarely interacting with Chinese and hiding behind those transactions, so very few people know about him.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-CPPCC: CPPCC'S ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES RELIGION Xinhua (November 26) and Radio France Internationale (Dcember 23) reported that the Ethnic Group and Religion Committee of the Chinese National People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) recently had a discussion forum on religion.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-GOVERNMENT: CITY LEADERS BEING RESHUFFLED Bloomberg reported (December 31) that China’s bureaucracy is undergoing a rare large-scale regional reshuffle with new appointments and job swaps offering hints of potential future leaders being groomed by Beijing. It said at least 32 new mayoral-level officials have been appointed since December 21, with 29 of them being relocated to a new province for the first time. The other three are being moved for just the second time.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: NETIZEN POSTS DATA ONLINE Sina.com on December 8 published economic data posted on the Internet by Tuozhanlaogou (拓展老狗, WeChat account name) which has been widely disseminated across the internet in China. Using data and charts, the author explained that China’s economy is at its most difficult time.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-HEALTH: SUSPECTED OUTBREAK OF SARS IN MAINLAND CHINA China's state-owned CCTV disclosed on December 31 that a group of medical experts had arrived in the city of Wuhan on December 31 morning to investigate a suspected outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-HUAWEI: HUAWEI'S MANAGEMENT RESHUFFLE CLEARS DECKS FOR TAKING ON U.S. IN TECH WAR The official newspaper Global Times (December 30) reported that Huawei founder and ex-PLA Engineer Ren Zhengfei and his daughter Meng Wanzhou, who is also Huawei's Chief Financial Officer, stepped down from their positions on the Board of Huawei. Meng Wanzhou has quit her position as a member of the board of directors of Hangzhou Huawei Enterprises Communications Technologies Co, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shenzhen-based Huawei Tech Investment Co, data from corporate information search platform Tianyancha showed.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-HUAWEI: CHINA CLAIMS HUAWEI'S REVENUE RISE DESPITE US-CHINA TRADE WAR Global Times claimed (December 31) that Huawei's rotating chairman Xu Zhijun had said the overall 2019 revenue of Huawei Technologies is expected to reach 850 billion yuan (US$ 121.72 billion), surging by 18 percent year-on-year, but lower than its earlier projection amid the US government's crackdown on China's largest smartphone and telecom manufacturer.
Jan 2020 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPAN PRESSURES EL SALVADOR AGAINST ALLOWING CHINESE COMPANY TO GET OPERATING RIGHTS AT PORT
Japan Times reported (December 31) that the Japanese government prevented a Chinese corporation from getting operating rights at a port in El Salvador to be built with a concessional loan from Tokyo. Citing diplomatic sources it said Japan warned of withdrawing its plan to provide ¥11.2 billion (US$ 102 million) in official development assistance after Washington took issue with the Chinese company’s interest in the project and pressured the El Salvadoran government into suspending a tender. Japanese Prime Minister Abe cautioned El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele over China’s intentions when he visited Tokyo last month, citing U.S. concerns about Beijing’s potential attempt to use ports in Latin America for military purposes. Jan 2020 |
CHINA-PLA: PROMOTIONS OF PLA OFFICERS Hongkong's South China Morning Post reported (December 15) that Chinese President Xi Jinping had the previous week promoted more than 170 senior military officers as part of an ongoing reform of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PAPF: PROMOTIONS IN PEOPLE'S ARMED POLICE FORCE (PAPF) The South China Morning Post also reported (December 15) that large scale promotions have taken place in China's People's Armed Police Force (PAPF).
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PLA: FIRST MILITARY TRAINING CONFERENCE AT SANYA The first annual conference for optimising the PLA Military training bases and Simulated Blue Forces (mock enemy armies) was held in Sanya, Hainan Province. Over one hundred officers-in-charge and experts related to military training gathered in a Naval Joint Training Base to talk about the macro-design on the building of Chinese military training bases.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PLAAF: ROADS TO BE USED AS BACK-UP RUNWAYS Discussing that expressways could be used as back-up runways for China's latest four and half generation J-20 'stealth' fighter, China's military media (December 9) cited precedents and asserted that more than 10 such special runways have been built nationwide since the Ninth Five Year Plan. China's total highway mileage has exceeded 4 million kilometers, of which more than 150,000 kilometers are expressways. In the event of an attack on a military airfield making it impossible to operate, China's 100, 000 kilometers of highways would be another runway for fighter jets to take off.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: PLA DAILY HIGHLIGHTS "FIVE BREAKTHROUGHS" OF CHINA'S SECOND AIRCRAFT CARRIER The PLA Daily said (December 18) that induction of the first China-made aircraft carrier Shandong (Hull 17) to the PLA Navy on December 17, 2019, marked 5 breakthroughs. It listed these as, briefly: (i) it was independently designed by China, which realizes the historic leap from renovation to self-development of aircraft carriers and is a major milestone in China's warship construction history.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-BANGLADESH: PLA NAVY HANDS OVER TWO FRIGATES TO BANGLADESH NAVY Senior Bangladeshi Navy officials received two second generation Chinese Type-053H3 frigates, Jiaxing (Hull 521) and Lianyungang (Hull 522), in Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard on December 18.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-US: XI JINPING -TRUMP TALK ON TELEPHONE The People's Daily front-paged (December 20) a report that Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Trump spoke on the telephone on December 20 after the first phase trade agreement negotiations concluded.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG POLICE CLOSES NGO AND ARRESTS 4 PERSONS Bloomberg reported (December 20) that Hong Kong’s police arrested four people for suspected money laundering linked to ongoing pro- democracy protests and and froze money from a fund that’s raised millions to help support the demonstrations.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE GOVERNMENT OWNED PROPERTY IN HONGKONG A Bloomberg (December 20) report said after examination of hundreds of Hong Kong Land Registry documents, it found that China's Liaison Office owns properties in more than 20 buildings across the city, with an estimated value of more than $1.5 billion. It described the figure as conservative.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: RUSSIA COMPLAINS OF MILITARY TECHNOLOGY THEFT BY CHINA Asia Nikkei reported on December 20 that Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec accused China of illegally copying a broad range of Russian weaponry and other military hardware.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-SWEDEN: FORMER SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO CHINA CHARGED Sweden’s former Ambassador to China was on December 9, formally indicted with arbitrariness during negotiations with a foreign power.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-U.S.: U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP ASKS WORLD BANK TO STOP LENDING TO CHINA Reuters reported (December 7) that U.S. President Donald Trump on December 6 called for the World Bank to stop loaning money to China.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE INVESTMENTS IN U.S.DROP Chinese investors invested U.S.$ 1.4 billion into U.S. commercial real estate in the 12 months through September, a 76% plunge from a year earlier, according to a report from Real Capital Analytics.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-CZECH REPUBLIC: CZECH REPUBLIC'S CAPITAL TO SIGN SISTER-CITY AGREEMENT WITH TAIPEI The Hongkong Free Press reported (December 5) that the capital of the Czech Republic will sign a sister city agreement with Taipei in January 2020 after previously breaking off its relationship with Beijing, its Mayor Zdenek Hrib said.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: EFFECT OF HONGKONG PROTESTS IN TAIWAN An article in the South China Morning Post by Wang Xiangwei, a former Editor-in-Chief and currently Beijing-based Adviser to the newspaper, reported that latest data from Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior revealed that approx. 4,352 Hongkongers received residency approvals in the first 10 months of 2019, up 20.6 per cent from the same period last year.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-MACAU: AMCHAM CHAIRMAN AND PRESIDENT DENIED ENTRY TO MACAU The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham) said that the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Robert Grieves, and the President, Tara Joseph, were denied entry to Macau.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: STATEMENT ISSUED BY HKSAR The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government at 9.15 pm on December 6 "expressed deep regret over the spreading of untrue claims overseas in recent days by several members of the Legislative Council (LegCo) and political figures who urged foreign governments or legislatures to interfere with the affairs of the HKSAR".
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HKSAR POLICE ARREST 11 PERSONS IN TERRITORY-WIDE RAIDS AND SEIZE WEAPONS The South China Morning Post reported (December 8) that Hongkong police conducted city-wide raids in the early hours of the morning and seized weapons including a new Glock semi-automatic pistol ahead of a planned anti-government march that day. 11 persons between the ages of 16 and 63 were arrested.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-CANADA: CHINESE STATE-OWNED TECH COMPANY SIGNS DEALS TO ACQUIRE CHIP TECHNOLOGIES A 3-year-old state-backed memory-chip maker signed two deals with a Canadian patent-licensing company that will give China access to the technology it needs to produce the widely used chips domestically.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-CYBER: BELGIUM ACCUSES CHINA OF CYBER HACKING The Belgian media reported that the Belgian Trade Delegation, which visited Beijing and Shanghai from November 17 to 22, experienced severe cyberattacks that were as high as 135 times per hour, while visiting Beijing.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-COMPUTERS: CHINA ORDERS REMOVAL OF ALL FOREIGN COMPUTERS IN 3 YEARS The Financial Times reported (December 9) that an internal Party directive issued earlier this year ordered all Party-State institutions to remove all foreign computer equipment and software in the next three years.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA IS UPGRADING ITS NATIONAL MEDIUM-TO LONG TERM S& T DEVELOPMENT PLAN On December 5, China's official The Paper reported that the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) is ramping up its work on the National Medium- to Long-Term Science and Technology Development Plan (2021-2035) to specify China’s scientific and technological development priorities until 2035.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING PRESIDES OVER POLITBURO MEETING Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a Politburo meeting in Beijing on December 6, to analyse and study the economic work for 2020 and make plans for improving conduct and building integrity as well as fighting corruption.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINA TOUGHENS STANCE TOWARDS U.S. AND THREATENS TAIWAN People’s Daily reported on December 2 that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a ban on U.S. military vessels and aircraft.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG POLICE RECOVER 10KGS OF EXPLOSIVES FROM COLLEGE PREMISES Hongkong Police on December 9 night said they recovered and defused two home-made bombs near the Wah Yan College, a Jesuit high school, in Wan Chai.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PEOPLE'S DAILY PUBLISHES 7-PART SERIES OF COMMENTATOR ARTICLES ON HONGKONG The People’s Daily published a seven-part series of commentator articles condemning the United States for signing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (HKHRDA) into law on November 27.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: XINJIANG OFFICIALS SAY REGION'S ANTI-TERRORISM EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL AND 'RE-EDUCATION' The PRC's State Council Information Office held a press conference on December 9, with senior officials from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region to discuss Xinjiang’s anti-terrorism re-education camps.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-AI: EXPENDITURE ON AI R&D In its Report of December 2019, the Centre for Security and Emerging Technologies estimated China's R&D spending on AI. Acknowledging that these were estimates based on 2018 data, it estimated China's spending on AI under civilian S&T as between approx. US$ 90 million and US$ 2 billion. It estimated military spending on AI-related R&D at US$ 2.7 billion.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-AI: SURVEY INDICATES PEOPLE UNHAPPY WITH FACIAL RECOGNITION BBC Chinese reported (December 6) that starting in December, whenever the Chinese people had to register their new mobile phone numbers, they also had to undergo facial scanning.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-AI: TSINGHUA PROFESSOR OBJECTS TO USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION AND AI FOR SCREENING PEOPLE In an approx. 2900-word sharply worded article posted on her public Wechat account on October 31, 2019, Tsinghua University Professor Lao Dongyan (劳东燕) expressed her worries about facial recognition technology. She called for stricter regulations on facial recognition.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PARTY: UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT DEPUTY HEAD WRITES IN QIU SHI State Ethnic Affairs Commission Director and United Front Department Deputy Head Bagatur, published an article in Qiushi (No. 2019/23 dated December 1, 2019) about Xi Jinping’s speech in late September at a national meeting that honoured national role models for ethnic unity and progress in Beijing.
Dec 2019 |
HEAD OF THE CCP'S PLAC ASKS PEOPLE TO 'STRENGTHEN DEFENCE LINE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY On November 28, Guo Shengkun, head of the CCP's Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC), published an article in People’s Daily calling for the firm defense of “national political security,” which is “the lifeline of the Party’s and the nation’s security, and an unshakable bottom line.”
Dec 2019 |
CCP CC ORGANISATION DEPARTMENT CALLS FOR SETTING UP LEADING GROUPS TO PROPAGATE XI JINPING THOUGHT The People’s Daily published (December 5) a commentary under the Zhong Zuwen (仲祖文) byline, which is used to convey the views of the Central Organization Department, to summarize the “Outline of the 2019-2023 National Party and Government Leadership Body Construction Plan”, which was recently published by the CCP Central Committee General Office.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PLA: XI JINPING ISSUES INSTRUCTIONS ON ARRANGEMENTS FOR RETIRED MILITARY VETERANS Xinhua (December 9) reported that Xi Jinping had made important comments on retired military cadre work at a teleconference on the subject.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PLA: PLA DAILY SAYS NEW ROUND OF MILITARY DISCIPLINE INSPECTION HAS BEGUN IN THE PLA The PLA Daily reported (December 12) that the second round of training for military discipline inspection and supervision cadres on two party regulations regarding discipline inspection and law enforcement work had begun.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CENTRAL ECONOMIC WORK CONFERENCE HELD in beijing ON DECEMBER 10-12 The Central Economic Work Conference was held from 10 to 12 December in Beijing. Xi Jinping attended the conference and offered a summary of the economic work in 2019 and an analysis of both the current economic situation and future economic activity in 2020. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang discussed the specifics of next year’s work on the economy.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: STUDENTS IN SHANGHAI'S FUDAN UNIVERSITY ANGRY Students at the prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai are outraged after “freedom of thought” was removed as a core value from its charter.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-TIBET: THREE TIBETANS ARRESTED Authorities in China’s Gansu province have, according to a report (December 10) issued by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), detained three Tibetans, including a painter of traditional religious art, apparently for sharing politically sensitive information on the social-media messaging platform WeChat.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-EU: EU AWARDS JAILED UYGHUR DISSIDENT SCHOLAR Jewher Ilham, daughter of jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti, received the European Parliament’s top Sakharov Prize prize on his behalf on December 18, saying she did not even know if he was still alive. She hoped the award of the Sakharov Prize would help her father, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for “separatism”.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPAN'S DEFENCE MINISTER CRTICISES CHINA AT DOHA FORUM Speaking at the Doha Forum on December16, Japan's Defence Minister Taro Kono said Japan “is also concerned about China’s rapid enhancement of its military power without transparency, including its nuclear and missile capabilities.”
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-US: CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE CLOSED IN KANSAS UNIVERSITY The Confucius Institute will close in January of 2020, according to an email distributed December 16 night to faculty and staff from University of Kansas interim Provost Carl Lejuez.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PARTY: CCP CC ORGANISATION DEPARTMENT CALLS FOR SETTING UP LEADING GROUPS TO PROPAGATE XI JINP The People’s Daily published (December 5) a commentary under the Zhong Zuwen (仲祖文) byline, which is used to convey the views of the Central Organization Department, to summarize the “Outline of the 2019-2023 National Party and Government Leadership Body Construction Plan”, which was recently published by the CCP Central Committee General Office.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-SECURITY: HEAD OF CHINA'S POLITICAL AND LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION ASKS PEOPLE TO 'STRENGTHEN DEFENCE LINE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY'
On November 28, Guo Shengkun, head of the CCP's Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC), published an article in People’s Daily calling for the firm defense of “national political security,” which is “the lifeline of the Party’s and the nation’s security, and an unshakable bottom line.” Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PARTY: UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT DEPUTY HEAD WRITES IN QIU SHI State Ethnic Affairs Commission Director and United Front Department Deputy Head Bagatur, published an article in Qiushi (No. 2019/23 dated December 1, 2019) about Xi Jinping’s speech in late September at a national meeting that honoured national role models for ethnic unity and progress in Beijing. The article generally reiterated the main talking points of the speech.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-AI: TSINGHUA PROFESSOR OBJECTS TO USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION AND AI FOR SCREENING PEOPLE BBC Chinese reported (December 6) that starting in December, whenever the Chinese people had to register their new mobile phone numbers, they also had to undergo facial scanning. However, a survey showed that Chinese respondents were very concerned about the security of facial recognition.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-AI: EXPENDITURE ON AI R&D In its Report of December 2019, the Centre for Security and Emerging Technologies estimated China's R&D spending on AI. Acknowledging that these were estimates based on 2018 data, it estimated China's spending on AI under civilian S&T as between approx. US$ 90 million and US$ 2 billion. It estimated military spending on AI-related R&D at US$ 2.7 billion.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: XINJIANG OFFICIALS SAY REGION'S ANTI-TERRORISM EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL AND 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS WILL BE USED FOR OTHER PURPOSES
The PRC's State Council Information Office held a press conference on December 9, with senior officials from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region to discuss Xinjiang’s anti-terrorism re-education camps. Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PEOPLE'S DAILY PUBLISHES 7-PART SERIES OF COMMENTATOR ARTICLES ON HONGKONG The People’s Daily published a seven-part series of commentator articles condemning the United States for signing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (HKHRDA) into law on November 27.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG POLICE RECOVER 10KGS OF EXPLOSIVES FROM COLLEGE PREMISES Hongkong Police on December 9 night said they recovered and defused two home-made bombs near the Wah Yan College, a Jesuit high school, in Wan Chai. Officers said the "bombs" were complete and ready to be used.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINA TOUGHENS STANCE TOWARDS U.S. AND THREATENS TAIWAN People’s Daily reported on December 2 that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a ban on U.S. military vessels and aircraft.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PARTY BUILDING Xinhua reported on December 4, that the General Office of the Party Central Committee has issued an outline of the 2019-2023 national plan for the construction of leadership groups in Party and state organs.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: DISCONTENT AMONG HAN CADRES In an unusual report the South China Morning Post (December 4) quoted a source and publicised that the measures targeting Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang have triggered “widespread discontent among Han Chinese officials and citizens”.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: CHINA OPENS NEW 'INSTITUTE FOR A COMMUNITY WITH SHARED FUTURE' At a ceremony in Beijing on November 29, the Communication University of China formally announced the creation of the “Institute for a Community with Shared Future” — a new think tank paying homage to Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy concept.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SPEECH OF CHIEF ECONOMIST FORECASTING LOW GROWTH FOR YEARS DELETED FROM INTERNET Radio free Asia reported on December 4, that the Chief Economist of China’s Essence Securities, Gao Shanwen, delivered a speech at an internal annual strategy meeting on November 27, when he predicted that China’s economic slowdown will last several years and that the average annual economic growth between 2020 and 2030 will stay below five percent.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PROFITS OF CHINA'S LARGE SCALE INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES DECLINED BY 9.9 PERCENT Singapore’s primary Chinese language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao reported (November 27) that, based on the data that the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics just released, China’s large-scale (officially classified as “Above Designated Size”) industrial companies’ total profits declined by 9.9 percent, year-over-year.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: NEW APPOINTMENT IN BANK OF CHINA China's financial news service Caixin reported (December 3) that the Deputy Governor of Jiangsu Province is to be appointed President of the Bank of China Ltd. The post has been vacant for nearly 18 months.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-LAW: CHINA GLOBAL LEGAL CONFERENCE On November 21, the Guangzhou Lawyers Association convened a meeting of all law firm directors and disseminated the following orders issued “from higher authorities.”
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINA IMPOSES DIPLOMATIC RESTRICTIONS ON U.S. DIPLOMATS Guancha.cn said that, with immediate effect, U.S. diplomats based in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenyang and Wuhan should notify the foreign ministry five working days before any meetings with local government officials and educational and research institutes. The instructions were issued on December 5.
Dec 2019 |
PAKISTAN AUTHORITIES STOP INVESTIGATIONS INTO TRAFFICKING OF OVER 630 PAKISTANI GIRLS The Associated Press (AP) reported (December 5) that an investigation into the trafficking of more than 600 Pakistani girls and women, who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China in the space of 18 months, was halted over fears it would harm ties with Beijing.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA--RUSSIA: NEW OIL PIPELINE OPENED ON DECEMBER 2 Xinhua reported (December 2) that the 8,000 km Power of Siberia gas pipeline linking Russia and China began operation.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: NUCLEAR COOPERATION The China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) announced (June 19) that China has finished building the outer safety dome at its first overseas “Hualong One” nuclear reactor in Pakistan, with the project scheduled to be finished by the end of 2020.
Dec 2019 |
CHINESE COUNTER-TERRORISM HEAD CRITICISES PASSAGE OF "UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS" ACT BY U.S. CONGRESS In a sharp criticism of the US "Uyghur human rights act" passed by the US House of Representatives on November 4, the Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism commissioner of China's Ministry of Public Security, Liu Yuejin "slammed it for wantonly smearing Chinese policies and counter-terrorism measures as well as misrepresenting the human rights situation in Xinjiang".
Dec 2019 |
CHINA ACCUSES INDIA OF ATTEMPTING TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM WORSENING INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS Referring to an an article titled "India, China spar over legacy of Tibetan medicinal system" by the Press Trust of India (PTI) on November 24, the Global Times said (November 27) an anonymous Indian official said that "India has approached UNESCO, seeking the enlisting of the Sowa Rigpa as its intangible cultural heritage."
Dec 2019 |
CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY ANNOUNCES VISA BAN ON 5 U.S. NGOs, SUSPENSION OF PORT VISITS BY US NAVY China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on December 2, that China would suspend reviewing applications for US warships and aircraft to make port calls in Hong Kong and will impose sanctions on five NGOs, including the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Human Rights Watch.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE OFFICIAL MEDIA ACCUSE U.S. OF 'INTERFERENCE' IN HONGKONG A November 26 editorial in the Huanqiu (Global Times) attributed the results of the November 24 Hong Kong District Council election to the influence of Western countries. It said “In the past week, some Western forces have worked at full steam to assist the Hong Kong opposition in the District Council elections.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE SPECIAL FORCES IN HONGKONG Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily reported on November 16, 2019, that Special Forces of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have shown up in Hong Kong.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-NATIONAL SECURITY: CHINA DEVISING NEW SYSTEM TO MINIMISE RISKS TO NATIONAL SECURITY Xinhua (June 8) reported that the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has been tasked with setting up a list system which will “more effectively forestall and defuse national security risks.”
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PBoC GOVERNOR PUBLISHED LENGTHY ARTICLE ON CHINA'S ECONOMY ON DECEMBER 1 China's Governor of the People's Bank of China Yi Gang published a lengthy 4365-word article on monetary policy in the Party’s most important theoretical journal on December 1.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-DIPLOMACY: CHINESE DIPLOMATS OPENING TWITTER ACCOUNTS AND GETTING MORE ASSERTIVE Reuters reported (December 4) that Chinese diplomats have been instructed to promote Beijing's view more aggressively in the backdrop of the trade war with the United States, anti-government protests in Hong Kong and other crises that could dent its image.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: PBSC MEMBER AND NPC CHAIRMAN LI ZHANSHU PRAISES MACAU On December 3, National People's Congress (NPC) Chairman Li Zhanshu spoke at a symposium commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Basic Law of Macau where he said “National identity has a broad and deep foundation in Macau society” and, more importantly ,that“The chief executive and key government officials, as well as the principals of the legislature and the judiciary are all patriots.”
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: NEW PARTY SECRETARY FOR SHANXI PROVINCE Lou Yangsheng has taken over as Party Secretary of Shanxi Province from Luo Huining, who stepped down due to reaching retirement age.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-GERMANY: 5G NOT TO BE ALLOWED IN DEUTSCHE TELECOM The Chinese Edition of Deutsche Welle reported ton November 29, that Deutsche Telekom’s management had decided to discontinue the use of Huawei products.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA PROTESTS U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNING HONGKONG HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2019 Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng on November 28 summoned U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad to lodge 'stern representations and strong protest' against the United States signing of the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 into law.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ESPIONAGE: CHINA ARRESTS NATIONAL OF TAIWAN FOR ESPIONAGE Separately, 'Southern Daily' confirmed that a Taiwanese man, Lee Meng-Chu, was also arrested by police in Shenzhen city on October 31, for allegedly stealing state secrets for foreign forces after he made a trip to Hong Kong in August to support "anti-China" activities.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ESPIONAGE: CHINA ARRESTS NATIONAL OF BELIZE FOR ESPIONAGE The official Guangdong Communist Party newspaper 'Southern Daily' reported on November 30, that China has arrested Lee Henley Hu Xiang, a Belizean businessman who lives in China, for allegedly colluding with people in the United States to meddle in the affairs of Hong Kong.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-XINJIANG: CONROLS IMPOSED FOLLOWING PLAGUE SCARE IN XINJIANG China’s Caixin.com reported on November 22 that an emergency response group of the provincial government of Inner Mongolia in northern China issued a “Work Plan for a Firewall for Exiting Inner Mongolia and entering Beijing” to prevent the spread of the plague.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PLAN: CHINA TO BUILD FOURTH AIRCRAFT CARRIER Chinese military analysts were quoted by Global Times on November 28 as saying the development of four or more aircraft carriers is only natural in order to satisfy China's burgeoning national security needs.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PLAN: CHINA'S INDIGENOUS AIRCRAFT CARRIER SAILS THROUGH TAIWAN STRAIT IN MID-NOVEMBER United Daily News (UDN), one of the primary Taiwanese news groups, reported on November 17, 2019 that China’s first fully domestically made aircraft carrier led a fleet to enter the Taiwan Strait.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: POLICE FIRE TEARGAS AND BEAT PROTESTORS IN WENLOU VILLAGE, GUANGDONG The Guardian reported (November 30) that hundreds of residents in Wenlou, a township in Guangdong province about 60 miles from Hong Kong, protested on November 29 against plans for a large crematorium in an area that officials had previously said would become an “ecological park”.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-PROPAGANDA: PEOPLE'S DAILY CLAIMS CHINESE TV SERIES HAVE LARGE EXPORT MARKET The Party mouthpiece People’s Daily on November 15, 2019 claimed that between November 11th and the 14th, the '25th Beijing TV Program Market & Exhibition', which was previously the Capital TV Program Promotion Fair, was held at the Beijing Convention Center.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-IDEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN FOREIGN UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES IN CHINA Radio France International disclosed on November 22, 2019, that New York University Shanghai has disclosed that since 2018, its students of Chinese citizenship have been forced to take a “civic education” course which covers the history of the Communist Party and China’s socialist path.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: NEW GUIDELINES FOR PATRIOTIC EDUCATION Xinhua (November 12) publicised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee and the State Council's new guidelines titled, “Outline for Promoting Patriotic Education for the New Era”.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING ADDRESSES PLA On Wednesday, the big man Delivering the opening address for a training session at the PLA National Defense University in Beijing on November 27, Chinese President and CMC Chairman Xi Jinping called for a new type of military talent, possessed of both unimpeachable moral rectitude and impeccable professional ability.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPANESE MAN ARRESTED IN CHANGSHA ON CHARGE OF ESPIONAGE A Japanese government source said on November 27 that a Japanese man in his 50s has been detained since July in Changsha, Hunan province with access to consular services possibly for alleged spying.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: ELECTIONS IN HONGKONG The elections over the weekend of November 23-24, 2019, saw a record voter turnout of over 71 per cent of eligible voters (2.94 million voted out of 4 million registered voters) who ensured that pro-Beijing candidates won just 58 seats compared to the 300 they previously held.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: DRAFTING OF 14TH FIVE YEAR PLAN BEGINS Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on November 25, chaired a meeting of the State Council to discuss China’s 14th Five Year Plan (FYP), which will run from 2021 to 2025.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: MANY CHINESE BANKS ARE IN 'HIGH RISK' CATEGORY The 2019 China Financial Stability Report published on November 25 by the People's Bank of China (PBoC) reported that China’s banking sector is showing signs of strain, with more than 13% of 4,379 lenders now considered “high risk”.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: SCARE OF BUBONIC PLAGUE Reports indicate that Inner Mongolia's emergency management authority is trying to prevent the further spread of pneumonic plague, including by establishing a “firewall” for those leaving the region, after reports earlier this month of two pneumonic cases and a bubonic plague case originating in the region sparked panic.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-TIBET: TIBETAN YOUTH COMMITS SELF-IMMOLATION According to information given by Dharamshala-based Kirti Jhepa Monastery's monks Lobsang Yeshi and Kanyag Tsering, a Tibetan youth named Yonten died after committing self immolation in Ngaba town situated in Ngaba county in TAR’s Amdo region, Sichuan Province on November 27, 2019.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-TIBET: TIBETAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS DECLARE ONLY DALAI LAMA CAN CHOOSE HIS SUCCESSOR The 3-day 14th Tibetan Religious Conference that commenced in Dharamsala on November 27, on its opening day declared "The authority of decision concerning the way and manner in which the next reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama should appear solely rests with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama himself."
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ZHU HAILUN, CADRES OF XINJIANG RESPONSIBLE FOR 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS IN XINJIANG Newly revealed, confidential documents have revealed that 61-year old Zhu Hailun, as head of the CCP's powerful Political and Legal Affairs Commission in the Xinjiang region in 2017, played a key role in planning and executing a campaign that has incarcerated a million or more Uighurs into detention camps.
Dec 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HUGE VOTER TURNOUT OF HONGKONG RESIDENTS FOR DISTRICT COUNCIL VOTING Hong Kong residents turned out in unprecedented numbers, with more than 1.5 million people at polling booths exceeding the total ballots cast in the 2015 elections, for local elections that many in the city are treating as a proxy referendum on months of anti-government protests.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: UNHCR ISSUES STATEMENT OF CONCERN REGARDING SITUATION IN HONGKONG In a statement issued on November 19, 2019, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed "deepening concern" at the situation in Hongkong and "increasing violence by groups of young people engaging in the protests who are clearly very angry, with deep-seated grievances".
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-US: AMERICAN FIRM PROSECUTED FOR SELLING CHINESE CAMERAS TO U.S. MILITARY FACILITIES Federal prosecutors filed fraud charges against seven current and former employers of the New York-based Aventura Technologies in early November.
Nov 2019 |
HUAWEI FILES SUIT IN FRANCE AGAINST CRITICS ALLEGING IT HAS CONNECTIONS WITH STATE SECURITY Bloomberg reported on November 22, that Huawei Technologies Co. is suing critics in France who alleged it has ties to the Chinese state.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS: HUAWEI HAS 'SAFE CITY' AGREEMENTS WITH 73 CITIES A report released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in November states that more than 73 cities in 52 countries around the world have entered into “safe city” agreements with Huawei.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-JAPAN: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CHAIRMAN ADDRESSES JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN Addressing a gathering of executives and researchers from Japan's top companies and universities at a luxury hotel in Tokyo on November 21, Huawei Technologies Chairman Liang Hua spoke of technology and collaboration.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ARGENTINA: SHIPS PORK TO CHINA The Argentine Agriculture Ministry in Buenos Aires stated on November 21 that it had sent its first shipment of 26 tons of chilled pork cuts to China.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: PROCESS FOR 4TH PLENUM DOCUMENT Xinhua (November 5) publicised Xi Jinping’s explanation of the Fourth Plenum Decisions released by the Party. The 4th Plenum decisions went through an exhaustive process.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA--INTERNAL: CHONGQING DEPUTY PARTY SECRETARY COMMITS SUICIDE AT 4TH PLENUM MEETING IN BEIJING 54-year old Ren Xuefeng, Deputy Party Secretary of the centrally controlled Chongqing Municipality, died on October 31, the last day of at the 4th plenary meeting of the CCP CC, by jumping from Jingxi Hotel in Beijing.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: NEW CODE FOR BOOSTING PUBLIC MORALITY ISSUED BY CCP CC AND PRC STATE COUNCIL Xinhua carried (October 27) the full text of the report by the CCP Central Committee and State Council aimed at enhancing China’s public morality and establishing guidelines specifying what constitutes good citizenship in the eyes of the Communist Party.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: CPPPCC CHAIRMAN WANG YANG INSPECTS ZHEJIANG PROVINCE Xinhua reported (October 27) that CPPCC Chairman and PBSC member Wang Yang inspected Zhejiang province to meet local cadres on October 26 and 27.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: IMPORTANT CENTRAL APPOINTMENTS Key central appointments were announced during the past week
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN SEEKS US$ 9 BILLION LOAN FROM CHINA Pakistan's 'Dawn' reported on November 6, that Pakistan had on November 5, asked China to finance the US$ 9 billion Main Railway Line (ML-1) and other road and infrastructure projects to expand the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-FRANCE: FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON'S MEETING WITH CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING Euronews-1 reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping has spent a lot of time with French President Emmanuel Macron over the past 24 hours.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-U.S._ HUAWEI FOUNDER SAYS HE DOES NOT NEED THE U.S. In wide-ranging interview with The Wall Street Journal (November 6), Huawei’s 75-year-old founder, Ren Zhengfei, struck a defiant tone on the Trump administration’s recent moves against the company, while also praising the U.S.’s entrepreneurial spirit.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING ASKS PLAAF TO BE COMBAT READY Addressing PLAAF personnel on November 8, at the China Aviation Museum on the outskirts of Beijing on the occasion of the the Air Force’s 70th anniversary, Chinese President Xi Jinping was quoted by the state-owned CGTN saying"We must…strive to build the People's Air Force into a world-class air force."
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-PARTY: PATRIOTIC EDUCATION Xinhua reported that the CCP Central Committee and the PRC State Council published an outline for implementing "patriotic education." It declared “The essence of patriotism is to adhere to the high unity of patriotism, love for the Party, and love for socialism.”
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG CONVENES HIGH LEVEL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE On Tuesday, Premier Li Keqiang, along with other top officials, sat down with economists and businessmen to discuss the economy.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SoE REFORM Chairing the third meeting of the State Council Leading Group on State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Reform on November 12, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He praised officials for the improvements made in recent years. Liu He tasked policymakers with drafting a three-year action plan for SOE reform with “clear targets, timelines, and road maps.”
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA RESERVES INCREASE BY 0.4% IN OCTOBER China's financial news service Caixin reported (November 9) that China’s foreign exchange reserves rebounded to US$ 3.11 trillion in October, rising by 0.4% from US$ 3.09 trillion the previous month, according to official data.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-GERMANY: HUAWEI'S 5G STILL BEING CONSIDERED BY GERMANY Following her 12th visit to China in September 2019, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has indicated that Germany would consider Huawei's 5G for its network.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CRACKDOWN IMMINENT IN HONGKONG Various signs indicate that the Hong Kong government could go ahead with a large-scale crackdown on the anti-extradition bill protests as early as this evening (November 13, 2019, Hong Kong time).
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-MARS EXPLORATION AND MARS LANDING BY 2021 Science and Technology Daily also quoted Zhang Yulin, former chief of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), as saying that Beijing plans to launch a Mars exploration mission in 2020 and a Mars landing in 2021.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA PLANS TO ESTABLISH EARTH-MOON ECONOMIC ZONE BY 2050 The official newspaper of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Science and Technology Daily, quoted Bao Weimin, Director of the Science and Technology Commission of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), as saying China is considering the development of an economy outside of the Earth’s perimeter and is planning to establish an Earth-Moon economic zone by 2050.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S RAILWAY BUREAUS SHOW LOSSES According to a report (November 4) from mainland Chinese media China Business Network, China State Railway Group Company, Ltd. (China Railway, CR) for the first time announced the profitability of its subsidiaries.
Nov 2019 |
INDIVIDUAL MOVES PETITION FOR REVOCATION OF HONGKONG CE CARRIE LAM'S BRITISH CITIZENSHIP Major Taiwanese news network Liberty Times Network (LTN) recently reported that an individual named Deeran Kumar submitted a petition on Change.org asking the government of the United Kingdom to revoke the citizenship of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s husband and her two sons.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE OFFICIALS RECOMMENDS HONGKONG LEGISLATE ARTICLE 23 OF BASIC LAW On November 9, 2019, Zhang Xiaoming, Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council, the official agency coordinating Beijing’s ties with Hong Kong, published an article entitled, “Adhering to and improving the ‘one country, two systems,'” in a way to interpret the decision out of the recently concluded Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG'S CHINESE-LANGUAGE MEDIA RUN ADS 'OPPOSING RIOTING' Six prominent Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong on November 13, ran the same ad on their front page calling for people to “oppose rioting,” a day after intense clashes between protesters and police at a university campus.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: TAIWAN HELPING STUDENTS LEAVE HONGKONG The Apple Daily reported (November 14) that Taiwanese students are being helped by their government to return to Taiwan.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: 19TH CC FOURTH PLENUM Xinhua reported (October 28) that the CCP 19th Central Committee’s Fourth Plenum began on October 28 morning in Beijing.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: OUYANG WEIMIN APPOINTED HEAD OF CHINA DEVELOPMENT BANK (CDB) The CDB on October 24, announced the appointment of Ouyang Weimin, a Vice Governor of China's Guangdong province. Ouyang worked 20 years at the PBOC before he was transferred to local government positions in Guangdong in 2011.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-MILITARY WORLD GAMES: MEMBERS OF CHINESE TEAM EXPELLED FOR CHEATING The International Orienteering Federation (IOF) announced on October 25 that a Chinese team has been kicked out of its own Military World Games after other countries alerted judges to "extensive cheating" by the hosts.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S STATE ASSETS TOTAL US$ 67 trillion A report containing the second annual review of the condition of state assets submitted by China's State Council to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress stated that the total assets on the books of the Chinese government at the end of last year came to 474.7 trillion yuan ($67 trillion), equivalent to almost 80% of global GDP for 2018.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: NASDAQ SAYS CHINA'S PINDUODUO'S SHARES HAVE RISEN Nasdaq-listed Pinduoduo's share price rose more than 12% on October 24, reaching a record high of $39.96.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-THAILAND: CHINA AND JAPAN INVEST IN BUILDING HI-SPEED RAIL IN THAILAND A Charoen Pokphand Group-led consortium signed a contract with the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) on Thursday to build the high-speed train route linking three major airports, which is expected to boost economic development and create more than 100,000 jobs.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-US: DIFFERENCES IN USA REGARDING TECHNOLOGIES TO BE DENIED TO CHINA The New York Times (October 23) reported that the Trump Administration is divided over which technologies can be shared with China.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-US: US DENIES VISA TO HEAD OF CHINA NATIONAL SPACE ADMINISTRATION Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said (October 23) that a Chinese delegation had wanted to take part in the ongoing International Astronautical Congress being held in Washington.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-US: US AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN SOUTH CHINA SEA A South China Morning Post report (October 21) said the USS Ronald Reagan is carrying out drills above the South China Sea.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: POLITBURO MEETING Xinhua reported (October 24) that the Politburo met on October 24 and set the dates for the Central Committee’s long-awaited Fourth Plenum for 28 to 31 October in Beijing.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-XI JINPING PRESIDES OVER POLITBURO STUDY SESSION Xi Jinping presided over the 18th Politburo collective study session on October 25, on the topic of blockchain technology development.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT: POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND ETHNIC UNITY CPPCC Chairman and PBSC member Wang Yang spoke on October 21 at the conference organised by the United Front Work Department (UFWD) to commemorate continuation of the “Guangcai Program”, which was “launched in 1994 by China's private enterprises in a bid to aid the country's poverty-relief efforts.”
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ETHNIC UNITY: INSTRUCTIONS ON PROMOTING ETHNIC UNITY The General Offices of the CCP CC and State Council jointly released opinions on “comprehensively, deeply, and enduringly implementing the work on pursuing ethnic unity and progress to consolidate a sense of community for the Chinese Nation” and issued a notice requesting each region and department conscientiously implement the opinions.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINA BACKS PAKISTAN AT FATF Reiterating its support to Pakistan at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) platform, the Daily Pakistan said on October 29 that China has 'categorically announced that it did not want the forum to be politicised as some countries are pursuing their political agenda in a bid to blacklist Pakistan'.
Nov 2019 |
CHINESE DIRECTOR OF CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE AND BARRED FROM VISITING SCHENGEN AREA Song Xinning, former Director of the Confucius Institute at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in Brussels has been barred from entering the Schengen Area for eight years after being accused of espionage.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-US: NOTED CHINESE SCHOLAR PROF. JIN CANRONG SAYS CHINA CAN DEFEAT U.S. IN 'HOT WAR' Speaking to Taiwan's Central News Agency on the siddelines of the annual Xiangshan Forum meeting in Beijing on October 21, Jin Canrong, a scholar at Renmin University of China, stated that China and the United States should show transparency to each other and that both countries ought to avoid a hot war.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINESE POLITBURO MEMBER CRITICISES U.S. FOR ADDING TENSION IN SPACE BUT WITHOUT NAMING IT Singapore's Chinese-language Lianhe Zaobao newspaper reported (October 21) Huang Kunming, head of the CCP CC Propaganda Department and Politburo member, as saying in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 6th World Internet Conference, that “Some countries have used national security as an excuse and have restricted and attacked other countries and enterprises.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-KAZAKHSTAN: TWO CHINESE NATIONALS SEEK POLITICAL ASYLUM IN KAZAKHSTAN 25-year-old Murager Alimuly and 30-year-old Qaster Musakhanuly, both ethnic Kazakhs from China, entered Kazakhstan on October 1 and on October 9 appeared in video testimonies posted to Facebook recounting their experiences in Xinjiang.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-SPACE: CHINA TO CREATE ZONE IN SPACE The Science and Technology Daily, a newspaper affiliated with the Ministry of Science and Technology, reported (November 1) that Bao Weimin, Chief of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.’s Science and Technology Commission, said at a forum in Beijing on October 30, that China plans to set up the economic zone in "cislunar space" — the area lying inside the moon’s orbit — within the next few decades.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-EDUCATION: CHINA CALLS FOR UPGRADING QUALITY OF ONLINE AND LONG DISTANCE EDUCATION China’s Ministry of Education has called for a three-year revamp of the higher education system, aiming to devote vast resources to undergraduate studies, including the expertise of those who are part of its controversial Thousand Talents Program.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S MANUFACTURING INDEX SHOWS FASTEST INCREASE SINCE DECEMBER The Caixin China General Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) said China’s manufacturing activity expanded at the fastest pace in nearly three years in October as output and new orders grew at a pace not seen in several years.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-COAL: COAL IMPORTS SURGE China’s coal imports are likely to exceed last year’s tally, negating predictions that the government would cap purchases at 2018’s levels. This year, a slowing economy and the attraction of cheaper overseas coal are likely to steer policymakers away from a repeat of 2018’s curbs.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN USING CHINESE MISSILES IN KASHMIR An official Chinese media report said that Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is understood to be "using the 295 FN-16 portable air-defense missiles to strengthen its low-altitude air defense in Kashmir, where India has begun deploying advanced apache helicopters".
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-UK: BRITAIN PUTS DECISION ON HUAWEI'S 5G ON HOLD In a letter dated November 1, written by Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the UK's decision on going in for Huawei's 5G was put on hold till installation of the next government due to "the market uncertainty caused by US action to place Huawei on its Entity List for restricted trading on national security grounds".
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA CRITICISES INDIA'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNION TERRITORIES OF KASHMIR, JAMMU AND LADAKH Global Times on October 31, said 'China slammed India's unilateral move to change administrative status of Kashmir and Ladakh, saying the move challenges China's sovereignty and is illegal and invalid'.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING IN SHANGHAI Chinese President travelled to Shanghai for the Second China International Import Expo (CIIE) where French President Macron is the guest of honour. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Michael Holness and Serbian Prime Minister Anna Brna Beach (Ana Brnabić) are also attending the opening ceremony of the second Expo.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING'S NEW BOOK The official Xinhua news agency reported (October 27) that the CCP CC's Institute of Party History and Literature published CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping’s new book 'Ensuring the Party’s Leadership over All Work' .
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: IDEOLOGICAL CONTROLS ON EDUCATION The official website of China’s Ministry of Education on October 21, 2019, published a “Notice on Launching a Special Campaign to Examine and Cleanse Books in Nationwide Elementary and Middle School Libraries.”
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: BUDDHIST MONKS ASKED TO DISPLAY PATRIOTISM ON CHINA'S NATIONAL DAY Aboluowang reported (November 4) that, on October 1, China’s National Day, Buddhist temples were required to put on patriotic performances while monks and nuns had to participate in the ceremony to pledge allegiance to the communist party.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: 400 REAL ESTATE COMPANIES BANKRUPT The Central News Agency (October 30, 2019) quoting the mainland Chinese paper 'The 21st Century Business Herald' said China's real estate industry has been the first to bear the brunt of the Chinese government’s actions to tighten corporate finance and citing court data said that at least 408 real estate firms have declared bankruptcy.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INDIA: SALE OF CHINESE GOODS IN INDIA DROPS The sale of Chinese goods has witnessed a major drop in the run-up to Diwali as about 60% less Chinese products were sold this year. However, Indians still purchased Chinese goods worth about Rs 3,200 crore while items worth Rs 8,000 crore were sold in the country during the Diwali last year, industry body CAIT said in a statement.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-FRANCE: FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON'S VISIT TO SHANGHAI French President Emmanuel Macron travels to Beijing on November 4, as a guest of honour of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-US: US OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO CHINA-OWNED TIK-TOK Reuters cited three unidentified sources as saying that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has started a national security review of Chinese-owned TikTok’s $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly. TikTok didn’t seek clearance from CFIUS when it acquired Musical.ly, which gives the U.S. security panel scope to investigate it now.
Nov 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: 4TH PARTY PLENUM TO BE HELD IN BEIJING FROM OCTOBER 28 - 31 The CCP CC Politburo decided at its meeting on October 24 that the Fourth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be held from Oct. 28 to 31 in Beijing.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE SoE CNOOC GETS NEW CHAIRMAN China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), announced on October 24 afternoon that Wang Dongjin, a Vice Chairman at one of the petroleum SoEs is to replace Yang Hua, who resigned as CNOOC’s chairman in early September.
Oct 2019 |
NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR PRAISES CONTRIBUTION OF CANADIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO COMMUNIST CAUSE New Chinese Ambassador Cong Peiwu speaking at a reception in Ottawa to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China cited the case of 104-year old Isabel Crook, a Canadian anthropologist and teacher who has been a supporter of the communist cause for many decades, and continues to live in China.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-USA: CHINA STEALS DATA FOR ITS C919 AIRCRAFT U.S. cybersecurity research and consulting firm Crowdstrike on October 15 released a report that claimed officials from China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), underground hacking groups and personnel, cyber security researchers, and employees (moles) of multiple companies in many countries were involved in cyber theft operations to assist development of the C919 commercial aircraft by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (Comac).
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-KENYA: CHINA BUILDS ANOTHER RAILWAY Voice of America (VoA) reported (October 16) that a new railway built by China at a cost of US$ 1.5 billion was put into operation in Kenya on October 16. It connects the capital city Nairobi with Naivasha, a small town in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted the opening ceremony of the railway.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-US: APPLE WITHDRAWS TRACKING APP Hong Kong Economic Times (HKET), the leading financial daily in Hong Kong, on October 10 reported that Apple once again unlisted the popular app HKmap.live from its AppStore.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-PACIFIC ISLANDS: COOPERATION FORUM The 3rd China-Pacific Island Countries Development and Cooperation Forum opened in the Samoan capital of Apia on October 21, with Vice Premier Hu HUAWEI TO representing the PRC.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-INDIA: VISA LIBERALISATION AND INDIAN FILMS An article published in China's official Global Times (October 14) said that the "significant relaxations" announced in visa policy by the Indian embassy is sure to boost Chinese tourism to India.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-GERMANY: GERMANY LIKELY TO OPT FOR HUAWEI'S 5G The German government appears poised to put in place newly drafted security requirements that do not set clear limits on the Chinese telecommunications firms Huawei and ZTE supplying technology for German fifth-generation cellular networks.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN HONGKONG Reports said (October 20) a 19-year old boy was stabbed in the neck and stomach at Tai Po 'Lennon wall' by an assailant who shouted "Hongkong is part of China'?
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SALES OF AUTOMOBILES ARE DOWN According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China’s auto sales in September were 2.271 million.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-TIBET: TIBETANS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT ASKED TO DENOUNCE DALAI LAMA BEFORE RECRUITMENT Quoting from recruitment notices recently issued in the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said (October 16) that Tibetan college graduates looking for work in Tibet’s public sector are being forced by Chinese authorities to denounce exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama before they are given jobs.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-PLAAF: NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATIONS Chinese large transport aircraft Y-20 and stealth fighter J-20s gave demonstration flights on the opening of a five-day air show held to celebrate the 70th founding anniversary of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-MILITARY GAMES AND XIANGSHAN FORUM On October 19, the CISM World Military Games commenced in central China’s Wuhan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, attended the games where, according to Xinhua (October 19) he said:“Let the ‘sunshine of sports’ dispel the shadow of war, foster communications between different cultures, and bring together people's hearts for peace.”
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-SOLOMON ISLANDS: CHINA PURCHASES ISLAND OF TULAGI IN SOLOMON ISLANDS China's Sam Enterprise Group, a State-owned Enterprise, set up in 1985 has singed a renewable 75-year lease agreement with the provincial government of Tulagi whose terms have not been publicly released.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINA BANS EXPORT OF BLACK CLOTHING TO HONGKONG The South China Morning Post (October 17) reported that according to a notice issued by Guangdong courier company PHXBUY on July 11, mainland Chinese customs required courier companies to halt delivery of a list of products.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: BEIJING MOVES TO QUELL TROUBLE The Wall Street Journal (October 16) reports that Beijing has begun to selectively target pro-democracy activist. 35-year old Stanley Ho Wai-hong of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions was severely beaten on September 29 resulting in injuries including three broken fingers and a thumb.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES COMMENTS ON FATF MEETING REG PAKISTAN An article critical of India published in the official Global Times (October 16) commented "How many shades of grey fits India's fantasy? It seems that India makes too much fuss about whether Pakistan will be moved to the "dark grey" list from the "grey" list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) while China is presiding over the Paris-based terrorist financing watchdog".
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISICS CITES POSITIVE SIGNS FOR SEPTEMBER The Chinese financial news service Caixin on October 18 reported that China’s economy grew by 6% YOY in the third quarter, hitting the bottom of the government’s 2019 target range and the weakest pace in almost three decades, reflecting sluggish domestic and global demand exacerbated by the ongoing trade war with the U.S. It said for the first nine months, GDP rose 6.2% YOY, within this year’s target range of 6% to 6.5% announced by Premier Li Keqiang in March.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: SHIPBUILDING COMPANY SEEKS CAPITAL INFUSION FROM ABROAD China Merchants Industry Holdings Co. Ltd. (CMIH), a wholly owned subsidiary of China Merchants Group, initiated a mixed-ownership reform, a campaign promoted by Beijing to diversify shareholding structures of major state-owned enterprises.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HI-TECH: CHINA PLANS TO BECOME SELF-RELIANT IN HI-TECHNOLOGIES Addressing the "2019 National Manufacturing Powerhouse Construction Expert Forum (Ningbo)" in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province on October 15, Zhou Ji, President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), said that the CAE had recently assessed the value chains of 26 manufacturing sub-sectors.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-CCP: CCP BRANCHES PRESENT IN PRIVATE ENTERPRISES The People's Daily reported (October 15) that efforts to get a CCP branch in every enterprise, including private enterprises, are succeeding. It observed that technology companies particularly have taken the lead in establishing Party branches in their companies.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING'S DAUGHTER RETURNS TO U.S. Chinese President Xi Jinping's daughter, Xi Mingze (習明澤) who previously completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard in 2014 has re-enrolled in Harvard University in 2019.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: LATE CCP CC GENERAL SECRETARY ZHAO ZIYANG'S ASHES LAID TO REST The ashes of late CCP CC General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and his wife were buried in a cemetery north of Beijing on October 18.
Oct 2019 |
VIETNAM BANS CHINA-PRODUCED MOVIE BECAUSE OF MAP SHOWING INCORRECT MARITIME BOUNDARIES Ta Quang Dong, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, was quoted as saying by Vietnam's Thanh Nien newspaper as saying “We will revoke (the film’s license).”
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-US: TRADE NEGOTIATIONS PROVIDE BREATHER FOR CHINA China emerged with wins in this week’s trade talks, with the U.S. shelving new tariffs against Beijing while leaving many demands to be worked out later in return for an assurance of increased agriculture purchases.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-NEPAL: XI JINPING'S VISIT TO NEPAL WAS FIRST IN 23 YEARS BY CHINESE PRESIDENT Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a 20-hour visit to Kathmandu, becoming the first Chinese President to visit Nepal in 23 years.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-INDIA: XI-MODI SECOND 'INFORMAL' SUMMIT The second 'informal' summit meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping was held on October 11-12 at the ancient coastal town of Mammalapuram (Mahabalipuram).
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: POLICE CLAIMS SERIOUS ESCALATION IN VIOLENCE HINTING AT FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT Radio HongKong quoted the HongKong Police as saying on October 14, that a remote-controlled improvised explosive device, similar to those used in terrorist attacks in foreign countries, was detonated at Nathan Road on October 13.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: FIRST PEOPLE'S DAILY ARTICLE ON TROUBLE IN HONGKONG IN FIVE WEEKS People’s Daily (October 5) published its first Commentator's article on the Hong Kong protests in 5 weeks, expressing the central government’s support for the Hong Kong government’s 4 October decision to invoke the Emergency Regulations Ordinance to enact anti-mask regulation.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: RISING COST OF LIVING AND CONSUMER INFLATION Data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics on October 15, stated that surging pork prices had pushed China’s consumer inflation to a near six-year high in September, complicating Beijing’s effort to stimulate growth but also giving it an incentive to buy more agricultural goods from the U.S.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-AGRICULTURE: CHINA'S WHITE PAPER ON FOOD SECURITY The Chinese government on October 14, released a white paper on food security, which stressed it produces enough grain to feed its 1.4 billion people, but projected a rise in medium- to long-term grain demand.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ACCUSATION OF CORRUPTION In a hard hitting expose the New York Times on October 15 front-paged details of bribes and gifts given by the Deutsche Bank over the past 15 years to over a 100 past and present top ranking Chinese communist cadres.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-IRAN: CHINA BACKS OUT OF MAJOR OIL DEAL WITH IRAN The Wall Street Journal reported (October 6) that the China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has pulled out of a $5 billion natural-gas project in Iran as escalating tensions threaten to sever Beijing’s trade with Tehran.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-US: US ADDS TO BLACKLIST The US Commerce Department on October 7, added 28 Chinese companies and government agencies to its Entity List over human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: IMRAN KHAN AND XI JINPING'S COMMENTS ON KASHMIR Chinese President Xi Jinping met Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Beijing on October 9.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN DEPORTS CHINESE CITIZEN FOR "ILLEGAL" ACTIVITIES Taiwan on 8 October deported a Chinese tourist, Li Shaodong, for engaging in “criminal activities” for damaging a “Lennon Wall” that was put up in support of Hong Kong’s democracy movement.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: TECHNOLOGY SECTOR BADLY HIT A Bloomberg report of October 9 stated that China's broader economic slowdown and trade war with the US has ended the boom that saw the emergence of big IT/ CHINA BACKS giants like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Group Holdings Ltd.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT: OFFICIAL INTERVIEW WITH PANCHEN LAMA On September 28, the United Front News published an exclusive interview with the Eleventh Panchen Lama.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: PARTY PATRIOTIC CAMPAIGN EMPHASISED ON EVE OF CHINA'S 70TH NATIONAL DAY The People's Daily (September 20) reported that the Central Leading Group for the “Remain True to Original Aspiration, Keep Mission Firmly in Mind” Education Campaign issued a notice on September 29 stressing the importance of strengthening patriotic education and promoting patriotic spirit through the education campaign.
Oct 2019 |
PEOPLE'S DAILY ON OCTOBER 1 EXHORTS PEOPLE TO RALLY MORE CLOSELY AROUND THE PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE Publishing an article on China's 70th National Day on October 1, the People's Daily quoted Xi Jinping in describing China’s journey of the past 70 years as “a deeply moving saga of struggle both in the history of the Chinese nation and the history of the world.”
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-PERU: ENERGY SUPPLIES Financial times (October 2) reported that the China Yangtze Power International has agreed to buy Peru’s largest electric company Luz del Sur from US-based Sempra Energy for $3.6bn.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-NEPAL: NEPALESE STATEMENTS DURING CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI'S VISIT Statements issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Nepal from September 8-10, and meetings with the Prime Minister, Ministers and senior leaders of both the ruling and opposition parties, clarified that the U.S. strategy was discussed.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-US: LEVEL OF U.S. OFFICIALS ATTENDING CHINA'S NATIONAL DAY EVENTS IN U.S.A. DROPS Radio France Internationale reported (September 29) that the number of U.S. officials who attended the 70th National Anniversary cocktail reception that the Chinese Embassy held in Washington, DC significantly decreased this year. Fewer attendees appeared from the U.S. side.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PAP/PLA IN HONGKONG Photographs of PAP/PLA personnel in trucks at various locations in Hong Kong and marching alongside hedges through lanes are being circulated by hong Kong residents on Twitter and social media since October 4 evening. Reports also claim that between 10,000 to 15,000 PAP personnel are already in Hong Kong.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: PORK PRICES China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently stated that wholesale pork price in the third week of September was up 81 percent from a year earlier.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-PLA: BBC SAYS CHINA HAS POTENTIAL TO BUILD AIRCRAFT CARRIER-CENTERED NAVY BBC Chinese published (September 25) an analysis on the growth of China’s Navy after the Cold War.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ANTI-CORRUPTION FELLS CHINA'S FORMER SECURITIES REGULATOR The CDIC announced (October 4) that the former head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission Liu Shiyu, has been removed from his post of Deputy Party Chief at the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-70TH ANIVERSARY: NATIONAL DAY PARADE AND INTERNAL DISSIDENCE Police in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, announced on its official Weibo account on October 2 that a 37-year-old man surnamed Gao would be detained for 15 days, after commenting adversely about the October 1 parade on WeChat.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-SRI LANKA: CHINA APPROVED EXTRADITION TREATY WITH SRI LANKA Xinhua (Beijing - August 26) reported that the 12th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) decided on August 26 to approve the "Extradition Treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka".
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN SENATE COMMITTEE EXAMINES CPEC The Senate Special Committee on the Project of China-Pak Economic Corridor (CPEC) discussed in detail SMEs and SEZs, uninterrupted power supply along CPEC routes, delaying of tariff determination by NEPRA for Coal based energy project in Gwadar and the Second Phase of Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA'S OFFICIAL MEDIA CRITICAL OF INDIA Commenting on the recent success of TCS, the official Global Times (September 26) observed that "Nevertheless, while China's stock market pales in comparison to India's, China's top tech companies are far ahead of their Indian counterparts.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPAN RELEASES DEFENCE WHITE PAPER ON SEPTEMBER 29 Japan released its Defence White Paper on September 24, 2019. It is 415 pages in length and China figures prominently in it.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: RALLIES IN TAIWAN IN FAVOUR OF HONGKONG PROTESTORS Despite heavy rain on September 29, hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in Taipei and other cities in Taiwan in support of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: U.S. ACADEMIC BANNED FROM ENTERING HONGKONG US academic Dan Garrett was barred from entering Hong Kong on September 26, a week after he testified at the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) in Washington DC about the ongoing protests in the city.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-CANADA: CANADIAN UNIVERSITY ORDERS DISBANDMENT OF CHINESE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION The student union at Canada's McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has revoked the club status of the school’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) after an appeal by students seeking to decertify the group over concerns about alleged links to the Chinese government.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: PARTY TO PROMOTE 'NEW ERA OF PATRIOTIC EDUCATION CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Politburo on September 24 to consider "a new era of patriotic education Implementation Outline" and the "Chinese Communist Party School (Administration Institute) Regulations."
Oct 2019 |
CHINA'S NEW WHITE PAPER STRESSES CHINA WILL NOT FOLLOW THE PATH "POWER LEADING TO HEGEMONY"! The official Global Times (September 27) publicised the issue by the State Council Information Office on September 27 of a new White Paper entitled "China and the world in the New Era" which, it said, comprehensively reviews China's development in the past 70 years, its contribution to the world and the country's role in an evolving world.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING ADDRESSES CPPCC WORK CONFERENCE IN BEIJING On September 20, CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping spoke at the CPPCC Central Work Conference in Beijing on promoting a greater exchange of ideas, broader consultation in decision-making, and the need of finding consensus.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CHINA OPENS FIRST VISA CENTRE IN LAHORE, PAKISTAN China openeD its first visa application service center in Lahore, Punjab to facilitate applicants wishing to visit China. Yao Jing, the Chinese Ambassador to Islamabad, inaugurated the centre on September 23. China’s Consul General in Lahore Long Dingbin, Deputy Consul General Peng Zhengwu and officials from the Punjab government also attended the ceremony.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: 12,000 CHINESE PLA/PAPF TROOPS QUIETLY INDUCTED INTO HONGKONG A Reuters special report (October 1) citing unidentified Chinese military officers claimed that between 10,000 to 12,000 well trained PLA/PAPF personnel have been quietly inducted into Hong Kong.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PROTESTOR SHOT BY 'LIVE ROUND' The South China Morning post (October 1) reported that a protester had been shot in the chest by a live round fired by police on Hoi Pa Street, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG PROTESTORS PUBLICISE A PARLIAMENT AND RADIO STATION FOR HONGKONG Some unidentified persons have announced a "HK Provisional Parliament" with its own website where a "Draft Civil Charter of HK" in either Cantonese or English versions is available.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PROTEST IN HONGKONG ON CHINA'S NATIONAL DAY The MTR Corporation of Hongkong has announced the closure of 3 MTR stations, namely Wan Chai, Admiralty and Prince Edward on October 1. The airport express will not stop between Hong Kong station and the airport.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: CHINA HONOURS FOREIGN EXPERTS At a meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 29, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the Chinese people will not forget foreign experts' support and assistance to China's development over the 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: CHINA HONOURS OUTSTANDING SCIENTISTS, DIPLOMATS ETC China Daily announced on September 30, 2019 that National honorary titles had been given to individuals who have made great contributions and have achieved recognition in various fields, including national defense, diplomacy and education.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-TIBET: 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS IN TIBET Thousands of monks and laypeople across Tibet were made to participate in a series of major staged performances to mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on October 1.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA: PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC)'S 70TH FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY AND PARADE Amidst heavy security which allowed entry to Beijing's Tiananmen Square only to invitees, China's leaders held a massive parade -- China's largest ever till now -- on October 1, to showcase China's military might.
Oct 2019 |
CHINA-SERBIA: SERBIA TO PURCHASE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT FROM CHINA Global Times (September 11) recently reported that, according to the Defense Ministry of Serbia, Serbia will purchase armed unmanned aircraft from China. This was announced after a Chinese military delegation visited Serbia.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-IRAN: STRATEGIC OIL PURCHASE AGREEMENT The Petroleum Economist disclosed (September 3) that Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif visited his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at the end of August 2019 to present a road map for the China-Iran comprehensive strategic partnership, which was signed in 2016.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-US: FEDEX PILOT DETAINED IN GUANGZHOU FOR CARRYING AI-GUN PELLETS A FedEx Corp. pilot, who is an American citizen, was temporarily detained in Guangzhou after authorities found hundreds of air-gun pellets in his luggage prior to boarding a commercial flight to Hong Kong, marking the delivery firm’s latest setback in the country.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S OVERSEAS ACQUISITIONS REGISTER DECLINE Nikkei Chinese Edition reported (September 5) from Hong Kong that, according to statistics provided by a U.S. market research leader, Chinese overseas acquisitions saw a significant decline in the first half of this year.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA RELEASES 10,000 TONS OF PORK FROM STRATEGIC RESERVE In a notice issued on September 17, the China Merchandise Reserve Management Center (CMRMC) announced it will release 10,000 metric tons of frozen pork from its national pork reserve through auction.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S PENSION FUND SHORT OF FUNDS As China tries to fill a pension shortfall, the government ordered SOEs to stop dragging their feet on the mandated transfer of equity to the national social security fund.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: OBJECTIVES OF NEW TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM OUTLINED BY CHINA'S STATE COUNCIL China's State Council and the CCP Central Committee released a new outline on September 19, stating that by 2035 China wants a transportation system that allows citizens to Commute within any metropolitan area in under one hour.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: YE JIANYING'S SON AND XI JINPING SUPPORTER, YE XUANPING DIED ON SEPTEMBER 17 Ye Xuanping, elder son of Ye Jianying, one of the ten founding Marshals of communist China, died on September 17 at the age of 95. Ye Jianying and his family were very close to that of Xi Zhongxun.
Sep 2019 |
QIU SHI REPUBLISHES XI JINPING'S SPEECH THAT POLITICAL SYSTEM OF ANOTHER COUNTRY WILL NOT WORK The Chinese Communist Party’s leading theoretical fortnightly Qiushi published (September 16) a speech that Chinese President Xi Jinping gave five years ago emphasising that copying the political system of another country will not work and will ruin China’s future.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING'S VISIT TO HENAN Xinhua (September 18) reported that during his tour of Henan province from September 16 to 18, Chinese President and CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping, accompanied by Secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee Wang Guosheng and Governor Chen Runer, visited Xinyang, Zhengzhou and other places to "deepen the revolutionary old areas, rural areas, enterprises, etc., on economic and social development" and “not forgetting the original heart.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-IRAN: CHINA PROPOSES US$ 400 BILLION CREDIT LINE FOR IRAN Iran.com reported (September 17) that Chairwoman of the Money and Capital Market Commission of Tehran’s Chamber of Commerce Farial Mostofi said on September 17 a US$ 400 billion credit line has been launched for trade between Iran and China. She added that the credit line has allowed Chinese investors to undertake projects in Iran without bidding.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-TECHNOLOGY: ESTONIA BANS HUAWEI'S 5G According to a September 13, article by Estonian news site Delfi, Paul Rikk, Estonia’s national cybersecurity policy director, said the country’s 5G network shouldn’t be equipped with Huawei equipment.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-U.S: UN DROPS REFERENCE TO BRI IN RESOLUTION ON AFGHANISTAN Associated Press (September 17) reported that the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a compromise resolution extending the U.N. political mission in Afghanistan, dropping a Chinese demand to include a reference to China’s $1 trillion “belt and road” initiative.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG'S 3-DAY VISIT (Sept 16-18, 2019) TO RUSSIA Xinhua reported (September 17) the arrival of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in St. Petersburg on September 16, for a three-day official visit to Russia. During the visit, Li Keqiang and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will co-chair the 24th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian heads of government.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA UNICOM ANNOUNCES 2 BILLION RMB CUMULATIVE INVESTMENT IN 200 BRI PROJECTS A Hong Kong news report (September 9) said that China Unicom Global Limited (CUG), the subsidiary of China Unicom, announced that it has invested a cumulative RMB 2 billion along the Belt and Road countries in 200 projects.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA CONTEMPLATING PORK IMPORTS AS PRICES CONTINUE TO RISE Caixin Daily reported (September 17) that China is contemplating increasing purchases of pork from overseas, including the U.S. and the EU, as the government grows increasingly concerned about soaring prices.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN CONTINUES China’s Caixin Daily (September 17) said that China's major economic indicators posted a worse-than-expected performance for August as growth of fixed-asset investment and value-added industrial output further slowed to multi-month, even multi-year, lows.
Sep 2019 |
UNITED FRONT WORK: WANG YANG ADDRESSES SYMPOSIUM ON UNITED FRONT HELD IN BEIJING ON SEPTEMBER 11 PBSC member and CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang delivered a speech at a united front symposium celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Approximately 160 united front representatives and heads of relevant departments at party and state organizations attended.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CPPCC CHAIRMAN WANG YANG INSPECTS RELIGIOUS WORK IN JIANGXI Xinhua (September 10) reported that Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) member and CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang conducted an inspection and research tour on religious work in Jiangxi Province.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-RUSSIA: COOPERATION IN S&T The South China Morning Post reported (August 28) that China and Russia are forging stronger ties in space technology.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-BRI: DIGITAL SILK ROAD PROJECT The database released by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) shows that Chinese entities have provided more than US$ 17 billion for Digital Silk Road projects completed since 2013.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PROTESTS CONTINUE AND PROTESTORS GET NEW ANTHEM The stand-off between the Beijing and its HKSAR government has recently got accentuated with the official China-owned 'China Daily' posting a notice on Facebook on September 10 morning warning that protestors in Hong Kong have decided on secret plans to escalate protests from September 11 with "massive" terrorist attacks including blowing up gas pipelines in Hong Kong and attacks on non-Cantonese speaking people.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-SPACE: SECOND LONG MARCH ROCKET LAUNCH NEXT YEAR Space News reported (September 11) Xing He, Executive Vice President of the China Great Wall Industry Corp., a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. as saying at the World Satellite Business Week conference (September 10) that China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. is likely to resume flights of its heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket this year.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-PLA: TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AS CHINA'S NEW CHAMPIONS OF AI According to the South China Morning Post (August 29) China has named Huawei Technologies and Hikvision Digital Technology as new national champions in artificial intelligence (AI).
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: CHINA NEDS TO REORIENT RELATIONS WITH OTHER NATIONS Asian-Pacific Security and Maritime Affairs published in June 2019 an article titled 'Trade and Science and Technology Wars and the “Paradigm Shift” in Sino-U. S. Relations' by Prof Zhu Feng, Dean at the Institute of International Relations at Nanjing University and Executive Director of the China South China Sea Research Center of Nanjing University.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-DIPLOMACY: YANG JIECHI'S ARTICLE IN QIU SHI Qiu Shi (Seeking Truth) in its issue 17/2019 published an article by Politburo member and Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office dated September 1, on “thoroughly studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy."
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-CANADA: CHINA DECLINES TO WARM TO CANADA'S NEW AMBASSADORIAL APPOINTMENT Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Shuang said (September 5) that “Relations between China and Canada have encountered serious difficulties, and the responsibility lies entirely with the Canadian side.”
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: SOLOMON ISLANDS TO SWITCH RECOGNITION TO PRC Reuters reported (September 5) that the Solomon Islands intends to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan and align itself with Beijing. The switch still needs to be formalized.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-US: TWO U.S. COMPANIES SUING TWO CHINESE COMPANIES FOR PATENT VIOLATIONS China’s vision of profiting from the driverless economy is being clouded by intellectual property debates, as two Chinese suppliers of a key self-driving technology are accused of stealing IP from a Silicon Valley company.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HKSAR CHIEF EXECUTIVE WITHDRAWS EXTRADITION BILL The day Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of HKSAR, withdrew (September 4) the Extradition Bill in an attempt calm the situation in Hongkong, the home of pro-democracy media tycoon and publisher of Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai was firebombed in the early hours of September 5.
Sep 2019 |
CHINESE SCIENTISTS TEST SATELLITE POSITIONING TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN WORK INDEPENDENTLY IN SPACE The South China Morning Post reported (August 23) that Chinese scientists have successfully tested a satellite positioning technology called pulsar navigation, catching up to the United States, which was the first to do so last year.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-S&T: CHINA'S VERSION OF GPS HAS MORE SATELLITES THAN U.S. ORIGINAL A Nikkei analysis (August 19) of satellite orbit data from leading U.S. receiver maker Trimble highlighted BeiDou's rapid growth. China launched 18 satellites for the system in 2018 alone.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-PLAN: NEW Type 075 Helicopter Ship Nears Completion The South China Morning Post (August 22) reported that pictures taken by Chinese military enthusiasts earlier this week appear to show that construction of China’s first Type 075 amphibious helicopter assault ship is moving quickly.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: SECURITY OF SCHOOL CHILDREN The Chinese Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Security held an urgent teleconference and ordered all schools nationwide to enhance safety measures on September 4, two days after eight pupils died in an attack at a school in Enshi, Hubei Province.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINA'S LEADERSHIP REVIEWING DEPENDENCY ON U.S. HI-TECH Mingpao (September 1) disclosed that the Chinese government is assessing the dependency level that Chinese domestic high-tech vendors have on U.S. technologies.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-INTERNAL: LEADERSHIP CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a speech (September 3) at the CCP CC's Central Party School in Beijing.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-AFRICA: ENHANCED TRADE The Africa China Research Initiative shows that Africa’s trade deficit with China was USD 27.91 billion in 2018, as trade between the two sides rose to USD 170 billion.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-JAPAN: JAPAN'S NATIONAL POLICE AGENCY SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN PRESENCE ON SENKAKU ISLANDS Japan Times (September 6) reported that Japan’s National Police Agency has in the 2020 budget requested a new unit dedicated to protecting the Senkaku Islands.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-CANADA: CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER ACCUSES CHINA OF USING ARBITRARY DETENTIONS FOR POLITICAL ENDS Speaking (September 5) to the Editorial Board of the Toronto Star, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Beijing of using “Using arbitrary detention as a tool to achieve political goals, international or domestic, is something that is of concern not just to Canada but to all our allies.”
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: AMERICAN COMPANY SUPPLYING TEAR GAS CANISTERS TO HONGKONG POLICE BuzzFeed News reported (September 7) that Nonlethal Technologies has been supplying hundreds of canisters of tear gas to Hongkong police.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINESE PROFESSOR SAYS HONGKONG PROTESTS INCLUDE ELEMENTS OF 'COLOUR REVOLUTION' Zhang Dinghuai, a Professor of Hong Kong and Macao Studies at Shenzhen University and a member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies, told the Strait Times (September 6) that common elements of colour revolutions include strong specific political demands, interference by external forces, attempts to motivate the public, social standoff and turmoil, huge pressure upon the authorities, and pursuit of power transfer through purportedly "nonviolent" approaches.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINA-US TRADE TALKS TO BE HELD IN EARLY OCTOBER Chinese and US negotiators agreed on September 5 to hold the 13th round of China-U.S. high-level economic and trade consultations in early October in Washington and maintain close communication before that.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-RARE EARTHS: CHINA REDUCES RESOURCE TAX ON HEAVY RARE EARTHS FROM 27 PERCENT TO 20 PERCENT China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has formalized a new law that reduces the resource tax on heavy rare earths from 27 percent to 20 percent, which Chinese analysts say is a move that shows China's resolve to support the industry's development amid a heated trade war.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: CHINA'S NEW SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION BOARD (STAR) REPORTED TO BE DOING WELL Qian Han, a Professor at the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University, in an article published by East Asia Forum claimed that China's official Science and Technology Innovation Board (STAR) launched on June 13, 2019, as part of its capital market reform, has been quite active since its debut on 22 July 2019.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-TIBET: TIBETAN MONK ARRESTED IN SEPTEMBER The ICT reported on August 6, 2019 that 36-year old Lobsang Dorje, a Tibetan monk from the influential Kirti monastery was sentenced to three years in prison on September 3 this week after being arrested in his room in mid-July 2018.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-PUBLIC SECURITY: SECURITY STEPPED UP IN SHANXI AND XINJIANG-UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION The head of the Shanxi Public Security Bureau issued (September 5) a "wartime" order banning alcohol consumption by all provincial PSB employees from September 15 to October 4, to ensure nothing goes wrong during the 70th anniversary celebration period around October 1.
Sep 2019 |
XINHUA REPORTS XI JINPING USES TERM Xinhua reported that in his speech to a training session for young leaders at the Central Party School on September 3, Chinese President and CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping spoke of the immense challenges facing the country and the Chinese Communist Party.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: POST IMPLYNG CRITICISM OF ABOLITION OF TERM LIMITS BARRED On August 22, as China marked the 115th birthday of Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader who led China into the reform era, a post sent to “People’s Reading” (人民阅读) and “People’s Daily Press” (人民日报出版社), both official WeChat public accounts operated by the People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, dealt with the now very sensitive issue of term limits for national leaders and reproduced a front-page article of the People's Daily captioned “Deng Xiaoping Abolishes the Lifelong Tenure System for Leaders” (邓小平废除领导职务终身制).
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-VIETNAM: CHINA THREATENS VIETNAM FOR EXCLUDING CHINA FROM ITS 5G ROLLOUT An article in China's official Global Times (August 28) said the Viettel Group, Vietnam's largest mobile telecom operator, has reportedly excluded China's Huawei from its 5G rollout.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-US: US DESTROYER CROSSES 12 NAUTICAL MILE RANGE OF YONGSHU REEF IN SOUTH CHINA SEA The South China Morning Post (August 28) reported that the US Navy Burke-class guided missile destroyer, Wayne E. Meye, with the DDG-108 sailed into the South China Sea, Yongshu Reef and Meiji breaking the 12-mile range of China's South Island Reef on August 28.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: PLA TROOPS ENTER HONGKONG APPARENTLY FOR 'TROOP ROTATION' Reports from Hongkong state that China rotated troops in its People’s Liberation Army garrison in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on August 28, days before protesters planned to hold a march calling for full democracy for the HKSAR.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-PLA: NATIONAL DAY PARADE WILL DISPLAY J-20s, YUN-20s, AND 16 DONGFENG 41 ICBMs Wang Xiaohui, Executive Deputy Director of the CCP CC Propaganda Department announced (August 29) that it will hold a conference to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, when CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping will deliver an "important" speech.
Sep 2019 |
CHINA-PAKISTAN: CMC VICE CHAIRMAN VISITING PAKISTAN The China-owned US-based news outlet Duowei News reported with the caption 'The situation in India and Pakistan is escalating.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-US: PROEST IN NEW YORK'S TIMES SQUARE IN SUPPORT OF HONGKONG The China Democracy Party and Falungong jointly staged a protest on August 18 in New York's Times Square in support of the protesters in Hongkong.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-NUCLEAR:CHINA BUILDING SMALL NUCLEAR REACTOR ON HAINAN ISLAND The state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said on July 18, that it has started construction of China's first demonstration SMR at the Changjiang nuclear facility in Hainan as part of efforts to diversify the nuclear sector.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-SOUTH KOREA: SOUTH KOREA SCRAPS INTELLIGENCE SHARING PACT WITH JAPAN At a time when China is becoming increasingly assertive, South Korea said (August 23) it will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, drawing a swift protest from Tokyo.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-JAPAN: NEGOTIATIONS FOR A TRADE AGREEMENT Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Beijing on August 22 to discuss a potential trade agreement between their countries.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-VIETNAM: CHINESE INVESTMENTS IN VIETNAM INCREASE During the first seven months of this year, pledges of foreign direct investment(FDI) in Vietnam from China jumped 134% to $2.48 billion, moving China up to the third-biggest FDI source from fifth in 2018, data from the Foreign Investment Agency of Vietnam showed. The FDI total reflects only investment commitments.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-ECONOMY: INVESTMENTS INTO CHINA FROM HONGKONG The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of Hong Kong Edward Yau said (August 23) the number of people visiting the Hongkong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has dipped in the last two months, taking a toll on its tourism and retail sectors.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA--TECH: HUAWEI FOUNDER SAYS ITS "DO OR DIE" TIME On August 20, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei put the company on a war footing in the face of mounting US pressure. On August 19, the US gave Huawei a 90-day reprieve to continue to do business with US clients, but also put 46 of the company’s affiliates on the Entity List.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-PLA: PLAAF Su-35s OF SOUTHERN THEATRE COMMAND AIR FORCE EXERCISE OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA The official China Pictorial disclosed on July 22, that pilots of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) have tested the sea warfare capabilities of their advanced Su-35 fighter jets over the South China Sea.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-PLA: CHINESE MILITARY ANALYST WARNS THAT NEW US MISSILE DEPLOYMENTS RENDER CHINA VULNERABLE In an article posted on Sina.com and published in the Global Times on August 8, retired PLA Lt. Gen. Wang Hongguang, who was formerly Deputy Commander of the Nanjing Military Region, commented on the United States announcement (August 2) that it has officially withdrawn from the "Guidelines on the Treaty" signed in 1987 with the Soviet Union.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-DEFENCE WHITE PAPER China’s Ministry of National Defense issued a 27,000 word, 6 chapter White Paper on July 24, 2019 released a white paper titled "China’s National Defense in the New Era," disclosing that, before 2017, its military spending accounted for 1.28 percent of its GDP and that from 2012 to 2017, China’s defense expenditure increased from US$98 billion to $152 billion.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: XI JINPING VISITS PLA MARTYRS CEMETERY WHILE INSPECTING GANSU PROVINCE Apparently underscoring his exhortation to the people to prepare for another 'Long March', while touring Gansu province on August 19, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a visit to the martyrs' cemetery of the West Route Army of Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in Zhangye.
Aug 2019 |
CHINESE AMBASSADOR ZHANG MING ASSERTS CHINA WAS "FIRST TO DISCOVER, NAME AND DEVELOP SOUTH CHINA" China Daily (August 23) published a Xinhua report of August 23 reporting the remarks made by China's Ambassador to the EU on August 22. He said 'A major power outside the region is trying to turn the South China Sea into an arena for major-power wrestling, which is the source of tensions in the region'.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-UK: UK EMBASSY STAFFER CHARGED BY BEIJING FOR SOLICITING PROSTITUTES UK Embassy staffer Simon Cheng was released by the Chinese authorities on August 24 after 15 days of detention. China's official Global Times reported on August 22 that a staffer at the British Consulate General in Hong Kong, who has been detained by police in the Luohu district of Shenzhen City, is being held for solicitation of prostitution.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-UK: UK EMBASSY STAFFER CHARGED BY BEIJING FOR SOLICITING PROSTITUTES UK Embassy staffer Simon Cheng was released by the Chinese authorities on August 24 after 15 days of detention. China's official Global Times reported on August 22 that a staffer at the British Consulate General in Hong Kong, who has been detained by police in the Luohu district of Shenzhen City, is being held for solicitation of prostitution.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-US: US NAVY SHIPS PASSES THROUGH TAIWAN STRAIT Commander Reann Mommsen, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, told Reuters (August 23) that the United States sent the 'Green Bay', an amphibious transport dock ship of the US Navy through the 122-mile wide Taiwan Strait on August 23.
Aug 2019 |
US CONGRESSMEN EXPRESS CONCERN AT WORD BANK FUNDING TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL PROJECTS IN XINJIANG On August 23, U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-MA) and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Chair and Cochair respectively of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), released a letter dated August 13 written by them to World Bank President David Malpass expressing concern and raising questions about a World Bank loan that funds technical and vocational training projects in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINA IMPOSES NEW TARIFFS IN CHINA-US TRADE WAR China’s State Council announced (August 23) that it will impose tariffs of 5% and 10% Chinese tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-UK: PROTEST AT VIOLENCE IN HONGKONG The HSBC Bank, Standard Chartered and Bank of East Asia on August 23 placed full page advertisements in the Wen Wei Po, Ta Kung Pao and Sing Tao Daily condemning the violence in HongKong and calling for a peaceful resolution.
Aug 2019 |
THE CHINESE EDITION OF GLOBAL TIMES PUBLISHED A LIST OF LEADERS INVOLVED IN THE PROTESTS IN HONGKONG Huanqiu (August 17) published an article that condemned a list of leaders of those in Hong Kong who have been involved in the protest against the proposed extradition bill and warned them not to use democracy as an excuse and not to portray students as victims.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: XI JINPING ORDERS 'STAND STILL' ON HONGKONG According to The Epoch Times, after the anti-extradition movement had continued for more than two months in Hong Kong, the CCP’s media repeatedly released the film, “A Large Number of Armed Police Convoys in Shenzhen” to intimidate protesters.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-PLA NAVY: INDIGENOUS AIRCRAFT CARRIER RETURNS TO DALIAN AFTER SEVENTH SEA TRIAL TEST On August 23, China’s first domestic aircraft carrier returned to Dalian shipyard after completing the seventh sea trial.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING INSPECTS AIR FORCE BASE IN GANSU Inspecting a PLAAF Base in Gansu on August 22, Chinese President Xi Jinping used a tele-conferencing facility at the combat command center, to inspect the troops including personnel at a radar station on a plateau over 3,600 meters above sea level and a transport and rescue regiment, and called on the air force to enhance its capability to win and greet the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) with great achievements.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG PROTESTERS CLAIM THEY ARE RECEIVING DEATH THREATS The Hongkong Free Press on August 16, reported that several Hongkong protesters had received death threats from anonymous persons.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-HONGKONG: GLOBAL TIMES CRITICISES AMAZON FOR "CHALLENGING" CHINA'S SOVEREIGNTY The nationalist official daily 'Global Times', on August 15, criticised Amazon for challenging China’s sovereignty by allowing the sale of T-shirts with slogans like “Free Hong Kong Democracy Now”, written in English, or “Go Hong Kong”, written in traditional Chinese characters.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-TAIWAN: US SECRETARY OF STATE APPROVES SALE OF 66 F-16 JETS TO TAIWAN The State Department told Congress on August 15 night, right after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had signed a memo approving the $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-US: US PLACES 4 CHINESE NUCLEAR ENTITIES ON BLACKLIST On August 14, the U.S. added four Chinese nuclear entities to a trade blacklist, accusing them of helping to acquire advanced U.S. technology for military use in China.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-PLAAF: CHINA'S H-6 STRATEGIC BOMBERS LIKELY TO BE ARMED WITH HYPERSONIC WEAPONS Reporting an exercise in March by 12 H-6 strategic bombers, the official Global Times (August 6) disclosed that the main mission objective of China's H-6K bomber is to strike key strategic points deep within enemy territories.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-PLAAF: FIFTH GENERATION STEALTH J-20 FIGHTER JETS ALLOTTED TO FRONTLINE BRIGADES The Diplomat (August 16) published an analysis that a recent officially released photo of China's 5th generation fighter J-20 with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) bore a serial number indicating it belonged to a frontline combat unit.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ANTI-CORRUPTION Caixin (August 16) quoted state-owned China Central Television as reporting that Xing Yun, former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Inner Mongolia, was charged with corruption.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-INDIA: CHINA REACTION TO INDIA'S ABOLITION OF ARTICLE 370 FROM J&K China's official news agency Xinhua on August 6, reported the abolition of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution "which guarantees a "special status" to Indian-controlled Kashmir" and claimed "as soon as the proposal was made, there was a pandemonium in the house."
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-US: CHINA REACTS TO US REMARK ABOUT DEPLOYING INTERMEDIATE RANGE MISSILES IN ASIA-PACIFIC The Director of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Arms Control Department, Fu Cong, said on August 6, that China “will not stand idly by” and will take countermeasures if the U.S. deploys intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region.
Aug 2019 |
CHINA-US: US TREASURY DEPARTMENT DETERMINES CHINA IS A CURRENCY MANIPULATOR A notification issued by the US Treasury Department on August 6, stated that "under Section 3004 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, US Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin, under the auspices of President Trump, has today determined that China is a Currency Manipulator."
Aug 2019 |