Tension Between China and Taiwan
The Chinese city of Shanghai, the country’s economic centre and a global trade hub, has eased Covid curbs after a two-month lockdown.
At midnight local time (16:00 GMT Tuesday), restrictions were relaxed to allow most people to move freely around the city of some 25 million people. YahooNews
China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has stepped up its military maneuvers around the island over the past two years or so, as it seeks to pressure Taipei to accept its sovereignty claims. MSN
Since China began market reforms in the late 1970s, its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has rooted its legitimacy in improving livelihoods. But over the last two years, President Xi Jinping has seized on China’s success conquering the virus as proof of the superiority of its political system over the West. MSN
I wonder if Secretary of State Antony Blinken is thinking of resigning soon. How else to explain the long, rambling speech on China he recently delivered full of phrases like “competition need not lead to conflict.” Fox News
Tsai has not offered details regarding the upcoming cooperation, but previous reports suggest the Taiwan military may link with the Hawaii National Guard. Tsai made the announcement during a meeting in Taipei with Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. Fox News
The research team compiled daily data over a 120-day period on 12 terms related to Xinjiang and COVID-19 from five different sources: Google Search; Google News; Bing Search; Bing News; and YouTube, which Google owns. cyberscoop
At least one Chinese state-backed news outlet appeared in the top 10 results in 88% of searches, the researchers found. On YouTube, state media appeared even more often, showing up in 98% of searches.
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Is US losing its grip on Asia? Or is China losing its grip on Asia? U.S. launched the IPEF to avoid a new world order led by China! Pascal Coppens
“China is an authoritarian country and they do business in a very different philosophy,” Wu told The Jerusalem Post in a video interview from his office in Taipei. “Sometimes they use trade as a weapon, and we have seen them practicing their weaponized trade relations with many other countries. The Jerusalem Post
Khan’s anti-American pitch marks the lowest ebb in U.S. relations with a country that used to be one of Washington’s strongest allies and a trusted Cold War partner. The decline of American influence in this South Asian country has been precipitated by the end of America’s Afghanistan campaign,… TIME
Jerusalem Post editor Yaakov Katz said he received a call from the Chinese embassy in Israel, insisting that his outlet take down the interview. In the interview, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned of the threat posed by China’s authoritarian regime. FoxNews
“Didn’t take long. Got call from Chinese embassy. Apparently, I’m supposed to take down the story or they will sever ties with the @Jerusalem_Post and downgrade relations with the State of Israel,” Katz tweeted shortly after the article was published. “Needless to say, story ain’t going anywhere.”
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