Month: November 2022

China looks to play key role in Indian Ocean development as New Delhi is snubbed for marine protection meeting

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It was attended by representatives from 17 states, including Indonesia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and three international organisations. 01:36 US joins high-altitude military exercise with India near its Himalayan border with China According to the Hindustan Times, India was not invited. The Maldives and Australia were invited but did not send government officials to the event, although groups or individuals from the two countries may have attended. Advertisement Discussions in the meeting addressed areas such as protection of the marine environment, the climate crisis and disaster and the Covid-19…

Chinese Astronauts Reach Tiangong Space Station

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Three Chinese astronauts arrived Wednesday at the country’s space station as part of a six-month mission that includes the station’s first in-orbit crew rotation. The astronauts are replacing three others who have been at the Tiangong station since early June. China docked the last of the station’s three modules earlier this month and astronauts are working on the final phases of the construction process. China plans to launch a powerful space telescope next year. Some information for this report came from The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. VOA

What It’s Like Inside One of China’s Protests

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China Protests Hit Guangzhou

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Police in southern China clashed with protesters late Tuesday in the latest in a string of demonstrations in recent days against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. Tuesday’s protests took place in Guangzhou, a manufacturing hub home to many migrant factory workers. Videos posted on social media showed security personnel wearing hazmat suits and carrying shields as they patrolled the streets. Riot police in personal protection suits (PPE) arrive during protests over coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China in this screen grab taken from a social media video released…

The Long Odds Facing China’s Protesters

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Still, without some of China’s elite breaking with Mr. Xi to support the protesters, William Hurst, a Northwestern University scholar, wrote on Twitter, “the most likely scenario I can see is that the protests fizzle out (as most such movements do in most countries).” Understand the Protests in China “Having erupted spontaneously in a short period,” predicted Mr. Hurst, who studies Chinese social movements, “they will fade away without reaching any climax or denouement.” Protests’ Waning Power Throughout most of the 20th century, mass protests seeking a change in government…

NLD’s Tun Tun Hein sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison

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Tun Tun Hein, a member of the Central Executive Committee of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of treason and rebellion. On top of a four-year term he received at the end of last year, the sentence takes his total prison time to 24-years.  The 73-year-old, who is also a former vice speaker of parliament’s lower house, was sentenced by Lashio Prison Court on Monday, under Section 122 of the Penal Code, a family member told RFA. He was also charged…

University Students Gather in Washington to Support Chinese Protesters

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Washington —  Students in Washington are gathering to support people in China who are protesting Beijing’s draconian “zero-COVID” policy. China’s lockdown protests began spreading following a deadly apartment fire last week in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi that killed at least 10. Reports that the victims were trapped inside because of zero-COVID policies sparked resistance in Xinjiang and later across the country. When asked by Reuters at the regular press conference whether China is considering ending the zero-COVID policy soon amid the protests, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, after a long pause,…

Protests Stretch China’s Censorship to Its Limits

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He too shared videos of the protest on WeChat, though he deleted them after 24 hours in an effort to evade the authorities, who had begun to go after some demonstrators. Though only up shortly, his videos changed the minds of two people he had thought would be unreceptive: his parents. “My parents, like many Chinese parents, used to think what I’m doing is meaningless and childish, but they have changed dramatically in the past two days,” Mr. Qu said. His parents now understand why he would participate in such…

Warning signs: inside the 2 December Guardian Weekly

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Discontent over China’s zero-Covid suppression policy came to a head last weekend in a series of unprecedented protests across the country. The civil disobedience – remarkable just for the fact it was happening at all in a state where such behaviour is rarely tolerated – seemed to have been smothered by police by the start of the week. Even so it revealed to the world signs of a hitherto unseen fracture in China’s totalitarian political system. The magazine’s cover design this week reflects the power of blank paper and the…

Chinese leadership mourns ‘insurmountable loss’ of Jiang Zemin as former president dies aged 96

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President Xi Jinping described Jiang as a “great Marxist”, a “socialist warrior” and an “outstanding leader” during a meeting with his Laotian counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith. 02:28 Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin dies at the age of 96 “We mourn Comrade Jiang Zemin in great grief,” he said, adding that the Communist Party will “transform our grief into power”. Advertisement Jiang was Shanghai party chief when he was given the party’s top job in June 1989, with Beijing in crisis mode after supreme leader Deng Xiaoping ordered a bloody crackdown on…