South Korea’s military said it scrambled fighter jets as two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its air defence zone. The Chinese H-6 bombers entered and left the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (Kadiz) off South Korea’s southern and north-east coasts repeatedly from about 5.50am local time on Wednesday, Seoul’s joint chiefs of staff (JCS) said. They re-entered the zone hours later from the Sea of Japan, known in Korea as the East Sea, accompanied by Russian warplanes, including TU-95 bombers and SU-35 fighter jets, the JCS said. “Our military…
Month: November 2022
China Covid: Unrest continues in Guangzhou as lockdown anger grows
The latest unrest follows a wave of protest in China over the weekend, triggered by a fire in a high-rise block in the western Xinjiang region that killed 10 people on Thursday. Many Chinese believe long-running Covid restrictions in the city contributed to the deaths, although the authorities deny this. BBC
Biden Hails Semiconductor Plant as ‘Game Changer’ for American Manufacturing
Bay City, Michigan — President Joe Biden on Tuesday toured a $300 million semiconductor manufacturing facility in Michigan that aims to create 150 jobs and said the U.S. was “not going to be held hostage anymore” by countries like China that dominate the industry. “Instead of relying on chips made overseas in places like China, the supply chain for those chips will be here in America,” Biden said to a crowd of more than 400 people who gathered to see him at an SK Siltron CSS facility in Bay City.…
Beijing Protesters Ridicule Claims of Foreign Hand in Protests
Washington — In one of several viral videos on social media, demonstrators in Beijing are seen ridiculing suggestions that “foreign forces” are to blame for protests sweeping China against the government’s zero-COVID policy. “Please, may I ask: did ‘foreign forces’ set the fire in Xinjiang?” one protester asks in reference to an apartment fire that killed at least 10 people amid reports they had been locked inside because of COVID-19 restrictions. “Did the bus in Guizhou get overturned by ‘foreign forces?’” the protester continues, referring to an incident in September…
US and Canada urge China not to harm zero-Covid protesters amid calls for ‘crackdown’
The US and Canada have urged China not to harm or intimidate protesters opposing Covid-19 lockdowns as police clashed with demonstrators and the country’s top security body called for a crackdown on “hostile forces”. Protesters scuffled with police in the southern Chinese megacity of Guangzhou late on Tuesday night, according to witnesses and footage. Security personnel in hazmat suits formed ranks shoulder-to-shoulder, taking cover under riot shields, to make their way down a street in the southern city’s Haizhu district as glass smashed around them, videos posted on social media…
Vietnamese authorities fear domino effect from China protests, observers say
Vietnam’s communist regime is being accused of limiting coverage of widespread protests in China because of fears of a knock-on effect in a country which has a track record of jailing activists and cracking down on dissent. Protests broke out in Chinese cities last week, with locals demonstrating against the country’s strict zero-COVID policies. They were triggered by widespread social media coverage of the deaths of 10 people in a Xinjiang region fire, trapped in a building that had been sealed off to prevent a pandemic. Protesters called for an…
China’s Deliberate Neglect Cause of Death of My Aunt and Her Four Children: Uyghur Relative
WASHINGTON — Heyrinsahan Abdurahman is a 48-year-old Uyghur mother of seven children. As a single mother for the past five years, she lived with her four of her children at her flat on the 19th floor of a high-rise apartment building in the downtown Tianshan District in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in northwest China. When a fire broke out on the 15th floor on November 24, Abdurahman and her children, 13-year-old Shahide, 11-year-old Imran, 9-year-old Abdurahman and 5-year-old Nahdiye, were not able to escape and died, according to…
How far could China’s ‘zero Covid’ protests go?
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Anti-Government Protests Grow in China and Elsewhere While Technology Tries to Keep Up
washington — As protests continue in cities across China over the government’s harsh “zero-COVID” policy, a separate battle is taking place on social media sites within China and around the world; a fight that is testing the strength of China’s online censorship apparatus, known as the Great Firewall. Human Rights Watch China Director Sophie Richardson said Chinese officials appear to be resorting to “low-tech approaches” to tamp down online speech even as the protesters have become more adept at getting their messages past government censors. “Literally police stopping people on…
Top US envoy to China says zero-Covid restrictions block access to Americans, possibly violating agreement
Burns, who has served under six US presidents and nine secretaries of state, added that protests by Chinese people over the weekend speak to their frustration with the restrictions even as security has tightened over the past 48 hours in many Chinese cities. The Buffalo, New York native, said the US and China have many differences, whether over trade, technology, state controlled markets, defense and human rights, adding that the administration of President Joe Biden believes that the Chinese people have a right to protest peacefully and to be heard.…