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Taiwan’s wax apples and sugar banned by China

23Sep

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Taiwan’s wax apples and sugar banned by China

Taipei: Taiwan’s sugar and wax apples banned by China recently are increasing the tension between the two governments. China announced that the products would be suspended from Monday, claiming quarantine pests were detected on multiple inspections, reports ABC News. The move follows a similar ban on pineapples earlier this year, prompting Taiwan to threaten to take mainland China to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the news channel reported. Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council told ABC News that the decision was made to protect agricultural production and ecological security. But Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council argues that "the ban is inconsistent with WTO and international trade regulations". Wu Muluan, a China scholar a

Protest in Tokyo to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

22Sep

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Protest in Tokyo to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Tokyo, Japan: The activists and the citizens from Tibet, Mongolia, Uyghurs, Hong Kong and Chinse are protesting in Tokyo against the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics Despite the city facing the impact of incoming typhoon Chanthu, nearly 40 Uyghurs, Tibetan, Mongolian, Hong Kong and Chinese dissident activists, supported by a few Japanese activists, marched through central Tokyo on Saturday.Carrying banners seeking the boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the activists urged the global community to note the human rights abuses by China in ethnic minority areas, as well as in Hong Kong. They claimed that the rest of the world needed to wake up to China’s violation of basic human rights and to refrain from rewarding China despite being aware of its activities. Comparing the 2022

Japan claimed the disputed land with China

21Sep

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Japan claimed the disputed land with China

Defence Minister of Japan has warned China over the penetration of Chinese in Japanese Land, Japan has also claimed it land and has strongly stated to protect it. Nobuo Kishi said the territories, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China, unquestionably belong to Japan and warned any provocation from Beijing will be fully matched. His warnings come as a new three-way nuclear submarine pact between the US, UK and Australia aimed at combatting China was unveiled, to the delight of Japan and Taiwan. 2 It has added state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jets and converted warships to aircraft carriers, while building new destroyers, submarines and missiles. Kishi: 'Against Chinese action to Senkaku Islands and other parts of the East China Sea... we have to demonstrate that t...

18Sep

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What ails the Chinese President?

China’s President Xi Jinping has not moved out of his country for the last 600 days now. Xi last went for a trip to Myanmar on January 18, 2020. This year he has attended more than a dozen meetings virtually. Recently, on September 09, 2021, he virtually attended a summit of leaders from BRICS nations. Besides, he has also had 60 telephonic calls with world leaders, including calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. As per Bloomberg’s report, Xi spoke with the US President Joe Biden by phone on September 10, 2021. These events have led to speculation on Chinese President’s health condition which is probably not allowing him to travel abroad and attend face to face meetings. In the past as well, there have b

China to regulate gamers and online tutorials

17Sep

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China to regulate gamers and online tutorials

Chinese Communist party do not leave anyone out of their control be it the students learning from online tutorials of people who loke playing games. On 6 September, Xi as chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) presided over a ceremony in Beijing promoting five members of the PLA, the world's largest military. The five lieutenant generals were promoted to general, the highest active-duty rank in the PLA. The newly minted generals are Wang Haijiang, Commander of the Western Theater Command; Lin Xiangyang, Commander of the Central Theater Command; Dong Jun, Commander of the PLA Navy; Chang Dingqiu, Commander of the PLA Air Force; and Xu Xueqiang, President of PLA National Defense University. The case of Wang Haijiang is an interesting one. Born in Sichuan in 1963, Wang to...

China bought YouTubers worldwide to praise itself in international front

16Sep

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China bought YouTubers worldwide to praise itself in international front

New Delhi: China has hired foreign youtubers to praise the policies of China and change the mindset of people towards China. They use the content which says good things about the country and criticises the critics of the same. YouTubers deny that they are paid and sponsored by the Chinese government. When asked about why they continue to defend China, most of the content creators state that they are on a self-appointed mission to debunk the ‘lies’ of the West and if Chinese media shares their content ‘there is no harm in it.’ But the connection between these so-called independent YouTubers with Chinese State media does not end at the state media just sharing their content, by their own admission these YouTubers have even collaborated with Chinese state media on multiple videos. “One

‘We left part of our soul there’: What soldiers turned political opponents agree on about Canada’s war in Afghanistan

14Sep

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‘We left part of our soul there’: What soldiers turned political opponents agree on about Canada’s war in Afghanistan

OTTAWA — As defence minister in the Liberal government, Harjit Sajjan insists Canada is doing all it can do rescue Afghans who fear for their lives. Conservative MP Alex Ruff insists he’s failed at every turn. It would be easy to peg their respective positions as partisan, except that their feelings are not just political but also personal: both are military veterans of the war in Afghanistan. So although they see the current crisis in that country — and Canada’s ongoing response — from different perspectives, what they’re feeling comes from the same place: they’re hurting. Sajjan and Ruff are but two of the 40,000 soldiers who fought for Canada in Afghanistan, and have watched in horror — although not surprise — as the Taliban have retaken control of the country with breathless speed s

Why a Hong Kong artist chose self-exile in Taiwan

13Sep

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Why a Hong Kong artist chose self-exile in Taiwan

Why a Hong Kong artist chose self-exile in Taiwan As China's crackdown on dissent gathered pace in Hong Kong, dissident artist Kacey Wong decided he had to leave. TAICHUNG, Taiwan: As he queued to board a flight out of Hong Kong to Taiwan last month, dissident artist Kacey Wong was painfully aware of the extra immigration officials brought in to scrutinise each departing passenger. Wong, 51, was one of the city's best-known provocateurs, an artist who specialised in satirising and criticising those in power. But as China's crackdown on dissent gathered pace in Hong Kong, he decided he had to leave. But would authorities let him go? Multiple dissidents have been arrested at the airport and Wong wondered if he too was on a watchlist, especially when a group of extra immigration officia...

Duterte daughter says has ‘running mate’ offers for poll

13Sep

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Duterte daughter says has ‘running mate’ offers for poll

Duterte daughter says has 'running mate' offers for poll Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte arrives with daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio to attend the enthronement ceremony of Japan's Emperor Naruhito in Tokyo on Oct 22, 2019. (Carl Court/Pool via Reuters) MANILA: Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte's daughter has named several politicians, including her father's closest aide and preferred successor, whom she said have offered to run with her in next year's presidential election. Sara Duterte-Carpio, mayor of Davao City, is leading opinion polls but has yet to disclose her political plans ahead of the October deadline to file for candidacy. Mrs Duterte-Carpio, 43, said on Facebook that lawmakers Sherwin Gatchalian and Christopher "Bong" Go had "personally expressed their offer to run as...

11Sep

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Virus cases pass 1 million

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha talks to a Covid patient via a telehealth system during his visit to 'Sanam Saeng Haeng Jai' field hospital in Samut Prakan province on Friday. The facility has 450 beds and uses robots to get food and medicines to patients. (Government House photo) There are several lessons the country must learn from the mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis after Thailand reached the grim milestone of more than one million accumulated cases on Friday, according to the president of the Rural Doctors Society. The first domestic case on Jan 12 last year was a 61-year Chinese woman from Wuhan where Covid-19 had first been detected the previous month. Then, the first Thai to test positive was on Jan 31 after a 50-year-old taxi driver drove an infected arrival from Wuhan to ho...