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Investigating the Wuhan Lab Leak

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Xi says China must tell world a happier story

President Xi Jinping said China must improve the way it tells its "stories" to a global audience as it seeks to develop an international voice that reflects its status on the world stage, official news agency Xinhua reported.Speaking at a Communist Party study meeting, Xi said it was crucial for China to improve its ability to spread its messages globally in order to present a "true, three-dimensional and comprehensive China", Xinhua said on Tuesday.China needed to develop an "international voice" to match its national strength and global status, Xinhua said, citing Xi. It also needed to strengthen propaganda efforts to help foreigners understand the Chinese Communist Party and the way it "strives for the happiness of the Chinese people".The country needed to create a team of professionals and adopt "precise communication methods" for different regions, he said.China's relationship with foreign media has become increasingly tense in recent years, with local news outlets such as the Global Times often singling out foreign reporters for what it says is biased and unfair coverage.Several journalists working for US news organisations were expelled last year as relations between the two sides deteriorated.Beijing has also banned BBC World News from mainland television networks following criticism of the British broadcaster's coverage of human rights in the northwestern region of Xinjiang as well as the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. (Reuters)

2021-06-02 08:37:42 (1)

Chinese elephant herd guzzle crops and wreak havoc

A herd of 15 wandering elephants on an epic trek through southwestern China have entered villages to gorge on crops, broken into barns and caused a million US dollars of losses. Over the past week, the animals drained a water tank, helped themselves to a corn field, and guzzled supplies after crashing into a barn, state broadcaster CCTV said. It is unclear why the wild Asian elephants, a protected species in China, strayed from the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Yunnan province. Their destination so far is unknown as well. But since April, the large animals have embarked on a 500 kilometre journey, closely monitored by residents and authorities, with hundreds of people mobilised to ensure public safety. On Tuesday, Yunnan authorities said the herd was in a city just 20km from its provincial capital where millions live. Experts believe the leader of the group might have led it astray, adding that it is rare for them to trek so far. Since mid-April, the elephants have wrecked around 56 hectares of crops, causing an estimated 6.8 million yuan (US$1.07 million) in losses, CCTV said. No casualties have been reported so far, with locals attempting to guide the animals with food and by blocking roads with trucks. The wild elephant population in Yunnan is around 300, up from 193 in the 1980s, reported Xinhua. But there have been more reports of such elephants wandering into villages and harming crops in recent years, with the plants they usually eat gradually replaced by non-edible varieties amid forest expansion, said local officials. (AFP)

2021-06-02 12:53:27 (1)

Military flight off Malaysia was 'routine training'

China said on Wednesday a flight by 16 military aircraft over hotly contested waters off Malaysia was routine training, after the Southeast Asian nation accused Beijing of breaching its sovereignty.Malaysia scrambled fighter jets on Monday to intercept the Chinese air force transport planes that appeared off Borneo over the South China Sea, where it has overlapping territorial claims with Beijing.The Malaysian foreign minister criticised the flight as an "intrusion" and said the government would lodge a protest with Beijing and summon the Chinese ambassador.But a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur said the "activities are routine flight training of the Chinese air force and do not target any country"."According to relevant international law, Chinese military aircraft enjoy the freedom of overflight in the relevant airspace," he said.The planes had not entered any other country's territorial airspace, the spokesman added in a statement.The aircraft came within 60 nautical miles (110 kilometres) of the Malaysian part of Borneo, and did not respond to attempts to contact them, prompting Malaysia to scramble jets, according to the country's air force.They turned back before entering Malaysian airspace over its territorial waters.But Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said they had entered the country's "maritime zone" – an area that extends much further from the coast – and described the incident as a "breach of the Malaysian airspace and sovereignty".China has laid claim to nearly all of the South China Sea and has built numerous military outposts on small islands and atolls, angering other countries with competing claims to the waters.Malaysia-China relations are usually warm but Monday's incident comes after a build-up in tensions over the sea, which is home to key shipping lanes and is believed to harbour rich oil and gas deposits. (AFP)

2021-06-02 14:56:56

China: First human case of H10N3 bird flu; Severe flooding in South China's Guangdong

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Samoa Suspends Beijing’s Port Plan;
Prime Minister-Elect: Samoa Has Long Owed China a Heavy Debt

Source: Stand News #May20

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Samoa Suspends Beijing’s Port Plan;
Prime Minister-Elect: Samoa Has Long Owed China a Heavy Debt

Fiame Naomi Mataafa, the Prime Minister-elect of Pacific Island Samoa, promised to suspend the port plan led by Beijing, costing about 100 million USD. She also pointed out that a small country with huge debts to China does not need such a large port.

Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mataafa defeated opponents last month, becoming the first woman prime minister in Samoa. She indicated that Samoa would keep a favourable relation with China, but there are more pressing issues to deal with at the moment. The port plan has already caused controversy in China and is one of the most influential issues in the local election in April.

Mataafa stated in a Reuters interview, “Samoa is a small country. Our seaports and airports cater for our needs. It's very difficult to imagine that we would need the scale that's being proposed under this particular project when there are more pressing projects that the government needs to give priority to.”.

Source: Stand News #May20

https://bit.ly/3vAxBnQ

#Samoa #Beijing #China #Debts #PacificIsland #Port #Mataafa #Reuters

Taiwan reports rise in domestic Covid infections

Taiwan reported a rise in domestic coronavirus infections on Wednesday after six days of falls, and unveiled details of a mass vaccination plan that aims to eventually cover 1.7 million people a week.After months of relative safety, Taiwan is battling a spike in community infections, placing curbs on gatherings and ordering entertainment venues closed, while urging people to stay at home as much as possible.Announcing 549 new infections, including 177 added to recent days' tallies in reflection of delays in reporting positive tests, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the trend was stable, although it was not falling.Cases rose rapidly in the past 24 hours in the capital, Taipei, and a neighbouring city, where infections are heavily concentrated, he added."It looks like it's not falling, and is sometimes still going up," Chen said. "As much as possible don't go out and wear a mask."Wednesday's infections were up from Tuesday's figure of 327 domestic cases.The economic ministry set limits on the numbers of visitors to wet markets, amid concerns that the shops of food and vegetable vendors could become virus hot spots.Taiwan has vaccinated just about 3 percent of its 23.5 million people, but has millions of shots on order and has begun preparing for a mass vaccination programme.Chen said he did not know which further vaccines might arrive before the end of the month, but warned a global supply shortage could be a concern.Authorities plan to eventually be able to vaccinate up to 1.7 million people a week, and are working to build a simple booking system with lots of vaccination sites, said Chuang Jen-hsiang, an official of the Taiwan Centres for Disease Control. (Reuters)

2021-06-02 15:24:44

(International reactions: Hungary)

https://twitter.com/krislc/status/1399981956088037386?s=20

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(International reactions: Hungary)

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Free Hong Kong: Budapest district renames streets in protest against Chinese university

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The new street names installed on Tuesday are a sign of opposition by Krisztina Baranyi, head of the capital’s Ferencváros district, where the construction is planned.

The row between the capital’s leadership and the government has been going on for more than a month after an investigation by Direkt36 revealed that Hungary’s executive plans to contract a Chinese company to build a new campus of Shanghai-based Fudan University in the city.

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The Fudan University campus would be built by a pre-approved Chinese construction firm, with Chinese workers and a €1.25 billion (HUF 450 billion) Chinese loan.

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Meanwhile, two-thirds of Hungarians reject the Budapest campus of Fudan University, of which a third are pro-government voters, the Republikon Institute has found. (Vlagyiszlav Makszimov | EURACTIV.com with Telex)

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Alberta orders major universities to suspend pursuit of new partnerships with China

Alberta has ordered its four major universities to suspend the pursuit of partnerships with individuals or organizations linked to the Chinese government or ruling Chinese Communist Party, citing concerns over national security and the risk that the research could be used to facilitate human-rights abuses.

The order affects the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge and Athabasca University, institutions with a strong research focus in the province.

Source: The Globe and Mail #May24

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-alberta-orders-major-universities-to-suspend-pursuit-of-new/

#Alberta #University #Partnerships #China

Russia, China sow disinformation to undermine trust in Western vaccines, EU report says

Russian and Chinese media are systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western COVID-19 vaccines in their latest disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing the West, a European Union report said on Wednesday.

From December to April, the two countries' state media outlets pushed fake news online in multiple languages sensationalizing vaccine safety concerns, making unfounded links between jabs and deaths in Europe and promoting Russian and Chinese vaccines as superior, the EU study said.

The Kremlin and Beijing deny all disinformation allegations by the EU, which produces regular reports and seeks to work with Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft to limit the spread of fake news.

Source: CP24 #Apr29

https://www.cp24.com/world/russia-china-sow-disinformation-to-undermine-trust-in-western-vaccines-eu-report-says-1.5406038

#Russia #China #EU #Covid19

Huawei to launch new mobile operating system

Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei will launch a homegrown new mobile operating system on Wednesday as it fights for survival in the smartphone arena after the United States blocked it from using Android. Huawei will unveil its first mobile devices loaded with the new Harmony OS in an online event broadcast from its headquarters in the southern city of Shenzhen beginning at 8 pm (1200 GMT). The development of Harmony OS has been closely watched by the tech world since Donald Trump's White House in 2018 began an aggressive campaign to short-circuit the global ambitions of Huawei, which Washington considers a potential Chinese espionage and cybersecurity threat. Aside from the geopolitics, no company has successfully taken on the mobile OS duopoly now dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS systems, a battleground littered with the likes of flame-outs including Blackberry, Microsoft's Windows Phone and the Amazon Fire device. Analysts say Huawei likewise faces a tough battle to carve out a sizeable share of the OS pie. The world's largest supplier of telecom base station equipment and other networking gear, Huawei entered the handset business in 2003, using Android. It became one of the world's three leading mobile phone manufacturers along with Samsung and Apple – briefly occupying the number one spot last year – driven by Chinese demand and sales in emerging markets. But the US sanctions, which include cutting the firm off from global component supply chains, have thrown its mobile phone segment into uncertainty. Analysts say Huawei's most immediate challenge is in apps – convincing enough developers to reprogramme their applications and other content to work with Harmony OS so that consumers will continue to buy Huawei phones. Being cut off from Android effectively prevents Huawei offering phone users popular features such as Google's browser, its maps function and a range of other top apps available through the system. Huawei's access to the chips required to make a smartphone has also been curtailed, and its shipments have fallen dramatically in recent quarters. Analysts say the apps conundrum should not be a problem in China. Huawei has a huge slice of the domestic market and its own menu of apps that are largely designed for Chinese users. But its global prospects may dim. "On content, when you're talking about the international market, you can't live without Google, you can't live without Amazon or YouTube. That will be challenging," said Elinor Leung, head of Asia internet and telecom research at CLSA. (AFP)

2021-06-02 16:21:27

A video showing Wuhan Lab scientists' lack of safety precautions is raising some eyebrows.

Dr Fauci’s emails have been released via a Freedom of Information Act request, and there is some pretty interesting stuff in them, particularly one email where a researcher who funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology thanks Fauci for public dismissing the lab leak theory early on during the pandemic.

https://summit.news/2021/06/02/email-researcher-who-funded-wuhan-lab-admitted-to-manipulating-coronaviruses-thanked-fauci-for-dismissing-lab-leak-theory/