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Podcasts burst onto China youth scene

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Wikipedia wars: How Hongkongers and mainland Chinese are battling to set the narrative

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The people in the room seem perfectly ordinary, but the book they are reading is “Zhuan Falun.” It is a banned text in #China, where the artist resides.

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Taiwan companies 'signing deal' for BioNTech jabs

Taiwan's TSMC and Foxconn said on Sunday they were in the middle of the contract signing process to buy Covid-19 vaccines from Germany's BioNTech SE, part of a drawn out and highly politicised process for Taiwan to access the shot.Taiwan's government has tried for months to buy the vaccine directly from BioNTech and has blamed China, which claims the self-ruled island as its own territory, for nixing a deal the two sides were due to sign earlier this year. China denies the accusations.Last month, facing public pressure about the slow pace of Taiwan's inoculation programme, the government agreed to allow Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Taiwan's Foxconn , as well as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to negotiate on its behalf for the vaccines, which would be donated to Taiwan's government for distribution."There are multiple parties. We are in the middle of the contract signing process. We will make announcements once the process is completed," TSMC said a statement.Foxconn used almost exactly the same wording in a separate statement. Neither elaborated.Both companies are major Apple Inc suppliers.BioNTech and Fosun did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Gou's spokesperson said: "When there is further news, we will formally explain it to the outside world". She gave no details.Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Premier Su Tseng-chang would only say that talks for the vaccine were ongoing."Once there is an definite outcome, we'll naturally report it to everyone."A source briefed on the matter told Reuters that contract talks were "not yet 100 percent complete", while another source said while they were close to finalising the deal, uncertainties remained."It has become increasingly clear that it is not the Taiwan side who is complicating the signing of the contract," the second source said, referring to extra "obstacles" set up by Beijing.China's Taiwan Affairs Office did not answer calls seeking comment outside of business hours on Sunday.China's government has repeatedly said that if Taiwan wants the vaccine, it has to respect commercial rules and do it through the regional distributor Fosun.Germany's government has also been involved, saying it has been helping in the direct talks between Taiwan and BioNTech.Taiwan has millions of vaccines on order, mainly from AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, while the United States and Japan have together donated almost five million doses to the island to help speed up vaccinations.Around one-tenth of Taiwan's 23.5 million people have received at least one of the two-shot regimen, though Taiwan's own relatively small domestic coronavirus outbreak is now largely under control. (AFP)

2021-07-11 14:36:33

China vows retaliation after US blacklists companies

China on Sunday said it will take “necessary measures” to respond to the US blacklisting of Chinese companies over their alleged role in abuses of Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities.The Commerce Ministry said the US move constituted an “unreasonable suppression of Chinese enterprises and a serious breach of international economic and trade rules.”China will “take necessary measures to firmly safeguard Chinese companies’ legitimate rights and interests,” the ministry's statement said.No details were given, but China has denied allegations of arbitrary detention and forced labor in the far western region of Xinjiang and increasingly responded to sanctions against companies and officials with its own bans on visas and financial links.The US Commerce Department said in a statement Friday that the electronics and technology firms and other businesses helped enable “Beijing’s campaign of repression, mass detention and high-technology surveillance” against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.The penalties prohibit Americans from selling equipment or other goods to the firms. The United States has stepped up financial and trade penalties over China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, along with its crackdown on democracy in the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong.The Chinese government since 2017 has detained a million or more people in Xinjiang. Critics accuse China of operating forced labor camps and carrying out torture and coerced sterilization as it allegedly seeks to assimilate Muslim ethnic minority groups.The US Commerce Department said 14 companies were added to its Entity List over their dealings in Xinjiang, and another five for aiding China's armed forces.“The Department of Commerce remains firmly committed to taking strong, decisive action to target entities that are enabling human rights abuses in Xinjiang or that use U.S. technology to fuel China’s destabilizing military modernization efforts," Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a statement posted on the department's website. (AP)

2021-07-11 16:26:23