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Expert Testifies in Hearing: #China likely to attack #Taiwan within five years
Source: Roll Call #Feb23
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Expert Testifies in Hearing: #China likely to attack #Taiwan within five years
//China's military modernization plus US failure to build robust coalitions to counter Beijing's regional aggression could lead to a Taiwan takeover
“Cross-strait deterrence is arguably weaker today than at any point since the Korean War,” said Oriana Skylar Mastro, a fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies who specializes in Chinese military policy. She was speaking at a virtual hearing Feb. 18 before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which was examining U.S. deterrence policies aimed at preventing a future attack on Taiwan by Beijing.
“Impressive military modernization on the part of China, U.S. failure to build robust coalitions to counter Chinese regional aggression, and [Chinese President] Xi Jinping’s personal ambition, all have coalesced to create a situation for Beijing in which the benefits of using force more and more are becoming so high that they outweigh the costs,” she continued.
“I believe the greatest threat now is that Beijing will launch a military operation to force ‘reunification,’ in their words, irrespective of Washington’s or Taipei’s policies or actions,” Mastro said. She added that Chinese military leaders have told her they believe Xi will conclude that the Chinese military will have the capability to occupy and seize Taiwan in a year or two even as some Western analysts predict that it is more likely five years or more from that goal.//
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https://www.rollcall.com/2021/02/23/china-likely-to-attack-taiwan-within-five-years-panel-told/
Source: Roll Call #Feb23
#USCongress #StanfordUniversity #Security
Expert Testifies in Hearing: #China likely to attack #Taiwan within five years
//China's military modernization plus US failure to build robust coalitions to counter Beijing's regional aggression could lead to a Taiwan takeover
“Cross-strait deterrence is arguably weaker today than at any point since the Korean War,” said Oriana Skylar Mastro, a fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies who specializes in Chinese military policy. She was speaking at a virtual hearing Feb. 18 before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which was examining U.S. deterrence policies aimed at preventing a future attack on Taiwan by Beijing.
“Impressive military modernization on the part of China, U.S. failure to build robust coalitions to counter Chinese regional aggression, and [Chinese President] Xi Jinping’s personal ambition, all have coalesced to create a situation for Beijing in which the benefits of using force more and more are becoming so high that they outweigh the costs,” she continued.
“I believe the greatest threat now is that Beijing will launch a military operation to force ‘reunification,’ in their words, irrespective of Washington’s or Taipei’s policies or actions,” Mastro said. She added that Chinese military leaders have told her they believe Xi will conclude that the Chinese military will have the capability to occupy and seize Taiwan in a year or two even as some Western analysts predict that it is more likely five years or more from that goal.//
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https://www.rollcall.com/2021/02/23/china-likely-to-attack-taiwan-within-five-years-panel-told/
Source: Roll Call #Feb23
#USCongress #StanfordUniversity #Security
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China likely to attack Taiwan within five years, panel told - Roll Call
China's military modernization plus U.S. failure to build robust coalitions to counter Beijing's regional aggression could lead to invasion.
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Indian pharma firms go local seeking to end reliance on China
Indian drug companies are looking to local makers of so-called active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) or trying to make them in-house in a bid to end their reliance on China as ties between the two countries soured after a deadly border clash last June.
Disruption to supplies from China due to the COVID-19 pandemic was also a major factor driving them to reduce reliance on China in the supply of API.
Executives at India’s Cadila Healthcare, Cipla, Sun Pharmaceutical and Biocon said they were aggressively working on reducing the dependence on the richer rival for raw materials.
Source: Reuters #Feb23
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-china/indian-pharma-firms-go-local-seeking-to-end-reliance-on-china-idUSKBN2AN124
#India #API #Pharmaceutical #Cipla #Cadila #Biocon #SunPharmaceutical
Indian drug companies are looking to local makers of so-called active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) or trying to make them in-house in a bid to end their reliance on China as ties between the two countries soured after a deadly border clash last June.
Disruption to supplies from China due to the COVID-19 pandemic was also a major factor driving them to reduce reliance on China in the supply of API.
Executives at India’s Cadila Healthcare, Cipla, Sun Pharmaceutical and Biocon said they were aggressively working on reducing the dependence on the richer rival for raw materials.
Source: Reuters #Feb23
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-china/indian-pharma-firms-go-local-seeking-to-end-reliance-on-china-idUSKBN2AN124
#India #API #Pharmaceutical #Cipla #Cadila #Biocon #SunPharmaceutical
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China Faces European Obstacles as Some Countries Heed U.S. Pressure
Some European countries are starting to block Chinese involvement in their economies, drawing closer to positions advocated by the U.S. amid growing anxiety in Europe over China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical posture.
Romania and Lithuania are taking broad measures to exclude Chinese companies from certain public procurements. Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Romania have suspended public tenders involving Chinese companies for work on nuclear-power plants, highways, rail lines, security scanners and a shipping-container terminal. Greece is debating whether to allow a Chinese shipping company to increase its majority stake in the country’s largest port.
The shift is largely taking place in smaller European countries, adding to tensions within the European Union, where big countries still largely favour maintaining business links with China.
Source: WSJ #Feb23
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-faces-european-obstacles-as-some-countries-heed-u-s-pressure-11614088843
#China #EastEurope #EU #ChineseInvestment #BRI
Some European countries are starting to block Chinese involvement in their economies, drawing closer to positions advocated by the U.S. amid growing anxiety in Europe over China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical posture.
Romania and Lithuania are taking broad measures to exclude Chinese companies from certain public procurements. Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Romania have suspended public tenders involving Chinese companies for work on nuclear-power plants, highways, rail lines, security scanners and a shipping-container terminal. Greece is debating whether to allow a Chinese shipping company to increase its majority stake in the country’s largest port.
The shift is largely taking place in smaller European countries, adding to tensions within the European Union, where big countries still largely favour maintaining business links with China.
Source: WSJ #Feb23
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-faces-european-obstacles-as-some-countries-heed-u-s-pressure-11614088843
#China #EastEurope #EU #ChineseInvestment #BRI
WSJ
China Faces European Obstacles as Some Countries Heed U.S. Pressure
Some European countries are starting to block Chinese involvement in their economies, drawing closer to positions advocated by the U.S. amid growing anxiety in Europe over China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical posture.
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China has tried to intimidate Hong Kong activists in Germany, Berlin says
China has tried to intimidate Hong Kong residents living in Germany since pro-democracy protests broke out in the city two years ago.
The letter to the head of parliament’s human rights committee mentioned the increasing attempts by Chinese state actors in Germany to influence public opinion in favour of the Chinese government since the start of the protests in Hong Kong. Also, it citied that the Chinese pro-government counter-demonstrators filmed and photographed participants “presumably for the purpose of intimidation” in the protest of supporting Hong Kong activists in Hamburg on Aug. 17, 2019.
Jensen, a member of the liberal FDP party said it was about time that the German government realised that actors for the Chinese government could pose a threat to exiled Hong Kongers.
Source: Reuters #Feb23
https://reut.rs/2ZGgUsC
#Germany #China #HongKongActivist #ChinaIntimidate
China has tried to intimidate Hong Kong residents living in Germany since pro-democracy protests broke out in the city two years ago.
The letter to the head of parliament’s human rights committee mentioned the increasing attempts by Chinese state actors in Germany to influence public opinion in favour of the Chinese government since the start of the protests in Hong Kong. Also, it citied that the Chinese pro-government counter-demonstrators filmed and photographed participants “presumably for the purpose of intimidation” in the protest of supporting Hong Kong activists in Hamburg on Aug. 17, 2019.
Jensen, a member of the liberal FDP party said it was about time that the German government realised that actors for the Chinese government could pose a threat to exiled Hong Kongers.
Source: Reuters #Feb23
https://reut.rs/2ZGgUsC
#Germany #China #HongKongActivist #ChinaIntimidate
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Can China Change the Definition of Human Rights?
A Chinese government official addressed for the first time at the 46th of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. The speech of Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister, included that Beijing’s attempt to remake the very concept of human rights to suit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) better.
The CCP has been accused of large-scale human rights abuse since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, including the crackdown in Tibet in 1959, the bloodshed of the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square massacre 1989 and ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.
Wang’s proposition of “people-centered” human rights posits “people’s sense of gains, happiness and security” as “the fundamental pursuit of human rights.” He reformulated human rights that economic prosperity and the nebulous concept of “happiness” replaced racial and gender equality or freedom of religion, and security.
Source: The Diplomat #Feb23
https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/can-china-change-the-definition-of-human-rights/
#UNHumanRightsCouncil #UnitedNations #ChinaRedefineHumanRights #China
A Chinese government official addressed for the first time at the 46th of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. The speech of Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister, included that Beijing’s attempt to remake the very concept of human rights to suit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) better.
The CCP has been accused of large-scale human rights abuse since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, including the crackdown in Tibet in 1959, the bloodshed of the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square massacre 1989 and ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.
Wang’s proposition of “people-centered” human rights posits “people’s sense of gains, happiness and security” as “the fundamental pursuit of human rights.” He reformulated human rights that economic prosperity and the nebulous concept of “happiness” replaced racial and gender equality or freedom of religion, and security.
Source: The Diplomat #Feb23
https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/can-china-change-the-definition-of-human-rights/
#UNHumanRightsCouncil #UnitedNations #ChinaRedefineHumanRights #China
The Diplomat
Can China Change the Definition of Human Rights?
In a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council, China’s foreign minister gave China’s preferred spin to the concept.
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Canadian school offering Nova Scotia diplomas operating in China’s fraught Xinjiang region
A Canadian school program has kept its doors open in China’s Xinjiang region for nearly a decade, collecting tuition and issuing Nova Scotia diplomas to students in the area where large numbers of local...
Source: TheGlobeAndMail #Feb23
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-canadian-school-offering-nova-scotia-diplomas-operating-in-chinas/
#Canadian #Nova #China #Xinjiang
A Canadian school program has kept its doors open in China’s Xinjiang region for nearly a decade, collecting tuition and issuing Nova Scotia diplomas to students in the area where large numbers of local...
Source: TheGlobeAndMail #Feb23
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-canadian-school-offering-nova-scotia-diplomas-operating-in-chinas/
#Canadian #Nova #China #Xinjiang