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Beijing jets approach as Taiwan remembers ex-leader
Taiwan's air force scrambled jets for a second consecutive day on Saturday as multiple mainland aircraft approached the island and crossed the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Strait, with the island's government urging Beijing to "pull back from the edge."Taiwan's Defence Ministry said 19 aircraft were involved, one more than in the previous day, with some crossing the Taiwan Strait midline and others flying into Taiwan's air defence identification zone off its southwest coast.It said Beijing sent 12 J-16 fighters, two J-10 fighters, two J-11 fighters, two H-6 bombers and one Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft. According to a map the ministry provided, none got close to the island of Taiwan itself or flew over it."ROCAF scrambled fighters, and deployed air defence missile system to monitor the activities," the ministry said in a tweet, referring to the Republic of China Air Force, the formal name of Taiwan's air force.Beijing had on Friday announced combat drills near the Taiwan Strait and denounced what it called collusion between the island and the United States.US Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach arrived in Taipei on Thursday for a three-day visit, the most senior State Department official to come to Taiwan in four decades, angering China.The latest flights came the same day Taiwan held a memorial service for former president Lee Teng-hui, dubbed "Mr Democracy" for ending autocratic rule in favour of free elections.Lee, who died in July, became Taiwan's first democratically elected president in March 1996 after eight months of intimidating war games and missile tests by Beijing in waters around the island.Those events brought the mainland and Taiwan to the verge of conflict, prompting the United States to send an aircraft carrier task force to the area in a warning to Beijing. (Reuters)
2020-09-19 13:48:53
Taiwan's air force scrambled jets for a second consecutive day on Saturday as multiple mainland aircraft approached the island and crossed the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Strait, with the island's government urging Beijing to "pull back from the edge."Taiwan's Defence Ministry said 19 aircraft were involved, one more than in the previous day, with some crossing the Taiwan Strait midline and others flying into Taiwan's air defence identification zone off its southwest coast.It said Beijing sent 12 J-16 fighters, two J-10 fighters, two J-11 fighters, two H-6 bombers and one Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft. According to a map the ministry provided, none got close to the island of Taiwan itself or flew over it."ROCAF scrambled fighters, and deployed air defence missile system to monitor the activities," the ministry said in a tweet, referring to the Republic of China Air Force, the formal name of Taiwan's air force.Beijing had on Friday announced combat drills near the Taiwan Strait and denounced what it called collusion between the island and the United States.US Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach arrived in Taipei on Thursday for a three-day visit, the most senior State Department official to come to Taiwan in four decades, angering China.The latest flights came the same day Taiwan held a memorial service for former president Lee Teng-hui, dubbed "Mr Democracy" for ending autocratic rule in favour of free elections.Lee, who died in July, became Taiwan's first democratically elected president in March 1996 after eight months of intimidating war games and missile tests by Beijing in waters around the island.Those events brought the mainland and Taiwan to the verge of conflict, prompting the United States to send an aircraft carrier task force to the area in a warning to Beijing. (Reuters)
2020-09-19 13:48:53
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Beijing hoses down its own vaccine propaganda
//mass vaccination would be unnecessary, as long as citizens keep wearing masks and maintain a safe distance from others in public venues.
//Beijing may have spread its propaganda too far and now must tell its people they would not need vaccines because their availability may not meet popular expectations.
//“Beijing may have realized that it can neither ensure absolute safety and effectiveness of its vaccines or ratchet up production in short order, so now it has to ask people like Gao to manage people’s expectations,”
//A colleague of Gao at CDC told state broadcaster China Central Television on Tuesday (September 15) that ordinary Chinese people can expect to get their shots as early as November.
//In August, Communist Party mouthpiece Guangming Daily quoted Liu Jingzhen, president of China National Pharmaceutical Crop (SinoPharm), as saying that the company, the largest state-owned drugmaker, could only turn out 200-300 million doses a year.
//That output will fall short of domestic demand, not to mention Beijing’s pledges to donate vaccines to several Southeast Asian and African nations.
//in August Xinhua said in a feature story that the nation’s annual output would hit a billion doses.
//Hong Kong’s government has unveiled a scheme to procure doses for twice the entire city’s population. The city has reportedly budgeted more than HK$8.4 billion ($1 billion) for no less than 16.5 million doses from a wide swath of suppliers across mainland China and the West.
Full article: Asia Times, (18-Sep)
#Vaccine #China #ChineseVaccine #Coronavirus
Beijing hoses down its own vaccine propaganda
//mass vaccination would be unnecessary, as long as citizens keep wearing masks and maintain a safe distance from others in public venues.
//Beijing may have spread its propaganda too far and now must tell its people they would not need vaccines because their availability may not meet popular expectations.
//“Beijing may have realized that it can neither ensure absolute safety and effectiveness of its vaccines or ratchet up production in short order, so now it has to ask people like Gao to manage people’s expectations,”
//A colleague of Gao at CDC told state broadcaster China Central Television on Tuesday (September 15) that ordinary Chinese people can expect to get their shots as early as November.
//In August, Communist Party mouthpiece Guangming Daily quoted Liu Jingzhen, president of China National Pharmaceutical Crop (SinoPharm), as saying that the company, the largest state-owned drugmaker, could only turn out 200-300 million doses a year.
//That output will fall short of domestic demand, not to mention Beijing’s pledges to donate vaccines to several Southeast Asian and African nations.
//in August Xinhua said in a feature story that the nation’s annual output would hit a billion doses.
//Hong Kong’s government has unveiled a scheme to procure doses for twice the entire city’s population. The city has reportedly budgeted more than HK$8.4 billion ($1 billion) for no less than 16.5 million doses from a wide swath of suppliers across mainland China and the West.
Full article: Asia Times, (18-Sep)
#Vaccine #China #ChineseVaccine #Coronavirus
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Beijing hoses down its own vaccine propaganda
Chinese public health officials and experts are split over whether the entire population should get at least one jab in the winter if local vaccines become available before a possible next resurgen…
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台灣軍方︰解放軍19架軍機上午飛越台海中線
台灣軍方表示，解放軍上午共有19架軍機，飛越台海中線，進入台灣西南及西北空域，台方軍機緊急升空作出廣播驅離，並以防空飛彈追蹤監控。台方表示，解放軍連續2天派出多架軍機飛越台海中線，嚴重破壞台海及區域和平穩定現狀，對此表達嚴正譴責，呼籲北京當局自制，懸崖勒馬，不要成為麻煩製造者，應該共同維護台海與印太區域和平與安全。
2020-09-19 14:01:53
台灣軍方表示，解放軍上午共有19架軍機，飛越台海中線，進入台灣西南及西北空域，台方軍機緊急升空作出廣播驅離，並以防空飛彈追蹤監控。台方表示，解放軍連續2天派出多架軍機飛越台海中線，嚴重破壞台海及區域和平穩定現狀，對此表達嚴正譴責，呼籲北京當局自制，懸崖勒馬，不要成為麻煩製造者，應該共同維護台海與印太區域和平與安全。
2020-09-19 14:01:53
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CCP announces plan to take control of China's private sector
//It had a long-winded title: "Opinion on Strengthening the United Front Work of the Private Economy in the New Era".
The ultimate goal is for the party to have ideological leadership of private enterprise.
//The statement seeks to improve CCP control over private enterprise and entrepreneurs through United Front Work “to better focus the wisdom and strengthen of the private businesspeople on the goal and mission to realise the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
//The party wants to see a "united front" between private enterprise and government business.
//private firms will need a certain amount of CCP registered employees, which is already a long-term practise in large private firms but not smaller ones.
//These cadres will make sure businesses follow the guiding ideology “Guided by Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.”
//They will also guide private business people to enhance the latest CCP catchphrases
Full article: Asiatimes, (17-Sep)
#CCP #China #privatesector #UnitedFrontWork
CCP announces plan to take control of China's private sector
//It had a long-winded title: "Opinion on Strengthening the United Front Work of the Private Economy in the New Era".
The ultimate goal is for the party to have ideological leadership of private enterprise.
//The statement seeks to improve CCP control over private enterprise and entrepreneurs through United Front Work “to better focus the wisdom and strengthen of the private businesspeople on the goal and mission to realise the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
//The party wants to see a "united front" between private enterprise and government business.
//private firms will need a certain amount of CCP registered employees, which is already a long-term practise in large private firms but not smaller ones.
//These cadres will make sure businesses follow the guiding ideology “Guided by Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.”
//They will also guide private business people to enhance the latest CCP catchphrases
Full article: Asiatimes, (17-Sep)
#CCP #China #privatesector #UnitedFrontWork
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PEN America Calls for Flagging US Films Piggybacked by Chinese Propagandists
Almost every six months, Americans are reminded once again of how communist China influences their popular culture. In Top Gun: Maverick, for example, the flag of the Republic of China on Tom Cruise’s jacket is made to disappear. But James Tager, author of a recent report on China’s cultural power published by the New York-based literary society PEN America, notes that Americans are apt to put behind China’s impact on the US cinema as irritated as they were at first.
In his report Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing, Tager points out that Beijing’s censorship works differently from that in the US, where sensitive material is simply cut out at the start of the editing process after the shooting is completed. With Chinese-style censorship, changes are, frustratingly, often not made clear at the outset and take place in the middle of the shooting. For the most part, though, it does not go as far as it did in MGM’s 2012 film Red Dawn, where digital technology had to be employed to change the Chinese villain into a North Korean in post-production.
But Tager adds that over time, writers and producers will start to engage in self-censorship. Seeing its futility, they will refrain from generating ideas, stories, or characters that break the rules. It is not easy to produce and distribute a film in Hollywood without taking into account the foreign market. Given also the plight the Wuhan virus pandemic has left the US in, the Chinese audience is increasingly important to American studios.
With a quota in place for foreign films distributed in China, competition among them is fierce. The last thing a studio wants is a potential mistake that leads to its production’s being kept out of release in China. It is unthinkable nowadays that a major studio would make a film like the 1997 thriller Red Corner, where a businessman, played by Richard Gere, is framed for murder by the Chinese Communist Party—let alone a film about pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong or China’s anti-Uyghur concentration camps. No studio would dare to take such a risk in face of the 1.4 billion Chinese consumers. It would be commercial suicide.
And not only does this shift prevents Chinese consumers from getting in touch with innovative ideas, but it also allows for a dictatorship to piggyback its propaganda onto American films. Take as an example the 2012 film Looper. Abe, the future leader of the killers played by Jeff Daniels, says to a younger killer, “I’m from the future; you should go to China.” The average viewer will not realize that this is propaganda, much less that it is a major victory for the Chinese government in its effort to increase its authority and elevate China’s status.
In view of this, Tager suggests putting a permanent label at the beginning of all films funded and, in turn, censored by China. It will serve as a warning that counteracts the brainwashing effect the film has on the audience—the same way the Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) rating, shown before every film, warns the audience of the film’s adult content and smoking scenes.
Source: Apple Daily #Aug29
#US #China #PENAmerica #Film #Culture #Propaganda #Diplomacy
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Almost every six months, Americans are reminded once again of how communist China influences their popular culture. In Top Gun: Maverick, for example, the flag of the Republic of China on Tom Cruise’s jacket is made to disappear. But James Tager, author of a recent report on China’s cultural power published by the New York-based literary society PEN America, notes that Americans are apt to put behind China’s impact on the US cinema as irritated as they were at first.
In his report Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing, Tager points out that Beijing’s censorship works differently from that in the US, where sensitive material is simply cut out at the start of the editing process after the shooting is completed. With Chinese-style censorship, changes are, frustratingly, often not made clear at the outset and take place in the middle of the shooting. For the most part, though, it does not go as far as it did in MGM’s 2012 film Red Dawn, where digital technology had to be employed to change the Chinese villain into a North Korean in post-production.
But Tager adds that over time, writers and producers will start to engage in self-censorship. Seeing its futility, they will refrain from generating ideas, stories, or characters that break the rules. It is not easy to produce and distribute a film in Hollywood without taking into account the foreign market. Given also the plight the Wuhan virus pandemic has left the US in, the Chinese audience is increasingly important to American studios.
With a quota in place for foreign films distributed in China, competition among them is fierce. The last thing a studio wants is a potential mistake that leads to its production’s being kept out of release in China. It is unthinkable nowadays that a major studio would make a film like the 1997 thriller Red Corner, where a businessman, played by Richard Gere, is framed for murder by the Chinese Communist Party—let alone a film about pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong or China’s anti-Uyghur concentration camps. No studio would dare to take such a risk in face of the 1.4 billion Chinese consumers. It would be commercial suicide.
And not only does this shift prevents Chinese consumers from getting in touch with innovative ideas, but it also allows for a dictatorship to piggyback its propaganda onto American films. Take as an example the 2012 film Looper. Abe, the future leader of the killers played by Jeff Daniels, says to a younger killer, “I’m from the future; you should go to China.” The average viewer will not realize that this is propaganda, much less that it is a major victory for the Chinese government in its effort to increase its authority and elevate China’s status.
In view of this, Tager suggests putting a permanent label at the beginning of all films funded and, in turn, censored by China. It will serve as a warning that counteracts the brainwashing effect the film has on the audience—the same way the Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) rating, shown before every film, warns the audience of the film’s adult content and smoking scenes.
Source: Apple Daily #Aug29
#US #China #PENAmerica #Film #Culture #Propaganda #Diplomacy
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China proposes Global Data Security Initiative, pledging not to monitor other countries and not to put "back doors" in their products.
According to the Chinese official media, Xinhua News Agency, its government presented the Global Data Security Initiatives (GDSI) at an international conference. Among the eight initiatives, there are calls to oppose the use of cyber technology to damage the infrastructure of other countries or steal important data; endanger the security of other countries; oppose the misuse of cyber technology to monitor other countries; collect personal data of citizens of other countries, and prohibit product and service providers from "installing backdoors in their provisions"; illegally obtaining user data, and controlling or manipulating user systems and equipment.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, China made the eight proposals at the "Seize the Digital Opportunity for Cooperative Development" conference in Beijing. Apart from the aforementioned initiatives, some other proposals include calling on countries to take a comprehensive and objective view on data security issues, opposing large-scale surveillance against other countries and not to request data located outside the country from enterprises or individuals without the permission of other countries' laws.
Source: Stand News #Sep08
#XinhuaNewsAgency #ChineseInternetTech #BackdoorTech
China proposes Global Data Security Initiative, pledging not to monitor other countries and not to put "back doors" in their products.
According to the Chinese official media, Xinhua News Agency, its government presented the Global Data Security Initiatives (GDSI) at an international conference. Among the eight initiatives, there are calls to oppose the use of cyber technology to damage the infrastructure of other countries or steal important data; endanger the security of other countries; oppose the misuse of cyber technology to monitor other countries; collect personal data of citizens of other countries, and prohibit product and service providers from "installing backdoors in their provisions"; illegally obtaining user data, and controlling or manipulating user systems and equipment.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, China made the eight proposals at the "Seize the Digital Opportunity for Cooperative Development" conference in Beijing. Apart from the aforementioned initiatives, some other proposals include calling on countries to take a comprehensive and objective view on data security issues, opposing large-scale surveillance against other countries and not to request data located outside the country from enterprises or individuals without the permission of other countries' laws.
Source: Stand News #Sep08
#XinhuaNewsAgency #ChineseInternetTech #BackdoorTech
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Galloway was pressed on whether "China is angry enough to react in a military fashion besides just exercises".
He responded: "I suspect they are. They are at the end of their tether.
"They cannot be expected to accept slow strangulation attempts by the US. While Chinese patience is legendary, I suspect the time is running out."
Senior Col. Ren Guoqiang, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, warned the United States and Taiwan against what he called “collusion.”
He said: “Those who play with fire are bound to get burned."
Looks like “gorgeous George” isn’t happy to see China strangulated. Maybe he’s fine with China strangulating everyone else?
As for China’s threats, if the USA are playing with fire, it’s probably best the CCP stop pouring petrol on themselves.
The world has woken up to China’s bullying, it’s belligerency and it’s lack of humanity. Oh and it’s virus too!
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He responded: "I suspect they are. They are at the end of their tether.
"They cannot be expected to accept slow strangulation attempts by the US. While Chinese patience is legendary, I suspect the time is running out."
Senior Col. Ren Guoqiang, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, warned the United States and Taiwan against what he called “collusion.”
He said: “Those who play with fire are bound to get burned."
Looks like “gorgeous George” isn’t happy to see China strangulated. Maybe he’s fine with China strangulating everyone else?
As for China’s threats, if the USA are playing with fire, it’s probably best the CCP stop pouring petrol on themselves.
The world has woken up to China’s bullying, it’s belligerency and it’s lack of humanity. Oh and it’s virus too!
#ChinaIsAsshoe https://api.parler.com/l/5afdi
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