Preparations for possible #military action in the Indo-Pacific is speeding up.

A key part of #Taiwan’s most advanced anti-ship #missile ended up in China for repairs. The island is immediately running security checks and scanning for data leaks.

https://ept.ms/ReadyingforWar

Xi calls for greater energy ties with Turkmenistan

President Xi Jinping said on Friday he wants more cooperation with Turkmenistan on energy, state media reported.Turkmenistan, a Central Asian nation of six million people, is China's single largest supplier of piped natural gas."Natural gas cooperation is the cornerstone of the China-Turkmenistan relationship," Xi told Turkmenistan's President Serdar Berdymukhamedov, who is in Beijing on a two-day visit.Mainland media reports of their meetings did not give any specific details of future energy cooperation between the two countries.Xi and Berdymukhamedov also discussed energy cooperation when they met last September on the sidelines of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Uzbekistan.China has been buying more Turkmen gas. For the first 11 months of 2022, China's imports of Turkmen gas were valued at US$9.3 billion, up from US$6.79 billion in the whole of 2021, according to mainland customs data.The mainland is estimated to have imported 23.03 million tonnes of gas from Turkmenistan in the first 11 months of 2022, according to Rystad Energy, equivalent to more than 50 percent of China's piped gas imports.Turkmen gas is pumped to as far as the nation's eastern coast via three trunklines spanning 1,833 kilometres and passing through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.Both countries are pushing ahead with a planned fourth pipeline – the 1,000-km D line which also links Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan – which will eventually lift the annual supply capacity from Central Asia to 85 billion cubic metres (bcm) a year from the current 55 bcm, state media reported.At Friday's meeting Xi and Berdymukhamedov agreed to elevate bilateral ties to a "comprehensive strategic partnership".This would place Turkmenistan in the same diplomatic category as about 30 other countries, including Saudi Arabia, Australia and Venezuela. (Reuters)

2023-01-06 17:47:15

A pattern is emerging from China’s sweeping #COVID19 infections—a “white lung” phenomenon, where patients’ lungs have turned white on CT scans. It indicates fluid and infection in the lungs, and is detrimental to a patient’s health.

https://ept.ms/DeadlyWhiteLungs

Taiwan Tightens Entry Rules in Response to China’s Unchecked Reopening of International Travel READ: https://www.theepochtimes.com/taiwan-tightens-entry-rules-in-response-to-chinas-unchecked-reopening-of-international-travel_4961300.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=USChinaWatch

China Waging Hybrid Unrestricted Warfare to Subvert US: Security Expert READ: https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-waging-hybrid-unrestricted-warfare-to-subvert-us-security-expert_4961325.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=USChinaWatch

Multinational Companies Accelerate Moving Production Out of China, Reshaping Global Supply Chains READ: https://www.theepochtimes.com/multinational-companies-accelerate-moving-production-out-of-china-reshaping-global-supply-chains_4963695.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=USChinaWatch

Chinese Regime Intends to Infect as Many People in China as Possible: Sources READ: https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-regime-intends-to-infect-as-many-people-as-possible-sources_4956422.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=USChinaWatch

Preparations for possible #military action in the Indo-Pacific is speeding up.

A key part of #Taiwan’s most advanced anti-ship #missile ended up in China for repairs. The island is immediately running security checks and scanning for data leaks.

https://ept.ms/ReadyingforWar

CCP Opens Pressure Valve on the Pandemic, Sends Flights Globally Amid Outbreak | CLIP

🔥Crossroads
👉 https://youtu.be/x0pn5Q_WnHw

The Chinese regime has a crisis on its hands as its 'Zero-Covid' policies have destabilized the country. However, #China has found ways in which to export its own crisis and use that to destabilize the West. #JoshuaPhilipp on China's strategy to save itself.
https://ept.ms/ChinasCrisisStrategy

Russian energy major Gazprom has reached a “fundamentally new level” of gas exports to China, the company’s CEO Aleksey Miller announced on Monday.

Over the past year, deliveries regularly exceeded contractual obligations, at Beijing’s request, Miller explained in a statement on the company’s Telegram channel.


China is taking all the gas Russia can produce.
Can we sanction the country you moved all our manufacturing to?
Would our china paid leaders even protest them doing this.

https://www.rt.com/business/569301-russia-new-level-gas-china/

China, #Taiwan, and the U.S. are boosting #MilitaryDefenses in preparations for possible military action. This comes as Beijing has been sending warplanes to fly near Taiwan almost daily.

https://ept.ms/ReadyingforWar

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned that over-reliance on Chinese products could “make us vulnerable”, and further called on the West to invest in #Security when trading with #China.

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#Hospitals are overflowing in China. Video shows patients outside the emergency room, in hallways, on stair landings, and even outside restrooms.

#Corpses on the ground, long service wait times, and obscuring cause of death—a father shares what he saw inside a Chinese #crematory.

https://ept.ms/1MDeathThisWinter

Italian Health Secretary: China Teaches the World What Not to Do in a Pandemic

Italian Health Minister Orazio Schillaci sharply criticised China's anti-pandemic measures in a presentation at the Italian Parliament on Thursday.

He said that China has taught a lesson to the world on what not to do when fighting against the virus. He calls on all countries to never use China-style measures to fight a virus.

Schillaci also indicates that no new variant was found from the import cases from China as of 30/12. However, Italy has to be aware of the risks posed by China's pandemic, but there is no need to panic.

The health minister also commented on the anti-pandemic policy of China, calling it an exercise in self-contradiction. He added that the recent situation in some Chinese mega-cities would be unacceptable in democratic countries.

#Italy #China #OrazioSchillaci #COVID19 #Pandemic #Lockdown #Democracy

Source: Europe Chinese #Dec30

http://europechinese.blogspot.com/2022/12/blog-post_99.html

Ant Group shake-up sees Jack Ma give up control

Tycoon Jack Ma will no longer control his financial technology business Ant Group, the company said in a statement announcing a shake-up in its shareholder voting rights on Saturday. The group also said it would add a fifth independent director to its board, giving independent members a majority, as part of efforts to improve corporate governance and "achieve long-term sustainable development".Analysts said the changes could be a step towards the group finally going public, two years after a blockbuster listing was cancelled."The adjustment will not affect the day-to-day operations of Ant Group," the company said in a statement."We will continue to serve the real economy by leveraging digital technology, implementing our sustainable development strategy, optimising our corporate governance, investing in cutting-edge technologies, and creating greater value for society."The company said Ma, who also heads ecommerce giant Alibaba, previously controlled 53.46 percent of its voting rights through two investment companies. The Reuters news agency said its calculations showed that Ma would control 6.2 percent of the shares after the adjustment.Ant Group called off a US$37 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2020.

2023-01-07 12:30:08

Australian Government Acknowledges Reports About China Lifting Coal Ban READ: https://www.theepochtimes.com/australian-government-acknowledges-reports-about-china-lifting-coal-ban_4965991.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=USChinaWatch

Taiwan Deploys Aircraft and Vessels After Spotting 17 Chinese Planes, 3 Ships READ: https://www.theepochtimes.com/taiwan-deploys-aircraft-and-vessels-after-spotting-17-chinese-planes-3-ships_4966426.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=USChinaWatch

CCP Wants to Infect the World as It Rejects International Travel Curbs, Conceals COVID Data: Gordon Chang READ: https://www.theepochtimes.com/ccp-wants-to-infect-the-world-as-it-rejects-china-travelers-check-amid-covid-data-doubts-gordon-chang_4966641.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=USChinaWatch

"As this disease…is ripping through #China, they are now opening up the doors to Chinese leaving the country for tourism. And they are not sharing sequencing." - China analyst Gordon Chang

Is the variant spreading in China Omicron? Or something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies?

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