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Pompeo Raises Concerns on China’s Economic Expansion into Italy

The US state secretary Mike Pompeo has raised his concerns on China’s plan to expand its economic influence into Italy during his visit to the Mediterranean country.

Pompeo met with the Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio and co-hosted a press conference. At the meeting, Pompeo raised his concerns with Di Maio on the CCP’s attempt to leverage their economic strength in Italy to their strategic advantages. He also urged the Italian government to consider carefully the national security issues involved in the technology provided by tech companies associated with the CCP and the personal privacy risks it poses to Italian citizens.

Di Maio said Italy understood the US’ view and knew their concerns over the construction of 5G infrastructure in Italy. He also said he was fully aware of the responsibilities involved in handling safety issues and promised that he would stay alert as 5G technology is phased in.

#US #Italy #China #5G #Pompeo #LuigiDiMaio #Technology #Diplomacy

Source: RTHK #Sep30

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Series A Club in Italy - Kalidou Koulibaly asked for release of Uyghurs; Chinese Internet Troll: Wish Them All Have Broken Legs such Orangutan!

(02 Oct) China have crushed and persecuted millions of Uyghurs over many years, poor human rights reputation have already spread around the World, Mesut Ozil is blocked by the media in China due to his speech of criticising China persecuted Uyghur in the Twitter. His name could not be found in any press or report in China, superseding by “Number 10”. Last Thursday, Napoli’s defender Koulibaly Koulibaly posted in his Instagram for expressing his support for Uyghur who were detained in the Xinjiang Re-education Camps. However, his behaviour, again, was led to Chinese netizen leaving comment under his Instagram post, some even insult this defender of Napoli as “Oranguton”.

China was alleged to build Re-Education Camps in Xinjiang for the purpose to persuade Uyghur, which have been leading to many supports for Uyghur from SportStars. Time to express support from Koulibaly on Instagram: “Millions Uyghur Muslim are detained and tortured in concentration camps in China. Not for what they do, but for who they are. This is the largest scale of imprison in 21th Century, it must be ended!”

China netizens immediately attacked Koulibaly by leaving comments in his Instagram post:”an Orangutan have not yet evoluted”, “object with Cerebral Palsy broke your legs”, “You are also brain-washed by overseas media, innocent please don’t speak bullshit”. It is believed that media in China will use the same way to block this defender of Napoli, by naming him as “number 26”, after Koulibaly supporting Uyghur in Instagram.

Apart from Koulibaly, a football star from French, Franck Ribery, also publish relevant post in Instagram, to stand with Koulibaly for expressing their support for Uyghur. But Ribery expected the attack from Chinese netizen, so that he had closed the leaving comment function in advanced.

#FootballPlayers #Uyghur #InternetTroll #LittlePink #Italy

Source: Apple Daily

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#OpenLetter

Majority of tomato production around the world uses tomatoes from China

A recent investigation into tomato production chain revealed, with reference to the book <L’Empire de l’or rouge: Enquête mondiale sur la tomate d’industrie> written by Jean-Baptiste Malet, a French reporter, and a documentary <The Empire of Red Gold> from the story of the book, that many famous European tomato sauce brands are made with ingredients from China. Wuhan Pneumonia has engulfed the world. Prior to the pandemic, the effect of “One Belt One Road” had been surfaced with many ingredients and goods productions driven by Red (China), including tomato. Through the “One Belt One Road” exporting unfair and disqualified products, China is trying to control and swallow up human health and labor rights, leading the human kind to the hell.

2011, book author Malet discovered a tomato sauce manufacturer Le Cabanon in Provence, his hometown, was processing tomato paste in buckets marked with “Tomato Paste, by Xinjiang Chalkis Company, made in China”. This shocked Malet much because he had never imagined the tomato sauce made in a small town in south France, which he previously believed being made in France entirely, was manufactured by such semi-products from another corner of the world – China, a regime distancing far from tomato culture. Malet then visited America, France, Ghana and Italy for information re other brands.

Given the above, all ketchup used by McDonald should be from Xinjiang Chalkis Company, surely including the McDonald Hong Kong which is still owned by McDonald US for 20%, with the rest 80% held by CCP State-owned Enterprise.

#China #Tomato #Italy #TomatoProduction #McDonalds #Ketchup

Source: OKKPY Report
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Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Italy vetos 5G Deal between Fastweb and China’s Huawei: Sources

The government used its special vetting powers to block Fastweb from implementing the supply deal with Huawei in the most sensitive part of its fifth generation mobile network.

The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeii described a China noble telecoms technology as a threat to Italy’s national security while visiting in Italy in September.

Fastweb has picked Huawei as the sole supplier for its 5G core network. A source from government said that the government had vetoed the operation and asked Fastweb to diversify its suppliers.

Source: The Reuters #Oct23

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-italy-5g-idUSKBN2782A5

#Huawei #Italy #5G