Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
05 February 2021 - China Special Weapons News
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- Chinese mainland reports single-digit daily COVID-19 cases 1st time in more than a month, 'likely to see zero increase by Spring Festival' Global Times 05 Feb 2021 -- China has brought down the number of daily domestic COVID-19 cases to a single digit on the mainland on Friday for the first time in more than a month since the latest sporadic outbreaks across the country, five days ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
- China to offer COVID-19 vaccines at fair, reasonable price: Chinese FM Global Times 05 Feb 2021 -- China will offer the world its COVID-19 vaccines at fair, reasonable prices, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- Chinese vaccines build solid wall of defense against COVID-19 People's Daily 05 Feb 2021 -- The inactivated COVID-19 vaccine produced by China National Biotec Group (CNBG), an affiliated company of Sinopharm, was approved by China's National Medical Products Administration on Dec. 30 last year.
- China donates COVID-19 vaccines to Iraq; Iran, Palestine receive 1st batch of Russian COVID-19 vaccines People's Daily 05 Feb 2021 -- China has donated 50,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Iraq, the Chinese embassy in Baghdad said on Thursday. Meanwhile, both Iran and Palestine received the first batch of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.
- Chinese mainland reports 6 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases People's Daily 05 Feb 2021 -- The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 20 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, including six locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said Friday.
- Cambodia to launch COVID-19 inoculation drive on Feb 10 with Chinese vaccines Global Times 05 Feb 2021 -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Friday that an inoculation drive against COVID-19 will start from Feb 10 after the first batch of China-donated Sinopharm vaccines is due to arrive in the kingdom on Sunday.
- Cambodia to launch COVID-19 inoculation drive on Feb. 10 with Chinese vaccines People's Daily 05 Feb 2021 -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Friday that an inoculation drive against COVID-19 will start from Feb. 10 after the first batch of China-donated Sinopharm vaccines is due to arrive in the kingdom on Sunday.
- China blasts US 'old trick' as first warship sails near Taiwan under Biden Press TV 05 Feb 2021 -- China has denounced the US sending of yet another warship through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, saying the new US administration was using an old trick of "mixed manipulation" of the situation to deliberately create tensions in the region.
- Britain Expels Three Purported Chinese Spies Who Pretended to Be Journos, Report Says Sputnik 05 Feb 2021 -- The Chinese nationals arrived in the UK last year, allegedly using employment at three different media outlets as a cloak for some other activities to be conducted on British soil.
- 7th Fleet Destroyer Conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation in South China Sea US Navy 05 Feb 2021 -- On Feb. 5 (local time) USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands, consistent with international law. This freedom of navigation operation ("FONOP") upheld the rights, freedoms and lawful uses of the sea recognized in international law by challenging the unlawful restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam and also by challenging China's claim to straight baselines enclosing the Paracel Islands.
- PLA expels trespassing US warship from Xisha Islands Global Times 05 Feb 2021 -- Growing up in the town of Beauty Point in northern Tasmania, Leading Seaman Jake Beams had big dreams of an exciting career and travelling the world.
- US Conducts 1st South China Sea Freedom of Navigation Op Under Biden Radio Free Asia 05 Feb 2021 -- The U.S. Navy completed on Friday its first freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea since President Joe Biden took office, a move criticized by the Chinese military as "seriously violating China's sovereignty and security."
- China warns off US destroyer trespassing in waters of Xisha Islands: PLA Spokesperson PLA Daily 05 Feb 2021 -- "On February 5, the US guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain trespassed into the waters adjacent to China's Xisha Islands without Chinese Government's permission, and the naval and aerial forces of the Chinese PLA Southern Theater Command conducted whole-process tracking and monitoring on the US destroyer and warned it off," said Air Force Senior Colonel Tian Junli, Spokesperson for the PLA Southern Theater Command, in a written statement on Friday.
- New energy microgrids provide power for border defense forces PLA Daily 05 Feb 2021 -- Recently, an off-grid new-energy microgrid that integrates wind energy, solar energy, diesel oil and battery storage systems has been completed in a border defense company assigned to the PLA Xinjiang Military Command stationed in Shenxianwan among the Karakorum Mountains, at an elevation of 5,380 meters. The stable, all-weather power supply will benefit troops' routine training, patrols and daily life.
- China successfully tests missile interception People's Daily 05 Feb 2021 -- China conducted a land-based, mid-course missile interception test on Thursday, the Defense Ministry said, noting the test had achieved its goals.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on February 5, 2021 PRC MofA 05 Feb 2021
- Secretary Blinken's Call with PRC Director Yang US Dept. of State 05 Feb 2021
- Biden appears more positive toward China, but still lacks clarity on policy Global Times 05 Feb 2021 -- US President Joe Biden said on Thursday US time that he remains prepared for cooperation with China in his first speech on foreign affairs at the Department of State after his inauguration, while also calling China the US' "most serious competitor." Chinese experts said this attitude is at least marginally more positive than the previous administration but a lack of clarity exists on how the US would like to cooperate.
- HKSAR gov't issues guidelines for schools on national security education People's Daily 05 Feb 2021 -- The Hong Kong Special Administrative (HKSAR) government's Education Bureau issued on Thursday circulars to schools in Hong Kong to provide guidelines on school administration and education in relation to safeguarding national security.
- Five Plead Guilty Over Massacre Vigil as Hong Kong to Bring Security Law to Schools Radio Free Asia 05 Feb 2021 -- Five Hong Kong democracy activists have said they plan to plead guilty to charges of "illegal assembly" after they attended a vigil in Victoria Park marking the 1989 Tiananmen massacre in June 2020.
- Rights Groups Call For Boycott of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Citing Worsening Abuses Radio Free Asia 05 Feb 2021 -- China's worsening rights record in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong has disqualified Beijing from hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, more than 180 rights groups and activists said in a letter sent to the International Olympic Committee this week.
- China's Wary Consumers May Slow Economic Growth Radio Free Asia 05 Feb 2021 -- China is counting on a double-digit surge in retail sales this year after a decline in 2020 raised doubts about official claims of economic growth.
- China Cracks Down on Site Offering Uncensored Foreign Media to Users Radio Free Asia 05 Feb 2021 -- Police in Shanghai have raided a popular video-sharing site that offered foreign films and TV shows to more than eight million registered users, cutting off a key source of uncensored content for Chinese viewers.
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