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22 February 2021 - China Special Weapons News
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- Carrie Lam takes 1st shot of Sinovac vaccine in live broadcast Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Carrie Lam and several secretaries including Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah (Secretary of Justice) and Matthew Cheung Kin-chung (Chief Secretary of Administration) took their first shot of the Chinese mainland-developed Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines in a live broadcast on Monday afternoon.
- China clears all COVID-19 medium and high risk areas Monday Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- China cleared all COVID-19 medium and high risk areas on Monday, after hard-hit Gaocheng district in Shijiazhuang city, Hebei Province, and the last COVID-19 medium risk zone in Northeast China's Heilongjiang were both downgraded to low risk on the same day.
- HKSAR chief executive, senior officials get vaccinated against COVID-19 People's Daily 22 Feb 2021 -- Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam and some senior officials of the HKSAR government on Monday received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of a mass rollout starting later this week.
- China's Jilin clears areas with medium COVID-19 risks People's Daily 22 Feb 2021 -- Tonghua City, northeast China's Jilin Province, announced Sunday its district of Dongchang had been downgraded to a low COVID-19 infection risk area.
- Chinese vaccines could be an option to diversify supplies amid India's emerging new COVID-19 strains Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- India is facing extremely severe COVID-19 infections, which required the country to adopt more draconian measures to curb further infections and launch rapid research on vaccine upgrades, Chinese experts said Monday after reports that a total of 240 new strains of COVID-19 have surfaced across India which saw a spike of infections since last week.
- 250k doses of Sinopharm vaccine to be sent to Iran: Spox IRNA 22 Feb 2021 -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday that some 250,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine are ready to be sent to Iran in coordination with Iranian Embassy in Beijing.
- Philippines approves emergency use of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the emergency use authorization (EUA) to China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines, FDA Director General Enrique Domingo said on Monday.
- India-China Border Disputes Persist Despite Troop Pullback VOA 22 Feb 2021 -- Artillery and tanks have rolled back, and Chinese and Indian soldiers have retreated from along the banks of Pangong Tso, a strategic Himalayan lake that straddles their border.
- China Faces Pushback After Adoption of Controversial Coast Guard Law Radio Free Asia 22 Feb 2021 -- A new law which authorizes the China Coast Guard (CCG) to use force in the South China Sea is drawing growing international criticism and some apparent pushback at sea from another claimant.
- Western Countries Send Ships to South China Sea in Pushback Against Beijing VOA 22 Feb 2021 -- Leaders as far away as Canada and Western Europe are sending navy ships to the contested South China Sea this year as pushback against Beijing, which they feel has gone too far and begun alarming their citizens, analysts in the region say.
- China urges US to return to JCPOA as only way out of nuclear impasse Press TV 22 Feb 2021 -- China's Foreign Ministry has called on the United States to rejoin a multilateral 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major world powers as the only way to end the current dead-end and resolve the standoff over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
- China's first carrier-based early warning plane continues flight tests: report Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- China's first domestically developed fixed-wing early warning aircraft capable of taking off and landing on aircraft carriers recently conducted another successful flight test, state media revealed for the first time on Sunday, and Chinese military experts said they expect the plane to operate on large aircraft carriers equipped with catapults.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on February 22, 2021 PRC MofA 22 Feb 2021
- China sends US further message, urges repair of ties Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- China has once again sent a clear and concrete message to the US, calling for bringing bilateral ties to the right track after US President Joe Biden failed to agree with allies at the G7 summit and Munich Security Conference on confronting China together, as State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at a forum held in Beijing on Monday, urged the new US administration to adjust its problematic policies on China "as soon as possible."
- China urges US to establish dialogue at all levels on broad range of fields, offers detailed suggestions on ties Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- China urged the US to establish dialogue mechanisms in various areas and at various levels and properly manage their differences, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday in a speech on how to bring China-US relations back to the right track, which analysts said shows China's sincerity and approach to restore ties with the US.
- China FM urges US to rewrite bilateral ties with clean slate Press TV 22 Feb 2021 -- Beijing has called on the administration of US President Joe Biden to work with China to reopen dialogue and restore bilateral relations that were badly damaged under his predecessor Donald Trump.
- Hong Kong Politicians 'Must Love The People's Republic of China,' Official Warns Radio Free Asia 22 Feb 2021 -- A top ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official in charge of Hong Kong has warned that only "patriots" will be allowed to hold public office in future, suggesting that the authorities are ruling out even a limited form of political opposition.
- Top official on HK affairs lays out fundamental standards for imminent electoral reforms in the city Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- China's top official on Hong Kong affairs urged Hong Kong to fully implement the political baseline of "patriots governing Hong Kong" by improving the electoral system to plug its loopholes to ensure that those who govern the city meet the relevant basic standards, including fully safeguarding sovereignty and national interests and never jeopardizing the socialist system led by the Communist Party of China (CPC).
- China to Cut 117 Seats In Lawmaking Body Tasked With Electing Hong Kong Chief Executive, Report Says Sputnik 22 Feb 2021 -- Chinese lawmakers will meet at an annual legislative session in early March, where legislators will vote on changes to the special administrative region's 1,200-member committee, reports revealed.
- Canadian Lawmakers Approve Motion Labeling Xinjiang Abuses 'Genocide' Radio Free Asia 22 Feb 2021 -- Canada's House of Commons on Monday passed a motion designating rights abuses in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) as genocide, making it the second nation to do so following the U.S. last month.
- Canadian Parliament Calls on Government to Declare China's Treatment of Uyghurs 'Genocide' Sputnik 22 Feb 2021 -- Canada's House of Commons adopted a non-binding motion calling on the Trudeau government to declare the actions of the Chinese authorities against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang province a genocide.
- China Denies Xinjiang Genocide Charges, Says Door Open To UN Monitors RFE/RL 22 Feb 2021 -- Beijing has rejected what it called "slanderous attacks" against China about living conditions for Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in its western region of Xinjiang.
- China rejects slander under the pretext of 'protecting human rights' and welcomes UN's High Commissioner to visit Xinjiang: FM Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday addressed the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council via video link, where he shared China's philosophy, practices, and experiences in human rights protection and put forward important views and propositions on global human rights governance on behalf of China, promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
- Gray Zone's reports of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang under threat of 'genocide' an outright lie: FM Global Times 22 Feb 2021 -- The claims by Grey Zone, an independent news website in the US, that "the Chinese government is committing genocide against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region" are an outright lie, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday. These reports also show that facts speak louder than words and justice is essentially in the eye of the beholder.
- China's Leaders Laud Mao Acolyte in Symbolic Attack on Reformer Deng Xiaoping Radio Free Asia 22 Feb 2021 -- The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) commemorated former premier Hua Guofeng at the weekend in a move that could indicate the party under general secretary Xi Jinping is continuing to model his leadership on that of Mao Zedong, analysts said.
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