Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
28 April 2021 - China Special Weapons News
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- EU Blasts 'Manipulation' Of Vaccine Info by Russia, China RFE/RL 28 Apr 2021 -- The European Union says that China and Russia have intensified "state-sponsored disinformation" campaigns denigrating Western-developed COVID-19 vaccines while promoting their own.
- US 'recommendations' to WHO pushing back on frozen food hypothesis a political farce: Chinese FM Global Times 28 Apr 2021 -- The US' planned recommendations to the WHO urging more testing and pushing back on the idea that cold chain could spread coronavirus are a political farce with a preset outcome whose purpose is nothing more than to smear and suppress China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
- China pledges to deepen anti-pandemic cooperation with South Asian countries People's Daily 28 Apr 2021 -- Foreign ministers of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh on Tuesday agreed to deepen cooperation as South Asian countries are facing a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Over 235 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered across China People's Daily 28 Apr 2021 -- Nearly 235.98 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across China as of Tuesday, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.
- Hong Kong reports 7 new COVID-19 cases People's Daily 28 Apr 2021 -- Hong Kong's daily infections of COVID-19 remained single-digit growth on Wednesday, adding to signs that the virus spread has been largely curbed.
- Guangdong administers over 1 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses in a single day People's Daily 28 Apr 2021 -- Guangdong has become the first province in China to administer more than 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in a single day, local health authorities said on Wednesday.
- Hong Kong to relax COVID-19 control under "vaccine bubble" plan People's Daily 28 Apr 2021 -- Hong Kong will on Thursday launch a "vaccine bubble" plan that allows places like bars and eateries to reopen or have fewer restrictions, provided their staff and customers all taking vaccine jabs.
- Serbian president receives 2nd dose of Sinopharm vaccine People's Daily 28 Apr 2021 -- Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday received the second dose of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine here in southeastern Serbia and expressed gratitude to China and the Chinese people for "enormous support and help."
- Will Chinese Policies In Afghanistan Change After U.S. Military Pullout? RFE/RL Gandhara 28 Apr 2021 -- Afghan security forces broke up an alleged Chinese espionage ring in December that was operating in Kabul and trying to infiltrate terrorist networks in the country.
- Philippine Non-Military Agencies to Coordinate on Patrols in Disputed South China Sea Radio Free Asia 28 Apr 2021 -- The Philippines said Wednesday that non-military agencies were coordinating in deploying patrols to South China Sea waters which it claims, as Manila faces an unabated challenge from Chinese ships scattered within its exclusive economic zone.
- Birthday of Tibet's Panchen Lama Celebrated in Ladakh, Exile Seat in India Radio Free Asia 28 Apr 2021 -- Birthday celebrations for Tibet's Panchen Lama, who vanished into Chinese custody as a young boy in 1995, were held earlier this week in Ladakh and at Tashi Lhunpo monastery in South India, the now 32-year-old spiritual leader's monastic seat in exile.
- Mainland strives for peaceful reunification, will never allow secession: Taiwan Affairs Office Global Times 28 Apr 2021 -- The Chinese mainland is willing to strive for peaceful reunification with the utmost sincerity, but it will never tolerate Taiwan separatist forces and will never allow the tragedy of national secession to be repeated, said a spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on Wednesday, in response to a poll on the island showing that nearly 40 percent of the respondents agreed that "a war is inevitable" to solve the Taiwan question.
- Four Taiwanese, one Chinese acquitted in attempted espionage case CNA 28 Apr 2021 -- A Chinese man and four Taiwanese men accused of attempting to spy for China were acquitted in the Taipei District Court on Wednesday.
- Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Illegal Exports to Northwestern Polytechnical University US Dept. of Justice 28 Apr 2021 -- Defendant Conspired with Chinese Military University on the Department of Commerce's Entity List
- China's Liaoning aircraft carrier group crosses Miyako Strait, patrols Diaoyu Islands, 'warning to Japan' People's Daily 28 Apr 2021 -- The Liaoning aircraft carrier task group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy reportedly crossed the Miyako Strait again on Monday and sent an aircraft near the Diaoyu Islands on Tuesday, which Chinese experts said sends a warning to Japan amid the country's recent, repeated wrong statements on China's Diaoyu Islands. Similar PLA activities will likely become routine depending on China-Japan relations, experts said.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Regular Press Conference on April 28, 2021 PRC MofA 28 Apr 2021
- US only damages Africa's interests by seeking exclusivity on the continent: FM People's Daily 28 Apr 2021 -- The US should take practical actions to help African countries that are facing COVID-19 challenges and refrain from seeking exclusivity and competition with China on the continent, which would only sabotage the interests of African countries, China 's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
- Australian politicians hyping up war threats are real troublemakers: Chinese FM spokesperson Global Times 28 Apr 2021 -- Some Australian politicians, out of their personal interests, are eager to stir up confrontation and hype up war threats, which is extremely irresponsible and against the will of the people, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday, in response to the recent "drums of war" remarks made by Secretary of Australian Department of Home Affairs Michael Pezzullo.
- Is EU-China Investment Deal 'Dead as a Doornail'? VOA 28 Apr 2021 -- China may have sabotaged its own prospects for securing a sought-after investment agreement with the European Union when it penalized a long list of politicians, researchers and institutions – including a key member of Germany's Green Party – in response to recent EU sanctions.
- Germany's Merkel Presses Chinese Prime Minister on Human Rights VOA 28 Apr 2021 -- During a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a return to discussions on human rights, saying such consultations in the past have improved relations between their two nations.
- Hong Kong Could Impose Travel Bans on Passengers From Aug. 1 Radio Free Asia 28 Apr 2021 -- Hong Kong's government amended the city's immigration laws on Wednesday to enable security chiefs to ban passengers from taking any form of transport in or out of the city.
- China Set to Record First Fall in Population Since Great Famine Radio Free Asia 28 Apr 2021 -- China will record its first population decline since the disastrous Great Leap Forward policies of late supreme leader Mao Zedong brought widespread famine to the country, killing tens of millions of people, according to a report in the Financial Times.
- China Renews Crackdown on Online Feminist Groups VOA 28 Apr 2021 -- Beijing has shut down several feminist social media platforms, a sign that China is renewing its crackdown on what it considers radical women's groups.
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