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11 May 2021 - China Special Weapons News
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- China benefiting from controlling COVID-19 with good practices: WHO expert People's Daily 11 May 2021 -- Most of China are enjoying the benefits of having effectively controlled COVID-19, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Monday.
- Hong Kong reports no local COVID-19 infection for 3 straight days People's Daily 11 May 2021 -- Hong Kong has seen zero local infection of COVID-19 for three consecutive days.
- Chinese mainland reports 14 new COVID-19 cases, all imported People's Daily 11 May 2021 -- The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 14 new COVID-19 cases, all of which were imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday.
- Civilian ship suspected of spying on China for the US military Global Times 11 May 2021 -- The US military apparently hired a mysterious Norwegian civilian ship for close reconnaissance in China, near the island of Taiwan, and in the South China Sea, analysts warned on Monday.
- PLA holds mock battle between carrier-borne, land-based aircraft over Yellow Sea Global Times 11 May 2021 -- The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently held a mock battle between a group of aircraft carrier-borne fighter jets and a land-based joint warplane formation, as the two sides became the whetstone for each other and honed the forces' capabilities in both countering and using aircraft carriers, experts said on Tuesday.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on May 11, 2021 PRC MofA 11 May 2021
- China deserves a voice, must speak up against US discourse hegemony: FM Global Times 11 May 2021 -- China deserves to have a voice on the global stage, and it must speak up against the US discourse hegemony that often serves to throw dirt on China, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday in response to a New York Times story that claimed that China is "using its money and power to create an alternative to a global news media dominated by outlets like the BBC and CNN."
- Chinese FM slams Copenhagen 'democracy summit' as political farce Global Times 11 May 2021 -- The so-called "democracy conference" held in Copenhagen, hosted by an organization known for spreading rumors and lies about China, is "a downright political farce" filled with ideological prejudices, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Tuesday.
- Beijing slams US hypocrisy in advocating rights of Muslims in China, killing them elsewhere Press TV 11 May 2021 -- China has blasted the United States' hypocrisy in advocating the rights of the Muslim minority in the western Chinese Xinjiang region even though it has killed more Muslims in wars and operations than any other country in the world.
- Bangladesh: Chinese Envoy's Warning Against Joining Quad 'Very Unfortunate' Radio Free Asia 11 May 2021 -- Bangladesh expressed anger on Tuesday over "very unfortunate" and "presumptuous" comments made by China's envoy a day earlier, when he warned Dhaka against participating in the United States-led Quadrilateral Security Dialogue on the Indo-Pacific region.
- China Deepens Its Balkans Ties Using Serbian Universities RFE/RL 11 May 2021 -- With a Chinese university project in Hungary drawing controversy over a lack of transparency and concerns about academic freedom, Beijing's influence in higher education in neighboring Serbia continues to grow.
- HKSAR to sign agreement with Shenzhen, allowing public servants to take temporary positions in mainland: Lam Global Times 11 May 2021 -- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government is planning to sign an agreement with the city of Shenzhen and South China's Guangdong Province that will allow civil servants in Hong Kong to take temporary positions in mainland administrative institutions, HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Monday night.
- No foreign interference able to undermine rule of law in Hong Kong People's Daily 11 May 2021 -- The rule of law is never to be played with, and those who go against the laws shall never escape punishment. The District Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) recently sentenced Joshua Wong Chi-fung, an instigator of the Hong Kong riots, as well as other three persons, four to ten months in jail for participating in an unauthorized assembly.
- China Pushes Back Over Scrutiny of Uyghur Rights at UN Event VOA 11 May 2021 -- China is urging U.N. member states not to attend a Wednesday meeting on the human rights of ethnic Uyghur Muslims that several Western countries and rights groups are hosting, calling it politically motivated and denying there is any problem in Xinjiang.
- China Population Growth Falls to Lowest Rate in Decades VOA 11 May 2021 -- China says its population grew to 1.41 billion in the decade ending in 2020, its lowest rate of growth since imposing a strict one child per family policy in the 1980s.
- China's demographic dividend persists to underpin economy despite shrinking workforce Global Times 11 May 2021 -- While Western media has been hyping how China's growing gray population will bring a looming economic crisis to the Communist Party of China, the fact that China's population dividend will pick up and sustain its rosy economic expansion may disappoint them.
- Family planning policy urged to lift as China's population grows slower with low birth rate Global Times 11 May 2021 -- China's once-a-decade census results were released Tuesday, signaling a critical turning point as the country's population ages rapidly while the overall growth rate slows, bucking a five-decade trend. The data will serve as an important reference for adjustments to China's population and economic policy planning, which could see the lifting of the national family planning policy, Chinese demographers said on Tuesday.
- China's fertility rate may become 'world's lowest' without strong intervention policy, India may overtake China by 2023: demographers Global Times 11 May 2021 -- China recorded 12 million births in 2020, marking a drop for the fourth consecutive year, while some Chinese demographers warned that China's number of newborns is likely to drop to below 10 million in a few years, and if no forceful intervention policy is introduced, China's fertility rate may become the lowest in the world.
- China has maintained population growth over past decade; labor force remains abundant People's Daily 11 May 2021 -- China's population continued to grow steadily over the last decade, and its labor force remains abundant, data from the latest official census shows.
- China's aging population a challenge, also an opportunity: official People's Daily 11 May 2021 -- China's increasing elderly population is both a challenge and an opportunity, said Ning Jizhe, head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), on Tuesday.
- China's Census Reveals Slowest Population Growth in Decades and Hints at Potential Crises Sputnik 11 May 2021 -- According to data released by the Chinese government, the once-in-a-decade census took place in late 2020, with seven million workers going from door-to-door to gather information on households.
- China Tries Online Activists Who Saved Censored Coronavirus Posts on Github Radio Free Asia 11 May 2021 -- Two Chinese activists who kept an online repository of banned articles on the coronavirus pandemic stood trial in Beijing on Tuesday, while a journalist was attacked by unidentified thugs in Hong Kong.
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