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15 July 2021 - China Special Weapons News
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- China to provide vaccines, anti-epidemic supplies to help Indonesia fight virus resurgence Global Times 15 Jul 2021 -- China will provide Indonesia with COVID-19 vaccines and oxygen concentrators to help the country overcome its worsening coronavirus spike, and is willing to work with Indonesia to deepen vaccine research and development cooperation, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- Chinese mainland reports 5 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases People's Daily 15 Jul 2021 -- The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported five new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in Yunnan, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursday.
- Brazil approves phase-3 clinical trials of China-developed third vaccine Global Times 15 Jul 2021 -- Brazil's health authority has approved phase-III clinical trials for an inactivated vaccine developed by China, the third time a Chinese vaccine has been approved for such clinical trials in the country, following two others that were approved in April and July 2020.
- Malaysia to Stop Using Sinovac Vaccine, Will Switch to Pfizer Radio Free Asia 15 Jul 2021 -- Malaysia will stop using China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, the health minister said Thursday without specifying why, days after Thailand and Indonesia announced that many of their citizens would get a non-Sinovac booster jab if they had received the Chinese shot.
- FM urges India to avoid unilateral actions amid border hype Global Times 15 Jul 2021 -- Any unilateral action in sensitive, disputed areas along the China-India border should be restrained as last year's incident was already pulling China-India ties down, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, calling on more negotiations to solve possible incidents.
- US Firm Defends Report on Chinese Ships Dumping Sewage in Philippine Waters Radio Free Asia 15 Jul 2021 -- A U.S.-based geospatial imaging-analysis firm on Thursday defended its report alleging that anchored Chinese ships were dumping raw sewage in Philippine territorial reefs in the South China Sea, causing environmental destruction that could take decades to recover.
- Chinese FM condemns 'fabricated, malicious' report of US company accusing Chinese ships of dumping sewage in South China Sea Global Times 15 Jul 2021 -- The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned a so-called report released by a US imagery analysis company that accused Chinese ships of dumping sewage in the South China Sea, saying it was "fabricated" and "malicious."
- China ready to facilitate inter-Afghan talks in China at any time: Chinese FM Global Times 15 Jul 2021 -- China is ready to facilitate inter-Afghan negotiations in China at any time and contribute to the political settlement of the Afghan issue, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday in a meeting with Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
- US, DPP warned as military aircraft lands in Taipei Global Times 15 Jul 2021 -- The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) can expel, fire warning shots or even shoot down foreign military aircraft that trespass upon China's airspace, Chinese military observers warned Thursday, after a second US air force plane landed on the island of Taiwan in less than two months, which also triggered stern responses from the Chinese Defense Ministry and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
- PLA will defeat any attempt toward "Taiwan independence":Defense Spokesperson PLA Daily 15 Jul 2021 -- "Any foreign military aircraft are forbidden to land on China's territory without the approval of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and any unauthorized entry into China's territorial air space by foreign military vessels and aircraft will lead to serious consequences", said Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, in a written statement released Thursday on the official website of the ministry.
- Chinese Traders in Dire Straits Over Frozen Border Trade With North Korea Radio Free Asia 15 Jul 2021 -- China's exporters to North Korea are struggling under mounting debt as chemicals, medicines, and metal products ordered by their neighbor decay in warehouses awaiting the reopening of border that has been closed since early 2020 to fight the coronavirus, according to sources in the main Chinese border city.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Regular Press Conference on July 15, 2021 PRC MofA 15 Jul 2021
- Exclusive: Newly appointed Hong Kong second-in-command on ensuring only patriots will prevail through election reform Global Times 15 Jul 2021 -- Editor's Note:
- Commissioner's office of Chinese foreign ministry in HKSAR urges U.S. side to stop misleading political theater People's Daily 15 Jul 2021 -- The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday strongly disapproved and firmly opposed the remarks made by the U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price at a press briefing, which smeared the national security law in the HKSAR and the rule of law of Hong Kong, attacked the business environment of Hong Kong without justification, and grossly interfered in Hong Kong affairs and China's internal affairs at large.
- Press Freedom in Hong Kong Reeling Under National Security Law: Report Radio Free Asia 15 Jul 2021 -- Hong Kong's press freedom is 'in tatters', following the forced closure of the Apple Daily and the arrests of columnists under the national security law, the city's journalists' association said on Thursday.
- US Senate Passes Bill to Ban All Imports From China's Xinjiang Radio Free Asia 15 Jul 2021 -- The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that bans the import of products from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in the latest move by Washington to penalize Beijing for forced labor and other abuses it says constitute genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs.
- China to Hand Law Enforcement Powers to Local Officials Under 'Grid' System Radio Free Asia 15 Jul 2021 -- China will empower local officials at township, village, and neighborhood level to enforce the law under an amended administrative punishment law that took effect on Thursday, as well as operating a vastly extended "grid management" system of social control in rural and urban areas alike.
- Police in China's Sichuan Formally Arrest Veteran Rights Activist Radio Free Asia 15 Jul 2021 -- Authorities in the southwestern province of Sichuan have formally arrested a prominent rights activist on suspicion of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," a charge often used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), RFA has learned.
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