Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
07 October 2021 - China Special Weapons News
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- Travel resumes from Northwest China's Xinjiang after Delta-related resurgence Global Times 07 Oct 2021 -- After being stranded for hours on the highways in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which saw a COVID-19 resurgence early this week, some tourists left in an orderly way starting on Thursday afternoon, those involved told the Global Times.
- Chinese mainland reports no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases People's Daily 07 Oct 2021 -- The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursday.
- Tibet's Exile Parliament Ends Oath-Taking Impasse Following Dalai Lama's Advice Radio Free Asia 07 Oct 2021 -- After four months of controversy over the seating of Tibet's exile parliament, all members of the parliament's 17th session will now take their oaths of office under the terms of Tibet's exile charter, following the intervention of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
- U.S. Secretary of State urges China to stop coercion aimed at Taiwan CNA 07 Oct 2021 -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged Beijing to cease pressure and coercion toward Taiwan, following record numbers of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) military sorties near the island.
- PLA presence around Taiwan 'targets secessionism, foreign forces' Global Times 07 Oct 2021 -- While the people of the Chinese mainland have been celebrating the October 1 National Day and enjoying the weeklong national holidays, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted massive military actions in the airspace near the island of Taiwan to deter secessionism and foreign forces, especially the US, who support the secessionist authorities in the island, and the latest remarks made by US senior officials and the secessionist Taiwan authorities showed that the tensions are unlikely to ease.
- Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China on Strengthening the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 07 Oct 2021
- US Spy Agency Pivots to Better Confront Beijing VOA 07 Oct 2021 -- The United States top spy agency is making changes in response to what it describes as an "an increasingly adversarial" government in Beijing.
- CIA launches group on China, scraps Trump-era Iran center Press TV 07 Oct 2021 -- The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says it has created a top-level working group on China as part of a broad US campaign focused on countering Beijing's growing influence across the Pacific and elsewhere in the world.
- CIA Launches China Mission Centre to Confront Beijing Sputnik 07 Oct 2021 -- The media first reported on the US foreign intelligence agency's aspirations to launch a separate China-focused department back in August. Up to now, the People's Republic of China was a part of the agency's "Mission Centre for East Asia and Pacific."
- Chinese University Blocks Off 'Democracy Wall' as Student Union Disbands Radio Free Asia 07 Oct 2021 -- Student union leaders at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) said they are disbanding the union, the latest in a line of civil society organizations to disappear amid a citywide crackdown on dissent under the national security law.
- Hong Kong Civil Society Keeps Shrinking VOA 07 Oct 2021 -- After a sweeping crackdown on pro-democracy opposition in Hong Kong that has seen dozens of activists arrested and jailed, authorities have firmly turned their attention to the city's civil society groups.
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