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15 December 2021 - China Special Weapons News
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- China Promotes Vaccines Around the World, but Critics Point to Lower Efficacy VOA 15 Dec 2021 -- COVID-19 was first discovered in China, which became the first country to produce a vaccine. Sinovac and Sinopharm are China's leading vaccine makers, and both manufacture World Health Organization-approved COVID-19 vaccines.
- Sinovac booster shot shows 94% neutralization efficacy against Omicron: company Global Times 15 Dec 2021 -- The latest study shows a third shot of Chinese biotech firm Sinovac's inactivated vaccine can more than double the vaccine's neutralizing antibody positive rate against the Omicron variant, the Global Times learned from the company on Wednesday.
- Chinese mainland's second Omicron case imported from Canada Global Times 15 Dec 2021 -- The case of Omicron variant detected in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, was an imported case flying back from Canada on November 27, authorities in Shanghai revealed on Wednesday.
- Hong Kong reports 9th case of Omicron COVID-19 variant People's Daily 15 Dec 2021 -- Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) confirmed one additional case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
- East China city reports 39 new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases People's Daily 15 Dec 2021 -- An eastern Chinese city registered 39 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday amid the latest resurgence, local authorities said.
- Chinese mainland reports 50 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases People's Daily 15 Dec 2021 -- The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 50 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Wednesday.
- East China city reports 171 COVID-19 cases in latest resurgence People's Daily 15 Dec 2021 -- An eastern Chinese city has registered 171 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and one asymptomatic carrier, as of 8 p.m. Tuesday, in the latest COVID-19 resurgence since Dec. 7, local authorities said.
- China's Guangzhou reports Omicron COVID-19 variant case People's Daily 15 Dec 2021 -- The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has detected a COVID-19 case involving the Omicron coronavirus variant, local health authorities said at a press conference Tuesday.
- German warship enters South China Sea on 1st deployment to region in 20 years Radio Free Asia 15 Dec 2021 -- The frigate Bayern is sailing through the South China Sea as part of the first deployment of a German warship to the Indo-Pacific in almost 20 years.
- Report Indicates Greater Huawei Involvement in Surveillance VOA 15 Dec 2021 -- The Chinese telecom giant Huawei has consistently claimed it does not actively partner with the Chinese government in gathering intelligence on individuals within China, but a report by The Washington Post this week showing the company appears to have marketed surveillance technology to government customers calls the company's assertions into question.
- Maritime trade between North Korea and China picks up Radio Free Asia 15 Dec 2021 -- Maritime trade between North Korea and China appears to have resumed, with Chinese port cities in the northern Yellow Sea scrambling to hire enough workers to quickly load ships bound for North Korea after a nearly two-year cut-off in trade to fight the pandemic.
- PLA holds drills surrounding China's 2nd largest island to 'enhance combat preparedness' Global Times 15 Dec 2021 -- The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched on Wednesday a series of exercises in three different directions of Hainan Island, China's second largest island only behind the island of Taiwan, in a move analysts said aims to enhance the troops' joint combat preparedness in possible amphibious landing missions on islands.
- China's 39th naval escort taskforce completes escort mission PLA Daily 15 Dec 2021 -- The 39th Chinese naval escort taskforce has safely escorted a Qatari oil tanker, a Liberian cargo ship and Singaporean oil tanker to the designated waters in the Gulf of Aden on December 14, local time, completing the 1457th escort mission conducted by Chinese Navy in this area.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Regular Press Conference on December 15, 2021 PRC MofA 15 Dec 2021
- Chinese President Xi, Russia's Putin, Hold Video Meeting VOA 15 Dec 2021 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met Wednesday via video conference, stressing their strong alliance amid both countries' deteriorating relations with the west.
- Putin, Xi hail Russia-China relations as 'better than alliance' Press TV 15 Dec 2021 -- Presidents of Russia and China have hailed the relationship between their countries as better than "alliance," at a time of high tensions with the West.
- Russia, China Present Unified Front Amid Rising Tensions With West RFE/RL 15 Dec 2021 -- The leaders of Russia and China sought to display a unified front in the face of both countries' increasingly tense relations with the West, hailing their "model" relations during a video call on December 15.
- HK high court orders Jimmy Lai's Next Digital to wind up under company laws Global Times 15 Dec 2021 -- The High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday has ordered Next Digital, the parent company of Apple Daily, founded by jailed Hong Kong secessionist Jimmy Lai, must be wound up according to relevant company laws, after a petition was presented in September.
- US House passes measure clamping down on products from China's Xinjiang Press TV 15 Dec 2021 -- The US House of Representatives has passed legislation banning imports from China's Xinjiang region citing alleged human rights violations there.
- UK high court allows Uyghur forced labor case to proceed Radio Free Asia 15 Dec 2021 -- The High Court of England and Wales said on Wednesday that a Uyghur rights advocacy group could proceed with a case against U.K. authorities for permitting the importation of cotton goods produced with Uyghur forced labor in China.
- U.S. House Passes Bill To Block Chinese Imports Over Uyghur Abuses RFE/RL 15 Dec 2021 -- The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill to ensure imports from China's Xinjiang region are not made with forced labor due to concerns about human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority.
- US Poised to Become First Country to Ban Goods Made by Uyghur Slave Labor VOA 15 Dec 2021 -- The U.S. Congress moved one step closer this week to making the United States the first country to ban the import of goods produced by Uyghur slave labor.
- Charting the Future of China's Infrastructure Projects in Africa After a Decade of Lending VOA 15 Dec 2021 -- China is financing the construction of four coal-fired power plants in southern Africa, despite its climate pledge in September to quit supporting such infrastructure overseas. But the new facilities taking shape in South Africa and Zimbabwe are just a few of Beijing's massive investments in airports, railway lines and other national infrastructure on the African continent.
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