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31 December 2021 - China Special Weapons News
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- China's Shaanxi reports 1,301 COVID-19 cases in latest resurgence People's Daily 31 Dec 2021 -- Northwest China's Shaanxi Province reported 165 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of local cases in the latest resurgence to 1,301.
- China orders resolute measures to contain COVID-19 resurgence in Xi'an People's Daily 31 Dec 2021 -- Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan has urged more resolute and decisive measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Xi'an, the capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, as soon as possible.
- Chinese mainland reports 166 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases People's Daily 31 Dec 2021 -- The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 166 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.
- Xi'an steps up anti-epidemic measures as COVID-19 cases top 1,100 People's Daily 31 Dec 2021 -- Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, reported 155 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of local cases to 1,117 in the latest resurgence since Dec. 9.
- Officials call for calm as groceries hard to come by in China's Xi'an Radio Free Asia 31 Dec 2021 -- Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Xi'an have called for calm, as many in the locked-down city of 13 million took to social media complaining that they were unable to get sufficient food supplies after being ordered to stay in their homes.
- Beijing Says 'Fundamental Solution' to Situations at Sea is End to US Drills in Chinese Waters Sputnik 31 Dec 2021 -- After a US attack submarine was severely damaged by an underwater collision in the South China Sea earlier this year, the Chinese government called the US "irresponsible," accusing it of a lack of transparency about what its sub was doing 7,000 miles from home.
- Aircraft carrier Liaoning wraps up open sea exercises and deals with foreign close-in reconnaissance Global Times 31 Dec 2021 -- The Liaoning aircraft carrier group of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on Thursday wrapped up real combat scenario open seas exercises with the flotilla conducting comprehensive confrontational drills in the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the West Pacific for 21 days, enhancing the combat capability of the carrier group as a system.
- Aircraft carrier Liaoning task group completes combat training in open sea PLA Daily 31 Dec 2021 -- The Chinese PLA Navy's aircraft carrier Liaoning taskforce group successfully completed its combat training in the open sea and returned to the home port in Qingdao on the morning of December 30. During the over-20-day training, the taskforce group sailed across the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, entered waters of the Western Pacific via the Miyako Strait , and conducted comprehensive exercises on multiple subjects, having effectively improved its joint combat capabilities.
- 12th Chinese peacekeeping medical contingent to S. Sudan all in place PLA Daily 31 Dec 2021 -- The 2nd echelon's 29 peacekeepers of the 12th Chinese peacekeeping medical contingent to South Sudan (Wau) arrived at the mission area on December 28 after a 14-day medical quarantine in Juba, capital of South Sudan. This also marked the full deployment of the 12th Chinese medical contingent which will begin its one-year peacekeeping mission.
- Full text: 2022 New Year address by President Xi Jinping PLA Daily 31 Dec 2021 -- On New Year's eve, President Xi Jinping delivered his 2022 New Year Address through China Media Group and the Internet. The following is the full text of the address:
- Xi hails 2021 as 'year of exceptional significance' and a 'resilient & dynamic China' on way to great rejuvenation in his new year speech Global Times 31 Dec 2021 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday night delivered his 2022 New Year Address, the ninth straight annual speech since 2014, in which he hailed the 2021 as a year of "exceptional significance." Xi thanked the hard work of countless unsung heroes, stressed China's all-round achievements and the determination of China's complete reunification, and called for global solidarity.
- Xi addresses 2022 New Year gathering of China's top political advisory body PLA Daily 31 Dec 2021 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday addressed a gathering organized by the country's top political advisory body to ring in the year 2022.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Regular Press Conference on December 31, 2021 PRC MofA 31 Dec 2021
- Taiwan sees rise in immigration from Hong Kong amid national security crackdown Radio Free Asia 31 Dec 2021 -- The democratic island of Taiwan is expecting a new wave of arrivals from the former British colony of Hong Kong, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is presiding over a city-wide crackdown on civil society, public dissent and political opposition under a draconian national security law.
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