Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
06 March 2022 - China Special Weapons News
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- Work starts on central govt-aided hospital in HK, response to COVID-19 outbreak Global Times 06 Mar 2022 -- On Sunday morning, the construction of a central government-aided hospital officially kicked off in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), which aims to contain the surging COVID-19 outbreak in the city.
- Confirmed cases across China exceed 100, strict dynamic zero-COVID approach 'still necessary' Global Times 06 Mar 2022 -- The Chinese National Health Commission announced on Sunday that as of the end of Saturday, 175 local cases had been reported during the latest sporadic outbreak, including 88 in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province. Experts noted that although the epidemic has broken out in multiple locations and the situation is quite severe, China still has the ability to control it following the strict dynamic zero-COVID policy.
- Chinese experts differ on whether 'winter of 2021 will be the last winter associated with COVID-19' Global Times 06 Mar 2022 -- Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Sunday that it is still too early to say that the winter of 2021 will be the last winter associated with the novel coronavirus.
- HK rushes to build more makeshift hospitals, quarantine facilities to thwart latest Omicron outbreak Global Times 06 Mar 2022 -- The construction of a makeshift hospital to treat COVID-19 patients started on Sunday in Hong Kong with the support of the central government after a temporary bridge linking Lok Ma Chau Loop and Shenzhen city was completed.
- Nearly 4.5 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Chinese mainland People's Daily 06 Mar 2022 -- The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on the Chinese mainland grew by around 4.48 million from the previous day on Saturday, with the total number reaching nearly 3.157 billion, data from the National Health Commission showed Sunday.
- Chinese mainland reports 214 new local COVID-19 cases People's Daily 07 Mar 2022 -- The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 214 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said Monday.
- Chinese mainland reports 175 new local COVID-19 cases People's Daily 06 Mar 2022 -- The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 175 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said Sunday.
- China launches seven new satellites People's Daily 06 Mar 2022 -- China has successfully sent seven satellites into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday.
- After Putin's invasion of Ukraine, eyes on Xi Jinping and Taiwan Radio Free Asia 06 Mar 2022 -- On Feb. 24, in a day that will be remembered forever, Russia's Vladimir Putin started a war with Ukraine. Though he avoided officially declaring "war" and opted instead to call it a "special military operation," at any rate, he launched a premeditated invasion.
- China's defense budget growth justified as restrained amid foreign media hype Global Times 06 Mar 2022 -- China's 7.1 percent increase to its defense budget in 2022 is a restrained move that aims to safeguard the country's national sovereignty, territorial integrity, security and development interests, as well as to provide public security goods to the world, experts said on Sunday, in response to Western media's one-sided interpretation that hypes the military spending plan being the fastest increase since 2019 and outpaces the country's GDP growth target.
- Sina Weibo punishes accounts for spreading content on Russia-Ukraine conflict to stir up hatred, warfare Global Times 06 Mar 2022 -- Targeting the crackdown on circulated vulgar content on the Russia-Ukraine situation, Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo traced the sources of the information and punished 1,000 accounts that took advantage of the situation to release extreme content to stir up hatred, warfare regularly.
- If US keeps intensifying Ukraine crisis with sanctions, military deployments, 'mediation would be useless' Global Times 06 Mar 2022 -- The US and the EU keep urging China to play a bigger role to "mediate" the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but in fact, Chinese analysts said that what the West wants is to push China to follow it to one-sidedly sanction Russia, without resolving the key security concerns of both sides, which was caused by US' long-standing strategy to poison Russia-Ukraine and Russia-EU ties.
- China's EU Mission calls for fair talks between US, NATO, EU and Russia in response to EU official's remarks of China being 'mediator' that 'Western powers cannot fulfill' Global Times 06 Mar 2022 -- China encourages direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, as well as equal dialogues between the US, NATO, the EU and Russia in dealing with their conflicts that have accumulated over the years, a spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the EU said on Sunday in response to EU official's remarks of China's role as the mediator between two countries "as Western powers cannot fulfill."
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