Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
27 May 2022 - China Special Weapons News
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- Hundreds of students protest COVID-19 lockdown on Tianjin University campus Radio Free Asia 27 May 2022 -- Hundreds of students in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin gathered on the Tianjin University campus late on Thursday, in protest at COVID-19 restrictions.
- Chinese mainland reports 80 new local confirmed COVID-19 cases People's Daily 27 May 2022 -- The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 80 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 45 were in Shanghai and 22 in Beijing, the National Health Commission said Friday.
- Hong Kong continues tracing COVID-19 through sewage surveillance People's Daily 27 May 2022 -- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said Thursday that the COVID-19 virus continues to be detected in sewage samples from different areas in Hong Kong, indicating that there may be hidden cases in the premises in these areas.
- Beijing reports 16 new local COVID-19 infections People's Daily 27 May 2022 -- Beijing reported 16 new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections during the first 15 hours of Thursday, local authorities have said.
- Insurance program launched in Beijing to encourage vaccination among the elderly Global Times 27 May 2022 -- The insurance industry in Beijing is making efforts to promote vaccination among the local elderly by launching an insurance program for vaccinated people aged 60 and above, the Beijing banking and insurance regulatory bureau told media.
- China's provocation against Taiwan 'deeply destabilizing': Blinken CNA 27 May 2022 -- United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said China's increasingly provocative rhetoric and actions against Taiwan are "deeply destabilizing" during a key China policy speech on Thursday.
- China's military sorties near Taiwan changing status quo: premier CNA 27 May 2022 -- China is changing the status quo in the region by conducting military sorties near Taiwan, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said Friday after the People's Liberation Army (PLA) maneuvers were criticized by the United States' top diplomat a day earlier.
- US plans to hold talks with Chinese Taipei despite China opposition Press TV 27 May 2022 -- The United States government has scheduled to hold talks with Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) officials despite China's fierce opposition to diplomatic relations between them and solemn warning against fostering ties with the self-governing island which Beijing considers as its own territory.
- China's space tracking ship departs for 100th mission PLA Daily 27 May 2022 -- China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 Thursday set sail for its first voyage this year from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province. The vessel will carry out its 100th maritime mission during this voyage.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on May 27, 2022 PRC MofA 27 May 2022
- China firmly opposes US Secretary of State's speech: FM Global Times 27 May 2022 -- China firmly opposes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's speech on China policy, which spread false information, hyped the China threat and interfered in China's internal affairs, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday, adding that Blinken's purpose was to suppress China's development and safeguard US hegemony.
- China blasts 'smear' after US says Beijing intent to reshape world order Press TV 27 May 2022 -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for vigorous competition with arch-foe China to preserve the existing global order but hastened to add that Washington did not seek a "Cold War."
- Chinese ambassador warns 'malicious confrontation' after US announces 'invest, align, compete' strategy, analysts says decoupling attempt to fail Global Times 27 May 2022 -- The US' threefold strategy of "invest, align, compete" to tackle the so-called long-term China challenge, an economic coercion devised by Washington to contain the development of the world's second-largest economy based upon its hegemonic mindset, is doomed to fail as the approach is contradictory in substance and countries won't buy into its decoupling attempt to set up a China-free supply chain, Chinese observers and officials said.
- Blinken's long-awaited China policy address 'unexciting' Global Times 27 May 2022 -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech on the country's China strategy on Thursday, describing China as the "most serious long-term challenge to the international order" but stressed the US does not want a new Cold War.
- NATO chief urged to stop spreading smearing remarks targeting China: spokesperson People's Daily 27 May 2022 -- A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday urged the NATO chief to immediately stop spreading smearing remarks targeting China, and abandon the obsession with drawing ideological lines.
- Russia, China rebuke fresh US sanctions on Iran amid Vienna talks Press TV 27 May 2022 -- Russia and China have criticized the United States' fresh round of sanctions on Iran, urging Washington to demonstrate a more constructive approach and to actively respond to the legitimate concerns of the Iranian side in the course of negotiations in Vienna to revive the 2015 deal.
- China will take stern and firm initiatives if someone tries to spread war to Korean peninsula: China's UN envoy Global Times 27 May 2022 -- China's ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun criticized the US for using the Korean peninsula issue as a card for its "Indo-Pacific strategy," after China and Russia vetoed a US-led UN Security Council resolution to toughen sanctions on North Korea over its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches, the first time since 2006.
- China, Russia veto US push for more UN sanctions on North Korea Press TV 27 May 2022 -- China and Russia have vetoed a US-led push at the United Nations to toughen sanctions on North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches.
- China and Solomon Islands reach consensuses in deepening bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation: Wang Yi Global Times 27 May 2022 -- China and the Solomon Islands have reached eight-point consensus including jointly cementing the bilateral political foundation and building the Belt and Road Initiative following productive communication to deepen bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday.
- China, Australia vie for influence, as Beijing touts vision for the Pacific Radio Free Asia 27 May 2022 -- As China launched a high-level diplomatic mission to build its influence in the Pacific islands, Australia's new government responded with one of its own, promising to bring "more energy and resources" to the remote region.
- China Secures More Deals in South Pacific as Australia Warns of Security Pact's 'Consequences' Sputnik 27 May 2022 -- China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi embarked on an eight-nation tour this week aiming to boost his country's growing economic and security ties in the South Pacific — a region dominated by Australia and the US. Beijing has asked the US to stay out of sovereign decisions made by Pacific island nations.
- Mirziyoev Says New Railway Linking Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China Will Start Being Built Soon RFE/RL 27 May 2022 -- Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev says his country, Kyrgyzstan, and China plan to start construction of a new railway line connecting the three Asian nations.
- Leaders of least-developed Cambodia, Laos play down concerns of a China debt trap Radio Free Asia 27 May 2022 -- Leaders of two of the least developed countries in Southeast Asia, Laos and Cambodia, denied Friday they have fallen into a Chinese debt trap despite owing billions of dollars to their giant neighbor.
- Calls for Investigation Mount Over Xinjiang Police Files VOA 27 May 2022 -- Western governments are demanding that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet receive full access to sites and individuals in China's western Xinjiang region following this week's release of highly detailed reports of rights violations in the region.
- China details measures to stabilize, upgrade foreign trade People's Daily 27 May 2022 -- China has detailed measures to stabilize and upgrade foreign trade, in an effort to keep the economy and industrial and supply chains stable.
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