Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
19 January 2023 - China Special Weapons News
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- China could see 36,000 COVID deaths a day during Lunar New Year holiday Radio Free Asia 19 Jan 2023 -- China could see as many as 36,000 deaths a day over the Lunar New Year holiday period as millions of people travel to their ancestral homes to spend time with loved ones, a U.K.-based research firm said in a computer-modeled prediction of the impact of the current COVID-19 wave sweeping the country.
- Xi on COVID-19 response: light of hope right ahead People's Daily 19 Jan 2023 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday talked about the country's COVID-19 response, saying the light of hope is right ahead.
- China passes peaks of COVID waves Global Times 19 Jan 2023 -- With millions of Chinese people making journeys back to their hometowns in recent days, most Chinese megacities have already passed the peak of their COVID waves, some public health experts said. They also believed that the Spring Festival travel rush won't trigger a large-scale epidemic resurgence, but small-scale outbreaks in some areas, especially in remote rural areas, are highly likely as the most important holiday for Chinese people gets underway.
- Anti-epidemic work in rural areas stressed during Spring Festival holiday Global Times 19 Jan 2023 -- Chinese health authorities reiterated the importance of anti-epidemic work in rural areas at a press conference on Thursday as the country is preparing to celebrate the 2023 Chinese New Year, amid concerns about outbreaks in these places with large numbers of people returning from cities.
- Domestic Omicron-specific vaccines ready for review: Sinopharm Global Times 19 Jan 2023 -- China's leading pharmaceutical giant China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) revealed that it has developed four potential Omicron-specific candidate vaccines, as experts call for quicker approval of such candidates, highlighting risk of surging cases during holiday.
- Vaccines against COVID-19 mutant strains should be approved as soon as possible: former head of Chinese CDC Global Times 19 Jan 2023 -- Vaccines against the mutant strains of COVID-19 should be approved for use as soon as possible, said Gao Fu, former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in response to the public's concerns about the epidemic situation in China.
- Vaccines against COVID-19 mutant strains should be approved as soon as possible: former head of Chinese CDC Global Times 19 Jan 2023 -- Vaccines against the mutant strains of COVID-19 should be approved for use as soon as possible, said Gao Fu, former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in response to the public's concerns about the epidemic situation in China.
- Xi on COVID-19 response: light of hope right ahead People's Daily 19 Jan 2023 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday talked about the country's COVID-19 response, saying the light of hope is right ahead.
- Drugmakers, govt units at full throttle to meet demand People's Daily 19 Jan 2023 -- With the nation constantly optimizing COVID-19 prevention measures, drugmakers in China are ramping up production and distribution to help in the recovery from COVID impacts as quickly as possible to answer the government's call to ensure anti-epidemic medical supplies amid soaring demand.
- Director Wray Speaks with Government and Private Sector Leaders at World Economic Forum FBI 19 Jan 2023 -- FBI Director Christopher Wray attended the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of business, government, and law enforcement leaders, in Davos, Switzerland, this week.
- China's navy stages combat exercise in South China Sea Radio Free Asia 19 Jan 2023 -- China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has held a number of live-fire drills, including a "confrontational exercise" by the Shandong aircraft carrier group, in the South China Sea as a U.S. carrier operates in the area.
- CASC releases Blue Book of China Aerospace Science and Technology Activities 2022 PLA Daily 19 Jan 2023 -- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) released the Blue Book of China Aerospace Science and Technology Activities 2022 in Beijing on January 18, 2023.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on January 19, 2023 PRC MofA 19 Jan 2023
- Chinese premier holds symposium with foreign experts in China People's Daily 19 Jan 2023 -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday held a symposium in Beijing with foreign experts working in China.
- US Warns China of Red Line in Ukraine War Ahead of Blinken Visit VOA 19 Jan 2023 -- The United States is warning China against material and security assistance to Russia in Moscow's war on Ukraine, laying out Washington's red line ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Beijing early next month.
- Chinese FM fiercely rebukes US spy chief's remarks about sanctions on China Global Times 19 Jan 2023 -- A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday offered a fierce rebuke to remarks made by a top US intelligence official's remarks about imposing similar economic sanctions against Russia on China, saying some in the US are addicted to sanctions that cause harm and chaos to the world.
- Liu He, Janet Yellen meet in Zurich, a bilateral respite that would boost confidence for world economic recovery Global Times 19 Jan 2023 -- With the meeting between Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday in Zurich, the ice between the world's two largest economies showed another sign of breaking, as the world's two largest economies attempt to soothe their relationship that has grown tense in recent months over technology access and other issues.
- Families of Americans Wrongfully Detained in China Urge Blinken to Prioritize Release VOA 19 Jan 2023 -- Families of Americans wrongfully detained in China are calling on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to bring up American detainee cases during his meetings with top Chinese leaders in Beijing next month.
- Rights groups consider legal steps in case of Uyghurs facing deportation in Malta Radio Free Asia 19 Jan 2023 -- Two human rights groups instrumental in getting the European Court of Human Rights to order Malta to halt the forcible deportation of two Muslim Chinese asylum-seekers of Uyghur ethnicity are now strategizing with lawyers about their next move.
- Boost in global sentiment on China's economy highlights China's effective anti-COVID effort Global Times 19 Jan 2023 -- When China moved to optimize its COVID-19 response measures in early December and infections surged, foreign media outlets unleashed a tsunami of misinformation, fear-mongering and slander against China's anti-epidemic strategy over the past three years and its impact on the economy. Some overseas financial institutions even slashed forecast for China's economic growth in 2022.
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