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09 March 2023 - China Special Weapons News

  • Australia drops COVID testing requirements for Chinese travelers Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- Australia has joined other countries and scrapped the requirement for travelers coming from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao to test for coronavirus before departure starting from Saturday local time, according to a statement published on the country's health and aged care department.

  • U.S. spy agencies see more Chinese pressure on Taiwan in Xi's 3rd term CNA 09 Mar 2023 -- Beijing will continue to press Taiwan on unification and try to undercut U.S. influence in the region as Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) begins his third term, according to an annual report by the U.S. intelligence community.
  • Beijing has no right to interfere in presidential stopovers in U.S.: Source CNA 09 Mar 2023 -- President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has made transit stopovers in the United States before visiting the nation's diplomatic allies in the past, and the Chinese government has no right to comment on or interfere with these high-level Taiwan-U.S. exchanges, a diplomatic source told CNA Thursday.
  • PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan March 9, 2023 ROC MND 09 Mar 2023

  • J-20 fighter pilot calls for improved military communications network development Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- Deputies to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) said at the ongoing two sessions that China should continue its military's digitalization, informatization and intelligentization, with one J-20 stealth fighter jet pilot suggesting the military communications network development be improved, and a JH-7 fighter bomber pilot calling for implementation of artificial intelligence technologies in missions.
  • Xi stresses enhancing integrated national strategies, strategic capabilities People's Daily 09 Mar 2023 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday stressed opening new ground for enhancing integrated national strategies and strategic capabilities.
  • Build up strategic capabilities, Xi says People's Daily 09 Mar 2023 -- President Xi Jinping called for opening new ground for enhancing integrated national strategies and strengthening strategic capabilities as he met with lawmakers from the Chinese military and armed police force on Wednesday.

  • National legislators, political advisors vow to ensure China's food security Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- The 2023 Government Work Report once again stressed "securing the food supply of more than 1.4 billion people" and said that stabilizing grain production remains one of the top priorities in 2023, as the Chinese leadership has stressed that building up strength in agriculture is the foundation of a great modern socialist country.
  • China keeps development as top priority in 2023 Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- By continuing to give top priority to development in 2023, China will ramp up efforts to expand domestic demand, improve the business environment for private companies and prevent financial risks, among others, the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) suggested on Thursday.
  • Chinese whole-process people's democracy fully underscored at two sessions Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- Thousands of national lawmakers and policy advisors are already halfway through this year's two sessions - an important opportunity for the world to understand the whole-process people's democracy, which is fundamentally different from Western-style democracy, often characterized by electoral politics. Some deputies to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) have refuted "rubber stamp" claims made by some Western media and observers about the main annual political gathering, saying Chinese democracy is high quality democracy that leads to concrete results, making people's lives better and the country stronger.

  • Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning's Regular Press Conference on March 9, 2023 PRC MofA 09 Mar 2023

  • USAGM CEO Describes Efforts to Counter Russian and Chinese Propaganda VOA 09 Mar 2023 -- The United States Agency for Global Media's Chief Executive Officer Amanda Bennett said Thursday the agency she leads is facing a critical time globally in which access to credible news is threatened by authoritarian regimes.

  • US in jitters China could advance might on global stage: Report Press TV 09 Mar 2023 -- The United States has been increasingly concerned that China will use its power in global supply chains to advance its political and military might, a report says.
  • China firmly opposed to Netherlands' new chip restrictions: Foreign Ministry Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- China firmly opposes a move by the Netherlands that interferes with and constrains normal trade between Chinese and Dutch firms through administrative means, and China has lodged representations with the Dutch side, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, in response to the European country's new chip export restrictions on China.

  • Rudd: US and China risk war 'by accident' Radio Free Asia 09 Mar 2023 -- China and America are at risk of increasing tensions until a crisis leads to war "by accident," Australia's incoming ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, said in an interview on Wednesday.
  • Canberra urged not to risk national interests to serve Washington over possible submarine deal Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- With the latest updates of Australia's possible purchases of five US Virgina class nuclear powered submarines being revealed by Western media in advance of the AUKUS meeting in the US, Chinese observers urged Canberra not to blindly follow Washington's strategy in containing Beijing, and risk its own national interests on economy and security only to serve Washington's interests.

  • Tapping vast potential of BRI in next decade a focus of two sessions Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- Deputies and members at the ongoing two sessions have brought their motions and proposals on how to tap into the vast potential of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as the widely supported initiative enters its 10th year.

  • Police arrest veteran Hong Kong labor activist for 'collusion' Radio Free Asia 09 Mar 2023 -- Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested a prominent labor activist on suspicion of "collusion with foreign forces" under a draconian national security law that criminalizes public dissent, according to multiple media reports in the city.
  • Hong Kong Police Arrest Union Leader Following Visit to Imprisoned Husband VOA 09 Mar 2023 -- Hong Kong's national security police Thursday arrested veteran labor rights activist Elizabeth Tang after she visited her husband, a prominent former opposition lawmaker, in prison.
  • National security law for HK plays pivotal role in stabilizing SAR without compromising protection of human rights: young representative Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- The National Security Law for Hong Kong has played a pivotal role in enabling the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to move from chaos to stability and prosperity without compromising the protection of human rights and the HKSAR is integrating with national development and roaring back to the forefront of the global stage, Gary Wong Chi-him, a representative from the HKSAR said at the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council on Wednesday.

  • China weakens itself by suppressing civil society and silencing independent voices Radio Free Asia 09 Mar 2023 -- Chinese leaders aspire to global economic, political, and even spiritual leadership. But unless the Chinese Communist Party relaxes its suffocating restrictions on civil society, Chinese citizens won't be able to fulfill their creative and human potential. Without independent assessments of the utility and moral integrity of its policies, no government can understand its errors and make changes, and keep its own power in check.

  • Inner Mongolia vows to strengthen rare-earth industrial chain, speed up devt of new materials Global Times 09 Mar 2023 -- An official in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region vowed to step up prospecting of rare earths and strengthen the rare-earth industrial chain, including speeding up the development of rare-earth permanent magnets, permanent magnet motors and other aspects of rare earths terminal industries.



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