Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
18 December 2023 - China Special Weapons News
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- Manila 'seriously misjudges situation' as Marcos hypes 'China's challenge' Global Times 18 Dec 2023 -- The Philippines has seriously misjudged the situation, which will harm its own interests, future cooperation with China, as well as the common aspirations of regional countries for peace, stability and prosperity, analysts said on Monday, following Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr stating that the Philippines and China remain deadlocked over the joint oil exploration and accused China of posing a "regional challenge."
- PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan Dec. 18, 2023 ROC MND 18 Dec 2023
- PLA Air Force pursues fast equipment development with future air combat in mind Global Times 18 Dec 2023 -- Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force is pursuing fast equipment development with the aim of adapting to future air combat, which could involve vastly expanded battlefield boundaries, highly dynamic games, greatly enhanced unmanned combat and main battle elements characterized by high altitude and fast speed, said an official recently.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on December 18, 2023 PRC MofA 18 Dec 2023
- The limits of a Russia-China partnership that claims to have none Radio Free Asia 18 Dec 2023 -- Three weeks before Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine last year, President Vladimir Putin traveled to Beijing for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping - an event shunned by Western leaders.
- China, Russia hold 9th Financial Dialogue, vow to enhance cooperation in audit supervision Global Times 18 Dec 2023 -- The ninth China-Russia Financial Dialogue was held on Monday in Beijing, according to China's Ministry of Finance. The two sides exchanged points of view on questions of common interest, achieved results in multiple sectors, and issued a joint statement.
- Russia-China Trade Reaches Over $200 Billion During 2023 Sputnik 18 Dec 2023 -- Trade between Russia and China in January-November reached over $200 billion and could hit as much as $220 billion by the end of the year, the acting head of the Russian Customs Service, Ruslan Davydov, said on Monday.
- Vietnamese Response to Xi Jinping Visit Muted Amid Activism Crackdown VOA 18 Dec 2023 -- Anti-China protests have been a cornerstone of Vietnamese activism, but the response to Chinese President Xi Jinping's December 12-13 visit to Vietnam has been muted as Hanoi has jailed critics, and activists and experts cite an atmosphere of fear among those still free.
- Xi hears work reports from HK, Macao chief executives Global Times 18 Dec 2023 -- President Xi Jinping met Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu in Beijing on Monday as Lee is paying a visit to the country's capital city.
- Hong Kong: Statement by the Spokesperson on the start of the national security trial against Jimmy Lai European External Action Service (EEAS) 18 Dec 2023 -- Today marks the beginning of the trial brought against Hong Kong media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai under National Security Law charges. He has faced multiple prosecutions related to his support for free expression and democracy in Hong Kong, notably since the imposition of the National Security Law by Beijing in 2020. He has been imprisoned for over one thousand days.
- Jimmy Lai's security trial begins in Hong Kong amid international uproar Radio Free Asia 18 Dec 2023 -- Hong Kong pro-democracy media magnate Jimmy Lai appeared in court Monday on the first day of a weeks-long national security trial, as members of the public and journalists queued for a seat in the gallery, watched over by armed police patrolling the area with bomb-detecting sniffer dogs.
- Silence, inaction enable Hong Kong police bounties, says activist Radio Free Asia 18 Dec 2023 -- Hong Kong democracy activist Frances Hui has called for an international effort to combat the threat of Beijing's "long-arm" law enforcement beyond its borders, saying recent bounties on her and other activists' heads are deliberately intended to create a "chilling effect" on activists everywhere.
- Secessionist Jimmy Lai faces trial Global Times 18 Dec 2023 -- With the highly watched trial of secessionist media tycoon Jimmy Lai taking place on Monday at West Kowloon Court, some Western politicians and media have exploited this occasion to smear the National Security Law (NSL) for Hong Kong and badmouth the rule of law in the city. Officials from both the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong have called these criticisms blatant interference in China's internal affairs, adding that any attempts to slander, disrupt and sabotage the NSL for Hong Kong will never succeed.
- Chinese official dismisses 'foreign capital flight' hype, vows greater efforts to attract, utilize foreign investment Global Times 18 Dec 2023 -- China will make greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment, with more areas to open wider and more restrictions to be lifted. Utilizing foreign investment is an important part of China's policy of opening-up, said an official from the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, in response to external hype that "foreign investors are fleeing China."
- China allocates 237.9b yuan from additional treasury bonds; economy faces more opportunities than challenges in 2024, official says Global Times 18 Dec 2023 -- The Ministry of Finance has allocated the first batch of 237.9 billion yuan ($33.38 billion) of proceeds from a sovereign bond issuance to areas such as post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, high-standard farmland construction and meteorological infrastructure construction, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.
- China's financial institutions see rising assets People's Daily 18 Dec 2023 -- Assets of financial institutions in China rose to 452.82 trillion yuan (about 63.82 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of the third quarter, up 9.5 percent year on year, according to the central bank.
- Lengthened Long March-5 becomes height benchmark of China's launch vehicles in commission People's Daily 18 Dec 2023 -- China's newly-launched Long March-5 rocket has for the first time used an 18.5-meter-long fairing, setting a new height benchmark for China's carrier rockets in commission.
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