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22 December 2023 - China Special Weapons News
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- US defense bill spends big against China's maritime claims Radio Free Asia 22 Dec 2023 -- U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law an $886 billion defense bill that includes US$16 billion to deter China's expansive maritime claims and approves exemptions for Australia and the United Kingdom to buy American defense technology without licenses.
- Beijing, Manila to hold consultation on South China Sea 'soon' Radio Free Asia 22 Dec 2023 -- Foreign ministers of China and the Philippines have agreed to hold a meeting of the Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea as soon as possible as the two countries are at loggerheads over several reefs in the contested waters.
- KMT, DPP vice presidential candidates exchange fire over China CNA 22 Dec 2023 -- The vice presidential candidates of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) sparred over their approaches to China at a televised policy presentation forum on Friday evening.
- China's resumption of grouper imports 'politically motivated': MOA CNA 22 Dec 2023 -- The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) blasted China Friday for lifting a ban on Taiwanese grouper imports in a politically selective manner, calling the move a tactic intended to divide Taiwanese fishermen.
- Taiwan Presidential Candidates Sharpen Cross-Strait Relations Rhetoric VOA 22 Dec 2023 -- Weeks before Taiwan's January 13 presidential and legislative election, the three presidential candidates - Hou Yu-ih, Lai Ching-te, and Ko Wen-je - have increased efforts to sharpen rhetoric on cross-strait relations, an issue long dominating Taiwan's politics.
- Mainland resumes grouper import from Taiwan after review of quality improvement: Taiwan Affairs Office Global Times 22 Dec 2023 -- Chinese mainland has resumed imports of groupers from the island of Taiwan starting from Friday after review of product quality improvement, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council Zhu Fenglian announced.
- PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan Dec. 22, 2023 ROC MND 22 Dec 2023
- China's Xi Jinping to pay homage at Mao mausoleum amid fears of new personality cult Radio Free Asia 22 Dec 2023 -- As authorities in Beijing announced the temporary closure of the Mao Zedong mausoleum on Tiananmen Square, reportedly to allow Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to pay homage on Mao's 130th birth anniversary, state media moved to elevate Xi's revolutionary father's role in the past four decades of economic reform, eclipsing their key architect Deng Xiaoping.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on December 22, 2023 PRC MofA 22 Dec 2023
- Questions Raised Over China's 'Consular Volunteers' VOA 22 Dec 2023 -- The deployment of so-called "consular volunteers" by China's diplomatic missions overseas is raising concerns among some analysts and watchdogs who see them as part of the Communist Party's "long arm" abroad and fear they could be used to monitor dissent - something Beijing denies.
- China-US high-level military talk shows willingness to stabilize ties, manage risks despite persisting uncertainty Global Times 22 Dec 2023 -- Senior military officials from China and the US held a virtual meeting on Thursday night, marking the first high-level military dialogue for more than a year. According to readouts from both sides, senior officers stressed the importance of exchanges and dialogue during the video call, but the Chinese side also stressed that the premise of healthy, stable and sustainable military ties is for the US to "genuinely respect China's core interests and major concerns."
- Drug control departments of China, US gradually resume regular communication: FM Global Times 22 Dec 2023 -- Recently, China has been promoting special campaigns against fentanyl and its precursors, cracking down on illegal activities such as smuggling, production, trafficking, and abuse of fentanyl and its precursors. And the drug control departments of China and the US are gradually resuming regular communication, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday.
- Taiwan question, South China Sea issue stressed in virtual meeting between Chinese, US senior military officials Global Times 22 Dec 2023 -- A senior Chinese military official on Thursday stressed China's stance on the Taiwan question and the South China Sea issue in a virtual meeting with a US' senior military official, as the two militaries started to resume talks following the recent meeting between the two countries' top leaders.
- Hong Kong court rejects bid to get Jimmy Lai's sedition charge dropped Radio Free Asia 22 Dec 2023 -- A court on Friday rejected a bid by Hong Kong media magnate Jimmy Lai's legal team to get one of the charges in his national security trial dismissed, saying the "sedition" charge hadn't exceeded its time limit.
- China will maintain 'reasonably abundant liquidity' to bolster economic recovery: central bank Global Times 22 Dec 2023 -- China will maintain "reasonably abundant liquidity," to create a favorable monetary and financial environment for the sustained improvement of the economy, Pan Gongsheng, governor of China's central bank said on Thursday.
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