Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
16 October 2024 - China Special Weapons News
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- Latest PLA drill short, small in scale: Taiwan intelligence chief CNA 16 Oct 2024 -- Taiwan's intelligence chief said Wednesday that the latest Chinese military drills around Taiwan were shorter and smaller in scale than similar drills in May but still backfired based on the reaction of the international community.
- MAC dismisses China's criticism of Lai's National Day address CNA 16 Oct 2024 -- The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), Taiwan's top agency handling cross-Taiwan Strait affairs, has rejected China's criticism of President Lai Ching-te's (賴清德) National Day address and condemned it for trying to "turn Taiwan into another Hong Kong."
- Chinese Coast Guard takes on new role in encircling Taiwan: Scholars CNA 16 Oct 2024 -- The China Coast Guard (CCG) took on a novel and important role during the "Joint Sword-2024B" military drills, being deployed for the first time on Monday to encircle Taiwan and practice enforcing a blockade in the event of an invasion, scholars told CNA.
- Taiwan leader Lai's separatist remarks escalate cross-Strait tensions: mainland spokesperson People's Daily 16 Oct 2024 -- A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Tuesday said Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te's separatist remarks, especially his Oct. 10 speech, have escalated cross-Strait tensions and seriously undermined peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
- China sanctions Taiwanese activist, retired chip magnate Robert Tsao Radio Free Asia 16 Oct 2024 -- China has sanctioned a lawmaker and rights activist, a civil defense group and a retired chip magnate from democratic Taiwan, adding their names to a list of 'pro-independence diehards' who are banned from traveling to the country.
- PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan ROC MND 16 Oct 2024
- Xi urges developing system of modern military theory People's Daily 16 Oct 2024 -- President Xi Jinping has urged efforts to comprehensively strengthen work related to military theory on the new journey in the new era, and develop a system of modern military theory with Chinese characteristics.
- Russian and Chinese warships conduct maritime rescue drills in East China Sea Russia MoD 16 Oct 2024 -- Russian and Chinese warships conduct maritime rescue drills in the East China Sea The joint Russian-Chinese ship detachment continue to patrol in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning's Regular Press Conference on October 16, 2024 PRC MofA 16 Oct 2024
- Remarks by H.E. Li Qiang Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China at the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization PRC MofA 16 Oct 2024
- Pakistan pushes for expansion of China's BRI plans VOA 16 Oct 2024 -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif advocated expanding China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on Wednesday, saying it would enhance regional trade cooperation and promote "the vision of a connected Eurasia."
- At media summit, China blasts Western coverage of Uyghurs Radio Free Asia 16 Oct 2024 -- China hosted a global media summit in Xinjiang this week, bringing together over 500 participants to discuss artificial intelligence, but also used the event to criticize Western reports about the forced labor of Uyghurs and an ongoing genocide were "fabricated lies."
- China to seize 3.1 bln yuan in assets linked to exiled former vice mayor Radio Free Asia 16 Oct 2024 -- Authorities in China are moving to seize more than 3 billion yuan (US$435 million) in assets belonging to a former high-ranking official from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang who has fled to the United States, claiming to be a persecuted critic of the government.
- China carries out two successful orbital launches within 12 hours Global Times 16 Oct 2024 -- Within just 12 hours, China successfully launched 18 communication satellites and a remote sensing satellite into their designated orbits, in two separate missions on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Chinese space watchers view this achievement as a testament to the country's growing expertise in space technology and increasingly strong capabilities of space applications.
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