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20 February 2025 - China Special Weapons News
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- PBBM's balance of power strategy effective vs. WPS threats - Lacson Philippine News Agency 20 Feb 2025 -- The balance of power that the Marcos administration adopted has been effective so far in fending off threats in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), former Senator Panfilo Lacson said Thursday.
- Ex-PRRD failed to protect WPS, China interested in PH Rise - JPE Philippine News Agency 20 Feb 2025 -- The West Philippine Sea (WPS) issue remains a problem because of former president Rodrigo Duterte's failure to protect the Philippines' interest, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile said Thursday, as he cautioned against China's interest over the Philippine Rise.
- US State Dept. hits China over chopper incident; vows support to PH Philippine News Agency 20 Feb 2025 -- The United States Department of State on Thursday described China's recent dangerous flight maneuvers against a Filipino aircraft as "reckless" and a "threat" to navigation and overflight in the South China Sea.
- 29 Chinese aircraft cross Taiwan Strait median line: MND CNA 20 Feb 2025 -- A total of 29 Chinese warplanes and drones crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, according to Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND).
- PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan ROC MND 20 Feb 2025
- China's homegrown tech boosts global surveillance, social controls: report Radio Free Asia 20 Feb 2025 -- Homegrown AI and other cutting-edge technology is boosting internal surveillance by the ruling Chinese Communist Party and expanding its overseas influence and infiltration operations, and is already in use far beyond its borders, according to a recent report.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun's Regular Press Conference on February 20, 2025 PRC MofA 20 Feb 2025
- Chinese FM calls for true multilateralism, more equitable global governance system People's Daily 20 Feb 2025 -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday called for reinvigorating true multilateralism and speeding up the efforts to build a more just and equitable global governance system.
- US State Department tweaks online fact sheet on China VOA 20 Feb 2025 -- PRC is out. China is in. That is among the significant modifications to the U.S. State Department's online fact sheet on China, which drops the country's official name, the People's Republic of China (PRC), in favor of just China.
- China strongly opposes US revision of US-China relations page and the US-China fact sheet: FM Global Times 20 Feb 2025 -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Thursday stated that China strongly expresses its dissatisfaction and firmly opposes the US State Department's revision of the US-China relations page and the US-China fact sheet. The revision distorts the truth, slanders China's foreign policy, and incites the so-called Us-China strategic competition, Guo noted.
- Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 20 Feb 2025
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's opening remarks at the meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the G20 Ministerial Council, Johannesburg, February 20, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 20 Feb 2025
- China repatriates 200 citizens from Myanmar scam centers amid crackdown Radio Free Asia 20 Feb 2025 -- Two hundred Chinese nationals were due to be flown to their homeland on Thursday in aircraft laid on by their government after leaving online fraud centers in an eastern Myanmar district on the border with Thailand, Thai officials said.
- China repatriates 200 citizens from Myanmar scam centers amid crackdown Radio Free Asia 20 Feb 2025 -- Two hundred Chinese nationals were due to be flown to their homeland on Thursday in aircraft laid on by their government after leaving online fraud centers in an eastern Myanmar district on the border with Thailand, Thai officials said.
- FM says China's position on the Ukraine crisis is consistent and clear, as Trump and Zelensky in bitter clash Global Times 20 Feb 2025 -- China's position on the Ukraine crisis is consistent and clear, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, in response to a media inquiry regarding US President Donald Trump's recent remarks calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator" and whether China believes Ukraine should hold presidential elections.
- Hong Kong's Democratic Party to discuss disbanding: leader Radio Free Asia 20 Feb 2025 -- Hong Kong's Democratic Party, which was once the largest party in an active opposition camp, held a meeting on Thursday at which it said it would discuss its own dissolution, amid an ongoing crackdown on all forms of public dissent under two national security laws.
- China's central bank to take effective measures to ramp up real estate market by fine-tuning financial policy in 2025 Global Times 20 Feb 2025 -- China's central bank has vowed to improve real estate financial management to help stabilize the country's property market in 2025, and to support the establishment of a new model for real estate development, according to a statement released by the central bank on Thursday.
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