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At a security dialogue in South Korea, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin criticized China’s efforts to build hypersonic weapons. The concern is over the use of hypersonic missiles that travel long distances in relatively low orbits (China.Table reported). However, Beijing is not testing a missile but a spacecraft, government spokesman Zhao Lijian told a news conference. […] continue reading →

Short messaging service Twitter has removed more than 3,000 accounts linked to state-directed influence. Customer accounts with links to six countries, including China, Russia, and Mexico, were affected, Twitter explained. More than 2100 of the total 3465 accounts had ties to China. Twitter often takes such actions and removes or blocks accounts associated with countries […] continue reading →

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has summoned the Japanese ambassador to Beijing. China wants to express its disapproval about a remark made by former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. Abe had reiterated Japan’s stance of standing by Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack at an online conference held by the Institute for National Policy Research […] continue reading →

International pressure is mounting in the case of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai. The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) will suspend all of its tournaments in China and Hong Kong, WTA chief Steve Simon announced on Wednesday. “In good conscience, I don’t see how I can ask our athletes to compete there when Peng Shuai is […] continue reading →

Brussels to postpone the presentation of the planned EU supply chain law again. According to EU circles, the Regulatory Control Committee has once again raised objections to the project. Accordingly, the proposal could even be delayed until February or March 2022. The proposal, which was last scheduled for December 8, no longer appears on the […] continue reading →

Officially, China’s Communist Party attributes great importance to minorities in the country. However, it is actually focusing on cultural and linguistic unification. The central government has launched a nationwide campaign to promote High Chinese, also known as Mandarin. This is ultimately directed against the many dialects spoken in the country. At least 85 percent of […] continue reading →

China is pressuring foreign governments to extradite Taiwanese to the People’s Republic, according to a report by human rights organization Safeguard Defenders. Through this, Beijing wants to extradite hundreds of Taiwanese living abroad, according to the report by the Madrid-based organization, which was already published on Tuesday. Foreign Office spokesman Wang Wenbin described the study […] continue reading →

State-owned oil company China Petrochemical Corporation – Sinopec for short – is building a hydrogen production plant in the northwestern region of Xinjiang that will be powered entirely by photovoltaics. The plant in the city of Kuqa will be the world’s largest production facility for so-called “green hydrogen,” Sinopec announced Tuesday. It is expected to […] continue reading →

China has ramped up diesel production since September, providing much-needed supplies on domestic and regional export markets. The state has coordinated the production expansion by state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The state-owned refineries will export about 210,000 tonnes of diesel in December, Bloomberg […] continue reading →