Speaking on Tuesday during a regular press briefing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin repeated Beijing’s “serious concern” about an October incident in which the USS ‘Connecticut’, a nuclear-powered Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine, struck an “unidentified object” while submerged near China. Wang claimed the American statement, which was published on Monday, …
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On Friday, the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its assessment of how the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have first infected humans. It said the origins of Covid-19 may never be established fully, and that US intelligence found both natural transmission from animals to humans, as well …
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It’s been quite a week for Taiwan tensions. In the space of days, the US has stated the island should be able to participate in the UN (on China’s 50th anniversary of entry), its foreign minister is visiting Central and Eastern Europe, while anti-China MEPs announced the sending of a …
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“China won’t engage in a nuclear arms race with the US. We think it’s stupid. I know that the US can destroy China 10 times, but we will MAKE SURE we have full capability to destroy the US once,” Hu Xijin tweeted on Wednesday. Hu was commenting on an opinion …
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Together, Russia and China have just made moot trillions of dollars in US defense spending. A report published in the Financial Times declared that, sometime in August 2021, China had conducted a test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle that flew through low-orbit space, circling the globe before deorbiting and heading …
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Speaking on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reiterated Beijing’s position on the Indian province of Arunachal Pradesh, stating China has never recognized the unilaterally and illegally established territory. The spokesman said China firmly opposed Indian leaders’ visits to the region, referencing Naidu’s trip to the mountainous region that …
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Speaking on Wednesday, Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, put the blame for rising tensions firmly on Taipei, accusing it of inventing “bogus accusations” against Beijing and colluding with foreign powers. “The [Democratic Progressive Party] DPP authorities’ hyping of the so-called ‘military threat’ of the mainland is to …
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In his last day in office, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo affirmed that the Uighurs’ situation in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region amounted to “genocide”– one of the gravest crimes in international law, forever haunting the world through the legacy of Nazism. Unsurprisingly, the designation, which constitutes the crime …
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America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced a new group that will focus solely on China and the strategic challenges posed by it. In a statement released on Thursday, the agency said the new China Mission Center has been formed “to address the global challenge posed by the People’s Republic …
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Tony Abbott, who headed the Australian government between 2013 and 2015, delivered a speech at a conference in Taipei on Friday, urging the international community to show “solidarity” with the island. Beijing considers Taiwan to be a part of its territory under its ‘One China’ policy and does not recognize …
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