{"id":3937,"date":"2021-08-21T06:04:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T00:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:36:18","slug":"chinese-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/08\/21\/chinese-potpourri\/","title":{"rendered":"170: Chinese Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dragon also has Fears<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The fall of Afghanistan heightened security fears in China. “Afghanistan looms large in the mind-set of China’s leadership. Although, shared border is only small 47-mile stretch, for China, the nightmare is Islamist terror attacks, plotted across that short border.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Height of Insecurity<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

China is cracking down on its big Business houses. \u00a0China’s State Council and the Communist Party’s Central Committee has indicated that they will subject the country\u2019s business sector to increasingly tighter government scrutiny and control over the next five years. The announcement suggests that Beijing\u2019s recent anti-monopoly initiatives against large domestic technology companies and a crackdown on the educational tutoring sector have just been opening shots in a possible long-term campaign to neuter the power of the country\u2019s corporate sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Uncooperative Dragon<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0China calls WHO coronavirus probe \u201cpolitical\u201d and refused to cooperate with a World Health Organization\u2019s proposal for a second investigation into the origins of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu dismissed that effort as \u201cpolitical tracing\u201d and indicated that China will not cooperate with such a probe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bullying Dragon<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Lithuania allowed Taiwan to christen its new representative office in Vilnius the \u201cTaiwanese Representative Office.\u201d The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday recalled its ambassador to Lithuania. Deputy Secretary of State (USA) Wendy Sherman criticized the Chinese government\u2019s \u201ccoercive behaviour\u201d toward Lithuania. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying dismissed U.S. and European Union criticism of China\u2019s diplomatic targeting of Lithuania as \u201cwanton comments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Needling the Dragon<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

US announced a virtual \u201cSummit for Democracy\u201d on Dec. 9-10 and has decided to invite a Taiwan representative to the event. Chinese Foreign Ministry responded by warning that China \u201cwill definitely not accept the US to invite Taiwan [President] Tsai Ing-wen to participate in the meeting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Different Songs<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Meeting between newly arrived Chinese Ambassador Qin Gang and US State Department\u2019s Sherman took place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese Ambassador: \u201cthe Taiwan question is the most important and sensitive issue in China-U.S. relations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sherman said her focus in the meeting was human rights concerns as well as Beijing\u2019s blocking of the World Health Organization\u2019s ongoing probe into the origin of Covid-19<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fake Always<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Memphis, Tennessee, reported on Friday that they have seized 121 shipments containing 3,017 fake blank Covid-19 vaccination records from China since the beginning of the fiscal year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dressing up the History<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Official state broadcaster China National Radio dropped a hint that the online gaming industry may be the next target of the government\u2019s regulatory attacks on various business sectors. CNR urged regulators to adopt a \u201czero tolerance\u201d approach to games that \u201cdistort history.\u201d That move is an extension of the government\u2019s criminalization of what it call \u201chistorical nihilism,\u201d an umbrella term that applies to any historical accounts that contradict the ruling Chinese Communist Party\u2019s historical narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dragon Decides Right or Wrong<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

China\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused the Canadian government of \u201cmegaphone diplomacy\u201d in its criticism of recent prosecutions and convictions of Canadian citizens by Chinese courts. Hua, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said that Canada \u201cis ganging up with a handful of countries to confuse right with wrong in disregard of facts\u201d by criticizing recent court judgments against Michael Spavor and Robert Schellenberg.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dragon creating an Arms Race<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Japanese government is accelerating revision of its \u201cMedium Term Defence Program\u201d due to concerns about a worsening threat by Chinese military forces. The updated timetable of the revised plan is designed \u201cto counter China\u2019s growing assertiveness in surrounding waters and prepare for contingencies in the Taiwan Strait.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Smoking Dragon<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese investments in new heavily polluting coal-fired power plants and steel factories severely undermine the country\u2019s \u201ccarbon neutrality\u201d targets, a research report concludes. The report by the nongovernmental Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air warned that 18 new steel blast furnace projects and 43 new coal-fired power plants announced earlier this year will upon completion emit \u201can estimated 150 million tons of CO2 a year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thought<\/span><\/p>\n

Even Dragon has weak spots.<\/span><\/p>\n

How many can you identify?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Credit goes to all the news reports and articles where these reports were published.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dragon also has Fears The fall of Afghanistan heightened security fears in China. “Afghanistan looms large in the mind-set of China’s leadership. Although, shared border is only small 47-mile stretch, for China, the nightmare is Islamist terror attacks, plotted across that short border.   Height of Insecurity China is cracking down on its big Business … <\/p>\n

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