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China-Australia trade war forces winemakers to look to US, UK, and India to market

Source: ABC #Jan02

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China-Australia trade war forces winemakers to look to US, UK, and India to market

Australian winemakers are looking to Britain, the U.S. and India as alternative markets, as tensions with China brought about by the coronavirus pandemic force the industry to seek stability in 2021.

"We are fighting with every other wine producing nation in the world for a slice of that market,” Lee McLean, from industry group Australian Grape and Wine, said.

Bruce Tyrrell from Tyrrell's Wines in the Hunter Valley said he believed the American and British markets were worth expanding, but, his strategy was to grow his exports in other Asian countries and build entirely new markets in Central Asia.

India is another growth area, however high duties and taxes on imported wine mean it is not an overly attractive market for many producers just yet.
The wine industry is calling on the Federal Government to finalise a bilateral trade deal with India, known as the Australia-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, that has been in the works for 9 years.

Source: ABC #Jan02

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-01-02/china-australia-trade-war-winemakers-look-for-new-markets-covid/13026228

#AustralianWine #AustraliaChina
China harvests masses of data on Western targets to fight the Public Opinion War. Central Propaganda Department staff: To Help understand the anti-China network

Source: MingPao #Jan02

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China harvests masses of data on Western targets to fight the Public Opinion War. Central Propaganda Department staff: To Help understand the anti-China network

The US "Washington Post" published an investigative report on Friday December 31, finding that China began to expand online monitoring and censorship overseas at least two years ago. The Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau and other mainland government departments invite bids from official media and enterprises to build a monitoring system and user profile database to track the information dynamics of Western social media such as Twitter and Facebook in real time, targeting important figures in Western political and business media. The focus includes Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Sino-US relations. When negative reports and public opinion trends against China, officials will be automatically warned. Some mainland public opinion analysts said that this move is to help Beijing understand foreign anti-China forces in order to fight public opinion wars, but American think tank scholars warned that overseas Chinese will be at risk for everyone’s activities on social media.

Source: MingPao #Jan02

https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e5%9c%8b%e9%9a%9b/article/20220102/s00014/1641059721108

#China #Monitoring #Database #Twitter #Facebook #HongKong #Taiwan #Xinjiang
Politics Comic Writer Justin Wong Reveals the Main Reason of Emigration

Source: Renew #Jan02

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm5S37hJRi6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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Politics Comic Writer Justin Wong Reveals the Main Reason of Emigration

Former Assistant Lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts at the Hong Kong Baptist University (#HKBU), as well as a politic comic writer, Justin Wong Chiu Tat, was namely criticised by the Hong Kong Police that his comic on #MingPao in Sep 2021 defamed Junior Police Call. He then apologised for the comic and moved to the UK in the end of that year.

He revealed in #SimonShen interview that his critical point to emigrate was regarding one of his research projects on the protests’ posters, happening after the comic incident. At the time, the seniors in the institution proactively reported it to the National Security Officers, possibly due to the slogans “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times” is shown on the poster.

However, HKBU denied reporting him to the officers and stated that they have been protecting the #AcademyFreedom, providing a suitable environment for their students and staff for research, education and learning. They added, the institution should be responsible to ensure on-campus events are complying to the law. With regards to this incident, HKBU mentioned, “the institution did not submit the case to the authority to follow-up.

#WongChiuTat #JustinWong #AniELAB

Source: Renew #Jan02

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm5S37hJRi6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=