U.S. Sanctions 24 Chinese Companies Involved in South China Sea Dispute
Source: Apple Daily; New York Times #Aug26
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U.S. Sanctions 24 Chinese Companies Involved in South China Sea Dispute
On August 26, 2020, the U.S. Government added 24 Chinese companies which help the Chinese military construct artificial islands in the South China Sea to an Entity List that bans them from purchasing American products, including 5 companies under Chinese Communication Construction Company in Hong Kong. The Chinese officials have not replied to the issue yet but the website under Global Times posted the news on WeChat, with a title "Sudden Disturbance".
The list includes Beijing Huanjia Telecommunication Co., Chongxin Bada Technology Development Co., Shanghai Cable Offshore Engineering Co., Tianjin Broadcasting Equipment Co., and the research institutes of the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and China Shipbuilding Group.
Entity List also includes several divisions of China Communications Construction Company, which is in the Hong Kong stock exchange market (No. 1800). China Communications Construction Company is a contractor, handling many of the infrastructure projects for China's “Belt and Road” initiative around the world.
The U.S. State Department will impose visa restrictions on Chinese citizens who are “responsible for“, or “complicit in”, either the large-scale reclamation, construction, or militarization of disputed outposts in the South China Sea.” The family members of these sanctioned individuals may also face visa restrictions.
As the New York Times reports:
"The Chinese government has been rapidly building artificial islands in the disputed waters since 2013, dredging and constructing more than 3,000 acres of new land, including air defence and anti-ship missile features, the Commerce Department said in its announcement.
The island-building undermines the sovereignty of other countries in the region and comes despite the condemnation of the United States and other countries, according to the announcement."
#Sanction #SouthChinaSea #US #ChineseCompanies #HKStockExchange
Source: Apple Daily; New York Times #Aug26
https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200826/7BPXGKYR4NBV5HZQTKTFSR6LGU/
On August 26, 2020, the U.S. Government added 24 Chinese companies which help the Chinese military construct artificial islands in the South China Sea to an Entity List that bans them from purchasing American products, including 5 companies under Chinese Communication Construction Company in Hong Kong. The Chinese officials have not replied to the issue yet but the website under Global Times posted the news on WeChat, with a title "Sudden Disturbance".
The list includes Beijing Huanjia Telecommunication Co., Chongxin Bada Technology Development Co., Shanghai Cable Offshore Engineering Co., Tianjin Broadcasting Equipment Co., and the research institutes of the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and China Shipbuilding Group.
Entity List also includes several divisions of China Communications Construction Company, which is in the Hong Kong stock exchange market (No. 1800). China Communications Construction Company is a contractor, handling many of the infrastructure projects for China's “Belt and Road” initiative around the world.
The U.S. State Department will impose visa restrictions on Chinese citizens who are “responsible for“, or “complicit in”, either the large-scale reclamation, construction, or militarization of disputed outposts in the South China Sea.” The family members of these sanctioned individuals may also face visa restrictions.
As the New York Times reports:
"The Chinese government has been rapidly building artificial islands in the disputed waters since 2013, dredging and constructing more than 3,000 acres of new land, including air defence and anti-ship missile features, the Commerce Department said in its announcement.
The island-building undermines the sovereignty of other countries in the region and comes despite the condemnation of the United States and other countries, according to the announcement."
#Sanction #SouthChinaSea #US #ChineseCompanies #HKStockExchange
Source: Apple Daily; New York Times #Aug26
https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200826/7BPXGKYR4NBV5HZQTKTFSR6LGU/
#MadeInChina #Covid19Test
Faulty Chinese test kits yield false Covid-19 results in Sweden
Sweden's Public Health Agency said that Chinese test kits had returned some 3,700 false positive results, an error discovered by two laboratories during routine quality controls.
These kits are made by the company BGI Genomics and had been distributed worldwide.
Other than Sweden, these tests kits have also been exported to many other countries around the world. The Health Agency has informed the relavant authorities, and the World Health Organization.
As a result of this discovery, Sweden's authoriries had to contact those affected, as well as adjust the nation's official number of cases.
Source: MedicalXpress #Aug26
#Covid19 #WuhanPneumonia #CCPVirus #Sweden
Faulty Chinese test kits yield false Covid-19 results in Sweden
Sweden's Public Health Agency said that Chinese test kits had returned some 3,700 false positive results, an error discovered by two laboratories during routine quality controls.
These kits are made by the company BGI Genomics and had been distributed worldwide.
Other than Sweden, these tests kits have also been exported to many other countries around the world. The Health Agency has informed the relavant authorities, and the World Health Organization.
As a result of this discovery, Sweden's authoriries had to contact those affected, as well as adjust the nation's official number of cases.
Source: MedicalXpress #Aug26
#Covid19 #WuhanPneumonia #CCPVirus #Sweden
Australia PM to legislate disposal of Belt and Road Initiative agreement between Victoria and China
Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, will be legislating next week to ban multiple deals with foreign governments which are found not to be in line with national interest, one of which is the multi-million-dollar Belt and Road Initiative agreement between Victoria and Beijing.
The Australian has reported that this is an unprecedented move against Chinese interference and the protection of state secrets.
Source: Sky News #Aug26
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6184681606001
#Australia #Victoria #ScottMorrison #BeltandRoadInitiative
Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, will be legislating next week to ban multiple deals with foreign governments which are found not to be in line with national interest, one of which is the multi-million-dollar Belt and Road Initiative agreement between Victoria and Beijing.
The Australian has reported that this is an unprecedented move against Chinese interference and the protection of state secrets.
Source: Sky News #Aug26
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6184681606001
#Australia #Victoria #ScottMorrison #BeltandRoadInitiative
China’s trade halt with Lithuania over Taiwan ties sends warning to Europe
China’s use of trade as a weapon in diplomatic disputes appears to be now targeted at Lithuania, home to fewer than 3 million people, after the Baltic nation agreed to exchange diplomatic offices with Taiwan.
But Beijing’s unofficial halt to its already limited trade with Lithuania is more about sending a warning to the rest of Europe, analysts have said.
Lithuania and Taiwan have agreed to establish mutual representative offices as a sign of deepening ties between the two governments. In response Beijing recalled its ambassador from Vilnius and expelled Lithuania’s from Beijing.
Source: The Guardians #Aug26
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/26/chinas-trade-halt-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-ties-sends-warning-to-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#China #Lithuania #Taiwan #Europe
China’s use of trade as a weapon in diplomatic disputes appears to be now targeted at Lithuania, home to fewer than 3 million people, after the Baltic nation agreed to exchange diplomatic offices with Taiwan.
But Beijing’s unofficial halt to its already limited trade with Lithuania is more about sending a warning to the rest of Europe, analysts have said.
Lithuania and Taiwan have agreed to establish mutual representative offices as a sign of deepening ties between the two governments. In response Beijing recalled its ambassador from Vilnius and expelled Lithuania’s from Beijing.
Source: The Guardians #Aug26
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/26/chinas-trade-halt-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-ties-sends-warning-to-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#China #Lithuania #Taiwan #Europe
Spies for Hire: China’s New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship
China’s buzzy high-tech companies don’t usually recruit Cambodian speakers, so the job ads for three well-paid positions with those language skills stood out. The ad, seeking writers of research reports, was placed by an internet security start-up in China’s tropical island-province of Hainan.
That start-up was more than it seemed, according to American law enforcement. Hainan Xiandun Technology was part of a web of front companies controlled by China’s secretive state security ministry, according to a federal indictment from May. They hacked computers from the United States to Cambodia to Saudi Arabia, seeking sensitive government data as well as less-obvious spy stuff, like details of a New Jersey company’s fire-suppression system, according to prosecutors.
Source: NY Times #Aug26
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/technology/china-hackers.html
#China #Spy #Hacker #UnitedStates #Cambodia #Saudi #Arabia
China’s buzzy high-tech companies don’t usually recruit Cambodian speakers, so the job ads for three well-paid positions with those language skills stood out. The ad, seeking writers of research reports, was placed by an internet security start-up in China’s tropical island-province of Hainan.
That start-up was more than it seemed, according to American law enforcement. Hainan Xiandun Technology was part of a web of front companies controlled by China’s secretive state security ministry, according to a federal indictment from May. They hacked computers from the United States to Cambodia to Saudi Arabia, seeking sensitive government data as well as less-obvious spy stuff, like details of a New Jersey company’s fire-suppression system, according to prosecutors.
Source: NY Times #Aug26
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/technology/china-hackers.html
#China #Spy #Hacker #UnitedStates #Cambodia #Saudi #Arabia
The US Department of Justice requires the US version of Sing Tao Daily to be registered as a foreign agent
Source: Now News #Aug26
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The US Department of Justice requires the US version of Sing Tao Daily to be registered as a foreign agent
US Department of Justice claimed the US version of Sing Tao Daily register as foreign agent, Sing Tao Daily has been objected but unsuccessfully. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, China has always opposed the wrong approach of the US to unprovoked political suppression of the Chinese media.
According to US media, US Department of Justice believed according to “Foreign Agent Registration Law”, US version of Sing Tao Daily has constituted political activities within the local operations. Therefore, they required Sing Tao Daily in US version register as foreign agent.
Sing Tao Daily has been objected, and stated the company is a private company which using Hong Kong as the base and not control or affect by CCP. However, this has not been accepted by US.
Source: Now News #Aug26
https://news.now.com/home/international/player?newsId=447618&refer=Share
#UnitedStates #HongKong #China #ForeignAgent #SingTaoDaily #Politics #Suppression #CCP
US Department of Justice claimed the US version of Sing Tao Daily register as foreign agent, Sing Tao Daily has been objected but unsuccessfully. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, China has always opposed the wrong approach of the US to unprovoked political suppression of the Chinese media.
According to US media, US Department of Justice believed according to “Foreign Agent Registration Law”, US version of Sing Tao Daily has constituted political activities within the local operations. Therefore, they required Sing Tao Daily in US version register as foreign agent.
Sing Tao Daily has been objected, and stated the company is a private company which using Hong Kong as the base and not control or affect by CCP. However, this has not been accepted by US.
Source: Now News #Aug26
https://news.now.com/home/international/player?newsId=447618&refer=Share
#UnitedStates #HongKong #China #ForeignAgent #SingTaoDaily #Politics #Suppression #CCP
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美司法部要求《星島日報》美國版註冊為外國代理人
【Now新聞台】美國司法部要求《星島日報》美國版註冊為外國代理人，星島曾經提出異議，但最後都無效。中國外交部指出，中方一貫反對美方無端對中國媒體進行政治打壓的錯誤做法。
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Provincial-Level Chinese Communist Members Among "Grassroots" Sector Candidates in Upcoming Hong Kong Election
Source: Stand News #Aug26
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Provincial-Level Chinese Communist Members Among "Grassroots" Sector Candidates in Upcoming Hong Kong Election
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Provincial-Level Chinese Communist Members Among "Grassroots" Sector Candidates in Upcoming Hong Kong Election
Hong Kong is set to host an electoral committee election in September 2021, the first after China revamped the city's election rules earlier this year. A number of candidates, however, are current national committee members in mainland China.
Out of the 59 candidates of the "Grassroots Associations" sector, at least 10 are members of Provincial Political Consultative Conference, part of the Chinese Communist Party's "United Front" system. The memberships are spread across six Chinese provinces as well as two direct-administered municipalities.
Though the seats nominally represent "grassroots" people, public records show that many candidates are management-level officers in publicly-listed companies.
LegCo member Leung Che-cheung, who is also president of the pro-establishment New Territories Association of Societies, has this to say of the sector's candidates: "They represent the voice of the grassroots. They don't need to be a grassroots person themselves."
#HKElection #CCP #Astroturfing
Source: Stand News #Aug26
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%88%86%E9%81%B8%E5%A7%94%E9%81%BC%E5%AF%A7%E8%B2%B4%E5%B7%9E%E7%AD%89%E5%85%AB%E7%9C%81%E5%B8%82%E6%94%BF%E5%8D%94%E5%AF%8C%E8%B1%AA%E5%87%BA%E9%81%B8%E5%9F%BA%E5%B1%A4%E7%A4%BE%E5%9C%98%E7%95%8C%E5%88%A5-%E6%A2%81%E5%BF%97%E7%A5%A5%E4%BB%A3%E8%A1%A8%E5%9F%BA%E5%B1%A4%E5%94%94%E7%AD%89%E6%96%BC%E4%BF%82%E5%9F%BA%E5%B1%A4
Provincial-Level Chinese Communist Members Among "Grassroots" Sector Candidates in Upcoming Hong Kong Election
Hong Kong is set to host an electoral committee election in September 2021, the first after China revamped the city's election rules earlier this year. A number of candidates, however, are current national committee members in mainland China.
Out of the 59 candidates of the "Grassroots Associations" sector, at least 10 are members of Provincial Political Consultative Conference, part of the Chinese Communist Party's "United Front" system. The memberships are spread across six Chinese provinces as well as two direct-administered municipalities.
Though the seats nominally represent "grassroots" people, public records show that many candidates are management-level officers in publicly-listed companies.
LegCo member Leung Che-cheung, who is also president of the pro-establishment New Territories Association of Societies, has this to say of the sector's candidates: "They represent the voice of the grassroots. They don't need to be a grassroots person themselves."
#HKElection #CCP #Astroturfing
Source: Stand News #Aug26
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%88%86%E9%81%B8%E5%A7%94%E9%81%BC%E5%AF%A7%E8%B2%B4%E5%B7%9E%E7%AD%89%E5%85%AB%E7%9C%81%E5%B8%82%E6%94%BF%E5%8D%94%E5%AF%8C%E8%B1%AA%E5%87%BA%E9%81%B8%E5%9F%BA%E5%B1%A4%E7%A4%BE%E5%9C%98%E7%95%8C%E5%88%A5-%E6%A2%81%E5%BF%97%E7%A5%A5%E4%BB%A3%E8%A1%A8%E5%9F%BA%E5%B1%A4%E5%94%94%E7%AD%89%E6%96%BC%E4%BF%82%E5%9F%BA%E5%B1%A4
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Hong Kong media credibility drops to new low, study finds
Public trust in the credibility of Hong Kong’s media has fallen to its lowest level in two decades, according to a survey by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK).
“That means people generally don’t trust the media enough. And the media may not be able to function properly trying to report on social issues, events and monitoring the situation for the citizens. So this is not good.”
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https://hongkongfp.com/2022/08/26/hong-kong-media-credibility-drops-to-new-low-study-finds/
Source: HKFP, #Aug26
Hong Kong media credibility drops to new low, study finds
Public trust in the credibility of Hong Kong’s media has fallen to its lowest level in two decades, according to a survey by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK).
“That means people generally don’t trust the media enough. And the media may not be able to function properly trying to report on social issues, events and monitoring the situation for the citizens. So this is not good.”
Read full article
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/08/26/hong-kong-media-credibility-drops-to-new-low-study-finds/
Source: HKFP, #Aug26