2022-08-23: News Headlines

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-08-23). China rechaza visión hegemónica de EE.UU. sobre Taiwán. telesurtv.net Cancillería rechazó declaraciones del embajador estadounidense en China, Nicholas Burns.

____ (2022-08-23). China launches new satellite via Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket. ecns.cn China on Tuesday successfully launched a new satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

____ (2022-08-22). Longjing tea leaves sunburnt in Hangzhou. ecns.cn Drone photo shows the Longjing tea leaves covered by sheets to keep cool at a tea plantation base in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 22, 2022.

____ (2022-08-22). (W.E. Talk) Founder of 'Hidden Champion' theory: China has become the best test field for innovation. ecns.cn What can Chinese enterprises learn from German "hidden champions"? And will they become the toughest future competitors of German "hidden champions"?

____ (2022-08-22). Critically endangered plant rediscovered in SW China. ecns.cn According to the Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), researchers have rediscovered a critically endangered plant, Euonymus aquifolium, during China's second scientific research survey on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

____ (2022-08-22). China protests against Indiana governor's Taiwan visit. ecns.cn China has made serious demarches to the U.S. side on Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb's visit to Taiwan, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday.

____ (2022-08-22). 2022 version of traffic light standards doesn't exist: transportation authorities. ecns.cn China's Traffic Management Research Institute released an announcement Monday refuting the rumor surrounding a "2022 national version of traffic lights" that has triggered so much online debate.

____ (2022-08-23). Forest fire rages amid extreme heat in Sichuan. ecns.cn A mountain fire rages at Hejiang county of Luzhou city, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 23, 2022. A total of 207 people have been evacuated and no casualties have been reported.

____ (2022-08-23). Multiple countries and international organizations to attend 2022 CIFTIS. ecns.cn A total of 71 countries and international organizations will participate in the 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) to be held in Beijing from Aug 31 to Sept 5, said the event's organizers on Tuesday.

____ (2022-08-22). Beijing bourse sees over 5.1 million investors open accounts. ecns.cn The Beijing Stock Exchange (BSE) has seen more investors open accounts since it started trading in November last year, bringing the total number to over 5.1 million, the exchange said.

____ (2022-08-22). Water level of China's second largest freshwater lake hits record low. ecns.cn Dongting, China's second-largest freshwater lake in central China's Hunan Province, has reported record low water levels due to sustained hot weather and low precipitation, according to local authorities on Monday.

____ (2022-08-22). Current epidemic in Hainan reaches turning point: authority. ecns.cn The current round of COVID-19 in south China's Hainan has reached a turning point, with new infections falling for four consecutive days, the anti-epidemic headquarters of the island province said Monday.

____ (2022-08-22). China enters semi-final in tank biathlon in int'l army games. ecns.cn The tank biathlon's singles at the ongoing International Army Games 2022 concluded in a Moscow suburb on Sunday, with the Chinese team entering the semi-finals.

____ (2022-08-22). Six former staff of infamous Apple Daily to plead guilty. ecns.cn Six former employees of Hong Kong's secessionist media Apple Daily are going to plead guilty on the charge of violating the National Security Law (NSL) for Hong Kong, according to the court's hearing on Monday.

Lee Siu Hin, China-US Solidarity Network (2022-08-23). 8/20 LEE SIU HIN: Stupid Self-Defeating U.S. Sanctions Make China Even Stronger. indybay.org Why the latest desperate, racist and phony high-tech ban against China by the U.S. — the CHIPS Act — won't work and will only serve to put taxpayer money into the wallets of corporate America and the corrupt politicians.

____ (2022-08-23). New cargo flight service links NE China city to Los Angeles. ecns.cn A Boeing 787-9 carrying 41.4 tonnes of goods took off from Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Monday evening. Destined for Los Angeles in the United States, it marks the opening of the new cargo flight service.

____ (2022-08-22). Chongqing wildfires put under control. ecns.cn Several big wildfires that have spread since Thursday amid continuing extreme hot weather and drought have been brought under control by firefighters in Chongqing. No casualties were reported.

____ (2022-08-22). Shanghai's landscape lighting switched off amid heatwave. ecns.cn Shanghai has switched off decorative lights along the Bund river front for two days from Monday to save energy. Outdoor advertising lights in these areas will be turned off as well to cope with the summer power demand peak.

____ (2022-08-22). Rice-producing areas rev up drought relief. ecns.cn Water gushes through an irrigation system in a rice paddy in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. Throughout the country, people are mitigating the drought's impact on agriculture amid excessively high temperatures.

____ (2022-08-22). Smart China Expo opens in Chongqing. ecns.cn The expo, held annually in Chongqing since 2018, is a platform to promote global exchanges of smart technologies and international cooperation in the smart industry.

____ (2022-08-22). China launches Chuangxin 16 satellite. ecns.cn A Kuaizhou-1A rocket carrying Chuangxin 16(Innovation 16) satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 23, 2022.

Contributing Writers (2022-08-22). China forgives 23 loans for 17 African countries, expands 'win-win' trade and infrastructure projects/ By Ben Norton. marktaliano.net Original Link Here: China forgives 23 loans for 17 African countries, expands 'win-win' trade and infrastructure projects &#1 ; Multipolarista China is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African countries, after already cancelling $3.4 billion and restructuring $15 billion of debt from 2000-2019. Beijing pledged more infrastructure projects and offered favorable trade deals in a "win-win" …

_____ (2022-08-22). The Blowback of Washington's Geopolitics of Containment. journal-neo.org When President Joe Biden upgraded the US policy of containment to dual containment i.e., a simultaneous containment of Russia and China via a crisis manufactured in Europe (Ukraine) and Asia (Taiwan), little did he, or his administration, know this could mark the beginning of a process that could alter the existing world order in ways …

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-22). Indiana Governor Leads Third US Delegation to Taiwan This Month. news.antiwar.com Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and other state officials arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, marking the third US delegation to visit the island this month amid soaring tensions between the US and China. Holcomb, a Republican, said that the trip was meant to boost economic cooperation between the US and Taiwan with a focus on the …

____ (2022-08-22). Positive conditions help stabilize prices. ecns.cn China has the conditions to keep prices stable for the rest of the year despite elevated global inflation, with consumer inflation likely remaining below the nearly 3 percent target for 2022, officials and experts said.

____ (2022-08-22). Three scientists win China's 2022 Future Science Prize. ecns.cn Three scientists on Sunday were awarded the 2022 Future Science Prize, the first Chinese non-governmental science award jointly initiated by groups of scientists and entrepreneurs.

____ (2022-08-22). Washington Wants a New Cold War—but That's a Bad Idea. transcend.org 15 Aug 2022 – As China unleashed live-fire military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, simulating a real "reunification by force" operation in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ceremonial visit to the island last week, the bipartisan fervor for a new Cold War with China and Russia took greater hold in Washington.

____ (2022-08-22). No Longer a Pariah? Russia and China Could Be about to 'Normalize' North Korea and Leave the US with another Asian Headache. transcend.org 18 Aug 2022 – Once a Cold War proxy battleground for superpowers, is the Korean peninsula being pulled apart by bloc politics again?>

Anonymous103 (2022-08-22). The Opaque Pacific: Fiji's Maritime Essential Services Centre. southfront.org Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | With China constantly being accused of insufferable secrecy and a lack of openness about security and defence arrangements among partners in the Pacific, the shoe, when on the other foot, sits just as well. In the case of Australia, it is particularly snug. We are not exactly clear about the fine print of the AUKUS security arrangement between Canberra, Washington and London, though…

WSWS (2022-08-22). In wake of Pelosi visit, US announces trade talks with Taiwan. wsws.org The trade negotiations are one more element in the Biden administration's systematic undermining of the One China policy that has underpinned US-China diplomatic relations for decades.

____ (2022-08-22). Nation to drive growth of nonpublic sector. ecns.cn More efforts must be undertaken to drive the healthy development of the nonpublic sector and give full play to the dynamic role of private entrepreneurs so they will dare to make breakthroughs, China's top leadership said in recent high-level conferences.

____ (2022-08-22). China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 sails for maritime tracking, monitoring tasks. ecns.cn At 9 am on Monday, China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 left a dock, bounding for the mission area to carry out maritime tracking and monitoring tasks.

____ (2022-08-22). 26 dead, 5 missing in flash floods in Qinghai. ecns.cn The search for people missing after a mountain flood triggered by heavy rainfall on Wednesday night is still ongoing in Datong Hui and Tu autonomous county in Qinghai province.

____ (2022-08-22). Xiao Qi Ji celebrates 2-year-old birthday in U.S. ecns.cn Giant panda "Xiao Qi Ji" enjoys its birthday cake at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., U.S., Aug. 21, 2022. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Mengtong)…

____ (2022-08-22). China's top space contractor CASC reveals new launch vehicle able to send Chinese to Moon by around 2030. ecns.cn China's new-generation manned rocket, which is currently under development, will possess the capability to send taikonauts to the Moon by around 2030.

____ (2022-08-22). China has favorable conditions for overall price stability. ecns.cn Aside from the efforts to stabilize the commodity and food prices, there is no monetary basis for price hikes thanks to China's adherence to not resorting to the "flood-like stimulus," Fu Linghui said.

____ (2022-08-22). Three Lessons from Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan. transcend.org 15 Aug 2022 – Editor's Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.

____ (2022-08-22). Beautiful scenery of tea plantation base in Jiangxi. ecns.cn Aerial view shows a tea plantation base in Jinxi county of Fuzhou city, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 20, 2022.

____ (2022-08-22). Chongqing battles relentless wildfires amid heatwave. ecns.cn Several wildfires have been reported in mountain and forest areas in the Jiangjin, Dazu, Tongliang, and Banan districts of southwest China's Chongqing since Thursday, all due to high temperatures and drought.

____ (2022-08-22). China releases results of investigation into math textbook illustrations. ecns.cn China's Ministry of Education (MOE) on Monday announced the results of an investigation into problematic illustrations in math textbooks for primary school students published by the People's Education Press (PEP).

____ (2022-08-22). China begins shipment of high-speed trains to Indonesia. ecns.cn A high-speed electric passenger train and an inspection train, customized for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia, left the port of Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province on Sunday.

WSWS (2022-08-22). Twitter falsely labels WSWS report on natural COVID-19 origins as "misleading" wsws.org On August 19 Twitter began flagging as "misleading" links to a WSWS article about two scientific studies substantiating the zoonotic origins of COVID-19 and debunking the lie that it was started in a Chinese biolab in the city of Wuhan.

____ (2022-08-22). Volunteers capture images of Ili Pika in Xinjiang. ecns.cn

____ (2022-08-22). How Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan Has Enabled China to Redefine the Rules of the Game. transcend.org 15 Aug 2022 – Editor's Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.

____ (2022-08-22). Chinese team ranks first in relay race of Suvorov Onslaught. ecns.cn China team ranked first, also the best record, at the Suvorov Onslaught contest of the International Games 2022 on Sunday.

____ (2022-08-22). Chongqing's landmarks go dim due to power shortage. ecns.cn Lighting for outdoor wall decoration signs was suspended from Sunday in an effort to save electricity. Public lighting in the scenic area has been reduced by three-quarters and the Hongya Dripping was also temporarily closed.

____ (2022-08-22). Science, technology week gets underway nationwide. ecns.cn China's national science and technology week started on Saturday and will run until Aug 27, featuring exhibitions and events showcasing the latest scientific and technological achievements, from giant drones shaped like a dragonfly, to tiny artificial intelligence chips.

____ (2022-08-22). 27 people punished over controversial textbook illustrations. ecns.cn China's Ministry of Education on Monday announced punishment on 27 people, including senior officials of People's Education Press, a publishing house supervised by the ministry, after a three-month investigation into the controversial, "ugly" illustrations in primary school textbooks.

____ (2022-08-22). Smart China Expo opens in Chongqing, focusing on intelligent technology. ecns.cn The Smart China Expo 2022 opened Monday in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, attracting over 500 exhibitors from home and abroad to showcase their latest intelligent technology achievements.

____ (2022-08-22). Amidst Uproar over Nancy Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan, Media Ignores Aggressive U.S. Maritime Action in South China Sea. transcend.org 18 Aug 2022 – In order to force high-tech companies to decouple from the People's Republic of China and reverse U.S. decline, U.S. imperialism needs a political/military crisis with China.

____ (2022-08-22). Six suspects arrested in HK for role in SE Asia job scam. ecns.cn Hong Kong police have arrested six people over job scam after 37 reportedly fell to the scheme after being lured to the Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos to engage in illegal work since January.

____ (2022-08-22). China's Hainan to resume fishery production as COVID-19 wanes. ecns.cn Fishery production in south China's Hainan Province will be gradually resumed from Tuesday, as some areas on the island have seen no new COVID-19 cases in the community for several consecutive days.

____ (2022-08-22). 10,000 China-Europe freight train trips made in 2022. ecns.cn The number of China-Europe freight train trips in 2022 reached 10,000 on Sunday, 10 days earlier than last year, data from the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway) shows.

____ (2022-08-22). Lin-gang driving Shanghai economic development. ecns.cn The friendly business environment featuring a higher level of opening-up has been nurtured in the Lin-gang Special Area since its launch three years ago, and efforts will continue to achieve more technological advances and systematic innovations in the area.

____ (2022-08-22). Over 4,000 Beijing merchants open shop in Hebei. ecns.cn Gu'an International Trade City just opened to business, attracting more than 4,000 merchants who used to run business in Beijing's wholesale markets in urban areas.

____ (2022-08-22). 103rd successful rocket launch breaks record. ecns.cn The Long March carrier rocket family, China's backbone launch vehicle fleet, has set a new record for successful consecutive launches after a Long March 2D launch over the weekend.

____ (2022-08-22). Wheat harvest hits 6.535 million tons in NW China's Xinjiang, up 2.1% y-o-y. ecns.cn The wheat harvest in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is drawing to a close, with observers expecting a bumper harvest this year at 6.535 million tons, up 2.1 percent year-on-year, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.

JANET (2022-08-21). Where it does not dominate, U.S. imperialism sows chaos. iacenter.org By Manuel Raposo August 17, 2022 U.S. military left Afghanistan in ruins. Above, the results of a 2017 bombing raid that killed 90. Raposo is editor of the Portuguese web magazine, jornalmudardevida.net, where this article was published Aug. 10. Translation: John Catalinotto. While declaring itself ready to prolong the war in Ukraine, "for as long as necessary," U.S. imperialism is dedicating itself to creating new hotbeds of tension in various parts of the world, in a bid to threaten and show strength. Three events reveal this: the visit to Taiwan of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, second in succession to the presid…

_____ (2022-08-21). China Forgives 23 Loans For 17 African Countries. popularresistance.org The Chinese government has announced that it is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African nations, while pledging to deepen its collaboration with the continent. | This is in addition to China's cancellation of more than $3.4 billion in debt and restructuring of around $15 billion of debt in Africa between 2000 and 2019. | While Beijing has a repeated history of forgiving loans like this, Western governments have made baseless, politically motivated accusations that China uses "debt-trap diplomacy" in the Global South. | The United States has turned Africa into a battleground in its new cold war on China an…

____ (2022-08-21). Shanghai to release consumption coupons on Sat. ecns.cn Shanghai authorities are planning to release 1 billion yuan worth of coupons in the coming months, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce announced on Wednesday.

____ (2022-08-21). Number of Chinese netizens exceeds 1 billion. ecns.cn China has seen a rapid growth of netizens over the past decade, along with a higher internet popularity rate, Niu Yibing, spokesman of the country's top cyberspace regulator, told a news conference on Fr…

____ (2022-08-21). Xinjiang's foreign trade up 38.1 pct in first seven months. ecns.cn Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region recorded nearly 115.5 billion yuan (about 17 billion U.S. dollars) in foreign trade in the first seven months of this year, up 38.1 percent year on year.

_____ (2022-08-21). US Encircles China through Provocations. journal-neo.org The US has recently carried out a deliberate effort to exert military and political pressure on Beijing, and organize provocations against the PRC from all sides along its national borders, as it is fearful of losing in its standoff with China and being stripped of its leading position in the world. To this end, the …

____ (2022-08-21). Commissioner's office of Chinese Foreign Ministry in HKSAR urges external forces to stop meddling with Hong Kong's rule of law. ecns.cn The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Saturday strongly disapproved and firmly rejected attempts of a handful of U.S. and British politicians to interfere in Hong Kong's rule of law and to whitewash anti-China forces by making irresponsible rhetoric about judicial proceedings of the HKSAR.

____ (2022-08-21). China sets up working group to promote talks on joining DEPA. ecns.cn China on Thursday set up a working group to advance talks on joining the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) after approval from the DEPA Joint Committee, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced on Friday.

____ (2022-08-21). (W.E. Talk) Liu Zhipeng: How to look back on the century since the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the Communist Party of China. ecns.cn "We have long looked back on the past hundred years from a western viewpoint," said Liu Zhipeng, associate vice president and professor of history at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, in an exclusive interview with China News Service's "W.E. Talk". "When we re-examined it from the perspective of contemporary world history, what we learn is, of course, different from what we have seen in the last 100 years."

____ (2022-08-21). China's social security fund reaps 4.27 pct investment return in 2021. ecns.cn China's social security fund saw a return on investments of 4.27 percent last year, according to the body that manages the fund's investment.

____ (2022-08-21). First World Vocational College Skills Competition held in Tianjin. ecns.cn The first World Vocational College Skills Competition kicked off in Tianjin and Jiangxi province earlier this month, attracting participants from more than 100 countries.

____ (2022-08-21). China urges U.S. not to miscalculate resolve to defend sovereignty, territorial integrity. ecns.cn Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Friday urged the U.S. side not to miscalculate China's firm resolve to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

____ (2022-08-21). Nearly 30 train passengers test positive for COVID-19. ecns.cn At least 27 passengers aboard a train that started from Lhasa in Tibet autonomous region on Monday and arrived in Beijing on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19 after they disembarked at different stations.

____ (2022-08-21). (W.E. Talk) In the face of disruptors, why is cooperation the only way to achieve long-term stability in the South China Sea. ecns.cn Wu Shicun, the founding president of National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said in an exclusive interview with China News Service's "W.E. Talk" that U.S. policies and actions on the South China Sea, as well as its allies' military actions there, will become a destabilizing factor that will cause the situation to deteriorate. The only way to achieve lasting peace and stability in the South China Sea is for neighboring countries to focus on functional cooperation, seeking common ground while shelving differences.

____ (2022-08-21). Chinese embassies, consulates stand ready to help overseas Taiwan compatriots: spokesperson. ecns.cn Overseas Taiwan compatriots can contact and seek help from Chinese embassies and consulates when they encounter difficulties, a Chinese mainland spokesperson said Friday.

____ (2022-08-21). China to strengthen prevention, control of floods, droughts. ecns.cn Chinese authorities have urged efforts to enhance the prevention and control of floods and droughts, as recent overlapping events have posed severe challenges for disaster control.

____ (2022-08-21). China has 475 mln 5G mobile users: ministry. ecns.cn The number of 5G mobile users in China had reached 475 million by the end of July, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Friday.

____ (2022-08-21). China offers NE province financial support to restore flood-hit infrastructure. ecns.cn China's top economic planner has allocated a budgetary investment fund to help the flood-stricken northeastern Liaoning Province.

____ (2022-08-21). Comicomment: U.S. attempt to challenge one-China principle doomed to fail. ecns.cn The China-U.S. relationship is now at a critical juncture. Undermining the one-China principle is risky and irresponsible. The U.S. must not act recklessly or create bigger crises. Those who play with fire will not come to a good end.

____ (2022-08-21). Work team sent to China's Qinghai to guide rescue efforts. ecns.cn A working team has been dispatched to northwest China's Qinghai Province after heavy rains triggered a mountain torrent disaster there.

____ (2022-08-21). Cradle of Civilization: Peiligang Site. ecns.cn Peiligang Site, located in Xinzheng, Henan Province, covers an area of ,000 to 60,000 square meters.

____ (2022-08-21). China's rail cargo volume up 5.9 pct in first seven months. ecns.cn China's rail freight volume, a key indicator of economic activities, rose 5.9 percent year on year in the first seven months of the year, continuing the trend of expansion in the first half of 2022, official data showed.

____ (2022-08-21). China launches S&T activities to inspire innovation. ecns.cn China on Saturday launched its national science and technology (S&T) week activities to inspire innovation throughout the society.

____ (2022-08-21). China's NEV market to see rapid expansion in 2022-2026: report. ecns.cn China's new-energy vehicle (NEV) market is expected to expand rapidly during the 2022-2026 period, a report from the global market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) showed.

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