2023-03-23: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-23). China Hits Back at US Criticism of Ukraine Peace Efforts. news.antiwar.com China on Wednesday hit back at US criticism of Beijing's efforts to push for peace talks to end the fighting in Ukraine as Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded his three-day visit to Moscow. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday that China was not "impartial" due to its relationship with Russia, comments …

_____ (2023-03-23). Putin and Xi Standing Firm on the Right Side of History. strategic-culture.org The world is changing before our eyes. Western imperialist regimes are being exposed for the warmongers they are, and a new multipolar order of partnership and peace is emerging. | The historic summit this week between the Russian and Chinese leaders provoked paroxysms of angst in the Western media. President Vladimir Putin's hosting of China's Xi Jinping in Moscow was presented as the "world's two most prominent autocrats" purportedly establishing a hostile "anti-West axis". | The American and European media — slavishly echoing the talking points of their imperialist regimes — were in hyper-bogeyman…

____ (2023-03-23). In Numbers: China-Russia trade injects strong momentum into bilateral ties. ecns.cn

____ (2023-03-23). PLA expels U.S. destroyer trespassing Chinese territorial waters off Xisha Islands. ecns.cn The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) expelled a U.S. destroyer when the latter trespassed into Chinese territorial waters off the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea on Thursday amid continued U.S. attempts to destabilize the region.





_____ (2023-03-23). China is Making the 'New' Middle East. journal-neo.org This was inevitable. When the US started to strategically withdraw from the Middle East and shifted its focus towards Southeast Asia and (Eastern) Europe to contain its two rivals (China and Russia), the Middle East was left without a traditional balancer. Without making an orientalist argument and arguing that the Middle East always needed an […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

WSWS (2023-03-23). Biden's Canada visit aimed at girding North American imperialist alliance for war with Russia and China. wsws.org During Biden's two-day visit, he and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will discuss a host of geostrategic issues, including: the NATO-instigated war with Russia over Ukraine; countering China from the Indo-Pacific to the Arctic; NORAD modernization; securing strategic minerals; and "friendshoring" production chains.

WSWS (2023-03-23). Chinese and Russian presidents meet as US targets both countries. wsws.org China and Russia have been driven together, despite longstanding disputes and disagreements, by necessity out of weakness, not great strength, to push back against escalating US aggression and provocations.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-03-23). South Africa, Russia, China and the Shifting World Situation. globalresearch.ca




____ (2023-03-23). Foreign investors bullish on A-share market. ecns.cn Foreign institutions' interest in China assets and investment opportunities in the Chinese market has remained robust amid rising market volatility elsewhere due to the banking credit crisis.

____ (2023-03-23). Foreign trade to receive further tech, policy backing. ecns.cn China's efforts to build modern industries and expand institutional opening-up will create new advantages in international cooperation and competition, especially given the challenges of slowing global demand, geoeconomic shocks and soaring global commodity and energy prices.

____ (2023-03-23). China's Wu Yibing into Miami Open second round. ecns.cn China's Wu Yibing advanced to the second round of the ATP Masters 1000 Miami after defeating Britain's Kyle Edmund 7-5, 7-5.

____ (2023-03-23). Yangtze River Delta continues to lure China's best, brightest. ecns.cn The government of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, has said it is to further relax rules for household registration, or hukou, to attract a wide range of talent and bolster the development of the digital economy.



____ (2023-03-23). Chinese mainland luxury goods consumer confidence rebounds: report. ecns.cn The Chinese mainland has seen rapid economic recovery and rebounding consumer conferences, and the luxury goods market is expected to recover within this year, according to the China Luxury Forecast 2023 jointly presented by Ruder Finn and Consumer Search Group on Wednesday.

____ (2023-03-23). Researchers discover exotic, rare plant species. ecns.cn Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden announced they had discovered a tree with funnel-shaped, red-orange flowers called Pterocymbium macranthum in southwestern China's Yunnan province.

____ (2023-03-23). Landscape of Tianshan mountain ranges in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Aerial view of the landscape of snow-covered mountain range of Tianshan in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, March 21, 2023.

____ (2023-03-23). China sends four meteorological satellites into space. ecns.cn A Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket carrying Tianmu-1 meteorological constellation with four satellites blasts off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, March 22, 2023.

____ (2023-03-23). 560 million people affected by strong sandstorm: Chinese administration. ecns.cn The strong sandstorm sweeping China recently has affected over 560 million people in a wide range of areas, said China's National Forestry Grassland Administration on Thursday.

____ (2023-03-23). PLA experts hold emergency medical training for China-Laos Railway. ecns.cn The eighth medical expert team sent by Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to Laos has organized training on emergency medical response for the staff of the Laos-China Railway Co., Ltd. (LCRC) here in the Lao capital.

____ (2023-03-23). China's higher education enrollment ratio reaches 59.6 pct in 2022. ecns.cn The gross enrollment ratio in China's higher education reached 59.6 percent in 2022, up 1.8 percentage points from 2021, the Ministry of Education said Thursday.

____ (2023-03-23). ASEAN secretary-general to visit China. ecns.cn At the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang, ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn will pay an official visit to China from March 24 to 29, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin announced Thursday.

____ (2023-03-23). Goat grabbing competition held to greet start of spring in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Tajik herdsmen ride yaks to catch a goat to greet the start of spring on the Pamir Plateau in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in Kashgar prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, March 21, 2023.

____ (2023-03-23). Hainan to host two subforums on trade. ecns.cn Hainan province will host two subforums on March 29 at the 2023 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, according to a news conference held on Wednesday.

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