2022-07-17: News Headlines

____ (2022-07-17). China sees over 1.45 bln domestic tourist trips in H1. ecns.cn China saw more than 1.45 billion domestic tourist trips in the first half of 2022, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Friday.

____ (2022-07-17). Xi stresses implementing Party's policies on Xinjiang, highlights stability, security. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to fully and faithfully implement the policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the governance of Xinjiang in the new era, highlighting social stability and lasting security as the overarching goal.

____ (2022-07-17). 8th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge ready for inauguration. ecns.cn The Eighth Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge is now waiting to be inaugurated and handed over to the Bangladeshi government."ÄÄ…

____ (2022-07-17). Advection fog blankets Yantai. ecns.cn Advection fog hovers around buildings in Yantai, east China's Shangdong Province, July 15, 2022.

____ (2022-07-17). Ultimate Frisbee growing in popularity among China's Generation Z. ecns.cn At an indoor soccer pitch in Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui Province, two ultimate Frisbee teams are engaging in a fierce competition, complete with noise, sweat and plenty of laughter.

____ (2022-07-17). World 5G Convention to be held in China's Heilongjiang. ecns.cn The 2022 World 5G Convention will be held from August 10 to 12 in Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, the event organizers said.

____ (2022-07-17). China launches two new satellites. ecns.cn China on Saturday launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket to place two satellites in space.

____ (2022-07-17). Flights from Hangzhou to Ho Chi Minh City resume after suspension. ecns.cn Flights from China's Hangzhou city to Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City resumed on Thursday as Flight VN9501 took off from Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport.

____ (2022-07-17). Chinese FM spokesperson refutes 'debt trap' claim. ecns.cn A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday refuted the so-called "Chinese debt trap" claim, saying that it is pure disinformation and a narrative trap created by those who do not hope to see China-Africa cooperation pick up speed.

____ (2022-07-17). Construction of Asia's first 300-meter deepwater jacket completed. ecns.cn Haiji One, Asia's first 300-meter deepwater jacket designed and built independently by China National Offshore Oil Corp, finished construction on Friday, said the country's top offshore oil and gas producer, CNOOC.

____ (2022-07-17). Tanzania receives 3 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by China. ecns.cn The government of Tanzania on Thursday received a donation of 3 million COVID-19 Sinopharm vaccine doses donated by China.

____ (2022-07-17). China urges U.S., West to stop interfering in Middle East. ecns.cn China on Friday urged the United States and the West to stop interfering in Middle East affairs and trying to transform the region according to their own standards.

____ (2022-07-17). China has been paying close attention to difficulties in Sri Lanka: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn As a friendly neighbor, China has been paying close attention to difficulties and challenges Sri Lanka faces and, whenever possible, has always provided support to Sri Lanka's socioeconomic development, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Friday.

____ (2022-07-17). Central China's Wuhan detects cholera bacteria in softshell turtle samples. ecns.cn Softshell turtle samples taken at a food market in central China's Wuhan were found to contain a pathogen capable of causing cholera, the local center for disease control and prevention (CDC) confirmed Thursday evening.

____ (2022-07-17). China's power battery output surges over 176 pct in H1. ecns.cn China's output of power batteries surged 176.4 percent year on year to 206.4 GWh in the first half of the year, according to industry data.

____ (2022-07-17). (W.E. Talk) How did the status quo of multi-ethnic coexistence in Xinjiang come into being. ecns.cn 250 years ago, led by Wubashi Khan, the Torghut Mongols chose to leave the Volga River basin where they had lived for nearly one and a half centuries. After a tough journey, Torghut managed to return to Yili, Xinjiang, where they called "the place where the sun rises".

____ (2022-07-17). In pics: clouds during sunny day in Beijing. ecns.cn Photo taken with a mobile phone shows clouds during a sunny day in Beijing, capital of China, July 14, 2022.

____ (2022-07-17). Culture fact: Sanfu, China's Dog Days of Summer. ecns.cn

____ (2022-07-17). China's economy secures positive Q2 growth, steam gathering for further recovery. ecns.cn In Q2, the economy grew 0.4 percent. Due to the complex international environment and the impact of the COVID-19 outbreaks at home and other factors that exceeded expectations, downward pressure on the economy increased in Q2, NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui told a press conference Friday.

Editor (2022-07-16). Neo-Cons: Genesis to Ascendency. scheerpost.com By Michael Brenner | The latest formulation of a binary world pits the so-called democracies against the so-called autocrats. The United States is the self-designated champion of the former while China and Russia lead the array of autocrats. In effect, it's a reversion to long-running democracy/capitalism vs Communism all-embracing conflict of the Cold War. Today's version has even less authenticity than did its…

_____ (2022-07-16). The West Is Experiencing A Power Contraction, Not Necessarily Decline. popularresistance.org What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in the 16th century and expanded continuously until the 20th century. On the eve of World War I, about 90 percent of the globe was Western or Western-dominated: Europe, Russia, the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and much of Asia (with the partial exceptions of Japan and China). From then on, the West began to contract: first with the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the emergence of the Soviet bloc, and then, from mid-century onward, with the decolonization movements. Terrestrial space, and soon after, extraterrestrial space, bec…

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2022-07-16). The West is experiencing a contraction of its power, not necessarily its decline. peoplesdispatch.org What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in the 16th century and expanded continuously until the 20th century. On the eve of World War I, about 90 percent of the globe was Western or Western-dominated: Europe, Russia, the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and much of Asia (with the partial exceptions of Japan and China). From then on, the West began to contract: first with the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the emergence of the Soviet bloc, and then, from mid-century onward, with the decolonization movements. Terrestrial space, and soon after, extraterrestrial space, bec…

Staff (2022-07-16). How Close Are Nicaragua and China to Signing a Free Trade Agreement? orinocotribune.com On Thursday, July 14, Nicaragua and China signed an Early Harvest Agreement, a mechanism that experts consider as a prelude to a Free Trade Agreement. Sputnik asked analysts about the benefits of the Early Harvest Agreement, which is to identify export products of the two countries with 0% tariffs. | According to Jorge Capelán, Uruguayan political analyst residing in Managua, the China-Nicaragua agreement signifies, in practice, that the US policies of isolating and punishing Nicaragua will be useless, because the Central American nation is now entering a gigantic market that is on the path to becoming the larges…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-07-16). "Middle East land of its people, not anyone's backyard" en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — China's foreign ministry's spokesman has reacted to US President Joe Biden's remarks at Jeddah Summit, stressing that the Middle East belongs to Middle Easterners.

Staff (2022-07-16). US approves possible sale of military assistance to Taiwan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Despite Beijing's warnings, the US State Department has approved the potential sale of military-technical assistance to Taiwan worth an estimated $108 million, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Staff (2022-07-16). China: EEUU debería dejar de interferir voluntariamente en los asuntos de Oriente Medio (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de China, Wang Yi, llamó a EE.UU. a dejar de interferir voluntariamente en los asuntos de Oriente Medio y de intentar transformar la región según sus propios criterios, y añadió que Occidente "debe respetar la soberanía de las naciones" y promover la paz allí. Destacó que China apoya firmemente a los pueblos de Oriente Medio.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-07-16). SCO to discuss Iran full membership in Uzbekistan meeting. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Zhang Ming, secretary general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has said that he expects to see a Memorandum of Obligations of Iran joining the SCO to be passed at the Samarkand meeting.

Anand Naidoo (2022-07-16). The Heat: China's Economy. america.cgtn.com China reported new economic data on Friday that is being closely analyzed for its impact — not just at home- but also on the global economy. China's GDP grew by 2.5 percent for the first half of 2022, while its economic growth rate for the …

WSWS (2022-07-16). Australian defence minister hails "unbreakable alliance" with the US in Washington. wsws.org The Labor government is deepening Australia's alignment with the aggressive US-led confrontations against Russia and China.

WSWS (2022-07-16). Significant economic slowdown as China battles COVID. wsws.org The latest Chinese data make it even more difficult for the economic growth rate to reach the government's target of 5.5 percent for this year, which was itself a three-decade low.

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