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The British and the “colorful revolution” in Hong Kong
12 August 2019
Since the transfer of sovereignty from the British Empire to the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong is along with Macao, one of the two Chinese special administrative regions. Under the 1997’s agreements, Beijing established the western democracy in Hong Kong, which had never seen it before. For the first time, the Parliament was elected by the people.
However, while the return of Hong Kong to China marked an improvement in the living conditions of the population, it remained culturally (...)
“The Art of War”
Russia-China : the summit which the media ignored
by Manlio Dinucci
Rome (Italy) | 12 June 2019
On 5 June, the media projectors zeroed in on President Trump and the European leaders of NATO, who, for the anniversary of D-Day, auto-celebrated in Portsmouth “peace, freedom and democracy in Europe,” vowing to “defend them at any time, wherever they may be threatened”. The reference to Russia is clear.
The major medias have either ignored, or somewhat sarcastically relegated to the second zone, the meeting that took place on the same day in Moscow between the Presidents of Russia and China. (...)
UK can take giant strides on China’s ’new silk road’
by Liu Xiaoming
London (United Kingdom) | 17 April 2019
Macclesfield, a town in the North-West known as the "silk capital of England", has had interactions with China for more than 400 years and is regarded as the Western end of the ancient Silk Road in Europe. Fast-forward to the second decade of the 21st century and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), designed to revive the ancient trade route, is becoming the mainstream of China-UK co-operation.
The UK Government has appointed a BRI special envoy, established an expert board and participated (...)
The Fight against Terrorism and Extremism and Human Rights Protection in Xinjiang
Beijing (China) | 18 March 2019
Foreword
Terrorism is the common enemy of humanity, and the target of joint action by the international community. Terrorist forces, by means of violence, sabotage and intimidation, pose a serious threat to world peace and security by scorning human rights, slaughtering innocent people, endangering public security, and creating fear and panic in society. The infiltration and spread of extremism is a hotbed for violence and terror, constituting a direct threat to human rights. The Chinese (...)
EU-China – A strategic outlook
Brussels (Belgium) | 12 March 2019
European Commission contribution to the European Council I. Introduction
The European Union (EU) and China are linked by an enduring relationship. They are two of the three largest economies and traders in the world. China is now the EU’s second-biggest trading partner behind the United States and the EU is China’s biggest trading partner . Both sides are committed to a comprehensive strategic partnership, as expressed in the EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation .
Yet there (...)
Saudi Arabia supports China against the jihadists
25 February 2019
The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed ben Salman, travelled to China on an official visit. The purpose: to contribute his support to China’s anti-terrorism policy.
The Crown Prince’s trip is taking place just as Turkey issues a declaration denouncing the repression that China is applying, according to Ankara, against the Uigur people, a people of Turkish language and Muslim religion. At the same time, China has just started a biometric censure in the region of Xinjiang, where the majority of the (...)
The CIA is using Turkey to pressure China
by Thierry Meyssan
Damascus (Syria) | 19 February 2019
While Turkey has fostered economic links with China in order to solve its economic crisis, it has also publicly denounced the repression of the Uyghurs, basing its accusations on false information. Beijing sent a very cold reply. Everything is happening, now that Daesh has disappeared from Iraq and Syria, as if Ankara was once again running secret operations on behalf of the CIA, this time in Xinjiang.
China’s response to British Threats
17 February 2019
The government of the People’s Republic of China has cancelled a meeting that had been scheduled between Vice Prime Minister Hu Chunhua (see photo) and the Finance Minister, Philip Hammond.
In an address made at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the UK Minister of Defence, Gavin Williamson, recently threatened to send an aircraft carrier to the China Sea to make Peking “pay dearly” for “its aggressive conduct” [27].
The cancellation of the meeting with the Finance Minister deprives (...)
China responds to Turkey
Beijing (China) | 11 February 2019
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying
Question: On February 9, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey criticized China on the situation in Xinjiang and its relevant policies. What is your response?
Hua Chunying: I have noted these very bad remarks made by the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. The Chinese Embassy in Turkey has already made a response at the earliest time possible, and the Chinese side has made stern (...)
Turkey condemns China
Ankara (Turkey) | 9 February 2019
Hami Aksoy, Spokesperson of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Serious human rights violations perpetrated against Uighur Turks and the passing away of folk poet Abdurehim Heyit
Practices violating the fundamental human rights of Uighur Turks and other Muslim communities in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region have worsened, especially during the last two years, and have been brought to the agenda of the international community.
In particular, the official declaration of the (...)
Erik Prince invests in China
7 February 2019
Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, has not only invested in the United Arab Emirates but also in China, specifically in Xinqiang.
Citic, the Chinese public financial conglomerate has a 25% shareholding in FSB, a company set up by Prince. FSG signed an agreement with the Management Committee of an industrial park in Kashgar Caohu in order to train 8 000 security agents per year. A signing ceremony took place on 11 January 2019 at Beijing (photo).
According to Reuters, the Chinese Partner (...)
Cultural Protection and Development in Xinjiang
Beijing (China) | 13 December 2018
Preamble
China is a unified multi-ethnic country. In the course of a civilization that dates back more than 5,000 years, the various ethnic groups of China have created a long history and a splendid culture. Since ancient times many ethnic groups have made their way to Xinjiang, and it has become their home and a place for cultural integration. Various ethnic cultures of Xinjiang have their roots in the fertile soil of Chinese civilization, advancing their own cultural development while (...)
“The Art of War”
Behind the US attack on Chinese Smartphones
by Manlio Dinucci
Rome (Italy) | 5 December 2018
Donald Trump’s attempt to re-balance the commercial flow between China and the USA does not correspond only to his aim of bringing de-localised jobs back to the United States. Indeed, the deployment of new transport and communications infrastructures is swiftly becoming a threat to the US position as leader of the world. The struggle centred around Huawei illustrates the way in which economic and military preoccupations inter-connect. Already, many States have observed that Washington is so far unable to decode this technology. Thus, as they did in Syria, they have entirely re-equipped their Intelligence services with Huawei material, and forbid their civil servants to use any others.
Western Campaign for the Rights of Chinese Islamists
18 November 2018
On 13 November 2018, Western Governments launched, a campaign in the UN Council of Human Rights in support of Chinese Islamists, some of whom had been preventively interned in brain washing/mind-set adjusting camps.
2010 – 2011 saw the start of the Nato Operations aimed at putting the Muslim Brotherhood into power in all Arab States. The People’s China – just like some Western countries — facilitated the departure of its Islamists to the Middle East. China thought quite wrongly that this would (...)
The Silk Road and Israël
by Thierry Meyssan
Damascus (Syria) | 30 October 2018
Beijing continues unceasingly to develop its « Silk Road » project. China’s vice-President, Wang Qishan, has undertaken a tour of the Near East which took him to Israël for four days. According to the agreements which have already been signed, within two years China will control the major part of Israël’s agro-food industry, its high technology and its international exchanges. A free trade agreement should follow, and the geopolitics of the whole region will be turned upside down.
The Silk Route will pass through Jordan, Egypt and Israel
19 October 2018
After the Daesh attack on the city of Palmyra, China renounced the traditional “silk route” (Bagdad, Palmyra, Damas-Tiro). An alternative trail had been envisaged, no longer across Syria but Turkey. This has also been abandoned.
During antiquity there was also a secondary route through Petra (Jordan) and Alexandra (Egypt). In the final analysis, the new Silk route should pass through Jordan then bifurcate with one branch leading to Egypt and the other in the direction of Israel.
The path (...)
Mike Pence at the Hudson Institute
by Mike Pence
Washington D. C. (États-Unis)
| 4 October 2018
Thank you, Ken, for that kind introduction. To the Members of the Board of Trustees, to Dr. Michael Pillsbury, to our distinguished guests, and to all of you who, true to your mission in this place, “think about the future in unconventional ways” –- it is an honor to be back at the Hudson Institute.
For more than a half a century, this Institute has dedicated itself to “advancing global security, prosperity, and freedom.” And while Hudson’s hometowns have changed over the years, one thing has (...)
Remarks by Wang Yi to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly
by Wang Yi
New York (USA) | 28 September 2018
Madam President,
Every September, global attention focuses on the United Nations and on this stately Assembly Hall. People watch closely what is happening here, hoping that the United Nations will deliver to the world peace, development, harmony and prosperity. People look to the UN to help realize their dream for a better life, a UN that is committed to "Making the United Nations Relevant to All People", thus making our world a better place for everyone to live in.
The contemporary (...)
The Facts and China’s Position on China-US Trade Friction
Beijing (China) | 26 September 2018
Foreword
China is the world’s biggest developing country and the United States is the biggest developed country. Trade and economic relations between China and the US are of great significance for the two countries as well as for the stability and development of the world economy.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, bilateral trade and economic ties between China and the US have developed steadily. A close partnership has been forged under which interests of the two countries (...)
«Current Concerns», n°21, September 18, 2018
Belt and road
Zurich (Switzerland) | 22 September 2018
“Silk Road 2018 – A new approach to trading”. International Conference in Nuremberg on 25 July 2018, by Nils Opel / Intra-American power struggle – world peace in danger. Germany is still following in the wake of the US war alliance, by Willy Wimmer / Is there still a solution for the Syrian Idlib without too many victims? / Joint Statement by the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the President of the Russian Federation and the President of the Republic of Turkey / How to deal with Chemnitz and Germany?, by Karl Müller / The global market must not destroy our food security and our rural agriculture. Initiative for Food Sovereignty: substantive arguments, by Marianne Wüthrich / “No new state control instruments, but implementation of the existing regulations!, Interview with Rudi Berli / European Union and Europe are two different things, EFTA is forward-looking, by Winfried Pogorzelski / Jean Ziegler: Paths of hope, by Dr Peter Küpfer / “Political ideas come and go, the children (...)
The 18,000 al-Qaeda Uighurs in Syria
21 August 2018
The Syrian Arab Army is preparing its attack plans to liberate the northwest of the country, that is to say the Idleb region where the defeated jihadists have taken refuge.
According to the leadership, most fighters would be ready to surrender, only 10,000 men would be ready to fight to the death.
However, according to the Syrian press, a Uyghur colony would have transformed the city of al-Zanbaki (just on the Turkish border) into an entrenched camp. We do not know much about what is (...)
Ecological Progress on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Beijing (China) | 18 July 2018
Preamble
Located in Southwest China, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covers the entire Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province, in addition to parts of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Xinjiang. It is about 2.6 million sq km in area and most of it lies at an altitude of more than 4,000 m above sea level. Hailed as the “roof of the world”, the “third pole” and the “water tower of Asia”, the Plateau is a natural habitat for rare animals and a gene pool of plateau life. It is a key eco-safety barrier in (...)
Joint statement of the 20th EU-China Summit
Beijing (China) | 16 July 2018
H.E. Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, and H.E. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, met in Beijing on 16 July 2018 for the 20th EU-China Summit. Premier Li and President Juncker jointly attended the EU-China Business Roundtable.
1. On the occasion of this 20th EU-China Summit, the two sides celebrated the 15th anniversary of the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. (...)
China over-saturated with evangelical missionaries
15 July 2018
The People’s Republic of China, which for a long time now has had to tackle the sect of Falun Gong [30], is horrified to discover the resurgence of the “Return to Jerusalem Movement”.
This evangelical sect was powerful in the 1920s in the province of Shandong (North East China), a region with a religious syncrétiste tradition The light of this sect was smothered out by the nationalist revolution yet today its torch of belief has been relit and is being passed around the Chinese diaspora in (...)
Trump bombed Syria ... to impress China
16 June 2018
In an interview granted on 12 June in Singapore to the US presenter Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump talked about the first bombing that he ordered against Syria way back in April 2017.
Trump recalled that when the Chinese President Xi Jinping was on a state visit to the US, he entertained him at Mar-a-Lago (Florida), Trump’s well known private residence. Trump specified that at the end of the dinner, while pudding was being served, he announced to the Chinese leader that he planned (...)
Joint Statement of the United States and China Regarding Trade Consultations
Washington D. C. (États-Unis)
| 22 May 2018
At the direction of President Donald J. Trump and President Xi Jinping, on May 17 and 18, 2018, the United States and China engaged in constructive consultations regarding trade in Washington, D.C. The United States delegation included Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, and United States Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer. The Chinese delegation was led by State Council Vice Premier Liu He, Special Envoy of President Xi.
There was a (...)
China’s sending a significant amount of humanitarian aid to Syrians
2 March 2018
The People’s Republic of China has just provided a significant amount of humanitarian aid to Syria. It takes the form of goods to be allocated to Syrians living in Syria and other goods meant for Syrians who have taken refuge in Lebanon.
Beijing was an important partner of the Syrian industrial-military complex during President Hafez el-Assad’s term, notably on the Scud missiles issue.
Although China did not participate in the military operations during the military aggression against (...)
China’s Arctic Policy
Beijing (China) | 26 January 2018
Foreword
Global warming in recent years has accelerated the melting of ice and snow in the Arctic region. As economic globalization and regional integration further develops and deepens, the Arctic is gaining global significance for its rising strategic, economic values and those relating to scientific research, environmental protection, sea passages, and natural resources. The Arctic situation now goes beyond its original inter-Arctic States or regional nature, having a vital bearing on (...)
Western elites find new ‘China threat’ theory
by Jiang Feng
Shanghai (China) | 20 November 2017
The world has been keeping an eye on China for the past 40 years, with adulation and anxiety. Last month, Western mainstream media outlets including the US’ Time, France’s Le Monde and Germany’s Der Spiegel chose Chinese characters or pinyin for their cover headlines, showing the world that "China won;" China, a rising power; and "China: The Awakening Giant."
Der Spiegel used "xing lai" (wake up in English) as its cover headline to echo its article "The Awakening Giant." On the one hand, it (...)
Xi Jinping’s address to Chinese soldiers stationed at Djibouti
11 November 2017
On 4 November 2017, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping held a video conference to address his soldiers at the Chinese base in Djibouti.
According to Defense News, this base has been consolidated. You could now call it a fortress, capable of accommodating a complete brigade (7 to 10 000 men).
The establishment of this base, near the US, Israeli and French bases, has put an end to piracy off the coast of Somalia.
This is the first military base outside the sphere of Chinese (...)
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