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Commentary: China is pushing a pacifist Japan into building up its military capabilities

Japan isn’t known for being an aggressive country in the world of foreign affairs. Successive Japanese governments have taken pains to emphasize their peacelike nature, a direct consequence of Tokyo finding itself on the losing side of the most horrific war of the 20th century. Japan’s constitution renounces the use…

Chicago Tribune

China Trying To Fight Back US Ban on Its Chip Industry

On Thursday, the U.S. government broadened its crackdown on China’s chip industry by adding memory chipmaker YMTC and 21 “major” Chinese players in the artificial intelligence chip sector to a Commerce Department trade blacklist.

The News Lens

Beijing crematoriums strain under Covid wave

BEIJING: Workers at Beijing crematoriums said Friday they are overwhelmed as China faces a surge in Covid cases that authorities warn could hit its underdeveloped rural hinterland during upcoming public holidays.

Bangkok Post

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As regional threats rise, Japan eases defense-only strategy

Japan's strict self-defense-only postwar principle is being loosened

The Independent UK

Pacifist Japan unveils unprecedented $320 billion military build-up

Japan said on Friday it would begin a once-unthinkable $320 billion military build-up that would arm it with missiles capable of striking China and ready it for a sustained conflict as regional tensions and Russia's Ukraine invasion stoke war fears.

Reuters

Shanghai Composite Index Ended Nearly Flat on Friday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 0.56%

Caixin Global

Biden Tells Leaders US is 'All in' for Africa

US President Joe Biden threw his support Thursday behind a larger African role in the world as he also vowed to champion democracy in a continent where China and Russia have enjoyed rising clout. "The United States is all in on Africa and all in with Africa," Biden told nearly…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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China-HK border will ‘fully reopen’ next month

The border between Hong Kong and mainland China is set to “fully reopen” early next month for the first time in three years, the South China Morning Post has reported, as the Communist Party rolls back Covid restrictions to bolster its faltering economy.

Bangkok Post

A top Chinese AirPod maker is following Apple as it shifts its supply chain away from the mainland

As Apple diversifies its supply chain away from mainland China, its Chinese suppliers are moving too, establishing factories in new hubs.

Fortune

As China seeks to live with the virus, COVID-control industries face decline

Like most Chinese, Beijing resident Wang was happy and relieved when she heard last week that China was dropping almost all of its zero-COVID policy curbs. A day later though, the 43-year-old lost her job as one of the city's many hazmat-suited COVID swab testers.

Reuters

China v Jimmy Lai: a tycoon, a trial and the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law

The pro-democracy figure has been subjected to a ‘travesty of justice’ because the Communist party regards his power as a threat, experts believe

The Guardian - UK

Chinese leaders vow to prop up COVID-battered economy as virus spreads

President Xi Jinping and his senior officials pledged to shore up China's battered economy next year as the deaths of two veteran state journalists highlighted the worsening spread of COVID-19 in the capital Beijing.

Reuters

Weekly Must-Read: Covid Chaos at China’s Hospitals as Stringent Control Policy Eases

Health care centers from Guangzhou to Shijiazhuang and Beijing are slammed amid surging infections and severe shortages of medical workers

Caixin Global

China pushes vaccines as retreat from 'zero-COVID' turns messy

China is racing to vaccinate its most vulnerable with some analysts expecting the country's COVID-19 death toll to soar after the easing of strict controls.

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Apple looks beyond ‘iPhone factory’ China as dalliance sours

Tech giant is seeking to redirect supply chains to India and Vietnam amid fears of overdependence on China.

Bangkok Post

TAT sees Chinese tourists returning soon

Outbound tourism from China is expected to restart during the Chinese New Year in late January 2023 as Beijing gradually lifts Covid-19 restrictions, say industry operators.

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Albanese flags new progress in China relationship 'in coming weeks'

In this, our last podcast for 2022, we talk with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. We spoke to each of them on the day the parliament was back to pass the energy package.

Bangkok Post

Navy still unsure about China sub engine

The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) remains undecided whether or not to choose a Chinese-made engine as a substitute for a German-made one for an S26T Yuan-class submarine being assembled for it in China, RTN spokesman Adm Pokkrong Monthatphalin said on Thursday.

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Palau's president wants greater inclusion of Taiwan on world stage despite Chinese pressure

A tiny Pacific nation that has felt the wrath of Beijing for its continuing ties to Taiwan is urging global leaders to also work closely with the democratic island that China claims as its own territory.

The Independent UK

2022 Notebook: Protests, strict COVID lockdowns tested China

After beginning 2022 by hosting a Winter Olympics inside a COVID bubble, China faced a tough year

Reuters

China urges action as ministers meet at U.N. nature summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the world to take action on preventing nature loss in a video message to ministers from more than 120 countries assembled in Montreal for the U.N. biodiversity summit, of which China holds the presidency.

Caixin Global

China’s November Urban Jobless Rate Jumps to 5.7%

Covid outbreaks in major cities drive unemployment to highest levels since May, and end of pandemic controls may further stress job market

Bangkok Post

Beijing has grave dearth of activists

Protesters recently took to the streets of China's cities in a rare show of political dissent. While the demonstrations are focused largely on the authorities' zero-Covid policy, they have sparked speculation that a pro-democracy movement -- and even a Taiwan-style political transition -- could come next. But this is unlikely,…

The Guardian - AU

From zero-tolerance into the unknown – a visual guide to three years of Covid in China

In 2019, the world’s first Covid case was detected in Wuhan. This month China abruptly shifted away from efforts to eliminate the virus

Reuters

EU countries must do more to tackle secret China police stations - NGO

EU countries are failing to provide a united front against the threat posed by dozens of secret Chinese "service stations" on their soil, a human rights group behind the exposure of the alleged facilities said on Thursday.

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