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Chinese President Xi Jinping Address World Economic Summit, Calls for “Global Cooperation”

Chinese President Xi Jinping has addressed the World Economic Summit in Davos. In his first speech since President Biden took office he called on a return to multilateralism. He warned that a “slip into arrogant isolation will always fail.”
“For the first time in history, the economies of all regions have been hit hard at the same time, with global industrial and supply chains clogged and trade and investment down in the doldrums. Despite the trillions of dollars in relief packages worldwide, global recovery is rather shaky and the outlook remains uncertain,” Xi said.
The Chinese president called on governments “to abandon ideological prejudice and jointly follow a path of peaceful coexistence, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.”
Xi continued his theme of inclusion throughout the address, adding: “To build small circles or start a new Cold War … will only push the world into division and even confrontation.”
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Covid 19: China Pushes QR Codes as Travel Pass

At the G20 Summit President Xi Jinping has called for a “global mechanism” to open up international travel.

He suggested that everyone have a QR code. “We need to further harmonise policies and standards and establish ‘fast tracks’ to facilitate the orderly flow of people,” he said.

QR codes would be linked to your health care status.

However, human rights campaigners have warned that the system could be used for “broader political monitoring and exclusion”.

Within the Chinese city of  Hangzhou a permanent QR code system will be implemented to give citizens a personal health score based on their medical history, personal fitness and health check ups.

Singapore and Australia have also used QR code technology during the pandemic in their track and trace systems.

Read More:  BBC

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Chinese Government Orders Low Income Christian Families to Abandon Their Faith or Lose Welfare Payments

The Chinese Government is continuing to target faith groups in China. Now ordering low income Christian households to abandon their faith or lose welfare payments.

The Chinese economy has been severely affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, particularly low income families.

A local pastor said: “All impoverished households in the town were told to display Mao Zedong images… The government is trying to eliminate our belief and wants to become God instead of Jesus.”

In April a disabled Christian had their welfare payments, which amounted to $14, because the believer continued to attend a worship service.

Read More: CBN News

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China is Collecting DNA Samples from Tens of Millions of Males

Across China tens of millions of men and boys are being compelled to give blood samples for the government’s DNA mapping project. The Chinese government have been collecting samples since 2017, and the data will be paired with the country’s wider surveillance program.

The aim is to genetically map the countries 700 million males. With the database the authorities will be able to track down the male relatives of any citizen in the country.

A U.S. company, Thermo Fisher, has come under fire for selling the Chinese government the testing kits used in the program.

The genetic testing along with the extensive surveillance databases Beijing have created is an increasing worry to minority groups in the country. Christian and Muslim minorities have already been targeted by the government. As well as those who have criticised Beijing or who seek greater freedom in the country.

Read More: New York Times

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Beijing Tightens its Grip of Power on Hong Kong

Tensions have been running high within the Hong Kong legislature. A fight broke out over the election of a pro-Beijing chair for the committee. Pro-democracy lawmakers were forceably removed from the legislature.

Under the “one country, two systems” framework, Hong Kong has been allowed to exist as a semi-autonomous region. However, that framework is now up for review. And Beijing are making moves to tighten control of the region.

Furthermore, Pro-democracy activists have also called Hong Kong residents to take to the streets to protest Beijing’s plans to impose new and tighter security restrictions on the region.

Activists fear this new legislation will further erode the freedom and democratic nature of Hong Kong.

China’s decision to impose the legislation hit the  Hong Kong stock market and prompted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to condemn the move, saying, “The decision to bypass Hong Kong’s well-established legislative processes and ignore the will of the people of Hong Kong would be a death knell for the high degree of autonomy Beijing promised.”

Read Move: Clash Daily and France 24

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CIA Believe China Pressurised WHO to Downplay Coronavirus Outbreak

A CIA report has stated it believes China threatened the WHO to downplay the Coronavirus outbreak. They say that in the crucial weeks, in mid-January, when the Coronavirus began to spread across the globe, China threatened the WHO, saying they would not cooperate in any investigations into Coronavirus. In the meantime China were stockpiling medical supplies, including PPE, some of which manufactured in the US.

The report has not been published. However, the contents of report, entitled ‘U.N.-China: WHO Mindful But Not Beholden to China,’ were confirmed to Newsweek by two U.S. intelligence officials.

The German intelligence agency have also accused the Chinese leader Xi Jinping of personally pressurising WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The German Federal Intelligence Service ‘Bundesnachrichtendienst’ BND said: ‘On January 21, China’s leader Xi Jinping asked WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to hold back information about a human-to-human transmission and to delay a pandemic warning.

‘The BND estimates that China’s information policy lost four to six weeks to fight the virus worldwide’.

The World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International importance on January 30th.

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Chinese Stealth Bomb Could be Ready by End of Year

The Chinese have been working on a stealth bomber that could be ready by the end of the year. Xian H-20 would give the Chinese the ability to launch a nuclear attack by land, sea or air. Only America and Russia currently have this complete nuclear capability.

The new bomber would make Australia, Japan and Korea  within range. And is likely to heighten tensions between the US and Beijing.

Read More: The Daily Mail

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China Appointed to the U.N. Human Rights Council

China has this week been appointed to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The appointment means that China will be part of the body that decides who investigates abuses in human rights.

This is despite a catalogue of human rights abuses by the Chinese authorities. And at a time when the  Chinese is showing itself to be more authoritarian.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, which monitors the UN Human Rights Council and has championed the rights of victims in China, stated, “Allowing China’s oppressive and inhumane regime to choose the world investigators on freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief. It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide.”

Read More: The Daily Wire

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Trump to Sign Executive Order to End U.S. Reliance on China for Drugs.

The President is seeking to end the country’s reliance on drugs and essential medical supplies from China. The Coronavirus pandemic has reignited the debate about the nations reliance on China for the supply of life saving drugs.

Trump will tighten “Buy American” laws to encourage the purchasing of American-made pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.

“China has managed to dominate all aspects of the supply chain using the same unfair trade practices that it has used to dominate other sectors — cheap sweatshop labor, lax environmental regulations and massive government subsidies,” said the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.

“As President Trump has said, what we need to do is bring those jobs home so that we can protect the public health and the economic and national security of the country.”

Despite America being a world leader in drug discoveries, manufacturing of drugs has moved off shore. With China producing much of the world’s penicillin, antibiotics, face masks, and other key medical devices.

America’s last penicillin factory closed in 2004. But Chinese pharmaceutical companies have supplied more than 90 percent of U.S. antibiotics, vitamin C, ibuprofen and hydrocortisone, as well as 70 percent of acetaminophen and 40 to 45 percent of heparin in recent years, according to Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Read More: NYTimes

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Pompeo: China Seeks to “Exploit” American Freedoms to Infiltrate and Influence National and Local Government

Secretary of State  Pompeo has said in a recent address that the Chinese are seeking to infiltrate and influence state and local politics.

“While there are places we can cooperate, we can’t ignore China’s actions and strategic intentions. If we do, we risk the important components of our relationship that benefit both countries,” Pompeo said. “The Chinese Government has been methodical in the way it’s analyzed our system, our very open system, one that we’re deeply proud of. It’s assessed our vulnerabilities, and it’s decided to exploit our freedoms to gain advantage over us at the federal level, the state level, and the local level.”

Read More: The Daily Wire

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New Chinese Virus: US Announces First Case

A deadly SARS like virus which has spread across south China and into some south-east Asian counties has entered the US. The coronavirus has been confirm in an individual in Seattle. The person had traveled into Seattle from China, after  taking unwell they sought medical help. The coronavirus has now been confirmed.

The virus has spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan and has seen more that 300 people taken ill, with six deaths. The virus is believed to have originated in a market selling seafood, where live animals are also present. It was confirmed the virus can pass from person-to-person.

Read More: BBC