TTCT – Cuối tháng 6-2022, một lệnh cấm ở quận Bắc Đới Hà được ban bố khiến nhiều người ngạc nhiên: xe Tesla bị cấm tới bờ biển khu vực nghỉ dưỡng ven biển ở tỉnh Hà Bắc này trong hai tháng.
Ảnh: CBS 58
Cảnh sát giao thông Bắc Đới Hà khi được hỏi chỉ nói lệnh cấm là vì “vấn đề quốc gia”, nhưng không cung cấp thêm thông tin.
Bắc Đới Hà là địa điểm cuộc gặp mặt hằng năm của giới lãnh đạo cao nhất Trung Quốc, và lệnh cấm được ban bố chỉ vài tuần sau khi xe Tesla bị cấm vào một số đường trung tâm ở Thành Đô trong một chuyến thăm của Chủ tịch Tập Cận Bình.
An actor playing a spy shows off his multiple identity cards in a propaganda video released by China’s Ministry of State Security to warn the public about foreign spies. Ministry of State Security
By Nectar Gan, CNN Published 8:38 PM EDT, Sun April 21, 2024
TĐH: China sees ghost everywhere and this sickly fear will pull China down to the abyss. You can’t live with fear for so long
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In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere.
As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a food delivery driver – he even sets up an online honey trap – to glean sensitive state secrets in various places and industries.
Gần đây Philippines hai lần đưa người đổ bộ lên rạn san hô Hoài Ân trên quần đảo Trường Sa của Việt Nam. Sự việc đó đã làm căng thẳng với TQ leo thang khi phía TQ dùng cả trực thăng đến thổi gió mạnh để ngăn chặn.
Chinese official Zhao Leji attends a session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last month. Mark Schiefelbein/AP
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China’s highest-level visit to North Korea in nearly five years is set to get underway Thursday, as Pyongyang seeks to strengthen relations with both Beijing and Moscow amid growing coordination between its neighbors and the United States.
Over the last twenty years, China’s influence in the Middle East has grown substantially. China has major economic partnerships with Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and also Israel.
Chinese migrants have been found dead on the coast of southern Mexico, authorities said, after their boat capsized along a popular but perilous route for illegally entering the United States. The bodies of the seven women and one man were discovered Friday on a beach in San Francisco del Mar, Oaxaca, the state’s prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Tiếp tục đọc ” A deadly incident underscores the risks for Chinese migrants journeying to the US”→
Container trucks leave China for Vietnam at a border gate in Lao Cai Province. Photo by VnExpress/Giang HuyVietnam and China have agreed to increase trading hours at the Huu Nghi Border Gate by two hours, to 8 p.m. daily, amid rising imports to Vietnam.
After the Lunar New Year holiday in February there has been rising need for trading and there is some overload, said Hoang Khanh Duy, deputy head of the Management Board of Dong Dang – Lang Son Border Gate in the northern province of Lang Son.
On March 16 there were 1,000 trucks waiting to cross the border on the Chinese side of Huu Nghi Border Gate, mostly carrying food ingredients, machines and car parts.
Customs officials from both countries agreed to increase trading time by two hours starting March 17, and the next day the overload dropped to 500 trucks.
Vietnam saw imports rise 18% year-on-year to $54.6 billion in the first two months. China was the biggest import market accounting for $21 billion, up 51%.
Former Australian diplomat John Lander returns to CITIZENS INSIGHT in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war to discuss the broader global geopolitical ramifications.
Interview with John Lander, Former Deputy Ambassador to China (1974-76), Former Ambassador to Iran (1985–87) Hosted by Robert Barwick, Research Director of the Australian Citizens Party
From Israel-Hamas War of Genocide to China-Taiwan issue, analysis to see the “rule-based order” of the US and Its allies, in which the “rules” keep changing to serve US’ and ít allies’ interests and no one really knows what the rules are.
After the Youtube clip is the computer-generated transcrip of the talk.
The countries’ opposing ideologies amid clashing sovereignty claims could lead to years of militarisation and confrontation in the region if not contained, analysts warn
Manila has been boosting defence ties with various countries with the aim of building ‘collective deterrence’ in the event of conflict in the region
The recent trading of barbs between China and the Philippines over ideological differences highlights the “perennial mistrust” between the two neighbours, experts say, noting that their disparate approaches to democracy and authoritarianism are likely to further escalate tensions in the South China Sea.
The Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot. It was a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption.
JANUARY 20, 2024, 5:46 AM
By Parag Khanna, the founder and CEO of Climate Alpha. FP
An aerial view shows stranded ships dotting bright blue water as they wait to cross the narrow Suez Canal seen in the distance at its southern entrance in the Red Sea.
Over the past two months, a sudden surge in Houthi rebel attacks in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea prompted the world’s largest shipping carriers to halt transit through the Suez Canal for several weeks—with even more rerouting their vessels as the United States and Britain launched strikes on Yemen and the situation has escalated.
Trong một động thái đáng chú ý ở khu vực Nam Á, Maldives yêu cầu Ấn Độ rút binh sĩ đang đồn trú tại nước này trước ngày 15/3.
Maldives là quốc đảo nhỏ ở khu vực Nam Á, vốn phụ thuộc đáng kể vào nước láng giềng Ấn Độ về nguồn cung lương thực, xây dựng hạ tầng và công nghệ. Tuy nhiên mối quan hệ này gần đây xuất hiện dấu hiệu căng thẳng.
Tổng thống Maldives Mohamed Muizzu. Ảnh: AP
Trong khi đó, trong chuyến thăm Trung Quốc hồi tuần trước của Tổng thống Maldives, hai bên nhất trí nâng cấp lên “quan hệ đối tác hợp tác chiến lược toàn diện”. Các nhà phân tích cho rằng động thái của Maldives phản ánh phần nào sự chuyển hướng chính sách của một số quốc gia ở Nam Á trước cuộc cạnh tranh ảnh hưởng giữa các nước lớn.
Ngày nay, chúng ta thường xuyên được chứng kiến những màn đối đầu ngoại giao xung quanh vấn đề Tân Cương. Trong khi nhiều nước liên tục chỉ trích, thậm chí trừng phạt Trung Quốc vì vấn đề người Duy Ngô Nhĩ, thì Trung Quốc bác bỏ cáo quốc và luôn bảo vệ ”sự thống nhất toàn vẹn Trung Quốc”, tố cáo ”chủ nghĩa ly khai Duy Ngô Nhĩ” bị các nước phương Tây lợi dụng chống Trung Quốc.
Nhưng nếu để ý, sẽ thấy một nước lớn là Nga lại khá im tiếng trong vấn đề này, không hùa theo chống Trung Quốc, nhưng cũng không công khai ủng hộ Trung Quốc về vấn đề Tân Cương. Có gì khó lý giải ở đây? Điều đó hoàn toàn lý giải được nếu biết được lịch sử vùng đất Tân Cương từ những năm 1930-1950, để thấy rằng: không ai khác ngoài Stalin và Liên Xô đã đỡ đầu cho Tân Cương độc lập. Và thậm chí trước kia, chính Đảng Cộng sản Trung Quốc của Mao Trạch Đông từng ủng hộ Tân Cương ly khai khỏi Trung Hoa.
The National Task Force West Philippine Sea (NTFWPS) vehemently condemns the illegal and aggressive actions carried out by the Chinese Coast Guard and Chinese Maritime Militia against the civilian Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessels Datu Sanday, Datu Bankaw, and Datu Tamblot today during a regular BFAR humanitarian and support mission of providing oil subsidy and grocery packs to over 30 Filipino fishing vessels near Bajo De Masinloc in the West Philippine Sea. As of this reporting the mission is on-going. Tiếp tục đọc “STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL TASK FORCE FOR THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA”→
Defaults by Chinese borrowers have surged to a record high since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, highlighting the depth of the country’s economic downturn and the obstacles to a full recovery.
A total of 8.54mn people, most of them between the ages of 18 and 59, are officially blacklisted by authorities after missing payments on everything from home mortgages to business loans, according to local courts. That figure, equivalent to about 1 per cent of working-age Chinese adults, is up from 5.7mn defaulters in early 2020, as pandemic lockdowns and other restrictions hobbled economic growth and gutted household incomes.
The soaring number of defaulters will add to the difficulty of shoring up consumer confidence in China, the world’s second largest economy and a crucial source of global demand. It also throws a spotlight on the country’s lack of personal bankruptcy laws that might soften the financial and social impact of soaring debt.
Under Chinese law, blacklisted defaulters are blocked from a range of economic activities, including purchasing aeroplane tickets and making payments through mobile apps such as Alipay and WeChat Pay, representing a further drag on an economy plagued by a property sector slowdown and lagging consumer confidence. The blacklisting process is triggered after a borrower is sued by creditors, such as banks, and then misses a subsequent payment deadline.
“The runaway increase in defaulters is a product of not only cyclical but also structural problems,” said Dan Wang, chief economist at Hang Seng Bank China. “The situation may get worse before it gets better.” The personal debt crisis follows a borrowing spree by Chinese consumers. Household debt as a percentage of gross domestic product almost doubled over the past decade to 64 per cent in September, according to the National Institution for Finance and Development, a Beijing-based think-tank. But mounting financial obligations have become increasingly unmanageable as wage growth has stalled or turned negative in the midst of the economic malaise.
As a growing number of cash-strapped Chinese consumers have struggled to make ends meet, many have stopped paying their bills. More Chinese residents are also struggling for work: youth unemployment hit a record 21.3 per cent in June, prompting authorities to stop reporting the data. “I will pay my Rmb28,000 ($4,000) credit card balance when I have a job,” said John Wang, a Shanghai-based office worker who defaulted on his payments after being laid off in May. “I don’t know when that will happen.” China Merchants Bank said this month that bad loans from credit card payments that were 90 days overdue had increased 26 per cent in 2022 from the year before.
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