2024-03-08: News Headlines

Bochen Han (2024-03-08). US panel urges State Department to raise travel advisory for Xinjiang to highest level. scmp.com Co-chairs of Congressional-Executive Commission on China ask Secretary of State Antony Blinken to notify tourists 'about the risk of enabling atrocity crimes'.

ecns.cn (2024-03-08). China makes major steps cracking down on administrative monopolies. ecns.cn China will take bigger actions to crack down on administrative monopolies so as to offer a fair market environment for companies, said a top market regulator official on the sidelines of the ongoing two sessions on Friday.

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2024-03-07: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2024-03-06). Xinjiang to open up further to world despite West's smearing. ecns.cn Despite some Western political forces continuing to run smear campaigns about the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, it won't deter the region from opening up further to the world, the region's top official said.

ecns.cn (2024-03-06). Deputy hopes digitization can drive interest in relics. ecns.cn Zoya Bahit, an archaeologist from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region who is a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, said she has developed an emotional attachment to relics and will spend a lifetime exploring the mysteries behind them.

ecns.cn (2024-03-07). Wang Yi: China, Russia forging new major country relations. ecns.cn China and Russia have forged a new paradigm of major country relations that differs from the obsolete Cold War approach, and strive for lasting good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation on the basis of non-alliance, non-confrontation and are not targeting any third party.

Editor (2024-03-07). UPDATED] Another lost Cold War document: Zhou Enlai's March 8, 1952 denunciation of U.S. germ warfare. mronline.org When the U.S. began its aerial germ war bombing campaign over No. Korea & China in Winter 1952, China's Foreign Affairs Minister publicly accused the U.S. of dropping infected insects in Northeast China.

Bloomberg (2024-03-07). US calls for Netherlands, Germany, South Korea, Japan to tighten chip curbs on China, drawing resistance from allies. scmp.com Japan and the Netherlands have responded coolly to US push to plug holes in its export controls, arguing that they want to first assess the impact of current curbs, sources say.

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2024-03-04: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2024-03-04). Incredible ice formations on Sayram Lake in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Multiple ice chunks scatter on the lake surface under the blue sky on Sayram Lake, the largest alpine lake in Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

ecns.cn (2024-03-04). China develops bird-like ornithopter with huge application potential. ecns.cn China has recently developed a new type of ornithopter, an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings, and experts said on Sunday that the small bird-like aircraft has huge military and civilian application potential.

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2024-03-02: News Headlines

WSWS (2024-03-02). US leads multilateral Cobra Gold military exercises in Thailand. wsws.org Washington's claims that the war games are necessary for regional stability ring hollow as the US works to provoke a war with China and surrounds the latter with military allies and strategic partners.

WSWS (2024-03-02). Philippine president delivers anti-China speech to Australian parliament. wsws.org Without explicitly naming China, Marcos launched into a thinly-veiled denunciation of Beijing while calling for stronger military ties between the two American allies against China.

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2024-02-29: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2024-02-29). Ice begins melting on Boston Lake as spring comes. ecns.cn Ice on Bosten Lake, China's largest inland freshwater lake, begins melting as temperature rises in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2024.

eng.belta.by (2024-02-29). Belarus clinch 26 medals at Altyn Mergen Grand Prix in Shymkent. eng.belta.by Taking part in the tournament were 230 athletes from six countries: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). Another Lost Cold War Document: Zhou Enlai's March 8, 1952 Denunciation of U.S. Germ Warfare. By: Jeffrey S. Kaye. midwesternmarx.com Picture of the "Northeast China Group of the Commission for Investigating the Crime of Bacteriological Warfare Committed by the American Imperialists," taken at Shenyang, April 1, 1952. From 1952 pamphlet, "Exhibition on Bacteriological War Crimes Committed by the Government of the United States," pg. 13, published by The Chinese People's Committee for World Peace (author's private collection) IntroductionThis is an updated version of the original post. The update is necessary, …

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2024-02-26: News Headlines

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2024-02-26). Dismantling Western Hypocrisy on Xinjiang and Gaza. orinocotribune.com By Arjae Red — Jan 16, 2024 | Arjae Red, a union activist and Workers World Party leader, traveled in May 2023 to The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China's far northwest as part of a WWP delegation along with Workers World contributing editor Sara Flounders, organized by the China — U.S. Solidarity Network | The movement in the U.S. supporting Palestinian national liberation has drawn truly massive numbers of people in action. On Jan. 13, for example, a reported 400,000 people marched on the White House, marking the largest pro-Palestine demonstration in U.S. history. | To counter this gr…

Editor (2024-02-26). Feb 26, 2024. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) — The Beatles Margaret Anna Alice: Hard Lessons (Video) + What Is the Alchemy of Moral Courage? War and Genocide Create Jobs! A Growth Industry for the US, by Bill Astore Layers & Levels Chapter Six: Materialism Revisited, by Ashley Howes The U.S. Has Made Taiwan a Trigger for War. Can China Disarm It? by Finian Cunningham Sunday evening musings (and a laugh and a song), by el gato malo China's Double Attack On Israel, US At ICJ: 'Palestine Has Right To Armed Resistance' (Video Transcript) Biden is 'pristine' on Israel, says megadonor Haim Saban, by…

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2024-02-24: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2024-02-24). Xinjiang set to boost air trip business. ecns.cn The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is speeding up the development of its air travel market by building more civil airports and raising connectivity, fueled by increased travel demand to and from the region.

Sara Flounders (2024-02-24). Oppose the new Cold War on China by opposing every U.S. war. workers.org Based on a talk by Sara Flounders to a webinar held on Feb. 18, 2024, Peace Delegates Report Back from China, organized by Friends of Socialist China and the International Manifesto Group. To see the webinar, go to tinyurl.com/2rv6njbj. With U.S. wars coming thick and fast, the best way to . . . |

ecns.cn (2024-02-24). Xi replies to letter from Iowa's Muscatine High School students. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, also the Chinese Lantern Festival of the Year of the Dragon, replied to a letter from students of the U.S. Iowa state's Muscatine High School who visited China in late January and sent them New Year cards in return.

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