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ctg kirjoitti:
Uusi asia. En edes ajatellut että maailman lääkkeet valmistetaan kiinassa.

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Kaksi maata hallitsee maailman lääkkeiden tuotantoa tavalla, johon liittyy vaaroja – nyt vuosikymmeniä jatkunut kehityssuunta halutaan kääntää

Kiina ja Intia ovat maailman lääkeaittoja. Jos tuotanto niissä häiriintyy, voivat apteekkien hyllyt tyhjentyä Suomessakin. Onko Eurooppa varautunut lääketuotannon keskittymisen vaaroihin?
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Tästä on ollut juttua paljonkin. Myös Intia on riippuvainen Kiinasta saatavista raaka-aineista. Niiden korvaaminen on iso homma, mutta siihen on vähitellen pakko ryhtyä. Jenkeissäkin on jo havahduttu siihen.

 
The Philippines has ordered two new warships from South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Tuesday, modernising Manila's navy as it faces a dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea.
The Philippine Navy had become run down in recent decades -- even featuring US craft from World War II -- until President Rodrigo Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino, began a modest modernisation programme in 2010.
Tuesday's 28 billion pesos ($556 million) deal with the South Korean shipbuilding giant comes five years after the firm also won a contract to build two new frigates for the Philippine Navy.
Corvettes and frigates are small, fast warships mainly used to protect other vessels from attack.
"This project will give the Philippine Navy two modern corvettes that are capable of anti-ship, anti-submarine and anti-air warfare missions," Lorenzana said in a speech at the signing ceremony in Manila.
The deal "will ensure commonality and interoperability with our existing assets," he added, as well as "ease of maintenance and repairs".
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ctg kirjoitti:
Miten myö päädyttiin laittaan kaikki munat samaan koriin ja nyt niitä on hankala saada sieltä pois?
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Toisaalta aika monessa Kiina on yhtä tai vielä riippuvaisempi tuonnista. Esimerkiksi öljy, kaasu, ruoka ja monet monet lopputuotteet. Samaten Kiina on hyvin paljon riippuvaisempi viennistä kuin esim USA.

Käsittääkseni tilanne on monien tuotteiden kohdalla niin, että raaka-aineet tuotetaan Kiinassa, mutta itse tuotteet sitten muualla. Näin etenkin monen korkean teknologian ja osaamisen suhteen. Kuten sirujen.

Lieneekö lääkkeissä sama tilanne? Valmistaako Kiina kuinka paljon itse lääketuotteita? Onko heillä osaamista ja kykyä niitä tehdä? Ja vielä riittävästi koko miljardiväestölleen?

Tuossa YLE:n jutussa ei tätä Kiinan riippuvuutta muusta maailmasta tuoda lainkaan esiin vaan enemmän niin, että tämä nyt on tilanne, että olemme, tai oikeastaan koko muu maailma, Suuren ja Mahtavan Kiinan armoilla eikä sille oikein voi mitään.

Juurikin tuo kysymys, että kuinka hankalaa niiden munien saanti Kiinasta pois on, jää arvoitukseksi. Ei se välttämättä ole kovin vaikeaa, mutta saattaa jonkin verran euroja maksaa. Jos taas munat jätetään sinne yhä enevissä määrin, niin se saattaa maksaa vielä enemmän mutta niitä menetyksiä ei voi euroissa arvioida.
 
The Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News has said it will shut down after police raided its offices earlier in the day and arrested senior staff on suspicion of “conspiracy to publish seditious publications”.

“Because of the situation, Stand News is now stopping operations,” the online publication said in a Facebook post on Wednesday. “Acting editor in chief, Patrick Lam, has resigned and all Stand News employees are dismissed.”

Earlier, hundreds of Hong Kong national security police raided the offices of the media outlet and arrested six people, including senior staff, in the latest crackdown on independent press in the territory.

Among those arrested were prominent Hong Kong activists including the pop singer Denise Ho and the barrister Margaret Ng, both of whom previously served on the Stand News board. The arrests happened early on Wednesday, police said, and searches of the journalists’ homes were also carried out.
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Hong Kong media outlet Stand News to close after police raid

Reports say editors, board members and pop singer were held in early morning sweep as 200 officers raid office
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Per the paper: "In terms of law and ethics, countries need to uphold the common values of humanity, put people's well-being front and center, follow the principle of AI for good, and observe national or regional ethical norms in the development, deployment and use of relevant weapon systems." Neither the US or the PRC has any laws, rules, or regulations currently restricting the development or use of military LAWs.

The paper's rhetoric may be empty, but there's still a lot we can glean from its contents. Research analyst Megha Pardhi, writing for the Asia Times, recently opined it was intended to signal that China's seeking to "be seen as a responsible state," and that it may be concerned over its progress in the field relative to other superpowers. According to Pardhi: "Beijing is likely talking about regulation out of fear either that it cannot catch up with others or that it is not confident of its capabilities. Meanwhile, formulating a few commonly agreeable rules on weaponization of AI would be prudent."
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China’s new AI policy doesn’t prevent it from building autonomous weapons

China's bellied up to the international stage with a position paper detailing its ethics-based views on AI -- let's dive in, shall we?
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Shares in China’s Evergrande Group have been suspended from trading, the embattled property developer announced on Monday, without giving any reason.

It came amid Chinese media reports that the world’s most indebted developer was ordered by authorities in southern Hainan province to demolish 39 buildings in 10 days because the building permits were illegally obtained.

The order reportedly concerns the huge Ocean Flower project, which is a resort-style development built on islands off the coast of Hainan, according to the Chinese news outlet Cailian.

The buildings cover 435,000 square metres and took eight years to complete, the reports added, citing an official notice to Evergrande’s unit in Hainan.

Regulators in Danzhou city said in November that they would block Evergrande’s plan to repay debts to contractors and other creditors by giving them properties, Caixin reported.
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China Evergrande shares suspended after order to demolish 39 buldings

More woes for property giant as it is told to tear down the buildings in the lavish Ocean Flower Island development in Hainan province
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Hong Kong’s Citizen News to close citing fears for staff safety

Independent online news portal to cease operations amid ‘worsening environment for media’ in city
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Taiwanin valloitus saattaakin alkaa maihinlasku- eikä maihinnousujoukoilla.

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Stop counting warships. China's special-operations forces are Taiwan's real problem.

As impressive as China's naval expansion has been, Chinese leaders may not rely on those ships to recapture Taiwan.
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Haihattelua jos ilmapuolustus pysyy yhtään pystyssä Amerikkalaisten skenaarioiden mukaisesti. Taiwanilla on f16 päivitys käynnissä ja lisäksi tilataan 60 lisää, kokonaismäärän tullessa 200 koneen paikkeille.
 
KymJP2K kirjoitti:
Haihattelua jos ilmapuolustus pysyy yhtään pystyssä Amerikkalaisten skenaarioiden mukaisesti. Taiwanilla on f16 päivitys käynnissä ja lisäksi tilataan 60 lisää, kokonaismäärän tullessa 200 koneen paikkeille.
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Varmasti "vihreitä miehiä" on tuhansittain varmistamassa myös että ilmapuolustus ei toimi ja maihinlaskupaikka on turvallinen.
 
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Varmasti "vihreitä miehiä" on tuhansittain varmistamassa myös että ilmapuolustus ei toimi ja maihinlaskupaikka on turvallinen.
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Ja taiwanilla omansa kiinassa. Sitten niitä tapetaan porukoittain.
 
Mielenkiintoinen, laitan tänne, modet voi siirtää
A top health official in China's locked-down Xi'an apologised on Thursday over the miscarriage of an eight-month pregnant woman, after footage went viral of a hospital refusing her entry without a Covid test.
The city of 13 million has been under strict home confinement for two weeks to stamp out an outbreak, in line with Beijing's firm "zero Covid" strategy.
The distressing incident was detailed in a social media post by the woman's niece on January 1, which included photos and video of the woman sitting on a plastic stool outside the hospital surrounded by a pool of blood.
The post was later removed but not before it got hundreds of millions of views and sparked widespread anger online about the hardships faced by Xi'an residents.
"I deeply apologise to this patient on behalf of the city's health commission," Xi'an health commission director Liu Shunzhi told reporters, before standing and bowing to the audience.
Liu said the hospital had been told to "compensate" the woman and said he apologised that the "access to medical care was not smooth during the epidemic."
The city government said in an earlier statement Thursday on social media that the incident at Xi'an Gaoxin Hospital had aroused "widespread concern and caused a bad social impact", adding that the local health bureau was investigating.
The hospital's general manager has been suspended over the incident, as have "responsible persons" at the outpatient department.
The statement got more than 700 million views Thursday -- illustrating the huge interest the case has generated within China.
According to the January 1 post that went viral on the Twitter-like Weibo platform, staff refused to admit the heavily pregnant woman for two hours because she did not have a negative Covid test within the last 48 hours.
Her niece wrote that her negative test result had expired just a few hours earlier.
AFP could not verify the post, and calls to the hospital went unanswered.
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Chinese official apologises after woman miscarries outside lockdown hospital

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Tämä on myös harvinainen, mutta CCP ei voi mitään kun yli puolet kansasta on samaa mieltä viranomaisista. Miten tämä pääsi julkisuuteen heidän sensorikoneen takia, on varmaan sen takia että kun juttuja on niin paljon, että numerot on suuria, niin propagandakone rupeaa tökkimään. Kukaan ei myöskään nitistänyt tätä nuppuunsa.
 
Taiwan has started deporting Chinese nationals for the first time in over a year, authorities said Thursday, following China's return of a Taiwanese fugitive in a rare act of cooperation as tensions rise.
Police from both sides routinely returned fugitives to their respective territories under a 2009 agreement but deportations have grown rarer since President Tsai Ing-wen, who regards Taiwan as a sovereign nation, came to power in 2016.
Beijing, which views the self-ruled island as part of its own territory, has cut off official communication and ramped up pressure on Taipei since Tsai took office.
But on Thursday, the National Immigration Agency said 21 Chinese nationals who entered Taiwan illegally were on the deportation list. It declined to provide additional details, to "ensure smooth and safe operations".
The Chinese nationals were set to be flown out in four groups starting from Wednesday, local news outlet United Daily News reported.
One of the returnees was a man who managed to cross the Taiwan Strait in a rubber dinghy last May.
Taiwan's government said the latest deportations were the first since November 2020 as travel was hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.
"The process ... has positive meanings for normal and orderly exchanges between the two sides," said the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's top body handling China ties.
Thursday's announcement of the deportations comes after China last month returned a Taiwanese murder suspect under the 2009 agreement, which was struck when ties were warmer under Taiwan's then Beijing-friendly government.
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Taiwan begins deporting Chinese nationals in rare cooperation

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Taiwanese troops and armoured vehicles were deployed Thursday for a mock urban street battle in the latest drill preparing forces against China, which has long vowed to take the island.
Democratic Taiwan lives under constant threat of an invasion by authoritarian China, which claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory to be seized one day -- by force if necessary.
Beijing has ramped up military drills and diplomatic pressure on Taiwan since President Tsai Ing-wen came to power in 2016, as she regards the island as a sovereign nation.
On Thursday, soldiers from two platoons faced off in a simulated battle, firing at each other from houses and sandbag barricades as tanks rolled down a street in a mock-up town complete with signs for pharmacies and beer brands.
Urban warfare has become an increasingly key training subject for the military.
"Any future battle to protect Taiwan will be an urban warfare," Kiwi Yang, an instructor at Army Infantry School, told reporters, noting most of Taiwan's 23 million people live in cities.
"The Chinese communist troops' battle plans will be invading and landing firstly from coastal towns, then the fighting will progress into more populated residential and commercial areas and lastly push into mountainous villages," he added.
With mountain ranges, changeable weather and limited beach landings, invading Taiwan would be a Herculean challenge for any military.
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Taiwan troops simulate urban warfare with China

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Kuten arvelin, hyvä saada vahvistus. Taiwanilaisten mukaan mikä tahansa aseellinen konflikti on TRAta.
 
A general who led China's anti-terrorism special forces in Xinjiang has been promoted to head the People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong, state media has reported.
China has been accused by Washington of genocide in Xinjiang, a far-western region where human rights campaigners say authorities have detained vast numbers of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in camps and are stamping out their culture.
The Hong Kong appointment comes as Beijing remoulds the international business hub in its own authoritarian image after huge and sometimes violent democracy protests in 2019.
Chinese President Xi Jinping appointed Major General Peng Jingtang, deputy chief of staff of the People's Armed Police, as the Hong Kong garrison's commander, China's official Xinhua news agency announced Sunday.
Under the city's mini-constitution, Hong Kong has its own police force but China has maintained military barracks there since the 1997 handover when colonial Britain's own forces left.
A new national security law has also empowered the mainland's security agents to operate openly in the city.
Among the few details released on state media about Peng's career was his former post as the chief of staff of the Armed Police Corps in Xinjiang, part of China's paramilitary police force.
Three years ago, Reference News -- a branch of Xinhua -- reported that a new special force called Mountain Eagle Commando had been formed in Xinjiang "for the anti-terrorism needs in the region and across China".
Peng was quoted in the report as being the force's leader.
"Every single bullet of ours is aiming at the battlefield," he was quoted as saying, alongside revealing that the ammunition spent by the force in training over a single year was three times what other units use.
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Xinjiang anti-terror general to lead China's Hong Kong garrison

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A Chinese developer previously considered financially sound is embarking on a fire sale of assets as the contagion of bad debts built up within China’s bloated housing sector continues to spread.

Shimao Group Holdings, which is in the top dozen Chinese property companies, was plunged into crisis after it said it defaulted a trust loan last week after missing a 645m yuan ($101m) payment that it guaranteed.

Its situation worsened on Monday night when its credit rating was downgraded to junk status by S&P.
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Chinese developer Shimao plans fire sale after downgrade and missed payment

Fears over contagion mount as a company once considered financially sound is running out of cash to pay its debts
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By reducing the flow of cheap credit to developers, the tougher rules have set off a chain reaction throughout the industry, starting with China’s second-largest property developer Evergrande, which slipped into default on some if its $300bn debts in December.

But despite official insistence that the problem is limited to a few duds, the contagion appears to be spreading and is being accelerated by falling house prices and sales.
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Taiwan's parliament on Tuesday passed an extra spending bill of nearly $8.6 billion in its latest bid to boost defence capabilities against an increasingly bellicose China.

The government proposed a five-year special defence budget of around TW$237.3 billion from 2022 as Chinese warplanes breached its air defence zone at unprecedented levels last year.
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Taiwan passes extra $8.6 bln defence budget as China threat grows

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On Tuesday, Taiwanese lawmakers agreed unanimously to pass the special budget, although cut it by TW$310 million. The package comes on top of a record annual defence budget of TW$471.7 billion set for 2022.

It aims to acquire various precision missiles and mass-manufacture high-efficiency naval ships "in the shortest period of time" to boost the island's sea and air capabilities, the government said.

J Michael Cole, a Taipei-based political and military analyst, called the special budget "an encouraging and much-needed development" as Taiwan prioritises "asymmetrical" capabilities, such as unmanned vehicles, anti-ship missiles and air-to-ground cruise missiles.

"Many of those are 'counterforce' capabilities, with ranges that are long enough to hit targets along China's coastline" in line with the direction Taiwan's defence ministry has taken in recent years, said Cole, a senior fellow for Canadian think tank Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

"This move will also be welcomed by the United States, which often complains that Taiwan focuses too much on large conventional platforms at the detriment of smaller, more dispersible and less costly 'asymmetrical' capabilities."

Washington has remained a leading ally and arms supplier to Taipei despite switching diplomatic recognition to Beijing in 1979.

The budget includes a coastal anti-ship missiles system, a locally-developed Wan Chien (Ten Thousand Swords) cruise missile as well as an attack drone system and installation of combat systems on coastguard ships.

Cole also points out the benefit of ensuring quicker delivery as many of the armaments are produced domestically.

"The latter is a crucial part, as Taiwan needs to make sure it has the capabilities to deter, and if needed to counter, a Chinese attack now, not five, ten years from now."

China has publicised multiple recent military drills simulating an invasion of the island.

For decades, analysts largely concurred that invading Taiwan is a challenge China could not pull it off but Beijing has dramatically closed the gap in recent years.
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Toinen esimerkki harmaan ajan ostoksista taikka budjeteista. Tämä ostos menee puikkoihin ja dronejen torjuntaan.
 
Trollaan "vähän" mutta virallisesti Taiwan on osa kiinaa (ainakin EUn mielestä) niin miksei Kiina sitten saisi liittää aluetta tiukemmin itseensä, ei kai taiwanilaisten mielipiteellä voi olla tähän oikeudelliseen kysymykseen merkitystä?
 
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