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China’s ambassador has accused the UK government of blatantly interfering in China’s internal affairs by suspending extradition with Hong Kong, and led a cavalcade of Beijing voices warning of consequences.

On Monday the UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, announced his government would follow moves by Australia, Canada, and the US, and formally suspend its extradition agreement with Hong Kong in response to Beijing’s unilateral imposition of national security laws.

It came on the eve of a visit to London by US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to discuss China, 5G and a post-Brexit free trade deal with the prime minister, Boris Johnson. Pompeo arrived on Monday night and did not address the media.

The UK also extended a Chinese arms embargo established after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre to Hong Kong, and last week stripped Chinese telco Huawei from any future role in Britain’s 5G network.

China’s ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, accused the country of having “blatantly interfered in China’s internal affairs and contravened international law and the basic norms governing international relations”.

“China has never interfered in UK’s internal affairs. The UK should do the same to China. Otherwise it must bear the consequences,” he said.

A spokesman for the embassy said the UK had “repeatedly made wrong remarks” on the Hong Kong national security laws.

UK will ‘bear the consequences’ for Hong Kong decision, China warns

Ambassador to London calls extradition treaty suspension ‘blatant’ interference in Chinese affairs and a contravention of international law

www.theguardian.com

 

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The international community is legally obliged to take action on China’s alleged abuse of Uighur and other Turkic minorities, a prominent group of British lawyers has said, suggesting nations use sanctions, corporate accountability mechanisms, and international treaties preventing racial discrimination to pressure Beijing.

China’s refusal to be held legally accountable for the widespread and documented allegations did not absolve the global community of responsibility, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) said in a report released on Wednesday.

“All states, including China, have unequivocally accepted that slavery and racial discrimination, torture and genocide are prohibited,” it said.

“They have committed to not carry out those proscribed acts; they have committed to their prevention; and they have committed to punishment of perpetrators where they have found individuals to have committed those proscribed acts. There can be no derogation from those commitments.”

World is legally obliged to pressure China on Uighurs, leading lawyers say

Exclusive: Sanctions on China and companies operating there, along with use of treaty agreements, can bring Beijing to account, British barristers argue

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rantojen mies]

Laitetaan tänne, vaikka lienee tarpeellista perustaa oma keskustelu Kiinan ja Yhdysvaltojen (lännen) kiihtyvälle kilpailulle hegemoniasta.

FBI on toimittanut oikeuteen aineiston, jossa se syyttää kiinalaista tutkijaa valehtelusta viisumihakemuksessa ja vakoilusta Kiinan hyväksi. FBIn mukaan nainen oli kuulustelujen jälkeen mennyt Kiinan konsulaattiin San Franciscossa ja siellä hänen epäillään yhä olevan.

Tämä on jatkumoa eiliselle päätökselle sulkea Kiinan konsulaatti Houstonissa 72 tunnin kuluessa.

China harboring military-linked biologist fugitive at San Francisco consulate, FBI says

The Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a biology researcher who falsely denied connections to the Chinese military to obtain a visa, according to court documents.

www.foxnews.com

 

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Huge fleets of Chinese fishing boats have been caught stealthily operating in North Korean waters – while having their tracking systems turned off. The potentially illegal fishing operation was revealed through a combination of artificial intelligence, radar and satellite data.

A study published today in the journal Science Advances details how more than 1,600 vessels of Chinese origin (over 900 in 2017 and over 700 in 2018) likely caught more than 160,000 metric tons —close to half a billion dollars’ worth — of Pacific flying squid over two years. This may be in violation of United Nations sanctions, which began restricting North Korea from foreign fishing in September 2017 following the country’s ballistic missile tests.

Illegal fishing threatens fish stocks and maritime ecosystem, and can also jeopardise food security for legitimate fishers. However, the practice is difficult to monitor because of so-called “dark fleets,” or vessels that don’t appear on monitoring systems. Even if the vessels are operating legally and broadcasting their positions on the vessel monitoring systems mandated by their country, these locations are sometimes hidden from the public, limiting transparency and accountability.

In the study, scientists from South Korea, Japan, Australia and the United States combined four different technologies to piece together information about the fleets, some of which may show up using one tool, but not another. These include, automatic identification system (AIS), radar images, infrared imaging and high resolution images.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fishing-ships-tracking-systems-ai-breakthrough

 

[KymJP2K]

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fishing-ships-tracking-systems-ai-breakthrough

Ei helvetti pelkästään tässä kuvassa on 78 troolaria.

 

[Sleeper_agent]

Chinese Navy confronts Australian warships in the South China Sea

The Australian vessels were sailing close to the Spratly Islands - which are claimed by Beijing as well as the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam - when the incident happened.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Beijing has ordered the closure of a US consulate in southwestern China, in a move that escalates tensions between the two countries to a new level.

On Friday, China’s ministry of foreign affairs said it ordered the US consulate in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, to stop all operations. A notice on the ministry’s website said authorities had notified the US of China’s decision to revoke its consent for the consulate to operate.

Beijing described the measure as a “legitimate and necessary response” to the US, which earlier this week gave the Chinese consulate in Houston 72 hours to close. The US said the decision was to protect “American intellectual property and private information” without giving further details. As Chinese embassy staff burned documents in a courtyard, China vowed to retaliate against the decision which it called an “unprecedented” and “outrageous” escalation.

China orders US consulate in Chengdu to close as tensions rise

Tit-for-tat move by Beijing comes after US ordered Chinese mission in Houston to close

www.theguardian.com

 

[Pihatonttu]

Chinese Navy confronts Australian warships in the South China Sea

The Australian vessels were sailing close to the Spratly Islands - which are claimed by Beijing as well as the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam - when the incident happened.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Ehkä Kiinan johto ei tajua, että jos se ottaa yhteen USA:n niinkin läheisten ja pitkäaikaisten liittolaisten kuin Australia ja Japani kanssa, niin se ottaa yhteen kokonaisen alueella hyvin voimakkaan liittouman kanssa.

Kiinan hybriditoiminnan, pullistelun ja aluevaltausten kohteeksi joutuneilla mailla on yhteinen intressi - leikata Kiinan valtaa ja sen kehittymistä. Jokainen tietää, että Kiina ei anna sen tapahtua vapaaehtoisesti. Jokainen tietää senkin, että nykyjohdon aikana Kiina on monella tavalla paljon heikompi, mutta öykkäröivämpi kuin joidenkin aiempien johtajien aikana.

Kiinan taloudella, tuotantotaloudella, finanssijärjestelmällä, poliittisella järjestelmällä jne. on lukuisia heikkoja kohtia, joihin törmäyskurssilla olevat maat voivat iskeä. Joihinkin kohtiin voi iskeä rajustikin ilman että kuuman sodan kynnys ylittyy.

Kiinan tapa käyttää kalastusaluksia ja muita näennäisesti siviilitoiminnan piiriin kuuluvia joukkoja aggressioidensa välineenä laskee kuuman sodan kynnystä. Voi olla että Kiinan johto ei ymmärrä tätä.

 

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Four Chinese academic researchers in the United States have been accused of failing to declare on their immigration paperwork their true involvement with China’s People’s Liberation Army.

“These members of China’s People Liberation Army applied for research visas while hiding their true affiliation with the PLA,” John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, said in a statement on Thursday.

“This is another part of the Chinese Communist Party’s plan to take advantage of our open society and exploit academic institutions. We will continue to conduct this investigation together with the FBI.”

The Feds charged the four with visa fraud. Three have been collared; the fourth fled to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, California, before they could be nabbed.

The charges were brought after US Attorney General Bill Barr earlier this month slammed China’s long-running efforts to harvest trade secrets and other know-how from academia and industry in America to fulfill Beijing's goal of dominating the world in science and technology.

If convicted, each person faces a maximum of ten years in jail and a fine of $250,000. Some of the academics denied having served in the PLA at all, and others said that they had stopped working for the Chinese military when, in fact, they were still employed.

Visa applicants are told to reveal any links with the PLA, and lying on immigration forms is a big no-no. The US government is wary of those connected to the Middle Kingdom's military because it is feared those foreigners may be instructed by Beijing to steal secrets or carry out surveillance for China.

Visa fraud charges: Uncle Sam accuses four Chinese eggheads of covering up their true ties to China's military

Three collared, one in hiding at San Francisco consulate

www.theregister.com

 

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China orders US consulate in Chengdu to close as tensions rise

Tit-for-tat move by Beijing comes after US ordered Chinese mission in Houston to close

www.theguardian.com

Jos olisin länkkäri Kiinassa tai Hongkongissa niin alkaisin tekemään matkavalmisteluja pikaisesti...

 

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Laitan tänne ja ihmettelen miten tämä voidaan sallita?

Ecuador has sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels some 200 miles from the Galápagos Islands, the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

About 260 ships are currently in international waters just outside a 188-mile wide exclusive economic zone around the island, but their presence has already raised the prospect of serious damage to the delicate marine ecosystem, said former environment minister Yolanda Kakabadse.

“This fleet’s size and aggressiveness against marine species is a big threat to the balance of species in the Galápagos,” she told the Guardian.

Kakabadse and an ex-mayor of Quito, Roque Sevilla, were on Monday put in charge of designing a “protection strategy” for the islands, which lie 563 miles west of the South American mainland.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/chinese-fishing-vessels-galapagos-islands

Ensimmäinen postaus tässä ketjussa oli kalastajista, ja sama homma on jatkunut vuosien yli. Kiinalaisten kalastuslaivue omaa voimia mitä muilla kalamiehillä ei ole.

 

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New Zealand has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong following China’s imposition of a controversial national security law that gives it sweeping powers over the semi-autonomous region.

“New Zealand can no longer trust that Hong Kong’s criminal justice system is sufficiently independent from China,” Winston Peters, New Zealand’s foreign minister, said in a statement on Tuesday. “If China in future shows adherence to the ‘one country, two systems’ framework then we could reconsider this decision.”

He added that New Zealand would now treat the export of what the government deems sensitive goods to Hong Kong – including military and dual-use goods and technology – as if they were being sent to China. New Zealanders travelling to Hong Kong will also be alerted “to the risks presented by the national security law”, Peters said.

New Zealand suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty over China national security law

Chinese embassy criticises move as ‘gross interference’ and ‘serious violation of international law’

www.theguardian.com

 

[aj77]

Tuo Kiina vetää valtameren tyhjiin. Vaikea uskoa heidän noudattavan mitään lajien suojelua tai pyyntiaikoja. Kaikki vaan pataan.

 

[arix]

Tuo Kiina vetää valtameren tyhjiin. Vaikea uskoa heidän noudattavan mitään lajien suojelua tai pyyntiaikoja. Kaikki vaan pataan.

Jep, yllättävän lyhytnäköistä toimintaa valtiolta/kulttuurilta, joka väittää katsovansa asioita vuosikymmenien tai -satojen ajatuksella...

 

[Talvela]

Jep, yllättävän lyhytnäköistä toimintaa valtiolta/kulttuurilta, joka väittää katsovansa asioita vuosikymmenien tai -satojen ajatuksella...

Siellä tapahtui kulttuurivallankumous kommunistien toimesta, Kiinalla ei ole ikinä aikaisemmin ollut globaaleja tavoitteita.

 

[aj77]

Googlekääntäjällä vedetty suomeksi. Ihan ok laatu. Kiinasta kantautuu väite että Usan growleri tai muutkaan ei enää pysty lentelemään Kiinan lähellä,kun riutat ja saaret ovat täynnä elektronisia häirintälaitteita..

刚刚，美战机再次飞临南 海，不料中途全失控，美终于承认一件事

全国紧急告知，快看！

mp.weixin.qq.com

 

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The Five Eyes intelligence alliance could be expanded to include Japan and broadened into a strategic economic relationship that pools key strategic reserves such as critical minerals and medical supplies, according to centre-right MPs working internationally to decouple the west from China.

The coronavirus crisis has revealed the west’s key strategic dependencies on China, and plans will be announced shortly under Five Eyes auspices for a major increase in production of rare and semi-rare metals from Australia, Canada, and America in order to reduce dependency on Chinese stocks.

Critical minerals, known as rare earth elements, are the key components in a wide range of consumer products including mobile phones, laptops and TVs, and have widespread defence applications in jet engines, satellites, lasers and missiles. On average, China has accounted for more than 90% of the global production and supply of rare earths during the past decade, according to the US Geological Survey.

The potential for an expanding role for the Five Eyes alliance, an intelligence relationship formed in 1941, is part of a growing interest among conservative democratic lawmakers to form a cohesive political and economic alliance to compete with China. The proposals have an added allure for British Conservative MPs looking for deeper trading relationships outside the EU and China. The current Five Eyes members are Australia, the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.

The idea of a Five Eyes free trade bloc has won the backing of Andrew Hastie, chair of the Australian parliament’s joint committee on intelligence and a longterm critic of China.

He told a Henry Jackson Society seminar on decoupling with China that: “once we review our supply chains and establish vulnerabilities – and I trust the other Five Eyes countries will do the same – that will give the basis for an understanding where we can mitigate one another’s weakness and yes there is a potential to build a free trading bloc. We should do everything possible to build out that network.”

Five Eyes alliance could expand in scope to counteract China

Plans mooted to pool strategic resources and lessen west’s dependency on China

www.theguardian.com

 

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Hong Kong's hospital system could face "collapse" as it grapples with a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, the city's leader Carrie Lam has warned.

She said the city was "on the verge of a large-scale community outbreak", urging people to stay indoors.

New regulations, including mandatory face masks and the closure of dine-in restaurants, kicked in on Wednesday.

Hong Kong - which had early success against Covid-19 - is now regularly reporting over 100 new daily cases.

Less than a month ago, the average number of new daily cases was under 10.

Hong Kong on verge of 'large-scale' outbreak

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam says a major outbreak may lead to the "collapse" of the city's hospitals.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[TeVu]

Googlekääntäjällä vedetty suomeksi. Ihan ok laatu. Kiinasta kantautuu väite että Usan growleri tai muutkaan ei enää pysty lentelemään Kiinan lähellä,kun riutat ja saaret ovat täynnä elektronisia häirintälaitteita..

刚刚，美战机再次飞临南 海，不料中途全失控，美终于承认一件事

全国紧急告知，快看！

mp.weixin.qq.com

No ne joutuu sitten tuhoamaan yksitellen ohjuksilla jos tarve vaatii, hidaste, ei este.

 

[KymJP2K]

Siellä tapahtui kulttuurivallankumous kommunistien toimesta, Kiinalla ei ole ikinä aikaisemmin ollut globaaleja tavoitteita.

Maolla oli kommunistikiinan alkuaikoina Aasian "ystävyys"suunnitelma, johon kuului mm Intian käännyttäminen kommunismiin. Neukut sitä taisi enemmän vastustaa kuin amerikkalaiset.

Googlekääntäjällä vedetty suomeksi. Ihan ok laatu. Kiinasta kantautuu väite että Usan growleri tai muutkaan ei enää pysty lentelemään Kiinan lähellä,kun riutat ja saaret ovat täynnä elektronisia häirintälaitteita..

刚刚，美战机再次飞临南 海，不料中途全失控，美终于承认一件事

全国紧急告知，快看！

mp.weixin.qq.com

Eli Kiina on hyökännyt USA:n sotilaskoneita vastaan jammereilla? Todella kaunista, kohta joku kuolee vahingossa ja Trumppi saa alkaa takomaan kiinalaisia turpaan.

En ymmärrä miten tällä voi kehuskella ja intialaisten murhaamisen kanssa tämä on aika epäkiinalaista konfliktin etsimistä.