National security law helps Hong Kong integrate into national development: commissioner of Chinese foreign ministry in HKSAR: Xinhuanet
August 19, 2020
The national security law in Hong Kong will help Hong Kong participate in the Belt and Road Initiative and integrate into national development, said Xie Feng, commissioner of the Chinese foreign ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
The law plugs national security loopholes in Hong Kong and will usher Hong Kong into a new phase of implementing "one country, two systems," Xie said Tuesday at an online forum on Hong Kong-Indonesia business opportunities. Click here to read...
Xinhua Headlines: New port opens to boost interconnectivity in Greater Bay Area: Xinhuanet
August 19, 2020
A new port to facilitate travel between Macao and Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, was officially put into use Tuesday, a new step to boost development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Dubbed a "super passage," the main working area of the Hengqin port has a total floor area of 450,000 square meters, equivalent to 63 football fields. It has a designed daily capacity of 222,000 passengers, which can help ease the pressure of Gongbei Port and increase the daily capacity for passenger flow between Guangdong and Macao. Click here to read...
Nation shifts to targeted monetary policy: China Daily
August 19, 2020
China has suspended its large-scale monetary easing, as the economy is recovering, and shifted to innovative monetary measures to channel funds into weak sectors in a more targeted way, while guarding against financial risks, policy analysts said on Tuesday. Click here to read...
Taiwan's links to Somaliland firmly opposed: China Daily
August 19, 2020
The Foreign Ministry expressed firm opposition on Tuesday to Taiwan and Somaliland exchanging official institutions or conducting any form of official contact. There is only one China, and Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, adding that the one-China principle is a universally acknowledged norm guiding international relations as well as a consensus of the international community. Click here to read...
Trump says he ‘cancelled’ US-China trade talks, blames Beijing over coronavirus: South China Morning Post
August 19, 2020
US President Donald Trump said he called off last weekend’s trade talks with China and that Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus is “unthinkable”. “I cancelled talks with China,” Trump said Tuesday in Yuma, Arizona. “I don’t want to talk to China right now.” Trump has been stepping up complaints about China, particularly over the spread of the coronavirus, which he regularly calls the “China virus”. Click here to read...
What Chinese think of growing China-US games: Global Times editorial: Global Times
August 18, 2020
The US government's China-related information is too much and too constant for the Chinese people to respond. On Monday, President Donald Trump vowed to create 10 million jobs in 10 months, and to "create tax credits for companies that bring jobs from China back to America." John Ratcliffe, director of US National Intelligence, recently claimed, "China poses a greater national security threat to the US than any other nation," noting that the threat includes anti-Trump election meddling in the coming presidential election. Click here to read...
Has China’s annual Beidaihe leaders’ retreat already happened in secret?: South China Morning Post
August 18, 2020
Perhaps no holiday has attracted as much speculation as the yearly gathering of Chinese leaders in the seaside retreat of Beidaihe. Ostensibly an annual break for them to switch off and relax on the long beaches of the fabled northern resort town, it has also become an occasion when the country’s most powerful could spend time glad-handing, logrolling and tittle-tattling each other, making it the most watched unofficial event in the nation’s political calendar. Click here to read...
