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Beijing issues deadliest war warning yet as China declares it is now 'ready to defeat' US
CHINA has issued its deadliest warning yet as Beijing warned that the US will be "defeated" if the two superpowers go to war amid a tense stand-off over the South China Sea and Taiwan.
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AP Exclusive: Full-blown boycott pushed for Beijing Olympics
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By STEPHEN WADE
Groups alleging human-rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors and sports federations.

A coalition representing Uyghurs, Tibetans, residents of Hong Kong and others issued a statement Monday calling for the boycott, eschewing lesser measures that had been floated like “diplomatic boycotts” and further negotiations with the IOC or China.

“The time for talking with the IOC is over,” Lhadon Tethong of the Tibet Action Institute said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press. “This cannot be games as usual or business as usual; not for the IOC and not for the international community.”

The Beijing Games are set to open on Feb. 4, 2022, just six months after the postponed Summer Olympics in Tokyo are to end.

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Chinese Concentration Camp Survivor Reveals Torture, Rape, And Plans For Invading Europe
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By Elle Reynolds
May 24, 2021
While Sayragul Sauytbay was held in a government-run concentration camp in China’s Xinjiang province, she was forced to sign a paper mandating her own death if she spoke of the camp’s atrocities. Undeterred, since her escape she has raised awareness of the horrors perpetrated against the Uyghur people, receiving an International Woman of Courage Award from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2020.

Her book “The Chief Witness: Escape From China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps,” written with journalist Alexandra Cavelius, came out earlier this month and is available from publisher Scribe. Excerpts published Saturday by the Daily Mail reveal stories of torture, organ harvesting, rape, and plans for global dominance from the gulags of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Machines are taking up the slack as China’s population shrinks
  • China’s factories are turning to automation to upgrade production lines, and at the same time prepare for fewer, higher-skilled workers
  • Chinese manufacturing companies like Midea have already embraced automation to sharply reduce the number of humans needed
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Covid: China hits back as US revisits Wuhan lab leak theory
Source: BBC
China has denounced US efforts to further investigate whether Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab.

US President Joe Biden has called on intelligence officials to "redouble" their work to find out how the virus was first transmitted to humans.

China's foreign ministry accused the US of "political manipulation and blame shifting".

It has rejected any link between Covid-19 and a virus research lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
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Facing a demographic crisis, China to allow three children per family
Source: Washington Post
China on Monday said it would allow couples to have three children, up from the existing limit of two, as it further loosened decades of population controls that have left the country in a demographic crisis. The policy, announced at a Politburo meeting chaired by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, was important for “maintaining national security and social stability,” according to state news agency Xinhua in a summary of the meeting. The change comes as China faces an aging population and shrinking labor force, a trend that experts say could derail economic growth and undermine the country’s position as the world’s most populous nation if not reversed.

Earlier this month, the results of a once-in-a-decade census showed China’s population growth over the last decade was its slowest since the 1950s. China’s population was 1.41 billion in 2020, with average annual population growth over the last decade at just 0.53 percent. By expanding the limit on children to three, experts said officials have all but completely lifted family planning restrictions in place for more than 40 years. In a country where increasingly more residents are opting not to even have children, few would want to have more than three, experts said.

“Citizens can decide whether to have children or not and how many,” said Liu Ruishuang, deputy director of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Law at Peking University. Demographers and other observers have said for years that family planning rules were likely to be loosened further or entirely scrapped. In 2016, China ended decades of the “one child policy” to allow all couples to have two children, but the policy change did little to encourage couples, deterred by the increasingly high costs of raising a family in China’s highly competitive cities.

Population experts have long said that simply lifting restrictions alone will not improve the birthrate. Advocates have called for support for child care, medical procedures, tax benefits and subsidies and a focus on preventing workplace discrimination for mothers. “The three-child policy is a step forward, but the question is: If the two-child policy did not mean people had more children, will that happen under a three-child policy?” said Sun Xiaomei, a professor at China Women’s University.
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]lmost two dozen Chinese cities forced to ration electricity after Australian coal ban
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Two dozen cities across China’s industrial heartland are rationing electricity.

Homes and businesses are having to cope with shutdowns and extreme heat.

And politically-motivated bans on Australian coal are to blame.

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Attempts to punish Australia for advocating an international investigation into the origins of Covid-19 included restrictions on coal imports.

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Lakes and dams in Taiwan are drying up. And that’s hurt more than just hydro-electric generation. Power stations and heavy industries – including silicon chip manufacturers – are struggling to get enough cooling water to stay operational.
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Uyghur exiles describe forced abortions, torture in Xinjiang
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By AYSE WIETING

ISTANBUL (AP) — Three Uyghurs who fled from China to Turkey have described forced abortions and torture by Chinese authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang region, ahead of giving testimony to a people’s tribunal in London that is investigating if Beijing’s actions against ethnic Uyghurs amount to genocide.

The three witnesses include a woman who said she was forced into an abortion at 6 1/2 months pregnant, a former doctor who spoke of draconian birth control policies, and a former detainee who alleged he was “tortured day and night” by Chinese soldiers while he was imprisoned in the remote border region.

They spoke to The Associated Press of their experiences before testifying by video link to the independent U.K. tribunal, which is expected to draw dozens of witnesses when it opens four days of hearings on Friday.

The tribunal, which does not have U.K. government backing, will be chaired by prominent human rights lawyer Geoffrey Nice, who led the prosecution of ex-Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and worked with the International Criminal Court.



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More and more Chinese 20-somethings are rejecting the rat race and 'lying flat' after watching their friends work themselves to death

Jun 8, 2021, 10:19 AM
  • The movement of the moment in China is "lying flat," which advocates for lying down instead of working hard.
  • More Chinese youth appear to be rejecting a life and work culture of constant competition.
  • "Lying flat" rejects the "9-9-6" culture that encourages people to work 12 hour days six days a week.
  • "Only by lying down can humans become the measure of all things," argues the "lying flat" manifesto.
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China students hold principal hostage in rare protest
Protesting students held a school principal hostage over fears their degrees would be devalued, Chinese police said on Tuesday.

The protests were over a plan to merge a Nanjing college in Jiangsu province with a vocational institute - which are seen as less prestigious.

Some of the students were reportedly injured as police allegedly used batons and pepper spray on them.

Such protests are rare in China where mass movements are controlled.

Danyang city police said in a statement on Tuesday that undergraduates at Nanjing Normal University's Zhongbei College in Jiangsu province had "gathered" from Sunday and detained the 55-year-old principal on campus for more than 30 hours.

Students "shouted verbal abuse and blocked law enforcement", and refused to let him leave even after authorities announced a suspension of the merger plans, the statement added.
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