Vietnam opposes Beijing’s South China Sea fishing ban

HANOI: Vietnam took aim at China today for imposing an annual ban on fishing in a vast area of the South China Sea, calling it a violation of its sovereignty and urging Beijing not to complicate matters.

China has imposed the ban each year since 1999 and Vietnam routinely opposes it.

China says the ban, which will apply from May 1 to Aug 16, is to promote sustainable fishing and improve marine ecology.


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It covers waters 12° north of the equator and includes parts of Vietnam’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) as well as the Paracel islands, which the two countries have both occupied and have contested for decades.


“China’s so-called fishing ban violates Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and the sovereign rights and jurisdiction in Vietnamese waters and its exclusive economic zone,” Doan Khac Viet, a Vietnam foreign ministry spokesman, told a regular news briefing.Hoang Sa is the Vietnamese name for the Paracel islands.

Viet called on China to respect Vietnam’s sovereignty and “not to complicate the situation”.

China claims more than 90% of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea via a U-shaped “nine-dash line” on its maps, which stretches deep into Southeast Asia and cuts into the EEZs of the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia.

China has deployed hundreds of vessels to bolster its claims, some more than 1,000km off its mainland, and has been accused by some neighbours of trying to disrupt energy exploration activities.

Evil CCP is the world trouble maker.

qqq47660, you forgot your own race and culture. you are very cheap.

中國樓市陷入崩潰。深圳房價暴跌40%，直接腰斬。炒房客套牢！深圳二手房全線崩潰，成交量慘不忍睹！房奴以淚洗面，十年積蓄化為灰燼。七八線城市大量的樓房空置，天量庫存難以消化。上海北京西安成都房價跌入低谷

https://youtu.be/A3MsTtgb8mQ

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You can't speak and write Chinese. Your ancestors will blame you forget your race and culture.

Hidden in plain site: The hunt for China's 'secret police offices'

They are reportedly "secret police offices" that are run by Chinese nationals in countries around the world, The Associated Press reports, often in locations "where Chinese communities include critics of the Communist Party who have family or business contacts in China." While these sites are typically set up under the guise of providing diplomatic services, there have been accusations that many operatives within these outposts "harass or threaten both citizens and non-citizens" that criticize China, AP adds.

However, if these allegations are to be believed, then the harassment may also go beyond mere threats. A report from human rights group Safeguard Defenders claims that the stations often use intimidating tactics to try and repatriate ex-Chinese nationals who they accuse of criticizing the country, using "illicit methods to harass, threaten, intimidate, and force targets to return to China for persecution."

TAIPEI: Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC posted a 2% rise in first-quarter net profit on Thursday beating market expectations but still the smallest quarterly growth in almost four years as global economic woes dented demand for chips.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker and a major Apple Inc supplier, saw January-March net profit rise to T$206.9 billion ($6.76 billion) from T$202.7 billion a year earlier.

That compared with the T$192.8 billion average of 21 analyst estimates compiled by Refinitiv.

Without China market who said TSMC go bankrupcy ?

Italy Eyes Taiwan Chip Deals Ahead of Decision on China Pact

(Bloomberg) -- Italian officials hinted in private talks with Taiwan that they may be willing to pull out of a controversial pact with China as they sought to secure help with semiconductors, according to people familiar with the issue.6

Giorgia Meloni
Chiara Albanese and Alessandro Speciale
Thu, April 20, 2023 at 1:12 AM GMT+8·3 min read
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Giorgia Meloni
Italian politician (born 1977), prime minister of Italy
(Bloomberg) -- Italian officials hinted in private talks with Taiwan that they may be willing to pull out of a controversial pact with China as they sought to secure help with semiconductors, according to people familiar with the issue.

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中國首季GDP4.5%？內需消費疲弱 經濟不確定大

https://youtu.be/g0UWDmH0tBg

Six More Chinese Police Stations on U.S. Soil: Report | China In Focus

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Asia's largest new energy automaker goes bankrupt, Why? Warren Buffett reduces stake in China's BYD

https://youtu.be/Jb1FnCLwZKY

王炸！中国多地房价暴跌75%！100万买的房子现在只值25万，天天掉价人人恐慌，很多百姓哀求卖房无人接盘，烂尾楼扎堆严重过剩，一整栋楼就住一户人，房贷遏制消费日子越过越穷，年轻女孩压力太大崩溃

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Chinese businessman with Tory links hosts a 'secret police station' at his London business address: Report

A Times report alleges that a Chinese businessman who is linked to a “secret police station” in London organised fundraising dinners for the Tory party and has even been photographed with party leaders. The Chinese man in question is Ruiyou Lin and he runs a takeaway food platform in Croydon, whose office address hosts an alleged overseas Chinese police station. The Times reported that Lin has attended Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political conferences in China. He has also held positions in several organisations in Britain that have links to the party department responsible for overseeing the United Front strategy of using Chinese nationals living abroad to push its interests.The address is on a list of “overseas service stations for police and overseas Chinese affairs” that the public security bureau from the Chinese city of Fuzhou in has set up. These stations claim to help Chinese nationals living overseas with administrative tasks.

All US congress members are billionaires you think their property and assests are in foreign currencies ? Ask Xi to throw all the US bonds immediately so that US dollar becomes toilet paper.

WHO, advisers urge China to release all Covid-related data after new research

BENGALURU/LONDON (March 19): Advisers to the World Health Organization on Saturday (March 18) urged China to release all information related to the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic after new findings were briefly shared on an international database used to track pathogens.

New sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as additional genomic data based on samples taken from a live animal market in Wuhan, China in 2020 were briefly uploaded to the Gisaid database by Chinese scientists earlier this year, allowing them to be viewed by researchers in other countries, according to the statement from the WHO's Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (Sago).

The sequences suggested that raccoon dogs were present in the market and may have also been infected by the coronavirus, providing a new clue in the chain of transmission that eventually reached humans.

Access to the information was subsequently restricted “apparently to allow further data updates” by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

WHO officials discussed the matter with Chinese colleagues, who explained that the new data were intended to be used to update a preprint study from 2022. China's CDC plans to re-submit the paper to the scientific journal Nature for publication, according to the statement.

WHO officials say such information, while not conclusive, represents a new lead into the investigation of Covid's origins and should have been shared immediately.

"These data do not provide a definitive answer to the question of how the pandemic began, but every piece of data is important in moving us closer to that answer," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. "These data could have — and should have — been shared three years ago."

"We continue to call on China to be transparent in sharing data, and to conduct the necessary investigations and share the results," he said.

Sago was tasked by the WHO to continue to investigate the origins of the pandemic that has killed nearly 7 million people worldwide.

"[This is] newly analysed data and nothing new," said George Gao, professor at the Institute of Microbiology at the CDC, when asked by Reuters why the sequences were not uploaded before. He said that Gisaid, the pathogen database, took down the sequences, not the scientists.

"All this must be left for scientists to work on, NOT for journalists or public. We are eager to know the answer," he added in an emailed statement.

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was shut down by Chinese authorities after the novel coronavirus emerged in the city in late 2019. The market has since been a focus of study of whether the virus had infected several other species before jumping to humans.

The WHO and other scientists have also said they cannot rule out the possibility that the virus emerged from a high-security laboratory in Wuhan that studies dangerous pathogens. China denies any such link.

The 2022 preprint paper said that a small portion of 923 samples collected from the stalls and sewage systems in and around the market tested positive for the virus; no virus was detected in 457 animal samples tested. The paper said initially that raccoon dogs were not among the animals tested.

The new analysis suggests "that raccoon dog and other animals may have been present before the market was cleaned as part of the public health intervention", the Sago statement said.

Your ancestors will blame you forget your race and culture.

Posted by supersaiyan3 > 5 minutes ago | Report Abuse

Yes, so far there is only one possibility - Wuhan P4 lab leak.

Malaysia also got CCP secret police. Bukit Aman should investigate.

清明後比亞迪多地工廠停工。臺資搬離浙江夜市蕭條。臺資外資我們離不開你們。出口驟降集裝箱廠庫存7層樓高。

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沒落志——全球化重創下的義烏商貿城。中國外貿已死，被世界徹底拋棄。義烏商貿城門可羅雀冷冷清清，一片蕭條，中國外貿陷入困境。中國製造業陷入停滯，外貿訂單凋零，與美台關係緊張，難再繁榮昌盛。中國經濟大蕭條

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中國汽車市場完了！斷崖式坍塌，新能源車扑街，特斯拉獨霸，300多家造車新勢力在價格戰中加速消亡。中國遍地汽車墳場。汽車降價潮，停薪停職停工停產，關門倒閉潮，企業破產，中國經濟有大麻煩，危機或將全面爆發

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我斷供了！320萬買的房子跌到160萬，接下來發生的事夠我後悔一輩子了。||2023年樓市有一波行情的情況下，高位買入的房產投資者還能解套嗎？

https://youtu.be/Pyn0g034Ddg

出大事了！中國房地產史上最大拋售潮，富豪精英底層韭菜恐慌性套現房產不當房奴。推廣房屋共有產權重回計劃經濟。中國樓市泡沫破裂！土地財政崩潰，外貿萎縮大規模失業潮來臨。疫情致大量老人去世。北京上海廣州深圳

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What are China’s alleged ‘secret overseas police’ stations?
ASSOCIATED PRESS • April 18, 2023

BEIJING — Police in New York have arrested two men for allegedly setting up a secret police station for a Chinese provincial police agency to collect information on opponents of the ruling Communist Party.
In a February 2002 news release, the government of Fujian province said it had established a first batch of 30 "Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Stations" on five continents. The province has traditionally sent waves of migrants to Southeast Asia, North America, Australia and Europe.

Scores of service offices — Safeguard Defenders estimates more than 100 — have been reported around the world, from Canada to New Zealand. Some are based in embassies, while others have operated out of commercial centers frequented by members of the Chinese diaspora.

In Italy, Chinese police made an agreement with the government in 2016 to conduct joint patrols with local police to assist Chinese-speaking tourists. Italy ended the program last year following the Safeguard Defenders report.

東莞掀起工廠暴動潮！台資港資輪流撤離，引爆萬人圍堵運動！連沃爾瑪也撤離了，東莞慘變廢墟之城！中國忽悠韭菜集體去台灣打工，台灣人你們準備好了嗎？

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不敢反抗了！我们80后90后彻底完了，失业大军涌入北京广东找饭吃，5000份求职简历都找不到工作，现在程序员和外卖员同时沦陷，很多百姓仇富心理严重，心态发生变化开始绝望

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这世界到底怎么了？深圳的夜看的人想流泪，西南最高楼烂尾十年业主集体崩溃，借老婆钱创业血本无归，躺平大神晚上直接睡大街，真的从来没有觉得活着这么难

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失业率吓傻统计局，如今想要工作就要交巨额中介费，月薪2500的工作研究生抢着干，今年7月份将会爆发工人革命。
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太离谱了！上海大学毕业找不到工作，别再谈什么中国梦，梦想破碎的一塌糊涂，现在连3000月薪都是幻想

https://youtu.be/vTp8MwYjVcM

鄭州自此再無富士康? 幾十萬人宿舍遭拆除 鄭州富士康周遭商鋪全歇業 中國面臨龐大失業潮! 白領.民工紛紛遭裁員 拍影片嘆"找嘸工作"

https://youtu.be/Ha3DG1Y_FpQ

She uncovered more than 100 secret overseas Chinese ‘police stations’ - including in the USA

https://youtu.be/LTkwV4NMlHA

those chinese who don't know Chinese wording has no respect to their ancestors.

Posted by qqq47660 > 4 minutes ago | Report Abuse

你以为写英文很了不起吗？你看不起中文吗？问问你的远祖他们是什麽人，你对得起他们吗 ？

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communists just the ruling party. lmao. you are so narrow-minded. wonder why you keep writing. it's childish to think anyone would love to listen to your fantasy story.

我的故事又没人叫你看，你不喜欢可以不看，明明不喜欢而还要看那叫犯贱。

Coronavirus kills Chinese whistleblower doctor - BBC News

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共产主义和社会主义原自于西方，你的远祖不会怪你是不是共产党，你的远祖应该怪你懂不懂华人5千年历史的中文及其运用和精髓。你懂是非分明，礼义廉耻吗？如果你懂你就不会用你的远祖来讲了？

communists just the ruling party. lmao. you are so narrow-minded. wonder why you keep writing. it's childish to think anyone would love to listen to your fantasy story.

华人5千年文化博大精深，最能反映在中文，是不是共产党员是其次，你远祖应该懂中文，你懂吗？

Remember to learn Chinese wording otherwise your communist ancestors will wake up from grave and kill you.

How much paid to those evils ?

Agence France-Presse reports that Wenbin said "political manipulation" was behind the arrests.

"China firmly opposes the US side's slandering, smearing, engaging in political manipulation, and maliciously concocting the so-called transnational repression narrative," AFP quotes him as saying.

In a separate complaint, nearly three dozen MPS officers were charged with using fake social media accounts to intimidate Chinese dissents in the U.S. and disseminate "official PRC government propaganda and narratives to counter the pro-democracy speech of the Chinese dissidents," the Justice Department said, referring to the People's Republic of China.

The 34 defendants, all believed to reside in China, allegedly worked as part of an elite task force known as the "912 Special Project Working Group" to locate and harass Chinese dissidents around the world in an effort to silence criticism of the Chinese government. Others are accused of disrupting online meetings where topics critical of the Chinese government were discussed, according to charging documents unsealed Monday.

The group allegedly operated a troll farm of thousands of fake social media profiles on sites like Twitter to disseminate Chinese government propaganda and recruit agents inside the U.S. to do the same. In one instance, members of the 912 Group allegedly targeted an anti-communism virtual conference convened by a Chinese dissident with loud music, threats and vulgarities.

Ten more individuals, including six MPS officers, are accused of trying to censor the political and religious speech of people in the U.S. who were critical of China's government.

"As alleged, the PRC government deploys its national police and the 912 Special Project Working Group not as an instrument to uphold the law and protect public safety, but rather as a troll farm that attacks persons in our country for exercising free speech in a manner that the PRC government finds disagreeable, and also spreads propaganda whose sole purpose is to sow divisions within the United States," Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a release.

Monday's charges, the first targeting secret Chinese police outposts anywhere in the world, are the latest in the Justice Department's efforts to combat transnational repression of foreign dissidents living in the U.S. Last year, federal prosecutors charged more than a dozen defendants, most of them Chinese officials, with allegedly participating in schemes to repatriate critics of the Chinese government, obtain secret information about a U.S. investigation into a Chinese telecom firm and recruit spies to act as agents of the Chinese regime in the U.S.

And in January, the Justice Department accused three men of plotting to assassinate an Iranian journalist living in the U.S. for her outspoken criticism of Iran's regime. The men, from the U.S., Iran and the Czech Republic, were charged with murder-for-hire in an indictment unsealed in federal court in New York.

The Justice Department said the two men helped open the outpost in 2022, and deleted their communications with an MPS official once they became aware of the FBI's investigation. Both are due to appear in federal court in Brooklyn later on Monday.

"It is simply outrageous that China's Ministry of Public Security thinks it can get away with establishing a secret, illegal police station on U.S. soil to aid its efforts to export repression and subvert our rule of law," said Kurt Ronnow, the acting assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. "This case serves as a powerful reminder that the People's Republic of China will stop at nothing to bend people to their will and silence messages they don't want anyone to hear."

China disputed the U.S. assertions about the police stations on Tuesday, according to the Reuters news agency, which quotes Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin as saying they don't exist and that China has a policy of non-interference in other nations' internal affairs.

U.S. arrests 2 for allegedly operating secret Chinese police outpost in New York

Washington — The FBI arrested two defendants on charges that they set up and operated an illegal Chinese police station in the middle of New York City in order to influence and intimidate dissidents critical of the Chinese government in the U.S., the Justice Department announced Monday.

"Harry" Lu Jianwang, 61, of the Bronx, and Chen Jinping, 59, of Manhattan are charged with conspiring to act as agents of the Chinese government and obstruction of justice. In a 30-page affidavit accompanying a criminal complaint, an FBI agent alleged that the defendants established a secret police station under the direction of China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in a Manhattan office building.

Beijing is accused of forcing thousands of people to return to China, often to face certain imprisonment
The Australian Federal Police maintains close cooperation with Chinese counterparts despite human rights concerns
Critics say China misuses Interpol's red notice system to target citizens abroad

Operation Fox Hunt and China's international efforts to force 'fugitives' back

A human rights organisation says China is abducting and intimidating political dissidents and their families living overseas in countries including Australia under the guise of anti-corruption campaigns.

A new report by Spain-based NGO Safeguard Defenders said at least eight Australian residents appear to have been involuntarily returned by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to face prosecution for alleged "economic crimes" in China.

Beijing's methods include threatening targets' families back in China, sending agents to intimidate the targets in their host country and, in some rare cases, direct kidnappings, the report said.

"With involuntary returns, the CCP's message is that nowhere is safe; fleeing overseas will not save you, there is no escape," it said.

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Global supply chain restructuring by Foxconn Zheng Zhou alomost becomes empty city.

新德里13日讯）印度《经济时报》）周三（12日）报道 ，富士康预计将于今年5月在卡纳塔克邦开始建设手机零组件制造厂。这座耗资800亿卢比（约42.97亿令吉）的绿地工厂将建在首府班加罗尔机场附近，并已获得州高级别许可委员会（SHLC）的赞许。

占地超过300英亩，是富士康在印度最大的制造工厂，预计未来5年将创造5万个就业岗位，支持植栽的道路等一些事情仍有待州政府处理。富士康预计将为苹果生产iPhone。该工厂的建设将在印度孟买开设第一家Apple零售店后一个月开工。Apple首席执行长库克计划飞往印度为这家商店举行落成典礼。富士康工厂的建立可望帮助卡纳塔克邦吸引其他全球科技公司的投资。

中国电动车加速洗牌-再一家发不出薪

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2023年的大学毕业生的就业率怎么样呢？到目前为止，各高校具体的就业数据还没有全面出炉。而就网友们分享的一些一鳞半爪的信息来看，总体上是不怎么乐观的。把参加考研的毕业生刨去，实际的签约率是很低的，用惨不忍睹四个字来概括也不为过。上海海洋大学是双一流高校，又处在上海这个国际化大都市，就业的机会应该比其他地方的高校要占据了天时地利的优势。按照正常的认识，这样的沿海地区，又是双一流高校，他们的就业应该不是一件难事吧。而现实呢，却让我们大跌眼镜——让人不能相信，这是一所双一流高校的就业率——惨淡到不忍直视。

从网友发布的上海海洋大学2023届毕业生就业状况分析来看，确实是让人看不上眼：学校的本科生就业率是13.64%，研究生就业率是17.27%；总体就业率不到15%。

US automaker Tesla confirmed to the Global Times on Monday that it will not attend the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition that will kick off on Tuesday, though did not give any reason for its absence from China's largest annual auto show.