China news roundup / Nachrichten 2020-07-03
English news:
Hong Kong: US passes sanctions as nations condemn new law
"The measure, which was passed unanimously, penalises banks that do business with Chinese officials.
It will have to be approved by the Senate before going to President Trump"
--- Hit'm where it hurts, the money. Could be interesting which banks will become involved. (if the law passes)
"China threatened "corresponding measures" to block the [UK] citizenship plan"
--- Yes! China should offer Chinese citizenship to UK citizens. That will show them.
"despite widespread international condemnation from leading powers, more than 50 countries, led by Cuba, supported China at the UN"
--- All of them well-developed, super-democratic defenders of human rights.
Britain's citizenship offer to Hong Kong: how China could respond
"China might also refuse to recognise the British citizenship acquired by any BNO residents who move to the UK"
--- That wouldn't change anything, because China already doesn't care about former Chinese having foreign passports. They get disappeared, tortured & then under duress renounce their foreign citizenship.
cf.: Hong Kong protesters laying low following mass arrests
Hong Kong security row risks driving big UK banks into China's arms
"It is widely supposed that executives from HSBC and Standard Chartered are at pains to say little about Beijing's heavy-handed treatment of Hong Kong"
--- Well, say little ... They publicly embraced the new state security law. So, essentially, they are already in China's arms.
"If companies make political statements, they must accept the corporate responsibilities that follow."
--- Yep.
The true cost of a new confrontation with China
"the most wasteful, counterproductive and inflammatory way to confront China [...is...] Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) -- a multi-billion-dollar defense-spending initiative aimed at countering China's rise"
--- Complete bullshit of an article. Appease, appease, appease.
"The PDI is misguided and unnecessary. America's current military might, which also exceeds the peak of the Reagan buildup of the 1980s, is more than enough to address any military challenge posed by China"
--- The PDI is about the West Pacific, & there, the Chinese have some advantage, clearly in numbers, but they're working on the quality as well.
"no evidence China has ambitions to match or replace its global military machinery."
--- It's about the ambitions in the West Pacific region. & if the authors don't see any Chinese military ambition there, they are just as idiotic as the EU's Borrell.
"A major military buildup in East Asia would needlessly antagonize China at a moment when cooperation with Beijing should be the focus"
--- Taken right out of the CCP's textbook.
Ending poverty in 2020 was going to be Xi's crowning achievement. Coronavirus might have ruined it
"Beijing defines absolute poverty as surviving on less than $324 a year (2,300 yuan), lower than half the World Bank's more commonly used poverty line"
--- Just set the poverty line low enough & there will be no poverty. Very easy.
"Despite the setbacks, the ruling Communist Party and state-run media have been running a concerted campaign to reassure their domestic audience that they will meet their target"
--- Of course they will. Either by not counting people (like in the Wuhan virus epidemic) or by lowering the poverty line. The latter is improbable, because that would be a bit too obvious.
U.S. Forces Intel to Pause Shipments to Leading Server Maker
"This is a temporary pause expected to last less than two weeks for some items, and others will resume in a matter of days."
--- Obviously a very harsh law.
Video News:
--- DW News: "Rising tensions between China and the UK over new Hong Kong laws"
--- BBC News: "Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents"
--- Sky News (AUS): "Australia should ‘open our arms’ to Hong Kongers fleeing despotic China"
--- PBS Newshour: "Hong Kong residents mull whether to leave amid Beijing's crackdown"
Not in the news (yet):
HSBC complicit with the CCP
Flags of "independent Shanghai, Basuria (Sichuan), South (i.e. Inner) Mongolia, Hokkienam (Fujian) and Cantonia (Guangdong)" fall under new national security law
Deutsche Nachrichten:
Es wird Zeit für eine auf China ausgerichtete Eindämmungspolitik
"Sollte es der Volksrepublik gelingen, Hongkong ohne großen Widerstand der Weltgemeinschaft zu schlucken, wird als Nächstes Taiwan an der Reihe sein"
--- Ach wo, reine Panikmache. Taiwan wird auch erobert, wenn China wegen Hongkong Probleme bekommt. Kaiser Xi will bestimmt nicht auf seinen Hauptpreis verzichten. Er will als der große Einiger des Vaterlandes in die Geschichte eingehen.
Handelskrieg: CPU-Lieferungen an größten chinesischen Server-Hersteller pausiert
"Intel darf vorübergehend keine Prozessoren mehr an den chinesischen Server-Hersteller Inspur liefern"
--- Maximal 2 Wochen? Muß sich um ein äußerst drakonisches Gesetz handeln.
vgl.: "Sicherheitsrisiko": US-Regulierer schneidet Huawei und ZTE von Staatsknete ab