Sunday, December 15, 2019

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HUAWEI UPDATES 
Chinese tech firm Huawei's bullying attitude fails to win over hearts and minds | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
A French academic, Valerie Niquet, a senior research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research, is being sued by Huawei France. The Chinese telecom giant has accused Niquet of libel, and, as @HuaweiFactsFR explained in a tweet on November 23 (in French): “In March 2019, #Huawei has filed thr...

Opinion: "[S]ince the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, came to power, he has been adamant that the Party itself must consolidate and expand its presence in society - whether in the mass media... or among all sorts of business, whether state-owned or not," writes Ilaria Maria Sala.


Chinese ambassador ‘threatens German car industry’ if Huawei is banned

Diplomat Wu Ken warns ‘there will be consequences’ if the Chinese telecoms giant is excluded and floats possibility of German cars being banned on safety grounds.
The Chinese ambassador in Berlin has stirred up a fresh controversy over the tech giant Huawei after he threatened “consequences” if it was excluded from Germany.

HKFP_Voices: Huawei is under fire online for staging the criminal prosecution of its former employee, Li Hongyuan, who was detained by the Shenzhen police for 251 days after the company accused Li of extortion, a charge for which Li was later acquitted. Global Voices gathers the reactions.
Chinese netizens slam Huawei’s legal bullying of former employee with a series of codes | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
By Oiwan Lam Huawei, the most prominent tech giant in China, is considered to be one of the most successful national brands which has established a monopoly status in the domestic market boosted by patriotic buying. However, recently the corporation was under fire for staging the criminal prosecutio...






Miraculous recovery of Thai paradise island wrecked by tourism
Eighteen months after its closure, Thailand’s Maya Bay, featured in Leonardo Di Caprio film The Beach, has staged a miraculous recovery in marine life. Does it offer a...
After being trampled by up to 5,000 tourists every day for some 18 years, Maya Bay's ecosystem has been rescued by a group of determined conservationists.

Indonesia’s little-known glaciers are melting so fast they could disappear in a decade
Ice sheets in tropical countries are smaller, so more vulnerable to climate change. Estimates suggest Papua’s glaciers have shrunk 85 per cent.
Aside from any environmental impact, their disappearance would also be a huge cultural loss for some indigenous Papuans who consider them sacred.




NOT JUST CATHOLIC PRIESTS BUT COPS TOO
Child sex ring role brings down senior cop in China
Jail for police official who raped six underage girls and tried to stop investigation into prostitution gang.
The police official, 54, raped six underage girls, all younger than 14, in as many months.



GULAG CHINA 
Survey reveals appalling conditions in China’s detention centres
Lawyers across the country filled in questionnaires after speaking to their clients.
Some detainees reported being beaten by guards, going hungry or being deprived of medical treatment.










WORLD WAR 3.0 SOUTH CHINA SEA
#WW3 #WWIII #SOUTHCHINASEA


China’s nightmare is coming true. It’s Nato’s new communist target
The world's most powerful military alliance has always needed a common enemy and communist target. In China, it has both, writes Cary Huang.
The bickering by Macron and Trump distracted from the real development at Nato’s UK summit: a focus on Beijing’s growing military clout.

US ups the ante i South China Sea with 85 military drills in 2019
Washington keen to boost the defence capabilities of its Asian partners and ‘enhance interoperability’, Peking University think tank says.
While both countries speak the language of righteousness and law, they are both sleepwalking towards an all-out confrontation, writes Richard Heydarian.


Do military leaders hold the keys to peace for China and the US?
Tensions between the two powers have been rising, but the heads of the Pentagon and PLA are keen to ensure the conflict does not become militarised.
‎News · 2019
Why does China want to keep details of the phase one trade deal secret?
Here's what we know, what sources are saying, and how Singapore and South Korea stand to benefit while Australia, Canada, and Argentina might lose out.
MEET THE CANADIAN LAWYER DEFENDING MYANMAR AGAINST CHARGES OF GENOCIDE 
He denies genocide took place during a military campaign in 2017 in which thousands were killed and raped and hundreds of thousands displaced.
Canadian lawyer William Schabas says the crimes perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslims do not constitute genocide, despite appearing in a documentary in 2013 seeming...
In Pictures: Covered in fine white dust, labourers at a limestone quarry in southern Egypt toil in brutal conditions with little workplace safety for paltry pay. This same stone was the construction material of choice for cladding pyramids and tombs in ancient Egypt.
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