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China starts culling various metaverse trademark applications
Some of the rejected metaverse-related trademark filings were from NetEase, iQiyi and Xiaohongshu.
Canadian-Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua was grabbed by Beijing’s agents in Hong Kong five years ago. He has yet to go on trial
Financier Xiao Jianhua is thought to have been deeply involved in business transactions for China’s elite, including the President’s family
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China tests 2M in Beijing, lifts COVID lockdown in Xi’an
The lockdown in Xi’an has lifted, even as Beijing buckles down for the Olympics, which starts in less than two weeks. “Officials in Beijing said they would conduct a second round of mass testing of the Fengtai district’s 2 million residents, where the majority of the capital’s 40 coronavirus cases since January 15 have been found,” the Associated Press reports.
China’s extended naval reach in western Pacific fuels Taiwan tensions
China’s navy has ramped up operations east of Taiwan: “For at least six months, the People’s Liberation Army Navy has rotated destroyers and missile corvettes through the waters east and south of the southernmost tip of the Ryukyu chain — which Tokyo calls the Nansei islands — according to officials from Taiwan, Japan and the U.S.,” the Financial Times reports. Meanwhile, a day after the U.S. and Japanese navies made a “massive show of force in the Philippine Sea,” China sent 39 planes into Taiwan’s ADIZ (air defense identification zone). Context on SupChina last October: Explaining China’s surge in warplane activity in the Taiwanese ‘air defense zone.’
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Remember Soviets in blind pursuit of national security, Chinese adviser warns
Is Beijing overemphasizing national security in its policymaking? Jiǎ Qìngguó 贾庆国, the former dean of the international relations school at Peking University, said in a recent article that “overemphasis on absolutes, whether it is defense spending or supply chains, is likely to be self-destructive,” the South China Morning Post reports.
I was arrested under the DOJ’s China Initiative. Congress must investigate the program. - The Boston Globe
An op-ed by Chén Gāng 陈刚, the MIT professor whom the U.S. Department of Justice dropped all charges against, a year after accusing him of failing to disclose ties to China. In his opinion piece, Chen describes his time under investigation as “a living hell,” calls the China Initiative “terribly misguided,” and says that there were “critical mistakes on the part of the FBI, federal prosecutors, and other federal investigative agencies” that need to be reviewed “by Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice to hold individuals accountable for this glaring misconduct.”
Analysis: German big business piles pressure on Lithuania in China row
Lithuania is under pressure from German companies to back down in a dispute with China to end a blockade of the Baltic state, as European trade officials struggle to defuse the row, people familiar with the matter said.
Sackler-Owned Mundipharma’s Sale of China Unit Said to Stall
The plan by members of the billionaire Sackler family to sell the China assets of global pharmaceutical company Mundipharma International Ltd. for more than $1 billion has stalled over valuation, people familiar with the matter said.
French parliament passes motion condemning China 'genocide' against Uyghurs
France is now the eighth country to declare China is committing “genocide” against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. “France’s parliament passed an opposition-led motion asking the government to condemn China for ‘crimes against humanity and genocide’ against its Uyghur Muslim minority and to take foreign policy measures to make this stop,” Reuters reports. The other countries to have made official statements or pass parliamentary measures calling China’s actions genocide are the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, the U.K., Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Belgium.
