China – Page 92 – THE OVAL CIRCLE

Hong Kong billionaire and newspaper tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 12 months in prison for role in anti-Beijing protests

Posted on April 17, 2021April 17, 2021By Editor

A prominent businessman and media tycoon has been jailed for one year by Chinese authorities for organizing and taking part in the unauthorized demonstrations which swept across Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020. … Read More >Hong Kong billionaire and newspaper tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 12 months in prison for role in anti-Beijing protests

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Taiwan ‘very willing’ to work with US to counter China’s ‘adventurous maneuvers and provocations’

Posted on April 16, 2021April 16, 2021By Editor

Taiwan is “very willing” to work with the US and other “like-minded countries” to deter China, the island’s president has said, as she met an unofficial delegation from Washington sent as a “personal signal” by Joe Biden. … Read More >Taiwan ‘very willing’ to work with US to counter China’s ‘adventurous maneuvers and provocations’

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Beijing tells Japanese politicians to drink Fukushima’s wastewater to prove it’s safe before they dump it into the ocean

Posted on April 16, 2021April 16, 2021By Editor

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has called on politicians in Tokyo to use Fukushima’s wastewater for drinking, cooking, washing clothes, or irrigation in order to prove it is safe enough to be discharged into the ocean. … Read More >Beijing tells Japanese politicians to drink Fukushima’s wastewater to prove it’s safe before they dump it into the ocean

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Beijing engulfed in yellow dust as authorities issue blue alert for sandstorms in central China

Posted on April 16, 2021April 16, 2021By Editor

The Chinese capital has been engulfed by dust, accompanied by rain and thunder, with the Beijing Meteorological Observatory predicting the weather phenomenon could continue for a few more days. … Read More >Beijing engulfed in yellow dust as authorities issue blue alert for sandstorms in central China

World

Iran crucial for Chinese plans to safeguard its trade from seas-dominating Washington – ex MI6 agent to RT

Posted on April 15, 2021April 15, 2021By Editor

The strategic cooperation deal China and Iran sealed last month will have huge ramifications for the future of the entire Eurasian continent, undercutting Western control of global trade, a former MI6 agent told RT. … Read More >Iran crucial for Chinese plans to safeguard its trade from seas-dominating Washington – ex MI6 agent to RT

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Beijing recommends Japan’s nuclear wastewater be shipped to US as Washington backs Tokyo’s plan to dump radionuclides into sea

Posted on April 15, 2021By Editor

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson has made the novel suggestion that Washington should take Fukushima’s radioactive wastewater given its insistence that the water is safe enough to be thrown into the seas around Japan. … Read More >Beijing recommends Japan’s nuclear wastewater be shipped to US as Washington backs Tokyo’s plan to dump radionuclides into sea

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US diplomats arrive in Taipei after China warns Washington to keep out of Beijing’s internal affairs

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021By Editor

A former US senator and Biden ally has arrived in Taiwan along with a delegation after Washington gave its ambassadors greater freedom to meet with officials from the island nation. China had warned against the move. … Read More >US diplomats arrive in Taipei after China warns Washington to keep out of Beijing’s internal affairs

Shows

Ex-MI6 agent: How the Iran-China deal changes everything

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021By Editor

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former MI6 agent Alastair Crooke. He discusses the alleged Israeli Mossad attack on the Natanz nuclear facility, the division among Israel’s politicians about whether to continue pursuing Netanyahu’s maximum containment policy … Read More >Ex-MI6 agent: How the Iran-China deal changes everything

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Beijing tells US ‘not to play with fire’ over Taiwan issues after Washington gives diplomats freedom to meet Taiwanese officials

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021By Editor

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has lodged “stern representations” with Washington and called on the US not to send the wrong message about Taiwanese independence by further diplomatic relations with Taipei. … Read More >Beijing tells US ‘not to play with fire’ over Taiwan issues after Washington gives diplomats freedom to meet Taiwanese officials

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Japanese government says it WILL release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea

Posted on April 13, 2021April 13, 2021By Editor

Contaminated wastewater at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant will be released into the ocean “in around two years,” the Japanese government has announced, despite calls from China and South Korea urging against the move. … Read More >Japanese government says it WILL release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea

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