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China strongly protests to UK over foreign secretary’s Hong Kong remarks
Jun 03, 2020 07:53China has filed stern representations with the United Kingdom over remarks by British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab accusing Beijing of violating the autonomy of Hong Kong with the passage of a national security law in the global financial hub.
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Hong Kong’s leader slams ‘double standards’ on national security, cites US unrest
Jun 02, 2020 06:47Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam has charged Western governments with exercising “double standards” in their response to a national security law recently passed by the city’s parliament, citing the ongoing suppression of protests in the United States against police brutality.
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Nearly 3 million people sign petition backing China’s security law for Hong Kong
Jun 02, 2020 01:00Nearly three million people have signed, either online or offline, a petition in support of the recently-passed legislation to safeguard national security for China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
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Climate change: How a green new deal really could go global
Jun 01, 2020 11:08Renewables are now often cheaper than fossil fuels in large parts of the world. The technologies are proven and can be built at scale today. And most importantly, their cost follows the logic of all manufacturing — the more you produce, the cheaper it gets. The same logic applies to hydrogen and to electric vehicles. But it does not apply to fossil fuels, whose cost ultimately relies on mining ever more difficult and dwindling resources.
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Huge oilfields could help Iran seize Saudi market share in China
Jun 01, 2020 11:04Given that China’s oil demand has now recovered from the COVID-19 outbreak to even higher levels than before, Iran is operating at full tilt to optimize the oil available to key ally Beijing from any and all of its fields. Principally, this involves optimizing output from the cluster of supergiant fields in the West Karoun Oil Region, attempting to increase the average recovery rate from older fields, and pushing forward on production increases from fields shared with Iraq and Kuwait.
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Trump boosts nuclear weapons spending, fueling a new arms race
Jun 01, 2020 10:58Under Trump, nuclear spending and tensions are sharply increasing, but U.S. allies are anxious and uncertain and adversaries are antagonized. At a time when more than 100,000 Americans have been killed by a virus that can’t be stopped with a bomb, both the ICAN and ANPI reports illustrate how Trump’s unrestrained embrace of nuclear weapons is not making a U.S. that is safer, only a U.S. that is alone.
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China says US hit by racism, police violence, slams Washington double standards
Jun 01, 2020 10:19China says the ongoing unrest in the United States over the tragic killing of an unarmed black man by the police has highlighted the severe problems of racism and police violence there.
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Hong Kong officials slam US for moving to end special treatment of city
May 31, 2020 04:58Hong Kong government officials have criticized US President Donald Trump for moving to strip the semi-autonomous Chinese territory of its special rights status.
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US taking UN hostage over Hong Kong law: China
May 30, 2020 01:54China says the United States is taking the United Nations (UN) hostage by insisting that Beijing’s new national security law be put on the world body’s agenda.
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China firmly opposes US' ending of Iran nuclear sanctions waivers: Foreign Ministry
May 30, 2020 01:47China has censured the United States for ending the last remaining sanctions waivers in a landmark nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers in 2015, warning that the move will undermine international non-proliferation progress.