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North Korea censures foreign interference in China’s internal affairs
Jun 06, 2020 01:14North Korea has denounced foreign interference in the affairs of the Chinese city of Hong Kong, expressing support for Beijing’s decisions regarding the city.
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Pompeo urges global stock exchanges to tighten rules for Chinese companies
Jun 05, 2020 02:44US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned American investors against what he called “fraudulent” accounting practices of China-based companies, saying the decision the Nasdaq made recently to tighten listing rules for such players ought to be a “model for other exchanges in the United States, and around the world.”
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US decision to strip Hong Kong of special trading status violates WTO rules: China
Jun 04, 2020 14:00China says a recent decision by the administration of US President Donald Trump to strip Hong Kong of its special trading status violates rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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George Floyd protests: Police escalating violence across America
Jun 03, 2020 09:28"While some in the American media have claimed the protests across the US as violent “looters” imposing “tyranny” upon the country, much of the violence is being deliberately instigated and propagated by an out of control police force that appears to have gone berserk over the widespread public challenge to their authority and their impunity to act as they wish", says Alan MacLeod, staff writer for MintPressNews.
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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.