Asia-Pacific News Thread

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China

Xi and the CCP is turning China into a jail for ordinary citizens.

 

[squeekness]

Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China

Xi and the CCP is turning China into a jail for ordinary citizens.

I certainly wouldn't want to work there.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone

Associated Press - Pentagon chief: US faces pivotal years in countering China

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NPR - Feminists are protesting against the wave of anti-feminism that's swept South Korea

• An administration [Yoon Suk Yeol] fueling anti-feminist sentiment
• What it's like to be a woman in South Korea
• A witch hunt against feminists — or any woman who speaks about gender issues

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guardian - China’s Xi Jinping ‘unwilling’ to accept western Covid vaccines says US intelligence chief
Despite daily Covid-19 cases near all-time highs and recent protests over lockdowns, US intelligence see no threat to Xi’s stability

And if there's any future scientific breakthroughs for COVID19 or anything else in the future outside of China will reject it (and perhaps clandestinely steal it) for stupid nationalistic pride and societal control.

 

[Iceman]

Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China

Xi and the CCP is turning China into a jail for ordinary citizens.

Surely the government have to take notice of things like this with big money moving out of the country.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Exclusive: China operating over 100 police stations across the world with the help of some host nations, report claims | CNN

 

[Iceman]

Exclusive: China operating over 100 police stations across the world with the help of some host nations, report claims | CNN

Damn, that is seriously sinister.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guardian - Indonesia passes legislation banning sex outside marriage

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - China to Stop Welding Homes Shut as Covid Precaution After Protests

China announced on Wednesday the country’s strictest covid-19 rules will be lifted, allowing more freedom of movement for people who are living under some of the harshest health regulations in the world three years after the start of the pandemic.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Nikkei - Taiwan to surpass Japan in GDP per capita this year: JCER

 

[Iceman]

Gizmodo - China to Stop Welding Homes Shut as Covid Precaution After Protests

Had no idea they went that far. Pretty crazy.

 

[squeekness]

Had no idea they went that far. Pretty crazy.

That's just insane. Geez....

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Associated Press - Pakistani Taliban overpower guards, seize police center

 

[Iceman]

Associated Press - Pakistani Taliban overpower guards, seize police center

Don’t need them gaining more power around the world.

 

[:eek:]

China stages big military incursion, Taiwan says - BBC News

 

[Iceman]

China stages big military incursion, Taiwan says - BBC News

Unfortunately it feels likely they will attack one day. There’s no way they would tolerate anyone invading their airspace to that extent but it’s fine for them to do it.

 

[squeekness]

Unfortunately it feels likely they will attack one day. There’s no way they would tolerate anyone invading their airspace to that extent but it’s fine for them to do it.

Pathetic and sad. Like we need another stupid war.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

China's government is buying Alibaba and Tencent shares that give the Communist Party special rights over certain business decisions, report says

Tencent - Wikipedia

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NY Times - China’s Population Falls, Heralding a Demographic Crisis
Deaths outnumbered births last year for the first time in six decades. Experts see major implications for China, its economy and the world.

The government said on Tuesday that 9.56 million people were born in China last year, while 10.41 million people died. It was the first time deaths had outnumbered births in China since the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong’s failed economic experiment that led to widespread famine and death in the 1960s.

Chinese officials have tried for years to slow down the arrival of this moment, loosening a one-child policy and offering incentives to encourage families to have children. None of those policies worked. Now, facing a population decline, coupled with a long-running rise in life expectancy, the country is being thrust into a demographic crisis that will have consequences not just for China and its economy but for the world.

 

[squeekness]

NY Times - China’s Population Falls, Heralding a Demographic Crisis
Deaths outnumbered births last year for the first time in six decades. Experts see major implications for China, its economy and the world.

I fail to see how this is a crisis in a country with the most people, most of them poor.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Independent - India uses emergency powers to ban BBC Modi documentary
Orders given to block over 50 tweets link to BBC documentary and YouTube asked to block uploads

Reuters - BBC defends documentary on Indian PM Modi after criticism

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NBC News - Indian university reports power cut ahead of Modi documentary screening

 

[:eek:]

Pentagon tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US | CNN Politics