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China says plots to disrupt ties with Pakistan will fail / Reuters
“Any conspiracies attempting to incite disharmony or interfere in China-Pakistan relations will not prevail,” State Councillor Wang Yi told Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, without elaborating.
Pakistani men demand release of wives in China / FT (paywall)
“About 350 to 400 Uighur women married to Pakistani traders and businessmen have been detained in Chinese camps or forbidden from leaving their hometowns even though they were not accused of any crime, according to their husbands. China confiscated passports across Xinjiang in 2016, and ordered Uighurs living abroad to come back.”
“In April, the Gilgit Baltistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, representing a northern Pakistani region that borders Xinjiang, complained to the Chinese ambassador in Islamabad that about 50 Chinese women married to local men had been…

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If you have not been following our regular China-U.S. trade war updates and need a quick review of the current issues in China-U.S. relations, the U.S. Congressional Research Service has a handy two-page explainer.Many major issues in China-U.S. relations are connected to one another, but never have they been more often spoken of in the same breath as during the Trump era. President Trump has repeatedly connected the North Korea crisis with trade, something his predecessors have avoided doing, for example.Today, Trump leveled another charge against China, also connecting it with trade. CNN reports:“China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election coming up in November against my administration,” Trump said to the UN Security Council, without providing evidence.“They do not want me or us to win because I am the first president ever to challenge China on trade,” Trump then added.A couple of hours later, Trump tweeted: “China is actually placing propaganda…

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It sure feels like things may be starting to spiral out of control on many fronts…The China events I am following today include:Xi's Heilongjiang tour continues, while the full propaganda rollout and the follow-on exhortations to study his comments have not yet begun;A key theme of the tour is that the trade war is forcing China back on the road to self-reliance 自力更生;The State Council released a five-year plan for "rural vitalization";President Trump is accusing China of meddling in the upcoming US election.In April in comments about the U.S. smackdown on ZTE I wrote:While the company may end up crippled, the episode has strategic and propaganda value for Beijing. The timing of the announcement — right before the 2nd anniversary of an important speech on cybersecurity and technology made by Chinese President Xi Jinping — only serves to strengthen the point he's been making about the need to reduce reliance on foreign, and especially American, t…

Kojo Yankah fears Ghana will lose Atewa forest to China in Sinohydro dealVideo ArchiveFounder of the African University College of Communications (AUCC), Kojo Yankah, fears the Sinohydro agreement between Ghana and China may culminate in Ghana losing the entire Atewa forest to China. The former Minister who served under former President Jerry John Rawlings made this observation when he gave a keynote address at this year’s Institute of Public Relations (IPR) week launch in Accra Tuesday, September 18. Speaking on the theme “deriving value from values, a test for corporate governance” he expressed worry that Ghana may lose the entire forest to the Chinese. “It is not just the land, there will be a time when I’m sure there will be police guard in the area, no Ghanaian should enter there because it doesn’t belong to us. It is happening in other African countries, that’s where my concern is”, he said. Parliament approved a $2 billion Master Project Support Agreement (MPSA) between Ghana a…

Press ReleaseAmbassador Yao Jing had a courtesy call on Dr. Noor-ul-Haq Qadri, Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony of Pakistan on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 and both the sides had a good discussion on China-Pakistan relations including the CPEC cooperation and some specific projects in Pakistan. The Chinese Ambassador appreciated the efforts by the Pakistani Government to promote religious harmony, on which both the two sides had full consensus. The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) issued a news item about the meeting on the same day and it has covered the meeting accurately. 📌 *Some local and international media, however, gave baseless and distorted reports about the meeting and this Embassy totally rejects them.*The Embassy would like to avail this opportunity to reiterate that the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China enjoys social stability, sound economic development and harmonious coexistence among ethnic groups. Some measures are taken against separatism a…