This July 1, the elite pro Beijing of Hong Kong and the Chinese president, Xi Jinpingcelebrate under strict security measures in the city’s elephantine Convention Center the 25th anniversary of the return to China of the hitherto British colony. But less than two weeks earlier, in that same place in the Wan Chai district, 50,000 […]
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Ómicron arrives in Beijing less than three weeks before the Olympic Games. of winter
Updated on 01/15/2022 12:14 pm Beijing today confirmed its first local case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus less than three weeks before the start of the Winter Olympic Games in the capital china, an event that the authorities try to protect at all costs through their “zero tolerance” strategy against covid. The positive […]
NGO accuses Beijing of using extraditions of Taiwanese as a weapon against Taiwan
More than 600 Taiwanese abroad were extradited between 2016 and 2019 to China, a country that the NGO Safeguard Defenders accused in a report of using deportations to “undermine Taiwanese sovereignty.” The NGO, based in Madrid, describes the extraditions as “persecution” by China and warned that these Taiwanese face possible “violations of their human rights” […]