A Hong Kong-based bank is offering customers an express reservation for a Pfizer shot after cross-border restrictions with mainland China were lifted. — Read on www.businessinsider.com/chinese-bank-offering-customers-pfizer-covid-shot-if-deposit-money-2023-1
Tech giants’ pivot out of China can usher in a human rights reset For companies like Apple, decoupling from China can be an opportunity to improve their human rights record. — Read on www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/10/a-pivot-out-of-china-can-be-a-human-rights-reset-for-tech-giants 他们应该抵制政府任意限制言论自由的命令，并在供应链中实施劳动保护。 他们应该完全透明地了解如何与政府谈判市场准入和许可协议，并公开此类文件，以授权独立监督。 公司应该制定强有力的政策，说明在面临政府压力时如何履行其人权责任，并与民间社会进行公开磋商，以制定明确的基准和红线。 公司必须致力于独立的人权影响评估，这些评估应随着条件的变化进行修订，并公开提供。 这些公司的股东团体还应该向公司领导层强调遵守其人权责任的重要性。
China’s Autocracy in Crisis — Read on www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-xi-jinping-zero-covid-authoritarian-by-ian-buruma-2023-01
Beijing clamps down on social media critics of COVID policies Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo issues temporary or permanent bans on 1,120 accounts. — Read on www.politico.eu/article/china-zero-covid-policy-coronavirus-social-media-critics-sina-weibo/ 据美联社报道，相当于中国推特的新浪微博表示，在处理了12800多起违规行为，包括对专家、学者和医务人员的袭击后，它已对1120个帐户发布了临时或永久禁令。
Chinese tracking device is ‘discovered inside UK government car’, as senior politician slams Beijing as a ‘systematic’ threat to Britain’s security — Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11607735/Chinese-tracking-device-discovered-inside-UK-government-car-senior-politician-slams-Beijing.html
Tightening its grip on Hong Kong, China is determined to make an example of the prodemocracy media tycoon. — Read on www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/01/jimmy-lai-chee-ying-hong-kong-prodemocracy-movement/672653/
Hong Kong listing of Apple Daily parent company Next Digital to be cancelled — Read on hongkongfp.com/2023/01/06/hong-kong-listing-of-apple-daily-parent-company-next-digital-to-be-cancelled/
As COVID-19 spreads across China, Beijing hospital runs out of beds — Read on www.pbs.org/newshour/world/as-covid-19-spreads-across-china-beijing-hospital-runs-out-of-beds
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As COVID-19 rips through China , other countries and the World Health Organization are calling on its government to share more comprehensive data on the outbreak. — Read on apnews.com/article/china-covid19-data-sharing-77a28c2fc02f4c01774db8836762b608 中国官员一再表示，他们正在分享信息，指出GISAID的顺序以及与世卫组织的会面。 但世卫组织官员一再要求更多——不仅在基因测序方面，而且在住院、重症监护病房入院和死亡方面。世卫组织总干事Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus本周对中国的生命风险表示关切。 联合国卫生机构负责人说：“数据对于世卫组织对全球局势进行定期、快速和强有力的风险评估仍然至关重要。”
The US keeps offering China its Covid-19 vaccines, but China keeps saying no — Read on www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/the-us-keeps-offering-china-its-covid-19-vaccines-but-china-keeps-saying-no 在北京与快速蔓延的新冠肺炎浪潮作斗争时，中国拒绝了美国一再提出的分享先进疫苗的提议，这种拒绝导致担心疫情死灰复燃的美国官员越来越沮丧。 据要求在讨论审议时不愿透露姓名的美国官员称，美国担心新变种的兴起及其对中国经济的影响，多次通过私人渠道向习近平主席政府提供mRNA疫苗和其他援助。
The Chinese Academy of Engineering reported that 20 members have died in less than a month, compared with an average annual death rate of 16 One doctor in Beijing said academy members usually have privileged access to healthcare, but now there are no beds available to treat them — Read on www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3205736/top-engineers-and-scientists-dying-unprecedented-rate-china-after-lifting-covid-controls 中国工程院报告称，不到一个月就有20名成员死亡，而年均死亡率为16人 北京的一位医生说，学院成员通常有特权获得医疗保健，但现在没有床位来治疗他们
US warship sails through sensitive Taiwan Strait; — Read on nypost.com/2023/01/06/us-warship-travels-through-taiwan-strait-angering-china/
In November 2021, the ex-doubles world number one raised concerns when she accused top Chinese official, Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. Peng made the claim on the social media site Weibo but the post was quickly deleted and the tennis star then disappeared from the public eye for a number of weeks. — Read on […]
The resumption of the Chinese economy by the Communist Party confronts the country with the same obstacles that brought down the USSR at the end of the 1980s, analyze the two economists Di Guo and Chenggang Xu, in an article in — Read on www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/01/05/the-chinese-communist-party-is-on-the-verge-of-turning-today-s-china-into-yesterday-s-soviet-union_6010372_23.html
Jimmy Lai, the billionaire Hong Kong media tycoon, has been sentenced to almost six years in prison for fraud. — Read on www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63926374
China has some 400 million cameras surveilling the streets, as well as access to a billion smartphones used by Chinese citizens, Wall Street Journal reporters Liza Lin and Josh Chin tell Michael Morell. — Read on www.cbsnews.com/news/chinas-buildup-of-the-surveillance-state-intelligence-matters/
对于习近平来说，这是2022年罕见的亮点，这是动荡的一年，其顶点是前所未有的街头抗议活动，随后他的零新冠病毒政策突然逆转，冠状病毒感染在世界上人口最多的国家肆虐。 It was a rare highlight for Xi in 2022, a tumultuous year capped by unprecedented street protests followed by the sudden reversal of his zero-COVID policy and coronavirus infections rampaging across the world’s most populous country. — Read on www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xi-solidified-grip-power-during-tumultuous-2022-2022-12-29/
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Google has refused to change its search results to display China’s national anthem, rather than a protest song, when users search for Hong Kong’s national anthem, the city’s security chief said on Monday, expressing “great regret” at the decision. — Read on www.reuters.com/technology/google-refused-hong-kong-request-over-protest-anthem-hk-official-2022-12-12/
