Berlin studies ways to exclude the Chinese company from the 5G network. The University of Oxford bans donations and research grants from Huawei. Ren Zhengfei, the founder, promises to invest even more funds in network security.
Schellenberg - accused of drug dealing - was sentenced in the first instance to 15 years, with a trial that took place 4 years after his arrest. The appeals trial was prepared in a few days and the death sentence issued in a day. The evidence presented is very weak. It is suspected that China wants to blackmail Canada for the arrest of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou.
The telecom giant has its European headquarters in Poland. The United Kingdom, Germany and France are putting on hold Huawei technologies over allegations of links with China’s secret services. Companies linked to Huawei are said to have violated the embargo against Iran and Syria.
Talks between US and Chinese delegations ended today. Beijing pledges to buy more from the US. Washington wants trade deals implementation to be verified. Some 37 per cent of Chinese manufacturers have moved production abroad; 33 per cent plan to do it over the next six to twelve months.
From 2000 to 2016, the fertility rate in China was on average 1.18, among the lowest in the world. The situation is similar to that of Japan in the 1990s, where the crisis has mutated from demographic to economic. With the increase of the elderly and the lack of social welfare a "humanitarian catastrophe" is expected.
They wanted to send out happy new year's greetings in time. One employee demoted with blocked salary; another will not be promoted. The patriotic and nationalist fury in defense of China. A US delegation in Beijing on January 7 and 8.
Launched on 8 December, the spacecraft will study lunar soil and grow vegetables and flowers as well as carry scientific payloads developed by Dutch, German, Swedish and Saudi scientists.
According to the prosecution, "state secrets" are involved. Wang is accused of collaborating with a Swedish activist, publishing human rights reports on China and defending Falun Gong members. His wife, Li Wenzu, is under house arrest, unable to attend the trial. Foreign correspondents and diplomats have been barred from the courthouse. Xi Jinping’s words appear empty.
A primary school principal in Sixian links Christmas to the invasion of the Western powers during the Opium Wars and after the Boxer Revolution. High school students swear to fight "the invasion of Western parties" which is an "aggression against Chinese culture". Street demonstrations to "reject Christmas" and remember Mao Zedong.
The police intervened on the night between 18 and 19 December and forced the sisters to leave the building within an hour. The building is considered illegal and gathers an illegal community because it is underground. This morning, Bishop Wei Jingyi said that the sisters found another place to live.
The Chinese president has extolled Deng Xiaoping’s modernizations, which has propelled China to becoming the second largest economic power in the world. Silence on the "fifth modernization", democracy, and on the economic reforms needed today. The leadership of the Chinese Communist Party reaffirmed, a guarantee of development.
Founded by pastor Samuel Lamb, the Rongguili Church is the home of one of the first underground communities, with some five thousand members. The police seized sacred books and mobile phones. The government seems increasingly concerned about the growth of Christianity. Beijing’s Church of the Immaculate Conception is closed for repairs just before Christmas.
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