China confirms Xi meeting with EU's von der Leyen, Costa
"China looked forward to the bloc working together, Guo said.
"China has always believed that after 50 years of development, China-EU relations...can cope with the changing difficulties and challenges," he said, characterising ties between the pair as mature and stable but facing issues."
--- Hmm, that's why the meeting was cut down to one day & emperor Xi originally did not want to meet von der Leyen et al.?
WTO reverses parts of previous decision in EU-China intellectual property dispute
"On Monday, the arbitrators reversed part of the previous panel decision and found that the Chinese courts' prohibition of patent holders to enforce their patent rights in countries outside of China, through the use of anti-suit injunctions, was not consistent with Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights rules concerning patent rights.
The arbitrators upheld the previous findings on four issues but reversed the Panel's findings on three issues. It has given China 90 days to remedy its measures to comply with WTO rules. "
--- It seems like at least some parts of the WTO have not yet been usurped by the CCP.
China blocks Wells Fargo banker from leaving due to 'criminal case'
"Chenyue Mao "is involved in a criminal case currently being handled by Chinese law-enforcement authorities and is subject to exit restrictions in accordance with the law", ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a press briefing in Beijing on Monday."
--- But of course it is a criminal case. What else could it be?
""We track these cases closely, and have raised our concern with Chinese authorities about the impact these arbitrary exit bans have on our bilateral relations and urged them to immediately allow impacted US citizens to return home," the embassy said.
"The Chinese government has, for many years, imposed exit bans on US citizens and other foreign nationals in China, often without a clear and transparent judicial process for resolution.""
--- The latter is very true & should get much wider attention by the media. But strangely it gets rarely mentioned.
U.S. citizen who works for Commerce Dept. ensnared in Chinese exit ban
"“No administration wants an American rolled up in China at the end of the day,” said one person familiar with the matter. “The message was delivered at an extremely high level for the Chinese to let him go.”
The State Department declined to address the case but said in a statement that “our highest priority is the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas.”"
--- Not that high a priority, obviously:
"There are at least several dozen Americans, many of them ethnic Chinese, who are under exit bans"
--- Not to forget all those actually jailed in China.
"China always welcomes foreign citizens, including those of the United States, to come to China and guarantees their safety and legitimate rights and interests in China in accordance with the law, including freedom of entry and exit."
Bureaucratized Confucianism: How Tradition Became a Tool of Control in China
"The return of Confucian language under Chinese leader Xi Jinping isn’t a spontaneous cultural revival. It’s a carefully orchestrated campaign — engineered from the top of the Chinese party-state — to wrap centralized political control in the language of ancient virtue. What’s unfolding is a quiet reversal: values once rooted in moral constraint, like filial piety, virtue, and ethical cultivation, are being refitted to serve a system built on obedience and authority. This isn’t Confucianism reborn. It’s a state-authored script, stitching together the vocabulary of tradition to legitimize modern power.
[...] This approach was codified in the 2017 Opinions on Implementing the Inheritance and Development Project of Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture — a mouthful of a title, but one with clear intent. It brought Confucian texts under the wing of national security. The classics were no longer seen as sources of independent moral insight, but as symbolic tools linking the Communist Party to an unbroken Han civilizational arc."
--- When even ancient philosophy becomes part of national security...
China begins building world's largest dam, fuelling fears in India
EV brands Zeekr, Neta inflated car sales using insurance scheme
Typhoon Wipha topples trees and causes major flight disruptions in Hong Kong and southern China
--- China Uncensored: "China is SO MUCH WORSE Than You Imagine"
--- China Uncensored: "Trump threatens to bomb China"
--- ABC News (AUS): The fight with China over the Darwin port (audio only)
China droht EU mit Gegenmaßnahmen
"Brüssel hatte wegen des russischen Angriffskrieges gegen die Ukraine am vergangenen Freitag weitere Sanktionen verhängt. Auf der langen Liste von Strafmaßnahmen fanden sich auch mehrere chinesische Unternehmen, weil sie demnach Russlands Angriffs direkt oder indirekt unterstützen.
Das Vorgehen der EU habe negative Auswirkungen auf die Handelsbeziehungen und die Zusammenarbeit im Finanzbereich, erklärte nun das Handelsministerium. China fordere, die Praxis umgehend einzustellen."
--- Schön, daß man wenigstens in der EU langsam einsieht, daß China kein neutraler Vermittler in der Ukraine ist.
China treibt Bau eines riesigen Staudamms in Tibet weiter voran
EU-Teilerfolg bei WTO-Berufung gegen China zu Mobilfunk-Patenten
