China news roundup / Nachrichten 2024-10-23

29 days ago

China's Xi meets India's Modi after signing border dispute agreement

"Wednesday's summit in the Russian city of Kazan was the first structured and formal bilateral meeting since an informal summit in October 2019, months before border tensions blew up in 2020"

--- So, we have a few months until they blow up again?

"An Indian military source told Reuters that the pact will allow both sides to patrol contested points on the frontier according to an agreed schedule to prevent confrontations."

--- Which means that they patrol the same points, just at different times? That sounds promising ...
... that accidental confrontations will occur, if only because one of the sides may have a timing problem.

"The underlying frictions and tensions at the core of India-China relations have not changed"

--- Yep.

US-China tech war seen heating up regardless of whether Trump or Harris wins

"the Democrat likely to come out with targeted new rules and Trump a blunter approach"

--- & neither approach is really optimal.

U.S., China trade tariffs escalating would be ‘costly for everybody,’ IMF deputy director says

"If tariffs were escalated, modelling from the IMF suggests it would be “costly for everybody,” Gopinath told CNBC’s Karen Tso on the sidelines of the agency’s annual meeting in Washington.
“Output is going to be much lower than what we are projecting for all countries in the world, there’s going to be pressure on inflation, so that’s not the direction in which we should be going,” she explained."

--- It would be much costlier in the long run if we would let China achieve global domination.

"The IMF warned in its recent World Economic Outlook report that increasing protectionist policies were a downside risk to growth.
“A broad-based retreat from a rules-based global trading system is prompting many countries to take unilateral actions. Not only would an intensification of protectionist policies exacerbate global trade tensions and disrupt global supply chains, but it could also weigh down medium-term growth prospects,”"

--- Morons. Countries are retreating from globalisation because there is particularly one country that hasn't been following the rules all along: China.

Chinese blockade would be act of war, Taiwan says

"If you really want to carry out a so-called blockade, which according to international law is to prohibit all aircraft and ships entering the area, then, according to United Nations resolutions, it is regarded as a form of war"

--- Simple fact of international 'law'. Don't see why some media make such a big deal of these comments.

--- China Uncensored: "North Koreans Are DYING For Russia"

--- CNBC: "Why China Is Testing Its Autonomous Cars On U.S. Roads"

Brics-Gipfel: Narendra Modi trifft Xi Jinping – Indien und China nähern sich an

"Xi: Man müsse zur »Demokratie in den internationalen Beziehungen beitragen«"

"Kurz vor dem Brics-Gipfel hatten die beiden Atommächte und zugleich bevölkerungsreichsten Länder der Welt eine Entschärfung in ihrem seit 2020 andauernden Grenzstreit im Himalaja verkündet. In der Gegend waren vor vier Jahren bei einem schweren militärischen Zwischenfall beider Seiten 20 indische Soldaten ums Leben gekommen. Das beiderseitige Verhältnis hatte sich danach deutlich verschlechtert."

--- Deutschland, deine Journaille. Den Grenzstreit gibt es seit Jahrzehnten (& es gab in den 60ern schon einen Grenzkrieg deswegen).

Chinas fluffige Diplomaten - und ein Zweifel

"Allerdings gibt es Zweifel an den Zahlen, die Chinas kommunistische Führung verkündet. Laut einer Recherche der US-Zeitung New York Times sind nur wenige Pandas von den Zuchtstationen freigelassen worden. Tatsächlich lassen sich die Zahlen, die Chinas Führung veröffentlicht nicht unabhängig überprüfen. Es herrscht keine Transparenz und Chinas Forstbehörde verrät nicht, wie sie auf die genaue Zahl von 1.864 Pandas kommt, die demnach in freier Natur in China leben."

--- Auch Pandas sind in China ein Staatsgeheimnis. Wie so ziemlich alles andere.