Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in China, many overseas Chinese, including those as far away as from Canada, and closer places like Japan, are rushing to send medicines to the mainland.
The Chinese mainland has suspended imports of several agricultural products from the island of Taiwan amid simmering tensions over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which is seen as a serious violation of the one-China principle and sparked military exercises around the island by the Chinese People s Liberation Army.
SOURCE / ECONOMY By Global Times Published: Mar 03, 2021 09:33 PM
Farmers pack pineapples in Dashu District of Kaohsiung, southeast China s Taiwan, on March 13, 2019. Pineapples in Dashu District of Kaohsiung have entered harvest season. (Xinhua/Zhang Guojun)
The separatist Taiwan People s Party (TPP) on Wednesday put pressure on the island s authority to consider a tough response to the Chinese mainland s ban on importing pineapples from the island, in the latest sign of misleading political hype that risks undercutting the broad economic bond across the Straits.
The TPP s party caucus in Taiwan s Legislative Yuan urged the island s ruling authority to come up with a solution and warn the mainland against the use of trade as a political means, the Taiwan-based Central News Agency (CNA) reported on Wednesday.
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Two years ago, I visited an internal anti-terrorism exhibition in Hotan, Xinjiang. I was really shocked to see one wall full of the headshots of public security officers who had lost their lives in anti-terrorism actions. There were also pictures of severed heads and charred bodies of the victims of terrorist attacks. Those situations should have been made public to society.
By Hu Xijin | 2021/3/24 14:43:39
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