BEIJING—At least 4 people were killed when a building collapsed in China’s Wenzhou city, according to state media outlet CCTV on Sunday. The collapse occurred on Saturday during renovation of the building, and the casualties were all construction workers, CCTV reported. An investigation into the cause is going on, it said. The actual number of casualties from such events may be much higher. The actual number of casualties is difficult to verify, as the Chinese regime routinely suppresses or alters information. The accident in the eastern city follows several similar incidents recently, including the collapse of a gym in heavy snow in the northeast province of Heilongjiang last week, which killed at least three....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/four-killed-in-building-collapse-in-chinas-wenzhou-city-5527775
The CCP’s National Security Bureau (NSB) released an article on its official WeChat account on Nov. 2 criticizing the market “bears” who are forever the pessimists targeting China’s financial institutions to shake the international community’s confidence in investing in China, with the sole intention of causing financial turmoil. It warned that these “criminal activities” to endanger the state’s financial stability will be seriously dealt with according to law. The bureau’s statement claimed that certain countries were using finance “as a geopolitical tool” to impose sanctions on China. They condemned the “bearish forecasters, short sellers, market skeptics, and market manipulators” for profiting amid the turmoil, accusing them of “trying to undermine the international community’s confidence in investing in China” and “provoking financial turmoil in China.” The article also emphasized that national security authorities should “give higher priority to preventing and resolving financial risks,” and crack down on and punish illegal and criminal activities in the financial sector that may endanger national security in accordance with the law....
Australia may need to educate employees within its own government about what the “One China policy” is when it comes to relations with Taiwan. “What exactly is your One China policy?” Roger Lee Huang, a senior lecturer at Macquarie University, asked at a Dialogue titled “The Prospect of Taiwan-Australia Relations” at the University of Technology Sydney on Nov. 10. Australia follows the United States’ strategic ambiguity policy when it comes to Taiwan, where leadership will neither confirm nor deny whether the country will come to Taiwan’s military aid if the self-governed island is attacked, despite Beijing’s increasing military actions in the Taiwan Strait....
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping will go to San Francisco from Nov. 14 to Nov. 17 to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden and also attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, the Chinese communist regime’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Nov. 10. This will be Mr. Xi’s first visit to the United States in six years. At the same time, more than a hundred rights groups in the United States are preparing for the largest protests against the CCP and Mr. Xi during his visit. On Nov. 7, 59 human rights organizations issued an open letter calling on Biden to prioritize human rights issues during the talk with Mr. Xi. They demanded the release of prisoners of conscience, such as Peng Lifa, Xu Zhiyong, Ding Jiaxi, and Jimmy Lai, and urged the CCP to stop violating human rights and forced disappearances of Chinese citizens....