COVID-19 infections in mainland China have rebounded as a new immunity-evading variant is spreading; however, it’s been treated as a cold, according to Chinese doctors. Since mid-August, many netizens across China have reported on Chinese social media that either themselves or people around them have been reinfected with COVID-19. A doctor in the southwestern megacity of Chongqing told The Epoch Times on Aug. 31 that now there are basically COVID-19-positive cases every day, which is more than the previous few months. A doctor in Zhangzhou city in the southeastern province of Fujian also told The Epoch Times that now he sees patients who have been infected with COVID-19 for the second time and even the third time in outpatient clinics....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/chinese-hospitals-treat-covid-infections-as-common-cold-while-cases-surge-5485679
The United States is trying to “choke” the Chinese regime’s military capacity and will not let the “most sophisticated” chips be sold to Beijing, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in an interview aired on Sunday. Ms. Raimondo, whose department oversees export controls, was asked during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether America will restrict the superconductor chips export to Beijing “in a way that China doesn’t feel we’re trying to choke their military technology.” “We are trying to choke their military capacity,” Ms. Raimondo said. “So, if they feel that, that means our strategy’s working.”...
On Aug. 24, Japan began discharging treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. On the same day, the Hong Kong government announced a ban on seafood imports from 10 Japanese prefectures and increased radiation testing of Japanese imports, which has been in effect for a week. On Aug. 31, the Hong Kong government announced that the Center for Food Safety and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department had conducted radiation tests on a total of 1,288 Japanese food samples, including 662 samples of seafood and related products, seaweed and sea salt, and 400 samples of local seafood, all of which passed the radiation tests....