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...“It is important to remember that Li Zhenguo directly plays his part in Xi Jinping’s self-sufficiency, domestic self-innovation programme — to secure China’s own supply chains — and of course, military-civilian...
...Dong said military affairs were the key to implementing the two presidents’ consensus to stabilise and improve bilateral relations....
...The US official said the White House expected defence secretary Lloyd Austin would hold his first interaction with Dong Jun, China’s new defence minister, in the coming months....
...Dong’s appointment comes as President Xi Jinping tightens control over the China’s armed forces amid a widening crackdown on alleged corruption among senior government officials....
...In October, Xi removed Li in connection with a corruption investigation and the post remained open until the appointment of Dong Jun, former head of the Chinese navy, in December....
...The SOEs’ renewable investment drive was sparked by President Xi Jinping’s 2020 climate pledges....
...On Tuesday, Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, spoke to his counterpart, Dong Jun, for the first time....
...Xi has long asserted that the US is in decline, repeating the slogan “dong sheng, xi jiang” — the “east rises, the west falls”....
...Since the invasion, Russia had become increasingly dependent on China as an economic lifeline, said Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, a former political adviser at the European parliament who is now with National Dong...
...China’s dominance in global shipbuilding — mostly container ships, bulk carriers and tankers — has been buoyed by huge state subsidies, its vast shipyards, lower labour costs and Chinese leader Xi Jinping...
...Dong Ximiao, chief researcher of Shenzhen-based Merchants Union Consumer Finance, said retaining Yi at least temporarily would help ensure the stability of the central bank’s monetary policy....
...visit by Xi to Moscow this year....
...Each is perfectly decent but it makes us grateful for the reprieve of hotels in Đông Văn and Cao Băng, with their soft mattresses and air conditioning, given that daily temperatures reach up to 38ºC....
...Low salaries add to pressure on doctors, said Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong....
...One of this year’s delegates is Cao Shiru, who runs a supermarket chain in the south-western city of Chengdu....
...His plan, said prosecutors, was to replicate a semiconductor factory just 1.5km away from Samsung’s memory chip plant in Xi’an in western China....
...When I went to the vaccine clinic, they told me: ‘We can’t say what will happen, it would be better if you don’t get it,’” said a Beijing resident in her 60s surnamed Dong....
...Lee Dong-hwan, a former state investigator now working at Seoul-based law firm WeFocus, says it may be hard for Choi to deny that his employees had obtained the Samsung plant’s blueprints....
...The huge complex in the city of Zhengzhou, which workers say produces Apple’s iPhone 14, is the latest manufacturing centre to be hobbled by President Xi Jinping’s tough zero-Covid policies....
...If deaths start to rise sharply, it will not only mark a personal failure for Xi....
...Companies have also been stepping up charitable donations in response to Xi’s call....
...Senior government regulators and policymakers are expected to be there, including possibly Li Qiang, Xi Jinping’s number two and the head of China’s cabinet....
...trial here in Guangzhou to see whether it works . . . whether even if they do less mass testing and don’t execute the really stringent lockdowns, whether Covid could still be put under control,” said Jin Dong-yan...
...“When it comes to China’s core interests, any country’s deterrence against China will be useless,” says Sr Col Cao Yanzhong, a research fellow at the PLA’s Academy of Military Sciences....
...Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, said Chinese hospitals could be overwhelmed by an influx of unvaccinated elderly patients if there was a mass outbreak, replicating a crisis in...
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