英文媒体关于中国的报道汇总 2023-09-27
September 28, 2023 21 min 4383 words
根据提供的新闻报道,我对主要内容做出如下总结- 1. 美国士兵Travis King因非法进入朝鲜被朝鲜驱逐到中国,目前在美国当局监管之下。 2. 中国表示在台湾附近的军事演习是为了应对分裂势力的“傲慢”。台湾方面报告说最近中国军机、舰船在其附近活动频繁。 3. 美国投资者希望拜登政府能明确其限制中国科技投资的模糊政策。金融公司担心新的限制投资中国科技的政策过于宽泛、模糊,将增加合规成本和法律风险。 4. 中国恒大集团主席徐建华据报道被警方监视居住,恒大又有债券违约,公司面临清盘的风险。 5. 中国表示在台湾附近的军演旨在应对分裂势力的“傲慢”。台湾方面表示中国军机、军舰在其附近活动频繁,增加了意外冲突的风险。 6. 报道称中国恒大集团主席徐建华被警方监视居住,这加剧了该房地产开发商的困境。恒大本周再次违约,清盘风险加大。 7. 马尔代夫总统大选中,印度和中国势力的较量随处可见。候选人一一代表不同的亚洲大国,选举结果将决定哪一方在该地区获得战略立足点。 评论- 1. 朝鲜驱逐美军士兵一事,各方应保持冷静理性,通过对话减少误judge,避免局势升级。 2. 中台局势复杂敏感,军事演习可能增加意外发生的风险,有关各方应保持最大克制,通过对话化解分歧,维护区域和平稳定。 3. 在涉及国家安全的问题上,各国政府有责任采取必要措施,但也应注意保持全球资本流动,减少对企级正当合法商业活动的负面影响。 4. 恒大危机反映出中国房地产市场的深层问题,但不应过度解读个案,各方应理性看待,中国有能力化解房地产行业风险,维护经济金融稳定。 5. 中台局势复杂敏感,军事活动增加误判风险,有关各方应保持最大克制,通过对话化解分歧,维护区域和平。 6. 恒大危机需要各方理性对待,中国有能力化解房地产行业风险,维护经济金融稳定。 7. 小国不应过度仰赖任何大国,应维护自身独立自主,谨慎处理大国关系,注重自身发展。区域国家应相互尊重,加强合作,维护南亚稳定。
- US restricts imports from three more Chinese companies tied to forced labor
- China, Japan and South Korea agree talks to calm fears over US ties
- South Korea, Japan, China agree to hold summit at “earliest convenient time“
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US restricts imports from three more Chinese companies tied to forced labor
https://reuters.com/article/usa-china-uighurs/us-restricts-imports-from-three-more-chinese-companies-tied-to-forced-labor-idUSKBN30W0XHThe United State restricted goods from three more Chinese companies from entering the United States on Tuesday as part of an effort to eliminate goods made with the forced labor of Uyghur minorities from the U.S. supply chain.
Xinjiang Tianmian Foundation Textile Co Ltd, Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Textile Co. Ltd and Xinjiang Zhongtai Group Co. Ltd were added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, according to a government posting, bringing the total number of entities on the list to 27.
The three companies were designated as a result of their business practices involving Uyghur minorities and other persecuted groups, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
"We do not tolerate companies that use forced labor, that abuse the human rights of individuals in order to make a profit," Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said in the statement.
The three companies were designated for working with the government of Xinjiang to recruit and transport, harbor or use the forced labor of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or members of other persecuted groups out of the region, the United States said.
Xinjiang Tianmian Foundation Textile Co makes yarn and other textile products, the statement said. Xinjiang Zhongtai Group Co produces and sells polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other textile, chemical and building materials. Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Textile Co sells cashmere and wool garments, among other products. All three are based in Xinjiang.
A 2021 law, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List (UFLPA), prohibits importation of goods into the United States that are either produced in Xinjiang or by companies identified on the list unless the importer can prove that the goods were not produced with forced labor.
U.S. officials believe Chinese authorities have established labor camps for Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in China's western Xinjiang region. Beijing denies any abuses.
The State Department later on Tuesday updated its business advisory on the Xingjiang supply chain to call attention to China's "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and the evidence of widespread use of forced labor there."
It stressed the urgency for businesses to take due diligence measures, including identifying, assessing and acting on forced labor and human rights risks for workers.
Some Uyghur groups and activists have been frustrated by the pace and quality of enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Senator Marco Rubio, who helped introduce the law, urged the Biden administration to add more companies to the list.
"There are potentially thousands of China-based companies and entities complicit in slave labor," Rubio said in a statement. "The slow pace emboldens those profiting from slave labor."
China, Japan and South Korea agree talks to calm fears over US ties
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/china-japan-and-south-korea-agree-talks-to-calm-fears-over-us-tiesThe leaders of China, Japan and South Korea will hold three-way talks “as soon as possible” after a meeting intended to ease Chinese concerns over Washington’s stronger security presence in the region.
Official said on Tuesday that the three countries’ deputy foreign ministers had agreed to revive trilateral talks after a four-year hiatus during which tensions have risen over North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme and Chinese military activity.
Lim Soo-suk, a spokesperson for South Korea’s foreign ministry, said the leaders’ summit would be held at the “earliest mutually convenient time”, according to the Yonhap news agency.
Japan’s foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, said the three countries shared the need to restart high-level talks, including summits, “as soon as possible”.
“I believe it is very valuable to discuss the various challenges the region faces,” she told a briefing in Tokyo.
China has expressed alarm over deepening ties between Washington and its two allies in north-east Asia, which are home to tens of thousands of US troops.
In August, Yoon, Kishida and Joe Biden hailed a “new chapter” in three-way security cooperation after a historical summit at Camp David.
China denounced the summit, saying it “opposes relevant countries forming various cliques and their practices of exacerbating confrontation and jeopardising other countries’ strategic security”. It was particularly angered by a reference in the Camp David statement to China’s “aggressive behaviour” in the South China Sea.
Washington has attempted to present a united regional front against Chinese military activity near Taiwan and North Korea’s development of powerful weapons of mass destruction.
China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said on Tuesday that Beijing would oppose the “wanton expansion of military alliances and the squeezing of the security space of other countries”, in what appeared to be a warning against any attempt to establish a Nato-like military alliance in the Asia-Pacific.
Forces from Japan, South Korea and the US have held joint military exercises in response to the threat from North Korea, while China – the North’s biggest aid donor and trading partner – has recently sent senior officials to attend military parades in Pyongyang.
Japan and South Korea have an interest in maintaining a stable security relationship with China, including its help addressing North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, according to Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“These shared interests open up new avenues for strategic communication, confidence-building, and measures to prevent crises,” Zhao said.
The prospects for a revival of formal talks between the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea have risen following a recent thaw in ties between Tokyo and Seoul.
South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, and his fellow conservative, the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, appear to have settled long-running rows over how much responsibility Japan should bear for its actions on the Korean peninsula before and during the second world war, including its use of “comfort women” and forced labour.
South Korea’s foreign ministry said cooperation between the three neighbours was essential to the “peace, stability, and prosperity of the world”, adding that together they accounted for 20% of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s GDP.
In similarly conciliatory tones, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said China, Japan and South Korea had a common interest in improving bilateral ties.
“We should work together to strengthen practical cooperation … and make new contributions to regional peace, stability, and prosperity,” Wang said on Tuesday.
South Korea, Japan, China agree to hold summit at “earliest convenient time“
https://reuters.com/article/southkorea-japan-china/south-korea-japan-china-agree-to-hold-summit-at-earliest-convenient-time-idUSKBN30V1W1Senior diplomats from South Korea, China and Japan agreed on Tuesday that their countries' leaders would meet at the "earliest convenient time", Seoul's foreign ministry said after a rare meeting aimed at kickstarting trilateral exchanges.
The three countries had agreed to hold a summit every year starting in 2008 to foster regional cooperation, but that initiative has been frayed by bilateral feuds and the COVID-19 pandemic. The last summit was in 2019.
Seoul's foreign ministry said in a statement that specific dates remained under discussion and that the countries' foreign ministers would meet "in a couple of months".
South Korea is this year's host for three-way meetings and has proposed a summit in late December, Japanese broadcaster TBS reported.
Japan's foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, said the three countries share the need to restart high-level talks, including summits, "as soon as possible".
"I believe it is very valuable to discuss the various challenges the region faces," she told a briefing in Tokyo.
The latest meeting was seen partly intended to assuage Beijing's concerns over the two U.S. allies' tightening cooperation after Seoul and Tokyo agreed this year to end legal, diplomatic and trade disputes over issues dating to Japan's 1910-45 occupation of Korea.
"We unanimously believe that carrying out cooperation is in the common interests of the three parties," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday. "We should work together to strengthen practical cooperation ... and make new contributions to regional peace, stability, and prosperity."
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have taken steps to mend ties and in August held a historic trilateral summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, where the three vowed to boost cooperation, including on defence and economic security.
A senior South Korean official said China has been proactive in seeking trilateral cooperation and arranging meetings since bilateral ties soured over the deployment in 2017 of a U.S. THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea.
"I'm sure there should be some discomfort on their side regarding our increasingly close trilateral security partnerships with the United States and Japan," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. "There seems to be a view there that they need to properly manage bilateral ties with us, as they saw how their THAAD responses backfired and fuelled anti-China sentiment to serious levels."
Beijing will most likely look to leverage trilateral trade ties to counterbalance the U.S. friend-shoring strategy, promote people-to-people exchanges, and enhance communication and dialogue with Seoul and Tokyo on security and defence matters, said Tong Zhao, senior fellow at the U.S.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Japan and South Korea have an interest in avoiding conflicts and maintaining a stable security relationship with China, and Beijing's assistance in slowing down, if not halting, North Korea's extensive nuclear development program, he added.
"These shared interests open up new avenues for strategic communication, confidence-building, and measures to prevent crises," Zhao said.
China's premier has traditionally attended the trilateral summits, and South Korea is also pushing for a separate visit by President Xi Jinping.
The latest meeting involved South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Chung Byung-won, Japanese Senior Deputy Foreign Minister Takehiro Funakoshi, and Nong Rong, China's assistant minister of foreign affairs.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66919189?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGAThe Philippines says it has executed a "special operation" to remove a floating barrier in the South China Sea.[Business] US-China rivalry spurs investment in space tech
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66753675?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGAThe US is "in a space race with China to go back to the moon", says Nasa chief Bill Nelson.
In a BBC interview, Mr Nelson says he wants to make sure "we get there first".
His comments revive memories of the 1960s and 1970s, when Nasa was in a space race with the Soviet Union. But half a century later, Nasa is employing private companies to do much more of the work.
Mr Nelson says they are crucial because it allows for the huge costs to be shared, and for Nasa to draw on "the creativity of entrepreneurs in the private sector".
He points to Elon Musk's SpaceX, which in 2021 was awarded a $3bn (£2.4bn) contact to build a lunar lander, and has also developed the most powerful rocket ever built.
Other private firms are also feeling the benefit of the space race. Earlier this year the agency signed a $3.4bn deal with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin - also to build a lander, but for later moon landings.
Those are just two companies that are benefitting from billions of dollars of government funding. It's money that is being spent, in part at least, to try and keep ahead of China amid much broader tensions between the world's two biggest economies.
In late August, India became the fourth nation to achieve a soft landing on the Moon and the first to reach the lunar south pole region.
Despite that success, China's space program is the one most closely watched by Nasa.
China is the only country to have its own space station, it has already brought moon samples back to earth, and it has plans to reach the polar regions of the lunar surface.
This worries Mr Nelson: "What I'm concerned about is that we find water on the south pole of the moon, China gets there, and China says this is our area. You can't come here, it's ours."
Mr Nelson argues that China's actions to build artificial islands in order to claim sovereignty over parts of the South China Sea support his concern.
Mr Nelson also points out that China has not signed up to the US-led Artemis Accords, intended as a framework for best practice in space and on the Moon.
China says it is committed to the peaceful exploration of space, and has previously dismissed US concerns about its space programme as "a smear campaign against China's normal and reasonable outer space endeavours".
The rivalry is spurring huge investment by Nasa. In the year to the end of September 2021 the agency says its spending was worth $71.2bn to the US economy - a 10.7% increase on the year before.
While big names like SpaceX might attract the headlines, Nasa's spending reaches much further into the economy.
"A quarter of our spending is going to small businesses," says Mr Nelson.
That money can accelerate the growth of small firms, particularly start-ups, says Sinead O'Sullivan, a former Nasa engineer and now space economist at Harvard Business School.
The government often acts as a first customer to start-up firms and those contracts can allow them to approach private investors and raise even more money, she says.
"A lot of the time we talk about venture capital and private equity, however, governments are equally if not more important," Ms O'Sullivan says.
The race back to the moon might be high profile, but it has helped spur an explosion in other space activity that could be far more profitable.
In 1957 Russia became the first country to put a satellite in orbit as it fought the original space race with the US. Now there are just over 10,500 satellites orbiting earth, according to the European Space Agency.
Over the last decade, Chad Andersen founder of investment firm Space Capital, credits SpaceX for spurring the industry on.
"The only reason that we're speaking about space as an investment category today is because of SpaceX," he says. "A little over 10 years ago, before their first commercial flight, the entire market was really government dominated."
About half of the satellites now in orbit were launched in the last three years, according to analytics firm BryceTech.
That's mainly thanks to just two companies One Web and Elon Musk's Starlink.
"The space economy is much broader than just rockets and satellite hardware. It is the invisible backbone that powers our global economy," explains Mr Anderson.
With the growing number of satellites in orbit he says an increasing number of companies are finding new uses for the data they provide, including in the agriculture, insurance and maritime industries.
New Zealand-based RocketLab is another big player in the space economy.
A rival to SpaceX, it has already completed 40 launches for customers including Nasa and other US government agencies.
Its founder Peter Beck went from dishwasher engineer to launching rockets into space, and says that is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the financial opportunities that lie beyond earth.
"Launch is about a $10bn opportunity. Then there's infrastructure, like building the satellites, it's about a $30bn opportunity. And then there's applications and that's about an $830bn opportunity."
He is not alone in making big claims. The US investment bank Morgan Stanley estimated the global space industry could grow to be worth over $1tn a year by 2040.
What might be next for space-faring private firms?
Mr Beck is cautious about opportunities on the moon, particularly mining.
"At the moment, it's not economically viable to go to the moon, mine and bring it back to Earth."
Nasa's Bill Nelson sees possibilities in medical research. He points to useful research into crystal growth conducted on the International Space Station in 2019 by pharmaceuticals firm Merck, which helped developed a cancer treatment.
He also says fibre optics might be manufactured more effectively in zero gravity.
"What you will see eventually is lot of business activity in low Earth orbit."
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South Korea hosts Japan, China as US allies try to reassure Beijing
https://reuters.com/article/southkorea-japan-china/south-korea-hosts-japan-china-as-us-allies-try-to-reassure-beijing-idUSKBN30V1W1South Korea on Tuesday will host senior diplomats from China and Japan for a rare trilateral meeting seen as aimed at assuaging Beijing's concerns over the two U.S. allies' tightening cooperation between themselves and Washington.
The meeting aims in part to set the stage for the resumption of three-way summits between the countries' leaders, which were last held in 2019. Those talks were suspended amid legal, diplomatic, and trade disputes between Seoul and Tokyo over issues dating to Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of Korea.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have since taken steps to mend ties and in August held a historic trilateral summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, where the three vowed to boost cooperation, including on defence and economic security.
A senior South Korean government official said China has been proactive in seeking trilateral cooperation and arranging meetings since relations soured between Seoul and Beijing in 2017 over the deployment of a U.S. THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea.
"I’m sure there should be some discomfort on their side regarding our increasingly close trilateral security partnerships with the United States and Japan," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. "There seems to be a view there that they need to properly manage bilateral ties with us, as they saw how their THAAD responses backfired and fuelled anti-China sentiment to serious levels."
Beijing will most likely look to leverage trilateral trade cooperation to counterbalance the U.S. friend-shoring strategy, promote people-to-people exchanges, and enhance communication and dialogue with Seoul and Tokyo on security and defence matters, said Tong Zhao, senior fellow at the U.S.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Japan and South Korea have an interest in avoiding conflicts and maintaining a stable security relationship with China, and Beijing's assistance in slowing down, if not halting, North Korea's extensive nuclear development program, he added.
"These shared interests open up new avenues for strategic communication, confidence-building, and measures to prevent crises," Zhao said.
Tuesday's meeting involve South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Chung Byung-won, Japanese Senior Deputy Foreign Minister Takehiro Funakoshi, and Nong Rong, China's assistant minister of foreign affairs.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a briefing on Monday that China, Japan and South Korea are close neighbours and important cooperative partners, and strengthening trilateral cooperation serves their common interests.
The trilateral summits have traditionally involved China's prime minister, but South Korea is also pushing for a separate visit by President Xi Jinping.
Biden makes new pledges to Pacific island leaders as China“s influence grows
https://reuters.com/article/usa-biden/biden-makes-new-pledges-to-pacific-island-leaders-as-chinas-influence-grows-idUSKBN30V15UPresident Joe Biden met Pacific island leaders for a second White House summit in just over a year on Monday, part of a charm offensive aimed at curbing further inroads by China into a strategic region Washington has long considered its own backyard.
Before welcoming the island leaders, gathered under the umbrella of the 18-nation Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), Biden announced U.S. diplomatic recognition of two more Pacific islands nations, the Cook Islands and Niue.
"The United States is committed to ensuring an Indo-Pacific region that is free, open, prosperous, and secure. We’re committed to working with all the nations around this table to achieve that goal," Biden said at the welcoming ceremony.
Biden pledged to work with Congress to provide $200 million more in funding for the region for projects aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change, spurring economic growth, countering illegal fishing and improving public health, the U.S. said in a document issued after a working lunch with the group.
"These new programs and activities continue to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to work together with the Pacific Islands to expand and deepen our cooperation in the years ahead," the document said.
A joint statement said the sides agreed to hold another summit in 2025 and political engagements every two years thereafter.
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, the island forum's chair, called the summit "an opportunity ... to develop our partnerships for prosperity." He urged Washington "to actively engage at the highest level" in the 52nd PIF leaders meeting he would host in a few weeks to endorse its 2050 Strategy.
Biden hosted an inaugural summit of 14 Pacific island nations a year ago and was to meet them again in Papua New Guinea in May. That meeting was scrapped when a U.S. debt- ceiling crisis forced Biden to cut short an Asia trip.
Last year, his administration pledged to help islanders fend off China's "economic coercion" and a joint declaration resolved to strengthen their partnership, saying they shared a vision for a region where "democracy will be able to flourish."
Biden said recognizing the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign and independent states would "enable us to expand the scope of this enduring partnership as we seek to tackle the challenges that matter most to our peoples' lives."
He highlighted a personal link to the region - an uncle killed in World War Two after crash landing off the coast of Papua New Guinea. He said the summit, as then, was "to build a better world."
In Baltimore on Sunday, Pacific island leaders visited a Coast Guard cutter in the harbor and were briefed on combating illegal fishing by the Commandant of the Coast Guard.
They also attended Sunday's National Football League game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Indianapolis Colts. Dozens of NFL players are of Pacific Islander heritage.
Representatives of all 18 PIF members attended the summit, but not all at leader level.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who has deepened ties with China, did not attend and a senior Biden administration official said the U.S. was "disappointed" by this.
Washington appears to have made no progress on offers of substantial infrastructure funding and expanded aid to the Solomons. Sogavare visited China in July, announcing a policing agreement with Beijing that builds on a security pact signed last year.
The White House in 2022 said the U.S. would invest more than $810 million in expanded programs to aid the Pacific islands.
Meg Keen, director of Pacific Island Programs at Australia's Lowy Institute, said that while the U.S. had opened new embassies and a USAID office in the region since last year's summit, Congress had yet to approve most of the funding pledges made last year.
She added that Pacific island countries "welcome the U.S. re-engagement with the region, but don't want geopolitical tussles to result in an escalation of militarization." Vanuatu Prime Minister Sato Kilman also did not attend the summit. He was elected by lawmakers two weeks ago to replace Ishmael Kalsakau, who lost a no-confidence vote for actions including signing a security pact with U.S. ally Australia.
The U.S. is still negotiating to open an embassy in Vanuatu, but has not significantly increased engagement with that nation, which counts China as its largest external creditor. China signed a policing agreement with Vanuatu last month.
A senior Biden administration official said the U.S. was on track to open the Vanuatu embassy by early next year.
Fiji has welcomed the stronger U.S. regional presence as making the Pacific "more secure," but Kiribati, one of the most remote Pacific island states, 2,500 miles (4,000 km) southwest of Hawaii, said this year it plans to upgrade a former World War Two airstrip with Chinese assistance.
Washington renewed agreements this year with Palau and Micronesia that give it exclusive military access to strategic parts of the Pacific, but has yet to do so with the Marshall Islands, which wants more money to deal with the legacy of massive U.S. nuclear testing in the 1940s and 50s.
The summit statement said the U.S. "plans to work expeditiously to meet the needs of the Republic of the Marshall Islands through ongoing Compact negotiations" and was committed to addressing its "ongoing environmental, public health concerns, and other welfare concerns."