英文媒体关于中国的报道汇总 2023-10-09
October 10, 2023 6 min 1101 words
根据提供的新闻报道,我总结了以下要点- 1. 菲律宾在南海第二托马斯礁附近的挑衅行为已经严重侵犯了中国的领土主权。中国敦促菲律宾停止这种挑衅,避免进一步损害南海的和平与稳定。 2. 中国延长了对台湾贸易壁垒的调查,直到台湾大选前一天。台湾指责这是中国企图通过经济胁迫干预台湾大选。 3. 中国程序员因使用VPN而被罚款100多万元人民币。这可能是中国对个人使用VPN最严厉的处罚,有观点认为这是地方政府获取收入的做法。 4. 分析认为中国的096核潜艇有可能在本世纪末前服役,这将对美国及其盟友在印太地区的反潜行动带来深远影响。 5. 中国天宫空间站计划在未来几年进一步扩充,提供给其他国家太空任务一个与国际空间站不同的选择。 评论- 1. 中国在南海问题上的立场一贯明确,坚决维护国家主权和领土完整。面对菲律宾的挑衅,中国采取克制态度,希望通过对话解决争议。 2. 中国态度一致,台湾问题纯属中国内政,外部势力不应干涉。中国必须维护国家利益,但应避免被认为在利用经济措施影响台湾选举。 3. VPN属于法律灰色地带,使用须慎重。个人非法收入应缴纳罚款,但罚则不宜过重,以免影响中国IT业发展。 4. 中国加强国防力量合理合法,但应坚持防御性国防政策,不针对任何特定国家。中美应加强战略沟通,避免误判。 5. 天宫空间站体现中国航天事业进步。中国应在太空合作方面采取开放态度,为各国提供平等机会,不应过分强调与国际空间站的较量。
- Campaigners aim to lower support for China on UN human rights council
- China Tiananmen critic stuck in Taiwan transit lounge granted asylum in Canada
Campaigners aim to lower support for China on UN human rights council
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/08/campaigners-aim-to-lower-support-for-china-on-un-human-rights-councilAn effort is under way to drive down the Chinese vote at the UN human rights council this week in an attempt to show continuing worldwide disapproval of its human rights record.
The elections on to the world’s premier human rights body take place by secret ballot on Tuesday with China guaranteed a seat in one of the uncontested seats from its region, but human rights campaigners are working to lower the level of Chinese support to show pressure on the country is not dissipating.
Russia is also seeking to return to the 15-strong council after the UN suspended its membership after the invasion of Ukraine. Russia then withdrew from the council.
In 2016 China received 180 votes but this fell to 139 in 2020 against the background of the Xinjiang controversies. Xi Jinping’s crackdown on the region and its Uyghur population has been labelled an attempted genocide by some governments, human rights groups and legal bodies.
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac) has now garnered support from MPs in 15 countries including Italy and Bolivia, two countries that have not greatly engaged on the issue before. The MPs have written to their foreign ministries urging them not to back China.
China has always relied on strong support in Latin America, but the Bolivian senator Centa Rek López said support for China’s candidacy from certain countries in Latin America “reflects both their own repressive policies, history of human rights abuses and their ties to the People’s Republic of China, which has facilitated corruption, surveillance and economic dependency”.
The UN general assembly resolution that created the human rights council in 2006, urges countries voting for members to “take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights”. Council members are required to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights” at home and abroad and “fully cooperate with the council”.
The UN high commissioner for human rights last year argued that the treatment of Uyghurs “may amount to enslavement as a crime against humanity, meriting a further independent analysis”. The separate unofficial Uyghur tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, found Beijing guilty of genocide on the basis it had acted to prevent Uyghur births.
The UN has issued 83 formal communications since 2018 to China. UN special procedures, the UN’s investigatory arm, complained it had “yet to see any signs of political will to address the concerns raised”. Similarly China has rejected every universal periodic review recommendation to allow UN investigators access, and refused to reply to 19 visit requests.
The UK co-chair of Ipac, Helena Kennedy KC, said: “It’s manifestly clear that China does not meet the criteria for election to the human rights council. Not only does Beijing stand credibly accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, they have obstinately refused to cooperate with official investigators, and even attacked rapporteurs and special procedures delegates for raising concerns.
“In recent years we have seen the People’s Republic of China able to command bloc votes at the council to prevent further debate surrounding Xinjiang. This is a clear and intolerable distortion of an essential human rights institution. While it may not be possible to prevent the PRC’s election this time, a lower vote share would send a strong signal that the rest of the world has had enough.”
Ipac’s director, Luke de Pulford, refused to be drawn on the target number of votes, but said it would be a huge achievement if the China vote were below 139.
China Tiananmen critic stuck in Taiwan transit lounge granted asylum in Canada
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/08/china-tiananmen-critic-stuck-in-taiwan-transit-lounge-granted-asylum-in-canadaA Chinese dissident who was stuck inside a Taiwanese airport transit area after he refused to fly on to China says he has arrived in Canada after being granted asylum.
Chen Siming arrived in Taipei on 22 September, after travelling through Thailand and Laos. When he landed at Taipei’s international airport he refused to reboard, requesting assistance to resettle in a third country.
He spent almost two weeks living in the transit area and immigration office of the airport, where he said he was looked after by authorities. There was concern over how long he would be there, after a similar case in late 2018 saw two dissidents spend four months at the airport.
Chen told the Guardian on Sunday that he arrived in Vancouver on Saturday. “I was able to successfully obtain political asylum in Canada,” he said, crediting the international attention on his case and various human rights groups, as well as the governments of Taiwan and Canada and the United Nations refugee agency. “The three parties handled my case quickly in the spirit of humanitarian care,” he said.
“This kindness will be remembered forever, I would like to express my sincere gratitude.”
Chen is a known activist in China who regularly commemorated the Tiananmen Square massacre of 4 June 1989 and has been repeatedly detained around the anniversary. He fled China for Laos in late July, but after the arrest and deportation of human rights lawyer Lu Siwei, Chen was advised to leave the country. He arrived in Thailand where he said he was granted interim asylum status by the UNHCR, before booking a flight to Guangzhou, China, but which transited in Taiwan.
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Fellow dissident and political commentator, Baoshen Guo, who had been assisting Chen, said Chen was “very lucky” to have been transferred so quickly. In late 2018 Yan Bojun and Liu Xinglian spent about 100 days in the airport before Taiwan authorities decided they could enter, but only after they flew to Singapore and then returned on short-term humanitarian visas.
Taiwan does not have a formal refugee pathway, and tensions between Taipei and Beijing – which has vowed to annex Taiwan – make the topic of Chinese asylum seekers a politically sensitive and complicated issue.
Taiwan’s mainland affairs council, which was handling Chen’s case, has been contacted for comment.