BEIJING (Global Times): In a Thursday (June 10) report titled "China and Southeast Asian countries pledge greater vaccine cooperation as US influence wanes," the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) misinterpreted the Special Asean-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in China's Chongqing as a demonstration of Asean's "reliance on China-made vaccines."
Beijing accused Washington on Wednesday of "defaming" China's development and domestic and foreign policies and attempting to contain its development, after the United States Senate passed one of the largest industrial bills in the country's history to counter so-called challenges from China.
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By Zhang Han Published: Jun 10, 2021 10:19 PM
US President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C. on April 28. Photo: Xinhua
US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson are expected to agree on a new Atlantic Charter that will reaffirm US-UK special relationship as Biden looks to rally the West to compete with China. Chinese observers noted a single document cannot address trans-Atlantic differences and it misreads the major trend of the time and risks destabilizing Europe.
Biden and Johnson will have their first face-to-face meeting on Thursday in Cornwall before the UK-hosted G7 leaders summit on Friday. The accord will outline eight broad areas of cooperation, including defending democracy, reaffirming the importance of collective security, and building a fair trade system, Financial Times reported Thursday.
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Nearly 200 Chinese intellectuals who took part in a Japanese government-affiliated exchange programme have been branded traitors on Chinese social media, reflecting rising nationalistic sentiment in China.
They were sponsored to visit Japan by the Japan Foundation, which is overseen by the Japanese foreign ministry and funded by government subsidies, investment revenue and private sector donations.
The programme was started in 2008 to improve exchanges between the two countries, with 196 Chinese intellectuals having been sponsored as of 2019, the ministry said.
But participants have been criticised by some people online, after the visits recently came to their attention. He Bing, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, writers Jiang Fangzhou and Xiong Peiyun, and journalist Duan Hongqing were among those targeted.