China has gone effectively “NR”, a tech term for software being “non-responsive”. No matter what any nation says or does, China only digs in, tells the same lies no matter how increasingly obvious, and continues aggression as the solution to losing more friends over its aggression.
Why censor Mike Pence’s statement on China during the vice presidential debate? As an act of good will, China should replay Pence’s statement to correct for the ostensible “no signal please stand by” message during that part of the debate. If anything, letting a foreign vice president make bad statements would help prove that China does not engage in free speech censorship. In all likelihood, the Chinese have been censoring so many people and getting away with it that they thought censoring the American vice president would go unnoticed—it didn’t.
Besides, why keep a foreign vice president’s words away from the ears of their own people. The Chinese people won’t decide how the West will respond to Chinese aggression; the West will decide how the West responds. That’s something else the Chinese Communists don’t seem to understand.
Four nations held a strangely, vaguely-purposed meeting: Japan, Australia, India, and the United States. The reason went largely unexplained, though it was obviously about China. Japan said the meeting wasn’t about one, single country. Australia said no one tells Australia what to do. The US said China is dangerous. From a Chinese Confucian Communist perspective, the meeting seemed out of order. But, in the minds of Western voters, it is clear that all four countries dislike China without having to be told to. It was an unencrypted message China was sure to not decrypt.
Great Pacific
China tells Indian media not to call Taiwan a country, Taiwan says ‘get lost’ // Yahoo News
Pompeo Rails Against China At ‘Quad’ Meeting With Foreign Ministers In Tokyo // NPR
Cambodia confirms US-funded defence facility has been razed // Yahoo News
Trade & Tech
TSMC reportedly obtains license to ship to Huawei – there’s a catch – // gizchina.com
Huawei CFO Dealt Fresh Setback in Fight Against Extradition // Bloomberg
Huawei: MPs claim ‘clear evidence of collusion’ with Chinese Communist Party // BBC News
Six of China’s largest semiconductor projects now halted // Taiwan News
China technology companies face geopolitical, coronavirus changes // CNBC
SMIC Says U.S. Is Placing Export Restrictions on Suppliers // Bloomberg
China
Censored!
Why did China censor Pence during the VP debate? // YouTube @ Fox Business
Pew survey on negative sentiment toward China, Xi Jinping, coronavirus // CNBC
US warns China against Taiwan attack, stresses US ‘ambiguity’ // Aljazeera
Negative views of China and Xi Jinping at record levels: international survey // SCMP
Negative views of China soar in western countries, poll finds // Guardian
Taiwan
Taiwan’s president calls for less tension with China in annual address // Guardian
What Taiwan needs to defend itself from a Chinese invasion // Business Insider
US warplane appears to ‘draw’ median line between Taiwan and China // Taiwan News
White House has more coronavirus cases than Taiwan, New Zealand, and Vietnam // Taiwan News
China Threatens War Over New Taiwan Independence Proposal: State Media // US News
Taiwan says military under pressure from China as missions mount // Deccan Chronicle
Hong Kong
Korean Peninsula
Military Faceoff
How China’s aircraft carriers compare with US Navy flattops // Business Insider
The Air Force is experimenting with a brand new way to put warheads on foreheads // Task & Purpose