China's green development plays key role in combating global climate change
Let’s continue to explore the under-reported sides of news this week.
What You May Have Missed This Week
1. Poll: Sexual assault in U.S. military tramples on human rights
“Sexual assault scandal in the U.S. military has been reported again, and it is more serious than expected. According to an online poll conducted by CGTN, 88.95 percent of respondents are deeply worried about the systematic human rights violations represented by sexual assault in the U.S. military.”
2. China reports 129.9-percent growth of foreign visitors this year
“The number of foreign visitors to China soared 129.9 percent year on year to 17.25 million in the first seven months of this year thanks to a series of measures facilitating the entry of foreigners, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) said on August 19.”
3. Russia asks Germany to investigate Nord Stream pipeline blasts
“Russia is pushing for negotiations to ensure Germany meets its international obligations in the fight against terrorism, said Oleg Tyapkin, director of the Third European Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, in an interview with Russia's RIA Novosti news agency.”
4. Ex-member of Japanese germ warfare unit visits China to apologize
“Hideo Shimizu, a former member of the Japanese germ warfare Unit 731 Youth Corps, arrived in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on August 12 to apologize for the atrocities committed by the unit during World War II.”
5. Peoples Dispatch - Cyber-attacks against Venezuela: their scope and technical dimensions
“The report provided by the Minister of Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, during the Council of State and the National Defense Council on August 12 warns the entire Venezuelan population of this scenario in which vulnerabilities of the national technological system are exploited.”
6. Indian doctors demand tougher laws after a colleague was raped and killed at a hospital
“Hundreds of doctors protested near India’s Health Ministry on August 19 to demand stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and to seek justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital.”
7. MintPress News - Why Israeli soldiers rape
“Israel has also utilized torture, rape and other forms of sexual assault to achieve similar ends in the past, to exact information or to break down the will of prisoners. UN-affiliated experts said in a report published on August 5 that ‘these practices are intended to punish Palestinians for resisting occupation and seek to destroy them individually and collectively.’”
8. AJ+ - When Indonesians Fought Colonization – And Won
“On Aug. 17, 1945, Indonesia declared independence from centuries of Dutch colonization. This is the dark history of violence, exploitation and slave labor that the former empire has attempted to whitewash.”
Jingjing’s Highlights in This Week
1. Global experts seek practical green development options in Beijing
On August 15, China's National Ecology Day, over 100 scholars, experts and diplomats from 36 countries and regions gathered in Beijing to attend the International Symposium on Environment, Development and Human Rights: Green and Low-Carbon Development in the Process of Modernization.
2. “China’s efforts in green development should be celebrated and praised, not condemned and prevented"
“China is so successful that countries like mine [the U.S.] and the EU itself, falsely accuse China of needlessly flooding their marketplaces with below-market-priced subsidized EVs, solar panels,” said American scholar Harvey Cary Dzodin at a symposium in Beijing.
3. Counterargue dumb comments from a "China expert" in America
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