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| China to find peace plan for Russia-Ukraine conflict when West failed to mediate |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-23-2023, 10:25 AM - Forum: Politics
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China to find peace plan for Russia-Ukraine conflict when West failed to mediate but only add fuel to fire
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China is putting in every effort to mediate the complicated and intensifying Russia-Ukraine conflict, as visiting Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials in Moscow to discuss a range of issues, including Ukraine, even as the US and Western countries are more interested in sending additional weapons to keep the ongoing fight lasting.
Chinese analysts said China will try its best to mediate, but whether a peace plan will be effective depends on both sides of the warring parties. Since Kiev is deeply influenced by Washington, which is not interested in an immediate cease-fire but prefers a prolonged conflict to keep undermining Moscow and change the status quo by force, it is really hard to see a feasible formula for peace that both sides can accept. Peace may arrive only after more casualties and damage in the battlefields make at least one side change their mind.
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| China’s top leadership stresses tech self-reliance to tackle foreign technological bl |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-23-2023, 10:14 AM - Forum: Politics
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China’s top leadership stresses tech self-reliance to tackle foreign technological blockade, urging to bolster basic research
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China's top leadership has stressed, twice over the past month or so, making efforts to achieve self-reliance and strength in science and technology, reflecting the great importance that's attached to the country's science and technology development amid increasingly fierce global competition as well as the US' relentless push for a so-called technology decoupling.
On Tuesday, the Political Bureau of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a study session on effectively strengthening basic research and consolidating the foundation of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.
While chairing the study session, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, urged the strengthening of basic research so as to consolidate self-reliance and strength in science and technology, according to Xinhua. Xi also noted that strengthening basic research is an urgent requirement to achieve greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology, and it is the only way to build a world leader in science and technology.
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| Jana Wibawa: company director claims trial to soliciting, receiving bribes |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-23-2023, 09:28 AM - Forum: Stop Corruptions
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JOHOR BARU – A director of a furniture company, Datuk Teo Wee Cheng, pleaded not guilty in the sessions court here today to nine charges of soliciting and accepting bribes amounting to RM12.87 million in connection with the Jana Wibawa project.
On two of the charges, Teo, 65, of SSH Furniture Sdn Bhd, was alleged to have solicited RM11.37 million, which is 10% of the tender price for the project to upgrade the bypass from Jalan Sawah Baru to Tenang Stesyen, Segamat, worth RM39.75 million, and a road construction project from Kg Belukar Durian to Persimpangan Felda Waha, Sedili, Kota Tinggi, worth RM74 million.
The money was alleged to be a reward for helping Muar Usaha Bakti Sdn Bhd secure the project and as inducement to agree to the appointment of TS Dynamic Construction Sdn Bhd as a subcontractor for the project.
He was charged with committing the offences at the office of Trimetro Development Sdn Bhd, Jalan Majidi, Muar, between July 2021 and June last year.
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| Menu Rahmah for all, regardless of income, living standard: Salahuddin |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-23-2023, 09:25 AM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment
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KUALA LUMPUR – The introduction of Menu Rahmah by the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry benefits all Malaysians regardless of income and living standard, says its minister Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub.
He said the initiative could ease the people’s burden and is meaningful to those in need.
Salahuddin said the programme offers premium meals, adding that the ministry will never allow traders to sell low-grade meals using poor-quality ingredients.
“We didn’t name it B40 menu as everyone can enjoy the meals. This is a menu for all. Rahmah (blessing) for all,” he said while winding up the debate on the motion of thanks on the royal address yesterday.
He said the initiative received a good response from the people and traders, including fast food chains and stalls at the rest and service areas along the North-South Expressway.
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| China releases Global Security Initiative Concept Paper |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-22-2023, 02:34 PM - Forum: Politics
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China releases Global Security Initiative Concept Paper, ‘a timely, necessary and targeted’ blueprint for tackling hotspot issues
China released a Global Security Initiative (GSI) Concept Paper on Tuesday, fully elaborating a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept and providing China's wisdom in tackling growing risks and challenges in traditional and non-traditional security areas. Chinese diplomats and experts hailed the release of the document as timely, necessary and targeted, saying that it provides a detailed blueprint in tackling global and regional hotspot issues in an effective way, especially further clarifying China's peace-promoting position on the Ukraine crisis.
In a forum held at the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday morning, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang unveiled the concept paper and told the audience that the document underscores China's responsibilities and determination in safeguarding world peace. "'What kind of security concept the world needs and how countries achieve common security?' has become a topic of our days," Qin said.
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| Biden & Putin’s dueling speeches show the end of the Ukraine war is a long way off |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-22-2023, 12:12 PM - Forum: Politics
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Biden and Putin’s dueling speeches show why the end of the Ukraine war is a long way off
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After a surprise visit to Kyiv in the midst of the ongoing war, President Joe Biden delivered a rallying speech on US support for Ukraine.
Speaking to a crowd of thousands in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, Biden framed the war as a battle between democracy and autocracy, as he has consistently done for the past year. He expanded upon the rhetoric of his recent State of the Union address, saying that since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly one year ago, “the whole world faced a test for the ages,” and emphasized the resolve of the US and NATO to continue to bolster Ukraine’s defense.
Hours earlier in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his own address. He justified Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with some revisionist history, emphasized the massive quantity of weapons the West has provided Ukraine, and announced the withdrawal from an important arms control agreement with the United States. It’s a chilling indication that the stakes of this war are not just Ukraine’s future but the world’s future. The threat of a nuclear conflict always lingers in the background.
“The worst-case scenario is escalation,” Hans Kundnani of the British think tank Chatham House told me. “It seems to me the best-case scenario here is a forever war, unless the Biden administration does push toward negotiations.”
But neither Ukraine nor Russia have expressed any openness to negotiations at this stage.
Tuesday’s split-screen speeches are a reminder that a year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, both Biden and Putin are doubling down. “We have every confidence that you’re going to continue to prevail,” Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a day earlier in Ukraine. But that confidence in public may be obscuring anxieties that foreign policy leaders are expressing in private as the war continues into its second year, as major democracies like India decline to take a firm side, and as the risks of the war expanding beyond Ukraine’s borders are heightened.
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