China "strongly opposes" the visit of US senators to Taiwan
and urges the US "to stop all official contact", upholding the 'One China' principle to avoid further damage to bilateral relations and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, has sent a "formal protest" to the US, urged to "avoid sending the wrong messages to the secessionist forces". Tammy Duckworth, Christopher Coons and Dan Sullivan arrived in Taipei on Sunday in a C-17 military plane announcing that the US will give 750,000 doses of the Covid vaccine.
German Uyghur Study, Birth Collapse
: China's new
birth control
rules could cut between 2.6 and 4.5 million births among Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang within the next 20 years. This was revealed by Reuters exclusively on its website, citing the study of a German researcher, Adrian Zenz. Data from the report already shows a substantial decline in the region, estimated at minus 48.7% between 2017 and 2019.
