Category: China

So where are the protests, bumper stickers, and media hate for the Chinese trade restrictions? This is just another example of the double standard applied by Koreans when it comes to China and Japan:

The government is facing growing calls to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over China’s refusal to permit Korean game companies to sell their products there, according to industry officials and politicians. 

Rep. Cho Kyoung-tae of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party urged Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Yang-woo to pursue more active measures to resolve the matter that has lasted for more than two years, resulting in worsening profits for the nation’s game industry. 

“The Chinese government resumed issuing service permits for foreign titles in March this year, but no Korean games were included in the list,” the four-term lawmaker said during the National Assembly’s audit of government agencies, Monday. “This is obvious discrimination against Korean games. The culture ministry needs to take the issue to the WTO.”

Korea Times

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People in #HongKong have directly called on Americans to act. From President #Trump to the rest of us, we must now do all we can for those on freedom's front line. https://t.co/V07cXiD6nP

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) September 8, 2019

What does it say that so many mainland Chinese living outside their country with full access to global media and information still fiercely condemn protesters in Hong Kong. Patriotic education and propaganda instilled since youth works!

— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) August 31, 2019

Many complain about Prez #Trump‘s tactics in the #trade war. Let’s remember #China started undermining the US economy decades ago and is driving events now. Trump is merely reacting to Beijing’s increasingly malicious attacks on us. Let’s remember who the villain is here.

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) August 25, 2019

If true this would help explain why North Korea so easily blew off a food aid offer from South Korea this summer:

North Korea is accepting 800,000 tons of rice from China to help feed its people after turning down a smaller aid package from South Korea last month, according to a Japanese news report on Tuesday. 

Citing a South Korean official and a trader on the border between China and North Korea, a report from the Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun said China was preparing to ship 800,000 tons of rice to North Korea through maritime channels, probably in addition to other foodstuffs like corn that would make the total size of the aid around one million tons. 

Beijing’s decision to provide food assistance to the North was made after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Pyongyang in June, the report said, although no formal announcement has been made about it. 

Joong Ang Ilbo

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As mainland Chinese students and Hong Kong students protest and face off on university campuses around the world, it’s important to remember that mainland students are exercising a right they don’t actually possess back home. And most (none?) of them seem to recognize that irony.

— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) August 17, 2019

Sanctions, what sanctions? Chinese traders and investors on the border with North Korea are preparing for a boom. It's just a matter of time, they think. Our report from Dandong: https://t.co/LceVmqwEat

— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) August 9, 2019