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In the third week of November 2020, the aftermath of the elections in the United States was shaken. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, the public also responded enthusiastically to the results. At the same time, preliminary data released by the American pharmaceutical company Moderna on November 16 showed that its newly developed corona vaccine can achieve nearly 95% effective rate, attracting global attention.
Last week, the following news content on the BBC’s Chinese website caught the attention of readers. If you missed them, BBC Chinese will take you back one by one.
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The dust in the US elections is undecided and the turmoil in Hong Kong has started again. Washington is in a transitional phase, distracted by the new crown epidemic and the aftermath of the elections. Will the current Trump administration adopt a more radical policy toward Hong Kong in the next two months? How will Biden, who won the election, tackle the Hong Kong problem?
Last week, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China passed a “patriotic resolution” to remove four Hong Kong lawmakers from office. Pan-democratic legislators on the Legislative Council later announced their collective resignation. The White House and the US State Department respectively issued statements condemning the disqualification of Democratic congressmen, but Biden’s side, which has established a transition team, was silent on the matter.
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In the past two weeks, data from phase III clinical trials of the new corona vaccine in Europe and the United States have drawn cheers. Some people believe that curbing the new corona epidemic has finally seen the light.
Four vaccines in China, where the epidemic first broke out, have also entered phase III clinical trials. However, the use of vaccines today appears to be very different in Europe, America and China. European and American countries generally target and pin their hopes on the new corona vaccine developed by traditional international brands, while Chinese brands mainly target developing countries. In Southeast Asian countries with severe epidemics and in Brazil and elsewhere, Chinese vaccines have conducted clinical trials and vigorously expanded the market, but have also encountered various resistances.
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As the confrontation between the United States and China on trade and technology continues, the RCEP Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was signed on Sunday (November 15), which includes China and 14 Asian-Pacific countries.
This agreement is considered the largest free trade agreement in the world due to the large population, trade and economic volume it covers. However, as the world’s largest economic power, the United States is not among them.
Former President Obama told BBC Arts his views on conspiracy theories flying through the sky and “the truth is dying.”
Democrat Biden won the US presidential election earlier and will soon enter the White House in January next year, ending Trump’s four-year presidency. But even so, former President Obama, who is also a member of the Democratic Party, believes that the local culture of “crazy conspiracy theories” in the United States has made the country increasingly divided. There is still a long way to go to reverse this trend.
In an interview with BBC Arts, Obama said that American society is now more torn than four years ago, and Biden’s victory was only the beginning of a reconciliation of these differences, but “one election is not enough to reverse the trend.” .
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The military port near Qingdao: In January this year, the first Type 055 destroyer of the Chinese Navy, Nanchang, entered service.
A British think tank reported that China’s new 10,000-ton destroyer outperforms similar American and Japanese destroyers, but it is still not a revolutionary weapon …
According to a report published by London Think Tank, the Chinese Navy’s fourth generation destroyer 055, which is huge in scale and possesses complex technology, is a symbol of the capabilities of the US Navy’s Deep Blue Navy surface combat fleet. Chinese People’s Liberation Army. The destroyer 055 that has been in service has a displacement of 12,000 tons and is called a Blade Sea-class cruiser by NATO. When the first 055 destroyer was launched a few years ago, the English media called it the largest surface warship in Asia (except for aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships).
Sidharth Kaushal (Sidharth Kaushal), a naval researcher from the British think tank “Royal United Army Institute” (RUSI), wrote in a report in October that the Chinese Navy destroyer 055 is much larger than the 052D destroyer and is widely adopted. New technology.
