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China's military aircraft to debut in International Army Games 2021 Japan's defense minister is dangerously playing with fire Biden democracy summit invitation to Taiwan ‘risks crisis in China-US ties’ North Korea envoy to China calls U. S. "common threat" to both China's reckless hostage diplomacy increases the chances of war Afghans stranded in Pakistan cross border after it reopens WHO seeks to take political heat out of virus origins debate (U. S. approves COVID boosters for immunocompromised) At least 74 people on Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for Covid-19 since Barack Obama's maskless 60th birthday bash The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force has sent a fleet of military aircraft to participate in the International Army Games 2021 in Russia, including three aircraft models that will make their debut in the event. The three models, namely J-10B fighter jets, J-16 fighter jets and Y-20 large transport aircraft, are all independently developed by China.

J-16 fighters, featuring two seats and multiple strike and defense functions, have been commissioned to a number of air force troops to boost their combat capabilities following its debut in 2017, according to sources with the PLA air force. Japan’s Defence Minister has warned China is trying to change the status quo in the region by force and has called on Australia and other allies to step up to ensure Beijing’s dominance is not inevitable. In some of his strongest comments on the deteriorating security situation across the Indo-Pacific, Nobuo Kishi said the shifting power balance between the US and China “has become very conspicuous” while a military battle over Taiwan had “skewed greatly in favour of China”. All of these remarks are unacceptable, showing that he is dangerously playing with a fire that he might not be able to put out. The tens of millions of innocent lives lost at the hands of Japanese Imperialism will never be forgotten.

China and the US could face their most serious diplomatic crisis in decades if the White House invites Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to a democracy summit in December, mainland Chinese observers warn. The White House announced on Wednesday that US President Joe Biden would host dozens of elected world leaders for a virtual “Summit for Democracy”, a move widely seen as an attempt to counter Beijing’s influence. The foreign ministry in Taipei said on Thursday it aimed to attend the summit, saying Taiwan would strive to defend democracy and human rights with the US and other like-minded countries. “The theme of the summit includes defending against authoritarianism, and promoting human rights, which are the values shared by Taiwan and the United States,” Regine Chen, Lu Xiang, a senior researcher on China-US relations with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said there would be “unprecedented consequences” if Tsai went to the summit. “I think this would definitely cross the bottom line of China, and the Chinese government would never tolerate it,” he said.

“I believe that the situation, if it happened, would be far worse than the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis. ” That crisis erupted after then-Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui made an unofficial visit to his alma mater, Cornell University, despite opposition from Beijing. The People’s Liberation Army fired missiles into waters around the island as warnings and the US responded by sending two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region. The carrier Nimitz later transited the strait. Taiwan-US ties improved dramatically under the administration of Donald Trump and Biden appears to be taking a similar approach.

Last week, the Biden administration approved US$750 million in arms sales to the island, including 40 self-propelled artillery units. Beijing vowed to retaliate. “The Taiwan issue is the most important and most sensitive issue in Sino-US relations and I’ve reiterated the position of the Chinese government to ,” ambassador Qin Gang said after the meeting. Beijing also said on Friday that it opposed talks between Taiwan and the US on cooperation between their coastguards, which could include joint drills near the island, saying it is sending a wrong signal to Taiwanese pro-independence forces. Pang Zhongying, an international relations expert at Ocean University of China in Qingdao, said hopes of improving ties between the two countries would fade if the Biden administration played the Taiwan card in December.

North Korean Ambassador to China Ri Ryong Nam called the United States a "common threat" to the two countries, adding that Pyongyang and Beijing should work together to respond to it, the Global Times reported Saturday. In an interview with the tabloid of the Chinese Communist Party, Ri criticized Washington for conducting military drills across East Asia, including those with South Korea. The United States has been aiming to "strengthen military ties with its allies and to put pressure on China," Ri said. Ri said Washington and Seoul will be forced to "pay a dear price," adding North Korea will further increase the "deterrent of absolute capacity" to deal with a military threat posed by the United States. The United States and South Korea began a preliminary military training drill on Tuesday ahead of their annual summertime exercise starting next Monday.

Pyongyang has lambasted joint military drills between Washington and Seoul as a "rehearsal for war" and invasion. Wednesday's unexpectedly harsh 11-year sentence for Canadian Michael Spavor and the upholding of the death sentence for Robert Schellenberg was widely denounced by the international community, including Japan. The verdict and its timing are seen as part of a nuanced campaign to pressure Canadian lawmakers to release the Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou who is awaiting a Canadian court ruling Unfortunately, by taking hostages and using other coercive diplomacy measures, China deters scholars and researchers, through fear of detainment, to refrain from traveling to China to do research. This makes China more opaque, less understood and ultimately less secure because the very people who have the ability, knowledge and interest in China are no longer able to act as translators and communicators about the country, its politics and decision making. Rather than making friends and positively influencing other states, Xi's diplomacy is pushing a growing number of countries to adopt policies that are not in China's interests.

U. N. agencies on Friday (August 13) warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan as Taliban insurgent advances heightened the country's crisis, driving thousands of people from their homes and spreading hunger. Insurgents have wrested control of the second and third biggest cities as Western embassies prepared to send in troops to help evacuate staff, although the United Nations said its 320 staff members would remain. "We fear the worst is yet to come and the larger tide of hunger is fast approaching... The situation has all the hallmarks of a humanitarian catastrophe," World Food Programme's Thomson Phiri told a U.

N. briefing. More than 250,000 people have been forced from their homes since May, of which 80 percent are women and children, the U. N. refugee agency's Shabia Mantoo said.

Many reported extortions by armed groups on the way and having to dodge improvised explosive devices along major roads. Thousands of people are rushing from rural areas to the capital Kabul and other urban centers in search of shelter, another U. N. official said. "One in three Afghans are acutely food insecure today.

This is equivalent to about 14 million people who are in IPC (Integrated Phase Classification) phase 3 OOS. This means, people have lost the means by which they earn their keep," Phiri said. Mantoo called on Afghanistan's neighbours to keep borders open as Taliban insurgent advances heightened the country's crisis. "An inability to seek safety may risk innumerable civilian lives. UNHCR stands ready to help national authorities scale up humanitarian responses as needed," she said.

Pakistani forces on Friday (August 13) used batons against Afghans stranded in Pakistan as they tried to cross a commercially vital border crossing with Afghanistan after it opened for the first time in days. The Taliban, who captured the crossing last month as part of a major advance across Afghanistan as U. S. -led foreign forces withdraw, announced its closure on August 6 in protest at a Pakistani decision to end visa-free travel for Afghans. The hardline Islamist Taliban are demanding Pakistan allow Afghans to cross the frontier with either an Afghan ID card or a Pakistani-issued refugee registration card.

Hundreds of Afghans, many of who had come to Pakistan for treatment and had waited in the dusty heat to enter Afghanistan via the Chaman-Spin Boldak crossing for several days, crowded the area near the border gate. Police used batons against those gathered as they tried to break through the clearance barrier. "Sick people are lying around, most people don't have any money left to get food and other things. So we are very happy to be going to our homes," said Bacha Khan from Kandahar. Taliban fighters have rapidly taken territory from the Kabul government in recent weeks, including important border crossings with Iran and Central Asian countries that now provide significant customs revenue for the group.

Opening the border with Pakistan for visa-free travel would not only help the Taliban curry favour from ordinary Afghans but also shore up a route to areas of Pakistan that have housed Taliban fighters and some commanders. Pakistan and the Taliban long maintained good relations though Islamabad says this ended after the 2001 U. S. -led invasion of Afghanistan that ousted the radical Islamists from power for having sheltered al Qaeda militants who carried out the Sept.11 attacks on the United States. Western capitals and the Kabul government say Pakistani support to the Taliban continues and many of its leaders enjoy safe haven in the country, something Islamabad denies.

The World Health Organization said on Friday it was setting up a new group to trace the origins of the coronavirus, seeking to end what it called "political point scoring" that had hampered investigations. The inability of the WHO to say where and how the virus began spreading has fuelled tensions among its members, particularly between China, where COVID-19 cases were first identified in Wuhan in late 2019, and the United States. The WHO called for all governments to cooperate to accelerate studies into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and "to depoliticise the situation". It specified that a new advisory group called the International Scientific Advisory Group for Origins of Novel Pathogens would support "the rapid undertaking" of further studies. Washington on Friday welcomed the WHO plan, noting the "emphasis on scientific-based studies and data driven efforts to find the origins of this pandemic so that we can better detect, prevent and respond to future disease outbreaks.

" President Joe Biden in late May ordered aides to find answers on COVID-19 origins and report back in 90 days. In its final report, written jointly with Chinese scientists, a WHO-led team that spent four weeks in and around the city of Wuhan in January and February said that the virus had probably been transmitted from bats to humans through another animal. It said that a leak from a laboratory was "extremely unlikely" as a cause. However, in a documentary broadcast in his native Denmark on Thursday, the WHO mission leader Peter Ben Embarek said that the lab hypothesis merited further study. Ben Embarek could not be reached by Reuters for further comment on Friday.

A WHO official said that its statement on advancing the virus origins study bore no relation to those remarks, noting that the Ben Embarek interview was filmed months ago. The country is battling one of Asia's worst coronavirus outbreaks, and the spread of the virulent Delta variant is overwhelming hospitals and healthcare workers, some of which have warned of mass resignations over unpaid allowances. The state auditor has flagged "deficiencies" involving 67.3 billion pesos ($1.33 billion), casting doubts on the regularity of related transactions in the country's pandemic response. The health ministry said it will submit its explanation, including required documents, to the state auditor next week, ahead of a Sept.27 deadline. "You will be assured that no money went into corruption.

None was stolen. I am sure of that," Health Secretary Francisco Duque told DZMM radio on Saturday. The Philippines on Saturday recorded 14,249 new COVID-19 infections, its second-biggest daily increase, and 233 additional deaths. The positivity rate was a record high, with a quarter of the nearly 53,000 people tested confirmed positive. The Manila capital region, an urban sprawl of 16 cities that is home to more than 13 million people, remains under a strict lockdown to contain the spread of the Delta variant.

Only around 11% of the country's 110 million people are fully immunised. Nearly a quarter of the country's 1,291 hospitals are at the critical risk level - with occupancy rates at or above 85% - government data showed. U. S regulators authorized a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer Inc- BioNTech and Moderna Inc on Friday for people with compromised immune system According to a CDC spokesperson - immunocompromised individuals can begin receiving the booster shots immediately. patients will not need a prescription or the sign off of a health care provider in order to prove they are immunocompromised and receive the additional dose.

The FDA's decision does not apply to people who received the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the CDC said, because there is not enough data to support additional doses yet. Mixing of mRNA vaccines is permitted for their third shot if the original vaccine is not available. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Thursday told reporters the vulnerable group makes up less than 3 percent of U. S. adults: “... Emerging data show that certain people who are immune-compromised, such as people who have had organ transplants and some cancer patients, may not have had an adequate immune response to just two doses of the COVID vaccine.

To be clear, this is a very small population; we estimate it to be less than 3 percent of adults. " Scientists are still divided over the broad use of COVID boosters among those without underlying problems. They say the benefits of the boosters remain unclear. But reports of infections among fully vaccinated people - and concerns about diminishing protection - have spurred some wealthy nations to distribute booster shots, even as many countries struggle to access a first dose. Former US President Barack Obama celebrated his 60th birthday last Saturday, throwing a large party that reportedly hosted some 400 people.

Despite coronavirus cases surging across the United States and new pandemic-related rules being imposed, guests were spotted not wearing masks or bothering with social distancing. The Obama birthday party was earlier slammed online after pictures emerged showing maskless crowds - among them the former president himself - hitting the dance floor and engaging with each other inside the range of social distancing. At least 63 people on the island of Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for COVID-19 following the 60th birthday party of former US President Barack Obama that took place last Saturday, Daily Mail reported. "At this time we're not aware of any cases connected to the Obama party," Tisbury health agent and boards of health spokesperson Maura Valley told the Daily Mail. "It's a little too early and the only way we're going to know is through comprehensive contact tracing.

" A backlash followed, voiced by some Republicans and netizens, further angered by attempts in the media to defend a "sophisticated, vaccinated" crowd celebrating Obama's 60th birthday. Some critics suggested that the event could have been viewed as a "super-spreader", especially in light of footage emerging online that allegedly showed large tents installed on Martha's Vineyard before the birthday bash. More than 5 million residents in Japan have been ordered to evacuate their homes due to the threat of flooding and landslides, as torrential rains batter the country's southwestern tip. The strongest evacuation warning, Level 5, was issued on Saturday to more than a million people across the prefectures of Saga, Nagasaki, Fukuoka, and Hiroshima, according to public broadcaster NHK. The next-strongest warning, Level 4, was issued to 17 other prefectures, affecting more than 4 million residents.

The country's meteorological authority, which issued the warnings, said in a statement that the rain front could stay over the country for about a week, according to Reuters. Water levels are still rising in several rivers, threatening to overflow onto the surrounding roads. Some cities on the southern island of Kuyshu recorded more than 40 millimeters (about 1.6 inches) of water in one hour on Saturday. Up to 250 millimeters (9.8 inches) could fall on the island in the 24 hours through Sunday morning, national weather officials say. Adachi Yushi, the head of weather monitoring at the Meteorological Agency, called the rain "unprecedented" and asked people to follow evacuation orders, according to NHK.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga tweeted on Friday that he had set up a disaster control center to coordinate with local and prefecture authorities. Landslides hit several parts of Nagasaki prefecture, with one sweeping away at least two houses and killing Fumiyo Mori, 59 Her husband and daughter were missing, and military personnel joined rescuers looking for them, NHK said. On August 13, astronomy lovers had the opportunity to admire the beauty of the Perseids meteor shower. This is the most beautiful, most prominent meteor shower of the year that many people look forward to. Glittering streaks of light in the sky like this were captured slowly from Pico de las Nieves, the tallest mountain on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria.

This year, the meteor shower occurs between July 16 and August 23, with the frequency of meteors increasing each night to a peak in mid- August and then decreasing. And the biggest match took place on the night of 12 and the morning of August 13 Perseid meteor shower was created when Earth passed through the remnants of comet Swift-Tuttle, small pieces of comet that fell to Earth. These are FBNC's morning International news , thank you for watching.

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