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Asia
China
On Nov 3, 2024 The skies above Zhuhai are set to host an unprecedented showcase featuring the Russian Su-57 fighter jet, the Chinese J-15, and the stealthy J-35A. This year’s Zhuhai Air Show, held in Guangdong Province, South China, has captured the keen interest of Chinese media, which highlights the significance of these three aircraft. /Video - China/ (Source: BulgarianMilitary - Bulgaria)
by Nikolov
Gaza
November 3, 2024, 9:07 AM Palestinian officials say an Israeli drone strike on a clinic in northern Gaza where children were being vaccinated for polio wounded six people yesterday, including four children. The Israeli military denied responsibility. At least 100,000 people have been forced to evacuate from areas of north Gaza toward Gaza City in the past few weeks, but around 15,000 children under the age of 10 remain in northern towns, including Jabaliya, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, which are inaccessible, according to the U.N. The final phase of the polio vaccination campaign had aimed to reach an estimated 119,000 children in the north with a second dose of oral polio vaccine, the agencies said, but “achieving this target is now unlikely due to access constraints.' They say 90% of children in every community must be vaccinated to prevent the spread of the disease. (Source: ABC News U.S. / Associated Press - U:S.)
Iran
November 3, 2024 More than 3,000 Afghan migrants are being deported daily from Iran’s Dogharoun border crossing, according to Sharafi-Rad, the director of foreign nationals and migrants affairs in Iran’s Razavi Khorasan Province. This year’s deportations represent a 40 percent increase compared with last year. The official said that detaining, gathering, and deporting Afghan migrants remains a priority for the Iranian government through the end of this year. Iran’s crackdown on Afghan migrants is mirroring similar actions by Pakistan. Some Afghan refugees in both countries have reported mistreatment by local police, describing practices that they say violate basic protections for asylum seekers. (Source: Amu Tv - U.S.)
Israel
Nov 3, 2024, 9:00 AM Channel 12 announced in a report that since October 7 last year, 26,360 rockets have been fired at occupied Palestine from the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen. (Source: Mehr - Iran)
North America
United States
3 Nov 2024 US Election 2024 in 20 maps. The maps offer an overview of the economy, demographics, geography and history of the country of 335 million people. (Source: Al Jazeera - Qatar)
(Sunday), Nov 3, 2024, 11:37 AM The US flew a long-range bomber in a trilateral drill with South Korea and Japan today in response to North Korea’s recent test-firing of a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the US mainland. North Korea on Thursday tested the newly developed Hwasong-19 ICBM, which flew higher and stayed in the air longer than any other missile it has fired. Today's drill mobilised the US’ B-1B nuclear bomber, South Korea’s F-15K and KF-16 fighter jets, and Japan’s F-2 jets. South Korea and Japan’s jets escorted the US strategic bomber to a designated location south of the Korean peninsula. It was the fourth time this year the nuclear bomber was deployed to the Korean peninsula, and the second time for a trilateral aerial exercise to counter Pyongyang’s military threats. (Source: Mehr - Iran)
(Sunday), 3 Nov 2024 More than 73 million Americans have already cast ballots as of Saturday, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida. Harris and Trump are locked in a dead heat in several swing states. What polls say? FiveThirtyEight’s latest poll tracker showed Harris ahead by a very slim 1 point, within the margin of error. Harris’s average is 47.9 percent against Trump’s 46.9 percent. Campaigning in the city of Charlotte in North Carolina, Harris made a passionate appeal to young voters, a Democrat-leaning demographic, to head to the polls. Past elections, however, have shown that fewer of them showed up to vote compared with older voters. Trump used his evening rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, to take credit for declining trust in United States media. “The fake news back there, they were at 92 percent approval rating when we started this journey in 2015. And now they’re less than Congress, which is in the low 12s,” he said. “I’m very proud of that because I’ve exposed them as being fake.” (Source: Al Jazeera - Qatar)
Nov 03, 2024 U.S.-China relations are among the most consequential in the world, impacting global stability and growth. The two have a shared responsibility to navigate and strive to resolve the problems of climate, economic development and conflict. the international community looks to these two powers to foster a more balanced and cooperative relationship. What the U.S. election outcome means for China? If Trump wins: Higher tariffs but pragmatic cooperation. He says he will impose higher tariffs on imported goods, especially those from China. He has indicated that he considered imposing a comprehensive tariff of 10 to 20 percent on all imported goods and a 60 percent or higher tariff on Chinese goods. In addition, if he selects a hawkish team to dominate U.S. policy, his administration likely will not only force Chinese enterprises to reduce exports to the United States but may also reduce non-governmental contacts between the two countries, such as educational and academic exchanges, thus impacting public perceptions on both sides. Trump may have to seek cooperation with China. He has repeatedly claimed that he has the ability to end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours - or even before his inauguration. He is also promising to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although this claim is suspicious given the complexity of the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war, Trump cannot fulfill his promises without China’s help. He previously sought help on the North Korea nuclear issue, and at the end of 2016 China voted in favor of sanctions against the DPRK at the United Nations, demonstrating its important influence in regional affairs. China is the largest trading partner of both Russia and Ukraine. These close economic ties give China a unique opportunity to play a greater role in peace-making efforts. Similarly, in the Middle East, China is the region’s largest trading partner and has helped facilitate reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as the release of the Beijing Declaration by 14 Palestinian factions. China can potentially help Trump truly become a peace-making president. Trump is a pragmatic politician who focuses on solving specific problems. During his previous term, he completed the Phase One China-U.S. trade deal, showing a pragmatic attitude on economic issues such as the deficit problem and trade surplus. If Trump is re-elected, the two sides could further discuss subsidy policies, intellectual property protection, overcapacity issues, balance of trade and other things. This pragmatic strategy also means that Trump may value specific results over ideology. Therefore, in practice, Trump may choose to continue negotiations on economic issues to protect U.S. interests. Trump has a relatively open attitude toward Chinese investment in the United States and may take multiple measures to encourage or require Chinese enterprises to invest and set up factories there. During the campaign, Trump repeatedly stated that he hoped to encourage the return of the manufacturing industry through higher tariffs and welcomed foreign-funded enterprises to set up factories in the United States. Because of the China-U.S. trade war, a large number of Chinese enterprises that had wanted to enter the U.S. market set up factories in Mexico instead. Trump has said that if Chinese enterprises can adhere to U.S. requirements, he would welcome Chinese car manufacturers building factories in the United States. This would open up new space for China-U.S. economic cooperation. In contrast, the current administration’s policy in this regard is more conservative. It has even blocked investment by some Chinese enterprises. On the Taiwan issue, Trump may continue to maintain a pragmatic attitude, and the two sides may continue to communicate on the basis of maintaining the status quo. Trump has said that Taiwan should pay the United States for protection, explaining that it’s similar to buying insurance. If Trump comes to power, he may stick to the “one China” policy and reiterate the three communiques endorsed by all U.S. presidents in the past. If Harris is elected, she will most likely inherit the policy of "competitive rivalry' established by the Biden administration and continue to adhere to the “investment, alliance, competition' trilogy, balancing China’s influence by strengthening relations with U.S. allies. Status quo with China and more certainty. Harris’s background in California and 'her knowledge of the Asian-American community gives her a certain understanding of the complexity of the China-U.S. relationship'. Harris came up in California, and China is California’s largest trading partner. The most economically developed state in the United States, California has more than 6 million Asian-Americans, of which about 2 million are Chinese-Americans. Her vice president, Walz, also has a rich knowledge of China. He previously worked as a teacher in China, knows the Chinese language, 'spent his honeymoon in China' and organized more than 30 study tours to China for American students. These experiences give Walz a direct understanding of Chinese culture and society, which may help the Harris administration to pay more attention to long-term communication and non-governmental sectors when managing the China-U.S. relationship. This may also help to avoid alienating Asian-Americans and other immigrant groups in the United States by imposing overly tough policies on China. (Source: China US Focus (published by the China-United States Exchange Foundation - Hong Kong)
by Wang, Founder, Center for China & Globalization
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