Chinese government moves to tighten its control of Hong Kong — China abandons GDP target for first time in decades — Chinese government drops references to ‘peaceful’ reunification with Taiwan
Coronavirus
Wuhan faces long road to recovery from Covid-19 pandemic — Inkstone
Restaurants are closing for good and farmers are struggling to sell their goods months after the central city of Wuhan survived the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.
EU should launch a specialist team to investigate Chinese disinformation — EURACTIV
The Chinese government has flooded the European information space with disinformation, in an effort to control the narrative around the pandemic and divert the blame. This poisonous environment created by Chinese info-war operations calls for resolute answers, write Jakub Janda and Nathalie Vogel.
Xinjiang
Exclusive: Documents show China's secret extradition request for Uighur in Turkey — Axios
Enver Turdi, the man named in the extradition request, has lived in Turkey since early 2014 when he fled Xinjiang, a region in northwest China that is home to around 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority.
Hong Kong
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