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The year 2022 was full of important events that shook the Chinese population and kept the international community's attention on China. One of them was the display of protest banners by a Chinese citizen named Peng Zaizhou, which made the authorities of the Chinese regime furious.

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1:05 'Snake rash': the other virus that is making Chinese people massively sick
3:51 Beijing praises 10 years of medical reform, but 'once seriously ill, the whole family becomes poor'
7:32 Guo Yi, a model student imprisoned for expressing support for a Chinese dissident
10:28 China's export ban list is ridiculed as a joke
13:24 China's plan to monitor the oceans from Antarctica may have a sinister purpose

According to human rights blogger Weiquanwang’s Twitter, Guo Yi, a girl from Xinjiang, has been illegally detained since October 2022 for supporting the Sitong bridge hero. However, her arrest was unknown to the outside world for the past three months.

More mainland Chinese have opened businesses in Thailand, causing concerns among locals about their growing presence.
Bangkok resident Jane told The South China Morning Post she recently visited a Chinatown market in the city, but there have been more businesses run by mainlanders instead of the Thai-Chinese.

Taiwanese security officials said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) directly hired technology companies to shape Taiwanese public opinion to follow the CCP’s political goals.

The damage being done by the COVID chaos in China is also reflected in the earnings reports of several mega companies, and Apple and Starbucks are two of them.

This is happening because China is one of the most important consumer markets for companies and several others.

Japan's government will start imposing an export ban on cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China in spring after Tokyo amends a foreign exchange law to allow doing so.

Reuters cited from Japanese Kyodo News, reporting that the new law will not mention China specifically to avoid the risk of retaliation from the Chinese regime.

Last month, Washington secured a deal with its close allies Japan and the Netherlands to join its export control restrictions on chip-making equipment to China.

The United States, Japan, and the Netherlands have decided to tighten China’s access to specific chip-making equipment and technologies to block Beijing’s semiconductor ambitions, reported South China Morning Post on February 5.

China has a network of satellites and ground-based space facilities in different parts of the world to support its ambitions in outer space.
However, several countries have long warned that these Chinese facilities could serve another function or have other plans.

Knowing that the local authorities would build a large waste treatment plant in their densely populated residential area, hundreds of people gathered in front of the local district official offices on February 3 in Canglong Island, Jiangxia District, Wuhan, Hubei, to protest. When they insisted on their rights, plain clothes and uniformed police brutally suppressed several locals.

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0:32 Blinken halts Beijing trip after Chinese spy balloon spotted over the US
2:36 Chinese experts say balloon incident ‘nonsense,’ Global Times hastily deletes article
4:36 Second spy balloon is discovered over Latin America; The US ignores China's apology
6:21 China foreign ministry: balloon over the US a 'force majeure accident'
7:29 Is the US-Philippines military base deal a big threat to China?

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0:47 Expert: China’s second pandemic peak is coming; two types of people at high risk
2:43 Top official at Chinese Securities regulator fired and expelled from communist party
3:58 China's use of Canadian universities to steal defense technology rings alarm bells
5:24 The recovery of the Chinese economy at a 'high degree of uncertainty,' IMF
7:04 Apple’s iPhone production affected by China’s pandemic prevention measures, revenue drops by 5%
8:49 Chinese cities recycle COVID testing booths as libraries and food stalls
10:33 Attractive Chinese scholarships for African students, CCP's soft power

Within 15 minutes on the evening of February 3, three earthquakes occurred in Qinghai province, China. The strongest earthquake was 4.9 magnitude. Local netizens have expressed their “terror.” On February 4, another earthquake happened in this province, and the four earthquakes occurred within 24 hours.

The world has seen one of the most intense incidents in Sino-U.S. relations in the past week. The U.S. tracked a balloon flying over Montana. Since U.S. land-based ballistic missiles are deployed in Montana, the Pentagon suspects it's likely a spy balloon from China.

On the afternoon of February 4, a large fire was caused when several vehicles collided near the Wangcheng Toll Station on Xuguang Expressway in Hunan.

Residents’ videos showed flames bursting from the vehicles involved in the collision.

Chinese experts warn of another virus affecting people on a vast scale and filling hospitals. We are talking about herpes zoster, also known as 'snake rash' or shingles.

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1:00 Chinese people's biggest change after 3 years of pandemic: less patriotism, the Party is not China

5:58 Shaanxi resident put on the 'black list' for 'lying flat' and not wanting to get rich

10:43 Following Hu Xinyu’s mysterious case, over a dozen teenagers have disappeared across the country

13:08 No consideration is needed! German Embassy strong-arms China's 'Little Pinks'

16:09 After ending Zero-COVID, China announces its next move

China's spy balloon might operate differently than its actual capacity when flown below its minimum height.

William Kim, a specialist in surveillance balloons at the Marathon Initiative think tank in Washington, told AFP the characteristics of the spy Chinese balloon.

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0:34 Crisis in Chinese hospitals: mortality certificates paper running out

3:18 Why would China not use satellites but use a balloon to spy on the US?

5:19 900m2 factory arbitrarily demolished, Henan boss quit the CCP

7:47 Signals Beijing wants to draw more people into 'people's war'

11:01 China detects 24 imported cases with Orthrus, government says it won’t spread in large scale