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Recently news saying #Beijing is now allowing goods from the NE province of #Jilin can be shipped to another Chinese port via #Haishenwai, or #Vladivostok, without paying import duty has generated some buzz on social media.
world.huanqiu.com/article/4CuTnb…
Recently news saying #Beijing is now allowing goods from the NE province of #Jilin can be shipped to another Chinese port via #Haishenwai, or #Vladivostok, without paying import duty has generated some buzz on social media.
world.huanqiu.com/article/4CuTnb…
The excitement is mostly due to historical reasons and the prospect that the move may boost Jilin's economy. This thread will explain what the news actually means and its context. /2
The “Cross-border transportation of domestic trade goods” policy refers to shipping goods from one 🇨🇳 location to another via a designated foreign port. It began in '07 to enhance the connectivity of the landlocked NE region, especially the provinces of #Heilongjiang & Jilin. /3
#China today has city-wide #Covid lockdowns in place in #Shenzhen (12.5 million people), #Dongguan (10.5 million), #Langfang (5.5 million) + a province-wide lockdown in #Jilin (24 million residents). Also quasi-lockdown provisions, in #Shanghai (26 million) & #Xian (13 million).
A year ago this week #Wuhan locked down in a warning to the world how deadly & destabilising the #coronavirus would be. Many didn’t heed it. We travelled to #Hubei then & now return to the province with the first #Covid-19 clusters. The road back to Wuhan: bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
And here’s the Chinese version: bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/…
For those on the thread asking about visiting the #Wuhan Institute of Virology. Naturally it's a highly-secure facility. I think only one reporting team has been briefly allowed in recently. As we're not scientists, even if we were given access, not sure what that'd achieve?
#China #NorthKorea #Jilin #Liaoning #border #robbery
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Storm Corps. It is a special forces unit of North Korea that is good at mountain warfare, night battle, rear disturbance, etc., which is also known as the 11th corps of the Korean People's Army.
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Storm Corps. It is a special forces unit of North Korea that is good at mountain warfare, night battle, rear disturbance, etc., which is also known as the 11th corps of the Korean People's Army.
Last month, a soldier was dispatched to the border areas of North Hamgyong Province and Ryanggang Province, but it is believed that the purpose is to strengthen border security as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus and
to monitor the working conditions of the border guard. A soldier with such a storm corps temporarily defected for criminal purposes. The US government-affiliated Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported. A soldier from the Storm Corps, who was sent to Ryanggang to guard the border,
