Volume 21 Issue 8

Image: Leaders of the HKSAR took part in the opening ceremony of National Security Education Day 2021 in Hong Kong, including (from left): Major General Chen Daoxiang, Yang Yirui, Zheng Yanxiong, Luo Huining, Tung Chee-hwa, Carrie Lam, Zhang Jianzong, Chen Maobo, Zheng Ruohua, Leung Junyan, and Chen Zhisi Source: Info.gov.hk).

Image: A photo from the “Social Responsibilities of the New (Media) Platform” event, part of the 2020 China New Media Conference in Changsha, Hunan Province, which took place on November 19, 2020. According to an event readout, new (media) platforms which have grown “like springtime bamboo shoots” will be critical tools for the party and state’s governance of the country. (Source: 2020 China New Media Conference).

Image: Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng meets with U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry via video link in Beijing, China, on April 16 (Source: Xinhua).

Image: A digital rendering of a potential “new concept weapon” accompanies a 2017 article in China Military Online calling NCW the “new darling” of future warfare (Image source: China Military Online).

Image: Following a rare public diplomatic spat in which both sides accused the other of breaking protocol, Chinese media touted the Anchorage talks between CCP Politburo member and director of the General Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan as a “candid, constructive dialogue, keeping the door open to further communication,” while also touting the event as a major diplomatic win back home (Source: Xinhua).