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Blinken Looks To Travel To China For Talks In Coming Weeks -US...

2024-07-31T23:21:23Z

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Michael Martina WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China for talks in the coming weeks, an official said on Tuesday, months after Washington's top diplomat scrapped a planned trip over a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. The visit is intended by Washington to be a major step toward what President Joe Biden has called a "thaw" in relations between the world's two largest economies. Blinken postponed a visit to Beijing in February after the balloon, which Beijing denies was a government spy vessel, flew through U.S. airspace and over sensitive military sites, eventually being shot down by the U.S. military and creating a diplomatic crisis. The official, who spoke on [https://topofblogs.com/?s=condition condition] of anonymity, did not elaborate on timing. The State Department did not confirm any [https://www.business-opportunities.biz/?s=updated%20plans updated plans] for Blinken's trip. "We have no travel for the Secretary to announce; as we've said previously the visit to the People's Republic of China will be rescheduled when conditions allow," deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said. China's Washington embassy did not respond to a request for comment. Separately, and without mentioning Blinken's trip, U.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell told an event at the Hudson Institute that exchanges with Beijing were improving. "The lines of communications are opening up and we are able to lay out more constructively our areas of interest and concern," although the U.S. had been unsuccessful in getting China to agree to effective crisis mechanisms, Campbell said. He said episodes like what he called "dangerous" navigation by a Chinese destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, showed the need for these "to prevent circumstances where unintended consequences can have terrible consequences." A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday that the measures taken by the Chinese military were "reasonable, legitimate, and professional and safe." "China is increasingly a great power. Her (military) forces rub up against ours much more than they did in the past. The potential for miscalculation, inadvertence, is real and growing," [https://www.business-opportunities.biz/?s=Campbell Campbell] said. UPBEAT TONE The Biden administration has pushed to boost engagement with China even as ties have deteriorated over disputes ranging from military activity in the South China Sea, Beijing's human rights record, and [https://restaurangmaestro.net/amp bokep indonesia] technology competition, to democratically governed Taiwan - which China claims as its own territory. But critics have questioned U.S. overtures to China, arguing that decades of engagement have failed to change Beijing's behavior. The State [https://realitysandwich.com/_search/?search=Department%27s Department's] top official for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, was in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese counterparts, a visit seen as a step toward a possible Blinken trip. The two sides struck an upbeat tone. Asked by reporters in Beijing if Blinken would visit soon, Kritenbrink said: "we'll see." The United States was "working hard" to manage the relationship with China, he said. Kritenbrink's arrival on June 4 coincided with the 34th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops on demonstrators in and around [https://lerablog.org/?s=Beijing%27s%20Tiananmen Beijing's Tiananmen] Square that rights groups say killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters. The Biden administration dismissed any significance behind the arrival date, but some Republican lawmakers and Tiananmen survivors criticized the timing, arguing U.S. eagerness to hold talks with Chinese officials was watering down U.S. positions. Reuters reported in May that the State Department delayed human rights-related sanctions, export controls and other sensitive action to try to limit damage to the U.S.-China relationship after the balloon incursion. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom, Simon Lewis and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Don Durfee and Grant McCool)

Victoria To End Its Native Timber Logging Industry

2024-07-31T23:01:12Z

NoahOsborne:

* November 2019 - The Victorian government announces it will end native logging in the state by 2030 * January 2020 - Warburton Environment Inc launches a Supreme Court action against VicForests for failing to comply with regulations, alleging the company illegally harvested the endangered tree geebung * September 2021 - Western Australia Premier Mark [https://lerablog.org/?s=McGowan%20announces McGowan announces] native logging will be banned in the state from the end of 2023. The move is expected to cost 400 timber industry jobs * November 2021 - Private investigator Alan Davey [https://www.thefashionablehousewife.com/?s=reveals reveals] to the ABC he has been hired by VicForests to follow and uncover "dirt" on environmentalist Sarah Rees. VicForests board of directors commissions an external investigation into the claims * May 2022 - Supreme Court hearings begin in Environment East Gippsland and Kinglake Friends of the Forest's case against VicForests for [https://www.centralbagels.com/ penipu] failing to adequately survey for two endangered possum species * August 2022 - The Sustainable Forests [https://hararonline.com/?s=Timber%20Amendment Timber Amendment] Act passes the [https://www.gameinformer.com/search?keyword=Victorian%20parliament Victorian parliament]. The law brings harsher penalties to protesters on logging sites and gives authorised officers additional powers to search containers, bags and vehicles for prohibited items * September 2022 - The Victorian government announces a $120 million [https://www.msnbc.com/search/?q=investment investment] to plant an extra 16 million soft timber trees in a new estate with Hancock Victorian Plantations * October 2022 - The Victorian auditor general releases a report finding gaps in VicForests' data prevented the Office of the Conservation Regulator from assessing non-compliance in native forest harvesting * October 2022 - The Supreme Court finds VicForests illegally logged in areas home to endangered tree geebungs, grants injunctions preventing logging in the central highlands * November 2022 - The Supreme Court finds VicForests failed to meet its legal obligations to adequately survey for greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders while harvesting in East Gippsland in eastern Victoria. The court grants injunctions until VicForests improves its survey practices * December 2022 - VicForests posted a loss of $52.4 million in the 2012/22 financial year as it navigated legal challenges, stand-down payments and compensation for failing to supply customers * January 2023 - Maryvale Mill produces its last ream of copy paper on January 21. It's owner, Japanese-owned Opal Australian Paper, announces it will end white paper production but continue to make brown paper and board to supply its packaging division * February 2023 - Opal Australian Paper closes its Maryvale paper mill, citing a lack of hardwood. The closure of Australia's last white paper mill leads to 200 job losses * March 2023 - VicForests trials drones to survey for endangered gliders, which seem unfazed by the technique * May 2023 - The Victorian government announces Victorian native logging will end in 2024, six years earlier than expected, with workers and infrastructure to be supported with a $200 million transition package

User:NoahOsborne

2024-07-31T23:01:06Z

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