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“澳门是祖国的掌上明珠，我一直惦念着这里的发展和全体居民的福祉。”2024年12月18日，习近平主席在澳门国际机场发表讲话时说道。
Read more澳门回归祖国25周年丨抓住新机遇、创造新辉煌——习近平主席殷切寄语激励澳门各界实现“一国两制”新飞跃
新华社澳门12月21日电 题：抓住新机遇、创造新辉煌——习近平主席殷切寄语激励澳门各界实现“一国两制”新飞跃
Read more外交部：对加拿大两家机构及20名机构人员采取反制措施
中新网12月22日电 据外交部网站消息，外交部发布关于对加拿大机构及人员采取反制措施的决定。
Read more微视频｜情牵澳门
中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平18日下午乘专机抵达澳门，出席于20日举行的庆祝澳门回归祖国25周年大会暨澳门特别行政区第六届政府就职典礼，并视察澳门。习近平主席此次澳门之行留下了许多温暖、精彩的瞬间。
Read more时政微观察丨开创“一国两制”事业高质量发展新局面
濠江溢彩，莲花绽放。在以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业的关键时期，澳门迎来回归祖国25周年的喜庆日子。
Read more审计署：用好问责利器 坚决惩处虚假整改、敷衍整改
中新社北京12月22日电 (记者 阮煜琳)中国审计署22日发布的2023年度审计整改报告反映，还有部分问题尚未完成整改。审计署政策研究室相关负责人22日对记者表示，对这些问题，将进一步压实整改责任，用好问责利器，坚决惩处虚假整改、敷衍整改等问题。
Read more2023年度审计整改报告出炉 共整改问题金额超5380亿元
中新社北京12月22日电 (记者 李京泽)22日公布的2023年度审计整改报告显示，截至2024年9月底，中国有关地方、部门和单位共整改问题金额5380多亿元(人民币，下同)。
Read more中国铁路明年1月5日起实行新的列车运行图
中新社北京12月22日电 (尹倩芸)据中国国家铁路集团有限公司(下称“国铁集团”)22日消息，2025年1月5日零时起，全国铁路将实行新的列车运行图。调图后，全国铁路安排图定旅客列车13028列，较现图增加230列；开行货物列车22859列，较现图增加91列。
Read more全国人大常委会法工委：港澳特区注重在本地立法中维护宪法和基本法权威
中新社北京12月22日电 (记者 梁晓辉)全国人大常委会法工委22日在一份报告中表示，香港、澳门两个特别行政区注重在本地立法中维护宪法和基本法权威，遵循和贯彻全国人大及其常委会通过的有关法律、法律解释和决定的精神。
Read more国台办正告民进党当局：“倚美谋独”“以武谋独”是自寻绝路
中新社北京12月22日电 国务院台办发言人朱凤莲22日表示，正告民进党当局，“倚美谋独”“以武谋独”是自寻绝路。我们将采取坚决有力措施，坚定捍卫国家主权、安全和领土完整。
Read more黄岩岛海域一渔民突发疾病，官兵紧急救援！
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Read more时政微纪录丨如约而至——习主席心系澳门青少年
习近平主席说，青年是澳门的希望和未来，是建设澳门、建设国家的有生力量。多年来，习主席始终心系澳门青少年的发展，也留下了很多暖心的故事。
Read more时政微纪录丨不负期许勇奋进
2024年12月19日，“澳科一号”首席科学家张可可一早来到澳科卫星科学与应用数据中心，他将向在澳门考察的习近平主席汇报“澳科一号”的运行情况。“一国两制”于他而言不仅是一个词语，还是他学术成就的重要基石。
Read more报告：中国耕地布局从“南减北增”转为“南北双增”
中新网北京12月22日电 (记者 李京泽)《国务院关于耕地保护工作情况的报告》22日提请十四届全国人大常委会审议。报告显示，从布局变化看，中国耕地持续多年的“南减北增”开始转为“南北双增”。
Read more上海地铁11号线遭吊车侵入 应急管理部派出工作组赶赴现场
中新网12月22日电 据应急管理部微信公众号消息，12月22日8时许，上海地铁11号线马陆至武威路站区间，由于外部一施工工地履带吊车倒塌侵入，造成地铁线路设备和一列正常运行的地铁局部受损，未造成人员伤亡。
Read more5年超3万亿元！财政加力支持防灾减灾和应急管理
2019年至2023年，全国财政防灾减灾及应急管理领域一般公共预算支出30536.05亿元(不含2023年增发国债资金)，年均增长8.85%，比同期全国一般公共预算支出增幅高5.3个百分点。
Read more十四届全国人大常委会第十三次会议举行第二次全体会议 审议执法检查报告、专项工作报告等 赵乐际出席会议
新华社北京12月22日电 十四届全国人大常委会第十三次会议22日上午在北京人民大会堂举行第二次全体会议。赵乐际委员长出席。
Read more继续推进“一国两制”实践行稳致远——论学习贯彻习近平主席在庆祝澳门回归祖国25周年大会重要讲话
在庆祝澳门回归祖国25周年大会暨澳门特别行政区第六届政府就职典礼上，习近平主席深刻总结香港、澳门回归以来的实践经验，指出继续推进“一国两制”实践行稳致远需要把握好以下4条：一要坚守“一国”之本、善用“两制”之利，二要维护高水平安全、推动高质量发展，三要发挥独特优势、强化内联外通，四要弘扬核心价值、促进包容和谐。
Read more国台办回应美对台军售：“倚美谋独”“以武谋独”是自寻绝路
中新网12月22日电 据国台办发布微博消息，国台办回应美对台军售时表示，“倚美谋独”“以武谋独”是自寻绝路。
Read more审计署：进一步加大对重大问题的查办力度
中新社北京12月22日电 (记者 阮煜琳)受国务院委托，审计署审计长侯凯22日向十四届全国人大常委会第十三次会议作了《国务院关于2023年度中央预算执行和其他财政收支审计查出问题整改情况的报告》。审计署政策研究室相关负责人解读该报告时对记者表示，有关部门高度重视充分发挥审计在反腐治乱方面的重要作用，加大对审计移送重大问题的查办力度，把审计及整改情况纳入领导班子和领导干部考核，作为领导干部日常调整配备等重要参考。
Read more“登录态”入侵！网警@游戏玩家 注意了
在网吧等公众场合登录个人游戏账号时，最好使用人脸识别或令牌验证进行登录，有效防止游戏账号被盗。
Read moreLet China build electric cars in UK, Tory ex-chancellor tells Rachel Reeves ahead of trade trip
Despite ‘spy’ scandal, Philip Hammond says Britain should now adopt a ‘pragmatic approach to Beijing’
China should be encouraged to build electric cars and renewable energy technology in the UK as part of a new pragmatic trading relationship that would benefit both countries, a former Tory chancellor has said ahead of a landmark visit by Rachel Reeves to Beijing early in the new year.
Philip Hammond, who was chancellor from 2016 to 2019, and the last UK minister to take part in formal economic discussions with China before the process was abruptly ended, told the Observer that while Reeves should never “compromise security for trade”, there were vital economic sectors where deals could be struck.
Continue reading...Read more国台办回应美对台军售：“倚美谋独”“以武谋独”是自寻绝路
12月22日，国务院台办发言人朱凤莲答记者问。
Read more外交部驻港公署坚决反对美方借有关报告干涉香港事务和中国内政
中新社香港12月22日电 针对美国“国会——行政部门中国委员会”再次炮制所谓年度报告，其中抹黑香港法治人权状况，叫嚣对港制裁打压，粗暴干涉香港事务和中国内政，中国外交部驻香港特别行政区特派员公署(外交部驻港公署)发言人21日表示强烈不满和坚决反对，予以严厉谴责。
Read more美国宣布对台提供军援军售 中方提出严正交涉
中新社北京12月22日电 中国外交部发言人22日就美国宣布向中国台湾地区提供军援军售答记者问时表示，中方强烈不满、坚决反对，已第一时间向美方提出严正交涉。
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Read more全国铁路2025年1月5日实行新的列车运行图
中新网12月22日电 据中国铁路微信公众号消息，2025年1月5日零时起，全国铁路将实行新的列车运行图。调图后，全国铁路安排图定旅客列车13028列，较现图增加230列；开行货物列车22859列，较现图增加91列，铁路客货运输能力、服务品质和运行效率进一步提升。
Read more第1视点｜习近平：不断开创“一国两制”事业高质量发展新局面
庆祝澳门回归祖国25周年大会暨澳门特别行政区第六届政府就职典礼12月20日上午在澳门东亚运动会体育馆隆重举行。中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平出席并发表重要讲话。
Read more广东省茂名市人民检察院原检察长王天鸿被查
中新网广州12月22日电 (记者 程景伟)据广东省纪委监委“南粤清风网”22日通报，广东省茂名市人民检察院原党组书记、检察长王天鸿涉嫌严重违纪违法，目前正接受广东省纪委监委纪律审查和监察调查。(完)
Read more第一观察｜特别的叮嘱
“中央决定开发横琴，目的就是促进澳门经济适度多元发展、便利澳门居民生活就业。这个定位要把握好，不能发展一些与这个定位不一致的产业项目。”
Read more中共中央港澳工作办公室 国务院港澳事务办公室：领航具有澳门特色的“一国两制”实践行稳致远
领航具有澳门特色的“一国两制”实践行稳致远
Read moreBros’s Matt Goss on love and loss; ‘my father, the serial killer’; Marina Hyde on Prince Andrew and the spy; and Philippa Perry on finding purpose at 80 – podcast
The Duke of York is a royal problem, says Marina Hyde: it’s time they owned it. Matt Goss discusses mega-fame, political correctness and loneliness with Simon Hattenstone. After April Balascio’s foster brother was killed, she started piecing together evidence that revealed her father was a serial killer. And Philippa advises an 80-year-old reader how to face the existential void that is overwhelming them.
Continue reading...Read moreRos Atkins On... Four reasons why the relationship between the UK and China is strained
The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at how relations between the UK and China became so strained.
Read moreXi Jinping urges Macau to diversify economy away from casinos
Chinese president calls for city to ‘focus on cultivating new industries’ as he attends inauguration of new leader
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has urged the gambling hub of Macau to diversify away from casinos, as he addressed the Chinese territory at the inauguration of its new leader.
Xi was in Macau to mark the 25th anniversary of its return from Portuguese to Chinese rule on 20 December 1999. In the quarter-century since then, Macau has been run as a special administrative region of China, a semi-autonomous territory with a similar legal status to Hong Kong, but it has traditionally been much more pliant to Beijing’s rule than the former British territory. More than half of its 700,000 population have immigrated from China in recent decades.
Continue reading...Read moreThe US supreme court’s TikTok case will put free expression on the line | Trevor Timm
Let’s hope the court does the right thing, and strikes down this potential censorship before it spins out of control
The US supreme court surprisingly decided, this week, to hear TikTok’s emergency appeal to its imminent ban in the United States. It may be the most important case at the intersection of the first amendment and national security in decades. Whether or not you see China as a nefarious threat, all Americans who care about free expression should worry about the precedent this case could set – and should want the TikTok ban overturned.
After a fifth circuit court of appeals ruling earlier this month, TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, has until 19 January to either sell the popular video-sharing app or face a nationwide ban. The decision stems from Congress passing a law last year that essentially proclaims that if the government says a foreign-owned platform threatens national security, then it can force its sale or censor it.
Trevor Timm is executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation
Continue reading...Read moreNigel Farage and other MPs are mistaken over parliamentary privilege | Letter
Stephen Sedley writes in response to MPs threatening to name Yang Tengbo in parliament last week before the high court identified him
Contrary to what Nigel Farage and many other MPs and peers appear to believe (MPs consider naming Chinese ‘spy’ linked to Prince Andrew, 15 December), there is no parliamentary privilege in our constitutional law that allows them to defy court orders or decisions if they think it right to do so.
Insofar as we have a written constitution, the Bill of Rights 1689 forbids the courts to adjudicate on anything said or done in parliament. This is the immunity incorrectly referred to as parliamentary privilege. Parliament has for centuries reciprocated by respecting court decisions and orders, however strongly members object to them.
Continue reading...Read moreMacau: a city of contrasts – in pictures
Macau is marking the 25th anniversary of its handover to China. It was administered by the Portuguese until 20 December 1999 and was the last outpost under European rule in Asia. Photographer Eduardo Leal documents a city that has gone through enormous development
Continue reading...Read moreWill Japan’s close ties with US survive the caprice and quirks of Donald Trump?
Japan’s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade war
Arguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White House than Japan, since the US has been the linchpin of Japanese foreign and security policy since the second world war.
Back in 2017, well before he became prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba described Trump’s method as one of “placing his counterpart in a state of anxiety and tension, creating psychological instability and then initiating a deal”.
Continue reading...Read moreFiji defence minister welcomes US security deal and criticises China missile test
Pio Tikoduadua tells the Guardian the Pacific is ‘not a space for missile testing’ after China’s launch earlier this year raised concern in the region
Fiji’s defence minister has stressed the need for stability in the Pacific and welcomed moves to strengthen security ties with the US, while adding to criticism over China’s recent missile test for posing a threat to peace in the region.
Fiji, a country of about 1 million people strategically located in the Pacific, maintains ties and receives support from Washington and Beijing amid a wider struggle for influence by the two powers in the region.
Continue reading...Read moreUnited Front: China's 'magic weapon' caught in a spy controversy
The UFWD is a decades-old - and increasingly controversial - arm of China's Communist Party. What does it do?
Read moreUS Senate passes defense bill that raises troop pay and strips trans care for kids of military
Bill authorizes pay raises, strips coverage of trans medical treatments for children and aims to counter China’s power
The Senate passed a defense bill on Wednesday that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China’s growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895bn while also stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children of military members.
The annual defense authorization bill usually gains strong bipartisan support and has not failed to pass Congress in nearly six decades, but the Pentagon policy measure in recent years has become a battleground for cultural issues. Republicans this year sought to tack on to the legislation priorities for social conservatives, contributing to a months-long negotiation over the bill and a falloff in support from Democrats.
Continue reading...Read moreNew York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan
Chen Jinping pleads guilty to conspiring to act as an agent of China’s government and faces up to five years in prison
A New York man has pleaded guilty to running an undeclared police station for the Chinese government in lower Manhattan, more than a year after the US justice department unveiled efforts aimed at disrupting Beijing’s efforts to locate and suppress Chinese American pro-democracy activists.
Chen Jinping, 60, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to act as an agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China, in connection with opening and operating an overseas police station for the PRC’s ministry of public security, or MPS.
Continue reading...Read moreSupreme court agrees to hear TikTok challenge to law ending its US operations
Court will hear two hours of oral arguments on 10 January and consider the social media app’s challenge to the law
The US supreme court said on Wednesday that it would hear TikTok’s challenge to a law that could make the company’s popular video app disappear from the US.
In its order on Wednesday, the supreme court said it would set aside two hours for oral arguments on 10 January to consider TikTok’s lawsuit against the justice department and the attorney general, Merrick Garland.
Continue reading...Read morePrince Andrew to miss royal family’s traditional pre-Christmas lunch
Duke of York said to have pulled out of Buckingham Palace event after controversy over links to Chinese ‘spy’
The Duke of York will not attend the royal family’s traditional pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace on Thursday amid controversy over his links with an alleged Chinese spy.
Prince Andrew is said to have decided to pull out of the occasion after speaking to his ex-wife and close friend, Sarah, Duchess of York. He had already withdrawn from joining senior royals at Sandringham for the festive period.
Continue reading...Read moreThe prince and the spy – podcast
Prince Andrew is in trouble again, this time for meeting a businessman who has denied spying for China.
In parliament, it has sparked fears about how far the British establishment has been infiltrated by spies. In Beijing, there has been outrage. For Prince Andrew, it has led to him missing Christmas dinner at Sandringham with the rest of the royal family.
It is fair to say the accusation that the Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo has been spying for China has caused a serious stir. Dan Sabbagh and David Pegg report
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Continue reading...Read moreFleeing Xi’s China: following the trail of migrants trying to reach Australia through Indonesia
A new and high-stakes escape route has been revealed, through the Indonesian archipelago to a smuggler’s boat
Paul, an Indonesian fisherman, says he was working as a rideshare driver in the dusty streets of Kupang in West Timor when he came across half a dozen Chinese men on the side of the road. They were wet up to their waist, carrying a backpack each, and spoke no Indonesian.
“They had walked from the beach, from the mangrove forest to the main road. They said they had difficulty with their boat engine,” Paul recalls. They asked for directions to a nearby hotel … and went on their way. Paul, a former people smuggler from Rote Island, called the police. “I used to bring people like this.”
Continue reading...Read moreChinese AI chip firms blacklisted over weapons concerns gained access to UK technology
Imagination Technologies had licences with two Chinese firms – but said it had not ‘implemented transactions’ that would enable the use of technology for military purposes
Chinese engineers developing chips for artificial intelligence that can be used in “advanced weapons systems” have gained access to cutting-edge UK technology, the Guardian can reveal.
Described by analysts as “China’s premier AI chip designers”, Moore Threads and Biren Technology are subject to US export restrictions over their development of chips that “can be used to provide artificial intelligence capabilities to further development of weapons of mass destruction, advanced weapons systems and hi-tech surveillance applications that create national security concerns”.
Continue reading...Read moreWhat does the China 'spy' row show? That Starmer can't just muddle through on foreign policy | Rafael Behr
The PM’s attitude to China exposes the void where there should be a strategic concept of Britain’s place in the world
When Keir Starmer met Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio last month he declared that Britain should build a “pragmatic and serious relationship” with China, which would be a meaningful ambition if anyone was calling for the opposite. Who stands for impractical and unserious dealings with Beijing? Prince Andrew, maybe.
The hapless royal scandal-magnet has no influence over policy, but he has enough elite contacts and cupidity to have made him worth cultivating by a Chinese businessman who is now banned from the UK on grounds of espionage. Yang Tengbo denies spying. He says he is the casualty of “sour” anti-China sentiment.
Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Read morePrince Andrew’s ‘opaque’ finances provoke calls for register of royal interests
Claims of refused FOI requests into Duke of York’s business dealings come as controversy over alleged Chinese spy continues
Getting information from government departments about the Duke of York’s past business dealings is like playing “whack-a-mole”, it was claimed, as fallout over the alleged Chinese “spy” controversy continues, with China saying it was an attempt to “smear” it.
Calling for a register of royal interests, similar to that for MPs, and a full inquiry by the public accounts committee into royal finances, researchers trying to investigate Prince Andrew’s “opaque” finances claim their freedom of information (FoI) requests are regularly refused, making their work “impossible”.
Continue reading...Read moreThe prince and the ‘spy’ – podcast
Prince Andrew is in trouble again, this time for meeting a businessman who has denied spying for China. Dan Sabbagh and David Pegg report
In parliament, it has sparked fears about how far the British establishment has been infiltrated by spies. In Beijing, there has been outrage. For Prince Andrew, it has led to him missing Christmas dinner at Sandringham with the rest of the royal family. It is fair to say the accusation that the Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo has been spying for China has caused a serious stir.
While Dan Sabbagh tells Michael Safi what we know about the extent of Chinese spying in the UK and how it works, David Pegg examines how the scandal unfolded and caused Tengbo’s meetings with everyone from Prince Andrew to Theresa May to be put under scrutiny – and why, for the man at the centre of the story, it is all an unfair smear on someone who loves the UK and only wants to build better business relations between the UK and China.
Continue reading...Read moreLabour’s review of UK-China relations on hold until after chancellor visits Beijing
Exclusive: Despite calls for more scrutiny in light of Prince Andrew spy allegations, Starmer’s instinct is not to do anything to hamper growth
A review of UK-China relations has been delayed until after the chancellor makes her first trip to Beijing next month, the Guardian has learned, amid a row over an alleged spy who befriended Prince Andrew.
Rachel Reeves will travel to China in early January as part of a charm offensive by the Labour government. The trip will be focused on financial services, and Tulip Siddiq, the City minister, is expected to travel with the chancellor.
Continue reading...Read moreNigel Farage and Nick Candy say they met Musk at Mar-a-Lago to discuss doing ‘great things together’ – as it happened
Farage and Reform UK treasurer met Musk at Donald Trump’s Florida home, party says
Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, has announced that the scope of the compensation programme for victims of the Post Office scandal will be extended to cover earlier potential victims.
The government already has four schemes in place offering compensation to post officer operators who suffered because faulty Horizon IT software led to them being wrongly blamed for missing money. More than 900 people were prosecuted, more than 100 were jailed, but many more lost out because they were forced to repay money they were accused of losing or stealing, and/or because they lost their jobs.
A significant amount of time has also passed, and we recognise that this means that timescales are far greater, and the population of postmasters that used Capture will be more advanced in age, or a greater proportion of the population may have unfortunately died. We also recognise that the passage of time means that evidence of shortfalls and consequential losses, and evidence relating to suspensions, termination, prosecution, or convictions, will be far more difficult to find. It will therefore be difficult for claimants to corroborate their claims with contemporary evidence. Postmasters, the Post Office, or the UK government may not have enough evidence, and we may never find enough evidence to determine liability to the level that would be expected by the courts.
It is thanks to testimony of postmasters that this has been brought to light and failings have been discovered.
We must now work quickly to provide redress and justice to those who have suffered greatly after being wrongly accused.
We are considering the right form of redress for victims who have suffered.
This is a challenging exercise given the passage of time and the significant lack of records and evidence.
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He also announced in a written ministerial statement that the government “accepts in full or accepts in principle” all of the 12 recommendations made as part of the Infected Blood Inquiry.
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