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Latest Developments in Ukraine: Nov. 29
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2 a.m.: The pace of global shipping activity is set to lose steam next year as economic turmoil, conflict in Ukraine and the impact of the pandemic weaken the outlook for trade, Reuters reported Tuesday citing U.N. agency UNCTAD.
The world's largest investment banks expect global economic growth to slow further in 2023 following a year roiled by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and soaring inflation.
The slowdown is expected to impact shipping, which transports more than 80% of global trade, although tanker freight rates could stay high.
In its Review of Maritime Transport for 2022, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, or UNCTAD, projected global maritime trade growth would moderate to 1.4% this year and stay at that level in 2023.
This compares with estimated growth of 3.2% in 2021 and overall shipment volume of 11 billion tons, versus a 3.8% decline in 2020.
For the overall 2023-2027 period, growth is predicted at an annual average of 2.1%, a slower rate than the previous three-decade average of 3.3%, UNCTAD said, adding that "downside risks are weighing heavily on this forecast."
"The recovery in maritime transport and logistics is now at risk from the war in Ukraine, the continued grip of the pandemic, lingering supply-chain constraints, and China’s cooling economy and zero-COVID policy, along with inflationary pressures and the cost-of-living squeeze," UNCTAD said in the report.
A surge in consumer spending in 2021 pushed container shipping markets to record levels with ports backed up around the world, which was also partly due to the effects of lockdowns.
UNCTAD said the "logjam in logistics will dissolve with the rebalancing of demand and supply forces," but added the risks of industrial action in ports and hinterland transport had increased.
UNCTAD called for investment in maritime supply chains to enable ports, shipping fleets and hinterland connections to be better prepared for future global crises, climate change and the transition to low-carbon energy.
"We need to be better prepared to cope with shocks to global value chains," UNCTAD Secretary General Rebeca Grynspan told reporters.
1:33 a.m.: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will call on allies to pledge more winter aid for Kyiv at a meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, after Ukraine's president told residents to brace for another week of cold and darkness due to Russian attacks on infrastructure.
Reuters reported that the NATO foreign ministers meeting in Bucharest will focus on ramping up military assistance for Ukraine such as air defense systems and ammunition, even as diplomats acknowledge supply and capacity issues, but also discuss non-lethal aid as well.
Part of this non-lethal aid — goods such as fuel, medical supplies, winter equipment and drone jammers — has been delivered through a NATO assistance package that allies can contribute to and which Stoltenberg aims to increase.
1 a.m.: The United States will announce new aid on Tuesday to help Ukraine restore electricity as its people faced another week of brutal cold and darkness after Russian missile strikes on its power grid caused rolling blackouts, Reuters reported.
Russia has targeted Ukraine's power plants, transmission and distribution facilities and water pumping stations since early October, with each barrage having greater impact than the last as damage accumulates and winter sets in.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he expects new attacks that could be as bad as last week's bombardment, which left millions of people with no heat, water or power.
12:45 a.m.: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Bucharest ahead of Tuesday’s NATO Foreign Minis[...]
lower than those in the United States. As a result, millions of Chinese have been confined to their homes for up to four months.
Russel told VOA that Xi is unlikely to relent on his overall COVID-19 strategy, and while there may be promises of fine-tuning the system, the Chinese leader is likely to turn to "tech-enhanced repressive state power to frighten would-be demonstrators."
"Without an effective Chinese vaccine and high rates of inoculation, relaxing controls would lead to COVID overwhelming China's inadequate public healthcare system. Xi Jinping has made the Party's 'superior handling' of COVID a major political achievement and simply cannot walk that back."
The ruling party's People's Daily newspaper called for the anti-coronavirus strategy to be carried out effectively, indicating Xi's government has no plans to change course.
"Facts have fully proved that each version of the prevention and control plan has withstood the test of practice," a People's Daily commentator wrote.
In Hong Kong Monday evening, students at the Chinese University held a small-scale vigil to show support for protesters on the mainland.
Over the weekend, protesters shouted, "Lift the lockdown!" in a city in China's western region, while across the country in Shanghai, the financial center, protesters held up blank sheets of white paper as a quiet show of dissent.
Others in Shanghai chanted, "Xi Jinping! Step down! CCP! Step down!" referring to the Communist Party. Police detained dozens of protesters, driving them away in police vans and buses, although the exact number was not clear.
At Peking University in Beijing, graffiti read, "We don't want lockdown or control; we want freedom. We don't want PCR testing; we want to eat."
US reaction to China lockdowns
In Washington, the White House said the Biden administration supported peaceful protests.
"Whether it's the people protesting in Iran or China or anywhere else around the world, nothing has changed about the president's firm belief in the power of democracy and democratic institutions and how important that is," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
He said the Biden administration is monitoring the events in China closely.
The U.S. Mission in China said it has regularly raised concerns with the Chinese government about the COVID-19 restrictions and their effect on Americans living in or visiting the country.
"We encourage all U.S. citizens to keep a 14-day supply of medications, bottled water and food for yourself and any members of your household," U.S. officials said.
In Washington, the U.S. National Security Council said it supports the right of Chinese people to peacefully protest the COVID-19 restrictions.
"We've long said everyone has the right to peacefully protest here in the United States and around the world. This includes in the PRC [People's Republic of China]," a spokesperson said, adding, "we think it's going to be very difficult for the People's Republic of China to be able to contain this virus through their zero-COVID strategy."
The State Department said the United States, rather than imposing a zero-COVID policy, is "focused on what works, and that means using the public health tools, like continuing to enhance vaccination rates and making testing and treatment easily accessible."
VOA's Mandarin Service contributed to this report. Some material came from The Associated Press and Reuters.
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China Strengthens Police Presence in Response to Protests
Chinese police patrolled the capital, Beijing, and China's largest city and financial hub, Shanghai on Tuesday, working to prevent the resurgence of protests against the country's COVID restrictions that have also included rare calls for President Xi Jinping to step down.
Both cities were quiet overnight with police out in force, particularly in areas where social media users suggested new gatherings.
China's government eased some of its pandemic rules on Monday, but it also affirmed its commitment to a zero-COVID strategy.
The government made no mention of the demonstrations, the biggest show of opposition to the ruling Communist Party in decades, but the slight relaxation of the rules appeared aimed at quelling the demonstrations.
Xi's zero-COVID policy has sharply limited infections through stringent lockdowns that have disrupted everyday life in the country of 1.4 billion people. Protests erupting at locations around the country appear to indicate that many Chinese have grown weary of the lengthy quarantines and widespread testing.
A Shanghai resident who participated in a protest in the city told VOA that at the start of COVID lockdowns, people saw the government's actions as rational, but that those feelings changed as the restrictions remained in place.
"For example, they told you the lockdown's number of days. Initially they said three days," they said. "Then after three days, it was another three days, and then three more days afterwards. It was in May that people truly realized that this was not rational, not normal."
Daniel Russel, vice president for international security and diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told VOA that the protests are significant in that they involve people from multiple cities and various walks of life who are going beyond initial demonstrations in response to a fatal fire in the western Xinjiang region to protest the zero-COVID strategy and the country's ruling party.
"This shows that Zero-COVID created a negative shared experience of heavy-handed and intrusive Party control that united people across geographic and socioeconomic boundaries," Russel said via email.
Authorities said the fire last week in the city of Urumqi killed 10 people.
A witness to the fire told VOA on Monday that firefighters had difficulty entering the building because of the government's anti-COVID policies.
"The fire exit door on the top floor was locked. Then they came down using the elevator to the first floor," the witness, a Uyghur who asked to remain anonymous fearing Chinese government retaliation, told VOA.
"Unfortunately, that exit was also locked by the government officials because of the mask."
People in Xinjiang use the word "mask" to refer to the Chinese government's zero-COVID policy.
China's government denies that firefighters had any difficulty accessing the building and has accused "forces with ulterior motives" for linking the fire to COVID-19 measures.
Restrictions eased
The Beijing city government did not mention the fire on Monday as it said it would no longer set up gates to block people from entering apartment compounds where infections have been found.
In addition to easing the rules in Beijing, officials in Guangzhou, the southern manufacturing and trade metropolis that is the biggest hot spot in China's latest wave of infections, said some residents will no longer be required to undergo mass testing.
Officials in Urumqi and another city in the Xinjiang region in the northwest said markets and other businesses in areas deemed at low risk of infection would reopen this week, and public bus service would resume.
The zero-COVID policy aims to isolate every infected person and has helped China keep its case numbers, as a percentage of its overall population,[...]
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