High-level diplomatic talks between the US and China were held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA on the 18th-19th (local time). The United States and China confronted human rights issues and ended without a joint statement. Newspapers said, “It was predicted,” and “the result of not meeting low expectations,” and said that the front of the conflict between the two countries was clearly revealed. In the North Korean issue, he interpreted it as’leaving room for dialogue’.
The U.S. and China met strongly on issues such as human rights, trade, and technology at the first high-level talks between the two countries since the inauguration of the Joe Biden administration. US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Chinese Communist Party diplomat politician Yang Jietsu and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a discussion one night and two days.
The United States brought up all sensitive issues such as the Xinjiang Uyghurs, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Tibet issues. The Seoul newspaper criticized the US as “China will shake the world order and transform the global village into a lean jungle,” and said that China replied that “the US interferes with other countries’ internal affairs on a subject that cannot even solve its own problems.” In particular, both political members, who were called “American Tong” of moderate tendencies, said, “Is the United States, who killed an unarmed black man by a white policeman, qualified to teach human rights in China?”
The two countries said that even though they promised to speak for two minutes each, they criticized the other for over an hour, and they called for reporters who wanted to leave after the talks and added criticism again.
The Kyunghyang Shinmun said in a commentary article, “The point that the US emphasized China’s role in resolving the North Korean nuclear issue is a positive point.” After meetings with China, Secretary Blincoln said that Hong Kong, Tibet, and Taiwan had fundamentally conflicted with China. However, on agendas such as Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, and climate change, they said interests intersect. The Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “However, if the US-China conflict intensifies, the possibility that China will not cooperate with sanctions against North Korea to increase its bargaining power cannot be ruled out. I can.”
The Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “As the US and China clash over their core interests, it seems difficult to fully cooperate in the North Korean nuclear issue.” Interpretation of an advisory researcher at the National Security Strategy Institute.
The Dong-A Ilbo reported that the US Bloomberg News reported that “The fact that no results were announced means that the low expectations set before the meeting were not reached.” The Washington Post of the US and Japan said, “It seems that the Biden administration had a good taste of China’s’wolf warrior’ (showing power) diplomacy for the first time.”
Reorganization of LH, outline of’maintaining the frame’… Gwangmyeong·Siheung speculation staff, even 16 years ago
The government has set a policy toward’dieting’ with the basic framework for the reorganization of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH). The Seoul newspaper said, “The LH organizational reorganization is being reviewed toward separating other functions such as residential welfare while leaving the functions of land development and urban development such as the creation of a new city intact. Compared to the fact that the total separation of land and housing sectors was discussed in the early days of the crisis, it is more relaxed. Earlier, the government announced that it would come up with measures to prevent recurrence of speculation in the LH new city by the end of this month.
The Seoul newspaper said that if LH is divided into land and housing projects as in the past, there is inevitable disruption in measures for 2·4 real estate, and LH seems to be hesitant to’split’ because it is a structure that promotes housing business based on profits from the land business. did. The Seoul newspaper said, “Some have suggested that the’Residential Welfare Office’ should be established as a governmental organization. It is raised.”
The Ministry of Strategy and Finance decided to pursue a plan to redeem the incentives paid when the allegations of land speculation by LH employees were confirmed to be true. It is a method of re-adjusting the result of receiving an excellent (A) grade in the past management evaluation and collecting incentives, and subtracting the amount of deduction from the monthly salary as much as the decreased score. The Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “However, the amount of redemption will not be large.” The score for the ethical management index is only 3 out of 100 points. Last year, LH was also a failing point in the ethical management category, which was’D’, but received an A grade in the overall grade.
The Ministry of Science and Technology decided to improve the management evaluation system by increasing the proportion of morality indicators. The Dong-A Ilbo said, “Experts further point out that if a speculative act of public institution employees is detected, it should be specified in the regulations so that incentives cannot be received regardless of the overall rating.”
Meanwhile, it was revealed that an employee of Korea Land and Housing Corporation LH and an employee who was suspected of speculation in the 3rd new town of Gwangmyeong and Siheung, Gyeonggi-do, purchased farmland just before the announcement of a large-scale housing site development plan in Gangneung, Gangwon-do. The Hankyoreh reported it. The Hankyoreh said, “There are doubts that Mr. A has been speculating on real estate using undisclosed information for a long time.”
In May 2005, Mr. A purchased 707㎡ of farmland in Gyo-dong, Gangneung. Four months later, Korea National Housing Corporation (Jugong), the predecessor of LH, announced a plan to build a 731017㎡ residential site (Yulgok District) in this area. Mr. A had an address in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do at the time, and was an employee of the Korea Land Corporation (Earth Work). Jugong and Earthworks were merged into LH in 2009. At the beginning of the following year, the Ministry of Construction and Transportation announced the designation and notification of a projected district of’Gangneung Yulgok National Rental Housing Complex’ with a size of 68,196m2 in Yucheon-dong, Hongje-dong, and Gyo-dong in Gangneung-si, including the land of A.
The Hankyoreh said that LH drew a line saying,’It was not possible to exchange internal information between the two constructions’ in response to speculation.
POSCO, 200 billion won a year to a military controlled company in Myanmar
It was investigated that major domestic companies such as POSCO, Korea Gas Corporation, and Lotte Hotel have conducted dozens of investment projects directly or indirectly with the Myanmar military, which took power through a coup. The Kyunghyang Shinmun was created by the Myanmar civic group’Justice for Myanmar’ and the’Korean civil society group that supports Myanmar’s democracy’. Business network map of Myanmar military and Korean companies Reported the content.
According to the results of the two groups survey, POSCO International (former Daewoo International) and Korea Gas Corporation have been engaged in the Myanmar Shwe gas development project with the military-controlled Myanmar State Petroleum and Gas Company (MOGE) since 2004. MOGE is a key funding line for Myanmar’s military, and the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Myanmar, Thomas Andrews, has called for targeted sanctions.
The Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “In the process of this gas development project, which was invested by Korean companies, there were serious human rights violations by the Myanmar military such as forced displacement of local residents, land confiscation, forced labor, and sexual violence. It paid 94 million dollars (2192 billion won) to Myanmar for the oil and gas business. By selling the produced gas to China, etc. last year, it generated an operating profit of 4745 billion won.” POSCO International was also involved in the’Natural Gas Pipeline One-to-One Road Project’ promoted by MOGE (Rakhain, Myanmar to Yunnan, China).
The Kyunghyang Shinmun reported that POSCO formed a joint venture between Myanmar Economic Holdings (MEHL) and POSCO Steel Plate (C&C), which are military-owned companies in Myanmar, and contributed financially to the massacre of ethnic minorities in the Myanmar military, while POSCO International and Lotte Hotel contributed to the military-owned land of Yangon. He said that it is also working on a five-star hotel business. In addition,’Justice for Myanmar’ reported that the Swedish national pension fund AP1, the Australian steel company BlueScope Steel, and the French Bank Credit Egricall were linked with the Myanmar military through POSCO.
The Kyunghyang Shinmun reported that 60 Myanmar technicians who had been involved in the development of Shuwe gas in Rakhain Province led by POSCO started democratization protests with their work suspended from the 15th, and workers at Lotte Hotel Yangon also e-mailed to the management on the 5th. He said he urged him to “stop doing business with the military of Myanmar.” The Myanmar Provisional Government (CRPH) sent an official letter to POSCO Group Chairman Choi Jeong-woo on the 5th, demanding that MOGE, which is controlled by the military, not pay for gas sales.
POSCO International said, “The Myanmar gas field project is a business that is carried out according to a contract with the Myanmar government that has lasted more than 20 years. It has nothing to do with the military.” The Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “However, the number of transnational companies discontinuing business with the Myanmar military is increasing abroad.” I said I did.
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