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Trump on defensive as critics seize on reports he insulted US veterans - CNA

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump was on the defensive on Sunday (Sep 6) over what critics said was a "pattern" of disrespect towards the US military following media reports that he had disparaged fallen veterans, the fallout from which could harm his campaign for re-election on Nov 3.

Democratic and Republican opponents alike over the weekend seized on the reports - which said that Trump had called US soldiers buried in Europe "losers" - to attack his record on the military on news shows and in political ads.

"It breaks your heart," US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of the reported comments in an interview on MSNBC on Sunday.

The furore over the Sep 3 report in The Atlantic could undermine Trump's re-election message that he would maintain law and order amid nationwide protests, and that he strongly supports US military personnel and their families - a key Republican constituency which largely backed Trump in 2016.

Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, a Republican, told ABC's "This Week" that the remarks, if true, were "despicable".

Hagel said the reports were "credible" because they were consistent with previous public remarks Trump had made denigrating military personnel, including former US Defense Secretary James Mattis.

"It will resonate" with the military, he added.

Retired US Army Colonel Jeff McCausland wrote in an NBC News op-ed on Sunday that Trump over the years had demonstrated "a clear pattern of disrespect toward the military".

The Atlantic reported that Trump made the disparaging remarks after cancelling a visit to an American cemetery during a November 2018 trip to France, an account the president denied on Thursday and on Sunday said was "disinformation".

"They will say anything, like their recent lies about me and the Military, and hope that it sticks," he tweeted, referring to the media and the Democratic Party, whose nominee Joe Biden is vying for the presidency in November.

The Atlantic has stood by its report, which cited four unnamed people with firsthand knowledge of the matter and which was later confirmed by several other media outlets.

Bloomberg on Sunday reported that Trump spent the extra free time in Paris selecting artwork to ship from the US ambassador's residence to the White House. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the Bloomberg report.

Former Vice President Biden, whose late son Beau served in Iraq, on Sunday capitalised upon the uproar to highlight his own record of military support with an advertisement aimed at areas with large numbers of military personnel in battleground states.

The ad will air nationwide on Sunday night during cable television news programs and on Facebook and Instagram throughout the week as part of a broader US$47 million campaign, a spokesman told Reuters on Sunday.

The Lincoln Project, a prominent Republican-backed group opposing Trump’s re-election, on Saturday released a new video attacking the president's comments and broader record on the military. Trump has never served and avoided the draft for the Vietnam war, citing bone spurs in his feet.

"He's a draft-dodger in chief who despises the men and women he supposedly leads. He insults their deaths and injuries with his contempt,” it said.

MILITARY SPENDING

Trump has repeatedly touted his administration's spending on the military while also moving to pull American troops out of conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan, as well as out of allied countries such as Germany.

More recently, he has said he would block the Pentagon's plan to cut military healthcare by US$2.2 billion and reverse its plan to close the Stars and Stripes military newspaper.

Trump's core voters have in the past forgiven him for derisive comments on McCain and other issues, but there are signs that support among active-duty military personnel for their commander-in-chief may be slipping.

A Military Times poll of more than 1,000 active-duty service members taken late July to early August and published last week, before the latest reports, showed waning support for Trump and a slight preference for Biden.

Several top administration officials, including US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, have rallied to Trump's defense as the controversy has grown in recent days.

On Sunday, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie told CNN's "State of the Union" that he had never heard the president disparage the military or veterans. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters at the White House that Trump supported the military "100%".

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Hong Kong police fire pepper balls at protesters opposed to election delay, new law - CNA

HONG KONG: Police fired rounds of pepper balls at protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday (Sep 6) and arrested almost 300 after demonstrators took to the streets to oppose the postponement of legislative elections and a new national security law imposed by China.

In July, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam postponed the Sep 6 election for seats in the Asian financial hub's Legislative Council for a year because of a spike in coronavirus cases.

hk protests 1 — Hong Kong police said they arrested at least 90 people for illegal gatherings, in a notice on their Facebook page on Sep 6, 2020. (Photo: Facebook/Hong Kong Police)

The move dealt a blow to the opposition who hoped to win a historic majority in the Council, where only half the seats are directly elected and the other half are appointed members who mostly support Beijing.

READ: Hong Kong activist arrested for 'seditious words' before rally

"Today is supposedly our voting day, we need to resist to fight back for our vote,” said a 70-year old woman surnamed Wong as she marched with other demonstrators.

The poll would have been the former British colony’s first official vote since Beijing imposed new security legislation in late June. The government insists there was no political motive behind the delay.

Hong Kong police at Yau Ma Tei protest on Sep 6, 2020 — Riot police in Hong Kong after protesters gather at Yau Ma Tei for a protest on Sep 6, 2020 against the new national security law. (Photo: Hong Kong Police)

Thousands of police were stationed around the bustling Kowloon peninsula as marchers waved placards and chanted popular anti-government slogans such as "liberate Hong Kong".

These slogans are now banned under the new security law. Police said they arrested 298 people, mainly for illegal gatherings, in a notice on their Facebook page.

Hong Kong police at Yau Ma Tei protest on Sep 6, 2020 (1) — Riot police in Hong Kong after protesters gather at Yau Ma Tei for a protest on Sep 6, 2020 against the new national security law. (Photo: Hong Kong Police)

Several well-known activists were arrested during the demonstration including Raphael Wong, Figo Chan, the vice-convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front and former legislator Leung Kwok-hung, also known as “Long Hair”, according to a post on Chan's Facebook page.

The protests came hours after the police's newly formed national security unit arrested Tam Tak-chi, another activist and radio DJ, for "uttering seditious words" - a colonial-era offence.

Tam is the latest in a long line of government critics to find themselves facing prosecution in recent months for their involvement in protests.

When they announced the arrest on Sunday morning, police did not explain what Tam may have said that was considered seditious.

Beijing's Liaison Office in Hong Kong called the protest organisers "heartless", with a spokesperson adding: "There is zero tolerance for any act that violates the national security law".

The office also vowed that "we will absolutely not allow Hong Kong to be chaotic again".

In a statement on Sunday evening, the city's government condemned the protesters' "unlawful and selfish acts".

"The first priority for Hong Kong currently is to unite as one and fight the virus together with concentrated resources," a government spokesperson said.

Anti-government demonstrations have declined this year mainly because of limits on group gatherings, imposed to counter the spread of coronavirus, and the security law, which punishes actions China sees as subversive, secessionist, terrorist or colluding with foreign forces.

READ: US, UK and allies call for prompt Hong Kong elections

READ: US blacklists Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, other officials

Critics say the law aims to quash dissent in the city, while supporters say it will bring more stability after a year of often-violent anti-government and anti-China unrest.

Hong Kong police at Yau Ma Tei protest on Sep 6, 2020 (2) — Riot police in Hong Kong after protesters gather at Yau Ma Tei for a protest on Sep 6, 2020 against the new national security law. (Photo: Hong Kong Police)

Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under a guarantee of autonomy but critics say the new law undermines that promise and puts the territory on a more authoritarian path.

Advocates of the law say it plugs loopholes in national security left by the city’s inability to fulfil a constitutional requirement to pass such laws on its own.

While street protests have largely lost momentum, anti-government and anti-Beijing sentiment persists, with China's offer of mass coronavirus testing for Hong Kong residents prompting calls for a boycott amid public distrust.

Hong Kong police at Yau Ma Tei protest on Sep 6, 2020 (3) — Protesters gather at Yau Ma Tei for a protest against the new national security law. (Photo: Hong Kong Police)

Authorities have cited coronavirus fears to restrict gatherings, which are currently limited to two people, and police have rejected applications for protests in recent months.

Hong Kong has reported around 4,800 coronavirus cases since January, far lower than in other major cities around the world. The number of new daily infections has fallen substantially from triple digits in July to single digits currently.

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2020-09-06 15:45:00Z
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Hong Kong activist arrested for 'seditious words' before rally - CNA

HONG KONG: An opposition activist was arrested in Hong Kong on Sunday (Sep 6) by a new police squad for "uttering seditious words", hours before a rally against a controversial security law.

The arrest of Tam Tak-chi, vice president of radical democratic party People Power, is the latest detention of a high profile democracy supporter in the financial hub and came on the morning Hongkongers had been due to vote in a general election, delayed because of the coronavirus.

An unauthorised protest in opposition to a new law that gives authorities sweeping powers - as well as the poll's postponement and a Beijing-backed COVID-19 testing programme - had more than 10,000 online subscribers.

READ: Hong Kong police fire pepper balls at protesters opposed to election delay, new law

READ: China's security law a 'serious risk' to Hong Kong's freedoms - UN experts

Tam, a former radio presenter known "Fast Beat", was arrested at his home in north east Hong Kong by police officers from the national security squad, although he was not detained under the new law, police said.

"The gentleman we arrested this morning was arrested for uttering seditious words under the Crimes Ordinance's section ten," senior superintendent Li Kwai-wah said, referring to legislation enacted in the British colonial era to clamp down anti-government expressions.

According to Li, Tam was held for using words that "brought into hatred and contempt of the government and raised discontent and disaffection among Hong Kong people" in speeches made across Hong Kong this summer.

Li said the national security police was leading the arrest because at the initial stage of investigation the force suspected Tam of committing "incitement to secession" in article 21 of the national security law.

"But after collection of evidence and consulting the Department of Justice, we decided that it is more suitable to use the Crimes Ordinance," Li said.

Since the national security law was passed in Beijing and implemented in Hong Kong on Jun 30, 21 people, including pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai and prominent activist Agnes Chow, have been arrested for allegations of "incitement to secession", "collusion with foreign forces" and "terrorism acts".

READ: Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong reveals fear of arrest

Hong Kong's administration insists the law has not impinged on the rights to freedom of speech and assembly guaranteed to the territory when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

Yet certain opinions and expressions in previously free-wheeling Hong Kong have become illegal, and activists have spoken of a deep chilling effect that has seen books yanked from libraries and publishers rush to amend their titles.

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2020-09-06 10:31:13Z
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90% of China's Sinovac employees, families took coronavirus vaccine: CEO - CNA

BEIJING: About 90 per cent of Sinovac Biotech employees and their families have taken an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by the Chinese firm under the country’s emergency use program, its chief executive said on Sunday (Sep 6).

The extent of inoculations under the emergency program, which China launched in July but has released few details about, points to how actively it is using experimental vaccines in the hopes of protecting essential workers against a potential COVID-19 resurgence, even as trials are still underway.

The program is intended for specific groups, including medical staffers and those who work at food markets and in the transportation and service sectors.

READ: China's CNBG, Sinovac find more countries to test COVID-19 vaccines

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Sinovac, whose CoronaVac is in Phase 3 clinical trials and has been included in the emergency scheme, offered the candidate vaccine to approximately 2,000 to 3,000 employees and their families on a voluntary basis, CEO Yin Weidong told Reuters.

“As a vaccine developer and manufacturer, a new outbreak could directly impact our vaccine production,” Yin said on the sidelines of an international trade fair in Beijing, explaining why his company was included in the emergency program.

Data gathered from the program could offer evidence of the vaccine’s safety, but such data, which is not part of the registered clinical trial protocols, will not be used as main materials that regulators review in judging whether to approve the vaccine for commercial use, Yin said.

He said those who chose to be inoculated, including his wife and parents, had been informed of the potential side effects prior to taking the shot, and that its vaccine completing only early and mid-stage trials.

READ: Emergency authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines needs great care: WHO

READ: Scientists see downsides to top COVID-19 vaccines from Russia, China

Yin, who also took the shot, said doctors asked about their health conditions before the vaccination, and the occurrence rate of adverse reaction among those vaccinated has been “very low”.

Side effects after taking CoronaVac include fatigue, fever and pain, with mostly mild symptoms, according to results of a mid-stage trial sponsored by Sinovac, involving 600 participants and published last month ahead of peer review.

No vaccine has passed final, large-scale trials to prove it is effective and safe enough to protect people against the virus that has led to over 870,000 deaths globally.

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2020-09-06 09:04:49Z
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Royalty and farmers tussle over Malaysia's famous Musang King durians - The Straits Times

RAUB, PAHANG - At foothills deep in the interior of Malaysia's Pahang state, a bitter tussle is pitting a large group of unlicensed farmers and a new company owned by Pahang royalty over the country's famous Musang King durians.

The 1,000 or so farmers are mostly ethnic Chinese who have been planting durian trees in Raub, a two-hour drive from Kuala Lumpur, for the past four to five decades by clearing government-owned forest land.

The farmers, whose ancestors named the Musang King durian that is widely regarded as Malaysia's most loved durian variant, have said that the state had repeatedly rejected their attempts to independently legitimise their farms over the past 20 years.

The Pahang state government in March decided to grant the rights of the land currently occupied by the farmers to a private entity and a state-owned vehicle instead, and these two firms, in a joint venture, are offering a legalisation scheme the terms of which, the farmers say, are heavily weighed against them.

The legalisation scheme is led by Royal Pahang Durian Produce (RPD) and the Pahang Agriculture Development Authority (PKPP).

The RPD-PKPP joint venture was given land rights for 2,168ha in Raub for durian cultivation on a big scale - and around half of the granted land is occupied by the farmers.

A key RPD proposal is a promise to buy Musang King durians at a fixed price of RM30 (S$9.85) per kilo from the farmers. It claims this provides a good profit margin as the cost for planting durians is only RM8 a kilo.

The firm said in a statement last Tuesday (Sept 1) that the scheme is a "win-win" proposal for both sides, as the farmers will now be allowed to legally grow their durian trees while RPD buys the king of fruits from them at a fixed price.

"Based on independent verification, cost of production of about RM8/kg will therefore assure the farmers an expected margin of more than 200 per cent," RPD said.

The hills beyond Sungai Klau where the Musang King durians are planted at high altitude. ST PHOTO: RAM ANAND

The farmers also have to pay RM6,000 a year for every one acre - or 0.4ha - of durian planted land, before the legalisation scheme starts in 2021.

RPD's biggest shareholders are the Pahang royal family, with Tengku Puteri Iman Afzan, daughter of Pahang ruler and Malaysia's current King Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin, being listed as its chair.

The durian farmers are vehemently against the scheme, as they would have to sell durians at a fixed price to RPD-PKPP, as opposed to the current fluctuating market price which they say befits the inconsistent produce rates of a durian tree. They say the cost price estimated also does not take into account the years it takes for a durian tree to mature.

The farmers have formed the Save Musang King Alliance (Samka) to defend what they see as their rights over the farmed land.

Samka chairman Chang Yee Chin, who has organised the farmers' protests and led the battle into the courts, said the farmers had engaged with RPD multiple times and are unable to accept the terms of the legalisation scheme.

He contends that the scheme pushes most of the liabilities on to the farmers, limits their profit and sets unrealistic expectations on produce volume.

"A durian tree's produce only lasts three weeks, and they expect the three weeks' effort to cover the cost of the whole year's effort," Mr Chang told The Straits Times.

The farmers have obtained an injunction against the joint venture moving in on their farms after the land office asked the farmers to vacate their farms by Aug 24. The farms are located at the foothill village of Sungai Klau, about 30km into the heart of a vast agricultural plain in Malaysia's third biggest state.

The case is set to be heard in court on Oct 28.

However, Malay political organisations in Kuala Lumpur have introduced a racial undertone to the battle, as most of the farmers are ethnic Chinese.

Parti Islam SeMalaysia has called the farmers "intruders" and urged action be taken against them, while rallying support for the state government's stance.

Putra, another Malay political party, has urged the authorities to investigate elements of corruption in the case, and even called for the repossessed farms to be gazetted as Malay reserve land and given to army veterans.

But the story of this village in Sungai Klau is one that involves both Malay and Chinese settlers, and the farmers are shunning attempts to turn a legal battle into a racial one. As part of its efforts to eradicate the communist presence in these hills in the 1970s, the Pahang state government through its agricultural arm offered a home and a piece of land to 200 Malay and Chinese families to resettle there.

While the home grants and some of the land grants were issued, many of the settlers have waited for decades to get the land titles promised to them.

Farming in these hills developed soon after: Settlers planted rice, cocoa, papaya, banana, and other variants of durian, without much success.

In the 1990s, they discovered the Musang King variant, which can sell today for as much as RM55 a kilo.

This area now accounts for 60 per cent of all Musang King exports from Malaysia. Demand is high in China, where the fruit can fetch up to RM400 a kg. In the first half of 2020 alone, Chinese imports of Malaysian durians were valued at US$40 million (S$54.5 million).

Malaysia's top durian export destination is currently Singapore.

Going by RPD's estimates, the lands currently in dispute can produce up to 11,000 tonnes of durian during a good harvest year. With no state support, the farmers had carved out their own roads up the hills, as the Musang King thrives at an altitude above 350m.

While a large majority of the farmers are Chinese, there are also 500 Malays from over 100 families that work these lands.

"This is not a racial issue. The farmers all work together and we don't have a race issue with each other. Why turn this into one?" Malay farmer Mohamad Nizam told ST.

Fellow farmer Khairul Zairi asked: "The people don't know there are Malays involved here too. The state land office is not blind, we have been planting here for decades. Why did they not give (the permit) to us? We have the proof of all our applications."

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2020-09-06 08:51:04Z
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China tries to flip the COVID-19 pandemic script, starring a 'reborn' Wuhan - CNA

WUHAN: China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic's origin story as it aims to seize the narrative at a time of growing global distrust of Beijing.

The PR blitz plays out daily in comments by Chinese officials and lavish state media coverage of a "reborn" Wuhan that trumpets China's epidemic-control efforts and economic recovery while the United States struggles.

The drive peaked in the past week as Chinese primary schools welcomed back students with considerable fanfare and Wuhan hosted executives from dozens of multinationals, from Panasonic to Dow and Nokia, on a highly choreographed tour of the central Chinese city.

Chinese primary schools have welcomed back students with much fanfare recently, including in Wuhan AFP/Hector RETAMAL

"There are few places in the world today where you don't need a mask and can gather," a Chinese official, Lin Songtian, told the executives, implying that Wuhan was one of those places.

"This testifies to Wuhan's triumph over the virus and that (the city) is back in business."

No local coronavirus transmission has been reported for months in Wuhan, where many activities have resumed AFP/Hector RETAMAL

Lost in this retelling, however, is that a wet market in Wuhan is widely believed to be ground zero for the pandemic.

China's foreign minister suggested on Aug 28 during a European outreach trip that the virus might not have emerged in China.

The drive indicates China recognises COVID-19's damage to its brand and wants to leverage its relatively successful recovery to counter growing international challenges, analysts said.

China faces foreign bitterness over the virus and an initial cover-up attempt by Wuhan officials, plus criticism of Beijing's tightening grip on Hong Kong and generally more aggressive international posture.

"Beijing wants the narrative to be: We handled it, we can help you handle it and (hopefully) we're the first to have a vaccine that works," said Kelsey Broderick, Asia analyst with Eurasia Group.

"That's really the only way China can come out ahead of the idea that a wet market in Wuhan started this crisis."

"ABSOLUTELY SAFE"

The fumbling US pandemic response provides a clear opening, said Yun Jiang, director of Australian National University's China Policy Centre.

"The fact that the US is not only not doing enough, but actually doing things that go against American interests, is a big help to China," she said.

The three-day Wuhan tour also included foreign media outlets and ended Saturday.

It featured primary-school students performing traditional Chinese opera and ballet, a renovated food market presented as a model of sanitation, and a Yangtze riverfront cruise underneath a skyline ablaze with towering light displays referencing the virus recovery.

The city of 11 million - which suffered more than 80 per cent of China's 4,634 Covid-19 deaths - has come a long way since the pandemic's grim early days, when a suffocating weeks-long lockdown rendered it a ghost town.

No new local transmissions have been reported in months, traffic jams are back, shoppers cram malls, and al fresco diners gobble up the city's signature spicy crayfish dish.

Face masks sag from the neck or are abandoned altogether.

The growing confidence was displayed at a Wuhan pool party attended by thousands of mask-less people last month that prompted overseas accusations of recklessness after images of the event went viral.

China countered that the party indicated the nation's success in taming the coronavirus.

"What risks can there be?" asked Wuhan factory worker Xie Ailiang while speaking to AFP.

"I think now Wuhan should be absolutely safe."

Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, suffered more than 80 percent of China's Covid-19 deaths AFP/Hector RETAMAL

"WINTER IS COMING"

But not everyone is taking a victory lap.

Many Wuhan citizens express persistent concern over an uneven recovery and fear of new outbreaks.

"The economy has really declined. The benefit of even coming to work is questionable," said Yi Xinhua, 51, who sells tofu from her stall at a Wuhan wet market.

Blocks of tofu were neatly arranged by shape and size, but there few buyers - Yi says her sales are only half of the pre-pandemic level.

It's a common complaint in Wuhan, blamed by many business owners on lingering fear of going out in public and the widely expressed belief that millions who fled the city early in the pandemic have still not returned.

Wuhan employers complain online that the exodus has also reduced the local labour pool.

And memories of a subsequent virus cluster in May, which triggered a citywide effort to test millions, remain fresh.

"Everyone is afraid the epidemic will return, you know? The summer is over, and winter is coming," said Yi.

Despite the big recovery, some in Wuhan have expressed fear of new outbreaks and an uneven recovery AFP/Hector RETAMAL

"We've recovered a bit. But if the virus comes back, we'll be hit again."

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