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South China Morning Post
27-04-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
The Yellow Sea fish farm row threatening to derail progress in China-South Korea ties
Three large Chinese-built steel structures in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea have raised tensions between China and South Korea and prompted comparisons to Beijing's island-building programme in the South China Sea. Advertisement Beijing insists the three structures in the waters where the two countries' claims to an exclusive economic zone overlap are being run by commercial fish farmers, but critics in South Korea fear they were installed to support China's territorial claims. 'China's installation method mirrors its South China Sea tactics, ' said Kweon Seong-dong, a lawmaker from the conservative People Power Party, alluding to Beijing's programme of building artificial reefs and installing military facilities in disputed waters. Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Thursday the structures 'do not violate the China-South Korea fisheries agreement nor are they related to maritime delimitation issues between the two countries'. He also said China was willing to talk to resolve the dispute. But some Chinese analysts warned that the structures could hinder efforts to improve relations at a time when Beijing was seeking support from its neighbours in its opposition to US tariffs. Advertisement Lu Chao, a professor at Liaoning University, said recent tensions in the Yellow Sea had fuelled anti-China sentiment in South Korea.
South China Morning Post
27-04-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Yellow Sea fish farm row threatens to derail efforts to improve China-South Korea ties
Three large steel structures in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea have raised tensions between China and South Korea and prompted comparisons to Beijing's island-building programme in the South China Sea. Advertisement Beijing insists the three structures in the waters where the two countries' claims to an exclusive economic zone overlap are being run by commercial fish farmers, but critics in South Korea fear they were installed to support China's territorial claims. 'China's installation method mirrors its South China Sea tactics, ' said Kweon Seong-dong, a lawmaker from the conservative People Power Party, alluding to Beijing's programme of building artificial reefs and installing military facilities in disputed waters. Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Thursday the structures 'do not violate the China-South Korea fisheries agreement nor are they related to maritime delimitation issues between the two countries'. He also said China was willing to talk to resolve the dispute. But some Chinese analysts warned that the structures could hinder efforts to improve relations at a time when Beijing was seeking support from its neighbours in its opposition to US tariffs. Advertisement Lu Chao, a professor at Liaoning University, said recent tensions in the Yellow Sea had fuelled anti-China sentiment in South Korea.
South China Morning Post
05-04-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
China's molecular ‘elevator' boosts immunity 150-fold against cancer, viruses: scientists
China has unveiled its latest weapon in the battle against cancer – the world's most powerful vaccine booster , capable of amplifying immune responses to tumours and infections up to 150-fold, according to researchers. Advertisement The advance promises two potential benefits: enhanced treatments for malignancies such as melanoma and liver cancer and improved vaccine effectiveness against rapidly mutating coronaviruses, such as the one that led to Covid-19 This research was jointly conducted by researchers from Guangzhou's Sun Yat-sen University, Fudan University and Liaoning University, and published in the journal Nature on March 27. 'Delivering vaccine antigens to CD8+ T cells [which are important to immune defences] requires three critical steps: cytoplasmic entry into antigen-presenting cells (APCs), APC activation and endoplasmic reticulum targeting,' said Wang Ji, a researcher with the Institute of Precision Medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital of SYSU, who is the corresponding author of the study. Wang made the remarks in an interview with China Science Daily on March 28. The endoplasmic reticulum is often termed the cellular 'highway' that links sub-cellular structures such as the nucleus and cytoplasm. Advertisement Traditional vaccine delivery resembles something akin to guiding hikers to a mountain base. But the team's system SABER – which stands for STING Agonist-Based ER-Targeting Molecules – acts as a molecular 'elevator', bypassing cellular barriers to transport antigens directly to the ER, resolving the 'last-mile' delivery challenge. Experiments have shown that it functions like a dedicated 'courier', capable of accurately and effectively delivering antigens from the cytoplasm to the endoplasmic reticulum.
