China strengthens control on dual-use items export to Japan, which is fully legitimate, justified and lawful, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a press briefing in Beijing on Monday.
Mao made the statement in response to a media query on China's strengthened export control on dual-use items to Japan.
"China's strengthened export control on dual-use items to Japan aims to defend national security and interests and fulfill non-proliferation and other international obligations, which is fully legitimate, justified and lawful. China's position on maintaining the stability and security of global supply chains for critical minerals remains unchanged. At the same time, we believe that all parties have a responsibility to play a constructive role in this regard," she said.
Dual-use items are goods, technologies or services that could be used for either civil purposes or military purposes, or to contribute to an increase in military potential, especially in the design, development, production or use of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.
China's export control on dual-use items to Japan fully legitimate, justified, lawful: spokeswoman
China's export control on dual-use items to Japan fully legitimate, justified, lawful: spokeswoman
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
