Last Friday, Myanmar’s military regime massacred 82 people in Bago Town, just hours before the UN Security Council held one of its informal, so-called “Arria formula”, meetings. Who on Earth can stop these massacres and daily killings when so many protesters are fearlessly prepared to die?
The mass killing in Bago was one of the worst atrocities, and made Friday one of the three bloodiest days, since Feb. 1, when the regime led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing staged a coup overthrowing the democratically elected government of the National League for Democracy and declaring void the result of the 2020 election, in which the NLD was the landslide victor.
At dawn Friday, several hundred of the regime’s troops started their attacks on four residential quarters in Bago, about 50 miles north of Yangon. For the whole day and into the night, the troops used automatic weapons and other explosives like rifle grenades to destroy sandbag roadblocks erected by the anti-regime protesters and to kill the protesters and residents in those areas.
The huge single-day death toll left the world shocked.
Prior to the Bago slaughter, Myanmar had seen two days that were even bloodier. On March 14 and 27, the regime’s soldiers and police committed at least two massacres, killing at least 111 people and more than 150 people, mostly in Yangon and in Mandalay, respectively. A number of other days have seen mass killings by the regime’s troops, with the daily toll typically amounting to two or three dozen per day.
But these massacres won’t be the last. The coup leaders have simply ignored all condemnation and requests to halt the killings and oppression from world bodies like the United Nations and from individual countries, as well as from Myanmar’s own regional grouping, ASEAN.
Over the past two and a half months since the Feb. 1 coup, the regime’s troops have killed at least 714 protesters and innocent citizens, including about four dozen children, according to the death toll compiled by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) as of April 13. Killing has been the regime’s daily job since Feb. 1, at the rate of about 10 people per day over the past 72 days.
Undoubtedly, we’ll see many such massacres in the days ahead under this ruthless regime, which has applied relentless brutality, including the use of heavy weapons, to handle the nationwide anti-military dictatorship protests, without once ever pausing to consider any political or other civilized means of dealing with the crisis.
Under this regime, life in Myanmar alternates between bloody days and even bloodier days. The world, including Western countries, the United Nations and others, has repeatedly condemned the regime in the strongest terms. After two and a half months, however, their condemnations and diplomatic actions, including sanctions on the coup leaders, have had no impact at all—the junta’s atrocities continue unabated.
At the UNSC’s Arria-formula meeting on Friday night, repeated calls were made for immediate action against the regime over its brutal killings and its air strikes against ethnic armed groups, which attacked the regime’s military outposts in response to the crackdowns on civilians in the cities.
On April 13, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet also urged the international community to take immediate, decisive and impactful measures to immediately stop the repression and killings by the military regime in Myanmar.
“There are clear echoes of Syria in 2011. The state’s brutal, persistent repression of its own people led to some individuals taking up arms, followed by a downward and rapidly expanding spiral of violence all across the country,” said Bachelet. “I fear the situation in Myanmar is heading towards a full-blown conflict. States must not allow the deadly mistakes of the past in Syria and elsewhere to be repeated.”
She continued: “Statements of condemnation, and limited targeted sanctions, are clearly not enough. States with influence need to urgently apply concerted pressure on the military in Myanmar to halt the commission of grave human rights violations and possible crimes against humanity against the people,” Bachelet continued.
Even before the Arria-formula meeting, the UN held several meetings in the wake of the coup and called on the regime to stop its violence against protesters and civilians. Obviously, however, these pleas have fallen on deaf ears. The daily killings and frequent massacres continue.
In a closed session of the 15-member UNSC on April 1, UN Special Envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener urged the council to consider “all available tools to take collective action and do what is right, what the people of Myanmar deserve, and prevent a multi-dimensional catastrophe in the heart of Asia.”
She told the council she believed “a bloodbath is imminent” in Myanmar due to the military’s intensified crackdown on protesters. But the UN hasn’t been able to come up with effective collective action because of opposition from China, Russia, India and Vietnam.
Though Bachelet, Schraner Burgener and representatives of the Myanmar people have repeatedly urged the world and individual states to act, it’s highly unlikely we will see any meaningful action emerge from the UNSC or other concerned nations, including the US.
Washington, which has repeatedly condemned the Myanmar regime and punished the coup leaders with targeted sanctions since their power grab, has been trying to work with its Asian partners, especially ASEAN (of which Myanmar is a member), to resolve the crisis.
If history is any guide, however, that approach is unlikely to work. Due to its political culture and history dating back to 1967, ASEAN and its individual members lack such capacity, or any moral authority. Its traditional non-interference policy is one among numerous built-in weaknesses when it comes to dealing with Myanmar’s political crisis and the gross human rights violations in the country. Most members of ASEAN themselves are non-democratic countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore. In the decades after Myanmar joined the grouping in 1997, ASEAN served as a diplomatic umbrella shielding Myanmar’s previous military regimes and their human rights violations from criticism from the international community, led by Western countries.
Anyone—be it global superpowers like the US or individual observers—who thinks ASEAN can handle the crisis in Myanmar is fooling themselves.
In a commentary in The Bangkok Post on Tuesday, veteran Thai journalist on regional affairs Kavi Chongkittavorn wrote: “Today, ASEAN is the only organization that can handle the crisis in Myanmar in a sustainable way. Obviously, the bloc will proceed cautiously so that the level of trust and engagement can incrementally strengthen. The global community must be patient as the bloc is dealing with an unusual situation with the die-hard … cruelty of the armed forces. The ugly truth remains that only when the Tatmadaw [Myanmar’s military] is confident that the domestic situation is under control and the running of day-to-day government tasks has returned to normal, will tangible frameworks for outside engagement be forthcoming. It can take weeks or months.”
Such an observation ignores ASEAN’s history and isn’t practical at all. How many hundreds of protesters will be killed in massacres like the one that occurred in Bago last Friday while the world waits until “the domestic situation is under control”, as the columnist put it, so that ASEAN can act?
In this kind of crisis, ASEAN is always almost divided and unable to deliver a consensus. Regarding the coup in Myanmar, while Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have demanded that the regime end its violence against protesters and take a number of political steps, Thailand and Vietnam, among others, have stuck firmly to the grouping’s non-interference policy.
Historically, ASEAN has never stepped in to take action against a regime in Myanmar or in any other member country. ASEAN cannot be relied upon by the international community to act on its own initiative, though it might support global action against the brutal coup leaders led by major countries like the US and its ally Japan.
As things stand now, no country or world body seems prepared to take action that would really and immediately stop the murderous Myanmar regime from continuing with its daily killing. In truth, many people in Myanmar understand this. But they continue to call for meaningful intervention from the international community, like a drowning man who clutches at a straw.
There is another grim truth Myanmar’s people seemed to have grasped—that they will need to die in even greater and more shocking numbers, day in and day out. They are undoubtedly determined to continuing their anti-military dictatorship movement at any cost; they are prepared to die, whether they are killed protesting peacefully on street or while taking up rudimentary arms to fight the regime’s powerful forces. That’s why they continue taking to the streets, though they know that each time they do they face death (let’s call it by its real name: execution) by the regime’s forces.
In case you’d forgotten, the regime has killed over 700 people over the past two and a half months.
Given the people’s determination to keep fighting at any cost, and the regime’s willingness to launch ever more intense crackdowns on them, the world should be prepared to see many more deaths every day in Myanmar—likely many hundreds in the coming weeks and months.
At the moment, the death toll so far and the degree of brutality shown by the regime don’t seem sufficient to elicit from the international community anything stronger than condemnation and limited targeted sanctions. It appears that only a significant increase in the already horrific rate at which people in Myanmar are being slaughtered will prompt meaningful action of the kind that will bring a total halt to the crimes of this murderous regime.
As the Myanmar military regime continues its deadly crackdowns on protesters and armed resistance in border areas grows, the United Nations’ top human rights official has voiced fears that the country could descend into a “full-blown conflict” as seen in Syria, and urged member states to take immediate measures against the regime.
The Southeast Asian nation has been under military rule since February, and seen nationwide protests against the men in uniform. The regime has killed more than 700 civilians, including children, so far in its attempts to crush the protests, using live rounds and powerful explosives like rifle grenades.
“There are clear echoes of Syria in 2011. There too, we saw peaceful protests met with unnecessary and clearly disproportionate force,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday.
“I fear the situation in Myanmar is heading towards a full-blown conflict. States must not allow the deadly mistakes of the past in Syria and elsewhere to be repeated,” she added.
The brutal, persistent repression by the Assad regime of Syria against its own people led some to take up arms, followed by a downward and rapidly expanding spiral of violence across the country.
In Myanmar today, due to the regime’s deadly crackdowns, once-peaceful anti-regime protesters are now in favor of armed resistance.
In the country’s north, east and south, ethnic armed groups that have been waging wars against the military to secure autonomy for decades recently launched attacks on regime troops in their areas, causing heavy casualties to the Tatmadaw (Myanmar’s military). They said they were not happy with the regime’s bloody attacks on civilians.
Internationally, the regime has been opposed since the coup. Targeted sanctions against the regime leadership and their families have been imposed. Despite individual calls to take serious action, such as invoking the “responsibility to protect”, or R2P, principle against the junta, nothing has happened. At the UN Security Council, the regime’s allies China and Russia have blocked efforts by member states to make collective decisions to solve the crisis in Myanmar.
Bachelet said on Tuesday that statements of condemnation, and limited targeted sanctions, were clearly not enough.
“States with influence need to urgently apply concerted pressure on the military in Myanmar to halt the commission of grave human rights violations and possible crimes against humanity,” she said.
Todd and his entourage visit Taiwan, the CCP's warning is not working
At 3 pm local time today (14th), at the request of Biden, his old friend, former Democratic Senator Chris Todd, former U.S. Secretary of State Armitage, Steinberg and others arrived at Taipei Songshan Airport and began an "unofficial" visit to Taiwan.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China Wu Zhaoxie, the North American Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Xu Youdian, and the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan Li Yingjie and others went to the airport to greet them. Tomorrow (15th) morning, Tsai Ing-wen will receive Tao De and his party at the Presidential Palace and will host a dinner reception at the official residence.
A senior official in Biden’s administration stated anonymously that when the United States and Taiwan celebrated the 42nd anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, the United States sent this “unofficial” delegation, following the “U.S. administration sending a high-level unofficial delegation to Taiwan” in long-term bipartisan tradition".
The official stated that these three people are "long-term friends of Taiwan" and "senior state activists." Their visit to Taiwan "sent a major signal of America's commitment to Taiwan and its democracy."
Taiwan’s Presidential Office Spokesperson Zhang Dunhan said that President Tsai Ing-wen, on behalf of the government and people, welcomes the delegation to visit and expresses gratitude to the United States for its support. He specifically pointed out that Todd was an important driving force in the legislative process of the "Taiwan Relations Act." Armitage and Steinberg served as deputy secretaries of state under Bush Jr. and Obama respectively. They have visited Taiwan many times and are familiar with Taiwan. Friendly senior American dignitaries.
Regarding the "unofficial" visit to Taiwan by Todd and his party, Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China, said, "The so-called official and unofficial are just a cover for their "deception"." He said that "China opposes any form of official exchanges between Taiwan and the United States." He also said that the United States has a commitment to China on the Taiwan issue and hopes to fulfill its commitments seriously and "not send wrong signals to Taiwan independence forces."
The spokesperson of the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhao Lijian, said that he had already lodged a “stern representation” with the United States. Urge the US to "immediately stop any form of official exchanges between the US and Taiwan and handle the Taiwan issue cautiously."
As we all know, the Taiwan issue is the most sensitive zone between the United States and China, and is regarded as a "red line" by the CCP. At the recent high-level meeting between the United States and China, Yang Jiechi, director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China, just warned the United States that the Taiwan issue is "irrelevant." Yesterday (13th) the CCP still warned the US to "don't play with fire."
However, the United States did not pay attention to the CCP. After the latest guidelines for encouraging exchanges between US and Taiwan officials were announced on the 9th, the outgoing US officials were sent to visit Taiwan today (14th). It really challenges the CCP's "bottom line."
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Todd is Biden's envoy?
During the visit to Taiwan by Todd and his party, the US emphasized that it was "unofficial" in nature. Judging from the identity of the members of the delegation, they are not current US government officials, nor are they current US congressmen. To be precise, these people are ordinary American citizens. Therefore, on the surface, there is no problem with their "unofficial" non-governmental visits.
But there are some things that don’t need to be said thoroughly. From different perspectives, Todd and his party's visit to Taiwan has a strong "official color." We can even further speculate that Todd may be acting as Biden's special envoy to Taiwan.
First, Todd visited Taiwan at Biden's request. In this regard, although the US does not recognize it, it actually has a strong official color. Biden asked to do. Regardless of whether the person executing the order is an incumbent government official or not, he is in fact representing the actions of the US government.
Secondly, Todd, now 76, has been friends with Biden for many years. Biden once described Todd as "best friends." The two have worked together in the Senate for 30 years and have a deep friendship with each other. After Biden became the Democratic presidential candidate last year, Todd also participated in the selection process of his deputy.
It can be seen that Todd has won Biden's trust and can fully entrust him with important tasks. Everyone knows that in the United States, as long as a person is knowledgeable and capable, it is not difficult to serve in the US government.
Today, he is an ordinary citizen of the United States, but if he is favored by the president tomorrow, he may be drawn into a government office. When you enter a government department, you are naturally a government official. Who can say that Todd and others will not become government officials again?
Third, Todd and his party will discuss a series of "sensitive issues" with Taiwan. According to a Taiwanese diplomat, after meeting with Tsai Ing-wen on April 15 morning, the delegation will also meet with high-level officials of Taiwan’s national security, foreign affairs, and defense.
The diplomat stated that Taiwan officials expect to inform the visiting delegation that the CCP has been provoking Taiwan and the region in recent times, and that Taiwan will strive to maintain regional stability. But at the same time, it is also hoped that the US will continue to increase its support for Taiwan, including concrete progress in the economic, trade and security fields.
Fourth, when Todd and others visited Taiwan, the US claimed to be "unofficial", that is, "non-governmental visit." However, Biden has equipped them with a special plane to pick them up, which is a treatment that ordinary government officials have never received.
The US explained that this arrangement was due to "restricted by the epidemic," so a special plane was arranged. But the problem is that there are not many ordinary American citizens traveling during the epidemic, and I haven't heard of whom the Biden administration will send special planes.
It can be seen from the above four points that Todd and others have enjoyed special treatment from the Biden administration. Is there such a possibility that Todd is serving as Biden's imperial envoy?
Let’s think about a question. The President of the United States is not bound by power. He is restricted by Congress. If Biden arranged a special plane for Todd and others to be "fake public for private benefit", even if Congress did not oppose it, the Republicans would come out to oppose criticism.
But we have not heard any criticism of Biden's approach, which means that everyone is tacitly tacit. Perhaps as Ma Xiaoguang said, "unofficial" is just a "front". Again, I would rather do too much than say too much.
In early March, it was agreed to visit Taiwan and the United States required "confidentiality"
Whether or not Todd and his party are appointed by Biden as a special envoy to visit Taiwan, the blow to the CCP is very heavy.
Huang Kuibo, associate professor of the Department of Diplomacy at National Chengchi University, said that the 42nd anniversary of the "Taiwan Relations Act" is not an integer of every 5 to 10. Moreover, on the day the news became public, the delegation had already arrived in Taiwan. "Such arrangements are extremely rare."
Huang Kuibo told Free Asia that the United States chose to send a delegation to visit Taiwan at this time, and the "Taiwan Relations Act" is "probably just a superficial reason." The deeper reason is that "cross-strait relations are becoming increasingly tense, and Biden conveys the political message of fully supporting the people of Taiwan and assisting Taiwan's self-defense capabilities under the "Taiwan Relations Act."
Huang Kuibo also pointed out that although the United States still sent a delegation to Taiwan, it requested the Taiwan government to "secure it beforehand and the visits should not be high-profile." It may be that the United States is under pressure from Beijing.
According to an insider's disclosure to Reuters, the US had notified Taiwan in early March that Biden would send Todd to visit Taiwan during the 42nd anniversary of the "Taiwan Relations Act." However, the two parties were tight-lipped and kept secrets from the outside world before. Obviously they were trying to prevent the CCP from getting in the way.
In fact, in my opinion, although Biden sent Todd and his party to visit Taiwan is worthy of recognition, it is still worse than the Trump (Trump) administration sending the then Secretary of Health Azal and Undersecretary of State Clark to visit Taiwan. A big chunk.
Because Trump sent current government officials at the time, and he did not hide it. And even if Biden sent a "secret envoy," Todd and others are not current government officials after all, and they still feel a little sneaky.
So we can’t help but doubt that Biden might have had to do this. There are two important reasons, which are worthy of careful consideration.
The Republicans are under great pressure. Biden was forced to be on the shelves?
On the one hand, the CCP’s threat of force against Taiwan has become more and more serious, and the Biden administration has no choice but to respond.
Everyone knows that assisting in the defense of Taiwan is a commitment made by the United States for decades. The CCP dared not act rashly, mainly because it cared about the United States. But after Biden came to power, the CCP's threats to Taiwan by force have become more frequent and unscrupulous. Not only did the Chinese military planes harass Taiwan for several consecutive days, but it also set a single-day record.
On March 26, the CCP dispatched 20 military planes to invade Taiwan’s airspace, which had already hit a single-day high at that time. However, a few days later, the CCP sent another 25 military planes to harass Taiwan on April 12.
Seeing the increasing threat from the CCP to Taiwan, if the Biden administration does not posture at all, it will lose its trust in the international community, causing its allies to lose confidence in the United States, and may even be ridiculed. What's more serious is that, in the eyes of the CCP, Biden does not respond to the CCP's actions, that is, the Biden government is weak and incompetent.
On the other hand, Biden may have been forced by the Republicans and had to step up.
In the past two days, the news that former Secretary of State Pompeo will visit Taiwan has been confirmed by Taiwan. Although the time of the visit has not been determined, it is estimated that it will take place this year.
Pompeo was a leading anti-communist during the Trump administration and a well-known hawkish general. He himself has repeatedly revealed that he is likely to run for the 2024 presidential election. Whether it is knowledge, ability or diplomatic experience, Pompeo is a popular candidate. If he realizes his trip to Taiwan, he will undoubtedly add a weight to his campaign.
In addition, during the Trump administration, two current officials, Azal and Kraqi, were sent to visit Taiwan. A few days before leaving office, Pompeo also planned to arrange a visit to Taiwan by Kraft, the then ambassador to the United Nations. Although Kraft's visit to Taiwan was not realized in the end, the news has already had a considerable impact.
This series of actions of the Republicans has a three-fold meaning. On the one hand, it has deepened the relationship between the United States and Taiwan, on the other hand, it has dealt a heavy blow to the CCP. At the same time, to the Biden administration of the Democratic Party, this is like a "general."
This is because whether it is really tough on the CCP and the handling of the Taiwan issue can be regarded as a yardstick. It's not being tough on the CCP, but it's also an important thing to win over voters.
If the Biden administration is weak on the Taiwan issue, it is likely to cause the Democratic Party to lose popular support. This will directly affect the 2022 midterm elections and may cause the Democratic Party to lose control of both houses of Congress. At that time, Biden's administration will be checked and balanced by Republicans. And if Biden does nothing during his tenure, it will affect the 2024 presidential election.
So considering these factors, Biden has to respond a little to the CCP’s threat to Taiwan. Even if he is reluctant, he has to make some gestures. In other words, it is being driven forward by Republicans and being forced to a higher level.
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Kerry's visit to China to give a big gift? Biden is not anti-communist?
Just when Biden sent Todd and his party to visit Taiwan, he had another move, sending special climate envoy Kerry to mainland China. Yesterday (13th), the US State Department confirmed that Kerry will visit Shanghai, China and Seoul, South Korea from the 14th to 17th, to discuss the issue of raising global climate goals.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the Communist Party of China stated in its WeChat official account today (14th) that Kerry was invited by the Chinese side to hold talks with the Chinese Communist Party’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua in Shanghai.
Kerry told the Wall Street Journal on April 13 that the Biden administration will not compromise with the CCP on economic or human rights issues when negotiating a climate change agreement. But it will not make concessions to the CCP on economic and human rights issues in order to reach a climate change agreement. Maybe Kerry thought so, but would the CCP want to do so?
The Wall Street Journal quoted an insider who revealed that Kerry will meet with Vice Premier Han Zheng after the meeting on Zhenhua. It is also possible to hold talks with the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and the Director of the Foreign Affairs Office Yang Jiechi. However, there may be some variables in the arrangement of these talks.
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Kerry is the special climate envoy. He will meet with Han Zheng and others. What will he discuss?
Wu Lan, director of the China Environment Forum at the Wilson Center in Washington think tank, believes that Kerry's visit to China is a resumption of high-level interactions between the United States and China on climate change issues after a four-year suspension.
She told VOA that climate change is important to both countries, “but the United States still has some other important issues to discuss with China (the CCP), and I don’t know how much space Kerry has for activities.”
The senior Republican Senator Rubio wrote on Fox the day before yesterday (12th) that the core of Biden's climate plan is to shift large areas of energy infrastructure to so-called "clean energy." This means buying millions of solar panels, electric car charging stations and other expensive green infrastructure, "and these are industries dominated by China."
In other words, the Biden administration wants Americans to install solar panels from China; the CCP’s industrial base will benefit from it. Rubio bluntly stated that Biden's green energy plan is "a great gift to Beijing."
Rubio pointed out that in the past few years, the CCP has dominated the components of solar panels such as polysilicon, and now half of the world's production is carried out in Xinjiang. "When the production of clean energy is contaminated with the blood of forced laborers, clean energy is also unclean."
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18 US intelligence agencies: the CCP is the number one threat
On April 13, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence of the United States released the "2021 Annual Threat Assessment". The report warned that the United States and its allies will face "various threats" in the coming year. Among all the threats, China (the CCP) is pushing itself to become a global power. Almost evenly matched with the United States in strength, is the United States One of the country’s “biggest threats”.
This report listed the CCP at the top of all threats, followed by Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The 27-page non-confidential report stated that the CCP "challenges the United States in many fields, especially the economic, military, and technological fields, and is promoting changes in global norms."
The report outlines the collective views of 18 intelligence agencies. They believe that the CCP will continue to use a government-wide approach to "expand the CCP’s influence while weakening the U.S.’s influence, creating divisions between Washington and its allies and partners, and fostering New international norms conducive to the CCP’s authoritarian system."
At the same time, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party are still using tactics. When it is in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party, they will lower the tension with the United States. Beijing is increasingly combining military power with economic, technological, and diplomatic influence to maintain CCP rule and gain what it considers to be its own territorial and regional advantages, but at the expense of Washington, it seeks international cooperation.
In addition, the CCP’s cyber attacks on the United States are increasingly threatening, "at least it can cause partial and temporary damage to critical infrastructure in the United States." In addition, the CCP will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal and diversify its platforms to form a three-in-one nuclear system, which means that it has both land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers with triple nuclear strike capabilities.
This report has very clearly pointed out that the CCP has indeed become the most important threat to the United States. But as Rubio said, Biden gave the CCP a big gift and sacrificed tens of thousands of jobs in the United States to buy the CCP’s bloody “clean energy”.
The Republican leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCall, stated yesterday (13th) that Kerry's trip to China "is sending an absolutely wrong signal." He said, "The United States should cooperate with countries that want to solve international problems, not with countries that create or worsen international problems."
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Carlos buys a mansion wildly
In the previous two days of the program, he talked about Patrice Carlos, one of the founders of BLM, who spent 1.4 million US dollars to buy a mansion in a white area in California. However, this house is only one of the high-end residences under Carlos's name. According to news, she has already bought 4 houses, with a total price of more than three million US dollars. However, her crazy buying of a house has also aroused internal suspicion in BLM, and infighting.
The New York Post reported that Carlos was undergoing a "real estate buying frenzy" and she bought 4 high-end houses. Three are in Los Angeles and one is in Georgia. The Georgia house also has an indoor swimming pool, and even has a small hangar and airstrip.
Sports columnist black writer Jason Wheelock satirized Carlos on the 9th, saying: "The founder of BLM bought a house in Topanga Canyon for 1.4 million US dollars. 1.4% of the black residents. She and the white people she doesn’t like together!"
Conservative writer and commentator Candice Owens asked, "If white people are so bad, why wouldn't Carlos want to live among black people?"
In fact, while people are confused about Carlos's crazy purchase of a house in the white area, they are also questioning where her money comes from. The "Daily Telegraph" News Foundation found that Carlos, as the co-founder and executive director of the "BLM" Global Network Foundation, earned more than $20,000 a month during his tenure as the chairman of the Los Angeles Prison Reform Organization in 2019.
However, according to financial records submitted to the California Fair Political Practice Committee, in 2019, "Reform Los Angeles Prisons" passed the "Janaya and Patrice Consulting Company" seven times and paid Carlos a total of 191,000 US dollars. The consulting company was named after Carlos and her husband Janaya Can.
In other words, with this little money, Carlos could not have accumulated more than three million dollars in just two years. So where does her money come from?
The Associated Press previously disclosed that the "Black Life Is Expensive" campaign received 90 million US dollars in donations last year. No one outside knows how Carlos used the money. But after Carlos bought a house in a predominantly white community, "BLM" began to question her internally.
Owens, who is also black, said, "Carlos tells you that she is a Marxist. Marxists steal money from others and make themselves rich until the person whose money is stolen by them becomes poor and Carlos is stealing money from other people using the lie of "BLM" as an excuse."
The whereabouts of the donation is unknown, it will definitely cause internal strife, and Hei Minggui's internal doubts have come. Niuso, the head of "BLM" in the Greater New York area, called for an independent investigation of how global networks spend money. Niuso questioned, "If you claim to be a socialist everywhere, you have to ask her how much of her private money is used for charity."
Can Carlos respond to Niuso's doubts? Let's continue to pay attention.
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Pfizer vaccine arrives in China, authorities conceal news
On April 14, I received a message from a friend in mainland China saying that her family had been vaccinated. After being vaccinated, the blood pressure suddenly increased, with a high pressure of 170 and a low pressure of 120. Panicked, went to the hospital for emergency treatment. But the emergency department is not in charge, and cash must be paid. But this friend didn't bring much cash at the time. Fortunately, a colleague helped to advance the payment first, and only then took two injections of antihypertensive drugs. When the blood pressure slowly dropped to 140, I dared to go home and rest.
This friend also told me that if the vaccine is not given, the work unit will not be allowed to go to work. He also said that it's all the same now, and the evil party is using work to suppress others. Because the local vaccination rate was very low and the task was not completed, local officials were criticized by the above.
In other words, in order to keep the black hats on their heads, local officials are forcing people to get vaccines in a convulsive manner. In fact, what the CCP does is this kind of sporty toss, and it's just a while. As for whether the vaccine is effective or not, they will not care if it harms the human body. All they want is to complete the target and complete the task, so that they can benefit from it.
But in fact, how many people in mainland China believe in it? According to the National Health Commission of the Communist Party of China, as of April 10, only more than 164.47 million people had been vaccinated nationwide, and the proportion of vaccinations was less than 10%, which is far from meeting the CCP’s requirement to "build an immune barrier." And goals.
As you all know, Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Communist Party's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has admitted a few days ago that the protection of domestic vaccines is poor. In other words, in the face of facts, the Chinese Communist Party experts admitted that the vaccine produced on the mainland is inefficient, and the Chinese Communist Party media also reported on it.
Since the CCP recognizes that domestic vaccines are inefficient, why does it force people to inject them? The CCP is not harmful, so what is it? If it is really good for the Chinese people, then take out the Pfizer vaccine that has just arrived in China for use by the Chinese people.
Yesterday (13th), the Continental Fosun Group announced that the first batch of Pfizer vaccines introduced in the United States had arrived, claiming that it would be strictly clinically applied. Fosun also stated that it "must pay for itself" to vaccinate Pfizer.
At one's own expense, at their own expense, in order to save their lives and spend some money, the common people also admit it. Mr. Chen, a resident of Wuhan, told Free Asia, “People want to save their lives. To save their lives, they must choose the safest and best (vaccine). Spending money or not is secondary, and the main thing is to save lives. If the vaccine is not safe, Life can’t be saved, what can you do if you have money? So the safety of vaccines is the most important thing.”
Zhang Hai, a family member of the Chinese Communist Party virus victim, also said that he would choose Pfizer vaccine. He said, "Foreign vaccines are more efficient and protective than domestic vaccines. Pfizer vaccines must be paid at their own expense. If they are available, I believe that many people are willing to fight, even if the price is higher. Because life is their own, health is the only thing. the most important."
But just a few hours later, the news that was still widely circulated in the WeChat group yesterday (13th) was blocked today, and the relevant content was deleted cleanly.
Wang Qian, a person in the medical field in mainland China, told Free Asia, “The articles have been deleted on WeChat now, and it has been harmonized.” Wang Qian saw someone repost this message in the morning, “but it was deleted immediately. The vaccine itself is very sensitive. ."
Wang Qian said, "Now in China, you can't see objective and fair reports about vaccines. People can only see people who have died after being vaccinated abroad, and there are also dead people who have been vaccinated in China. They (the people) cannot see it."
Wang Qian pointed out that on December 17 last year, Fosun was sneaky when it ordered 100 million vaccines. The official media reported, "But it didn't say that it ordered Pfizer. It said that it ordered a vaccine from a German medical institution. In fact, it is Pfizer vaccine."
The authorities are sneaky and now delete related news. What are they going to do? Chinese people often say that good things don't betray others, and there is nothing good to blame.
Current affairs commentator Lan Shu said that Fosun imported 100 million Pfizer vaccines. Although the CCP did not say where it was going, it still covered it up. In fact, the more concealed it is, the more problematic it is. It does not say that people can also think of it.
Lan Shu believes that the shelf life of Pfizer vaccine is only 20 days, and it will expire if it is not used. Therefore, out of the 100 million Pfizer vaccines imported, nine out of ten are vaccinated secretly for CCP officials, party members, and their families. Only these privileged people can receive Pfizer vaccines. The CCP officials do not use domestic vaccines, but they use imported vaccines, which proves that they do not believe in domestic vaccines either.
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The Pentagon confirmed that the UFO was photographed in a pyramid shape
Recently, a filmmaker in the United States, Jeremy Corbell, obtained a UFO video taken by a U.S. Navy soldier, preserved by the U.S. Department of Defense, in July 2019, located 100% off the coast of California, U.S. At a place in the sea, four American destroyers were on a mission together. At about 10 o'clock one night, one of the soldiers photographed a total of six mysterious objects gathered above the warship at a speed of about 40 miles per hour, including unidentified flying. The object presents a "pyramid" shape. A spokesperson for the US Department of Defense confirmed to the media that this video was indeed taken by the Navy. The U.S. Army’s Special Investigation Team (UAPTF) has launched an investigation into this video and has not released any findings.
When Kebel shared this video, he also shared a picture of the U.S. Hornet fighter encountering a UFO on March 4, 2019, and a few pictures of a "ball-shaped" UFO taken by another U.S. warship. a photograph.
In fact, there are already too many witness reports about this kind of phenomenon, that is, whether governments or any authoritative organizations will publicly acknowledge the connection between these UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
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The CCP’s mysterious "little blue men" maritime forces alert the West
However, there are still many "unidentified objects" in the world. The Chinese Communist government, which likes to be mystery, has created a kind of "unidentified parade" on the sea, which has not been recognized by itself until now, but it has been seen through by foreign observers. I'm talking about what some observers call the "little blue men", the CCP's maritime militia organization.
We have introduced to you in previous episodes that the CCP sent a large number of "fishing boats" into the controversial "Oxbow Reef" in the South China Sea, which made the Philippines very dissatisfied. These so-called "fishing boats" are just "claimed" as fishing boats, but in fact they are totally different from fishing boats.
These "fishing boats" neither fish nor cast nets. Instead, they are equipped with automated weapons. The hull is much stronger than ordinary fishing boats and the speed exceeds 90% of the fishing boats in the world. Such "fishing boats" are called "battleships". "In fact, it is more appropriate. Because their hulls are mostly "blue", they are called "little blue men".
The CCP’s "little blue men" force is actually an alternative navy dressed up as a fishing boat by the CCP. In December 2020, the US military said that the CCP used "little blue men" to wander in the "grey areas" on the sea as a tool for their expansion and illegal claims. Just as the CCP recently placed the "little blue men" in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, and it still depends on it. According to two US experts, the CCP’s fleet of "little blue men" dressed as fishing boats is more mobile than warships. The cost is lower than that of warships, and it is easy for the CCP to make excuses. If you protest that the "little blue men" are invading, the CCP will say that they are not warships but "fishing boats". If you attack the little blue men, the CCP will condemn you for attacking. "Civilians", but you send your own real fishing boat to grab territory with them. Their hull is strong and fast, and they are equipped with weapons, and it is difficult to successfully drive away.
Therefore, the CCP deploys "little blue men" in various waters to help them expand their illegal demands, and there is a danger of causing trouble and triggering fire. According to the U.S. National Defense Report for 2020, only 84 militia ships are mentioned, but according to the number of "little blue men" who recently performed missions in the South China Sea, there are at least 220. Therefore, Professor Andrew Erickson of the U.S. Naval War College estimates that the actual The number of "little blue men" ships is larger. Moreover, the "little blue men" operate under the direct command of the CCP military. In addition to acting alone, they will also be mixed into real fishing boats to perform tasks. The total number of fishing boats in China has reached 187,000, except for the "little blue men". In addition, how many fishing boats are still related to the CCP's military, which is not yet controlled by Western countries.
The CCP never admits that it has "little blue men", saying that it "has no maritime militia organization at all." But there are often such laws. Groups that are denied and suppressed by the CCP are often just the opposite, which is good. If the CCP denies that it has never done something, it usually means that it really did it.
Now, "ocean" has become a "keyword" of the current world situation. For example, in the Indo-Pacific region, there are issues between China and Japan in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait issues that the CCP threatens Taiwan, and the South China Sea between the CCP and some Southeast Asian countries. Disputes, these all involve the ocean. The "Taiwan Strait" issue is currently the most critical.
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Taiwan’s first 10,000-ton warship launched. Trudeau has hatred with Tsai Ing-wen?
In order to fight the CCP, Taiwan has been improving its military construction. As of 2019 data, more than half of Taiwan's air defense missile systems are self-made "Tian Gong series", which is very remarkable, and the density and air defense capabilities of the entire missile network are among the best in the world.
On April 13, Taiwan’s first 10,000-ton-class "amphibious dock landing ship" was launched in Kaohsiung. It was a warship designed and built in accordance with the military training requirements of the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen attended the launching ceremony and praised it. This is another milestone in "National Shipbuilding", which has strengthened Taiwan's national defense capabilities. Finally, this new warship was named "Yushan Ship", which was named after Taiwan's highest peak "Yushan".
In addition to self-made weapons and equipment, Taiwan also purchases American weapons to strengthen combat readiness. Recently, the United States has increased its interaction specifications with officials of Taiwan’s "counterparts" and further strengthened its relations with Taiwan. On April 13, the spokesperson of the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhao Lijian, made another platitude on this, declaring that “the United States should understand the situation clearly” and “do not play with fire on the Taiwan issue, and immediately stop any form of official exchanges between the United States and Taiwan”.
And the Canadian government, a close neighbor of the United States and one of the "Five Eyes Alliance," has recently suddenly and secretly launched an attack on Taiwan. This is how it is, the non-profit organization Halifax International Security Forum, or HFX Forum for short, headquartered in Washington, USA, has plans to award the annual "Public Service Leadership Award" to Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. It is her confrontation. The performance of the CCP. Unexpectedly, news came from the US "Politics" magazine that the HFX Forum's awards program was under pressure from the Canadian government. The HFX Security Forum is held in Canada every year. It is attended by representatives of governments from all over the world, including politics, military, business, and academia. The last meeting was attended by more than 300 representatives from more than 80 democracies, so it has a certain international influence. One of the funding sponsors of this forum is the Canadian government, as well as NATO. This time the Canadian government threatened to withdraw its sponsorship and pressured the forum not to award Tsai Ing-wen. Some analysts believe this is related to Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.
The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (Erin O'Toole) told the US magazine Polity that the Trudeau government secretly supports the CCP, which is disappointing but not surprising. He also said that he did not know Trudeau was secretly supporting the CCP. What did he do to help his "Chinese friend".
In February of this year, the Canadian Parliament voted by a large number of votes against the CCP to suppress genocide in Xinjiang, but Trudeau himself and his 36 cabinet ministers only abstained from voting. Canada, which is governed by the Trudeau government, is also the only country in the Five Eyes Alliance that has not announced whether it will restrict Huawei's 5G network. According to the report of "Politics": Most of the time, the Trudeau government is unwilling to take measures that may stir the nerves of the Chinese Communist Party. Regarding the Trudeau government's pressure on HFX not to award Tsai Ing-wen, the spokesperson of the Canadian Ministry of Defense responded that it cannot be confirmed or denied. If confirmed, this must be another scandal for Trudeau. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also responded to this, saying only that it had noticed relevant reports and reiterated that Taiwan and Canada have friendly relations and similar ideas.
The HFX Security Forum is already presenting the "Public Service Leadership Award" for the third time. The first time it was awarded to Lesvos, Greece, in 2018, was awarded to the people on the island for rescuing refugees; the second time was awarded to Hong Kong protesters in 2019, and the third time was originally issued in 2020, but Because the epidemic was postponed until now.
The current situation in the world is that the CCP is already stinking, and whoever supports the CCP will lose popular support.
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U.S. intelligence director ranks CCP’s number one threat, Iran’s enriched uranium mentions 60%
On April 13, the US Director of National Intelligence, Avril B. Haines, released the US annual intelligence report. In the US threat list, the CCP was listed as the number one threat to the US, followed by Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The report pointed out that the CCP’s practice of promoting global power has made it the greatest threat to the United States. At the same time, the report also revealed that the CCP’s current cyber attack capabilities can already temporarily paralyze "parts" of the U.S. critical infrastructure. In addition, the CCP is also trying to divorce the relationship between the United States and its allies. In the next two days, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will hold public hearings.
The report focused on the CCP, but it also pointed out that Russia is still facing severe cyber threats, and North Korea is still developing weapons of mass destruction. In addition to nuclear weapons, Kim Jong Un is also interested in chemical and biological weapons. Iran is resuming some activities that violate the nuclear agreement.
Indeed, after a cyber attack on its nuclear facilities, Iran announced that it would begin to refine uranium with a purity of 60% on April 14. Although it has not yet reached the level of 90% required for nuclear bombs, it has only announced that it will refine 20% of the uranium in the past. Enrichment of uranium has been greatly increased, and it will be the most serious violation of international agreements.
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The U.S. Senate sends the CCP "Explosive Pack", and the U.S. military plane flies over Mount Fuji
The above is mainly the content mentioned in the annual intelligence report of the US National Intelligence Director. On April 21, the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate will also vote on the "2021 Strategic Competition Act" for global resistance to the expansion of the CCP. After it is passed, it will be sent to the Senate for a vote. We talked about this bill yesterday, and today I will give you some details.
This bill includes 650 million US dollars to fund foreign troops in the Indo-Pacific region; 450 million US dollars to fund Indo-Pacific maritime security projects, mainly for the United States and its allies to freely navigate the Indo-Pacific region 75 million is used for infrastructure construction in the Indo-Pacific region, which is equivalent to the US version of "One Belt One Road", used for Indo-Pacific countries to get rid of the CCP's One Belt One Road; 300 million US dollars are used as "funds to counter the influence of the CCP" for counterattacks The CCP promotes the totalitarian model overseas; US$100 million is used to build cybersecurity in developing countries in the Indo-Pacific region; and US$15 million is used to help US companies leave the Chinese market, help US companies diversify their supply chains, and find China An alternative market in the mainland.
When the American media reported on this bill, they said that in today’s Washington DC, countering the CCP is an issue that can cause serious differences between the two parties and achieve a high degree of cooperation. They all believe that the CCP treats the United States. The values and interests of the People’s Republic of China pose a serious threat.
If the Senate related bills are finally passed, it would be like the US Senate dropped a blockbuster on the CCP.
In order to fight back against the Communist bandits, the current cooperation between the United States and its allies, as well as between allies and allies, is getting closer.
On April 12, the U.S. Department of Defense posted a photo on Twitter, showing U.S. F-22 fighters and KC-135 aerial tankers flying in line over Mount Fuji in Japan, not far from the East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. The formations show that the U.S. troops stationed in Japan have sufficient endurance to travel to the relevant waters to deal with any security challenges.
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Japan and Germany confirm their cooperation with Indo-Pacific Defense, Fukushima nuclear sewage will be discharged into the Pacific Ocean
On April 13, the foreign ministers and defense ministers of Japan and Germany also held a 2+2 summit meeting and confirmed their cooperation for the realization of a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Their actions regarding the CCP’s human rights issues and the South China Sea issue, Express serious concerns. The German side also agreed that it would coordinate the German naval frigate, conduct joint training with the Japanese Self-Defense Force, and strengthen "Asian participation" in security. Cooperation with Japan is an important part of Germany's current strategic adjustment.
But when it comes to Japan, Japan is currently experiencing a more controversial issue. On April 13, the Japanese government decided after discussion and decided to discharge the "nuclear waste water" from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean in 2023. This is the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by the 2011 311 earthquake. The authorities injected a large amount of water into the damaged reactor in order to cool the burning rods that melted due to high temperature. Together with the accumulation over the years, the water has accumulated more than 1.25 million tons. Therefore, the discharge is due to excessive water, which has caused the storage space for nuclear sewage to be exhausted. The relevant Japanese agency said that the storage space will be used up as soon as the autumn of 2022.
The Japanese authorities stated that after multiple treatments, most of the radioactive substances have been removed from these nuclear sewage, and only low-concentration "tritium" remains. However, the low-concentration tritium has little risk of harm to humans, and Japan will continue to do so in the future. The goal of diluting the tritium in sewage is to reduce the tritium concentration to one-seventh of the WHO standard for tritium concentration in drinking water. Because of this, these nuclear sewage must be discharged within two years after the relevant dilution equipment is built. Therefore, the entire discharge process is very slow and takes 30 years.
At present, the United States has expressed an open attitude toward the Japanese government's approach, which is acceptable. However, fishermen in Fukushima, Japan, are very opposed to it, believing that the discharge of nuclear sewage will affect consumers’ confidence in Fukushima’s fisheries. Taiwan and South Korea are also uneasy about this. South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its firm opposition to the discharge of nuclear sewage into the Pacific. Some organizations have also raised objections, saying that they are afraid that the nuclear waste elements contained in sewage will "accumulate" in the marine food chain and will gradually endanger health. I see someone draws a chart showing that the discharged nuclear sewage may spread through ocean currents to almost most of the Pacific Ocean, reaching the farthest part of the Pacific coast of North America. There is still quite some time before 2023, and it is estimated that the related controversy will continue.
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The U.S. Pharmacy suspends vaccination of "Johnson & Johnson" Trump boldly exposes the inside story
And now, another controversial issue concerning health in the United States has an immediate impact on today. The US CDC and the "Food and Drug Administration" FDA have issued new "guidelines" that advise Americans to suspend vaccination against Johnson & Johnson. "The vaccine produced by the company requires a safety investigation of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine. The reason is that the United States has recently experienced six serious adverse reactions after vaccination with Johnson & Johnson. They all developed "thrombosis" symptoms two weeks after vaccination, and one of the women died as a result. It is currently known that both the State of New York and Washington, DC, have ordered the suspension of the Johnson & Johnson vaccination.
However, Trump issued a statement, continuing his bold and bold style. He raised objections to the US CDC and FDA guidelines, questioning that this sudden "stop" approach was politically motivated. To put it bluntly, it might be because of the FDA. Internally, some people have some kind of "cooperation" with Johnson & Johnson's rival "Pfizer". Trump said that they have been working in the FDA for a long time.
"Bureaucrats" must be controlled. They cannot make similar decisions based on political motivations. Trump also mentioned that the FDA had cooperated with Pfizer and only officially approved Pfizer’s vaccine the day after the election. People in the FDA don't like me because he urged them to act as soon as possible on the vaccine.
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CNN admits to spreading rumors to Trump that Harris has been "missing" for 20 days
Trump did suffer a lot of injustice during the election. Today, the well-known investigative media "Truth Project" in the United States exposed a private conversation by CNN technical director Charlie Chester, mentioning a number of important inside stories, one is to admit CNN tried hard to drive Trump out of the White House. Second, CNN actually created fake news for Kurokawa, and some related news reports, such as a report on Trump’s health, did not know whether CNN reporters themselves were true. . And all of this, the related technical director said, was the instruction of CNN President Jeff Zach.
These truths are now being exposed more and more, but the exposure is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to solve the problems that arise after the exposure. Now Trump and the Republican Party are preparing for the next election affairs while also trying to solve the election. There are many serious problems that have emerged, and of course the resistance is not small.
On Biden's side, it was Biden who used to hide behind the camera. Now it's not just him. His deputy, Harris, has also begun to play "stealth". On March 24, Biden suddenly revealed to the media that she is responsible for the border issue. What else did he say: I can’t think of anyone more qualified to do this. When Harris speaks, she is speaking on my behalf, and she doesn’t have to check with me. This scene, with a very strange style of painting, was quickly reprinted by the media, and immediately triggered a discussion about who is Biden Harris and whose deputy is.
But what is even more strange is that since then, until today, when the manuscript is written, Harris has not attended any press conferences, as if the world "evaporated" and disappeared in front of the media cameras. This has recently attracted the attention of some American media. For example, Fox released a report with the headline: Harris has disappeared for 20 days since he was photographed for her role in the border crisis. There has not been a press conference.
Maybe it is because the outside world talks too much about Harris's role. She temporarily changed her strategy, from high-profile frequent appearances to now low-key hiding behind the scenes, but her actual role may not necessarily change.
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Biden wants to meet Putin. Putin and Xi are in power
We mentioned earlier that Harris often calls foreign leaders on behalf of Biden. Recently, Biden personally talked with some foreign leaders. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin, on April 13, Biden called Putin. It was the time when a new Ukrainian-Russian war was brewing on the border between Russia and Ukraine. In addition, Biden publicly commented on Putin as a "killer" in interviews. ", and Putin invited Biden to debate on live television. Then, in the phone call on the 13th, Biden proposed to Putin that he hopes to have a summit with Putin in a third country in the next few months, and he also mentioned his concern about the Russian border with Ukraine. But the outside world is still unclear about Russia's attitude towards this summit.
Putin has just signed a new bill recently, extending his term of office to 2036 at the longest. And Radio Free Asia has a very interesting report, saying that although Xi Jinping completely abolished the term limit, he is a flesh after all and cannot be in power for ten thousand years. Therefore, the outside world regards 2035 as a target year for Xi Jinping to govern. By then, Xi Jinping He will be 82 years old, and Mao Zedong will be in power until he is 81 years old. It seems that Xi Jinping is going to be at least equal to Old Mao. But according to this view, Putin will still be in power for one year longer than Xi Jinping, and by 2036, Putin will be 84 years old. It seems that Russia and the CCP, which seem to be in harmony, can also see that they are actually "competitive" in terms of the terms of the top leaders of the two sides. Putin may be thinking that whoever can last a year longer than anyone will have the last laugh.
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Xi Jinping appeared visible after 11 days
Just as the media was concerned about Xi Jinping's invisibility, Xi appeared on the 14th and met with envoys from 29 countries in the Beijing Great Hall. On the day before Xi's appearance, Li Keqiang, the Premier of the Chinese Communist Party, to the Wolf Warrior diplomat, rarely softened his posture to show favor to the United States. Li Keqiang even begged the United States not to delink the Chinese Communist Party's economy.
The Xinhua News Agency reported on the 14th that the newly appointed ambassadors of 29 countries including Afghanistan, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Madagascar, Sudan, Nepal, etc., presented their credentials to Xi Jinping in turn and conveyed greetings from leaders of all countries. Xi Jinping delivered a speech and took a group photo with them.
The day before, the Hong Kong media "Ming Pao" published a signed article stating that Xi Jinping had not appeared publicly until the 13th after participating in tree planting activities in Beijing on April 2.
During this period, even though Xi Jinping had a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the 7th, he was also using a non-video call, and only heard the sound, but did not see it.
During this period, although the Chinese Communist Party’s official media kept reporting news about Xi, they were all messages and instructions issued by Xi. Such things do not require Xi’s personal appearance or even go through Xi Jinping’s hands.
The report also said that Xi Jinping has not shown up for 11 consecutive days. If it is not for health problems, he will be dealt with by "important official duties."
Since July 1 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, Xi Jinping will deliver an important speech; in October, the CPC will hold the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee. Therefore, Hong Kong media analysis believes that Xi Jinping may be bothering about these two major events during this period of invisibility.
The other two CCP Standing Committee members who were "invisible" with Xi Jinping, Wang Huning and Zhao Leji, are not known whether this will be related to the drafting of relevant documents and the preparation of documents for the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee.
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The Chinese Communist Party's unified slogan asks the West not to delink
It is worth noting that the day before Xi Jinping’s appearance on the 14th, from the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to the National Development and Reform Commission, to the Chinese ambassador to Canada, they all softened their positions to win over Western countries.
On April 13, Li Keqiang attended a web conference of American business leaders. Participants included the US-China Business Council and the chairman and CEO of more than 20 well-known American multinational companies. Li Keqiang urged them not to decouple from the CCP’s economy, saying that “decoupling” would be of no benefit to anyone, and promised that the CCP would “only open the door to the outside world”.
On the same day, Cong Peiwu, the CCP’s envoy to Canada, spoke at the Montreal Foreign Relations Committee and expressed that he was “worried” by the increasing calls from the West to delink from the CCP and proposed that the CCP should “strengthen cooperation” with Canada.
On the 13th, the National Development and Reform Commission of the Communist Party of China held a roundtable meeting with senior US companies in China, and stated that it would "unswervingly expand opening up." The invitees included senior executives from American companies such as Tesla, Qualcomm, and Dell.
Bloomberg said this was a rare act because the agency had never had a similar dialogue with a US company before.
Iris Pang, an economic researcher at ING in Hong Kong, believes that the CCP hopes to show the US government through these meetings that China is a huge market for US companies.
Due to the CCP’s geographic expansion, concealment of the epidemic, and espionage activities, the CCP has lost international trust in recent years, the global supply chain is being reorganized, and the world economic and trade landscape is changing.
Commentator Yang Wei wrote an article that Li Keqiang was unable to directly intervene in relations with the United States during his eight-year tenure as prime minister, and would basically not speak against the United States. And this time, Li suddenly made a soft call to the United States because of the reappearance of the deadlock in Sino-US relations. The CCP's senior officials had no choice but to push Li to the forefront.
The outside world has discovered that Li Keqiang has called on the United States to "not delink" more than once. China expert Zhang Jiadun once analyzed that Li Keqiang believes that it is impossible to decouple the U.S. and China’s economies, but if only decoupling can end the CCP’s theft of US intellectual property rights, it is of course possible for the United States to choose to decouple. Li is obviously worried that the United States will decouple.
"Epoch Times" commentator Yuan Bin believes that if China and the United States are decoupled, the United States will quickly recover from the pain by adjusting its industrial chain and market development strategy on a global scale. But if the CCP loses the U.S. market, especially the high technology of the U.S., if it is kicked out of the U.S. Dollar settlement system by the U.S., it will be fatal to the CCP’s economy.
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