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Novotel fined NT$1.266,000 for covid infection cluster and mixed living
China Airlines Novotel Taoyuan Airport Hotel was fined NT$1.266,000 as it did not qualify as an an anti-epidemic hotel, and it was used as a crew quarantine dormitory without authorization. In the midst of mixed living, a group infection broke out. The Taoyuan City Health Bureau calculated the violation time and penalties on a daily basis with a total of 211 days and imposed the fine of NT$1.266,000.
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Unimplemented epidemic prevention measures, China Airlines: Respect discretion
For the China Airlines Novotel Taoyuan Airport infection case, the Civil Aviation Administration will fine China Airlines NT$1 million. For this, China Airlines stated that it respects the discretion of the government authorities and will continue to strengthen the management of flight crews and thorough supervision responsibility for epidemic prevention hotels. China Airlines’ Novotel case was held accountable. Chen Shizhong, the commander of the Central Epidemic Command Center, announced today that Novotel’s violations of 2 cases, including non-epidemic hotels but accepting home quarantine and mixing general passengers, will impose penalties on a case-by-case basis; China Airlines has not implemented the air crew epidemic prevention measures. Team members will be fined 1 million NTD for failure of epidemic prevention.
News (3) to (5) / Reporter : Zeng Jinyue / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
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The pilot was infected with the AZ vaccine! Two new cases of China Airlines Novotel cluster incident are pilot couples
In the Novotel China Airlines cluster incident, the Central Epidemic Command Center announced on 8 May 2021 two new confirmed cases, namely the pilot in his 50s (Case 1183) and his wife (case 1184). Among them, the confirmed pilot had received dose of the AZ vaccine at the end of April, and the commander Chen Shizhong still regarded it as a cluster infection within China Airlines, not a community infection.
The infected pilot had AZ vaccination
Chen Shizhong stated that case 1183 is a male in his 50s and an airline pilot. He was on duty to Vietnam and Thailand on 19 and 22 April 2021. He served as Case 1153 simulated flight training instructor on 28 April. On 24 April, the pilot project was collected and tested, and the nucleic acid test and serum antibody were negative. On 29 April, the first dose of AZ vaccine was given. The case developed general fatigue on 4 May and developed fever on 6 May. He sought medical examination on the same day and was diagnosed today (Ct value 16). The source of infection needs to be clarified. Two contacts of the case have been initially grasped and listed in home isolation.
Chen Shizhong said that when Case 1183 served as a simulated flight instructor on 28 April, a total of 2 pilots participated. In addition to case 1153, which had been diagnosed, another pilot was already listed at home at that time and the test was negative.
The command centre said that Case 1184 is a 50-year-old woman and the wife of case 1183. Case 1183 tested positive. The health unit arranged for medical examination on 7 May and was diagnosed today (Ct value 23). The relevant contacts are currently under investigation. It is currently known that the case arrived at the Neihu branch of Fubon Bank in Taipei at about 11 o'clock on 5 May and stayed for about 40 minutes.
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A total of 31 people were infected in China Airlines Novotel cluster, including 7 families clustered
A total of 18 days since 20 April, the gathering of China Airlines pilots and Novotel Hotel has caused 31 people to be infected, including 12 pilots (including the confirmed pilot in Australia), 1 flight attendant, 5 hotel employees, 1 outsourced infection, 7 families gathered (12 family members were diagnosed).
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214,706 covid-related notifications in Taiwan, of which 1,183 are confirmed
According to the command center’s statistics, up to now, there have been a total of 214,706 covid-related notifications in Taiwan (including 212,250 cases excluded), of which 1,183 were confirmed, 1,036 were imported from abroad, 96 were local cases, 36 were in the Dunmu fleet, 1 unknown case and 12 cases are under investigation; the other case (Case 530) was removed. Of the confirmed cases, 12 died, 1,082 were released from isolation, and 89 were hospitalized in isolation.
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Variant virus spreads in Hong Kong, Shenzhen resumes "14+7" quarantine measures
Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Image: The Hong Kong variant virus continues to spread, and Shenzhen has resumed the “14+7” quarantine measures for entry. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)
Recently, patients infected with B.1.617 appeared in Hong Kong. Neighbouring Shenzhen has tightened its entry quarantine measures again and resumed the "14+7" quarantine measures.
Recently, a 29-year-old Indian man in Hong Kong, his 31-year-old girlfriend, and a 39-year-old Filipino domestic helper were infected with the mutant virus. All three of them had been to Tung Chung Citygate on April 11.
Currently, variant viruses are continuing to spread. The Hong Kong Center for Health Protection announced on 7 May that there were three new confirmed cases that day, including one imported case and two local cases. One of the cases where the source of local transmission is unknown, and the other is an associated case of a local variant virus.
Lin Wenjian, director of the Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health, said that a total of 8 people have been infected with the variant virus, because the condition of the variant virus may be more serious, contagious, and the incubation period may be longer. The Center for Protection is waiting for this.
Since a Filipino domestic helper in Hong Kong was diagnosed with the variant virus on 29 April, the Hong Kong government has imposed compulsory testing on multiple residential buildings. So far, more than 2,000 people have been forcibly isolated for 21 days. Lin Wenjian said that all of these residents are currently negative.
Lianhe Zaobao reported on 29 April that B.1.617, B.1.617.1 and B.1.618 has spread to at least 20 countries and regions. Since the variant virus is highly infectious, all countries are taking strict precautions.
After the emergence of a variant virus patient in Hong Kong, Shenzhen continued to upgrade its isolation policy within a week, and resumed the "14+7" isolation measure for Hong Kong, that is, after 14 days of compulsory isolation, there will be 7 days of home isolation.
Prior to this, Shenzhen had begun to relax its entry quarantine measures in March and implemented the "7+7" quarantine policy, but it is now tightening again.
In fact, it is not only Hong Kong, but the Indian variant virus has recently been introduced to China. The Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission reported on 29 April that 11 new cases were confirmed in the province on the 28th, of which 10 were imported from India, and the patients were all Chinese nationals.
On 6 May, the China CDC disclosed that three people returning from India were suspected of being infected with the variant virus strains of B.1.617.
News (7) to (10) / Reporter Luo Tingting Comprehensive Report / Chief Editor: De Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/05/08/a103113424.html / Direct translation
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Taiwan’s Foreign Minister warns: The CCP is preparing to launch a "final attack" on Taiwan
At a time when the Taiwan Strait is tense, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie recently warned that the CCP is preparing to launch a "final attack" on Taiwan, and the entire Taiwan government is preparing for this.
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Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs: Taiwan fully responds to CCP’s military attacks
In an exclusive video interview with The Australian Financial Review at the Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan on 4 May, Wu Zhaoxie said that the CCP is trying to isolate Taiwan from the international community and continues to use military threats, false information, mixed warfare, economic means, and Obstruct Taiwan’s international participation and other means to invade Taiwan.
He said, “(The CCP) seems to be preparing to launch a final assault on Taiwan.”
Wu Zhaoxie said that he will not specify that Taiwan and the CCP will go to war immediately, but the Taiwan government needs to prepare for the war situation. "Not only the Ministry of National Defense, the entire Taiwan government is preparing for possible military attacks from China."
He emphasized that Taiwan is at the forefront of the CCP’s authoritarian expansion and called on the international community to support Taiwan and pay attention to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
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Expert: The CCP is preparing for war
Guo Yuren, a professor at the Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies at National Sun Yat-sen University, told Radio Free Asia that Wu Zhaoxie's statement is still relatively implicit.
He believes that Xi Jinping’s requirements for the military are “to be able to fight and to win wars” and the goal is aggressive. This goal of army building is completely different from the goal of Japan, South Korea, or Taiwan to defend their own national security. .
He emphasized that the biggest strategic threat to Taiwan comes from the CCP, and the CCP is clearly preparing for war. "This poses a very big threat to Taiwan."
Military commentator Qi Leyi believes that the sense of urgency for the CCP to use force to invade Taiwan is indeed more pressing than in the past so many years. Because the US-Taiwan relations have greatly escalated, it is possible that “quantitative changes” may become “qualitative changes”. This is the last thing the CCP wants to see.
Qi Leyi said that after the problems in Hong Kong, the people of Taiwan have no hope for "one country, two systems." "Beijing's judgment may be that Taiwan feels that 'one country, two systems' is impossible to fulfill. In this case, there is nothing to talk about. We are going to be hard, and there may be the worst in the future.
However, he emphasized that this does not mean that "Taiwan should not be too close to the United States." On the contrary, the relationship between the United States and Taiwan must be further improved both in terms of diplomacy and militarily in order to constitute a "strategic deterrence" to Beijing and prevent Beijing from acting rashly.
At present, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is one of the focuses of the most attention of the international community. Allies such as the United States, Japan, and Australia have all expressed their support for the maintenance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
Guo Yuren said that as long as the United States, Australia, and Japan maintain the safety of the South China Sea, the Bashi Strait, the Taiwan Strait, and the East China Sea, Taiwan will be safe at that time.
In response to the situation in the Taiwan Strait, Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party media, issued an article on May 6 stating that the CCP "will not fire the first shot."
In this regard, Qi Leyi believes that the CCP’s failure to fire the first shot is due to the fact that it is “incapable of firing the first shot” in reality. Beijing worries that if conflict breaks out across the Taiwan Strait, the United States will intervene. "Beijing has a sense of anxiety about the Taiwan issue, but it can't handle it."
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The CCP continues to disturb the Taiwan test the United States
The outside world believes that the CCP has recently continued to expand its military harassment against Taiwan, constantly testing the defense capabilities of Taiwan’s military, and at the same time testing the bottom line of the United States’ defense against Taiwan.
Former U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster recently pointed out at a forum that he believes that Taiwan is currently in a moment of "extreme danger." This is because if the CCP military really believes in official propaganda and causes misjudgments, it may lead to military conflicts across the Taiwan Strait.
"The Economist" recently positioned Taiwan as "the most dangerous place on earth" and warned that a war in the Taiwan Strait would be a disaster. If the CCP launches a surprise attack on Taiwan, and the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet does not help Taiwan’s defense, Beijing will not only become the dominance of Asia, but the United States’ global leadership will also collapse.
At present, countries including the United States, Japan, and Australia have successively expressed their appeals that the security of the Taiwan Strait is very important to all countries. The Australian Minister of Defense also emphasized that Australia should not underestimate the possibility of conflict with the CCP over the Taiwan issue. More and more countries are publicly attaching importance to Taiwan and preparing for war. This has embarrassed the CCP.
However, although the Biden administration basically continued the Indo-Pacific strategic deployment during the Trump era, Biden himself and his cabinet have repeatedly stated clearly that they do not seek to conflict with the CCP. Once the CCP invades Taiwan by force, how the United States will respond is one of the general concerns of the outside world.
On the other hand, apart from the solidarity of the international community, it is also very important for Taiwan to enhance its defense capabilities. The Taiwan military is stepping up preparations for war recently. President Tsai Ing-wen of the Republic of China stated on 30 April that “Taiwan, standing on the frontline of world democracy, is capable of overcoming the challenges brought about by the expansion of authoritarianism.” She also called on the international community to work together to respond to threats to peace across the Taiwan Strait.
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The confirmed personnel from the India Representative Office arrived at Taoyuan Airport diagnosed
Reporter : Yang Zhizhong / Direct translation
The medical plane arrived at Taoyuan Airport. According to the latest news, two diplomats from the Taiwan Representative Office in India were diagnosed with covid. One of them is severely ill and the other has mild symptoms. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs assisted in the evacuation.
At about 6pm, the medical plane had taken off from Delhi Airport and landed at Taoyuan Airport.. At present, the epidemic command center has also dispatched ambulances, and the surrounding personnel have also put on protective clothing to take measures to prepare to send the confirmed patients to the doctor for treatment.
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Elegy for the diplomat! Taiwan representative office in India did not implement epidemic prevention, "I care more about performance than the director of the epidemic."
Reporter : Chen Yuren
The epidemic in India is serious. Taiwanese officials abroad have been infected with the disease. One is severe and the other is mild. Yesterday night, they took a medical plane to return to Taiwan for treatment. Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly emphasized that foreign missions are divided into groups to work, the personnel stationed abroad revealed that it is the curator who has the final say overseas. Many foreign missions have not implemented epidemic prevention measures, and it is too late to wait until the diagnosis is confirmed.
Another diplomat also reluctantly said that the curator is more concerned about performance than the epidemic. Compared with other countries, there are special personnel to prevent the epidemic. "We have to check the information on the Internet."
After the epidemic broke out, because the epidemic abroad is not under control like Taiwan, the health and epidemic prevention status of Taiwanese personnel abroad has also aroused concern. Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that because the situation in different countries is different, it has issued an official document to the foreign embassies and representative offices, adhering to the principle of general case, and authorizing the curator to decide on epidemic prevention actions based on the situation, because the curator must know the local situation better than Taiwan.
It is understood that with the assistance of the local government, some foreign missions have begun to vaccinate foreign personnel. However, before the completion of the vaccination, the foreign personnel are very worried about the epidemic prevention work. A diplomatic official revealed that in fact, the curator had the final say overseas. It did not make sense to go out to run official documents when working at home.
For example, in countries such as the Czech Republic in Europe, during the severe epidemic period, only one day was divided. Everyone goes to work together. Another diplomat reluctantly said that as long as there is diversion, there will be less things that can be done.
Compared with the epidemic, the curator is more afraid of being said to have no performance and is afraid of being questioned by the country. After all, it is a big country. Southeast Asian pavilions have emergency medical centers, which are evacuated as soon as they are diagnosed.
There are also domestic vaccines that provide injections for foreign personnel. Compared with Chinese diplomats, they have to check the epidemic prevention measures online, which is really much worse.
Many overseas personnel complained that overseas units in Europe, the United States and other countries had suspended relevant consular work when the epidemic was the worst. Even the Chinese consulates are only open one day a week, but many foreign embassies in Taiwan still need to do so. "External business" only increases the risk of infection.
The diplomatic official said that the country is concerned about the Indian representative office now because of the serious epidemic in India, but in fact, other overseas embassies should also implement epidemic prevention measures. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot let the director decide. Wait until there are personnel stationed abroad infected with the epidemic. It is too late to send them away again.
However, some diplomats said that the telegrams and official documents sent back to Taiwan every day must be viewed by the curator personally due to information security factors. Email or video cannot be used. Therefore, they still need to work in the office, and some overseas personnel have a strong sense of responsibility. Even if you want him to work from home, he will still come to the office. The situation in each country is different. So it depends on the decision of the local curator.
News (13) to (15) / Reporter : Zhang Ting / Editor : Lin Yan / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/5/7/n12931951.htm / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
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Wuhan laboratory virus leaks into focus, U.S. congressman wants answers
Wuhan laboratory virus leak theory is increasingly becoming the focus of the US Congress. Republican lawmakers are leading a "comprehensive" investigation into the origin of the covid
pandemic, including the possibility of an "accidental" leak from the Wuhan laboratory. They also wrote to the Secretary of State, requesting more documents to be released to help the investigation.
According to Fox News, the lead Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers, Brett Guthrie and H. Morgan Griffith), wrote to Secretary of State Blinken this week, asking him to provide documents to "assistance" them in investigating the origin of the virus.
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The Wuhan laboratory has always been the focus of the U.S. government and WHO virus investigations
The lawmakers wrote in the letter that public health is within the jurisdiction of the committee. “As the leader of this congressional committee, we strongly support a full investigation of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the possibility of accidental laboratory leaks."
On 15 January 2021, the US State Department announced a "fact check" on COVID-19, which described the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in cooperation with the Chinese military to conduct confidential research, including laboratory animal experiments. These Republicans asked Blinken to publish non-confidential documents related to the conclusion of the fact-checking and declassify other documents for public inspection as appropriate.
This fact check was announced on the eve of former Secretary of State Pompeo’s resignation. The fact-checking focused on three actions related to WIV and the origin of the virus that need to be further reviewed, which are worthy of further investigation. 1) The problem of infection of WIV insiders. Several researchers inside WIV fell ill in the fall of 2019, before the first (CCP virus) case was confirmed. The symptoms of these researchers are consistent with COVID-19 and common seasonal diseases; 2) WIV's research on "RaTG13" and "gain of function": "RaTG13" virus from WIV in 2020. The bat coronavirus identified in the month is the closest sample (96.2% similarity) to SARS-CoV-2 (CCP virus); 3) The secret connection between WIV and military research. Although WIV is a civil organization, WIV and the Chinese military have cooperated on publications and secret projects. Since 2017, WIV has been conducting classified research on behalf of the Chinese (CCP) military, including conducting animal tests in laboratories.
These Republican lawmakers pointed out that WIV has been a major focus for the US government and the World Health Organization to check the source of COVID-19. The release of relevant documents by the State Council can help refute some of the claims made by CCP researchers about the possible leak of the virus in WIV.
Shi Zhengli, a senior researcher at WIV, said that the U.S.'s assertion of the virus leak in the Wuhan laboratory was "wrong."
Blinken last month accused the Chinese government of failing to allow international experts to enter, share information in real time, and provide real transparency in real time during the initial stage of the virus outbreak. One consequence of this is that the virus “runs out of control” at a faster rate, and the result is even worse.
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More Republican lawmakers ask the U.S. government to publish documents
At the same time, in another investigation, Rep. Mike Gallagher, Republican of Wisconsin, wrote a letter to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), asking him to provide further information about the cause of COVID-19.
Gallagher wrote in a letter to Fauci on Wednesday (5 May), "Understanding the causes of this (virus) pandemic and ensuring that similar things do not happen again are the most important issues facing the world today."
"Given the importance of the matter, we cannot be satisfied with a limited, blind or politicized understanding of the origin of this terrible disease." Gallagher said.
In the Senate, Republican senators Josh Hawley and Mike Braun introduced a bill. The bill will force the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related to the origin of COVID-19.
"For more than a year, anyone who raised questions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been labeled as a conspiracy theorist." Holly said in a statement last month. "The world needs to know whether this pandemic is a Wuhan experiment. It is the product of the negligence of the government, but the CCP has done everything it can to prevent credible investigations."
He added, “The Biden administration must decipher what it knows about the Wuhan laboratory and Beijing’s attempts to cover up the origin of the pandemic.”
Braun also stated that determining the origin of COVID-19 is “critical to prevent future pandemics. As investigations and research on the origin of the virus continue, the Biden administration should declassify the relationship between the Wuhan Institute of Viology and the covid-related information about any potential links between the two".
The White House said last month that it believed that the CCP had not been transparent when it worked with the WHO to write an investigation report on the origin of COVID-19.
The report concluded that the possibility of the virus leaking from the Wuhan laboratory is defined as "extremely unlikely", and that the virus is "very likely" to be transmitted from bats to humans through another animal, and the virus is directly transmitted from bats. The possibility of transmission to people or through frozen food is in the middle.
The White House stated that the WHO's China report lacked key information and only provided "partial and incomplete information" about the source of the virus.
The White House last month called on the Chinese Communist Party and the World Health Organization to allow international experts to "unrestricted access" to data and allow them to ask questions of local witnesses at the time of the outbreak.
After the report was released, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, faced outside suspicions and explained to the WHO member states that the WHO investigation mission to Wuhan, China to study the origin of the virus was blocked from obtaining data in China, and the origin of SARS-CoV-2 needs to investigate further. He also publicly admitted for the first time in his speech that the possibility of the virus leaking from the Wuhan laboratory was not ruled out.
Tedros said that the WHO investigation team did not fully analyze the possibility of laboratory leaks before reaching the conclusion that the pathogen may be transmitted from bats to humans through another animal. He said that further investigations are still needed and an additional investigation team may be sent back to China to investigate again.
"I don't believe that this assessment is broad enough," Tedros said. "Further data and research are needed to draw more powerful conclusions."
News (16) to (21) / Host : Tang Jingyuan / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/5/7/n12932119.htm / Direct translation
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Brazil bombs the CCP's biological warfare, Blinken and Wang Yi clash
Image : The Brazilian President bombarded the CCP for launching a biological war. (Provided by "Foresight Quick Review Production Team")
Regarding the source of the CCP virus (Wuhan virus, novel coronavirus, covi), we have done many episodes of programs. The virus comes from the laboratory and it has become a consensus of the international community. Prior to this, some virologists and media public opinion had always said this publicly, but yesterday was a watershed, because Brazilian President Bolsonaro, as the president of a country, was the first to publicly attack the CCP. It is said that the virus originated in the laboratory, and it implies that the CCP is launching a biological warfare.
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Brazil President shelled the CCP to launch a biological war
This hot news was reported by many media yesterday, saying that Brazilian President Bolsonaro made suggestive comments in his speech. What did he say?
He said, "This is a new virus. No one knows whether it was born in a laboratory or because humans ate some animals that they shouldn't eat."
Bolsonaro then continued, "But the military knows chemical, biological and radiological warfare. Will we be fighting a new war? I want to know. Which country has the most GDP growth?"
Obviously, his short sentence contains three key messages: First, he clearly implied that the new virus, the Chinese Communist Party virus, may come from a laboratory. Of course, laboratory leaks and laboratory manufacturing are not the same thing, Bolsonaro did not make it clear here.
Second, this virus catastrophe is more like a biological war. Third, the countries with the largest GDP growth during the epidemic have problems.
Bolsonaro did not name which country, but he actually did, because since the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan, the only G20 economy that has achieved economic growth is China under the rule of the CCP, with a GDP growth rate of 2.3%, mainly due to the dependence of the international community on China's medical industry chain.
If your friends still have an impression, you may remember that just over a week ago, on 27 April, Brazil’s Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes accidentally bombarded the CCP’s vaccine for poor efficacy, not as good as the U.S. vaccine, and at the same time stated that it was the CCP invented novel coronavirus".
Guedes said this at a meeting of the Brazilian Health Commission, and he did not know that the meeting was being broadcast live on social media. Although the Brazilian Ministry of Health quickly deleted the video afterwards, Guedes did not apologize or retract his words.
This is the first problem we see from the Brazilian President’s bombardment of the CCP’s biological warfare. It is not the opinion of individual Brazilian officials that the virus comes from the laboratory, but the general consensus of the Brazilian authorities. Otherwise, there will be no such repeated shelling by high-level officials.
The second question is also very unusual. We all know that Brazil and the CCP have always had a close relationship, not only because they belong to the same circle of BRICS countries, but also because, according to the Chinese leader Jin Canrong, the CCP once wanted to cultivate Brazil as an anti-American leader in South America.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, Brazil became the largest overseas test base for the CCP's vaccines. At the same time, the CCP also provided Brazil with more than 100 million doses of CoronaVac vaccine orders, which is the country with the largest number of overseas vaccines.
Therefore, the problem is that Brazil, which has such a close relationship with the CCP, was actually the first to publicly accuse the virus that the virus may have come from the CCP laboratory and was suspected of launching a biological warfare. These are two different crimes. Although Brazilian President Bolsonaro has always spoken more casually and has the nickname "Brazil Trump", after all, he is the president of a country, so he said it publicly. This is better than Trump's phrase "Chinese virus". It's totally different.
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Brazil turning over: What are the reasons and the fuse?
Therefore, I think that behind this bombardment, something happened, at least there should be a fuse. We can first look at the response of the CCP.
Yesterday, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China, the spokesperson of the Communist Party of China Wang Wenbin was directly asked the sharp questions of "laboratory manufacturing" and "biological warfare". He replied this way, "Viruses are the common enemy of mankind. The top priority is all countries join hands to carry out anti-epidemic cooperation to strive for an early and complete victory over the epidemic. We firmly oppose any words and actions that politicize and stigmatize the virus."
Does everyone feel a little surprised? According to the CCP’s recent plan of fearing that the world will not fight the wolves, it should be annoyed and go back immediately. For example, Brazil should check itself first. Isn't which of your biological laboratories also suspicious? Is it possible that you participated in the Wuhan Military Games and brought it here? Wait.
Wang Wenbin's current answer is so flamboyant, it is equivalent to destroying his own power, and it can even be said that he shows a little guilty conscience.
Why did the Brazilian President suddenly reverse his high profile? I think the high epidemic situation in Brazil should be an important background.
As of yesterday, the total number of infections in Brazil has exceeded 15 million, with 417,000 deaths, and the average number of deaths during the seven days of April has remained at a high level of 2,500 to 2,800. You know, India's 7-day death case data in April only reached 3,000 when the number of deaths was the highest. Brazil currently ranks third in terms of the number of infections, but still ranks second in terms of the number of deaths, almost twice the total number of India.
Therefore, although Brazil has obtained a large amount of vaccines and other important medical supplies from the CCP, its epidemic situation has risen instead of falling. It is just that Brazil is now in a high plateau period, and there is no steep rapid rise like India, plus its medical system. It has not yet collapsed and has not received so much attention from the international community, but the Brazilian epidemic is still in a very serious state.
This important background illustrates a problem. The medical cooperation between Brazil and the CCP can be said to be a failure. This has cost Brazil a heavy cost in life and economy. This is probably the main reason why the Brazilian president finally fired the gun.
However, as the president of a country suddenly makes such flipped remarks, it is unlikely that emotions will come on a whim, and a specific event may often become the fuse.
We don't see any public information in this regard, because such incidents often happen under the water, but it does not necessarily mean that we have no trace to be found. From my personal observations, I think there are still a few clues that can be referred to.
If we look back at the speech made by Brazilian Minister Gerdes, we can see what the CCP said at the time, "As China is doing its best to overcome difficulties and provide Brazil with vaccines and vaccine solutions, senior officials of the Brazilian government issued this statement. The remarks run counter to the willingness of both parties to create a good atmosphere for bilateral cooperation and go against the facts. China expresses its dissatisfaction with this."
These remarks seem to be relatively low-key on the surface, but in fact they are full of threats. CCP officials basically speak this way. When they deliberately point to a specific thing, they often use this to warn or threaten the other party. Therefore, the CCP officials’ remarks are actually threatening that if you continue to have such unfriendly remarks, it may be difficult to obtain vaccines and vaccine stock solutions.
Based on the CCP’s current logic of treating the retribution of Yaxue as an admiration of my country’s prestige, it cannot be ruled out that the authorities may have done anything to punish the Brazilian minister for improper remarks, and thus did some tricks and tricks on the export of vaccines or vaccine solutions. The president couldn't bear it, and finally broke out in public.
Of course, this is just my personal guess, not necessarily accurate. Sharing it here is just for your friends' reference. The real situation may soon be revealed by oneself, and perhaps it will never be known. But objectively, the shelling of the Brazilian President has indeed advanced the tracing of the source of the virus and the investigation of the CCP’s guilt for concealing the epidemic.
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Top-secret report from the top US institutions: The virus may come from the laboratory
Speaking of the source of the virus, let us simply add another message. ABC, one of the three major television stations in the United States, published an exclusive report on ABC7, a radio station affiliated with Washington, D.C., on May 3, which first disclosed that as early as a year ago, "Lawrence Livermore" under the US Department of Energy. The National Laboratory, its subordinate "Z Department", conducted top-secret research on the origin of the Chinese Communist Party virus, and finally concluded that the current pandemic virus cannot be ruled out from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The spokesperson of the "Livermore" laboratory confirmed to ABC7 that such a top-secret report did exist, but declined to provide more information.
The report said that this report was only sent to a small number of agencies, including the National Security Council of the Trump administration and the State Council at the time. There were lower-level officials who were also interested in the report, but were blocked by senior officials from the Department of Energy and the State Department.
Although this news did not reveal more details of interest to everyone, it can explain three problems:
First, this report was completed last year, and it has been classified as a top-secret document and has not yet been willing to disclose one point, indicating that it involves quite high intelligence content and sensitive information, and its authority and professionalism as a report far exceed ordinary departmental reports or media.
Second, the "Livermore" laboratory is one of the two organizations set up specifically for the design of nuclear weapons in the United States. Department Z was established in 1956 to specialize in nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union, and later expanded to biological and chemical weapons. Therefore, such an agency issued a report and concluded that the CCP virus may have come from a laboratory. This in itself means that the top Cold War agencies in the United States treat the epidemic as a suspected biological warfare national behavior, rather than simply as a public health event. Look at the crisis.
Third, this conclusion was reported to the Trump administration. We have seen that Trump has repeatedly stated publicly that the CCP maliciously indulges the virus to spread to the world, which was attacked by the left media as a conspiracy theory at the time. Now the Biden administration must have seen the report but he has not mentioned that the relevant claim is a conspiracy theory, and it has been reported publicly by the left media for the first time.
Therefore, we can basically say with certainty that even though Biden did not publicly accuse the CCP of weaponizing the epidemic like Trump did, I am afraid he and his team privately agree with it, and indirectly demonstrated himself through left-media reports with his attitude.
We have seen that the views of the leaders of the United States and Brazil on the source of the virus and the suspicion of biological warfare are actually very close. The leaders of these two countries are far more likely to hold similar views. I guess that the leaders of many countries may hold similar views in private. It's just that the ups and downs of the epidemic have not been controlled, and no country can be distracted to advance the accountability work, and can only temporarily shelve it.
However, putting it aside for the time being does not mean giving up accountability. Countries all over the world are waiting to get through this wave of disasters and seek the truth from the CCP. The CCP itself actually knows why the CCP is now attacking from all sides and launching a large-scale diplomatic offensive against the epidemic. On the one hand, it wants to use the epidemic to promote international changes and reset the international order;. On the other hand, it is also to avoid accountability. The more, the more chips, the more advantageous it will be to resolve the offensive of accountability in the future.
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China-U.S. Security Council Exchange of Fire: Revealing the CCP's Major Technique
Okay, there is still some time. Let’s briefly discuss with you the latest piece of news this morning, that is, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Blinken exchanged fire again in the United Nations Security Council after the Alaska Dialogue.
It is not surprising that Wang Yi and Blinken exchanged fire across the air. After all, the current general trend of Sino-US confrontation cannot be braked at all. What is really eye-catching about this news is that the speeches of both sides emphasized the need to maintain multilateral order and the basic principles of the United Nations, but everyone can see that the views of the two sides are diametrically opposed.
This is not a word game, but an important concept related to the new international order that the CCP is now vigorously promoting, which is "multilateralism."
Let us first take a look at the main arguments of the two sides.
Wang Yi is the rotating host of this meeting. His speech is actually a centerpiece: Using the “deep interpretation” of the multilateralism connotation of Xi Jinping’s attendance at the 75th anniversary of the United Nations in September last year as the standard, he clearly pointed out the need To adhere to the path of multilateralism and practice true multilateralism, we must promote multilateralism to set sail again and finally build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Blinken’s speech has always been centred around: The current attacks on the rules-based multilateral order are intensifying, and some people question the possibility of multilateral cooperation. The United States believes that this is not only possible, but also imperative.
He said that we have established a multilateral system. Multilateralism is still our best tool to deal with major global challenges, including the pandemic, the climate crisis, and the threats of certain countries that do not respect human rights that are trying to challenge the current international order.
This is very interesting, right? Both China and the United States are talking about maintaining multilateral order, but in fact, the basic points of the position can be said to be tit-for-tat. Why is this so? The reason is actually very simple. The multilateralism mentioned by the CCP and the multilateralism mentioned by the United States are not the same thing at all.
This is just like the "globalization" that the CCP has always talked about on various occasions in the international community. In fact, the connotation of "globalization" that Xi Jinping talks about is very different from that of other countries in the international community.
The globalization mentioned by the CCP is the globalization of the CCP. The core framework of this globalization is tangibly manifested as a whole set of things such as the “Belt and Road”, Huawei, Douyin, and digital renminbi; the intangible manifestation is that totalitarianism is superior to democracy and humanity. The ideology of community of destiny. This is different from the globalization that the international community said.
Similarly, the CCP’s multilateralism clearly states that justice should not be overbearing, and that everything should be dealt with through consultation rather than which one has the final say. What it did not say clearly is that it no longer recognizes the leadership of the United States and the current international order led by the United States. Therefore, it must be multi-polarized, not unipolarized. To put it bluntly, you should give way to the United States and get out. It's my turn to sit in the village and establish a new order.
The United States said that it would continue to uphold multilateralism. Blinken said clearly that the current system is multilateralism, and it was established by us. This system is very effective and fair. Some countries want to claim that their sovereignty is inviolable and their internal affairs cannot interfere. The United States will not turn a blind eye to trampling on human rights and breaking the rules in the name.
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The Chinese Communist Party culture redefines universal values such as democracy and human rights
So you can see that the CCP’s gameplay is actually to completely establish a set of discourse system centered on party culture, and even the universal values recognized by the entire human society must be redefined by "the characteristics of the CCP," regardless of historical terms such as human rights and democracy are still new modern words such as globalization and multilateralism. The CCP must all give its own definitions.
This is why we see that when the CCP is trampling on human rights, it can also plausibly say that we are protecting human rights; when the CCP is expanding totalitarian tyranny, it can also plausibly say that we are the largest democratic country; including now in the name of the CCP.
When fighting and kicking around under the banner of globalization and multilateralism, can you still accuse the United States of hegemony?
Because the CCP has always used this sophistry as a shield: This is what we define as human rights, democracy or multilateralism. You do not agree with our definition because your culture is different from ours.
In fact, anyone who knows a little bit knows that this has nothing to do with culture, but the CCP’s propaganda can indeed confuse the audience to varying degrees. Even Biden has been recruited. I understand what the CCP is talking about. This is Chinese culture and so on.
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Chinese cannot escape to China from India because of CCP's ban
Editor : Chu Tian / https://www.aboluowang.com/2021/0507/1589822.html / Direct translation
As Taiwan was preparing to take back the nationals in India by chartered flight, Chinese citizens working in India complained that the Chinese government, without public announcement, prohibited Chinese citizens in India from returning home by requesting the Indian government not to issue permits.
The Central News Agency tried to contact the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi this morning, but no one answered the phone calls of the media, consulates and other departments. That is, when Chinese citizens in India are in emergency, there is no way to ask for help.
The second wave of new crown pneumonia (CCP virus) in India continues to increase. Yesterday, the number of additional cases in a single day exceeded 400,000, reaching more than 410,000; the death toll reached 3,979 on the same day, approaching the 4,000 mark.
South Korea is already considering evacuation planes to pick up Koreans in India; Japan is still operating special planes for Japanese overseas Chinese; Taiwan is investigating the willingness of Taiwanese Indians to return to Taiwan and is preparing to arrange charter flights.
However, Mr. Zhang, a Chinese national who works in the field of technology manufacturing in India, said that he had originally arranged a vacation to return to China, while also avoiding this serious epidemic. Since most Indian cities adopt stricter personnel movement control measures, you must apply for an e-Pass online to get out of the house. Unexpectedly, his application was rejected. Upon questioning, the company that issued the pass required the company to provide proof of documents related to vacation and return to the country, but he was still rejected after submitting the documents again.
Mr. Zhang said that after many inquiries, it was found that the Chinese Embassy in India had notified India that the Chinese government temporarily prevented Chinese citizens in India from returning to the country, and requested the Indian side not to issue permits to allow Chinese citizens to take the plane at the airport. He was very angry at the Chinese government's sneaky prohibition of citizens from returning to the country.
The Taiwanese cadre of a Taiwanese manufacturer in India said that he had a Chinese colleague who was very "patriotic" under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party's nationalist education. But after this Chinese colleague wanted to return to China to hit the nails, he saw this colleague scolding for the first time the Chinese government really surprised him.
After the CCP and the Indian forces had a casualty clash at the Ladakh border, the Indian government not only stopped issuing visas to Chinese nationals, but also required Chinese people in India with business visas to return to the country. There are much fewer Chinese in India.
However, because Foxconn and other Apple's supply chain production lines require Chinese engineers, and after several negotiations with the Indian government, the Indian government used the company's collective application and batch of business visas from October to December last year to release the Chinese engineers in Apple's supply chain for the first time. They went to work in India. After that, Chinese engineers were released to work in India in the same way.
It is reported that there are hundreds of Chinese engineers in the Apple supply chain factory of Foxconn Group and its co-factory in Chennai.
Source: Central News Agency
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China Insight: Possibility of virus laboratory leak
Reviewer : Yang Yue / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/05/08/a103113943.html / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
The CCP virus has ravaged the world for more than a year, but the source of the virus is still unknown. Recently, after nearly a year of research, a national-level research institution in the United States finally came to the conclusion that the CCP virus, which is also the novel coronavirus, may come from a laboratory in Wuhan and a senior political commentator with a medical background also argued that the source at the laboratory suggested that there is a fairly complete chain of evidence. So what kind of report is there and what evidence is there to support the "virus laboratory leak said "what"? We will take you to find out today.
An exclusive report by ABC7, a subsidiary of ABC’s ABC, a state-level secret document, adds a code to the weight of the laboratory source.
Lawrence Livermore's Z department, the U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory, is the site of former nuclear weapons protection research and the laboratory's top intelligence agency. Regarding the two arguments for the source of the virus, the natural source theory and the laboratory source theory, after secret research, [Anchor + Windows] reported in May last year that both possibilities are possible, that is, the laboratory leakage cannot be ruled out.
A Livermore laboratory spokesperson also confirmed that there was such a report but they declined to provide more information.
Reporter: "What makes you so convinced that the virus came from the Wuhan laboratory?"
Former U.S. President Trump: "I can't disclose, I can't disclose this."
Although Livermore Lab refused to provide more information, from the then-U.S. President Trump's answer to reporters' questions on April 30, 2020, it can be judged that the information he possessed led him to believe in the laboratory leak.
According to a report from ABC7, the report from the Livermore Laboratory at that time was sent to the Trump Administration’s National Security Council, the State Council and other key agencies.
Senior political commentator Yokogawa said, "This report can make it possible to see this report at the top of the U.S. government, including the top officials of the president and executive authorities, such as the State Department, so that all congressmen who see this report can accept their statements. In other words, his evidence should be quite sufficient from the level of acceptance by the senior U.S. government."
So what evidence is there to support the origin of the laboratory? Mr. Yokogawa passed 5 points and counted the existing evidence chain.
1. Wuhan Institute of Virology has collected a large number of bats and bat coronavirus samples.
2. Wuhan Institute of Virology is studying the functional enhancement experiment of bat coronavirus and cross-species infection.
3. The virus has traces of artificial modification
4. The Wuhan Institute of Virology concealed its cooperative relationship with the Chinese military.
5. Why did the Chinese Communist Party order that the grassroots units destroy relevant samples and materials?
1. From the geographical point of view, there are very few local bats in Wuhan. Therefore, the possibility of infecting an intermediate host through bats and then spreading to humans is very low. If this is the case, it should be more likely to erupt first in an area with more bats, rather than Wuhan. However, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has collected the world's largest number of samples of bats and bat coronaviruses, so from a geographical point of view, an outbreak in Wuhan is more likely than the theory of "natural origin".
2. The Wuhan Institute of Virology was studying the functional enhancement experiment of bat coronavirus and cross-species infection.
3. During the sequence analysis of the CCP virus, it was confirmed that there were traces of artificial modification, and this phenomenon is an anti-laboratory leak and has been unable to refute it.
4. According to the investigation of internal documents of the CCP, the British media confirmed that both the WIV and the CCP's military have appeared in the project on how animal sources of infection affect human transmission. The Wuhan Institute has always denied cooperating with the Chinese military.
5. Why did the Chinese Communist Party order that the grassroots units destroy relevant samples and materials?
Senior current political commentator Yokogawa said, "There may be really no purpose other than destroying the evidence. So if you put it together in this series, I think this is no longer a question of reasonable doubt, but a rather complete question. It is a chain of evidence."
So why are the WHO and some scientific journals opposing laboratory leaks one-sidedly?
Yokogawa believes:
1 Virus research experts or institutions have a joint interest in the CCP
2 The relationship between scientific journals and the Chinese Communist Party
3The influence of the theory of evolution, the tendency toward the theory of natural evolution
4 Politicization of the epidemic
1. The research field of bat coronavirus is narrow. There are no samples in other countries, so we need to cooperate with China. Therefore, research experts or institutions have interests related to the CCP, including research funding and other relationships.
2. The CCP publishes medical journals in English to make international scientific journals profitable. Therefore, scientific journals have a certain relationship with the CCP.
3. Nowadays, most medical or biologists adhere to the theory of evolution and therefore tend to evolve naturally. However, the biggest drawback of the theory of evolution is that in the three important steps of drawing conclusions: observation, reasoning, and experimental demonstration, they can only stay in In the first two steps, the inference cannot be verified experimentally, that is, it is just a hypothesis.
4. In the politicized environment of the epidemic, insisting on laboratory leaks that it is easy to be attacked as "inducing Asian hatred", leading some people to avoid it for political reasons.
According to reports, due to the resurgence of laboratory leak hypotheses, more than 20 international scientists have recently issued open letters. One is to call on the world to cooperate in response to the epidemic, and the other is to call on the WHO to investigate the origin of the new crown virus in more depth, and especially It is for Wuhan and related virus laboratories where the epidemic first broke out.
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