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New side effects of the vaccines? Nervous problems occur when vaccinating with Janssen and AZ vaccines, 1 type of people should be vigilant
Reporter : Su Guanmi / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/7/15/n13089763.htm / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Image ; The administration of Johnson & Johnson vaccine may cause rare side effects of Guillain-Barré syndrome. (Sander Koning/Getty Images)
The US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning on 12 July, stating that Guillain-Barré syndrome may occur after the injection of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is another rare side effect of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (Janssen) after thrombosis.
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New Possible Side Effects of Janssen- Guillain Barre Syndrome
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on 12 July that it will amend the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (Janssen) instructions, adding a warning: The administration of the vaccine may increase risk of nerve system complications known as Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) Risk of system complications.
The FDA statement stated that existing evidence suggests that Guillain Barre syndrome is associated with Janssen but the causal relationship has not yet been confirmed.
What is Guillain-Barre syndrome?
Guillain-Barre syndrome is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), an autoimmune disease.
There is a layer of membrane around human nerve cells called "myelin sheath", which is similar to the insulating layer outside of wires, which can protect the normal signal conduction of nerve cells. When Guillain-Barre syndrome occurs, the immune system attacks its own nervous system, causing damage to the myelin sheath that wraps the nerve fibers. This is like damage to the insulation layer of a wire, which prevents normal conduction. Damage to this layer of nerve cells will slow down nerve conduction.
Guillain-Barre syndrome can affect the muscles and nerves of the patient's whole body, causing numbness and paralysis of the hands and feet, difficulty in chewing and speaking on the face, and severe quadriplegia, affecting the respiratory muscles and endangering life. The recovery period of patients takes several weeks to several years, and about one-third of patients will have life-long sequelae of muscle weakness. The case fatality rate is about 4% to 7%.
The exact cause of Guillain-Barre syndrome is still unclear, but it usually occurs after infectious diseases, vaccination or surgical treatment.
For example, influenza, covid and Zika virus may all cause this disease. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2020 showed that after 5 Italian patients were infected with the novel coronavirus, the first symptoms were weakness and paresthesias in the lower limbs. 4 cases developed generalized paralysis within four days, and 3 cases developed dyspnea. In addition, such cases have also occurred in the influenza and herpes zoster vaccines.
A CDC spokesperson told CNN that an estimated 3,000 to 6,000 people in the U.S. suffer from Guillain-Barre syndrome each year, and most people recover completely.
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Most men over 50 years old pay attention to within 42 days after injection
According to information related to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Reaction Surveillance System, among the approximately 12.8 million people who have been vaccinated with Janssen, there have been 100 suspected Guillain-Barré syndrome cases, with an incidence rate of about 1 in 100,000.
Among them, 95 cases were hospitalized and 1 case died. The deceased was a 57-year-old man who had suffered from heart disease and stroke in the past 4 years, developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after vaccination, and passed away in early April.
A case of Guillain-Barré syndrome after being vaccinated with Janssen has the following characteristics:
● Vaccination group: mainly male, most of whom are over 50 years old.
● Occurrence time: Most of the symptoms appear within 2 to 3 weeks after vaccination, and the FDA warns to pay attention within 42 days after vaccination.
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AZ vaccine may induce Guillain-Barre syndrome
The AstraZeneca AZ vaccine, which is the same adenovirus vector vaccine as Janssen, has also seen sporadic cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome but it has not been confirmed to be related to the vaccine.
"Annals of Neurology" (Annals of Neurology) published an article on June 10 stating that 7 people in India developed severe Guillain-Barré syndrome within 2 weeks of being vaccinated with AZ vaccine. Another article on the same day listed 4 cases in the UK who were vaccinated with AZ and showed symptoms within 3 weeks.
An article in the British Medical Journal in early June mentioned that a 62-year-old woman had similar symptoms 11 days after receiving the first dose of AZ vaccine.
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Pay attention to 5 types of symptoms after Janssen injection
Because the possibility of Guillain-Barre syndrome is very low, the official still recommends vaccination. However, within 42 days after the administration of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, you should be alert if you have the following symptoms:
1. Weakness or tingling sensation in the arms and legs, which worsens and spreads to other parts of the body.
2. Difficulty walking.
3. Facial movement difficulties, including difficulty speaking, chewing or swallowing.
4. Diplopia or difficulty moving the eyes.
5. Difficulty urinating or defecation.
When these symptoms appear, seek medical attention as soon as possible, because the earlier the correct diagnosis and interventional treatment, the shorter the course of the disease.
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63% of Americans want compensation for the epidemic. Expert: The disintegration of the CCP begins
Reporter : Xu Jian / Editor : Lin Yan / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/7/14/n13088738.htm / Direct translation
According to a US Center for Security Policy (CSP)/TIPP poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe The CCP should compensate for the damage caused by the CCP virus (novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, covi) epidemic. Experts commented that this reflects the American people’s increasingly tough attitude towards the Chinese Communist regime, and the beginning of the epidemic’s claims was "the beginning of the overthrow of the Communist Party."
The CSP survey shows that 63% of Americans demand compensation from the CCP. If the CCP regime deliberately spread the coronavirus, this number will increase from 63% to 78%.
Even if the CCP “unintentionally” and accidentally released the virus, 71% of Republicans and 61% of Democrats and independents believe that the CCP must pay compensation.
CSP analysts insisted from the beginning that the virus originated in the Wuhan Virus Laboratory. J. Michael Waller, senior analyst of CSP strategy, said, “This shows that the vast majority of Americans surveyed agree with CSP’s position that the CCP must pay for the death and destruction it has caused internationally.”
As for those who did not support compensation, the CSP/TIPP poll found that, except for young people aged 18-24, those with an "uncertain" attitude are higher than those who oppose compensation.
Coincidentally, the results of the CSP/TIPP opinion poll are consistent with the results of a recent poll by Politico-Harvard.
In the Politico-Harvard survey, 52% of the respondents believed that the virus was accidentally or deliberately released from the laboratory, while the CSP/TIPP poll showed that 49% believed that the virus came from laboratory development, and another four points One interviewee believed that the CCP "intentionally" created the virus and "intentionally" released the virus.
In March 2020, a poll showed that only 29% of Americans believed that the CCP virus came from the laboratory. At the peak of the epidemic last year, mainstream American society regarded the "laboratory leak theory" as a conspiracy theory.
"These numbers are very staggering," Waller wrote on Tuesday. "This shows that since the pandemic began a year and a half ago, the perception gap (that American society has held the CCP responsible for) has greatly narrowed, and that the American people have increasingly adopted the CCP regime. The harder the line."
The CSP/TIPP poll also found that 67% of Republicans, 42% of Democrats, and 52% of independents said that the virus came from a CCP laboratory. Politico-Harvard's opinion poll found that 59% of Republicans, 52% of Democrats, and 47% of independents said the virus came from a laboratory.
"This is very important," Waller wrote. "Politico-Harvard is a free agency, and their polls show that the American people strongly agree with the CSP's views." Waller also said that the claim will have a double effect, "This will compensate The personal losses of American taxpayers and citizens have begun the process of overthrowing (the Chinese Communist Party)."
The CSP poll was conducted by TechnoMetrica between 30 June and 2 July. The respondents were 1,424 Americans over 18 years old.
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Taiwan purchases tens of millions of BNT vaccines thanks to the CCP's united front?
Good news came from Taiwan’s vaccine procurement on 11 July 2021. Hon Hai Group and TSMC announced that they had jointly signed a contract with Shanghai Fosun to purchase 10 million doses of German BNT vaccine. The unit price of each vaccine plus the processing cost is approximately At 33 dollars. It is expected that the first batch of vaccines can be sent to Taiwan for use in September to October at the earliest.
What's more, the most important thing is that, on the surface, the Chinese Communist Party does not seem to be involved in the vaccine procurement case. The vaccine will also be produced and packaged from Germany and sent directly to Taiwan, which has reduced a lot of controversy and worries about this procurement case.
Executive Yuan spokesperson Luo Bingcheng said, "It is in full compliance with the three principles of original manufacturing, original labeling, and direct delivery to Taiwan."
The founder of Hon Hai Group Guo Taiming also posted on Facebook. He said that with the help of the vaccine, Taiwan can "clear the epidemic" as soon as possible. At the same time, he also expressed his gratitude to the Beijing authorities. Why? He said: “During the negotiation period after my donation was proposed, there was no guidance or interference from the mainland Beijing authorities on the vaccine procurement process. I would like to thank you for allowing the procurement behavior to be attributed to the nature of the negotiation of commercial conditions.”
Well, seeing here, these 10 million doses of vaccines can be said to be quite important to Taiwanese society. In addition, the two world-renowned technology giants, Hon Hai and TSMC, jointly purchased the vaccines and donated the vaccines to the Taiwan government for use. This procurement case has attracted special attention.
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Taiwan's vaccine procurement case, Beijing is rare and quiet
However, what is even more curious is that in the past, the CCP used vaccines to pressure Taiwan and conducted a coercive united front against Taiwan. It also declared that Taiwan’s refusal to accept Chinese vaccines was a “political maneuver”, and it even intervened to block Taiwan’s procurement of BNT vaccines. . But why is the vaccine procurement case in Taiwan rare and quiet in Beijing?
Let us first look at how the CCP responds. The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council has come forward to say that this procurement case shows that "the CCP is blocking Taiwan's procurement of vaccines" and "using business to force politics" are rumors. Now the rumors are self-defeating. Okay, thank the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. Let us once again see how the CCP can lie without blushing and breathlessness. It can justify itself in any situation and find the most "great and righteous" angle of discourse for the party.
But is this really the case? BNT's CEO Ugur Sahin issued a statement on the 12th, saying that he is very happy to provide Taiwan with EU-made vaccines. Later, Shanghai Fosun also reposted this statement on Weibo, adding that Shanghai Fosun’s CEO Wu Yifang said that he was very pleased to see that “vaccine can play a positive role in the prevention and control of the epidemic in Taiwan”.
However, this Weibo post was quickly deleted. Why was it deleted? Shanghai Fosun did not explain. But I think it is very likely that the CCP officially requested that it be deleted. Because first, this transaction has attracted a lot of attention and international attention, but the protagonist is not the official CCP, but the German vaccine company, Hon Hai, and TSMC. Not only did the CCP lose face, it also gave the CCP one less time to earn international influence. Opportunity.
Second, this transaction lacks obvious practical benefits for the CCP’s united battle against Taiwan. The statements made by BNT and Shanghai Fosun will only make the people of Taiwan want to thank Germany and BNT instead of the CCP. This will not increase the Taiwanese people’s recognition and favor with the CCP. Therefore, for the CCP, this statement is of little benefit. On the contrary, it has contributed to foreign power, so it disappeared.
In addition, it is worth noting that reporters from Taiwan’s pro-communist media asked the Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shizhong a rather strange question at the press conference.
Reporter: "The second question is that Hon Hai and TSMC purchased vaccines through Shanghai Renaissance without being obstructed by the mainland (the Chinese Communist Party). Will the minister thank the mainland authorities for the promotion?"
Did you hear that? The pro-communist media want Taiwan to thank the CCP. What do they thank? Thank the CCP for not suppressing? Thank the CCP for letting Taiwan go? This kind of questioning and the mentality behind it is a typical "Stockholm syndrome", which is to treat the enemy who kidnapped himself as a benefactor. As long as the enemy gives a small favor or does not hurt himself, he will be grateful to him and treat himself as an enemy. Slave.
Finally, Chen Shizhong did not directly answer this question, but the pro-communist media’s question actually revealed two messages: first, the CCP actually hopes that this procurement case can more or less play a positive role in uniting Taiwan; The pro-communist media understood this or received instructions, so they tried every means to cater to the CCP and tout the CCP.
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The CCP "cannot stop" this procurement case?
So, in my opinion, in fact, the CCP "cannot block" Taiwan's purchase of BNT vaccines. However, the CCP still tried every means to save some face and earn some united front capital in this incident. The key is here. Why does the CCP "cannot stop" this procurement case? I think there are several main reasons:
Reason 1: U.S., Japan, and Lithuania rushed to help solve the vaccine shortage in Taiwan
After the outbreak of the new epidemic in Taiwan, Japan and the United States successively donated a large number of vaccines to Taiwan, the United States donated 2.5 million doses, and Japan also donated 2.37 million doses twice. It can be said that it has brought abundant and timely rain to Taiwan and relieved the vaccine. The shortage has also effectively helped Taiwan temporarily resist the CCP’s vaccine united front and pressure.
Even Lithuania, a small country in Eastern Europe, donated 20,000 doses of vaccine to help Taiwan. Although the number is small, the Lithuanian people say that one of the main reasons they donate vaccines to Taiwan is to show the outside world that Lithuania is not afraid of powerful countries like the CCP or Russia, and they want to help their true friends.
Moreover, the vaccine donations of the United States and Japan are "unconditional donations." If the CCP wants to exchange vaccines for Taiwan in exchange for political conditions, it will show its footing and let the CCP's "pandemic reunification" trick at home and abroad. Therefore, the CCP has also fallen into an increasingly passive dilemma, and the situation has become increasingly unfavorable for the CCP’s vaccine united front plan.
Reason two: Hon Hai and TSMC teamed up to make a huge impact on science and technology
The two giants Hon Hai and TSMC are currently the most influential technology conglomerates, which can affect not only the world, but also China. Foxconn, a subsidiary of Hon Hai, is the world's largest electronic technology manufacturer with millions of employees in China. TSMC is the world's top semiconductor chip manufacturer, and it is the target of cooperation that governments around the world are actively striving for.
Therefore, this time Hon Hai and TSMC have joined forces to purchase vaccines from Germany's BNT. On the surface, it looks like a purely commercial transaction. However, the combination of the two powers will inevitably make the political circles of Germany and the Chinese Communist Party have to pay attention.
In particular, the National Development Foundation of Taiwan’s Executive Yuan is a major shareholder of TSMC. If BNT does not allow Taiwan to buy vaccines, will it be possible that TSMC will refuse to set up factories in Germany to produce chips? In this case, will the German government actively pay attention to it, or even want to help promote this procurement case?
Moreover, TSMC is preparing to invest US$2.8 billion in Nanjing to expand the production of low-end chips, but recently there has been dissatisfaction from the United States and is pressing TSMC to cancel the plan. Therefore, should the CCP try to win over TSMC at this time? If the CCP jumps out to block the procurement of vaccines, will it add fuel to the fire and burn itself?
Of course, none of the parties involved mentioned such a "vaccine-for-chip" transaction, but the technical and economic strength of the two major technology giants will indeed affect the growth and decline of national power, especially the semiconductor technology of the CCP is far behind the United States and TSMC. Therefore, it is difficult for the CCP to stop this vaccine purchase.
Reason 3: Beijing uses vaccines to promote reunification, Taiwan and the international rebound surge
In the past year, the CCP has actively carried out vaccine diplomacy with countries around the world, and wanted to expand the CCP’s influence and dominance over countries in the world by selling or donating vaccines, which is the so-called "sharp power." After the outbreak of the epidemic in Taiwan at the end of April, the CCP has also strengthened its implementation of the "vaccine united front" against Taiwan, hoping to use vaccines to gain sharp power to manipulate Taiwan.
However, the CCP’s vaccine united front and war wolf posture have made the people in Taiwan quite dissatisfied. According to the latest poll completed a few days ago, as many as 90% of the people in Taiwan have an attitude of “insensitivity, coldness, and disgust” towards the CCP, only Ten percent of the people have a "favorite feeling" for the CCP. To put it bluntly, the CCP’s vaccine united front and "promoting reunification with the epidemic" have received increasingly obvious counter-effects in Taiwan.
Moreover, the protective efficacy of Chinese vaccines is increasingly being questioned in the international community. Among the top six countries with the most severe epidemics in the world, five rely on Chinese vaccines. In June, 26 doctors in Indonesia died of the disease, and 10 of them had been vaccinated with Koxing vaccine.
In Thailand, hundreds of medical staff were still diagnosed with the disease after being vaccinated with Kexing vaccine. Therefore, even Singapore, which has a close relationship with China, also ordered an announcement that people who have received Kexing vaccines cannot be included in the list of "veined persons". The subtext is that Chinese vaccines cannot be trusted.
Therefore, while the world is increasingly questioning China’s vaccines, the CCP is desperately trying to "force sell" to Taiwan, which will inevitably arouse the antipathy of the CCP and support for Taiwan. Such a major international situation is quite detrimental to the CCP's united war on Taiwan.
Reason 4: Abandoning Taiwan and Shanghai Fosun will lose huge market profits
In January of this year, the Taiwanese government almost completed the procurement of vaccines with Germany's BNT, but Xu Shanshan, a senior executive of BNT from China, came forward to block the transaction and interrupted the transaction. The editor-in-chief of Taiwan's "Freedom Times" also wrote an insider special article, exposing that the CCP has arranged a "cell" in BNT.
Next, the CCP emphasized that Shanghai Fosun is the sole agent of BNT vaccine in Greater China. If Taiwan wants to buy BNT vaccine, it has to talk to Shanghai Fosun. In fact, in the "license agreement" signed by Shanghai Fosun with BNT last year, it is indeed stated that Shanghai Fosun's agency rights cover China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Therefore, the purchase of BNT vaccine in Taiwan this time cannot bypass Shanghai Fosun.
However, from another perspective, although Shanghai Fosun is the sole agent of BNT vaccine in Greater China, the quantity has reached 100 million doses, but it did not expect the CCP to ban the use of any foreign vaccines. One billion people can only use China-made Sinopharm, Kexing, etc. vaccine. In other words, Shanghai Fosun has no market except Hong Kong and Macau.
However, the total population of Hong Kong and Macau is only 8 million people. Even if all the BNT vaccines are given, each person receives two doses, but only 16 million doses. In terms of conversion, out of the 100 million doses that Shanghai Fosun represents, there are still more than 80 million doses that will be useless. Therefore, Shanghai Fosun actually needs the population of more than 20 million people in Taiwan to help digest the vaccine and make a profit, otherwise it will suffer heavy losses.
So, how much profit can Shanghai Fosun make as an agent of vaccines? We don’t know the details, but Pfizer sold the BNT vaccine to the European Union at a price of 19.5 euros per dose, equivalent to about 23 US dollars, in April this year.
The unit price of the vaccine obtained by Taiwan this time is US$30, plus other processing costs. The cost per dose is about US$33, which is US$10 higher than the EU. Assuming that Shanghai Fosun also used the cost of 23 US dollars to obtain the vaccine, and then used 30 US dollars to sell 10 million doses to Taiwan, it could make a price difference of 70 million US dollars. Of course, only Shanghai Fosun and BNT know the actual trading data, and this is just an estimate.
However, this calculation also tells us that if the CCP does not allow Shanghai Fosun to sell vaccines to Taiwan, Shanghai Fosun will lose a huge amount of income, and may even lose severely. This is not a good thing for Fosun and the powerful and powerful of the Chinese Communist Party. .
Reason 5: Taiwan's epidemic is slowing down, the CCP missed the opportunity to pressure
Over the past two weeks, the epidemic in Taiwan has gradually slowed down. At present, the main new cases are concentrated in Taipei City and New Taipei City. The epidemic in other areas is continuing to cool down. Therefore, Taiwan's pressure to fight the epidemic and the urgency of vaccine demand have gradually eased.
In other words, the CCP has missed the opportunity to pressure Taiwan. In this situation, the CCP wants to continue to use vaccines to pressure Taiwan and divide Taiwan's effects, but it is getting weaker and weaker.
However, although the CCP is "incapable of blocking" Taiwan's vaccine procurement case, Taiwan still needs to pay close attention to whether the CCP will intervene in Taiwan's procurement of a "second dose" of BNT vaccine.
As you all know, most vaccines currently require two doses, and BNT is no exception. So, is it possible for the CCP to let millions of people in Taiwan get the first dose of BNT vaccine first, and then when Taiwan wants to purchase the second dose of vaccine, the CCP will step out to block it and demand that Taiwan must provide certain conditions in exchange for the vaccine? This cannot be ruled out at present, after all, if the first dose is given, if the second dose is not given, it is very likely that the protective effect will be lost.
Although the European Union and other places are currently studying the feasibility of "vaccine mixing", for example, the first dose is AZ, and the second dose is BNT. However, the mixed vaccine is still in the experimental stage, and its safety and effectiveness are still in the experimental stage. unclear.
Therefore, it should be clearly stated that Taiwan will not import Sinopharm vaccines, Kexing vaccines, etc. produced by the CCP, but if Taiwan needs to continue to purchase the second batch of BNT vaccines or even the third batch of vaccines from Shanghai Fosun, then Taiwan will still have to pay attention to whether the CCP will get in the way of it? If it does happen, how should Taiwan respond?
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Pompeo on the 100th Anniversary of the CCP: The History that Xi and the CCP dare not mention
Editor : Lin Yan / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/7/13/n13086813.htm / Direct translation
The former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote a few days ago that the CCP cannot face its own failures at all. It will only use coercion and violence. Suppresses criticism; he also counted the history that Xi Jinping dared not mention in the CCP’s Centennial Ceremony.
Pompeo published an article on the American Law and Justice Center (ACLJ) website saying that the CCP used the power of the entire nation to "celebrate" its 100th anniversary last week and held a well-planned parade in Tiananmen Square. In a keynote speech delivered by the Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping List the "achievements" under the CCP's rule. However, Xi Jinping and the CCP have missed some noteworthy "achievements."
He stated that one of the "achievements" that Xi Jinping missed in his speech was that the biggest slaughter in human history was the CCP, not the Soviet Union or the Nazis.
"More than 70 million Chinese died under Mao Zedong’s rule. From the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution, millions of Chinese, mainly intellectuals, were publicly humiliated, imprisoned or executed. Under Mao Zedong’s leadership The history of the Chinese Communist Party is horrifying, and it is not worth celebrating," he wrote.
However, this horror did not end with Mao Zedong's death. Thirty-two years ago, the CCP massacred peaceful Chinese citizens in Tiananmen Square because they called for a freer China and a more responsible government.
Pompeo said that at the time millions of Chinese citizens were eager to get rid of the horrors of Mao Zedong’s rule. When widespread protests across the country reached a climax, the CCP did not listen to the opinions of the Chinese people, but cruelly suppressed them. I don’t know how many people were killed in the crackdown.
"Despite the global condemnation of the CCP's actions, the CCP's vicious and cruel treatment of the Chinese people has not stopped." He wrote, "Today, millions of Uyghur Muslims are locked up in concentration camps-men are forced to By doing coolies, women are forced to undergo sterilization operations-because they are religious and ethnic minorities, they do not conform to the vision of Xi Jinping and the CCP for the future of China."
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The CCP’s violent regime spreads its harm to the world
Pompeo said: "The CCP cannot face its own failure at all. It can only suppress criticism through coercion and often violence. The harm it causes is not limited to just hurting the Chinese people."
He took the epidemic as an example: The CCP virus (new crown virus, COVID-19) pandemic originated in China. Before the virus spread to the world, the CCP suppressed all reports or referrals about the epidemic and allowed the virus to spread to other parts of the world. .
"Honesty can save millions of lives and reflect the basic concern for world security, but the CCP only cares about its own political security." He said.
He said that all the evidence now shows that the virus is likely to originate from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and their research on bat coronavirus is often carried out under dangerous and unsafe conditions.
"Our Beijing Embassy expressed concerns about the safety and security of the laboratory in a 2017 telegram. Investigating the highly probable theory that the virus originated in this laboratory is not only logical, but also important to ensure this pandemic It’s vital that it doesn’t happen again,” Pompeo said.
He also understood that the CCP would not agree to cooperate with the world for its own benefit.
"However, if this means undermining the authority of the CCP in the country, then it has no intention to cooperate with other countries in the world." Pompeo admonished, "There is sufficient evidence that these malicious actions by the CCP should be taken now. Take action and hold the CCP accountable."
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The CCP only cares about power and survival. There is no shame in treachery
Pompeo said that the CCP has no intention of fulfilling the agreements it signed in the past or satisfying the reform aspirations of its own people.
The "Hong Kong National Security Law" passed by the Chinese Communist Party in June 2020 is a sign of repression of Hong Kong. The law undermines the "one country, two systems" relationship between Hong Kong and Beijing, which has been granted since the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which ensures Hong Kong's autonomy under Beijing until 2047.
Since the passage of the National Security Law, the CCP has taken further actions to put Hong Kong under its control, and recently forced the closure of the "Apple Daily", a democratic newspaper that advocates Hong Kong's freedom.
"We should not be surprised that the CCP has betrayed its promises." Pompeo said that China is a member of the UN Human Rights Council, but the CCP has committed genocide to its own people; the CCP joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, but it continues to engage in genocide. The unfair mercantilist trade policy puts foreign companies at an obvious disadvantage.
"Whether it is for the Chinese people or other countries (peoples) in the world, the CCP only cares about its own power and survival. And then, it put Taiwan on its own goals." He said.
Xi Jinping said in the CCP's Hundred Years Speech, "The Chinese people are not only good at destroying the old world, but they have also created a new world."
Pompeo responded to Xi Jinping’s statement, “In fact, the CCP today represents mankind’s worst brutal regime and a barbaric past. The United States and our allies must ensure that it does not direct the future of mankind.”
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Exclusive: Dandong issued 14 measures to persecute Falun Gong
Recently, The Epoch Times received the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the 14 Stability Maintenance and Response Work Regulations" from the Political and Legal Committee of Dandong City Committee, Dandong City Stability Maintenance Office, and Dandong City Comprehensive Management Office on June 25, 2015. The file level is marked as "Confidential".
Among the 14 items in this document, item 13 contains the "Provisions on Preventing and Cracking Down on Religious X Organizations to Ban Illegal Religious Organizations According to Law", which are mainly measures against Falun Gong. There are 14 items in total.
1. Severely crack down and strictly guard against Falun Gong and other X religious organizations.
2. Strictly prevent the large-scale gathering of Falun Gong and other X-teaching organizations. There will be no large-scale Falun Gong publicity slogans, large-scale dissemination of Falun Gong propaganda materials, no X-teaching personnel entering the 12th National Games arena, no broadcasts, TV, LED advertising screens, etc. case.
3. Collect all kinds of "inside and early warning" information related to X education, focusing on the movements of X education organizations such as overseas Falun Gong; movements of X teachers at home and abroad; domestic and overseas Falun Gong personnel planning radio, television, and LED advertising screen interrupt activities and Hang banners, spray slogans and other activities clues.
4. "Promptly" submit X-related intelligence information to the Prevention Office (610 Office) at the same level.
5. Strengthen the control of key personnel of the X cult, including Falun Gong. Grasp the background and current situation of Falun Gong and other X teachers, find out the situation of local Falun Gong and other personnel, implement hierarchical control measures; pursue and arrest missing Falun Gong and other personnel, etc.
6. Dispose of activities such as hanging banners, posting and spraying slogans, disseminating propaganda materials, and public gatherings for exercises by X teachers.
7. Take strict precautions against broadcasts containing Falun Gong and other X teaching content on TV stations in various places; take strict precautions against receiving and disseminating NTDTV programs, etc.
8. Prevent the use of LED screens for the spread of X-teaching information.
9. Strengthen network monitoring, block and delete X-teaching information on the Internet.
10. Set up a number of special projects for key areas and key personnel, especially activities such as focusing on Falun Gong, fingerprinting cases, uploading and downloading Falun Gong information by Falun Gong personnel, and compiling and distributing local editions of Minghui Periodicals.
11. Courts and procuratorates at all levels have strengthened the punishment of Falun Gong and other X education organizations, focusing on doing well in court trials of Falun Gong and other cases, and strictly preventing human rights lawyers from "taking the opportunity to create troubles."
12. Confiscate and clean up all kinds of information about the truth about Falun Gong, and establish a "guarantee" responsibility system, etc.
13. The Municipal Prevention Office shall collect information extensively.
14. It is necessary to "strike hard and maintain a high-pressure situation."
In the "Regulations on the Investigation and Rectification of Key Public Security Areas and Prominent Public Security Issues" in Item 4 of the document, it is stated that the focus will be on strengthening the management of "Falungong" and other X cult members, key personnel involved in stability, and especially leaders of interest groups. .
In item 8 of the document, "Regulations on the Monthly Research and Judgment of Social Stability Situation", it is stated that the contents of the investigation and judgment by the authorities mainly include letters and visits, X education crackdowns, and Internet public opinion.
The above-mentioned documents mentioned that Falun Gong practitioners used radio, television, LED advertising screen interruption activities, hanging banners, spraying slogans and other methods, which are also the most feared behavior of the CCP in clarifying the truth.
The most sensational episode of the truth took place in Changchun City, Jilin Province. On the evening of March 5, 2002, eight TV channels in Changchun City were switched to Falun Gong truth TV series. Nearly one million viewers watched two programs of about 50 minutes, "Is it a self-immolation or a scam" and "The World of Falun Dafa" .
This broadcast not only conveyed the beauty of Falun Gong to the world, but also fully exposed the CCP’s concocting of Tiananmen Square self-immolation and planting Falun Gong.
The above-mentioned documents mentioned Falun Gong's handprint activities. A few years ago, there were 300 mudra and 562 mudra in Hebei and 15,000 mudra in Northeast Heilongjiang. People in mainland China who understood the truth gathered to oppose the brutal persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP and pressed their fingerprints to support Falun Gong practitioners.
The aforementioned documents mentioned that the public is not allowed to receive and broadcast NTDTV programs. The reason why the Chinese Communist Party has done its best to block NTDTV is that NTDTV dared to report fairly, truthfully and extensively on China's human rights, political, economic, and social issues, and is committed to providing objective reports that are not subject to official censorship and filtering by the Chinese Communist Party.
In addition, the CCP’s internal documents also show that the CCP has designated "5‧13" as an important sensitive node. "May 13" (May 13 each year) is Falun Dafa Day around the world. After the CCP persecuted Falun Gong in July 1999, Falun Gong has since gone international and spread throughout the world.
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Exclusive: Documents leaked by Dandong authorities using media to slander Falun Gong
On July 20, 1999, the Jiang Zemin Group of the Communist Party of China used its huge state machinery to spread lies to all of China and overseas, slandering Falun Gong groups, and an atmosphere of terror spread across the country in an instant, inciting many people who did not know the truth to hate Falun Gong.
Recently, The Epoch Times obtained a number of internal documents from the Dandong Municipal Legal Committee, leaking the authorities "further intensified" the suppression of Falun Gong, using the media to discredit Falun Gong, and arresting Falun Gong practitioners.
In the "2016 Yearbook Report on the Municipal Political and Legal Committee" on July 7, 2017, it stated that "precise strikes against underground organizations and professional backbones of X education".
The document was leaked. The local "610 Office" added special programs slandering Falun Gong on Dandong TV, Dandong Daily, Yalu River Evening News and other media. The city broadcasted more than 8,000 advertisements slandering Falun Gong, and serialized 5 columns of smearing Falun Gong. , There are more than 60,000 newspapers, and 150,000 local people have been victimized.
Internal documents also mentioned that in 2016, there were 16 cases involving Falun Gong in the city, 22 people were arrested, and 9 Falun Gong cases were tried.
In Dandong Municipal Law Committee’s 2017 “General Municipal Law Work Report”, the content of suppressing Falun Gong was repeatedly mentioned, saying that “the activities of Falun Gong and other X religious organizations shall be severely cracked down. In the first half of the year, 5 Falun Gong cases were detected and 8 were arrested. People." "Further intensify the crackdown on X education organizations."
In Dandong Municipal Legal Committee Secretary Yang Feng’s “Speech at the Municipal Conference on Comprehensive Administration of Law and Stability Maintenance” on February 28, 2015, he stated that “Falungong and other activities have been severely cracked down, and special activities such as the rectification of Falun Gong organizations, production and dissemination of materials, are involved in Falun Gong. There were 11 cases and 14 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested."
According to a report on Minghui.com.cn on May 31, 2017, according to incomplete statistics, as of 2016, Falun Gong practitioners in Dandong, Liaoning have been illegally sentenced to 218 persons; 428 persons were illegally re-education through labor; 596 persons were illegally detained; 84 persons were tortured to death; Persecuted 4 people with mental disorders; from 2016 to May 2017, more than a dozen Falun Gong practitioners were illegally prosecuted and sentenced in Dandong. From March and April 2017 to the present, Dandong public security system and individual community street personnel cooperated and harassed many Falun Gong practitioners.
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Exclusive: Document Leaked Dandong Lists the Persecution of Falun Gong in the Performance Appraisal
The Epoch Times obtained Dandong’s 2016 "Politics and Law Committee Work Performance Evaluation Individuality Indicators", showing that there are nine main content of the evaluation, of which the names of two and four indicators are related to the persecution of Falun Gong.
The name of the second indicator is "Preventing and Handling X-teaching Issues", and its assessment standard is to complete the "clearing and paying off work" of the city’s social Falun Gong truth information before June 30, 2016; X teaching activity work".
The name of the fourth indicator is "No-X education creation and anti-X education publicity and education work", and its assessment standard is to guide counties and districts to complete the pilot selection of demonstration counties (cities, districts) without X education before June 30, 2016 Work; the annual "Hundreds of Counties, Thousands of Townships and Ten Thousand Villages without X Education to Create a Demonstration Project" will be deepened.
Exclusive: Authorities forcefully convicted multiple Falun Gong cases for leaked documents to prevent lawyers from acting for rights protection
The Dandong Municipal Law Committee’s "Self-Inspection Report on Strengthening and Improving Ethnic Work in the New Situation" obtained by The Epoch Times on May 20, 2015 mentioned that "the establishment of a joint action mechanism against Falun Gong and other X-teaching organizations", "continue Intensify the crackdown on Falun Gong, carry out educational transformation, and block and check overseas Falun Gong websites."
In the section "Working since last year (2014)", it was revealed that the authorities forcefully sentenced multiple cases involving Falun Gong and prevented the Beijing lawyers hired by the parties from defending their rights during the trial. The document also stated that “we have actively carried out a thorough investigation of the city’s Falun Gong and other key personnel.”
In November 2019, Hebei human rights lawyer Lu Tingge sent a report to the director of the Shijiazhuang Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Commission. Complaints against Ma Jian, deputy director of the Shijiazhuang Judicial Bureau, in order to prevent him from acting in the Falun Gong case, he visited his parents' home in the name of poverty alleviation and threatened his parents with the serious consequences of acting in the Falun Gong case. Lu Tingge denounced officials of the Judicial Bureau for their despicable behavior and shamelessness. He also accused him of doing illegal things under the banner of the "party".
Li Ming, a human rights lawyer, once disclosed that the Political and Legal Affairs Commission manipulated the Falun Gong case and determined the trial strategy and general sentence before the trial. "For this case, this is an order that cannot be changed, and no one can overstep it. It is clearly unjust, false, and wrong cases. But they just imposed a guilty verdict by force."
Judges from all over China who handle Falun Gong cases once publicly said, "We don't talk about the law in the Falun Gong case!" "What are you doing when you talk to me about the law, and I talk about politics with you."
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Exclusive: Internal leaking authorities have elevated the fight against Falun Gong to "ensure political security"
Internal documents also elevated the fight against Falun Gong to "maintain national security and political stability" and slandered Falun Gong practitioners who practiced "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance" as "violent terrorists."
According to the 2017 "Deputy Director Wang Song's Communication of Leadership Instructions" obtained by Epoch Times, Wang Song was the deputy director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Dandong City at the time. Among them, he conveyed to Li Wenzai, then Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Liaoning Province and Director of the Provincial Comprehensive Administration Committee. "Speech at the Second (Expanded) Meeting of the Directors of the Provincial Comprehensive Management Committee."
In order to ensure the smooth holding of the "19th National Congress", the CCP mentioned the need to guard against "color revolutions." Simultaneously. The CCP treats Falun Gong as an "anti-terrorism" effort to combat it.
The document stated in the so-called “maintenance of political security” that “we must do our best to combat terrorism, severely crack down on Falun Gong and other X religious organizations, and maintain a high level of alert against violent terrorist activities and X religious organizations."
The 2016 “Creating a Safe and Stable Social Environment for the Victory of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China” issued by the Dandong Municipal Law Commission in Liaoning stated that Falun Gong activities are highly active online and underground, which directly affects “national security” and “must be severely cracked down.”
Current political commentator Li Linyi said that Dandong classified the attack on Falun Gong as a category of "national security and regime security", which shows how much the CCP is afraid of Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners do not have weapons, they just peacefully tell the truth about Falun Gong, and the CCP will “educate and transform” them after they are arrested. This so-called "educational transformation" is only a superficial statement, and its purpose is to make them give up practicing Falun Gong. If Falun Gong practitioners do not give up their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance", many people will be tortured and eventually sentenced or their live organs harvested.
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Human cases of avian influenza H5N6 in Bazhong, Sichuan
Reporter : Li Jinfeng / Editor: Fan Min / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/07/15/a103165979.html / Direct translation
The Chinese Communist Party's pneumonia epidemic has continued, and a new case of human infection with avian influenza H5N6 has been reported in Bazhong City, Sichuan Province.
On 14 July, the Hong Kong government issued a press release stating that the mainland health authorities notified Hong Kong that there was a new human case of avian influenza A H5N6 in Sichuan. It was a 55-year-old man living in Bazhong City, Sichuan Province. Contact with live poultry.
The man developed symptoms on June 30 and was admitted to the hospital on 4 July. He is now in critical condition.
The next day, in the early morning of 15 July, the Health and Health Bureau of Bazhou District, Bazhong, Sichuan Province, and the Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly announced that the man now lives in Bazhou District, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province.
According to the news, on 6 July, the Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention tested the patient's nasopharyngeal swab samples and the result was positive for the H5N6 virus. Experts believe that the epidemic was an occasional poultry-to-human cross-species transmission, and there has been no case of human-to-human transmission of H5N6 globally.
Earlier, on 1 June this year, the National Health Commission of the Communist Party of China reported that a human case of H10N3 avian influenza was found in Jiangsu Province, which was alleged to be the world's first human case of H10N3 avian influenza.
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Shenzhen SEG Building shook strangely, official survey results are released
Editor : Wen Rui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/07/15/a103166041.html / Direct translation
Image : On 18 May 2021, the SEG Building (middle) on the SEG Plaza in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China shook noticeably, causing public attention at home and abroad. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
The iconic building in Shenzhen, China, "SEG Building", experienced many unexplained shaking in May 2021. Now, after nearly 2 months, the survey results of the expert group commissioned by the Chinese Communist Party have been released. It is said that the main factor of the vibration of the SEG Building is the resonance caused by the mast.
Based on reports from the mainland media, the expert team ruled out external factors such as subways, construction, and air-conditioning operations, and believed that "mast wind-induced vortex-induced resonance" was the direct cause of the shaking of the building.
The expert group stated that under certain conditions of steady-state wind field that lasted for a certain period of time, the mast of the building produced a fourth-order inverted asymmetric vortex-induced resonance with a frequency of 2.12 Hz, which stimulated the main structure of the building to feel vibration.
Secondly, because the building has been in use for more than 20 years, the building’s partial floor profiled steel plate composite floor slabs, as well as the accumulated damage of the mast connection points, have changed the structural frequency and damping ratio and other characteristics, forming the necessary conditions for resonance.
The expert group stated that the above-mentioned local cumulative damage does not affect the safety of the main structure of the building, and the building can continue to be used. The expert group believes that the current effective way to solve the vibration of the building is to remove the mast. The lightning protection and navigation mark functions of the mast can be installed again after being removed.
However, a paper published earlier on the Internet disclosed that there are many hidden dangers in the construction of the SEG Building, and also revealed that there were problems with the roof mast at the beginning of the installation.
After the shaking of the SEG Building occurred, a master's thesis 20 years ago, "Shenzhen SEG Plaza Construction Project Review" was circulated on the Internet. The paper had already pointed out the flaws in the construction of the SEG Building, including construction before the design drawings were completed, etc. .
The thesis pointed out that the SEG Building, which was a landmark building in Shenzhen, encountered engineering problems such as modifying the design while constructing, and constructing the design before completing the design. The most serious one was the "roof antenna shaking", and the problem was discovered after the roof was capped. , As a result, the antenna must be sawed off and then added.
SEG Building is located in Huaqiang North, Futian District, Shenzhen. It was built by Shenzhen SEG Group Co., Ltd. from January 1996 to 2000. The building is 71 floors high, with a total height of 355.8 meters and a construction area of 164,300 square meters. It is a landmark building in Shenzhen.
From 18 to 20 May 2021, the SEG Building shook for three consecutive days, causing panic among the people in and around the building. According to videos posted on the Internet, many people screamed and fled at the time, and many people shared their horrible experiences on the Internet afterwards. "Shoes are all broken" and "I have never run across the 50th floor to the 1st floor so hard in my life. , "I work in the highest building of the SEG Building, the vibration amplitude is really strong, it is too scary to run all the way."
News (19) to (20) / Editor : Li Ling / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/7/14/n13088210.htm / Direct translation
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Unrest intensifies, Cuba's new covid death toll hits record
According to the Cuban Ministry of Health, Cuba reported 51 covid-related deaths on Wednesday (July 14), setting a record. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 1,659 people have died in Cuba.
In addition, 6,080 new covid cases have been added to the island nation, bringing the total number of cases to 256,607.
For most of the pandemic, Cuba controlled the infection rate but in recent weeks, the number of cases and deaths in Cuba has soared.
As the record death toll was reported on Wednesday, the communist-ruled island nation is facing increasing political turmoil. The unprecedented anti-government protests on Sunday shook the country, and thousands of people across the country took to the streets.
Many Cubans have been criticizing the government's covid response measures and the severe economic losses this pandemic has caused to the country.
Cuba said that their self-produced covi vaccine is optimistic. However, as of Tuesday, only 1,894,508 of the 11.4 million people in Cuba were fully vaccinated.
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Covid patients in Belgium triple in three weeks
At present, the number of covi infections in Belgium is "three times higher than three weeks ago", and the number of infections is doubling every eight days.
Sciensano's head of viral diseases, Steven Van Gucht, said at an online press conference on Wednesday (14 July), "In the past week, the average number of new additions discovered every day There are more than 1,000 infections, which is equivalent to a sharp increase of 83% every week."
"The number of infections now is three times higher than three weeks ago." Van Goucht said: "The current number is doubling every eight days. We think this rate will continue in the next few days, but it may not. A substantial increase."
According to OurWorldInData, Belgium recorded 1,238 new cases of covid in a single day on Monday, the most in more than a month.
European leaders once again called for vaccinations to combat the virus. Some countries have re-implemented blockade restrictions in an attempt to contain the more spreading Delta variant.
Van Goucht added, "At present, 63% of new infections are caused by the Delta variant.-50% last week."
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