Taiwan+ video-streaming launch Tsai Ing-wen: Let the world see the story of Taiwan
Reporter : Zhong Yuan / Editor : Lin Yan
Image : President Tsai Ing-wen of the Republic of China recorded a speech video for the "International Audiovisual Streaming Platform Taiwan+ Global Launch Party" on 30 August. (Provided by the Presidential Palace)
On 30 August 2021, President Tsai Ing-wen of the Republic of China delivered a congratulatory speech for the "International Video Streaming Platform Taiwan+ Global Launch Party" this evening. She said that using this platform to tell the story of Taiwan is an exciting innovation.
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Strengthen democracy and resilience through Taiwan+
In her speech, Tsai Ing-wen said, " It is great to be able to participate in the opening ceremony of 'Taiwan+ International Audiovisual Streaming Platform' with you today." She emphasized that generations of Taiwanese have worked hard to transform this country into a vibrant democracy where freedom of speech and expression is guaranteed. The task of the new generation now is to make Taiwan enter the world based on such freedom.
She pointed out that the goal of this work is not only to strengthen our democracy and resilience, but also to help and inspire people around the world, "In order to realize this vision, we need a platform to show the world our diverse faces and achievements, as well as our desire to contribute to the international community."
"Our story must of course be told by the people of Taiwan," she said. "Through this platform, we emphasize our own experience and perspectives on regional and international affairs. To attract more audiences to the story of perseverance, we must use it. Tell the story in a different way."
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Taiwan expands global participation
Tsai Ing-wen pointed out that this is why Taiwan+ becomes more important as we strive to expand global participation, Taiwan+ is our own international media platform. We are committed to showing that Taiwan can make a contribution. This window can also allow people from all over the world to discover Taiwan and understand our views."
She wished the Taiwan+ management team and colleagues a smooth promotion of this new project and expected them to share many important stories.
"Taiwan+" is an international audio-visual streaming platform set up by the Ministry of Culture. It is a transnational, trans-regional, and trans-platform global communication network that speaks English and conveys Taiwan's values and views to the world.
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Spreading cheers between friendly countries through Taiwan+
Su Zhenchang said that since this period of time, people in Taiwan and all over the world have been affected by the covi variant and the spread of the covid epidemic. Therefore, the transmission of various messages and the cheering between friends is even more important. “Taiwan+ will be officially launched at this time, which can expand Taiwan’s connection with the world, give Taiwan more channels for sending messages to the world, and make it easier for the world to see Taiwan.”
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Taiwan stresses on freedom, democracy and rule of law
He pointed out that Taiwan is not only rich in natural ecology, but also diverse in humanities. More importantly, Taiwan is a free, democratic, and rule of law country, as well as a very open and lively society. Like many countries in the world, Taiwan is very concerned about universal values and tolerating diverse cultures. Therefore, many countries in the world are willing to make friends with Taiwan, many chambers of commerce and all walks of life are willing to do business with Taiwan, and many friends who love to travel and sightseeing are willing to come to Taiwan to enjoy the warmth, friendliness and freedom of Taiwanese.
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Taiwan+ launched, Tsai Ing-wen hopes to let the world see the story of Taiwan
Image : Vice President of the Republic of China Lai Ching-teh attended the "International Audiovisual Streaming Platform Taiwan+ Global Launch Party" and delivered a speech. (Provided by the Presidential Palace)
At the time of Vice President Lai Ching-teh’s speech, Taiwan+, as a brand new starting point, uses a global common language to present Taiwan’s unique side and broad perspectives, bringing a whole new perspective to audiences around the world, and telling the world what Taiwanese people are thinking, and Taiwanese people. What it wants, what Taiwan is doing, and what contribution it can make to the world.
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Taiwan+ aims to promote bilingualism to Taiwan and the world
Lai pointed out that Taiwan+ has another important task, which is to assist the government in promoting a bilingual national policy. In his 520 inaugural speech last year, President Tsai Ing-wen declared that the bilingual country in 2030 will be a major policy to be promoted by the government in the future. Now the various ministries of the Executive Yuan are improving Taiwan’s English proficiency and strengthening Taiwan’s competitiveness from all aspects, and Taiwan+ is one of them. Very important platform.
He said that this is a not easy but extremely critical task. He believes that Taiwan+ partners can bring the blessings of 23 million people to let Taiwan’s voice be heard and the world to see a more real Taiwan.
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Important VIPs attend the launch of Taiwan+
Image : The international audio-visual streaming platform TaiwanPlus (Taiwan+) held a global opening ceremony at the National Taiwan Museum Square on the evening of August 30. Vice President Lai Ching-teh (4 from right), President of the Legislative Yuan You Xikun (5 from right), and Minister of Culture Li Yongde (3 from right), etc. People attended the opening party. (Provided by the Presidential Palace)
Today, besides Lai Ching-teh, the President of the Legislative Yuan You Xikun, the Minister of Culture Li Yongde, the Chairman of the National Development Council Gong Mingxin, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Zeng Houren, the legislator Ke Jianming, Wu Siyao, Lai Pinyu, the chairman of the Central News Agency Liu Kexiang, the president Zhang Ruichang, the Taiwan+ chief executive Cai Qiu'an, Hong Shiyou, director of the Taiwan Museum, and representatives of foreign envoys in Taiwan attended the event.
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President at Ketagalan Forum: Taiwan is willing to assume responsibility for regional stability and hopes to coexist peacefully with neighbouring countries
Image : The Ketagalan Forum debuted today, and President Tsai delivered an opening speech in a pre-recorded video. (Flip from the live broadcast)
"Ketagalan Forum-2021 Asia-Pacific Security Dialogue" is here today. President Tsai Ing-wen said that Taiwan can become the backbone of regional peace, prosperity and development. Taiwan is willing to assume the responsibility of ensuring regional stability and work hard to cooperate with neighbouring countries to prevent military conflicts in the Taiwan Strait, East China Sea and South China Sea. President Tsai emphasized, "We are not heading for military confrontation and hope to coexist with our neighbours under the principles of peace, stability and reciprocity, and insist on defending democracy and way of life."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Envision Foundation co-organized the "Ketagalan Forum-2021 Asia-Pacific Security Dialogue". Through the forum, we hope to strengthen cooperation and dialogue with all parties, and work together to maintain and promote peace, security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region. In full video mode, President Tsai Ing-wen delivered an opening speech, and Kelly Craft, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will deliver an opening keynote speech. There are 16 dignitaries and scholars from the United States, Japan, France, Australia and other countries engaging in in-depth conversations with Chinese officials, scholars and experts.
In her speech, Tsai Ing-wen first thanked Ambassador Kraft for staying up all night to live with everyone. She also invited Ambassador Kraft and all the participants to experience the beauty of Taiwan in person after the epidemic eased. Tsai went on to point out that as the world continues to work hard to combat the Delta variant, there are still important regional and global issues that need attention and joint efforts to resolve. For example, the topics of each session of this forum include "How to respond to the challenges of the Indo-Pacific free order", "Response to the coercion of the gray areas in the East China Sea and the South China Sea" and "Reshaping globalization and establishing a trusted supply chain."
Tsai Ing-wen said that the Indo-Pacific is the fastest-growing region in the world. It provides various opportunities in the fields of trade, research, manufacturing, and education. The development of the century is crucial. However, the rise of this region is also accompanied by new tensions and institutional contradictions. The conflicts caused by "stronger authoritarianism" have brought more severe challenges.
Tsai Ing-wen pointed out that the authoritarian system has sprung up during the COVID-19 epidemic, and now she is more convinced that the governance model proposed by authoritarianism is more in line with the needs than the liberal democratic order. Although the development trend is worrying, the international community is still trying to find a foothold in the post-epidemic era, and at the same time solve the problems of climate change, emerging diseases, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, terrorism, and a stable supply chain. The world provides solutions.
Tsai Ing-wen mentioned that the "Quadruple Security Dialogue" (QUAD) initiated by the United States, Japan, India and Australia and the "Eurasian Connection Strategy" advocated by the European Union both advocate a sustainable, comprehensive and norm-based connection strategy. Taiwan has superior conditions. It is also an indispensable partner in democratic innovation and biotechnology, renewable energy and semiconductor industries.
Tsai Ing-wen emphasized that Taiwan is also committed to cooperating with regional countries, is willing to assume the responsibility of ensuring regional stability, and will not take the assistance of security partners as a matter of course. Taiwan is also working hard to cooperate with neighboring countries to prevent military conflicts from erupting in the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea and the South China Sea. President Tsai emphasized, "We are not heading towards military confrontation. We look forward to coexisting with our neighbours under the principles of peace, stability, and reciprocity, and insist on defending our democracy and way of life."
For example, Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's high-tech industry, especially its leading edge in the semiconductor field, is an important part of the global secure supply chain, which can protect key technologies from abuse. In addition, Taiwan’s innovations in high-precision manufacturing, artificial intelligence, 5G applications, renewable energy, biotechnology, and many other fields will help establish a global supply chain that can resist interference, is more diverse and more resilient.
Tsai Ing-wen explained that Taiwan’s soft power can be seen from the experience and capabilities of education, human resource development, public health, medical care, and natural disaster prevention. Taiwan’s medical institutions are sharing their experience in medical technology and management with countries in the region to improve public health and medical care. "A new opportunity for Taiwan to play a role has emerged, and it can become a backbone force in promoting regional peace, prosperity and development."
Tsai Ing-wen also said that the epidemic embodies warmth, resilience, strength, friendship and partnership. Taiwan donated materials and assistance to the world in the early stages of the epidemic, and the world also provided Taiwan with life-saving vaccines. She once again thanked the United States, Japan, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia and other friendly countries with similar philosophies for extending a helping hand to us at critical moments.
Tsai Ing-wen said that the epidemic may change our way of life forever. Although the challenges remain severe, democracies are working hard to defend shared values and institutions, as well as the interests of the international community. "Our belief in democracy and freedom is stronger than ever before." Tsai emphasized that Taiwan's epidemic prevention performance and its assistance and cooperation to the world are showing why Taiwan is important.
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China opens rail link with access to Indian Ocean via Myanmar
Image : CCP Chinese Embassy in Yangon
A new rail line providing China with access to the Indian Ocean via Myanmar was opened on 25 August 2021 on the Chinese side of the border.
The rail line stretches from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, to Lincang, a prefecture-level city in China’s Yunnan Province opposite Chin Shwe Haw, a border trade town in Myanmar’s northeastern Shan State.
Lincang is adjacent to Kokang Self-Administered Zone in northern Shan State and is just 150 kilometers from Lashio, the largest town in northern Shan State.
The rail line will enable China to trans-ship cargo from the port of Singapore via Myanmar. Cargo will be shipped from Singapore to Yangon. From there it will be transported to Chin Shwe Haw in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone by road, and then by rail from Lincang to Chengdu. It will take three days to get from Lincang to Chengdu by rail, according to the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar.
The route is the first to link western China with the Indian Ocean. It will significantly reduce the time needed to import cargo to landlocked Yunnan Province. The route will go through Mandalay, Lashio and Hsenwi on the Myanmar side.
The route is expected to become the lifeblood of international trade for China and Myanmar, while providing a source of income for Myanmar’s military regime.
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China is working to develop port of Kyaukphyu to rival Singapore
China has also been working to develop a deep seaport in Kyaukphyu Township in Rakhine. The Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone and Deep Seaport Project, which is part of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, is expected to allow Chinese trade to bypass the congested Strait of Malacca near Singapore while boosting development in landlocked Yunnan Province.
China’s efforts to build a rail line linking Shan State’s border town Muse with Mandalay as part of the direct rail link with Yunnan and Kyaukphyu have been delayed by fighting between Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups. The proposed rail line goes through areas controlled by ethnic armed groups and escalating clashes after the February coup are hampering the project.
Ref: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/china-opens-rail-line-with-access-to-indian-ocean-via-myanmar.html
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About 5,000 Burmese forcibly disappeared in Myanmar Junta's terror campaign
The Myanmar junta has forcibly disappeared around 5,000 people without letting even family members know their whereabouts in its terror campaign against the entire population of the country since the coup, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), an advocacy group, said on Monday.
Since the Feb. 1 coup, the junta has arrested a total of 7,627 people, of whom at least 6,033 are still under detention, the AAPP stated. Those detained include elected leaders, lawmakers, politicians, student activists, protesters, journalists and striking civil servants.
According to AAPP’s most recent database, among those on the detained list, a large majority, or 82 percent, are being held in unknown locations, the group stated, posing a serious threat to public security and violating basic international law.
AAPP joint secretary U Bo Kyi said in the group’s report to mark International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances that the junta’s withholding of information on the whereabouts and condition of detainees is aimed at creating a climate of fear across the country, ending anti-coup protests and instituting dictatorial rule, adding that it not only bullies the detainees but also forces their families and friends to suffer.
“Not knowing the fate or whereabouts of a loved one, this is a kind of physiological torture as well as physical abuse of one’s human rights. For this reason, it is one of the worst kinds of crime against humanity,” U Bo Kyi said in the report.
Even the whereabouts of detained elected leaders President U Win Myint and State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi have not been disclosed and their access to lawyers is restricted.
In her first face-to-face meeting with her legal team in late May, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi told her lawyers she does not know where she is being detained and that she was isolated from the outside world. Both leaders have been subject to an information blackout.
Even children are being subjected to enforced disappearance by the junta, which is using them as hostages, the AAPP said in the report.
“Everyone is at risk of being detained in secret locations by the junta. If one is taken to an interrogation center or military barracks, one could be tortured to death in Myanmar without anyone knowing where one was,” the group said, calling on the international community to push the junta to reveal the location to civil society of all those arbitrarily detained.
Dozens of detainees including members of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) have been tortured to death during interrogation. A number of people have also died in prison due to a lack of proper medical treatment.
The AAPP added that recognition of the shadow National Unity Government (NUG) by the UN General Assembly would strengthen international accountability mechanisms, including those that could help to end the Myanmar junta’s use of enforced disappearances with impunity.
The NUG recently released a statement accepting jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with respect to crimes committed in the country since July 1, 2002. As enforced disappearance falls within the jurisdiction of the Rome Statute, which established the ICC, accountability for these crimes against humanity must be ensured, the AAPP said.
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Dark deal! Male guest lays in his wife's arms and breastfeeds at the scene
Image : There are women in China who use social platforms to sell "frozen breast milk", and even find "adult nurses" through intermediaries. They express their breast milk by "on-site breastfeeding" and "bring them with their own breasts." Related behaviors have caused Chinese official media to write articles. NS. The picture shows a breastfeeding woman. (Photo by Reuters)
Recently, CCP media has exploded the "human milk trade" in mainland China. Some women who call themselves "bao moms" use social platforms to sell "frozen breast milk", and some even find "adult nurses" through intermediaries. By expressing breast milk in the way of "on-site breastfeeding" and "pro-feeding", there are adult male customers who drink breast milk every week to "replenish their bodies." In response to this, CCP state media could not help but send out angrily criticism, which is "provocing public order and good customs, and morality and law are intolerable."
An investigation by a reporter from the CCP media The Paper found that some people claiming to be "bao moms" used social platforms to sell "frozen breast milk" at a price of tens of Dollars for a pack of 200 ml per bag. Among the buyers who bought it, Some are bought for "milk-deficient" babies and young children, but there are also people who are obsessed with remedies, buying breast milk for facial acne removal or tonic, and there are many "not babies" breastmilk lovers.
The reporter followed the line to find the "adult nurses" who sold "fresh breast milk" and learned that there was even a "breastfeeding service", which means that on-site breastfeeding was "lied in the arms and drunk" by an adult customer, and the price was RMB 1500 ( About NT$6,500), and there is even a "night package" service, which is like a "all-you-can-drink breastmilk" transaction.
After this dark underground breast milk trade was kicked out, the CCP state media "Beijing News" published an article under the theme "Adult Nurses underground trade is not just a provocation of public order and good customs." ,First of all, it is a challenge to public order and good morals. The so-called "big complement" of human milk is actually a gimmick of no bottom-line hype by the agency, which is unscientific. However, the hype of the scarcity of breast milk by merchants caters to some people to show off their status. The status of face-saving psychology and the blind pursuit of "tonic" and the exciting psychology of curiosity."
The Beijing News pointed out that human milk carries the attributes of human relations and public health and safety. The principle that "human breast milk cannot be used as a commodity" should become a legal bottom line that cannot be touched. Relevant laws and regulations should be improved as soon as possible, and the laws and regulations should be explicitly prohibited to wipe out the soil of this gray trading potential growth.
"The Beijing News" criticized, "Adults drink human milk, whether indirectly or directly, whether they are seeking tonic or seeking stimulation, it is a manifestation of pathological psychology and bad values. Morality and law are difficult to tolerate", and emphasizes direct drinking. The phenomenon of human milk is suspected of illegal crimes, and relevant departments should adhere to zero tolerance and punish them in accordance with the law without hesitation.
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Alive? Zhao Wei should be under house arrest, in a place where the Internet is not available
The Chinese actress Vicki Zhao Wei was suddenly "disappeared" in recent days, causing concern. Some people claimed to have witnessed Zhao Wei appearing in France and suspected of hiding in the winery. The current news about Zhao Wei is divided. Zhao Wei fled to France and appeared at the airport. This rumour is not very credible. "This is really insulting a certain party's surveillance capabilities."
Hu Caiping wrote in the Facebook "Emmy Chasing Time" fan post, saying that Zhao Wei fled to France and appeared at the airport. This rumor is not credible. This is really insulting a party's surveillance capabilities, unless she stays for a long time. In France, this is possible. LeTV Jia Yueting and Minsheng Bank Dong Wenbiao all have long-term stay abroad and dare not return to China. Xiao Jianhua also stayed in Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year and was kidnapped back to Ningbo.
But this rumor is still useful, forcing Zhao Wei to open an IG report. Hu Caiping analyzed that opening the IG report position is definitely not voluntary. No one will actively speak at such a big event. How long can he hide, and who will hit the gun. Must be forced to post. "So I guess she should be under house arrest, and she should be in a place where the Internet is not available, and she thinks she should not be with her parents."
She added, “"Why is this case attracting my attention, because Zhao Wei is really a good actor, I originally thought she was a lively little girl."
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Zhao Wei was completely banned, insiders talk about the reasons behind
Image : Stars downfallen. Lin Xinru is in Taiwan but her registered studio in CCP China was cancelled. Zhao Wei (middle) "disappeared" for her link with Ma Yun. Wu Yifan was imprisoned.
The CCP cracked down on the entertainment industry. The movie star Zhao Wei was banned from the entire network, and a large number of artists were busy cutting her with her. It seems that the situation is serious. A person who has been in the mainland performing arts circle for many years accepted an interview with NTD reporter and revealed some behind-the-scenes.
The CCP has recently taken great efforts to rectify the entertainment industry, and a large number of stars have been purged. Among them, on 26 August, it was reported that Zhao Wei was included in the list of "bad actors" by the authorities and was blocked by the entire network. Not only did many works have been removed from the video and audio platforms, the "Chaohua" on Weibo was closed, and even the names were removed from the list of creators. Besides, Zhao Wei has not responded yet.
Veteran actress Yuan Li broke the news on the same day that Zhao Wei had lost contact, and everyone in the entertainment industry was in danger. All artists who knew Zhao Wei were deleting Weibo posts related to Zhao Wei in order to protect themselves.
It was rumored on the Internet that Zhao Wei fled to France. However, on August 29th, she posted on social media Instagram, saying "the best season... to chat with mom and dad, it’s like I’ve never grown up before, so good", and attached a few photos of the scenery. It seems that it is still in China.
But this post has now been deleted.
A series of other well-known artists were also purged at the same time as Zhao Wei, such as: Ruby Lin’s studio was cancelled; Zheng Shuang was chased and fined nearly 300 million yuan for tax evasion; Huo Zunyin’s girlfriend exposed his inappropriate remarks, Weibo account "Chaohua" was shut down. Prior to this, Wu Yifan and Qian Feng were also accused of sexual assault.
On 27 August 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of the Communist Party of China issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Control of Chaos in the "Rice Circle"", and the party media "People's Daily" also issued a comment: Once the legal and moral red line is touched, the road to performance will be reached. "Finish line", the warning means strong.
Mainland film producer Shi Yuge said that the CCP’s crackdown on the entertainment industry is not as simple as it seems on the surface. Because behind most celebrities, there are CCP political, business tycoons, and even top princelings supporting them.
Mainland film producer Shi Yuge said, "So this time I saw that the stars he played on the surface were actually fighting with the forces behind them. We don’t even know who is behind supporting each star, who is participating in the support."
The CCP has recently launched a series of purge operations against various groups, from technology giants, financial securities to the education and auxiliary industries, and then to the entertainment industry. Shi Yuge said that these people who were hit have one thing in common, that is, they are all stars.
Shi Yuge said, "Have you not noticed that several people including those in the business world are all stars? Either Ma Huateng or Ma Yun, these people were once regarded as entrepreneurial idols by the younger generation, and then they were all regarded as industry benchmarks. Many of them are symbols of wealth, not just a simple entrepreneur, but even more so in the entertainment industry."
Shi Yuge believes that the CCP's attack on these stars is to create an atmosphere of terror.
Shi Yuge said, "It just wants to tell you, no matter how popular you are, no matter how much influence you have in China, but as long as I am willing, I can pinch you to death at random, and I can let you evaporate from the world, no matter who I still remember your name, but no one dared to mention you. This is a manifestation of state terrorism."
Xi Jinping recently proposed "common prosperity" and "three distributions", which has aroused people's concerns about whether the CCP will implement a new round of "distributing local tyrants and dividing fields."
Shi Yuge said that another purpose of the CCP in cracking down on these stars is getting their money.
Shi Yuge said, "I think it has another very important purpose for beating these people. It is really short of money. So now in mainland China, besides this group in its own system, who is the richest? That's not it. Entrepreneurs, as well as those in the entertainment industry that have a great relationship with the economy and politics, are these people who are always talking about their worth?"
Shi Yuge believes that the CCP is indeed very short of money. Because of the impact of the epidemic, the blockade of the international community, and the deterioration of U.S.-China relations in particular, the CCP has lost a huge trade surplus. Coupled with the CCP’s monetary diplomacy, it has spread a lot of money around the world. Make it hard to make ends meet.
Shi Yuge commented, "So now, when it is very anxious to spend money, it will take the local tyrants to divide the land, so it is very, very rich this time, and it also has other influences. If this group of people do it, I think it is also in power. It’s an idea that kills two birds with one stone."
Shi Yuge analyzed that people in mainland China, regardless of their status, are actually meat on the CCP’s cutting board. When they are not passive, they will be quiet. Once one day, the CCP really feels that your batch of leeks must be cut, at that time, you only have to lead the way to death.
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CCP's official media: Purging the capital circle and the entertainment circle is a Communist revolution, making people "physically and mentally happy"
CCP state media collectively reposted a long post from the media, naming Ant IPO was suspended, Ali was fined 18.2 billion RMB, Didi was investigated, to rectify the smelly entertainment circle, all It shows that CCP China is already carrying out a revolution that is "destructive" from the economic, financial, cultural, and political fields. The capital market is no longer a paradise for capitalists to get rich overnight, and the cultural market is not a paradise for female celebrities. All fields must be "returned to Red" so that everyone can feel "fresh air" and "physically and mentally happy."
In the past few days, an article entitled "Everyone can feel that a profound change is underway!" went viral on the Internet in China. The writing was impassioned and captured the hearts of all CCP official media and forwarded collectively.
The article first criticizes the Chinese entertainment circle as being horrible, and if not rectified, not only the entertainment circle is horrible but the entire cultural circle, literary circle, showbiz circle, film and television circle are also horrible.
The article alleges that the Central Cyberspace Administration of the People’s Republic of China has taken a heavy blow to rectify the rice industry, and the State Administration of Taxation has punished Zheng Shuang for tax evasion of 299 million RMB. Zhao Wei and Gao Xiaosong have been removed from all major platforms. Obviously this is a "political" action and must be understood from a "political height." This time is the rectification action.
In the article, from China’s suspension of Ant’s IPO, to Alibaba’s 18.2 billion RMB fine and Didi’s investigation, and the recent rectification of the chaos in the entertainment industry, China’s economic, financial, cultural and political sectors A profound revolution is taking place in all fields.
The article pointed out that this change will wash away all the dust, the capital market will no longer become a paradise for capitalists to get rich overnight, the cultural market will no longer be a paradise for nymphomaniac stars, and news and public opinion will no longer be a position for worshipping Western culture. This change is in respond to the U.S. attack on China.
At the end of the article, the author emphasized that in fields such as the capital circle and the entertainment circle, it is necessary not only to destroy the dead, but also to repair the wounds and clean the house, so that everyone in the society can be physically and mentally happy.
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China's entertainment circle "9-person inventory list" goes viral, even Singapore singer Stefanie Sun is included!
Chinese actress Zhao Wei was recently banned by the authorities, and all her works have disappeared. Many artists are worried that she will be the next target of surgery. In response to this, a "list of restrictions on registration" has recently appeared on Weibo, indicating that these artists will not be able to appear on the Chinese stage in the future. Even Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun, Taiwanese singers Wilber Pan and Wang Leehom are on the list, making people look dumbfounded.
The banning of Zhao Wei has caused a lot of trouble. Recently, Weibo has circulated a "list of restrictions on registration" with the words "The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has issued restrictions on the restrictions on foreign nationality stars." Only Wei is in the list (Germany Nationality), Stefanie Sun (Singapore), Liu Yifei (US), Nicholas Tse (Canada), Zhang Tielin (UK), Jet Li (Singapore), even Taiwanese singer Wilber Pan (US), Wang Leehom (US), actor Zhao Youting (Canadian nationals) are all included in the list and are suspected of being included in the next wave of inspection targets by the CCP, but this list has not yet been officially confirmed.
The list mentioned that in the future, it will be difficult for these celebrities who have become foreign nationals to appear on the Chinese stage again, and they will no longer be able to make a lot of money on the Chinese stage. In response, netizens left messages: "Nothing wrong! They are not Chinese, don't earn Chinese money!", "Although I think this is good, but Liu Yifei can't bear it."
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Stefanie Sun is not Chinese, she is Singaporean
The CCP should differentiate between Chinese born outside mainland China and Chinese born in the People's Republic of China. Stefanie is born in Singapore on 23 July 1978 and completes her education in Singapore schools and institutions. Therefore she is a Singaporean, not Chinese. According to Wikipedia, she was recently been married in May 2011 to Nadim van der Ros, a Dutch Indonesian.
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Biden walks out of media event after reporter asks about Afghanistan
Reporter : Jack Davis, The Western Journal
After the 46th
U.S. President Joe Biden made a series of pronouncements about the government’s
preparations for Hurricane Ida, Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Jacobs wanted
to get Biden's views over his shame-faced
withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
Biden’s initial reaction to
Jennifer Jacobs made it clear that he has others telling him what to do,
“I’m not — I’m not supposed to take any questions but go ahead.”
“Mr. President, on Afghanistan,” was as far as Jacobs got.
“I’m
not going to answer Afghanistan now,” Biden interjected.
A transcript of the sessions released
by the White House showed that Jacobs persisted even as Biden turned
to flee from the podium.
“Can
you say if there’s still an acute risk at the airport, sir?” she asked.
“OK,”
Biden said during her question as he left, turning his back to the media as he
spoke to FEMA employees while leaving and appearing confused about which
direction to walk.
The incident ignited a fresh round of criticism of
the president.
Although Biden had nothing to say
about Afghanistan, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has plenty, according
to CNN.
“The President is preparing to
leave Americans and allies we made distinct promises to behind. Indeed, he
admitted last week ‘getting every single person out cannot be guaranteed,'”
McCarthy, an outspoken
critic of Biden’s performance in Afghanistan, wrote in a letter to
fellow Republicans, according to CNN.
“Frankly, this is not the tested leadership the President
promised. Political decisions designed to get photo ops lead to fatal national
security consequences on the battlefield. It was a political decision to act in
haste days prior to the anniversary of September 11 — and our men and women in
uniform died as a result,” McCarthy wrote.
Ref: https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-walks-media-event-reporter-asks-afghanistan/
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U.S. officials clarify misunderstanding of sharing the list of withdrawals with the Taliban
Reporter : Chen Beichen / Editor: Xu Gengwen
Since foreign media disclosed on 26 August 2021, the U.S. had provided the Taliban with a list of evacuated American citizens and qualified Afghans, allowing the Taliban stationed outside the airport to release relevant personnel, triggering the outside world hot discussion. U.S. officials this week clarified the false information in the shared list and disputed speculation and accusations from outsiders.
Secretary of State Blinken and White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, in an interview with the media on Sunday (29 August), refuted the media's recent statement regarding the news that the United States and the Taliban shared some personnel lists. Earlier, it was rumored that the U.S. provided the Taliban with "a list of all U.S. document holders," including U.S. citizens, dual nationals, U.S. permanent residents, and Afghan applicants for special immigrant visas.
Blinken clarified that the Taliban will only obtain part of the list of flights to Kabul Airport under certain circumstances, and the specific names that are shared are people who do not have "necessary documents" or "correct travel documents." He stated that these names will be placed on the list supplied by the United States so that the Taliban can verify their identities and allow them to pass through checkpoints along the way.
Brinken said, “When people don’t have the necessary political opinions or documents, you will share the names of the people and the names of the buses so that they (the Taliban) can be sure that these people are the ones we want to take away.” “That’s what has happened. We have evacuated 5,500 Americans out of Afghanistan."
"In individual cases, facing a specific group or a bus, in order (for the Taliban) to verify that the people on the bus are the ones who should have come out-that is, American citizens, I especially emphasize again that if these Americans lack the right Documents, we will do so. And some of the arguments that claim that we put these people in further danger are completely wrong statements."
When answering the question of whether the Taliban exchanged "money" for cooperation, Blinken bluntly stated that the United States did not promise the Taliban to exchange terms, but made it clear with other countries that if the Taliban wants to develop any diplomatic relations with other countries, it must first implement "travel". Freedom” and then “maintain the basic rights of the people”, including women’s rights, and fulfill anti-terrorism commitments to increase inclusiveness in governance.
On the same day, Sullivan also talked about this issue in the interview. He said that many Americans and Afghans must pass through the Taliban checkpoints when they take the bus to the airport. , Pilots and other visa holders pass the inspection, board the plane and leave the country."
U.S. officials said on Monday (30 August) that as the withdrawal of U.S. troops came to an end, the core U.S. diplomats had been evacuated that morning. The official did not disclose whether the evacuations of diplomats included Ross Wilson, the ambassador to Afghanistan, who is expected to be the last group of evacuees.
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The U.S. announces the completion of its withdrawal
The U.S. Department of Defense stated on 30 August 2021 that the United States has completed its task of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. The last military plane flew out of the capital Kabul, symbolizing the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
According to comprehensive media reports, Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander of the U.S. Central Command, said at a press conference of the U.S. Department of Defense on the 30th, "I hereby announce that we have completed the withdrawal of troops to Afghanistan and the end of the military withdrawal of American citizens. Mission." The U.S. flight C-17, the last flight from Afghanistan, took off at 7:29 p.m. on 30 August GMT.
McKinsey said, "This evacuation is heartbreaking. We can't let everyone who wants to leave, but I don't think we can let everyone leave if we stay for another 10 days." Since 14 August, more than 122,000 people left Kabul by plane.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said, "The American soldiers have left the Kabul airport, and our country has gained complete independence." The Taliban soldiers watched the last U.S. flight leave Kabul, and then shot into the sky to celebrate the complete withdrawal of the U.S. troops.
Ref: https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/3655592
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Republicans renew call for Biden to resign or be impeached after he broke promise to evacuate all Americans from Afghanistan; about 250 Americans remain behind in Kabul
Reporter : Morgan Philips, Daily Mail
Image : Kabul Airport after the last U.S. evacuation flight departed. AFP via Getty Images
The last US evacuation flight has left Kabul, marking a bitter end to US' longest war, and Republicans are hitting President Biden for pulling out one day ahead of his self-prescribed deadline.
Many decried the hundreds of Americans left behind, and some renewed calls for the president to step down.
'The Afghanistan war is not over. Joe Biden decided to quit and leave our citizens and allies behind,' Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., wrote on Twitter after Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of US Central Command, broke the news.
Witnesses in Kabul said the Taliban let off celebratory gunfire as news circulated that the final U.S. flight had left.
President Biden managed to meet his August 31 deadline and American personnel are now free from danger, but 38 million Afghans are at the mercy of the Taliban and over 170 are dead from last week's suicide bombing, including 13 American troops.
On Sunday, President Biden traveled to Dover, Delaware to watch the remains of the troops that were killed in the attack arrive back home.
'How many Americans were left behind?' House Republicans wrote on Twitter.
'Shameful. The President better move heaven and earth to get every last American home safely,' Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., wrote on Twitter.
McKenzie said that less than 250 Americans were left behind, adding that some of those tried but could not make it for the final departing evacuation flights.
Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., hit Biden for pulling out 'before the deadline' and called for the president to be impeached.
'President Biden withdrew from #Afghanistan BEFORE THE DEADLINE — abandoning American citizens still on the ground desperately needing evacuation! IF BIDEN REFUSES TO RESIGN, HE MUST BE IMPEACHED! This is an absolute disgrace!'
'@POTUS left Americans and our Afghan allies behind. Completely unforgivable. He must resign,' said Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla.
Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., called for the president to resign over a Washington Post report claiming the Taliban had offered to let US forces secure Kabul as the Afghanistan government collapsed, but Biden was determined to withdraw all troops.
'This is unbelievable! President Biden’s actions are a shameful failure of American leadership. I am calling for the resignation of President Biden. We cannot tolerate this any longer,' she said.
'The United States just completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan with many Americans still stuck behind enemy lines desperate to get out, and $85 billion in US weapons and equipment now in Taliban hands,' said Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y. 'This is a historic disgrace of epic proportions ordered by President Biden.'
'How many Americans are now officially abandoned in Afghanistan because of Joe Biden's incompetence?' Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., wrote on Twitter.
'Biden knew his Afghanistan withdrawal would needlessly put American lives in danger. Now, we've tragically lost 13 American heroes,' Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said as he demanded a Congressional investigation into Biden's handling of Afghanistan.
'Absolutely shameful,' said Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C. 'President Biden has officially left hundreds of U.S. citizens stranded in Afghanistan.'
'America's longest war has ended. This should be a good day. Instead, because of Biden's failed withdrawal, the Taliban is stronger than ever and 13 families won't see their loved ones come home,' said Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Ref: Republicans call for Biden to RESIGN or be impeached after Afghanistan withdrawal is completed | Daily Mail Online
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Confiscated U.S. military transport exposed on Taliban media account
Reporter : Katie Feehan, Daily Mail
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A video shared online appears to show Taliban forces flying a $6million US Black Hawk helicopter over Kandahar to patrol the city.
The footage was shared on Twitter by an account called Talib Times which claims to be the official news source for the Islamic Emirate Afghanistan.
The unverified footage shows a man hanging from a helicopter as it flies over Kandahar ahead of the US's exit from Afghanistan.
It is feared the Taliban could have access to up to 200,000 firearms, 20,000 Humvees and hundreds of aircraft the US donated to the Afghan army.
It comes days after footage emerged of the Taliban testing a captured Black Hawk helicopter by taxi-ing it around an airfield.
The group also released propaganda footage of body armour-clad 'special forces' with night vision goggles.
In the latest post, the caption reads: 'Our Air Force! At this time, the Islamic Emirate's air force helicopters are flying over Kandahar city and patrolling the city.'
A second clip shared an hour later shows a Black Hawk helicopter circling overhead with the caption 'First flight of the Black Hawk'.
Earlier this month, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan admitted the US doesn't have a 'clear picture' of just how much missing $83 billion of military inventory could now be in the hands of the enemy.
But multiple outlets have estimated the figure includes 22,000 Humvees given to Afghan forces between 2003 and 2016.
Taliban fighters have since been pictured riding atop the vehicles in Kabul.
Equipment given by US to the Afghan Army now likely to be in hands of the Taliban also includes 50,000 tactical vehicles, 1,000 mine resistant vehicles and 150 armoured personnel carriers.
Aircraft likely left for the Taliban to use includes over 160 planes and helicopters, including four C-130 transport aircraft, 23 A-29 Super Tucano turboprop attack aircraft, 45 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and 50 MD530 choppers.
It was initially unclear if anyone in the Taliban's ranks was qualified to fly the aircraft after a video emerged of soldiers taking a flightless joyride in the Black Hawk emerged.
The US also donated at least 200,000 firearms to the Afghan army, including M24 sniper rifles, M18 assault weapons, anti-tank missiles, automatic grenade launchers, mortars and rocket propelled grenades.
Between 2003 and 2016, the US bought the Afghan security forces 42,000 'light tactical vehicles' - such as Ford Ranger pickups and cargo trucks - 9,000 'medium tactical vehicles,' and over 22,000 Humvees.
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Afghan non-Taliban military officials fled in around 40 America-supplied aircraft
Afghan military officials are believed to have left the country in around 40 different US-supplied aircraft in the days leading up to its fall to the Taliban.
The Afghan Army also got 18 'intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance' airplanes such as the PC-12, a cargo aircraft made by Swiss company Pilatus.
The group appears to have helped themselves to the state-of-the-art MBITR-2 (Multi-band Intrateam Radios) favoured by US Green Berets but denied to most conventional UK personnel. They were issued to Afghan government forces.
The militant group's metamorphosis from rag-tag guerrilla force to highly professional, impressively equipped army has been at the expense of Western taxpayers.
Ref: Taliban Air: Terrorists 'fly captured $6million US Black Hawk helicopter over Kandahar' | Daily Mail Online
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South Africa's new variant virus "C.1.2" spreads to 7 countries, vaccines are difficult to prevent
Image : Schematic diagram of SARS-CoV-2 that caused the COVID-19 epidemic. (Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay)
The virus SARS-CoV-2 that caused the COVID-19 epidemic has been mutating. Scientists warn that the new variant strain of "C.1.2" discovered in South Africa has spread to at least seven countries, including China. This strain has the highest degree of mutation among the mutant strains that have been discovered so far, and its mutations are all related to the enhancement of the virus's infectivity and immune escape ability, and the existing vaccines may be difficult to defend C.1.2 infection.Taiwan’s “Dongsen Finance” quoted Israel’s English daily newspaper The Jerusalem Post on 30 August as reporting that the latest issue of the internationally authoritative medical journal Nature published a report by South Africa’s National Infectious Diseases Research. The research report jointly provided by the Institute and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.
According to the report, the C.1.2 variant virus strain evolved from C.1 during the first wave of epidemics, and it undergoes 41.8 mutations per year, which is twice the mutation rate of all current variants of concern. It is also the most mutated strain so far.
The researchers sequenced the strain and found that C.1.2 looks like a "competent version of a powerful strain". It has the characteristics of variant viruses such as Alpha and Delta, and the mutations in this variant strain are all the same. It is related to a series of abilities such as enhancing the infectivity of the virus, copying speed and immune escape.
Although experts believe that more research is needed to determine the impact of these mutations on virus function, the epidemiological and genomic data currently obtained show that C.1.2 has a series of advantageous aspects such as transmission and avoidance of immune response.
A related report in the British "Daily Mail" also pointed out that the mutation rate of C.1.2 mutant strains is almost twice that of all current "variants of concern" strains. Scientists warn that this latest mutant strain has "substantially mutated" and may help the virus evade antibodies and immune responses.
According to the data released by the Global Influenza Data Sharing Initiative (GISAID), the C.1.2 mutant strain has been found in the United Kingdom, China, New Zealand, Switzerland, Portugal, the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa. There have been at least 80 related sequencing reports in these seven countries.
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The first case of Delta "re-variant" detected in Japan! The confirmed person has no history of going abroad
The number of confirmed covid cases in Japan in a single day has recently shown a downward trend, but a university research team has detected the Delta re-variant from an infected patient who has no history of going abroad. The subvariant strain is named "N501S". It is reported that there are only 8 cases of this re-variant in the world, and medical experts speculate that "N501S" may have mutated in Japan.
According to Japanese media reports, the Tokyo Medical and Dental University research team released news that the Delta variant (Covi72) is currently the mainstream Wuhan pneumonia virus in Japan. However, the team tested Covi72 in patients who were admitted to the university hospital in mid-August. After a detailed examination of its genes, it was found that there was a mutant virus strain named "N501S".
The research team said that from the genetic characteristics of the virus, it is preliminarily determined that "N501S" is a mutant strain produced in Japan, and this mutant strain is similar to the submutated strain "N501Y" of Alpha variant found in the United Kingdom, but currently the infectious power of "N501S" has not yet been clarified.
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Bahrain: The death rate after Sinopharm vaccination is three times that of Pfizer
A joint study between the Middle East country Bahrain and the University of Columbia found that compared with vaccines from other countries, the vaccine produced by China Sinopharm Group has three times the probability of death from infection after vaccination.
Bahrain, with a population of 1.5 million, is one of the first countries in the world to vaccinate. 66% of the country’s population has been vaccinated. According to the Wall Street Journal of the United States, the mortality rate of Bahrain after being vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine is three times that of the Pfizer vaccine and 15 times that of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Among people over the age of 50, the number of people who died from the epidemic after receiving the Sinopharm vaccine was twice that of the Russian "Sputnik-V" vaccine and 2.2 times that of the Pfizer vaccine. Those over the age of 50 who received the AstraZeneca vaccine were infected. The number of deaths after that was zero.
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New study: Acupuncture is effective in treating chronic prostatitis
Image : Schematic diagram of acupuncture and acupoints. (ShutterStock)
A new study confirmed that acupuncture therapy can indeed reduce the symptoms of chronic prostatitis/pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) with quantitative indicators. This is a positive development in the field of acupuncture and moxibustion in the field of Chinese medicine to the field of empirical science in Western medicine.
Chronic prostatitis/pelvic pain syndrome is one of the common diseases in urology clinics. The patient has various discomforts such as inflammation of the prostate, poor urination, and pain in the pelvic region, which affects reproductive function, leads to a decline in the quality of life, and then causes anxiety and other mental health problems.
When people are unwell, they are always the first to seek help from Western medicine. However, this disease is often at least 3 months within 6 months before the onset of the disease. According to the inspection standards of Western medicine, no evidence of inflammation can be found.
To deal with this disease, Western medicine usually uses antibiotics, α blockers and anti-inflammatory drugs. However, these drugs cannot solve the problem fundamentally, and the effect of reducing symptoms is also very limited. In addition, long-term There will be obvious side effects when used. In this case, many Chinese medicine practitioners recommend trying acupuncture. However, for a long time, there is no high-quality evidence to prove or quantitative indicators to show how effective acupuncture therapy is.
In this study, 440 male patients were randomly divided into two groups, with 220 people in each group receiving an 8-week course of treatment and comparing the treatment effects. One group was treated with acupuncture and the other group was treated with sham treatment.
Researchers used the Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess the patient's symptom level.
The results showed that the symptom index level of the participants who received acupuncture therapy improved by at least 6 points from the original basic level at the two time points of the 8th week and the 32nd week after receiving the therapy. The researchers said that this shows that acupuncture therapy not only shows good results, but also the effect can be stable for up to 24 weeks.
The researchers said that this experiment provides high-quality evidence and guidance recommendations for the introduction of acupuncture into clinical practical applications. The report introducing this research was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on 16 August.
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Over 70% "very dissatisfied" with Yangzhou's month-old epidemic prevention blockade
Due to the outbreak of a new wave of covid, China imposed a severe lockdown on Yangzhou residents for a full month. A few days ago, the authorities announced adjustments to the epidemic prevention measures: the enclosed area allows one person to enter and exit from each household every three days; the enclosed area still needs to "not leave the community." A WeChat public account conducted a public opinion survey on Yangzhou's epidemic prevention satisfaction. The results showed that 75% of residents chose to be "very dissatisfied" and were urgently blocked by the government.
At around 5 am local time on 29 August, the Yangzhou Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters issued Announcements No. 73 and No. 74, announcing the adjustment of the epidemic prevention and management measures in all enclosed and closed communities in the city. At this time, due to a new wave of covid in Yangzhou City, the city has been severely blocked for one month.
According to the contents of the above two notices, after the adjustment of the management measures, the enclosed and controlled community (natural village) in the main urban area of Yangzhou allows “one person per household every three days” to enter and exit the community, and the travel area is limited to the area (functional area); residents must obey The community has unified arrangements for entering and exiting the community in time-sharing, partitioning, and building blocks; each time you go out within two hours, you must wear a mask, take a temperature, check the entrance card, Su Kang code, and a negative nucleic acid test certificate; from the isolation point Returning personnel must strictly implement the seven-day home monitoring requirement, and family members living together must "not leave the house."
Closed communities (natural villages) that have been closed for 21 consecutive days will be adjusted from "not leaving home" to "not leaving the community", but hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, shops, cultural and sports activity rooms and other public places in the community continue to be closed . The government still advocates that residents "do not leave their homes unless necessary." Residents who want to go out of the house must obey the unified arrangement of the community, and go downstairs in time-sharing, zoning, and building.
On 29 August, a public WeChat account in Yangzhou conducted a public opinion survey on the "satisfaction" of the people with the Yangzhou government during the epidemic.
The poll was officially closed after only a short period of time, but among the approximately 23,000 participants, 75% of the participants chose the "very dissatisfied" option, and chose "very satisfied" and "very satisfied". "Satisfied" people accounted for only 2%.
In the comment area under the voting interface, most of the netizens’ comments were reprimanding the Yangzhou Municipal Government for “incompetence”, “chaotic actions”, or dissatisfaction with Yangzhou’s epidemic prevention and control measures.
On Weibo, many Yangzhou netizens criticized the adjustment of anti-epidemic management measures soon.
A netizen posted, “Maybe you can’t find the second one in Yangzhou. Yesterday, you were notified at 5 o’clock in the afternoon to unblock you and you can go downstairs. As a result, the corridor door was locked again at 7 o’clock in the evening. I couldn’t unblock it the next morning. , The unblocking time is two hours! The building has been closed alone for 22 days, 22 days without leaving the house, and Nucleic Acid every day, it can actually cause the two-hour unblocking oolong incident!"
Another netizen left a message: "It's very funny. I go out once every three days. Then everyone must buy and stock up. Every time I go out for two hours, the supermarket queues for more than two hours. Oh... the farmer's market, there are more people. It would be nice to get to the stall."
The netizen also broke the news that the local community used lottery to decide whether residents would go out in the morning or in the afternoon. The netizen sighed: "These ZF (referring to the "government") and the community are in charge of playing mahjong, making your mind foolish?"
Another netizen posted on the Moments on the 29th that a man in the neighbourhood had a sudden illness, but he was blocked from going out for medical treatment due to the epidemic, and dialing 120, 110 and 12345 did not get a timely response from the medical institution. In the end, this man The man died because he missed the opportunity for treatment, leaving his young children and a grieving wife.
In response to this, some netizens sighed in a message under the relevant news, "The wonderful prevention and control measures have allowed the people not to die from the infection, but to die from the epidemic prevention."
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The first and second grades of Chinese elementary schools no longer take exams. Parents: Obviously cheating
Reporter : Jing Zhongming / Editor : Xu Gengwen
Image : In September 2020, students in a primary school in Beijing are attending class. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
The CCP’s implementation of family planning has resulted in an imbalance in the population ratio and has launched a "burden reduction" plan for primary and secondary schools to increase the birth rate. A few days ago, the authorities ordered the abolition of examinations in the first and second grades of elementary schools. Many parents criticized "overcorrection", and some suspected that the CCP had another purpose.
Most primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in China will start on September 1. The Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China cooperated with the authorities’ policy on promoting childbirth and announced a number of orders regarding the “burden reduction” of students and parents, including schools no longer set up key classes, no new lectures after class, no homework assignments for parents (disguised), etc.
In addition, the Ministry of Education also issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of Examinations in Compulsory Education Schools" to reduce the examinations in primary and secondary schools. The "Notice" stipulates that "the first and second grades of elementary school do not take paper-based examinations. The school organizes a final examination every semester for other grades; junior high school grades start from different subjects and may arrange a mid-term examination appropriately."
The "Notice" also requires that the exam is strictly prohibited from propositioning questions that exceed the class standard and exceed the teaching progress. The examination results are graded and the examination results are not ranked or announced.
The society under the CCP has always "policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom." People in the education system are skeptical about whether the above-mentioned regulations of the Ministry of Education can be implemented.
Radio Free Asia quoted Mr. Gao, a manager of a middle school in Zhengzhou on August 30, saying that he had been studying the various "education reform" measures taken by the authorities almost every vacation in the past ten years, but every "reform" ended without a problem.
He gave an example that the authorities had forbidden schools to make up classes, but in the end the education system turned a blind eye to teachers' make up classes. Back then, CCTV also repeatedly claimed that it “does not look at student performance and does not engage in various evaluations”, but in fact, after each exam, each class and each school has a private performance ranking, and even the provincial, urban, and municipal education authorities have rankings within them. Table, just denied it to the outside.
On China's Weibo, some netizens left messages saying that as long as the high school entrance examination exists, various tests and evaluations will not stop, the difference lies in whether they are made public or not.
Regarding the cancellation of exams in the first and second grades of elementary school and the non-announcement of the results of other grades, many parents also accused the authorities of "overcorrecting" on the Internet. Some parents say how to know how your child is studying without taking a test, and how well the teacher teaches. Other parents accused the authorities of turning the first and second grades into kindergartens, which is "obviously cheating."
Current commentator Bi Xin believes that the CCP's intention to weaken basic knowledge education is a special purpose, such as making time to strengthen ideological brainwashing.
Some netizens also mentioned the "diversion" plan of Beijing junior high school, lamenting that in the future, half of the students will not even have the opportunity to attend high school.
Radio Free Asia once quoted analysis as saying that China’s economy is "internally looping". In the future, the most shortage of labor is the demand for high-end talents. This is also the main reason why the authorities have weakened basic education and downgraded the status of English.
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The high-level meeting of the ruling parties of Taiwan and Japan: Both countries face CCP with "the same destiny"
Image : On 27 August 2021, the top leaders of the ruling parties in Taiwan and Japan held a video conference. (Video Screenshot)
Senior members of the ruling parties in Taiwan and Japan held a video conference recently to discuss the situation in the Asia-Pacific region and the impact of the CCP’s military expansion on Japan and Taiwan. Japan's Liberal Democratic Party representative Otsuka Taku said during the talks that Japan and Taiwan face China (the CCP) with the same destiny. Some DPP legislators said that the talks showed that the relations between Taiwan and Japan have moved forward significantly and have "cross-age significance."
The high-level video conference of the ruling parties in Taiwan and Japan on August 27 lasted for about 90 minutes. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan was attended by Senator Masahisa Sato, who is also a member of the Foreign Defense Committee, and Takuma Otsuka, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Ministry of Defense, and the Taiwanese DPP legislator who is very familiar with Taiwan-Japan issues. Zheng and Tsai adapted to attend the talks.
According to the British BBC report, representatives from Japan and Taiwan mentioned the impact of the CCP’s military development during the talks. In his speech at the meeting, Otsuka Taku said that Japan and Taiwan are both located near the East China Sea and facing China (the threat of the CCP), and they are of the "same destiny."
Sato Masahisa also bluntly stated that the Chinese Communist Party's unilateral change of the regional status quo has had an impact on the security of Japan and Taiwan. The Japanese side believes that it should strengthen communication with Taiwan and expects the two sides to "continue exchanges" in the future.
Luo Zhizheng, on behalf of the Democratic Progressive Party, first thanked the Liberal Democratic Party for actively promoting the holding of this exchange meeting. At the same time, he also thanked the Japanese government and the Liberal Democratic Party for their efforts to promote Japan's donation of more than 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan. Then Luo Zhizheng said in his speech that the biggest challenge in the Asia-Pacific region is the military, economic, technological and other impacts brought about by the expansion of the CCP.
Another representative of the Democratic Progressive Party, Cai Adaptation, emphasized that Japan and Taiwan have a close relationship that shares weal and woe, and hopes that this kind of dialogue between the two sides will become the norm.
Earlier, DPP legislator and committee member of the National Defense Committee Wang Dingyu commented in an interview with the media on the 19th of this month that the high-level talks between the ruling parties in Japan and Taiwan marked a "significant advancement" in the relationship between the two sides, "almost directly from the two governments. "Conducting security dialogue", therefore has "cross-age significance."
Regarding this high-level meeting between the ruling parties in Japan and Taiwan, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ou Jiang’an said that he would be happy to see the outcome, but based on the principle of administrative neutrality, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan does not comment on the content and activities of exchanges between political parties.
He Zhiyong, deputy director of the International Department of the Kuomintang, revealed to the outside world that the party is also promoting this kind of diplomacy between political parties and is planning a video conference between the Kuomintang and the Liberal Democratic Party's main cadres.
In an interview with the BBC, Zhao Yule, a former professor of humanities and social sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong who had studied at Kyoto University in Japan, said that Taiwan has always wanted to expand its international space, but has been threatened by mainland China in the past. The Taiwan authorities should now hope to show other Asian countries and the world through high-level talks with the Japanese ruling party that Taiwan "has its own ideas, including politics, society, and people's livelihood."
Zhao Yule believes that Japan's considerations are actually similar to those of Taiwan. China and Japan have always had disputes over the East China Sea issue and the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands. With the continuous growth of the CCP's military and economic power, Japan also hopes to "have a greater role" in the context of the US-Japan military alliance. And because of its geopolitical relationship, Taiwan can give play to its advantages in the "first island chain" policy to contain the expansion of the CCP.
Zhao Yule said that this video conference is only a preliminary exchange between the two sides. The key is to observe whether Japan and Taiwan will take action to further deepen exchanges in the future.
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The Chinese Communist Party's strong vaccination provokes a rebound of college and middle school students
CCP's strong vaccination provokes a rebound of Chinese and university students
The CCP’s anti-epidemic measures against the new crown virus, ranging from extreme closed management, rounds of large-scale nucleic acid testing, to mandatory vaccination, have caused more and more public complaints.
On 27 August, after a female high school student in Henan was forced to be vaccinated, she angrily issued a statement on the Epoch Times website and withdrew from the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers organization of the Communist Party of China.
Another male college student who was forced to be vaccinated threatened to retaliate against the society if there were side effects after the vaccination.
Video: "I recorded this video today, mainly to prove that I don't want to get a vaccine, but the school forced me to do it", "This video proves that XXX is not that I have a neurosis, but that I was forced to get a vaccine and had side effects. I just started to retaliate against the society."
The netizens who watched the video were very worried and reminded him that if they want to retaliate, they must accurately find the organizations and officials who are forcing him to vaccinate, and don't kill innocent people indiscriminately.
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Huge benefits are hidden behind the CCP's epidemic prevention measures
While public grievances are boiling, people are also beginning to question whether the CCP’s compulsory nucleic acid testing and forced vaccinations are for the prevention and control of the epidemic, or whether it is using the epidemic to make a fortune.
Some people posted on WeChat that China's GDP exceeded 100 trillion yuan in 2020, an increase of 2.3% over the previous year. How much of this year’s GDP was contributed by the nucleic acid testing industry?
Huai Haiying, the vice president of a US biotech company, also said that the CCP can make many billions a day by forcing people to vaccinate.
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Hundreds of Chinese teachers were illegally sentenced in 2018-2021
The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong remains harsh. According to statistics from Minghui.com, from January 2018 to August 2021, within 3 years and 7 months, 101 Falun Gong teachers in mainland China were illegally sentenced by the CCP, and 30 of them were persecuted and passed away. In addition, hundreds of teachers were kidnapped and harassed by the CCP police.
Many of the teachers who were persecuted were elderly people. Among them, Li Dengchen, an 82-year-old retired teacher in Shenzhou City, Hebei Province, was even illegally sentenced to ten years in prison.
At the same time, the CCP’s public security and courts also robbed the teachers’ property. According to statistics, in three years, the amount of cash robbed alone was as high as 797,700 RMB.
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The Chinese Communist Party will implement new maritime safety regulations in September, expert interpretation
Image : The CCP stated that starting from 1 September 2021, five types of foreign ships entering China’s “territorial waters” must report to the Chinese side. Experts point out that the CCP’s move will intensify regional conflicts. (AFP via Getty Images)
The CCP will begin to implement the newly revised "Maritime Traffic Safety Law" on 1 September 2021. Ships entering China's "territorial waters" must report to China. Taiwan’s strategic military expert Su Ziyun told The Epoch Times that the CCP may apply this new regulation to disputed islands, violating international law and intensifying regional conflicts.
The Chinese Communist Party passed the newly revised "Maritime Traffic Safety Law" on 29 April 2021, and it will be implemented on 1 September 2021.
On 27 August, the official WeChat account of the Maritime Safety Administration of the Communist Party of China, "China Maritime", issued an announcement saying: Starting from September 1, "According to the "Maritime Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China", ships of foreign nationality should enter the territorial waters of the People's Republic of China. Report to the maritime administration."
The announcement stated that the scope of use of this requirement includes five types of ships: submersibles; nuclear-powered ships; ships carrying radioactive substances; ships carrying bulk oil, chemicals, liquefied gas and other toxic and hazardous substances; laws and administrative regulations Or other ships that may endanger the maritime traffic safety of the People’s Republic of China as specified by the State Council.
The contents of the relevant ship report include ship name, call sign, IMO number and maritime mobile communication service identification code; report date, time and current ship position; last port name, departure date and time; next port name, expected arrival Date and time; shipboard satellite phone number; official name of the dangerous goods carried, UN number (if there is no UN number, mark NA), pollution category (if not applicable, mark NA), load (tons).
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Expert: CCP’s new regulations will intensify regional conflicts
Su Ziyun, director of the National Defense Strategy and Resources Research Institute of Taiwan’s National Institute of Defense Security, and a strategic military expert, told the Epoch Times reporter on August 30 that these new regulations of the CCP’s Maritime Traffic Safety Law, plus those that came into effect on February 1 this year The "Maritime Police Law" will intensify regional conflicts, and the situation is worrying.
Su Ziyun said that the CCP may violate international law by applying the "Maritime Traffic Safety Law" to artificial islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
He said: "According to international law, there are two problems with artificial islands and reefs-the first is that the ownership is disputed, and the second is that these islands and reefs are semi-submerged reefs, that is, they are in the sea after the high tide and only after the low tide. It appears that basically it cannot claim such rights in territorial waters. If Beijing starts to apply the so-called maritime traffic safety law to artificial islands and reefs from 1 September 2021, when other countries pass 12 nautical miles around these islands and reefs, It may be made difficult by the CCP, or conflicts may arise."
Public information shows that the CCP has reclaimed and built artificial islands on a large scale in the disputed area of the South China Sea. The US "Washington Times" said on July 13 that satellite images showed that the Chinese military had violated its promise by deploying electronic early warning and monitoring aircraft and helicopters on two disputed artificial islands in the South China Sea, and began regular flights. These islands and reefs are all part of the Spratly Islands (called the Spratly Islands in China), and some of the countries and regions that claim sovereignty over them include the Philippines, Vietnam, and Brunei, Malaysia.
Su Ziyun further stated that the CCP’s "Maritime Traffic Safety Law", coupled with the "Maritime Police Law" passed in February this year, will intensify some conflicts in regional security.
The CCP’s “Maritime Police Law” states: “When China’s rights are illegally infringed by foreign organizations or individuals or face imminent danger of illegal infringement at sea, China’s coastal police agencies have the right to use weapons.”
Su Ziyun said: "The CCP is the first to over-extend this concept of territorial waters, and it can also be applied to the inappropriate artificial islands and reefs. The second is that for the entry of other ships in the territorial waters, it may Take the lead in using force. Both of these are inconsistent with international rules."
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Taiwan legislator posted a post on Facebook: This is a foolish act of the CCP to "harm others against itself"
Taiwan’s legislator Wang Dingyu posted on Facebook on 30 August, “This new approach of the CCP is fundamentally a stupid act of'harming others and detrimental to oneself.'”
Wang Dingyu said, “If it is in compliance with international norms and recognized Chinese territorial waters, there is no major problem, but if it is the territorial sea identified by China (the CCP) itself and does not comply with international norms, such as the South China Sea, this is the case. It’s my own territory, and it’s a barbaric act to set the rules!"
He said, "It is an irresponsible act that requires other countries' ships to be on the'high seas' or their own'economic waters' in essence, because the CCP considers it to be territorial waters, and it must notify the Chinese government if they pass it. This is an irresponsible act of creating disputes."
He said that the ships of various countries (especially warships, maritime cruisers, and official ships) will not pay attention to China's unilateral absurd regulations, then this problem will return to China (the CCP) itself, "Could it be... …Will the Communist Army open fire? Or dare not to take action against big countries like the United States and only dare to bully small and weak countries?"
"This practice of the CCP has vainly added uneasy variables to the Indo-Pacific region, creating troubles for other countries, and once again affirmed that China (the CCP) is the title of'international troublemaker'!" Wang Dingyu said.
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The CCP challenges the freedom of navigation, the U.S. and China face two major problems
In fact, the CCP’s bullying of small and weak countries is nothing new, especially its suppression of Taiwan. Therefore, the CCP’s upcoming "Maritime Traffic Safety Law" actually has another target.
Almost everyone has noticed that "submersibles" and "nuclear-powered ships" are specifically mentioned in this notice. Generally speaking, submersibles refer to submarines of Western countries; nuclear-powered ships are more specific, because currently there are only two countries in the world with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers-the United States and France, but only the US nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are in India. Perform missions in the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, the nuclear-powered ship mentioned by the CCP is likely to refer to the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Some CCP "military experts" said that after the new "Maritime Traffic Safety Law" comes into effect, it will have an impact on Western countries' exercise of "freedom of navigation" in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. It also allows the Chinese military to guard against the United States and other Western countries in the South China Sea to "have more voice."
Obviously, the CCP wants to pass this new law to restrict the "freedom of navigation" of US ships in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
This involves two big questions: Will the red line drawn by the Chinese Communist Party be recognized by the United States? If the United States does not approve it, ignores the CCP’s "red line," and the U.S. ships "freedom of navigation" as usual, how will the CCP respond?
The first question is that many people would think that it is difficult for the United States to recognize this red line drawn by the CCP. As Wang Dingyu pointed out, the CCP’s plot in the South China Sea is said to be its own territory, which is totally unacceptable to the United States and other international communities.
In particular, the CCP’s artificial islands in the South China Sea are almost crazy. "Daily Toutiao" reported that as of 2018, the CCP "has reclaimed 8 islands in the South China Sea", and the CCP will continue to build artificial islands.
There are more than 230 islands and reefs in the Nansha waters, of which 20 are out of the water. If the CCP endlessly reclaimed the sea to build islands, then it would say that within 12 nautical miles are Chinese territorial waters. If things go on like this, there will be few remaining open seas.
This involves the second issue. The United States and other international communities may not recognize the CCP’s approach, and US ships still have freedom of navigation.
During his visit to Vietnam on the 27th, U.S. Vice President Harris stated that the U.S. should challenge the CCP’s “bullying and excessive maritime claims” in this waters. The United States supports strengthening maritime security, and American warships will visit more frequently.
Harris said, “We need to try to put pressure on Beijing and increase pressure to make it comply with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and challenge its bullying practices and excessive maritime claims.” The United States will “maintain a strong presence” in the South China Sea to challenge the CCP.
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The CCP's two ways to deal with the conflict between the U.S. and China
The key question is here. If the US ships still sail freely and travel through the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, and this "ball" reaches the CCP's feet again, how will the CCP kick it?
In my opinion, CCP has two ways to deal with it. One is soft processing and the other is hard processing.
"Soft processing" means that the United States and China are likely to say their own words. The U.S. ships came, and the CCP accused the U.S. ships of breaking into the "territorial waters" and expressed "protests" and "stern representations" diplomatically. But the CCP is unlikely to receive a positive response. The U.S. military says it has "freedom of navigation" in the high seas.
For a long time, the CCP’s red line did not work against the United States. The CCP was often beaten in the face by the U.S. military and broke into the so-called red line time and time again. In the end, the CCP may adopt Hu Xijin's method and have to draw a new red line. As netizens ridiculed it, "Our (CCP) bottom line is that there is no bottom line" and "the red line is another red line."
This method of soft processing is more in line with the usual practice of the CCP in contact with the U.S. military. The CCP repeatedly begged itself for being boring, and kept beating itself in the face. It is estimated that the possibility of the CCP's "soft processing" is relatively high, but the CCP's "hard processing" approach cannot be ruled out.
"Hard handling" refers to the fact that when American ships arrive, the CCP will send maritime police ships and even warships to force them away. This is also a possibility.
However, if it adopts "hard handling", the CCP must prepare for the outbreak of conflict. If the CCP forcibly drives away, the US warships may leave temporarily in order to avoid conflict. But since the US military ignores the CCP’s red line, it is clear that it is not afraid of conflicts with the CCP.
Once the two sides refuse to give in to each other, the CCP insists on forcibly driving away, while the US insists on freedom of navigation. Although the CCP knows head-to-head, it is not an opponent of the US military. However, when the two armies are fighting each other, the probability of misfire will increase. It is possible that one party cannot stand up, triggering a local conflict.
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Japan prepares for conflict. What will happen to CCP China?
If there is a conflict between the United States and CCP, it is relatively more likely to be in the Taiwan Strait. The CCP’s attitude towards Taiwan has become increasingly tough, claiming sovereignty over Taiwan, and the voice of military reunification of Taiwan has always been high-pitched. In particular, the military pressure on Taiwan has been increasing recently, and it has become more and more serious.
Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post quoted the CCP’s CCTV news that the CCP requisitioned a large civilian ship to transport troops, weapons, vehicles and other equipment in its latest military exercise against Taiwan. Indicating a possible future military operation to invade Taiwan, the CCP will use civilian ships to conduct amphibious operations.
Xi Jinping reiterated in July that to achieve complete cross-strait reunification, it is necessary to resolutely "smash" any "Taiwan independence" conspiracy and increase military exercises near Taiwan.
But these actions of the CCP are likely to be bluffs. This is because once the CCP attacks Taiwan with an armed force, based on the "Taiwan Relations Act," the United States will help defend Taiwan. We have analyzed the military power comparison between the United States and China. In the face of a powerful United States, the CCP has no confidence in winning.
But despite this, Japan is still planning ahead. The Wall Street Journal stated that after the Chinese Communist Party intensified its exercises near Taiwan, the Japanese government's "sense of crisis is stronger than ever before" surrounding the Taiwan issue. Japanese leaders publicly promoted preparations for possible conflicts.
On 27 August, Japanese and Taiwanese parliamentarians held an extremely rare video conference to discuss how to strengthen relations, including potential cooperation in maritime rescue.
Not long ago, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso publicly stated in a speech that Japan and the United States should jointly plan to "defend Taiwan" in the event of hostilities.
Some current and former Japanese officials said that in September 2021, Japan will hold its first large-scale military exercise in 30 years to further help Tokyo prepare for any troubles in Taiwan and other regions.
According to people familiar with the planning of the Japanese military exercise, thousands of Japanese Self-Defense Force members will transport weapons and supplies to southern Japan during the upcoming military exercise.
Noboru Yamaguchi, a retired general of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, said that these exercises will help strengthen Japan's ability to prepare for any conflict in the Taiwan Strait.
The former chief of staff of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, Katsuhiro Kono, said that if the US military is involved in the Taiwan Strait crisis, Japan may play a supporting role including refueling US warships, performing joint reconnaissance missions, defending US military bases, and assisting in the evacuation of refugees from Taiwan.
Judging from Japan’s preparations, once the CCP and the United States have a conflict in the Taiwan Strait, it is very likely that Japan will assist the United States in the defense of Taiwan out of its own security considerations.
In fact, if Japan aids the United States to fight against the CCP, Japan may not directly fire at it, but this is tantamount to joining the battle group. In other words, the United States, Japan, and Taiwan joined forces to fight against the CCP.
In addition, Australian Prime Minister Morrison said in May this year that if the Chinese Communist Party invades Taiwan by force, Australia will "implement the agreement to support the United States and its allies in the Indo-Pacific region", implying that it will not rule out sending troops to assist in defense. The Secretary-General of the Australian Department of the Interior Pei Zolo even bluntly said that the "drum of war" has sounded and he is ready to fight for freedom with his allies.
According to this situation, if multiple countries support the United States in defending Taiwan, the scale of the conflict will be world-class. In other words, the CCP provoked the Third World War.
So everyone can expect that under the influence of external forces, China may have to change the world. I really hope that the CCP will soon perish. The Chinese have no way to survive now.
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CDC: No young people died of myocarditis after vaccination
Image : The mRNA vaccine causes side effects of myocarditis, such as chest pain and dyspnea. (Shutterstock)
According to Reuters, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that in the rare cases of myocarditis, which is a rare heart inflammation after Covid inoculation, there have been no reports of deaths in young adults.
Myocarditis is one of the known side effects of the covi vaccine produced by Pfizer and Moderna.
So far, the country has reported 2,574 initial cases of cardiac inflammation, of which 1,282 occurred after vaccination with Pfizer and 557 occurred after vaccination with Moderna.
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After being forced to get vaccinated, mainland resident developed symptoms of cerebral infarction
On 18 August 2021, Liu Jinfeng of the Forestry Bureau of Langxiang Township, Daqing County, Yichun, Heilongjiang Province experienced an adverse reaction after receiving a vaccine. Liu Jinfeng had an oxygen tube stuck in his nose. He was weak in speaking and could not raise his arm. The hospital treated him for cerebral infarction. The family had no choice but to go online for help. Liu Qian, a resident of Changchun, Jilin Province, also experienced similar symptoms after being vaccinated.
Liu Qian, a resident of Changchun, Jilin, told The Epoch Times reporter, : “I am an athlete with a healthy body. I didn’t want to be vaccinated. After a shot of the vaccine, I was always flustered, my heart bulged, and I was tired when lying down. After 10 days, my two arms began to hurt and swell, and my hands became numb and swollen. I couldn’t hold my fist. Shangjin, I thought it was too tiring from work." "Later, the two calves were also swollen down, and the toes were a little woody, and the big toe felt nothing to the touch, and it didn't hurt to pinch."
"Later, I was given a second injection, and I told the unit that I am still flustered and confused. When riding an electric bike, my eyes will go dark. They also asked if I had anemia. I checked my blood pressure. It’s normal.” “Up to now, the hands are still swollen and painful, as if they are not their own, especially when I cannot lie down. I start to ache when I lie down for less than half an hour. My son gives me a massage every night. To fall asleep." Liu Qian said.
Liu Qian said, "Later, I saw that many people on the Internet said that there were side effects after the vaccine, such as blood stasis, blood clotting symptoms, etc., so I hurried to the hospital, but the doctor said that it had nothing to do with the vaccine. They seemed particularly afraid of mentioning the vaccine. "I was prescribed the 'Shentong Zhuyu Pills'. I never take medicine. Some medicine will work. This time I have been taking it for several months. No matter how I eat it, it doesn't work. It doesn't work at all." "I also asked three or four doctors of Chinese medicine to get my pulse. The last Chinese doctor said that my heart and spleen were weak. My hands and feet are still numb, and my clenched fists and fingers are painful and I can't hold them. It has no effect at all."
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Oppose the CCP's mandatory vaccination, mainland people are threatened by intimidation
Image : After Cheng Xiaofeng, a citizen of Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, submitted an application for the demonstration, his family members were intimidated, and people who planned to participate were also warned. (Internet picture)
Cheng Xiaofeng, a resident of Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, submitted to the Zhuzhou Public Security Bureau an application form for demonstrations "opposing compulsory vaccination in disguise". Recently, his family was harassed and threatened by local government personnel, and those preparing to participate in the demonstration were also warned by the police. In addition, the authorities blocked speeches against vaccination, and some people were threatened with intimidation.
In the afternoon of 24 August, Cheng Xiaofeng applied to the Zhuzhou City Public Security Bureau for “opposing compulsory vaccination in disguise”. After the application was made public online, his family was harassed and threatened by government officials from the Cigutang Sub-district Office in his jurisdiction. Parents and 6-year-old children in their eighties were threatened.
However, the actions of the authorities strengthened Cheng Xiaofeng’s determination to fight. He issued a statement saying, “The government will not stop compulsory or disguised vaccination every day. I will not stop fighting every day, even if I face jail.”
On the 29th, Cheng Xiaofeng told reporters, “While I left home, local community staff rushed to my house and said that I had caused trouble outside. It seemed that I was colluding with some foreign forces, and then said that it would be very important for my child’s future. Great influence, I hope my parents can stop my behavior, and then fool my parents to get the vaccine."
Cheng Xiaofeng said, "The police have begun to look for these people who are preparing to participate in the demonstration and warn them. The authorities have put pressure on my family, trying to isolate me and eliminate everyone else. They dare not apply for this demonstration. To criticize, we can only adopt this kind of bad method, and let it end without disease in the end."
The event was originally scheduled to be held on 30 August but it has not yet been approved by the Public Security Bureau. Cheng Xiaofeng expected that he might not be approved but he said, "If this matter is not approved, on 5 September, I am going to sit on a hunger strike at Yandi Square, the largest square in Zhuzhou City."
Cheng Xiaofeng explained the reasons for applying for the demonstration parade, “The authorities did not really follow the principle of voluntariness but forced people to be vaccinated in a disguised form, endangering our lives."
"Many of my friends, including my family, have experienced some conditions and deaths after being vaccinated. The authorities have been concealing the truth, so I think it should be disclosed. Through this activity, the common people can be informed. Reduce harm. Personally, it’s worth taking some risks. That’s how I think.”
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Checking passenger vaccination records leads to backlash, Changsha Metro cancels the announcement overnight
On 29 August, Hunan Changsha Rail Transit Group Co., Ltd. announced that, starting on the 29th, Changsha Metro will add novel coronavirus (covi) vaccination records to all passengers on the basis of the original electronic health code inspection. After the move caused a large number of netizens to rebound, the Changsha Metro removed the regulations overnight.
The announcement also stated that passengers who have not been vaccinated must register their name, contact information, ID number, home address, and reason for not being vaccinated before they can enter the station.
This action triggered a backlash from mainland netizens, "This operation runs counter to citizens' voluntary vaccination, and personal registration information may be leaked." "The so-called'voluntary' has become a vague layer of pressure!" "China's so-called 'voluntary vaccination' is compulsory in disguise.” “It’s nothing more than to force those who haven’t vaccinated to vaccinate.” “In China, there is no right to privacy, so you have to ask why you don’t vaccinate wherever you go.” “If you don’t resist, the lasso can only be overtaken. It's getting tighter."
On 30 August, the Internet reported that Changsha Metro has received a notice from the superior and will cancel the inspection of the epidemic situation and the registration of the information of unvaccinated persons from 30 August. The relevant notices, tables, chairs and other related facilities are being removed overnight. .
The Paper reported on 30 August that it was learned from the Changsha Subway Customer Service Office that from 30 August, subway operators will only check the electronic health code, and no longer check the vaccination information and registration of non-vaccination information.
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Taiwan Rights Association: Arrests for sending the epidemic message is very absurd
The Chinese Communist Party recently arrested and prosecuted 11 Chinese citizens, accusing them of providing the Epoch Times with information documenting the stringent epidemic lockdown measures. The US State Department condemned these arrests and urged Beijing to "stop suppressing the voices of those seeking to report the truth." Shi Yixiang, secretary-general of the Taiwan Association for the Promotion of Human Rights, called on the Chinese authorities to stop suppressing and immediately withdraw improper prosecutions. He also hopes that more international communities will pay attention to the current situation of Chinese citizens facing human rights violations.
According to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the Communist Party of China, if these 11 citizens are found guilty, they will face up to life imprisonment.
On 25 April, Beijing Dongcheng District Procuratorate prosecuted 11 people. They had previously sent pictures and other messages to the Epoch Times about the CCP authorities’ implementation of restrictions on the epidemic in Beijing. Eleven people were arrested in July 2020. They were all Falun Gong practitioners, including Beijing painters Xu Na, Li Zongze, Zheng Yujie, Li Lixin, Zheng Yanmei, Deng Jingjing, Zhang Renfei, Liu Qiang, Meng Qingxia, Li Jiaxuan, and Jiao Mengjiao. According to the indictment, these 11 people were accused by the CCP of "violating the enforcement of the law."
In response, the US State Department called on the CCP to release (citizen) journalists and their contacts detained for reporting on COVID-19, and called on the CCP to stop silence those seeking to report the truth.
The US State Department emphasizes that free and independent media, including citizen journalists, are essential to ensure that the government is more accountable and that we are all protected from future (epidemic) outbreaks and possible epidemics.
The Committee to Protect Journalists also condemned the arrests and urged the Chinese authorities to immediately release the 11 Chinese citizens and drop the charges against them.
Taiwan’s legislator Lin Changzuo said in an interview that this is a further suppression of the media and a means to further block the international media’s access to true internal information in China. "I think this is very bad." In particular, the epidemic prevention should not respect national borders. Everyone should face it together, and should not continue to cover up or block these messages.
Shi Yixiang, secretary-general of the Taiwan Association for the Promotion of Human Rights, pointed out that Chinese citizens were arrested by the CCP authorities for providing information on the epidemic situation to The Epoch Times, facing sentence, and possibly even life imprisonment. Looking at this from Taiwan, which has freedom, democracy and human rights protection The incident is "very ridiculous and ridiculous." Taiwan is a mature civil society that enjoys full freedom of speech. Messages can be passed on freely. Sharing news information is commonplace.
Shi Yixiang called on the Chinese Communist Party to stop suppressing civil society and immediately withdraw improper prosecutions. He also hopes that more international communities will pay attention to the current situation of Chinese citizens facing human rights violations.
In addition, the CCP's totalitarian tightening of freedom of speech, Shi Yixiang is worried. Currently, media with a just conscience still hold on to it, such as the Epoch Times, New Tang Dynasty Television, etc., Some staff were pursued and killed by the CCP. The situation is worrisome.
The "Epoch Times" editorial department issued a statement condemning this suppression of press freedom and basic human rights in the strongest way, and called on Beijing to immediately release the 11 Chinese citizens.
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The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China issued an order: Never give a stage to those who have lost morals
Image : The “Website of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China” sponsored by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China issued an announcement yesterday, “Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Further Strengthening the Educational Management and Ethical Building of Artists and Artists” to relevant units to address current violations of laws and regulations in the field of entertainment , The phenomenon of depravity, proposed four major improvement measures, and choked "Never provide a stage and platform for those who violate laws, regulations, and depravities." (The picture is taken from the website of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China)
Recently, China has successively exposed entertainers Fan Bingbing, Zheng Shuang, Wu Yifan and Zhao Wei related negative news, such as tax evasion and sexual assault. The “Website of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China” sponsored by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China issued an announcement yesterday, “Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Further Strengthening the Educational Management and Ethical Building of Artists and Artists” to relevant units to address current violations of laws and regulations in the field of entertainment , The phenomenon of depravity and depravity, proposed four major improvement measures, and choked "Never provide a stage and platform for those who violate laws, regulations, and depravities."
The notice stated that in order to further strengthen the education management and moral construction of literary and art workers, it is required to strengthen the four major directions of study and education, demonstration and guidance, standardized management and moral construction.
The notice mentioned that "strengthening learning and education" includes in-depth study of the spirit of important expositions on art and literature work by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping, and a deep understanding of "the literary and artistic front is an important front of the party and the people", as well as studying laws and regulations, and improving legal awareness, learning rules and regulations, building a firm ideological line of defense, and taking relevant ministries and commissions to manage sky-high prices, negative and positive contracts, and tax evasion as examples.
"Strengthening demonstration and guidance" refers to the creation and promotion of outstanding works that put social benefits first, and integrate social and economic benefits, and shape the correct values of young people, enhance the spiritual strength of people, and substitute for the construction of socialist culture and contribution, etc.".
"Strengthening standardized management" is to standardize the commercial behavior of cast and crew members, do a good job in reviewing the personnel involved in major events in the cultural and tourism field, "never provide a stage and platform for those who violate laws, regulations, or who are unethical", and at the same time strengthen supervision and monitoring.
Finally, "strengthen moral construction." The notice emphasizes the need to "enhance personality cultivation", enhance social responsibility, educate and guide artists and artists to inherit family virtues, temper personal morality, handle interest relationships, etc., and establish a sound moral review mechanism. Incorporate moral appraisal into the assessment system" and urge art and literature workers to "strictly observe moral discipline."
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Sputnik V effective against severe covid caused by Delta variant
Reporter : Olga Dobrovidova, Science
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is holding up well against the Delta variant, a paper posted on 25 August 2021 on the preprint server medRxiv shows. The study of nearly 14,000 people showed the two-dose vaccine reduces the risk of hospitalization with COVID-19 by 81% and helped prevent severe lung injury.
Surges of COVID-19 in many countries and an increasing number of “breakthrough” cases in vaccinated people have raised concerns that vaccines don’t protect as well against Delta as against earlier strains, or that vaccines’ protection may be short-lived. Israeli data on breakthrough infections point to limited protection offered by messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines; however, a recent study of the Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines found the two were largely effective against Delta.
Like other cities in Russia, St. Petersburg has set up triage centers, where patients with a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis and COVID-19 symptoms receive a brief physical examination and a low-dose computed tomography (CT) scan of their lungs to determine whether they need hospitalization. A team led by epidemiologist Anton Barchuk of the European University at St. Petersburg asked doctors at two such centers to inquire about patients’ vaccination status. (They did not ask which of the vaccines available in Russia a patient had received, but government data suggest about 96% of vaccine recipients in St. Petersburg got Sputnik V.) The analysis included 13,894 patients, 1291 of whom were fully vaccinated. Of the participants, 495 were referred to hospital.
Sputnik V offered completely vaccinated patients—who had had their second shot at least 2 weeks before coming to the triage center—81% protection against being hospitalized, the study found. (The effectiveness was slightly better in women than in men, 84% versus 76%.) The study included too few people to detect a statistically significant benefit of partial vaccination. “Our data confirm that the benefits of vaccination include attenuating disease severity in breakthrough cases,” Barchuk says.
Even though the study did not confirm which viral variants patients had, Russian health authorities attributed 95% of COVID-19 cases to the Delta variant in July and August, when the study ran.
The researchers also found that Sputnik V had 76% effectiveness at protecting against severe lung injury from COVID-19, meaning more than 50% of the lung is visibly affected on a CT scan. “We were able to get this rather unique data because no one in the world seems to perform as many CT scans for patients with mild disease as Russia does,” Barchuk says.
The study did not measure protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection or mild forms of disease. But the authors’ calculations, based on city-level vaccination numbers, offer an indirect estimate of effectiveness against symptomatic disease of about 50%.
John Moore, an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, says the study results “seem credible and also consistent with expectations.” He adds that 81% protection against hospitalization is a bit lower than the recent effectiveness of mRNA vaccines seen in the United States and elsewhere, but still “very good.”
Sputnik V, developed by the Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, works in the same way as the vaccines produced by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J): A nonreplicating adenovirus delivers a bit of DNA coding for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into the recipient’s cells. But whereas AstraZeneca uses the same adenovirus for both doses, Sputnik V uses two different types, to prevent antibodies against the first dose from rendering the second one ineffective. (J&J only uses one dose; a trial of a two-dose regimen is ongoing.)
“The Sputnik V design principle has always been considered a good one, better in my view than the AstraZeneca/Oxford and J&J vaccine designs, assuming J&J soon moves to two doses,” Moore wrote in an email to Science. “The concern some people have expressed is the validity of data published under the control of the Russian government.” The St. Petersburg study was done independent of the government and Gamaleya.
Sputnik V is now authorized in 69 countries, and some 10 million to 15 million doses are produced monthly, according to media reports. The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization (WHO) are still reviewing the vaccine. WHO authorization would mean the vaccine can be distributed under the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, a program to give low- and middle-income countries access to COVID-19 vaccines. (A WHO spokesperson said this month it does not have a possible decision date.)
Ref: https://www.science.org/content/article/russia-s-sputnik-v-protects-against-severe-covid-19-delta-variant-study-shows
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The BNT vaccine is coming soon! It is reported that the first batch of "930,000 doses" will arrive at Taoyuan Airport on 1 September night
Editor : Zhou Jiaru
TSMC, Hon Hai Yongling, and Tzu Chi recently purchased a total of 15 million doses of BNT vaccine, and the first batch will arrive in Taiwan as soon as tomorrow (1 September). According to the report of "Wind Media", the first batch of 930,000 doses of BNT vaccine will be airlifted from Germany to Taiwan. It is expected to arrive at Taoyuan International Airport at 9.30 pm on 1 September 2021. Representatives of each sent to pick up the plane.
The Central Epidemic Command Centre plans that the first batch of BNT vaccines that arrive will be given priority to students aged 12 to 17 years old. It is expected that the influenza vaccination mode will be adopted, with centralized vaccination on campus or according to notice.
The method of vaccination from the contract medical institution designated by the local government health bureau will not be included in the willingness registration for the time being.
In addition, since the opening of BNT vaccine registration on 28 August, people over 18 years of age can register online. As of the 30th, there are more than 3.22 million people who are willing to receive BNT vaccine regardless of single or multiple selection. Since the evening of 29 Augusth, the number of 2.996,000 has increased sharply; and the number of people who wish to register for the Moderna vaccine that the original Chinese have snatched over is declining.
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Only 330 government officials in Taiwan select Medigen's MVC-COV1901
Taipei City Councillor Wang Hongwei pointed out that more than 270,000 second-category central and local government anti-epidemic personnel have vaccinated, of which only 330 officials select Medigen's MVC COVID-19 vaccine. She disclosed up to 19 subjects were excluded from the Medigen's MVC Phase II trial.
Wang Hongwei revealed on Facebook on 30 August that the MVC-COV1901 Phase II trial excluded up to 19 subjects, including a history of malignant tumors, diagnosed with cancer, pancreatic disease, alcoholism, drug abuse and other diseases. In the absence of trials, it is impossible to know whether cancer patients and drug users vaccinated with the new vaccine can produce antibodies, and safety data have not been obtained.
Wang Hongwei emphasized that in clinical trials of vaccines, in addition to confirming whether there is efficacy, safety is the most important consideration. She has criticized that patients with pancreatic disease and drug addicts are currently on the list of deaths reported after Medigen administration. However, these two types of people are not included in the MVC-COV1901 Phase II trial but the Ministry of Health and Welfare granted Medigen the vaccine EUA and did not exclude these people, and even included those who were not on the trial list on the publicly funded vaccination list.
She said that the Ministry of Health and Welfare has no relevant data from Medigen, and only relied on Chen Shizhong's sentence "Excluded does not mean that it cannot be vaccinated", and it hastily vaccinated the people. To put it more bluntly, "Seeing those who died, can Chen Shizhong sleep well?"
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The key to Taiwan's purchase of BNT vaccine! American scholar: Tsai Ing-wen forces China to recognize Taiwan's sovereignty
Image: President Tsai Ing-wen forced China to recognize Taiwan’s sovereignty, making China, which originally wanted to suppress Taiwan, become the largest Loser. (Associated Press file photo)
TSMC and Hon Hai founder Guo Taiming purchased 10 million doses of BNT vaccine. American scholar Weng Darui revealed on Facebook that "the real key" is that President Tsai Ing-wen forced China to recognize Taiwan’s sovereignty, which made the original wish China, which suppressed Taiwan, became the biggest loser.
Weng Darui said that the procurement of vaccines from German pharmaceutical companies involves the exercise of national sovereignty and must meet the two legal conditions of "emergency use approval" and "lawsuit exemption protection". China has not approved the listing of BNT vaccines and claims to have sovereignty over Taiwan. If the vaccine is allowed to enter Taiwan, it is tantamount to announcing that "Taiwan is a sovereign and independent country." Therefore, the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan is prevented from buying vaccines. However, the two private companies acted as "white gloves" and smoothly avoided China's political repression.
Weng Darui pointed out that President Tsai Ing-wen’s re-arrangement of BNT vaccine procurement has worked successfully. TSMC and Hon Hai did not directly sign a contract with Shanghai Fosun. The procurement case eventually turned into a transaction between two Hong Kong companies. TSMC and Hon Hai entrusted Hong Kong’s Yuli Pharmaceutical as the import. Shanghai Fosun, on the other hand, was presented by Hong Kong subsidiary Fosun Industrial. On the surface, TSMC and Hon Hai successfully completed their tasks, but in fact "the ball is back in the hands of the Ministry of Health and Welfare."
According to Weng Darui’s analysis, the two Hong Kong companies could not go beyond the two legal requirements for vaccine procurement. They had to wait for the Ministry of Health and Welfare to negotiate directly with the German pharmaceutical company to bring the entire procurement case back to the starting point before it was blocked by China. The biggest difference lies in the previous Shanghai report. Star was excluded, and the participation of Shanghai Fosun now proves that China is facing a dilemma. If this case is not blocked, it is equivalent to recognizing Taiwan’s sovereignty.
"The only way out in China is to quickly approve the emergency use of vaccines in China before the Ministry of Health and Welfare reached an agreement with BNT," said Weng Darui. In this way, China can continue to "eat Taiwanese tofu," Weng believes, Tsai Ing-wen’s bureau was “too beautiful”, not only forcing China to recognize Taiwan’s national sovereignty, but also to double the acquisition of BNT vaccine, and even helping the German pharmaceutical company obtain China’s emergency use approval.
Weng emphasized that China is the biggest loser. It was originally intended to suppress Taiwan's sovereignty, but instead it strengthened Taiwan's sovereignty, and it was also responsible for the international stigma of political intervention to prevent the epidemic.
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