Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
News on disease control, Australia, Taiwan, CCP
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EVA Air arrives in Taoyuan with vaccines from Slovakia
EVA Air flight BR66 has arrived in Taoyuan at 6.14 am of 26 September 2021 with 160,000 doses of AstraZeneca (AZ vaccine) donated by Slovakia via Vienna. These doses are 16 times the amount announced by Slovakia in mid-July.
Slovakia announced on 24 September 2021 that it had donated 160,000 doses of AZ vaccine to Taiwan. In addition to the AZ vaccine, Taiwan will also receive a batch of surgical protective gowns from Slovakia's Fibrochem company.
Ref: news.tvbs.com.tw/life/1592431
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Kangaroo "shakes hands and thanks" its benefactors after being rescued, the video went viral
Reporter : Fu Yuanxi / Editor: Cheng Yiren / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/09/25/a103226671.html
A kangaroo trapped in a frozen lake in Canberra, Australia was rescued in time by three enthusiastic men. Surprisingly, the kangaroo "shakes hands and thanks" its saviours. Witnesses filmed the entire process and shared it on the social network. The kangaroo immediately became popular, and it has surpassed 460,000 views in just a few days.
The incident happened in the morning of Tuesday (21 September 2021). A kangaroo jumped into the frozen Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra for unknown reasons. As a result, it was unable to get out of the trap on his own and had to stand while shaking in the lake.
Three local men found kangaroos trapped in the lake when they were running in the morning by the lake. Two of them, regardless of the cold water of the lake, immediately walked into the lake to help, attracting a lot of people to watch.
In order not to frighten the kangaroo, the two deliberately slowed down and approached the kangaroo carefully, trying to lift it up. The kangaroo struggled instinctively when it saw someone approaching it. Later, they seemed to know that the two would not hurt it, so they stopped. After struggling, the kangaroo was obediently carried to the lake and handed over to another man waiting on the shore.
After the kangaroo came ashore, it looked a little physically exhausted, and a man held it on. Soon afterwards, the kangaroo was finally able to stand firm and grabbed the arm of a "saviour" with its little hand, as if shaking hands with the "saviour" in thanks. (Click to watch related video)
This warm scene was photographed by the onlookers and shared on Twitter, which immediately caused a sensation. In just five days, the number of people who viewed it has exceeded 460,000. Many netizens praised the action of the three men, "The water will freeze, thank you for saving the kangaroo." Many netizens were surprised by the kangaroo's "shaking hands": "It's incredible." "Oh, he's here." Thank you." "It's a cool way of thanking you."
However, some people squeezed a cold sweat for the three men. “These people should be grateful that the kangaroo’s legs are too cold to function, otherwise they may be used as a powerful weapon.” Someone said, “They did a great job. Great, but the way they handle it may cause serious injury to themselves."
Some people suspect that kangaroo is a master swimmer. Does it really need someone to lend a hand?
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U.S. supports Taiwan’s accession to CPTPP and urges Beijing to stop pressure
Reporter : Li Zhaoxi / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/09/25/a103226843.html
After Taiwan formally applied to join the "Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement" (CPTPP), on Friday (24th), the United States praised Taiwan’s contribution to global trade, democratic values, achievements, and criticized Beijing’s recent large-scale invasion of the air defense identification zone on the island.
The original 12-member agreement was the “Trans-Pacific Partnership” (TPP). After former President Trump representing the U.S. withdrew in early 2017, the group was renamed CPTPP. The members include Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
The Biden-Harris administration has made it clear that it is not eager to rejoin the agreement, and the State Council has admitted that it has no formal say in the application of the CCP and Taiwan to join.
"Nevertheless, we hope that Taiwan's reputation as a responsible member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Taiwan's strong support for democratic values will be the evaluation factors that influence CPTPP members to decide Taiwan as a potential candidate for joining", the US State Department said Ned Price told reporters.
At the same time, Price added, “We urge Beijing to stop its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure on Taiwan and engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan.”
On Wednesday, Taiwan formally applied to join the CPTPP. The next day, 24 CCP's PLA fighters, including 18 fighters and two bombers with nuclear capabilities, flew over the island’s air defense identification zone.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense responded by activating its own fighter jets, issuing radio warnings to CCP fighters, and using land-based air defense missiles to track CCP fighters.
At the regular press conference on Thursday, when asked about Taiwan’s application to join the CPTPP, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded as usual, stating that it “resolutely opposes” Taiwan’s accession to any official treaty or organization.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Beijing’s remarks in a statement late on Thursday, stressing that the CCP “has no say” in Taiwan’s application to join the CPTPP.
"The Chinese (CCP) government only wants to bully Taiwan in the international community. It is the chief culprit for the increase in hostility across the Taiwan Strait," the statement said.
The CCP applied to join the CPTPP on 16 September, nearly a week before Taiwan submitted its application. People worry that if Beijing obtains membership before Taiwan, this may cause difficulties for Taiwan's accession.
Whereas membership requires the approval of all 11 member states. Peru may become an unfavorable factor for Taiwan to join the CPTPP. As Peru’s largest trading partner and foreign investor, the CCP is seeking to expand its relationship with Peru.
Japan is the largest economy among the 11 member states of CPTPP, and it welcomes Taiwan to join.
News (4) to (7) / Editor : Li Mei / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/09/25/a103226956.html / Images : Video Screenshots
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Norway removed covid restrictions despite only 67% of the population vaccinated
Norway added 705 infections on Friday (24 September 2021), with a total of 186,000 confirmed cases and 850 deaths nationwide.
The authorities announced that from Saturday (25 September), all epidemic prevention restrictions will be lifted, social distancing requirements will no longer be required, sports, cultural venues and restaurants can be restored to 100% capacity, nightclubs will be reopened, and travel restrictions will also be relaxed.
Since March 2020, Norway has imposed restrictions on the epidemic. Prime Minister Solberg said on Friday that Norway has adopted the most stringent epidemic prevention measures for 561 days, and it is time to return to normal life.
So far, about 67% of Norwegians have been fully vaccinated against covi, and about 76% of Norwegians have received at least one dose of the covi vaccine.
On Saturday, with the exception of mainland China, more than 231 million people worldwide were diagnosed positive, and at least 4.73 million people died from covid.
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No confirmed community cases, no deaths in Taiwan on 25 September 2021
There are no confirmed cases and no deaths in Taiwan on Saturday but there are 5 new inbound covid cases.
Recently, the Taiwan epidemic has stabilized, and the command center is discussing downgrading measures, which are expected to be announced next week.
On Saturday afternoon, Japan donated vaccines to Taiwan for the fifth time, and 500,000 doses of AZ vaccines were shipped to Taiwan; on the 26th, it is expected that 160,000 doses of AZ vaccines donated by Slovakia will arrive in Taiwan.
In addition, Chen Shizhong, commander of the command center, stated that the United States plans to use vaccine certificates as an entry requirement, and Taiwan will continue to strive for domestically produced Medigen vaccine MVC-COV1901 to be recognized by the United States.
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Covid cases continue to spike in Singapore despite 82% of the population vaccinated
82% of Singapore’s population has been fully vaccinated, but this week there are still more than 1,000 new diagnoses every day, and it reached 1,646 on Friday, breaking the record since the start of the epidemic in Singapore.
The authorities said on Friday that in order to curb the surge in cases and reduce the pressure on the medical system, starting 27 September 2021, they will strengthen epidemic prevention, including limiting social gatherings to two people at most, and resuming the mode of working at home.
The new measures are implemented until 24 October 2021.
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Singapore reports an increase of 1,443 covid cases on 25 September 2021
On 25 September 2021, Singapore reports an increase of 1,443 confirmed covid cases. Among the cases, 14 are inbound cases, 1,053 are local community cases and 371 cases are reported from dormitories. Among 1,142 covid patients warded in the hospitals, there are 3 new cases on oxygen supplementation, 4 new cases in intensive care units while 97.9% of local cases are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.
The 14 inbound cases is the highest in two weeks.
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Singapore companies impose ART testing mandates
Image : An unopened ART test kit set distributed free by Singapore Post on behalf of the Ministry of Health
Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) encourages people in Singapore to carry out ART testing themselves instead of mass screening by the frontline experts to detect hidden covid cases within the local communities.
As a result, it appears that companies in Singapore are imposing ART testing mandates on their workers to do their tests at home before they are allowed to go back to their offices since the workers have received free test kits from the MOH.
The workers have to declare their ART test results on Intranet for records before returning back to their offices.
Workers, that work at home, no need to declare their ART test results although they are encouraged to carry out the first test in order to familiarize with the kit before testing out the second time if they have been arranged ad-hoc to return to their offices once a week.
News (9) to (10) / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/09/25/a103227067.html
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Rare mention of Lin Biao's coup, reflecting the turmoil in Zhongnanhai
In recent days, Zhongnanhai’s internal conflicts have continuously attracted attention. Lin Biao, the second in command of the party, government and army, called him "planning an armed coup." This is another piece of sensitive information released after the assassination of leaders by high-ranking political and legal officials by state media.
The CCP media "Seeking Truth" re-cited Lin Biao, one of the top ten marshals of the CCP to seize power and build the country, which aroused the attention of the outside world. Lin Biao, as the second in command of the CCP in the Mao Zedong era, was written into the CCP Constitution on 1 April 1969 as Mao's "close comrade-in-arms and successor".
However, more than two years later, on 13 September 1971, the "September 13 Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries occurred. The CCP claimed that Lin Biao and his family had fled by plane and crashed in Mongolia. The 9 people on board included Lin Biao’s wife and Son, there is no survivor.
As for the authenticity of this historical narrative, there are still controversies among overseas historians.
After the incident, the CCP classified Lin Biao and others as "counter-revolutionary groups," saying that they "instigated an armed coup" and tried to murder Mao Zedong. The incident involved a large number of high-ranking military generals at the time. Thousands of officers were purged. Together with the subordinates of these generals, as many as tens of thousands were dealt with.
This time, Qiushi.com rarely mentioned Lin Biao, claiming that he failed to plan an armed coup during the Cultural Revolution because "the whole army resolutely obeyed the party's command."
Lan Shu said, "It is very unusual for the official media to come forward to discuss the Lin Biao incident. If he is in the 20th century, he will not only be criticized by the Western international community, but there will also be various kinds of factional struggles in the party."
The day before Qiushi.com published the article, Xi Jinping went to inspect a certain base of the Chinese Communist Party in Shaanxi. And once again emphasized that officers and soldiers must "submit the party's command."
The CCP’s western theater has changed its commanders three times in a few months. Chen Pokong, a commentator on current affairs in the United States, said that the CCP’s official media proposed that Lin Biao planned an armed coup at this time is hard to control.
Chen Pokong, a current affairs commentator in the United States, said, "The current situation, seeing the tension of the Communist Party media and the party newspaper, as well as Xi Jinping's speech in Xi'an in a trance and a heavy expression, reflects the general style, that is, the party is dissatisfied with Xi Jinping. The hostility received was used as a symbol of this "attempted murder."
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Rumours of coups and assassinations since Xi came to power
Since Xi Jinping came to power, news of the high-level CCP facing coups and assassinations has continued to spread, but it is difficult to get official confirmation. However, the mainland media rarely disclosed recently that Luo Wenjin, the former head of the Interpol Corps of the Jiangsu Public Security Department, and his fellow, former Chongqing Public Security Director Deng Huilin, were dissatisfied with the “main leaders of the country” and tried to attend the Nanjing First He was assassinated during the commemoration, but was stopped by security personnel.
After Xi Jinping took office, he carried out a major cleansing of the political and legal system, which is considered to be the cause of dissatisfaction with the political and legal system.
Lan Shu said, "If Xi Jinping wants to continue to be re-elected for his third term next year, he may use some unusual methods to severely purge certain factions, and this force will exceed the anti-corruption method."
Xi Jinping breaks the party's convention and may strive for a third term at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The outside world believes that it will inevitably encounter a backlash within the party. Xi Jinping can only suppress it with more iron-handed means.
Under this general background, whether the opposition forces will be aroused to counterattack, the CCP's re-promotion of the "armed coup" at this time is considered to reflect the unrest and turmoil at the highest level of the CCP.
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Xi Jinping congratulates Zhu Lilun on being elected. Zheng Yunpeng satire: Blue Camp is playing a monkey show to help recite sutras
Reporter : Xie Junlin / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/3683998
Image : DPP legislator Zheng Yunpeng. (Data photo)
Zhu Lilun was elected chairman of the Kuomintang on 25 September 2021. That night later, today he finally received a congratulatory message from Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, congratulating Zhu on his election. The telegram reiterated the "1992 consensus" and "opposes Taiwan independence," and said that "the situation across the Taiwan Strait is complex and severe." DPP legislator Zheng Yunpeng said that the whole world believes that the "complex and dangerous forms of the Taiwan Strait" were caused by China's unilateral threats to Taiwan. Xi Jinping gave a tight curse that the Kuomintang must play a monkey show to help recite the scriptures.
Xi Jinping’s telegram mentions that in the past period, the two parties have adhered to the 1992 consensus and opposed Taiwan’s independence on a common political basis for positive interaction, strengthened cooperation, complied with the common aspirations of compatriots on both sides of the strait, promoted the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and benefited compatriots on both sides of the strait. The results are obvious to all. At present, the situation across the Taiwan Strait is complex and severe, and all Chinese people must work together and move forward in unity. It is hoped that the two parties will rise to the horizon, adhere to a common political foundation, uphold national justice, and work together to work for the well-being of compatriots, seek peace in the Taiwan Strait, seek reunification for the people, and seek rejuvenation for the nation.
In this regard, Zheng Yunpeng said that Taiwan is a mature democratic country. The Chinese Communist Party has selective contact with Taiwan political parties and only accepts a Chinese threshold. This is a united front method full of political goals. It is unwilling to have equal official exchanges with Taiwan’s democratically elected government. This is a very rare and clear political standard in the international arena.
Zheng Yunpeng bluntly said that the phrase "the Taiwan Strait is complicated and dangerous" in the congratulatory message is believed by the whole world to be caused by China's unilateral threat to Taiwan. Only the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Kuomintang blame the DPP, which denies the democratic choice of the Taiwanese people. Xi Jinping gave a tight curse, and the Kuomintang is playing a monkey show according to the script to help chant the scriptures.
Zheng Yunpeng pointed out that it is not uncommon or unexpected for Xi Jinping to congratulate Zhu Lilun on his election. He believes that what Chinese people want to see is that one day the Chinese Kuomintang will not need Beijing's caring eyes, and that the Chinese Kuomintang will be a democratic and democratic party loyal to the country.
DPP legislator Xu Zhijie said, "Congratulations to Zhu Lilun for being the party chairman again, and hope that Zhu Lilun will break through and be unparalleled, and not continue to sink. Zhu Lilun should lead the Kuomintang in a new direction of opposition; secondly, follow the Taiwan Kuomintang line and stop echoing Xi Jinping's 'One country, two systems'. If you just blindly criticize the DPP and don't think about Taiwan's social values, you will eventually be rejected by the voters."
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The full text translation of Xi Jinping’s congratulatory message to Zhu Lilun
Taipei
Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang
Mr. Zhu Lilun Taijian:
On the occasion of his election as the chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, I would like to express my deep congratulations. In the past period, our two parties have been in a healthy interaction on the basis of the common government of adhering to the "92 Consensus" and opposing "Taiwan independence", strengthened cooperation, complied with the common aspirations of the two sides of the strait, promoted the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and supplemented the compatriots on both sides of the strait. The results are obvious to all. At present, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is complex and severe. All the Chinese people must unite with the CCP and move forward. We hope that the two parties will stand tall and see far, uphold the common political pretence, uphold national justice, work for the well-being of the commonwealth, seek peace for the Taiwan Strait, and seek unity for the country. To seek revival for the people.
Shun Song Shiqi
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No mention of national unity! Zhu Lilun responded to Xi Jinping to congratulate Xi Jinping with a telegram stating "seeking common ground and respecting differences"
Reporter : Wu Shaoyu / news.tvbs.com.tw/politics/1592598
The former mayor of New Taipei Zhu Lilun was elected chairman of the KMT. Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, sent a congratulatory message this morning (26 September), expressing positive interaction and strengthening cooperation on the basis of adhering to the "92 Consensus" and opposing "Taiwan independence" common government.
Zhu Lilun went to Taoyuan Zhongli Party Headquarters to thank the mass for their votes. He was asked by the media about the "unification of the country" mentioned in Xi Jinping's congratulatory message. He publicly stated that he received a congratulatory message from the other side at 9 am, particularly emphasizing the 1992 consensus and opposing Taiwan independence. Earlier, he thanked Xi Jinping for upholding the standards of the party constitution and program, the 1992 consensus, and opposing Taiwan independence. They hope that in addition to "seeking common ground while reserving differences," they can further "seeking common ground and respecting differences" in the future.
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Changi Airport's ACI health accreditation renewed
Press Release / Image : Changi Airport Group
Singapore Changi Airport has successfully renewed its accreditation under the Airports Council International’s (ACI) Airport Health Accreditation Programme, demonstrating that the health measures in place at the airport are aligned with industry best practices.
ACI introduced the Airport Health Accreditation Programme in mid-2020 to enable airports across the world to demonstrate that they have established health safety measures in place throughout their facilities and processes. This will enable passengers, airport workers and visitors to have peace of mind when using the airport’s facilities.
Among the key items in the accreditation renewal process was how Changi segregated its terminals into different zones to minimise mixing of passengers and staff for improved health safety in both the transit and arrival areas. Based on the zones that airport staff serve in and their interaction levels with passengers, they don different levels of personal protective equipment (PPE).
These stepped-up safety measures added layers to Changi’s existing Covid-19 defences, to keep passengers and visitors safe and to protect airport workers. To-date, Changi is also the only airport in Asia Pacific to be certified under the ACI Health Measures Audit Programme (AHMAP), an external audit developed by ACI World in partnership with Bureau Veritas, a world leader in testing, inspection and certification. It is based on the internationally-recognised SafeGuardTM standards.
Mr Lee Seow Hiang, CEO of Changi Airport Group, said, “Ensuring the health and safety of passengers, airport staff and visitors will always be the top priority for Changi Airport. We commit to work with our airport partners to maintain best practices in hygiene and protective measures. By doing so, we aim to instill a high sense of confidence among passengers and visitors alike. With these efforts, Changi Airport will emerge stronger when air travel eventually resumes.”
News (15) to (17) / Editor : Zhao Fenghua / Source : Radio Free Asia / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/9/25/n13259791.htm
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Wuhan virus research plan exposed to support "laboratory leak theory"
The British "Telegraph" disclosed on 21 September 2021 that a research project that applied for funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2018 showed that Wuhan scientists had planned to strengthen airborne coronaviruses that are released into bat caves.
This leaked document shows that before the new crown pandemic, Chinese researchers submitted a plan to release a type of nanoparticle into a bat cave in Yunnan. The particles contain the new chimeric spike protein of bat coronavirus, which can penetrate the skin.
The author of the plan is Dr Peter Daszak, a zoologist from the EcoHealth Alliance in the United States. Team members include Shi Zhengli and others from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as well as researchers from the University of North Carolina and the National Wildlife Health Center of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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"Laboratory Leak" to obtain new evidence
"The Telegraph" disclosed that the above-mentioned research project also intends to create a chimeric virus to make humans more susceptible to infection, and to apply for US$14 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The plan proposes to add human-specific cleavage sites to bat coronaviruses.
When the gene sequencing of the new coronavirus was announced, scientists were puzzled about how the cleavage site of the virus's spike protein evolved into human-specific adaptability, which is why the new coronavirus can be highly infectious.
This document came from Drastic, a covi traceability investigation team composed of scientists from all over the world, and was verified as true information by former members of the Trump administration.
Alina Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute in the United States, told the American media The Intercept that scientists’ embedding of novel furin cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses was only a speculation. Now there may be evidence, “From a general perspective, a new coronavirus containing a new type of cleavage site appeared in Wuhan. Now we have evidence that in 2018, they did strive to embed the new type of cleavage site in the laboratory SARS-related new viruses. For me, this is a crucial revelation, and I believe it is true for many scientists."
Martin Wikelski, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, also said that the leaked laboratory statement now seems more reasonable, "This document absolutely changes my view of the origin of covi and perception. In fact, a possible chain of communication (in the laboratory) is more logically coherent. I didn’t think so before reading this research plan.”
There are also some Western scientists who hold different views. Stephen Goldstein, a virologist at the University of Utah in the United States, wrote in an email to The Intercept, “This research project has been rejected for funding and does not intend to. It is difficult to evaluate how it relates to the origin of covi."
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DARPA refuses to fund
According to the “Telegraph” report, DARPA refused to fund this research because the Daszak-led plan may put the local community at risk, and warned Daszak’s team that it did not properly consider enhancing the virus (enhancement study) or the danger of releasing vaccines through the air.
British science journalist Viscount Ridley told the Mirror that for more than a year, Daszak had never responded to his questions. “Now it turns out that he wrote about how the covid virus is but they refuse to share important information about the operation of Wuhan Institute of Viology with the world. The whole world should be as angry about this as I am."
Angus Dalgleish, a professor of oncology at the University of London at St. George, believes that even if it was not funded last time, the research may continue, “This is obviously a gain of function study. The cutting site is artificially designed and the new virus is polished to increase the infectivity of human cells in more than one cell line."
Another World Health Organization researcher said that this research plan even considers strengthening the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, which is shocking. The MERS virus has a fatality rate of more than 30%. If it spreads in a manner similar to the covid pandemic. The end of the world will almost come.
News (17) to (23) / Host : Li Dayu / Publisher : Dayu News Insider / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/9/25/n13259312.htm
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The French Ministry of Defense report caused a sensation in France, the Chinese Communist ambassador could not sit still. 30 multimedia forwarding
The main event I want to share is a 646-page report recently released by the French Ministry of Defense, entitled "The CCP’s Influential Operations". The specific agency is the "Military Academy Strategic Research Institute" under the French Ministry of Defense. The report was surveyed and written by about 50 French experts and scholars over a period of two years. The main persons in charge are Jean Verme, the dean of the French Military Academy’s Strategic Research Institute, and a Chinese expert named "Xia Hong" in Chinese. In order to avoid the report from being influenced by the CCP, they deliberately avoided all pro-Communist scholars, experts or politicians.
This report is all-encompassing and involves the Fuzhou 311 base mentioned in our previous report. This base directs the CCP’s three "fronts" of external operations, psychological warfare, public opinion warfare, and legal warfare. We have already reported on this week’s program. , And this is only a small part of the 646-page report. Others also involve the CCP’s infiltration activities in Taiwan, Sweden, Canada and other countries using traditional media, social media, diplomatic personnel, overseas little pink and other forms of infiltration activities, as well as live Organ harvesting, the virus plague, the suppression of Falun Gong, Tibetans, Xinjiang, and various democratic activists, etc., have conducted public opinion operations in order to conceal the truth.
All of these are discussed in this report, and they have revealed the truth to the CCP. In particular, we have noticed that more and more countries in the world are beginning to attach importance to the CCP’s crime of "living organ harvesting". This is a trend! Moreover, once this matter is officially put on the table by the governments of various countries, it will deal a great blow to the CCP. In addition, it is the truth about the virus. The CCP’s cover-up of live organ harvesting and the truth about the virus will be mentioned in the next episode of this program.
So, this French Ministry of Defense report was published about two weeks ago. It was first reported by Le Monde and introduced part of the content to the public. Starting on September 20, various French media began to follow up. According to reports, at least more than 30 media reported this report, which caused a sensation in French society.
For example, the French newspaper "Liberation" reported on "Influence Action: The CCP's "Three Wars"", and "Cultural News" reported on "A huge network, the CCP now wants to impose itself on the rest of the world". , The French "Information" is titled "The CCP’s External Influence: Sweden and Taiwan Are One of the Primary Targets", etc. Some of these media reports are summarized, and some are extracts of them.
Now the media in other countries are also following up. Then I will post the original link of the report in the message area of today's program and stick it to the top. It is in French. Before the other language versions are released, you may have to use translation tools to watch it.
Because of the great social impact of this report, the Chinese Embassy in France had to respond to the media two days ago. An insider revealed that this French embassy person was very embarrassed and at a loss when faced with media questions. It was very uncomfortable in front of the media. Because of the content of this report, every sentence is heart-warming.
On the website of the French Embassy of the Chinese Communist Party, on 22 September, an article by the spokesperson of the corresponding embassy in response to reporters’ questions was reluctantly posted. It is nothing to read. The truth about his situation and what he did.
For example, the French Embassy of the Chinese Communist Party mentioned in this defense article that think tanks such as the RAND Corporation in the United States and the Australian Institute of Strategic Policy have also issued similar disclosure reports. This shows that the United States, France, Australia and other Western countries are all in Get a thorough understanding of the CCP. At the same time, the defense article of the French Embassy of the CCP again mentioned in the report that the CCP has hired overseas students and Chinese to form a cyber navy, and France’s "Silk Road Press" is the CCP’s external influence. Action "local relay station" and so on.
Interestingly, the Chinese Embassy in France once again labeled this report written by a Westerner as "anti-China", and the "warning" at the beginning of this report reminded readers that this report was accused by the CCP as the so-called "anti-China".
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The report predicts that the "anti-China" label will be labeled "Anti-China" on page 646, the four parts of the report reveal the CCP
The report says this: This report is aimed at the strategies of the Chinese Communist regime and the Chinese communists participating in it. It is not aimed at "China" or "Chinese", as they did in another report in 2018. When it comes to the issue of the Russian government, they emphasized that it is aimed at the "Kremlin", not Russia, and the report is committed to not confuse the ruling party with the people.
For the sake of rigor, the report will use "party state" or "Beijing" to refer to the CCP regime. If there is any reference to "China", it is also for convenience. In fact, it refers to the CCP regime, not Chinese society or people.
Look, everyone, these are the original words of the report. Then, the report said that he explained this way because it is necessary for anyone who criticizes the CCP to make such an explanation in advance, because the CCP authorities will immediately post the critics as “anti-China” on official media or social media. "," "racist", "xenophobic" and so on. Similarly, the Russian government is willing to label critics as "anti-Russian". Tag attack, so hereby issue a warning.
Interesting! This report is already fascinating at the beginning. Without in-depth research on the CCP, as a Western organization, it is difficult to understand the CCP’s operations in this way. And then, the content of the report is more attractive. All 646 pages are divided into four parts, from the four aspects of the CCP's external influence, namely, "concepts", "participants", "actions", and "cases" to explain the CCP's external actions in simple terms.
Specifically, the “concepts” in the first part refer to the CCP’s “three wars”, public opinion wars, psychological warfare, and legal warfare; the second part of the “participants” focuses on the CCP’s party, state apparatus, military, and the CCP. Controlled enterprises; the third part of “action” points out that the CCP uses false positive reports to shape its image, uses coercion, control, misleading, confusion, and suppression to combat individuals or groups that pose a threat to the CCP, and through diplomacy and media , Foreign students, expatriates, think tanks and other channels to penetrate the West, etc., to achieve the purpose of exerting influence; in the specific case of the fourth part, it is mentioned that Beijing’s political war has two stages. The first stage focuses on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, the second stage is Europe and the United States, of which Canada is especially inked.
So today, we will select some individual chapters or cases in the report, and give you a brief introduction, because it is translated from French. If some parts don't sound smooth, please bear with me. There are others. For the part, I extracted it and expressed it in my own words without changing the original intention. I will explain it to you here.
In addition, because of the 646 pages of the entire report, I will introduce it to everyone, and I can't finish it tomorrow morning, so I will extract some specific cases and share them with you. More than that, I will save it for future programs. If there is a chance, I will continue to introduce it to everyone. I read that overseas Chinese media, including The Epoch Times, have begun to pay attention to this report from the French Ministry of Defense today, so you will get more information about it in the future. Let's first talk about the CCP's "united front" mentioned in the report.
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The CCP’s "United Front" originated in 1848! There are two main purposes
This report reveals in detail the specific content of the CCP's "united front" work. It is mentioned that the concept of the CCP’s united front originated from the Communist International in the 1920s, and its roots can even be found in the "Communist Manifesto" published in 1848. At that time, Marx and Engels considered establishing a "temporary alliance" between communities. The possibility is to speed up the process of the Communist Party's seizure of power.
However, Lenin was considered the true "father of the united front." Lenin insisted that in order to realize communism, it is sometimes necessary to accept certain compromises and obtain a large number of allies, even temporary allies who are insecure or conditional to the Communist Party, either short-term or long-term. Lenin regarded this as a tactical issue and regarded this "united front" as "an intermediate stage before the victory of communism."
Therefore, the report points out that the united front is not a strictly CCP concept. The CCP later proposed to engage the Kuomintang with a "united front" during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Since then, the "united front" strategy has been from Mao to Xi Jinping. In use, this was also called the so-called "magic weapon" of the CCP's struggle by Mao.
The report specifically explained that the CCP’s united front strategy includes eliminating internal enemies, controlling groups that challenge itself, establishing alliances that can serve the CCP’s interests, and launching a "political war" overseas through the "three wars" of psychology, public opinion, and law. "They will not hesitate to spread false information and undermine and slander the stability of foreign governments.
At the same time, the CCP will regard some "useful idiots" in its eyes as the targets of the united front to serve the interests of the party and state. For the CCP, its primary task is to "continue to govern."
The report points to at least two purposes of the CCP’s overseas united front operations:
The first purpose is to prevent any negative words against the CCP, and at the same time create words that are beneficial to the CCP. In the former, the CCP strives to crack down on the voices of overseas dissidents, while in the latter, the CCP mainly focuses on establishing the image of a so-called powerful country. Chinese citizens living abroad, including students, researchers, businessmen, as well as the diaspora communities, have all become the targets of the united front.
The second purpose is to control the narratives about China and ensure that all languages, media, journalists, editorial writers, researchers, teachers, etc., are in the interests of the party, especially on sensitive issues.
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Six cases! Look at the CCP’s means of exerting influence on the outside world
Case 1, the CCP infiltrated overseas campuses. In the summer of 2019, at the University of Queensland in Australia, three mainland male students breached the Lennon Wall of Hong Kong students and were arrested by school security, but the three boys refused to show their student IDs. The security warned that they would call the police, but the three males The student said directly, I will call the ambassador regardless of whether you report to the police or not. It is the local ambassador of the CCP.
Australian scholar Clive Hamilton said that this incident reminded him of another story. Four years ago, the university’s pharmacy was equipped with the "Epoch Times" which often published exposing information about the CCP. As a result, the people in the school pharmacy were intimidated until they withdrew the "Epoch Times".
The French Ministry of National Defense reported that these examples prove that the CCP seems to be everywhere on foreign campuses, and that any act of delinquency can go unpunished. This is an example of campus, there are others.
There is a similar example. The report mentioned that in 2010, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao visited Ottawa, Canada. In order to avoid the recurrence of the scene of protesting crowds outnumbering welcome crowds in 2005, local embassy personnel recruited about 3,000 from all over Canada. People, go to "welcome" Hu Jintao.
For these 3,000 extras, the CCP’s embassy will cover their food, lodging, transportation, and even clothing during this period. Some people provide testimony and say that the CCP promised to give them cash. And these people have also been trained. If someone asks them what you are doing, they must answer that they welcome Chairman Hu and also shout "Long live Canada-China friendship."
In addition, at the University of Calgary, Canada, a member of the CSSA of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association received a letter threatening him not to attend a movie screening held by his Falun Gong friends in the university, otherwise his photo and name would be lost. Issued to the Chinese Communist government. The threatened member said that he wrote to him, and he judged that he was an agent of the CCP.
Case 2: The CCP influences overseas theaters. In overseas theaters, the famous "Shen Yun Gala" is often staged. ("Shen Yun") is a performance group that is not controlled by the CCP and showcases the five thousand years of Chinese culture. A report by the French Ministry of Defense also reveals that the CCP has adopted pressure. Foreign theaters tried to interfere with "Shen Yun" performances.
In the report, for example, the Chinese Communist Embassy has long pressured the Danish Royal Theatre to obstruct the performance of "Shen Yun" there. As of 2018, this interference has been going on for more than ten years. For example, in August 2017, officials from the Culture Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s Embassy in Copenhagen had a meeting with the theater’s supervisor in charge of venue rental. At the end of the meeting, the cultural counselor of the Chinese Embassy specifically asked whether the theater had any communication with Shen Yun and threatened the theater. It is not allowed to lease facilities to "Shen Yun". As early as 2007, "Shen Yun" almost reached a venue lease agreement with the theater, but the theater suddenly cancelled the agreement at the last minute for logistics reasons. It was later learned that it was the Chinese Embassy. After meeting directly with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the theater quickly cancelled the performance agreement. And similar dramas of the CCP abroad are everywhere.
Similarly, this report also cited another example. In October 2017, the London Court Theatre in the United Kingdom was supposed to stage a Tibet-related drama, which was dissatisfied with the Chinese Communist Party. The British Council directly contacted the theatre and warned. It cancelled the performance of Tibetan dramas because the performance time coincides with the time of the so-called major political meeting of the "19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China". This is very sensitive and may bring some "consequences" to this theater. The performance of Tibetan dramas was cancelled.
We can see that under the coercion and lure of the CCP, people in overseas democracies have also learned to self-censor. This is a great sadness.
Case Three: The CCP wrote its own false propaganda information and used it directly with foreign editors. In April 2020, an Argentine intermediary offered 20,000 pesos, which is about 200 euros, and wrote to the editors of several Argentine newspapers asking them to publish an article on the demonization of Falun Gong by the CCP. All the content was drafted. Just publish it. Some media will follow up on the matter and interview the article where the Argentine "intermediary" came from, but the agent only said that he worked for the Chinese, but did not disclose the others. According to local media analysis, this is the operation of the CCP embassy behind the scenes. .
Case 4, the CCP secretly spent money to buy propaganda. In May 2019, a Canadian YouTuber named JJ received an email signed "Franco" asking him to pay 500 US dollars to play an anti-Falungong short film, but this YouTuber refused and is still on his own show. The incident was publicly exposed.
Case 5: The CCP cultivated pro-communist groups overseas and blatantly engaged in pro-communist activities as a local. For example, there is a so-called "Patriotic Unity Association" in Taiwan, which specializes in anti-Falungong. Its chairman, Zhang Xiuye, also advocates the so-called "unification." This gang has been waving the CCP’s five-star flag under the Taipei 101 building for many years to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from spreading the truth to mainlanders. This has caused a bad impact on Taiwanese society. The report points out that these people who wave the CCP’s flag will do it every time they wave the flag. Get paid.
Case Six: The CCP uses its own market advantages to lure others. The report said that since at least 2002, mainland China has become an important trading partner for Taiwan, and cross-strait economic and cultural exchanges have doubled, making many Taiwanese businessmen attracted to the Chinese market, including Taiwanese media trying to enter the mainland and develop. However, the CCP has imposed many restrictions on Taiwan’s media. For example, Taiwan’s "Lianhe Bao" and "China Times", which were approved to be published in Dongguan, Guangdong in 2006, are limited to individual foreign capital, Taiwan-funded enterprises, five-star hotels or The research institute published that in order to please the CCP, Taiwanese media have also begun to self-censor sensitive information that the CCP does not like, even if it is in Taiwan.
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The report mentions Falun Gong at least 77 times, revealing 610! Reveal the CCP’s Transnational Suppression Plan
There are still many relevant cases in the report. Let’s cite these first. I’m not telling you in order. These cases are scattered in different chapters of the 646-page report. I have selected and synthesized them.
In addition, through the above cases, you may have also discovered that this report often uses "Falungong" as an example. This topic is also one of the key contents of this French report. I did a rough calculation. The report mentions "Falungong" at least 77 times and is widely cited. In many cases, it is included in the "Five Major Target Groups" suppressed by the CCP. In addition to Falun Gong practitioners, there are also Taiwan, Tibet, and Taiwan. Xinjiang and democracy activists.
The report introduced the "610 Office", an organization that specializes in the persecution of Falun Gong, saying that this is a particularly mysterious organization that specializes in anti-Falungong and then opposes all "beliefs."
The report said that there is very little publicly available information about the chain of command, organization, personnel, and operation of the 610 Office. The origin of this office can be traced back to 1999. On June 7 of that year, the then leader of the Communist Party of China Jiang Zemin decided to initiate an interim meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China to take measures against Falun Gong.
The report went on to introduce that Falun Gong was a fitness exercise that started in China earlier. There were tens of millions of practitioners. Jiang Zemin used the CCP’s “existential threat” as an excuse to not tolerate the existence of any social groups beyond the control of the CCP. In fact, this is only Jiang Zemin's lie excuse for suppressing it, and Falun Gong has no political demands. After the meeting that year, Jiang Zemin ordered the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to set up a special leading group for Falun Gong, which was headed by Li Lanqing, a member of the Politburo. On June 10, the relevant office was established, namely the "610 Office."
A report from the French Ministry of Defense pointed out that this office was actually an extra-legal institution. In the following months, this office established a tight "network" within the Chinese Communist Party system.
According to the report, the 610 Office is said to have about 15,000 people in China and abroad, and it can suppress Falun Gong without any legal basis.
The report mentioned that in 2005, the Chinese diplomat in Australia, Chen Yonglin, fled. He was specifically in charge of Falun Gong issues in Sydney. This is how people understand the 610 Office, especially its operations overseas.
In July 2005, Chen Yonglin told the U.S. House of Representatives in detail about the CCP’s methods of investigating, monitoring, and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners around the world. For example, after the establishment of the 610 Office in 1999, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China established the Falun Gong Issues Office, which was renamed the "Foreign Security Affairs Department" in 2004. The consul general is directly responsible and holds two meetings a month.
The suppression of Falun Gong began to spread overseas in 2000. At that time, every CCP diplomatic mission must have at least one person in charge of targeting Falun Gong, investigating, filing, and persecuting law collection networks. Back then, in the United States, there were almost the same. The intelligence network composed of so many people, while monitoring by CCP agents, they also targeted foreign governments, elected officials, media, universities, etc. ", interfere with Falun Gong activities. The CCP authorities also tried to interfere with the normal operation of NTDTV, which spreads the truth about Falun Gong.
Hao Fengjun, a former CCP agent who also fled from the CCP and worked in the 610 Office, also mentioned that in Canada, there is an anti-Falungong organization on the Internet with about 1,000 people, including Canadian Chinese, professional Chinese immigrants, Businessmen or students, these people are mostly in Toronto and Vancouver.
The report also revealed that the CCP is currently planning "the largest transnational repression campaign in the world", targeting Tibetans, Xinjiang people, Mongolians, Taiwanese, Falun Gong practitioners, democrats, and political opponents, and since 2019 Of human rights defenders, journalists and fleeing officials. And this transnational suppression is the most advanced and comprehensive suppression in history. The CCP will identify and infiltrate target people, maintain constant pressure, and then intimidate them, threaten them, harass them, coerce them in one way or another, and even conduct personal attacks on them, similar to attacks.
According to statistics from Freedom House Overseas, from 2014 to 2020, there will be at least 214 incidents, and it may even try to pressure the local government to arrest or even extradite people that the CCP wants to suppress. Such incidents are in India, Thailand, Serbia, Malaysia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, UAE, Turkey, Nepal, etc. have all happened.
In addition, the CCP also has political tasks for overseas Chinese communities, and their first task is to not pose a threat to the CCP regime for Chinese who grow up or live in a free environment.
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The report exposes the CCP’s acquisition of international control of "living organ harvesting" discourse
Another case related to the topic of Falun Gong is "living organ harvesting." This is because according to overseas investigations by WOIPFG and legal professionals, Falun Gong practitioners are the group that suffers the most from the theft of living organs. In this report, the case of live organ harvesting is also mentioned. It said that in the process of exerting influence by the CCP, "controlling and shaping the discourse on organ trafficking" is one of their focuses.
According to the report, the CCP supervises the world’s largest state-owned organ trafficking business. It is almost certain that the CCP has harvested a large number of organs from prisoners of conscience. Especially on June 17, 2019, the "Chinese Court" in London, UK, specially tried it. In the case of the CCP’s live organ harvesting, he served as the prosecutor "Sir Jeffrey Nice" of the former Serbian dictator Milosevic in the International Court of Justice in The Hague. In court, witnesses who participated in live harvesting appeared in court, and personally confirmed that the CCP authorities ordered him to harvest a person’s organs, and that it was really a live harvest, that person was still alive.
However, in order to cover up, protect political security, and for party officials and cadres to have continuously available organs for transplantation, it exerts influence on the outside world to control international discourse on live organ harvesting. The French report mentioned that the WHO and the International Association for Organ Transplantation have been infiltrated by the CCP and can spread internationally. The so-called China has stopped related practices since 2015. In the past, organ harvesting was done on a voluntary basis, but now Massive evidence proves that these are all lies, and the CCP is systematically harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience.
This French report also said that Beijing's claim that organ transplants are voluntary is forged. As for the large international organizations that speak out for the CCP and cover up live organ harvesting, the report points out that they can benefit from the CCP, such as reimbursement for travel or medical expenses to China, or obtain funding for activities from the CCP.
The report also lists two elements that the CCP can cover up live organ harvesting at the diplomatic level: First, many key positions in international institutions are occupied by people controlled by Beijing, or they have received huge financial aid from Beijing, accompanied by secret secrets. Influencing activities, such as exporting corruption and giving away "votes," of course, there are also political pressure and threats to exert influence. Second, the CCP uses various methods to paralyze Western power institutions or NGO committees related to "human rights." Or desperately infiltrating regional organizations, the report said that European institutions have been infiltrated by the CCP.
The truth about live organ harvesting, as well as the truth about the CCP virus, will be quite fatal to the CCP once it is announced to the world. The CCP’s handling of the virus plague is also an important part of the report.
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The source of the virus was dumped in the U.S. The CCP copied the KGB operation and the fraudulent propaganda routine was exposed
This French report stated that the CCP’s response to cover up the plague was “very swift”. It carried out roughly two operations. One was positive. This meant that the CCP praised itself for its success in epidemic prevention, and praised its superior political model. The other one is negative. This refers to the CCP’s attacks on Western countries, telling them how the epidemic is, and throwing away the source of the epidemic in the United States.
The report emphatically talked about this point, saying, ah, the CCP’s operations in the United States are very similar to the way the KGB, the secret service agency, dumped the origin of the AIDS virus to the United States before the collapse of the Soviet Union in the last century. It was copying the work of the Soviet KGB.
The report called the KGB's practice of dumping the United States in 1983 as the first "infection operation", and the CCP's "infection operation 2.0".
The report said that the Soviet Union had propagated as early as the 1970s that there was a biological warfare virus in the "Fort Detrick" military laboratory in Maryland, USA. The location is the same as that of the CCP now. Then, after the emergence of HIV in the early 1980s, the Soviet Union immediately launched a propaganda offensive, saying that the "US military" was the source of the HIV virus and was used by the United States to deal with homosexuals and people of African descent.
The first wave of operations began on 17 July 1983. The Soviet Union did not use its own publications to publish. The KGB used an "Indian media" founded in 1962 to publish false news that the HIV virus originated from the US military, and this media, in fact, the KGB itself was founded in India. Among the false reports of this media, a letter signed by a US scientist became evidence accusing the US military of producing AIDS, saying that the US military was engaged in biological warfare. In fact, it was later confirmed that the letter was also fabricated by the KGB.
In the following years, the KGB continued to use the media of various countries and the Soviet Union’s own media to repeat false propaganda. For example, it found two biologists’ articles in 1985 to explore the nature and origin of AIDS, giving the so-called US military’s biological warfare conspiracy theory. Providing "scientific evidence" also makes this "system" of conspiracy theory more complete.
Hundreds of newspapers from various countries have successively published, reprinted, and discussed relevant discourses. Some of the biologist’s spouses have become so-called "scientists". They have included relevant arguments in their reports to support conspiracy theories. Some articles that support conspiracy theories that seem to be rationally discussed but have different argumentation processes. For example, some say that the US military deliberately created HIV, and some say that the US military’s biological weapons accidents. This conspiracy theory is growing and producing huge Influence. The report said that to this day, some Americans themselves believe in related conspiracy theories fabricated by the KGB, the Soviet Union has disintegrated, and such things are still circulating.
In 2018, someone published a documentary in the "New York Times" media with the purpose of reconstructing the Soviet Union’s steps to fabricate false information. ; Second, a lie that no one can imagine must be fabricated; third: The lie must contain the "truth elements" that help to accept the lie.
Other experts and scholars also give opinions. For example, every piece of false information must be at least partially in line with reality, or can become a generally accepted opinion; others say that the source of production must be hidden so that the information appears to come from outside the Soviet Union, and that those "useful idiots" can continue thinking.
In addition, some people point out that in order to prevent false information from having relations with the Soviet Union, one rule must be followed, which is: always deny it. Moreover, it is necessary to package false information for many years, even if it takes several years, it does not require immediate results. From this point of view, the CCP, which has learned from the experience of the Soviet Union, is likely to continue to throw out the conspiracy theories that "the United States is the source of the poison" from time to time.
This French report lists a timetable for the CCP’s "Infection Operation 2.0". The report states: February 22, 2020, is the first day the CCP has similarly dumped the pot. The CCP’s "Global Times" published an article claiming the virus may have originated in the United States; on February 23, Finland’s "Helsinki Times" and on February 26, "New Zealand Herald" all reprinted relevant news.
This is not exactly like the Soviet Union. For instance, it was published in the Indian media. The CCP used its own media to publish it, but its views have borrowed from foreign countries. Then, on February 27, Zhong Nanshan, a Chinese epidemiologist, said at a press conference that the virus may not originate from China; on March 4, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Lijian repeated similar views as Zhong Nanshan; on March 19, the Chinese Communist Party CGTN published an article entitled "10 Questions for the United States: Where did the new coronavirus come from?". In this way, slowly, the theory of the origin of the virus in the United States spread in China and some overseas Chinese citizens, and the communities in Europe, France, and Italy were seriously affected.
While making speeches against the United States, the report also analyzed the CCP’s operations immediately after the outbreak. Including the beginning of the crisis, the collapse of the central government from the locality and the start of containing the real information of the epidemic. Li Wenliang and others were admonished. The media and social media speeches were strictly controlled. At the same time, the CCP began to conduct counter-propaganda, such as telling the world to provide medical equipment from outside.
However, on 15 March 2020, in a short video posted on Twitter by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China, cheering and singing the Chinese national anthem to thank the Romans for receiving medical support from the Chinese Communist Party. It was later confirmed that it was another video from the Chinese Communist government. Cut out in the middle, these people were originally grateful to the Italian medical staff, and the so-called singing of the national anthem was the sound added later. The CCP has countless similar operations.
Okay, so this report will be introduced here. Because it is translated from French and the finishing time is relatively short, so, if the manuscript is not smooth, I hope you forgive me. This report actually has a subtitle called "Machiavelli Moments: It's Safer To Be Feared Than To Be Loved", which is used to describe the CCP's foreign influence strategy.
The purpose of the report is to say that the CCP’s thinking is different from others. It is not asking others to like it, but asking others to be afraid of it. Therefore, it is not its faintness to intimidate, war wolves, and play hooligans in the world. Instead, it’s going to do so, in order to make people fear it, fear it, replace fraternity with fear, and oppose freedom with autocracy, and the ultimate goal of exerting influence is to use its methods to follow the United States competing against each other in a vain attempt to control the world.
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Zhu Lilun responds to Xi's congratulatory message DPP: Facing Beijing, his lack of courage to speak up for Taiwan
Reporter : Yang Chunhui / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/3684257
Image : Zhu Lilun responded to Xi's congratulatory message. (This newspaper is synthesized)
Regarding the newly elected chairman of the Kuomintang, Zhu Lilun, responding to Xi Jinping’s congratulatory message, the DPP stated that any political party in a democratic country would not expect too much to receive a congratulatory message from the leader of an authoritarian country, only the Kuomintang. Looking forward to it. Zhu Lilun only cares about whether it meets the expectations and affirmation of the Beijing authorities, but does not care about the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan's perception of the Kuomintang. Such a leader of the Kuomintang is destined to be unable to lead the Kuomintang to open up a new situation, which is hard to expect.
The DPP emphasized that China’s undermining of regional peace and stability and the status quo across the Straits, from multinational summits such as the United States and Japan to the G7 leaders’ summit, is a clear international consensus. However, Zhu Lilun responded to Xi Jinping’s congratulatory message and only addressed the serious situation of cross-strait relations. The problem is entirely blamed on the DPP, which openly sang with the CCP. The KMT only reviews its own people and victims, and does not blame the perpetrators for being unreasonable. As the new party chairman, Zhu Lilun was not only uninspiring, but also disappointed those who were expecting him. He didn't read the signature and thought it was a document issued by an accompanying organization of the CCP. Is this really the speech of the chairman of a political party in a democratic country?
The DPP pointed out that Zhu Lilun criticized Zhang Yazhong's "Hongtong" before the election, trying to make people think that Chairman Zhu would go out of the old Kuomintang cross-strait line after being elected, and return to the middle way from the radicalization of the party chairman election process, but After the election, Zhu Lilun did not have the courage to speak up for mainstream Taiwanese public opinion in response to Xi Jinping’s congratulatory message of "the two parties conspiring for reunification," which is regrettable.
The DPP reiterated that the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan’s society is very clear that it is to safeguard Taiwan’s sovereignty and democratic and free lifestyles. This status quo cannot be changed. As far as cross-strait relations are concerned, the majority of Taiwan’s public opinion rejects "One Country, Two Systems" and the "92 Consensus." Nor can it accept the CCP’s unilateral termination of cross-strait exchanges, international suppression, and military aircraft bypassing Taiwan to undermine the status quo of cross-strait peace and stability. If the Kuomintang does not recognize this reality, it will only become farther and farther away from the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan.
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Moderna CEO: Pandemic could last another year
Reporter : Theodore Bunker, Newsmax / Image : Bancel, CEO of Moderna (Nancy Lane/The Boston Herald via AP)
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in an interview this week that the COVID-19 pandemic could end in about a year based on the rate of vaccine production over the past six months, The Hill reported.
In an interview with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung, when asked about whether the world would return to normal sometime next year, Bancel replied, "As of today, in a year, I assume."
He added, "If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months, enough doses should be available by the middle of next year so that everyone on this earth can be vaccinated. Boosters should also be possible to the extent required."
Bancel also said that vaccines for infants may soon become available, and that "those who do not get vaccinated will immunize themselves naturally, because the delta variant is so contagious. In this way we will end up in a situation similar to that of the flu. You can either get vaccinated and have a good winter. Or you don't do it and risk getting sick and possibly even ending up in hospital."
According to Bancel, most governments will likely approve COVID-19 booster shots for vaccinated individuals who received their doses last fall, who he said "undoubtedly" need another shot, possibly of just half a dose of the original.
"The volume of vaccine is the biggest limiting factor. With half the dose, we would have 3 billion doses available worldwide for the coming year instead of just 2 billion," he said, noting that the booster shot’s composition would remain the same as the original due to a lack of time for changes.
"We are currently testing delta-optimized variants in clinical trials," Bancel said. "They will form the basis for the booster vaccination for 2022. We are also trying out delta plus beta, the next mutation that scientists believe is likely."
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