Seventy-two years of the CCP’s disaster to the country and the people
1 October is the "National Day" of the CCP, but it is the "National Day of Death" of the Chinese people.
On 1 October 2021, 72 years ago, the CCP stole politics and possessed the Chinese nation, pushing the Chinese people into misery and sinking.
72 years later, the world recognized the threat of the Red Devils, a free society was besieging the CCP, and Chinese people all over the world set off a mighty "three retreat tide."
The 72 years that the CCP has ruled mainland China is a history of blood and tears for the Chinese nation.
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Murder and terrorism campaign slaughtered hundreds of millions of Chinese as of 26 September 2021
After the CCP stole politics, in order to interrupt the backbone of the Chinese nation, it successively launched dozens of bloody and brutal political campaigns such as land reform, suppression of rebellion, three anti-five anti-five anti-fighting, Great Leap Forward, anti-rightist movement, Cultural Revolution, June 4th massacre, and persecution of Falun Gong. According to conservative statistics by mainland scholars, more than 80 million people were directly killed and hundreds of millions of indirect victims. At least 450 million fetuses have been killed during the 30 years of family planning.
In the past 20 years, the CCP has committed "a crime that has never been seen on earth"-persecuting Falun Gong and harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale.
At the Anti-Live Picking World Summit held from 17 to 26 September 2021, 38 experts from 19 countries exposed the most horrendous crimes against humanity created by the CCP since the Nazi Holocaust in the 1930s from different angles.
The number of Chinese killed by the CCP far exceeds the total number of deaths in the two world wars. The CCP is a disaster, far surpassing all tyrants in ancient and modern China and abroad.
The Epoch Times editorial "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" pointed out that the CCP's killing may seem accidental but it is inevitable in reality. The Central Government periodically kills and creates terror in order to maintain its rule over the Chinese people.
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National surveillance by the CCP expands, lies and brainwashing by the CCP make the world vigilant
While destroying the spiritual backbone of the Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party also uses lies to brainwash and national surveillance as a lubricant for violent rule.
Statistics from the American science and technology research website Comparitech show that China accounts for 18 of the 20 cities in the world that are closely monitored by probes. The Chinese Communist Party media People's Daily once claimed on Twitter that the CCP can scan 1.4 billion faces across the country in one second. A report released by the market research organization IDC predicts that the CCP will install 2.76 billion surveillance probes in 2022. 1.4 billion Chinese people will have two surveillance probes per capita.
China shares high technology to turn China into a big prison without walls. Foreign media pointed out that the ultimate goal of the CCP's digital totalitarianism is to cultivate self-censored "harmonious new humans."
However, while the CCP deployed a "Skynet" to monitor the people, it also turned itself into a panicked "prisoner." Regardless of whether it is the party celebration or the eleventh, the CCP always deploys defenses at every level, setting up guards everywhere, and the people are the enemy.
The CCP, which is always anxious for survival, has never stopped using lies to cover up its evil nature and terrifying autocracy.
Before the theft, the CCP declared that it supported freedom and democracy and was friendly to the United States. After the theft, the CCP regarded democracy and the United States as scourges.
The CCP deliberately confuses the party and the country, opening its mouth must represent the people, while closing its mouth, it treats the people as stubborn.
The "People's Republic of China" established by the CCP has nothing to do with "China", with the "people" and with the "Republic". It is an evil regime that has never existed on this planet.
Repeating a lie a thousand times may be deceived for a while, but after all, it cannot be deceived. The lies and brainwashing of the CCP have not only taught the Chinese people and the international community painful lessons but also made the world awaken and vigilant.
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Corruption to govern the country, people do not have a living
When the former CCP dictator Jiang Zemin was in power and when he was the "Overlord", the Jiang Zemin family took the lead in "making a fortune". The corruption of the CCP spread from top to bottom, from the inside out, in an all-round, high-frequency, and accelerated manner. . To this day, the CCP’s officialdom has reached a point where there are almost no officials and no greed.
Only Zhou Yongkang, a member of the Lok Ma Jiang dispatch, was quoted by Reuters as saying that the authorities confiscated Zhou Yongkang’s property involved in the case at least 90 billion RMB.
Since January 2013, the CCP has investigated and prosecuted more than 100 corrupt officials with more than 100 million RMB. According to the CCP’s internal survey data disclosed in 2015 by the "Contending" magazine, CCP and government officials accounted for more than 65% of the country’s multimillionaires. The "Far East Economic Review" reported in the fourth issue of 2010 that there are 3,220 billionaires in mainland China (excluding foreign property), of which 2,932 (more than 90%) are the children of high-ranking CCP officials.
While the corruption of the CCP has surpassed the "smelly and stinky Zhumen", the Chinese people are living a life of "frozen bones on the road." The Chinese Communist Party’s official media disclosed that the monthly income of 600 million Chinese is only 1,000 RMB. It is difficult for the people at the bottom to see a doctor, go to school, housing, pension, and customs.
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CCP has destroyed Chinese tradition and culture for 72 years
The CCP’s 72 years of stealing government have destroyed not only the body and spirit of the Chinese people, but also the long-standing traditional Chinese culture.
In the ten-year Cultural Revolution alone, countless precious cultural relics were burned, destroyed, and destroyed. Even the Confucian Temple in Qufu, which was unscathed during the Meng Yuan dying of the Song Dynasty, the entry of the Manchus, and the Japanese invasion of China, failed to escape the CCP's poisonous hands during the Cultural Revolution.
The destruction of the Confucian Temple by the Red Guards is just a microcosm of the CCP’s destruction of traditional Chinese culture.
The CCP not only wants to destroy the tangible traditional Chinese culture, but also wants to destroy the essence of divine culture, such as the unity of nature and man, benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and faith, and cut off the cultural roots of the Chinese nation.
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Persecution of faith and loss of morality endless under CCP rule
The editorial department of the "Nine Commentaries" pointed out that the ultimate goal of the Communist Party is to destroy human morality and ultimately destroy mankind.
Scandals in religious circles under the control of the CCP are endless. Shi Xuecheng, the former president of the Buddhist Association of the Communist Party of China, was actually a flower monk playing with women. A current vice president of the Buddhist Association even said: "The report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) is the contemporary Buddhist scriptures."
On July 20, 1999, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin used all the state machinery to launch the persecution of Falun Gong. Over the past 22 years, China has used the most evil gangster methods of ancient and modern times at home and abroad to force Falun Gong practitioners to abandon their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance," creating the greatest human rights disaster in the 21st century. The persecution continues to this day.
The CCP also extended its persecution of Falun Gong to other groups such as Xinjiang people, Christians, Buddhists, human rights lawyers, Hong Kong people, financial refugees, petitioners, veterans, professors who dare to speak, private entrepreneurs, citizen journalists and other groups. middle.
The CCP is destroying the Chinese people's righteous faith in gods and Buddhas and destroying the morality of the Chinese people through violent suppression, bloody massacres, corruption, and forced brainwashing.
For 72 years, the CCP’s attempt to destroy mankind has almost succeeded.
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Global awakening to encircle and suppress the CCP
From the Sino-U.S. trade war a few years ago to the covid epidemic, the Chinese people and the international community are increasingly facing the huge lives and economic losses caused by the CCP’s theft and lies, the more we recognize the essence of the CCP.
Especially in 2020, due to the CCP concealing the epidemic and indulging the spread of the virus worldwide, as of September this year, 233 million people have been infected in 192 countries and 4.78 million people have died.
However, the CCP did not repent the slightest. Instead, it misjudged the international situation, preaching "rising east, falling west," and continuing to promote its rise of great powers and wolf-of-war diplomacy, in an attempt to establish a "community with a shared future for mankind" led by the CCP.
In the face of blood and tears, the international community has sounded the alarm. The United States and the West have completely changed their old "contact or appeasement" strategy and have begun to actively respond to the challenges and harms of the CCP.
Recently, the Strategic Research Institute of the Military Academy under the French Ministry of Defense published a blockbuster report "China's Influential Action", using 646 pages to comprehensively analyze the CCP's various methods to penetrate the world and rapidly develop its influence. These practices of the CCP have been widely known in the West and have caused great resentment.
In September 2021, the European Union is launching the "Global Channel" program to resist the "One Belt, One Road" expansion of the CCP's geographic hegemony.
The current US government has also followed the previous government’s line of boycotting the CCP, shifting its strategic focus to the Indo-Pacific, and fully responding to the CCP’s challenges.
The United States has not only joined forces with global allies to consolidate the US-Japan-Australia-India "four-party security dialogue" mechanism; it has also established the US-UK-Australia trilateral security alliance "AUKUS" known as the "Asian version of NATO" to directly counter the military threats of the CCP. .
Today, the CCP regime, which has become the world's second largest economy, is embarrassed on all sides and has established more and more enemies internationally.
A free world that upholds universal values has built a global wall of encirclement and suppression against the CCP.
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CCP has pushed China into path of moral decay
The Chinese nation once created a brilliant culture and was respected by the world. Today, the CCP has pushed China into a path of no return to moral decay and an enemy of the world.
The CCP will not die, the country will have no peace, and the world will have no peace.
In the Chinese divine culture, nine is the number of calamities, whether it is extremely peaceful or not. The CCP's scourge that the Chinese nation has endured has entered a crossroads in history.
"Looking up, looking up to the sky, screaming, magnificent and fierce... Don't wait for leisure, whitening your head, empty and sorrowful." Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong", said the loyalty and passion of the Chinese nation. The Chinese nation has never been just a victim of power and tyranny. History has reached the final stage of abandoning the CCP from the earth.
In particular, Falun Gong practitioners opposed the CCP’s persecution by peaceful petitions during the 4th and 2nd Five-Year Plan period, which created a historical monument for the Chinese people to peacefully resist violence and disintegrate the CCP.
The world has set off the "Three Recessions" of withdrawing from the CCP organization. According to statistics from the Epoch Times website withdrawing from the Party, as of 30 September 2021, 384 million Chinese had declared that they had withdrawn from the CCP, league, and team organizations.
More and more Chinese people are awakening, choosing to withdraw from the CCP, breaking with the CCP, which is heavily indebted, and choosing a bright future for themselves and China.
Let's hope that people can see the harm that the Chinese Communist regime has brought to China and the world, refuse to associate with evil, and choose a better future for themselves.
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Canada replaces "Asia Pacific" with "Indo-Pacific" Analysis: Counterattacking the CCP is stronger
Image : Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. (Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned the regional interests of the "Indo-Pacific" in his exchanges with the Prime Minister of Japan and the Prime Minister of Australia. Some commentators believe that Canada replacing the past "Asia-Pacific" with the term "Indo-Pacific" signals Canada's relations with China (the CCP) will take a tougher stance.
The new Canadian Congress is about to be held this month. The outside world is concerned about whether Canada will follow the steps of the United States and Australia and other allies to take a tougher stance against China (the CCP)? Shen Rongqin, an associate professor at York University in Canada, said that Prime Minister Trudeau’s congratulatory letter sent to Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last week used the term "Indo-Pacific" twice to emphasize regional cooperation between Canada and Japan. During the important meeting between Trudeau and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, he also paid attention to the cooperation of the Five Eyes Alliance and the trilateral military cooperation between the United States, Britain and Australia, and mentioned the common goals of the "Indo-Pacific" region.
Shen Rongqin said that Canada traditionally refers to the other side of the Pacific Ocean as "Asia Pacific", and the term "Indo-Pacific" is a new vocabulary aimed at China (the Chinese Communist Party). Starting from the Western world after Trump came to power, it began to think seriously about Indo-Pacific strategy. Ottawa is no exception: "This matter of the Indo-Pacific strategy is recognized by everyone, and the recent six-nation military exercise is part of the Indo-Pacific strategy, and Canada has also joined the military exercise. We have such a close relationship with the United States, and Canada is of course integrated into the Indo-Pacific strategy."
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a Canadian think tank, held a forum on "How to Deal with China's (CCP) Coercive Diplomacy" last week, and invited experts from Europe, Japan and Australia to analyze it. Like Canada, these regions have suffered economic coercion and hostage diplomacy from China (the CCP).
Luke Patey, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies, said that unity is strength. China (the CCP) loves to threaten others with trade means. The EU is discussing a mechanism to counter China’s economic coercion, which means that all countries agree that if China (the CCP) boycotts a certain country’s trade, other countries will not increase their share of exports to China, "If a country is threatened by an attack, other EU countries will fight back together. Everyone will not want to benefit from it, so that it can effectively prevent China (the CCP) from economic coercion. This is a good direction. Canada, Australia and other allies can work together on this basis."
Stephen Nagy, an associate professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, said that the anti-China (CCP) hostage diplomacy initiated by Canada in the international arena is a good move to effectively link up alliances to fight against China (CCP), "When Canada initiates The "Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State-to-State Relations" is a good action to combat the image of China (the CCP). Therefore, it will be difficult for China (the CCP) to find partners that can cooperate on issues such as trade, security, and climate. "
Experts say that in the past Ottawa was worried about the safety of the two Michaels, and now they are going home safely, it is time for Canada to fight back more severely against China (the CCP). It is hoped that after the Congress, Ottawa can comply with the people's response and announce the ban on Huawei participation in 5G construction in Canada.
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Putin's opposition to military reunification of Taiwan? Echoing Xi Jinping's "Peace Reunification" Talk
Image : Russian President Vladimir Putin (Alexey Druzhinin/SputnikAFP via Getty Images)
Following Xi Jinping’s recent call for peaceful reunification of Taiwan, Russian President Putin stated on the Taiwan Strait issue that China does not need to use force against Taiwan to achieve their desired goal of reunification. Putin's speech echoed Xi Jinping's "peaceful reunification" and aroused the attention of the outside world.
According to comprehensive media reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated during the "Russian Energy Week" event in Moscow on 13 October that China does not need to use force against Taiwan, as long as it continues to increase its economic potential, it will be able to achieve their desired reunification goal.
Putin also talked about the situation in the South China Sea, declaring that conflicts in the region should be excluded from the intervention of "extraterritorial powers" and that all countries in the region should negotiate and resolve them in accordance with the norms of international law.
Recently, the CCP has dispatched hundreds of warplanes to harass Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, which has added turbulence to the situation in the Taiwan Strait. In a speech commemorating the Revolution of 1911 on 9 October, Xi Jinping said when talking about the Taiwan issue that he "adhere to peaceful reunification."
However, the CCP troops conducted actual beach landing exercises in the southern waters of Fujian close to Taiwan, making the situation in the Taiwan Strait even more bizarre.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen emphasized "enhancing national defense capabilities" in her National Day speech.
The Associated Press quoted experts as saying that there is concern that both sides of the Taiwan Strait may cause large-scale military conflicts due to gunfire.
In an exclusive interview with NBC in June 2021, Putin was also asked, "If China invades Taiwan, how will Russia react?" Putin laughed a few times and said, "What? What do you think of China's plan? Use force to solve the Taiwan issue?"
Putin declared that he "knows nothing" about Chinese armed forces invading Taiwan, so it is difficult to comment.
However, Deutsche Welle once pointed out that the CCP is likely to follow the example of Russia's annexation of Crimea to unify Taiwan.
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The explosive epidemic of Erenhot, Inner Mongolia
On 13 October 2021, a person in a logistics park in Erlianhot, Inner Mongolia had a positive nucleic acid test. On the following day, all employees in the city were tested for nucleic acid, the entrances of all traffic roads were closed, and the city suspended work and classes.
On the 14th, the Inner Mongolia Health Commission notified that, from 7 am on 13 October to 7 am on 14 October, a new local confirmed case in Erenhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was a closed-loop manager of the Huitong Logistics Park in Erenhot.
On the 12th, the closed-loop management personnel of the logistics park conducted a routine test every other day and found that one group was positive; on the 13th, one of the 32 management personnel was found to be positive after a nucleic acid test, and the diagnosis was confirmed that day.
On the 14th, the Erenhot City Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters announced that the first round of nucleic acid testing for all employees in the city should be completed by 15 October from 12 pm on 14 October.
The notice also requires that from 14 october, Erenhot City shall implement closed management and traffic control at all traffic entrances and exits; all government agencies, enterprises and institutions in the city will suspend work and production, major primary and secondary schools, and kindergartens will suspend classes, and various business premises will suspend business.
Online video shows that people in the logistics park are already queuing for nucleic acid testing.
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Chinese people hotly talk about live organ theft in "Squid Game"
The CCP launched a high-profile political propaganda film "The Battle for Changjin Lake", which was found to distort historical facts. Another focus of discussion among mainland people is the original Korean drama "Squid Game" launched by Netflix.
However, since the CCP did not introduce Netflix, people can only watch pirated copies. Despite this, related content hit 1.7 billion hits on Weibo, and Douyin hits 2.4 billion, and the popularity continues to rise.
Tang Hao, a senior media person, believes that many of the mysterious methods used by the Communist Party to transform human thinking were exposed in the play, including lies and struggles. In addition, the grassroots staff in the program secretly transfer the participants who have not died to perform live organ harvesting in order to make a profit, which is also in line with the reality of the CCP’s live organ harvesting.
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Joshua Wong thanked Hong Kongers from prison, United Nations experts jointly promote abolishment of National Security Law
At present, the Hong Kong authorities have detained a large number of democrats. On the 13th, Joshua Wong spent his 25th birthday in prison. He wrote to express his gratitude to the Hong Kong people for their care. On the 12th, four UN special rapporteurs jointly urged the repeal of the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law."
Former Hong Kong Secretary General Joshua Wong Chi-fung spent his 25th birthday in prison on 13 October. He wrote a letter on the 6th to thank the Hong Kong people for their birthday greetings. He said, “I am in prison. Regardless of their background and identity, people in China will especially want to be remembered. The support from outside the wall is a heartwarming thing."
He added, "We want to send a clear message to the world, even if (the CCP) tries to arrest us, persecute us, or even go to jail, we have no reason to give in (to the CCP)."
On the eve of November 2020, Huang Zhifeng shouted that even if he went to prison, he would never give in to the CCP. The "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law" has been implemented for more than a year, and a large number of democratic elites and civil society leaders have been retaliated and imprisoned. Joshua Wong's letter in prison wrote, “There is no eternal stability or inevitable ease”. He has experienced various movements and attempts, and the Hong Kong people’s democratic movement since his youth. I still believe that the little things in the past will nourish everyone who cares about Hong Kong."
Joshua Wong on 6 July 2020 said, "Hong Kong people uphold their faith and fight for freedom. We will never give up and will not give in to Beijing."
Huang Zhifeng served 27.5 months in prison for three cases, followed by other cases of “conspiracy to subvert state power” due to the primary election of 47 pro-democrats.
On the 12th, the four UN special rapporteurs on human rights jointly stated that they are deeply concerned about the charges of inciting subversion of state power and inciting participation in illegal June 4th gatherings of Stake Vice Chairman Zou Xingtong. The definition of the qualifications of "agents" urges Hong Kong to revitalize its independent judiciary, immediately abolish the National Security Law, and independently review the use of the law to ensure compliance with human rights and international law. The statement pointed out that when the government improperly uses terrorist acts and incitement as an excuse to quell domestic dissent, limit protests, and curb criticism from civil society and human rights defenders, the seriousness of the two crimes has been devalued, which is deeply disturbing.
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Has purchase agreement for the anti-covid oral drug been signed? Zhuang Renxiang: Still under negotiation
The American pharmaceutical company Merck (Merck in the US and Canada) has developed the world's first oral drug molnupiravir to fight covid, adding new weapons to the fight against the epidemic. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shizhong faces the media this morning (14 October). When asked about the progress of the procurement, he said, "The contract is about to be signed!" However, the spokesperson of the Central Epidemic Command Centre Zhuang Renxiang said in the afternoon that the number has not yet been fully determined in the contract negotiations.
Molnupiravir is an oral antiviral drug, mainly used to treat patients with mild to moderate covid diagnosis early. Zhuang Renxiang also added that unlike other monoclonal antibody drugs, this oral drug must be administered in a hospital or centralized quarantine station. It may also be taken directly at home in isolation. The applicable subjects have to wait for further evaluation after the purchase.
In addition to Merck, Pfizer’s oral antiviral drug "PF-07321332" will also start a phase III clinical trial. It has been reported that five major hospitals including National Taiwan University, China Affiliated Medical, Taichung Rong, Kaohsiung Chang Gung and Yadong will join the plan. The media also asked whether China has a relevant procurement plan?
Zhuang Renxiang responded that Pfizer has just entered the third phase and will invite manufacturers to report the results of the second phase and the research progress of the third phase. It has not yet reached the stage of negotiation and procurement.
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Mongolia's first green building certified
Source: GIZ Mongolei
In 2020, Sakura Property LLC built and commissioned an energy-efficient private house in Bayangol district of Ulaanbaatar. This house was built under the sub-project for the promotion of energy efficient housing financing scheme in Ulaanbaatar’s Ger districts implemented in collaboration with the Mongolian Bankers Association (MBA) and Mongolian Sustainable Finance Association (ToC) in frame work of GIZ ‘Energy efficient building refurbishment in Mongolia’ project implemented jointly by German Government, Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and Municipality of Ulaanbaatar City.
The house was audited and certified by Sintali-SGS an EDGE accredited company. The GIZ project financed the energy efficiency assessment and the auditing and certification process.
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Mongolian PM and CCP Chinese Premier discuss matters on coal exports, Ulaanbaatar digitalization and traffic congestion
Reporter : Munkh-Orgil.S, munkh-orgil@montsame.gov.mn , Montsame Chinese / https://www.montsame.mn/cn/read/277805
According to the Mongolian Ministry of Government Media and Public Relations, on 12 October 2021, Mongolian Prime Minister Lu Oyun Erden and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held an online meeting. The two prime ministers exchanged views on issues such as politics, economy and trade, and cooperation during the epidemic, and reiterated that they will expand the comprehensive strategic partnership between Mongolia and China. Lu Oyun Erden emphasized that in the face of the epidemic, Mongolia and China support each other and overcome difficulties together. He thanked the CCP government for its support to Mongolia's fight against the epidemic. The two prime ministers emphasized that the economic and trade cooperation between Mongolia and China is expected to deepen to a new level and exchange views on some major projects that can be jointly implemented.
The two sides agreed to actively promote the bilateral trade volume to 10 billion U.S. Dollars and stated that under the premise of improving epidemic prevention and control measures, they will support the increase of coal exports and the signing of long-term coal purchase agreements by enterprises. Currently, an agreement has been reached to transport the coal backlog in the Gashunsuhaitu port as soon as possible, and to resolve the 4,575 Mongolian containers backlog in Tianjin Port before winter.
Lu Oyun Erden pointed out that the interconnection of roads and railways is essential to promote economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. He proposed to actively cooperate to strengthen the railway construction in the directions of Gashunsuhaitu-Ganqimaodu, Biqigetu-Zhungadabuqi, Hangji-Mandula, and Xibekulun-Ceke. The two sides agreed to finalize the border crossing between the two countries of the Gashunsuhaitu-Ganqimaodu port railway and strengthen the work of opening green channels at relevant ports. The prime ministers of the two countries also emphasized the importance of deepening cooperation in the field of natural environment to address climate change. They stated that the two governments will actively cooperate and jointly implement major projects to combat desertification and sandstorms in accordance with the consensus reached by the two heads of state.
China stated that as a neighboring country, it will create opportunities for the production and export of renewable energy in southern Mongolia. In addition, the Chinese are willing to actively involve private companies in Mongolia’s projects aimed at developing Ulaanbaatar into a smart city and reducing traffic congestion. The prime ministers of the two countries reaffirmed their commitment to advance the "Plan for the Construction of the Mongolia-China-Russia Economic Corridor" and strengthen the close cooperation between the two countries in regional and multilateral mechanisms. In addition, the two leaders agreed to continue to cooperate closely in the future and meet at an appropriate time for the two sides.
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FDA panel unanimously recommends authorization of Moderna covi vaccine booster
Reporter : Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times PREMIUM
Image : John Fredricks, The Epoch Times
A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted unanimously on 14 October 2021 to recommend that the agency allow millions of Americans to get a booster shot of Moderna’s SARS-CoV-2 (covi) vaccine.The 19–0 vote came after hours of discussions and presentations in an all-virtual meeting.
Moderna officials presented data from clinical trials, including a small trial that studied the safety and effectiveness of a booster shot, as did officials from Israel, one of the first countries in the world to start giving booster shots, and the FDA, which performed an analysis of Moderna’s data but didn’t support or oppose the company’s application for an emergency use authorization expansion.
The FDA can overrule the panel’s recommendations but rarely does so. If the recommendation is approved, anyone aged 65 and older will be able to get a Moderna booster shot if they’ve received the primary two doses of the Moderna series. People between the ages of 18 and 64 who are deemed “at high risk of severe COVID-19” or whose “frequent institutional or occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2 (covi) puts them at high risk of serious complications of COVID-19” will also have access to the booster shot.
The boosters would be a 50 microgram dose for people at least six months after they’ve received their second dose, which is itself typically administered one month after the initial dose.
The primary two-dose series is 100 micrograms each.
Moderna said its small trial, consisting of just 171 people who got the regular primary series and a half-dose booster, showed a smaller amount could still bolster protection against CCP virus infection.
Officials discussed how data from other trials signal that the vaccine is still holding up well against severe disease, but that there’s been plummeting effectiveness against infection, particularly after the Delta variant became dominant in the United States.
Some panel members struck a skeptical tone on widespread boosters, pointing to the small number of people who got another shot and were studied and highlighting how some populations, including young, healthy people, don’t seem to need another shot.
“I’m not wild about a bunch of 20-year-olds going out and getting a booster dose, unless they’re at increased risk of either exposure or severe outcome,” Dr. Mark Sawyer, professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California–San Diego School of Medicine and a temporary panel voting member, said before the vote.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel will ultimately make the decision on who should get a Moderna booster, Sawyer said, though it’s in danger of being overruled by the agency’s head, as happened with Pfizer’s additional shot.
There was discussion about amending the third piece of the recommendation, but a number of members brushed aside the talk, in part because of a desire to match the recommendation the same panel gave for a booster for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in September. No one dissented.
“We already approved it for Pfizer. I don’t see how we can possibly not approve it for Moderna and not have most U.S. folks be completely confused. I know that’s not part of what we’re supposed to think about, but I think it’s a pragmatic issue,” said Dr. Stanley Perlman, a temporary voting member and a professor in the University of Iowa’s Departments of Microbiology and Immunology.
Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine and a panel member, twice asked for evidence that people can be at high risk for serious complications based on their work. Dr. Doran Fink, an FDA official, said there was no “specific data,” but that there’s concern about so-called long COVID, or alleged problems that stem from COVID-19 and are seen even after somebody stops testing positive for the disease.
Meissner endorsed the recommendations, but warned the panel against voting for evidence-free language.
“If we can’t defend these recommendations based on evidence, it’s going to further complicate getting this vaccine into every single adult American, and that’s really what we want to do,” Meissner said.
Dr. James Hildreth, president and CEO of Meharry Medical College and a temporary voting member (pdf), challenged Meissner, saying that the only evidence he needed for the occupational risk advice was that minorities are more likely to have underlying conditions, putting them at higher risk of severe cases of COVID-19.
Perlman said the piece was important because the United States can’t afford to have health care workers test positive for COVID-19, because that means they’ll have to miss work, even if they’re not showing symptoms.
Many spoke in favor of advising the FDA to widen the emergency use authorization again, after previously allowing people with weak immune systems to get a third dose of the vaccine. They said the fact that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are similar means that data regarding Pfizer booster shots, including virtually all the information from Israel, informed their decision, as did the millions of Americans who have already gotten the third shot.
“We need boosters in some populations,” Sawyer said.
Dr. Patrick Moore, a temporary voting member and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, said his vote was based on “more of a gut feeling” than serious data.
“The data itself is not strong but it is certainly going in a direction that is supportable of this vote,” Moore said.
Panel members are set to meet again on 15 October to consider whether to advise the FDA to expand authorization for Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine.
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