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Post this picture on Twitter! Director of the Czech Supports Taiwan: Please share it
Image : Janda (pictured), director of the Czech think tank "European Value Security Policy Center", tweeted: "Taiwan has never been a part of China" and "please share it with everyone." (The picture is taken from Jakub Janda Twitter)
Jakub Janda, director of the European Values Center for Security Policy, a Czech think tank, tweeted, "Taiwan has never been part of China" and "Please share it." Janda also contributed a book to foreign media to make comments on Taiwanese friends.
Janda posted two pictures on Twitter on the 5th, one of which is red China on the left and green Taiwan on the right. The picture reads "China is China, Taiwan is Taiwan, and Taiwan has never been a part of China." The two pictures are maps of East Asia. The red is China and the blue is Taiwan. There is a special note next to Taiwan, "This is Taiwan, not China."
Regarding China's pressure on European countries to not have official contacts with Taiwan, Janda said that every European country should say this, "We will contact Taiwan in any way we want, because we are a sovereign country, China We have no say in our own decisions."
Janda’s book "Newsweek" also mentioned that the CCP is infiltrating free democracies around the world, and it is the beginning of a global struggle for hegemony. "Taiwan is our first line of defense against Chinese aggression." U.S. military deterrence can intimidate China. European countries can use political and economic deterrence to ensure that China knows that it invades Taiwan. European countries will fight back at a significant political and economic cost.
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CCP China's new virus strains have spawned tens of thousands of "time and space companions"
Reporter : Zhu Ying / Editor : Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/11/05/a103261403.html
Image : On 24 September 2021, residents of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China are queuing to receive a nucleic acid test for covi (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
This round of the covid epidemic has spread to 20 provinces in CCP China, and strains of different gene sequences have emerged. Under the principle of zero-tolerance and epidemic prevention, the authorities used mobile phone location technology to classify “spatio-temporal companions” whose mobile phone numbers appeared on the same space-time grid as the number of the confirmed person. As a result, tens of thousands of people were forced to accept nucleic acid testing and conduct isolation themselves.
According to the "Beijing Evening News", the covid epidemic has spread to 20 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, namely Shaanxi, Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Beijing, and Shandong, since it resumed on 17 October 2021, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Henan, where officials have reported a total of 873 confirmed cases (excluding asymptomatic infections). Among them, the number of infected people in Hebei and Heilongjiang provinces increased rapidly in the last 5 days.
What worries medical experts is that new strains with genetic sequences different from those of strains that have appeared in CCP China have been discovered in mainland China alone.
According to a report by the Chinese Communist Party’s official Xinhua News Agency, the Heilongjiang Working Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive Group of the State Council of the Communist Party of China stated on Friday (5 November) that there are multiple transmission chains developing at the same time in the local epidemic, and the gene sequence of the virus that has already existed in China has been discovered. There are new strains of different origins in the gene sequences of local cases.
While the epidemic in mainland China continues to spread, local governments in various provinces and cities in China have continued to intensify their efforts to introduce more and more stringent anti-epidemic control measures. In this process, a new group of tens of thousands-"time and space companions" was born.
The so-called "space-time companions" are not romantic space-time travelers as people think, but "suspicious contacts" of covid classified by the official mobile phone positioning.
Many people have neither been to the officially announced epidemic area nor contacted any confirmed patients, but suddenly found that their "health code" had somehow turned into a yellow code, and then they were told that they had unfortunately become "time and space companions." Take the initiative to report your recent whereabouts to the community, and conduct 2 nucleic acid tests within 3 days. Even if the results of the two inspections are negative, they still have to continue to self-isolate for 14 days, during which time they are not allowed to go out. The official nickname is "self-health monitoring."
The CCP’s official classification of the so-called “time and space companions” is based on the fact that the mobile phone number of the monitored object and the mobile phone number of the confirmed person used to stay together in the same space-time grid (range 800 m by 800 m) through mobile phone positioning technology in 10 minutes, and the accumulative length of stay of the mobile phone number of either party exceeds 30 hours in the last 14 days, the holder of the mobile phone number found under this condition is the "temporal companion".
Some Taiwanese media use actual buildings as an analogy, saying that the "space-time grid" officially defined by the Chinese Communist Party is about the size of 90 international standard football stadiums. Therefore, tens of thousands of Chinese people unreasonably become "time and space companions" under strict control.
The Chengdu Public Security Bureau of Sichuan Province recently admitted that since 3 November, as of now, as many as 82,000 people in Chengdu have been found to be at risk of “time and space accompaniment”.
Some mainland netizens expressed their feelings and created a new poem entitled "Time and Space Accompaniment", which was popularized on social networking platforms. The lyrics read: "I walked the way you walked, is this count as a reunion? I blew the wind you blew, is this count as a hug? We never pass by within 800 meters! You want me 14 days to wait for each other... Some people say that it is love and passion, no, no, this is an epidemic."
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Tough attitude towards the CCP Former South Korean prosecutor general elected presidential candidate
Reporters : Bi Xinci and Yuwei / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/11/05/a103261434.html / Image : Video Screenshot
On Friday (5 November), South Korea’s former Attorney General Yoon Seok-yue was elected as the presidential candidate of the largest opposition party "National Forces." Yoon Seok-yue has repeatedly emphasized the importance of the "U.S.-South Korea alliance" and hopes to join the "quartet security dialogue." In July 2021, he was criticized by the CCP’s ambassador to South Korea because of his tough attitude towards the CCP, which caused concern.
South Korea’s largest opposition party "National Forces" announced on Friday that South Korea’s former Attorney-General Yoon Seok-yue won 47.8% of the party’s votes and defeated his party’s rivals and officially became the presidential candidate.
South Korean presidential candidate Yoon Seokyue said, "I feel heavy responsibility and mission for the change of government, not joy."
Yoon Seok-yue promised to focus on rebuilding the US-South Korea alliance and hopes to join the "four-party security dialogue mechanism" of the United States, Japan, Australia and India.
The "four-party security dialogue" is seen as a counterbalance to the CCP in the Indo-Pacific region.
Regarding North Korea’s nuclear threat, Yin Xiyue once said that South Korea and the United States are planning new emergency procedures and improving the reliability of nuclear weapons through regular exercises.
South Korean presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yue: "The people hope to restore social justice and common sense, and they choose me, a political newcomer, to be the "National Forces Party" presidential candidate."
Regarding the relationship between South Korea and China, Yoon Seok-yue said before that he could only start diplomacy with the CCP within the framework of the South Korea-US alliance, and affirmed the "THAAD system" deployed by the United States in South Korea.
Xing Haiming, the Chinese Communist Party’s ambassador to South Korea, subsequently issued signed articles criticizing Yin Xiyue’s diplomatic and security stance.
South Korean political circles accused Xing Haiming of interfering in the South Korean election.
In addition, the governor of Gyeonggi Province, Lee Jae-myung, was qualified as the presidential candidate of the ruling party in South Korea.
Lee Jae-myung promised to implement a policy of appeasement against North Korea and a pragmatic foreign policy between Washington and Beijing.
Some analysts believe that in the context of economic competition between the United States and China and various economic difficulties, the fierce competition between the two candidates may intensify the polarization in South Korea.
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"Reuters" special article analyzes the battle of Taiwan, 6 steps of China's invasion of Taiwan triggered the East Asian war
Image : The picture shows the data photo of the total aircraft J-10 (the Associated Press data photo)
The relationship between CCP China and Taiwan is becoming increasingly tense. Although there is no armed conflict, CCP military PLA has increased the frequency of fighter planes harassing Taiwan and sending sand pumps to harass outlying islands. "Reuters" reported on the Taiwan Strait crisis in a special format and interviewed many Taiwanese , U.S., Australia, and Japan military experts, active or retired military officers, speculate on the six major stages of China’s invasion of Taiwan and the possible circumstances. However, "Reuters" emphasized that this is not a prediction. War may not break out, but as the cross-strait Tight relations, a misjudgment or accident, can all become a catalyst for war.
The following are estimates by "Reuters" that if China really launches an invasion of Taiwan, there may be six stages:
Block Matsu
The support of Taiwan’s polls for formal independence has steadily increased. The United States and its allies have strengthened military and political relations with Taiwan. China has decided to put pressure on Taiwan by blocking Matsu. The People’s Liberation Army sent submarines and warships to surround Matsu and warned the Taiwan military. If you cross the middle of the strait, you will be attacked. China also announced that without China's approval, all flights and ships are not allowed to enter Matsu, and Taiwan's garrison is powerless to resist.
If this happens, it will be the most serious Taiwan Strait crisis since 1949. Taiwan rejects China’s reunification negotiations but does not conduct full-scale military operations. Matsu will fall under China’s jurisdiction and the United States and allies will impose sanctions on China. The international situation will be tense. rise.
Invasion of Kinmen
After China blocked Matsu, Taiwan still refused to negotiate for reunification, increased defense spending, extended military service, and required the United States to significantly increase its military assistance to Taiwan. China decided to seize the Golden Gate. Before the United States and its allies responded to Taiwan’s request for assistance, China won Kinmen, called on the U.S. and Japanese navies to stop operations and demand that Taiwan followed "one country, two systems".
Although the international community strongly condemns CCP, CCP China predicts that the United States will not take the risk of war for Taiwan, and the U.S. and Japanese troops did not launch an attack on the CCP military. However, the United States has deployed more troops in Asia to accelerate the transfer of armaments to Taiwan, and China may implement an economic and technological embargo.
Customs clearance restrictions
As the situation continued to be tense, Taiwan continued to refuse to negotiate with CCP China, and the United States continued to strengthen Taiwan’s armaments. Japan publicly confirmed that it would cooperate with the United States to defend Taiwan and began to strengthen its deployment on the southern islands. CCP was shocked by this and decided to impose customs clearance restrictions on Taiwan.
CCP notified Taiwan’s trading partners that Taiwan is part of China and prohibits all ships from entering Taiwan’s territorial waters without permission. At the same time, it has sent troops around Taiwan to intercept aircraft and ships trying to approach Taiwan, allowing only basic food and energy to pass through the cordon.
Taiwan sent troops to attack CCP military PLA warships and warplanes but they were still lost, and Taiwan entered a state of shortage of basic needs.
Total blockade
Taiwan continued to refuse to negotiate with China on reunification and called on the United States to help break the Chinese blockade. Global stock markets collapsed due to fears of expanding war and semiconductor shortages, and China decided to further blockade Taiwan’s main island.
In addition to banning all ships from entering the waters near Taiwan, Taiwan’s naval vessels were also attacked. The People’s Liberation Army planted mines in main port passages, cut off submarine data cables, and cut off Taiwan’s external communications. At the same time, it sent more warships and fighter aircraft to stop the United States and Japan. The army is close to Taiwan.
With the support of the United States and allies, Taiwan and the United States and Japan allies launched attacks on the People’s Liberation Army ships, and China launched attacks on US bases in Japan. China called for an immediate ceasefire, allowing important supplies to enter Taiwan, and invited the United States to join negotiations, while the United States avoided entering China. Territory, to avoid the expansion of the war, and at the same time warn that it will carry out an economic counterattack against China and block China’s imports of energy and raw material pipelines.
Missile attacked the main island of Taiwan
In order to avoid delays in the war leading to internal party rebellion, the collapse of the real estate bubble, and concerns about being overwhelmed by huge military spending, China decided to launch an air strike and launch an attack on Taiwan’s important military and civilian facilities. Taiwan’s air defense system is the most advanced in the world. One of the systems that can use long-range ballistic missiles to hit the Chinese Air Force base. Taiwan was severely injured, but still categorically refused to negotiate.
Fully invaded Taiwan
China believes that the opportunity to reunify Taiwan by military force is fleeting, and finally decides to make an amphibious and airborne landing, hoping to seize Taiwan before the United States and its allies can react.
The People's Liberation Army first carried out air strikes and cyber attacks on important facilities in Taiwan, and at the same time attacked US military bases in Japan, paralyzing the US-Japan operations, and dispatched troops to land in Taiwan to carry out ground attacks and propaganda warfare.
The United States, Japan, Australia and other major allies sent troops to assist in the defense of Taiwan, intercepted PLA warships in the Taiwan Strait, and sent warplanes to attack the PLA Navy and Air Force. The report did not infer the final result, but what is certain is that a great war is unfolding in East Asia.
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Chen Shizhong said frankly that this year's epidemic "falls down'', and he has prepared a contingency plan to meet the Chinese New Year wave of returning home
Reporter : Yang Yuanting / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/3728271
As the end of the year is approaching, many Chinese are returning to China one after another. Chen Shizhong, the commander of the Central Epidemic Command Center and Minister of Health and Welfare, said on 6 November that this wave of Chinese returning to Taiwan is the latest battle to be embraced. Said that the efforts of medical care are needed to keep the line of defense against the epidemic, and said that if there is a change in the epidemic in the future, a rapid mobilization contingency plan, including immediate rescue, referral, and movement lines are all being arranged.
Chen Shizhong attended the senior physician and medical model award ceremony held by the National Federation of Physician Associations, and presented the award to physicians who have practiced medicine for 50 to 60 years. When the outbreak broke out, the country was in trouble. He and the doctors did not hesitate to use all the energy and energy for epidemic prevention. He said that the doctors and nurses served as the front-line pioneers, not only to stabilize the society and the people, but also to create the proud achievements of 252 days and 0 last year. I also recall that at this moment last year, everyone was enjoying the feeling that there were no confirmed cases in the local area.
However, after the New Year, unfortunately, there have been cases of cluster infections in Butaoyuan and Novotel hotels. Although both were cleared smoothly, they fell short in community transmission soon.
Community transmission broke out in mid-May this year, and more than 14,000 people were diagnosed in a short period of time. Chen Shizhong said that this has caused great harm to society. He also saw many medical efforts behind the more than 14,000 confirmed cases. , And pointed out that the epidemic can be slowed down. It is only due to the efforts of medical care that the epidemic in Taiwan can hold the line of defense. "It is hard work, and everyone is dripping with it. This year's battle is for you to defend Taiwan with your lives. It is good to have you!"
In addition to expressing his gratitude to the doctors and nurses, Chen Shizhong also said that as the epidemic slowed down, he had just passed the hotel lobby and saw a lot of people. He was happy but he was a bit afraid and worried. He frankly said that Taiwan must open its borders in the future. With the arrival of Christmas and the Spring Festival, in response to the increase in the number of returnees, there is currently a slight relaxation of the strictness of epidemic prevention, so that everyone can return to the country easily. "How to guard against the flames of war is to rely on medical staff to find patients and screen for defense on the front line."
Chen Shizhong also said that he has prepared a contingency plan. If there is a change in the epidemic situation, based on the experience of the local epidemic outbreak in May, he will be able to mobilize quickly, including ambulance, referral and other lines of action. He also hopes that this wave can be held. The epidemic has made the overall situation better and better, and he also believes that everyone will be successful if they work together.
Chen Shizhong also thanked Qiu Taiyuan, chairman of the All-Union Federation of Medical Doctors Association, for his previous efforts to defend Taiwan at the World Medical Association and "keep the dignity of Taiwan."
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The CCP wants to fight Dongsha? Expert: Fear of triggering the effect of seizing islands in the South China Sea
Reporter : Yi Ru / Editor : Wang Ziqi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/11/05/a103261313.html
The US foreign policy circle has recently set off a new wave of discussions about the US's commitment to defend Taiwan. There is a view that the CCP’s invasion of Dongsha, a remote island controlled by Taiwan, is more likely than Taiwan’s main island. Some military experts said that if the CCP really dared to attack Dongsha, the international knock-on effect would be difficult for the CCP to estimate.
U.S. defense expert Ted Galen Carpenter published an article on 2 November that compared with Taiwan’s main island, Beijing has a higher probability of invading the Dongsha Islands, which are nearly 300 miles southwest of Taiwan. Although this is bold, it is a low-risk way for the CCP to test Washington’s determination to defend Taiwan.
Carpenter called on the US government to focus more on the possibility of the CCP’s invasion of Taiwan’s outer islands.
Former CCP Navy Command Lieutenant Colonel Yao Cheng: "I have been saying that Dongsha is dangerous. Dongsha must be taken down by the CCP. The Bashi Strait cannot be taken down and cannot be effectively controlled. One more thing, Xi Jinping needs a battle. Where can this battle be fought? You can only fight on a small island like Dongsha. You can't go to India to fight, nor can you go to the East China Sea to fight with Japan. He can't win the fight in the South China Sea."
However, Taiwan’s former National Congress representative Huang Pengxiao posted on Facebook on the 2nd that the CCP would neither nor dare to attack Dongsha, because it might be more worried about the effect of seizing islands in the South China Sea after it seized Dongsha. He emphasized that Dongsha will co-exist and die with the seven islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
Taiwan military expert Li Zhengxiu believes that the situation across the Taiwan Strait is now tense and the CCP continues to send military aircraft to disrupt Taiwan, but it has not surpassed the current military tacit understanding between the two sides of the strait and has not crossed the center line of the strait.
Taiwan military expert Li Zhengxiu said, "From the current point of view, Xi Jinping in particular believes that his power status is not threatened, and he has no need to use foreign troops. What's more, the Taiwan Strait involves the United States, Japan and even ASEAN countries. Question. So I think the possibility of mainland China wanting to invade Dongsha shouldn't be too high."
However, Li Zhengxiu also pointed out that if the CCP dared to send troops to attack Dongsha, the chain effect of the international community would be difficult for the CCP to estimate.
Li Zhengxiu said, "If mainland China rushes to send troops without any provocation from Taiwan, it will certainly give the United States a legitimacy to intervene in the South China Sea dispute. Then, in terms of the mainland's existing military power and the combat power of aircraft carriers. , Is definitely not an opponent of the US military. If this is the case, will it cause the loss of the South China Sea islands and reefs it currently controls? This is what it must consider."
Lu Zhengfeng, an associate professor in the Department of International and Mainland Affairs at Golden Gate University in Taiwan, believes that it is unlikely that the CCP will seize Dongsha Island. Taiwan has controlled Dongsha Island for more than 70 years. If the CCP takes military action, its legitimacy will be questioned by all walks of life.
Lu Zhengfeng, associate professor of the Department of International and Mainland Affairs at Golden Gate University, Taiwan: "Maybe it is not a military technically difficult thing. But this will violate. For the peace, stability and status quo of the new Pacific region, the US government is already very clear. On several occasions, he told the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party not to unilaterally change the status quo in the region."
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington think tank, recently conducted a wargame, simulating the CCP’s invasion of Dongsha Island and capturing 500 Taiwanese troops.
The think tank suggested adopting the "poison frog strategy" to transform the outer islands into "poison frogs", so that the CCP would suffer military, economic, and political consequences at the beginning of the invasion, and the cost of aggression far outweighed the benefits.
Li Zhengxiu said, "In fact, many scholars have mentioned the porcupine strategy before. Porcupines have thorns on their bodies. So you have to think twice when you catch them. Whether it is a porcupine strategy or a poison frog strategy, it is basically the same. It is hoped that Taiwan can strengthen its self-defense capabilities, so that when the CCP considers the cost and price it must pay when using force against Taiwan."
Lu Zhengfeng said that the poison frog strategy is a strategic and tactical operation suggestion based on the assumption of war. But military means are an extension of politics. It is a better way to deal with the strategic competition between the United States and China through diplomacy.
Yao Cheng, a former lieutenant colonel of the Chinese Communist Party’s Naval Command, believes that Western countries do not want to go to war.
Yao Cheng: "War is the worst policy. Western countries headed by the United States have put strong pressure on the CCP in politics, diplomacy, and economics, which has led to fission within the CCP, thus avoiding war."
On Taiwan, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of China Qiu Guozheng recently called out that the officers and soldiers stationed on Dongsha Island must coexist and die with the island. He emphasized that since 2018, the national army has continued to strengthen various tangible combat forces on Dongsha Island and Nansha Taiping Island.
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