Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
News on disease control, Taiwan, CCP, U.S.
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The second country in Asia won! Paxlovid is coming to Taiwan! Zhang Shangchun revealed that "these conditions" are suitable for use
Editor : Wang Xinyi / news.tvbs.com.tw/life/1702272
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Pfizer's oral anti-covid drug arrived in Taiwan at noon of 27 January 2022, with about 3,200 copies. Zhang Shangchun said that Taiwan is the second country in Asia to obtain Paxlovid, second only to South Korea.
The indications of Pfizer's oral drugs are mainly for patients with mild to moderate symptoms, those over 12 years old and weighing more than 40 kg, who do not require oxygen therapy, and who have any risk factors that may cause severe disease within five days of onset. These drugs are very suitable for use.
Zhang Shangchun said that Merck's oral anti-covid drugs first arrived in Taiwan three days ago. Taiwan is also the second country in Asia after Japan. This time, Taiwan is second only to South Korea in Asia to receive Paxlovid. It is suitable for patients with mild to moderate disease, who are over 12 years old and weigh more than 40 kg, do not require oxygen therapy, and have any serious risk factors within five days of onset.
Zhang Shangchun emphasized that the so-called severe risk factors include those who are older than 65 years old, Diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, etc. are all counted.
Since obesity is difficult to define between the ages of 12 and 17, as long as the weight exceeds the 85th percentile of the same age group, it is defined as overweight. It is in line with the conditions for the use of Merck and Pfizer oral drugs.
Zhang Shangchun said that in the current diagnosis and treatment guidelines, patients infected with various conditions have drugs that can be used for treatment, and in the guidelines, for patients who do not need oxygen, mild patients, or slightly severe patients, if there are severe risk factors, the current guidelines contain recommendation to use "injectable remdesivir" and "oral Pfizer antiviral drugs".
He emphasized that the oral drugs of Merck and Pfizer are likely to cause interactions with some drugs, including cardiovascular disease drugs. , including drugs for neurological and mental diseases, etc., so if people use other long-term drugs, they must inform the attending doctor.
In terms of the difference between Pfizer and Merck's oral drugs, both drugs are suitable for patients with mild to moderate covid with "severe risk factors", but in terms of minimum age use, Molnupiravir is suitable for patients over 18 years old. However, there is no clear standard on weight while Pfizer can be used for patients over 12 years old, and the weight is more than 40 kg.
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The high-speed rail Yilan station site has been confirmed! The county government launched the environmental impact assessment and surrounding planning
Editor : Huang Shihui / news.tvbs.com.tw/life/1702252
Image : The review meeting will determine the site of the high-speed rail Yilan end. (Photo/TVBS)
The Yilan County Government stated that the county magistrate Lin Zimiao attended the review meeting of the "High-speed Rail Extension Yilan Project Feasibility Study and Comprehensive Planning" today. Lin Zimiao thanked the central government for its assistance. The county government stated that Lin Zimiao attended the report review meeting of the Ministry of Communications' "High-speed Rail Extension Yilan Project Feasibility Study and Comprehensive Planning" in the morning, during which the high-speed rail terminal was determined.
Lin Zimiao particularly thanked Wang Guocai, Minister of Communications, various central ministries and associations, and agencies affiliated to the Ministry of Communications for their joint participation.
The county government explained that after the high-speed rail extension to Yilan, it will be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency for an EIA. It stated that in view of the interconnection between the elevated Yilan railway, the extension of the high-speed railway in Yilan, and the railway speed-up plan in the East Yihua area, the county government has initiated the urban development and planning of the surrounding high-speed railway station in terms of overlapping planning of some road corridors and co-construction planning of stations, overall planning of traffic network.
At the same time, it is recommended that the Ministry of Communications carefully evaluate the overall planning around the station in the follow-up, minimize the expropriation and demolition of buildings, and protect the rights and interests of the people. (Central News Agency)
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One person was confirmed to be infected with Omicron, the city's itinerary code with a star, Hangzhou people panic
Reporter : Zhu Ying / Editor : Hu Long / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/01/26/a103331143.html
Image : Passengers prepare to take a train at Hangzhou East Railway Station in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on 25 January 2022. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
On Wednesday (26 January), Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China announced that a confirmed case of the CCP virus was confirmed to be infected with a mutant strain of Omicron. The authorities panicked, and while thousands of close contacts and second-close contacts were quarantined, all Hangzhou residents' itinerary cards were marked with a star logo, and Hangzhou netizens were discussing online about travel restrictions.
Based on Hangzhou's official notification and local media reports, a confirmed case in the city on the 26th was confirmed by genetic sequencing that the virus infected by the patient was an Omicron variant.
The patient Gan XX (male) is an employee of Huierte Catering Equipment Co., Ltd. Before he became ill, he attended the annual meeting held by the company on 19 January. At that time, more than 300 people attended the annual meeting. The patient had extensive contact with other colleagues at the annual meeting, and a singing and dancing performance was arranged at the annual meeting. and sweepstakes. Photos posted by the company on its website show employees attending the annual meeting without masks, and hundreds of people gathered in a closed restaurant for extended periods of time.
Gan XX began to have symptoms of runny nose and sneezing in the afternoon of the 21st, and a sore throat the next day, which has not been significantly relieved. Afterwards, Gan XX went to the fever clinic of the Binjiang District of the Second Zhejiang Medical Hospital at 10 pm on the 25th, and the nucleic acid test was positive; in the early morning of the 26th, the re-examination test of the Hangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention was still positive and the diagnosis was confirmed.
An Omicron variant appeared in Hangzhou, panicking the authorities. Official information shows that after sampling and testing the environmental surfaces of the close contacts, sub-close contacts, homes, and work units of the above-mentioned cases, 17 samples were tested positive.
Hangzhou officials announced on 26 January that from 8 pm on 26 January 2022, Huierte (China) Catering Equipment Co., Ltd., No. 151, Jianye Road, Changhe Street, Binjiang District, Hangzhou will be adjusted to a medium-risk area. At the same time, all large-scale events in the city will be cancelled, and large-scale forums, temple fairs, corporate annual meetings and other activities will also be suspended.
On the 26th, netizens in Hangzhou complained on the Internet that their itinerary cards suddenly had a star sign on them, worrying that the Hangzhou authorities' "one-size-fits-all" approach to epidemic prevention would cause obstacles to their travel:
"I'm speechless. I have stars in Qiantang District. I'm not a high-risk area. If I have a problem, can I still go home?"
"Asterisks are now equal to yellow codes in most areas."
"Just like Shanghai, one person infected more than 20 million people with stars."
This is the second time that Hangzhou citizens have been subjected to the treatment of "itinerary code with stars" on a large scale, and the itinerary will be subject to many restrictions, including affecting the plan to go home for the Chinese New Year.
According to public information, an asterisk (*) appears on the itinerary card of the public, indicating that the cardholder is in or has passed through or visited a city with medium-risk or high-risk areas. The official said that it is recommended that when the epidemic prevention management personnel see the asterisk on the user's itinerary, they should further verify whether the other party has actually been to medium and high-risk areas, and then follow the local epidemic prevention policy to determine whether isolation is required.
Hangzhou officials also require people with asterisks on their itinerary cards, if there are cities in the past 14 days that contain medium and high-risk areas, they need to report to the relevant local management departments in time; even if they have not been to medium and high-risk areas, they should also, before traveling, understand the travel policies of various places, and "judgment whether to continue to travel according to the requirements of local epidemic prevention management".
In other words, although the government has not officially announced that it is impossible to travel with an asterisk on the itinerary card, it has not prohibited local epidemic prevention agencies from taking restrictive measures against cardholders with "stars".
Some netizens pointed out that the current status quo in mainland China is that local governments are in favor of the left over the right when it comes to epidemic prevention, and the epidemic prevention regulations are becoming more and more strict. Signs, travel restrictions are a high probability.
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Missile expert flees? The CCP is silent
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Let's start with an explosive news. Netizen "Grass Festival" tweeted today (26th) that the British "Daily Express" reported that a Chinese missile scientist fled China and has now flown to the United States with his family.
According to the "Grass Festival" post, he found this article on the "Daily Express" website, and it was published on January 23rd. The article quoted intelligence sources as revealing that a senior Chinese scientist, with the assistance of MI6, fled China and went to liberal Western countries.
This news has been reported for 3 days, but I have not seen any response from the CCP. Of course, even if this kind of thing is true, the CCP will definitely not admit it. Just like the rumors that Dong Jingwei, the vice minister of the Ministry of State Security, defected in the media some time ago, the CCP will try its best to refute the rumours.
But at least we can't confirm the authenticity of the news, so we just provide it to you as a reference. But I want to talk about the Twitter friends "Grass Festival" and "Daily Express".
"Grass Festival" introduced himself as a professor of science at a university in Shanghai. After 8964, he went to a university in Taiwan to teach and conduct research. This is a netizen who is more active on Twitter, and I have been following him for a while. Judging from past tweets, the credibility is relatively high.
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"Daily Express" is an old British newspaper with a history of 120 years. It has more than 3,000 resident reporters, forty or fifty pages per day. According to the ABC Circulation Audit Bureau, the news organization was ranked 80th in the world by circulation in 2008. This conservative newspaper has a large readership.
In particular, this report by the "Daily Express" does not seem to be fabricated in terms of the structure of the article and the description of the facts. In particular, the defection process of the CCP rocket expert was described in great detail.
The Daily Express asked the British Foreign Office for confirmation of the defection but the Foreign Office responded that it does not comment on intelligence issues.
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007 teamed up with CIA to help escape missile expert escape to the United States?
The 30-something rocket expert's defection was not driven by ideology or political dissent, sources said. He thinks that he has made a lot of great contributions to the CCP and should get more "rewards", but he doesn't get it. No promotions, no job titles.
The article said the man had studied in the UK and enjoyed cricket and Jack Daniel's beer. The source thought the man was very smart and cooperative, but was just aggrieved and dissatisfied with his treatment in China.
At the end of September 2021, the rocket expert made contact with a British intelligence agent in Hong Kong. In the first exploratory contact, he told the "middleman" that he had detailed information about the CCP's hypersonic vehicle.
Do you remember that the Financial Times reported in November last year, citing people familiar with the matter, that in July of that year, the CCP successfully test-fired a hypersonic glide vehicle that orbited the earth at five times the speed of sound. This time point coincides with the time mentioned by the "Daily Express".
The rocket expert believes that once his actions are found to be very dangerous and "absolutely sentenced to death", he asked for political asylum for himself, his wife and children.
Intelligence officers quickly reported the information to the London headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. In a previous membership show, we talked about MI6. The famous 007 series of movies was shot on the basis of "MI6".
After receiving the intelligence, MI6 dispatched a three-person team to Hong Kong, including two intelligence officers and one technical expert, to deal with the matter. At the same time, MI6 also notified the CIA of the United States.
The source said that because the authenticity of the CCP rocket expert could not be confirmed at that time, it was worried that it might be a trap set by the CCP deliberately, so MI6 handled it very cautiously.
After the three-person team arrived in Hong Kong, they adopted a "hard-to-play" game of cat-and-mouse to conduct a review and investigation of the rocket expert. In the end, they determined that the scientist's identity was "safe and secure" - although he could only remember most of the technical information in his head, he still provided some details about the development of China's hypersonic weapons.
Next, the US Central Intelligence Agency sent 2 people, together with the British "MI6", to develop a plan. They arranged for the scientist and his family to fly to a former British colony on a specially created route.
Upon arrival, the scientist and his family were taken to a safe location. Two men and one woman from MI6 spent a day interrogating the rocket expert in detail. Next, they arranged for the rocket specialist's family to fly to a safer location — a U.S. air base in Germany, and then to the United States via the U.K.
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Will the CCP's hypersonic weapon project fail?
The rocket expert is affiliated with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the source said. He helped develop a medium-range hypersonic boost-glide vehicle capable of carrying the DF-17 missile with a range of 2,000 miles (about 3,200 kilometers).
The Daily Express quoted sources as saying that the missile expert was also involved in the development of a more advanced hypersonic missile delivery system. The system would orbit the missile and use "heat tracking" technology to hit any target on Earth.
In 2019, the U.S. was already behind China and Russia in hypersonic weapons, according to the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2020 report. The two countries "use more ballistic missiles for testing and training than the rest of the world combined."
The source pointed out that the operational details of the hypersonic missile are now in the UK, which has helped the country reach a "unexpected position". Britain has significantly accelerated plans to defend against such missiles.
Earlier this month, Chief of Defence Staff Tony Radakin had confirmed that the UK had also joined the development of hypersonic weapons. Now that I think about it, Ladakin said this, and it is likely to confirm the news of the rocket expert's defection.
Sources also told the Daily Express that if the CCP wants to invalidate the intelligence obtained by the UK, it may significantly revise its plans, but it will take at least two years. "Two years is a very long time", which is also the precious time that the UK has won.
As we all know, hypersonic missiles can fly at speeds in excess of Mach 5. Mach is simply a unit of speed. Flying at the surface, Mach 1 is about 1,225 kilometers per hour.
More than Mach 5, or more than 6,000 kilometers per hour, which is more than five times the speed of conventional ballistic missiles. Therefore, such hypersonic missiles are more difficult to track and difficult to intercept.
But the implication of the British source is that 2 years is long enough to develop the technology to crack the CCP’s hypersonic missiles.
If all this is true, then the CCP is "very hurt". Because this means that it will not take long before the CCP's extremely threatening hypersonic weapons will lose their threat.
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Will US diplomats leave? Can't stand the CCP's anal swab tests
There is also news that "very hurt" the CCP. At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China today (26th), Zhao Lijian said that China is currently the safest country in the world, and the decision-making logic of the United States is incomprehensible. He claimed that "as far as I know, China has never asked American diplomats in China to conduct anal swab tests" and that the CCP's epidemic prevention measures are in line with international diplomatic and consular regulations.
Fox News reported on 26 January that, according to State Department records, the Chinese government has required U.S. diplomats in China to undergo anal swab tests. Because the U.S. government cannot help diplomats and their families from the invasive epidemic prevention and control measures implemented by the Chinese authorities, it has submitted an application to the State Department, hoping to evacuate them from China as soon as possible.
Despite Zhao Lijian's denial, it is a fact that the CCP has started "anal swab" nucleic acid testing again. The British "Sun" reported that at least 27 residents were tested by "anal swabs" by the Beijing quarantine department.
The Chinese health department claims that the anal test is much more accurate than the existing throat swabs and nasopharyngeal swabs. However, some scholars believe that the virus is transmitted through the respiratory tract and is difficult to detect in feces.
Whether the "anal swab" test is accurate or not, let's put this question aside. It can be very uncomfortable, even humiliating, to say this.
Some netizens once pointed out that "anal swabs" are not very harmful to people, but they are too insulting. It not only requires people to take off their pants, but also requires medical staff to insert a cotton swab about 5 cm into the anus for sampling.
Zhao Lijian said that the CCP's epidemic prevention measures are in line with international diplomatic and consular regulations. I would like to ask Zhao Lijian, have you tested this method? Do you want to do it first? There are also senior officials and their families in Beijing, in order to ensure the safety of these senior officials, should they do anal swab tests first? Leaders come first.
Zhao Lijian also claimed that the CCP never asked U.S. diplomats in China to do anal swab tests but U.S. State Department records show that in January 2021, a Beijing-based diplomat was required to undergo both a nasopharyngeal and anal swab tests in his apartment. Later, under pressure from the United States, the CCP stopped requiring anal swab tests.
Although the Chinese people have been insulted countless times by the CCP, the actual Chinese people still cannot stand it, they just dare not speak out. Americans, on the other hand, attach great importance to human rights, and they are even less likely to endure this kind of insult from the CCP.
In fact, the resumption of anal swab testing by the CCP reflects the evil of the CCP and takes insults seriously; on the other hand, it may also reflect the seriousness of the epidemic in Beijing.
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Yanjiao closed and controlled many communities, 102 National Road was blown
On 26 January, "Beijing Youth Daily" reported that Sanhe Yanjiao closed several communities in the morning, including Shangshang Sanji, Yanjing Hangcheng, Hawaii South Bank and Yanjiao Fucheng Phase 5, etc.
The article quoted Mr. Zhang, a resident of the "Ideal New City", saying that he was about to go out to work in Beijing at 6:00 in the morning, but was stopped at the gate of the community. Mr. Zhang said that due to the recent tense situation of the epidemic, he has long been mentally prepared to do nucleic acid testing in the community at any time. "You can only work from home today, or take this time to take a break," he said.
The place of Yanjiao belongs to Sanhe City, Hebei Province geographically, but more people will call it "Beijing Yanjiao". Because this place is only about 30 kilometers away from the center of Beijing, there are at least 13 bus lines for commuting. Many office workers in Beijing buy houses there, so Yanjiao is called a "sleeping city".
A netizen in Yanjiao told me in an email today that the Fucheng Phase 4 community in Yanjiao, which is separated by a river from Tongzhou, Beijing, detected a positive case early this morning, and the entire community was closed that night.
Netizens said that after the case was discovered, all bus lines in Sanhe were suspended. In order to prevent people from Yanjiao from entering Beijing, the 102 National Road in the direction of Beijing was cut off in the morning. The Chaobai River Bridge was full of policemen, blocking the road with a wall of people.
In the video sent by netizens, it is shown that there are many people wearing white isolation suits at the entrance of Fuze Yuyuan Community, and others are wearing them.
[Original sound video] Completely sealed, completely sealed, this time completely sealed, not even a mouth is left. How is this going, you say?
Today, Sanhe City announced the movement trajectory of the confirmed case in an "emergency notice". It shows that the patient took the No. 814 bus to work in Fengtai District on January 21, and he also had several self-driving experiences.
That is to say, the patient was likely infected while working in Fengtai, and the authorities did not specify whether the patient was infected with Delta or Omicron. I reckon the authorities might also say that it was Delta who was infected, as everyone knows.
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Omicron is now in Hangzhou
Hangzhou also found a patient on 26 January, and the confirmed infection was a variant of Omicron. The Hangzhou authorities directly dumped it on overseas imports, claiming that the virus infected by the case was not related to the previous epidemic in Hangzhou, but was highly homologous to the virus sequence uploaded by a certain country on 11 December. However, the authorities' notification was vague and did not specify which country it was.
Hangzhou authorities said that at 10 p.m. yesterday, a local positive patient was found, and Gan XX was an employee of Huierte Catering Equipment Co., Ltd. The survey found that Gan XX attended the company's annual meeting held at the Seven Star Restaurant on January 19, during which there were singing, dancing and lottery links.
"The Paper" reported that, as can be seen in the video, there must be at least hundreds of employees participating in the annual meeting at that time. But judging from the density of people at the annual meeting, the number should be far more than 100.
Allegedly attending the annual meeting are mainly employees in Hangzhou, including employees in sales, production and other positions. Authorities said that as of 3:30 p.m. today, 553 close contacts and 808 close contacts had been identified.
In fact, there are many things that cannot be matched with the information reported by the authorities. Since the virus that Gan XX was infected with has nothing to do with the previous virus in Hangzhou, it should be said which country the case was imported from, but the authorities did not say. It did not say when the imported case entered China, nor did it explain how to contact Gan.
As we said before, the incubation period of Omicron is very short, usually only 3 days. But the isolation policy of the CCP is at least 14+7. If the patient was carrying Omicron, he should have shown symptoms long ago. Didn’t the Hangzhou authorities find out?
Judging from this point, the possibility of overseas import is unlikely. In fact, if it is an imported case from abroad, then some people in the Hangzhou authorities may have to be dealt with. This is because the epidemic prevention and control is not strictly controlled.
If it is not imported from abroad, then it must have been spread within China. Who infected Gan XX? Which province and city did the person who infected Gan XX come from? Since that person was able to infect Gan XX, how many people were infected before it was infected to Gan XX?
Do you remember what I said about the "cockroach theory"? Anytime a cockroach is found in the kitchen, it means there may be more roaches hiding in dark corners.
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The second line of the new star of the Zhijiang Department, Xi Jinping lost another member
Finally, let’s talk about the CCP’s infighting. On 26 January, the WeChat public account "Heilongjiang Daily" reported that the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress elected Wang Yongkang as the executive deputy director of the Provincial People's Congress. Wang Yongkang had previously stepped down as a member of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee and vice governor.
As we all know, there are no real elections under the CCP, and officials are appointed by the "upper". That is to say, Wang Yongkang is the executive deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress who was arranged by "above". The National People's Congress at all levels of the CCP is actually a political vase organization. Because Wang Yongkang entered the National People's Congress, although he is the executive deputy director, he is actually an idler. In other words, this is a "second-tier" institution that leaves immediately after reaching retirement age.
In fact, this may be Xi Jinping's helpless move, just like the removal of Xu Liyi from the post of secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee. In other words, it is likely that in the fight between the gangs, Xi Jinping took a break for a while.
According to public information, Wang Yongkang, who was born in November 1963, was only 58 years old. After graduating with a master's degree in 1991, Wang Yongkang worked at the Ningbo Branch of the No. 52 Research Institute of China National Ordnance Industry Corporation.
In 2001, Wang Yongkang left the Department of Military Industry and entered the local political arena, and successively took charge of Yuyao City and Lishui City in Zhejiang Province. In 2016, he was promoted to the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the Minister of United Front Work. At the age of 53, he became a deputy minister. At this time, Wang Yongkang has begun to attract people's attention, and the outside world believes that he is a rising "Zhijiang star".
At the end of 2016, Wang Yongkang took office across provinces and was in charge of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province. He continued the practice when he was in charge of Lishui, improved the urban sanitation environment, advocated the "cigarette butt revolution" and "toilet revolution", and promoted Xi'an's economic growth, making Xi'an return to the top 20 in the country in 2018. Therefore, he was called by the media as "one person ignites a city".
Unfortunately, when Wang Yongkang was in power in Xi'an, his predecessor Wei Minzhou and many other officials were sacked, and Shangguan Jiqing, the mayor of Xi'an at the time, was placed on probation, dismissed, and demoted to deputy director. In addition, Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, and a number of deputy ministerial officials were investigated. At that time, the collapse of the officialdom in Shaanxi shocked the whole country.
In fact, Wang Yongkang has only served in Xi'an for more than 2 years, and the outside world cannot know whether he is involved in it. Looking at the handling of the authorities at the time, it seems that Wang Yongkang was not involved in the case, but these matters also adversely affected Wang Yongkang's career.
In February 2019, Wang Yongkang was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee and was subsequently appointed as the Vice Governor. However, the industries he is in charge of are business, market supervision, etc., which are basically unpopular industries. Until this time, he was assigned an idle position and took a back seat.
On the surface, Wang Yongkang seems to have reached the red line of age and will automatically take up an idle position. But in fact, the CCP deputy provincial and ministerial-level officials were not assigned to the second-tier of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference until the age of 60. That is to say, Wang Yongkang was placed on the second-tier in advance.
Beijing-based "Duowei News" said that, looking back at the "Qinling Incident", although it did not happen during Wang Yongkang's rule in Xi'an, he should have understood the whole story. And this case has not been pursued to the end for a long time, but it has been handed over to Xi Jinping's desk repeatedly, and it is inevitable to be suspected of "perfunctory responsibility".
This comment has actually hinted at Wang Yongkang being second-tier. Wang Yongkang was still implicated in the "Qinling Incident". That is to say, some people are using the Qinling incident to "conquer" Xi Jinping, forcing Xi Jinping to abandon Wang Yongkang, the former star of the "Zhijiang Department".
In other words, Wang Yongkang is likely to be a cockroach victim of a gang fight.
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U.S. abruptly authorizes the evacuation of diplomats in China
Now, cases of severe negative effects caused by the CCP’s extreme epidemic prevention measures can be said one after another. Especially in Beijing, in order to protect the current biggest image project of the Winter Olympics, the CCP’s extreme measures are causing a major diplomatic incident, which is likely to lead to the Winter Olympics. The Olympics have been hit even harder. This is the "authorized evacuation" incident of the US embassy and consulate personnel in China that broke out yesterday.
Today, let’s discuss the impact of this incident first, and then talk about a big news broke by the British media: a CCP rocket expert who participated in the top hypersonic missile program has successfully fled the United States.
Yesterday at noon, that is, after 1 am mainland time, the party media tabloid Global Times, which has always been shouting about something, issued an exclusive report in both Chinese and English, claiming to have learned from a source that the US State Department plans to use "China". On the grounds of the "epidemic situation", the "authorized evacuation" of the embassy and consulate in China was approved.
In its Chinese report, "Global Times" used the title of "holding back the dirty trick" in the United States, which can be regarded as gnashing of teeth, while its English report used the word "Dirty trick" , and added a thick black exclamation mark, almost screaming in shock.
Why is the response of the Global Times so strong? According to the report itself, it is because the decision of the United States is "another clear and specific target for the Beijing Winter Olympics less than ten days before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics". boycott behavior”.
The report also quoted an expert’s analysis, saying that this, like the U.S.’s recent large-scale suspension of flights to China, is part of the U.S.’s “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing Winter Olympics conspiracy. In layman's terms, it is: if your family has a wedding, I will deliberately come to mourning.
This news was quickly responded by the US and China officials.
Last night, Reuters published a report, citing two people familiar with the matter, as saying that the U.S. State Department was preparing to approve the departure of diplomats in China and their families because the U.S. government could not prevent the Chinese authorities from imposing severely disruptive epidemic control measures on them. .
The U.S. State Department responded to a Reuters inquiry after saying there were no changes to the operations of U.S. embassies and consulates in China, but added, "Any changes in this regard will be based on consideration of the health and safety of our colleagues and their families. ."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian also confirmed the incident today, saying that China has expressed serious concern and dissatisfaction with the U.S. plan to withdraw some diplomats, and hopes that the U.S. will abide by and cooperate with China's epidemic prevention regulations.
The "authorized evacuation" involved in this incident refers to the decision of a U.S. foreign agency to evacuate its personnel from the host country in response to a specific emergency, which must be approved by senior officials of the U.S. State Department before it can be implemented.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately hit the headlines of all media, because this is a major diplomatic event between China and the United States at the beginning of this year, and many media used their own resources to start digging for news. The report issued by CNN today also quoted an anonymous insider as saying that the U.S. diplomatic corps in China did issue an application, but the State Department had not yet approved it, and the "authorized evacuation" was not mandatory and was a voluntary act of diplomats.
Another reason why this news has attracted attention is because when the news first came out yesterday, it was once rumored that the United States might cut off diplomatic relations with the CCP, but it was soon discovered. Wendy Sherman, the US Deputy Secretary of State, said yesterday afternoon tweeted that he had just hosted the swearing-in ceremony of the new ambassador to China, Burns.
Therefore, the severance of diplomatic relations is definitely not present at present. Well, this brings up a question. Since there is no change in US-China diplomatic relations, and the application of US diplomats to withdraw has not been approved, why does the CCP react so strongly and actively report this kind of "negative energy" news in advance. Woolen cloth?
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Anal swabs and extreme isolation measures cause trouble
First of all, according to Reuters, the main reason why some U.S. diplomats proposed to withdraw is one: the CCP’s strict epidemic prevention regulations have made many diplomats intolerable. The rules include that diplomats may be forced to visit fever clinics or be forced to isolate themselves from their children. And the U.S. government has been unwilling or unable to protect U.S. diplomats from such draconian measures, so they prefer to leave China temporarily.
How many diplomats are there? According to an internal survey by the US embassy, as many as 25% of staff and family members are willing to choose to leave China as soon as possible.
Therefore, the reason for the U.S. side is very clear. It is dissatisfied with the CCP’s strict zero-response policy of excessive epidemic prevention and asked to leave, because this policy directly affects their work and life. For example, it is absolutely unacceptable for any American parent to take a 3-year-old child away for isolation like the CCP does.
Of course, there may be another reason that the U.S. side is not comfortable to say publicly. It was revealed by Fox News last night that at least one U.S. diplomat had been forced to undergo nasal and anal swabs in his apartment in Beijing. Nucleic acid testing. The news had what could be called an explosion in diplomatic circles.
If we look at the Chinese side again, we will find that the CCP is obviously stealing the concept. Whether it’s the swearing article by the Global Times or Zhao Lijian’s poignant statement, they all emphasize a problem, that is, China is the safest country in the world for the epidemic situation, and the number of confirmed cases and deaths in the United States has been increasing. And there are only so many related cases in China. You Americans, leaving the safest place will only greatly increase your own risk of infection, and you will shoot your feet and so on.
In other words, the main concern of the US side is the serious violation of individual rights by the Chinese government in the name of epidemic prevention, which makes people feel unsafe. The key point that the CCP emphasizes is that the zero-clearing policy is effective. We have very few cases, so you will be safe. In fact, it has replaced the security issue in the sense of broad basic human rights with a narrow, purely medical sense. Security Question.
Why did Beijing react so strongly?
Second, why did the CCP react so strongly? Logically speaking, when others come to live in Beijing, they can stay when they feel good, and leave when they feel uncomfortable. This is the freedom of others. No American citizen who comes to China has such an obligation, saying that you are going to hold the Olympics and we can't leave, we must cooperate to stay here to save your face, and even take a humiliating check on me and can't leave, if I want to go back to the United States would be labelled "destroying the Olympic atmosphere" or "dirty tricks".
This is a very strange kind of thinking, a paranoid that is full of control. I think if we really meet such a person in our social life, I am afraid everyone will swear at "mental" and walk away, right?
Third, why does the CCP take the initiative to report such a "negative energy" news on its own initiative? In fact, they are worried that the withdrawal of American diplomats will trigger a demonstration effect, so that many countries that hate the CCP but are not very good at directly offending them also take advantage of the situation to avoid extreme epidemic prevention in the name of boycotting the Olympics.
Now Xi Jinping is once again in a dilemma: if he relaxes the treatment of diplomats from various countries and is not affected by various extreme epidemic prevention policies, his card of "don't eat the US" will not be able to play, which is equivalent to self-dwarfing , which is of course unbearable. But if he doesn't relax, others will leave if they can't stand it. He thinks that this is "Americans openly refuse to eat our party's way", and it is equally unbearable to not give face.
Therefore, to let the party media come out first, the authorities actually had a just-in-case idea: after all, the US State Department has not yet officially approved it, and it may be too late to prevent the US from withdrawing. At the same time, it is also to prevent the US withdrawal from triggering a chain reaction to the greatest extent possible.
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British media shocked, CCP rocket expert fled to the United States
Okay, let's talk about the rumour about the Chinese rocket expert fleeing to the United States.
This extremely explosive news was exclusively reported by the British "Daily Express". Although the "Daily Express" is classified as a tabloid in the United Kingdom, it is a newspaper with a century-old black print header. It is not the same as the "Sun" and other tabloids with a red print header. It belongs to one of the mainstream newspapers. one.
According to the newspaper's report, which was first published on the 23rd and updated today, the newspaper obtained exclusive information that the British Secret Intelligence Service "MI6" (also known as 007) belongs to the film. The unit) assisted a Chinese missile expert to escape from Beijing to the United States.
The expert is about 30 years old. Although he is young, he has participated in at least two of the CCP's most advanced hypersonic missile research and development programs. One is the medium-range hypersonic missile launch glide vehicle developed by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. Capable of carrying the Dongfeng-17 missile (DF-17), it has a range of 2,000 miles (about 3,200 kilometers).
This Dongfeng 17 missile is believed to be familiar to military fans and friends. The missile is known as the world's first hypersonic missile officially listed in active service, and it made its public debut at the CCP's 2019 November military parade. This missile is said to have the ability to change orbits in the atmosphere, so it is difficult to be intercepted by the anti-missile system. It is regarded as the latest "aircraft carrier killer" of the CCP, and it has become the most important "denial of operations" by the CCP against the United States in the Taiwan Strait. key bargaining chip.
The second plan that the fugitive expert participated in is the "hypersonic missile delivery system" recently developed by the CCP last year. This system allows missiles to fly out of the atmosphere like artificial satellites and orbit the earth in space, and then re-enter the atmosphere. Lock on any target on the ground with orbital flight and tracking heat source technology. And this missile can be a conventional warhead or a nuclear warhead, and it is also difficult for the anti-missile system to intercept.
This system was publicly tested last summer, which once caused a shock in the US military. Mark Milley, chairman of the US military joint chiefs of staff, even said publicly in an interview with Bloomberg TV, "What we are seeing is a test of hypersonic speed, a very significant event for weapons, I think it's very close to a 'satellite moment'."
The "satellite moment" here refers to the Soviet Union's successful launch of the world's first artificial satellite ahead of the United States during the Cold War, which made the United States strive to catch up with a deep sense of crisis.
The report, citing sources, said the fugitive expert provided extremely valuable information that allowed the UK to obtain specific details about the operation of the hypersonic weapon, allowing the UK to advance sharply to positions they had not expected at all.
This progress will gain at least two years for both the United States and the United Kingdom. Because it would have taken the CCP at least two years to substantially modify its original design and invalidate the information obtained by the United States and the United Kingdom, and in this field, two years can be said to be a very long time.
The report also roughly described the process of the expert's escape, saying that the man was not a political dissident, but that he was so dissatisfied that he did not get the promotion he deserved, and that he hooked up with intelligence agencies in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom at the end of September last year.
MI6 immediately dispatched a 3-person team, including technical experts, to Hong Kong and simultaneously notified the CIA. After conducting a comprehensive inspection of the expert, the MI6 team determined that the person's identity and intelligence were true and reliable, so they passed a secret line. The expert and his family were sent to a former British colony, then to an American air base in Germany, before finally flying to the United States via the United Kingdom.
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The CCP’s two major cutting-edge weapons plans leaked?
This news is undoubtedly shocking in terms of its content. Because the two hypersonic missile plans just mentioned, one belongs to the field of tactical strike, the other belongs to the field of strategic deterrence, and they are both the CCP's most cutting-edge weapons plans. If the expert, who was involved with both, does escape, it basically means two things:
1. The most important trump card of the CCP’s strategic deterrence against the United States has been leaked, and even faces the risk of being abolished, because the opponent knows how to attack, and of course it is easy to know how to defend to resolve it.
2. Xi Jinping's plan to attack Taiwan by force may be greatly affected and be forced to revise or even postpone, because if the so-called aircraft carrier killer is no longer a secret, and the only strategic deterrent advantage that can break through the anti-missile system is also lost, in such a Under these conditions, Xi Jinping's bargaining chip to start a full-scale war with the United States is obviously insufficient.
Of course, news like this is unlikely to be publicly confirmed by either the Chinese Communist Party or the United States and the United Kingdom. Just as multiple political sources have previously revealed that more than one virus expert from mainland China has fled to the United States.
The usual practice of the U.S. and British governments is to release the news of the arrival of the fugitives through the media or a certain channel. In fact, it is to remind the CCP that we have obtained a certain bargaining chip or trump card of yours. You have to be interesting about how to do some things. Everyone is tacit.
So we can only talk about things based on media reports. As far as I am concerned, this report has some credibility. The main reason is that many of the details mentioned in the report are more in line with our past perceptions, such as the CCP’s scientific and technological circles, lay leaders and experts, those who have merit are excluded, those who have no merit are promoted, etc. .
The report also mentions an interesting detail, saying that the fugitive expert, who studied in England, is an avid fan of cricket, and prefers Jack Daniels whisky to beer. Such details explain an important question as to why the expert first contacted the British institution - because he was a man very familiar with and very fond of British culture.
If we briefly review today’s two topics, we will find that they are all related to the keyword “escape”. Living in China under the rule of the CCP, not only people in the system are trying to escape, but even foreign diplomats are also thinking about it. way to leave. Their material living environment is not bad, even better than that of most Chinese people, but they still do not think this is a land where they can safely enjoy a fair and dignified life.
Again, the CCP always wants to control everything as best it can, but as you see it, the extreme will be the opposite, and there will only be more and more out of control.
News (15) to (17) / Source : Voice of America via The Epoch Times / Editor : Zhang Jie / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/1/27/n13533314.htm
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CCP VS Nazi Olympics Expert: Genocide is happening
Image : On January 21, 2022, a bullet train at Qinghe Station in Beijing will transport athletes to the Beijing 2022 Olympic venues. (Noel Celis/AFP)
January 27 is the United Nations-designated Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust Victims to commemorate the 6 million Jews and millions of other victims killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Holocaust researchers say that at this moment, the Winter Olympics will be held in a country where genocide is taking place. "Many people don't know or care about the persecution in China, which in itself is disturbing enough." Experts say the International Olympic Committee and sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics have become deniers of the CCP's brutality.
“The truth is that the Winter Olympics are taking place in communist China, and the genocide is actually taking place there,” said Rafael Medoff, founding director of the David Wyman Holocaust Institute in Washington.
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to designate January 27 each year—the day the Allied forces liberated Auschwitz—as the "International Day of Remembrance in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust". The resolution states that the purpose of the observance of the day is to "prevent future acts of genocide"; it also "unreservedly condemns all acts of intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against individuals or groups, whether Where did these actions take place?"
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on 25 January 2022 at a commemorative ceremony in New York that the history of the Holocaust must "never be forgotten" and "never repeated".
Holocaust researcher Medoff said, "What is happening in China today is that there is a genocide going on there, and the victims are Muslim Uighurs. This should be something that the international community needs to pay attention to and intervene immediately, because on January 27 countries around the world will commemorate the Holocaust to prevent future genocides but we see genocide literally right before our eyes today, in a country that hosts one of the most important international gatherings of the year."
Medoff said that Hitler's Nazi hosting of the Olympic Games 86 years ago is the same as the Chinese Communist Party's intention to host the Olympic Games today.
“For the Nazis in 1936, the Olympics were a tool to cover up their horrific human rights violations against the Jews in Germany. Likewise, in China today, the Beijing government sees the Olympics as an opportunity for the international community to accept it as a legitimate part, And let the public's attention away from the fact that the Chinese government is persecuting innocent minorities on a massive scale," Medov said.
Republican U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) held a press conference on Monday, inviting Uyghur activists to expose the atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang and protest the hosting of the Olympics in China.
“Millions of people have been detained without trial. At least 800,000 Uyghur children have been forcibly removed from their families and raised in government orphanages and boarding schools. Most of them will likely never see their families again. "My own family is being watched, harassed, threatened and detained," said Mustafa Aksu, head of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. "My classmates, teachers and neighbors are gone. I don't even know who they are." Some of them are alive or dead."
"It's outrageous that while our whole family is locked up and tortured, the world celebrates sports and friendship," said Elfidar Iltebir, director of the Uyghur Association of America.
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Beijing Winter Olympics become exercise in genocide denial
As the Winter Olympics kick off in Beijing on 4 February 2022, these ongoing atrocities may be overshadowed by the joyous sporting extravaganza. "Washington Post" columnist Josh Rogin pointed out in his comments that the International Olympic Committee, sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and some famous people are actually helping the CCP to whitewash its genocide and become the atrocity deniers of its atrocities.
"It's one thing to be silent about mass atrocities, it's another to actively help oppressors to whitewash their crimes," Rokin said. He quotes Elisha Wiesel, son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel:
"Every individual and organization associated with the Beijing Olympics has a responsibility to avoid becoming a complicity in Beijing's efforts to cover up its brutality against Uyghurs." An appeal.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has always stood with the Chinese government against any public protest against its human rights abuses. Not only has the IOC defended an app the Chinese government is asking athletes to download for allegedly having security risks, it has also worked hard to produce a video to help the Chinese government quell protests over missing tennis star Peng Shuai, meeting with human rights groups subjected to forced labor.
Members of both parties in the U.S. Congress were outraged by the IOC's actions. Last Thursday (20 January 2022), eight U.S. congressmen, led by U.S. Congressional Democrat Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), issued a statement calling on the International Olympic Committee to condemn the remarks of Chinese officials and demand that the International Olympic Committee explains how to protect foreign athletes and journalists when Chinese authorities act to exercise threats.
Separately, Republican Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) have introduced a bill to remove the IOC's federal tax-exempt status.
"The corporate partners of the genocidal 2022 Olympics should be ashamed of their association with the International Olympic Committee and (the Chinese Communist Party's) propaganda tactics," Waltz said.
"So far, the companies don't seem to be at all ashamed. Google and Apple put flawed apps from the Chinese government in their app stores without disclosing the risks to users," Rokin said.
"If you don't have a sense of shame, moral shaming can only go so far," Michael Sobolik, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Policy, told VOA.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that “several Olympic sponsors, including Visa, Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola, have kept a relatively low profile as Washington focuses on human rights in Xinjiang.”
But while "the sponsors of the 2022 Winter Olympics are in a multi-billion-dollar situation this year," they will not withdraw their sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics or withdraw from the Chinese market.
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Sobolik: When it comes to China, they are ready to shut up
“When it comes to China, they are ready to shut up and do whatever they need to do to protect their market access there, even at the cost of downplaying or denying the genocide that is taking place,” Sobolik said.
"I think the worst part is that it justifies the Chinese Communist Party, because they think they have cracked the code, not just for the US, but for a lot of Western countries, i.e. if presented with the choice of sticking to values and making money, then we always will choose to make money.”
Sobolik called the sponsors "soft genocide denialists." “Because these companies have a huge platform to have a voice, they have a lot of money, they are very wealthy, and the services and products they provide are in high demand. When they give up the opportunity to speak out about what Uyghurs really experience because they want to make money, It has the same effect as denying what is going on because you are aiding and abetting the Chinese Communist Party's repression in Xinjiang because it's by ignorance, by hiding what is going on there, by not letting outside pressure and breaking this Balanced policies,” he said, “and they make it easier for the Chinese Communist Party to continue what they’re doing in Xinjiang.”
Intel is one of the only five major sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics to publicly endorse Washington's assessment of Beijing's "genocide in Xinjiang." But shortly after Intel publicly asked its suppliers to avoid sourcing from Xinjiang in December last year, it was threatened by Beijing that it could become a "foreign supplier" that "doesn't have to be relied upon." A few days later, Intel apologized, saying it wrote the letter to comply with U.S. law and did not represent its position on Xinjiang.
Earlier this month, Chamath Palihapitiya, a tech billionaire and co-owner of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, said on his podcast that "no one cares about what happens to Uyghurs." He denied any concern for what happened to Uighurs was a "virtue" and called public calls for support for Uighurs "regrettable."
Although the Warriors distanced themselves from Pariapitia's comments, who later apologized, neither he nor the team mentioned Uighurs in subsequent statements. Acting or not acting, they help the Chinese government cover up its crackdown largely because it is in their economic interest, said Sobolick, a fellow at the U.S. Foreign Policy Council.
Medoff said, "Many people don't know and don't care about persecution in China, that is disturbing but Pariapitia's remarks inadvertently touched on the reality that "too many people really don't care," said Medoff, founding director of the David Wyman Holocaust Institute in Washington, which he called "this a tragedy for a generation".
"Some people have never heard of Uyghurs, some people don't know about the persecution in China, they don't know about the persecution of Uyghurs or Tibetans or Hong Kong residents, there are many people today who don't know these things and don't care about these things, which in itself is enough to make people feel Uneasy," Medoff said.
Beijing has been working hard to pressure any foreigners not to talk about human rights when they talk about the Olympics. Beijing even directly threatened Olympic athletes with punishment for words and deeds that violated Chinese laws and regulations.
However Medoff said everyone should be concerned about others being persecuted. "Caring is important because caring is the first step to taking action but of course caring is not enough because it is an opportunity to act."
Medoff still called for athletes to stay away from or refuse to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and Beijing Winter Olympics sponsors to withdraw their sponsorships to "express their opposition to Chinese persecution"; Very important people can and still should act."
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Omicron subtype BA.2 is more infectious and becomes the mainstream strain in Denmark
Reporter : Chen Ting / Editor : Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/1/27/n13532365.htm
Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said in a national address on Wednesday (January 26) that Omicron The "BA.2" subtype of the virus is more contagious than the original Omicron subtype "BA.1" and has become the dominant strain in Denmark.
"There is no evidence that the BA.2 variant causes more severe disease, but it must be more contagious," Hoynick said at a news conference.
The Omicron variant virus, B.1.1.529, has developed into four subtypes (subvariants), namely BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3.
According to Reuters, the "BA.1" subtype of the Omicron virus, which currently accounts for 98% of all cases worldwide, has become the dominant strain in Denmark since the second week of January.
Last week, the UK Health Security Agency designated "BA.2" as a "variant under investigation", saying that early analysis showed an increase in the rate of growth compared to the original "BA.1".
Denmark's top infectious disease agency, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), said in a note on Wednesday that preliminary data suggested that BA.2 could be 1.5 times more infectious than BA.1.
However, preliminary analysis showed that BA.2 did not have a higher risk of hospitalization compared with BA.1.
"There are some indications that it's more contagious, especially to the unvaccinated, but it's also more contagious to the vaccinated." SSI technical director Tyra Grove Kerr Tyra Grove Krause said at the briefing.
That could mean the peak of the epidemic in Denmark will be longer than previously forecast, extending into February, Krauss said.
At present, more than 40 countries have reported the emergence of BA.2, including the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and other countries. BA.2 cases are all increasing, but the prevalence is much lower than Denmark.
Despite the rise in cases, Denmark announced Wednesday that it plans to lift its last covid restrictions by 1 February 2022.
Denmark will no longer classify covid as a "socially critical disease" from 1 February, Health Minister Hojnik wrote in a letter to the parliamentary epidemiology committee. Authorities are preparing to lift almost all social restrictions by the end of this month.
The move echoes a more general trend in EU countries to view covid as an endemic disease that poses less of a threat to society.
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British media revealed that Chinese missile expert fled China to the United States or changed the war situation?
Reporter : Jin Shi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/01/26/a103331188.html
British media revealed that a Chinese missile expert fled to the United States with important weapons secrets.
According to the Daily Express, the British secret intelligence agency MI6 assisted a Chinese missile scientist in fleeing from Beijing to the United States at the end of 2021.
The scientist, who played a key role in China's development of hypersonic weapons, will help the United States and Britain strengthen their defense plans against hypersonic missiles, the report said. It may take the CCP two years to eliminate the impact of this intelligence.
The report did not name the defector, saying only that he was in his 30s, affiliated with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, and involved in the development of a "hypersonic weapons delivery system." He helped develop the medium-range hypersonic boost-glide vehicle, which was eventually used on the famous Dongfeng-17 missile.
Dongfeng-17 is a hypersonic weapon developed by the CCP, because its vehicle flight trajectory is complex, making it more difficult for opponents to intercept.
According to the latest report of the US Department of Defense, the US military has taken the development of hypersonic weapons as one of the main directions of attack. The UK confirmed this month that it has also joined the race for hypersonic weapons.
According to the source, thanks to the scientist, the UK has obtained some details of the operational capability of hypersonic missiles, which has brought the UK a big step forward in the field.
So why did the scientist defect? The report said he made the decision not out of ideology, but out of a belief that his talents should be more recognized.
It is said that the scientist contacted the British intelligence agency in Hong Kong at the end of September last year due to dissatisfaction that he had not been promoted.
During the tentative stage, the scientist told the intermediary that he had the latest development details of China's hypersonic technology, but he asked for political asylum for himself and his wife and children in view of the fact that he would face the death penalty if the incident happened.
Subsequently, MI6 sent a special team to Hong Kong to deal with the matter, and the CIA in the United States was also notified.
After some review and investigation, MI6 determined that the scientist's identity is trustworthy. Finally, a plan took shape for the scientist and his family to travel through a special channel to a former British colony, where he reported what he had learned to MI6 and the CIA, and submitted copies of the technical data. Afterwards, the scientist's family was arranged to fly to a US military base in Germany and then to the United States.
The Daily Express reached out to the UK Foreign Office for confirmation of the defection, which declined to comment.
However, some netizens questioned that scientists at this level in the CCP's military industry system must be strictly controlled by themselves and their families, and it can be said that it is difficult to fly if they want to escape.
Therefore, it remains to be seen how true the news revealed by the "Daily Express" is.
News (20) to (30) / Reporter : Li Jing / Editor : Li Qiong / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/1/26/n13531533.htm
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The CCP’s extreme epidemic prevention measures, chickens, ducks, vegetables and bicycles become nucleic acid detection targets
Under the influence of the CCP's "epidemic clearing" policy, the authorities have expanded the testing scope to vegetables while conducting large-scale nucleic acid testing on the public, fruits, live chickens, tires and bicycles, etc. The official extreme epidemic prevention measures shocked public opinion.
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Bananas tested positive in Ulanqab
Recently, the authorities of Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia issued an announcement that after nucleic acid testing of a batch of domestic bananas shipped to the city from Shanxi, the results were positive.
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Tyres tested positive in Shanxi
The authorities of Jincheng City, Shanxi Province also issued an announcement recently. After a nucleic acid test on the outer packaging of automobile tires imported into the city by a domestic company, the result was positive, and all relevant close contacts have been quarantined.
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Cassava flour tested positive
The authorities of Tangshan City, Hebei Province issued an announcement on January 19, saying that after the city conducted a nucleic acid test on the outer packaging of cassava flour imported from a vermicelli processing factory in Leting County, the result was positive, and the official closed three markets.
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Garlic seedlings underwent nucleic acid test in Yuzhou
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Recently, a video of the authorities in Yuzhou, Henan conducting nucleic acid testing on garlic seedlings has sparked heated discussions among netizens. The local government responded that the nucleic acid of garlic seedlings was collected to avoid unsalable garlic seedlings. However, local garlic seedling farmers revealed to NTDTV that no one came to buy garlic seedlings, and no one asked for testing. The government took the initiative to conduct nucleic acid testing on garlic seedlings.
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Bicycles must be tested negative before sale in China, tables and stools must be tested negative
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Following the nucleic acid test of garlic seedlings by the Yuzhou authorities, on 24 January, the Chengdu authorities carried out a centralized nucleic acid sampling test for shared bicycles in the city, and the test results were negative before they could be put on the market.
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In addition, there are also official testing personnel entering the restaurant, sampling and nucleic acid testing of the tables and stools in the store.
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Netizens: CCP takes chances to dig for civilians' money from nucleic acid testing and inspections
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There is also a video showing that official testing personnel entered the farmer to conduct sampling and nucleic acid testing of poultry animals such as chickens, ducks and geese.
Some netizens said, "The inspection of garlic sprouts, inspection of bicycles, inspection of everything, nucleic acid inspection every day, exaggerating the enemy's situation, and asking for more funds."
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Netizens ridicule how non-living things are tested for nucleic acid and question why people's throats, noses and anus must be tested
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Some netizens questioned the official nucleic acid test, "You said those doorknobs, chilled fruits and vegetables, tables, chairs, benches, tire couriers, these things have neither throat nor nose, let alone anus, How to test their nucleic acid? If they can be tested, so why do people have to poke their throats, noses, and butts? Also, Fengjia and villages are afraid of infection, so if thousands of people do nucleic acid together, they will not be infected?
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Some imported goods have become "scapegoats" for the CCP to blame the epidemic
Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan in early 2020 and spread to the world, whenever a new round of the epidemic breaks out in the mainland, the CCP will blame the source of the epidemic on imported goods.
On 26 January 2022, the Jinan city authorities held a press conference. The official notified the situation of the large-scale investigation of cold chain enterprises in the city, and imported cold chain food became the focus of control.
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After the outbreak of the current round of the epidemic in Beijing, on 18 January, the Beijing authorities pointed out that the first confirmed case of Omicron in Beijing was caused by contact with an overseas parcel, and said that the confirmed case had recently been in contact with international mail sent from Canada via the United States which was tested positive.
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Shenzhen suspends mail deliveries from North America
Subsequently, the General Postal Administration of the Communist Party of China issued an order to strictly sterilize overseas packages. Another source said that Shenzhen has suspended receiving packages from North America.
In addition, the Chinese authorities previously claimed that nucleic acid tests were positive on the outer packaging of imported goods such as Vietnamese dragon fruit, Brazilian chicken wings, Ecuadorian frozen shrimp, and Norwegian salmon, and then the related goods were forcibly removed from the shelves.
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CCP does not allow other countries to blame Chinese products for viruses
The CCP’s behaviour of blaming the source of the epidemic on imported food has been widely questioned. The mainland media China.com refuted the claim that "foreign countries boycott Chinese products on the grounds that Chinese products may be contaminated with viruses." Last year, they published an article saying that the existence of viruses on objects "has neither scientific basis nor fact."
The article said that because the virus is a single-stranded RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus, it can only survive in the host. They persist on objects and become viable and infectious for a short period of time.
As early as August 2020, Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme, emphasized that people should not worry about food, or the packaging, processing and delivery of food, and there is no evidence of food or food chains are involved in the spread of the virus. People should feel comfortable and safe.
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