Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
News on Taiwan, U.S., Olympics, useful apps, CCP, disease control
News (1)
U.S. scholar: If the CCP attacks Taiwan, the United States is bound to fight for Taiwan
Reporter : Lai Yiqing / Editor : Lu Meiqi / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/2/21/n13594074.htm
Image : The picture shows the US MV-22B "Osprey" tilt-rotor aircraft of the US military. (US Pacific Fleet Flickr)
American scholar John Mearsheimer pointed out in a recent interview that the United States' previous policy of engagement with Beijing has contributed to the CCP's economic and military rise. It is simply a "strategic mistake" to expect the CCP to become more democratic when it grows in China. Mearsheimer believes that if the CCP invades Taiwan, based on Taiwan's strategic value and its unshakable trust in countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the United States is bound to fight for Taiwan, even at the expense of it.
The Nikkei Asian Review reported on Monday (21 February 2022) that Mearsheimer is a proponent of realism in international relations and the author of "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics." Mearsheimer said that the United States has always believed that the Chinese Communist regime will become more democratic as China grows stronger, resulting in a major geopolitical threat of its own.
Talking about the escalating cross-strait situation, Mearsheimer said that once there is a conflict between the two sides of the strait, the United States is bound to fight for Taiwan at all costs. First of all, Taiwan has great strategic value and is an important asset to suppress the Chinese navy and air force in the first island chain. "This is the first strategic reason why we will fight for Taiwan and sacrifice at all costs"; Taiwan has sent a dire signal to Asian allies, including Japan, that they can no longer count on the security of the United States.
Mearsheimer believes that, compared with the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War between the United States and China is more likely to turn into a war but it will be a limited war limited to the South China Sea, Taiwan, and the East China Sea.
As for whether the United States has the ability to deal with Ukraine and cross-strait issues at the same time? Mearsheimer believes that there is, but I am afraid that both sides cannot perform well. After all, if they are involved in the conflict in Eastern Europe, the ability of the United States to contain the CCP and its strength to fight the CCP when a war breaks out will be weakened.
News (2)
The U.S. policy of engagement with China counter-shapes a rival
Mearsheimer said that looking back on the diplomatic relations between the United States and China in the past 50 years, it can be divided into two periods, one is the post-Cold War period from the late 1970s to the 1980s, and the other is from 1990 to 2017. He said that when the Cold War ended in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States no longer needed the CCP to help contain the Soviet Union.
He pointed out that after the end of the Cold War, the United States "stupidly" pursued a policy of engaging with Beijing, and this policy became a mistake that contributed to the economic and military rise of the CCP, "As China (communist) grows economically, its economic strength turns to military strength, the United States has created a formidable enemy for itself because of this stupid policy of engagement." He said that the United States' policy toward China after 1990 was a "huge war strategy misstep".
Mearsheimer pointed out that from the 1990s to the time when former U.S. President Trump entered the White House, the U.S. policy of engagement with China made the CCP richer, until Trump "basically gave up the engagement policy" and instead implemented a policy of engagement with China. a fundamentally different containment policy.
Mearsheimer said that the current president, Biden, has basically continued Trump's policies, and Biden is also pursuing related policies to curb the CCP. Mearsheimer believes that the United States and Japan should unite to contain the CCP. As for whether they can really contain China? I think the answer is yes.
News (3)
Republic of China government and opposition welcome the visit of Pompeo and Miles to Taiwan next week
Reporters : Zeng Yihao, Zhan Yongru and Zhang Dongxu / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/21/a103353443.html / Image : Video Screenshot
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China confirmed that former US Secretary of State Pompeo is expected to visit Taiwan from 2 to 5 March 2022. During this period, he will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, and accompanying him to Taiwan is the former U.S. chief consultant Miles Yu Maochun.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo in October 2021 said, "Using our capabilities to rally countries such as Australia, South Korea and Japan, as well as other Southeast Asian countries, make it clear (to the CCP) that coercion or seizing Taiwan will cost too much."
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has always supported Taiwan, will visit Taiwan from 2 to 5 March 2022. He will be accompanied by Miles Yu Maochun, former chief adviser on China policy planning of the U.S. Department of State Secretary of State’s Office of Policy Planning.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ou Jiangan said, "Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife are scheduled to visit Taiwan from 2 to 5 March, during which they will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, and will communicate with domestic political, business, academic, and people from all walks of life. Exchanges and interactions will strengthen the close and friendly relationship between Taiwan and the United States."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Mike Pompeo will visit Taiwan from 2 to 5 March. During his visit to Taiwan, he will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, receive a banquet from Vice President Lai Ching-teh, and visit Legislative President You Xikun and Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie. Pompeo will speak public on the 4th. It is rumoired that there will also be private talks with senior executives of companies such as TSMC and Sinosteel.
Luo Zhizheng, legislator of the DPP, said, "Pompeo is a representative figure in the American political arena who is fighting against the Chinese Communist Party. So he came to Taiwan to visit, I believe he represents support and recognition for Taiwan, and is willing to support Taiwan. Taiwan takes a firmer stance toward the CCP."
Zeng Mingzong, General Summoner of the Kuomintang Legislative Yuan Caucus, said, "He has great influence in the United States, and his visit will also contribute to the development of the subsequent substantive relationship between the Republic of China and the United States. We welcome him to come."
Chen Jiaohua, chairman of the Times Power Party: "Taiwan's diplomacy has made a major breakthrough, so Times Power is also happy to see this success."
Pompeo, who became the Trump administration's secretary of state in 2018, is a key figure in leading the US-China confrontation line, and has vigorously criticized the CCP on human rights issues. At the end of last month, he and Miles Yu Maochun watched the new film "Unsilenced" directed by a Chinese-American director of Vancouver, a film about the human rights persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. "
This time, the two visited Taiwan together, and the legislators of the ruling and opposition parties welcomed them, and the itinerary attracted much attention.
Video
Trump's real social media, Truth Social, was officially released on the Apple Store on Monday. The Arizona Attorney General is playing with the three-section stick, and now he finally has a solution. The former Trump social media director posted two pictures, implying the current situation of President Trump.
News (4)
Zhang Yimou calls Beijing Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony "The Last Carnival"
Reporter : Luo Tingting/ Editor: Fan Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/21/a103353301.html
Image : Zhang Yimou called the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics "the last carnival" and was considered a bad omen for the CCP. The picture shows the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics at night of 20 February 2022. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
The Beijing Winter Olympics closes on 20 February 2022. Chief director Zhang Yimou called the closing ceremony "the last carnival", which is considered a bad omen for the CCP. Before that, Zhang Yimou used the poem "Yanshan Snowflakes are as Big as a Feast", which describes the desolate scene of soldiers dying in battle, as the theme of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, which was also referred to as a omen of great evil.
That night, the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was still held in the "Bird's Nest" (China National Stadium). CCTV News Weibo reported that Zhang Yimou, the chief director of the closing ceremony, said, "There were more than 600 people at first, but now there are more than 2,000 people. Everyone is willing to come to the closing ceremony and participate in this last carnival."
However, Zhang Yimou's phrase "the last carnival" is considered to be an omen of the CCP's great evil.
The Epoch Times quoted commentator Wen Xiaogang as saying that "the last carnival" usually refers to the last crazy indulgence that knows that time is running out. Zhang Yimou is a pun, saying a prophecy, implying that the fate of the CCP regime will be exhausted. , this is not as simple as advanced black!
Prior to this, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics directed by Zhang Yimou was also accused of hiding murderous intentions.
In an exclusive interview with the official Xinhua News Agency on 5 February, Zhang Yimou said that the opening ceremony "told the story of a snowflake landscape."
"Snowflakes on Mount Yan are as big as a feast" comes from "Feng Xing in the North" written by Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. In the eleventh year of Emperor Xuanzong's Tianbao period (752), Li Bai traveled to Youzhou (today's Daxing County, Beijing) and witnessed An Lushan's provocation of war to bring suffering to the people. Li Bai put his feelings in the scenery, and turned his heart full of grief and anger into the poem "North Wind".
"North Wind Xing" describes a woman in Youzhou who leans on the door and looks out for her husband, and falls into a situation of grief and loneliness because of her husband's death in battle. The soldiers went on an expedition and died in battle, without their relatives to restrain them, and it was even difficult to bury them in a feast. "Yanshan snowflakes are as big as a mat", accompanied by the roaring north wind, large swaths of snowflakes landed on the ground, like a huge mat, burying the fallen soldiers, this scene is both miserable and desolate.
Feng Suiqian, a Hong Kong writer who is keen on studying Feng Shui numerology, wrote an article that pointed out that "Yanshan snowflakes are as big as a feast" is a "bad omen" of Zhang Yimou's "careful design".
Qin Peng, a commentator in the United States, said that the use of this poem in the Beijing Winter Olympics heralds the coming of the CCP's violent death.
Zhang Yimou, the chief director of the two Beijing Olympic Games, is regarded by Chinese intellectuals as "the makeup artist of dictatorship".
Mr. Rao, an official in the original system, told Radio Free Asia that Zhang Yimou's practice of beautifying power has long aroused the disgust of intellectuals. "In the end, he is a director for the royal family... What he does is fascist aesthetics. Whether he does well or badly has nothing to do with the common people, but it has something to do with whether the upper class appreciates it or not."
Interestingly, Zhang Yimou's wife Chen Ting posted on Weibo on 14 February 2022 that Zhang Yimou "consumed his life with an almost crazy work intensity and an extremely unhealthy lifestyle" for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
Chen Ting also said that when Zhang Yimou was the general director of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, "he even joked that if he messed up, our family would flee."
Wen Xiaogang said that it might be too late for Zhang Yimou to escape this time. The sinking of the broken ship of the CCP will definitely bring along all the powerful and powerful people from all walks of life who are the platform of the CCP.
Before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan and other countries strongly boycotted the Winter Olympics because of the CCP’s poor human rights record, and did not send government officials to attend the opening ceremony, which was unprecedented in the history of the Olympic Games; during the Winter Olympics, The CCP's disregard for human rights, authoritarian anti-epidemic measures, and unfair behavior on the field have been accused by athletes from many countries. After the Winter Olympics, the German gold medalist said bluntly, "Never go to China again."
The CCP’s hugely expensive Winter Olympics finally ended amid criticism from the outside world and the public, and what Zhang Yimou called the “last carnival” is considered to be the final comment to the Beijing Winter Olympics and the CCP regime.
News (5) to (7) / Reporter : Chen Mike / Editor : Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/20/a103352842.html
News (5)
How to protect oneself from mobile phone spam and scams on the rise?
Image : The number of spam text messages and scams on mobile phones is increasing, and the public should be vigilant. (Pixabay)
With the covid spread and the imbalance in the global supply chain, cases of fraudsters using text messages and phone calls under the guise of various identities have gradually increased. How to identify authenticity and protect yourself from being deceived has become an important issue in today's society.
Truecaller is a mobile app that blocks spam text messages and phone calls, according to CNBC. Clayton LiaBraaten, its senior strategist, said that scammers are very cunning, and they will use the name of charity, customer service and well-known manufacturers to lure people into being fooled. Especially during the holidays, people will spend more than usual and should be more vigilant.
According to a report published by Truecaller in 2021, the average number of spam text messages per person per month in that year was 16.9, much higher than 14.7 in 2020, 10.6 in 2019, and 8.5 in 2018.
In 2020 alone, about 60 million Americans, or 23%, were scammed out of money by scam calls, a record high. The average loss per fraud case is $500, totaling as much as $30 billion.
News (6)
How to identify the authenticity of unknown phone calls or text messages?
First, think twice before answering any unidentified calls or responding to text messages from unidentified calls.
If the other person leaves a voicemail, you can listen to see if it's someone you know. Lia Bratten suggests that you can check whether the phone number is from a legitimate business or individual through a website like Truecaller.
For any questionable newsletter, never click on the link attached to the newsletter. Leah Bratten suggests that you can send a copy of the text to 7726 and report it to the Federal Trade Commission (ReportFraud.ftc.gov).
If you think you have been scammed, you can contact your local Consumer Protection Office but do not delete spam text messages or phone calls because you will want to keep them as evidence.
News (7)
Tips to avoid deceit
Here are some tips to keep yourself from being deceived, some of them courtesy of Leah Bratten:
(1) Ask your telecommunications company to provide tools that can intercept spam text messages and calls. All telecommunications operators should use the STIR/SHAKEN protocol, which is compliant with Federal Communications Commission requirements, to prevent phone scams.
(2) Register on the Federal Trade Commission's "Do Not Call" list. This is where you can complain about nuisance calls and refuse to receive sales calls.
(3) Download free mobile apps like Truecaller or Whoscall that can identify callers and block spam text messages and phone calls.
(4) Consider using identity theft protection software such as IdentityForce, PrivacyGuard, and Experian IdentityWorks, which can monitor whether your personal information has been stolen on the Internet or the dark web.
(5) Know that not all automated calls are scam calls. The aforementioned mobile apps can save you from being fooled but they also ensure that legitimate calls and texts are not blocked. This includes messages from healthcare providers, pharmacies, school districts, travel agencies and financial institutions.
News (8) to (10) / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/20/a103352970.html / Image : Video Screenshot
News (8)
Activists are warned over escalating speech controls in Chain Woman case
The high-profile case of the iron chain woman in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, was upgraded on 17 February 2022and was investigated by an official team established by Jiangsu Province, and the CCP authorities’ network stability maintenance was upgraded accordingly. Online posts have been continuously deleted, and the popularity of related topics on Weibo has also dropped significantly.
At present, there are no topics related to Xuzhou Fengxian on Weibo's hot search list, and the popularity of Weibo's hot search about Xuzhou has "fallen off a cliff". There are also some netizens in the system who send out WeChat screenshots of "greeting" from their work units.
Independent writer Jiang Lijun posted on WeChat saying that the national unified deployment of the Chain Woman incident began to "silence". On the second day after the establishment of the investigation team, activists from all over the country have received calls from the police station, requesting to delete all posts, pictures, and videos about the Chain Woman, and withdraw from the solidarity alliance, otherwise they will bear the consequences.
Shenzhen Satellite TV once broadcast a report on the Chain Woman incident on the 18th, which was the only report on the incident by the mainland media. However, screenshots shared by netizens show that the authorities have issued a ban on reposting related programs.
Some netizens forwarded a private letter saying that Nanjing universities also explicitly prohibited likes and forwards to discuss the iron chain woman incident.
At the same time, online pictures and videos show that Dongji Village, Feng County, Xuzhou, where Chain Woman is located, has been sealed off, and the village is surrounded by iron walls. Some reporters from Hunan wanted to enter the village but all the entrances to the village were guarded, claiming that it was for epidemic prevention and control but the reporters had nucleic acid test reports and health codes but they were still not allowed to enter.
News (9)
In solidarity with the Xuzhou Eight-Child Woman Case, the two volunteers regained their freedom
In addition, two female volunteers who went to Xuzhou to support the mother of eight children and were detained have been released a few days ago. Among them, the female volunteer with the online name "I can carry 120 jins" said on Weibo on 18 February that she was abused during detention and that the police beat her.
She said that the two of them were "taken in" by the Sunlou police station in the evening of 11 February and they were forced to separate that night and began to accept extremely high-intensity "questions". At least two rounds a day, at most 4 rounds a day, each round 2 to 6 hours, and 6 people "fired" at her at the same time.
She said that no matter eating or going to the toilet, there are special people watching, and at least 4 people watching when sleeping.
On the 14th, she was taken to the Xuzhou Detention Centre by four police officers. The police claimed that they had committed the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble but did not say the specific crime content.
She alleges that in addition to being monitored during the detention, a man who did not wear a police uniform and did not show his police officer's ID beat her in front of the public security and police officers who were monitoring her.
She also uploaded a photo of her elbow with bruises on her Weibo, and said the scars were all over her head, neck and face, "It's been 6 days, and the marks are still there!"
News (10)
Falun Gong practitioner Huang Sulan in Chengdu was tortured to death
Falun Gong practitioner Huang Sulan from Pidu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, was kidnapped by Pengzhou police from the downstairs of her home around 20 January 2022 and detained in a secret location. She was tortured to death around 23 January 2022.
Minghui.com reported that Huang Sulan was about 50 years old and was in very good health. She died only a few days after being illegally detained by the Pengzhou police.
The report said that Huang Sulan's body was parked in the Pengzhou funeral home, and the police notified the family to see it, but the details were not known to the outside world.
News (11) to (13) / Reporter : Li Yun / Editor: Liu Mingxiang / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/20/a103352988.html
News (11)
New tune of "White-haired Girl": Eight-foot chain ties me up
Image : Netizens adapted the tune of "White Haired Girl" into "Chain Woman". (Video Screenshot)
The Xuzhou Chain Girl incident continued to ferment. Netizens turned to the Red drama "White Haired Girl" concocted by the CCP and found that the fate of the "Chain Girl" was more tragic than that of the White Haired Girl. Therefore, the tune of "The White-Haired Girl" was adapted as the woman in chains complained: "Eight-foot chains, fasten my neck..."
On February 19, Cai Xia, a former professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, posted a video on Twitter saying, "The White-Haired Girl" was made up, and the Chain Girl is real!" Some netizens adapted the tune of "White-Haired Girl" to describe the chain A woman's tragedy.
Cai Xia called on everyone to retweet and spread the word more. Spread the power to save more chain girls who are still in the dark.
In the video, a boy sang, "The girl in my family has flowers, but the man in my family has no money to buy them, so he used an eight-foot chain to tie my neck... I don't know where I came from. Someone sold me back then. No one cares about the neighbors. The top and bottom are all rogues...
The cold in winter is unbearable. The shack where I live is cold and windy. Eight children are like wolf cubs. None of them love me... I met a few kind people who came to my village to show care. They arrested them... the concern of netizens is the most real, there are many sisters and sisters, I hope justice will come..."
News (12)
Netizens are hotly discussing the chain woman is worse than the "white-haired girl"
Li Ting: "The white-haired girl has a name and a surname, but she can't even have her own name!"
Quanmo: "The white-haired girl has the freedom to escape and avoid fear. Although she lives in the old society of 'all kinds of evil'. What does the eight-girl girl have?"
Jack S: "The experience of the chain girl is more tragic than the fictional white-haired girl. Who turned people into ghosts? The reality will make people understand, and those who break free from the mental chains will understand better."
Mimosa: "The white-haired girl is a fiction, but the chain girl is a real existence. She is the mother of eight children in Fengxian County and a living desperate woman. Her famous golden sentence: This world doesn't want me anymore....!"
Song: "She's not a white-haired girl, she's not a white-haired girl. She has white hair, she has chains. She has a contract, she doesn't have a contract. She can run away, be rescued, and kill her killer with the enemy. She doesn't She may have escaped, being watched by hundreds of millions, and the people who harmed her are still harming her.”
Zhaoming: "At least the white-haired girl was not chained, her teeth were not pulled, her tongue was not cut, and she was not poisoned to become dumb. The white-haired girl could also escape into the deep mountains, where she ate Cordyceps sinensis and drank natural mineral springs. Water, I heard the birds chirping and the fragrance of flowers, but I ate less salt in the wild, and my hair turned white. Huang Shiren did not beat the white-haired girl every day, nor did three generations of grandchildren rape the white-haired girl."
BE CALM: "The white-haired girl's harvest is to forgive her father's debt; to legally marry into a wealthy family; to achieve financial freedom... The chain girl is a primary school student, and was suddenly dragged into the animal world in human skin, where she was clothed in human skin. The beasts have been ravaged and imprisoned, and spent decades in the slaughterhouse without any humanity.
Honest monk: "Where is there a girl in chains, this is the 21st century version of "The White-Haired Girl"... Please rest assured, all the righteous people... When the public anger is more turbulent, Huang Shiren can be launched! - Now The question is: who is Huang Shiren!"
Old driver: "Seventy or eighty years ago, the CCP made up the story of a white-haired girl, which allowed the Chinese to create a revolutionary basis for their violent seizure of power. History turns back to today, and people find that the iron-chained girl in Xuzhou is better than the white-haired girl back then. Women are more miserable! More terrifying! Even more amazing! People can't help but think of their own and their family's fate. Could this be the result of our support for your party? Back then, the white-haired girl had the possibility of running away and a place to live, but now it is really different than before Ok?"
News (13)
"The White-Haired Girl" is a Red opera fabricated by the CCP
"The White-Haired Girl" tells the story of a farmer, Yang Bailao, who was forced to sell his daughter Xi'er to the landlord Huang Shiren in order to repay his debts. Xi'er was raped and fled into the deep mountains, where he fed fruit from the temple, and his hair turned white. Later, Xi'er was rescued by her former lover, Dachun, who joined the Eighth Route Army. They went down the mountain together, held a struggle meeting, divided the land, and overthrew the landlord.
The red drama fabricated by the CCP originally used the artistic image of "white-haired girl" to show that "the old society forced people into 'ghosts', and the new society turned 'ghosts' into people", thereby inciting peasants' "class hatred of landlords". ”, to encourage peasants to participate in the CCP’s “revolution.”
However, there is no "white-haired girl" in reality, but the chain girl is a real existence. Xuzhou Iron Chain Girl is also called by netizens: Eight-Child Mother, Eight-Child Girl, Xu Bazi, Xu Ziba, etc.
The iron chain girl incident was exposed on the eve of Chinese New Year. At that time, the story of Dong Moumin, a farmer in Fengxian County, "raising" eight children was publicized by local officials as positive energy. Therefore, the Dong family received donations from the public, and Dong Moumin became a well-known Internet celebrity. But "Mother of Eight" never appeared.
Later, a blogger photographed the scene of the "eight-child mother" being chained to her neck and locked in a broken house. The incident exploded the entire Internet.
Later, it was revealed that the woman was a minor when she was abducted and sold to the village. She was abused by the Dong family, father and son, and several village officials. And there are many similar cases in the same village.
The Xuzhou authorities issued 4 circulars in a row, but still failed to explain the situation. Arousing the public's attention and sympathy for the Chain Girl, there is a situation in the society where the whole people dig the truth and everyone is a citizen journalist.
The Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government announced on the 17th that they had decided to set up an investigation team to investigate the "eight-child mother" incident and hold those responsible accountable. However, the mainland network has further deleted the post and the title.
Netizens criticized that the authorities set up an investigation team just to cover up the crime and the truth, and pointed out that the chain girl incident is a chain of interests for the CCP system to do evil. Only by changing the system can thousands of chain women be rescued.
News (14) to (15) / Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Fan Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/21/a103353262.html
News (14)
Detained female volunteers in solidarity with the "chain woman": Abused and beaten
Image : Xuzhou "Chain Woman". (Screenshot of Weibo video)
Two female volunteers went to Fengxian County, Xuzhou to support the "Chain Woman" and were arrested by the CCP police. Although they were released a few days ago, a female volunteer disclosed on Weibo that they were abused by the police and beaten by an unidentified plainclothes man during their detention.
Two female volunteers, "I can carry 120 jin" and "Sister Xiaomeng, Xiaoquanquan", were arrested by the local police for "suspecting illegal crimes" when they tried to visit and help the "Chain Woman" in Fengxian County, Xuzhou on 11 February. detention. The two were acquitted a few days ago.
On 18 February, "I can lift 120 jins" posted on Weibo that she was safe, revealing that she was abused and beaten by the police during his detention.
She said that at night of the 11th, the two of them were detained separately by the police. No matter she was eating or going to the toilet, she was always guarded by special personnel, and at least 4 people guarded her when she slept.
The police conducted super-intensive "questions" on her, at least two rounds a day, at most four rounds a day, each round for 2 to 6 hours, and 6 people "fired" at her at the same time.
On the 14th, four police officers from the Peixian Public Security Bureau took her to the Xuzhou Detention Center, saying they had committed the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, but did not say the specific crime. When she went through the formalities at the detention center, she saw that the reason the police wrote on the "application form" was that "the two used the Internet to publish false videos to cause bad influence."
At the detention centre, she was continuously arraigned by the police. On the 16th, she was exhausted, and only a little bit of lax consciousness remained.
She also disclosed on Weibo that during her detention, a man who did not wear a police uniform and did not show the police officer's ID beat her in front of the police under the surveillance camera.
She posted a photo of her elbow with bruises. "It's been 6 days, and the marks are still there!" She also said that there were bruises all over her head, neck, and face at that time.
In addition to the beating, the police also threatened her with a long sentence and forced her to plead guilty as soon as possible but she said on Weibo that she got a lot of information and useful information from it, "This makes me know a lot. When you are unarmed, the enemy's weapon can also become a weapon for you to cut at them!"
Another female volunteer, "Sister Xiaomeng, Xiaoquanquan," also reported on Weibo that she was safe on the 18th, but did not mention her experience during her detention, but only said she wanted to "accompany her family."
News (15)
Official stability maintenance upgrade
The day before the two female volunteers reported on Weibo that they were safe, the Xuzhou government announced on 17 February 2022 that it would be investigating the case of the "chain woman". However, there have been signs in the past few days that the official "investigation is false, and the maintenance of stability is real." Dongji Village, where the "Iron Chain Woman" is located, has been sealed off. All intersections are set up with checkpoints, guarded by special personnel, and outsiders cannot enter.
Since the 18th, there have been no topics related to Fengxian County in Xuzhou on the Weibo hot search list. Some netizens in the system disclosed information on social media that they were "greeted" by the unit.
Independent writer Jiang Lijun posted on WeChat saying that the nationwide unified deployment of the "Iron Chain Woman" incident began to "silence". "The day after the establishment of the investigation team, activists from all over the country have received calls from the police station to delete all posts, pictures and videos about the "Chain Woman", and withdraw their support and signature, or bear the consequences at their own risk."
Screenshots posted by netizens show that Shenzhen Satellite TV’s report on the Chain Girl on the 18th was banned from reposting.
The "Proud Girl" who has continued to follow the "Chain Woman" tweeted that the real purpose of the Jiangsu investigation team is to "completely 'finalize' the ban."
News (16)
Hong Kong's epidemic is out of control, CCP Health Commission officials go to Hong Kong to supervise the construction of square cabin hospitals
Reporter : Li Qingyi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/20/a103353112.html
The covid epidemic in Hong Kong is severe. The number of confirmed cases in a single day has exceeded 6,000 for four consecutive days. The official announced on Sunday (20 February 2022) that a total of 295 patients died of the infection. Beijing sent people south to supervise, and Hong Kong is urgently building a "square cabin hospital" for temporary isolation.
The current outbreak in Hong Kong is dominated by the Omicron variant (Covi29).
According to a report from the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, as of the early morning of 20 February0, a total of 295 patients had died in public hospitals. The number of newly confirmed cases that day continued to exceed 6,000; the number of newly confirmed cases in the past two weeks has exceeded the sum of the epidemics in the past two years.
Hong Kong's medical system is currently overwhelmed, with over 95% of hospital beds. A large number of patients are stranded outdoors, and nearly 10,000 patients cannot be admitted to hospital for treatment.
Xi Jinping recently ordered Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to make epidemic prevention an overriding task. The Hong Kong government followed the Chinese mainland in adopting a "zero-clearing" policy. Carrie Lam said she plans to conduct nucleic acid tests on all Hong Kong citizens. Last week, the Beijing authorities dispatched Wang Hesheng, deputy director of the National Health Commission, to go south to supervise the construction of makeshift hospitals in Hong Kong. In the afternoon of 19 February 2022 the groundbreaking ceremonies for the square cabin hospitals at Penny's Bay and Kai Tak Wharf in Hong Kong were held.
News (17)
Suzhou's medium-risk areas account for half of the country's industrial parks and people are prohibited from leaving
Reporter : Zhao Fenghua / Correspondent : Gu Qinger / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/20/a103353141.html / Image : Video Screenshot
Suzhou, Jiangsu Province has 50 medium-risk areas, accounting for 53% of the officially notified mainland medium-risk areas. In Suzhou, not only family cluster epidemics occurred, but also infected people were found in important industrial parks.
As of 19 February 2022, Suzhou has 50 medium-risk areas, including Zhangjiagang, Changshu, Wuzhong District, Wujiang District, Gusu District, Xiangcheng District and Suzhou Industrial Park.
Mr. Wang, a resident of the Xing Hut community in the industrial park, said that there were confirmed cases in the 11th building of the community, and the entire community was closed from the evening of the 18th.
Mr. Wang, a resident of the Xing Hut community in the industrial park, said, "It seems like the day before yesterday, a child was diagnosed, so they took them away from their buildings."
Mr. Wang said that some communities in the industrial park have not yet been closed, but since the 19th, no shops in the park are allowed to open.
Mr. Wang added, "In the store, only take-out or take-out is allowed. My house is closed."
In Suzhou Industrial Park, there are thousands of foreign-funded enterprises. Ji, who works at an auto factory, said at least five factories in the industrial park were closed, and workers are currently locked in the factories.
Mr. Ji, a resident of No. 150 Yangpu Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, said, "People in the park can't run around. Five factories are closed."
According to statistics, 15 companies in Suzhou have been infected in the current round of the epidemic, including Tongcheng Network Technology, Shenghong Chemical Fiber, Suzhou Samsung Electronics, Ideal Automobile, Suzhou Hejian, a subsidiary of UMC, and many other well-known companies. Among them, the Suzhou Industrial Park Baoside Technology Co., Ltd. has the largest number of infections, and this company has been associated with many family epidemics.
At least 13 household infections were found in Suzhou, two of which were infections in a family of five.
This round of epidemic in Suzhou has spread to Wuxi and Nantong. In addition to related cases in the province, close contacts have also appeared in Zhoukou of Henan, Jiaxing of Zhejiang, and Chizhou of Anhui.
News (18)
Let Biden assert that Russia is attacking Ukraine intelligence U.S. media: Anonymous people say or mislead the West
Editor : Lu Yongxin / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/21/a103353273.html
The Washington Post, CBS, The New York Times, CNN and other media recently quoted anonymous sources as reporting that the U.S. Zhou received intelligence that the Russian military had been ordered to continue pushing for an offensive on Ukraine but the White House, Pentagon and State Department have not confirmed.
The Central News Agency quoted a report that the intelligence gave U.S. President Biden the confidence to say on the 18th that he was "convinced" that Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to invade Ukraine.
However, the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department have not confirmed to AFP reporters whether the U.S. has received intelligence that Russian troops have been ordered to continue attacking Ukraine.
The Washington Post reported, “Multiple sources, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the U.S. intelligence that gave Biden confidence to make assertions came from an order to launch a full-scale attack on Russian subordinates.”
CNN, citing an unnamed source, said there were "no other indications" that could point to an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. The source also warned that the Russian order for the attack could still be withdrawn, or the intelligence could be used to mislead the West.
According to estimates by the United States and Western allies, Russia has amassed more than 150,000 troops near the Ukrainian border in recent weeks, Agence France-Presse reported.
An unnamed U.S. official told reporters on the 18th, "40% to 50% of (Chen Bing's Russian troops on the Russia-Ukraine border) are already in the attack position. They have been tactically assembled in the past 48 hours."
Moscow has denied plans to invade Ukraine but is seeking assurances from the West that Ukraine will never join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and has demanded the withdrawal of troops from Eastern Europe, which the West has rejected.
News (19)
Credit Suisse's history of being hacked, Guardian: Unknown wealth of customers exposed
Editor : Lu Yongxin / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/21/a103353298.html
Credit Suisse Bank (Credit Suisse for short) leaked information on a large scale, revealing the unknown wealth of many clients involved in serious crimes such as abuse, drug trafficking, money laundering, and corruption. In early February, the court was already hearing Credit Suisse's involvement in drug-trafficking and money-laundering cases. On the 20th, it was revealed that Credit Suisse was suspected of handling a large amount of black money between 1940 and 2010 but Credit Suisse immediately denied that it was illegal.
Despite decades of promises by Credit Suisse to weed out suspicious customers and illicit funds, leaked information shows that the financial institution has failed to do its due diligence at all.
The British media The Guardian reported that the exposure included the account details of 30,000 Credit Suisse customers around the world, revealing that one of Switzerland's most well-known financial institutions, Credit Suisse, has more than 100 billion Swiss beneficiaries of francs (approximately $108.664 billion).
The report also pointed out that the whistleblower leaked bank information to expose "unprofessional" secrecy laws; Credit Suisse's clients include human traffickers and billionaires who ordered the murder of girlfriends; Vatican-affiliated accounts had allocated 350 million euros (approximately 350 million euros). $3976 billion) allegedly defrauded investments.
Still, the scandal-plagued Credit Suisse has dismissed allegations that it may be a "rogue bank."
According to foreign media reports such as Reuters and AFP on the 20th, an internal whistleblower leaked Credit Suisse Bank’s 37,000 personal or company Credit Suisse account information to the “Süd Zeitung” between 1940 and 2010. Suede Zeitung provided information to 46 news organizations including the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Program (OCCRP) and the New York Times and The Guardian.
The allegations in media reports include human rights violators and sanctioned business people among Credit Suisse's clients.
Credit Suisse immediately issued a statement on the 20th denying the "allegations and insinuations" and said many of the reports were old, some dating back to the 1940s.
Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-biggest bank, was involved in suspicions of laundering huge sums of money for drug dealers earlier this year and is being tried by a court, according to the Swissinfo news site. Prosecutors allege that a drug cartel led by a former Bulgarian wrestler laundered $158 million, including large sums of cash in suitcases, through Credit Suisse safes between 2004 and 2008.
The whole case started on 7 February, including two members of the drug cartel and two former officers from Credit Suisse and Julius Bar, who appeared in court one after another.
According to Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), Credit Suisse is accused of being involved in a money laundering scheme and is the first major Swiss bank to go to court locally for money laundering. In a statement to Reuters earlier this year, Credit Suisse stressed that the allegations were completely unfounded, and that it believed the former employees involved were innocent.
Credit Suisse's recent house leak happened in the middle of the night. Except for the black history that was revealed by many multinational media on the 20th, and the court investigation for involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering at the beginning of the month, the chairman of the group, Antonio Horta-Osorio also resigned in late March for violating the covid quarantine rules.
Credit Suisse also lost billions of dollars last year over failed investment plans and was hit with a hefty fine in a corruption scandal in Mozambique.
Other Swiss banks such as UBS, Falcon Private Bank, Julius Baer and BSI have been reprimanded or punished for various violations in recent years, according to swissinfo.ch.
Anti-corruption watchdog Public Eye said in early February that the ongoing drug-trafficking and money-laundering case highlighted weaknesses in Swiss financial regulation and "demonstrates the urgent need to strengthen oversight and sanctions through policy."
News (20)
MIAT Mongolian Airlines launched cargo flight to Brunei
Image : Video Screenshot
On 19 February 2022, MIAT Mongolian Airlines posted a video on its Facebook, announcing that it launched a charter cargo flight to Brunei Darussalam from Ulaanbaatar non-stop on 19 February 2022. It is the first time a Mongolian aircraft was seen landing in the Brunei Sultanate.
Pictures of 787-8 at Brunei Airport
No comments:
Post a Comment