"Shanghai" means to force one to do something

 Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

News on Shanghai, CCP, disease control

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"Shanghai" can be used as a verb! Interpretation of word meaning "Today's Shanghai" hyper-realistic

   

Image : The Wuhan pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai, China, was out of control, and the epidemic prevention was paralyzed. The officials also used extreme means to force the local people to cooperate with their demands. Schematic. (AFP, Bloomberg, this newspaper LTN combined)

The Wuhan pneumonia (covid, COVID-19) epidemic in Shanghai, China was out of control, and epidemic prevention was paralyzed. The official also used extreme means to force the local people to cooperate with the request, causing the national resentment and foreign discussions. In this regard, Cai Yicheng, a well-known physician and writer, said that the online version of the Cambridge dictionary query "Shanghai (Shanghai)", when used as a verb, can be used to "force someone to do something", which sparked discussion.

Cai Yicheng shared through his personal Facebook, joking that he may not be proficient in English, and now he realizes that Shanghai shanghai, when a verb, can actually be used to "force someone to do something"; he posted the online version of the Cambridge dictionary search results, He also commented that the example sentence part is quite interesting, "Just change a few words and it's very Shanghai today".

Netizens followed the search URL attached by Cai Yicheng, and the results were as shown in the screenshots, which sparked heated discussions; some netizens joked that "there is no comparison, no shanghai (homonym for "harm")", "especially to check the Cambridge dictionary, really It's so interesting, I'm shanghai today, the children can't go out and can only stay at home", "Shanghaied Shanghai. English is really broad and profound".

This is not a spoof. Some netizens who are serious about studying have checked the American Webster's Dictionary and found that it introduces the origin of the usage. It turns out that the word "shanghai" really comes from the well-known port city "Shanghai" in China.

According to Webster's Dictionary, in the 1800s, ocean voyages were still difficult and dangerous behaviors, and people resisted becoming sailors. However, captains and shipping companies needed manpower to assist in the transportation of goods. In the case of lack of human resources, they would unscrupulously "recruit" crew members by kidnapping, threats of force, drug and alcohol control, among the methods; the East is often the destination for the shipment of these ships, and "Shanghai" is used to describe such illegal recruitment.

Ref: https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/3899522

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The CCP locked down the city to hide the shocking and shady, the beginning of the reckoning of the medical interest group?

Reporters : Zhao Fenghua and Lin Mingdi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/19/a103404873.html

China's medical and health system has suffered a series of incidents in recent days. Just the day after Yu Luming, director of the Beijing Health and Health Commission, was sacked, the Beijing Kexing Company issued an obituary saying that Cao Xiaobin, a senior manager of Kexing, had passed away. The misfortunes of the two people in the medical and health system reminded many people in the industry of the shocking and shady behind the CCP's closure of the city. The huge chain of interests behind the CCP's extreme epidemic prevention has surfaced again.

On 18 April 2022, Beijing Kexing Company issued an obituary saying that Cao Xiaobin, a senior manager of the Government Affairs Center, died on 17 April at the age of 45 due to ineffective medical treatment.

A day earlier, the CPC Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Yu Luming, vice chairman of the Beijing Municipal Political Consultative Conference and director of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, was under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law. The Huimin online medical treatment system, which is regarded as one of its achievements, will also be suspended on Wednesday (20th).

Some people have sorted out the timeline of the incident and attracted attention.

Some people in the industry believe that the incident is just the prelude to another round of cleaning after the worsening of the epidemic in Beijing.

Ren Ruihong, a former project executive of the Red Cross Society of China, revealed that for a long time, medical care was one of the few remaining profitable areas in China, and it was a huge profit, which has been firmly controlled. Under the huge interests, the inferior vaccines that really need to be investigated and the so-called domestic anti-epidemic drugs that are fundamentally ineffective will not be held accountable.

Chen Hongtao, a senior media person, said that Yu Luming was arrested, and there have been many public opinions on the Internet, saying that it was because of the vaccination, including nucleic acid commissions, etc. These are all open secrets. However, Chen Hongtao believes that it may also be because Yu Luming obstructed or damaged the interests of others, so he was pulled down.

Earlier, an astonishing recording of Huang Wansheng, a researcher at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, leaked online. Huang Wansheng revealed that the current epidemic prevention policy adopted by CCP officials is to obtain huge benefits from it.

Huang Wansheng, a researcher at the Harvard-Yenching Institute: "The biggest problem with the Ministry of Science and Technology, the most serious problem now is the nucleic acid reagents, and the development of vaccines, which has become an interest group directly related to power, our leaders (white) gloves and family members to get the reagents for this nucleic acid."

"As a result, as long as there are one or two cases, the entire region will be tested for nucleic acid. What he wants is the procurement of nucleic acids, and only the procurement can be profitable."

"The number I got the day before yesterday was that this crap group earned 670 billion just through nucleic acid testing."

Huang Wansheng, an internationally renowned scholar, believes that the CCP's current epidemic prevention policy is driven by huge interests.

Huang Wansheng, a researcher at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, said, "There is no country in the world that uses this method to immunize, but it is actually delivering benefits to interest groups. Including this vaccine, it is necessary to force the vaccine, and this three injections and four injections must be administered. Fighting is all related to the interest groups behind.”

"So the United States and Europe, especially the United Kingdom, let it go after they figured out this truth, let go of the whole thing, and don't care about this matter at all. As a result, it has truly completed a natural immunity."

About a week ago, it was reported that as the epidemic in Shanghai got out of control, the situation in Beijing was very pessimistic. Based on political needs, the official kept the truth secret, and at the same time needed to find someone to take the blame. This week, Yu Luming was sacked, and the incident may have opened the prelude to the liquidation of the medical interest group.

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Juneyao Air handed over about 55,000 pieces of anti-epidemic materials to Jiuliting, Huacao, Xinhong, and Kangqiao towns for anti-epidemic work

In the past few days, Juneyao Air has delivered about 55,000 pieces of epidemic prevention including medical protective clothing, N95 masks, disinfectant, instant noodles, etc. The aid materials are used to support the community's epidemic prevention work. This is the primary work of Juneyao Air after it has taken the courage to take responsibility and practice its corporate social responsibility, and launched the special action of Juneyao Air to defend the "Shanghai" community against the epidemic. To achieve the goal of "social dynamic clearing" as soon as possible.

"Juneyao Air has always been adhering to the great mission of Juneyao's parent group to create value for the society," said Wang Junjin, chairman of Juneyao Airlines, "As a local enterprise based in Shanghai, under the initiative of Juneyao Group, we actively carry out special anti-epidemic actions in neighborhoods and communities, give full play to the professional skills of aviation and health, and contribute to the fight against the local epidemic."

Under the background that Shanghai's anti-epidemic has entered a critical stage, JuneYao Group actively cooperated with the government's anti-epidemic policies and deployments, organized a series of community anti-epidemic support actions, and required all subordinate enterprises to take the initiative to go to the community to carry out epidemic prevention and control work. Accordingly, Juneyao Air actively responded to the relevant call and quickly launched the special anti-epidemic action for neighborhoods and communities of "Stay Together in Shanghai" on 14 April. This action focuses on two aspects: Firstly, provide the community with anti-epidemic material guarantees according to the needs of the community; second, extensively mobilize party members and employees to actively participate in community volunteer services to ease the community's anti-epidemic pressure.

Image : Juneyao Air's first batch of aided anti-epidemic materials arrived at the scene of Jiuliting Street

With the strong assistance of relevant government departments and agencies, Juneyao Air made use of its existing aviation and health resources, and under the premise of ensuring the daily safe operation of the flight, it only took 5 days to complete the task of guaranteeing epidemic prevention materials. On 18 and 19 April, Juneyao Airlines provided a total of 14,000 sets of medical protective clothing, 5,000 pairs of medical protective gloves, 12,000 N95 masks, and 12,000 anti-epidemic Chinese medicines to Jiuliting Street, Huacao Town, Xinhong Street and Kangqiao Town. In addition, there are thousands of medical protective face shields, medical surgical masks, disinfectants and other anti-epidemic materials. At the same time, Juneyao Air takes into account the meal needs of some difficult people in the control area and property service personnel, through its own catering resources continuing to provide food such as love lunch and instant noodles. As of 19 April, about 55,000 pieces of epidemic prevention and security materials have been transferred to the four towns.

Image : Juneyao Air's first batch of aided anti-epidemic materials arrived at the reception site in Xinhong Street

While supporting anti-epidemic equipment and materials, Juneyao Airs also fully mobilized company employees living in the above-mentioned four streets and towns to form local Juneyao Air volunteer service teams. The team will be managed by Juneyao Air, receive professional skills training from the company, report to the neighborhood committee of the place of residence, and participate in the daily volunteer service work of the neighborhood committee/owner committee. Juneyao Air has internally issued a volunteer service "Assembly Number" for the special action of "Keeping the "Shanghai" Community Anti-epidemic Action, and more than 400 company employees signed up to participate.

Image : Juneyao Air's' first batch of epidemic prevention materials arrived at Lexianju Community in Huacao Town

In addition, Juneyao Air will also give full play to its professional advantages in aviation sanitation, assist the streets and towns to connect with professional environmental disinfection enterprises, and further improve the professional disinfection level of the streets and the overall quality of environmental sanitation. At present, the specific operation plan is under active negotiation.

In the current round of Shanghai epidemic, Juneyao Airlines not only continued to do a good job of safe and efficient operation but also introduced various policies for free refund and change of tickets in a timely manner to ensure passengers' travel rights. At the end of March, Juneyao Group purchased anti-epidemic materials from all over the country in batches. It was dispatched to Shanghai to support the front line of anti-epidemic. At the same time, Juneyao Air will also continue to do a good job of caring for the life of the employees who are blocked and controlled. 

At present, the statistics on the living needs of the employees who are blocked and controlled have been completed, and the distribution of daily necessities such as grain, oil, rice and noodles will be arranged for all employees as soon as possible as staff also prepared convenience foods for emergencies. In addition, nearly 1,000 Juneyao Airlines CCP members have responded to the call of the CCP, completed the active registration of the community where they live in advance, and have joined the volunteer team in their respective communities.

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Shanghai: Do not restrict medical admissions on the grounds of checking nucleic acid certificates

In order to further clarify the medical treatment process, unblock the medical treatment channels, and ensure the basic medical service needs of the people, Shanghai issued a notice on 19 April 2022 requiring:

Streets and towns, villages, medical institutions at all levels, emergency centers and other units are not allowed to check negative nucleic acid certificates as restrictions on entering and leaving the community for medical treatment, transfer of patients, and admissions.

All medical institutions should transport and properly handle critically ill patients, unblock the green channel for first aid, and treat patients in need of emergency treatment in a timely manner. Strictly implement the responsibility system for the first diagnosis and the emergency and critical care system, and do not excuse or delay treatment.

The municipal emergency center arranges emergency vehicles to give priority to the transport and treatment needs of critically ill patients, pregnant women and newborns.

In principle, patients can visit the city’s second-level and above general hospitals, children’s hospitals, emergency and fever clinics  (except designated hospitals for covid), and ensure continuous services in critical care medicine, hemodialysis, tumor radiotherapy, tumor chemotherapy, operating room, obstetrics, neonatology and other departments.

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"Shanghai Bund She Taijun" became popular, dismantling isolation, street battles (video)

Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/20/a103405308.html / Image : Recently, a video of a 95-year-old woman diagnosed with the virus in Shanghai tearing down the separation wall and fighting with the police (Dabai) on the street has sparked heated discussions on the Internet. Netizens praised the old lady as "Shanghai Bund She Taijun". (Video screenshot synthesis)

                                                      

Recently, a video of a 95-year-old woman in Shanghai who was diagnosed with the virus, demolished the separation wall, and fought with the police (Dabai) on the street caused heated discussions on the Internet. Netizens praised the old lady as "Taijun She in Shanghai". She has seen the world and knows what resistance is. "Mulan is just like that."

On 20 April, a video of a 95-year-old Shanghai woman resisting isolation was circulated on Weibo. Netizens broke the news that the old lady living alone in their community was diagnosed with positive, and the police wanted to take her away for isolation, but was beaten by the old lady with a stick. In the end, the police had no choice but to take it away, so they surrounded the old lady's house with iron sheets. Unexpectedly, the old lady removed the iron sheets and went out.

Video footage showed an old lady in a maroon coat tearing down the blue wall. The netizen who filmed said, "Auntie is trying every means to prepare for a 'prison break'."

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After that, the old lady was escorted into a tricycle by six police officers in protective suits and sent to the isolation point.

However, according to the news released by netizens, after being taken away by the police for isolation, the old lady was suspected to have climbed over the wall from the isolation point at night and returned to the community.

The video screen shows that the old lady walked on the road of the community in great spirits and picked up a cardboard box.

At this time, a Dabai was holding a broom to frighten and stop the old lady. The old lady was not afraid, grabbed the broom with one hand, and pulled Dabai, forcing Dabai to step back.

The old lady also shouted at Dabai, "You hit me."

Dabai hurriedly said, "Whoever hits you, I'll tell you not to." The old lady was still shouting loudly.

According to netizens, in the end, the old lady was "escorted" by the police to the isolation point by tricycle.

The video of the 95-year-old woman resisting isolation and fighting against Dabai caused heated discussions on the Internet. Netizens praised the old lady as "Shanghai Tang She Taijun", "The legendary 95-year-old Shanghai lady teaches the younger generation." "Shanghai The 95-year-old kung fu lady relieved my depression for more than a month, thank you kung fu lady, and wish you good health."

"Happiness and sadness are not all because of my own ups and downs. Today's happiness is because the 95-year-old positive old lady in Shanghai fought against the broom. A battle at home, anger is full of vitality. May the old lady eat well, drink well, sleep well, and have the strength to jump the wall. Swing the broom."

Some netizens also said, "My grandma may have seen the Red Guards before, haha, I haven't seen it before in the world, she was born in 1927"; "People have experienced various ages and know what resistance is", "At this age, warlords, small In Japan, the old Chiang era has come, who are you afraid of?”, “95 can still beat six policemen by herself with a stick”, “Hua Mulan is just like that”.

Some netizens bluntly said: "From the current cases, such as a 95-year-old Shanghai woman, a Shanghai courier and a Changchun rider, the virus does not affect the combat effectiveness very much."

                                                     

Image : Screenshots of Weibo

According to netizens, the 95-year-old woman's nucleic acid turned negative the same day after being diagnosed with positive.

In response to this, the staff of the neighborhood committee of the community responded: "I just heard about this on the Internet, and the specific situation is not very clear."

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Shanghai epidemic is approaching an "artificial inflection point" Analysis: Epidemic prevention has become a political movement

Reporter : Jin Shi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/21/a103405912.html

On 20 April 2022, international media turned their attention to Shanghai.

Earlier, foreign media revealed that Shanghai officials have issued a military order internally, and on this day, the goal of "social dynamic clearing" of the SARS-CoV-2 in Shanghai will be achieved.

However, the virus does not seem to be so "obedient".

Wu Ganyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health and Health Commission: "Jinshan District and Chongming District reached the goal of social clearance on the first day."

Officials in Shanghai say that only two districts have achieved the so-called social dynamic clearingl. In the past day, there were 2,494 new local confirmed cases and 16,000 asymptomatic infections. Among them, there are still more than 900 cases of infected people who were found outside the quarantine area (i.e. socially).

In addition, seven new deaths were reported on Tuesday. In three days, Shanghai reported a total of 17 deaths, but the outside world believes that this is a severely reduced number.

The fourth week of Shanghai's lockdown has intensified the private backlash. Reuters disclosed on Saturday that the CCP had “set out” a specific timetable for the Shanghai epidemic, requiring an inflection point on the 17th and a zero on the 20th.

Chen Jie, secretary of the party committee in Baoshan District, Shanghai, also said at a meeting: "This is a military order. There is no room for bargaining. We can only grit our teeth and fight for victory."

Tang Jingyuan, a current affairs commentator: "(The CCP) demands an inflection point and a clearing of zero. It uses this method to create a basis for us to win a decisive battle. From now on, it can use this as a basis and fabricate data by itself. , to achieve the kind of clearing it wants. It's just to find a step down for itself to get out of the current dilemma."

The Shanghai authorities have released a signal to lift the blockade, perhaps because the economic cost of the blockade has become unbearable. Since the closure of the city, businesses have been shut down, factories have been closed, goods cannot be circulated, and supply chains have been almost interrupted.

Under pressure, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Communist Party of China announced the first batch of "enterprise whitelists" on the 15th, giving priority to 666 key enterprises to resume work and production.

Current affairs commentator Dr. Jason: "Shanghai's manufacturing industry accounts for 6% of China's overall manufacturing industry. Let alone 6% of mobile phone parts are missing, even if 1% of parts are missing, your mobile phone will not work. So, this matter in Shanghai , the whole of China has caused economic problems and even global supply chain problems.”

In the past two years, Shanghai has been implementing "precise prevention and control" to minimize the scope of closure and control to maintain the vitality of the local economy. However, this time, under the order of the central government, Shanghai had to adopt a tough reset mode, which led to the rapid accumulation of public grievances.

The local organ of the Communist Party of China said a few days ago: The struggle between "co-existence" and "clearing" is a battle over the concept of anti-epidemic but in essence it is a battle of systems. Analysis believes that the CCP's epidemic prevention policy has long been not only a health incident, but has risen to the height of a political movement. and this may mean a far-reaching impact on the lives of ordinary people.

Tang Jingyuan, a current affairs commentator: "Almost all Chinese people, especially in Shanghai this time, are aware of the danger of a repeat of the Cultural Revolution. I have seen many people in Shanghai, especially many elites, all saying this, saying that nine years ago, I never thought that this day would come. There is a consensus that an era has come to an end. Now it is Shanghai, and other cities must follow this model. In the future, it may be and there will be a big change in the way of life of the people of the whole country.”

Comprehensive report by NTD reporter Jin Shi

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CAAC releases preliminary report on China Eastern Yunnan  MU5735 flight accident investigation

Editor : Su Yiyu /

 https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/2022/04-20/9734364.shtml / Image : Video Screenshot

Video: The second black box of the China Eastern Airlines crash was found at a depth of 1.5 metres from the surface Source: China News Network

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued a briefing on the preliminary report on the investigation of the flight accident of China Eastern Airlines MU5735 aircraft on 20 April 2022. The briefing pointed out that the two recorders on the plane were severely damaged due to the impact, and the data restoration and analysis work is still in progress.

The specific notification is as follows:

On 21 March 2022, the Boeing 737-800 B-1791 of China Eastern Airlines Yunnan Company Ltd. was carrying out the MU5735 Kunming-Guangzhou flight. When cruising in the Guangzhou control area, the cruising altitude of the self-route dropped rapidly from 8900 meters, and finally crashed in Guangxi Near Mocong Village, Conan Town, Teng County, Wuzhou, Zhuang Autonomous Region. The plane disintegrated after hitting the ground, killing all 123 passengers and 9 crew members on board.

According to the provisions of the "Convention on International Civil Aviation", within 30 days from the date of the accident, the investigating organization country must send the investigation preliminary report to ICAO and participating countries. and conclusions. At present, the "3.21" China Eastern Airlines MU5735 Aircraft Flight Accident Investigation Preliminary Report has been completed. The report mainly includes factual information such as flight history, crew and maintenance personnel, airworthiness maintenance, and wreckage distribution. The main situations are as follows:

The plane took off from Runway 21 of Kunming Changshui Airport at 13:16 Beijing time, rose to a cruising altitude of 8900 meters at 13:27, entered the Guangzhou control area along the A599 route at 14:17, and the Guangzhou area control radar showed a "deviation" at 14:20:55. Command altitude" warning, the aircraft left the cruise altitude, the controller called the crew immediately, but received no reply. At 14:21:40, the last recorded aircraft information by the radar was: standard pressure altitude of 3380 meters, ground speed of 1010 km/h, and heading of 117 degrees. Subsequently, the radar signal disappeared.

The accident scene is located in a valley running from southeast to northwest near Mocong Village, Conan Town, Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A puddle with an area of ​​about 45 square metres and a depth of 2.7 metres can be seen at the scene, which was determined to be the main impact point, located at 23°19′25.52″ north latitude and 111°06′44.30″ east longitude. The debris of the aircraft wreckage was mainly found on the ground and underground in the azimuth range from 0° to 150° of the impact point. The trailing edge of the right wingtip winglet was found approximately 12 kilometers from the main impact point. There were traces of fire in the forest vegetation at the scene of the accident. Main wreckage including horizontal stabilizer, vertical tail, rudder, left and right engines, left and right wings, fuselage parts, landing gear and cockpit parts were found at the scene. After all the wreckage was collected from the scene, it was uniformly transported to a special warehouse for cleaning and identification, and placed according to the actual size and position of the aircraft, which was convenient for subsequent inspection and analysis.

After investigation, the qualifications of the flight crew, cabin crew and maintenance and release personnel met the requirements; the airworthiness certificate of the aircraft in the accident was valid, and the last A inspection (31A) and the last C inspection (3C) of the aircraft did not exceed the inspection time limit specified in the maintenance plan. There is no fault report and no fault reservation before the flight and short-term parking on the same day; there is no cargo declared as dangerous goods on the plane; the navigation and monitoring facilities and equipment along the route involved in this flight are not abnormal, and there is no dangerous weather forecast; when deviating from the cruising altitude previously, the radio communication and control command between the crew and the air traffic control department were normal, and the last normal land-air call was at 14:16; the two recorders on the plane were severely damaged due to the impact, and the data restoration and analysis work is still in progress .

In the follow-up, the technical investigation team will continue to carry out in-depth investigations such as wreck identification, classification and inspection, flight data analysis, and necessary experimental verification in accordance with relevant procedures, and scientifically and rigorously identify the cause of the accident.

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Fright in the air: Door of small passenger plane opened in the air in Brazil

A thrilling scene happened on a small passenger plane in Brazil a few days ago: the door opened in the air, and two passengers held the door tightly. Finally, the plane landed safely with no casualties.

According to the British "Metropolitan Daily" report on 18 April 2022, the aircraft is an EMB110 "Pioneer" twin-engine propeller aircraft produced by Embraer, which can carry up to 21 passengers. The plane carried 12 passengers at 12:30 on the 12th and flew from Brazil to Rio Branco.

Some passengers reported hearing "strange noises" shortly after the plane took off. After that, the left side door of the plane suddenly opened, and the door handle was thrown into the engine propeller on the left side of the plane. The pilot later shut down the left engine and managed to maneuver the plane to a safe landing.

A video showed two people in the cabin clutching the door in an effort to keep it closed. A passenger who did not want to be named said the pair held out for about 20 minutes. The cause of the accident was reported to be a cable failure.

The Rio Branco Air Taxi company, which operates the passenger plane, told the media that the accident had been reported to the Air Accident Investigation Unit. The aircraft involved has been overhauled and is now able to continue flying.

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Columbia University revokes admission after Chinese student threatened to kill Americans

Reporter :  Ke Tingting / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/21/a103405971.html

Recently, a Chinese student  applied for the prestigious Ivy League school, Columbia University, and after being admitted, he threatened to "buy a gun and shoot Americans to death" on WeChat. As a result, his application was revoked by Columbia University.

On 19 April, it was hot on Twitter that Columbia University revokes a Chinese student’s postgraduate admissions decision because the student repeatedly posted threatening remarks on WeChat, saying that he would “buy a gun to kill Americans.”

It is understood that the student made these remarks in the freshman group of Columbia University, which happened to be seen by the school.

According to the circulating photos, it was The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University who made the decision to revoke the admission qualification and revoke the student's notice of admission to the Department of Chemical Engineering as a graduate student in the fall of 2022.

The notice reads: "Because the student admitted that he made repeated threats of violence on WeChat in response to the recent unfortunate incident in New York City, which is inconsistent with Columbia University's policies and the school's expectations for students, and cannot be tolerated. We take these issues ery seriously, so we have no choice but to revoke your offer of admission."

American immigration lawyer Zhu Wei said, "This kind of speech is not within the scope of freedom of speech protection. It is a crime. It includes posting terrorist speeches online that endanger the interests of American society and the public. The school wants to revoke his I-20 invitation letter. A very reasonable approach.”

The Epoch Times wrote to Columbia University on Tuesday asking what happened, and the university responded on Wednesday: "Refused to comment, there is no other information to share or discuss."

Last month, Zhang Xiaoning, the suspect in the killing of Chinese-American immigration lawyer Li Jinjin in New York, entered the United States on an F1 visa.

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Fang Fang's suspected reappearance and online complaint against nucleic acid testing shady

Reporter :  Qiao An / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/20/a103405842.html / Image : Video Screenshot

On 19 April 2022, an article allegedly circulated on the Internet by the Moments of Fang Fang, a female writer from Wuhan, revealed the interest groups behind the mandatory nucleic acid testing in mainland China.

In an article allegedly posted by the Wuhan female writer Fang Fang's circle of friends, it was mentioned that "Wuhan is not an epidemic area now but nucleic acid tests are being carried out crazily everywhere", the author "does not believe that the officials and experts who made this decision believe that in this way, nucleic acid testing in the form of a car wheel is really meaningful for the epidemic." On the contrary, I believe that if "it is not driven by huge interests, there would be no such crazy behaviour" and "crazy to the extreme will inevitably lead to people falling." The money earned by torturing half of the Chinese people, I don’t know if there is any good life to spend. If the people suffer more, the gods will curse.”

In the past two years, once an epidemic occurs in mainland China, even if there is only one confirmed case, the authorities will repeatedly force the whole people to do multiple nucleic acid tests locally, which makes people very disgusted. Previously,  Wang Sicong announced in the circle of friends that he refused to go out to do nucleic acid tests again.

A recording of a conversation shared by Harvard scholar Huang Wansheng mentioned that the CCP’s “clearing” epidemic prevention was behind the shady accumulation of money by senior CCP officials and their families. A certain group earned 670 billion RMB from nucleic acid testing alone.

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Zhou Yukou diagnosed despite 3 doses of Medigen, command centre data shows Pfizer's "breakthrough infection is the most"

Editors : Ding Yanling,  Zhou Jiaru / https://news.tvbs.com.tw/life/1772782

Well-known Taiwanese radio host Zhou Yukou was shocked to be diagnosed with covid. Since she received the third dose of Medigen in February this year, it was a breakthrough infection. Everyone also began to discuss "Which vaccine is the most likely to have a breakthrough infection?" Whether it is the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine/Comirnaty or the Moderna vaccine, the incidence of breakthrough infections is more than twice as high as that of Medigen. Experts say breakthrough infections are almost inevitable, and the point is whether severe illness can be prevented.

Zhou Yukou made an appointment for a Medigen vaccine on 15 January 2022, and finished the third dose of the Medigen vaccine in February. She was infected only two months after receiving 3 doses of Medigen. 

Everyone began to care about "which vaccine is most likely to break through infection" and "which brand of vaccine is the safest?".

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Comirnaty is the highest, Medigen is the lowest

According to statistics released by the Central Epidemic Vaccine Command Centre a few days ago, by the beginning of April this year, Moderna had 7.69 million completing the third dose, 3.07 million in Comirnaty, and 490,000 in Medigen vaccines. The breakthrough infection rate for each vaccine is 6.5 per 100,000 for the Moderna vaccine, 7.5 per 100,000 for the BNT vaccine, and 2.6 per 100,000 for the Medigen vaccine. Among the breakthrough infections, the proportion of BNT is the highest, and Medigen is the lowest.

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Experts say that the vaccine brand is not the point, how long it takes to finish is the point

Shi Xinru, Director of the Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases at Chang Gung University, said that in fact, she believes that whether breakthrough infections will occur has little to do with which brand of vaccines are used but it is more noteworthy how long the vaccines are administered, generally 3 months after the vaccines are administered or 6 months later the chance of being infected is high.

However, this does not mean that "the covi vaccine should be administered every 3 months". Although there are plans in the Republic of China to pursue the fourth dose for several groups of people with poor immunity, the current vaccines are all the same, Shi Xinru said, "If you think it is meaningless to add repeatedly, not all countries currently recommend adding a fourth dose. Unless it makes sense to fight an improved version of the new vaccine, such as Moderna's boosted vaccine, it is impossible to vaccinate endlessly."

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Any kind of vaccine may break through infection, the focus is on preventing severe disease

Shi Xinru believes that it is predictable that re-infection will still occur after vaccinating. In fact, after 3 doses of the 3 vaccines, the effect of preventing severe illness is very obvious, although some people still have moderate to severe symptoms after 3 doses. She believes that the key is to pay attention to whether the infected person is an elderly person, has a chronic or other progressive disease, etc.

Some scholars expect that there will be another covid wave by the end of this year. When will the vaccine be hit? Shi Xinru said, in fact, not to mention covid, the influenza virus epidemic period may also cause serious casualties to many people with weak immunity. Many scholars expect that in the future, covid may be vaccinated once a year like the flu.

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Wearing a mask and washing hands frequently are the key points of epidemic prevention

However, because the human memory of the covi seems to have a tendency to last longer than that of the flu virus, Shi Xinru said that in the future, it may not necessarily be necessary to get an injection every year. However, she believes that wearing a mask and washing hands frequently are necessary during the epidemic period of various infectious diseases. If these two can be done, she believes that there should be no problem in fighting various infectious diseases.

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Under the epidemic blockade policy, Shanghai people's mutual aid note sees humanity

Reporters : Chen Jie, Li Shanshan and Li Peiling / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/04/21/a103406277.html

The closure of Shanghai has caused a crisis of food shortages and food shortages. In the midst of the authorities ignoring the plight of the people, the people of Shanghai can only help each other and tide over the difficulties together. Although the mutual aid notes reveal warmth  but it also highlights the helplessness under the extreme lockdown.

"Hello, uncles and aunts! We are residents of this building.... If you don't know how to use WeChat, you can tell me the food you need. Once there is a relevant group purchase, I will contact you and help you buy it."

During Shanghai's lockdown, such notes of neighbors helping each other were not uncommon.

Some citizens revealed that he also helped tenants, and reflected that under the CCP’s rule, officials disregarded the lives of the people.

Mr. Guo, a resident of Shanghai, said, "That little guy rented my house. He didn't have anything to eat at first, so I gave him a little. Now I'm empty. There are good people everywhere, and bad people everywhere. In times of crisis? , it is best for everyone to help each other, to reflect one's humanity. We have many officials and masters, there is no way, that is the formation of the system. "

In addition, a Japanese tenant in Shanghai ran out of food due to the closure of the city. Neighbours immediately reached out to help when they found out. The note read, "One of our neighbours is a Japanese tenant, and one of them has basically no food at home. If there is any spare, please share some."

The Japanese received a box of food quickly. Akio Yaita, director of the Taipei branch of Japan's Sankei Shimbun, said on Facebook, "Everyone doesn't have much food at home, and being able to give generously to help strangers shows us the brilliance of humanity in times of adversity."

Akio Yaita also said that the number of infected people in Shanghai remains high, but there are very few severe cases and deaths, and more people died of tyranny because of the closure of the city. This humanitarian tragedy is caused by the one-party dictatorship system.

Some citizens said that there is not much mutual aid in the community, because everyone is dying of starvation.

Ms. Wang, a Shanghai citizen, said, "There is such a (mutual aid) situation in our community, and it must be individual. Almost every household is lacking, except maybe there is a little background and a little connection, so we ask the street or the district committee. Well, ask them to pull out the list of the supplies allocated to him and the supplies he distributed, otherwise we will all starve to death."

The citizen revealed that some people have the privilege and do not know where the pass came from and can go shopping everywhere, but the food for her family is simply not enough from the street, so she and her husband cannot live any longer.

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There are two conditions for the fall of the CCP, one of which is happening

Host : Shishan's Angle / Editor : Li Hong / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_x4TYTL7Ibhs0JPuHVQY1A

Historically, the large-scale structural collapse of human society was usually accompanied by two things, or originated from two things, one was war and the other was plague. This was the case in ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, and it was the same in all dynasties in China.

Both of these things are here now. The Ukrainian war is fighting fiercely, and the plague is also spreading fiercely. For China, the Ukrainian war was originally far away in Europe and had nothing to do with mainland China, but now in the era of globalization, no one can escape, and of course China, the country with the second largest economy in the world, cannot escape. Moreover, there are various signs that the CCP seems to be stepping up its preparations for war and is preparing for its own war.

The raging plague is also caused by the CCP’s own sins. Because of the epidemic itself, in addition to the highly lethal virus itself, but also because of the high level of fear formed by the virus among the social population, it destroys the institutions that operate the society, thus causing the society to collapse. Therefore, the Omicron virus has not formed such a huge social problem in China as it has in the world. In other words, the problem in mainland China is not caused by the virus itself, but more caused by epidemic prevention measures.

The severe impact of war and plague on society, in most cases, is mainly formed by destroying the economy. Because any social system must be built on the basis of individuals and families, wars and plagues do not necessarily directly affect individuals but through economic hijacking, no one can escape.

Therefore, when the economy is severely affected, the shock that embodies the formation of two devastating factors has entered the second stage.

On 19 April 2022, Xinhua News Agency issued an article "Ten Questions about the Current Chinese Economy". In addition to extolling virtue and defending CCP policies, the article also expresses extreme concern about the current state of the Chinese economy.

Let's briefly look at the basic facts the article says. The article said that China's GDP grew by 4.8% in the first quarter, more than 4% in the fourth quarter of last year. The performance of the three main economic engines, investment increased by 9.3%, consumption increased by 3.3%, and foreign trade increased by 10.7%. However, a careful analysis of these figures shows that there is a big problem.

For example, foreign trade. The example given in the article shows that China imported 20.28 million tons of soybeans in the first quarter, a year-on-year decrease of 4.2% in quantity, but an increase of 20.9% in value; the value of natural gas imports increased by 68.7% year-on-year, but the actual import volume decreased by 5.1%. That is to say, due to the sharp rise in global inflation and the price increase caused by various factors, China's foreign trade growth is an increase in the amount, and the actual number of transactions declines.

The situation is getting worse. According to the CCP’s official media, China’s manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was 49.5% in March, down 0.7 from February; the growth rate of exports declined in March, and the growth rate of imports fell by 15.6 percentage points compared with the first two months of 2021 , the raw material costs of manufacturing enterprises have risen and orders have been outflowed.

The economic development model of East Asia was started by Japan. In fact, it is an export substitution model. The economic power is mainly provided by large-scale exports. Starting from Japan, then Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and now Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, it is the same model. China is no exception, following the same path. Although mainland China recorded a 10.7% increase in imports and exports in the first quarter, it actually declined in terms of actual cargo volume, excluding price factors, and the rate of decline accelerated month by month.

The same is true for investments. For example, Xinhua News Agency's "Economic Ten Questions" said that China's official-led infrastructure investment has increased significantly, with fixed investment of 636.5 billion yuan, an increase of 8.5%, but in fact, most or even all of this increase may be due to price increases. "eaten.

For example, cement prices in mainland China soared by up to 50% last year. Although they decreased slightly at the end of the year, they rose again by about 10% in the first quarter of this year. The price of steel bars also rose by more than 10% in the first quarter of this year. These are of course directly related to the rise in coal prices.

The biggest problem is actually consumption. According to the official Chinese government figures, consumption rose by 3%, but the PPI index rose very low, but this official figure is questionable. Everyone has felt the impact of rising prices on residents' income. Even the Xinhua News Agency article acknowledged this, but used the fall in pork prices as an explanation. The question is, apart from the drop in pork, have the prices of other consumer necessities dropped?

Officials are still hypnotizing themselves, saying that China has a huge market size, so there is room to cope with the economic downturn. Yes, this is the principle of physics, Newton's law, the greater the mass of an object, the greater the external force required to change its speed and direction. But the reverse is also the same. The greater the mass of the object, the greater the energy required by external forces to change the trend when the economic downturn has already formed. In other words, although China is huge, it is not easy to push down, but once it falls to the ground, it will be more difficult to get up.

The official article said that in the world's major economies, economic growth mainly depends on consumption growth. For example, more than 70% of the domestic economic growth of major developed countries is driven by domestic consumption, but the figure in China has been around 50% for a long time, and it has dropped to 40% in the past two years. become. What is the reason?

There are many expert analyses, and the actual situation may indeed be complicated, but the most basic problem is the disparity between the rich and the poor.

If the growth of social wealth is mainly obtained by ordinary people, then social wealth will lead to increased consumption, but if part of the growth of social wealth is divided up by wealthy people, the growth of social wealth will lead to increased investment. The concept is actually very simple. If rich people get more money, of course the extra money will be used for investment, not to eat 100 meals a day or buy 100 cars. As the income of ordinary people increases, the increased income will be used more for consumption.

Therefore, when the social distribution of wealth is inclined towards the rich, it will show an increase in investment, and when it is inclined towards the poor, it will show an increase in consumption.

The purpose of Xi Jinping's "common prosperity" policy is this. He expects that the growing part of China's social wealth will be mainly obtained by ordinary people, which can promote the structural changes in China's economy, that is, economic growth will be mainly driven by domestic consumption growth, rather than relying on Other people's faces are exported to the outside world.

This is not something new. When Hu and Wen came to power in 2006, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had already proposed it. At that time, the CCP proposed the concept of "reform of the distribution system", and the goal was to move the distribution of social wealth to the lower levels. But this reform did not have any results and will not have any results.

On 14 April, the "Hurun Wealth Report" released by the Hurun Research Institute showed that as of January 1, 2021, the number of "high-net-worth households" with a total wealth of 10 million yuan ($1.57 million) in China reached 2.06 million. , the number of "ultra-high net worth households" with total wealth of 100 million yuan ($16 million) reached 133,000.

The "China Merchants Bank Annual Report" released in March this year shows that China's wealthy (per capita assets of more than 10 million yuan) accounted for 0.07%, or about 980,000 people. The middle class with per capita assets of more than 500,000 yuan accounted for 2.05% and held 50.58% of the total assets.

Less than this number, they are ordinary people, who account for 97.88%, hold only 17.87% of assets, and the per capita asset amount is only 11,400 yuan ($1,800).

That is to say, 2% of Chinese people own 80% of social wealth, while 98% of people own 20% of social wealth.

As we all know, the Gini coefficient, which measures the disparity between the rich and the poor, exceeds 0.4. It is already very powerful. If it exceeds the warning figure, the authorities must be very careful. The United States is about 0.44, which is the country with the largest disparity between the rich and the poor among developed countries. How much is China? In 2011, China's official announcement was 0.47. After that, China will not announce this figure, nor will other academic institutions study and publish relevant figures. According to a 2014 research report by the University of Michigan, in 2010, the Gini coefficient of Chinese household income was 0.55, ranking among the highest in the world.

In fact, this number should not be surprising. The wealthiest group in China is party and government officials, whose wealth and that of their relatives is far higher than that of ordinary Chinese. A friend told me that behind every Chinese rich man, there are more than a dozen bureaucratic family members who are rich together with him. Looking at the example of Jack Ma and Alibaba, from the highest-level officials to low-level companies and officials, this is probably all in common.

Everyone can think about whether all the so-called "common prosperity" planning policies, or all policies for reforming the distribution system, must be implemented by officials at all levels. Will they seriously implement a policy that harms their own interests and increases the interests of others? Self-interest is a basic human nature, and a policy that conflicts with human nature means that it cannot be implemented at all.

So the gap between the rich and the poor in China can only get bigger and bigger. Returning to the problem of consumption growth in economic development, when social wealth mainly goes to the wealthy group, the growth of social wealth will create a greater stimulus for investment and a smaller stimulus for consumption growth. This is the case in China.

Another figure revealed by the Xinhua News Agency article is that the unemployment rate of young people under the age of 24 in China is 16%, and 16 million people in China have entered the labor market this year. High-growth industries that used to attract labor have all gone wrong this year, and unemployment is a headache for the authorities.

In fact, unemployment has always been a major problem in China, and the official figures are not accurate. In mainland China, the official unemployment rate is around 5%, about the same as in the United States. I went to Philadelphia two days ago and ate in Chinatown. A hot pot restaurant next to me posted a notice at the gate. We won’t talk about the hourly salary. There is also a condition on it, that is, to work for more than two consecutive months and have a one-time salary of 800 US dollars. Sex bonus. Now walking on the streets of the United States, there are signs asking for people everywhere, and many companies have encountered the problem of not being able to hire employees. There are also many factors in the labor shortage in the United States, but in the general environment, economic growth rate and unemployment rate are usually inversely proportional. The faster the economy grows, the lower the unemployment rate.

So how much did the U.S. economy grow in the first quarter? Less than 2%.

China's severe employment problem, coupled with economic growth of 4.8, the United States' economic growth of a little more than a percent, but no one is hired to work. Not sure whose numbers are wrong.

Speaking of which, the real problem that China's economy will encounter in the future will be foreign trade. In 2021, China's GDP will be 114 trillion RMB, the total import and export volume will be 39 trillion RMB, and foreign trade will account for about 34% of GDP. Several provinces and cities with the best economy in China, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong, all rely on exports. This year, China's zero-clearing policy has caused the delivery date to be uncertain, and the loss of overseas orders has accelerated. The situation is quite serious. This problem will be exacerbated if foreign capital continues to withdraw.

One of the biggest problems is the inversion of interest rates between the US dollar and the renminbi. In mid-April, the U.S. 10-year bond yield rose to 2.893% and the 30-year bond yield to 2.984%, while China’s 10-year bond yield was 2.863%, the first time in more than 20 years. beyond China.

On the other hand, the counter-cyclical phenomenon of the Sino-US economy is very clear. The US economy is too hot and needs to raise interest rates, while China is too cold and needs to cut interest rates. The result of this is that funds will flow back to the United States, and funds that invest in emerging markets will be largely withdrawn. In fact, in the past quarter, the scale of the withdrawal of foreign investment capital from China was about 100 billion US dollars, and this trend will become more and more serious with the inversion of interest rates between China and the United States.

Let's go back to what we said at the beginning, two factors cause the collapse of society, one is war, and the other is plague but both factors work through the economy. We also had a prediction before that the CCP will encounter two things and it will collapse, one is a failed foreign war, and the other is a long-term economic depression. It now appears that at least the signs of the Great Depression have emerged.

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Two major variables attack China, Li Keqiang ordered to ensure food supply

Image : Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. (Andrea Verdelli/Getty Images)

Under the double impact of the current international grain market turmoil and the spread of the epidemic in China, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council of the Communist Party of China a few days ago, demanding that food supply must be guaranteed.

According to state media reports, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council chaired an executive meeting of the State Council on April 20. The meeting made arrangements for food production and energy security.

The meeting said that in the current situation of increasing uncertainty in the international food market and high inflation in some countries, it is necessary to do a good job in spring agricultural production and stabilize food supply.

On the same day, Li Keqiang said in the meeting that all localities should strictly implement their food security responsibilities, and make overall planning for epidemic prevention and control and spring agricultural production as an important part of the assessment and evaluation.

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The epidemic has hindered agricultural work

According to the Voice of America report, China's provinces have entered the spring ploughing season, but the tough resettlement measures that have closed cities at every turn have affected farming work. Among them, the three northeastern provinces of Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang are the main producing areas of corn, soybeans and rice in China. Jilin Province, which is severely affected by the epidemic, is especially faced with problems such as insufficient agricultural manpower, shortage of seeds and rising fertilizer prices.

An employee surnamed Wang from a farm in Jiutai District, Changchun City, Jilin Province told VOA that his farm mainly grows corn, but affected by the epidemic, "there is indeed a shortage of fertilizers and seeds, and fuel for agricultural machinery has become much more expensive.".

At another family farm in Kuancheng District, Changchuny, an employee who did not want to be named said, "The epidemic has hindered farming work." He was reluctant to go into details.

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Insufficient fertilizer, poor harvest, food security becomes "strategic issue", hence China needs to increase grain imports

Due to the severe epidemic situation in Jilin Province, some migrant workers were once stranded in cities such as Changchun and were unable to return to their hometowns to farm. And as of the end of March, according to statistics, about one-third of farmers did not have enough fertilizer available.

In early April, Xi Jinping reiterated that food security was a "strategic issue" through the magazine "Seeking Truth", and asked party and government units at all levels of the CCP to shoulder the political responsibility for food security.

In addition to the government's requirement to increase the self-sufficiency rate of food, the amount of food purchased from abroad also hits record highs every year. He Jiangbing, a Chinese financial scholar, analyzed that the reason behind Beijing's large-scale purchase of food from overseas in the past year or so may be related to the increasing food shortage within the country.

He Jiangbing told VOA that China now needs to import about 20% of its food grains. Due to the loss of cultivated food and the huge profits from real estate development, the local finance is more dependent on land sales, and more cultivated land is occupied. This gap will become larger and larger.