The CCP's extreme epidemic prevention aroused public anger. A self-unblocking movement is emerging in Shanghai, and the people are waking up and refusing to continue to be forcibly closed. In many communities such as Xuhui District and Jing'an District, residents argued for reasons to lift the lockdown on their own and freely enter and leave their homes.
Shanghai citizen: We liberate ourselves and go in and out freely.
In the evening of 22 May, in Huixianju Community, Xuhui District, Shanghai, hundreds of residents rushed out of the blocked iron gate to protest the continued blockade by the authorities.
In the afternoon of 22 May, the residents made an agreement on WeChat to go to the neighborhood committee to discuss and ask to open the door of the building. Eventually, the chain on the door was removed.
Then, everyone walked to the street office to discuss the explanation. Although police cars and military police were dispatched, they failed to stop the residents' self-unblocking action.
At 10 am on the 23rd, residents lifted the block on their own and came in and out freely.
People held up their mobile phones to record their first free travel after the city was locked down.
According to a report by Radio Free Asia, on 22 May, an organization calling itself the "Shanghai Self-Rescue and Autonomy Committee" issued a declaration entitled "Don't Be a Slave, Self-Rescue and Autonomy".
The declaration pointed out, "We are your neighbors, neighbors, or even one of your relatives and friends, a group of people who breathe and share your destiny with you."
The declaration emphasized that more and more Shanghai people began to reflect, wake up, take action, come forward, not willing to be slaves, and rise up to resist violence!
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The declaration emphasized that Shanghai did not close the city even during the Japanese occupation period, which is an outright crime against humanity and an outright war against the people!
In the Lianyang Community behind Shanghai Dafeng Company, the authorities did not allow employees to return to their hometowns, and even beat people, causing the people to watch in anger.
A migrant worker in Shanghai walked 20 kilometers just to get home early.
Shanghai citizen: From Fengxian, I have walked almost 20 km when I walked to his place.
Shanghai citizen: There is still about 36 km from here to Hongqiao High-speed Railway Station. He really can't walk. I'm coming to pick him up now.
Migrant worker from Shanghai: The first time I came to Shanghai, I came to work for one day, and I was banned for two months.
There are also many migrant workers in Shanghai who have suffered a lot in order to return to their hometowns, and are still stranded for various reasons. The road home is still long.
Just as the people of Shanghai rose up against the violent closure of the city, Beijing's extreme epidemic prevention intensified.
Beijing residents: Chaoyang District, Beijing.
Beijing resident: Now the government has come to seal our building. There are more than 100 households living in a building with 26 floors.
Beijing resident: Now we have to seal all the doors, so what about the safety hazards? What if there is a fire in the building? What if an elderly person is sick?
Not only in Chaoyang District, but also in Nangangwa, Fengtai District, epidemic prevention personnel are also using blue steel plates to seal the doors of every household.
In Wuxi, Jiangsu province, people gathered under the border walls of Jiangyin and Changzhou to demand the lifting of the lockdown, shouting from morning till night!
"Unblock! Unblock! Unblock! Unblock!"
Under the extreme epidemic prevention, the people gradually awakened, and group protests continued one after another. The movement of self-help and self-unblocking is constantly fermenting and expanding.
The local epidemic in Beijing has been going on for a month. Although multiple rounds of nucleic acid tests and blockades have been carried out in some areas, the official report is still adding dozens of new cases every day. , distributed in multiple regions. There were many covid-positive people in a community in Haidian District, and more than 1,800 people in the community were transferred to Hebei for centralized isolation, causing dissatisfaction among Hebei people.
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Nearly 2,000 people in a community in Beijing were transferred to Hebei for quarantine, and Hebei people were dissatisfied
On 24 May 2022, Beijing officially notified that 41 new local confirmed cases and 7 local asymptomatic infections were added on the 23rd. These cases are distributed in Tongzhou District, Haidian District, Fengtai District, Fangshan District, Dongcheng District, Xicheng District, Chaoyang District, etc. (Note: Because the CCP official concealed the truth of the epidemic, the data it reported was considered untrue by the outside world)
Officials require strict control of closed and controlled areas, centralized isolation, and home isolation personnel staying at home. Home office workers insist on not moving around unless necessary, not going out unless necessary, not gathering, not visiting, not traveling, not getting together, etc.
The Haidian District Government of Beijing issued an announcement in the evening of 23 May 2022, saying that several positive cases have been detected in the Friendship Community of Haidian District in recent days. Residents of the Friendship Community need to be isolated in a centralized manner. Haidian District arranged 100 transfer vehicles to transfer more than 1,800 people from the Friendship Community to Zhangjiakou, Hebei.
The centralized quarantine will be carried out for 7 days, and then will continue to be quarantined at home for 7 days.
In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, many places in Hebei have issued documents, suggesting that Hebei personnel should not return to their hometowns unless necessary and 1,800 Beijingers were taken to Zhangjiakou for isolation. The news caused dissatisfaction among netizens in Hebei.
Many Hebei netizens vented their dissatisfaction on Weibo, "Hebei people have a home and can't go back, and they have a deeper understanding of the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei." I didn't go home, but now I'm very happy to take over, Zhangjiakou people really have no temper", "Don't let people from outside the province go back to Zhangjiakou, make arrangements for the big brother first, right?"
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Tongzhou Internet Cafe found multiple cases of infected people, the boss was arrested, 4800 people were arrested
On the 24th, "Tongzhou Police Online" released a statement on the spread of the epidemic caused by an infected person surfing the Internet at Yilong Internet Cafe in Taihu Town, Tongzhou District on 19 May 2022.
According to the report, 3 people have been diagnosed with the virus in the Internet cafe, and 31 close contacts have been quarantined. On May 23, the Internet cafe had its "Internet Culture Business License" revoked, and Hou was also placed on file for criminal investigation.
According to reports, on May 10, Hou Mou (male, 59), the owner of Yilong Internet Cafe in Taihu Town, Tongzhou District, avoided supervision and illegal operations, and did not implement epidemic prevention and control measures such as code scanning, temperature measurement, and killing, resulting in the epidemic Spread spread. At present, more than 540 households and more than 4,800 people in the village where the Internet cafe is located have been closed and managed.
On 24 May, "An Internet cafe in Beijing caused many people to be infected and the boss was put on file" rushed to the hot search, attracting the attention of netizens.
Some netizens said that the owner of this Internet cafe is really unfortunate.
Netizen "kooksss694d88": There have been many bankrupt bosses this year.
Netizen "Isablayvonne": The epidemic is a natural disaster and a man-made disaster.
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Many areas are blocked, and many local infections still appear
In this wave of epidemics, although Beijing has not implemented a city-wide lockdown, many areas where cases have occurred have been blocked.
In the Fengtai district of 2 million, bus and subway stations were mostly closed from May 20, and residents were told to stay home.
An unidentified resident of Fengtai district who was shopping for daily necessities at a nearby Carrefour supermarket told Reuters on May 21 that it was uncertain whether the restrictions would continue. "I'm not sure if I'll be able to shop in the next week. So I bought a lot today and even bought some rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in early June."
Thousands of residents in Chaoyang District, Beijing's most populous district, were transferred to hotels for isolation treatment after some cases were detected, the China Youth Daily reported.
According to pictures and official notices widely circulated on Chinese social networks, at least 5,000 residents in a residential area in Beijing were taken away overnight on the night of May 20 after 26 positive cases were found. Residents were threatened with punishment if they did not obey. punish.
Chaoyang District officials said, "Starting from midnight on May 21, all residents of Nanxin Park will be quarantined for 7 days", and the notice requires residents to cooperate with this, "otherwise they will bear legal consequences."
Photos circulated on social media platforms showed hundreds of people with luggage queuing in the dark to board the bus.
One resident complained on Weibo, “Some people in the community have been locked in their homes for 28 days from April 23, and our test results have been negative since then. Many of my neighbors are Elderly people or families with young children."
Most recent local infections in Beijing have occurred in areas already under lockdown, despite the authorities' lockdown measures.
Human-to-human transmission confirmed, will monkeypox become the next "smallpox"?
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According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, since 13 May, 12 non-monkeypox virus-endemic countries have reported cases of monkeypox virus infection to WHO, with 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases. Human-to-human transmission of monkeypox virus is taking place, and monkeypox patients are contagious when they develop symptoms, usually lasting 2-4 weeks. It is unclear whether asymptomatic infected individuals are contagious.
Since both monkeypox and smallpox have "pox" in their names, the human body will produce blisters when they are sick, and they both belong to the genus Orthopox. Many people worry about whether the further spread of monkeypox virus will bring risk of mass infection.
Will monkeypox virus be the next "smallpox"? Guo Wei, deputy director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Tongji Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, told the Science and Technology Daily reporter on May 23 that the monkeypox virus may not cause the next pandemic outbreak, but it should be taken seriously in response. No matter what kind of infectious disease, whether it can be effectively dealt with depends on the most classic "three axes" - controlling the source of infection, cutting off the transmission route, and protecting the susceptible population to what extent.
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Controlling the source of infection: Beware of groundhogs
"In the United States, there are cases of monkeypox virus infection in the result of raising groundhogs. It can be said that rodents are the main source of infection of monkeypox virus." Guo Wei said that the reason why smallpox can be eliminated, in addition to the effectiveness of the vaccine, is also due to humans are its only host, no other host animals. Unlike monkeypox virus, which has a variety of host animals, in terms of controlling the source of infection, in addition to considering social transmission, it is necessary to be vigilant in contact with rodents.
In terms of the source of infection, Guo Wei said that in addition to preventing infection caused by contact with people, it is also necessary to prevent infection caused by contact with animals.
"Although monkeypox virus is called monkeypox virus, its intermediate host is not just monkeys." Guo Wei reminded that its name is due to the fact that it was first discovered in monkeys but many rodents carry this virus.
Therefore, those returning from sojourning in endemic areas should still pay attention to their symptoms, report to health professionals if necessary, and conduct necessary isolation. The reporter learned that relevant units have begun to involve relevant detection kits based on the sequence of the monkeypox virus for the discovery and investigation of the source of infection.
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Cut the spread: "Have a cup of coffee" is not a big deal
"The covi and smallpox virus are transmitted through the respiratory tract. The currently reported cases show that the monkeypox virus is mostly transmitted through close contact between people." Guo Wei said that this mode of transmission means that "cutting off the transmission route" is easier to control. It also means that for the general public, avoiding very close contact with infected people can prevent them from being violated by the virus.
In fact, a cup of coffee and a dinner are not within the scope of intimate contact. This is related to how the virus is infected. Guo Wei explained that the monkeypox virus needs to enter the blood of the human body first, and invade cells in the human body through the blood, so the transmission through mucosal contact is its main mode of transmission. Covi is different. It directly binds to specific receptors on respiratory cells to invade cells, reproduce, detoxify, and then spread. Therefore, it mainly spreads through the respiratory tract.
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Possible monkeypox virus transmission also through oral ulcers, body fluids and infected clothes
The WHO website suggests that monkeypox virus may resemble some sexually transmitted diseases such as herpes and syphilis, which could explain why most cases are detected in sexual health clinics. Most monkeypox cases are currently found among men who have sex with men, but community transmission cannot be ruled out. In addition to sexual behaviour, it is possible to contract monkeypox virus through oral ulcers, contact with patient's body fluids, and infected clothes.
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Immune protection: Monkeypox vaccine can still be developed, smallpox vaccine is only 85% effective
Monkeypox virus and smallpox virus belong to the same genus. According to clinical research data, the effective rate of smallpox vaccine against monkeypox virus reaches 85%.
So, is there no need to research a new monkeypox vaccine? Are people who were previously vaccinated against smallpox immune to the monkeypox virus?
"New vaccines can still be developed. After all, the smallpox vaccine was not developed specifically for monkeypox vaccines. Before the monkeypox vaccine was developed, if there was a certain scale of epidemic, the smallpox vaccine was administered to produce antibodies, which would also be effective against monkeypox virus. It must be preventive." Guo Wei said.
"People born in the 1960s and 1970s will have a flower scar on their arm the size of a broad bean, which is left by the smallpox vaccine." Guo Wei explained that in theory, it is enough to be vaccinated once in a lifetime, but with as the age increases and the time prolongs, the antibodies in the human body will also decline. If there is an epidemic, a person also needs to be vaccinated. Since the smallpox vaccine has not been vaccinated in China since the 1980s, people under the age of 40 are generally not immune to monkeypox virus. If there is a monkeypox epidemic, vaccination is still required.
"Generally speaking, monkeypox virus infection is a self-limiting disease. Even if there is no vaccination and no specific antibodies in the body, there are non-specific immune responses in the human body, such as macrophages, which can eliminate monkeypox virus. Most of the cells infected by the virus can recover in 2-4 weeks without excessive panic." Guo Wei said.
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Monkeypox has arrived just in time to rescue two American smallpox vaccine companies
In recent days, concern over a global outbreak of monkeypox, a mild disease related to smallpox and chickenpox, has been hyped in the media and health ministries around the world, even prompting an emergency meeting at the World Health Organisation (“WHO”). For some, fears have centred around monkeypox being the potential “next pandemic” after Covid. For others, the fear is that monkeypox will be used as the latest excuse to further advance draconian biosecurity policies and global power grabs.
Regardless of how the monkeypox situation plays out, two companies are already cashing in. As concern over monkeypox has risen, so too have the shares of Emergent Biosolutions and SIGA Technologies. Both companies essentially have monopolies in the US market, and other markets as well, on smallpox vaccines and treatments. Their main smallpox-focused products are, conveniently, also used to protect against or treat monkeypox as well. As a result, the shares of Emergent Biosolutions climbed 12% on Thursday, while those of SIGA soared 17.1%.
For these companies, the monkeypox fears are a godsend, specifically for SIGA, which produces a smallpox treatment, known by its brand name TPOXX. It is SIGA’s only product. While some outlets have noted that the rise in the valuation of SIGA Technologies has coincided with recent concerns about monkeypox, essentially no attention has been given to the fact that the company is apparently the only piece of a powerful billionaire’s empire that isn’t currently crumbling.
That billionaire, “corporate raider” Ron Perelman, has deep and controversial ties to the Clinton family and the Democratic party as well as troubling ties to Jeffery Epstein. Aside from his controlling stake in SIGA, Perelman has recently made headlines for rapidly liquidating many of his assets in a desperate bid for cash.
Similarly, Emergent Biosolutions have also been in hot water. The company, which has troubling ties to the 2001 Anthrax attacks, came under fire just under two weeks ago for engaging in a “cover-up” over quality control issues relating to their production of Covid vaccines. A Congressional investigation found that quality control concerns at an Emergent-run facility led to more than 400 million doses of Covid vaccines being discarded. The Emergent factory in question had been shut down by the FDA in April 2021. They were allowed to reopen last August before the government terminated the contract. Given that the majority of the company’s business is tied to US government contracts, the loss of this contract, and the accompanying poor publicity, the news that its smallpox vaccine may soon be of international interest is likely seen as a godsend by the company.
Notably, this is the second time in a year that both companies have benefitted from pandemic or bioterror fears propagated by the media. Last November, speculation rose that a re-emergence of the eradicated virus that causes smallpox would soon take place. This first began with Bill Gates’ comments on the prospects of smallpox bioterrorism during a 4 November 2021 interview and was followed by the 16 November announcement of a CDC/FBI investigation into 15 suspicious vials labelled “smallpox” at a Merck facility in Philadelphia. Now, roughly six months later, the same fears are again paying off for the same two companies.
It seems the fear being generated around monkeypox is not only boosting shares for these two rotten companies, but it’s also helping the public forget their past sins.
BGI and other companies have produced "monkeypox detection kits"
The day before, we just reported on the spread of monkeypox virus in many countries during this period, but so far, there is no news that monkeypox has been introduced into China, at least there is no corresponding report in the official media but guess what? On 23 May 20223, CCP China's "BGI" company has announced that it has developed a "monkeypox virus nucleic acid detection kit", which is very sensitive and can detect results in 40 minutes. However, BGI is not the fastest in China. The day before this, on 22 May 2022, China's "Shengxiang Bio" company had launched its own monkeypox virus detection kit, saying that it could be fully constructed and perfected for rapid application on the covi nucleic acid detection platform. Several other companies have also launched their own monkeypox test kits.
If I'm not mistaken, the next development of this matter should be once a case of monkeypox virus is found in any city in China, the whole process of nucleic acid testing will be immediately carried out for monkeypox virus detection. These test preparation manufacturers launch test products early, and they can also seize the market early, which can be said to be "well-intentioned" but let's not be too harsh on others. Maybe these companies want to "advance deployment" to prevent problems before they occur but if in CCP China, there is such a speed of developing and producing test kits and even so-called vaccines to solve poverty and various problems raised by people's petitions, it would be amazing.
However, these two Chinese companies are still one step behind Russia. On 21 May 2022, it was reported that Russia's Vector Biotechnology Science Center launched its own monkeypox virus detection kit, which can distinguish all "orthopox" viruses such as monkeypox, cowpox and vaccinia. Of course, it is terrible. The "smallpox" is also an orthopoxvirus.
It is said that monkeypox virus is not a virus that spreads very fast in the traditional sense. So it has not caused panic to the world for so many years but it is likely to become the second major plague in recent years. The covid pandemic has not completely dissipated, and the new epidemic has made it worse.
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Taiwan will not "advance deployment" measures against monkeypox
In Taiwan, some people also asked Chen Shizhong, Minister of Health and Welfare, about the outbreak of monkeypox in many countries. However, Chen Shizhong's answer was relatively calm, saying that Taiwan would not deploy ahead of schedule and had no plans to snatch relevant vaccines to fight the monkeypox epidemic.
Monkeypox is similar to smallpox. Recently, the US CDC said that the smallpox vaccine is at least 85% effective against monkeypox. Therefore, vaccination against smallpox has also become an option when the monkeypox vaccine is not yet universal.
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The world's population born after 1979 are not vaccinated against smallpox
In Taiwan, in 1945, the whole population was vaccinated against smallpox but after 1955, smallpox disappeared in Taiwan, and after 1979, the population was no longer vaccinated against smallpox. In other words, there are a large number of people in Taiwan who have not been vaccinated against smallpox, and are generally people under the age of 45. In fact, other countries are almost the same. Many people never thought that a virus similar to smallpox would threaten the world once again.
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"Smallpox vaccine" is being mass-produced in Denmark
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Now, a well-known vaccine manufacturer in Denmark (Bavarian Nordic A/S) is expanding the production of "smallpox vaccine" to help prevent the monkeypox virus, which is a "brother" of "smallpox", as monkeypox spreads. What makes people more speechless is that this version of the "smallpox vaccine" that Denmark is producing on a large scale was originally prepared to deal with "biological warfare". At the same time, countries are also developing monkeypox vaccines one after another.
Monkeypox has been detected in at least 16 countries, although the number of cases is not that large, with 108 confirmed and 91 suspected cases.
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"Ming Pao" reported Xi Jinping's power status, the official media began to promote the 20 major
It can be said that in the face of this situation, the CCP authorities are relatively sleepless. If the monkeypox virus were to be introduced into China, public health would be second to the authorities, with "political security" their top concern. At the 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping wants to continue to be re-elected. For him, the less such things, the better, but the closer to the 20th National Congress, the less peaceful. It is not just monkeypox.
The CCP itself, every time it changes its leaders, has a "war of information" and "war of public opinion", the purpose of which is to continue to "increase blockages" in the political meat grinder of the CCP. Yes, it is fake, anyway, it is about making a mess, because the political enemies in the opposition are not afraid of chaos, the more chaos the better, the bandit leader sitting on it is very scared and does not want to see a little storm. This kind of thing is an inevitable event and a must-have dish on the eve of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
But at least according to the news so far, Xi Jinping's small abacus of wanting to be re-elected is still playing, and he is playing more cheerfully. For example, a recent report in Hong Kong's Ming Pao said that Xi Jinping's status is stable, and the cult of personality within the party will continue to heat up in the future, and this report predicts that Xi Jinping will also gain the title of the so-called "leader", which is unique after Mao Zedong.
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Xi Jinping's title after the 20th National Congress has "two major points"
The Xinhua News Agency of the Communist Party of China has also launched 50 episodes of short films about Xi Jinping from 23 May 2022, entitled "Xi Jinping Along the Way", to build momentum for his 20th re-election. The overseas "Epoch Times" interviewed a media person named "Golden Autumn". He believes that in addition to installing the title of "leader", Xi Jinping must also restore the "party chairman" position that only "Mao" had previously enjoyed. Once this step is achieved, in fact, Xi will have more power than Mao had in the past, because after Mao resigned as state president, he only retained the positions of party chairman and military commission chairman but whether Xi will continue to be re-elected as state president is not listed. That is to say, the group leaders of a large number of central leading groups that he concurrently served are unprecedented since the founding of the CCP.
The fact that Xi Jinping wants to restore the "party chairman" has also been released before. This kind of release is considered to be the authorities testing the reaction of the outside world and testing the water temperature. Will Xi Jinping be re-elected mainly as a "party chairman" with a higher position, rather than as a "state president"? Ordinarily, there is no need, because a few years ago, Xi Jinping amended the constitution, and the term limits of the "President of the State" and the vice-chairman have been removed. Let alone him, if the opportunity is right, Wang Qishan, the vice-chairman, can continue to be re-elected.
The dirty politics of the CCP has given the highest authority such an opportunity for totalitarianism but that is to say, the CCP's political struggle and its behind-the-scenes transactions often bring about changes, so it cannot be ruled out that Xi Jinping will give up the position of "state president" and use the option of being re-elected as the party chairman but I think that historically, Mao Zedong handed over the president of the state to Liu Shaoqi, and later Liu Shaoqi did better than Mao Zedong. As the "Chairman of the Party" Mao Zedong seemed to be about to become empty. Therefore, if Xi Jinping learned the lesson of this old Mao, he would and should not give up the position of "national president".
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Before the CCP’s change of office, there must be a whistleblower war at home and abroad, which has two impacts on the top management
Speaking of which, let's talk about some recent rumors about the changes at the top of the CCP. My point of view has never changed. No matter who made the information, whether it is personal behavior, or what faction you represent, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is not Xi or anyone coming to power. was completely denied. Because as long as the CCP system exists for a day, it does not matter whether you are Xi Keqiang or Li Jinping. Whoever comes to power will be the same, and it is not worth looking forward to but this kind of public opinion stirred up overseas seems to have some impact on the CCP system. What impact?
The first point is like in a class, Xiaoming and Xiaogang are both class cadres. Although they usually have a little grudge against each other, they do not publicly yell at each other but inside and outside the school, suddenly Xiaogang beat Xiaoming. The two are not compatible and so on. Then this may have two results. First, it will aggravate the contradiction between the two. Second, if one of them is a "bear bag", this situation may cause the person to make a superficial appearance. The "friendship" of the two, and even some compromises, at least make it seem that the two of them are not so embarrassed to get along. As for which of the above results between Xi and Li, everyone has their own opinions.
The second point is that many middle and lower-level officials in the CCP system also work for the CCP elites, but they have a little more privileges than ordinary people. They also have no news channels to reach Zhongnanhai. They are also confused. If the top is silent and does not express their position at this moment, the group of people below will not know why. Therefore, sometimes the high-level CCP will express their position in disguise based on some outside air. It does not dare to repeat the revelations from the outside world, it only dares to express its position in another way, so that the following "understand".
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The CCP media has released a signal that whoever is re-elected will be unlucky! Many problems
We have seen that the Chinese Communist Party's official media recently seems to be increasing its propaganda against Xi Jinping. For example, on 22 May 2022, the CCP’s military newspaper, the People’s Liberation Army Daily, and the People’s Daily published an opinion of the CCP Military Commission on promoting the normalization of party history education in the military. It is rare for the above two newspapers to be published at the same time. This "Opinion" mentioned that it is necessary to study Xi Jinping's thought in depth, to learn Xi's thought of strengthening the army, etc. It has been mentioned many times, which is to let the interior, especially the army, put a wind.
However, no matter who is re-elected, what can the CCP, a political zombie, do.
In the next five years, no matter who changes it, it will be even more difficult to do. It is like two people holding a revolver with only one bullet and playing this suicide game with each other. When it is not necessarily whose turn, they will hit the bullet and hang up.
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Whoever is re-elected has a harder life
Being re-elected is just one step closer to witnessing the death of the broken ship of the CCP.
It should be said that whoever is re-elected will have a harder life. What good is re-election? Smart people will not compete with the accelerator for that position anymore, play as you like. The smart people "run". It is also possible that some senior CCP leaders are also participating in the release. Anyway, they are disrupting the situation at higher levels. As for the disruption, giving him the position of general secretary, whether that person is willing to do it, maybe not necessarily. He is just trying to make a mess out of revenge.
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Graduates in China have to deliver food to survive
Tens of millions of graduates in China are now facing a cold winter of employment. After graduating from Peking University, it has become a good job to be an urban management officer. There are even students from famous schools who go to deliver food. Coupled with the continued existence of the virus, the public grievances caused by it have been cleared. and the pressure of the international environment.
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The U.S. and Japan want to ensure peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait
Biden of the United States held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Japan on the 23rd, and held a joint press conference, emphasizing the strengthening of security cooperation and the establishment of a free and open international order. The Japanese Prime Minister will also strengthen defense spending, which has been a sensitive topic in the past Japanese government spending, but this time Fumio Kishida wants to break this taboo. The United States and Japan also reiterated that they want to ensure peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. When asked by a reporter whether the United States would protect Taiwan when Taiwan was attacked by the CCP, Biden responded: Yes, and said that this is a commitment.
Moreover, during this period, the United States also launched the Indo-Pacific economic framework, with 13 countries including the United States, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and Indonesia joining. China is not included for the time being, and Taiwan is not allowed to join. However, some analysts pointed out that one of the purposes of establishing this framework is to restrain the CCP and ensure the stability of the Taiwan Strait.
Tongjing compound case virus approaching Zhongnanhai
From 23 to 28 May 2022, Beijing Shijingshan District will temporarily implement a 6-day closed management. All units are required to work from home, closed-loop management of units, cancellation of dine-in meals in all units’ canteens, etc.
So far, at least 9 of Beijing's 16 administrative regions, including Haidian, Chaoyang, Fengtai, Tongzhou, etc., have "mentioned control", and the measures implemented are equivalent to closing the city.
Judging from the Beijing epidemic map drawn by netizens, the entire city of Beijing is red except for the core area. Netizens added a sentence, "The work of the whole of Beijing is up to the masses of the East and West cities."
However, the cases reported in Beijing on 23 May showed that 2 cases were also found in Xicheng District. Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, reported that among the 94 newly infected people yesterday, 41 were in Fengtai District, 24 in Haidian District, 14 in Fangshan District, 7 in Dongcheng District, and 3 in Changping District. In addition, there are 2 cases each in Xicheng District and Chaoyang District, and 1 case in Daxing District.
But there is a strange situation. Of the 94 cases reported by authorities, two cases in the West Side were vaguely reported. Generally, the authorities will report the unit and place of residence of the case. If the work is sensitive, the work unit will not be listed, but at least the place of residence will be written. But for the two cases in Xicheng, there was nothing in the notification from the authorities.
A Beijing netizen who often provides us with news said that he learned from an article that the two cases in Xicheng District lived in "No. 10 Tongjing Compound". Netizens pointed out, "The Tongjing compound is opposite to the South China Sea, next to the grave, so I'm afraid it's not a place where ordinary people can live."
A netizen told me in an email that he followed several official accounts, all of which were reporting the Beijing epidemic. These official accounts seem to have a certain division of labor. Some report on Beijing as a whole, and some pay attention to Tongzhou, Dongcheng, Xicheng and other districts; some are posted on the same day, some are posted the day before; some directly write the total number of cases, and some Write confirmed + asymptomatic infection. Netizens believe that there are "uniform arrangements" behind these official accounts.
However, when these public accounts were reporting, they also ignored the cases in Xicheng District, and only briefly mentioned that there were 2 cases in Xicheng District. Netizens said this was "a bit interesting". In addition, netizens checked the "epidemic map of Gaode map" and found that there was no situation in Tongjing compound in the past day and the past 14 days. Therefore, netizens think that "it seems that there is something unspeakable."
I checked the location of Tongjing Compound on the map, and found that it is a residential area in the most central location of Beijing, just south of West Chang'an Avenue, across the street from Nanhai in Zhongnanhai, and facing Xinhuamen. To the east of the Tongjing compound is what netizens referred to as the "grave bag", which is the National Grand Theater built by Jiang Zemin for Song Zuying. Further east is the Great Hall of the People, and it takes about ten minutes to walk from Tongjing Compound to Tiananmen Square.
Because it is zero distance from the Forbidden City in Beijing, Tiananmen Square, etc., this kind of land cannot be bought with money. Therefore, the people who can live in this place are naturally not ordinary people. Some netizens described that people who live in this place must have a very noble identity, otherwise how can they live under the eyes of the emperor?
On 19 June 2021, a 6.7-square-metre bungalow in Tongjing compound was put up for public auction online. The starting price was 600,000 RMB, and the final transaction price was 2.5 million RMB, equivalent to 373,000 RMB per square metre. Therefore, it seems that the land price here cannot be accurately described by an inch of land and an inch of gold.
The fact that the virus can invade such a place shows that Beijing's strict containment measures have not sealed the virus, and the virus has at least reached the doorstep of the CCP's hometown. In other words, for the CCP leaders who live and work in Zhongnanhai, the virus may be spreading around everyone now.
Here's another surprise for you all. There were rumors before that Xi Jinping suffered from brain tumors and other diseases. Whether these rumors are true or not, it remains to be observed in the future. But we got a top-secret report that Xi Jinping did not have a brain tumor, but that he is now infected with the CCP virus and is currently being treated in isolation somewhere.
I cannot independently confirm this revelation, and I provide it to you for reference only. But you can do a little analysis. Someone in the Tongjing compound at zero distance from Zhongnanhai is infected. Could it be a staff member of Zhongnanhai?
I can't confirm the identity of the two cases in Tongjing Compound, but judging from the secretiveness of the authorities, the infected person is likely to be sensitive.
Let’s make another bold speculation. If these two cases work in Zhongnanhai, and if Xi Jinping does indeed get infected by Omicron, what does this mean? Could the virus have already spread in Zhongnanhai?
If this is the case, in the words of netizens, then the CCP virus is really recognizing its ancestors. So I am curious, will this virus take away some villains in Zhongnanhai?
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Entry quarantine to be shortened again? Differences between inside and outside Beijing
A little more news from Beijing. Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" exclusively reported on 23 May that Beijing is considering shortening the quarantine time for international travelers. Two sources briefed on the authorities' discussions said Beijing was considering easing quarantine requirements for international arrivals again "in response to calls from investors".
It is reported that Beijing plans to shorten the 10-day hotel quarantine period to 7 days, and become 7+7, that is, after 7 days of hotel quarantine, then 7 days of home quarantine. If implemented, this would be the second time that Beijing has shortened the quarantine period in May.
People familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the authorities have not officially announced the policy, said the easing was largely aimed at reducing challenges for foreign companies. These businesses are finding it difficult to send expatriates to China when strict quarantine regulations are in place.
A second source said that Beijing has introduced the 7+7 arrangement to some multinational companies. However, the South China Morning Post logged into the websites of the two agencies this morning and has yet to see the policy update.
The South China Morning Post pointed out that for the first time on May 7, Beijing shortened the quarantine time for international travelers from the original 14+7 to 10+7. The last time the isolation time was shortened, the Beijing Office of Hong Kong and Macao Affairs and the Office of International Affairs gave an explanation that "the Omicron variant has a shorter incubation period and only milder clinical symptoms."
The article said the discussions reflected Beijing's efforts to balance economic development and adhere to the "strategic balance" of the authorities' "dynamic clearing" policy.
Regardless of whether it is considering economic development, or indeed because of Omicron's short incubation period and mild symptoms, Beijing's approach to international tourists and Chinese people once again shows us "the difference between inside and outside."
In the afternoon of 22 May, that is, in the early morning of 23 May in Beijing, a writer friend who lives in Chaoyang District sent an email to introduce his repeated home quarantine.
The writer went to the Wangfujing Bookstore on the 19th, and received a call the next day, saying that he was in a high-risk area. A positive case was found in "Dongfang Xintiandi" before. Although Wangfujing Bookstore and Dongfang Xintiandi are far apart and not in the same building, the CCP's big data still counts him as a time and space companion.
The neighborhood committee told the writer on the phone that as long as they were within a kilometer or a few kilometers, they would be listed as time and space companions. First he was asked to quarantine at home for 3 days, and then yesterday he was told to quarantine for another 8 days. But until now, he still doesn't know whether he is close or sub-close, no one has told him. He confided to me in the email, "Now I am very depressed, looking out the window on the sixth floor, for fear that one day I will jump if I can't stand it."
The writer recorded the conversation with the neighborhood committee, but considering that the writer's identity is sensitive and easy to be traced by the authorities, we decided not to show this recording of him.
From the statement of the neighborhood committee, we can actually understand a little. The authorities have very strict control measures, and the same is true for the control of the so-called "time and space accomplices." For the entry of international passengers, the authorities have repeatedly relaxed quarantine requirements.
But I also want to say a word to this writer here, don't do stupid things, and quickly give up this bad idea. You can completely look at the problem from a different angle, isolate yourself at home, and maybe you can really avoid some unexpected events.
Just think of it as forcing yourself to write a book in meditation, try to write more things during this time, and convert unfavorable things into favorable things. If you jump off the building, in addition to your relatives will be very sad, will the CCP officials give you a little heart? So don't overthink it.
Ye Jinghuan, a resident of Chaoyang District, told Radio Free Asia on 23 May that her area has been blocked for more than 20 days, but many communities have no cases at all and are also blocked. Even in the lifted community, residents are restricted from going out.
Ms. Wang, a resident of Yancun Town, Fangshan District, said that the local epidemic is not serious, but the closure and control measures are extremely severe. According to Ms. Wang, every household is now equipped with an "electronic dog" and calls the police as soon as they go out.
Ms. Wang said that people can't go out now, "it's useless to go out, there is no means of transportation, and the shops are all closed." run".
This is the difference between the inside and the outside. The foreign lord is here and can be treated specially. A few days ago, I saw a video from Shanghai showing 3 foreigners running on the road without even wearing masks. But next to it, there are many Chinese people wearing masks, waiting in line to do nucleic acid.
This is the difference between the inside and outside of the CCP. When the foreigners come, their requirements can be relaxed and they can be given special treatment. But the Chinese have to be very strict, preferring left to right.
Thousands of photographs, spreadsheets and classified documents hacked from Chinese police servers have shed a horrifying new light on the terrors Uyghur Muslims have been subjected to in 're-education camps' and prisons in Xinjiang, as part of a state-sponsored campaign aimed at 'breaking' their cultural identity.
The treasure trove of data lays bare how more than 20,000 Uyghurs from just one county - Shufu - were imprisoned or interred in camps between 2017 and 2018 on spurious charges such as growing a beard or failing to top their phone up with credit, under the watchful eye of guards who were ordered to shoot escapees on sight.
Photographs show weeping detainees watched closely by officers clutching night-sticks, camp indoctrination sessions, and police armed with rifles, riot shields and clubs training how to subdue inmates who are shackled with hoods over their heads. Papers discuss the positioning of sniper and machine gun nests in the camps.
Combined with classified speeches in which top Communist Party officials say up to two million Uyghur are infected with 'extremist thought' and praise Xi Jinping for re-educating them, it blows apart the government's official line that such camps are actually 'schools' that people are attending voluntarily.
Taken as a whole, the leak represents perhaps the largest and single-most revealing glimpse into a system of repression that the Chinese government tried to hide from the world, then lied about when challenged. It will also pile pressure on the UN over a fact-finding mission to Xinjiang that begins today, amid fears of state whitewashing.
Given the opportunity to denounce the leak as fake, the Chinese government did not - instead insisting the camps are 'countering violent terrorism, radicalisation and separatism, [and are] not about human rights or religion.'
Authorities in Xinjiang have taken 'a host of decisive, robust and effective deradicalisation measures,' China's US embassy said, and 'the region now enjoys social stability and harmony as well as economic development.'
The documents were leaked by a hacker who claimed to have scalped them from Chinese police computer servers, downloaded and decrypted them before handing them to US-based academic Dr Adrian Zenz of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, who has been sanctioned by China for his research on Xinjiang.
Dr Zenz then shared the documents with a consortium of journalists including the BBC who spent months verifying the information they contained, before publishing it on Tuesday.
The BBC says it has spoken with the hacker and has substantiated a large portion of the data they shared, but is unable to reveal any more information about the source due to fear of reprisals.
Among the trove of documents are 5,000 images of Uyghurs taken between January and July 2018, at least 2,884 of whom were detained in either prisons or re-education camps in the region - mostly in Shufu county.
The youngest was Rahile Omer, who was was only 15 at the time of her detention, while the oldest was 73-year-old Anihan Hamit.
Tursun Kadir, a 58-year-old who was an Islamic preacher for some time in the 1980s, was sentenced to 16 years and 11 months in jail for the crime of 'growing a beard under the influence of religious extremism'.
Yusup Ismayil, 35, was jailed for travelling to a 'sensitive country' - reported by the BBC to be a Muslim-majority nation. Tajigul Tahir, 60, was locked up because her son was suspected of having 'strong religious leanings' because he didn't drink or smoke.
Hundreds were targeted for listening to 'banned lectures' or installing encrypted apps on their phones by Chinese spies. Others were jailed for allowing their phones to run out of credit - accused of avoiding technology as a way of hiding their activities. Other charges include 'picking quarrels' or 'disturbing the social order'.
Sentences often relate to supposed crimes carried out well before China launched its crackdown on the region in 2014, following two terror attacks by Islamic extremist separatists from Xinjiang.
One man was jailed for 10 years in 2017 for having 'studied Islamic scripture with his grandmother' for a few days in 2010.
Husband and wife Tursun Memetimin and Ashigul Turghun were sent to a detention centre in 2018 for having listened to a banned lecture on someone else's mobile phone six years earlier, in 2012. Police files contain photos of two of their three children - daughters Ruzigul, 10, and Ayshem, six. Their fates are unknown.
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Monkeypox pandemic awaiting to happen
Eradicating smallpox may have left the world vulnerable to monkeypox, experts have warned amid growing fears about the current outbreak sweeping the world.
Britons were routinely offered smallpox jabs until the 1970s, when the scheme was deemed no longer necessary because the virus had been beaten into submission. Similar programmes were wound down across the world at the same time.
Scientists say the waning immunity from the mammoth inoculation campaigns may help explain why monkeypox outbreaks are becoming more common across the world.
Although not purposefully made for monkeypox, the Imvanex jab — made by Danish-based Bavarian Nordic — is up to 85 per cent effective because the two viruses are so similar. Antivirals and therapies for smallpox also work for monkeypox.
Dr Romulus Breban, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said the current global outbreak was 'waiting to happen' because of the world's 'almost zero' immunity level. Nineteen countries have detected cases in the past month, which has sparked alarm because infections usually only occur in west and central Africa.
Professor Neil Mabbott, an immunopathologist from the University of Edinburgh, told MailOnline over-50s are the only group protected against monkeypox. "Although the level of immunity will wane in time, smallpox vaccination provides long-lasting protection,' he said. 'Some estimates suggest this may last for decades."
At least 221 monkeypox cases have been confirmed across the world since the first patient was sickened in the UK on May 6, with most infections among gay and bisexual men.
Meanwhile, England yesterday confirmed 14 more infections, bringing the UK-wide total to 71. Scotland confirmed its first ever case on Monday, while no infections have been spotted in Wales or Northern Ireland.
The UK Health Security Agency is contacting high-risk contacts of confirmed cases and advising them to self-isolate at home for three weeks and avoid contact with children.
They are also being offered the Imvanex vaccine.
This strategy, known as ring vaccination, involves jabbing and monitoring anyone around an infected person to form a buffer of immune people to limit the spread of the disease.
In the UK, high-risk contacts of confirmed cases are being offered the Imvanex vaccine. This strategy, known as ring vaccination, involves jabbing and monitoring anyone around an infected person to form a buffer of immune people to limit the spread of the disease
It has been used in previous monkeypox outbreaks.
The United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic and Slovenia are the latest countries to log infections.
Pavel Dlouhy, head of Czech Republic's Society for Infectious Diseases, said: 'It was only a question of time, we have been expecting this for days.'
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Czech Republic's first monkeypox case comes from Belgium
The Czech man showed symptoms of the disease after returning from a festival in Antwerp, Belgium in early May. Several monkeypox cases have since been linked with Darklands – a large-scale fetish festival, held from 5 to 8 May 2022.
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Slovenia's monkeypox case returned from the Canary islands, UAE reports its first monkeypox case
In Slovenia, a man who developed symptoms after returning from the Canary Islands, has also been confirmed to have monkeypox, according to health authorities. Monkeypox infections have already been linked with the Gran Canarian gay pride festival – attended by up to 80,000 people between May 5-15.
Meanwhile, the UAE has announced its first monkeypox case in a 29-year-old woman visiting the Gulf country from West Africa.
Andrey Babushkin, a member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, has died in intensive care in a Moscow hospital at the age of 58. The day before, the human rights defender became ill right in the subway, after which he was hospitalized.
Chairman of the Commission of the Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC) on the development of the penitentiary system and Head of the Committee for Civil Rights Andrey Babushkin died at the age of 58. His death was reported by a member of the HRC Eva Merkacheva.
Earlier, Merkacheva said that Babushkin was taken to the intensive care unit of the 20th hospital in Moscow. He became ill during the subway ride. “I had to call an ambulance. They pumped him out, but the doctors said that it was vital to lead a healthy lifestyle, and he just exhausted himself, ” she noted.
Head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeev in an interview with ”Gazeta.Ru ” called Babushkin’s work “a machine for helping people”.
“Babushkin was an outstanding human rights activist, and he helped tens of thousands of people. He helped people specifically, a variety of things. It happened that in a day, he and his colleagues somehow received, processed and made decisions on dozens or even hundreds of requests. It was such, in a good sense of the word, a machine for helping people,” he said.
Tourists are not required to present a negative PCR test report for entry to Israel
The Israeli government announced that international
travellers will no longer be required to present a negative report of RT-PCR
test for entering the country.
The requirement to have a
negative report of RT-PCR test before leaving for Israel and undergoing a
complete RT-PCR test upon arrival followed by an isolation period has been
removed from midnight of 20 May 2022, Israel Ministry of Tourism,
India Office, said in a statement.
However, travellers are still required to complete an entry
statement within 48 hours from departure to Israel.
From this week onwards, the mask mandate for international
travellers to/from Israel has been lifted as well, it added. Such restrictions
were put in place by countries across the world to check the spread of
COVID-19 (covid). With the number of infections receding in the recent months, various
countries have started easing norms for travellers.
“This new development in Israel’s entry requirements is a great
step in being able to welcome visitors back to Israel. This will make travelling
to Israel simpler and more relaxing, and your vacation will begin the moment
you step off the plane. I, for one, am thrilled to have visitors enjoy my home
country,” Sammy Yahia, Director of Israel Tourism to India and Philippines,
added.
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