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U.S. special forces exposed for the first time at the Taiwan Association Training, Military Scholar: Warning to the CCP
Image : On 7 June 2018, Taiwan's Black Hawk helicopters participated in a military exercise. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)
A few days ago, the photo of the U.S. ODA special forces team at the Chaozhou Airborne Field in Taiwan, co-training the high-altitude penetration special attack, was exposed. In this regard, the Taiwan Army Command stated that military exchanges between the United States and Taiwan are a normal and scheduled itinerary. Taiwanese military scholars believe that the US and Taiwan military's move is meant to warn the CCP.
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The U.S. Special Forces appeared in Chaozhou Airborne Field
According to Taiwan media reports, the U.S. ODA special operations unit stationed in Okinawa, Japan, recently arrived in Taiwan to conduct joint training in air, mountain and water special operations with the Taiwan Army Special Operations Unit and the high-altitude special service squadron.
The U.S. ODA special operations team appeared at the Chaozhou Airborne Field in Pingtung, which is the parachute training ground for the national army special operations forces. According to several photos posted by Zhou Pinquan, the mayor of Chaozhou, Pingtung County, on Facebook, there are many "foreigners" in the Chaozhou airborne field, and the badges and lggoes on the equipment are obviously different from those of the Liangshan Special Service Team of the National Army.
According to reports, the U.S. ODA special operations team specializes in high-altitude infiltration, assaulting enemy positions, and guiding the special forces’ combat skills. This time, the U.S. special forces led the Liangshan Special Forces to parachute from about 12,000 feet to a height of about 3,000 feet to open the parachute, simulating rapid penetration of enemy positions.
The Taiwan Army Command confirmed on 8 May that the U.S. military special forces came to Taiwan for training, and stated that the military exchanges between the United States and Taiwan are a normal scheduled itinerary, which is implemented according to the annual plan and schedule, and will not comment on the details.
It is reported that the U.S. military conducts interactive training with the Taiwan-U.S. special forces under the code name of "Balance Tamper", which is carried out once or twice a year according to the tasks and needs of both sides. Generally, the U.S. Army's First Special Forces Corps dispatches the ODA special forces detachment under its jurisdiction to come to Taiwan to conduct joint training with the Taiwanese three-armed special forces.
Shu Xiaohuang, an associate researcher at the National Security Academy, believes that at the time of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the situation in the Taiwan Strait was tense, and the US military came to Taiwan for training, which was also a warning to the CCP. "Including China's recent (announced) Liaoning exercise and activities in the southwest airspace, these (photos) more or less emphasize the very close cooperation between Taiwan and the United States."
It is not the first time that the news of the U.S. military stationed in Taiwan joint training has been exposed. The First Corps of the U.S. Special Forces once filmed "EXCELLENCE", which used a lot of pictures of the U.S. military in Taiwan and the Taiwanese military.
Taiwan military scholars once told the Central News Agency that it is an open secret that the US military stationed in Taiwan to assist Taiwan military training. The more the CCP pushes toward Taiwan, the more U.S.-Taiwan military cooperation will escalate accordingly.
The Wall Street Journal disclosed in October 2021 that more than 20 members of the U.S. Special Operations and Support Force are stationed in Taiwan to train the Taiwanese military while the U.S. Marine Corps and the Republic of China Navy are engaged in small boat training. U.S. officials have said the U.S. military has been operating in Taiwan on a rotational basis for at least a year.
In this regard, the British "Economist" stated that it is no longer a secret that American soldiers are stationed in Taiwan but the exposure at this time is a warning to the CCP and means of expressing support to Taiwan.
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The blood red sky in Zhoushan has also been seen in the United States and Indonesia in recent years, but it is different in Zhoushan
In the evening of 7 May 2022, the citizens of Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, not far from Shanghai, were shocked by the sight in front of them, usually golden, purple, or soft red sunset, but at that moment, the sky was clearly blood red, and there was no gradual change. It feels like the entire sky has turned blood red.
The official media published the report, and they couldn't explain it, so they didn't explain it, but if they did not do it, they had to make up a reason, saying that it was a boat, not a piece, that it might be "a" saury Fishing boat, mapped by lights. Please, what a big ship and what a lamp to make the sky look like this. No one believes this explanation. Some local netizens said that if you ask the ship to come back and irradiate it again, you will believe it.
The discussion of more people is that they subconsciously feel that this is a bad omen. Many netizens have left a message saying the four words "there is a vision in the sky", but no one knows what this scene specifically indicates. The sky became like this, it was a bit scary.
Indonesia in 2020, and Oregon in the United States in the same year, also experienced similar phenomena, but they were all related to "fire". When this scene happened in Indonesia, local villagers burned a lot of banana trees, and then the United States was a forest fire. Such a scene only appeared, and it was during the day when the sun was very bright, and the tiny particles floating in the air after burning scattered the blue light, causing this situation. In Zhoushan, Zhejiang, there were no reports of large-scale fires in the local area, and it was 8 pm when the scene happened, and the sun had basically completely set. It is difficult to explain such a scene.
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Shanghai officials want to "smash their bodies and bones" to zero, causing complaints and "white guards" beating children provoke public anger
However, in the north of the Zhoushan Islands, Shanghai, across the sea, has recently been severely sealed and has become internationally renowned. Just the day before Zhoushan City had this scene, on May 6, Shanghai held another mobilization meeting called "Resolutely Win the Battle of Greater Shanghai". The mission must be completed." This meeting, especially this sentence, spread among the people at once, causing dissatisfaction and complaints from many Shanghai netizens. What most people say is: if you want to be shattered, just go, don't drag us. Some people also said that before they were smashed to pieces, the common people lost their bones and scum. Then they began to criticize the authorities' blockade and control policy. Many Shanghainese could no longer bear the blockade and control.
Mainland NetEase released the survey results of the WeChat public account "Zhao Lu Ming", and found that after a survey of 1,021 Shanghai residents, 40% of Shanghai people had depression because of the lockdown. In this case, as long as there is a "trigger point", the anger of these people will explode like a storm.
For example, on 7 May, in a local Jinsheng community, the residents were still short of food, so some people climbed the windows and shouted for supplies. One of the children, only fifteen or sixteen years old, was rushed upstairs by a man in a white isolation suit called the "White Guard" who was downstairs and grabbed the child and beat him. This suddenly angered the people here. Some people shouted "hit people" upstairs. When the people in the same building with the children saw it, a few people rushed downstairs. The building door was actually sealed. These people simply smashed the door of the building, rushed out, and clashed with a few white guards, and some people threw things down from the upstairs and smashed the "big whites".
Since the closure, especially recently, more and more people have publicly resisted in Shanghai.
Some residents of the community could not bear it, so they organized themselves to break the blockade of the community.
On Xiangnan Road, Zhangjiang Town, Pudong, in the afternoon of 14 April, many people broke through the blockade and took to the streets to protest.
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On Shanghai Mother's Day, mother was pulled away from child and cried a lot
The white guards in Shanghai are actually CCP police officers wearing isolation suits, and they also expressed their opinions to the people, and they adopted what seems to be called "zero tolerance" to suppress them, which is very extreme.
Some viewers sent me two videos, reflecting this situation, saying that it happened on Mother's Day on 8 May 2022, but did not specify the specific reason. In the film, the White Guard policeman is only heard shouting to the corridor: You refuse to be summoned. Then a few Dabais went in to arrest people, and dragged out a woman. Then the girl who took this scene upstairs was also warned by the downstairs, and then said, "You don't worry, I'll go up now. If you arrest someone, you will arrest them. You don't need any justification or legal procedures. If someone shoots something, what kind of law would you commit? Rogue law enforcement, that's it."
Another video, in the same community, shows a mother being taken away by the White Guards, and the son goes to pull her, but Dabai still drags her away, a lively scene of life and death under tyranny. Cries and shouts were mixed on the scene.
In fact, this kind of blockade and containment of the people has always been the case in the history of the CCP's political establishment. It uses terror to seize power and use terror to govern the country. In the later part of today's program, we will talk about a book, and some related examples are mentioned in it.
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The old account of the CCP's "locked down city" Changchun! Up to 650,000 deaths!
The CCP called its victory in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China in 1949 “liberation.” From the establishment of the so-called “People’s Republic” in 1949 to 1956, when “a hundred flowers bloomed,” the official narrative of the CCP was that the party took over after the war. It created a chaotic country and forged a so-called "New China".
Some people are confused by this statement, but is it really true? The book "The Tragedy of Emancipation" is the right medicine to break this illusion. The author of the book is Frank Dikotter, a historian at the University of Hong Kong, whose Chinese name is Feng Ke. He collected abundant evidence from official archives in mainland China, such as classified documents, unabridged speeches of leaders, statements of survivors, etc., and found that the so-called "liberation" was a road leading to slavery. The CCP went from seizing power to taking power is a bloodbathed history with extreme violence at its core.
In the summer of 2006, when some workers were digging ditches in Changchun, they dug up the skeletons of thousands of people from under 1 m of soil. Digging deeper, several layers of bones were found, piled together like firewood. The people watching them lively around thought that those were the victims of the Japanese war of aggression against China. There are also very few people who realize that in 1948, when the Communist army besieged Changchun, people starved to death.
In 1948, the Communist army advanced into Changchun. At that time, there were 500,000 civilians in Changchun City. Many people took refuge in Changchun to escape the Communist Party. They originally wanted to go south to Beijing, but because many railway lines were interrupted, they were trapped in Changchun. At that time, there were 100,000 Kuomintang defenders in the city.
The commander of the Communist Army, Lin Biao, ordered that Changchun be turned into a "dead city" by besieging the city and starving for food! The situation deteriorated sharply. 200,000 Communist troops surrounded Changchun as an isolated island, dug trenches and cut off the city's groundwater supply. Two dozen anti-aircraft guns and heavy artillery focused on the government buildings. The national army defending the city established three lines of defense around Changchun. In this way, between the two armies, there was a vast middle ground.
There was a lack of supplies in the city, and the anti-aircraft guns of the communist army forced the planes of the national army to fly at an altitude of 3,000 m, and many airdrops fell outside the control area of the national army. To prevent famine, the national army began to encourage people to flee to the countryside but once they left the city, they were not allowed to come back because the city was short of food.
Few of those who fled the city were able to cross the blockade of the communist army. Lin Biao reported to Mao Zedong: Our army's countermeasures are mainly to prohibit passage. On the front line, a sentry is set up at 50 m, and there are barbed wire and trenches to prevent refugees from coming out, and those who come out are discouraged from returning. This method was effective at the beginning but later the starvation situation became more and more serious. No matter day or night, a large number of hungry people swarmed out.
For those fleeing from the city, Lin Biao reported this: Crowds of people knelt in front of the sentry, begging to be released, some threw babies and children away and ran away, and some took ropes and hanged in front of the sentry. When the soldiers saw this tragic situation, their hearts softened, and some accompanied the hungry people to kneel and cry, saying that this was an order from a superior, and they had no choice.
Two months after the siege of the city, about 150,000 people were trapped in the middle. They are forced to eat grass and leaves. There were corpses everywhere, corpses exposed to the sun, with bloated stomachs.
In the city, dozens of people die on the roadside every day, and some families commit suicide en masse. One of the survivors, Song Zhanlin, remembers that when she passed a small house, she went in and saw a dozen corpses, all on the bed and on the ground. A girl, still holding a small baby, seems to be asleep.
The Communist army besieged Changchun for five months and finally won Changchun. In mainland Chinese history books, this is called a decisive victory but the price behind it is so heavy but not a word is mentioned. During the siege of Changchun, it is estimated that at least 160,000 civilians starved to death.
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The history of the communist army entering Shanghai is like the Taliban entering Kabul
Also, in Beijing and Shanghai, when the Communist troops entered, the city was filled with fear. And at the opulent Shanghai Cathay Hotel, city folks watched the hillbillies play in the elevator, and some soldiers chained their mules in the hotel lobby. Veteran Feng Bingxing remembers that when they entered Shanghai, he said he had never seen a light bulb and washed rice in a white ceramic toilet. Many CCP soldiers come from rural areas, and they never saw these when they first arrived in Shanghai. This scene reminds people of the Taliban soldiers who recaptured Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, playing bumper cars in an amusement park in August 2021.
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Fighting landlords, suppressing rebels, Deng Xiaoping and Bo Yibo tell the history of murders personally
After the gradual seizure of power in southern China, the CCP embarked on a carnival-like violence. In the countryside, the first to bear the brunt is the landlord, the "landlord class" that the CCP attacks, which it created artificially. In fact, after decades of war, there is no so-called "landlord class" in rural China. Because only fertile land can be easily rented out, tenant farmers are not necessarily poorer than landlords. The land in the south is relatively fertile, while the plains in the north are relatively barren. Therefore, the tenants who grow rice in the south are richer than the landowners in the north.
Nonetheless, the working group incited endlessly, held meetings, and literally divided the villagers into five artificial classes: landlords, rich peasants, middle peasants, poor peasants, and farm laborers. The working group promised poor peasants and farm laborers the land of the rich, and urged them to "turn misery into hatred." In this way, the CCP encourages people to fight the landlords. The so-called landlords who were caught were beaten and even shot. The crowds then divide up their lands and possessions.
Feng Ke pointed out: "The contract between the CCP and the poor is bloodbathed." Deng Xiaoping himself said that in the areas he was in charge of, he said that they had killed a lot of people, and people were becoming more and more disturbed.
At the same time, the CCP also launched a campaign to suppress counterrevolutionaries. Every day new victims are trucked to the execution ground, some as young as 8 years old.
When the CCP uses violence during the so-called "takeover" process, it relies heavily on numerical indicators. Mao Zedong decided to kill one-thousandth of the country's population but this could be adjusted according to the special circumstances of each region. In the three provinces under Deng Xiaoping's jurisdiction, by November 1951, 150,000 people had been executed. At the end of 1952, Bo Xilai's father Bo Yibo proudly said that 2 million people were executed.
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Re-education through labour if all the prisoners cannot be killed!
Mao Zedong also admitted that it is impossible to kill everyone. So huge labour camps were born, swallowing up counter-revolutionaries, capitalists, businessmen, foreigners and later intellectuals. Feng Ke has studied prisons in the Republic of China era. He said the number of prisoners never exceeded 90,000 during the era of the Nationalist government. In October 1950, after the CCP launched a crackdown on the counter-revolutionary movement, the total number of prisoners rose sharply to 1 million. The conditions of detention were dire.
As Feng Ke shows in his book, China embarked on a "road to slavery." The peasants were empowered with the blood spattered by the landlords but the unrest devastated the vast countryside. In the countryside, farmers lack livestock, fertilizers, and skills, and the market they have long relied on has been destroyed but the state requires farmers to turn in more grain. Rural life is doubly difficult. Farmers sell their sons and daughters.
At this time, the CCP launched a new trick to accelerate the move towards a commune, that is, to nationalize all private property. In some areas, open rebellions broke out. Once pacified, farmers were incorporated into communes, and from 1955, the household registration system and rationing system were enforced. People are restricted in their freedom of residence and movement. In just a few years, the CCP has turned the Chinese people into slaves it claims to “liberate”.
By 1956, people's dissatisfaction with the CCP was rising, and Mao Zedong's prestige within the party also fell to a low point.
In this regard, Mao Zedong called on people to "let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend." Sure enough, people's criticism was like a snowball. Mao Zedong realized the so-called "lead the snake out of the hole" and launched the "anti-rightist movement" to purge the dissidents. More than 500,000 intellectuals were classified as "rightists", arrested under arrest, and sent to re-education through labour.
The book "The Tragedy of Liberation" mainly records the history of the CCP between 1945 and 1957, from the eve of the CCP's seizure of power to the early days after the establishment of the government. However, this book should have a sequel. The pen should be not put aside because the material that can be written is still happening.
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Xi Jinping's employment changes. British media: Han Zheng wants to be prime minister and urges Li Qiang to step down
Image : On 19 October 2017, Li Qiang attended the meeting in the Great Hall of Beijing. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
The Shanghai epidemic has added variables to the personnel layout of Xi Jinping's 20th National Congress. British media quoted sources as saying that the chaos of Shanghai's closure of the city has bleak the official career of Li Qiang, the party secretary of the Communist Party of China, and Han Zheng, the vice premier of the Communist Party of China, intends to take the post of premier, and he urged to win Li Qiang, who is regarded as his rival.
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Source: Han Zheng asked Xi Jinping to force Li Qiang to step down
Shanghai, with its 25 million inhabitants, has been locked down for weeks in chaos and has turned into a surreal crisis, with the future of Shanghai secretary Li Qiang hanging in the balance.
The Financial Times quoted Alex Payette, chief executive of Cercius Group, a consulting firm specializing in China issues, as saying on 8 May 2022, "More and more voices are emerging in Shanghai and within the party. Han Zheng's voice was particularly loud, asking Xi Jinping to force Li Qiang to step down."
Han is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee and is seen as a rival of Li Qiang, aiming to replace Li Keqiang as the new premier next year.
Payette believes that if Xi Jinping sacrifices Li Qiang, it will trigger a "big earthquake" within the party before the 20th National Congress, destroying the thorny alliance system. The message to Xi's other allies such as Chen Min'er, Ding Xuexiang and Cai Qi would be "no one is safe or immobile."
Therefore, he expects Xi Jinping to bargain with other factions in the party to keep Li Qiang playing. But whether the mayor of Shanghai, Gong Zheng, can be guaranteed is another matter.
However, Payette said that with increasing calls for accountability, Li Qiang may not be able to follow his former Shanghai secretary and become a member of the Politburo Standing Committee but instead "re-assign to other party central institutions".
In 2020, after Wuhan closed the city, Jiang Chaoliang, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, and Ma Guoqiang, secretary of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee, were both dismissed, but both of them "survived" and were not expelled from the party.
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Insider: Han Zheng alienates Xi and Li
The Epoch Times columnist Yue Shan said that Li Qiang and Han Zheng had been secretly fighting for a long time. Li Qiang was Xi Jinping's top secret when he was in power in Zhejiang, and he was also a popular candidate for the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Han Zheng, who has been immersed in Shanghai officialdom for nearly 40 years, is regarded as the guardian of Jiang Zemin's family in Shanghai's base camp, and entered Beijing at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017.
Yue Shan quoted an insider in Shanghai as saying that during the outbreak in Shanghai, Han Zheng collected a lot of information against Li Qiang and used alienation tactics in front of Xi Jinping, which was very detrimental to Li Qiang.
People familiar with the matter said that many officials in Shanghai were Han Zheng's former staff. After Han Zheng entered Beijing, he had been in contact with them and remotely controlled the officialdom in Shanghai. These officials laughed at Li Qiang behind their backs and played soft resistance. Therefore, Li Qiang had to hold consecutive meetings to call on officials to cooperate, listen to Xi's instructions, and not lie down.
Hong Kong's "Ming Pao" once wrote an article citing people familiar with the matter, saying that the chaos of Shanghai's closure of the city was related to the escape of local officials.
On 6 April 2022, Jiefang Daily, the official newspaper of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, published a commentary article "To leading cadres at all levels in Shanghai: Please stand up, share the worries of the grassroots, and solve the problems for the people! ”, the article is alleged to be Xi Jinping confidant Li Qiang speaking to Shanghai officials on behalf of the central government.
Li Lin, a current affairs commentator, told The Epoch Times that the Shanghai Party News blatantly highlighted the conflict between the Beijing Central Committee and the Shanghai officialdom, which shows that in Xi's eyes, there are problems in the Shanghai officialdom.
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Analysis: Shanghai Gang sees Zhongnanhai jokes, Xi Jinping fights back
The Epoch Times commentator Zhou Xiaohui said that Shanghai officials have always looked down on Beijing officials. In particular, the Jiang faction has been entrenched in Shanghai for many years, and the horses are all over various government agencies, financial and economic systems. In the context of the ongoing game between Xi and Jiang, they are also happy to watch Zhongnanhai's jokes and block Beijing through their own inaction or chaotic behavior.
Xi Jinping served as secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee for seven months in 2007, before serving in the central government. In the book "Xi Jinping in Shanghai" published in early March this year, Shen Hongguang, then the head of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, recalled that Xi Jinping used the word "not sticky" to describe Shanghai officials.
In this regard, Hong Kong's "Ming Pao" analyzed that this reflected that Xi was not able to "integrate" with local officials in Shanghai at that time, which may be one of the reasons for the failure of Shanghai's fight against the epidemic today.
The Shanghai epidemic is also related to whether Xi Jinping can be successfully re-elected at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. On May 5, Xi Jinping rarely spoke at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, saying that he would "fight" against anti-clearing words and deeds, and said that he would win the battle to defend Shanghai.
Current affairs commentator Yokogawa said that this shows that rumors of fierce intra-party struggle in the CCP are not groundless. The struggle within the CCP was indeed partially detonated through the closure of Shanghai.
Yue Shan believes that Xi Jinping emphasizes "struggle", and what he is defending is actually "Li Qiang in Shanghai", while the "struggle" is against certain political enemies within the party who turned against Xi Jinping before the 20th National Congress.
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College students encounter two problems when they return home, and it is rumoured that Changchun will be closed again
Report by : Yang Ning / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/09/a103422315.html / Image : On 11 March 2022, residents of Changchun, Jilin Province lined up overnight for virus nucleic acid testing. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Due to the serious epidemic situation, Changchun and Jilin in Jilin Province, which have been closed for more than a month, have been gradually unblocking since 28 April 2022 with steady and orderly progress.” However, it has recently been reported that according to the orders of the Changchun Municipal Government and the Department of Education, students from colleges and universities in Changchun are being persuaded by the school to return home one after another and take online classes at home. For this reason, each university also issued a certificate of leaving school and returning home, and conducted a 48-hour nucleic acid test for each student, and stated in writing that the school has been free of epidemics for 14 consecutive days.
On the one hand, the university campus does not have living conditions for long-term isolation, and the population density is too high. The school also bears a lot of pressure. It is more worried about the psychological problems of students and the re-emergence of the epidemic, so it is also willing to leave the school. On the other hand, when the university dormitory has been closed for more than 50 days, the toilet needs to be reported, and they cannot take a bath, cut hair, wash clothes, or receive takeaways, and they cannot move freely even after the closure is lifted. The family does not object, but some students face two practical problems. One is that it is difficult to go home, and the other is that they cannot afford the cost of isolation after returning home.
Some students who live in the south reported that due to the suspension of motor trains and the reduction of flights, the air tickets home had skyrocketed and they could not afford it at all such as a flight to Zhejiang, whose ticket has exceeded 4,000 RMB. This is not a small burden for them, who are cash-strapped.
In addition, some students said that when they bought tickets to go home and reported to the local community in advance, they were told that going home was a free quarantine. However, when they left the school, they were informed that they needed to self-isolate. At this point, they have been unable to return to the closed-loop management school. If students go back to Shijiazhuang, the quarantine hotel charges 400 RMB for one day and 4,000 RMB for ten days, which is a bit high for them who have no income. The families of some students have also been out of work for a long time because of the epidemic, and they are also in difficulty, unable to help them at all.
Who should help them solve the plight of college students? Changchun city government? No money. Universities? Equally difficult to help. Hometown? The local government also complains about putting the trouble on them. It seems that everyone is responsible, and it seems that everyone has a reason not to take it. In another endless cycle, what can college students in predicament do other than lament?
Let's talk about Changchun, which is officially defined as a low-risk area. Although the lockdown has been lifted for more than a week, some communities with cases are still under lockdown, and other communities have undergone nucleic acid testing every three days. This shows that the real social zero has not been achieved in fact. Some netizens revealed that although the epidemic situation in Changchun seems to be a little better, it is said that there have been many cases of fuyang after the resumption of work, and the possibility of re-closing the city is not impossible. Therefore, many Changchun people began to stock up again.
The author heard from a friend that Changchun had cases of fuyang after the resumption of work, and there were still many cases. In addition, Jilin City, which once announced on 8 April that it has achieved social zero, also recently announced that from the 9th, all non-essential personnel movement within the urban area will be stopped, and static management will be implemented, and all employees will be tested for nucleic acid.
The rebound of the epidemic in Jilin City, Changchun, shows that dynamic clearing is impossible. So far, no expert has answered the question: Why are there cases of infection in closed dormitories? Why does the infection recur after the infection is cured? How many such examples are there? Are vaccines a trigger for repeated infections? The situation in Changchun and Jilin also shows that Shanghai, which is currently fighting chicken blood, needs to rely on fraud to achieve the "victory" of dynamic clearing.
So, will Changchun be locked down again? This is naturally determined by politics, not the epidemic. In order not to block the high-level officials of Zhongnanhai, Jilin Province will most likely not completely lock down the city. After all, the political impact will not be good. Instead, it will adopt a "static management" somewhere, that is, relax outside and tighten inside but what if the outbreak cannot be covered up?
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Vote with your feet America's most popular moving destination in 2021
Reporter : Qiao An / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/09/a103422244.html / Image : Video Screenshot
The latest data shows that in 2021, southern U.S. cities will account for the vast majority of the most popular moving destinations in the United States.
Truck rental company Penske has announced the top ten most popular moving destinations in the United States in 2021. The top three are Houston, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, and Phoenix, Arizona. Texas accounts for four of the ten most popular moving destinations. Charlotte, North Carolina, and Chicago, Illinois, are back on the list after three and five years, respectively.
It is worth noting that California and New York, one of the two most populous states in the United States, did not have any cities on the list. According to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau in March, only 8.4% of the population will change their address in 2021, the lowest level since 1948. The epidemic may be one of the reasons for the decline in the U.S. moving rate.
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WHO: 348 suspected cases of acute hepatitis in children identified worldwide
Editor: Yue Yi / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/5/10/n13732478.htm
The World Health Organization said on 11 May 2022 that there are now 348 probable cases of acute hepatitis in children in five regions around the world.
The new cases are in addition to the 70 previously reported, said Philippa Easterbrook, a senior scientist in the WHO's hepatitis unit, according to Global News.
The UK now has the most new cases detected, with around 163. The U.S. announced on Friday that they were investigating 109 possible cases of "unknown origin". Six countries around the world have reported more than five cases.
SickKids Hospital in Toronto reported seven probable cases of severe acute hepatitis on Tuesday. All cases were of "unknown origin" and the children were between 1 month and 16 years old. The cases were detected between 1 October 2021 and 30 April 2022.
It is unclear how many cases there are across Canada.
Hepatitis is usually caused by one of several infectious hepatitis viruses, such as hepatitis A and B. However, none of these viruses have been found in the affected children in Toronto.
Canada's chief public health officer Theresa Tam said on Friday that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has contacted its 17 pediatric centres across the country to try to better understand the situation. Before the covid pandemic, about half of severe hepatitis cases in children had no known cause, she said.
"We're still in the investigative phase, trying to figure out if there's actually a link in these cases," she said.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Public Health Agency of Canada said it does not know whether there is an increase in cases of unexplained acute hepatitis among children in Canada.
Health agency spokeswoman Tammy Jarbeau said more information is needed to assess the current situation and any potential risks to Canadians. "We are working closely with provincial, territorial and international partners to respond to this evolving event."
While the cause of these global cases is unknown, Easterbrook said a strong association with adenovirus has been found. Adenovirus is a common disease often characterized by cold or flu symptoms. More than 70% of UK cases have tested positive for adenovirus.
She said more data from the UK could be expected within a week to determine whether the adenovirus was linked, or if there was a causal link.
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At least 14 NLD members, supporters killed by pro-Junta groups in two weeks
Source : The Irrawaddy
At least 14 National League for Democracy (NLD) members and supporters were killed by pro-regime terror groups in less than two weeks, and the regime was behind the killings, the party’s Central Working Committee said.
A committee report stated that since 21 April 2022, the pro-regime terror groups Thwe Thout, Kite and Myochit flagrantly raised death threats against party members, elected lawmakers and their families and supporters.
According to data compiled as of 5 May, at least seven party members and seven staunch supporters were abducted from their homes by those groups in Mandalay, Tanintharyi and Yangon regions, with their dead bodies dumped on streets the next day with the responsible group’s logo on a lanyard.
“With witnesses seeing abductions and the dumping of victims’ bodies from junta vehicles, regime forces were clearly involved in those cases,” the committee said.
Late last month, junta spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun denied any association with the pro-junta miltias.
Local residents and pro-democracy activists have widely rejected his denial, saying everyone knows that the junta is behind those groups and supporting them to silence opposition to the regime.
The committee said on Tuesday that since seizing power by overthrowing the elected, NLD-led government, the regime has arrested 917 party members and of them, 701 remain under detention in the junta’s custody across the country, including the party’s leaders, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint, and 98 elected lawmakers.
Since then, the regime has stepped up its efforts to destroy the country’s most popular party with arrests, lawsuits, violence and killings.
According to the Central Working Committee, 38 party members have been killed by junta forces since the coup. The junta has also seized 209 houses belonging to NLD members and raided and destroyed more than 100 party offices.
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oreign media reported that on Tuesday afternoon, residents of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, were suddenly ordered to stay indoors, so they scrambled to go home. It was rumoured that a "national problem" occurred, and North Korea implemented a national blockade. .
Residents of Pyongyang, North Korea, were suddenly ordered to stay indoors in the afternoon of the 10th, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, according to NK News, which is based in Seoul, South Korea and provides news and analysis on North Korea. One source described the cause as a "national lockdown", while another referred to a "national problem". The order sparked a wave of people returning home, with long queues at bus stops in Pyongyang on Tuesday afternoon and residents rushing home on foot.
Citing sources, the report said authorities had apparently instructed citizens not to leave their homes but did not specify when the order would be lifted. Although farmers were still farming on the border between the two Koreas near Paju at around 5 pm on Tuesday, NK News understands that the orders may have been issued nationwide.
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Image : Pudong International Airport is said to be strictly investigating "malicious departures", and customs in many places in the mainland have reported that the passports of mainland tourists have been cut. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
The strict city closure policies implemented in many Chinese cities such as Shanghai have aroused more and more people's dissatisfaction, and a large number of Chinese people want to immigrate, study abroad or go abroad in other ways. The CCP Customs has strengthened its control, and there are many reports of cutting passports and even cutting green cards. There was also news on the Internet that Shanghai Pudong Airport was strictly investigating "malicious departures".
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There was a conversation on the Internet earlier. A man claimed to have traveled from Dalian to Japan and saw more than a dozen people have their passports cut. The little sister at customs security told him that he had cut more than 20 passports that day.
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Image : Netizens disclosed the certificates issued by customs officers to those who passed the preliminary review when they left the country. (Weibo)
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On 10 May 2022, Weibo posted the information of seeing the "Pudong Five Patrol" group, requiring all at T1 to strengthen the security inspection of international routes, and those with "hatred of the country and the party" will not be allowed to leave the country. Permanent residence cards of other countries, a large amount of foreign currency, savings certificates of other countries, etc., if there is a "malicious departure" in winter, such documents will be destroyed on the spot.
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Baidu’s statistics also show that from 28 March to 3 April 2022, searches such as “conditions for immigrating to Canada” and “where to go abroad” increased by more than 20 times compared to the previous month, providing an index related to immigration. On social media, some immigration agencies have posted about long queues of people coming to consult.
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Why did WHO Tedros deny the dynamic clearing policy?
Comments / Report by : Zhou Xiaohui / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/5/11/n13733078.htm
On 10 May 2022, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made a very rare statement on Beijing's "dynamic clearing" policy at a press conference. "Given the performance of the virus and our expectations for the future, we don't think it's sustainable," he said, adding that the WHO had discussed the issue with Chinese experts and expressed a "zero out" policy and dynamic clearing is an "unsustainable" idea. "The shift is very important," he said, and now that there is better understanding of the virus and better tools to fight it, it is time to change tack.
Following Tedros' remarks, WHO emergencies director Mike Ryan went on to point out that China has reported 15,000 deaths since the outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019. That number is relatively low compared to nearly 1 million in the U.S., more than 660,000 in Brazil and more than 520,000 in India, and considering this, “the most populous country in the world wants to take tough measures is understandable to contain the covid infection,” but the impact of zero-covid policy on human rights also needs to be considered. "We need to strike a balance between control measures and their impact on society, society, which is not always easy to calibrate."
Please note that the statement of the senior WHO officials is that various humanitarian disasters have occurred in the closure and control of Shanghai. On 5 May, the top leader of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, once again released the "Unswervingly Adhere to the 'Dynamic Clearing'" at the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China. policy". Senior WHO officials who have always been close to the CCP, especially Tedros, actually openly disagreed with the highest level in Beijing. What is behind this?
You know, when the Winter Olympics were held in February this year, Tedros came to Beijing as one of the few foreign VIPs. In addition to being received collectively by Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang also met him individually. Li Keqiang appreciated the WHO's support for the Winter Olympics and his visit to China two years ago when the CCP was in the most difficult time.
In addition to his congratulations, Tedros "highly appreciates the efforts of the Chinese government and people in fighting the epidemic", "willing to continue to cooperate with China", and "opposes the politicization of traceability". Tedros' remarks, especially on the last point of opposing virus traceability, won the hearts of the CCP, because the covi traceability promoted by Europe and the United States, once carried out, the source will definitely confirm that the virus came from China, from the Wuhan virus laboratory. At that time, the CCP will bear a very heavy responsibility, and it is likely to face global condemnation and huge compensation.
Why does Tedros consider issues from the CCP's standpoint? On 10 April 2020, a commentary article in Hong Kong's "Apple Daily" pointed out that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has been endorsing the epidemic in China, recently scolded the United States against Taiwan and took on most of the artillery fire for the CCP authorities. The WHO, the ringer and coordinator of the global fight against the epidemic, has become an international institution under the leadership of the CCP, and has become a pawn of the CCP.
The article also pointed out that from the moment Tedros flew to Beijing to meet Xi Jinping on 28 January and praised Xi for "directing and deploying in person, and showing excellent leadership", WHO's buttocks sat crooked. Since then, Tedros has not only said that there is no need to restrict the flow of international personnel and international trade, but has openly helped the CCP to oppose the evacuation of Chinese nationals by the United States and the restrictions imposed by the United States on the entry of Chinese people., saying it was still "premature" to declare a global pandemic.
It was not until the day after Xi Jinping visited Wuhan on March 11 and declared China's "phased victory" in the fight against the epidemic that Tedros declared a global pandemic and accused "inaction of various countries". When the virus swept the world and countries around the world condemned the CCP for concealing the epidemic and questioning the WHO's dereliction of duty, Tedros scolded the United States against Taiwan and was in sympathy with the CCP.
The article believes that from the perspective of the relationship between the CCP and the WHO, it is the WHO who leads the fight against the epidemic, the party leads the WHO, and Xi Jinping "controlled the WHO through Tedros."
During the same period, many foreign media also questioned and criticized the WHO and Tedros, saying that "the WHO has lost its independence and trustworthiness." Sai is repaying and "inviting favor" to China (the CCP), because Tedros and WHO took the CCP's money to "take people's money and people to eliminate disasters". is this real?
According to an article in the Chinese Communist Party's "Global Times" supporting Tedros, Tedros once served as Ethiopia's foreign minister, and Ethiopia and the CCP have always had good relations. "Only from 2006 to 2015, that is, Tedros served in the Ethiopian government. During this period, more than 13 billion US dollars of loans were obtained from Beijing.” In addition, in March 2020, Chen Xu, the representative of the Chinese Communist Party in Geneva, met with Tedros to inform China of its decision to donate 20 million US dollars to the WHO; since 2015, China has Contributions to WHO budget funds have increased by more than 50%.
Another mainland media reported that in August 2017, when Desai, who had just become WHO director-general, visited Beijing, the CCP signed a memorandum of understanding with the WHO to donate an additional 20 million US dollars, which is equivalent to A great gift to the new Director General.
Therefore, saying that Xi Jinping is "manipulating the WHO by managing Tedros" is by no means out of nothing, and there is no exchange of interests. How could Tedros have been on the side of the CCP for more than two years during the epidemic? It is no secret that the CCP controls various organizations in the world through money.
So, what is more strange now is why Tedros, who has always been under Beijing's orders, suddenly sang against the highest level in Beijing?
The author speculates that there may be the following reasons:
One is that Xi's opposition in the party has made Tedros voice his opposition at a higher price, and for a person whose interests are paramount, this possibility exists.
The second is that Beijing used the WHO's mouth to find an excuse for itself not to come down. This possibility cannot be ruled out.
The third is the pressure from Europe and the United States. Tedros, the only one nominated for re-election as director-general, will be formally appointed at the World Health Assembly in late May, and he won by a landslide with the support of European and American countries.
The closure of Shanghai for more than a month and the closure of the Yiwu wholesale market in Zhejiang have seriously affected the global supply chain, and also had a certain impact on the European and American economies. This is precisely due to the CCP's extreme epidemic prevention policies. Although more and more companies in Europe and the United States choose to withdraw, it will still take some time. Therefore, the lifting of Shanghai's blockade is very important to ease the economic pressure of various countries. Therefore, it is very likely that under the pressure of Europe and the United States, Tedros chose to publicly criticize Beijing's zero-clearing policy to exert pressure.
Whatever the reason, the real reason has nothing to do with the epidemic. So, if it is the first and third reasons, will the top level in Beijing change the zero-covid policy because of the denial of the WHO? It is also difficult to estimate, because it is related to the issue of personal political authority. One possibility is to have Shanghai announce that the social situation is cleared as soon as possible, then lift the lockdown and restore the supply chain.
On May 6, Shanghai Secretary Li Qiang held a mobilization meeting after Xi's speech, saying that military orders should be issued at every level. According to internal sources, the goal is to “reach less than 2,000 infected people in the city by May 10, and the society will be completely cleared by mid-May.” At present, the first goal has been achieved. On May 10, Shanghai announced that the number of infected people was less than 2,000. No matter how fake it was or how it was achieved, the negative side has been preserved. This also means that social zero can also be achieved in the middle of the year.
There is also a possibility that the top level of Beijing is willing to continue to suffer losses and continue to block and control Shanghai for other purposes, then it will encounter more challenges inside and outside the party and the world, especially after the mid-term elections in the United States, if the Republican Party overturns, We should not let go of tracing the origin of the CCP virus. At that time, will Tedros still be willing to stand on the broken ship of the CCP?
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