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Russian media: China closes airspace to Russian Boeing and Airbus planes
Editor : Jing Zhongming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/06/01/a103444291.html / Image : An Airbus plane of Aeroflot. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
The CCP claims that Sino-Russian cooperation "has no upper limit". However, Russian media recently revealed that the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) followed the West and closed its airspace to Russia's Boeing and Airbus aircraft.
On 27 May 2022, the Russian news agency "Russian Business Consulting (RBC)" quoted two sources as saying that China banned Russian Boeing and Airbus planes from foreign leasing companies from flying over Chinese airspace.
In May, Chinese aviation authorities asked all airlines flying to and from China, including Aeroflot, to update their electronic files, a source explained. This was supposed to be a standard procedure but the Chinese authorities have recently adjusted it.
Aeroflot updated information as requested but Chinese authorities demanded confirmation that Aeroflot’s imported planes had been officially cancelled abroad. Aeroflot cannot provide such documents. Therefore, the Chinese authorities abide by international aviation regulations and refuse to allow such aircraft to fly into China.
Similar news was disclosed by Russian operators before, when the CCP claimed that some Russian flights “no longer meet ICAO/IATA requirements” and were therefore cancelled.
Other countries have recently introduced similar new registration requirements for flights, the report said, such as Turkey's refusal to use "dual-registration" aircraft (mandatory registration in Russia) on flights to or through its airspace.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Western countries imposed a number of sanctions on the Russian aviation industry. The European Union has banned Russian aircraft from using its airspace and has also asked foreign leasing companies to terminate contracts with Aeroflot. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin allowed leased foreign aircraft to be registered in Russia for continued use.
In addition, the latest report of the Israeli cybersecurity company "Check Point" revealed that after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, hackers supported by the CCP continued to steal advanced Russian military technology, and even used the Russia-Ukraine war to fabricate phishing emails and send them to Russian research airborne satellites Agency for communications, radar, and electronic warfare.
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FBI director: CCP conducts cyberattacks, large-scale fraud and theft
Image : On 25 May 2022, FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks at the "FBI Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Hearing" convened by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. (Bonnie Cash - Pool/Getty Images)
FBI Director Christopher Wray attended the Boston Cyber Security Conference on Wednesday (1 June 2022) and spoke at the Boston Cybersecurity Conference. He warns Americans to be careful about instances of intrusion.
With the impact of the covid pandemic, the personal and professional lives of many Americans have moved more online, and malicious cyber actors continue to exploit holes in people and networks.
"This includes cybercriminals holding data for ransom, and countries like China stealing defense and industrial secrets," Lei said.
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CCP is studying the Ukrainian war and simulating an invasion of Taiwan
Wray noted that the U.S. is particularly concerned about lessons learned from the Ukraine conflict that are more broadly applicable.
"We are not the only party. We know that the CCP Chinese are taking a close look at the Ukraine conflict. They are trying to figure out how to improve their (combat) capabilities to deter or harm us in a (potential) attack on Taiwan," Wray said.
As the U.S. considers how to defend against a potential Chinese aggression against Taiwan, the lessons of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — about the urgency of fighting an adversary at the moment of entry or earlier — are equally applicable, he said.
Wray said that while Russia's potential network access across the United States may be vast, it is too insignificant compared to CCP's cyber infiltration or intrusion into the United States.
However, China, Russia, Iran, etc. are all the same, basically hiring cybercriminals, actually cyber mercenaries, he said.
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CCP hackers serve economic goals without restraint
Wray said that the CCP's hacking program is long-term and has specific long-term economic goals.
“Today, China is clearly a very different threat than Russia. The Chinese government is systematic, hacking for long-term economic goals.”
Ray stressed that the scale of CCP hackers' operations is beyond the reach of Russia.
"They have a larger hacking program than all the other major countries combined," Wray said. "They stole more American personal and corporate data than all countries combined. They haven't shown much restraint in their ambition and aggression."
He said the Chinese hackers' actions, which sometimes appear rambunctious and reckless, are in fact following a long-term strategic plan by Beijing to undermine the national and economic security of the United States.
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The CCP government is playing hooligan to let foreign companies install tax software with backdoors
Wray mentioned that the Chinese market and the CCP's dominance over companies have become leverage and tools used by the CCP authorities.
“For many U.S. and foreign companies that do business in China, or want to do business in China, the cost (of agreeing to the CCP authorities’ cyber regulation) is actually equivalent to a full agreement that it monitors in the name of security, which is not bad. A better situation," Ray said.
"In the worst-case scenario, companies have to accept the risk that sensitive company information could be used to serve Beijing's geopolitical goals."
In 2020, the FBI found that some U.S. companies operating in China were targeted by the CCP government for the mandatory installation of tax software, Wray said. These businesses are required to use certain Chinese government-approved software to comply with the local VAT system and other Chinese laws.
Some U.S. companies then discovered that malware had entered their networks through tax-preparation software. Wray said these companies abide by Chinese laws and conduct legitimate business in China, and as a result their systems are backdoored.
This is just one example of how the Chinese government can lie, cheat and steal the global technology sector in pursuit of its goals, Wray said.
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The CCP uses the whole society to steal foreign technology
In addition to the Internet, there are also CCP agents who were recently sued by the Ministry of Justice for agricultural innovation in the United States, and went to experimental sites to dig out patented genetically modified seeds.
Lei said that the CCP’s stealing of technology through espionage and corporate transactions is often coordinated with cyber intrusions, and sometimes the former is even in the service of cyber intrusion plans. For example: Recently, the Chinese National Security Agency used agents installed in the United States to allow Chinese hackers to infiltrate GE Aviation’s joint venture partners and steal proprietary engine technology.
"The Chinese [CCP] government sees the Internet as a vehicle for massive fraud and theft," Wray said. "It's really a whole-of-government operation to steal research and proprietary secrets from U.S. companies and then drive down prices in the global market. That way , companies that play by the rules can’t compete.”
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A game of whack-a-mole on the U.S.-China network
In March 2021, Microsoft and other U.S. technology and cybersecurity companies disclosed a vulnerability in Microsoft's Exchange server software, through which hackers operating in China have breached more than 10,000 U.S. networks.
The U.S. government then discovered that Chinese hackers had planted Webshells—malicious code—in these compromised computers and created a backdoor that allowed them to continue to remotely access the victim’s network.
Because some system owners could not remove Webshells themselves, the FBI and CISA, the agency responsible for cybersecurity, passed a court-authorized order to remove the harmful code from hundreds of vulnerable computers.
While the U.S. has closed the back door this time, it is also a stark reminder that "the Chinese government remains a prolific and effective cyber-espionage threat," Wray said.
He said that China and Russia are not the only nation-states showing malicious behavior on the international stage. Iran and North Korea have also continued their sophisticated intrusion campaigns targeting U.S. victims.
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80% of Americans tighten their belts to offset soaring inflation
Reporter : Xiao Jing / Editor : Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/06/01/a103444349.html
A survey shows that most Americans are trying various ways to offset the impact of inflation and the rising cost of daily necessities.
The latest BMO (Bank of Montreal) Real Financial Progress Index released Tuesday (31 May 2022) shows that among Americans who are taking action to reduce spending, they are buying cheaper items and eating out less, among other things. expenditure:
➣ 42% are changing the way they shop for groceries, including choosing cheaper items, avoiding brands, and buying only essentials;
➣ 46% are eating out less or are consciously spending less while eating out;
➣ 31% are driving less to offset soaring gas bills;
➣ 23% are reducing vacation spending, or canceling vacations entirely;
➣ 22% are taking steps such as canceling subscriptions to gyms, cable TV, etc.
Meanwhile, one in four Americans is delaying retirement because of soaring prices.
The survey was conducted in the United States by Ipsos from 30 March to 25 April 2022. It surveyed 3,407 adults.
The results also showed that Americans were slightly more confident than the previous quarter, with confidence levels rising from 75% last quarter to 78% this quarter.
This shows that "more and more Americans are [being] in control of their personal finances, have a written financial plan and are in more regular contact with their financial advisor," Harris Bank, BMO said. .
Annual U.S. inflation eased slightly to 8.3% in April, data showed, but was still above consensus forecasts of 8.1%.
This is the first year-on-year decline in the consumer price index (CPI) since August 2021. While inflation has fallen from a peak of 8.5% in March, it remains near a 40-year high.
Core inflation, which excludes the volatile food and energy sectors, jumped to 6.2%, above the 6% expected by economists, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The sharp rise in airfare and hotel prices, as well as the rising cost of housing, has pushed up core inflation.
On a monthly basis, inflation rose 0.3% and core inflation jumped 0.6%. This is still a broad-based inflation report, with the main index up from the same period a year ago. Food prices surged 9.4%, while energy prices jumped 30.3%; new car prices rose 13.2%, used cars and trucks 22.7%; housing costs, which make up nearly a third of the CPI, rose 5.1%, the most since May 1991.
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Why didn't Shanghai mention lifting the lockdown?
The Shanghai Municipal Government announced in the evening of 30 May 2022 that since “the epidemic has been effectively controlled and the situation continues to improve,” Shanghai will resume access to residential quarters, public transport operations and motor vehicle traffic from 0:00 on 1 June 2022.
On the 31st of the second day, Zeng Qun, deputy director of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, reiterated at a press conference that: except for medium and high-risk areas and closed and controlled areas, "no unit or individual may restrict the residents living in this community for any reason. Villagers go home, and employees who resume work and production go to get off work and go off work.”
In addition, the entire network of ground buses and rail transit in Shanghai has resumed operations. Cross-river ferries, taxis, and online car-hailing have also resumed normal operations. This means that Shanghai has basically lifted the two-month-long "closed city" state in Shanghai since the "zonal closure and control" was launched on 28 March.
In the notice issued by the Shanghai government, the word "closed city" was not mentioned at all, but was described literary and artistically as "the megacity of Shanghai has been quiet like never before". Of course, the word "unblocking" will not be mentioned, because without the closure of the city, there will be no unblocking. Shanghai has just experienced a poetic journey from "quiet" to "moving" again.
This is of course not the negligence of the Shanghai government, but a meticulous design. From an internal notice circulated on the Internet that is suspected to be from the Shanghai Municipal Government, it can be found that the Shanghai authorities asked various media to refrain from using the word "unblocking" when reporting, saying that "the situation in Shanghai is different from that in Wuhan, and it has never been announced. The city has been locked down, so there is no 'unblocking'. Shanghai's global static management is just 'pressing the pause button'."
As soon as the news came out, the most intense response from Shanghai people was not joy and joy, but shock and scolding. The reason is very simple. Zeng Qun, the deputy director of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau mentioned earlier, publicly stated at a press conference that the neighborhood committee is an autonomous organization of urban residents, not a government agency, so all actions of the neighborhood committee are managed by the residents themselves. The result of self-government, not government directives.
He also said that the official rules and regulations should be subject to those issued by the municipal party committee and the municipal government. The information released by the neighborhood committee only represents the consensus of actions of the neighborhood committee and the community itself, and the government is not responsible for its legitimacy. In the future, the neighborhood committee will mention the "requirements of the relevant departments at higher levels". Except for documents with official seals, in principle, they are all oral orders (orally communicated), and the government does not recognize them.
That is to say, the Shanghai government did not change its face and confidently blamed all the consequences of all the coercive measures during the closure of the city, whether casualties or economic collapse, to the neighborhood committees.
According to this logic, Shanghai people voluntarily sealed themselves for two months through self-governance with a high level of "revolutionary consciousness". Staying home is voluntary; the door is welded and the stairs are pulled up with barbed wire; the iron fences used for hard isolation outside each building are surrounded by the residents themselves; All the residents invented and printed it themselves; when they broke into the room, whether food, clothing, electrical appliances or rare books were sprayed with disinfectant without dead ends, the residents sprayed it themselves when they were full and had nothing to do; because they could not get the supplies. , The number of people who died of starvation, illness, and jumping from buildings because they had no way to seek medical treatment due to waiting for nucleic acid results were also voluntarily dedicated to the party "for the victory of the great zero-covid struggle movement".
What kind of operation is this? This is what we used to call "killing the heart". This party not only beat you, locked you, even raped and killed you, but also made you publicly admit that you fought well, raped well and killed well. This is all of you. You want to do it yourself, and the reason why you are willing to do it is because you want to take the initiative to meet the needs of the party, and the party has never forced you to do anything.
As you can see, it is conceivable what kind of public opinion response this kind of strange operation will cause. Some people directly said, please don't call the government a rogue in the future, it is too wronged and a rogue. There are also people who say that they have seen shameless people, but they have never seen such shameless people. Some people sarcastically said that it turned out that some foreign forces went to Shanghai to seal the city? This time it wasn't the devil who entered the village, it was the devil who entered the village.
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The terrible meaning behind the dumping neighborhood committee
As we all know, the neighborhood committee is the abbreviation of "community residents committee", which is the management organization of the grass-roots community in mainland China. etc. are directly elected by the residents. Attention everyone, the key word here is "nominal".
This kind of organization was born in the 1950s, and has undergone several changes in the middle. In August 2010, the Central Office and the State Office issued the "Opinions on Strengthening and Improving the Construction of Urban Community Residents' Committees", and the work funds, personnel remuneration, service facilities and community informatization construction of the formal residents' committees were all included in the government. financial budget.
Therefore, the neighborhood committee has become a self-governing organization in name, but it is actually an organization that receives government remuneration and operating funds. That is to say, although everyone knows that the neighborhood committee is the de facto last tentacle of the CCP in urban grassroots management, the party can declare at any time that it is just an autonomous organization of residents and has nothing to do with the party.
It performs actual government functions but does not recognize any government name. This is the special role played by neighborhood committees in the grassroots governance system in mainland China. Correspondingly, in rural areas it is called a village committee. It can be attacked or defended, and the two faces of the government and the people can be freely switched as needed. This is the exclusive secret of the CCP. They do it internally, and they do it externally.
The people in Shanghai are shocked and incredulous at the Shanghai authorities' dumping operation, because many people have a feeling that "how can you betray a person with big eyebrows and big eyes". In fact, the CCP regime has been playing this trick in all political campaigns for hundreds of years. The image of thick eyebrows and big eyes has always been forged by political makeup artists.
Anyone who knows a little bit about the history of the CCP knows that the rebels or Red Guards of the "Revolutionary Committee" during the Cultural Revolution fought against the capitalist roaders, ransacked homes, tortured them, and even killed people in the streets. Which government documents were stamped in their hands? No one is there, and everyone is doing things with a "superior notice" or "oral order" "situation requires".
When the Cultural Revolution is over, the party has changed its face to clean up the "three kinds of people", and will use the law to investigate these people's criminal behavior during the Cultural Revolution. In this way, he was sent to prison or sent to the execution ground on the back of the criminal charges of the Cultural Revolution.
After more than 20 years of reform and opening up, the CCP has been engaging in the so-called construction of the rule of law and the rule of law, etc. on the surface, and many people have gradually forgotten this scene. To really restore this whole practice of bypassing the public prosecution system and directly manipulating a political movement with verbal notification and internal communication, Jiang Zemin used the 610 system to persecute the Falun Gong group.
During the more than 20 years of persecution, the 610 system has always relied on internal instructions or telephone communication, so the outside world has not seen an official government document, and thousands of people are in this way. During the operation of the system, the human world is silently evaporated or sent to the bottomless black prison.
The reason why we sort out this relationship is to clarify that this whole control system was restored and further expanded and perfected during the persecution of Falun Gong, and it was directly used in Xinjiang. With this system, the CCP has secretly detained millions of people almost as quietly and secretly, and built numerous heavily guarded concentration camps, while the outside world initially knew little about it. It was not until the few survivors escaped that the tip of the iceberg of the genocide was revealed.
Now you can see that this system is used in Shanghai. We must not underestimate the serious significance of this public rebuke by the Shanghai authorities. This is not an ordinary shirk, but a sign that this management and control system using words instead of law has officially moved from behind the scenes to the front desk. This is a very dangerous sign. When everyone is shocked that Shanghai, which was once regarded as the ceiling of mainland local governance civilization, can ignore basic social rules and government credibility and act as a hooligan at will, you should realize that this way the management and control model will be normalized and popularized.
In other words, in this system, the neighborhood committees actually played the role of “revolutionary committees” to a considerable extent during the Cultural Revolution. They could act arbitrarily according to a vague and flexible “superior notice”, and could arbitrarily deprive people of their rights when necessary. liberty and even property. And once the conflict escalates and the situation expands, they can be easily sacrificed at any time by taking the blame of "unauthorized decision", and then another group of people can start over.
This is what we are talking about terrifying: the Shanghai government's dumping of the pot not only publicly acknowledged the successful application of this system in Shanghai, but also announced the beginning of the disguised legalization of "neighborhood committees" into contemporary "revolutionary committees."
Why didn't the authorities mention locking down the city or lifting it? It is also emphasized that Shanghai just presses the pause button, and the core functions of the city keep running during the period? The purpose is to leave this leeway: whether the economy is cut in half, or humanitarian disasters are rampant, this responsibility cannot be counted on the head of the clearing line. You see, we have never said that the city is closed, it is the people below, especially the neighborhood committee. These guys screwed up.
Some friends may think, are you a little alarmist? Let's put it this way: According to Shanghai officials, all these measures were implemented by the neighborhood committees organized by the residents, and the government never issued a document asking for it. That is to say, theoretically speaking, the residents can completely hold the residents committee's legal responsibility. First of all, a crime of illegal detention cannot escape.
All residents whose personal rights have been violated during the city closure period, whether they have lost their lives or personal freedom, whether they have lost their family property or company stores, can pursue legal accountability for the illegal acts of the relevant personnel of the neighborhood committee and recover damages.
Let's take a look at how many people really think that this is just a crime committed by the neighborhood committee. If someone really prosecutes, how many people from the neighborhood committee will be convicted and sent to prison.
I believe that most of my friends will not be optimistic about this, right? The reason why it is not optimistic is very simple. The authorities now only need the neighborhood committees to bear the accusations and pressure of public opinion with the skin of non-governmental self-governance. Once you are serious about going through legal procedures, you will find that the government agency genes in the bones of the neighborhood committee will come into play.
So, when we see this clearly, and then look back at the people driving cars, waving the blood flag of the CCP, and celebrating Shanghai's unblocking with excited expressions, you will have an idea of how the huge black hand of the CCP will take care of it. The public has a deeper understanding of the kind of deep-seated evil that the public plays with their palms.
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The Bureau of Statistics is unusual in cracking down on counterfeiting, and Li Keqiang makes a ruthless move
Alright, next we want to talk to you about another piece of news about Li Keqiang, which can also be said to be another ruthless move he made after removing the medical insurance bureau for nucleic acid testing.
On 31 May 2022, the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission announced that Zhang Jinghua, the former deputy secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, was double-fed and transferred to justice. In the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection's briefing to Zhang Jinghua, in addition to the "big deal of power and money, illegally accepting huge amounts of property" and other charges that are standard for sacked corrupt officials, there is also a rare expression called "deviation of political performance, economic development for the sake of personal progress, data falsification, illegal intervention and intervention in market economic activities.”
This sounds very funny at first, right, because the falsification of economic data by CCP officials is never news, and it is news if they are not falsified. It is obviously a bit unusual to single out such a crime that has long been blamed by the law.
If we pay attention, we will see that on 30 May 2022, the day before Zhang Jinghua was double-opened, the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China held a video conference called "Special Rectification Work Mobilization and Deployment for the Problem of Statistical Frauds and Constraints".
At this meeting, Kang Yi, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Bureau of Statistics, demanded that we must fight against statistical fraud and fraud, and focus on the "four must-haves" such as power intervention, data rent-seeking, lax law enforcement, and storage and withdrawal. "Three batches", such as strict and fast investigation and punishment of a batch of major cases, accountability of a batch of cadres who violated statistical disciplines and laws, and exposure of a batch of typical cases of statistical fraud, etc.
Obviously, Zhang Jinghua's "economic data falsification" is related to the special campaign against statistical falsification suddenly deployed by the Bureau of Statistics. The special action here is to create momentum, the announcement of the charges over there is to establish a model, and the combination of point and face, this small departmental movement can be carried out in depth.
This is the CCP's usual policy method, which is not the point in itself. The point is that the CCP, which has always been well versed in economic data fraud and regarded it as a routine, has suddenly changed its mind to crack down on statistical fraud at this point?
Everyone knows that the current economy of the CCP is very bad. No one in the public knows how bad it is. They can only shout to save the economy from Li Keqiang’s frequent high-profile appearances, and the unprecedented scale of the 100,000-person meeting. I feel that this time the crisis may be different from the past.
According to the consistent nature of the CCP, the more the economic crisis is, the more it should be favored by public opinion. Previously, we discussed an article signed by the editorial department of the Economic Daily published by the party media on 25 May called "A Comprehensive Dialectical View of the Current Economic Situation". It is a behavior that conforms to the political logic of the CCP.
To create this kind of public opinion that has the confidence to shout that the economic situation is good, there must be quite authoritative economic data as arguments and support, so what kind of data the National Bureau of Statistics produces is very critical, right? If you give a series of unsightly data that makes you want to cry without tears, no matter how clever the writing team of the party media is, they will not be able to play with flowers and wear them on Xi Jinping's head. In other words, wearing it on the head of the line of "the great proletarian eradication revolution is good".
So, this topic is discussed here, I think maybe my friends have understood it. According to the CCP’s consistent logic, even if it is impossible to falsify data to prove that the economic situation is good, it must try to falsify data to prove that the current economic crisis is not serious, just a small pond that cannot overturn the vast ocean. But at a time when the whole country, and even the whole world, is concerned about how bad the Chinese economy is, the Bureau of Statistics under the State Council began to crack down on statistical fraud.
In other words, this is equivalent to sending a signal: Don't worry, no matter how ugly or ugly the economic data is, the daughter-in-law must show her face to meet her in-laws. Li Keqiang, the mother-in-law, of course knew it for a long time. He was not afraid of the ugly daughter-in-law at all, and even hoped that the uglier the daughter-in-law, the better. The uglier the daughter-in-law, the fuller his right to speak.
For Xi Jinping, the father-in-law, that's another story. The uglier this daughter-in-law is, the more dull his face is, because he caused the ugly daughter-in-law to enter the door.
So in my opinion, the ugliness of real economic data is actually a very sharp weapon in the hands of Li Keqiang. He deployed a special anti-counterfeiting operation to ensure that the knife remains sharp. This is the most effective weapon against zero at present. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision and Administration Commission cooperated with the Bureau of Statistics to deploy such an action, which has already revealed a very bad signal for Xi Jinping: the knife he used to be most comfortable with is probably showing signs of defecting.
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Hong Kong's passenger traffic falls to 2% before the epidemic, losing its status as the world's leading airport
Image : Hong Kong's strict entry restrictions, coupled with negative factors such as continued outflow of residents, have kept passenger traffic at about 2% of pre-pandemic levels. The picture shows that on 1 April 2022, the Hong Kong government cancelled the regional flight circuit breaker mechanism implemented in 9 countries, and inbound passengers were taken to the hotel quarantine area after registration. (Isaac Lawrence / AFP)
The global epidemic has eased, and customs have been cleared in various places. However, Hong Kong still follows the CCP’s zero-clearing policy and has not eased border restrictions. The French bank Natixis recently released a research report saying that Hong Kong's strict entry restrictions, coupled with negative factors such as the continued outflow of residents, have caused passenger traffic to hover around 2% of the pre-epidemic level, making Hong Kong one of the worst regions in the aviation industry in Asia. The report stressed that if this situation continues, Hong Kong will lose its competitiveness in the aviation sector.
Hong Kong has historically been the world's leading international cargo airport and the fourth busiest international passenger airport in the world, after Dubai, London Heathrow and Amsterdam. About 120 airlines operate routes in Hong Kong to more than 200 destinations around the world. In 2019, 71.5 million people traveled between Hong Kong, the mainland and more than 200 cities overseas.
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Passenger traffic slumps among worst in Asia
However, a research report released by Natixis recently pointed out that at the beginning of the outbreak in 2020, because the global aviation industry was in a state of blockade, there was no significant difference between Hong Kong and other markets at that time but the airline industry has been dealt a fatal blow since the fifth wave of the outbreak at the beginning of the year, when crews faced stricter quarantine requirements. Recently, the rest of the world has been opening up but Hong Kong has remained stagnant and has been restricted due to sporadic outbreaks, dragging local passenger traffic to 2% of pre-pandemic levels, one of the worst performing regions in Asia.
The report also pointed out that the net outflow of Hong Kong residents has continued for many months. Even though the passenger flow trend reversed in May, it has not returned to normal levels.
Alicia Garcia Herrero, chief economist for the Asia-Pacific region at Natixis, who participated in the release of the research report, said that airfreight plays an important role in Hong Kong's foreign trade. Among all transport channels, airfreight goods account for 42% of the total trade value. Before the tightening of crew quarantine rules, trade in Hong Kong and other Asian markets grew at roughly the same pace as mainland China. However, since Hong Kong and the mainland tightened their anti-epidemic policies at the beginning of this year, the latest data shows that in March, the trade volume between Hong Kong and the mainland plummeted by 16% year-on-year, while other major competitors in the region, such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, increased by 12% year-on-year, reflecting that border control may be a decisive factor.
Isia also cited the data of Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines for comparison, pointing out that Cathay Pacific’s Hong Kong airline passenger traffic was equivalent to 8% of the pre-epidemic level last year, but dropped to 2% in April this year; 33%, increased to 63%. In terms of air cargo, the recovery pace of the two places last year was similar, about 60% of that before the epidemic but there was a significant difference in April this year. Hong Kong’s cargo volume dropped sharply to 29% of the pre-epidemic level, while Singapore gradually recovered to the pre-epidemic level of 72%.
The report also pointed out that in addition to the outflow of residents, the seriousness of the problem lies in Hong Kong's role in the world and its connection with the world. If Hong Kong continues to lag, short-term pressure may become a permanent impact, causing Hong Kong to lose its competitiveness in the aviation industry.
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IATA: Hong Kong disappears from aviation map
Recently, the global epidemic has slowed down, and borders of various countries have been reopened one after another. However, Hong Kong is still following the CCP's "dynamic clearing" policy, imposing long hotel quarantines on travelers. Even those who test negative for the virus must be quarantined.
Under the draconian zero-covid policy, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific said its crew stayed in quarantine hotels for more than 62,000 nights in 2021 and underwent more than 230,000 tests but only 16 of them were covi-positive.
In January 2022, Hong Kong banned flights from nine countries including Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States. A week later, the Hong Kong government banned the transit of flights from 150 countries and regions. In January, Cathay Pacific carried fewer than 800 passengers a day, equivalent to the full capacity of its two Boeing 777 long-haul jets.
While Hong Kong's quarantine period for travelers arriving from overseas has now been reduced from three weeks to one week, the hassle and costs remain prohibitive for travelers, especially as most other countries have abandoned quarantine policies. For example, Singapore no longer requires arrivals to undergo nucleic acid testing and quarantine.
On 1 April 2022, the Hong Kong government cancelled the regional flight circuit breaker mechanism implemented on flights from 9 countries. However, the Hong Kong aviation industry did not usher in a spring. In April this year, the airport's passenger traffic was 126,000, double the 2021 figure, but less than 2% from the 6.5 million in April 2019.
Willie Walsh, secretary general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), said in early April that Hong Kong had lost its role as an international aviation hub due to restrictions on inbound flights and strict passenger quarantine measures. "Hong Kong's recovery (in terms of aviation) is seriously lagging behind the rest of the world," he said bluntly. "Hong Kong has practically disappeared from the aviation map. I think it will be difficult for Hong Kong to recover."
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Chongqing police shoot and kill people on the street
Reporter : Ning Haizhong / Editor: Li Muen / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/5/31/n13749070.htm / Image : The victim's family held on to the bald police officer who shot, and the public denounced the police. (Video screenshot)
At night of 30 May 2022, a shooting occurred in Chongqing. A policeman shot a man while dealing with a dispute. The man died after being sent to the hospital. . The police reported that the man attacked the police but netizens said that the police fired directly without warning. When the incident happened, there was a commotion in the streets.
The official Weibo of the Beibei District Bureau of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a situation report on May 31 saying that at about 18:50 on May 30, a dispute occurred at the gate of the Gangda Electric City on Longxi Road, Beibei District. Arrive at the scene to police. During the disposal, the client Weng X (male, 49 years old) was dissatisfied with the police's handling and attacked the police with his wife Chen X.
According to the video posted on the Internet, the insider said that because of a traffic accident, it was just a small friction, and the police had a bad temper, so they beat the person to death, causing public outrage at the scene.
The video showed that the man who was hit by the police fell to the ground, and rescuers carried him away on a stretcher after failing to rescue him. The bald traffic policeman who fired the shot was taken away by the police amid the crowd's denunciation and the pulling of the victim's family. A pool of blood was left on the ground.
The voice from the scene: "The police beat him to death, he is not allowed to leave, it's so scary, (this policeman) or else..." "Pull it out, don't let it go, don't let it go."
In a screenshot of a WeChat group chat circulated on the Internet, some netizens pointed out that the policeman who murdered belonged to the traffic patrol police, and the police fired directly without warning.
Netizens revealed the reason for the incident, "The woman rode a motorcycle and hung the shed next to it. The police came to deal with it, and she had a (quarrel) with the woman. The man went to help, and the police shot in the chest... , no warning, no shots were fired, and it was directly overturned with one shot, and many people saw it. ... So aroused public anger and did not let the police car pull people away, so later special police and armed police came. "
Related news rushed to the mainland's Baidu and Weibo hot searches. Weibo netizens condemned the police: "Why don't you shoot other non-vital parts", "A bloody case caused by the tarpaulin of a battery car! The video of the law enforcement recorder has not been released yet. Judging from this photo alone, the police's various fully equipped, does it have to be KAIQIANG? Besides, this policeman’s bald head is really bright!” “Who knows if you will be beaten next.”
However, most of the Weibo comments criticizing the police were deleted, and the ones left in the front were actually those who supported the killing of the police.
After the video was uploaded to overseas Twitter, netizens expressed grief and indignation, "The traffic police of the communist cult shot innocent people and killed ordinary people in broad daylight. See the police and traffic police in the future and ask for more blessings!"
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Chongqing police shoot man, witnesses reveal details
Reporters : Ning Haizhong and Hong Ning / Editor : Gao Jing / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/5/31/n13749360.htm / Image : At night of 30 May 2022, a shooting occurred in Chongqing. A policeman shot a man in the street, causing his death and causing public outrage.
On 30 May, a shooting occurred in Chongqing. A policeman shot a man on the street, killing him and triggering outrage. The police report said the man assaulted the police, but witnesses at the scene said that he observed the whole incident and thought it could not be regarded as an assault on the police.
The official Weibo of the Beibei District Bureau of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a situation report on 31 May saying that at about 6.50 pm on 30 May, a dispute occurred at the gate of the Gangda Electric City on Longxi Road, Beibei District. After the police of the Beibei District Public Security Bureau received the alarm rushed to the scene. During the disposal, the client Weng X (male, 49 years old) was dissatisfied with the police's handling and attacked the police with his wife Chen V.
The video posted on the Internet shows that the person who was hit by the police fell to the ground. After the rescuers failed to rescue them, they were carried away on a stretcher, leaving a pool of blood on the ground. The bald police officer who shot was taken away by the police amid the protests of the crowd.
Another video shows police forcibly taking the deceased's wife away and forbidding her to go to the hospital with her husband. The woman fought hard in the police car.
The Epoch Times reporter interviewed witnesses at the scene on 31 May and described the details of the incident.
The witness, Mr. Yu Sheng (pseudonym), told The Epoch Times reporter that it was originally a very small matter. The cause was that a female college student rode a battery car and hung up the battery carport of the deceased couple.
"It was posted elsewhere. When it comes to selling motorcycles here to repair and exchange, (see) how much it will cost, I finally called the police. It didn't take long for the police to come, and it was solved, and it cost dozens of dollars. Changed, and finally finished, the police are saying, which is right and which is wrong.”
Yu Sheng said that the female student thought that it was the other party's responsibility, but she blamed her. As a result, the deceased's wife couldn't control her emotions, so she got into trouble with the police.
"The policeman's cap was on the ground, the policeman threw the woman to the ground, and the woman's man jumped on it. In fact, the woman and the policeman only took more than a minute to get hold of, and the man's 1 minute Something will happen soon.”
"I don't know what was going on at the time. In this situation (the police) should not have thought of pulling out a gun or touching a gun. (Then) gunshots were heard everywhere, a bang, and everyone was alarmed."
Yu Sheng said that he was at close range, less than 1 m away.
"Last night, 120 (ambulance) came a little late, it should have been more than 20 minutes. When 120 came, it also pressed the man's chest, and finally pulled him away. The floor was covered with blood, nose, Mouth and head are blood blisters."
Yu Sheng said that he didn't know how the bullet in the policeman's gun was loaded. "The safety of the (gun) was also opened. I don't know. Only the person involved, the police officer, knows, and no one else knows."
He said that yesterday the policeman's mood seemed to be in the wrong, "I had already adjusted it, police officers do not all have a habit, they need to be educated, saying that this aspect of things is not the fault of this woman, but the fault of the other party, maybe the police Say she's more at fault."
"Last night, what I saw and understood was the scene where the gun was pulled out of the armpit. It wasn't very fierce (powerful) at first. The man jumped up, and you police can stop him completely. A common man, he doesn't need it. Take out a gun?"
"He (the police) threw the woman and his (man's) wife to the ground in a long strip, didn't he (the man) jump up? It was the woman who grabbed him (the police) at first, and the man didn't intervene. ."
Yu Sheng thought it was not considered an assault on the police.
"Where is the attack on the police? To be honest, it's inappropriate for him (the police) to pull out a gun. You said that 3, 4, 5 people surrounded you and beat you. The man didn't have anything in his hand, just this The man jumped over when he saw the police smash his wife to the ground in long strips."
"That man reacted in self-defense. You dropped my wife to the ground, and it wasn't the two of us who attacked you. It's not right. It's wrong to draw a gun. Which one are you bluffing?"
But he said that it was the woman who lifted the police cap to the ground at first, and then the police threw her to the ground, "You want a woman to grab a man, what the hell are you doing!"
But generally speaking, it is indeed the responsibility of the police. Yu Sheng said: "No, it shouldn't be. If someone else is an empty-handed ordinary person, there is no point (what) even if a woman is grabbing."
He said there were two police officers at the time, and one was standing next to him without a gun.
"To be honest, he (the man) didn't hit him with a gun, he (the police) held the man with one hand, the man (jumped over) attacked him, he stopped the man, and with the other The gun was held up and the gun was touched. I only saw scratching, but I didn't see how the gun was taken out and fired. I didn't see it, because he was touching the gun with one hand, and the other hand was blocking the gun. Man, it's very close, not even 1 meter, how long your hands are, plus 30 or 40 cm distance."
"It fell to the ground on the spot, and he didn't die in that minute. Later, it wasn't because two passers-by (people) came to give first aid, and it might have been of no use."
He said that the deceased was hit at the waist, the place where the bleeding under the armpit was bleeding, not the skull.
Yu Sheng said that the incident caused public anger, and at least one or two thousand people were at the scene. The police also came a lot, and there were also police assistants.
He said that the scene was still there this morning, and the scene was evacuated after 7:00, and there were many people in the morning. But everyone is different. "The most puzzling thing is, why this policeman has the bullet on the gun and the insurance has also been opened. Only he knows this question. What kind of policeman is he? There is no need to draw a gun, just two people, really need to be subdued. This man, this policeman was easily subdued, and the woman hadn’t gotten up until she got up after shooting and pulled the policeman.”
Yu Sheng finally questioned whether the authorities reported the assault to the police as a shirk.
"There are too many guns, what if the police are equipped with guns, I will give you a name, anyway, if I am a policeman, report you to assault the police, can I shoot? I shoot, you are Assault the police. (People) will definitely not accept it, you will see in the future."
A number of citizens in Chongqing told The Epoch Times that the police should not shoot for a trivial matter. The common people are too dangerous, and there is no safety guarantee for going out. A citizen said that the police officer who shot was a traffic patrol officer.
Public information shows that since 2010, Chongqing has implemented a policing model that combines traffic police and traffic police patrols.
The reporter called the Traffic Patrol Police Detachment of Beibei District Bureau but the phone could not be connected.
When the reporter called the Beibei District Branch of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau, when a man heard about the inquiries about the shooting, he only replied "subject to the official notification."
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Shanghai entrepreneurs call for "laying flat and clearing zero" Analysis: Forcing 20 reforms
Image : At about 8.20 am on 20 May 2022, Zhang, the secretary of the second district of Jingcheng District, Minhang District, Shanghai, was stabbed with a knife by a resident Wen, who then jumped off the building with a knife. (Web image)
A few days ago, some entrepreneurs and investors in Shanghai published an open letter titled "Laying flat and clearing! Resuming work but not production! Watch the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China", which caused netizens to watch . Analysts believe that this open letter hits the nail on the head. Without political reforms, the economy cannot be viable; this is forcing the authorities to make reforms.
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Shanghai entrepreneurs' open letter: System reform Is urgent
On Tuesday (31 May 2022), an open letter with the theme "Laying flat and clearing: resuming work but not production! Watch the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China!" circulated widely on the Internet.
Shanghai has been fully closed since 1 April, and officially announced on 1 June that the lockdown will be lifted. The open letter said, "During the more than two months of city closure, some of our business owners and investors living in adjacent areas of Shanghai had to suspend work, study and judge the current situation, and initially reach some consensus."
The open letter said, "It's a pity that we, the entrepreneurs and investors who have achieved a little, are facing difficulties despite the investment scale of hundreds of billions of RMB in Shanghai and the whole country, and the employment of millions of employees... This Shanghai government, let us wake up completely, and even wake up, we are no longer willing to wait for fat lambs to be slaughtered."
The open letter believes that Shanghai is facing a crisis, "the external environment is beset on all sides, the internal government's credit collapses, the day of "unblocking" is the day when foreign capital leaves the country and the day when domestic capital flees, and then large-scale corporate bankruptcy, reorganization and liquidation will break the public's confidence in economic recovery. the last shreds of fantasy."
The open letter said, "Internal circulation"? "Leeks" have been cut several times, "rule of law" has been reduced to "rule of man", the economy has been kidnapped by politics, millions of "new crown" graduates will have to integrate into the unemployed, social unrest is inevitable, how can we talk about "internal circulation" !
The open letter demanded that the reform of the political system should be done without delay, to remove political shackles from economic development; to establish the sacrosanct inviolability of private property;
The open letter also calls for severe punishment of officials who violated the law and disregarded public opinion during the epidemic prevention and control period, rehabilitated wrongful convictions, such as the "Ren Zhiqiang case" and "Sun Dawu case", and released and rehabilitated prisoners of conscience, ideology, and political prisoners.
The open letter also stated that it will wait and see whether the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China can bring vitality. During this period, thinking about the livelihood of the compatriots, not to carry out strikes and strikes, but to reach a consensus with entrepreneurs and citizens, so as to resume work and not resume production... to accumulate strength , calling on entrepreneurs and the public to regain civil rights and rebuild national order.
The open letter concluded: "The country will not reform for a day, the government's credit will not be rebuilt, the free market will not be hoped for, and we will never have peace! ... We also look forward to the country's university scholars, elites from all walks of life, and the majority of industry and commerce. People, let's support each other."
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Hot Internet Commentary: Reform of the collapsed authorities
The article sparked heated discussions on the Internet. Well-known writer and political scientist Wang Hao also posted on Facebook that entrepreneurs in Shanghai could not help but protest and challenge Xi Jinping.
Some entrepreneurs and investors in Shanghai issued an open letter calling for "Laying flat and clearing zero! Resumption of work but not production!" (Internet photo)
Netizen @tong57966037 posted that a document is being circulated among the Fudan alumni group. The Shanghai entrepreneur group is dissatisfied with the government's two-month closure of the city, and the internal livelihood of the people is deteriorating... Now the government is forcing them to resume work, but they have not given any real relief, so they decided to lie down. , in response to the "zero-covid policy, resuming work but not production, wait and see the 20th National Congress, political reform!"
Radio Free Asia reported that a number of the initiators of the open letter said that this is their aspiration. They refuse to be content with the status quo of "living in troubled times" and will continue to promote some specific actions, but for security reasons, it is temporarily inconvenient to accept public disclosure interview.
French commentator Wang Longmeng believes that although the entrepreneurs who participated in the open letter only fought in a lying posture, they are still worthy of praise. This incident may be the beginning of forcing the authorities to reform.
He said that the key point of this open letter is that without political reforms, the economy cannot have real vitality; "I have no hope for political reforms at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, but I also believe that choosing to Entrepreneurs who face the authorities by lying flat will brew more actions in the future, forcing the authorities to make reforms.”
Wan Runnan, founder of Stone Company, who was exiled in France for supporting the 1989 student movement, also expressed his support to Radio Free Asia for the clear and appropriate demands of the open letter. He said that entrepreneurs are well aware that if the 20th Congress does not initiate political reforms, they will eventually be bound to the sinking ship of China.
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Commuters from Yanjiao, Hebei Province were blocked from entering Beijing and protested
Reporters : Ning Haizhong and Gu Xiaohua / Editor: Li Muen / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/6/1/n13749999.htm / Image : On 1 June 2022, the Baimiao checkpoint in Tongzhou, Beijing, located at the entrance to Beijing in Yanjiao, Hebei Province, prevented "commuters" from entering Beijing to work, sparking a gathering of protests. (provided by respondents)
On 1 June, the Baimiao checkpoint in Tongzhou, Beijing, located at the entrance to Beijing in Yanjiao, Hebei Province, prevented "commuters" from entering Beijing to work, causing gatherings. Protest, a large number of police arrived at the scene to "maintain stability". Under pressure, Huang Xuejun, deputy mayor and director of the Public Security Bureau of Sanhe City, Hebei Province, said on the spot that "you can commute, you can go and you can go back."
A video circulating on the Internet shows that on June 1, a large number of people who asked to go to Beijing for work gathered at the Baimiao checkpoint in Yanjiao, Hebei, and shouted in unison: "Commute! Commute!" Some people shouted, "We want to commute, we want to eat." . It can be seen from the video that most of the scene is young.
A large number of police entered the venue to suppress it, and violent clashes occurred with the people. Some people were pushed to the ground by several policemen. The person who took the video said, "They beat people, and the police beat people."
Under the pressure of the public, Huang Xuejun, deputy mayor of Sanhe City and director of the Public Security Bureau, had to express at the scene that "you can commute, you can go and you can go back."
A woman at the scene told The Epoch Times reporter in the afternoon of 1 June 2022 that Yanjiao can now resume commuting to Beijing, and the deputy mayor of Sanhe City came to the scene.
"The commuter pass has been partially restored for us." "We can go to Beijing today. With the efforts of the warriors, the blockade has been lifted." "Dachang and Xianghe are also open. Yanjiao is the result of our struggle!"
The woman said that the conflict occurred between 9.30 am and 10.15 am. The reason for the incident was that the commuter pass was officially banned.
"The commuter pass is something that was ripped off by the local government. It was issued in early April. It was paper at first, but later changed to electronic. After the trouble, it was restored immediately, and the speed is very fast. It is not necessary for many people to complete the trouble. You can enter Beijing with a commuter pass, as long as you have nucleic acid within 48 hours. You can also come back from Beijing without isolation.”
She said there were more than 1,000 people at the scene in the morning, and nearly 200 police were dispatched. The police did not dare to take the initiative to attack, but they accidentally pushed and pulled with limbs, and finally they did it. "Someone threw a mineral water bottle, and then the fight broke out. (The police) arrested 2 people. With the help of the crowd, they were released. Many police cars were surrounded."
"There were many people at the intersection in the morning. When the police saw that the situation was not good, they blocked other intersections and prevented them from coming to the scene. Everyone at the scene shouted, 'Go to work! Go to work! Go to work! Commute! Commute! Commute'."
The woman also mentioned her own situation, "I haven't been to Beijing much since 13 March this year, anyway, during the quarantine period. Since March, some people have jumped off the building, but no reports have been made. Many people have lost their jobs and are still I don’t have a mortgage, I don’t have any income, I’m closed at any time, and the food is so expensive. The neighborhood committees are not good at all. There is no free material distribution at all, not even a disinfectant. It’s just nucleic acid every day. No, not a single steamed bun."
She said that Yanjiao people are not easy, "I have been scolded by the leaders many times, and they all told me to voluntarily resign. Forget it, don't talk about it, it's all tears."
Beijing Tongzhou Baimiao Checkpoint is an important entry point connecting Yanjiao and Beijing.
Yanjiao Town, located in Sanhe City, Hebei Province, and Tongzhou District, Beijing are only separated by Chaobai River. There are hundreds of thousands of "Beijing drifters" living here. They go to Beijing to work during the day and return to Yanjiao to rest at night. Many people have to take the bus past the Baimiao checkpoint and then transfer to the subway to go to work.
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