Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
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On behalf of the people of Hong Kong, the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong Parliament was established in Canada
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The CCP has violated Hong Kong's commitment to one country, two systems, and has been condemned internationally. On 27 July 2022, a group of overseas Hong Kong people set up the "Hong Kong Parliamentary Election Preparatory Committee" in Toronto, Canada, to encourage Hong Kong people around the world to participate in the election and to continue Hong Kong's democratic autonomy.
He Liangmao, chairman of the Hong Kong Parliamentary Election Preparatory Committee, said, "The (CCP) high degree of autonomy is a deception, so we will not fall for the CCP's language hypocrisy. When I heard about the high degree of autonomy, I knew it was over. So we will (the Hong Kong parliament) in the future." ) full autonomy, one person one vote is true.”
Yuan Gongyi, Chairman of the International Affairs Group of the Hong Kong Parliamentary Election Preparatory Committee: "If we in Hong Kong were not organized, our fate would be exactly the same as theirs (overseas "June 4th" pro-democracy activists). After several decades, it has become really a historical event. Therefore, we feel that Hong Kong people have different opinions, and there are many different opinions and different thinking, but we need a platform and a legal platform for them to discuss, debate and vote at the end. There is a concerted action to face the world, and it is up to them to decide what political system and method they should use."
The Hong Kong Parliamentary Election Preparatory Committee expects to hold elections by the end of 2023 to establish the Hong Kong Parliament.
To this end, they will formulate election rules and establish a voting system to ensure the safety of voters, encourage Hong Kong people around the world to participate in elections, fight for the rights and interests of Hong Kong people, and continue Hong Kong people's pursuit of self-governance and free Hong Kong.
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Pelosi "tentative" Taiwan itinerary, US aircraft carrier sails into South China Sea
Reporter : Luo Tingting/ Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/29/a103489795.html / Image : U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a news conference at the Capitol on July 21, 2022. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
NBC News quoted two unnamed sources as saying on 28 July 2022 that Nancy Pelosi's trip to Asia, scheduled to visit Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, is the most concerned by the outside world. Taiwan is listed as "tentative".
Pelosi invited several senior members of Congress to visit together, including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks, House Foreign Affairs Committee Republican Chief Representative McCall, and House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mark Takano.
Takano led a delegation to Taiwan last November but this time he did not respond to the matter.
McCall, who confirmed he was invited, said he declined the invitation because of other personal itineraries but he called on any congressman who is willing to visit Taiwan to go, which can demonstrate "political deterrence" to the CCP.
Pelosi, who is second in the line of succession to the U.S. president, was originally going to visit Taiwan in April this year but the trip was delayed because of a positive nucleic acid test before her trip. If her visit to Taiwan goes smoothly, it will be the first U.S. House Speaker to visit Taiwan since then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich visited Taiwan in 1997.
After the news of Pelosi's planned visit to Taiwan came out, the CCP expressed dissatisfaction and issued threatening remarks. So far, Pelosi's office has been reluctant to discuss the trip, citing security practices, and the U.S. executive branch has not confirmed it.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on 27 July that he had spoken to Pelosi and provided her with a security assessment, and other officials of the Pentagon and the U.S. military had also briefed her.
At the same time, the U.S. military is preparing to provide strong security for Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan. The USS Ronald Reagan battle group has returned to the South China Sea on the 26th.
"The USS Ronald Reagan and her strike group are on a mission in the South China Sea following a successful visit to the port of Singapore," Seventh Fleet spokeswoman Hayley Sims said in a statement to Reuters.
The USS Reagan "continues to carry out normal operations according to the established schedule as part of her routine patrols in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific," the statement said.
Sutter, a professor of international relations at George Washington University in the United States, told Reuters that the two parties in Congress are currently highly aligned in responding to the threat of the CCP, and a new "Washington Consensus" has been established. The Ministry of Defense is responsible for security."
In response to the threat from the CCP, Taiwan's annual military exercise "Hanguang No. 38" has also started. The highlight of the exercise, "Sea and Air Intercept Operation", kicked off on 26 July. A total of 20 ships and 15 fighter aircraft participated in the military play. On the same day, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen boarded the warship to review the joint naval and air force drills.
Sun Lifang, a spokesman for Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense, said that this year's simulation of the actual military exercise was more practical than before, and was designed after closely monitoring the international situation and the war in Ukraine.
He believes that although Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is only tentative, the Taiwanese military has been preparing for the CCP's possible response and is confident in responding to any actions by the CCP.
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Biden and Xi Jinping have their fifth dialogue on the Taiwan Strait issue
Reporter : Qiao An / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/29/a103489730.html
In the morning of 28 July 2022, Eastern Time, U.S. President Biden had the fifth official phone call with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping. The situation in the Taiwan Strait was one of the focuses.
On 28 July, Biden and Xi Jinping had a phone call of 2 hours and 17 minutes. When the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Pelosi was about to visit Taiwan, the communication between the two sides on the Taiwan Strait issue received special attention.
After the call, Xi Jinping and Biden issued official press releases on the call through Xinhua News Agency and the White House's official website respectively.
In the Xinhua News Agency's press release, Xi Jinping, as always, used the wording of "wolf warrior", warning the United States that "playing with fire will set itself on fire." Xinhua also claimed that Biden reiterated that "the one-China policy of the United States has not changed and will not change, and the United States does not support Taiwan independence."
In the White House announcement, Biden only emphasized that "the policy of the United States has not changed." On the contrary, Biden emphasized that "the United States strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait." This sentence is obviously a warning to the CCP not to unilaterally provoke a war in the Taiwan Strait, or make any move to break the status quo.However, such a strong position of the United States did not appear in China's press release at all.
In other calls, the White House specifically mentioned only climate change and health and security issues. Xinhua News Agency emphasized Xi Jinping's talk about China and the United States' "great power responsibilities", and urged the United States not to regard China as a major adversary or "decoupling broken chain", the tough wording instead exposed the passive situation in which the CCP is in.
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Hu Chunhua succeeds Li Keqiang? No. 1 party mediator signal
Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/28/a103489155.html / Image : On 25 October 2019, Hu Chunhua spoke at the Beijing China-Brazil Business Seminar. (Madoka Ikegami-Pool via Getty Images)
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is approaching, and the high-level personnel layout of the Communist Party of China is in full swing. A few days ago, the number one party media "People's Daily" rarely published an article by Vice Premier Hu Chunhua of the Communist Party of China. Some analysts pointed out that this sends an important signal that Hu Chunhua is likely to succeed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
On 27 July, the party media People's Daily published a long article written by Hu Chunhua on a large page, "Strive to Create a New Situation for Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization under the Guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Expositions on "Three Rural" Work.
Hu Chunhua is responsible for agriculture, rural areas, poverty alleviation, commerce, and trade. He is also the leader of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, the State Council Leading Group for Rooting Out Wages of Migrant Workers, and the National Poverty Alleviation Census Leading Group.
Hu Ping, editor-in-chief of "Beijing Spring" magazine, said that it is logical for Hu Chunhua to write an article on rural work, but the number one party media published his long article on such a large page, obviously to convey some important political message.
Hu Chunhua mentioned Xi Jinping more than 50 times in this long article, but said nothing about Li Keqiang. Hu Ping believes that this shows that Hu Chunhua is using this article to show his allegiance to Xi Jinping.
Hu Ping pointed out that Hu Chunhua is not Xi's army, and has an important position in the party. At the 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping is aiming for three consecutive terms, and the importance of Hu Chunhua's statement is self-evident. And the publication of Hu's articles by the party media also has the effect of raising Hu's status.
He predicted that at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held this fall, Hu Chunhua will definitely enter the Politburo Standing Committee, and may succeed Li Keqiang as the premier of the State Council.
Hu Chunhua was originally the successor appointed by the CCP veterans. In the Political Bureau of the 18th National Congress, there were two post-60s candidates, one was Hu Chunhua and the other was Sun Zhengcai. Hu ranked before Sun Zhengcai. Hu Ping said that this means that the elders at that time meant that Hu Chunhua and Sun Zhengcai would take over as general secretary and premier of the State Council respectively in the future.
However, on the eve of the 19th National Congress, Sun Zhengcai was taken down, and Hu Chunhua also failed to enter the Politburo Standing Committee at the 19th National Congress.
At the 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping sought re-election, and Hu Chunhua became a popular candidate to succeed Li Keqiang. Among the current vice premiers of the Communist Party of China, he is the only one who is likely to remain in office until the next term. The other three, Han Zheng, Liu He, and Sun Chunlan, have all reached retirement age.
Hu Ping said that before Xi Jinping came to power, he did not have his own team, he did not have many cronies, and his official position was not high, so it was impossible for Xi to assign all important positions to his own people at once. With Hu Chunhua's strength and contacts, Xi Jinping must reuse it. Therefore, Hu Chunhua is likely to take over as Premier of the State Council.
After the two sessions in March this year, the current Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, announced that this year will be his last year as prime minister.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that how to choose Li Keqiang's successor "may largely reflect the balance of power at the top of the Communist Party." Li Qiang, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Wang Yang, who is currently the fourth-ranked member of the Standing Committee, and Hu Chunhua, a member of the Communist Youth League, are possible prime ministers.
Hong Kong-based current affairs commentator Lin Heli told VOA, "If I were to choose from the regimental faction, the most rumored one would be Hu Chunhua. Hu Chunhua is a person with less obvious opinions and will not make Xi feel threatened... If Wang Yang succeeds as prime minister, the age limit will be limited to one term, and Wang Yang's relationship with Xi Jinping is not particularly good."
The Nikkei said that if Hu Chunhua was appointed as prime minister, it "shows that Xi Jinping has made compromises with other factions, or that his power has been weakened to some extent."
Mr. Xi's side, Shanghai party secretary Li Qiang, was once considered a popular candidate for the premiership. However, due to the out-of-control epidemic in Shanghai, the city suffered a severe setback. At the same time, it triggered various secondary disasters and caused a bad international impact, which cast a shadow on Li Qiang's promotion.
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Jiang Zemin's niece spy suspicions surfaced in Washington China Park
Reporter : Qiao An / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/29/a103489738.html
A few days ago, the US government banned a CCP espionage base in Washington, the "China Garden". With the exposure of the incident, Jiang Zemin's cousin "Jiang Zehui" also became the focus of public opinion.
On 23 July, CNN exposed the "China Garden" built by the CCP in Washington, and plans for suspected espionage activities, which aroused great attention in the United States. At the same time, the controversial identity of Jiang Zemin's cousin Jiang Zehui also followed. be the focus.
Jiang Zehui has been an important promoter since the CCP proposed the construction of the "China Garden" in 2003. In 2007, Jiang Zehui retired and no longer held any public positions, but through a subordinate agency affiliated with the CCP Forestry Administration, she continued to promote the establishment of the "China Garden". In 2010, Jiang Zehui visited the United States as the Chinese executor of the China Garden Project. Some observers believe that it is absolutely "unthinkable" for a non-governmental figure without an official title to lead a national-level foreign project unless there is a strong background.
Ultimately, the news came to light when U.S. authorities shelved the project amid suspicions that the Chinese Garden Fair was being used for espionage and endangering national security.
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Retired U.S. generals issue warning about new pandemic declaration
Reporter : Enrico Trigoso, The Epoch Times PREMIUM
Two retired U.S. generals, MG Paul Vallely, U.S. Army, and Thomas McInerney, USAF, raised concerns over the World Health Organization’s recent declaration of monkeypox as a global health emergency, alleging potential ulterior motives.
“Each of us should not be alarmed by this alert as the credibility of WHO is in great question based on their actions and notices on COVID-19,” Vallely told The Epoch Times.
“The rare designation means the WHO now views the outbreak as a significant enough threat to global health that a coordinated international response is needed to prevent the virus from spreading further and potentially escalating into a pandemic,” Vallely said.
“Beware of this politically driven global organization that is funded by the global elite.”
“Although the declaration does not impose requirements on national governments, it serves as an urgent call for action. The WHO can only issue guidance and recommendations to its member states, not mandates. Member states are required to report events that pose a threat to global health,” Vallely said.
“WHO Director Tedros is not a medical doctor, he is a Marxist from Ethiopia, totally supported by the Chinese Communist Party. He lied about C-19 from the beginning to cover for China,” Vallely added.
McInerney says that they predicted that the declaration of another pandemic would happen around this time of the year.
“They are right on our predicted schedule,” McInerney said.
“We shall not conform to their guidelines, we must resist lockdowns,” he further stated, “now is the time for America and the world and we the people to say no!”
“Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!” the general exclaimed.
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Expert: Three major phenomena of China's economic crisis have emerged, and the next crisis is more terrifying
With more and more "unfinished buildings", economists believe that China's economy has experienced three major crises, namely: the real estate crisis, the banking crisis and the local financial crisis. Faced with the huge debts of large real estate companies, financial experts warn that the next bigger crisis in China's economy is the real estate bubble.
Recently, general economist Wu Jialong said on Facebook that the real estate crisis in China is getting worse and worse, because many funds have been misappropriated, so that developers have no money to continue construction, resulting in unfinished buildings. Now the homeowners who buy houses have decided to stop paying mortgages, and this "loan stop wave" has spread all over China.
Wu Jialong said that if debt management is commercially feasible, it must have sufficient economic benefits, that is, the rate of return of assets must be greater than the interest rate of borrowing money. If the rate of return falls below the interest rate, then the debt economy cannot go on.
He analyzed that there is over-investment in China's real estate market. Under the excessive competition, there is a natural lack of economic benefits. This is reflected in the fact that developers have no way to recover funds to pay off bank loans. As a result, the developers began to default on their debts. With the expansion of unemployment, income reduction, and the increase of bankruptcies of small and medium-sized enterprises, the homeowners also lack the funds to pay the mortgage, and then default.
Wu Jialong said, "The contraction of the real estate market will, on the one hand, lead to bad debts and non-performing assets in banks, which may lead to systemic financial risks, and on the other hand, will make it impossible for local governments to obtain fiscal revenue through land sales. There is a local financial crisis.”
The banking crisis and local financial crisis extended from China's real estate crisis will eventually be concentrated in the central government. In a persistent debt economy, it is easy to "overleverage" and then fall into the "debt trap", which is difficult to extricate.
For example, he said, the infrastructure investment that the CCP likes to launch, including railways, highways, airports, subways, etc., often becomes a financial burden due to lack of sufficient transportation capacity and lack of economic benefits.
Wu Jialong believes that behind the current three crises of real estate, banking and local finance in China, the "economic growth model driven by real estate" has come to an end.
In addition, Xie Jinhe, chairman of Taiwan Caixin Media, posted on Facebook that the Russian-Ukrainian war, energy and food prices that have taken place this year have soared, and inflationary pressures have been surging, forcing central banks to increase interest rates, resulting in both stocks and debts. plummeted, the dollar soared.
Xie Jinhe said that financial institutions with huge funds may be in danger of losing their heads if they accidentally step on the thunder. Regarding China's real estate bubble, he said that at least 15 of China's top 60 real estate companies failed to report their earnings. The insolvency of these real estate companies was a hundred times more serious than the collapse of Taiwan's real estate in 1997 and 1998, and even worse than the 1990 Japanese bubble. The economy is even scarier.
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Lose non-stop! Another industry in China faces a wave of closures
The epidemic that has lasted for more than two years has had a serious impact on China's economy. From retail and catering, accommodation, tourism, transportation, manufacturing, real estate, construction, to culture and entertainment, the affected industries have experienced a sharp decline in revenue.
China's film market is not immune. A-share China Films and Wanda Films recently issued a warning, predicting that profits in the first half of the year will drop sharply, or profits will turn losses. The cinema manager said that the operating environment this year is even worse than at the beginning of the epidemic in 2020; after the New Year, the cinema has only a few dozen spectators a day, and often two or three people "reserve the venue", losing money every time a movie is played.
According to the financial forecast released by China Film, the net profit of shareholders is expected to be 18 million to 26 million RMB the first half of this year, a year-on-year decrease of more than 90%. Wanda Films announced that it expects a net loss of 520 million to 600 million yuan for shareholders in the first half of the year, compared with a net profit of 638 million RMB in the same period last year.
Liu Aihua, general manager of Dalian Paragon Studios, who has been working in cinemas for nearly 20 years, said that nowadays, she has never encountered such a big impact, such as high rents, epidemic prevention and control, and cut-off film sources.
On 15 April his year, many cinemas under the Dadi Cinema Group issued an announcement to officially close their business, and many cinemas in Dalian have also closed.
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The economy will be very difficult in the future, Chinese young people will not dare to splurge any more
As China's economy continues to decline, today's worried Gen Z young people are afraid to splurge after getting their monthly salary.
According to youth36K, an online tech news platform, in a survey conducted on the 19th, only 6.9% of 2,200 respondents under the age of 40 said they did not plan to save money, while 40% said they were Save monthly.
Nearly 87% of the young people surveyed are Generation Z young people born between 1987 and 2012. This group was originally considered to be the main force of consumers, but now they have to learn to live smartly.
The survey also showed that 17.5% of respondents said their financial situation was very bad, and 47.5% said they could barely make ends meet. About 10% of respondents said their current savings could last a month if they were suddenly laid off, 22.4% said they could last six months, and 18.1% could last six to 12 months.
Unemployed young people are in a tougher situation than their working peers. China's Generation Z was originally the most educated generation in China's history but under the blow of many factors, 15 million young people are currently unemployed, and the "flat" generation has caused the Chinese economy to lose momentum and is worsening.
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Xi Jiang's last fight? The official media mentions the "Iron Hat King" again, the signal upgrade of the tiger fight
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is about to be held in October this year. Now, let's pay attention to the latest developments in China's political situation.
Over the years, infighting at the top of the CCP has been the focus of outside attention. The elites of the CCP, represented by the former leader of the CCP Jiang Zemin and the second-ranking figure in the Jiang faction, Zeng Qinghong, have been causing chaos in Chinese society and are also the main targets of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign. Before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the fierce power struggle between Xi Jinping and the Jiang Zeng faction was more manifested in the control of the "knife handle" and the "money bag".
From 14 July, the CCP's official media "People's Daily" began to publish a series of articles "Resolutely Oppose and Punish Corruption". The first article signed "Zhongyin", and then mentioned "there is no 'Iron Voucher' for Exoneration, and there is no 'Iron Hat King'".
Xi Jinping's term for the "Iron Hat King" has a long history. As early as 2 February 2015, Xi Jinping said at the seminar of senior officials at the provincial and ministerial level: "Under the rule of law, no one can hope for luck, and no one can expect extrajudicial favors, and there is no 'danshu iron coupon' for exoneration. ', and there is no 'iron hat king'." Since then, for seven years, the CCP media has occasionally referred to "there is no 'iron hat king'" as something.
At the highest level of the CCP, who can be called the "Iron Hat King"? A common view in overseas media is that only Zeng Qinghong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and vice-chairman of the state, can be called this "title".
Wang Youqun, a writer for Wei Jianxing, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said that from 2015 to 2017, before the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, there were many articles in overseas media about Xi Jinping's possible arrest of Zeng Qinghong. However, for the purpose of protecting the party, Xi did not arrest Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong until the end of the 19th National Congress. The tree has not fallen, and the hozen has not scattered. Jiang Zeng and his cronies are bound to do everything possible to toss Xi. The result is seen: From 2017 to 2022, Xi has been in the shadow of a coup.
However, judging from a series of articles published by the CCP media in July, the signals of the Xi camp's intensive "fighting tigers" are escalating recently.
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10 years of deep cultivation! The CCP infiltrated the Fed in an attempt to build an "informant network"
Finally, let's take a look at a new report from the U.S. Senate on 26 July.
The report shows that the CCP has been trying to establish a network within the Federal Reserve system. In addition to stealing sensitive information about U.S. monetary policy, it also attempts to influence U.S. economic policy.
A Republican investigation by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found that over the past decade, China has given generous cash incentives to Fed employees for information on the U.S. economy, changes in interest rates and policy.
The report draws heavily on a separate internal Fed survey that began in 2015. The Fed launched its investigation after warnings from outside sources that foreign hostile powers were trying to build relationships with Fed researchers through paid contracts.
The Fed's investigation identified 13 people involved, dubbed the "P-Network" by internal investigators, who were employed by eight of the Fed's 12 regional banks.
The report also details multiple cases in which one individual handed economic model codes to a Chinese university with ties to the central bank. Another tried at least twice to transfer large amounts of data from the Fed to an external website. The person also received a request from an individual with ties to the Chinese government for non-public information on the views of three Fed bank presidents on rate hikes.
In addition to monetary lure, the CCP also threatens Fed employees with detention and other means.
A typical example mentioned in the report is that in 2019, just as the United States imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods, a Fed economist was detained four times during a trip to Shanghai. Chinese officials tried to coerce him into providing data and information about U.S. policy, including tariffs. If he does not provide information, his family will be threatened.
U.S. intelligence agencies and counterintelligence agencies have found that Beijing has long been committed to stealing U.S. government information and commercial scientific research secrets, one of which is the Confucius Institute and the Thousand Talents Program.
In 2019, a senior bank official involved in the Thousand Talents Plan was detained while traveling in China, where interrogators demanded secret Fed data. The man told investigators they tried to get him drunk to get more information.
Fed Chairman Jerome H. Powell, however, questioned the findings, arguing that the system has "robust" measures to protect information and that employees must confirm that they are following the rules, Powell said in the description of some Fed officials. "unfair".
The release of the new report comes at a time when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning a visit to Taiwan, in a sign of growing tensions in U.S.-CCP China relations.
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