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Pompeo announces willingness to visit Taiwan with Pelosi
Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/25/a103486770.html / Image : On 4 March 2022, former US Secretary of State Pompeo delivered a speech in Taiwan, emphasizing that the CCP is the core threat of the times. (Photo by NTDTV)
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his willingness to visit Taiwan with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. It is reported that Pelosi plans to visit Taiwan in August, and has attracted attention from all walks of life.
On 25 July 2022, Mike Pompeo tweeted @Nancy Pelosi's account, "I'll go with you. I'm banned in China, but I love freedom. Taiwan does not have it, see you then!"
Pelosi originally planned to visit Taiwan in April 2022 but was unable to travel due to covid. The Financial Times recently reported that Pelosi may visit Taiwan in August, and if she can make the trip, it will be the highest-level visit by a U.S. congressional official to Taiwan in 25 years.
CCP threatens U.S. government over Pelosi's planned visit to Taiwan. The "Washington Post" said that Biden administration officials are worried that the CCP will make destabilizing moves. According to normal procedures, Pelosi will visit Taiwan on a military plane, and the U.S. military is considering mobilizing an aircraft carrier or sending fighter jets to escort her.
U.S. Republican lawmakers welcomed Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick called on Pelosi on Twitter to show strength and not bow to CCP bullying.
Republican Don Bacon also tweeted that the CCP has no right to dictate which American can visit Taiwan.
Pompeo, also a member of the Republican Party, also tweeted support for Pelosi and expressed his willingness to travel with her to Taiwan.
In March 2022, a group of 12 people including Pompeo and his wife, Miles Yu Maochun, the former chief adviser on China policy of the US State Department, visited Taiwan.
It is reported that Pompeo may visit Taiwan again in September 2022. In this regard, the Republic of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded on 22 July 2022 that it has not received relevant information so far, but is happy to see American friends come to Taiwan for exchanges.
Pompeo has been calling on the Biden-Harris administration to abandon its strategic ambiguity about Taiwan. "The fact that Russia sent troops to Ukraine has proven that vague policies are more dangerous, not only for both sides of the conflict, but also danger for surrounding countries," he said at a symposium at the conservative think tank "Policy Exchange" on 4 July 2022."
He emphasized that ambiguous policies will give dictatorships more opportunities and make it difficult for democratic countries to respond in a timely and adequately manner, and dictatorships are aware of this.
Pompeo warned that his biggest concern was not that CCP China would attack Taiwan with tanks and artillery but that Beijing would use its propaganda and intelligence offensive to seize security units, imprison people and control the democratic government, gradually weakening Taiwan's sovereignty.
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The lab moves into the airport! Medical examiners station all night, every passenger is critically emergency
Covid is raging around the world. At the beginning of January 2022, Taiwan was facing the challenge of the invasion of the Omicron army. In order to ensure community safety, the command center announced on January 11 that long-haul flight passengers would undergo landing inspection checks for entry . This task was taken over by the Taoyuan Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. This "border interception team" formed an army in less than 12 hours. During the 141-day mission, they stayed on the front line in the face of unknown viruses, inspected nearly 150,000 passengers, and stopped 6,259 confirmed patients for Taiwan.
"When the ball comes, I will definitely hit it," said Zheng Jinghong, a medical examiner at Taoyuan Hospital. He took on the new task of taking charge of passenger physical examination at the airport. In the face of the emerging Omicron variant at the time, he was not afraid to meet the challenge. It was also the first time that he had been working in the inspection work at Taoyuan Hospital for 12 years, bringing the entire laboratory to the forefront of the country.
Image : Zheng Jinghong, a medical examiner at Taoyuan Hospital, is in charge of the airport physical examination. (Picture / TVBS)
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The airport sets up a temporary laboratory, and the medical examiner steps out of the hospital to protect the country
Zheng Jinghong recalled that at that time, he received a notice from the supervisor that the inspection of PCR samples at the airport would start in the early morning of the next day. All inspection instruments were moved to the airport, and a temporary inspection station was set up.
This task also made Zheng Jinghong start his long-lost shift life. He started work at 3 am and had to work all the way to the next evening, and he had to use his spare time to do the original work of the hospital. ." The team even processed the highest record of 2,703 samples in one day.
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Don't dare to sit in the laboratory for a moment! Most afraid of passengers waiting too long
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The landing inspection measures stipulate that after the airport flight lands, passengers must wait for the inspection results on the spot after the inspection is completed. They do not want passengers to wait for a long time. Each passenger is handled as a special emergency, and the most fearful thing is that passengers are impatient to wait too long after receiving a notification from the Line group.”
"This task is really special. I never thought it would take so long, but I never thought about giving up." Zheng Jinghong believes that the inspection work at the airport allowed him to step out of the hospital laboratory and learn more new things, "I met many new comrades in the hospital."
With the outbreak of the community epidemic in April, the domestic positivity rate has gradually increased, and the command center announced on 31 May 2022 that the 141-day landing inspection policy ended, "When I heard that the task was over, I felt mixed feelings, maybe a little sad, really going through a lot of bits and pieces.”
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Severe allergy to Novavax? 50,000 people in the Republic of China have been vaccinated, Zhuang Renxiang exposed the current situation
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) pointed out that the Novavax vaccine developed and manufactured by Novavax Inc in the United States has potential side effects of severe allergic reactions. Vaccines, imitation sheets have relevant warning labels. If there are severe allergic reactions, it is recommended not to vaccinate. According to statistics, 50,611 people in the Republic of China have been vaccinated with Novavax, and no adverse reactions have been reported.
Reuters reported that the European Medicines Agency believes that a severe allergic reaction to the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine may occur. In addition, the European Medicines Agency will also update the vaccine product information, adding skin paresthesia or hypoesthesia as a side effect of the vaccine.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Novavax vaccine for people over the age of 18, and the product label warns against people who have a history of allergic reactions to the vaccine's components.
In this regard, Zhuang Renxiang said that any imitation of the vaccine will have relevant warnings, reminding those who may cause severe allergic reactions to the components of the vaccine, it is recommended not to vaccinate,, or those who have allergic reactions after the first dose, avoid the second dose. The same vaccine is administered. This part is from AZ, BNT, Moderna, Medigen and Novavax vaccines, and the imitation list also has such a label. According to current statistics, 50,611 cases of Novovax have been vaccinated in the Republic of China. Zhuang Renxiang pointed out that there are no adverse events reported so far.
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Monkeypox is a public health emergency! 11 cases have been reported in the Republic of China, and the latest situation of 2 cases has been exposed
Reporter : Wang Xinyi / https://news.tvbs.com.tw/life/1857804
The monkeypox epidemic is spreading all over the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the monkeypox epidemic as an international public health emergency, which is the highest level of WHO public health alert. Zhou Zhihao, director of the CDC, said at the command centre press conference on 25 July 2022 that until now, there have been a total of 11 reported cases in the Republic of China, including two confirmed cases imported from abroad. One case has recovered and was discharged from the hospital, and his contacts have not developed relevant symptoms, and the other case is still in hospital.
Image : Epidemiological description of monkeypox at home and abroad. (Photo/CDC)
Zhou Zhihao, director of the CDC, said that on July 23, the World Health Organization announced that monkeypox was listed as a public health emergency of international concern. According to the collected information, as of 24 July, there were about 17,000 cases worldwide. Of course, there are many confirmed cases in Europe and the Americas. Domestically, Zhou Zhihao said that before the World Health Organization declared an emergency, the CDC had taken some actions. Until now, there are a total of of 11 reported cases, including two confirmed cases imported from abroad, nine cases have been ruled out. Of the two confirmed cases, one has recovered and been discharged from the hospital, and his contacts have not developed relevant symptoms, and the other is still in hospital.
Zhou Zhihao reminded that the main transmission target of monkeypox is actually close physical contact, which is more likely to be contagious. Of course, other infections that may include droplets or contact with polluted environments cannot be ruled out causing the spread. Especially in these epidemic areas abroad, people are reminded to avoid close physical contact with unspecified people. If you have a fever or skin symptoms when entering the country, such as rash, blisters or blisters burst, the suspected symptoms of pustules must be notified to the quarantine personnel. At present, there are only five deaths in the world, all in Africa, so the symptoms may be relatively mild in the whole developed regions.
Wang Bisheng, commander of the command centre, added that the monkeypox epidemic involves some target groups, and there should be no problem of widespread transmission. In the relevant domestic preparation work, the Republic of China CDC has also purchased related vaccines and medicines. So there is no need for anxiety.
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When travelling to Malaysia, monitor for monkeypox and report via MySejahtera if symptoms occur
Reporter : Liew Jia Xian, The Star / https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2022/07/25/monkeypox-monitor-report-via-mysejahtera-if-symptoms-occur
All travellers coming to Malaysia from countries reporting monkeypox cases must complete a card in the MySejahtera app and will receive pop-up messages daily, says Khairy Jamaluddin.
The Health Minister added in a statement on Monday (July 25)
that the pop-up message will remind them to monitor themselves for
symptoms of monkeypox and their general health.
He said that such travellers are
advised to monitor their health for a 21-day period following their arrival in
Malaysia.
The symptoms of monkeypox include fever, fatigue, headache, a
maculapapular rash that starts on the face and then spreads to the palms and
soles followed by other body parts, weak limbs, back pain or joint pain, muscle
cramps and and swollen lymph nodes.
“From May 1
until July 23, 2022, a total of 531,630 recorded travellers arrived from
countries that reported cases of monkeypox and the MySejahtera application had
issued a MonkeypoxHealth Alert to these travellers,” he said.
Khairy urged
individuals with symptoms of monkeypox to immediately go to a health facility
for examination and further treatment.
“Avoid contact with other people to avoid the spread of
infection," said Khairy.
He added that operators of premises that provide services that
involve skin contact with customers such as spas, massages outlets and other
risky activities are requested to always practise personal and
environmental hygiene.
"Ensure that all customers
are healthy, do not experience symptoms of monkeypox and do not have
maculopapular rashes," said Khairy.
“If there is a client who has these symptoms, advise him to seek
treatment immediately and employees with symptoms are advised not to attend
work and immediately get a health examination," he added.
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The CCP denies that the vaccine caused leukemia, detonated public opinion, and the Weibo accounts are silenced
Reporter : Jing Zhongming / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/24/a103486430.html / Image : A large number of children in China have developed leukemia after being vaccinated against covid, and their families have nowhere to complain. (Screenshot of NTDTV Asia Pacific video)
中共否认疫苗引发白血病引爆舆论 微博封号消声
Thousands of people in China have jointly reported that domestic vaccines have caused leukemia or diabetes. The CCP’s official denial has caused public criticism and doubts on social media at home and abroad in recent days, but relevant remarks on Chinese social media have been blocked.
On 23 July 2022, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Wang Fusheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, declared at the press conference that the domestically produced inactivated vaccine "has sufficient safety guarantee" and that vaccination will not cause leukemia and diabetes, nor will it affect the genetic development of the human body, cause tumor metastasis and spread, and cause enhanced antibody dependence (ADE) phenomenon, "These are irresponsible and wrong speeches on the Internet".
In May 2022, thousands of people sent a joint open letter online, accusing their families of leukemia after being vaccinated with domestically produced inactivated vaccines such as Sinovac and Beijing Biotech, which brought disaster to their families and even destroyed their families. Subsequently, thousands of people jointly accused domestic vaccines of causing children to suffer from diabetes but the joint letter was quickly deleted. These patients and their families have turned to journalists, lawyers and the government for help but they have nowhere to go.
Image : A large number of Chinese netizens questioned that the domestic vaccine caused the child to get leukemia. (Web Screenshot)
After many days, the CCP official finally publicly responded to the matter, and its position was a denial. Since the CCP has forced domestic vaccines, the official caliber of deaths from vaccines has remained the same. The authorities claimed that it was just a so-called "coupled reaction", that is, when the vaccinated people happened to develop other diseases at the same time, the death after vaccination "has nothing to do with the quality of the vaccine." .
The official Weibo account "Beijing Toutiao" has more than 4,600 comments under the blog post that has reposted the latest official response. This may mean that Chinese netizens have a "one-sided" distrust of the official statement.
Screenshots from the Internet show that there was indeed a wave of scolding on the Internet.
At the same time, online censorship of claims that vaccines cause disease has begun. Screenshots from the Internet show that a hematologist who bluntly affirmed that the domestic vaccine caused leukemia was banned from Weibo. The statement given by Weibo is that the user "applied for closure by himself."
Image : Weibo screenshot.
At present, the blog posts of other users who reposted this person's remarks have also been deleted. Netizens questioned the CCP regime, "What else can I do other than cover my mouth?"
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Black day for Myanmar as Burmese civilians mourn executed democracy heroes
Source : The Irrawaddy / https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/black-day-for-myanmar-as-nation-mourns-executed-democracy-heroes.html
Image : Jimmy Ko (left) and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw (right)
Myanmar people were in a state of shock, anger and grief on Monday (25 July 2022) as they learned of the junta’s hangings of four regime opponents including prominent democracy activists Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw.
In an announcement published in Monday’s papers, the junta said simply that “the punishment has been carried out” against the duo and two others for masterminding and being involved in armed resistance and other anti-regime activities. It’s believed the executions were carried out during the weekend, as family members met them via video on Friday.
Millions of Myanmar people, including many based overseas, had anxiously followed the cases of leading pro-democracy activists Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw after the junta insisted last month that it would execute them, defying global condemnations and appeals.
The announcement of the execution orders last month triggered a wave of sorrow and fury, as the pair were seen as exemplary freedom fighters against military rule.
Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw had both been political prisoners under previous military regimes and had already given much to the cause of democracy over previous decades, before making the ultimate sacrifice over the weekend.
Ko Jimmy spent nearly half his life as a prisoner, serving 21 years in Insein and Tharawaddy prisons from 1988 to 2005 and 2007 to 2012. He was first sentenced to 20 years in jail for his involvement in the student demonstrations and underground movement during the 1988 popular uprising, and was later given five years for his role in the Saffron Revolution in 2007.
Like him, his widow Ma Nilar Thein was a leader of the 88 Generation Students Group. He also leaves behind a 15-year-old daughter. Ma Nilar Thein is in hiding for her anti-junta activism.
After his release in 2012, Ko Jimmy worked with philanthropic projects, capacity-building schemes for young people and educational programs along with 88 Generation comrades like Ko Min Ko Naing.
Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, a hip-hop star turned politician, also became a symbol of resistance against military oppression.
He served as a lawmaker for the National League for Democracy (NLD) from 2012 to 2020 after making his name with Acid, a pioneering hip-hop band starting in 2000. His first imprisonment came in 2008 after he founded the Generation Wave underground youth group, known for using guerrilla tactics to distribute material opposing the then junta.
He developed a reputation as a hard-working and passionate legislator who always educated himself deeply about issues. The former rapper did not contest the 2020 election as he wanted to return to music. He campaigned ahead of the 2020 November election in Naypyitaw but then focused on his creative pursuits.
He immediately joined the anti-regime protests after the February 2021 coup. Following the junta crackdowns, Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw went into hiding and joined the armed resistance in Yangon.
Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw were detained by the regime in Yangon late last year and hanged in Yangon’s Insein Prison nearly eight months after their arrests.
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Ukraine permanently bans the Communist Party, the CCP is silent
Editor : Huang Yimei / Interview : Luo Ya / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/24/a103486491.html
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It has been more than four months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and a Ukrainian court has ordered a complete ban on the Communist Party of Ukraine and confiscation of all its assets. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice against the Communist Party of Ukraine, which it argued was an attempt to subvert the country's constitutional structure through violent means. There has been no official response from the Chinese Communist Party.
In the past 10 years, Ukraine has launched a de-communization movement. After several years of trial, the Ukrainian court finally ordered the permanent ban of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
According to the official website of the Ukrainian Court, on 5 July 2022, the Eighth Administrative Appeals Court ordered the permanent ban of the Communist Party of Ukraine. to the country.
Li Yuanhua, a former associate professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing, said, "They actually deeply understand the harm that the Communist Party has brought to mankind, so they can make such a rational judgment. Because they have been persecuted by the tyranny of the Communist totalitarian regime, they live in this environment. It knows the dangers of this communism to human beings, so it can make such a clear judgment and the judicial system can give a judgment so resolutely."
The ruling comes as a result of Ukraine's Justice Ministry's case against the Ukrainian Communist Party, and the court also said the ruling, once published, could not be appealed.
Li Yuanhua, a former associate professor at Beijing Capital Normal University, believes that this is the embodiment of Ukraine's national consciousness.
Li Yuanhua said, "After leaving the rule of the Communist Party, I will rethink this period of history, or look at the disaster the Communist Party has brought to mankind. So like the Czech Republic before, including some other former Eastern European countries, including now Ukraine, has always been liquidating this communist toxin. So this time it is equivalent to completely banning the Communist Party from the law, including confiscation of its property."
The Ukrainian Communist Party had been banned since 1991 but in 2001, then-Ukrainian President Kuchma lifted the ban on the grounds that the Ukrainian Communist Party was not the de jure heir to the Soviet Communist Party.
On 8 July 2014, the Ukrainian Minister of Justice filed a complaint with the Kyiv Administrative Court, demanding that all activities of the Communist Party be banned in Ukraine. The indictment presented material that the Communist Party supported pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine and participated in separatist activities.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice believes that the activities of the Communist Party undermine Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, while propagating violence and ethnic hatred, and the Communist Party is trying to subvert Ukraine's national constitutional structure through violent means.
Li Youtan, a professor at the National Development Institute of Taiwan's National Chengchi University, commented, "The war has been destroyed by Russia to such an extent that the whole people have risen and united, and they have to sweep away the forces of the Communist Party. The international forces of freedom and democracy have risen together, and they know the evil axis of communism. The axis of evil between the CCP and Russia must be fought to the end.”
Ukraine was once ruled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the Russian invasion, Ukraine has banned a number of left-wing political parties accused of being pro-Russian.
Li Yuanhua said, "Russia's biggest confidence is the CCP's secret support for its Russia, and Ukraine has also seen it. Only communist countries in the world do not have such morality, and they do not speak morality. They must also learn from this kind of war between Russia and Ukraine, to re-understand the danger of the Communist Party to mankind."
The Ukrainian Communist Party has always had close contacts with the CCP, but this time it was permanently banned, and the CCP official has not responded.
Li Youtan said, "In the long run, we all think this is a good thing, because the rise of the CCP is a rise of totalitarian dictatorship, which will inevitably expand hegemony. The awakening of liberal democracies around the world, the invasion of Ukraine through Russia's invasion, and the covid pandemic from Wuhan, coupled with the suppression of Hong Kong and the bullying of Taiwan, show that they already want to undermine the current international situation where the rules of freedom and democracy are the order."
Scholars said that the determination of the Ukrainian people to resist the Communist Party has taught people in China and the world a lesson that liberal democracy and totalitarian dictatorship cannot coexist.
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