Scam parks despite human rights achievements, Sanctions against Taiwan by CCP invalid

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Cambodia not afraid of U.S. pressure! Cambodian Taiwanese businessman reveals the origin of scam park

 Image : Scams from Cambodia have been on the rise recently. (Schematic diagram/shutterstock Dazhi image)

 

Recently, scams in Cambodia have been spreading frequently. Many Taiwanese people are lured by high salaries and deceived to work in Cambodia. As a result, they were brutally treated and even lost their lives. A netizen who used to work in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, revealed that the local scam parks will be so prevalent, and the current Prime Minister Hun Sen related to the ban on gambling, and pointed out that the local government is not even afraid of pressure from the United States, and only CCP China can come forward to improve.

The original PO posted on the Facebook group "Breaking Complaint Commune" that he has been working in Phnom Penh for a long time, but because of the epidemic, he has not been there for two years. 

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Gambling license cancellations cause Chinese exodus from Sihanoukville

The economy of  Sihanoukville took off in 2016. Most of the Chinese were originally casino owners that operate online games but Hun Sen cancelled the issuance of gambling licenses in 2019 leading to the outbreak of exodus of Chinese people. A large number of unfinished buildings exist and construction companies went bankrupt and other chaos occurred frequently in Sihanoukville. 

Mainlanders desperately wanted to make money and return to China. The incident happened in different places, and the perpetrators and victims were all mainlanders, and later it began to transform into a scam park.

Image : Cambodian Taiwanese businessman reveal the origin of the scam park. (Photo/Photographed by Self-Exploding Complaint Commune) 

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Scam park started to attract overseas Chinese, Taiwanese started coming in September 2021

The original PO pointed out that after that, the mainland ordered a strict inspection of the documents of the people who went to Cambodia. If it was unreasonable, they would directly refuse to leave the country, and even directly destroy their passports. The fraudulent park began to lure Chinese from all over the world when no one was available. Taiwanese went to Cambodia. The trend began to flourish around the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2021 when a Taiwanese person offered a job as a computer repairman for US$2,500 (about NT$75,000) to lure Taiwanese to go there.

The original PO emphasized that the Cambodia scam incident is not groundless but it is not as serious as some news said, and even some people themselves know that they have engaged in illegal acts in the past but they did not calculate that they will be locked up as dogs. As for organ transplantation, the local sanitation environment is so bad that a person may be infected and die within a few days of the transplantation, so organ harvesting will be carried out overseas, and the video that went viral a while ago is actually a Russian morgue when the covid epidemic broke out.

Image : The police were stationed at the airport and intercepted people from Cambodia and Taiwan. (Schematic diagram / TVBS data screen) 

The former PO reluctantly said that the normal life of ordinary people in Cambodia is still very comfortable, and the local people are also very good to Taiwanese. The problem is the corrupt bribe-taking upper class. Ordinary people may even be imprisoned for helping and speaking on behalf of the victims. The backers are soldiers, so the police are useless. 

Previously, the United States publicly condemned the human trafficking problem in Cambodia and put it on the blacklist, and the Cambodian government just jumped out to argue a few words without going on the record. So if you want to improve the local human trafficking problem , the only one that can be counted on is CCP China. Unless "CCP fathers come out and strictly prohibit them, then there will be no improvement in the Cambodian Sihanoukville Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China."

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Visit Cambodia in a group instead of going there alone

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The original PO also suggested that Taiwanese should go to Cambodia in a group and keep their passports with them. At most, they should take them when they get off the plane to apply for a group visa. Be sure to get your passport back before. If they do not, do not go out, just make a fuss at the airport.

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Cambodia is not popular? Zhengmei's monthly salary of "this place" is 100,000, and the worst is directly after investigation

Editor : Wang Sichun /  https://news.tvbs.com.tw/life/1879006 / Image : Recently, there have been frequent reports of Cambodian gold scams. (Picture, not related to news events/TVBS) 

The Human Snake Group deceived Taiwanese to the local area on the grounds of "high-paying jobs overseas" and forced them to engage in illegal activities, such as prostitution, fraud, and drug trafficking. Now there are constantly accusations from victims, and they even speak out about their purgatory-like experiences, in order to prevent more people from being deceived. Unexpectedly, a male netizen recently said that Cambodia is not popular now, and it has been changed to "Thailand".

Image : Someone shared that they encountered the fraudulent process of the Human Snake Group, and even said that "the location has been changed to Thailand." (Photo/Retrieved from Dcard) 

The original PO was titled "Cambodia is no longer popular, it has changed to Thailand" on Dcard, and PO posted several dialogue records of suspected members of the Human Snake Group. At the beginning, the other party started to introduce to the original PO on the grounds of "sharing good work". When asked, "Are you abroad?" The other party said without hesitation, "Yes! The place of work is in Mae Sot, as long as you work hard to break the monthly salary of 100,000, it will not be a problem." He mentioned that the company is currently short of manpower and needs help recruiting.

Due to the rampant scams in Cambodia recently, the original PO did not lie about the situation and lied that he had no money to buy a plane ticket by car, nor even had a car to the airport, and pretended to ask the other party if he could afford it. Unexpectedly, the other party said that he would send a driver to pick him up, and he would find a way to solve the problem of money. Finally, the original PO did not forget to call on "whether boys or girls, don't trust others so easily and go abroad to work easily".

 

Image : Although Mae Sot is located in Thailand, it actually faces Myanmar. (Photo / Retrieved from Wikipedia) 

After the article was published, there was a discussion, and the other party revealed that the work place was in "Mae Sot", which was tragically seen by netizens. As long as you crossed a river, it was the KK Park in Myanmar, and you did not need to resell it to go directly to the worst place; in addition, some people suspected that this women may also have been scammed to the local area, and now they are in a hurry to find someone, in fact, they need rescue.

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The actress' husband was exposed as the "Cambodian Snake Leader"! Insider shaking features: Super Black Power

Editor : Chen Yiling / https://news.tvbs.com.tw/local/1878591 / Image : Many Taiwanese have been deceived into Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries to commit scams. (Picture/TVBS data screen) 

Gold rush in Cambodia? In fact, it is reduced to a victim for live organ harvesting. However, now the scam methods are becoming more and more high-end. The hostages will be sent to Thailand first, and then resold to Cambodia, Myanmar and other regions. In this regard, a person familiar with the matter broke the news that the "man behind the scenes" engaged in human trafficking chains in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand is actually the husband of a female artiste, and has a huge influence and a super dark background. 

Brother Pao, a credit surveyor, is on the show "This! Not the News"  broke the news that scams are hot in Cambodia now, and the public will be more vigilant, so the fraudulent methods in Cambodia will be updated on a rolling basis. Now the hostages will be flown to Bangkok before moving on to another place named "Aranyaprathet".

 

Brother Pao pointed out that "Aranyaprathet" has 10 large casinos. It is really crazy and full of casinos, so the group will first take the victims to the local area, try to gain trust, think it is just a dealer, and then Brainwashing victims "fraud" is also one of the jobs.

Image : The police have cracked a case a few days ago and arrested a suspect who cooperated with a fraud group to provide a “One-stop Work in Cambodia” service. (Picture/TVBS) 

In addition, the "big barrel boy" (the head of the large-scale group) may be Taiwanese. Brother Pao also kicked it out. The man behind the human trafficking chain is actually the husband of a female artiste, and he revealed the details "It was on the page a few years ago", that person is a well-known "bucket" (fraud syndicate) in Thailand, and made the Human Snake syndicate on a large scale locally; then he changed the subject, "In fact, Taiwan is the kingdom of scams, exporters and masters are all (Taiwanese)."

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"4 clues" of the shocking actress whose husband is the leader of the human snake! She acted in idol dramas

Editor : Zhuang Yating / https://news.tvbs.com.tw/local/1879528 / Image :  Brother Pao is shocked that the husband of the famous actress is the "head of the Human Snake Group" (illustration/TVBS, shutterstock Dazhi Video) 

Recently, Taiwanese have fallen into the trap of finding jobs in Cambodia, and have been defrauded, abused, and even forced to sell organs, causing an uproar from all walks of life. Brother Pao, a credit reporter, was even more shocked that the husband of a well-known actress was the "head of the Human Snake Group", further exposing 4 clues of the actress.

Brother Pao is in "Here! Not the News" program pointed out that the husband of a female artiste is the man behind the human trafficking chain in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand, alleging that he is the foundation of the Snake Group, and he is doing a good job here.

Image : Brother Pao was shocked that the husband of the famous actress was "the head of the Human Snake Group". (Picture / Recap of "This! It's Not News" YouTube) 

 

Now the fraud methods have also changed. Brother Pao explained that the outside world thinks that Thailand is a tourist country and the security is not bad. Of course, it is no problem to go to Bangkok, Thailand. The scammers and the human snake will divide the labour and will first be transferred to the "Aranyaprathet" at the border between Thailand and Cambodia in the southeast. However, if the victim is dissatisfied with the need for scam, the victim will be resold to a company in Cambodia, and he knows that the Taiwanese will eventually pay to rescue the victims. So most of the people peel off several layers of skin through continuous resale.

As for who is the actress? Brother Pao revealed that she had appeared in the media a few years ago. According to "ETtoday News Cloud", Brother Pao added four major characteristics of the female artiste. She is about 40 years old and has debuted for more than 20 years. When she was young, she acted in many popular and well-known youth campus idol dramas, while the female star's husband studied in Thailand when he was a child. 

The husband's relatives did business in Thailand before they began to engage in fraud in Cambodia and Thailand. The method of fraud is commonly known as "Dashuifang", which uses virtual currency to help peers to launder money. Originally 1:30, it was sold to peers for 1:34, so as to make huge profits. As for the actress who was named, her agent told TVBS that she could not be contacted at the moment and would not respond.

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Hun Sen offers UN expert view on Cambodia's human rights situation

Reporters : Ry Sochan and Orm Bunthoeurn / https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-offers-un-expert-overview-cambodias-rights-situation

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Prime Minister Hun Sen on 16 August 2022 told UN rapporteur Vitit Muntarbhorn his views on civic space, human rights, democracy and the rule of law, against a backdrop of allegations of Cambodia backsliding in these areas.

 

Vitit, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, is on an 11-day visit from August 15-26, during which he will meet with government officials and civil society representatives to assess the situation on the ground and the government’s efforts in creating an enabling environment for the full enjoyment of all human rights by Cambodians.

 

During the meeting, the rapporteur requested that Hun Sen clarify Cambodia’s position as ASEAN chair on promoting human rights, economic justice, democracy and rule of law in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the premier’s social media post, the meeting also touched on the recent commune council elections.

 

Hun Sen said Cambodia is continuing to implement its social security policy, which has helped the poor and vulnerable during the pandemic with direct cash assistance while also increasing salaries for civil servants and members of the armed forces as well as pensions for veterans.

 

The government has also been working to increase the minimum wage for factory workers while also undertaking the implementation of pensions – slated to begin in October – for all employees in the private sector under the Cambodian labour law.

 

“Cambodia had put in place in-depth measures which are thorough and effective in order to support the economic sector and implemented social protections such as the cash transfer programme and … vaccinations for all people, which have reached more than 94 per cent so far, among others,” his post said.

 

Vitit praised Cambodia for having achieved such a high overall percentage of vaccinations among its population.

 

Hun Sen also elaborated on the covid law and related legal provisions, which were promulgated in March 2021, saying they were all aimed at maintaining national security and public order, and protecting the lives and health of the people.

 

“The allegation that many legal provisions had been adopted to restrict civil society organisations [CSOs] is not at all based on the truth. All laws and legal standards which have been passed, including those made during the covid pandemic, adhered to the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality.

 

“All of them had a single purpose – saving lives and protecting people who respect the law as well as to prevent offences which cause instability, affecting public health and order,” the post said.

 

With regard to space for CSOs and election issues, Hun Sen said that universally democracy must go hand-in-hand with the rule of law, without which anarchy will ensue.

 

“In this spirit, Cambodia wants all actors in the democratisation process to act responsibly, make constructive criticisms, avoid incitements and refrain from spreading hatred. They must not sow hatred between Khmer and Khmer as that could lead to civil war.

 

“The respect of human rights, practice of democracy and protection of peace and stability must complement each other. None should be left behind,” added the post.

 

Hun Sen also informed Vitit that Cambodia has already organised six national elections since 1993 and five commune council elections. All of the elections were monitored by international observers who evaluated them to be “transparent, free, fair and just”.

 

“Cambodia is proud of the success of the June 5 commune council elections which were held in a manner that was free, fair, just, neutral, secure, orderly and non-violent,” his post said.

Regarding constructive criticism and avoiding the spread of hatred, Yang Kim Eng, president of the People’s Centre for Development and Peace, said that while he supported Hun Sen’s remarks, he felt that there must be some facilitation by the government on the issues.

 

He urged the UN special rapporteur and the government to listen to the concerns expressed by each side and work together to improve in those areas accordingly, especially on matters of human rights education, and that the principle of human rights must be enforced in order to avoid discrimination and hatred.

 

“There should be more awareness-raising about understanding and respecting human rights among civil servants and the general public, to make them understand and uphold the same standard of human rights so we can respect those principles all together, which would solve many of our problems,” he said.

 

Kin Phea, director of the International Relations Institute at the Royal Academy of Cambodia, said that Cambodia and the UN have historically had differing opinions on the subject of human rights in the Kingdom due to a lack of communication and inadequate information sharing.

 

He said that this was partly due to Cambodia not providing adequate information to the UN, while the international organisation bases their judgments too heavily on overly-critical NGO reports, resulting in dissonance.

 

“The attitudes of the UN special rapporteurs doesn’t vary much from one to the other. Their ideas differ from the government’s as the two sides do not share common ideas concerning human rights or democracy.

 

“Both sides are still using different indicators to gauge human rights, democracy and the political situation. They should use the same sort of mechanisms to measure them, but because they use different tools and different systems of measurement, the results will accordingly be different, leaving both sides to argue with each other over every report,” Phea said.

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Cambodia's UN mission showcases wide human rights achievements

Reporter : Mom Kunthear / https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/kingdoms-un-mission-showcases-wide-human-rights-achievements

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The UN hailed the Kingdom for its remarkable progress in widening social protection coverage, according to the Cambodian Permanent Mission to the UN Office.

 

The mission issued a July 12 press release detailing how it had updated the UN in Geneva on the Kingdom’s progress and achievements in the field of human rights, following the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

 

During the session, Cambodia hosted a total of 23 interactive dialogues with special rapporteurs and 8 panel discussions. It also adopted 23 resolutions on thematic and country-specific issues.

 

An Sokkhoeurn, Cambodian ambassador and permanent representative to the UN, said that during the 4-weeks of interactions, from 13 June to 8 July 2022, Cambodia’s permanent mission delivered a total of 22 statements, featuring normative and practical progress and detailing its accomplishments in diverse categories of human rights.

 

“The UN hailed us for our remarkable progress in enlarging social protection coverage,” he said.

 

Sokkhoeurn said that Cambodia’s “blossom strategy” to distribute SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in a free and non-discriminatory fashion – including for prison inmates and foreign residents – resulted in the inoculation of more than 94 per cent of the population.

 

The press release said that Cambodia’s digital education was being developed in both formal and non-formal settings. Nearly 80 per cent of the population are active social media users, and air their views freely on public affairs.

He said the UN Resident Coordinator praised the Kingdom for integrating gender perspective into its national policies. The number of female civil servants has risen to nearly 50 per cent, with 26 per cent of them serving in decision-making roles, while the number of female business owners has reached 61 per cent nationwide.

 

“In peace and security, we rank 13th among the 122 nations and we are 2nd in ASEAN for deploying women peacekeepers on UN operations,” he added.

 

During the 50th session of the council, Cambodia co-sponsored 10 joint statements on subjects as diverse as family and work balance, climate change, the nexus of technology to good governance and women’s rights.

 

During a ‘Social protection Week’ conference in February, UN Resident Coordinator in Cambodia Pauline Tamesis, spoke on behalf of the UN. She commended the Government of Cambodia for its remarkable progress in expanding social protection coverage in recent years.

 

She said that since the launch of the National Social Protection Policy Framework in 2016, social assistance and social security schemes have significantly expanded to ensure that not only the most vulnerable but more Cambodians who are at risk of falling into poverty, are better protected.

 

“We have seen transformation at a speed and scale previously not thought possible in the social protections put in place by the government to mitigate the devastating impacts of the pandemic,” added Tamesis.

 

The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation said the government had spent some $717 million assisting more than 680,000 vulnerable families since it launched the cash assistance programme in June 2020.

 

“We pay close attention to the most vulnerable members of our society, and were glad to launch the programme to protect our people. It was a timely response to the suffering of those who had lost loved ones to Covid-19, and those who lost their livelihoods to it,” said Chhour Sopanha, director of the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation.

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CCP sanctions 7 Taiwanese Mainland Affairs Council: Sanctions against Taiwan not under the jurisdiction of the CCP are invalid

Reporters : Gao Jianlun and Huang Yanling / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/08/16/a103503569.html / Image : A file photo of Qiu Chuizheng, spokesman for the Mainland Affairs Council. (Central News Agency)

While the CCP has raised the situation in the Taiwan Strait, while attacking and intimidating Taiwan, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China announced today that it will impose so-called sanctions, including the representative to the United States, Xiao Meiqin, and the secretary of the National Security Council. Seven people, including President Gu Lixiong and Vice President of the Legislative Yuan Cai Qichang, together with their family members are banned from entering China, Hong Kong and Macau. However, Taiwanese politicians not only fearless, but also asked the CCP, whether this sanctions just announced that Taiwan does not belong to China's territorial scope. The MAC also emphasized that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not subordinate to each other, Taiwan has never been under the jurisdiction of the CCP, and the so-called "sanctions" are illegal and invalid.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of the People's Republic of China (CCP China) announced that it would impose sanctions on seven Taiwanese politicians and ban them and their families from entering China, Hong Kong and Macau. He also called the seven people the so-called "Taiwan independence diehards". Including Xiao Meiqin, the representative of the Republic of China in the United States, Gu Lixiong, secretary-general of the National Security Council, Cai Qichang, deputy president of the Legislative Yuan, Lin Feifan, deputy secretary-general of the DPP, Ke Jianming, Wang Dingyu, legislator of the DPP, and Chen Jiaohua, a legislator of Times Power. 

Cai Qichang, a candidate for mayor of Taichung, said,"I personally think this is my honor, this is my medal, and this is the most important manifestation of my support for the people of Taiwan, Taiwan's democracy, freedom and human rights."

Chen Jiaohua, chairman of the Times Power Party, said, "I will still stand upright and continue to stubbornly adhere to the value of Taiwan independence."

Lin Feifan, Deputy Secretary-General of the DPP, said, "It has no real impact on us. It will not affect our actual work. We will still follow our pace to further seek international support and do our best to open up Taiwan's international space."

The CCP had previously placed Executive President Su Zhenchang, Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie, and Legislative President You Xikun on the sanctions list. In addition, this time, ten politicians from Taiwan are currently on the CCP’s list but in fact, such arrogant and unreasonable behaviour of the CCP can only backfire.

Ou Jiangan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, said, "China (CCP) has overreacted and created a crisis under its pretext. Its behaviour of intimidating Taiwan is the main reason for the deterioration of cross-strait relations. They want to create a chilling effect, but the result is counterproductive."

DPP legislator Wang Dingyu said, "Does Xi Jinping want to bring justice to your own Central Taiwan Affairs Office? Your sanctions just announced that Taiwan is not within China's territory."

The DPP stressed that the CCP authorities have no right to impose sanctions on the people and democracy of Taiwan, and the sanctions are meaningless. In response to this matter, the Mainland Affairs Council also responded with a press release, saying that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not subordinate to each other, "We warn the CCP not to raise cross-strait hostility any more, and immediately stop its wrongful act of deceiving itself."

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The CCP sanctions "Taiwan independence elements" again. Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council: Illegal and invalid

Reporter : Chen Yue / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/08/17/a103503963.html / Image : Video Screenshot

The CCP authorities added seven Taiwanese politicians to the list of so-called "Taiwan independence elements" on the 15th and imposed sanctions. Taiwan denounced the CCP's attempt to create a chilling effect and said Taiwanese would uphold democracy and freedom.

The CCP mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency reported that the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee released the latest list of so-called "Taiwan independence diehards" on 16 August.

Image : Video Screenshot

Xiao Meiqin, representative of Taiwan in the United States, Gu Lixiong, secretary-general of the National Security Council of Taiwan, Cai Qichang, vice president of the Taiwan Legislative Yuan, Ke Jianming, legislator of the DPP, Lin Feifan, deputy director-general of the DPP, Chen Jiaohua, a legislator of Times Power, and the DPP Li Commission Wang Dingyu and others were included in the list.

They and their families are prohibited from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. They are also restricted from cooperating with all relevant organizations and individuals in the mainland.

In this regard, the Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council protested and expressed dissatisfaction, saying that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not subordinate to each other, and the CCP's sanctions are illegal and invalid.

The spokesperson of Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated at a press conference that Taiwan is a democratic country ruled by law, and the CCP has no right to interfere. The CCP's recent series of high-intensity intimidation and retaliation have seriously damaged the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.

Ou Jiangan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, said, "China has overreacted and created a crisis under its pretext. Its behavior of intimidating Taiwan is the main reason for the deterioration of cross-strait relations. They want to create a chilling effect but the result is counterproductive."

Cai Qichang, who has just been added to the CCP's sanctions list, believes that fighting for the freedom of the world makes him feel honoured.

Cai Qichang, vice president of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan, said, "This is my medal. This is the most important manifestation of my support for the people of Taiwan, Taiwan's democracy, freedom and human rights."

Lin Feifan, deputy secretary-general of the DPP, said, "It has no real impact on us. We will still follow our pace to further win international support and do our best to open up Taiwan's international space."

DPP legislator Wang Dingyu said that Taiwan will not be intimidated and threatened by the CCP at the expense of its hard-won freedom and democracy.

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The Belt and Road Initiative invests heavily in Africa for geopolitical purposes

The Voice of America recently published an in-depth report, which exposes how the CCP has infiltrated Africa for many years.

The article said that the CCP first invested about 1 trillion U.S. Dollars in Africa by means of the “Belt and Road Initiative”, which is the CCP’s European trade and diplomatic initiative connecting Eurasia and Africa. China’s total investment in Africa has surpassed that of the United States.

In April 2022, Deborah Brautigam, director of the China-Africa Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University, told VOA reporter Bartlett that in addition to foreign aid, the CCP lags behind the United States in Africa. The mainland's economic influence has surpassed that of the United States in every respect.

Indian scholar Brahma Chellaney and a number of Western officials have accused the CCP of engaging in "debt trap" diplomacy under the framework of the "Belt and Road" initiative, using the unsustainable debt of participating countries for its geopolitical purposes.

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CCP sells arms to Africa, provides training

On the military front, the Chinese Communist Party is increasingly influential in Africa, selling weapons and providing training to African countries.

In March this year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported that between 2017 and 2021, CCP China was Africa’s third largest arms supplier, accounting for 10 percent of the world’s arms exports to the region.

Russia is by far the main arms supplier to Africa, accounting for 44% of the total, much higher than the U.S. share of 17%.

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CCP authorizes unrestricted flow of weapons to conflict zones

VOA said that some analysts believe that CCP's arms shipments to Africa are driven by profit while others say it is a strategic consideration.

For example, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Myanmar said in a February report that when CCP China sold weapons to Myanmar's military government, it was "fully aware that these weapons could be used against civilians."

On 25 August 2021, the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, a peer-reviewed journal of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, accused Beijing of “veiledly” authorizing the “unrestricted flow of weapons to conflict zones.”

In the name of "Global Security Initiative", China sends a large number of troops to Africa

In April, Xi Jinping declared that "humanity is an indivisible security community" and proposed a "global security initiative". Later, the CCP said the initiative was aimed at "maintaining world peace and preventing conflicts and wars."

Critics argue that this "will lead to a global system that is more conducive to authoritarian regimes than the current order based on democratic ideals," VOA said.

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CCP building military presence in Africa

On 31 July 2022, the South China Morning Post published a report titled “China Uses New Global Security Initiative to Build Military Presence in Africa,” saying that “China (the CCP) is pushing forward with its new global security initiative . . . Western powers such as France and the United States face resistance or are curtailing their military operations in Africa."

Back in December 2021, Michael Tanchum, a scholar of sub-Saharan Africa, wrote for the European Council on Foreign Relations that, with UN support, CCP China "is able to describe its unilateral military presence as part of an international effort to combat piracy and protect global trade through the Suez Canal".

To achieve this, he said, "Beijing has incorporated military and security elements into its economic partnership with African countries."

In December 2020, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), an independent agency of the U.S. government, said in a research report, “China’s (CCP) leaders are eager to demonstrate force overseas and demonstrate the ability to fight a limited overseas war, In order to protect the interests of China (the CCP) in the countries participating in the 'Belt and Road'."

In 2017, the CCP opened its first overseas military base in Djibouti, an East African country in the Horn of Africa (Somali Peninsula).

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CCP's second naval base in Africa revealed

In May 2022, the Center for African Strategic Studies issued a document saying that the CCP also plans to open a second naval base on the Atlantic coast of Equatorial Guinea, a central African country.

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Judge unseals Mar-a-Lago raid warrant, reveals why FBI is investigating Trump

Reporter : Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times PREMIUM

The seven-page warrant that authorized the FBI to search former President Donald Trump’s property earlier this week was unsealed Friday, and it shows that Trump is under federal investigation for obstruction of justice and other alleged violations.

Trump is under investigation for alleged violations of 18 USC 2071—concealment, removal, or mutilation; 18 USC 793 of the Espionage Act—gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information; and 18 USC 1519—destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations, according to the warrant, which was unsealed by Judge Bruce Reinhart on Friday afternoon. A conviction under these statutes can lead to imprisonment or fines.

The search and seizure warrant shows FBI agents targeted “the '45 Office', all storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by FPOTUS (former president of the United States) and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate.”

Agents were granted authority to seize “all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed,” according to the warrant. That includes documents with classification markings and presidential records that were drafted between 20 January 2017 and 20 January 2021, when Trump was President.

The FBI did not try to obtain access to search private guest rooms, including members of Mar-a-Lago, according to the warrant. Earlier this week, the judge ordered the Department of Justice to file a response after several groups requested the warrant unsealed.

Federal agents also took a set of alleged “top secret/SCI” documents, four sets of “top secret” documents, three sets of “secret” documents, and three sets of “confidential” documents, according to a property receipt unsealed alongside the warrant Friday (12 August 2022). It is not clear what the documents entailed.

Response

Trump’s lawyers have argued that the former president used his authority as president to declassify the material before he departed office in early 2021.

“The Biden administration is in obvious damage control after their botched raid where they seized the President’s picture books, a ‘hand-written note', and declassified documents,” Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich told Fox News as the warrant was unsealed Friday. “This raid of President Trump’s home was not just unprecedented, but unnecessary—and they are leaking lies and innuendos to try to explain away the weaponization of government against their dominant political opponent. This is outrageous.”

Ref: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22131385-trump-fbi-search-warrant

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Trump says FBI may have planted evidence, refuse to be monitored during raid

Reporter : Frankie Stockies, The National File

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The U.S. 45^th President Trump has suggested that the FBI may have planted evidence during their raid of Mar-a-Lago, which has been blasted around the world for its naked political motivations. In a post made to the Truth Social platform, the 45th President wrote that FBI agents refused to be monitored as they “rummaged” through his Florida home, revealing that they “strongly” insisted on being alone. 

“The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago,” President Trump wrote in the Truth Social post, exposing the secrecy and aggression of Biden’s FBI.

 Suggesting that the FBI could be cooking up a politically-motivated frame job, President Trump said that Biden’s raiders “strongly” insisted on no witnesses being present for their search of Mar-a-Lago. The unprecedented raid on a former President, Trump went on to say, is a far cry from the way federal law enforcement has handled their investigations into Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who have been shown time and time again to have violated the law in pursuit of their left-wing agenda, including by spying on Trump himself as a Presidential candidate, as they fought to snuff out his America First campaign. 

“Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, ‘planting.’ Why did they STRONGLY insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out? Obama and Clinton were never ‘raided,’ despite big disputes!” 

Reportedly, the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago came after completely unverified reports from anti-Trump left-wing media outlets suggested that President Trump was storing and “destroying” documents that belonged in the National Archives at the property. Axios published photos of paper in a toilet that New York Times writer Maggie Haberman claims belongs to Trump. According to Axios, the papers could be “records that should be preserved” and putting them in the toilet could be “potentially illegal.”

Notably, Axios and Haberman provided no details that actually linked the toilet or the papers inside of it to President Trump, and it has been widely noted what good condition the papers appeared to be in after having supposedly survived an attempted flush down a commode.

President Trump detailed the political madness surrounding the document allegations in another post made to Truth Social, the platform he is using to transmit vital information to the American People, bypassing corporate media and big tech. In the post, he revealed that the DOJ and FBI agreed for him to store certain undisclosed documents at Mar-a-Lago and even inspected their secured storage location, asking Trump to install an extra lock on the door. Then, suddenly, they raided the property, ripping open the lock they asked to have installed.

 

“In early June, the DOJ and FBI asked my legal representatives to put an extra lock on the door leading to the place where boxes were stored in Mar-a-Lago,” Trump wrote.

 

President Trump has been vocal in the aftermath of the Biden FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, describing it as “third-world” and as part of a longtime campaign of “political persecution” against him, by the political establishment and radical left.

 

“They are trying to stop me…I will continue to fight for the Great American People!” vowed Trump in a statement made after the raid was carried out.

 

“Without notification or warning, an army of agents broke into Mar-a-Lago, went to the same storage area, and ripped open the lock that they had asked to be installed. A surprise attack, POLITICS, and all the while our Country is going to HELL!”

In a video that has been compared to a Presidential campaign ad and that was released following the FBI raid on his home, President Trump blasted the Biden-led federal government that has “weaponized law enforcement” against its political foes.

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Avoiding Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the United States successfully tests the Minuteman-3 ICBM

Reporter : Lin Yi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/08/17/a103503948.html

On 16 August 2022, the U.S. military successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile. 

At 12.49 am Pacific time on 16 August 2022, the U.S. military launched a Minuteman-3 intercontinental ballistic missile without a nuclear warhead from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After flying 4,200 miles, the missile successfully landed at a test site near the Marshall Islands.

The Minuteman III missile has a range of about 6,000 miles and can travel at speeds of up to 15,000 miles per hour.

According to a statement released by Vandenberg Air Force Base, the purpose of this test is to demonstrate the effectiveness, readiness and accuracy of the weapon system, demonstrating U.S. confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of its nuclear deterrent.

The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command also issued a statement saying that the launch of the Minuteman-3 missile was a routine test that had already been arranged. The United States had conducted more than 300 similar tests before, not targeting any global events.

However, the test was still several days later than the original plan, avoiding the time when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, so as not to escalate the tension between the US and China.

In March 2022, the United States also cancelled a test of the Minuteman-3 missile in order to avoid any unnecessary misunderstanding or military miscalculation during the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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Has the Beidaihe Conference ended? Li Keqiang appeared in Guangdong video outflow

Editor : Wen Hu / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/08/16/a103503473.html / Image : The news that Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council of the Communist Party of China appeared in Guangdong on 16 August 2022 was circulated on the Internet. (Video screenshot)

The news that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang appeared in Guangdong was circulated on the Internet on 16 August 2022, causing speculation. If the news is true, it means that the Beidaihe secret meeting that lasted for more than two weeks has ended, and the preliminary results of the high-level personnel game surrounding the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China have already been obtained.

An online video showed that Li Keqiang, wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt, interacted with the people around him, accompanied by Li Xi, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and Wang Weizhong, governor of the province. A screenshot posted by some netizens on Twitter said that this was Li Keqiang's inspection in Shenzhen on the 16th.

It can be seen in the video that Li Keqiang interacted with the people around him. During the process, Li Keqiang and the people around him did not wear masks, and Li Keqiang's face looked fat and black.

Since the beginning of August, Li Keqiang and other senior CCP leaders have been invisible for more than ten days. By convention, this period is the time when senior CCP leaders are on vacation in Beidaihe. Especially this year coincides with the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Beidaihe holds a secret meeting, and each faction will start a contest around the personnel card position.

Hong Kong newspaper "Ming Pao" recently analyzed that according to practice, the personnel plan of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has been brewing in May and June. In August, after the high-level Beidaihe vacation (meeting), it was basically finalized.

According to the unwritten rule of the CCP's "seven ups and eight downs" (remain at 67 and retire at 68), among the current standing committee members, only Li Zhanshu and Han Zheng should resign because they have exceeded the retirement age. The number remains unchanged, and there are currently only two vacancies on the Politburo Standing Committee. Eleven of the 25 Politburo members will be replaced.

As for the departure and stay of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, there have been many rumours before, and the Internet once circulated news such as "Xi Xia Li Shang". In this regard, Yuan Hongbing, a law professor living in Australia, revealed that this is not the case.

In an interview with The Epoch Times, Yuan Hongbing said that some people deliberately pinned their hopes against Xi Jinping on Li Keqiang, and only then did news such as "Li Keqiang want to replace Xi Jinping" came out.

Yuan Hongbing revealed that the inside information he got was that Li Keqiang had turned to Xi Jinping, so Li Keqiang would support Xi Jinping in his lifelong rule at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In return, Xi Jinping gave Li Keqiang, at the 20th National Congress, to keep Li Keqiang as a member of the Standing Committee and as chairman of the NPC.

Given the CCP's consistent black-box operation, the final personnel layout of the top management is difficult to predict accurately, and the final result can only be confirmed after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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Xi Jinping talks about common prosperity as a long-term, realistic and priority task

Image : Guang Niu/Getty Images / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/08/16/a103503342.html

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is approaching, and Xi Jinping's "common prosperity" remarks are again hotly hyped. On August 16, the Communist Party Journal published the "common prosperity" proposed by Xi Jinping last year. According to foreign media reports, in the "common prosperity" movement, 10,000 rich Chinese will immigrate to other countries this year.

Since 1 August 2022, the Seventh Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China has been invisible for more than two weeks, and the outside world has speculated that the Beidaihe Conference may end. On 16 August, the CCP's official magazine "Seeking Truth" published an article by Xi Jinping entitled "The Whole Party Must Completely, Accurately and Fully Implement the New Development Concept".

This is Xi Jinping's speech during a "collective study" at the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on 28 January 2021. This speech is the first to be made public.

Among them, Xi reiterated "common prosperity" in his speech. Xi said that "common prosperity" is a long-term task as well as a realistic task, "neither urgent nor waiting", and must be placed in a more important position.

Xi Jinping also said that it is necessary to "look at the problem from a political point of view" and "handle all kinds of complex political relations". "

Current affairs commentator Yue Shan’s article on 15 August 2022 analyzed that Xi Jinping’s speech, the title of which stated that the audience was “the whole party”, seemed to be Xi Jinping’s need to make an explanation to the party after the Beidaihe meeting. Judging from the wording, although there is a sense of instruction, the whole article reveals that Xi has been under pressure in the party recently and has been criticized by other party leaders in many aspects, and he needs to make an excuse.

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Less emphasis by the CCP authorities on "common prosperity" in 2022

The article said that after the Beidaihe conference last year, the authorities put forward the slogan of "common prosperity", but at that time Evergrande Group, China's largest real estate developer, was caught in a storm of huge debts, and the rights protection movement also gave the authorities a headache. In the second half of last year, the authorities launched the supervision, clean-up, restriction and rectification of multiple industries around "common prosperity", which brought more problems.

Authorities appear to have put less emphasis on "common prosperity" this year. In this regard, the "Wall Street Journal" analyzed that the economic turmoil caused by "common prosperity" is not conducive to the CCP's 20th National Congress.

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10,000 wealthy Chinese immigrants are migrating to other countries in 2022

Under the CCP's so-called "common prosperity" and "zero-covid" city closure policies, Chinese billionaires are worried about the safety of their wealth, and more and more people are transferring their wealth to overseas for safe haven and planning to emigrate.

According to a report by Bloomberg on 19 July 2022, Henley & Partners, a London-based investment immigration consulting firm, estimates that in 2022, about 10,000 high-net-worth Chinese billionaires (with assets of over one million US dollars) will migrate out of China, taking with them about 4.8 million per capita US Dollars, a total of 48 billion U.S. Dollars will be withdrawn from China.

The report mentioned that the obstacles set by the Chinese Communist Party have created a new round of tension between China's wealthy and the authorities. Relations between the two sides have been strained amid Xi Jinping's "common prosperity" campaign. The report believes that how much long-term economic damage the "zero" policy will bring to China will be determined by "the ultimate scale of Chinese talent and wealth outflows."

Tang Jingyuan, an expert on China in the United States, told The Epoch Times that the CCP is now emphasizing on making state-owned enterprises bigger and stronger, advancing the country and retreating the private sector as one main reason.

Tang Jingyuan said that the CCP also promotes "common prosperity", which is to use laws, taxes and other methods to rip off the leeks of the rich, including the middle class. Safety is no longer guaranteed.

Tang Jingyuan believes that if a society has lost its wealth and intellectual elite, it means that there must be a serious crisis in the society. The departure of the backbone of the social backbone, in turn, contributes to the acceleration of this social crisis, so it will form such a vicious circle.

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Under record-breaking temperatures and drought, Chongqing's 600-year-old cliff statue emerges from the river

Reporter : Lin Yi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/08/17/a103503943.html / Images : Video Screenshots

A 600-year-old cliff statue in Chongqing has recently appeared due to continuous high temperature weather. 

Affected by the continuous high temperature, the water level of the Chongqing Banan section of the Yangtze River dropped significantly. Near Wutai Village, Shuanghekou Town, Banan District, Chongqing, the Foyeliang Island Reef, which has been submerged in the river all the year round, emerges from the river surface, attracting many curious people to watch.

At the highest point of the reef, there are 3 niches of cliff statues found. The largest niche in the middle is a round arch niche, 1.4 m high, 1.05 m wide, and 0.4 m deep. There are two small round arched niches on each side. Among them, the height of the image in the left niche is 0.6 m, and the height of the seat is 0.25 m; the height of the image in the right niche is 0.58 m, and the height of the seat is 0.2 m. Preliminarily determined by experts, the cliff statue was built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a history of nearly 600 years.

Video: https://www.youmaker.com/video/6d6f196d-d65e-4bd7-b8d3-65efbc1a8fb6

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17 departments of the Communist Party of China issued a document "promoting birth". People satirize: Born to give you nucleic acid?

Image : On 18 April 2017, a woman in the suburbs of Beijing stands under a wall with her baby in her arms. (Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images)

On 16 August 2022, 17 departments of the Communist Party of China jointly issued a document "promoting birth", proposing 20 specific policies to support fertility, including education, housing, and employment but mainland netizens responded indifferently, "No money, no time, no energy." "Born to give you nucleic acid?"

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"Population work" is on the agenda

In order to solve the population crisis and stimulate the fertility rate, 17 departments including the National Health Commission of the Communist Party of China, the National Development and Reform Commission and other 17 departments issued the "Guiding Opinions", proposing to optimize the maternity leave system, develop the universal childcare service system, and tilt the housing policy towards families with multiple children and 20 policies to support fertility, such as flexible commuting.

The "Opinions" refer to supporting fertility as "important" and "urgent", and require all localities and departments to put "population work" on the important agenda.

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Chinese youth "have no money, no time, no energy"

However, mainland netizens responded tepidly to the official birth-stimulating policy, with mostly negative comments. Many netizens said that childbirth is an economic issue. Young people "have no money, no time, and no energy", and "having children is not about raising piglets. Leaders want to increase the fertility rate and give birth to themselves."

Some netizens also questioned that the government's fertility policy is deceiving the public: "The boss will see if he will decide to hire male workers next time." Let’s spread parental leave.”

"In the era of family planning, the one-child policy was adopted. As a result, you have to pay for the birth of a child. If the child is sick, you should pay for it yourself. Later, people will not be deceived."

"When house prices are rising, housing policy is a good thing. Now that house prices are falling, you are still letting people buy houses. Isn't this digging holes for people to jump on?"

"Family planning personnel used to pull to get abortions, will they pull to get pregnant in the future?"

Some netizens bluntly said that the CCP’s inhumane policy of locking down cities and the epidemic prevention policy of dynamic clearing makes people desperate,  “Born to give you nucleic acid?”

Wang Wendi, research director of the Institute of Family Studies (IFS), an American think tank, told RFA why Chinese women are reluctant to give birth. The biggest reason is the economic aspect.

"The cost of raising children in China is relatively high, because everyone has only one child, and parents invest more in children. Many people are thinking, if they spend so much money to have one child, will it cost two or three times to have two or three children? The cost? Many families feel unbearable." Wang Wendi said.

Zhang Jing, the founder of "Women's Rights in China" who lives in New York, believes that all the negative effects of childbirth "are borne by women."

Zhang Jing told Radio Free Asia that the CCP government does not guarantee women's social status at all. Whether it is at the legal level, social welfare level, or people's culture and habits, it is not good for women.

"It's too difficult to ask women to have more children. If it were me, I wouldn't have more children," Zhang Jing said.

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"Zero-covid" forces people to give up fertility: we are the last generation

In addition, the CCP government's zero-covid epidemic prevention policy is causing more and more people to give up childbirth, and they cannot bear the panic and anxiety brought about by the "zero-covid" policy.

In May this year, when Shanghai was locked down due to the Omicron epidemic, the topic of "We are the last generation" was widely circulated on Chinese social media, causing heated discussions. In a video that went viral on the Internet, the Shanghai police came to the door to take the entire building’s residents to separate places for isolation but they were refused. The police threatened that if they disobeyed, “you will be punished, and it will affect your three generations.” A man replied: “We are the last generation, thank you."

Although the sentence "We are the last generation" is not profound, it expresses the aspirations of many young people and resonates throughout the Internet, and is described as "epic dialogue".

Discussions were mixed on Weibo, with one saying, "'We are the last generation' is a sweeping declaration that either this life ends with our generation, or we end with this life".

Someone shouted to the CCP,  "Your rule will end for me, and the suffering you give will end with me." "The CCP threatens young people with even sitting, and young people respond by not having children... Fertility rate is the last vote. ."

Writer Murong Xuecun tweeted, "The cries of 'We will be the last generation' are thrilling and resonate with many. 'If children are born only to be enslaved by them, if our children must also endure what we've been through' a friend wrote, 'Then let's get sterilized together.'"

Image : On 12 July 2022, a woman in Shanghai is doing nucleic acid sampling. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

Claire lives in Shanghai. Claire Jiang told Reuters that the phrase "really resonated" and that she "no longer wanted to have children in China" after seeing how the authorities exercised special powers to clear the city during Shanghai's lockdown.

A Taiwanese Miss Wang (pseudonym) who has worked on Internet for many years in Shanghai and married a local also said that she originally planned to have a child in the next one or two years but she would think twice if "clearing means closing down."

Ms. Wang told DW that if pregnant women are not allowed to go out during pregnancy if they are banned from time to time, she is worried that she may be depressed because of this. If you need to go to the hospital under certain circumstances, you may encounter obstacles. After the child is born, if you have to go to the hospital frequently, it will also have a great impact.

The report released by the United Nations said that the epidemic has had a long-term impact on China's fertility, with women worried about economic insecurity, questioning that vaccines are not good for fetuses, and strict epidemic prevention restrictions, leading to the dilemma of pregnancy and baby care.

A report released by the United Nations in July predicts that China's population may decline as soon as 2023, when India will replace China as the world's most populous country, and by 2050 China's population will decrease by 109 million people, compared with their previous 2019. Forecasts have decreased by more than 3 times.

Demographers pointed out that the data did highlight that strict epidemic prevention measures have indeed hit China's birth rate, and it is expected that the situation will only get worse this year.

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Beidaihe meeting seems to be calm, it is CCP's black box operation

The Beidaihe meeting, which has attracted the attention of the public, seems to be calm on the surface, and there is no such thing as the sword, light, sword and shadow that the public guessed. There are also many different opinions about this meeting. Some say that Xi Jinping and the old man gang quarreled in a mess, and even used the Central Guard Bureau, some said that Xi Jinping won a big victory, and some said that Xi Jinping suffered a setback. Anyway, everyone knows that the CCP is a black box operation, since the information is not transparent, it is inevitable that all kinds of public speculation will be introduced.

The CCP is a very well-organized cult and a gang. In particular, “the army and horses are unmoved, public opinion first” is a very unique gene of the CCP, so although there are no exclusive insider information channels, we have disclosed the information from the CCP. In the official information presentation, at least the framework and signs of many things can be seen.

This is the law of the CCP’s culture. Back then, Yan Weibing, the wife of Lu Dingyi, the head of the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department, was detained in Qincheng Prison. It was by reading between the lines of the People’s Daily that the information about Lin Biao’s accident was interpreted because he was very sympathetic to these laws of the CCP. 

It is for this reason that when we look at the CCP's black-box politics, there are at least some signs to follow. Of course, the CCP is different now. The cultural and propaganda system is more cunning, and sometimes it will deliberately release some smoke bombs to disturb the line of sight but no matter how public opinion is created, the CCP cannot hide the implementation of some major policies. 

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Look at Li Keqiang, Xi Jinping's status has not been shaken

The reason why I start these words with you is to say that from the current release of various official information from the CCP, we cannot see any signs of failure of Xi Jinping’s re-election bid in Beidaihe, including Li Keqiang, who just appeared in Shenzhen. There is no sign that Xi Jinping will be replaced.

Of course, this does not mean that Xi Jinping won a big victory in Beidaihe. In fact, he may have also been forced to make major concessions. This is a bargaining chip that he has to trade for his re-election. This chip is the dynamic clearing policy he has always insisted on.

Let's talk about Li Keqiang first.

Yesterday, Li Keqiang appeared in Shenzhen for inspection, and everyone may have seen him interacting with citizens at the gate of a company, encouraging young people to innovate and start businesses. According to official data, the unemployment rate among young people is as high as 19.9%, which may actually be higher. Li Keqiang will inevitably have to cheer up on the issue of employment and make a few casual remarks.

When Li Keqiang went to Shenzhen, he actually went to a meeting. On 16 August, Li Keqiang presided over a symposium with the principals of the provincial government in Shenzhen. Li Xi, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and the Governor of Guangdong delivered speeches on the spot, and the Governors of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, and Sichuan delivered speeches via video.

This is the 6 major economic provinces that the news said. Li Keqiang's speech, as always, emphasized that under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core, several achievements have been made. He repeated the current latest version of the fixed statement at the meeting, that is: Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era should be used as the guide, Fully implement the new development concept, Efficiently coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and Implement the requirements that the epidemic must be prevented, the economy must be stabilized, and Development must be safe.

Note that the phrase "comprehensively implement the new development concept" is actually the title of the important article Xi Jinping just published in the magazine "Qiushi", "The Whole Party Must Completely, Accurately and Fully Implement the New Development Concept". This article is actually a speech by Xi Jinping in January 2021. Therefore, no matter how much nonsense there is in Xi Jinping's remarks, Li Keqiang immediately followed the situation and repeated these nonsense as the official fixed expression of his speech, which at least shows that Xi Jinping's status has not been shaken. 

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Look at Sun Chunlan and Xi Jinping's forced concessions

As for the concessions Xi Jinping was forced to make, this sign is reflected in Sun Chunlan.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Sun Chunlan has basically been a special commissioner for the closure of the city. Wherever she goes, it means that the epidemic has escalated, and wherever she faces, she faces a complete lockdown of the city.

The current epidemic situation in Hainan, the official statement is that the number of cases continues to fluctuate at a high level, and the number of cases has exceeded 10,000 since the outbreak of the epidemic for half a month. Judging from this data, the Hainan epidemic should be the most serious outbreak since Shanghai closed the city. However, Sun Chunlan's speech when he went to Hainan to investigate and guide the epidemic prevention and control work on the 13th only emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important instructions on epidemic prevention and control, and strengthen the overall allocation of provincial resources, to make the system faster, to achieve zero-covid as soon as possible, and so on.

Many people have noticed that she did not mention "adhere to dynamic clearing and unswerving".

For a brief comparison, Sun Chunlan went to Jilin, Changchun, Shanghai and Beijing to investigate and guide the epidemic prevention and control procedures. The phrase "unswervingly adhere to the general policy of dynamic clearing" is standard in official reports, and should be placed at the beginning of the speech as soon as possible.

The current Hainan Provincial Party Committee Secretary Shen Xiaoming only repeated and conveyed Sun Chunlan's words at the subsequent enlarged meeting of the Provincial Party Committee's Leading Group on Response to the Epidemic.

Of course, we all know that the most important point of Xi's instructions is to adhere to the "dynamic clearing" policy, and at the beginning of the ninth edition of the prevention and control plan, it said to fully implement the general strategy of "external defense input, internal defense rebound" and "dynamic clearing" general policy. However, many things in the CCP’s officialdom are very subtle. Some words are mentioned or not mentioned, how many times they are mentioned, and even if the location of the mention is moved, it may mean that some policies and things may be changing.

Correspondingly, we have seen two rare actions in Hainan. One is that the Hainan Provincial Government publicly acknowledged the failure of social clearance and apologized to the public. The other is that after Sun Chunlan went to Hainan, he publicly admitted that there were 150,000 tourists stranded, and agreed that these people would leave the island and return to the local area, and the relevant provinces and cities could not refuse or limit acceptance.

Therefore, at least on the surface, the official attitude towards insisting on dynamic clearing has been downplayed. We cannot yet conclude that Xi Jinping has suffered a major failure, and the dynamic reset policy is about to change. However, officials are starting to lower their profile, soften their past positions, and are flexible in actual implementation, which is reflected in Hainan at least.

Therefore, I think this should be related to the Beidaihe Conference. The blow to China's economy caused by the closure of the city is obvious to all. No matter what the Central Propaganda Department does to reverse the verdict, it can only fool the common people. It is clear that high-level internal meetings are held behind closed doors. In addition, Jin Sanpang just held a high-profile meeting during the Beidaihe meeting to announce the victory of the anti-epidemic, which is tantamount to inserting a knife in Xi Jinping's back.

Therefore, as soon as the Beidaihe meeting ended, Sun Chunlan went to Hainan to lower the tune of clearing, and Li Keqiang went to Guangdong to convene a meeting in a major economic province to continue stabilizing the economy and employment, showing that Xi Jinping had to make adjustments on the issue of dynamic clearing. But if it is said that Xi Jinping has become unstable in power, he has failed to be re-elected, etc., I think the evidence is obviously insufficient. I'm not a supporter of Xi or an accelerationist, I'm just trying to look at the relevant situation as objectively as possible.

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Trump estate raided reflects Biden's contradictory policies

It’s been a long time since I talked about Trump. When it comes to American politics, Trump has always been the central figure that cannot be avoided. Whether he is in office or not, he is in fact influencing the major trends in the domestic and foreign affairs of the United States. To put it a bit exaggerated, if Xi Jinping’s policy center in the past two years has revolved around re-election, then Biden’s policy center in the past two years has revolved around Trump.

Biden's policies seem contradictory. In terms of diplomacy, especially in relations with the Chinese Communist Party, Biden has inherited Trump's principles of containment and decoupling. It can be said that Trump follows the rules but only changes some specific practices. In terms of internal affairs, Biden is almost the opposite, keen on de-Trumpization. As a result, everyone has seen that self-destruction in the energy field has led to unprecedented high inflation.

These contradictory policies and results highlight a conclusion: Trump is a very successful president, he is not perfect, but his basic policy framework has proved to be correct and effective.

In this context, coupled with the pressure of the midterm elections, and Trump's increasingly strong hint that he will announce his participation in the 2024 presidential election, further curbing the growth of Trump's influence and even preventing Trump from running, it has become extremely important A logical logic of the left forces.

So in my personal opinion, there is nothing very mysterious about this incident. It was an undisguised and stigmatizing action to prevent Trump from running for election. We will find a very interesting phenomenon, that is, the ultra-left forces in China and the United States are now more and more reckless about doing some very low-level actions, and they don't even pretend to be on the front. What we've said in the past is the bad mode, and it still applies today.

In the previous program, I said that Xi Jinping is doing things like "I am here, so I am here, and if you don't listen, you will kick it hard." In fact, you will find that the current U.S. judiciary is more and more in the issue of targeting Trump.

Many people believe that the United States is a country governed by the rule of law, and no one can make exceptions. If Trump commits a crime, of course he must be investigated, and such investigations cannot be regarded as political persecution. There is nothing wrong with the words themselves, no one can be above the law but the problem is, we look at Trump objectively in the past few years, from when he was illegally surveilled and poached for black material when he was running for president with Hillary Clinton, to the fabrication of a "Russia-related" incident by forged materials, and then twice in a row failed impeachment, we see that the judiciary has been conducting repeated investigations against a specific object.

At the same time, the email incident that Hillary responded to by smashing the server with a hammer, the incident of the Bidens and their sons being exposed by hard drives, and who the world-known "big man" was, etc., were easily let go. This is the double standard of the judiciary, stalking the enemy that they consider to be as harsh as winter, and they are too lazy to even hold a high posture to the friendly army they consider, and they just let it go, like the warmth of spring.

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American version of politics in command

This is typical of politics above everything else, ideology above national principles and minimum professional ethics. To put it bluntly, this is the American version of politics in command. This is not that everyone is equal before the law, but is creating inequality under the banner of legal equality. It is the same logic as the CCP’s propaganda to suppress real freedom of speech in the United States under the banner of freedom of speech.

This practice actually means that the Department of Justice and the FBI have directly used the "presumption of guilt" to treat Trump. Anyway, I just decided that you have a problem. If you can't find it this time, it will be the next time. . If you can't get it down, you can make you stinky, if you don't, you can disgust you. In fact, this is what we saw in the FBI's actual performance in this series of incidents. We are familiar with this kind of performance. This is what the CCP's knives do. As long as you want to open a store, check the water meter, check the fire, check the sanitation, anyway, as long as If you are not a saint, you are not afraid of not being able to find your problem. There is always a suitable one for you, until you close the store and leave.

Trump has been out of office for two years. If he really lived in Mar-a-Lago, he would have all these troubles? I think people on the left and right, with a little sense of reason, will know that the answer is no.

Not afraid of thefts, but afraid of thieves thinking about him. Trump has been thinking about him for several years.

It has been a week since the Trump estate was raided by the FBI, and the whole thing is still brewing. The latest is Trump's first interview with Fox News since the incident, in which he said "the country is in a very dangerous situation" and that anger over the incident has reached "unprecedented levels." So he "will do whatever he can to help."

Trump said the heat had to come down, "or something terrible will happen." He also said his representative had approached the Justice Department and offered to help, but his team had no word on whether the other party would accept help.

We do not know what Trump means by "terrible things", but after analysis by a data statistics company, it was found that on the day Trump's estate on the 8th was raided, the number of posts mentioning "civil war" on social media suddenly increased. There has been a surge, with multiple accounts outright claiming to "start a civil war in the United States." And related research also found that these accounts that mentioned the "civil war" included not only Trump supporters, but also Trump opponents.

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The reality of American society tearing apart

This highlights the reality of the current tear in American society, that is, those who hate Trump just want to kill them all and want to use force immediately, while those who support Trump feel that they can't bear it anymore, and they do not hesitate to take up arms to defend.

Part of the left media, as always, played the role of lying and smearing. Yesterday Trump disclosed in a post on his social media platform "Truth Social": "During the raid on Mar-a-Lago, they stole three of my passports (one of them expired) and everything else. This is Attacks on political opponents on a scale never seen in our country. Third World!"

The reason why I say that this kind of action by the Ministry of Justice is very low is because the passport is obviously not the so-called "confidential document" that the FBI wants to search. This kind of thing is commonplace in mainland China, but it is rare in the United States, especially for a former president.

CBS NEWS anchorwoman Norah O'Donnell immediately excused the FBI in public, refuting Trump on the show, saying that the FBI didn't take Trump's passport.

The result was immediately slapped in the face. Shortly after O'Donnell's voice fell, Trump's spokesman, Budovich, shared an email from Jay Bratt, the top anti-counterfeiting official of the Department of Justice's national security department, confirming that the FBI had seized in the raid. Three passports were taken, and the department has notified Trump's lawyers and is in the process of returning them.

With just such a small example, we can see that this is the beginning of another hunting game. The media is responsible for conducting public opinion trials and public opinion cover at a rhythm, and then the judiciary digs three feet behind the scenes to find evidence.

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The Department of Justice becomes America's political and legal committee

Americans are more reserved, whether Pompeo or DeSantis, they all publicly rebuked this as the Biden-Harris administration's weaponization of the judiciary, setting a dangerous precedent. In fact, the meaning inside and outside the words is to say that the Department of Justice is becoming a knife handled with American characteristics that only obeys the interests of political parties, and is becoming the political and legal committee of the United States.

As for the 11 top-secret or classified documents that the FBI claimed to have found, a Fox News report last Saturday pointed out that Trump’s lawyers had confirmed to the Justice Department as early as June that Trump had already been in office when he was in office. A "standing order" was issued stating that classified material brought back to Mar-a-Lago during his presidency would be considered declassified.

The simple reason is that everyone has to take their work home from time to time, and the president of the United States is no exception. President Trump often brings documents, including classified documents, from the Oval Office to his residence in preparation for the next day's work. So he issued such an order, and the President of the United States has full authority to classify and declassify documents.

For Trump, whether the 11 documents are declassified is the key to whether he will face charges. Now the FBI says it is classified documents, and Trump said that he has issued an order to declassify them, so we may as well wait and see what the final result is.

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The raid is counterproductive

Whatever the outcome, one thing I can say for sure is that what a Biden-Harris administration and the Justice Department are doing will only be counterproductive. We will once again see that there is a unique stubbornness in the ultra-left way of thinking. Just like Xi Jinping's acceleration of not turning back, sooner or later, extremes will be reversed, and we will dig a hole for ourselves and jump down. 

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FBI returned passports seized in Mar-a-Lago to Trump

Reporter : Gary Bai, The Epoch Times PREMIUM

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the FBI returned the three passports that the federal agency seized during its raid of his Mar-a-Lago resort.

“The DOJ and FBI just returned my passports. Thank you!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Unfortunately, when they Raided my home, Mar-a-Lago, 8 days ago, they just opened their arms and grabbed everything in sight, much as a common criminal would do. This shouldn’t happen in America!” he continued.

The FBI “stole” three of Trump’s passports during the Aug. 8 raid on his resort, the former president said on Truth Social on Monday. Trump said the seizure was “an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country.”

Earlier on Monday, Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich posted an email authored by DOJ national security official Jay Bratt, which shows Bratt to be confirming the possession of the passports and arranging their return to Trump’s team.

Image : Secret Service personnel in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. on 8 August 2022. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)

Jim Burling, an executive at a non-profit public interest law firm, said the FBI wouldn’t have inadvertently taken the former president’s passport.

“The FBI is too careful. If they took it, they knew what they were doing. I would give them credit for knowing what they’re doing, I would hope,” Burling told The Epoch Times in an interview.

“Passports are generally taken if somebody is considered to be a flight risk,” Burling said.

“We’re not dealing with an ordinary citizen. We’re dealing with a former president. I mean, do people seriously think he’s going to try to go to Lebanon so he couldn’t be extradited? Just to say that is to recognize the absurdity of it.”

Image : Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York  on 9 August 2022, the day after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home, in Florida. (David ‘Dee’ Delgado/Reuters)

Search and Seizure Procedures

The FBI maintains that it follows court-authorized procedures.

“In executing search warrants, the FBI follows search and seizure procedures ordered by courts, then returns items that do not need to be retained for law enforcement purposes,” the FBI told The Epoch Times in an email.

The search warrant, unsealed by magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart on Friday, authorized the search in locations including “the ‘45 Office,’ all storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by [the former president] and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate.”

The warrant authorized the seizure of “all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed” that violate the U.S. Code.

The passports were among a swath of other items that federal agents took from Trump’s Florida resort, including 26 boxes of unidentified material, “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” binders of photos, and other classified material.

Trump said on Sunday (14 August 2022) that the FBI also took documents that were protected by attorney-client material privilege or executive privilege.

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Liz Cheney loses Wyoming primary to Trump endorsee Harriet Hageman

Reporter : John Haughey, The Epoch Times PREMIUM

When former President Donald Trump announced in September 2021 that he was supporting Harriet Hageman in challenging Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in the Aug. 16, 2022 Republican primary for Wyoming’s lone congressional seat, the three-term incumbent defiantly shot back: “Bring it.”

Cheney fell into disfavor with the Republican party and her constituents—70 percent of whom voted for Trump in 2020—for being among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, serving as co-chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, and being among the former president’s most unrelenting antagonists.

In a May rally for Hageman, the former president implored Wyoming voters to give him the honor of saying, “Liz, you’re fired.”

According to a projection by Decision Desk HQ, Cheney has been fired by her constituents with Hageman rolling to a convincing win in the primary and to near-certain victory in November in deep red Wyoming.

With 6 percent of the votes counted at 9:53 p.m., Hageman, a natural resources attorney from Fort Laramie, garnered 60 percent of the vote, according to AP. Cheney drew 35 percent.

Hageman, raised on a ranch on the high plains of eastern Wyoming, owns a Cheyenne law firm and has a background in water rights and public lands litigation. She is senior counsel for Washington, D.C-based New Civil Liberties Alliance, focusing on litigation related to environmental regulations.

During her 11-month campaign, she emphasized her Wyoming roots, her background in natural resources policy, and Trump’s endorsement while traveling 40,000 miles in visiting all 23 of the state’s counties.

Although her campaign collected more than $15 million in contributions, three times more than Hageman garnered, Cheney’s high-profile participation in Jan. 6 proceedings during the summer kept her in Washington, D.C., and in the national spotlight, but not on the campaign trail. This has irked many in Wyoming and was exploited by Hageman in meets-and-greets with voters. 

Cheney was coined “the Virginian” by constituents who mocked her for not qualifying as a state resident to get a fishing license. The Hageman campaign produced a mock ‘Liz For Virginia’ campaign website.

Hageman pledged to visit all 23 counties at least once a year if elected and to be “a representative who will champion Wyoming ideals. (Cheney) doesn’t know us. She never has. But I do.”

Among her policy initiatives is a proposed “pilot program” to allot up to 1.5 million of the 30-million acres now under federal control in Wyoming “to the state so we could do a better job of managing” without the weighty regulations imposed by a matrix of agencies in Washington, D.C.

Her message and Trump’s endorsement resonated with prospective voters in polls that indicated a blowout was brewing. 

Cheney’s campaign appeared more orientated to down-the-road national political ambitions than to winning reelection to Wyoming’s House seat. She did few public events, preferring to meet with supporters in small gatherings often in private homes.

If there was any uncertainty in the outcome, it was how Wyoming’s long tradition of “crossover” voting could affect results. It is one of six states where primaries are “partially open,” meaning voters in one party can vote in another party’s primary by registering with the party before casting a ballot.

Of 284,557 registered voters on Aug. 1, the Wyoming Secretary of State reported 207,674 were Republicans, 39,753 were Democrats and 33,769 were unaffiliated, with about 4,000 registered with third parties.

Many Democrats, including former Gov. Mike Sullivan, openly encouraged “crossover voting” and Cheney had a tab on her campaign website explaining how to “crossover vote” on primary Election Day.

Nevertheless, unless Cheney had a stealth reservoir of GOP support—about 40,000 “quiet Republicans,” she called them—just by scratching out figures with pencil and paper, there simply aren’t enough Democrats or, for that matter, enough non-Republicans, to have much efficacy in Wyoming elections unless the election is contested among GOP voters.

Hageman was not the only candidate on Wyoming’s Aug. 16 Republican primary backed by the former president. Trump in early August endorsed three candidates for statewide office.

Trump-backed state superintendent of public instruction candidate Brian Schroeder and state treasurer candidate Curt Meier are incumbents who did not face primary challengers.

State Rep. Chuck Gray (R-Casper), who visited with Trump as a possible Cheney challenger in the summer of 2021, secured the former president’s nod in his three-way Republican secretary of state battle against Centennial business man Mark Armstrong and state Sen. Tara Nethercott (R-Cheyenne), who has the backing of the state’s Republican establishment , including state senate president and speaker of the house.

With 4 percent of the vote tallied, Gray is leading Nethercott in a race to close to call.

Cheney is the fourth of the 10 Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment to have their reelection bids foiled in Republican primaries by candidates endorsed by the former president.

Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) was defeated by Trump-backed John Gibbs; Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) was trounced by more than 25 percentage points by Trump-endorsed state Rep. Russell Fry; and Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) lost a narrow election to Joe Kent, who was supported by Trump.

Reps. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and Rep. John Katko (R-NY) retired rather than seek reelection.

The only two to advance to the general election in primary battles are Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) and Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.).

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Fearless of CCP's pressure, Canadian MPs will lead a delegation to visit Taiwan as soon as October

Image : The Canadian senator plans to visit Taiwan, and Senator Judy Sgro admitted that this trip will inevitably attract pressure from CCP China, but "we need to protect other countries that are fighting for freedom and democracy," and believes that a visit to Taiwan is a necessary trip. (Photo taken from Sgro's personal website)

After Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, visited Taiwan, the Chinese authorities increased their intimidation, but this did not hinder the willingness of democratic countries to visit Taiwan; (Judy Sgro) admitted that this trip will inevitably attract pressure from China, but "we need to protect other countries that are fighting for freedom and democracy", and believes that a visit to Taiwan is a necessary itinerary.

According to the "Canadian Broadcasting Corporation" (CBC), Sgro belongs to the Liberal Party and is also the chairman of the International Trade Committee of the Canadian House of Representatives and the chairman of the Canadian Parliamentarians Friendship Association. Scrooge pointed out that eight members of the committee are members of the Canada-Taiwan Friendship Association, and they are expected to visit Taiwan, which will take place as soon as October. Sgro said members were very eager to visit Taiwan "to see what opportunities there are for deepening trade relations between our two countries".

Sgro said frankly that this trip will inevitably attract pressure from CCP, but democracy is precious and an important component of everyone's daily life. Therefore, "we need to protect other countries that are fighting for freedom and democracy." "I am very proud of Canada. To stand up to CCP, I think it is very important to stand up and fight back." She also emphasized that the trip to Taiwan is "a necessary trip".

Sgro said that this trip was planned as early as the spring of 2021, but was delayed due to the impact of the Wuhan pneumonia (covid, COVID-19) epidemic. When it will take place will partly depend on Taiwan's epidemic prevention policy. .

The Canada-Taiwan Parliamentarians Friendship Association has 89 members. It has no formal diplomatic nature and is not supported by the Canadian Parliament. However, all members are from the Canadian Senate and House of Representatives. They maintain relationships with other governments outside of activities. Members of the association have organized groups to visit Taiwan in the past, most recently in 2014.

Canadian Liberal Congressman John McKay, who has visited Taiwan many times, said that CCP's fierce reaction to Pelosi's visit will not prevent Canadian lawmakers from visiting Taiwan, "CCP bullies Taiwan and indirectly bullies others.", "Taiwan is part of China" is nonsense. Taiwanese have repeatedly insisted on becoming an independent country and acting in an exemplary manner." He called on Canada to do everything it can to support Taiwan in expressing its democratic values.

Ref: https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4028086

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CCP sanctions cannot stifle the voice of the Taiwanese people

Reporter : Wang Xiang / Editor : Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/8/17/n13804038.htm / Image : On 2 October 2020, Xiao Meiqin (or Bi-khim Hsiao), Taiwan's representative to the United States, displayed a special anti-epidemic gift package for the Double Tenth National Day at Double Oak Park. (Lin Leyu/Epoch Times)

Xiao Meiqin, the representative of the Taipei Cultural Affairs Office in the United States, responded to Beijing's sanctions on Twitter on Tuesday (16 August 2022), saying that the CCP cannot stifle the voice of the Taiwanese people. Oppression can only backfire.

The Chinese Communist Party announced on Tuesday that it would impose sanctions on seven Taiwanese as Taiwan independence elements, namely Xiao Meiqin, representative of the Taipei Office of Cultural Affairs in the United States, Gu Lixiong, secretary-general of the National Security Council, Cai Qichang, vice president of the Legislative Yuan, Ke Jianming, chairman of the Legislative Yuan of the Democratic Progressive Party, and Min. Lin Feifan, deputy secretary-general of the Progressive Party, Wang Dingyu, a legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, and Chen Jiaohua, chairman of the Times Power Party.

In response, Xiao Meiqin posted a roaring photo of her beloved cat "A Hua" on Twitter on Tuesday, with the caption, "If the CCP thinks that they can restrict Taiwan's international space and stifle the voice of the Taiwanese people, it would be a big mistake, very wrong."

"Oppression only leads to more resistance," she wrote.

Xiao Meiqin graduated from Oberlin College and Columbia University, and was a former member of the Taiwan Legislative Assembly. She arrived in Washington in July 2020 and has maintained a low-key diplomatic style.

However, when Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, visited Taiwan, the CCP announced that it would conduct military exercises around Taiwan as retaliation. At the same time, the CCP’s diplomatic “wolf warrior” and ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, appeared in the American media and frequently instilled Beijing’s rhetoric against Taiwan to the Americans. Xiao Meiqin, known as Taiwan's "war cat", changed her low-key style and began to actively resist.

The representative office in the United States stated that in order to explain the current situation in the Taiwan Strait to people from all walks of life in the United States and win the support of international public opinion, Xiao Meiqin accepted an exclusive interview with 5 mainstream American media during the seven days from the 5th to the 11th, expounding the Taiwan government's policy and position, and refuting the fallacy that Beijing has sovereignty over Taiwan.