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The fatality rate is 80%! The United States announces a new SARS-CoV-2 strain
Image : Schematic diagram of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (covi) mutation that caused the covid outbreak (iStock)
Researchers at Boston University loaded a spike protein from the Omicron variant into the "2019 Wuhan variant" (named Wuhan-Hu-1) and the resulting virus, named Omi-S, quickly killed 80% of the mice participating in the experiment.
Not only is the fatality rate high, but the researchers found that this new combination of SARS-CoV-2 (covi) strains is five times more infectious than the currently prevalent Omicron strains in the world.
The above research results were published on the preprint bioRxiv biology platform https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1.full.
“Consistent with studies published by others, this work shows that it is not the spike protein that drives Omicron pathogenicity, but instead other viral proteins,” says Saeed, a Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine assistant professor of biochemistry. “Determination of those proteins will lead to better diagnostics and disease management strategies.”
Over the past three years, covi has continued to mutate in the global spread, and the Omicron strain, which is currently the most affected, is considered the most contagious. Even people who have received several booster doses of the vaccine are still unable to avoid contracting the Omicron strain.
Fox News reported on 17 October 2022 that researchers from Florida and Boston conducted the study at Boston University's National Emergency Infectious Disease Laboratory and recently achieved results.
With this study, the researchers confirmed the conclusion that the virus's spike protein determines the infection rate, while other changes in the virus' structure determine its lethality.
As a comparative experiment, the researchers exposed a group of mice to the Omicron strain. After that, the mice developed only mild covid symptoms and no deaths.
SARS-CoV-2 as the novel coronavirus was first detected and spread in a wet market in Wuhan in the winter of 2019. The strain, Wuhan-Hu-1, that first claimed the lives of a large number of people in Wuhan is widely believed to have been manufactured by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and leaked to the Wuhan wet market. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also been criticized for failing to deal with the crisis in a timely manner, leaving people around the world miserable.
See also: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/neidl-researchers-refute-uk-article-about-covid-strain/, https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/17/boston-university-researchers-testing-of-lab-made-version-of-covid-virus-draws-government-scrutiny/, https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/10/18/scientists-make-new-covid-variant-with-80-kill-rate-in-mice/, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1.full, https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/10/17/a103553744.html
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The lethality rate on laboratory mice is 80%, and the US scientific team is criticized for developing a more deadly covid virus
Image : According to foreign media sources, researchers at Boston University have developed a new strain of SARS-CoV-2 (covi) that can kill up to 80% of experimental mice, a study that has also been criticized by other scientists. The picture is a schematic diagram. (File photo, AFP)
According to foreign media sources, researchers at Boston University in the United States have developed a new strain of covi that has a fatality rate of up to 80% in experimental mice. ". However, Boston University responded by saying that media reports exaggerated most of the information, emphasizing that the research was approved under censorship.
According to the report, the researchers extracted the spike protein from Omicron and combined it with the original virus strain first detected in the pandemic. The researchers point out that the study provides important insights into the pathogenicity of Omicron and points to changes in viral architecture beyond the spike protein that actually affect lethality. The virus particles produced by this variant virus are five times that of the original virus.
However, such research has also attracted criticism from the outside world. Shmuel Shapira, the chief scientist of the Israeli government, bluntly said that this research should be completely banned, thinking that it is simply playing with fire. Dr Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, also pointed out that the study is clearly "gate-of-function enhancement", and that if the disease caused by the laboratory is to be avoided, the pandemic calls for greater oversight of laboratory research.
However, in response to external criticism, Boston University denied that it was doing "function enhancement research", emphasizing that the research had been reviewed and approved by the Biosafety Committee (IBC) and the Boston Public Health Commission, and criticized media reports that exaggerated most of the information, distorted the content of the research and The purpose is to emphasize that the research is not to deliberately create a new deadly virus strain but to do research by comparing Omicron with the original virus strain. Regarding the 80% fatality rate emphasized by the media, Boston University also stated that it is suitable for experimental mice, and if it acts on humans, it will not have the same fatality rate.
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Doctor: Covid vaccine causes irregular menstruation in women that will not heal for months
Reporter: Ren Hao / Editor: Xu Gengwen / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/10/17/a103553662.html / Image : A teenage girl is vaccinated against COVID-19 in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 5 July 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
The Israeli adverse event reporting system recorded that hundreds of women experienced menstrual irregularities after being vaccinated against COVID-19 (covid). After that, the situation has not improved.
Among those vaccinated with irregular menstrual periods were teenage girls between the ages of 12 and 17.
In an unexpected video, Israel's medical community held a secret meeting this summer to discuss the side effects of a covi vaccine and possible treatments, including causing menstrual irregularities in women.
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Medical experts: Number of women experiencing irregular periods after vaccination are more than recorded cases
Medical experts at the meeting said they believe the number of women experiencing irregular periods after vaccination should be much greater than the recorded cases, because many women do not think their irregular periods are linked to the vaccine, some women are unaware of such reports, and other women do not think such vaccine side effects should be reported.
"I was really concerned when I saw the Israeli data," Shelly Cole, a Texas-based obstetrician and gynecologist, told The Epoch Times.
Also a woman, Dr. Cole knows how the side effects of the covi vaccine can affect menstruation. She said that since Texas residents began vaccinating in December 2020, her clinic has been seeing female patients with symptoms including abnormal menstrual blood volume and prolonged periods. In order to better help patients, Dr. Cole has discussed treatment methods with many doctors.
The Israel Adverse Event Reporting records, from December 2021 to May 2022, of 282 Israeli women who reported irregular periods due to the covi vaccine, 88 of them explicitly listed a sudden increase in their periods.
Breaking down further, 83 of the 88 women had their periods extended by more than a week, with the only minor reporting that her menstrual irregularities lasted between 1 and 6 months.
Of the 82 women in the reporting system who gave the timing of their menstrual irregularities, 11 recovered within 1 month; 42 recovered within 6 months; 22 recovered within 12 months; 7 had symptoms It lasted for more than 12 months, and some of them said that their symptoms had not disappeared after being treated by a doctor.
All 282 women received either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, according to system records.
Image : Distribution of reports of irregular menstrual periods following vaccination with the COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccine in Israel. (Screenshot of the Israeli Ministry of Health/The Epoch Times)
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Israel health authority makes the incidence of various side effects appear small
Dr. Cole has been following reports and research on vaccine side effects since he started vaccinating against covid. She said that Israel's adverse event reporting system only started working at the end of 2021, and the government uses various techniques to make the incidence of various side effects appear small when counting side effects.
For example, when calculating the side effect rate of irregular menstruation, the Israeli government uses a base that includes the number of vaccinated males, rather than only female vaccinated women who had regular menstrual periods at the time of vaccination.
"They added the number of men who were vaccinated to reduce the rate of irregular menstrual side effects from the vaccine," Cole said. "(This summer), the vaccine has been open for 18 months, and they only counted cases of side effects in the past six months."
The Epoch Times sent a letter to the Israeli Ministry of Health to ask questions raised by Dr. Cole but the Israeli Ministry of Health did not reply. According to the Ministry of Health in a statement in August 2022, no new side effects of the vaccine have been found in the research in the last six months, and the side effects of the covi vaccine are limited to the list of side effects that have been published as early as 2021.
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Israel has discovered serious side effects of the covi vaccine in 2022
However, footage of the secret meeting, which was quietly recorded and posted online by Israeli journalist Yaffa Shir-Raz earlier, shows that the Israeli government has newly discovered some serious side effects of the vaccine in 2022, including irregular menstruation.
In a secret meeting convened by the Israeli Ministry of Health, a large group of medical researchers gathered to discuss the severe side effects of a covi vaccine.
"Compared to the fact that some of the symptoms in the brochure go away within a few days, we found that only 5% of the reported side effects had symptoms lasting 2 weeks to a month. Others had symptoms that lasted longer." Presenter Sasha Zhurat said at a meeting, "More than 90 percent of vaccinated people reported long-term side effects."
Among the first-time vaccinators, 10 percent of women experienced symptoms of menstrual irregularities, Jurat said. After the booster shot, the same 10% of women experienced side effects of irregular menstruation.
During the private meeting, the researchers discussed that menstrual irregularities do not appear on the list of side effects of vaccine manufacturers and national health authorities. Myocarditis is the main side effect of vaccines agreed upon by vaccine manufacturers and national health authorities.
Irregular menstruation due to covi vaccine
Investigations back in April 2021 found that the covi vaccine was causing menstrual irregularities in women, but the report was only made public for the first time in July 2022. To avoid confusion about the impact of vaccines on menopausal side effects, the survey did not select respondents between the ages of 45 and 55 to report.
"Forty-two percent of women with normal menstrual periods experienced increased menstrual blood volume following vaccination, and 44 percent reported no abnormality," the report reads. "Of those who normally do not menstruate, 66 percent of postmenopausal women, 71% of those taking long-acting reversible contraceptives and 39% of transgender people taking sex hormones have had an unexpected period after a vaccination."
A survey published in September found that women who received their first dose of the vaccine had an average menstrual period 0.71 days longer. After the second shot, their average menstrual period increased by 3.91 days.
The research report calls on the medical community to further study the impact of the covi vaccine on women's menstruation.
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Xi Jinping appeared in the protest of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the elders did not applaud
Reporters : Han Fei, Luo Ya / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/10/18/a103553909.html / Image : Video Screenshot
In the morning of 16 October 2022, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened in a tense political atmosphere. Due to the secret operation of the CCP regime, the subtle changes in the expressions or gestures of the participants on the podium have become one of the highlights of analyzing the CCP’s high-level politics. Look at the reporter's review and analysis.
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing on the 16th. Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, Luo Gan and Wu Bangguo were absent from the meeting. The outside world speculates that it may be for health or political reasons.
Hu Jintao, who is nearly 80 years old, followed Xi Jinping into the hall. When Hu Jintao sat down, Xi Jinping bent down and stretched out his hand to help him sit down. Hu Jintao also smiled at Xi Jinping when Xi Jinping delivered a speech and took the seat. Wen Jiabao had a solemn expression in the audience.
What attracted the most attention was that when Xi Jinping took the stage to give a speech, the audience applauded but Li Ruihuan alone did not applaud, but just stared straight at Xi Jinping.
Zhang Tianliang, a scholar of history and culture, an expert on Chinese and American political affairs, said: "In fact, I think Li Ruihuan is someone who dares to go against Jiang Zemin. When Jiang Zemin suppressed Falun Gong, Li Ruihuan's three consecutive CPPCC reports did not mention support for the suppression of Falun Gong at all. I think if Li Ruihuan is not even afraid of Jiang Zemin, then Xi Jinping can ignore you, right? You can't treat me anyway."
Xi Jinping delivered a report at the opening ceremony. In less than 2 hours of speech, Xi Jinping coughed and drank tea many times to clear his throat, which attracted attention.
Senior media person Li Muyang said, "During the process of reading the manuscript, Xi Jinping seemed to have phlegm in his throat, and he was going to strengthen his cough a little to moisten his throat. At this time, the sound controller immediately turned down Xi Jinping's microphone volume. After Xi Jinping stopped coughing, It's back to the original volume."
Li Muyang added, "But at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping made a report for nearly 3 hours, the full text was more than 32,000 words, and Xi Jinping did it in one go. At this time, after five years, has his physical strength declined?"
In his speech, Xi Jinping repeatedly mentioned the need to resolve the Taiwan issue, and after a lapse of 20 years, he once again included "never promise to renounce the use of force" in the report, but the report also mentioned "do our best to strive for peaceful reunification".
Su Ziyun, director of the Institute of National Defense Strategy and Resources of the National Defense Academy of Taiwan: "When it comes to not giving up force, it is repeated this time. I think for Xi Jinping, this one is for internal listening. The second one is, The reason why he still emphasizes that peaceful reunification is the top priority, I think it is for the United States. So he takes into account the needs of both external and internal propaganda."
Over the past decade, Xi has purged political opponents through an anti-corruption campaign and has become the most powerful leader of the Communist Party in decades. Xiao Pei, deputy secretary of the Communist Party's Disciplinary Committee, said at a press conference on the 17th that Xi Jinping's 10-year anti-corruption campaign has brought more than 207,000 top leaders at all levels on file for investigation. According to CCP state media, as many as 1.4 million "tigers and flies" were killed in the five years from the 18th National Congress to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Among them, many of the fallen officials have actively participated in the persecution of Falun Gong, and they are on the tracking list of overseas organizations investigating the persecution of Falun Gong.
However, Zheng Zhongyuan, a current affairs commentator, once pointed out that the number of officials who have been sacked in the CCP’s anti-corruption campaign is indeed considerable, but compared to the current state of corruption in the entire party, this number is insignificant, and the monstrous corrupt leaders led by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong are still at large.
Some observers pointed out that the targets of Xi Jinping's purge are not limited to political opponents, and even his capable general Wang Qishan may also be affected. Five of Wang Qishan's confidants, including his nephew Yao Qing, and his long-term secretary Dong Hong, all suffered accidents one after another.
Senior media person Li Dayu said, "In the eyes of Xi Jinping at present, those with more prestige and background who can pose a potential threat to him may become his opponents, and they will all become the object of Xi Jinping's investigation. Then next, it is not ruled out that some high-ranking officials are in this range, and Wang Qishan, as we just said, is one of them."
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FBI warns: Chinese hackers may attack before midterm elections
Editor : Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/10/17/n13847544.htm
The FBI is warning state Democrats and Republicans that Chinese hackers are searching their headquarters for vulnerable systems that may would be hacked before the midterm elections.
Agents in the FBI field offices have notified several Democratic and Republican headquarters across the country that they could be the target of potential Chinese hackers as the election looms, according to U.S. officials interviewed by The Washington Post.
However, officials said none of the political parties had yet been hacked or compromised.
"(This is) part of a larger effort by the FBI to not wait for the attack," a U.S. official told The Washington Post.
Republican National Committee (RNC) spokeswoman Emma Vaughn told The Hill in an email that the RNC was safe and undamaged.
"Cybersecurity remains a top priority for the entire Republican ecosystem, which is why we are very serious about ensuring our stakeholders have the necessary tools, resources and best practice training so our party is protected and vigilant." Vaughan said.
A Democratic National Committee (DNC) official told The Hill that the DNC has been in contact with the FBI and that "there is no evidence that any systems were compromised."
U.S. officials have repeatedly said they are unaware of any credible or concrete threat to jeopardize or undermine the electoral system.
Earlier this month, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint bulletin saying that any attempt to disrupt the election system is "unlikely" to cause massive disruption or prevent voting.
The agencies also said that any attempt to manipulate votes on a large scale would be detected and thwarted.
A recent report by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future said Chinese state-backed groups may be conducting "malicious influence operations" targeting U.S. voters in an attempt to further divide the country's partisan lines ahead of the midterm elections.
The report also said China could retaliate during the U.S. midterm elections in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) visiting Taiwan in August.
"China (CCP) may view election interference and voter influence ahead of the U.S. midterm elections as an appropriate response to U.S. interference in Taiwan," the report said.
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Xi Jinping called out "security" 73 times in one breath, and released Wang Qishan's wife and nephew
What kind of password does the 72-page report of Xi Jinping's 20th National Congress contain? Where will China's politics, economy, technology, military, and international relations go after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China? I think this is what almost all audiences and friends want to know. Therefore, we will continue to follow up on this topic today.
Xi Jinping did not read the report in its entirety, but just read the key points. He put the fight against poverty, the modernization of national defense and the military, the Wolf Warrior diplomacy (a major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics), and the much-maligned "zero-covid" epidemic prevention, to Hong Kong suppression. The so-called "patriots ruling Hong Kong" and the so-called anti-"Taiwan independence" that provokes tensions across the Taiwan Strait are all said to be major achievements.
Many people may think that many things here are clearly the reasons for failures and economic and political difficulties at home and abroad. How can they still be regarded as great achievements of the Communist Party? We need to make a distinction here. We look at these things according to the standards of normal human society, but the CCP’s values are opposite to those of normal human beings. In its eyes, the freedom and rule of law that led to Hong Kong’s economic boom are not good. "Listening to the party's command" is the most important thing.
There is such a classic story: in 1978, Wang Zhen, the founding general of the Communist Party of China and the then Vice Premier of the State Council, visited the United Kingdom. So Ke Hua, the Chinese ambassador to the UK, accompanied him to the home of an unemployed worker. The family lives in a two-story building of more than 100 square meters. The house has a dining room, a living room, a sofa, a TV, a collection of silverware in a decorative cabinet, and a small garden of about 50 square meters behind the house. Due to unemployment, he can pay no taxes, enjoy free medical care, and his children receive free compulsory education.
Wang Zhen was very emotional after seeing it. He did not expect that the British workers who were in dire straits had a higher standard of living than the vice premier of China.
As a result, when someone asked Wang Zhen how he felt about visiting the UK, he said something like this: "I think the UK has done a good job, the material is extremely rich, the three major differences are basically eliminated, social justice and social welfare are also valued, If you add the Communist Party in power, Britain is our ideal communist society."
You can see that the brains of the Communist Party are also made of special materials. Therefore, when analyzing the CCP and Xi Jinping, we have to understand how they think, so as to understand what their real purpose is and what the result is.
In the report, Xi Jinping mentioned "security" 73 times, but only 55 times at the 19th National Congress. Regarding "reform", Xi Jinping mentioned it only 16 times, compared with 70 times five years ago. From all perspectives, Xi Jinping's re-election is no longer a problem but why is this still the case? As I understand it, there are four reasons:
The first reason is that the Chinese have a saying that "make up for what is lacking". Since 2018, more and more countries in the world have been besieging the CCP, and more and more people in China have turned from hope to disappointment with Xi Jinping, and the opposition has grown louder. Xi Jinping emphasized at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in September. To prevent "colour revolutions", it is obviously also worried about the collapse of the CCP at home. Therefore, shout "security" to embolden the whole party.
For example, recently, Peng Zaizhou hung a banner asking Xi Jinping to step down, which caused a lot of heat, which would make Zhongnanhai like a bird in shock. Of course, we will further strengthen our vigilance to prevent security loopholes.
At the opening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a very bizarre event happened: There was a live video of selling old hens that no one usually cares about, and suddenly more than half a million people watched it. What are "long live the old hen", "the responsibility lies with the chicken party", "do chickens have meetings", "can primary school students eat chicken", "popcorn is an irreversible historical process", "chicken leads chicken road", "ji'an new district", "chicken cycle" ... Obviously, this is all kinds of accusations against the 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping and the CCP.
Suddenly 500,000 people poured in! Everyone can feel the atmosphere and the number of people. Thinking about it again, when there were many big news topics in the past, there were often big car rollover scenes under the party media Weibo, and millions of people had their WeChat accounts deleted after the Peng Zaizhou incident... You know, Peng Zaizhou's resistance is actually just the tip of the iceberg.
The second reason, Xi Jinping shouted "security", is to scare the Chinese people and strengthen domestic rule. A netizen said, "In the past, when children cried and were disobedient, adults would tell the public security bureau to arrest you if they cried again!" To tame the Chinese people, the CCP needs to create an unsafe environment and tell people that there are enemies outside. For more than 70 years, the CCP has always said to the Chinese people that "the heart of US imperialism will not die if it kills me." This is also the purpose. Of course, everyone knows that high-ranking CCP officials moved to the evil U.S. imperialists when they got rich, and none of them immigrated to North Korea, a country of blood-forged friendship.
The third reason is that China's economy has been in serious decline. The World Bank predicts that China's GDP will grow by 2.8% this year, so it is priced in US dollars, because the (RMB/USD) has fallen by more than 10% this year, and the annual GDP growth rate will even become negative, which is a heavy blow to the CCP. Because in the past 40 years, after the Cultural Revolution and the "June 4th" massacre in 1989, the CCP's ideology went bankrupt, and it gained its legitimacy in power by promising high-speed economic growth that "follow me and live well." Now this doesn't work anymore, you need to change the way, saying that only the Communist Party can protect your safety and let people follow it.
Therefore, the CCP wants to replace economic growth with "security" as the standard of its ruling legitimacy. This is a very significant change in 40 years.
Many of you may have read or seen the movie "Animal Farm", which is Orville's stunning political allegory of the Soviet model of rule, saying that after the animals on the farm drove the humans away, the pigs tried to make everyone obey the manor. The manager (pig and its committee), scare people that the humans will come back at any time.
This time, in the report, when talking about the international situation, Xi Jinping emphasized that the 1.4 billion Chinese people must be "prepared to withstand the major test of high winds and waves, even turbulent waves." The Berlin Morning Post commented that the reason why Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized foreign threats is actually for the purpose of maintaining his rule.
Fourth, shouting so much "security" actually emboldens Xi Jinping himself. Because no matter what economic security, scientific and technological security, or food security, the core is still "political security." In a big way, it is the security of the Communist Party's rule, and in a small way, it is the governance security of Xi Jinping himself.
However, many people may still wonder why Xi Jinping emphasizes security so much. Isn't the gun barrel, pen barrel and knife handle in his hands? Why is he still so afraid?
Many people may not understand the psychology of dictators, because their power does not come from popular elections, but from self-confidence, or intrigues and even bloody fights. Therefore, the more things they experience, the longer they stay in power, the more will feel more insecure. Therefore, the spy organization will be further strengthened, the people will be brainwashed, and the officialdom will be continuously purged to warn any potential opponents.
In the process, they even turn their guns on their political allies. The Wall Street Journal published a report on 17 October 2022 saying that Xi Jinping has achieved supreme power through an anti-corruption purge, suppressing real or imagined challenges. On top of that, Xi now routinely uses more subtle tactics, such as taking down officials’ cronies through disciplinary investigations and replacing them with his own confidants. Xi will also reassign opponents to less important positions, or adjust their positions away from the power base. Moreover, there are few people Xi Jinping cannot move, including his old friend Wang Qishan.
In 2020, the CCP purged Ren Zhiqiang, a real estate tycoon who had close contacts with Wang Qishan, and Wei Hong, who had served as Wang Qishan’s top secretary and an official of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which actually slapped Wang Qishan in the face. In 2021, the CCP arrested Wang Qishan’s friend Chen Feng, chairman of HNA, and this spring, detained Wang Qishan’s wife and nephew Yao Qing. In April 2022, in the name of anti-corruption, he dealt with Tian Huiyu, the former secretary and president of China Merchants Bank, who was a friend and crony of Wang Qishan.
Xi Jinping is now very good at fighting corruption in political battles, people familiar with the matter said. For example, he would ask credible disciplinary inspectors to quietly prepare hundreds of pages of evidence against senior officials he wanted to purge; he would sometimes authorize an investigation of a senior official's cronies under the pretext of proving the cronies' integrity, thus making it difficult for the high-ranking official to intervene. If the investigation uncovers evidence of corruption, Xi will raise the case at a leadership meeting, and it will be difficult for the senior officials involved to object to the investigation, or have to spend a lot of political capital to do so.
Moreover, Xi Jinping also learned some tactics of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Mao Zedong used a similar approach to weaken his perceived opponents' political dissidents, a practice known as "poaching walls".
People familiar with Wang Qishan say he has no ambitions to challenge Xi Jinping. However, because Wang Qishan still wields considerable influence independent of Xi Jinping, he is seen as a potential threat by Xi Jinping.
Wang Qishan's wife and nephew, Yao Qing, who is also the grandson of former Vice Premier Yao Yilin, was arrested during Chinese New Year and released a few months later. The insider said he was detained not only because of his ties to HNA Group, but also as a warning to Wang Qishan.
Do you feel familiar with these practices if you have watched costume dramas? The CCP has no officials and no corruption, including former members of the Politburo Standing Committee Jiang Zemin, Zeng Qinghong, Zhang Gaoli, etc. All of them are wealthy enough to rival the country. In his heart, it shows his personal calculations and insecurities.
In the history of the Ming Dynasty, why did the east factory and the west factory need to be established after Jinyiwei was established? The reason is "the emperor's paranoia".
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The 20th National Congress suddenly postponed the release of GDP "Chinese-style modernization" data
Quite a lot of people are paying attention to the trend of China's economy after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. At the preparatory meeting for the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Saturday, the international media asked "Is China's rapid economic growth over?" Sun Yeli, a press spokesman and deputy minister of the CCP's Propaganda Department, responded that growth rate is an important indicator of economic development, but not the only indicator.
In the latest report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping put forward the statement that "accelerate the construction of a new development pattern and strive to promote high-quality development." He also said that we must "unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy, unswervingly encourage, support and guide the development of the non-public sector of the economy, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, and better play the role of the government." In the development plan, there are two goals, but we all know that state-owned capital is the foundation of the Communist Party's governance and the son of the party. How can it be possible to develop together with the private economy? Since Xi Jinping has been in power for ten years, everyone has felt that the advance of the country and the retreat of the people are accelerating, because these two are contradictory in themselves. The government will give priority to supporting state-owned enterprises with various resources. The same is true for foreign-funded enterprises. The Sino-US trade war broke out because the treatment of market access has lagged behind that of their Chinese counterparts, the intellectual property rights are not protected, and they are forced to transfer technology.
On Monday, Zhao Chenxin, deputy director of China's National Development and Reform Commission, said that CCP China's economy "rebounded sharply in the third quarter" and that "from a global perspective, China's economic performance is still very good."
However, China's National Bureau of Statistics, scheduled to release third-quarter economic growth and other data on 17 October, abruptly announced that it would be delayed.
This practice shocked the world. "In nearly half a century of monitoring data releases, I have never encountered a large number of statistical reports being delayed - even in times of plague and conflict," said former chief economist George Magnus, who is now a partner at the Oxford University China Centre.
Agence France-Presse quoted some analysts as saying that due to the impact of the epidemic prevention and control measures and the malaise of the real estate industry, the economic data in the third quarter may be the worst data since 2020, and the delay in the release may not want to cause the Chinese Communist Party 20th Party Congress embarrassment.
In fact, another Chinese agency, the General Administration of Customs, on Friday did not follow its own timeline for September's import and export statistics. The release of those numbers has also been delayed indefinitely.
Two years ago, Xi Jinping laid out an ambitious plan to expand China's wealth and double the size of the country's economy by 2035. Officials involved in the decision-making estimate that achieving that goal would require China's economy to grow by an average of nearly 5 percent a year over 15 years. However, many economists in and outside China now believe that 5% is impossible to achieve, not only this year but also in the longer term. Combining the latest forecasts from different institutions, if the "zero-covid" policy is finally relaxed, China's economic growth rate will rebound to around 4.5% next year after an estimated 3% in 2022. Economic growth will ultimately remain weaker than it was before the pandemic, in part because of a shrinking labour force and rising debt levels.
Undoubtedly, the current epidemic prevention and control policies are severely impacting consumption and investment, the real estate is in deep debt crisis, and the confrontation between China and the United States is deepening and intensifying, which will further cause troubles for investors and traders. At the 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping's report further showed that he will increasingly require companies to meet the party's goals, and the private economic environment is expected to worsen.
In his report, Xi Jinping also emphasized the importance of ensuring that "state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises become stronger, better, and bigger." He also announced a "high-level opening to the outside world" but the New York Times argues that for foreign companies, the Chinese government's preference is now clear: in the process of competing for access to the Chinese market, state-owned enterprises are given priority.
All of these indicate that China's economic take-off has become history.
In this case, a lot of things need to be further packaged, making people feel unfathomable and worth pursuing. "Chinese-style modernization" is such a thing. It has a premise: Party leadership/regime stability, that is, two establishments and one ideology, that is, under the leadership of Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping also gave five criteria: a modernization with a huge population, a modernization in which all the people are prosperous, a modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated, a modernization in which man and nature coexist in harmony, and a path of peaceful development. modernization.
It looks gimmicky but is there anything new? No. But just like the famous fable "Three Days and Four Nights", the monkey keepers changed the way of allocating chestnuts before, so that the monkeys felt that they had taken advantage of it, and they talked about it with relish.
The way the CCP actually treats ordinary people is to treat them like animals. This is an evil regime.
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Sudden release of economic data, what the hell is the National Bureau of Statistics doing?
Earlier on 17 October 2022, an official from China's National Development and Reform Commission told a Wall Street Journal reporter in Beijing that China's economy "improved significantly" in the third quarter of this year but NDRC officials did not describe the "improved" situation.
According to our normal cognition, "improvement" is to transform into a better direction. But we all know that this year has had all kinds of headwinds, including the covid epidemic and extreme weather, as well as floods and droughts in most parts of the summer.
Normally in such a situation, the economy would be more or less affected, but NDRC officials said the economy had "improved significantly". I don't know if the economy really improved, or if it improved in a certain month, or if it was a "significant improvement" in "numbers". Just when people were about to look at the CCP's statistics, the CCP's National Bureau of Statistics was in trouble.
This afternoon (17 October), the website of the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China was suddenly updated, and a number of heavy data that were originally scheduled to be released in the next two days were marked as "postponed". The October press conference on the operation of the national economy was also announced to be postponed.
According to mainland media reports, a number of relevant data include the monthly report on the total retail sales of consumer goods, the monthly report on real estate development and sales, the monthly report on fixed asset investment, the quarterly report on the income and expenditure of national residents, and the monthly report on residential sales prices in 70 large and medium-sized cities, etc.
The National Bureau of Statistics did not explain the reason for the delay or specify when it would be announced, and a spokesman did not respond to media requests for comment. The Wall Street Journal believes that it is "an unusual move" to delay the release of GDP data during the "important political meeting" of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The Chinese economy has always been known as "golden nine and silver ten". That is to say, these two months are the peak sales season, and various industries have reduced their prices during this time. So generally speaking, September and October are important stages for merchants' money bags to rise.
Wang Tao, chief economist for China at UBS Securities, wrote in an article that September saw a decline in all aspects, the "Golden Nine" peak season was not prosperous, and China's economic activity index "weakened substantially."
"Golden Nine" does not appear, how much will the "Silver Ten" improve? If it is a matter of putting money on the party's face, the 20th National Congress is a good time. Why does the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China allow such things to please the authorities not to be done? What the hell are you doing?
In addition, some netizens noticed that the monthly trade data of the General Administration of Customs of the Communist Party of China, which was supposed to be released last Friday, has not been released yet. The General Administration of Customs did not make any public explanation, nor did it answer the reporter's inquiries.
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TV stations will stop paying wages? The new toilet revolution is on the rise
On the same day of 17 October, a mainland Weibo user initiated an inquiry about the work and income of netizens in small cities or rural areas. Among the more than 4,000 replies, many were "groaning".
Here I would like to briefly share with you the replies of several netizens, "Xinjiang has been closed for the 60th day? No income"; "My classmate is a civil servant in a county in Handan, 1,900"; "A fifth line in Guangxi, the company closed because of masks. , I am unemployed at home, there is basically no work to do, and I am anxious every day.”
One person's message surprised me, "Yun A city-level TV station has an average of 2,500 per month this year, and it will soon be out of print."
As far as I know, TV stations in mainland China are divided into two systems: administration and career. But no matter what kind of system, the salaries of TV station personnel are not low, at least they belong to the upper-middle level in the local area. Because the CCP attaches great importance to mouthpiece propaganda, the salary level of the media is relatively high.
But this city-level TV station employee reported a rather surprising income, averaging 2,500 a month this year. I don't know if what he said is true. If it is true, this is likely to reflect the financial situation of the CCP and the local financial situation, and it is very likely that there is really no money.
From the comments of netizens, it can be seen that people's incomes are high and low. But in general, people all over the country are living in tight and tense lives, and in some areas they are even anxious about eating.
Therefore, netizens have been discussing the strange actions of the National Bureau of Statistics. Some said, "(The data) is really bad? It takes more time to fake it?" Other netizens said, "Keep the beautiful data from before? It's obviously too fake to be fooled; lower it? A prosperous world unseen in thousands of years; how difficult it is!"
The National Bureau of Statistics delayed the release of GDP data for the third quarter, likely to avoid embarrassing the CCP. Because the CCP has always regarded economic development as one of the reasons for the legitimacy of the CCP’s governance. According to the CCP, if the economic situation is poor, the CCP should withdraw from the stage of history. Now there are many Chinese people who have been "suffering together for a long time" and are also using various methods to promote this matter, and a "new toilet revolution" is quietly emerging.
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Banner on flyover in Guangzhou urges for Guangdong independence, Cantonese as mother tongue, freedom and rule of law
On 17 October 2022, a banner also appeared on a flyover in Guangzhou, which also said "Six must and six do not". "No nucleic acid but the rule of law, no lockdown but freedom; no Chinese but mother tongue, no slavery but independence; no CCP but disintegration, no Guangdong but Guangdong."
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Duplication of Sitong Bridge slogans in Xi'an
Human rights watcher Wang Jianhong posted four photos on Twitter today. It is said that in the early hours of 16 October 2022, the opening day of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, handwritten slogans were posted in different places in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. The content of the slogan is exactly the same as that of the banner that was hung on the Sitong Bridge in Beijing two days ago.
The Internet is still circulating in the men's toilet of the China Film Archive in Beijing, where someone sprayed black fonts "anti-dictatorship, anti-nucleic acid" on the walls. Some people also put up posters on the toilet walls, saying "Freedom, votes, dignity" and so on.
After Peng Zaizhou hung a banner on Sitong Bridge, the CCP urgently hired "bridge watchers" to prevent similar incidents from happening again. But the CCP did not expect that the toilet has also become a place for people to speak out. I wonder if the CCP will hire someone to keep it in the toilet? Or how about installing several cameras in the toilet and monitoring without dead ends?
Given the evil nature of the CCP, as long as the CCP regime can be kept, and the Chinese people can be firmly ruled, this kind of thing is completely possible for the CCP.
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Self-affirmation policy is correct, Xi may be named "leader"
On 17 October, when Xi Jinping participated in the Guangxi delegation discussion, he said that in the past five years and the 10 years since the new era, the CCP has achieved a series of landmark achievements. Xi Jinping did not specify what the "series of landmark" achievements were, but he believed that "practice has proved that the major policies and work arrangements of the CPC Central Committee since the 18th National Congress are completely correct."
Xi Jinping said that the path of socialism with the characteristics of the Communist Party of China "is in line with China's reality, reflects the will of the people, and adapts to the development requirements of the times. It is not only right, but also stable." He also said that the CCP has "honed a sword in ten years", and has continuously matured its strategy of building a "modern socialist country", enriched its practice, and promoted and expanded "Chinese-style modernization."
For the past 10 years, the leader of the CCP has been Xi Jinping, the core of the Party Central Committee and the core of the entire Party. If there is any achievement in the past 10 years, it should be Xi Jinping's "political achievements", which should be attributed to Xi Jinping. Therefore, these statements by Xi Jinping are actually boasting, and they are also adding a fulcrum for the third five-year re-election.
At the second press conference on 17 October, Tian Peiyan, deputy director of the CCP's Policy Research Office, said that the "two establishments" are "major political achievements" in the new era of the CCP. Xi's thought is the latest theoretical achievement obtained by "correctly answering and practicing" the important questions raised.
In addition, Tian Peiyan put a high hat on Xi Jinping, calling Xi Jinping the "people's leader that everyone expects." His original words were as follows, "General Secretary Xi Jinping is an outstanding figure in this great era and a popular leader of the people."
After the CCP usurped power, only Mao Zedong was named "leader", so one of the concerns of the outside world on the 20th National Congress is to see whether Xi Jinping will be officially named "leader". On the second day of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CCP Policy Research Office said that Xi Jinping is an "outstanding figure" and a "people's leader that everyone expects." This should be a trendy statement.
In other words, if nothing else, after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping is likely to be named the "leader" title, comparable to Mao Zedong.
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Anti-corruption changes the power structure, Xi deemed to be the most powerful
On 17 october, the "Wall Street Journal" quoted CCP insiders as saying that through a repeated purge, Xi Jinping has become China's "most powerful leader" in decades. After the 20th National Congress, this cleaning will continue, "everywhere".
Some observers have believed that the purges may ease after Xi Jinping's power has been consolidated but over the past decade, Xi's anti-corruption campaign has become more sophisticated and more ubiquitous.
A person familiar with the matter said that the skills of "anti-corruption clean-up" have been honed during the years of Xi Jinping's rule. First ask "trustworthy" discipline inspection and supervision personnel to quietly prepare evidence, and then raise the case at the leadership meeting. The article stated that this is how Meng Jianzhu, the former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Communist Party of China, was dealt with.
In addition, party insiders say Xi’s authorities have often used “more subtle tactics,” such as taking down officials’ cronies through disciplinary investigations and replacing them with his own confidants. "There are almost no people Xi Jinping can't move, including his old friend Wang Qishan."
During Xi Jinping's first five years in power, Wang Qishan cooperated with Xi in launching an anti-corruption campaign that helped Xi Jinping quickly consolidate his position and power. But in the past two years after Wang Qishan's abdication, people who used to be in Wang Qishan's circle have also had problems.
The article quoted "informed sources" that in 2020, the CCP purged two people who were close to Wang Qishan - an outspoken real estate tycoon and a senior party and government official. The two people the insider refers to should refer to Ren Zhiqiang and the former head of the inspection team, Dong Hong. I have talked about the situation of these two people in previous programs, so I won't repeat them here.
The insider also pointed out that "this spring, they also detained Wang Qishan's wife and nephew." The insider did not disclose who Wang Qishan's wife and nephew were, but there were rumors earlier that the arrested Yao Qing was a former The grandson of CCP leader Yao Yilin, also the wife and nephew of Wang Qishan.
Yao Qing was released after a few months. The insider said that Yao Qing's detention was not only because of his relationship with HNA Group, but also "a warning to Wang Qishan."
The Wall Street Journal also pointed out that although the people around him have been purged, "Wang Qishan has not been accused of any wrongdoing, and he continues to make public appearances in CCP state activities."
Party insiders say the anti-corruption campaign has helped Mr. Xi change the party's power structure. At present, his status seems to be unshakable, and "it seems that he will receive a third term as the top leader of the CCP in the next week."
So what is Xi Jinping going to do when he gets a third term or even a lifetime in power? An insider said that he has an ultimate goal.
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Xi has an ultimate goal, plans to conflict with the U.S.
People familiar with Xi’s thinking told The Wall Street Journal that Xi has made it clear that his overall goal is to restore China to its rightful place as a global player on an equal footing with the United States. Xi Jinping believes that "a showdown with the West is increasingly likely".
People familiar with the matter said that as soon as Xi Jinping came to power, he felt that the Obama administration at that time did not treat China as an equal country, so he often mentioned the establishment of a "new type of major power relationship" with the United States but the U.S. resists this claim, arguing that for the U.S. to recognize the CCP as a peer country, it will send the wrong signal to U.S. allies.
People familiar with the matter said that Xi Jinping has launched a series of actions during his ten years in power. In terms of military, economic and ideological aspects, it is all about ensuring victory in confrontation with the West, or at least being able to withstand such confrontation.
In a speech last year, Xi Jinping said, "To achieve China's rejuvenation, we must be vigilant, be prepared for danger in times of security, and always be prepared to withstand major risks."
In particular, in his Chinese speech in May 2020, Matthew Pottinger, then the deputy national security adviser of the United States, suggested that Chinese citizens should hold their leaders accountable. Xi Jinping called Pottinger's Chinese speech "a challenge to his rule" and Xi's actions were "more US-focused" afterward.
On the political front, Xi has installed cronies at all levels and cracked down on opposition in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and other places to consolidate his authority while weeding out U.S. influence.
Militarily restructured the Chinese military, doubled the defense budget, and set about strengthening the Chinese nuclear arsenal. He asked the whole society to be ready to "fight if necessary," especially if leaders after the 2024 US-Taiwan election are willing to accept Taiwan's independence.
Economically, the CCP has allocated billions of dollars to develop local technologies, reorganize private enterprises, restructure state-owned giants to increase their competitiveness on the global stage, and more.
Mr. Xi believes that the steps he has taken have "increased national pride" and made China "stronger." He "made no secret" of his plan to turn China into a "world superpower", calling it the "Chinese dream" and "great rejuvenation".
Perhaps Xi Jinping is aiming to realize his "China Dream". So he has a firm grip on the CCP, "to ensure that China will continue to move forward with his confident, yet vigilant vision for years to come," in order to prepare for an eventual conflict with the United States.
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As Xi continues to build his China dream, CCP China continues to decline in strength
However what we see in reality is that China has not grown stronger during the Xi-style "dream-building" process. On the contrary, because of the CCP's series of perverse actions, it is increasingly besieged by the international community, and CCP China's national strength is constantly weakening.
Although the CCP is increasing its defense spending, it is clearly using military force. Because the life of the people is getting more and more difficult, and the days are getting more and more difficult, therefore, the voice of the Chinese people against the CCP and the disintegration of the CCP is getting stronger and stronger.
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NATO and Russia conduct nuclear exercises at the same time
Next, let's talk about the latest situation of the Ukrainian-Russian war. From today (17th) until the 30th, the 14 member states of NATO will conduct a 13-day "firm noon" nuclear weapons exercise. Including the U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 "Stratofortress" long-range strategic bomber, more than 60 NATO military aircraft will conduct training over Belgium, the North Sea and the United Kingdom to exercise the use of nuclear bombs deployed by the United States in Europe.
According to Belgian media reports, none of the participating NATO military aircraft will fly within 1,000 kilometers of Russian territory to avoid unnecessary disputes. It is understood that the United States and European countries will dispatch fourth- and fifth-generation fighter aircraft, as well as reconnaissance aircraft and tankers to participate in the exercise.
This NATO nuclear weapons exercise happened to collide with Russia's nuclear weapons exercise "Thunder". I don't know if it was pure coincidence, or if the two sides were deliberately fighting each other. Both sides said that it was an annual routine exercise, but with the background of the Russia-Ukraine war, the outside world was more willing to accept tit-for-tat arguments.
CNN believes that Russia's nuclear military exercise "will be more closely watched." The United States will continue to monitor Russian nuclear assets and observe any strategic nuclear weapons or unanticipated Russian actions.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and NATO countries criticized Russia a lot, and at the same time provided Ukraine with a lot of military assistance to help Ukraine fight the Russian invasion.
According to foreign media reports, Russia said that the Russian state in the southern Kherson region has relocated institutions to Russian-occupied areas of Crimea. Obviously, the Ukrainian army's continuous recovery of lost ground and the fiasco of Russian casualties made the Russian-affiliated institutions in the Kherson region feel threatened and had to shrink in the direction of Russia.
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Putin may be replaced by someone more extreme than him
These changes have made things worse for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Especially after the bombing of the Crimea Bridge, Putin ordered violent bombings all over Ukraine, which aroused condemnation from all over the world and increased the chances of Putin being replaced.
Yesterday (16th), "Business Insider" quoted British MI6 chief Younger as saying that Putin may be replaced at "appropriate time". Those who once supported Putin now criticize him for "not doing enough and not being tough enough" because "Putin's insiders may start to turn against him."
MI6, I once made an introduction. It is the prototype of the 007 we know well, alongside the CIA in the United States. Quite a powerful character. So Younger's words are quite noteworthy.
Younger believes that Putin's replacement "at the right time" is likely, given that Putin "is getting outflanked by his supporters." Younger cautioned, however, that Putin's replacement "is likely to be more extreme."
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UK Ministry of Defence issues a threat alert! Warning the PLA to offer an annual salary of £240,000 to recruit British pilots
Editor : Chu Tian / Source : Lianhe Press / https://www.aboluowang.com/2022/1018/1817763.html
Britain's Defense Intelligence Agency will issue a rare "threat alert" on18 October 2022 local time, warning that the Chinese People's Liberation Army is trying to recruit current and former RAF jet pilots to help train its own air force.
The Guardian reported that British officials had expressed "concern and opposition" to the plan because it had "posed a threat to British and Western interests". Although they do not explicitly prohibit pilots from offering training courses, the goal is to take steps to "risk management."
It is understood that about 30 former British military pilots have accepted a "pretty generous" recruitment package from China, with an annual salary believed to be 240,000 pounds (about NT$8.64 million), through third parties, especially those colleges in South Africa to work for the PLA Air Force.
The "Warning or Threat Guidelines" will remind British pilots not to disclose any sensitive information to the PLA, and ask contacts to report back to the British Ministry of Defence so that they can be monitored.
So far, there is no evidence that any former RAF pilots have violated the Official Secrets Act in providing training to the People's Liberation Army but Western officials say the British government is taking steps to reduce the risk by issuing guidelines.
A MoD spokesman said, "We are taking decisive steps to put an end to Chinese recruitment schemes that seek to recruit current and former British army pilots to provide training for the Chinese People's Liberation Army."
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Isn't the Beijing Sitong Bridge Incident anti-communist? Peng Zaizhou's Political Platform and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
Reporter : Li Chenyu / Editor : Wang Jun / https://www.aboluowang.com/2022/1016/1817032.html
On 13 October 2022, on the day that Peng Zaizhou, whose real name was Peng Lifa, put out anti-Xi slogans at Sitong Bridge in Beijing, Aboluowango.com received a breaking news email in his name, encouraging people from all over the country and even overseas to strike on 16 October. It is a series of anti-Xi campaigns, but in its action plan proposed to reconcile with the CCP; as well as the establishment of the "People's Republic of China Universal Suffrage Committee" and the "Chinese Communist Party Free Election Committee", under the current framework of the CCP, to promote China's current role in the CCP. There are improvements under the framework.
While mailing it to Aboluowang, the source also sent it to other major media, including Yibao, Civil Rights Network, The Epoch Times, Beijing News, Caixin.com, Voice of America, Der Spiegel, Southern Weekly, etc. and individual celebrities. .
Peng Zaizhou mentioned in the email: "My friends, I'm very sorry, this is a mass letter, and I don't have time to call your name, because we are about to take action, and we don't want to be tracked and discovered by the national security agents. The content of the attachment is a plan to reverse the study. and strategy, but also a crusade against the thief Xi Jinping and a solution to the governance of the country.”
The leaked email includes a 22-page PDF file, which calls on all walks of life to carry out practical actions such as continuous strikes, strikes, and slogans to put pressure on the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China until Xi Jinping steps down and realizes freedom and democracy. The text includes 21 parts, including articles on crusade against Xi Jinping, recruitment of candidates, a program of action, and governance methods.
But what Aboluowang has noticed in particular is that in the action plan in the article, it is recommended to set up a National Unity and Reconciliation Committee, lobbying all walks of life to abandon previous suspicions, revoke various crimes committed by the CCP before, and reconcile with it.
The political action program issued by Peng Zaizhou is: to set up the Chinese Communist Party Free Election Committee within the Chinese Communist Party, referred to as the Chinese Communist Party Self-election Committee, which is composed of Chinese Communist Party members. After joining the Chinese Communist Party Self-election Committee, they will become members of the Chinese Communist Party Self-election Committee. Above, party members over the age of 25 are eligible to participate in the election to become the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, and all party members vote for election. In addition, a candidate for the election chairman must be recruited within the CCP Self-selection Committee.
The political program also proposes to establish the People's Republic of China Universal Suffrage Committee, referred to as the China Universal Suffrage Committee, which is composed of millions of Chinese citizens. Every citizen over the age of 45 has the right to run for election as president of the country.
The mention of "we" in the action program indicates that Peng Zaizhou has a team to plan these program documents collectively. In addition, as seen in the program document, all actions are carried out under the overall arrangement of these two committees.
The program also includes removing Xi Jinping; establishing an independent investigation agency to investigate Xi Jinping's corruption; electing an interim general secretary at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China; and electing an interim president of the country with existing representatives.
The program also puts forward reform proposals that are beneficial to people's livelihood in terms of politics, epidemic prevention, education, people's livelihood, law, economy, diplomacy, and national defense.
According to Lin Feng, a commentator on Aboluowang, according to the documents provided by the email, we can see that the reform of the current China policy proposed by the article is to launch a so-called democratic election within the framework of the existing personnel and system of the CCP, rather than one person in a real democratic country. One vote, multi-party competition, to elect the national leader. At the same time, the article proposes to reconcile with the CCP instead of liquidating the bloody debts that the CCP and its officials have committed against the Chinese in history. The article is more about a series of campaigns against Xi Jinping himself.
Lin Feng pointed out that the top level of the CCP is an interest group controlled and formed by powerful families. Leaders at all levels are mostly officials and politicians who tend to be inflamed and corrupt. If these people are not replaced, it is impossible to achieve the so-called popular election within the party. At the same time, in the history of the CCP's rule of China, how can the crimes committed against the Chinese be written off? This is also unfair to the hundreds of millions of Chinese victims. Only when the people of the whole country fully understand the evil of the CCP, understand the harm the CCP has done to the Chinese people and even the whole world, completely dismantle the CCP, and restore people's morality, can the Chinese obtain real human rights, voting rights, and other powers.
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Blinken: China intends to unify Taiwan with "faster timeline"
Reporter : Xia Yu / Editor : Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/10/18/n13847595.htm / Image : "Beijing's attitude toward Taiwan has changed in recent years," U.S. Secretary of State Blinken said at an event at Stanford University's Hoover Institution on Monday (17 October 2022). (Photo by Josh Edelson/ POOL / AFP )
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken said that the CCP has decided to unify Taiwan with a "faster timeline." He also said the world would be hurt if trade in the Taiwan Strait was disrupted, and the world would face economic problems if Taiwan's chip supply was disrupted.
"Beijing's attitude toward Taiwan has changed in recent years," Blinken said Monday at an event at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Beginning on Sunday, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held, and Xi Jinping delivered a speech. On the Taiwan issue, Xi Jinping once again emphasized that the use of force is not ruled out, and he also rejected the interference of "external forces", and declared that he would strengthen the modernization of the military.
While peaceful means are preferable, "we reserve the option of taking all necessary measures," Xi said.
Blinken said that for decades, the two-party government policy towards Taiwan has been adhering to the principle that differences between the two sides of the strait should be resolved peacefully. In fact, until recently, this policy has been very successful. It has been handled properly to avoid conflicts, and the people of Taiwan have achieved real prosperity. Not only do they benefit from their own lives, but also make many contributions to the world.
He went on to say that recently Beijing's attitude towards Taiwan has changed and it no longer accepts the status quo. Blinken said Beijing has made a "fundamental decision that the status quo is no longer acceptable, and that it is determined to achieve reunification in a shorter period of time. If it cannot be done peacefully, it will resort to coercion, and if coercion does not work, it may resort to force." means to achieve goals".
"That's what deeply disrupts the status quo and creates extreme tension," he said.
Blinken did not elaborate on the timing or provide other details.
In March 2021, Admiral Philip Davidson, then the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that CCP China wanted to occupy Taiwan “within this decade, in fact within the next six years.”
Taiwan is one of the focal points of tensions between China and the United States. Tensions across the Taiwan Strait have been rising since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August. The CCP continued to conduct military exercises around Taiwan for several days and launched missiles into the waters surrounding Taiwan.
In a conversation Monday at the Hoover Institution with former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Blinken reiterated his criticism of China, which he called "more repressive at home" and "more aggressive abroad."
Blinken also mentioned that the Taiwan issue is not only a concern of the United States, but also a concern of all countries in the world. He agrees with the importance of Taiwan Strait and Taiwan semiconductors to world economy and trade.
The daily flow of commercial traffic through the Taiwan Strait has a big impact on the global economy, and the world would be hurt if it were disrupted, he said. He also highlighted semiconductors in particular, saying that if Taiwan's output is disrupted by the crisis, there will be economic problems around the world.
"Therefore, maintaining peace and stability in Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait and ensuring the peaceful resolution of existing differences is of great importance to the United States and other countries in the world," Blinken said.
Finally, Blinken called on the CCP to re-examine the benefits of peaceful resolution of differences and refrain from coercion or even worse, force.
He reiterated the U.S. commitment to Taiwan, fulfilling the Taiwan Relations Act and helping Taiwan defend itself. Blinken also mentioned that the U.S. one-China policy has not changed but the core is the peaceful resolution of differences; if the status quo changes, it will bring extremely challenging prospects to the future.
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Pompeo: CCP is the ultimate reason for the deterioration of US-China relations
Reporter : Wang Xiang / Editor : Lin Yan / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/10/18/n13848187.htm / Image : Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at Rosen-Single Creek in Orlando, Florida, on 25 February 2022. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released the third episode of "To the Chinese People" video on Tuesday (18 October 2022). The U.S.-China relationship is much older than the CCP, and the CCP is the “ultimate cause” of the deterioration of U.S.-China relations.
The third episode continued the sharpness and depth of the previous two episodes. Although it only lasted for more than 2 minutes, it was still full of punchlines and piercings.
In the third episode, Pompeo said that during his 1,000 days at the U.S. State Department, the U.S. awakened the free world to face Beijing's challenge.
"This challenge is the CCP's threat to the free world and its repression of the Chinese people," he said.
Perhaps the United States has taken so long to realize the "red red flags of the Chinese Communist Party" because of its naivety and optimism, he said.
Pompeo said the U.S. and China "have a much older relationship than the CCP."
The relationship between the United States and Beijing was established when President Nixon visited China in 1972, but as early as 1861, President Lincoln sent an American envoy named Anson Burlingame to China. Burlingame was deeply loved by Chinese and American people on both sides of the Pacific. .
Pompeo explained that while in office, President Trump has tweeted about "Little Rocket Man," the Big Nuke Button, and "Fire and Fury," but did so because the U.S. "wanted to prevent aggression", "We know that regimes like the Chinese Communist Party are aggressors".
"Little Rocket Man" was Trump's taunting of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as he strongly warned North Korea to stop threatening the United States or respond with unprecedented "fire and fury."
"The CCP steals American jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars (worth of intellectual property and technology) every year, and it spreads propaganda and lies that demonize America," Pompeo said.
"It spied on us through Douyin, Huawei and other technologies.
"It carried out the largest peacetime military buildup in history.
"It's trying to cover up the truth about the Covid-19 outbreak.
"The CCP also bullies Australians, Canadians, Czechs, Indians, Japanese and Taiwanese, and anyone who posts pictures of Winnie the Pooh on WeChat."
He concluded by saying: "All in all, the Chinese people live under the strictest surveillance and censorship, at the mercy of a rogue government. So where is the problem? A few words: the Chinese Communist Party."
Pompeo currently chairs the advisory board of the Hudson Institute's China Center. Since 13 September12022, the research center has launched a series of videos about dialogues with the Chinese people and exposing the CCP’s rule by Pompeo himself, which has attracted widespread attention and subscriptions among Chinese people.
In the previous two episodes, the theme of the first episode was "The Chinese Communist Party Does Not Represent the Chinese People", and the theme of the second episode was "The CCP's Lies About American Race Issues".
Both videos are about 3 minutes long, but they are concise and to the point. In particular, the CCP is not equal to China, which greatly hurts the CCP.
The CCP embassy in the United States even sent a letter to pressure the Hudson Institute, expressing dissatisfaction with Pompeo's series of dialogues with the Chinese people. The official letter was publicly exposed by Pompeo.
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On the 20th National Congress Report of the Communist Party of China, US Congressman: The Communist Party chose to be the enemy
Reporter : Chen Beichen / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/10/18/a103554376.html / Image : Florida Senator Rick Scott speaks at the CPAC Texas Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on 5 August 2022. (Bobby Sanchez/The Epoch Times)
中共20大报告 美议员:共产党选择与美国为敌
After the opening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping elaborated on the future military line on 16 October, to achieve the "100-year goal of the Chinese Communist Party's founding army" as scheduled, and to build a world-class building in 2027. The military has drawn the attention of the U.S. Congress.
Rick Scott, a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, issued a statement after Xi Jinping's speech, stating that Xi Jinping seeks "absolute obedience." He believes that "Xi Jinping's re-election is a hoax. The whole world knows that there is no democracy in Chinese communism, and his remarks about forcibly taking over Taiwan, although not surprising, should not be ignored."
Scott pointed out that Xi's speech showed that "the general secretary does not want peace, and under his leadership, the Chinese Communist Party has chosen to be the enemy of the United States."
Scott bluntly said that the United States will never accept the tyranny of the CCP, "We must recognize this, Xi Jinping wants every nation and people to be obedient and submissive, from the oppressed Xinjiang Uyghurs, to autonomous Taiwan and Hong Kong, to Global superpowers, including the United States, must obey."
Scott, who has always been seen as a China hawk, said, "We must firmly reject his tyranny and take immediate action by decoupling all American businesses from this dangerous regime, and by re-outsourcing our supply chain, Nearshoring and friendly offshoring to isolate Chinese communism.”
At the same time, “substantial investments in the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and cybersecurity, and enhanced (U.S.) economic and military partnerships with India, Japan, South Korea, and Australia are critical to containing Xi Jinping and protecting our security and economic interests in the Indo-Pacific region. important."
"I urge President Biden to immediately support these necessary actions and show the world that America will never bow to the evil Chinese Communist Party," Scott said.
Marsha Blackburn, also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also issued a statement saying, "Xi Jinping is preparing to challenge the United States and our freedom-loving partners around the world on an unprecedented scale."
She believes that “Xi Jinping’s goal is total domination — whether through his suffocating zero-covid policy, control of the techology industry, attacks on Muslim Uyghurs, escalating threats to Taiwan, or authoritarianism over global governance control."
Blackburn said the U.S. must stand firm against Beijing's ambitions and strengthen its defense to ensure CCP cannot succeed.
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Beijing Public Security: Sitong Bridge Warrior Peng Zaizhou is currently safe
Editor / Source : Jiang Yi / https://www.aboluowang.com/2022/1017/1817293.html / Images : Web Screenshots
Peng Zaizhou (Peng Lifa), a man hanging a banner on the Sitong Bridge, is an employee of the technical department of Beijing Melon Network Technology Co., Ltd. He lives in Xicheng District, Beijing, and is 48 years old this year. According to what he posted before his Douyin account was blocked, it can be seen that he has a daughter who is in elementary school. The Sitong Bridge incident has become a big international news, and all major international media have reported it. They are usually sentenced by the CCP for inciting subversion of state power. ——@zhangwenming22: News from a friend at the public security gate in Beijing: Peng Zaizhou, a warrior of the Sitong Bridge, is very safe at present. The police are still polite to him, because the trouble is too big, and no one wants to take responsibility. The police's investigation of him was very passive, and they were all dragging on him. After the 20th National Congress, if the steamed bun (Xi) retreated, Peng Warrior would be gently released but he might be detained for a few days in the end.
Netizens' comments
Chen Xiaoping: "The Sitong Bridge incident is counted as the 20th nuclear bomb incident. Why does it have this effect? I'm talking nonsense: 1. It is almost a contrast between tens of thousands of horses and one person climbing high. 2. Time point, after 7 in the top 20. 3 Plan carefully and calmly. 4 The authorities acted incredibly slowly, allowing this time to last for the greatest spread. So I say someone is going to lose office. 5. The content of the slogan is full of suffering and people's livelihood, and it resonates greatly."
@jakobsonradical: "Japanese media have also reported the Sitong Bridge incident in Beijing. Looking through the video on YouTube, some high praise comments said, "This man is very brave, I hope he is safe and sound", "The sentence of not being a slave and being a citizen hurts the Japanese who are citizens", and others said "even though what happened in China has nothing to do with me, but I still shed tears". Some people should be ashamed compared to the various taunts and celebrations inside the walls during the natural disaster in Japan."
yueyaoyunying: "The following locations are Beijing (Figures 1-4), Shanghai (Figure 5), Shenzhen (Figures 6, 7) and a university within the wall (Figures 8-10). The best way to honor a warrior is to be brave."
ChinaParliament: "Which bridge is the most dangerous in October 2022? A. Crimea Kerch Bridge; B. Kherson Anthony Bridge; C. Kyiv City Landscape Bridge; D. _______________"
Recently, there has been propaganda that the "four-way bridge warrior" Peng Lifa is not afraid of danger, pulling banners, beating national traitors, and demanding democracy. Many universities around the world have responded. The author of the flyer in American University said: "He inspired us! What Peng Yishi paid may be many years of freedom, or even life, we just type, make pictures, post and spread. Salute to the Sitong Bridge Warriors!"
The motherland's hope.
lianchaohan: "[Using the banner of the people to harm the people] At the beginning of the 20th National Congress of the Party, Xi Jinping published an article on "Seeking Truth" saying "upholding the supremacy of the people". Although this article is full of lies, it can be seen that it is Xi Jinping's political report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The high-frequency word in the middle must be "the people". The CCP has been harming the people in the name of the people for 73 years. The real supremacy of the people is to abolish the CCP's legal privileges and let the people elect their own leaders.
renfanzi: "I remembered what was said in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there were swordsmen and axemen in ambush in the corridor, just waiting for the cup to be called, and swarmed out. ."
Rusong_Machunbo: "There are still people on the Internet who study every day when the lockdown will end. The system of closing the city and clearing the city has nothing to do with epidemic prevention, but is only a means to strengthen social control. In this case, this system may change to a better name in the future. For example, in order to build a new socialist order, it can be called the "moderately prosperous norm". But in short, it will continue to be implemented. Such a strong control system can only be established with the help of the epidemic. Once it is abandoned, it will never be re-established. Do you think they will abandon such a strong control system?"
epimetheus_w: "Negative growth is also growth."
doubleaf: "A friend of a friend was permanently banned in the WeChat big account the day before yesterday. After registering a new account, and explaining to others why he was banned, he also liked to be banned forever.
"The CCP cut off 290 chips from US companies? The pink wolf warriors in China feel very happy, probably thinking that TSMC is about to cry and faint in the toilet. No one sells chips to the CCP anymore. It doesn’t matter whether the CCP takes it or not. Ah Q’s spirit is very strong. However, the CCP's trick is suspected to be learning from Russian father's own bombing the Nord Stream gas pipeline."
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GOP sues Pennsylvania Supreme Court to block counting of non-compliant ballots
Editor : Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/10/18/n13848228.htm / Image : Republicans filed a lawsuit in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to block the counting of undated mail-in ballots. Clark County election workers scan mail-in ballots at a counting center on October 20, 2020, in North Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Republicans have filed a lawsuit in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to block the counting of undated mail-in ballots because it violates the state election regulations. It is another important move by Republicans ahead of Election Day to ensure election integrity in the battleground state.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Pennsylvania Republican Party filed a joint lawsuit Sunday night asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to block the counting of undated mail-in ballots.
Pennsylvania election law requires voters to handwrite the date on the outer envelope when returning their ballot but since the 2020 election, there have been many political and legal clashes over whether such mail-in ballots should be counted or thrown away.
Democrats argue that ballots without a handwritten date on the envelope must be counted; Republicans have largely demanded that non-compliant ballots be rejected.
"Now is the time for the courts to act. The availability of undated absentee and mail-in ballots earlier this year led to a costly and unnecessary election challenge," the lawsuit states.
This refers to a dispute between two Republican Senate candidates in May's midterm primaries. With only a narrow margin behind Mehmet Oz, David McCormick has filed a lawsuit asking the court to compel the elections department to count mail-in ballots without handwritten dates on envelopes and inside but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected his request, refusing to intervene while the lower court heard the case.
Meanwhile, U.S. Supreme Court conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency cases in Pennsylvania, issued an order in late May that temporarily blocked a lower court ruling allowing such ballots to be counted and allowed the U.S. Supreme Court The court has more time to consider more formal action in the case.
In early June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a brief order allowing Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots that arrive on time but do not have a handwritten date on the envelope. That effectively reinstates a May ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit that allowed the counting of mail-in ballots missing handwritten dates in the November 2021 Lehigh County court election in Pennsylvania.
The U.S. Supreme Court's order could have far-reaching consequences for the state's future elections, including the upcoming midterms. The court did not provide a reason for the decision, but three conservative justices wrote dissenting opinions.
Unexpectedly, the case had twists and turns, and the U.S. Supreme Court provided a new opening last Tuesday, vacating the Third Circuit's May ruling, invalidating it on procedural grounds, again making undated ballots count. The question became confusing.
However, Pennsylvania's top elections official, Democratic acting secretary of state Leigh Chapman, still asked counties to count undated mail-in ballots and said the U.S. Supreme Court's order would not change the state's decision to count ballots. as official guidance.
Chapman and the board of elections in 67 counties across the state are named as defendants in the Republican lawsuit filed Sunday.
The Republicans said in their lawsuit that allowing ineligible votes to be counted under state law "is eroding public trust and confidence in Pennsylvania's electoral integrity at an important time in the history of this country and this state."
Pennsylvania, a key battleground state that could decide control of the U.S. Senate in November's midterm elections, has the latest polls showing Oz narrowing the gap with his Democratic opponent, John Fetterman, mostly in the polls. Within the adjustment error range, this means that the two are basically tied. During this summer, multiple polls showed the Republican candidate trailing by double digits.
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New book details how Beijing manipulates Soros and other Western elites
Reporter : Daniel Y. Teng / Compiled by Takasugi / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/10/18/n13848278.htm / Image : A new book by expert Joske details how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) has exploited and manipulated Western political and business elites to strengthen China's global influence. The picture shows Beijing Tiananmen Square covered with dark clouds. (Getty Images)
A new book by Joske, an expert on CCP interference in foreign affairs, introduces the CCP’s highly secretive Ministry of State Security (MSS). How Western political and business elites were exploited and manipulated to strengthen the Chinese Communist Party's global influence.
The book, "Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World" , details how the millionaire George Soros was inspired by his approach to establishing the "Open Society Foundation" in post-communist Hungary to carry out a similar work.
Alex Joske, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, recounts in the book that the tool Soros and his partner Liang Heng devised was an "China Reform and Opening-up Fund" (China Fund), with a view to supporting culture, commerce and scientific research to help China's reform and opening up.
However, in a political game between factions in the 1980s, the Chinese fund was forced to work with the China International Cultural Exchange Center (CICEC), which claims to be controlled by the CCP’s Ministry of Culture.
Joske said Soros and Liang Heng quickly discovered that the China International Cultural Exchange Center had its own motive for cooperating with the Chinese fund, which was to make it support the CCP’s political actions rather than activities related to China’s liberalization.
Soros later closed the "China Fund" with Yu Enguang, co-chairman of the China International Cultural Exchange Center. Yu Enguang was revealed to be a "senior official of the foreign secret police" and a deputy minister of the Ministry of State Security (MSS).
Joske wrote: The seizure of the "China Fund" by the Chinese Ministry of State Security is impressive. It shows that the agency is confident in dealing with one of the most well-connected and wealthy men in the United States. As the agency becomes more active and more involved in international affairs over the next decade, what it has learned will be applied to future operations.
The China International Cultural Exchange Center itself will continue to be a "bespoke agency" used to meet and covertly influence new recruits from around the world.
"Some of the more politically sensitive tasks, such as directly engaging with George Soros, or posing as party liberals to meet with foreigners and gain their trust, are the main business of these officials," he said. "
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CCP capitalizes on the ambitions of Western elites
Joske also noted that the Chinese Ministry of Security is very good at exploiting the ambitions of Western elites, citing the example of former Goldman Sachs co-president John Thornton.
After quitting the Goldman Sachs banking giant, Thornton held a number of key positions at major institutions in China, including a directorship at the prestigious Tsinghua University.
Journalist Josh Rogin once commented that Thornton had "established one of the most reliable, highest-level networks with the family that controls the CCP", which influenced how Thornton felt about (the West should) views on handling relations with the CCP.
"Thornton's vision of China's future mirrors the false narrative promoted by China's Ministry of State Security's Social Investigation Bureau to foreign scholars, diplomats and Western elites," Joshi wrote. In 2008, he wrote for Foreign Affairs. The magazine published an article arguing that the Chinese Communist Party is actively considering moving towards democracy.”
"Thornton's article reflects this optimism about China's future -- something that Chinese Communist Party leaders and the CCP's NSA learned how to actively exploit decades ago."
The former Goldman Sachs executive has repeatedly urged the Trump administration to befriend Chinese leader Xi Jinping directly. However, these efforts to prompt Trump to engage in diplomatic engagement with Chinese leaders eventually gave way to tough sanctions against China in an effort to correct years of intellectual property theft against the United States and the U.S.-China trade imbalance.
It is said that Thornton and several major Wall Street figures have also tried to sway the Biden administration on China policy.but those efforts have stalled as criticism of the Chinese Communist Party has grown louder.
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Leverage the love for China
Josh also draws attention to the fact that the CCP regime will take advantage of their love for China. In response, he outlined an example involving former Australian Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
Hawke was deeply disturbed by the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and is known for granting asylum to 42,000 Chinese citizens.
Joske said four years after the Tiananmen massacre, Hawke received a letter from the Chinese consulate in Sydney inviting him to visit China.
Hawke believes this could be important for the development of Australia-China relations and readily agrees. In China, he was received and warmly welcomed by Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Communist Party of China, and Premier Li Peng.
Joske wrote: “Afterwards, the special friendship between the leaders of China (the CCP) and Australia was back on track. Hawke believes that while the fate of (former prime minister) Zhao Ziyang, who eventually died under house arrest, was ‘extremely tragic’, The importance of connecting with the CCP leadership remains number one.”
Joske also added that the Tiananmen issue was eventually "swept under the rug" without being brought up again and Hawke will continue to play an important and valuable role in promoting the CCP to the rest of the world.
Hardie Grant Books, 2022, 202 pages.
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To start Chinese-style modernization, why does the CCP emphasize "struggle"?
Reporter : Huang Yuqin / https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/2022/10-19/9875887.shtml
The word "struggle" has far-reaching significance to the 100-year-old party of the Communist Party of China. "It was born with the brand of struggle." Today, Chinese-style modernization has begun, and the word "struggle" has repeatedly appeared in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which once again attracted great attention from public opinion at home and abroad.
Facing the whole party, Xi Jinping proposed "three imperatives", and "must have the courage to fight and be good at fighting" is one of them; facing the future, on the road of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, "persistently carry forward the fighting spirit" must be firmly grasped. One of the major principles of CCP was also written into the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
In the opinion of party building experts, in the critical period of the beginning, the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China mentioned "struggle" again, showing the attitude of the century-old party to deal with future risks and challenges, and conveying a sense of urgency and bottom-line thinking to deal with uncertainty to the outside world with determination.
At present, CCP China's development has entered a period in which strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors increase. Various "black swan" and "grey rhino" events may occur at any time. Preparing for emergencies and planning ahead is especially crucial for the ruling party leading the world's second-largest economy.
"As a century-old party, the way and attitude the CCP will face the potential challenges of turbulent and even stormy waves in the future is one of the important issues to be solved at the 20th National Congress." Dai Yan, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration) Jun pointed out that the "fighting spirit" reflects the CCP's spirit of daring to face and solve problems, and has distinct characteristics of the times.
In the context of Chinese politics, the word "struggle" has complex and profound connotations. In the latest statement of the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, there are not only "major struggles against separatism and interference", but also "maintaining national dignity and core interests in the struggle", not only "anti-corruption struggle", but also "anti-gangsters and evils", "special struggle" and so on.
In this regard, party building experts analyzed and pointed out that to understand the "struggle" in China's current political context, we should combine two overall situations, namely, the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the world's major changes unseen in a century, in order to accurately view the "struggle" with objectiveness.
As far as the external environment is concerned, when the century-old change accelerates, the international balance of power is profoundly adjusted, and the world enters a new period of turbulent change. CCP China faces external pressure and containment that may escalate at any time, and the external environment becomes increasingly complex and changeable.
"The Chinese-style modernization path cannot follow the traditional Western path of modernization. It needs a peaceful and stable development environment." said Zhang Xixian, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration). He adds, "Safeguarding national dignity and core interests is important."
As far as the internal environment is concerned, "it is more urgent for boats to stray in the middle, and the road for people to reach the middle of the mountain is steeper". CCP China's reform, development and stability are faced with many deep-seated contradictions, especially the construction of a clean and clean government and the fight against corruption and other issues need to be addressed urgently.
"Whether it is to deal with the contradictions in reform and development, or to promote self-revolution, the spirit of struggle emphasizes advancing despite difficulties and making progress despite difficulties." Zhu Lijia, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration), analyzed that in the realization of China's In the process of modernization, it is necessary to face contradictions and problems with a fighting spirit, and prevent and resolve major risks.
It is undeniable that, as a characteristic political vocabulary, "struggle" will be misunderstood and misunderstood from time to time in the field of international public opinion. Many voices interpret it as a one-sided "class struggle" or "military struggle", and then misjudge the future model and path of China's development.
In this regard, Xi Jinping once pointed out the purpose of the CCP's struggle - "The struggle we are talking about is not a struggle for struggle, nor is it a struggle for self-interest, but to realize the people's yearning for a better life and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Bear the weight, work hard, and overcome difficulties.”
Zhu Lijia analyzed that the "spirit of struggle" originates from the quality connotation of perseverance and courage in traditional Chinese culture, and is the distinctive political character of the Chinese Communists. It is necessary to accurately understand the meaning of "struggle" in combination with the background characteristics of the times.
"The characteristics of the times and the rich connotations of the spirit of struggle change with the development of the times, the changes in the main social contradiction, and the differences in strategic goals and tasks." Dai Yanjun further said that struggle is not the goal, but the method, and it is the realization of the people's love for the people. The way of yearning for a better life is the way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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