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The Tank Man reappears on the bridge in Beijing, Xi Jinping's propaganda banner is torn
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A video circulated online on 27 October 2022 showed a propaganda slogan bearing Xi Jinping being damaged and his name torn down on a flyover in Beijing.
The video showed a huge political propaganda slogan being ripped open by hand on a flyover in a prosperous area of Beijing, with Xi Jinping's name torn apart. The man tearing up slogans appear on camera. His action was were praised by netizens.
After the Sitong Bridge incident attracted widespread attention, during the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, "bridge watchers" rarely appeared on major overpasses in Beijing, which attracted widespread media attention.
Some netizens commented: "Beijing reappears Tank Man!" "In the era of great change, heroes are born in large numbers!"
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Street protests erupt in Lhasa, Tibet after nearly three months of lockdown
After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, large-scale protests broke out in Lhasa, Tibet. A large number of people took to the streets to demand that the lockdown be lifted, during which they confronted the police.
The video shows that on 26 October 2022, a large number of protesters gathered on the streets of Lhasa, Tibet.
A large number of police rushed to the scene to suppress, armed with shields.
Another video showed officials shouting at protesters on the streets of Lhasa.
Tibetan official: "I hope you all go home first!"
The public ignored the official response and expressed anger.
Lhasa people: "We want to eat! We want to live!"
Another video showed that it was dark, and people were still gathering in the streets to protest against the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party. The scene was chaotic.
Tibetan people: "The police have arrested people!"
Tibetan people: "My God, it's fighting, it's fighting!"
Lhasa has been under lockdown for nearly three months, and people's protests have drawn attention from the outside world.
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U.S. congressman proposes to sanction Xi Jinping, Chinese embassy choking letter exposed
Image : CCP strongly protests against the US lawmakers' proposal to sanction Xi Jinping. (Reuters)
A U.S. congressman recently launched a bill to impose sanctions on Chinese President Xi Jinping and CCP officials on the grounds of persecuting human rights. The Chinese diplomat were quite indignant about this and sent a letter to lawmakers to express its dissatisfaction, saying that this move was to divide the feelings of the CCP and the Chinese people, and "even dared to say that it would sanction top Chinese officials."
Axios obtained an email from the Chinese embassy in Washington to Republican Senator Josh Hawley, slamming him for introducing a bill last week to sanction Xi Jinping and top Chinese Communist Party leaders. The letter states that CCP is strongly indignant at Hawley's "Sanctions on Xi Jinping Act for Xinjiang Atrocities", saying that this law is ideologically biased, not only interfering in China's domestic affairs, but also targeting Chinese high-level officials during the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China , "Senator Hawley's actions in defiance of international backlash are arrogant and vile".
"The Chinese side urges Senator Hawley to abandon the Cold War zero-sum mentality and ideological prejudice against China, have a correct view of the Chinese government's Xinjiang policy, stop pushing this bill, stop attacking and slandering China and its leadership, and stop any weakening of China's sovereignty and security, and stopping further down the wrong and dangerous path."
The letter stated that the recent serious difficulties in U.S.-China relations are rooted in the U.S. continuing to adopt the wrong policy of the previous government towards China and regard China as "the most important geopolitical challenge", stressing that this is a "extremely wrong understanding and assessment". .” Calling on the U.S. to act in accordance with President Biden’s statement that he does not seek to be consistent with China’s new Cold War and changing China’s political system.
In response, Hawley responded on Twitter, "After I proposed the bill to sanction Xi Jinping for the CCP's genocide against the Uyghurs, the Beijing authorities lost their ability to think, called the Uyghurs terrorists, and asked me to withdraw the bill but it's not going to happen."
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CCP's reign of terror extends overseas, 54 illegal secret police stations set up in 21 countries to suppress dissent
Reporter : Yang Fuyi / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4103909 / Image : The Chinese government has set up an illegal and secret "Overseas Service Station for Police and Overseas Chinese Affairs" in the Netherlands without notice or permission, to intimidate and suppress Chinese dissidents who have moved there. (Excerpted from SafeguardDefend Twitter)
A new investigative report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders pointed out that the CCP police have set up 54 "Overseas Service Stations for Police and Overseas Chinese Affairs" in 21 countries to monitor, intimidate and suppress overseas dissent person. The Dutch and Canadian governments said on 26 October that they are investigating the illegal establishment of secret police stations in the Netherlands and Canada by Chinese law enforcement agencies without notification and without permission.
Laura Harth, advocacy director for Protective Defenders, said that this is indeed part of a growing number of transnational law enforcement operations by CCP police "to instill the same political reign of terror as in China around the world," The New York Times reported. ".
Dutch foreign ministry spokesman Maxime Hovenkamp told AFP and The New York Times that the Dutch Minister of Justice and Security and the Minister of Foreign Affairs took the "Guardian of Protection" report seriously and that "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is currently investigating these so-called police stations' activities”; the Dutch side was never informed of the existence of these agencies, such “overseas service stations for police and overseas affairs” are illegal, and “when we have a clearer understanding of the situation, appropriate measures will be taken”.
According to reports from the Dutch media RTL Nieuws and the investigative news media Follow the Money, China has set up "overseas service stations for police and overseas Chinese affairs" in Amsterdam and Rotterdam since 2018, without reporting to the Dutch government. It is also separate from the Chinese embassy and consulate in the Netherlands; these two "service stations" claim to be working to provide diplomatic assistance to Chinese citizens but are in fact used to suppress local Chinese political dissidents.
According to reports, Chinese dissident Wang Jingyu in the Netherlands was intimidated and pursued by CCP police overseas. Wang Jingyu said that he received a phone call earlier this year. The other party claimed to be working at the "Overseas Service Station for Police and Overseas Chinese Affairs", urging him to "think about his parents" and return to China to solve the problem. Since then, he has experienced the system of the CCP police harassment and intimidation, received a series of threats, swearing calls and messages. Wang believes this was orchestrated by CCP government agents.
The CCP embassy in the Netherlands said it was "unaware" of the overseas service station for police and overseas affairs mentioned in the report and "did not participate".
According to the latest report "Overseas 110 - China's Out-of-Control Cross-Border Law Enforcement" by "Guardian", two provincial public security bureaus in China have set up 54 "Overseas Service Stations for Police and Overseas Chinese Affairs" in 21 countries on 5 continents, covering New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Toronto, etc. According to the investigation by Conservation Guard and Dutch media, the "Overseas Service Stations for Police and Overseas Chinese Affairs" in Amsterdam and Rotterdam are respectively in charge of many Chinese police in Lishui and Fuzhou. Many local immigrants come from these two cities; the institutions in Amsterdam have been set up since June 2018, and the Rotterdam agency is also led by a former Chinese military officer.
The Protect Defenders report states that the Amsterdam and Rotterdam "Police and Overseas Service Stations" are part of a global Chinese program that "bypasses official bilateral police and judicial cooperation and violates international law"; and "uses illegal means to formulate parallel policing mechanisms may have violated the territorial integrity of the third country concerned."
The report found that the Chinese police had "great problems" in law enforcement, targeting suspects without solid criminal evidence and failing to comply with due process in the host country, mainly by coercing the fugitives' families into persuading them to return home.
Human rights groups say "dissuasion" includes direct contact with the person concerned or their family members in China, and the so-called "crime" may include political dissent. According to Chinese state media, from April 2021 to July this year, 230,000 Chinese have been persuaded to return to China to face criminal proceedings.
"This is a blatant violation of territorial sovereignty, and it is hoped that democracies will work together and act in a concerted manner," said Harth of Protective Defenders.
The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress voted on September 2 to pass the "Anti-Telecommunications Network Fraud Law", which will come into force on December 1. It mentions that it will promote international law enforcement and judicial cooperation, and expressly stipulates that overseas fraud can be held responsible for harming people's rights and interests. . The new legislation, combined with Chinese police units on foreign soil, threatens to leave dissidents nowhere to hide.
CCP Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular briefing that the reports were "completely false" and that the CCP government "fully" respects the sovereignty of other countries; the main purpose of these agencies is to help Chinese citizens update their information online, Chinese driver's license and provide other services.
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China forcibly detains dissidents, planting mental illness, Many are repeatedly hospitalized and held for months to years
Image : For years, the Chinese government and police have forcibly sent political dissidents to mental hospitals through a system of stability maintenance code-named Ankang. (taken from the "Safeguard Defenders" website)
Nikkei Asia and Deutsche Welle reported that Safeguard Defenders, an international human rights organization headquartered in Madrid, Spain, released a report on the 16th, stating that the Chinese government and police have for many years through the stability maintenance system code-named "Ankang" forcibly sent political dissidents to mental hospitals, and then subjected them to electric shocks and forced medication. Many people were even repeatedly admitted to the hospitals, with detention periods ranging from months to years.
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Persecution using the Ankang stability maintenance system, Electric shocks, beatings, and binding without anesthesia, Forced to sleep on excrement
The report pointed out that the "Ankang" system has been in operation since the 1980s and is mainly managed by the police. Dissidents will be sent to mental hospitals without being judged by normal medical procedures, and they will be forced to receive unnecessary medical treatment. This also means that doctors and hospitals may collude with the CCP government. Although China passed a "mental health law" in 2013 to prevent such abuses, the law is clearly in name only, and police and government officials across CCP China continue to use "ankang" tactics to suppress dissidents. Some victims even revealed that their medical institutions were under the jurisdiction of the CCP's National Health Commission.
After analyzing the data compiled by the Chinese rights protection organization Minsheng Watch, "Protection Defender" pointed out that at least 109 medical institutions in CCP China are related to the "Ankang" system; between 2015 and 21, at least 14 incidents occurred In the four cases of involuntary hospitalization, "Protection Defender" found information on 99 of the victims. They were located in 21 provinces or cities. They were sent more than five times, and one person was detained twenty times; in addition, about half of the victims were imprisoned for more than six months, and nine were even more than ten years.
It is understood that the victims suffered physical and mental abuse while in custody, including being electrocuted, beaten, tied to a bed, etc. without anesthesia, forced to sleep on their own excrement, or prevented from talking to family members or lawyers. meet and so on. Yanxin Mou, the author of the report, described the "Ankang" system as a "black hole", and the data that can be obtained is only the tip of the iceberg. "Unfortunately, there is no public data or feasible channels to properly estimate its scale."
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The woman who splashed ink on the portrait of Xi Jinping was detained several times and now lost contact
For example, Dong Yaoqiong, an "ink-splashing girl", was sent to a mental hospital in Hunan Province by police for uploading a video of herself splashing ink on a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping in July 2018, where she was under 24/7 surveillance and was forced to take psychotropic drugs. She was released more than a year later, but was detained in a mental hospital again on 20 May. This time, she was beaten and tied to a bed. When she was released six months later, she had symptoms of dementia and night terrors. She was admitted to the hospital for the third time at the beginning of the year and is currently out of contact with the outside world.
"Safeguard Defenders" pointed out that Xi Jinping attaches importance to "maintaining stability" to an unprecedented degree, and that China's "stability maintenance" budget for 2019 is as high as one. 39 trillion RMB (about NT$6.2 trillion), "The most frightening thing is that the victims of 'Ankang' often do not know when such an experience will end." The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and the US State Department have early condemned China's "Ankang" system in 2002.
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China's "reform and opening up" era is over, Xi Jinping leads new members of the Standing Committee to pay tribute to the revolutionary site of Yan'an
Reporter : Yang Fuyi / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4103958 / Image : On the 27th, Xi Jinping led the new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to Shaanxi to pay homage to the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Site. The picture shows Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi, members of the new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, meeting the media at the Great Hall of the People after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the 23rd. (Reuters)
CCP official media "Xinhua News Agency" and "CCTV" reported that Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, led all members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the new Central Committee on a special trip from Beijing to Yan'an, Shaanxi Province on the 27th to pay tribute to the revolutionary memorial site, including the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of China. The site, the former residence of Mao Zedong, etc. After Xi Jinping broke the convention and won his third term, he established absolute authority in the arrangement that the six new members of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee were all "Xi's army". Hong Yuanyuan, an associate professor of the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, pointed out that 44 years ago, the leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng Xiaoping, initiated the "reform". The era of openness has officially come to an end.
According to reports, Xi Jinping stressed that the new central leadership will "carry forward the great spirit of founding the party and the spirit of Yan'an," to maintain the correct political direction, and vigorously promote the spirit of self-reliance and hard work, in order to achieve the goals set by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. work together in unity.
Hong Yuanyuan wrote in the New York Times on 26 October that "an era in China is over" and pointed out that Deng Xiaoping's "reform and opening up" era enabled China to achieve economic success. Leading the core of decision-making and introducing a degree of checks and balances at the top political levels, including leader term limits; arguing that "development is the last word", prompting officials across China to invest in promoting economic growth at all costs.
However, Hong Yuanyuan wrote that Xi Jinping had dismantled these foundations at last week's 20th Party Congress, which officially ended the "reform and opening up" era initiated by Deng Xiaoping, "and he has ensured that he will continue to serve as the supreme leader for a third term (if not a lifetime). He also replaced all the CCP leadership with his cronies, and put national security above the pursuit of economic growth.” He even clearly emphasized in the political report at the opening of the 20th National Congress that “national security is the foundation of national rejuvenation, and social stability is the foundation of national rejuvenation. It is a prerequisite for a strong country.”
Less than a week after the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping made a special trip on the 27th with Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, to Yan'an, Shaanxi, from Beijing. Then visit the former residence of Mao Zedong, and visit the "Great History - Exhibition of the 13-year history of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Yan'an" at the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall.
Chinese state media reported that Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the end of the visit, saying that from 1935 to 1948, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China spent 13 years in Yan'an, "reversing China's future and destiny". Taking the history of the CCP's Yan'an period as an example, he said that all comrades in the party should "carry forward the spirit of struggle ... resolutely overcome all kinds of difficulties and challenges on the way forward."
Xi Jinping also said that he has lived and worked in the Yan'an area for 7 years, and is very familiar with the place. He also pointedly said that "a firm and correct political direction is the essence of the Yan'an spirit." In response to Mao Zedong's call to "do it yourself and have enough food and clothing", "All comrades in the party must vigorously promote the spirit of self-reliance and hard work. No matter...the spirit of self-reliance and hard work must not be lost."
After the conclusion of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping led members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to visit the "Road to Rejuvenation" exhibition at the National Museum which was first held on 29 November 2012, and proposed for the first time the "Chinese Dream" of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. After the closing of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, on 31 October 2017, Xi Jinping led members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to Shanghai and Jiaxing, Zhejiang, to pay tribute to the site of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai and the "South Lake Red Boat" in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, in order to declare "not forgetting the original intention".
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It is said that Putin's "god daughter" fled overseas! Public opposition to Putin's regime, Raided by police
Image : Ksenia, known as the "Russian Hilton", is regarded as Putin's "goddaughter" because of her family's close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters)
Ksenia Sobchak, a socialite known as "Russian Hilton", is regarded as Putin's "god daughter" by the outside world because her father had close relations with Russian President Putin during his lifetime. According to rumours, her home was raided by the police, and she took an emergency flight to leave the country in the morning of 26 October. According to law enforcement authorities, Ksenia was accused of "spreading government false information". If "relevant evidence" is seized, she may be arrested and alleged "foreign agent".
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, the 40-year-old Russian socialite and former well-known host Ksenia, whose father is Putin's university law teacher and political mentor Anatoly. Anatoli Sobchak, the family has a very close relationship with Putin, so Ksenia has known Putin since childhood. Despite this, Ksenia has repeatedly publicly opposed Putin and the Kremlin's authoritarian policies, and even run for president to challenge Putin in 2018.
Just on the 26 October local time in Moscow, Russian police suddenly came to search Ksenia's home. It is reported that the media "Warning News" (Ostorozhno Novosti) founded by Ksenia was accused of "publicly disseminating "false information" about the execution of functions of government agencies. Under the "False information" Act, a new law enacted after the Russia-Ukraine, accomplices are punishable by up to three years in prison.
It is not clear to the outside world exactly what remarks Ksenia and the media have angered the Kremlin, and it is initially suspected that they are criticizing and opposing Putin's order to invade Ukraine. Aleksandr Ionov, head of Russia's "public committee for the investigation of foreign interference," said the committee was trying to find out whether Ksenia received foreign funds to spread fake news against the authorities.
According to reports, the police came to search the house because Ksenia denied the false allegations made by Yonov and the committee. At present, she has been flown to Belarus and fled to Lithuania. The "Warning News" is under investigation by the committee. Some of its journalists and business director Kirill Sukhanov have been detained by the police, while other employees are under investigation.
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Putin reiterates that he does not regret attacking Ukraine
Image : Putin has continued to criticize the West in public. (Associated Press)
Russia has launched an invasion of Ukraine for more than 8 months, and has been severely counterattacked by the Ukrainian army, and the battle situation is tight but this did not damage the confidence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, emphasizing that he does not regret fighting against Ukraine, and also said that the era of Western domination of the global situation is coming to an end.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, Putin attended the annual foreign policy meeting on Thursday local time. When asked if there was anything that disappointed him in the past year, Putin bluntly said "no", but stressed that he always had dead Russians in Ukraine on his mind.
Putin continued to fire at the West in the process, saying that the hegemony of "our Western adversaries" would face an inevitable collapse, "leaders of the free West have weakened traditional values around the world and imposed a whole lot of transgender, gay parade culture on other countries."
Putin also accused the West of instigating war in Ukraine, playing "dangerous, bloody and dirty games" and throwing the world into chaos. "The historical phase of Western domination of global affairs is coming to an end. We are at the juncture of history, and we are waiting ahead. Probably the most dangerous and unpredictable situation. At the same time, the most important decade since the end of World War II.”
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Threatening Musk? Russia warns: Western commercial satellites may be targeted
Reporter : Guan Shuping / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4103906 / Image : Musk's "Starlink" satellite network antenna. (AFP file photo)
Russian Foreign Ministry officials warned the West at a United Nations meeting on 26 October that if commercial satellites are used in the Ukrainian battlefield, the commercial satellites of the United States and its allies will become legitimate targets of Russia.
According to a Reuters report on the 27th, Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Nonproliferation and Arms Control Department, accused the United States and its allies of trying to use space to exercise Western hegemony and the use of Western satellites to assist Ukraine in combat is an "extremely dangerous trend" and a "provocation", and "quasi-civilian infrastructure may become a legitimate target for retaliatory strikes."
Russia and the United States and China have significant space attack capabilities. In 2021, Russia launched an anti-satellite missile to destroy a Russian satellite.
"We are talking about the U.S. and its allies involving civilian space infrastructure, including commercial facilities, in armed conflict," Vrontsov said at the meeting on the 26th. He did not mention a specific satellite company, but US billionaire Elon Musk said a few days ago that his "Space X" (Space X) will continue to provide Ukraine's "Starlink" broadband satellite network serviceve.
According to a UN press release, the Ukrainian representative at the meeting accused Russia of its space program, which has changed from a peaceful nature to aggression and violated international norms for the peaceful use of space.
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Russian ground forces want to attack satellites? U.S.: Dare to fight will definitely give back
Reporter : Zhang Peiyuan / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4103966
In response to the remarks of senior Russian officials that if Western countries continue to intervene in the Ukraine war, their commercial satellites will become a legitimate target of Russia's attacks. On this matter, he White House National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby (John Kirby). On the 27th, it said that the United States will respond to any actions against American infrastructure.
Kirby also said that public information shows that Russia has been trying to obtain anti-satellite technology.
Earlier on the same day, Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, said the United States and its allies were trying to use space to enforce Western hegemony, and that using satellites to help Ukraine fight was "extremely dangerous." If this continues, these Western commercial satellites will be seen as legitimate Russian targets.
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Worries that Xi Jinping will focus on Taiwan, the chairman of the American Council on Foreign Relations makes 2 suggestions to Taiwan
Reporter : Wu Shuwei / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/4104275 / Image : The picture shows President Tsai Ing-wen meeting with Richard Haass, president of the American think tank "Foreign Relations Association". (Provided by the Presidential Palace)
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has ended, and all circles are concerned about China's future influence on Taiwan. Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), pointed out in a seminar on 28 October 2022 that Xi Jinping may encounter various domestic challenges in his third term, and then focus on Taiwan , to establish his historical status, while Taiwan should increase its defense budget, develop asymmetric combat capabilities, and reduce its economic dependence on China.
The MAC commissioned the Association for Advanced Policy Studies of the Republic of China to hold an international seminar on "China's Power Changes and Governance Trends" at the Far East Shangri-La International Hotel in Taipei on 28 October. Haas, a former senior U.S. diplomat, delivered a keynote speech via video.
Haas said that there are still five years before the 21st National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Although China's economy has grown in the past, it is facing the financial crisis, aging population, Wuhan pneumonia (covid) and other factors. Therefore, Xi Jinping may turn his eyes outward to play the "national card", and in Xi Jinping's third term, he is a leader who will place himself in a position similar to Mao Zedong, so he will also focus on Taiwan to, establish his historical status.
Haas said that in the past 40 years, Taiwan has developed rapidly its economy due to the peaceful political situation, and has also turned into a democratic and resilient government. However, such an environment cannot be taken for granted. In the face of China's increasing pressure on Taiwan's economy and diplomacy, the impact on Taiwan's economy and diplomacy is increasing. Taiwan's development has in turn turned the situation in China's favour.
In response to China's increased pressure on Taiwan, Haas explained, "It's not because of what Taiwan has done," but because Taiwan represents a democracy that is completely different from China. This is like the situation between Russia and Ukraine. Taiwan is very similar to Ukraine, representing the Slavic nation, can have a democratic government. This is what Russian President Putin does not want to see, so he is becoming more and more impatient, and Xi Jinping is also the same, there will be more and more intimidation. and economic sanctions.
As for what the U.S., Taiwan and its allies can do, Haas said, "We have to set the goal of stopping war and defending Taiwan." The defense budget must be increased, and it is also very important for Taiwan to increase its military power. The U.S. must also have effective military deployment and prioritization of defense affairs reflecting the strategic location of the Indo-Pacific region.
Haas believes that Taiwan must also make an effective transformation. At present, the increase in the defense budget is everyone's favourite, and it is also necessary to have the wisdom to construct asymmetric force in the defense budget, such as the purchase of missiles. From the Ukraine-Russia war, Ukraine's weapons used are inspired, and Taiwan must also be resilient in terms of energy, must have adequate reserves, and have contingency plans for attacks on cyber technology.
In addition, Haas said that both Taiwan and its allies should reduce their economic dependence on China, whether in terms of markets, raw materials, etc., especially "any aspect of trade", as long as it is a strategic aspect, they should reduce their dependence on China, regardless of imports and exports.
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Hu Jintao was taken away in public, former CCP official analyze the inside story: Xi's number one problem
Image : When former General Secretary Hu Jintao was invited out of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Gao Wenqian, a former executive committee member of the Literature Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, bluntly said that how to deal with this incident has become the number one problem faced by Xi after his re-election. (AFP)
CCP leader Xi Jinping reached the pinnacle of power at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, but the event that former General Secretary Hu Jintao was invited out of the meeting occurred. This has become the number one problem that Xi faces after being re-elected.
"Voice of America" interviewed Gao Wenqian, Gao believes that if Xi "takes lightly" on the Hu Jintao incident, it will not prove the rationality of Hu's arrest at that time, but if the Hu clique is purged, it will lead to fierce resistance from the regiment faction. Gao explained that the English Twitter of "Xinhua News Agency" immediately posted an article saying that Hu was taken to rest because of physical discomfort. Xi Jinping ordered it to be taken away. It is worth noting whether Hu Jintao deliberately waited until the foreign media reporters entered the venue to do so.
Gao speculated that Hu was a "good tiger" cultivated by the party, and if he had not been forced to do so, he would not have made such a move.
In addition, Gao Wenqian also believes that the members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China are now all "Xi's army", that may soon be divided. He bluntly said that Xi's approach highlights the possessiveness of power and stupidity and ignorance. In the art of control, former Chinese leader Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping are wiser. Today, CCP China is in trouble at home and abroad. As long as it is not handled carefully, it will lead to a systemic crisis. In the past, Xi could push responsibility to Li Keqiang, but now no one can take the blame, and there may be internal divisions.
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After Hu Jintao was taken away, father and son "appeared" at the same time, leading to speculation
Reporter : Hong Yu / Editor : Li Quan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/10/27/a103561153.html
At the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the incident that the former President of the Communist Party of China Hu Jintao was suspected of being forcibly removed from the venue set off public opinion, triggering various speculations and interpretations. At the same time, there were unfavorable news about the Hu family on the Internet. On 26 October, Hu Jintao and his son Hu Haifeng appeared in state media reports at the same time, sparking speculation.
Several official media of the Communist Party of China reported on the 26th that on the morning of October 25th, the farewell ceremony for the remains of Xu Guangchun, former secretary of the CPC Henan Provincial Party Committee and former director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, was held in Zhengzhou. Xu died in Zhengzhou on the 21st at the age of 77.
The report mentioned that Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Qishan, Hu Jintao, Zhu Rongji and Wen Jiabao, the current and retired senior leaders of the CCP, expressed their condolences and condolences in different ways.
On the same day (26 October), the official website of Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, the Communist Party of China reported that in the morning of 25 October, the city held a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and a meeting of the city's leading cadres. Hu Haifeng, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, presided over the meeting, conveying the so-called "spirit of the 20th National Congress".
In his speech, Hu Haifeng, in addition to touting Xi Jinping's report, also said that he transformed his firm support for the "two establishments" into practical actions to firmly implement the "two maintenances", and so on.
Image : Video screenshot
On the closing day of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (October 22), a video of Hu Jintao being forcibly removed from the scene by the staff in the middle of the meeting went viral on overseas social media. Reuters, AFP and other international media rushed to report.
In China, relevant information about "Hu Jintao was taken away" was completely blocked, and the names of Hu Jintao and his son Hu Haifeng became "sensitive words", which were opened and hidden by various social platforms.
Afterwards, the Hu Jintao incident continued to ferment, and various speculations and interpretations emerged. At the same time, there were also rumors that Hu Jintao's family was under house arrest. Now, Hu Jintao and his son have "appeared" in the CCP's official media at the same time.
On 22 October, Hu Haifeng was not included in the list of alternate members of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China officially announced. It was originally speculated that Hu Haifeng would be promoted after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, but now his career has fallen behind many "post-70s" deputy ministerial officials.
Previously, Hong Kong media reported that Hu Haifeng's career was blocked because of his father, Hu Jintao. Hu Jintao "retired completely" at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, fully supporting Xi Jinping's rise to power.
The British BBC recently reported that Communist Party congresses are often highly scripted, prompting speculation that the timing of Hu Jintao's departure may not be a sudden event. He attended a closed-door meeting earlier in the day before allowing the media to enter for the final period. Just after the cameras were set, officials told Hu Jintao to leave.
Whatever happened, the incident provides further outrageous evidence of how opaque the Chinese leadership's relevant countermeasure are.
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China's 2023 "war to force talks"? Taisan Qiu: I didn't see the so-called timetable
Reporter : Wu Shuwei / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/4104322 / Image : In response to concerns about whether Chinese leader Xi Jinping has a unified timetable, the chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, Qiu Taisan, said today that "I have not seen the so-called timetable." (Photo by reporter Liao Zhenhui)
Chen Mingtong, director of national security, said in the Legislative Yuan a few days ago that China's plan to attack Taiwan in 2023 is more like "war to force negotiations" to force Taiwan to the negotiating table. In response to concerns about whether Chinese leader Xi Jinping has a unified timetable, Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council Qiu Taisan said today, "I have not seen the so-called timetable", but the so-called "peaceful reunification, one country, two systems" has been written into the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China , which should be one of the projects under Xi Jinping's so-called great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The Mainland Affairs Council entrusted the Advanced Policy Research Association of the Republic of China to hold an international seminar on "The Changes of CCP Power and Governance Trends" at the Far East Shangri-La International Hotel, Taipei, on 28 October 2022. After attending the opening ceremony, Taisan Qiu was interviewed by the media.
The media asked Chen Mingtong a few days ago that China may "force talks" with Taiwan in 2023, does it mean that Xi Jinping has a so-called timetable for reunification? Qiu Taisan said, of course they are all paying attention now, but there are not only 20 countries that are targeting China. Before the report of the 20th National Congress was released, all countries were already thinking and judging the CCP's military rise and strategic deployment. The MAC also collects the judgments of various countries and the judgments of relevant units.
Qiu Taisan replied, so far, "I haven't seen the so-called timetable", but the so-called "peaceful reunification, one country, two systems" has been included in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This should be a project under Xi Jinping's so-called great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. one.
Another media asked the CCP to include "anti-Taiwan independence" in the party constitution. Qiu Taisan said that China's united front strategy against Taiwan probably depends on different political parties. There are probably no more than two tools and work items. One is called "Anti-Taiwan independence", one is called "promoting reunification", because the CCP believes that the DPP will have a tendency towards Taiwan independence.
Taisan emphasized, "Of course, we don't know what their definition of Taiwan independence is." Therefore, when the DPP was in power, the CCP was anti-independence, but when the KMT was in power, because the KMT had a vague idea. The 1992 consensus statement will focus on promoting unification.
Taisan said that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has included the reunification of Taiwan in the party constitution, so it will focus on promoting reunification, and anti-independence is one of the means. It has not won the support of the majority of the people in Taiwan. More than 80% of the people are opposed to the measures proposed by China to promote reunification. Therefore, the Mainland Affairs Council judged that the CCP will use a "soft and hard" strategy in the future. , the soft will be softer.”
Finally, Taisan said that there may be specific work projects for Taiwan in the two sessions in January or March 2023, and various studies and judgments will be made at that time to formulate relevant countermeasures.
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Musk to welcome Trump back onto Twitter as he reverses lifetime bans, takes helm as CEO after firing executives including Parag Agarwal
Reporter : Harriet Alexander, Daily Mail / https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11363659/Done-deal-Elon-Musk-formally-takes-Twitter-fires-executives.html / Image : Video Screenshot
Elon Musk has formally taken over Twitter, triumphantly posting 'the bird is freed' and immediately firing several top executives in what is being seen as his first power move.
His next move will be to restore Twitter users who have been handed lifetime bans from the platform - among them former president Donald Trump.
Twitter's CEO Parag Agrawal, the chief financial officer Ned Segal, and the top lawyer for the firm, Vijaya Gadde, were culled just hours after Musk finalized the $44 billion acquisition.
Sean Edgett, the company's general counsel, and chief customer officer Sarah Personette were also pushed out - as the Tesla CEO set out to make his mark in his new position.
Musk himself will take over as CEO, a source told Bloomberg - although it may only be an interim role.
The fired Twitter executives were hastily shuttled from the building, sources told The Washington Post. Billionaire Musk is set to hold a company-wide town hall meeting on Friday.
Twitter's engineers could no longer make changes to code as of noon Thursday in San Francisco, part of an effort to ensure that nothing about the product changed ahead of the deal closing,
The South African publicly criticized Twitter's existing leadership team - in particular, attacking their policies on content moderation and censorship. He has also sparred with them over data on how many accounts were bots or spam.
This deal completion comes at the eleventh hour - just one day before Musk was going to be dragged back into court after being sued by Twitter for a back-and-forth he had over whether he was going to buy the company.
On Wednesday, the billionaire changed his Twitter profile to identify himself as the 'Chief Twit' and posted a video of himself walking into the company's San Francisco headquarters carrying a porcelain sink.
Agrawal, who took over from founder Jack Dorsey almost a year ago, has been at loggerheads with Musk over the number of genuine Twitter users, with Musk responding to a thread of Agrawal's in May with a 'poop' emoji.
When Musk first made his takeover bid in April, he said he had not been given accurate data about spam accounts and bots.
Three months after launching his bid, Musk pulled out - insisting he had been mislead about the size of the firm.
Twitter has for years said that bots make up less than 5 percent of its 'monetizable daily active users' (mDAU).
In a series of tweets in May, Agrawal acknowledged that 'spam harms the experience for real people on Twitter,' and added that, 'as such, we are strongly incentivized to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can, every single day.'
He insisted that Musk was exaggerating the scale of the problem. The South African-born Musk said as many as 25 percent of all Twitter accounts were not real.
Twitter sued Musk to complete the deal, accusing him of using bots as a pretext to exit the deal after getting buyer's remorse, and the deal was set to go to trial later this month.
Musk himself took aim in April at Gadde for censoring stories about Hunter Biden's laptop after it was reported she'd sobbed at news he'd bought the firm.
The tycoon issued a scathing tweet in response to reports Gadde, 48, had been crying at news of the deal.
He wrote: 'Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate.'
Musk was referring to the suspension of the New York Post's account for its exclusive about Hunter Biden's laptop in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Initially dismissed as 'misinformation' by liberal outlets and social media networks, the laptop and its contents have since been verified by many of the same publications.
Gadde - who was described as Twitter's 'moral authority' - broke down in tears on April 25, Politico reported, while briefing her team via video link on the future of the company under Musk.
The tech entrepreneur must now try and turn around the company's finances.
On October 19, he said Twitter was an asset that had 'languished' for a long time.
'Myself and the other investors are obviously overpaying for Twitter right now,' he said.
'The long term potential for Twitter in my view is an order of magnitude greater than its current value.'
He has floated the idea of turning Twitter into an 'everything app'.
The idea originated in Asia with companies like WeChat, which lets users not only send messages but also make payments, shop online or hail a taxi.
The all-in-one service appealed to users who had fewer choices in a region where Google, Facebook and others were blocked.
Musk has told investors he plans to build one that will sell premium subscriptions to reduce reliance on ads, allow content creators to make money and enable payments, according to a source briefed on the matter.
Musk's plans to lower the guard rails that are common across all social media platforms has lead to fears of a deluge of hateful, harmful and potentially illegal content on Twitter. Already, it has struggled with identifying and removing child porn.
Members of Twitter's trust and safety team, which includes content moderators, are expected to be among Musk's deepest job cuts, employees fear.
'Imagine a world where all those people are gone,' one employee said. 'It's going to be a hellscape.'
Yet Musk warned advertisers earlier on Thursday that Twitter cannot become a 'hellscape' under his ownership.
The Tesla CEO sent a tweet to advertisers on Thursday morning, saying that while he wants the social media giant to become a 'digital town square' it 'obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences.'
'Our platform must be warm and welcoming to all,' he wrote to advertisers Thursday, 'where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature.'
He added that he 'very much believes that advertising... can delight, entertain and inform you,' saying that when done properly, advertising 'can show you a service or product or medical treatment that you never knew existed, but is right for you.
'For this to be true, it is essential to show Twitter users advertising that is as relevant as possible to their needs,' the 51-year-old concluded in his letter, adding: 'Low relevancy ads are spam, but highly relevant ads are actually content!'
Musk later agreed with a rapper on the platform, Zuby, who suggested that Twitter should 'find a way to compensate' monetize or partner 'with its top creators, like every other social media app.'
'Absolutely,' the SpaceX founder wrote in response.
Musk also revealed his 'motivation' for buying the company in the open letter to advertisers, writing: 'There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I think about advertising. Most of it is wrong.'
He said he acquired the company 'because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.'
But, he wrote, 'much of traditional media has fueled and catered' to either the far right or the far left 'as they believe that is what brings in the money, but in doing so, the opportunity for dialogue is lost.
'That is why I bought Twitter,' Musk wrote. 'I didn't do it because it would be easy. I didn't do it to make more money. I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love.
'And I do so with humility, recognizing that failure in pursuing this goal, despite our best efforts, is a very real possibility.'
Meanwhile, Twitter staff remained on edge on Thursday.
He was later pictured on Wednesday speaking with some employees, reportedly denying rumors that he is culling three quarters of the staff.
But that did little to assuage the more than 7,500 people employed by the social media giant.
As one Twitter employee explained in an anonymous essay for Business Insider, those who remain at the company are worried about the Tesla CEO's volatility.
'I don't think my colleagues and I have a good model for how volatile he is — and I can see that rocking the boat, especially if he makes more comments that make people say, 'What the hell?'' the anonymous Twitter employee wrote.
'There are also people here who are just unfazed by his volatility,' they continued. 'They're not going to react in any way.'
The employee noted that their fellow workers' views of their new boss will all be contingent on how many people he lays off.
'People are asking, if heads are going to roll, whose good graces do you need to be in to stay?' the employee wrote, adding: 'Most people think layoffs are going to be pretty immediate.
'I don't think our site-reliability engineers need to be worried, though,' they mused. 'On the other hand, machine-learning engineers, or the people responsible for building experimental services are more worried.'
The Twitter employee then went on to say they would be most worried 'if Musk decides to wipe out teams indiscriminately, because then it's just a roll of the dice.'
In the meantime, several Twitter employees took to their social media platform to share how they are sticking together.
Stephanie Guevara, a senior iOS engineer for the platform, though, was more blunt — asking Musk directly: 'Was it fun to look at the faces of the people you said you'd be laying off?'
And Parker Lyons expressed his nervousness about the new boss' visit with a meme of a man on top of two tires lifting a sofa, captioned: 'When Elon walks by your desk to see what you're working on.'
Twitter management had already planned to cut staff after spending a whopping $1.5 billion last year on personnel, and had wanted to reduce that amount by some $800 million.
It also spent hundreds of millions of dollars in contracting firms that pay people to review reports of hate speech, child pornography and other rule-breaking content, corporate documents obtained by the Washington Post last week revealed.
Management also planned to make major cuts to its infrastructure, getting rid of data centers that keep the site functioning for more than 200 million users a day.
But Musk expanded on the idea of layoffs, telling employees in June he didn't see a reason why low-performing workers should remain on the payroll.
He has also made clear he plans to loosen content moderation standards — which he claims are infringing on free speech — and restore former President Donald Trump's account as soon as he takes ownership of the company.
Since then, though, the Tesla CEO has vowed to take a far lighter touch on suspending users who break Twitter's rules on hate speech, having declared himself a strong believer in free speech.
The billionaire has found himself in hot water previously for some of his views, including comments on transgender issues.
In 2020, he tweeted that 'pronouns suck' - then hastily deleted the post and said: 'I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare.'
He has also voiced support for Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who tabled the so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bill.
In a securities filing on 14 April, Musk said he did not have confidence in Twitter's management and initially vowed to sack 75 percent of the workforce when he formally bought the tech giant.
Agrawal, who has repeatedly clashed with Musk over the number of users Twitter has, will walk away from his job with $42 million, after being chief executive officer for just under a year.
His total compensation for 2021 was $30.4 million - largely in stock awards - after he was handed the top position following Jack Dorsey's resignation last November. It's currently unclear who will replace him, although there is speculation that Musk will take on the role as CEO himself.
Twitter's former top lawyer Gadde, who earned $17 million in 2021, was reportedly in tears in April when Musk's $44 billion takeover first came to light. She has now been paid out $12.5 million for her troubles, Insider said.
Ex-CFO Segal - who was the man behind Trump's Twitter ban - also received the handsome sum of $25.4 million after being fired by Musk on Thursday evening.
Former CCO Personette was handed $11.2 million as part of Musk's house clearance.
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Putin says Taiwan belongs to China, Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns confusion, diverts attention from invasion of Ukraine
Reporter : Yang Chengyu / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/4104210 / Image of the Republic of China Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Photo by reporter Yang Chengyu)
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed at the 19th Valdai International Discussion Club on 27 October that Taiwan is part of the People's Republic of China and that the West has recently tried to escalate some situations. Such as the Ukrainian war and the provocative acts around Taiwan; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its solemn protest against this on 28 October 2022, and severely condemned the false statement made by the Russian government.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterates that Taiwan, the Republic of China, is a sovereign and independent country and is not subordinate to the autocratic People's Republic of China; the CCP regime has never ruled over Taiwan for a day, and naturally does not enjoy any sovereignty over Taiwan; A country that values freedom interacts with its international partners. It will also uphold its national sovereignty and will not allow derogation and interference from the Chinese authoritarian government or other countries. It insists that the future of Taiwan must be decided by the 23.5 million people in Taiwan. The Taiwan government and people will never yield to the totalitarian CCP government, military, political and economic coercion.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out that after Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians has been condemned and sanctioned by democratic countries around the world, including Taiwan. Putin and his government officials deliberately used the provocation of Western countries on the Taiwan issue as an excuse to confuse international audiences and divert the focus of Russia's atrocities in aggression against Ukraine. We will also continue to support Ukraine and assist the Ukrainian people in rebuilding their homes with like-minded countries.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that recently, the authoritarian Chinese government has not only intensified its efforts, dispatched more than a thousand military planes to harass and intimidate Taiwan, but also intensified its cognitive operations against the Republic of China, disrupting Taiwan's national morale. The CCP’s various measures attempt to persecute the current situation of peace in the Taiwan Strait, and its ambition to annex Taiwan is obvious; China’s provocative actions have seriously threatened the peace and stability of Taiwan, the freedom and openness of the Indo-Pacific region, and the prosperity and stability of the world; the Chinese Communist government is the real provocateur. CCP should be condemned and cast aside by the international community along with Russia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that in the face of China's long-term arrogant and unreasonable provocations against Taiwan, the Republic of China will continue to work closely with countries with similar ideals, strengthen self-defense capabilities, strengthen international friendship, and firmly defend the universal value of democracy and freedom. basic international order, maintaining the freedom and openness of the Indo-Pacific region, as well as global peace and stability.
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Ma Ying-jeou said that "anti-China Protect Taiwan" has worsened cross-strait relations. MAC: nondescript metaphor
Reporter : Chen Yufu / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/4103702 / Image : The spokesperson of the MAC, Qiu Chuizheng, pointed out today that some people have recently criticized the CCP's military expansion and undermined the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. (Photo by reporter Chen Yufu)
Former President Ma Ying-jeou recently claimed that the DPP's "anti-China protect Taiwan" policy not only makes it difficult to improve cross-strait relations, but also worsens cross-strait relations. He also said, "Vote for the DPP, young people go to the battlefield, vote for the Kuomintang, there is no battlefield on both sides of the strait." The spokesperson of the MAC, Qiu Chuizheng, retorted today that some people have recently criticized the CCP's military expansion and undermined the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.
Qiu Chuizheng emphasized that since President Tsai took office, in the face of the CCP's intimidation and coercion by the government and the military on Taiwan, she has always "refrained from provocation and rashness", committed to maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, and won the support and affirmation of the Taiwanese people and the international community. This is responsible and pragmatic "strategic prudence", the provocative actions of the Beijing authorities are the root cause of regional instability, calling on all sectors of the country to unite and jointly respond to the constant threats and challenges of the CCP.
In addition, in response to the plans of the four major domestic business groups to visit China after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Qiu Chuizheng said that the government supports cross-strait economic and trade exchanges that do not involve political premise, equal dignity and compliance with laws and regulations. Taiwanese are all looking forward. The government also calls on China to resolve differences through constructive dialogue without political premise, stop economic and trade pressure, jointly face problems and find solutions, so as to help bilateral economic and trade develop positively.
He pointed out that the CCP authorities have been suppressing Taiwan with zero-sum thinking for a long time. So far, they have not given up on invading Taiwan by force. The law-abiding Taiwanese people really agree, and they also call on domestic business groups going to China for exchanges to avoid falling into CCP's traps.
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Senior Democrat to vote Republican in New York gubernatorial race
Image : Supporters hold a sign for New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin at the entrance to a news conference in New York on 24 October. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Unable to bear the attitude of current New York Governor Kathy Hochul towards crime, a decades-old Democratic state lawmaker said that in the upcoming governor In the race, he intends to vote Republican.
Brooklyn Democrat Dov Hikind served in New York state for 35 years as of 2018.
On 8 November 2022, after the last debate before the gubernatorial campaign, he told NTDTV, "The number one, number two, and number three problems that New Yorkers face is crime, crime, crime."
In an hour-long debate Tuesday night, Hochul and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) debated the most heated issues aside from issues such as the economy, abortion and COVID-19 vaccine authorization. The confrontation is over crime.
Lee Houghton accused Hochul, as governor, of inaction on rampant subway crime and hate crimes against Jewish and Asian communities.
Huochu countered that Lee Houghton was trying to make people more "scared" of crime, while insisting her criminal justice policy was "to make a difference."
"Anyone who commits a crime against the law, especially after they change their bail policy, has consequences," Hochul said. "I don't know why you think this is so important."
Hikind said Hochuls response showed she "did not know" what New Yorkers were most concerned about. "The number of people using the New York City subway system has dropped by 40 percent. It's incredible," he told NTD News. "Can't blame people, people are scared and worried when they see what's happening on the subway and on the streets of New York."
"Hochul is unreliable, and I think (the debate) last night made that clear," Hikind continued.
Hikindn also noted that Hochul had only recently started campaigning on crime, when polls at the time showed her in the lead, but Lee Zeldin was steadily closing the gap with her.
In a campaign ad released last week, Hochul emphasized Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.)'s (friendly) relationship with former U.S. President Donald Trump. The ad featured Trump at his Mar-a-Lago in April 2022. "Lee fought very, very hard for me," said footage from an event at the estate in the background. The footage also shows Trump slapping Lee on the shoulder in support.
"Lee Zeldin also voted for Trump, against tougher gun laws, against extreme anti-abortion laws," the ad dubs said. "Lee Zeldin even voted to overturn the 2020 election to keep Trump in power."
Hikind said the more such ads, the better Hochul would perform in the election. "Hochul's popularity in the polls is up because New Yorkers understand that without the freedom to live, breathe, and walk the streets, nothing else really matters."
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Gingrich: Republicans will win big in both chambers
Image : Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia). Taken in Washington on October 24, 2019. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
金里奇：共和党人将在两院选举中大有斩获
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an interview with The Epoch Times that Republicans may hold two congressional meetings on November 8. A win-win in the general election.
"I would estimate that we're going to get three to seven seats in the Senate, we're going to get 20 to 50 more people in the House, and the most likely number is 44," Gingrich said.
In this midterm election, Republicans need to flip five seats to win back control of the House of Representatives. In the Senate, the parties are evenly divided, with Republicans needing a net gain of one seat to gain a majority.
Gingrich believes that Democratic optimism appears to be fading as Election Day approaches, with Republican candidates gaining late-mover advantages in key state races across the country.
In New Hampshire, on 20 October, Republican pollster Fabrizio, Lee and Associates conducted a poll between Republican Don Bolduc and Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan. Maggie Hassan has narrowed to 2 percentage points, within a 4 percent margin of error.
The poll, commissioned by Borduk's campaign, put Hassan at 49 percent, compared with Borduk's 47 percent.
In Arizona, Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters, backed by former President Trump, made progress in a playoff. Polling agency RealClearPolitics predicted the race would be a toss up, with Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly leading by just 2.5 points.
In Pennsylvania, Gov. John Fetterman's double-digit advantage has faded in recent weeks. A recent AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) Pennsylvania poll by Fabrizio Ward and Impact Research put Feltman in the lead 48 percent to 46 percent, within 4.4 percentage points.
In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock's lead over Republican candidate Herschel Walker is also slipping. A recent Landmark Communication poll put the two at a tie at 46 per cent, while a survey by InsiderAdvantage put Warnock ahead by 2 points, with a margin of error of 4.2 points.
"It's pretty much all over the country that the Republicans have the edge in the race," Gingrich said. "The Democrats can only blame themselves."
Gingrich said the intertwining of topics such as crime, inflation and border security has made people boycott Democrats.
He cites the crime problem in New York as an example. "When some crazy left-wing Democrats think that they don't need jails and they can solve (crime) problems by being nice to the murderer, ordinary people think it's crazy."
For New York gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin, making crime a focus of his campaign is because of his own experience. On October 9, two minors were wounded in a shooting near Lee's home while his two 16-year-old daughters were doing homework when a bullet landed 30 feet from his daughter's desk.
In New York City, where press conferences highlight the city's crime crisis almost every day, Lee Zeldin's campaign approval rating has narrowed to a single number spot with Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
On 22 October, Hochul, who is facing political pressure, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan to hire an additional 1,200 police officers to enhance subway security.
Inflation, crime and illegal immigration are key campaign issues for Republicans. In the last few polls, voters seem to recognize that this is the issue they care most about right now.
On 18 October, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed that a New York Times/Siena poll showed that the economy and inflation are the most important factors for voters. Two concerns, which are "very abnormal," and abortion is the top concern for voters.
"Women's concerns about freedom are still very, very important in terms of how they vote," Pelosi told MSNBC. "It's a question of who votes." She added that she felt the opportunity was "very good" for Democrats.
Gingrich, on the other hand, thinks the abortion issue is unlikely to help Democrats as much as Pelosi and other Democrats think.
"Republicans are actually winning this race because it's a question of who is more extreme." In fact, Democrats' desire to kill babies is seen as more extreme than Republicans' desire to save babies, he said.
"Because their activists are so fierce, so fanatical, and have been donating money, they think (the abortion issue) will help them, but outside the extreme left, it's backfired," Gingrich said.
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