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Large-scale demonstrations and protests in Guangzhou on 14 November, the day 20 anti-epidemic laws are issued
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The people under lockdown in Guangzhou: "The country clearly stipulated yesterday that the new 20 anti-epidemic laws do not allow road closures, but they are still implemented. What is the reason for this country? What is the reason?"
After the CCP put forward 20 measures to optimize the epidemic prevention, many places began to adjust the current epidemic prevention policies, but the epidemic prevention measures were not fully implemented, and people's lives fell into chaos.
Haizhu District, the hardest-hit area in Guangzhou, was sealed off for more than 20 days. Due to the unbearable strict blockade measures and lack of supplies, in the evening of 14 November, public demonstrations and protests broke out in many places in the area. People overturned water horses and police cars and rushed to the outermost checkpoint.
The authorities dispatched a large number of police forces to maintain stability. Videos posted on the Internet showed police firing high-pressure water cannons at the crowd to disperse the crowd.
The police tried to break through the iron gate and entered the community but residents resisted.
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Chinese desire for freedom under CCP rule
In the evening of 15 November, Guangzhou residents who were locked up and prosecuted could not hold back their desire for freedom. In the residential buildings, they sang "Broad Sea and Sky" in unison.
A Guangzhou resident who was charged: "Forgive me for being unruly, indulgent and loving freedom in my life".
At present, the Haizhu District Government has not responded to the police beating incident.
Starting from 14 November, people in Shijiazhuang do not need to scan the QR code when entering and leaving public places. This seemingly sudden "unblocking" news not only caused heated discussions on the Internet, but also confused local citizens. The video shows that citizens are still queuing at the testing point.
Dabai: "Don't line up, don't line up, you can't do it, you definitely can't do it."
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Free nucleic acid testing sites restored in Shijiazhuang after a day of confusion
A citizen of Shijiazhuang: "Oh my God, on the first day of Shijiazhuang's opening up, this is the medical university. People who do nucleic acid at their own expense have such a long queue."
After the people of Shijiazhuang were frightened for a day, the Health Commission announced on 15 November 2022 that the free testing points that had just been closed would be restored.
Some people commented that in the past two days, they have really experienced what it means to be "schizophrenic, changing orders day and night" and the people are at a loss and messed up.
Many people also believe that Shijiazhuang is a "pilot city for China to co-exist with the virus".
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Lianhua Qingwen and flu medicine ran out of stock in Shijiazhuang
Residents of Shijiazhuang: "This is a new prescription in Shijiazhuang. Let's see if it works by scanning the QR code and checking for nucleic acid. Let's buy a box of Lianhua Qingwen."
Although the effectiveness of Lianhua Qingwen in the prevention and treatment of covid has long been controversial, Lianhua Qingwen has been touted continuously under the circumstances of citizens "seeking more blessings for themselves". CCP media Red Star News reported that in the evening of 14 November, the staff of many pharmacies in the urban area of Shijiazhuang said that they were out of stock and that a box was hard to find.
In addition to Lianhua Qingwen, the sales of other cold medicines have also risen sharply in the past two days. All kinds of cold medicines in Shijiazhuang chain drugstores were also sold out, and the isatis root granules in the store were also sold out.
In the evening of 14 November, in a community in Shipingqiao, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, due to residents' dissatisfaction with the long-term closure, the sound of shouting from the building at night kept coming and going.
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More than 10,000 covid cases in Chongqing, where residents are isolated in labour camps
On 15 November the official said that since 1 November 2022, more than 10,000 cases of infection have been found in Chongqing, and the actual number of infections may be even higher. Officials said that the square cabin hospital located in Yubei District, which was rebuilt from the Chongqing International Expo Center, will be opened, and it is expected to accommodate 12,000 people.
Some people in Chongqing released a video showing that the isolation point in Chongqing was suspected to be insufficient, and he was sent to the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp in Beipei District, which is a notorious labour camp.
Chongqing citizen: "Isolate us and send us to the prison. This is the Xishanping Forced Labor Brigade. It is full of bunk beds, sleeping 7 or 8 people in a room. There are also covi-positive patients and covi-positive patients locked up together. This is why the government tricked us into isolation."
Prior to this, there have been many card punching accidents in Chongqing. There are even pregnant women who have miscarriages due to delays in seeking medical treatment.
Commentators believe that CCP China's epidemic prevention system is currently in the most chaotic state.
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Nucleic acid testing for all employees suspended in many places, people worry about authorities setting up new traps
After the announcement of the 20 new anti-epidemic regulations of the CCP, many places adjusted the anti-epidemic policies and stopped nucleic acid testing for all employees,but some people were panicked and still dare not go out. , There was a long queue at the testing point at their own expense. Analysis pointed out that the CCP's policies are chaotic, making people at a loss and worried about falling into the trap set by the authorities.
At present, many places such as Shanghai, Hainan, Shaanxi, Fujian, and Jiangxi have adjusted their epidemic prevention policies and announced the cancellation or suspension of nucleic acid testing for all employees.
Among them, the normalized testing points in Shijiazhuang, Hebei have been closed one after another, and the nucleic acid testing of all employees has also been cancelled. Some communities in Shijiazhuang have notified the resumption of work, production and school, open all public places, and no longer check nucleic acid certificates.
Shijiazhuang epidemic prevention personnel: "If you don't check your nucleic acid now, it will not be affected wherever you go. Don't queue up, don't queue up."
However some people in Shijiazhuang are afraid because of the cancellation of nucleic acid testing for all employees. A netizen said: "I'm a little scared. In the future, I won't see nucleic acid testing points in public places, and the nucleic acid point will also be cancelled. I will test it at my own expense... Kindergartens and elementary schools have all been notified that they will start school, and they are suddenly released. Everyone dare not go."
Ms. Liu, a retired university teacher in mainland China, believes that the lockdown has lasted too long, and many people do not believe that the authorities will really let go, worrying about falling into a trap.
Ms. Liu, a retired university teacher in mainland China: "Since the outbreak of the epidemic, there has been a lockdown and nucleic acid testing. The sudden cancellation of mandatory nucleic acid testing and the reopening of schools have made people uncomfortable with this major change."
Huang Ziyin, a freelance media person in the United States: "He is afraid that the strict prevention and control policy will come back again. If you go out to participate in normal social life now, you will be sent to the shelter, and the inside of your home will be disinfected, and then all the things in your home will be destroyed. It was a mess, and all the dogs and cats in your family were killed. What a disaster it would be to a person's life."
Screenshots circulated on the Internet show that in a group of nearly 100 parents, students did not go to school for various reasons. One parent said everyone was watching.
Huang Ziyin: "Many schools are terrible. If something goes wrong in the school, the whole school is sealed off. The parents don't know where the children are taken. So the parents are very scared, so they would rather not let them go." They go to school."
Huang Ziyin, a freelance media person in the United States, said that the CCP has been spreading terror about the virus for too long, and its policies are too chaotic. There are no clear regulations on whether the epidemic prevention policy has changed, so ordinary people have no idea.
Ms. Liu said that the secondary disasters caused by the CCP’s clean-up are too numerous to describe, and large-scale nucleic acid testing is costing people and money, and putting huge pressure on local finances.
Ms. Liu: "Now Shijiazhuang is the first to cancel the mandatory nucleic acid test. It may be a pilot, and not only Shijiazhuang, but also some other areas are not mandatory to do nucleic acid, but the people have to pay for it at their own expense."
However, some people in Shijiazhuang said that most companies require a 24 or 48-hour nucleic acid certificate, and now they can only go to the hospital to queue up for nucleic acid testing, which is more time-consuming and laborious.
People in Shijiazhuang: "The First Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University is in front of you. Let's take a look at the queue. It is about 800 meters or even 1,000 meters. If you come to do nucleic acid after work, I believe you will have to queue for an hour. .”
The China Youth Daily said on the 15th that the nucleic acid testing project of the Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University has expired in the next 7 days. Many hospitals that do not need to make an appointment for the time being also need to queue up. A resident said that after waiting for more than two hours in the second hospital, it was not yet his turn.
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CCP using various control methods to toss Chinese civilians
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Huang Ziyin said that the CCP management at all levels are using their own set of control methods to toss the common people.
Huang Ziyin: "Even if the epidemic prevention is loosened, social life, whether it is study or work, may not be able to recover completely and quickly in a short period of time. This recovery period may still take several months. If you dare to move, ordinary people are afraid that if they move, what will happen? In the end, it is the ordinary people who suffer, and the safest way is to stay at home."
The CCP’s official media admitted on the 15th that after some communities in Shijiazhuang were opened, some people traveled, some waited and watched, and some prepared medicines, and they were still waiting to adapt to the new changes.
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Shijiazhuang students collectively refuse to go back to school? Parents broke the news: Received hints from the school
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石家庄学生集体拒返校？家长爆料：接到学校暗示
The Shijiazhuang authorities of the Communist Party of China ordered the relaxation of some epidemic prevention measures, and the Internet hyped a "popular rebound" and students "collectively refused to return to school." However, some parents broke the news on the Internet. While notifying the resumption of classes, the school secretly "persuaded" them not to return to school.
On 11 November 2022, the Chinese Communist Party announced the so-called "Twenty Measures for Optimizing Epidemic Prevention." The Shijiazhuang authorities immediately "responded positively" by announcing partial relaxation of epidemic prevention measures, including "forced" students to return to school to resume classes, cancellation of nucleic acid testing for all staff, and acquiescence in the unblocking of "low-risk communities".
Subsequently, the news that students in Shijiazhuang "collectively asked for leave and refused to return to school" spread on the Internet for days. There is also public opinion that the citizens of Shijiazhuang are "worried that the government will lie down and dare not go to the streets" and so on.
However, on 14 November 2022, a blog post was circulated on Weibo, showing that students in some schools "refusing to return to school" may be due to the unified arrangement of the school.
The author of the blog post claimed to be the parent of a junior high school student in Chang'an District, Shijiazhuang City. The article stated that it is a good thing for students to return to school to study, but it is reported on the Internet that students "all ask for leave" and refuse to return to school, which is very abnormal. He said that he originally wanted to send his child back to school, but first the parent committee "dissuaded him" and then the head teacher called directly, so he had to cooperate with the school to "act" and not let the child go back to school.
This revelation resonated with some parents on Weibo. Some parents said: "Our kindergarten first notified you that you can return to the kindergarten, and also asked the parents for their opinions. They called again in the middle of the night and said that it is recommended not to come to the kindergarten. This wave of operations has been accepted."
Another netizen left a message: "A friend really said (the school) hinted secretly not to come." Another netizen said: "Yes, we also called the school to persuade us to leave. We really want to go back to school."
Another netizen said: "Yes, when Lanzhou was banned before, the teacher called the family committee and asked the family committee members to call the parents of their respective groups to not come to school the next day, and emphasized that the school must not stay. Any text notification."
Relevant revelations aroused heated discussions among netizens. Some people said that it seems that some people in Shijiazhuang really want to go back to school, and some people don't want to go back to school because they are afraid. The rumours on the Internet that "all leave" is not true.
Regarding why the school does not allow students to return to school, some netizens believe that it may be because of the pressure of "clearing zero". The school is worried about infection and does not want to take responsibility, so it deceives the up and down against the policy. Some netizens also believe that it may be that the CCP authorities did not want to relax the epidemic prevention, so they deliberately created panic, manipulated "public opinion", and took the opportunity to continue to maintain the blockade.
Prior to this, the Chongqing Municipal Authorities had hyped up the "spontaneous silence of residents" to circumvent the "Twenty Measures" to seal the city in disguise.
In addition to requiring students to return to school, Shijiazhuang has previously announced the cancellation of nucleic acid testing for all staff. On 14 November, the community and street nucleic acid testing sites in the city were closed, but the regulations on nucleic acid testing in public transportation and public places were not canceled at the same time, which caused public grievances. The authorities also ordered some testing sites to reopen on 15 November 2022.
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Trump announces running for president in 2024 after filing paperwork with the FEC on 15 November 2022
Donald Trump has officially announced he is running for president for the third time in 2024 in a speech attacking President Biden, the 'radical left' Democrats and their record on the economy and the world stage in the two years since he left office.
The former president defied Republican critics and those who blamed him for the GOP's disappointing midterms to go full steam on stating his intent to be back in the Oval Office to 'drain the swamp' with the country 'being destroyed before our very lives'.
"I order to make America great and glorious again, I am today announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," he confirmed to huge cheers before laying into the FBI raid, the "fake dossier", the "deep state".
"This will not be my campaign. This will be our campaign all together. Because the only force strong enough to defeat the massive corruption we are up against is you, the American people.," he said while celebrating the last six years of the MAGA movement and the battle against Washington.
After months of speculation and with mounting legal battles, he filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission just moments before he began his speech to fired-up supporters at Mar-a-Lago where he said America "can't take" four more years of Biden.
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Trump blames Biden for record inflation, border crisis, flood of fentanyl from China, says the U.S. "can't take" four more years of Biden
"America's comeback starts right now", he said, and then went on to attack Biden for record inflation, 'falling asleep at global conferences' and making the U.S. 'detestable' with the rest of the world. He celebrated Nancy Pelosi getting "fired" with Republicans on the cusp of taking the House majority.
He said Afghanistan was the most "embarrassing moment in the history of our country" and tore into the Biden administration border policies that have led to an "invasion" and fentanyl 'pouring' into our country.
'We are here tonight to declare that it does not have to be this way - it does not have to be this way - two years ago we were a great nation and soon we will be a great nation again,' he added.
'The only force strong enough to defeat the massive corruption we are up against it's you, the American people', he went on. 'It's not about politics, it's about love for this great nation'.
In a line he has used before, he told the audience, 'I didn't need this. I had an easy life'.
Trump also threw his weight behind Herschel Walker ahead of his Georgia run-off on 6 December 2022 against Raphael Warnock for the final Senate seat up for grabs.
Trump's announcement comes the same day as a new poll showed the ex-president with a commanding lead in a field of potential 2024 candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has yet to rule out his own White House campaign against Trump.
The former president has responded by calling the governor 'disloyal,' 'average' and 'Ron DeSanctimonious' amid a flurry of other insults.
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DeSantis is unfazed by Trump's criticism
Asked about that criticism on Tuesday, DeSantis suggested he was unfazed - but went out of his way to target 'the corporate media' more directly than the former president.
'When you're leading, when you're getting things done, yeah you take incoming fire - that's just the nature of it,' DeSantis said.
'I roll out of bed in the morning, I've got corporate media outlets just having a spasm over the fact that I'm getting up in the morning. And it's constantly attacking, and this is just what's happened.'
He continued, 'I think what you learn is, all that's just noise. And really what matters is - are you leading, are you getting in front of issues, are you delivering results for people and are you standing up for folks? And if you do that, then none of that stuff matters.'
But DeSantis added as a final jab, 'At the end of the day, I would just tell people to check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night.'
Hours before the former president took the stage, advisers and allies like Jason Miller, Boris Epshteyn and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell milled about the room.
Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich was also present.
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Miller: Trump can get the economy back on track
Jason Miller told reporters that Trump would be laying out "all the campaign mechanics" on Tuesday night.
"Right now this is his vision, this is what his message is," Miller said. "Tonight and this week is really about his message.'
He added that President Joe Biden, who is assumed to be running for re-election but has not yet declared, is not making a splash among his own party with the idea of another campaign.
'Democrats aren't too excited about his prospects, and you have President Trump with a strong clear vision to get the economy back on track,' Miller said.
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Lindell: Trump is the greatest U.S. president of contemporary times
Lindell fielded questions from outlets including DailyMail.com just before 6 pm on Tuesday - three hours before the show was set to start.
'If he said now - announces he's running, 70 percent of America wants him to run for president because he's still our real president,' the entrepreneur said.
Asked about DeSantis' potential challenge to Trump, Lindell scoffed, "Are you for real?"
'If says he's running - 100% even DeSantis, I believe, will say yes, I endorse him, because it's a waste of time for anybody to run against the greatest president we've ever had,' he later said.
Lindell, a prominent promoter of Trump's 2020 election fraud claims, called Republicans' failure to clinch a red wave in the 2022 midterm elections 'a joke' and a 'set up' when asked by DailyMail.com.
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Lindell: The Democratic sweep of the Senate is evidence of a rigged election
Lindell expressed that he believed the Democratic sweep of the Senate was evidence of another rigged election.
The GOP's lacklustre performance in the 2022 midterm elections gave some in the party pause about Trump's Tuesday announcement even before the event started.
Establishment figures, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, turned against the former president for endorsing fringe-right candidates who failed to gain traction with Independent and moderate voters in key races across the country.
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47 percent of Republican voters want Trump to re-run for president
However, 47 percent of likely Republican voters still want Trump at the top of the ticket, according to a new post-election poll from Politico/Morning Consult taken between 10 and 14 November 2022.
DeSantis comes in second, trailing Trump by double-digits with 33 percent of the hypothetical vote.
Trump's former Vice President Mike Pence was polling at just 5 percent - with a number of prominent Republicans hovering around 1 percent.
Although the performance of the Republican Party in the U.S. midterm elections is not as good as expected by the outside world, it still does not extinguish Trump's enthusiasm for running for the election. He seems determined to avenge his loss to Biden in 2020.
See also: https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4124887, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11433639/Republicans-turn-Trump-Former-chief-staff-says-Republican-lose-2024.html
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Trump announces his candidacy for 2024 presidential election: There will be no wars in my presidency
At 9 pm Eastern time on 15 November, former US President Trump delivered a speech at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, officially announcing his participation in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Trump said that during his presidency, both the CCP and Russian regimes were constrained, and North Korea has not fired a single long-range missile since the summit with Kim Jong-un.
Former US President Trump: "To make America great and glorious again, I announce tonight my candidacy for President of the United States."
TRUMP: "China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are all constrained. My opponents describe me as a warmonger, just a horrible person who will immediately go to war. Under the leadership of Biden and the Radical Democrats America is being ridiculed, teased, and knocked to the ground like never before. But I'm here tonight to announce that America doesn't have to be like this, it doesn't have to be like this. Two years ago we were a great country, and soon We will be a great country again."
Ref: https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/11/16/a103576070.html
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The Republicans are only one seat away from winning the House of Representatives, victory is in sight
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The Associated Press reported at 3.15 am ET Wednesday that Republicans had won 217 House seats, Democrats had 205 (207 according to CNN), and 218 is needed for a majority.
Voice of America reported that Biden also said at the press conference of the G20 in Indonesia, "I think we will be very close in the House of Representatives. I think it will be very close, but I don't think we will win."
Mail-in ballots need to be counted slowly, and it will be days before Republicans officially gain 218 seats but the Republican majority in the House of Representatives may allow them to launch investigations into the missteps of the Biden-Harris administration during the past two years, such as the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan last year and the flood of thousands of migrants into the United States along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives would allow it to negotiate with Senate Democrats and the White House on major issues including the government budget, climate change policy and continued aid to Ukraine.
Most U.S. political analysts expect Republicans to gain between 219 and 222 House seats and Democrats between 216 and 213 when the remaining votes in the pending House contest are counted, well below the 30-seat lead Republican leaders had before the election expected.
"We beat the odds," Biden told reporters on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Cambodia. "I feel good and I look forward to the years ahead."
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U.S. Congressional Hearing: The CCP strictly controls information while clearing covid Zero
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On 2 April 2022, China's "Caixin" magazine investigated the long-form report of Shanghai's largest nursing home for concealing the deaths of the covid epidemic. It was deleted due to censorship – this case was specifically raised by participating experts at a hearing held by the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC).
On 15 November, the US Congress CECC held a hearing entitled "The Chinese Communist Party's Zero-COVID Policy and Its Authoritarian Public Health Control". Some experts at the meeting said that while implementing the covid eradication policy, the CCP strictly controls the dissemination of epidemic information, strictly censors traditional media and online social media, and severely suppresses individuals and behaviour that spread the epidemic and block information.
Senator Jeff Merkley, chairman of the CECC, said at the hearing that “over the past year, the intensity of (the CCP’s) political (control) and social control has shown itself in the implementation of a draconian COVID-zero policy. Most obviously. (The CCP’s) policy of trying to attain zero-covid comes at the expense of fundamental rights, and may not be sustainable, or even counterproductive in protecting overall public health.”
Speaking at the hearing, senior Rep. James McGovern, co-chair of the CECC, said that although people saw "anti-Xi Jinping banners on the Sitong Bridge in Beijing and anti-(epidemic) blockades in Lhasa, Protests, but because of the CCP’s censorship system, the suffering of millions of people and the voices of dissidents have not been heard.”
Before the "Twentieth National Congress" of the Communist Party of China in October this year, Peng Zaizhou (Peng Lifa) dressed as a construction worker hung two banners on the Sitong Bridge in the northern section of the Third Ring Road in Haidian District, Beijing. The banner reads: "No nucleic acid test but food, No blockade but freedom, No lies but dignity, No Cultural Revolution but reform, No leaders but votes, No slaves, be citizens";
Ms. Sarah Cook, director of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan issues of the well-known think tank "Freedom House" in Washington, who participated in the CECC hearing, said in her testimony that many Chinese citizens were suppressed for spreading information about the epidemic, and some were sentenced to prison terms for up to 8 years.
"In March 2021, retired professor Chen Zhaozhi was tried in Beijing for posting online that 'Wuhan virus is not a Chinese virus, but a CCP virus'. Chen suffered from various diseases, but was refused bail."
Cook said China suppressed public protests against the zero-covid policy, including information about food shortages. "Some local authorities have warned residents against posting information about the outbreak online."
"In January 2022, citizen journalist and Falun Gong practitioner Xu Nayin sent photos and information about COVID-19 to an overseas Chinese-language website and was sentenced to 8 years in prison, the longest known record for sharing information about the pandemic to date."
In May 2022, a report released by the "Falun Dafa Information Center" showed that in the past two years, during the covid pandemic, the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong has intensified dramatically; Millions of Falun Gong practitioners remain at risk of arbitrary detention, torture, and death in custody.
Cook also stated in his testimony, "In the autumn of 2022, ethnic minority areas such as Xinjiang and Tibet experienced severe and prolonged covid blockades, accompanied by reports of hunger."
"(A few weeks ago,) a 3-year-old boy in Zhengzhou, Henan Province was poisoned by carbon monoxide, and his father was prevented from taking him to the emergency doctor because of the blockade in the community. The father accused the zero-oovid policy of indirectly killing his son. Anger and street protests ignited but the news was censored within days."
In October 2022, "Freedom House" released the "Global Internet Freedom Annual Report", and China was listed as the least free country on the Internet for the eighth consecutive year.
Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, said at the hearing that the CCP’s zero-covid epidemic policy has further intensified (the CCP’s) control over Chinese society.
The health code system gives the government access to "personal information, including an individual's covi test results, cell phone location tracking, government-issued identification numbers, and their vaccination status," he said in testimony.
“The surveillance state is so pervasive and efficient that a resident who has just bought a fever-reducing medicine at their local pharmacy may receive a notification from the government the next day asking them to test for the coronavirus.”
In response to the CCP’s epidemic control and information suppression, Cook called on the U.S. government to continue to publicly and privately request the release of imprisoned (citizen) journalists and freedom of speech activists, including Zhang Zhan, Fang Bin, Xu Zhiyong, etc. in bilateral meetings. He also called on the U.S. government to implement targeted sanctions, such as travel bans and asset freezes on individual CCP officials.
Chinese citizen journalist Fang Bin once reported on the scene of multiple deaths from the covid epidemic in a hospital in Wuhan, which attracted international attention. According to reports, Fang Bin is a Falun Gong practitioner who has been detained by the CCP several times. In February 2022, Fang Bin's case was included in CECC's political prisoner database and received special attention.
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"Rare Anti-Communist Case" is Twitter hot discussion topic, Guangzhou clearing detonates public complaints
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Some people in the Haizhu district of China's Guangzhou city took to the streets to confront the authorities because of dissatisfaction with the new crown restrictions. Since the beginning of this year, conflicts caused by the the dynamic clearing policy (zero-covid policy) have occurred across China. Observers on Twitter believe that this is another incident where people are dissatisfied with the authorities because of the epidemic control, and it is also a rare case of resistance to the CCP in China.
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Short videos posted and circulated by netizens on Chinese social media showed hundreds of demonstrators taking to the streets on Monday night ( "Unblock, unblock, unblock" slogan. Some demonstrators also scuffled with epidemic prevention staff wearing white protective clothing. The police dispatched a number of police cars to the scene for vigilance, and some demonstrators threw objects at the police.
“Very rare case of resistance to the CCP,” Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a U.S. political risk consulting firm, tweeted.
Gordon Chang, an American writer and commentator, said: "China may explode. As the Chinese begin to break free from the Communist Party's control, what happens or doesn't happen next will concern everyone on the planet."
Guangzhou, the epicenter of the new round of outbreaks in China, reported as many as 5,124 new local cases on Monday. The epidemic has also led to the cancellation of local international sports events.
The venue of the 2022 badminton year-end finals has been moved from Guangzhou to Bangkok, Thailand. In an official statement, the tournament organizers said the move was due to "various challenges posed by the current pandemic situation".
Residents of guangzhou reportedly tear down covid barriers & march against covid restrictions
very rare instance of resistance against the ccp pic.twitter.com/fnS6NaKLJB
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 14, 2022
Writer and Chinese sports industry expert Mark Dreyer analyzed this: "With so much talk about relaxation and 'sports groups' being able to come to China without being quarantined, this news came. .It is true that Guangzhou is a mess right now, but the number of covid cases is rising all over the country, so expect to see more of this happening elsewhere.”
Strict covid restrictions not only sparked group protests like those in Guangzhou, but also limited media coverage of these events. The Foreign Correspondents' Club in China (FCCC) released a report on 31 January 2022, mentioning that since the outbreak of the covid epidemic, the CCP government has refused to issue new journalist visas on the grounds of epidemic prevention, causing many media outlets to face manpower shortages. Journalists and their sources frequently face official or police harassment, questioning, and cyberattacks.
Don Weinland, The Economist's China correspondent, wrote in a series of tweets: "Many videos of protests in Guangzhou circulating. Difficult to ascertain exactly what happened. Many people outside China don't know the key thing is how difficult it is to report events like this."
He pointed out that these obstacles include: fewer and fewer journalists in China; journalists need to be quarantined for many days after arriving in the city where the incident occurred; traffic to the outbreak site was cut off; and the local government used the covid control measures to threaten journalists.
"The upshot of all of this is that many of the world's largest cities are completely devoid of international news coverage as they experience extremely chaotic events," he continued.
"This is not a drawback of China's zero-covid policy, but a feature. The covid blockade is actually an information blockade."
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Zhang Wenhong's latest voice: Getting out of the epidemic depends on technology
Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor : Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/11/16/a103575884.html / Image : On 14 November 2022, Zhang Wenhong, a Shanghai epidemic prevention expert, said, "We know very well that technology will eventually get us out of the epidemic." (Synthesis of video screenshots)
Shanghai epidemic prevention expert Zhang Wenhong said a few days ago that since the promulgation of Article 20 of China's epidemic prevention policy, many people expect China to get out of the epidemic. He said bluntly, "We know very well that technology is the ultimate way to get out of the epidemic." When Zhang Wenhong made his remarks, the CCP's eradication of the epidemic prevention policy was causing new confusion among the people.
On 14 November, at the 2022 Shanghai International Biomedical Industry Week Conference, Zhang Wenhong made the above statement. On the 16th, the video of Zhang Wenhong's speech appeared on Weibo's hot search, causing controversy.
"Old Xu Shi Commentary": "Dr. Zhang, who had been silent for a while, couldn't hold back and came out to speak again. Everyone scolded him and praised him... From the data in Guangzhou, there is no serious case of more than 30,000 infected people, let alone asymptomatic deaths accounted for 97%, but more than 4,000 medical personnel were invested. What is science? These data are science. Viruses are changing, Omicron is no longer Delta, and the response must keep pace with the times , cannot remain unchanged, this is the scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts.”
"Ln2022": "Self-relief and medicine, otherwise the economy will collapse if it keeps blocking it like this. It can be said that Shanghai has regressed for at least five years since the epidemic. It is still unknown whether it will recover in the next five years."
As early as July 2021r, Zhang Wenhong put forward the idea of "co-existence with the virus", but was besieged by the official media. After that, he kept a low profile and no longer publicly mentioned the saying of "co-existence with the virus".
In April 2022, the Shanghai authorities abandoned the "precise epidemic prevention" model advocated by Zhang Wenhong and other epidemic prevention professionals, and launched a campaign to lock down the city, causing serious damage to the economy and people's livelihood, and having adverse effects both at home and abroad.
After the end of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, due to economic pressure, the authorities on the one hand claimed to insist on dynamic clearing, and on the other hand issued a new 20 epidemic prevention measures to release a signal to relax epidemic prevention and control.
On 14 November 2022 when Zhang Wenhong spoke, Zhang Boli, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in an interview with Science and Technology Daily, "From the law of virus evolution, it is speculated that the probability of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, covi) becoming stable and its virulence weakening is high."
"Current clinical practice shows that the proportion of severe illness and death caused by covi is very low." Zhang Boli said that the 20 epidemic prevention measures are very necessary to ensure economic development and people's living needs.
However, due to the contradictory epidemic prevention policies issued by the CCP, new confusion has been caused. For example, Shijiazhuang, Hebei recently ordered the adjustment of epidemic prevention policies, canceling the nucleic acid testing of all employees, closing all nucleic acid testing sampling points, forcing kindergartens to resume classes, acquiescing in the unblocking of low-risk communities, etc. However, local public places still have to check nucleic acid certificates, and people cannot travel normally without nucleic acid testing, causing dissatisfaction. Authorities were forced to order the reopening of testing sites.
Hu Ping, editor-in-chief of the "Beijing Spring" magazine and a commentator on current affairs in the United States, wrote an article on Radio Free Asia, "Currently, the CCP's dynamics are cleared. It can be said that it is difficult to ride a tiger. It is a dilemma. Whether it is released or not will lead to serious problems."
Hu Ping said that if there is no problem once it is released, it proves that dynamic clearing is redundant, and it is pure nonsense. But if it is released, the consequences will be very serious, and the epidemic will immediately usher in a major outbreak, the hospital will be overwhelmed, and many people will die, which means that the previous dynamic clearing is useless.
He said that the problem now is that all countries in the world have opened up, but China is still closed and clearing covid; people all over the world are not afraid of infection, but the Chinese are still afraid of infection. This shows that the CCP's dynamic clearing is a misplaced use of power.
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U.S. officials' preliminary investigation : Missile attack in Poland that caused 2 deaths in Poland may be launched by Ukraine intercepting Russian air strikes
Image : Three U.S. officials said on condition of anonymity that the missile that hit Poland was suspected to have been fired by the Ukrainian military (Reuters)
Przewodów in Poland was attacked by missiles on 15 November 2022, killing 2 people. This incident has attracted international attention, and the truth is still under investigation. Three anonymous US officials revealed, preliminary findings concluded that the missile that hit Poland was "an anti-aircraft missile fired by the Ukrainian armed forces in response to Russian air strikes."
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, US President Biden held an emergency roundtable meeting with G7 and NATO leaders earlier and pointed out that "judging from the trajectory map of the missile, it is unlikely that it was launched from Russia, but let us wait and see."
Three U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that a preliminary investigation showed that the missile landed in Poland when Ukrainian forces fired it at an incoming Russian missile on Tuesday when Ukrainian infrastructure was attacked by Russia's indiscriminate bombing, Ukraine still retains some Soviet-era and Russian-made weapons stocks, including the S-300 air defense missile system.
Biden was in Bali, Indonesia, to attend the G20 summit. Earlier today, he called Polish President Andrzej Duda to express his condolences to the victims of the incident and promised the full support and assistance of the United States. Poland investigated the incident and reaffirmed the United States' strong commitment to NATO.
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