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The sequelae of the CCP epidemic caused many people to die suddenly
Reporters : Xiong Bin and Huang Yuning / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/12/a103623397.html / Image : Video Screenshot
Over the past month since the CCP’s liberalization, the epidemic has exploded across the country, and the death toll has skyrocketed. Recently, many people have reported that they are suffering from various sequelae. Many young people died suddenly.
Recently, some mainland netizens posted that many young people died suddenly after exercising or taking a bath after recovering from the epidemic. On the 11th, a video posted on the Internet showed that a month after being infected with the epidemic, a man in Beijing felt that his body had completely recovered. As a result, he suddenly fell to the ground before finishing a game, which is said to be sudden cardiac death.
A video posted on the Internet: "People are rescuing people now. Where are you? 120, 120. He fell forward, forward, and suddenly. He fell facing forward. His face did not touch the ground, but his shoulders landed on the ground anyway."
Ms. Xiao, a Beijing resident: "When infected with this disease, the sudden death is usually elderly. People with underlying diseases have a relatively high mortality rate, even young people. They exercise vigorously. Now it is publicized like this, so don't let it go too far. Get tired and take a shower right away."
Some mainland netizens posted that after diagnosed covi-positive, he developed insomnia, chest tightness, shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat and other sequelae, and worried that he would die suddenly.
Ms. Sun, a citizen of Shanghai: "After my impotence passed, I didn't fully recover. I didn't sleep well, I had headaches, my memory was bad, and I was uncomfortable. I heard that it would affect fertility and be inherited. Sudden death is very scary. Really, of course old age. People have many underlying diseases, but what a pity for children and young people to die suddenly."
The whole family of Ms. Shi, a citizen from Jiangsu, was infected with the epidemic one after another. Two relatives coughed for more than ten days.
Ms. Shi, a citizen of Jiangsu: "It has been a month since I tested covi-positive. My back is sore, I feel unspeakably uncomfortable, and my stomach is hurting. It takes six to seven hours to go to the hospital to get a water treatment. It was in the era of war and chaos, and the hospital I went to was full of coughing, and most of the CT scans had developed pneumonia."
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Kicking China's epidemic cover "Bloomberg": No data reported for 3 days
Reporter : Yang Fuyi / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4183561 / Image : The outbreak of the epidemic in China has been kicked out by the US media, and the daily infection data has not been updated for 3 consecutive days. The picture shows that Shanghai Changhai Hospital is crowded with many elderly people who are suspected of having symptoms of covid. (Associated Press)
Bloomberg reported on 12 January 2023 that CCP China has not updated the daily infection data of covid for 3 consecutive days, and the information vacuum is positive. The cover-up of the real impact of the epidemic in China has raised global concerns that the rapid spread of the epidemic may lead to the emergence of mutant viruses. The last time Chinese authorities released a daily update on the number of infections in Wuhan was on Monday.
The report pointed out that the latest report on the Wuhan pneumonia infection released by China on Monday included about 14,000 new confirmed cases, an increase of more than 1,100 cases from the previous day, and a total of 7,557 severe cases and the data is considered meaningless.
According to the report, the CCP authorities have not officially notified that they will stop publishing relevant data but health officials said last month that after the covi (short for covid virus, novel coronavirus) infection was adjusted to "Class B and B control", the frequency of data release will eventually return to once a month but did not specify the specific date of the adjustment.
"Bloomberg News" called the China CDC and the disease control department of the National Health Commission several times,but the calls were not answered.
After the sudden reversal of China's epidemic prevention policy last month, the lack of relevant epidemic statistics has raised concerns that the rapid spread of the covid epidemic may lead to virus mutations. Hence, Japan, South Korea and other countries that have introduced new epidemic prevention restrictions on tourists from China.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 January 2023 once again called on China to provide more epidemic data, and emphasized the need to share information about the spread of viral strains and whether the epidemic in urban and rural areas is rising or declining.
Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO's public health emergencies program, said at a press conference that the WHO believes "the death toll in China has been seriously underreported," again criticizing China for not sharing reliable information about the outbreak. Lane blamed Beijing's narrow definition of a covid death, noting that "doctors in the public health system need to be encouraged to report these cases" rather than deterred.
At present, the number of people infected with the epidemic in China has exploded, counting in the hundreds of millions, and the hospitals are overcrowded. However, according to CCP China's official report data: in the past month (since December 2022), a total of more than 120,000 cases were diagnosed, and only 37 people died of covid. This makes both the Chinese people and the international community feel unbelievable.
The Wall Street Journal pointed out that China's statistics on the death toll of covid cases are so low that it does not conform to the epidemiological prediction model, while the intensive care units in various parts of China are full, the crematoriums are overwhelmed, and some people have publicly stated that their relatives are infected with covi. The number of death cases in China's official statistics is very different.
The Washington Post reported based on satellite images of many places in China and the descriptions of interviewees that queuing up at crematoria to wait for relatives to be cremated is a phenomenon that has occurred in various places recently, reflecting that the real scale of the epidemic in China is very different from the information released by the government.
Voice of America (VOA) reported that Zhang Lifan, a well-known Chinese public intellectual, quoted the relatives of the deceased in China to reveal, "Now (all over China) hospitals are publicly falsifying and forcing you to cooperate in the falsification. Are you trying to make trouble? On the death certificate, if you write covid, the disease needs to be verified by the hospital, and if verified, it must be reported to the municipal health commission, the city must report to the province, and the province must report to the national health commission. Do you want your mother to be cremated?"
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Expansion of Tianjin Funeral Parlour, Harbin builds 20 large sheds for corpse storage (Video)
Editor : Jing Zhongming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/12/a103623676.html / Images : Left picture: On 7 January 2023, the expansion site of Tianjin No. 1 Funeral Home. Right: On 11 January 2023, Harbin Tianheyuan Funeral Home built a shed to store corpses. (Internet video screenshot)
CCP experts declared that "the peak of urban infection has passed," and so on. However, it is reported on the Internet that many cities are expanding funeral parlours on a large scale, which seems to be preparing for larger-scale deaths. At the same time, videos of crowds of funeral parlours around the country continue to spread.
A few days ago, a video [Video (2)] was uploaded on the Internet that was said to be the expansion of Tianjin No. 1 Funeral Home on 7 January 2023. In the video, dozens of workers are busy on the construction site. There are at least three cranes on the site, and the foundation of the building has been laid.
A man with a Tianjin accent introduced that now the shelter hospital is no longer being built, and the nucleic acid test is no longer done, and this time the crematorium is being built. He said it was unknown what was being built, possibly a morgue.
Another video [Video (3)] shows that the Tianheyuan Funeral Parlour in Harbin is under intense construction, with upper and lower shelves being built on both sides of a temporary shed. According to the worker who took the video, there are more than 20 large sheds in total, and each shed has to build shelves with upper and lower bunks to hold the corpses, and more than 100 carpenters are rushing to work. He said that now there are so many dead bodies that there is no place to put them. "How many people will die?"
According to visual estimates, each greenhouse can accommodate hundreds of remains.
As early as December 2022 in Beijing, news spread that the government ordered the construction of additional crematoriums. A few days ago, multiple videos were released showing that at least two square cabin hospitals in Beijing are being converted into crematoria. In one of the videos, workers claim that a quarantine shelter will be equipped with more than 100 cremators.
Regarding the number of deaths from the epidemic in big cities, Voice of America quoted Mr. Z from Tianjin on 7 January 2023 as saying that his friend who works in a funeral home in Tianjin estimated that from 12 December 2022 to the present, 100,000 deaths in Tianjin is a small number and the death peak has not yet come.
The total population of Tianjin is about 11 million. If the above estimates are true, then as of now, the death rate in Tianjin is about 1%.
The total population of Beijing is about twice that of Tianjin. Netizens estimate based on the full cremation capacity of more than a dozen crematoriums in Beijing that the death rate in Beijing is roughly the same. If this death rate is used to estimate the number of people who died from the epidemic nationwide, the number will be very alarming.
However, medical conditions vary across China, infection rates are different, epidemic strains are not the same, and the death rate may also vary. However, online videos show that funeral parlours in cities around the world are "overwhelmed with corpses", and the number of funerals in rural areas is dense, showing that the death toll is increasing sharply. They are the same on this point.
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42-year-old female Chinese medicine expert in Tianjin died of illness, Zhong Nanshan was scolded again
Editor : Zheng Gusheng / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/12/a103623620.html / Image : The outbreak in China continues. On January 10, 2023, Li Xiaojiang, Secretary of the General Party Branch of the Oncology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, passed away "due to illness". (Pixabay/Network Pictures/NTD Synthesis)
The epidemic in CCP China continues to break out, and young and middle-aged people have also begun to die in large numbers. The death of a 42-year-old female Party member expert at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine "due to illness and treatment was ineffective", reminding netizens of Zhong Nanshan, a CCP expert who touted the traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen.
On 12 January 2023, the obituary of Li Xiaojiang, Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of the Oncology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was posted on the Internet. She was 42 years old.
The obituary only stated that "the treatment was ineffective due to the disease", but did not specify the specific disease. This has almost become the "standard statement" of the CCP's official cover-up of death from the epidemic.
Li Xiaojiang's obituary also lists the positions she held and the honours she received during her lifetime, as many as a dozen, highlighting her status as an expert in traditional Chinese medicine.
However, the obituary omitted Li Xiaojiang's status as "Secretary of the Party Branch of the Oncology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital", and only generally stated that she was "loyal to the cause of the party" throughout her life.
The sudden death of a 42-year-old Chinese medicine expert has attracted the attention of netizens. Some netizens commented "Why don't you take traditional Chinese medicine to save your life?" insinuating the "Chinese medicine to fight the epidemic" that the CCP advocates. Some netizens also thought of a farce about the traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen, and began to mock CCP experts Zhong Nanshan and Wu Yiling.
Last month, a Weibo user "Nie Shengzhe 2023" forwarded the obituary of Sichuan University alumnus Wang Gang's death from the epidemic. It mentioned that Wang Gang was holding a Lianhua Qingwen capsule before his death and sent it to Moments. The alumni had already sent the photo to Zhong Nanshan and Wu Yiling, "Thanks for their outstanding contributions to the health of Sichuan University alumni".
The Weibo went viral. Recently, Yiling Pharmaceutical, which produces Lianhua Qingwen, sent a lawyer's letter to "Nie Shengzhe 2023", asking it to delete "infringing remarks" and make a public apology.
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Nine famous Chinese doctors die one after another
The epidemic spread in China, and a large number of celebrities died intensively. Nine well-known Chinese medicine practitioners have passed away one after another in the Chinese medicine field in mainland China recently. The 9 people are: Sun Dawu, an orthopedic specialist at Hunan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chen Huinong, a specialist in gynecology at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lu Deming, former dean of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Li Yefu, professor at Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wei Beihai, former Vice President of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fei Kaiyang, former Honorary Editor-in-chief of "Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine", Yang Wenshui, founder of Jishan Osteomyelitis Hospital in Shanxi Province, Shi Xiaomo, Director of Beijing Tongrentang Traditional Chinese Medicine Center, and Xu Fusong, Director of the Andrology Department of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
These people died between 5 December 2022 and 8 January 2023, and 8 of them were members of the Communist Party of China.
The Epoch Times once published an article saying that traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure in China's 5,000-year-old divine culture but the CCP is ideologically incompatible with traditional Chinese culture. Therefore, under its rule, traditional Chinese medicine has been mutated into nondescript.
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U.S., Taiwan sign deal to purchase 100 missiles
On 11 January 2023, the Republic of China (Taiwan)’s Ministry of National Defense announced the content of three Taiwan-US military purchase contracts. These include "F-16 Mechanism Air Weapons" worth more than NT$2.39 billion, consisting of 100 AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder air-to-air tactical missiles. These weapons will be delivered in batches, and it is estimated that they will all arrive in Taiwan by the end of this year and be deployed to the Taitung base.
According to sources from Taiwan’s military, this purchase was signed by the military delegation stationed in the United States and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and it is also one of the three arms sales to Taiwan announced by the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in September 2022.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said in an interview with a Washington think tank that day that only by strengthening self-defense capabilities, as well as economic and social resilience, can the Republic of China maintain democracy and freedom, ensure national security and regional peace and stability.
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Henan man collapsed in hospital and slapped himself
On 11 January 2023, a video of a man slapping himself in the corridor of a hospital in Xinxiang, Henan, went viral on Weibo.
Mainland media reported that the man's father was unwilling to seek treatment because he was worried about the high cost of treatment. After the man's persuasion failed, he broke down emotionally in the hospital corridor and slapped himself wildly, causing surrounding patients and their families to watch.
The incident aroused widespread sympathy among mainland netizens, and many felt the same way. They left messages expressing emotion: "It's really difficult for ordinary people", "It's so sad! I hope that parents and children are in good health, can afford to see a doctor, and get cured."
The CCP turned the medical system into an enterprise earlier, and made the hospitals that save lives and wounds also aim at making money. It has long been the norm for ordinary Chinese people to look down on doctors.
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Known as "free from all diseases", the chief instructor of Shaolin monks died suddenly after contracting the epidemic
Image : Shi Yanzhuang, the head coach of Shaolin monks, died suddenly of the epidemic. Earlier, he had led some monks to perform in variety and martial arts programs on domestic TV stations. (Video screenshot)
Shi Yanzhuang, head coach of the Shaolin Temple in Henan, died recently at the age of 59. It is reported that Shi Yanzhuang was infected with the CCP virus (covid virus, covi), fit (known verbally as "Yangkang") and suddenly died due to exercise. Ironically, Shi Yanzhuang once practiced "Bodhidharma's internal strength" before his death, and he was known as "free from all diseases".
On Wednesday (11 January), Shi Yanzhuang's disciple "Seven Little Heroes of Shaolin" announced on the Internet that Shi Yanzhuang had passed away at 10.55 am on 10 January
The outside world noticed that in the morning of 10 January, Shi Yanzhuang's social media account also updated the news, and wrote the following sentence: "Sword, joy, a ray of murderous intent. Wine glass, sadness, a sigh. A confidant, bold and unrestrained, with a deep love. I don’t know where to throw away my sword, but there is still a trace of murderous aura, lingering in the spring, and the wine cup is also gone, but I can’t get drunk..."
Image : Internet screenshot
If the above sentences were indeed written by Shi Yanzhuang on 10 January 2023, then it can also be said that this is his last pen.
Regarding the reason for Shi Yanzhuang's death, Shaolin Temple or the official did not make an explanation but his younger brother Shi Yanjia confirmed in response to inquiries from netizens that Shi Yanzhuang also passed away because of "covid" but Shi Yanjia did not comment on it nor further clarified.
Image : Internet screenshot
Netizens on social networking platforms revealed that after diagnosed covi-positive yet fit ( "Yangkang"), he went to exercise without sufficient self-cultivation, which led to his death.
Image : Internet screenshotOn 8 January, Shi Yanzhuang's Weibo account also posted a photo of him leading several apprentices to practice boxing. His post revealed that he himself found the "Turtle's Breathing Dafa" in the "Thousands of Prescriptions", "in order to calm the mind and activate the meridians, just to be able to walk towards life in the last breath, and slow down the rough mouth." gas……"
Netizens analyzed that these sentences seemed to reveal that he was having difficulty breathing at that time, and he was trying to find a way out by practicing the "Turtle's Breathing Dafa". In this regard, some netizens lamented, "No matter how skilled you are, you are afraid of getting a fever."
Image : Internet screenshot
The legendary life of Kung Fu master Shi Yanzhuang
According to public information, Shi Yanzhuang, whose common name is Zhao Shiyi, was born in a peasant family in Henan Province in 1964 and practiced martial arts since childhood. After the movie "Shaolin Temple" hit the air, he went to Shaolin Temple to learn Kung Fu, and he had been staying in Shaolin since then.
It is said that he has practiced Vajra Fist, Tiebushan, and Rouquan successively but what really made him famous is the so-called "Dharma Internal Strength". Some media once promoted it, claiming that this kind of internal strength "focuses on lung health" and has reached the point of "freedom from all diseases".
In fact, Shi Yanzhuang is not a simple Shaolin monk but a celebrity who has been active on the Internet and on the international stage for a long time. He once led a group of monks to perform the so-called "Shaolin martial arts" on major domestic radio stations and variety martial arts programs, including performing on the variety shows of the Chinese Communist Party's CCTV. In 2007, Putin invited Shi Yanzhuang to the presidential palace for a chat and tea.
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Shaolin Temple is commercialized
In fact, Shaolin Temple has long ceased to be a quiet place for Buddhist temples, and has been completely commercialized. Last year, news of a land auction in Zhengzhou, Henan Province rushed to the hot search. The reason is that it was Shaolin Temple, the "Sacred Land of Kung Fu", who finally got the land parcel, and it won it at a price of 452 million RMB.
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Scandals of CCP's appointed head of Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin: Embezzling Shaolin property and sex with women
The head of the Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin, is a political monk created by the CCP. He has a lot of official titles and has actual control over 18 companies.
In 2011, it was revealed that Shi Yongxin held at least US$3 billion in deposits overseas, had villas in the United States and Germany, and adopted female college students. In 2015, someone reported Shi Yongxin with his real name, embezzling the property of Shaolin Temple, playing with women and having an illegitimate daughter.
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The flower monks have long been drunk
After the news of the death of Shi Yanzhuang, the head coach of Shaolin who made a big splash on the stage, it aroused heated discussions among Chinese netizens on the Internet. Someone left a message: "These flower monks have long been drunk!" "It's Shi Yongxin's turn now!"
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Secondary infection in many places in China is serious, and people are rushing to buy immune proteins
Image : On 3 January 2023, the emergency department of a hospital in Beijing. (Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images)
The CCP declared that "the peak of urban infection has passed" in order to "maintain stability". However, various sources have shown that secondary infections in Beijing, Shijiazhuang and other cities have increased significantly, and the symptoms have become more serious. Chinese people are rushing to buy immune proteins.
A few days ago, a recording of a call between a doctor in Beijing and a family member in his hometown in Northeast China was posted on the Internet. The doctor revealed that his hospital was full of patients with secondary infections. These patients reported that the pain was 5 to 10 times that of the first infection. Moreover, the two infections destroyed the patient's immune system, and the patient relied on two injections of expensive immunoglobulins per day to support his life. The immunoglobulins on the market were scrambled, and it was hard to find.
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Statements of CCP experts are deceiving people for the sake of "maintaining stability"
He also repeatedly emphasized that the CCP media will not report on the tragic situation of these secondary infections, and that the statements made by CCP experts are all deceiving people by "maintaining stability".
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Media ignorance: Patient's immune system is damaged by secondary infection and many symptoms are more painful than the first
Ms. Li, a medical worker in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, also told Radio Free Asia that the number of secondary infections in Shijiazhuang has increased significantly, and it is more serious than the first infection. She also mentioned that I heard that secondary infections in other places are also very serious. One is the large number, and the other is that the patient's immune system is damaged, and many of the symptoms are more painful.
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Immune albumin out of stock in CCP China as the national blood bank is in emergency
In addition to immune globulin, many places across the country are also snapping up immune albumin on the black market. Immune albumin is a protein component extracted from human plasma, which has the function of improving human immunity and is mostly used for adjuvant therapy.
Zhang Ning, a member of the Chinese medical system, said that the black market is now rushing to buy oxygen machines and immune albumin because the national blood bank is in an emergency, and so the albumin is also out of stock. Mr. Huang, a Shanghai resident, said that the current price of immune albumin in hospitals is several hundred RMB but the price on the black market ranges from 1,500 to 5,000 RMB.
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Experts believe there may be several waves of infection peaks
In order to "maintain stability", the CCP has been emphasizing the time point of the so-called "infection peak". However, at present, multiple mutated strains are circulating in China at the same time. Many experts believe that there may be several waves of infection peaks.
On Tuesday (10 January 2023), Kunming issued an official document, clearly requesting that during the New Year period, it is necessary to seriously study the "diversification of virus strains" that may appear when returning to their hometowns.
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ICUs report symptoms of fecal incontinence in many covid patients of Beijing, Hangzhou
According to previous Internet news, people infected twice in Beijing and other places have symptoms of fecal incontinence, which is considered to be a typical symptom of infection with the XBB1.5 strain. Hangzhou state media also reported that the number of patients with diarrhoea in the local emergency department has increased dramatically. This is also suspected whether there is an epidemic of XBB1.5 strains in Hangzhou.
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Nanjing reports cases of cough leading to incontinence
A few days ago, it was reported on the Internet that some people in Yuhua District of Nanjing had symptoms of uncontrollable stools and even coughing that would lead to incontinence. Netizens suspected that the local XBB had begun to spread widely.
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WHO criticizes CCP again: Underreporting data is unacceptable
Editor : Lin Cenxin / Reporter :Changchun / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/12/a103623535.html
The World Health Organization (WHO) once again criticized the CCP for underreporting the death toll from the epidemic on Wednesday (11 January 2023) but CCP experts claimed that there is no need to investigate the specific cause of death. concerns.
The World Health Organization reiterated on 11 January that Communist China needs to share more data on the domestic explosive covid virus(covi, SARS-CoV-2) outbreak. The current official statistics of the CCP cannot show the real impact of the current surge of the epidemic. The WHO expressed concern about this.
Michael Ryan, head of WHO's emergency project: "WHO still believes that the number of deaths in China is seriously underreported, which is related to the definition adopted by (the CCP), and doctors and those who enter the data into the public health system need to be encouraged to report these cases, not prevent them from doing so."
The reporter discovered through interviews that since December 2022, the number of infections and deaths in China has increased sharply, and the CCP authorities have secretly ordered hospitals, police, crematoria, and nursing homes at all levels not to allow them to attribute the cause of death to "novel coronavirus pneumonia" (covid , COVID-19, covid-19, Covid-19, COVID, Wuhan pneumonia).
Lu Xiumeng, a Chinese in the United States: "My dad passed away a week after he got covi. The police appraised him, and he said he didn't die from covid, and he said it was cerebral infarction. Then we are also very strange, because our whole family have covi, my mother, all of them, and the family of seven have the covi."
Last week, a 27-year-old young man in Anhui died of the epidemic. Under his father's strong pleading, the doctor stated on the death certificate that the young man died of "novel coronavirus infection", but he was sent to the crematorium. The crematorium revealed that, The higher-ups stipulated that death due to covid cannot be written.
The father of the 27-year-old deceased in Anhui: "As for the four words "novel coronavirus infection', when I went to the crematorium, the leader told me that you, the leader of the hospital, are so courageous that you dare to write about the novel coronavirus infection. We received the notice that the cremation market and all hospitals will not write about the novel coronavirus.”
There is also Ms. Wu from Jiangsu. Her mother contracted the epidemic in a nursing home in Suzhou. The nursing home asked her family members to transfer the elderly to another hospital for treatment, but before the transfer was too late, her mother passed away, and the death certificate did not say "novel coronavirus infection" but said the old man died of natural causes.
The CCP’s approach has been questioned by the WHO. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that due to the insufficient number of deaths reported by the CCP, the number of deaths reported globally has been underestimated. It is almost certain that 11,000 deaths were reported globally last week and this figure is not accepted".
This is the second time that the WHO has criticized the CCP for underreporting the death toll. However, Liang Wannian, an expert from the CCP’s National Health Commission, claimed that “there is no need to investigate the specifics of each individual case.” Regarding how to classify the cause of death, “if the global thinks it is best to have a consensus, and if no consensus can be formed, each country will make a classification according to its own situation.”
Hui Huyu, a current affairs commentator in the United States: "Then what he said is actually to confuse the situation, so that the world does not have a clear picture of the epidemic, that is, you can have your own classification standards but the most important thing is, You have to provide the so-called data to the WHO. For example, you have to provide the data of death due to underlying diseases after being infected with the covid virus, because others calculate the death toll based on this data.”
Compared with three years ago, the WHO's attitude towards the CCP's concealment of the epidemic appears to be tougher. Hui Huyu, a current affairs commentator based in the United States, believes that mainly in the past three years, the world has clearly seen that the Communist China is an irresponsible regime.
Hui Huyu: "Of course, this kind of data includes cases of death from underlying diseases, including your treatment conditions, medical equipment, medicines, and vaccines across the country, and most importantly, whether there are new variants of the virus. One of the most basic obligations of a member of the WHO, this thing is not fulfilled by the CCP at all, so the whole world is becoming more and more impatient with the CCP, and the attitude of the whole world is getting tougher and tougher on it.”
Tang Jingyuan, a current affairs commentator in the United States, believes that the death data given by the CCP authorities has made it an international joke, and at the same time, it has aggravated the international community's concerns about the mutation becoming poisonous.
Tang Jingyuan, a current affairs commentator in the United States: "It shows that the WHO does not believe that the CCP's official statement that the epidemic is controllable, that no new mutant strains have been found, etc., the WHO does not accept CCP, and the WHO's attitude also shows that other One problem is that the outbreak caused by the mainland virus strain is too different from the same strain in the international community, so this makes the WHO very worried about the CCP’s concealment of the epidemic situation, which may trigger another global pandemic."
Compared with the opacity of the CCP’s epidemic data, WHO experts praised the cooperation of the U.S. authorities for being extremely transparent. They said that the Omicron subtype variant XBB.1.5 is spreading rapidly in the United States, and the U.S. government has extended the public health emergency until April 2023.
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Under the epidemic, CCP China's nursing homes have become isolated islands, and the whole hospital has fallen and there is nowhere to ask for help
Reporter : Zhu Ying / Editor : Yun Tao / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/12/a103623667.html / Image : An elderly woman eats lunch in a nursing home in Rugao, Jiangsu Province, China, 31 March 2021. (WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)
Since the outbreak of the epidemic in China in December 2022, nursing homes that have been closed for a long time have also fallen one after another. In some nursing homes, all employees and elderly people were infected within a week. Faced with many difficulties such as the scarcity of medicines and the inability to send critically ill patients to hospitals, many nursing homes have become isolated islands with nowhere to turn.
A few days ago, "Caijing", "China News Weekly" and many other media reported how nursing homes in various places have become lonely battlefields after the epidemic prevention measures have been greatly relaxed, and the various difficulties faced by the staff there in the past month or so.
According to the report, since the outbreak of the epidemic, various nursing homes have been in a state of closed management for a long time. Even after the official release of the "New Ten Measures" on 7 December 2022 to loosen the epidemic prevention and control policy, many nursing homes still have their doors closed to prevent them from sticking to it. . However, the epidemic quickly spread in nursing homes.
Lu Jie, the director of a private nursing home, recalled in an interview with the media that on 21 December 2022, an elderly person was found to have tested positive for nucleic acid in the nursing home he was in charge of. Prior to this, the nursing home had been "isolated" for 68 days. Therefore, when "Dabai" in protective clothing suddenly appeared in the nursing home, the staff were stunned, and some showed panic. After that, in the next few days, other elderly people, nurses, and care workers in the nursing home became covi-positive one after another.
As of 8 January 2023, all the nucleic acid results of more than 100 elderly people in the nursing home were positive, and some of them turned negative. Eleven elderly people died, and all doctors (including the director), nurses and nursing staff were infected.
Lu Jie said that everyone underestimated the rapid transmission of the virus, especially during the incubation period. He said frankly, "The document has been downloaded round after round, basically telling you to close it. As for what to do after infection, there are very few suggestions in this regard."
When the epidemic broke out on a large scale in various nursing homes, the first dilemma faced by the staff of nursing homes was the serious shortage of drugs. Many elderly care institutions are not a combination of medical care and nursing care, and basic medicines are basically purchased through pharmacies. However, the epidemic is spreading rapidly across the country, and the symptomatic drugs in pharmacies have long been sold out. After the pharmacy cut off the supply, the nursing home can only hope that the hospital will prescribe the medicine. However, medicines in hospitals are also scarce, and emergency and fever clinics are also overcrowded.
In addition to medicines, many medical supplies also need to be robbed, and the price of antigen reagents has soared rapidly.
As the symptoms of the elderly began to worsen after being infected, it became a headache to contact 120 for emergency treatment.
Xiao Zeng, a nurse in the nursing home, told mainland media that near midnight on 25 December 2022, an elderly man was in a serious condition. After communicating with his family members, he called 120 for emergency treatment. However, the operator of the emergency center kept saying that all ambulances were dispatched, there were no spare vehicles, and even the family members' personal connections were of no avail.
Han Yu, the director of a senior care service center in Shandong, also told mainland media that on 27 December 2022, the senior care service center she was in charge of began to have infection cases, and the following week almost all the nursing home staff were infected, and the local medical run-out was very serious. It is even more difficult to send the elderly to the hospital for medical treatment. Once, an elderly person had severe symptoms and needed to be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. A person in charge of a designated hospital told her that there was no bed in the intensive care unit (ICU), so the elderly could only be placed in the corridor without oxygen infusion.
In less than a month, 10 elderly people in Han Yu's nursing home died.
After the first case of infection occurred on December 20 last year in a county-level private nursing home in Hunan, almost all employees and elderly people "fell" within 8 days. According to the dean Qin Feng, a large number of elderly people had fever on 24 and 25 December, and 28 people needed to be sent to the hospital on the most day.
In a nursing home operated by Qiu Nan (pseudonym), the general manager of a chain medical and nursing institution operating company in the Yangtze River Delta region, after the first infection occurred on 20 December 2022, at least 25 infections were added within 3 days, and by the fourth day she decided to cancel the nucleic acid testing of all staff in the hospital because people from the local disease control department told her that the epidemic could not be prevented.
A number of practitioners in nursing homes mentioned that in the first ten days of December 2022, there were shortages of medicines, no antigens, no access to 120, and poor treatment channels in nursing homes in early December 2022. Various government departments did not actually help nursing homes. A practitioner in the elderly care industry described nursing homes as "isolated islands".
In an interview with the media, Qiu Nan recalled that the director of a nursing home once called her, saying that an elderly person in the hospital needed urgent medical treatment but when she dialed 120, she learned that there were nearly 100 people in line ahead.
According to Taiwan's Central News Agency, as of 8 January 2023, some local governments in mainland China are still notifying local nursing homes that they are not allowed to disclose the actual situation of nosocomial infections.
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Countering the CCP’s “Transnational Suppression” FBI advertises to find victims
The CCP authorities have implemented "transnational suppression" against dissidents and politicians. The U.S. government has increasingly realized that "transnational suppression" not only threatens the basic rights of the victims, but also threatens the democracy, freedom and rule of law in the United States. In order to counter the CCP’s “transnational suppression,” the FBI recently placed advertisements on social media, calling on victims of the CCP’s “transnational suppression” to report.
On 11 January 2023, the American media Axios reported that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placed advertisements on the social media Facebook, looking for victims of the CCP’s “transnational suppression”.
The ad is aimed at residents of the Philadelphia area and the language used is Chinese. The content is that for those who have been stalked, physically harassed, digitally harassed, physically attacked and blackmailed, the FBI hopes that they will contact the FBI Philadelphia office as soon as possible.
The ad emphasizes that it is hoped that those who have had these experiences on WeChat will take the initiative to contact the FBI to report the crime, “You may be a victim of the ‘transnational suppression’ by the CCP authorities.”
The FBI told Axios that many people do not know that "transnational suppression" is illegal in the United States. The FBI is working hard to let the public understand what "transnational suppression" is, how it behaves, and how to report it to the FBI.
The main targets of the FBI's "transnational repression" campaign include political and human rights activists, dissidents, journalists, political opponents, and ethnic or religious groups.
The FBI has listed nine types of transnational repression, including stalking, harassment, cyber attacks, assault, attempted kidnapping, forcing or threatening victims to return to their home country, threatening or detaining relatives living in their home country, freezing financial assets, and spreading false information online, etc. .
The FBI stated that this practice violated the laws of the United States and violated individual rights and freedoms.
The main purpose of "transnational suppression" is to prevent citizens of their own countries from speaking out, to collect information for their own governments, and to coerce them to return to their home countries.
This is part of the U.S. government's countermeasures against the CCP's "transnational suppression".
Since 2022, the U.S. government has launched special operations to counter the CCP’s “transnational suppression.”
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19 Chinese Communists have been charged in the U.S. for violations against Chinese citizens on American soil
In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed criminal charges against a Chinese student named Wu Xiaolei in Boston, accusing Wu Xiaolei of stalking and harassing classmates who put up posters supporting democracy and freedom on campus.
On 24 October 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against 13 people including He Guochun and Wang Zheng, accusing them of conspiring to forcibly repatriate Chinese citizens, attempting to obstruct criminal proceedings, and conspiring to act as illegal foreign agents.
On 16 March 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice accused five individuals of acting as agents of the CCP government in the United States. In addition to collecting information related to dissidents, they also monitored, stalked, intimidated, harassed, and even planned violent attacks.
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Visa restrictions imposed on CCP officials against repression of ethnic and religious minorities and practitioners outside China
On 21 March 2022, the U.S. government announced that it would impose visa restrictions on CCP officials involved in the repression of members of ethnic and religious minorities, as well as religious and spiritual practitioners, both inside and outside of China.
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Thailand plans to impose entry fees from June 2023
Thailand plans to impose an entry fee of 300 baht on foreign tourists entering the country from June 2023
According to the Bangkok Post's report, Thailand's Tourism and Sports Minister Pippa said on Wednesday (11 January 2023) that the entry fees collected will be used to develop tourist attractions and serve as an insurance fund for tourists. Foreigners with work permits and border passes are exempt from paying entry fees.
Thailand has been discussing the imposition of entry fees since 2022. The plan is still subject to Cabinet approval. Pippa told the media last year that authorities planned to impose fees on foreign tourists arriving by air starting early 2023. As for whether people who enter the country by land must also pay the fee, it has not yet been determined. Pippa said that Thailand is expected to welcome 25 million tourists this year, and the total tourism consumption is expected to reach at least 2.38 trillion Baht.
Tourism is an important pillar of Thailand's economy, accounting for 12% of gross domestic product before the pandemic. Before the outbreak, Thailand welcomed nearly 40 million tourists in 2019, compared with only 11.8 million inbound tourists in 2022.
According to news from Thailand.com, it is understood that if the plan is implemented, foreigners entering Thailand will be required to pay an entry fee of 300 Baht, except for the following groups of people. The exempted groups mainly include:
-Thai passport holders
-Hold a Border Pass (Border Pass)
- People who work in Thailand or purchase people who "go out early and return late"
-Temporary docking and disembarkation of cruise ships in the form of "early departure and late return" tour
- holders of diplomatic, consular and service passports
-Infants and foreign tourists under the age of 2
-crew staff
-Those who are authorized to work in Thailand and have signed a labour contract.
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Chinese student Wu Xiaolei threatens democrats, US jury formally indicts
Reporter : Zheng Gusheng / Editor : Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/11/a103622677.html / Image : Photo of Xiaolei Wu. (From Wu's own Instagram account).
中国留学生吴啸雷威胁民主人士 美陪审团正式起诉
The CCP manipulates overseas students, repeatedly harassing and intimidating Chinese who support freedom and democracy. The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday (10 January 2023) that Wu Xiaolei, a Chinese student suspected of committing such crimes, has been formally indicted by a federal grand jury.
Wu Xiaolei was indicted on one count of cyberstalking and one count of interstate distribution of threatening information. If convicted, Wu faces five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine. Wu had been suspended from Boston's Berklee College of Music when he was previously arrested by the FBI.
"Xiaolei Wu, 25, was suspected of stalking and threatening Democrats in Boston last year", the Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday.
Wu Xiaolei was arrested on 13 December 2022 and was released without bail after the first trial.
After the arrest of Wu Xiaolei, the FBI Boston Branch announced: "The FBI arrested Wu Xiaolei because he repeatedly threatened and violated a citizen activist's right to speak out against the CCP."
According to the prosecution documents, on 22 October 2022r, a Chinese woman posted flyers in English near the Berklee College of Music in Boston, including slogans "Stay with the Chinese people", "We want freedom", "We want democracy". Subsequently, Wu Xiaolei, an international student at the school, repeatedly threatened her for the posters on the Internet.
Image : Photo posted by the victim on Instagram.
Wu Xiaolei allegedly threatened to cut off her hand, and said that she had been reported to the CCP Public Security Bureau, and that officials would "visit" her family in China, etc. He is also suspected of disclosing the victim's email, instigating others to commit cyber violence against her and finding her address.
Wu Xiaolei's threat to democrats occurred shortly after the October 13 Sitongqiao incident in Beijing. At that time, a man with the online name "Peng Zaizhou" put up a banner on the Sitong Bridge, opposing the "zero-covid" policy and Xi Jinping's rule. Afterwards, Chinese students studying in hundreds of colleges and universities around the world responded one after another, putting up posters calling for democracy and freedom but they are often harassed and threatened by the "little pink" Chinese students studying abroad, and the posters they put up are often torn up.
Public opinion accused the harassment of being related to the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) controlled by the CCP embassy and consulate.
Just a week before Wu Xiaolei's arrest, Qin Gang, then the CCP's ambassador to the United States, visited the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where Wu Xiaolei was studying. The college has a large number of Chinese students.
After Wu Xiaolei was arrested, some people on the Internet accused him of being a second-generation official from Beijing, and also released the personal information of Wu himself and his official father. This information cannot be further verified at this time.
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A new official took office, and the chairman of the China Committee of the House of Representatives "fired" at pro-Communist American companies
Reporter : Yan Shu / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/13/a103623819.html / Image of Gallagher : Video Screenshot
Gallagher, chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on China Issues, said on 11 January 2023 that Disney and the NBA have "bowed their knees" to the CCP, and he plans to summon the heads of the two companies to Congress Accept inquiries.
The first fire of Mike Gallagher, chairman of the China Special Committee, "burned" on pro-CCP American companies.
In an interview Wednesday on the radio show The Hugh Hewitt Show, Gallagher sounded the alarm about Disney and the NBA's ties to China.
He said he would be willing to sit down with both Disney CEO Robert Iger and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, but such a conversation would need to be held openly in front of the American people. The American people will "go crazy" when they see the NBA "knee" to the CCP.
Gallagher also warned that the relationship between the CCP and the U.S. sports and entertainment giants foreshadows that if the CCP then controls the commanding heights of technology and the economy, the CCP will eventually "be able to blackmail the world" and "coerce the world."
House China Special Committee Chairman Gallagher (10 January 2023): "It's time to understand the urgency of the (CCP) threat. It's time to take back our economic independence in key areas."
In his speech to the House of Representatives earlier, Gallagher emphasized that the CCP is the most significant challenge facing the United States today.
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U.S. House of Representatives sets up investigation group on "government instrumentalization"
Reporter : Li Li / Editor : Hu Long / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/11/a103622904.html / Image : Rep. Jim Jordan (D-OH) heads to a Republican caucus meeting before the start of the 118th Congress in the basement of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, Jan. 3, 2023. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In the afternoon of 10 January 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives established a special subcommittee to investigate the "instrumentalization" of the federal government by federal law enforcement agencies under the leadership of current President Joe Biden.
The resolution to establish the task force was passed by a majority of 221 to 211.
The task force has multiple powers, including subpoena power, to receive information that would normally only be obtained by sharing it with the House Intelligence Committee.
It also has the power to oversee federal investigations of U.S. citizens, including ongoing federal criminal investigations.
Under the resolution, the panel is also empowered to investigate whether federal agencies colluded with private companies to collect information on U.S. citizens.
The panel is made up of 15 members, nine Republicans and six Democrats, appointed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The group is part of the House Judiciary Committee. The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), is expected to chair the panel.
House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Cole said the group was modeled on the Church Committee established in 1975, the U.S. Senate's special committee that year investigated U.S. intelligence agencies' rights to U.S. citizens infringement.
On the 10th, Cole told other members of the House of Representatives that the Church committee "discovered and exposed a variety of abuses, including many 'abuses' against American citizens."
Cole said, "The situation in the United States today is similar to that faced in the 1970s. We have witnessed how the executive branch violates the liberties of American citizens", and such violations are "usually for political purposes."
The new group, Cole said, "will be tasked with researching and reporting on how the executive branch collects information on American citizens or otherwise violates the rights of American citizens."
"The American people deserve to have confidence in their government," Kerr said. "They deserve to know that the powers they have given to the FBI, DHS and intelligence agencies are not being abused."
Cole also said, "The people should know that the executive branch does not have the power to position itself as the final arbiter of truth," and "The people should know that they will not be tagged of domestic terrorists for defending their children before a school board."
"This is about the First Amendment"
Democrats have raised concerns, especially that the panel could oversee the content of the administration's "ongoing criminal investigations," which Democrats say fall outside Congress' oversight purview.
"It's a violation of the separation of powers and it's very dangerous," said Rep. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
Democrats claim that Republicans could use the new powers to undermine ongoing investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol incident, as well as investigations into former President Donald Trump's classified documents. In August 2022, the FBI raided Trump's home in Florida.
Later on the 10th, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), mocked the panel on the House floor, calling it a "crazy ruse by MAGA ('Make America Great Again') extremists who hijacked Republicans, and want to use taxpayer money to fuel their far-right conspiracy."
Jordan refuted McGovern's claims in the House.
"A ruse? It's not a ruse when the DOJ is considered a terrorist just because parents defend their son or daughter at a school board meeting. It's not a ruse when the FBI pays Twitter $3 million to vet US citizens." ; When DHS tries to create a 'Disinformation Governance Council,' it's not a ruse".
Jordan continued, "Let me tell you, dozens of whistleblowers have spoken to Republican staff on the Judiciary Committee and they know how serious this is."
In November 2022, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a 1,000-page report titled "FBI Whistleblowers: The Politicization of the FBI and the Justice Department."
Citing numerous examples and whistleblower reports, the report outlines how the Justice Department and the FBI have abused their power to frame conservatives for political purposes.
Jordan continued, "This subcommittee is about the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution. This is something you (Democrats) once cared about. I hope we can reach a bipartisan agreement on protecting the First Amendment. As Americans, we have five rights under the First Amendment: the right to worship, the right to assemble, the right to petition the government, the freedom of the press, and the freedom of speech but every one of those rights has come under attack in the last two years."
Jordan pointed out that "a few years ago, the government told people not to go to church." "According to the Constitution, citizens have the right to assemble and petition the government. However, the Democrats closed the Capitol, and citizens cannot go to the Capitol to express their dissatisfaction because Nancy Pelosi won't let citizens in!"
Jordan said, "Our most important right is the right to free speech. If you can't speak, you can't practice your right to believe, you can't share your beliefs, you can't petition your government. Free speech is the most important right. It is important, therefore, it is the responsibility of the federal government to protect the freedom of speech of citizens.”
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U.S. House of Representatives passes bill to stop Biden administration from selling oil to China
Editor : Li Li / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/12/a103623700.html / Image : Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA) leaves for a break during a House Republican Steering Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, 9 January 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"Fox News" reported that on Thursday (12 January 2023), dozens of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation together to prevent the Biden administration from moving the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ( SPR)) to the Chinese government or Chinese-funded companies.
The bill easily passed the House of Representatives with a 331-97 majority, with all Republicans voting in favor and 113 Democrats, more than half of the House Democratic caucus, also voting in favor.
In the House of Representatives, it was the second time this week that a large number of Democrats backed Republicans to pass legislation, the report added.
On 10 January 2023, more than 2/3 of the Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to support the establishment of a "China Committee" to deal with the strategic competition between the United States and the CCP.
Last year, the Biden administration decided to sell nearly 100,000 barrels of oil reserves to Unipec America. This company is in the United States but its owner is the CCP government.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the sale in April. Republicans in the House of Representatives have warned of the dangers of supplying vast amounts of energy to companies controlled by America's biggest rivals.
Subsequently, Republicans introduced the bill.
The bill stipulates that the Secretary of Energy cannot sell strategic reserve oil to any entity under the control of the CCP government.
Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said, "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is designed to keep America safe in the event of energy supply disruptions, such as hurricanes and natural disasters. Energy supply is not to help China."
She said, "The Biden administration is depleting our strategic reserves for political purposes and selling some of them to China (the CCP), which is a major threat to our national security."
"The Biden administration has deliberately bolstered the oil reserves of our political opponent, the Chinese Communist Party, compromising our American ability to respond to emergencies and national security incidents."
Last year, the Biden administration released more than 200 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to ease rising U.S. energy prices.
McMorris Rogers said the release of the oil was a failed policy by the Biden administration to "cover up its energy and inflation crisis."
She added that while some oil was not sold directly to Chinese-funded entities, it ended up in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
"Most of the oil is going to China because our refineries and pipelines are full," "and millions of barrels of crude are going to overseas traders who end up shipping oil to China. We know that China (CCP) is stepping up its purchases of crude oil from Russia and the U.S. to bolster its own reserves.”
Since the turn of the century, U.S. SPR reserves have been above 600 million barrels, but as the Biden administration sold reserves, SPR reserves began to decline in early 2022, and by the end of last year, reserves had fallen below 400 million barrels.
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Secret documents found in Biden's private office; Republicans call for investigation
Reporter : Jin Shi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/12/a103622988.html / Image : Video Screenshot
U.S. President Joe Biden was recently revealed to have taken secret government documents out of the White House and placed them in his private office after resigning as Vice President in 2017. In the evening of Tuesday (10 January 2023), Biden responded to the matter for the first time.
U.S. President Joe Biden: "I was briefed on the incident and was surprised to learn that government records were brought into that office. But I don't know what's in those files. My lawyer advised me not to ask what those documents were."
The White House confirmed on Monday (9 January 2022) that on 2 November 2022, Biden's personal lawyer discovered confidential documents from the Obama era at the "Penn State Biden Center" at the University of Pennsylvania. At the time, the documents were stored in a locked cabinet.
Biden said his lawyers then turned over the documents to the National Archives. The White House said it was working with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Justice Department.
Because the incident is exactly the same as former President Trump's accusation of storing sensitive government materials at Mar-a-Lago, it has received special attention. Trump is currently under investigation by the Justice Department.
Derek Jacques, an attorney at The Mitten Law Firm, told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement that taking any classified documents would create problems for elected officials, "Although they may seem less secure than a think tank’s private office in a private residence, there is no legal difference between the two.”
So far, Biden's lawyer has not explained why these classified documents were discovered on 2 November 2022 but were not made public more than two months later.
Some media pointed out that if the incident had been exposed at that time, it might have become explosive news that could affect the mid-term elections on 8 November 2022.
McCarthy, Speaker of the US House of Representatives: "It surprises me that this happened before the election. Why does the Department of Justice treat different people differently?"
Some Republican lawmakers urged Attorney General Garland to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the incident further.
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DOJ investigates two batches of classified documents found in Biden's private office and garage
Reporter : Tao Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/13/a103623910.html, https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/11/a103622312.html / Image : Video Screenshot
Confidential documents were found in Biden’s old office in Washington. In December 2022, another batch of documents was found in Biden’s home.
On 12 January 2023, Biden admitted that a second batch of Obama-era classified documents was found at his Delaware home.
The specific place is his garage.
U.S. President Joe Biden: "By the way, my old Corvette is also in that locked garage, so (the documents) are not just lying on the street."
Reporter: "So the files are in the locked garage?"
Biden: "Yes, my sports car is there."
Tthe House Republican leader said it was not a safe place to store classified documents.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy: "On more than one occasion, we have now found classified documents in two different locations, in broad daylight."
The Democrat responded.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: "I trust President Biden 100 percent."
Reporter: "Is it appropriate to store documents in the garage?"
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre: "I'm not going to ... go into what Biden thinks."
The U.S. Department of Justice has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Biden's "document gate".
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: "The circumstances of this case are so special that we need to appoint a special prosecutor."
Republicans, on the other hand, say that even with a special prosecutor, their own committee will still have to conduct an independent investigation into the Biden documents.
The White House recently confirmed that classified documents were found in Biden's former private office, which was located in Penn''s Biden Center, a mile away from the White House.
The White House admitted on 9 January 2023 that before last year's mid-term election, when lawyers were packing up, they found confidential documents from Biden when he was still vice president in his office here.
US President Joe Biden: "I was briefed on this discovery and was surprised to learn that government records were brought to that office."
Although the White House said that Biden was not aware of the contents of the documents, CNN reported on 11 January 2023 that the documents included classified documents from Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, and even a "Top Secret" document.
At present, the Republican Party has requested an investigation and questioned why Trump's home was ransacked his home when documents were found, while Biden's office is still fine.
U.S. Republican Congressman Michael Waltz: "Why doesn't the FBI raid the house?"
Democrats are emphasizing that...
U.S. Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar: "(Biden took the initiative) notified the law enforcement agencies."
On 11 January 2023, American legal experts told NTDTV that they are particularly concerned about the relationship between this Biden think tank and the CCP.
"National Law and Policy Center" lawyer Paul Kamenar): "We have information indicating that the University of Pennsylvania has taken millions of dollars from China. We think some of it has flowed to the Biden Center of the University of Pennsylvania."
"Who knows if those confidential documents are about China? This is really suspicious, so a full investigation is required."
At present, the Ministry of Justice has intervened in the investigation of Biden's "document gate".
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