Sunday, May 29, 2022

Undesirables of CCP's Chinese school textbooks, 5 North Korean defectors caught covid

 Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

News on CCP, disease control, North Korea


News (1)

China's primary school textbook map does not have Taiwan, China's five-star flag hanging upside down
   
Image : The map of China in the primary school textbooks of the People's Education Publishing House does not have Taiwan. (Picture taken from WeChat)



The Chinese People's Education Publishing House, which has been praised by Chinese President Xi Jinping and has made positive contributions to the cause of education. However, the latest elementary school textbooks show the five-star flag of China painted upside down and there is no map of Taiwan. Net bashing results. The publishing house and the family responsible for the illustrations were all smashed, and they were also asked to rectify. The corruption of the education industry, which has a long-term plan, has made Chinese netizens angry, and it feels like their own backyard has been "copied".

News (2)

Indecent images in Chinese People's Education Publishing House's primary school textbook

Image : WeChat Screenshot



Founded in 1950, the Chinese People's Education Publishing House's primary school textbook illustrations appeared indecent images and insulted China, causing controversy. Its textbooks accounted for 50% of the Chinese market, and ranked first in the comprehensive evaluation of the overall economic scale of the publishing unit. In 2020, Xi Jinping personally wrote a letter to the retired employees of the People's Education Society, praising the People's Education Society for its 70 years of hard work in basic education and making positive contributions to China's education cause. He hopes that the People's Education Society will cultivate socialist successors in the future. and make greater contributions to building a strong country in education.

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Hainan and Taiwan excluded from China map in school textbook

Image : Web Screenshot


Unexpectedly, due to the appearance of many erotic illustrations in elementary school textbooks recently, the figure painting style does not conform to Chinese aesthetics, and has been scolded and insulted. The most interesting thing is that China's five-star flag was drawn wrongly, and the map did not have Hainan and Taiwan, including the publishing house and the family consortium responsible for the illustrations. The People's Education Society later apologized, and was asked by the Chinese education authorities for a comprehensive rectification.

News (4)

Hu Xijin urges for investigations into "evil forces" among China's education and publishing positions

Even Hu Xijin, the former editor-in-chief of the Global Times, opened fire, emphasizing that "what happened is a little unreasonable", and it depends on whether there is "transfer of interests" in this incident and whether it involves "publishing corruption".

He comforted netizens not to have various political associations about this matter in advance. It seems that China's education and publishing positions have been occupied by evil forces, and they should be investigated and dealt with on a case-by-case basis.


Image :  The five-star flag is hung upside down in the illustrations of the primary school textbooks of the Chinese People's Education Publishing House. (Picture taken from WeChat)



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5 North Korean defectors who fled to China were confirmed positive, Kim Jong-un ordered strict investigation

Editor : Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/29/a103441323.html / Image : North Korean soldiers patrol the border fence between China and North Korea. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)



Recently, when North Korea entered a total blockade due to the outbreak of the epidemic, it was reported that five North Korean defectors fled to China. They were arrested by the Chinese side and found to have been diagnosed. Kim Jong-un was furious and ordered a strict investigation.

The Daily NK, a South Korean media that has long been following North Korea's developments, reported that after North Korea declared the covid outbreak on 12 May 2022, it immediately entered a "national emergency" and implemented a comprehensive blockade to prevent the epidemic. diffusion.

Five North Koreans fled to China during the country's nationwide lockdown. The report said that they first gathered in Sinuiju, North Pyongan Province, North Korea, and then crossed the Yalu River into China. Unexpectedly, they were arrested and detained by the CCP authorities after arriving in China. After testing, it was found that these people had been diagnosed.

After China notified North Korea of ​​the incident, the North Korean leadership was very embarrassed, because these defectors not only violated the ban of the North Korean authorities during the escape process, but also successfully avoided the layers of barriers set up in the North Korean border area.

According to the report, Kim Jong-un was dissatisfied with the incident, and immediately issued an order to the North Korean secret police department, the Ministry of National Security, to "completely and strictly investigate" the incident and punish all officers and soldiers at border checkpoints.

According to the report, the North Korean authorities suspected that there were "inner ghosts" in contact, so they replaced a number of sentry officers. Authorities believe it is difficult for North Korean defectors to enter Dandong, China, from Sinuiju, North Korea, without help. Because on this route, you have to go through multiple checkpoints set up by the North Korean Ministry of State Security, as well as those set up by the disease control department.

"Daily North Korea" quoted sources as saying that if these North Korean defectors are sent back to North Korea, they may face "ultimate punishment" by the North Korean authorities and will be tried under military law. Because they have been infected with the virus, the entire North Korea is currently operating under a "wartime system" under the leadership of the National Emergency Epidemic Prevention Command.

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The resurgence of the epidemic in Northeast China may be related to the North Korean epidemic


The CCP officially reported that the epidemic situation in China has slowed down, but in the northeastern region bordering North Korea, the epidemic has resumed.

The Chinese Communist Party's official report on Sunday said that on 28 May 2022, there were 215 new local infections in China in a single day, including local confirmed and asymptomatic infections, of which 122 were in Shanghai, 21 in Beijing and 11 in Tianjin. Because the CCP has consistently covered up the outbreak, the actual numbers are yet to be investigated.

The epidemic in Northeast China has resumed. On 28 May, Jilin Province added 10 new cases of local asymptomatic infections. Earlier, CCP officials said that local cases of unknown origin appeared in some border areas of Jilin Province, which borders North Korea.

There are 8 new cases of local asymptomatic infections in Liaoning Province, all in Dandong, which borders North Korea. The virus strain of this round of epidemic is Omicron BA.2.3.

The epidemic in North Korea has spread recently. Since the outbreak began on 12 May, North Korea has added 18,000 new cases the next day. On 28 May, North Korean authorities said the number of people with fever in the country had dropped below 100,000. A few days ago, the China CDC said that the epidemic in China tends to spread from the border to inland areas but did not specify whether it was related to the epidemic in North Korea.

News (7)

Shanghai's first Omicron BA.5 patient received 4 doses of CCP vaccine

Reporter : Wen Hui /  https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/30/a103441802.html /  Image : Several police officers in protective suits walk on the street during the covid outbreak lockdown in Jing'an District, Shanghai, China, 13 May  2022. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)


The Shanghai epidemic has not yet ended. Recently, a variant strain of Omicron BA.5 was discovered. The patient has been vaccinated with 4 doses of the CCP vaccine. This is also the first Omicron BA.5 strain found in China.

In the evening of 28 May 2022, the China CDC issued a report saying that the variant strain Omicron BA.5 was imported to Shanghai for the first time from abroad. The patient departed from Uganda and arrived in Shanghai after several transfers.

The report stated that the patient had previously received 4 doses of the CCP medicine vaccine developed by Beijing Biological Products in China and Uganda. After his diagnosis, he was transferred to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center for treatment.

This is the first BA.5 imported case reported by mainland China since the covid outbreak.

In addition to the above-mentioned BA.5 mutant strains, the report also mentioned that in the recent outbreaks found in Dandong, Liaoning Province and Yantai, Shandong Province, the virus strains were all Omicron mutant BA.2.3. This is also the second time that the Omicron BA.2.3 strain has been reported in China.

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Langzhong, Sichuan requires residents to test nucleic acid at their own expense every week 

Reporter : He Yating / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/28/a103441125.html

The National Medical Insurance Administration of the People's Republic of China recently announced that the cost of normalizing the nucleic acid testing of the CCP virus (covi) in various places should be borne by the local governments. As soon as the words fell, the city of Langzhong, Sichuan Province announced the next day that residents of the city will be required to undergo a covi nucleic acid test every week, and the test fee will be borne by the residents themselves. When the news came out, the public opinion on the Internet was instantly frying.

On 27 May, local time, the emergency headquarters of Langzhong, Sichuan Province issued an announcement stating that the city will "orderly promote normalized nucleic acid testing" from 30 May 2022

According to the announcement, the city's first round of normalized nucleic acid sampling for all staff will be completed within 48 hours from 30 to 31 May, requiring the city's 28 townships (streets) to organize residents of their jurisdictions to "test at their own expense" at designated nucleic acid sampling sites. (3.50 RMB/person). After 31 May, citizens are required to "conscientiously carry out normalized nucleic acid testing once a week at their own expense" at officially designated nucleic acid sampling sites, and the so-called "key groups" must "implement normalized nucleic acid testing" according to industry monitoring requirements.

The announcement also warned, "Anyone who does not consciously perform nucleic acid testing as required and causes the spread of the epidemic will be held accountable in accordance with the law."

Statistics show that Langzhong is located in the northeastern part of Sichuan Province, with 23 townships and 5 sub-districts under its jurisdiction, with a permanent population of about 620,000.

The above-mentioned news quickly spread on the Internet, and the public opinion on the Internet suddenly exploded. The comments of many netizens criticized or satirized this policy almost overwhelmingly.

A netizen in Chengdu left a message saying, "Langzhong is famous again this time. It is said that it is the first city in the country to take care of the cost of normalized nucleic acid testing."

Another Chengdu netizen questioned: "There has been no epidemic for more than two years, but you have to carry out normalized testing at your own expense. Are you trying to test the bottom line? It is convenient for further increase in the future?"

A Macau netizen pointed out, "Sometimes it's not a matter of 3 Dollars and 5 Dollars. During the domestic epidemic, the government has no basic welfare policies, and it has to pay extra money.  If you persist like this, something big will happen."

A netizen in Beijing said, "I don't accept a penny at my own expense. It depends on whether the people like to go for free. Originally, the official forced the people to test by means of fines such as banning if they did not do nucleic acid. Now they still want to charge? Why?"

A Chaozhou netizen scolded, "The whole country charges, MD you can make money while lying down!!"

Another netizen left a message and pointed out, "You don't do what you pay for yourself or for free. You think it's free, do they do charity? Medical insurance funds, financial income, isn't this what you paid?"

Just the day before Langzhong announced the weekly nucleic acid testing policy for residents at their own expense (26th), the head of the National Medical Insurance Bureau of the Communist Party of China said in an interview with the official media that with regard to the issue of normalized nucleic acid testing fees, which has been paid great attention by online public opinion recently, according to the State Council’s relevant "guidance", the required costs should be borne by the local governments. "At present, the financial departments in all regions provide financial support for normalized nucleic acid testing."

According to mainland Chinese media reports, due to frequent large-scale nucleic acid testing across the country, the cost of testing has reached 100 billion. According to estimates by Huachuang Securities, since the outbreak of the new epidemic in China, the cost of nucleic acid is about 300 billion RMB, and nearly 150 billion RMB has been spent in the first four months of this year alone. Facing heavy financial pressure, local governments have begun to put pressure on the central government to allow local governments to issue additional government bonds.

News (9)

Analysis: The downward pressure on China's economy exceeds the outbreak in Wuhan

Editor : Huang Yimei / Reporter : Yi Ru / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/29/a103441559.html

Shanghai's iron fist was cleared and the supply chain was affected. The April deliveries of the three local electric vehicle factories dropped sharply by more than 40%. Caixin China's service sector purchasing managers' index in April hit a record low again. Several economists have analyzed that the current downward pressure on China's economy is close to or even greater than the situation at the time of the outbreak in Wuhan. The CCP's nationwide mandatory "zero-covid policy" has already hit China's economy. In addition to the fact that the income of the service industry in the closed area is almost zero, the manufacturing supply chain has also been disrupted, making it worse for major companies.

The three most-watched new energy vehicle companies in China have recently released April delivery data. NIO delivered 5,074 vehicles, down 49% month-on-month; Xiaopeng Motors delivered 9,002 vehicles, down 41.6% month-on-month; Li Auto delivered 4,167 vehicles, down 62% month-on-month. These are all related to the epidemic.

BBC reported that Weilai Automobile once stopped production in April, because the epidemic caused supply chain enterprises in Jilin, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places to stop production. The most serious drop in deliveries is Li Auto. CEO Shen Yanan said that 80% of the company's parts suppliers are located in the Yangtze River Delta region, and the production has been affected by the shutdown of suppliers and the obstruction of logistics.

Taiwanese financial expert Huang Shicong said, "Many cities are closed at different times, but we know that the supply chain may have supply chains all over China. Closing one place will actually lead to the interruption of the entire supply chain, which will make the whole situation even more serious. The economic centre is under lockdown, and of course the economic growth rate will be affected.”

Xie Tian, ​​a professor at the Aiken School of Business at the University of South Carolina, said: "Shenzhen is the location of the top export-intensive industries in China's Pearl River Delta. Now Shenzhen's overseas orders and orders from Europe and the United States have been surpassed by Vietnam. So you can see that this industry chain has Shifting, which is the loss of orders to countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and India, is also accelerating.”

Scholars believe that "zeroing" will have a serious and lasting impact on China's economy and society as well as foreign companies, and no one in all walks of life will be spared.

Xie Tian said, "If China's imports and exports are sluggish, the shortage of foreign exchange reserves will become more and more serious, and the default of real estate companies may also become more and more serious, because China's current real estate market and real estate sales are declining very, very fast. Coupled with the impact of international inflation on China, the price of some food and energy has risen. The Ukraine war also has an impact on the CCP’s economy.”

Taiwanese financial expert Huang Shicong believes that due to the relationship between the Russian-Ukrainian war, the global raw material prices are rising, and the global economic growth rate this year does not seem optimistic. Various factors have deepened the pressure on the Chinese economy.

Huang Shicong said, "After Xi Jinping said that he hoped that this year's economic growth will surpass that of the United States, I think the government has begun to relax some control measures to some extent. I think the focus is on China's epidemic prevention policy, if it can be changed To become the same way as the whole world, the so-called way of coexisting with the virus, I think the biggest uncertainty factor in the economy will disappear."

Lu Ting, chief China economist at Japan’s Nomura Securities, analyzed that the current economic downturn in mainland China this year has approached or even exceeded the outbreak of the Wuhan epidemic in 2020. One of the reasons is that two years ago, people generally expected the epidemic to end in that year, but now people generally feel that the end of the epidemic seems to be far away.

With the outbreak of epidemics in various parts of China, the CCP imposed severe blockade measures and asked people not to go out. All inter-provincial tour groups were suspended. As a result, about 40% of tourist attractions were forced to close during the May Day holiday this year. Caixin China's services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell further to 36.2 in April, the second consecutive month of contraction and the second-lowest record since last month, second only to February 2020, when the epidemic first broke out.

The analysis believes that if the CCP authorities do not loosen the measures to prevent the epidemic, then the effect of the economic stimulus policy will be offset.

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Pit little brother? CCP gives North Korea Lianhua Qingwen to treat covid

Reporter : Li Zhaoxi / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/27/a103439973.html

The Chinese Communist Party's official media has been touting Lianhua Qingwen as a good medicine against covid but medical experts have expressed doubts. The epidemic in North Korea is raging, and the CCP has also "extended a helping hand" to the little brother, and the North Korean authorities are distributing Lianhua Qingwen to residents to treat covid.

The Daily NK reported on 27 May 2022 that it obtained photos of traditional Chinese medicines sold at a pharmacy in Pyongyang on 23 May, which appeared to have been recently imported from China. North Korean authorities distribute the drug domestically as a fever and pain reliever for 15,000 North Korean won (about $150).

A photo shows a small box of medicine, called Lianhua Qingwen Capsules in Chinese, with a small silver bag containing the capsules. The instructions on the box say the drug is effective against the flu and is used to treat symptoms such as high fever, chills, muscle aches, runny nose, cough and headache.

Daily NK recently acquired photos of Chinese medicine being sold in a pharmacy in Pyongyang. https://t.co/NIxgyDuFa4 #DPRK #NorthKorea pic.twitter.com/sTM3c9EZoX

— The Daily NK (@The_Daily_NK) May 26, 2022

The traditional Chinese medicine is much more expensive than the antipyretics and pain relievers in the local North Korean market.

Meanwhile, North Korean authorities are distributing medicines imported from China to the military's medical department, as the army's "wartime emergency medicines" are exhausted.

However, the source noted that a large number of medicines distributed to military medical units have no production or expiry dates.

Daily NK could not confirm whether the medicines, which do not have a production date or expiry date, were imported by North Korean authorities or procured by the country's trade organization. However, a severe shortage of medicines in the country appears to have prompted authorities to accept all medicines, although their dates of manufacture and expiration dates are unclear.

The CCP has the same "love" for North Korea and its own citizens. Under the new round of epidemic, Shanghai has become a hardest hit area. According to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post report last month, at least 8 million boxes of Lianhua Qingwen capsules arrived in Shanghai when 25 million local residents were struggling to find fresh fruits and vegetables, white rice and masks.

Chinese medical experts have frequently warned about the distribution of Lianhua Qingwen to people who are not sick: unless you feel unwell, do not take it, because this anti-epidemic capsule, which is advertised as refined from traditional Chinese medicinal materials, may cause damage and dysfunction to the stomach and kidneys. 

Even Lianhua Qingwen has not received international recognition. The National Institutes of Health said the overall efficacy of Lianhua Qingwen was inconclusive.

Lianhua Qingwen has not been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) because it contains ephedra, a key ingredient used in the manufacture of methamphetamine drugs - commonly known as methamphetamine.

"Ephedra may pose serious safety risks to patients, including cardiotoxicity, irreversible eye damage and severe blood sugar depletion," a TGA spokesperson said.

In May 2020, Swedish customs banned the import of Lianhua Qingwen, because the authorities pointed out that when they tested samples of the capsule, they found that it contained only menthol.

Daily NK also found that pharmacies in Sinuiju have been selling Chinese medicines such as antipyretics, painkillers and cold medicines since 16 May. However, most of these medicines appear to be smuggled into the country, generally operating without a license.






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Saturday, May 28, 2022

Wuhan Institute of Viology's infectivity experiments, vitamin D deficiency and overconsumption can be harmful

Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

News on disease control, CCP

News (1) to (6) / Host : Li Dayu / Publisher : Dayu News Insider / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/26/a103439550.html /  Image : Web Screenshot


News (1)

The audience refers to the Wuhan Institute of Viology's research on "monkeypox virus", the U.S. media stunning report

An organization called NTI, which claims to be engaged in preventing the proliferation of nuclear and biological weapons, released a simulation report at 2021's Munich Security Conference, simulating in detail the spread of monkeypox virus, time, path, and eventual harm. At present, because the monkeypox virus has just spread, we do not know what will happen next, but the initial transmission stage is very similar to the report. For example, it really started to spread in the UK in May, and then more cases emerged in more than 16 countries outside West Africa. Therefore, this amazing "coincidence" of this report also surprised some people.

However, after watching the show, a viewer sent an email to my show and breaking news mailbox xwpajq@gmail.com. The viewer said a friend and he both majored in molecular biology, and his friend happens to work in a company that is one of the top ten pharmaceutical companies in the world. He is also a senior R&D executive, and the field involved includes research on viruses and vaccines.

He said that before the current widespread spread of monkeypox virus, a group of researchers in China published a study on how to artificially modify the gene of monkeypox virus to enhance its infectivity. He said that most researchers are studying how to reduce infectivity or toxicity, and few people study to increase infectivity. Moreover, he said that the authors of this report are also several people from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but there is no Shi Zhengli.  When he first saw the report, he said they did not care, but it was not until recently that the monkeypox virus began to spread that he remembered the original report.

The National Pulse,  that has a certain reputation among American conservatives,  reported the incident on 22 May 2022.

News (2)

Before the outbreak of monkeypox virus, the DIY monkeypox gene fragment of the Wuhan virus institute

According to the article, nine people participated in the writing of the paper on this experiment by the Wuhan Institute of Viology, and it was published in the "Chinese Journal of Virology" (Virologica Sinica) in February 2022. This journal mainly introduces research on viruses around the world. The paper describes the latest developments in a functional study they conducted in August 2021. The article contains a lot of medical terminology, which is difficult to explain. I read it carefully and found that the purpose of this experiment is to put it simply, at that time they found that monkeypox virus has infected humans all over the world, but it has not appeared in China yet, they do not seem to have obtained the strain of this monkeypox virus, so what to do, they used the E9L gene, which is a DNA polymerase, and the C3L gene, which is a complement fixation. 

The proteins, these two genes, are considered two rather valuable qPCR targets for monkeypox virus or any orthopox virus. They mainly used these two things, relying on some existing knowledge of monkeypox virus, and artificially DIY assembled a part of the "monkeypox virus" genome segment. According to the report, it is only less than one-third of the original genome segment. So the report says that this virtually eliminates any risk of making it a contagious virus. So why did they put this thing together?

 The report says it's research to detect "monkeypox virus." means that they assembled something similar to monkeypox virus as a reference template for qPCR detection for virus detection. In the report, they use the English acronym MPXV for monkeypox virus, and say it is a more pathogenic virus that has infected humans around the world. They explain that they already know the dangers of the virus and there is a risk that it could spread widely around the world.

I haven't read the original report. I read the media "National Pulse". For the report of this report, it also contains some pictures of the original report.

Well, if the viewer who wrote to me was referring to the same report as the National Pulse report, then there may be some discrepancies in what the viewer said. The laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Viology did not artificially assemble to enhance the infectivity of monkeypox virus, but artificially assembled a fragment of monkeypox virus without a monkeypox virus strain, and tried to detect it by PCR in the future. There is such a thing as identifying viruses. 

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It's the Wuhan Institute of Viology again! Infectivity experiment: Strengthening H7N9 infectivity

However, the viewer who wrote to me may not have been completely wrong, because according to the public report of the Wuhan Institute of Viology, it did not say that the monkeypox virus was modified to make it more infectious. The National Pulse reported on 19 May 2022 that the Wuhan Institute of Viology also published another research report, which was through human manipulation to make the H7N9 virus, the type A influenza virus, more lethal and contagious. That viewer might be referring to this one.

The corresponding paper by the Wuhan Institute of Viology, also published in the February issue of the "Chinese Journal of Virology" (Virologica Sinica), mainly describes how researchers have spawned six H7N9 viruses to analyze various types of viruses, how amino acids alter virus virulence and infectivity. The report said that they conducted experiments in avian and mammalian cells in terms of viral replication, thermal and acid stability, cleavage efficiency, pathogenicity and transmissibility in mice and chickens, and more. Their recombined virus was understood. Among them, the H7N9 variant they developed caused the lethality rate of mice in the laboratory to reach 35%. One conclusion of the experiment also said that inserting certain non-basic amino acids into the H7N9 virus gene could pose a potential threat to humans.

Of the above two latest reports of the Wuhan Institute of Viology, one is to make a variant of the H7N9 influenza A virus  more infectious, and the other is to artificially synthesize a part of the gene fragment of the monkeypox virus for the research of PCR detection. The National Pulse did not mention the contents of these two studies, and did not say anything casually about what exactly these studies were done by this virus institute but through these two reports and related reports, we can know the following two points.

First, after the outbreak of the covid virus in Wuhan and the epidemic that has continued to this day, the widely questioned Wuhan Institute of Viology has not wakened up, and is still conducting various gain-of-function research openly.

Second, although there is no direct accusation yet, the research they have done is very dangerous. For example, in the above two studies, one is to assemble a dangerous virus by yourself. If you do not have a virus strain, you have to make it yourself. This is too incredible. The other one is even more terrifying. Just like the audience said, everyone is saying to study how to reduce the infection of the virus but this virus institute is studying how to strengthen the infectivity of the virus. How to explain this?  It will make the outside world worried and questioned the motive of the virus institute. 

News (4)

The CCP’s research institutes continue to bring panic and even write nucleic acid testing into children’s rhyme

Therefore, some viewers joked that this "Martial Poison Institute" is really "all five poisons". While the current covid epidemic is still being "cleared" in mainland China, the Chinese Communist Party is really not worried. Where is the problem in their experiment, and will it bring another harm to Chinese society and even all mankind? There are already many voices questioning whether the virus is currently prevalent. In the 2000s, there was a confirmed SARS virus leak in mainland China, which caused public panic. This is a lesson. However, they are still working and still doing these studies.

This has to make people gossip after a meal and say a few words about some black-hearted party officials and black-hearted drug dealers of the Communist Party. Are they waiting for another public health crisis to appear, and then make a fortune?

Image : Weibo Screenshot

In response to the current epidemic, the CCP authorities are already working hard to normalize their testing and what kind of cabins. A children's book under the CCP's education system has begun to popularize a children's song, "Red tube tube, white sign, queuing up to do sour and sour, after finishing sour and sour dinner, after eating and so on, just come out, continue line up to do sour and sour, stay at home to prevent covid, can't go out and run around, you may get covi, if you can't make it, you have to lie on the board."

This kind of nursery rhyme is read to children, not to scare children, but to say that you want to extend the prevention and control of this kind of perversion to the next generation.

News (5)

Beijing Normal University protested and shouted "Chen Sheng Wang Da Chu Xing", Central Conservatory of Music also protested

Outside the gate of Zhongnanhai, many colleges and universities in Beijing have protested and even marched on campus due to the closure and control. On the campus of Beijing Normal University, the students who gathered to protest even shouted slogans such as "King Chen Sheng, Da Chu Xing" against the people's uprising against the violent Qin Dynasty, and this was Beijing before June 4th. The student dared to shout like that. It is because of unreasonable prevention and control that students are not allowed to pursue their legitimate rights and interests. For a long time, it has made people anxious. The student's request is very simple. It is necessary to clarify the holiday time and whether to return to the hometown, instead of being quarantined in the school, and requires the school to respond positively to the appeal, and not to settle accounts later.

There was a Shenzhen audience whose child was a student of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. There was also a student protest there. The reason was that after the epidemic, the school did not allow the child to go home or order takeout. Besides, the prices of vegetables are getting more and more expensive. The students made a scene because of this, but they did not work but now in private, there are also a lot of complaints. A few grasses of green vegetables sell for 5 RMB. Is this some kind of precious mushroom in France? ? It is still a masterpiece of a Michelin chef, and it is so expensive.

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Li Keqiang's 100,000-person meeting is a great political leap forward! Treat the symptoms but not the root causes

In such a chaotic situation, Li Keqiang of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of 100,000 people on 25 May to stabilize the economy. There are branch venues in all provinces, cities and counties. The reason is that China's economy has reached a very critical point but even so, the meeting did not say to relax the epidemic prevention control that hurts the economy and the people, nor did it reflect on any wrong policy. Instead, they left these fundamental issues and simply asked the officials across the country to find a way to deal with this mess and get the economy right. Please, the reason why the soil can't grow seedlings is because of lack of water and oxygen. If the soil quality is not improved, what can it grow? It can only be a great leap forward in politics, and it is a complete failure in the end.


News (7)

After relaxing the return policy, the CCP increases international flights

Editor : Jing Zhongming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/26/a103439566.html /  Image :The picture shows passengers waiting in line at Shanghai Pudong Airport on 11 June 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)


 The CCP strictly controls Chinese people to leave the country on the grounds of "epidemic prevention", but at the same time relaxes the entry policy and orders to increase international flights. According to mainland Chinese media sources, the CCP’s move is aimed at “stabilizing the economy.”

On 26 May 2022, the official media of the Communist Party of China, Yicai, reported that after the State Council of the Communist Party of China recently held an executive meeting to "deploy a package of measures to stabilize the economy", three Chinese airlines received the quota allocation for new international flights from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), and added new flights to encourage travel to and from more countries.

According to the report, this means that the "Five Ones" policy of restricting international flights, which has been implemented since March 2020, has been further broken.

According to the news, China Southern Airlines, Air China and Hainan Airlines have obtained the allocation of new international flight quotas. Among them, China Southern has received new flight quotas to and from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkey, Air China has received quotas to and from Belarus and the United Arab Emirates, and Hainan Airlines has received quotas from routes to and from Italy.

According to a number of domestic airline insiders, the move by the Civil Aviation Administration is aimed at implementing the decision of the recent State Council executive meeting.

Not long ago, the CCP embassies in many countries updated the regulations for travelers to China, relaxing entry requirements, including canceling the nucleic acid test report for passengers seven days before boarding, no need for IgM antibody serological testing, and people with a history of infection are no longer required to provide lung CT or X-ray. Inspection reports, etc.

At the same time, there have been reports of many Chinese citizens' passports being cut from customs in various parts of China. The CCP's Immigration Administration has repeatedly emphasized "strict control of Chinese citizens' non-essential departures", claiming that this is for "epidemic prevention needs." The CCP's relaxation of the rules for returning to China seems to run counter to the "needs for epidemic prevention" of "strictly preventing overseas inbound cases".

Although the CCP has loosened the restrictions on international flights, it is expected that the number of people going abroad will be limited due to restrictions on Chinese citizens traveling abroad to visit relatives.

On social media, many Chinese netizens commented that the CCP restricts leaving the country but encourages returning to China, which is obviously "not enough domestic leeks".

The recent brutal ban by the CCP has made many people see the CCP system more clearly and feel hopeless about CCP China's future. The search volume of "immigration" on online platforms has increased significantly.

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Beijing orders closure of multi-country visa centres as epidemic heats up


Recently, Beijing authorities have closed visa centres in Beijing for many countries, making it even more difficult for mainlanders to go abroad.

On 23 May, the Beijing British Visa Center announced that in view of the current epidemic situation and in response to the requirements of the Beijing Epidemic Prevention and Control Emergency Headquarters, the building of the British Visa Application Center in Beijing will stop visitors from entering with effect from 23 May 2022 until further notice.

The Irish Visa Application Centre in Beijing was also closed on the same day for the same reason. The day before, the Beijing New Zealand Visa Application Centre and the South African Visa Application Centre were also temporarily closed for the same reason.

Up to now, the visa centres of Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, Ireland and other countries in Beijing, Shanghai and other places have been temporarily closed, affecting the itinerary of many mainlanders to study abroad and visit relatives. Some netizens sighed, "I thought 2020 was the hardest, but I didn't expect 2021 to be harder, and I didn't expect 2022 to be harder than the previous two years."

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Demonstrations erupted at Tianjin University before June 4th

On the eve of June 4th, a wave of protests broke out in Chinese universities. Following the demonstrations by students in many colleges and universities in Beijing, college students in Tianjin also protested collectively in the evening of 26 May 2022, shouting the slogan "Down with formalism! Down with bureaucracy!".

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Tianjin University students: Down with formalism! Down with bureaucracy!

On the evening of 26 May, a large-scale demonstration broke out at Tianjin University, where students gathered to protest the closure measures.

Tianjin University student: What the classmates mean is that everyone has to wait here for the school leaders and all of us to solve this problem together, right?

Tianjin University student: Yes! Call the school leaders!

The students described in detail the unfair treatment after the school was closed including high prices in the school, the school authorities used offline final exams to prevent students from returning to their hometowns, the school’s epidemic prevention management was chaotic, staff and family members entered and left the school at will, and the school was heavily bureaucratic and leaders The school never listens to the opinions of the students, and does not give feedback on the demands of the students.

The students agreed to continue to gather in the square on the east side of Zhengdong Library at 8 pm on the 28th.

They also put forward five demands: 1. Clarify the method and time of the final exam; 2. Respond to online classes and present the examination policy; 3. Clarify the holiday time and return time; 4. Solve practical problems, such as the test week compression problem; 5. , No accountability, no interviews.

Dong Guangping, a former mainland philanthropist, remarked, "This epidemic prevention policy has already been opposed by the people of the whole country. Now that college students are facing graduation exams, they are sealed in the campus and they cannot do anything. This is what students hate and annoy the most, especially Students' free thinking and overall consciousness are very strong, what they need is freedom, and what they need is future development prospects."

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Tianjin in early January, many local universities have been under closed management, and students are not allowed to leave the campus. After the winter break, the school has continued to be closed until now.

Mr. Wang, a citizen of Tianjin, said, "Of course I can imagine that there may be problems there, but we dare not say it, because we don't have an atmosphere where we can express freely. If I say something that I think is no problem, I may If you were charged with the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, or spreading rumours or something that violated the laws of the state, you were arrested."

Nankai University, near Tianjin University, also broke out that students were carrying out various protests on campus.

Photos posted on the Internet show that some students hang large slogans on campus buildings, mocking Nankai University's "self-isolation from society"; some students spray "I want to be a free college student" on the campus wall; The school's appeal slogan.

Dong Guangping said, "Because this dynamic clearing of the epidemic prevention blockade has a huge impact on students, people are very disgusted, this is obvious formalism, bureaucracy, nonsense, just nonsense, no science, people object to it Very normal."

The zero-covid policy has also sparked resistance from many college students in Beijing.

Since May, many colleges and universities including Peking University, Beijing Normal University, and Beijing University of Political Science and Law have successively erupted in student demonstrations to protest against school closures.

Dong Guangping: "Of course the CCP is afraid. Now every year around June 4th, it is the time when the CCP fears the most. The CCP is afraid that students will rebel. Just like 8964, students are the most free-thinking. People, they are the most rebellious, so the CCP is afraid that the student movement like the CCP will make a comeback.”

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At present, due to the heating up of the epidemic in Beijing, the neighbouring Tianjin began to upgrade the control on the 25th. The authorities announced that the Heping District in the city center was "closed" and implemented a "global static management" for three days.

Mr. Li, a citizen of Tianjin, said, "Oh, it's hard to say, I don't know which epidemic is used for this epidemic, it is simply a kind of ambiguity, whether this is an epidemic, whether it is based on the facts, the epidemic, or the epidemic prevention law, there is no such thing. Not only the risk area, but also the surrounding iron wire and iron plates are blocked, and some are covered with barbed wire. I can't get out anywhere, I need help, then who will help me, how can I help me."

The authorities also required that from the evening of 27 May, all Tianjin residents must go to designated locations for nucleic acid testing. Until the test results come out, keep "still in place".

Mr. Li, a citizen of Tianjin, told NTDTV that the government forces people to do nucleic acid testing every day, and everyone is very disgusted.


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Mexico reports first case of monkeypox

Mexican health authorities on 28 May 2022 reported the country's first confirmed case of the monkeypox virus, a 50-year-old U.S. resident being treated in Mexico City.

Mexico's Undersecretary of Health, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, tweeted that the man, a permanent resident of New York City, was "probably infected in the Netherlands."

"Fortunately, he is in stable condition and is in preventive isolation. We hope he will recover without complications," Lopez-Gatell said.

He did not provide information on the patient's possible contacts.

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Argentina confirms two monkeypox cases

Argentine health authorities reported two confirmed cases of monkeypox in the country on 27 May 2022, including a 40-year-old man who returned to Argentina from Spain and a man who visited the capital Buenos Aires. The two cases appear to be unrelated. (Central News Agency)

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Shanghai's false positive test kills the fetus, officials say it's "no big deal" (video)


The closure of the city in Shanghai has caused continuous secondary disasters. A few days ago, a video posted on the Internet showed that some residents complained that the official test was "false positive", which made it difficult for pregnant women at home to seek medical treatment, and finally died, but grass-roots officials said "it's not a big deal."

In this video, which was released on 28 May, the subtitles showed that "the false sun of Sunac Binjiang No. 1 Hospital was unable to seek medical treatment, resulting in stillbirth. Government officials said it was not a big deal." Sunac Binjiang No. 1 Courtyard is a high-end community located in the Binjiang section of the World Expo in Huangpu District, Shanghai.


In the video, an elderly man complained to the onlookers that his family members tested "positive" on the 16th and 17th, and the health code turned into a red code but 5 days later, it suddenly changed back to a green code. After another 5 days, the test result on the 25th turned negative, and it was so inexplicably "positive for 10 days", which made it difficult for pregnant women at home to seek medical treatment and stillbirth.

The old man said that the family had paid 180,000 RMB to an obstetric hospital for the birth of the child, and then another 50,000 to 60,000 RMB for an abortion. During her medical treatment, the pregnant woman made numerous calls to various government departments, but no one came forward to solve the problem.

The old man pointed at a government official with a job badge on his chest and scolded the "beast government". The onlookers also angrily rebuked the official, "It's not a big deal?" "How can you say such a thing?" "You lied!" It was suspected that the official had said, "It's not a big deal when he appeased the masses before. things" etc.

The Shanghai authorities have brutally closed and controlled for "zero-covid", causing countless human tragedies, and a large number of people have died without medical treatment. In addition, rounds of intensive national nucleic acid testing have led to chaos in the testing industry, and many testing institutions have been accused of fraud. A few days ago, Shanghai Zhongke Runda was revealed to have issued a false test report, creating a large number of "false positive" cases, and was investigated for this.

There are also netizens who broke the news that a resident of a household tested "positive", which led to the surrounding neighbors being taken away as "close contacts" for isolation. As a result, the household was retested negatively, but the neighbors who had been quarantined were ignored and could not go home.

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Does Li not follow the rules? The meeting of 100,000 people released four major signals

Image : Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council of the Communist Party of China appeared in Yunnan a few days ago, expressing that the downward pressure on the economy has further increased. (Video screenshot)



Chinese Premier Li Keqiang convened an emergency meeting of officials from 2,844 districts and counties across the country on 25 May 2022. The meeting emphasized "stabilizing the economic market". The number of participants was about 100,000, and it was rare. Some observers at home and abroad even compared this meeting to the CCP’s 7,000-person conference in 1962, implying that Li Keqiang has returned strongly and that the new pattern of power distribution under Xi and Li Shang is being finalized and developed. So, what kind of signal did Li Keqiang hold the 100,000-person meeting? This article has four points of understanding.

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The disagreement between Xi and Li is completely open

With the strong implementation of Xi Jinping's zero-covid policy across the country, China's economy has shown a sharp downward trend.

On 23 May, Li Keqiang frankly admitted that the downside risks of China's economy were expanding and deployed 33 measures to stabilize the economy. On the afternoon of 25 May, Li Keqiang did not mention the dynamic clearing policy at the meeting of 100,000 people, publicly admitting that the Chinese economy is in danger of slipping out of a reasonable range.

In the morning of 25 May, the front page of "People's Daily" extensively reported Xi Jinping's economic outlook ""China's economic development prospects will definitely be brighter"". Significant achievements are leading China toward a renaissance.

On 18 May, Xi Jinping delivered a video speech at the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit. On the same day, Xi Jinping mentioned in his speech at the opening ceremony of the video conference of the 73rd World Health Assembly that "it is necessary to strengthen the coordination of international macroeconomic policies, maintain the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain and supply chain, and try our best to restore the world economy." He did not mention the CCP's economic downturn at all, pressure, and also pledged to provide 2 billion US dollars in international aid within two years to support developing countries in their fight against the epidemic.

The Wall Street Journal reported that when Li Keqiang held a meeting with a group of senior representatives of U.S., European and Asian multinational companies at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on 19 May, he did not defend Xi Jinping’s strategy of dynamic clearing and focused more on China’s own problems. The report also said that as soon as Li walked into the Diaoyutai conference room, he took off his mask. At the end of the meeting, the accompanying staff had to remind him to wear a mask.

It is an indisputable fact that Xi and Li are not in tune, but at such a large-scale meeting of heads of governments at all levels, Li Keqiang gave a comprehensive report on the extreme dilemma of China's economy, all kinds of economic data cut in half and the central government's financial constraints. In some aspects and to a certain extent, it is bigger than when the epidemic was severely hit in 2020.” In fact, it is a complete and complete disclosure of Xi and Li’s different tones from top to bottom. "Economic Observer" reported that a district-level government notified more than 50 participants, including all the heads of the district government and the district government office, the principals of relevant departments directly under the district, and the principals of some district party committees and financial institutions. The main person in charge of each township field office.

Is the complete openness of the conflict between Xi and Li to create momentum for the struggle for power? Does it mean a major escalation of Li Keqiang's power?

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Xi is still in power, Li has to follow

The outside world interprets this super-large conference as a landmark event of Li Keqiang's sudden rise in power, mainly based on three points: First, the large number of people, comparable to the conference of 7,000 people; Second, the four vice premiers Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan, Hu Chunhua, Liu He, and State Councilors Wei Fenghe, Wang Yong, Xiao Jie, Zhao Kezhi, etc. attended the meeting; Third, Li did not mention the dynamic clearing at all.

However these three points do not mean that Li Keqiang has returned to power. Li did not attack Xi like the 7,000-member conference in history. The 7,000-member conference was very clear to reflect and review the Great Leap Forward launched by Mao Zedong and the subsequent great famine. Mao had to criticize himself, Liu Deng and others would meet After that, he presided over the daily work of the Central Committee. The political struggle for power at the General Assembly has a strong meaning, which is also a major political factor that led to Mao's later launch of the Cultural Revolution to restore power.

However, Li Keqiang's 100,000-person meeting did not denounce the reset policy and Xi Jinping's mistakes. Instead, he had to issue an order to implement the rescue economic policy under the reset framework. It was a mobilization meeting focused on deploying economic recovery and avoiding a hard landing of the economy. Moreover, Xi Jinping himself did not participate in the meeting, which reflects that there is indeed a battle of lines, but it is too early to judge that Li has gained an overwhelming advantage. In the military, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe is not a figure in real power. He is a member of the State Council system. It is not unusual for high-ranking officials to attend the meeting. After all, defense and military expenditures are covered by the general public budget.

Caitong News quoted Chen Chao, president of the China Investment Corporation Research Institute, as analyzing that the larger the meeting, the more it conveys and urges the implementation, not the announcement of new policies. Analysts quoted by Bloomberg believe that the National Congress on May 23 responded to the market’s expectations for incremental policies. Therefore, the main purpose of the 100,000-person meeting is to build consensus, ensure the smooth flow of government decrees, and speed up the implementation of 33 policies in six areas at the National Standing Committee on 23 May.

From the literature and propaganda reports, the huge 100,000-person meeting was dealt with in a low-key manner by the party media. On the night of May 25, "Economic Daily" suddenly criticized Li Keqiang's speech at a meeting of 100,000 people. The bottom half of the front page of the People's Daily on May 26 was a 1,200-word report on the conference, and the top half of the front page was all about Xi Jinping. The full text of Li Keqiang's one-and-a-half-hour speech cannot be found on domestic media.

In the afternoon of 27 May, the headlines of party media such as People's Daily Online, Xinhuanet, CCTV, and China Government Network were all "The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to review the "Regulations on the Political Consultative Work of the Communist Party of China." General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the meeting," reported It once again emphasizes strengthening the "four consciousnesses", strengthening the "four self-confidences", and achieving "two maintenances".

In terms of personnel positions, on 16 May, Lin Rui, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security of Fujian, was appointed as the deputy secretary-general of the Political and Legal Committee. Wang Xiaohong's other former ministry, Qi Yanjun, was promoted from Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Chief to Deputy Minister of Public Security on 25 May. In this way, the forces of the Ministry of Public Security and the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Xi faction continued to grow.

Xinhua News Agency reported on 26 May that Li Xi was elected secretary of the provincial party committee at the first plenary meeting of the 13th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China on the same day. On 22 May, the Guangdong Provincial Party Congress of the Communist Party of China opened. Li Xi vigorously praised Xi Jinping, saying that Xi Jinping is "an authority set in one and a final word." Li Xi is considered by the outside world to be an important member of Xi's army, and it is also an indicator for the outside world to measure the rise and fall of Xi Jinping's power in terms of personnel positions.

To sum up, it can be seen that the rumors of Xi Jinping's loss of power and power are more false than true, and there is a high probability that it is part of Jiang Zeng's 20 major information wars against Xi.

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Economic collapse, the CCP is at stake

The third signal conveyed by Li Keqiang's speech at the 100,000-person meeting is that the CCP's economy is on the verge of collapse and poses a substantial threat to the CCP's regime.

At the beginning of his speech, Li Keqiang clearly stated that the economic downturn has hit fiscal revenue. Because the tax rebate is to be deducted, "the national fiscal revenue fell by 5.9% in April, especially the local fiscal revenue fell faster by 6.6%. Especially in the Yangtze River Delta region, these places are the net contributions to the central revenue, the largest The rate dropped to 32%." At the same time, Li Keqiang also said, "In the past few months, the income from the sale of land use rights has dropped by 29.8%."

Li Keqiang emphasized that in order to bail out economic entities, this year, "2.5 trillion in tax rebates, plus 300 billion in social security premiums, and other fiscal expenditures totaling 3 trillion."

Due to the zero-covid policy itself, fiscal revenue has declined, while expenditure has increased. The CCP’s central bank has limited room to cut interest rates. Fiscal deficits can only be offset by issuing government bonds, and relying on government credit to delay the economic collapse.

Li Keqiang said in his speech, "At present, there are about 150 million market players in China, but the number of enterprise cancellations in April increased by 23.1%. At the same time, he pointed out that the national urban survey unemployment rate in April increased by 0.3 percentage points month-on-month, reaching 6.1%, especially 31%. In a big city, the surveyed unemployment rate is as high as 6.7%, especially the surveyed unemployment rate of young people aged 16 to 24, which is said to be 18.2% for college students." Li Keqiang also specifically mentioned that this year's 10 million college graduates and 290 million migrant workers are both employed. It poses a huge pressure to stabilize employment.

The CCP’s economy faces three major pressures this year: Demand contraction, supply shocks and weakening expectations, among which the signal of weakening expectations is very obvious. Li Keqiang said, "In April, RMB loans increased by more than 820 billion year-on-year, and the increase in social financing scale decreased year-on-year. This is not a good thing."

Businesses and residents prefer to save their money, a sign that the market is too sluggish to be confident. Bank credit is not available, and interest on deposits must be paid. Coupled with the potential financial explosion caused by weak real estate, financial systemic risks are intensifying.

In addition, Li Keqiang also talked about the food crisis, energy security, stabilizing foreign trade and how to ensure the supply chain under the epidemic prevention and control. Li Keqiang emphasized, "As such a large economy, once China's operation slips out of a reasonable range, it will be difficult to pull it back without paying a huge price and taking longer." "This is not just an economic issue. , but also a major political issue.”

On 27 May, the Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China announced that from January to April, the national industrial enterprises above designated size achieved a profit of 2.65 trillion yuan, an annual increase of 3.5%. However, in April, the profits of industrial enterprises above designated size across the country fell by 8.5%, and the profits of the manufacturing industry fell by 22% year-on-year. From the graph, the growth rate of total profits of industrial enterprises above designated size in the country has dropped from 106.1% in January-April 2021 to 3.5% in January-April this year.

Among them, from January to April 2022, the total profit of foreign and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan-invested enterprises was 603.06 billion RMB, a negative growth of 16.2% year-on-year. Foreign trade, the only one of the CCP's economy, is also withering. A survey released by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China in early May showed that as many as 23 percent of European companies were considering relocating their operations out of China, the highest percentage in a decade.

Do Li Keqiang's 6 items and 33 measures work? Wu Jianzhong, secretary-general of the Taiwan Taoist Tactics Association, was interviewed and analyzed by Radio Free Asia. Last year, Li Keqiang proposed that six stability and six guarantees must be adhered to China's dynamic reset policy. Repeated dynamic reset will make the daily economy unable to operate, and people cannot afford housing loans, Car loan, even three meals a day have to tighten the belt. Local governments do not dare to open the closure and control at will, there is external inflation, and the cost cannot be reduced. Some college students actually apply for urban management and police assistants. The representative is not optimistic about the future prospects and the Chinese economy is very bad.

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High-level divisions, local officials have their own thoughts

On the high-level divisions, can the officials below be diligent and serve the people? From top to bottom, the CCP officialdom believes in black and thick learning.

On 26 May, Bloomberg quoted eight CCP provincial officials as revealing that Li Keqiang’s speech to 100,000 people did not change their views, and that controlling the epidemic remains a priority. Some officials even said directly: "It's useless to listen to him (Li Keqiang)." Another person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that many senior officials in many cities were absent from the heavy meeting because they could not leave their anti-epidemic posts.

On the evening of May 27, Tianjin required all residents to conduct nucleic acid tests and "keep relatively still in place." Li Hongzhong, secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, famously said "loyalty is absolute disloyalty". Sealing and control has become Li Hongzhong's weight to show his loyalty to the central government. A few days ago, students at Tianjin University protested collectively, shouting the slogan "Down with formalism and over bureaucracy".

The blockade has caused great losses to the economy but it is a good opportunity for CCP officials to make a fortune in the country. A few days ago, it was reported on the Internet that Chang Yanqing, the brother-in-law of Zhuge Yujie, the former deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee of Han Zheng, ran several supply guarantee companies. The registered capital is only 1 million. Some local officials in Shanghai once said that they really don’t want to let the epidemic stop. Because of the daily gold, where can I find such a fortune opportunity.

In the face of the split in the CCP's high-level line, there are people who choose sides. As soon as Li Keqiang spoke to 100,000 people, Zhengzhou announced the issuance of 240 million RMB of consumer coupons to stimulate the economy. The event time is from 1 June to 31 August, covering various types of food and beverage coupons, online coupons, automobile coupons, cultural tourism coupons, etc. The method is still first-come, first-served.

Zhengzhou has issued consumer coupons almost every year since 2020 to stimulate consumption. Issuing consumer vouchers can indeed play a multiplier effect on consumer spending, so why not directly cash out money for low-income families? Perhaps there is a link between CCP officials and the corresponding suppliers of consumer coupons to convey benefits? Where does the money for the coupons come from? If spending from the general public budget will crowd out other rigid expenditures, will it be necessary to issue general government bonds to make up for the deficit? Is it a virtuous circle to always rely on issuing consumer coupons to stimulate the economy?

In short, the implementation of the current CCP’s zero policy is the biggest politics before the 20th National Congress. Li Keqiang’s economic firefighting can only be a dead horse and a living horse doctor.

This news article represents the views and statements of the writer only.

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Expert: Many people are vitamin D deficient without knowing it

Image : Vitamin D deficiency is common. (Nick Youngson/ Pix4free, CC BY-SA 3.0)


Vitamin D deficiency is considered to be one of the most common diseases in the world, and although healthy sunlight exposure and a proper balanced diet can provide vitamin D, about half of the world's population are deficient in vitamin D.

Vitamin D deficiency has been reported in 30-50% of children and adults in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. A 2011 medical study, "Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency," found that more than 42 percent of Americans don't get enough vitamin D.

"Vitamin D deficiency is a very serious problem for my patients and me," said Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a medical writer for Fox News. "Vitamin D levels can affect many aspects of the body, including digestion. system, sleep, mood, energy and levels of vitamins and minerals in the body.”

Vitamin D aids in calcium absorption and promotes bone growth and mineralization. Recent studies have linked vitamin D deficiency with more than a dozen cancers, heart disease, periodontal disease, autoimmune disease, chronic skin disease, obesity, depression and Alzheimer's disease. A severe deficiency can lead to rickets (soft bones, crooked legs, growth retardation, and bone pain) in children and osteoporosis (weakened bones) in adults. Conversely, adequate vitamin D protects the brain from toxic chemicals and reduces pain.

"Many Americans are deficient in vitamin D due to lack of sunlight and proper nutrition." Neshewart said people who work indoors, such as doctors who work 14-15 hours, or who eat an unhealthy diet, are more likely to be deficient.

Harvard Medical School has pointed out in an article that, in theory, under the right circumstances, humans need to be in the sun for 10 to 15 minutes every few days, including arms and legs, without using sunscreen, can produce enough vitamin D.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 15 minutes of bright sunlight can damage unprotected skin. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, and approximately 9,500 Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer every day, according to the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).

There is significant scientific debate about how much vitamin D the human body needs, with recommended doses ranging from 600 to 2000 IU per day.

Fatty fish and seafood are among the richest natural food sources of vitamin D but the amount can vary by type and source.

Mushrooms are the only vegetarian source of vitamin D. Wild mushrooms generally contain more vitamin D than commercially grown mushrooms due to exposure to sunlight. Of course, UV-treated mushrooms will be higher in vitamin D.

Plus, egg yolks are another source of vitamin D, and some studies suggest that eggs from pasture-raised or free-range chickens provide more vitamin D.

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Consuming too much vitamin D can be harmful

Likewise, consuming too much vitamin D (known as vitamin D toxicity) can be harmful. Signs of poisoning include nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, constipation, weakness and weight loss. Too much vitamin D can also damage the kidneys. It can also raise calcium levels in the blood. High levels of calcium in the blood (hypercalcemia) can lead to confusion, disorientation, and heart rhythm problems.

For many people, taking a vitamin D supplement may be an option. Because the doses of different types vary, and the amount needed depends on your current vitamin D level, experts advise that it is best to consult your doctor in advance.



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Friday, May 27, 2022

Cancer cells starved to death, Mongolia owns its own oil-refinery by 2025

 Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

News on disease control, Mongolia, CCP, U.S., Taiwan, Japan, airport management

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Cancer cells can be starved to death

Image of a cancer cell : Shutterstock

Just like how people survive on food, cancer cells survive on sugar.

Around one century ago, Otto Warburg, well-known German physiologist, discovered that cancer cells are addicted to sugar.

Normal cells depend on oxygen for their growth. Cancer cells, however, grow by devouring large amounts of glucose, even in an oxygen-rich environment. This phenomenon occurs in as many as 80 percent of cancers.

The metabolic way cancer cells use sugar as an energy source is called glycolytic metabolism. This phenomenon is known as the Warburg effect.

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Cancer cells consume 100 times more sugar than normal tissue cells

The metabolism and growth rate of cancer cells are much faster than normal cells, and their consumption of sugar is also faster than we can imagine. It can be said that cancer cells are constantly thirsty for sugar.

In a 2014 paper published in BMC Biology, American scientists showed that many cancer cells specifically choose glucose as their food and consume glucose 50 to 100 times faster than normal tissues.

 

Cancer cells desperately absorb sugar and consume it rapidly in order to grow, multiply, and spread rapidly.

 

Sugar can produce carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, which to cells are like bricks, cement, and insulating materials with which to build homes. In addition, sugar also makes DNA and RNA for cells as their genetic blueprints.

 

Inspired by the Warburg effect, scientists have further developed a new way to diagnose cancer— positron emission tomography (PET).

 

It works by injecting the patient with a contrast agent (usually fluorinated deoxyglucose) and waiting an hour or so for the fluorinated deoxyglucose to enter the body’s metabolic system, at which point imaging scans are taken. When the glucose is concentrated in a certain area of the body, the image of that area will become brighter.

 

For example, when a patient is examined for pancreatic cancer, a normal pancreas does not light up on PET scans. However, when parts of the pancreas become brighter, it means that cancer is present.

 

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A diet high in sugar increases the risk of many cancers

 

Cancer is not just one type of disease. It is a series of genetic or metabolic diseases caused by mitochondrial dysfunction of cells. Moreover, the organs or sites where cancer occurs are often places where the metabolism of the organisms is relatively vigorous.

 

Since cancer cells prefer glycolytic metabolism as their energy source, high consumption of sugar can lead to faster growth and spread of cancer. This explains why there is much epidemiological evidence that people with diabetes are more likely to develop cancer, especially breast, colon, prostate, liver, and pancreatic cancers.

 

A growing number of studies have found a direct correlation between sugar intake and increased cancer risk.

 

Researchers in the United States followed 3,184 Americans aged 26 to 84 from 1991 to 2013 and found that higher juice intake increased the risk of prostate cancer by 58 percent and higher sugary drink intake increased the risk of obesity-related cancers by 59 percent in subjects with over-central obesity.

 

A Swedish epidemiological cohort study of more than 60,000 women discovered that those consuming diets with high dietary glycemic index, high glycemic load and high carbohydrate intake were more likely to develop breast cancer. In addition, women in the group with the highest sugar intake (over 35 g of sucrose per day, plus consumption of sweet bread and cookies more than three times per week) were at significantly increased risk of endometrial cancer.

 

Several researchers in the United States jointly conducted a systematic evaluation of 37 prospective studies on sugar and cancer risk published in authoritative journals from 1990 to 2017. According to the results, high sugar intake may increase cancer risk by promoting insulin-glucose dysregulation, oxidative stress, inflammation, and obesity. Among them, two studies on added sugars showed that high sugar intake increased the risk of cancer by 60 percent to 95 percent. Out of 15 studies on sugary foods and beverages, eight found that the higher the intake of sugary beverages, the higher the risk of cancer, with an increase of 23 percent to 200 percent.

 

Furthermore, consuming too much sugar also increases cancer mortality.

 

In a study published in the journal Clinical Nutrition, researchers followed 7,447 tested individuals over many years to examine the association between sugar intake and cancer incidence, cancer mortality and total mortality. They found that for every 5-gram increase per day in liquid sugar intake, the incidence of cancer increased by 8 percent.

 

Furthermore, simple sugar intake from beverages and fruit juices was associated with increased risk of overall cancer mortality and all-cause mortality.

 

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Beyond reducing sugar intake

 

You may wonder, since cancer cells love sugar, if we cut out carbohydrates and sugar completely, can we starve them to death?

 

Unfortunately, this is not the right way.

 

This is because our body’s functions are extremely sophisticated and complex. If we simply cut out sugar and carbohydrates, the body will quickly turn to other substances to maintain metabolism and survival. This is especially true of the cunning cancer cells.

 

Those who have undergone specific cancer treatments need to consume adequate amounts of nutrients, including carbohydrates, to help their bodies recover further.


However, it is possible to block the cancer cells from eating sugar and consuming energy through specific treatments.


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Affect the metabolism of cancer cells to treat cancer

 

Dr. Sophia Lunt, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Michigan State University, gave a Tedx Talk to introduce the public to a promising new direction in cancer therapy, which is to treat cancer by affecting the metabolism of cancer cells.

 

By blocking multiple genes involved in cancer cell metabolism, Dr. Lunt has attempted to cut off multiple pathways that support cancer cell growth and metabolism at the same time, to stop the growth of cancer cells. Happily, normal cells could continue to grow during this process.


However, the process is very complicated. During her talk, Dr. Lunt presented the audience with a labyrinth-like picture of the metabolic mechanism of cancer cells. She added that the diagram had already been simplified.

 

According to Dr. Lunt, it is necessary to identify the main metabolic pathways of cancer cells, then figure out the specific role of each metabolic pathway, and finally develop a personalized treatment based on the specific patient’s genes, diet, and living environment.

 

It can be said that controlling the metabolism of cancer cells is a promising emerging direction for cancer treatment in the future.

 

Dr. Lunt mentioned in her speech that there are many types of cancer but they all have one thing in common: the need to eat. She would like cancer cells to be starved to death.

 

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Restrict sugar intake

 

Although we cannot completely cut out sugar and carbohydrates from our diet, we can prevent cancer by consuming sugar correctly.

 

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Control the proportion of carbohydrates in the diet

 

Carbohydrates are a general term for monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides (such as starch). After being consumed, starch is broken down into glucose.

 

Our body needs carbohydrates but a diet high in sugar and carbohydrates is dangerous for both healthy people and cancer patients.

 

To reduce the incidence of cancer, we can use the “plate method” to control the proportion of carbohydrates in each meal.

 

With the plate method, a typical meal is represented by the amount of food on a plate. We should fill one quarter of the plate with carbohydrate foods, another quarter with protein, and the second half with vegetables (as low on the glycemic index as possible). In the middle of the plate, there can be foods rich in healthy fats, such as avocado.

 

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Choose complex carbohydrates


Complex carbohydrates are dietary fibre and starch. Starch, not easily digested by the body quickly, includes beans, whole grains, and sweet potatoes. They are not quickly converted into sugar in the body and are extremely rich in diverse nutrients.

 

Due to deep processing, the ratios of fiber, vitamins, minerals and protein in refined carbohydrates decrease. Once in the body, they are quickly broken down into large amounts of glucose. Typical refined carbohydrates include pasta and bread with fine flour, and baked goods, such as cakes and cookies.

 

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Eat fewer refined carbohydrates


We may want to replace half of our white rice with brown rice or mixed rice, replace white breads with whole wheat breads, or occasionally use steamed corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, or taros as staple foods.

 

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Limit intake of sugar, especially refined sugar


It is better to eat low glycemic index fruits instead of drinking fruit juices. We should also avoid eating foods with high added sugar. If we want to add sugar to our food, we can replace white granulated sugar with natural sugar substitutes, such as stevia and monk fruit sweeteners. However, we should not use synthetic sweeteners as sugar substitutes because they can damage the probiotics in our intestines and harm our health.

 

When cooking, we should use herbs and spices that have a hypoglycemic effect, such as fenugreek, onions, garlic, shallots, chives, cinnamon, bay leaves, and cloves.


Ref: https://www.theepochtimes.com/cancer-cells-can-be-starved-to-death-heres-how_4477408.html


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Monkeypox "Games" could lay groundwork for WHO pandemic response takeover


Reporter : Joshua Philip, The Epoch Times PREMIUM

The World Health Organization (WHO) is responding to a string of monkeypox outbreaks, and will be convening an emergency meeting on the virus and its global spread.

In terms of government power, the timing of this outbreak couldn’t be better for the WHO—which may soon be granted powers to manage laws on global health outbreaks, and which is oddly well-positioned for a monkeypox outbreak following a recent “germ-games” call, and recent incidents tied to figures who include Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates.

The New York Post declared, “The World Health Organization is reportedly convening an emergency meeting into the alarming spread of monkeypox around the world—including a possible case in the Big Apple.” The Telegraph reports that the United Nations health authority will be bringing together “a group of leading experts” in the meeting, which is believed to be focused on how the virus is suddenly spreading so widely. It also allegedly will look into the virus’s prevalence among homosexual men and on the “vaccination situation.”

The numbers of infections are by no means high. By May 23, the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School recorded 245 either confirmed or suspected cases in the entire world. Sajid Javid, the UK health secretary, wrote on Twitter: “Most cases are mild …”

The timing of all of this is important. It gives the WHO a chance to show its worth, since it’s in the process of trying to get new and expansive powers—under the banner of governing global health emergencies.

The United Nations is considering various amendments to the WHO at its 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, that could give its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the unilateral authority to declare a public health emergency with far-reaching powers over the laws of sovereign nations.

Not only would this give Tedros the ability to declare a public health emergency in any nation he wants—using whatever evidence he wants—but it would also allow him to dictate policies that the target country should adopt to respond to the U.N.’s declared emergency. If a country refuses, a proposed amendment could give the WHO the ability to sanction that country.

If you’re wondering whether giving such powers to a U.N. agency that couldn’t demonstrate its independence from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could fly in the face of U.S. law, it seems that President Joe Biden has the answer. Not only is the Biden administration allowing this shift in power to the WHO, but it’s also helping advance it.

The United States proposed amendments to the WHO in January, which will be considered at the U.N. meeting in Geneva, The Epoch Times reports. These included an amendment that would allow the WHO to make public declarations on a health crisis without needing to consult with the target country, and without needing to get verification from local officials. The Biden administration’s proposals would also give $2.47 billion in funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for things including “enhancements to domestic sentinel surveillance programs,” “investments in global genomic surveillance approaches,” and other systems.

As The Epoch Times reports, “Respiratory surveillance platforms include video cameras and recorders that alert authorities when members of the public are seen coughing or otherwise acting in a manner that could indicate the presence of an infectious disease or help spread one already present in a population. Such equipment is widely used in China.”

Whether or not monkeypox poses a large threat to public health, it presents a serious threat to public freedom. The virus could act as a Trojan horse, carrying inside it all the justifications to grant the WHO a dictator’s dream of global power, and give the CDC a system of surveillance beyond anything Orwell could have conceived.

Under normal circumstances, monkeypox wouldn’t be a large viral risk. The CDC states that it can be transmitted human-to-human mainly by respiratory droplets that typically don’t travel more than a few feet, and so it notes that “prolonged face-to-face contact is required.”

Even Biden is walking back his statements that people should be concerned about monkeypox, and is clarifying that it’s not as serious of a threat as COVID-19.

Regardless of its inability to spread widely under normal circumstances, a global discussion on monkeypox vaccines started in 2021 after Gates warned of a smallpox bioterrorist attack as a potential next pandemic. He called on world leaders to hold “germ games” and give the WHO new powers—similar to the ones they may soon receive—under a new WHO “Pandemic Task Force.”

Gates also called for pandemic surveillance systems, which seem eerily similar to what the Biden administration submitted in its proposed amendments for the WHO’s new powers.

“It’ll take probably about $1 billion a year for a pandemic Task Force at the WHO level, which is doing the surveillance and actually doing what I call ‘germ games’ where you practice.” Gates said in 2021, Sky News reported. “You say, OK, what if a bioterrorist brought smallpox to 10 airports? You know, how would the world respond to that?”

Even though the mention of smallpox by Gates was minor, it purportedly was used to justify new discussions on a smallpox vaccine that could also treat monkeypox. Just several days later, on Nov. 8, 2021, Precision Vaccinations reported, “Gates Germ-Game Warning Motivates Smallpox Vaccine Discussions.”

The “discussions” in question were about a Jynneos Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine—approved in 2019. Precision Vaccinations noted that it’s “the only FDA-approved non-replicating smallpox vaccine and the only FDA-approved monkeypox vaccine for non-military use.”

Movement within the CDC began a few days earlier, on Nov. 3, 2021. It says that “the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices reviewed the two presentations focused on the smallpox vaccine Jynneos.”

And then, just several days later, an even stranger occurrence took place—carrying out the idea of a “germ game” similar to what Gates proposed.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference to imagine a pandemic scenario with monkeypox. Following the hypothetical warning from Gates, the germ game imagined a strain of monkeypox, released through a bioterrorist attack, that had been altered to be resistant to vaccines.

On Nov. 23, 2021, the NTI published its results from the tabletop game, which showed the spread of the virus over the course of 18 months.

“By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than 3 billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide,” it states.

In an incredible act of foresight, the exercise from last year imagined that monkeypox would appear almost exactly when it did: in mid-May this year.

The NTI also published a detailed report on its results. According to a timeline on page 12 of the report, it imagined that in May 2022, the initial outbreak of monkeypox would infect 1,421 people and kill four people. By January 2023, it would spread to 83 countries, infect 70 million, and kill 1.3 million. At that point, it would be discovered that monkeypox had been engineered to be vaccine-resistant, and supply chain challenges would make a response more difficult.

After one year, on May 10, 2023, it was predicted to infect 480 million people and kill 27 million, and it would be revealed that a bioterror attack on a civilian biolab had been the origin. Then, by Dec. 1, 2023, the virus would be estimated to infect 3.2 billion people and kill 271 million.

Of course, the important caveat with their estimates is that the monkeypox strain they imagined was one that had been engineered to be vaccine-resistant. Accurate or not, the exercise gives authorities a predictive scenario to justify “pandemic response” policies. And we’ve seen this happen before.

A very similar “germ game” was held just before the outbreak of COVID-19, with many of the same figures involved now making noise about monkeypox and a new “pandemic.”

New York Magazine reported in February 2020 that “two months before the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 emerged in central China, a group of public-health experts gathered in New York City for a simulation.” It also noted, “The characteristics of the virus currently causing global havoc are remarkably similar to the one proposed in the simulation, dubbed ‘Event 201.’”

Partners in the exercise included the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Similar to the monkeypox “germ game” before the monkeypox outbreak, the coronavirus “germ game” before the coronavirus outbreak made predictions of a mass fatality scenario. It estimated that 65 million people would die.

The Center for Health Security issued a statement on its coronavirus exercise on Jan. 24, 2020. It stated that they weren’t predicting that COVID-19 would kill 65 million people, as the simulated virus was different from the CCP virus.

Yet the important thing wasn’t the specifics of the “germ game,” but instead, how the game and its participants went on to inform government policy.

And now, with monkeypox, we’ve arrived at a similar impasse. A “germ game” imagined the potential effect of the virus, and produced inflated numbers of deaths and infections by an imaginary version of monkeypox as the model, which was resistant to vaccines. Most importantly, this also coincides with the international community weighing whether the WHO should be granted powers to govern global health emergencies.

Among the trends of COVID-19 is that governments may now be more inclined to use a seasonal virus, already declared as endemic, to justify an indefinite global emergency. Additionally, small outbreaks can also be used to justify deeply authoritarian policies that aren’t limited to health care.

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Mongolian and Chinese airlines to rotate serving Guangzhou and Hohhot weekly from 1 June 2022

At its regular meeting today on 25 May 2022, the Mongolian Cabinet has made the decision to have weekly flights begin to be conducted to the cities of Guangzhou and Hohhot in China starting from 1 June 2022. 

Minister of Road and Transport Development L.Khaltar said, “Due to the pandemic, flights between the two countries were halted on 27 January 2020. Based on the talks that were held between the two sides, the side of China informed that it is possible to conduct weekly flights to its cities with the exception of Shanghai and Beijing.

The Government discussed the matter on 25 May 2022, and made the decision to allow MIAT Mongolian Airlines and Aero Mongolia to conduct weekly flights to Guangzhou and Hohhot respectively. While these Mongolian aviation companies will be conducting the flights for one week, Chinese aviation companies will be in charge of the next.”

In its framework, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will hold discussions with the side of China to determine the regulations to be followed for preventing infections, and give detailed information regarding the matter before 1 June, he said. 

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Mongolians to own state-issued email addresses

At the Cabinet’s regular meeting on 26 May 2022, Mongolian Acting Minister of Digital Development and Communications L.Enkh-Amgalan was tasked to implement appropriate measures to introduce state-issued email addresses within 2022, further expanding it, while Minister of Finance B.Javkhlan was tasked to resolve necessary funding. 


According to the ‘Household and Personal Information, Communication and Information Technology Usage Survey’ conducted by the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications and the National Statistics Office of Mongolia in 2021, 43.8% of the survey’s participants had the sufficient digital literacy skills. In addition, 1.4 million citizens will be able to use the state-issued email address based on the number of users of the e-Mongolia system.

During the meeting, corresponding officials were also tasked to introduce state-issued email addresses, and ensure the readiness of the system in aims of increasing the participation of citizens in governance.


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Mongolia to be self-reliant on gasoline by 2025





With aims to establish an oil refinery based on available supply of commodities, meet domestic demands for gasoline, and launching domestic production, a comprehensive construction project is being implemented in Altanshiree soum, Dornogobi aimag, the project of Mongol Refinery State Owned LLC.

Planned to be put into operation in 2025, the construction works were recently launched. Its detailed feasibility study was approved by the Mineral Resources Professional Council at the Ministry of Mining and Heavy Industry on 15 November 2018. 

A bill on supporting the oil refinery was developed by a working group consisting of officials and representatives from the Ministry of Justice and Internal Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Mining and Heavy Industry, Mineral Resources and Petroleum Authority of Mongolia, and Mongol Refinery State Owned LLC, which was discussed at a Cabinet meeting on 30 December 2020. Following this, the Standing Committee on Industrial Policy formed a working group, and corresponding bills were approved at the parliament’s plenary session on 29 January 2021. The Government also approved the regulations on state support for the oil refinery on 11 August 2021. It was through all these stages that the legal environment was created for an oil refinery to be established in Mongolia. 

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Oil refinery construction agreement signed with Indian company

The first stage of the refinery’s construction consists of non-technological facilities. The first engineering-procurement – construction (EPC-1) contract was signed with the company, ‘JMC Projects India’, in October 2020, and its works launched in January 2021.

In preparation for the construction to be carried out for non-technological structures, facilities, pipelines, and the site, domestic resources were utilized in connecting the area to railroad, autoroad, and power lines. 

On top of this, the first apartment complex for housing 550 households is currently being built in Sainshand for the refinery’s workers. Once the apartments are commissioned, it is planned to be expanded into a microdistrict of comfortable apartments with modern solutions. During the entire duration of the oil refinery’s construction, around 8 thousand workers will be working at the site. 

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Crude oil pipeline will be constructed with CCP company assistance


On 1 March 2021, Mongol Refinery State Owned LLC had a request for expression of interest for the tender to select the contractor for engineering, procurement and construction plus financing (EPC plus F) of the project to construct a crude oil pipeline published on the website, Pipeline & Gas Journal, announcing the tender internationally. About 20 foreign and domestic companies expressed their interest in participating in the tender, and the process to select the contractor was completed on 20 October 2021. 

As the Chinese state-owned NORINCO International Cooperation was selected through the tender, a cooperation agreement was signed by State Secretary of the Ministry of Mining and Heavy Industry G.Nandinjargal, CEO of Mongol Refinery State Owned LLC D.Altantsetseg, CEO of Erdenes Tavantolgoi JSC B.Gankhuyag (as the project financing body), and General Manager at NORINCO International Cooperation Zhou Dian Bin in April 2022. 

With financing of USD 388 million from Erdenes Tavantolgoi JSC, the crude oil pipeline will pass through nine soums of three aimags, stretching for 530 km. 

Per the Cabinet’s resolution on issuing oil exploration area in the Tamsag basin to the Mongol Refinery company, an oil pipeline will be constructed from Matad soum, Dornod aimag to the oil refinery site in Altanshiree soum, Dornogobi aimag. It is planned to be constructed in three years, before the oil refinery is put into operation. 

As the pipeline will be constructed deep underground, it will not only be the first of its kind in Mongolia for fulfilling the roles of storage, transport method, and infrastructure, but also save power costs. 

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A new industry for the country

Works for the construction of industrial facilities (EPC-2,3) and deep-processing facility (EPC-4) will be carried out in phases. The EPC-3 contract includes constructing the refinery’s own power plant based on locally produced fuel, while EPC-4 will include acquiring the corresponding rights and permissions from large-scale companies in the petrochemical industry. 

However, it should be noted that the oil refinery would not be considered large according to international standards. Thus, there have been certain cases where companies refused to participate in a “small” project. Despite this, the team working at Mongol Refinery State Owned LLC has been resolving the issue. For instance, the company has begun to sign license agreements as the selection process has been completed. Last month, Mongol Refinery signed a license agreement with Axens Solutions for its sulfur recovery unit. A license and engineering agreement for four of the deep processing units at the oil refinery has also been signed with Honeywell UOP. 

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Socio-economic benefits of the oil refinery to Mongolia

Firstly, once it becomes possible for Mongolia to produce its own gasoline and oil products at the oil refinery in Altanshiree soum, the country will no longer be dependent on imports. In other words, the country will increase its economic independence in the region. 

Furthermore, the foundations for the petrochemical industry will be laid out with the introduction of the technology. Alongside making contributions to the state and local budgets, the refinery will not only create some 600 job opportunities, but also significantly increase the number of jobs available in the industry indirectly. 

As the outflow of foreign currency decreases, foreign exchange rates will stabilize. And as a result, Mongolia’s GDP is estimated to grow by over 10 percent. In this sense, the project for the construction of an oil refinery in Altanshiree soum could be considered as one of the main projects to boost the country’s development. 

Processing capacity: 1.5 million tons of crude oil per year
Location: Altanshiree soum, Dornogobi aimag
Sources for crude oil: Toson Uul XIX, and Tamsag XXI sites
Product quality: MNS & EURO V
Annual operating hours: 8,000 hours
Deep processing technology: Hydrocracking, Visbreaking
Power source: TPP 35 MW/h

The oil refinery will produce: 
• 339 thousand tons of gasoline,
• 824 thousand tons of diesel,    
• 80 thousand tons of aviation fuel, 
• 43 thousand tons of liquefied gas,
• 47 thousand tons of stove fuel.

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Tiananmen Square under access suspension, Beijing fears a repeat of June 4th


Beijing officials announced on 25 May 2022 that a total of 47 new positive covid cases have been reported in Beijing in the past day. From 22 April 22 to 3 pm of 25 May, Beijing has reported a total of 1,591 cases in this round of the epidemic, involving 15 districts including Chaoyang, Haidian, Xicheng, and Fengtai.


Judging from the reported figures, the epidemic situation in Beijing is not serious. In a metropolis of 21 million people, even 2,000 cases is a very, very small fraction but we have seen that Beijing's epidemic control is very strict, no worse than Shanghai, which is currently under lockdown.


In addition to the closure and control of various administrative districts in Beijing, starting from 25 May, Tiananmen Square has also made a big move, suspending the appointment visit service. The time is as long as 21 days, which lasts until 24:00 on 15 June 2022. The Beijing authorities explained that this is to implement the requirements of Beijing's epidemic prevention and control measures.


According to the official website of the Tiananmen Regional Administrative Committee, during this period, tourists must make an appointment at least 1 day in advance. Moreover, it is necessary to "hold the Beijing Health Treasure Green Code and the nucleic acid negative certificate within 48 hours", and at the same time, "actively cooperate with temperature measurement" and other work. You can visit only after "passing security check".


Various media have reported on this incident one after another, and all said that this is the first time that Tiananmen Square has been temporarily closed due to the epidemic but is the epidemic in Beijing really serious enough to suspend the reservation service of Tiananmen Square? Is this because of the epidemic, or is there another reason?


We know that various local authorities announced the closure and control in a step-by-step manner, first for a few days, and then continuously extended. For example, the closure and control in Shanghai initially only said that the mandarin duck pot was closed and controlled, and both sides of the Huangpu River were closed and controlled for 5 days but the closure and control continued to be extended for the first 5 days.


However everyone looks at the control time of Tiananmen Square, and it announced the time for 3 weeks, which will last until 12 pm on the night of 15 June, that is, 0:00 on the 16th.


Another point to remind everyone is that in these three weeks, June 4, a highly sensitive day of the CCP, is included. So we can't help but think a little more, is the control of Tiananmen Square just because of the epidemic? Will the epidemic be used as an excuse to impose political control over Tiananmen Square?


In the CCP's political propaganda, the 1989 student movement was slandered as a political riot but the truth was a student movement. Their request is very simple, that is, the government should punish corruption and let the people enjoy democracy and freedom.


In fact, at this time of year, the CCP's nerves are tense, for fear that something will go wrong. At this stage of the year, Tiananmen Square is densely covered with police, and many plainclothes security personnel are moving around to monitor the movements of tourists.


In Beijing this year, the factors that the authorities regard as unstable are all coming together. Some time ago, there were wild rumours that a "coup d'etat" took place in Beijing, rumours that Xi Jinping was put on hold, and so on.


But Dr. Wang Youqun, a writer for Wei Jianxing, the former secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, believes that this is a political release by the anti-Xi forces. It is very likely that Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong's faction will use the epidemic to create pressure on Xi Jinping and prevent him from being re-elected in the 20th National Congress.


Especially in the recent stage, there have been student protests and demonstrations in several colleges and universities in Beijing. This made the authorities even more worried that it might develop into the nationwide university student movement 33 years ago, threatening the CCP regime.


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Beijing Normal University makes concessions and four demands are responded to


Yesterday (24 May) evening, hundreds of students of Beijing Normal University gathered on the campus to express their dissatisfaction with the authorities' tough lockdown measures and protest against the school closure.


Initially, there was a post on the mainland's Weibo account of the "Beijing Normal University Parade", but it was deleted shortly after but on Twitter, videos of Beijing Normal University students protesting were widely circulated.


In the video, you can see the "Beijing Normal University Let Me Go Home" poster made by students of Beijing Normal University, calling on every student to "unite" and gather at the north side of Qiu Jieduan at 8 p.m. Play the school song on your phone, turn on the flashlight, or go to the crowd.


The above also put forward "four demands": clarify the method and time of the final exam; clarify the holiday time and whether to return to the hometown; respond positively to the students' demands;


Judging from the students' demands, in addition to asking the school to officially respond to the time and method of the exam, as well as the time to go home from vacation, the students are very worried that they will be interviewed and held accountable afterwards. These students also know that the CCP's specialty is to settle accounts after the autumn, and this is their biggest worry.


Say something off topic. When I first saw the promotional posters of Beijing Normal University students, I first thought of the anti-extradition campaign in Hong Kong in 2019. At that time, we followed it for quite a long time and witnessed the peaceful and rational nature of Hong Kong citizens, especially the young people of Hong Kong.


At that time, young people in Hong Kong put forward reasonable and legal "five demands, all of which are indispensable" in anticipation of the Hong Kong authorities. But looking at it now, as of the day before yesterday (23rd), the number of political prisoners in Hong Kong has exceeded 1,000.


According to the data of the "Hong Kong Democracy Committee" in the United States, the vast majority of political prisoners are ordinary citizens of Hong Kong, involving all aspects of society. More than half of the political prisoners were under the age of 25, and 15 percent were minors.


Let's get back to the point. According to reports from various parties, about 300 students initially gathered at a Qiu Jiduan stadium. Afterwards, the students began to march and confronted the school and the police. Some female students cried to the school staff at the scene.


After a conversation with the school's management, the school gave a verbal concession, allowed students to apply to leave the school, and promised not to settle accounts for the students who marched in autumn, and then the students dispersed at midnight.


However, I would also like to remind that we must hold a skeptical attitude towards any official statement. Although they verbally said that the accounts will not be settled in the autumn, who knows whether it is true or false? And this is not the school's final decision. If it is pressed down, it must be asked to settle accounts after the autumn. Does the school dare not to implement it? There are many examples of the CCP’s sweetheart and bitterness. I hope the students of Beijing Normal University will not take it lightly.


In fact, before Beijing Normal University, there were also student protests at China University of Political Science and Law and Peking University. The student protest at the University of Political Science and Law was the day before yesterday (23rd), and the demands were similar to those of Beijing Normal University students, which also forced the school to make concessions.


Earlier, on 15 May, there was also a student protest at the more influential Peking University. Because the school built a wall overnight to control the freedom of the students, the students protested in the school and overturned the wall in front of Chen Baojian, the vice president of Peking University.


Several large-scale student protests have occurred in several universities in Beijing, especially at an extremely sensitive stage on the eve of June 4th. How could the Beijing authorities not be nervous? College students do not have much contact with the society, and they are relatively simple, so they have the most rebellious spirit.


Although the student protests at these universities were not political, the students' demands were simple but the authorities in Beijing may not think so, and they are likely to worry that a domino effect will develop, or even a bigger incident.


From this perspective, Beijing is very likely to use the epidemic as an excuse to implement political control over Tiananmen Square. Regardless of whether there are people protesting in Tiananmen Square, they must control the place first and let people come back after this stage.


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The secretary of Minhang was stabbed again, a sudden change in Jiading


Let's talk about the situation in Shanghai. The number of cases reported in Shanghai today (25th) fell to its lowest level since March 19, with only 387 cases, a 19.4% drop from the previous day. From March 1 to the present, Shanghai has accumulated more than 625,800 infections and 586 deaths in this round of the epidemic.


The number of new infections reported in Shanghai is declining, and a "social zero-covid" has been announced but a community infection was detected today in a "low-risk area" in the northern Jiading district, which has not reported infections in the past 14 days.


A Shanghai netizen sent me a screenshot of the group chat conversation and two videos, all of which reflected the sudden closure of the RT-Mart supermarket in Jiading District. The text in the chat showed that someone had just entered RT for a few minutes when the supermarket was suddenly closed because someone was "the captain of the antigen squadron on site".


Many people may not understand this statement, especially Taiwanese friends may not understand what it means. The "squadron leader" here refers to the squadron leader of the CCP's Young Pioneers, and the squadron leader will have a "two bars" sign. The man said "Antigen Squadron Leader," which meant antigen positive.


According to the chat, the supermarket issued a protective suit to each of the people who were locked inside. The people from the police station arrived first, but the people from the CDC have not yet arrived.


After the people from the CDC arrived, they informed all those who were locked up in the supermarket to "wait in place, as a close transfer". But this person said that the positive case was found at the entrance of the supermarket store on the second floor, and he was on the escalator on the first floor, not in close contact, and asked if he could let it out. The police told him to "be calm and don't cause trouble".


It can be seen from the video that many of the people who were locked up in the RT-Mart supermarket gathered in front of the glass door of the entrance and exit, looking out anxiously. At the location of the settlement desk, there are also many people watching, and some people are calling home. .


I don't know if there will be actions such as lockdowns and large-scale nucleic acid testing in Jiading District. According to the requirements of the authorities, as long as a case is found, the area where it is located will be sealed and controlled, and a large-scale nucleic acid test of all staff will be carried out at the same time. Therefore, it is estimated that there may be a wave of action in Jiading District next.


But Shanghai has been under lockdown for more than 70 days, and people's tolerance has already exceeded the limit. It is hard to imagine what will happen if the lockdown continues.


Another Shanghai netizen broke the news that in Zhuhang Town, Minhang District, another disaster caused by the closure of the city occurred today. A resident wanted to go to the hospital to see a doctor, so he went to the neighborhood committee to issue a door card.


During the process, there was a dispute with the secretary of the neighborhood committee, so the resident stabbed the secretary and ran back to his home on the eighteenth floor, but then jumped from the eighteenth floor.


The videographer said while filming that the man jumped from the top floor and committed suicide. It can be seen from the video that the police have cordoned off the scene. Many people in white isolation suits gathered around, 120 ambulances were parked not far from the scene, and many residents were watching.


A similar incident happened on the 20th, also in Minhang District. It was also because of the issue of issuing a door card. After a dispute with the secretary of the neighborhood committee, the residents "scratched" the neck of the secretary of the neighborhood committee with a knife, and then jumped downstairs.


I've said it many times, the endless closures will lead to more and more secondary disasters. This extreme city closure has already exceeded the limit of people's tolerance, and many people have even been desperate. So as long as there is a little chance, they will use 100% of their efforts to escape. Escape the city, escape the country.


Cheng Xinyu, a 19-year-old writer in Chengdu, told The New York Times, “I can’t accept that the future is to die in this place.” She cited concerns such as anti-epidemic workers breaking into the residence to spray disinfectant, kill pets and ask residents to leave Leave the keys at home, etc.


She said, "I like children, but I don't dare to have them here because I can't give them the protection I can." So she joined a new trend known as "run school", seeking to escape China and find more safety , a brighter future.


The New York Times said it was impossible to estimate how many young Chinese were "disillusioned" by the CCP's iron fist in the recent lockdown. Hundreds of millions of people have been affected by these restrictions, and more and more people have turned from initial fantasy to disappointment, and from disappointment to despair again and again.


Ms. Wang, a young office worker in Shanghai, said, "Under the state apparatus, when you, as an individual, have no ability to resist, your only exit is to escape."


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Prevent the US military from intervening in the Taiwan Strait war? Expert: The Communist Army does not have this ability


Reporter : Wu Minzhou / Editor : Lu Meiqi / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/5/25/n13745064.htm / Image : Pictured is the USS Ronald Reagan. (US Pacific Fleet Flickr)


The Russia-Ukrainewar has been going on for three months. The CCP's "Liaoning Ship" recently conducted a long-term training exercise in the waters of the Western Pacific. Take the opportunity to attack Taiwan? Military expert Ma Zhenkun said on the 25th that if the Communist Party of China wants to launch military operations against Taiwan, it must have three anti-access capabilities against the United States.


The Liaoning aircraft carrier battle group of the Chinese Communist Party will head to the waters of the Western Pacific Ocean from May 1, and will conduct multi-day carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing exercises off the eastern coast of Taiwan. During this period, there were several co-aircraft passing through the Bashi Strait, and even armed helicopters passing through the central line of the Taiwan Strait, which attracted attention.


In the symposium of the "ASEAN, US-Japan-Korea and Quad Summit" held by the National Policy Research Institute on the 25th, a number of experts were invited to analyze the recent international situation.


Ma Zhenkun, director of the Institute of Military Affairs of the Chinese Communist Party at the National Defense University, said that two recent events have attracted international attention in the Taiwan Strait. The first is the unexpected development of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which reminds people of possible changes in the security of the Taiwan Strait; the second is that the CCP large-scale formation of the ship "Liaoning" assembled in the eastern waters of Taiwan, arousing everyone's attention to the security of the Taiwan Strait.


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Intention and ability to attack Taiwan are two things


There has been public attention. Has the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war affected the CCP's idea of ​​using force against Taiwan in advance? And will the CCP use large-scale training to invade Taiwan?


Ma Zhenkun said that this issue consists of two levels. Whether the CCP uses force against Taiwan in advance is an "intent", which belongs to the political issue of the CCP Central Committee; The two belong to different levels. If the formation of the Liaoning is regarded as affected by the Russian-Ukrainian war, it is necessary to invade Taiwan by force in advance. This is to confuse the two, which will affect the national army's army building plan at light, and may lead to misjudgment at worst. Fired the gun.


Regarding the CCP’s intention to invade Taiwan, Ma Zhenkun said that the Russian-Ukrainian war has cost Russia a heavy price. No matter what the final result is, Russia’s losses far outweigh its gains, and its comprehensive national strength will accelerate its decline. And Chinese President Xi Jinping also sees it in his eyes, and understands that military means to solve political problems will not be tolerated by the international community, and that it will cost all-round comprehensive national strength damage.


He said that the CCP claimed that the use of force against Taiwan was a military action to solve internal problems, but from the experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the international community would only consider it to be an aggression because Taiwan is not under the effective rule of the CCP.


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The Russia-Ukraine war will not make the CCP increase its intention to invade Taiwan


In addition, the CCP has no actual combat experience for 30 years. Ma Zhenkun said that the CCP’s analysis of the situation in the Taiwan Strait and its declared combat strength have not been verified. With the lessons learned from the Russian-Ukrainian war, Xi Jinping will even more question the situation proposed by the army. Analysis and combat assessment. Therefore, he speculates that the Russian-Ukrainian war will not increase the CCP's intention to invade Taiwan, and the status quo in the Taiwan Strait will not change significantly.


Ma Zhenkun also emphasized that the CCP's policy toward Taiwan has been changed from "harmonious reunification" to "military reunification", which is a major strategic change, because the all-round mobilization of the party, government and military systems must be discussed through the Politburo of the CCP, not Xi Jinping himself. There is absolutely no possibility that the CCP will suddenly launch an attack-style military operation against Taiwan.


As for the ability of the Communist army to attack Taiwan, Ma Zhenkun said that the Liaoning fleet is the largest and most powerful in history and the closest to eastern Taiwan. It is a real threat to Taiwan, but if the Communist army wants to launch military operations against Taiwan, it must First, it has the capability of anti-access operations against the United States, which includes three capabilities: deterrence in peacetime, conflict containment, and combat strikes.


He said that the CCP is actively building the capability of conflict containment at this stage, but in the Western Pacific region, the CCP’s combat capability is not as good as that of the U.S. military, which is also an important premise and key to assessing whether the CCP has the capability to attack Taiwan; There are also military support from Japan, South Korea, Australia, etc. in the region, which the Communist army does not have.


Ma Zhenkun analyzed that the training of the Liaoning ship this time is a part of the preparations for the Chinese military's military struggle against Taiwan. It does not have the ability and intention to attack Taiwan now.


He said that at this stage, the National Army is closely following the movements of various naval and air aircraft and ships in the Chinese military exercises, because this may reveal the combat mode adopted by the Chinese military.


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Ma Zhenkun speculated that the security situation in the Taiwan Strait will continue to be tense and heating up, because the CCP’s military capabilities have indeed continued to grow, but the Russian-Ukrainian war has made the CCP face a more complicated international situation. , and will avoid becoming another Russia and putting itself in danger of internal and external coercion.


Guo Yuren, executive director of the Academy of National Policy Studies, added that the Liaoning had been training for a long time in the eastern waters of Taiwan. After US President Biden had just left Asia, the Liaoning entered the East China Sea again, but was outflanked by US ships from north to south. It seems that the Liaoning is only a training ship and does not have actual combat capabilities. If it encounters the "Reagan" or "Lincoln" ship strike group, it will be like a dwarf encountering a giant, and it will be very funny.


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The city centre of Tianjin was suddenly sealed, and the director of the Beijing Health Commission stepped down


Reporter : Qiao An / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/05/26/a103438405.html


Many officials in Beijing have been dealt with due to the epidemic situation; the epidemic situation in neighbouring Tianjin has also begun to heat up, and the central area has been blocked.


According to the official notification, from 12 am of 24 May to 3 pm on 25 May, 78 new local confirmed cases were reported in Beijing, including 72 cases of control personnel and 6 cases of social screening. Although the number of cases has not decreased significantly, the number of high-risk areas in Beijing has dropped to 9, and the number of medium-risk areas has dropped to 21.


Since 22 April the cumulative number of officially confirmed cases in Beijing in this round of the epidemic has reached 1,642. During this period, due to the outbreak of multiple clusters, more than a dozen local officials have been held accountable, including members of the Fangshan District People's Congress Standing Committee. Mu Jianshan, Deputy Director of the Association, Li Pengcheng, Secretary of the Party Committee of Yancun Town, Fangshan District, Xue Huipai, Deputy Director of Beitaipingzhuang Sub-district Office, Haidian District, etc.


Yu Luming, director of the Beijing Municipal Health and Health Commission, was also announced to be removed from his post on the 25th, but his sack was not directly related to the epidemic. As early as mid-April, Yu Luming was investigated by the authorities on suspicion of serious violations of laws and disciplines.


In the past ten days, the epidemic situation in Tianjin, which is adjacent to Beijing, has also gradually escalated. On 25 May, Heping District, located in the core area of ​​Tianjin, announced the implementation of "global static management". The district implements traffic control.


Some Tianjin citizens broke the news that in fact, the districts in Tianjin have been blocked, and it is no longer possible to walk across districts. According to official data, Tianjin added 17 local cases throughout the day on 24 May, and conducted a new round of nucleic acid testing across the city on 25 May.


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Only 1 drop of blood can easily detect the protective power of vaccines Chengda research published in international journal

   

Reporter : Honng Ruiqin / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/3939574 / Image : The Chengda team developed a "high-throughput covi variant protein chip". (Picture provided by Chengda University)

With the resurgence of the domestic Wuhan pneumonia (covid, COVID-19) epidemic, coupled with the menacing variant virus, everyone is concerned about whether the protective power of the vaccine is sufficient, Xu Guanda, assistant professor of the Department of Biotechnology and Industrial Sciences, Chengda University, led the team to develop a "high-throughput covi variant virus protein chip", which can detect whether it has neutralizing antibodies against various variant virus strains with just one drop of blood.


The team has also developed another protein chip that can be used to analyze the immune response of patients with mild and severe cases of Wuhan pneumonia. By detecting and analyzing the immune characteristics of patients with mild and severe cases, it can assist in injury classification or preventive drug administration. These two research results have been published in the internationally renowned journals Biosensors and Bioelectronics and Analytical Chemistry, winning glory for Taiwan.


Xu Guanda pointed out that since the current vaccine is designed for the original Wuhan strain, the effect against the mutant virus is still unclear, and people have different reactions after the vaccine, prompting the team to develop the detection of multiple mutant viruses. The high-throughput detection chip is the size of a fingertip, and can simultaneously analyze the "neutralization efficacy" and "antibody concentration" of the blood against the covi variant virus", and it takes more than an hour to interpret the results. Compared with the traditional method of detecting neutralizing antibodies, the experiment of infecting cells with virus is quite cumbersome and dangerous, and requires professional and technical personnel to operate.


Chengda's detection technology can simulate the combination of various viruses and receptors on the chip, which has the advantages of saving samples, saving time, saving money, and analyzing multiple variants at the same time. The simplified experimental process can also ensure the safety of operators. In addition to blood antibody testing, Xu Guanda's team has also developed testing methods for affinity drugs such as protein drugs, antibody drugs and small molecule drugs, which can comprehensively and rapidly evaluate the ability of affinity drugs to fight against the covi variant.


Viruses are constantly mutating, and the most difficult point in design and development is to plan for the possibility and development of the future. When the epidemic broke out in early 2020, Ke Wenqian, the vice president of Chengda Hospital, and He Zongxian, the chief physician of the Pediatric Department (currently seconded to Tainan Hospital), developed academic research into clinical experiments, coupled with the research of Chengda teachers and students, and the ability of medical treatment. These are key factors in today's results.


He Zongxian said that when he first heard about the plan, from a clinical point of view, a small amount of blood can be used for multiple tests at the same time.


Xu Guanda pointed out that the covi protein chip detection technology has been certified by Taiwan's patent, and the US patent is also under review. Currently, they are discussing cooperation with manufacturers on technology transfer, and the team is also developing a "portable scanner" for small clinics, telemedicine or home care thus bringing more convenience.


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Japan plans to resume admitting tourists to Japan in June


According to Kyodo News, the Japanese government is conducting final coordination on resuming the admission of foreign tourists to Japan within June. In line with the relaxation of epidemic prevention measures at border ports, such as the increase of the maximum number of entries in a single day from 10,000 to 20,000, entry for tourism is also allowed within this range. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to announce as soon as 26 May.


In order to resume the admission of foreign tourists, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will start a small-scale group tour demonstration project on the 24th of this month for people related to travel agencies in the United States, Australia, Thailand, and Singapore. Effective new crown epidemic prevention measures are currently being verified.


The government plans to develop guidelines based on experience and wisdom from empirical projects to facilitate a smooth resumption of admissions. At this stage, the accepted objects are group tourists. There are also concerns that the entry of foreign tourists will cause the epidemic to spread again, but the government believes that by restricting group tourists, unnecessary contact can be curbed.


Regarding the relaxation of epidemic prevention measures at border ports, the ban on new entry of foreigners that was once suspended is limited to business people in March, and the single-day entry limit has also been gradually raised. It will be raised to 20,000 from 1 June .


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Cathay Pacific crew members must record their whereabouts in the first 7 days of arrival in Hong Kong


According to Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po, in the early stage of the fifth wave of the covid epidemic, the crew members who were infected violated the guidelines and wandered in the community, resulting in multiple transmission chains, which taught Hong Kong a heavy lesson.


In order to reduce the risk of spreading the virus among crew members, the SAR government announced at the end of last month that all crew members stationed in Hong Kong must record their personal whereabouts within the first 7 days of arrival in Hong Kong in their mobile phone application to record the trajectory of leaving home during the first 7 days of medical monitoring in Hong Kong.


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From 26 May 2022, entering Haikou Meilan Airport will no longer check the nucleic acid certificate once every 48 hours


According to the notification requirements of Haikou Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters, from now on, Haikou Meilan International Airport will cancel the policy requirement that all outbound passengers and pick-up personnel must present a negative nucleic acid certificate once every 48 hours before entering the terminal.


It should be noted that due to differences in local control requirements, some destination cities still need to provide materials such as negative nucleic acid test certificates. Passengers with travel plans are requested to simultaneously refer to the destination airport and the airline they are taking before boarding a flight from Haikou and the latest epidemic prevention and control policies.


A warm reminder from Meilan Airport: According to the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, passengers must wear masks when entering the terminal. At the same time, please actively cooperate with the on-site staff to measure temperature and check health codes.

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