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Another Boxers' Rebellion for the Xi Dynasty...Before Its Collapse?

"...China has accused other countries of infecting PRC national abroad; the Embassy of China in Japan even renamed the coronavirus as the "Japan pneumonia", sparking off heated discussion on the Internet in Japan.

...After all, how messed up China's political environment is for the Communist Party to hide its own political pressure and the resiliency within the country behind the tension it stirs up in other nations?"

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To be or not to be: the Dilemma of Totalitarianism

"After exporting the coronavirus to the world, Beijing sent encouragement to severely affected nations like Italy and Iran.

The core of the "Beijing Consensus," or the "China Model" lies in authoritarianism, after all. With the outbreak of Wuhan pneumonia, the ludicrous face of China is, meanwhile, displayed before the world."

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To be or not to be: the Dilemma of Totalitarianism

After exporting the coronavirus to the world, Beijing sent encouragement to severely affected nations like Italy and Iran.

The core of the "Beijing Consensus," or the "China Model" lies in authoritarianism, after all. With the outbreak of Wuhan pneumonia worldwide, the ludicrous face of China is, meanwhile, displayed before the world.

To Beijing and the Hong Kong government, mass surveilance seems to be their preferred, if not wishful, "anecdote" of the coronavirus -- ranging from tracking wristbands, checkpoints in neighbohood communities, lockdowns of cities to person registration via QR code. Recently, the Hong Kong Police has agreed to the advice from Dr Ho-Pak Leung, the Director of Carol Yu Centre for Infection at the University of Hong Kong: to trace infection route by a supercomputer.

Yet, thing made in China often yields mixed results. Arriving at the Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong district councillor Pakkin Leung was astonished by the loose temperature checks by the Customs Department. In addition, the "self quarantine" procedure designated by the authorities can never be fulfilled, for instance, by those living in subdivided units who have no other choice but to share toilets and kitchens with others.

In any case, it comes in no surprise when the Chinese authorities are so keen in publishing the number of patients discharged. In addition to amplifying how the "recovered" outnumbers the increase in confirmed cases, China repeatedly claims that COVID-19 is "nothing more than a flu". Likewise, the Chinese authorities rarely caution its population that the coronavirus could invade not just the lung but also organs like testes, potentially leading to male fertility.

In order to have a statistic favourable to the central power, those who were forcefully discharged from hospitals become the ticking bomb of China. By encouraging its people to return to work, the Chinese Communist Party has disclosed not just their reckless aim to save face, but probably the undesirable economic condition within the regime.

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"Heal the World": China's propaganda

In a recent report to Beijing, the Hong Kong government spoke of the plan to assist the pro-Beijing camp to gain political power from the epidemic. By applying an iron fist to fight off the coronavirus as well as "social unrest", the political agenda of the Beijing and the Hong Kong authorities is obvious, but not without flaws and uncertainties.

In any case, the actual situation of the epidemic in China could never be known, not even to the Director General of WHO, Mr Tedros Adhanom who has been convincing the world with his double negation logic that epidemic is inevitable but safely under control.

However, on March 11, 2020, WHO declared the state of pandemic, as over 118,000 cases of Wuhan Pneumonia grow exponentially in over 110 countries and territories around the world.

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"Heal the World": China's propaganda


In a recent report to Beijing, the Hong Kong government spoke of the plan to assist the pro-Beijing camp to gain political power from the epidemic. By applying an iron fist to fight off the coronavirus as well as "social unrest", the political agenda of the Beijing and the Hong Kong authorities is obvious, but not without flaws and uncertainties.

In any case, the actual situation of the epidemic in China could never be known, not even to the Director General of WHO, Mr Tedros Adhanom who has been convincing the world with his double negation logic that epidemic is inevitable but safely under control.

However, on March 11, 2020, WHO declared the state of pandemic, as over 118,000 cases of Wuhan Pneumonia grow exponentially in over 110 countries and territories around the world.

In this regard, the experience of SARS expert Joseph J.Y. Sung, a medical professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, might speak more truth. Comparing to his experience in combating SARS in 2003, Hong Kong is facing a much more difficult situation in 2019 due to the inadequate supply of protective equipment.

Given that Hong Kong is already better equipped than in China, Dr. Sung's citing of Michael Jackson’s “Heal the World” is perhaps the best thing to say to the medical workers in Hong Kong as well as in China.
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Keep Your Distance, Especially From China

"This catastrophe is indeed an example of the survival of the fittest, but it is not limited to a war between humans’ immune system and the virus, it is also a war between ideologies and information.

Basically, the severely affected areas of the Coronavirus, such as Italy and Spain in Europe, and Japan and South Korea in Asia, are the countries who “believed in” China and the World Health Organisation, and did not make their own judgement regarding the validity of the data provided by China, not to mention their awareness of the benefits of border closure and the potential dangers of the influx of Chinese tourists."

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Keep your distance, especially from China

This catastrophe is indeed an example of the survival of the fittest, but it is not limited to a war between humans’ immune system and the virus, it is also a war between ideologies and information.

Basically, the severely affected areas of the Coronavirus, such as Italy and Spain in Europe, and Japan and South Korea in Asia, are the countries who “believed in” China and the World Health Organisation, and did not make their own judgement regarding the validity of the data provided by China, not to mention their awareness of the benefits of border closure and the potential dangers of the influx of Chinese tourists.

Then it comes to the nominees for the “Darwin Awards” - those who took the “Coronavirus Challenge” upon themselves on TikTok. As a brand, TikTok has its own values and culture. It is apparent that TikTok has a unique enchantment that draws the addicted ones to death like sirens.

Ironically, in the era of China’s rising as a Sharp Power, complete distrust in the Communist Party of China and its news has become a essential tactic for survival, of which was adopted by the government and people of ROC (Taiwan) and citizens of Hong Kong, who earned a moment of peace between the waves of Coronavirus outbreaks despite their geographic closeness to China and a social network closely tied with the country, even closer than those owned by Japan and South Korea.

They adopted universal mask wearing, a tactic mocked and frowned upon by people around the world, and social distancing, a tactic many authorities doubted due to the people's willingness to comply. Unsurprisingly, foreign governments' delayed responses resulted in their untrustworthiness among their people.

Still, some religious groups solemnly believe that their rituals remain unaffected by the Coronavirus pandemic, and thus reject any interference to their practices by the government’s quarantine inspections as they insist on enacting their freedom of religion. One of the super-spreaders in South Korea ignited an irremediable outbreak of the virus within her cult.

Even now, a notorious terrorist organisation halted their penetration and attacks on Europe to avoid infection. It seems that everyone is equal before the virus, regardless of differences in religion and race.

We hope our readers can “suspend” their social and religious routines. You need your life to celebrate what you love and believe. Corpses cannot contribute to your communities.
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One thing for sure, the Wuhan virus (Covid-19) is deadlier than WHO and China would admit

According to official data from Iran and Italy, the mortality rate of this virus seems to be much higher than data “presented” by Chinese officials would suggest. It is hard to explain why Iran and Italy have significantly higher number of COVID-19 death cases than China, other than believing that the strain in China is less contagious and less virulent. How likely is this?

May be the virus is thankful to China for its creation? Perhaps the virus is understanding and knows it has to give some time for the Communist Party of China to speed up its plan to resume economic activities. According to Caixin, local governments are presently creating the illusion that people have returned to work - offices with air-conditioning and lights on but no workers, and machinery running with no operators. All done so that they can fulfill the numbers on energy consumption reports by CCP’s Supreme Order.

According to the CCP, there are signs that the epidemic has slowed down in China but how? One possibility is perhaps local government officials and central government officials are colluding to conceal the truth. Consider the following:

"Thanksgiving Education"
According to People's Daily, when Sun Chunlan (Vice Premier of PRC) was visiting the Cuiyuan Community of Qingshan, Wuhan, some residents yelled at her from their windows saying, "Fake! Everything is fake!" and "Formalism". Shortly after, Wang Zhonglin (Communist Party Secretary of Wuhan) announced the promotion of "Thanksgiving Education" among citizens and party members, so that they learn how to "Thank the General Secretary. Thank the CCP. Obey and follow the CCP to create positive energy together. “

Xi’s Huoshenshan Hospital visit
An exclusive video taken by China Central TV during Xi’s inspection of the Huoshenshan Hospital (specifically built to handle Covid-19 patients) for the first time since the outbreak started in December of last year. In this 36-second footage, only the runway and the wing of the plane were seen, but Xi was not seen aboard the plane. From the plane, it jumped to the next scene where Xi was speaking with patients and medical staff through a screen.

What else was strange? Huoshenshan Hospital, which took only 8 days to build, is supposedly a simple structure with only cubicles inside. In the footage, however, the hospital is a four-storey brick building with carpeted floors, which is completely different from the actual Huoshenshan Hospital.

Zhang Lifan, an outspoken Chinese scholar and historian based in Beijing said, “The people of Wuhan will never accept it”. He was referring to the “Thanksgiving Education” proposed by Wang. Let us hope for Mr. Zhang’s good health and longevity, so that he can keep speaking out for the people.

Sources: The People’s Daily, World Journal, Caixin

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From Ebola Virus to "CCP Virus"

"...Please leave behind your lament and together we will strive for a better future and pursue happiness for the human race. Hongkongers will continue to be the whistleblower to uncover CCP's doing and China authoritarianism, the root cause of this coronavirus pandemic."

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From Ebola Virus to "CCP Virus"

In reality as well as theory one should be politically correct. Expressions such as "people of color" might propagate stereotypes, just as racial bias still linger in judiciary in multicultural states (Bielen et al. 2019).

Certainly, one can reword "Wuhan Pneumonia" to avoid China's stark accusation of 'racism' in the terminology; however, this would be serving the 'political correctness' set by the Communist Part of China, for that Chinese government has been changing its narrative of what it once called the "Wuhan pneumomia". In the revised narrative put forward by the Chinese Communist Party in 2020, the origin of COVID-19 is no longer Wuhan in China, the first epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, but the U.S. or perhaps Italy. Although China's state media China Daily had used the term "Wuhan pneumonia" in December 2019, Chinese government now condemns the world (in particular, the U.S.) for using the 'racist' term.

Considering "Spanish flu", "Ebola virus", "Hong Kong flu", "German measles", "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)" and "Japanese encephalitis", these are precedent examples of naming a disease after a place or site of its first outbreak. While more and more people including U.S. president Donald Trump called COVID-19 a "CCP virus", let us not forget what Prof. Ho-Fung Hung of Johns Hopkins University reminds us that criticizing the Chinese government should not be obscured as a racism.

When people around the world are combating this coronavirus, please do not forget every loss of life that has not been counted in reality but took place in the multiverse that the Chinese government could not cover up. We cannot time travel to undo the past, but we shall always remember the truths to avoid making more mistakes in the future.

Please leave behind your lament and together we will strive for a better future and pursue happiness for the human race. Hongkongers will continue to be the whistleblower to uncover CCP's doing and China authoritarianism, the root cause of this coronavirus pandemic.

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People in China Celebrate Coronavirus Calamities in the US and Japan
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