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China Declares ‘state of war’ against Virus, with an Evil intent

//Meanwhile, the infection rate other than Hubei province is decreasing. If the infection rate outside Hubei is indeed plummeting, it should be good for the community to go back on track, and the government should comfort the citizens with relief. However, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention warned the general public saying that a “Serious Battle is Coming”. It also stated the current situation is a “decisive moment”, “status in danger”, “critical moment”, and even declared the country to be in ‘state of war’ against the coronavirus.

//An ordinary citizen can only interpret the situation, from these clues, to decide whether the infection figures or the government’s executive orders is more reliable, if not by imagination.

//Hongkongers should support each other, fight till the last, until the radical changes at PRC happen

Full Translation:
https://telegra.ph/China-Declares-state-of-war-against-Virus-with-an-Evil-intent-02-20

Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/2vOtFpt

#EmperorXi #Dictatorship #CCP #StateOfWar #CoronavirusOutbreak
From 'Perfect Chinese Daughter' to Communist Party Critic: Why Vicky Xu is exposing China to scrutiny

"If something happens to me you know I've been murdered."

It's a joke journalist Vicky Xiuzhong Xu makes in her stand-up comedy routine, but the reality is that she's had a lot of death threats.

Today, Xu is one of the first journalists in Australia to lift the lid on the incarceration of Uyghurs in China, convincing members of the Australian-Uyghur community to go on the record with their stories of missing relatives.

It is believed that since 2017, China has forced at least 1 million Uyghurs, a Turkic-Muslim minority group, into political indoctrination camps in Xinjiang.

As the lead author of a report released last week, Xu has exposed the forced labour of tens of thousands of Uyghurs and other oppressed minority Muslims, detained, "re-educated" and despatched to work in factories outside of Xinjiang that supply Nike, Apple, Adidas and 80 other well-known clothing, automotive and technology brands.

'If you don't love China you're not one of them'

What led a young woman, one of her country's "best and brightest", to turn away from her government's ideology, but not her people? It's been an uneasy, sometimes agonising passage.

A dutiful child, Xu grew up with all the attention of her parents. She had violin, maths and physics tutors, and even an English tutor. Xu practised the violin until her chin was callused.

In 2012, She enrolled in an English broadcasting course which she claimed was designed to "cultivate TV personalities who are politically loyal, who seem worldly and savvy and can talk about issues with impeccable Western accents".

In 2014, Xu took a gap year and moved to Perth to teach Mandarin at a local high school. She saw a poster advertising a documentary on Tiananmen Square, a place she and her university friends had wandered at night after late-night partying.

In 1989, students killed when they were protesting for greater freedom and democracy.

When she saw the film, Xu was grief-stricken and angry because she had known nothing about what had happened, whitewashed from China's history. She felt betrayed.

Xu was still not convinced by what she saw. There were reports pointing fingers at CIA involvement in the massacre, she thought they could be true.

At the university, she was overwhelmed by the negative information about China and the accusations of human rights abuses. Her mindset however, was starting to shift.

For one of her assignments, she interviewed dissidents from China. One of them was Lebao Wu.

"I thought he was a fraud and I was going to interview him, write about him, and expose him."

He was a maths teacher who made jokes about China's leaders online and was put in prison and forced to do hard labour for 14 hours a day. When he was released and settled in Australia he was diagnosed with PTSD and a variety of mental health issues.

His story of injustice moved Xu.

"I was very touched by his story, and it made me rethink a lot of my previous stances."

Xu received face-to-face warnings over an article that she was wrote, addressing the government's inaction following a flood. Authorities later stopped her at a train station and warned her again.

Her family has repeatedly warned her not to return to China. She may never get see them again.

Sacrifices were made. However, whatever that she has done has made such an impact, an impact that could possibly save the lives of the vulnerable. At only 25, she has achieved what many journalists never will in a lifetime.

"I think it's just going to be like a continuous path to pursue freedom, and you can never have too much #freedom , or a voice. You know, you can never have too much #justice."

#AntiCCP #BoycottChina #Dictatorship #WhiteTerror #Censorship #VickyXu

Video:
https://youtu.be/wa8b117uWEM

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/vicky-xu-exposing-chinas-human-rights-abuses/11954794
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Over Half Of Brazil's Coronavirus Cases Arrived From Italy - And That Is WHO's Fault

//The number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent if China had been transparent about the virus three weeks earlier - and if the World Health Organisation had not once again been willing dupes for dictators and believed what they said months ago.

//They believed director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus when he said he had "absolutely no doubt about China’s commitment to transparency” and have paid the price.

//Brazil has found itself with 14,000 cases that they know about and nowhere near the needed infrastructure to manage it.

//Brazilians researchers calculated how coronavirus arrived using genome sequencing of patients: 55 percent came from Italy while 9 percent came from China and 8 percent from France. All by March 5th, five weeks after the US imposed travel restrictions and a week before WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic.

//At the time I had thought perhaps WHO was being reasonable and not panicking but it turns out they were just as timid as they always are when it comes to demanding the truth from dictatorships.

Full Article: Science20, (09-Apr)
https://bit.ly/34oq5Q6

#WHO #Brazil #US #China #Coronavirus #Dictatorship
#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao

Understanding Hong Kong's chaos in 800 words

(4 May) Hong Kong's chaos is caused by its eventual grafting onto China's authoritarian soil two decades after the transfer of sovereignty.

Hong Kong was intended to have been ruled directly by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Before Britain pulled out, however, it unexpectedly drove a wedge in the plan with the Sino-British Joint Declaration. From that, the Basic Law was derived. China was left stuck with a shell. At the time, there was no way to absorb Hong Kong into the CCP's regime.

//Hong Kong's chaos is nothing more than China's process of transforming it from the originally promised "two systems" into "one country". China kept saying it was an "acclimatisation period" but actually meant it to be the digestion of Hongkongers' so-called elitism. Even the so-called immature democracy in Hong Kong politics is to be digested away, step by step.

//"How is this good for China? China needs to keep Hong Kong as an international gateway for foreign exchange."... The mindset of communist-ruled China is very different from the common wisdom of the West, however.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Understanding-Hong-Kongs-chaos-in-800-words-05-11

Source: Apple Daily

#CCP #OneCountryTwoSystems #Hongkongers #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #RMB #MainlandChinese
US Senator Jim DeMint: I’ve changed my mind about China, America should too

“I’ve changed my mind about China,” said former US senator Jim DeMint, “America should too.” Having belief in free enterprise, markets and trades, DeMint supported George Bush’s agenda of letting China into #WTO, which according to him, was a hard but right vote as he had believed. However, never would he realize was that the dictators of China were so capable of corrupting the world into their benefit. Instead of playing under the rule they prey on America, and the rest of the world alike. Human right in China remains a disaster, but international organizations and #US congress are too intertwined with it to make any move. And eventually, it leads to the loss of American sovereignty and interest. America cannot be truly free nor safe if it continues to depend its necessities on a hostile adversary.

this pandemic has given its warning. The question is, how far can #America get away with blaming them, be it #China or international bureaucrats, who have no reason to serve America’s interest by definition? Letting these people get away with their shady business is an indisputable failure of the government that Americans need to wake up into and call a change on.

#Dictatorship #HumanRight
#corruption

Further reading:
https://www.newsweek.com/ive-changed-my-mind-about-china-america-should-too-opinion-1504210?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR22eW80zooaW6GBsdiB0RE2wiH-eFIs-8zWrs4eQMYmF_7iWau4N1N2yGY
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Why is Germany silent on China's human rights abuses?

//Since Hong Kong's anti-government demonstrations began in June, the pro-democracy movement has been pleading for international support. And the recent confirmation of China's systematic internment of Muslim Uighurs in the country's western Xinjiang province has strengthened international calls for action against China's human rights abuses.

//Now, human rights advocates and some German politicians are calling for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to take a stronger stance on human rights issues in China.

//"It is time for Angela Merkel to put it [Xinjiang] on the agenda of the upcoming European Council to talk of a common European perspective on imposing sanctions," Gyde Jensen, head of the human rights committee in the German Parliament, the Bundestag, told DW News Asia.

//Katrin Kinzelbach, a professor of international human rights policy at Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, said that the German government should take a "clear position" on Hong Kong. 

//Although Germany has joined 22 countries at the United Nations in signing an official statement condemning the Xinjiang Uighur internment camps, Berlin, and the EU, have yet to come up with a common framework for action, and Merkel has been criticized for being too soft in condemning the camps.

//“The extent of human rights violations has greatly increased under President Xi Jinping. It is inappropriate to court the Chinese party-state in this situation — as Germany is doing with a special EU-China summit scheduled to take place in Leipzig in 2020," said Kinzelbach.

//Berlin treads more carefully with Beijing and has tried to maintain a less volatile relationship as China is one of Germany's most important trade partners

//"Given the escalation in Hong Kong, it would be correct — and comparatively easy — to review existing export regulations," said Kinzelbach, adding that sanctions available to address human rights violations could include arms embargoes, restrictions on entry for individuals and the freezing of accounts.

//However, any sanctions regime targeting China-related human rights abuses would also have to be made within the framework of the European Union, and this is complicated by the disparity of positions in the EU on China policy.

//"In the long term, democracy and human rights should be put higher than economic profit, because we see that China is a dictatorship and you never know how economic growth can develop in a dictatorship," said Jensen. 

Full article: Deutsche Welle, (12 May)

Further reading:
Death penalty riles European allies
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/09/07/2003699934

#Germany #Dictatorship #CCP #HongKongProtest #Xinjiang #Uighur #HumanRights
A brief overview of Hong Kong's situation in French

If you follow what has been happening in Hong Kong, you should have realized that China's dictatorship not only controls the people of its own, the growing power is even threatening all other countries in the world.

It's no longer the problems of Uighurs or HongKongers only. Thus, the world, particularly the leaders, need to speak out against China.

Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/o7aP-jjJVZQ

#Uighurs #HongKong #China #Dictatorship
#Dictatorship #FailedState
Ex-legislator finds significantly lower mortality rate in 5th wave of COVID-19 outbreak in HK, questioning government's ever stricter control measures

Source: Perry Chan's Facebook page

#Omicron #WuhanPneumonia #Sinovac #BionTech #CCPvirus #NeverTrustCCP #chinaliedpeopledied

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Ex-legislator finds significantly lower mortality rate in 5th wave of COVID-19 outbreak in HK, questioning government's ever stricter control measures

Perry Chan Pui-yin, former pro-democracy legislator representing the sector of medical doctors in Hong Kong compiled and tabulated the number of deaths in connection to COVID19 since 2020.

Chan concluded that among the total number of 40,700 confirmed cases in the 5 waves of COVID19 outbreaks, 259 patients passed away, equivalent to a mortality rate of 0.64%.

However, in the 5th wave alone, 46 died among the 28,069 confirmed cases as at February 18. That is to say, the morality rate has reduced significantly to only 0.16%.

Its worth noting that delay factors should be considered alongside with mortality rate during an outbreak, as it could take as long as 2-3 weeks to record a related death.

Among the 46 death cases recorded during 5th wave of COVID-19 outbreak, 40 of them had not vaccinated, 3 others had 2 doses of Sinovac vaccinations, 1 had 1 dose of Sinovac vaccination while the remaining 1 had two jabs of BionTech vaccinations.

Chan stressed that these data should be read in relation to the patients' age and background in order to avoid a biased conclusion.

Source: Perry Chan's Facebook page doctordaddysoccer.blogspot.com/2022/02/723.html

#Omicron #WuhanPneumonia #Sinovac #BionTech #CCPvirus #NeverTrustCCP #chinaliedpeopledied
#Dictatorship #DynamicZero
A patient with rare blood disease was refused of vaccine pass exemptions in Hong Kong

Source: Inmediahk

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#China, #Russia Again Veto UN Statement on #Myanmar Conflict

// On May 30, 2022, Russia and China once again wielded their vetoes to forestall the release of a United Nations Security Council (#UNSC) resolution expressing its concern over the escalating humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.

The two nations’ delegations reportedly objected to the wording of the statement
[...] authored by the United Kingdom’s delegation, the statement expressed its concern at the violence and serious humanitarian situation in Myanmar, 16 months on from the February 2021 coup that overthrew the government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. It also expressed misgivings about the “limited progress” on the implementation of ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus peace plan.

According to other reports, the delegations from the U.K. and China blamed each other for the failure of the day-long negotiations. For the U.K. officials, Beijing was asking for “too much,” which led to the collapse of the negotiations, according to AFP. One of the sticking points for the Chinese delegation was the use of the word “limited” to refer to the progress on ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus, which it suggested replacing with the word “slow.” A spokeswoman told AFP that China’s proposed wording was “factual but less condescending,” adding that “it’s a real shame” that there was no agreement.//

Source: The Diplomat #May30

#Regime #Dictatorship #UnitedNations