#OpinionArticle #HealthCode #MassSurveillance #SocialCreditSystem
Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and CCP's Goal to Control
Part 2/2
Introducing a nation-wide Health Code is not only a public opinion issue, but also a technical necessity in view of system compatibility.
Health Code in China is separately managed by Tencent’s WeChat and Alibaba’s Alipay. If Hong Kong government declares that Hong Kong citizens’ personal data will not be transferred to Beijing, shouldn’t it first ensure the Health Code in Hong Kong will not be managed by Tencent and Alibaba?
However, it happened that, Alibaba owner Jack Ma is a major shareholder of Prenetics, the Chinese company appointed by Hong Kong government to carry out Coronavirus nucleic acid test in Hong Kong. If Hong Kong government stresses that the Health Code in Hong Kong and China are "incompatible", isn’t it not like finding enemy with the Central policy.
Imagine any person who refuses to be inspected by Beijing Genomics Institute (#BGI) will be denied to dine out at restaurants in evenings: Knowing Hong Kong people, many of them may even line up to obtain this AI-powered collar. Besides, having a check-point at every district is an important step towards popularizing the Health Code, followed by a “Caste system” as Huang Zhou citizens called it, which would exploit the exclusion psychology among people and induce social stratification. Finally, peopld would strive to become an "upper caste".
In China, Alipay has long been training consumers to scan QR codes and use facial recognition to log-in. These are actually parts of the behavioral domestication engineering projects. The two-dimensional coding system on the gates of Shenzhen subway train is said to link with Health Code. Passengers who have become used to the “scanning-before-boarding” mechanism are, meanwhile, revealing all footprints of their social life to the authorities.
In other words, “tracking the virus spread” is merely a gateway for the Chinese Communist Party to attain their actual aim to “track every citizen real-time”.
In addition, the biggest fallacy of the Health Code system is the assumption that everybody is sick, so that they would need to prove that they are healthy. Otherwise, they may risk becoming the public bads and losing their personal freedom. While Beijing would have successfully made Hong Kong people rat out each other, many would be willing to act as the "health police" of the totalitarian regime to identify those who refuse to comply with the rule, hence assisting the implementation of the Social Credit System to its perfection.
Source: 作者 #Aug9
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3422735741109873&id=972393926144079
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #WhiteTerror #HealthPolice
Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and CCP's Goal to Control
Part 2/2
Introducing a nation-wide Health Code is not only a public opinion issue, but also a technical necessity in view of system compatibility.
Health Code in China is separately managed by Tencent’s WeChat and Alibaba’s Alipay. If Hong Kong government declares that Hong Kong citizens’ personal data will not be transferred to Beijing, shouldn’t it first ensure the Health Code in Hong Kong will not be managed by Tencent and Alibaba?
However, it happened that, Alibaba owner Jack Ma is a major shareholder of Prenetics, the Chinese company appointed by Hong Kong government to carry out Coronavirus nucleic acid test in Hong Kong. If Hong Kong government stresses that the Health Code in Hong Kong and China are "incompatible", isn’t it not like finding enemy with the Central policy.
Imagine any person who refuses to be inspected by Beijing Genomics Institute (#BGI) will be denied to dine out at restaurants in evenings: Knowing Hong Kong people, many of them may even line up to obtain this AI-powered collar. Besides, having a check-point at every district is an important step towards popularizing the Health Code, followed by a “Caste system” as Huang Zhou citizens called it, which would exploit the exclusion psychology among people and induce social stratification. Finally, peopld would strive to become an "upper caste".
In China, Alipay has long been training consumers to scan QR codes and use facial recognition to log-in. These are actually parts of the behavioral domestication engineering projects. The two-dimensional coding system on the gates of Shenzhen subway train is said to link with Health Code. Passengers who have become used to the “scanning-before-boarding” mechanism are, meanwhile, revealing all footprints of their social life to the authorities.
In other words, “tracking the virus spread” is merely a gateway for the Chinese Communist Party to attain their actual aim to “track every citizen real-time”.
In addition, the biggest fallacy of the Health Code system is the assumption that everybody is sick, so that they would need to prove that they are healthy. Otherwise, they may risk becoming the public bads and losing their personal freedom. While Beijing would have successfully made Hong Kong people rat out each other, many would be willing to act as the "health police" of the totalitarian regime to identify those who refuse to comply with the rule, hence assisting the implementation of the Social Credit System to its perfection.
Source: 作者 #Aug9
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3422735741109873&id=972393926144079
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #WhiteTerror #HealthPolice
#COVID19 #FailedState #CoronavirusPandemic
330,000 people off the COVID-monitoring radar
According to latest data of the Department of Health, 330,000 people entered into the community unrestricted - without any actual COVID testing or tracking of their whereabouts but they were issued 'medical surveillance notices’. They simply went through a one-time temperature check and self-claimed 'health declaration form’ upon entering Hong Kong.
Despite the fact that Hong Kong is still under the second wave of outbreak, 50,000 medical surveillance notices were issued to people who were exempted in the past month.
During the first wave of outbreak in February this year, nearly 100,000 people entered into Hong Kong under this exemption arrangement. Endless exemption, endless community outbreaks risk.
[X axis: month
Y axis: number of medical surveillance notices issued]
Sources: HKC News; Hong Kong Governmemt
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202007/26/P2020072600666.htm?fontSize=1
https://tinyurl.com/HKC-News
330,000 people off the COVID-monitoring radar
According to latest data of the Department of Health, 330,000 people entered into the community unrestricted - without any actual COVID testing or tracking of their whereabouts but they were issued 'medical surveillance notices’. They simply went through a one-time temperature check and self-claimed 'health declaration form’ upon entering Hong Kong.
Despite the fact that Hong Kong is still under the second wave of outbreak, 50,000 medical surveillance notices were issued to people who were exempted in the past month.
During the first wave of outbreak in February this year, nearly 100,000 people entered into Hong Kong under this exemption arrangement. Endless exemption, endless community outbreaks risk.
[X axis: month
Y axis: number of medical surveillance notices issued]
Sources: HKC News; Hong Kong Governmemt
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202007/26/P2020072600666.htm?fontSize=1
https://tinyurl.com/HKC-News
#FailedState #CoronavirusPandemic
Dismissing Privacy Concern, HK Gov't Insists in Carrying Out Universal Test and Health Code
The Chief Executive Carrie Lam on August 21 urged Hongkongers to take part in the COVID19 test run by the Chinese companies appointed by the HK government from September 1 onwards. Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip reassured that information will "not be sent outside of Hong Kong".
Despite public concern over data collection and privacy, Lam said that the government will implement a health code plan to exempt qualified Hong Kong-China travellers from quarantine restrictions, similar to what China had already installed in Macau and Guangdong.
Secretary for Innovation and Technology Alfred Sit dismissed privacy concern. He stated that the health code users will have to acknowledge that they 'agree' to have their data sent to their destination, i.e. the Chinese authorities, if travelling to China.
Meanwhile, microbiologist Ho Pak-leung, head of the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Infection, has doubt in universal COVID-19 testing. He called it "a waste of bullets" if people with higher risk of infection are not tested.
Ho suggested to test all patients in public hospitals, and carry out repeated tests for elderly home workers and frontline medical staff, instead.
Source: RTHK #Aug21
#BigData #HealthCode #CarrieLam #AlfredSit #HoPakLeung #PersonalPrivacy #DNA
Dismissing Privacy Concern, HK Gov't Insists in Carrying Out Universal Test and Health Code
The Chief Executive Carrie Lam on August 21 urged Hongkongers to take part in the COVID19 test run by the Chinese companies appointed by the HK government from September 1 onwards. Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip reassured that information will "not be sent outside of Hong Kong".
Despite public concern over data collection and privacy, Lam said that the government will implement a health code plan to exempt qualified Hong Kong-China travellers from quarantine restrictions, similar to what China had already installed in Macau and Guangdong.
Secretary for Innovation and Technology Alfred Sit dismissed privacy concern. He stated that the health code users will have to acknowledge that they 'agree' to have their data sent to their destination, i.e. the Chinese authorities, if travelling to China.
Meanwhile, microbiologist Ho Pak-leung, head of the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Infection, has doubt in universal COVID-19 testing. He called it "a waste of bullets" if people with higher risk of infection are not tested.
Ho suggested to test all patients in public hospitals, and carry out repeated tests for elderly home workers and frontline medical staff, instead.
Source: RTHK #Aug21
#BigData #HealthCode #CarrieLam #AlfredSit #HoPakLeung #PersonalPrivacy #DNA
news.rthk.hk
Universal tests like wasting bullets: Ho Pak-leung
University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung on Friday cast doubt on the effectiveness of the universal coronavirus tests, saying the government would be "wasting bullets" if the plan is not targeted at people with higher risk of infection. Ho said…
#PoliceState
Police Forbid Hong Kong Boy from Giving out Free Masks to Fellow Citizens During Pandemic
At around 7pm on Sept 8 in Hong Kong, a youngster wearing a black tee that read "We love Hong Kong so damn much" was encircled by several police officers. The youngster was giving out free face masks for his fellow citizens outside Kwai Fong metro Station.
The police stopped the boy from distributing masks, recorded his personal details and searched his bag for at least 10 minutes. Passersby went to console the boy after the police left the scene.
Source: PSHK #Sept8
https://www.facebook.com/111587046907016/posts/384481639617554/
#FaceMasks #CoronavirusPandemic #LoveHongKong #HongKongYouth
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Police Charge Pro-democracy activist with Sedition for Chanting "Five Demands and Not One Less"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25112
12-Year-Old Girl, Shopping for Stationery, Body-Slammed to the Ground by Police
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25059
Police Forbid Hong Kong Boy from Giving out Free Masks to Fellow Citizens During Pandemic
At around 7pm on Sept 8 in Hong Kong, a youngster wearing a black tee that read "We love Hong Kong so damn much" was encircled by several police officers. The youngster was giving out free face masks for his fellow citizens outside Kwai Fong metro Station.
The police stopped the boy from distributing masks, recorded his personal details and searched his bag for at least 10 minutes. Passersby went to console the boy after the police left the scene.
Source: PSHK #Sept8
https://www.facebook.com/111587046907016/posts/384481639617554/
#FaceMasks #CoronavirusPandemic #LoveHongKong #HongKongYouth
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Police Charge Pro-democracy activist with Sedition for Chanting "Five Demands and Not One Less"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25112
12-Year-Old Girl, Shopping for Stationery, Body-Slammed to the Ground by Police
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25059
#HKGovernment #GatheringBan #CoronavirusPandemic
Netizens Cast Doubt Over HK's Gov't Officials' Compliance with Social Distancing And Anti-Pandemic Measures
The photo was released by a whistleblowers' page "Civil Servants Secret" on Facebook.
In the photo, Hong Kong government officials only wearing masks, including Food and Health Department head Sophia Chan, were taking a group photo with medical personnel, all dressed in protective gowns.
Source: Civil Servant Secrets #Sept15
https://www.facebook.com/492354117860377/posts/1037419796687137/
#SophiaChan #PPE
Netizens Cast Doubt Over HK's Gov't Officials' Compliance with Social Distancing And Anti-Pandemic Measures
The photo was released by a whistleblowers' page "Civil Servants Secret" on Facebook.
In the photo, Hong Kong government officials only wearing masks, including Food and Health Department head Sophia Chan, were taking a group photo with medical personnel, all dressed in protective gowns.
Source: Civil Servant Secrets #Sept15
https://www.facebook.com/492354117860377/posts/1037419796687137/
#SophiaChan #PPE
#TearGas
Lack of International Supervision on Tear Gas, Canadian Human Right Expert Urge to Ban as it can Spread Wuhan Virus
An International Human Right Project publication at the University of Toronto from last month said it is time to change the limitation for use of tear gas as the current law is no longer logical. The report pointed that tear gas could cause the spread of COVID-19.
Anti-riot agent, like teargas, has been banned from the means of wars in Chemical Weapons Convention since 1997. However, the law enforcement agencies in each country are not limited by this convention - they can use it in protests and riots. Last year, many places, such as Hong Kong, the U.S. Chile, Turkey, France, India and South Africa, broke out demonstrations, the law enforcement agencies had used teargas to disperse people for multiple times.
The International Human Right Project Team doubted that the governmentve has continuously overused dangerous teargas to prohibit citizens' freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
Source: Stand News #Sep08
#WuhanVirus #CoronavirusPandemic #HumanRights #COVID19
Lack of International Supervision on Tear Gas, Canadian Human Right Expert Urge to Ban as it can Spread Wuhan Virus
An International Human Right Project publication at the University of Toronto from last month said it is time to change the limitation for use of tear gas as the current law is no longer logical. The report pointed that tear gas could cause the spread of COVID-19.
Anti-riot agent, like teargas, has been banned from the means of wars in Chemical Weapons Convention since 1997. However, the law enforcement agencies in each country are not limited by this convention - they can use it in protests and riots. Last year, many places, such as Hong Kong, the U.S. Chile, Turkey, France, India and South Africa, broke out demonstrations, the law enforcement agencies had used teargas to disperse people for multiple times.
The International Human Right Project Team doubted that the governmentve has continuously overused dangerous teargas to prohibit citizens' freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
Source: Stand News #Sep08
#WuhanVirus #CoronavirusPandemic #HumanRights #COVID19
#CSIMasks #CoronavirusPandemic
Ombudsman: Practice of Correctional Services Department on Prison-made Surgical Masks Inappropriate and Inconsistent with the Code on Access to Information
Source: Stand News #Sept18
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25490
Ombudsman: Practice of Correctional Services Department on Prison-made Surgical Masks Inappropriate and Inconsistent with the Code on Access to Information
Source: Stand News #Sept18
Read more
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25490
#InformationAccess #Transparency #CoronavirusPandemic
Ombudsman: Practice of Correctional Services Department on Prison-made Surgical Masks Inappropriate and Inconsistent with the Code on Access to Information
When the coronavirus outbreak started earlier this year in Hong Kong, there was a spike in the demand for facemasks in the city. However, the surgical masks (commonly referred to as #CSIMasks) produced by the Correctional Services Department (#CSD), mainly for government departments, were found on the market for sale, calling into question whether CSI masks have been misused or resold without authorisation.
The “Hong Kong Connection”, a RTHK investigative programme, used the Code of Public Information and lodged inquiries to both the Correctional Services Department and the Government Logistics Department about manufacturing, distribution, and usage of CSI masks. However, both departments refused to reply, citing protection of third-party information and their privacy.
The Office of the Ombudsman carried out direct investigation in March this year upon receiving complaints from the RTHK team. The Ombudsman report, revealed that only one of the receiving organisations of CSI masks refused to disclose further information initially, claiming that “the society is infused with rioting and a culture to smear.”
In view of CSI masks outflowing into the market, the government once responded in February 2020, saying “CSD has been providing masks to non-governmental organisations well before the pandemic outbreak, so it is not surprising to see citizens wearing these masks.” When responding to RTHK inquiry, CSD insisted not disclosing any information involving a third-party.
In a post on the RTHK-programme “Hong Kong Connection” Facebook on September 17, it quoted the Ombudsman report which found RTHK-complaint well substantiated. The report pointed out omission of information in CSD practices in 2017 and 2018, it also found CSD’s refusal to provide information on non-governmental organizations inconsistent with the Code of Public Information and recommended CSD to re-examine and disclose information as much as possible.
Source: Stand News #Sept18
#FailedState #Obudsman
Ombudsman: Practice of Correctional Services Department on Prison-made Surgical Masks Inappropriate and Inconsistent with the Code on Access to Information
When the coronavirus outbreak started earlier this year in Hong Kong, there was a spike in the demand for facemasks in the city. However, the surgical masks (commonly referred to as #CSIMasks) produced by the Correctional Services Department (#CSD), mainly for government departments, were found on the market for sale, calling into question whether CSI masks have been misused or resold without authorisation.
The “Hong Kong Connection”, a RTHK investigative programme, used the Code of Public Information and lodged inquiries to both the Correctional Services Department and the Government Logistics Department about manufacturing, distribution, and usage of CSI masks. However, both departments refused to reply, citing protection of third-party information and their privacy.
The Office of the Ombudsman carried out direct investigation in March this year upon receiving complaints from the RTHK team. The Ombudsman report, revealed that only one of the receiving organisations of CSI masks refused to disclose further information initially, claiming that “the society is infused with rioting and a culture to smear.”
In view of CSI masks outflowing into the market, the government once responded in February 2020, saying “CSD has been providing masks to non-governmental organisations well before the pandemic outbreak, so it is not surprising to see citizens wearing these masks.” When responding to RTHK inquiry, CSD insisted not disclosing any information involving a third-party.
In a post on the RTHK-programme “Hong Kong Connection” Facebook on September 17, it quoted the Ombudsman report which found RTHK-complaint well substantiated. The report pointed out omission of information in CSD practices in 2017 and 2018, it also found CSD’s refusal to provide information on non-governmental organizations inconsistent with the Code of Public Information and recommended CSD to re-examine and disclose information as much as possible.
Source: Stand News #Sept18
#FailedState #Obudsman
#EditorialColumn #Sept26 #MassSurveillance
Does Health Have a Price? Consequences of China's Paternalism
From the recent Universal Testing Scheme to the impending plan for Heath Code, the Hong Kong Government has been assisting the Chinese Central Government to impose mass surveillance and collect private data of the Hong Kong population in the name of pandemic controls.
For almost one year, the coronavirus pandemic, spreading from Wuhan, China to countries around the world, has revealed China's network of influence. Hong Kong is certainly not the only place where China exports, while naturalizing, its paternalistic control.
Can you see how China jails the Uyghurs in Concentration Camps?
Can you see the surveillance cameras owned by the CCP-controlled HIKvision around the world?
Can you see the backdoors that China-owned Huawei, WeChat and Tiktok open?
Can you see that the made-in-China facemasks you pay to wear came from forced labour at the Concentration camps and sweatshop factories?
Now you can see the penetration of China's sharp power in the 21st century.
If you found it disturbing that your internet activities might be overseen by the PRISM program and your messages seen by Facebook, the black mirror is brought to you by TikTok, WeChat and mass surveillance methods that track your health, contacts, whereabouts and activities.
Welcome to a made-in-China 2020: with surveillance technology, anti-pandemic control and monitoring system.
Welcome to utopia.
Image courtesy: The Economist
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Reference:
New York Times, Wearing a Mask? It May Come From China’s Controversial Labor Program, 19 July 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007226041/china-coronavirus-masks-uighur-labor-ppe.html
Further Reading:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/tiktok-china-strategy.html
#FaceMasks #LabourCamp #CoronavirusPandemic #Uyghurs #ChinesePaternalism #Health
Does Health Have a Price? Consequences of China's Paternalism
From the recent Universal Testing Scheme to the impending plan for Heath Code, the Hong Kong Government has been assisting the Chinese Central Government to impose mass surveillance and collect private data of the Hong Kong population in the name of pandemic controls.
For almost one year, the coronavirus pandemic, spreading from Wuhan, China to countries around the world, has revealed China's network of influence. Hong Kong is certainly not the only place where China exports, while naturalizing, its paternalistic control.
Can you see how China jails the Uyghurs in Concentration Camps?
Can you see the surveillance cameras owned by the CCP-controlled HIKvision around the world?
Can you see the backdoors that China-owned Huawei, WeChat and Tiktok open?
Can you see that the made-in-China facemasks you pay to wear came from forced labour at the Concentration camps and sweatshop factories?
Now you can see the penetration of China's sharp power in the 21st century.
If you found it disturbing that your internet activities might be overseen by the PRISM program and your messages seen by Facebook, the black mirror is brought to you by TikTok, WeChat and mass surveillance methods that track your health, contacts, whereabouts and activities.
Welcome to a made-in-China 2020: with surveillance technology, anti-pandemic control and monitoring system.
Welcome to utopia.
Image courtesy: The Economist
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Reference:
New York Times, Wearing a Mask? It May Come From China’s Controversial Labor Program, 19 July 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007226041/china-coronavirus-masks-uighur-labor-ppe.html
Further Reading:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/tiktok-china-strategy.html
#FaceMasks #LabourCamp #CoronavirusPandemic #Uyghurs #ChinesePaternalism #Health
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#CoronavirusPandemic
Chinese Express "Joy" Over Trump's Covid-19 Infection in TV Interviews
US President Trump announced on Twitter on Oct 2, 2020 that he has been infected with COVID19.
A Taiwan TV channel compiled a video with footages obtained from US and Australia channels where Chinese, when interviewed, expressed "joy" to Trump's latest condition.
Watch the video:
https://www.facebook.com/news.ebc/videos/774038203166799
Source: EBC News, Taiwan #Oct2
#Trump #China #COVID19
Chinese Express "Joy" Over Trump's Covid-19 Infection in TV Interviews
US President Trump announced on Twitter on Oct 2, 2020 that he has been infected with COVID19.
A Taiwan TV channel compiled a video with footages obtained from US and Australia channels where Chinese, when interviewed, expressed "joy" to Trump's latest condition.
Watch the video:
https://www.facebook.com/news.ebc/videos/774038203166799
Source: EBC News, Taiwan #Oct2
#Trump #China #COVID19
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China Tampers With #WHO Video, Removes a Crucial "If", and Falsely Claims Vaccine Success
Source: Fact Check Lab, Hong Kong
#WuhanPneumonia #CoronavirusPandemic #Covid19Vaccine
China Tampers With #WHO Video, Removes a Crucial "If", and Falsely Claims Vaccine Success
Source: Fact Check Lab, Hong Kong
#WuhanPneumonia #CoronavirusPandemic #Covid19Vaccine
#FakeNews #Disinformation
China Tampers With #WHO Video, Removes a Crucial "If", and Falsely Claims Vaccine Success
China's state-run CCTV News posted a video on Sept 24, 2020 to their Chinese-language Facebook page, claiming that WHO had stated that China's COVID-19 vaccine had "proved to be successful" in current clinical trials.
The video was reposted by a number of pro-Beijing Facebook pages, with captions such as "WHO Top Scientist: New Chinese COVID Vaccine Proven to be Effective", "China is Great 👍 For the Good of the World".
However, Factcheck Lab compared the video disseminated by China with the actual proceedings of WHO's press conference, and found that CCTV had cut the statement out of context, carefully removing a paronwith a crucial "if". Moreover, stock footage is played over the resulting audio clip, carefully concealing the distortion of facts upon the edits made by the China-owned news organization.
In the CCTV video [1], the quote from WHO Chief Scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, was modified to apparently claim that China had already created a successful vaccine:
"... very active vaccine development programme and several of their vaccine candidates are in advanced stages of clinical trial so this is also of interest to us so we're following those very closely. Some of their candidates actually proved to be successful in the clinical trials that are going on"
The full quote of Dr. Swaminathan is preserved in the conference transcripts [2] and video [3] of the Sept 21 press conference. The parts edited out by CCTV makes it sound that the above italicized quote was not meant to be an assertive statement on its own:
"We've been engaged in discussions with China for the last several months because, as you know, they also have a very active vaccine development programme and several of their vaccine candidates are in advanced stages of clinical trial so this is also of interest to us so we're following those very closely. <b>We've had very constructive and open discussions with them and they have always been reiterating their commitment to global access if some of their candidates actually prove to be successful in the clinical trials that are going on."
Taken in its entirety, it is clear that Dr Swaminathan's statement was only acknowledging China's promise to share any vaccines that they might develop.
In other words, the edited CCTV video, as well as the reposts made by pro-Beijing pages, had deliberately modified the scientist's statement to make false claims of China's success, and is clearly an intentional attempt to mislead the public.
NOTES:
[1] CCTV News video:
https://www.facebook.com/761870613900500/posts/3972027886218074
[2] Transcript of WHO COVID-19 Virtual Press Conference, 21 September 2020:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcripts/joint-covid-19-virtual-press-conference---21-september.pdf#page=16
[3] Video of press conference, beginning at Dr. Swaminathan's statement (0:42:44):
https://youtu.be/ia8DElK7SE4?t=2564
Source: FactCheck Lab, Hong Kong #30Sept2020 https://www.factchecklab.org/20200930/
#WuhanPneumonia #CoronavirusPandemic #Covid19Vaccine
#CCPLies #CCTV
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[Editor's Note:
As the WHO represents the world's concerted effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, such misleading reports only serves to undermine the organization's credibility and international cooperation. It is all the more despicable that it would come from a state-run media such as China's CCTV; such falsehood is an affront to any journalist's commitment to the pursuit of the truth, and ought to be widely condemned.]
The false video was first reported by Factcheck Lab on Sept 30, 2020.
Their original report in Chinese is attached as follows:
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China Tampers With #WHO Video, Removes a Crucial "If", and Falsely Claims Vaccine Success
China's state-run CCTV News posted a video on Sept 24, 2020 to their Chinese-language Facebook page, claiming that WHO had stated that China's COVID-19 vaccine had "proved to be successful" in current clinical trials.
The video was reposted by a number of pro-Beijing Facebook pages, with captions such as "WHO Top Scientist: New Chinese COVID Vaccine Proven to be Effective", "China is Great 👍 For the Good of the World".
However, Factcheck Lab compared the video disseminated by China with the actual proceedings of WHO's press conference, and found that CCTV had cut the statement out of context, carefully removing a paronwith a crucial "if". Moreover, stock footage is played over the resulting audio clip, carefully concealing the distortion of facts upon the edits made by the China-owned news organization.
In the CCTV video [1], the quote from WHO Chief Scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, was modified to apparently claim that China had already created a successful vaccine:
"... very active vaccine development programme and several of their vaccine candidates are in advanced stages of clinical trial so this is also of interest to us so we're following those very closely. Some of their candidates actually proved to be successful in the clinical trials that are going on"
The full quote of Dr. Swaminathan is preserved in the conference transcripts [2] and video [3] of the Sept 21 press conference. The parts edited out by CCTV makes it sound that the above italicized quote was not meant to be an assertive statement on its own:
"We've been engaged in discussions with China for the last several months because, as you know, they also have a very active vaccine development programme and several of their vaccine candidates are in advanced stages of clinical trial so this is also of interest to us so we're following those very closely. <b>We've had very constructive and open discussions with them and they have always been reiterating their commitment to global access if some of their candidates actually prove to be successful in the clinical trials that are going on."
Taken in its entirety, it is clear that Dr Swaminathan's statement was only acknowledging China's promise to share any vaccines that they might develop.
In other words, the edited CCTV video, as well as the reposts made by pro-Beijing pages, had deliberately modified the scientist's statement to make false claims of China's success, and is clearly an intentional attempt to mislead the public.
NOTES:
[1] CCTV News video:
https://www.facebook.com/761870613900500/posts/3972027886218074
[2] Transcript of WHO COVID-19 Virtual Press Conference, 21 September 2020:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcripts/joint-covid-19-virtual-press-conference---21-september.pdf#page=16
[3] Video of press conference, beginning at Dr. Swaminathan's statement (0:42:44):
https://youtu.be/ia8DElK7SE4?t=2564
Source: FactCheck Lab, Hong Kong #30Sept2020 https://www.factchecklab.org/20200930/
#WuhanPneumonia #CoronavirusPandemic #Covid19Vaccine
#CCPLies #CCTV
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[Editor's Note:
As the WHO represents the world's concerted effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, such misleading reports only serves to undermine the organization's credibility and international cooperation. It is all the more despicable that it would come from a state-run media such as China's CCTV; such falsehood is an affront to any journalist's commitment to the pursuit of the truth, and ought to be widely condemned.]
The false video was first reported by Factcheck Lab on Sept 30, 2020.
Their original report in Chinese is attached as follows:
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