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World Leader: Taiwan Set an Example for the World

As the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic continued, Radio France International and Deutsche Welle published separate articles praising Taiwan for taking effective measures to contain the virus and set a good example for the world.

Though located across a strait from mainland China, Taiwan, with a population of 23.5 million, managed to have only 42 cases of infection and one death.

As they mentioned, Taiwan, with a democratic system and a history of resisting the Chinese Communist Party, set an example to show the “difference between a democratic country and an autocratic regime in handling the pandemic.”

The two articles listed the following factors that resulted in success in Taiwan:

  1. Stopped people from mainland China from entering Taiwan and quarantined non-Chinese citizens who traveled from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao to Taiwan.
  2. Established a “unified command” system in 2004, a year after the SARS outbreak. The key to this mechanism is to include multiple agencies, including transportation, customs, and education, together. At the beginning stage, the  government conducted a big data analysis with citizens’ health records and the National Immigration Agency’s data, to provide travel history to the medical staff members to better identify the coronavirus infection.
  3. Implemented quarantine measures with full respect for individual rights. “They let the people under quarantine feel that the government cares about their safety. Thus the people with suspected infections come forward to the government for a further check. This is the biggest difference between a democratic country and an autocratic regime in handling the pandemic.” Many people in China are afraid to admit that they have been infected because they don’t know what the government might do to them afterward.

Also, the Communist regime reduced the number of Chinese visitors to Taiwan as a punishment to Taiwan for re-electing Tsai Ing-Wen as the President. This helped Taiwan to contain the pandemic.

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Propaganda and Lies: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Said Virus Was from the US

Zhao Lijian, Spokesman & Deputy Director General of the Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accused the United States of being the origin of the novel coronavirus, stating, “It might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent!”

On his Twitter account @zlj517, Zhao posted in both Chinese and English:

During the House Oversight Committee Wednesday, “1/2 CDC Director Robert Redfield admitted some Americans who seemingly died from influenza in the posthumous diagnosis, had tested positive for the novel #coronavirus. #COVID19

“2/2 the CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in the US? How many people have been infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be the U.S. army that brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! The US owes us an explanation!”

Zhao also posted:

“Some #influenza deaths were actually infected with #COVID-19, Robert Redfield from the US #CDC admitted to the House of Representatives. The US reported 34 million cases of influenza and 20,000 deaths. Please tell us how many are related to COVID-19?”

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World Outbreak: Many Iranian Officials Have Died or Been Infected with the Coronavirus

The Novel Coronavirus is taking a severe toll in Iran. Iran government reported 9,000 infected cases on March 11, though many people suspected the actual number is much higher.

Jerusalem Post reported that the virus is spreading among the country’s elites, particularly the religious establishment and Islamic Revolutionary Gard Corps (IRGC) circles. It listed the following officials and clerics as being impacted by the virus:

Infected:

  • Massoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President
  • Iraj Haririchi, Deputy Health Minister
  • Mustafa Pourmohammadi, a former Justice Minister and Deputy at the Intelligence Ministry
  • Pirhossein Kolivand, a top official of the Emergency Medical Services
  • Esmail Najjar, an official of the “Crisis Management” Department, Interior Ministry
  • At least 24 Members of the Parliament
  • Mojtaba Rahmanzadeh, a local mayor of district 13 in Tehran
  • Mojtaba Zonnour, a cleric and National Security Official from Qom
  • Mojtaba Fazeli, an adviser to a senior cleric

Died:

  • Fatemeh Rahbar, Member of Parliament from Tehran
  • Mohammad Ali Ramezani, Member of Parliament from Gilan.
  • Seyyed Mohammad Mir Mohammadi, a member of the Expediency Council and former Chief of Staff for Ayatollah Khamenei.
  • Hossein Sheikholeslam, an adviser to the Foreign Minister
  • Ahmad Toyserkani, an adviser to judiciary member Ebrahim Raisi
  • Reza Pourkhanali, an Agriculture Ministry official
  • Mohammed Reza Rachamani, politician
  • Hamed Jalali Kashani, an activist
  • Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi, IRGC’s Basij Force
  • Ramezan Pourghassem, IRGC ground forces
  • Abdollah Jafarzadeh, a high-ranking officer of the IRGC
  • Farzad Tazari, IRGC official
  • Rasoul Azizi, head of Gilan’s police inspection unit
  • Akbar Dehghan, cleric of Qom
  • Ayatollah Mohsen Habib
  • Ali Khalafi, cleric
  • Ayatollah Reza Mohammadi Langroudi
  • Mousa Torabzedeh from Astaneh-ye Ashhrafiyeh in Gilan
  • Ali Hosseini, cleric of Aliabad-e-Katul in Golestan
  • Mostafa Amini, cleric
  • Nematollah Javadi Bamiani, cleric
  • Reza Modarresi, cleric

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Source: Jerusalem Post, March 11, 2020
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/How-many-Iranian-officials-have-died-of-coronavirus-620510

Local Government: After Announcing Unlocking the City, Qianjiang Reverted Back to Lockdown

Qianjiang City, Hubei Province is 100 miles away from Wuhan with a population of 1 million. Starting on January 17, 2020, it stopped all entertainment activities in the city  and became the first city in Hubei and also in China to implement certain “lockdown” measures. As a result, the infection count in the city was the second lowest among all cities in Hubei Province. As of March 10, it had an accumulation of 198 cases (including 179 cured and 9 deaths).

On March 10, the Qianjiang Novel Coronavirus Epidemic Prevention and Control Command Center issued Order No 26 stating that the city would resume normal production and life in a few days. All traffic checkpoints would be removed, all public transportation would resume, and all companies would resume production.

Many media covered the story and praised the city.

However, on March 11, the Command Center issued Order No 27, announcing the cancellation Order No 26 and that the city would continue strict traffic control and people control.

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Stability Control: Facial Recognition Even If Wearing a Face Mask

As almost every Chinese has been wearing a face mask amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus, Beijing has been actively working on enhancing its capability to monitor people’s faces.

Hanwang Technology Co, a high-tech intelligent pattern recognition company headquartered in Beijing, announced that it has developed a new facial recognition technology to use against people who are behind face masks. The company started the project in January and finished it in about a month.

Hanwang claimed a 95 percent accuracy against people wearing face masks and 99.5 percent accuracy against people without face masks.

Hanwang offers two products based on this technology. One is a single channel product that can be used at the entrance of an office building. The other is a multi-channel recognition system that can be connected with multiple monitoring cameras; it can identify each face instantly from a group of over 30 people.

The primary customer for these products is the Ministry of Public Security.

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“World Leader”: Beijing Released a Documentary “The Lockdown: One Month in Wuhan”

China Global Television Network (CGTN), a television outlet that the United States defined as a foreign mission for promoting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) propaganda, recently released a documentary in English “The Lockdown: One Month in Wuhan.”

According to CCTV, this 33-minutes-long documentary covered the development of the novel coronavirus’ from its rapid outbreak in Wuhan through its gradually being brought under control. It fully covered each major measure the Chinese government took under the CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping’s direct leadership; recorded the great sacrifices of the medical staff members; and it depicted the determination of Wuhan’s citizens, including community workers, volunteers, and the delivery staff, to fight the epidemic.

On February 28, CGTN broadcasted it on the CGTN’s English channel and posted it on CGTN’s website, mobile apps, and social media accounts on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. By March 4, the documentary had a viewership of 16.89 million, with 1.46 million views from YouTube and 1.16 million from Facebook. 165 TV channels and new media platforms in 21 foreign countries and regions utilized the video.

The CCTV article stated, “As an English documentary with story and depth, ‘The Lockdown: One Month in Wuhan’ used the format that Westerners are accustomed to, to describe a touching epidemic-fighting story of the medical staff and of normal Wuhan citizens.”

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Leadership: Xi Jinping’s Fake Wuhan Show

Xi Jinping visited Wuhan on March 10. He had a tele-conference with the medical staff working at the Huoshenshan Hospital and also visited a local community.

Radio France International reported that Xi’s visit to the local community, the East Lake Courtyard Community, was a fake show.

Postings on social media reported that police officers came to residents’ homes and sat on the balconies, to prevent residents from watching Xi’s visit, leaving the apartment, or shouting from the apartment. A posting on a social media group of the East Lake Courtyard Community was an “Emergency Notice” to the First Unit and Second Unit of the 29th Building in the community. The notice said, “Today, the Wuhan Police Department will send police officers to enter each home on or above the 9th floor for a security check. They will stay inside the home for an hour. Police officers will wear protection uniforms and disinfect themselves in advance. Everyone please support the work of the police.”

The Wuhan police did this because when Sun Chunlan, the Vice Premier, visited a residential neighborhood on March 5, people shouted “Fake” to greet her. (See Chinascope posting: Hiding Information: Residents Shouted “Fake” When Sun Chunlan Visited a Residential Neighborhood)

Another video on Internet showed that Xi Jinping’s car slowly entered into the community. Then Xi came out. A female voice in the video asked, “Can we shout now?” No response. A little bit later, an official came to greet Xi and raised his arm to signal the start. The female voice asked again, “Can we shout now?” Another female voice answered, “Yes.” Then came the two females’ voices shouting, “Hello Chairman Xi! Hello Chairman Xi! Go Wuhan! Go China!” Xi answered, “Good, Hello!” Netizens pointed out that these two women could have been actresses staged to play residents there.

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Leadership: Political Signs of Xi Jinping’s Visit to Wuhan

Xi Jinping visited Wuhan on March 10. He had a tele-conference with the medical staff working at the Huoshenshan Hospital and he also visited a local community.

Radio Free Asia published a few commentators’ views on Xi’s trip. According to their comments, Xi’s visit to Wuhan indicated that Xi thinks the fight against the epidemic has come to a point where he could claim victory for the first phase and take credit for his leadership. It is time to convert the plague to his personal victory and deal with any news against Xi that is spreading in China. Xi probably wants to use his Wuhan trip to get rid of the criticism, both from within the Chinese Communist Party and outside of the party.

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