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Propaganda: Chinese Teacher Taught Students: “Ukraine Is a Spendthrift”

An online video showed a Chinese teacher teaching elementary students that Ukraine is a spendthrift and has wasted all of the assets it inherited when it separated from the USSR.

The teacher said Ukraine inherited a large amount of military assets and asked the students what those assets included. The first students answered, “Nuclear weapons.” The second said, “6,000 tanks.” The third said, “Three aircraft carriers fully loaded with planes that could go anywhere.” (Note: Ukraine sold one carrier to China. It  became China’s first aircraft carrier.)

Then the teacher asked the students what they learned from the Ukraine incident. Students answered by quoting Xi Jinping’s words, “Each of us must live his life in his own way.” Also, “We must study well so we can [later] build the country and defend the country.”

Source: Yahoo!, March 7, 2022
https://tw.news.yahoo.com影-中國女師罵烏克蘭-敗家子-洗腦學生影片瘋傳-072932351.html

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Xi Jinping’s Telephone Conference with Putin

The Russia’s Embassy in China posted an article stating that Russian President Putin had a telephone conference with Xi Jinping on February 25, the second day after Russia invaded Ukraine.

“The Russian President informed the Chinese President in detail about the reasons for the decision to recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (two separatists-controlled regions in Ukraine), to conduct special military operations aimed at protecting civilians from genocide, and to ensure the demilitarization and de-Nazification of the Ukrainian state.”

“Xi stressed (that China would) respect the actions taken by the Russian leadership in the current crisis situation.”

“… Both (Presidents) stated that the use of illegal sanctions to achieve self-interested goals of certain individual countries must not be allowed. In the light of this, the two leaders stressed the importance of strengthening bilateral practical cooperation, taking into account the results of their talks in Beijing on February 4.”

“Overall, the call was friendly and constructive, demonstrating that both sides share the same principled positions on key international issues.”

Source: Russian Embassy in China Website, February 25, 2022
https://beijing.mid.ru/zh/news/_00121/

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Pandemic: COVID Spread to Inner Mongolia, Wuhan, and Beijing

The COVID-19 virus has continued to spread in China, reaching eleven provinces and municipalities, including Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Shanxi, and Hebei provinces. Hohhot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia currently suffers severely and COVID has also spread from Hohhot to Baotou, Inner Mongolia’s largest city and several other counties in Inner Mongolia. Beijing also reported COVID cases due to people attending a training class organized by a healthcare product company in Wuhan City, Hubei Province.

Since the Chinese Communist Party is known for hiding the COVID infection numbers, the actual spread of the infection is not clear.

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Source: Epoch Times, February 23, 2022
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/2/23/n13598626.htm

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Pandemic: China’s “Zero” COVID Policy Hands Companies Huge Profits

A video of the talk by Huang Wansheng during a private gathering was spread on the Internet. Huang is a scholar at the Yenching Institute of Harvard University and a distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University in China.

Huang said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) paid $27,000 to buy a one-way ticket for him in July 2020 to go to Beijing to lead a technological pandemic prevention project “that Xi Jinping himself led directly.”

Huang said that China’s “Zero” COVID policy was driven by the CCP’s elite group to collect money. A company in China made 670 billion yuan (US $106 billion) from nucleic acid testing. Whenever a city has one or a few COVID-19 cases, the interest-vested CCP group orders the whole city to be tested so that they can make a huge profit by selling the testing kits. Forcing people to take multiple vaccine shots  serves the same purpose.

Source: Epoch Times, February 9, 2022
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/2/9/n13565066.htm

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Pandemic: Baise City, Guangxi Autonomous Region Locked Down

While the virus continues spreading in China, Beijing continues its zero COVID-19 policy. On February 7, Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced it would lock down the city. Guangxi reported 72 COVID cases on February 8, among which, 54 cases were from Baise. The Chinese Communist Party is known for hiding cases of COVID infection and the number of deaths, so the actual infection count is unknown.

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Source: Epoch Times, February 9, 2022
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/2/9/n13565744.htm

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Taiwan: Chinese Think Tanker: China Can Take Taiwan by Force in One Week by 2027

Jin Canrong, a Professor and Vice Dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University in Beijing, is a hawkish think tanker in China. He got the world’s attention for providing diplomatic advice to the communist authorities.

In his recent interview with Nikkei Asia, he made the following statement:

“Reunification by force will be pushed to become a reality after the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National Congress is over in the fall of 2022. The leadership is likely to bring the date to 2027, around the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).”

“China already has the capability to reunify Taiwan within a week. The PLA can defeat any U.S. force within 1,000 nautical miles of (China’s) coast.”

“Japan should never intervene in the Taiwan emergency affair. The United States can no longer win over China on this. If Japan intervenes, China will have no choice but to defeat Japan as well. (Japan) should realize that a new change is taking place.”

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Source: VOA, January 31, 2022
https://www.voachinese.com/a/china-can-take-taiwan-in-a-week-and-that-can-happen-by-2027-says-beijing-adviser-20220131/6420369.html

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Pandemic: Hangzhou and Xiong’an Suffered CCOVID-19

On February 1, China reported 63 COVID-19 infection cases from 8 municipalities and provinces, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangdong, and others. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is known for hiding COVID-19 information, so the actual number of cases is not known.

Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province has reported cases daily since it first reported an Omicron case on January 26. The Binjiang District, which had the most cases, sent over 300 buses to transfer 2,000 families, with about 9,000 people, from their homes to designed isolation sites. In some situations, the bus took people to certain hotels, but the hotels refused to accept the people. By now, the city has moved 30,000 people into designated isolation sites.

Xiong’an, Beijing’s satellite city, which has been designed to host the Beijing city government (Beijing will host the central government functions), reported five COVID-19 cases recently and locked down the city. However, this is a “secret” lockdown: the government didn’t publicly announce it, but only told the 1.3 million people in the city that they must stay at home and not go out. It also blocked the roads so people couldn’t leave the city. Foreign media confirmed the lockdown. Also commentators pointed out that the infection number was likely to be much higher than five, otherwise the authorities did not need to lock down 1.3 million people.

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Source:
1. Epoch Times, January 31, 2022
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/1/31/n13543661.htm
2. VOA, January 31, 2022
https://www.voachinese.com/a/voaweishi-2022131-voaio-xiongan-secret-lockdown/6420221.html
3. China’s Government website, February 2, 2022
http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2022-02/02/content_5671665.htm

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Taiwan: IOC Pushed Taiwan to Attend the Olympic Opening Ceremony

On January 28, Taiwan announced that its athletes who were attending the Beijing Winter Olympic Games would not attend the Olympic’s Opening Ceremony and the Closing Ceremony. From January 29 on, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) contacted Taiwan’s Olympic Committee multiple times, stating that the Olympic Charter requests Olympic Committees of all countries to attend the related ceremonies. The Taiwan Olympic Committee discussed the issue with the athletes and then announced that they would attend both ceremonies.

The Taiwan team uses the name “Chinese Taipei” to attend the Olympic Games. In January, Beijing suddenly called it “China Taipei”  making many Taiwan people feel it was purposely belittling Taiwan (indicating Taipei is under China). That is why Taiwan announced earlier that it would not attend the ceremonies.

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Source: Radio France International, February 1, 2022
https://www.rfi.fr/cn/港澳台/20220201-政策大转弯台湾宣布将克服困难I出席冬奥开闭幕式

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