“China – Communist Slave State”

Ruling party highlights declining birthrate but potential parents are imbued with spirit of defiance

At one point during Shanghai’s long pandemic lockdown in the spring, police arrived on the doorstep of a young couple and ordered them to go to a quarantine facility for several days, even though neither of them was infected with the coronavirus.

The punishment for failing to comply would affect not only them but their future children and grandchildren, an officer said.

Calmly, the husband replied: “I am sorry, we are the last generation. Thank you.”

Few foresaw that Xi Jinping would become the most assertive Chinese leader in decades – he is now all but set to secure a historic third term in power.

A decade ago little was known about Mr Xi – apart from the fact that he was a “princeling” because his father was one of the country’s revolutionary leaders.

His lineage helped him win the support of party elders, which was crucial to ascending power within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as these leaders often wielded political influence even after retirement.

The United States will have months of warning before China attacks Taiwan.

At least that is what John Culver, a retired CIA officer and now an Atlantic Council scholar, argues in a report issued this month by the influential Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

On the contrary, Americans may not even know that China has struck the first blow until months after it has occurred. As Culver’s writings show, Americans think China’s war planners think like America’s war planners. Unfortunately, the Chinese ones do not. First strikes, despite what former intelligence officials believe, do not have to look like the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

The book publishing industry, especially on the lower end, has taken to outsourcing cheaper and smaller print runs to Communist China. While print-on-demand was supposed to revolutionize publishing, instead what we have tended to see are smaller presses, vanity presses and smaller-scale projects being routed through to China. Most of the big publishers still handle their big projects in America, but some have begun moving children’s books offshore to China. And when you do that, China gets to decide what can be printed.

President Xi Jinping opened the 20th Communist Party Congress on Sunday. In his speech, Xi said China has not ruled out the use of force regarding Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing considers Chinese territory.

“We insist on striving for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the greatest sincerity and with the greatest efforts,” he said. “However, we are not committed to abandoning the use of force and we reserve the option to take all necessary measures,” he said.

He added that “the resolution of the Taiwan issue is a matter for the Chinese themselves to decide.”

An unidentified man unfurled a banner over a bridge in Beijing calling for the removal of President Xi in a rare protest three days before China’s leader is set to begin an unprecedented third term.

“No PCR tests but food, no controls but freedom, no lies but dignity, no cultural revolution but reforms, no leader but ballots, don’t be slaves but citizens,” read the banner. Another banner called for the removal of Xi as a dictator and a traitor and urged the public to go on strike.

Sitong Bridge, Haidian District, Beijing, a man displayed banners and shouted slogans against Xi Jinping. He had been arrested and voice disappeared, but maybe in the future, everyone who crosses this bridge will remember that there was once a man…#TheGreatTranslationMovement pic.twitter.com/Fr20sF9XFK

— The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动官方推号 (@TGTM_Official) October 13, 2022

The environmental damage the Chinese Communist Party is causing through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is immeasurable. According to Professor William Laurance of James Cook University in Cairns, Australia:

“Across the globe, on nearly every continent, China is involved in a dizzying variety of resource extraction, energy, agricultural, and infrastructure projects — roads, railroads, hydropower dams, mines — that are wreaking unprecedented damage to ecosystems and biodiversity,”