“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 174

China’s coal production hit record levels in 2021

China’s coal production reached record levels last year as the state encouraged miners to ramp up their fossil fuel output to safeguard the country’s energy supplies through the winter gas crisis.

The world’s biggest coal producer and consumer mined 384.67m tonnes of the fossil fuel last month, easily topping its previous record of 370.84m tonnes set in November, after the government called for miners to work at maximum capacity to help fuel the country’s economic growth.

Official government figures show that China’s coal binge also spurred the country to record high coal output over the year as a whole. Chinese coal production climbed to an all-time high of 4.07bn tonnes, up 4.7% on the previous year, in a blow to climate campaigners months after the UN’s Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Green-Scam

China’s population growth rate falls to 61-year low

China’s population growth rate has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, barely outnumbering deaths in 2021 despite major government efforts to increase population growth and stave off a demographic crisis.

Across China, 10.62 million babies were born in 2021, a rate of 7.52 per thousand people, the national bureau of statistics said on Monday. In the same period 10.14 million deaths were recorded, a mortality rate of 7.18 per thousand, producing a population growth rate of just 0.34 per thousand head of population.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Revenge is Sweet! ChiComs Say Canada Infected Beijing With Omicron Tainted Mail!

Did Omicron arrive in China’s capital Beijing by mail from Canada?

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus could have entered the Chinese capital Beijing via contaminated mail from Canada, the city’s centre for disease control said on Monday.

Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, said the city’s first Covid-19 patient to be diagnosed with the variant had received a letter mailed from Canada on January 7.

“We do not rule out the possibility that the person was infected through contacting an object from overseas,” she said.

h/t FD

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Destroying Taiwan

America can save Taiwan from Chinese invasion by promising to destroy it, or at least its chipmaking capability, argues an article in Parameters, the U.S. Army War College’s quarterly. In “Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan,” Air University’s Jared McKinney and Colorado State University’s Peter Harris say that Taipei and Washington should make the island “unwantable.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Taiwan

Chinese Spy Operating in UK Parliament Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Senior Conservative

Recent revelations of a Chinese communist spy operating in the British Parliament is “just the tip of the iceberg,” a senior Conservative lawmaker has said.

Britain’s MI5 security agency took the unusual step of sending an alert to Parliament on Jan. 12 warning that an individual named Christine Ching Kui Lee has been “knowingly engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 16, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

American financial institutions’ hypocrisy on China

One of the latest fads on the left is the “environmental, social and governance,” or ESG, movement, in which large companies and financial institutions promise to be environmentally sensitive, diverse, inclusive and whatever, while remaining focused on making money. In reality, ESG, especially on the investing side, seems more like window dressing and an exercise in mass hypocrisy than anything else.

Not surprisingly, those who stand to make money from the ESG ecosystem — ratings firms, corporate lawyers, audit firms, investment banks, asset managers, proxy advisers, index providers, etc. — want the federal government to create and mandate ESG standards for all companies.

While ESG advocates typically talk about the importance of climate and social issues, they ignore the reality below their rhetoric.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022January 16, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "The China Class", USA

Chinese ‘agent’ Christine Lee scandal proves how easily MPs can be targeted & our country can be potentially compromised

PARLIAMENT has been infiltrated. In a shocking development, the domestic intelligence service MI5 revealed that a Chinese spy has been operating in Parliament.

The activities of Christine Lee are still under investigation. But it seems that for years she has been donating money to politicians and trying to sway their policies.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022January 16, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China: Buying Up Europe

For more than a decade, China has been stealthily buying up European companies in strategic sectors, particularly in technology and energy. China appears to be using these European assets to help fulfil the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ambitions of becoming a global force, technologically independent of the West and ultimately supplanting the US as the world’s economic, political and military superpower.

by Blazingcatfur•January 14, 2022January 14, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Everything you need to know about the ‘Chinese agent’ who infiltrated Westminster

Clutching her handbag and grinning as she poses for a picture alongside then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2016, Christine Ching Kui Lee cuts an unassuming figure. But the 58-year-old lawyer has now been unmasked as an alleged Chinese agent – accused by MI5 of seeking to improperly influence MPs on behalf of the country’s ruling Communist Party.

The photo with Corbyn, taken at a Chinese for Labour group event, is one of a series of images indicating the extent of her links to figures across Westminster over more than a decade, during which she was even singled out for praise by Theresa May when she was prime minister.

by Blazingcatfur•January 14, 2022January 14, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", UK

MI5 names Christine Ching Kui Lee as Chinese agent infiltrating Parliament & greasing MP’s palms

MI5 has issued a rare warning to MPs that a Chinese agent has infiltrated Parliament to interfere in UK politics.

An alert from the security service said Christine Ching Kui Lee “established links” for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with current and aspiring MPs.

She then gave donations to politicians, with funding coming from foreign nationals in China and Hong Kong.

It comes after a “significant, long-running” investigation by MI5, Whitehall sources told the BBC.

One of the MPs funded by Ms Lee was Labour’s Barry Gardiner, who received over £420,000 from her in five years.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", UK

Whatever Russia Does in Ukraine, China Will Be Watching

While the West ponders whether Vladimir Putin will invade eastern Ukraine, Xi Jinping watches. For China, Ukraine is a convenient proxy for Taiwan. How NATO responds to Russian aggression will serve as a barometer for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to calculate how the United States and its network of Asia-Pacific allies might react to unprovoked Chinese aggression against Taiwan. At the operational and tactical levels, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could gain invaluable insight from how the Russian Armed Forces move against Ukrainian territory. As the Biden administration and NATO engage in security talks over Ukraine with their Russian counterparts, the West should consider the message it intends to send to the Kremlin and Zhongnanhai.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Russia

Biden’s Budget Priorities and the China Threat

… There is nothing [in the US budget] specifically targeting and countering the Chinese biowarfare threat and resultant global pandemic that has seized the world for nearly two years. Nothing. Instead, there is specific reference to military crisis communications – the sort Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley clearly exercised on October 20, 2020 when he told the Chinese military chief: “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.” General Milley has yet to be indicted.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

China accused of sending people to ‘quarantine camps’ ahead of Winter Olympics

China has reportedly set up brutal, eerie-looking “quarantine camps” as at least 20 million people are in restrictive lockdowns weeks ahead of the Winter Olympics.

Video posted to Twitter shows staff fully covered in white protective clothing standing near row upon row of small white cubicles lined up on the grounds of what appears to be a sports stadium.

Other footage claims to be from within one of the cell-like temporary buildings, with the occupant showing just a bare-framed bed and small, dirty-looking bathroom.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab – but decided to lie about it lest the gravy train be upset

Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab – but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’

Leading British and US scientists thought it was likely that Covid accidentally leaked from a laboratory but were concerned that further debate would harm science in China, emails show.

An email from Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, on February 2 2020 said that “a likely explanation” was that Covid had rapidly evolved from a Sars-like virus inside human tissue in a low-security lab.

The email, to Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Francis Collins of the US National Institutes of Health, went on to say that such evolution may have “accidentally created a virus primed for rapid transmission between humans”.

But a leading scientist told Sir Jeremy that “further debate would do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular”. Dr Collins, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health, warned it could damage “international harmony”.

Gee Wiz! I’m old enough to remember when this was a conspiracy theory. Just like the CIA buying off journalists. “International Harmony” should be read as “Free Money from the ChiComs & Faucis etc”

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", "Oh Oh!", "Peak F*cked Up"

Canadian military officer demands probe into Wuhan’s ‘ground zero’ COVID outbreak

An officer with the Canadian military is calling for an investigation into what he believes was “ground zero” of COVID — two months before the global outbreak.

The officer was one of many athletes participating in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•January 11, 2022January 11, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"