“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 230

How China silenced voices and rewrote Covid history

At the start of the year the Chinese government faced two major challenges; an unknown disease which threatened to tear through its population and a wave of voices online telling the world what was happening.

By the end of 2020, a glance at Chinese state-controlled media shows that both appear to be under control.

The BBC’s Kerry Allen and Zhaoyin Feng take a look back at the country’s online government censors who worked harder than ever to supress negative information, the citizens that managed to break through the Great Firewall, and how the propaganda machine re-wrote the narrative.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2020December 29, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

End the China economic delusion

It was once an accepted truth that China’s increased economic trade and participation in international bodies such as the World Trade Organization would benefit everyone.

China and its citizens would benefit through the jobs and wealth earned from their vast export market. Americans and Europeans would benefit from access to an ever-greater array of ever-cheaper goods. Asian, African, and other American nations would benefit from access to both sides of this market and the incentive to replicate a version of China’s export model. And the world’s democracies, the cornerstones of the post-Cold War international order, would benefit from China’s recognition that it would gain more by abiding the rules of the game than by breaking them.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Wuhan Covid citizen journalist jailed for four years in China crackdown

Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer and citizen journalist who was arrested in May while reporting from Wuhan, has been sentenced to four years in jail.

Zhang was arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – an accusation commonly used against dissidents, activists and journalists – with her video and blog reports from the Wuhan lockdown. Last month she was charged with disseminating false information.

On Monday afternoon, just hours after the trial began, Zhang’s lawyer said she had been sentenced to four years in jail.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

U.S. “Driving Stake Through Heart” of German-Russian Pipeline

The United States is ratcheting up the threat of sanctions against European companies in an effort to deal a death blow to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. The pipeline would double shipments of Russian natural gas to Germany by transporting the gas under the Baltic Sea. U.S. President Donald Trump, like his predecessor Barack Obama, has criticized the project because it would make Germany “captive” to Russia for its energy supplies.

Trump has been especially critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who, in opposition to the United States and many Eastern European countries, has doggedly pursued the pipeline project, which would funnel billions of dollars to Russia at a time that Germany is free-riding on the U.S. defense umbrella that protects Germany from that same Russia.

That would be the same Teutonic Tart noted here, she luvs her China too – Angela Merkel faces European revolt over China trade policy

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Germany, NATO, Russia, USA

It’s a Small World After All: Chinese Influence in America Left-wing power centers double as back doors for Chinese interests.

In a recently released viral video, Chinese Professor Di Dongsheng of Remnin University of China explains in vivid detail how the communist regime bends Americans to their will. The Chinese communists, he says, “have people at the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence. We have our old friends.”

Just where are these “circles of power and influence”? Notably, they are the elite power centers of the American political Left: the media, Hollywood, higher education, Wall Street, and Washington, D.C.

In Canada our China Class is every bit as insidious and every bit as evil.

by Blazingcatfur•December 27, 2020December 27, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

The Cold War Continues, and Now We Are Losing

I’m old enough, just barely, to remember watching Paul Henderson score his winning goal against the Soviets in the final game of the 1972 Summit Series. I knew that something important had happened, but I didn’t fully understand what it was until much later. Yes, it was hockey, and our national pride was at stake, but there was more to it than that. Team Canada was fighting for our way of life against an adversary that sought to tear it down. The United States was the standard flag bearer in conflicts with the Soviets, but in September 1972 the Canadians were combatants in the Cold War.

by Blazingcatfur•December 27, 2020December 27, 2020•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Seven killed in knife attack in China’s Liaoning province

At least seven people have been killed by a knife-wielding attacker in north-eastern China, media reports say.

Another seven people were reported wounded in the mass stabbing, which took place in Kaiyuan, a small city in Liaoning province.

Police have arrested a suspect, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports, although a motive remains unclear.

Witnesses described seeing a man stabbing people seemingly at random.

Good thing they have gun control in China.

by Blazingcatfur•December 27, 2020December 27, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

The Only Way to Stop China’s Atrocities is to End the US Cash Flow That Subsidizes the Regime

Another day brings yet another tale of China’s atrocities at home, or in Hong Kong, in Africa, or for that matter in America.

And they’re met with little in the way of meaningful solutions.

by Blazingcatfur•December 27, 2020December 26, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Communist China’s slave state economy to overtake US ‘by 2028’ due to Covid

China will overtake the US to become the world’s largest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, a report says.

The UK-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said China’s “skilful” management of Covid-19 would boost its relative growth compared to the US and Europe in coming years.

Meanwhile India is tipped to become the third largest economy by 2030.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 26, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

‘Gone For Good’: Chinese State Media Chief Threatens Pompeo With Same Fate As Persecuted Uyghurs

Chen Weihua, China Daily’s European Bureau Chief, threatened U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with the same fate of groups persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party, promising he “surely won’t be spared.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Eric Swalwell and the truth of communist infiltration in the USA

Recent revelations about Eric Swalwell’s relationship with a Chinese spy are another reminder of the power of the Deep State. Nancy Pelosi picked Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) for the House Intelligence Committee. Swalwell’s relationship with Fang Fang began sometime after Fang arrived in the U.S. as a student in 2011, before Swalwell was elected to Congress. He was a city councilman. It ended in 2015 when the FBI informed him that Fang was a spy and she suddenly left the country. Fang targeted young ambitious politicians who had the potential to gain national prominence. According to one U.S. intelligence official, Fang engaged in “romantic” relationships with at least two mayors of Midwestern cities. This program is designed to pay off several decades in the future. There were 369,548 Chinese students in the United States in 2018–2019. These figures suggest that the number of Chinese agents may number in the thousands.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 24, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Among Recipients of COVID-19 Wage Subsidy

Chinese state-owned enterprises were found to be recipients of Canada’s COVID-19 wage subsidy benefit.

In an effort to push for transparency, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) launched a search registry on Monday to help Canadians track employers who have been receiving the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Among the recipients, Chinese state-owned companies and non-profit organizations with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were found to be receiving the Canadian wage subsidy. Some of them include the Canadian arm of PetroChina, Bank of China (BOC), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China Mobile, and Canada China Business Council (CCBC).

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2020December 24, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Canada was ‘wrong’ to reject $230M Arctic mine takeover by Chinese company, China’s embassy says

OTTAWA — Representatives of the Chinese government say Canada was “wrong” to reject the proposed takeover of an Arctic gold mine by a state-owned company, the latest jab in an already-fraught relationship between the two countries.

Canada on Tuesday rejected the proposed takeover of Toronto-based TMAC Resources Inc. by China’s Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd., citing national security concerns. Under the deal, Shandong would have paid $230 million not including debt to acquire the Canadian firm, which is developing a gold mine in Hope Bay, Nunavut.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2020December 23, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Chinese-Made Vaccines Under Scrutiny as Hundreds of Vaccinated Chinese Workers Get Infected Overseas

Hundreds of Chinese workers overseas have reportedly been infected with COVID-19 despite being vaccinated with Chinese-manufactured vaccines. Experts are raising the alarm as they question the vaccines’ effectiveness.

According to a Dec. 15 story on Radio Free Asia (RFA), at least 16 Chinese employees from a major state-owned enterprise stationed at Lunda Norte province, Angola, were infected with the CCP virus. A Chinese citizen, surnamed Gao, said they all had received the vaccines developed by China’s Sinopharm. Taking the vaccine was a requirement for Chinese citizens working abroad.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2020December 23, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Professor Shi Welcomes Visit To Wuhan Virology Lab, Lab Quickly Says That’s Not Approved

Yesterday the BBC published an interesting piece about the origin of the coronavirus. The piece notes that a team of scientists working for WHO are belatedly examining the evidence for the virus’ origins in China. The group of 10 is scheduled to visit Wuhan next month to examine the wet market once thought to be the site where the virus may have jumped from some intermediate mammal to humans.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2020December 23, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"