Shanghai advances
whole-process people's democracy
“Whole-process
people's democracy refers to China's model of democracy, which ensures that all
major legislative decisions are formulated democratically and generated through
scientific and democratic decision-making.”
Shanghai Officials
Separate COVID-Positive Children from Parents as Outbreak Worsens
“When both parent and child have tested positive, doctors have used threats to browbeat families into compliance. in some cases, children as young as 3 months old have reportedly been separated from their breast-feeding mothers.”
Beijing Dispatches
Military to Shanghai as Expanded Lockdown Triggers More Unrest
Forced Parent-Child
Separations Fuel Outrage in Locked-Down Shanghai
Eerie Drone Footage
Shows Deserted Shanghai Downtown as Lockdown Extended
"At the moment, roughly 90 central banks – including the European Central Banks and the Federal Reserve – are either experimenting with, or are in varying stages of CBDC implementation. Moreover, these CBDC friendly central banks include all G20 economies. And together, represent more than 90 percent of global GDP."
China to pilot digital
yuan in more cities
"The country has
tested the use of the digital yuan in over 10 places from Shenzhen to Shanghai
and Xiong'an New Area. Most recently, Beijing and Zhangjiakou were included
into the program after tests in the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter
Games."
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Sinovac secures $500
million in funding for COVID-19 vaccine development
"We have made
significant progress in the development of our COVID-19 vaccine candidate
CoronaVac, which has reached critical milestones in clinical trials in Asia and
Latin America,"
Sino Biopharm profit
surges 427.2% year-on-year
"INVOX, its wholly
owned subsidiary in Europe, will continue to search for investment
opportunities, while propelling the group company's internationalization"
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China leads in battle
against pandemic
China has been at the
forefront of the global fight against the COVID-19 outbreak, sharing its
experiences, expertise and donating supplies and equipment to countries around
the world.
- On May 5, Singapore
received a total of 620,000 face masks donated by the Chinese government and
the Red Cross Society of China to help the city-state manage the outbreak.
COVID-19 infections had risen to 23,336 in Singapore as of May 10, the highest
in Southeast Asia.
- On May 4, China
donated about 270,000 Fijian dollars ($119,780) in medical supplies to Fiji.
The donation came after an earlier donation of $300,000 to Fiji from China.
Fijian Minister for
Health and Medical Services Ifereimi Waqainabete said the donation will further
strengthen Fiji's fight against the virus and also enhance the strong
development partnership with China.
- As of April 28, the
Chinese government, friendship organizations and enterprises have donated tens
of millions of pieces of medical supplies, including masks and protective gear,
as well as testing equipment and kits, according to the Chinese embassy in
Japan.
Japanese State
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Gaku Hashimoto said in early April that
China has provided important support to Japan for prevention and control of
COVID-19, noting China's timely sharing of anti-pandemic experience and large
provisions of medical supplies.
- On May 4, a new
consignment of donations, including medical equipment, reagents and
consumables, was donated to a newly built military hospital laboratory in
Myanmar. The lab was also set up with the help of a Chinese medical team,
according to Xinhua News Agency.
Khin Ma Ma Myo,
professor of international relations at the University of Yangon, said the
medical supplies and the medical experts' team sent by China to Myanmar are
vital for the country during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Cooperation between
Myanmar and China against COVID-19"brought about positive
implications" that will surely strengthen closer bilateral relations, Khin
Ma Ma Myo said, adding that both countries can also cooperate in the
post-pandemic era by promoting border trade, human resource development in
public healthcare, traditional medicine and medical research.
- In a signed article
published on April 29, Chinese Ambassador to Brunei Yu Hong said that donations
from Chinese companies to Brunei amounted to more than $1.3 million.
BGI, a Chinese genome sequencing company, provided technical support to Brunei in setting up a virology laboratory, in addition to testing kits sent in January.
China has provided
medical supplies to more than 150 countries and international organizations by
mid-April, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said earlier.
The Empire of the
Golden Triangle
"The Golden Triangle is
a place where men die for the flags of unrecognized nations and jugs of acetic
anhydride. This is where the crates of polymer QBZ-95 automatics get dumped and
where mercenaries haul surplus M16s from the Cambodian jungle to lovingly
refurbish with teak furniture.
These frontiers are
run on commodities that no honest man should touch. Once, it was opium. The
Kuomintang and the CIA fought running battles with the Shan United
Revolutionary Army and the Royal Lao Army to control the trade. Methamphetamine
came next. The drugs travel down trails that no map shows, joined by gems,
furs, weapons, and women and children in bondage.
These frontiers are up
for grabs."
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Beijing quick to help
reduce regional poverty
“The program in
Cambodia typifies China's broader steps to promote international development
cooperation as the world's largest developing nation. With China achieving its
goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, officials and
analysts said the nation would remain committed to furthering South-South
Cooperation in its international development cooperation, with greater focus
placed on improving livelihoods and building capacity for less-developed
nations.
President Xi Jinping,
who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central
Committee, has made renewed commitments to enhancing the well-being of
humankind.”
China, EU to hold
virtual leaders' meeting
China's Terracotta
Warriors exhibited in Japan
Achievements abound
under leadership of the Party
"China, a nation with a
history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, has evolved to become the
world's second-largest economy and, since the outbreak of COVID-19, a revered
"physician" of the global community.
The country has also
managed to accomplish the "Chinese miracle "of economic development
in just over 70 years, and has further extended a hand of shared prosperity to
countries keen on speeding up development while maintaining their independence.
These achievements, among others, have been realized under the leadership of
the Communist Party of China.
Reflecting on both the history and the present state of affairs in China, one can firmly link China's success to the various reforms that the CPC has undertaken since its First National Congress, held in Shanghai on July 23, 1921, and the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The founders of the CPC, whose majority at the time of inception comprised farmers and few people in the working class, grappled with various ideas on how to make the Party a national entity, and one with a common ideology that would help the Chinese succeed in their great anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle."
Shanghai Lockdown
Expanded to Cover Entire City as China's Worst Outbreak in 2 Years Drags On
US Trending Toward
China’s Social Credit System, Enabled by Big Tech
The Absolute HORRORS of
The Social Credit System That is Coming to The Western World
China's Legal System
Steps Up Use of Secret Detentions
"(Lawyer) Xie (Yang) shot to fame after spending six months inside China’s system for secret jails or Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL). He described in detail to his lawyers the prolonged, severe physical and psychological torture he had experienced inside the system.
As Xie’s testimony
made headlines worldwide, China’s RSDL was not widely known until that point.
Many other lawyers, alongside Xie, who were also placed into the RSDL system
around the same time, have helped to slowly expose it as more victims came
forth willing to speak about the reality behind those four letters.
The Dual Rise of Xi
Jinping and RSDL
The RSDL system was
put into place as Xi Jinping took power, and it has expanded in scope and size
alongside the leader’s growing control over Chinese society.
RSDL allows the police
to take any target(s) off the street, place them inside solitary confinement at
secret locations, hold them incommunicado, and deny their family or anyone else
knowledge of their whereabouts."
Poor countries'
inability to immunize against COVID-19 a disaster for rich countries
By Bill Gates,
China is BMW 's
biggest single market
Unilever unveils ice
cream 'lighthouse factory' in East China
How Bitcoin
Strengthens the State
"While power tends to
discipline and direct new technologies, they still play a part in challenging
states. But instead of impeding centralization permanently, they become
important bases of power that go on to converge with the state when the dust
settles. During the failed Irish Easter Rising of 1916 and the Russian October
Revolution of 1917, small bands of revolutionaries prioritized the capture of
their nation’s telephone and telegraph exchanges before other targets, knowing
they would be important tools for revolutionary governments. Even when new
technologies are captured for dissident ends, they never escape the state
itself.
A closer look at
cryptocurrencies reveals that they are no exception to this tendency. In
practice, many of its most prominent use cases have little to do with
liberating individuals from the power of states. From El Salvador to Russia and
Afghanistan, power centers use cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions imposed
by adversaries, hedge against internal inflation, and more closely monitor
their populations.
The history of
technology is a human story—at least for now. There are few examples of our
tools developing ends outside of that other human artifice: the state.
(...)
What was once imagined
as a tool poised to achieve a stateless global arena of contractual
individualism is now in the hands of those who wish to free the state from the
web of twentieth-century liberal internationalism and its institutions. Amidst
our current crises, the era of techno-realpolitik is struggling to be born. But
increasingly, it’s evident that a centralizing genetic code was always
present—if temporarily dormant—in the digital technologies that promised us
liberation."
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