China drafts in the military as Shanghai ordered to test 25 million residents for Covid
"On Sunday, the ruling Communist Party announced the deployment of thousands of military personnel to the locked-down financial hub to assist in the mandatory screening of all 25 million inhabitants"
--- That makes more sense than the alusion a few days ago that the Chinese militia has been mobilised in fear of riots. The question of course is: Why haven't they been sent at the beginning of the lockdown, but only now?
"But if residents hoped the measures would soon ease, the arrival of Vice Premier Sun Chunlan to the city over the weekend left little doubt as to Beijing's position.
Sun, who has spearheaded Covid-19 control efforts throughout the pandemic, on Sunday stressed that Shanghai must adhere to China's zero-Covid policy without any "hesitation or wavering," citing Chinese President Xi Jinping's instruction to eliminate the virus and to win the "hard-fought battle" against pandemic."
--- Should lay to rest the idea that the CCP would steer away from major lockdowns.
COVID: Frustration mounts over Shanghai's tough lockdown
"Chinese health authorities realize that they are not prepared to change the strategy in the near term, due to an under-vaccinated older population, strained health infrastructure and lack of communication and psychological preparations"
--- That's how it looks. If even Shanghai struggled to get an outbreak under control without lockdown, it probably would be a total disaster in most other Chinese cities.
""While most people in Shanghai are unlikely to starve to death, some old people who live alone or other marginalized groups could face the situation of lacking access to basic supplies," said Zhang."
--- Most people are unlikely to starve to death... Now that sounds reassuring.
Study: Transplants in China performed before proving donor brain death
"Researchers identified 71 articles published in Chinese medical journals between 1980 and 2015 in which physicians describe procuring an organ from a donor without first performing a test that is key to establishing brain death"
--- Chabuduo culture in medicine. 'Hey, he may not have been dead yet, but he definitely was after we took his organs.'
For Chinese evacuated from Ukraine, safety costs a pretty penny
"The Chinese government charged evacuees, many of them students, about 18,000 yuan ($2,830) each to board charter flights out of Romania and Poland to various Chinese cities.
Once in China, they had to undergo between 14 and 28 days of quarantine in designated hotels, also at their own expense. Faced with bills of more than $5,000 in some cases
[...] one woman posted a video explaining she had made the decision to stay in Europe after learning the total cost of flights and quarantine for her family would amount to about 80,000 yuan ($12,570)"
--- Let's praise the benevolent CCP for this act of selfless help for Chinese citizens whose life was in danger abroad. The CCP will always be there for you ... as long as you pay.
"On Thursday, the Global Times described the evacuation as a “miraculously successful operation … showing the country’s resolve, mobility and cohesion amid crisis.”"
--- So true. It particularly shows that the CCP can even earn money from evacuating Chinese citizens.
Don’t assume Russia and China are on the same page. The US can work with China
"Xi has articulated an ambitious positive vision for the world that goes beyond the hunger for great power status through regional domination and instead interweaves the interests of the Chinese people with pursuit of the global common good"
--- The Guardian shows again that some people in the West really don't want to learn. How naive do you have to be to still believe anything that emperor Xi tells you?
"essential investments have been neglected by western investors and development agencies for decades"
--- Oomph. Yeah, right. All those billions & billions of dollars of development aid never existed.
"Far from imposing a new global order, China is inviting the west to work together on reforming the status quo. On 28 February, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, called for greater US–China cooperation to increase global access to vaccines, coordinate economic policy and address the climate crisis"
--- Oh yes! Trust China! If they say it, it must be true. After all, the Chinese were the 1st nation to give up their IP on Covid vaccines. ... Oh, wait ...
"If the escalating spiral of confrontation, insecurity, nationalism, and bloc formation continues unchecked, it threatens to unleash a global conflict that will undermine liberal values on both sides even more surely than current fears about the supposed “arc of autocracy”
[...] Cooperation between China and the west, coupled with the acceptance of China’s peaceful rise"
--- China's peaceful rise. Well, Bhutan, Nepal, India & the countries around the South China Sea might beg to differ. This bullshit leads me to believe that the authors are not simply naive. You can't be that stupid.
Taiwan looks to develop military drone fleet after drawing on lessons from Ukraine’s war with Russia
"analysts warned it was unclear if the island would succeed given mainland China’s much more advanced unmanned aerial vehicle industry"
--- Well, they definitely need drones to fight back. Most importantly, though, they should rapidly develop anti-UAV capabilities.
Chinese officials restrict the number of Uyghurs who can observe Ramadan
"Some neighborhood committees in Urumqi (in Chinese, Wulumuqi) and some village officials in Kashgar (Kashi) and Hotan (Hetian) prefectures have received notices that only 10-50 Muslims will be allowed to fast during Ramadan, which runs from April 1 to May 1, and that those who do so must register with authorities"
--- Which probably makes them 'volunteers' for 're-education'.
Saudi Arabia: Uyghur girl, 13, among four ‘facing deportation’ and torture in China
Carrie Lam will not run in Hong Kong’s small-circle chief executive election
--- China Uncensored: "Hong Kong Martial Artist Charged with “Sedition”"
--- CNBC: "China is 'nowhere near' peak regulatory scrutiny, says research firm"
--- WION: "Gravitas: China sends military to Shanghai"
China's lesson from Ukraine war: Invade Taiwan as soon as possible
Chinese media & the Bucha massacre
Chinas Militär soll alle 26 Millionen Einwohner Shanghais testen
"Wie die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters berichtet, entsandte die Volksbefreiungsarmee mehr als 2000 medizinische Einsatzkräfte nach Shanghai, um gegen die dortigen hohen Fallzahlen vorzugehen. Demnach sollen alle 26 Millionen Einwohner der Stadt auf das Virus getestet werden"
--- Wenn man dann die Überschrift beim Wort nimmt, müsste jeder Militärarzt/-sanitäter demnach 13.000 Personen testen. Was mal wieder zeigt, daß man die Titel besser nicht von Praktikanten erstellen lässt.
Shanghai trennt infizierte Kinder von Eltern
"Kinder, die positiv getestet sind, werden von ihren Eltern getrennt und in speziellen Isolationszentren untergebracht. Das sagte ein Sprecher der städtischen Gesundheitskommission in Shanghai. Eltern dürften ihre Kinder nur dann begleiten, wenn sie selbst auch positiv getestet sind"
--- Die KPCh stellt mal wieder das Wohl der Bürger über alles.
Massaker in Butscha: Chinas lautes Schweigen
"Dem chinesischen Staatsfernsehen CCTV aber ist eine andere Nachricht wichtiger. „Generalsekretär Xi Jinping betonte, dass der Schutz der Flüsse und Seen eine Frage des Wohlergehens der Menschen und der langfristigen Entwicklung der chinesischen Nation ist“"*
--- Ist bei den chinesischen Hauptnachrichten immer so. Mindestens die ersten 15 Minuten (seit Kaiser Xi an der Macht ist, eher mehr) sind den Heldentaten der KPCh-Führung gewidmet. Das Massaker in Butscha wurde bisher weitgehend verschwiegen. Nur beim Auslandssender CCTV-4 kam es vor, ... allerdings in Form von russischen Dementis.
"Eine Sprecherin des Pekinger Außenministeriums teilt derweil auf Twitter ein Video von der Kirschbaumblüte an der Chinesischen Mauer."
--- Denn das Leben ist schön unter Kaiser Xi. Es darf nur schön sein.
