U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor: Latest Intel Shows Virus Came From Wuhan Lab
Deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger said during a video conference with politicians that the “most plausible” theory about the source of pneumonia in the Communist Party of China is that the virus escaped from a lab in China (escape).
The Daily Mail reported that Pottinger, a rare White House expert on China who is fluent in Mandarin, held a Zoom meeting last week with a number of politicians from around the world, saying the latest intelligence showed that the Chinese Communist virus had escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is about 11 miles from the South China Wholesale Seafood Market.
During the meeting, Booming, who is President Trump‘s respected deputy national security adviser, said “there is growing evidence that the lab is likely the most credible source of the virus” and that the pathogen may have “leaked or accidentally escaped,” adding that the powers that be in Beijing have publicly dismissed the Wuhan seafood market as the source of the virus. Bo Ming even revealed to the politicians that even if the Chinese Communist Party leaders now publicly admit that the virus originated from the Wuhan seafood market, the claims are false.
Hoover Report Reveals: Chinese Consulate Pressured 100 Clubs
Newsweek reported more than two months ago that they had identified some 600 U.S. groups associated with Chinese Communist Party influence, including the C100, a New York-based Chinese elite group founded nearly 30 years ago with the help of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, as one of the groups associated with the Communist Party’s United Front System. In response, the C100 issued a statement saying that these inferences were completely false.
In a November 2018 Hoover Institution report titled “Chinese Influence and U.S. Interests: Raising Constructive Vigilance,” the Hoover Institution said that the Chinese Communist Party is fully penetrating all areas of the United States, stating, “The Chinese government considers overseas Chinese are not foreign nationals, but ‘fellow Chinese’ who should remain loyal to their home countries and work together to realize the Chinese dream.” The United Front agencies are using inducements and encouragement to get overseas Chinese to support Chinese Communist interests, and Chinese in the U.S. should be aware of this new pattern.
In a note in the report, Gu Pingshan, former vice president of the Committee of 100, is mentioned by name. The Chinese Embassy, through the Committee of 100, has targeted prominent Chinese Americans, and members of the Committee of 100 say that the Chinese Consulate has put enormous pressure on Committee members to toe the party line. Some prominent Committee of 100 members openly supported the goals of the Chinese Communist Party, one of whom was Gu Ping Shan, a senior member of the Committee of 100 and an overseas director of the Beijing-based Chinese Overseas Friendship Association.”
Not only that, but the Epoch Times found that Gu is a columnist for China-US Focus, a website created in 2011 by Tung’s China-US Exchange Foundation, which is billed as neutral and objective, but which has registered as a “China agent” in the U.S., disclosing the use of its funds, such as paying $984,544 in 2016 to reach out to universities, think tanks and media outlets to write articles for the China-US Focus website and sponsoring visits to China by 12 media executives and five members of Congress.
The Committee of 100 should have been aware of the problem. In the same report, the Hoover Institution said that the recent debate on whether to ban members of the Committee of 100, a group of 100 prominent Chinese Americans, from accepting positions with close ties to the Communist Party’s official United Front, is a positive sign.
Currently, Gu Pingshan’s profile is no longer available on the Committee of 100 website, and he has disappeared from the Committee’s membership list. However, there are still several members of the Committee of 100 who hold positions awarded by the CCP’s official United Front organizations, such as director of the Overseas Friendship Association and positions in CCP think tanks. Most of those who have accepted honorary positions in the CCP have their main business in the mainland.
Malaysian restaurant reported for putting up Mao Zedong wallpaper, owner taken away by police
According to a report in the Malaysian newspaper China Daily on January 3, the Penang police received a report from a netizen and launched a crackdown on a Chinese Hunan cuisine outlet in a commercial area of Bukit Tingia on January 2. When the police inspected the restaurant, they found a wallpaper with the late Chinese Communist Party leader, which was about 7.64 meters long and 2.13 meters high.
Police confiscated on the spot a cartoon of Mao Zedong wearing Communist military clothing, several cartoons involving Chinese Communist soldiers, and four small cups with portraits of Chinese Communist leaders. The branch’s 23-year-old Chinese manager was also taken back to the police station to assist in the investigation.
The restaurant later posted on Facebook that it was closed during the outbreak and was later accused by police of having a problem with the wallpaper, followed by a rumor of a confirmed case on the same day. The owner said that the restaurant has been open for 4 years without any problems, do not understand why there is something wrong now.
The local media said that the police had torn down the wallpaper of two Hunan restaurants after receiving complaints that they were “promoting communism”, and summoned five store employees to take statements. The owners have been in home quarantine for 14 days due to the risk of the Communist virus and have yet to give their statements.
The two restaurants started business in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and the wallpaper has been in the stores for 4 and 2 years, respectively. The restaurant owner is a Malaysian Chinese (41 years old) and his Chinese wife jointly operated.
Let people fish meat Former richest man Wang Jianlin fallen road Ma Yun will repeat?
In the early hours of January 4, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily published a feature article, “The same gaffe that got him into trouble, the former richest man Wang Jianlin’s fallen path, will Ma repeat? According to the article, Jack Ma‘s gaffe about China’s lack of a financial system touched a nerve with the Chinese Communist Party, causing the Ant Group’s IPO to hit the rocks and launching a series of anti-monopoly investigations against Ali (see table), which is one of the major black swan events of 2020. Many commentators have compared Ma’s fall to that of China’s former richest man, Wang Jianlin, who was “punished” for his differences with the Communist Party leader’s economic philosophy and suffered severe damage to his family and career.
Wang is the chairman of Wanda Group, which overtook Li Ka-shing as the world’s richest Chinese for the first time in 2015 and has been on the Hurun 100 list of China’s richest people for three times, making him the most popular person in the world. He has been acquiring overseas assets since 2012, and according to the domestic media, his overseas investments amounted to 250 billion yuan in five years until 2017, in categories such as sports, entertainment and real estate.
As his fortune rose, he boasted in public: “My own money, where I like to invest it is not in the hands of others!” and “Wanda into the industry, regardless of state-owned enterprises, central enterprises, have no chance to be the boss”, all touching the central nerve.
In 2017, the mainland targeted Wanda when the China Banking Regulatory Commission (now known as the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission) took the initiative to ask banks to check Wanda’s credit and risk, and issued new guidelines to restrict overseas investments in real estate, hotels, cinemas, entertainment and sports clubs, resulting in strict control over the financing of six of Wanda’s overseas projects, with official media questioning Wanda’s “capital walk” and rumors circulating in China that major banks had suspended loans to Wanda’s overseas investments. The rumor is that major banks in China have suspended loans for Wanda’s overseas investments.
Under Wuhan pneumonia, Wanda is still facing heavy debts, in addition to the domestic commercial real estate hit, after the increase in online shopping penetration; its acquisition of the largest U.S. theater chain AMC, the impact of the epidemic repeatedly rumored bankruptcy, there are rumors that Wang Jianlin peak debt reached 400 billion yuan, Wanda film recorded a net loss of 1.5 billion yuan in the first half of the year, production department nearly shut down.
His wealth has also shrunk significantly, in the 2017 Hurun list of 100 richest people, his fortune shrunk by 60 billion to 155 billion, down to 5th place, this year’s wealth further shrunk by 10 billion to 110 billion, from last year’s 9th place to 30th place.
In the end, Ma Yun, who was purely impetuous and lost his words, will repeat the mistake of Wang Jianlin, who was regarded as a “capitalist”? Current affairs commentator Liu Ruishao said that Ma has joined the Communist Party in the early years, last year even resigned as chairman of the board of directors of Ali, and Ma reportedly even proposed last month to turn over part of the business of Ant Group to the central government, but the central government is still not comfortable with him, continue to file a case to investigate Alibaba, it is estimated that there are other considerations behind the central government, such as worrying about Ma or other political connections, so the central government intends to thwart Ma, to ensure that he can not be linked to other political figures. The central government intends to hit Ma hard to ensure that he can not be linked to other politicians.
Asked what remedies Ma can take, Liu Ruishao said, since the central government chose to take legal action publicly, I believe Ali’s alleged monopoly behavior will definitely be incriminated, but only the degree of severity of the difference. He said that the outside world is now no way to deduce the official and Ma Yun discuss the conditions, but it is estimated that the central government has put forward a number of requirements to Ma Yun, depending on how much Ma Yun is willing to make concessions, compromise, but he said Ma Yun basically no bargaining space, described as “let people fish and meat”.
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