U.S. Intelligence Director: Space Force as the 18th member of the intelligence system
U.S. Intelligence Director: Space Force is 18th Member of Intelligence System
U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced Friday (Jan. 8) that the U.S. Space Force is the 18th member of the intelligence system, a move aimed at “breaking down” barriers to information sharing and helping the intelligence system understand and analyze threats in space.
The Epoch Times reports that Ratcliffe announced Friday the designation of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance components of the U.S. Space Force, according to Foxnews. These divisions are the intelligence component of the Space Force.
Ratcliffe said Friday, “This addition of the service reaffirms our commitment to protect the security and freedom of outer space in the interest of the United States.” “The U.S. force in space is stronger and more unified than ever before. Today, we welcome the Space Force to the intelligence system and look forward to the strength and wisdom of an unparalleled space security team.”
Ratcliffe said, “By sharing space-related information and intelligence, the U.S. intelligence system (IC) and the Department of Defense (DoD) enhance the integration and coordination of our intelligence activities to achieve the best possible results in mission execution.” “This move not only underscores the priority of space as an area of national security intelligence and military operations, but ensures interoperability, the development of future capabilities and operations, and a true sense of global strategic warning.”
The U.S. Space Force was formed by President Trump during his presidency and is a strong supporter of Trump.
Major U.S. Over-the-Counter Securities Trading Platform Announces Ban on 12 Chinese Companies’ Stock Trading
In response to the Chinese Communist Party, the OTC, the leading U.S. over-the-counter securities trading platform, has announced that it will stop trading in the stocks of 12 Chinese companies under an executive order issued by the Trump administration banning investments in Chinese companies with ties to the Chinese military, further limiting U.S. investors’ access to the Chinese market.
Nine Chinese stocks, including China Railway Construction (01186.HK), Nanjing Panda Electronics (00553.HK) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International (00981.HK), will be banned from trading on Jan. 7, and three others will be banned on Jan. 11, and the need to ban trading in other Chinese stocks will continue to be evaluated under the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control guidelines.
There are 11,000 stocks available for investors to buy and sell on major U.S. over-the-counter securities trading platforms, most of which are shares that do not meet the listing requirements of major U.S. exchanges.
Spike in Hebei cases threatens Beijing, Li Keqiang steps in to order prevention of spread
There are cases and even localized clusters of Communist Party of China pneumonia (COVID-19) in many parts of China, especially in Hebei Province, where confirmed cases have been increasing for several days. Against this backdrop, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has again stressed the importance of preventing the spread of the epidemic.
On January 8, Beijing time, Li Keqiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council of the Communist Party of China. The meeting stressed that the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council should strengthen the guidance and coordination of local and related parties, adhere to the “four early”, strengthen the monitoring and early warning, nucleic acid testing, isolation and control, medical treatment, flow of traceability and other emergency response work, factual, open and transparent release of information, and resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic.
The current outbreak of a new round of CCP pneumonia in Hebei, China, is mainly concentrated in Shijiazhuang, with the local Gaocheng district being the only high-risk area in China nationwide. As of 10:00 on January 8, there were 127 confirmed cases (118 in Shijiazhuang and 9 in Xingtai) and 183 asymptomatic infections still under medical observation in Hebei (177 in Shijiazhuang and 6 in Xingtai).
In addition, the “patient 0”, who triggered the infection of more than 200 people in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, has still not been found. The Hebei epidemic prevention and control conference said that the work of tracing the source of the flow is being stepped up, but the source of the virus has not been fully identified and needs to continue to be investigated. Some claims have also emerged on the Chinese web that the Shijiazhuang outbreak is linked to Catholic missionary efforts.
In the face of the sudden increase in confirmed cases, Shijiazhuang has implemented near-total traffic control and the city has been cleared of mobile people, which outsiders say is similar to the closure of Wuhan in early 2020.
In addition, the outbreak continues in Beijing, where officials have asked for a ban on mass celebrations around the Chinese New Year; 155 religious sites in Beijing have been suspended; and all high-risk areas have been brought to Beijing for 14 days of intensive observation.
While people are experiencing the epidemic, in the middle of winter, people in many parts of China are once again without electricity.
Shanghai multi-district power outages Li Keqiang asked to stabilize energy supply for a warm winter
Affected by the super cold wave, the highest electricity load of Shanghai’s power grid reached 33 million kilowatts the night before, breaking the record set during the peak of electricity consumption this summer.
Sing Tao Daily reported that because too many people are using heating equipment at the same time, Shanghai city 7 repeatedly jumped the power outage, residents once freezing. Shanghai Electric Power Company received a total of 4,500 low-voltage electrical distribution network fault, compared with the previous day increased about 1.6 times.
The power company explained that because the highest daytime temperature in Shanghai on Thursday was only minus 3 degrees Celsius, residents concentrated on using heating equipment, so that the electricity load in some areas increased sharply. Shanghai’s highest electricity load reached 33.39 million kilowatts at 8:30 p.m. that night, a record high for electricity consumption.
State Council Premier Li Keqiang held a State Council executive meeting on the 8th, stressing that “the masses are warm and cold is no small matter”, requiring all places to ensure the livelihood of the people with gas and electricity with coal, never allow artificially cut off supply, strengthen supervision and inspection to ensure that the masses are safe and warm through the winter.
After the people’s livelihood, look at the economy. Alibaba founder Jack Ma has not been seen in public for more than 2 months and his whereabouts are being hotly debated. The media broke the news that the Chinese Communist Party had reported a ban at the end of last year.
Jack Ma has been a precursor to the Chinese Communist Party’s ban on reporting in December last year, according to the British media.
While foreign media are looking for his whereabouts, the Financial Times reported on December 8 that the official propaganda department of the Chinese Communist Party issued a guideline for media to report on Ant Group news in late December 2020.
Citing two people who have seen the document, the paper said the guidelines require the media to “correctly quote” the official line on the antitrust investigation and “not to change or add other comments without permission.
The document also states that “if any company’s statement opposes the official position, it cannot be published or reproduced. Nor can they be quoted from foreign media reports.”
In fact, as early as December 19 last year, the mainland financial media “Tiger.com” announced on December 19 that it would suspend updates for one month, which some analysts believe is related to a commentary they had previously published that contradicted the official anti-monopoly stance. The commentary said that the monopoly of U.S. companies has consolidated the international competitiveness of the United States and questioned that China’s technology industry is not yet big enough to be antitrusted. The commentary, which was seen as a “grievance” for Jack Ma, was subsequently taken down.
The newspaper quoted Berkeley University scholar Xiao Qiang as saying the official guidelines were “harsh and unusual. He said the language in the guidelines is similar to that used in reporting on “particularly important political events” such as the Bo Xilai case. Bo, once considered a political opponent of Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for corruption and other crimes.
According to Xiao Qiang, Ma’s company’s investments have direct ties to some of China’s most powerful families. He believes that Ma did not just make a speech that offended Xi Jinping or other officials, saying that there may be a high-level political background to the incident.
In addition, Jiang faction capital has also deeply penetrated the Ant Group. According to a long article on the Internet, “Dismantling the Ant Feast, the Masked Revelers,” the capital ravers behind Ant’s IPO include many powerful people at home and abroad, including one of the shareholders, Beijing Jingguan Investment Center, the real manager of this private equity: Boyu Capital. And the actual controller of Boyu Capital is none other than Jiang Zemin’s grandson Jiang Zhicheng.
Cheng Xiaonong: Ma’s “cabbage sale” angers Xi Jinping amid economic woes
Why is Ma Yun angry with Xi Jinping? The economist Cheng Xiaonong explained it this way.
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, has recently disappeared from the public eye for more than two months after being continuously subjected to a major overhaul by financial regulators, and there has been much speculation about Ma’s fate. Dr. Cheng Xiaonong, a U.S.-based political and economic commentator, said in an interview with Voice of Hope on July 7 that Ma’s anger with Xi Jinping is not that big a deal, and that the economic woes facing the Chinese Communist Party can be seen in the fact that China’s Internet giants are selling cabbage.
The latest disclosure from the U.S. media is that the Chinese Communist Party’s financial regulator wants Ma to share the consumer credit information of Ant Group, which he has been reluctant to hand over, thus putting Ma in the middle of a storm.
Cheng Xiaonong believes that although Ant Group operates Alipay, a third-party payment platform used by hundreds of millions of people in China, it has a significant monopoly on the consumer market. But the Chinese Communist Party didn’t take it too seriously and agreed that Ma could continue to do so in the future. What angers the CCP is that at a time when the CCP is facing economic difficulties, it wants these rich companies to contribute to saving the economy and invest in high-tech breakthroughs or industry chain repair, a direction the government desperately needs, but Ma’s company is keen to invest a lot of resources into the fresh food community group buying industry, using the mobile payment data they have. The inter-networking companies are considered high-tech enterprises, but now they are turning to “yard farmers selling cabbages”, abandoning the development of high technology.
Cheng Xiaonong said, “the code farmer selling cabbage”, this is the thing, and then this thing has made the Chinese Communist Party angry. Then the Chinese Communist Party thinks Ma Yun has a lot of money in his hands, you do not go to the Chinese Communist Party’s request, the money used to solve its current problems for the Chinese Communist Party. Its problem is two, one is like the chip industry, this investment is not enough, not developed; the other is that the Communist Party is now a lot, the mainland of the world factory, that is, each export-oriented factory industry chain, many were cut off, because many intermediate, including Taiwan-invested enterprises, the middle withdrew, there are many Chinese enterprises also followed together with the withdrawal, they are downstream enterprises well, his upstream, midstream and many Chinese enterprises. The result of this is that the Chinese Communist Party has withdrawn several key factories in the middle of the whole industrial chain, the whole chain is dead, like many such industries, that is, different products have such problems. So the Chinese Communist Party is now very headache, said many factories can not survive, in this case, the Chinese Communist Party’s factories, there is a batch of dying, then the Chinese Communist Party is very heartbroken, want Ma Yun to go, these rich Internet giant companies to take the money out to develop this middle parts.
Cheng Xiaonong said, in the face of China’s deteriorating economic situation is becoming more and more serious, the company of Ma’s enterprises to the outside world, it does not necessarily mean that he developed a product like the chip, the order production volume can really turn up, because the downstream orders have been moved out of China’s Taiwan business to move away, even if the production and Taiwan business products similar things, want to sell to the United States, it is not necessarily able to occupy the U.S. market.
June 4 protest leader Xu Qinxian, who refused to shoot, passed away
The news is that Xu Qinxian, a military commander who resisted shooting on June 4, died recently.
The official Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported on January 8 that Xu Qinxian, the then military commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who refused to carry out orders from the authorities during the June 4 incident in 1989, died in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, in the morning at the age of 85. Wang Dan, a June 4 student leader, posted a tribute in the evening and said the students of that year will never forget him.
According to the news, Xu Qinxian suffered from serious eye problems and had difficulty moving around. Mr. Xu’s former friends and former ministers learned of his death in the afternoon.
According to the report, after the Chinese Communist authorities issued martial law on May 20, 1989, Beijing citizens blocked the troops from advancing and only two groups of PLA troops were able to reach Tiananmen Square, and the 38th Army, led by Xu Qinxian, refused to carry out their mission upon arrival. The report said Xu Qinxian, who was hospitalized and recovering from an illness, was then called to carry out the order, which he refused to do and was taken away after returning to the hospital, where he was eventually expelled from the party by authorities and served five years in Qincheng prison.
Beijing’s Last-Minute Tactics in China-EU Investment Agreement Busted
Chinese Communist infiltration of the United States and the European Union has been a common occurrence. Most recently, the Chinese Communist Party has been tampering with the China-EU investment agreement, and at the last minute, Beijing’s ploy was caught in a failed attempt.
The South China Morning Post reported on Jan. 8 that 11 hours before the China-EU investment deal was agreed to, Chinese Communist authorities wanted to insert a penalty clause for the ban on huawei in EU countries, limiting access to some EU interests that restrict Huawei and other Chinese telecom companies. But it was rejected by the EU representatives.
According to the text of the draft China-EU investment agreement obtained by the outlet, the Beijing government does not want to provide benefits in the telecom sector to companies from EU countries that restrict Chinese telecom companies.
The clause was eventually removed by EU negotiators, and senior European officials said it was a “classic” tactic used by the Chinese side in negotiations.
The clause appeared in the draft negotiating text on Dec. 11, but was crossed out by EU negotiators; a comparison with the BIT finalized by the two sides a few weeks later suggests that it did not make it into the final agreement, according to the report.
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