The situation in the Taiwan Strait escalated again on Monday (April 12)! Twenty-five Chinese Communist Air Force military aircraft, including fighter jets and nuclear bombers, entered Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the largest incursion to date.
Earlier, the CCP’s mandatory vaccination sparked public discontent and outside concerns. Now that the official release says the mandatory vaccination is suspended, people question whether it will really be enforced.
Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been missing for over a thousand days, and here comes the latest news!
In May, the Communist Party of China (CPC) is going to whitewash itself again, promoting its technological achievements, but China’s aviation software is completely controlled by foreign companies.
After Ali, who will be next? The Chinese Communist Party’s anti-monopoly agency is expanding and sharpening its knives to target corporate giants.
China dumped aluminum products, EU imposed 19.3% to 46.7% tariffs. Iran accuses Israel of attacking nuclear facilities, White House response comes, but too abject.
25 military planes of the Chinese Communist Air Force disturb Taiwan, the largest invasion
Since April 3, Chinese military planes have disturbed Taiwan for 10 consecutive days; the 25 planes on Monday were the largest number since Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense began announcing the movement of Chinese military planes on Sept. 17 last year.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) released the news of Chinese military planes on its website on Monday in the “Current Military News” section. A total of 25 Chinese military aircraft visited Taiwan, including two transport 8 anti-submarine aircraft, one air police 500 early warning aircraft, four J-10s, 14 J-16s and four Boom 6Ks, four of which can carry nuclear weapons. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense dispatched air patrol forces to respond, broadcast repulsion, and air defense missiles to chase and monitor.
Pictured: J-16
The picture shows the Boom 6K
According to a map provided by Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense, all Chinese military aircraft flew near the Pratas Islands and did not cross the center line of the strait.
On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Blinken said the United States is concerned about Chinese aggression against Taiwan and warned that it would be a “grave mistake” for anyone to try to change the status quo in the Western Pacific by force.
According to information released by “Military Update,” from April 3 to 12, the daily sorties of Chinese military aircraft invading Taiwan were: 1 on the 3rd; 1 on the 4th; 10 on the 5th; 4 on the 6th; 15 on the 7th; 2 on the 8th; 11 on the 9th; 4 on the 10th; 1 on the 11th; and 25 on the 12th.
Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been missing for more than a thousand days, and authorities have banned meetings on the grounds of Sino-US relations.
Gao Zhisheng, a prominent human rights lawyer known as “China’s conscience,” has been missing for more than 1,300 days since August 2017, and his family has not been able to hear from him. Geng and his supporters in the United States have been working tirelessly to rescue Gao Zhisheng, but authorities have refused to disclose his whereabouts or allow his family to meet with him.
Geng and 12 on Twitter disclosed the latest news about Zhisheng Gao. Geng and said, “the day before yesterday and the family phone learned that the family in and Yulin public security call for people, public security replied: ‘now the United States and China relations are too tense, Zhisheng Gao is a sensitive figure ….. can not see.'”
Zhisheng Gao has been out of contact for more than 1,300 days since August 2017. According to Geng He, this is also the longest time that lawyer Gao has been missing.
The Chinese Communist Party authorities have not only persecuted lawyer Gao Zhisheng repeatedly, but have not even spared his family, and Geng He does not even dare to call his relatives at home for fear they will be implicated. However, Gao Zhisheng’s sister committed suicide in 2020 under great mental pressure.
He is known as the “conscience of China” and has represented many sensitive human rights cases, and from 2004 to 2005, he wrote three open letters to Communist Party leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, exposing the torture and abuse of Falun Gong practitioners in labor camps nationwide and demanding that the Communist authorities change their illegal treatment of Falun Gong.
Zhisheng Gao’s actions have influenced a large number of lawyers, including Wang Quanzhang, Jiang Tianyong, Tang Jitian, Yu Wensheng, and Wang Yu, to join the ranks of human rights defenders and begin representing sensitive cases. David Jogow, former Director General of the Asia Pacific Division of Canada, described Zhisheng Gao as a combination of Mandela and Gandhi, and “one of the bravest lawyers on the planet.
Zhisheng Gao has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times, but was not selected under Chinese Communist coercion. In mainland China, “Zhisheng Gao” has been blocked as a search-sensitive term.
Gao reverses himself? Forced Vaccinations Stopped in China
China’s grassroots government officials have been criticized at home and abroad for forcing vaccinations, and Mi Feng, a spokesman for China’s Health and Wellness Commission, said the mandatory requirement for full vaccination must be firmly corrected. In addition, Gao Fu, director of China’s CDC, admitted that the domestic New Crown vaccine was not very protective, sparking a hot debate. A little later the Communist Party’s Global Times claimed to have quoted Gao Fu as saying that the media misread what he said.
Mi Feng, spokesman for China’s National Health Commission, said at a press conference on Sunday (11) that the situation of mandatory full vaccination in many places must be firmly corrected. He said, “Recently, individual places have been simplistic and even one-size-fits-all in their vaccination work, mandating full vaccination, which must be resolutely corrected.”
Recently, government officials around the world have made vaccination a political task, forcing people to get vaccinated by giving them eggs, flour, shopping coupons or “five no-no’s” for not vaccinating, along with various vaccination songs and banners, which has drawn criticism from the outside world.
Ms. Li, a resident of Beijing’s Daxing district, told Radio Free Asia that local officials have stopped forcing residents to get vaccinated and police posts at the entrance to the market have been withdrawn after foreign media exposure.
Ms. Li said, “Now it’s a little bit more relaxed, not as tight as before, but it’s still not possible without vaccination. It’s another thing for the officials below to enforce or not enforce the orders from above. What the higher-ups say is for the foreign media to see.”
Lu Jianrong, a resident of Jiangsu, told Radio Free Asia, “Because of the restrictions of the speech environment, these suspicions are not allowed to be made public, and what you say follows the mainstream media in China, then it is positive energy, and what you say is different from the mainstream media is negative energy. Officials will take some means to suppress.”
Airline software is subject to the Chinese Communist Party’s bragging about technology being smacked in the face
On April 9, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Propaganda Department and the Chinese Association for Science and Technology jointly issued a notice saying that the theme of a campaign to be launched in May would be “A Century of Looking Back: The Communist Party of China Leads the Development of Science and Technology,” and that its main content would include highlighting “the Party’s overall leadership and direction of science and technology The main content includes highlighting the “Party’s overall leadership and direction in science and technology”.
Photo: Cottage version of the Yun-8 aircraft
China is stuck with many technologies, such as chips, machine tools, high-end hydraulic components, high-end instruments and meters, etc. Apollo.com has done a series of reports on this in 2020.
On April 12, current affairs commentator Chen Simin wrote an article in Epoch Times, pointing out that there is also not a single Chinese self-developed aircraft design software in circulation for use in the market.
At present, aircraft companies around the world, including Chinese aircraft production, basically rely on one software for design, namely CATIA (abbreviation for Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application) developed by Dassault Systems (France). ) three-dimensional design software.
According to public information, not only 90% of the world’s aircraft with Dassault’s software to complete the design, 90% of the world’s cars are also designed with Dassault software, such as Tesla.
In addition to civilian passenger aircraft, many military warplanes actually rely on CATIA design. For example, in 2000, the design of the “Flying Leopard-A” (a modification of the aircraft that is “Jaguar-7A”) was the first digitally designed aircraft, the first CATIA V5-based development of the fighter.
Also, the CATIA V5 R20 used by Shanghai Zhidou Piracy is itself an aviation manufacturing design software, from J-10, J-11B, J-15, J-16, to J-20 fighter, to the Yun-20 air refueling aircraft, they are all designed with CATIA this software. In addition, Long March 5 and other Long March series launch vehicles, also use Dassault software design.
France Dassault CATIA software is the world’s aviation and aerospace design uncompromisingly dominant, all of China’s aviation and aerospace sector fell, none of the relevant design away from this software.
As we all know, all the hard body is for the soft body services, mastering the core technology, but also must first start from the design of the soft body. In other words, even if the independent research and development, but if the use of foreign design software, in technology or to be subject to others.
The basic principle of finite element software, which is used to design the strength of structures in aviation software, comes from the “finite element” theory proposed by Chinese mathematician Feng Kang. However, during the ten-year Cultural Revolution, Mr. Feng Kang’s research work was interrupted, and he was unjustly punished, his housing was occupied, and he was trapped in a “cowshed” and could not participate in scientific research.
As for the degree of backwardness of domestic aviation software, according to the Science and Technology Daily, “aviation software dilemma, domestic aircraft design on the “tightening of the curse” article, pointed out that in the 80s, China’s aviation design software and foreign start at the same time, but now the market is full of European and American products, and has reached a high degree of dependence on these software can not be designed away. The title of Xinhua’s May 30, 2018 reprint is “Domestic aircraft design software is ‘stuck in the neck’: 30 years after the start, it is still walking in place”.
It is true that China’s science and technology development has been delayed for 30 years “under the Party’s leadership,” including the 10 years of the Communist Party’s Cultural Revolution, which has severely damaged researchers and caused heavy losses in the field of science and education.
China’s anti-monopoly agency expands, Reuters: Sharpening knives to target corporate giants
The Chinese Communist Party’s State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration (SAMSA) is increasing its staffing and other resources to step up efforts to combat monopoly practices, especially against some large enterprises, Reuters said on 11 November, citing a number of knowledgeable sources.
In addition to the expansion of the anti-monopoly agency, the CCP authorities are revising the competition law with the intention of significantly increasing fines and broadening the criteria for judging the extent of corporate control of the market.
Two sources familiar with the matter said the CCP’s General Administration of Municipal Supervision plans to increase the anti-monopoly staffing by 20-30 people, which currently stands at 40.
The other four sources familiar with the matter said the CCP’s General Administration of City Supervision also plans to delegate case review authority to local antitrust agencies and get more manpower from other government agencies to handle cases requiring extensive investigations.
The sources said the General Administration of City Supervision has started to expand its staff in more cities, such as Hangzhou and Shenzhen, on an experimental basis to delegate the authority to review cases to local branches because of the huge workload.
The sources added that in addition to the increased staffing, budget allocations for antitrust investigations, daily operations and research projects will also be increased. The sources declined to be named because they were not authorized to be interviewed by the media.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on April 12 that the CCP’s crackdown on Alibaba may be due to the group’s threat to the interests of the CCP’s state-owned financial institutions. Through the Ant Group, Ali has encroached on the financial sector controlled by state-owned banks. The Ant Group uses Alipay to refer users to banks, and Ant receives a lucrative commission from the banks, but the move undermines the competitiveness of state-owned banks.
In addition, the Chinese government, intent on maintaining an economic order dominated by state-owned enterprises, is no longer tolerant of Alibaba’s “deregulation.
China’s aluminum products dumped, the EU imposed 19.3% to 46.7% tariffs
The European Union (EU) on Monday (12) offered temporary tariffs on imports of flat-rolled aluminum products from China, with rates ranging from 19.3 percent to 46.7 percent. These anti-dumping tariffs will take effect on Tuesday (April 13), and the EU will continue to investigate during the implementation of the tariffs. The investigation will conclude in October, when the tariffs may be set for a five-year period.
Iran Accuses Israel of Attacking Nuclear Facilities, White House Responds
On Monday (April 12), Iran accused Israel of sabotaging its key Natanz nuclear facility and vowed to retaliate for the attack. In response to the incident, the White House said the U.S. played no role in it.
Photo: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Nournews, Iran’s semi-official website, said the person who caused a power outage at a production hall at the underground uranium enrichment plant in Natanz has been identified, noting that authorities are searching for that person. Information about the person was not made public.
On Sunday (April 11), the Iranian government confirmed that an accident occurred at the facility in question the day after new uranium enrichment centrifuges were started at the country’s nuclear power plant, suggesting that its facilities were targeted.
In response, the White House said in a statement Monday that the United States was not involved in any attack on Iran’s critical Natanz nuclear facility and would not comment on speculation about the cause of the incident.
Several Israeli media outlets, citing unnamed intelligence sources, said the country’s Mossad spy service carried out a successful sabotage operation at the underground Natanz facility that could set back uranium enrichment work there for months.
Iran’s nuclear energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said an emergency power system has been activated at Natanz to offset the impact of the outage. “Uranium enrichment work at the site has not stopped.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran has never given up its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and that Israel would never allow Tehran to do so. Israel sees Iran’s uranium enrichment activities as a great threat.
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