Chinese Communist Party President Xi Jinping delivered a New Year message on Dec 31 via the Central Television and the Internet.
He began by saying that “2020 will be an extraordinary year,” and then proceeded to enumerate the so-called “achievements” of the year. Here are two of them.
Epic fight against the epidemic?
First of all, Xi mentioned COVID-19, saying, “We have demonstrated great human love by putting people first and life first, and written an epic of fighting against the epidemic with unity of purpose and perseverance.” What is this epic fight against the epidemic? The New York Times wrote an article yesterday titled “25 Days to Change the World: How COVID-19 is Spinning out of control in China?”
The party, it said, had allowed “politics to get in the way of science.” They punished the whistle-blower, Li Wenliang, on December 30, and did not close Wuhan until January 23, 25 days later. But it was too late to stop the spread of the virus to the rest of the world, and 25 days changed the fate of the world.
Then, as the world was ravaged by the epidemic, what did the Communist Party do? They toss POTS around.
As for the origin of the virus, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China once said in a written letter that novel Coronavirus has been discovered in many parts of the world, and scientists should carry out international scientific research and cooperation ona global scale.
Zhang Yongzhen, a well-known Virologist in China, said: “We have been looking for [the origin of the virus], but we have not found it.”
On March 12, Zhao Lijian, Wolf Warrior representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the COMMUNIST Party of China, tweeted that the NOVEL Coronavirus may have been brought to Wuhan by the US army, adding that “America owes us an explanation”. Zhao lijian’s unfounded allegations sparked a firefight on the sidelines. The State Department then summoned Cui Tiankai, the Chinese Communist Party’s ambassador to the United States, to protest. There have also been rounds of diplomatic negotiations between the two countries over the issue.
Nor can the Party accept accusations of wrongdoing.
On March 19, Brazilian Senator Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian President Jose Manuel Bossonaro, tweeted that the Chinese Communist Party was hiding an important epidemic to avoid criticism. “The global novel Coronavirus pandemic bears one name: the Communist Party of China,” he said.
Yang Wanming, the Chinese Communist Party’s ambassador to Brazil, immediately took to Twitter to protest, calling the Bossonaro family “a huge poison” in the country, and claiming that the Brazilian presidents’ father and son had been infected with a spiritual virus after returning from a visit to the Us, which had poisoned the friendship between the Chinese and Brazilian people.
On April 12, Seiichiro Takeuchi, the head of Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in China, wrote that the Party’s handling of the epidemic had made it clear to him that its system was “unapologetic” and that its rule was based on a “myth without error.”
Zhao lijian was really in line with the Communist Party’s “no apology” character, and immediately scolded back, saying that “the article is full of ignorance, prejudice and arrogance for its malicious attacks on the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, regardless of the facts.”
All out of poverty?
“In the past eight years, nearly 100 million rural residents living in poverty have been lifted out of poverty, and 832 poor counties have been stripped of their poverty caps,” Xi said in his message. China is “making steady progress towards the goal of common prosperity.”
But have all of China’s poor been lifted out of poverty?
Jieyuan is one of six villages they visited in Gansu province without government surveillance, according to a New York Times article today, demonstrating the high cost the Communist Party is paying in poverty alleviation. This approach relies on massive and possibly unsustainable subsidies to create jobs and build better housing.
Local village officials identify the poor everywhere, offering loans, subsidies and even livestock, and visiting residents weekly to check on their progress.
Over the past five years, Beijing has spent nearly 4.54 trillion yuan in loans and subsidies on poverty alleviation, or about 1 percent of annual economic output, the report said. It also invested about 776.9 billion yuan in rural power upgrades and sent more than 7,000 employees to poverty alleviation projects.
But this kind of campaign-style poverty alleviation doesn’t actually address the underlying problems that hurt the poor, including health-care costs and other loopholes in China’s emerging social safety net.
In addition, there are loopholes in the program, such as little help for the poor in big cities, embezzlement of funds by poverty relief workers, and the use of connections with local officials by some families to obtain irregular subsidies, the article said.
War Wolf diplomatic
In his message, Mr Xi alluded to the “wind and rain” that the Party’s diplomacy had “endured over the past year” and said that “people of all countries should join hands and stand together through thick and thick.” But in reality, what we are seeing is a Communist Party that wants to bully people all over the world.
I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about the communist Party’s “Wolf warrior diplomacy.” If the party’s diplomacy has endured, its diplomats have played a big role in making it happen. Let’s just take a few examples.
On January 8 last year, GUI Tongyou, the Chinese Communist Party’s ambassador to Sweden, said in an interview with local media that criticism of China’s lack of human rights and freedoms in the Swedish media was like a 48-kilogram lightweight boxer trying to challenge China’s 86kg heavyweight boxer and tell Sweden to mind its own business. He also commented on Sweden’s relations with China with “good wine when friends come and hunting guns when wolves come”, prompting three political parties in Sweden’s parliament to once again call for the expulsion of the Chinese ambassador.
On November 18th the foreign ministers of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Britain, the Five-Eyes coalition, issued a joint statement condemning The Chinese authorities for depriving Hong Kong’s four pro-democracy legislators of their seats. The next day, Zhao lijian responded at a regular news conference by openly saying that the Communist Party is never afraid of trouble. “No matter if they have ‘five eyes’ or’ ten eyes’, if they dare to harm China’s sovereignty, security and development interests, please be careful that their eyes are poked out!”
On December 10, Hua Chunying, spokesperson of the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Ministry, accused the Chinese Communist Party of engaging in “Wolf war diplomacy” in front of a German media. “What’s wrong with being a Wolf war diplomacy?
There have been many similar incidents. The Wolf warriors of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made vulgar remarks, regardless of right and wrong, blindly “attack”, which really offended many countries in the world. No wonder, then, that the Party “has had a rough year” last year.
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