Ma ran away? Absent from the self-created reality show has not appeared for more than 2 months. Entering a state of war! Shenyang residents fleeing the quarantine zone were caught and sent to detention. Adding insult to injury China coal prices soar, queues for coal in mines, people bitterly cold.
The British HSBC Bank again as an accomplice to the Chinese Communist Party, the former Hong Kong legislator Xu Zhifeng exiled overseas, the family credit card was canceled by HSBC, the balance was confiscated, Xu Zhifeng denounced the robberies, Hong Kong organizations demand HSBC account.
Xi Jinping promoted to admiral exception Beijing garrison unstable armed police top for half
On December 18, 2020, Xi Jinping promoted four admirals in Beijing, among which there are some bizarre details. The government’s response to the promotion was to replace the top brass in the Beijing garrison. The high-density adjustment of the top of the Beijing garrison in recent years, as well as the sudden change of half of the top of the Armed Police Force, is also quite rare.
On December 18, Xi Jinping, who had not been seen for many days, made another public appearance, awarding four more general ranks in the evening of that day at Beijing’s Bayi Building. The four officers who were promoted to the rank of general police officer are: political member of the Military Commission Logistics Security Department, Guo Pu-colonel, commander of the Western War Zone, Zhang Xudong, political member of the Strategic Support Unit, Li Wei, and commander of the Armed Police Force, Wang Chunning.
In an article by Gong Xiang-sheng, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Political and Operational Concepts of the Chinese Communist Party at the Institute for National Defense and Security Studies, published in the Taiwanese media “Shangpao”, an analysis of the unusual inside story of the new and old replacements and promotions at the top of the Chinese Communist Party military was published.
One of them is that Guo Pu-colonel’s promotion speed is rare, and his predecessor Zhang Shuguo may have fallen.
Guo, born in 1964, is not only the youngest of the promoted generals, but also the youngest of the current CCP generals. He was promoted to general just two years after he was promoted to lieutenant general, which is one of the fast-promoting generals compared to other generals.
The original Zhang Shuguo, whom Guo replaced, was only 60 years old, the only one who had not reached the retirement age of 65 among the four people replaced in this round. And Zhang Shuguo took office in 2017 until he was formally replaced in 2020, and was not promoted to general due to the vacancy, from his past it seems that all the unusual things are traceable. Firstly, in 2017, Zhang had been elected as a delegate to the 19th National Congress but was temporarily cancelled, and secondly, in 2019, he was absent from a number of important events such as the military work conference, the Third Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and the expanded meeting of the Central Military Commission, so it is reasonable to assume that Zhang may have fallen before this promotion.
The second is that Li Wei and Wang Chunning had been the “Standing Committee of the military”.
The new political member of the Strategic Support Unit, Li Wei, was a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee during his tenure as political commissar of the military region in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the so-called “Standing Committee of the military” position, while the new commander of the Armed Police Force, Wang Chunning, was also the commander of the Beijing Garrison and a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee before his transfer, so both of them had been “Standing Committee of the military” and had experience in participating in major local affairs and coordinating military-to-military relations.
The third is the Army for the majority of this promotion, someone to avoid clear Xu Caihou residual poison to gain confidence.
The aforementioned Li Wei, Wang Chunning and Zhang Xudong, who were newly promoted to general at the end of 2020, are all army generals, accounting for three quarters of those promoted this time, and even with Xu Zhongbo, the political commissar of the Rocket Force, who was promoted to general in July 2020, a total of five promoted generals in 2020 are still mostly army, and the commanders of the five major war zones still maintain the status quo of three of them being army.
The article mentions that Zhang Xudong has been appointed as the commander of the Western Theater, replacing General Zhao Zongqi, who retired from the military at that age. Zhang’s former position was deputy commander of the Central War Zone. Zhang was born in the Army and was stationed in the former Shenyang Military Region during his early military career, and served as deputy commander-in-chief of the joint command of the parade for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 2019. The special feature of Zhang is that with his long service experience in northeast Shenyang, he was able to avoid the wind of the “northeast tiger” faction established by Xu Caihou, and even promoted to general, which is really an anomaly.
The fourth is that Xi put his beloved people in key areas to prevent a coup.
The article in the Taiwan media suggests that the promotions include Zhang Xudong from the central war zone and Wang Chunning from the Beijing garrison, both of whom are in Xi Jinping’s important core area, so they must be trusted by him to hold key positions. Now, Zhang will be placed in the western war zone, which is the first line of the Sino-Indian conflict, and Wang will be placed in the armed police force, which has been rumored to be unstable in the past, which may be the main consideration for Xi to give the important appointment. Wang Chunning, in particular, was able to serve as commander of the Beijing garrison for a long time between 2016 and 2020, representing an important general trusted by Xi Jinping.
According to the article, it is also clear from the past incidents of Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai that the leadership of the armed forces had been a major concern for Xi before the military reform was announced in 2015, so the arrangement for Wang Chunning to replace Wang Ning, who had been in office before the military reform, as the commander of the armed forces is obviously a special intention.
A review of the data shows that in the eight years since Xi Jinping came to power, the top military and political officials of the Beijing garrison have changed seven people. Four commanders have been replaced, from Zheng Chuanfu, who began his duties in 2009, to Pan Liangshi, who replaced him in December 2013 (in office from 2013 to 2016), to Wang Chunning, who will be in office from 2016 to 2020, and then to Fu Culture, who is new this time. During the same period, a total of three Beijing garrison political commissars are or were in office, including: Gao Donglu, who moved to the post of deputy political commissar of Beijing military district in December 2014, Jiang Yong, who retired after serving for up to five years, and Zhang Fandi, who only assumed his new post in January 2020.
The high-density reshuffle in the Beijing garrison and the sudden change of half of the top brass of the Armed Police Force, according to commentator Zheng Zhongyuan, only shows that Xi Jinping does not trust anyone and therefore tries to avoid any one person serving in that position for a long time, so as not to form a mountain of power to threaten Zhongnanhai.
Commentator Yang Wei, writing in the Epoch Times, said Xi should be deeply troubled by the new round of infighting in the Communist Party, and is once again trying to warn the party’s opposition by awarding military ranks in a desperate attempt to maintain his precarious power.
Jack Ma ran away? Absent from self-created reality show has not appeared for more than 2 months
There are rumors on the Internet that Jack Ma took a private yacht from Shenzhen to Hong Kong and then transferred to Singapore, holding a St. Kitts passport. This news does not feel very reliable, Guo Boxiong can not run, Ma Yun can be more than the head of the military cattle? Really can escape from the sky, that Ma Yun military people, and the background is not ordinary. The news is yet to be confirmed.
However, Jack Ma was recently absent from his self-titled “African Entrepreneur Reality Show” TV show, and his seat as a finalist was replaced by Alibaba executive Peng Lei.
The Financial Times reported on Jan. 1 that Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group who was one of the judges on the first final, has disappeared from the panel of judges for the second edition of Africa’s Business Heroes, which will be held in November 2020, and has been replaced by Peng Lei, one of the founders of Alibaba Group.
Two contestants revealed that although the final was held in November, the show’s TV broadcast has been delayed until the spring of 2021, and the promotional video for the show at the end of November last year did not mention Jack Ma. And on the program’s website, Ma is not in the list of judges. A spokesperson for Alibaba said that due to scheduling conflicts, Jack Ma “may no longer be a finalist in the 2020 African Entrepreneur Competition.
Ma posted on social media platforms in August 2020 to congratulate the 20 participating entrepreneurs and said he was looking forward to meeting them.
The mainland portal NetEase published on Dec. 24 the WeChat public number “Dark Night Research Room”‘s “Suddenly heavyweight! Ma Yun was border control! According to the article, according to Bloomberg, Jack Ma has been asked not to go anywhere but China because his Alibaba empire is under regulatory scrutiny. For Ma at this level, this is the same substantial border control as Wang Jianlin.
The article also emphasizes, “The side control on Jack Ma comes from the top BOSS (boss), who intended it for himself!”
Enter a state of war! Surprise rumor that Shenyang residents fleeing quarantine area were arrested and sent to detention
News about Shenyang, Liaoning Province, infected with the Chinese Communist Party virus (COVID-19) has continued for some time in recent times, because it is not known when the city blockade will be lifted, some citizens have tried to escape the quarantine zone, and some are said to have been arrested and sent back to detention.
On January 2, netizen Xiao Ting posted a video on a social media platform with text saying, “People in Shenyang fled the closed area and some were taken back and sent to detention.”
From the video, there are people climbing over the railing of the quarantine area and entering the unsegregated area, and some people were taken away by police for escaping the quarantine area.
According to mainland sources, since one confirmed case was found in Shenyang on Dec. 23, 2020, there were 21 new confirmed cases in the city proper by 12 p.m. on Jan. 2, 2021.
On the 2nd, Shenyang authorities issued the latest notice, requiring people in key control areas and home quarantine personnel in medium-risk areas to strictly follow the relevant provisions of Order No. 17 of the Shenyang City Command; other personnel do not go out without special circumstances, non-essential post staff do not go to work, go out to buy necessities may not go out of the control area and restrict out of the community.
China’s coal prices are soaring, and people are bitterly cold as they wait in line for coal in the mines
Since the beginning of winter, people are suffering. The Chinese Communist authorities have violently confiscated people’s heating equipment and materials. In retaliation for Australia’s demand to investigate the origin of the Chinese Communist virus, the Chinese Communist Party has refused to import Australian coal of high quality and low price.
Since mid-November 2020, demand for coal in China has remained high and coal prices have continued to climb.
Interface News reported that on December 31, 2020, the spot price of northern port coal 5500K power coal had reached 850 yuan per ton, and the spot trading transaction price was about 823 yuan per ton. Several industry sources believe that the rising trend of coal prices may continue until mid-January 2021. Power coal prices could surge as high as $1,000 per ton. This would be close to the 12-year high of coal prices.
The current pithead coal is a very sought-after resource. In some of the main production areas, there is a rare phenomenon of “waiting in line for coal” in recent years, and the price of coal is also rising day by day.
“High daily consumption, low inventory” has also become a common phenomenon in downstream power plants. Individual power plants inventory available days, and even down to single digits.
December 28, Henan Anyang City Development and Reform Commission released the “Anyang City Coal, Electricity and Gas Security Analysis Report” said, Anyang City, two thermal power plant coal stocks are in the alert below. Among them, Datang Anyang power plant available high-quality coal inventory of about 40,000 tons, daily consumption of 8,000 tons, available inventory of less than 5 days, seriously below the minimum inventory alert line.
And at this time, there is another wave of overwhelming cold wave invading China. The Central Weather Station issued the highest level of “cold wave orange warning” on December 27, 2020, and the cooling range covered the whole country, which further escalated the people’s demand for coal.
The family HSBC credit card was canceled Xu Zhi Feng exiled overseas denounced robbers
The former member of the Legislative Council, Xu Zhifeng, who is in exile overseas, said on the social media platform that all HSBC credit cards for himself and his family were cancelled by the bank unilaterally and without notice, on the grounds of commercial decision. Xu Zhifeng quoted HSBC as saying that the outstanding amount of the card number in the credit card will be deducted from the account; on the contrary, if there is a balance, the amount may not be returned to him. And suggested that Xu Zhifeng call later to “see how the bank can handle”.
Xu Zhifeng said that he and his family have a surplus of credit cards more than the amount owed, the balance of about tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. He said he and his family have been customers of the bank for decades and have a good credit record, questioning the bank’s arbitrary cancellation of customers’ credit cards under a “business decision” that has nothing to do with credit, and described it as an embezzlement of assets, acting like a robber, urging the regulator to investigate.
He pointed out that the incident reflects the business sector in the national security law, dependence and obedience to the regime, can completely override the law and policy, he asked HSBC to publicly account for the incident and request the regulator to investigate, or will consider other international follow-up actions. HSBC has not yet responded to the incident.
Radio Free Asia reported that the Democratic Party’s deputy spokesman for financial policy / consumer rights policy issued a statement on the incident, account for the refund of the surplus is private property. The statement said HSBC’s actions and decisions, many Hong Kong people and consumers on Hong Kong’s financial system and HSBC’s confidence suffered a major blow, HSBC should immediately give a public account of the incident, and stop all unreasonable impact on customer rights.
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