Two days of high-level U.S.-China talks kicked off Thursday (18) in snowy Alaska. Chinese Communist Party State Councilor Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken bickered and exchanged words face-to-face.
How quickly did the facepalm come? The White House responds to the “April meeting with Xi” claim. The Chinese Communist Party’s media reported that there is a difference between inside and outside, preparing in advance for the step of losing the negotiation.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping‘s speech three years ago reveals CCP’s ambition, 14th Five-Year Plan leaks hard science and technology. U.S. military deploys big killers into Japan to deter CCP.
The real estate outlook is not good, and sellers have to pay commissions! The real estate agent’s started to charge the seller. Food shortage strikes again? The Chinese Communist Party asked to reduce the amount of corn and soybean meal in animal feed.
New poll: More than 90% of Americans see Chinese Communist Party as a major threat
According to the Voice of America 18 report, the well-known polling agency Gallup conducted a poll between February 3 and 18, targeting American adults. According to the poll, 63 percent of Americans believe that the power of the Chinese Communist Party will pose a “critical threat” to U.S. vital interests in the next decade; 30 percent of respondents believe that the Chinese Communist Party is a “significant threat” to the United States; and 45 percent of American adults believe that the Chinese Communist Party is a “significant threat” to the United States. Forty-five percent of U.S. adults believe that the Chinese Communist Party is the “greatest enemy” of the United States.
At the same Time last year, a similar Gallup poll showed that only 22 percent of Americans considered the Chinese Communist Party to be the United States’ “worst enemy.
According to the report, the Gallup poll also found that the “rise” of the Chinese Communist Party poses a key threat to the U.S., with an increase across all political party groups in the United States. Currently, 81 percent of Republicans, 59 percent of independents and 56 percent of Democrats share this view.
Yang Jiechi and Blinken face off in bickering exchange
During the talks, top U.S. officials said the Communist Party’s actions threaten the rules-based global order and vowed that Washington will support its allies while at the same time the U.S. will not seek conflict with Beijing.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened the meeting by saying the many actions of Beijing authorities “each threaten the rules and order that maintain global stability.”
Blinken said the U.S. side will engage in dialogue about the Communist Party’s actions in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan, cyber attacks on the United States and economic coercion against the United States and its allies.
“We do not seek conflict, but we welcome fierce competition, and we will always stand by our principles and hold fast to our people and our friends,” U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said at the start of the talks with the Communist Party.
In response to the relevant remarks of the U.S. officials, Yang Jiechi, the top Chinese diplomat, made a strong attack, declaring before the meeting that “human rights in the United States are at a low point” and that blacks are being “massacred” and that the U.S. side should first take care of its own domestic affairs, but he then But then he turned the tables and said that China and the United States should abandon “cold war thinking” and confrontation, “no conflict, mutual respect and win-win cooperation.”
How quickly did the facepalm come? The White House responded to the “April meeting with Xi” statement
Central News Agency (CNA) reported that the White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday that there are no such discussions about the April video meeting that Beijing hopes to facilitate between President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party President Xi Jinping. She also reiterated that the U.S. side will talk about human rights, Hong Kong and regional military tensions, among other topics.
The Wall Street Journal previously reported, citing sources familiar with the matter, that Beijing will use the occasion of high-level U.S.-China diplomatic talks to facilitate a video summit between Biden and Xi on April 22, World Earth Day, when the world holds a conference on climate change.
The U.S. media broke the news that the Chinese Communist Party officials who came to the talks were tested for the Chinese Communist virus (COVID-19) at the mandatory request of the U.S. side, which the Chinese Communist Party strongly disliked and has protested. These details suggest that the high-level talks between the U.S. and China were “chilly,” according to the report.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi plan to propose a new framework for regular annual meetings between the two countries to resolve differences in the economy, trade, security and other areas. This so-called strategic dialogue model was established during the George W. Bush Jr. administration and continued under Obama, when Blinken and Sullivan were the top foreign policy officials.
Trump gradually abolished the dialogue mechanism after taking office because he believed the Chinese Communist Party was using it to drag the U.S. government into endless consultations. The Biden Administration has so far shown no interest in rescheduling such talks.
Chinese Communist Party Media Differentiates Between Inside and Outside, Prepares Both Hands
Chinese Ambassador to Washington Cui Tiankai told Communist Party media on Wednesday that the United States should be disillusioned if it thinks Chinese officials are going to Alaska, a “snowy and icy place,” to make compromises and concessions. He added that the Chinese Communist Party has no high expectations or illusions about the dialogue.
On the other hand, CGTN, the overseas channel of the Communist Party’s state media CCTV, tried to brand Alaska as a positive meeting place, not only mentioning the impromptu visit to Alaska by Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, but also using the fact that Beijing and Washington are about the same distance away from Anchorage, Alaska, to try to make the Communist Party appear not to be an underdog.
Xi had stopped in Alaska on his way Home from an informal meeting with then-President Donald Trump at the Sea Lake estate in 2017, and met with then-Governor Bill Walker.
Xi said Alaska is China’s “Shangri-La” and that “you will see an increase in tourism from China”.
Apollo.com chief commentator Wang Duran said the tone of the Communist Party’s media coverage of the talks was different, with both sides preparing in advance for the loss of negotiations.
China-U.S. Security Dialogue Held, U.S. Deploys Big Killers to Japan
The U.S. Secretary of State John Blinken and Secretary of Defense Austin are visiting Japan and South Korea as the U.S. military announced Tuesday (16) the deployment of six F22 stealth fighters from the state of Hawaii to Japan to support the dynamic use of force in the Indo-Pacific Zone Command in support of the U.S. defense strategy and training with allies to maintain global peace and security, which is said to be a check on the Chinese Communist Party and North Korea.
The U.S. Pacific Air Forces said the stealth fighters, part of the 199th Fighter Squadron based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, landed at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, last Friday (12) to demonstrate their commitment to ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific region.
The U.S. Marine Corps said the F22s will train and operate in conjunction with the F35B stealth fighters stationed there to maintain a high level of readiness and ensure they can contribute to a free and open Indo-Pacific region.
In recent years, the U.S. military has promoted the concept of dynamic force employment to achieve the goal of strategic predictability and operational unpredictability by changing the way joint forces operate. The U.S. Pacific Air Forces is adapting its air combat forces to support its commitment to allies and partners by deploying stealth fighters anywhere and anytime in a global strategic environment that demands flexibility and freedom of action.
Xi Jinping Reveals CCP’s Ambitions, 14th Five-Year Plan Reveals Hard Science and Technology
A few days after the two sessions of the Communist Party of China (CPC), party media outlet Quyi published a speech Xi Jinping made at a conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences three years ago, revealing the ambition of the CPC to become the world’s “scientific center and innovation highland. But the 14th Five-Year Plan released at the two sessions inadvertently revealed the Communist Party’s underhandedness and hardness in the field of science and technology.
On March 15, 2021, the party media Quyi magazine published a so-called important speech made by Xi Jinping three years ago at a conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (original text), in which Xi Jinping stated that he wanted to “become the world’s major scientific center and innovation highland” and that “we need to build a world science and technology power more than at any other time in history. We need to build a world power in science and technology more than at any other time in history.”
Photo: Xi Jinping speaks at the 19th General Assembly of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 14th General Assembly of the Chinese Academy of Engineering on May 28, 2018.
At the conference, Xi said, “China must vigorously develop science and technology if it wants to be strong and rejuvenated. He stressed that the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change is reshaping the world, and that “science and technology have never had such a profound impact on the future Destiny of the country as they do today”.
Figure: The outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan of the Communist Party of China
Just four days before the article was published in “Seeking Truth”, the 14th Five-Year Plan was officially released by the Communist Party of China at its two sessions. The outline is composed of 19 articles, 17 of which are in fact the first and last, of which the second article at the top is the science and technology strategy of “insisting on innovation”, and even “digital development” is listed as the fifth article, which fully reveals the importance the CPC attaches to science and technology in the present and future. The 14th Five-Year Plan
“The outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan places “self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology” as a strategic support for national development, proposes to “strengthen the national strategic science and technology force” and improve the CCP’s The “new type of state system”.
Current affairs commentator Li Linyi pointed out that Xi Jinping’s reiteration of his old words, especially his claim to become “the world’s leading scientific center and innovation highland” instead of one of them, coupled with the two sessions of the National People’s Congress, which put the science and technology strategy on the top of the agenda, once again highlights the CCP’s ambition for technological domination.
National Association of Manufacturers Urges Biden to Quickly Develop New Strategy to Strengthen Competitiveness Against Communist China
In a letter to President Biden on Wednesday, the National Association of Manufacturers urged his administration to “quickly develop, publicly release and vigorously implement” a formal national strategy on China to adapt to a new, post-Epidemic world.
The letter said, “America’s strategy must reflect current and future realities: China will be a necessary partner, a fierce economic competitor, and a major adversary challenging America’s global influence as we assess the new post-pandemic reality.”
“The new strategy must include all available tools, including targeted bilateral engagement, assertive U.S. leadership in global institutions, and close, coordinated engagement with allies and partners.” “The strategic use of legislative and enforcement tools is critical to compel China to change its economic behavior and level the playing field for U.S. manufacturers and workers.”
Not enough food? Communist Party asks for less corn, soybean meal in animal feed
The Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Agriculture and rural Affairs issued a notice and document this week calling for a reduction in the amount of corn and soybean meal used in animal feed to promote “stable supply” of feed grains.
Photo: Grain reserve facility of China National Grain Reserve near Tianjin port.
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau issued a “feed in the reduction of soybean meal replacement work program” mentioned the need to establish a new technical system for the configuration of feed grain, respectively, the use of “rice, wheat, mixed grains, potatoes, mixed meal and other agricultural by-products and other raw materials” to replace corn, soybean meal feed formula adjustment program.
China’s cumulative grain imports from January to December 2020 exceeded 140 million tons, an increase of more than 31 million tons year-on-year, and the volume of grain imports increased by about 28% year-on-year.
Some experts expect that by 2030, mainland China’s total grain demand may reach a peak, with demand for corn perhaps exceeding 300 million tons and total demand for soybeans approaching 120 million tons.
Selling a house also has to pay commission! Real estate agent’s start to charge the seller
Generally speaking, the brokerage fee for buying and selling houses is usually paid by the buyer, but recently this “unspoken rule” was broken, in Chongqing second-hand housing transaction market, the real estate agent’s began to charge the brokerage fee to the seller.
Chain Home, De You, 21st Century Real Estate and other shell system brokers have made the following adjustments to the brokerage fees charged for the sale and purchase of second-hand houses in Chongqing: the 1.5% service fee on the total amount of the buyer’s loan has been abolished, but the 2% commission for the buyer remains unchanged, while the seller has changed from a free to a 1% service fee.
Recently, it is rumored that “promoting real estate tax legislation” is written into the 14th Five-Year Plan, and according to the legislative arrangement of the 13th National People’s Congress, the real estate tax will be launched within the term of the current National People’s Congress (March 2018 to March 2023), which also means that Real estate tax is expected to start legislation before 2023.
Once the real estate tax legislation begins, it means that the cost of holding property will rise significantly in the future, which will certainly force the speculative funds out, so a large amount of inventory will be put into the second-hand housing market, so that the national second-hand housing market will be like Chongqing general oversupply, then the real estate agent will naturally charge the seller agency fees.
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