Chinese Communist Party’s new wording to conceal new wave of outbreak angers people
For some time now, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have used the emphasis on “imported cases from outside China” and the separation of “asymptomatic infections” from “confirmed cases” in their so-called outbreak reports. This is a way to downplay the epidemic and create a false impression. With the recent official declaration of wartime status in many places, these tactics are no longer effective. The resurgence of cases in Beijing has added to the fears of the people and questions about the ineffectiveness of official efforts to combat the epidemic.
On Dec. 19, Beijing officials reported that there were two cases of “confirmed cases imported from abroad” in the city on Dec. 18. This statement sparked civil anger.
Netizens sarcastically and angrily denounced.
“What is the connection? It’s just a local case.”
“Beijing’s notification is really confusing, first of all, this is a local case, what associated cases, and also said so much is not clear, how the infection is not told, action track is not available.”
“This is how the infection? Offshore input is not all in closed-loop quarantine 14 days? How did it come into contact?”
“According to the Chinese Communist Party, are all confirmed cases in countries in the world other than China ‘overseas imported confirmed linked cases’? Make amends for the Communist Party!”
“What’s so strange about this, what hide and seek, etc. are not all invented by the mighty women.”
Shanghai expert Zhang Wenhong had earlier warned that a second wave of the epidemic was inevitable in China this winter and that it was terrifying that 80 percent of those infected were asymptomatic.
According to official notification data, since December, outbreaks have emerged in Jiaozhou, Shandong; Chengdu, Sichuan; Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia; Dongning and Suifenhe, Heilongjiang; Turpan, Xinjiang; and Beijing and Dalian, Liaoning, and are still heating up and spreading rapidly. As the New Year approaches, there will be a large number of people moving around, and there is concern that the epidemic will break out again in a big way.
People around the world are like scared birds under the epidemic. Wuhan government leads discrimination against Chengdu people
After the full-scale outbreak in Wuhan, Hubeians were quickly subjected to nationwide discrimination and even violent siege.
Radio Free Asia reports that while the stigma of “Wuhan pneumonia (a Chinese Communist virus)” lingers, Wuhan and its Hubei province have led the discrimination against people in Chengdu, which has recently seen multiple cases of the local outbreak. A new storm of discrimination on the mainland has caused Chengdu people to be rounded up and expelled from various parts of the country, making travel difficult. Commentators say this is not only based on fear of the epidemic, but also because officials around the country are taking advantage of the crisis to harvest people as leeks.
A number of Chengdu residents complained on the Internet on Thursday (17) that their travel in Wuhan and even Hubei was severely restricted because their identity cards showed they were Chengdu domiciles.
According to people with the screen name LAWSE, he left Chengdu in November and has been in Hunan, but when he arrived in Hubei territory four days ago, he found that he could not check into a hotel. Another informant revealed that he went to Wuhan on a business trip on Wednesday (16), and despite holding a negative report for a nucleic acid test he had just taken, he was lured to a hotel as soon as he arrived, before it was announced that he had to be quarantined for 14 days. Previously, Wuhan had no warning about this, which led to a large number of Chengdu people who were in need of work being put in a difficult situation without their knowledge.
On December 8, 2020, the Hubei Provincial New Crown Prevention and Control Command issued a document that legalized discrimination against Chengdu residents.
Chen, a media personality in Chengdu, confirmed that the informant’s complaint was true, and his own plans to travel to Wuhan were cancelled as a result. He believes that such drastic tactics on Wuhan’s part are based on excessive fear of the outbreak.
As early as the 8th of this month, Hubei Province, the new crown prevention and control command issued a document requiring the isolation of people from Chengdu Pidu, Jinjiang, Jinniu, Chenghua District when entering Hubei, but in fact, Hubei upgraded the scale of the blockade around the city, the isolation measures to expand the scope of targeting the residents of the entire Chengdu city.
The Xiaogan Hotel in Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, confirmed that they were notified by police a week ago that no Chengdu residents would be allowed to stay in the hotel. The Jin Sheng Yuan Hotel in Macheng City, Hubei Province also confirmed that they too were under instructions from the police station not to allow Chengdu residents to stay and that Chengdu residents needed to be quarantined in a special local hotel.
There is evidence that the practice in Hubei province is leading neighboring provinces to follow suit. Some informants say that Hunan is also seeing restrictions on both travel and hotel stays for Chengdu people.
Economic experts at Peking University project that China’s unemployed population is over 100 million, questioning the Communist Party’s cover-up of the problem.
Unemployment in mainland China is serious, with the National Bureau of Statistics releasing survey unemployment figures at around 6 percent, but a survey by Yao Yang, director of Peking University’s Institute of National Development, projects that China’s national unemployment rate is as high as 20 percent, meaning that more than 100 million people are unemployed, due to the severe impact of the new pneumonia epidemic on China’s small and medium-sized enterprises. He questioned the official unemployment figures, which are only for the urban household population, while the main group of unemployed is the non-urban household population.
Radio Free Asia reported that Yao Yang said in an interview with Tencent that due to the impact of the epidemic, China’s economy has declined significantly and many SMEs, especially service companies, have to close down. There are some service enterprises, I’m afraid, disappear permanently, making the employment situation in China even more severe.
So far this year, the survey unemployment rate data released by the National Bureau of Statistics has remained at around 6%, but Yao Yang believes that the data refers to the urban household population, while the main group of unemployed is the non-urban household population. There are no official statistics on this. Yao Yang and his team conducted an online survey of more than 6,000 people in late June, which showed an unemployment rate of 15 percent, in addition to 5 percent of respondents who were semi-unemployed. Since China has more than 700 million people in employment, the 20% unemployment rate from the survey would mean that more than 100 million people are unemployed across China.
In the face of Xi Jinping? More than 40% of Chinese people spend less than 1,000 yuan a year on leisure
According to a new poll by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 44.4% of Chinese people surveyed spent less than 1,000 yuan on leisure in the past year, or an average of 83 yuan per person per month, which is equivalent to buying two sets of McDonald’s Angus thick beef and bacon burgers.
On Nov. 9, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released a questionnaire survey showing that the Chinese people spent an average of RMB 5,647 on leisure in the past year. Among them, 22.7% spent RMB 1001-3000, 10% spent RMB 3001-5000 and 11.1% spent RMB 5001-10,000. 11.8% spent more than RMB 10,000 a year, but 44.4% spent only one-tenth as much as high-income groups, at RMB The Voice of America
The Voice of America reported on Dec. 15 that based on the poll’s results, and compared to China’s total population of 1.4 billion, this translates to 620 million people spending only 83 yuan a month on leisure, or two sets of Angus thick beef and bacon burgers at McDonald’s.
Wu Ming-ze, an associate researcher at Taiwan‘s WI Harper Institute, said that the poll shows that most Chinese people can only maintain their basic living expenses and have little leisure and entertainment expenses. The still high percentage of low-income population in China, coupled with the serious gap between the rich and the poor, makes it hard to believe that China has already achieved the stage of fully eradicating poverty and entering a fully well-off society.
Wu Zeming said the poll shows that more than 60% of China’s population (about 940 million people) may spend less than 3,000 yuan a year on leisure and entertainment, which is a living standard that can just make ends meet, and a well-off society is not this standard.
With this level of consumption, many analysts are not optimistic that China will have to rely on expanding domestic demand to support its economy in the future.
Report: Australia’s 4 Chinese media received money from the Chinese Communist Party to help censor news
Zhou Anlan.
Radio Free Asia reports that according to a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), at least four Chinese media companies in Australia receive financial support from the Chinese Communist Party, and at least 17 others have close ties to Beijing’s “overseas influence department,” even Even representatives of the Chinese media departments of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Australian National Television (SBS) have participated in forums organized by China’s overseas propaganda department, while WeChat has encouraged these media to sign up for WeChat’s public website, disguising a greater degree of CCP control.
According to a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the Chinese Communist authorities are “infringing” on the journalistic autonomy of Australia’s Chinese-language media, with influence far greater than that of the Australian government, particularly when these Chinese-language media translate articles from the English-language media, and content critical of the CCP is censored or removed.
In addition, WeChat will encourage these media to register public numbers, disguised to reinforce the CCP’s control over them across the ocean, as content sent from WeChat will be censored. The report noted that WeChat, which is also a popular communication software used by Australians, has severely restricted messaging that facilitates the dissemination of news content targeting Australian users, and that the opaque sharing of online messages within the application continues to allow the dissemination of fake news.
The report also noted that four of the 24 Australian Chinese media outlets surveyed were owned or financially supported by the CCP, and at least half were or are members of groups associated with the CCP’s United Front Work Department, including the Australian Pacific Media Group and the Australian Nanhai Cultural Media Group, which were also named as receiving support from the China News Service and the CCP’s United Front Work Department.
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