Video: For 25 years, US & British repeated attempts to destroy HK have failed. HK is standing tall celebrating the 25th anniversary of our return to the motherland 25年來，美國和英國多次試圖摧毀香港，但都失敗了. 香港昂首慶祝回歸祖國25週年

香港回歸25周年 百名抗疫義工巴士巡遊慶回歸: 其實香港有超級多愛國愛港的人, 25艘大漁船巡遊維港旗幟飄揚 駐港部隊震撼發布! 二十五載我們守衛香江 周深獻唱! 香港回歸25周年紀念曲祝福
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Video: American Professor Jeffrey Sachs: Which country single handed created millions of refugees last 20+ years? 美國教授杰弗裡·薩克斯: 過去20多年, 哪一個國隻手遮天創造了數百萬難民?
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Video: American Professor Jeffrey Sachs: Why US wants to destroy China and Chinese companies like Huawei? 美國教授杰弗裡·薩克斯: 美國為什麼要摧毀中國和華為這樣的中國公司?
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NATO controlled by United States declaration of hostilities against China 被美國控制的北約對中國宣戰

Professor John V Walsh, MD in San Francisco: The old colonial powers just will not go quietly into the night.

The amazing thing is that every international meeting Biden and company have is about destroying – destroying Russia, destroying China, destroying any country that defies the US -Iran, Syria, Libya, NK, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and on and on.

In contrast the BRICS meet and they are trying to build something – a better life for the billions that they lead or represent. Those who do not belong to the “golden billion.”
The only positive thing that the US has done is to belatedly ape China’s Belt and Road – until the B&R was put in place, they did nothing. And if China were to go away, their response to the B&R would disappear.

Mao remains right, “US imperialism is the number one enemy of the peoples of the world.” We should be proud that we do what we can to fight it.

The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values (aka. AngloSaxon Colonial Value), refused to follow Japan’s footsteps to become a vassal state of the United States. The PRC employs a broad range of political, economic and military tools to increase its global footprint and project power, while remaining opaque about its strategy, intentions and military build-up (*China strong defensive force neutralize US aggression).

The PRC’s malicious hybrid and cyber operations and its confrontational rhetoric and disinformation target Allies and harm Alliance security*. The PRC seeks to control key technological and industrial sectors, critical infrastructure, and strategic materials and supply chains. It uses its economic leverage to create strategic dependencies and enhance its influence. It strives to subvert the rules-based international order, including in the space, cyber and maritime domains.

The deepening strategic partnership between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules-based international order** run counter to our values and interests**.

We remain open to constructive engagement with the PRC, including to build reciprocal transparency, with a view to safeguarding the Alliance’s security interests (once China becomes a vassal state of the United States). We will work together responsibly, as Allies, to address the systemic challenges posed by the PRC to Euro-Atlantic security and ensure NATO’s enduring ability to guarantee the defence and security of Allies. We will boost our shared awareness, enhance our resilience and preparedness, and protect against the PRC’s coercive tactics and efforts to divide the Alliance. We will stand up for our shared values and the rules based international order, including freedom of navigation**.

Also

The Russian Federation is the most significant and direct threat to Allies’ security and to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area (for refusing to become a vassal states of the United States like the EU countries). It seeks to establish spheres of influence and direct control through coercion, subversion, aggression and annexation. It uses conventional, cyber and hybrid means against us and our partners. Its coercive military posture, rhetoric and proven willingness to use force to pursue its political goals undermine the rules-based international order.

The Russian Federation is modernising its nuclear forces and expanding its novel and disruptive dual-capable delivery systems, while employing coercive nuclear signalling. It aims to destabilise countries to our East and South. In the High North, its capability to disrupt Allied reinforcements and freedom of navigation across the North Atlantic is a strategic challenge to the Alliance. Moscow’s military build-up, including in the Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Sea regions, along with its military integration with Belarus, challenge our security and interests.

NATO does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to the Russian Federation (by aiming Nuclear Warheads near Russia borders). We will continue to respond to Russian threats and hostile actions in a united and responsible way. We will significantly strengthen deterrence and defence for all Allies, enhance our resilience against Russian coercion and support our partners to counter malign interference and aggression. In light of its hostile policies and actions, we cannot consider the Russian Federation to be our partner (NATO does not consider Russia as pure AngloSaxon nor part of Europe have repeatedly rejected Russia NATO applications in the past).

However, we remain willing to keep open channels of communication with Moscow to manage and mitigate risks, prevent escalation and increase transparency. We seek stability and predictability in the Euro-Atlantic area and between NATO and the Russian Federation. Any change in our relationship depends on the Russian Federation halting its aggressive behaviour and fully complying with international law** by becoming a vassal state of the United States.

Video: Fortune Magazine: HK is dead! Really? Live in US for 50 yrs found out anything they talk about China is just the opposite. Lying is embedded into their fake democracy 財富雜誌: 香港已死! 真的嗎? 在美國生活了50 年, 發現他們談論中國的任何事情都恰恰相反. 謊言嵌入了他們的虛假民主制度

Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley:

Hi, Johnson:

This Fortune Magazine pronouncement on the dead of Hong Kong is hardly a statement of fact and more of a statement of curse and an ill-conceived wish from the resentful political class of the Western world.

This is nothing new. Since the Sino-British agreement of 1984, the political class in the West has been trying, by hook or by crook, the best it can to kill and bury Hong Kong by any means necessary. Before 1997, the West repeatedly made dire predictions and incite mass hysteria and panic to cause both business and middle class people to flee the city. Those predictions failed to incite mass exodus. To be sure, relatively few faint-hearted were affected by this scare tactics and left Hong Kong for Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK before the turnover. Shortly before July 1, 1997, the Western media from throughout the world converged and jam-packed in Hong Kong to witness what they believed will be the People’s Liberation Army and its tanks marching into Hong Kong and running over the courageous people of Hong Kong who would rise to protest and resist the rule of the Chinese government. To their great disappointment, that much-anticipated scenario never happened. Instead, ordinary people from all walks of life, especially the people from the New Territory, braved the heavy tropical storms, lined the roads and streets through which the incoming convoys of Chinese officials and army slowly and peacefully entered Hong Kong to take up their positions. Disappointed and upset, they grudgingly packed up and left Hong Kong, just like the departing British officials, including Prince Philip, Prime Minister Tong Blair, and ex-governor Chris Patten, military, and expats. In small groups, many ex-pats roamed the streets and piled into bars, drunk, while pathetically sang “Rule Britannia!” It was a disgusting and pathetic sight!.

Since the return in1997, still upset and resentful of smooth transition and worse, the loss of a prosperous and valuable real estate since the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing, the West continued to bad-mouth, demonize, and de-stabilize Hong Kong, determined to sow chaos and dissension and incite riots. Since you have done such a good job in informing your followers, I don’t need to repeat what you have already done.

I have not doubt that the intense propaganda, frequent subversive disruptions and riots in Hong Kong since 1997 have inflicted severe damage politically and economically to the city, not to mention the injuries caused by SARS and Covid-19, But Hong Kong is not down and hardly dead as claimed by the Fortune Magazine. Hong Kong, to be sure, now has other major cities in China, such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Tianjin, and Beijing, to mention just a few, to compete with. It will survive and thrive and remans competitive with the help of China in decades to come.

By. The way, what I described above of the turnover of Hong Kong is based entirely on personal witness. I was there before and after July 1, 1997. I was also in Macau for the return. As a student of history, the returns of these two former colonies were historic. I wanted to see them and to feel the pulse and sentiment of the people.

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Video: U.S. curbs Russian gold, China rejoices 美國限制俄羅斯黃金 中國樂壞了
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Video: Japan’s Vietnam bridge construction collapsed, undercut China to get India high speed train contracts failed again. No one can beat China on infrastructure constructions, no one! 日本蓋越南大橋塌求助中國 阻帶路割肉搶印度高鐵慘賠
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The Pentagon is “scrambling” for ways to find new recruits as multiple branches fear they will not reach their annual enrollment goals, with the number of young Americans willing to join the military to defend US Corp overseas interest hitting its lowest level in 15 years.

五角大樓正在“爭先恐後”尋找新兵，因為多個分支機構擔心他們將無法達到年度招生目標，願意參軍以捍衛美國公司海外利益的年輕美國人數量達到 15 年來的最低水平.

Asian Times-COVID-19: China’s Death Toll Puts US to Shame. The public health measures that have worked so well on the mainland should not be lightly dismissed 亞洲時報-新冠病毒, 中國的死亡人數讓美國感到羞恥. 在內地取得如此良好效果的公共衛生措施不應掉以輕心writes John Walsh MD in SF June 28, 2022

Shanghai’s Bund during the 2022 Covid lockdown.

In May and June of 2022 two milestones were passed in the world’s battle with Covid and were widely noted in the press, one in the U.S. and one in China. They invite a comparison between the two countries and their approach to combatting Covid-19.

The first milestone was passed on May 12 when the United States registered over 1 million total deaths (1,008,377 as of June 19 when this is written) due to Covid, the highest of any country in the world. Web MD expressed its sentiment in a piece headlined: “US Covid Deaths Hit 1 Million: ‘History Should Judge Us.’”

Second, on June 1, China emerged from its 60-day lockdown in Shanghai in response to an outbreak there, the most serious since the Wuhan outbreak at the onset of the pandemic. The total number of deaths in mainland China since the beginning of the epidemic in January 2020 stands at a total of 5,226 as of June 19.

To put that in perspective, that is 3,042 deaths per million population in the U.S. versus 3.7 per million deaths in China due to Covid: 3,042 vs. 3.7.

Had China followed the same course as the U.S., it would have experienced at least 4 million deaths. Had the U.S. followed China’s course it would have had only 1,306 deaths total.

The E.U. did not fare not much better than the U.S, with 2,434 deaths per million as of June 19.

When confronted with these numbers, the response of the Western media has all too often been denial that China’s numbers were valid. But China’s data have been backed by counts of excess deaths during the period of the pandemic as The New York Times illustrated in a recent article. Actually, this is old news. The validity of China’s numbers, as shown by counts of excess deaths, was validated in a February 2021 study by a group at Oxford University and the Chinese CDC. This was published in the prestigious BMJ (British Medical Journal) and discussed in detail here.

What About the Economy?

Clearly China put the saving of lives above the advance of the economy with its “dynamic zero Covid policy.” But contrary to what was believed in the West at the time, saving lives also turned out to be better for the economy, as shown in the following data from the World Bank:

During the first year of the pandemic, 2020, China’s economy continued to grow albeit at a slower rate. In contrast the U.S. economy contracted dramatically, dropping all the way back, not simply to 2019 levels, but to pre-2018 levels.

Interestingly the plot also shows the year that the Chinese PPP-GDP surpassed that of the United States, 2017, heralding a new era for the Global South.

The World Bank has not yet released data for 2021, but the IMF has PPP-GDP data for 2021 shown here. The U.S. economy grew at 5.97 percent and China’s at 8.02 percent. Unlike the World Bank data shown in the graph above for the years up to 2020, these data for 2021 are not corrected for inflation which for 2021 ran at 4.7 percent in the U.S. whereas China’s was 0.85 percent. So China’s growth would be even greater in comparison to the U.S., were inflation taken into account.

The bottom line is that for the first two years of the pandemic through 2021, China’s growth was always positive and greater than that of the U.S. China’s policy not only saved lives but protected the economy. Win-win, one might say.

Shanghai Lockdown

Shanghai Expo Exhibition Hall being used as an isolation center during 2022 Covid outbreak.

The period of the recent Shanghai lockdown which we can date from April 1, ended on June 1, and was the second largest outbreak in China since the original outbreak in January 2020, in Wuhan. Each resulted in major lockdowns, the first in Wuhan lasted about 76 days and the second in Shanghai about 60 days. The first in Wuhan was due to the original variant and the second was due to the much more infectious Omicron.

During the recent lockdown in Shanghai, the Western press was awash with proclamations, all too many laced with an unseemly Schadenfreude, that China’s dynamic Zero Covid policy was not sustainable. This is all too reminiscent of decades of predictions that China’s extraordinary success in developing its economy to No. 1 in the world in terms of PPP-GDP was a passing phase, a Ponzi Scheme that was — what else — “not sustainable. Recently the same press has gone silent, always a sign that China has met with success. So, what are the results?

The Shanghai Lockdown ended on June 1 and from that day until June 19, there were no deaths due to Covid on the Chinese mainland. Cases nationwide are also way down to 183 per day from the peak of 26,000 on April 15. That was the largest number of cases in a single day for the entire period of the pandemic in China. For comparison, the peak in the U.S. was 800,000 in a single day.

Both the Wuhan and Shanghai lockdowns demanded sacrifices and patience over the roughly two-month period for each. However, these difficulties are generally exaggerated In the West and based on anecdotes of the worst of the difficulties encountered. Such sordid journalism reached rock bottom in a New York Times piece equating China’s hard working health care workers to Adolph Eichmann.

As an antidote to this kind of hit piece and to gain a feeling of life in the cities that were under lockdown during the Wuhan outbreak, Peter Hessler’s March 2020, account in The New Yorker, “Life on Lockdown in China,” is enlightening and will dispel many misconceptions. Hessler was living and teaching in Chengdu, Sichuan, at the time.

For the moment China’s approach has succeeded although we cannot say what the future holds. But the public health measures that have worked so well in mainland China should not be lightly dismissed let alone be the subject of mean-spirited attacks. Such measures may be a means of saving millions of lives when the next variant or the next pandemic strikes.

US People’s Tribunal

Turning again to the U.S., what does it say when one of the richest nations in the world, spending over $1 trillion a year on its “national security” budget, could not muster the means to deal with Covid-19 and ended up with more deaths than any other nation on earth? China’s handling of the pandemic certainly shows a completely different outcome is possible. The U.S. death toll was not an inescapable act of nature.

That being so, should there not be a People’s Tribunal to investigate those in charge in the U.S. government over the course of three administrations? That, and not an official white wash, is certainly needed. And should not punishment appropriate for a crime against humanity be meted out? The one million dead deserve no less.

John V. Walsh, until recently a professor of physiology and neuroscience at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, has written on issues of peace and health care for The San Francisco Chronicle, EastBayTimes/San Jose Mercury News, Asia Times, LA Progressive, Antiwar.com, CounterPunch and others.

So call rule based orders promoted by US 這就是美國所謂的腦殘才相信的國際規則