Video: The human race should gift a huge mirror to US to have her entire nation looks at her shameful human rights records since before 1776. A nation committed crime against humanity for 245+ years. US even celebrate Columbus Day every year to remind Native American through ethnic cleansing 90% were murdered in cold blood. This is the American way of fake democracy human rights and rules of law 人類應該給美國一面巨大的鏡子，讓她的整個國家人民審視她自 1776 年以來的可恥人權記錄。一個國家犯下了245多年的反人類罪。美國甚至每年都慶祝哥倫布日，以提醒通過種族清洗美洲原住民,90%美國原住民被冷血殺害. 這就是美國所謂的(假)民主人權和法治.
translated by Hicks Ping: 🗨 that type of government, those kind of people; do they really think they have the right to question about human rights in China? 🗨 have they been to China? Seen with their own eyes the safety/security in our streets? Witnessed the happiness of our citizens? 🗨 have they been to Xinjiang? 🗨 the US needs to look itself properly into a mirror firsts before spreading hatred propaganda slurs at 🇨🇳China “ . 🛑 .
Zhao Lijian: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was opened for signature at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. For years, the convention has provided outstanding guidance for the protection of global biodiversity and is signed by more countries than any other international conventions on environment.
Among the 196 parties to the CBD, the US remains the only country that has not ratified the treaty 30 years after signing, and has not announced plans to ratify it. Some people commented that environmental protection is in conflict with the interests of big capitalists, and the US is reluctant to make concessions and sacrifices for global public interests. As the largest country in the world, the absence of the US has undermined global efforts in protecting biodiversity and preventing the extinction of species.
For quite some time, the US has called on countries on many international occasions to address challenges with unity and through joint actions. The US side should stop seeking instant benefits when participating in international affairs at an early date, shoulder its due international responsibilities and obligations, bear in mind the wellbeing of the world’s people and take concrete actions to win the trust of the international community.
An old friend of ours, Chinese and China – Professor emeritus Roger T. Ames awarded China’s highest honor to foreign experts – University of Hawaii News Professor emeritus awarded China’s highest honor. October 6, 2021 UH News 我們的老朋友，中國和中國人的老朋友, 名譽教授羅傑·T·艾姆斯授予外國專家中國最高榮譽 – 夏威夷大學名譽教授授予中國最高榮譽。
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor has been awarded China’s highest honor given to foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to China’s drive toward modernization. Department of Philosophy Professor Emeritus Roger T. Ames was presented the Chinese Government Friendship Award in Beijing on September 30, by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as part of China’s National Day celebration.
Ames is an expert on Chinese and Western comparative philosophy. He is currently humanities chair professor at Peking University, president of the World Consortium for Research in Confucian Cultures and vice president of the International Federation of Confucian Studies.
“In China, as in our host Hawaiian culture, good friends become part of the family. I have always felt this way at Peking University in my classroom and among my colleagues,” Ames said.
Ames has won several other international awards, including the John Dewey Society Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, Huilin Culture Award from Beijing Normal University in 2016 and Confucius Culture Prize in 2013.
He retired from UH Mānoa in 2016 after serving as a faculty member since 1978. His campus awards include a 2012 Regent’s Medal for Excellence in Research, a 2010 College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Scholarship Award and a 1990 Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching. Ames earned his BA from the University of British Columbia, master’s degrees from National Taiwan University and the University of British Columbia, and PhD from the University of London.
Abbott extends Morrison’s diplomatic disaster by Bruce Haigh Oct 13 2021
Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott blundered his way on stage in Taipei city to deliver a most imprudent speech to the Yushan Regional Security Forum on October 7. Abbott was accorded all the courtesies of a visiting dignitary, including being received by Tsai Ing-wen.
Prior to Abbott arriving, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the visit was private yet he was accompanied by a senior Australian representative, Jenny Bloomfield. Her presence conferred official status on Abbott’s presence in Taiwan.
However, before further discussing this visit, it should be seen in the context of the Australian nuclear submarine deal announced on September 16 by US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Morrison. The deal involved scrapping a contract between Australia and France to produce conventional submarines. The French were given no prior warning by Morrison that the deal was to be scrapped, and became exceedingly angry. It was an exhibition of the most appalling diplomacy.
The US said they will build eight nuclear powered submarines for Australia by 2040, but this will more likely be by 2050. Their capacity is stretched, so the British have said they might be able to assist. A major difficulty with the proposal is that Australia is not a nuclear country. It could not service the highly enriched reactors driving the engines. The three-way decision led to the formation of a new defense cooperation arrangement known as AUKUS.
The submarine deal is such an improbable arrangement that it should be seen as a smokescreen for other announcements quietly made at the AUSMIN (Australia-US Ministerial Consultations) talks in September. These saw Australia agree to the home porting of US naval vessels in Australia, including submarines at HMAS Stirling near Fremantle, a permanent US marine deployment in Darwin, and US bombers to be based in the Northern Territory.
This undertaking will have the effect of considerably weakening Australian sovereignty. The US wants to use Australia as it did in WWII, as a military base and launching pad for military activities it might have in mind to the north of Australia. It will be able to undertake these activities without reference to the Australian parliament.
The Australian people will be hostage to the American military/industrial complex. They are already hostage to the Murdoch media empire which controls 70 percent of Australian information services. The combination has Australia acting as a vassal state of the US with the people unable or unwilling to question any significant developments taking place around them. The comparative wealth of the extensive Australian middle class does not incentivize them to question the comfortable isolated cocoon of the status quo.
For Morrison, the submarine ‘deal’ and the American guarantees of closer defense relationship play into his election strategy of a strong pro-American, anti-Chinese narrative.
Morrison is not bright and cares little about anyone except himself. He has little interest in the damage he is causing to the long and carefully nurtured relationship with China. To him, China is a foreign and hostile entity. He believes he can play to his domestic base because the US has his back. It does not. It only has its own interests at heart, it only ever has. Morrison’s electoral base is narrow, passively racist and as noted above, and inward looking. Morrison is hoping to stoke fear and push chase uncommitted voters toward his party. It is short term, all about him, and destructive. It is neither constructive nor creative.
This is where Abbott pops into the picture. A weak man with limited intellect, he is a bully easily manipulated. He has been seized upon by those close to Morrison to deliver anti-China message in Taipei as part of the ruling Liberal National Party election strategy. His presence as a keynote speaker has been easy enough to organize with the Taiwan authorities – an all-expenses junket with a handsome fee thrown in. He is little more than an unbalanced pawn in the picture.
Prior to his Yushan speech, Abbott had not expressed himself in such rabid terms about China. The Abbott speech was in advance of anything he has said so far. So, who wrote it? It contained a strong message and a line that has been pushed by the US arms industry funded ‘think tank’ – the anti-China Australian Security Policy Institute (ASPI). The tone reflected the language we have become used to from ASPI. Did they write the speech and work with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to help organize the visit?
ASPI has become Morrison’s preferred organization on foreign affairs and defense issues. ASPI are assuming a greater role in the formulation of Australian foreign and defense policies. They appear to have become a conduit for the input of US policy.
Abbott’s intervention has all the hallmarks of Canberra’s approval if not backing. It has about the same inept diplomacy which has seen the collapse in relations with China, France and the EU. Talk of war to defend Taiwan is beyond the comprehension and capacity of the Australian ruling party, and their media backers.
The author is a retired Australian Diplomat and political commentator. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
PLA drills target secessionists, foreign interference amid despicable DPP moves: Taiwan Affairs Office by Global Times Oct 13 2021
A fighter jet attached to an aviation brigade of the air force under the PLA Southern Theater Command taxies on the runway to get ready for a round-the-clock training exercise on Sept. 8, 2021.
Recent military exercises launched by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the Taiwan Straits aimed at “Taiwan independence” secessionist moves and interference by foreign forces, and they are necessary actions to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said on Wednesday.
Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson at the office, made the remarks at a regular press conference when being asked about the recent propaganda made by the ruling secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on the island, which hyped “military threats” from the Chinese mainland and instigating confrontations.
The goal of the PLA drills is to fundamentally safeguard the overall interests of the Chinese nation and the immediate interests of compatriots on both sides of the Straits, Ma said.
The DPP authorities and “Taiwan independence” secessionists misjudged the situation, colluded with foreign forces and kept making provocations in search of “independence,” and this is the root that caused the current tensions in the Taiwan Straits, Ma said, noting that “Taiwan independence” will only bring catastrophe to compatriots on the island, and only resolutely stopping such moves can protect their safety and well-being.
More than 150 PLA aircraft have held drills in the Taiwan’s self-proclaimed southwest air defense identification zone since October, according to releases by the island’s defense authorities.
Taiwan’s defense authorities recently said the PLA will have the capability to comprehensively “attack” the island by 2025, and the current situation in the Straits is the most severe one in 40 years.
Ma reiterated that the source of the complications, tensions and oppositions in the cross-Straits relations is the DPP authorities’ collusion with foreign forces and the increasing provocations to seek “independence.”
In response to Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen’s recent statement, claiming she was willing to talk to the mainland on the condition of reciprocity and no political premises, Ma said that the DPP is claiming to be open to talks, but seeking “independence” and colluding with foreign forces even more at the same time.
This despicable, double-faced move is deception to not only compatriots on the island, but also the international community, Ma said.
Ma also slammed Tsai’s “Double Ten” speech delivered on Sunday. Tsai for the first time claimed that the island of Taiwan and the Chinese mainland are no subordinate to each other.
The fact that both the mainland and Taiwan belong to China has never changed and will never change, and the cross-Straits relations are never relations between countries, Ma said.
Tsai’s statement is blatantly selling a “two-state theory,” but no matter how she whitewashes the idea of “Taiwan independence,” it cannot hide the evil purpose of secession, Ma said.
NW China’s Xinjiang to inoculate booster shots to adults by Global Times Oct 13 2021
Residents in the Wuqia County in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, receive COVID-19 vaccine on June 5, 2021.
Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has become the latest region in the country to launch a booster shot of COVID-19 vaccines for its residents. Instead of focusing on key groups, the region said it will provide the shot to all local adults who completed vaccination six months prior.
Local media ts.cn reported on Wednesday that the region plans to provide booster shots from October to December to vaccine receivers aged 18 and above who have been inoculated with two shots of inactivated vaccines or one shot of adenovirus vector vaccine for more than six months.
The level of antibodies in vaccine recipients decline, even disappear, after a certain period following the inoculation. One more shot at this time would not only boost the antibody level, but also expand the antibody repertoire, ts.cn reported, citing experts from Xinjiang regional disease control and prevention center.
So far, at least 13 provinces and regions in China, such as East China’s Anhui and Fujian provinces and Central China’s Hubei Province, have initiated programs to enhance residents’ immunity against COVID-19.
“Studies prove that the level of neutralizing antibodies would decline after six months following inoculation, a booster shot at this time would enhance antibodies and prolong protection, as well as largely increase efficacy to prevent infection and hospitalization,” Jin Hui, a public health expert from Southeast University, told people.cn on Wednesday.
But Jin noted that every person should receive one booster shot, but it does not mean that recipients should receive one shot every six months.
Video: Australian Puppets of American Empire Expose Themselves. In this video we dig into a revealing little slip up that helped solidify how artificial the anti-China rhetoric in Australia really is and how the pro-war rhetoric has created an environment where the anti-china sentiment is being used as a weapon against other Australian citizens. https://youtu.be/IeLoZnWsAl8
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