Video: Huawei & Alstom: A tale of two companies. France abandoned Alstom, China back Huawei 100% 華為和阿爾斯通：兩家公司的不同命運. 法國放棄阿爾斯通，中國百分百支持華為. 法國在 2013 年和 2021 年兩次被美國出賣. https://vimeo.com/615656449 https://youtu.be/PkQ6cPMuGMo https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/574197483803581/?d=n In 2013, French industrial conglomerate Alstom’s executive Frederic Pierucci was arrested, and Alstom was then”dismembered” by the U.S. Five years later, Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou was also arrested and Washington is trying to ban Chinese telecom giant Huawei around the world. Now Meng has returned, but America’s suppression of other countries’ tech development continues. How many more “prey” will fall into the “American Trap”?
Meng Wanzhou’s return route directly bypassed Alaska to prevent the US Air Force from intercepting and turning back. 2021-09-27 09:13 HKT
If flying from the North Pole, this route will pass through the North Pole, where the Russian Air Force can control it. Therefore, flying on this route, we can avoid direct contact with the United States. The United States has deployed a large number of fighter jets in Alaska, which will inevitably pose a threat to Meng Wanzhou’s charter flights. Of course, we are not saying that the US military will take down measures. This kind of thing is impossible. It is just to prevent the US military from turning back and adopting a tough threat of forced landing on the flight.
The route of Meng Wanzhou’s return to China has been basically determined. It is to take off from Canada, pass over the Arctic Ocean, then enter the sky over Russia, and finally land in Guangzhou, China. It can be seen from this route that it is not the Alaska route between China and the United States.
Under normal circumstances, flights departing from the United States or from North America to China usually take routes close to Alaska. This way, you can prevent the lack of fuel in the middle. Of course, this great circle route is also more fuel-efficient. However, when Meng Wanzhou returned home this time, he directly bypassed the airspace near Alaska and did not fly over the ocean near Alaska. This was to prevent the US Air Force from dispatching F-22 fighter jets to intercept halfway.
This is because the United States has deployed F-22 squadrons in Alaska, stationed in Alaska, and anti-missile positions in Alaska. Therefore, the situation of the route determines that Meng Wanzhou’s return route is impossible to fly from Alaska. He must fly from the Arctic route. Of course, it is not very fuel-efficient to fly from the Arctic route. A head-on conflict occurred. At the same time, this is a chartered flight from China. The purpose of this trip is to pick up Meng Wanzhou back home. As for which route to fly, all are based on safety considerations.
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Video: The plane that took Subrina Meng home from Vancouver Canada was a chartered flight by Chinese Government, the plane took a route to the North Pole, then flies down Russian Airspace, down to China to land in Shenzhen. China don’t trust US that if the plane passed through US’s vassals states could be forced to land and kidnapped Subrina Meng again. When China deals with Terrorists and State Terrorism, extra caution must be taken. https://vimeo.com/614464350 https://youtu.be/Nr_TvG-4MT4 https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/573244510565545/?d=n
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West’s ‘liberal’ governance values quaking with pandemic by Ling Shengli Sep 24 2021
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The raging novel coronavirus pandemic is hitting Western liberal democratic values.
Western countries like the US, Australia and France are stepping up vaccination and efforts on implementing a COVID-19 health-pass system. Compared with the past, their governments are more involved in the fight against the epidemic. They once criticized China’s response to the epidemic as “authoritarian governance,” but now they are pretty much doing the same, or governing in the similar approaches. This embodies how wrong they have been to politicize the fight against COVID-19.
The continuous COVID-19 pandemic poses an increasing challenge to the governance capabilities of countries worldwide. The US and other Western countries preaching liberal values of national governance are extremely fragile in this fight. On September 20, US coronavirus death toll surpassed 200,000, accounting for about a fifth of all COVID-19-related fatalities recorded worldwide. On the same day, CNN published an article entitled, “The US death toll from COVID-19 just surpassed that of the 1918 flu pandemic.” It is clear that the US prevention and control efforts are not yet efficient, and speeding up vaccination has become a must. But the public’s attitude toward vaccination in the US has been far from enthusiastic. In the end, the Biden administration announced vaccine mandates.
France is facing similar predicament. To curb the spread of the virus, France began enforcing a COVID-19 “health pass.” According to the rules, a health pass is required if one goes to restaurants, cafes, bars, museums, stadiums, and other public places. This was supposed to be helpful for the precise prevention and control measures. But it has met with huge protests in France, with thousands of people even taking to the streets, attacking police.
The idea of “mandates” does not work in the Western countries’ political and cultural environment. They are so used to their so-called freedom and democracy. Whether to wear masks, get vaccinated, or travel to other places wherever they want are all deemed issues of “freedom” of choice. This has, in fact, increased the possibility of the spread of the virus and made it more difficult to prevent and control the pandemic.
All these prove that social and state governance based on liberal values has their limits and that there are risks in blindly pursuing freedom regardless of the science. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught Western countries a good lesson. They should reflect thoroughly on the deep-rooted drawbacks of their social and national governance, as well as the need to learn from countries like China.
Viruses do not treat countries and their people differently, regardless of ideological and political differences. The prevention and control of it should be based on science rather than politics. For a long time, the West has believed that its liberal and democratic values are universal. It ignores two things: One, differences in each country’s history, culture, and stage of development can have an impact on the perception of these values; Two, its values of freedom and democracy need to keep pace with the times.
Obviously, Western values of freedom and democracy have become rigid. And the social crisis and economic crisis caused by the pandemic have clearly unveiled the shortcomings of Western governance, guided by these values.
The West should no longer blindly believe its values can solve all problems. It should reflect on its behaviors of constantly judging the values of other countries from a condescending position and even using double standards to criticize others. COVID-19 is a mirror that reflects limitations of social and state governance in the West. It shows that the West’s governance based on liberal and democratic values is not perfect, and the worsening pandemic has seriously dimmed the light from the beacon of democracy in the West.
The author is director of the International Security Study Center at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
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