Video: Is Australia Crazy? Even The Endangered Great Barrier Reef Is China’s Fault? 澳大利亞瘋了嗎？ 連瀕臨滅絕的大堡礁都是中國的錯？
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Video: A real life story how a Chinese flag could safe your life. 中國國旗如何拯救你的生命的真實故事.

When we do consulting work required us to travel internationally, often we discussed in life and death situations in unfriendly territories such as the Middle East. 當我們做諮詢工作要求我們出國旅行時，我們經常討論中東等對美國人不友好地區的生死情況
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Our conclusions are if we hold US Passports more than likely be taken as hostage or sure death. But if we hold Chinese passports or if no Chinese Passports show a Chinese Flag could save your life. 我們的結論是，如果我們持有美國護照更有可能被當作人質或必死無疑。 但是，如果我們持有中國護照，或者沒有中國護照的人展示中國國旗，則可以挽救您的生命.

The second situation is get caught in natural disasters. If you call US consulate during non-business hours, all you get is a recorded message to call back next business day. We could be dead next business day. 第二種情況是陷入自然災害。 如果您在非工作時間致電美國領事館，您所得到的只是一條錄音信息，叫你下一個工作日回電。 我們可能在下一個工作日前就已經死了.

But if you are Chinese citizen (China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan), you can call toll free number 24/7 +86 (10) 1230 8 or +86 (10) 5991 3991 for help and you will talk to a real live person and not an answering machine. 但如果您是中國公民（中國、香港、澳門和台灣），您可以7天24小時撥打免費電話 +86 (10) 1230 8 或 +86 (10) 5991 3991 尋求幫助，您將與真正的 活人而不是錄機對話.

中國政府正式宣布：中國人請記住這個号碼：+86-10-12308 或 +86 (10) 5991 3991 中國人的全球領事保護！出國旅居的中國公民，若遇上意外危難就可以撥打它。中國外交部全球領事保護與服務應急呼叫中心正式啟動了12308熱綫。外交部長王毅公開説：“不管同胞們身處海外哪個角落，遇到甚麼困難，只要撥通這個電話，就能在第一時間得到幫助。

China reins in overseas IPOs, instituting stricter protection of users’ data by Global Times Jul 09 2021

China’s top cyberspace regulator on Saturday issued a sweeping set of draft rules for cybersecurity reviews over domestic internet companies that seek overseas listings. The new threshold dictates that businesses holding information of more than a million users in China must undergo a regulatory review before applying for an overseas IPO.

Analysts speculate the new regulation is to impact all digital firms, internet-based platform businesses in particular

Following a week of regulatory moves imposed on internet platforms, including ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, the draft rules released by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) marks another crucial step in China’s broad efforts to ensure data security amid growing risks from the US as it continues to crack down on Chinese firms.

Among the draft rules, the strictest is the requirement for all internet product and services providers that collect data of more than a million users must file for a cyber-security review and approval before seeking an overseas IPO.

“In the Chinese market, there are countless internet platforms that have stored information of over 10 million or even 100 million users. The threshold of a million users, as clarified by the new rules, means almost all platforms operating in China which aspire to sell shares abroad need to go through a cybersecurity review,” Liu Dingding, a Beijing-based internet sector analyst, told the Global Times on Saturday.

“This is in line with the basic principles of safeguarding national information security. There is no room for compromise,” Liu said.

The draft rules outlined specific steps and materials for a cybersecurity review, including an analysis on national security by the company and all procurement documents, current or future agreements as well as IPO materials prepared to be submitted.

Regulators will focus on scrutiny of the risks of key information infrastructure being illegally controlled, disrupted or undermined, the risk of core data or mass personal information being stolen, leaked, damaged or illegally used or exported.

In a very pointed move, the cybersecurity review will also focus on the risk of core information infrastructure, data and massive personal information being “influenced, controlled or maliciously used” by foreign governments.

The draft rules on Saturday as well as the recent policy tightening come as the US government has doubled down on its crackdown on Chinese companies listed in the US. The US requires audit inspections on Chinese firms, which would expose operational data from Chinese businesses.

“It is very timely to set up such a threshold at this moment,” Dong Shaopeng, an advisor for the China Securities Regulatory Commission, told the Global Times on Saturday, noting that the rules make protecting users’ data and ensuring China’s information security a “premise” for Chinese companies seeking overseas IPOs.

The CAC is seeking public comments on the draft rules through July 25 and it was not immediately clear when the draft rules will come into effect.

Another crucial part of the draft rules is a move to establish a high-level inter-agency mechanism for cybersecurity reviews, which will involve more than 10 government departments, including the CAC, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration for Market Regulation.

The draft rules followed a series of regulatory actions taken against internet firms over cybersecurity protection as well as monopolistic practices by China-based internet platform companies.

Most notable among the actions is a cybersecurity review of Didi just days after it launched an IPO in the US. The regulators ordered app stores to remove Didi over “serious violations of the law and regulation” in its collection and use of personal information. Then on Friday, the CAC ordered the removal of 25 more Did-related apps due to illegal use of personal information.

The CAC has also launched cybersecurity reviews on several US-listed companies, including job recruiting platform Boss Zhipin and Full Truck Alliance. Meanwhile, regulators have also stepped up crackdown on monopolistic practices by internet firms, issuing fines this week to several companies affiliated to Didi, Alibaba and Tencent.

Dong said that the awareness of protecting data security was not sufficient when many Chinese firms got listed in the US in the past, but given the rising risks, the move “is in line with the country’s national interest to strengthen related laws and regulations.”

Queen’s upbeat comment about UK-China relations good for bilateral cooperation by Global Times Jul 09 2021

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II records her address to the UK and the Commonwealth in relation to the coronavirus outbreak at Windsor Castle, west of London on Sunday.

Queen Elizabeth II said the China-UK relations are very important and the royal family will continue to make efforts for the development of bilateral relations when she accepted a letter of credentials from China’s new ambassador to the UK via video link.

The Chinese ambassador Zheng Zeguang praised the queen and the royal family for their long-term support for the development of bilateral relations, and said China is committed to developing healthy and stable bilateral relations with the UK.

The queen’s remarks were a positive sign following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s remarks on a Chinese company’s purchase deal with a British semiconductor chips manufacturing plant.

Ordering his national security adviser to probe the takeover, Johnson said,”I do not want an anti-China spirit to lead to us trying to pitchfork away every investment form China into this country. That would be economically foolhardy.”

His government in early 2020 decided to ban Huawei from joining the UK’s 5G network following the US government trumpeted concerns of espionage and surveillance, an accusation the Chinese telecommunication giant has denied repeatedly.

The EU parliament voiced calls to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics over the so-called human rights abuses in Xinjiang. The British opposition Labour Party had pushed the issue but Prime Minister Johnson said he was “instinctively” against sporting boycotts.

Meanwhile, the British government has joined its Western allies in meddling in Hong Kong and Xinjiang affairs. This complex attitude of the UK in dealing with China reflected UK is carefully balancing its trade-centered relations with China and the influence of politics and ideology of the US-led Western group.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held a video conference with business representatives from the UK on Tuesday, and they discussed a wide range of issues including bilateral relationship, pragmatic economic cooperation, measures to improve the business environment and counter the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It marks the first formal business communication between the two countries in the absence of high-level diplomatic dialogue this year.

Britain needs a close cooperation with China to offset the impact of its withdrawal from the EU and elevate its global influence.

Although London is likely to continue following the political steps of the US government to make things difficult for China in order to achieve its diplomatic goal, relations between China and the UK could move toward a balance, observers predict, noting positive development of China-UK relations would offer an insight for the EU to handle its relations with China.

They help to make the world safe again against the fake freedom democracy and human rights by the Western Empires to rob, steal and Rape at will. 他們幫助使世界再次安全, 反抗西方帝國用虛假的自由民主和人權隨意搶劫, 偷竊和強奸, 天天殺害手無寸鐵的孩子和婦女.

Video: Japan Wants To Go To War With China For Taiwan? China does not care to be #1 world power! 日本要為台灣與中國開戰？ 中國不在乎成為世界第一強國！
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China seems to be in a difficult situation. The US and Japan have a military exercise in China’s East Sea and the South China Sea, pretending to defend Taiwan when China Mainland starts the reunification process by force. And India deploys more soldiers and weaponry in the disputable border area, trying to gain an advantage over China on the negotiation table.

In world history, the number two power usually needs a victory to become the world’s number one or stay as number two forever. Will China be an exception?

China urges US lawmakers to stop political manipulation on China-related issues; biggest enemy itself: FM By Global Times Published: Jun 29, 2021

It is so true. Let me share with you my personal experiences with 2 Fortune 500 companies today on July 9 2021.

At 10:30am, I went to Well Fargo Bank to make a deposit for my wife. After that I inquired about setting up a checking account. The teller has explained to me various options. I picked one and said I want to open the checking account now. The teller told me I could not do that because I need to make an advance appointment to set up new accounts.

At 1:30pm, I went to Costco to fixed my tire with a nail that I made an appointment online 2 days ago. I showed up at 12:45pm for my 1:30pm appointment. The customer service representative said I am too early, they will not work on my car until 1:30pm even if they have nothing to do. Upon double checking on his computer, he said my appointment was 2:00pm and not 1:30pm. I show him the email confirmation from Costco clearly said 1:30pm. He said the online booking not reliable and he can only reply on their branch system. In other words my confirmation no good. I further asked since I got free rotation tires service, would they mind to rotate my tires. He said no, I need to come back with another tire rotation appointment. At this time I heard someone laughing. I look back and an older gentleman said he had waiting for 3 hours with appointment to rotate his tires. He said he won’t come back. Maybe the free tires rotation just a gimmick by Costco. The long wait is intentional so you will not come back to ask for free service.

How the US seeks to develop and enhance its competitiveness is its own business, and the US should not see China as an imaginary enemy, Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, urging lawmakers in the US to abandon the Cold-War mentality and zero-sum game mindset, and stop political manipulation on China-related issues.

China also urged US lawmakers to stop deliberating and advancing related anti-China legislation, remove clauses attacking China, and do more to help promote the development of China-US relations, which will create favorable conditions for cooperation in important areas between the two nations, Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of Chinese Foreign Ministry told a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

The greatest enemy of the US is itself, and doing its own affairs well is what US lawmakers should really worry about, Wang said.

The remarks come as the US Senate voted 68-32 on June 8 to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese technology, according to a Reuters report.

The bill has a number of China-related provisions including prohibiting the social media app TikTok from being downloaded on government devices, and blocking the purchase of drones manufactured and sold by companies backed by the Chinese government. It would also allow “diplomats and Taiwanese military” to display their flag and wear their uniforms while in the United States on official businesses, said the report.

The bill disregards facts, exaggerates strategic competition with China, attacks China’s development path and domestic and foreign policies, and aims to interfer in China’s internal affairs on issues involving China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and harms China’s interests, Wang noted.

China firmly opposes this and will firmly defend its own interests, said the official.

demonstration and dialogue with Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Activists to March to Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco Residence In Opposition to the U.S.’s Hybrid War on China

WHERE: The corner of Broadway and Normandie Terrace, Pacific Heights, San Francisco

WHEN: Sunday, July 11, 2021 at 2:30 PM PT/5:30 PM ET

July 9, 2021 — This Sunday, CODEPINK, Pivot to Peace, RootsAction, World Beyond War, and local constituent activists will march to the residence of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood to deliver a CODEPINK petition demanding that she block a vote on Gregory Meeks’ H.R. 3524, also known as the EAGLE Act. The petition urges Speaker Pelosi to block a vote on the bill unless its military funding for the Asia-Pacific region and antagonistic rhetoric toward China are removed.

H.R. 3524 would not only commit over $200 million to the U.S.’s military buildup in the Asia-Pacific region, it would also disrupt established U.S. foreign policy norms such as the One-China Policy. Furthermore, the bill’s rhetoric demonizes China, and this scapegoating emboldens racist agitators and further endangers Asian and Asian American people.

As the letter states, H.R. 3524 “provokes conflict and begins the buildup for a protracted war over Taiwan by encouraging Taiwan and other U.S. allies in the region to heavily invest in weapons and munitions ‘to meet contingency requirements and avoid the need for accessing United States stocks in wartime.’ These buildups cannot reasonably be called deterrence while this bill also agitates existing agreements for peace like the One-China Policy.”

It goes on to state that the “consistent anti-China rhetoric that is repeated again and again throughout the bill and in promotion of the bill…paves the way for more dangerous, and potentially deadly, scapegoating of not just China’s politicians and leaders but all Chinese and Chinese-perceived people, including other Asian and Asian American communities. We have already seen coast-to-coast violence against Asian communities in the U.S. in part because of this kind of political rhetoric; this is a continuation of the political rhetoric the Trump administration began.”

You can read the full letter to Pelosi here.

“The United States is continuing its aggression towards China, and the Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement Act is just one element of this multi-pronged hybrid war,” said CODEPINK cofounder Jodie Evans. “Nancy Pelosi relies on the support and votes of her Asian American constituents, and she will be failing her constituents if she lets this bill in its current form go to a House vote.”

Madison Tang, coordinator of the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign, said, “The inflated, hyperbolized threat of China is being used as justification to fuel the U.S. war economy and further line the pockets of weapons contractors. If we really want to stop America’s ‘forever wars,’ we cannot ignore the way Congress is rapidly escalating this unnecessary conflict with China through legislation such as the Eagle Act (H.R. 3524). Our members of Congress, including and especially those with the authority that Speaker Pelosi has, need to address this.”

Why US has a failed system when politics more important than human life at the Florida rescue just like what US has done to COVID19 sent 600,000 Americans to needlessly death. The following action by City, State and Federal Government guaranteed no one will survive. 為什麼在佛羅里達救援中政治比人的生命更重要時，美國系統性失敗，就像美國對新冠病毒所做的那樣導致 600,000 名美國人不必要地死亡。 美國市、州和聯邦政府以政治掛帥以保證沒有人能倖免於難.

The victims buried under the rubble in Florida, they may not understand why the city government has to spend 16 hours to confirm that the federal government can intervene in the rescue after they have become victims. I do not even understand why the rescue teams in the eight neighboring states can only join the rescue work after the most precious 72 hours have passed. 至於埋在佛羅里達瓦礫底下的災民，或許變成冤魂後，還不明白州市政府為何要用16小時來確認聯邦政府可以介入搶救？更不會明白為何隣近八個州的救援隊，為何要在最寶貴的黃金72小時過去後，才能加入救援工作？

Washington Post: The shattered lives of Champlain Towers South By Silvia Foster-Frau, Ann Gerhart, Danielle Rindler, Karly Domb Sadof, Garland Potts and Artur Galocha

A 40-year-old 12-story condo building in Surfside, Fla. partially collapsed on June 24. Sixty-four people were killed and about 76 others are still unaccounted for as the recovery effort continues.

For so many, survival or likely death came down to a single number: their condo unit. The Washington Post used property records, dispatch calls and interviews with survivors and relatives of the missing to learn who lived in the building and where they were at the time of the collapse

Defeated – Hasty, panic withdrawal from key Afghan base shows US irresponsibility by Lin Lan Jul 08 2021

The US military left Bagram Airfield – its key base in Afghanistan – at 3 am on July 2 without notifying the Afghans, according to the BBC News on Wednesday. The Afghan military found out hours later. This quiet withdrawal has irritated Afghanistan, and an anonymous senior official said, “People are saying: ‘The Americans didn’t ask Afghans about coming here, and they didn’t consult Afghans about leaving.'” On social media platforms, there have been comparisons between Afghanistan’s current situation and that in South Vietnam in 1975: the US withdrew in a hurry from both countries.

In January 1973, the US hastily withdrew its combat forces from Vietnam, ending direct US military involvement in the Vietnam War. Without the US military’s direct support, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were hastily airlifted out of the country in 1975. Although the time and the country are different, the US’ withdrawals from Afghanistan and Vietnam have left the same strong impression to people – the US is defeated and leaving a mess.

On the quiet withdrawal from Bagram, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby on Tuesday claimed that “We have to consider that this drawdown could be contested by the Taliban” and “it would have been irresponsible” to telegraph the exact time the US was leaving for operational security reasons. However, this is obviously a lame excuse.

“Whenever the US finds the withdrawal beyond its ability, it will never consider other countries’ actual situation or the needs of the people. Instead, the US always adopts an extremely utilitarian approach and acts in full accordance with its own interests. This is an old habit of the US,” Li Zixin, an assistant research fellow with the department for developing countries studies at the China Institute of International Studies, told the Global Times on Thursday.

From Afghanistan to Syria and Iraq, the US has left countless messes to the world and committed a series of “crimes against humanity” in the name of the “war on terrorism.” The security, economic and political situation of the entire Middle Eastern region has been affected by the US invasion, not to mention the internal situation of these specific countries.

Afghanistan has long been called the “graveyard of empires.” The US’ withdrawal is a must, but it has chosen such a hasty and irresponsible way. This will only lead to the further deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan. With the withdrawal of the US and NATO forces, the conflict between the Afghan government and the Taliban has intensified, resulting in a large number of civilian casualties.

The Taliban has taken more than 50 of the 370 districts in the country, according to a Reuters report on July 1. The US, a self-proclaimed “beacon of democracy,” has become an important source of turmoil, chaos and terrorist activities in many countries around the world.

Such irresponsible acts of the US will seriously undermine its moral influence in the international community. “The US has no ability to carry out the so-called war against terrorism at all. Nor does it have the intention to serve as a moral benchmark worldwide. The US has almost given up on maintaining its national image,” Li said. “In the long run, this will have a huge impact on its soft power.”

The US’ so-called global counter-terrorism efforts have completely failed. Under the banner of counter-terrorism, the US has not only failed to end terrorism in these countries, but even made terrorist attacks more rampant. The “beacon of democracy” has collapsed, with scattered debris hitting Afghanistan and other countries. It would take a long period for these countries to heal the wounds, but the US does not intend to take any responsibility.