Victory of pro-establishment candidates at HK Law Society council election ‘a wake-up call’ for those hijacking professional groups: ex-chief 香港律師會理事會選舉中建制派候選人的勝利為那些劫持專業團體的人“敲響了警鐘” by Chen Qingqing Aug 25 2021

The victory of five candidates who support the pro-establishment camp at the Hong Kong Law Society’s council election serves as a wake-up call for those who still have the illusion about using professional groups to provoke radical anti-government movements and advocate for so-called freedom as well as democratic values but with the true intention of instigating secessionism, the former president of the Law Society told the Global Times.

In an exclusive interview with the Global Times on Wednesday, solicitor Junius Ho Kwan-yiu said he felt reassured after seeing that candidates who support the pro-establishment camp gained more votes than those who are leaning to the pro-opposition camp. “The latest election attracted a lot of attention. If those candidates who are in favor of the opposition camp had won, the group might have been controlled by the opposition camp,” he said.

Five candidates including Careen Wong and Jimmy Chan, who support the pro-establishment camp, won the election, local news site TVB News reported on Tuesday.

Among the candidates, four are considered as coming from the pro-opposition camp including Jonathan Ross, who recently announced he was withdrawing his name as candidate “for safety concerns,” as well as Selma Masood, Henry Wheare and Denis Brock.

These so-called pro-opposition candidates have been engaging in politics, Ho said, noting that in recent years they have been whitewashing the violence.

“During the black-clad riots in 2019, some ignored the facts that the radical protests vandalized public property and violated the law, vowing to stand with them as a way of tolerating secessionism and ‘Hong Kong independence,'” Ho said, noting that the result of the election is a direct warning to those who still have the illusion of turning the Law Society into a political group.

Days ahead of the council election of the largest legal body in Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, chief executive of the HKSAR government, warned the Law Society not to let politics override its professionalism, otherwise the government would consider ending cooperation with it.

By excluding those candidates who are considered potential troublemakers, the Law Society is expected to play bigger role in enhancing the legal exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong in the future, Ho said, noting that such cooperation could set a good example for further exchanges between the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and the island of Taiwan.

Video: China is phasing out English at early education and may eventually eliminate it as mandatory subjects at high school exams. 中國正在逐步淘汰早期教育中的英語，並可能最終將其取消為高中考試的必修科目.
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Professor John Walsh in San Francisco: A humiliating defeat for the intel agencies – probably because they did not want to further soil their already badly sullied reputation by associating themselves with an insane, unsupportable conspiracy theory. 舊金山的約翰沃爾什教授：對情報機構來說是一次恥辱的失敗——可能是因為他們不想通過將自己與一個瘋狂的、無法支持的陰謀論聯繫起來，進一步玷污他們已經嚴重玷污的聲譽.

Now they will be trying to say that China is not opening up, not transparent. That entire line of reasoning is equally absurd which we should be able to demonstrate graphically. 現在他們會試圖說中國不開放，不透明。 整個推理路線同樣荒謬，我們應該能夠用圖形來證明.

New York Times: U.S. intelligence agencies delivered a report to Biden on the virus’s origins. By Julian E. Barnes Published Aug.

The director of national intelligence delivered a report to President Biden on Tuesday on the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, according to U.S. officials, but the nation’s spy agencies have not yet concluded whether the disease was the result of an accidental leak from a lab or if it emerged naturally in a spillover from animals to humans.

Mr. Biden had ordered the nation’s intelligence agencies three months ago to draft a report on the origins of the virus, which has been the subject of an intensifying debate, in part to give the agencies a chance to examine a trove of data that had not been fully exploited.

But the inquiry, which examined data collected from a virology research institute in Wuhan, China, the city where the virus first spread, has yet to answer the biggest outstanding question about where it came from. Its absence of conclusions underscores the difficulty of pinpointing the source of the virus, particularly given China’s refusal to continue to cooperate with international investigations into the origin the coronavirus.

In the months after the pandemic began, intelligence agencies began looking into how it started. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed the agencies to look into the theory that the virus was created inside a Chinese lab and accidentally leaked. Mr. Pompeo formed his own research group to study the question.
During the Trump administration, intelligence agencies ruled out theories that the virus was deliberately leaked. But they said they could not make a conclusion about what was more likely: an accidental leak from a lab researching coronaviruses or a natural development of the virus.
While many scientists were initially skeptical of the lab leak theory, at least some became more open to examining it this year. And some criticized a World Health Organization report in March that found the lab leak theory unlikely.

After that report, Biden administration officials became frustrated with a decision by the Chinese government to stop cooperating with further investigations by the World Health Organization into the origins of the pandemic. In the face of what they called Chinese intransigence and a divided American intelligence community, Biden administration officials then ordered a 90-day review of the intelligence, resulting in the report delivered to the president on Tuesday.

Current and former officials have repeatedly warned that finding the precise origins of the pandemic may be more of a job for scientists than spies. Under Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, the agencies have stepped up cooperation with scientists, hoping to better understand the current pandemic and possible future ones.

Officials also warned that the 90-day review was probably too brief to draw any definitive conclusions.

The report remains classified for now, and officials would not discuss its findings. But officials said that Ms. Haines’s office would most likely declassify some information later this week.

“I can’t obviously speak to a classified briefing,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said when reporters asked her about the report on Wednesday. “I know you are eager to receive an unclassified summary, that is something the intelligence community has been working to produce and as soon as that is available it will be put out publicly.”

Asked whether the president would be satisfied if the inquiry ended inconclusively, Ms. Psaki said that he was doing everything possible to uncover the truth.
“I can assure you the president wants to get to the bottom of the root causes of Covid-19, that as you noted has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and wishes that there had been more done earlier on to get to the bottom of it, and to of course save more lives,” she said.

Daniel E. Slotnik contributed reporting.

Video: US Wins The Battle Against Huawei But Lost The Tech War To China. 美國贏得了與華為的戰鬥，但在技術戰爭中輸給了中國.
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Mysteries behind US’ UNC labs, Fort Detrick, ‘Coronavirus Hunter’ and virus origins by Xu Zihe Aug 25 2021

Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: Hi, Julie: Johnson is right. So is John. The worst is yet to come. If the DOJ were to apply the same criteria it used on Sing Tao, the World Journal (世界日报) should likewise receive the same treatment because it is a propaganda mouthpiece for the Taiwan government since the DPP seized control of the government. I believe the Chinese Press (桥报), the third Chinese-language newspaper in the U.S.,has long been subjected to the same treatment Sing Tao now gets from the U.S. government.

In the early 1950s, Chung Sai (中西日报), was forced to close because its new owner was suspected of being pro-PRC. The Gold Gate Daily (金门日报), an openly pro-PRC paper, printed in red rather than black ink, was shut down within weeks. The most celebrated case was the China Daily News (华侨日报), owned by members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Association (CHLA), a business organization made up of owners of hundreds of Chinese hand laundrymen across New York City. The paper celebrated the founding of the PRC and reported news of New China. The paper steadfastly resisted government repression and continued publication until the 1990s. Both the publisher and editor were prosecuted and convicted by some ridiculous charges, too complicated to explain in this email. They both served time. Subscribers of the paper across the U.S. were investigated investigated and intimidated by the FBI and newspaper stands in Chinatowns refused to carry the paper. By 1960s, the paper, operated on shoe-strings, was was able to print only twice a week and in two sheets and had only about 200 die-hard supporters.

Since Sing Tao also runs a Chinese-language radio programs, I am sure the license-holder of the radio station will be pressured to drop its Chinese programming or face the revocation of its FCC license. I would not be surprised if the staff are already subject to HLS and IRS investigations, a standard government tool of harassment and intimidation.

The 90,000 foreign agents, foreign governments collaborators and Western moon lover left HK has created opportunities for patriotic expats to return. 90,000名外國代理人、外國政府合作者和西方月亮崇拜者離開香港為愛國香港國外居民創造了返回的機會.

Video: How US Government takes care of Americans in Afghanistan as compared to China could see the difference between US’s money democracy verses China’s people democracy. China has evacuated all her citizens on July 29 2021. The video here give you more examples. 與中國相比，美國政府如何照顧阿富汗的美國人可以看出美國的金錢民主與中國的人民民主之間的區別。 中國已於 2021 年 7 月 29 日撤離所有公民。這裡的視頻為您提供了更多示例.
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US Vice-President Kamala Harris selling China containment to Vietnam during the visit said Vietnam can trust US, failed to mention US got defeated badly in Afghanistan, abandoned US allies and friends, left in a hurry. She also failed to mention chemical warfare (Agent Orange) being used during the Vietnam War left millions of Vietnamese disabled still living in pain today. 美國副總統卡瑪拉·哈里斯訪問期間向越南兜售中國遏制政策，稱越南可以信任美國，卻沒有提到美國在阿富汗慘敗，拋棄美國盟友和朋友，匆匆離去。 在越南戰爭期間，她也沒有提到化學戰導致數百萬越南人今天仍然生活在痛苦中. World Journal Newspaper San Francisco on August 25 2021 美國加州舊金山世界日報.

A slap at US face before it’s VP visit selling China containment – Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told China his country would not enter an alliance to confront Beijing, before he met US Vice-President Kamala Harris on Wednesday. 在副總統訪問中國之前，給美國一記耳光 – 越南總理在周三會見美國副總統卡馬拉哈里斯之前告訴中國，他的國家不會結盟對抗北京.