Video: Hong Kong fake news media companies reached the end of the road – finished. 香港東網評論: 身痕自由嗰頭近, 叛國淫媒臨末日, 美國漢奸在香港冇出路, 已經進入未路.
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Video: Many left China to study in a foreign country, looking down on the motherland, deny their Chinese heritage, and abandon their ancestors. 身邊有不少人離開中國到外國讀書後便看不起祖國,否定中華民族,棄祖忘宗.
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Cartel of killers: UK, US and Canada jointly whip up global Xinjiang hysteria, but what about their joint history of systemic genocide, violence and enthnic cleansing? 殺手卡特爾：英國、美國和加拿大共同掀起全球新疆的歇斯底里，但他們的系統性種族滅絕、暴力和種族清洗的共同歷史如何？by GT staff reporters Jun 20 2021
The United Nations Human Rights Council assembly room.
As the 47th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council is scheduled to be held in Geneva on Monday, the Global Times learned that Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and some other Western countries have worked to misuse the UN platform to bring topics on China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and hyped untenable “genocide” allegations against China.
However, Chinese experts said that whatever inflammatory allegations these countries have been making, their political farce has got no legal basis from the international laws nor will they get support from the international community.
Canada will take the lead in making a Xinjiang-related joint statement at the interactive dialogue on the annual report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council on June 21, according to the website of China’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland.
The attempt of Canada to lead an anti-China joint statement at the 47th session of the Human Rights Council is doomed to fail, Chinese Mission spokesperson Liu Yuyin said in response to a media question on this issue.
“It seems they are bent on going down the wrong path and about to stage another political farce,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Friday, adding that China’s achievements in the human rights cause, including that in Xinjiang, are universally recognized, and no one can gainsay this fact. “Standing in stark contrast are these mud-slinging countries’ own deplorable human rights records,” he noted.
Observers and experts reached by the Global Time said that some Western countries think they have the moral high ground to accuse China of committing “genocide,” but the fact is they don’t. Unlike them, China has never had a history of genocide and ethnic cleansing, nor will it take in the future.
The US, Canada, and the UK, and some of the Western countries wishing to accuse China of committing “genocide,” a “projection” of facts based on their own heinous past and continued systemic violence and oppression, assumed China would do the same, Zhu Ying, deputy director of the National Human Rights Education and Training Base of the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, told the Global Times on Sunday.
As Chinese netizens commented, the very reason why they use these excuses to smear China is because they themselves have actually committed such atrocities. For every label of human rights violation they put on China, they can find a prototype in themselves. Here, the Global Times investigates and reveals the true face of Canada, the UK, and the US, the three countries that have abysmal human rights records.
US: American dream of genocide
Protesters are arrested by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US on May 31, 2020
US’ Stained Human Rights Record Graphic: Deng Zijun/GT
While proclaiming itself a “beacon of democracy,” the US in fact tramples on the human rights of peoples of color in the country, committing genocide against American Indians, systematically discriminating against Asian and African Americans, and doing nothing for social inequality.
In America’s bloody history, the rights of American Indians have been seriously violated. The US government has carried out systematic ethnic cleansing and genocide against American Indian populations, among other acts of unspeakable genocidal crimes against other minorities in the country. Today, American Indians still live like second-class citizens with their rights trampled upon.
On August 5, 2020, a report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications to human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, submitted pursuant to the Human Rights Council resolution 36/15, decried the situation of the indigenous peoples in the US. They are regularly exposed to toxic pollutants, including nuclear waste, released or produced by extractive industries, agriculture, and manufacturing. Soil and lead dust pollution from mining waste poses a more significant health threat for indigenous populations in the US far more than other groups.
In addition to the serious abuse of the rights of American Indians, the instances of Asian Americans being discriminated against and abused in public spaces have increased sharply since the outbreak of the epidemic. Several media outlets in the US including the New York Times reported on the dire situation that Asian Americans face in the US.
According to an NBC News report, one in four Asian American youths experience racially motivated bullying. Due to irresponsible remarks by some US politicians, hatred toward Asian Americans and specifically toward Chinese Americans was stoked to astronomical levels in the US. UN human rights independent expert Tendayi Achiume said media and political leaders who have inflamed the rise of xenophobia and racial hatred amid the COVID-19 pandemic are “entrepreneurs of intolerance,” According to a UN tweet.
An FBI report released in 2020 showed that 57.6 percent of the 8,302 single-bias hate crime offenses reported by law enforcement agencies in 2019 were motivated by race, ethnicity, or ancestry. Of these offenses, 48.4 percent were motivated by anti-black or anti-African American bias; 15.8 percent stemmed from anti-white bias; 14.1 percent were classified as anti-Hispanic or anti-Latino bias, and 4.3 percent resulted from anti-Asian bias. Among the 4,930 victims of racial hate crimes, as many as 2,391 were of African descent.
This is not only peculiar to Asian Americans, but African American human rights are also seriously disregarded in the US.
On May 25, 2020, 46-year-old George Floyd was brutally killed by white police officer Derek Chauvin on the street as Chouvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine and a half minutes, disregarding Floyd’s distressed pleas at not being able to breathe. Shortly after Floyd’s death, which ignited nationwide anger in the US, 29-year-old black man Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer in the presence of Blake’s three children, and he was left paralyzed after the incident.
The US police shot and killed a total of 1,127 people in 2020, with no killing reported in just 18 days, according to Mapping Police Violence, a collection of interactive tools, maps, and figures that illustrate police violence in the United States. African Americans make up 13 percent of the US population but account for 28 percent of people killed by police. African Americans are approximately three times more likely than white people to be killed by police. From 2013 to 2020, about 98 percent of police officers involved in shooting cases were not charged with a crime, and the number of convicted was even lower, US media VOX reported.
Meanwhile, it’s reported that people of color died from the COVID-19 epidemic in far greater numbers than their white counterparts. Of the 10 counties in the US with the highest COVID-19 mortality rates, seven had a majority of people of color.
Due to the loss of confidence in the US government amid its poor handling of the epidemic, the number of people procuring guns has raised sharply, which threatens public security.
People of color were also more harmed by the COVID-19 epidemic. Infection and death rates attributed to COVID-19 in the US showed significant racial differences, with the infection, hospitalization, and death rate among African Americans being three times, five times, and twice that of their white counterparts respectively, according to a report delivered on August 21, 2020 by the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent to the UN Human Rights Council.
Racial disparities in the epidemic equally extend to children, according to a report released on August 7, 2020 by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Latino and black children were hospitalized with COVID-19 at a rate nine and six times that of white children, respectively.
Barbara Ferrer, director of public health for Los Angeles County, said the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus disease on black and Latino residents is rooted in the impact of racism and discrimination on access to the resources and opportunities that are needed for good health, according to the Los Angeles Times website on July 10, 2020.
A tally by Johns Hopkins University showed that as of June 20, 2021, the US had registered more than 33.53 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, with related deaths exceeding 601,000.
UK’s Stained Human Rights Record Graphic: Deng Zijun/GT
UK: Murderous colonial cradle
While the UK prides itself as the world “leader” in human rights protection, the opposite is true, especially since the outbreak of COVID-19. Poverty in the country has increased, along with the blatant disregard for people’s right to life and access to healthcare with ethnic minorities among the worst affected, analysts pointed out.
From 2018 to 2019, 14.4 million people in the UK were living below the poverty line, 4.5 million among them being children, an increase of 100,000 from the previous year; 7 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty and 11 percent of the population lives in persistent poverty, the Guardian reported.
The country’s poor handling of the epidemic is deplorable, with the country once having proposed “herd immunity” as a strategy to contain the virus, leaving vulnerable groups exposed to infection.
According to a report by the Public Health Agency of England (PHE), the COVID-19 death rate among British-Bengalis is twice that of whites, and the death rate among those of Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, and Caribbean descent is 10 percent to 50 percent higher than that of whites.
A report done by UK-based, black people-led researching organization Clear View Research showed that the majority of black people in the UK don’t think their rights are equally protected as those of the white people.
According to Sky News, hate crimes against Chinese people in the UK soared during the epidemic outbreak. At least 267 offenses were reported in the first three months of 2020 including harassment, robberies, assaults, and criminal damage.
Islamophobia is also on the rise in the UK. In a detailed study released in 2019 by the Center for Media Monitoring of the Muslim Council of Britain, among over 10,000 articles and clips referring to Muslims and Islam in the period of fourth quarter of 2018, 59 percent of all articles associated Muslims with negative behavior. About 37 percent of articles in right-leaning and religious publications were categorized with the most negative rating of “very biased,” and over one-third of all articles misrepresented or made generalizations about Muslims.
At the same time, according to Modern slavery in the UK: March 2020 released on March 2020 by Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the UK, “there were 5,144 modern slavery offences recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year ending March 2019, an increase of 51 percent from the previous year.” The number of potential victims increased by 36 percent to 10,627 in the year ending December 2018 compared with the previous year.
The ONS analyzed that the actual number of victims of modern slavery in Britain may be as high as 136,000. The top three nationalities of victims were British, Albanian and Vietnamese.
A large amount of evidence shows that in 2003, the British army captured and tortured thousands of Iraqi civilians in Iraq’s southern city of Basrah, and many innocent civilians died. During its stay in Afghanistan, the UK Special Air Service (SAS) repeatedly attacked villages and massacred villagers under the cover of darkness in the name of anti-terrorism and made it a “anti-terrorism success.”
There were more than 3,400 charges of war crimes, 90 percent of which were not investigated. In three months in 2011 alone, 33 civilians were suspected of being killed in 11 separate night attacks, the Times reported.
Michelle Bachelet Jeria, the High Commissioner of the United Nations Human Rights, expressed concerns on April 12, 2021, over the UK putting forward a new Overseas Operations Bill.
According to the new UK bill, if torture or other serious human rights violations committed by British soldiers overseas exceed a limit of five years, they will not be prosecuted in principle. If a prosecution must be put forward, the prosecutor must get the consent of the British Attorney General or the Attorney General of Northern Ireland.
Canada’s Stained Human Rights Record. Graphic: Jin Jianyu
Canada: Aboriginal slaughter grounds
For a long time, Canada has claimed to be a “model student of human rights” and has been obsessed with lecturing and remarking on other countries’ human rights conditions. Ironically, Canada itself is far from a model example of upholding human rights.
Canada has grossly violated the human rights of its indigenous peoples, the latest such case to be discovered being in May.
The remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered in a former residential school, the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, which is believed to have housed 500 indigenous Canadian children. The youngest of the deceased was only 3 years old, and no information on the deaths of these children was recorded, according to Reuters.
Observers noted that this incident is another reminder of Canada’s historical crimes of the brutalization of indigenous people and the extermination of indigenous culture. Statistics revealed that an estimated 150,000 indigenous children were forcibly separated from their families and put in the care of “residential schools” in what a historic 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission described as a “cultural genocide” targeting Canada’s indigenous people, where at least 4,000 children died unnatural deaths, NPR reported.
Canada has also used a reservation system to violate the rights of aboriginal people. The Canadian government set up the reservation policy in the 1880s to force Aboriginal groups to move from resources-rich areas to remote and economically disparate areas through fraud and coercion.
According to data issued by Statistics Canada, currently more than 600 Aboriginal groups living on more than 3,000 small, scattered reserves, where the live conditions are harsh and nearly isolated, and where drug addiction, alcoholism, murder, and violence are rife.
With no future or hope in sight, the suicide rate among Aboriginal people living on reserves is eight times higher than the national average for Canada.
It is alarming that crimes against the rights of Aboriginal groups continue to this day in Canada. In 2018, the UN Committee against Torture adopted its concluding observations on Canada’s seventh periodic report, expressing concern about the widespread forced or coerced sterilization of Canadian Aboriginal women and girls. A 2019 report released by Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls also found that between 1980 and 2015, thousands of indigenous women and girls went missing or were murdered, 12 times more than any other group in Canada and 16 times more than white women.
At the same time, people of Asian and African descent are also subject to severe racial discrimination and unwarranted violations of immigrant rights in Canada. According to a 2020 survey conducted by Statistics Canada, 55 percent of minorities in Vancouver, 36 percent in Montreal, and 31 percent in Toronto believed that incidents of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race are on the rise.
Observers pointed out that although racism is considered a “red line” by all levels of the Canadian government, it is largely a case of “more talk, less action” and a lack of substantive initiatives to protect the legal rights of minorities.
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We speak to Director of the Tricontinental Institue Vijay Prashad. He discusses the conspiracy peddled by Western intelligence agencies of COVID-19 being created in a lab by China despite the fact scientific research has shown the virus jumping from animals to humans as the most likely way COVID-19 came to spread around the world, China’s changing foreign policy and defiance of arguably hypocritical positions by the West, China’s growing ability to defend its borders and territorial waters, the US’ and UK’s own chemical and biological weapons programs, the prospect of another ‘pink tide’ in Latin America and much more!
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China surpasses milestone of administering 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses; next step to help ensure an ideal immunity effect by GT staff reporters Jun 20 2021
People wearing face masks line up to receive the COVID-19 vaccines at a vaccination site in Jiangxia District in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, June 9, 2021.
China on Sunday became the first country in the world to have administered one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Such achievement is believed to be a “milestone” but not “surprising” given China’s thorough vaccination plan and effective implementation system.
China has administered more than 1.1 billion doses as of Saturday, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Sunday. The number is about three times that delivered in the US, and almost 40 percent of the 2.5 billion shots given globally, according to data website Our World in Data.
China kicked off its national vaccination drive in December, 2020. Despite a slow start due to the low willingness among the public to receive the vaccine, given how well the epidemic had been brought under control, the country has witnessed a surge in daily delivered doses since May – more than 10 million per day and sometimes even double that number – following unexpected continuous outbreaks in Northeast China’s Liaoning, East China’s Anhui and South China’s Guangdong provinces.
The continuous boost in vaccine production and speedy vaccination roll-out in China reflects the government’s quick response in both vaccine research and its mass inoculation plan against the outbreak, and is also a result of China’s highly efficient governance system, said the experts.
“The milestone represents China not only comes closer to full domestic immune protection, but also makes a great contribution to the global fight against the epidemic,” Feng Duojia, president of the China Vaccine Industry Association, told the Global Times. “China’s actual supply of vaccines significantly exceeds domestic use, and China continues to offer doses overseas.”
China has provided more than 350 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the world, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Registration for vaccination will actively continue, given the public’s confidence in the government and Chinese vaccines, Feng noted. “Ensuring a vaccination rate of more than 80 percent is no longer a problem. What needs to be solved now is how to ensure an ideal immunity effect after full public vaccination.”
In the next step, China should also enhance investment in vaccine research and development to improve the products as well as explore the best vaccination procedure to maximize efficacy, a Beijing-based immunologist told the Global Times on Sunday on condition of anonymity.
To improve the vaccines so that they can handle virus mutations as well as make them safe for the elderly will be the focus in the next step, the expert said.
Media reports revealed that since June 10, some places in China have issued notices saying they will give priority to people who are due to accept their second or third shots over those registering for their first shots.
The expert said that the arrangement is aimed at ensuring those who have had first shots can complete their vaccination procedures in a timely manner and build immunity effectively, which will also help to protect those who have not yet had any shots.
COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Chinese mainland exceed one billion.
Important milestone
China surpassed threshold of administering 100 million doses of the vaccine on March 27, and the pace of vaccination has been accelerating since then, setting records again later. On May 28, the number of vaccinations in China exceeded 600 million doses, just five days after it achieved 500 million. The high speed has been maintained ever since, moving from 900 million doses on June 14 to reaching 1 billion on June 19, a space of just five days.
If each person received two doses, the rough vaccination rate in China would be around 36 percent currently. If the current rate continues, there is little doubt that vaccination rate will reach 40 percent by the end of June, a target set up at the beginning of the year.
Chen Xi, an assistant professor of public health at Yale University, told the Global Times that China’s administration of 1 billion vaccine doses is an important milestone, but he is not surprised that the number has been achieved so quickly, as it fits in well with China’s initial goals.
For a country of 1.4 billion people, getting 1 billion doses of vaccine is just the first step in building herd immunity, according to Feng. China is expected to have 70 percent of the target population fully vaccinated by the end of this year and form herd immunity, Feng said.
China’s top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan previously said that to achieve herd immunity, China needs a vaccination rate of 83.3 percent, assuming the vaccine has a protection rate of 70 percent, or at least at an inoculation rate of 72.9 percent if the vaccine is 80 percent effective.
Chinese vaccines have been gradually rolled out to people aged 3-17 years, and a wider demographic and rising inoculation rate in the national immunological spectrum is expected.
Globally, Chinese vaccines are also being approved and used by increasingly more governments. For example, Singapore started to offer Chinese produced Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccines to the public for the first time since Friday. Several private clinics have reported overwhelming demand for the Chinese-made shot, despite already available rival vaccines having far higher efficacy rates, Reuters reported.
Challenges in the next step
Despite taking the absolute leading position in total number of doses administered, China lags behind some other countries in the number of vaccine doses administered per 100 people.
According to Our World in Data, as of Friday, the number was 68.8 doses per 100 people in China, ranking the seventh highest globally. It is about half of the world’s highest 144.57 doses per 100 people in the United Arab Emirates.
As of the same day, the vaccination rate is 94.5 doses per 100 people in the US.
But experts said that China would soon catch up given the country’s current vaccination speed. According to Our World in Data, China has the second highest number of daily doses administered per 100 people – 1.26 doses – following South Korea’s 1.37 doses on June 17.
Chen expected that the inoculation speed in China may experience a slowdown as it works toward the 80 percent vaccination rate target from the current 40 percent, as is the case in many other countries. But the slowing speed in China will be lower than in other countries, as the risk from neighboring countries and imported infections reinforces people’s urgency to get vaccinated. Also, the autumn and winter seasons may again see an upswing in sporadic infections..
Feng said there is no great concern of the vaccine failing as a result of the increasing prevalence of mutated strains worldwide. “In the nearly one-year post-vaccination observation by experts, we did not find an obvious inflection point in its efficacy, which demonstrates a longer duration of vaccine protection.”
The current monitoring results did not show that the virus mutations will cause the existing vaccine to fail. Even for the worst case scenario, China has started to prepare vaccines with mutant strains, so that the new vaccine can be used quickly if needed, according to Feng. “It will never be useless to get early shots as they are providing sustained protection for us,” he noted.
A booster pin has not been a “must” so far, and its necessity and schedule continue to be studied. But China has already carried out relevant research on booster shots, which means that new immunization strategies can be initiated at any time if needed.
Chen believes that the next step regarding inoculation should focus on bridging the gaps between regions and populations, ensuring the coverage rate of the elderly, patients with underlying diseases and other vulnerable groups, and prepare for a gradual reopening of the border to the world in the future.
DPP beholden to US vaccine shipment, with political trade behind by Wang Qi and Fan Anqi Jun 20 2021
Medical workers wearing masks outside a quarantine hotel as Taiwan extends its level 3 Covid-19 alert to June 28, following a local outbreak in Taipei, the island of Taiwan, on June 7, 2021.
Following verbal support to the island of Taiwan on recent G7 summit, the US shipped a batch of 2.5 million Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to the pandemic-hit island, as Taiwan residents are mired in a panic brought by Japan-shipped AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccines, as the island has witnessed 67 deaths after receiving AZ jabs.
The batch of 2.5 million Moderna vaccines arrived on the island on Sunday. The US initially pledged to deliver 750,000 doses to Taiwan, which was announced during a visit by three senators to Taiwan by a C-17 US military aircraft on June 6 and was described as “timely rain” by the island’s regional leader Tsai Ing-wen who is facing a huge wave of pressure from people and opposition camp due to the continued snub to Chinese mainland vaccines.
Tsai expressed her gratitude for the US’ latest shipment during a livestream speech on Facebook, describing the US as “a friend in need is a friend indeed.” The head of Taiwan’s health authority, Chen Shih-chung, held up a thank-you board, as shown in a photo as he received the batch of vaccines at the airport.
Tsai said that with the 2.5 million doses, there is a total of 4.85 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in Taiwan.
So far, only 6 percent of Taiwan’s total population of 23.5 million has received at least one jab, with over 40 million more doses needed for the island to achieve herd immunity, media reported.
Experts believe it is unrealistic that this batch of Moderna vaccines will alleviate the vaccine shortage, nor the public’s fear of AZ vaccination. A doctor from a Taipei-based hospital warned that even if people switch from AZ to Moderna, similar cases may continue to happen, Taiwan media reported.
Experts reached by the Global Times on Sunday said that US delivery is a drop in the bucket for the island. By offering vaccines to the island in a “toothpaste-squeezing manner,” it will relieve the political pressure on the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and make it beholden to the US and fully cooperate with Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy to act as the vanguard to confront the Chinese mainland.
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a Twitter post that the vaccine shipment to Taiwan is not based on “political or economic conditions” but with “the singular objective of saving lives.” The words are regarded as in sharp contrast to comments from William Brent Christensen, director of the Taipei office of the American Institute in Taiwan, who said on May 26 that the number of confirmed cases in Taiwan is still relatively low compared with the world average, implying that the US would not be generous in helping the island with vaccine aid.
Observers said that the US did not extend a helping hand to Taiwan in the first place out of kinship and humanitarianism as the mainland did, instead, semiconductor chip supply and the arms sales are the reasons why the US has later showed care to Taiwan.
Washington’s calculation
On June 10, US President Joe Biden announced that the US plans to donate 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world under the banner of the “US is back.”
The vaccine donation to Taiwan is part of Washington’s “vaccine diplomacy” to counter Russia and China’s vaccine influence after the US has carried out enough inoculations and stockpiled a large number of vaccines, Zhu Songling, a professor at the Institute of Taiwan Studies at Beijing Union University, told the Global Times on Sunday.
The US was estimated to have 300 million or more excess doses of vaccines authorized in the US and/or EU by the end of July, based on existing authorizations and purchase agreements.
The island’s defense authority on Thursday announced two arms procurement deals with the US, including one “long-range precision fire system” and “a batch of missiles,” Taiwan media reported. Analysts said the arms sale is not a coincidence, and that more murky political deals are going on.
The vaccine shipment comes at a time when the US is negotiating with the island on securing supply chains for strategic items such as computer chips. Taiwan is a major supplier of chips that are vital to the US automobile and other industries.
Xu Zhengwen, head of the Taiwan Chamber of Commerce, told the Global Times on Sunday that Washington’s sudden “kindness” came at a “delicate timing,” as a bipartisan group of US senators had just proposed a 25 percent tax credit for investments in semiconductor manufacturing in a bid to increase the country’s chip production.
“The donation of these doses could be aimed in exchange for Taiwan’s largest semiconductor manufacturer TSMC to invest in the US,” he said.
In terms of political sectors, Wang Jianmin, a senior cross-Straits expert at Minnan Normal University, Fujian Province, told the Global Times on Sunday that after the saga of the US’ anti-China roadshow in Europe, the US needs the island of Taiwan to do more to counter the mainland.
Despite the fact that the US did not come to Taiwan’s aid swiftly during the worst of the epidemic on the island, the 2.5 million doses will ease the DPP’s pressure to some extent facing the discontent and criticism over the repeated rejection of the mainland vaccine, Wang said.
The DPP will be grateful to the US, but the political deals behind the donation are not good for cross-Straits relations and China-US ties, Wang said.
Vaccine policy for self interest
Taiwan experts and residents also questioned the DPP authority why it is not suspending the vaccination of AZ vaccine for elderly people given the dozens of deaths after the AZ vaccine jab in a week. Australia recommended that the AZ COVID-19 jab should not be given to people under 60 on Thursday.
Even when cross-Straits relations were tense, people from Taiwan came to the mainland to get vaccinations. According to public health data, over 62,000 residents from the island have been vaccinated on the mainland as of May 31.
Cheng Po-yu, executive director of the cross-Straits Youth Exchange Association who were vaccinated in Beijing in May, told the Global Times that even with the 2.5 million doses, the vast majority of Taiwan people still have no chance to get one, as the DPP authorities have prioritized those related to key industries such as semiconductors, which the US also prefers to ensure their own supply chains won’t be affected,” Cheng told the Global Times on Sunday.
He added that in his effort to bring more Taiwan compatriots to the Chinese mainland to get free vaccination, the DPP authorities had banned travel groups specifically intended for COVID-19 jabs to leave for the mainland, forcing such groups to travel individually.
Although the DPP authority on Friday announced that it will authorize Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Taiwan’s Foxconn, and semiconductor giant TSMC, to negotiate on its behalf for COVID-19 vaccines, the idea is unpopular, as there is no reason to believe they can do “better” than authorities.
According to Taiwan media, the island authority has purchased 10 million AZ vaccines and 5.05 million Moderna vaccines but only 50,000 doses or order have arrived.
Zhang Wensheng, a deputy dean of the Taiwan Research Institute at Xiamen University, told the Global Times on Sunday that Taiwan’s overall vaccination layout is controlled by the DPP. The vaccines shipped from the US and Japan are designed to alleviate public pressure on DPP and Taiwan’s locally developed vaccine will dominate the main market.
Experts said that in fact, the DPP authority does not want the non-governmental organizations to play a role in case to squeeze the space of Taiwan-made vaccine, but given how hard it is for the DPP to get vaccines, they do not hold out much hope for Gou and TSMC who are not allowed by DPP authority to get vaccines through mainland channels.
The Taiwan-made vaccine will only be in Phase-II clinical trials in July and will not be certified internationally, but when the time comes, people on the island will have no choice but to be inoculated with it, observers said, noting that manufacturers will make a fortune, and the DPP has huge interests and connections with manufacturers.
Video: Joe Biden is getting old forget what he said 10 years ago. In 2011 he said he wanted a rising China, today he wants to send China back to the Stone Age. 喬·拜登老了，忘記他 10 年前說過的話。 2011年他說他想要一個崛起的中國，今天他想讓中國回到石器時代。
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Video: Washington Is Forcing China To Destroy The US Chips Industry! China is catching up very rapidly. The first five months of 2021 saw a delivery of 140 billion chips in China’s mainland, a 48.3% increase compared with 2020. For China, it still has a long way to go, but it will succeed at last. 華盛頓正在逼中國摧毀美國芯片產業！中國正在非常迅速地迎頭趕上。 2021年前5個月，中國大陸芯片出貨量達1400億顆，較2020年增長48.3%。對於中國來說，還有很長的路要走，但最終會成功.
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