Vaccines stay effective in reducing symptoms in Delta-hit Indonesia: Sinovac by Xu Keyue and Leng Shumei Jun 22 2021
Residents gather to get vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus during a mass vaccination drive, in Semarang on Tuesday, as infections soar in Indonesia.
Chinese experts called for strict protective measures despite vaccination after 350 medical workers in Indonesia who received China’s Sinovac were reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 amid an epidemic spike due to the Delta mutation.
The company also warned that vaccines cannot provide 100 percent protection but could reduce severity and death.
About 308 medical workers in Kudus, where almost all local health workers in Kudus – around 6,000 people – have received the first and second doses of a vaccine, Badai Ismoyo, head of the health office in Kudus, Central Java, a district recently hit hard by the Delta variant, was quoted as saying by local media on Sunday.
As early as last Thursday, a Reuters report said that more than 350 doctors and medical workers in Indonesia have caught COVID-19 in Indonesia despite being vaccinated with Sinovac and dozens of them have been hospitalized, highlighting concerns over the efficacy of some vaccines against more infectious variants.
Reuters on Saturday quoted Kenneth Mak, Singapore’s director of medical services, as saying that evidence from other countries showed people who had taken the Sinovac vaccine were still getting infected. “There is a significant risk of vaccine breakthrough,” Mak said, referring to the report on infections of vaccinated Indonesian healthcare workers.
In response to the issue, Sinovac told the Global Times on Tuesday that vaccines could not provide 100 percent protection, but the vaccines can reduce the symptoms of infection and effectively prevent death.
Sinovac’s vaccine has effectively reduced the risk of COVID-19 symptoms in medical workers by 94 percent, according to a study by the Indonesian Health Ministry, the Xinhua News Agency reported on May 12.
“Of this number [6,000], only 308 health workers were exposed or around 5.1 percent of the total number of health workers. Most of them have recovered and have started working again,” Badai said.
Healthcare workers were among the first in Indonesia to be vaccinated when inoculations began in January and almost all have received the Sinovac vaccine.
The number of Indonesian healthcare workers dying from COVID-19 has dropped sharply from 158 in January to 13 in May, data by the independent health-linked data group LaporCOVID-19 showed.
Wei Sheng, a professor at School of Public Health of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, said in an interview with China’s state broadcaster CCTV on Monday that according to the results of the latest trials, our widely administered vaccines including Sinovac vaccine are still effective against the Delta variant.
It can be seen from the epidemic prevention and control experience in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong Province that the risk of a severe disease is greatly reduced compared with those who have not been vaccinated, which in turn suggested that the vaccines are protective, Wei said.
Indonesia is one of the areas suffering the most serious COVID-19 epidemic in Asia and the country is undergoing an epidemic spike due to the spread of the severe Delta mutation that was first discovered in India.
The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 13,668 within one day to 2,018,113, with the death toll adding by 335 to 55,291, the Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday citing Indonesian Health Ministry said.
Patients at hospitals nearly crumble the country’s medical system, largely increasing medical workers’ infection risk, experts said.
Many are now experiencing pandemic fatigue and taking a less vigilant approach to health protocols after being vaccinated, said Lenny Ekawati, from the Indonesian independent health-linked data group LaporCOVID-19, Reuters reported.
Chinese experts had kept calling for strict protective measures and public health management measures despite vaccination as they are the best method to prevent the transmission of the virus.
It is also possible that some medical workers had been affected before getting vaccinated but did not show symptoms until the inactivated virus in the vaccine attacked their immune system again, experts explained.
Video: Xinjiang people living in HK: Having been in HK for many years, think Xinjiang is the best. Xinjiang people have many children, Chinese government has never controlled them. 居香港新疆人：來港多年 還是覺得新疆最好. 新疆人孩子多, 中國政府從來沒有管制.
In Hong Kong, there is a Xinjiang cuisine restaurant called “Tianshan Xiaoguan”. The owner of the restaurant, Wu Mengying, is a native of Xinjiang. At the end of the last century, Wu Mengying married to Hong Kong. Now nearly 30 years later, Wu Mengying still speaks of her hometown full of praise. 在香港有一家名為“天山小館”的新疆菜餐廳，餐館老闆娘吳夢盈，是一位土生土長的新疆人。上世紀末，吳夢盈遠嫁香港，如今近30年過去，吳夢盈說起家鄉仍讚不絕口。 https://youtu.be/Dk9J04G6Y4Q https://vimeo.com/566110191 https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/515482026341794/?d=n
Know why iron ore prices go up and up ? Its to kill 6 birds with one stone.
A Recently, global steel prices have soared three-fold, and Taiwan’s steel stock prices have almost doubled at least simultaneously. This is a phenomenon that has never occurred in the past two decades. What is the reason behind it?
The apparent reason is that Australia has substantially increased the price of iron ore, but the main reason is that China has drastically cut production capacity and eliminated subsidies to curb production capacity and no longer encourage exports.
Since China is the world’s largest steel producer, its production capacity accounts for 55% of the world’s total. Therefore, when China cuts production and curbs exports, and India, the second largest steel producer, falls into the epidemic situation, it is conceivable that the supply of steel is in short supply. How serious the situation is, so prices soared.
Why should China reduce production capacity and curb exports when demand in the global steel market is tight? Why not take the opportunity to expand production and make a good profit?
The answer is that China used to cut steel production capacity and curb exports to create inflation and hit the economic recovery plans of the United States and the Western world.
In the past, China provided ample global market demand and low-priced steel products, which played a decisive role in helping the world suppress prices and avoid triggering global inflation. Even if the United States has repeatedly implemented the so-called quantitative easing (QE) policy and printed a large number of banknotes, it can still enjoy low-interest funds without causing the depreciation of the dollar and inflation. In fact, these are all factories in the world, China, sacrificing environmental protection, bearing cheap labor, and contributing to global economic development.
But this time China is obviously no longer willing to take advantage of it anymore, curb steel supply and allow global inflation to let European and American countries experience the soaring prices without China’s sacrifices!
When the price of steel, a pillar product in economic development, and all raw materials have skyrocketed, look at Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure. Will it continue? See if the Fed can maintain the original low interest rate policy?
When inflation causes interest rates to rise, the European and American stock markets and bond markets will inevitably collapse, and the international economic order will be in chaos. At this time, the new eight-nation coalition forces that the United States is trying to unite again will collapse like scattered sand and will no longer be able to fight against the containment of China!
China has begun to set rules for the United States! The “List of Unreliable Entities” promulgated by the Ministry of Commerce today is the Chinese version of Section 301. Use the market to block the counter-technology blockade. This original list of deaths shocked the global technology market and capital! This is the first country in the world to set rules for the United States after World War II.
If you just look at this list as China’s counterattack against the current bullying of the United States, you would underestimate the lethality of this list. The significance of the list is not only to address the current U.S. government’s head-on response to China’s unreasonable and unreasonable actions by U.S. companies, but also to formulate rules for the great shift between China and the United States five or ten years later.
Set rules for American chip and software companies: cut off supply and network to Chinese companies at will, and please get out of the Chinese market.
Set rules for arms sales companies to Taiwan: threaten China’s national security, or may pose a threat, please get out of the Chinese market. Not only American companies, but Japanese and European companies, also set the rules for you!
Set rules for US government officials, politicians, congressmen, media professionals, and various think tanks: China’s security, dignity, and inviolability!
This is the 38 degrees north latitude of the Korean War, and this is the 16 degrees north latitude of the Vietnam War. If you cross the line, you will be beaten!
This is the sword of Damocles in the East! The whole world understands the voice of China. American, European and Japanese companies understand the voice of China. The capital of Wall Street understands the voice of China. The dollar plummeted. U.S. stocks fell in a row. U.S. debt fell overcast. In a capitalist society, dialogue is done in a language that capital understands. In a socialist society, we use the unity of the whole society to show our strength.
This sword will hang there forever for five, ten, thirty years! This sword is called China’s right to speak!
Video: Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: “The Last G-7,” by ‘Bantonglaoatang,” a Chinese artist in Mainland China. It is very clever, insightful, timely, powerful, and satirical painting/commentary, rich in political symbolism. 驚世諷刺政治畫作！最詳細破解《最後的G7》畫中隱藏的線索！最後的晚餐
It shows the G-7 badly divided, even with the two compliant countries, India and Australia, and a clown,Taiwan, represented by a “green frog” (DPP) at the bottom of the table, desperately begging for recognition and acceptance by G-7. https://vimeo.com/565948215 https://youtu.be/9lEnAZ6QAPg https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/515284393028224/?d=n The title of the painting is “The Last G-7.” Even before the meeting of the G-7 in England, several commentators had already declared the “irrelevance” of G-7, because they no longer represent the most powerful and influential economies of the world. None of the BRIC nations are represented. In spite of Biden’s valiant effort to round up G-7 against China, he came out of the summit long on same-old-tired rhetorics and short on substance and actionable policies. As the painting correctly depicted, each of G-7 had its own interests and agenda. They are down but not out.
It will be interesting to see if the Mainstream Media in the West will publish the painting without biased commentaries.
In the mean time, I came across the following article on the painting in the Month Review Online a well-establish leftist journal. Not bad. But, it is not as good as the Cantonese analysis and commentary on YouTube.
The Last G7’: Satirical cartoon mocking bloc’s attempt to suppress China goes viral
Posted Jun 21, 2021 by Eds. Political Economy Angola Newswire the Group of Seven (G7) members Originally published: Global Times (June 13, 2021) | A Chinese cartoonist’s political satire, which mocked the Group of Seven (G7) members that attempt to suppress China, went viral on Chinese social media on Sunday, when the G7 summit was underway in Cornwall, the UK.
Titled The Last G7, the illustration, published by its author “Bantonglaoatang” on Sina Weibo on Saturday, was painted based on the renowned religious mural The Last Supper. This G7 summit is widely seen as an attempt by the U.S. to rally allies against China.
Similar to the final meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion that The Last Supper depicted, Bantonglaoatang painted a vivid picture of nine animals–respectively representing the U.S., the UK, Italy, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Australia and India–sitting around a table with a Chinese-map-shaped cake on it. On top of the painting is the words in quote:
Through this we can still rule the world.
These animals have different facial expressions and gestures, implying that each side of the G7 actually has its own axe to grind on the common conspiracies of suppressing China and upholding the Western hegemony, analyzed some observers and Chinese netizens.
Wearing a bowler hat with an American flag on it, a bald eagle sits in the middle like Jesus in The Last Supper, obviously the convenor of the meal. In front of the bald eagle there is a small banknote printing machine and a bill on the table. The machine is printing toilet paper into dollars, and the number on the bill gets bigger and bigger–from $2 trillion to $8 trillion.
There is also an iron hook under its feet, and two pieces of cotton with blood near its hands on the table, suggesting “the U.S.’ capital accumulation was built on racial oppression,” a vlogger nicknamed “sharp-tongued pumpkin” said in his latest video analyzing the illustration, which has gained over 700,000 views on video streaming platform Bilibili within a day after he uploaded it on Saturday afternoon.
The bald eagle image shows today’s aggressive yet feeble U.S. is trapped in its growing debt crisis and racial conflicts, but still points fingers at China, “sharp-tongued pumpkin” pointed out.
Sitting on the left of the bald eagle is a grey wolf, wearing a cap with an Italian flag on it. The wolf waves its hands as the apostle Andrew in The Last Supper, as if saying “No” to the U.S.’ suggestions of jointly cracking down on China. The grey wolf image shows Italy, the first European country that joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is reluctant to collaborate with the U.S. in suppressing China, commented “sharp-tongued pumpkin.”
Next to the wolf is an Akita dog that represents Japan. Without a seat, it is busy serving the others a “drink”–pouring green radioactive water into the glasses of the other animals. On Weibo some users said the green water is the contaminated water that Japan plans to release to the Pacific from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.
Sitting next to the dog is a kangaroo, which is stretching its left hand to the banknotes that the U.S. is printing, while grasping a bag in its right hand. The kangaroo symbolizes the double-faced Australia which actively cooperates with the U.S. in containing China, but is also eager to earn money from China, its largest trading partner, according to “sharp-tongued pumpkin.”
On the left corner stands a black hawk, which obviously represents Germany as its pose is almost the same as that of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a widespread photo in the G7 summit in 2018. Germany, similar to the rooster (representing France) sitting in silence on the right side, seems more interested in its own European issues and shows less enthusiasm on the US’ propaganda, netizens found.
On the right side of the table also sits a lion and a nutria, respectively representing the UK and Canada, both the US’ close Five Eyes allies. The nutria, wearing a red coat with images of marijuana on it, holds a doll in its hand. Many netizens believe the doll represents Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is still unreasonably detained in Canada.
On the right corner of the table sits an elephant (representing India) that is on a drip like a patient.
Under the table there is a frog holding banknotes in its hands, trying to jump as high as possible to reach the table and give the money to the U.S. The little frog symbolizes the separatist authority from the island of Taiwan, which is always subservient to the U.S., some netizens pointed out.
The illustration caused a stir on Weibo on Sunday, with numerous users praising the author for vividly and straightforwardly revealing the evil intentions of the West that tries to lay a siege to China. “But this is perhaps their ‘last supper,’’’ one user mocked.
With different positions, for various interests of their own, these countries and regions can’t form a real league against China.
No need to make a fuss on Xinjiang’s population data by Zhang Nan Jun 21 2021
Children play in a lavender farm in Huocheng County, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 13, 2021.
Why is Xinjiang population data a focus of attention?
Recently, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region released data on its population based on the seventh national population census. This data, however, has drawn the attention of some Western media and so-called “scholars,” and the reason is very simple – they want to get “evidence” from this data to back up the allegations of “genocide” they have been making against China.
In fact, the statistics released by the Xinjiang region showed that the population of the Uygur ethnic group has increased by 1.623 million in the past decade, a rate of increase of 16.2 percent.
It fully demonstrated there is no “genocide” in the region. However, despite these facts, a group of people are attempting to misinterpret the data, trying to piece up “evidence” that may support the “genocide” allegation. They have now come up with a new concept of “slow genocide.”
This move has made genocide – a very serious crime – sound entertaining. Genocide that can be proved to be genocide should still be called genocide, but “genocide” that can never be proven has now been called “slow genocide.” It sounds more like a typical set-up of public opinion with the purpose of forcibly imposing the crime of “genocide” on China.
Those who invented the phrase “slow genocide” do not care about whether this crime can be “proven” or when on earth it could be “slowly proven.” They only care about how to play word games to legitimize the groundless allegation and to bind China’s Xinjiang tightly with the word “genocide” in rolling coverage by Western media. During this process, their occasional moves of creating more words that have no basis on logic or laws are only seen as “necessary” technical fixing.
Why on earth can’t Han people move to Xinjiang?
Apart from the “genocide” allegation that a certain group of people want to cram into people’s minds, the data on Xinjiang’s population has attracted their attention for a deeper reason. After the malicious theory of a decrease in the Uygur population was proven wrong, another accusation that the Han population has increased in Xinjiang has surfaced.
This theory has been made under a narrative framework that says Uygur and Han people are on opposite sides and the Xinjiang region is not China’s Xinjiang but Uygurs’ Xinjiang. Only under this binary opposition narrative pattern can they distort the concept of natural population mobility into a negative one of “occupation.” As a region of China, Xinjiang has attracted people from other parts of the country now that terrorism in the region has been stamped out. What is wrong with this natural population mobility within China?
Meanwhile, people may ask another question – is it “legitimate” for Uygurs to move to other parts of China from the Xinjiang region? People who subscribe to the binary opposition narrative pattern have already prepared their answer – they call this China’s evil strategy of trying to “assimilate” Uygurs.
The above-mentioned people do not care that population mobility has brought development opportunities to Xinjiang, nor will they accept Uygur people’s willingness to move to other places for better development, since none of these fit their logic. According to their narrative, Xinjiang can only be a place where “no one should come or go.”
Why is it wrong to compare population data in a simplistic way?
Statistics, as a science, involves complicated methodology and formulas. The statistical results that the public has access to are mainly compiled from general and sampling surveys. General surveys need to be carried out to acquire every individual’s information to the greatest extent possible. A sampling survey is more like a calculation – it can be made based on having part of the information.
Carrying out the two kinds of surveys requires different numbers of people and resources to be mobilized and requires different lengths of time, and therefore the accuracy of the results cannot be compared. For statistical purposes, data acquired from the general survey and sampling survey are necessarily different. This is simple and clear common sense.
After Xinjiang released its population data, some Western media and so-called experts seemed “encouraged,” and put the ridiculous “genocide” allegation into the data to get proof. In order to reach the predetermined conclusion, they even randomly selected different statistical data obtained from different methodologies to make comparisons – a move that is like firing the arrow and then drawing the target.
A sentence used by Chinese netizens can be used to describe such behavior – they are either foolish or malicious.
Zhang Nan is a research fellow from China Society for Human Rights Studies.
Do you think it is because of the Communist Party that the United States hated and demonize China?
Do you think the United States likes it because the DPP is cute? wrong!
The United States hates the Communist Party because it loves and guards China against domestic and foreign enemies!
The United States likes the Democratic Progressive Party DDP because it is the “prodigal son” of the Chinese nation!
The KMT made Taiwan’s economy rich 27 years ago! The economic momentum is strong, and the cross-strait situation has begun to ease. Therefore, the United States is infringed on the interests of the United States and the United States is not happy!
Offering “Article 301” sanctions [China Steel]! The bill charge is called [anti-dumping duty]! At the same time, the poison [foot-and-mouth disease poison] was used to harm Taiwan’s rural economy and pressure Chiang Ching-kuo to reuse the Kuomintang’s Lee Teng-hui independent Taiwan activist.
If the DPP is invincible and does not oppose China, do you see whether the United States likes it? The more incisively and vividly you play the role of Chinese traitors, the more the United States will like you!
Believe it or not, if you want your neighbors to like you, you should try to dig up the scandals in your own home to show it to others, convey the benefits of the family to others, do the prodigal thing thoroughly, and the bad guys (US) will like you very much!
Video: Baidu: How China became the World Champion in AI 百度：中國如何成為人工智能世界冠軍, 百度在人工智能方面進行了大量投資，研發投入超過 150 億美元
China is making tremendous investments in AI and in today’s video I’m going to introduce you to Baidu, one of China’s leading internet companies. Baidu has made a significant investment in AI, spending over $15 Billion USD in R&D. In the next 5 years, Baidu will train 5 million AI industry professionals. Full disclosure, today’s video has been made in partnership with Baidu. https://vimeo.com/565838190 https://youtu.be/wL3ybtoIp4k https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/515127236377273/?d=n
Video: US media company interviewed Pakistan President tried to set him up on the fake news on Xinjiang, but failed. 美媒採訪刻意就新疆事務提問 “巴鐵”總理反將一軍. 有網友表示，“伊姆蘭·汗說得好，世紀笑話：西方關心中國的穆斯林”。 https://vimeo.com/565746825 https://youtu.be/5JtDHnmaKWg https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/515043329718997/?d=n Recently, the US media “AXIOS” asked Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan about Xinjiang affairs, but Imran Khan was turned against him. It seems that because the questions did not get the answers they wanted, AXIOS in the United States added a lot of smearing remarks and lies against China in its reports. It is reported that Pakistan is increasingly dependent on China financially. However, many netizens did not buy into the US media’s deliberate smearing of China. Some netizens said, “Imran Khan said it well, a joke of the century: The West cares about China’s Muslims.” 近日，美國媒體“AXIOS”就新疆事務提問巴基斯坦總理伊姆蘭·汗，卻被伊姆蘭·汗反將了一軍。似乎因為提問并未得到想要的答案，美國AXIOS在報道中增加了許多針對中國的抹黑言論與謊言。報道稱巴基斯坦在財政上越來越依賴中國。不過，不少網友對美媒的這番刻意對華抹黑并不買賬。有網友表示，“伊姆蘭·汗說得好，世紀笑話：西方關心中國的穆斯林”。
Video: Will The CNN Reporter Be Fired for telling the truth about China? Right wings media is now attacking CNN. CNN記者會因講述有關中國的事實而被解僱嗎？ 右翼媒體現在正在攻擊CNN posted June 21 2021 https://vimeo.com/565663922 https://youtu.be/C0O1ATjjyk0 https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/514961549727175/?d=n Fox News accused CNN of “propaganda” for China after it “cited official Chinese figures to tout China’s new coronavirus vaccination rate, claiming that CNN did not provide any “data on the effectiveness of China’s domestic vaccine. Fox then quoted many right-wing US “commentators” in the story, accusing CNN of being “pro-China.”
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