Cornerstone of China’s strategic deterrence against the US: more nuclear missiles and warheads by Hu Xijin May 27 2021
A formation of Dongfeng-41 intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing, capital of China, October 1, 2019.
As the US strategic containment of Chinas has increasingly intensified, I would like to remind again that we have plenty of urgent tasks, but among the most important ones is to rapidly increase the number of commissioned nuclear warheads, and the DF-41s, the strategic missiles that are capable to strike long-range and have high-survivability, in the Chinese arsenal. This is the cornerstone of China’s strategic deterrence against the US.
We must be prepared for an intense showdown between China and the US. In that scenario, a large number of Dongfeng-41, and JL-2 and JL-3 (both intercontinental-range submarine-launched ballistic missile) will form the pillar of our strategic will. The number of China’s nuclear warheads must reach the quantity that makes US elites shiver should they entertain the idea of engaging in a military confrontation with China.
On this basis, we can calmly and actively manage divergences with Washington to avoid a minor incident sparking a war. US hostility toward China is burning. We must use our strength, and consequences that Washington cannot afford to bear if it takes risky moves, to keep them sober.
The author is editor-in-chief of the Global Times. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
Video: Steel traders lick wounds as Chinese govt swiftly strikes down prices hike by Chu Daye, Yang Kunyi, Qi Xijia and Yin Yeping May 26 2021
Workers use a crane to transport steel coils at a plant in Hefei, East China’s Anhui Province in April.
Under the Chinese government’s swift, resolute and concerted efforts to put down a sudden spike in steel prices, a bubble that began to suddenly inflate in early May started to deflate in recent days. While the bubble burst left many who rushed to the feast licking their wounds, industry insiders and analysts said it may take months for the steel market to return to normal.
China’s steel prices have experienced a roller coaster ride since May 1. Prices for steel products rose by more than 1,600 yuan ($250) per ton in a span of two weeks, attracting the attention of the highest level of the Chinese government. The government’s high-frequency responses reached a peak on Monday with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stating that it should be avoided that commodity price hikes are passed down to consumers. Steel prices then plunged, retreating to pre-May 1 levels.
Global Times reporters visited North China’s Tangshan, the world’s largest steel-producing city that produced about 14 percent of China’s raw steel in 2020, and steel product markets in Shanghai, to investigate the immediate aftermath of China’s steel trade after the government moved to strike abnormally high prices down.
Boom-bust story, first hand
At Xiaobali, a market place in northern Tangshan where over 400 wholesalers of steel profile products gathered, around a dozen trucks were scattered on a parking lot on Tuesday.
Just a week earlier, steel prices reaching their peak in more than a decade, the market was crowded with all sorts of middlemen, futures traders and producers in what apparently was a speculation frenzy.
“The market, spacious as it is, was buzzing with businessmen trying to strike a deal and full of cargo trucks loading and unloading steel plates that ‘even a motorbike would struggle to get in,'” local tradesmen said.
For many of the local businesses in Tangshan making and selling tin plated steel, profitability ranges from 20 yuan to 30 yuan per ton in normal times. But according to Jia Dongyue, manager of the Rongde Steel company, the soaring price of steel nearing 6,000 yuan has pushed up his profits to up to 1,000 yuan per ton.
Many wholesalers described the situation as “mad” and “rare in a decade” and they admit speculation was behind it.
Even at the height of the market in mid-May, when the price of steel reached a historic record of more than 6,000 yuan per ton, more than half of the trucks collecting steel from Xiaobali markets were middlemen and other steel producers, not downstream manufacturers, Jia said.
“But at the height of the price hike, some of the clients working in the infrastructure industry where the products are mostly used had to cancel their orders because it was beyond their budgets,” Jia said.
Then there came the bust. After the runaway steel market caught the attention of China’s top government departments, which warned not to “collude with each other” to gouge prices, steel prices have plunged since last week.
Businesspeople in Xiaobali said their profits were painfully cut after steel prices plunged. Some say that the cut was so deep that their profits so far this year have been completely wiped out in the past two weeks.
“I’m losing up to 1,300 yuan per ton now and if the price does not pick up soon I will lose more than 1.4 million by the time I sell all my current stock,” Yang Jin, a manager of Xinjinfeng Steel Company in Tangshan, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
At a steel market in Shanghai, steel traders were in a hurry to dump their previous hoard at a heavy lost, only to find few buyers.
Zheng Weiwei, a steel trader from East China’s Fujian Province, was seen shaving his dog in front of his booth in a steel trading market in Songjiang district, Shanghai on Tuesday.
“Business is really damp these days,” he said. Zheng had just sold more than 100 tons of steels on Monday, and that deal cost him 120,000 yuan. Before the regulation he would make 500 yuan a ton and many of his business peers raked in millions. Now he loses 1,400 yuan a ton.
“On May 10, I bought 1,500 tons at the highest price and if I sell them at the current market price, I will lose 1.68 million yuan in two weeks. I could have bought two houses in my hometown with that money,” he said.
Zheng said that his inventory is relatively small in the market, compared with some sharks whose inventory easily tops 40, 000 or 50,000 tons.
Although the price dropped, it is still difficult to sell the current stock, Zheng said.
“As soon as Chinese authorities asked the market to maintain price stability, everyone was competing for a quick sell, pushing the price even lower. The downstream construction sites are also waiting for the price to fall further before placing new orders.”
The speculation at futures and spot trading platforms is only part of the reason behind the price hike, local business owners in Tangshan said. Inflation on the upper stream of steel production and the market anticipation of limited iron ore supply from Australia helped push up price.
“The market is becoming so capricious these days. Never have I seen such a precipitous rise and fall in less than a month,” a Shanghai-based steel trader surnamed Tang told the Global Times on Tuesday, adding that many traders are still waiting to see how the market will react.
“For the time being, I will keep the inventory at a relatively low level,” he said.
Workers load steel on cargo trucks at Xiaobali Market, the biggest steel profile market in Tangshan, North China’s Hebei Province on Tuesday.
Govt acts like thunder
The global commodity price’s recent hike is appalling. Measured by CRB, an index of commodity futures prices, the average price of commodities has risen 46 percent from the second quarter of 2020. To put that steep climb into perspective, it took the index seven years to climb 145 percent from 2001-08.
Since mid-May, the Chinese government has noticed the trend and a series of actions from warnings to interviews swiftly followed like “thunder”, market observers said, as a top-down plan to stem the unusual spike of commodity inflation took shape.
Market regulators have been summoning heads of companies to warn them about price speculation. The State Council Executive Meeting flagged the issue of “excessive speculation,” and a swath of government departments, from the powerful National Development and Reform Commission to industry associations of almost all kinds of metals have weighed in.
The NDRC said the government will closely monitor the prices of commodities and have zero tolerance to irregular trading or price gouging.
On May 24, in his field inspection to Ningbo, East China’s Zhejiang Province, a manufacturing base as well as the world’s largest port, Premier Li Keqiang told a gathering of heads of manufacturing companies that the government will “rake its brains” to ensure commodity supply and stabilize its price, and reasonably guide market expectations.
Li said efforts will be made to avoid the rise in commodity prices to be passed downstream to consumer-end prices and affect people’s livelihood.
“So far the impact from the soaring raw material prices has been limited and controllable,” a source with a leading domestic construction machinery enterprise told the Global Times on Wednesday, anonymously.
The company has taken physical contingency measures such as beefing up internal cost controls and bolstering raw material inventories, as well as financial hedges to cushion the price jump in raw materials.
“As a champion, we will definitely react proactively to national policies and instructions to maintain the healthy development of the industry,” the person said.
The person, however, declined to comment on whether the company would absorb the rising costs or bear the burden to help alleviate the pressure for downstream clients in dealing with the high raw material costs.
Hong Shibin, deputy executive director of the marketing committee of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association, told the Global Times on Wednesday that the impact from soaring raw material prices would be felt very differently for companies of varying sizes as a bargaining game between dealers and manufacturers ensued.
Industry giants like Midea and Haier have already announced a price jump of as much as 15 percent and the increase has often been passed on to their dealers across the country to absorb the rising costs.
“Dealers can only bear it, or they may lose their business partnership with the giants,” Hong said, noting that consumers won’t take the hike as their purses forbid them from doing so.
But small and medium-sized production enterprises would have to bear the costs because they have much weaker bargaining power than the big companies.
“It is the manufacturer, or the dealer who pays, never the customers,” Hong said.
But Hong said that as the government is now putting greater efforts on cracking down on the “insane” price surges on commodities, downstream industry participants should be able to breathe easier soon.
For economists, the swift crackdown on excessive speculative behavior by certain market participants bore a deeper meaning.
Wan Zhe, a professor at Beijing Normal University who was a former researcher at NDRC and a commodity expert, noted that “it appears that this round of surging commodity prices has peaked, but not due to the government’s policy measures to curb runaway prices, rather because the hike has genuinely exhausted its inertia.”
“The Chinese government discovered the issues [of potential inflation] just as it sprouted; sent an earlier warning in a timely fashion, and did a lot of work,” Wan said, noting that for the moment things are getting back under control.
From now on, commodity prices will embark on a long, stabilizing period stretching months, Wan predicted.
“If there were no black swan incidents, the stabilization could reach a new equilibrium in the third and fourth quarter with the gradual receding of commodity prices,” said Wan.
Analysts said commodity price hikes is the result of quantitative easing, subsidies and liquidity flooding by developed countries led by the US, an uneven global economic recovery from the pandemic, a disparity in supply and demand, and some global incidents that added uncertainty to commodity supply.
China, despite its status as the World’s Factory and the foremost buyer of a long list of commodities from iron ore and crude, to copper and corn, does not have much power to dictate their prices.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the recent spike in producer prices indexes, prices measured at factory gates, would inevitably affect the consumer price index at a press conference in mid-May.
Pushed up by a rise in global commodity prices, China’s April PPI grew 6.8 percent year-on-year, the fastest in three and a half years.
However, the NBS said the condition to maintain stable consumer prices remains.
Analysts cautioned about the potential ris of the rapid inflation in commodity sectors to the Chinese economy, with some even warning that if the matter goes unchecked, the still nascent domestic recovery of the world’s second-largest economy in the wake of the pandemic’s onslaught could be at stake.
China’s economic recovery seen from the consumption aspect is still lackluster, in both people’s willingness and their ability to spend, Wan noted.
“Given that, an around-all price hike at the consumer end could potentially send the country into de facto stagflation – a situation when consumption is weak but prices for goods inflate,” Wan said.
A marked inflation in China could saddle policymakers with the dilemma of having to choose between an interest rate hike as a response to inflation, and maintaining the due course of a relatively neutral monetary policy, according to Wan.
Wan said China’s swift measures to rein in runaway steel prices highlighted China’s responsible take of the matter and projected a positive influence on helping stabilize commodity prices.
However, some Chinese economists, including Cao Heping, an economist at Peking University, told the Global Times that a moderate price hike for commodities is a very good thing, indicating that the Chinese economy has fully recovered.
But Cao noted China has to take note of the monopoly of certain resources by a handful of countries, as in the case of Australia’s monopoly of iron ore.
Long road to re-normalization
Wang Ji, a manager of Tangshan Xunzhuo Steel Trading Company, a company that exports steel products to Southeast Asia and Africa, told the Global Times on Wednesday that he believes steel prices will enter a stabilizing phase as the central government has made it clear that sharp rise and falls are not acceptable and “a stabilization could arrive in the third and fourth quarter.”
“The first step,” Wang said, “should be guaranteeing domestic manufacturers re-gain access to steel products at reasonable prices and not let them collapse under high costs and capital strain.”
Wang predicted that there will be further adjustments in export rebates for steel products, or even export tariff levies to increase to cost of steel exports “so as to deny imported inflation.”
Divisive COVID ‘lab leak’ debate prompts dire warnings from researchers. Allegations that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab make it harder for nations to collaborate on ending the pandemic — and fuel online bullying, some scientists say. By Amy Maxmen
Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, which some people allege was the source of a SARS-CoV-2 leak.
Calls to investigate Chinese laboratories have reached a fever pitch in the United States, as Republican leaders allege that the coronavirus causing the pandemic was leaked from one, and as some scientists argue that this ‘lab leak’ hypothesis requires a thorough, independent inquiry. But for many researchers, the tone of the growing demands is unsettling. They say the volatility of the debate could thwart efforts to study the virus’s origins.
Global-health researchers also warn that the growing demands are exacerbating tensions between the United States and China ahead of crucial meetings at which world leaders will make high-level decisions about how to curb the pandemic and prepare for future health emergencies. At the World Health Assembly this week, for example, health officials from nearly 200 countries are discussing strategies including ways to ramp up vaccine manufacturing and to reform the World Health Organization (WHO). But a US–China divide will make consensus on these issues harder to reach, says David Fidler, a global-health researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in Washington DC. “If there’s some turning down of the geopolitical heat between these two great powers, we could create some space to perhaps do some of the things that we need to do,” he says.
Others worry that the rhetoric around an alleged lab leak has grown so toxic that it’s fuelling online bullying of scientists and anti-Asian harassment in the United States, as well as offending researchers and authorities in China whose cooperation is needed.
Fever pitch – The debate over the lab-leak hypothesis has been rumbling since last year. But it has grown louder in the past month — even without strong supporting evidence. On 14 May, 18 researchers published a letter in Science1 arguing that the idea of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 leaking from a lab in China must be explored more deeply. It points out that the first phase of a COVID-19 origins investigation sponsored by the WHO, which released a report in March, focused more on the virus coming from an animal than on its potential escape from a lab. For example, the report mapped a large market in Wuhan, China, and stated that most samples of SARS-CoV-2 recovered there by investigators were found around stalls that sold animals. Many virologists say that this focus is warranted, because most emerging infectious diseases begin with a spillover from nature, as seen with HIV, Zika and Ebola. Genomic evidence also suggests that a virus similar to SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus spp.), before spreading to an unknown animal that then passed the pathogen to people.
In January, members of the team investigating COVID-19’s origins on behalf of the World Health Organization visited a market in Wuhan where animals are sold.Credit: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty
The investigation concluded that an animal origin was much more likely than a lab leak. But since then, politicians, journalists, talk-show hosts and some scientists have put forward unsubstantiated claims linking the coronavirus to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), in the Chinese city where COVID-19 was first detected. Some members of US Congress and the media have gone further, alleging that the Chinese government is covering up a SARS-CoV-2 leak from the WIV, and even that Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is involved, because NIAID funded some studies at the WIV. The WIV and Fauci have denied this, saying that they did not encounter SARS-CoV-2 until after the virus was isolated from patients in late December 20192.
Even if the letter in Science was well intentioned, its authors should have thought more about how it would feed into the divisive political environment surrounding this issue, says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.
The lead author of the letter, David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University in California, still feels it’s important to voice his opinion — and says he can’t stop it from being misrepresented. “I am not saying I believe the virus came from a laboratory,” he says. Rather, he says that the authors of the WHO investigation report were too decisive in their conclusions. He suggests that the investigators might have called the natural-origins hypothesis “appealing” instead of “highly likely”, and that they should have written that they didn’t have enough information to draw a conclusion about a leak. Investigators toured the WIV and questioned researchers there, but were not given primary data.
In the Science letter, the authors note that Asian people have been harassed by those who blame COVID-19 on China, and attempt to dissuade abuse. Nonetheless, some aggressive proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis interpreted the letter as supporting their ideas. For instance, a neuroscientist belonging to a group that claims to independently investigate COVID-19 tweeted that the letter is a diluted version of ideas his group posted online last year. That same week on Twitter, the neuroscientist also lashed out at Rasmussen, who has tried to explain studies suggesting a natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 to the public. He called her fat, and then posted a derogatory comment about her sexual anatomy. Rasmussen says, “This debate has moved so far from the evidence that I don’t know if we can dial it back.”
Relman says he’s saddened by the abuse of his fellow scientists, but he stands his ground.
Scientists at odds – Demands for laboratory investigations ramped up further as the World Health Assembly commenced on 24 May. The United States has since requested that the WHO conduct a “transparent, science-based” phase 2 origins study, and US President Joe Biden announced that he has asked the US intelligence community, in addition to its national labs, to “press China to participate” in an investigation. The WHO, which does not have the authority to conduct an investigation in China without the country’s permission, is currently considering proposals for this next-phase origins study.
In the meantime, US headlines are exploding with revived interest in the lab-leak hypothesis, many of them related to two articles in The Wall Street Journal. One story refers to an undisclosed document from an anonymous official who was part of former US president Donald Trump’s administration, suggesting that three WIV researchers were sick in November 2019. And the second says that Chinese authorities stopped a journalist from entering an abandoned mine where WIV researchers recovered coronaviruses from bats in 2012. The researchers have long maintained that none of the viruses were SARS-CoV-2. Responding to the Wall Street Journal, China’s foreign ministry said: “The US keeps concocting inconsistent claims and clamoring to investigate labs in Wuhan.”
Kristian Andersen, a virologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, maintains that no strong evidence supports a lab leak, and he worries that hostile demands for an investigation into the WIV will backfire, because they often sound like allegations. He says this could make Chinese scientists and officials less likely to share information. Other virologists suggest that such sentiments could lead to more scrutiny of US grants for research projects conducted in China. They point to a coronavirus project run by a US non-profit organization and the WIV that was abruptly suspended last year after the US National Institutes of Health pulled its funding. Without such collaborations, says Andersen, scientists will have difficulty discovering the source of the pandemic.
Diplomacy distraction – More is at stake than the discovery of COVID-19’s origins, however. Global health-policy analysts argue that it’s crucial for countries to work together to curb the pandemic and prepare the world for future outbreaks. Actions needed, they say, include expanding the distribution of vaccines and reforming biosecurity rules, such as standards for reporting virus-surveillance data. But such measures require a broad consensus among powerful countries, says Amanda Glassman, a global-health specialist at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC. “We need to look at the big picture and focus on incentives that get us where we want to go,” she says. “A confrontational approach will make things worse.”
Fidler agrees. He says that the escalating demands and allegations are contributing to a geopolitical rift at a moment when solidarity is needed. “The United States continues to poke China in the eye on this issue of an investigation,” he says. Even if COVID-19 origin investigations move forward, Fidler doesn’t expect them to reveal the definitive data that scientists seek any time soon. The origins of most Ebola outbreaks remain mysterious, for example, and researchers spent 14 years nailing down evidence that the 2002-2004 epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was caused by a virus transmitted from bats to civets to humans.
So, with a pressing need for biosecurity policies, Fidler thinks the United States should focus on fostering pandemic diplomacy through meetings between US and Chinese ambassadors, as happened with climate-change discussions in April. “Don’t we actually have some things we need to do to get ready for the next pandemic, given the debacle of this one?”
This is how US leaders leading by examples to teach our future leaders and setting examples best ways for our parents to raise our children. 這就是美國領導人以身作則，教導我們未來的領導人，並為父母樹立養育子女的最佳方法的榜樣。
Why the No Asians Hates Campaign in US will failed? Cindy Yip of Singtao Radio San Francisco interviewed a lady who got beaten up inside a SF city bus during morning rush hours filled with Chinese and Hispanic on 5-5-21. When the Chinese lady got punched in her face and her head hit the bus wall in shocked. The followings had happened: 1) the bus driver let the assailant off the bus instead of holding him to wait for the police 2) the Chinese in the bus yelled at the bus driver in English and Chinese: “move on and we are late to work” 3) not a single person, including Chinese inside the bus offered a tissue paper to help cleaned up her face covered with blood 4) no one in the bus called 911 5) after the victim got off the bus, she had to called 911. The Singtao interviewer said “what a shame, especially to the Chinese inside the bus, next time could be you”. 為什麼亞洲人在美國的反對仇恨運動會失敗？ 舊金山星島廣播電台的葉麗玲（Cindy Yip）採訪了一位女士，她於5-5-21日在一輛充滿中國和西班牙裔的美國加州三藩市公共汽車內被毆打。 當中國女士的臉被打時，她震驚地頭撞到了公交車的牆壁上。 跟著發生了以下情況：1）公共汽車司機打開車門讓襲擊者下車，而不是等警察2）公共汽車上的中國人對公共汽車司機大吼大叫，繼續前進，不要等警察我們上班遲到了3）車上沒有人士，包括公共汽車上的中國人，提供了一張薄紙，以幫助清理她的臉上沾滿鮮血。4）公共汽車上沒有人叫911 5）受害者下車後，她不得不給911打了電話。 星島電台其中一位記者說 “下一次可能是您，真是太丟人了，尤其是對於公共汽車內的中國人而言”。
HK completes local amendments for election overhaul, moving into ‘fast & smooth’ track for upcoming elections by Chen Qingqing May 27 2021
With the Legislative Council (LegCo) completing the review of a number of amendments as part of the improvement of the Hong Kong electoral system on Thursday, Hong Kong has been accelerating the process of ushering in a proper governance system in which only patriots run for public office, saving the city from rioting, citywide rampages, endless filibustering tactics from the radical opposition and the risk of color revolutions.
During the voting process, 40 lawmakers voted for the amendment bill, two voted against it. After three readings of the bill, relevant regulations will be signed by the chief executive of the HKSAR government and published in the Government Gazette before taking effect.
In took less than two months for Hong Kong’s legislative body to finalize the local law amendments, including the amendment of eight main body articles and 24 auxiliary articles, laying out details for electing the Hong Kong chief executive and the formation of the LegCo.
This was also the fastest local law amendment process in Hong Kong, because with virtually no radical opposition in the local legislature, no one appeared to challenge the will and determination of the central government in safeguarding the national security and constitutional order of Hong Kong under the national security law and through the electoral reform in the city, observers said.
“Also, it’s not something that started from zero. The top legislature has already laid out the fundamentals for the overhaul. What the local legislative body has to do is localize them as soon as possible,” Tang Fei, a member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies, told the Global Times.
Highlights of NPC decision to improve Hong Kong electoral system Graphic: Jin Jianyu and Xu Zihe/GT
The milestone reform in closing the loopholes in the city’s governance structure is widely considered as another significant step following the enactment of the national security law for Hong Kong in restoring the social order and rooting out the risks of color revolutions incited by external forces and their political proxies in Hong Kong and helping the city shake off endless political disputes and pressure from radical forces.
Some of the major changes involve the distribution of seats in LegCo, which now include 40 seats from the Election Committee, 30 from functional constituencies and 20 which are directly elected, with the number of seats increasing from 70 to 90.
The current seats of super district councillors have been scrapped, while newly added seats include HKSAR deputies to the NPC and HKSAR members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) – the top political advisory body – as well as representatives of Hong Kong members of relevant national organizations.
Also, a new section of 300 members has been added to the Hong Kong Election Committee, taking the total number of seats from 1,200 to 1,500. This section is comprised of HKSAR deputies to the NPC and HKSAR members of the National Committee of the CPPCC.
Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the local law amendments, laying out the system fundamentals for the upcoming three elections – the election for the Election Committee on September 19, the election for LegCo on December 19 and the election for Hong Kong’s chief executive on March 27, 2022. With radical opposition forces being continuously swept out of the local governance structure, the city has been moving into a fast and smooth track in advancing its political agendas in the coming months, observers said.
Senior officials in the HKSAR government vowed to work “day and night” to accelerate the law amendments and make sure that the upcoming elections go smoothly under the overhaul of the electoral system. With the reform helping sweep out radical lawmakers who had previously obstructed LegCo meetings with filibustering tactics, the LegCo has also become much more efficient in handling draft bills and livelihood-related proposals, Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen, president of LegCo, told the Global Times in an exclusive interview earlier this month.
“For example, recently when LegCo reviewed the Appropriation Bill, some lawmakers used to extend the meetings by filibustering. We spent hundreds of hours to review the bill. But this year, from the resumption of the second reading of the bill to the third reading to finish the review, we only took about eight hours,” he said.
It has also become obvious that the political environment in Hong Kong has been changing rapidly under the national security law and the election overhaul over the past year, especially after China’s top legislature disqualified four LegCo lawmakers last November who had notorious records for making trouble and being unpatriotic by inciting secessionism and colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security.
Also, in February, dozens of anti-government figures including some anti-government lawmakers and scholars were charged with subversion for being involved in organizing and planning the illegal primaries in 2020. One of the most symbolic cases is that of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, which underscored the government’s unswerving determination to bring political life in Hong Kong back to the right track by eliminating the radical forces that advocate “Hong Kong independence”, undermine China’s sovereignty and seek the help of foreign forces in pressuring the central government by playing the Hong Kong card.
“The upcoming election agenda will also take place smoothly, as no one will challenge Hong Kong’s political agenda led by the top authority,” Tang said.
Video: 台灣省長蔡英文在過去一年半面對全球新冠病毒祇攪政治聯合西方帝國妖魔化中國拒絕醫療科學今天自作自受全民埋單,還要人民賠上多少條性命 During the past 18 months, Taiwan Provincial Governor Tsai Ing-Wen ignored COVID19, ignoring medical advice and science, consumes all her time energy working with Western Empires and US to demonize her motherland. Now her people is paying the ultimate price, COVID19 out of control and people are dying. https://vimeo.com/555635697 https://youtu.be/HzaRcW_9nxw https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/499627057927291/?d=n
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