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Chinese people like to say something when it comes to situations. For example, on happy days, try to say something happy to add a festive atmosphere. If you deliberately add blockage to people at this time, it is ignorance or even looking for a fight.
Yesterday isBidenWhen he took office as President of the United States, this was a major event for the U.S. government and opposition. But at the same time that Biden was sworn in, the CCP threw out a list of sanctions against Trump administration officials.Xi JinpingThis move obviously had two purposes, but it was clear that he had misjudged again.
Carrot + stick, Beijing is both soft and hard
At today’s press conference, Hua Chunying, spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said thatBidenThe speech repeatedly emphasized “unity”, which is exactly what the US-China relationship needs right now. Aunt Hua said that “democracy should allow different voices, and differences should not lead to division.” In international relations, there should also be “harmonious coexistence” and so on.
Please note that the CCP is talking about democracy again here, saying that “democracy should allow different voices.” But who dares to make a voice different from the CCP? You are making different sounds now, and the police will invite you to “drink tea” later, or check your water meter. Let’s not talk about this kind of CCP’s establishment of an archway.
In fact, looking at Aunt Hua’s performance today, it seems to be a little bit convergent than yesterday. Today is a bit of a shout, but yesterday was a bite.
As you know, during Biden’s inauguration yesterday, the CCP announced sanctions against 28 officials in the Trump administration. These include former Secretary of State Pompeo, former White House trade adviser Navarro, former National Security adviser O’Brien and so on.
As you all know, the CCP stated in its statement that in the past few years, some US politicians have “destroyed Sino-US relations” and so on.
Since this has been the case “in the past few years”, why not sanction it early? Why wait until people have resigned before sanctions? Why do we have to wait until the government changes before sanctions?
Yesterday I said that the CCP is guilty and timid, and dare not sanction incumbent US officials because it is afraid of incurring more severe sanctions. It is not like the United States sanctions CCP officials, regardless of whether you are in office or resigning. Even including many deputy state officials of the CCP, none of them can escape.
This shows that the CCP is doing both soft and hard in the Biden administration, using both carrots and sticks.
Sanctions against former officials of the DPRK have two purposes
In fact, the CCP announced sanctions against former officials. It has two purposes: one is to relieve its anger, and the other is to please the Biden administration.
Regarding the first purpose, the CCP wants to relieve its anger. This is very simple. The officials that the CCP has announced sanctions are all “hawks” who are tough on the CCP. The CCP has hated these people a long time ago, but it has never dared to bear it before, which is what Beijingers call “pretend to be grandchildren.” Now I finally have a chance, and finally I can breathe a sigh.
But I often say that American officials are not like CCP officials, “Manchurian civil and military green card, half of the country raises beauty.”
These sanctioned U.S. officials have no houses or land in China, and they do not have mistresses, third mistresses, and illegitimate children in China, let alone deposit their money in the Bank of China. Therefore, sanctions against them are almost meaningless. But this is where the CCP’s evil lies. It will definitely “please settle the account.”
The second purpose of the CCP is to send gifts to the Biden administration in this way to please the Biden administration.
From the perspective of the CCP, before the U.S. election, the Republican and Democratic parties are in an inextricable rivalry. And sanctioning the Republican officials in the previous dynasty is tantamount to helping the Biden camp to beat the Republican Party. On the first day of Biden’s inauguration, this is equivalent to giving Biden a big gift, and Biden’s Democratic camp will be very happy.
This move of the CCP is obviously a meticulous calculation. If you can vent your anger and give Biden gifts, you can kill two birds with one stone, and U.S.-China relations may be closer.
But the CCP still miscalculated. The Biden administration is not as the CCP thought it was. They believed that this was the CCP’s dismissal and pressure on the Biden administration.
There is a witty saying in China, the toad lays on its feet—not biting but disgusting. This approach of the Chinese Communist Party, in the view of the Biden administration, is this feeling.
The Biden administration called on the two parties to condemn, and Xi misjudged again
After the CCP issued sanctions, Emily Horn, a spokesperson for the National Security Committee of the Biden administration, said that the CCP’s sanctions against Trump administration officials were “futility and ridiculous.” She called on people from both parties to condemn this action by the CCP.
Horn said that the CCP’s implementation of these sanctions at the inauguration ceremony “seems to be to split the American party.” “President Biden looks forward to working with the leaders of the two parties to enable the United States to surpass China (CCP) in the competition.”
It can be seen from Horn’s statement that Biden still hopes that the two parties will cooperate. Because only the two parties cooperate, the president’s governance will not be subject to too many obstacles. Although the two houses of Congress are in the hands of the Democrats, the Republican Party is not disadvantaged in terms of numbers. If there are any more Democratic congressmen who oppose the water, it will be quite difficult for Biden to pass some policy agenda. So if he wants to make progress, he must first unite the two parties.
The CCP sanctioned former Republican officials on the day of the inauguration of the president. As Horn said, this was deliberately creating a split between the two parties in the United States.This is obviously not what Biden needs right now, obviouslyXi JinpingMisjudged.
Let’s talk about it from another angle. Everyone knows that Pompeo and other officials are Republican and former government officials. They may have different political views and governing ideas from the Biden administration and Democratic officials. But this is one of the characteristics of a democracy, which can constantly correct errors back and forth.
Before the general election, the two parties can fight back and forth without giving in to each other. But once the dust settles, people will put aside different partisanships. How to work and how to work, how to live and how to live, the same unity forward, the same coping with the common enemy.
There is a saying in China: domestic chickens fought round and round, pheasants flew all over the sky. No matter how different political opinions are, they are all Americans and share many common interests and pursuits.
The United States and the CCP are not. Maybe a certain government is closer to the CCP, but it is only closer. It is impossible to really wear a pair of pants with the CCP. At a critical time, the Americans will still be Americans, and the CCP will still be the CCP.
No matter how close the CCP is to the U.S. government, it cannot be regarded by the Americans as its own family. Freedom, democracy and communist totalitarianism are always incompatible.
Xi Jinping may think that the two parties in the United States are irreconcilable, that Biden must also hate Republicans, and that sanctions against Trump administration officials must be very appetizing of the Biden administration. Isn’t this a misjudgment? The CCP wanted to give Biden a gift, but it was self-defeating.
Moreover, this move by the CCP is also threatening to the Biden administration.
We have just said that the people sanctioned by the CCP are typical “hawks” who are tough on the CCP.
This is equivalent to putting pressure on Biden’s new administration. If you treat the CCP like the Trump administration, the CCP will adopt the same approach. This is the day when Biden took office, the Central Committee shared such a gesture, first gave Biden a disarm and issued a warning.
So will Biden take the CCP’s approach? Judging from Horn’s appeal, the Biden administration clearly hates the CCP’s approach. We have said that it would be better if the CCP does not toss, as long as it is tossed, that is when it is ashamed. And now, Xi Jinping has played again.
U.S. China policy depends on Xi Jinping
Judging from Xi Jinping’s urgent action, he hopes to have a good relationship with the Biden administration, otherwise he would not give such a gift on the first day of his tenure. But self-defeating, it is likely to affect the subsequent US-China relations. In other words, the influence of Xi Jinping on the relationship between the United States and China is not small. Because as long as the CCP is tossing, the United States must respond, and must respond.
Danielle Pletka, a senior researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, believes that the Biden administration’s China policy “will not undergo major changes” compared to the Trump administration. She told the Voice of America, “In terms of China, many issues do not depend on Biden, just as they did not depend entirely on Trump in the past, but to a greater extent depend on Xi Jinping.”
Pletka believes that “Xi Jinping has created a situation in which the United States must respond. It is not about Biden or Trump. No matter who is the president of the United States, he must act.” For example, the Trump administration’s emphasis on “fairness” in its trade policy with China has resonated throughout the United States.
The Carnegie Foundation for International Peace scholar Paul Doug also holds the same view. After Xi Jinping took office, there have been more and more frictions and conflicts between the United States and China. Therefore, “no matter which president is in power, he will naturally be tough on China (the CCP).”
In the past few years in power, Xi Jinping has exercised high-handed governance internally and adopted risky and provocative policies externally. The CCP has challenged the United States and its values on issues such as disputes, economy, military, national security, and human rights.
Huilin Mei of the Institute of International Studies at Stanford University said bluntly that the United States “welcomes a constructive and peaceful China into the international community. When Beijing takes irresponsible and aggressive behavior, the United States will take a tough stand against the CCP.”
As you have seen, the Senate has confirmed that Haynes has become the Director of National Intelligence. The first female director of national intelligence in the United States has stated the day before yesterday that after taking office, more resources will be devoted to CCP issues.
The Treasury Secretary’s nominee Yellen also stated at the hearing that the CCP is the “most important strategic competitor” of the United States. The United States must “prepare to use a full set of tools” to resolve the CCP’s illegal subsidies to state-owned enterprises, dumping cheap goods into foreign markets, stealing intellectual property rights, and setting up trade barriers on U.S. goods.
There is a saying in mainland China: Don’t do it without death. The more the CCP struggles, the faster it will die.
New medium-risk zone in Shanghai
Next, we must pay attention to the epidemic situation. Shanghai is tense today, and a medium-risk zone has emerged. After 3 confirmed cases were found in the residential area of Zhaotong Road in Huangpu District (area south of Fuzhou Road), the authorities designated this area as an epidemic-risk area, which was also the first medium-risk area in Shanghai. The “Shanghai Epidemic” quickly became a hot search, with 560 million people following it.
Zuo Yimei, deputy head of Huangpu District, said that after the community was adjusted to a medium-risk area, closed management has been implemented. However, because the local houses belong to the old houses below the second level, it is inconvenient for long-term closed management, so it is determined to organize residents to the hotel for centralized closed management.
In other words, the residential area of Zhaotong Road has been closed, and the residents here are sent to hotels for centralized isolation.
Online video shows that shops on both sides of Zhaotong Road have been closed, and there are many workers and policemen wearing protective clothing on the roadside. Nearly two thousand residents went to the isolation hotel in batches. Many residents were pulling boxes and some with pet dogs.
Three confirmed patients, one is 56-year-old Li. The cancer hospital affiliated to Fudan University conducted a routine nucleic acid test on the outsourced logistics staff of the hospital and found that it was positive. After a review early this morning, it was confirmed that they were infected with the CCP virus.
The other is Li’s friend, Ms. Tian, 48. The authorities investigated Li’s close contacts and found that Ms. Tian was also infected with the CCP virus.
The third is 53-year-old Zhou, who is a neighbor of Ms. Tian’s same community. It was discovered during the rational nucleic acid test of the relevant personnel at Renji Hospital. After a review early this morning, it was confirmed that they were infected with the CCP virus.
The discovery of these three patients means that the virus has also begun community spread in Shanghai. This situation immediately made the Shanghai authorities nervous.
The Shanghai authorities require that from today onwards, all the staff in major hospitals in Shanghai will undergo nucleic acid testing. The Xuhui District of Fudan University Cancer Hospital and the West District of Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University will be closed from today.
A video showed that all the residents in the lane opposite Renji Hospital were required to undergo nucleic acid tests, and the vicinity of Renji Hospital was closed.
Zhang Wenhong, head of the Shanghai CCP virus clinical treatment expert team, said that the case was discovered after active screening. If it was not actively screened, the case might appear later. He urged people to “take a test as soon as possible if they have a fever,” and don’t just sell some anti-fever medicines.
Two officials in Gaocheng District resigned, but doctors and nurses did not have protective clothing
Today in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, two more areas have been upgraded to medium-risk areas, one is Zone D, Poly Garden, Chang’an District, Shijiazhuang City, and the other is the North District of Hebei Chest Hospital.
Up to now, Hebei Province has 3 high-risk areas, including the entire Gaocheng District of Shijiazhuang, the entire Xinle City, the entire Xingtai Nangong City, and 41 medium-risk areas.
Today, in Gaocheng District, where the epidemic is the worst, the first and second leaders of the district committee have all taken off their little black hats. The district party committee secretary Zhang Juhua was removed from his post, and the female district chief Yuan Lihua “resigned.” The authorities did not say whether Yuan Lihua resigned actively or passively.
The replacement of the first and second leaders in Gaocheng District is likely to be related to the infection of medical staff in Hebei Province. According to a report from the authorities, both Gaocheng Hospital and Xinle House of Representatives had cases of medical staff infections.
The Epoch Times reporter pretended to be the patient’s family members and called Gaocheng Hospital to inquire about the infection and isolation measures. The staff said, “The conditions in both hospitals are not good, they are both very bad.” They also told the Epoch Times reporter not to go there, “We don’t have time and no one when you come. The sick number floors are full and there is no place. There is no chance, you won’t be able to line up at all.”
According to a local netizen, the doctor in the Gaocheng House of Representatives did not have protective clothing. He himself asked for the protective clothing of the hospital for posting a post, but was banned for three days.
According to netizens, a staff member of the Gaocheng House of Representatives has been diagnosed, but the hospital does not provide protective clothing for medical staff. There is only one mask, one face mask, and a blue cover on the body. A netizen said, “I posted a request to Shijiazhuang Gaocheng House of Representatives medical staff for supplies. Within a few minutes, I said I was banned. I didn’t say anything. They didn’t know how many days their blue cover was used. Nobody cares about the bottom layer. “.
The netizen said that the local health committee does not distribute medical supplies. “I don’t know where all the supplies are going. It’s all right on TV. The price of vegetables is not going up, the express delivery is restored, and there is no shortage of supplies. They are all fake! Watch the CCTV news. , Bad sounds are not allowed at all.”
The price of heavy goods soared in Heilongjiang
As the epidemic becomes more and more serious, prices will soar everywhere.
The entire Wangkui County of Suihua City in Heilongjiang has been adjusted to a high-risk area. The authorities have now increased the lockdown requirements. Every family goes out to make purchases. Instead of one person going out once every three days, the house is not allowed to go out for seven days. The house is completely closed.
Mr. Chen from Angangxi in Qiqihar said that he hadn’t been out for a week. The epidemic is so serious that the communities are not allowed to be released and all are closed. Some people revealed, “The severity of Ang Angxi is not inferior to Wangkui, and some (cases) will not be reported to you.”
In addition, in the Fulaerji district of Qiqihar, all residents in the district are also required to stay at home and not go out, and family members keep a safe distance.
Zhaozhou and Zhaodong counties in Daqing City are also very tightly closed. People familiar with the matter told The Epoch Times that the entire village is now closed. It is between the road and the road, now the whole is not allowed to pass, just a whole truck of soil, and a pile in the middle, the car can’t get through at all.
Ms. Lin of Zhaozhou County, Daqing City, said that all hotels in Zhaozhou County are not allowed to live in. “Now the city is closed. No entry or exit is allowed. Some communities are closed.
A citizen of Harbin under the pseudonym Chen Xin told The Epoch Times that the city of Harbin was close to being closed down, and the authorities issued various notices prohibiting gatherings. “The prices in Harbin are ridiculously high. Scallions are now 11 yuan a catty, and eggs are eight yuan a catty, so the meat is simply not worth watching. The price of pork is basically more than 30 yuan, and beef and mutton are all 45. Ten dollars a catty.”
Speaking of the price of pork, here is one sentence. According to a netizen in a certain district of Tianjin, the wholesale price of their local pork is 26 yuan per catty. This can only be bought if there is a relationship, it doesn’t matter, money can’t be bought.
This Harbin citizen, whose alias is Chen Xin, revealed that Harbin is now “relaxed outside and tight inside” and is very nervous. The people don’t believe the official figures. Everyone knows that the official number must be multiplied by more than 10.
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