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via Radio Free AsiaNational Committee via Getty Images NATION CHINA Beijing Inner Taking Mongolians ‘Active Role’ Protest to Meddle in Communist US Election, Party's Officials Language Warn Policies Protests, Vision Times Staff repressions, suicides in rump administration officials including Chinese minority Attorney General region as Beijing WilliamT Barr and national security adviser Robert O’Brien bans Mongolian- have given recent statements Chinese leader Xi Jinping speaks at an epidemic prevention conference on Sept. 8, 2020, in Beijing, China. langauge warning that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has instruction undertaken the “most massive” efforts to interfere in America’s upcoming presidential election. Vision Times Staff “There’s always going to be As China Descends Into propaganda. There’s always going to be efforts to influence ecent policies us,” O’Brien told reporters at a Crisis, Opposition Emerges in instituted by the briefing on Sept. 4. “We know Chinese Communist the Chinese have taken the most RParty (CCP) to phase active role.” out Mongolian-language Communist Elite instruction in elementary and middle schools across China’s Pressures at home and abroad threaten to pit Xi Jinping Inner Mongolia region have met with strong protests from Multiple against rivals in leadership among the region’s Mongol countries are residents. Tens of thousands of people looking to News analysis occurred, and showing Chinese Communist Party have demonstrated against interfere in the footage of Chinese leader Xi (CCP) is preparing a new five- the policy, and students Vision Times Staff Jinping praising “heroes” of ‘Dual year plan, based on a so-called boycotted class. After the Nov. 3 elections. the “people’s war” he declared circulation’ “dual circulation strategy,” to CCP sent security units to on the virus earlier in the year. be unveiled at the upcoming suppress the protests and cursory view of Chinese authorities predict may be a veiled CCP Fifth Plenum in October. force students back to school, On Sept. 2, Barr had told China at present that a vaccine will be ready But a more complete look several ethnic Mongols, CNN that China posed a greater is deceptively by the end of 2020. move toward at the situation facing the including one female Party threat to U.S. election security rosy: the COVID- Economic data released isolation, People’s Republic of China official, have committed than Russia, saying, “I’ve seen A19 pandemic appears to be in early September — (PRC) does not spell smooth sucide. intelligence. That’s what I’ve under control, with state rising exports, surging auto given China’s sailing ahead for China’s The measures, announced concluded.” media covering massive pool sales, and growing foreign economic authoritarian ruling party. on Aug. 28 and implemented parties in Wuhan, the city exchange reserves — point to on Sept. 1, are to be carried Continued on A2 where the initial outbreak a coronavirus recovery. The straits. Continued on A3 out in phases over three years. The changes will affect language, politics, and history, mandating that develop advanced military those subjects be taught capabilities. in Mandarin Chinese, the Chinese Army-linked Researchers A State Department official dialect. spokesperson told The Epoch Times that “We continue to Continued on A4 Arrested as US Imposes Visa Restrictions welcome legitimate students and PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs scholars from China who do not 2 people alleged tied to People’s further the Chinese Communist Liberation Army were apprehended Party’s goals of military about vision times dominance.” as they tried to return to China Destruction of evidence We are a borderless, largely The FBI began an investigation volunteer community of Vision Times Staff writers, analysts, online at the University of California, into Guan Lei, a visiting scholar at media experts, and Los Angeles (UCLA), who was UCLA’s mathematics department, translators on a mission charged with destroying evidence in July, suspecting visa fraud and to change what the world pays attention to. We write wo Chinese researchers to obstruct an investigation by the that he might be transferring with a mind to make the with alleged ties to the Federal Bureau of Investigations “sensitive software or technical world a better place. We Chinese military have (FBI) into whether he had data” to “high-ranking” Chinese value curiosity, honesty, and Tbeen arrested on federal charges transferred sensitive U.S. software military officers, according to a connectedness, with a special focus on China. while attempting to board or data to China, the Justice The Department of State in Washington on July 17, 2019. court filing. China-bound flights, according Department said. Court documents say that Guan E-paper: pdf.secretchina.com to separate criminal complaints Also on Aug. 28, University had access to UCLA’s Graphics www.VisionTimes.com unsealed on Aug. 28. of Virginia (UVA) researcher the latest in a long string of U.S. cases that are subject to these Processing Unit machine that The charges were followed up Hu Haizhou, 34, was arrested prosecutions targeting Beijing’s restrictions. Visa records are has potential military use, such by revelations made by the U.S. and charged with theft of trade efforts to exploit American confidential under U.S. law.” as surveillance and intelligence Department of State on Sept. 9 secrets and computer intrusion, academic institutions for The visa restrictions come after applications. Contact Us saying that the United States has the department announced. economic or military gain. the State Department began On July 25, FBI agents staking general inquiries advertising revoked the visas of more than This came days after he was “As of September 8, 2020, the implementing a proclamation out Guan’s apartment saw him & 503-454-6461 1,000 Chinese nationals over their caught at a Chicago airport Department has revoked more issued by President Donald Trump remove a damaged hard drive [email protected] links to the People’s Liberation trying to transport back to China than 1,000 visas of PRC nationals in late May to limit Beijing’s ability from his sock and throw it in Army (PLA), China’s Communist advanced computer codes that he who were found to be subject to to leverage Chinese graduate the dumpster near the building, published by: Party-controlled military. allegedly stole from the university, Presidential Proclamation 10043 students and researchers to steal court documents said. 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Alliance, which competes with that it's not a valid concern,” said SpaceX for federal contracts the first congressional Republican SpaceX-NASA Cooperation Could to launch U.S. satellites and aide, according to the Washington other spacecraft. According to Examiner. “congressional sources familiar “It's sort of a classic dynamic, with the process,” ULA is pressing right? An established provider, Be Jeopardized by China Links for laws restricting contracts for an established interest, that is companies with China ties. challenged by an upstart interest. Congress looking into possible national security risks of contracts “The thrust of that is obviously ... If there was no SpaceX, ULA self-interested because they're would love it because ULA would awarded to private space venture competitors, but it doesn’t mean get more contracts. That doesn’t mean that the question isn’t worth By Leo Timm to coerce foreign partners into Center in Florida, an important spaceflight and electric cars.” asking and answering, though.” Vision Times giving up sensitive technological milestone for privatized Senator Cory Gardner, a The Senate Republican aide knowledge. spaceflight and the first time in a Republican from Colorado, Beijing prefers stressed that potential legislation Last December, Tesla secured decade that astronauts travelled told the Washington Examiner: wouldn’t only affect Musk’s illionaire-engineer Elon $1.4 billion in credit from to space on an American craft. “I'm concerned that companies a Trump defeat firms, as there are "at least Musk’s space ambitions Chinese state-run banks to On Aug. 30, SpaceX launched in China could come into the in the election, seven aerospace companies that may be threatened by the fund the company’s factory in its 100th rocket, a Falcon-9 U.S., make a sweetheart deal, have some element of Chinese Bweighty China component of his Shanghai. Tesla has recently model that lifted off from Cape take sensitive information, take due to his investment that would raise red luxury electric car business, Tesla. begun 100-percent recycling of Canaveral Air Force Station. proprietary technologies, and flags, like Tencent,” the latter As of the end of August, worn batteries in a China-based As reported by the Washington use it to enrich their own space administration’s referring to the Chinese social Congressional staff have been operation, according to Argus. Examiner on Aug. 26, “China’s program, their own national tough China media conglomerate. discussing the potential for Like Tesla’s all-electric vehicles, penchant for intellectual property security efforts in China.” In China, both private and state- national security risks posed by Musk’s SpaceX has made theft has created uncertainty The Washington Examiner policy. run companies are subordinate contracts NASA has awarded to groundbreaking steps in its even around federal government raised concerns that the legislation to the Chinese Communist Party Musk’s SpaceX firm, given the industry. At the end of May, the contracts awarded to American being discussed in Congress may (CCP), and are required by law to way that Chinese companies and SpaceX Crew Dragon 2 launched captains of industry such as be influenced by Musk’s business surrender data to the authorities government agencies are known from NASA’s Kennedy Space Musk, a pioneer of private sector rivals, particularly United Launch upon request.

U.S.-based company that licenses code” files that the professor a similar software received more described as “proprietary.” The Chinese Army-linked Researchers than $1.5 billion in revenue in professor said that Hu could 2019, it added. only have obtained these “core Due to the code’s sensitive cord” files by stealing the three Arrested as US Imposes Visa Restrictions nature, the professor told FBI authorized users’ credentials or investigators that he had strictly by hacking into the computer, Continued from FRONT by force,” according to an authorities at Chicago’s O’Hare Hu had been a researcher at a limited physical and electronic according to the court document. affidavit. International Airport found fluid dynamics lab at Beihang, access to it, and only shared it Hu worked in the professor’s Guan had been interviewed Before coming to the United Hu to be in possession of “bio- a university funded by the with two other graduate students lab from approximately March by agents on July 17, during States, Guan studied at China’s inspired research simulation Chinese regime and the Chinese who work under him—which did 2019 to August 2020, and left for which he refused to let him National University of Defense software code” that he did air force. After the lecture, Hu not include Hu. China without telling him, the examine his computer. He Technology, a military academy not have authorized access to, approached the professor to join The professor and the two professor said. soon tried to board a flight to where one of Guan’s faculty prosecutors said. the UVA research team. Hu had graduate students had denied Since the June arrest of China but was prevented from advisors was also a lieutenant The software code, according to also worked in a research lab for Hu’s request for access on multiple Wang Xin, another suspected leaving the United States. Guan general in the People’s Liberation court filings, represented 17 years underwater robot technology occasions. Hu admitted to the undercover Chinese military is now charged with destroying Army (PLA) who developed of work by Hu’s professor at UVA, while studying at China’s Harbin FBI agents that the professor researcher who worked at the evidence, a felony offense that computers used in the military. and could be used for making University, which, Hu told would be upset to learn that Hu University of California, San carries a maximum sentence of underwater robotics, aircraft investigators, was “of course” had the coding files, according to Francisco, the Chinese regime 20 years in federal prison. Bio-inspired ‘core code’ engines, among other marine funded by the Chinese military. the court document. has instructed military scientists The drive was “irreparably Hu Haizhou, the UVA and aerospace applications. Hu’s professor has been The investigators found in the United States to destroy damaged and that all previous researcher, was conducting Hu had met the professor in awarded grants totaling $1.8 around 9,600 source code files evidence and coordinated data associated with the hard research studying bio-mimics 2017 when the professor gave million, as a result of the research on Hu’s laptop for bio-inspired efforts to bring them back to drive appears to have been and fluid dynamics. During a a lecture at his then university, conducted with this simulation fluid mechanics research, and China, according to recent court removed deliberately and routine inspection on Aug. 25, Beijing-based Beihang University. software, the complaint said. A identified about 55 to be “core documents. Beijing Taking ‘Active Role’ to Meddle in US Election, Officials Warn Continued from FRONT sanctions on multiple Chinese U.S., your companies won’t have administration officials’ technologies in a bid to boost companies, government agencies, opportunities in China.” statements about Chinese China’s economic and military The statements follow up on and officials, including members In early August, Director Beijing prefers interference in the presidential competitiveness and eventually what other officials and observers of the Communist Party’s of National Intelligence John election. replace the United States as the have said previously. In July, Politburo Standing Committee, Ratcliffe told Fox News that China a Trump defeat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, world’s leading superpower. William Evanina, the director of which effectively rules the was a “greater national security in the election, a Democrat from California, Recent years have seen the the National Counterintelligence country. threat” to the United States than said in August that the Chinese CCP promote its authoritarian and Security Center, said in July any other country, as the CCP runs due to his and Russian threats were “China model” as a desirable that Beijing was ramping up Rising concerns illicit operations on American soil “not equivalent,” arguing that and inevitable alternative to U.S. influence efforts in the country “Chinese attempts to interfere that include “election influence administration’s Moscow’s efforts to help Trump liberal democracy. In addition to by attempting to shape U.S. policy, with U.S. elections and politics, and interference.” tough China win a second term were a more pushing its standards of internet pressuring political figures, and unlike Russia’s methods, are In April, Attorney General serious risk. security and 5G networks countering criticism of China. focused on using economic Barr described the Party’s overt policy. “Russia is actively 24/7 worldwide, the PRC has ramped Evanina later said that the incentives or coercion to influence and covert espionage efforts as a interfering in our election. They up military provocations along Chinese Communist Party business and political elites, given “full-court blitzkrieg.” Iran has been the subject of did so in 2016, and they are doing the Sino-Indian border and in the (CCP) prefers a Trump defeat that these are the actors who shape This August, O’Brien said heavy sanctions by the Trump so now.” disputed South and East China in the Nov. 3 election, due to the policy and candidate’s campaign that hackers linked to the PRC administration after the latter On Sept. 7, House Intelligence seas. administration’s tough China platforms,” according to a Sept. government had been targeting accused it of continuing its nuclear Committee Chairman Adam This year, after covering up policy. 4 report by The Epoch Times, U.S. election infrastructure. weapons program despite a 2015 Schiff (D-Calif.) accused Barr of information about the novel Over the last three years, citing Jeff Nyquist, a researcher According to a report by CNBC, deal reached under the Obama making a “flat-out false statement” coronavirus outbreak, the CCP the Trump administration of Russian and Chinese strategy. while three major state actors are administration. This February, when he said that China posed made use of the pandemic has imposed hefty tariffs on “The Chinese objective is to suspected of trying to interfere in amid American anger over Iran’s the greater threat to U.S. national to spread propaganda about Chinese goods and other embed themselves … inside the the upcoming election — Russia funding of terrorist operations security. “Apparently Bill Barr is the effectiveness of Chinese economic restrictions targeting West. And it becomes so powerful and Iran in addition to China — across the Middle East, a U.S. willing to do anything or say disease control, while peddling the PRC. It has also intensified in their position there, that they have different objectives in airstrike killed powerful Iranian anything to help Donald Trump," conspiracy theories that the virus its condemnation of the CCP’s nobody can say no to them when mind. military commander and war he told CNN. originated in the United States. human rights abuses as well as they want something,” he said. Russia is widely seen as favoring hero Qasem Soleimani while he In addition to pressing Beijing “The scope of Chinese activity Beijing’s efforts to further its O’Brien, the White House a continued Trump presidency, was visiting Baghdad, Iraq. on trade and human rights, the against the United States is agenda of what U.S. Secretary of national security adviser, said while China and Iran would United States under the Trump relentless,” O’Brien said. “We’ve State Mike Pompeo last October that the PRC regime influences rather see Democrat candidate ‘Not equivalent’ administration has pushed back never seen anything like it. It was called “international domination.” American businesses by saying and former U.S. vice president Democratic politicians have against the PRC’s widespread nothing like this in the Cold War Washington has also imposed “if you don’t support us in the Joe Biden take office next January. struck back at the Trump spying, which targets critical with the Soviets.” USC Professor Placed on Leave for Saying 'Racist-sounding' Chinese Word Screenshot/YouTube Vision Times Staff based on your native language. Greg Pat- USC said that Patton had Leadership skill development.” Like in China, the common ton giving agreed to take leave “while we are The university said in its a lecture word is ‘that, that, that.’ So in reviewing to better understand statement that it is now “offering by video he use of the wrong China it might be ‘nèi ge, nèi ge, confer- the situation and to take any supportive measures to any Chinese words can leave nèi ge.’” ence on appropriate next steps.” student, faculty, or staff member one with a job-threatening Also pronounced “nà ge,” the Aug. 20, Another instructor has been who requests assistance,” Taccusation of racism, as one word in question means “that” in found to fill the professor’s and that it is “committed to 2020 University of Southern California Mandarin Chinese. “Nèi ge” is an absence. building a culture of respect professor recently discovered. alternative pronunciation, similar A bio on the USC website and dignity where all members Greg Patton was giving a to how the English word “a” can introduces Patton as an “an expert of our community can feel safe, lecture on the use of filler words be pronounced in two different in communication, interpersonal supported, and can thrive.” in different languages when ways. and leadership effectiveness” Chinese speakers in the United he brought up the example Patton, a professor with USC’s who has received “numerous States have occasionally been of a Chinese word that, when Marshall School of Business, was uploaded online. We acknowledge the historical, teaching awards, been ranked as confronted or harassed over pronounced with a certain accent, gave the example while teaching “Recently, a USC faculty cultural and harmful impact one of the top teaching faculty at misunderstandings caused by sounds like the n-word. a course on communications. member during class used of racist language,” a university USC and helped USC Marshall their use of “nèi ge” in public “If you have a lot of ‘ums and He was placed on leave after a Chinese word that sounds statement given to online outlet achieve numerous #1 worldwide settings, as can be gleaned from errs,’ this is culturally specific, so video of him saying the words similar to a racial slur in English. Campus Reform reads. rankings for Communication and anecdotal online accounts. CHINA September 11 - 24, 2020 | A3 www.VisionTimes.com As China Descends Into Crisis, Opposition Emerges in Communist Elite

Continued from FRONT flood damage, and pests, YouTube/Screenshot) of the regime, for them to such an outcome could result Cai Xia was come into public view shows one of the From beginning to end, in humanitarian disaster and that the leadership is faced elites in the independent studies and the sum severe social unrest. CCP. (Image: with severe crisis. Normally, of anecdotal evidence suggests Over the last few years, the YouTube/ the Party and its elite prefers that the CCP’s fight against combination of an America Screenshot) to maintain the image of a the coronavirus is less than that is increasingly critical of monolithic organization. the total victory trumped — and unafraid to take action The analysis said that while up by state mouthpieces against — the CCP, as well as factional struggles have — a narrative that is the Party’s own belligerent previously been confined furthered shaken by the fact behavior abroad and within certain boundaries, that Chinese authorities repressive policies at home, key factions in the Communist remain unwilling to allow have taken a toll on China’s Party elite have decided to international investigation of international standing. This oppose Xi Jinping’s aggressive the pandemic’s ground zero has engendered a marked consolidation of power in Wuhan. shift from the rapid, export- without regard to the regime’s It is likewise too soon to oriented growth of previous survival. tell from the available data decades, when governments According to SinoInsider whether China has indeed and firms around the world who have reports published over the last “returned to growth,” or if considered the PRC’s rise a — have publicly decried the signed a petition demanding few years, elements opposed the recent uptick in figures foregone conclusion. direction the Party has taken Multiple that Xi cancel the Party’s to Xi have attempted a variety will be enough to overcome under Xi. new policy to phase out of soft “coups” to sideline or the conflux of other crises that ‘Second-generation reds’ Prominent among them are “princelings” Mongolian-language even oust him, but to no avail. Beijing has on its plate. As Washington and other Ren Zhiqiang “the Cannon,” have come out instruction in primary and Meanwhile, broad resentment For instance, the “dual governments levy criticism a real estate mogul who secondary schools across from the elite to Xi’s policies, circulation” strategy is and sanctions on the PRC received the nickname for to oppose Xi’s Inner Mongolia. The policy such as the anti-corruption described as a move to shift and high-ranking officials his outspoken criticism of leadership. has generated an outpouring campaign, have made it China’s economy from relying for human rights abuses and government policy; Cai Xia, a of dissent throughout the impossible for Xi to carry out on exports to a domestic violations of the rules-based former professor at the CCP’s region. concrete policy goals, except consumption focus. But with international order alike, signs Central Party School; and calling the CCP a “political to strengthen the Communist rising unemployment and of dissent against Xi from Ma Xiaoli, a princeling said zombie” and declaring that up Factional struggle at the Party apparatus so as to shore broadly worsening economic within his own regime are to be Xi’s childhood friend to 70 percent of Party cadres inflection point up his position. conditions, such an approach becoming more pronounced. who spent much of her youth are disappointed with Xi’s SinoInsider, a New York-based Ironically, it is these may well end up as a veiled trek Several “princelings” — also in China’s Inner Mongolia leadership, has been expelled consultancy specializing attempts that have led to the to autarky. For China, which known as “second-generation region. from the CCP and asked to in elite Chinese politics, worsening of China’s economy this year has experienced its reds,” or the children of Ren, who was arrested earlier return to China. She currently has published recent and international reputation, worst flooding in decades, communist officials who made this spring, is to stand trial resides in the United States. analysis arguing that while and which may well force a and faces the prospect of food up the founding leadership of on Sept. 11. Cai, who in June Ma Xiaoli’s signature is the disagreements and factions showdown between Xi and his shortages due to droughts, the PRC under Mao Zedong released a series of audio clips first of a group of princelings in the CCP are a natural part desperate internal enemies.

ROC Presidential office US State Dept Official: Taiwan Is a Vision of Democratic China David Stilwill declassified the ‘Six Assurances’ President The same day as Azar’s meeting with Tsai, authorities in Hong Reagan made to Taipei in 1982 Kong arrested several prominent pro-democracy figures under the provisions of a “national security” By Leo Timm “In Taiwan you can see a Chinese law implemented by the CCP in Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of Vision Times society that flourishes free of the the former British colony this July. Health Alex Azar on Aug. 10, 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan. toxic brew of Marxism-Leninism Stilwell in his speech echoed and Mao Zedong Thought that In Taiwan protests and condemnations speech delivered remotely battered the mainland,” Stilwell you can see a made by higher-ranking U.S. confirmation from Washington from the Reagan era specifies by a senior U.S. diplomat said. He gave the example of officials over Beijing’s law, which that its security is in good hands. that the quantity and type of arms in Asia praised Taiwan ancient Chinese cultural artifacts Chinese society effectively annuls the liberties and In 1979, the year that the sold to Taiwan should match the Aas an ideal example of what the that are well-preserved in the rule of law the people of Hong United States switched diplomatic degree of the threat posed to it by Chinese people are capable of ROC’s National Palace Museum, that flourishes Kong were supposed to enjoy recognition to Beijing, Congress the PLA. achieving in a democratic society, but were destroyed as relics of free of the under the terms of the city’s return passed the Taiwan Relations In April, the PLA Navy comparing the self-ruled island an undesirable past during the to China in 1997. Act, which stressed the need to sent an aircraft carrier on a favorably with the Communist Cultural Revolution in mainland toxic brew of “Because of this, and more continue ROC-U.S. engagement circumnavigation mission Party-run mainland. China. than ever, Taiwan is important despite warming relations with around Taiwan, and in the last On Aug. 31, David R. Stilwell, In recent years, the Trump Marxism- to America, and important to mainland China. In 1982, the few years has stepped up aircraft Assistant Secretary of the U.S. administration has taken a Leninism. the world. It is a good friend to Reagan administration issued its flights near the island. The United State Department’s Bureau of East hardline stance on the communist nations that seek help, whether in “Six Assurances” to Taipei, which States last year finalized deals to Asian and Pacific Affairs, made People’s Republic of China (PRC) David R. Stilwell, State dealing with Ebola, or COVID, or in conjunction with the Taiwan sell advanced M1A2 Abrams prepared remarks to the Heritage and its ruling Chinese Communist Department official the other problems faced by our Relations Act governed American tanks and F-16V combat jets to Foundation, saying that Taiwan Party (CCP), with top government calculus. world,” he said. policy regarding the island. the ROC. presents “a vision of a democratic officials arguing that decades of On Aug. 10, U.S. Secretary of The content of the Assurances Stilwell stressed that the “U.S. Chinese society and polity that is economic engagement with Health and Human Services Alex The Six Assurances have been recently declassified has long had a one-China policy. prosperous, harmonious, free, Beijing did not bring democracy Azar visited Taiwan and became The CCP claims Taiwan as with the publication of two This is distinct from Beijing’s ‘One and highly respected by people or rule of law to mainland China the most senior American official a breakaway province, and diplomatic cables. The six items China Principle’ under which the all around the world.” as hoped. Instead, the CCP used in 41 years to set foot on the island. features reunification as a call for the United States to Chinese Communist Party asserts Taiwan made a successful capitalist reforms to strengthen Azar’s trip and meeting with constant theme in its nationalistic continue allowing arms sales to sovereignty over Taiwan. The U.S. transition to democracy in the its dictatorship and promote its Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen propaganda. The communist Taiwan for as long as is necessary takes no position on sovereignty 1990s, after the ruling Nationalist authoritarian ways abroad. demonstrated the ROC’s growing People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to defend against invasion by the over Taiwan.” Party (Kuomintang), which had As the United States shifts international profile. periodically sends aircraft and PRC, that Washington would “What we are doing, though, been driven from mainland China its China policy from hopeful “Taiwan is a highly advanced ships to menace the island. not take a position on the ROC’s is making some important by communist rebels in 1949, gave engagement to ideological $600 billion economy with 23 But despite not being officially sovereignty, and that it “will never updates to our engagement with up its policies of martial law. The confrontation, Taiwan and its million free people. It is a vision recognized by the United States or pressure Taiwan to negotiate with Taiwan to better reflect these island is still formally known as democratic system have come to of how much the Chinese people any other major countries, Taiwan Beijing.” policies and respond to changing the Republic of China (ROC). play a greater role in Washington’s can achieve,” Stilwell said. has received increasingly clearer Another declassified memo circumstances,” he said.

China Freezes Visa Renewals for Journalists with US-Based News Outlets VOA News applied to renew their press Wall Street Journal and Getty State Department and The Wall Street Journal, credentials, which last for a Images, a visual media company spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus after the Trump administration full year, have instead received which provides digital images for The U.S. State issued a statement saying that limited the number of Chinese hinese authorities have temporary press credentials and news outlets around the world. Department the U.S. “is of course troubled nationals allowed to work in stopped renewing press a new visa which lasts for only The Times says it has learned that these proposed actions five state-run news outlets credentials for foreign two months. from one journalist that Chinese expressed by the P.R.C. will worsen the operating in the United States Cjournalists working for U.S. CNN has confirmed that authorities have said if the Trump reporting environment in China,” to 100. news organizations in China, one of its own correspondents, administration decides to expel concern about a reference to the People’s Republic The Trump administration the latest move in a continuing American-born David Culver, is Chinese journalists who are the move. of China, the country’s formal then announced in May that cycle of tit-for-tat retaliations one of the journalists affected by now under new visa regulations name. all Chinese journalists would between Beijing and Washington China’s decision. The New York imposed by the U.S Department The dispute began in March, only receive 90-day work visas, over economic and diplomatic Times says in addition to CNN, of Homeland Security in May, when Beijing expelled several as opposed to the open-ended, disputes. other journalists immediately Beijing will take reciprocal journalists from The New York single entry visas they had Journalists who have recently affected by the move work for The action. Times, The Washington Post previously been granted. A4 | September 11 - 24, 2020 CHINA www.VisionTimes.com

League who was interviewed by The Epoch Times reported this Inner Mongolians Protest Communist phenomenon in her own child, who is now in college, but can only speak basic Mongolian and struggles with reading and Party's Language Policies writing. Screenshot Documents leaked to The Continued from FRONT In Tibet and Xinjiang, where there Epoch Times show that local is some degree of unrest, local authorities are being ordered to Many Chinese Mongol, who languages have been suppressed implement the language policies are already highly integrated for decades and even more so in through a variety of coercive with Chinese society and make the last few years. More than one measures, such as withholding up just 20 percent of the 24 million million Uyghur Muslims have wages for parents of children who people living in the region, say been held in concentration camps, do not return to school. that the policy will leave children where, along with abuses like unversed in their own language forced labor and sterilization, they ‘Mongolians until death’ and literature, given the subjects are also forced to learn Mandarin Despite the measures, opposition to be Sinicized. They also fear that and recite phrases praising the to the policies has been fierce. In the policy may be expanded in Communist Party. one video, an ethnic Mongol girl future to ban the use of Mongolian says that she would rather “herd entirely. Cultural destruction my cattle than go to a Chinese “As authorities began making Inner Mongolia has been part of school.” arrests of protesters, Inner China for several hundred years, Another video shows students Mongolia government documents since it was incorporated into the shouting: “Mongolian is our revealed that local officials were imperial Qing Dynasty. Due to mother language. We are being asked to suppress protests, generations of immigration and Mongolians until death!” while monitoring students and later, CCP policies, Han Chinese A number of Mongolian pressuring parents into forcing — around 92 percent of China’s Mongolian students protest for the right to be educated in Mongolian language in Inner Mongolia, teachers have resigned, and them to return to class,” as 1.4 billion people — now make China, in August 2020. several people have committed reported by The Epoch Times. up more than 70 percent of Inner Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center suicide to protest the language When the CCP came to power, Mongolia’s population. policies. it followed the example of the Chinese Mongols number On Sept. 4, Radio Free Asia Soviet Union in giving extensive nearly 6 million, more than double A Party official reported that a 33-year-old ethnic lip service to the protection of the population of Mongolia, also Mongolian CCP official killed minority rights and identity. known as Outer Mongolia, which was among herself. The woman’s husband and For decades, ethnic minorities is an independent country. those who other family members confirmed like the Mongols were allowed Ethnic Mongolian Chinese that she had died to protest the some measure of freedom to use are a highly integrated group. committed policies to phase out Mongolian their native languages in official Many members of the younger instruction. settings. generations already find it hard sucide to protest Other suicides include those of But in recent years, as the Party to preserve their language and the language a Mongolian-language teacher in tightened its rule over ordinary cultural traditions due to societal Xilingol League, and two students Chinese society, even those and economic pressure. instruction ban. in high school and elementary liberties are coming under attack. A woman from the Xilingol Photos of the late ethnic Mongolian CCP official and her suicide note. school.

Bitter Winter People’s Homes Destroyed to Build ‘New Socialist Countryside’

By Sun Kairui The families had to move to the areas. Without giving any Bitter Winter sheds after their homes were compensation, the authorities demolished while implementing ordered over 30 rural households The policy was the “new socialist countryside” to demolish their houses and proclaimed “a ehind the “success” policy. Launched by China’s relocate, promising to build new of the CCP’s rural National People’s Congress in homes next year. Four years later, success,” but revitalization campaign March 2006, the campaign was the promise has not been fulfilled: Bhide stories of misery and pain intended to help 800 million rural Younger residents have left, the stories of its by its “beneficiaries.” residents catch up economically looking for jobs elsewhere, while “beneficiaries” The East Asian rainy season, with those living in the cities. over 30 elderly inhabitants who called meiyu or plum rains in Actively promoted by President could not afford to relocate moved paint a different China, start in late spring or Xi Jinping, the policy was to makeshift bamboo sheds. early summer each year and proclaimed “a success,” but the “It was raining cats and dogs on picture. may last for a few months. The stories of its “beneficiaries” paint the night of July 20, and the wind plum rains came to the eastern a different picture. was so strong that it removed A man in his 80s sits outside his shed. province of Zhejiang on May 29 The troubles for the 30 people the roof from a shed where two condition, but the government this year and lasted for 50 days, living in these bamboo sheds families live,” a woman in her 80s, ordered to demolish it. Officials passed away.” that it was the Party’s policy to heavy downpours coming one started during the New Year of who lives with her husband in a told us that the new countryside Another resident, also in his construct the new countryside,” after another. 2016 when the Xianju county bamboo shed, remembered. was for our benefit and that they 60s, added that his shed leaks the man remembered. “My son This time was particularly hard government started building “I was lucky that my shed had would build a new house for us every time it rains. “My clothes, was worried that he would be sent on 30 elderly people who live in the “new orderly and beautiful survived. We never expected in the future if we agreed to the comforters, and all my rice crop to jail if he disobeyed. He had no shabby bamboo sheds in Xianju countryside” in response to to live like this in our old age: demolition. But it was a lie. We still get wet,” the man lamented. choice but to sign an agreement to county administered by the the central government’s call without a real home or hope. live in sheds built with bamboo “During a typhoon last year, the relocate. The government does not prefecture-level city of Taizhou. to revitalize China’s rural Our house was in perfectly good that has become moldy and eaten iron sheets on my roof were swept care about our living conditions.” by worms. They may collapse away, and the floor was covered The construction of the new any day. It’s terribly cold in the with water. Over 500 kilos of rice countryside is in full swing. winter and unbearably hot in the in the shed sprouted from the Like these 30 people living in summer,” the woman said. humidity.” miserable conditions, countless “We may have to wait forever Another resident in his 80s who people across China suffer the FALUN DAFA to have new homes,” a village lives alone disclosed that he did consequences of the CCP’s vanity resident in his 60s complained. not agree to his home’s demolition projects. “Over the four years, five or six at first. “But then one official elderly people who lived here have started shouting at us, saying Text has been edited for style.

Hundreds Arrested in Hong Kong Protests to Commemorate Postponed Elections VOA News would be postponed for a year, police wrote in a Facebook post because of the coronavirus Sunday evening that 289 people pandemic. had been arrested, mainly for t least 289 people were The move was widely seen as gathering illegally. One woman A CULTIVATION PRACTICE OF MIND AND BODY arrested in Hong Kong a blow to the pro-democracy was arrested and charged with With 5 sets of gentle exercises. More info at FalunDafa. Sunday during protests camp, which was expected assault and spreading pro- org. Visit these NW practice sites for free instruction. Aagainst the postponement of to do well in the election. The independence slogans, the police legislative elections. election would have been department said on its Facebook The elections, originally the first in Hong Kong since page. PORTLAND: Waterfront Park, South of Hawthorne bridge. scheduled to be held Sunday, are Beijing imposed a new security Though smaller and less Sundays 9:10-11:10 a.m. Contact: Xiaoyang (503) 228-1514 one of the few times Hong Kong law in June. The government frequent than in 2019, protests for In front of the Beaverton Library. residents get to cast ballots. maintains the postponement democracy and independence in BEAVERTON: China’s hand-picked Hong was not politically motivated. Hong Kong have continued despite Saturdays 8:00-10:00 a.m. Kong leader, Chief Executive Riot police shot rounds of concerns about the coronavirus Contact: Amy (503) 208-6616 Carrie Lam, announced in pepper balls at protesters Sunday, pandemic, particularly after the late July that the city’s election Reuters reported. Hong Kong June legislation. WORLD September 11 - 24, 2020 | A5 www.VisionTimes.com

was “undermining international norms.” European Attitudes Harden as Czech “Russia, China and Turkey share three common characteristics: They are sovereigntists on the outside and authoritarian on Visit to Taiwan Triggers Chinese Fury the inside,” Borrell wrote in an article in newspaper Le Journal YouTube/Screenshot de Dimanche. By Henry Ridgwell Vystrcil’s address drew a standing China’s diplomatic approach In another article for the Voice of America ovation from Czech lawmakers. could backfire, said professor journal Politica Exterior, Borell Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing- Steve Tsang, director of the School wrote: “[China’s] objective wen, said Thursday that she hoped of Oriental and African Studies’ is the transformation of the ONDON - A bitter dispute the Czech visit would strengthen China Institute at the University international order toward a between China and the ties with Europe. of London. selective multilateral system Czech Republic threatens “Our actions are telling friends “We are seeing a Chinese with Chinese characteristics, in Lto affect relations between Europe in Europe and all over the world, government which is much more which economic and social rights and Beijing. whether Taiwanese or Czechs, we assertive if not outright aggressive are prioritized over political and A delegation from the Czech will not succumb to oppression, in its approach, and that is civil rights.” Senate has visited Taiwan, we will bravely speak up, actively changing opinions in Europe,” Tsang said there is a general which China claims as part of its participate in international Tsang told VOA. hardening of attitudes within territory. A strongly worded threat affairs and contribute with our The Czech population is the EU. “And that hardening is from Beijing against the head of capabilities,” she said. especially sensitive to threats primarily a response to the ‘wolf the delegation prompted criticism Beijing has reacted with fury. from a foreign power, said China warrior’ diplomacy of China, from European Union leaders. Hua Chunying, a spokesperson analyst Filip Jirous of the Prague- whether it is pitched against the The dispute comes as Europe for the Chinese Ministry of based analyst group Sinopsis. Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen on Sept. 3 presents Czech Senate Pres- COVID-19 crisis or because has hardened its language Foreign Affairs, told reporters that “It’s sort of part of the Czech ident Milos Vystrcil with a posthumous medal in honor of the latter’s of events in Hong Kong, or in toward Beijing on a range of Beijing "hopes that the Czech side historical narrative that it was predecessor Jaroslav Kubera, who worked to further Czech-Taiwan ties. Xinjiang, or Tibet, or the Sino- disagreements in recent months, will recognize the serious damage always, like, this foreign power Indian borders and South China from the crackdown on pro- caused by the Senate president's that was sort of dictating what we Sea.” democracy protests in Hong actions to Sino-Czech relations. do,” Jirous told VOA. “Obviously gateway for Chinese investment swung against China, fueled by Xi is expected to attend a Kong to China’s handling of the Their actions will not change in there was Germany, or it was in Europe — in President Milos a series of financial scandals, summit hosted by EU leaders coronavirus pandemic. the slightest the fact that Taiwan Russia in the past, and now you Zeman’s words, “an unsinkable including secret payments made and German Chancellor Angela Speaking Tuesday in the is an inalienable part of Chinese have China as this big country aircraft carrier of Chinese by the Chinese government to Merkel this month. Taiwanese parliament, the territory.” that tells us, ‘You can’t go to investment expansion.” staff at Prague's Charles University Embroiled in a bitter trade war president of the Czech Senate, Touring European capitals this Taiwan.' " It didn’t work out as planned, in return for favorable coverage with the United States, analysts Milos Vystrcil, called for week, China’s top diplomat, Wang Just a few years ago, relations said Jirous. “The economic side of and contacts. say, China is reluctant to sour democracies to safeguard Yi, warned that the Czech Senate between Beijing and Prague were things that were promised never Europe as a whole also is relations with Europe. Taiwanese their way of life. In Czech president would “pay a heavy among the strongest in Europe. came, and in the end, I would say hardening its language toward independence touches the rawest and Mandarin, he said, “I am price.” That drew widespread In 2015, the Czech Republic lots of people below the top tier of Beijing. In a recent newspaper of nerves in Beijing, however, and Taiwanese,” echoing the famous European condemnation, and the welcomed a visit from Chinese politics sort of felt uncomfortable article, the EU’s foreign policy there could yet be further fallout speech by John F. Kennedy on Czech government summoned President Xi Jinping, with a pledge with what was happening here.” chief, Josep Borrell, described from the visit by the Czech a visit to divided Berlin in 1963. the Chinese ambassador. the country would become the Czech public opinion has since China as a “new empire” that delegation.

accusations. In an apparent reference to China Launches Global Data Security Initiative Pompeo’s comments, Zhao said,” China has always been broad VOA News key points including not using YouTube/Screenshot and level, open and cooperative. technology to impair other If all countries, especially those countries’ critical infrastructure The policy intentionally smearing and hina’s foreign minister or steal data and making sure comes as an slandering China with wild announced Tuesday service providers don’t install allegations, could make such a the start of a global data backdoors in their products and apparent promise like China, it will be Csecurity initiative, outlining illegally obtain user data. jab at the beneficial to the mutual trust and principles that should be followed Wang, speaking in Beijing, cooperation on digital security in areas ranging from personal also said the initiative seeks an United States' issues among all countries." information to espionage. end to activities that “infringe recent "Clean The U.S. has accused China’s Wang Yi announced the upon personal information” technology companies of posing initiative in a video as part of and opposes using technology to Network" national security threats by a conference on international conduct mass surveillance against initiative. collecting user data and sending cooperation. The initiative other states. it back to Beijing. Companies, comes as the U.S. continues to The initiative says companies including Huawei and ByteDance, put pressure on China’s largest should also respect the laws of U.S. Secretary of State Mike have denied those allegations. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi in a video still. technology companies and tries host countries and stop coercing Pompeo last month unveiled the It is unclear if any other to convince countries around the domestic firms to store data "Clean Network" program, saying countries have signed on to world to block them. generated overseas in their own it is aimed at protecting citizen from "malign actors, such as the Many points of the initiative China’s initiative and how it will China’s initiative has eight territory. privacy and sensitive information Chinese Communist Party." appear to address some of those be implemented and policed.

Running Dry: Drought And Dams Deplete The Mighty Mekong

via Radio Free Asia Radio Free Asia dramatic impact on the flow of be covered with water. the Mekong. They are unique The change between the rainy for their capacity to store water, season and the current drought his year, the Mekong River which could be used to good effect is most apparent when viewed is as dry as anyone can if water was released at times of from above by satellite, as seen in remember, threatening shortage. But Weatherby said an image comparison from the Tthe livelihoods of tens of millions those dams are not being operated same location in September 2019 of people from the mountains transparently and in coordination and February 2020. of northern Laos to the delta with countries downstream. Local Another factor impacting the region of southern Vietnam. A communities have oftentimes flow of the river here has been the combination of lower than usual been caught unawares by a sudden start of operations in October of rainfall and runaway hydropower change in water level. the Xayaburi Dam – the first development is taking its toll on The most severe impact of the built by Laos on the mainstream people who depend on its waters drought for local people – and this of the Mekong. Proponents of the for irrigation and food. holds for people from the north of dam, with a maximum installed To gauge the impact, Radio Free Laos to the south -- is in fisheries. capacity of 1,285 megawatts of Asia and BenarNews spoke to Weatherby says the Mekong river electricity to be sold to Thailand, villagers, farmers and fishermen A satellite image comparison of the Mekong River, largest in Southeast Asia, between February 2020 system produces 2 million tons of say it won’t negatively impact the on the banks of the river along (right) and September 2019. fish every year, which is more than amount of water, nutrients and the length of Laos, which makes all the rivers and lakes of North fish of communities downstream. a key central section of the river Jinghong Dam reduced by one February was what it’s usually The drop in the level of Mekong America combined. People rely But that is widely disputed. along its border with Thailand. half the amount of water it releases like after two more months of the in the north is apparent from on those fish not just for food but Weatherby said the direct We found them struggling to into the Mekong. dry season during the Songkran this satellite image comparison for their livelihoods. impact of the dam is difficult cope with the alarming drop in At Luang Prabang in northern festival when both Thais and Lao between last September, during to gauge, but it is apparent. For the water level and fearing that the Laos, where the Mekong winds celebrate the lunar New Year in the rainy season, and what it is in Center communities in Thailand and situation will only worsen in the through steep-sided mountains mid-April. February, in the depth of the dry Moving south to Vientiane Laos just downstream, “you can coming months. that shadow the former royal Courtney Weatherby, a research season, It shows the view above Province in central Laos, the see the slow-down and then the capital of the country, the drought analyst and expert on the Mekong Tonpheuang district of Laos’ Mekong typically widens, but rapid flood as the dam holds in North has been so severe that the mighty at the Stimson Center think tank Bokeo province, opposite Chiang these days a wider expanse of and releases water for testing or Through northern Laos and river has shrunk and land features in Washington, D.C., said the Saen district in Thailand’s Chiang the once-submerged river bed is operations,” she said. Thailand, the Mekong is typically in the river bed are much more main cause of the drought on Rai province. exposed. Every dry season there In Chiang Khan district of more narrow and faster-flowing prominent than before. the Mekong is low rainfall. That But a paucity of rain is only is a dramatic change in the river’s Thailand’s northeastern Loei than it is further south. But To the west of Luang Prabang, is a knock-on climatic effect of part of the story. Another reason appearance as monsoon rains province, a villager says the river communities on either side of across the Thai border in El Nino – an irregular warming is the changes being wrought by recede, the land temperature rises has been noticeably lower than the border have felt the impact of Chiang Saen district, Chiang of ocean water in the Pacific -- hydropower development. “Both and the volume of water decreases. usual since the end of last year. drought. They’ve also experienced Rai province, the drought is but it may also reflect a broader of these are key factors for the But this year the change is more “Before, there was a lot of fish; an abrupt variation when water affecting local fishermen, who shift possibly associated with severity of this year’s drought,” pronounced than usual. At Pakjan this year, there is no fish at all,” has been held back inside China, have seen their catch plummet. climate change where the rainy Weatherby said. village in Meun district, which lies the villager said. as happened in early January One of the fishermen, named season starts later and is shorter, Part of the problem is China’s west of the Lao capital, people can when for several days, the Chai, said the water level in mid- as happened in 2019. upstream dams that can have a walk on sand that would usually To be continued in next issue. A6 | Sept 11 – 24, 2020 A6 | September 11 - 24, 2020 VIEWPOINTS www.VisionTimes.com

19 pandemic and its subsequent attempts to exploit the crisis have The CCP’s Deep Infiltration into Social produced enduring problems for the rest of the world,” wrote an article in Foreign Affairs on August 11 with the title An Answer Media and News Media in the Free World to Aggression: How to Push Back By Qing Yu and Xin Yan have many other fake accounts a high levy and leading to the through dozens of foreign bureaus wife, Lois Wheeler, did not truly Against Beijing. Minghui.org as followers, and even the same starvation deaths of at least 45 and broadcasts in seven languages. understand the CCP until the “But the CCP’s behavior has also approved comment could be reused million people between 1959 and “China Radio International has Tiananmen Square Massacre in helped clarify the threat that China many times in various accounts for 1961. contracts to broadcast from more 1989. The money she donated poses to the security, prosperity, and alen Keegan, a college numerous articles. In Orwell’s novel, Thought than a dozen radio stations in the to some families of the victims well-being of other countries,” the student at the University of The operators of the fake accounts Police constantly surveil citizens United States alone, while China was confiscated. As she visited article continues. “The United States Nebraska, had her Twitter also offer payments to prominent through two-way televisions and Daily places inserts in newspapers China again in 2000 with her son, can no longer afford to treat China Kaccount hacked. Her old posts Twitter users with large followings hidden cameras. The Ministry of such as the Washington Post, for planning to see a mother whose as just another trading partner.” disappeared and were replaced by to post pro-CCP videos. Chinese Love monitors and arrests both as much as $250,000 an issue,” the son died in the Massacre, “they “Big brother is watching you” is content accusing protesters in the dissident Baidiucao in Australia, real and imagined dissidents. report explained. were surrounded at the gate of a well-known slogan in Nineteen Hong Kong democratic movement who had 70,000 followers on In China, officials track people It was estimated that the CCP has People’s University in Beijing... at Eighty-Four. In today’s China, of “fomenting a ‘color revolution’ Twitter, was once approached by an through social media such as spent at least 45 billion yuan (or $6.6 least two dozen plainclothes police however, the state-of-the-art backed by an ‘anti-Chinese account that claimed to be a cultural WeChat and countless surveillance billion) on overseas propaganda officers, filmed surreptitiously and censorship has surpassed what American conspiracy,’ a message exchange company and offered cameras. Dissidents are suppressed since 2009. In 2011, Xinhua rented prevented [them] from entering,” was described in the novel. From aligned with the tone of the Chinese 1,700 RMB (or $240) per post. and arrested, and people of faith a large digital bulletin board reported an article in the New various social media platforms to Communist Party (CCP). As time such as Falun Gong practitioners overlooking Times Square at the York Times in April 2018 with the internet control, from omnipresent went on, the posts were updated to are detained and tortured for price of $300,000 to $400,000 title of Lois Wheeler Snow, Critic surveillance cameras to mandatory discuss the coronavirus pandemic, ...more than their belief in the principles of per month. Panda, Great Wall, of Human Rights Abuses in China, facial scans even when using again closely following the CCP’s truthfulness, compassion, and Forbidden City, and Three Gorges Dies at 97. public bathrooms, the intensity of narratives. 10,000 suspected tolerance. soon became buzz words for the monitoring and control has reached Above was a case covered by CCP to market itself. Compared to decades ago, the an unprecedented level. News Break in a March 2020 article fake Twitter White Paper: the CCP’s In July 2016, an international CCP now has much more influence titled How China Built a Twitter accounts overt and covert influence court ruled over contested waters in on public opinion. This includes Propaganda Machine Then Let It The Cyber Policy Center at the South China Sea in favor of the traditional news outlets and various Falun Gong Loose on Coronavirus. Since August involved in a Stanford University published a Philippines. The CCP immediately social media platforms, such as 2019, the authors of the article coordinated white paper in July with the title of launched a retaliatory campaign Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. practitioners have have “tracked more than 10,000 Telling China’s Story: The Chinese through the Times Square bulletin Wang Liqiang, a Chinese spy who been the largest suspected fake Twitter accounts influence Communist Party’s Campaign board by playing a three minute defected to Australia, stated that involved in a coordinated influence campaign to Shape Global Narratives. This video 120 times per day for 12 days he had participated in the CCP’s group persecuted campaign with ties to the Chinese 52-page report analyzed how the straight. meddling in the 2018 Taiwanese for their faith by government.” CCP uses its extensive apparatus local elections by creating 200,000 Propaganda in the to “advance both its domestic The CCPs’ overseas agents fake social media accounts. In the CCP Hijacked social media accounts Orwellian state monopoly on power and its claims As a result of extensive investment addition, a Hong Kong front These hacked accounts were In his 1949 work Nineteen Eighty- to global leadership.” and infiltration by the CCP, many company created twenty other Those who dare to challenge the used to spread propaganda Four, British author George Orwell Authors of the white paper overseas news media — especially “internet companies” to attack CCP often face serious punishment. and disinformation about the explored the consequences of an include Renee DiTesta, Technical those published in Chinese — the political party that the CCP Ren Zhiqiang, a property tycoon, coronavirus outbreak, the Hong imaginary totalitarian regime. Research Manager from the yielded to the regime and now serve disliked. Wang said he also has been detained and faces charges Kong protests, and other topics of One slogan used by the ruling Stanford Internet Observatory, as its mouthpieces. gave 1.5 billion RMB (over $200 for criticizing the CCP leadership. interest to the CCP. The owners of party was, “Who controls the past, and John Pomfret, former Beijing “Thirty years ago, Chinese- million USD) to Taiwanese media Tsinghua University professor Xu these hijacked accounts came from controls the future: who controls bureau chief for the Washington language media outside of China properties to promote a candidate Zhangrun was fired for expressing all walks of life. “They included a the present controls the past.” It Post. reflected a diverse range of political that the CCP favored for the Mayor unfavorable opinions about the professor in North Carolina; a means that because the Inner Party The report started with an perspectives. Today, after significant of Kaohsiung. CCP. Citizen journalists such as graphic artist and a mother in has the capability to rewrite history, anecdote from the Korean War in investment from China and pro- Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin have Massachusetts; a web designer in it can manipulate public opinion. which the CCP claimed in 1952 that CCP interests, Chinese language Spreading lies via the been missing for months after the U.K.; and a business analyst in Similarly, due to its totalitarian the U.S. had waged germ warfare publications that echo and amplify Chinese state apparatus criticizing the CCP for covering Australia,” the article wrote. power, it believes it has the authority that led to the outbreak of bubonic CCP narratives dominate,” wrote Although Chinese scientists up the coronavirus outbreak. The article couldn't tell “whether to rewrite history. plague, anthrax, and cholera. the white paper. confirmed the coronavirus Inside China, Falun Gong the current fake account holders Winston Smith, the book’s “[The CCP] established a base of The regime also put in more effort infection in December 2019, the practitioners have been the largest hacked the accounts themselves or protagonist, works in the Ministry operations in Prague from which to gain influence in international CCP did not acknowledge it until group persecuted for their faith purchased them from elsewhere,” of Truth. His responsibility is they cultivated Western leftist news media. “China’s government January 20, three days before by the CCP. Because of the CCP’s but it indicates that the true scale rewriting historical records that and pacifist sympathizers who has brought hundreds of journalists the lockdown of the epicenter recent disinformation campaigns, of the CCP influence campaign is conform to the Party’s ever- amplified their claims in Western from developing countries to China Wuhan. One day after the World more government officials in the likely much bigger than previously changing views of history. To some media,” wrote the report. for training courses that showcase Health Organization (WHO) international community have thought. “Our tracking suggests degree, it has functions similar to Although this episode has the economic and technological declared the coronavirus outbreak come to understand the Chinese that the accounts we identified the CCP’s Propaganda Department become history, such tactics from achievements of China’s governance a pandemic, Chinese Foreign regime’s threat to the world. comprise only a portion of the (later renamed to the Publicity the CCP continues. “The CCP model,” the white paper continued. Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian Members of the Virginia General operation,” the article added. Department) and the United Front. succeeded in clouding the record “The Chinese government typically bluntly blamed the United States for Assembly, the oldest continuous The author was able to identify at With censorship and lies inside so that belief in American perfidy pays their expenses, offers being the origin of the virus. lawmaking body in the United least one company behind some of China, as well as disinformation endures in certain circles,” wrote stipends, and provides generous Amplified through Twitter, States since 1619, wrote a letter these hacked accounts. OneSight outside China, the CCP actively the report. “This disinformation accommodations and sightseeing WeChat, and TikTok, and pro- to U.S. Secretary of State Michael (Beijing) Technology Ltd. is an pushes false narratives to Chinese campaign blended overt opportunities, which return CCP media and agents claimed Pompeo on July 29, urging internet marketing company based people and the rest of the world. propaganda and the recruitment dividends in goodwill and favorable the virus came from Fort Detrick, him to help stop forced organ in Beijing and “held a contract to Interestingly, the Orwellian state of credulous authorities to amplify coverage when the journalists a U.S. military base in Maryland. harvesting from living Falun Gong boost the Twitter following of China also has several ministries that and legitimate CCP talking points, return home.” Although it is widely known as a practitioners in China. News Service, the country’s second- resemble how the CCP mistreats seed doubt and suspicion, and build This strategy dates back to before hoax outside China, it deceived “We are writing in solidarity largest state-owned news agency. people. For example, the Ministry up the domestic and international the CCP took power in 1949. many people inside China with survivors and those who can The news service operates under the of Plenty rations and controls food standing of the CCP at the expense American journalist Edgar Snow and sparked confusion in the no longer speak for themselves. United Front Work Department, in the name of raising the standard of its adversaries.” interviewed Mao Zedong in 1930 international community. We ask for your leadership, and an arm of the Chinese Communist of living, while causing starvation To dominate narratives in and, based on the one-sided story, Since the totalitarian CCP regime the considerable leverage of the Party long responsible for influence in reality. Under the CCP, officials international society, the CCP has published the book Red Star Over mobilizes the entire state apparatus United States, to ensure that next operations in foreign countries.” exaggerated grain production by continually expanded its overseas China. This book misled many for disinformation and lying, the year we are not observing 22 years The article found that operators of tens or hundreds of times during operations. Xinhua has become Chinese and Westerners to support consequences are severe. “The of persecution,” wrote the letter. these accounts often work together. the Great Leap Forward movement one of the largest news agencies in communism. Chinese Communist Party’s initial For example, one fake account may in 1958, causing the collection of the world, while CGTN operates Snow died in 1972, and his mismanagement of the COVID- Text has been edited for style.

To The Media: Why won’t you Overreactions to the WeChat touch forced organ harvesting? ban By Donald Clark turned journalist who is by no means a The China Collection.org basically everything WeChat impinge on the ability of people up.) panda-hugger, useful idiot, CCP does in terms of communication, to communicate between the It can’t be explained on the apologist, or whatever derogatory and used to be widely used in US and China. Where does the was struck by a news report grounds of the story being trivial term you prefer. It was very clear he ban on WeChat will China before it was supplanted fault lie, causally speaking? To yesterday from the Associated or uninteresting. It can’t be he just didn’t want to know. I not cut people in the US by WeChat. So before you tell figure that out we need to ask why Press: “UK public tribunal explained on the grounds that urged him again and again to just off from their friends me that people won’t be able to alternatives are not available, and Ito probe Uighur genocide the type of investigation, or the read Robertson’s report. Finally andT family in China. They communicate with friends and who is responsible for that. Two allegations“. This will be an person leading it, suggest that it’s he agreed. Less than 30 minutes communicated before WeChat family in China any more, you alternatives are (as the Stuart independent tribunal chaired unserious. The mere formation later, in which time he could not existed and will continue to do need to explain (a) why what they Lau post notes) Whats App and by an experienced and highly of such a tribunal under Nice is possibly have actually read the so if it’s banned. There are many did before WeChat won’t work Facebook Messenger. There is reputable human rights lawyer, apparently newsworthy in this report, he called back to dismiss it quite serviceable alternatives. any more, and (b) why none of also Line, a communications Sir Geoffrey Nice. most recent case. on the grounds of some footnotes And who exactly is bigger in the the communications methods app that is widely used in Yet when the identical Geoffrey I can only think it’s a that were quite tangential to the banning business, anyway?. I’ve mentioned above won’t work Japan and Taiwan, with over Nice chaired an identical type of combination of the horror of the main body of evidence. And this is any more 700 million users worldwide tribunal to look into allegations phenomenon, making everyone a guy who was not hostile and was Two points I get that WeChat has many by 2017, according to the of forced organ harvesting in want to turn away, combined at least willing to listen to me argue First, can we please remember convenient functions and a Wikipedia entry. But they are China, and ultimately issued a with its unfortunate association at length about why he should read that before WeChat existed, great interface that people all banned in China. So it is report with damning evidence – with Falun Gong, who as a group the report. people somehow managed to like. That’s why it’s been so a bit hard to say that it is the certainly enough to put the ball in don’t have a lot of credibility. Last I urge people to get over your communicate between the US successful. But come on, people: ban on WeChat that is making China’s court to offer an alternative March I blogged about this issue; feelings about FLG (I won’t call and China, and it wasn’t difficult? the idea that banning it cuts off communications difficult. The explanation of the facts – what was here’s just another bit of proof of them prejudices because they At this very moment, there are communication between people Chinese government is the one the media’s response? Basically, the problem. might be justified) and just look at a number of ways that it can in the US and China is silly. that is actively in the banning crickets. From the Associated When Matthew Robertson’s the evidence and the plausibility of be done: telephone calls, text Second, let’s suppose for the business, and they’ve got a Press specifically? Nothing. (At report on organ harvesting came the various hypotheses that might messages, email, WhatsApp, sake of argument (but only for the big head start on the Trump least nothing that a Google search out, I had a very discouraging explain it. Signal, and let’s not forget QQ, sake of argument) that banning administration. SeptemberSept 1111 –- 24, 2020 | A7 Wisdom & Wellness www.VisionTimes.com

Image by Devanath/PIxabay CC0 1.0 In ancient China, men were Highest honors normally seen as a woman’s After 12 years of combat, Hua Hua Mulan: superior. It was unheard of that a Mulan received honors from the woman would even dare to deem emperor for valor. Her superior, herself a man’s equal. Mulan took General Xiu Ping, offered her an her father’s place out of deep love official post in the court. Mulan Wisdom & Wellness May 23 — 29, 2019 B2Heroine of for him and a sense of loyalty to declined humbly. Instead, she her motherland, and, of course, requested the fastest steed to take

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She lived during the village with their three children, sign up for military duty. Mulan’s She put them on and cut off her humorous adaptations of the back were shocked when they Northern and Southern dynasties one of whom was Mulan. She was family name was Huā (meaning long black hair. With tears in her story. She’s accompanied by a pet saw this. Was it possible? Is this (420-589Your CE). In Chinese family a lovelyWa and obedientY maiden. Byto “flower”) and Succe when it was called eyes, Mulan silentlySS bid her family dragon, speaks fluent English, really the same person who relationships, respect, obedience, the time Mulan had reached her out, Mulan’s father was compelled goodbye. and her gender becomes known fought so bravely by their side and care for one’s parents and teens, she had excelled at learning to go. She was devastated. Mulan With her father’s sword slung to some of the soldiers. And for 12 years? the elderly (or filial piety) are martial arts. knew her father was old and across her chest, she rode out of guess what? They were actually Hua Mulan is the essence of considered a special feature within ContinuedOne day, from by B1decree of the frail, and she was Japan,afraid thatit is commonhe the to village see people on horseback. snoozing No in one quite fine with it! According to filial piety. She fearlessly shielded An afternoon cafes, on the train, in shops, and even in offices. the nation’s cultural history and emperor, it was announced that might not make it back home. She saw her again for 12 years. Mulan the Ballad of Mulan, a poem that her father from the ravages of war snooze isn’t “Lots of people confide in me all the time that they The practice is known as inemuri, which means customs. The ancient story of thesleep country at work. wasThey preparing will come forup to thoughtme and say, hard ‘I don’t and made“sleeping a plan. on duty.”went off to take her father’s place was written in the 6th century, it’s and fought for her country with Mulanpopular highlights in a tender bond war.want Huns anyone were to knowthreatening but I sleep the on the job,’” Gru- Inemuri is evenamong encouraged the other in somewarriors work from- only after she returns back home amazing dignity and courage. betweenNorth a father American and his daughter. emperor’sman said. “Usually rule again at around and one two o’clockMulan or theso peo warrior- places because it allowsher province; workers the time young to restore Mulan from the war that her gender is This is why Mulan’s story is still manple get from fatigued each and family they wantin the to takeMulan a nap. bought And if a horsetheir and focus went whileto dressedon the job. in a military outfit, revealed. loved and retold countless times Abusiness symbol of filial culture piety provincethey do, they’re was commandedgoing to get better to atget what her they father’s do.” military“In uniform. fact, taking disguised a nap is oftenas a man. a symbol of the by Chinese people. success of a hard worker who is entitled to the yet, but it Napping Is Natural rest,” Kenny said. “It is part of the work/life bal- should be Nobody disputes our need for a nightly sleep. But ance in Japan. In turn, the workforce is more pro- for many people, sleeping for a short period during ductive, efficient, and ultimately happier.” soils. The farmer did as he was told, my success. The farmer has a pig’s the day has an ugly stigma attached to it. It reeks According to certified pediatric sleep consult- and the next year no farmers had blood now.” The farmer held a How the Farmerof laziness and indulgence—an Lost activity reserved His ant RikiVirtue Taubenblat, we are biologically wired to any harvest except the farmer. He banquet; many rich men came, Vision Times Staff Theexclusively little demon for babies, saw that the his ill, plot and thetwo elderly. swallows fightingwant over an aafternoon nest. 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Humble victory The “Art of War” presents warfare as a necessary evil that should be handled surgically and as decisively as possible. Sun Tzu teaches stoic efficiency, detached from temporary successes and setbacks. In this way, the best commanders resolve conflicts A Ming Dynasty depiction of Sun Bin, unknown artist. effortlessly. “Hence his victories bring One master, two disciples three days, he had learned the him neither reputation for From a young age, both Sun text by heart. wisdom nor credit for courage. and Pang learned from the When Sun Bin went to join He wins his battles by making Taoist hermit, Gui Gu Zi (鬼 Pang Juan in Wei State, Gui Gu no mistakes,” Sun Tzu wrote. 谷子), in an eastern Chinese Zi warned him that he would Pang Juan, in addition to valley. This master specialized one day achieve greatness, but betraying his fellow student not just in strategy but also in only in the service of his native and ignoring his master, reading fortunes, debate, and land, Qi (齊). was attached to the glory Inscribed bamboo-slips of “The Art of War,” unearthed in Yinque Mountain, Linyi, Shandong in 1972. The personal cultivation. and fortune that being a slips are dated back to the 2nd century B.C. He had a prophecy about A heart of darkness general offered him. He was his two disciples: Pang, ever No sooner had Sun Bin arrived presumptive and paranoid, ambitious, needed to be loyal at Wei State did Pang Juan leading him to turn Sun Bin, Dine-In, Buffet to Sun, and if he failed in this begin to undermine him. Eager once his sworn brother, into a Carry-out he would meet his end by a to learn the secrets Sun had deadly enemy. Catering thousand arrows. studied with Gui Gu Zi in his As the “Art of War” would Pang then went to serve the absence, he conspired to have have described the two powerful state of Wei (魏), Sun Bin’s knees cut out and his disciples, “Thus it is that in making a name for himself as face tattooed, marking him as war the victorious strategist an unparalleled general. But he a traitor and forcing him into only seeks battle after the forgot Gui Gu Zi’s prophecy. Pang Juan’s care. victory has been won, whereas At first, thinking that Pang he who is destined to defeat first Sun Bin Learns From had saved him, Sun began fights and afterward looks for a Hidden Classic writing out the “Art of War” victory.” www.NamasteIndianCusine.com

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