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As China Descends Into Crisis, Opposition Emerges in Communist Elite Sept 11–24, US–NW 2020 Edition 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 TWilliam 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. 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