[Epoch Times September 27, 2021]There have been many major events recently, which is dazzling. On the afternoon of September 24, the US Department of Justice reached an agreement with Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to allow her to return to China. Meng Wanzhou was released on the same day and flew back to China. While people were still surprised, the two Canadians arrested by the CCP also began to fly back to Canada. It feels like an exchange of hostages in war.
The U.S. and China release people at the same time, and the CCP has no evidence to release them
Meng Wanzhou attended a New York court in Canada via video call on the 24th and pleaded not guilty to a number of bank fraud charges. However, she did not dispute the prosecution’s statement of facts, that is, admitted that she had misled the bank about Huawei’s business in Iran. The two sides reached an agreement to suspend the prosecution, and the United States will withdraw the charges against Meng in December next year, provided that she meets certain conditions set by the court.
To put it bluntly, Meng Wanzhou admitted to concealing the fact of violating sanctions against Iran in exchange for the US to cancel the prosecution against her and revoke her extradition request.
Former Canadian diplomat Kovrig and businessman Spaffer detained by the CCP also arrived in Canada in the early morning of the 25th. In December 2018, Canada, at the request of the US government, arrested Meng Wanzhou, who was transiting in Vancouver. A few days later, the CCP detained the two people on suspicion of spying on intelligence. Many countries considered it to be “hostage diplomacy.”
After Meng Wanzhou’s release this time, the CCP released two Canadian citizens simultaneously, which also made the world look at the CCP’s rule of law jokes. Spaffer was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the CCP in August this year, and Kovrig was released before the sentence was pronounced. Therefore, netizens said that the accusations were all false. “There is no basis for arrest and no basis for release! The international claim of taking hostages has really been confirmed!”
The Canadian court subsequently announced the release of Meng Wanzhou. Meng Wanzhou returned to China from Vancouver on a chartered flight by the CCP government. The CCP’s state media vigorously promoted it as if it was a great event and another major victory. (Tang Qing reads current affairs)
U.S. obtains key confession that Huawei is a big loser
Because of the CCP’s information blockade and closed-door propaganda, Chinese people and overseas people have very different views on the same thing, or even completely opposite. This also reflects the increasingly fierce competition between the CCP and Western society in ideology, rule of law, and basic values. .
In fact, when China and the United States negotiate transactions, they generally advance and retreat from each other, each gaining and losing each other, and it cannot be a one-sided result. Therefore, the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party’s media is really unreliable.
The US Department of Justice has repeatedly stressed that Meng Wanzhou has pleaded guilty and will continue to investigate Huawei.
A press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice on the 24th said, “When signing the deferred prosecution agreement, Meng Wanzhou had already assumed responsibility for her main role in implementing the plan to defraud global financial institutions.”
The acting prosecutor of the Eastern District of New York claimed that Nicole Boeckmann said that Meng Wanzhou’s admission confirmed the crux of the U.S. prosecution of this financial fraud. It was that Meng Wanzhou and her Huawei colleagues organized the issue of Huawei’s presence in Iran. The activities deceived global financial institutions, the U.S. government and the public.
Hong Kong’s “Economic Daily” article underwent a headline, “The United States may use Meng Wanzhou’s confession to further attack Huawei.”
Well-known mainland lawyer Mo Shaoping also believes that according to this settlement, the U.S. government temporarily chose not to prosecute Meng, and Meng can be freed immediately. However, Meng admitted almost all factual allegations of the U.S. Department of Justice in the settlement, and he must not repent or repent. Change your mouth.
U.S. lawmakers warn against the CCP’s appeasement
That is to say, the United States has obtained key confessions and strong evidence against Huawei. The seizure of Meng Wanzhou will not yield much oil and water. Therefore, it is better to exchange the two Canadian hostages and also express the United States‘ support for the allies.
The day before reaching an agreement with Meng Wanzhou, the US Secretary of Commerce stated that he would continue to prevent Huawei from acquiring advanced chips. She said that if necessary, the US government can take further action against Huawei.
Even so, US Republican lawmakers have warned Biden not to appease the CCP. Senator Rubio said on the 25th that the release of Meng Wanzhou has raised serious questions about Biden’s ability and willingness to counter threats from Huawei and the CCP.
Therefore, the US release of Meng Wanzhou may be a signal to ease relations. But it is actually unlikely to ease. Western society is more and more aware of what the CCP is doing, so Biden wants to make peace but can’t make peace. What’s more, Biden is not stupid. He is a veteran of the political battlefield. How can he fail to see the overall situation of Sino-US competition? It may be that Trump’s approach is not tough.
In my opinion, catching and releasing Meng Wanzhou is just a small move in the Sino-US competition, irrespective of the overall situation. There was another major event on the 24th that deserves attention. (Tang Qing reads current affairs)
That is, the leaders of the United States, Japan, Australia and India held the first face-to-face “four-party dialogue” at the White House and issued a joint statement. The statement focuses on ten major issues, especially in the areas of creating high-quality vaccines, high-standard infrastructure, secure 5G, cyberspace cooperation, and maintaining stability in the Indo-Pacific region. Although it does not name the CCP, it clearly targets the CCP.
The day before, on the 23rd, U.S. Secretary of State Blincoln met with the foreign ministers of ten ASEAN countries. He said that the United States released a new version of the Indo-Pacific strategy in the fall, reiterating the United States’ vision for a free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific region. This is the first public Indo-Pacific strategy report since Biden took office. This reflects the fact that after the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the United States has shifted its strategic focus to responding to the challenges of the CCP, strengthened ties with allies and partners, and made every effort to reshape the Indo-Pacific territory.
The formation of a trilateral security alliance between the United States, Britain and Australia—AUKUS—is also a major event to deal with the CCP. The three countries formed a strong core alliance, not only to build a fleet of eight nuclear submarines for Australia, but also to share high technology such as artificial intelligence, networks, underwater systems, and long-range strike capabilities. With this, the United States gains a mainland-level base, exerts a stronger strategic deterrence against the CCP, and has a better chance of winning against the CCP in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.
Of course, because Australia withdrew from the submarine agreement with France, it caused friction between France and its allies in the United States, Britain and Australia. I think this is a normal argument between friends and does not affect the overall situation. At least Britain and Australia are vying to fight the CCP with the United States on the front line. Have you noticed that the free society led by the United States is now heavily encircling the CCP, forming a multi-layered strategic firepower network. The trilateral alliance with the United States, Britain and Australia as the core is a strong core, followed by the loose alliance of the four countries of the United States, Japan, Australia and India, then the intelligence cooperation of the Five Eyes Alliance, then the seven industrial nations, then the NATO alliance, and even in the Indo-Pacific. The region has also faintly formed a small NATO alliance. The CCP does not respect human rights. It fights against the heavens and the earth and fights against the people, infiltrating and expanding everywhere, and has become a lonely family.
French heavy report reveals that the CCP shakes France
France is not far behind to contain the CCP. On September 20, the Institute for Strategic Studies of the Military Academy (IRSEM) under the French Ministry of Defense published a report on “China’s Action for Influence”, fully exposing the CCP’s way of influencing, infiltrating and controlling the world on a global scale. More than 30 French media followed up on the report, causing shock.
The report described the recent changes in the Beijing regime as a “Machiavelli moment”, which is for the sake of power by unscrupulous means and immorality.
This 646-page report was completed by more than fifty experts in two years. The report elaborated on how the CCP has penetrated overseas in various fields in recent years to expand its global influence.
The report reveals that the CCP’s military has promoted three wars: “wars of public opinion” in various media, “psychological wars” that disrupt the decision-making of enemy countries, and “legal wars” against Western sanctions.
The implementation of the “three wars” strategy is the 311 military base of the Chinese Communist army in Fujian Province. All institutions such as WeChat, Weibo, TikTok, and Huawei must cooperate with this base to implement Beijing’s aggressive influence strategy.
The report also described an IT “troll army.” At least 2 million full-time and 20 million part-time Chinese people gathered to spread the CCP’s propaganda and flood social networks. They are commonly known as the “five cents army”. They manipulated the epidemic and incited online hatred of Hong Kong activists.
The report says that in the past ten years, the CCP has tried to influence at least ten elections in seven countries.
The report disclosed the CCP’s infiltration and coercion overseas, and its activities involved diasporas, media, diplomacy, economics, politics, education, think tanks, and manipulation of information. These actions have four main axes: defending the Chinese model, boasting Chinese traditions, demonstrating the good deeds of the CCP, and establishing its hegemony.
The report also expounded extensively on how the CCP suppressed and persecuted Falun Gong.
Don’t underestimate this report. The U.S. government and opposition have become more and more tough on the CCP. Several similar reports from the U.S. Congress and the government have played a huge role in educating Americans and even people around the world about the CCP. Therefore, the U.S. political circles and think tanks will not be tough on the CCP. It is the capitulation faction, it is the association with the devil. Therefore, I think the French report is an epoch-making move. (Tang Qing reads current affairs)
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