[Epoch Times, June 15, 2021]Hello everyone, and welcome to “Current Affairs”, I am Fuyao. Today is Monday, June 14, 2021.
The focus of today’s attention: NATO’s resistance to communism is not uniform? There is still a big breakthrough in the communiqué; how embarrassing is Xi Jinping to challenge Beijing on how sensitive the issue is? The Wudu Institute feeds bats! A study on the refraction gain of related people’s lying; the Shiyan explosion shocked Zhongnanhai, was it political enemies causing chaos?
NATO’s resistance to communism is not complete?Communiqué still has a big breakthrough
On June 14, the NATO summit issued a joint communiqu with more than 140,000 words, mentioning the CCP ten times.
In the communiqué, China (the CCP) was listed for the first time as a “systemic challenge” of NATO, and was accused of rapidly expanding nuclear armaments, “opaque” information, “using false information” in the process of military modernization, and launching military cooperation with Russia. .
The communiqué stated that NATO will jointly deal with the challenges posed by the CCP as an alliance.
The two-day NATO summit kicked off on the 14th in Brussels. Leaders from 30 allies gathered together.
Agence France-Presse reported in advance that there were two “stumbling blocks” at the summit, one is the issue of defense funding, and the other is the issue of China that has received widespread attention. Regarding the latter, the strengths of the parties are not consistent.
First of all, the United States has a very clear attitude and hopes to obtain the support of its allies to jointly formulate a strategy to contain the Chinese Communist Party’s military rise.
On the eve of the summit (13th), the White House issued a statement revealing that the new strategic concept will be adopted at the NATO summit in 2022.
The White House stated that the new strategic framework “will guide NATO’s response to the ever-changing strategic environment, including Russia’s aggressive policies and actions; the People’s Republic of China’s challenges to our collective security, prosperity and values; and issues such as terrorism and cyber threats. And climate change and other international threats.”
Outsiders pointed out that this will be the first time in the NATO strategic framework that the military rise of the Chinese Communist regime is regarded as a challenge.
However, some allies seem to have withdrawn from the strategic adjustment that the United States is seeking.
According to FRI, the French Presidential Palace said euphemistically, “The core of NATO is the security of the Euro-Atlantic region. Now is not the time to dilute the effort.” Sky News reported that British Prime Minister Johnson ( Boris Johnson said before the summit, “No one in this room today wants to enter a new cold war with China.”
NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg (Jens Stoltenberg) has a relatively tough attitude towards the CCP. He has repeatedly pointed out that the CCP “affects security” and “disagrees with” the value of Western democracy and freedom, and that NATO countries should develop stronger Respond to policies together. However, he also said that there will be no new Cold War, and Beijing “is not an adversary, not an enemy.”
Under such circumstances, some people are not optimistic about the outcome of the summit’s discussion on the CCP. However, the current anti-communist trend in the world is immense, and no matter how many countries hesitate, it is impossible to return to the previous appeasement policy. The NATO summit communique this time is a very good example.
NATO is an important military force in the West and the most powerful regional defense alliance in the world, with a large number of nuclear weapons and conventional forces. It was established in April 1949 after the Second World War in response to the threat of communism. At the beginning of its establishment, NATO competed with the Eastern European countries headed by the Soviet Union, but now its object of resistance has become the CCP.
How embarrassing is it for the G7 to challenge Beijing Xi Jinping on more sensitive issues?
Before the NATO summit, the Group of Seven (G7) had just concluded a three-day summit. A number of issues related to China (the Chinese Communist Party) were also discussed at the meeting, including the Chinese Communist Party virus (Wuhan virus, new crown virus) epidemic, vaccines, and infrastructure. Construction, stability of the Taiwan Strait, etc.
An episode occurred during this period. The New York Times reported that the host, the United Kingdom, should be worried about the CCP’s eavesdropping, so when talking about related issues, it once cut off all the network and WiFi in the conference room. It can be seen that the CCP has done these things, and everyone in the world has long known it.
After the meeting, G7 issued a communiqué and directly named China (CCP) 4 times. On the economic front, the CCP is accused of using “non-market policies and behaviors” to undermine the fair and transparent economic operation of the world. Second, the leaders of the Group of Seven countries called on them to respect human rights in Xinjiang, allow Hong Kong to be highly autonomous, and avoid any unilateral actions that might undermine the stability of the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
Of course, there is another topic of focus, which is the investigation of the origin of the virus. The announcement said, “We also call for a timely, transparent, expert-led and scientifically-based second-stage study of the origin of COVID-19 in China in accordance with the recommendations of the expert report.”
Feng Chongyi, a professor of Chinese studies at the University of Sydney, told Radio Free Asia that this result should be a consensus reached on key issues after coordination among the seven countries. It is also the first time in decades that a Western bloc summit has made such a clear criticism of a regime that can be curbed. The CCP took the risk.
Feng Chongyi said, “This (is) a lesson, such as the previous appeasement policy. If you shake the olive branch and put peace first, it is equivalent to encouraging it (Beijing) to take adventurous actions.”
Regarding this communiqué, U.S. President Biden told reporters afterwards that he hoped that the content of the Chinese side could be tougher, but he was still “satisfied” with the final result.
On the other side, the CCP has jumped out to express “strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition.”
On the 14th, the Chinese Embassy in the UK first issued a statement stating that the G7 Communiqué “distorts facts and reverses right and wrong” on issues such as Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and “exposes the sinister intentions of a few countries such as the United States”.
The mouthpiece media “Global Times” published a social comment, saying that “Chinese people don’t eat this set” (https://news.sina.com.cn/c/2021-06-14/doc-ikqcfnca0901741.shtml); CCTV is Scolding G7 “has become a farce”, seeking personal gain for his “small circle, small group”.
However, as of the morning of the 15th, Beijing time, the CCP’s Wolves’ vanguard force, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had abnormally remained silent. I don’t know if it is still digesting Xi Jinping’s latest instructions and is brewing a “credible and lovely” response, or is it being cleaned up and there is no time to take care of it?
Commentator Yang Wei wrote in The Epoch Times that the G7 summit will largely determine the new international landscape, or at least set the tone. Outside the G7 summit circle, Xi Jinping is undoubtedly the most embarrassing one.
The leaders of the Communist Party of China repeatedly mentioned the “community of a shared future for mankind” and said that they would participate in global governance. Xi Jinping even directly said at the Boao Forum that the Communist Party would “seek great unity for the world.” However, how to deal with the CCP has become one of the themes of the G7 summit, and in addition to the heads of member states, the leaders of Australia, India, South Korea, South Africa, the European Union, and the UN Secretary-General are all invited to participate. After the G7 summit, there are the US-Europe summit and the US-Russia summit. A series of major international affairs are being discussed and planned intensively, but the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party have been excluded.
Yang Wei said that in the face of the G7 summit, the so-called head of state diplomacy of the CCP went bankrupt. It is foreseeable that its international diplomatic space will be further compressed, and the development of the international situation may be exactly the opposite of the “rising from the east” claimed by the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Wudu Institute feeds bats!Research on Refraction Gain of Related Person Lying
This happened during the G7 summit. WHO Secretary-General Tedros Tedros changed his previous tone and said that the possibility of the virus leaking from the laboratory cannot be ruled out. He also criticized China for not cooperating fully during the epidemic investigation.
Current affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan believes that Tan Desai changed his words because he saw some evidence of the source of the virus. Some people also believe that the United States has recently continuously requested to investigate the source of the epidemic, and Tedros may fall to the United States in order to seek re-election next year.
At the same time, the Australian Sky News Network launched an in-depth report on the 13th, exposing a video released by the Wuhan Virus Laboratory in October 2017. The news anchor introduced that there are live bats in the Wuhan Virus Laboratory. This is not a conspiracy theory, but a fact.
The video showed that the researchers used insects to feed the bats in the cage.
This news directly negated the claim of Peter Daszak, a British zoologist who had worked with the Institute of Virology for 15 years. In December 2020, Dazak publicly wrote on Twitter that “the Wuhan virus laboratory in China has no living or dead bats”.
Dazak himself has also traveled to China as a member of the WHO expert team to investigate the origin of the virus, and has repeatedly emphasized that the theory of laboratory venting is a “conspiracy theory.”
China expert Zhang Tianliang believes that no matter what, the following related issues such as “whether the virus leaked from the laboratory” will be paid special attention to by various countries.
He said that the CCP used to buy other countries and let them speak for themselves, but this time, even if the CCP provides money, other countries will not let go. Because the CCP has caused a pandemic, other countries believe that the CCP’s money is taken as compensation. Yes, it will no longer speak for the CCP. Therefore, the blame for the virus is a fatal blow to the CCP, and the CCP will face a situation of “all the blame”.
Zhang Tianliang also mentioned that the streaming video showed that researchers at the Wuhan Virus Laboratory had done virus gain experiments on mice. The study of virus function gain is to make the virus more toxic.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo said in an interview with Fox on the 13th, “We know enough now. The CCP’s cover-up of the truth is still going on, and it’s time to hold accountable.”
The Shiyan explosion that shocked Zhongnanhai was a political enemy causing chaos?
The CCP is facing increasing external pressure, and there are more and more emergencies in the country.
At 6:30 in the morning on June 13, a gas explosion occurred in Yanhu Community, Zhangwan District, Shiyan City, Hubei Province. Officials announced on the evening of the 14th that the accident had caused 25 deaths and the search and rescue work continued. However, the outside world believes that the actual death toll should be more, because the post-release video shows that the area has been attacked by air, and it has become a messy ruin.
Mr. Wang, the owner of a hot pot restaurant near the explosion point, told The Epoch Times that when someone found a gas pipe leaking and whistling white smoke, he called the police. After the fire arrived at the scene, the explosion occurred. Screenshots of chats streaming out online showed that a local insider said, “The first batch of firefighters died.” Some people have heard that hundreds of people have died, “I don’t care about those who are dead now, there are still vital signs in the rescue.”
The explosion also shocked Zhongnanhai, and both Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang spoke.
In comparison, Li Keqiang is more pragmatic, saying that he requires all-out rescue and treatment, ascertaining the cause of the accident, and taking serious accountability. What Xi Jinping said is highly political.
In addition to mentioning the need to rescue the wounded and hold them accountable, he also said that all regions and relevant departments must “enhance political acumen,” “prevent major emergencies,” “maintain the overall stability of the society, and create a good atmosphere for the party’s centuries.” Wait.
Current political critic Chen Pokong believes that Xi Jinping’s instructions have two main points. First, the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China is imminent. On the day of the explosion, Tiananmen Square is undergoing a closed activity exercise. Xi’s mention of “preventing major emergencies” may mean something, indicating that this incident is not necessarily a general safety. accident. Was it an artificial explosion? Is it the operation of anti-Xi forces?
Chen Pokong said that even if Xi Jinping has such suspicions, it is not unreasonable. There were some big explosions in China before, and afterwards all confirmed the existence of political reasons. For example, during the Beidaihe Conference in 2015, there was a big explosion in the hazardous chemicals warehouse in Tianjin Port. It was because some people wanted to “one-pot” the high-level CCP.
Chen Pokong pointed out that the second aspect is that when bad things happen, the general secretary and the prime minister must give instructions, but when they encounter good things, only the general secretary is required. For example, where a major project was completed or a rocket went to the sky, Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message and sent Liu He and other Xi’s troops to attend. Li Keqiang was not seen; but where a major accident occurred, Li Keqiang would be taken as a backstop and take responsibility together.
For example, during the Wuhan epidemic last year, the central level established an epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic team. Generally speaking, the team leader at the central level is Xi Jinping, but the leader of the anti-epidemic team is Li Keqiang, which surprised the outside world. After the epidemic slowed down, Xi came forward and said that everything was “personally directed and personally deployed.”
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