United Front groups in Canada helped Beijing stockpile coronavirus safety supplies

Ellanjay · May 8, 2020

Canada needs a much better CBC

The federal government should appoint serious leadership for the national broadcaster, with a mission and budget to make it a network the country can be proud of; Canada has the talent and the need

By Conrad Black

National Post, May 1, 2020

Canada has surely outgrown the present CBC. I am a supporter of public broadcasting and think it has an important role to play in building Canadian cultural distinctiveness. It should be adequately funded and efficiently and imaginatively managed. Pierre Juneau was the most capable head of the CBC I have known, and there have been others. My late and talented friend Lister Sinclair was not ultimately a success in an administrative position, but at least the corporation had the vision to give him a try. It intermittently imports high-priced consultants who impose budget reductions that shrink creative areas and preserve the slowly rotting corporate bureaucracy. The CBC was conceived 90 years ago to give the country a national broadcaster and to help Canadian regions understand each other better. It has often lived up to that mandate and in places still does.

But it is an infestation of leftist biases, and is often grossly unprofessional. For decades, despite being almost entirely funded by Canadian taxpayers, it was the principal house organ of the Quebec separatist movement, to the point that former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, shortly before the 1980 Quebec independence referendum, threatened to shut the French network down; when asked what he would replace it with, he responded with his customary vivacity of wit: “Still pictures of Chinese and Japanese vases, at least they have some cultural value.” It is compulsively misanthropic and nasty, and almost always takes a snide leftist view of everything, including foreign affairs. Brexiters were cavemen, U.S. President Donald Trump is a racist, sexist crook and moron, and it is racism and xenophobia to assert that the coronavirus originated in China. Can’t we have better and more original insights than this?

The front page of an online version of a special edition of the Epoch Times. The Epoch Times

This brings up the latest CBC outrage I have seen, the report on Wednesday that the Epoch Times, an online and printed newspaper (in which I am a contributor), had conducted a paid trial circulation through the post office that ”upset … some Canadians … by claims that China was behind the virus.” The Epoch Times was described as “a newspaper that has polarized people over its content (that) is coming under fire for advancing a conspiracy theory about the origin of the coronavirus, and (is) having it delivered straight into mailboxes unsolicited.” In fact, there is no question that the coronavirus did originate in China, the only question is where it came from. Reputable mainstream outlets have reported on the possibility, not certainty, that it escaped from a viral research centre, and was not propagated by bats in the live animal market of Wuhan. Amid its entirely accurate and comprehensive reporting of the subject, the Epoch Times mentioned that the Chinese have at times announced that they were developing biological weapons. The Epoch Times did not assert that the coronavirus was such a weapon, only that there was one faction of opinion that believed that.

The CBC took it upon itself to announce breezily that ”Scientists have repeatedly said the evidence points to the coronavirus having a natural origin.” There is “an unbelievably high consensus within the scientific community that there is very close to zero chance that the virus was ever engineered,” according to a Winnipeg scientist. That is not exactly true but is in any case not the principal argument about the origin of the virus: that it may have escaped Wuhan’s viral research laboratory because of human error, but however it began, that the Chinese government quarantined Wuhan within China, but did nothing to prevent its spread throughout the world and misinformed the World Health Organization and the entire international community about the dangers of the coronavirus, thus causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in scores of countries. There is no responsible consensus that disagrees with this, and the CBC’s unctuous blustering about manufacturing the virus as a deliberately deployed biological weapon, is false.

The CBC pounced upon some woman in Kelowna, B.C., who was upset that the post office delivered the paper as she had not asked for it. (Promotions of this kind, starting with free distribution to targeted readers, are commonplace — all metropolitan newspapers and most magazines, including the formerly distinguished Economist, use this tactic frequently.) The Kelowna lady conveniently said “It really feels racist and inflammatory” and “playing on those fears is a very dangerous thing to do at this time.” The Epoch Times did not push any theory not embraced by most Western governments. It is a bit rich to suggest the Epoch Times was engaging in Sinophobic racism, since the newspaper was founded and is maintained by Chinese fugitives from the totalitarian oppression of the Chinese government. It carefully distinguished between the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party, and its founders and staff speak from a vivid experience of having been oppressed, imprisoned and often tortured because of their adherence to the Falun Gong, a religious sect whose views are not controversial in the West or in any sense extreme, but whose existence affronts the official Chinese imposition of atheism. The CBC did quote an academic who said that, “Definitely, there is persecution, and there are violations of human rights.” From all accounts, that is a considerable understatement in the case of the Falun Gong, whom the Chinese government has brutally oppressed and subjected to involuntary organ harvesting, facts that have been affirmed and condemned by the United States Congress and the European Parliament. Many governments have expressed the same view as the Epoch Times about the irresponsibility and dishonesty of the government of the People’s Republic of China. The initial story even mistakenly reported that the Shen Yun dance group was part of the Epoch media group.

A man reads a book in front of a board with an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping at a book store in Shenyang, China, on April 23. STR/AFP

The CBC went on to imply that while the Epoch Times itself was not alleging any outright falsehoods, it might be saying truthful things in order to induce people to attach more credence to inaccurate accounts it might give. This is the sort of spurious casuistry that totalitarians, like Stalin’s prosecutors, engage in. The CBC even dramatically added that it was withholding the name of a letter carrier who had expressed regret at having to deliver the Epoch Times ”because he could lose his job at Canada Post.” This unnamed but very conscientious and worldly letter carrier is quoted by the CBC as saying: “It makes me feel like humanity is facing an existential crisis, and I’m being forced to hand out weapons in a cage fight.” The free distribution of a printed supplement that includes, among many other opinions, the suggestion that coronavirus may have been accidentally released from a lab does not really justify the national public broadcaster highlighting a letter carrier in Kelowna wailing about this aggravating a “systemic crisis” for all mankind. Because its contacts are so deep and numerous in China, the Epoch Times has frequently led Western media in Chinese matters the regime has tried to suppress, including the early effort to stifle accurate information about the coronavirus.

The federal government should appoint serious leadership for the national broadcaster, with a mission and budget to make it a network the country can be proud of; Canada has the talent and the need. It is sobering to recall that Vincent Massey and his commission to examine Canadian culture, recommended in 1951 that the CBC be the country’s sole telecaster. My father, who died many years ago, having heard and disapproved the first CBC broadcasting efforts, said a number of times that, “Some have been more vociferous in their criticism of the CBC than I have, but few have been more consistent.” As years pass, in this as in some other matters, I see the wisdom of his perspective.

Ellanjay · May 8, 2020

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Coronavirus Survivors Want Answers, and China Is Silencing Them

In Wuhan, where the pandemic started, the police have threatened and interrogated grieving relatives. Lawyers have been warned not to help them sue.

By Vivian Wang, Amy Qin and Sui-Lee Wee

May 4, 2020

The text messages to the Chinese activist streamed in from ordinary Wuhan residents, making the same extraordinary request: Help me sue the Chinese government. One said his mother had died from the coronavirus after being turned away from multiple hospitals. Another said her father-in-law had died in quarantine.

But after weeks of back-and-forth planning, the seven residents who had reached out to Yang Zhanqing, the activist, suddenly changed their minds in late April, or stopped responding. At least two of them had been threatened by the police, Mr. Yang said.

The Chinese authorities are clamping down as grieving relatives, along with activists, press the ruling Communist Party for an accounting of what went wrong in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus killed thousands before spreading to the rest of China and the world.

Lawyers have been warned not to file suit against the government. The police have interrogated bereaved family members who connected with others like them online. Volunteers who tried to thwart the state’s censorship apparatus by preserving reports about the outbreak have disappeared.

“They are worried that if people defend their rights, the international community will know what the real situation is like in Wuhan and the true experiences of the families there,” said Mr. Yang, who is living in New York, where he fled after he was briefly detained for his work in China.

The crackdown underscores the party’s fear that any attempt to dwell on what happened in Wuhan, or to hold officials responsible, will undermine the state’s narrative that only China’s authoritarian system saved the country from a devastating health crisis.

To inspire patriotic fervor, state propaganda has portrayed the dead not as victims, but as martyrs. Censors have deleted Chinese news reports that exposed officials’ early efforts to hide the severity of the outbreak.

And as more voices overseas call for China to compensate the rest of the world for the pandemic, the party has cast its domestic critics as tools being used by foreign forces to undermine it.

The party has long been wary of public grief and the dangers it could pose to its rule.

In 2008, after an earthquake in Sichuan Province killed at least 69,000 people, Chinese officials offered hush money to parents whose children died. Following a deadly train crash in the city of Wenzhou in 2011, officials prevented relatives from visiting the site. Each June, the authorities in Beijing silence family members of protesters who were killed in the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.

Now, some say the government is imposing the same kind of collective amnesia around the outbreak.

Three volunteers involved in Terminus2049, an online project that archived censored news articles about the outbreak, went missing in Beijing last month and are presumed to have been detained.

“I had previously told him: ‘You guys probably face some risk doing this project.’ But I didn’t know how much,” said Chen Kun, whose brother, Chen Mei, is one of the volunteers who disappeared.

“I had said that maybe he would be summoned by the police for a talk, and they would ask him to take down the site,” he said. “I didn’t think it would be this serious.”

Mr. Chen said he had no information about his brother’s disappearance. But he had spoken to the relatives of one of the other missing volunteers, Cai Wei, who said that Mr. Cai and his girlfriend had been detained and accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a vague charge that the government often uses against dissidents.

Reached by telephone on Tuesday, an employee at a police station in the Beijing district where Chen Mei lives said he was unclear about the case. The group’s site on GitHub, a platform popular with coders, is now blocked in China.

Volunteers for similar online projects have also been questioned by the authorities in recent days. In blog posts and private messages, members of such communities have warned each other to scrub their computers. The organizers of another GitHub project, 2019ncovmemory, which also republished censored material about the outbreak, have set their archive to private.

To the authorities, it seems no public criticism can be left unchecked. The police in Hubei, the province that includes Wuhan and was hardest hit by the outbreak, arrested a woman last month for organizing a protest against high vegetable prices. An official at a Wuhan hospital was removed from his post after he criticized the use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat coronavirus patients, which the authorities had promoted.

The crackdown has been most galling to people mourning family members. They say they are being harassed and subjected to close monitoring as they try to reckon with their losses.

The coronavirus killed nearly 4,000 people in Wuhan, according to China’s official figures. Some residents believe the true toll is much higher. The government fired two high-ranking local officials, but that is not enough for many grieving relatives, who say they want fair compensation for their losses and harsher punishment for officials.

Zhang Hai is certain that his father, who died in February, was infected with the coronavirus at a Wuhan hospital. He says he still supports the party but thinks local officials should be held responsible for initially hiding the fact that the virus could spread among humans. Had he known the risk, he said, he would not have sent his father to the hospital for treatment.

Mr. Zhang said several Chinese reporters who had interviewed him about his demands later told him that their editors had pulled the articles before publication. He posted calls online to set up a monument in honor of the victims of the epidemic in Wuhan, but censors quickly scrubbed the messages. Officials have pressed him to bury his father’s ashes, but he has so far refused; he says they have insisted on assigning him minders, who he believes would be there to ensure that he caused no trouble.

“They spend so much time trying to control us,” Mr. Zhang said. “Why can’t they use this energy to address our concerns instead?”

In March, the police visited a Wuhan resident who had started a chat group of more than 100 people who lost relatives to the virus, according to two members of the group, one of whom shared a video of the encounter. The group was ordered to disband.

Mr. Yang, the activist in New York, said at least two of the seven Wuhan residents who had contacted him about taking legal measures against the government dropped the idea after being threatened by the police.

Even if the other plaintiffs were willing to move forward, they might have trouble finding lawyers. After Mr. Yang and a group of human rights lawyers in China issued an open call in March for people who wanted to sue the government, several lawyers around the country received verbal warnings from judicial officials, Mr. Yang said.

The officials told them not to write open letters or “create disturbances” by filing claims for compensation, according to Chen Jian-gang, a member of the group. Mr. Chen, who fled to the United States last year, said he had heard from several lawyers who were warned.

“If anyone dares to make a request and the government fails to meet it, they immediately are seen as a threat to national security,” Mr. Chen said. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lawyer or a victim, it’s like you’re imprisoned.”

Some aggrieved residents have pressed ahead despite the government clampdown. Last month, Tan Jun, a civil servant in Yichang, a city in Hubei Province, became the first person to publicly attempt to sue the authorities over their response to the outbreak.

Mr. Tan, who works in the city’s parks department, accused the provincial government of “concealing and covering up” the true nature of the virus, leading people to “ignore the virus’s danger, relax their vigilance and neglect their self-protection,” according to a copy of the complaint shared online. He pointed to officials’ decision to host a banquet for 40,000 families in Wuhan in early January, even as the virus was spreading.

He urged the government to issue an apology on the front page of the Hubei Daily, a local newspaper.

In a brief phone call, Mr. Tan confirmed that he had submitted a complaint to the Intermediate People’s Court in Wuhan, but he declined to be interviewed because he is a civil servant.

With China’s judiciary tightly controlled by the central government, it was unclear whether Mr. Tan would get his day in court. Articles about Mr. Tan have been censored on Chinese social media. Calls to the court in Wuhan on Thursday rang unanswered.
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taxslave · May 9, 2020

spilledthebeer said:
HemerHOID LIES getting SICK!
China SOLD Canada millions of masks - THAT ALL TURNED OUT TO BE DEFECTIVE!

When you don't have the money to pay for them it could be considered giving. Hopefully we didn't pay the freight.

spilledthebeer · May 9, 2020

taxslave said:
When you don't have the money to pay for them it could be considered giving. Hopefully we didn't pay the freight.

Our idiot Boy Justin has just announced "WE WILL NOT PAY FULL PRICE FOR DEFECTIVE MASKS"!

TOO BAD the IDIOT did not say what price he would consider FAIR for his beloved pals - the Beijing Butchers!

The issue of defective masks offers Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals YET ANOTHER CHANCE to show their usefulness

to the Beijing Butchers!

Our idiot Boy has already mused about giving the defective masks out to the general public to use for shopping and etc!

Sure sounds like Beijing Butchers are going to get MOST OF THEIR CASH from Our idiot Boy one way or another!

Ellanjay · May 10, 2020

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We Need to Learn from Sweden's Approach

Brian Giesbrecht

May 8, 2020

As this wave of the pandemic winds down we should ask honest questions about our response to it. Although an accurate assessment of the lockdowns — closing schools and businesses — is months away, we need a plan to respond to a likely second fall wave.

The Economist magazine published an essay detailing how closing primary schools has probably caused lifelong harm to much of the student population while widening the inequality gap. Growing amounts of research suggest that closing schools was a very bad idea. An Australian study shows that COVID-19 does not sicken many children, and children are not effective spreaders of it. Sweden did not close their primary schools, yet experienced no significant infection problem in either their student or teacher populations.

It was a major mistake to close down primary schools, should we not reopen them now?

Also, was it necessary to shut down all “non-essential“ businesses? Sweden left business owners and customers to make their own decisions. While our “lockdown and stay home approach” damaged, if not bankrupted, many small businesses, Sweden left businesses intact and did not need the huge government spending that will leave lockdown countries with severely damaged economies. As for their numbers of deaths, Sweden did no better or no worse than did lockdown countries.

Isn’t Sweden’s policy of leaving most decisions to the individual, rather than using state control, proving to be a better approach?

One area where Sweden and Canada both failed is with respect to the elderly and vulnerable. Thankfully, this virus has mainly spared the young, but much more has to be done to those now known to be vulnerable. And, wasn’t the experiment of quarantining the healthy population (putting the working population on welfare) a massive mistake? Best to protect those either vulnerable or wishing to self-isolate, but allow healthy people to decide how much personal risk they want to take.

Likely there will be a second wave of COVID-19 — the current lockdown approach merely delays the virus. And, we are nowhere near to achieving the desired “herd” immunity (where the virus dies off because so many people have recovered from the disease and are immune from catching it again). Sweden, close to achieving herd immunity, will likely not suffer as much as we will.

The good news is that this virus does not appear to be nearly as deadly as first thought. In fact, healthy people might have about as much to fear from getting this virus as they do in getting regular flu. It seems we were badly scared by wildly inaccurate models — particularly by one that predicted 2,000,000 deaths in America alone.

Experts like Dr. John Ioannidis and Professor Michael Levitt of Stanford University saw the mistakes of that forecast from the beginning. But, our senior medical science and political leaders, who largely represent the last of the Boomer class, didn’t listen. Did we not panic and follow the wrong “experts?” Going forward, we should keep our heads and follow the pragmatic Swedish approach.

We have and are paying a heavy price. And, our children and their children will be paying for it for decades. We Boomers will not be here to watch its end. Was our panic response the Boomer’s last gasp?

— Brian Giesbrecht, a retired judge, is a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy

https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/giesbrecht-we-need-to-learn-from-swedens-approach
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[Comment]it seemed the whole world, except Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Sweden, all followed the CCP's top-down draconian measure to certain degree. It's sad. Hope the world can learn something from this ordeal.

spilledthebeer · May 10, 2020

Hoid said:
China sent Canada ‘millions’ of masks to fight COVID-19.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...ght-covid-19-heres-what-you-need-to-know.html

POOR FOOLISH hemerHOID!

He is right that Beijing Butchers HAVE JUST SOLD US over 8 million masks!

How SAD THAT HE NEGLECTS TO MENTION THEY ARE FAULTY AND WORTHLESS!

And Our idiot Boy has responded to the news report that his PALS in Beijing have screwed us yet again - by announcing:

"Canada will NOT pay full price for defective masks"!

But Our idiot Boy neglects to specify WHAT PRICE HE THINKS IS FAIR! FOR CHINESE CRAP!

Ellanjay · May 11, 2020

President Xi’s Big Lie by J.R. Nyquist
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If China shuts the door on exports of medicines … within a couple months our pharmacies would be empty…. our healthcare system would cease to function. That’s how dependent we are.

ROSEMARY GIBSON

It is worth quoting excerpts from President Xi Jinping’s speech of 27 March, made during the “extraordinary” G20 video summit. One might characterize his speech as a tissue of lies. He said, “the COVID-19 outbreak … caught us all by surprise….”

This claim is doubtful. Early reports suggest that Xi was fully informed about the outbreak of a SARS-like illness in Wuhan — weeks before it became a global pandemic. Why else would the dictator’s trembling minions prevent doctors and scientists from alerting others?

The world may have been caught by surprise— but not Xi. According to the mayor of Wuhan, Xi forced the city to hold a holiday potluck at which 10,000 were infected. This facilitated the spread of the virus. Here is how the Wall Street Journal characterized Mayor Zhou Xianwang’s comments:

Mr. Zhou used an interview with state broadcaster China Central Television to push back against criticism of Wuhan’s handling of the virus, saying his hands were tied by rules that required Beijing’s approval before releasing sensitive information. His careful attempt to shift blame to the central leadership mirrored complaints that local officials have expressed in private for years about President Xi Jinping’s rigid, top-down leadership style.

HTTPS://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/AMP/S/WWW.WS...-ANGER-BUBBLES-AT-CRISIS-RESPONSE-11580109098

At the G20 video summit, however, Xi bragged about his “prompt” handling of the pandemic. How skillful he was! He boasted of acting with “openness and transparency.” (Does anyone really believe that China has fewer deaths than New York?)

Wonders never cease with these communist miracle workers. They are certainly ahead of the game. Consider Breitbart’s addendum to Xi’s braggadocio:

As of February of this year, China manufactures 97 percent of all American antibiotics, 80 percent of the pharmaceutical ingredients needed in all American drugs, and the majority of the nation’s — and the world’s — medical protective supplies, like masks.

HTTPS://WWW.BREITBART.COM/ASIA/2020...TICAL-MONOPOLY-KEEP-UNFETTERED-FLOW-OF-TRADE/

America dares not oppose the Chinese dictator. He has us by the short hairs. He now demands a G20 meeting of health ministers. Naturally, with China’s command of the world’s pharmaceuticals, which health minister would dare balk Beijing’s regime of Global Health governance?

President Xi is prepared to advance his “vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind.” He then added, “China will be more than ready to share our good practices….” — ah yes! And what are these practices? Can anyone guess?

Screams have been reported from the premises of Wuhan’s funeral homes. According to Radio Free Asia, elderly COVID-19 patients are brought to the crematoria alive. They are wrapped, pleading, in plastic body bags. Some are violently subdued.

Speaking with a Wuhan accent, a female witness has recorded a video (below). She says elderly patients were bound and zipped into bags while alive. They were taken to be cremated. “I saw these cases myself,” she said. “It strikes fear into my heart. I want to cry, it’s terrifying.”

President Xi told his “colleagues” at the G20 video summit, “we need to protect … the elderly, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups….” Then he called for more access to markets, a strengthening of China’s dominant position. He underscored the role of “outbound investment” from China and — last but not least — removing tariffs.

The Chinese Communist Party intends to expand its holdings at the coming corporate fire sale in Europe and America. Beijing is sitting on a mountain of gold and cash. As the global economy slumps, China’s industrial and financial might will be deployed. If that is insufficient, the People’s Liberation Army will be deployed…

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https://jrnyquist.blog/2020/04/08/president-xis-big-lie/

[Ellanjay:]Was Xi caught by surprise? According to some twitter’s accounts, at the end of last year, CCP’s spy networks had two top missions, one named “Pandora Box Mission”(潘多拉行动）, the other called “Cut-off Supply Mission”(釜底抽薪行动）. The first mission was to let those people escaped from Wuhan/Hubei go overseas freely, but not to other places domestically inside China; the second mission was to hoard PPE supplies from all over the world via Overseas Chinese Embassies/Organizations/Individuals. Obviously both missions were carried out quite successfully and the rest is history.

I know in the West the general public as well as the establishments are wary of any “Conspiracy Theories”. But not Taiwan and Hong Kong. As for CCP, we are talking about a 99 year old gang of conspiracy practitioners! Among all the governments in the world, Taiwan knows this the best, which explains why Taiwan fares the best in this Pandemic. Go figure.

spilledthebeer · May 11, 2020

Hoid said:
China Sending COVID-19 Supplies To Canada And Other Nations

https://www.intelligentliving.co/china-sending-supplies-canada-other-nations/

CHINA SENDING TRASH - that we have to SEND BACK!!!!!!!

Here are various tidbits from the news...............

LIE-beral friendly news media has already begun defending the LIE-beral party in anticipation of the HARSH spring 2021 budget that LIE-berals will have to bring in - with the fate of their minority govt hanging in the balance!

Media whores from outfits like Global News - who appear to have benefited nicely from the previous six hundred million dollar LIE-beral slush fund offered to news media that LIE-berals “TRUST” - meaning to present LIE-beral Fake News with a straight face - are now claiming that we will NOT be facing a Tsunami of DEBT in the aftermath of the Wuhan Pestilence!

Media whores suggest the debt will simply be “Rolled Over” - meaning we will BORROW CASH in order to pay MINIMAL INTEREST ONLY on our debts! LIE-berals want to treat our COLOSSAL DEBTS as if they were simply deadbeats dealing with over extended credit cards! LIE-berals want us to believe that these ENDLESS DEBT PAYMENTS will not represent an eventual crippling drop in living standard for many Cdns!

LIE-berals want us to believe that the civil service union HOG gravy train can run on UN-IMPEDED by crippling cash shortages and massive inflation and huge tax increases that will impoverish us all! To sum up - LIE-berals want us to believe there is NO SUCH THING AS THE DEBT WALL - that so badly hammered Greece and Spain and Ireland! LIE-berals want us to believe that Our idiot Biy can AVOID the fiscal fate that turned Ontari-owe LIE-beral Wynne-bag into the most hated politician in Cdn history!

LIE-berals REFUSE TO ADMIT that it was hitting the debt wall that destroyed the Ontari-owe LIE-beral party and brought Doug Ford to power!

Even worse - LIE-berals want us to believe that there will be NO FISCAL CONSEQUENCES if LIE-berals KILL OFF the cdn oil patch and cease exports of our single most valuable export!

In other news - Native Feminists are blaming Wuhan Virus for a rise in violence against native women! Yes - natives are stuck at home like the rest of us and it seems they have nothing to do but attack each other!

Feminists have not yet managed to link this new violence- which is native on native - onto White Privilege - but they DO BLAME White society for not saving natives from themselves!

Native Womens Association president Lorraine Whitman says “many shelters and sexual assault centres in the country are not run for or by Indigenous people, which is why many First Nations, Inuit and Metis women won’t access them, even if they’re in trouble”.

Native Feminazis apparently think that the best way to BUY peace on reserves is to hire natives and PAY THEM with borrowed govt gravy - so they can tell their drunken and drugged up neighbours not to hit each other!

Whitman goes on to explain: “They don’t have that comfort zone there and they’re not culturally influenced or inclusive of the Indigenous values that we have and our traditions and ceremonies.”

What culture is a black eye or a meal missed due to being broke?

So I ask JUST HOW FAR OUT and alien is the native mind set that they cannot adapt their mind to the use of a bed in a shelter run by non natives WITHIN THEIR OWN COUNTRY?

In other news - in his ongoing effort to present himself as being somehow useful to Cdns in the fight against Wuhan Virus - Our idiot Boy Justin is making noises about the risk of opening up the economy too soon!

Our idiot Boy is so IRRESPONSIBLE that he would prefer to continue handing out immense gobs of CERB GRAVY that we will have a hard time paying for - rather than see our economy re-open and bring the failings of his govt BACK INTO FULL PUBLIC FOCUS!

And HOW UNFORTUNATE that Our idiot Boy was so CARELESS about the need to protect our economy from THAT NASTY IMPORTED VIRUS! He even told us it was “racist” to compel travellers to be quarantined and of course AFTER it was much to late - Our idiot Boy DID START imposing quarantines on the few traevllers who were still active!

Oiur idiot Boy is VERY COMFORTABLE printing money and handing out cheques but he is AWARE that a day of reckoning is coming and that his career probably WILL NOT SURVIVE that day!

Our idiot Boy will have to produce a sensible budget in spring 2021 and it aint likely his minority govt will survive the pressures! A minority govt typically has a life span of about 20 months - thus we should probably expect an election in summer 2021 and Our idiot Boy will BE VERY LUCKY if the worst that happens to him is that his minority is whittled down even further!

The HARD FACT IS that we are heading for a time of UNPRECEDENTED social and economic conflict thanks to the $100 billion dollars in debt created by irresponsible LIE-berals between 2015 and 2019 - PLUS the additional $250 billion debt run up in the fight against Wuhan Virus!

Civil service union HOGS of OSSTF - Ontari-owe high school teachers CONTINUED their demands for MORE GRAVY even in the midst of the Pandemic! Our LIE-beral govt allowed its annual pay raise and grand gravy grab to function yet again even as our federal deficit soared to over $250 billion dollars! City of Toronto workers demanded and got improved contracts as the Pandemic raged!

In spring 2021 - our union HOGS will be expecting us to go back to biz as usual - meaning gobs of new gravy supplied as usual by LIE-berals - with that gravy grab driving annual inflation in Canada!

Problem is that the federal LIE-berals have JUST PRINTED UP OVER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS OF FUNNY MONEY! Just pulled it out of the air in an act that is BOTH necessary and hugely dangerous!

The economic cure may YET KILL the patient!

No govt has EVER attempted such a large scale bail out of the economy -while at the same time trying to balance AN IMMENSE EXISTING DEBT! The inflationary pressures on our economy - along with the expected waves of bankruptcies of people and small biz that failed to get back on their feet will cause HUGE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL!

Thus HOGS expecting there will be gravy train biz as usual may be RUDELY RE-
EDUCATED regarding public needs and patience! Such a denial of gravy for HOGS - coupled with the expected wild inflation will CRIPPLE LIE-beral re-election hopes as HOGS are quite willing to switch support to the idiot cousins of the NDPee and Greenies!

In related news - Liz May and other economic illiterates who have LIMITED understanding of how our economy really functions - persist in claiming that “oil is dead”! Even as people across the country DEMAND they be allowed to resume travelling out into the country for camping and motorboating and to run their atv`s and other gas guzzling toys! Additionally - govt is subsidizing laid off Air Canada and assorted other airline workers who don’t care how long it takes for airline travel to return to Pre Pandemic levels or not - JUST SO LONG as that govt gravy KEEPS COMING!

In related news our LIE-beral overlords have just announced that the CERB benefit may be extended “for many months” - meaning LIE-berals are looking at ways to continue feeding income supplements to greedy HOGS - who always VOTE LIE-beral in exchange for gravy!

Liz May and her moron allies insisting that oil is dead are showing clear signs of their grand group delusion coupled with VERY wishful thinking! But then May and her Greenies are in competition with NDPees and LIE-berals to see who can produce the most completely dictatorial plan for re-making our economy and society into a Soviet Socialist VERSION OF HELL!

The Greenies have a social vision that incorporates the slightly milder values of the Soviet Socialist Command economy - that resulted in Communist Russia going bankrupt! Greenies also support an array of Pierre Trudope era LIE-beral policies that DIED in disgrace during the lead in to the infamous Salmon Arm Salute!

Greenie understanding of history and politics is SO INADEQUATE that they are not aware of how and why Pierre Trudope killed his own career by giving the finger to enraged citizens of Salmon Arm B.C.!

Sadly - our HOGS are so mesmerized by the impending death of their wonderful gravy train - drowned in a sea of govt red ink - that they are willing to support ANY political loon - no matter how FLAKY - simply on the PROMISE of more gravy!

We are facing an economic upheaval of UNPRECEDENTED PROPORTIONS - and the BIGGEST ISSUE facing Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals is how to make it LOOK LIKE they did something useful during the Pandemic - OTHER THAN simply shovel cash out the door!

It GALLS Our idiot Boy IMMENSELY that he has been forced to spend SO MUCH CASH with so LITTLE of it being dispersed in a SELFISH LIE-beral fashion that has NOT succeeded in buying worried LIE-berals any love or new voter support!

Instead Our idiot Boy is facing renewed calls to get out of the way and STOP trying to kill the Cdn oil patch since we NEED EVERY PENNY of oil revenue!

Our idiot Boy has FAILED to promote radical native chiefs OVER the heads of the native majority and their elected leaders!

Our idiot Boy is facing renewed criticism of his love affair with the Beijing Butchers - both at home and in the govts of our FORMER NATO FRIENDS AND ALLIES!

Our idiot Boy has YET TO FIND any reasonable excuse to release Huawei CEO Meng - that would not invoke IMMEDIATE RAGE from Washington! Nor has Our idiot Boy found the courage to simply send Meng to Washington and let them deal with her since that would incur the wrath of the Beijing Butchers - and Our idiot Boy is seeking to promote the Beijing Butchers at every turn! Our idiot Boy has candidly told us he “admires the basic Chinese democracy”!

Our idiot Boy is so distant from the thinking of ordinary Cdns that he is badly puzzled as to why Cdns reacted with such scorn to his pronouncement!

But then perhaps we should excuse Our idiot Boy - after all - Pierre Trudope published a book in which he extolled what he called “The genius of Chinese chairman Mao in rushing 30 million Chinese to the gallows”!

Yes - Pierre Trudope publicly PRAISED MASS MURDER and still got elected THREE TIMES - yet Our idiot Boy simply expresses admiration for Beijing Butchers and is excoriated in the Press! These are puzzling times we live in - especially if you are a HYPOCRITE LIE-beral!

Our idiot Boy is struggling not to be harshly critical of Beijing Butchers even as he admits that China just sent us EIGHT MILLION DEFECTIVE N95 masks! The idiot Boy ASSURES US HE WILL NOT PAY FULL PRICE for the masks - and DODGES the question of why we should PAY ANYTHING for defective Chinese JUNK?

Our idiot Boy is trying to put a nice polish on this political sh+t pile by suggesting we could give the masks - which cannot be used safely by our medical staff - over to the general public to be worn while shopping or etc!

Our idiot Boy is out of luck as ALL LIE-beral policy HAS FAILED -and been exposed as such! Even worse Our idiot Boy has RUN OUT of gravy with which to BUY HOG VOTES! He is now forced to rely on his wits if he wishes to keep his hold on power - and WE KNOW that wont work!

DaSleeper · May 11, 2020

When I see a spilled the beer post I just click on then imediately click off to mark the post read without bothering to read it!!

Ellanjay · May 12, 2020

What President Trump Must Do to Stop China’s Invasion

By J. R. Nyquist

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

--WINSTON CHURCHILL

The President of the United States must publicly change his position on China. In the past, President Trump has described China’s President, Xi Jinping, as his “friend.” It is necessary, at this pivotal moment, for President Trump to say that President Xi is not his friend. He must admit, instead, that Xi is America’s enemy. To do otherwise is to paper over President Xi’s many hostile actions, his preparations for war, and his policy of blaming America for the pandemic.

It is time for the President of the United States to face the truth — and tell the truth — about Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. It is time to return enmity for enmity, to reciprocate communist China’s hostility, and prepare to repel their aggression. For they have used our openness and generosity against us. They have taken our kindness for weakness. They have practiced treachery on our good faith, and they have made war on our economy. We can no longer refer to communists as “friends.” They are enemies,

We must hear the truth from our president about communist China’s fifth column in the United States. This truth must not be softened, or watered down with the usual stupidities about free trade and peace; domestic concord or racial tolerance. We are in a life-or-death situation now. Enemy propaganda and enemy propagandists should be identified and ostracized. We cannot allow communist agents of influence to turn the tables, blame America, condemn patriotism, and open the country to enemy attack.

Regarding those who wish to return the country to economic dependence on China: Communist regimes will always use trade as weapon. They will corrupt everyone and everything they touch — businessmen and politicians, sports stars and Hollywood producers. To negotiate with communist China is a fool’s errand. A treaty, for them, is like a pie crust — meant to be broken. The history of communism is long, and the criminal nature of all communist regimes cannot be denied. There is no excuse for having relations with them. To make partners of them is to become their partner in crime.

President Xi made a conscious decision to allow the CCP virus to incubate in Wuhan until the Chinese New Year — the biggest calendar day of outgoing travel from China. Reports about the outbreak in China are not ambiguous in this regard.

What happened in Wuhan was directed — every step of the way — from the office of President Xi. Party officials were forced to allow crowds to congregate during the New Year holiday in Wuhan. They were compelled by Beijing to host 40,000 people at the city potluck, even though an infectious form of viral pneumonia was spreading through the city. Xi’s intentions can be read through dozens of news reports and official edicts. Xi only allowed Wuhan to fight the pandemic after the city’s holiday visitors had returned abroad — carrying the infection to Europe, Australia and North America.

The decisions made by the Chines leaders, in this regard, were not improvised. Chinese strategic decisions are carefully thought out in advance. Years of study had already gone into bat viruses at the Wuhan BSL-4 virology lab. In fact, the placement of the BSL-4 facility in Wuhan defies logic — unless we recognize Beijing’s remarkable foresight.

In order to launch a biological attack, China would need an alibi to avoid retaliation. The alibi would have two sides: one alibi would focus blame on America, the other would mask Xi’s malevolent intentions.

The two-sided alibi would, by necessity, have the following features: (1) To forestall retaliation against China, evidence would be planted regarding safety issues and a leak at a Chinese virology lab; (2) to silence criticism from the Chinese public, Communist Party officials would claim the CIA or U.S. military planted the virus as part of an attack on the Chinese people.

To make these parallel alibis deployable at the same time, Chinese planners would first have considered which Chinese city an enemy would target in a biological war. As the central hub of China’s rail and waterway communications, Wuhan would be the logical choice. Therefore the Chinese planners would have built their strategy around a Wuhan infection scenario. To make this scenario compatible with the “leaky lab” alibi, China’s strategist would also have to place their BSL-4 facility in Wuhan, instead of a more remote location in the Gobi Desert.

It is impractical to carry on a biological war without giving the first iteration of the virus to your own people. Because an alibi is paramount, Wuhan had to become the center of the pandemic. Chinese people would be the first to suffer. Therefore, the initial iteration of the weapon would be designed according to the principles of asymmetric warfare, with the following stipulation: First, the weapon would strategically benefit China; second, it would harm the West.

Consider the virus’s effects. It typically kills the elderly and infirm. From a Darwinian standpoint, the virus favors survival of the fittest. For An overpopulated country like China, such a viral outbreak is useful for thinning the herd. Given a half century under China’s “one child policy,” that herd is not only too large, but too old. Meanwhile, America and the West are irrevocably committed to protecting the weakest and least fit members of society. The West could be counted on to expend untold trillions to stop the virus. China would suffer a brief shock, of course, and economic losses, but these losses would be made up in the end. China would be ordered back to work — with countless elderly citizens sealed alive in body bags for cremation.

Do you think such a plan is too monstrous for someone like Xi Jinping?

Xi Jinping is a Communist. His heroes are Mao, Hitler and Stalin — the three greatest mass murderers in history. Do you see a connecting theme here? Come now! Such a person is easily capable of euthanizing the elderly! Why would he hesitate under the circumstances?

Xi Jinping is not a normal person. He belongs to the ancient Machiavellian traditions of Chinese philosophy. He is steeped in the writings of Sun Tzu and Han Fei-Tzu. These thinkers believed in the ruthless use of force and fraud. They opposed the idea that rulers could be friends. Such an idea, in the Chinese legalist tradition, is criticized as dangerous. Therefore, Xi is not President Trump’s friend.

In 1999 I interviewed a famous Chinese dissident, Harry Wu. He spent 19 years in the Lao Gai camp system. When I asked Wu to describe China’s leaders, he said, “They are murderers.”

How can President Trump be friends with a murderer? Xi Jinping imprisons and executes honest Chinese citizens for telling the truth. And like all murderers, Xi Jinping lies — if only to hide his many crimes.

Xi Jinping’s intelligence services have been using international commerce and corporate deals to infiltrate our political system, steal our technology and undermine our economy. His agents have used money as a carrot and a stick. They have bought politicians. They have corrupted our media. They have entered our research institutes.

President Xi’s agents infest Washington. Some of us think these agents should be driven out. Give us one good reason they should be permitted to stay in our capital? — and give us a reason that is not tainted with cowardice or greed.

Think, now, what is coming. Ask yourself where our relationship with communist China is taking us. Xi Jinping is a follower of Mao Zedong. In 1958 Mao gave his generals a strategic directive. He said: Prepare the People’s Liberation Army for the day when Chinese troops will land in Manila and San Francisco.

This directive is still in effect. How do we know? Because China has built an amphibious fleet with a six thousand mile range. This is exactly the range needed to land Chinese troops on the U.S. West coast — in San Francisco. Two divisions have been prepared for an immediate landing (to secure port facilities). Does anyone think Xi needed amphibious transports with a six thousand mile range to invade Taiwan? Defeating Taiwan gets him nowhere. Taiwan is not his primary objective. He must defeat the United States. If America loses a war, Taiwan will surrender without a fight. What, then, is the point of invading Taiwan?

Bypass it!

When a country develops military capabilities, like an amphibious fleet with a six thousand mile range, you have to sit up and take notice if you are six thousand miles away. Strategic thought guides China’s force development. The attack range of these troops was not haphazardly assigned.

Consider the grand strategy behind Xi’s war preparations: Biological weapons soften, then cripple the target country. Nuclear weapons and cruise missiles, launched from hidden locations, can destroy America’s naval, air and strategic assets. China’s amphibious fleet then lands on the West coast and secures port facilities for follow-up merchant ships loaded with men, tanks and artillery.

Is the invasion of the United States by China possible? Yes — it is more than possible. The Chinese have been preparing to invade us for decades. They have been secretly stockpiling supplies in Mexico, as Journalist Scott Gulbransen learned many years ago. He published his findings in a book, The Silent Invasion

There is an old Chinese saying attributed to Lao Tzu: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Years ago Gen. Chi Haotian, China’s defense minister, made a speech to high-level party officials. He spoke of a future biological attack “to clean up America.” He said that Beijing’s threat to Taiwan was diversionary. The real plan, he said, was to invade and occupy the United States.

Eighteen years ago a British journalist contacted me. She had been with a documentary film crew, interviewing Chinese sailors during amphibious exercises off the coast of China. She asked how they felt about practicing an invasion of Taiwan. The sailors were baffled. “We’re not practicing to invade Taiwan,” they told her. “We’re practicing to invade America.”

When Chinese military officials realized what the British crew had uncovered, they confiscated the cameras and the recordings. She told her experiences to colleagues in the UK — but she was ostracized for being “anti-Chinese.” She heard of my work through a reader and contacted me. “Listen,” she said. “I damaged my career. But I have to tell someone in America. You must promise not to use my name in telling this story. I have to make a living. I have to get my career back.”

Xi Jinping is not President Trump’s friend. He is America’s enemy. The Chinese have been preparing for war. Their Russian, Iranian, Cuban, and North Korean allies have also been preparing.

I represent a growing number of Americans who don’t want to hear President Trump refer to Xi Jinping as his “friend.” Xi is a murderous dictator, and he is our enemy. We need President Trump to acknowledge this.

There isn’t a moment to lose.

https://jrnyquist.blog/2020/04/17/what-president-trump-must-do-to-stop-chinas-invasion/#more-1978

Pandemic Quotables

Dixie Cup · May 12, 2020

Too bad neither Canada or the U.S. didn't follow Taiwan who did take the virus seriously. They didn't believe the CCP when told the virus was not contagious. They didn't shut down at all; just used masks and social distancing and their economy didn't suffer at all. Now, they're sending PPE to other countries. Too bad the world doesn't recognize Taiwan as a country simply to placate China. Taiwan & it's people deserve better.

Twin_Moose · May 12, 2020

Chinese-Canadians ‘suffering in silence’ as China’s United Front reaches into Canada

Stay tuned until they proclaim another Chinese Canadian as a racist Xenophobe

Ellanjay · May 13, 2020

https://youtu.be/cYpjjWXbEgM
Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows

Severe COVID-19 outbreaks highlight different countries’ entanglements with Beijing

Epoch Times Editorial Board
March 11, 2020 Updated: April 2, 2020

In the final weeks of 2019, a novel coronavirus outbreak occurred in the city of Wuhan, in central China. As the world welcomed a new decade, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opted to suppress information about the emerging crisis until it could no longer remain hidden.

Nearly two months after mainland Chinese authorities acknowledged the outbreak and the existence of the contagious virus, the crisis has spread round the globe, assuming epidemic proportions in multiple regions. The number of infected beyond China’s borders is now in the tens of thousands, with more than 1,000 having succumbed to the virus. The stock market has plunged as experts warn of a possible economic recession.

A variety of factors have facilitated the rapid spread of the coronavirus, officially termed SARS-CoV-2, and the disease that it causes, COVID-19. Globalization has brought the peoples of the world into closer contact, increasing the risks of a worldwide pandemic.

Yet the heaviest-hit regions outside China all share a common thread: close or lucrative relations with the communist regime in Beijing.

Medical Crisis, Political Peril

Under political or economic influence from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), many foreign entities and politicians, including international organizations, have been swayed to the extent that they take the side of the CCP, accommodating the pernicious communist system and turning a blind eye to unspeakable crimes committed by the mainland Chinese authorities.

Recent decades have seen the PRC greatly expand its power in economic and geopolitical affairs. Deceiving the world with a narrative of “China’s peaceful rise,” the communist regime has lured foreign governments and international firms to invest in China’s rapidly developing markets.

But the CCP has never abandoned its ideological tenets of class struggle and totalitarian control. In the 30 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, and from the start in 1999 of the persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong to today’s systematic persecution of all faiths and independent thought, the state of human rights in the PRC has only worsened.

The true nature of the CCP and communism has long been known to readers of The Epoch Times. Fifteen years ago, The Epoch Times published the editorial series “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” igniting a grassroots movement in China to reject communism. Since 2004, more than 350 million people have renounced their ties to the Party and its affiliated youth organizations.

Seen in conjunction with the CCP-hijacked geopolitical environment of today, the geographical distribution of what the World Health Organization (WHO) now calls a coronavirus pandemic highlights the ultimate peril facing those who align themselves with the specter of communism.

Outside China, the spread of COVID-19 has been most severe in Italy, Iran, South Korea, and Japan. Not all of these countries are located near China, but all have extensive interests in the PRC.

Italy, the most heavily affected country outside China as of March 10, was the first (and only) G-7 nation to sign onto the PRC’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, also known as One Belt, One Road). In an attempt to prop up its weakening economy, Italy has also sought to capture the Chinese market for selling its luxury goods.

With the outbreak now forcing Rome to put the country under lockdown, such prospects have been put on hold.

Italy also has signed scores of sister-city agreements with China, with the cities of Milan, Venice, and Bergamo included among them. These are the areas hardest-hit by the virus.

In the Middle East, Iran has seen a surge in the number of infections, particularly among government officials.

The Iranian regime has had a comprehensive strategic partnership with China since 2016, and its ties with Beijing began years before that. In violation of international sanctions, Iran has imported embargoed materials from China, while continuing to sell oil to the PRC. The Islamic Republic allowed flights in and out of four major Chinese cities until the end of February.

On-the-ground footage taken by Iranian citizens is reminiscent of the tragedy playing out in Wuhan, with overworked medical staff, despondent patients, and body bags lining hospital floors.

And while official figures released by the Iranian authorities show deaths and confirmed cases trailing behind Italy’s numbers, it is likely that the real scale of the outbreak remains grossly underreported. Reviewing available data, an epidemiologist cited by The Washington Post on March 5 estimated that the actual number of people infected in Iran could have been up to 28,000, nearly five times what the regime had reported.

In South Korea, the public has grown increasingly critical of President Moon Jae-in for refusing to ban Chinese tourists at large and instead only barring entry for those who recently traveled to Hubei Province, the epicenter of the epidemic in China.

More than 1.4 million people have signed a petition to the Presidential Blue House calling for Moon to be impeached. The petition text reads, “Seeing Moon Jae-in’s response to the new epidemic, we feel that he is more of a President for China than Korea.”

History’s Lessons

Despite its proximity to, and extensive business with, mainland China, Taiwan has seen a relatively small number of infections.

On Jan. 26, Johns Hopkins University identified Taiwan as having the second-highest risk of epidemic spread outside China. However, robust prevention measures have proven effective.

Taiwan officials began to board planes and assess passengers on Dec. 31, 2019, after Wuhan authorities first confirmed the outbreak. In early February, Taiwan banned entry to foreign nationals who have traveled to the PRC. As of March 10, there are just 47 confirmed cases in Taiwan. The self-ruled island has been held as a model for epidemic control, despite being repeatedly denied participation in the CCP-friendly WHO.

As China affairs commentator Heng He put it, Taiwan has a clear understanding of the communist regime and may be the only state that learned the lessons of the 2003 SARS outbreak, which also began in China.

In Hong Kong, which has seen millions of residents stand up to Beijing’s encroachment on the city’s freedoms and rule of law since last year, the outbreak has been similarly subdued.

By contrast, Japan, albeit not geostrategically aligned with the PRC, placed profit over prudence. With millions of Chinese traveling to Japan for shopping and sightseeing annually, the country was slow to close its borders to mainland arrivals. Japan was among the first countries to report cases outside of China.

Recently, the CCP has attempted to portray its draconian handling of the coronavirus epidemic as a triumph for the Party’s authoritarian system. But the Chinese historical record is more sobering. Throughout the centuries, plagues and other calamities signaled the downfall of imperial dynasties.

Taking history as a mirror, as ancient Chinese scholars did, it is apparent that the coronavirus pandemic is a calamity linked with the CCP and its 70 years of brutal rule. And today, the world is an interconnected community. Any country, community, or organization that keeps too close to the CCP and falls for its deception will taste the bitter fruits of that involvement.

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Tecumsehsbones · May 13, 2020

Ellanjay said:
What President Trump Must Do to Stop China’s Invasion
By J. R. Nyquist
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
--WINSTON CHURCHILL
The President of the United States must publicly change his position on China. In the past, President Trump has described China’s President, Xi Jinping, as his “friend.” It is necessary, at this pivotal moment, for President Trump to say that President Xi is not his friend. He must admit, instead, that Xi is America’s enemy. To do otherwise is to paper over President Xi’s many hostile actions, his preparations for war, and his policy of blaming America for the pandemic.

Why? Anybody with brains enough to blow his nose knows the crazy fat kid is a compulsive liar.

Dixie Cup · May 13, 2020

Tecumsehsbones said:
Why? Anybody with brains enough to blow his nose knows the crazy fat kid is a compulsive liar.

As is the skinny kid (Biden) - I think he's even worse than Trump cuz most of Trump's "lies" were not actually lies but purposefully misinterpreted by the MSM. For example - he encouraged people to drink bleach - that's not what he said but that's what was reported. So the hypocrisy goes both ways! It's a matter of picking who is the least disastrous and I now believe it's Trump!

Ellanjay · May 14, 2020

https://youtu.be/e6MQfD59Jj4

Spinal Atrophy a Problem When Dealing With a Tyrannical Regime

Commentary by John Robson
May 11, 2020 Updated: May 12, 2020

There’s this mysterious new disease out of China with strange symptoms that poses serious risks. No, I don’t mean SARS-CoV-19. I mean the one causing intermittent failure of the senses among Canadians in positions of authority.

The latest victim is our semi-self-quarantined prime minister. But it has also hit our foreign minister, health minister, minister of innovation, science and industry (that’s one person), deputy MP, and a senior Canadian adviser with the World Health Organization. And although it “presents” as selective deafness or aphasia, specifically an inability to hear or speak the words “China” or “Taiwan,” or a chronic blind spot when it comes to Chinese government misconduct, it seems to originate in quite another body part: the spine.

At a May 8 press conference, Justin Trudeau was asked: “The former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, says China is a bully, and that the way for Canada to deal with China is to stand up for it instead of backing down. Is your government standing up to China, or is it backing away from China?”

Before I proceed, is there anything unclear about that question? OK, smarty-pants, the syntax is garbled. It’s standing up “to” not “for” and “backing down” not “backing away.” But is the question in any way difficult to understand?

No? Good. Now let’s hear the answer. “My responsibility as prime minister is to make sure that we are providing for Canadians and keeping Canadians safe. That’s the job people expect me to do and that is exactly what I’m doing. We’re going to ensure that Canadians have the equipment, the supplies, the support they need to make it through this pandemic. Of course at the same time we will be asking difficult questions about how we’re making it through this pandemic, how this came to happen, how we can learn from this. There will be plenty of time for questions in the months to come. My focus, rightly, is on doing everything I can to help Canadians through this,” Trudeau said. Then he walked away.

Is that answer in any way easy to understand? Of course, you might attribute the PM’s lack of clarity to cunning. It might simply appear that his handlers had him memorize some anodyne incomprehensible boilerplate to be deployed in the event of an awkward question. Even the bit about it being important to ask difficult questions while dodging one, before patting himself on the back in case no one else felt inclined. But it’s not an isolated case.

In early April, health minister Patty Hajdu exhibited both blindness and logorrhea. She didn’t just say there was no evidence that Chinese Communist Party data on COVID-19 was unreliable. She said asking about it fed “conspiracy theories.” And sadly she infected her colleague, Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland. When asked, in context of Hajdu’s puzzling performance, whether she’d seen intelligence data questioning Chinese government claims, Freeland replied, “we have very frequent security and intelligence conversations with the United States. A reason we are able to have those conversations—which are very important in the crisis that the world is experiencing today—is because those conversations happen in private and so I am not able to share details of what is discussed in those conversations.”

You see? A normal answer would have been “Yes I have” or “No I haven’t” while avoiding elaborating in ways that compromised confidentiality. Instead she either did not hear or could not say “China.” Whereas our foreign minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, personally thanked China on Twitter for sending us (defective) medical supplies, but not Taiwan. And when asked in Parliament last week, “Will the minister now do the right thing and on behalf of Canadians, recognize the generosity of Taiwan and thank its government for that timely donation?” he replied, “Canada is grateful to all who have given supplies to Canada. This is a common endeavour.”

It is not certain whether Champagne could not hear or could not say “Taiwan.” But something was characteristically wrong. As it was when Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains was asked on April 23 about defective equipment from China and did a deer-in-the-headlights response involving “challenges,” and “building up strong domestic capacity” and “made-in-Canada solutions” that failed to acknowledge let alone answer the bit about China or defective equipment. The exasperated CBC interviewer put the question a third time, pointing out that he had not answered it, and he failed again, stammering about “challenges” and “domestic capacity.”

Finally there’s poor Bruce Aylward, a Canadian doctor with WHO whose condition is far more acute, possibly because it struck him earlier. Back in March he first could not hear a reporter’s question about “Taiwan,” then could not speak, then suffered a spasm and disconnected the call, but still couldn’t hear or say it when reconnected. And now he’s actually become invisible, having failed to appear before the House of Commons health committee despite two requests followed by a summons, and inaudible: He can’t or won’t say why. (And in its response WHO apparently couldn’t even type “Aylward,” instead emailing the committee that “Over the past weeks, we have received requests for information from several different Governments, parliamentary bodies and officials. With a view to facilitating the work of the Committee, WHO stands ready to consider any list of technical questions which may be provided in writing by the Committee”.)

So eyes, ears, fingers, and tongue fail. But the core problem is atrophy of the spine. As Aristotle said millennia ago, courage is first among virtues because without it we only exercise the others when convenient, safe, and painless. Whether the PM was standing up “to” China or possibly even “for” it, backing away or up or down, he didn’t dare say what he was doing or what he was thinking.

This disease has hit Western governments before. But this wave comes straight from China because its government is indeed a bully and one who thinks its moment has come. The Politburo is throwing its weight around in big ways and small, from the Belt and Road Initiative to claiming the South China Sea to threatening commercial boycotts. And from warning Western universities about loss of foreign-student revenue while undermining free speech on their campuses to that weird business where their consul-general crashed a press conference by Australia’s health minister. The question is, what are we going to do? And the answer must not be to pretend it’s not happening.

To be fair and end on a positive note, the Canadian government has finally joined the American one in pushing to include Taiwan in the World Health Organization. So there’s one vertebra. And let’s hope it’s the start of an entire spinal column because we’re going to need one.

The world is a dangerous place in any number of ways, from geopolitics to pandemics. And we need people in full possession of their senses to keep us as safe as possible. In the literal as well as figurative sense. And we’re not going to be kept safe by anyone whose nervous system has collapsed.

John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ottaw...n-it-comes-to-the-beijing-regime_3347037.html

spilledthebeer · May 14, 2020

Ellanjay said:
Spinal Atrophy a Problem When Dealing With a Tyrannical Regime

Commentary by John Robson
May 11, 2020 Updated: May 12, 2020

There’s this mysterious new disease out of China with strange symptoms that poses serious risks. No, I don’t mean SARS-CoV-19. I mean the one causing intermittent failure of the senses among Canadians in positions of authority.

The latest victim is our semi-self-quarantined prime minister. But it has also hit our foreign minister, health minister, minister of innovation, science and industry (that’s one person), deputy MP, and a senior Canadian adviser with the World Health Organization. And although it “presents” as selective deafness or aphasia, specifically an inability to hear or speak the words “China” or “Taiwan,” or a chronic blind spot when it comes to Chinese government misconduct, it seems to originate in quite another body part: the spine.

At a May 8 press conference, Justin Trudeau was asked: “The former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, says China is a bully, and that the way for Canada to deal with China is to stand up for it instead of backing down. Is your government standing up to China, or is it backing away from China?”

Before I proceed, is there anything unclear about that question? OK, smarty-pants, the syntax is garbled. It’s standing up “to” not “for” and “backing down” not “backing away.” But is the question in any way difficult to understand?

No? Good. Now let’s hear the answer. “My responsibility as prime minister is to make sure that we are providing for Canadians and keeping Canadians safe. That’s the job people expect me to do and that is exactly what I’m doing. We’re going to ensure that Canadians have the equipment, the supplies, the support they need to make it through this pandemic. Of course at the same time we will be asking difficult questions about how we’re making it through this pandemic, how this came to happen, how we can learn from this. There will be plenty of time for questions in the months to come. My focus, rightly, is on doing everything I can to help Canadians through this,” Trudeau said. Then he walked away.

Is that answer in any way easy to understand? Of course, you might attribute the PM’s lack of clarity to cunning. It might simply appear that his handlers had him memorize some anodyne incomprehensible boilerplate to be deployed in the event of an awkward question. Even the bit about it being important to ask difficult questions while dodging one, before patting himself on the back in case no one else felt inclined. But it’s not an isolated case.

In early April, health minister Patty Hajdu exhibited both blindness and logorrhea. She didn’t just say there was no evidence that Chinese Communist Party data on COVID-19 was unreliable. She said asking about it fed “conspiracy theories.” And sadly she infected her colleague, Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland. When asked, in context of Hajdu’s puzzling performance, whether she’d seen intelligence data questioning Chinese government claims, Freeland replied, “we have very frequent security and intelligence conversations with the United States. A reason we are able to have those conversations—which are very important in the crisis that the world is experiencing today—is because those conversations happen in private and so I am not able to share details of what is discussed in those conversations.”

You see? A normal answer would have been “Yes I have” or “No I haven’t” while avoiding elaborating in ways that compromised confidentiality. Instead she either did not hear or could not say “China.” Whereas our foreign minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, personally thanked China on Twitter for sending us (defective) medical supplies, but not Taiwan. And when asked in Parliament last week, “Will the minister now do the right thing and on behalf of Canadians, recognize the generosity of Taiwan and thank its government for that timely donation?” he replied, “Canada is grateful to all who have given supplies to Canada. This is a common endeavour.”

It is not certain whether Champagne could not hear or could not say “Taiwan.” But something was characteristically wrong. As it was when Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains was asked on April 23 about defective equipment from China and did a deer-in-the-headlights response involving “challenges,” and “building up strong domestic capacity” and “made-in-Canada solutions” that failed to acknowledge let alone answer the bit about China or defective equipment. The exasperated CBC interviewer put the question a third time, pointing out that he had not answered it, and he failed again, stammering about “challenges” and “domestic capacity.”

Finally there’s poor Bruce Aylward, a Canadian doctor with WHO whose condition is far more acute, possibly because it struck him earlier. Back in March he first could not hear a reporter’s question about “Taiwan,” then could not speak, then suffered a spasm and disconnected the call, but still couldn’t hear or say it when reconnected. And now he’s actually become invisible, having failed to appear before the House of Commons health committee despite two requests followed by a summons, and inaudible: He can’t or won’t say why. (And in its response WHO apparently couldn’t even type “Aylward,” instead emailing the committee that “Over the past weeks, we have received requests for information from several different Governments, parliamentary bodies and officials. With a view to facilitating the work of the Committee, WHO stands ready to consider any list of technical questions which may be provided in writing by the Committee”.)

So eyes, ears, fingers, and tongue fail. But the core problem is atrophy of the spine. As Aristotle said millennia ago, courage is first among virtues because without it we only exercise the others when convenient, safe, and painless. Whether the PM was standing up “to” China or possibly even “for” it, backing away or up or down, he didn’t dare say what he was doing or what he was thinking.

This disease has hit Western governments before. But this wave comes straight from China because its government is indeed a bully and one who thinks its moment has come. The Politburo is throwing its weight around in big ways and small, from the Belt and Road Initiative to claiming the South China Sea to threatening commercial boycotts. And from warning Western universities about loss of foreign-student revenue while undermining free speech on their campuses to that weird business where their consul-general crashed a press conference by Australia’s health minister. The question is, what are we going to do? And the answer must not be to pretend it’s not happening.

To be fair and end on a positive note, the Canadian government has finally joined the American one in pushing to include Taiwan in the World Health Organization. So there’s one vertebra. And let’s hope it’s the start of an entire spinal column because we’re going to need one.

The world is a dangerous place in any number of ways, from geopolitics to pandemics. And we need people in full possession of their senses to keep us as safe as possible. In the literal as well as figurative sense. And we’re not going to be kept safe by anyone whose nervous system has collapsed.

John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ottaw...n-it-comes-to-the-beijing-regime_3347037.html

NEWS FLASH!

Beijing Butchers release a NEW virus that weakens the spines of LIE-beral politicians!

I like that! It has a nice TRUTHFUL ring to it and it would explai na lot of what happens in Ottawa!

Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals are bending over backwards on their now calcium deficient rubber spines

in order to suck up to the Beijing Butchers and the Basic Democracy that our idiot Boy so admires!

Ellanjay · May 15, 2020

https://youtu.be/WmjOy3vvWzo

British PM’s Ties With the Chinese Regime

Tian Yun
April 17, 2020. Updated April 21, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on March 27 that he tested positive for the CCP virus.

Johnson is the leader of the ruling Conservative Party. Since taking office as prime minister on July 24, 2019, he has encountered pressure and criticism on issues such as Brexit, Huawei, and its role in Britain’s 5G networks, British–U.S. relations, and China policy.

Johnson, 55, is one of the highest-profile patients in the world to be infected with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.

The Epoch Times editorial article, “Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows,” suggests that “the heaviest-hit regions outside China all share a common thread: close or lucrative relations with the communist regime in Beijing.”

So what are Johnson’s ties with the CCP?

In ancient China, every time disasters befell the empire, leaders and officials reflected on themselves. In history, there were 79 emperors that issued a “Condemnation on Oneself” to examine their own faults, hoping to seek forgiveness and protection from heaven. Applying traditional principles of governing the country, we can also draw lessons for today’s society.

This article attempts to analyze some missteps of Johnson’s governance.

Britain Gives Green Light to Huawei

On Jan. 28, Johnson announced that Britain would allow “high-risk suppliers” to participate in the construction of the “non-sensitive part” of the UK’s 5G network to a limited extent, which means giving a green light to Huawei. Some U.S. officials and British conservative politicians were disappointed with Johnson’s decision.

On the same day, Zhang Jiangang, vice president of Huawei, welcomed the UK’s decision of allowing Huawei to participate in its 5G network. “Huawei is relieved because of this,” Zhang told Chinese state-run media Xinhua.

On Jan. 30, the BBC stated in a report that the UK’s decision “is undoubtedly an endorsement that will make Beijing happy.”

Huawei insiders reveal that the company has close ties with the CCP, and has been accused of stealing from others to develop its own technology. The Trump administration has sought to convince allies to ban Huawei from 5G networks over security concerns. However, Johnson ignored the U.S. warning and concerns voiced by British lawmakers.

Tom Tugendhat, Conservative member of Parliament (MP) and former head of the British Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, opposed Johnson’s decision to allow Huawei access to Britain’s 5G networks. He used the analogy of “allowing the fox into the hen house when really we should be guarding the wire.” Tugendhat wrote on Twitter that the government’s “statement leaves many concerns and does not close the UK’s networks to a frequently malign international actor.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, called for “a thorough review of U.S.-U.K. intelligence-sharing” after the UK decision was announced. He said, “I fear London has freed itself from Brussels only to cede sovereignty to Beijing.” He added that the British decision “is like allowing the KGB to build its telephone network during the Cold War.”

On Feb. 18, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage criticized the decision to let Huawei into 5G networks and called it “the worst decision any British government has made in years.”

“It threatens the Five Eyes partnership, our prospects of a new trade agreement with the US and Australia and perhaps even the future of NATO,” he said.

After the official decision, 38 members of the British Conservative Party who advocated the exclusion of Huawei proposed an amendment to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill. The proposal would require the UK to terminate Huawei and other “high-risk” companies’ participation in domestic 5G network construction by Dec. 31, 2022.

On March 10, the parliament rejected the proposal, with Johnson’s government winning the vote by 306 to 282, Reuters reported.

Huawei in London

The UK is one of the European countries that cooperate with Huawei closely. Although the British government is aware of certain security issues with Huawei’s products, it believes that the risks are manageable. The British approach represents the European mode of acceptance of Huawei, which allowed it to slowly expand in the past decade.

After Johnson took office, Huawei’s business activities in London remained high-profile and active. In September 2019, Chinese mainland media quoted U.S. news outlet Business Insider, revealing that Huawei had already set up a new artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory in London. It is reported that the new laboratory is part of Huawei’s OpenLab global research and collaboration center network. A source familiar with Huawei ’s plan pointed out that the company planned to staff the office with 200 AI research engineers.

On Dec. 16, 2019, Huawei’s 5G Innovation and Experience Center in London was unveiled. The center is located in one of the largest shared office spaces in the Europe-Kekong Global Building.

On Feb. 24, Huawei held a virtual press conference on new products and solutions, themed “TOGETHER, Connecting Possibilities.”

American columnist Nick Kristoff said in his opinion article, “I’ve Seen the Best and Worst of China”: “If a company like Huawei is asked to cooperate with Chinese State Security spies, its executives simply can’t say no.”

Johnson’s China-Friendly Stance

On July 23, 2019, the day before Johnson took office, Hong Kong Phoenix Television interviewed him. Johnson said, “We are very enthusiastic about the Belt and Road Initiative. We are very interested in what President Xi is doing [for the plan].”

Johnson also mentioned in the interview that the UK is the first Western country to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and he would do his best to keep the UK as the “most open economy in Europe.” Johnson said: “Don’t forget [we are] the most open international investment [destination], particularly [for] Chinese investment. We have Chinese companies coming in to do Hinkley, for instance, the big nuclear power plant.”

Johnson’s Interactions With the CCP as Mayor of London

In October 2013, Johnson led a trade delegation as the-then Mayor of London to go to China for a six-day visit. They met with China’s top entrepreneurs, major investors, and high-ranking officials, hoping to establish a closer cooperative relationship with China.

During his term as mayor, he promoted a partnership between London and Shanghai, two financial hubs. On June 17, 2019, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom made a joint announcement of their approval of the new Shanghai-London Stock Connect. On the same day, the inauguration ceremony was held in London.

According to the rules, eligible companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange would be able to issue Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) to the UK and global investors and apply for them to be listed on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. Eligible companies listed on the London Stock Exchange would be able to issue Chinese Depository Receipts (CDRs) to Chinese investors and apply for them to be listed on the Main Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Some commentators pointed out that the establishment of the Shanghai-London Stock Connect is tantamount to a “blood transfusion” to support the CCP.

Post Brexit UK-China Relations

After the Johnson administration left the European Union, it naturally needed to find new trade partners. On the one hand, the UK maintains its friendship with the United States, but it is also eager to strengthen economic and trade ties with China. China has become its second largest trading partner outside the EU. From January to August 2018, the bilateral trade volume between China and Britain was as high as $51.05 billion.

From January to Aug. 23, 2019, Chinese companies completed 15 major acquisitions in the UK, worth approximately $8.3 billion. For example, Alibaba’s Ant Financial acquired London-headquartered payments company World First in February. Hillhouse Capital acquired the shares of the Scotch whisky brand Loch Lomond Group for 400 million pounds in June and became its largest shareholder.

In September last year, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange attempted to acquire the London Stock Exchange for $36.6 billion, but was rejected. The Chinese government is the largest shareholder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and holds 6 seats among its 13 board members. It is foreseeable that if the acquisition was successful, the CCP would have control of the entire European financial market.

On Jan. 2, 2020, five sources told Reuters that the Chinese regime temporarily suspended the Shanghai-London Connect plan because of the British stance on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests and the UK’s response to the detention of a former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong. The next day, the China Securities Regulatory Commission nonetheless claimed that Shanghai-London Connect was not affected.

In fact, the CCP is accustomed to using economic interests as a bargaining chip—to coerce Western governments and commercial enterprises to remain silent about the CCP’s violation of human rights.

Perhaps Johnson has not yet realized that the path of economic and trade cooperation with the CCP is extremely unstable. Any nation that partners with the CCP may be forced to give up its conscience at a certain point.

UK Politicians Criticize Johnson and His Family

On Feb. 22, 2020, Brexit Party leader Nigel Paul Farage published an article in Newsweek titled, “We Didn’t Free Britain from Brussel Only to Bow Before Beijing.” He opposed Johnson’s plan to allow Huawei to help build Britain’s 5G network and criticized him for inching closer to the CCP in recent years.

“Sadly, under Boris Johnson’s regime, not much appears to have changed. Just look at one of our key strategic industries, British Steel. It appears to have been sold to another Chinese firm, Jingye, despite competitive bids from other parts of the world. I believe that the same establishment that sold out our nation to the European Union is now selling us out to China,” Farage wrote.

He also pointed out that Johnson has been influenced by many pro-China figures, including members of his own family.

“Only a couple of weeks ago his father, Stanley, had a 90-minute meeting with the Chinese ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming. Afterwards, Johnson Snr emailed UK officials outlining Xiaoming’s worries that his son Boris had failed to send a personal message of support after the coronavirus outbreak. This fascinating insight only became public because Johnson Snr accidentally copied the BBC into his message,” Farage wrote.

“Then there is Boris’s younger brother, Jo, who was Britain’s Universities Minister until 2019. During his time in post, he endorsed the University of Reading’s partnership with China’s Nanjing University, which specialises in—you guessed it—information, science and technology,” he added.

Farage exposed that the prime minister’s step-brother Max also has close ties with the Chinese regime. According to public information, Max Johnson got his MBA from Beijing University before working for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. He is now running his own investment company, which caters to firms that sell products to China.

The Epoch Times editorial article, “Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows,” points out that the CCP virus specifically targets the Chinese regime and those who support it. The spread of the virus around the world shows that countries and regions with close ties to the CCP have been seriously affected. The CCP is evil in nature. I hope Boris Johnson will learn a lesson from his illness and reflect on his policies.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/persp...pms-ties-with-the-chinese-regime_3316330.html

Blackleaf · May 15, 2020

Ellanjay said:
https://youtu.be/WmjOy3vvWzo
British PM’s Ties With the Chinese Regime
Tian Yun
April 17, 2020. Updated April 21, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on March 27 that he tested positive for the CCP virus.
Johnson is the leader of the ruling Conservative Party. Since taking office as prime minister on July 24, 2019, he has encountered pressure and criticism on issues such as Brexit, Huawei, and its role in Britain’s 5G networks, British–U.S. relations, and China policy.
Johnson, 55, is one of the highest-profile patients in the world to be infected with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.
The Epoch Times editorial article, “Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows,” suggests that “the heaviest-hit regions outside China all share a common thread: close or lucrative relations with the communist regime in Beijing.”
So what are Johnson’s ties with the CCP?
In ancient China, every time disasters befell the empire, leaders and officials reflected on themselves. In history, there were 79 emperors that issued a “Condemnation on Oneself” to examine their own faults, hoping to seek forgiveness and protection from heaven. Applying traditional principles of governing the country, we can also draw lessons for today’s society.
This article attempts to analyze some missteps of Johnson’s governance.
Britain Gives Green Light to Huawei
On Jan. 28, Johnson announced that Britain would allow “high-risk suppliers” to participate in the construction of the “non-sensitive part” of the UK’s 5G network to a limited extent, which means giving a green light to Huawei. Some U.S. officials and British conservative politicians were disappointed with Johnson’s decision.
On the same day, Zhang Jiangang, vice president of Huawei, welcomed the UK’s decision of allowing Huawei to participate in its 5G network. “Huawei is relieved because of this,” Zhang told Chinese state-run media Xinhua.
On Jan. 30, the BBC stated in a report that the UK’s decision “is undoubtedly an endorsement that will make Beijing happy.”
Huawei insiders reveal that the company has close ties with the CCP, and has been accused of stealing from others to develop its own technology. The Trump administration has sought to convince allies to ban Huawei from 5G networks over security concerns. However, Johnson ignored the U.S. warning and concerns voiced by British lawmakers.
Tom Tugendhat, Conservative member of Parliament (MP) and former head of the British Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, opposed Johnson’s decision to allow Huawei access to Britain’s 5G networks. He used the analogy of “allowing the fox into the hen house when really we should be guarding the wire.” Tugendhat wrote on Twitter that the government’s “statement leaves many concerns and does not close the UK’s networks to a frequently malign international actor.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, called for “a thorough review of U.S.-U.K. intelligence-sharing” after the UK decision was announced. He said, “I fear London has freed itself from Brussels only to cede sovereignty to Beijing.” He added that the British decision “is like allowing the KGB to build its telephone network during the Cold War.”
On Feb. 18, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage criticized the decision to let Huawei into 5G networks and called it “the worst decision any British government has made in years.”
“It threatens the Five Eyes partnership, our prospects of a new trade agreement with the US and Australia and perhaps even the future of NATO,” he said.
After the official decision, 38 members of the British Conservative Party who advocated the exclusion of Huawei proposed an amendment to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill. The proposal would require the UK to terminate Huawei and other “high-risk” companies’ participation in domestic 5G network construction by Dec. 31, 2022.
On March 10, the parliament rejected the proposal, with Johnson’s government winning the vote by 306 to 282, Reuters reported.
Huawei in London
The UK is one of the European countries that cooperate with Huawei closely. Although the British government is aware of certain security issues with Huawei’s products, it believes that the risks are manageable. The British approach represents the European mode of acceptance of Huawei, which allowed it to slowly expand in the past decade.
After Johnson took office, Huawei’s business activities in London remained high-profile and active. In September 2019, Chinese mainland media quoted U.S. news outlet Business Insider, revealing that Huawei had already set up a new artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory in London. It is reported that the new laboratory is part of Huawei’s OpenLab global research and collaboration center network. A source familiar with Huawei ’s plan pointed out that the company planned to staff the office with 200 AI research engineers.
On Dec. 16, 2019, Huawei’s 5G Innovation and Experience Center in London was unveiled. The center is located in one of the largest shared office spaces in the Europe-Kekong Global Building.
On Feb. 24, Huawei held a virtual press conference on new products and solutions, themed “TOGETHER, Connecting Possibilities.”
American columnist Nick Kristoff said in his opinion article, “I’ve Seen the Best and Worst of China”: “If a company like Huawei is asked to cooperate with Chinese State Security spies, its executives simply can’t say no.”
Johnson’s China-Friendly Stance
On July 23, 2019, the day before Johnson took office, Hong Kong Phoenix Television interviewed him. Johnson said, “We are very enthusiastic about the Belt and Road Initiative. We are very interested in what President Xi is doing [for the plan].”
Johnson also mentioned in the interview that the UK is the first Western country to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and he would do his best to keep the UK as the “most open economy in Europe.” Johnson said: “Don’t forget [we are] the most open international investment [destination], particularly [for] Chinese investment. We have Chinese companies coming in to do Hinkley, for instance, the big nuclear power plant.”
Johnson’s Interactions With the CCP as Mayor of London
In October 2013, Johnson led a trade delegation as the-then Mayor of London to go to China for a six-day visit. They met with China’s top entrepreneurs, major investors, and high-ranking officials, hoping to establish a closer cooperative relationship with China.
During his term as mayor, he promoted a partnership between London and Shanghai, two financial hubs. On June 17, 2019, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom made a joint announcement of their approval of the new Shanghai-London Stock Connect. On the same day, the inauguration ceremony was held in London.
According to the rules, eligible companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange would be able to issue Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) to the UK and global investors and apply for them to be listed on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. Eligible companies listed on the London Stock Exchange would be able to issue Chinese Depository Receipts (CDRs) to Chinese investors and apply for them to be listed on the Main Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Some commentators pointed out that the establishment of the Shanghai-London Stock Connect is tantamount to a “blood transfusion” to support the CCP.
Post Brexit UK-China Relations
After the Johnson administration left the European Union, it naturally needed to find new trade partners. On the one hand, the UK maintains its friendship with the United States, but it is also eager to strengthen economic and trade ties with China. China has become its second largest trading partner outside the EU. From January to August 2018, the bilateral trade volume between China and Britain was as high as $51.05 billion.
From January to Aug. 23, 2019, Chinese companies completed 15 major acquisitions in the UK, worth approximately $8.3 billion. For example, Alibaba’s Ant Financial acquired London-headquartered payments company World First in February. Hillhouse Capital acquired the shares of the Scotch whisky brand Loch Lomond Group for 400 million pounds in June and became its largest shareholder.
In September last year, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange attempted to acquire the London Stock Exchange for $36.6 billion, but was rejected. The Chinese government is the largest shareholder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and holds 6 seats among its 13 board members. It is foreseeable that if the acquisition was successful, the CCP would have control of the entire European financial market.
On Jan. 2, 2020, five sources told Reuters that the Chinese regime temporarily suspended the Shanghai-London Connect plan because of the British stance on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests and the UK’s response to the detention of a former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong. The next day, the China Securities Regulatory Commission nonetheless claimed that Shanghai-London Connect was not affected.
In fact, the CCP is accustomed to using economic interests as a bargaining chip—to coerce Western governments and commercial enterprises to remain silent about the CCP’s violation of human rights.
Perhaps Johnson has not yet realized that the path of economic and trade cooperation with the CCP is extremely unstable. Any nation that partners with the CCP may be forced to give up its conscience at a certain point.
UK Politicians Criticize Johnson and His Family
On Feb. 22, 2020, Brexit Party leader Nigel Paul Farage published an article in Newsweek titled, “We Didn’t Free Britain from Brussel Only to Bow Before Beijing.” He opposed Johnson’s plan to allow Huawei to help build Britain’s 5G network and criticized him for inching closer to the CCP in recent years.
“Sadly, under Boris Johnson’s regime, not much appears to have changed. Just look at one of our key strategic industries, British Steel. It appears to have been sold to another Chinese firm, Jingye, despite competitive bids from other parts of the world. I believe that the same establishment that sold out our nation to the European Union is now selling us out to China,” Farage wrote.
He also pointed out that Johnson has been influenced by many pro-China figures, including members of his own family.
“Only a couple of weeks ago his father, Stanley, had a 90-minute meeting with the Chinese ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming. Afterwards, Johnson Snr emailed UK officials outlining Xiaoming’s worries that his son Boris had failed to send a personal message of support after the coronavirus outbreak. This fascinating insight only became public because Johnson Snr accidentally copied the BBC into his message,” Farage wrote.
“Then there is Boris’s younger brother, Jo, who was Britain’s Universities Minister until 2019. During his time in post, he endorsed the University of Reading’s partnership with China’s Nanjing University, which specialises in—you guessed it—information, science and technology,” he added.
Farage exposed that the prime minister’s step-brother Max also has close ties with the Chinese regime. According to public information, Max Johnson got his MBA from Beijing University before working for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. He is now running his own investment company, which caters to firms that sell products to China.
The Epoch Times editorial article, “Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows,” points out that the CCP virus specifically targets the Chinese regime and those who support it. The spread of the virus around the world shows that countries and regions with close ties to the CCP have been seriously affected. The CCP is evil in nature. I hope Boris Johnson will learn a lesson from his illness and reflect on his policies.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/persp...pms-ties-with-the-chinese-regime_3316330.html

Maybe we should also look at the links Canada and many other countries have with China, too.

Boris was elected on a mandate to deliver Brexit. So that is what he had to do - he was ordered to do so by his masters, the British public - and he's done it.

He's also cancelled the Huawei deal.

spilledthebeer · May 15, 2020

Blackleaf said:
Maybe we should also look at the links Canada and many other countries have with China, too.

Boris was elected on a mandate to deliver Brexit. So that is what he had to do - he was ordered to do so by his masters, the British public - and he's done it.

He's also cancelled the Huawei deal.

YES! I AGREE with you on this one! Big Bad Boris WAS ELECTED specifically so Britain could REGAIN control

of its own govt and not be dictated to by E.U. LIE-berals!

However we ARE STILL WAITING for Our idiot Boy Justin to wake up and smell the rotten egg roll stench

of corrupt politics being emitted by the Beijing Butchers!

Here is an article detailing how Red China is paying us back for sending them 16 tons of quality medical gear back in January 2020! With some comments of my own in brackets):

Feds reject eight million N95 masks from a single distributor

From: The Cdn Press. Published May 8, 2020

(I do believe it was a good idea to send the Beijing Butchers that 16 ton shipment of medical equipment - in the hope that Wuhan Virus could be swiftly contained and limited to Wuhan City and or to Hubei province - sadly it seems the Pestilence had already spread FAR BEYOND Hubei as Beijing Butchers HID the extent of the already rapidly growing Pandemic!)

OTTAWA — The federal government has suspended shipments of N95 respirators from a Montreal-based supplier after about eight million of the masks made in China failed to meet specifications.

(Nice - we sent good stuff in an honest effort to help - and they send us CRAP in a sleazy FAST BUCK trick!)

N95 masks used to protect against COVID-19 are so-named because they are supposed to screen out 95 per cent of small particles.

Anand's office said none of the approximately eight million masks that fell below federal standards were distributed for medical use, though assessment is ongoing for other uses.

(So govt has spent a pile of time and money searching for, ordering, shipping and then having to sort out and REJECT this crap that is now stored in a warehouse some place at our expense!)

It declined to name the distributor, citing ongoing discussions about reimbursement or discounts, or both, for the masks in question.

(Yes - Our idiot Boy has been forced by public opinion to be more harsh with Red China and he is whining “We will NOT pay full price for faulty gear”! Though he has NOT said what price he THINKS is fair for faulty counterfeit CRAP! The unhealthy love affair between Trudope and the Beijing Butchers smoulders on!)

Early this week, the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa said one million faulty N95 masks that arrived in Canada from China last month were the result of a "contractual" issue that had since been resolved.

(Uh huh- and in time of trouble ALL Chinese citizens are AT THE BECK AND CALL OF THE MILITARY and must respond immediately to govt orders - thus we should ask if these faulty masks were not part of a Beijing Butcher SCAM?)

Canada, however, had no comment on the matter until Friday.

The federal government has contracts with several suppliers for a total of some 135.5 million masks.

It says Canada has received 23 plane loads of personal protective equipment and medical supplies including more than 33 million surgical masks.

"We are working with a range of suppliers and distributors, and we have strong processes in place to help ensure that the supplies we receive meet all necessary standards," Anand's office said.

(Too bad those “strong processes” are apparently being IGNORED by Beijing!)

In particular, the Public Health Agency of Canada "conducts stringent testing of items such as masks before they go out to provinces and territories."

The large majority of the products received have met the agency's standards for use, Anand's office added.

(Ottawa has received 33 million masks and has so far REJECTED a quarter of them and we need to ask HOW MANY of the other 25 million out of 33 million HAVE BEEN TESTED SO FAR and also what the rejection rate of other previously ordered shipments might be if and when they actually do get tested properly? How hard are Beijing Butchers trying to SCREW US?)

It said that while Canada continues to receive significant shipments of protective equipment from international manufacturers, it is also getting orders from domestic manufacturers for gowns, face shields and hand sanitizer, among other products.

(The problem of faulty gear does NOT lie with our domestic suppliers!)

This includes an agreement with Medicom, based in Pointe-Claire, Que., for production of 20 million N95 respirator masks and 24 million surgical masks per year for the next 10 years, starting this summer.

(That`s nice - but it is CHINESE SUPPLIERS apparently selling CRAP while under the protection of Beijing Butchers that is THE PROBLEM! And we should ask if Beijing Butchers think Our idiot Boy Justin IS A SUCKER to be played?)

(Our idiot Boy has still NOT DEALT with Huawei CEO Meng - she should have been sent on to Washington MANY MONTHS AGO! As for the “Two Michaels - Spavour and Kovrig - the Cdns snatched off a Beijing street and imprisoned out of Chinese SPITE - we have now been warned exactly what sort of BULLIES are in control in Beijing and we have ample proof they are NOT TO BE TRUSTED!)

(In addition we have strong evidence that we SHOULD NOT trust Our idiot Boy Justin to deal with Beijing Butchers on our behalf as he has a dangerous admiration for “the basic Chinese democracy” and in addition the idiot Boy “Likes the way Beijing gets things done”!)

(At least Our idiot Boy has not doen as his father Pierre did and PRAISED “The genius of Chairman Mao in rushing 30 million Chinese peasants to the gallows”! Our idiot Boy has NOT YET praised Chinese mass murder - but he does seem INDIFFERENT to Chinese Slave Labour Camps!)

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