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Yeah, was on the front page and saw it while scrolling. I read the title, and then kept scrolling, didnt even click to read the article lol
Western media are all propaganda. These times I am just going to the FT to have some fun with reading the 2087th collapse story about China.
solarz
Brigadier
Anyone from new Zealand here? Look at how they report this Zhao Wei story. Chinese "erasing" celebrity.
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Here's a take on it from someone with a bit more knowledge.
Look at how Western media spins China's reining in of their corrupt and unscrupulous billionaires.
This Chinese celeb was a mistress to an infamous corrupted city Mayor, who transferred money to his personal driver when caught, hoping to reduce his sentence. This mistress then ran away with the driver who got the money and married him in Singapore.
She is a billionaire who made wealth by cheating in the share market via looting from small investors through fraudulent operations, inside jobs and shares manipulation. Her wealth grew from 60 million to 15 billion.
She is a traitorous billionaire who colluded with foreign anti-China powers, using their influence and power to laundry money for foreign organisation to feed the Fifth column armies within China.
She is also a Chinese actress who wore and glamorized the Japanese Imperial military flag. It is a symbol of the blood thirsty Japanese Imperial army during WWII who murdered millions of Chinese. Her act is tantamount to a Jew who wears a Nazi flag and idolise Hitler and the Nazi.
She is also a billionaire, who along with other billionaires, control Chinese social media. Much like how the Murdoch empire who monopolized Australia’s media industry to manipulate, censor and dominate public narratives and discourses.
She fueled anti-China sentiments, promoted tititytainment and low social moral spiritual media to drug and poison China's youths.
Yes, China doesn’t allow the formation of Wallstreet financial fraudsters, Murdoch Empire, Military Industrial Complex, Hollywood, Revolving door of Washington, Monsanto, etc etc. which people in the West are screaming about.
You can say that from a certain perspective - it is authoritarian and China's communism.
But this is the beauty of China's system.
And majority of the Chinese people are celebrating it - that their government is actually doing something about the wild exploitative growth of late-stage capitalism and corrupt unscrupulous billionaires.
China isn’t America. Chinese people are thankful that they live in a so-called "evil Commie country" where billionaires and exploitative capitalism are reined in and punished when they do wrong.
Meanwhile, the West can continue to celebrate their Wallstreet, Big Pharma and "Freedom of Speech" under the yoke of Murdoch and his ilk.
Wow, that's a lot of details! You must have been following her for a long time!
Here's the video in question:
I didn't know the Taliban spokesman could speak in Indian language (unless am mistaken) Jai Hind!! LOL
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Key takeaways:
- The US is incredibly petty and straight-up being an A-hole for destroying not just the military hardware but also civilian equipment like computers, fixtures and displays, making civilian flights impossible;
- US dogs are now Taliban's dogs. LOL.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
You don’t need to understand the language to recognise the savagery of the comment by just looking at the evolution of that TV Anchors expressions during that clip.
For Germany alone, they expect 10-40K still need to be transported out.
So I guess they won't be using the airport.
You can almost bet that many nations are now so sick of USA privilages that soon, they are going to kick the process of killing the dollar in high gear so that the USA will not have the capital to start yet another war. The USA is so focused on China, that they don't realize that they day where the USA dollar is no longer king is fast approaching
New Taiwan Military Report Warns China Can "Paralyze" Island's Defenses (2021-09-01)
It's known to every one that China want to reunite the renegade island, Taiwan, peacefully or by force, to close the final chapter of the hundred years of great humiliation known by Chinese people as “The Century of Humiliation” (started from the Opium Wars to the Eight-Nation Alliance invasion to the Imperial Japan invasion). The only question is when.
A new annual report by the Defense Ministry in Taipei, seen by , offers a stark reality that China's armed forces can "paralyze" Taiwan's defenses.
China has been ratcheting up military maneuvers around the island. The document offered a more alarming assessment than last year's report, which had said China still lacked the capability to launch an assault, Bloomberg said.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry explained in the report, addressed to lawmakers, that China can launch soft and hard electronic attacks. This means China can unleash electronic warfare weapons to degrade communications across the island and communications from Japan and the Philippines, combined with the other attacks which would initially paralyze the island's air defenses, command of the sea and counter-attack system abilities, presenting a huge threat to the island.
China views Taiwan as part of its breakaway territory, and has threatened forceful take-over to prevent Taipei lawmakers from moving toward independence. It's noted countless times that Beijing's war drills around Taiwan are dry runs in preparation for a forceful take-over.
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HISTORY OF TAIWAN ISLAND
The first known settlers in Taiwan are Austronesian tribal people thought to have come from modern day southern China.
The island first appears in Chinese records in 239 CE, when China sent an expeditionary force to explore -- a fact Beijing uses to back its territorial claim.
After a brief spell as a Dutch colony (1624-1661) Taiwan was administered by China's Qing Dynasty from 1683 to 1895, under Fujian Province administration. The Dutch colonial force was driven out by Zheng Chenggong, aka. Prince of Yanping (1624–1662), better known internationally by his Dutch-Romanised Hokkien honorific Koxinga or Coxinga.
Zheng Chenggong was a Chinese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan and established a dynasty, the House of Koxinga, which ruled part of the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683. The Dutch force relocated to the islands in the Southeastern Asia, part of Indonesia today.
From the 17th century, significant numbers of migrants started arriving from China, often fleeing turmoil or hardship. Most were *Hoklo Chinese from Fujian (Fukien) Province or Hakka Chinese, largely from Guangdong (Kwangtung). The Taiwan island itself was administered by Fujian Province.* The descendants of these two migrations now make up by far the largest population group.
In 1895, following Japan's victory in the Imperial Japan's First Invasion of China, the Qing government had to cede Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, or known as Treaty of Maguan by Chinese side, including the Diaoyu Islands (Japan calls it Senkaku Islands) and few other small islands under Taiwan control at that time. After World War Two, the Republic of China -- one of the victors, along with the USA, Soviet Union, Britain -- began ruling Taiwan with the consent of its allies the US and UK, after Japan surrendered and relinquished control of territory it had taken from China.
However in the next few years, a civil war broke out in China and the leader at the time Chiang Kai-shek's troops were beaten back by the Communist armies under Mao Zedong (CPC). Chiang and the remnants of his Kuomintang (KMT) government fled to Taiwan in 1949. This group, referred to as Mainland Chinese and then making up 1.5 million people, dominated Taiwan's politics for many years -- even though they only account for 14% of the population. Taiwan's population is less than 24 million in 2021.
Relations between China and Taiwan started improving in the 1980s. China put forward a formula, known as "One Country, Two Systems", under which Taiwan would be given significant autonomy if it accepted Chinese reunification.
Taiwan rejected the offer, but it did relax rules on visits to and investment in China. In 1991, it also proclaimed the war with the People's Republic of China on the mainland China to be over.
There were also limited talks between the two sides' unofficial representatives, though Beijing's insistence that Taiwan's Republic of China (ROC) government is illegitimate, meant government-to-government meetings could not happen.
And in 2000, when Taiwan elected Chen Shui-bian as president, Beijing was alarmed. Chen had openly backed an independent Taiwan.
A year after Chen Shui-bian was re-elected in 2004, China under Hu Jintao reign passed a so-called ANTI-SECESSION LAW, stating China's right to use "non-peaceful means" against Taiwan if the island ever attempts to secede from China.
Chen was succeeded by Ma Ying-jeou, who, after taking office in 2008, sought to improve relations with China through economic agreements.
Eight years later, in 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was elected as the new leader in Taipei. She leads the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which leans towards eventual official independence from China.
China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province which it has vowed to retake, by force if necessary. But Taiwan's leaders say it is clearly much more than a province, arguing that it is a sovereign state.
Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China (ROC) government, which fled the mainland to Taiwan in 1949, at first claimed to represent the whole of China, which it intended to re-occupy. It held China's seat on the United Nations Security Council and was recognised by many Western nations as the only Chinese government.
But in 1971, the UN switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing and the ROC government was forced out. Since then the number of countries that recognise the ROC government diplomatically has fallen drastically to only 15 out of the 193 member countries of the United Nations.
The 15 states and statelets that recognize Taiwan as the Republic of China (ROC) are: 1. Guatemala (18.2 million population in 2021); 2. Haiti (11.5 mn); 3. Honduras (10 mn); 4. Paraguay (7.2 mn); 5. Nicaragua (6.7 mn); 6. Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) (1.2 mn); 7. Belize (404,914); 8. Saint Lucia (184,400); 9. Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (111,263); 10. Marshall Islands (59,610); 11. Saint Kitts And Nevis (53,544); 12. Palau (18,169); 13. Tuvalu (11,931); 14. Nauru (10,876); 15. Vatican City (800)
Officially, the ruling DPP still favours eventual formal independence for Taiwan, while the KMT favours eventual re-unification.
It's known to every one that China want to reunite the renegade island, Taiwan, peacefully or by force, to close the final chapter of the hundred years of great humiliation known by Chinese people as “The Century of Humiliation” (started from the Opium Wars to the Eight-Nation Alliance invasion to the Imperial Japan invasion). The only question is when.
A new annual report by the Defense Ministry in Taipei, seen by , offers a stark reality that China's armed forces can "paralyze" Taiwan's defenses.
China has been ratcheting up military maneuvers around the island. The document offered a more alarming assessment than last year's report, which had said China still lacked the capability to launch an assault, Bloomberg said.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry explained in the report, addressed to lawmakers, that China can launch soft and hard electronic attacks. This means China can unleash electronic warfare weapons to degrade communications across the island and communications from Japan and the Philippines, combined with the other attacks which would initially paralyze the island's air defenses, command of the sea and counter-attack system abilities, presenting a huge threat to the island.
China views Taiwan as part of its breakaway territory, and has threatened forceful take-over to prevent Taipei lawmakers from moving toward independence. It's noted countless times that Beijing's war drills around Taiwan are dry runs in preparation for a forceful take-over.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HISTORY OF TAIWAN ISLAND
The first known settlers in Taiwan are Austronesian tribal people thought to have come from modern day southern China.
The island first appears in Chinese records in 239 CE, when China sent an expeditionary force to explore -- a fact Beijing uses to back its territorial claim.
After a brief spell as a Dutch colony (1624-1661) Taiwan was administered by China's Qing Dynasty from 1683 to 1895, under Fujian Province administration. The Dutch colonial force was driven out by Zheng Chenggong, aka. Prince of Yanping (1624–1662), better known internationally by his Dutch-Romanised Hokkien honorific Koxinga or Coxinga.
Zheng Chenggong was a Chinese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan and established a dynasty, the House of Koxinga, which ruled part of the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683. The Dutch force relocated to the islands in the Southeastern Asia, part of Indonesia today.
From the 17th century, significant numbers of migrants started arriving from China, often fleeing turmoil or hardship. Most were *Hoklo Chinese from Fujian (Fukien) Province or Hakka Chinese, largely from Guangdong (Kwangtung). The Taiwan island itself was administered by Fujian Province.* The descendants of these two migrations now make up by far the largest population group.
In 1895, following Japan's victory in the Imperial Japan's First Invasion of China, the Qing government had to cede Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, or known as Treaty of Maguan by Chinese side, including the Diaoyu Islands (Japan calls it Senkaku Islands) and few other small islands under Taiwan control at that time. After World War Two, the Republic of China -- one of the victors, along with the USA, Soviet Union, Britain -- began ruling Taiwan with the consent of its allies the US and UK, after Japan surrendered and relinquished control of territory it had taken from China.
However in the next few years, a civil war broke out in China and the leader at the time Chiang Kai-shek's troops were beaten back by the Communist armies under Mao Zedong (CPC). Chiang and the remnants of his Kuomintang (KMT) government fled to Taiwan in 1949. This group, referred to as Mainland Chinese and then making up 1.5 million people, dominated Taiwan's politics for many years -- even though they only account for 14% of the population. Taiwan's population is less than 24 million in 2021.
Relations between China and Taiwan started improving in the 1980s. China put forward a formula, known as "One Country, Two Systems", under which Taiwan would be given significant autonomy if it accepted Chinese reunification.
Taiwan rejected the offer, but it did relax rules on visits to and investment in China. In 1991, it also proclaimed the war with the People's Republic of China on the mainland China to be over.
There were also limited talks between the two sides' unofficial representatives, though Beijing's insistence that Taiwan's Republic of China (ROC) government is illegitimate, meant government-to-government meetings could not happen.
And in 2000, when Taiwan elected Chen Shui-bian as president, Beijing was alarmed. Chen had openly backed an independent Taiwan.
A year after Chen Shui-bian was re-elected in 2004, China under Hu Jintao reign passed a so-called ANTI-SECESSION LAW, stating China's right to use "non-peaceful means" against Taiwan if the island ever attempts to secede from China.
Chen was succeeded by Ma Ying-jeou, who, after taking office in 2008, sought to improve relations with China through economic agreements.
Eight years later, in 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was elected as the new leader in Taipei. She leads the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which leans towards eventual official independence from China.
China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province which it has vowed to retake, by force if necessary. But Taiwan's leaders say it is clearly much more than a province, arguing that it is a sovereign state.
Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China (ROC) government, which fled the mainland to Taiwan in 1949, at first claimed to represent the whole of China, which it intended to re-occupy. It held China's seat on the United Nations Security Council and was recognised by many Western nations as the only Chinese government.
But in 1971, the UN switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing and the ROC government was forced out. Since then the number of countries that recognise the ROC government diplomatically has fallen drastically to only 15 out of the 193 member countries of the United Nations.
The 15 states and statelets that recognize Taiwan as the Republic of China (ROC) are: 1. Guatemala (18.2 million population in 2021); 2. Haiti (11.5 mn); 3. Honduras (10 mn); 4. Paraguay (7.2 mn); 5. Nicaragua (6.7 mn); 6. Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) (1.2 mn); 7. Belize (404,914); 8. Saint Lucia (184,400); 9. Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (111,263); 10. Marshall Islands (59,610); 11. Saint Kitts And Nevis (53,544); 12. Palau (18,169); 13. Tuvalu (11,931); 14. Nauru (10,876); 15. Vatican City (800)
Officially, the ruling DPP still favours eventual formal independence for Taiwan, while the KMT favours eventual re-unification.