Analysts are cutting China GDP forecasts amid coronavirus outbreak
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Posted:Feb 20, 2020 2:17 pm
Last Updated:Feb 29, 2020 7:45 am 92302 Views
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Some analysts and economists are downgrading China’s GDP growth forecast for 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak hits the world’s second largest economy.
Economic activity in many cities halted as factories closed for week-long Lunar New Year holidays. The break was extended in some places — a move that will hit global supply chains.
Meanwhile, the service sector has also been hit as people are encouraged to stay at home.
ANZ: Maintain at 5.8%
Citi: Downgrades from 5.8% to 5.5%
Economist Intelligence Unit: Downgrades from 5.9% to 4.9-5.4%
Macquarie: Downgrades from 5.9% to 5.6%
Mizuho: Downgrades from 5.9% to 5.6%
Moody’s: Maintains at 5.8%
Natixis: Downgrades from 5.7% to 5.5%
Nomura: ‘Significantly lower’ than 6.1%
Richard Bernstein Advisors: Fears will ‘knock stuffing out’ of growth
Vanguard: Maintains at 5.8%
UBS: Downgrades from 6% to 5.5%
Photo 2: Coronavirus: A Chinese woman eats a whole bat in disturbing footage
Photo 3: "Five Suns" appear in China's inner Mongolia
Photo 4 and 5: Coronavirus patients sudden collapse on streets and died. Those patients didn't count in death toll as they were not "confirmed Coronavirus". Their bodies will be cremated without a record.
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The US is finally evacuating Americans from the Diamond Princess.
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Posted:Feb 16, 2020 12:31 pm
Last Updated:Feb 22, 2020 9:06 am 80606 Views
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Three thousands seven hundred and eleven of people have been stuck in their cabins under mandatory quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess, which is docked off the Japanese port city of Yokohama, since February 3. With 356 confirmed cases of coronavirus on board, 70 of which were announced Sunday, the ship has the largest concentration of novel coronavirus cases outside mainland China. On February 19, the controversial quarantine period was set to finally end. There are more than 400 Americans aboard, remaining on the ship for the quarantine period. Most passengers weren't thrilled but accepted the plan. After the quarantine, virus-free passengers were told they could take commercial flights back to the US.
On Saturday afternoon, the US Embassy in Tokyo sent a notice to Americans on board the Diamond Princess laying out plans to evacuate nearly 400 Americans back home.
Once there, another 14 days of mandatory quarantine would begin. Anyone who chose not to get on the flight would have to wait another 14 days in Japan to ensure they were symptom-free before returning to the US. There are 44 Americans on cruise ship docked in Japan test positive for coronavirus and they can't get on plane to return to USA.
That decision has prompted anger among the American passengers, with many demanding answers to two simple questions about the US response: Why did the American government wait so long to make the about-face decision? What prompted such a dramatic shift in US policy?
Japanese government plans to begin testing all those who remain on board for the virus. Results should be provided within three days. From February 21, staggered disembarkations would begin.
The abrupt change in US policy led some to believe that Washington lost faith in the effectiveness of the Japanese response to coronavirus.
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and commonly known as Tokyo 20/20 or the Recovery Olympics, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled from Friday, July 24 to Sunday, August 9. Will the Summer Olympics open as scheduled?
Japanese government and people have donated thousands of masks and gloves to Chinese since January, now Japan is short of masks and gloves to protect themselves. Will the Olympics athletes be safe to attend the sports event?
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'Overwhelming' evidence of CCP is running organ harvesting
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Posted:Feb 12, 2020 4:12 pm
Last Updated:Apr 14, 2020 7:18 pm 77885 Views
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Australian Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh says there is no doubt that the Chinese government is forcibly harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners, stating that the “evidence is overwhelming”.
This is NOT fake news. Please Go*gle this blog's title and see the video yourself what an Australian professor says.
If you search the words China organ harvesting, you will see plenty of bloody pictures, I know those are Fulun Gong protesters showing the pictures as actors and actress. However, there are true facts showing China organ harvesting is a lucrative way to make fast money.
You also can search "Organ Transplants and Human Rights Abuses in China". Sir Geoffrey Nice QC and Martin Elliott report the findings of "The Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China".
Those are English videos, so I can't show you the articles. Of course, Chinese doctors or nurses who operated organ harvesting couldn't take atrocious pictures on real cases, but the news have been revealed. Please use your professional judgement.
I enclosed a price list for different organs. I can't show you the atrocious pictures.
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Welcome communist and pro-communist to Wuhan cabin hospital
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Posted:Feb 11, 2020 6:39 pm
Last Updated:Feb 16, 2020 1:31 am 74287 Views
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Wuhan city provides free bed, free new and clean bed sheets, free blankets, free pillows, free meals, free masks, .... for 2000 people with one toilet. No doctor, but some nurses and free services for meals. Welcome to live there for free. Stay in these cabin hospital for good. You can get in, but you can't go out. Free rent, free services. Wonderful!!!
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Brown nosing to CCP is inhumanity
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Posted:Feb 11, 2020 7:53 am
Last Updated:Feb 19, 2020 11:18 pm 64369 Views
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Great disappointment for those people who brown nosing 2 CCP and receiving bribery from CCP. They are inhumanity 2 Chinese people and against the norm.
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Chinese Military Hackers Charged in Equifax Breach
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Posted:Feb 10, 2020 1:39 pm
Last Updated:Feb 14, 2020 1:18 am 62015 Views
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US Attorney General William Barr called the hack "one of the largest data breaches in history".
Chinese Military Hackers Charged in Equifax Breach
Intrusion Affected Nearly Half of All Americans.
U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against four Chinese military-backed hackers in connection with carrying out the 2017 cyberattack against Equifax, a consumer credit reporting agency. The intrusion led to the largest known theft of personally identifiable information ever carried out by state-sponsored actors.
Investigators had previously discovered and announced the type of malware that allowed the hackers to harvest addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, and other data on approximately 145 million Americans. Today’s indictment charges that members of the People’s Liberation Army—the armed forces of the People’s Republic of China—were behind that malware attack.
“We in law enforcement will not let hackers off the hook just because they’re halfway around the world.” FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said.
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Cabin Hospital in Wuhan city, China
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Posted:Feb 9, 2020 6:12 pm
Last Updated:Feb 21, 2020 7:55 am 62843 Views
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Please take a look of the 2000 bed Cabin Hospital that recently built for the Wuhan city patients. There are no divided wall to separate patients, two beds join together, in a large gym area. One of a woman took a video to show outside that there is only one toilet for 2000 people and only 4 running water for cleaning and the electric blankets are not working. She said the contamination is worse than self-quarantine at home. No mask, no hand sanitizer provided. The nurses have arrived but no MD in yet.
Yes, CCP provided new 2000 clean bed sheets and blankets, new pillows and provide meals for everyone. However, one dirty squatted toilet for 2000 sick patients is not enough, so some patients urinate on the floor. Some women showed very happy eating the free meals, but the woman who took the video was very worried the contamination and disease spreading. Many people are coughing, but she didn't know other people have common cold, or flu, or coronavirus. She said it is like "concentration camp".
Do you trust this 2000 bed "cabin hospital"? I don't. What do you think?
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Xi's photo on Time Magazine cover
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Posted:Feb 8, 2020 7:14 pm
Last Updated:Feb 12, 2020 12:40 am 56200 Views
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The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Derail Xi Jinping’s Dreams of a Chinese Century
The 2019-nCoV outbreak is infecting some 2,000 people daily in China and has spread to least 25 countries. The World Health (WHO ) declared it a “global health emergency.” And the fear is not limited to health. Global commerce now hinges on China’s $.55 trillion economy, which in turn is governed by an opaque, authoritarian regime tightly coalesced around one man. Xi, burnished by a resurgent cult of personality, has amassed more power than any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. He has leveraged Beijing’s economic clout to forward ambitions home and abroad but also has struggled as no previous leader. “Since Xi came to power, problem after problem have occurred on his watch that he seems unable to effectively manage,” says Jude Blanchette, a China analyst at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. These include popular unrest in semiautonomous Hong Kong, a disruptive trade war with the U.S. and now an unfolding health crisis.
For decades, the sales pitch for China’s single-party rule was the superior performance of its political system when faced with both short-term crises and long-term challenges. It built thousands of miles of -speed rail and helped drag hundreds of millions of people of poverty. By 20/22, McKinsey predicts 550 million Chinese will be able to themselves middle –about 1.5 times the current U.S. population. Still, that benevolent narrative has deteriorated Xi. Now the coronavirus threatens to undermine further his mission to have China stake the next century as America did the last.
In 20/19, China overtook Soviet Russia as history’s most enduring communist state. The -decade longevity of the CCP can be attributed in no small part to abandoning great chunks of Marxist-Leninism; instead of centralized planning and top-down targets, China embraced markets and devolved considerable power to its regions and cities. Local party bosses were encouraged to make bold decisions to boost the local economy, like setting up heavily subsidized means of production.
As a result, China boomed but also became a network of little fiefdoms and power centers, where local bosses vied for influence and corruption flourished. Xi came into power in 20/ convinced rampant graft posed an existential threat to the party. To him, only an ideological renaissance coupled with an anticorruption crusade could save China from going the way of the Soviet Union.
A bland apparatchik by reputation, Xi climbed the career ladder as a provincial bureaucrat, eventually emerging as a compromise candidate for the post of China’s top leader. His lack of a power base led party elders to believe he would remain malleable and easy to control. Global leaders hoped he might push through long-awaited economic and social reforms.
They were wrong. Soon after taking power, Xi announced his “China Dream” of a grand national rejuvenation, later speaking about returning China to “center stage of the world.” Far from embracing Western-style market reforms, Xi calcified state control over the economy and stocked its bureaucracy with flunkies and yes-men. Today party zealotry permeates all of Chinese society. The head of China’s national Film Bureau has ordered movies “must have a clear ideological bottom line and cannot challenge the political system.” China’s journalists have been instructed to follow “Marxist news values.” Artists can only produce works that “serve the people and socialism.” One advertisement for sperm donors required applicants ages 20 to 45 with “excellent ideological qualities” who “love the fatherland,” and are “loyal” to the party’s “mission.” Mao may have had his Little Red , but Xi has a personalized app distributed to all 90 million CCP members, with a directory of his speeches and quizzes on his life and political thought.
His mission is to forge a singular Chinese identity that restores the nation’s ethnic Han majority to a golden age, on the basis of fealty to his party. “Xi Jinping is fundamentally a Han chauvinist with a ‘historic mission’ to make China, Han China, great again,” says Professor Steve Tsang, director of SOAS China Institute at the University of London.
And he’s willing to go to extreme lengths to do it. In China’s restive Xinjiang province, a systematic campaign of forced internment has transformed the area into a dusty expanse spotted with camps where more than 1 million Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities are held extrajudicially, according to the U.N. What began as a campaign to battle radical Islam in the region has mutated into an enormous project of ideological re-education. On the routes where Silk Road caravans once traveled, a sophisticated surveillance apparatus shrouds the wider populace in an AI-powered panopticon, where every action is watched, recorded and judged by algorithm.
Those who fall foul of it are sent to learn the error of their ways. Nurlan Kokeubai, 56, never found out the charges against him. But from August 20/ to April 20/18, he was detained in a re-education camp close to the city of Ili, in Xinjiang province. For four hours each morning, Kokeubai says he and his fellow inmates were forced to watch videos of Xi carousing with dignitaries and overseeing military exercises. They were also ordered to memorize Xi’s eponymous “political thought” and documents from the 19th CCP Conference, where Xi removed presidential term limits to enable himself to rule for life. Those that resisted were beaten with sticks or strapped to a metal chair for interrogation. “They weren’t testing our knowledge or loyalty,” Kokeubai told TIME in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to which he has since fled. “They were just filling us with this propaganda.”
President Trump has kept mum on the Xinjiang camps as he negotiated a provisional agreement in the trade war. But when the coronavirus broke, his Administration did not hold back. “I don’t want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate, very malignant disease,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a TV interview on Jan. 30. “The fact is, it does give business yet another thing to consider … I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America.”
Forty years after Beijing and Washington normalized relations, the two are diverging rapidly. Trump, the U.S. has been disentangling its firms and, yes, supply chains from China’s through taxes, tariffs and punitive investment curbs. Western investors are also cowed by ideological hurdles and looking elsewhere, given China’s market is now sophisticated, saturated and tricky to exploit. Washington has banned Huawei, the world’s biggest telecoms equipment manufacturer, from its key infrastructure and urged allies to do the same. In U.S. universities, Chinese researchers have been purged as academia, wary of espionage, lurches into Sinophobic McCarthyism. The patient optimism that colored the George W. Bush and Obama administrations has largely evaporated.
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Japan Diamond Princess cruise ship Coronavirus quarantine
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Posted:Feb 7, 2020 11:14 am
Last Updated:Feb 13, 2020 7:16 am 51524 Views
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The Diamond Princess cruise ship, on which the Frasures were traveling, has been quarantined off the coast of Yokohama, near Tokyo, since Feb 4, 20/20, after a former passenger tested positive for the coronavirus. Japan Reports 41 New Coronavirus Infections on Quarantined Cruise Liner 11 Americans among those 41 on quarantined. Now Japan has 86 persons in total in quarantine.
American couple Kent and Rebecca Frasure found themselves quarantined on a cruise ship, staring at ambulances lined up on land ready to receive the increasing toll of passengers diagnosed with a deadly virus. Rebecca, 35, found out she had tested positive for Wuhan coronavirus and had to leave the ship immediately -- alone, as her husband Kent, 42, was still apparently uninfected. 'A contaminated prison': Scared, angry passengers are trapped on three cruise ships amid coronavirus outbreak.
Photo 1: Japan Diamond Princess cruise ship.
Photo 2: Health workers entering the Diamond Princess on Feb 7, 20/20. Dozens of people from the ship have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
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Meanwhile, CCP official coronavirus update: there are 638 Chinese died and 31,521 confirmed cases in China alone. Don't know this figures are correct. Don't know how CCP can handle this huge crisis. Chinese people are growing angry about CCP for delay in virus warning, the doctor died at age of 34, censorship and block for social media uses, medical supply and food shortage, confine at home for self-quarantine.
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The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about coronavirus
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Posted:Feb 7, 2020 12:16 am
Last Updated:Feb 8, 2020 7:54 pm 46932 Views
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Dr Li Wenliang, who was hailed a hero for raising the alarm about the coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak, has died of the infection.
His death was confirmed by the Wuhan hospital where he worked and was being treated, following conflicting reports about his condition on state media.
Dr Li, 34, tried to send a message to fellow medics about the outbreak at the end of December. Three days later police paid him a visit and told him to stop. He returned to work and caught the virus from a patient. He had been in hospital for at least three weeks.
He posted his story from his hospital bed last month on social media site Weibo.
"Hello everyone, this is Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital," the post begins.
It was a stunning insight into the botched response by local authorities in Wuhan in the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak.
Dr Li was working at the center of the outbreak in December when he noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars - the virus that led to a global epidemic in 2003. The cases were thought to come from the Huanan Seafood market in Wuhan and the patients were in quarantine in his hospital.
On 30 December he sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them about the outbreak and advising they wear protective clothing to avoid infection.
What Dr Li didn't know then was that the disease that had been discovered was an entirely new coronavirus.
Four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter. In the letter he was accused of "making false comments" that had "severely disturbed the social order".
"We solemnly warn you: If you keep being stubborn, with such impertinence, and continue this illegal activity, you will be brought to justice - is that understood?" Underneath in Dr Li's handwriting is written: "Yes, I do."
He was one of eight people who police said were being investigated for "spreading rumors".
At the end of January, Dr Li published a copy of the letter on Weibo and explained what had happened. In the meantime, local authorities had apologized to him but that apology came too late.
For the first few weeks of January officials in Wuhan were insisting that only those who came into contact with infected animals could catch the virus. No guidance was issued to protect doctors.
But just a week after his visit from the police, Dr Li was treating a woman with glaucoma. He didn't know that she had been infected with the new coronavirus.
In his Weibo post he describes how on 10 January he started coughing, the next day he had a fever and two days later he was in hospital. His parents also fell ill and were taken to hospital.
It was 10 days later - on 20 January - that China declared the outbreak an emergency.
Dr Li says he was tested several times for coronavirus, all of them came back negative.
On 30 January he posted again: "Today nucleic acid testing came back with a positive result, the dust has settled, finally diagnosed."
He punctuated the short post with an emoji of a with its eyes rolled back, tongue hanging out.
Not surprisingly the post received thousands of comments and words of support.
"Dr Li Wenliang is a hero," one user said, worrying about what his story says about their country. "In the future, doctors will be more afraid to issue early warnings when they find signs of infectious diseases."
"A safer public health environment… requires tens of millions of Li Wenliang."
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