… What the hell is going on? The short answer: I don’t know. I also don’t know what’s causing the high rates of depression, suicide and loneliness that dogged Americans even before the pandemic and that are the sad flip side of all the hostility and recklessness I’ve just described.
We can round up the usual suspects: social media, rotten politics. When President Donald Trump signaled it was OK to hate marginalized groups, a lot of people were bound to see that as permission. …
… Over the past several years, and over a wide range of different behaviors, Americans have been acting in fewer pro-social and relational ways and in more antisocial and self-destructive ways. But why?
… I just don’t right now. I just know the situation is dire.
… This week, the list went from one to three, as Politico reported that the National Archives also received forged certificates of ascertainment from Republicans in Michigan and Arizona — two battleground states where President Joe Biden narrowly prevailed, but where groups of Republicans nevertheless created and submitted fraudulent election materials.
That led to three relatively straightforward questions. The first is whether this was legal. On this point, George Conway wrote this morning, “Anyone who prepared or submitted, or aided, abetted or conspired in the preparation or submission of, false electoral-vote certificates, would presumably be guilty of a host of federal and state criminal offenses.”
The second question is whether the Republicans who created and submitted fraudulent election materials had any outside help. Stick a pin in that one and we’ll get back to it.
And the third question is whether the list will grow beyond Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona. The answer, not surprisingly, is yes: Republicans in Nevada and Georgia did the same thing. …
On Dec. 14, 2020, 20 prominent Pennsylvania Democrats gathered in Harrisburg — in a ceremony shorn of some of its pomp and circumstance because of COVID-19, but witnessed by a gaggle of reporters — to cast the state’s Electoral College votes for the president-elect, Joe Biden. They dropped their ballots in a wooden box designed by Benjamin Franklin.
Then-Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, who had certified that Biden defeated Donald Trump here by more than 80,000 votes, told the gathering, “Today you will follow the tradition of the first Electoral College that convened in Pennsylvania 231 years ago and cast your votes based on the outcome of that election, to carry out the will of the voters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”
But at another undisclosed location in Harrisburg, with no press coverage, a band of 20 top state Republicans had other ideas. Meeting at what they said was “the request of the Trump campaign,” the GOP luminaries — including two men now running for governor, former Congressman Lou Barletta and consultant Charlie Gerow — cast what they called “a procedural vote” that claimed Trump as the winner. The documentation claimed the ballots were cast just in case a court ruling or some other proceeding overturned Biden’s victory.
The Chinese mainland recorded 201 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday, with 143 linked to local transmissions and 58 from overseas, data from the National Health Commission showed on Friday.
A total of 42 new asymptomatic cases were also recorded, and 748 asymptomatic patients remain under medical observation.
Confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland now total 104,580, with the death toll remaining unchanged at 4,636 since January last year.
Over 2.92 bln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Chinese mainland
BEIJING — Over 2.92 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered on the Chinese mainland as of Thursday, data from the National Health Commission showed Friday.
[ January 8, 2022
More than 1.21 billion or 86.25% of the Chinese mainland population had been fully vaccinated. ]
The effectiveness of the Chinese approach to preventing, containing and treating the coronavirus can be made clear in realizing that there have been only 2 coronavirus deaths on the mainland since January 2020. Learning with China was needed in the United States, but any such learning was dismissed. The dismissal in the likes of the New York Times was simply “savage.”
China on January 3, 2020 directly informed the CDC and WHO on the new type of “pneumonia” that had just been discovered in Wuhan. Since that time, China has been recording daily data on the coronavirus, reporting the data domestically and reporting the data to the CDC and WHO. The New York Times has repeatedly dismissed the Chinese reports.
As for believing Chinese public health authorities, public notice and cautions about the appearing of a new type of “pneumonia” began on December 30, 1999 and daily notice continued from then till now. Early in January 2020, the genome of the coronavirus was decoded, sent to the WHO and published. Immediately, primers for testing for the coronavirus were made and sent to the WHO and distributed through China. The CDC was directly informed on January 3, and continued to be informed from then.
Coronavirus data was collected daily and published. The data is public and I have daily records complete to the present. Of course the public data are to be believed, for precise data were essential in learning to control the infection.
The New York Times just published an article in which Chinese efforts to control the coronavirus were literally likened to “the banality of evil” efforts made during the Holocaust. This was no opinion column, but a news report. The self-defeating smashing of China that the media has been engaged in is terribly distressing.
Yes, of course, China is to be believed. We must turn away from debilitating prejudice against 1.4 billion people.
It was thought Covid was occurring well before December.
[ The earliest “pneumonia-coronavirus” case identified by researchers was December 8, 1999. This from a published paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, January 29, 2020:
Onset of Illness among the First 425 Confirmed Cases of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–Infected Pneumonia (NCIP) in Wuhan, China.
The decline in incidence after January 8 is likely to be due to delays in diagnosis and laboratory confirmation. China CDC denotes Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, PCR polymerase chain reaction, WHC Wuhan Health Commission, and WHO World Health Organization. *
[ Yes, of course, China is to be believed. Chinese public health authorities extend from the National Health Service and CDC, to regional and local and hospital authorities through the country. Tens of thousands of doctors and nurses and technicians and scientists have been part of the effort against the coronavirus.
URUMQI — China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region received 170 million tourists from January to October this year, with its tourism revenue hitting 129.4 billion yuan (about 20.4 billion U.S. dollars) during the period.
The revenue from tourism increased 16.8 percent year on year in the period, according to the regional culture and tourism department.
During this period, a total of 127 government-funded cultural and tourism infrastructure projects were carried out, with a total investment of approximately 9.7 billion yuan.
“Abundant high-quality tourism products and the vigorous development of new businesses, such as homestays, have effectively promoted tourism consumption,” said Liu Quan, deputy head of the regional culture and tourism department….
There were also more than 40 million tourist trips made to and through Tibet, between January and November 2021. What was found in millions of visits in Xinjiang and Tibet this last year was repeatedly remarkably pleasing. There will be millions more pleasing visits this year.
China’s Tibet sees booming tourism in first 11 months
LHASA — Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region received 40.43 million domestic and overseas tourists in the first 11 months of this year, up 15.9 percent year on year, local authorities said on Wednesday.
The region’s tourism revenue surged 22.4 percent from a year earlier to 43.85 billion yuan (about 6.9 billion U.S. dollars) during the period, according to the regional tourism department….
As for Xinjiang, every predominantly Muslim country supports China. Indeed, allied Arab country ambassadors are currently in Beijing working on a trade partnership with China. Then too, at the request of the President of Israel, Israel and China have just begun a technology development partnership.
Yeah, they are afraid or want something. I have had enough of sinophiles on EV, need no more that can ignore million person concentration and forced work camps. Xi us a f*cking monster.
[ Of course, Chinese leaders are the friendliest to those who are or wish to be friends. Chinese leaders were remarkably friendly to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger when they wished to be friends.
At least try to understand Chinese foreign policy. Just try. ]
Over 800,000 coronavirus cases and 2,000 deaths in the United States today. We needed to learn from China, but for many there is only disdain for China which is tragic.
A Republican legislator in Virginia who campaigned against critical race theory introduced a bill that incorrectly said the Lincoln-Douglas debates were between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
Tucked inside a bill introduced by Wren Williams, a Republican delegate, was a glaring error: Among the concepts that school boards would be required to ensure students understood was “the first debate between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.”
“The gross mistake in this bill is indicative of the need to have scholars and teachers, not legislators/politicians, shaping what students at every level learn in the classroom,” Caroline Janney, a professor of Civil War history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said in an email. …
Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
What students learn in the classroom is generally much different than what is written in textbooks or taught by teachers, not just in history, but in biology as well as evidenced by a stunning lack of perception of the pandemic by far too many people. The three R’s despite the relentless emphasis on them fair only a little better. Regardless of what standards of learning are set by the government they will have an uphill struggle to overcome the standards of ignorance and failure set by families, neighborhoods, and mass media. It takes a village to screw things up this bad.
The Chinese mainland recorded 165 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, with 104 linked to local transmissions and 61 from overseas, data from the National Health Commission showed on Saturday.
A total of 25 new asymptomatic cases were also recorded, and 743 asymptomatic patients remain under medical observation.
Confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland now total 104,745, with the death toll remaining unchanged at 4,636 since January last year.
Nearly 2.93 bln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Chinese mainland
BEIJING — Nearly 2.93 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered on the Chinese mainland as of Friday, data from the National Health Commission showed Saturday.
[ Over 1.22 billion fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on Chinese mainland. ]
BEIJING — In a year when the pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the world economy, global investors have cast more votes of confidence on investing in China as the foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country hit a record high.
The FDI into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, expanded 14.9 percent year on year to a record high of 1.15 trillion yuan in 2021, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.
In U.S. dollar terms, the inflow went up 20.2 percent year on year to 173.48 billion dollars.
High-tech industries saw FDI inflows jump 17.1 percent from a year earlier, ministry spokesperson Shu Jueting told a press briefing.
Foreign investment in China’s high-tech manufacturing and high-tech services industries rose 10.7 percent and 19.2 percent, year on year, respectively.
The robust growth came as China’s long-term and sound economic fundamentals, and constantly improving business environment retained an appeal to foreign capital, said Zhang Jianping, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation under the commerce ministry.
Last year, the total FDI inflow into the services sector increased 16.7 percent, year on year, to 906.49 billion yuan.
Investment in the Chinese mainland from countries along the Belt and Road and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations jumped 29.4 percent and 29 percent, respectively, data from the ministry shows….
New York State recorded about 48,000 coronavirus cases on Friday, a nearly 47 percent drop from the roughly 90,000 cases reported a week earlier, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Saturday.
The total number of positive cases — 47,870 — represented only 14.6 percent of the 327,427 tests reported by the state, a significant decline from the 23 percent positivity rate recorded on Jan. 2.
Hospitalizations also seemed to decrease slightly, with 38 fewer hospitalizations recorded on Friday compared with the day before.
This and other recent data show that the latest surge in New York driven by the Omicron variant may be starting to trend downward from a Jan. 9 peak, and that several Northeast states — including New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island — may be heading in the same direction. …
Officials in Beijing on Saturday reported the city’s first case of the Omicron variant, prompting authorities to order an immediate lockdown and mass testing in one neighborhood just three weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics in the capital city.
Speaking at a news briefing on Saturday night, an official from the high-tech Haidian District in western Beijing said that the authorities had temporarily cordoned off the infected person’s residential compound and workplace. Health officials collected 2,430 samples for testing from people linked to the two locations.
The detection of the highly-transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant in Beijing comes as China has been racing to stamp out a series of concurrent outbreaks around the country as part of a broader effort to adhere to the government’s policy of “zero tolerance” for the coronavirus. …
If the West fails to meet its security demands, Moscow could take measures like placing nuclear missiles close to the U.S. coastline, Russian officials have hinted. …
No one expected much progress from this past week’s diplomatic marathon to defuse the security crisis Russia has ignited in Eastern Europe by surrounding Ukraine on three sides with 100,000 troops and then, by the White House’s accounting, sending in saboteurs to create a pretext for invasion.
But as the Biden administration and NATO conduct tabletop simulations about how the next few months could unfold, they are increasingly wary of another set of options for President Vladimir V. Putin, steps that are more far-reaching than simply rolling his troops and armor over Ukraine’s border.
Mr. Putin wants to extend Russia’s sphere of influence to Eastern Europe and secure written commitments that NATO will never again enlarge. If he is frustrated in reaching that goal, some of his aides suggested on the sidelines of the negotiations last week, then he would pursue Russia’s security interests with results that would be felt acutely in Europe and the United States.
There were hints, never quite spelled out, that nuclear weapons could be shifted to places — perhaps not far from the United States coastline — that would reduce warning times after a launch to as little as five minutes, potentially igniting a confrontation with echoes of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. …
BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization said Sunday that an UN-backed program shipping coronavirus vaccines to many poor countries has now delivered 1 billion doses, but that milestone “is only a reminder of the work that remains” after hoarding and stockpiling in rich countries.
A shipment of 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Rwanda on Saturday included the billionth dose supplied via the COVAX program, the U.N. health agency said.
WHO has long criticized unequal distribution of vaccines and called for manufacturers and other countries to prioritize COVAX. It said that, as of Thursday, 36 of its 194 member countries had vaccinated less than 10% of their population and 88 had vaccinated less than 40%.
The program has made deliveries to 144 countries so far, “but the work that has gone into this milestone is only a reminder of the work that remains,” WHO said in a statement.
“COVAX’s ambition was compromised by hoarding/stockpiling in rich countries, catastrophic outbreaks leading to borders and supply being locked,” it added. “And a lack of sharing of licenses, technology and know-how by pharmaceutical companies meant manufacturing capacity went unused.”
At the end of December, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged everyone to make a “new year’s resolution” to get behind a campaign to vaccinate 70% of countries’ populations by the beginning of July.
In a newspaper interview published Sunday, Germany’s new international development minister said she wants to use her country’s presidency this year of the Group of Seven industrial nations to ensure that COVAX gets the resources it needs in 2022.
“Unfortunately, there are still too few countries participating in the financing of the global vaccination campaign,” Svenja Schulze was quoted as telling the Funke newspaper group. “Alongside Sweden, Norway, Canada and the U.S., we are the ones who are giving most. The other industrial countries have significant ground to catch up.” …
The former president falsely claimed that white Americans were being denied the Covid-19 vaccine, among other inaccuracies.
During a rally in Arizona on Saturday, former President Donald J. Trump repeated his lie that the 2020 election was stolen and made other false claims about the pandemic and the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year. …
“The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating, just denigrating, white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white, you don’t get the vaccine, or if you’re white, you don’t get therapeutics.”
False. There is no evidence that white Americans are being denied access to vaccines or treatments. …
WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID
“Why did Nancy Pelosi and the Capitol Police reject the more than 10,000 National Guard troops or soldiers that I authorized to help control the enormous crowd that I knew was coming?”
False. There is no evidence that Mr. Trump ever made a request for 10,000 National Guard troops or that Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected such a demand. …
WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID
“So we lost (Arizona), they say, by 10,000 and yet they flagged more than — listen to these numbers — 57,000 highly suspicious ballots for further investigation, one. 23,344 mail-in ballots were counted despite the person no longer living at that address — little, little problem. Five thousand people appear to have voted in more than one county.”
False. Mr. Trump won the state of Arizona by about 10,500 votes, but his claim of tens of thousands of fraudulent votes is baseless. …
The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was long revered for its methodical and meticulous scientific approach. Agencies in other nations modeled themselves after the world’s most highly regarded public health authority, even adopting the name.
At the outset of the pandemic, the C.D.C. moved at its accustomed pace. But this time, with a novel virus moving so quickly, the country paid a price: Testing and surveillance lagged as the agency tried to implement dated approaches with creaky infrastructure. Officials were late to recommend masking, in part because federal scientists took too long to recognize that the virus was airborne.
Now the contagious Omicron variant is pushing the C.D.C. into uncharted territory. Because decisions must be made at a breakneck pace, the agency has issued recommendations based on what once would have been considered insufficient evidence, amid growing public concern about how these guidelines affect the economy and education. …
The agency’s director, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, has sometimes skipped much of the traditional scientific review process, most recently in shortening the isolation period for infected Americans.
After the Trump administration’s pattern of interference, President Biden came to office promising to restore the C.D.C.’s reputation for independence and rigorous science. The challenge now for Dr. Walensky is figuring out how to convey this message to the public: The science is incomplete, and this is our best advice for now.
For a bureaucracy staffed primarily by medical professionals, the change has not been easy.
In recent interviews, some officials at the C.D.C. privately described the decisions as demoralizing, and worried about Dr. Walensky’s increasing reliance on a small group of advisers and what they saw as the White House’s heavy political influence on her actions.
Yet others outside the agency commended Dr. Walensky for short-circuiting a laborious process and taking a pragmatic approach to managing a national emergency, saying she was right to move ahead even when the data was unclear and agency researchers remained unsure. …
America is Falling Apart
NY Times – David Brooks – Jan 13
(Why? Two guesses. Trump & the GOP.)
(GOP leadership presumably knows about this, which would explain why they refuse to talk to the Jan 6 Committee.)
At least five states are involved in this (AZ, NV, MI, GA & WI).
After 2020, Trump backers forged election docs in at least 5 states
(Apparently, PA also attempted to participate in this scheme.)
REPUBLICAN ELECTORS CAST PROCEDURAL VOTE , SEEK TO PRESERVE TRUMP CAMPAIGN LEGAL CHALLENGE
Philadelphia Inquirer – Jan 13
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-14/Chinese-mainland-records-201-confirmed-COVID-19-cases-16OaTHeTUHK/index.html
January 14, 2022
Chinese mainland reports 201 new COVID-19 cases
The Chinese mainland recorded 201 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday, with 143 linked to local transmissions and 58 from overseas, data from the National Health Commission showed on Friday.
A total of 42 new asymptomatic cases were also recorded, and 748 asymptomatic patients remain under medical observation.
Confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland now total 104,580, with the death toll remaining unchanged at 4,636 since January last year.
Chinese mainland new locally transmitted cases
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-14/Chinese-mainland-records-201-confirmed-COVID-19-cases-16OaTHeTUHK/img/ef65574ba9604f6b8cceea9fae9efd70/ef65574ba9604f6b8cceea9fae9efd70.jpeg
Chinese mainland new imported cases
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-14/Chinese-mainland-records-201-confirmed-COVID-19-cases-16OaTHeTUHK/img/40447cf597254a449ab7e7bd1954dbf5/40447cf597254a449ab7e7bd1954dbf5.jpeg
Chinese mainland new asymptomatic cases
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-14/Chinese-mainland-records-201-confirmed-COVID-19-cases-16OaTHeTUHK/img/350790b5d2bd4d5b9cb5c26fc305b5c8/350790b5d2bd4d5b9cb5c26fc305b5c8.jpeg
January 13, 2022
Coronavirus
United States
Cases ( 65,236,475)
Deaths ( 869,212)
Deaths per million ( 2,603)
China
Cases ( 104,379)
Deaths ( 4,636)
Deaths per million ( 3)
US Covid deaths continue to account for more than 25% of the world total…
why?
https://www.xinhuanet.com/english/20220114/2e89e6106a4d449f9a266667b6c1128f/c.html
January 14, 2022
Over 2.92 bln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Chinese mainland
BEIJING — Over 2.92 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered on the Chinese mainland as of Thursday, data from the National Health Commission showed Friday.
[ January 8, 2022
More than 1.21 billion or 86.25% of the Chinese mainland population had been fully vaccinated. ]
The effectiveness of the Chinese approach to preventing, containing and treating the coronavirus can be made clear in realizing that there have been only 2 coronavirus deaths on the mainland since January 2020. Learning with China was needed in the United States, but any such learning was dismissed. The dismissal in the likes of the New York Times was simply “savage.”
If you believe them. Do you believe re-education camps are?
China on January 3, 2020 directly informed the CDC and WHO on the new type of “pneumonia” that had just been discovered in Wuhan. Since that time, China has been recording daily data on the coronavirus, reporting the data domestically and reporting the data to the CDC and WHO. The New York Times has repeatedly dismissed the Chinese reports.
January 13, 2022
Coronavirus
United Kingdom
Cases ( 14,967,817)
Deaths ( 151,342)
Deaths per million ( 2,212)
China
Cases ( 104,379)
Deaths ( 4,636)
Deaths per million ( 3)
As for believing Chinese public health authorities, public notice and cautions about the appearing of a new type of “pneumonia” began on December 30, 1999 and daily notice continued from then till now. Early in January 2020, the genome of the coronavirus was decoded, sent to the WHO and published. Immediately, primers for testing for the coronavirus were made and sent to the WHO and distributed through China. The CDC was directly informed on January 3, and continued to be informed from then.
Coronavirus data was collected daily and published. The data is public and I have daily records complete to the present. Of course the public data are to be believed, for precise data were essential in learning to control the infection.
ltr:
It was thought Covid was occurring well before December. trump had removed some of the on site staff monitoring China. China delayed.
The New York Times just published an article in which Chinese efforts to control the coronavirus were literally likened to “the banality of evil” efforts made during the Holocaust. This was no opinion column, but a news report. The self-defeating smashing of China that the media has been engaged in is terribly distressing.
Yes, of course, China is to be believed. We must turn away from debilitating prejudice against 1.4 billion people.
I’m talking about the government, not the people as should be obvious. Are re-education camps a thing?
EMike,
Do you want Mao on that?
hehe
It was thought Covid was occurring well before December.
[ The earliest “pneumonia-coronavirus” case identified by researchers was December 8, 1999. This from a published paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, January 29, 2020:
https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/journals/content/nejm/2020/nejm_2020.382.issue-13/nejmoa2001316/20200320/images/img_xlarge/nejmoa2001316_f1.jpeg
January 29, 2020
Onset of Illness among the First 425 Confirmed Cases of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–Infected Pneumonia (NCIP) in Wuhan, China.
The decline in incidence after January 8 is likely to be due to delays in diagnosis and laboratory confirmation. China CDC denotes Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NHC National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, PCR polymerase chain reaction, WHC Wuhan Health Commission, and WHO World Health Organization. *
* https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316?query=featured_coronavirus
Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia ]
I’m talking about the government…
[ Yes, of course, China is to be believed. Chinese public health authorities extend from the National Health Service and CDC, to regional and local and hospital authorities through the country. Tens of thousands of doctors and nurses and technicians and scientists have been part of the effort against the coronavirus.
Of course, China is to be believed. ]
http://www.news.cn/english/2021-12/09/c_1310361223.htm
December 9, 2021
Xinjiang’s tourism revenue up 17 pct in Jan-Oct
URUMQI — China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region received 170 million tourists from January to October this year, with its tourism revenue hitting 129.4 billion yuan (about 20.4 billion U.S. dollars) during the period.
The revenue from tourism increased 16.8 percent year on year in the period, according to the regional culture and tourism department.
During this period, a total of 127 government-funded cultural and tourism infrastructure projects were carried out, with a total investment of approximately 9.7 billion yuan.
“Abundant high-quality tourism products and the vigorous development of new businesses, such as homestays, have effectively promoted tourism consumption,” said Liu Quan, deputy head of the regional culture and tourism department….
There were also more than 40 million tourist trips made to and through Tibet, between January and November 2021. What was found in millions of visits in Xinjiang and Tibet this last year was repeatedly remarkably pleasing. There will be millions more pleasing visits this year.
https://english.news.cn/20211229/6e52d2168f8a4e64949e4c1346c3cfc8/c.html
December 29, 2021
China’s Tibet sees booming tourism in first 11 months
LHASA — Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region received 40.43 million domestic and overseas tourists in the first 11 months of this year, up 15.9 percent year on year, local authorities said on Wednesday.
The region’s tourism revenue surged 22.4 percent from a year earlier to 43.85 billion yuan (about 6.9 billion U.S. dollars) during the period, according to the regional tourism department….
As for Xinjiang, every predominantly Muslim country supports China. Indeed, allied Arab country ambassadors are currently in Beijing working on a trade partnership with China. Then too, at the request of the President of Israel, Israel and China have just begun a technology development partnership.
Yeah, they are afraid or want something. I have had enough of sinophiles on EV, need no more that can ignore million person concentration and forced work camps. Xi us a f*cking monster.
EM:
They are not the friendliest. The leaders that is.
They are not the friendliest….
[ Of course, Chinese leaders are the friendliest to those who are or wish to be friends. Chinese leaders were remarkably friendly to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger when they wished to be friends.
At least try to understand Chinese foreign policy. Just try. ]
President Xi is a wonderful leader, especially sensitive to the needs of an entire people. The Chinese in turn are a wonderful people.
Of course, a cloud of racism makes truth impossible to comprehend. How fearfully sad.
Over 800,000 coronavirus cases and 2,000 deaths in the United States today. We needed to learn from China, but for many there is only disdain for China which is tragic.
Is this Ann?
EMike,
No, it’s Anne.
Thought so. Fairly dishonest of her. Really need that personal blocker now.
Mouse + scroll button = personal blocker
Of course my wife can do the same thing with just a wave of her hand, but I turn off all that touch stuff whenever I set up a new workstation.
A Bill Proposed a New Way to Teach History
NY Times – Jan 14
Fred,
What students learn in the classroom is generally much different than what is written in textbooks or taught by teachers, not just in history, but in biology as well as evidenced by a stunning lack of perception of the pandemic by far too many people. The three R’s despite the relentless emphasis on them fair only a little better. Regardless of what standards of learning are set by the government they will have an uphill struggle to overcome the standards of ignorance and failure set by families, neighborhoods, and mass media. It takes a village to screw things up this bad.
Lincoln & Frederick Douglass had several meetings, no debates
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
January 14, 2022
Coronavirus
United States
Cases ( 66,209,535)
Deaths ( 872,086)
Deaths per million ( 2,611)
China
Cases ( 104,580)
Deaths ( 4,636)
Deaths per million ( 3)
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-15/Chinese-mainland-records-165-confirmed-COVID-19-cases-16PQQMzELq8/index.html
January 15, 2022
Chinese mainland reports 165 new COVID-19 cases
The Chinese mainland recorded 165 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday, with 104 linked to local transmissions and 61 from overseas, data from the National Health Commission showed on Saturday.
A total of 25 new asymptomatic cases were also recorded, and 743 asymptomatic patients remain under medical observation.
Confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland now total 104,745, with the death toll remaining unchanged at 4,636 since January last year.
Chinese mainland new locally transmitted cases
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-15/Chinese-mainland-records-165-confirmed-COVID-19-cases-16PQQMzELq8/img/ab30953f1f5b478d83bf5effd0e13b93/ab30953f1f5b478d83bf5effd0e13b93.jpeg
Chinese mainland new imported cases
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-15/Chinese-mainland-records-165-confirmed-COVID-19-cases-16PQQMzELq8/img/81dab86c7b88444e8811b1ec5a671f19/81dab86c7b88444e8811b1ec5a671f19.jpeg
Chinese mainland new asymptomatic cases
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-15/Chinese-mainland-records-165-confirmed-COVID-19-cases-16PQQMzELq8/img/41c18119f442410e8bf7c3afad479455/41c18119f442410e8bf7c3afad479455.jpeg
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/20220115/58173e8b6cc34f3497ea5dcd610ee33b/c.html
January 15, 2022
Nearly 2.93 bln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Chinese mainland
BEIJING — Nearly 2.93 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered on the Chinese mainland as of Friday, data from the National Health Commission showed Saturday.
[ Over 1.22 billion fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on Chinese mainland. ]
Get ready for more spam. It never ends.
I hear that spam is much better fried.
https://english.news.cn/20220113/b252603b4c2a44a1b9dc999e57986fac/c.html
January 13, 2022
China FDI inflows hit record high in 2021
BEIJING — In a year when the pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the world economy, global investors have cast more votes of confidence on investing in China as the foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country hit a record high.
The FDI into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, expanded 14.9 percent year on year to a record high of 1.15 trillion yuan in 2021, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.
In U.S. dollar terms, the inflow went up 20.2 percent year on year to 173.48 billion dollars.
High-tech industries saw FDI inflows jump 17.1 percent from a year earlier, ministry spokesperson Shu Jueting told a press briefing.
Foreign investment in China’s high-tech manufacturing and high-tech services industries rose 10.7 percent and 19.2 percent, year on year, respectively.
The robust growth came as China’s long-term and sound economic fundamentals, and constantly improving business environment retained an appeal to foreign capital, said Zhang Jianping, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation under the commerce ministry.
Last year, the total FDI inflow into the services sector increased 16.7 percent, year on year, to 906.49 billion yuan.
Investment in the Chinese mainland from countries along the Belt and Road and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations jumped 29.4 percent and 29 percent, respectively, data from the ministry shows….
A million people in concentration camps cannot be acknowledged. How very inhumane.
where? if you’ve got some news we should know about, you should post it, not keep it hidden…
Common knowledge. Google it if you want more.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/06/china-again-un-hotseat-over-xinjiang-abuses
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hey, this is good:
if they think they’re being denied the vaccine, they’ll go out & try to get it..
Hmmm. Could it be he’s being denied a 4th dose?
What this blog needs is a permanent Chinese propaganda thread. Restrict all info from the Chinese government to that thread.
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