曾錚的世界

(Jennifer’s note: Hu Xijin, the chief editor of the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece Global Times said in his Weibo Post that China should conduct long-range strike on Australian soil. The following is the full translation of his post on May 7.)

（曾錚注：以下爲中共喉舌《環球時報》總統胡錫進5月7日所發微博全文及英文翻譯。）

Given that Australian hawks keep hyping or hinting that Australia will assist the US military and participate in war once a military conflict breaks out in the Taiwan Straits, and the Australian media outlets have been actively promoting the sentiment, I suggest China make a plan to impose retaliatory punishment against Australia once it militarily interferes in the cross-Straits situation. The plan should include long-range strikes on the military facilities and relevant key facilities on Australian soil if it really sends its troops to China’s offshore areas and combats against the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). This plan should not only be available, but should also be revealed to the outside world through informal channels to deter extremist forces in Australia from taking irresponsible actions in a desperate manner.

鉴于澳大利亚鹰派不断鼓吹或者暗示澳将在台海爆发军事冲突时协助美军并且参战，澳媒不断推动相关炒作，老胡主张中国应当制定一个在澳军事干涉台海局势时对其实施报复性惩罚的预案，包括在澳真的出兵来中国近海与解放军作战时，对澳本土军事设施及相关关键设施远程打击。这个方案不仅要有，而且应当通过非正式渠道向外透露，震慑澳大利亚的极端势力，阻止他们铤而走险采取不负责任的行动。

China loves peace and will not take the initiative to pick a fight with faraway Australia, but Australian hawks must be clear-minded that if they are bold enough to co-ordinate with the US to militarily interfere in the Taiwan question and send troops to the Taiwan Straits to wage war with the PLA, they must know what disasters they would cause to their country. China has a strong production capability, including producing additional long-range missiles with conventional warheads that target military objectives in Australia when the situation becomes highly tense

中国热爱和平，我们决不会向遥远的澳大利亚主动发难，但澳大利亚鹰派必须清醒。他们如果胆敢动协同美国军事干预台湾问题并派军队来台海与解放军作战的念头，他们必须知道他们在给自己的国家招惹什么样的灾难。中国的生产能力很强，包括额外生产一些用来在局势高度紧张时瞄准澳大利亚军事目标、配备常规弹头的远程导弹。

5/10/2021 *

A screenshot of Hu’s post 胡錫進微博截圖

Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”. I am your host Jennifer Zeng.  

Today I will talk about two topics, which are tied to the same central theme: The CCP’s expanding military power. What kind of message does Xi Jinping want to send with the 3 newly added  warships?  Will China go back to Mao’s time by promoting the Red Army Spirit and rewriting the CCP’s history? 

3 New Warships in One Day

The Chinese regime recently unveiled three new warships to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Navy. 

The Chinese regime recently unveiled three new warships to commemorate on April 23, the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Navy.

The ships will be part of the regime’s South China Sea fleet. One Chinese media outlet claims that the move is meant to intimidate Taiwan, neighboring countries in the Indo-Pacific region, and the United States.

The three warships unveiled by Xi Jinping on April 23 are Changzheng-18, a ballistic missile submarine;  Dalian, a destroyer;  and Hainan, an amphibious assault ship. 

Changzheng-18, a ballistic missile submarine

Xi attended the commissioning ceremony, and personally presented the CCP’s military flag and naming certificates to the captains and political commissars of the new ships.

According to the CCP’s media, the Changzheng-18 is capable of launching a “second-strike,” which means that it can respond to an attacker with powerful nuclear retaliation.

 Dalian, a destroyer.

Dalian can act as a guardianship to carriers like Liaoning and Shandong, while Hainan would be used to land on enemy territories—a mission similar to the well-known Normandy landings—and act as a command ship during such operations.

Hainan, an amphibious assault ship

Three New Warships Send a Strong Message

The CCP’s media says that unveiling 3 new ships in one day was an unprecedented event. And what is the purpose?

According to CCP’s own military experts, adding three new warships will greatly enhance the CCP Navy’s ability to seize islands, as well as its secondary nuclear counterattack capability.

Meanwhile, this move also contains “significant political signals” that target Taiwan, countries in the South China Sea region, and the United States at the same time. The warships serve as a warning.

The CCP experts said the CCP’s first warning is aimed at Taiwan, and the message is: the Chinese military has the ability to seize the island, and the Dalian and Hainan ships can carry out this combat mission.

The second warning is meant for the neighboring countries in the South China Sea: the CCP has the ability to solve  disputes in the region by force.

The third warning is for the United States: Beijing can use the Changzheng-18 as a “powerful tool to defend the country” when its conventional weapons are not powerful enough, as Changzheng-18 is a nuclear submarine.

On the same day when the three new ships were unveiled, the CCP’s media Legal Daily published an article titled, “Reporting to the Party Flag from the Ocean.” It states that the goal of the CCP’s Navy is to “resolutely listen to the Party’s command, accelerate the transformation and development, build a first-class navy, and be ready for war at any moment.”

Xi Rallies the Troops

After handing over the three warships to the South China Sea fleet, 2 days later, on April 25, Xi Jinping visited the CCP’s Red Army Long March Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Park in Guilin city, Guangxi Province to continue to send his messages.

Xi Jinping delivers his message from the CCP’s Red Army Long March Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Park in Guilin city, Guangxi Province on April 25.

Xi declared that the Xiangjiang battle was an “important historical event” that decided the fate of the CCP’s revolution, and called on the people to “persevere in the most difficult times” in order to achieve “miraculous victories.” 

He urged the Chinese troops to “think of the Long March of the Red Army and the bloody battle on the Xiangjiang River, even if the difficulties are great.” 

The so-called “bloody battle of Xiangjiang” took place between late November and early December in 1934, and it was the first civil war between the CCP and the Kuomintang. The CCP’s Red Army lost nearly 70 percent of its troops. The number of its soldiers dropped from nearly 100,000 to 30,000. The Red Army was besieged by the Kuomintang army and was forced to flee to Southwest China.

The CCP has always claimed that this fleeing process was the “25,000-mile Long March” and called it “Going North to Fight the Japanese.” This is one of the biggest lies the CCP has ever made.  

The fact is, the battlefield where the Japanese troops were fought was not in the southwest, but in the northeast of China. And it was the Kuomintang, which is in Taiwan now, that fought the Japanese. The CCP not only didn’t fight the Japanese army, but took advantage of the opportunity when the Kuomintang was fighting the Japanese to expand its territory and its army. 

If Japan had not invaded China, the CCP would have been eliminated as an illegal force by the Kuomintang long ago. The Xiangjiang Battle we just mentioned happened 3 years before China’s Anti-Japanese War. The CCP’s Red Army was almost completely wiped out. 

Provoking Japan and the US

On April 25, the same day that Xi gave a speech on the Xiangjiang battle, Xinhua published an article, claiming that a fleet of Chinese marine police vessels were cruising in territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands. 

In addition, Xinhua reposted another article titled, “Japanese Media: Chinese Ships Come Too When the U.S. Military Practices Airdrops Around the Diaoyu Islands.”

Citing a report from Japanese media Nikkei, Xinhua said that while the U.S. military conducted drills near the Diaoyu Islands, or Senkaku Islands as it is called in Japan, Chinese maritime police vessels and fighter planes had approached from the sky and sea to provoke.

Xinhua rarely quotes Japanese media’s narrative about the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, stating that Article 5 of the treaty stipulates that the US is obliged to defend Japan should its territories come under attack, and that the Japanese and U.S. leaders have repeatedly confirmed that the waters of the Diaoyu Islands are also applicable to this provision.

The article also quoted Nikkei as saying that, “If Chinese forces land on the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islands, the U.S. forces will join the Self-Defense Forces [of Japan] in a counterattack to seize the islands.”

I have to say that it was very unusual for the CCP’s media to directly quote a Japanese newspaper and openly talk about the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, especially at a very sensitive time when the situation in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea is heating up. So we can view this as the CCP openly provoking the U.S.-Japan alliance to demonstrate the CCP’s ambition to gain global domination. 

The CCP has already begun its full-scale military expansion. Not only did it provoke Taiwan and other countries in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, but it also called out the United States. 

Stirring up Nationalistic Sentiment

The CCP is also stirring up nationalistic sentiment at home, encouraging people to worship the CCP’s so-called “revolution” and its Red Army  that “liberated” China. Let’s see a few pictures together.

You can see in this picture a group of women dressed in Red Army’s uniform, with a man with a mic standing in the middle, apparently doing some sort of TV show. 

This one is little children dressing like Red Army soldiers and reading the CCP’s red books.

This one is wives of the CCP leaders in Jiangxi Province taking a tour to a “revolutionary well”, and drinking some “sacred water” from the well. The stone tablet next to the well reads: “Never forget the well digger when we drink the water in it. We miss Chairman Mao all the time.” 

This one is little children dressing like the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.

This one is the group photo of teachers and cadres of China’s best Fine Arts university, the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It was taken after they finished training to learn the CCP’s revolutionary theories at the CCP’s education base at Jinggangshan in Jiangxi Province. Jinggangshan is called “Revolutionary Holy Land” by the CCP, as it was once the base of the CCP’s Red Army.

Now let’s watch a video. It was shot on May 6, in Nanyang City, Henan province. The local Culture and Tourism Bureau planned and organized the so-called “the Long March of Red Army Experience Tour”, in which people wear Red Army uniforms, sing Red songs and simulate Red Army battles.  I think we call this kind of thing “Cosplay” in the West, right? While cosplay in the West is usually for fun, the CCP’s “cosplay” is a serious political matter.

The song in this video is very famous in China, it is called “Without the Communist Party, there would be no New China.” Everybody must be very grateful to the CCP.

This one is also a “Cosplay”. Women dressed in Red Army uniforms escort an old woman who must be a “counter-revolutionary” bad person, to have her condemned, or even maybe executed, as that is what the CCP did before and after they took power in China.

Rewriting the Party History

Another very worrisome matter is that the CCP is rewriting its history again. 

This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CCP. To commemorate this, the CCP released a new version of the party’s history in February.

The CCP’s new history book.

This new history book of the CCP has 10 chapters and about 280K words, a quarter of it is about Xi Jinping’s achievements. It downplays, or even deletes the mistakes made by Mao Zedong during and before the Cultural Revolution, and unlike older versions, there is even no chapter about the Cultural Revolution at all. This period of history has been combined with other periods, and unlike before, the CCP no longer refers to the Cultural Revolution as “10 Years of Civil Unrest”, or “10 Years of Devastation”. 

Instead, it is now combined with all other periods, and vaguely referred to as a period in which the CCP was painstakingly trying to find out a correct way to go for China. 

So now, everything looks perfect. No more mistakes, not even past mistakes for the CCP.

Is China going back to Mao’s time? Looks like so. That’s why many overseas Chinese people feel very worried.

We should all feel worried. An increasingly left-leaning and power-hungry CCP with a stronger military and deeper pockets must never be left unchecked. People have to understand the evil nature of the CCP and not let history repeat itself. 

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5/6/2021

Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”. I am your host Jennifer Zeng.  

Today I will talk about two topics: The sharp population decline in China, and why the CCP chose to mock India’s huge suffering due to the surge of COVID-19, or CCP virus pandemic. I will tell a shocking, and exclusive story I heard when I was a child in China, which I never shared before. And I am sure you will be shocked too. So make sure you stick around till the end.

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 Now, let’s move to our first topic today. 

 The extended delay 

 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has again delayed the release of the 2020 census results. Experts suggest that China is already experiencing negative population growth. An expert speculates that, in addition to natural factors, the sharp decline in population may be linked to the pandemic, and that the CCP needs time to massage the real figures.

Now, let’s check some of the details with this. 

The seventh population census of China was completed in early December 2020. In March, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that the census results would be released in early April. 

However, on April 16, the NBS announced that in order to provide more details, more preparation was needed. It said, “We will accelerate our work to the next step, and we strive to release the final results of the census as soon as possible.” 

On April 29, the NBS published a one-sentence report, saying that, “In 2020, China’s population continues to grow, and specific data will be published in the 7th National Census Bulletin.”

Up to now, the “specific data” has yet to be released.

Demographer: China’s Population Less Than 1.28 Billion

As early as Nov. 16, 2020, a well-known demographer and author Yi Fuxian said in a tweet that he projected the actual population of China in 2020 to be about 1.26 billion, and isn’t likely to exceed 1.28 billion, and is even less likely to reach the officially announced 1.4 billion in 2019.

Yi Fuxian is the author of the book “Big Country with an Empty Nest.” He said that “China’s policies are all based on faulty demographic data. After [China] enjoyed the status as the world’s most populous country for thousands of years, that title was taken by India a few years ago.”

By the end of 2016, India’s population had reached 1.326 billion, or 18 percent of the world’s total population.

Sharp Decline in Newborns

A report released on April 29 cites data from the Ministry of Public Security of the CCP, which indicates that only 10 million newborns were registered in China in 2020, a significant drop of about 15 percent from 2019.

Let’s see a charter first. The blue line is the actual number of newborns in each year, the yellow line is the projected numbers for the coming years. You can see that after reaching the peak in 1964, China’s newborns basically kept dropping, and the decline accelerated after 2018. 

China’s new births in different years. Unit: 10K.

In 2019, the number of newborns registered by the Ministry of Public Security was 80.5 percent of the birth number recorded by the Bureau of Statistics. If the same ratio is used to calculate the birth number of 2020, that will result in a decline of over 2 million births in 2020 compared to 2019.

China’s NBS announced on Jan. 17 that China’s total population was 1.4 billion at the end of 2019, an increase of 4.7 million from the end of the previous year. 

However, another report published by Soochow Securities chief economist Ren Zeping on April 29 uses such a title:  “China Population Report: Births in Many Places Fall by 10–30 Percent.”  It states that China is unlikely to reach the 1.4 billion population goal in 2020 as projected in the National Population Development Plan (2016–2030). 

Ren Zeping further suggests that data from the Information and Statistics Center of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission show that the number of registered household births in Beijing in 2020 was only 100,000—24.3 percent less than in 2019.

Beijing Think Tank: Drop in Births Recorded in Many Cities 

Although the CCP has not released the national figures, many cities have released their own data. 

Let’s see this table. It doesn’t matter if you can’t read Chinese, just look at the numbers in the right column. They represent how much the new births have dropped in 2020 from 2019.

New births decline in many cities in China.

So you can see that the number of births dropped by 19 percent in Wenzhou city, 23% in Hefei city , 32.6% in Taizhou city , 21.17% in Pinghu city, 19.24% in Ningbo city, 25.8% in Weifang city, 16.88% in Huangshan city, and 31.6% in Guiyang city. 

A Beijing based think tank, Center for China & Globalization (CCG) said this in its report: “there is no doubt that the number of births in China in 2020 was significantly lower than in 2019,” and “given that the number of women of childbearing age in China will continue to decline and that fertility intentions are likely to remain low, we can say that although the number of births in 2020 will be the lowest in recent decades, it is likely to be the highest in the next few decades.”

The CCG called for a change in the fertility policy to fully liberalize and encourage autonomous fertility.

China’s Central Bank Signals to Fully Lift Restrictions on Birth Control

On April 14, China’s Central Bank published a paper called “Understanding and Responses to Demographic Transition.” The paper reveals that when compared to developed countries, China’s population is aging more rapidly and families are having fewer children.

The paper states that China’s demographic situation has changed, and it’s difficult to compensate for the population decline with education and technological advances, so the government should not impose any more birth control and people should be encouraged to have children.

In another report of Ren Zeping, he states that the aging population and fewer children are the biggest dangers that are being ignored in China. He recommends an immediate and full lifting of restrictions on birth control to encourage childbirth.

Ren also said that both quantity and quality of population affects the power of the nation. People are not only consumers, but also critical manpower. A large population creates a large market on the demand side and provides sufficient labor and more talent on the supply side. Therefore, a large population is a national advantage, not a disadvantage. 

He said a significant reduction in population would lead to the shrinkage or even extinction of a large number of cities and the disappearance of a large number of industries, which would seriously damage the national power.

Delay of Data Release May be Related to Pandemic Death Tolls

The extended delay in the release of census data has caused concerns.

China expert Li Yanming  told The Epoch Times in an interview that “This matter does look strange. On the one hand, the NBS claims that the population continues to grow, but on the other hand, the Central Bank advocates for full lifting of restrictions on birth control. Also, the CCP authorities have not blocked the reports about the declining birth numbers in 2020 released by leading economists and think tanks.” 

Li said that all these factors indicate that the census data will certainly not be good.

He believes that while the decline in births in 2020 may be one reason for the decline in the total population, the bigger reason may be the high number of deaths in the 2020 pandemic. 

He said that “It is hard to estimate how many people have died last year because of COVID-19.” 

Let’s look at a table released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on March 19 last year. Watch the second row in the red circle. It shows that the number of cell phone subscribers of China’s three major telecom operators including China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom dropped by 21 million in the first two months of 2020. 

Three major telecom operators including China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom lost 21 million subscribers in the first two months of 2020. 

The first two months of 2020 was also the time when the pandemic was at its peak in Wuhan, with both hospitals and crematoriums overwhelmed.

Fang Fang, a Chinese writer in Wuhan who documented what happened during the lockdown in her Wuhan Diary, wrote on February 13, 2020, “What breaks my heart is a picture that my doctor friend sent me…On the picture, cell phones are all over the ground of the funeral home. Their owners have been turned into ashes.”

Of course we cannot say that the number of lost cell phone subscribers represents the actual death toll, as many people might have chosen to cancel their extra SIM cards during the pandemic. 

However, 21 million is too large of a number for mere cancelations. People do believe that a large percent of that number came from people who died from the CCP virus.

The Reason Behind the Population Decline and a True Story

I don’t think anyone will feel too surprised hearing about a sharp decline in China’s population. The CCP’s “One Family, One Child” policy had been in place for decades. It was once called a “Basic National Strategy”, and it was a criminal offense if you dared to have more than one child. You could be put into prison. People were forced to do abortions. 

It was estimated that more than 400 million unborn babies were killed by the CCP’s “One Family, One Child” policy. 

How strictly had this policy been carried out? Let me share with you two true stories I personally knew.

In the 1990s, once when I went to a remote village in Henan Province in China, I met a boy whose name was Fanqiang, which literally means “Jumping Over the Wall”.  I asked why he was given such a strange name, they told me that when his mother was pregnant with him,  the CCP officials went to her home to catch her, as she already had a child, so she wasn’t allowed to have a second one. 

She escaped by jumping over the wall, and saved this boy. So later she gave him the name Fanqiang, as that was how he was able to come to this world instead of being killed.

So that was the first story. Now the second one. 

When I was only 9 or 10 years old, I heard a more terrible story from my aunt, who worked in a hospital in Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province in China. 

She said, their hospital gave a pregnant woman an induction of labor. This woman didn’t have permission to have that child, so the child needed to be induced. 

Let me explain a little bit of what “induction of labor” means here. When the unborn baby is small, they call it an abortion. When the unborn baby is bigger, maybe more than 7 months, they call it an induction of labor. Usually the baby is killed during the process of the so-called “induction of labor,” and are dead when they get out of their mother’s wombs. 

But this time, in my aunt’s hospital,  a baby boy was still alive when he got out.  What could the hospital do? The child had no place in the world as he didn’t have a birth permission. 

So a nurse put him in a tray and took him to a place in the hospital where they disposed of discarded medical materials to throw him away. But when she tried to dump him out of the tray, the boy’s little fingers held tightly to the edge of the tray and refused to let go. The nurse had to break his fingers one by one before she could dump him into the garbage…

Too terrifying? That is a true story I heard as a little girl of 9 or 10 years old from my own aunt.

What’s more terrifying was when my aunt told the story, she told it as some little, harmless, everyday gossip at the dinner table you tell to entertain your guests. She told it with a smiling face, as if it was a very interesting story. 

It WAS interesting in the sense that it was very unusual. Maybe that kind thing only happened once out of thousands of similar labor induction operations they performed. So she chose to tell it as it was novel. 

So in CCP’s China, human life is nothing. That’s why the CCP feels it is perfectly alright for it to decide how many children a family is allowed to have, as everybody is only a number, or a slave.  

If you are not inside the CCP’s plan, killing you, or getting rid of you is nothing. They won’t feel any mental burden for doing it. That’s why that nurse in the hospital could kill a baby without any hesitation, and that’s why my aunt could tell that story without feeling anything wrong about it.

 Mocking India’s Suffering

In the past several days, I have translated a few posts by the CCP’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee and police. These posts compare CCP’s “big achievements” with India’s huge sufferings.

Let’s see the first one.

It is from the official social media account called Weibo of the CCP’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee. 

It puts a picture of China launching a rocket and a picture of India burning bodies together with two simple lines: “China ignites  [ɪɡˈnaɪt]  VS India ignites, ” and then “#More than 400K new cases confirmed in India in a single day.”

You can see it received 4654 comments in 5 hours. The top one says, “China: sending people to space, India: sending people to heaven.”

This one is also from the  CCP’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee.  It puts a picture of Wuhan’s Houshensan Hospital under construction and India’s crematorium together, also with two simple lines: “China’s Houshensan” and “India’s Houshensan”, and then “#Delhi, India is using dog crematorium for humans.”

“Houshensan” in Chinese literally means “Mount Fire God”, or “Mountain of the God of Fire”.  During the peak of the CCP virus pandemic last year, the CCP built a special hospital at Houshensan near Wuhan in 10 days, and still regards it as a big achievement.

This one is from the CCP police in Hainan province. It puts a picture of China launching a rocket and India burning bodies together, with some poetic description, which says, “The future of the people should not be turned into ashes under the flames. Every burning of mankind should be for the sake of the more distant stars. Good night…”

These posts have caused so much anger and backlash from all over the world that the CCP had to take them down later.

When I first translated and posted about these posts,  I said, “I’ve never [seen] such disgusting comparison.” I was so angry that I didn’t notice that I had missed the word “seen” in that tweet.

However, after some second thought, I kind of understood why the CCP made such unforgivable mistakes. Just like my aunt who told the story of that baby boy being dumped while still alive with a smiling face, the CCP didn’t know how low, how disgusting, and how unacceptable such comparisons were.

It was too eager to boast its own achievements in rocket science and in controlling the pandemic, and it didn’t realize how those posts would hurt others. It has no idea of how normal human beings should think and behave. And it never cares about other people’s lives and feelings anyway.  

That’s why it shamelessly exposes to the world how ugly it is again and again. It doesn’t know what “shame” is.

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One thing that impressed me a lot about the elementary school was that the classrooms were very dilapidated, the glass on the windows were all broken and completely gone, and the windows were only barely nailed with some wooden strips to prevent people from climbing in through the windows.

對小學印象很深的一點，就是教室很破爛，窗戶上的玻璃全都碎了，完全沒有了，窗戶只用些木條勉強釘著，防止人從窗戶爬進來而已。

In winter, the cold wind blew in from all sides and everyone was so cold that they craned their necks, many of them had frostbite on their hands and feet, and the backs of their hands were as red as little buns.

冬天冷風從四面吹進來，大家都冷得縮著脖子，許多人手腳上生凍瘡，手背紅紅的，像個小包子。

Everyone was forced to join the Young Pioneers, wear a red scarf, read Mao’s books, collect fertilizer and accumulate manure to support the farmers.

人人被迫入隊、戴個紅領巾、讀毛選，撿肥料、積肥支援農村。

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My Primary School Graduation Photo. May 1978. 我的小學畢業照

Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”. I am your host Jennifer Zeng.  

 A while ago I did a program about Tesla being banned from China’s military buildings. Recently Tesla once again became a very, very hot topic in China, especially on social media platforms. What has happened, why did these things happen, and what are their significance? Today let’s discuss these very interesting issues.

 A Drama At the International Auto Show in Shanghai

 First of all, let’s watch a video together. 

This video was shot on April 19, at the media preview of the international auto show in Shanghai. You can see this woman jumping on top of a Tesla Model 3. She screams loudly, “Tesla Brakes Failed!” The T-shirt she wears also has the Chinese words saying “Brake Failure”. 

Another woman dressed in the same T-shirt also shouts “Tesla Brakes Failed!” This shows that this was an organized, pre-arranged “protest”. 

This is a shot from another angle. This is a shot from outside the exhibition hall. This is the shot of that woman being taken away by the security guards.

It was then reported that this woman claimed that because of a Tesla car’s brake failure, 4 members of her family nearly died when their car crashed into the car in front of them in Henan province in February this year, but Tesla refused to take responsibility. So she went to the Shanghai Auto Show to “defend her rights’ ‘. 

Right after the episode at the auto show, on the following day,  CCP’s biggest mouthpiece Xinhua published an article entitled, “Who Gives Tesla the Confidence to Maintain Its ‘No Compromise’ Stance?” The article criticized Tesla for being “arrogant.”

 CCP’s other most important mouthpiece People’s Daily also published an article on April 22, saying that “There are no products that cannot be replaced”. The article also says that, “People can only see the arrogance of Tesla, but not its sincerity to solve the problem, or respect for its consumers.”

What’s more ridiculous is that even the CCP’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee also got involved into this public opinion war against Tesla, and also published an article on April 20, saying that Tesla must comply with China’s laws and regulations if it wants to do business in China, and that Chinese consumers’ trust cannot be exchanged for arrogance, and Tesla should not knowingly ignore the hidden safety problems, etc.

People were very surprised by this article, because the Political and Legal Affairs Committee usually only deals with political and legal affairs, and it is best known for its persecution of Falun Gong and other innocent people. Why did it suddenly get itself involved in an affair between a manufacturer and its customer? 

 More Boycott

 And this affair didn’t stop at the verbal level only. Instead, it soon expanded to the real world. 

Let’s watch another two short clips.

 This clip shows that Tesla cars were stopped and not allowed to enter the highway somewhere in Guangzhou City. The man says, “Alas, another Tesla car got caught. ”

 Now let’s play another video. 

 Judging from the accent of the video, it should be in Henan province. So Tesla cars are not allowed to park there. 

 Now let’s play the next video. 

 The sign in this video we just saw says, “Military Area. Tesla cars Are Forbidden.” 

 Court Ruling: “Refunding one, Compensating for Three”

Apart from these, Tesla may soon face new trouble, which is a compensation court ruling. 

 On Dec. 4, 2020, in Tianjin city, a Tesla owner named Han Chao received a court verdict for his compensation claim against Tesla. The verdict stated that Tesla had committed fraud and should return 379,700 yuan (about $59,000) to Han for the purchase price and to pay him 1,139,100 yuan (about $176,000) in damages.

The amount of compensation for damages is three times the purchase price—in China, this verdict is therefore called “refunding one, compensating for three.”

Tesla appealed the ruling and a verdict will be announced by May 3.

But Tesla told a different story in a statement published on its official Weibo account on April 28. 

The statement says, the original owner of Han’s car had been involved in a minor accident in early 2019 and commissioned third-party repairs. Various documents from the accident claim could confirm that the accident only injured the left rear fender, the edge of the rear bumper and the surface of the wheels, but did not involve the safety structure of the vehicle. The repair of the fender would not cause a safety hazard to the vehicle.

Tesla says in the statement, ”We appreciate the regret caused by Mr. Han’s dissatisfaction after purchasing the car, but believe that this does not constitute fraud.” 

The statement also says that during the repair service of Han’s vehicle, Tesla provided another car to Han, but he refused to return that car after his vehicle was repaired and refused to pick it up. The alternative car was not returned until after it was involved in an accident. After that Han requested to have a third car, which was provided to him while the negotiation between him and Tesla continued, under the condition that he should return it in one month. However, he refused to return that car after the expiration date and is still using it to this day.

When I read Tesla’s statement, I tend to believe in Tesla instead of Han Chao, or the CCP’s court. I actually felt sympathy towards Tesla for having to deal with this kind of person.

Three Things the CCP Wants

Now, let’s talk about what’s behind all the drama on the surface.

First of all, we need to understand that in CCP’s China, everything is under tight control, especially what can be a hot topic in the media, and social media platforms. It is hard to imagine that some simple disputes between a car manufacturer and its customers can become so hot in the media. The fact that the CCP’s most important mouthpieces Xinhua and People’s Daily, as well as its Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee all got involved and directly criticized Tesla indicated that the CCP is behind all of this drama.

So, what does the CCP want from Tesla?

Anti-American Sentiment

No. 1: Anti-American sentiment. 

Let’s see a table before we go on. What you are seeing are the figures released by China’s Passenger Car Association in October last year, about the complaint to sales ratio of all the best selling passenger cars in China in the third quarter of last year. You can see that Tesla’s Model 3 is on the top, it received only 0.3 complaints out of every 10 thousand sales. 

The complaint to sales ratio of all the best selling passenger cars in China in the third quarter of 2020. Source: China’s Passenger Car Association.

On the bottom of the table is the average complaint figure of all the best selling passenger cars. It is 33.5 per 10 thousand sales. 

That is to say, the average complaints are more than 100 times higher than that of Tesla’s. Or  maybe we can also say that customers are more than 100 times happier with a Tesla car.

So, quality is definitely not the issue. Nor is the issue about protecting the interests of consumers, as we’ve seen other cases in which consumers’ interests were never considered. For example, hundreds of thousands of children became victims of the poisonous milk powders produced in China, some even died, but the CCP never cared.

Therefore, this wave of bombardment of Tesla is purely a political operation with very obvious concerted actions. The CCP used a very skilled technique to incite public disgust at Tesla’s “bullying”, and then converted the disgust toward Tesla into disgust and hatred for the United States, as Tesla is a US company. 

Let’s see Xinhua’s article again. “Who Gives Tesla the Confidence to Maintain Its ‘No Compromise’ Stance?” As Chinese readers have long since been instilled such a view that  “the U.S. Imperial is the source of all evil”, when they see such a title, they will easily come to the conclusion that Tesla is so arrogant because it thinks it is an American company and the dark force of the U.S. Imperial is behind Tesla.

We’ve already seen the CCP’s aggressive Wolf Warrior Diplomacy all over the world recently. So to have the general public in China maintain a similar stance about the US is nothing strange. 

So that is the No. 1 purpose the CCP wants to achieve.

The Market

The No. 2 goal is the market.

Xi Jinping announced as early as in 2014 that the development of new energy vehicles was “the only way to go” for China to become a strong country in automobile manufacturing. With many countries taking the climate change agenda as a priority, new energy vehicles are definitely a huge global market. 

China has already put itself in a very good position with solar panels, wind power generation, etc, it definitely would want to dominate the new energy vehicle market too.

And you know what? After the CCP backed company Huawei being sanctioned by the US for safety concerns, it has dropped off the list of top cell phone makers in the world. Its first quarter revenue slipped 16.9% this year. A while ago it also announced that it would get itself involved in the smart pig farming business.

And, on the same day when that woman jumped on top of a Tesla car to make a scene, Huawei also appeared at the auto show for the first time as a new energy vehicle maker! 

Let’s watch a short clip first.

OK, this video was shot at the Huawei booth, showing that the chandelier structure collapsed. Huawei had to make an urgent repair after this incident. It seems to not be a good start for Huawei as a car maker.

Anyway, we must say that Huawei acted very fast to embark on this new route of making electric cars. As a telecommunication company, during the process of rolling out its 5G programs, it has already accumulated technology with the Internet of Vehicles, Internet of Things. So it already has the foundation to make smart cars.

Also, it didn’t try to do everything from scratch. Instead, it chose to work with car makers that are already in this area. It is now working with three different car makers including BAIC Motor in Beijing, Changan Auto in Chongqing, and GAC Group in Guangzhou. 

It has launched the ARCFox S model with BAIC Motor .This model was also in the Shanghai auto show, with a price range from 250K-344K yuan, or $38K-$53K. This price range is very close to Tesla’s price in China. Many other brands have set a much lower price. 

So from this we can see that Huawei has set Tesla as its main market competitor by entering the same price range. 

We all know what a big fuss the CCP has made after Canada arrested Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou under the request from the US. The CCP has even sentenced 4 Canadians to death after Meng Wanzhou was arrested. 

From this, it is not hard to imagine at all if Huawei, and other CCP owned companies want to enter the same market, what the CCP is willing to do to drive the outsiders out.

And there is an important fact to mention here too. April 19, the day when that woman made a scene at the Shanghai auto show, was the date for a media preview. Only people who work for the media could get a pass to get in. So how did that woman make her way there?

It turned out that she actually got a media pass from Webasto, a sunroof supplier of NIO, one of the main Chinese electric car makers. 

It was also revealed that when the woman arrived at Shanghai from Henan province, she didn’t take a taxi. Instead, she was picked up by a NIO car. 

This was not a rumor spread by others. Instead, it was found out from a video posted by the woman herself. She posted a video onto her TikTok account just to show that she had arrived Shanghai to “defend her rights”. But netizens soon found out that the car she was riding belonged to NIO. She quickly deleted that video.

So now you get the story? Her so-called “protest” had the backing not only from the CCP’s most important mouthpieces, powerful government departments such as the notorious Political and Legal Affairs Committee, but also from Tesla’s main competitor, or competitors.

The Data

What is the third thing that the CCP wants from Tesla? It is the data. 

We all know how important data is in such a digital world and a digital era we are living in, especially for totalitarian regimes that want to control its people. 

So far Tesla has not set up a data center in China, or stores the data of its Chinese customers in China. 

We all know that Apple has set up an iCloud center in Guizhou, China, and all the data of Chinese iPhone users, and perhaps users in other countries but who choose to use its simplified Chinese language operation system, is stored in the iCloud in China. And Apple’s iCloud service is run by a company owned by the government of Guizhou province. That means the CCP can have access to all the data any time it wants.

Some people also say that the CCP also wants core technology from Tesla, and might not be happy with Tesla because of its StarLink project, as the project offers satellite Internet access worldwide, and has the potential to reduce the CCP’s Great Fire Wall to nothing. I am not too sure about this one, but think it’s worthwhile to mention it here.

OK, that’s all for today’s Inconvenient Truths. Tesla ran against the tide by entering China in 2018 when the trade war between China and the US had just started, and when many other companies were moving their factories out of China. Is Tesla’s decision to enter China a wise one, or a wrong one? I do like to hear what you have to say. Please leave us a comment to share with us your thoughts.

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今天看電視劇《清平樂》，大約不到十歲的公主問內侍爲何入宮，內侍說因爲家裏窮。公主不明白什麼叫“窮”，內侍說沒有錢就是窮。公主馬上說我也沒有錢，我也是窮人。

內侍又試圖用比較法來解釋什麼叫窮，就是擁有得比較少的人，比起擁有得多的人來說，那就是窮。

這回公主明白了，且自我發揮一番，最後她發現，連皇后、最受皇帝寵愛的張娘娘，以及她的皇帝爹爹，都可算是“窮人”，因爲皇后得到的寵愛不如張娘娘，張娘娘雖然得到寵愛，卻享受不了皇后的待遇。皇帝也不是想做什麼事就能做什麼事，常常要受制於大臣……

這樣一來，天下就都是窮人了……

看到這裏，我有點想笑，也突然“悟”出來了：這不就是佛家所說的“求不得苦”麼？

是啊，這樣一看，是窮是富，不就在乎一心麼？

我給自己的定義也是“窮人”，從小不僅物質上很匱乏，精神和情感上，得到的關愛也甚少。

也因此，我其實格外珍惜給過我善意的人。哪怕小如一句話、一杯水、一包吃食，我都分外珍惜，且一直記在心裏。

再回頭想想，這些年，給我過善意的人，很多我都不知給予他們多少倍的回報了。

比如，在我病中給我端過一杯水、在那一瞬間讓我很感動的一個小表弟，在河南中專畢業後，我給他找了個北京的工作，解決了他一輩子的問題，改變了他的一生……

其他很多例子就不舉了。

這樣說來，我又應該是個富人。我物質需求很少，精神上也很滿足，沒有求不得苦；幫我過的、給過我善意的，我常常數倍地回報，且別人還沒怎麼注意。

與此同時，不知不覺間，我發現自己越來越富足了（包括體重，這點是讓我有點小煩惱的。）

4/30/2021 *

According to Chinese media, the third generation ID in China, which is under design now, will have the follow 6 new functions:

據中共國媒體報導，中共國第三代身份證將新增如下六大功能：

1. Positioning function.

   1. 定位功能

2. Incorporating all other cards, including bank cards, credit cards, social security cards, shopping cards, etc, into this one card.

   2. 綁定其他所有卡，包括銀行卡、信用卡、醫療卡、購物卡等等，以後出門只帶一張身份證即可

3. Store fingerprint information in it, and enable the card holders to make payments with fingerprint.

   3. 存在指紋信息，可實現指紋支付

4. While ordinary viewers can only see the household registration information on the card, only professionals such as bank staff and police can have access to the detailed home address recorded in the ID cards.

   4. 只有銀行、警察等專業人士可看具體地址，一般人只能看到戶口所在地

5. Blood information will be stored in the card.

   5. 存有血液信息。

6. UBS function. Card holders can connect the ID card to a computer and use as a UBS to access information stored in the card.

   6. 新增USB功能，可接入電腦當USB用，調取卡內所有信息。

   Following is the article in Chinese copied from https://www.xker.com/a/18864.html

   以下內容來自新科網： https://www.xker.com/a/18864.html

   4/30/2021

   现在大家使用的身份证基本都是二代身份证，目前仅有身份证的最基本功能，也就是验证身份。

   而第三代身份证正在进行概念设计，但是有关第三代身份证的一些功能已经得到了曝光。那么三代身份证证区别于二代身份证证有哪些特点呢？让我们一起来看看。

   第一，增加定位功能，当自己身份证遗失后，可以在线上或公安部门最终到身份证的位置。这样做可以有效避免身份证被盗用的现象，对于保护个人财产和权益有非常大的好处。

   第二，新增集合银行卡、信用卡、社保卡、购物卡功能，以后出门只需要一张三代身份证即可，极大地便利了我们的生活。

   第三，二代身份证已经采取我们的指纹，但是并不是用于我们日常的生活，三代身份证可以通过指纹支付身份证中绑定的卡。一些场所只需要验证下指纹就可以通过。

   第四：可能只展现自己的户籍地而不显示具体的家庭地址信息，一切都是在系统中录入，只有专业人士，如银行、公安等可以查看到。更加保护个人隐私，防止被不法分子利用。

   第五，制作时需要采集个人血样，一方面是为了采集持卡人的血液信息，以备不时之需，比如就医时候的血型匹配什么的；另一方面，给公安破案带来极大的增益。

   第六，有可能会新增加USB功能，只要是自己本人，可以将身份证和电脑连接起来，通过电脑读取身份证里包含的信息，一些额外的应用甚至是可以添加以及删除。

   早在2011年3月，黄光苗委员向全国政协递交提案，建议推出第三代居民身份证，也就是这一款身份证的雏形。时隔八年，我们的科学技术也差不多发展成熟了，现在看来这些功能已经有足够的技术推广，其中包含的内容也的确是特别方便我们的生活。科技改变生活，等到第三代身份证发行之后，我们的生活也许又会进入一个新的时代。

文：田甜

曾有朋友問我，幹嘛非要煉法輪功啊，你練練瑜珈，學學禪，讀讀聖經，不都挺好？又不被鎮壓，又修身養性，幹嘛非要給自己惹這麻煩？

當然，朋友說這話是在基督教在國內被鎮壓之前。亂世之下，暴政當前，你不惹麻煩，麻煩也會來惹你。至於國內的佛教道教，真修者比外人更清楚，那裡早已不是清淨之地。

其實有很多人走入信仰，是為了精神麻痺，逃避自我，逃避痛苦，逃避現實；還有很多人是想用信仰的智慧賺取關注，做個受人景仰的人生導師，獲得地位和影響力。如果是這樣，那我覺得朋友說得對，選哪個法門都差不多。

還有的人，純粹是想做一個更好的人，也沒想要得到什麼好處，他們覺得信仰能讓人向善，信仰中的某些教導，在他們某個人生的階段，契合了他們的心靈。這樣的人，可能和我更接近一些。

但這都不是我追尋信仰的真正原因。

我追尋信仰，是想為我內心深處的問題找到答案：

我們為什麼來在這個世界上？這個世界為什麼會是現在這個樣子？人類在宇宙中到底是處在什麼位置？不同的文明興起和覆滅的原因是什麼？

為什麼人世間要有人性的醜惡，為什麼要有戰爭瘟疫，人世的苦難？如何才能趨吉避禍？

善惡的標準是什麼？如何才能維護人世間的善，抑制人世間的惡？

為什麼所有的宗教都認為自己唯一正確，而排斥其他信仰？他們是同時為真還是同時為偽？誰真誰偽？神和人的關係是怎樣？

我追尋信仰，是因為我想知道生命和宇宙的真相。而只有法輪功，在這些問題上給了我完整的答案。

如果讓我用自己的理解說出我得到的答案，那大概是這樣：

我們來在這個世界的意義，是通過在人世的修行，找回真正的自己。人是神造的，世界也是神造的，宇宙是神造的，不同的文明，也是在神的引領下運化的。

人性中惡的來源，是因為生命為私為己，偏離了宇宙的法則，如果持續為惡，無可救藥，便會落入萬劫不復的境地，被神從宇宙中徹底銷毀。一個人無可救藥，便是自我的毀滅；一群人無可救藥，是一個民族和國家的覆滅；所有人無可救藥，便是整個文明的覆滅。

在神看來，死亡不是一個生命的終結，萬劫不復，被從宇宙中徹底銷毀才是。戰爭和瘟疫，人世的苦難，都是神給眾生消減罪業的方式，讓生命不至於那麼快便走向絕對的毀滅。

生命要想自救，便要在自己生存的環境中符合宇宙的法則。善惡的標準不是任由當權者定義的，宇宙的法則，才是衡量善惡的真正標準。生命符合宇宙的法則便是善，獲得生機與繁榮；生命背離宇宙的法則便是惡，走向墮落和毀滅。

世間有不同的宗教，是因為不同的神都想拯救自己世界的生命，不同宗教的形式，其實是對應著不同世界的神，為自己世界掉在人間的生命所制定的，能夠返回的方法。不同的生命有不同的來源，A世界的生命，是不能用B世界的方法返回去的。所以所有的宗教都視其他的宗教為邪魔外道，為的是保護自己世界的生命，能不受干擾的返回去。

世間的每一個人，原本都是天上的生命，也就是神。而真正的信仰，就是讓生命返回自己世界的方法，也就是讓人成為神的途徑。只有宇宙的創世主，才能為所有的生命，而不是只有一個世界的生命，提供一種方法，讓他們都能返回自己的世界。

換句話說，神不是編造和虛構的存在，他們就在我們的身邊，時時刻刻影響著我們的生命和生活的方方面面。神是每個人都可以成為的，絕對美好的高級生命。只要不斷變成更好的人，就會離神更近一步。當然，前提是我們能完全去除人性中的惡。

我在追尋信仰中找到的答案，是不是很震撼啊？

你在信仰中，又會找到什麼答案呢？

4/30/2021

轉載自作者臉書

曾錚2020年11月6日攝於紐約中央公園。攝影：張炳乾

By Bruno Misonski 文：布魯諾‧米森斯基（Bruno Misonski）

(Jennifer’s note: This is an email sent to me by Bruno Misonski, author of From Midnight to Moonlight. )

（曾錚注：這是《從午夜到月光》的作者布魯諾‧米森斯基發給我的電子郵件。）

So, a while ago I finished your book.

不久前我讀完了你的書。

You are such fantastic human being and a beautiful soul. And so incredibly courageous!

你是如此了不起的人，你有美麗的靈魂， 和如此令人難以置信的勇氣!

Fortunately your story ends well. I was shocked by your book: torture is a horrible thing but I had never read a book about women being tortured, and I found it even more disgusting. How can people be so evil?

幸運的是，你的故事結局很好。我被你的書深深震撼：酷刑是可怕的，但我從來沒有讀過一本關於婦女受酷刑的書，這更令人厭惡。人怎能如此邪惡？

However, LOVE will always win.

然而，愛總是會贏的。

Have a beautiful day and greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪

祝您有美好的一天，請接受來自比利時的問候。

4/28/2021

Jennifer at a book signing event in a Rotary club in Brisbane, Australia on 5/24/2005 曾錚2005年5月24日在澳大利亞布里斯本一個扶輪社俱樂部中的簽名售書活動。