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Participate in the anti-Xi coup?Beijing deputy mayor suddenly sacked, suspected of being an insider
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US government report: 41 military personnel stationed in Taiwan, Taiwan Strait security becomes focus
Xi Xinci exposed the food crisis to netizens: pointing the way for food
The CCP’s espionage infiltration has become more and more serious, and serious espionage cases have been reported in many European countries.
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1. Participate in the anti-Xi coup?Beijing deputy mayor suddenly sacked, suspected of being an insider
A few days ago, the deputy mayor of Beijing was suddenly dismissed. He was promoted after Xi Jinping’s third term began, and he was supposedly a member of the Xi Family Army faction. His dismissal was believed to be related to the Xinhua Gate incident in which someone drove a car during the Two Sessions this year, that is, he acted as an internal agent. The incident is said to have also shaken Xi Jinping.
On April 21, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China and the State Supervisory Commission reported that Beijing Vice Mayor Gao Peng was “suspected of serious violations of discipline and law” and is currently under investigation.
On the surface, Gao Peng, who is nearly 52 years old, has been the deputy mayor of Beijing since January last year, rising to the deputy provincial level. And this time point is exactly when Xi Jinping’s third term begins and the Xi family army takes full power. Gao Peng’s promotion shows that he has passed the CCP’s strict political review. It seems that he is not a member of Xi Jinping’s political opponents. If something goes wrong. Three days ago – April 17, Gao Peng also participated in the CCP National Forest and Grassland Fire Prevention and Extinguishing Grassroots Standardized Management Work Conference.
What is strange is that Gao Peng’s personal information has been removed from the official website of the Beijing Municipal Government. The Chinese Communist authorities seem to be trying to hide something. According to public information, Gao Peng assists in emergency management work and is in charge of the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission, Beijing Key Station Area Management Committee, etc., as well as the particularly important “Tiananmen Area Management Committee.”
This can’t help but remind people of the sudden incident in which an unknown person drove his car into Xinhua Gate, the main entrance of Zhongnanhai, during the two sessions of the Communist Party of China in the early morning of March 10 this year. Under tight security in Beijing, some people described it as “The hero commits suicide to attack Zhongnanhai!” He is called “Peng Lifa hero”.
It is still unclear whether Gao Peng, the deputy mayor in charge of the Tiananmen Area Management Committee, will step down due to this incident. According to Taiwan’s “Liberty Times”, the car crash into Zhongnanhai shocked Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.
According to a media person in Beijing who disclosed to The Epoch Times, Xi Jinping’s office is only one kilometer away from the Xinhua Gate where he was hit. The car involved was not a foreign car, it must be a local Beijing-brand vehicle. The car owner is definitely not an ordinary person, because his car is a mid- to high-end car and should be relatively crash-resistant. Moreover, if the Beijing police go to investigate, it will be easy to find out who the owner of the car is.
Under heavy fog, one day after Gao Peng was investigated, on April 22, Beijing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Yin Li quickly presided over the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and expressed his firm support for the CPC Central Committee’s decision to examine and investigate Gao Peng. This makes people feel strange. Yin Li is obviously making a political statement and taking sides. Does Gao Peng’s incident involve political issues?
In this regard, Chen Pokong, a commentator based in the United States, analyzed that Yin Li’s statement that he and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee are determined to be consistent ideologically, politically and actionably with Xi Jinping’s core Party Central Committee strongly implies that Gao Peng’s case is a political case and not a political one. It is ruled out that Gaopeng is indeed related to the Xinhua Gate incident. For example, he may be an ally of the people involved in the incident, or acquiesced in the incident, or told the party who acted in the inside clues on how to attack Zhongnanhai, because the black car Being able to drive all the way to Xinhua Gate smoothly means that this person’s ID should be able to break through the many blockades, so it cannot be ruled out that Gao Peng is an insider and secretly provided some kind of coordination.
Chen Pokong pointed out that the current internal problems of the CCP are political issues and the question of whether to oppose Xi or not. The Gao Peng case should have a major relationship with the Xi regime.
If so, it also shows that this has touched Xi Jinping’s heart. Xi Jinping has repeatedly criticized the so-called “two-faced people” at the CCP meetings. However, Gao Peng was promoted just after the beginning of Xi Jinping’s third term, which shows that he is trusted by Xi Jinping. However, during the two sessions of the Communist Party of China, a car collision occurred so close to Xi Jinping’s office. You can imagine how shocked Xi Jinping was.
2. US government report: 41 military personnel stationed in Taiwan, Taiwan Strait security becomes focus
A few days ago, a U.S. report rarely confirmed that it had sent 41 U.S. military personnel to Taiwan last year. The report also mentioned that Taiwan still has shortcomings in the Taiwan Strait conflict. High-level officials from the U.S. and the Philippines also discussed once again how to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific region, showing that Taiwan Strait security has become the focus of the United States.
On April 23, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed a foreign aid bill, of which $8.12 billion was earmarked for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region. What is noteworthy is that just one day before the House of Representatives voted on the bill, the U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) released the “Report to Congress on Taiwan Defense Issues.” The report covered Taiwan’s security situation, U.S.-Taiwan affairs Defense cooperation, weapons transfers, training, the presence of US military in Taiwan and the change of Taiwan’s regime, etc.
The report emphasized that “the United States supports Taiwan in deterring the CCP’s use of force to control the Taiwan Islands. The United States also seeks to strengthen its own capabilities to contain the CCP’s military aggression in the Indo-Pacific.”
The United States’ support for Taiwan has also been implemented in action, and it is also paying attention to what issues Taiwan still needs to be resolved in possible conflicts. The report warned that Taiwan’s energy, water, food, submarine cables, Internet and infrastructure are all targets that may be destroyed by the CCP in a conflict across the Taiwan Strait.
The report also pointed out that “Taiwan’s national defense reform has just started, so the military still has difficulties in recruiting, maintaining, and training personnel. Some observers believe that Taiwan’s civil defense preparations are insufficient. At the social level, it is not clear yet what the What price are Taiwanese people willing to bear in terms of economic and personal safety and lives in the armed aggression that the CCP may launch?”
The report also mentioned the United States’ strong military assistance to Taiwan. The report quoted the quarterly report of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Manpower Data Center as stating that as of December 2023, the United States had sent 41 military personnel to perform tasks in Taiwan.
In February 2023, the Wall Street Journal also disclosed that the United States will send 100 to 200 people to Taiwan in the next few months to assist in training the military. However, neither US nor Taiwan officials publicly confirmed the news.
In February this year, Taiwanese media reported that the United States had dispatched advisers from the Army’s Green Berets to Taiwan, including to the outlying islands of Kinmen to assist in training Taiwan’s special forces.
A spokesman for the U.S. Pentagon responded by saying that it would not comment on specific operations or training of the U.S. military, but that the U.S.’s commitment to Taiwan is “rock-solid” and contributes to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and the region.
In view of the CCP’s covetous gaze on the Taiwan Strait, the United States has also joined forces with the Philippines to protect Taiwan. On April 22, the United States and the Philippines held the largest-ever Balikatan military exercise. One of the highlights of this military exercise was that it was specifically held in the provinces of Cagayan and Batanes in the northern Philippines. , and the distance between these two provinces and Taiwan is less than 300 kilometers.
The “shoulder-to-shoulder” military exercise has just begun, and the United States continues to make moves.
On April 23, senior officials from the United States and the Philippines held a 3+3 meeting in Washington. On the afternoon of that day, the U.S. State Department issued a press release stating: “The two sides discussed the results of the recent leaders’ meeting and how the two countries can continue to promote a free and open India. Pacific region.”
On April 11 this year, US President Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Marcos held the first trilateral summit between the US, Japan and the Philippines. The summit statement emphasized that peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait are an integral part of global security and prosperity. The leaders of the United States, Japan and the Philippines also announced that the three countries will launch humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercises and include them in trilateral or multilateral activities including the 2025 US-Philippines “shoulder-to-shoulder” military exercise. This is to “ensure that our countries are prepared , and can cooperate seamlessly and quickly to respond to any crisis or emergency.” The implication is that the leaders of the United States, Japan and the Philippines are already preparing for conflict in the Taiwan Strait.
Zheng Qinmo, associate professor of the Department of Diplomacy at Tamkang University, told The Epoch Times that this US-Japan summit and US-Japan-Philippines summit are mainly aimed at the security of the Indo-Pacific, and the main threat to the security of the Indo-Pacific region comes from the CCP. Although many parts of the agreement do not directly address the CCP, in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, the intention to target the CCP or to increase the cost of the CCP’s foreign aggression and expansion is very obvious. In other words, basically through such a summit, the entire Indo-Pacific allies are united to jointly contain the CCP.
3. Xi Xinci exposed the food crisis to netizens: pointing the way for food
Xi Jinping recently coined a new term “big food concept”. The outside world believes that this indicates that China’s food security has already been in crisis. Some netizens ridiculed Xi Jinping’s statement as “pointing the direction for food.”
On April 21, the People’s Daily, the official media of the Communist Party of China, published an article claiming that Xi Jinping emphasized “the need to establish a big food concept.” In April this year, Xi Jinping said during an inspection in Guangdong: “To solve the food problem and ensure food security, we must establish a big food concept, ask for food from the land and the sea, cultivate the sea, animal husbandry and fishery, build sea pastures, and ‘blue water’. Color granary’.
This puzzling “big food concept”, like the previous “new productive forces”, is a new term coined by Xi Jinping. The party media’s explanation for this is that it requires diversifying the sources of food, maintaining quality and quantity, and ensuring food security.
On April 23, Qin Weiping, an independent economist living in the United States, told Radio Free Asia, “Xi Jinping’s formulation is actually a very subtle way of telling everyone, don’t be too picky, you can eat anything, don’t just eat traditional food. Four staple foods.”
From March 18 to 21 this year, Xi Jinping visited Hunan, a major grain-producing province in China, and specifically emphasized that China has a population of more than 1.4 billion, and food security must be guaranteed by itself, and Chinese people’s rice bowls should mainly be filled with Chinese grain. Hunan must shoulder the important task of maintaining national food security. This shows that Xi Jinping’s implication is that China has a food security problem.
On February 4 this year, the CCP also made a guilty statement in the No. 1 Central Document: It will resolutely adhere to the bottom line of ensuring food security and ensure that the grain output in 2024 remains above 1.3 trillion kilograms.
Judging from the CCP’s consistent habit of “crying out what is in short supply,” the party leader’s concern about food security, and the emphasis in Central Document No. 1 on “ensuring the bottom line of food security,” it seems that China’s food security problem is already serious.
According to 2020 data, China’s output of the four major staple foods of corn, wheat, rice and soybeans is 560 million tons, and the total demand is 697 million tons, leaving a gap of 137 million tons.
And this is just the data from a few years ago. After three years of the epidemic, the death toll in China has continued to rise, including a large number of rural laborers. In addition, severe floods occurred in Heilongjiang and Hebei, the main grain-producing areas last year, and a lot of grain was soaked in water. , Therefore, China’s food gap should continue to expand.
Although Xi Jinping said that “Chinese people’s rice bowls should mainly contain Chinese grains,” one reality that the CCP cannot avoid is that China’s grains mainly rely on imports, and the amount of imports is constantly increasing.
On January 23 this year, the State Council Information Office of the Communist Party of China held a press conference and stated that in 2023, China’s total grain imports will be 160 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 11.7%.
In this regard, Qin Weiping pointed out: “What the CCP cares about most is actually the security of its governance, and what is most closely related to its security is food security. If a serious food crisis breaks out in the future, it may have a big impact on the CCP regime.”
Yokogawa, a commentator living in the United States, believes that in order to fundamentally solve China’s food problem, one must rely on a market economy, and the other must realize land privatization. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Chinese Communist Party implemented public ownership and a planned economy, which led to the Great Famine. After the Cultural Revolution, the CCP implemented a household-based farm-household policy that allowed farmers to voluntarily carry out semi-privatization. As a result, the problem of food supply and diversification was quickly solved. Because as long as there is a food gap, the market will fill it immediately.
Yokogawa said that the “big food concept” proposed by Xi Jinping is difficult to solve the food problem. “He wanted to use the means of planned economy to solve problems that only market economy can solve.”
Netizens also ridiculed the new term “big food concept” proposed by Xi Jinping:
Some people say: Xi Jinping “points the direction for food.”
Some people also said: “The translation of (the big food concept) is that everything that cannot be eaten to death is food. If you are not sure, let everyone try it and decide.”
4. The CCP’s espionage infiltration has become more and more intense, and serious espionage cases have broken out in many European countries.
European governments have recently become increasingly zero-tolerant of the Chinese Communist Party’s espionage activities. Since Sweden deported a Chinese female journalist earlier this month, new serious espionage cases have been reported in Germany and the United Kingdom.
On April 22, according to a report by Danish media DR, new espionage cases seem to occur every week in Germany. Last week, two German-Russians were arrested for spying for Russia. This week, three Germans were arrested for spying for China’s intelligence services.
According to Reuters, the defendant woman and one of the defendant men are married. The third person suspected of espionage was an agent from China’s Ministry of Security, the indictment said.
The accused Chinese couple allegedly ran a business in Dusseldorf and through their business entered into a cooperation agreement with a German university as part of the agreement with the unnamed German university for the Chinese contract Partners conduct a study.
The partner was employed by China’s Ministry of State Security and had been giving instructions to the third defendant in the German case, according to the German prosecutor’s office.
Steen Norskov said: “They must have used espionage activities to obtain information about the development of powerful engines for ships (that is, engines for warships).” “The arrested people must have submitted relevant information about special engines to the Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence service information on laser technology, which actually requires a license from the EU.”
At the same time, on April 22, the UK also received accusations related to the Chinese Communist Party’s espionage activities. British police have charged two men with spying for the Chinese Communist Party and breaching the Public Secrets Act.
The Metropolitan Police said the two men were accused of providing “articles, notes, documents or information” to a foreign country, and the foreign country involved in the accusation was China.
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