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[Epoch Times May 9, 2022 News]Hello everyone, welcome to Monday (May 9) “news talk“. I’m Fuyao (host).Today’s guest is Qin Peng, a current affairs commentator and a senior Chinese political and economic analyst. The United States shouldCCPDr. Lin Xiaoxu, member of the current crisis committee.
Today’s focus:Change! The military has made a statement to Xi for days, “clear“Detonate infighting?ShanghaiEpidemic prevention campaign escalates, officials stand “smashed to pieces”military order; The legal profession speaks out strongly: the government immediately stops the illegal behavior.
【Shanghaiofficials standmilitary order For whom is the “people’s war” fought? 】
Let’s first pay attention to the ongoing epidemic prevention campaign in Shanghai.
On May 6, Shanghai held a mobilization meeting for “Resolutely Win the Great Shanghai Defense War”. At the meeting, Li Qiang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, asked officials at all levels to “issue military orders at every level” and to be held accountable for dereliction of duty. Mentioned to “fight the people’s war well”.
On the same day, Zhu Zhisong, the mayor of Pudong New Area, made a harsh statement, saying that on May 10, the number of new cases in the district was at least 60% lower than that on May 5; must also complete the task.”
There has been a flurry of criticism online for this claim. Some netizens said, “If you want to be smashed to pieces, you should go. Don’t drag the people along.”
1. Xiaoxu, if we don’t know the background of the incident, at first glance the slogans such as “Establishing a Military Order” and “Fighting the People’s War” are just a political movement and have nothing to do with epidemic prevention. How do you interpret the “war order” and “people’s war” here?
[Whatisthe”GreatShanghaiDefenseWar”todefend?】
The mobilization meeting held by the Shanghai authorities on the 6th followed theCCPThe meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee on the 5th is directly related.The meeting also discussed epidemic prevention and control, saying that the authorities’ “prevention and control policy is determined by the nature and purpose of the party”, calling for “winning the battle to defend Greater Shanghai” and insisting on “dynamicclear“.
We have seen that due to the “zero reset” policy, people’s livelihood in Shanghai has been devastated, and economic activities have also been hit hard. Now the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China insists on the policy of “clearing zero”, while claiming to win the “defense war”, which sounds contradictory. Or, people’s livelihood and the economy are not what they want to defend, which makes sense.
2. Qin Peng, what exactly are they defending? Is it in line with the Beijing authorities’ statement that “the prevention and control policy is determined by the nature and purpose of the party”? (The real nature and purpose of the CCP?) This kind of argument on the top line, I feel that there is no turning back for “clearing”.
[Thearmy’sstatementof”clearing”triggersaninfightingescalation?】
Xi Jinping also said at the May 5 meeting that he must resolutely “fight” against all words and deeds that “distort, doubt, and deny” the CCP’s epidemic prevention policy.
This position has been supported by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the military.
On May 7, the China Discipline Inspection Commission Supervision News, which is affiliated to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, published an editorial at the news site, entitled “Profound, Comprehensive and Complete Understanding of the Epidemic Prevention and Control Policy Confirmed by the Party Central Committee”. The article emphasizes that “dynamic clearing” is the “best choice” at this stage, and requires “ideologically, politically, and action” to maintain a high degree of consistency with the Xi Jinping Central Committee.
The CCP’s “Liberation Army Daily” even published a commentator’s article on the front page for three consecutive days from May 6 to 8, saying that it would “unswervingly adhere to the general policy of dynamic clearing”, and asked the entire army to “consolidate ideological and Actions are unified into the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and President Xi”, etc.
3. Xiaoxu, now the outside world is very concerned about this matter. Some observers believe that the high-level CCP publicly mentioned “struggle” at meetings at the level of the Politburo Standing Committee, and both the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the military made statements, showing that the “clearing” policy has intensified the CCP’s infighting. what do you think?
[Shanghai legal person speaks one after another: the government should immediately stop the illegal behavior]
The CCP is so tossed, and it is the common people who suffer. After a series of political statements, the prevention and control measures in many places in Shanghai have been upgraded recently. For example, in Pudong New Area and Xuhui District, if one person tests positive, the residents on the floor where they live, as well as upstairs and downstairs, have to be forcibly transferred and quarantined, or all residents of the entire building will be transferred and quarantined.
In addition, a large number of anti-epidemic personnel forcibly broke into the homes of residents regardless of day or midnight for reasons such as nucleic acid transfer and transfer. There are also recordings showing that officials in Hongkou District forced some residents to leave their homes after handing over their house keys, claiming to enter Households carry out virus disinfection, and their attitude is very tough.
On May 8, Tong Zhiwei, a professor of constitutional law at the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, issued an article saying that these practices by the Shanghai authorities are illegal and may cause some kind of legal disaster. He also said that this view is not his own, but the common view of more than 20 professors from many universities.
This article was quickly blocked by the entire network, and Tong Zhiwei’s personal Weibo account was banned.
Many Weibo netizens were very angry. Some people said, “How can we rule the country according to the law?” “Is it possible that everyone will not be able to abide by the law in the future?”
In addition, Shanghai lawyer Liu Dali also sent an open letter to the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress on the 8th, asking them to review the legality and appropriateness of the containment measures in accordance with the law, and urgently discuss how to ensure that people’s livelihood rights are not violated.
4. Qin Peng, Xiaoxu, scholars and lawyers in Shanghai made their voices heard one after another. Although many people thought it was a bit late, they still stood up. We know that over the years, the CCP has continuously stepped up its stigma and suppression of legal professionals and public intellectuals, forcing them to shut up, so speaking out publicly requires courage and taking risks. Why do you think they chose to come forward now?
5. Qin Peng, can you please talk more specifically about the CCP’s own laws that the people were forced to take away and quarantined, and the CCP’s own laws that were violated by the epidemic prevention personnel who broke into private residences on the grounds of sterilization and other reasons?
[ManyChineseuniversitieswithdrewfromtheworldrankingsandstartedacademicdecoupling?】
Let’s focus on another topic:Several Chinese universities have announced their withdrawal from the World University Rankings.
In the past two days, many media and portal websites in mainland China have reported that Renmin University of China has “brightened its sword” and announced that it will withdraw from the World University Rankings from 2022 and will no longer provide relevant data to ranking agencies; Nanjing University and Nanjing University have also done so. Lanzhou University.
According to reports, the National People’s Congress was dissatisfied with the low ranking, believing that the ranking did not truly reflect the strength of the school, so it “doesn’t want to be kidnapped by foreign indicators again.” There are also interpretations that this is a major signal, meaning that China’s educational discourse power and cultural sovereignty have returned, and only by doing so can the so-called “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” be achieved.
Gao Yu, a senior media person in Beijing, tweeted that, as an alumnus of the National People’s Congress, she has a feeling of “don’t know when it is today”, as if she was in May 1966, when the Cultural Revolution began.
At the end of April, Xi Jinping just went to the National People’s Congress for inspection. According to Xinhua News Agency, Xi Jinping emphasized the need to “inherit the red gene” at the time, so as to walk out of the so-called “new path of building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics”.
6. Xiaoxu, do you analyze the dropout of these schools for political or academic reasons? Is it about decoupling from the world academically?
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