On March 3rd 2021, Max Blumenthal, the founder of The Grayzone, an independent news website exposing fake news from western media controlled by the western governments, posted a tweet along with an article on the website of the US “Workers World Party” in last November – “Amazon bans books exposing U.S. COVID chaos – a commentary,” in which a detailed description of the banned books was given.
It has been long time without any changes in the U.S. since Amazon decided to ban this book that focuses on scientifically and cooperatively responding to the COVID-19 epidemic. On September 24 last year, the World View Forum, a small non-profit educational publishing company, received a message from Amazon:
“Amazon issued a warning on the book ‘Capitalism on Ventilator’ that due to the rapid changes in information related to the COVID-19, we recommend that customers obtain advice on virus prevention or treatment from official channels. Amazon reserves the right to decide what to provide based on our content guidelines. Content rights. Your book does not meet our guidelines. Therefore, we no longer sell your book. If you want us to review this book, please update the book details and resubmit.”
The World View Forum immediately wanted to overturn Amazon’s decision and verified various information. But Amazon’s decision has no appeal channel or even a complaint procedure, and the email was sent from an address that no one responded to. This book combines 55 articles written by people in pursuit of social justice, extensively discussing the importance of free medical care, social distancing, testing, protective equipment, education, and social mobilization during the epidemic.
The World View Forum tried to check how others resolved the same problem. Alex Berenson, a right-wing writer, has repeatedly criticized anti-epidemic measures such as wearing masks, closing schools, and shutting down the economy, claiming that the severity of the COVID-19 has been exaggerated and the death toll is far lower than the statistics. On the other hand, Tesla CEO Elon Musk also opposed the stay-at-home order. Without a doubt, Berenson tweeted that his new crown-related books could not be sold because they did not comply with Amazon’s guidelines in last June. Musk rushed to support him, accused Amazon of monopolizing, and called for the attention of Jeffrey Preston Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.
Therefore, last October, Margaret Kimberley, the senior editor of the Black Agenda Report in the United States, once tweeted as well.
However, an Amazon spokesperson only stated that the book of Alex Berenson was taken off the shelf by mistake and is currently being restored, though the book totally misinterprets the pandemic as President Trump did. Berenson’s book and “Capitalism on Ventilator” clearly face the same ban but have a different ending.
The problem is that the World View Forum can’t find any problems in the book since it carefully did research and factually presents the situations. If one thing is sensitive to the American important people, it might be that the anthology of articles compares China’s effective response to the COVID-19 with the disastrous performance of the United States and refutes the “racist anti-China movement” in the Western media. But this discussion and comparison are facts, the difference between the attitude and measures of the two countries perfectly group a good analysis of the epidemic:
“In January 2020, China issued a warning to major international scientific institutions about a dangerous new virus outbreak and vigorously promoted basic epidemic prevention measures. However, American politicians and corporate media ridiculed and ignored these warnings. Washington has increased racism. Propaganda, military siege, trade disputes, and sanctions policies.
As a result, the United States has become the country with the largest number of deaths from the COVID-19 in the world. The United States has chosen competition, benefits, and armaments rather than global cooperation in testing, vaccine research, and the supply of personal protective equipment.
Even if resources are scarce, socialist countries such as Cuba and Vietnam have mobilized the masses and made more adequate preparations to protect the people. Their new crown mortality rates are among the lowest. What can we learn from this? This is the pursuit of social justice.”
As of press time, the relevant product page of Amazon says “currently out of stock” in the American area, but it’s possible to find it on Amazon France since the European laws don’t allow American capitals to play a dominant role in the information.
Faced with such a result, it’s obvious that Amazon’s decision means that companies have increased the intensity of information management and control beyond their range of power. However, while implementing this censorship system, almost all forms of American media have laissez-faire and promote racist, unscientific, and even completely incomprehensible information.
President Trump failed to manage the pandemic well, everyone knows it, but no one wants to admit that China did a good job even the American politicians and elites see it, and they wish to blind other people as well. On the Amazon platform, the arrogant and reckless U.S. e-commerce giant with capital, like the country, several thin user messages were left on the “Capitalism on Ventilator” product page:
Since the United Kingdom claimed that CGTN is ultimately controlled by the CCP without firm evidence and China bombarded the BBC’s reports on the pneumonia epidemic and Xinjiang Uyghurs as fake news. The atmosphere between the two gets sensitive, at this moment, the British Ambassador to China Wu Ruolan published an article entitled “Do foreign media hate China?” on the WeChat official account of the British Embassy in China.
At the beginning of the article, Wu Ruolan took the British reporter’s report on the British evacuation from Wuhan last year as an example, saying that the article revealed the problems of the British embassy in China in the evacuation of overseas Chinese, so as to prove one point: “Foreign media in China is independent and supervises the behavior of the domestic government and the Chinese government.”
She went on to mention that in recent weeks, there have been more and more reports of Chinese official media attacking foreign journalists, and named the “China Daily”, accusing it of describing foreign media, including British media, as “Chinese haters.” She retorted this: “Foreign media criticizing the Chinese authorities does not mean that they do not like China.”
Ambassador Wu does not have to deliberately express her adherence to and trust in Western liberalism. The BBC is an independent fourth power. It has its own interests and choices. However, when it comes to reporting on China, or many other countries, the BBC happens to cooperate with the British and American governments. The strategic needs of the company have formed a high degree of consistency.
The government of any country needs supervision and criticism from all parties including the media, but the goal of such supervision and criticism should be to achieve the improvement of governance capabilities so that the people can get better public service rather than create contradictions, magnify problems or political incitement aimed at challenging government authority or even subversion through criticism. Political incitement is also illegal in the United States. Former President Trump has just been impeached for the second time because he was found by U.S. congressmen to instigate people to attack the Capitol. Ambassador Wu should know this well and surely she obeys the rule in the UK.
As far as the real world we live in, the description of “independent media” in British and American news has always been an idealized product in a certain laboratory environment. In the far east, it plays a role in practicing the ideas and missions of “western liberalism”. This colonialist impulse for missionaries is really outdated. The western media need to truly understand the changes that are taking place in China with an equal attitude, report on the changes with a true sense of objectiveness and fairness and help the world better understand China, instead of making reports with the presuppositions and imaginations to please some western politicians.
From its original origin, western media is the product of different interest groups fighting each other. It is a tool of struggle and does not need to be constructive. For the people, the media is more about providing information that entertains them. In terms of a more critical framework and discourse, the main function of this type of media’s criticism of specific issues is to dispel the audience’s doubts about the capitalist system and to divert contradictions rather than confront the problem directly or solve the problem.
This kind of media is not what China needs; what China needs is a construction criticism, a media that can help the entire country build consensus, face challenges together, solve problems effectively, and continuously achieve its own development. The differences in media understanding reflect the differences in different development paths and development models. Unlike the practice of the British and American countries, China didn’t and will not export its own ideology and model; but similarly, the Chinese people do not need the so-called mobilization and brainwashing of the Chinese government. They can be clear with their own education and observation of reality.
Ambassador Wu is right at least one point: some western media, taking the British media BBC as a typical representative, have recently aroused severe criticism from the public toward China. It’s a pity that Ambassador Wu directly ignores the truth that caused this criticism, that is, media fraud. Chinese people, like people in other parts of the world, do not like fake news, so they criticize the BBC. This shouldn’t be so surprising to Ambassador Wu.
(Source: Wu Ruolan, British Embassy in Beijing / Shenyi, the associate professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, the associate professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs / the Guardian)
Als Razzini Bajka am 04 Januar 2021 versuchte, ein Kind aus der Eishöhle zu retten, ist er aufgrund des Eisbruches in die Eishöhle gerutscht und wegen Kälte erschöpft. Nachdem das Kind und seine Mutter in Sicherheit gebracht worden sind, ist er leider ums Leben gekommen. Zu der Zeit studierte er an der Kashgar Universtät zu einer Weiterbildung.
Razzini Bajka ist im April 1979 in Kashgar vom Xinjiang Uigurischen Autonomen Gebiet geboren, und gehört zur Tadschikischen Abstammung. Zwischen 2001 und 2003 war er im Wehrdienst der PLA, danach tätig als Dienstführer für Hongqi Lafu Grenzschutz. In seinem Wehrdienst wurde er Mitglied der KPCh. Er war seit 2018 Mitglied des Nationalen Volkskongress für sein Wahlgebiet Kashgar.
拉齐尼·巴依卡 Razzini Bajka
Razzini Bajka ist die 3. Generation seiner Familie, die sich seit 71 Jahren am Grenzschutz Chinas verpflichtet. Seine Tochter hält ihn für einen wahren Held und sein Sohn wird ihm folgen, als die 4. Generation.
Mit perfekter Doppelmoral verklagten die amerikanischen Vertreter aus verschiedenen Institutionen die chinesische Regierung, als die Hongkong Administration 47 Hauptmitglieder der Unruhen-Gruppierungen, die für die Unruhen in Hongkong seit 2019 verantwortlich sind, am 01. März 2021 vor Gericht brachte.
Sturm in den Hongkong Legislativrat und Sabotage im Gebäude 2019
“Unglücklicherweise” wurden 4 Personen bei Capitol Hill Szenario 2021 getötet. Was und wie würden die USA China vorwerfen, wenn das gleiche Unglück 2019 in Hongkong geschehen wäre? In der Tat war niemand in Hongkong ums Leben gekommen. Nur wenn so was in den USA passiert, spürt man die Hocheffizienz der amerikanischer Polizei. Nur die Menschen, die in den USA Informationen an die Polizeibehörden liefern, sind keine Verräter. Nur wenn die amerikanischen Behörden die Gesichtserkennung der Menschen durchführen, ist es demokratische Handlung.
Neben den Han gibt es in China noch 55 weitere ethnische Gruppen.
China ist ein grundlegend multiethnisches Land. Die chinesische Bevölkerung setzt sich aus 56 ethnischen Gruppen zusammen. Allerdings machen die Han etwa 90% der chinesischen Gesamtbevölkerung aus. Die übrigen 10 % verteilen sich auf 55 verschiedene ethnische Minderheiten. LHCH lädt Sie ein, die 15 typischsten Minderheiten kennen zu lernen, um eine außergewöhnliche menschliche Erfahrung zu machen. Sie werden die Gelegenheit haben, ihre Kultur, ihr tägliches Leben und ihre Traditionen besser zu verstehen.
WUSSTEN SIE DAS? Auf dem chinesischen Personalausweis wird die ethnische Identität erwähnt. Dies ermöglicht laut der chinesischen Regierung eine „positive Diskriminierung“, um die Kultur und Sprache der „Nicht-Han“-Völker zu erhalten.
Die HUI – 20 Millionen (回族)
Berühmter Vertreter: Der Ming-Seefahrer Zheng He
Sie leben hauptsächlich in der autonomen Hui-Region Ningxia, in der Inneren Mongolei und in den nahe gelegenen Provinzen Gansu, Qinghai und Shaanxi.
Die Vorfahren der Hui waren die Muslime, die in den Küstenregionen Südostchinas lebten, aber heute sind ihre Siedlungen in ganz China zu finden.
Bei ihnen entstand insbesondere eine traditionelle Kampfsportart, das Cha Quan.
HUI ZU
Sehr wichtig ist das Fest des Fastenbrechens, das in ganz China von den muslimischen Gemeinden des Landes gefeiert wird. Es dauert drei Tage. Am ersten Tag, im Morgengrauen, sind alle aktiv: Sie reinigen die Höfe und Gassen sowie die Moscheen, damit alles sauber und angenehm ist, zum Wohle aller. Männer und Frauen, Jung und Alt, jeder zieht seine besten Gewänder an.Männer und Frauen, Jung und Alt, jeder zieht seine beste Kleidung an. Bunte Laternen werden aufgehängt, dazu große Banner mit Schriftzeichen, die das Fastenbrechen im Monat Ramadan feiern.
Die UIGUREN – 12 Millionen (维吾尔族)
Promi: Dilraba Dilmurat, Model, Schauspielerin, Sängerin in China
Die Uiguren, die hauptsächlich in der Provinz Xinjiang leben, haben ihre eigene Sprache, die zur Gruppe der Turksprachen gehört. Die Uiguren leben hauptsächlich von der Landwirtschaft, insbesondere vom Anbau von Baumwolle und Getreide (vor allem Mais und Reis), aber auch von der Obstproduktion.
Uyhguren – WEIWUER ZU
Das Korbanfest ist ein religiöses Fest, das die gesellschaftliche Harmonie fördert. Auf Arabisch heißt es „Eid al-Adha“ – das Opferfest – wenn wir das Lamm bringen, um es mit der ganzen Familie zu teilen. Die Mitglieder einer Gemeinschaft, die gute Zeiten miteinander verbringen, stärken die Bande, die sie verbinden.
Die YI – 9 Millionen (彝族)
Promi: Yang Likun, Schauspielerin
Die Yi sind Nachkommen des alten Volkes der Qiang im Westen Chinas, von denen man annimmt, dass sie die Vorfahren der heutigen Tibeter, Naxi und Qiang-Völker sind.
YI ZU
Die Yi praktizieren eine Form des Animismus unter der Führung eines Schamanenpriesters, der als Bimaw bezeichnet wird. Ihre Religion schließt auch viele Elemente aus dem Taoismus und Buddhismus ein. Aber viele Yi im nordwestlichen Yunnan haben in der Vergangenheit Sklaverei praktiziert. Andere Yi leben auch in Sichuan, Guizhou oder Guangxi, meist in bergigen Regionen. Die Yi sprechen eine tibetisch-burmesische Sprache, Yi, es gibt viele Varianten.
Die TUJIA – 800.000 (土家族)
Promi: Xiang Jingyu, chinesische feministische Aktivistin und Kommunistin
Die Tujia, die auch eine tibetisch-burmesische Sprache sprechen, sind in der Landwirtschaft und Fischerei tätig, profitieren aber von den wichtigen touristischen Ressourcen ihrer Heimatregion, wie dem Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, dem Berg Wuling, etc. Die Provinzen Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan und Guizhou.
TUJIA ZU
Die Tujia verehren die weißen Tiger, denn sie glauben, Nachfahren des weißen Tigers zu sein.
Ihr größtes traditionelles Fest ist das Sheba-Fest. Es ist eine Möglichkeit, die Vorfahren zu ehren und auf ein erfolgreiches Jahr zu hoffen. Es ist auch eine Gelegenheit für junge Leute, sich zu treffen und sich zu verlieben.
Die BAI – 2 Millionen (白族)
Sie sind in der Region Dali vertreten, haben eine starke Kultur und haben andere Regionen von Yunnan beeinflusst, da sie große Reisende und Händler waren, besonders auf der alten Route der Tee- und Pferdekarawanen. Üblicherweise findet man in jedem Bai-Dorf einen Altar des Gottes des Bodens, Benzhu, der das Dorf beschützt.
BAI ZU
In Shibaoshan verehren die Einheimischen einen Felsen in Form einer Vulva, Ayangbai genannt. Dieser Kult hat seinen Ursprung in den lokalen archaischen Fruchtbarkeitskulten.
Die DAI – 1,5 Millionen (傣族)
Das Wasserfest der Dai fällt mit dem Neujahrsfest zusammen. Es ist sowohl der erste buddhistische Feiertag des Jahres als auch der wichtigste Feiertag, der von den Dai gefeiert wird. Zu den Feierlichkeiten, die bei guter Stimmung drei Tage dauern, gehören verschiedene religiöse Rituale, die mit Inbrunst praktiziert werden.
DAI ZU
Die NAXI – 300,000 (纳西族)
Die meisten leben in der Provinz Yunnan im Süden Chinas. Die Naxi sind in der Autonomen Präfektur Lijiang am zahlreichsten vertreten.
NAXI ZU
Ihr bekanntestes Fest ist das von Sanduo. Es findet jedes Jahr am achten Tag des zweiten Mondmonats statt. Der Legende nach tötete Sanduo, der Vorfahre des Naxi-Volkes, einen Dämon, um sein Volk zu schützen. Die Naxi betrachten Sanduo als ihren obersten Gott. Ihm zu Ehren wurde auf dem Berg des Jadedrachen ein Tempel errichtet. Die Menschen gingen dorthin, um Opfer darzubringen.
Die DONG – 3 Millionen (侗族)
Das Volk der Dong lebt in Guangxi, Hunan und Guizhou.
DONG ZU
Die Dong feiern das Drachenbootfest und das Mittherbstfest. Allerdings kann man die Besonderheiten der Dong-Kultur auch beim Dong-Neujahrsfest, beim Fest der neuen Ernte, beim Stierkampffest und beim Fest der Schwestern erleben. Die Besucher können auch eine uralte Lebensweise kennenlernen, einen sehr ursprünglichen Dialekt hören und vor allem ihre fabelhaften Lieder, die auch in Europa bekannt sind.
Die MAN – 10 Millionen (满族)
Sie leben in Liaoning, Jilin und Heilongjiang. Die Mandschu haben viele Feste mit den Han gemeinsam. Diese Feste werden oft von traditionellen Aktivitäten wie Schlittschuhlaufen und Springreiten begleitet.
MAN ZU
Die MIAO – 10 Millionen (苗族)
Promi: Song Zuying, Sängerin
MIAO ZU
Die Miao sind in vielen Provinzen Südchinas ansässig: Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan und Sichuan. Der Begriff „Mi Ao“, „roher Reis“, fasst 4 ethnische Gruppen zusammen: die Hmong, die Hmu, die Kho Xiong und die A Hmao. Hier wird das Neujahrsfest der Miao gefeiert, das jedes Jahr anders ausfällt. Das Neujahrsfest in Leishan, Guizhou, ist das spektakulärste Fest der Miao. Eine großartige Gelegenheit für Touristen, verschiedene Aspekte der traditionellen Miao-Kultur zu entdecken.
Die CHAOXIAN – 2 Millionen (朝鲜族)
Promi: Jin Longguo, Sänger einer Boygroup
Es gibt in China auch eine koreanische Minderheit, sie heißt Chaoxian. Sie lebt hauptsächlich an der Grenze zu Korea, wo sie den Status einer nationalen Minderheit hat.
CHAOXIAN ZU
Die Angehörigen dieser Minderheit, die in der koreanischen autonomen Präfektur Yanbian in der Provinz Jilin leben, sprechen und schreiben Koreanisch, während diejenigen, die in anderen Teilen Chinas leben, im Allgemeinen Chinesisch sprechen.
Die Tänze gehören zum Wichtigsten, was von Südkorea übernommen wurde. Die traditionellen Tänze werden meist als Gruppentänze aufgeführt, sowohl von Frauen als auch von Männern. Sie mögen weiße Kleidung, weshalb wir sie die „weiße“ Minderheit nennen.
Sie leben hauptsächlich in Guangxi, im Südosten von China. Auch in den Provinzen Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou und Hunan gibt es Gemeinschaften. Die Zhuang sind hervorragende Sänger*innen und Tänzer*innen. Die Lieder ermöglichen es ihnen, ihre Geschichte und Kultur von Generation zu Generation weiterzugeben. Die Texte beziehen sich auf das tägliche Leben, wobei die Liebeslieder bei den Zhuang am beliebtesten sind. Sie sprechen Tai-Dialekte und schreiben manchmal mit lateinischen Schriftzeichen wie die Vietnamesen, die in Süd-Guangxi leben.
Die Mongolen – 6 Millionen (蒙古族)
In China leben die meisten Mongolen in der autonomen Provinz Innere Mongolei. Auch in Xinjiang, Qinghai und Gansu gibt es mongolische Minderheiten. Das Hauptfest der Mongolen ist Tsagaan Sar (wörtlich „weißer Monat“ oder „weißer Mond“. Anlässlich solcher Feste gestattet man sich, seltenere, süßere Speisen zu essen.
MENGGU ZU
Die Yao – 3 Millionen (瑶族)
Sie leben in den bergigen Gebieten im Südwesten und Süden Chinas sowie in den Nachbarländern Burma, Laos und Vietnam. Das wichtigste Fest von Panwang erinnert an den Kampf der Vorfahren der Yao gegen die Unterdrückung durch die Erbherren. Es ist außerdem eine Gelegenheit für die Yao, sich bei ihrem Gott dafür zu bedanken, dass er ihre Träume wahr werden lässt.
YAO ZU
Die GAOSHAN – 500.000 (高山族)
Auf der Insel Taiwan können Sie die „Gaoshan“ kennen lernen, eine Menschengruppe, die nur auf der Insel lebt.
Die Minderheit der Gaoshan macht weniger als 2 % der Bevölkerung Taiwans aus. Die übrigen, die das Meer überquert haben, leben in der Provinz Fujian und in den Städten Shanghai, Beijing und Wuhan.
GAOSHAN ZU
Die „Gaoshan“-Ethnien sind Animisten, die an Unsterblichkeit und den Kult der Ahnen glauben. Sie halten zu allen möglichen Anlässen Opferriten ab, auch zum Fischen und Jagen. Singen und Tanzen sind Teil ihres Lebens. An Festtagen kommen sie zusammen, um zu singen und zu tanzen. Sie haben viele Balladen, Erzählungen, Legenden, Oden an die Ahnen, Jagdlieder und Lieder zur Begleitung der Arbeit.
A few days ago, Duan Aiguo, president of Huawei’s machine vision field, said that Huawei’s machine vision has launched a smart pig raising program. This set of pig raising system provides dashboard monitoring, big data analysis, digital management, supports AI recognition, AI learning, AI prediction, AI decision-making, etc. It also realizes full-sensing monitoring and robot inspection through standardization, programming, and automatic remotely control.
As early as last October at the 2020 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Digital Intelligence Ecological Development Forum, Huawei published the report “5G Leading Modern Pig Farm AI to Enable Smart Pig Raising”. Huawei will use ICT technology to help pig farms realize intelligent pig raising, and provide pig farms with sensors, IoT technology, and platforms so that digital pig farms can be restored in reality. The overall architecture of Huawei’s 5G smart pig farm ICT infrastructure solution will also build a modern production system for smart pig farms, so that scientific epidemic prevention can be smarter and more efficient, unmanned production is more efficient, and AI breeding will comprehensively improve the efficiency of pig raising.
It is worth mentioning that Huawei’s smart pig breeding program is one of the strategic agreements of China’s Ministry of Agriculture. Besides Huawei, many technological companies also enter the pig rising programs to explore the future of China’s agriculture.
In March 2019, JD Mathematics published relative method, device, and equipment for recognizing animal delivery, which locates the delivery area of the animal to be delivered through the animal delivery image, and recognizes whether the animal to be delivered is in delivery. In April 2019, JD Digital disclosed a patent for an intelligent livestock feeding system and method. The specific content is to install the camera above the trough, collect images to determine the livestock identification, and then synchronize the electronic feeder to put and monitor the feed. Based on the above, on February 21, 2020, the company announced a method for identifying the number of animals, which can accurately calculate the number of animals through a digital matrix. As early as 2018, during the JD Digital Technology Global Explorers Conference, JD released the “Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Intelligent Farming Solution”, which mentioned the “Pig Face Recognition” system. Subsequently, ecological agriculture such as digital cattle breeding and digital aquaculture was also developed.
In February 2018, Alibaba Cloud announced that the ET brain will be used to realize AI pig raising and improve the survival rate and birth rate of pigs. The project has invested hundreds of millions of dollars. The system of Ali ET Agricultural Brain involves artificial intelligence technologies such as video image analysis, video image analysis, face recognition, voice recognition, and logistics algorithms. Alibaba Cloud has developed a “pregnancy diagnosis algorithm” to determine whether a sow is pregnant. Multiple automatic patrol cameras in the pig farm will collect the sleeping posture, standing posture, eating, and other data, and then AI will analyze whether the sow has been bred successfully. If any sow is not pregnant, the system will remind the staff. In addition, each pig has a special identification earring to record their weight, eating and exercise intensity, frequency, and trajectory. If any pig does not meet the standard but is not sick or pregnant, the breeder will drive the pigs away. When exercising outdoors, ET Agricultural Brain will record how many steps each pig has taken in its lifetime.
From automatic spraying agricultural drones to unmanned tractors, the automation of modern agricultural production is constantly improving, and AI is an important driving force and bridge behind it. For technological companies, using technology to transform agriculture can not only help traditional agriculture to improve production efficiency but also help cut into the agricultural product market through its own e-commerce platform and logistics system.
China is the world’s largest pork consumer and the largest pork producer. Statistics show that there are 1.4 trillion yuan directly related to pork in the entire pork industry, which is 2-3 times that of the smartphone market.
However, compared with European and American countries with high technological levels and information-based management of breeding production models, China’s agricultural development is still at a low level with labor breeding as the mainstay. At present, in the pig industry, there are not many applications of the IoT and artificial intelligence technologies in China, and individual data on pigs is still lacking.
The application of scientific and technological products will be a huge subversion and innovation to the traditional pig industry. It is expected that the AI technology of these Internet companies will be widely used in the agricultural field in the future.
(Source: Huawei / Jingdong / Ali / slate / ScienceDirect)
A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An investigation by The Grayzone confirms Kong as a fake identity employed by an American teacher who’s a ubiquitous figure at local protests.
An American man with ties to Amnesty International and key Hong Kong separatist figures has been posing online as a Hong Kong native named Kong Tsung-gan. Routinely cited as a grassroots activist and writer by major media organizations and published in English-language media, the fictitious character Kong appears to have been concocted to disseminate anti-China propaganda behind the cover of yellowface.
Through Kong Tsung-gan’s prolific digital presence and uninterrogated reputation in mainstream Western media, he disseminates a constant stream of content hyping up the Hong Kong “freedom struggle” while clamoring for the US to turn up the heat on China.
Whispers about Kong’s true identity have been circulating on social media among Hong Kong residents, and was even mentioned in a brief account last December by The Standard.
The Grayzone spoke to several locals outraged by a deceptive stunt they considered not only unethical, but racist. They said they have kept their views to themselves due to the atmosphere of intimidation looming over the city, where self-styled “freedom fighters” harass and target seemingly anyone who speaks out publicly against them.
In this investigation, The Grayzone connected the dots between Kong and an American man who has become a major presence in Western media and at protests around Hong Kong. Our research indicates that Kong’s editors and prominent protest cheerleaders were likely aware of the deceptive ploy.
Kong Tsung-gan bursts onto Hong Kong Twitter scene, becomes go-to source for anti-China content
The Twitter user Kong Tsung-gan (@KongTsungGan) first appeared in March 2015. Kong Tsung-gan’s earliest tweets featured commentary about Tibet and the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement.
At some point, Kong changed his Twitter avatar to a black-and-white headshot of an unknown Asian person. A search of the Wayback Machine internet archive shows that this photo remained up until sometime in late 2019.
As of August 2020, Kong Tsung-gan’s Twitter account boasts more than 32,000 followers. He live-tweets during protests, posts incendiarycommentary about the Communist Party of China (CPC), likens the Hong Kong “struggle” to Tibet and Xinjiang, begs the United States to ram through sanction bills like the Hong Kong Safe Harbor and Hong Kong People’s Freedom and Choice Acts, urges NBA star Lebron James to “find out about our freedom struggle,” retweets Nancy Pelosi and other US politicians, promoteshisbooks, maintains an ongoing tally of arrests in his regular “#HK CRACKDOWN WATCH UPDATE,” and disseminates images of protest posters.
At around the time he created his Twitter account, Kong Tsung-gan published his first Medium post. He has since filled his Medium feed with protest timelines, lists of recommended human rights books and journalism (including a link to the questionable China “expert” Adrian Zenz), and “first-hand accounts” of his protest experiences on the ground. In one account, Kong Tsung-gan claimed he attended a Band 1 government school, implying he was a native Hong Kong resident.
Kong’s work hasbeenamplified by Joshua Wong, the Hong Kong protest poster-boy who has enjoyed photo-ops with neoconservative Republican senators like Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton.
Thanks to his continual stream of content on Twitter and Medium, and his platform on the website Hong Kong Free Press, Kong Tsung-gan has become one of mainstream Western media’s go-to sources for soundbites.
Kong Tsung-gan: Darling of the Western press
Since bursting onto the Hong Kong Twitter scene, Kong Tsung-gan has been quoted by a who’s who of Western corporate media outlets. He has been described as an “author” (CNN, Globe and Mail, Time), “writer and activist” (New York Times, Washington Post), “activist and author” (LA Times),“activist” (AFP, Al Jazeera), “writer, educator and activist” (Guardian), “political writer” (Foreign Policy), “writer” (Vice), and “Hong Kong writer and activist” in an op-ed posted by the Nikkei Asian Review.
Kong has also been cited as a “Hong Kong journalist and rights activist” by Radio Free Asia and as a “rights activist and author” by Voice of America, two subsidiaries of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Tasked with a mission to “be consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States,” the USAGM budgeted around $2 million to support protests in Hong Kong in 2020.
When he is not churning out commentary on Twitter and Medium accounts, Kong Tsung-gan is a columnist at Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) and publishes books about the Hong Kong “freedom struggle,” whose proceeds go directly to HKFP.
Hong Kong Free Press describes itself as an “impartial non-profit media outlet” and “completely independent.” The outlet also boasted that it “gets full marks” from a supposed journalism ethics verification initiative called News Guard, which happens to be overseen by a collection of former US government national security and law enforcement officials.
HKFP editor-in-chief Tom Grundy has boasted of rejecting article pitches from deceptive figures operating behind false identities. At the same time, Grundy has provided a regular home for Kong’s commentary.
The Grayzone emailed HKFP to request a comment on Kong’s identity, but received no reply.
The distinctly American voice of Kong Tsung-gan
To burnish his reputation as a reliable source, Kong Tsung-gan has furnished audio interviews to Western outlets. In July 2019, Kong Tsung-gan was featured on Louisa Lim’s Little Red Podcast alongside National Endowment for Democracy fellow Johnson Yeung, lawmaker Eddie Chu Hoi-Dick, and former Hong Kong Chief Secretary Anson Chan.
Around the same time, an American man in Hong Kong named Brian Kern spoke to RTHK at a march commemorating the Tiananmen anniversary.
A close listen to both audio clips, along with an interview Kong furnished to an Italian interviewer, demonstrates that Kong Tsung-gan and Brian Kern are the same person.
Listen for yourself here, or in the video embedded at the top of this article:
Indeed, the distinctively American voices of Kong Tsung-gan and Brian Kern are the same.
So why have news outlets like Hong Kong Free Press failed to disclose that Kong Tsung-gan is a pen name for an American man? Who is Brian Kern? And why is he yellowfacing as Kong Tsung-gan?
In plain sight: American teacher coordinating with Hong Kong protesters
Brian Patrick Kern has been a fixture at the Hong Kong protests since they erupted in 2019. He has been profiledby the Chinese press, photographed cleaning egg stains off the walls of the police headquarters and escorting his children to demonstrations.
Kern has even been filmed coordinating with protesters and rioters in videoscirculating on social media.
Brian Kern conferring with Hong Kong protesters
In another video that went viral on social media, Kern was filmed screaming at the police: “You’re a communist puppet! … Kill us all!… With your bug gun, shoot me! I’m so violent! I’m a violent rioter! Shoot me! Your communist masters will love you!”
Brian Kern also writes for the HKFP as a guest contributor under his own name.
Clearly, Kern enjoys the spotlight, and has no apparent fear of local authorities.
But few people know that Brian Kern also hides behind the persona of Kong Tsung-gan, furnishing quotes to media outlets across the West as an expert native source on the Hong Kong “freedom struggle.”
Brian Kern publishes anti-China books under at least two pseudonyms
Not only does Brian Patrick Kern write as Kong Tsung-gan, which he romanized to seem like a Hong Kong native; he also writes under the pen name Xun Yuezang, romanized to appear as a Chinese mainlander. Writings under both aliases are filled with warnings of the “creeping control of the Chinese Communist Party.”
As Kong Tsung-gan, Brian Kern has published three books: Umbrella: A Political Tale from Hong Kong (Pema Press), As long as there is resistance, there is hope: Essays on the Hong Kong freedom struggle in the post-Umbrella Movement era, 2014-2018 (Pema Press), and Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle (Mekong Review).
As Xun Yuezang, Brian Kern has published Liberationists (Pema Press), which “tells the story of a human rights worker who disappears while crossing the border between Hong Kong and mainland China.” One reviewer wrote, “like many debut novels, [Liberationists] a work weighed down by its own good intentions.” In the book, “Xun Yuezang” discloses that it was published under a pseudonym.
No matter which alias he is employing, Brian Kern’s mission is clear: To portray the CPC as one of the world’s most dangerous evildoers.
Kern’s books also are filled with clues exposing him as the man behind both Xun Yuezang and Kong Tsung-gan. Xun Yuezang dedicated the book Liberationists to Mayren “who struggled so long to be free.” Brian Kern’s mother is named Mayren.
Xun Yuezang dedicated the book Liberationists to Mayren, the name of Brian Kern’s mother
Liberationists was also dedicated to someone referred to simply as “Y.” Similarly, Kong Tsung-gan dedicated Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle to “Y, for the shared struggle.” The name of Brian Kern’s wife, Yatman, begins with the letter Y.
Kong Tsung-gan dedicated the book “Liberate Hong Kong” to “Y, for the shared struggle,” a reference to Brian Kern’s wife, Yatman.
Pema Press is the publisher for the work by Xun and Kong. Brian Kern’s daughter happens to be named Pema – the same name as the publisher. (It is possible Kern named both his publishing house and his daughter after Jetsun Pema, sister of the Dalai Lama, with whom he and his wife worked in the Tibetan Children’s Villages charity.)
Kong Tsung-gan and Xun Yuezang both published books under pseudonyms with Pema Press, named after Brian Kern’s daughter
Kern’s Orientalist stunt could be compared to that of Michael Derrick Hudson, a white middle-aged poet from Indiana who struggled to get his work published until he began submitting it to journals under the pseudonym Yi-Fen Chou.
Unlike Hudson’s fake Chinese persona, however, Kern is a political actor posing as a native grassroots activist to spread propaganda. His ploy is therefore more reminiscent of the “Gay Girl in Damascus” hoax, in which Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old American graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, posed as a Damascus-based lesbian activist named “Amina Arraf” to gin up left-liberal support for regime change in Syria throughout 2011.
Kern’s personal profile is similar to MacMaster’s as well. Both are activist-minded liberal internationalist types with PhDs in literature. But unlike MacMaster, who forged a career in academia, Kern also has a record of work in the human rights industry.
Amnesty and US regime change links
Brain Kern grew up in Minnesota and completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at Brown University in 1996. In 1998, he beganteaching at the Red Cross Nordic United World College (UWCRCN) in Norway, where he met his wife, Yatman Cheng.
Cheng graduated from UWCRCN in 2002 and received a Jardine Foundation scholarship to attend Oxford. In 2003 or 2004, as a university student, she volunteered with the Tibetan Children’s Villages in India on a trip organized by her college and led by Brian Kern.
In 2004, Cheng became a summer intern at the Hong Kong think tank Civic Exchange, which has received funding from the National Democratic Institute, a subsidiary of the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy. Cheng and Kern lived in London in 2007, where Kern worked for Amnesty International as a member of their education team.
In 2008, they moved to Hong Kong, where Kern began teaching at the Chinese International School and established its human rights club.
A few of Kern’s former students appear to work with him behind the cover of his false Asian identity. Several have translated work by Joshua Wong for Kong Tsung-gan’s Medium blog, and one designed the cover for one of Kong Tsung-gan’s books.
Where is Brian Kern now?
Brian Patrick Kern was last seen in public on May 24, 2020, marching with lawmaker Eddie Chu Hoi-Dick in a demonstration against China’s National Security Law.
Weeks later, Kong Tsung-gan published his next book, Liberate Hong Kong: Stories From The Freedom Struggle. Hong Kong’s last British colonial governor Chris Patten praised the tract as “a fascinating insider’s look at what has happened, which will be a defining issue for China’s place in the twenty-first century.”
Did Chris Patten know Kong Tsung-gan was a made-up person?
And how about Tom Grundy, the editor-in-chief of Hong Kong Free Press? Did he know that his columnist, Kong, was actually an American named Brian Kern?
Below, Kern can be seen warmly greeting Grundy during the June 2019 Wan Chai Police station siege:
This August, Kong Tsung-gan published a long-winded diatribe against China’s National Security Law in the Mekong Review, clamoring for harsh US sanctions on Beijing. While acknowledging in small print at the end of the essay that Kong was a pen name, Kern continued to insinuate that he was a Hong Kong native.
“An indication of just how draconian the CCP edict is, is that I could be arrested, charged with ‘colluding with foreign forces’, and face up to life in prison just for calling for sanctions on CCP and HK officials,” he wrote.
In reality, the author was not colluding with foreign forces. He was the foreign force.
According to Hong Kong locals contacted by The Grayzone, Kern is rumored to have left the city.
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Nicht alles in der Covid-19-Krise ist schlimm. Seit Ausbruch des Covid-19-Virus in Wuhan wird die chinesische Gesellschaft noch solidarischer und ordentlicher. Im Jahr 2020 wurden mehr als 30.000 Ärzte und Krankenschwester nach Wuhan aus den anderen Provinzen und zentralen Institutionen entsendet. Im April 2020 wurde Wuhan wieder geöffnet. Die Wiederherstellung der wirtschaftlichen Alltagsleben war langsam, aber die Chinesen halten seitdem die öffentlichen Regulierungen, wie 1,5 Meter Abstandhalten, Handwaschen, ordentlich ein. Die meisten Chinesen wissen, dass man die Pandemie überwinden kann, nur wenn die Menschen zusammenhalten. Die Regulierungen einzuhalten bedeutet nicht nur Respekt gegenüber den Anderen, sondern auch Selbstverantwortlichkeit. Gegenüber Privatpersonen hat der chinesische Staat seine öffentliche Verantwortung bei Finanzierungshilfe, Entwicklung der Impfstoffe usw.
Es gab danach in den Westmedien wieder Gerüchte, wie unwahrscheinlich, wie teuer und wie gefährlich die chinesischen Impfstoffe seien:
Trotz des all-möglichen Abwertens durch die Westmedien wurden chinesische Impfstoffe an mehrere Länder, wie Brasilien, Serbien, Philippinen, Indonesien, Ungarn, usw., zugelassen und beliefert. Bis zum 09. Januar 2021 sind mehr als 9 Millionen Einwohner innerhalb von China geimpft worden, während die EU Länder unter einem dramatischem Liefermangel mit 50% von den ursprünglichen Bestellungen leiden. Sogar hat Shanghai Fosun zur Zeit über Mio. Dosen Impfstoffe von BioNTech als öffentliche Produkte für die in China lebenden Ausländer bestellt, wobei China eine offene Strategie zeigt. Für alle chinesischen Staatsbürger ist die Impfung gegen Covid-19 auch kostenfrei.
In Beijing könnte man einfach per WeChat bei der städtischen Verwaltung die Code einscannen, um sich einen Termin zur Impfung anmelden.
Man bekommt in ein paar Minuten einen Termin bestätigt und kommt an dem Tag zur bestimmten Impfstelle: in Ruhe Warten, Anstellen mit Mindestabstand, und impfen lassen. Die Impfung geschieht meistens in den großen Stadions. Das ganze Verfahren á Person an der Impfstelle dauert ca. 15 – 30 Minuten.
Impfstelle im District Haidian in Beijing, CHINA, am 02. März 2021
Durch diese Covid-19-Pandemie merkt man deutlich, dass die Chinesen die gesellschaftliche Solidarität und Ordnung schätzen. Ohne Zusammenhalt des Volkes ist jede Krise eine totale Katastrophe.
Brasiliens Telekom-Regulierungsbehörde Anatel hat am 25. Februar 2021 Regeln für eine Frequenzauktion für 5G-Netze in diesem Jahr, ohne Einschränkungen für Chinas Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., als Ausrüster genehmigt.
Der rechtsgerichtete brasilianische Präsident Jair Bolsonaro kritisierte im vergangenen Jahr das chinesische Unternehmen und stand unter dem Druck der früheren Trump-Administration, Huawei aus Sicherheitsgründen aus dem Technologiemarkt der fünften Generation des Landes zu verbannen.
Brasiliens Telekommunikationsunternehmen beharrten auf einem freien Markt und beklagten, dass der Ausschluss von Huawei Milliarden von US-Dollars kosten würde, um die Ausrüstung des chinesischen Unternehmens zu ersetzen, das 50% der derzeitigen 3G- und 4G-Netze beliefert.
Die für Juni erwarteten Regeln für die Auktion haben jedoch kostspielige Bedingungen, wie z.B. die Verpflichtung von Telekommunikationsunternehmen, bis zum nächsten Jahr auf fortschrittlichere Technologien mit eigenständigen Netzen umzustellen, die nicht auf ihrer aktuellen Technologie basieren.
Außerdem müssen sie die riesige nördliche Amazonasregion mit Breitbandanschlüssen abdecken, die hauptsächlich Glasfaserkabel nutzen, die in Flüssen verlegt werden, und ein separates sicheres Netz für die Bundesregierung aufbauen.
Branchenvertreter sagten, Huawei, der weltgrößte Telekommunikationsausrüster, könne nicht vom brasilianischen 5G-Markt ausgeschlossen werden, weil es das Land neben den Kosten um drei bis vier Jahren in der Technologie zurücksetzen würde.
Zwei der wichtigsten Telekommunikationsunternehmen Brasiliens, Telefonica Brasil SA und Claro, die dem mexikanischen America Movil gehören, drängen auf einen fünfjährigen Übergang zu den fortschrittlicheren eigenständigen Netzen.
“Der Stand-alone-Zustand erfordert eine Veränderung des Kerns der heutigen Netzwerke und wird uns um Jahre zurückversetzen”, sagte Vivien Suruagy, Leiterin von Feninfra, einer Lobby, die 137.000 Unternehmen vertritt, die Telekommunikationsnetze aufbauen und unterhalten.
Die Regeln müssen vom brasilianischen Bundesrechnungshof, der TCU, genehmigt werden, wo die Telekom hofft, dass die belastenden Bedingungen der Regierung geändert werden können, sagte Suruagy.
(Bericht von Anthony Boadle und Lisandra Paraguassu; Schnitt von Richard Chang)
Kürzlich haben das Zentralkomitee der KPCh und der Staatsrat einen Entwurf des “Nationalen dreidimensionalen Verkehrsnetzes 2021-2035” mit einer Zusammenfassung herausgegeben. Dieser Entwurf hat das klare Ziel zur Etablierung und Verstärkung der modernsten Verkehrsinfrastrukturen und Logistik-Dienstleistungen im Chinas 14er Fünfjahre-Plan.
Global 123 Fast Cargo Flow Circle: Ein Verkehrsnetzwerk für effiziente, nachhaltige, umweltfreundliche, moderne und sichere Logistik.
Eine Stunde für Verkehr innerhalb des Zentrumsbereiches in einer Stadt Chinas;
Zwei Stunden für Verkehr zwischen zwei Städten Chinas;
Drei Stunden für Verkehr zwischen zwei Hauptstädten Chinas.
Ein Tag Lieferung in China;
Zwei Tage Lieferung zu den Nachbarländern Chinas;
Drei Tage Lieferung zu internationalen Hauptstädten.
Dieses Verkehrsnetzwerk solle ein menschlicher Körper darstellen: Eisenbahnverkehr als Aorta, Straßenverkehr als Knochen, Luftverkehr als Glieder.
Autobahn G3 von Beijing nach Taipeh
Von der chinesischen Hauptstadt Beijing bis zur Provinzhauptstadt Taipeh ist vor Jahren eine Autobahn G3 geplant und seitdem im Ausbau. In diesem neuen Entwurf wird extra eine Tunnel zwischen Ufer der Provinz Fujian und Provinz Taiwan für Eisenbahn und Autobahn geplant. Das heißt, die Übernahme der Provinzverwaltung wird bis zum 2035 erfolgen.
