Just got confirmation for my next trip to #Taiwan, known as a sovereign #country and a beacon of #freedoms and #democracy in #FarEast - and most definitely NOT a province of #China.
Flying out on September 23 and back to Switzerland on October 15th, so it's going to be a full three weeks.
Message to #Zhongnanhai: please postpone any possible invasion plans accordingly.

#StandwithTaiwan #Taipei #Taichung #Tainan

Wegen des zentralen Status von #Shanghai als Vorzeige-#FirstTier-Glitzerstadt der Volksrepublik #China hat es etwas länger gedauert als in der Provinz Jilin.
Aber nun wurde es #Zhongnanhai offensichtlich zu viel: Shanghai kommt unter #Lockdown.
Und so ein Lockdown mit chinesischer Charakteristik verträgt sich schlecht mit einer exportorientrierten Industrie.

Mit anderen Worten: Bad news für global operierende Konzerne und deren #Lieferkette.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000134464219/wieso-schanghai-nun-doch-dichtgemacht-wurde

Okay, #Zhongnanhai, we need to talk. How bad are things really regarding #Covid19 in #China?

Officially there's talk of 500 confirmed Delta cases in 16 of the 31 provinces. But hearing government's calls to stockpile some daily necessities does ring some alarm bells.

Also officially, the number of people who died from Covid19 in China is at a laughably low 4636. If folks in China panic, the great stockpiling war will see more casualties...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/02/chinese-urged-to-stockpile-amid-ongoing-covid-outbreak

@NatCor
In other news: When #Taiwan registered its first larger #Covid19 outbreak with domestic infections in mid May (and communicated about it transparently), guess what? #China did not claim Taiwan to be an integral part of it then, as it would have meant that China would have claimed those Covid cases as well.

#Zhongnanhai can shove its phantasies up its butt. Taiwan does not want to become part of a genocidal dictatorship, thank you.

A message to #Zhongnanhai:
You can jail and intimidate as many people as you want.
We know what happened on #Tiananmen square, on #June4th 1989.
You sent in the #PLA with tanks and assault rifles to kill thousands of your smartest kids. Under the one child policy. The only kid of so many families.

This act of atrocity by the #CCP shall be #unforgiven and #unforgotten.

The regime in #Beijing is no friend. Choose your allies wisely. #humanrights #civicrights #FarEast

In other news, #China's #CCP insists on continuously overplaying its hand in the #SouthEastAsianSea.
Beijing's latest attempt to claim the #WhitsunReef by sending fisherboats as a marine #militia over there has pissed off way too many people in the #Philippines and may well lead to #Duterte finding some rests of his spine and finally standing up to his good buddies at #Zhongnanhai.

The Philippines have a very strong position, based on a #UNCLOS decision in 2016. Time for Manila to move.

In said #WHO interim report on the origins of #Covid19, the possibility that the original outbreak had happened at Wuhan's Institute of Virology had been dismissed while frozen food had been brought into focus as a possible source.

Sorry to state this: This is the exact wording of #Beijing's #propaganda. No need to send a delegation to #Wuhan to publish #Zhongnanhai's bullshit.

If the WHO wants to restore its credibility, it needs to dig deep into the mess that is authoritarian #China.

If officials within #China's highly oppressive one-party regime are either too blind or too fucking stupid to recognize the #Wutang's graffiti W and take it for a bat: Their wrong. Stop being crybabies and asking apologies from #Canada while still keeping the two Canadian Michaels as hostages to free princess Meng, you unbearable #Zhongnanhai pricks. #Wuhan

In terms of #civicrights and #humanrights, #HongKong has always been considered as the canary in the coalmine.

#China is killing the #freedoms that Hong Kong is known for quickly. Seeing #JimmyLai being arrested is the final nail in the coffin.

#Zhongnanhai has killed off the #onestatetwosystems model. The entire region needs to oppose Beijing's unilateral moves to change the #statusquo. #appeasement will be of no use against #XiJinping and the #CCP.

#Zhongnanhai is not losing any time to silence #dissent and to kill the #freedoms that are part of #HongKong's DNA.
- books of pro-#democracy activists are disappearing from libraries.
- #Beijing clandestinely transformed a hotel close to Victoria Park to become its #securityoffice.
- the TicToc app is being replaced by #Douyin which is full of #CCP #propaganda.

In short: #China is moving swiftly to kill all signs of autonomy or freedom. #resist https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53330650

Now that the #onestatetwosystems scam has been killed by #Zhongnanhai, having wiped its wrinkly arse with the #JointDeclaration over #HongKong, does #China have anything left to offer as an incentive to #Taiwan?
Keep this in mind:
- per capita GDP is 2.5 times higher in free and democratic Taiwan
- Taiwan respects #civicrights, privacy and #freedoms
- Taiwan's society is amazingly diverse
#StandupforTaiwan

What a shameful #opinion piece by the #SCMP on the very day when #Zhongnanhai decided to kill #onestatetwosystems and the #freedoms and #cvivicrights of the people in #Hongkong
This is a day of #infamy - this is the beginning of the end of Hong Kong as a globally significant #business and #finance center. #standupforhongkong

Unfortunately for the rest of the world, #China's exported cases of #Covid19 have shown to be much less controllable.
This novel #Coronavirus started in #Wuhan, and the #CCP allowed it to turn into a #pandemic that is ruining the #economy around the world in a frantic pace.
#Zhongnanhai owes the world an apology and an explanation - which would be a loss of face, so this will never happen.
Our reaction should be to minimize all interactions with China as long as the CCP rules it. #decoupling

At 4.2 millions units "sold", #Covid19 already is quite an impressive "success" in terms of #China's exports. And let's not forget about the follow-up business, ie selling #PPE to the entire world so it can protect itself from the #Wuhan-type #Coronavirus.
Seeing China tightening the screws in #HongKong and doing military drills in the EastVIetnamSea and around free Taiwan amidst this #pandemic also makes Beijing the No1 assholes in this entire mess. Get lost, #Zhongnanhai!

After having watched this video from #Xinhua *news* agency's #NewChina outlet, my message to the mass murderers of the #CCP in #Zhongnanhai is as follows:
FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCKS.
Causing a #pandemic that now has infected 3.6 mio people and already has killed a quarter million and then publishing this oh-so-funny #blamegame video is a thick, fat #nogo.
Shame on the childish #CCP. and its bullshit #propaganda Keep them accountable for the consequences of the #Wuhan-type #Coronavirus.

Have toddlers taken over #China? Or why is #Zhongnanhai spreading the most childish blame game ever with some Lego figurines to ridicule the #UnitedStates in the middle of a fucking #pandemic? This is not only utterly brazen seen #Beijing's role in the global spreading of the #Wuhan-type #Coronavirus. This is the most immature nonsense coming from any government on this planet, and it's being spread on YouTube, which is... banned in China, naturally. https://youtu.be/Q5BZ09iNdvo

Not sure if this is a side effect of #Covid19 or of extended periods in self-#quarantine, but a disturbing proportion of the comments in newspapers are getting amazingly idiotic.

One part of the problem may be #media who love to use personified narratives to picture heads of state, ministers or epidemiologists as superheroes in these dire times.

This #Wuhan-type #Coronavirus as a #Pandemic with Chinese characteristics will plague us for many months to come. Xie xie, #Zhongnanhai.

It's pretty bewildering to see #WHO head #TedrosGhebreyesus blaming #Taiwan of instigating #racism against him when in fact populous provinces in #China (#Guangdong as an example) are rounding up all #Africans into forced #quarantine as I write this. Other foreigners are allowed to self-quarantine, but not Africans. They get rounded up and force-quarantined even without a travel history. THAT is state-sponsored racism, Tedros-muppet. Dished out by your #Zhongnanhai buddies.

This is quite rich: #China is spreading #FakeNews regarding the #Wuhan-type #Coronavirus through its diplomatic channels. The Senate of #France protested sharply against a false report on caregivers abandoning elderly sick with #Covid19 that is still available on the website of China's embassy in France.

This is the infamy of the #CCP: First they cause a #pandemic, then they blame others and try to profit from the mess they created.

To hell with the bastards of #Zhongnanhai!

May we have a very #slowclap for #Zhongnanhai for *correcting* the number of casualties from the #Wuhan-type #Coronavirus in the city of Wuhan itself by 50% from one day to the other. That's just an additional 1290 dead people that #China's regime is trying to keep under the radar now the shit has hit the fan in the #UnitedStates.

Let us be very clear: #Beijing is not an ally in this #pandemic. Beijing has caused this mess and looks to profit from it now. No more, no way.