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Japan asks China to stop performing anal swab tests for COVID on its citizens​

The Japanese government has asked China to stop imposing anal swab tests for COVID-19 on Japanese citizens.

Key points:​

  • Anal coronavirus tests have caused "great psychological pain", says Japan's government
  • China says "science-based" research proves anal swabs are more effective than nasal swabs
  • Beijing has denied reports that US diplomats have been forced to undergo anal testing
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government has not received a response from officials in Beijing about whether they would change the testing procedure.

Mr Kato said Japan would continue to ask China to alter the way of testing because of the damage it caused to those who have to undergo the procedure.

He said the practice "has not been confirmed [to be effective] anywhere else in the world".

"Some Japanese reported to our embassy in China that they received anal swab tests, which caused a great psychological pain," Mr Kato told a news conference.

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It was not known how many Japanese citizens received such tests for the coronavirus, he said.

Some Chinese cities are using samples taken from the anus to detect potential COVID-19 infections as China steps up screening to make sure no potential carrier of the new strain is missed.

Asked by Japanese broadcaster NHK about the practice, Chinese Foreign Ministry Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbi said: "The Chinese side will make science-based adjustments to its relevant epidemic control measures in accordance with the changes in the epidemic situation as well as relevant laws and regulations."

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The Foreign Ministry last month denied subjecting US diplomats to anal tests following reports from Washington that some of its personnel were made to undergo the procedure.

A US State Department spokesperson said Washington was "committed to guaranteeing the safety and security of American diplomats and their families while preserving their dignity, consistent with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations as well as other relevant diplomatic law provisions".

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The Washington Post reported earlier that some US personnel told the department they had been subjected to the anal tests.

The procedure has been applied in China because it is reportedly more accurate than nasal or mouth swabs.

"Applying extra anal swabs can improve the detection rate of infection and reduce missed diagnosis," Li Tongzeng, associate director of respiratory and infectious diseases at Beijing's You'an Hospital, told state broadcaster Central Chinese Television (CCTV) in January.

China has reported low numbers of local COVID cases in recent months, but has maintained strict testing, especially for people arriving from abroad.

Diplomats and other foreigners with special status are exempted from a ban on most foreigners entering the country.



Good to see that Japan is calling out the CCP and their sketchy behaviour. They're one of the very few actually speaking out against the CCP.
 
Good to see that Japan is calling out the CCP and their sketchy behaviour. They're one of the very few actually speaking out against the CCP.
Imagine putting up with being anally raped by chinks instead of just telling them to fuck off and pulling out your diplomats.
 
Imagine putting up with being anally raped by chinks instead of just telling them to fuck off and pulling out your diplomats.
Nobody, absolutely nobody, has asked if this may actually be harmful to the body. The CCP has a gun to the world's head and they can use the racism card to their advantage when anybody criticizes or questions them. And then they wonder why the CCP isn't going down any time soon because the worlds' governments are a bunch of cowardly arselickers. :story:
 
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To me it seems like the pentagon is in control and Biden is doing what Trump was gonna do anyways. Even the unemployment rate is recovering to pre-covid levels slowly. Biden's a obvious puppet but Trump and his supporters scared too many people. I think the whole voting fraud thing was a "second chance" for Americans to choose the charismatic guy but he is just too feared too easily by vulnerable demographics such as racial groups.
 

Researchers Jailed Over Github Stash of Pandemic Content Banned in China

Two Chinese researchers who kept an online repository of banned articles on the coronavirus pandemic have been sentenced, then released, by a court in Beijing.

Chen Mei, 28, and Cai Wei, 27, were found guilty on by the Chaoyang District People's Court on Aug. 13 of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," a charge frequently used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Chen and Cai were handed jail terms of one year and three months apiece and released on Aug. 15, after their time served in the Chaoyang Detention Center awaiting trial was taken into account.

The pair were accused in the indictment of posting around 600 articles to their Terminus2049 page on Github, creating a repository of censored and deleted articles about the early weeks of the pandemic in China, according to the indictment against them.

The articles and social media posts included a eulogy for late whistleblowing Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang, and an interview with former Wuhan Central Hospital ER director Ai Fen.

Both Chen and Cai pleaded guilty, and were initially held under "residential surveillance at a designated location (RSDL)," despite the fact that neither was accused of a crime involving national security.

They were allocated "defense" attorneys by the government, while a rights attorney hired by Chen's family was prevented from acting for his client.

Chen's brother Chen Kun said via Twitter that his brother had returned home on Sunday, adding that he was "in good spirits and physical health," but still needed time to rest and adjust.

Liang Xiaojun, the lawyer hired by Chen's family but prevented from representing him, said he doesn't believe Chen and Cai broke the law.

"Any sentence, however short, is unjust, if you take the position that they are not guilty," Liang told RFA. "But the authorities get them to confess, then go through the process of punishing them, but they are both innocent from a legal point of view."

"All they did was to create an online database of deleted articles, so this is a matter of human rights, of civil rights," he said.


Impact on free speech

Guo Yuhua, professor of sociology at Beijing's Tsinghua University, said the case would have a profound impact on free speech in China.

"It undermines academic freedom and independence, and violates the most basic rights of the individuals concerned," Guo told RFA. "Personally, if I see something online that I think is important, I worry that it could be deleted in future, so I back it up to use in future research."

"Lots of internet users do this, making screenshots or other backups," he said. "There is no law saying that you can't do this."

Another volunteer working on the Github page, Xiao Tang, was detained at the same time as Chen and Cai, then released on bail on May 13, 2020.

The Terminus2049 Github page also contained articles about China's #MeToo movement, allegations of sexual harassment at top Chinese universities, the forced relocation of migrant workers from Beijing, as well as content relating to Maoist labor activism at Shenzhen's Jasic Technology.

The project automatically archived webpages of links that netizens had sent to the site, where they would be preserved even after they were later blocked in China, according to the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW).

"So Terminus 2049 was a decentralized, crowdsourcing platform in which netizens could participate and preserve the Chinese internet’s memory together," HRW said in a report on Chan and Cai's case.

Authorities have occasionally tried to block Github, but have never fully done so, perhaps because numerous developers in China rely on it to build software, the report said.

At the time of Chen and Cai’s detention, Terminus 2049 had archived over 600 articles, of which about 100 are on Covid-19. They include news stories, interviews, and personal accounts from people in Wuhan at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of which criticized the Chinese government’s cover-up of the initial outbreak, HRW said.
 

Delta case imported to Taiwan from China points to cluster in Fujian

An imported COVID case announced on Friday (Aug. 20) confirms earlier reports of an under-reported cluster infection of the delta variant in China's Fujian Province.

At a Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) press conference on Friday, a reporter asked if a confirmed imported case from China diagnosed with the delta variant was indicative of a new wave of infections spreading across the communist country. Philip Lo (羅一鈞), deputy head of the CECC’s medical response division, responded by saying the latest imported infection from China confirmed with the delta strain is case No. 15,936.

Lo said that she is a Taiwanese woman in her 40s who returned from China on July 30. She had a sore throat and headache on Aug. 10 and underwent testing on Aug. 11.

She was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Aug. 13, with a Ct value of 17. On Friday, Lo confirmed that she was among 12 imported cases diagnosed between Aug. 13-19 that was positive for the Delta variant.

Lo said that from early April to late July, she lived in Jinjiang City, which is a county-level city of Fujian Province's Quanzhou City. The city sits directly across Weitou Bay from Taiwan's outer island of Kinmen.

He stressed that prior to departing China, she had not traveled to known hotspots for delta in China such as Nanjing or Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province. According to Lo, the CECC carried out careful analysis of the sequence from the delta strain the woman had contracted.

The result was characteristics of the delta strain detected in the woman were different from the cluster in Pingtung County and in imported cases from other countries such as the U.S. and Indonesia. Therefore, he concluded that she could not have contracted the virus while in Taiwan.

Because Taiwan does not have data on delta sequences from China, Lo said the CECC cannot compare it to other cases from China. Lo pointed out the woman flew to Taiwan from Fujian's coastal city of Xiamen.

He noted that in late July, there had been reports of a cluster infection at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport and Xiamen Airlines. Lo said it is possible that she might have contracted the virus while she prepared to board her flight at Xiamen's airport.

However, because he does not have information on potential contacts in China, the CECC cannot be certain of the exact source of her infection in China. Lo pledged that if more information on the case becomes available, he will announce it to the public.

According to a reported from China's state-run Xinhua, four people tested positive on PCR tests for COVID in Xiamen on July 30, the day case No. 15,936 departed for Taiwan. Xinhua cited the municipal headquarters on COVID-19 prevention and control as saying the cases included a "crew member from an international cargo flight and his three members."

That case number was cut in half in a second report issued later that evening by Xinhua, which stated the "confirmed cases" were a pilot, who was a member of an international cargo flight for Xiamen Airlines, and his father. However, as has been the practice in China through most of the pandemic, the pilot's son and mother were subtracted from the day's case count because they were "asymptomatic." China does not include asymptomatic individuals in confirmed case number totals.

Since July 30, China has not reported new cases in Xiamen, but according to Flying, as of Aug. 6, "Two-thirds of flights were canceled in Xiamen" as part of COVID restrictions. Nevertheless, Xiamen is pushing ahead with the China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) slated for Sept. 8-11.
 

Taste of Japan rejected: China's 'Little Kyoto' halts operation

DALIAN, China -- A Japan-themed shopping, cultural and residential complex that opened less than two weeks ago in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian has been ordered to suspend operations.

Local authorities told the operators of "Tang Little Kyoto" to temporarily close its gates after Chinese netizens slammed the facility as a Japanese cultural "invasion." A reopening date is not clear.

When Nikkei visited the facility in Liaoning Province on Wednesday, the commercial area was closed off. An executive at operator Dalian Shuyuan Group said the company was instructed on Monday by the municipal government of Dalian to temporarily halt operations.

The government pointed to the criticism on the internet as well as COVID-19 fears by having people gathering in crowded spaces, the representative said.

For the 29 shops that are part of phase one -- including Panasonic's electronics store, retailers of Hokkaido and Hiroshima products, as well as various Japanese restaurants -- the suspension comes as a major blow. Sales of Japanese-style villas will continue.

On Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, users had pointed out that Dalian was once under Japanese occupation and that the creation of a complex designed to look like the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto, and sold all-Japanese items -- including Arita porcelain, cosmetics, Japanese-style sweets, ramen and yakiniku barbecue -- were an invasion of Japanese culture. Some voices had defended the project, noting that other Chinese cities had also lured Japanese companies.

The Dalian government had until now fully backed the project, with the mayor attending a signing ceremony in Tokyo in April 2019. The pressure from netizens looks to have forced the municipal government into changing course.

Tang Little Kyoto is part of a sprawling 600,000-sq.-meter complex, which was built at a cost of 6 billion yuan ($925 million) and is scheduled to be complete in 2024.
 


I think if more American people have an opportunity to get outside of their own world, not necessarily to China, they can see the world with their own eyes, then they will have a different perspective on many things.

Why laugh at the Americans? No! We have an old saying in China (by Confucius): When we see the others' merits, we should think of how to learn from them. When we see others' defects, we get to check for ourselves whether we have the same. Mutual respect, mutual learning.

this video made me happy as a Chinese American, I love china so much and I used to go back all the time, and seeing all the hate from the American media saddened me. this was so refreshing, thank you

I'm the only advocate for China in my household. My mother doesn't understand that not everything in China is made cheap. The whole lead sandal has lead (lol) her to believe whatever China makes is infused with lead because that's what the US media said at what point when people were having crazy reactions. It's rough arguing my point that she's not right. I know China is a beautiful place, and I hope one day my mom can come to see it too. I would love to visit China as well.

I am a Chinese expat in the US. I am leaving the US to China for good this year as my exchange program is about to finish. American people have been kind to me in general. It's only when they know that I am going back to China, they would be like "why" and speak to me implying something like "why do you wanna give up your chance of living in the US and go back to a worse place"...... So yes, people need to know more about each other.
 
china makes the pointless shit you buy with your worthless dollars. you buy it willingly and enjoy the fresh air associated with living in a country that is underpopulated and no longer a manufacturer of bulk goods.
the chinese work long hours for slave wages so you dont have to.

you know your other option?
work longer hours, carpet america in dirty factories, cut wages, stop imports, force your niggers to work, eat less, consume less, let go of your last vestage of freedom

ps cheap chinese goods are cheap. if you want better you can buy expensive chinese goods too.
 
So... a Serious question for you educated peeps out there. With all these Chinese dudes having to get Silk Road brides and shit, whats' the odds of in-state terrorism from a new Islamic faction kicking into overdrive? You know some of those dental-floss shade wearing spergs would convert to Allah overnight to DP some bitches.
 
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