Chinese Tycoon Who Criticized Xi’s Response to Coronavirus Has Vanished
Ren Zhiqiang appears to be the latest government critic silenced by the Communist Party as it cracks down on dissent over the epidemic.
Ren Zhiqiang in 2012. He recently called Xi Jinping, China’s leader, “a clown who stripped naked and insisted on continuing to be an emperor.”Credit…Color China Photo, via Associated Press
His nickname in China was “The Cannon,” and Ren Zhiqiang’s latest commentary was among his most explosive yet.
Mr. Ren, an outspoken property tycoon in Beijing, wrote in a scathing essay that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, was a power-hungry “clown.” He said the ruling Communist Party’s strict limits on free speech had exacerbated the coronavirus epidemic.
Now Mr. Ren, one of the most prominent critics of Mr. Xi in mainland China, is missing, his friends said on Saturday.
His disappearance comes amid a far-reaching campaign by the party to quash criticism of its slow, secretive initial response to the epidemic, which has killed over 3,100 people in China and sickened more than 80,000.
The Chinese government is working to portray Mr. Xi as a hero who is leading the country to victory in a “people’s war” against the virus. But officials are contending with deep anger from the Chinese public, with many people still seething over the government’s early efforts to conceal the crisis.
Mr. Ren, a party member, is well known for his searing critiques of Mr. Xi. In 2016, the party placed him on a year’s probation for denouncing Mr. Xi’s propaganda policies in comments online.
The government has monitored Mr. Ren’s movements intensely ever since, friends said, preventing him from leaving the country and deleting his social media accounts, where he had built a wide following.
His whereabouts was unclear on Saturday, and the police in Beijing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“We’re very worried about him,” said Wang Ying, a retired entrepreneur and friend of Mr. Ren’s. “I will continue to look for
The Chinese criminal Xi launched the coronavirus attack because Trump got him pissed off. Trump was raging a trade ward against Chinese trade imbalances. This got Xi’s attention. China has been screwing not only the United States but the rest of the world at the same time. The Clinton administration gave them the go ahead. How? Read the headlines from 2000 as seen below.
In a stunning victory for the Clinton administration and corporate America, the House today swept aside economic restrictions on China that were part of anti-Communist policy for two decades.
By a surprisingly wide margin, 237 to 197, lawmakers voted to give Beijing permanent normal trading privileges after months of fierce lobbying that pitted business against organized labor. A larger-than-expected Republican majority delivered President Clinton’s top remaining legislative priority: three out of four Republicans voted in favor; two out of three Democrats voted against.
The vote virtually assures the end of the annual Congressional review of China’s trade status, a ritual for 20 years that Beijing considers humiliating but that opponents argue is a lever for improving human rights. Congress has approved the trade status every year. The Senate is expected to endorse the permanent measure as early as next month, but may question some of the amendments the House added to the bill.
With his time in office winding down, Mr. Clinton threw the powers of the presidency behind passing the measure, which he considers a crowning foreign policy triumph. He met with more than 100 lawmakers face to face or in groups, called scores more by phone, and traveled to Congressional districts in the Midwest and California to rally support.
By allowing China to enter the mainstream gave them the right to write the rules. And they were simple: you want to trade with us, you want to build manufacturing facilities in China, no problem; we own 51% – you own 49% or there is no deal and you give us the technology. So in the mean time China became experts in biotechnology, manufacturing of chips, automobiles and airplanes, add in cell phone technology like 5g. What has happened is that the capitalists sold themselves to the devil for the short term, not realizing the effects in the long term.
Currently the criminal communists in China are black mailing the United States on antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals. Effectively they have launched a biological war on the United States. Click here for the threat by Xi. As Tucker Carlson calls out the liberal scum who believe in globalism now say they it is racist to call the virus Chinese. So we now know that the Chinese are threatening the facts reported by the lame stream media. And we can thank the Bloombergs of the world who bow to Chinese demands. But the media is held hostage to the liberal scum and now Xi; they have now changed the “China” coronavirus to coronavirus.
THE REAL STORY HERE IS NOT MAKING THE HEADLINES. CHINA CREATED THIS VIRUS TO UNLEASH A THREAT TO ALL MANKIND. TO THEM THE RATIONALIZATION OF A MILLION PEOPLE IS DE RIGUEUR. BUT TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES, ONE DEATH IS ONE TOO MANY. THE UNITED STATES NOW UNDERSTANDS THE RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA. THE COLD FACT IS ONE OF CONTINUING THREATS. THEY SHOULD HAVE LEARNED THAT FROM THE SPRATLY ISLAND DISPUTE. CHINA IS A WORLD BULLY AND MUST BE STOPPED.
HOW CAN THIS BE DONE. A STEALTH GOVERNMENT CORPORATE ALLIANCE TO SET UP SUPPLY CHAIN INITIATIVES HERE IN THE UNITED STATES OR WITH OUR FRIENDS ABROAD. AND WHEN THEY ARE GOOD TO GO, ACTIVATE THEM IN THE CORPORATE SPACE. THE RESULT WOULD BE TO PULL ALL ESSENTIAL MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING AND END PRODUCTS OUT OF CHINA. WE CAN PLAY THEIR GAME TOO. TRUMP SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CANCEL THE TREASURY BILLS THEY HOLD, IN ADDITION TO DELISTING ALL CHINESE COMPANIES ON THE VARIOUS U.S. STOCK EXCHANGES.
President Trump took the roll of the nation’s “First Responder” by closing the border to Chinese immigrants and visitors to the United States early on.
Countries around the world have closed their borders to arrivals from China, as officials work to control the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
The US and Australia said they would deny entry to all foreign visitors who had recently been in China, where the virus first emerged in December.
But Trump isn’t getting Kudos from the parasitic class of Democrats who are for Open Borders to all comers. Imagine if they were on the watch! Millions would be affected. But Democrats don’t care about you, they only care about them. Americans understand that Democrats politicize everything when in fact this Coronavirus is of national concern. Perhaps they will turn around when some of them drop like flies. We doubt it. Right now they are happy believing that the economy will tank which will increase their chances in November.
The Holy League assembled a fleet of 316 Spanish, Venetian, and Genoese ships, with 50,000 sailors and 30,000 soldiers. Miguel de Cervantes, the future author of Don Quixote, served on board. The league was united in a common cause and a common faith, but national factions almost came to blows even before the first engagement with the Turks. Fortunately, the overall commander, Don Juan of Austria, managed to rally all the Christians. The Holy League fleet found the Ottoman fleet of 245 galleys in the Gulf of Patras on October 7, 1571; historian Crowley calls the Battle of Lepanto “killing on an industrial scale.” After four hours of close combat, “40,000 men were dead, nearly 100 ships destroyed, 137 Muslim ships captured by the Holy League” [10]. Of the 40,000 dead, 25,000 were Ottoman, with a further 3,500 Muslims taken as slaves. 12,000 Christian galley slaves were freed from Ottoman ships [11].
The Battle of Lepanto, Paolo Veronese, c.1572
The Battle of Lepanto became known as the battle that saved Christendom. King Philip of Spain almost bankrupted his country sending silver and gold from Spanish colonies in South America and the Philippines to support the Holy League. The Venetians deployed their state-of-the-art vessels known as galleasses to great effect. Historian Paul Davis writes that “Lepanto was a victory that spelled the end of Moslem naval power and ambitions” [12].
Lepanto was also a moral victory for the Europeans. It ended the prolonged sense of fear and inferiority brought on by years of slave raids. In Venice, the citizens celebrated for days. All across Europe, paintings and plays were dedicated to the victory, and one play, Cinthio’s A Moorish Captain, inspired William Shakespeare to write Othello.
Lepanto and the long war against the Turks had repercussions in the New World. John Smith of Jamestown had been a soldier for the Hapsburgs and fought the Ottomans in Transylvania before becoming a slave of the Turks in Crimea. It was also the American Navy that ended the white slave trade in North Africa when, in 1815, Commodore Stephen Decatur defeated the Ottoman corsairs of North Africa.
Most Americans do not know this history. The historic American nation is tied to the history of Europe’s long war against the Ottoman Empire. Americans once saw themselves as transplanted Europeans, whose civilization was an extension of Christendom. Turks threaten Europe today. Turkish President Recep Erdogan claims that Europe’s future “belongs to them.” He believes in a kind of Neo-Ottomanism, and his troops in Syria and Libya are helping Arab jihadists. Pres. Erdogan acknowledges Muslim “refugees” as a Turkish foreign policy instrument in Europe.
The victories at Malta and Lepanto saved Europe. We now face a different kind of Islamic imperialism, and we must defeat it again.
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[1]: Dario Fernandez-Morera, The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain (New York: Open Road Media, 2016): Kindle edition.
[2]: The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, Volume 1, Ed. Richard Bulliet, Pamela Crossley, Daniel Headrick, Steven Hirsch, and Lyman Johnson (Boston: Cengage Learning, 2010): 238.
[3]: Paul K. Davis, 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999): 120.
[4]: Roger Crowley, Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, The Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest For the Center of the World (New York: Random House, 2008): xvi.
On Friday, a jury returned indicted former Obama administration Acting DHS Inspector General Charles Edwards and his former aide, Murali Yamazula Venkata on charges including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit theft of government property, conspiracy to defraud the United States, aggravated identity theft, and theft of government property. Venkata is additionally accused of destroying records, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
Edwards had served as the acting DHS IG from 2011-2013. But when he left, he maintained contact with people within the DHS Office of the Inspector General. Venkata and others (the release does not say who the “others” were) allegedly conspired to steal confidential and proprietary software from the DHS OIG so that Edwards could re-package it and sell it for his own company, Delta Business Solutions.
The office of former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano pushed back on the details in the Senate report. Do you expect anything less?
According to The Washington Post, her office said neither Napolitano nor her staff “ordered that anything be deleted” in the report on the Secret Service.
A New Jersey BLACK gun owner is fighting charges for carrying a firearm for which he had a permit and ammunition state police have publicly said is legal.
Roosevelt Twyne, a 25-year-old African-American security guard, was arrested by Roselle Park Police in February after a traffic stop stemming from tinted windows on his car. Evan Nappen, Twyne’s attorney, told the Washington Free Beacon that his client was then erroneously charged for illegally carrying a firearm and being in possession of so-called hollow point ammunition.
We haven’t heard a word from Open Society George Soros. Instead of rabble rousing Eastern Europe his time would be well spent inciting a revolution in China and for that matter Russia. But that is out of the question because the powerful are in wait with guns. Killing twenty of thirty million is not out of the question. Suppression of the masses is in their blood. However, the one man band of Lenin, with the help of Trotsky did accomplish a feat back in 1917. The Romanov’s were executed without delay, no martyrdom for them.
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China has now bit off more than it can chew. Their economy is imploding by the mini second. Their leaders are frightened for the first time. Could it be that revolution is in the air? This Coronavirus cover up may be the last straw. We shall see. All it takes is one or two of the higher-ups to come down with the disease and then croak. We think then, that the party leaders would be a wee bit nervous. Seeing Commie brothers buried is not a something they are used too, especially en masse.
President Trump knew from the outset of his presidency that China was an existential threat. Now we know how bad they are. At this moment in time they are perpetrating and spreading wholesale lies. They have closed their doors to the world as the coronavirus spreads. Insiders indicate the lengths they will go to in spreading false information, They have told all factories to keep their machinery running, as to fool the world that all is well. However, no one is working in these ghost factories. The people are afraid of the deadly disease.
China is America’s antagonist, the world antagonist. The rest of the world is starting to get it. We saw China’s reaction to the Spratly Island International Court decision. China said to them, “shove it.”
In a 13,900-word white paper, Beijing claimed the Philippines, which brought the case, had “distorted facts, misinterpreted laws and concocted a pack of lies” in order to undermine Chinese interests.
The ruling against China had been based on “woefully weak pieces of evidence”, the white paper fumed, according to a copy of the text published by Xinhua, Beijing’s official news agency.
A front page commentary in the Communist party’s official mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, continued the offensive, dismissing the tribunal as “a lackey of some outside forces” that would be remembered “as a laughing stock in human history”
“We do not claim an inch of land that does not belong to us, but we won’t give up any patch that is ours,” the newspaper said, adding: “China, of course, will not accept such downright political provocations.”
The China Daily, Beijing’s English-language mouthpiece, claimed the “outrageously one-sided ruling” meant military confrontation in the region had become more likely.
“With military activity reaching unprecedented levels in the South China Sea, there is no guarantee that an escalating war of words will not transform into something more,” it said.
Scalped by the White Male Establishment. “They are to blame for my defeat. Me “Indian Red Woman”, they “Men Pale Face” no like female.” Those were the worlds from Warren’s mouth to the nation’s ears. Can you imagine that she drum beats on about the reason for her inevitable campaign collapse.
Senator, the people don’t like you; understand that Massachusetts doesn’t like you. Nobody likes you. You didn’t even come in second during Super Tuesday. Apparently the Democrat tent that is open to all doesn’t include you. No Kemosahbee in the Bay State.
"Where Revolution is the Solution" Taking back the Empire
