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China
DIR By: Kerry
Date: December 16, 2018, 7:14 am
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It's not made a big splash in the news; but China has been
withholding samples of the latest flu viruses from Western
countries. I realize not everyone believes flu vaccines work;
but shouldn't people who believe it works be given the choice?
Why is China taking such an action if it's not political?
August 29, 2018 China defies WHO, hinders U.S. development of
bird flu vaccine, report says
HTML https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/china-defies-who-hinders-u-s-development-of-bird-flu-vaccine-report-says.html<br
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Despite requests from U.S. research institutions and government
officials, the Chinese government has concealed lab samples of
H7N9, a type of bird flu, from the U.S. for more than a year,
The New York Times reports. The specimens are necessary for
creating vaccines and preparing for future biological threats.
Exchanges of such samples have previously been routine under
rules the World Health Organization created.
But as the U.S. feuds with China over trade, scientists are
concerned the critical exchange of medical supplies and
information could be delayed, blocking the world's preparation
for the next biological threat.
"Jeopardizing U.S. access to foreign pathogens and therapies to
counter them undermines our nation's ability to protect against
infections which can spread globally within days," Michael
Callahan, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Harvard
Medical School in Boston, told the Times.
Experts agree that the next global pandemic will probably come
from the flu once again, and the H7N9 virus is a potential
candidate.
"Pandemic influenza spreads faster than anything else," said
Rick Bright, PhD, the director of Biomedical Advanced Research
and Development Authority, an agency within HHS that oversees
vaccine development. "There's nothing to hold it back or slow it
down. Every minute counts."
August 28, 2018 China Has Been Withholding Bird Flu Samples for
a Year. Here's Why Thousands Could Die
HTML http://fortune.com/2018/08/28/china-has-been-withholding-bird-flu-samples-for-a-year-heres-why-thousands-could-die/
The alleged refusal of China to provide samples for over a year
has baffled and infuriated experts who spoke to the New York
Times. The transfer of samples typically takes months and relies
on World Health Organization (WHO) rules. The holdup may be tied
to the trade war started by the Trump administration, which has
imposed waves of tariffs against China.
To make matters worse, the Chinese companies that produce flu
vaccines in China for Chinese people have had huge problems.
It's not as if the Chinese think they can produce vaccines in
China for sale in the West.
November 28, 2018 Sanofi hesitance, domestic scandal and company
drama cut flu vaccine supply in China
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It isn’t a scene one would expect after the world battled a
severe flu season. But in China, supply of flu vaccines this
season has come down, thanks to reduced offering from Sanofi
Pasteur, a high-profile vaccine scandal and a nasty fight for
control over a Nasdaq-listed company.
The number of flu shots approved by Chinese regulators so far
this season has fallen about 19% to about 15.2 million doses,
according to data from August to Nov. 25 as disclosed by China’s
National Institute for Food and Drug Control, which is
responsible for vaccine inspection before each batch is released
to the market.
Sanofi Pasteur, which was the largest contributor during the
same period last year with about 5.5 million doses,
significantly reduced its offering to merely 1.2 million.
The article goes on in some detail about the various problems
with flu vaccine production in China. I found it shocking that
they can't produce enough vaccine for their own domestic market,
and yet seem bent on preventing the US from producing a vaccine
for the latest flu strains.
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Re: China
DIR By: paralambano
Date: December 16, 2018, 7:40 am
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Indirectly, maybe? China gives it to Deutschland who gives it to
the US? Face?
Ol' thermal para . . . .
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Re: China
DIR By: KerimF
Date: December 16, 2018, 7:57 am
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I understand that the common American people have no choice but
trusting their system as being of peace, of humanitarian aids
and alike.
But, year after year, most people outside America witnessed
evidences by which they have gradually lost their trust in
whatever comes, officially or scientifically, from the US
System.
Truth be said, I ceased to trust the US System after I
personally discovered the biggest lie behind AIDS propaganda for
which billions of dollars were invested, in all around the world
and for many years, in order to present it as a natural
disease/infection and to also relate it to sex.
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Re: China
DIR By: guest6
Date: December 16, 2018, 10:03 am
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[quote author=KerimF link=topic=1374.msg20930#msg20930
date=1544968635]
I understand that the common American people have no choice but
trusting their system as being of peace, of humanitarian aids
and alike. [/Quote]
I think the average American does have a choice as to whether to
trust the system. Some might feel like they don't have a choice
but they do. Many Americans don't trust the system or support
(agree with) it.
I think the same is true for most countries. There are people in
those countries who trust the system in place there, some who
feel like they don't have a choice but to trust that system,
others who don't trust that system or support (agree with)it.
People are more alike and have more in common than they realize.
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Re: China
DIR By: Kerry
Date: December 16, 2018, 7:32 pm
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--- Quote from: KerimF link ---
>
> I understand that the common American people have no choice
but trusting their system as being of peace, of humanitarian
aids and alike.
>
> But, year after year, most people outside America witnessed
evidences by which they have gradually lost their trust in
whatever comes, officially or scientifically, from the US
System.
--- End Quote ---
I mostly trust our system. However I trust few of the people
who run for office. The strength of the American system is that
power is not centralized in the hands of one person. Anyone who
gets too outrageous can be brought down by the other branches.
I trust (for the most part) the FBI and CIA. I trust most of
the departments because if they get too far out of bounds they
can be chastised by Congress or the President or by the courts.
Look at President Trump's predicament. I don't know if he'll be
impeached and convicted. I rather think not. I think he may
resign in a year or so when the situation gets so hot he knows
he can't win. The Justice Department and the courts are doing
their business as they should; and no one, not even the
President, is above the law.
For the most part too, our elections are far. There are
problems, but for the most part, things go as they should. So
if the Republicans mess up, they can get voted out. If the
Democrats mess up, the same can happen to them. The fact that
they criticize each other all the time also helps keep them
fairly honest; and if people in one party mess up, people in the
other party will jump on them.
--- Quote ---
> Truth be said, I ceased to trust the US System after I
personally discovered the biggest lie behind AIDS propaganda for
which billions of dollars were invested, in all around the world
and for many years, in order to present it as a natural
disease/infection and to also relate it to sex.
--- End Quote ---
I think I believe what you call a lie.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS
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Re: China
DIR By: Kerry
Date: December 16, 2018, 7:34 pm
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--- Quote from: paralambano link ---
>
> Indirectly, maybe? China gives it to Deutschland who gives it
to the US? Face?
>
>
> Ol' thermal para . . . .
>
--- End Quote ---
I haven't heard of any connection like that. There is a time
problem, I think, since it takes time to develop and then
manufacture the vaccine.
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Re: China
DIR By: Kerry
Date: December 17, 2018, 4:18 pm
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From South China Morning Post: China and Russia band together
on controversial heating experiments to modify the atmosphere
HTML https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2178214/china-and-russia-band-together-controversial-heating-experiments
China and Russia have modified an important layer of the
atmosphere above Europe to test a controversial technology for
possible military application, according to Chinese scientists
involved in the project.
A total of five experiments were carried out in June. One, on
June 7, caused physical disturbance over an area as large as
126,000 sq km (49,000 square miles), or about half the size of
Britain.
The modified zone, looming more than 500km (310 miles) high over
Vasilsursk, a small Russian town in eastern Europe, experienced
an electric spike with 10 times more negatively charged
subatomic particles than surrounding regions.
It isn't much of a surprise that the Chinese and Russians are
interested in this; their cooperating is more of a surprise.
The Sura base in Vasilsursk is believed to be the world’s first
large-scale facility built for the purpose. Up and running in
1981, it enabled Soviet scientists to manipulate the sky as an
instrument for military operations, such as submarine
communication.
High-energy microwaves can pluck the electromagnetic field in
ionosphere like fingers playing a harp. This can produce very
low-frequency radio signals that can penetrate the ground or
water – sometimes to depths of more than 100 metres (328 feet)
in the ocean, which made it a possible communication method for
submarines.
Changing the ionosphere over enemy territory can also disrupt or
cut off their communication with satellites.
The US military learned from the Russian experiment and built a
much larger facility to conduct similar tests.
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP,
was established in Gakona, Alaska, in the 1990s with funding
from the US military and the Defence Advanced Research Projects
Agency.
The HAARP facility could generate a maximum 1 gigawatt of power,
nearly four times that of Sura.
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Re: China
DIR By: Kerry
Date: December 17, 2018, 4:21 pm
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From the same source: Operation Z machine: China’s next big
weapon in the nuclear ‘arms race’ could create clean fuel – or
deadly bombs
HTML https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2177652/operation-z-machine-chinas-next-big-weapon-nuclear-arms-race
It’s been described as a Chinese version of America’s “Z
machine” – formally known as the Z Pulsed Power Facility – a
giant wheel-like device developed by the United States to see
how particles react under extreme radiation and magnetic
pressure.
Z machines have been used in the development of nuclear weapons,
from conventional warheads to the pure fusion bomb – a hydrogen
bomb that can in theory be made in any size, cost a fraction of
today’s nuclear stockpile and burn “cleanly” without producing
radioactive fallout.
And for decades, the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has led the way in the field.
But now Chinese researchers are trying to build a machine that
will produce much more electricity to create much more extreme
environments for testing weapons, allowing scientists to delve
deeper into the nuclear unknown.
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Re: China
DIR By: Kerry
Date: December 17, 2018, 6:08 pm
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This is revolting news.
HTML https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-sportswear-traced-factory-chinas-internment-camps-59873480
Chinese men and women locked in a mass detention camp where
authorities are "re-educating" ethnic minorities are sewing
clothes that have been imported all year by a U.S. sportswear
company.
The camp, in Hotan, China, is one of a growing number of
internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates
1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language
and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now,
the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in
manufacturing and food industries. Some of them are within the
internment camps; others are privately-owned, state-subsidized
factories where detainees are sent once they are released.
The Associated Press has tracked recent, ongoing shipments from
one such factory — Hetian Taida Apparel — inside an internment
camp to Badger Sportswear, a leading supplier in Statesville,
North Carolina. Badger's clothes are sold on college campuses
and to sports teams across the country, although there is no way
to tell where any particular shirt made in Xinjiang ends up.
The shipments show how difficult it is to stop products made
with forced labor from getting into the global supply chain,
even though such imports are illegal in the U.S. Badger CEO John
Anton said Sunday that the company would halt shipments while it
investigates.
Of course, the Chinese have an explanation.
Hetian Taida's chairman Wu Hongbo confirmed that the company has
a factory inside a re-education compound, and said they provide
employment to those trainees who were deemed by the government
to be "unproblematic."
"We're making our contribution to eradicating poverty," Wu told
the AP over the phone.
Chinese authorities say the camps offer free vocational training
for Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities, mostly Muslims, as
part of a plan to bring them into "a modern civilized" world and
eliminate poverty in the region. They say that people in the
centers have signed agreements to receive vocational training.
I'd like to know how much the people in these camps are being
paid for their labor. Calling it "free vocational training"
isn't convincing.
However, a dozen people who either had been in a camp or had
friends or family in one told the AP that detainees they knew
were given no choice but to work at the factories. Most of the
Uighurs and Kazakhs, who were interviewed in exile, also said
that even people with professional jobs were retrained to do
menial work.
Payment varied according to the factory. Some got paid nothing,
while others earned up to several hundred dollars a month, they
said — barely above minimum wage for the poorer parts of
Xinjiang. A person with firsthand knowledge of the situation in
one county estimated that more than 10,000 detainees — or 10 to
20 percent of the internment population there — are working in
factories, with some earning just a tenth of what they used to
earn before. The person declined to be named out of fear of
retribution.
A former reporter for Xinjiang TV in exile said that during his
month-long detention last year, young people in his camp were
taken away in the mornings to work without compensation in
carpentry and a cement factory.
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Re: China
DIR By: paralambano
Date: December 18, 2018, 11:04 am
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Kerry - ^
"inside a re-education compound".
That says it all. What a moronic idea.
para . . . .
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