Covid19 - Why so difficult for China to provide vaccine trial data?

 The West have been fighting the vaccine war with China, bragging about their 95% efficacy rates and denigrating Chinese vaccines for low efficacy rates. With the passing of days, more and more problems are surfacing from the use of western vaccines, with some very deadly. Two are already on the verge of being banned but clinging on like the past great white hopes, desperately explaining away problems and adverse effects associated with them. On the other hand, Chinese vaccines using the proven traditional methods continue to be used widely with very little adverse effects, safe and with very good track records on reducing or preventing serious infections.

The West continue to demand for more data on Chinese vaccines as a way to smear Chinese vaccines. Yes the West can produce their own data, cooked their own data to suit their claims. China has some difficulties producing  data from their trials not because China was hiding or being not transparent. The West conducted their own vaccine trials themselves in their own countries with their own technicians and expertise. The Chinese did not have this privilege. 

China was hit by the virus first.  China was the first to map out the virus genomes and shared with the world.  China was the first to start work on the vaccines. Then came the road block because China was so successful in stopping the spread of the virus.  There were too few cases of infection in China to make conducting vaccine trials meaningful.  China needed to seek assistance and cooperation from foreign countries with high infection rates to conduct vaccine trials.

Several precious months were lost negotiating with countries on the trials and training foreign staff on the trial processes. By the time 5 countries agreed to conduct the trials, several months had gone by.  Thus China started the trials later than western countries.

This is not the only problem faced by the Chinese. China had to rely almost completely on foreign expertise in the conduct of vaccines trials.  The participating countries wanted to be the ones managing the trials. China could not use their experts to conduct the trials. China could not have full control of the trials and could not have dedicated and committed experts to see through the trials.  China was at the mercy of participating countries and their expertise to conduct the trials professional and zealously according to the prescribed methodology.

China was also at the mercy of foreign interference and sabotaged. There were elements in these countries that were less cooperative in conducting the trials, let alone western meddling to undermine the effectiveness of the trials. Without its own dedicated experts involved in the trials, China had to struggle to make the best of the data made available by foreign expertise. This is not the most desirable outcome for China. This could also explain the huge discrepancies in the efficacy rates obtained from different countries, ranging from 50% to 90% that made moderation and calibration very difficult. 

The same vaccines and recommended methodology but conducted by different experts in different countries with different understanding and commitments and level of training would lead to a wide range of results. The reconciliation process thus became problematical. How to make sense between 50% efficacy and 90% efficacy from the same vaccine but done by different people in different countries? If only China could do it on its own in China and write its own narratives like the West, the consistency of the trial data could be more manageable.

As it was, China has to make do with whatever data that were compiled by the different countries and their agencies. The shortcomings were never due to China being not transparent and not forthcoming but due to external circumstances. 

What is important today are the results. More than 100 countries have used Chinese vaccines and are happy with the results.  They were no major adverse cases or incidents, no blood clotting, no death etc etc and no chance for the West and its vicious media to talk bad about Chinese vaccines.

More and more western vaccines are going to stumble and their shortcomings cannot be covered or hidden for long.  AstraZeneca and John and Johnson are down and going out. Should have been stopped from use if they were not western vaccines. They are desperately trying to hang on to the two white hopes and praying that they could go on using them while gambling with other people's lives.

Japan to poison the ocean with radioactive waste water - endangering lives on earth

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Tue, 13 April 2021, 8:17 am

Japan's government on Tuesday approved a plan to release more than one million tonnes of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, in a controversial decision that follows years of debate.

The release, which is not likely to begin for several years and could take decades to complete, has sparked concern in neighbouring countries and faces fierce opposition from local fishing communities and anti-nuclear activists. Yahoo News

How irresponsible can the Japanese be? And being in the western camp, this is supported by the IAEA, that it is normal, acceptable. Imagine what kind of adverse coverage if China would to release radioactive water into the ocean.  1.25 million tonnes of contaminated water is not a drop in the ocean. Japanese fishermen are protesting, China and South Korea are protesting as they would be the first to suffer the consequences.  

The fish in the surrounding water will be contaminated and may not be edible anymore.  The whole fishing industry in Japan, S Korea and China could be compromised and destroyed.  The people eating the fish could be poisoned for life. And this is only the beginning as radioactive material would last for aeons and eventually the whole Pacific Ocean and other oceans would be affected as well. The sea current would bring the radioactive waste to the western coast of America, California, Alaska, Canada etc etc would not be spared.

Who would be brave or silly enough to buy fish and related products from Japan or S Korea, China and Taiwan? This could become an international crisis many times worse than the Covid19 pandemic when fish stocks could not be consume and not only the prices of fish and other food products shoot to the rood, there will be food shortage around the world. 

And the irresponsible Japanese govt is adamant to go ahead with the release of the radioactive waste. God forbids, this is going to be an international disaster and affect the survival of human civilisation. Where is Greenpeace? No protest because Japan is also in their camp?

The Americans in collusion with the Japanese, are not objecting to the poisoning of the oceans. So Japan is going ahead to destroy livestocks in the ocean and endanger the whole world. China, Russia and the Koreans, plus the Asean countries must not allow this to happen. Covid19 pandemic has killed enough people but nothing compare to the contamination of the oceans with radioactive waste. mRNA vaccines could alter human DNAs and create freaks and mutants but would not be in the same proportion as radioactive livestocks in the ocean, mutant fish and marine life that would be eaten leading to mutant human beans. This irresponsible action of the Japanese must be stopped.

The Americans created Covid19 to kill Asians, the Japanese going to dump radioactive waste to kill humankind. The combined effect of these two disastrous acts could cripple the existence of life on earth. No one cares?  The UN does not care? No big mouth in Asean bothers to say anything? This is an existential problem, many times more serious than what is happening in Myanmar.

This is a horror story of human civilisation! No noise from western media? No condemnation, no mass protest?

PS.  Greenpeace did make a statement, 'Environmental protection NGO Greenpeace East Asia condemned the decision, saying that it "completely disregards the human rights and interests of the people in Fukushima, wider Japan and the Asia-Pacific region,"'

"I am a citizen of Fukushima Prefecture. The decision was cruel," said a netizen, noting that "the image of the prefecture and the local fishery industry will 100 percent be damaged, something only the immediate victims would know."

Meng Wanzhou - Extraterritorial rights to arrest foreign nationals

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday said it had reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to secure documents that its senior executive Meng Wanzhou hopes will help her fight extradition to the United States from Canada.

Chief financial officer Meng -- whose father is the company's founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei -- has been in a two-year battle against extradition over allegations that Huawei violated US sanctions on Iran.  Yahoo News

The HSBC has finally agreed to release documents requested by Meng Wanzhou's lawyer to prove that HSBC knew about her company's business transactions with Iran. The details have yet to be disclosed and it is not sure what HSBC would produce eventually. Like it or not, HSBC is cooked for its part in implicating and compromising a Chinese national by passing confidential documents to the Americans. Its future in doing business in Hong Kong and China is now under a big question mark and the likelihood of its operations being curtailed or even its licence being terminated cannot be ruled out. Trying to be a monkey at the expense of China has a very high price to pay.

What is pertinent in this case is the abuse of the Americans in passing laws that allowed it to arrest citizens of other countries for violating American laws. China must take a lesson on this and pass as many such laws as possible to forbid trade and military exchanges between Taiwan and any country.  Countries and individuals in violation of such laws passed in China would allow China the right to make arrest under Chinese laws. China could ban all military transaction, sales of military weapons or acts that undermine China's national interest with Taiwan. China can then set out to arrest Americans and Europeans or American cronies that violated these Chinese laws. 

China must not wait and let the Americans arrest its nationals freely.  Both sides can play the same game. China must impose sanctions on military transaction and sales of arms to Taiwan by any country immediately. Pass a law and wait to arrest some Americans and throw them into Chinese jails. This cannot be a one way traffic, that America can create such excuses to arrest Chinese nationals and China could only look helplessly and unable to do anything. All American companies and their personnel involved in selling arms to Taiwan would be immediate target for arrest. There are plenty of them in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

China must just do it and not be a hapless victims China could start throwing warnings at the Aemricans for violating Chinese laws and undermining China's national interests. Let the Americans have a taste of their medicine. Chinese sanctions should also include arms sales to China's enemies or countries hostile to China like S Korea, Japan and India. The placing of offensive weapons in S Korea should also be sanctioned. 

Oh,  China can also pass laws to arrest foreign journalists for spreading lies against China. There are so many of them out there waiting to be arrested.

China, just do it. What are you waiting for? China must also have extraterritorial rights to arrest Americans and 5 eyes countries' nationals violating Chinese sanctions and Chinese laws.

China should continue to be a punching bag to the West and the rest of the world?

 

Nice pic from RT - What a beautiful sight
The Americans and western countries are getting very unhappy with China today, and their daily grievance is that China is now so assertive and at times very aggressive. China is so different from yesteryears when it was just a punching bag for everyone. Not only America was throwing punches at China with impunity, with China standing there to be punched until blue black all over. Small little European countries too were doing the same and enjoying every moment of it, not expecting China to hit back or dodge the punches. In a way China was just there for them to throw punches as and when they liked. 

Even silly little Asean countries also took potshots at China like it was a right, a right thing to do to China. Some even threatened China, smeared China, badmouthed China, and some were so arrogant as to want to send their patrol boats to confront China. Some arresting Chinese fishing boats like real. For they knew then that China would not hit back. China was a perfect whipping boy for everyone.

In a way China was a joke. A country of continental size, with a population of more than 1b people, but standing out there like a punching bag for everyone to punch for free and to be ridiculed. The more China restrained itself from hitting back, the more China was attacked. It was like an invitation to the world to punch and kick China as and when they liked.  No one was complaining that China was assertive or aggressive.  Everyone took China for granted, that China was there like a vase, a vase made of china.  That was how China got this name, by courtesy of the Brits. China was like a porcelain vase, easily broken when knocked.

China must continue as a china vase, meek, docile and a punching bag. It is inconceiveable and improper for China to hit back when slapped, unbecoming to stand up when attacked and smeared or admonished by any country, big or small. No one respect China for its restraints. No one country ever considered whether it is right and proper to take liberty at China and whether China has the right to hit back. The world took it for granted that China would always be the China, the punching bag for the rest of the world.

When China stood up and hit back, it was a shock to the world. How could China do that? It was supposed to turn the other cheek, in silence. How could China be so rude, so aggressive and dare to hit back at anyone? And how could China talk back to the Americans, to the Europeans? How dare China imposed sanctions on Americans and Europeans?

Every country and business enterprise doing business in China and with China did not think anything about China. They made huge profits from China but think that was their entitlements. And while benefiting from China's big orders and domestic markets, these countries and businesses felt very free to dig at China, to attack China without any concern that China would cut off their businesses. As the Chinese said, eating from a Chinese bowl and smashing the bowl after having their fills. Or as the western saying, have the cake and eat it. This is how the foreign companies and corporations see China.  China is there for them to make profits and to be kicked around.

Australia was the best example of such a relationship. China was practically throwing billions and billions at the Australians and the Australians openly declared that China was just a business partner and also an 'enemy'. And Australia would join the Americans to attack, provoke and threaten China, conducted 'freedom of navigation' trips in SC Sea, humiliate China, making it very difficult for Chinese investments in Australia, harassing Chinese businessmen and business in Australia, thinking that there would be no consequences. China would accept the punching and humiliation quietly. 

And when China hit back, the Australians sniggered, laughed it off as a joke. Nothing serious would happen and China would back off. China is now at the point of cutting all trade and business activities with Australia, maybe even diplomatic relations. 

The Canadians arrested a Chinese national that did not commit any crime in Canada, on behalf of the USA and also thought they could get away with it. China responded by arresting two Canadians on charges of espionage that could end up with death sentences or life imprisonment. They too thought that it was a joke. Nothing will happen to the two Canadians. How dared China arrest Canadian citizens.

Till today, the Australians and Canadians could not believe it is true, that China meant business. Upto today, the Europeans are also wondering why China is so aggressive. They could not understand why! This is not the China they knew and expected to be, that they could bully and threaten and piss off. China was a joke, a punching bag for them and for the rest of the world for a long long time. To them, China was a non entity, a non state, no rights, no need for self respect, cannot retaliate or get angry.

The Americans are still threatening China and attacking China daily as if it was normal and their rights as the Empire to do so. China is hitting back as well but the Americans would not stop and persist in the smear campaign, fabricating lies, provocations and challenges, treating China as an enemy like little Japan and Russia. It will be a piece of cake, a cake walk like invading Iraq or imposing sanctions on Iran or North Korea or Venezuela.

Time to wake up, bullies. The dragon has risen and will blow fires. No, the dragon is not assertive nor aggressive. The dragon will just bite and tear whoever that crosses its path to pieces. Whoever is still sleepwalking and thinking that China is a Sick Man, a piece of china, would not hit back, must be prepared for a rude awakening, and be prepared to feel the pain. China has bit the time, rebuilt and strengthened itself as a superpower. China has been preparing for this moment for a very long time. It is now in a different league from the little countries of the world. China would stand up to the Americans, eyeball to eyeball. China would throw punches right at the Americans for every punch the Americans threw at China. China would not dodge anymore. China is no longer the punching bag of yesteryears.

Small little countries of the world are well advised to know their places in the packing order. A new world order is in the making. Do not cross the line and take cheap potshots at China. You will get blue black eyes for sure. For those still thinking that it is alright to play the role of American cronies to conduct sneak attacks at China, they are asking for it. As for America, the evil Empire, the day of reckoning is nigh. China is not a walkover.  China will take America head on if needed be.

Anyone still thinks China should continue to be the docile and meek punching bag, to be kicked around by everyone? China cannot be assertive, cannot be aggressive when provoked, when attacked, when wronged?

Covid19 - Vaccine Imperialism

  “In a war—which this situation is, though we fight against an invisible enemy—you need to do whatever you can to make it stop,” Zeman told me in an email. “I frankly don’t think that receiving vaccines means losing independence, or any similar repercussions. It’s a business deal, for God’s sake.” Czech's President Milos Zeman

Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, he said that fears of Moscow and Beijing leveraging their influence over receiving countries are overblown. “We grossly exaggerate the payoff you get from trying to play geopolitics with humanitarian crises,” McFaul said. Plus, “it doesn’t do any good to say that China or Russia are using their vaccines to undermine our interests if you don’t have something else to offer.”

 

The above are two quotes from The Atlantic to emphasise what vaccines are all about, the saving of lives, not fighting a war of influence. But this has turned out to be a war as far as the Americans and the 5 eyes countries are concerned. It is another case of you are with us or against us. If a country is with the Americans, they must not use Russian or Chinese vaccines or they would be treated as against the Americans.  Some countries that have bought Chinese and Russian vaccines have stopped using them even after receiving the vaccines and paying for them for fear of offending the Empire.

This is the new American Imperialist War. The Americans would not allow its allies, in particular the EU countries and its cronies spread across the world to use Russian and Chinese vaccines. EU is facing the biggest brunt, with insufficient supply of the American vaccines but unable to accept the use of Russian and Chinese vaccines.  The simple tool to prevent them from doing so is approval.  Vaccines that were not approved by the American or EU authorities cannot be used in their respective countries. Germany and France and a few other EU countries have mooted to bring in Russian and Chinese vaccines but have backed off due to American opposition. A few eastern EU countries defied the ban and went ahead to have Russian and Chinese vaccines for their people.

The Americans are using the control and use of the vaccines to define their Empire and to control members of the Empire. In a way this is like playing God, who can have the vaccines and live and who cannot have the vaccines and die. The world is now divided into two camps, the American Empire and the rest of the world. China and Russian combined have distributed their vaccines to more than 100 countries outside the influence of the Empire, some getting the vaccines free, some at minimal cost.

The American Empire would want to do the same but unfortunately they were not able to produce even enough for themselves. And with the Americans first policy, more than 95% of American produced vaccines are kept for domestic use, leaving a trickle for their neighbours and allies. This pathetic situation risking the lives of hundreds of millions of American allies did not deter the Americans to be more magnanimous in a world crisis to loosen their grips and allow their allies to use Russian or Chinese vaccines.  They die their own business. There is a saying that it is easier to buy American weapons than buying vaccines from the Americans.

In the meantime, having cornered the vaccine market, the Americans are blowing their horns that they would share their vaccines with their allies and cronies, caveat, after they have vaccinated all the Americans. They are ramping up production but at the rate it is going, it would take at least another year before they could vaccinate all Americans. The rest of the Empire have to wait for their turns, if the day comes.

With the efficacy and immuned life of the vaccines at only 6 months or so, all Americans would have to go for another round of vaccinations before even all the Americans are vaccinated.  This is looking like the proverbial dog chasing its tail, an unending story of manufacturing the vaccines to meet and unstoppable demand. When then would the American allies have a chance to have their people vaccinated to the level of herd immunity with just the American vaccines? The Americans could only provide for 20% of the needs of their allies and cronies at best. This is American Imperialism at its best.

The rest of the world would likely have their full share of the vaccines from China and Russian. India was trying to fill the gap for the Empire with licence to manufacture AstraZeneca. This too is facing huge problems in the home front, rising infection rate and insufficient supply to feed the domestic demands. India has since stopped exporting its limited supply of the vaccines. What could make matter worse is that AstraZeneca is facing a credibility crisis. Many countries have stopped using AstraZeneca or posed stringent limits on its use.

American Vaccine Imperialism is here to stay and the allies and cronies are likely to pay a heavy price in the lives of their people. Not using Russian and Chinese vaccines can be deadly.  Even when the Americans are able to manufacture enough vaccines for export, maybe in 3 or 5 years, the cost could also be prohibitive to many of their allies and crony countries, not counting the difficulties in storing the -70C vaccines.

The rest of the world can do without this neo evil American Vaccine Imperialism. And they have China and Russian to thank for.