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From theepochtimes.com

TAIPEI, Taiwan—China is showing no sign of easing its aggression against Taiwan in 2022, after the Chinese military sent 39 military aircraft into the island’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Jan. 23, a record high in a single day this year.

The latest incursion involved 34 J-16 and J-10 fighter jets, one H-6 bomber, and four aircraft with electronic warfare capabilities, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense. In response, Taiwan’s military scrambled fighters, issued radio warnings, and deployed air defense missile systems to monitor the activities.

Chinese warplanes have been making forays into the island’s ADIZ since September 2020, when Taiwan’s defense ministry began releasing information on the incursion amid a significant increase in the number of such flights.

There were about 380 sorties in 2020 according to the ministry. The number more than doubled to some 961 sorties in 2021. Last year, the Chinese regime’s largest show of force happened on Oct. 4, when 56 military aircraft incurred the island’s ADIZ.

So far this month, there have been only five days when the ministry didn’t report any incidence of China’s incursion.

The Chinese Communist Party is trying to wear down Taiwan’s Air Force with its repeated air incursions. More importantly, the communist regime is hoping to intimidate the island into submission—so that Beijing could take over Taiwan without the need to resort to military conflicts.

But war has always been an option for the Chinese regime since it has never renounced the use of force against self-governing Taiwan. ​​In October last year, Taiwan’s defense minister warned that Beijing would be capable of mounting a full-scale invasion of the island by 2025.

Taiwan military personnel stand next to the domestically produced corvette class vessel Tuo Chiang during a drill at the northern city of Keelung on Jan. 7, 2022. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)

Lin Ying-yu, associate professor of Asia-Pacific affairs at Taiwan’s National Sun Yat-sen University, told local news outlet Central News Agency that Sunday’s incursion could be a way for Beijing to show off its military power, in response to joint U.S. and Japanese military activities in waters near Japan.

For six days ending on Jan. 22, 10 U.S. military vessels—including aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson and the USS Abraham Lincoln, a destroyer, and an amphibious assault ship—took part in a joint exercise with Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force, according to Japanese media outlet NHK. The exercise took place in waters south of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa.

On Jan. 24, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force wrote on Twitter that the joint exercise was to “strengthen the capability of Japan-U.S. Alliance for effective deterrence and response.”

Another U.S. aircraft carrier USS Reagan has returned to the Japanese city of Yokosuka, after months of deployment, according to the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command.

In early January, at an online defense meeting between top Japanese and U.S. officials, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin named China as a threat to the Indo-Pacific, according to the Pentagon.

“We’re meeting against a backdrop of increased tensions and challenges to the free, stable, and secure Indo-Pacific region that we both seek … challenges posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and by the coercive and aggressive behavior of the People’s Republic of China,” Austin said.

China’s air incursion on Oct. 4 last year also coincided with similar U.S. Navy activities. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, six nations—Canada, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, the U.S., and Britain—took part in a joint naval exercise in waters near Okinawa during Oct. 2-3, 2021.

Seventeen surface ships took part in the drill, including four aircraft carriers—USS Ronald Reagan, USS Carl Vinson, British HMS Queen Elizabeth, and Japanese helicopter carrier JS Ise.  Source

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From thenewamerican.com

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis echoed other conservatives and warned last November that “vaccinated” Americans without boosters could be declared unvaccinated and lose their jobs, the Independent “fact-checked” the statement and claimed he was “lying.” “The director of the CDC says the Biden administration has no plans to reclassify vaccinated people as unvaccinated if they don’t get boosters,” the paper wrote in its subhead.

Yet now it appears that the very same director of the CDC, the very same woman who made that promise, is doing just that.

Except, said Rochelle Walensky, “[W]e’re pivoting our language”: “Vaccinated” will be reclassified as “up to date.”

As commentator Andrea Widburg reported Saturday:

In the distant past — that is, more than two years ago — being vaccinated meant you’d had an injection that left you forever immune to a disease. This became problematic when the COVID vaccines did not leave people immune to the disease. Now there are boosters, so the CDC has announced that you’re not vaccinated unless you’ve also had your booster. Of course, even with that booster, you’re still not immune, as the troubles in Israel reveal.

It was always obvious that, when the initial shots failed to protect people against COVID, the leftist establishment would have to redefine COVID vaccinations to justify the continued pressure on people to take them. The establishment started with the narrative that the shots, even if they didn’t prevent COVID, meant people would be less sick. And indeed, you’ll hear that line from every single person who took the shots and still got COVID. They always say something like, “I would have been much sicker if I hadn’t had the shot.”

But still, there’s that little problem of the supposed vaccine not actually preventing people from getting the disease at all, which is the historic expectation for vaccinations. Instead, the pressure was on for people to get the booster. That was the point at which people opposed to mandates and vaccine passports said, “Just you wait. Pretty soon, you’ll need to have three shots to be considered vaccinated for purposes of mandates and passports.” When they said that, they were castigated as liars.

Biden’s CDC Director says the definition of fully vaccinated is being changed to include the booster, and “fully vaccinated” will now be called “up to date.”pic.twitter.com/WgLKU80Gms

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 21, 2022

Of course, Walensky would no doubt say that she and Biden — who once also claimed he wouldn’t institute mRNA therapy agent (MTA, a.k.a. “vaccine”) mandates — aren’t going back on their promise at all. They’re not reclassifying the “vaccinated” (as in people) as “unvaccinated,” no, no; they’re reclassifying “vaccinated” (as in the term) as “up to date.” This, of course, can lead to the, uh … secondary effect of causing the “vaccinated” (as in people) to be reclassified as not “up to date.”

Whew! And you thought you could lose your job for being “unvaccinated.” You must’ve been listening to those liars instead of reading the Independent.

What’s more, the administration might say it really and truly had “no plans to reclassify vaccinated people as unvaccinated if they don’t get boosters” — when it made that statement. But it has those plans now.

See how that works? It’s practicing deception without provable prevarication. Deliciously Orwellian that.

As for the Independent, fact-checks typically involve analysis of past events. How do you “fact-check” a claim about a claim relating to a possible future policy, something that hasn’t happened yet? If the paper had been around in early 1939 and someone predicted Hitler would invade Poland later that year, and Hitler denied having such plans, would the Independent have called the alarm-sounder a liar?

The good news is that the vax-attacks phalanx is starting to crack. For example, COVID “vaccine” co-creator Professor Andrew Pollard said a couple of weeks ago that we “can’t vaccinate the planet every four to six months. It’s not sustainable or affordable.” Around the same time, Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, admitted “that the two doses of the vaccine [his company produces] offer very limited protection, if any.” Dr. Clive Dix, who was instrumental in coronavirus MTAs creation and is the former chairman of Britain’s Vaccines Taskforce, said a week ago that the Omicron variant is “relatively mild” and that continuing vaccinations are “now a waste of time.”

Then there’s Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, which earlier this month printed the mea culpa “We failed” (tweet below), admitting fault for unquestioningly disseminating the government China virus narrative.

Whoa https://t.co/QPMsFxnal6

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) January 12, 2022

Despite this, a Rasmussen poll found that a majority of Democrats still want the unjabbed punished (tweet below).

Folks, the disease we're dealing with here is much worse than Covid-19.

via @Rasmussen_Poll:https://t.co/vovgKXxsJC

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) January 15, 2022

Among other things, this is a testimonial to how a “lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” as the apocryphal saying goes. A movement such as Branch COVIDianism is like a long, heavy, runaway train that can take two miles to stop: It requires much time and effort to reverse its momentum.

Our China virus train is fueled by ego, money — and power, too. This is why so many of our leaders, while perhaps not wanting to die with their booster boots on, are content to let us die with their booster boots on. Source

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