{"id":1175257,"date":"2021-12-31T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175257"},"modified":"2021-12-31T10:49:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:49:24","slug":"xi-jinping-ignores-brutal-lockdowns-coronavirus-failure-in-new-years-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/xi-jinping-ignores-brutal-lockdowns-coronavirus-failure-in-new-years-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping Ignores Brutal Lockdowns, Coronavirus Failure in New Year&#039;s Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fxi-jinping-ignores-brutal-lockdowns-coronavirus-failure-in-new-years-address%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175257&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21350206138015-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Chinese dictator Xi Jinping celebrated China\u2019s coronavirus response during a New Year\u2019s address on Friday, omitting that Communist Party failures have resulted in the country currently experiencing its worst outbreak since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese coronavirus originated in central Wuhan, China, in late 2019 \u2013 a fact the Chinese Foreign Ministry has repeatedly denied, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/07\/09\/chinese-foreign-ministry-coronavirus-vaping\/\">floating<\/a> instead an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that the virus originated in Maryland. A year ago, the Communist Party enthusiastically shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/01\/revelers-hit-the-streets-of-wuhan-the-once-epicenter-of-the-coronavirus-as-times-square-remained-empty\/\">images<\/a> of large crowds celebrating the New Year in Wuhan in tightly packed spaces, a sign of triumph over the pandemic. International corporate media covered the celebrations but largely failed to follow up with the nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/01\/19\/china-fights-nationwide-coronavirus-explosion-two-weeks-wuhan-new-years-bash\/\">outbreak<\/a> of coronavirus cases that followed two weeks later.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Similarly, the Chinese Communist Party promoted nationwide \u201cred tourism\u201d in October to celebrate the anniversary of the Party\u2019s founding, resulting in a tour group from Shanghai <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2021\/10\/22\/china-coronavirus-flare-ups-in-at-least-10-provinces-flight-cancelations-surge\/amp\/\">spreading<\/a> Chinese coronavirus throughout much of northern China. The outbreak rapidly spread to at least ten provinces. While Chinese authorities have not confirmed that the two are related, the Inner Mongolia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/05\/china-blames-mongolia-for-olympics-threatening-coronavirus-fiasco\/\">outbreak<\/a> preceded a larger one in Xi\u2019an, the capital of northern Shaanxi province, that prompted authorities to lock down the city of 13 million on the day before Christmas Eve. Xi\u2019an is home to one of the most important artifacts in ancient Christianity, the <a href=\"https:\/\/australian.museum\/learn\/cultures\/international-collection\/chinese\/nestorian-stele-inscription-b11298\/\">Nestorian Stele,<\/a> which provides evidence of Christianity existing in China as early as the year 635.<\/p>\n<p>As of this week, terrified Xi\u2019an residents have begun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/xian-residents-complain-of-food-shortages-as-lockdown-drags-on\/\">using<\/a> social media to complain that authorities will not let them leave their homes for food, leaving them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/30\/china-starving-out-13-million-trapped-epicenter-coronavirus-outbreak\/\">starve<\/a> without sufficient supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is getting more and more ridiculous. I never thought in my lifetime I would be unable to sleep because of not having food to eat,\u201d a comment on Weibo, China\u2019s government-run social media outlet, from a Xi\u2019an resident read this week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Xi, who has played no public role in responding to the outbreaks (and no evidence suggests he has worked in any way to contain them), omitted any mention of the grim atmosphere in the country in his New Year\u2019s Eve <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20211231\/86de17bebbc1423e824f21fcf9e928be\/c.html\">address<\/a>. Xi claimed that China spent 2021 \u201cmaking confident strides on the path toward the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation\u201d and painted a portrait of a joyful, disease-free year. Xi also notably claimed that the world was celebrating China, the origin country of the pandemic, for its pandemic response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my phone calls and virtual meetings with foreign leaders and heads of international organizations, I have heard many times plaudits for China\u2019s fight against [Chinese coronavirus] and contribution to the global [Chinese coronavirus] response,\u201d Xi said in the televised statement. \u201cTo date, China has provided two billion doses of [Chinese coronavirus] vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly through unity, solidarity and cooperation can countries around the world write a new chapter in building a community with a shared future for mankind,\u201d Xi asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the speech, Xi applauded Chinese citizens for their \u201cunity\u201d in accepting China\u2019s draconian coronavirus measures.<\/p>\n<p>He lauded \u201c\u2026[T]he whole nation staying united in solid [Chinese coronavirus] response,\u201d along with other purported achievements, which he said marked 2021 as a year of \u201cmany memorable Chinese voices, Chinese moments and Chinese stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Xi spent more time during his speech celebrating Chinese astronauts (\u201ctaikonauts\u201d) and the anniversary of the Communist Party than addressing the pandemic within China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn July 1, we solemnly celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC),\u201d Xi recalled. \u201cStanding on the Tian\u2019anmen Rostrum, one could only marvel at the extraordinary journey traveled by this major Party, a journey of Chinese Communists leading the Chinese people, in their hundreds of millions, in an unyielding struggle against all obstacles and challenges, and scoring spectacular, epoch-making achievements over the past century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xi also mentioned his ongoing campaigns to subjugate the formerly autonomous region of Hong Kong and the sovereign state of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complete reunification of our motherland is an aspiration shared by people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait,\u201d Xi said. \u201cI sincerely hope that all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation will join forces to create a brighter future for our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s tone towards Taiwan was significantly more conciliatory than his threats two years ago, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/10\/14\/bones-ground-to-powder-xi-jinping-threatens-gruesome-death-for-hong-kong-taiwan\/\">vowed<\/a> in a speech,&nbsp;\u201cAnyone who attempts to split any region from China will perish, with their bodies smashed and bones ground to powder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state news agency Xinhua <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20211229\/895b0675abc349a28396315eed354753\/c.html\">celebrated<\/a> Xi\u2019s poor leadership on the pandemic on Friday as \u201clighting the way forward\u201d for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttending a series of bilateral or multilateral cloud events in the past year, Xi has demonstrated China\u2019s firm commitment to upholding international justice, helping the world defeat [Chinese coronavirus], and promoting balanced, coordinated, inclusive, and green development,\u201d Xinhua claimed, failing to mention that, under Xi, China has actively ignored International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings, is committing an ongoing genocide, and is the world\u2019s worst polluter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1641039012465000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0I3QzJSX-WS7VMJRkMmthn\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" 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