China: using covid vaccine in their war vs ocean ecology

Living here in the Philippines, we are aware of how the ecosystem of the West Philippine sea was harmed by China digging up the seabed to build artificial islands, threatening local fishermen, overfishing and stealing rare endangered species, and of course potentially blocking the main sea route to Korea and Japan (and threatening Luzon and Palawan which are nearby). 

And now they are pushing in the area of Benham rise, LINK2 on the other side of Luzon, which which would let them block another sea route, even to be able to stop or harass trade and fishing by the local Filipinos there.

But it's not just the Philippines whose fishermen are being harassed and fishing grounds being destroyed by unregulated fishing.

There were also news reports of Chinese fishermen poaching off the coast of Indonesia, and even the coast of South America, and the resulting push back by these countries.

Well, well, well.

None of these stories got a lot of publicity in the US MSM of course.

To them, China is good and it's sins must be overlooked, mainly because they hate Trump, 

Obama pressured the Philippines not to stop China's construction destruction in building their islands nearby, but Trumpieboy dared to throw down the gauntlet and encourage local countries to join in opposing Chinese aggression in the area.

StrategyPage has a long essay on China's policy to overfish and destroy the ocean ecosystem all over the place... SE Asia, and also South America... Lots of information for those interested in ecological problems so read the whole thing.

China has revealed that it plans to have nearly 3,000 ocean-going fishing trawlers operational by 2021. China does not officially reveal much about its growing fishing fleet but more and more foreign countries, as far away as South America, report hundreds of Chinese trawlers showing up just outside, or are caught inside, the local EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone).

the Indonesians are very angry at this and have actually fired on some of these ships.

But China has ways to push back on those who oppose their aggressive moves, as Australia has discovered . And smaller countries are more vulnerable to these threats of trade boycotts and pressure to ignore their aggression in the name of getting trade deals.

Enter Covid; from AsiaNews.it: The (partially tested) Chinese vaccine is being offered to Indonesia. 

A million doses of the vaccine have already been delivered to Indonesia. Here, the Chinese vaccine is manufactured by state-owned PT Bio Farma at its plant in Bandung (West Java). The company has already received enough material to make 45 million doses of Sinovac.

However, the two companies have failed so far to reach the same evaluation of the vaccine’s effectiveness. Bio Farma claims the vaccine is 97 per cent effective whilst Sinovac has not yet made public the vaccine’s level of effectiveness.

Unlike vaccines manufacturers in the West, no Chinese company has so far made public the effectiveness of their phase 3 vaccines. This makes it hard to compare vaccines and estimate how soon they will be able to receive approval for mass vaccination.

Despite this, in view of the emergency, the Chinese vaccine has already been distributed to hundreds of thousands of people. In addition to the million doses received in early December, Indonesia expects another 1.8 million Sinovac doses in January 2021.

 

and it's not just Indonesia: From CNBC:

Malaysia, the Philippines and countries in Africa have been promised priority access to China’s coronavirus vaccines. Experts say that may be part of Beijing’s attempt to expand its soft power and influence. “I think it’s inevitable that the vaccine will be leveraged,” said Jacob Mardell of the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Whether China is able to gain political advantage from its vaccines depends on the safety of its candidates and the affordability of alternatives, experts said.

so you can understand my anger against the Democrats politicizing the well tested US vaccine to stop it's release before the election in case Trump might get votes from this.

Because gaining power is more important than opposing China.

Indeed, given the bribery of Biden's family (and other Democrats) by China, stories well covered in the alternative media but censored and ignored by the MSM before the election, this does not bode well for those who see China's moves eerily similar to Germany's piece by piece aggression in the mid 1930s.

Right now, China is making noise to take over Taiwan. Since the west didn't complain much about their illegal takeover of Hong Kong, they figure the west won't be willing to go to war over this island.

and notice: Taiwan is not far off the coast of northern Luzon. A Taiwan take over would be another block of the sealanes.

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update: AustinBay relates how China used a photoshop of Australian troops (falsely showing an "atrocity" in Afghanistan). A good lesson on how propaganda works.