Ministry of Transport announces opening of Chinese electric car market in Chile

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Update of Decree 26 by the Ministry of Transport will facilitate the approval in Chile of rechargeable vehicles sold in China.

A measure that seeks to enlarge the automotive industry and equate the requirements made to the different markets from which vehicles are imported, announced the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications when announcing an update to Decree 26, which will make the approval of vehicles easier and faster the homologation of electric vehicles in the Chinese market.

Until now, electric vehicles from the Asian giant that have been marketed in Chile since 2020 had to approve their safety devices and technology according to European, Japanese or North American standards, which resulted in higher costs for manufacturers. By the way, it prevented some models that are marketed in China from being imported into our country for the mere fact of not having the validation of other markets.

Wuling Hong Guang

For the Undersecretary of Transportation, Cristóbal Pineda, this decision was made "after an exhaustive review of the existing standards in China, and which was developed during the year 2021, demonstrating that the vehicle safety elements of said origin comply with levels comparable to others markets already authorised in our country as the European one”.

The measure announced by the Government puts justice in the market, allowing all vehicles to be measured with the same yardstick. In this way, the option is opened, for example, for the arrival of models such as the Wuling Hong Guang, the best-selling electric car in China and which has brought more than a million units to the local market since its premiere in 2020. In China has a price close to 3.5 million pesos (app USD 4,400) and, if it complies with safety requirements (double airbag, ABS, ESP), it could now be offered in Chile without having to seek approval in other countries.

“What the Ministry of Transport did is update the security regulations and minimum mandatory security elements required for any origin and within the regulations that are now accepted, regulations of Chinese origin are allowed -known as GB- and without a doubt which is good news," said Diego Mendoza, General Secretary of the National Automotive Association of Chile.

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This modification is very important since China represents almost 60% of the sale of electric vehicles in the world. In this line, the authority indicated that "it will be much easier for Chinese brands to enter the Chilean market and this also has a drop in prices. It is estimated that Chinese vehicles have a cost between 20% and 30% less in comparison to other producing countries.

This is a measure that responds to the need to encourage electric transportation in the midst of a climate emergency that forces people to reduce greenhouse gases. In addition, it is part of the national electro mobility policy agenda that aims for 100% of the cars sold to be electric by 2035.

Despite the fact that electric cars are positioned as a more expensive option than vehicles that use fuel, the Undersecretary of Transportation maintained that international estimates project that "in ten years prices will tend to be the same between an internal combustion vehicle and an electric one.

Source: El Mercurio & La Tercera

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The Chinese regime would hide the true number of COVID-19 cases

The Chinese Communist Party has deliberately masked the total number of COVID-19 cases in China in an attempt to safeguard its image both domestically and internationally, according to experts in China and according to evidence documented by The Epoch Times.

* The Epoch Times is the Spanish edition of the international newspaper Da Jiyuan or Epoch Times (its name in English). The Epoch Times is an independent voice expressed in print and online. With a network of local journalists worldwide, The Epoch Times is the most widely distributed independent newspaper in the world, with publications in 35 countries and 21 languages.

As more countries voiced anger and frustration at Beijing's failed handling of the virus, fueled by a powerful cover-up, half a dozen experts told The Epoch Times that the regime is undeniably reporting the cases of the virus, but what is under debate is to what extent they are reporting it.

Beijing itself publicly admitted that it concealed the number of people with the disease when it announced that it would start reporting cases of asymptomatic carriers on April 1st, revealing that it had not been doing so. The Chinese National Health Commission also acknowledged that asymptomatic carriers can infect others and cause outbreaks, which they had previously ruled out. 

John R. Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy and International Affairs at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, said the recent claims by the regime of no new case in China are "patently absurd" and added that in totalitarian bureaucracies "Everyone learns very quickly to stop reporting."

The regime is expelling China-based American journalists who work for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, highlighting the country's appalling record on press freedom. China is 177th out of 180 on the 2019 World Press Freedom Index for Reporters Without Borders.

"Bad things happen to people who report bad numbers," Mills said of China. “In these systems and forms of government, everyone learns that in order to survive, the norm is to lie. Everyone lies to everyone about everything, there is no truth. "

In the past three months, the number of Chinese cell phone users has dropped by 21 million, suggesting that deaths from the CCP virus may have been a factor. Since September 1st, 2010, China has required all cell phone users to register phones with their real identification.

In China's Shandong province alone, the new daily infection numbers were up to 52 times higher than data officially released by the Shandong Health Commission and the China National Health Commission. Information provided by Wuhan residents also indicates that the death toll there could be more than 32,000, which represents 12.7 times the official figure.

Mills said that while no government or leader can act perfectly in a complex and fast-moving situation like the current pandemic, which has forced more than 1.5 billion people worldwide to remain in their homes, the CCP is deliberately consistent in its obfuscation and lies. He added that there has been little or no good faith, cooperation or diligence in the CCP's search for truth.

The truth: The biggest obstacle

Yang Jianli, a Chinese dissident and the son of a former Communist Party leader who now heads the Citizen Power Initiatives for China, a pro-democracy NGO in the United States, said minimizing cases is crucial to Beijing's "broader goal of leadership and global domination ”.

"The truth about COVID-19 within China is the biggest obstacle to ambition [by Chinese leader Xi Jinping]," Yang told The Epoch Times. "As long as Xi is seen as successful, there is little room to challenge his rule.

However, if that assessment changed, it is not difficult to imagine spiteful party members and angry people; Independent intellectuals, dissidents, and ordinary people, try to unite in an effort to challenge him. ”

Yang agrees with UK advisers who say China's cases are likely to be downplayed by a factor of 15 to 40 and urged the international community to "hold the CCP accountable."

Scientific advisers warned the UK Prime Minister that official statistics on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus could be "downplayed by a factor of 15 to 40 times" and that Downing Street believes that Beijing is trying to exploit the pandemic for financial gain, as reported by The Mail on March 28th. The Epoch Times contacted press office Number 10, but a spokesman declined to comment.

Movie theaters in China slowly reopened with the CCP's permission, until last week, when authorities suddenly changed course and ordered all theaters to return to shutdown mode. Meanwhile, medical professionals in Spain and the Czech Republic reported that rapid tests for CCP viruses imported from China failed 70 to 80 percent of the time.

"The CCP, which for years has claimed to be a responsible member of the global community, once again showed its true nature when this crisis hit," said Yang. "If the CCP gets away with it, or worse, if it really wins worldwide applause for its actions, then no country will feel the need to be honest with the world if it is considered that being honest is politically disadvantageous."

Chinese officials and the state media have tried to blame the regime's failure to contain the virus by pushing conspiracy theories directed at the United States as part of an aggressive global disinformation campaign.

The CCP bots have been invading Twitter to defend the communist regime, attack the United States, and repeat propaganda along with Chinese officials. China's open influence accounts have published "more than 32,000 COVID-19 related posts on various western social media platforms," ​​according to a recent report by cybersecurity company Insikt Group.

Yang warned that if left unchecked, an emboldened CCP "will become more aggressive externally and repressive internally, having learned that it can deceive and intimidate the world into submission."

The Epoch Times has documented stories of some Chinese citizens, including whistleblowing doctors, citizen journalists, academics and businessmen, who have been silenced by the regime for exposing the truth.

Joseph Bosco, a former China desk official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, told The Epoch Times that the regime is evading and repressing the truth about the virus, as most other things do, "to preserve the myth of the competence and infallibility of the CCP ”.

In the past few days, thousands of ash urns have been delivered to a funeral home in Wuhan, prompting questions about the true scale of the outbreak and its severity. Photos of the long lines circulated on Chinese social media before they were immediately removed by regime censors, The Epoch Times previously reported.

"It is clear that for Xi, political self-preservation is more important than the lives that can be saved, in China and around the world, through accurate media coverage," Yang added.

A totalitarian regime

Frank Gaffney, vice chairman of the Committee on Present Danger: China, told The Epoch Times that Beijing has done a masterful job of hiding the truth and deflecting blame.

"This is the kind of thing totalitarians do, and I think [China] will be considered an outcast when the general public, not just in China, but beyond, adequately understands the role the Chinese government has been playing and how large of the damage that has been caused worldwide as a result, ”he said.

Gaffney, who was undersecretary of defense for international security policy during the Reagan administration, said that anyone who believes that the CCP's claims in any area are "making a terrible mistake."

"It would be folly to trust the Chinese in anything, particularly when they lie about their statistics, whether it's the effects of the disease or, in other cases, the impact on their gross domestic product," he said. "I think everything they tell you should be treated with intense skepticism, if not utter disbelief."

A source in China told The Epoch Times in January that public health authorities were trying to cover up the severity of the virus by limiting the number of diagnostic kits sent to Wuhan hospitals.

The Epoch Times has also spoken to Chinese residents who complained of being rejected from hospitals and were undiagnosed. Many of these people later died as a result.

United States and China

The global pandemic has raised broader concerns about the United States' relationship with China.

"It certainly seems to me that a general reconsideration of the kind of engagement we have had with China up to this point is not only overdue but absolutely mandatory," Gaffney said. "I think more and more Americans feel that way."

Author and China expert Gordon Chang said the CCP is trying to "give the impression that China has recovered" as part of a deeper battle with the West. He believes that China is being hit by a second wave of infections or has never recovered from the first.

"They are relentlessly promoting the line that China's system is superior to that of the United States," Chang told The Epoch Times. "Furthermore, Beijing has launched into the attack by pushing the notion that the United States is in decline."

"Almost everyone in China knows that the coronavirus still plagues the country. And soon the rest of the world will know, too, ”Chang said. "The lies and falsehoods of the regime will not last long. The virus has the last word. "

Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, suggested in a March 31st briefing that the US response was slow due to flawed data from China.

"When you looked at the data from China originally... you start to think of this more like SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] than a global pandemic," he said.

"The medical community interpreted the Chinese data as if this was serious, but smaller than anyone expected," Birx said. "Because we were probably (...) missing a significant amount of data."

Source: La Gran Epoca 

The report that explains how the Chinese regime allowed the coronavirus to become a pandemic

A study by researchers at the University of Southampton suggests that the number of COVID-19 cases in that country may have dropped 86 percent if the first steps had been taken. Reporters Without Borders, meanwhile, explained how the process of silencing was to those who warned about the outbreak of the deadly flu.

The head of the Chinese regime, Xi Jinping, inspecting the coronavirus prevention and control
work in the Anhuali Community in Beijing. His government prevented the rapid communication
of the outbreak that was taking place in Wuhan. On the contrary, he censured and punished
those who spoke of a new virus (Reuters)

In a report released in the last hours, the organization Reporters Without Borders (RWB) shows how, without the control and censorship imposed by the authorities of the Chinese regime, the local media could have informed the citizenry -the main victim- much earlier on the severity of the coronavirus epidemic, thus saving thousands of lives and avoiding, perhaps, the current pandemic.

In an analysis published on March 13th, researchers from the University of Southampton suggest that the number of cases of COVID-19 in China could have been reduced by 86% if the first measures, taken on January 20th, had been implemented two weeks before. Based on what happened in the first days of the crisis, RWB highlights that, without the control and censorship imposed by the authorities, the Chinese media would have informed the public long before the seriousness of the epidemic, saving thousands of lives and possibly avoiding the current pandemic.

For example, Beijing forced the social network WeChat - the Chinese regime-controlled WhatsApp - to suppress keywords that alluded to the flu outbreak as the government reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) about the appearance of pneumonia of unknown origin. Indeed, the origin had already been identified. The authorities took valuable weeks to transmit information about the new virus and the significant number of cases related to the Wuhan market. "If the authorities had not hidden from the media the existence of an epidemic outbreak linked to a very popular market, the public would have stopped visiting this place long before its official closure, on January 1st," says RWB.

The censorship was such that it even had as its first victims Chinese doctors and nurses who wanted to alert the population and those responsible for the regime's health system about a new SARS-like virus that annihilated people from pneumonia. To the renowned case of the doctor Li Wenliang, for example, those of Dr. Lu Xiaohong, head of gastroenterology at the Wuhan City Hospital, who since December 25th he could have publicized his suspicions that the virus could be transmitted between humans.

Proof that reporting the danger meant exposing yourself to retaliation from the regime, five days later, the director of the Wuhan Central Hospital emergency department, Ai Fen, alerted to a "SARS-like coronavirus." She and her colleagues were arrested four days later for spreading "false rumors." Chinese censorship then affected the ability of the rest of the planet to cope with what was becoming a pandemic.

"If the international media had had full access to information that the Chinese authorities had on the scale of the epidemic before January 13th, it is likely that the international community would have assessed the crisis and anticipated it better, reducing the risk that the epidemic will spread outside of China and, possibly, preventing its transformation into a pandemic, "concludes the NGO.

Reporters Without Borders listed the most sensitive episodes that marked the blockade of information by Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (PCC) to its population, before and during the expansion of the outbreak of COVID-19. If they had provided accurate information without concealment, the people of Wuhan would have taken other measures first and then the rest of the world. Especially the scientific community that received several days overdue key data on how the new Chinese strain was composed.

October 18th 2019

The Chinese press may have reported the chilling results of a pandemic drill.

The John Hopkins Center for Health Safety, in association with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, conducts a coronavirus pandemic drill on October 18th, 2019 and alerts the international community to the chilling results: 65 million deaths in 18 months. If the Chinese internet was not isolated by an elaborate electronic censorship system and the media were not forced to follow the instructions of the Communist Party, the public and authorities would no doubt have been interested in this information from the United States, which was made echo of the 2003 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic. SARS infected 8,000 people and caused more than 800 deaths, mainly in China.

December 20th 2019

Wuhan City authorities could have reportedly told reporters.

One month after the first documented case, Wuhan City already has 60 patients with unknown SARS-like pneumonia; several of them have frequented the Huanan fish market. Despite the situation, the authorities do not consider it convenient to communicate this information to the media. If the authorities had not concealed from the media the existence of an outbreak linked to a very popular market, the public would have stopped visiting this place long before its official closure on January 1st.

December 25th 2019

Dr. Lu Xiaohong could have expressed his fears to the press.

On December 25th, Dr. Lu Xiaohong, chief of gastroenterology at Wuhan City Hospital No. 5, begins to learn of cases of infection affecting medical personnel and suspects from the first week of January that the infection may be transmitted between humans. If journalists' sources in China were not exposed to severe penalties -ranging from professional reprimand to prison terms- Dr. Lu Xiaohong would have assumed the responsibility of alerting the media, forcing the authorities to take action that did not happen until three weeks later.

December 30th 2019

The media reportedly collected the early warning from the complainants.

The director of the emergency department of Wuhan Central Hospital, Ai Fen, and a group of doctors issue an alert about a "SARS-like coronavirus". Eight of them, including Dr. Li Wenliang, who later died of the disease, will be detained by Wuhan police on January 3rd for circulating "false rumors". If the press and social networks had been able to freely disseminate the information provided by the complainants on December 30th, the public would have realized the danger and would have pressured the authorities to take measures to limit the spread of the virus.

December 31st 2019

Social media reportedly broadcast the official alert in China.

China officially alerts the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31st, but at the same time forces the WeChat discussion platform to censor a large number of keywords that refer to the epidemic. Uncensored, the WeChat social network, which has 1 billion active users in China, could have allowed journalists to broadcast reports and precautionary statements that contribute to better compliance with standards recommended by health authorities.

January 05th 2020

Scientific means would have previously sequenced the coronavirus genome.

Professor Zhang Yongzhen's team at the Shanghai Clinical Public Health Center manages to sequence the virus on January 5th, but authorities appear reluctant to release the genome. On January 11th, the day China confirms its first death from the virus, researchers leak information on open source platforms, resulting in the punitive closure of their laboratory. If the Chinese authorities were transparent, they would have immediately reported the coronavirus genome sequence to the scientific media, saving the international community precious time in their research for the development of a vaccine.

January 13th 2020

The international community would have anticipated the risk of a pandemic.

The first case of coronavirus infection outside of China, a tourist from Wuhan, is reported in Thailand. If the international media had had full access to the information that the Chinese authorities had on the scale of the epidemic before January 13th, it is likely that the international community would have assessed the crisis and anticipated it better, reducing the risk of the epidemic spreading outside of China and possibly preventing its transformation into a pandemic.

Source: Infobae

China would be hiding the true numbers of the Coronavirus

March 22nd, 2020

The Japanese media assure that the regime stopped testing for COVID-19, for example, it does not register more infected in Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak.

Days ago, the world celebrated the news that China had "flattened the curve" reflecting few or no new cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, where the outbreak was born. However, the Japanese media Apple Daily HK and 47 news denounced that this is one more lie of the Xi Jinping regime: there are no cases because they are no longer testing.

According to these reports, China has stopped testing for the coronavirus and therefore there are no "new" local cases.

The regime has been grim in its reporting on the Wuhan-based virus from the beginning. China not only lied about the outbreak, but also "disappeared" the doctors and other health experts working on it and alerted the world to what they knew.

Trump himself yesterday lashed out at Xi Jinping and rebuked him for hiding information. The President of the United States accused China of withholding information. “I wish he had told us earlier what was happening inside. We didn't know until it was published, "Trump said at a news conference with the White House coronavirus task force, which is led by Vice President Mike Pence.

According to the American, if they had known in advance they could have sought a solution and regretted that China has been "very reserved" in this regard.

Due to its lack of transparency, Beijing subjected its population to the exposure of the deadly virus and now, that their deaths number in the thousands, it tried to counter the criticism arguing that there was a conspiracy against it. The main victims of this type of concealment were the inhabitants of Wuhan, who were not warned in time by the authorities, who permanently lied about the numbers and the seriousness of the case. It was not until January 22nd, more than three months after the start of the pandemic, that they decided to totally isolate the population of that city to do so later in the province of Hubei.

The complaints against the regime began to infuriate the population, after details of how the Chinese Communist Party tied up the doctors who had warned about the dangerous outbreak that reminded them of the SARS that hit the same country in 2002. The highest point of the outrage was born when the death of the doctor Li Wenliang was known, who had sent a notice by chat to his colleagues last December 30th and a few days later the police made him sign a commitment that he would stop " make comments that disturbed public order ”. On February 6th, finally, he died infected with COVID-19.

"People in China have lived under government censorship for many years, but now many people are questioning how censorship could have delayed effective action on the virus outbreak and put many lives at risk," noted a recent campaign by International Amnesty.

Now, the regime is trying to show itself to the world as the pioneer in the fight, after the world press condemned the actions of Xi Jinping, who tried to hide the deadly outbreak.

The pandemic of the new coronavirus exceeded 300,000 contagions and 13,000 deaths this Sunday, according to the global balance updated to this by Johns Hopkins University.

The virus has spread to 171 countries and territories, leaving behind a total of approximately 316,652 infections and 13,598 deaths, according to figures updated to date. On the other hand, the number of people who have been cured of Covid-19 amounts to 94,176.

Source: INFOBAE