China’s Imposes it’s First Lockdown of 2022.

On Feb. 7, the Chinese authorities announced its first lockdown in the Chinese year of the Tiger as a means of containing a COVID-19 outbreak. Residents of the famed Communist base Baise in Guangxi Province have been warned not to leave their homes as of Monday.

The Baise city regime announced in a notice that the city was infected with the Omicron strain of the CCP virus.

“Nobody can leave or enter our city. We can’t leave home.”    On Feb. 7, Yun Fei, a resident of Baise’s Debao county, told the Chinese language Epoch Times that “all public transportation has stopped.”

“The atmosphere is intense [in Nanning]. Some roads are blocked, and the intercity buses have stopped,” said a resident called Zhao from Nanning, the province’s capital, which is 165 miles away from Baise. “Some residential compounds have started to test all residents [for COVID-19], and there are long lines in front of hospitals of people waiting for tests.”

“As an isolation tactic, the regime locks all citizens at home starting at 12:00 a.m. on February 7, 2022. The rule must be followed by all citizens. We will notify you when you can be unlocked, which will depend on the outbreak’s progress, ” the Baise city government said on Monday.

Starting in the early morning, no schools or training organizations are allowed to operate in the city, and all businesses are prohibited from operating except supermarkets, farmers’ markets, hospitals, and pharmacies.

Personnel working in pandemic control, health care, and medicine must apply for a special pass that allows them to travel throughout the city. These employees are unable to go from one county to another or from one township to another after acquiring the pass.

The notice made no indication of how trucks will be able to transport items from other counties and townships to Baise.

Following the lockdown, more residents were identified as COVID-19 patients’ close contacts and were taken to quarantine centers.

“Our hotel has been changed into a quarantine center, and will start to receive quarantined people tomorrow (Feb. 8),” a Kuaijie Hotel employee told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on Monday. “I have no idea how many people in our city have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or how many will be transferred here for quarantine tomorrow.”

In a phone interview, a representative from Baise’s Bama Airport announced that beginning February 8, all flights would be canceled.

According to the 2020 census, Baise has a population of 3.57 million people. The CCP staged successful riots in Baise in 1929, which aided the party’s takeover of the country in 1949. Since then, the city has served as a base for the CCP and is home to a number of tourism attractions.

As a result of COVID-19 outbreaks, the Chinese regime has shut down more areas.

Parts of Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou in southern China’s Guangdong Province, Heihe in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang Province, Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, Yuzhou in central China’s Henan Province, and Hengshui in northern China’s Hebei Province were shut down on February 7. Guangxi, Guangdong, Beijing, and Tianjin have all detected local transmission.

We already know that Omicron is less virulent and more transmissible than the previous two variants outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. With that being said, herd immunity should be the objective of any politician that seeks to handle this situation without imposing tyranny on its citizens. However, as we know Xi Jinping is a totalitarian dictator that seeks to suppress dissidents and carry out the CCP’s agenda for world domination.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who pays attention to global politics that this is happening. However, one could speculate and say that tensions across the board are running higher than ever for the Chinese Communist Party. Something has got to give, America is no longer able to turn a blind eye from Xi’s power-trip due to the rapid spread of information in this digital age.

We’ve got a long road ahead of us but through faith in the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ we’re saved. 1 Peter 4:12-14 says: “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.” Stay inquisitive in the word of God, and the world around you.

After sending 39 military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone [ADIZ] on Jan. 23, a record high for a single day this year, China is showing no signs of lessening its hostility towards the island in 2022.

According to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense, the latest incursion featured 34 J-16 and J-10 fighter jets, one H-6 bomber, and four electronic warfare aircraft. Taiwan’s military responded by scrambling fighter jets, issuing radio alerts, and deploying air defense missile systems to keep an eye on the situation.

Since September 2020, Taiwan’s defense ministry has been disclosing information about Chinese incursions amid a dramatic increase in the number of such flights.

According to the government, there were roughly 380 sorties in 2020. In 2021, the number of sorties nearly increased, to 961. On Oct. 4, last year, the Chinese regime’s strongest display of force occurred when 56 military aircraft flew into the ADIZ of the island.

There have only been five days this month when the government has not reported any incidents of Chinese intrusion. With its continuous air invasions, the Chinese Communist Party is attempting to wear down Taiwan’s Air Force. More crucially, the communist dictatorship hopes to scare Taiwan into submission so that Beijing can take control of the island without resorting to military action.

However, as the Chinese dictatorship has never renounced the use of force against self-governing Taiwan, war has always been an option for them. Taiwan’s military minister warned in October of last year that Beijing will be able to launch a full-scale invasion of the island by 2025.

According to Lin Ying-yu, an associate professor of Asia-Pacific politics at Taiwan’s National Sun Yat-sen University, Sunday’s intrusion could be a tactic for Beijing to demonstrate its military might in retaliation to joint US-Japanese military exercises in waters near Japan.

According to Japanese media outlet NHK, ten US military vessels—including aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln, a destroyer, and an amphibious assault ship—participated in a six-day joint drill with Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force. The drill took place in the waters off the coast of Okinawa, Japan.

The collaborative exercise aimed to “strengthen the capability of Japan-U.S. Alliance for effective deterrence and response.” according to a tweet from Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force on Jan. 24.

According to the US Naval Sea Systems Command, another US aircraft carrier, the USS Reagan, has returned to Yokosuka, Japan, after months of deployment.

According to the Pentagon, at an online defense discussion between top Japanese and US officials in early January, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin identified China as a threat to the Indo-Pacific.

“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,” said loyd.

Last year, China’s air invasion on October 4 coincided with identical US Navy activity. Six nations—Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom—participated in a multinational naval exercise near Okinawa on Oct. 2-3, 2021, according to the US Naval Institute.

Four aircraft carriers—the USS Ronald Reagan, USS Carl Vinson, British HMS Queen Elizabeth, and Japanese helicopter carrier JS Ise—were among the seventeen surface ships that took part in the training.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who pays attention to global politics that this is happening. However, one could speculate and say that tensions across the board are running higher than ever for the Chinese Communist Party. Something has got to give, America is no longer able to turn a blind eye from Xi’s power-trip due to the rapid spread of information in this digital age. The question remains, when will the Chinese regime stop bluffing and launch a real assault on Taiwan? And will America provide ample support, resulting in retaliation by the CCP?

We’ve got a long road ahead of us but through faith in the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ we’re saved. 1 Peter 4:12-14 says: “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.” Stay inquisitive in the word of God, and the world around you.