The Chinese communist regime announced on May 23 that 21 athletes, including China’s marathon champions, died at the Gansu ultramarathon due to the extreme weather.
The death list includes Liang Jing, 31, China’s ultramarathon record holder, Huang Guanjun, 34, winner of the men’s marathon for hearing-impaired runners at China’s 2019 National Paralympic Games, and famous ultramarathon runners Huang Yinbin and Cao Pengfei.
“All elite ultramarathon runners died,” a Chinese netizen wrote on Weibo on Sunday.
From videos and photos that surviving sportsmen shot onsite and shared on social media, the athletes dressed in shorts were stuck in no man’s land and couldn’t procure clothes to stay warm or food to keep going.
Li Liang is chasing a ghost particle.
For almost a decade, the professor of particle physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has given up every summer and winter break to join an international search for an unknown particle that will, in the best-case scenario, make Einstein turn in his grave.
Li has had to travel frequently between China and the United States. The project, known as the Muon g-2 experiment, is based in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago. China contributed some key components, including crystals in the heart of the detector system. Li’s team was involved in the project from the start, from experiment design and hardware assembly to computer coding and data analysis.
Chinese City Orders Locals Guard Border With Burma to Curb COVID-19
The Chinese regime ordered local people to guard the border with Burma in the southeastern city of Ruili to curb the city’s COVID-19 outbreak, with locals complaining that the measures are ineffective.
“We don’t have any tool even to defend ourselves,” Li Liang (pseudonym), a resident at Mengmao town in Ruili, Yunnan province, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on April 1. “A large number of people enter [China by crossing the border illegally] every day … We don’t have the capability to stop them.”
Li said the Burmese and Chinese people dig underground channels and cut the barbed wire to cross the border back and forth to do business.
Chinese Residents Tell of More COVID-19 Cases Than Officially Announced
Residents in the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus hotspots of Shanghai and Harbin say they know of many more infections than what officials have announced, according to interviews with The Epoch Times.
Meanwhile, authorities in Beijing and the provinces of Jilin and Shaanxi mandated more COVID-19 testing, while Hebei Province issued more traffic restrictions, in an attempt to contain local outbreaks.
Some people said they were running out of food and important medicines as authorities imposed an indefinite lockdown and forbade them from leaving their homes.
Shanghai
The financial hub of Shanghai announced on Jan. 24 that the famous tourist site City God Temple would be closed due to the local outbreak. The government also locked down more residential compounds and streets though it did not announce any COVID-19 cases in those regions.
By ZHAO XU in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-01-16 04:18 Share CLOSE Ezra Vogel (center) with Michael Szonyi (left) and another China scholar, Rod MacFarquhark, at a symposium held on the 60th anniversary of the Fairbank Center in October 2016. ALL PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Colleagues, family members recall intrepid days of Ezra Vogel, renowned author and scholar on East Asia who stayed active up to his death at age 90. Zhao Xu reports from New York.
David Vogel, adjunct lecturer of psychology at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, always remembers the way his father looked longingly toward the Chinese mainland, while the two were on the Hong Kong side of the divide in the mid-1960s.