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'Uighurs Are the Real Mulan,' Uighur Advocates Say

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‘Uighurs Are the Real Mulan,’ Uighur Advocates Say​

By Stella Hsu Updated September 15, 2020 06:56 AM

WASHINGTON - “Mulan” has been one of Jewher Ilham’s favorite movies since she was a little girl. She says she remembers sitting with her dad and watching Disney’s 1998 animated version of the tale of a Chinese woman who disguises herself as a man and wins acclaim as a warrior.

“I was so excited about the live-action remake, until one of my favorite actresses, Liu Yifei, publicly supported the Hong Kong police against pro-democracy protesters,” she said. Liu, the leading actress and a naturalized U.S. citizen, posted a pro-police comment on Chinese social media platform Weibo in 2019 that was welcomed by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It’s not only Liu’s remarks that disappointed Jewher. The live-action “Mulan” filmed some of its scenes in Xinjiang, and Disney thanked eight local government bodies in its credits, including the Turpan Municipal Bureau of Public Security, which was sanctioned by the U.S. Commerce Department for administrating the internment camps in Xinjiang.

US Issues Sweeping New Travel Warning for China, Hong Kong | The Epoch Times

US Issues Sweeping New Travel Warning for China, Hong Kong​

BEIJING—The United States on Tuesday issued a sweeping new advisory warning against travel to mainland China and Hong Kong, citing the risk of “arbitrary detention” and “arbitrary enforcement of local laws.”

The advisory is likely to heighten tensions between the sides that have spiked since Beijing’s imposition on Hong Kong of a strict new national security law in June that has already been met with a series of U.S. punitive actions.

Honestly, do counterfeiters make so much more money with “fake” masks? Do they still work? N95 masks, see link are probably a bit better than the run of the mill masks one might buy at the local grocery or drug store.

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Border Patrol Seizes 500,000 Counterfeit N95 Masks in Chicago​

N95 masks can filter out 95 percent of very small air particles, offering wearers strong protection around possibly infected people. But the confiscated masks—which were headed towards a company in Manalapan, New Jersey, according to the Associated Press—didn’t offer the same filtration power. When 30 masks were sent to a testing facility, 10 percent had a filter efficiency rating below 95 percent.

The masks’ high filtration efficiency is due to its “melt blown” fabric filters. Melt blowing is a type of nonwoven fabric manufacturing method that uses hot air to blow a melted synthetic plastic called polypropylene into a sheet of micro- and nanofibers. The micro- and nanofiber fabric filters ensure that smaller particles can’t get through the mask.