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Xi Jinping Arrested?

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This has been doing the rounds of my Twitter in the last days. Now that it's on Zerohedge we may call it an official conspiracy theory :)
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573789402505019394

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Nicely debunked here:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573949280234008576
 
All the 'running' on this rumour has come out of India, I note.

Many Indians hate the Chinese government owing to the heated (and bloody) disputes over the LAC.

A bit of wish fulfilment, I suspect.

The more interesting question is why so many flights have been cancelled in the past few days.

Around 60% of arrivals and departures from Beijing have been cancelled.

The suspicion is anti-Covid measures, but there's nothing official yet.
 
Flight Master said 9,583 flights had been canceled nationwide as of 10:35 p.m. on Sept. 21, accounting for 59.66 percent of those total scheduled journeys of the day, reported China.com.

Based in Shenzhen, Flight Master provides information on flights and ticketing and travel services.

Some busy air transport hubs in China recorded over 50 percent cancelation rates, according to Flight Master:
  • Beijing Capital International Airport canceled 622 flights, with a cancellation rate of 60 percent
  • Shanghai Pudong International Airport had 652 cancelations of flights, with a cancellation rate of 54 percent
  • Shenzhen Baoan Airport’s 542 flights were canceled, accounting for 51 percent of its total flights
Airports with high cancellation rates include three airports in China’s western provinces:
  • Guiyang Longdongbao Airport (Guizhou Province): 539 flights canceled, with a cancellation rate of 99 percent
  • Lhasa Gongga Airport (Tibet): 157 flights canceled, with a cancellation rate of 98 percent
  • Chengdu Tianfu Airport (Sichuan Province): 752 flights canceled, with a cancellation rate of 87 percent
Other Chinese airports also saw various cancellations of flights on the same day. Some of the airports’ cancellations and cancellation rates are listed below:
  • Urumqi Diwobao Airport (Xinjiang): 476 flights; cancellation rate being 79 percent
  • Tianjin Binhai International Airport (about 84 miles east of Beijing): 353 flights; cancellation rate being 74 percent
  • Harbin Taiping Airport (Heilongjiang Province): 275 flights canceled; cancellation rate being 56 percent
  • Xi’an Xianyang International Airport (Shaanxi Province): 555 flights canceled; cancellation rate being 56 percent
  • Nanjing Lukou International Airport (Jiangsu Province): 378 flights canceled; cancellation rate being 54
  • Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (Guangdong Province): 560 flights canceled, cancellation rate being 40%
Extracted From:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mass-cancellation-of-flights-across-china-reasons-unclear_4749582.html
 
uair01 said:
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This has been doing the rounds of my Twitter in the last days. Now that it's on Zerohedge we may call it an official conspiracy theory :)
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573789402505019394

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Nicely debunked here:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573949280234008576
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This guy in this Twitter link is pouring scorn on the rumour

Seems he might be in quarantine as Covid yet again surges:

https://www.businesstoday.in/latest...ismiss-social-media-rumours-348120-2022-09-25
 
This is interesting timing, given other speculation about Xi.

Former adviser sees influence by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Putin's recent decisions


Former Putin adviser Andrei Illarionov, speaking with DW, said it was likely Chinese President Xi Jinping and not Ukraine's counteroffensive that pushed the Russian president to make his recent announcements.


Via Deutsche Welle.
 
skinny said:
Are we still allowed to use the B word?

Fuck it. Me bollocks.
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I agree it's bollocks. But as Forteans we should be happy about any new viral conspiracy bollocks :)

Note: I've been scammed > The Twitter account above is not Zerohedge, but Zcrohedge. They are typosquatting. Cool!
 
As explained in AP's weekly "Not Real News" report, the massive flight cancellations in China weren't unusual at all..
Analysts: China flight cancellations follow normal pattern

CLAIM: There was no flight movement over China as more than 9,000 flights were canceled across the country in a single day last week.

THE FACTS: While flight tracking estimates show that thousands of flights were canceled on several days last week, this remains consistent with the high cancellation rates the country has experienced amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and multiple experts told the AP that last week’s air patterns weren’t unusual. ...

“Absolutely no flight movement over China,” wrote one Twitter user on Sept. 24 while posting an image of the global flight tracking service FlightRadar24 that showed a handful of planes crossing the country. Others claimed that about 9,500 flights were canceled across China on Sept. 21, accounting for nearly 60% of flights that day. But experts say these numbers, as well as some images from flight tracking services, are being presented out of context. Ian Petchenik, director of communications for FlightRadar24, said the images appearing to capture the service’s dashboard over the weekend were likely taken during overnight hours of low flight traffic in China. He added that they also may reflect the fact that FlightRadar24’s display can only show so many flights on screen at a time, meaning if a user zooms out far enough, the number of flights in an area will seemingly disappear. ...

Because flight density varies greatly depending on the region, some areas are left looking sparse while other areas are more heavily trafficked. “If you’re not understanding what you’re looking at or you’re purposefully misrepresenting what you’re seeing, that becomes an unfortunate byproduct,” Petchenik said. FlightRadar24 data shows that just over 6,000 out of nearly 15,000 flights were canceled on Sept. 21, which Petchenik said falls in line with the high level of daily cancellations that China has recorded for more than two years. ...

“In no way is this surprising, concerning, suspenseful or anything,” he said. FlightRadar24 data also shows that the three Wednesdays preceding Sept. 21 all also logged more than 5,000 canceled flights. FlightAware, another major flight tracking data company, confirmed to the AP in a statement that its data listed more than 8,000 scheduled flights across China on Sept. 21, nearly 2,000 of which were canceled. Spokesperson Kathleen Bangs confirmed that the cancellations reflected normal air traffic patterns in China. “It’s not uncommon, in fact, it’s pretty much business as usual that we see very high cancellations out of China out of a number of major airports every day,” Bangs added. ...

Social media users spread the false claims of a military coup weeks before China’s ruling Communist Party is set to hold a key congress at which leader Xi Jinping is expected to be granted a third five-year term. But Xi reappeared on state television Tuesday after a several-day absence from public view. He was shown visiting a display at the Beijing Exhibition Hall, his first appearance since he returned from a regional summit in Uzbekistan last weekend. Under Chinese pandemic regulations, he would need to stay in quarantine for a week after returning.
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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-social-media-covid-571a85e4c7a2492ea816f6dbd4e32818
 
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