A new data intercepted by the United States reveals that 21 million people died in China from
The Intelligence report stated that at least 20.9 million of the deaths were linked to coronavirus.
According to the US, the intercepted data that shows that China
underreported its coronavirus infections and deaths was validated for a
second time when it tallied with a data released by Beijing authorities.
Beijing announced on March 19 that over 21 million cell phone accounts
in China were canceled in the past three months while 840,000 landlines
were closed.
China had reported little over 81,000 infections with 3,300 deaths.
An earlier intelligence report released by the US that China hid
scale of the outbreak was quickly rejected by Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Hua Chunying. Hua said the country had been “open and
transparent” about the extent of the outbreak before accusing Washington
of trying to “shift the blame.”
But US officials say the report has been authenticated and has been
confirmed that the closing of the phones numbers were as result of
deaths caused by coronavirus. “Cell phones are an indispensable part of
life in China and its only closed when the user is dead”, the report
said.
“The digitization level is very high in China. People can’t survive
without a cell phone,” Tang Jingyuan, a U.S.-based China Affairs
commentator told The Epoch Times on March 21. “Dealing with the
government for pensions and social security, buying train tickets,
shopping… no matter what people want to do, they are required to use
cell phones.”
“The Chinese regime requires all Chinese use their cell phones to
generate a health code. Only with a green health code are Chinese
allowed to move in China now,” Tang said. “It’s impossible for a person
to cancel his cell phone.”
China introduced mandatory facial scans on Dec. 1, 2019 to confirm
the identity of the person who registered the phone. As early as Sept.
1, 2010, China required all cell phone users to register the phone with
their real identification (ID), by which the state can control people’s
speech via its large-scale monitoring system.
Furthermore, Chinese people have to bundle their bank accounts and
social security account with their cell phone because all these
service’s Apps can detect the phone’s SIM card and then check with the
state’s database to make sure the number belongs to the person.
Beijing first launched cell phone-based health codes on March 10. All
people in China have to install a cell phone app and register their
personal health information. Then the app can generate a QR code, which
is possible in three colors, to classify people’s health level. Red
means the person has an infectious disease. Yellow means the person
might have an infectious disease. Green means the person doesn’t have an
infectious disease.
21 Million Cell Phone Accounts Closed
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)
announced the quantities of phone users in each province in February on
March 19. Compared with the previous announcement, which was released on
Dec. 18, 2019 for the data in November 2019, both cell phone users and
landline users dropped dramatically. In the same period the year before,
the number of accounts increased.
The number of cell phone users decreased from 1.600957 billion to
1.579927 billion, which is 21.03 million less. Landline users dropped
from 190.83 million to 189.99 million, which is 0.84 million less.
In February 2019, the number increased. According to MIIT’s
announcements on March 26, 2019 and Dec. 20, 2018, the cell phone users
increased in February 2019 from 1.5591 billion to 1.5835 billion, which
is 24.37 million more. The landline users raised from 183.477 million to
190.118 million, which is 6.641 million more.
According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s
population at the end of 2019 was 4.67 million larger than 2018, and
reached 1.40005 billion.
The 2020 decrease in landline users may be due to the nationwide
quarantine in February, during which small businesses were shut down.
But the decrease in cell phone users can’t be explained in this way.
According to the operation data of all three Chinese cell phone
carriers, cell phone accounts increased in December 2019, but dropped
steeply in 2020.
China Mobile is the largest carrier, and holds about 60 percent of
the Chinese cell phone market. It reported that it lost 7.254 million
cell phone accounts in February, and 0.862 million in January. But in
Dec. 2019, it gained 3.732 million more users.
