Writing in the Apple Daily's Special Column on September 2, Chinese TAM dissident Wang Dan said that a rumour circulating on the internet claimed that after the August 2020 Chinese leadership conference at the Beidaihe seaside resort, some unidentified "hardliners" in the CCP had posted “Eight Policies to Resist the United States" They claimed these had been proposed at Beidaihe. These were: 1. Comprehensively expel US businesses from China, especially financial and service companies. 2. Vigorously develop nuclear weapons to deter the United States from acting militarily reckless. 3. Comprehensively increase the defense budget to more than 4 per cent of GDP and develop advanced weapons. 4. Consolidate all forces that can be united against the United States. 5. Promote the spirit of self-reliance, break the high-tech embargo, develop a “dual-circulation” economy, and establish an RMB settlement system in Eurasia and the world. 6. Break out of the strategic siege of the United States, reunify with Taiwan by military force, break through the first and second island chains of the United States. 7. Prepare the whole people for war and sacrifice, and establish food and energy reserves. 8. Be prepared to completely decouple from the United States.
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