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This Street Name Will Make the CCP Furious
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June 16, 2023 • Read in: 6 minutes
Hello again, Global Recap readers! Imagine being able to walk again after a paralyzing accident. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, not anymore.
Gert-Jan Oskam was left unable to move his legs after a motorbike crash. However, he participated in a study that changed his life.
It involved the insertion of an implant into his brain, which translates his thoughts into appropriate electrical signals. These signals are then sent to a computer in his backpack and further transmitted to a pacemaker in his abdomen - ultimately, reaching his spinal cord, which enables his legs to move more naturally.
The results were astonishing. Besides being able to walk up to 200 meters a day or even climb stairs, he could lift himself out of a chair and walk with a crutch without the device being turned on! All this, only months after beginning the study. It seemed like the device had somehow repaired the gap in his nervous system.
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This Street Name Will Make the CCP Furious
The Renaming: On the day of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, the Chinese government brutally crushed a pro-democracy protest, killing at least 10,000 people. The world has not forgotten this atrocity, and neither has Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN).
Ogles, a freshman lawmaker, has introduced a bill to rename the street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. to:
“1 Tiananmen Square Memorial Boulevard”.
Supporters of the Bill: Ogles is not alone in his crusade against the CCP. His bill has 16 co-sponsors, including Rep. Chris Smith, the chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Smith has been a vocal critic of China’s ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims, Tibetans, and Southern Mongolians.
Message to China: The bill is more than just a symbolic gesture; it serves as a powerful message to China that the United States will not tolerate its oppression of human rights. Such tolerance has the potential to spread across the globe in today's increasingly interconnected world.
Do you think this is a good idea?