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22·5 days agoThere is ample evidence for China’s genocidal policies and resulting atrocities in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia by a variety of sources.
They were trying to move the media office to Beijing but couldn’t find an affordable rent afaik.
Please feel free to post some links to media outlets you deem more credible regarding the Chinese government’s attempt to boost tourism to the Uyghur region to whitewash genocide.
1·9 days agoThis is the first part, as the article says.
The degree ignorance and abomination of some of the comments here in this thread is another reason to not use Temu or a similar platform.
Yeah, having a brain is generally helpful. Just think before you type.
Reading helps.
The magnets, which have been banned in New Zealand since January 2013, were bought on online shopping platform Temu.
How do you differentiate whataboutism from highlighting the antichinese hypocrisy?
This is quite obvious.
Chinese cities are - by far - leading the questionable ranking of the world’s cities with the most CCTV cameras per capita. It doesn’t help to say that Europe, the U.S., others will be gaining ground. We must stand up against this development instead of downplaying it.
But the saddest thing is that this whataboutism goes only into one direction. If you read negative news about surveillance of Western technology - and there are a lot of such news that is absolutely justifiable -, there are no comments like, “But China …” The 50 cent warriors are working for China, and that’s a bit annoying.
The degree of whataboutism is astonishing, once again.
Among the cities with the highest numbers of surveillance cameras per capita, almost all are Chinese. China is a single-party dictatorship that is far ahead in building an Orwellian nightmare. (But tankies will find something on the web that shows that the West isn’t better, I’m sure.)
It’s unfortunately not so easy. Many Chinese people poured a lot of money - some even their life savings - into property that is now worth much less than they paid or have never been built as the developer went bankrupt.
As one report on Evergrande said already in 2023:
In 2021, just months before the Chinese property giant Evergrande showed the first signs of crisis, Guo Tianran (whose name has been changed on request) and her husband bought an apartment off-plan for their only child from the top-selling developer.
The couple, nearing their 60s, had scrimped to afford the $30,000 (£24,500) down payment on the yet-to-be-built flat. They bit the bullet in pledging to use 75% of their income to pay for the mortgage.
“We wanted to help our son, to give him a place to start out on once he graduates from college,” Mrs Guo told the BBC earlier this month. But just months after their purchase, Evergrande’s facade began to crack.
In Henan, the central Chinese province where they had bought the home, building work ground to a halt.
“We saw the main frame being built, and suddenly we heard that Evergrande was falling. Then construction stopped last year,” she says […] “When I think about it, I cry,” says Mrs Guo about the home she had bought. “It’s hard, and I feel sorry for my son and myself.”
You’ll find more reports than this one, and they are devastating not only for institutional investors but also for retail customers like Mrs. Guo in this report.
Well, I don’t think that Russia would have a chunk of Ukraine, as this will encourage the Kremlin to go for the next country. Another question is what happens with Russia after Putin?
What a cute question, as if anything would convince someone like you.
Xi Jinping’s talk about living to 150 echoes a specialized research project conducted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to extend the lives of its top leaders. The conversation between Xi and Putin in September has resurfaced a 2019 digital advertisement on Chinese social media by the 301 Hospital’s “981 (CCP) Leaders’ Healthcare Project."
The 301 Hospital is the official PLA General Hospital, the main military medical institution in China, providing health care exclusively for senior party members, government, and military officials. The “981 Project” was established in 2005, the 981 Healthcare Technology Group was registered as a company in 2014. The project offers elite medical services to extend the lifespans of senior CCP leaders to 150 years, so the project says.
The 2019 ad also claims the CCP started researching enhanced elite health care as soon as it seized power in 1949, developing a “unique system” that significantly extends leaders’ lifespans with “remarkable results.”
Among others, the project touted already in 2008 that the average lifespan of Chinese leaders reached 88 years, as opposed to state statistics showing the average Chinese life span in 2008 was only 73. The project drew widespread criticism on Chinese social media, it has been censored since.
Addition to the topic:
There is a terrifying documentary, “State Organs”, that has been released in 2024 and has now been screening across the world on many occasions, and you can also watch online on the website:
Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Raymond Zhang follows the story of two families in China embarking on a perilous twenty-year journey searching for their missing family members. Along the way, they uncover a harrowing government-run organ harvesting operation that is destroying the lives of thousands of innocent victims, and still occurring to this day.
The powerful documentary explores how the rise of the Falun Gong movement caused deep jealousy in Chinese Communist party leader JIANG Ze-Min, and how that jealousy resulted in Falun Gong practitioners being directly targeted and subjected to forced organ harvesting.
[Content warning: The film may contain disturbing content.]
The linked report cites experts with direct knowledge of the matter, but we can’t expect official data by China here.
There is ample evidence of forced organ harvesting in China, including the project 981, in Xinjiang and other regions. Just search the web.
China: UN human rights experts alarmed by ‘organ harvesting’ allegations - (2021)
First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Speaks Out - (2024)
I don’t think anything will convince you, but across the web you’ll find and almost endless stream of highly credible information on that.
I found one single reference to a “project 981” on the internet
That’ s likely because you searched in the Chinese web, and there it is censored. There is ample evidence for this.
You are criticizing others over their alleged bad source, but then posting exclusively propaganda sources of the Chinese party-state. Those propaganda trips by influencers who then reports on the so-called ‘progress’ in Xinjiang are well documented as genocidal tourism. The real picture is different.
There is ample evidence from many reliable sources.
Israeli-made?
80 percent of shares are held by German defense companies Rheinmetall and Diehl, with the remaining 20 percent owned by Dutch holding company Ercas B.V.
It’s not only about control but also a big threat for democracy and a stable society as a whole. Last year, for example, Chinese state-backed hacking group Salt Typhoon breached the U.S. telecom networks’ wiretap system (a backdoor legally required for law enforcement to access people’s private communication), forcing the authorities to urge U.S. citizens using encrypted messaging. So there is no such thing as a backdoor only for the good guys.
Breaking encryption opens the door not just for control but also for malign actors within the borders and from abroad. Where such democratic decline ends can be seen in China, for example, where total control and surveillance is suppressing any form of dissent.
(There is a very good documentary about the devastating consequences of surveillance for those interested: https://total-trust.org/.)
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Yeah, EU standing up to the bully of China, that’s the big picture if you want to put it that way.
Yeah, our opinions don’t carry much weight as we are some random guys on the web. It’s so true.
I’m right, though.
The funny bit is that tankies try to prove me wrong citing a report by CNN, you know, one of these liberal billionaire media that they call out as always biased and not credible. It’s hilarious: -)
I would say it is the same according to several other reports, but the Australian institute just didn’t investigate specifially AliExpress in that case I would say.