Under Beijing’s censorship, Disney+ has removed a Simpsons episode mentioning China’s forced labor camps from its streaming services in Hong Kong, The Guardian reports.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry: shooting down ballon is serious violation of international practice and reserves the right to make further responses if necessary.
Chinese authorities have arrested four young Tibetan women from Dhartsedho County in eastern Tibet for joining in a protest against the Chinese government’s “zero-covid policy” restrictions in the city of Chengdu, The Tibet Post reports.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday warned China on Twitter that China should know: any attack on Taiwan would make China a pariah state.”
China continues to overreact to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan with endless harsh statements, halted dialogue, and military maneuvers.
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For a couple of decades, the Tiananmen Square massacre kept the Chinese citizens away from criticizing the Chinese communist regime. However, under the rule of Xi Jinping, things have gone from bad to worse, TFI Global reports.
Chinese netizens started using various hashtags to circumvent content censorship over Shanghai’s lockdown policy. As the creative resistance deepened, Weibo soon banned the first line of the Chinese national anthem #起来不愿做奴隶的人们 , China Digital Times (CDT/Chinese) tweets.
The Great Translation Movement only opened its Twitter account in March 2022 but has already managed to gain a hefty 116,400 followers! They have assembled ‘Mandarin to English’ translations of Chinese social media posts under one hashtag: #TheGreatTranslationMovement.
Campaigners have accused Vietnam of laundering cotton from ‘Xinjiang’ to help China bypass the fresh Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, EcoTextile reports on its website. Eventually, the Vietnamese manufacturers sell the items to the US market without disclosing the source.