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.
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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.
“What is genocide?” According to Zhao Li Jian, the Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, “the U.S. policy toward Native Americans is the ‘real’ genocide.”
How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs
by Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times
June 23, 2021, 5 a.m. EDT
The task of a foreign news correspondent has become increasingly difficult in China when covering issues that China deems sensitive.
Chinese officials recently shared their anti-Western views with millions of viewers on Dong Fang TV (东方卫视), one of the most popular satellite TV channels in China. The hosts of ‘This is China’, the channel’s flagship show, claimed the western culture to be evil by its very nature.
A shocking Twitter thread is circulating online: A Chinese senior health official Huang Jiefu, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Central Health Commission, admitted on camera that the Chinese government has been harvesting organs from criminals on death row.
The new White Paper on Export Control, which Beijing released on Wednesday (December 29th), states that China will curb exports of dual-use technology, military products, nuclear items for the sake of its national security. Dual-use goods, technologies, and services are suitable for civilian or military purposes.
The document is China’s first white paper on export controls and comes around one year after the implementation of the PRC Export Control Law in December 2020.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Uyghur Autonomous Region failed to carry out the ‘Xinjiang Expatriate Online Conference’ in the United States. The online event aimed to praise China’s policies in East Turkistan (Uyghuristan).