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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Uyghurland: News updates on Uyghur homeland (Xinjiang) geography, local government activities, Life Under Surveillance and socio-economics
By Erkin, Dec 24, 2023 According to a news report by Xin Hua News Agency, a Chinese state media outlet, “The first session of the 14th National People’s Congress of the autonomous region held its third plenary session on the morning of January 18, and elected Dilshat Sayim as president […]
The Uyghurs are an ethnic group primarily residing in Uyghurstan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China. Recognized by the Chinese government as the main ethnic group and the titular people of “Xinjiang,” the Uyghurs are native to the region and have a long history and […]
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.
“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.