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The average life expectancy of Xinjiang residents rose from 30 years in 1949 to 74.7 years in 2019 with the development of the region's public health cause, according to data provided by Mubarak Mugeti, the moderator of the press conference.

Some Guy TT posted:

lol if everyones favorite genocide victims have a higher life expectancy than us now

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/XHNews/status/1425076805304684547

lol if everyones favorite genocide victims have a higher life expectancy than us now

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At a press conference held in Urumqi, the regional capital, several individuals from the region's ethnic minority groups shared their stories and said that their lives and health have been well protected with the rapid development of the region's public health cause in recent years.

Palladium posted:

225 kg of "muh hooman rights because I'm clearly just a casual user with no trafficking intentions"

Kill All Cops posted:

drugs are cool unless your citizens were addicted to that poo poo 100 years ago, in which case drugs are bad

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Opium is bad but that's because it's a grandpa drug.

We have better drugs now.

Kill All Cops posted:

loving Country and Party

shrike82 posted:

you’d figure they’d be happy for traffickers to be shipping stuff like meth or fetanyl to the West

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https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231087.shtml
Lithuania will pay the price for making radical moves on the Taiwan question

The strategy of this small country is to cling to the US as tightly as possible. It is a US running dog that barks most fiercely at the strategic rivals of the US in exchange for its protection.
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Lithuania is a crazy, tiny country full of geopolitical fears. It is extremely afraid that if one day something significant happens, it will be destroyed again.
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Unfortunately, this is not the way to be a normal country.
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I believe that Lithuania will eventually pay the price for its evil deed of breaking international rules.

The author is the editor-in-chief with the Global Times.

shrike82 posted:

you’d figure they’d be happy for traffickers to be shipping stuff like meth or fetanyl to the West

Cpt_Obvious posted:

"China should want to be the meth capital of the world" is the dumbest take I've heard all week, but it's only Wednesday so keep posting.

shrike82 posted:

wait, are we against drugs now?

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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/china-ban-karaoke-songs-national-security-illegal-2104891

China to ban karaoke songs deemed 'national security' threats

BEIJING: China will ban karaoke songs perceived to "endanger national security", as state controls attempt to muzzle the microphones of a karaoke-obsessed nation.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said it will establish a blacklist of banned songs with "illegal content", such as endangering national security and unity, inciting ethnic hatred, or promoting cults, gambling and crime.

In 2019, Chinese music streaming sites took down unofficial protest anthems, including the Les Miserables song Do You Hear The People Sing, as well as some songs by the Chinese rock musician Li Zhi that referenced the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

shrike82 posted:

Grapplejack posted:

No one is going to revolt while singing Les mis, that's just embarrassing

Kill All Cops posted:

they are going to sing les mis while holding up a three finger salute

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“I told him straight, ‘Drugs are still flowing in. I’d like you to kill there … anyway, I’ll back you up and you won’t get jailed. If it’s drugs, you shoot and kill. That’s the arrangement,” Duterte said without elaborating.

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“Hitler massacred 3 million Jews ... there's 3 million drug addicts. There are. I'd be happy to slaughter them."

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"If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out. I have done this before. Why would I not do it again?"

shrike82 posted:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-one-person-dying-covid-19-every-two-minutes-2021-08-09/

hopefully that'll keep the regime occupied

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JChengWSJ/status/1425050397828214788

quote:

https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-health-iran-pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-33a0bf3247ffdc072f8579c9dd53c71b
In Iran, slow vaccinations fuel anger in unending pandemic

After Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refused to accept vaccine donations from Western countries, the Islamic Republic has sought to make the shots domestically, though that process lags far behind other nations.

Khamenei in January slammed shut any possibility of American or British vaccines entering the country, calling them “forbidden.”

”I really do not trust,” them, Khamenei said of those nations. “Sometimes they want to test” their vaccines on other countries.