Anime Schoolgirl posted:

for example, the discourse on labor rights on weibo is the kind of stuff twitter will outright ban you for as well as american news media painting said people as terrorists

LimburgLimbo posted:

Got some examples of that? Sounds interesting.

Atrocious Joe posted:

Looking forward to the new Hollywood Blacklist. Except instead of suspected communists and LGBTQ people, it's suspected communists and anyone who knows at least four Mandarin words.

ughhhh posted:

Anyone read chuang? It was brought up as a possible reading for a group I am in and was wondering what people think about it. Most of their journals are ridiculously long, so it's probably just gonna be excerpts.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1433206142591717378

Chinese implementation of artificial intelligence is pretty neat ngl.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1433206142591717378

Chinese implementation of artificial intelligence is pretty neat ngl.

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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

chairman cena. now i know what it must have felt like to have been one of those students who caught a glimpse of chairman mao at the gate to the forbidden city

hot witch divorcee posted:

all according to plan

Atrocious Joe posted:

Looking forward to the new Hollywood Blacklist. Except instead of suspected communists and LGBTQ people, it's suspected communists and anyone who knows at least four Mandarin words.

mila kunis posted:

https://twitter.com/chuangcn/status/1436041814310473733

Maximo Roboto posted:

Sounds like a good concept for a novel

https://twitter.com/catielila/status/1437579486581514245

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Anime Schoolgirl posted:

some of the writers for these things are openly gay men in china, so i can't imagine they'd be all that bent about characters actually being gay if they're allowing those writers into show business

stephenthinkpad posted:

Funny novel concept. You know how old discussion of mainland invasion of Taiwan has the argument of "Taiwan island doesn't have leg, mainland doesn't need to win the first land invasion, they can keep trying. " Well some Taiwanese autbor actual has answer to the argument. Yeah Taiwan island actual has leg and it move to South of Florida! alrighty then!

mila kunis posted:

the left has a tankie problem - there aren't enough of them!

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This one seems to have gone under the radar: The Iranian parliament's Research Centre last week released a 40-page report that explored the possibility of a "long-term strategic agreement" with Russia.

Long story short: it said Iran should go for it.

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The RC said a strategic deal with Russia could become a "turning point" in relations between Tehran and Moscow. It argued that there were enough "motivators and drivers" to strike a long-term deal. Image

Among the incentives for a deal with Russia are "challenging the policies of Western countries" & "reducing the impact of sanctions" on both nations.

With an implicit reference to Russia's involvement in Syria, it said a deal could "consolidate" Tehran & Moscow's "achievements". Image

Wary of negative public reaction, particularly after the announcement of the 25-year strategic partnership with China last year, the RC said Iran should take measures to lay the groundwork for a similar deal with Russia. Image

It alleged that Iran's "enemies" would engage in "psyops" to rile up people against a deal with Russia. As such, it said it would be "necessary... to raise public awareness in advance". Image
The RC, however, expressed concern that Saudi Arabia and Israel could use their relations with Russia to derail a deal with Iran.

Among other things, it said Tehran's weak economic ties with Moscow could pose a challenge.

mawarannahr posted:

I really don’t know about China, but gay, trans, and gender nonconforming performers and artists were prominent and celebrated in 20th century Turkey long before any semblance of acceptance within broader society. It’s still not there.

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The advisory was met with puzzlement in several of those nations, which said they had no knowledge of such a threat, or details from Japan as to the source of its information.

Tanee Sangrat, spokesman for Thailand's Foreign Ministry, said Japan had not revealed the origin of the warning and that the Japanese Embassy had no further details other than to say it was “not specific to Thailand.”

Thai security agencies have no information of their own about a possible threat, said deputy police spokesman Kissana Pathanacharoen.

Similarly, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said it was not aware of any information about an elevated threat level, while Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah denied that any warning was even sent to Japanese citizens there.

Malaysian police also have not received any information or detected any security threats, national police chief Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said.

In the short advisory, Japan urged its citizens to pay close attention to local news and information and use caution "for the time being,” but did not give a specific timeframe or other details.

Japan's Foreign Ministry refused to provide the source of the information or say whether it was shared with other countries.

It said the advisory had been sent to its embassies in the countries concerned to be distributed to Japanese citizens.

Red and Black posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn1egrjMoD8

Pretty cool video of 15 buildings in Kunming getting demolished

Mirello posted:

well according to my wife some company built some buildings to make money, but they were extremely lovely and nobody used them, so they're destroying them so something useful could be built there. not really that different from an implosion in the west.

Some Guy TT posted:

wtf how is this real

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