Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1551179674323148800

Antonymous posted:

you also pay at the counter in china, not some bill sent later. overall this is probably bad because you need cash to get treatment

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/liupheonix/status/1550677995035279360

Breakfast All Day posted:

breaking: china crushes domestic african infrastructure industry, moments before it was about to flourish from decades of western nurture

Breakfast All Day posted:

give a man a hospital, hes healed for a day. create incentives for local entrepreneurs to spin up hospital construction speculation assets backed by development investment funds tied to exclusive resource and labor contracts with our international partners, hes healed for the rest of his life (expectancy lowered to 2 weeks)

Flavahbeast posted:

https://twitter.com/nslwin/status/1551442573809655808

Breakfast All Day posted:

give a man a hospital, hes healed for a day. create incentives for local entrepreneurs to spin up hospital construction speculation assets backed by development investment funds tied to exclusive resource and labor contracts with our international partners, hes healed for the rest of his life (expectancy lowered to 2 weeks)

GlassEye-Boy posted:

Hmm normal behavior from a normal country.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037405/Fleet-nuclear-submarines-sent-Britain-Australia-warning-China.html

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/uk-rishi-sunak-vows-get-tough-china-next-prime-minister-2833031

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Rishi 100% would have been a collaborator.

quote:

Eat Out to Help Out

In July, he unveiled a plan for a further £30 billion of spending which included a stamp duty holiday, a cut to value-added tax (VAT) for the hospitality sector, the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, and a job retention bonus for employers.[77][78] Eat Out to Help Out was announced to support and create jobs in the hospitality industry. The government subsidised food and soft drinks at participating cafes, pubs and restaurants at 50%, up to £10 per person. The offer was available from 3 to 31 August on Monday to Wednesday each week.[79] In total, the scheme subsidised £849 million in meals.[80] Some consider the scheme to be a success in boosting the hospitality industry,[81] however others disagree.[82] In terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study at the University of Warwick concluded that the scheme contributed to a rise in COVID-19 infections of between 8% and 17%.[83]

Grapplejack posted:

Sunak is a deep cover Soviet / Irish Manchurian candidate because he's so stupid he's actively sabotaging the UK and will definitely destroy the union

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/information-operations-07252022190813.html posted:

China exploits US social media to push its own Xinjiang narratives, report finds

The state's online propaganda efforts are said to be silencing criticism of its treatment of Uyghurs.


The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using increasingly elaborate online tactics to counter information about human rights abuses in western China’s Xinjiang region in hopes of influencing audiences across the globe, according to a new report.

In response to criticism of its mistreatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang, the CCP has coordinated its state propaganda arms and security agencies in an effort to contradict and reframe narratives about the region, says the policy paper issued on July 20 by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The Canberra-based independent, nonpartisan think tank provides defense, security and strategic policy recommendations to the Australian government.

“Xi Jinping and the Communist Party view information operations as the domain of warfare as a battlefield to fight other people's public opinion,” said Albert Zhang, an analyst with ASPI’s Cyber Policy Centre who wrote the report with researcher Tilla Hoja.

The 39-page paper titled “Assessing the Impact of CCP Information Operations Related to Xinjiang” says China marshals a variety of resources to distract from revelations or claims of arbitrary detention, mass sterilization and cultural degradation of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang.

“The impact of these operations isn’t widely understood, and the international community has failed to adequately respond to the global challenges posed by the CCP’s rapidly evolving propaganda and disinformation operations,” the paper says.

The CCP’s use of U.S.-based social media and content platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, are fundamental to its efforts and allow it to test online tactics, measure responses and improve its influence and interference capabilities on a variety of topics, the report says.

For instance, posts by official Chinese state media and diplomatic accounts inundate U.S.‑based social media platforms with pro‑CCP content to drown out opinions that are critical of the Chinese government by reducing the efficacy of hashtags such as #Xinjiang or #GenocideGames, the paper says.

State media and Chinese diplomats routinely take to social media to discredit and undermine researchers and journalists who publish influential reports about Xinjiang and undercut the impact of their findings. Arian Zenz, a researcher at the Washington, D.C.-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and an expert on Xinjiang who has produced several reports based on Chinese government documents, has been one such target.

Zenz was mentioned in roughly 200 articles published by state media and in about 530 tweets on Twitter by Chinese diplomatic and state media accounts between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2021, according to the report.

The policy brief quoted Chinese President Xi Jinping as saying that “online public opinion work should be the top priority of propaganda and ideological work”' and that China “must grasp the initiative in this public opinion battlefield” against the West.

“These Chinese Communist Party information operations are successfully silencing people in the world, and that includes government entities, corporations, as well as civil society people from actually being able to speak up about and speak up for the Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang,” Zhang said.

The CCP has been notably successful in silencing governments in Muslim-majority and non-Western countries, the report says. Of the 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, only two — Albania and Turkey — have condemned the CCP for its policies in Xinjiang.

“Beginning in 2019, we saw a lot of Chinese diplomats start registering official accounts on Twitter and as well as developing Facebook accounts to push those messages, and using those social media platforms to spread their narratives,” Zhang said. “They also likely have hired or contracted out public relations or [used] other entities to actually amplify the messages.”

“At the same time, the Chinese government completely censors any kind of external kind of media into their own environment, and so there’s just this sort of asymmetric access to information that really gives the Chinese government a competitive advantage in the information space,” he said.

Countering 'information warfare'

Chinese authorities began in 2017 to ramp up their crackdown on Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang through abductions and arbitrary arrests and detentions in “re-education” camps or prisons.

An estimated 1.8 million members of these groups have been held in the camps, where detainees who were later freed reported widespread maltreatment, including severe human rights abuses, torture, rape, forced sterilization and birth control, and forced labor.

Following several credible reports and eyewitness testimony of the abuses, the U.S. and some Western parliaments have determined that the Chinese government’s actions in Xinjiang constitute genocide and crime against humanity and have heavily condemned Beijing for its actions.

The findings of the policy paper are based on publicly available information, including statements by senior CCP officials about influencing global public opinion over their human rights record in Xinjiang, literature reviews of Chinese academic studies, and news reporting of CCP information.

The report recommends that foreign governments and civil society groups work more closely with social media platforms and broadcasters to counter the CCP’s “global campaign of transnational repression and information warfare.”

It also recommends that governments expand economic sanctions targeting the perpetrators of serious human rights abuses to include those who distribute disinformation and foreign propaganda and who silence and continue to abuse victims and survivors of rights violations.

The report goes on to propose that governments impede Chinese propaganda resources and pinpoint strategic data sources, such as public opinion mining of U.S.-based social media, which the CCP is exploiting to improve its interference capabilities.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

C-SPAM is an outlet of Chinese softboy power

mawarannahr posted:

could economic sanctions be coming to this forum?

- Arian Zenz

mawarannahr posted:

could economic sanctions be coming to this forum?

quote:

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The Canberra-based independent, nonpartisan think tank provides defense, security and strategic policy recommendations to the Australian government.

mawarannahr posted:

- Arian Zenz

mawarannahr posted:

- Arianist Zenz

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lol can british subs even reach australia without sinking

Weka posted:

I think they're designed to sink.

Some Guy TT posted:

Weka posted:

I think they're designed to sink.

Some Guy TT posted: