Frijolero posted:

I've had enough Obama for several life times no thanks

turn off the TV posted:

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Reports on China ‘organ harvesting’ derive from front groups of far-right cult Falun Gong

this will get dismissed by the usual suspects but surprise surprise that "independent" tribunal was stacked with epoch times people

Bloodnose posted:

Probably not.

Bloodnose posted:

Sorry, I assumed you could read Chinese. It just details how everything about the Panama Papers was scrubbed off the Chinese internet. I don't think there's an English version. It's a Chinese language site.

quote:

ABOUT CHINA DIGITAL TIMES
China Digital Times (CDT) is an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world.

We achieve this through:

* Filtering and aggregating news from English-language media and placing it in a broader social and political context;
* Amplifying the voices of Chinese citizens through translation;
* Revealing the hidden mechanisms of state censorship by collecting and translating filtered keywords, propaganda directives, and official rhetoric;
* Interpreting the resistance discourse of Chinese netizens by introducing and translating the codes, metaphors, and satire created in response to breaking news and censored topics.

CDT English was launched in 2003 as a blog to track the development of the Internet in China and quickly grew into a more comprehensive news portal. In 2010, we launched CDT Chinese to aggregate content that has been censored or blocked in Chinese cyberspace. We select the most valuable and relevant material from CDT Chinese to translate for our English readers. CDT is based in Berkeley, CA, but our team contributes to the site from across the globe.

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whatever7 posted:

I seem to remember the Panama paper linked to Xi's stashed money oversea. I am too lazy to search.

Of course you can say it was it driven by the anti Xi fraction. By don't spend too much energy on it, cause you can never tell the news source's authenticity.

stephenthinkpad posted:

Another clip of comical amount of construction machines working together.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMS-mj_Bes

mila kunis posted:

im confused on why this is supposed to be controversial or bad

BrokenGameboy posted:

All I know is I'm having a hard time developing a nuanced understanding of China. Everyone always assumes your 100% for them no questions asked, or 100% against them, when I really have no idea what to think. Please help

comedyblissoption posted:

americans are heavily indoctrinated from birth in the cultural nationalistic supremacy of american exceptionalism so they are unable to see the extreme double standards and hypocrisy of american foreign policy

not really a big deal

Hedenius posted:

Let's not romanticize the Chinese government here. All militaries are heartless death machines. That's what they're for. But it is very funny that any time China builds a bridge somewhere in Africa the western press will describe it as horrible neo-colonialism. Like there aren't still African countries that are basically de facto european/american colonies.

Grapplejack posted:

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1250916870955433984

tractor fanatic posted:

Taiwan didn't gently caress up its initial virus response like China did, so they can just enforce quarantine and do contact tracing without having the severe lockdowns that China implemented since they don't have a huge reservoir of undetected cases. Unfortunately the Taiwan model is going to be ineffective here in the US for the time being.

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Why do you think that China would just immediately start a war if the US disappeared?

LimburgLimbo posted:

Well duh he wrote in American, same as Jesus.

Forceholy posted:

Have you met the Average American?

I am curious how war with a nation that makes a good chunk of your inventory will work.

Venomous posted:

casual reminder that Josh Hawley is (a) a Nazi (b) a frontrunner for the Presidency in four years if Biden moves heaven and earth enough to win this year

Jewel Repetition posted:

I guess if they say all that stuff they must mean it

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

comments requested on this please

https://twitter.com/yungkitty404/status/1260699729014521859

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

yeah i dunno. i'm just trying to learn about it. but it is brutal and, well, i think chinese communists believe in "reeducation" and remolding people's minds; i.e. brainwashing people. but they will say that that's true in western countries as well like in america where large numbers of children are systematically brainwashed in jesus camp. those children don't have a choice. now in the U.S. there is parental autonomy to raise their children how they want but chinese communists will say "lol no."

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i'm amazed by this stuff.

someone in the government tells CBP to put a customs hold on some wigs on suspicion they are made of human hair (not actually illegal on its own) made with forced labor (that is) because these particular wigs came from a manufacturer in xinjiang. next they tip off you, an AP reporter, with a scoop about it, and then have CBP put out a press release. (btw a previous hold a few weeks ago on some hair turned out to be synthetic.) you then write a story that the hair "is suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a chinese internment camp." and also, your source who tipped you off puts you in touch with a familiar name for context quotes: rushan abbas, a uighur-american "activist" who is connected up with the intelligence services and formerly worked as a translator-interrogator for al qaeda prisoners. ah, but don't mention that.

that's not all. axios here then reads the AP story and does some lazy googling / background research, and discovers an RFE/RL (i.e. U.S. government) story from a few weeks ago which claims human hair is being harvested from prisoners, citing "10 female former camp detainees" and a "pakistani trader who gave his name as amir" who heard about it from "his friend," followed by some speculation from a "human rights researcher" with the victims of communism foundation who's like "yeah that seems likely." also this researcher with victims of communism apparently got into serious legal hot water in taiwan after accusing ko wen-je, the progressive-liberal mayor of taipei, of organ harvesting... apparently his evidence for that was not so solid. so that's the "background," and also make sure to say "suspected" and "likely" here and there in front of claims about human hair harvesting, and put in the appropriate links back to RFE/RL in the story to cover your bases. and then send it to your editor who hits publish, and now lots of americans are frightened at the news that the chinese communist party is harvesting hair from people's skulls like the nazis.

and then the national security council says they're shocked by this dastardly new low for the communist party of china because axios reported it and they're credible, aren't they?

https://twitter.com/WHNSC/status/1278328641974304770

edit: also this happened a day after the chinese government passed the hong kong security law

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

it's happening

https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1285831071129427968

Forceholy posted:

A researcher who worked at UC Davis and who lied about not serving in the Chinese military is hiding out in the SF consulate.

Grapplejack posted:

It looks like the US managed to get that scientist out of the consulate, she's in custody now.

Grapplejack posted:

neocommunism sounds way cooler than 'socialism with chinese characteristics'

neocommunism makes me think of like, vaporwave marx



holy gently caress there's a shitload of this art it's too bad cspam went with a paper theme because vaporwave communism would have been fun

Kill All Cops posted:

cspam take: if you are a billionaire, its ok to live and die of old age unless you publish anti-CCP articles, in which case we will brand you as ned funded without any evidence and celebrate as the gestapo arrest you for reasons unknown

AFancyQuestionMark posted:

in what way are the pro-independece people "terrorists" that wouldn't also apply to every real protest movement ever?

sincx posted:

edit: took out some details just in case

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

for example, there is a wide variety of snacks to choose from