Chinese students studying overseas face harassment and surveillance for participating in activism. There are often threats made against their families in China
"“Universities in Europe and North America are often unaware of, and ill-equipped to deal with, transnational repression and the resulting chilling effect taking place on their campuses,” said Sarah Brooks of Amnesty International
Teacher Li is a Chinese student living in Italy who became well known for disseminating censored information from China via his Twitter account. As a result he has faced repression from the Chinese government that has included threats against his family and followers in China as well as impacting his own life in Italy. This article provides details of this as an example of the CCP's transnational repression
The #tiktokban starts to look bad when it comes to accessing any tech, all the sudden your successful little GitHub repo requires a lawyer with ties to the intelligence community.
They're trying to ruin #RISCV, they already successfully managed to slow China access to the latest semiconductor tech, but YOU could be next if they decide to put you on the same list for not supporting bombing a daycare center.
I don't fear the #CCP, I fear US lawmakers drawing invisible lines for the rest of us.
#China has a long history of human rights violation. HOWEVER, the dictatorial regime under the #CCP is still far better than Judeo-Nazi #Israel. At least the CCP never mass bombed Tibetans or Uyghurs. Tibetans and Uyghurs had their land stolen by the CCP. HOWEVER, Tibetans and Uyghurs still have a country, even though they were forced to become second class citizens. Palestinians were driven to extinction by the evil European Invaders called "Israelis", NOT Israelites.
Glad to report that the hashtag #loongyear does not return anything on Mastodon.This means that the #CCP's brainrot has not taken hold of this platform yet. Good, let's keep it that way.
Comments in support of Taiwan's elections on the Chinese internet, despite harsh censorship, hint at the depth of grievances with the CCP, writes Yaqiu Wang
"Democratic states should take this into account by crafting long-term policies that treat the Chinese people and the CCP as separate entities, and include support for pro-democracy movements in China and the diaspora as a key priority. Democracy in China needs all the help it can get."
Military supplies delivered to Belarus aboard 4 Chinese flights, observers report.
"At the beginning of January, the Belaruski Hajun monitoring group recorded unusual activity by the Chinese cargo airline Air China Cargo at Minsk National Airport. Over a period of four days, the Boeing 747-400F registered B-2476 completed four round-trip flights between Ürümqi (airport code ZWWW) and Minsk (UMMS)...
We have reason to believe that the cargo plane transported military equipment from China to Belarus. The cargo likely bypassed customs clearance and was transshipped out of the airport immediately, as staging the freight in the usual military cargo area would have attracted additional attention with the consignment sitting out in the open."
World Con was among the worst experiences in my life, where the formal writers event told me, literally "Stop writing dude" from two professionals. in the writing program I paid for for ritual humiliation, so to find out these vain glorious turds are now (like the WHO) owned lock stock and barrel by the CCP makes me feel vindicated.
Well well well, saw the nomination stats for the 2023 Hugo Awards today and guess what? The numbers are whacky and works by authors who have been critical of the CCP were declared ineligible for no reason. Can't say I'm too surprised.
Anyways, I'll brb; gotta go out and get Babel by R.F. Kuang.
"A comparison of methods used by Beijing to interfere in Taiwan’s past elections reveals that while most of the measures that the CCP employed in the past are still being used, they have become more sophisticated with technological advancements. However, so have the responses of the Taiwanese government and civil society organizations."
Hong Kong authorities made Agnes Chow travel to China in a "propaganda tour" as a condition of returning her passport. She feared that she might not be able to return to Hong Kong during that trip. Now, even though she is in exile in Canada, she still has fears for her safety
A Taiwanese band performing in China was sanctioned for saying "This is our first time playing in China" (第一次來中國演出) rather than referring to China as the "mainland". The CCP's oppression knows no bounds
As soon as #Australia's PM #AnthonyAlbanese had returned from a visit in #Beijing, OZ naval divers got injured by irresponsible behavior of Chinese naval staff.
And as soon as the #APEC summit in #SanFrancisco had been finished, #China resumed its bullying of free and democratic #Taiwan.
📜 The Chinese diaspora ‘needs to rise up’ about atrocities against Uyghurs — Q&A with human rights lawyer Rayhan Asat
Politics & Current Affairs
Rayhan Asat comments on China’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Muslim world’s silence on ongoing rights abuses against Uyghurs in China, and the responsibility of the Chinese diaspora in advocating for human rights.
By Jonathan Landreth
Published October 30, 2023
「Rayhan Asat is one of the most vocal advocates today for the Uyghur people, her people, whose homeland in northwestern China is the scene of the Communist Party’s ongoing commission of what the United Nations says may be “crimes against humanity,” and what U.S. President Joseph Biden called a “genocide.” Among the roughly 1 million Turkic peoples detained, imprisoned, and forced into labor there — most of them Muslims — is Asat’s younger brother. Ekpar Asat was picked up by Chinese authorities and sentenced to 15 years in prison after returning from an educational exchange program in the U.S. sponsored by the Department of State. Speaking from London, Asat called for stronger human rights allies and reflected on the news of the growing conflict in the Middle East and the hypocrisy she sees in China and among global activists who are unwilling to confront China.
This is an edited transcript of our conversation.」
「In any sort of crisis, historically, it ends with the people rising up against the totalitarian government. But I just don’t see how Chinese people would. Chinese people wouldn’t do that out of fear, ignorance and lack of solidarity. They wouldn’t. There is less sense of civic duty.」
"Virtually every aspect of the early People’s Republic [of China], from the organization of its railways to its party structure to its ethnic minority policy, was copied from the Soviet Union. As Marxist theorists saw it, like the Soviets, China had leapfrogged from peasant feudalism over industrial capitalism straight into socialism. But in reality, both slapped a veneer of socialism over a fusion of new nationalism and old-fashioned empire."