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<h1>China Dictatorship 中国独裁统治</h1>
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<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship">cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship (规范链接 canonical render)</a> |
<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship">GitHub 项目 project</a> |
<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-7">GitHub Mirror 镜像 2</a> |
<a href="https://github.com/Ifem2BXvz4N4gh1gGn0bkR3Lp/cihna-dictatorshrip-8">GitHub Mirror 镜像 3</a> |
<a href="index-split">分裂标题版本 split header version</a> |
中国镜像 China mirrors:
<a href="https://cirosantilli.gitlab.io/china-dictatorship">cirosantilli.gitlab.io</a>,
<a href="https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/blob/index.html">htmlpreview.github.io</a>,
<a href="https://www.unpkg.com/china-dictatorship@latest/README.html">www.unpkg.com (tag)</a>,
<a href="https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/-/blob/master/README.adoc">gitlab.com</a>,
<a href="https://raw.githack.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html">raw.githack.com</a>,
<a href="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html">cdn.statically.io</a>,
<a href="https://xenodochial-heisenberg-0fc0f1.netlify.app/">cirosantilli.netlify.app</a>,
<a href="https://china-dictatorship.onrender.com/">china-dictatorship.onrender.com</a>,
<a href="https://gitlab.binets.fr/ciro.duran-santilli/china-dictatorship">gitlab.binets.fr (École Polytechnique)</a>,
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下载 HTML download:
<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html">raw.githubusercontent.com</a>,
<a href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/china-dictatorship@latest/README.html">cdn.jsdelivr (tag)</a></p>
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<p>反中共政治宣传库。Anti-Chinese government propaganda. <a href="#faq">常见问答集</a>，<a href="#news">新闻集</a>和<a href="#restaurants">饭店</a>和<a href="#music">音乐</a>建议。<a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">卐习万岁卐</a>。<a href="#faq">FAQ</a>, <a href="#news">news compilation</a> and <a href="#restaurants">restaurant</a> and <a href="#music">music</a> recommendations. <a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">卐 Heil Xi 卐</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>住在中国大陆有真名用户或者用中国邮箱的网友请别给星星，不然你要被警察请喝茶。先注册一个Gmail/Protonmail匿名用户才来，最好也要用VPN/Tor/<a href="#shadowsocks">ShadowSocks</a>. Friends who live in China and have real name on account or who use a Chinese email provider, please don’t star this repo, or else the police might pay you a visit some day. First create an anonymous account with Gmail/Protonmail instead (non Chinese email provider), preferably from behind VPN/Tor/<a href="#shadowsocks">ShadowSocks</a>.</strong> 你不是一个人。未来需要隐藏的将是今天的<a href="#wumao">五毛</a>，而不是你。You are not alone. In the future, it is the <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> who will have to hide, not you. See also: <a href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">What should pro-democracy Chinese living in China do about the dictatorship? 想要民主住在中国大陆的人应该干什么？</a>.</p>
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<p>This README is too large and <a href="https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1610">GitHub cuts it up</a> on <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship">github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>. You can view it fully at the canonical <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship</a> which is <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cirosantilli.com">blocked in China since 2020</a> according to <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a> (<a href="#brave-new-world-books">but China is still the second largest hit location after USA according to Google Analytics</a>), or one of the many <a href="#mirrors">Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="#national-anthem"><strong>🇨🇳 起来！不愿做奴隶的人们！Rise up! Those who refuse to be slaves! 🇨🇳</strong></a><br></p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping The Governance of China photo" height="600">
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<div id="toctitle" class="title"></div>
<ul class="sectlevel1">
<li><a href="#about">1. About (关于)</a></li>
<li><a href="#copypasta">2. Copypasta</a></li>
<li><a href="#mirrors">3. Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#software-package-mirrors">3.1. Software package mirrors (软件包管理器镜像)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#github-proxies">3.1.1. GitHub proxies (GitHub的代理)</a></li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">4. GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>
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<li><a href="#github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">4.1. github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>
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<li><a href="#who-is-behind-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">4.1.1. Who is behind cirosantilli/china-dictatorship? 谁是 cirosantilli/china-dictatorship 的幕后黑手？</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#terminus2049">4.2. Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinatimeline">4.3. chinatimeline (中国时间线)</a></li>
<li><a href="#duty-machine">4.4. duty-machine GitHub account (责任机器GitHub用户)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#duty-machine-porn-attack-duty-machine">4.4.1. duty-machine porn attack (责任机器色情攻击)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#zhao-heming">4.5. Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#new-system-21st">4.5.1. 21世纪新政宣言由赫连禾 (New System Declaration for the 21st Century by He Lianhe, 2020)</a></li>
<li><a href="#github-search-pollution-reports">4.5.2. GitHub search pollution reports (GitHub 搜索污染报告)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#bot-issue-mention-attack">4.6. Bot + issue mention attack</a></li>
<li><a href="#wumao-github-repos">4.7. Wumao GitHub repos (由五毛的GitHub库)</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="#faq">5. FAQ (常见问答集)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#why-keyword-attack">5.1. Why attack websites with censored keywords? (用审查词攻击网站有什么用呢？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#harm-programmers">5.1.1. Does Ciro Santilli want to harm the Chinese programmers? 三西猴想要伤害中国程序员吗？</a>
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<li><a href="#harm-people">5.1.1.1. Does Ciro Santilli want to make the Chinese people people look bad? (三西猴是想让中国人脸色不好？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#stupid">5.1.2. Does Ciro Santilli think that the Chinese are stupid or brainwashed? (三西猴觉得中国人是傻子或是被洗脑了吗？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#keyword-attack">5.1.3. Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#scunthorpe-problem">5.1.3.1. Scunthorpe problem (斯肯索普问题)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#falun-sweden">5.1.3.1.1. Falun, Sweden (法轮，瑞典的城市)</a></li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism">5.1.4. Cute cat theory of digital activism (可爱猫理论)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#bitcoin-blockchain">5.1.4.1. Anti-CCP content in the Bitcoin blockchain (在比特币区块链的反中共内容)</a></li>
<li><a href="#collateral-freedom">5.1.4.2. Collateral Freedom (依附的自由)</a></li>
<li><a href="#protestware">5.1.4.3. Protestware</a></li>
<li><a href="#dual-use-technology">5.1.4.4. Dual-use technology (军民两用技术)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#slacktivism">5.1.5. Slacktivism (懒人行动主义)</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="#meant-to-be-used">5.2. Politics should not be posted in technical websites such as GitHub or Stack Overflow 不应该在技术网站例如Stack Overflow和GitHub讨论政治</a>
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<li><a href="#is-ciro-santilli-making-programming-contributions-with-the-main-intent-of-promoting-his-political-agenda">5.2.1. Is Ciro Santilli making programming contributions with the main intent of promoting his political agenda?</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#is-ciro-santilli-making-trivial-edits-on-questions-just-to-spam-your-name-further">5.2.1.1. Is Ciro Santilli making trivial edits on questions just to spam your name further?</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#communist-bread">5.2.2. Communist bread (中共面包)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#why-end-dictatorship">5.3. Why would China be better without its Dictatorship? (为什么没有独裁的中国会更好？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#richer">5.3.1. Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#dictatorship-variability">5.3.1.1. Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tea-egg-incident">5.3.1.2. Tea egg incident (茶葉蛋事件, 2011)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#censorship-makes-countries-poorer">5.3.2. Censorship makes countries poorer (审查使国家更穷)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#chernobyl-2019-miniseries">5.3.2.1. Chernobyl 2019 miniseries (切尔诺贝利_(迷你剧))</a></li>
<li><a href="#censorship-makes-no-one-trust-your-country">5.3.2.2. Censorship makes no one trust your country (审查使得沒有人相信你的国家)</a></li>
<li><a href="#covid">5.3.2.3. Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#april-2022-shanghai-lockdown">5.3.2.3.1. April 2022 Shanghai lockdown</a></li>
<li><a href="#sitong-bridge-protest">5.3.2.3.2. Sitong Bridge protest (北京四通桥抗议, 2022, 彭立发, Peng Lifa, Peng Zaizhou, 彭载舟, Warrior of Sitong Bridge, 四通桥勇士)</a></li>
<li><a href="#white-paper">5.3.2.3.3. 2022 COVID-19 protests in China (白纸运动, 白纸革命, White paper protests)</a></li>
<li><a href="#li-wenliang">5.3.2.3.4. Li Wenliang (李文亮)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ncovmemory">5.3.2.3.5. nCovMemory</a></li>
<li><a href="#people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus">5.3.2.3.6. People arrested for reporting on the 2019 Corona Virus (因报道 2019 年冠状病毒而被捕的人)</a></li>
<li><a href="#fang-bin">5.3.2.3.7. Fang Bin (方斌)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#censorship-makes-it-harder-to-solve-social-problems">5.3.3. Censorship makes it harder to solve social problems (审查制度使解决社会问题变得更加困难)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#low-end-population">5.3.3.1. Low-end population (低端人口, 2017)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#war">5.3.4. Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#the-united-states-has-recently-started-several-wars-and-killed-millions">5.3.4.1. The United States has recently started several wars and killed millions! (美国最近发动了几场战争，造成数百万人死亡！)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#uneducated-masses">5.3.5. The Chinese masses are still uneducated, and not fit for free speech and democracy 中国大众愚昧，不能好好选领导</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#not-interested-in-politics">5.3.5.1. The Chinese masses are not interested in politics and therefore not ready to vote (中国群众对政治不感兴趣，因此不准备投票)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#lurker">5.3.5.1.1. Lurker (吃瓜群众)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#overlook-human-rights-for-profit">5.3.6. As long as China is developing economically, it is fine to violate the human rights of a few million people (只要经济好，我不在乎人权)</a></li>
<li><a href="#corruption">5.3.7. Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#operation-fox-hunt">5.3.7.1. Operation Fox Hunt</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#liu-changming">5.3.7.1.1. The detention of Liu Changming’s (刘昌明) family (2018)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#effective">5.4. Will the keyword attacks really help to destroy the firewall? (关键字攻击真的有助于破坏防火墙吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#embargo">5.4.1. Embargoes make dictatorships stronger (禁运使独裁更强大)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#keyword-attacks-could-be-used-by-certain-ccp-political-groups-to-justify-blocking-off-the-entire-external-internet-and-make-the-dictatorship-even-more-pervasive">5.4.1.1. Keyword attacks could be used by certain CCP political groups to justify blocking off the entire external Internet, and make the dictatorship even more pervasive</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#so-block-cost">5.4.2. Stack Overflow and GitHub could be blocked at no cost by the Chinese government (中国政府可以免费封锁 Stack Overflow 和 GitHub)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#is-stack-overflow-blocked-in-china">5.4.2.1. Is Stack Overflow blocked in China? (Stack Overflow 在中国被封锁了吗？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#disturbs">5.4.3. Keyword attack profiles disturb me (关键字攻击个人资料页打扰我)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#browser-extensions-to-hide-keyword-attacks">5.4.3.1. Browser extensions to hide keyword attacks (隐藏关键字攻击的浏览器扩展)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#not-chinese">5.5. Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#in-memory-of-bethune">5.5.1. In Memory of Bethune (纪念白求恩)</a></li>
<li><a href="#the-ccp-would-not-be-in-power-if-it-werent-for-the-second-sino-japanese-war">5.5.2. The CCP would not be in power if it weren’t for the Second Sino-Japanese War (如果没有抗日战争，中共就不会执政)</a></li>
<li><a href="#brainwashed-by-usa">5.5.3. Non-Chinese people have been brainwashed by the USA know nothing about China (非中国人被美国洗脑，对中国一无所知)</a></li>
<li><a href="#evil-west">5.5.4. The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#friendly-west-china-moments">5.5.4.1. Friendly West-China moments (中西友好时刻)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#united-china-relief">5.5.4.1.1. United China Relief (葛思德)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#bias">5.6. Ciro Santilli and this page are completely biased against the Chinese Government! (三西猴和本页完全对中国政府有偏见！)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#throne">5.6.1. Ciro Santilli’s claim to the Qing Dynasty throne (三西猴清朝皇帝觊觎)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ciro-santilli-s-father-in-law">5.6.2. Ciro Santilli’s father-in-law (三西猴的)</a></li>
<li><a href="#preconceived">5.6.3. Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)</a></li>
<li><a href="#flg-bias">5.6.4. Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong just because his wife and mother-in-law do it? (三西猴是否仅仅因为他的妻子和岳母就支持法轮功？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#why-did-ciro-santilli-start-his-keyword-attack">5.6.5. Why did Ciro Santilli start his keyword attack? (为什么三西猴开始他的关键字攻击？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law">5.6.5.1. Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law (三西猴的岳母)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">5.6.5.2. Ciro Santilli’s post when his mother-in-law was put into jail for doing Falun Gong (岳母因修炼法轮功入狱时的帖子)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#jail-post-en">5.6.5.2.1. Jail post en</a></li>
<li><a href="#jail-post-zh">5.6.5.2.2. Jail post zh</a></li>
<li><a href="#jail-post-pt">5.6.5.2.3. Jail post pt</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#further-details-about-ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law-s-persecution">5.6.5.3. Further details about Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law’s persecution (三西猴岳母受迫害的更多细节)</a></li>
<li><a href="#in-the-tweet-about-his-mother-in-law-ciro-santilli-says-correctional-facility-but-reeducation-through-labour-has-been-abolished">5.6.5.4. In the Tweet about his mother in law, Ciro Santilli says "correctional facility", but reeducation through labour has been abolished</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#china-is-fine-as-it-is-stop-making-it-worse">5.7. China is fine as it is, stop making it worse (中国很好，别让它变得更糟)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#i-like-my-dictatorship">5.7.1. I like my Dictatorship (我喜欢我的独裁统治)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#seventeen-moments-of-spring">5.7.1.1. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973, 春天的十七个瞬间, Soviet series about a Soviet spy against the Nazis, 关于苏联间谍反对纳粹的苏联系列)</a></li>
<li><a href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">5.7.1.2. Most Chinese people like their dictatorship (中国大众支持他们的独裁)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#runxue">5.7.1.2.1. Run xue 润学</a></li>
<li><a href="#chilling-effect">5.7.1.2.2. Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a></li>
<li><a href="#view-all-users-who-starred-a-repository-on-github-including-those-who-unstarred">5.7.1.2.3. View all users who starred a repository on GitHub including those who unstarred</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#intolerance">5.7.1.3. Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#first-they-came">5.7.1.3.1. First they came (起初他們)</a></li>
<li><a href="#it-is-fine-for-the-ccp-to-treat-some-of-its-citizens-unfairly-if-the-majority-is-better-off">5.7.1.3.2. It is fine for the CCP to treat some of its citizens unfairly if the majority is better off (如果大多数人过得更好，那么中共不公平地对待一些公民是可以的)</a></li>
<li><a href="#this-is-ciro-santilli-s-personal-problem-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-stop-punishing-us-for-it">5.7.1.3.3. This is Ciro Santilli’s personal problem, we have nothing to do with it, stop punishing us for it (这是三西猴的个人问题，我们与此无关，不要因此而惩罚我们)</a></li>
<li><a href="#stability">5.7.1.3.4. If anyone disagrees with the government they must be punished to keep the stability of the country (如果有人不同意政府，他们必须受到惩罚以保持国家的稳定)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#why-china">5.8. There are bad things happening all over the world, why doesn’t Ciro Santilli fight for those causes as well/instead? (世界各地都有不好的事情发生，为什么三西猴不为这些原因而战/相反？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#western-democracies-are-not-perfect">5.8.1. Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a></li>
<li><a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">5.8.2. Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#two-wrongs">5.8.2.1. Two wrongs don’t make a right (积非成是)</a></li>
<li><a href="#racist-west">5.8.2.2. The West is racist against black people (西方人对黑人有种族主义)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#racist">5.8.2.2.1. You criticized China so you are racist (你批评中国，所以你是种族主义者)</a></li>
<li><a href="#we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020">5.8.2.2.2. We Don’t Hire Blacks by Aaron Dewitt (我们不雇用黑人, 2020)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#western-democracies-have-invaded-other-countries-and-crushed-separatism">5.8.2.3. Western democracies have invaded other countries and crushed separatism (西方民主国家侵略别国粉碎分裂主义)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hate-speech">5.8.2.4. Western democracies also censor subjects such as child porn and hate speech (西方民主国家也审查儿童色情和仇恨言论等主题)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#fake-news">5.8.2.4.1. Fake news (假新闻)</a></li>
<li><a href="#unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west">5.8.2.4.2. Unjust social media censorship in the West (西方不公正的社交媒体审查)</a></li>
<li><a href="#politically-incorrect">5.8.2.4.3. Censorship of "politically incorrect speech" (审查政治不正确言论)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#western-society-is-extremely-unequal">5.8.2.5. Western society is extremely unequal (西方社会极度不平等)</a></li>
<li><a href="#life-of-brian-1979">5.8.2.6. Life of Brian (布莱恩的一生, 1979)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#the-secret-life-of-brian-2007">5.8.2.6.1. The secret Life of Brian (2007)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#snowden">5.8.2.7. Snowden (斯诺登)</a></li>
<li><a href="#bad-things-have-been-done-in-the-name-of-freedom">5.8.2.8. Bad things have been done in the name of freedom (以自由的名义人做过很多坏事)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#ccp-evil">5.9. Is the Chinese government evil? (中国共产党是邪恶的吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens">5.9.1. Chinese politicians really care about the Chinese citizens (中国政客真正关心中国公民)</a></li>
<li><a href="#is-chinese-politician-x-evil">5.9.2. Is Chinese politician X evil? (中国政客X邪恶吗？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#nazi">5.10. Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#hitler-has-only-got-one-ball">5.10.1. Hitler Has Only Got One Ball (希特勒只有一个蛋, 1939)</a></li>
<li><a href="#thousand-year-reich">5.10.2. Thousand-Year Reich (中华人民共和国万岁)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#fourth-reich">5.10.2.1. Fourth Reich (希特勒只有一个蛋, 1939)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#borg">5.10.3. China is like the Borg from Star Trek (博格 (星际旅行和中共长得很想)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#contributing-guidelines">5.11. Contributing guidelines (贡献指南)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#shitpost">5.11.1. I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子)</a></li>
<li><a href="#i-am-going-to-write-a-huge-wall-of-text-to-prove-my-point">5.11.2. I am going to write a huge wall of text to prove my point</a></li>
<li><a href="#can-i-contact-ciro-santilli-in-chinese">5.11.3. Can I contact Ciro Santilli in Chinese? (我可以用中文联系三西猴吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#slang">5.11.3.1. I am going to use a bunch of Chinese slangs because it makes me feel smart (我知道网络语言，我很聪明)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#ruhua">5.11.3.1.1. Ruhua (to disgrace china, 辱华, 乳华)</a></li>
<li><a href="#shina">5.11.3.1.2. Shina (zhina, 支那)</a></li>
<li><a href="#internet-number-slang">5.11.3.1.3. Internet number slang (网络数字语言)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#personal-questions-about-ciro-santilli">5.12. Personal questions about Ciro Santilli (关于三西猴的问题)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#has-ciro-santilli-you-ever-lived-in-china">5.12.1. Has Ciro Santilli you ever lived in China? (三西猴住过中国吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#would-ciro-santilli-like-to-live-in-china">5.12.1.1. Would Ciro Santilli like to live in China? (三西猴想住在中国吗？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#would-ciro-santilli-be-able-to-visit-china-before-the-ccp-ends">5.12.1.2. Would Ciro Santilli be able to visit China before the CCP ends? (三西猴能否在中共结束之前访问中国？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#is-ciro-santilli-chinese">5.12.2. Is Ciro Santilli Chinese? (三西猴是中国人吗？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">5.12.3. Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? (三西猴会说中文吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#chinese-characters-are-insane">5.12.3.1. Chinese characters are insane (汉字是疯狂的)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#seal">5.12.3.1.1. Seal (印章)</a></li>
<li><a href="#evil-chinese-characters-by-ted-chiang">5.12.3.1.2. Evil Chinese Characters by Ted Chiang (坏汉字由Ted Chiang)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#radical">5.12.4. Is Ciro Santilli a radical? (三西猴是激进分子吗？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ciro-santilli-is-stupid">5.12.5. Ciro Santilli is stupid (三西猴是个傻瓜)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#ad-hominem">5.12.5.1. Ad hominem (訴諸人身)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#is-ciro-santilli-a-sjw">5.12.6. Is Ciro Santilli a SJW?</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#are-you-a-sjw">5.12.6.1. Are you a SJW?</a></li>
<li><a href="#china-watcher">5.12.6.2. Is Ciro Santilli a China watcher? (Pekingologist, 三西猴是中国观察者吗？, Intelligence Analyst)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">5.12.7. Does Ciro Santilli hate China? (三西猴讨厌中国吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#if-you-are-against-the-ccp-then-you-are-against-china">5.12.7.1. If you are against the CCP, then you are against China (如果你反对中共，那么你就是反对中国)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinese-traditional-painting">5.12.7.2. Chinese traditional painting (中国传统绘画)</a></li>
<li><a href="#why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much">5.12.7.3. Why does Ciro Santilli love China so much? (为什么三西猴喜欢中国那么多？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#selfish">5.12.8. Ciro Santilli’s China freedom campaign is selfish (三西猴是自私的)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#famous">5.12.8.1. Ciro Santilli is doing his China freedom campaign to become famous (三西猴正在做他的中国自由运动以成名)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#ciro-santilli-is-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-because-it-makes-him-feel-important-c">5.12.8.1.1. Ciro Santilli is doing his China freedom campaign because it makes him feel important (C三西猴正在进行他的中国自由运动，因为这让他觉得自己很重要)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#ciro-santilli-is-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-to-vent-off-his-anger">5.12.8.2. Ciro Santilli is doing his China freedom campaign to vent off his anger (三西猴正在进行他的中国自由运动以发泄他的愤怒)</a></li>
<li><a href="#funded-by-cia">5.12.8.3. Is Ciro Santilli’s china-dictatorship campaign funded or otherwise supported by some organization? 谁收买三西猴散布关于中国的谣言？</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#would-ciro-santilli-be-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-if-he-was-in-china">5.12.9. Would Ciro Santilli be doing his China freedom campaign if he was in China? (如果他在中国，三西猴会做他的中国自由运动吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#does-your-employer-support-this">5.12.9.1. Does your employer support this project? (你的雇主支持此项目吗？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#better-to-do">5.12.10. Doesn’t Ciro Santilli have anything better to do than pissing off China? (除了反对中共以外，三西猴有没有别的更好的事儿要作吗？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#is-ciro-anti-communism">5.12.11. Is Ciro Santilli against Communism/Socialism in general or just against the Chinese Communist Party specifically? Ciro Santilli 是普遍反对共产主义/社会主义还是专门反对中国共产党？</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#people-in-china-have-already-considered-democracy-and-rejected-it">5.13. People in China have already considered democracy, and rejected it (中国人已经考虑要不要民主, 到底决定不要了)</a></li>
<li><a href="#violence">5.14. Would it be right to use violence to overthrow the CCP? (用暴力推翻中共正确吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#second-amendment">5.14.1. Second amendment (美國憲法第二修正案)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#dictatorship">5.15. Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack">5.15.1. Where can I find good words for a keyword attack? (我在哪里可以找到关键字攻击的好词？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#keyword-choice">5.15.1.1. How does Ciro Santilli choose keywords for the keyword attack? (三西猴如何为关键词攻击选择关键词？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#other-notable-keyword-attacks">5.15.2. Other notable keyword attacks (其他值得注意的关键字攻击)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#notepad">5.15.2.1. Notepad++</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#notepad-chinese-browsers-block-2020">5.15.2.1.1. Notepad++ Chinese browsers block (2020)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#what-should-all-pro-democracy-people-do-about-china">5.16. What should all pro-democracy people do about China? (所有的民主派人士应该干什么？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#civil-disobedience">5.16.1. Civil disobedience (公民不服從)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#lie-flat-movement">5.16.1.1. Lie Flat movement (躺平主义)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#little-girl-has-ho-hopes-for-school-video-2021">5.16.1.1.1. Little girl has ho hopes for school video (2021, 小姑娘对学校没有希望)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#photobomb">5.16.2. Photobombing-like attacks</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#appropriation-attack">5.16.2.1. Appropriation attack</a></li>
<li><a href="#sport-event-live-broadcast-image-attacks">5.16.2.2. Sport event live broadcast image attacks (体育赛事直播图片攻击)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#enes-kanter-s-shoes">5.16.2.2.1. Enes Kanter’s shoes (埃内斯·坎特, NBA)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">5.16.3. What should Western countries do about China? (西方国家应该怎么对待中国？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#mark-government-controlled-social-media">5.16.3.1. Mark government controlled social media (将政府控制的社交媒体帐户标记为此类)</a></li>
<li><a href="#spy">5.16.3.2. China spy stories (中国间谍故事)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#ministry-of-state-security">5.16.3.2.1. Ministry of State Security (MSS, Guoanbu, 国安部)</a></li>
<li><a href="#pla">5.16.3.2.2. People’s Liberation Army (PLA, 中国人民解放军, 解放军, People’s Oppression Army, 镇压军)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#the-west-must-ban-the-chinese-telecommunications-software-and-hardware">5.16.3.3. The West must ban the Chinese telecommunications software and hardware (西方必须禁止中国电信软件和硬件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#what-should-western-media-do-about-china">5.16.3.4. What should Western media do about China? (西方媒体应该怎么对待中国？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests">5.16.4. Western companies that comply with Chinese censorship requests (遵守中国审查要求的西方公司)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#apple">5.16.4.1. Apple (苹果)</a></li>
<li><a href="#linkedin">5.16.4.2. LinkedIn (领英)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinese-interference-in-western-media">5.16.4.3. Chinese interference in Western media (中国干预西方媒体)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#china-watch">5.16.4.3.1. China watch (2011-)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#bandinchina-github-repository">5.16.4.4. bandinchina GitHub repository</a></li>
<li><a href="#western-companies-that-stood-up-against-the-ccp">5.16.4.5. Western companies that stood up against the CCP (反抗中共的西方企业)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#western-companies-that-supported-the-ccp">5.16.4.5.1. Western companies that supported the CCP (支持中共的西方企业)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#entertainers-who-support-the-ccp">5.16.5. Entertainers who support the CCP (支持中共的艺人)</a></li>
<li><a href="#entertainers-who-oppose-the-ccp">5.16.6. Entertainers who oppose the CCP (反对中共的艺人)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-interference-in-the-western-education-systems">5.17. Chinese Interference in the Western education systems (中共对西方教育体系的干预)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#confucius-institute">5.17.1. Confucius institute (孔子学院)</a></li>
<li><a href="#university-espionage">5.17.2. University espionage (大学间谍)</a></li>
<li><a href="#german-high-school-coordinator-2020">5.17.3. Chinese student coordinator in Germany tells exchange students not to support democracy (2020, 德国学校开班会4反对民主)</a></li>
<li><a href="#thousand-talents-program">5.17.4. Thousand Talents Program (千人计划)</a></li>
<li><a href="#cssa">5.17.5. Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA, 中国学生学者联合会)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ufwd">5.17.6. United Front Work Department (UFWD, 中共中央统一战线工作部)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#united-front">5.17.6.1. United Front (政治协商制度)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#astroturfing">5.17.7. Astroturfing</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#soft-power">5.17.7.1. Soft power (软实力)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">5.18. What should pro-democracy Chinese living in China do about the dictatorship? 想要民主住在中国大陆的人应该干什么？</a></li>
<li><a href="#reply-policy">5.19. Ciro Santilli’s reply policy (三西猴的回答政策)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#asymmetric-information-warfare">5.19.1. Asymmetric information warfare (不对称信息战)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ciro-santilli-blocks-wumaos">5.19.2. Ciro Santilli censors wumaos, therefore he is no different from the Chinese government (三西猴审查五毛，因此他与中国政府没有什么不同)</a></li>
<li><a href="#china-dictatorship-reply-bot">5.19.3. china-dictatorship reply bot</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#who-is-behind-this-amazing-faq">5.20. Who is behind this amazing FAQ? (谁是这个惊人的常见问题解答的幕后推手？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#ciro-santilli">5.20.1. Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#wife">5.20.1.1. Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#how-do-different-websites-view-ciro-santilli-s-profile">5.21. How do different websites view Ciro Santilli’s profile? (不同的网站如何看来 Ciro Santilli 的个人资料？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#stack-overflow">5.21.1. Stack Overflow</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping">5.21.1.1. Stack Overflow forbids criticizing the character of genocidal political leaders like Xi Jinping</a></li>
<li><a href="#stack-overflow-political-image-answer-placeholder-2021">5.21.1.2. Stack Overflow political image answer placeholder (2021)</a></li>
<li><a href="#stack-overflow-mods-refuse-to-clarify-if-anti-ccp-imagery-is-allowed-or-not-2021">5.21.1.3. Stack Overflow mods refuse to clarify if anti-CCP imagery is allowed or not (2021)</a></li>
<li><a href="#other-openly-dissident-users-on-stack-overflow">5.21.1.4. Other openly dissident users on Stack Overflow (Stack Overflow 上的其他公开持不同政见的用户)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#stack-overflow-anti-dissident-users">5.21.1.4.1. Stack Overflow anti-dissident users (Stack Overflow 反异见用户)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#github">5.21.2. GitHub</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#samizdat">5.21.2.1. Samizdat (Soviet underground propagation of censored materials, 秘密出版物, самиздат)</a></li>
<li><a href="#github-report">5.21.2.2. How to report a user on GitHub (GitHub上怎么举报用户？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#github-censored-subdomains">5.21.2.3. GitHub censored subdomains (GitHub 审查的子域)</a></li>
<li><a href="#github-gov-takedowns">5.21.2.4. GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#strategy-if-this-repo-gets-added-to-github-gov-takedowns">5.21.2.4.1. Strategy if this repo gets added to GitHub gov-takedowns (如果此 repo 被添加到 GitHub gov-takedowns 中的策略)</a></li>
<li><a href="#gov-takedowns-china">5.21.2.4.2. gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#github-objectionable-content">5.21.2.5. GitHub "This repository may contain objectionable content" (此仓库可能包含令人反感的内容)</a></li>
<li><a href="#github-censorship-guidelines">5.21.2.6. GitHub censorship guidelines (GitHub 审查指南)</a></li>
<li><a href="#gitee">5.21.2.7. Gitee</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#gitee-censorship">5.21.2.7.1. Gitee censorship (Gitee 审查)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#github-chinese-top-charts">5.21.2.8. GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts (GitHub中文排行榜)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#zhihu">5.21.3. Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></li>
<li><a href="#zhihu-censorship">5.21.4. Zhihu censorship (知乎审查)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#zhihu-purge">5.21.4.1. Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu purge 2019-11-03 (三西猴被知乎抹去)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#ciro-santillis-zhihu-ban-2018-06-25">5.21.4.1.1. Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu ban 2018-06-25</a></li>
<li><a href="#who-reported-ciro-santilli-on-zhihu">5.21.4.1.2. Who reported Ciro Santilli on Zhihu (谁在知乎上举报了 Ciro Santilli)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#zhihu-questions-related-to-ciro-santilli">5.21.4.2. Zhihu questions related to Ciro Santilli (三西猴相关的知乎问题)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#zhihu-ted-chiang-answer">5.21.4.2.1. Answer to the Zhihu question "How do you evaluate Ted Chiang’s 'Evil Chinese Characters' essay?" "如何评价姜峯楠（Ted Chiang）在纽约客上的随笔《坏汉字》？"的回答</a></li>
<li><a href="#zhihu-46957710">5.21.4.2.2. github.com@cirosantilli 是谁维护的，为什么会收集邮箱地址？</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#quora">5.21.5. Quora</a></li>
<li><a href="#ptt">5.21.6. PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a></li>
<li><a href="#lihkg">5.21.7. LIHKG (連登, Hong Kong Reddit clone)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#hkgolden">5.21.7.1. HKGolden (香港高登讨论区)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#google">5.21.8. Google (谷歌)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#google-mirrors">5.21.8.1. Google mirrors (谷歌镜像)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#library-ac-cn">5.21.8.1.1. library.ac.cn</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#anti-ccp-info-sources">6. Anti-CCP information sources (反中共信息来源)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#reddit">6.1. Reddit</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#r-china">6.1.1. r/China Reddit sub</a></li>
<li><a href="#r-chonglangtv">6.1.2. r/chonglangTV Reddit sub</a></li>
<li><a href="#pro-dictatorship-reddit-subs">6.1.3. Pro dictatorship Reddit subs</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#rsino">6.1.3.1. r/sino</a></li>
<li><a href="#r-genzedong">6.1.3.2. r/GenZedong</a></li>
<li><a href="#rrussia">6.1.3.3. r/russia</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#instagram">6.2. Instagram</a></li>
<li><a href="#telegram">6.3. Telegram (TG)</a></li>
<li><a href="#twitter">6.4. Twitter (推特)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#the-great-translation-movement">6.4.1. The Great Translation Movement (大翻译运动官方推号)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#many-people-in-the-west-don-t-fully-appreciate-the-danger-of-china">6.4.1.1. Many people in the West don’t fully appreciate the danger of China 许多西方人没有完全意识到中国的危险</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#gfwfrog">6.4.2. GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#youtube">6.5. YouTube</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#winnie-the-pool">6.5.1. Winnie the Pool (乳透社·小池塘,XJP音源,习近平音源)</a></li>
<li><a href="#eyectv">6.5.2. EyeCTV (眼球中央電視台)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#tumblr">6.6. Tumblr</a></li>
<li><a href="#medium">6.7. Medium</a></li>
<li><a href="#wenxuecity">6.8. Wenxuecity (文学城)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#separatism">7. Separatism (分离主义, Taiwan 台湾, Xinjiang 新疆, Hong Kong 香港)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#taiwan">7.1. Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#taiwan-united-states-relations">7.1.1. Taiwan-United States relations (臺灣與美國關係史)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#one-china-policy">7.1.1.1. One China policy (一个中国)</a></li>
<li><a href="#pelosi-visits-taiwan">7.1.1.2. Pelosi visits Taiwan (佩洛西访问台湾, 2022)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#taiwan-number-one">7.1.2. Taiwan #1 (Taiwan Number One, 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hololive">7.1.3. Hololive Kiryu Coco firing incident (Hololive 台湾事件, 2020)</a></li>
<li><a href="#internal-politics-of-taiwan">7.1.4. Internal politics of Taiwan (中華民國政治)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#taiwan-independence-movement">7.1.4.1. Taiwan independence movement (台湾独立运动)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chiang-kai-shek">7.1.5. Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石, 蔣中正)</a></li>
<li><a href="#taiwan-frog">7.1.6. Taiwan frog (台蛙蛙)</a></li>
<li><a href="#greater-china">7.1.7. Greater China (大中华)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#xinjiang">7.2. Xinjiang (新疆)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">7.2.1. Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#xinjiang-data-project">7.2.1.1. Xinjiang Data Project (新疆数据项目)</a></li>
<li><a href="#xinjiang-model-camps-for-foreign-media">7.2.1.2. Xinjiang model camps for foreign media (新疆外媒示范营)</a></li>
<li><a href="#forced-displacement-of-uyghurs-across-china-2020">7.2.1.3. Forced displacement of Uyghurs across China (2020, 维吾尔人被迫流离失所)</a></li>
<li><a href="#merdan-ghappar-s-video-2020">7.2.1.4. Merdan Ghappar’s Xinjiang prison video (2020, 麥爾丹·阿巴的新疆监狱视频)</a></li>
<li><a href="#xinjiang-cotton">7.2.1.5. Xinjiang cotton (新疆棉花, 2021)</a></li>
<li><a href="#other-islam-countries-speak-up-for-uyghur">7.2.1.6. Why don’t many Islamic countries speak up for the Uyghur persecution? (为什么很多伊斯兰国家不反对维吾尔族迫害？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#holocaust-denial">7.2.1.7. Holocaust denial (犹太人大屠杀否定论)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#inner-mongolia">7.3. Inner mongolia (内蒙古)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#bingtuan">7.3.1. Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团, 兵团)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#tibet">7.4. Tibet (西藏)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#dalai-lama">7.4.1. Dalai Lama (达赖喇嘛)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tibet-re-education-camps-2020">7.4.2. Tibet "re-education" camps (2020)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tibetan-unrest-2008">7.4.3. 2008 Tibetan unrest (2008年西藏骚乱)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tibetan-unrest-1987-1989">7.4.4. 1987-1989 Tibetan unrest (1989年拉萨骚乱)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#hong-kong">7.5. Hong Kong (香港)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#hong-kong-97-snes-video-game">7.5.1. Hong Kong 97 SNES video game (香港 97 SNES 电子游戏)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hong-kong-protests-2014">7.5.2. 2014 Hong Kong protests (Umbrella movement, 雨伞运动占领区)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hong-kong-slogan">7.5.3. Hong Kong slogan</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#liberate-hong-kong">7.5.3.1. Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times (光復香港，時代革命)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#hong-kong-national-security-law">7.5.4. Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法, 2020)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#hong-kong-national-security-department-hotline">7.5.4.1. Hong kong national security department hotline</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">7.5.5. 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#glory-to-hong-kong">7.5.5.1. Glory to Hong Kong (願榮光歸香港, 2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="#do-not-split">7.5.5.2. Do Not Split (不割席, 2020)</a></li>
<li><a href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">7.5.5.3. LeBron James opposes Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (2019)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#falun-gong">8. Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#flg-important">8.1. Why is it important to discus Falun Gong’s even if you don’t believe in it? (为什么不信仰法轮功也很重要要讨论它？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">8.2. Does Ciro Santilli believe in or practice Falun Gong? (三西猴信仰或者练法轮功吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#how-much-does-ciro-santilli-know-about-falun-gong">8.2.1. How much does Ciro Santilli know about Falun Gong? (三西猴对法轮功有多熟悉？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#flg-religion">8.3. Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#falun-gong-believes-that-the-ccp-is-literally-a-manifestation-of-real-devils">8.3.1. Falun Gong believes that the CCP is literally a manifestation of real devils (法轮功认为中共是真正恶魔的化身)</a></li>
<li><a href="#falun-gong-preaching">8.3.2. Falun Gong preaching (法轮功传教)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#flg-telemarketing">8.3.2.1. Some Falun Gong people make phone telemarketing (一些法轮功人搞电话推销)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#flg-cult">8.3.3. Is Falun Gong a cult? (法轮功是邪教吗？)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#ccp-cult">8.3.3.1. CCP cult (中共邪教)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#anti-falun-gong-propaganda">8.3.4. Anti-Falun Gong propaganda (反法轮功宣传)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#orange-papers">8.3.4.1. Orange Papers (橙色文件)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#cult-speak">8.3.4.1.1. Cult speak (邪教话，Orange Papers, 橙色文件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#careful-control-of-your-image">8.3.4.1.2. Careful control of your image (Orange Papers, 小心控制你的形象, 橙色文件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#different-levels-of-truth">8.3.4.1.3. Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#the-group-is-the-only-way">8.3.4.1.4. Insistence that the group is THE ONLY WAY (Orange Papers, 坚持他们的团体是唯一的方式生活, 橙色文件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#no-humour">8.3.4.1.5. No humour (Orange Papers, 不能有幽默, 橙色文件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#promised-powers-or-knowledge">8.3.4.1.6. Promised Powers or Knowledge (Orange Papers, 应许的功能或知识, 橙色文件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#making-cult-members-work-long-hours-for-free">8.3.4.1.7. Making cult members work long hours for free (Orange papers, 让信徒免费长时间工作, 橙色文件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#membership-rivalry-orange-papers">8.3.4.1.8. Membership Rivalry (Orange papers, 让信徒免费长时间工作, 橙色文件)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#flg-canon">8.4. Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#zhuan-falun">8.4.1. Zhuan Falun (转法轮)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#does-ciro-santilli-support-falun-gong-or-just-use-it-because-it-is-censored">8.5. Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong, or just use it because it is censored? (三西猴是支持法轮功，还是仅仅因为它被审查而使用它？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#flg-daily">8.6. How is it like to live with Falun Gong believers? (与法轮功信徒一起生活是一种怎样的体验？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#flg-changed">8.7. Falun Gong is completely different in the West than it was in China (法轮功在西方与在中国完全不同)</a></li>
<li><a href="#falun-gong-has-been-funded-by-the-us-government-at-least-once-therefore-it-is-evil">8.8. Falun Gong has been funded by the US government at least once, therefore it is evil (法轮功至少被美国政府资助过一次，所以是邪恶的)</a></li>
<li><a href="#follow-the-law">8.9. Falun Gong is illegal in China, we must follow the law (法轮功在中国是非法的，我们必须遵守法律)</a></li>
<li><a href="#flg-fake">8.10. Falun Gong is fake (法轮功是假的)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#flg-verifiable">8.10.1. Falun Gong never makes any predictions that can be reasonably verified by non-believers (法轮功从不做任何非信徒可以合理验证的预言)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#against-censorship-and-flg">8.11. Many people both are against both censorship and Falun Gong (我要民主，但是我还要禁止法轮功)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">8.11.1. Why does Ciro Santilli say that democracy is a religion just like Falun Gong? (为什么三西猴说民主就像法轮功一样是一种宗教？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#flg-stability">8.11.2. Falun Gong had to be banned because it was a threat to the stability of the country (法轮功必须被取缔，因为它威胁到国家的稳定)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#many-people-say-they-do-falun-gong-only-to-get-visas-to-the-usa">8.12. Many people say they do Falun Gong only to get VISAs to the USA (很多人说他们修炼法轮功只是为了拿到美国签证)</a></li>
<li><a href="#flg-witness">8.13. I have personally seen people do bad things because of Falun Gong</a></li>
<li><a href="#flg-persecution">8.14. Falun Gong does not have proof of their persecution claims (法轮功没有被迫害的证据)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#western-media-has-exaggerated-reports-on-falun-gong-for-propaganda-reasons">8.14.1. Western media has exaggerated reports on Falun Gong for propaganda reasons (西方媒体以宣传为由夸大法轮功报道)</a></li>
<li><a href="#sun-yi-falun-gong">8.14.2. Sun Yi (孙毅, 2008)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#flg-thoughtcrime">8.15. Someone from movement X did something bad, therefore the movement should be banned (X运动中的某个人做了坏事，因此该运动应该被禁止)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#movement-x-tells-people-to-do-something-bad">8.15.1. Movement X tells people to do something bad, therefore the movement should be banned (运动X告诉人们做坏事，因此运动应该被禁止)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#tiananmen-square-self-immolation-incident">8.15.1.1. Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident (天安门自焚事件, 2001)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#honour-suicides-in-chinese-history">8.15.1.1.1. Honour suicides in Chinese history (中国历史上的荣誉自杀, Qu Yuan, 屈原, Wu Zixu, 伍子胥)</a></li>
<li><a href="#qu-yuan">8.15.1.1.2. Qu Yuan (屈原, 340-278 BC)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#flg-political">8.16. People from movement X are only in it for political power (X运动的人只是为了政治权力)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#flg-trump">8.16.1. Falun Gong supports Donald (Trump, 法轮功支持特朗普)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-the-allegations-of-human-rights-violations-done-to-falun-gong-believers">8.17. Does Ciro Santilli believe in the allegations of human rights violations done to Falun Gong believers?</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#flg-organ-harvesting">8.17.1. Does Ciro Santilli believe in the allegations of organ harvesting made by Falun Gong believers?</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#2018-china-tribunal">8.17.1.1. 2018 China Tribunal</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#things-ciro-santilli-dislikes-about-falun-gong">8.18. Things Ciro Santilli dislikes about Falun Gong (三西猴不喜欢法轮功的事情)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#flg-organized">8.18.1. Falun Gong downplays the fact that it is highly organized (法轮功淡化了它高度组织化的事实)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#flg-transparent">8.18.1.1. Falun Gong media is not transparent about its affiliation (法轮功媒体对其隶属关系不透明)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#flg-intolerance">8.18.2. Falun Gong dislikes several other groups like homosexuals and some other religions (法轮功不喜欢其他几个群体，如同性恋者和其他一些宗教)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#falun-gong-on-races">8.18.2.1. Falun Gong on races</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#flg-medication">8.18.3. Falun Gong believers are less likely to take necessary medication (法轮功信徒不太可能服用必要的药物)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#falun-gongs-view-of-epidemics">8.18.3.1. Falun Gong’s view of epidemics (法轮功的流行病观)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#falun-gong-liturgical-calendar">8.18.4. Falun Gong liturgical calendar (法轮功教会年历)</a></li>
<li><a href="#li-hongzhi">8.18.5. Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#falun-gong-is-dangerous-because-li-hongzhi-has-too-much-power-over-followers">8.18.5.1. Falun Gong is dangerous because Li Hongzhi has too much power over followers (法轮功是危险的，因为李洪志对追随者的权力太大)</a></li>
<li><a href="#li-hongzhis-hagiography">8.18.5.2. Li Hongzhi’s hagiography (李洪志的圣徒传记)</a></li>
<li><a href="#what-will-happen-to-falun-gong-when-li-honzhi-dies">8.18.5.3. What will happen to Falun Gong when Li Honzhi dies? (李洪志死后，法轮功会怎样？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#let-s-make-a-mini-series-about-li-hongzhi-s-life">8.18.5.4. Let’s make a mini series about Li Hongzhi’s life (让我们制作一个关于李洪志生平的迷你系列)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#wild-wild-country-2017">8.18.5.4.1. Wild Wild Country (2017, 大师_(电影))</a></li>
<li><a href="#xi-hongzhi-and-li-jinping">8.18.5.4.2. Xi Hongzhi and Li Jinping (习洪志和李近平)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#li-hongzhis-family">8.18.5.5. Li Hongzhi’s family (李洪志的家庭)</a></li>
<li><a href="#diaries-of-being-in-thailand-with-li-hongzhi-s-family">8.18.5.6. Diaries of being in Thailand with Li Hongzhi’s family (我与李洪志一家在泰国的日子——法轮功教主妹夫的自述)</a></li>
<li><a href="#dragon-springs">8.18.5.7. Dragon Springs (龙泉, Falun Gong’s headquarters in New York State)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#qigong-fever">8.19. Qigong fever (气功热 , 1980’s)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#zhong-gong">8.19.1. Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#uncanny-valley">8.19.1.1. Uncanny valley (恐怖谷理论)</a></li>
<li><a href="#zhang-hongbao">8.19.1.2. Zhang Hongbao (张宏堡)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#xiang-gong">8.19.2. Xiang Gong (香功, 中国芳香智悟气功, Qigong religion)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#falun-gong-bibliography">8.20. Falun Gong bibliography (法轮功参考书目)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#the-falungong-phenomenon-by-hu-ping-2003">8.20.1. The Falungong Phenomenon by Hu Ping (2003)</a></li>
<li><a href="#me-and-li-by-ben-hurley-2017">8.20.2. Me and Li by Ben Hurley (2017)</a></li>
<li><a href="#history-of-falun-gong">8.20.3. History of Falun Gong 法轮功历史</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#benjamin-penny-the-life-and-times-of-li-hongzhi-2003">8.20.3.1. The Life and times of Li Hongzhi by Benjamin Penny (2003)</a></li>
<li><a href="#benjamin-penny-the-religion-of-falun-gong-2012">8.20.3.2. The Religion of Falun Gong by Benjamin Penny (2012)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#christianity">9. Christianity (基督教)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#ccp-vatican-deal">9.1. CCP-Vatican deal (中共-梵蒂冈协议, 2018)</a></li>
<li><a href="#eastern-lightning">9.2. Eastern Lightning 全能神教會 (1991-)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#kaifeng-jews">10. Kaifeng Jews (开封犹太人)</a></li>
<li><a href="#gay-rights">11. Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#everyone-can-feel-that-a-profound-change-is-underway-by-li-guangman">11.1. Everyone can feel that a profound change is underway by Li Guangman (2021, 李光满《每个人都能感受到，一场深刻的变革正在进行！》)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#womans-rights">12. Woman’s rights (妇女权利)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#evil-man">12.1. Evil man (中国男性之恶)</a></li>
<li><a href="#metoo">12.2. MeToo</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#peng-shuai">12.2.1. Peng Shuai (tennis player, 2021 Zhang Gaoli sexual assual allegations, 彭帅)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#labour-rights">13. Labour rights (劳工权益)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#nine-nine-six-icu">13.1. 996.ICU (2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="#jasic">13.2. Jasic Workers Solidarity Group (佳士工人声援团, 2018)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#jasic-incident">13.2.1. Jasic incident (佳士事件)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#yue-xin">13.3. Yue Xin (岳昕)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#yue-xin-open-letter">13.3.1. 岳昕-致北京大学师生和北大外国语学院的一封公开信 (An open letter to the teachers and students of Peking University and the School of Foreign Languages of Peking University by Yue Xin)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#politicians">14. Chinese politicians (中国政治家)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#xi-jinping">14.1. Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">14.1.1. Xi Jinping abolishes term limits (习近平取消国家主席任期限制, 2018-03)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#letter-n">14.1.1.1. Letter "N" censorship (N字母被封了, 2018)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#panama-papers">14.1.2. Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#foreign-citizenship-of-xi-jinping-s-family">14.1.2.1. Foreign citizenship of Xi Jinping’s family (习近平家族外籍人士)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#xi-mingze">14.1.2.1.1. Xi Mingze (Xi Jinping’s daughter, 习明泽)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#xi-jinping-memes">14.1.3. Xi Jinping memes (习近平模因)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#xi-jinping-nicknames">14.1.3.1. Xi Jinping nicknames (习近平昵称)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#xi-dada">14.1.3.1.1. Xi Dada (习大大, 2015)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#xi-jinping-lookalikes">14.1.3.2. Xi Jinping lookalikes (习近平撞脸)</a></li>
<li><a href="#xi-jinping-porn">14.1.3.3. Xi Jinping porn (习近平色情)</a></li>
<li><a href="#winnie-the-pooh">14.1.3.4. Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chrysanthemium-xi-jinping">14.1.3.5. Chrysanthemium Xi Jinping (菊花习近平, 2015)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#xi-jinping-thought">14.1.4. Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#the-governance-of-china">14.1.4.1. The Governance of China (习近平谈治国理政)</a></li>
<li><a href="#youth-learning">14.1.4.2. Youth Learning (青年大学习)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#xi-jinping-thought-primary-school-textbook-2021">14.1.4.2.1. Xi Jinping Thought primary school textbook (2021, 习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想学生读本。小学高年级。)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#two-safegards">14.1.4.3. Two safegards (两个维护, 2018)</a></li>
<li><a href="#community-with-shared-future-for-mankind">14.1.4.4. Community with shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体)</a></li>
<li><a href="#xuexi-qiangguo">14.1.4.5. Xuexi Qiangguo app (Study for a strong country app, 学习强国, xxqg, 2019)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#fuck-xuexiqiangguo">14.1.4.5.1. Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo (Fuck学习强国)</a></li>
<li><a href="#national-anti-fraud-center-app">14.1.4.5.2. National Anti-Fraud Center App (国家反诈中心APP, 2021)</a></li>
<li><a href="#jingwang-weishi">14.1.4.5.3. Jingwang Weishi app (Clean Net Guardian app, 净网卫士)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-dream">14.1.4.6. Chinese dream (中国梦, 4000 BC -)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#dream-of-the-red-chamber">14.1.4.6.1. Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦)</a></li>
<li><a href="#american-dream">14.1.4.6.2. American dream (美国梦)</a></li>
<li><a href="#nazi-dream">14.1.4.6.3. Nazi dream (纳粹梦)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#xi-jinping-speech-synthesizer">14.1.5. Xi Jinping speech synthesizer (习近平讲话模拟器)</a></li>
<li><a href="#xi-jinping-deepfakes">14.1.6. Xi Jinping deepfakes (习近平的deepfakes)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#carrie-lam">14.2. Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥, 2017-)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hu-jintao">14.3. Hu Jintao (胡锦涛, 2002-2012)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#hu-jintao-gets-kicked-out">14.3.1. Hu Jintao gets kicked out of the 20th National Congress (胡锦涛从中共二十大被开除, 2022)</a></li>
<li><a href="#bo-xilai">14.3.2. Bo Xilai (薄熙来, 2007-2012)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#jiang-zemin">14.4. Jiang Zemin (江泽民, 1989-2002)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#three-represents">14.4.1. Three Represents (三个代表, 2000)</a></li>
<li><a href="#too-young-too-naive">14.4.2. Too young, too naive</a></li>
<li><a href="#li-keqiang">14.4.3. Li Keqiang (李克强, 2013-2023)</a></li>
<li><a href="#li-peng">14.4.4. Li Peng (李鹏, 1988-1998)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#deng-xiaoping">14.5. Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, 1982-1987)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#xidan-democracy-wall">14.5.1. Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#wei-jingsheng">14.5.1.1. Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#the-fifth-modernization">14.5.1.1.1. The Fifth Modernization (第五个现代化, 1978)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#mao-zedong">14.6. Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#the-private-life-of-chairman-mao">14.6.1. The Private Life of Chairman Mao (毛泽东私人医生回忆录)</a></li>
<li><a href="#little-red-book">14.6.2. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book, 毛主席语录, 1976)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hundred-flowers-campaign">14.6.3. Hundred Flowers Campaign 百花齐放 (1956-1957)</a></li>
<li><a href="#great-leap-forward">14.6.4. Great Leap Forward (大跃进, da4 yue4 jin4, 1958-1960)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#great-chinese-famine">14.6.4.1. Great Chinese Famine (三年困难时期, 1959-1961)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#four-pests-campaign">14.6.4.1.1. Four Pests campaign (除四害, sparrow war, 1958-1962)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#cultural-revolution">14.6.5. Cultural Revolution (文化大革命, 1966-1976)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#revolutionary-opera">14.6.5.1. Revolutionary opera (样板戏)</a></li>
<li><a href="#struggle-session">14.6.5.2. Struggle session (批斗)</a></li>
<li><a href="#mao-swim">14.6.5.3. Mao swim across the Yangtze river (毛主席畅游长江, 1966-07-16)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#wang-huning">14.7. Wang Huning (王沪宁)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#the-culprit-of-three-dynasties">14.7.1. Wang Huning, The Culprit of Three Dynasties (三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#sport-related-events">15. Sport related events (和体育有关的事件)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#esport-events">15.1. Esport events (电子竞技事件)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#blitzchung">15.1.1. Blitzchung</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#news">16. News (新闻)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#news-2020">16.1. News 2020</a></li>
<li><a href="#news-2019">16.2. News 2019</a></li>
<li><a href="#news-2018">16.3. News 2018</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#changsheng-bio-technology-vaccine-data-falsification-incident-2018">16.3.1. Changsheng Bio-Technology vaccine data falsification incident (长生生物, 2018)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#news-2017">16.4. News 2017</a></li>
<li><a href="#news-2016">16.5. News 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="#news-2015">16.6. News 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="#news-pre-2015">16.7. News pre-2015</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#tiananmen">17. Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#liubukou-massacre">17.1. Liubukou massacre (六部口惨案)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tiananmen-songs">17.2. Tiananmen Square Protests songs (六四事件歌曲)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tank-man">17.3. Tank Man (坦克人)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#tank-man-song">17.3.1. Tank Man Song by Xu Lin (坦克人歌曲，作曲家：徐琳, 2016)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#xu-lin">17.3.1.1. Xu Lin (徐琳)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#tiananmen-was-necessary">17.4. It is becauase the CCP put down Tiananmen that China is the wonderful place it is today? (是因为中共平定了天安门事件，中国才有今天这样美好的地方吗？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#protester-violence">17.5. CCP soldiers were killed in Tiananmen by protesters, therefore the students are wrong (中共士兵在天安门被抗议者杀害，学生错了)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tiananmen-square-protests-keywords">17.6. Tiananmen Square Protests keywords (天安门广场抗议关键词)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tiananmen-leaders">17.7. Tiananmen square protest student leaders (六四学运学生领袖)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#tiananmen-leaders-corrupt">17.7.1. Tiananmen student leaders went to USA and are living just fine (天安门学生领袖去了美国，生活还不错)</a></li>
<li><a href="#operation-yellowbird">17.7.2. Operation Yellowbird (黄雀行动)</a></li>
<li><a href="#zhou-fengsuo">17.7.3. Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chai-ling">17.7.4. Chai Ling (柴玲)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#tiananmen-square-protest-documentaries">17.8. Tiananmen square protest documentaries (六四事件纪录片)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">17.8.1. The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#xiao-bin">17.8.1.1. Xiao Bin (Tiananmen witness, 肖斌, 六四证人)</a></li>
<li><a href="#wu-guoguang">17.8.1.2. Wu Guoguang (吴国光)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#memo64">17.8.2. 64memo.com (六四档案)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#april-26-editorial">17.9. April 26 Editorial (四·二六社论)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tiananmen-antecedents">17.10. Tiananmen antecedents (六四的来历)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#chinese-student-demonstrations-1986">17.10.1. 1986 Chinese student demonstrations (八六学潮)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hu-yaobang">17.10.2. Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦, 1915 - 1989-04-15)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#mao-portrait-vandalism-incident-1989">17.11. 1989 Mao portrait vandalism incident (天安门毛泽东像污损案)</a></li>
<li><a href="#monument-to-the-peoples-heroes">17.12. Monument to the People’s Heroes (人民英雄纪念碑)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#dissidents">18. Dissidents (持不同政见者)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#chinese-dissidents">18.1. Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#naomi-wu">18.1.1. Naomi Wu (SexyCyborg, 机械妖姬 )</a></li>
<li><a href="#lists-of-chinese-dissidents">18.1.2. Lists of Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者名单)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#chinese-human-rights-defenders">18.1.2.1. Chinese Human Rights Defenders (中国人权捍卫者)</a></li>
<li><a href="#front-line-defenders">18.1.2.2. Front Line Defenders (前线卫士)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#ai-weiwei">18.1.3. Ai Weiwei (艾未未, artist)</a></li>
<li><a href="#xu-xiaodong">18.1.4. Xu Xiaodong (Mad Dog, 徐晓冬, martial artist)</a></li>
<li><a href="#software-engineer-dissidents">18.1.5. Software engineer dissidents (持不同政见者的软件工程师)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#programthink">18.1.5.1. Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#liu-xiaobo">18.1.6. Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a></li>
<li><a href="#guo-wengui">18.1.7. Guo Wengui (郭文贵, rich dude)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#hao-haidong">18.1.7.1. Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong">18.1.7.1.1. Zhihu censorship of Hao Haidong (知乎审查郝海东)</a></li>
<li><a href="#baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong">18.1.7.1.2. Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong (百度百科审查郝海东)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chloe-zhao">18.1.8. Chloe Zhao (Zhao Ting, 赵婷, 2021 Oscar winner, 获第93奥斯卡最佳电影和导演奖)</a></li>
<li><a href="#cai-xia">18.1.9. Cai Xia (蔡霞, ex-Party teacher)</a></li>
<li><a href="#xu-zhangrun">18.1.10. Xu Zhangrun (许章润)</a></li>
<li><a href="#vicky-xu">18.1.11. Vicky Xu (许秀中)</a></li>
<li><a href="#howey-ou">18.1.12. Howey Ou (Chinese Great Thunberg, 欧泓奕, 环保活动家, 2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="#yitang-zhang">18.1.13. Yitang Zhang (张益唐, M9athematician, proved the first finite prime gap in 2012)</a></li>
<li><a href="#university-student-dissidents-abroad">18.1.14. Chinese university student dissidents abroad (外交中国大学持不同政见者学生)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#opengl106">18.1.14.1. Ji Ziyue 季子越 (2020-06, opengl106, 神楽坂梓月)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tian-jialiang">18.1.14.2. Tian Jialiang (田佳良, 2018)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#hong-kong-dissidents">18.2. Hong Kong dissidents (香港持不同政见者)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#joshua-wong">18.2.1. Joshua Wong (黄之锋)</a></li>
<li><a href="#agnes-chow">18.2.2. Agnes Chow (周庭)</a></li>
<li><a href="#jimmy-lai">18.2.3. Jimmy Lai (黎智英)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#western-dissidents">18.3. Western anti-CCP dissidents</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#serpentza-laowhy86">18.3.1. Winston Sterzel (SerpentZA) and Matthew Tye (laowhy86)</a></li>
<li><a href="#lele-farley">18.3.2. LeLe Farley (乐乐法利)</a></li>
<li><a href="#aaron-dewitt">18.3.3. Aaron DeWitt (The Chinese Tea)</a></li>
<li><a href="#the-woke-global-times">18.3.4. The woke global times</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#media">19. Media (媒体)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#commentary-media">19.1. Commentary media</a></li>
<li><a href="#biased-media">19.2. Biased media (偏见媒体)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#chinese-government-media">19.2.1. Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a></li>
<li><a href="#national-radio-and-television-administration">19.2.2. National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA, 国家广播电影电视总局)</a></li>
<li><a href="#xinhua">19.2.3. Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#new-china-tv">19.2.3.1. New China TV</a></li>
<li><a href="#internal-media-of-china">19.2.3.2. Internal media of China (内参)</a></li>
<li><a href="#cctv">19.2.3.3. China Central Television (CCTV, 中国中央电视台, 央视, CCP media)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#cgtn">19.2.3.3.1. China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#peoples-daily">19.2.3.4. People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#global-times">19.2.3.5. Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#china-daily">19.2.3.6. China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#china-radio-international">19.2.3.7. China Radio International (CRI, 中国国际广播电台, CCP media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#pro-chinese-government-media">19.2.3.8. Pro-Chinese government media (pro-CCP media)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#guancha">19.2.3.8.1. Guancha News (观察者网)</a></li>
<li><a href="#kknews">19.2.3.8.2. kknews (pro-CCP media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#kaiwind">19.2.3.8.3. Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#falun-gong-media">19.2.4. Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#epoch-media-group">19.2.4.1. Epoch Media Group</a></li>
<li><a href="#epoch-times">19.2.4.2. The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ntdtv">19.2.4.3. New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#china-uncensored">19.2.4.3.1. China Uncensored (pro-Falun Gong media)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#minghui">19.2.4.4. Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#shen-yun">19.2.4.5. Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#jennifer-zeng">19.2.4.6. Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#bannedbook">19.2.4.7. bannedbook.org (禁闻网, pro-Falun Gong media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tuidang">19.2.4.8. Tuidang movement (退党, Falun Gong media)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#usa-government-media">19.2.5. USA government media (美国政府媒体)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#ned">19.2.5.1. National Endowment for Democracy (NED)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#boxun">19.2.5.1.1. Boxun (博讯, USA government media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#china-digital-times">19.2.5.1.2. China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hric">19.2.5.1.3. Human Rights in China (organization, HRIC, 中国人权)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#hoover-institution">19.2.5.2. Hoover Institution (胡佛研究所, USA government media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#jamestown-foundation">19.2.5.3. Jamestown Foundation (USA government media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#bbc">19.2.5.4. BBC (英国广播公司, British government media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#dw">19.2.5.5. Deutsche Welle (DW, 德国之声, German government media)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#anti-ccp-media">19.2.6. Anti-CCP media</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#bitter-winter">19.2.6.1. Bitter Winter (寒冬)</a></li>
<li><a href="#human-rigts-organizations">19.2.6.2. Human rigts organizations</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#amnesty-international">19.2.6.2.1. Amnesty International (国际特赦组织)</a></li>
<li><a href="#human-rights-watch">19.2.6.2.2. Human Rights Watch (人权观察)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#usa-based-media-bias">19.2.7. USA-based media bias</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#voa">19.2.7.1. Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)</a></li>
<li><a href="#rfa">19.2.7.2. Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#hong-kong-media">19.3. Hong kong media (香港媒体)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#scmp">19.3.1. South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a></li>
<li><a href="#apple-daily">19.3.2. Apple Daily (苹果日报)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hkfp">19.3.3. Hong Kong Free Press (香港自由新聞)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#media-that-we-are-not-sure-is-biased-or-not">19.4. Media that we are not sure is biased or not</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#caixin">19.4.1. Caixin (财新传媒)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#videos">20. Videos (视频)</a></li>
<li><a href="#funny">21. Funny (搞笑)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#cartoonists">21.1. Cartoonists (漫画家)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#rebel-pepper">21.1.1. Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a></li>
<li><a href="#kuang-biao">21.1.2. Kuang Biao (邝飚)</a></li>
<li><a href="#scarfolk-council">21.1.3. Scarfolk Council</a></li>
<li><a href="#badiucao">21.1.4. Baidiucao (巴丢草)</a></li>
<li><a href="#harry-harrison">21.1.5. Harry Harrison</a></li>
<li><a href="#paresh-nath">21.1.6. Paresh Nath</a></li>
<li><a href="#matsuyama-miyabi">21.1.7. Matsuyama Miyabi (松山雅)</a></li>
<li><a href="#sun-xiangwen">21.1.8. Sun Xiangwen (孙向文)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#wumao-artists">21.1.8.1. Wumao artists (五毛艺术家)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#wuheqilin">21.1.8.1.1. Wuheqilin (乌合麒麟, wumao photographer)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#art">22. Art (艺术)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#dictatorships-are-bad-for-the-arts">22.1. Dictatorships are bad for the arts (独裁统治对艺术不好)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#porn">22.1.1. Pornography ban (色情禁令)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tattoo">22.1.2. Tattoo television ban (刺青电视禁令, 2018)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#live-streaming">22.1.2.1. Live streaming (直播)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#yang-kayli-anthem-desecration">22.1.2.1.1. Yang Kayli anthem desecration (楊凱莉, 2019)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#political-essays">23. Political essays (政治论文)</a></li>
<li><a href="#books">24. Books (书籍)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">24.1. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#law-of-gravity-1984">24.1.1. Law of Gravity passage from Nineteen Eighty-Four (《十九八十四》中的万有引力段落)</a></li>
<li><a href="#newspeak">24.1.2. Newspeak (新语, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a></li>
<li><a href="#thoughtcrime">24.1.3. Thoughtcrime (思想罪, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#brave-new-world">24.2. Brave New World (美丽新世界, 1932)</a></li>
<li><a href="#brave-new-world-books">24.3. Brave New World books passage (美丽新世界的书籍段落, 1932)</a></li>
<li><a href="#classical-chinese-books">24.4. Classical Chinese Books</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#water-margin">24.4.1. Water Margin (水浒传)</a></li>
<li><a href="#journey-to-the-west">24.4.2. Journey to the west (西游记)</a></li>
<li><a href="#confucianism">24.4.3. Confucianism (儒家)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#junzi">24.4.3.1. Junzi (君子)</a></li>
<li><a href="#analects">24.4.3.2. Analects (论语, c. 475-200 BC)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#analects-translation-by-robert-eno-2015">24.4.3.2.1. Analects translation by Robert Eno (2015)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#mencius-book">24.4.3.3. Mencius (book, 孟子 (书), c. 300 BC)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#mencius-translation-by-robert-eno-2016">24.4.3.3.1. Mencius translation by Robert Eno (2016)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#taoism">24.4.4. Taoism (道教)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#zhuangzi">24.4.4.1. Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu, 庄子, c. 300 BC)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#ccp">25. Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#ccp-organization-中共组织">25.1. CCP organization (中共组织)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#politburo">25.1.1. Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党中央政治局常务委员会)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#national-people-s-congress">25.1.1.1. National People’s Congress (全国人民代表大会)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#president-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china">25.1.1.1.1. President of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国主席)</a></li>
<li><a href="#premier">25.1.1.1.2. Premier of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国国务院总理)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#national-congress">25.1.2. National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党全国代表大会, 中共党代会)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#ccp-symbol">25.2. CCP symbol (中共标志)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#national-anthem">25.2.1. Chinese National Anthem (义勇军进行曲, 1978)</a></li>
<li><a href="#flag-desecration">25.2.2. Flag desecration (亵渎旗帜)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-state-data-leaks">25.3. Chinese state data leaks</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#shanghai-police-database-leak-2022">25.3.1. Shanghai police database leak (上海公安數據庫泄露事件, SHGA, 1B people, 2022)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ccp-shanghai-member-data-leak-2020">25.3.2. CCP Shanghai member data leak (中共上海党员名单泄露, 2020)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#policies">26. Policies (政策)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#censorship">26.1. Censorship (审查)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#internal-censorship">26.1.1. Internal censorship is necessary to prevent fake USA accounts from creating harmful propaganda (内部审查是必要的，以防止虚假的美国账户制造有害宣传)</a></li>
<li><a href="#china-has-more-freedom-of-speech-than-the-usa">26.1.2. China has more freedom of speech than the USA! (中国比美国有更多的言论自由！)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#t-shirt">26.1.2.1. What happens if you wear a T-shirt with censored words in China? (如果你在中国穿一件带有审查词的 T 恤会怎样？)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#gfw">26.1.3. Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#beiqiang">26.1.3.1. To be walled off (被墙)</a></li>
<li><a href="#dictator-needs-gfw">26.1.3.2. Would ending the Great Firewall truly end the dictatorship? (结束防火墙真的会结束独裁吗？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#gfw-to-protect-from-usa">26.1.3.3. The Great Firewall is necessary to protect China from harmful USA propaganda and data collection (防火墙对于保护中国免受美国有害的宣传和数据收集是必要的)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#google-china">26.1.3.3.1. Google China (谷歌中国)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#jingjing-chacha">26.1.3.4. Jingjing and Chacha (警警察察)</a></li>
<li><a href="#western-companies-that-sell-censorship-technology-to-dictatorships">26.1.3.5. Western companies that sell censorship technology to dictatorships (向独裁政权出售审查技术的西方公司)</a></li>
<li><a href="#fang-binxing">26.1.3.6. Fang Binxing (Father of the GFW, 方滨兴, 中国防火墙之父)</a></li>
<li><a href="#censorship-monitoring">26.1.3.7. Censorship monitoring (审查监督)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#censorship-monitoring-tools-on-github">26.1.3.7.1. Censorship monitoring tools on GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="#greatfire">26.1.3.7.2. GreatFire (自由微博)</a></li>
<li><a href="#wayback-machine">26.1.3.7.3. Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a></li>
<li><a href="#archive-today">26.1.3.7.4. archive.today (archive.is)</a></li>
<li><a href="#google-cache">26.1.3.7.5. Google Cache</a></li>
<li><a href="#geoscreenshot">26.1.3.7.6. geoscreenshot</a></li>
<li><a href="#geo-targetly">26.1.3.7.7. Geo Targetly</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#lists-of-material-censored-in-china">26.1.3.8. Lists of material censored in China</a></li>
<li><a href="#gfwlist">26.1.3.9. gfwlist</a></li>
<li><a href="#censorship-circumvention">26.1.3.10. Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#clash-for-windows">26.1.3.10.1. clash_for_Windows</a></li>
<li><a href="#siteproxy">26.1.3.10.2. siteproxy</a></li>
<li><a href="#hide-destination-ip-until-it-leave-the-country">26.1.3.10.3. Hide destination IP until it leave the country</a></li>
<li><a href="#ensi">26.1.3.10.4. TLS 1.3 ENSI</a></li>
<li><a href="#ech">26.1.3.10.5. TLS 1.3 ECH</a></li>
<li><a href="#shadowsocks">26.1.3.10.6. ShadowSocks</a></li>
<li><a href="#socks">26.1.3.10.7. SOCKS</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#icp-license">26.1.3.11. ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#social-media-license">26.1.3.11.1. Social media license</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#cac">26.1.3.12. Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC, 国家互联网信息办公室, 中央网信办)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#cac-report-website">26.1.3.12.1. CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#it-is-not-possible-to-block-a-single-page-of-an-https-website">26.1.3.13. It is not possible to block a single page of an HTTPS website (无法阻止 HTTPS 网站的单个页面)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinese-web-browser-censorship">26.1.3.14. Chinese web browser censorship (中国网页浏览器审查)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#china-dictatorship-chinese-web-browser-block">26.1.3.14.1. china-dictatorship Chinese web browser block (2021, china-dictatorship 中国浏览器审查)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#wumao">26.1.4. Wumao (五毛)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#little-pink">26.1.4.1. Little pink (小粉紅, 小紅粉, 兔友)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#that-rabbit">26.1.4.1.1. That Rabbit (那兔)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#how-to-deal-with-wumaos">26.1.4.2. How to deal with wumaos (如何应对五毛)</a></li>
<li><a href="#where-to-find-wumaos">26.1.4.3. Where to find wumaos (哪里可以找到五毛？)</a></li>
<li><a href="#internet-water-army">26.1.4.4. Internet Water Army (网络水军, DDP, 1450)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ccp-apologists">26.1.4.5. CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#tankie">26.1.4.5.1. Tankie</a></li>
<li><a href="#neville-roy-singham">26.1.4.5.2. Neville Roy Singham (ThoughtWorks founder)</a></li>
<li><a href="#nathan-rich">26.1.4.5.3. Nathan Rich (Hotpot King, 火锅大王)</a></li>
<li><a href="#barrett-channel">26.1.4.5.4. Barrett Channel</a></li>
<li><a href="#daniel-dumbrill">26.1.4.5.5. Daniel Dumbrill</a></li>
<li><a href="#nigel-ng">26.1.4.5.6. Nigel Ng (ungle-roger, mrnigelng, 罗杰叔叔)</a></li>
<li><a href="#raz-gal-or">26.1.4.5.7. Raz Gal-Or (高佑思, Ychina, Y-Platform, 歪果仁研究协会)</a></li>
<li><a href="#jerry-goode">26.1.4.5.8. Jerry Goode (诸葛杰瑞)</a></li>
<li><a href="#world-war-ii-propaganda">26.1.4.5.9. World war ii propaganda (二战宣传)</a></li>
<li><a href="#world-war-2-radio-propaganda">26.1.4.5.10. World war 2 radio propaganda (二战电台宣传)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#real-username-law">26.1.5. Real username law (2015)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#anonymous-account-ban">26.1.5.1. Anonymous accounts ban (2017)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#journalism">26.1.6. Journalism (新闻业)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#freedom-of-the-press">26.1.6.1. Freedom of the press (新闻自由)</a></li>
<li><a href="#western-journalists-in-china">26.1.6.2. Western journalists in China (在中国的外国记者)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#mass-surveillance">26.2. Mass surveillance (大规模监控)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#mass-surveillance-in-china">26.2.1. Mass surveillance in China (中华人民共和国大规模监控)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#social-credit-system">26.3. Social Credit System (社会信用体系)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinese-foreign-interference-campaigns">26.4. Chinese foreign interference campaigns (中国外国干涉运动)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#belt-and-road-initiative">26.4.1. Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路)</a></li>
<li><a href="#wikimedia-infiltration">26.4.2. Wikimedia infiltration</a></li>
<li><a href="#winter-olympics-2022">26.4.3. 2022 Winter Olympics in China (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#communist-youth-league">26.5. Communist Youth League of China (中国共产主义青年团)</a></li>
<li><a href="#child-brainwashing">26.6. Child brainwashing (儿童洗脑)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#young-pioneers-of-china">26.6.1. Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#red-army-school">26.7. Red Army school (红军小学)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#hitler-youth">26.7.1. Hitler Youth (希特勒青年团)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#one-child-policy">26.8. One-child policy (一孩政策, 1979–2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="#five-poisons">26.9. Five poisons (五毒)</a></li>
<li><a href="#core-socialist-values">26.10. Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#democracy">26.10.1. Democracy (民主)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#democracy-party-of-china">26.10.1.1. Democracy Party of China (中国民主党)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#rule-of-law">26.10.2. Rule of law (法治)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#the-709-crackdown">26.11. 709 crackdown (2015, 中國709維權律師大抓捕事件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#crime-and-punishment">26.12. Crime and punishment (犯罪与惩罚)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#laogai">26.12.1. Laogai (劳改)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#re-education-through-labor">26.12.1.1. Re-education through labor (劳动教养)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#picking-quarrels">26.12.2. Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#inciting-subversion">26.12.2.1. Inciting subversion of state power (煽动颠覆国家政权罪)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hurt-the-feelings-of-the-chinese-people">26.12.2.2. Hurt the feelings of the Chinese people (伤害中国人民的感情)</a></li>
<li><a href="#politically-sensitive">26.12.2.3. Politically sensitive (政治敏感)</a></li>
<li><a href="#residential-surveillance">26.12.2.4. Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (指定居所监视居住, RSDL)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#drink-tea">26.12.3. Police invite to drink tea (被请喝茶)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#support-for-non-scientific-traditional-practices">26.13. Support for non-scientific traditional practices (支持非科学的传统做法)</a></li>
<li><a href="#video-game-ban">26.14. Video game ban (电子游戏禁令, 2021)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#anti-video-game-ban-tools">26.14.1. Anti video game ban tools</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#central-party-school">26.15. Central Party School of the Communist Party of China (Central Party School, 中共中央党校, 中央党校))</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-companies">27. Chinese companies (中国公司)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#zoom">27.1. Zoom</a></li>
<li><a href="#huawei">27.2. Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a></li>
<li><a href="#bytedance">27.3. ByteDance (字节跳动, Douyin owner)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#tiktok">27.3.1. TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)</a></li>
<li><a href="#toutiao">27.3.2. Toutiao (今日头条, news platform by ByteDance)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#baidu">27.4. Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#baidu-baike">27.4.1. Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a></li>
<li><a href="#sohu">27.4.2. Sohu (搜狐, smaller Chinese Google)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#alibaba">27.5. Alibaba (阿里巴巴, Chinese Amazon clone)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#jack-ma">27.5.1. Jack Ma (马云, Alibaba founder)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#jack-mas-disappearance-2021">27.5.1.1. Jack Ma’s disappearance (马云的失踪, 2021)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#xiaomi">27.6. Xiaomi (小米, cell phone company)</a></li>
<li><a href="#netease">27.7. NetEase (网易, online gaming company)</a></li>
<li><a href="#tencent">27.8. Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#qq">27.8.1. QQ</a></li>
<li><a href="#oa-com">27.8.2. oa.com</a></li>
<li><a href="#wechat">27.8.3. WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#sina">27.9. Sina Corp (新浪, Weibo owner)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#weibo">27.9.1. Weibo (新浪微博)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#ciro-santillis-weibo-block">27.9.1.1. Ciro Santilli’s Weibo block (三西猴被微博屏蔽)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#bilibili">27.10. Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站, YouTube clone)</a></li>
<li><a href="#qihoo">27.11. Qihoo 360 (奇虎360, Internet security company)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinese-censorship-companies">27.12. Chinese censorship companies (中国审查公司)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#dahua-technology">27.12.1. Dahua Technology (大华股份)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#em_nation_type_uygur-2020">27.12.1.1. EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR (2020)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#knowlesys">27.12.2. Knowlesys (乐思软件)</a></li>
<li><a href="#zhenhua-data-leak">27.12.3. Zhenhua Data leak (深圳振华数据信息技术有限公司, 2020)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#backlinks">28. Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#sogou-com-traffic">28.1. sogou.com traffic</a></li>
<li><a href="#v2ex">28.2. V2EX (semi-censored forum)</a></li>
<li><a href="#pincong">28.3. Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#mohu">28.3.1. Mohu (膜乎)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#esu-wiki">28.4. Esu Wiki (惡俗維基, politically incorrect wiki)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#zhina-wiki">28.4.1. Zhina Wiki (支纳维基, politically incorrect wiki)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#anti-dictatorship-songs">29. Anti-dictatorship songs (反对独裁的首歌)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#do-you-hear-the-people-sing">29.1. Do you hear the people sing (Les Miserables musical, 1980, 問誰未發聲)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#music">30. Chinese Music (中国音乐)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#fart-song-ban-of-2015">30.1. Fart song ban of 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinese-traditional-music">30.2. Chinese Traditional Music (中国传统器乐音乐)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#chinese-traditional-musical-instrument">30.2.1. Chinese traditional musical instrument (中国传统音乐乐器)</a></li>
<li><a href="#the-ten-ancient-famous-songs">30.2.2. The ten ancient famous songs (中国古典十大名曲)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#music-free">30.3. Free music (免费音乐)</a></li>
<li><a href="#music-not-free">30.4. Non-free music</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#master-of-chinese-traditional-music">30.4.1. Master of Chinese Traditional Music (中国民族音乐大师系列)</a></li>
<li><a href="#masters-of-chinese-traditional-music-solo-appreciation">30.4.2. Masters of Chinese Traditional Music Solo Appreciation (中国民乐大师纯独奏鉴赏)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinese-ancient-music">30.4.3. Chinese Ancient Music 中国古乐</a></li>
<li><a href="#not-free-todo-evaluate">30.4.4. Not-free TODO evaluate</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#music-publishers">30.5. Music publishers</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#china-record-corporation">30.5.1. China Record Corporation (中国唱片总公司)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-festivals">31. Chinese festivals (中国节日)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#dragon-boat-festival">31.1. Dragon Boat Festival (端午节, Double Fifth Festival, 重五节)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-history">32. Chinese history (中国历史)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#post-qing-dynasty">32.1. Post Qing Dynasty (1912-)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#chinese-communist-revolution">32.1.1. Chinese Communist Revolution (1921-1949)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#may-fourth-movement">32.1.1.1. May Fourth Movement (五四运动, 1919)</a></li>
<li><a href="#chinese-civil-war">32.1.1.2. Chinese Civil War (国共内战, 1945-1949)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#qing-dynasty">32.2. Qing Dynasty (清朝, 大清, 1636-1912)</a></li>
<li><a href="#ming-dynasty">32.3. Ming Dynasty (明朝, 1368-1644)</a></li>
<li><a href="#song-dynasty">32.4. Song Dynasty (宋朝, 960-1279)</a></li>
<li><a href="#spring-and-autumn-period">32.5. Spring and Autumn period (春秋时代, 771-476 BC)</a></li>
<li><a href="#warring-states-period">32.6. Warring States period (战国时期, 475-221 BC)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#the-best-chinese-food">33. The best Chinese food (中国最好的食物)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#eight-cuisines-of-china">33.1. Eight Cuisines of China (八大菜系)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#the-best-chinese-supermarket-food-products">34. The best Chinese supermarket food products (中国超市食物)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#dumplings">34.1. Dumplings (饺子, jiao3 zi)</a></li>
<li><a href="#buns">34.2. Chinese buns 包子 (bao1 zi)</a></li>
<li><a href="#sunflower-seeds">34.3. Sunflower seeds (瓜子, gua1 zi)</a></li>
<li><a href="#broad-beans">34.4. Dried broad bean snack (干蚕豆, gan1 can2 dou4)</a></li>
<li><a href="#laoganma">34.5. Lao Gan Ma crispy chilly oil 老干妈 (lao3 gan1 ma1)</a></li>
<li><a href="#fansaoguang">34.6. Fansaoguang (饭扫光)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hot-pot">34.7. Hot pot 火锅 (huo3 guo1)</a></li>
<li><a href="#congee">34.8. Congee (粥, zhou1)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#salted-duck-egg">34.8.1. Salted duck egg (咸鸭蛋)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#tea-egg">34.8.1.1. Tea egg (咸鸭蛋)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#lamian">34.9. Lamian (拉面)</a></li>
<li><a href="#daikon">34.10. Daikon (白萝卜, big long Chinese white radish)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#daikon-pork-rib-soup">34.10.1. Daikon pork rib soup (排骨萝卜汤)</a></li>
<li><a href="#winter-melon">34.10.2. Winter melon (冬瓜)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#restaurants">35. The best Chinese restaurants outside of China (中国以外最好的中国饭店)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#resturants--introduction">35.1. Introduction</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#resturants--rating-system">35.1.1. Rating system</a></li>
<li><a href="#resturants--how-to-find-good-restaurants">35.1.2. How to find good restaurants</a></li>
<li><a href="#resturants--similar-lists">35.1.3. Similar lists</a></li>
<li><a href="#resturants--how-to-order">35.1.4. How to order</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--france">35.2. France 法国</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#restaurants--france--paris">35.2.1. Paris 巴黎</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#resturants--france--paris--tier-2">35.2.1.1. Paris tier 2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#resturants--france--marseille">35.2.2. Marseille (马赛)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk">35.3. United Kingdom (英国)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--london">35.3.1. London 伦敦</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--london--little-wooden-hut">35.3.1.1. Little Wooden Hut 小木屋</a></li>
<li><a href="#resturants--uk--london--murger-han">35.3.1.2. Murger Han</a></li>
<li><a href="#resturants--uk--london--tier-2">35.3.1.3. London tier 2</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--london--chinese-tapas-house-london">35.3.1.3.1. Chinese Tapas House</a></li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--london--rice-coming-restaurant">35.3.1.3.2. Rice Coming Restaurant 米齐临</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge">35.3.2. Cambridge 剑桥</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--spring-restaurant">35.3.2.1. Spring Restaurant 春天</a></li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--seven-days">35.3.2.2. Seven Days 天天美食剑桥</a></li>
<li><a href="#resturants--uk--cambridge--72-china">35.3.2.3. @72 China</a></li>
<li><a href="#resturants--uk--cambridge--golden-house">35.3.2.4. Golden House</a></li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--1-1-rougamo">35.3.2.5. 1 + 1 Rougamo</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--oxford">35.3.3. Oxford 牛津</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--oxford--a-taste-of-china">35.3.3.1. A Taste Of China 三秦百味</a></li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--oxford--xi-an">35.3.3.2. Xi’an</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--uk--sheffield">35.3.4. Sheffield 谢菲尔德</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--brazil">35.4. Brazil 巴西</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#restaurants--brazil--sao-paulo">35.4.1. Sao Paulo 圣保罗</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#restaurants--canada">35.5. Canada 加拿大</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#restaurants--canada--montreal">35.5.1. Montreal 加拿大蒙特利尔，</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#museum">36. The best East Asian museums outside of China (中国以外最好的东亚博物馆)</a></li>
<li><a href="#television-series">37. Chinese television series (中国电视剧)</a></li>
<li><a href="#learn-chinese">38. Tips to learn Chinese (学习中文方法建议)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#chinese-character-sentence-component-mnemonic-systems">38.1. Chinese character sentence component mnemonic systems</a></li>
<li><a href="#lists-of-the-most-common-characters-and-words">38.2. Lists of the most common characters and words</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#history">39. History of China (中国历史)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#han-dinasty">39.1. Han dinasty (汉朝, 202 BC - 220 AC)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#suwu">39.1.1. Suwu (苏武)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#geography">40. Geography of China (中国地理)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#five-great-mountains">40.1. Five Great Mountains (五岳)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#mount-tai">40.1.1. Mount tai (泰山, peaceful mountain, big mountain)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#rivers-of-china">40.2. Rivers of China</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#yangtze-river">40.2.1. Yangtze River (长江, Long River)</a></li>
<li><a href="#yellow-river">40.2.2. Yellow River (黄河)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#provinces-of-china">40.3. Provinces of China (中国一级行政区)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#how-to-people-look-like-in-different-provinces-of-china">40.3.1. How to people look like in different provinces of China?</a></li>
<li><a href="#gansu">40.3.2. Gansu Province (甘肃, gan1 su4)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#lanzhou">40.3.2.1. Lanzhou (兰州)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#guangdong">40.3.3. Guangdong Province (广东省, Canton)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#guangzhou">40.3.3.1. Guangzhou (广州)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#guangxi">40.3.4. Guangxi Province (广西壮族自治区, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region)</a></li>
<li><a href="#liaoning">40.3.5. Liaoning Province (辽宁省)</a></li>
<li><a href="#fujian">40.3.6. Fujian Province (辽宁省)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hebei">40.3.7. Hebei Province (河北省)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hubei">40.3.8. Hubei Province (湖北省)</a></li>
<li><a href="#hunan">40.3.9. Hunan Province (湖南省)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#dongting-lake">40.3.9.1. Dongting Lake (洞庭湖)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#heilongjiang">40.3.10. Heilongjian Province (黑龙江省)</a></li>
<li><a href="#henan">40.3.11. Henan Province (河南省)</a></li>
<li><a href="#jilin">40.3.12. Jilin (吉林)</a></li>
<li><a href="#shandong">40.3.13. Shandong Province (山东省)</a></li>
<li><a href="#sichuan">40.3.14. Sichuan Province (四川省)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#chengdu">40.3.14.1. Chengdu (成都市)</a></li>
<li><a href="#taihang-mountains">40.3.14.2. Taihang Mountains (太行山)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#shanxi">40.3.15. Shanxi Province (山西省)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-languages">41. Chinese languages (汉语)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#cantonese">41.1. Cantonese (广东话)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-cheatsheet">42. Chinese cheatsheet (中文备忘单)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#characters">42.1. Characters (汉字)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#top-part-of-每">42.1.1. Top part of 每 (, pistol)</a></li>
<li><a href="#top-part-of-存">42.1.2. Top part of 存 (, market stall)</a></li>
<li><a href="#龶">42.1.3. 龶 (-, crown)</a></li>
<li><a href="#巴">42.1.4. 巴 (ba1, Brazil)</a></li>
<li><a href="#八">42.1.5. 八 (ba1, eight)</a></li>
<li><a href="#白">42.1.6. 白 (bai2, white)</a></li>
<li><a href="#榜">42.1.7. 榜 (bang3)</a></li>
<li><a href="#勹">42.1.8. 勹 (bao1, plastic wrap)</a></li>
<li><a href="#本">42.1.9. 本 (ben3, potato)</a></li>
<li><a href="#匕">42.1.10. 匕 (bi3, spoon)</a></li>
<li><a href="#表">42.1.11. 表 (biao3, watch [device])</a></li>
<li><a href="#卜">42.1.12. 卜 (bu3, magic wand)</a></li>
<li><a href="#不">42.1.13. 不 (bu4, not)</a></li>
<li><a href="#查">42.1.14. 查 (cha2, check)</a></li>
<li><a href="#车">42.1.15. 车 (che1, car)</a></li>
<li><a href="#臣">42.1.16. 臣 (chen2, minister)</a></li>
<li><a href="#彳">42.1.17. 彳 (chi4, step)</a></li>
<li><a href="#辵">42.1.18. 辵 (chuo4, walk)</a></li>
<li><a href="#存">42.1.19. 存 (cun2, survive)</a></li>
<li><a href="#寸">42.1.20. 寸 (cun4, inch)</a></li>
<li><a href="#大">42.1.21. 大 (da4, big)</a></li>
<li><a href="#歹">42.1.22. 歹 (dai3, supervillain)</a></li>
<li><a href="#单">42.1.23. 单 (dan1, bill)</a></li>
<li><a href="#旦">42.1.24. 旦 (dan4, dawn)</a></li>
<li><a href="#但">42.1.25. 但 (dan4, but)</a></li>
<li><a href="#刀">42.1.26. 刀 (dao1, knife)</a></li>
<li><a href="#的">42.1.27. 的 (de, my)</a></li>
<li><a href="#等">42.1.28. 等 (deng3, etcetera)</a></li>
<li><a href="#动">42.1.29. 动 (dong4, move)</a></li>
<li><a href="#对">42.1.30. 对 (dui4, correct)</a></li>
<li><a href="#多">42.1.31. 多 (duo1, many)</a></li>
<li><a href="#儿">42.1.32. 儿 (er2, son)</a></li>
<li><a href="#尔">42.1.33. 尔 (er3, you)</a></li>
<li><a href="#二">42.1.34. 二 (er4, two)</a></li>
<li><a href="#肺">42.1.35. 肺 (fei4, lungs)</a></li>
<li><a href="#巿">42.1.36. 巿 (fu2, lung)</a></li>
<li><a href="#干">42.1.37. 干 (gan1, dry)</a></li>
<li><a href="#该">42.1.38. 该 (gai1, dry)</a></li>
<li><a href="#根">42.1.39. 根 (gen1, roots)</a></li>
<li><a href="#艮">42.1.40. 艮 (gen4, root)</a></li>
<li><a href="#冠">42.1.41. 冠 (guan1, corona)</a></li>
<li><a href="#禾">42.1.42. 禾 (he2, grain)</a></li>
<li><a href="#和">42.1.43. 和 (he2, harmonious)</a></li>
<li><a href="#很">42.1.44. 很 (hen3, very)</a></li>
<li><a href="#火">42.1.45. 火 (huo3, fire)</a></li>
<li><a href="#几">42.1.46. 几 (ji3, side table)</a></li>
<li><a href="#交">42.1.47. 交 (jiao1, exchange student)</a></li>
<li><a href="#巾">42.1.48. 巾 (jin1, towel)</a></li>
<li><a href="#禁">42.1.49. 禁 (jin4, forbid)</a></li>
<li><a href="#口">42.1.50. 口 (kou3, mouth)</a></li>
<li><a href="#里">42.1.51. 里 (li3, mile)</a></li>
<li><a href="#理">42.1.52. 理 (li3, science)</a></li>
<li><a href="#力">42.1.53. 力 (li4, superpower)</a></li>
<li><a href="#列">42.1.54. 列 (lie4, list)</a></li>
<li><a href="#林">42.1.55. 林 (lin2, woods)</a></li>
<li><a href="#临">42.1.56. 临 (lin2, temporary)</a></li>
<li><a href="#仑">42.1.57. 仑 (lun2, logic)</a></li>
<li><a href="#论">42.1.58. 论 (lun4, rationale)</a></li>
<li><a href="#轮">42.1.59. 轮 (lun4, wheel)</a></li>
<li><a href="#没">42.1.60. 没 (mei2, not have)</a></li>
<li><a href="#冖">42.1.61. 冖 (mi4, hajib [Muslim female head scarf])</a></li>
<li><a href="#宀">42.1.62. 宀 (mian2, roof)</a></li>
<li><a href="#木">42.1.63. 木 (mu4, wood, tree)</a></li>
<li><a href="#疒">42.1.64. 疒 (ne4, sick)</a></li>
<li><a href="#你">42.1.65. 你 (ni3, thou)</a></li>
<li><a href="#牛">42.1.66. 牛 (niu2, cow)</a></li>
<li><a href="#爬">42.1.67. 爬 (pa2, climb)</a></li>
<li><a href="#品">42.1.68. 品 (pin3, product)</a></li>
<li><a href="#攴">42.1.69. 攴 (pu1, to tap)</a></li>
<li><a href="#千">42.1.70. 千 (qian2, thousand)</a></li>
<li><a href="#丬">42.1.71. 丬 (qiang2, split wood)</a></li>
<li><a href="#青">42.1.72. 青 (qing1, blue)</a></li>
<li><a href="#清">42.1.73. 清 (qing1, clear)</a></li>
<li><a href="#情">42.1.74. 情 (qing2, lust)</a></li>
<li><a href="#犬">42.1.75. 犬 (quan3, dog)</a></li>
<li><a href="#人">42.1.76. 人 (ren2, person)</a></li>
<li><a href="#日">42.1.77. 日 (ri4, sun)</a></li>
<li><a href="#肉">42.1.78. 肉 (rou4, meat)</a></li>
<li><a href="#勺">42.1.79. 勺 (shao2, wrap sandwitch)</a></li>
<li><a href="#申">42.1.80. 申 (shen1, God)</a></li>
<li><a href="#神">42.1.81. 神 (shen2, The Greek Gods)</a></li>
<li><a href="#审">42.1.82. 审 (shen3, inspect)</a></li>
<li><a href="#生">42.1.83. 生 (sheng1, be born, birth)</a></li>
<li><a href="#十">42.1.84. 十 (shi2, ten)</a></li>
<li><a href="#时">42.1.85. 时 (shi2, time)</a></li>
<li><a href="#使">42.1.86. 使 (shi3, TODO)</a></li>
<li><a href="#示">42.1.87. 示 (shi4, spirit)</a></li>
<li><a href="#水">42.1.88. 水 (shui3, water)</a></li>
<li><a href="#厶">42.1.89. 厶 (si1, private)</a></li>
<li><a href="#私">42.1.90. 私 (si1, privacy)</a></li>
<li><a href="#殳">42.1.91. 殳 (shu1, coffee)</a></li>
<li><a href="#树">42.1.92. 树 (shu4, trees)</a></li>
<li><a href="#讨">42.1.93. 讨 (tao3, discuss)</a></li>
<li><a href="#台">42.1.94. 台 (tai2, platform)</a></li>
<li><a href="#田">42.1.95. 田 (tian1, field)</a></li>
<li><a href="#体">42.1.96. 体 (ti3, body)</a></li>
<li><a href="#土">42.1.97. 土 (tu3, soil)</a></li>
<li><a href="#亠">42.1.98. 亠 (tou2, pan lid)</a></li>
<li><a href="#王">42.1.99. 王 (wang2, king)</a></li>
<li><a href="#勿">42.1.100. 勿 (wu4, atom)</a></li>
<li><a href="#物">42.1.101. 物 (wu4, matter [Physics])</a></li>
<li><a href="#夕">42.1.102. 夕 (xi1, evening)</a></li>
<li><a href="#小">42.1.103. 小 (xiao3, small)</a></li>
<li><a href="#心">42.1.104. 心 (xin1, heart)</a></li>
<li><a href="#幸">42.1.105. 幸 (xing4, luck)</a></li>
<li><a href="#性">42.1.106. 性 (xing4, sex)</a></li>
<li><a href="#言">42.1.107. 言 (yan2, speak, say)</a></li>
<li><a href="#炎">42.1.108. 炎 (yan2, inflammation)</a></li>
<li><a href="#一">42.1.109. 一 (yi1, one)</a></li>
<li><a href="#衣">42.1.110. 衣 (yi1, clothes)</a></li>
<li><a href="#乂">42.1.111. 乂 (yi4, balance)</a></li>
<li><a href="#义">42.1.112. 义 (yi4, justice)</a></li>
<li><a href="#疫">42.1.113. 疫 (yi4, epidemic)</a></li>
<li><a href="#又">42.1.114. 又 (you4, again)</a></li>
<li><a href="#元">42.1.115. 元 (yuan2, first)</a></li>
<li><a href="#月">42.1.116. 月 (yue4, moon)</a></li>
<li><a href="#云">42.1.117. 云 (yun2, cloud)</a></li>
<li><a href="#运">42.1.118. 运 (yun4, sports)</a></li>
<li><a href="#爪">42.1.119. 爪 (zhao3, claws)</a></li>
<li><a href="#政">42.1.120. 政 (zheng4, politics)</a></li>
<li><a href="#正">42.1.121. 正 (zheng4, straighten)</a></li>
<li><a href="#之">42.1.122. 之 (zhi1)</a></li>
<li><a href="#止">42.1.123. 止 (zhi3, stop)</a></li>
<li><a href="#治">42.1.124. 治 (zhi4, cure)</a></li>
<li><a href="#重">42.1.125. 重 (zhong4, dumbbell)</a></li>
<li><a href="#状">42.1.126. 状 (zhuang4, shape)</a></li>
<li><a href="#子">42.1.127. 子 (zi, child)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#english-words">42.2. English words</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#close">42.2.1. Close (关, 合)</a></li>
<li><a href="#list">42.2.2. List (清单, 列表)</a></li>
<li><a href="#for-example">42.2.3. For example (例如)</a></li>
<li><a href="#survive">42.2.4. Survive (幸存, 生存)</a></li>
<li><a href="#unlucky">42.2.5. Unlucky (不幸)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-words">42.3. Chinese words</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#巴西">42.3.1. 巴西 (ba1 xi1, Brazil)</a></li>
<li><a href="#不幸">42.3.2. 不幸 (bu4 xing4, unlucky)</a></li>
<li><a href="#歹人">42.3.3. 歹人 (dai3 ren2, villain)</a></li>
<li><a href="#等等">42.3.4. 等等 (deng3 deng3, etcetera)</a></li>
<li><a href="#肺炎">42.3.5. 肺炎 (fei4 yan2, pneumonia)</a></li>
<li><a href="#冠状病毒">42.3.6. 冠状病毒 (guan1 zhuang4 bing4 du2, Corona virus)</a></li>
<li><a href="#购物清单">42.3.7. 购物清单 (gou4 wu4 qing1 dan1, shopping list)</a></li>
<li><a href="#禁止">42.3.8. 禁止 (jin4 zhi3, forbidden)</a></li>
<li><a href="#禁运">42.3.9. 禁运 (jin4 yun4, embargo)</a></li>
<li><a href="#理论">42.3.10. 理论 (li3 lun4, logic)</a></li>
<li><a href="#临时">42.3.11. 临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)</a></li>
<li><a href="#临时工">42.3.12. 临时 (lin2 shi2 gong1, temporary work, day labour)</a></li>
<li><a href="#列表">42.3.13. 列表 (lie4 biao3, list)</a></li>
<li><a href="#例如">42.3.14. 例如 (li4 ru2, for example)</a></li>
<li><a href="#六">42.3.15. 六 (liu4, six)</a></li>
<li><a href="#木头">42.3.16. 木头 (mu4 tou, wood, timber or log)</a></li>
<li><a href="#爬行">42.3.17. 爬行 (pa2 xing2, crawl)</a></li>
<li><a href="#清单">42.3.18. 清单 (qing1 dan1, list)</a></li>
<li><a href="#青铜">42.3.19. 青铜 (qing1 tong2, bronze)</a></li>
<li><a href="#审查">42.3.20. 审查 (shen3 cha2, censor)</a></li>
<li><a href="#生存">42.3.21. 生存 (sheng1 cun2, survive)</a></li>
<li><a href="#生存游戏">42.3.22. 生存游戏 (sheng1 cun2 you2 xi4, survival game)</a></li>
<li><a href="#台湾">42.3.23. 台湾 (tai2 wan1, Taiwan)</a></li>
<li><a href="#讨论">42.3.24. 讨论 (tao3 luan4, discuss)</a></li>
<li><a href="#体重">42.3.25. 体重 (ti3 zhong4, body weight)</a></li>
<li><a href="#物理">42.3.26. 物理 (wu4 li3, Physics)</a></li>
<li><a href="#幸存">42.3.27. 幸运 (xing4 cun2, survive)</a></li>
<li><a href="#幸运">42.3.28. 幸运 (xing4 yun4, lucky)</a></li>
<li><a href="#性交">42.3.29. 性交 (xing4 jiao1, sexual intercourse)</a></li>
<li><a href="#衣服">42.3.30. 衣服 (yi1 fu, clothes)</a></li>
<li><a href="#疫情">42.3.31. 疫情 (yi4 qing2, epidemic situation)</a></li>
<li><a href="#元旦">42.3.32. 元旦 (yuan2 dan4, (Chinese) New Year’s day)</a></li>
<li><a href="#运动">42.3.33. 运动 (yun4 dong4, sports)</a></li>
<li><a href="#政治">42.3.34. 政治 (zheng4 zhi4, politics)</a></li>
<li><a href="#治愈">42.3.35. 治愈 (zhi4 yu4, recover from a disease, be cured from a disease)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#chinese-sentences">42.4. Chinese sentences</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#测量体重">42.4.1. 测量体重 (Measure body weight, to weight oneself)</a></li>
<li><a href="#大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行">42.4.2. 大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行 (Most babies learn to crawl between 6 and 10 months)</a></li>
<li><a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">42.4.3. 肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></li>
<li><a href="#购物清单APP即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了">42.4.4. 购物清单APP，即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了 (gou4 wu4, With a shopping list APP, even if you are crazy about shopping you don’t need to worry anymore)</a></li>
<li><a href="#海外生存之惑">42.4.5. 海外生存之惑 (hai3 wai4, The puzzle of surviving abroad (of China))</a></li>
<li><a href="#目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等">42.4.6. 目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作，例如武汉大学、南京大学等等 (mu4 qian2, At present, that website also cooperates with the libraries of universities in China and abroad such as Wuhan University, Nanjing University, etc.)</a></li>
<li><a href="#青铜兵器之殳简介">42.4.7. 青铜兵器之"殳"简介 (qing1 tong2, An introduction to the bronze weapon "shu" (殳))</a></li>
<li><a href="#任何不能杀死你的都会使你更强大">42.4.8. 任何不能杀死你的，都会使你更强大 (ren4 he2, What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger)</a></li>
<li><a href="#现有王位觊觎者列表">42.4.9. 现有王位觊觎者列表 (xian4 you3, List of current throne pretenders)</a></li>
<li><a href="#有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积生存物资几个月了">42.4.10. 有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积生存物资几个月了？ (you3 duo1, How many people are like me and have been actively hoarding survival supplies for several months?)</a></li>
<li><a href="#中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算">42.4.11. 中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算 (zhong1 fan4, The backstory behind the temporary Bishop appointment agreement reached between China and the Vatican)</a></li>
<li><a href="#中国大陆网络用语列表">42.4.12. 中国大陆网络用语列表 (zhog4 guo2, List of Mainland China Internet vocabulary)</a></li>
<li><a href="#临时性团队的组建和管理">42.4.13. 临时性团队的组建和管理 (lin2 shi2, Forming and managing a temporary team)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#english-sentences">42.5. English sentences</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#what-doesn-t-kill-me-makes-me-stronger">42.5.1. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#military-dictatorship-in-brazil">43. Military dictatorship in Brazil (巴西军事独裁, 1964-1985)</a></li>
<li><a href="#india">44. India (伊朗)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#india-covid-handling-twitter-suppression-2021">44.1. India COVID handling Twitter suppression (2021)</a></li>
<li><a href="#indian-farmers-protest-censorship-2021">44.2. Indian farmers' protest censorship (2021)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#middle-east">45. Middle East (中东)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#iran">45.1. Iran (伊朗)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#iranian-coup-1953">45.1.1. 1953 Iranian coup d’état (TPAJAX Project, Operation Ajax, 1953年伊朗政變)</a></li>
<li><a href="#china-iran-relations">45.1.2. China-Iran relations (中国－伊朗关系)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#pakistan">45.2. Pakistan (巴基斯坦)</a></li>
<li><a href="#libya">45.3. Libya (利比亚)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#the-green-book">45.3.1. The Green Book</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#north-korea">46. North Korea (朝鲜)</a></li>
<li><a href="#russia">47. Russia (俄罗斯)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#putin">47.1. Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#putler">47.1.1. Vladolf Putler (Владольф Путлер)</a></li>
<li><a href="#putin-s-palace">47.1.2. Putin’s palace (Дворец Путина, 2005-)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#putin-s-palace-film">47.1.2.1. Putin’s palace film (Дворец для Путина. История самой большой взятки, 2021)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#putin-khuylo">47.1.3. Putin khuylo (Путин хуйло, 2014)</a></li>
<li><a href="#putin-sponsored-poisonings">47.1.4. Putin-sponsored poisonings (Путинские отравления)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#skripal">47.1.4.1. Sergei Skripal (2018-03-04, Серге́й Ви́кторович Скрипáль)</a></li>
<li><a href="#litvinenko">47.1.4.2. Alexander Litvinenko (Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович, 2006)</a></li>
<li><a href="#anna-politkovskaya">47.1.4.3. Anna Politkovskaya (Анна Политковская, 2006)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#superputin">47.1.5. Superputin (Супер Путин)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#putin-riding-things">47.1.5.1. Putin riding things (Путин верхом на вещах)</a></li>
<li><a href="#night-wolves">47.1.5.2. Night wolves (Ночные волки)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#gay-putin">47.1.6. Gay Putin (Гей Путин, 2017)</a></li>
<li><a href="#electoral-fraud-in-russian-elections">47.1.7. Electoral fraud in Russian elections</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#electoral-fraud-in-the-2021-russian-elections">47.1.7.1. Electoral fraud in the 2021 Russian elections</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#svetlana-krivonogikh">47.1.8. Svetlana Krivonogikh (Putin’s girlfriend)</a></li>
<li><a href="#putinism">47.1.9. Putinism (путинизм)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#silovik">47.1.9.1. Silovik (Силовики)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#putin-opposition">47.1.10. Putin opposition</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#nfkrz">47.1.10.1. NFKRZ</a></li>
<li><a href="#alexei-navalny">47.1.10.2. Alexei Navalny (Навальный, Алексей Анатольевич)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020">47.1.10.2.1. The poisoning of Alexei Navalny (2020)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#khabarovsk-krai-protests-2020">47.1.10.3. 2020 Khabarovsk Krai protests (Протесты в Хабаровском крае)</a></li>
<li><a href="#sergei-magnitsky">47.1.10.4. Sergei Magnitsky (Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский, 2009)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel5">
<li><a href="#bill-browder">47.1.10.4.1. Bill Browder</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#freedom-of-speech-in-russia">47.2. Freedom of speech in Russia</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#roskomnadzor">47.2.1. Roskomnadzor (Роскомнадзор)</a></li>
<li><a href="#federal-list-of-extremist-materials">47.2.2. Federal List of Extremist Materials (Федеральный список экстремистских материалов)</a></li>
<li><a href="#list-of-journalists-killed-in-russia">47.2.3. List of Journalists killed in Russia (Список журналистов, убитых в России)</a></li>
<li><a href="#russia-mandatory-registration-of-bloggers">47.2.4. Mandatory registration of Russian bloggers (2014)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#russian-state-media">47.3. Russian state media (俄罗斯官方媒体)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#russia-today">47.3.1. Russia Today (RT, Russian state media foreign propaganda arm, 俄罗斯官方媒体)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#russian-government">47.4. Russian government</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#fsb">47.4.1. FSB</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#soviet-union">47.5. Soviet Union (苏联)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union">47.5.1. Censorship of images in the Soviet Union (苏联对图像的审查)</a></li>
<li><a href="#soviet-radio-jamming">47.5.2. Soviet Union radio stations (苏联苏联无线电干扰)</a></li>
<li><a href="#soviet-union-propaganda">47.5.3. Soviet Union propaganda (苏联宣传)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#cold-warriors-writers-who-waged-the-literary-cold-war">47.5.3.1. Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White (2019)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#cold-war">47.5.4. Cold War (冷战)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#realpolitik">47.5.4.1. Realpolitik (现实政治)</a></li>
<li><a href="#agitprop">47.5.4.2. Agitprop (Агитпроп)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#stalin">47.6. Stalin (斯大林, 1922-1952)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#mykola-semena">47.6.1. Mykola Semena (Семена Микола Михайлович, Crimea activist)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#anti-russia-dictatorship-info-sources">47.7. Anti Russia dictatorship sources</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#rferl">47.7.1. Radio Free Europe (Радио_«Свобода»)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#mini-russias">47.8. Mini-Russias</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#belarus">47.8.1. Belarus (Белоруссия)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#alexander-lukashenko">47.8.1.1. Alexander Lukashenko (Лукашенко, Александр Григорьевич)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">47.8.2. Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#zov">47.8.2.1. ZOV by Pavel Filatyev (2022, Павел Филатьев)</a></li>
<li><a href="#marina-ovsyannikova">47.8.2.2. Marina Ovsyannikova (Марина Овсянникова, 2022, anti war poster on live news)</a></li>
<li><a href="#slava-ukraini">47.8.2.3. Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні!)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#kazakhstan">47.8.3. Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#dictatorships-tend-to-work-together">47.9. Dictatorships tend to work together (独裁政权倾向于合作)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#anti-dictatorship-alliances">47.9.1. Anti-dictatorship alliances</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#ipac">47.9.1.1. Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (對華政策跨國議會聯盟, 2020)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#spain">48. Spain (西班牙)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#tsunamidemocratic-github-takedown-2019">48.1. tsunamidemocratic GitHub takedown (2019)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#thailand">49. Thailand (泰国)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#milk-tea-alliance">49.1. Milk Tea Alliance (奶茶联盟)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#united-states">50. United States (美国)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel2">
<li><a href="#afghanistan-and-iraq-wars">50.1. Afghanistan and Iraq wars</a>
<ul class="sectlevel3">
<li><a href="#iraq-war">50.1.1. Iraq War (2003-2011, 伊拉克战争)</a></li>
<li><a href="#guantanamo-bay">50.1.2. Guantanamo bay (关塔那摩湾拘押中心)</a>
<ul class="sectlevel4">
<li><a href="#enhanced-interrogation-techniques">50.1.2.1. Enhanced interrogation techniques</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#united-states-involvement-in-regime-change-in-latin-america">50.1.3. United States involvement in regime change in Latin America</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#israel">50.2. Israel (以色列)</a></li>
<li><a href="#cuban-missile-crisis">50.3. Cuban Missile Crisis (古巴导弹危机, 1962)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#other-sections">51. Other sections</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="about"><a class="anchor" href="#about"></a><a class="link" href="#about">1. About (关于)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This repo has the following goals:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>allow copy pasting links to answers to questions/comments that have been posted a million times before by <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a>, mostly under: <a href="#faq">FAQ (常见问答集)</a>. This was the original goal.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>serve as a censorship bomb to block <a href="#github">GitHub</a> in China: <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a> to destroy the <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a> and <a href="#dictator-needs-gfw">therefore the CCP</a>. Or more realistically get added to the <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a> hall of fame.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>be a fun and sometimes silly source of Chinese mostly anti-CCP culture like a better <a href="https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/China">Unencyclopedia</a> / <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191209021646/http://encyclopediadramatica.rs/China">Encyclopedia Dramatica</a> without the stupid stereotype jokes. Just quickly browse the pictures with Ctrl + F "Figure" and have fun.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>serve as a place where people can post interesting related stuff in the issues: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues</a> see also: <a href="#shitpost">I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>highlight positive about China’s culture outside of its shitty government, such as <a href="#the-best-chinese-supermarket-food-products">food</a> and <a href="#music">Chinese Music (中国音乐)</a>. This has two goals:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>teach foreigners (maybe even Chinese people on certain points) about amazing Chinese things that they can consume</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>show wumaos that <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is not as clueless about China as they think</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/GitHub_collateral_freedom.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="GitHub collateral freedom" height="800">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 1. With HTTPS censors can’t know which path you access. Featuring <a href="#xi-jinping-bdsm-cosplay">Xi Jinping BDSM at cosplay fair</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="copypasta"><a class="anchor" href="#copypasta"></a><a class="link" href="#copypasta">2. Copypasta</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Here’s an image/sentence <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copypasta">copypasta</a>/summary of key events for the <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another advantage of this is that since it comes first in the repo, it ensures that key elements show up on github.com despite file size cutups: <a href="https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1610" class="bare">https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1610</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Each summary section contains a link to the main section, which contains sources and description of each image.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">Xi Jinping abolishes term limits (习近平取消国家主席任期限制, 2018-03)</a> (2018包子露宪)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#the-709-crackdown">709 crackdown (2015, 中國709維權律師大抓捕事件)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#panama-papers">Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016)</a> (邓家贵)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#low-end-population">Low-end population (低端人口, 2017)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#tibetan-unrest-2008">2008 Tibetan unrest (2008年西藏骚乱)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>编程随想 Programthink</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/programthink" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/programthink</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/980" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/980</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Programthink.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Programthink" height="800">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>社会主义核心价值观 Core socialist values</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/core-socialist-values" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/core-socialist-values</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Core_socialist_values.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Core socialist values" height="1000">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>水浒传 Water margin</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/water-margin" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/water-margin</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Water_Margin_tribute_to_dissidents.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Water Margin tribute to dissidents" height="1436">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>我喜欢我的独裁制度 I like my dictatorship</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Anonymous_middle_fingers.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Anonymous middle fingers" height="800">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/uneducated-masses" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/uneducated-masses</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Immoral_and_uneducated.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Immoral and uneducated" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Immoral_and_uneducated_en.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Immoral and uneducated en" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/overlook-human-rights-for-profit" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/overlook-human-rights-for-profit</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Pig_politics_Chinese.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Pig politics Chinese" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Rebel_pepper_pig_can%27t_eat_democracy_cartoon_translated_to_English_by_Ciro_Santilli.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Rebel pepper pig can%27t eat democracy cartoon translated to English by Ciro Santilli" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>六四事件 Tiananmen square protests 1989</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/tiananmen" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/tiananmen</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Music!</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/-JTWXqUPQ7I">Joan Baez - China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/6OOlXJs4I8k">Philip Morgan - Blood is on the square</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tiananmen_students_sitting.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tiananmen students sitting" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tank_Man.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tank Man" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tiananmen_crushed_dead.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tiananmen crushed dead" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>法轮功 Falun Gong 1999 70M believer religion banned</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/falun-gong" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/falun-gong</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Falun_Gong_Guangzhou.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Falun Gong Guangzhou" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Falun_Gong_lady_silenced.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Falun Gong lady silenced" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>新疆改造中心 Xinjiang re-education camps 2018</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/xinjiang" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/xinjiang</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xinjiang_prisoners_sitting_identified.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Xinjiang prisoners sitting identified" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xinjiang_prisoners_march.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xinjiang prisoners march" height="500">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Uyghur_sale_website.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Uyghur sale website" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xinjiang_camp_in_camp.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xinjiang camp in camp" height="600">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>小熊维尼 Winnie the Pooh 2018</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/winnie-the-pooh" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/winnie-the-pooh</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Pooh_Obama.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Pooh Obama" height="500">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Abe_Pooh.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Abe Pooh" height="500">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_heart.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping heart" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>郝海东 Hao Haidong Chinese soccer superstar turns against the CCP 2020</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/hao-haidong" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/hao-haidong</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Hao_Haidong_kick.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Hao Haidong kick" height="500">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>冠状病毒审查 Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/corona" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/corona</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Li_Wenliang_covid.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Li Wenliang covid" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>基督迫害 Christian persecution 2018</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/christianity" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/christianity</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Church_demolition.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Church demolition" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Last_Supper_Mao.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Last Supper Mao" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Pope_CCP_deal.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Pope CCP deal" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>LGBT权利 The suppression of homosexuality</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/gay-rights" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/gay-rights</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tiananmen_lesbian_kiss.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tiananmen lesbian kiss" height="500">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Addicted_bed.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Addicted bed" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>996.ICU</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/nine-nine-six-icu" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/nine-nine-six-icu</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/996ICU.png" loading="lazy" alt="996ICU" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>Gay Putin</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/gay-putin" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/gay-putin</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Gay_Putin.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Gay Putin" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>The poisoning of Alexei Navalny 2020</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Navalny_hospital_sitting.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Navalny hospital sitting" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>Vajiralongkorn Hamtaro</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/thai-king-hamtaro" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/thai-king-hamtaro</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Side_by_side_comparison_between_Thai_king_Vajiralongkorn_and_Hamtaro.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Side by side comparison between Thai king Vajiralongkorn and Hamtaro" height="400">
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Thai_king_crop_top.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Thai king crop top" height="400">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="mirrors"><a class="anchor" href="#mirrors"></a><a class="link" href="#mirrors">3. Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can download the webpage locally from GitHub at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/archive/gh-pages.zip" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/archive/gh-pages.zip</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Media such as images are not stored in this repository, but rather at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media</a> to keep the lightweight clone. That downloaded HTML will read images from that repository, e.g. <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg" class="bare">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg</a>. But we’ve learnt after creating that maybe the raw.githubusercontent.com subdomain is censored: <a href="#github-censored-subdomains">GitHub censored subdomains (GitHub 审查的子域)</a>. If anyone can confirm, we will start using another image provider by default.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Clone locally with Git using GitHub images:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>git clone https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
cd china-dictatorship
git checkout gh-pages
xdg-open README.html</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Build it yourself:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>bundle install
make
xdg-open README.html</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Build and view the multipage version:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>make multipage
xdg-open out/multipage/README.html</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Build with GitLab served images:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>git clone https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
cd china-dictatorship
make MEDIA=MEDIA=https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/-/raw/master</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Build with local images:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>git clone https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
git clone https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media
cd china-dictatorship
make MEDIA=../china-dictatorship-media</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>or build to use GitLab images:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Given <a href="#github-censored-subdomains">GitHub censored subdomains (GitHub 审查的子域)</a>, this might be the only way to view the images from China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The cool thing about Git is that we can maintain several mirrors on multiple websites very easily:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> Canonical source and rendered output. If ever <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a> we do this: <a href="#strategy-if-this-repo-gets-added-to-github-gov-takedowns">Strategy if this repo gets added to GitHub gov-takedowns (如果此 repo 被添加到 GitHub gov-takedowns 中的策略)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-2" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-2</a> mirror in case they block just <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>, see also: <a href="#strategy-if-this-repo-gets-added-to-github-gov-takedowns">Strategy if this repo gets added to GitHub gov-takedowns (如果此 repo 被添加到 GitHub gov-takedowns 中的策略)</a>. Active renaming in place due to <a href="#chinese-web-browser-censorship">Chinese web browser censorship (中国网页浏览器审查)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli</a>: a mirror just so that some interesting stuff will show up at <a href="https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli</a>. The policy is to transfer any <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> issues from there to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>. Interestingly, <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli/issues/53" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli/issues/53</a> from that project because the second yandex.com hit for "六四事件" as of 2022/04/17, and the only one that is not yet censored in China entirely, which drives reasonable traffic (3500 hist / 2 weeks).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>their gitlab.com render is shit for some reason, clicking on the ToC does not jump to headers properly, not sure why, IDs look correct</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>one really cool thing about gitlab is that it can serve images from directly gitlab.com e.g. <a href="https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/-/raw/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg" class="bare">https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/-/raw/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg</a> unlike GitHub which has the <code>raw.</code> subdomain: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg" class="bare">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg</a> This makes it impossible to block the GitLab images without blocking all of gitlab.com, until GitLab starts a <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">gov-takedowns</a> of their own.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.gitlab.io/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.gitlab.io/china-dictatorship</a> GitLab Pages. Works fine. Let’s see if they can block subdomains: <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cirosantilli.gitlab.io/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cirosantilli.gitlab.io/china-dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Maybe some day <a href="https://gitlab.cn/" class="bare">https://gitlab.cn/</a> ? :-) Edit 2021-03, yup, it happened, with <a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a> and all</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/18/gitlab-licensed-technology-to-new-independent-chinese-company/" class="bare">https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/18/gitlab-licensed-technology-to-new-independent-chinese-company/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://about.gitlab.cn/" class="bare">https://about.gitlab.cn/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s name at: <a href="https://about.gitlab.cn/security/vulnerability-acknowledgements/" class="bare">https://about.gitlab.cn/security/vulnerability-acknowledgements/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>no free public SaaS yet, but it might come, though they are saying 30 day trial only: <a href="https://about.gitlab.cn/free-trial/" class="bare">https://about.gitlab.cn/free-trial/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> on <a href="#gitee">Gitee</a>, blocked after 12 hours: <a href="#gitee-censorship">Gitee censorship (Gitee 审查)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://bitbucket.org/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://bitbucket.org/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitlab.binets.fr/ciro.duran-santilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://gitlab.binets.fr/ciro.duran-santilli/china-dictatorship</a>: a GitLab instance run by and reserved for students and ex-students of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_Polytechnique">École Polytechnique</a>, in which Ciro Santilli previously studied. They also have a few Chinese students every year, that’s how Ciro met <a href="#wife">Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a>, it will be fun when those students see this.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mirrors controlled by other people, thus forming a type of <a href="#samizdat">Samizdat (Soviet underground propagation of censored materials, 秘密出版物, самиздат)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://git.kiwifarms.net/CrunkLord420/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://git.kiwifarms.net/CrunkLord420/china-dictatorship</a> auto-pull Gitea mirror on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms">Kiwi Farms</a>, a <a href="#politically-incorrect">politically incorrect</a> social network website</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cheezcharmer/chinese-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cheezcharmer/chinese-dictatorship</a>: Ciro likes that this due actually changed the repository title, thus making it harder to auto-censor everything in one go</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://china.fptbb.com" class="bare">https://china.fptbb.com</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ones that went down:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://crabapi.cn" class="bare">https://crabapi.cn</a> by <a href="https://github.com/CrabTechs" class="bare">https://github.com/CrabTechs</a> says name is 薛钰隆 and gives contact details and photo. Please by God be fake details. A .cn mirror, let’s see how long it lasts. Up: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220517075452/https://crabapi.cn/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20220517075452/https://crabapi.cn/</a> Down the following day. Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/CrabTechs_" class="bare">https://twitter.com/CrabTechs_</a> Backlink from <a href="https://site.ip138.com/" class="bare">https://site.ip138.com/</a> and <a href="https://site.ip138.com/crabapi.cn" class="bare">https://site.ip138.com/crabapi.cn</a> to cirosantilli.com. Down 2022-08.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://china.vkoor.com/" class="bare">https://china.vkoor.com/</a> presumably by <a href="https://github.com/Vkoor" class="bare">https://github.com/Vkoor</a> who is a collaborator of this project, e.g. <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/533" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/533</a>. They’re also hosting a search engine proxy at <a href="https://www.vkoor.com/" class="bare">https://www.vkoor.com/</a>, TODO Google? See also: <a href="#google-mirrors">Google mirrors (谷歌镜像)</a>. Down 2022-08.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>GitHub Pages: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship</a> trade-offs with <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>pros</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>cut up to 512KB of source, and therefor unacceptable as the only source: <a href="https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1610" class="bare">https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1610</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/about-anonymized-image-urls">GitHub’s camo</a> keeps hiccuping and not showing images</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>and YouTube videos show inline there</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>cons</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>domain will eventually get blocked in China. <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a> <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cirosantilli.com" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cirosantilli.com</a> shows that in 2020-01-19 the domain was unblocked, but on the next text at 2020-05-23 it was "contradictory".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Camo bypasses the need for VPN, since most images are served from <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> which is <a href="#censorship">blocked in China</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is really interesting to see how many people star the GitHub repository, and then a few minutes later they think about how they might get put in jail, and then unstar it. Talk about <a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a>! But yes, for the love of God, please stay safe: <a href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">What should pro-democracy Chinese living in China do about the dictatorship? 想要民主住在中国大陆的人应该干什么？</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>GitHub Pages was first enabled in 2020-03-22 at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/commit/0b362a83fb5dd55f67b9d351551d0c18e7f3229a" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/commit/0b362a83fb5dd55f67b9d351551d0c18e7f3229a</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The perfect solution might be to download all images and upload them to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/media" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/media</a> since GitHub content does not go through Camo, we have to see if such images don’t fail to load as often.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A few NPM/Git CDNs can also be used to bypass subdomain blocks, and some actually render HTML with the correct content type. Lists of such CDNs:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8446218/how-to-see-an-html-page-on-github-as-a-normal-rendered-html-page-to-see-preview" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8446218/how-to-see-an-html-page-on-github-as-a-normal-rendered-html-page-to-see-preview</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6551446/can-i-run-html-files-directly-from-github-instead-of-just-viewing-their-source" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6551446/can-i-run-html-files-directly-from-github-instead-of-just-viewing-their-source</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some we’ve found, with HTML content type:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/blob/index.html" class="bare">https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/blob/index.html</a>: <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/htmlpreview.github.io%3Fhttps%3A//github_com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/blob/index_html%3D" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/https/htmlpreview.github.io%3Fhttps%3A//github_com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/blob/index_html%3D</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.unpkg.com/china-dictatorship@latest/README.html" class="bare">https://www.unpkg.com/china-dictatorship@latest/README.html</a>: <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/www.unpkg.com/china-dictatorship%40latest/README.html" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/https/www.unpkg.com/china-dictatorship%40latest/README.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Blocked when last checked:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://raw.githack.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html" class="bare">https://raw.githack.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html</a>: <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/raw.githack.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/https/raw.githack.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html</a> blocked since 2021-05-20</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html" class="bare">https://cdn.statically.io/gh/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html</a>: <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cdn.statically.io/gh/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cdn.statically.io/gh/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html</a> blocked since 2021-05-20</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://xenodochial-heisenberg-0fc0f1.netlify.app/" class="bare">https://xenodochial-heisenberg-0fc0f1.netlify.app/</a> from <a href="https://www.netlify.com/" class="bare">https://www.netlify.com/</a>. Auto sync with Git.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://china-dictatorship.onrender.com/" class="bare">https://china-dictatorship.onrender.com/</a> from <a href="https://render.com/" class="bare">https://render.com/</a>. Auto sync with Git.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://china-dictatorship.web.app/" class="bare">https://china-dictatorship.web.app/</a> TODO get working, explained under "hosting": <a href="https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/china-dictatorship/hosting/sites" class="bare">https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/china-dictatorship/hosting/sites</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Without HTML content type:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html" class="bare">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html</a>: <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/https/raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/gh-pages/index.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/china-dictatorship@latest/README.html" class="bare">https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/china-dictatorship@latest/README.html</a>: <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/china-dictatorship%40latest/README.html" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/https/cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/china-dictatorship%40latest/README.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We’ve also tried to use jsfiddle like-services, but most don’t work well:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://jsfiddle.net/cirosantilli/0tL3ckqb/" class="bare">https://jsfiddle.net/cirosantilli/0tL3ckqb/</a> very slow to load, but eventually does</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://jsbin.com/" class="bare">https://jsbin.com/</a> HTML too long</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://codepen.io/" class="bare">https://codepen.io/</a> 1MB limit</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>List of such services: <a href="https://codysaylor.com/notes/comparing-codepen-jsfiddle-cssdeck-liveweave-jsbin-dabblet/" class="bare">https://codysaylor.com/notes/comparing-codepen-jsfiddle-cssdeck-liveweave-jsbin-dabblet/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="software-package-mirrors"><a class="anchor" href="#software-package-mirrors"></a><a class="link" href="#software-package-mirrors">3.1. Software package mirrors (软件包管理器镜像)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We also have a NPM Node.js package <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://www.npmjs.com/package/china-dictatorship</a>. After <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/594656/how-to-install-the-latest-versions-of-nodejs-and-npm/971612#971612">installing NPM</a>, you can be use it as:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>npm i -g china-dictatorship
china-dictatorship > README.html</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This forces China to also block/curate package managers to block this repo. The package is already available in the following NPM Chinese mirrors, both which were blocked at some point:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Taobao: <a href="https://registry.npm.taobao.org/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://registry.npm.taobao.org/china-dictatorship</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200406081433/http://registry.npm.taobao.org/china-dictatorship">archive</a>).</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Noticed down as of 2021-02-23, replaced by a dummy package admined by <a href="mailto:fengmk2@gmail.com">fengmk2@gmail.com</a> presumably <a href="https://github.com/fengmk2" class="bare">https://github.com/fengmk2</a> and <a href="https://fengmk2.com/" class="bare">https://fengmk2.com/</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/fengmk2" class="bare">https://twitter.com/fengmk2</a> He is a large NPM contributor, and likely <code>cnpm</code> too. TODO is he pro or against <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a> based on online comments?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In order to overcome this, includers</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Aliyun from <a href="#alibaba">Alibaba (阿里巴巴, Chinese Amazon clone)</a>: <a href="https://developer.aliyun.com/mirror/npm/package/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://developer.aliyun.com/mirror/npm/package/china-dictatorship</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210211123658/https://developer.aliyun.com/mirror/npm/package/china-dictatorship">archive</a>).</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Taken down as 404 likely around 2021-02-22 after come incoming links from <a href="https://developer.aliyun.com" class="bare">https://developer.aliyun.com</a> to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship?spm=a2c6h.14275010.0.0.60be9dc4vwIZTP" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship?spm=a2c6h.14275010.0.0.60be9dc4vwIZTP</a> and <code>?spm=.14275010.0.0.60be9dc4PsRmA</code>.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is actually a <code>cnpm</code> tool to install from Chinese mirrors: <a href="https://github.com/cnpm/cnpm" class="bare">https://github.com/cnpm/cnpm</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We also managed to upload a Python PyPi package at: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/china-dictatorship/" class="bare">https://pypi.org/project/china-dictatorship/</a> Is as:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade china-dictatorship
china-dictatorship.py > README.html</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This package was deleted by pypi in 2023 without any warning or notification:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230306090740/https://pypi.org/project/china-dictatorship/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20230306090740/https://pypi.org/project/china-dictatorship/</a> up March 2023</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231110041847/https://pypi.org/project/china-dictatorship/" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/web/20231110041847/https://pypi.org/project/china-dictatorship/</a> November 2023</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and re-attempting upload fails with:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>ERROR HTTPError: 400 Bad Request from https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
The name 'china-dictatorship' isn't allowed. See https://pypi.org/help/#project-name for more information.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bastanrds and Cowards.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Like NPM, this will also have Chinese mirrors that will need to be censored by their admins ovrview <a href="https://titanwolf.org/Network/Articles/Article?AID=25a20c20-c97b-4bfe-af67-760861343658" class="bare">https://titanwolf.org/Network/Articles/Article?AID=25a20c20-c97b-4bfe-af67-760861343658</a> :</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://pypi.douban.com/simple/china-dictatorship/" class="bare">http://pypi.douban.com/simple/china-dictatorship/</a> vs <a href="http://pypi.douban.com/simple/numpy" class="bare">http://pypi.douban.com/simple/numpy</a> both up March 2021</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple/china-dictatorship/" class="bare">http://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple/china-dictatorship/</a> vs <a href="http://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple/numpy" class="bare">http://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple/numpy</a> both down March 2021 but in a different way, so maybe it was censored already</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://pypi.mirrors.opencas.cn/simple/china-dictatorship" class="bare">http://pypi.mirrors.opencas.cn/simple/china-dictatorship</a> vs <a href="http://pypi.mirrors.opencas.cn/simple/numpy" class="bare">http://pypi.mirrors.opencas.cn/simple/numpy</a> both down March 2021</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://pypi.v2ex.com/simple/china-dictatorship" class="bare">http://pypi.v2ex.com/simple/china-dictatorship</a> vs <a href="http://pypi.v2ex.com/simple/numpy" class="bare">http://pypi.v2ex.com/simple/numpy</a> both down March 2021</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/china-dictatorship</a> vs <a href="https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/numpy" class="bare">https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/numpy</a> both up March 2021</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>reference: <a href="https://pypi.org/simple/china-dictatorship/" class="bare">https://pypi.org/simple/china-dictatorship/</a> vs <a href="https://pypi.org/simple/numpy/" class="bare">https://pypi.org/simple/numpy/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We later found on Google by chance that libraries.io picked it up and rendered the README.adoc nicely as well: <a href="https://libraries.io/pypi/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://libraries.io/pypi/china-dictatorship</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200318043050/https://libraries.io/pypi/china-dictatorship">archive</a>). This is why packaging is a good idea.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A programmatic interface is also exposed on those packages, making it easy to quickly add a <code>--china</code> option to your project, e.g. from Python:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>import china_dictatorship
assert "Tiananmen Square protests" in china_dictatorship.get_data()
print(china_dictatorship.get_data())</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>or from Node.js:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>const china_dictatorship = require('china-dictatorship');
if (!china_dictatorship.get_data().includes("Tiannmen Square protests")) throw 0;
console.log(china_dictatorship.get_data());</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You have to do the assert after the imports because otherwise Chinese mirrors could replace the real package with dummy packages to not break imports, as was already done once at <a href="https://registry.npm.taobao.org/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://registry.npm.taobao.org/china-dictatorship</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This outputs the rendered HTML, which end users should the pipe into a file:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>./your-program --china > README.html
xdg-open README.html</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Concrete examples:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/cirodown/china" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/cirodown/china</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat/commit/082166a360c56990662c715196229016d8806ab3" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat/commit/082166a360c56990662c715196229016d8806ab3</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/vcdvcd#vcdcat-china" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/vcdvcd#vcdcat-china</a>. Sample forks removing the most important functionality:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ZihaoZhao/vcdvcd" class="bare">https://github.com/ZihaoZhao/vcdvcd</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/riverlane/vcdvcd/commits/master" class="bare">https://github.com/riverlane/vcdvcd/commits/master</a> by employee <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/seyed-amir-alavi/">Seyed Amir Alavi</a> of quantum computing company <a href="https://www.riverlane.com/" class="bare">https://www.riverlane.com/</a> with commit "Removed politics from package dependencies of setup.py". Seyed appears to be <a href="#iran">Iranian</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/snhobbs/vcdvcd/commit/d7124e49fb1c63002e830f8c866266447b0f5bb3" class="bare">https://github.com/snhobbs/vcdvcd/commit/d7124e49fb1c63002e830f8c866266447b0f5bb3</a> by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonnhobbs/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonnhobbs/</a>. To be fair, they left a star.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>These also offer great plausible deniability: a citizen in China could always argue that they were just interested in the software itself, and had no choice but to download it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO: create an Ubuntu PPA and Ruby gem as well.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Create tags,and update all mirrors in one go with: <a href="push-mirrors" class="bare">push-mirrors</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>sudo apt install python3-setuptools
python3 -m pip install --user setuptools wheel twine
./push-mirrors</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In particular, that script calls <a href="push" class="bare">push</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>./push</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which is more lightweight and pushes just to GitHub and GitLab Pages, so we are going to be using that more often to avoid overloading package managers too much.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><code>./push</code> is used to publish every commit.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is no need to update package versions or add git tags, all of that gets done automatically by the script!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#protestware">Protestware</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="github-proxies"><a class="anchor" href="#github-proxies"></a><a class="link" href="#github-proxies">3.1.1. GitHub proxies (GitHub的代理)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another source of China-specific mirroring of this project are GitHub proxies, <a href="https://linuxpip.org/github-in-china/" class="bare">https://linuxpip.org/github-in-china/</a> contains an overview:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hub.fgit.ml/" class="bare">https://hub.fgit.ml/</a> this one is quite professional, offering paid access plans for better performance as seen at <a href="https://fgit.ml" class="bare">https://fgit.ml</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hub.fastgit.org/" class="bare">https://hub.fastgit.org/</a> this appears to auto-redirect to GitHub from non-Chinese IPs, but presumably shows the pages for Chinese IPs, e.g. we had hits from <a href="http://hub.fastgit.org/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">http://hub.fastgit.org/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> in 2021-03-25. This happened soon after SEO optimizations mentioned at: <a href="#zhao-heming">Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a> and might be related.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/945" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/945</a> for some incomprehensible reason, user <a href="https://github.com/StarOnTheSky" class="bare">https://github.com/StarOnTheSky</a> claiming to be from the fastgit team asked mentions of fastgit to be removed from this repository, menacing to report to <a href="#github-report">How to report a user on GitHub (GitHub上怎么举报用户？)</a> otherwise.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/" class="bare">https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/</a> as of March 2021, it often reaches an apparently random "Whoa there! You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism.". But other time it succeeds, e.g. some of the times: <a href="https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> is visible.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://a1.mk-proxy.ml/-----https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://a1.mk-proxy.ml/-----https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> generated from <a href="http://toolwa.com/github/" class="bare">http://toolwa.com/github/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/521xueweihan/GitHub520" class="bare">https://github.com/521xueweihan/GitHub520</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github-dotcom.gateway.web.tr/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github-dotcom.gateway.web.tr/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> a Turkish proxy. They have their own censorship issues as well of course.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://phoenix.yizimg.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://phoenix.yizimg.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> Not sure origin, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200221135123/http://www.yizimg.com:80/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200221135123/http://www.yizimg.com:80/</a> has a little bit of information</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>using <a href="https://workers.cloudflare.com/">Cloudflare workers</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.independentlyreview.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.independentlyreview.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> described at <a href="https://independentlyreview.com/link" class="bare">https://independentlyreview.com/link</a> as using Cloudfare workers</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.laobiao.workers.dev/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.laobiao.workers.dev/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.rc1844.workers.dev/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.rc1844.workers.dev/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github-wiki-see.page" class="bare">https://github-wiki-see.page</a>. Not made for Chinese specifically, but has huge PageRank on Yandex for Chinese search terms. Stated mission is to improve SEO of GitHub which header blocks many search results without an explicit public guideline.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/net4people/bbs" class="bare">https://github.com/net4people/bbs</a> in <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:
* <a href="https://gitmemory.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://gitmemory.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> appears to be Chinese: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/iiolp8/what_the_hell_is_gitmemorycom/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/iiolp8/what_the_hell_is_gitmemorycom/</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="github-repositories-with-censored-information"><a class="anchor" href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information"></a><a class="link" href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">4. GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For lists of censored information outside of GitHub see: <a href="#lists-of-material-censored-in-china">Lists of material censored in China</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For content outside of GitHub: <a href="#lists-of-material-censored-in-china">Lists of material censored in China</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mentioned in other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#gov-takedowns-china">gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#nine-nine-six-icu">996.ICU (2019)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#ncovmemory">nCovMemory</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#bandinchina-github-repository">bandinchina GitHub repository</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/jasonqng/chinese-keywords" class="bare">https://github.com/jasonqng/chinese-keywords</a> mentioned at <a href="#where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack">Where can I find good words for a keyword attack? (我在哪里可以找到关键字攻击的好词？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao</a> from <a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#censorship-monitoring-tools-on-github">Censorship monitoring tools on GitHub</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#huawei">Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/evil-huawei/evil-huawei" class="bare">https://github.com/evil-huawei/evil-huawei</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/HuaweiJoke/Huawei-Joke" class="bare">https://github.com/HuaweiJoke/Huawei-Joke</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo" class="bare">https://github.com/fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo</a> from <a href="#fuck-xuexiqiangguo">Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo (Fuck学习强国)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/IanSmith123/ucas-covid19" class="bare">https://github.com/IanSmith123/ucas-covid19</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>from <a href="#metoo">MeToo</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/sikaozhe1997/Xin-Yue/blob/master/letter.md" class="bare">https://github.com/sikaozhe1997/Xin-Yue/blob/master/letter.md</a> see <a href="#yue-xin">Yue Xin (岳昕)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/CNwoman-bot/evil-man" class="bare">https://github.com/CNwoman-bot/evil-man</a> from <a href="#evil-man">Evil man (中国男性之恶)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/fuckcqcs/fuckcqcs" class="bare">https://github.com/fuckcqcs/fuckcqcs</a> at <a href="#changsheng-bio-technology-vaccine-data-falsification-incident-2018">Changsheng Bio-Technology vaccine data falsification incident (长生生物, 2018)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xi-jinping-speech-synthesizer">Xi Jinping speech synthesizer (习近平讲话模拟器)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhangrunxu/zhangrunxu.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/zhangrunxu/zhangrunxu.github.io</a> from <a href="#xu-zhangrun">Xu Zhangrun (许章润)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#anti-video-game-ban-tools">Anti video game ban tools</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/hmsjy2017/Google-Mirrors" class="bare">https://github.com/hmsjy2017/Google-Mirrors</a> from <a href="#google-mirrors">Google mirrors (谷歌镜像)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>from <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ZGQ-inc/overthefirewall" class="bare">https://github.com/ZGQ-inc/overthefirewall</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Possibly not censored, but sensitive:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/The-Run-Philosophy-Organization/run" class="bare">https://github.com/The-Run-Philosophy-Organization/run</a> from <a id="runxue"></a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not mentioned in other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>taibangle (太棒了)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/taibangle/awesome-china" class="bare">https://github.com/taibangle/awesome-china</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/taibangle/lennon-wall" class="bare">https://github.com/taibangle/lennon-wall</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Project-Gutenberg/Pincong" class="bare">https://github.com/Project-Gutenberg/Pincong</a> see also <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://speechfree.github.io/cultural-revolution-database/" class="bare">https://speechfree.github.io/cultural-revolution-database/</a> 中国文化大革命文库 The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Luterngun/Record_of_Survival_in_Digital_Totalitarian_Era" class="bare">https://github.com/Luterngun/Record_of_Survival_in_Digital_Totalitarian_Era</a> small document that goes over <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a> and opsec. There was a PDF on GitHub but got removed from master (still in Git history), now links to external websites only. Newbs.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/nodebe4" class="bare">https://github.com/nodebe4</a> personal account with anti-CCP projects</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/tansunit" class="bare">https://twitter.com/tansunit</a> claims name 陳純一, "Previous: NGO worker, educator, social activist. Present: Master student @Univ_Paris"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/NodeBE4/hero" class="bare">https://github.com/NodeBE4/hero</a> 自由人的英雄榜 "List of fredom heroes"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/NodeBE4/impact" class="bare">https://github.com/NodeBE4/impact</a> good list of Chinese political projects on GitHub</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/woct0rdho/pkuholebackup/" class="bare">https://github.com/woct0rdho/pkuholebackup/</a> appears to contain a list of posts of anonymized (Alice/Bob/Carol/Dave/…​) deleted posts from some Peking University (PKU) chat system. The posts are from 2013 to 2019. TODO how could they obtain that list? Who delete the posts in the first place? Authors or authority?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ejiaogl/FuckCoolapk" class="bare">https://github.com/ejiaogl/FuckCoolapk</a> TODO understand better: in 2016 this company started blocking political commentary from their app, and people didn’t like it seems. But there were so many complaints, that people manipulated things such that they ended up banning accounts that hadn’t posted anything. What does that GitHub project do?</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/酷安">酷安</a> is the company name: <a href="https://www.coolapk.com/" class="bare">https://www.coolapk.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ejiaogl/FuckCoolapk/wiki/Background-information" class="bare">https://github.com/ejiaogl/FuckCoolapk/wiki/Background-information</a> "316"事件 (316 event)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/20658510" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/20658510</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/Xi-Yuyan/tree/f8364a8b8f1d783e4fa32de548bec46069407c1b" class="bare">https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/Xi-Yuyan/tree/f8364a8b8f1d783e4fa32de548bec46069407c1b</a> 习语言 esoteric programming language that mimics <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> jargon natural language. Appears to be specification only, no implementation provided.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>on <a href="#gov-takedowns-china">gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表)</a>: <a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2021/2021-01-29-BNIA.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2021/2021-01-29-BNIA.md</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ycjyy/ycjyy" class="bare">https://github.com/ycjyy/ycjyy</a>. Several news reposts on comments, e.g. <a href="https://github.com/ycjyy/ycjyy/issues/302" class="bare">https://github.com/ycjyy/ycjyy/issues/302</a>. Particularly likes the site <a href="https://www.aboluowang.com/index.html" class="bare">https://www.aboluowang.com/index.html</a> 阿波罗综合新闻网 "Appolo Comprehensive News Website"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/u2017/u2017/wiki" class="bare">https://github.com/u2017/u2017/wiki</a> has an anti-CCP wiki. Likely <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> believer given the imagery on the index page.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/TaiduGousima/Fuck-cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/TaiduGousima/Fuck-cirosantilli</a>, fork at: <a href="https://github.com/wumaoland/Fuck-cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/wumaoland/Fuck-cirosantilli</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ning0818/Fuck-cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/ning0818/Fuck-cirosantilli</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting users:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gfw-breaker" class="bare">https://github.com/gfw-breaker</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>appears to give a lot of focus to <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, e.g.:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gfw-breaker/truth" class="bare">https://github.com/gfw-breaker/truth</a> Falun Gong information repository</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gfw-breaker/banned-news1" class="bare">https://github.com/gfw-breaker/banned-news1</a> automatic scraper of news from banned websites into the repository, with top sites being <a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>present in <a href="#gov-takedowns-china">gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/bannedbook" class="bare">https://github.com/bannedbook</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/bannedbook/fanqiang" class="bare">https://github.com/bannedbook/fanqiang</a> is the main repository about <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a>, TODO what it contains exactly? Code, or just documentation of existing methods?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/breakwa11" class="bare">https://github.com/breakwa11</a> likely previous ShadowsocksR dev: <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a>, 10k+ followers 2020, but no repos, so forced takedown.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Non-information but also interesting:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/lurongkai/anti-baidu" class="bare">https://github.com/lurongkai/anti-baidu</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO evaluate:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/sky8964/home" class="bare">https://github.com/sky8964/home</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/FuckAntiAddiction/BiligameAddictionNotLimited" class="bare">https://github.com/FuckAntiAddiction/BiligameAddictionNotLimited</a> is this a repo to overcome <a href="#video-game-ban">Video game ban (电子游戏禁令, 2021)</a>?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/jdzj/log/issues/24" class="bare">https://github.com/jdzj/log/issues/24</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/dropod/issues/issues/6675" class="bare">https://github.com/dropod/issues/issues/6675</a> some kind of backup bot from other websites</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reasonable topics:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/topics/censorship" class="bare">https://github.com/topics/censorship</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sensitive but not necessarily censored, maybe re-evaluate:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/I-S00N/I-S00N" class="bare">https://github.com/I-S00N/I-S00N</a> Anxun leak</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/02/a-first-analysis-of-the-i-soon-data-leak" class="bare">https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/02/a-first-analysis-of-the-i-soon-data-leak</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1av4yp9/is00n_leaked_chinese_foreign_government/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1av4yp9/is00n_leaked_chinese_foreign_government/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship"><a class="anchor" href="#github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship"></a><a class="link" href="#github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">4.1. github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Canonical source code of: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="who-is-behind-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship"><a class="anchor" href="#who-is-behind-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship"></a><a class="link" href="#who-is-behind-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">4.1.1. Who is behind cirosantilli/china-dictatorship? 谁是 cirosantilli/china-dictatorship 的幕后黑手？</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Basically <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> alone (<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lets-see-who-this-really-is">surprise!</a>), with very minor direct contributions from very awesome people due to:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#many-people-in-the-west-don-t-fully-appreciate-the-danger-of-china">Many people in the West don’t fully appreciate the danger of China 许多西方人没有完全意识到中国的危险</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and major contributions from original meme makers all over the world which Ciro merely curates: <a href="#anti-ccp-info-sources">Anti-CCP information sources (反中共信息来源)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/graphs/contributors" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/graphs/contributors</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aanti-ccp" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aanti-ccp</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#better-to-do">Doesn’t Ciro Santilli have anything better to do than pissing off China? (除了反对中共以外，三西猴有没有别的更好的事儿要作吗？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#asymmetric-information-warfare">Asymmetric information warfare (不对称信息战)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="terminus2049"><a class="anchor" href="#terminus2049"></a><a class="link" href="#terminus2049">4.2. Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://terminus2049.github.io/" class="bare">https://terminus2049.github.io/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/端点星事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/端点星事件</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://2049bbs.xyz/" class="bare">https://2049bbs.xyz/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>previous project name: <a href="https://github.com/Info-cn/Terminus" class="bare">https://github.com/Info-cn/Terminus</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Jekyll GitHub Pages repository that saves full text copies of censored articles:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>本仓库存放被删文章</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This repository stores deleted articles.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also accompanies a dynamic forum <a href="https://2049bbs.xyz/" class="bare">https://2049bbs.xyz/</a> which appears to be where content for the static pages gets discussed and brought up. But it possible that the website has been compromised and is leaking identity of users. At some point, <a href="https://2049bbs.xyz" class="bare">https://2049bbs.xyz</a> went down. Live <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200719151022/https://2049bbs.xyz/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200719151022/https://2049bbs.xyz/</a> dead: <a href="https://archive.vn/JFqCJ" class="bare">https://archive.vn/JFqCJ</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The "Terminus" in the repo name seems to be a reference to Isaac Asimov’s fictional <a href="https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Terminus">Terminus planet</a> which is called <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/端点星">端点星</a> in Chinese, but it is not clear where the 2049 comes from in that context. Forgetting the Chinese name, Terminus2049 could be a reference to the fictional <a href="https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/World_War_Terminus">"World War Terminus"</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_2049">Blade Runner 2049 (2019)</a> movie, which also explains the 2049.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First commit on 2018-04-27, GitHub pages domain blocked in China at least since 2019-03 according to <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a>: <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/search/all/https%3A//terminus2049.github.io" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/search/all/https%3A//terminus2049.github.io</a> but not in <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a> as of 2020-04.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The full post list can be seen most conveniently at: <a href="https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/tree/master/_posts" class="bare">https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/tree/master/_posts</a> The number of articles is insane, usually several every day.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most articles appear to be taken from recent news at the time of writting, although there are a few from before the repo started. As of 2020-04, the oldest article was from 2016 <a href="#metoo">MeToo</a> events reported by <a href="#yue-xin">Yue Xin (岳昕)</a>, some other topics include:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#gay-rights">Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a> <a href="https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2018-04-14-LGBTRights-advocacy-china.md" class="bare">https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2018-04-14-LGBTRights-advocacy-china.md</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#nine-nine-six-icu">996.ICU (2019)</a> <a href="https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2019-04-04-996-ICU.md" class="bare">https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2019-04-04-996-ICU.md</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">LeBron James opposes Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (2019)</a> <a href="https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2019-10-11-NBA.md" class="bare">https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2019-10-11-NBA.md</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They use Jekyll tags a lot, which makes for a good grouping of the topics.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2020-04-25, it was reported that three Beijing-based contributors were arrested during <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3081569/chinese-activists-detained-after-sharing-censored-coronavirus" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3081569/chinese-activists-detained-after-sharing-censored-coronavirus</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/7-04252020144555.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/7-04252020144555.html</a> Chinese article, gives the Chinese names, and some background on the arrested people</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-coronavirus-memories-page/" class="bare">https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-coronavirus-memories-page/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Chen Mei (陈玫)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/玫-陈-1607b735/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/玫-陈-1607b735/</a> a LinkedIn account with matching photo and name</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="mailto:chanmei007@gmail.com">chanmei007@gmail.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cmmei" class="bare">https://github.com/cmmei</a>, down 2020-12, live archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200101232039/https://github.com/cmmei" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200101232039/https://github.com/cmmei</a>. Includes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180611153507/https://github.com/cmmei/Banned-zh" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20180611153507/https://github.com/cmmei/Banned-zh</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Cai Wei (蔡伟)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/thphd/2047" class="bare">https://github.com/thphd/2047</a> mentioned below reveals and email <a href="mailto:caiw15@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn">caiw15@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn</a> and profiles/further aliases:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Tsai1993" class="bare">https://github.com/Tsai1993</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://tsai1993.github.io" class="bare">https://tsai1993.github.io</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@ciao" class="bare">https://mastodon.xyz/@ciao</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="mailto:tsai1993@qq.com">tsai1993@qq.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="mailto:Tsai2049@gmail.com">Tsai2049@gmail.com</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Xiao Tang (小唐), who is also Cai Wei’s girlfriend</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2020-06-12 their families received calls saying that they had been charged with <a href="#picking-quarrels">Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3089002/coronavirus-chinese-activists-held-posting-censored-articles" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3089002/coronavirus-chinese-activists-held-posting-censored-articles</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/10-06122020154234.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/10-06122020154234.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2021-05-11 they were charged: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/11/two-plead-guilty-in-case-highlighting-chinas-online-control" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/11/two-plead-guilty-in-case-highlighting-chinas-online-control</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro’s petition to free them: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/chen-mei-cai-wei-ziyou" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/chen-mei-cai-wei-ziyou</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How their identities were found:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/issues/598" class="bare">https://github.com/Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io/issues/598</a> offers a good analysis</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/24370" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/24370</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/chinatimeline/5386a4f9d82483aa5346b17d8d324877" class="bare">https://gist.github.com/chinatimeline/5386a4f9d82483aa5346b17d8d324877</a> comments by <a href="#chinatimeline">chinatimeline (中国时间线)</a> and gives further opsec guidelines</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Terrible opsec…​ they used real name GitHub emails on early commits, including the institutional university address, before they started better opsec under <a href="https://github.com/TerminusBot" class="bare">https://github.com/TerminusBot</a> / <a href="mailto:terminus2049@protonmail.com">terminus2049@protonmail.com</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/thphd/2047" class="bare">https://github.com/thphd/2047</a> is a project to restore terminus, live at <a href="https://2047.name" class="bare">https://2047.name</a> Ciro mention at: <a href="https://2047.name/e/76182458" class="bare">https://2047.name/e/76182458</a> by <a href="https://2047.name/u/5155" class="bare">https://2047.name/u/5155</a> which is similar to a <a href="#mohu">Mohu (膜乎)</a> mention, so they seem to share the database? Who knows what’s the relation between all those <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a> lookalikes. TODO that website shows an <a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a>? Very confusingly also mirrored at <a href="https://pincong.org" class="bare">https://pincong.org</a> e.g. <a href="https://pincong.org/t/10219" class="bare">https://pincong.org/t/10219</a>/https://2047.name/t/10219[], which is very similar to <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a>'s address. Related account: <a href="https://github.com/PincongBot" class="bare">https://github.com/PincongBot</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://2047.name" class="bare">https://2047.name</a> has a links section at: <a href="https://2047.name/links" class="bare">https://2047.name/links</a> shown on the sideboard, containg links of interest. Some all not are very China specific.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://2047.name/register" class="bare">https://2047.name/register</a> registration requires an invitation code.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/2049bbs/2049bbs.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/2049bbs/2049bbs.github.io</a> / <a href="https://2049bbs.github.io/" class="bare">https://2049bbs.github.io/</a> maintains another archive up to 2019-03-03.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chenmei_Caowei.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Chenmei Caowei" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 2. Side-by-side photos of Chen Mei (陈玫) and Cai Wei (蔡伟) from <a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a>. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/7-04252020144555.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinatimeline"><a class="anchor" href="#chinatimeline"></a><a class="link" href="#chinatimeline">4.3. chinatimeline (中国时间线)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/chinatimeline/chinatimeline.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/chinatimeline/chinatimeline.github.io</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Explores several sensitive topics through interesting timelines with many pictures, for example:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>: <a href="https://chinatimeline.github.io/tiananmen/" class="bare">https://chinatimeline.github.io/tiananmen/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>: <a href="https://chinatimeline.github.io/wuhan-coronavirus/" class="bare">https://chinatimeline.github.io/wuhan-coronavirus/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>religious persecution, including <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>: <a href="https://chinatimeline.github.io/religion_tl1/" class="bare">https://chinatimeline.github.io/religion_tl1/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some minor relationships with <a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/chinatimeline/chinatimeline.github.io/issues/3" class="bare">https://github.com/chinatimeline/chinatimeline.github.io/issues/3</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/chinatimeline/5386a4f9d82483aa5346b17d8d324877" class="bare">https://gist.github.com/chinatimeline/5386a4f9d82483aa5346b17d8d324877</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="duty-machine"><a class="anchor" href="#duty-machine"></a><a class="link" href="#duty-machine">4.4. duty-machine GitHub account (责任机器GitHub用户)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/duty-machine" class="bare">https://github.com/duty-machine</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Anonymous user with automation setup such that anyone can request certain webpages to be copied on to GitHub anonymously through a separate website, notably:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine" class="bare">https://github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine</a>: big Chinese social media, e.g. <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a>, <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a>, Douban. Articles stored in issues. Archive requests: <a href="https://archives.duty-machine.now.sh/" class="bare">https://archives.duty-machine.now.sh/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/duty-machine/news" class="bare">https://github.com/duty-machine/news</a>: big Western news websites like Reuters, BBC, etc. Articles stored in-tree.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The project claims to have been inspired by <a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a>, but hopefully they will have better operational security.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Unfortunately, it was found that the project could be used by malicious users to at mention spam GitHub users: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/192" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/192</a>, let’s see if they patch it. Edit: the did.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="duty-machine-porn-attack-duty-machine"><a class="anchor" href="#duty-machine-porn-attack-duty-machine"></a><a class="link" href="#duty-machine-porn-attack-duty-machine">4.4.1. duty-machine porn attack (责任机器色情攻击)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine/tree/d6ee9ff8e504b863352f163f7e143e84161ac349" class="bare">https://github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine/tree/d6ee9ff8e504b863352f163f7e143e84161ac349</a> explains that the automatic submission had to be taken down because <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> uploaded porn which is against GitHub’s content policy.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related idiotic attempt on <a href="#china-dictatorship">China Dictatorship (中国独裁统治)</a> project: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/500" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/500</a> where user crazy3523 uploaded some of Ciro’s own existing anti-China images, and tried to pretend to be anti-CCP, and slipped a few child porn softcore in the middle hoping Ciro wouldn’t see them. Their email was <<a href="mailto:crazy3523@protonmail.com">crazy3523@protonmail.com</a>>. They even went as far as creating another apparently anti-CCP post at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/386" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/386</a> previously.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This likely led the repository to be added to <a href="#github-objectionable-content">GitHub "This repository may contain objectionable content" (此仓库可能包含令人反感的内容)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This highlights the following ideas:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>it is impossible to have uncurated anyonymous content on GitHub</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>censorship of non-political issues can seep into censorship of political issues</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="zhao-heming"><a class="anchor" href="#zhao-heming"></a><a class="link" href="#zhao-heming">4.5. Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A few accounts were created by this pseudonym, e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-" class="bare">https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-</a>: <a href="https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-/blob/master/.gitignore" class="bare">https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-/blob/master/.gitignore</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-</a>: <a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/blob/master/%231a.txt" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/blob/master/%231a.txt</a> The repository was deleted as of March 2021, TODO why?</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Ciro’s fork: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/-21-" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/-21-</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>archive from December 2020: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201225094655/https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201225094655/https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng-outlook-com/21-" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng-outlook-com/21-</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Much more sanely encoded/formatted/rendered versions of the articles can be found at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#new-system-21st">21世纪新政宣言由赫连禾 (New System Declaration for the 21st Century by He Lianhe, 2020)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#the-culprit-of-three-dynasties">Wang Huning, The Culprit of Three Dynasties (三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Both Zhao Heming repos contain reproductions of two manifestos are pasted together on a single file, and somewhat broken encoding.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro noticed that thoe repos attracted an incredible ammount of <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> on the comments, despite having very simple copy pasted content, it was very impressive!!! Ciro was jealous, and added some anti-wumao comments in. On commits:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/commit/0cc2b2a546ad51fb360ba800c67b057ea3270869#commitcomment-47495235" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/commit/0cc2b2a546ad51fb360ba800c67b057ea3270869#commitcomment-47495235</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-/commit/42de05338193f39981b1a820873a990c959fd6ec#commitcomment-47392119" class="bare">https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-/commit/42de05338193f39981b1a820873a990c959fd6ec#commitcomment-47392119</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/416#issuecomment-784939665" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/416#issuecomment-784939665</a> "为什么这个屎一样的东西会出现在我个人主页左侧的repositories中，那里不是应该只有自己的项目才会出现吗？有办法屏蔽它吗？还是github故意的？" explains why so many people come comment in the repository: it is because it appears on the "Explore repositories" repository suggestions which show on the side bar of your GitHub homepage, and on searches. This was also mentioned at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/201" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/201</a> originally titled " 一搜索中文就跑出这屌鬼玩意，爱玩政治去竞选总统啊，笨，死扑街". Ciro feels that that Chinese people might use GitHub search much more than Western people because their search engines are shit due to <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>, <a href="#censorship-makes-countries-poorer">Censorship makes countries poorer (审查使国家更穷)</a> comes vibrantly to mind.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After further inspection, taught understood that repository descriptions given to GitHub can be really huge for SEO: they had pasted the entire 21st century text there.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So Ciro attempted the same approach, and pasted all of <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/赫连禾-21世纪新政宣言.md" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/赫连禾-21世纪新政宣言.md</a>, <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/郝雪森-三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁.adoc" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/郝雪森-三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁.adoc</a> and <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/魏京生-第五个现代化.md" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/魏京生-第五个现代化.md</a> in there on 2021-03-23, and the effect was dramatic: an immediate 4x more views on the following day according to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/graphs/traffic" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/graphs/traffic</a> (40 unique visitors to 100 on a Wednesday), and a few wumao comments. And a wumao soon confirmed that it was working directly: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/201" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/201</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro believes that this is due to two reasons:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>there aren’t so many good Chinese repositories to compete with</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>perhaps more importantly, Chinese language does not have spaces, which makes implementing search for it more difficult, because if you hit all the characters, even if they are not part of the search words, it also gets counted as a hit</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This can be automated with: <a href="description.sh" class="bare">description.sh</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Further optimizations using <a href="description" class="bare">description</a> by using <a href="#github-chinese-top-charts">GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts (GitHub中文排行榜)</a>:</p>
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<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>git clone https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts
./description</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>this does some processing to increase density creates a BOMB:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of late 2022, Ciro noticed that GitHub had limited maximum repository description lengths to something way way smaller like 512 characters. Ciro’s old descriptions were kept, but they cannot be edited anymore unless reduced to 512 characters. So they will likely remain unchanged forever now.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro started using that one instead to see if it was going to be more effective on 2021-03-28. First it hit a peak of 168 visitors on Monday 2021-03-29, and then fell back to 90 and 81 on the following days, so similar to the previous Chinese political input. It is very hard to understand why the first day was so different.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It also includes:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/trending?since=monthly&spoken_language_code=zh" class="bare">https://github.com/trending?since=monthly&spoken_language_code=zh</a> trending Chinese repositories</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A large part of those projects falls in the following categories:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>interview preparation. Competition is of course cutthroat with such a large population.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>collections of interesting things Chinese like repositories or blog posts</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but it also does feel like China might be building up more basic infrastructure as open source than in the west, where things developped closed source first on pre-Internet days, and somewhat stayed that way. That’s a cool thing about China.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Furthermore, Ciro later noticed that under GitHub’s settings, there is a "Preferred spoken language" box described as "We’ll use this language preference to filter the trending repository lists on Explore and our Trending Repositories page." Therefore, the secret to get lots of hits is to add Chinese programming keywords to the repository description string.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>New issues:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/533" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/533</a> "Thank you for this great repository. Human rights and freedom of speech are more important than money. github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-/issues/138" class="bare">https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-/issues/138</a> "Why put the censored content in the .gitignore?"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On top commented/liked issues:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/190#issuecomment-784921038" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/190#issuecomment-784921038</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/224#issuecomment-784901942" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/224#issuecomment-784901942</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/319#issuecomment-784903480" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/319#issuecomment-784903480</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/325#issuecomment-784922882" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/325#issuecomment-784922882</a> "看你发的“美中”而不是“中美”我就知道你TM是轮子" claims they are <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/346#issuecomment-784936138" class="bare">https://github.com/zhaohmng/-21-/issues/346#issuecomment-784936138</a> "那么问题来了,为什么美国及西方和越南共产党亲近呢?" the US allies with Vietnam Communists for geopolitical reasons only, not because it has any ideology</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The first is "21世纪新政宣言" (New System Declaration for the 21st Century).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It proposes a peaceful reunification of China with <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a> under their specified political system described in 12 paragraphs. This system is a reformed type of Western democracy, which the manifesto also criticize downsides of.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The manifesto is dated drafted 2019.8.6, and several versions have different update dates and revision numbers, e.g. our copy is dated 7th edition of 2020.6.19. TODO what is canonical?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The manifesto provides an email "<a href="mailto:wanghunn@gmx.com">wanghunn@gmx.com</a>" for those who signed it to send the signed version to, and describes the author as male 70 years old Chinese person.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO what does: "起草人：赫连禾" mean?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The second is <a href="#the-culprit-of-three-dynasties">Wang Huning, The Culprit of Three Dynasties (三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The title presumably refers to <a href="#wang-huning">Wang Huning (王沪宁)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wikipedia mentions:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wang is believed to have been one of the principal architects behind the official political ideologies of three paramount leaders: "Three Represents" by Jiang Zemin, the Scientific Development Concept by Hu Jintao, and the <a href="#chinese-dream">Chinese Dream</a> and <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a> of Xi Jinping.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>so it must be about him.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The manifesto is divided into 23 numbered headers which appear to be independently published texts later collected. It is signed by 郝雪森 (Hao Xuesen) 2016-09-10. One of the sections gives the email: <a href="mailto:haoxuesen@gmx.com">haoxuesen@gmx.com</a>[].</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/赫连禾-21世纪新政宣言.md" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/赫连禾-21世纪新政宣言.md</a>. Copied from <a href="https://matters.news/@halanh/网传70岁赫连禾用大半生研究构建-21世纪新政-引发专家们高度关注-bafyreihnbf6jyzvwyybwl5hym2nikj5zrpwxli6nphzylvdq6btsbydn3y" class="bare">https://matters.news/@halanh/网传70岁赫连禾用大半生研究构建-21世纪新政-引发专家们高度关注-bafyreihnbf6jyzvwyybwl5hym2nikj5zrpwxli6nphzylvdq6btsbydn3y</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="new-system-21st"><a class="anchor" href="#new-system-21st"></a><a class="link" href="#new-system-21st">4.5.1. 21世纪新政宣言由赫连禾 (New System Declaration for the 21st Century by He Lianhe, 2020)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/赫连禾-21世纪新政宣言.md" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/赫连禾-21世纪新政宣言.md</a>. Copied from <a href="https://matters.news/@halanh/网传70岁赫连禾用大半生研究构建-21世纪新政-引发专家们高度关注-bafyreihnbf6jyzvwyybwl5hym2nikj5zrpwxli6nphzylvdq6btsbydn3y" class="bare">https://matters.news/@halanh/网传70岁赫连禾用大半生研究构建-21世纪新政-引发专家们高度关注-bafyreihnbf6jyzvwyybwl5hym2nikj5zrpwxli6nphzylvdq6btsbydn3y</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/195" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/195</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="github-search-pollution-reports"><a class="anchor" href="#github-search-pollution-reports"></a><a class="link" href="#github-search-pollution-reports">4.5.2. GitHub search pollution reports (GitHub 搜索污染报告)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On our repo: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Asearch-pollution+" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Asearch-pollution+</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Others:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2023-10-13 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/176u3m7/help_needed_something_have_troubled_me_and_other/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/176u3m7/help_needed_something_have_troubled_me_and_other/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2023-03-28 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/124t4gk/how_i_can_always_exclude_a_repository_from_my/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/124t4gk/how_i_can_always_exclude_a_repository_from_my/</a> by reddit user yusuftaufiq. Possible hit: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yousuf-taufiq-pe-pmp-0b198212/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/yousuf-taufiq-pe-pmp-0b198212/</a> Yousuf Taufiq.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-12-13 <a href="https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/41475" class="bare">https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/41475</a> "Report Abuse REPO" by <a href="https://github.com/dugulingping" class="bare">https://github.com/dugulingping</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-08-26 <a href="https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/30936" class="bare">https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/30936</a> "github search provide strange result" by <a href="https://github.com/pmakarenko" class="bare">https://github.com/pmakarenko</a> "github search provide strange result"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-06-18 <a href="https://github.com/github-community/community/discussions/18862" class="bare">https://github.com/github-community/community/discussions/18862</a> by <a href="https://github.com/LyLme" class="bare">https://github.com/LyLme</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-04-25 <a href="https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/15534" class="bare">https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/15534</a> "Report spam" by <a href="https://github.com/ryuujo1573" class="bare">https://github.com/ryuujo1573</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-03-14 <a href="https://91ai.net/thread-983734-1-1.html" class="bare">https://91ai.net/thread-983734-1-1.html</a> 真是遇了狗了搜播放器 搜到个狗 One of the comments suggests that the sponsors are a considerable ammount. Poor newbie, Ciro’s sponsors are 20 dollars/month as of writing in 2022. Related: <a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-03-14 <a href="https://github.com/community/community/discussions/12800" class="bare">https://github.com/community/community/discussions/12800</a>, previously: <a href="https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12800" class="bare">https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12800</a> "Polluted search results" by ThebestkillerTBK</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/120513" class="bare">https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/120513</a> by 8u8m</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/108422" class="bare">https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/108422</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/61262" class="bare">https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/61262</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/57755" class="bare">https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/57755</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="bot-issue-mention-attack"><a class="anchor" href="#bot-issue-mention-attack"></a><a class="link" href="#bot-issue-mention-attack">4.6. Bot + issue mention attack</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In March 2021, this repo had a traffic search spike for: "Search · 联级选择器"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This term refers to <a href="https://ant.design/components/cascader-cn/" class="bare">https://ant.design/components/cascader-cn/</a> which seems to be a CSS live selector</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The related project: <a href="https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design-pro" class="bare">https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design-pro</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Someone actually used wumao techniques mentioned at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/191" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/191</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/192" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/192</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>to attack that repo:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design-pro/issues/8133" class="bare">https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design-pro/issues/8133</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/xp8ls" class="bare">https://archive.ph/xp8ls</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/196" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/196</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/etYSf" class="bare">https://archive.ph/etYSf</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO which exact GitHub action did they rely on? That repo currently has a <a href="https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design-pro/actions/workflows/issue-open-check.yml" class="bare">https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design-pro/actions/workflows/issue-open-check.yml</a> Issue Open Check GitHub action sample run: <a href="https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design-pro/runs/2209272410?check_suite_focus=true" class="bare">https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design-pro/runs/2209272410?check_suite_focus=true</a> we see the similarity issue analysis thing, but how could that have worked more precisely to link across repos? Asked at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/203" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/203</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="wumao-github-repos"><a class="anchor" href="#wumao-github-repos"></a><a class="link" href="#wumao-github-repos">4.7. Wumao GitHub repos (由五毛的GitHub库)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/boycott-fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Boycott-Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo" class="bare">https://github.com/boycott-fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Boycott-Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo</a> from <a href="#xuexi-qiangguo">Xuexi Qiangguo app (Study for a strong country app, 学习强国, xxqg, 2019)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--" class="bare">https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--</a> from <a href="#notepad">Notepad++</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not in other setions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Sherlockcxk/counter-terrorism" class="bare">https://github.com/Sherlockcxk/counter-terrorism</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/yangxiangquan/fuhaisun" class="bare">https://github.com/yangxiangquan/fuhaisun</a> contains some evil west issues: <a href="https://github.com/yangxiangquan/fuhaisun/issues" class="bare">https://github.com/yangxiangquan/fuhaisun/issues</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/CNBlackListR/white-book" class="bare">https://github.com/CNBlackListR/white-book</a> "Our CNBlackListR battle report on reporting illegal over-the-wall anti-China reactionaries". They then go on to document how they reported some dude online which made him go to jail. TODO identify the case. Twitter account handle: "刁民" (Diao Min, awful people)</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Defendant Yang XX (杨 ), male, born on July 28, 1995, Han nationality, with a bachelor’s degree, is a lawyer assistant at Beijing Yingke (Guangzhou) Law Firm. He was detained on October 1, 2019 on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble in this case, and was criminally detained on the same day, and arrested on October 15, 2019.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/wumaoland" class="bare">https://github.com/wumaoland</a> from <a href="#reply-policy">Ciro Santilli’s reply policy (三西猴的回答政策)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/SBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSB" class="bare">https://github.com/SBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSB</a> followed Ciro, coon after <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/671" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/671</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Ciro Santilli spoof accounts:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantillifather" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantillifather</a>, e.g. <a href="https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/94" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/94</a> at (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210807195703/https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/94">archive</a>)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On 2021-09-23 Ciro Santilli received this email from <a href="mailto:cirosantillifather@protonmail.com">cirosantillifather@protonmail.com</a> "Hello son: I like your wife very much, can you let her have a one-night stand with me?". <a href="https://github.com/cirosantillifather" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantillifather</a> had been deleted at that point.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirowayne" class="bare">https://github.com/cirowayne</a> (e.g. <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/sCYLF">archive</a>) possible new account</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/AlstonScott" class="bare">https://github.com/AlstonScott</a> <a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/428" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/428</a> was using Ciro’s profile picture: <a href="https://archive.ph/K59TN" class="bare">https://archive.ph/K59TN</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Ciro-Santilli-NMSL" class="bare">https://github.com/Ciro-Santilli-NMSL</a> 我在你爸坟头骨灰拌饭 <a href="https://archive.ph/5iVR2" class="bare">https://archive.ph/5iVR2</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/wumaoland/MaoZeDongAnthology" class="bare">https://github.com/wumaoland/MaoZeDongAnthology</a> of our great ex-leader, <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a>!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gege-circle/home" class="bare">https://github.com/gege-circle/home</a> 戈戈圈 TODO there were some backlinks from there, and they seemed to have some <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a>, but haven’t full understood what they are yet. They seem to be some anime nerds, so maybe related to <a href="#hololive">VTubers</a>?</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/907" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/907</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gege_circle/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/gege_circle/</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Their README reads:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Please consciously abide by the laws of the People’s Republic of China. This project restricts the discussion of political content and prohibits the publication of illegal information. If such discussions are found to be gradually deviating from the topic and leading to purely political content, the moderator will first warn them, and then start punishing them if they do not listen.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>OK, the home project is an auto-archiver, much like <a href="#duty-machine">duty-machine GitHub account (责任机器GitHub用户)</a>, but non anonymous, e.g.:</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gege-circle/home/issues/1247" class="bare">https://github.com/gege-circle/home/issues/1247</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mv10yp3LfgC9ibj_MbWarQ" class="bare">https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mv10yp3LfgC9ibj_MbWarQ</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But that’s not all it is/was, e.g.:</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210407073739if_/https://github.com/gege-circle/home/issues/271#issuecomment-809275700" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210407073739if_/https://github.com/gege-circle/home/issues/271#issuecomment-809275700</a> from <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/157" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/157</a> has some discussion</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2023-07 <a href="https://github.com/saadeghi/daisyui/pull/2150" class="bare">https://github.com/saadeghi/daisyui/pull/2150</a> remove taiwan flag by <a href="https://github.com/92hackers">92hackers</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gaoe6661/anti-America-hegemony" class="bare">https://github.com/gaoe6661/anti-America-hegemony</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="faq"><a class="anchor" href="#faq"></a><a class="link" href="#faq">5. FAQ (常见问答集)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="why-keyword-attack"><a class="anchor" href="#why-keyword-attack"></a><a class="link" href="#why-keyword-attack">5.1. Why attack websites with censored keywords? (用审查词攻击网站有什么用呢？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The attack: <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To <a href="#effective">destroy the firewall</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This would then end <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And then <a href="#dictator-needs-gfw">Ciro believes</a> that this would also <a href="#why-end-dictatorship">end the dictatorship</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The keyword attacks increase the cost of censorship.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If commies censor things, they will get worse IT technology, and thus become <a href="#richer">less rich</a> and militarily powerful.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since all they care about, like any other politicians, is power, the only way to make them stop censorship is to make the cost of censorship higher than not censoring.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Without the threat that China will be less technologically, and therefore militarily advanced, there is no incentive for the CCP to destroy the firewall.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The goal is to put them in a position where they have to choose between either:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>having military power</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>remaining a <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but not both, since having both means that they will <a href="#war">start WW3 and destroy humanity</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And if they decide to destroy the dictatorship, Ciro wants to help China become <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">the most awesome country on Earth</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Closely related/identical ideas are <a href="#cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism">Cute cat theory of digital activism (可爱猫理论)</a> and <a href="#collateral-freedom">Collateral Freedom (依附的自由)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related attack: <a href="#photobomb">Photobombing-like attacks</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="harm-programmers"><a class="anchor" href="#harm-programmers"></a><a class="link" href="#harm-programmers">5.1.1. Does Ciro Santilli want to harm the Chinese programmers? 三西猴想要伤害中国程序员吗？</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is not a <a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">revenge</a> of any kind.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro knows that he is harming you in the short term, and he doesn’t like that.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But he believes that this harm is a necessary means to reach his real goal, which is to destroy the <a href="#gfw">firewall</a>, and the <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Don’t you think it is worth a try? Destroying the firewall, would <a href="#why-end-dictatorship">enormously benefit</a> not only Chinese programmers, but every single other Chinese person too.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once the firewall is destroyed, which <a href="#dictator-needs-gfw">may destroy the dictatorship</a>, he want China to develop the best science and technology in the world, and <a href="#would-ciro-santilli-like-to-live-in-china">Would Ciro Santilli like to live in China? (三西猴想住在中国吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And by the way, with his <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli">extensive contributions to open source software</a>, Ciro is already helping China, and all underdeveloped countries, to become stronger. His hope is that if poor countries become richer and better educated, that they will be less likely to be influenced by the CCP’s money, and therefore are more likely to be allies of democracy.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#disturbs">Keyword attack profiles disturb me (关键字攻击个人资料页打扰我)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="harm-people"><a class="anchor" href="#harm-people"></a><a class="link" href="#harm-people">5.1.1.1. Does Ciro Santilli want to make the Chinese people people look bad? (三西猴是想让中国人脸色不好？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No, the opposite.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro only wants their <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorial government</a> to look bad to destroy it, and help China become <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">the most awesome country on Earth</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even the Chinese that are against their own Government <a href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">cannot do much about it openly</a>, so it is not their fault.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And even those <a href="#i-like-my-dictatorship">who supported their dictatorship</a> must be respected, whoever <a href="#stupid">stupid</a> and <a href="#brainwashed-by-usa">brainwashed</a> you might think they are, <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">since it is impossible to prove who is right or wrong in politics</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#about">About (关于)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="stupid"><a class="anchor" href="#stupid"></a><a class="link" href="#stupid">5.1.2. Does Ciro Santilli think that the Chinese are stupid or brainwashed? (三西猴觉得中国人是傻子或是被洗脑了吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Obviously not, if you even thought about this, it is likely because of: <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Don’t you see that this is just pure and simple politics? And likely ineffective one at that: <a href="#effective">Will the keyword attacks really help to destroy the firewall? (关键字攻击真的有助于破坏防火墙吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>everyone is brainwashed by their environment: <a href="#brainwashed-by-usa">brainwashed</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>it is impossible to prove who is right or wrong in politics: <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">Why does Ciro Santilli say that democracy is a religion just like Falun Gong? (为什么三西猴说民主就像法轮功一样是一种宗教？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>not even the CCP is evil: <a href="#ccp-evil">Is the Chinese government evil? (中国共产党是邪恶的吗？)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#young-pioneers-of-china">Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream">Little pink explains the difference between the American dream and the Chinese dream</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ncGTvkxDQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ncGTvkxDQ</a> How does propaganda change our beliefs? by Etienne Augé (2021). At: <a href="https://youtu.be/K2ncGTvkxDQ?t=139" class="bare">https://youtu.be/K2ncGTvkxDQ?t=139</a> he mentions his 6 principles of propaganda, the first of which is that it should be undetected. As soon as <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> saw that, he changed the description of this repository from "Anti-Chinese government information." to "Anti-Chinese government propaganda.".</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/K2ncGTvkxDQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="keyword-attack"><a class="anchor" href="#keyword-attack"></a><a class="link" href="#keyword-attack">5.1.3. Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A keyword consists of adding censored words to your username: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This only works on websites that show usernames everywhere.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This then leads to your username appearing on thousands of pages, depending on how much you contribute to the website.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also possible to do it with images, although this is less effective in taking down websites since images are harder for the firewall to track automatically. But:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>they are more memorable than words</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>they also work on websites like GitHub where your real name does not show on most pages, only slug</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>so maybe the most effective approach is to use both keywords and images to get the best of both worlds ;-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This type of attack is essentially an <a href="#embargo">Embargoes make dictatorships stronger (禁运使独裁更强大)</a>, and it is especially effective in websites that contain valuable technical content, such as <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a> and <a href="#github">GitHub</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#photobomb">Photobombing-like attacks</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-06-03 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/free-hong-kong-road-budapest-renames-streets-to-frustrate-chinese-campus-plan" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/free-hong-kong-road-budapest-renames-streets-to-frustrate-chinese-campus-plan</a> "Free Hong Kong Road: Budapest renames streets to frustrate Chinese campus plan"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some non-screen name ones:
* <a href="https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6620655" class="bare">https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6620655</a>, that site is open source BTW, great initiative: <a href="https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2" class="bare">https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some people say <a href="https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/284671/dont-st-where-you-eat">don’t shift where you eat</a>. Ciro says: bring a shitbucket to the canteen, and start a shitfight.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chrysanthemum_Xi_Jinping_with_black_red_liusi_added_by_Ciro_Santilli.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Chrysanthemum Xi Jinping with black red liusi added by Ciro Santilli" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 3. <a href="#chrysanthemium-xi-jinping">Chrysanthemium Xi Jinping (菊花习近平, 2015)</a> has been used by Ciro Santilli as a profile picture censored image attack</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="scunthorpe-problem"><a class="anchor" href="#scunthorpe-problem"></a><a class="link" href="#scunthorpe-problem">5.1.3.1. Scunthorpe problem (斯肯索普问题)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/斯肯索普问题" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/斯肯索普问题</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For China it is <a href="#falun-sweden">Falun, Sweden (法轮，瑞典的城市)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="falun-sweden"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-sweden"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-sweden">5.1.3.1.1. Falun, Sweden (法轮，瑞典的城市)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法倫" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法倫</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A Swedish University town called "Falun", with the same "Falun" Chinese characters as those in <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, which got the town blocked by the <a href="#internal-censorship">GFW</a> on some websites, mentioned at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323926104578277511385052752" class="bare">https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323926104578277511385052752</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=法倫&oldid=47709870#趣闻" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=法倫&oldid=47709870#趣闻</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Known primarily for its mine, which was one of the oldest operating companies in the world:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Mine" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Mine</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法伦的大铜山矿区" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法伦的大铜山矿区</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism"><a class="anchor" href="#cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism"></a><a class="link" href="#cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism">5.1.4. Cute cat theory of digital activism (可爱猫理论)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/可愛貓理論" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/可愛貓理論</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Someone told <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> a while after he had started doing his <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a> on <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a>, he didn’t know about it before, but it is basically what he was doing.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can never invent anything new anymore nowadays!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is especially relevant to <a href="#github">GitHub</a>! And GitHub’s mascot is also a cat ;-) Some mentions of this:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-09-09 <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/china-github-free-speech-covid-information/" class="bare">https://www.wired.com/story/china-github-free-speech-covid-information/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-09 <a href="https://www.xataka.com/servicios/github-inesperado-ultimo-reducto-libertad-expresion-gran-firewall-que-pone-jaque-intereses-china" class="bare">https://www.xataka.com/servicios/github-inesperado-ultimo-reducto-libertad-expresion-gran-firewall-que-pone-jaque-intereses-china</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_activism" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_activism</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="bitcoin-blockchain"><a class="anchor" href="#bitcoin-blockchain"></a><a class="link" href="#bitcoin-blockchain">5.1.4.1. Anti-CCP content in the Bitcoin blockchain (在比特币区块链的反中共内容)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Blockchain technologies, such as Bitcoin, provide essentially uncensorable (at a transaction cost), because the messages are put together with financial transactions which are extremely valuable to its users.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As mentioned by Dan Kaminsky at: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain/len-sassaman-tribute#video-black-ops-of-tcp-ip-by-dan-kaminsky-2011" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain/len-sassaman-tribute#video-black-ops-of-tcp-ip-by-dan-kaminsky-2011</a> this forms a type of <a href="#samizdat">Samizdat (Soviet underground propagation of censored materials, 秘密出版物, самиздат)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Services that can be used to easily view this data online include:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://bitfossil.org/" class="bare">http://bitfossil.org/</a> is a website that indexes especially formatted images uploaded to the blockchaian.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://bitcoinstrings.com/" class="bare">https://bitcoinstrings.com/</a> dumps all ASCII printable strings of length 20 ore more online</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We have been able to find the following anti-CCP information in the blockchain so far:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2014: <a href="http://bitfossil.org/fe0dfa51337dfce616a0e0305d10eed867e56a9f0f006b0521ec1ea32851a342/index.htm" class="bare">http://bitfossil.org/fe0dfa51337dfce616a0e0305d10eed867e56a9f0f006b0521ec1ea32851a342/index.htm</a> is about the <a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a> 2014 protests. It contains text and images in the AtomSea & EMBII format. Part of the text is ripped from: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-29421909" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-29421909</a> "Hong Kong democracy protesters defiant on National Day Tens of thousands of people have been blocking parts of the city for days."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017: <a href="https://bitcoinstrings.com/blk00776.txt">blk00776.txt</a> transaction <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3845e630032578cb825d587b759eb499511d691f93962f4b9f5b2e06ef9570c7">3845e630032578cb825d587b759eb499511d691f93962f4b9f5b2e06ef9570c7</a> says:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Tiananmen massacre ←-- I dare China to censor this.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 1ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e from 2017 contains an image of <a href="#tank-man">Tank Man (坦克人)</a> encoded as standard transaction SHAs. The image is mentioned at: <a href="https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/191157608/#q191162145" class="bare">https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/191157608/#q191162145</a> with indexer URL <a href="https://cryptograffiti.info/#ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg" class="bare">https://cryptograffiti.info/#ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg</a> but that link is not working</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 blk00808.txt transaction <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/91b9b44532e094522e905012c04f207df1bcad8d9df7232679cb16859a008bdd">91b9b44532e094522e905012c04f207df1bcad8d9df7232679cb16859a008bdd</a> (TODO why not visible at <a href="https://bitcoinstrings.com/blk00808.txt" class="bare">https://bitcoinstrings.com/blk00808.txt</a>) contains a full text reproduction of: <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/01/china-tell-truth-about-tiananmen-anniversary" class="bare">https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/01/china-tell-truth-about-tiananmen-anniversary</a> "China: Tell the Truth About Tiananmen on Anniversary" from <a href="#human-rights-watch">Human Rights Watch (人权观察)</a>. The text is preceeded by a Chinese version of the same.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/0072a67e116e7bec2ca36d9ab71e61bd3732f201c76ab04eb06dae7c3c6f8ab8">2021-01-18</a>: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-strings-with-txids/blob/7e95546479508e9fe5158dad6bc8601e2b4e02ee/data/out/0666.txt#L545">tx 0072a67e116e7bec2ca36d9ab71e61bd3732f201c76ab04eb06dae7c3c6f8ab8</a>:</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>source of humanity and the mother of truth dp</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>+
TODO meaning of "dp". Part of a quote by <a href="#liu-xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a> which was delivered in his Nobel Prize speech in absentia: <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2010/xiaobo/lecture/" class="bare">https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2010/xiaobo/lecture/</a>, fuller quote:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>+</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#freedom-of-the-press">Freedom of expression</a> is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022-01-14 <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/009afecd15a924d10be590d60254fc02bb967da4d2d17c1a965fd5db6178a50d">tx 009afecd15a924d10be590d60254fc02bb967da4d2d17c1a965fd5db6178a50d</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#chernobyl-2019-miniseries">Covid19 is Xi Jinping s Chernobyl</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But of course, there are crypto-<a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a>'s there too!!! The incongruence of a dictatorship and uncensorability is just mind blowing:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016 transaction <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/4921ae59b6ca89c2cd78e3d0850abd657f88a3ecc13c9c667872bf2740841dee">4921ae59b6ca89c2cd78e3d0850abd657f88a3ecc13c9c667872bf2740841dee</a>, by a miner who earned 12 BTC:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>South China Sea belongs to China-pc</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Neutral references:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://bitcoinstrings.com/blk00776.txt">blk01341.txt</a> tx 3d2226aa2591acfb0d3c9206b9bb2058b0a488ad6d0e9c61e0c8f3c53d0d4b90 "EW Hello Xi Jingping" (mispelled). "EW" is a service identifier, not part of the message.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the test blockchain (boring!):</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Tankman on the <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet">Bitcoin testnet</a> <a href="http://bitfossil.org/64b4e3c5610b421ef254d0a57c92642bd97cce3675d5afdd81e73a651a04db20/index.htm" class="bare">http://bitfossil.org/64b4e3c5610b421ef254d0a57c92642bd97cce3675d5afdd81e73a651a04db20/index.htm</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z43xx4/love-is-forever-when-its-written-in-the-blockchain" class="bare">https://www.vice.com/en/article/z43xx4/love-is-forever-when-its-written-in-the-blockchain</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other blockchains:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-02-25 <a href="https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship-111795" class="bare">https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship-111795</a> "Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship" mentions the insertion of the <a href="#metoo">Yue Xin letter</a> and <a href="#changsheng-bio-technology-vaccine-data-falsification-incident-2018">Changsheng Bio-Technology vaccine data falsification incident (长生生物, 2018)</a> information in the Ethereum blockchain. This gives the transaction in the screenshot: <a href="https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3028662/chinas-netizens-use-blockchain-spread-censored-news" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3028662/chinas-netizens-use-blockchain-spread-censored-news</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="collateral-freedom"><a class="anchor" href="#collateral-freedom"></a><a class="link" href="#collateral-freedom">5.1.4.2. Collateral Freedom (依附的自由)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/依附的自由" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/依附的自由</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a> people called a <a href="#cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism">Cute cat theory of digital activism (可爱猫理论)</a>-related project of theirs "Collateral Freedom" (a reference to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_damage">collateral damage</a>), in which they seem to be trying to forward censored websites somehow through AWS to force the Chinese Government to block the entire AWS in China:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Collateral Freedom ties access to information to the Chinese economy. If [authorities] truly want to block access to this information, then they must give up certain access to economic freedoms.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At some point the Wikipedia page was created, but the concept was largely publicized by Greatfire most likely, although it might have been older. It is also not obvious that it satisfiers notability requirements of Wikipedia as of 2021.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2015 coverage: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/greatfire/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/greatfire/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There’s an useless Wiki page for that: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/10/amazon_backtracks_on_s3/" class="bare">https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/10/amazon_backtracks_on_s3/</a> clarifies that on Amazon S3 the question is about:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><code><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/<bucket_name>/<object_key_name>" class="bare">https://s3.amazonaws.com/<bucket_name>/<object_key_name></a>;</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code><a href="https://<bucket_name>.s3.amazonaws.com/<object_key_name>" class="bare">https://<bucket_name>.s3.amazonaws.com/<object_key_name></a>;</code></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>the second of which can be easily blocked by domain, but the first can’t, and how amazon was planning on killing the first option.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/GitHub_collateral_freedom.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="GitHub collateral freedom" height="800">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 4. With HTTPS censors can’t know which path you access. Featuring <a href="#xi-jinping-bdsm-cosplay">Xi Jinping BDSM at cosplay fair</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="protestware"><a class="anchor" href="#protestware"></a><a class="link" href="#protestware">5.1.4.3. Protestware</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably our <a href="#software-package-mirrors">Software package mirrors (软件包管理器镜像)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/open-source-peace/protestware-list" class="bare">https://github.com/open-source-peace/protestware-list</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/27/protestware-code-sabotage/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/27/protestware-code-sabotage/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="dual-use-technology"><a class="anchor" href="#dual-use-technology"></a><a class="link" href="#dual-use-technology">5.1.4.4. Dual-use technology (军民两用技术)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Normally, the term "dual-use technology" is used in the context of blocking exports that can be used either for peace, but also for war.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, as mentioned <a href="https://twitter.com/Dogbert_Catbert/status/1372467670826684419">by a Twitter friend</a>, a <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a> for Freedom of Speech is also essentially a dual-use matter.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#western-companies-that-sell-censorship-technology-to-dictatorships">Western companies that sell censorship technology to dictatorships (向独裁政权出售审查技术的西方公司)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="slacktivism"><a class="anchor" href="#slacktivism"></a><a class="link" href="#slacktivism">5.1.5. Slacktivism (懒人行动主义)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/懒人行动主义" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/懒人行动主义</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also related: <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-support-the-current-thing" class="bare">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-support-the-current-thing</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="meant-to-be-used"><a class="anchor" href="#meant-to-be-used"></a><a class="link" href="#meant-to-be-used">5.2. Politics should not be posted in technical websites such as GitHub or Stack Overflow 不应该在技术网站例如Stack Overflow和GitHub讨论政治</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So, where do you propose politics be posted? On Facebook or Twitter, which are already blocked by the <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a>? Or maybe on <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a>, where it will be taken down within seconds due to <a href="#internal-censorship">internal censorship</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Is the Chinese government using the Internet the way it was meant to be used, by investing billions in <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What about <a href="#nine-nine-six-icu">996.ICU (2019)</a>? Did you also complain about it, or did you just star it like 250k of your fellow programmers?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Any act of protest will use things in ways that it was not meant to be used.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, the street is not meant to showcase protest banners, it is meant to be a passageway for cars.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As engineers, we have a moral responsibility towards society. We should not blindly follow orders of those in power if it violates our principles, e.g. build weapons or censorship mechanisms. And we should freely express our principles and violation concerns.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Making a statement where no one will ever see it, like a personal website, is <a href="#effective">sure to have no effect</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Much of the best art and technology is about using something in a way that it wasn’t meant to be used.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Finally, the political powers of each website decide what is allowed or not on their website, and what is not allowed gets blocked. So far, Stack Overflow and GitHub’s Terms of Service have said to go ahead:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#github">GitHub</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another consideration is that any profile information is essentially a form of advertisement. Some people advertise their skills for hire, or their company and product. Other people, advertise their <a href="#falun-gong">religion</a> or <a href="#gay-rights">sexual orientation</a>. So why should you not be able to advertise your political position? Companies pay millions of dollars to grab other people’s attention. Ciro feels it is much fairer to instead pay for those ads with your labour of love.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a> has, of course, a beautiful reply to this at <a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao/tree/e8eea46424549c11792dfe61cf9e7698bdbd7240#致反对此项目的墙内程序员" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao/tree/e8eea46424549c11792dfe61cf9e7698bdbd7240#致反对此项目的墙内程序员</a>:</p>
</div>
<div id="programthink-meant-to-be-used" class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>致"反对此项目的墙内程序员"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>本项目上线第二天，就收获 363 个 star 兼 88 个 fork，甚至还挤进 GitHub 的"当日 Trending"——俺很荣幸，也很高兴有这么多人给俺捧场。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>但是在本项目的 issue 列表中也看到好几个反对此项目的程序员（应该都来自墙内），他们担心这个项目导致 GitHub 被 GFW 封杀。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>这几年来，类似的言论俺已经看了不少。就好比强盗拿刀杀人，围观者不但没有谴责强盗，反而去谴责卖刀的店家——这就是传说中的"<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/斯德哥爾摩症候群">斯德哥尔摩综合症</a>"。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>有兴趣的同学，可以看俺之前的博文——《<a href="https://program-think.blogspot.com/2012/06/stockholm-syndrome.html">天朝民众的心理分析：斯德哥尔摩综合症</a>》</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translation:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In reply to: "Programmers behind the <a href="#gfw">GFW</a> who are against this project"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The second day after the project went online, it got 363 stars and 88 forks, and even squeezed into GitHub’s "Trending repositories of the Day". I am honored and I am so happy that so many people gave me their support.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, in the issue list of this project, I also saw several programmers who opposed this project (likely all from within the GFW), and they worried that this project would cause GitHub to be blocked by GFW.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Over the past few years, I have read a lot of similar comments. A good comparison would be if a robber were killing someone with a knife, and the onlookers not only did not condemn the robber, but instead condemned the shop that sold the knife. This is the legendary "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome">Stockholm syndrome</a>".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interested people can read my previous blog post: <a href="https://program-think.blogspot.com/2012/06/stockholm-syndrome.html">"Psychological Analysis of the People of the Heavenly Dynasty: Stockholm Syndrome"</a>.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The more places we can denounce dictators, the better people are off, <a href="#disturbs">the minor annoyance to sensitive people is worth it</a>. Ciro wrote a poem:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Don’t discuss politics on Stack Overflow.<br>
Don’t discuss politics on GitHub.<br>
Don’t discuss politics on YouTube.<br>
Don’t discuss politics on Facebook.<br>
Don’t discuss politics on Twitter.<br>
Don’t discuss politics.<br>
Don’t discuss.<br>
Don’t.<br>
.<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Infinite duplicate pool:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ameant-to-be-used+" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ameant-to-be-used+</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina/issues/89" class="bare">https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina/issues/89</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="is-ciro-santilli-making-programming-contributions-with-the-main-intent-of-promoting-his-political-agenda"><a class="anchor" href="#is-ciro-santilli-making-programming-contributions-with-the-main-intent-of-promoting-his-political-agenda"></a><a class="link" href="#is-ciro-santilli-making-programming-contributions-with-the-main-intent-of-promoting-his-political-agenda">5.2.1. Is Ciro Santilli making programming contributions with the main intent of promoting his political agenda?</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No, that is just a side effect.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, if that were the case, he would definitely target more widely used technologies, in particular Web and JavaScript, instead of obscure things like C and assembly in which I have spent tons of my time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, <a href="#effective">any attempt to influence a billin people is unlikely to have any effect</a>. Much more likely to have any effect, would be for <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> to become rich and powerful first, and the best way to do that is to invest in whatever he thinks is most useful.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Actually, it can even be argued that Ciro’s somewhat irrational, since he would be much more likely to become rich and powerful by bowing down to the CCP and trying to get their money instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the other hand, becoming rich and powerful is also highly unlikely, so maybe it’s justa matter of taking a low-risk low-reward path?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro has have very little free time, and he will never do something for political reasons, only things that interest me technically.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Finally, do you really think he’d be able to do such awesome projects if he had primarily political considerations in mind? XD</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="is-ciro-santilli-making-trivial-edits-on-questions-just-to-spam-your-name-further"><a class="anchor" href="#is-ciro-santilli-making-trivial-edits-on-questions-just-to-spam-your-name-further"></a><a class="link" href="#is-ciro-santilli-making-trivial-edits-on-questions-just-to-spam-your-name-further">5.2.1.1. Is Ciro Santilli making trivial edits on questions just to spam your name further?</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I just think that the website is great, and want to push it to perfection, in particular with better Google keyword hits, and uniform grammatically correct titles.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you think that any of my edits were harmful, please ping me and open a meta thread to discuss specific edits, and I will comply with consensus.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="communist-bread"><a class="anchor" href="#communist-bread"></a><a class="link" href="#communist-bread">5.2.2. Communist bread (中共面包)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Earliest sources found so far are from <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/o2qyu5/china_has_a_brand_of_bread_named_stop_interfering/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/o2qyu5/china_has_a_brand_of_bread_named_stop_interfering/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/o2l16c/香啊造啊/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/o2l16c/香啊造啊/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>English text:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Stop interfering in China’s internal affairs
Bread</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese text:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中国人不吃这一套<br>
美国没有资格<br>
居高临下同中国说话<br>
巧克力酱面包<br>
保质期10天<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translation:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese people don’t eat this trick<br>
The United States is not qualified to<br>
Take the high ground and look down on China<br>
Chocolate sauce bread<br>
Best before: 10 days</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/o2qyu5/china_has_a_brand_of_bread_named_stop_interfering/h2838jz" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/o2qyu5/china_has_a_brand_of_bread_named_stop_interfering/h2838jz</a> mentions that this was something that came from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93China_talks_in_Alaska">2021 US-China Alaska summit</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Here is a different picture of the same product from April 14th: <a href="https://twitter.com/YukayuyuWasGod/status/1382218316895244295" class="bare">https://twitter.com/YukayuyuWasGod/status/1382218316895244295</a> That one might allow better brand identification: 万X福 That one also posted at: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/o2zbsw/偶然看到这张图不知道是不是真的/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/o2zbsw/偶然看到这张图不知道是不是真的/</a> Watermarked Weibo @第三豹弹</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Stop_interfering_in_China_s_internal_affairs_bread.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Stop interfering in China s internal affairs bread" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 5. Chinese <a href="#dual-use-technology">dual-use</a> bread. More info at: <a href="#communist-bread">Communist bread (中共面包)</a>.</div>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Stop_interfering_in_China_s_internal_affairs_bread.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Stop interfering in China s internal affairs bread" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 6. Communist bread vs Communist condom. Someone made a brilliant communist condom Photoshop reply to the <a href="#communist-bread">Communist bread (中共面包)</a>. Pointed out at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/523" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/523</a> and a previous source at: <a href="https://weibo.com/5586291457/K9Vg7ceM7?type=comment#_rnd162900969912" class="bare">https://weibo.com/5586291457/K9Vg7ceM7?type=comment#_rnd162900969912</a>. Part of the joke is that the Chinese message reads "中国人不吃这一套" (The Chinese people won’t fall for this trick, literally "don’t eat this trick"), and "套" is the last character for condom in Chinese (避孕套), so the sentence is recast as "The Chinese people won’t eat this condom.". "套" more generally means a type of "slip-on cover or envelope". <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> reposted at: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/p4p3u3/stop_interfering_in_chinas_internal_affairs/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/p4p3u3/stop_interfering_in_chinas_internal_affairs/</a> on <a href="#r-china">r/China Reddit sub</a>. As mentioned at <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/p4p3u3/stop_interfering_in_chinas_internal_affairs/h90foja" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/p4p3u3/stop_interfering_in_chinas_internal_affairs/h90foja</a> the association of the Chinese sentence with condoms had been done independently before this Photoshop emerged, see e.g. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdEQ7JavgLw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdEQ7JavgLw</a> by <a href="#gfwfrog">GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a>. GFWfrog also twitted this image of course: <a href="https://twitter.com/gfwfrog/status/1387121102967672835" class="bare">https://twitter.com/gfwfrog/status/1387121102967672835</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="why-end-dictatorship"><a class="anchor" href="#why-end-dictatorship"></a><a class="link" href="#why-end-dictatorship">5.3. Why would China be better without its Dictatorship? (为什么没有独裁的中国会更好？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Because it would make China, and the world:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#richer">richer</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>less likely to get into <a href="#war">WW3</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#intolerance">safer for its own citizens</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="richer"><a class="anchor" href="#richer"></a><a class="link" href="#richer">5.3.1. Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Democracy is even one of the <a href="#core-socialist-values">Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)</a>!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is infinite debate about this out there, some examples:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/05/can-poor-countries-afford-democracy-becker.html" class="bare">https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/05/can-poor-countries-afford-democracy-becker.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180923192824/https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/05/can-poor-countries-afford-democracy-becker.html">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-democracy-or-authoritarianism-better-for-developing-countries" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Is-democracy-or-authoritarianism-better-for-developing-countries</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>dictatorships are more likely to start <a href="#war">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？)</a> or other <a href="#policies">crazy policies</a> like the <a href="#great-leap-forward">Great Leap Forward</a>, which completely destroy the economy in one go</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>society becomes richer when people know that they can do their startups, get rich, and stay in the country without fear of being persecuted unfairly and losing everything instead of migrating to Canada, see also: <a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of law (法治)</a>, <a href="#jack-mas-disappearance-2021">Jack Ma’s disappearance (马云的失踪, 2021)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>it is much harder to fix problems if you can’t talk about the. Any criticism of the government, even if constructive, <a href="#censorship">is taken as menace to power, and more likely to be shut down</a>, which makes the government and just becomes less efficient since there is less feedback.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This greatly increase the probability of dealing poorly with such problems, see e.g. all the global problems listed at: <a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>governments are monopolies, and the more powerful they are, the worst it is for competition an efficiency in general. E.g.: the startup with better government ties wins, instead of the most efficient one.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>people in dictatorships tend to <a href="#real-username-law">hide their true identities online</a> and in life in general. It is best not to stand out, because if you make any mistake, you are really fucked. As a result, for example, if you do something awesome like a creating an open source project, but do it anonymously, you won’t get as much fame. And therefore everyone does less of such awesome things on average.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Against:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>presidents only care about the 4-8 year horizon, while dictators can make longer term decisions to maintain power forever, their power being limited only by "the people are happy enough to not start a revolution"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>dictatorships can make changes faster without the same amount of discussion that happens in democracies, where power is more spread out.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Killing a million people will make us richer? No problem, let’s do it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That is great when they make good decisions, but it sucks when they make <a href="#war">bad ones</a> more likely.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe China was poor because of Mao’s crazy communist regime. Similar regimes also made <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a> poor. And yes, before that exploitation by the West may have been a factor.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Definitely, the current regime is better than Mao’s, but just imagine how rich China could be if it had more freedom and justice.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Imperial China lost the race for the Industrial Revolution. Will another dictatorship be able to stay on top of the next technological revolution?</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/XKCD_937_tornado_guard.png" loading="lazy" alt="XKCD 937 tornado guard" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 7. XKCD 937 "TornadoGuard" comes to mind in relationship to the <a href="#dictatorship-variability">variable performance of dictatorships</a>. <a href="https://xkcd.com/937/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="dictatorship-variability"><a class="anchor" href="#dictatorship-variability"></a><a class="link" href="#dictatorship-variability">5.3.1.1. Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> really likes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180923192824/https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/05/can-poor-countries-afford-democracy-becker.html">Posners'</a> way of putting it:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>While average rate of growth do not appear to differ much between democracies and authoritarian regimes, the variability in performance does differ more among authoritarian governments. China has had remarkable growth since the 1980s, but the prolonged devastation and hardship produced by China’s "<a href="#great-leap-forward">Great Leap Forward (大跃进, da4 yue4 jin4, 1958-1960)</a>" (when millions of farmers starved to death) and its Cultural Revolution would unlikely have occurred in a democratic country like say India. Nor is it likely that say Cuba and many African nations would have suffered so long with such terrible economic policies if they had reasonably democratic institutions.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="tea-egg-incident"><a class="anchor" href="#tea-egg-incident"></a><a class="link" href="#tea-egg-incident">5.3.1.2. Tea egg incident (茶葉蛋事件, 2011)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/茶葉蛋事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/茶葉蛋事件</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A Taiwanese celebrity said many people in China can’t even buy <a href="#tea-egg">tea eggs</a>, which are extremely cheap and easy to make at home: you just need to cook some eggs in any cheap tea! Chinese internet <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a>s made fun of that, and likely rightly so.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="censorship-makes-countries-poorer"><a class="anchor" href="#censorship-makes-countries-poorer"></a><a class="link" href="#censorship-makes-countries-poorer">5.3.2. Censorship makes countries poorer (审查使国家更穷)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#dictatorship">Dictatorships</a> need <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a> to survive, and they must control all information to make themselves always look good: <a href="#dictator-needs-gfw">Would ending the Great Firewall truly end the dictatorship? (结束防火墙真的会结束独裁吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a result, knowledge of problems flows more slowly, and therefore they also take longer to solve.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe this hurts the argument, but Hillary agrees: :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of internet users risk walling themselves off from the progress of the next century</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccGzOJHE1rw&t=2110" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccGzOJHE1rw&t=2110</a> "Secretary Clinton Speaks on Internet Freedom", U.S. Department of State, 2010-01-22</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ccGzOJHE1rw?rel=0&start=2110" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also mentioned at: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=d3dE_LDz_9E?t=1681">Google versus China - VPRO documentary - 2011</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is also the basis of a <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This suggestion is even more explicit in the fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z">World War Z</a> 2006 novel by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Brooks">Max Brooks</a> about a <a href="#covid">virus</a> outbreak in China. It was later adapted into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film)">World War Z (2013)</a> movie by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures">Paramount</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/04/brad-pitt-china-world-war-z" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/04/brad-pitt-china-world-war-z</a>: Paramount cowards tried to kowtow and remove references to China from the movie, but it failed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-how-its-system-enables-epidemics/2020/02/27/cc0446f0-58e5-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-how-its-system-enables-epidemics/2020/02/27/cc0446f0-58e5-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html</a>: no Chinese publisher dared publish the book unless China references were removed, which the author declined, and so the book was not published in China</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/">if you prefer</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen">Amartya Sen</a> is another famous proponent of similar arguments in the area of hungers: <a href="https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/211/44284.html" class="bare">https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/211/44284.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170722090616/https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/211/44284.html">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In democratic countries, even very poor ones, the survival of the ruling government would be threatened by famine, since elections are not easy to win after famines; nor is it easy to withstand criticism of opposition parties and newspapers. That is why famine does not occur in democratic countries. Unfortunately, there are a great many countries in the world which do not yet have democratic systems.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>although like any other political argument, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/does-democracy-avert-famine.html">some disagree</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Virus outbreaks and other natural disasters also illustrate this well: <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/2019/chernobyl-a-lesson-in-truth.php" class="bare">https://www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/2019/chernobyl-a-lesson-in-truth.php</a> Chernobyl: a lesson in truth Secrets were kept, mistakes were made, and people were exposed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="chernobyl-2019-miniseries"><a class="anchor" href="#chernobyl-2019-miniseries"></a><a class="link" href="#chernobyl-2019-miniseries">5.3.2.1. Chernobyl 2019 miniseries (切尔诺贝利_(迷你剧))</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>link:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/切尔诺贝利_(迷你剧)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Suggests that part of the reason why Chernobyl happened is because of the Soviet Union’s obsession to save face, and illustrates well how <a href="#censorship-makes-countries-poorer">Censorship makes countries poorer (审查使国家更穷)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The URSS only admitted Chernobyl three days after when Swedish nuclear plant radiation detector alarms started going off.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably, in order to keep it secret, they for example did not cancel the <a href="https://time.com/4313139/post-chernobyl-parade/">International Workers' Day parade in Kharkov, Ukraine which happened five days after the disaster</a>. Related: <a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#law-of-gravity-1984">Law of Gravity passage from Nineteen Eighty-Four (《十九八十四》中的万有引力段落)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBVLMHK6c8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBVLMHK6c8</a> Chernobyl supercut scene where the reactor explodes, and a chief engineer "Comrade Dyatlov" accepts a hastily made radiation measurement of 3.6 Roentgen as "Not great, not terrible" and forwards it to his superiors who take actions based on that, even though the radiation measurement apparatus only goes up to 3.6 Roentgen! Needless to say, the actual radiation was much, much higher: when a proper measurement was made much later on, the value was 15000 Roentgen!</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 8. Photo of a CDV-717 radioactivity meter that maxes out at 3.6 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_(unit)">Roentgen</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/倫琴_(單位)">倫琴</a>) like the one that would have been used in Chernobyl. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChernobylTV/comments/bnio6n/36_roentgen_on_a_cdv717/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="censorship-makes-no-one-trust-your-country"><a class="anchor" href="#censorship-makes-no-one-trust-your-country"></a><a class="link" href="#censorship-makes-no-one-trust-your-country">5.3.2.2. Censorship makes no one trust your country (审查使得沒有人相信你的国家)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Who would trust a government that does not <a href="#censorship">trust its own journalists and citizens</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even democracies cannot be trusted, but dictatorships? No one ever believes what they say, even when it’s true.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The boy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf">just called wolf far too many times</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And as a result, this makes it very difficult to have allies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sure, other dictatorships will seem to become allies with your dictatorship and collaborate.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But deep down, you know that they are all just waiting patiently to put a knife in one other’s backs.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dictators will always live in fear.</p>
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<h5 id="covid"><a class="anchor" href="#covid"></a><a class="link" href="#covid">5.3.2.3. Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019冠状病毒病" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019冠状病毒病</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese Government <a href="#censorship">censored</a> the initial outbreak in January and did not inform Wuhan on January 8, which likely made the situation much worse than what it could have been.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the other hand, one may argue that the "city closure" measures were stronger/faster than in democracies, and maybe that is true.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> does believe that the virus would have escaped even if there had been no censorship. Although maybe thousands of lives would have been saved due to smaller saturation of hospitals had a proper early warning been given.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>So Ciro’s main criticism is that of the censorship of citizen reports the event: <a href="#people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus">People arrested for reporting on the 2019 Corona Virus (因报道 2019 年冠状病毒而被捕的人)</a>. Why do you need to censor things when you are doing so well?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And it should also be said that some Western politicians have used "blame China" as an excuse to divert attention from their own failures.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some believe that the Chinese government grossly under-reported death counts. Initial official figures were about only 3300 deaths, in the insanely densely populated Wuhan area, while Italy had reached 10000 deaths:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022-04 <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/china-censors-national-anthem-lyrics-used-as-lockdown-protest-/6539716.html" class="bare">https://www.voanews.com/a/china-censors-national-anthem-lyrics-used-as-lockdown-protest-/6539716.html</a> China Censors <a href="#national-anthem">Chinese National Anthem (义勇军进行曲, 1978)</a> Lyrics Used as <a href="#covid">Lockdown</a> Protest on <a href="#voa">Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)</a></p>
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<li>
<p>2020-04-19 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr280LWjJT0&t=2198" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr280LWjJT0&t=2198</a> Trump says on a White House briefing he does not believe China’s case count</p>
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<p>2020-04-01 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says" class="bare">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says</a> CIA speaks</p>
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<p>2020-03-29 <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8165717/Locals-Wuhan-believe-42-000-people-died-coronavirus.html" class="bare">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8165717/Locals-Wuhan-believe-42-000-people-died-coronavirus.html</a> Reports of funerary urns sold</p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe China is saying the truth this time. Maybe the rapid Dictatorship response worked. But maybe the most important lesson to take out of this is that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/27/china-loses-trust-internationally-over-coronavirus-handling">no one</a> trusts <a href="#censorship-makes-no-one-trust-your-country">in a Dictatorship after an infinitely long history of lies and lack of freedom of the press</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> of course doubts those numbers :-) <a href="#falun-gongs-view-of-epidemics">Falun Gong’s view of epidemics (法轮功的流行病观)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good timelines so without a fucking paywall:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-and-cover-up-ee65211a-afb6-4641-97b8-353718a5faab.html" class="bare">https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-and-cover-up-ee65211a-afb6-4641-97b8-353718a5faab.html</a> "Timeline: The early days of China’s coronavirus outbreak and cover-up"</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_in_November_2019_–_January_2020" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_in_November_2019_–_January_2020</a></p>
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</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Timeline:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-12-27 several genomics companies had sequenced the coronavirus and noticed the similarity to Sars. According to GeneBank, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT019529" class="bare">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT019529</a> the sample was collected on and 23-Dec-2019 and published on 04-FEB-2020</p>
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<p>2020-01-01 <a href="#cctv">China Central Television (CCTV, 中国中央电视台, 央视, CCP media)</a> announces that posting about it online is a crime: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ko18aa/on_this_day_one_year_ago_cctv_first_reported_on/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ko18aa/on_this_day_one_year_ago_cctv_first_reported_on/</a></p>
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<p>2020-01-03 findings were sent to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Center_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention">Centre for Disease Control</a> (CDC, <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国疾病预防控制中心">中国疾病预防控制中心</a>) in Beijing, but then the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Commission">Chinese National Health Commission</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国国家卫生健康委员会">中华人民共和国国家卫生健康委员会</a>), China’s top medical authority, issued orders to not talk about it and destroy samples</p>
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<p>2020-01-08 CDC team went to Wuhan to see the situation, was not informed that contagiousness of the disease had been confirmed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-01-20 the findings were made public, in an interview with Zhong Nanshan. He later said in an interview that the local government should be blamed:</p>
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<li>
<p>2020-01-23 Wuhan begins lockdown</p>
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<li>
<p>2020-01-24 to 30 Chinese New Year</p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>News coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-03-04 <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-makes-anal-swab-covid-tests-compulsory-for-foreign-arrivals-mvthjq8c7" class="bare">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-makes-anal-swab-covid-tests-compulsory-for-foreign-arrivals-mvthjq8c7</a> "China makes anal swab Covid tests compulsory for foreign arrivals". This is not a criticism to China as the test might be accurate. But it is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.</p>
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<p>2020-12-20 <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/leaked-documents-show-how-chinas-army-of-paid-internet-trolls-helped-censor-the-coronavirus" class="bare">https://www.propublica.org/article/leaked-documents-show-how-chinas-army-of-paid-internet-trolls-helped-censor-the-coronavirus</a> "Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus" talks about <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> working during COVID</p>
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<p>2020-05-12: <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-cia-believes-china-tried-stop-who-alarm-pandemic-1503565" class="bare">https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-cia-believes-china-tried-stop-who-alarm-pandemic-1503565</a> CIA people said China stopped the WHO from sounding the alarm from January 24 to January 30, while at the same time stockpiling protection materials</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="#caixin">Caixin (财新传媒)</a> article about how early Coronavirus signs were censored:</p>
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<p><a href="https://china.caixin.com/2020-03-10/101526309.html" class="bare">https://china.caixin.com/2020-03-10/101526309.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200317111527/http://china.caixin.com/2020-03-10/101526309.html">archive</a>) "李文亮所在医院为何医护人员伤亡惨重？" (Why did Li Wenliang’s [李文亮] hospital suffer heavy casualties?)</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-29/in-depth-how-early-signs-of-a-sars-like-virus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-101521745.html" class="bare">https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-29/in-depth-how-early-signs-of-a-sars-like-virus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-101521745.html</a> (paywall) "In Depth: How Early Signs of a SARS-Like Virus Were Spotted, Spread, and Throttled"</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-scientists-destroyed-proof-of-virus-in-december-rz055qjnj" class="bare">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-scientists-destroyed-proof-of-virus-in-december-rz055qjnj</a> "Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December". Paywall skip: <a href="https://archive.md/xOKiu" class="bare">https://archive.md/xOKiu</a> Terrible copy paste of some Caixin article with no sources/precise names.</p>
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</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-information-crackdown-on-wuhan-coronavirus-2020-1" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/china-information-crackdown-on-wuhan-coronavirus-2020-1</a> "China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted about it online and threatening journalists" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200124113400/https://www.businessinsider.com/china-information-crackdown-on-wuhan-coronavirus-2020-1?r=US&IR=T">archive</a>)</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xykx/you-can-now-go-to-jail-in-china-for-criticizing-beijings-coronavirus-response" class="bare">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xykx/you-can-now-go-to-jail-in-china-for-criticizing-beijings-coronavirus-response</a> "You Can Now Go to Jail in China for Criticizing Beijing’s Coronavirus Response"</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdn4d/doctors-in-wuhan-are-still-dying-and-beijing-is-still-trying-to-silence-them" class="bare">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdn4d/doctors-in-wuhan-are-still-dying-and-beijing-is-still-trying-to-silence-them</a> Ai Fen’s (艾芬) report of how the situation was mishandling was censored</p>
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<p>2020-04-13 <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/12/asia/china-coronavirus-research-restrictions-intl-hnk/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/12/asia/china-coronavirus-research-restrictions-intl-hnk/index.html</a> "Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin". The Government can now veto papers from being published on the subject of the origin of COVID-19.</p>
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</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other countries:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#india-covid-handling-twitter-suppression-2021">India COVID handling Twitter suppression (2021)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="title">Figure 9. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblage_(art)">Assemblage</a> of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirator">respirator mask</a> with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_(BDSM)">BDSM gag ball</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/口塞">口塞</a>) attached to it, suggesting that citizen reports of COVID-19 in China have been censored. <a href="https://twitter.com/FakeNewsOfChina/status/1221396086033530880">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 10. Corona Xi mural of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> morphed into a Coronavirus by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lushsux">Lushux</a>. Fuller composition view: <a href="https://twitter.com/lushsux/status/1243830638966235136" class="bare">https://twitter.com/lushsux/status/1243830638966235136</a>. Reddit called it <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/fqku03/winnie_the_flu/">Winnie the Flu</a> in a reference to <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017)</a>. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/fqku03/winnie_the_flu/">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/CCP_Olympic_medal_2020_vs_COVID_death_counts.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="CCP Olympic medal 2020 vs COVID death counts" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 11. Comparison of how some Chinese sources counted COVID deaths excluding <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a> and <a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a>, while at the same time <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4266780">including their gold medals in their gold medal count to overcome the United States' medal count</a>. TODO original untranslated source. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/p133fx/double_standards/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="april-2022-shanghai-lockdown"><a class="anchor" href="#april-2022-shanghai-lockdown"></a><a class="link" href="#april-2022-shanghai-lockdown">5.3.2.3.1. April 2022 Shanghai lockdown</a></h6>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Shanghai_COVID-19_outbreak" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Shanghai_COVID-19_outbreak</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022年3月上海市2019冠状病毒病聚集性疫情" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022年3月上海市2019冠状病毒病聚集性疫情</a></p>
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</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People were getting really fed up by that one:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2022/apr/25/beijing-residents-stock-up-on-food-amid-covid-lockdown-fears-video" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2022/apr/25/beijing-residents-stock-up-on-food-amid-covid-lockdown-fears-video</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpJPPJwi2Vo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpJPPJwi2Vo</a> What It’s Like Inside Shanghai’s Lockdown by VICE News (2022)</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dpJPPJwi2Vo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="sitong-bridge-protest"><a class="anchor" href="#sitong-bridge-protest"></a><a class="link" href="#sitong-bridge-protest">5.3.2.3.2. Sitong Bridge protest (北京四通桥抗议, 2022, 彭立发, Peng Lifa, Peng Zaizhou, 彭载舟, Warrior of Sitong Bridge, 四通桥勇士)</a></h6>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Sitong_Bridge_protest" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Sitong_Bridge_protest</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北京四通桥抗议" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北京四通桥抗议</a></p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1060" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1060</a> contains videos</p>
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<p><a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> threads:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/y2rl9p/protest_banners_in_downtown_beijing_i_hope_the/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/y2rl9p/protest_banners_in_downtown_beijing_i_hope_the/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/y2qjpp/北京海淀区四通桥横幅/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/y2qjpp/北京海淀区四通桥横幅/</a></p>
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</ul>
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<li>
<p><a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a> <a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/wulb-10132022033345.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/wulb-10132022033345.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/jajia/status/1580434183209771008" class="bare">https://twitter.com/jajia/status/1580434183209771008</a> gives the location. "The intersection of Zhongguancun Street and North Third Ring Road." 中關村大街和北三環交叉口。如圖</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/y57og2/the_brave_man_who_put_up_the_banner_on_the/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/y57og2/the_brave_man_who_put_up_the_banner_on_the/</a> possible identity, not very well confirmed: <a href="https://twitter.com/lifa_petter" class="bare">https://twitter.com/lifa_petter</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-18/anti-xi-slogans-in-rare-beijing-protest-spread-within-china?leadSource=uverify%20wall" class="bare">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-18/anti-xi-slogans-in-rare-beijing-protest-spread-within-china?leadSource=uverify%20wall</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Lifa" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Lifa</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/briefing/china-protest-peng-lifa.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/briefing/china-protest-peng-lifa.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.nchrd.org/2022/12/peng-lifa-彭立发/" class="bare">https://www.nchrd.org/2022/12/peng-lifa-彭立发/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Peng Lifa is the real name, and Peng Zaizhou the pen name. TODO two twitter accounts on NYT.</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>不要核酸要吃饭<br>
不要封城要自由<br>
不要谎言要尊严<br>
不要文革要改革<br>
不要领袖要选票<br>
不做奴隶做公民<br>
No covid test, but food!<br>
No lockdown, but freedom!<br>
No lies, but dignity!<br>
No the Cultural Revolution, but reform!<br>
No leaders, but votes!<br>
No slave, but citizen!</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>罢免独裁国贼习近平<br>
Remove the dictatorial state traitor <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping</a>!</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And the dude had a loudspeaker too, he was not planning to flee at all:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>要吃饭，要自由，要选票！罢课，罢工，罢免独裁国贼习近平！<br>
Demand food, freedom, ballot! Students, workers, strike and depose the despotic traitor <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping</a>!</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 12. Sitong Bridge protest photo from the crosswalk. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63252559">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230523021558im_/https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Peng-Lifa-time-100-2023.jpg?quality=85&w=800" loading="lazy" alt="Peng Lifa time 100 2023">
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<div class="title">Figure 13. Peng Lifa. <a href="https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269835/peng-lifa/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lguW9FjLKC0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lguW9FjLKC0</a> Video compilation by The Guardian.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL2HGN0tRAk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL2HGN0tRAk</a> Video compilation by The Sun.</div>
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<h6 id="white-paper"><a class="anchor" href="#white-paper"></a><a class="link" href="#white-paper">5.3.2.3.3. 2022 COVID-19 protests in China (白纸运动, 白纸革命, White paper protests)</a></h6>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/反對動態清零政策運動" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/反對動態清零政策運動</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some <a href="#reddit">Reddits</a>:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>with <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Winnie the Pooh</a>:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z7ajho/chairman_for_life_xi_jinping_has_joined_the/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z7ajho/chairman_for_life_xi_jinping_has_joined_the/</a> pooh emperor</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z75dn5/this_is_the_most_sensitive_photo_in_china_now/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z75dn5/this_is_the_most_sensitive_photo_in_china_now/</a> pooh white paper</p>
</li>
</ul>
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</li>
</ul>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/White_paper_protest_Beijing_2022.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="White paper protest Beijing 2022" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 14. White paper protesters in Beijing. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/world/asia/china-protests-blank-sheets.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDAX8UO4ZQA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDAX8UO4ZQA</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/923">GitHub reupload of first segment</a>) First segment of the video: protestors in Shanghai shouting "共产党下台，习近平下台" (CCP, get out, Xi Jinping, get out). Reuploaded from: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/shanghai_protestors_calling_for_the_end_of_xi/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/shanghai_protestors_calling_for_the_end_of_xi/</a> which already had it cut. Clearly visible shop signs on the back: "Jasmine Cashemire", "Biu Biu". Possible address <a href="https://maps.apple.com/place?q=Jasmine%20Cashmere&ll=31.223645%2C121.445579&auid=1118368782891031&lsp=57879&address=Nanjing%20West%20Road%201678%20Long%20No.-29%20(Jing%27ansi%20Subway%20Station%20Entrance%20%26%20Exit%202%20Pedestrian%20100%20Meters)%2C%20Jing%27an%2C%20Shanghai%20China">according to Apple Maps</a>: Nanjing West Road 1678. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/comment/ixy66n9/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/comment/ixy66n9/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3</a> says <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/comment/ixy66n9/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5fpat/comment/ixy66n9/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3</a> "Urumqi Middle Road".</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK4355hLtSg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK4355hLtSg</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/923">GitHub reupload) Lady makes a spontaneous speech about <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a> during protests in <a href="#chengdu">Chengdu (成都市)</a>. Source from <a href="#the-great-translation-movement">The Great Translation Movement (大翻译运动官方推号)</a>: https://twitter.com/TGTM_Official/status/1598290936500342784[</a>. Also discussed on <a href="#r-china">r/China Reddit sub</a>:https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/zb1giv/chengdu_western_china_a_lady_giving_a_speech_in/[]. The melodramatic background music greatly weakens the video, it is a bit on the same lines as <a href="#little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream">Little pink explains the difference between the American dream and the Chinese dream</a>, though now on the opposing side. Chinese-style propaganda to fight Chinese-style propaganda I guess.</div>
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<p>Key part of speech, transcript copied from this <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> page: <a href="https://test.qycz.org/a/202212/n16293244/web/" class="bare">https://test.qycz.org/a/202212/n16293244/web/</a></p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我一直非常愤怒的一点是，为什么我们说一句实话……我这两天，我在微信、我在抖音，我都在发，但是我所有的朋友都来劝我说‘小心’，‘小心被抓进去，这一抓就是要坐几年（牢）</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One thing I have been very angry about is why we tell the truth…​ I have been posting on <a href="#wechat">WeChat</a> and <a href="#tiktok">Douyin</a> in the past two days, but all my friends have come to persuade me to say 'be careful', 'be careful If you are arrested, you will have to sit there for several years.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div id="qinghua-students-democracy-rule-of-law-2020" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzD3oprW_M" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzD3oprW_M</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/923">GitHub reupload) Students shout <a href="#democracy">Democracy</a>, <a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of Law</a>, <a href="#censorship">Freedom of Expression</a> (清华大学学生们：民主法治，表达自由) and at Tsinghua University, Bejing. Discussed on <a href="#r-china">r/China Reddit sub</a>: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/z5vq5u/tsinghua_university_students_call_for_democracy/[</a>. A <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a> post supporting the slogan: <a href="https://pincong.rocks/article/50818" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/article/50818</a>.</div>
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<h6 id="li-wenliang"><a class="anchor" href="#li-wenliang"></a><a class="link" href="#li-wenliang">5.3.2.3.4. Li Wenliang (李文亮)</a></h6>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李文亮" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李文亮</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He reported <a href="#covid">the virus</a>, but was told by authorities to stay quiet, and later died from the virus, becoming somewhat of a martyr:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2020/02/【网络民议】你能做到吗？-你听明白了吗？/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2020/02/【网络民议】你能做到吗？-你听明白了吗？/</a> by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The following excerpt from his forced confession trended:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>你能做到吗？<br>
你听明白了吗？</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translation:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Can you manage?<br>
Do you understand?</p>
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</blockquote>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Li_Wenliang_covid.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Li Wenliang covid" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 15. Selfie of <a href="#li-wenliang">Li Wenliang (李文亮)</a> on his hospital bed before he died. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Li_Wenliang_COVID_barbed_wire_mark_by_Kuang_Biao.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Li Wenliang COVID barbed wire mark by Kuang Biao" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 16. Caricature of <a href="#li-wenliang">Li Wenliang (李文亮)</a> wearing a mask made of barbed wire by artist <a href="#kuang-biao">Kuang Biao (邝飚)</a>. The image <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/world/chinese-government-censor-li-wenliang-dead-weibo-wechat-coronavirus">circulated on Weibo</a> for some time. <a href="https://rsf.org/en/news/coronavirus-information-heroes-china-silenced">Source</a>.</div>
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<h6 id="ncovmemory"><a class="anchor" href="#ncovmemory"></a><a class="link" href="#ncovmemory">5.3.2.3.5. nCovMemory</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Popular GitHub repo documenting personal experiences and media reports:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/2019ncovmemory/nCovMemory" class="bare">https://github.com/2019ncovmemory/nCovMemory</a> "新冠肺炎记忆：报道、非虚构与个人叙述" 2020 New coronavirus pneumonia memories: reports, non-fictional and personal accounts.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some of the creators of the repostory were arrested in 2020: <a href="https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-coronavirus-memories-page/" class="bare">https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-coronavirus-memories-page/</a> and the repo must have been taken down at that time.</p>
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<pre> fork with the most stars we can find: https://github.com/dta0502/nCovMemory[], in case that goes down: https://github.com/cirosantilli/nCovMemory
* https://github.com/memoryhonest/nCovMemory-en translation project</pre>
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</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other interesting GitHub repositories: <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/lestweforget/wuhan2019" class="bare">https://github.com/lestweforget/wuhan2019</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/lestweforget/COVID-19-Timeline" class="bare">https://github.com/lestweforget/COVID-19-Timeline</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus"><a class="anchor" href="#people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus"></a><a class="link" href="#people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus">5.3.2.3.6. People arrested for reporting on the 2019 Corona Virus (因报道 2019 年冠状病毒而被捕的人)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Best montage: <a href="#eight-people-were-punished">Eight people were punished</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Qiushi">Chen Qiushi</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/陈秋实_(律师)">陈秋实</a>)</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/chenqiushi404" class="bare">https://twitter.com/chenqiushi404</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv361SF6FKznoGPKEFG9Yhw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv361SF6FKznoGPKEFG9Yhw</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/09/asia/wuhan-citizen-journalist-intl-hnk/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/09/asia/wuhan-citizen-journalist-intl-hnk/index.html</a> "Chen Qiushi spoke out about the Wuhan virus. Now his family and friends fear he’s been silenced"</p>
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<p>2020-04-18 <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/epgek4/he-traveled-to-wuhan-to-report-on-coronavirus-and-hasnt-been-heard-from-since" class="bare">https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/epgek4/he-traveled-to-wuhan-to-report-on-coronavirus-and-hasnt-been-heard-from-since</a> "He Traveled to Wuhan to Report on Coronavirus – and Hasn’t Been Heard From Since"</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iwpr55PZEJ8" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iwpr55PZEJ8</a> "Lawyer Chen Qiushi documenting coronavirus epicentre disappears" by <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a></p>
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<p>2021-09 they actually let him back online, e.g. <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/chenqiushi404/status/1516189492595814401" class="bare">https://mobile.twitter.com/chenqiushi404/status/1516189492595814401</a> anti <a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a></p>
</li>
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</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zehua">Li Zehua</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李泽华_(记者)">李澤華</a>)</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHUpBCNKrZwBhxfcIrP8Aw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHUpBCNKrZwBhxfcIrP8Aw</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/kcrissli" class="bare">https://twitter.com/kcrissli</a></p>
</li>
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<p>2020-02-28 <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdejp/a-chinese-citizen-journalist-covering-coronavirus-just-live-streamed-his-own-arrest" class="bare">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdejp/a-chinese-citizen-journalist-covering-coronavirus-just-live-streamed-his-own-arrest</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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</li>
<li>
<p>2020-04-25: Chen Mei, Cai Wei and his girlfriend, who contributed to <a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-04-14: Zhang Zhan (张展)</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsNKkvZGMURFmYkfhYa2HOQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsNKkvZGMURFmYkfhYa2HOQ</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/video/coronavirus/3084983/coronavirus-chinese-citizen-journalist-detained-after-live-streaming" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/video/coronavirus/3084983/coronavirus-chinese-citizen-journalist-detained-after-live-streaming</a></p>
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<p>2020-11-16 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/citizen-journalist-facing-jail-in-china-for-wuhan-covid-reporting-zhang-zhan" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/citizen-journalist-facing-jail-in-china-for-wuhan-covid-reporting-zhang-zhan</a>, finally accused of <a href="#picking-quarrels">Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)</a></p>
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<p>2020-12-28 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/28/wuhan-citizen-journalist-jailed-for-four-years-in-chinas-christmas-crackdown" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/28/wuhan-citizen-journalist-jailed-for-four-years-in-chinas-christmas-crackdown</a> "Wuhan Covid citizen journalist jailed for four years in China crackdown"</p>
</li>
</ul>
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</li>
</ul>
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<li>
<p><a href="#xu-zhangrun">Xu Zhangrun (许章润)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO maybe not arrested but relevant:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
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<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/p2t243/police_travel_to_mans_house_and_force_him_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/p2t243/police_travel_to_mans_house_and_force_him_to/</a> unconfirmed video: Police travel to man’s house and force him to delete his WeChat post about Covid-19 spreading in his area because the government won’t admit to any cases.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Fang">Fang Fang</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方方_(作家)">方方</a>) published in 2020 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Diary">Wuhan Diary</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方方日記">方方日記</a>, 方方日记)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Possible free Chinese version: <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGF5YWJvb2suY29tfHd3d3xneDo3ZGUzZWZjZDgyZDkxNjc0" class="bare">https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGF5YWJvb2suY29tfHd3d3xneDo3ZGUzZWZjZDgyZDkxNjc0</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200720084342/https://doc-10-bk-apps-viewer.googleusercontent.com/viewer/secure/pdf/3nb9bdfcv3e2h2k1cmql0ee9cvc5lole/0cr4s4veutmm50d7alffk68perm7us3s/1595234550000/lantern/%2A/ACFrOgDGbspvoNIJBVI1N2-EwaZHJPCTgPKmJeFaWgposQKpu5Eu0aqwA_CIZfLkobNVy1-xKcxKzw2CMAyxH4aUPjcHsp2w1JB2fwoX1g_39gVGh38SxfK-UrQyhy_3n19wbWhWErj_a41hMVR4?print=true">archive</a>)</p>
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</li>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="fang-bin"><a class="anchor" href="#fang-bin"></a><a class="link" href="#fang-bin">5.3.2.3.7. Fang Bin (方斌)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Bin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Bin</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方斌" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方斌</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/GuqZJRTOvbqbGub" class="bare">https://twitter.com/GuqZJRTOvbqbGub</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRItarzSwqakT-EZkSvuy3A" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRItarzSwqakT-EZkSvuy3A</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He was the second Chinese citizen journalist to vanish while reporting from coronavirus epicentre" by <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hist last YouTube video simply shows the following caligraphed message with him reading it twice:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>全民反抗<br>
<a href="https://zh.m.wiktionary.org/zh-hans/还政于民">还政于民</a><br>
方斌书</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which translates as:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All the people, revolt.<br>
Return the country (politics) to its people.<br>
Written (calligraphed) by Fang Bin.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VIG2qp0j4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VIG2qp0j4</a> Fang Bin’s last YouTube video from 2020-02-09.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_7VIG2qp0j4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvBNpkxrJo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvBNpkxrJo</a> "Fang Bin is second Chinese citizen journalist to vanish while reporting from coronavirus epicentre" by <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a></div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sUvBNpkxrJo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Fang_Bin_revolt_2020.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Fang Bin revolt 2020" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 17. Montage with images from two of Fang Bin’s last YouTube videos: on the left from the antepenultimate video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXV4Ih2xrk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXV4Ih2xrk</a>, and on the right from the last "All the people, revolt" one.</div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="censorship-makes-it-harder-to-solve-social-problems"><a class="anchor" href="#censorship-makes-it-harder-to-solve-social-problems"></a><a class="link" href="#censorship-makes-it-harder-to-solve-social-problems">5.3.3. Censorship makes it harder to solve social problems (审查制度使解决社会问题变得更加困难)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#labour-rights">Labour rights (劳工权益)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#metoo">MeToo</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#gay-rights">Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="low-end-population"><a class="anchor" href="#low-end-population"></a><a class="link" href="#low-end-population">5.3.3.1. Low-end population (低端人口, 2017)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/北京低端人口" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/北京低端人口</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://qz.com/1138395/low-end-population-what-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-crackdown-on-migrant-workers/" class="bare">https://qz.com/1138395/low-end-population-what-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-crackdown-on-migrant-workers/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="war"><a class="anchor" href="#war"></a><a class="link" href="#war">5.3.4. Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This has been discussed to death:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_Peace:_A_Philosophical_Sketch" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_Peace:_A_Philosophical_Sketch</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some arguments include:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the people who will actually fight and die on the front can’t vote against it</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>dictators have huge power, so if they put it in their heads that they want to start a war, it is much harder for sensible people to stop them</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>dictators need <a href="#evil-west">to keep the people in fear all the time to keep their power</a>, and a war is a great way to achieve that</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of course China won’t say that they are starting a war when they do.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They will of course start with territories which they claim as theirs, to add to <a href="#separatism">other recent additions which were not theirs</a> until the recent past, even though their inhabitants desperately want to leave China:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_China–India_skirmishes" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_China–India_skirmishes</a> | <a href="https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/beijing-said-to-fund-separatist-india" class="bare">https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/beijing-said-to-fund-separatist-india</a> "Beijing Said to Fund Separatist India Movement"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Which reminds us of…​ <a href="#nazi">Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>1939 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident">Gleiwitz incident</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag">false flag attack</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1938 Annexation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland">Sudetenland</a> from Czechoslovakia. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II</a> explains:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A decisive proximate event was the 1938 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement">Munich Conference</a>, which formally approved Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Hitler promised it was his last territorial claim, but in early 1939 he became even more aggressive, and European governments finally realized that appeasement was not guaranteeing peace."</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>1935-1938 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Causes_of_World_War_II&oldid=968409781#Expansionism_and_militarism" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Causes_of_World_War_II&oldid=968409781#Expansionism_and_militarism</a> comments:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In Italy, Benito Mussolini sought to create a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Empire">New Roman Empire</a>, based around the Mediterranean. It invaded Ethiopia as early as 1935, Albania in early 1938, and later Greece. That provoked angry words and an oil embargo from the League of Nations, which failed.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>1931 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria">1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria</a>, with one false flag event preceding it: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_Incident">Mikden Incident</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When China <a href="#evil-west">calls the USA Imperialist</a> (帝国主义), there is of course some truth to it, but it is also very ironic, because as <a href="https://youtu.be/GiVs05yq9-o?t=74">Lindybeige mentions</a>, China is obviously the largest empire on Earth! Despite its <a href="#xinjiang">uniformization</a> efforts, China is highly diverse since it is obviously made up of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China">large stitched up carpet of nations that were conquered by a single empire</a>. E.g. <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a> translates literally as "The New Frontier"! Not to mention obviously the unification of the <a href="#warring-states-period">Warring States period (战国时期, 475-221 BC)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/14/xi-jinpings-approval-non-war-military-use-raises-fears-taiwan/" class="bare">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/14/xi-jinpings-approval-non-war-military-use-raises-fears-taiwan/</a> Xi Jinping signs directive allowing for 'non-war' uses of the military - a tactic similar to that used by Russia before it invaded Ukraine</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmHOSnehTk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmHOSnehTk</a> Ending of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportpalast_speech">Sportpalast speech</a>, AKA <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war">total war</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/总体战">总体战</a>) speech by <a href="#nazi">Goebbels</a>, given in 1943, when Germany started to lose the war. This was later target of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:8th_Air_Force_psychological_warfare_leaflet.jpg">opposing allied propaganda</a>. Total war, that’s what <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship</a> bring you. Fucking YouTube <a href="#unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west">likely deleted</a> a better uncommented version <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmHOSnehTk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmHOSnehTk</a> it as of 2022, political <a href="#politically-incorrect">correctness idiots</a>.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DRmHOSnehTk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="the-united-states-has-recently-started-several-wars-and-killed-millions"><a class="anchor" href="#the-united-states-has-recently-started-several-wars-and-killed-millions"></a><a class="link" href="#the-united-states-has-recently-started-several-wars-and-killed-millions">5.3.4.1. The United States has recently started several wars and killed millions! (美国最近发动了几场战争，造成数百万人死亡！)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not even democracies can fully protect people from other countries, because they don’t vote. Yes, congratulations, <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But if the USA were a <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship like China</a> it would kill way more, because it would censor every report against the war internally to its own people, and the wars would just go on like in <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four-war-is-peace">[nineteen-eighty-four-war-is-peace]</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How many times do we have to bring <a href="#nazi">Hitler</a> up? 70-85 million deaths in one go: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The only reason China has not started wars is because it is a poor country, and it would lose them. If it were rich, it would have started more wars and killed 100 times more people.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Finally, some wars are good.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If a country is oppressed by a dictatorship, and most of its people want to be free, it might be right to help them be free.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If a country sponsors terrorism, it might be a good idea to take out their Government.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This has to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, and maybe a verdict will never be reached. But at least in a democracy the people can decide based on varied information. In a dictatorship, whatever the dictator decides happens.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, most of those small wars that he USA started end up being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war">proxy wars</a> between the USA and <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a>/China, with the USA pushing for democracy, and Russia/China pushing for more dictatorships.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="uneducated-masses"><a class="anchor" href="#uneducated-masses"></a><a class="link" href="#uneducated-masses">5.3.5. The Chinese masses are still uneducated, and not fit for free speech and democracy 中国大众愚昧，不能好好选领导</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When will they be ready? Who decides? What if they think that they are <a href="#tiananmen">ready now</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In George Bernard Shaw’s "Maxims for Revolutionists" words:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for <a href="#corruption">appointment by the corrupt few</a>.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many democracy supporters jokingly recognize democracy’s shortcomings.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A <a href="https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-141/red-herrings-famous-quotes-churchill-never-said/">fake Churchill quote</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Art Spander:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Laurence J Peter:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div id="immoral-and-uneducated" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Immoral_and_uneducated.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Immoral and uneducated" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 18. <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/preaching-to-the-mob">Preaching to the mob meme template</a>: "中国人道德低下素质差。所以不适合民主。" Translation: The Chinese people are immoral and uneducated (people are angry). That’s why they’re not suitable for democracy (people are happy). This makes fun of the fact even if you say bad things about the Chinese, some people will complain that you are racist. But the same people will also say the same bad things about the Chinese people as a way to explain why it is better if they don’t vote, and no one minds that. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/jssa4t/道德低下素质差的好处/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Immoral_and_uneducated_en.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Immoral and uneducated en" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 19. Translation of the above.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="not-interested-in-politics"><a class="anchor" href="#not-interested-in-politics"></a><a class="link" href="#not-interested-in-politics">5.3.5.1. The Chinese masses are not interested in politics and therefore not ready to vote (中国群众对政治不感兴趣，因此不准备投票)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But how would they be interested in politics or be able to discuss it, if it is <a href="#dissidents">impossible to have a different view without going to jail</a>? See also: <a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What about the <a href="#tiananmen">1 million people in Tiananmen</a> and the 70 million <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> followers? Did they not care?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese political spectrum meme in English: <a href="https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b8d4cd1a58c6c7eee88bad82b94f4e5c" class="bare">https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b8d4cd1a58c6c7eee88bad82b94f4e5c</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="lurker"><a class="anchor" href="#lurker"></a><a class="link" href="#lurker">5.3.5.1.1. Lurker (吃瓜群众)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/吃瓜群众/19902553" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/吃瓜群众/19902553</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This Internet slang refers to <a href="#not-interested-in-politics">The Chinese masses are not interested in politics and therefore not ready to vote (中国群众对政治不感兴趣，因此不准备投票)</a> quite well: "吃瓜群众", the "Melon eater masses.",</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most people dare not comment, they just watch, knowing that any comment, in either direction, is a risk they take, with little likely benefit.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="overlook-human-rights-for-profit"><a class="anchor" href="#overlook-human-rights-for-profit"></a><a class="link" href="#overlook-human-rights-for-profit">5.3.6. As long as China is developing economically, it is fine to violate the human rights of a few million people (只要经济好，我不在乎人权)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This argument can be made, but it is a risky way to live: <a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Göring">Herman Goring</a> actually justified <a href="#nazi">the atrocities of Nazism</a> in the exact same way during <a href="#goring-nuremberg">his appearance on the Nuremberg trials</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do the <a href="#violence">ends always justify the means</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What is the point of having all that wealth, when you risk <a href="#rule-of-law">being put into jail for unfair reasons</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> argues that China would be even richer if it weren’t for the CCP: <a href="#richer">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a>, and that the CCP only violates people’s human rights as a tool to stay in power: <a href="#ccp-evil">Is the Chinese government evil? (中国共产党是邪恶的吗？)</a>.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Pig_politics_Chinese.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Pig politics Chinese" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 20. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> cartoon about a pig who does not care about politics because it cannot be eaten. 民主又不能当饭吃 <a href="https://twitter.com/remonwangxt/status/1131398147253710850">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Rebel_pepper_pig_can%27t_eat_democracy_cartoon_translated_to_English_by_Ciro_Santilli.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Rebel pepper pig can%27t eat democracy cartoon translated to English by Ciro Santilli" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 21. Translation by Ciro Santilli of the Rebel Pepper cartoon about the pig who does not care about politics because it cannot be eaten.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Shut_up_and_take_my_freedom.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Shut up and take my freedom" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 22. <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-up-and-take-my-money">Shut up and take my freedom</a> meme by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Shut_up_and_take_my_freedom_zh.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Shut up and take my freedom zh" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 23. <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-up-and-take-my-money">Shut up and take my freedom</a> meme by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> translated to Chinese: "什么都别说了，拿走我的自由".</div>
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</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="corruption"><a class="anchor" href="#corruption"></a><a class="link" href="#corruption">5.3.7. Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of the key points of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping’s</a> governments has been to quench corruption. And use that as an excuse to get rid of rivals while at it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, there is one much better solution to that: <a href="#democracy">democracy</a> and freedom of speech.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The reason is obvious: with censorship, <a href="#chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens">corrupt politicians</a> can <a href="#internal-censorship">censor</a> anything bad that they did, and so it becomes much harder to destroy corruption.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In George Bernard Shaw’s "Maxims for Revolutionists" words:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Democracy substitutes election <a href="#uneducated-masses">by the incompetent many</a> for appointment by the corrupt few.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro does however believe the <a href="#spy">China spy stories (中国间谍故事)</a> claims made at <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/china-stolen-us-data-exposed-cia-operatives-spy-networks/" class="bare">https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/china-stolen-us-data-exposed-cia-operatives-spy-networks/</a> that the anti-corruption is also a legitimate national security issue for China, in addition to being a tool to take down political rivals:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Over the course of their investigation into the CIA’s China-based agent network, Chinese officials learned that the agency was secretly paying the "promotion fees" - in other words, the bribes - regularly required to rise up within the Chinese bureaucracy, according to four current and former officials. It was how the CIA got "disaffected people up in the ranks. But this was not done once, and wasn’t done just in the [Chinese military]," recalled a current Capitol Hill staffer. "Paying their bribes was an example of long-term thinking that was extraordinary for us," said a former senior counterintelligence official. "Recruiting foreign military officers is nearly impossible. It was a way to exploit the corruption to our advantage." At the time, "promotion fees" sometimes ran into the millions of dollars, according to a former senior CIA official: "It was quite amazing the level of corruption that was going on." The compensation sometimes included paying tuition and board for children studying at expensive foreign universities, according to another CIA officer.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/8F0kSDV9U_E?t=408" class="bare">https://youtu.be/8F0kSDV9U_E?t=408</a> Shocking Russian Military Corruption Exposed by Task & Purpose (2022) poses an interesting thesis: the toplevel of corrupt governments know about the corruption of officials and accept it. And this is in part to have leverage over them, to be able to bring them down whenever they feel like it. This incentivizes loyalty.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Well known corruption cases:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020 Ren Zhiqiang</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhiqiang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhiqiang</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/任志强" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/任志强</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/22/asia/china-ren-zhiqiang-xi-jinping-intl-hnk/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/22/asia/china-ren-zhiqiang-xi-jinping-intl-hnk/index.html</a> "Chinese tycoon who criticized <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping</a>'s handling of <a href="#covid">coronavirus</a> jailed for 18 years"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2012 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Jihua">Ling Jihua</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/令计划">令计划</a>): son died in Ferrari crash with two women on the car, which put the spotlight on him</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2012 <a href="#bo-xilai">Bo Xilai (薄熙来, 2007-2012)</a>: trigerred by the murder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Heywood">Neil Heywood</a>, of which Bo’s wife was accused</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related events:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#panama-papers">Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#putin-s-palace">Putin’s palace (Дворец Путина, 2005-)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="operation-fox-hunt"><a class="anchor" href="#operation-fox-hunt"></a><a class="link" href="#operation-fox-hunt">5.3.7.1. Operation Fox Hunt</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fox_Hunt" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fox_Hunt</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Trying to prevent corruption is fine, but violating the laws of other countries in doing so, or the <a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of law (法治)</a> of their family is not.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Publicized by China itself: <a href="#china-daily">China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a> <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-11/05/content_22375920.htm" class="bare">http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-11/05/content_22375920.htm</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-10-28 "Eight Individuals Charged With Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People’s Republic of China" <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/eight-individuals-charged-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-people-s-republic-china" class="bare">https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/eight-individuals-charged-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-people-s-republic-china</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="liu-changming"><a class="anchor" href="#liu-changming"></a><a class="link" href="#liu-changming">5.3.7.1.1. The detention of Liu Changming’s (刘昌明) family (2018)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China imposed an exit ban on the ex-official’s family, who are also USA citizens:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>officer Liu Changming (刘昌明)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>wife Sandra Han</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>children Victor Liu (born July 1999 in the USA) and Cynthia Liu (27 in 2019, born in China, but also American citizen)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China says that the children and wife do have valid Chinese documents, so maybe those idiots did not give up their Chinese citizenship and went to China. Why, why, why would you do that? Don’t they know anything about China?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Cynthia claimed her father has left home a long time ago and that they are not in contact with their father.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Liu is a so called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_official">naked official</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/裸官">裸官</a>), who let his family go live outside of China to prevent such problems with the CCP.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The wiki page also explains that in 2014 rules were added to prevent promotion of officials whose spouses live abroad.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This reminds Ciro of a Mafia movie, maybe Godfather II, where the bad guy says he "likes doing business with a man that has a family, because he has more collateral".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2018-11 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/liu-changming-china-holds-officials-family-hostage-to-force-return-2018-11" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/liu-changming-china-holds-officials-family-hostage-to-force-return-2018-11</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title">2019-05-09 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hBtXdaYsQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hBtXdaYsQ</a> Cynthia Liu, daughter of Liu Changming (刘昌明) pleas freedom on YouTube. Commented upload by CBS, TODO can’t find original video on YouTube, maybe they sent straight to CBS?</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/t2hBtXdaYsQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="effective"><a class="anchor" href="#effective"></a><a class="link" href="#effective">5.4. Will the keyword attacks really help to destroy the firewall? (关键字攻击真的有助于破坏防火墙吗？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is both unlikely, and hard to be sure.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just like it is unlikely that the activity of on individual can have a big influence in any group of 1 billion people.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Every action is statistical: I just push the balance a little bit towards freedom.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This FAQ and any talk is useless. You and I are wasting our time here.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The possibility of blocking Stack Overflow and GitHub is 1000x more useful than any talk, but it is still useless.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, potentially blocking those websites takes <a href="#better-to-do">0 of my time</a>, I just leave the content there, so it is worth my time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To have an idea, in 2015 there are about:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>20M developers in the world</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2M in China : <a href="https://www.quora.com/Approximately-how-many-programmers-are-there-in-the-world" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Approximately-how-many-programmers-are-there-in-the-world</a> <a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/there-are-185-million-software-developers-in-the-world-but-which-country-has-the-most/" class="bare">https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/there-are-185-million-software-developers-in-the-world-but-which-country-has-the-most/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>5M Stack Overflow users <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/227868/select-count-from-users" class="bare">https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/227868/select-count-from-users</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>TODO I wonder what percentage of GDP those programmers control. I’ll bet any programmer on Stack Overflow is at least 20x more powerful than the average Chinese.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And if we never start somewhere, nothing will ever happen.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Furthermore, even if the <a href="#gfw">GFW</a> falls, it is not clear that this will imply the end of the dictatorship: <a href="#dictator-needs-gfw">Would ending the Great Firewall truly end the dictatorship? (结束防火墙真的会结束独裁吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even if it is not, it does not matter, since <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> spends so little time doing it: <a href="#better-to-do">Doesn’t Ciro Santilli have anything better to do than pissing off China? (除了反对中共以外，三西猴有没有别的更好的事儿要作吗？)</a> and has fun in doing it.</p>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Nobody_can_hear_you.gif" loading="lazy" alt="Nobody can hear you" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 24. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(American_TV_series)">House of Cards</a> S01E02 "Nobody can hear you. Nobody cares about you. Nothing will come of this." GIF. <a href="https://houseoflessons.tumblr.com/post/43967209684/on-protesters-nobody-can-hear-you-nobody-cares">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="embargo"><a class="anchor" href="#embargo"></a><a class="link" href="#embargo">5.4.1. Embargoes make dictatorships stronger (禁运使独裁更强大)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The <a href="#keyword-attack">keyword attack</a> is basically an embargo.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is already a lot of literature about this, especially in the cases of Cuba and North Korea. It is basically a libertarian vs conservative/Cato vs Heritage thing in the US:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/no-embargo-harms-cubans-gives-castro-excuse-policy-failures-regime" class="bare">https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/no-embargo-harms-cubans-gives-castro-excuse-policy-failures-regime</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/why-the-cuban-trade-embargo-should-be-maintained" class="bare">https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/why-the-cuban-trade-embargo-should-be-maintained</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2006/08/thanks_for_the_sanctions.html" class="bare">https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2006/08/thanks_for_the_sanctions.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The key dilemma is:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>if we keep contact with the Dictatorship, maybe its people will see that democracy is better and start a liberating revolution</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>if we keep giving technology to the Dictatorship and it does not become a democracy, we are making a Dictatorship more technologically advanced, and therefore <a href="#war">dangerous</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some interesting aspects of the keyword attack embargo:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>it is immediately self-enforcing: we don’t need politicians to decide and enforce the complex "if you do this, we punish you like that" question.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>By political and technological information is together, and this immediately puts the dictatorship in a bad spot, without us having to decide anything.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>by affecting programmers in particular through Stack Overflow and GitHub, we make them more likely to develop better <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Firewall climbing</a> tools themselves</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One point in favor of the embargo is that China has opened up since the '80s '90s, but did freedom improve at all? Under <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>, it may be argued that it did not, and maybe that we should just stop feeding them technology and accept that they won’t become free.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Trump’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/trump-banning-huawei-beginning-of-biggest-trade-war-ever-united-states">2019 China trade war</a>, and in particular the <a href="#huawei">Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a> ban, is an event that has brought this question to the spotlight once again.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="keyword-attacks-could-be-used-by-certain-ccp-political-groups-to-justify-blocking-off-the-entire-external-internet-and-make-the-dictatorship-even-more-pervasive"><a class="anchor" href="#keyword-attacks-could-be-used-by-certain-ccp-political-groups-to-justify-blocking-off-the-entire-external-internet-and-make-the-dictatorship-even-more-pervasive"></a><a class="link" href="#keyword-attacks-could-be-used-by-certain-ccp-political-groups-to-justify-blocking-off-the-entire-external-internet-and-make-the-dictatorship-even-more-pervasive">5.4.1.1. Keyword attacks could be used by certain CCP political groups to justify blocking off the entire external Internet, and make the dictatorship even more pervasive</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is a risk, but it would make China drastically <a href="#richer">less powerful</a>, so at least they wouldn’t be able to start or sustain <a href="#war">WW3</a>. So I don’t think it will go that way.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="so-block-cost"><a class="anchor" href="#so-block-cost"></a><a class="link" href="#so-block-cost">5.4.2. Stack Overflow and GitHub could be blocked at no cost by the Chinese government (中国政府可以免费封锁 Stack Overflow 和 GitHub)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hitting the block button has, of course, no cost.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The cost of blocking Stack Overflow lies of course in the loss of information, and slower technological development, see also: <a href="#why-keyword-attack">Why attack websites with censored keywords? (用审查词攻击网站有什么用呢？)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Remember that <a href="#it-is-not-possible-to-block-a-single-page-of-an-https-website">It is not possible to block a single page of an HTTPS website (无法阻止 HTTPS 网站的单个页面)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The 2019 <a href="#nine-nine-six-icu">996.ICU (2019)</a> event however brought to my attention that Chinese (usually WebKit-based) browsers are already censoring HTTPS websites selectively of course, see e.g.: <a href="https://github.com/996browser/996.BROWSER/tree/77f28a36a862e3cc4d238dc47c19872156096bc4" class="bare">https://github.com/996browser/996.BROWSER/tree/77f28a36a862e3cc4d238dc47c19872156096bc4</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But Ciro doubt developers use those browsers, right? The only way would be for China to forbid foreign browsers entirely.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>BTW, <a href="#ensi">TLS 1.3 ENSI</a> brings a whole new dimension to HTTPS by encrypting the domain name as well!</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="is-stack-overflow-blocked-in-china"><a class="anchor" href="#is-stack-overflow-blocked-in-china"></a><a class="link" href="#is-stack-overflow-blocked-in-china">5.4.2.1. Is Stack Overflow blocked in China? (Stack Overflow 在中国被封锁了吗？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There was no clear evidence of that as of April 2020: <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/288497#288497" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/288497#288497</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It worth noting however that as mentioned at <a href="#is-stack-overflow-blocked-in-china">Is Stack Overflow blocked in China? (Stack Overflow 在中国被封锁了吗？)</a> that websites can become non-functional if CDNs they rely on are taken down, instead of the website being taken down itself.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, Stack Overflow relied on Google for some of its JavaScript and on Imgur for images, both of which are blocked in China.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="disturbs"><a class="anchor" href="#disturbs"></a><a class="link" href="#disturbs">5.4.3. Keyword attack profiles disturb me (关键字攻击个人资料页打扰我)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But isn’t it better to be annoyed than having <a href="#war">war</a>, <a href="#richer">being poor</a> or <a href="#xinjiang">put into jail unfairly</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another good option is to use the trusty <a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Installing any of those immediately give you <a href="#social-credit-system">10 Sesame Points</a>, <a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">习万岁</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#harm-programmers">Does Ciro Santilli want to harm the Chinese programmers? 三西猴想要伤害中国程序员吗？</a>.</p>
</div>
<div id="what-is-more-obscene-sex-or-war" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPI5QkPrWzI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPI5QkPrWzI</a> "What is more obscene: sex or war?" scene from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_vs._Larry_Flynt">The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)</a>. Ciro just can’t stop thinking about that scene when someone tells him that <a href="#disturbs">his profile disturbs them</a>. What is more obscene? <a href="#xi-jinping-memes">Xi Jinping memes (习近平模因)</a> or human rights violations?</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MPI5QkPrWzI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="browser-extensions-to-hide-keyword-attacks"><a class="anchor" href="#browser-extensions-to-hide-keyword-attacks"></a><a class="link" href="#browser-extensions-to-hide-keyword-attacks">5.4.3.1. Browser extensions to hide keyword attacks (隐藏关键字攻击的浏览器扩展)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If the truth is too much for you to bear, worry not, you could use one of:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Greasyfork browser extensions</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://greasyfork.org/fr-CA/scripts/493913-github屏蔽用户" class="bare">https://greasyfork.org/fr-CA/scripts/493913-github屏蔽用户</a> by Gwen0x4c3 presumably <a href="https://github.com/Gwen0x4c3" class="bare">https://github.com/Gwen0x4c3</a> (already blocked)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32236-stackoverflow净化器" class="bare">https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32236-stackoverflow净化器</a> "StackOverflow净化器" (Stack Overflow cleanup)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>GitHub user with the same username: <a href="https://github.com/EternalPhane" class="bare">https://github.com/EternalPhane</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/eternalphane/UserScripts" class="bare">https://github.com/eternalphane/UserScripts</a> repo with that source, and a related issue: <a href="https://github.com/eternalphane/UserScripts/issues/4" class="bare">https://github.com/eternalphane/UserScripts/issues/4</a> by <a href="https://github.com/SiqingYu" class="bare">https://github.com/SiqingYu</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181211094818/https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32236-stackoverflow%E5%87%80%E5%8C%96%E5%99%A8" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20181211094818/https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32236-stackoverflow%E5%87%80%E5%8C%96%E5%99%A8</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181211094917/https://greasyfork.org/en/forum/discussion/47981" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20181211094917/https://greasyfork.org/en/forum/discussion/47981</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/guangyang_li/status/1204880709636124672" class="bare">https://twitter.com/guangyang_li/status/1204880709636124672</a> dude admiring it: <a href="https://github.com/gyli" class="bare">https://github.com/gyli</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-07-09 <a href="https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/406756-ciro-santilli" class="bare">https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/406756-ciro-santilli</a> "Ciro Santilli"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/406756-ciro-santilli/discussions/53697" class="bare">https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/406756-ciro-santilli/discussions/53697</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Some possible authors (of course, with that name, there must be 10 thousand Chinese people at least):</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/users/156741/li-xiaodong" class="bare">https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/users/156741/li-xiaodong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/DoyleLi" class="bare">https://github.com/DoyleLi</a> from Intel</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>a custom ad terminator expression shown at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/87" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/87</a> <code>stackoverflow.com##a[href="/users/895245/ciro-santilli-%e6%96%b0%e7%96%86%e6%94%b9%e9%80%a0%e4%b8%ad%e5%bf%83%e6%b3%95%e8%bd%ae%e5%8a%9f%e5%85%ad%e5%9b%9b%e4%ba%8b%e4%bb%b6"]</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/chenx6/97d912a6ef623f5142f69f44b580c1a0" class="bare">https://gist.github.com/chenx6/97d912a6ef623f5142f69f44b580c1a0</a> replaces Ciro’s username with "Ciro Santilli my mother died".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/942" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/942</a> mentions ADGuard with rules:</p>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>github.com#?#li.repo-list-item.public.source:-abp-has(a:-abp-contains(cirosantilli))
github.com#?#li.repo-list-item.public.source:-abp-has(a:-abp-contains(cheezcharmer))
github.com#?#li.repo-list-item.public.source:-abp-has(a:-abp-contains(zaohmeing))
github.com#?#li.repo-list-item.public.source:-abp-has(a:-abp-contains(zhaohmng-outlook-com))
github.com#?#li.repo-list-item.public.source:-abp-has(a:-abp-contains(Iorine))
github.com#?#li.repo-list-item.public.source:-abp-has(a:-abp-contains(jk-ice-cream))
github.com#?#li.repo-list-item.public.source:-abp-has(a:-abp-contains(anuragyantra))</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which reference various forks of china-dictatorship:
<strong> <a href="https://github.com/cheezcharmer/chinese-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cheezcharmer/chinese-dictatorship</a>
</strong> zaohmeing: <a href="#zhao-heming">Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a>
<strong> <a href="https://github.com/Iorine/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/Iorine/china-dictatorship</a>
</strong> <a href="https://github.com/jk-ice-cream" class="bare">https://github.com/jk-ice-cream</a>. This one has some original content on profile: <a href="https://github.com/jk-ice-cream/jk.ice_cream_" class="bare">https://github.com/jk-ice-cream/jk.ice_cream_</a> apparently linked to <a href="#gay-rights">Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a>
<strong> <a href="https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/473912-github搜索净化" class="bare">https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/473912-github搜索净化</a>. Matching username of a GitHub user: <a href="https://github.com/danicastarr" class="bare">https://github.com/danicastarr</a>.
</strong>* source code: <a href="https://github.com/BonjourFeng/Github-Search-Purification" class="bare">https://github.com/BonjourFeng/Github-Search-Purification</a>
<strong>*</strong> List: 'cirosantilli', 'wumaoland', 'codin-stuffs', 'cheezcharmer', 'gege-circle', 'zhaohmng-outlook-com', 'zaohmeing', 'Daravai1234', 'candice531033938', 'jk-ice-cream', 'jk-ice-cream-250', 'sky8964', 'pxvr-official', 'zpc1314521', 'jjzhang166', 'panbinibn', 'programthink', 'hello-world-1989', 'b0LBwZ7r5HOeh6CBMuQIhVu3-s-random-fork', 'thethetpvmy', 'wwwswitch520cc', 'shotoanqrob', 'sitempeanhkkwg', 'fukeluo', '1206256980', 'curees', 'yuoppo', 'Createree', 'vghl', 'wholedata', 'dunjian', 'mksshare', 'abshare', 'tpxdat', 'jhdyg', 'changfengqj', 'Dujltqzv', 'xmq1024', 'golade', 'kdjfhd', 'dkjhy', 'junsolg', 'dkjiiu', 'faithhow', 'yamtioy', 'zugzuc', 'lusvont', 'kenyatas', 'koeheu', 'juttama', 'duspub', 'wuqdid', 'visxud', 'suyfic', 'qokkod', 'roepuo', 'purfob', 'gitprocode', 'ynwynw', 'hanguodianying', 'hgyw', '69sm', 'urlapp', 'Augensternhx', 'urlweb', 'fuliso', 'nishjd', '36dshipin', 'hapump', 'zhguoxmw', 'KoreanMovies', 'hanjutv', 'mamadepengyou', 'mamatouyunmuxuan', 'erzideqizi', 'wodeqizidejiejie', 'xiaoyizidemeng', 'qingyuzongheng', 'jiangnanerxi', 'hanguobiaomei', 'djhgy', 'XXOOBY', 'baoyu1024', 'kk234kkkk', '15923-ORIX', 'wutaed', 'webzhibo', 'apptuijian', 'follow666', 'yu90892', 'aconteet', 'getmal', 'itxinfei', 'mingtiana', 'midoushipin', 'paofushipin', 'yinghanshipin', 'GTVapp', 'huangyouquan', 'devlookme', 'audwq', 'jhdgy', 'di6gandh', 'shuangyuzhibo', 'lvchazhibo', 'xiaolanshipin', 'bofangqi', 'yingtaoshipin', 'xiangfeizhibo', 'lvchaApp', 'luoshenzhibo', 'yaojizhibo', 'mudanzhibo', 'aiaizhibo', 'gaochaoqwe', 'jiolde', 'lsdhw', 'kanavdaohang', 'harnh', 'kuadaner', 'wapquan', 'laoyeer', 'reteres', 'haoersn', 'zhengjianzhong0107', 'huaaweiCode', 'jianjian00001', 'm2ak-dev', 'yyzwz', 'froginwe11', 'luanmenglei', 'xijinping0', 'cyqqq', 'qldaisd', 'lTbgykio', 'yao270161651', 'jt0008jt0008', '15625103741', 'sky1234566778', 'chfucao', 'chifuyidaocao', 'updrmeltm', 'alice548', 'yazm000', 'cpnorg', 'tffygbu', 'Liberty-China', '1989CCP', 'liulihaocai', 'RevolutionaryCommitteeCPC', 'LeiyanLu', 'webdao', 'GC4WP', 'tu01', 'ziliao1', 'zzs70', 'ff2017', 'guitu2017', 'tu2017', 'wm001', 'wnel2017', 'dunhlino', 'nelaliox', 'jianjian3219', 'giteecode', '666bears', 'wang-buer', 'id681ilyg316', 'uhjid', 'usdui', 'uhskl', 'uyjks', 'uhskldf', 'itgsi5', 'uifskv', 'uhgask', 'igfkld', 'udsjd', 'ufodk', 'uigsjt', 'ighfrs', 'haivs', 'idrkkld', 'yuisju', 'uldydj', 'uyuek', 'tydfj', 'uuedif', 'ykwsw3', 'uigsi7', 'tyiis', 'ykeik', 'ukvdj', 'uyikl', 'ufzekg', 'yiksure', 'rhksgz', 'rthls', 'rhjaw', 'rehlxs', 'thzsgt', 'tdidst', 'eglct', 'tjkdyu', 'tjlks', 'tjjds', 'rllfs', 'rhkstd', 'yjscdr', 'servisee', 'ufsjzf', 'bvnbvnfgd', 'duliyingshi', 'calendi', 'mayeobey', 'QQMusic-Jay-Chou', 'boylovecomic', 'bt9527', 'FarmerChina', 'Waymon102092', 'baofx', 'biehd', 'moonpas', 'lyqilo', 'liliqh', 'hourv', 'xinfue', 'jijidianying', 'YuyanCai', 'jtdh', 'isdkxr', 'yhildyu', 'ykldyld', 'igsigk', 'uidekj', 'iufskw', 'udsjhf', 'tjkdx', 'rtkist', 'tjlsyh', 'euhf', 'rjzsht', 'rhkdzu', 'ehkkld', 'xzgfsw', 'iofgd', 'yufdk', 'ujkdub', 'iofgdsk', 'dyghikg', 'ugdskf', 'ifwaih', 'oigsiu', 'yjksku', 'yfdkkrf', 'thjsqd', 'yjsyhf', 'ydjsu6', 'igseyf', 'ujudy8', 'tykde', 'ykmdi8', 'yklzrf', 'uijdkd', 'yjkshc', 'tkajc', 'ykdzs', 'jklsx', 'ejldux', 'ifxspo', 'ogsvtf', 'ifdeu', 'yudfdi', 'ofssj', 'igegkx', 'ugfkd', 'ugdsk', 'udskts', 'yjlkdss', 'fkdryl', 'rtuyjsr', 'tus56f', 'yjdsd', 'yuet6h', 'ugtw', 'tlkxt', 'yesrs', 'ykkds', 'yjksu', 'yhyshs', 'xdzfby', 'yujzdh', 'znfl', 'kjiud', 'shijuezhishi', 'hy1980boy', 'ww0304', 'ZXCASD854', 'zfpdh', 'batiyadh', 'yinsedh', 'yyfxz', 'bllpooe', 'joodfer', 'qdmang', 'chaenet', 'mzsyv', 'kzhaoes', 'clnnews', 'kendnes', 'hongnews', 'luokez', 'li721-LY', 'itunsr', 'cctnews', 'htmle', 'xmmj2', 'younownews', '445435213', 'seseClub', 'enewse', 'wsnewse', 'qsnews', 'soasmoughroy', 'adminewhat', 'wsermusic', 'molingfer', 'zhihues', '95movies', '99fuli', 'qnewse', 'tareres', 'hukioip', 'Hochoclate713', 'ervnme', 'greenleaf8888', '93-days', 'doubanm', 'xhydh', 'fvckslvt', 'MDCM-FB', 'b08240', 'm3u8-ekvod', 'huan768468', 'SweeOBC', 'ningmengsuan7788', 'supperqb', 'idskjs', 'ifsird', 'gklksr', 'ifsjxr', 'ifskxt', 'ghjklsd', 'udsskd', 'tgsjk', 'ihgsk', 'ujsjk', 'ijhdf', 'fghhgks', 'udfae4', 'jujwdj', 'ydsdk', 'uyfgsj', 'ykkxrd', 'branono', 'hytcd', 'kjiuo', 'SaolApp', 'lourv', 'uisdlk', 'hutuhai', 'dengminna', 'whmnoe4j', 'txy9704', 'ufsjl', 'udsks', 'uifsjk', 'ygsaj', 'udsts', 'yurdek', 'ghklsr', 'ifsnx', 'ufskd', 'yujst6', 'ifsurjn', 'saoyagma', 'yusyrdk', 'uijhgr', 'geeeeeeeek', 'gfjklk', 'uiskv', 'ccccsp', 'rrrsp', 'udjxs', 'qiezisp', 'egklkd', 't6korf', 'line915577', 'haijv', 'huaxinzhibo', 'haijiaofabuye', 'haijiaoshequ', 'HaijiaoCommunity', 'haijiao-app', 'fulibaike', 'lurmarp', 'entvasa', 'gotwib', 'hghkiiy121', 'gubcem', 'uijssu', 'yjhuk', 'yklsd', 'haijiaoWeb', 'winston779', 'tyukkst', 'ujsnmc', 'ygssk', 'igdkdy', 'qiezishiping', 'kjuhd', 'xiaogongzhuAPP', 'babyzhibo', 'yaojingzhibo', 'balizhibo', 'jiuaizhibo', 'liuyuezhibo', '69live', 'asidw', 'kuaimaoVIP', 'siguaha', 'mizhizhibo', 'lihzd', 'caomeizhibo', '36DAPP', 'luolisheApp', '69zhibo', 'jiejiezhibo', 'k8japan', 'buyaoshan', 'dk111222', 'fanbaovpn', 'HGcrowntiyu', '196tiyu', 'parryno', 'boyiscode', 'moonews', 'kim1528'</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/wilson7yz/PurifyGithubSearchPage" class="bare">https://github.com/wilson7yz/PurifyGithubSearchPage</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/470797-github-去除中文搜索污染" class="bare">https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/470797-github-去除中文搜索污染</a> by "Mai Kuraki". Blocklist is:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"haoxuesen"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"zhaohmng", "zaohmeing", "zhaohmng-outlook-com", "zaohmeing": <a href="#zhao-heming">Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Thestrangercamus": <a href="https://github.com/Thestrangercamus/On-constitution-amendment-NO.1" class="bare">https://github.com/Thestrangercamus/On-constitution-amendment-NO.1</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"shengxinjing": <a href="https://github.com/shengxinjing/programmer-job-blacklist" class="bare">https://github.com/shengxinjing/programmer-job-blacklist</a>. Why?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"cirosantilli", "codin-stuffs", "cheezcharmer"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Dimples1337": <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221014142033/https://github.com/Dimples1337/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20221014142033/https://github.com/Dimples1337/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"gege-circle",</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="not-chinese"><a class="anchor" href="#not-chinese"></a><a class="link" href="#not-chinese">5.5. Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>For better or worse, China and other countries happen to be located in the same planet.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If China’s <a href="#richer">economy</a> is bad, the economy gets worse in other countries.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If China’s <a href="#howey-ou">environment is bad</a>, the environment gets worse in other countries.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If China <a href="#war">starts a war</a>, other countries will have to fight it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If China <a href="#covid">fails to control a viral outbreak</a>, other countries might get infected.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#tiananmen">Millions of Chinese people</a> disagree with their government, but can’t say anything about it, otherwise <a href="#t-shirt">they will go straight to jail</a>. See also: <a href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">Section 5.7.1.2, “Most Chinese people like their dictatorship (中国大众支持他们的独裁)”</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chinese people have been brainwashed by the <a href="#evil-west">commies who say that all foreigners are bad</a>, more than the West has been brainwashed to think that he CCP is bad: <a href="#brainwashed-by-usa">Non-Chinese people have been brainwashed by the USA know nothing about China (非中国人被美国洗脑，对中国一无所知)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>China would never ever try to influence foreign countries, would it? E.g. <a href="#belt-and-road-initiative">Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路)</a>, <a href="#confucius-institute">Confucius institute (孔子学院)</a>, <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If I <a href="#wife">marry a Chinese woman</a>, my <a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">mother-in-law might be unfairly put in jail</a> :-)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#the-ccp-would-not-be-in-power-if-it-werent-for-the-second-sino-japanese-war">The CCP would not be in power if it weren’t for the Second Sino-Japanese War (如果没有抗日战争，中共就不会执政)</a> and if the <a href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/how-stalin-elevated-the-chinese-communist-party-to-power-xinjiang-1949">Soviet Union helped out Mao</a>:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You can’t do anything about it.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In the end, this is what all politics comes down to: power.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In some sense, this may be similar to the CCP and any other political party.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But conversely: <a href="#effective">Will the keyword attacks really help to destroy the firewall? (关键字攻击真的有助于破坏防火墙吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Nobody_can_hear_you.gif" loading="lazy" alt="Nobody can hear you" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 25. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(American_TV_series)">House of Cards</a> S01E02 "Nobody can hear you. Nobody cares about you. Nothing will come of this." GIF. <a href="https://houseoflessons.tumblr.com/post/43967209684/on-protesters-nobody-can-hear-you-nobody-cares">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRPiE59e8NU" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRPiE59e8NU</a> House of Cards S01E02 Officer: "Some guy was trying to get into the building, when we said "no" he started tearing his clothes off." Frank: "Nobody can hear you. Nobody cares about you. Nothing will come of this. Why don’t you let these nice gentlemen take you home?" video clip. Interpretation: <a href="https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/94608/what-can-we-make-out-of-the-final-scene-from-house-of-cards-season-1-ep-2" class="bare">https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/94608/what-can-we-make-out-of-the-final-scene-from-house-of-cards-season-1-ep-2</a></div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SRPiE59e8NU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Why don’t you go instead <a href="#shitpost">shitpost</a> in one of the following repositories and which are written in Chinese by Chinese citizens, many of which have many times more stars than china-dictatorship, and therefore <a href="#keyword-attack">are much more effective at taking down the GFW</a>? <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#is-ciro-santilli-chinese">Is Ciro Santilli Chinese? (三西猴是中国人吗？)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Duplicate pool: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ayou-are-not-chinese-argument" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ayou-are-not-chinese-argument</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="in-memory-of-bethune"><a class="anchor" href="#in-memory-of-bethune"></a><a class="link" href="#in-memory-of-bethune">5.5.1. In Memory of Bethune (纪念白求恩)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1190" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1190</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Amazing quote from <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a>'s short essay "In Memory of Bethune" (纪念白求恩), an eulogy to Canadian communist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bethune">Norman Bethune</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/白求恩">白求恩</a>) who worked as a medic for the CCP during the Second Sino-Japanese War, saying that the CCP should embrace help from Communists from other countries to their revolution:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>一个外国人，毫无利己的动机，把中国人民的解放事业当作他自己的事业，这是什么精神？这是国际主义的精神，这是共产主义的精神，每一个中国共产党员都要学习这种精神。列宁主义认为：资本主义国家的无产阶级要拥护殖民地半殖民地人民的解放斗争，殖民地半殖民地的无产阶级要拥护资本主义国家的无产阶级的解放斗争，世界革命才能胜利</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What kind of spirit is this for a foreigner who has no self-interested motives and regards the liberation cause of the Chinese people as his own cause? This is the spirit of internationalism, this is the spirit of communism, and every Chinese Communist Party member must Learn this spirit. Leninism believes that the proletariat of capitalist countries must support the liberation struggle of the people of colonial and semi-colonial countries, and the proletariat of colonial and semi-colonial countries must support the liberation struggle of the proletariat of capitalist countries. Only then can the world revolution be victorious.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is the prefect reply to <a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a>!!!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Brought to our attention by Reddit user No-Lingonberry-2173 at: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/1bn47e5/comment/kwgqaye/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/1bn47e5/comment/kwgqaye/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/纪念白求恩/1685623" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/纪念白求恩/1685623</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_25.htm" class="bare">https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_25.htm</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/纪念白求恩" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/纪念白求恩</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Bethune_27th_anniversary.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Bethune 27th anniversary">
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<div class="title">Figure 26. Commemorating the 27th anniversary of Bethune’s publication in 1967. <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1967-06_1967年纪念白求恩发表27周年纪念.jpg">Source</a></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="the-ccp-would-not-be-in-power-if-it-werent-for-the-second-sino-japanese-war"><a class="anchor" href="#the-ccp-would-not-be-in-power-if-it-werent-for-the-second-sino-japanese-war"></a><a class="link" href="#the-ccp-would-not-be-in-power-if-it-werent-for-the-second-sino-japanese-war">5.5.2. The CCP would not be in power if it weren’t for the Second Sino-Japanese War (如果没有抗日战争，中共就不会执政)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO study further to confirm:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/How-much-is-Japan-to-blame-for-the-KMT-losing-control-of-the-Chinese-mainland" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/How-much-is-Japan-to-blame-for-the-KMT-losing-control-of-the-Chinese-mainland</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://china-journal.org/2018/02/26/why-did-chiang-kai-shek-lose-china-the-guomindang-regime-and-the-victory-of-the-chinese-communist-party" class="bare">https://china-journal.org/2018/02/26/why-did-chiang-kai-shek-lose-china-the-guomindang-regime-and-the-victory-of-the-chinese-communist-party</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛泽东感谢日本争议" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛泽东感谢日本争议</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/diplomacy/pt20160517095311.html" class="bare">https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/diplomacy/pt20160517095311.html</a> (Japanese state media, but cites sources)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution</a> mentions:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The French historian Lucien Bianco, however, is among those who question whether imperialism and "feudalism" explain the revolution.[7] He points out that the Chinese Communist Party did not have great success until the Japanese invasion of China after 1937. Before the war, the peasantry was not ready for revolution; economic reasons were not enough to mobilize them. More important was nationalism: "It was the war that brought the Chinese peasantry and China to revolution; at the very least, it considerably accelerated the rise of the CCP to power."</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And China would be much much less technologically advanced had it come in contact with the West, from which it is still trying to learn/steal from: <a href="#university-espionage">University espionage (大学间谍)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Foreign influence can be both good or bad.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/07/12/2003263221/" class="bare">http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/07/12/2003263221/</a> (BIASED) says:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>War histories from both Japan and the Republic of China clearly indicate the scale of the CCP’s "participation." From 1937 to 1945, there were 23 battles where both sides employed at least a regiment each. The CCP was not a main force in any of these. The only time it participated, it sent a mere 1,000 to 1,500 men, and then only as a security detachment on one of the flanks.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There were 1,117 significant engagements on a scale smaller than a regular battle, but the CCP fought in only one. Of the approximately 40,000 skirmishes, just 200 were fought by the CCP, or 0.5 percent.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not even the CCP can provide any data on its number of casualties in the war, and there are no memorials to CCP heroes in the war to be found in China. This makes one wonder what China really did contribute</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="brainwashed-by-usa"><a class="anchor" href="#brainwashed-by-usa"></a><a class="link" href="#brainwashed-by-usa">5.5.3. Non-Chinese people have been brainwashed by the USA know nothing about China (非中国人被美国洗脑，对中国一无所知)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Everyone is "brainwashed" by their environment.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g. people in the West are brainwashed to believe in democracy, freedom of speech and human rights.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> doesn’t doubt that Chinese people know more about China than him.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Saying that "someone is not Chinese, he does not understand China", is just an useless <a href="#ad-hominem">Ad hominem (訴諸人身)</a> argument and closely related to <a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since you know so much about China, why why don’t you just actually prove your point by teaching Ciro one single interesting about China that Ciro didn’t know about? He loves learning new things.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But please, link to reference material instead of just saying it, it will be much more convincing.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But if you are Chinese, also consider that you have been brainwashed by the commies, so likely much more than Ciro since you live in a dictatorship.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#ad-hominem">Ad hominem (訴諸人身)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="evil-west"><a class="anchor" href="#evil-west"></a><a class="link" href="#evil-west">5.5.4. The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First, obviously, <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, the CCP greatly exaggerates how evil the West is, because making your people constantly afraid is a classic strategy used by dictators to stay in power.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable">fable</a> form:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once upon a time, there was a farmer with a farm.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One day, the animals on the farm started feeling a bit trapped, and started bumping against the fence to get out.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The farmer, however, was smart, and told the animals:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Careful! There is a wolf outside! If you go out, you will be eaten by the wolf!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The animals, were not that smart, and listened to the farmer, they were afraid!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From time to time, one of the animals would disappear (and without their knowledge, reappear on the farmer’s dinner table).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But the farmer kept giving the animals delicious food without them making any effort, so they decided to believe the farmer’s explanation that animal had escaped and been eaten by the wolf.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe, there was actually a wolf outside. But if they had escaped, only some of the animals would have been eaten by that wolf.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But by staying on the farm, all the animals were, sooner or later, eaten one by one.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO source.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This theme is also highlighted in many well known works/events.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>North Korea for example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_North_Korea">China’s good and trusty friend</a>, is just a caricatural level of this, since it manages to be more a <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship</a> than even China itself!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In fiction, <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a> is undoubtedly the most prominent example, in which the Party constantly switches from being at <a href="#war">war</a> with one country to the other in a never ending <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war">perpetual war</a> (exactly like North Korea vs South Korea, or China vs <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of the best related quotes comes in Part Two, Chapter 9 when Winston reads Emmanuel Goldstein’s subversive text, one of the chapters contains (emphasis by Ciro):</p>
</div>
<div id="nineteen-eighty-four-war-is-peace" class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. <strong>War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair</strong>. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three super-states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed for ever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This—​although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense—​is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is also the first line of the party slogan, which perfectly resonates with the CCP:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>WAR IS PEACE<br>
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY<br>
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>or in Part One, Chapter 3:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another amazing quote that comes to mind is from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley%27s_People_(TV_series)">the 1982 BBC TV adaptation of John Le Carre’s spy novel "Smiley’s People"</a>. In it, master British spy codenamed Smiley manages to coerce the head of the KGB spies, codename "Karla" to defect to the West by threatening to publicize illegal acts Karla committed for the benefit of the health mentally troubled daughter, and which would likely lead to his execution. In a letter he writes to Karla, he says, likely copied verbatim from the novel:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And I am not going to make any claims about the moral superiority of the West. I’m sure you can see through our values, just as I can see through yours in the East. You and I have spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in each other’s systems. I’m sure each of us experienced innumerable technical satisfactions in our wretched cold war. But now your own side is going to shoot you, for nothing. For misdemeanors you have not committed, because of a power struggle within your own kind, because of someone’s suspicions or sheer incompetence.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-like-and-admire-about-the-culture-of-China/answer/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-like-and-admire-about-the-culture-of-China/answer/Ciro-Santilli</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/74Mw3N6WxG0?t=174" class="bare">https://youtu.be/74Mw3N6WxG0?t=174</a> Cant Get You Out of My Head S01E05 Part Five The Lordly Ones also (2021, BBC) mentions that a huge propaganda machinery was created to spread the fake news that <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> was an evil western plot.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Duplicate pool: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Aevil-west+" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Aevil-west+</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md" class="bare">https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoBv6ibh8M" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoBv6ibh8M</a> The excessive fear of external country theme is also mentioned in <a href="#v-for-vendetta">https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcoBv6ibh8M V for Vendetta (2005) "What you think will happen" scene.</a>, where a <a href="#covid">viral outbreak</a> is used by governments to increase their power over the people.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TcoBv6ibh8M?rel=0&start=2086" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n59ugeOA4mA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n59ugeOA4mA</a> A random dude re-enacts the scene from Smiley’s People</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/n59ugeOA4mA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="friendly-west-china-moments"><a class="anchor" href="#friendly-west-china-moments"></a><a class="link" href="#friendly-west-china-moments">5.5.4.1. Friendly West-China moments (中西友好时刻)</a></h5>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="united-china-relief"><a class="anchor" href="#united-china-relief"></a><a class="link" href="#united-china-relief">5.5.4.1.1. United China Relief (葛思德)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettis_Garside" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettis_Garside</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/葛思德" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/葛思德</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>United China Relief was the largest humanitarian effort in the United States to aid the Chinese people up to that time. The organization, which was renamed United Service to China (USC) after the Second World War, raised over US$50 million in donations over ten ten years.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/United_China_Relief_3_million_Chinese.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="United China Relief 3 million Chinese" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 27. 1942 billboard by United China Relief that reads "3,000,000 Chinese have given their lives for democracy. What have you given?"</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="bias"><a class="anchor" href="#bias"></a><a class="link" href="#bias">5.6. Ciro Santilli and this page are completely biased against the Chinese Government! (三西猴和本页完全对中国政府有偏见！)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> prefers the term focused :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That being said, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> takes the agenda of information sources very seriously.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g. he tries to clearly classify <a href="#biased-media">Communist Party, Falun Gong, and Western government-linked information sources</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If we had more <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a> content, then maybe this repository would be considered a more reputable source by Chinese people.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, there are a few practical problems to that:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>there is freedom of speech in the West and people can already see that information on newspapers who have a million times more viewers than this repo (and still obviously no conclusion was reached), there’s no need to repeat that here</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Conversely, bad China news are always OK because, because those are all censored in China and help Chinese people learn about it.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>flooding <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a> posts is a primary <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> tactic</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a> information is already abundantly accessible to Chinese people in Chinese via any CCP media: <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#preconceived">people’s minds cannot be changed</a>, and notably <a href="#effective">not in a language that most people of a country don’t understand</a>. This is why the primary goal of this repo is the <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a>: it does not require changing people’s opinions.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For those reasons, we currently forbid, posting several evil-West news without explaining why dictatorships handle it better. It would just generates more noise than signal.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you do explain however why dictatorships/China handle it better, then the post is welcome.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Any political material that is censored by any country besides China, will also be readily accepted.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Any evidence of positive political progress towards freedom will also be added to this repo, e.g. people openly discussing politics online, human rights activists doing political stuff and not being put into jail, etc.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-bias">Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong just because his wife and mother-in-law do it? (三西猴是否仅仅因为他的妻子和岳母就支持法轮功？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#radical">Is Ciro Santilli a radical? (三西猴是激进分子吗？)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="throne"><a class="anchor" href="#throne"></a><a class="link" href="#throne">5.6.1. Ciro Santilli’s claim to the Qing Dynasty throne (三西猴清朝皇帝觊觎)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro Santilli’s <a href="#wife">Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a>, her mother, and paternal cousin, believe that Ciro’s wife is the descendant of the brother of a recent <a href="#qing-dynasty">Qing emperor</a> through her father’s family.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Although they have not been able to produce concrete evidence, which could be explained by the endless political turmoils in 20th century China, Ciro decided that this would be a good bet to take, and married her anyway.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>If anyone is able to provide further evidence of this relationship, please, please, please get in touch.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>One thing to keep in mind is that the <a href="#qing-dynasty">Qing Dynasty (清朝, 大清, 1636-1912)</a>, like the previous <a href="#ming-dynasty">Ming Dynasty (明朝, 1368-1644)</a>, used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_name">Generation names</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/行辈">行辈</a>), such that the first character of the given name is the same for all people in a given generation (counted directly from the first emperor that adopted the rule.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, this wiki page contains a good family tree of the most important Qing people: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Chinese_monarchs_(late)#Qing_dynasty" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Chinese_monarchs_(late)#Qing_dynasty</a> and we see that many important people around 1861 were Zai 載something, e.g.: Zaichun, Zaiyi, Zaitian, etc.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The last emperor was Puyi, so Pu is the last well known mark. But there were others planned that never got used for after him as shown at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=House_of_Aisin-Gioro&oldid=858104957" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=House_of_Aisin-Gioro&oldid=858104957</a>.</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Zai (before Pu)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Pu (wife’s great-grandfather)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Yu (wife’s grandfather)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Heng (wife’s father)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Qi (wife)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Dao (wife’s children). At least one thing is decided from this: Ciro’s children Chinese names will all be Ai Dao Something.</p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many of them have had different names in different places/countries, notably many used the name 肇(Zhao) rather than 艾.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Further anecdotal indicators follow.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro’s wife and family are clearly of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchu_people">Manchu ethnicity</a> just by looking at them, and they originally lived in the North East of China</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro’s wife’s family name is the 艾, pronounced "ai4", which she claims is a reference to the 愛 (also pronounced ai4) in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisin_Gioro">Aisin Gioro</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/爱新觉罗氏">愛新覺羅氏</a>), which is the name of the Manchu ruling clan of the Qing dynasty.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>艾 iself is however a somewhat common family name, e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(surname" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(surname</a>) mentions that it is listed in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Family_Surnames">Hundred Family Surnames</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百家姓">百家姓</a>), a list of common surnames compiled in the <a href="#song-dynasty">Song Dynasty (宋朝, 960-1279)</a> with around 400.000 members as of 2008. Presumably members of the falling Qing dynasty chose that relatively common Chinese name to avoid persecution, while still retaining a bit of their history.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
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<ul>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_the_House_of_Aisin_Gioro" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_the_House_of_Aisin_Gioro</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/34813921" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/34813921</a> 现在清朝皇室的后代现状如何？ What is the current status of the descendants of the Qing royal family?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-descendants-of-the-Qing-Dynasty-left-currently" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-descendants-of-the-Qing-Dynasty-left-currently</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6274.pdf" class="bare">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6274.pdf</a> "Y Chromosome of Aisin Gioro, the Imperial House of Qing Dynasty" unknown year. Unfortunately Ciro’s wife does not have an Y chromosome like her father. This does however mention the book used as a genealogy reference: <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/愛新覺羅宗譜.html?id=Pj4EAQAAIAAJ" class="bare">https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/愛新覺羅宗譜.html?id=Pj4EAQAAIAAJ</a> 愛新覺羅宗譜 On Douban: <a href="https://book.douban.com/subject/4162448/" class="bare">https://book.douban.com/subject/4162448/</a> gives ISBN 9787507713428 On Amazon unavailable: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/7507713423" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/dp/7507713423</a>. Lol this makes this repo show up at: <a href="https://paperswithcode.com/paper/y-chromosome-of-aisin-gioro-the-imperial" class="bare">https://paperswithcode.com/paper/y-chromosome-of-aisin-gioro-the-imperial</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Ciro_Santilli_portrait_as_Qing_emperor.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Ciro Santilli portrait as Qing emperor" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 28. Ciro Santilli’s portrait as Qing emperor. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:清_郎世宁绘《清高宗乾隆帝朝服像》.jpg">Original image</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="ciro-santilli-s-father-in-law"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santilli-s-father-in-law"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santilli-s-father-in-law">5.6.2. Ciro Santilli’s father-in-law (三西猴的)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro’s father-in-law, who he barely met, was very old when he had Ciro’s wife, and passed away before Ciro could talk a lot with him, they only saw each other once or twice over Skype, he died soon afterwards.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Having a child late which is consistent with the claims that he spent several years in jail during <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao’s</a> purges, see also: <a href="#wife">Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a>. Being an educated person was a crime in those days, and he was a chemical engineer.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His brother and sister both managed to escape to the USA and Japan, but he took his grandma’s advice and stayed in China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro’s wife adores her father, who she strongly resembles, and it is a huge shame Ciro didn’t manage to meet him better.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Like his daughter, he was a bibliophile, foodie, Buddhist and incredibly morally upright.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The fact that he survived so many years in prison also attests to his incredible hopefulness and mental health: <a href="#ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law">Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law (三西猴的岳母)</a> always tells how many other prisoners killed themselves in those days out of hopelessness. Ciro’s wife shares that amazing quality, which Ciro also believes is compatible with the Royalty theory.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After jail, he actually stayed in the same shitty city where he had been imprisoned, and continued to work as a chemical engineer to make a living and try and improve the country that had so badly betrayed him a few years back.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He also seemed to be an amazing story teller, of which he knew many. At one point, a jail cook took him under his wing, even tough he did not know how to cook too well yet, just to hear his stores. Being highly intelligent, the father-in-law man learned to cook too of course.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another remarkable episode is when he was working in the prison kitchen, and some man was starving and asked for food. He told the man to come later during the evening. The man came, and he gave him a bowl that seemed to be full of cooked vegetables (likely 白菜). The next day, the man came back, and kowtowed him. Beneath the vegetables, he had hidden some good chunks of then very precious meat!! This story <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/ciro-santilli-s-self-perceived-compassionate-personality">makes Ciro cry</a>.</p>
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</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="preconceived"><a class="anchor" href="#preconceived"></a><a class="link" href="#preconceived">5.6.3. Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> tries to justify why he think China would be <a href="#richer">better with democracy</a>, but I know that ultimately all of this is useless.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Everyone’s opinions are all determined genetically and by <a href="#brainwashed-by-usa">bring-up</a>, and there is nothing he can do to change yours, or you change his.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From that point of view, all of this is just a cold blooded political game, in which Ciro tries to force the CCP to take down the Firewall: <a href="#why-keyword-attack">Why attack websites with censored keywords? (用审查词攻击网站有什么用呢？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro never gets mad about China, even if your opinion is contrary to his, and therefore wrong.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Using the <a href="#reply-policy">reply policy</a> is one of the reasons why Ciro never gets mad.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro also has doubts about the efficiency of certain things I do as expressed throughout this FAQ, e.g. <a href="#embargo">Embargoes make dictatorships stronger (禁运使独裁更强大)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, Ciro have never said that anyone else is wrong.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In the end, he just end up thinking about new replies to things people say to him, and add them to this FAQ so that future replies will be faster to copy paste. See also: <a href="#better-to-do">Doesn’t Ciro Santilli have anything better to do than pissing off China? (除了反对中共以外，三西猴有没有别的更好的事儿要作吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The real goal of any online discussion, is not to convince people, but rather to determine who is an ally and who is not, and get those allies together to defeat the commies.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="flg-bias"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-bias"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-bias">5.6.4. Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong just because his wife and mother-in-law do it? (三西猴是否仅仅因为他的妻子和岳母就支持法轮功？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not consciously, Ciro thinks would likely support them even if I didn’t have family ties to <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Likely he wouldn’t have started this campaign if he didn’t know them of course.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But of course, this is impossible to answer objectively.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wouldn’t you be rather upset if your <a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">mother in law were put into jail unfairly for 15 days</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But don’t you think that <a href="#flg-important"><strong>70 million</strong> people (6% of the total population in 2000!)</a> getting completely squashed by the Party illustrates extremely well the dangers of the dictatorship?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or if a <a href="#nazi">Jew has escaped a concentration camp</a> and told the world about its horrors, would you just dismiss their claims due to their biased opinion?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>With that in mind, Ciro tries his best to give FLG only the right level of exposure I think it deserves relative to other events, according to these guidelines: <a href="#keyword-choice">How does Ciro Santilli choose keywords for the keyword attack? (三西猴如何为关键词攻击选择关键词？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If more recent events of mass human rights violations happen, especially affecting in the order of tens of million people, I will probably rank higher than Falun Gong, this was the case for <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang in 2019</a> for example, even though it only affected a measly million.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="why-did-ciro-santilli-start-his-keyword-attack"><a class="anchor" href="#why-did-ciro-santilli-start-his-keyword-attack"></a><a class="link" href="#why-did-ciro-santilli-start-his-keyword-attack">5.6.5. Why did Ciro Santilli start his keyword attack? (为什么三西猴开始他的关键字攻击？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The last straw that led <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> to start the <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a> on <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a> was when on March 2015 his girlfriend’s mother was arbitrarily kept 15 days in jail for doing <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>. He posted about this at:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/579270450984984576" class="bare">https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/579270450984984576</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/952661734753174" class="bare">https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/952661734753174</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He then continued because he hate political <a href="#censorship">censorship</a>, and because <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">I love China</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Every time Ciro thinks about this, he notices how stupid humans are. We see the forest fire smoke, and just never think that it will ever reach your home on the border of the forest.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Until it actually does, and then you are really fucked.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So in a sense it was a good thing that Ciro had this little backyard fire with this mother-in-law, as it woke him up further to how serious the CCP thread was, and led him to action.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Because before that, he was one of the majority who just constantly hears about the increasing mountain of evidence of human rights violations, and does nothing about it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkest_Hour_(film)">Darkest Hour (2017) film</a> comes to mind: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1Uz_TMzhs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1Uz_TMzhs</a>. The movie shows that Britain was truly hesitant whether to negotiate or fight Hitler, even after the Nazis had already started invading other European countries, and would clearly not stop. Luckily, we are not at a position of war yet, and might never be due to nuclear weapons. But still, a similar blindness applies. <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a> woke up many people, but even then some haven’t faced it.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law">5.6.5.1. Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law (三西猴的岳母)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Put in jail for 15 days for doing Falun Gong in 2015: <a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">Ciro Santilli’s post when his mother-in-law was put into jail for doing Falun Gong (岳母因修炼法轮功入狱时的帖子)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some related remarks: <a href="#flg-daily">How is it like to live with Falun Gong believers? (与法轮功信徒一起生活是一种怎样的体验？)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">5.6.5.2. Ciro Santilli’s post when his mother-in-law was put into jail for doing Falun Gong (岳母因修炼法轮功入狱时的帖子)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe some people would be happy if their mother-in-law were put into jail. But unfortunately, this wasn’t the case for <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Ciro_Santilli_with_his_mother_in_law_during_his_wedding_in_2017.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Ciro Santilli with his mother in law during his wedding in 2017" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 29. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> with his soon-to-be mother-in-law before his wedding in 2017. Annoying? Sometimes. But threat to the fucking Chinese State? How fucked does your political system have to be for the answer to be a "yes"?</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="jail-post-en"><a class="anchor" href="#jail-post-en"></a><a class="link" href="#jail-post-en">5.6.5.2.1. Jail post en</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>My girlfriend’s mother, a 63 year old lady, was kept 15 days inside a Chinese "correctional facility" because she does Falun Gong.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>She had to stay all the time in a small room with a bed and a toilet, under video surveillance, being fed three meager meals a day.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I see Falun Gong <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong</a> as just another <a href="#flg-religion">moderate religion</a> which causes no harm to its believers. The only reason that it is unofficially outlawed in China is because the communists fear it as a political competitor.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There was no trial and no explanation. She was going to take a train to visit her sister. But she didn’t know that there was an important political event happening in the capital: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_National_People’s_Congress" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_National_People’s_Congress</a> So the police at the station, who already knew she did Falun Gong, took her away.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When she came back home, the house had been searched and was all messed up. Her religious books and computer were missing.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I’m glad she was not physically harmed. I find it fascinating how even well educated Chinese support a government which simply does not represent some of its people. How will you feel <a href="#intolerance">when something like that happens to your own family, and there is nothing you can do about it</a>?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="jail-post-zh"><a class="anchor" href="#jail-post-zh"></a><a class="link" href="#jail-post-zh">5.6.5.2.2. Jail post zh</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translation by <a href="#why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much">my wife</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我女朋友的母亲，一位63岁的女士被监禁在一个中国的"劳教所"，只因为她炼法轮功。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>她被迫待在一个小屋子里面，只有一张床和一个排泄的地方，一直处在监视器下，每天两个窝头一碗只有几个白菜叶的汤。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我看过法轮功https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong 只是一个和平的信仰，对相信它的人没有任何坏处。它在中国被非官方的定为违法（其实没有一项明确法律禁止），唯一的原因就是工产党害怕它是一个政治竞争对手。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>没有审讯没有任何解释。她正准备坐火车去看她的姐姐。但是她并不知道那个时候有重要的政治会议正在首都进行：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_National_People’s_Congress
所以那些知道她炼法轮功的铁路警察把她带走了。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>当她回到家中时，房子被搜查过了，四处一切混乱。她的信仰书籍和电脑都没有了。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我很庆幸的是她身体并没有受到伤害。我觉得很意思的是一些受过良好教育的中国人怎么能够迫害一部分它的人民的政府呢？如果这样的事情发生在你的家庭，而你什么都不能做，你会怎么想？</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="jail-post-pt"><a class="anchor" href="#jail-post-pt"></a><a class="link" href="#jail-post-pt">5.6.5.2.3. Jail post pt</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translation by myself:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A mãe da minha namorada ficou 15 dias num "centro de correção" chines porque ela faz Falun Gong.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ela ficou o tempo todo num quarto pequeno com uma cama e banheiro, sobe videovigilância, recebendo 3 refeições pequenas por dia.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Para mim, o Falun Gong <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong</a> é apenas mais uma religião moderada que não causa nenhum problema para seus crentes. A única razão pela qual ele é proibido na China é porque os comunistas tem medo dele como competidor politico.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Não houve julgamento nem explicação. Ela ia pegar um trem para ver sua irmã, mas ela não sabia que teria um evento político importante na capital: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_National_People’s_Congress" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_National_People’s_Congress</a> Então a polícia da estação, que já sabia que ela faz Falun Gong pegou ela.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Quando ela voltou pra casa, a casa tinha sido procurada pela polícia e estava uma bagunça. Os livros religiosos e seu computador foram confiscados.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Eu fico feliz apenas que ela não sofreu abuso físico. Eu acho fascinante como mesmo muitos chineses educados apoiam ainda um governo que não representa parte do povo. Como você vai se sentir quando algo do tipo acontecerá com a sua família, e você não pode fazer nada sobre isso?</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="further-details-about-ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law-s-persecution"><a class="anchor" href="#further-details-about-ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law-s-persecution"></a><a class="link" href="#further-details-about-ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law-s-persecution">5.6.5.3. Further details about Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law’s persecution (三西猴岳母受迫害的更多细节)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>March 2015: 15 days in jail for no reason: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/952661734753174" class="bare">https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/952661734753174</a>. They took her computer. When she left jail, she asked to get it back, and a cop said they would only give it back if she paid 10,000 yuan for it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>June 2017: 3 cops came to her house. She was there. They asked if she still did Falun Gong. She said yes. They took photos of her Falun Gong books/posters. They were polite.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>October 2017: 7 - 8 cops came to her house <em>at 11PM</em>. They knocked the door strongly and made noise, and questioned neighbours of her whereabouts. Luckily she was not there.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="in-the-tweet-about-his-mother-in-law-ciro-santilli-says-correctional-facility-but-reeducation-through-labour-has-been-abolished"><a class="anchor" href="#in-the-tweet-about-his-mother-in-law-ciro-santilli-says-correctional-facility-but-reeducation-through-labour-has-been-abolished"></a><a class="link" href="#in-the-tweet-about-his-mother-in-law-ciro-santilli-says-correctional-facility-but-reeducation-through-labour-has-been-abolished">5.6.5.4. In the Tweet about his mother in law, Ciro Santilli says "correctional facility", but reeducation through labour has been abolished</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He was not very precise <a href="https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/579270450984984576">here</a>, the precise term is "jail". He was <em>not</em> talking about: <a href="#re-education-through-labor">Re-education through labor (劳动教养)</a>. Unfortunately it is not possible to edit a Tweet.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="china-is-fine-as-it-is-stop-making-it-worse"><a class="anchor" href="#china-is-fine-as-it-is-stop-making-it-worse"></a><a class="link" href="#china-is-fine-as-it-is-stop-making-it-worse">5.7. China is fine as it is, stop making it worse (中国很好，别让它变得更糟)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Welcome to the wonderful world of democracy, a world where people can have different political opinions than you :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you are so fine, why are you reading this at all? Go back to being fine.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#why-end-dictatorship">Why would China be better without its Dictatorship? (为什么没有独裁的中国会更好？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#preconceived">Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="i-like-my-dictatorship"><a class="anchor" href="#i-like-my-dictatorship"></a><a class="link" href="#i-like-my-dictatorship">5.7.1. I like my Dictatorship (我喜欢我的独裁统治)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> can understand that.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are concrete advantages to being a dictatorship, see e.g. <a href="#dictatorship-variability">Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性)</a>, <a href="#richer">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a>, making good radical changes like <a href="#chinese-characters-are-insane">simplifying your insane writing system</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And it must feel good to have <a href="#li-hongzhi">absolute truth</a> in the <a href="#ccp-cult">Cult of Xi</a>, and let the black police <a href="#against-censorship-and-flg">get rid of weirdos for you</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But what happens when <a href="#man-in-the-high-castle">the dictatorship turns again you our your family</a>? Will you fight, or will you just let them do whatever they want because they can never be wrong? See also: <a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And when your son <a href="#man-in-the-high-castle">betrays you or sacrifices himself for the Dictator</a>, will you just smile and accept it in pride?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What happens when the <a href="#war">dictator declares waw</a>, and <a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">if you protest against it, you will go to jail</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#intolerance">Intolerance</a> is a risky way to live.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#seventeen-moments-of-spring">Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973, 春天的十七个瞬间, Soviet series about a Soviet spy against the Nazis, 关于苏联间谍反对纳粹的苏联系列)</a></p>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="seventeen-moments-of-spring"><a class="anchor" href="#seventeen-moments-of-spring"></a><a class="link" href="#seventeen-moments-of-spring">5.7.1.1. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973, 春天的十七个瞬间, Soviet series about a Soviet spy against the Nazis, 关于苏联间谍反对纳粹的苏联系列)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Семнадцать_мгновений_весны_(телефильм" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Семнадцать_мгновений_весны_(телефильм</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#russia">Soviet</a> mini-series about about Stierlitz, who is an undercover Soviet spy acting as a Nazi officer in <a href="#nazi">Nazi Germany during WW2</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a fun note, it seems that <a href="#putin">Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)</a> is a Stierlitz fan: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz#cite_note-Sakwa-5" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz#cite_note-Sakwa-5</a>, and Putin also served in Germany like Stierlitz, but in Dresden, which was in East Germany.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>A scene from the awesome mini-series comes to mind when thinking about <a href="#i-like-my-dictatorship">I like my Dictatorship (我喜欢我的独裁统治)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>In Episode 7, Stierlitz travels on a train with a Nazi officer.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The war is almost over, and the desolate officer tells Stierlitz:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I told my children: I hate any democracy!</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>No democracy in our Reich!</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Any democracy in our country is doomed to end up with one thing: the dictatorship of small shopkeepers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The more freedom we have, the sooner we want to be controlled by SS troops again.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And then we want our the secret police back, and concentration death camps again, and the universal fear everywhere! Only then we feel calm and secure.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No need to prove your point of view in defending the fate of the homeland.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No responsibility.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just raise your hand in honor of him, <a href="#xi-jinping">who will take care of everything for you</a>,</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just shout out "Hail Hitler!" and everything will become understandable.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No more worries.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/pc6DP1jNEec?list=PLHiAMOiVIvsD2u8g0RLwvdRScEe9yiUr5&t=1527" class="bare">https://youtu.be/pc6DP1jNEec?list=PLHiAMOiVIvsD2u8g0RLwvdRScEe9yiUr5&t=1527</a> Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), Episode 7, general confession scene.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pc6DP1jNEec?rel=0&start=2086" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is amusing to see Soviet series criticizing dictatorships, given that the Soviet Union was itself a major dictatorship!</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoM6-1SWl4&t=191" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoM6-1SWl4&t=191</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Dead_(TV_series)">The Living Dead</a> Episode 1: On the Desperate Edge of Now by Adam Curtis (1995) describes how the <a href="#nazi">Nazis</a>, disilusioned by both <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">democracy</a> and communism, built Nationalism by creating a mythical past. In Nationalism, the individuals would <a href="#flg-cult">surrenders themselves to the State</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship"><a class="anchor" href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship"></a><a class="link" href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">5.7.1.2. Most Chinese people like their dictatorship (中国大众支持他们的独裁)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is easy to reach an agreement, when <a href="#chinese-dissidents">everyone who disagrees</a> goes to jail or gets killed for to <a href="#inciting-subversion">Inciting subversion of state power (煽动颠覆国家政权罪)</a> or <a href="#picking-quarrels">Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is exactly <a href="#goring-nuremberg">Herman Goring said in his appearances on the Nuremberg trials</a> to justify <a href="#nazi">the atrocities of Nazism</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also ask the millions of people who were affected by <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>, <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a> or <a href="#dissidents">Dissidents (持不同政见者)</a>. See also: <a href="#white-paper">2022 COVID-19 protests in China (白纸运动, 白纸革命, White paper protests)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>One is reminded of the game <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Happy_Few">"We Happy Few" (2018)</a>, which which people are forced to be happy. <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a> also comes to mind of course.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The interesting thing, is that even those pro-CCP are much more likely to stay anonymous because:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>you never know when something you said will become a sin against some new trend of the dictatorship</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>when the dictatorship inevitably falls, you would be persecuted by the victorious freedom fighters</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/We_cant_complain.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="We cant complain" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 30. Westerner: "How is life in China?" Chinese: "Oh, we can’t complain." Westerner: "That’s awesome." Chinese: "No, seriously…​ we can’t." is a word play between the more common "we can’t complain because everything is great" and "we can’t complain because <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi</a> will <a href="#censorship">make us disappear</a>". <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3933168">Source</a></div>
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<div class="title">Figure 31. Translation of the above.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Scarfolk_public_displays_of_personal_distress_are_unpatriotic.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Scarfolk public displays of personal distress are unpatriotic" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 32. "Public displays of personal distress are unpatriotic" spoof poster by <a href="#scarfolk-council">Scarfolk Council</a> (2017). <a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2017/10/illegal-public-displays-of-emotion.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoM6-1SWl4&t=1606" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoM6-1SWl4&t=1606</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Dead_(TV_series)">The Living Dead</a> Episode 1: On the Desperate Edge of Now by Adam Curtis (1995) comments on how interviews with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Göring">Hermann Goring</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/赫尔曼·戈林">赫尔曼·戈林</a>) during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials">Nuremberg trials</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/纽伦堡审判">纽伦堡审判</a>) went: "Again and again, Jackson accused Goring of corruptly using his powers to commit crimes. Each time, Goring replied that such acts might be considered crimes in a democratic state, but that in Germany, democracy had failed. Eliminating the political opposition was necessary, to fulfill a higher principle: that of the Nation. And that it had worked, Goring insisted. It had brought order and prosperity to Germany". Jackson asks: "Well, if you wanted a certain people killed, you would have to have some organization that would kill them didn’t you?". Goring replies: "This was the only possible form of government at the time and it proved that Germany could be pulled out of the abyss of misery, poverty and unemployment and withing a short space of time be made flourish and bloom." This is <em>exactly</em> the justification given by the <a href="#ccp">CCP</a> for oppressing minorities and <a href="#censorship">freedom of speech</a>: the CCP is indistinguishable from the <a href="#nazi">Nazis</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 33. Presumed Chinese people giving the middle finger (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/豎中指">竖中指</a>) to various <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> symbols, most notably <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>. Even if this was made by the CIA, it perfectly illustrates the point that obviously no one speaks against the CCP because otherwise they will be put in jail. If you are going to do this, for Fuck’s Sake please cover your fingers, like the ones using gloves, or the banknotes, because if the photo resolution is good enough, you could be identified by your fingerprint. A <a href="#reddit">r/China</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/obmgdh/not_all_of_us_are_brainwashed_沉默的大多数/">repost</a>. This photo seems to be the result of a campaign started by <a href="#gfwfrog">GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a> in response to the 100th anniversary of the Party in 2021. This was also explained at: <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/667778.html" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/667778.html</a> on <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a>. Related: <a href="#anonymous-account-ban">Anonymous accounts ban (2017)</a>. This project was perhaps inspired by pro CCP images celebrating the 100 years such as <a href="https://archive.ph/OJGHl/5f09f24ce2e3f856b08e79cdade72ad2af72e9a0.jpg" class="bare">https://archive.ph/OJGHl/5f09f24ce2e3f856b08e79cdade72ad2af72e9a0.jpg</a> from <a href="https://kknews.cc/culture/gmnl5vy.html" class="bare">https://kknews.cc/culture/gmnl5vy.html</a> on <a href="#kknews">kknews (pro-CCP media)</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/GFWfrog/status/1410927334719430662">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y2FIqfIpiw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y2FIqfIpiw</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/409">GitHub reupload</a>) Give <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> the middle finger silly GIF by <a href="#gfwfrog">GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a> 给习近平竖中指由墙国蛙蛤蛤傻逼视频. <a href="https://twitter.com/GFWfrog/status/1408805483679469579">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndzntIDLFE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndzntIDLFE</a> IGN review of the "We Happy Few" (2018) game.</div>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="runxue"><a class="anchor" href="#runxue"></a><a class="link" href="#runxue">5.7.1.2.1. Run xue 润学</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Slang about learning ways to escape from China by emigrating.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/润学" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/润学</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/The-Run-Philosophy-Organization/run" class="bare">https://github.com/The-Run-Philosophy-Organization/run</a> 31k stars as of June 2024.</p>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="chilling-effect"><a class="anchor" href="#chilling-effect"></a><a class="link" href="#chilling-effect">5.7.1.2.2. Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/寒蟬效應_(法律" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/寒蟬效應_(法律</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is really interesting to see how many people star the <a href="#mirrors">GitHub repository</a>, and then a few minutes later they think about how they might get put in jail, and then unstar it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Unstarring events are exceedingly rare in Ciro’s other repositories.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The expression <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-expression-two-steps-forward-one-step-back-mean">two steps forward, one step back</a> comes to mind.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Luckily in this case, it does not seem possible to view who unstarred a repository after the fact:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51072418/how-can-i-determine-when-a-user-unstarred-a-repo-using-the-github-graphql-api" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51072418/how-can-i-determine-when-a-user-unstarred-a-repo-using-the-github-graphql-api</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The catch 22 of dictorships is that:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>if is citizens express themselves anonymously, they are dismissed as foreign agents</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>if they express themselves non anonymously, they go to jail</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related: <a href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">Most Chinese people like their dictatorship (中国大众支持他们的独裁)</a></p>
</div>
<div id="my-paranoia-as-a-russian-youtuber" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-hCdbsyWw0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-hCdbsyWw0</a> "my paranoia as a Russian YouTuber" by <a href="#nfkrz">NFKRZ</a> (2020) talks about the <a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a></div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_-hCdbsyWw0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="view-all-users-who-starred-a-repository-on-github-including-those-who-unstarred"><a class="anchor" href="#view-all-users-who-starred-a-repository-on-github-including-those-who-unstarred"></a><a class="link" href="#view-all-users-who-starred-a-repository-on-github-including-those-who-unstarred">5.7.1.2.3. View all users who starred a repository on GitHub including those who unstarred</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The <a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a> is extremelly visible on GitHub.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is able to see this easily because the star notification remains in the GitHub dashboard even after unstarring.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, star events are also publicly visible permanently on events API under the WatchEvent: <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/developers/webhooks-and-events/events/github-event-types#watchevent" class="bare">https://docs.github.com/en/developers/webhooks-and-events/events/github-event-types#watchevent</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This appears to get them all from <a href="https://www.gharchive.org/">GitHub Archive</a>'s Google BigQuery up to the last whole month:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>SELECT actor.login, MAX(created_at)
FROM `githubarchive.month.*`
WHERE type = 'WatchEvent'
AND repo.name = 'cirosantilli/china-dictatorship'
GROUP BY actor.login
ORDER BY MAX(created_at) DESC</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro verified that does include people who unstarred.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That one exceeds the free data limits as of December 2021 however, so you need to select more specific months/years at a time. Note that year data is only released once every year.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The following ranges manage to get all data as December 2021 for free:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>FROM `githubarchive.year.201*`
FROM `githubarchive.year.202*`
FROM `githubarchive.month.2021*`</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>supposing that unique starrers</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can then "Save results" as CSV to view all users.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There don’t appear to be unstar events however. You can see single people star multiple times, which means that each new star gives a new row, which is why we do the <code>GROUP BY</code>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="intolerance"><a class="anchor" href="#intolerance"></a><a class="link" href="#intolerance">5.7.1.3. Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How can you be that certain that your children won’t have dissident ideas and be punished unfairly for them?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Intolerance is a risky way to live. Everyone is part of one minority in one way. If all minorities were oppressed, everyone would be oppressed.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dictatorships crush minorities much more than democracies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do think the majority of the Chinese people would vote to put 50 year old <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> meditating <a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">aunties in jail</a>, if the CCP hadn’t made a huge propaganda campaign and used an iron fist?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Are the Chinese really that selfish to vote for this oppression, even as the <a href="#censorship">free media</a> would show videos of meditating old ladies in jail on national television? <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> does not believe this.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Minorities are put in jail because the CCP fears them. Dictatorships can only survive if there is zero difference in opinion in the population.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The famous quote from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall">Evelyn Beatrice Hall</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊夫林·比阿特丽斯·霍尔">伊夫林·比阿特丽斯·霍尔</a>) comes to mind:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.<br>
我不同意你的意见，但我以死捍卫你说话的权利”</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#first-they-came">First they came (起初他們)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of law (法治)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerance_(film)">Intolerance (1916) film</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="first-they-came"><a class="anchor" href="#first-they-came"></a><a class="link" href="#first-they-came">5.7.1.3.1. First they came (起初他們)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_…​" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_…​</a>;</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/起初他們……" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/起初他們……</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This text comes in relation to the <a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a> shown by <a href="#stupid">brainwashed</a> Chinese to the oppression of minrities. In it, <a href="#nazi">the priest Martin Niemöller regrets not having supported the rights of his opponents that were unfairly treated by the Nazi Government</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out<br>
Because I was not a socialist.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out<br>
Because I was not a trade unionist.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out<br>
Because I was not a Jew.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then they came for me<br>
and there was no one left to speak for me.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A translation from Wikipedia:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>起初，纳粹抓共产党人的时候，
我沉默，因为我不是共产党人。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>当他们抓社会民主主义者的时候，
我沉默，因为我不是社会民主主义者。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>当他们抓工会成员的时候，
我沉默，因为我不是工会成员。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>当他们抓犹太人的时候，
我沉默，因为我不是犹太人。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>最后当他们来抓我时，
再也没有人站起来为我说话了。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="it-is-fine-for-the-ccp-to-treat-some-of-its-citizens-unfairly-if-the-majority-is-better-off"><a class="anchor" href="#it-is-fine-for-the-ccp-to-treat-some-of-its-citizens-unfairly-if-the-majority-is-better-off"></a><a class="link" href="#it-is-fine-for-the-ccp-to-treat-some-of-its-citizens-unfairly-if-the-majority-is-better-off">5.7.1.3.2. It is fine for the CCP to treat some of its citizens unfairly if the majority is better off (如果大多数人过得更好，那么中共不公平地对待一些公民是可以的)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#uneducated-masses">The Chinese masses are still uneducated, and not fit for free speech and democracy 中国大众愚昧，不能好好选领导</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="this-is-ciro-santilli-s-personal-problem-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-stop-punishing-us-for-it"><a class="anchor" href="#this-is-ciro-santilli-s-personal-problem-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-stop-punishing-us-for-it"></a><a class="link" href="#this-is-ciro-santilli-s-personal-problem-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-stop-punishing-us-for-it">5.7.1.3.3. This is Ciro Santilli’s personal problem, we have nothing to do with it, stop punishing us for it (这是三西猴的个人问题，我们与此无关，不要因此而惩罚我们)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We have to fight for justice for our fellows, or else when injustice happens to us, no one will fight for use either: <a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Every form of protest incurs some damage. E.g., if we manifest on the street, it generates a traffic jam.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> doesn’t like it, but he thinks it is worth it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you just work to make money and have a good life, without any plans to improve the government, you are just making the economy of the dictatorship stronger, then when they start a <a href="#war">war</a> or kill yet another minority, blood will also be on your hands. See also: <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">What should Western countries do about China? (西方国家应该怎么对待中国？)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="stability"><a class="anchor" href="#stability"></a><a class="link" href="#stability">5.7.1.3.4. If anyone disagrees with the government they must be punished to keep the stability of the country (如果有人不同意政府，他们必须受到惩罚以保持国家的稳定)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The most possible stable state is a <a href="#dictatorship">Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a> like <a href="#nazi">Nazi Germany</a>. Except for the part where they try to take over the world and fail. This is exactly what China is becoming: the freaking <a href="#fourth-reich">Fourth Reich (希特勒只有一个蛋, 1939)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Destroying diversity is the best way to reach a point where everyone can agree to start <a href="#war">a new big war and destroy everything</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The CCP thrives on the excessive <a href="#evil-west">fear it instigates into its own people</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How can society improve, if we are never allowed to try new things out?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Change in democracies does not require <a href="#violence">violence</a>. Violence happens because the government punishes any dissidence, even if pacific, to retain its own power.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In democracies, radical policy changes happen without dropping a single drop of blood. People vote, and policies change, end of the story. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy">JFK’s</a> words:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution#As_it_relates_to_democracy" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution#As_it_relates_to_democracy</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Address_on_the_First_Anniversary_of_the_Alliance_for_Progress" class="bare">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Address_on_the_First_Anniversary_of_the_Alliance_for_Progress</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRG7yiqR3I" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRG7yiqR3I</a> Passage of Kennedy’s discourse that contains the quote "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable".</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Iwpr55PZEJ8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="why-china"><a class="anchor" href="#why-china"></a><a class="link" href="#why-china">5.8. There are bad things happening all over the world, why doesn’t Ciro Santilli fight for those causes as well/instead? (世界各地都有不好的事情发生，为什么三西猴不为这些原因而战/相反？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We have to choose the one we think is the worst, and focus on it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What is worse is a subjective choice. For <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>he <a href="#why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much">loves China and Ciro’s Chinese wife</a>, see also: <a href="#bias">Ciro Santilli and this page are completely biased against the Chinese Government! (三西猴和本页完全对中国政府有偏见！)</a>, and doesn’t want it to get fucked further by the CCP</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>he hates dictatorships, and China is the largest one by population/GDP/<a href="https://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report">nuclear stockpile</a>, and therefore <a href="#war">the most dangerous</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro <a href="#keyword-choice">SO username</a> and <a href="#better-to-do">protest time</a> are not infinite.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, it is good that different people have different interests, and someone will surely be fighting for whatever cause you care about.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#thailand">Thailand (泰国)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="western-democracies-are-not-perfect"><a class="anchor" href="#western-democracies-are-not-perfect"></a><a class="link" href="#western-democracies-are-not-perfect">5.8.1. Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Moved to: <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="democracy-is-not-perfect"><a class="anchor" href="#democracy-is-not-perfect"></a><a class="link" href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">5.8.2. Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Oh, no. You have discovered our secret!!!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That is definitely true.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Nothing is perfect in this world.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> just believes that they are way better than a <a href="#dictatorship">Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a> like China, and that the Chinese government <a href="#evil-west">brainwashes its people to think that the West is evil to stay in power</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority">Churchill</a> once brilliantly <a href="https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government">put it</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, this is all obviously subjective, and believing that dictatorship is a better form of government is also a valid belief, e.g. <a href="#dictatorship-variability">Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you find an event on a Western democracy that you would like to highlight, send a pull request.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We will not however include events that are not currently censored.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Every country did fucked-up things in the past, the question is if they currently allow discussion about it or not.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Posts that only mention <a href="#evil-west">"evil West"</a> non-censored events without adding anything to the discussion will be marked as <a href="#shitpost">I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子)</a> and treated as such, since spamming those is the primary <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> technique to stop intelligent discussion.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The reason why "Evil China" posts are not shitposts in general on the other hand, is that they have one specific purpose: <a href="#why-keyword-attack">to destroy censorship</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This "Western censorship <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copypasta">copypasta</a> string" <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/gct0ox/all_moderation_services_suspended_for_the_next_24/fpeends/">was posted automatically</a> by a bot during <a href="#anti-ccp-info-sources">r/China</a> purge day:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>North Dakota Access Pipeline Protests 北达科他州接入管道抗议<br>
Ferguson Riots 弗格森暴动<br>
2017 St. Louis protests2017 年圣路易斯抗议活动<br>
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll 比基尼环礁的核试验<br>
Unite the Right rally 团结右集会<br>
Charlotte riots 夏洛特暴动<br>
Attack on the Sui-ho Dam 袭击穗河水坝<br>
Milwaukee riots 密尔沃基骚乱<br>
Shooting of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile 奥尔顿·斯特林和菲兰多·卡斯蒂利亚的射击<br>
Occupation of the Malheur NationalWildlife Refuge Malheur国家野生动物保护区的占领<br>
death of Freddie Gray 弗雷迪·格雷的死<br>
Shooting of Michael Brown迈克尔·布朗的拍摄<br>
death of Eric Garner, Oakland California 奥克兰奥克兰市埃里克·加纳（Eric Garner）逝世<br>
Operation Condor 神鹰行动<br>
Occupy WallStreet 占领华尔街<br>
My Lai Massacre 我的大屠杀<br>
St. Petersburg, Florida 佛罗里达州圣彼得堡<br>
Kandahar Massacre 坎大哈屠杀<br>
1992 Washington Heights riots 1992年华盛顿高地暴动<br>
No Gun Ri Massacre 无枪杀案<br>
L.A. Rodney King riots 洛杉矶罗德尼·金暴动<br>
1979 Greensboro Massacre 1979年格林斯伯勒大屠杀<br>
Vietnam War 越南战争<br>
Kent State shootings肯特州枪击案<br>
Bombing of Tokyo 轰炸东京<br>
San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing 旧金山警察局公园站爆炸案<br>
Assassination of MartinLuther King, Jr. 小马丁·路德·金遭暗杀。<br>
Long Hot Summer of 1967 1967年炎热的夏天<br>
Bagram 巴格拉姆<br>
Selma to Montgomery marches 塞尔玛到蒙哥马利游行<br>
Highway of Death 死亡之路<br>
Ax Handle Saturday 星期六斧头<br>
Battle of Evarts 埃瓦茨战役<br>
Battle ofBlair Mountain 布莱尔山战役<br>
McCarthyism 麦卡锡主义<br>
Red Summer 红色夏天<br>
Rock Springs massacre 岩泉大屠杀<br>
Pottawatomie massacre 盆大屠杀<br>
Jeju uprising 济州起义<br>
Colfaxmassacre 科尔法克斯大屠杀<br>
Reading Railroad massacre 阅读铁路大屠杀<br>
Rock Springs massacre 岩泉大屠杀<br>
Bay viewMassacre 湾景大屠杀<br>
Lattimer massacre 拉蒂默大屠杀<br>
Ludlow massacre 拉德洛屠杀<br>
Everett massacre 埃弗里特屠杀Centralia Massacre 中部大屠杀<br>
Ocoee massacre Ocoee大屠杀<br>
Herrin Massacre 赫林大屠杀<br>
Redwood Massacre红木大屠杀<br>
Columbine Mine Massacre 哥伦拜恩矿难<br>
<a href="#guantanamo-bay">Guantanamo bay (关塔那摩湾拘押中心)</a><br>
extraordinary rendition 非凡的演绎<br>
Abu Ghraib torture and prison abuse 阿布格莱布的酷刑和监狱虐待<br>
Henry Kissinger 亨利·基辛格
<a href="#iranian-coup-1953">1953 Iranian coup d’état (TPAJAX Project, Operation Ajax, 1953年伊朗政變)</a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance">Eight-Nation Alliance</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/八國聯軍">八國聯軍</a>) (1900)<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_treaty">Unequal treaty</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/不平等条约">不平等条约</a>) (1842-1933)<br></p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some others:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>too many people in jail in the USA:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_prison_population_rates_from_World_Prison_Brief.svg" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_prison_population_rates_from_World_Prison_Brief.svg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国监禁制度" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国监禁制度</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/938" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/938</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://incarceration-in-real-numbers.metastem.su/" class="bare">https://incarceration-in-real-numbers.metastem.su/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://wealthscale.metastem.su/" class="bare">https://wealthscale.metastem.su/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>meanwhile China leads by far on execution numbers:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.amnesty.ie/what-we-do/abolish-death-penalty/" class="bare">https://www.amnesty.ie/what-we-do/abolish-death-penalty/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 but very small <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/global-executions-down-more-third-death-sentences-record-high-new-report" class="bare">https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/global-executions-down-more-third-death-sentences-record-high-new-report</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2014 CC BY-SA <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/which-countries-execute-the-most-people-chilling-new-map-reveals-china-and-iran-put-more-people-to-death-than-any-other-country-a6796351.html" class="bare">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/which-countries-execute-the-most-people-chilling-new-map-reveals-china-and-iran-put-more-people-to-death-than-any-other-country-a6796351.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2012 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/death-penalty-countries-world" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/death-penalty-countries-world</a></p>
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</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#richer">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#preconceived">Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#bias">Ciro Santilli and this page are completely biased against the Chinese Government! (三西猴和本页完全对中国政府有偏见！)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#the-united-states-has-recently-started-several-wars-and-killed-millions">The United States has recently started several wars and killed millions! (美国最近发动了几场战争，造成数百万人死亡！)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Free_speech_umbrella.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Free speech umbrella" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 34. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signe_Wilkinson">Signe Wilkinson</a> 2017 Free Speech "Can you just move it so it doesn’t cover them?" (TODO proper translation, with a quickly fixed up Google Translate: 你可以移动雨伞以使其不会遮盖住他们吗？) umbrella cartoon. Ciro once saw a <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> post this. It made him smile. If the cartoon were about <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorships</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Sam">Uncle Sam</a> would be instead <a href="#intolerance">decapitating and raping the people on one half of the umbrella</a>. Of course humans are <a href="#flg-intolerance">shit in democracies as well</a>, but at least that system makes it harder for them to oppress each other. <a href="http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=161799">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Guantanamo_bay_protest_London_2008.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Guantanamo bay protest London 2008" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 35. At <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/260" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/260</a> ((<a href="https://archive.ph/mtZeM">archive</a>)a <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> posted this image of <a href="#amnesty-international">Amnesty International (国际特赦组织)</a> protesters outside the American embassy in London in September 2008 protesting against the <a href="#guantanamo-bay">Guantanamo bay (关塔那摩湾拘押中心)</a> camps. The wumao used this to criticize Guantanamo bay, saying that it was like <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a> but in the USA, apparently unaware that this was a staged protest. So it actually has the exact opposite effect than intended: because there is no <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>, here people in the West can together to denounce something they don’t like. Imagine if a crowd of 100 people in China got together to denounce the Xinjiang camps! They’d go to jail immediately. Furthermore as Ciro repeated a million times: Guantanamo bay detainees are not American citizens, and democracies cannot fully protect people who can’t vote. In China however, no one can vote, so everyone can be oppressed. <a href="https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/171145">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="henri-meyer" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/China_imperialism_cartoon.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="China imperialism cartoon" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 36. French political cartoon from 1898 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Meyer">Henri Meyer</a> showing leaders of Western powers, Russia and Japan splitting up China between them. The CCP would arguably <a href="#not-chinese">not have raised to power if not due to Japanese interference</a>. Maybe the West deserves the <a href="#nazi">Nazi</a> CCP they helped create, much like post World War I treaties helped create Nazi Germany. Colonialism was horrendous. As a Brazillian, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> knows this all too well. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:China_imperialism_cartoon.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="two-wrongs"><a class="anchor" href="#two-wrongs"></a><a class="link" href="#two-wrongs">5.8.2.1. Two wrongs don’t make a right (积非成是)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_right" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_right</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/積非成是" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/積非成是</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<span id="the-west-is-racist-against-black-people">
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="racist-west"><a class="anchor" href="#racist-west"></a><a class="link" href="#racist-west">5.8.2.2. The West is racist against black people (西方人对黑人有种族主义)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国种族主义" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国种族主义</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Obviously <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> and everyone else knows that the Chinese are INCREDIBLY racist against blacks, way way more than in the West, based on conversations he’s had/overheard, and other circumstantial indications:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/25/coronavirus-exposed-china-history-racism-africans-guangzhou" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/25/coronavirus-exposed-china-history-racism-africans-guangzhou</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020">We Don’t Hire Blacks by Aaron Dewitt (我们不雇用黑人, 2020)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/wqlqqj/poor_girl/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/wqlqqj/poor_girl/</a> video where black Tik Toker <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@elmodrums" class="bare">https://www.tiktok.com/@elmodrums</a> complains that the Chinese comment "dancing monkeys" on her dancing videos</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As well put by a commenter:</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China is so openly racist that as far as the culture is concerned it isn’t racism but rather stating a fact. They think it’s totally normal and correct to believe terrible things about black peple. Its really shameful.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Label: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aracist-west">racist-west</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The only reason wumaos can point to the USA is that there are so many blacks there, and because for historical reasons they are in such a fucked up condition still today. Also in China, so people are just all much more generally fucked on average, so the difference wouldn’t show as much.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> notably mention:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd">George Floyd</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/乔治·弗洛伊德之死">乔治·弗洛伊德之死</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_can%27t_breathe" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_can%27t_breathe</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a>'s started posting "I can’t breathe" everywhere, to which some people on Twitter replied "I can’t tweet" and <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> made a cartoon: <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/twitter-china-cartoon-06052020164712.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/twitter-china-cartoon-06052020164712.html</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The murder video went viral and was not taken down (would have been in China), all four officers were charged, and the event sparked nation wide protests:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter</a> (黑人的命也是命)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of course there is racism in the West. And we must recognize that, and fight it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>BTW the USA, and other Western countries besides Germany, were/are also incredibly racist against Jews, e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman">Richard Feynman</a> could not be admitted in certain universities due to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota">Jewish quota</a>, even though he was not a believer himself, therefore based on race alone!</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Racism_in_the_West_vs_China_George_Floyd_vs_Xinjiang.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Racism in the West vs China George Floyd vs Xinjiang" height="700">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 37. Racism in the West vs racism in China. Of course there is racism in the West against black people. But the people have the choice to speak up against it to try and change things. In China however, speaking up against Muslim racism, means going to jail. Image sources: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Floyd_neck_knelt_on_by_police_officer.png">murder of George Floyd</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Floyd_protests_in_Philadelphia_02.jpg">George Floyd protests in Philadelphia</a>, <a href="https://mvslim.com/re-education-camps-for-muslims-chinas-muslim-community-the-uyghurs-are-facing-a-new-level-of-oppression">Xinjiang prisoners</a>, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/what-people-said-hong-kong-tiananmen-anniversary-2021-06-04/">Tiananmen Square on 2021-06-03</a>, the anniversary of <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="racist"><a class="anchor" href="#racist"></a><a class="link" href="#racist">5.8.2.2.1. You criticized China so you are racist (你批评中国，所以你是种族主义者)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of the 2020’s, given the importance of <a href="#politically-incorrect">political correctness</a> in the West, some <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> have tried to turn to this line of defense.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of course, it rarely works, because criticizing a government is different from criticizing a race.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is something however that wumaos have trouble understanding, because their <a href="#nazi">Nazi</a> estate insists that <a href="#the-group-is-the-only-way">Insistence that the group is THE ONLY WAY (Orange Papers, 坚持他们的团体是唯一的方式生活, 橙色文件)</a>, and that CCP equals China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This does however highlight one of the fundamental dangers of any type of <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>, including political correctness: what if you are criticizing something that is actually bad?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020">5.8.2.2.2. We Don’t Hire Blacks by Aaron Dewitt (我们不雇用黑人, 2020)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This amazing video was originally uploaded to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81mEbL8Yw8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81mEbL8Yw8</a> by <a href="#aaron-dewitt">Aaron DeWitt (The Chinese Tea)</a> on 2020-09-21 but it was down as of 2021-06-21. Last <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> archive as of that date: 2020-11-03.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The video description was:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is an exposé of racist companies that I worked for, some of which operate in the United States and Canada, all of which are headquartered in China.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In it, Aaron describes his experiences with the recruitment team of one of his former employers, an unnamed "Chinese ed-tech company in Beijing", for which he worked in human resources. In another also deleted video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc</a> he mentions that he cannot mention the name of the company because he was under NDA.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably, in that video, he gives several screenshots of Google Sheets spreadsheets with explicitly racist reasons why people were not hired, one of which is <a href="#we-dont-hire-blacks-screenshot">reproduced here</a>. Examples of such reasons include:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"Skin color"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Non-Caucasian"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"62-years old"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"elderly"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Hispanic"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He mentions:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the first day at this company, I had an orientation with my supervisor Ng, who is the head of the training department. She told me:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"We hire blacks. Obama black is OK. But no darker, or they’ll scare the kids. The kids will think they’re some kind of monster!"</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which would lead parents to just go to a competitor instead. Then he mentions about the Google Sheets documents that:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They shared this document with the entire management team in Beijing, and everyone not only knew, but expected this discrimination to take place.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In the video he also explains how he once went to a 2 week holiday to Bali, and when he came back with his skin darker due to the tanning, he was reprimanded by a manager, who said that he could not work looking like that.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He explicitly mentions later the video that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIPKid">VIPKid</a>, for which he did not work, is a similar company in nature, but not the one he is talking about.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wikipedia mentions about VIPKid</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Its online-classroom portal enables students to receive 25-minute English language lessons from fluent English-speaking teachers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In March 2019, VIPKid fired two American teachers for discussing the 1989 <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> and <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a> with their students in China. Teachers have also reported witnessing child abuse when teaching lessons, but they found little recourse to report such issues.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2021-05-05, the banner image of VIPKid’s website explicitly includes a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism">token black person</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210505045920/https://www.vipkid.com/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210505045920/https://www.vipkid.com/</a>, so their PR department clearly caught air of this. This is however only a frontend for hiring American teachers. The real Chinese client website <a href="https://www.vipkid.com.cn/" class="bare">https://www.vipkid.com.cn/</a>, rest assured, contains no black people: (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210424032446/https://www.vipkid.com.cn/">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>VIPKids had a 3 billion valuation in <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/chinas-vipkid-which-links-native-english-speakers-with-online-learners-raises-another-500m-reportedly-at-3b-valuation/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/chinas-vipkid-which-links-native-english-speakers-with-online-learners-raises-another-500m-reportedly-at-3b-valuation/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wikipedia links as one of its sources to this 2019 article <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/when-online-teaching-job-becomes-window-child-abuse/" class="bare">https://www.wired.com/story/when-online-teaching-job-becomes-window-child-abuse/</a> which mentions:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of the dozens of companies vying to cash in on the tutoring business, it is by far the largest, having raised $825 million in investment capital since its founding. Other major players include Qkids, Magic Ears, DaDa, and Gogokid, all based in China.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>so it is overwhelmingly likely that one of those is the one mentioned Aaron is talking about:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Qkids</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Magic Ears</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>DaDa</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Gogokid</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Later in the video Aaron mentions that the company in question "basically went bankrupt".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He also mentions that he later worked for <a href="https://www.forbes.com/companies/offcn-education-technology/?sh=6d49822b4e45">offcn</a>, which is run by the Chinese Government, and they would absolutely not hire black people.</p>
</div>
<div id="we-dont-hire-blacks-screenshot" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/We_don_t_hire_blacks_by_Aaron_DeWitt_2020.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="We don t hire blacks by Aaron DeWitt 2020" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 38. Screenshot of the video <a href="#we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020">We Don’t Hire Blacks by Aaron Dewitt (我们不雇用黑人, 2020)</a> showing a list racist job interview candidate rejection reasons.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="western-democracies-have-invaded-other-countries-and-crushed-separatism"><a class="anchor" href="#western-democracies-have-invaded-other-countries-and-crushed-separatism"></a><a class="link" href="#western-democracies-have-invaded-other-countries-and-crushed-separatism">5.8.2.3. Western democracies have invaded other countries and crushed separatism (西方民主国家侵略别国粉碎分裂主义)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yes, <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Western democracies are not perfect</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What matters is that citizens can disagree with those actions, publicly say it, vote accordingly, and not go to jail, so that policy will be changed if the majority so wants.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In China, the minority controls the majority, and the majority cannot say anything even if they disagree.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If the majority wants to do evil however, evil will get done, it is impossible to prevent that.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People from other countries don’t vote for your politicians in democracy. Therefore, democracies cannot protect them.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What democracy does do well is to <a href="#brainwashed-by-usa">reduce the chance that enough of the population will be brainwashed</a> into <a href="#war">starting war with other superpowers and destroy the world</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you really think <a href="#chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens">China wouldn’t invade a country they need resources from because they are more humane</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#too-young-too-naive">Too young, too naive</a>. China is already invading its own citizens right now as of 2020 to obtain resources! <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a>. And it is using the exact same excuse as the American politicians: terrorism!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even when the US invades another country, the people who support the US enemy can still pick up arms and fight. And Russia can send help if they want to annoy the Americans, making local resistance stand an actual chance. But when you oppress your own people, they are completely defenseless, and 100% certain to be fully oppressed, since no foreign country would risk world war 3 by sending help.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you really think that the CCP would give a fuck about invading other countries? And furthermore, China is specifically oppressing Islamic people in Xinjiang, exactly the same religion of people who live where? In the Middle East.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Xinjiang <em>is</em> China’s Middle East.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The reason the USA has invaded countries in the Middle east and China hasn’t yet is a mixture of:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the USA is more developed, and has greater fuel needs, and greater capacity to carry such a war.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Although as we’ve seen, they’ve been essentially losing those wars quite often now, by not saying long enough to establish a new stable government.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Part of their defeat is also due to <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a>, and increasingly China, helping the other side however.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>the Middle East is full of dictatorships, and <a href="#dictatorships-tend-to-work-together">dictatorships are natural allies of other dictatorships</a> therefore it is more likely that they won’t invade one another.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the Cold War is still fresh in the American mind. Oil is crucial to fight a war. Countries will do anything to survive, even if it means killing others.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is not saying that any of this justifies the actions of the Western powers in the Middle East. But simply that it has nothing to do with democracy or non-democracy.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#separatism">Separatism (分离主义, Taiwan 台湾, Xinjiang 新疆, Hong Kong 香港)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#richer">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="hate-speech"><a class="anchor" href="#hate-speech"></a><a class="link" href="#hate-speech">5.8.2.4. Western democracies also censor subjects such as child porn and hate speech (西方民主国家也审查儿童色情和仇恨言论等主题)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First, child porn and hate speech are also banned in China, so shut up. <a href="#china-has-more-freedom-of-speech-than-the-usa">every type of speech</a> is less free in <a href="#dictatorship">Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Second, if you don’t think child porn should be banned, there isn’t much point in arguing with you.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Now, hate speech is a very complex subject. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> does feel that we should be very careful when banning hate speech, and he is not sure if it should be banned at all, as perhaps it might just make matters worse.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But of course, there is also censorship in Western democracies, and there is a gray area between what should be censored or not.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> only argues that there is on type of speech that must never ever be <a href="#censorship">censored</a>: political speech.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This way, the majority can always discuss and vote to change what can be censored or not.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In China, however, trying to discuss such changes in laws <a href="#internal-censorship">puts you in jail</a>, so bad laws cannot be changed. This lack of freedom <a href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">also gives the impression to many brainwashed Chinese</a> that dicatorships are better because you see less conflict online. Which is great, until your human rights are violated, and you’ve got no one to talk to.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The lack of ability to discuss political problems leads to extremely serious problems:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#corruption">Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少)</a>: politicians can <a href="#internal-censorship">censor</a> anything bad that they did to stay in power</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#war">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？)</a>: if the CCP leaders decide that a war must be made, everyone who opposes it will go to jail, and the war will be made</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a>: if the CCP decides that <a href="#xinjiang">some minority</a> is <a href="#falun-gong">a danger to their power</a>, this minority gets fucked</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Deciding on hate speech, means having to decide what level of hardcoreness we are willing to accept, and there is no clear right or wrong answer.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, which of the following do you think should be banned:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>This scientific study suggests that white people do less well in IQ tests.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>This scientific study suggests that black people do less well in IQ tests.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>I’m an idiotic irrational racist and I dislike white/black people. I won’t kill them, but I dislike them, and I can’t change that, I’m really sorry.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Let’s all gather together and kill our black/white/gay/straight/Muslim/Christian neighbours tomorrow.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Let’s all gather together and kill our oppressive dictator/president tomorrow.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro believes that none of the above should ever be censored, because any form of "hate-speech censorship" immediately opens a precedent for political censorship.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If someone is idiotic enough to organize illegal acts like hurting someone publicly before doing it, it will just make it easier for them to get caught.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And if its just empty words, just block those idiots to not see their posts, or downvotes their posts to reduce their impact.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And if the majority supports idiotic acts like killing someone because of their race, it will get done in a democracy regardless, because that’s what democracies do: they cater to what the majority wants.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There’s not point in censoring them. Such censorship only makes things worse, as the perpetrators will use that as publicity for their cause.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#richer">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window">Overton window</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="fake-news"><a class="anchor" href="#fake-news"></a><a class="link" href="#fake-news">5.8.2.4.1. Fake news (假新闻)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/假新聞" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/假新聞</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When a government controls all information to make it look good, and no one can challenge it, you cannot trust <em>any</em> of the news produced by that country, as anything could be fake.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is much better to have some fake news, but also few sources that are likely telling the truth.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is also extremely critical of Western social media companies such as <a href="#twitter">Twitter (推特)</a> and Facebook which have censored "fake news" from real legitimate accounts or real people, which is a point that Trump has justly criticized in Ciro’s opinion.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If it is from a Chinese/Russian botnet, sure, destroy those accounts.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But from legitimate accounts of citizens? The people have to decide for themselves what is fake or real, not you, Twitter and Facebook. If the majority is made of idiots who believe in fake news, then so be it, that’s how democracy works.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Censoring any citizen, no matter how stupid you think they are, creates a precedent for dictatorship, and even an <a href="#luxor">incentive to terrorism</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More interesting case is: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_First_Amendment_Institute_v._Trump" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_First_Amendment_Institute_v._Trump</a>. Ciro feels strongly that people who try to have meaningful discussions on Twitter should automatically lose a lawsuit, and that people should be able to block whoever they want from their personal controlled accounts or forums. It is only the companies who provide the forum service that must be neutral.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west"><a class="anchor" href="#unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west"></a><a class="link" href="#unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west">5.8.2.4.2. Unjust social media censorship in the West (西方不公正的社交媒体审查)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Trump social media bans:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-03-31 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/03/31/conservatives-blast-facebook-for-removing-trump-interview-with-daughter-in-law/" class="bare">https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/03/31/conservatives-blast-facebook-for-removing-trump-interview-with-daughter-in-law/</a> "Conservatives Blast Facebook For Removing Trump Interview With Daughter-In-Law". This perfectly illustrates why it is unreasonable to ban someone from social media. You end up having to ban anyone who supports them as well.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-01-09 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/09/the-deplatforming-of-a-president/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/09/the-deplatforming-of-a-president/</a> "The deplatforming of President Trump" has an overview: Twitter permaban, Facebook indefinite time, Google store removed Parler from App Store, Apple store soon followed: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/09/apple-suspend-parler-from-app-store/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/09/apple-suspend-parler-from-app-store/</a> <a href="#tiktok">TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)</a> censorehttps://techcrunch.com/2021/01/07/tiktok-bans-videos-of-trump-inciting-mob-blocks-stormthecapital-and-other-hashtags/ And Amazon announced a Parler block with 24 hours advance: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/09/amazon-web-services-gives-parler-24-hour-notice-that-it-will-suspend-services-to-the-company/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/09/amazon-web-services-gives-parler-24-hour-notice-that-it-will-suspend-services-to-the-company/</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All of those banning should not be done. If the people want to rebel, they must be allowed to communicate and rebel.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-10-12 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/12/facebook-in-a-reversal-will-now-ban-holocaust-denial-content-under-its-hate-speech-policy/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/12/facebook-in-a-reversal-will-now-ban-holocaust-denial-content-under-its-hate-speech-policy/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08 Kevin Cernekee fired from Google for conservative views</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-08-27 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/google-whistleblower-cernekee-pushed-alt-right-views-former-colleague.html" class="bare">https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/google-whistleblower-cernekee-pushed-alt-right-views-former-colleague.html</a> "Internal Google memo claimed conservative whistleblower promoted alt-right views"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>It appears to be legal in the US for companies to fire employees based on political beliefs:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-employers-discriminate-based-on-political-beliefs-or-affiliation.html" class="bare">https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-employers-discriminate-based-on-political-beliefs-or-affiliation.html</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> however believes that discussing politics at work is not an efficient way to go about it, because you will be discussion amongst a small group of people since companies are opaque to the outside. Unless maybe if you feel that you employee is directly attempting to influence politics in a way that you feel is unfair.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro believes without evidence that unfortunately anti-discrimination-hiring laws are likely inefficient, as it is too hard to convict anyone. And that providing equal education through scholarships to unprivileged groups and university entry selection where examiners cannot see the applicant’s race is the only way.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>YouTube</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-12-09 <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/9/22165355/youtube-biden-election-victory-misinformation-rules-remove-content-oan" class="bare">https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/9/22165355/youtube-biden-election-victory-misinformation-rules-remove-content-oan</a> "YouTube will now remove videos disputing Joe Biden’s election victory".</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>YouTube’s announcement: <a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-election" class="bare">https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-election</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-11-24 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/youtube-suspends-and-demonetizes-one-america-news-network-over-covid-19-video/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/youtube-suspends-and-demonetizes-one-america-news-network-over-covid-19-video/</a> "YouTube suspends and demonetizes One America News Network over COVID-19 video"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Facebook</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-11-10 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/parler-app-store-facebook/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/parler-app-store-facebook/</a> "'Free speech' social network Parler tops app store rankings following Biden’s election win"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#twitter">Twitter (推特)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022-04 Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitterna, and will reverse some of that bullshit:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376" class="bare">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344" class="bare">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-01-08 <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html" class="bare">https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html</a> "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump" Archive of suspended account: <a href="https://archive.vn/SSHX6" class="bare">https://archive.vn/SSHX6</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-10-06 <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/28/21273241/section-230-explained-trump-social-media-twitter-facebook" class="bare">https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/28/21273241/section-230-explained-trump-social-media-twitter-facebook</a> "Section 230, the internet free speech law Trump wants to repeal, explained". While repealing the law entirely would be stupid, Trump is right that it has given platforms too much control over the media. <a href="#mark-government-controlled-social-media">Except for dictatorial foreign governments</a>, or explicitly illegal material, social media platforms should never remove or comment on any content.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-05-29 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52846679" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52846679</a> Twitter "hides Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence'". The people elected that idiot, Twitter leftists have to swallow that.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-01-11 <a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40204808.html" class="bare">https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40204808.html</a> "Angela Merkel sees Twitter’s cancelling of Donald Trump as 'problematic'"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Amazon</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Twitch 2021-04-07 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/07/twitch-off-platform-harassment-policy/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/07/twitch-off-platform-harassment-policy/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Minor:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/basecamp-employees-quit-ceo-letter/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/basecamp-employees-quit-ceo-letter/</a> 2021-04-31 Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>YouTube:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-10-07 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/google-youtube-climate-change-denial-ban/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/google-youtube-climate-change-denial-ban/</a> Google and YouTube say they won’t allow ads or monetized content pushing climate denial</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-09-29 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/youtube-will-now-ban-content-with-vaccine-misinformation/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/youtube-will-now-ban-content-with-vaccine-misinformation/</a> YouTube will now ban content with vaccine misinformation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related: some Western <a href="#flag-desecration">Flag desecration (亵渎旗帜)</a> censorship at <a href="#flag-desecration">Flag desecration (亵渎旗帜)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="politically-incorrect"><a class="anchor" href="#politically-incorrect"></a><a class="link" href="#politically-incorrect">5.8.2.4.3. Censorship of "politically incorrect speech" (审查政治不正确言论)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> strongly believes that this is a problem with Wester social media. For example in <a href="#stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping">Stack Overflow forbids criticizing the character of genocidal political leaders like Xi Jinping</a> Stack Overflow forbade Ciro from saying:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I think Trump is disgusting as a person</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>because they thought Trump would become sad and cry.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Western governments should pass laws that prevent this kind of arbitrary political censorship by companies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But of course as usual: <a href="#censorship">censorship in a dictatorship like China is always a million times worse</a>.</p>
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<div id="please-enjoy-this-politically-correct-cartoon" class="imageblock">
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<div class="title">Figure 39. "Please enjoy this culturally ethnically religiously and politically correct cartoon responsibly" cartoon by Michael Shaw from the New Yorker (2006) makes a reference to the fact that all humour is a criticism of something, and that excessive political correctness can be used as a way to limit free speech.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU</a> Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) defending freedom of speech in the context of the <a href="http://reformsection5.org.uk/">Reform Section 5</a> campaign to remove all criminalization of insults. The campaigns slogan was "Feel free to insult me!". He then quotes: "The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech" from <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/25/remarks-president-un-general-assembly">an Obama speech</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNjYSns0op0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNjYSns0op0</a> Munk Debate on Political Correctness (2018) features Stephen Fry and Jordan Peterson speaking against political correctness. Those dudes are awesome. <a href="https://youtu.be/rJOMYEXK6cs?t=150" class="bare">https://youtu.be/rJOMYEXK6cs?t=150</a> summarizes it well.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="western-society-is-extremely-unequal"><a class="anchor" href="#western-society-is-extremely-unequal"></a><a class="link" href="#western-society-is-extremely-unequal">5.8.2.5. Western society is extremely unequal (西方社会极度不平等)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Exactly! And this is something <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> fights daily against through his open source contributions.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And politicians don’t really care enough. Partially because:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the poor don’t have access to proper education and vote less often</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>corporations pay for their election campaigns</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>many of the politicians are rich themselves</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But do you really think that further increasing the power concentration as done is China is going to help reduce inequality?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If so, you have been <a href="#stupid">brainwashed beyond reason</a>. Increasing the concentration of power <a href="#chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens">will obviously make society even more unequal</a> and <a href="#corruption">corrupt</a>, never less.</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFrhIAj0ME" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFrhIAj0ME</a> Can’t get you out of my head - Part 1 (2021) documentary by Adam Curtis for the BBC. This awesome documentary suggests and explains why Western politicians care less and less about the people, and why Western companies have gained more and more power. It also mentions how after China gave up on communism and became a capitalist country, it completely lost any guiding ideal. The West still had the ideal of democracy. But for China, there was only one thing left: money. Our dear <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> is of course doing his best to instill nationalism into China to fill that void. What could <a href="#war">possible go wrong with that</a>?</div>
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<h5 id="life-of-brian-1979"><a class="anchor" href="#life-of-brian-1979"></a><a class="link" href="#life-of-brian-1979">5.8.2.6. Life of Brian (布莱恩的一生, 1979)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蒙提·派森之布莱恩的一生" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蒙提·派森之布莱恩的一生</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This movie was almost banned in Britain at the time due to lobbying by Christian groups as shown in <a href="#the-secret-life-of-brian-2007">The secret Life of Brian (2007)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Key scenes:</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="#life-of-brian-nazi-jew">Nazi Jew scene from The Life of Brian</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<h6 id="the-secret-life-of-brian-2007"><a class="anchor" href="#the-secret-life-of-brian-2007"></a><a class="link" href="#the-secret-life-of-brian-2007">5.8.2.6.1. The secret Life of Brian (2007)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Documentary about <a href="#life-of-brian-1979">Life of Brian (布莱恩的一生, 1979)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Key points:</p>
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<p><a href="#sacred-cows">[sacred-cows]</a></p>
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<h5 id="snowden"><a class="anchor" href="#snowden"></a><a class="link" href="#snowden">5.8.2.7. Snowden (斯诺登)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/爱德华·斯诺登" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/爱德华·斯诺登</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Censoring anyone who says "my president is shit", which is what China does, is much, much more serious than censoring intelligence leaks.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The problem with dictatorships, is that they make <em>every</em> information that makes them look bad a "state secret". Including any information that hundreds of thousands of people have witnessed, or economic performance metrics! See also: <a href="#internal-censorship">Internal censorship is necessary to prevent fake USA accounts from creating harmful propaganda (内部审查是必要的，以防止虚假的美国账户制造有害宣传)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The level of unknown surveillance that Snowden uncovered is a bad thing about the US.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Snowden’s prosecution was inevitable. Countries need secret services. Secret services need laws that prevent leaking classified information that was produced by government officials.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> has never and will never criticize China or any other country for spying or prosecuting spies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If Snowden were Chinese, the Chinese government would ban talking about him or anything he uncovered. A <a href="#keyword-attack">keyword attack</a> with "Snowden" in the West has no effect.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is obvious that the level of surveillance in any dictatorship will be infinitely higher, since the Government has much more power and no-one can criticize.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the West however, the debate Snowden sparked cannot be censored, and has helped to control excessive and secret state power.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ultimately, Ciro thinks camera surveillance is somewhat inevitable, because people will always want to fight crime and terrorism and surveillance technology keeps getting cheaper and cheaper.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He is however strictly against the ban of cryptography.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He also believes that a good solution to balance out government power is the <a href="#second-amendment">Second amendment (美國憲法第二修正案)</a>. It is better to have more school shootings and less full-blown dictatorship led genocides / mass human rights violations.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2019 China amusingly censored passages Snowden’s "Permanent Record" autobiography book, which Snowden then published on Twitter:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1194092273170038784" class="bare">https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1194092273170038784</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191112083232/https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1194092273170038784">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dv5q8o/china_censors_edward_snowdens_new_book_he/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dv5q8o/china_censors_edward_snowdens_new_book_he/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191112083147/https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dv5q8o/china_censors_edward_snowdens_new_book_he/">archive</a>).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dv5q8o/china_censors_edward_snowdens_new_book_he/f7axckl/">Redditor put it</a>:</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>I don’t think they understand that what Snowden stands for is completely the opposite of what the Chinese gov is lol</p>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Snowden then later released the entire Chinese version of the book for free online with the censored parts underlined: <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/10/snowden_china_censorship" class="bare">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/10/snowden_china_censorship</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200213001653/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/10/snowden_china_censorship">archive</a>), link to the book: <a href="https://a.temporaryrecord.com/Permanent_Record_-_CN_edition_with_underlined_redactions.pdf" class="bare">https://a.temporaryrecord.com/Permanent_Record_-_CN_edition_with_underlined_redactions.pdf</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200212144108/https://a.temporaryrecord.com/Permanent_Record_-_CN_edition_with_underlined_redactions.pdf">archive</a>). One wonders why he didn’t just do that in the first place for all versions, maybe he needed to pay the writer that helped him?</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Snowden.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Snowden" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 40. Snowden highlighted defects on abuses of power in a Western democracy, and the discussion he sparked helped to control such abuses. <a href="#to-obey-is-to-betray">To obey is to betray</a> comes to mind. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Snowden-2.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/MhJldILZhJ8?t=138" class="bare">https://youtu.be/MhJldILZhJ8?t=138</a> "A matter of internal security: the age old cry of the oppressor". Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation s03e11 "The Hunted".
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="bad-things-have-been-done-in-the-name-of-freedom"><a class="anchor" href="#bad-things-have-been-done-in-the-name-of-freedom"></a><a class="link" href="#bad-things-have-been-done-in-the-name-of-freedom">5.8.2.8. Bad things have been done in the name of freedom (以自由的名义人做过很多坏事)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks">September 11th</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bad things have been done in the name of anything.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It’s just that <a href="#war">much</a>, <a href="#xinjiang">worse</a> <a href="#tiananmen">things</a> are done without freedom than with it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Democracies cannot necessarily protect weak countries from powerful ones either. No political system can do that, because humans are trash essentially.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What democracy do is to protect its own people against its own government. Because when the government turns against part of the population in a dictatorship, that part of the population gets crushed entirely, without any chance to fight, because they don’t have an army or ally countries like other countries do.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Here are some images that <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a>'s like to post:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>Left Right Slaughterhouse comic: <a href="https://9gag.com/gag/ayn7KmW?ref=fbp" class="bare">https://9gag.com/gag/ayn7KmW?ref=fbp</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="ccp-evil"><a class="anchor" href="#ccp-evil"></a><a class="link" href="#ccp-evil">5.9. Is the Chinese government evil? (中国共产党是邪恶的吗？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Obviously not, just <a href="#richer">inefficient</a> and <a href="#war">dangerous</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is just another non-democratic empire like the <a href="#qing-dynasty">Qing Dynasty (清朝, 大清, 1636-1912)</a>, we might as well cal it:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>共产朝<br>
The Communist Dynasty</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Expression previously mentioned at: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161025220242/http://tieba.baidu.com/p/752094668" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20161025220242/http://tieba.baidu.com/p/752094668</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Like any other organization and individual everywhere in the entire world, they are just doing everything that they can to maintain their own power.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It just happens that China’s the current is political system allows the CCP to do really bad things.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And it should also be noted that <a href="#henri-meyer">it is in part the West’s fault</a> that China currently has this shitty system.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> thinks otherwise of course, they think the CCP is actually made up of real actual devils in some dimension: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">Does Ciro Santilli believe in or practice Falun Gong? (三西猴信仰或者练法轮功吗？)</a>. E.g. on the <a href="https://endccp.com/" class="bare">https://endccp.com/</a> Falun Gong lead campaign:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The demon CCP has plundered the ancient land of China</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens">5.9.1. Chinese politicians really care about the Chinese citizens (中国政客真正关心中国公民)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sometimes people say Ciro Santilli is naive.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Politicians are the same all over the world.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some might have good intentions, but most don’t give a shit about anyone else.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But all must play a careful political game, and sometimes betray their own beliefs to not lose power entirely.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even those that genuinely care might have to play such political games.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China’s problem is not its politicians.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It’s the current shitty political organization, which allows/convinces those politicians to do really bad things: <a href="#richer">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a>, <a href="#war">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？)</a> and <a href="#corruption">Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Western politicians don’t care about the people either: <a href="#western-society-is-extremely-unequal">Western society is extremely unequal (西方社会极度不平等)</a>. But at least they have to pretend a little.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>By John Kenneth Galbraith, possibly based on an earlier <a href="#soviet-union">Soviet Union (苏联)</a> joke <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-capitalism-quote/" class="bare">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-capitalism-quote/</a>:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Under capitalism, man oppresses man. Under socialism, it’s just the opposite.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="is-chinese-politician-x-evil"><a class="anchor" href="#is-chinese-politician-x-evil"></a><a class="link" href="#is-chinese-politician-x-evil">5.9.2. Is Chinese politician X evil? (中国政客X邪恶吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The term evil does not make sense unless you are <a href="#falun-gong">religious</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The best definition of evil is a psychopath with zero empathy for anyone: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy</a> although this can be better characterized as a disease or extreme personality trait.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The huge majority of those politicians are just regular dudes with a knack for politics but brought up in a fucked up political situation.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just like you, Ciro Santilli and other politicians in any country.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#politicians">Chinese politicians (中国政治家)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="nazi"><a class="anchor" href="#nazi"></a><a class="link" href="#nazi">5.10. Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The more <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> learns about the Nazis, the more similar they CCP looks to them. As of 2020, the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> is much more like Nazi Germany than it is like the <a href="#soviet-union">Soviet Union (苏联)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Both CCP and Nazis share the same basic core ideology: capitalism, <a href="#little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream">love your country/leader mindlessly</a>, work hard, <a href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">throw any dissidents under the bus</a>, and <a href="#overlook-human-rights-for-profit">everyone will become richer</a> (except the dissidents who will be in jail or dead).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Thankfully, the CCP is possibly less bad as of 2020 it has less of "this minority (Jews) is the cause of all our problems/racial supremacy approach". But everything else, and arguably the key points that got most German people on-board in the first place, are so similar, that it has to raise huge red flags.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We must however be careful not to demonize the Nazis, as that is not a helpful way to learn from the past.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Nazis were also people like us, and that is the scary thing we must never forget, thus we should never fall for:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum">Reductio ad Hitlerum</a></p>
</li>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/希特勒歸謬法">希特勒归谬法</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably, it can be argued that the Nazis did bring economic growth and stability to Germany, which the people desperately needed, see also <a href="#goring-nuremberg">Goring’s appearance on the Nuremberg trials</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Keywords:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Xitler (习特勒). 习 "xi2" is very close in sound to the Chinese name of Hitler: <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/阿道夫·希特勒">希特勒</a> (xi1 te4 le4)</p>
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<li>
<p>Chinazi (赤纳粹 Chi Na Cui). TODO why 赤. Means Red, which is a reference to Communism, although red was of course it was also the color of the original Nazis. But where else is it used? Chi is also chosen to achieve the sound "Chi Na" as a variant of <a href="#shina">Shina (zhina, 支那)</a></p>
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</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#young-pioneers-vs-hitler-youth">Young Pioneers vs Hitler Youth</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_qOvU_-61o" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_qOvU_-61o</a> John Heartfield describes the anti-Nazi propaganda of John Heartfield</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Articles:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
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<p><a href="http://yashalong.blog.caixin.com/archives/188877" class="bare">http://yashalong.blog.caixin.com/archives/188877</a> 这么好的人民，不倒点霉都对不起他们 "These are such good people, if they have a bit of bad luck, excuse them." article by yashalong 押沙龙 published on <a href="#caixin">Caixin (财新传媒)</a>. The article discusses how Nazi Germany propaganda worked, without mention to the CCP, but it was still apparently <a href="https://www.bannedbook.org/bnews/baitai/20190816/1175647.html">banned in China</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.southbankresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2020/01/ZHA-issue-2510-free.pdf" class="bare">https://www.southbankresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2020/01/ZHA-issue-2510-free.pdf</a> has a good quote:</p>
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<p>Would you have stood up to Hitler when he came to power? Or would you have been an appeaser, like Chamberlain? Or perhaps even a supporter of fascism, like the Daily Mail’s owner at the time?</p>
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<p>We all like to imagine we’re courageous enough to stand up to tyranny and persecution. That we would have stood up to the villains of the past. Seen them for what they really were, even helped rescue their victims from danger. We certainly don’t like to think we would have bought their goods or funded, invested in their economies…​</p>
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<p>Well today, you’re going to find out what you’re made of.</p>
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<p>TODO some failed attempts at ASCII art flags:</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Nazi_war_flag.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Nazi war flag" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 41. Photoshopped <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> with raised fist with Nazi uniform and flag on the background. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/cuf3p7/chinazi_xitler/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 42. Likely original or similar image of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> with raised fist as he took oath when coming into or renewing office. <a href="http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2018-03/19/content_50723040.htm">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Nazi_war_flag.png" loading="lazy" alt="Nazi war flag" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 43. German’s 1938-1945 war flag called the "War Ensign of Germany" in English or "Reichskriegsflagge" in German. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichskriegsflagge">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Hitler_angry_rehearsal.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Hitler angry rehearsal" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 44. Hitler has of course a few raised fists on Google Images, but they tend to be more aggressive, and less compatible with Xi’s apathic poker face. <a href="http://bodylanguageproject.com/articles/adolf-hitler-practised-his-body-language-assessing-hitlers-bizarre-gestures-and-postures/">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_mein_kampf.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi mein kampf" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 45. Photoshopped cover of Mein Kampf with Xi’s face on top of Hitler’s and other modifications such as Mian instead of Mein, likely the same 面 (mian4, face) as the Chinese character at the bottom right. <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a> also comes to mind. <a href="https://foreignerinformosa.typepad.com/the_foreigner_in_formosa/2017/07/president-xitler-of-china-murders-political-dissident-liu-xiaobo.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 46. Original cover of Mein Kampf. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QERDzr6HSQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QERDzr6HSQ</a> How Rich Was Hitler? by Mark Felton Productions (2021) mentions that the success of the book helped Hitler a financially a lot when he was in great need. Ciro speculates that the same applies to <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>, which has retained copyright of <a href="#flg-canon">all his works</a> (despite them being the truth of the universe, a natural force essentially), as can be seen by the copyright notice on <a href="https://en.falundafa.org/" class="bare">https://en.falundafa.org/</a>. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Hitler_-_Mein_Kampf_(855._Auflage,_1943).pdf">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 47. Photoshopped photo of Hitler giving the Nazi salute from a car with Himmler on the background with Xi’s face on top of Hitler’s. <a href="https://chinhdangvu1.blogspot.com/2017/09/xitler-chinazism.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 48. Original photo of Hitler giving the Nazi salute from a car with Himmler on the background. This photo shows them reviewing SS troops during a Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) parade in Nuremberg (1938-09-05 - 1938-09-12). <a href="https://aboutholocaust.org/en/facts/who-was-adolf-hitler">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 49. Chinazi flag (赤纳粹旗) by <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">Hong Kong protesters</a>. Seen <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2019/08/【盛世一景】赤纳粹旗（chinazi-flag）/">on streets</a>. An example of <a href="#flag-desecration">Flag desecration (亵渎旗帜)</a>. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dbrken/google_bomb_china_flag_search_query_into_chinazi/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD53MEbLDIE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD53MEbLDIE</a> <a href="#serpentza-laowhy86">laowhy86</a> video "Can We Compare China to Nazi Germany?" published on 2020-04-29. Good side-by-side video comparisons. Says that China is more like Nazi than <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a>, but Ciro disagrees, all three are <a href="#is-chinese-politician-x-evil">evil dictatorships</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_and_Webb">Mitchell and Webb</a> "Are we the Baddies?" Nazi Sketch. In this sketch, Mitchel, a cute self-conscious Nazi, starts to wonder with Webber, his Nazi friend, if they aren’t on the side of evil, particularly due to the usage of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf">Nazi skulls (Totenkopf)</a> on their uniforms. This echoes <a href="#goring-nuremberg">Goring’s appearance on the Nuremberg trials</a>. Like the CCP, many Nazis thought of course that they were doing great things.</div>
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<h4 id="hitler-has-only-got-one-ball"><a class="anchor" href="#hitler-has-only-got-one-ball"></a><a class="link" href="#hitler-has-only-got-one-ball">5.10.1. Hitler Has Only Got One Ball (希特勒只有一个蛋, 1939)</a></h4>
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<p>We have to make a <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> version of this!!!</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball">Hitler Has Only Got One Ball</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/希特勒只有一个蛋">希特勒只有一个蛋小平</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_monorchism_of_Adolf_Hitler">Possible monorchism of Adolf Hitler</a></p>
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<p>There’s even an <a href="https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball">Uncencyclopedia page for it</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>We have to do a Chinese version. A starting point:</p>
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<pre>近平，只有一只蛋
泽东，还好有一个半
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<div class="title">Figure 50. <a href="http://bodylanguageproject.com/xarticles/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Hitler-8.jpg">Left source</a>, <a href="https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball">right source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1tF-Yrwe3U" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1tF-Yrwe3U</a> A version of the "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" song.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/w1tF-Yrwe3U?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DWJQkOJew" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DWJQkOJew</a> The Armstrong and Miller Show "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" sketch depicts in a funny way the imaginary creation of the song.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Y1DWJQkOJew?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<h4 id="thousand-year-reich"><a class="anchor" href="#thousand-year-reich"></a><a class="link" href="#thousand-year-reich">5.10.2. Thousand-Year Reich (中华人民共和国万岁)</a></h4>
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<p>As mentioned at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reich&oldid=1054809270#During_the_Nazi_period" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reich&oldid=1054809270#During_the_Nazi_period</a> a popular way of referring to the Nazi rule was as the:</p>
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<p>Thousand-Year Reich</p>
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<p>In China, a popoular expression for "Long Live" is "万岁", which means "live for ten thousand years".</p>
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<p>This comes from old Imperial times, but applies perfectly to the Nazi/CCP analogy.</p>
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<h5 id="fourth-reich"><a class="anchor" href="#fourth-reich"></a><a class="link" href="#fourth-reich">5.10.2.1. Fourth Reich (希特勒只有一个蛋, 1939)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Reich" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Reich</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/第四帝國" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/第四帝國</a></p>
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<p>Neo-Nazis thought they might be the ones. Skinhead newbs. China beat them to it by a mile.</p>
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<h4 id="borg"><a class="anchor" href="#borg"></a><a class="link" href="#borg">5.10.3. China is like the Borg from Star Trek (博格 (星际旅行和中共长得很想)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博格_(星际旅行" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博格_(星际旅行</a>)</p>
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<p>TODO memes?? Only one image here: <a href="https://www.techinasia.com/qihoo-acquistion-updates-sogou-talks-confirmed-chukong-rumors-denied" class="bare">https://www.techinasia.com/qihoo-acquistion-updates-sogou-talks-confirmed-chukong-rumors-denied</a> but we need more, e.g. several top commies with Borg photoshop, or even better something showing the people as borgs as well.</p>
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<p>Notable mentions:</p>
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<p>2019 <a href="https://ihare.org/2019/08/07/when-will-the-borg-assimilate-hong-kong-is-resistance-futile/" class="bare">https://ihare.org/2019/08/07/when-will-the-borg-assimilate-hong-kong-is-resistance-futile/</a> When Will the Borg Assimilate Hong Kong?: Is Resistance Futile?</p>
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<p>2018 <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-real-borg-collective-xi-jinpings-china-is-americas-defining-challenge-in-2019" class="bare">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-real-borg-collective-xi-jinpings-china-is-americas-defining-challenge-in-2019</a> A real Borg collective, Xi Jinping’s China is America’s defining challenge in 2019</p>
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<h3 id="contributing-guidelines"><a class="anchor" href="#contributing-guidelines"></a><a class="link" href="#contributing-guidelines">5.11. Contributing guidelines (贡献指南)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="shitpost"><a class="anchor" href="#shitpost"></a><a class="link" href="#shitpost">5.11.1. I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So, have you reached the conclusion that your <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting">shitpost</a> is <a href="CONTRIBUTING.md">worth the risk of getting blocked</a>?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Remember that shitposts can also be creative: if you are going to insult Ciro Santilli, at least do it in a creative way, or else you look like an even bigger idiot than you really are.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>A collection of shitposts for you to take inspiration from can be found at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ashitpost+" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ashitpost+</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, when opening a shitpost you may mark it clearly such with the shitpost issue template which automatically assigns the shitpost label. Doing so will make you look like less of an idiot.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>While we require polite replies to polite posts, no matter what which side they are defending, if a post is marked as a shitpost, things are much more relaxed and fun, and you can generally get away with telling the OP to fuck themselves <a href="CONTRIBUTING.md">without getting blocked</a>.</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 51. Real shit photos may be posted in reply to shitposts. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Feces_(cropped).jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Kin_no_unko.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Kin no unko" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 52. Amazing shitposts may recieve a Golden Shit award and the <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/golden-shit">golden-shit label</a>. The image is from a Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_no_unko">Kin no unko (金のうんこ)</a>, which is likely inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycee">golden Sycees</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kin_no_unko.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Like_shitposts.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Like shitposts" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 53. To <a href="#censorship">censor</a> or not to censor good shitposts: that is not the question, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> will never censor them! <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/rA0K90g">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Caonima.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Caonima" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 54. The legendary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse">Grass Mud Horse (草泥马, caonima)</a> is also said to appear in shitposts from time to time.</div>
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</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="i-am-going-to-write-a-huge-wall-of-text-to-prove-my-point"><a class="anchor" href="#i-am-going-to-write-a-huge-wall-of-text-to-prove-my-point"></a><a class="link" href="#i-am-going-to-write-a-huge-wall-of-text-to-prove-my-point">5.11.2. I am going to write a huge wall of text to prove my point</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Feel free to do that, but no one will ever read most of it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you want your comment to be read, choose your key point well, and deliver it.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is a shame that most people who are ever able to do that are <a href="#shitpost">shitposters</a>, but credit where credit is due.</p>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="can-i-contact-ciro-santilli-in-chinese"><a class="anchor" href="#can-i-contact-ciro-santilli-in-chinese"></a><a class="link" href="#can-i-contact-ciro-santilli-in-chinese">5.11.3. Can I contact Ciro Santilli in Chinese? (我可以用中文联系三西猴吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you don’t know English well enough, that’s fine though, go for Chinese, Ciro Santilli will likely understand it: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? (三西猴会说中文吗？)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>But if you do, use English.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro is not going to learn Chinese because of your message.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is more productive for you to write in English, so that the rest of the West can also learn something new.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Especially since it seems that most Chinese already know what you are talking about, so you are better off teaching Western people about it.</p>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="slang"><a class="anchor" href="#slang"></a><a class="link" href="#slang">5.11.3.1. I am going to use a bunch of Chinese slangs because it makes me feel smart (我知道网络语言，我很聪明)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Obviously, if you want to be understood, use simple and standard Chinese, since as Ciro has already stated clearly, his Chinese sucks: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? (三西猴会说中文吗？)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Avoid slangs, otherwise Ciro might not have patience to Google your useless slangs down <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu</a> questions.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of course, if you have to read this, you likely are not going to say anything useful in the first place, so not reading your post is likely fine, just make sure to mark it as a <a href="#shitpost">I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子)</a> if you don’t want Ciro to think you are a complete idiot.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Using slangs makes some people feel smart due their advanced knowledge of a specific subculture, or makes them feel part of that subculture to gather allies. I.e., it is a form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth">shibboleth</a>. It mainly comes down to a way of avoiding any rational conversation about China’s obvious problems by highlighting <a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or maybe they just want to waste Ciro’s time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Such idiots don’t see however that every major slang is Googleable, and that every overly obscure slang is already not understandable by a large part of the Chinese population, and won’t be understood by anybody in 5 years, so that you are wasting your time writing this gibberish. But since you are an idiot, it’s not like you have anything better to do with your time, so maybe it doesn’t matter.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you want to efficiently prevent anyone from understanding your stuff, Ciro recommends that you just use SHA-256 instead:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>$ printf 'heil xi' | sha256sum
286b183bf41d6c9de5315bbd64f1ca35a58157ae2e7f38086978c108e67c4882 -</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A Chinese insult tip 101, avoid similar sound euphemisms. If you are going to say shit at least grow some balls or tits and use the proper characters, Ciro will respect you more for it:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>屄 cunt, most often for <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/傻屄">傻屄</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>逼</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"sb"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"B": <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/105" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/105</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"BB" TODO <a href="https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/37819380.html" class="bare">https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/37819380.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>肏 fuck: 操</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>傻 idiot: 沙</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>屌 dick: 屌</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Places to try and decrypt Internet slang when you feel like wasting your time:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国大陆网络用语列表" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国大陆网络用语列表</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"网络用语" is the most common word for "Internet Slang", so also useful for Google searches</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Internet_slang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Internet_slang</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Random slangs of interest and related concepts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/火星文">火星文</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_language">Martian language</a>). This figures for example in the language rules of the <a href="#ptt">PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a> joke board: <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1602005687.A.E4D.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1602005687.A.E4D.html</a> (禁止使用簡體字、注音文、火星文、外國語言或其他無法直觀理解之內容作為文章主體).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some useful slangs seen on the wild:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>敏感瓷: 敏感词 sensitive words, phonetic approximation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"emm" <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/288002941" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/288002941</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>猎狗: lit. hunting dog. Metaphorically: lackey, a servent of someone else, usually evil. Usually as in: <a href="#funded-by-cia">Is Ciro Santilli’s china-dictatorship campaign funded or otherwise supported by some organization? 谁收买三西猴散布关于中国的谣言？</a>, e.g. 国的狗 <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/914" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/914</a>. This sense is mentioned e.g. at <a href="http://cidian.118cha.com/1872420.html" class="bare">http://cidian.118cha.com/1872420.html</a> which includes two 20th century usage examples.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>GitHub issue label: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ai-know-slangs-i-smart+" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ai-know-slangs-i-smart+</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#taiwan-frog">Taiwan frog (台蛙蛙)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="vagina" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Rugae_vaginales_with_black_hole.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Rugae vaginales with black hole" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 55. A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina">Vagina</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/阴道">阴道</a>) also known as cunt (屄), is the female reproductive organ, including the naturally occurring black hole that appears in front of it whenever a picture is taken to prevent <a href="#github">GitHub</a> from taking down this page. Even though <a href="#porn">you’ve never seen one</a>, there’s no need to be afraid of it, and refer to it in euphemisms like "SB". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rugae_vaginales.jpg">Background source</a> and <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Hole_Milkyway.jpg">black hole source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="ruhua"><a class="anchor" href="#ruhua"></a><a class="link" href="#ruhua">5.11.3.1.1. Ruhua (to disgrace china, 辱华, 乳华)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Basically a 2 character slang for <a href="#hurt-the-feelings-of-the-chinese-people">Hurt the feelings of the Chinese people (伤害中国人民的感情)</a> which cool people in the web use:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/75717383" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/75717383</a> 天天辱华，辱华的到底是谁？ on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.dw.com/zh/一系列国际大牌纷纷陷入辱华风波/a-49994530" class="bare">https://www.dw.com/zh/一系列国际大牌纷纷陷入辱华风波/a-49994530</a> on <a href="#dw">Deutsche Welle (DW, 德国之声, German government media)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-46314935" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-46314935</a> on <a href="#bbc">BBC (英国广播公司, British government media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The pardox is: as soon as you start talking about ruhua, you start to risk getting banned in China, because most of ruhua is banned in China itself.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In this project for example: <a href="https://github.com/leiroc/insults" class="bare">https://github.com/leiroc/insults</a> the author is aiming to create a list of such insults. So someone came and suggested adding this project to the list at: <a href="https://github.com/leiroc/insults/issues/4" class="bare">https://github.com/leiroc/insults/issues/4</a>, which is obviouly censored in China, as an example. They even have an <a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a> at <a href="https://insults.cn/" class="bare">https://insults.cn/</a>, isn’t that cute?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To which the repo owner replied:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>感谢提交，这个人有点疯狂了。我就不给加到记录里面了，因为加进去，看到的人就会更加多。对于这些信息不是所有人都有分别真伪的能力。害怕有些人信了他的，或者被他诱导。所以还是让他消声少曝光的好，这些人国家肯定一直在监控的，我们可以放心。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Google Translate:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Thanks for submitting, this person is a bit crazy. I won’t add it to the record, because if you add it, you will see more people. Not everyone has the ability to distinguish between authenticity and falsehood for this information. I’m afraid that some people will believe him or be induced by him. Therefore, it is better to silence him and reduce exposure. These people and countries must have been monitoring them, so we can rest assured.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This perfecly shows the ruhua paradox. In the end, you are only allowed to talk about the most idiotic and insipid events, while censoring any serious self criticism.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#uneducated-masses">The Chinese masses are still uneducated, and not fit for free speech and democracy 中国大众愚昧，不能好好选领导</a> also comes to mind.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO the README says that it is a static blog, but I can’t find the source on GitHub anywhere, that repo contains almost nothing.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The large majority of posts are about <a href="#western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests">Western companies that comply with Chinese censorship requests (遵守中国审查要求的西方公司)</a>, because those cowards retract their claims afterwards.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some sample posts that are not about Western companies:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://insults.cn/posts/4747/" class="bare">https://insults.cn/posts/4747/</a> NBA辱华事件是怎么回事？NBA莫雷辱华事件！ (What happened to the NBA insult to China? NBA Morey insulting China incident!) about <a href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">LeBron James opposes Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (2019)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://insults.cn/posts/60695/" class="bare">https://insults.cn/posts/60695/</a> 如何判断一个老外夸中国，是发自真心，还是财富密码？ (How to judge whether a foreigner praises China from his sincerity or the code of wealth?) is about <a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://insults.cn/posts/64035/" class="bare">https://insults.cn/posts/64035/</a> 卖国求荣许秀中个人简历：留学生中的败类！汉奸中的“佼佼者”！西方媒体眼中的“宝藏女孩”！ is about <a href="#vicky-xu">Vicky Xu (许秀中)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://insults.cn/posts/65025/" class="bare">https://insults.cn/posts/65025/</a> notepad++辱华事件：作者Don HO在推特上公开发表辱华言论 (Notepad++ insulting China incident: author Don HO publicly published insulting remarks on Twitter) about <a href="#notepad">Notepad++</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://insults.cn/posts/64915/" class="bare">https://insults.cn/posts/64915/</a> 无脑黑中国，孙向文漫画辱华是为了自己要入日本籍，但他至今仍没有如愿 is about <a href="#sun-xiangwen">Sun Xiangwen (孙向文)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="shina"><a class="anchor" href="#shina"></a><a class="link" href="#shina">5.11.3.1.2. Shina (zhina, 支那)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shina_(word" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shina_(word</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/支那" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/支那</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Derogatory or humorous way to refer China. Occurrences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#zhina-wiki">Zhina Wiki (支纳维基, politically incorrect wiki)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A variant sound "Chi Na" is also seen at Chinazi (赤纳粹) from <a href="#nazi">Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="internet-number-slang"><a class="anchor" href="#internet-number-slang"></a><a class="link" href="#internet-number-slang">5.11.3.1.3. Internet number slang (网络数字语言)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Internet_slang#Numeronyms" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Internet_slang#Numeronyms</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/网络数字语言#2" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/网络数字语言#2</a> on <a href="#baidu">Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websites-secret-meaning-urls" class="bare">https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websites-secret-meaning-urls</a> highlights how numeric emails and URLs are especially popular in China, in part due to the ASCII/West-centrism of web standards: <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-126-com-and-why-are-they-the-owner-of-millions-of-good-domain-names/answer/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-is-126-com-and-why-are-they-the-owner-of-millions-of-good-domain-names/answer/Ciro-Santilli</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Examples in this page:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#nine-nine-six-icu">996.ICU (2019)</a> is an example that is not phonetic, but just about meaning</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>六四 used to refer to <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.12321.cn/web" class="bare">https://www.12321.cn/web</a> and <a href="http://12377.cn" class="bare">http://12377.cn</a> from <a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a> are likely examples where older well known official phone numbers were just directly converted to URLs</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.fluentu.com/blog/chinese/2017/10/16/chinese-number-slang/" class="bare">https://www.fluentu.com/blog/chinese/2017/10/16/chinese-number-slang/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-does-126-and-163-mean-in-Chinese-language" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-does-126-and-163-mean-in-Chinese-language</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="personal-questions-about-ciro-santilli"><a class="anchor" href="#personal-questions-about-ciro-santilli"></a><a class="link" href="#personal-questions-about-ciro-santilli">5.12. Personal questions about Ciro Santilli (关于三西猴的问题)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="has-ciro-santilli-you-ever-lived-in-china"><a class="anchor" href="#has-ciro-santilli-you-ever-lived-in-china"></a><a class="link" href="#has-ciro-santilli-you-ever-lived-in-china">5.12.1. Has Ciro Santilli you ever lived in China? (三西猴住过中国吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not as of 2019, he has only visited once in 2012, and it was <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">amazingly beautiful</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Ciro_Santilli_with_a_stone_carved_Budai_in_the_Feilai_Feng_caves_near_the_Lingyin_Temple_in_Hangzhou_in_2012.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Ciro Santilli with a stone carved Budai in the Feilai Feng caves near the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou in 2012" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 56. Ciro Santilli with a stone carved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budai">Budai (布袋和尚)</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maitreya_and_disciples_carving_in_Feilai_Feng_Caves.jpg">Feilai Feng caves (飞来峰)</a> near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin_Temple">Lingyin Temple (灵隐寺)</a> in Hangzhou taken during his legendary 2012 touristic trip to China. Will he ever be able to go to China again to re-experience such marvelous locations? If the CCP falls before he dies, and if the statue hasn’t been destroyed by the commies, Ciro will return to that exact spot and take a second picture. How will he look like?</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But he doesn’t think it is a good idea for him to do that now, in case his Visa got accepted, because he is not interested in learning about the Chinese jail system! :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He knows that if you don’t mind contributing to making <a href="#war">WW3</a> deadlier and shut up and obey the CCP, China is already a fine place to live as much as any other developing country.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="would-ciro-santilli-like-to-live-in-china"><a class="anchor" href="#would-ciro-santilli-like-to-live-in-china"></a><a class="link" href="#would-ciro-santilli-like-to-live-in-china">5.12.1.1. Would Ciro Santilli like to live in China? (三西猴想住在中国吗？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If the dictatorship ends, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> would like to <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">migrate to China</a> if given a decent job to help China develop and become awesomer.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Before the Dictatorship, Ciro likely won’t be able to enter/it wouldn’t be a good idea: <a href="#would-ciro-santilli-be-able-to-visit-china-before-the-ccp-ends">Would Ciro Santilli be able to visit China before the CCP ends? (三西猴能否在中共结束之前访问中国？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And it is immoral to help make dictatorships richer by working for their companies: <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">What should Western countries do about China? (西方国家应该怎么对待中国？)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="would-ciro-santilli-be-able-to-visit-china-before-the-ccp-ends"><a class="anchor" href="#would-ciro-santilli-be-able-to-visit-china-before-the-ccp-ends"></a><a class="link" href="#would-ciro-santilli-be-able-to-visit-china-before-the-ccp-ends">5.12.1.2. Would Ciro Santilli be able to visit China before the CCP ends? (三西猴能否在中共结束之前访问中国？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It would be interesting to apply for a VISA to find out.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But Ciro won’t do it because it is too risky that it would be a waste of Ciro’s precious <a href="#better-to-do">time and money</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Firstly, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45812399">Jamal Khashoggi</a> taught us that walking into enemy into consulates of enemy countries is a bad idea.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then, even if the VISA were accepted, Ciro could still be turned back on entering the country, thus wasting the flight time and money. This could either be a genius plot to waste the money of enemies of the state, or due to a crappy divided IT system between the border control and the VISA people.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Finally, even after the border, there is still the possibility that Ciro could be stopped in the country half-way through the visit and sent back, or be interrogated for a few days, or less likely murdered with poison.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Therefore, if you think that living in China is fundamental to understand it, please just explain what you think one can learn from the experience instead. Do you really need to live there to see its censorship machine working? It would arguably be harder to see it from the inside.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">What should pro-democracy Chinese living in China do about the dictatorship? 想要民主住在中国大陆的人应该干什么？</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/93" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/93</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="is-ciro-santilli-chinese"><a class="anchor" href="#is-ciro-santilli-chinese"></a><a class="link" href="#is-ciro-santilli-chinese">5.12.2. Is Ciro Santilli Chinese? (三西猴是中国人吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/ciro-santilli" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/ciro-santilli</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It makes <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> smile when <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> consider he might be Chinese.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Does "<a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli</a>" sound like a Chinese name?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Would a Chinese person write this tutorial primarly in English?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Would a Chinese person <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">speak such obviously shit Chinese</a>?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Think, wumao, think!!!</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And it does not matter: <a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>But <a href="#why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much">his wife is</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese"><a class="anchor" href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese"></a><a class="link" href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">5.12.3. Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? (三西猴会说中文吗？)</a></h4>
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<p>As of 2019, oral enough for daily things, but not understand most natural casual dinner conversation or watch TV series, because they go too quickly into vocabulary subject areas that he doesn’t know. And obviously, using <a href="#slang">slangs</a> just makes things really hard.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>When it matters, and with some patience, he can make himself understood though with <a href="https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/">some analogies</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190908144612/https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/">archive</a>) and a dictionary.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>From the HSK vocabulary list, he estimates that he is definitely HSK 3, but not quite HSK 4. This would likely equate A2/B1 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages">European system</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Phonetics wise, Ciro can’t distinguish or produce a few sounds, notably <code>-ing</code> vs <code>-in</code> and his off-tone rate is high, but it tends to not matter at all compared to his lack of vocabulary. Except for his <a href="#wife">mother-in-law</a>, who sometimes does not understand it at all without correct tones!</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro reads with <a href="https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen" class="bare">https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen</a> after <a href="https://www.perapera.org/">Perapera</a> died when he wants to learn new words/has patience/something is very important, and can basically understand everything in that way. TODO perapera support stopped in 2021: <a href="https://www.perapera.org/plugins/" class="bare">https://www.perapera.org/plugins/</a> and since browsers don’t have stable API’s it very quickly stopped working for everyone. Alternatives asked at: <a href="https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/78268/on-mouse-hover-pop-up-chinese-dictionary-browser-extension-alternative-to-perape/" class="bare">https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/78268/on-mouse-hover-pop-up-chinese-dictionary-browser-extension-alternative-to-perape/</a> <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde">Zhongwen</a> worked, source at <a href="https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen" class="bare">https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen</a></p>
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<p>When he has no patience or for larger not very important chunks of text though, he reads with Google Translate as it tends to work, and then if there is an important sentence that was translated to garbage with Perapera.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro writes with a mixture of <a href="https://www.pleco.com/">Pleco</a>, Google translate and Googling to see if Chinese actually say the sentences that way, never Google translate alone as it would be too imprecise.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro really wishes he could learn more Chinese. Ciro really loves the Chinese language. But he has other more important endeavors at the moment. There simply aren’t enough hours in a day.</p>
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<p>Spoken Chinese is in Ciro’s opinion a relatively easy language to learn from scratch, because word formation is so often logical:, e.g.:</p>
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<p>volcano = fire + mountain: 火山(huo shan)</p>
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<p>train = fire + car: 火车 (huo che), a reference to old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotive">steam locomotives</a></p>
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</ul>
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<p>and there is no useless crap like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_conjugation">verb grammatical conjugation</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender">grammatical gender</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural">plural inflection</a>, capitalization, etc. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_sine_flexione">latino sine flexione</a> anyone?)</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro <a href="#characters">hasn’t tried to learn characters</a> because <a href="#chinese-characters-are-insane">too much effort</a>, but he did learn some of the most common ones without trying.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro initially learnt from book that come with audio recordings in the first 6-months to 1 year in 2010, but that got impossibly boring afterward, so he later moved to just basically talking as much as possible non-important things to <a href="#why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much">his wife in Chinese</a>, and whenever he reaches one that he doesn’t know that seems useful, he Plecos it up or just 怎么说 to his <a href="#wife">Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a> and then Pleco.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It should also be mentioned that Ciro also feels that it would be better if all countries more officially adopted English as an international language that everyone should learn for reasons explained at: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/having-more-than-one-natural-language-is-bad-for-the-world" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/having-more-than-one-natural-language-is-bad-for-the-world</a></p>
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<h5 id="chinese-characters-are-insane"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-characters-are-insane"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-characters-are-insane">5.12.3.1. Chinese characters are insane (汉字是疯狂的)</a></h5>
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<p>Maybe the <a href="#ccp">commies</a> for once <a href="#richer">did something good</a> by introducing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters">simplified Chinese characters (简化字)</a>?</p>
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<p>But they should have gone further and reduced it to pinyin like the Korean and Vietnamese did, this will make your culture much easier to export.</p>
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<p>No foreign adult will every learn to read and write Chinese unless they are completely obsessed by the culture or need it as part of their jobs. And even then, they will avoid it at all costs, because life is just too short!</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furigana">furigana</a> also comes to mind. The characters are so insane that you need to a well specified and widely used phonetic reading aid, especially for teenagers, but likely not only in case of rarer characters! There’s even an HTML tag for that for God’s sake: <a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-ruby-element">the HTML Ruby tag</a>.</p>
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<p>Yes, ideograms are:</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calligraphy">beautiful</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/2003/can-chinese-readers-scan-large-amounts-of-text-faster-more-accurately-than-their">maybe you can read faster</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts">vertical text (纵排)</a> is beautiful.</p>
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<p>the top to bottom aspect is obviously due to the binding of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_and_wooden_slips">bamboo and wooden slips</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/简牍">简牍</a>)</p>
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<p>TODO but why right to left? Left to right makes more sense as you don’t put your hand on top of the most recent ink: <a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Chinese-characters-individually-written-from-left-to-right-yet-in-ancient-times-sentences-of-Chinese-characters-were-written-and-read-from-right-to-left" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Chinese-characters-individually-written-from-left-to-right-yet-in-ancient-times-sentences-of-Chinese-characters-were-written-and-read-from-right-to-left</a></p>
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<p>but is it more efficient? <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/22104723">Zhihu</a>, <a href="https://www.quora.com/Can-literate-Chinese-people-easily-read-vertical-writing">Quora</a>).</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts#Right-to-left_horizontal_writing" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts#Right-to-left_horizontal_writing</a> also clarifies that traditional shop signs are also right to left, and it is just a sub-case of the usual right to left script, but with a single row</p>
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<p>more historically stable, and you can still read/learn more or less quickly to read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Chinese_language">texts written more than two thousand years ago</a></p>
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<p>it takes up way less horizontal space as Ciro noticed while adding bilingual captions to some of the images under <a href="https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media" class="bare">https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media</a> see e.g.: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xidan_Wall.jpg" class="bare">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xidan_Wall.jpg</a></p>
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<p>on the other hand, you have to use slightly larger fonts for Chinese, because the characters are so dense that if they are not tall enough they become unreadable. Still, the area is much smaller without a doubt.</p>
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</ul>
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</li>
<li>
<p>single character emoticons like "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiong">囧</a>", before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons_(Unicode_block)">Emoticons Unicode block</a>! Yes, when your language has a character so useless that it becomes an emoticon, maybe you should start to worry that something went wrong somewhere…​ See also <a href="#tank-man-emoticon">[tank-man-emoticon]</a>.</p>
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</ul>
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<p>but they just take too much time for any sane person adult to learn, it’s harder than C++!</p>
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<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> smirked when he came across the character "蒄" in Pleco, and the translation was: "meaning unknown (herb mentioned in old books)". Yes, at the word level, the same like exists in phonetic systems, but that it takes up a modern dictionary and Unicode slot is still funny.</p>
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<p>He also smiles very broadly whenever <a href="#wife">his wife</a> finds a character she doesn’t remember. Or when she spends 20 seconds tabbing to find the correct character for some Proper name she wants to type in pinyin. It feels good to be right.</p>
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<p>Posts that express similar ideas:</p>
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<p><a href="#evil-chinese-characters-by-ted-chiang">Evil Chinese Characters by Ted Chiang (坏汉字由Ted Chiang)</a></p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chinese_character_extreme.svg" loading="lazy" alt="Chinese character extreme" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 57. The "fictional" Chinese character "Dou" from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncyclopedia">Uncyclopedia</a> is roughly translated as "Impossibly complex pictogram-based writing system that takes a person a thousand thousand years to learn." and illustrates well why pictograms are a bad idea. <a href="https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/File:Chinese_character_extreme.svg">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Sweet_brown_chinese_characters_meme.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Sweet brown chinese characters meme" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 58. The Sweet Brown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_Nobody_Got_Time_for_That">Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That</a> meme (<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweet-brown-aint-nobody-got-time-for-that">knowyourmeme</a>) fits perfectly into how Ciro feels about learning Chinese characters.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Sweet_brown_chinese_characters_meme_zh.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Sweet brown chinese characters meme zh" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 59. Translation of the above.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chinese_typewriter.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Chinese typewriter" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 60. Chinese typewriter. As you would expect, it is insanely complex, and slow to type with. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_typewriter_at_Deutsche_Technikmuseum.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcui85b4EE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcui85b4EE</a> RARE Japanese Toshiba Typewriter. Types in Japanese, Chinese + English. Toshiba Typewriter Model BW-2112.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JZcui85b4EE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUEUth7qjc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUEUth7qjc</a> Commercial for IBM’s Selectric Typewriter 1960’s Contrast with the above.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vNUEUth7qjc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_cbW5JK9WM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_cbW5JK9WM</a> "The most complex Chinese character" by Vladimir Skultety does a reasonable analysis of which Chinese character is the most complex</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/t_cbW5JK9WM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20230118231354im_/https://preview.redd.it/poqyf109wtca1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=1590be786687d2f40e288c86fc8769ae03deaee8" loading="lazy" alt="poqyf109wtca1" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 61. When you don’t know how to write in Chinese but still want to be festive during Lunar New Year. Source: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/10f53nl/happy_happy/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/10f53nl/happy_happy/</a></div>
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<h6 id="seal"><a class="anchor" href="#seal"></a><a class="link" href="#seal">5.12.3.1.1. Seal (印章)</a></h6>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia</a>)</p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/印章_(東亞" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/印章_(東亞</a>)</p>
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</ul>
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<p>Seals are also of course top to bottom right to left as in the traditional texts.</p>
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<h6 id="evil-chinese-characters-by-ted-chiang"><a class="anchor" href="#evil-chinese-characters-by-ted-chiang"></a><a class="link" href="#evil-chinese-characters-by-ted-chiang">5.12.3.1.2. Evil Chinese Characters by Ted Chiang (坏汉字由Ted Chiang)</a></h6>
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<p><a href="https://www.douban.com/group/topic/162835411/" class="bare">https://www.douban.com/group/topic/162835411/</a></p>
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<p>Ciro’s <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? (三西猴会说中文吗？)</a> was mentioned in a related Zhihu answer: <a href="#zhihu-ted-chiang-answer">Answer to the Zhihu question "How do you evaluate Ted Chiang’s 'Evil Chinese Characters' essay?" "如何评价姜峯楠（Ted Chiang）在纽约客上的随笔《坏汉字》？"的回答</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="radical"><a class="anchor" href="#radical"></a><a class="link" href="#radical">5.12.4. Is Ciro Santilli a radical? (三西猴是激进分子吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Saying that someone is a radical is useless <a href="#ad-hominem">Ad hominem (訴諸人身)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you want to say something useful, give specific reasons why you think one specific thing that <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> said is incorrect.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you consider him a radical because it is unthinkable that China is not perfect?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or just because he’s trying to <a href="#keyword-attack">take down</a> some more websites that your dictatorship still does not dislike enough to block: <a href="#china-is-fine-as-it-is-stop-making-it-worse">China is fine as it is, stop making it worse (中国很好，别让它变得更糟)</a>?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Don’t you think that it is much more radical to <a href="#intolerance">be put in jail for your beliefs</a> and <a href="#censorship">silenced if you disagree with anything the government says</a>?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro doesn’t think either China or West is perfect: <a href="#western-media-has-exaggerated-reports-on-falun-gong-for-propaganda-reasons">Western media has exaggerated reports on Falun Gong for propaganda reasons (西方媒体以宣传为由夸大法轮功报道)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>He’s just listing arguments why he thinks democracy is better, e.g.: <a href="#richer">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a>, <a href="#war">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war? (为什么民主和言论自由会让中国不太可能发动战争？)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
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<p><a href="#preconceived">Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)</a></p>
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<p><a href="#bias">Ciro Santilli and this page are completely biased against the Chinese Government! (三西猴和本页完全对中国政府有偏见！)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And Ciro never gets mad. Only a slightly sad or annoyed sometimes.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>But maybe no radical ever considers themselves a radical? Hmmm…​</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or maybe: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc">The Dark Knight - Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn</a>?</p>
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<h4 id="ciro-santilli-is-stupid"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santilli-is-stupid"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santilli-is-stupid">5.12.5. Ciro Santilli is stupid (三西猴是个傻瓜)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ad-hominem">Ad hominem (訴諸人身)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>D E E P: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/you-are-stupid-argument" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/you-are-stupid-argument</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Feel free to publish any proof of your own incredible intelligence.</p>
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<h5 id="ad-hominem"><a class="anchor" href="#ad-hominem"></a><a class="link" href="#ad-hominem">5.12.5.1. Ad hominem (訴諸人身)</a></h5>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/訴諸人身" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/訴諸人身</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="is-ciro-santilli-a-sjw"><a class="anchor" href="#is-ciro-santilli-a-sjw"></a><a class="link" href="#is-ciro-santilli-a-sjw">5.12.6. Is Ciro Santilli a SJW?</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>SJW: there is a seed of SJW in <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One major difference between Ciro and the stereotypical SJW is that he never engage in lengthy discussions as per <a href="#reply-policy">Ciro Santilli’s reply policy (三西猴的回答政策)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He limits himself to listening as much as he can to learn new arguments.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So the rationale of his actions is no_ to convince anyone, but rather:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>increase the monetary cost of censorship by binding politics to tech with <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>group up like-minded people who don’t like <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#preconceived">Ciro Santilli has a preconceived opinion about China that cannot be changed (三西猴对中国成见很深，无法改变)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="are-you-a-sjw"><a class="anchor" href="#are-you-a-sjw"></a><a class="link" href="#are-you-a-sjw">5.12.6.1. Are you a SJW?</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Moved to <a href="#is-ciro-santilli-a-sjw">Is Ciro Santilli a SJW?</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="china-watcher"><a class="anchor" href="#china-watcher"></a><a class="link" href="#china-watcher">5.12.6.2. Is Ciro Santilli a China watcher? (Pekingologist, 三西猴是中国观察者吗？, Intelligence Analyst)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_watcher" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_watcher</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_analysis" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_analysis</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/情报分析" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/情报分析</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yup. <a href="https://twitter.com/BadChinaTake/status/1291401838022012931/photo/1">Nope</a>? Well, Ciro’s what you’ll get on <a href="#github">GitHub</a> until someone better comes along.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="does-ciro-santilli-hate-china"><a class="anchor" href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china"></a><a class="link" href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">5.12.7. Does Ciro Santilli hate China? (三西猴讨厌中国吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the contrary. China has his favorite:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#restaurants">food</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">language</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#music">Chinese Music (中国音乐)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>history</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>nature</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>culture, notably:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>intense respect for older people. Whenever Ciro was with his <a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">mother-in-law</a> and asked for help from young Chinese people, they were extremely nice.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is hard to understand how the same people have not managed to speak up when <a href="#flg-persecution">70 million old ladies were put into jail when Falun Gong was banned</a>. Only the extreme fear of also going to jail could explain it. Living in China is living in constant fear if you can think for yourself.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>enormous importance given to education. One must not forget however: grades are useless, and all that matters is how much you improve society</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And because of that: <a href="#would-ciro-santilli-like-to-live-in-china">Would Ciro Santilli like to live in China? (三西猴想住在中国吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup">Bjarne</a> said:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro only focus here on negative things to provide content that will <a href="#keyword-attack">activate the Great Firewall</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A small poem:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>持华反党<br>
爱国恨党<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Support the Chinese people, oppose the Party<br>
Love the country, hate the Party<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The second sentence well known: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/e8g3qv/爱国恨党love_china_hate_ccp/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/e8g3qv/爱国恨党love_china_hate_ccp/</a></p>
</div>
<div id="yuyuan-garden" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Yuyuan_garden_door.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Yuyuan garden door" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 62. Round gate at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden">Yu Garden</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/豫园">豫园</a>) in Shanghai. The large characters on top read (<a href="#chinese-characters-are-insane">left to right</a>) "流翠" TODO not sure about the second character, understand reference. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> thinks that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_garden">Chinese gardens</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中國園林">中国园林</a>) are amazing!!! <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shanghai_-_YuYuan_Gardens_and_Old_Town_(584867794).jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="if-you-are-against-the-ccp-then-you-are-against-china"><a class="anchor" href="#if-you-are-against-the-ccp-then-you-are-against-china"></a><a class="link" href="#if-you-are-against-the-ccp-then-you-are-against-china">5.12.7.1. If you are against the CCP, then you are against China (如果你反对中共，那么你就是反对中国)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is actually a key <a href="#flg-cult">cult</a> characteristic: <a href="#the-group-is-the-only-way">Insistence that the group is THE ONLY WAY (Orange Papers, 坚持他们的团体是唯一的方式生活, 橙色文件)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do all Chinese citizens support the CCP?</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">Most Chinese people like their dictatorship (中国大众支持他们的独裁)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#dissidents">Dissidents (持不同政见者)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you are against Trump or Biden, does it mean that you are against the USA? So every American is against the USA?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is what <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorships</a> want you to believe.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="chinese-traditional-painting"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-traditional-painting"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-traditional-painting">5.12.7.2. Chinese traditional painting (中国传统绘画)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Moved to: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/chinese-traditional-painting" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/chinese-traditional-painting</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#museum">The best East Asian museums outside of China (中国以外最好的东亚博物馆)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much"><a class="anchor" href="#why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much"></a><a class="link" href="#why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much">5.12.7.3. Why does Ciro Santilli love China so much? (为什么三西猴喜欢中国那么多？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> does not <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">believe in reincarnation</a>, but sometimes he’s tempted to.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is interesting how different people get <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">different impressions</a>!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of course, the fact that his wife is Chinese and <a href="#flg-bias">does Falun Gong</a> may or may not have played a role in it :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It was like this: Ciro started getting interested in Chinese culture, then he started hanging out with Chinese people, and then he started hanging out with his wife!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So yes, it is a chicken and egg type of thing. The fact that she is one of the most intelligent, morally upright, cute, and "never give up" person I know may have helped me choose too.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="selfish"><a class="anchor" href="#selfish"></a><a class="link" href="#selfish">5.12.8. Ciro Santilli’s China freedom campaign is selfish (三西猴是自私的)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-bias">Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong just because his wife and mother-in-law do it? (三西猴是否仅仅因为他的妻子和岳母就支持法轮功？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#throne">Ciro Santilli’s claim to the Qing Dynasty throne (三西猴清朝皇帝觊觎)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#harm-programmers">Does Ciro Santilli want to harm the Chinese programmers? 三西猴想要伤害中国程序员吗？</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="famous"><a class="anchor" href="#famous"></a><a class="link" href="#famous">5.12.8.1. Ciro Santilli is doing his China freedom campaign to become famous (三西猴正在做他的中国自由运动以成名)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No, he am a selfless human being, only concerned with the greater well being of humankind.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More serious answer:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>he believes in this. As evidence, it has limiting effects on his technological career: <a href="#does-your-employer-support-this">Does your employer support this project? (你的雇主支持此项目吗？)</a>, and he doesn’t think he can/wants to become a politician in China if the CCP ever falls</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the more famous Ciro is, the more impact he will have in the future</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the more famous Ciro is, the more feedback he have that what he’s been doing has been working</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Keyword: attention whore.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Duplicate pool:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/5" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/5</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="ciro-santilli-is-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-because-it-makes-him-feel-important-c"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santilli-is-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-because-it-makes-him-feel-important-c"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santilli-is-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-because-it-makes-him-feel-important-c">5.12.8.1.1. Ciro Santilli is doing his China freedom campaign because it makes him feel important (C三西猴正在进行他的中国自由运动，因为这让他觉得自己很重要)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See: <a href="#famous">Ciro Santilli is doing his China freedom campaign to become famous (三西猴正在做他的中国自由运动以成名)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ciro-santilli-is-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-to-vent-off-his-anger"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santilli-is-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-to-vent-off-his-anger"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santilli-is-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-to-vent-off-his-anger">5.12.8.2. Ciro Santilli is doing his China freedom campaign to vent off his anger (三西猴正在进行他的中国自由运动以发泄他的愤怒)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No, he is not angry at all, see also: <a href="#harm-programmers">Does Ciro Santilli want to harm the Chinese programmers? 三西猴想要伤害中国程序员吗？</a>.</p>
</div>
<span id="cia-funding">
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="funded-by-cia"><a class="anchor" href="#funded-by-cia"></a><a class="link" href="#funded-by-cia">5.12.8.3. Is Ciro Santilli’s china-dictatorship campaign funded or otherwise supported by some organization? 谁收买三西猴散布关于中国的谣言？</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sure, the CIA sends <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> 10 thousand USD checks from time to time, but that doesn’t change at all what he would be doing.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And sometimes the NSA, FBI, MI6, MI5, Mossad, Al-Qaeda and ISIS also pitch in a bit depending on their needs.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/funded-by-cia-argument" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/funded-by-cia-argument</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just kidding.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A shady supporting organization might require that he does not disclose their support, so maybe the best answer is that you will never know for sure.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of course, a hidden support would represent a reputation hit for both such organizations and for Ciro, which makes it less likely that I would have accepted or had such an offer.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also consider Ciro’s motivation. If your <a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">mother in law were put into jail unfairly for 15 days</a>, for following the same religion that <a href="#flg-bias">your wife follows</a>, and if you had a social media presence, wouldn’t you be tempted to do the same?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What about you, are you funded by the CCP?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The fact that Ciro Santilli is obviously a real full time software engineer based on his open source contributions, and so does not need government funding, is perhaps the single greatest advantage of not having carried this campaign anonymously:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It’s nothing world breaking, but it is at a level where it simply cannot be faked.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/48a95bf57a16b85619a6ae68702d18c9a5078797/FAQ.md#flg-has-been-funded-by-the-us-government-at-least-once-therefore-it-is-evil" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/48a95bf57a16b85619a6ae68702d18c9a5078797/FAQ.md#flg-has-been-funded-by-the-us-government-at-least-once-therefore-it-is-evil</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Label: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/funded-by-cia-argument" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/funded-by-cia-argument</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="would-ciro-santilli-be-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-if-he-was-in-china"><a class="anchor" href="#would-ciro-santilli-be-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-if-he-was-in-china"></a><a class="link" href="#would-ciro-santilli-be-doing-his-china-freedom-campaign-if-he-was-in-china">5.12.9. Would Ciro Santilli be doing his China freedom campaign if he was in China? (如果他在中国，三西猴会做他的中国自由运动吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not with his real name attached to it, see also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">What should pro-democracy Chinese living in China do about the dictatorship? 想要民主住在中国大陆的人应该干什么？</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="does-your-employer-support-this"><a class="anchor" href="#does-your-employer-support-this"></a><a class="link" href="#does-your-employer-support-this">5.12.9.1. Does your employer support this project? (你的雇主支持此项目吗？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>My employer has nothing to do with this.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He doesn’t approve or disapprove of the Chinese government or of my private actions.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The only thing that my employer <em>does</em> believe in is that employees can have their own political opinions, and that this should not affect hiring decisions.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Obviously, this action limits my ability to lead high profile deals with China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also I’m quite curious if this would limit my ability to go to China for business, but I haven’t applied for a visa since I’ve started this. It likely wouldn’t be a good idea for me to go to China :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But my employer believes that inclusion and non-discrimination are more valuable.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I will always do my best to not let my personal opinions affect my professional decisions, as that would be unfair to my employer.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="better-to-do"><a class="anchor" href="#better-to-do"></a><a class="link" href="#better-to-do">5.12.10. Doesn’t Ciro Santilli have anything better to do than pissing off China? (除了反对中共以外，三西猴有没有别的更好的事儿要作吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 1989, besides <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> and <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s birth, a beautiful thing called the World Wide Web was invented!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Internet gives everyone the magic power of writing something, and having million people read it for free!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is how much time Ciro spends on this project to give you an idea:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>every day or two, some wumao or anti-CCP person sends a message, to which Ciro replies, and sometimes does an update</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Ciro used to check <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China</a> daily amongst many other programming subs, and all major bad news show up there. See also: <a href="#anti-ccp-info-sources">Anti-CCP information sources (反中共信息来源)</a>. But he stopped in 2022, even that was not worth the time.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>when something bad enough comes up, Ciro might spend some time updating <a href="#keyword-attack">his keyword attack</a>. He used to check <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/sensitive-words-series/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/sensitive-words-series/</a> by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a>, to help, but hasn’t needed mor recently. He’s only been updating it on Stack Overflow and GitHub attacks these days.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then Ciro just contributes to programming websites exactly as he would if he weren’t making this campaign, and voila.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What has happened more and more is that Ciro has been expanding resources by short burst rather than continuously. This began especially at the end of 2019 and start of 2020 was such as hot year with <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a> and <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But Ciro only works on this when his brain was too tired of technical stuff and unable to do more, or as a brain warm up routine in the morning. So it doesn’t take any work time away from him.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Telling the CCP to fuck off is surprisingly relaxing, you should try it some time too. It uses a different part of your brain other than the programming one. It is, one could say, an art form.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="is-ciro-anti-communism"><a class="anchor" href="#is-ciro-anti-communism"></a><a class="link" href="#is-ciro-anti-communism">5.12.11. Is Ciro Santilli against Communism/Socialism in general or just against the Chinese Communist Party specifically? Ciro Santilli 是普遍反对共产主义/社会主义还是专门反对中国共产党？</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Anti-dictatorship and censorship, not anti-communist in general. In <a href="#github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">this project</a>, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> has sometimes used the word "communist/commie" loosely as a shortcut for "supporter of the CCP", but it does not extend by default to communism in general.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most importantly, China is far from being socialist or communist. It is just a dictatorship with savage capitalism. Exactly like <a href="#nazi">Nazi Germany</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is true that the CCP takes greater control of corporations, as shown e.g. in the <a href="#xi-jinping-tech-crachdown-2021">Tech Crackdown of 2021</a>, which is also something Ciro Santilli has asked for in the West, see also: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/governments-have-lost-all-power-to-companies" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/governments-have-lost-all-power-to-companies</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But to call it communist or socialist is a joke. There are no big specific benefits to citizens that are not already present in capitalist countries. It is nothing like the Soviet Union, where people had actual job guarantees, and everything provieded for (in theory).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And Ciro has a fundamental and irrational belief that we should not <a href="#overlook-human-rights-for-profit">violate human rights to reach those goals</a>, which is why he opposes the CCP (and others who violate human rights).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, being in a dictatorship is very risky business, see: <a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a>, <a href="#dictatorship-variability">Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And there are <a href="#i-like-my-dictatorship">concrete advantages to dictatorships</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Classify Ciro’s techno-political goals as you will:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>endgame: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/unconditional-basic-income" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/unconditional-basic-income</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>very conservative and clearly sustainable neargame: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/free-gifted-education" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/free-gifted-education</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A possible way to get closer to either: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/electronic-voting" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/electronic-voting</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Anything in between however, he’s not sure about.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="people-in-china-have-already-considered-democracy-and-rejected-it"><a class="anchor" href="#people-in-china-have-already-considered-democracy-and-rejected-it"></a><a class="link" href="#people-in-china-have-already-considered-democracy-and-rejected-it">5.13. People in China have already considered democracy, and rejected it (中国人已经考虑要不要民主, 到底决定不要了)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>OK, shall we put that to an anonymous vote just to make sure?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dear sir or madam: do you want more control over your government? y/n</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Oops, I forgot that <a href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">proposing such a vote would put in you jail</a>, never mind.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="violence"><a class="anchor" href="#violence"></a><a class="link" href="#violence">5.14. Would it be right to use violence to overthrow the CCP? (用暴力推翻中共正确吗？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In an ideal world, Ciro Santilli is of course "against violence".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But what if you could prevent a lot of future violence with some violence today?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ah, the eternal question which only God can answer:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-quote-The-end-justifies-the-means" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-quote-The-end-justifies-the-means</a> "What is the origin of the quote 'The end justifies the means?'"</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism">Consequentialism</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem">Trolley problem</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance">Nonviolent-resistance</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you really think that the communists will step down if you ask them nicely enough? Even after <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A quote from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)">V for Vendetta (2005)</a> comes to mind:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Q: If they do, what do you think will happen [the people protest against their Government]?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A: What usually happens when people <a href="#second-amendment">without guns</a> stand up to people with guns.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div id="v-for-vendetta" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcoBv6ibh8M" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcoBv6ibh8M</a> V for Vendetta (2005) "What you think will happen" scene.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TcoBv6ibh8M?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How do you think the CCP or any other party got into power and maintained that power in the first place? Obviously <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution">through violence</a>. And likely due to earlier <a href="#not-chinese">Japanese invasions which weakened the Guomindang</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And the CCP actually uses "the ends justify the means" as an argument to justify its own actions: <a href="#overlook-human-rights-for-profit">As long as China is developing economically, it is fine to violate the human rights of a few million people (只要经济好，我不在乎人权)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The question of if anything is morally right or wrong makes no sense. All that matters is: what is the government that maximizes the happines of its own people, and who has the power to do what? <a href="#richer">Getting richer,</a> is part of the equation, but so is <a href="#rule-of-law">not being constantly affraid that you will be randomly put in jail for no good reason</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you do decide to strike though, <a href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">stay safe, gather your forces on the Internet, and only strike when victory seems certain</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For "violence is illegal" arguments, see also: <a href="#follow-the-law">Falun Gong is illegal in China, we must follow the law (法轮功在中国是非法的，我们必须遵守法律)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Baby_Hitler_vs_5_million_Jews_trolley_problem.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Baby Hitler vs 5 million Jews trolley problem" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 63. One baby <a href="#nazi">Hitler</a> or 5 Million Jews <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem">trolley problem</a> illustrates well the moral dilemma of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism">"the ends justify the means"</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/What_Chinese_men_really_want.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="What Chinese men really want" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 64. Translation: What women think men want (a kiss). What men actually want (decapitating <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>). The image from the left comes from the Japanese manga <a href="https://mangakakalot.com/manga/vm922794">Okaeri Alice</a> according to Reddit comments. The image to the right is based on an illustration of the decapitation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI">Louis XVI</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/路易十六">路易十六</a>) during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution">French Revolution</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法国大革命">法国大革命</a>), but with Louis' head replaced by Xi Jinping’s head. An original can be found at: <a href="https://castinet.castilleja.org/users/pmckee/frenchrev/violentphase.html" class="bare">https://castinet.castilleja.org/users/pmckee/frenchrev/violentphase.html</a>. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/m8qwz4/真正的需要/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="second-amendment"><a class="anchor" href="#second-amendment"></a><a class="link" href="#second-amendment">5.14.1. Second amendment (美國憲法第二修正案)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美國憲法第二修正案" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美國憲法第二修正案</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If China had the second amendment in 1989, the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> would not be in power in 1990.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#dictatorship-variability">It is better to have a bit of random shootings every day, than to have a full scale revolution every 20 years</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The availability of guns however only explains part of the problem of gun violence in the USA: the other huge thing that must be addressed is to <a href="#western-society-is-extremely-unequal">reduce inequality</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A somewhat popular <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> criticism of gun violence in the USA (+ other problems) in song/poem form was brought up at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/215" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/215</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>歌颂美国</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>自由美利坚，<br>
枪击每一天；<br>
白恨黑卑微，<br>
黑仇黄有钱。<br>
世界第一强，<br>
川普再号强；<br>
新冠启示录，<br>
群体免疫法；<br>
比强还更强，<br>
世界一病夫。<br>
如今五十万，<br>
耶稣爱美国，<br>
与民天国欢。<br>
人命如草芥，<br>
不及股市贵；<br>
战火连中东，<br>
此乃真民主。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related discussions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/10360" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/10360</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/346383581" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/346383581</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO origin?</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="dictatorship"><a class="anchor" href="#dictatorship"></a><a class="link" href="#dictatorship">5.15. Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro is using the word in an slightly extended/joking sense.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe "authoritarian" is a more precise term, but it is just too much of a mouthful.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In particular, dictatorships are harder to sustain than authoritarianism, since it generally implies even less freedom, and a single leader whose death can destabilize everything.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The CCP is more like a social class with a large number of members and various sub-layers, and it is therefore much harder to take down on the other hand.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dictatorship is becoming <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-party-term-limit.html">more and more precise under Xi</a> however.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a> admits it and put it into the constitution: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_democratic_dictatorship">People’s democratic dictatorship 人民民主专政</a>, so funny.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Well known <a href="#evil-west">Evil Western media</a> that also call China a dictatorship:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-01-29 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/coronavirus-china-government.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/coronavirus-china-government.html</a> "Coronavirus Spreads, and the World Pays for China’s Dictatorship"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-03-04 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/04/xi-jinping-from-president-to-china-new-dictator" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/04/xi-jinping-from-president-to-china-new-dictator</a> "Xi Jinping’s power play: from president to China’s new dictator?"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-10-11 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/cb2c8578-adb4-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e130" class="bare">https://www.ft.com/content/cb2c8578-adb4-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e130</a> "Under Xi Jinping, China is turning back to dictatorship"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Further discussions about this useless terminology question:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-China-a-dictatorship" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Is-China-a-dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack"><a class="anchor" href="#where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack"></a><a class="link" href="#where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack">5.15.1. Where can I find good words for a keyword attack? (我在哪里可以找到关键字攻击的好词？)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>List of blacklisted keywords in China</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blacklisted_keywords_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blacklisted_keywords_in_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国网络审查" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国网络审查</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/jasonqng/chinese-keywords" class="bare">https://github.com/jasonqng/chinese-keywords</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/raw/master/complete-gfw-rulebook-for-wikipedia-v3.0.pdf">Complete GFW Rulebook for Wikipedia v3.0</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a> This is was an amazing source, extremely comprehensive and up-to-date, but the series was stopped in September 2018:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/word-of-the-week/?view=all" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/word-of-the-week/?view=all</a> word of the week, ran from Mar 7, 2012 to Sep 20, 2018</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/cdt-censorship-digest/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/cdt-censorship-digest/</a> "CDT CENSORSHIP DIGEST", monthly version of Word of the week started on Feb 10, 2020</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/directives-from-the-ministry-of-truth/?view=all" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/directives-from-the-ministry-of-truth/?view=all</a> censorship directive reports</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/category/有关部门/真理部指令/?view=all" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/category/有关部门/真理部指令/?view=all</a> chinese version</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Main_Page" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Main_Page</a> a wiki version of the censored word lists, the ,"<a href="#caonima">Grass-mud horse</a> index" (cao3n2ma3 草泥马), with a censored term of the week section.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/sensitive-words-series/?view=all" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/sensitive-words-series/?view=all</a> sensitive words list</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fun 2015 ebook: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/decoding-chinese-internet-pdf-download" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/decoding-chinese-internet-pdf-download</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Has received funding from US Government to some extent: <a href="https://www.ned.org/china-digital-times-provides-crucial-insight-and-information-about-china-and-the-covid-19/" class="bare">https://www.ned.org/china-digital-times-provides-crucial-insight-and-information-about-china-and-the-covid-19/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#censorship-monitoring">Censorship monitoring (审查监督)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#tiananmen-square-protests-keywords">Tiananmen Square Protests keywords (天安门广场抗议关键词)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="keyword-choice"><a class="anchor" href="#keyword-choice"></a><a class="link" href="#keyword-choice">5.15.1.1. How does Ciro Santilli choose keywords for the keyword attack? (三西猴如何为关键词攻击选择关键词？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I haven’t counted, but the limit for Stack Overflow is quite low, and I’m always almost at the maximum, which is about "Ciro Santilli" + 3 3-4 Chinese character events with a separator.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>These are some of my prioritization guidelines:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>recent cases receive a large prime over the raw death toll, because older cases can always be attributed to other people.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g., I’ve heard there is even some opening towards acknowledging the Great Famine, thus 烏坎事件 (and others from my previous profile names)</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>words must refer to a precise event, and must be clearly summarizable in very few chars, for increased impact, and profile name length limitations.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g. "High <a href="#corruption">corruption</a> rates, high pollution", although very serious, feel too generic.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>events that relate directly to freedom of speech receive a prime, since they can only happen in China and very few other countries.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g.: <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Non e.g.: corruption and pollution. Those are hard to quantify, and there is always an immediate reply: china GDP per capita is low, same happens in India, Brazil, etc.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Freedom of speech however, is immediately verifiable (e.g. "my <a href="#weibo">Weibo</a> was taken down"), and undeniably caused by the current central government.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>the more people affected, and the more deeply they have been affected, the more important obviously</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I am currently trying to maintain in my Stack Overflow Location a ranking of events in a single string, so that it can be easily copy pasted around. The location appears on every page if you hover over my account name, so it is likely in the HTML at least.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you think that this list can be improved, please open an issue explaining how and why.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="other-notable-keyword-attacks"><a class="anchor" href="#other-notable-keyword-attacks"></a><a class="link" href="#other-notable-keyword-attacks">5.15.2. Other notable keyword attacks (其他值得注意的关键字攻击)</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="notepad"><a class="anchor" href="#notepad"></a><a class="link" href="#notepad">5.15.2.1. Notepad++</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad++" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad++</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad++" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad++</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It might be a newbie text editors for newbie Windows users, but at least they use it to good use by doing keyword attacks:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--" class="bare">https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--</a> no mention of politics. Is it a fork or not? Someone linked to this repo from <a href="https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--/issues/391" class="bare">https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--/issues/391</a> by FuckXiJinPig8964 according to Google, but the issue was deleted obviously:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--/issues/391" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://github.com/cxasm/notepad--/issues/391</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/wip/seaB2" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/seaB2</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-10: "In October 2019 Notepad++'s GitHub issue tracker was flooded with pro-Chinese and anti-western messages after a version codenamed "Free Uyghur" (v7.8.1) was released"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/31/notepad_china_spam/" class="bare">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/31/notepad_china_spam/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dp3icm/notepad_after_voicing_their_support_for_the/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dp3icm/notepad_after_voicing_their_support_for_the/</a> "Notepad++, after voicing their support for the Uyghurs, is now being bombarded by Chinese nationalists on Github." See e.g.: <a href="https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7489" class="bare">https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7489</a> and earlier issues</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2008-03: "In March 2008 the "Boycott Beijing 2008" banner was placed on Notepad++'s SourceForge.net homepage": <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_over_the_2008_Summer_Olympics#Boycotts" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_over_the_2008_Summer_Olympics#Boycotts</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The creator appears to be a Vietnamese immigrant or descendant living in France. There are many such immigrants due to Vietnam being an ex-colony: <a href="https://github.com/donho" class="bare">https://github.com/donho</a> Also he must have good reason to dislike the commies due to similar commit bullshit in Vietnam. He was at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Diderot_University">Paris Diderot</a> in 2000: <a href="https://donho.github.io/#education" class="bare">https://donho.github.io/#education</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190424004100/https://donho.github.io/#education">archive</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="notepad-chinese-browsers-block-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#notepad-chinese-browsers-block-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#notepad-chinese-browsers-block-2020">5.15.2.1.1. Notepad++ Chinese browsers block (2020)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/notepad-plus-plus-blocked-in-china/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/notepad-plus-plus-blocked-in-china/</a> "Text editor Notepad++ banned in China after ‘Stand With Hong Kong' update" where "banned" means "the download page where they keywords are shown is now blocked in Chinese browsers". The rest of the website is still up. So no domain block due to HTTPS, browser only action for now.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is an example of <a href="#chinese-web-browser-censorship">Chinese web browser censorship (中国网页浏览器审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="what-should-all-pro-democracy-people-do-about-china"><a class="anchor" href="#what-should-all-pro-democracy-people-do-about-china"></a><a class="link" href="#what-should-all-pro-democracy-people-do-about-china">5.16. What should all pro-democracy people do about China? (所有的民主派人士应该干什么？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A propaganda slogan from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance">French Resistance</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法國抵抗運動">法国抵抗运动</a>) flyer (see also <a href="#nazi">Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a>):</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To obey is to betray.<br>
To disobey is to serve.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>服从就是背叛<br>
违抗就是服务</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Obéir c’est trahir.<br>
Désobéir c’est servir.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div id="to-obey-is-to-betray" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/To_obey_is_to_betray.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="To obey is to betray" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 65. To obey is to betray. To disobey is to server ("Obéir c’est trahir. Désobéir c’est servir" in French) flyer featuring the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Lorraine">cross of Lorraine</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/洛林十字">洛林十字</a>). <a href="#snowden">Snowden (斯诺登)</a> comes to mind. <a href="https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/images/Obéir_cest_trahir_Désobéir_cest_servir/1314227">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="civil-disobedience"><a class="anchor" href="#civil-disobedience"></a><a class="link" href="#civil-disobedience">5.16.1. Civil disobedience (公民不服從)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/公民不服從" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/公民不服從</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="lie-flat-movement"><a class="anchor" href="#lie-flat-movement"></a><a class="link" href="#lie-flat-movement">5.16.1.1. Lie Flat movement (躺平主义)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/躺平" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/躺平</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The movement notably contradicts one of the <a href="#core-socialist-values">Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)</a>: dedication (敬业).</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-07-04 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3139558/what-chinas-lie-flat-youth-and-global-climate-strikers-have-common" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3139558/what-chinas-lie-flat-youth-and-global-climate-strikers-have-common</a> What China’s ‘lie flat’ youth and global climate strikers have in common by <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good cat lying down meme: <a href="https://www.marxist.com/china-lie-flat.htm" class="bare">https://www.marxist.com/china-lie-flat.htm</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="little-girl-has-ho-hopes-for-school-video-2021"><a class="anchor" href="#little-girl-has-ho-hopes-for-school-video-2021"></a><a class="link" href="#little-girl-has-ho-hopes-for-school-video-2021">5.16.1.1.1. Little girl has ho hopes for school video (2021, 小姑娘对学校没有希望)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pgrei5/so_much_lying_flat_sass_translation_in_comments/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pgrei5/so_much_lying_flat_sass_translation_in_comments/</a> on <a href="#r-china">r/China Reddit sub</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Original poster:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>username: 11223344zslk</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>profile page: <a href="https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAA0HYKMT79Af9VeCnrjZ7m_9XrbzSR9IHG_08Cdeo5LMnbNYANllleThIZlY3BFpgC" class="bare">https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAA0HYKMT79Af9VeCnrjZ7m_9XrbzSR9IHG_08Cdeo5LMnbNYANllleThIZlY3BFpgC</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>original video <a href="#censorship">censored</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>short URL: <a href="https://v.douyin.com/d2Dq1bb/" class="bare">https://v.douyin.com/d2Dq1bb/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>full URL: <a href="https://www.douyin.com/video/7002895023582874915" class="bare">https://www.douyin.com/video/7002895023582874915</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Transcript and translation:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>你害怕开学吗？<br>
随便。<br>
对这个学校有什么期待吗？<br>
没有。<br>
为什么呢？<br>
不知道。<br>
新学期有什么新的愿望吗？<br>
呵？<br>
新学期有什么新的愿望吗？<br>
没有。<br>
没有望阿。<br>
你一点心愿都没吗？ 有没有小心愿阿？<br>
没有。<br>
希望怎么样有没有？<br>
没有希望。<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Are you afraid of starting school?<br>
Whatever.<br>
What are you looking forward in this school?<br>
Nothing.<br>
Why?<br>
I don’t know.<br>
What hopes do you have for new school term?<br>
Huh?<br>
What hopes do you have for new school term?<br>
None.<br>
Hmmm, you don’t have any hopes.<br>
You don’t have any small wishes?<br>
None.<br>
What about hopes?<br>
I have no hope.<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Note: 没有希望。 would likely more accurately be translated as "I have no hopes for school". But the same sentence also means "I have no hope", and it was too tempting to recast it in terms of the Lie Flat movement.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the background sign, we read:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>二中青龙湾小学校师阳光台</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sunshine Terrace (? announcement board) of the teachers of the Qinglongwan Elementary School No. 2</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The school is mentioned in a news report from 2020 at: <a href="https://moment.rednet.cn/pc/content/2020/08/24/8249389.html" class="bare">https://moment.rednet.cn/pc/content/2020/08/24/8249389.html</a> 市二中青龙湾小学9月1日将迎来首批学生 (City No. 2 Middle School Qinglongwan Primary School will welcome its first batch of students on September 1st) which says it is located at Qinglongwan Town, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukou_District">Lukou District</a> in <a href="#hunan">Hunan Province (湖南省)</a> (青龙湾小镇, 株洲县,)</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zasx2iTeOX0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zasx2iTeOX0</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/629">GitHub reupload</a>)</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zasx2iTeOX0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Lie_flat_girl.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Lie flat girl" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 66. Still from the above.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="photobomb"><a class="anchor" href="#photobomb"></a><a class="link" href="#photobomb">5.16.2. Photobombing-like attacks</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobombing" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobombing</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Explicitly forbidden in China by the law: <a href="#real-username-law">Real username law (2015)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#marina-ovsyannikova">Marina Ovsyannikova (Марина Овсянникова, 2022, anti war poster on live news)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="appropriation-attack"><a class="anchor" href="#appropriation-attack"></a><a class="link" href="#appropriation-attack">5.16.2.1. Appropriation attack</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>An appropriation attack is one where the attackers attempt to associate an existing symbol to their cause.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example during the <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a> attackers attempted to use this technique to associate a generic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun-Li">Chinese Chun-Li-like</a> character Mei from Blizzard’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwatch_(video_game)">Overwatch game</a> to try and get it blocked in China after the gaming company punished a pro gamer for defending the Hong Kong protests. Coverage <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blizzard-fans-overwatch-mei-hong-kong-protests-memes-2019-10" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/blizzard-fans-overwatch-mei-hong-kong-protests-memes-2019-10</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191012094950/https://www.businessinsider.com/blizzard-fans-overwatch-mei-hong-kong-protests-memes-2019-10">archive</a>).</p>
</div>
<div id="mei-with-hong-kong" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Mei_with_Hong_kong.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Mei with Hong kong" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 67. Mei from Blizzard’s Overwatch was used in an attempted <a href="#appropriation-attack">Appropriation attack</a> during the <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/marnofavonlea/status/1182557311539150849">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="sport-event-live-broadcast-image-attacks"><a class="anchor" href="#sport-event-live-broadcast-image-attacks"></a><a class="link" href="#sport-event-live-broadcast-image-attacks">5.16.2.2. Sport event live broadcast image attacks (体育赛事直播图片攻击)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>NBA in particular is super popular in China, and people sitting at the front row can easily bomb emissions due to the small court size:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>China’s <a href="#tencent">Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a> halts NBA live broadcast over <a href="#taiwan">Taiwanese</a> flag</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3813842" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3813842</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Started in particular due to the <a href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">LeBron James opposes Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (2019)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="enes-kanter-s-shoes"><a class="anchor" href="#enes-kanter-s-shoes"></a><a class="link" href="#enes-kanter-s-shoes">5.16.2.2.1. Enes Kanter’s shoes (埃内斯·坎特, NBA)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO any good shots of him wearing the shoes while playing?</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enes_Kanter" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enes_Kanter</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/埃内斯·坎特" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/埃内斯·坎特</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/EnesKanter/status/1453059299056422912" class="bare">https://twitter.com/EnesKanter/status/1453059299056422912</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/sport/basketball/article/3153120/nba-player-enes-kanter-launches-withering-social-media-attack-xi" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/sport/basketball/article/3153120/nba-player-enes-kanter-launches-withering-social-media-attack-xi</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="what-should-western-countries-do-about-china"><a class="anchor" href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china"></a><a class="link" href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">5.16.3. What should Western countries do about China? (西方国家应该怎么对待中国？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Force all their Western servers to accept <a href="#ensi">TLS 1.3 ENSI</a> connections only: <a href="#ensi">TLS 1.3 ENSI</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Western governments must reciprocate unfair Chinese practices: <a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/18508/why-dont-western-countries-penalize-chinese-companies-in-the-same-way-that-chin" class="bare">https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/18508/why-dont-western-countries-penalize-chinese-companies-in-the-same-way-that-chin</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Companies only care about money and have no long term view, the following must be imposed by governments on Western companies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Serious sanctions must be pot on companies that sell sensitive things to dictatorships:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#western-companies-that-sell-censorship-technology-to-dictatorships">censorship or anti-privacy software</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related approaches taken by the CCP that should also be stopped dead by strict enforcement of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act">Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#chinese-interference-in-western-media">Chinese interference in Western media (中国干预西方媒体)</a>, notably <a href="#china-watch">China watch (2011-)</a>, must</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Physical presence influence must be completely blocked, e.g. cultural centers that report directly to the CCP such as <a href="#confucius-institute">Confucius institute (孔子学院)</a> and <a href="#cssa">Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA, 中国学生学者联合会)</a> must be banned.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News about Chinese state media using Western social media:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://qz.com/671211/chinas-propaganda-outlets-have-leaped-the-top-of-facebook-even-though-it-banned-at-home/" class="bare">https://qz.com/671211/chinas-propaganda-outlets-have-leaped-the-top-of-facebook-even-though-it-banned-at-home/</a> "China’s propaganda news outlets are absolutely crushing it on Facebook"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Accounts that are not labelled as being from the Chinese government, but which support the CCP, must be investigated to determine if they are actually funded by the Chinese government.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO what to do with websites of: <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a>? Blocking them has the downsides that:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>it would be harder to monitor what crazy shit the commies are doing</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>those censorship mechanisms could be reused to block good websites by Western governments that are becoming Evil</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Let’s just leave them up to start with, who gives a fuck about them? :-) If they are getting too many page views, we can make search engines add the disclaimer too.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese social media such as <a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a> and <a href="#tiktok">TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)</a> must be banned. This is less serious than regular websites, because you can always repost on Western social media but without getting spied on:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-08-07 <a href="https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-wechat-executive-order-014615752.html" class="bare">https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-wechat-executive-order-014615752.html</a> "Trump executive order seeks to ban <a href="#tiktok">TikTok</a>, <a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a> 'transactions' in 45 days"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Whenever China kicks out a western journalist who is in China and reports there, the Western country must do the same and kick out a Chinese journalists for a Chinese media.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>An upside of restricting Chinese servies is that it would hugely bolster <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a> technologies, as every Chinese expat would need to buy a VPN.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/18508/why-dont-western-countries-penalize-chinese-companies-in-the-same-way-that-chin" class="bare">https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/18508/why-dont-western-countries-penalize-chinese-companies-in-the-same-way-that-chin</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Western governments must identify raw material dependencies on China, and reduce them, while at the same time forbidding technology transfer to China. China has been trading cheap resources for technology, and we must stop that now.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Unfair Chinese commercial practices must be reciprocated. Chinese companies should be forced to open joint ventures to operate outside of China, which is a trick China uses to control profits and more easily steal IP from Western companies:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.msn.com/zh-hk/news/other/us-entrepreneurs-make-a-choice-rewards-of-doing-business-in-china-often-outweigh-risks-of-losing-trade-secrets/ar-BBSPC69" class="bare">https://www.msn.com/zh-hk/news/other/us-entrepreneurs-make-a-choice-rewards-of-doing-business-in-china-often-outweigh-risks-of-losing-trade-secrets/ar-BBSPC69</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190905071456/https://www.msn.com/zh-hk/news/other/us-entrepreneurs-make-a-choice-rewards-of-doing-business-in-china-often-outweigh-risks-of-losing-trade-secrets/ar-BBSPC69:">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/02/china-joint-ventures-the-long-version.html" class="bare">https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/02/china-joint-ventures-the-long-version.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190905071738/https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/02/china-joint-ventures-the-long-version.html:">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sanctions must be imposed directly on Chinese officials. They must not be allowed to "escape to a better life or have investments in the West":</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-08-08 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53699084" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53699084</a> "Hong Kong: US imposes sanctions on chief executive Carrie Lam"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_pole.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi pole" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 68. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2016-09-07 cartoon entitled "宽衣<a href="#xi-jinping-memes">撒币</a>" depicting <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_dance">pole dancer</a> and throwing money at other world leaders during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_G20_Hangzhou_summit">2016 G20 Hangzhou summit</a> is a reference to how China buys political influence in other countries by promising profitable trade deals with those countries. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/biantailajiaomanhua/biantailajiaomanhua-09072016131637.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="mark-government-controlled-social-media"><a class="anchor" href="#mark-government-controlled-social-media"></a><a class="link" href="#mark-government-controlled-social-media">5.16.3.1. Mark government controlled social media (将政府控制的社交媒体帐户标记为此类)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All posts of all state-sponsored social media accounts must be clearly marked as such.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This should be done not only for China, but of all countries, including Western democracies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even better, they should add funny censored images on top of those that are from dictatorship countries.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Furthermore, marked media from dictatorships must be forbidden to both monetize and pay to promote its content.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Any outlets that do not announce themselves as state sponsored but are, must be banned forever when they are found out.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What to do about personal accounts is much harder to decide however, and especially so in the case of <a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a>, where they might really not be state sponsored, and the creator’s nationality won’t help make the decision either.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some websites have started marking such accounts, which is a great start.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>YouTube in 2018: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/2/16964190/youtube-state-funded-broadcasters" class="bare">https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/2/16964190/youtube-state-funded-broadcasters</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Facebook in 2020: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/04/facebook-adds-labels-identifying-state-controlled-media/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/04/facebook-adds-labels-identifying-state-controlled-media/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Twitter in 2020:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>report <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3096380/twitter-begin-labelling-state-affiliated-media" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3096380/twitter-begin-labelling-state-affiliated-media</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>example from <a href="https://twitter.com/PDChina" class="bare">https://twitter.com/PDChina</a> <a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a> marked as "China state-affiliated media" and links to <a href="https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated-china" class="bare">https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated-china</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reports of Chinese influence on social media:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-06 Twitter has also implicated in receiving advertising money from <a href="#china-daily">China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a>, see also: <a href="#china-watch">China watch (2011-)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-06-12 <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/information-operations-june-2020.html" class="bare">https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/information-operations-june-2020.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06-12 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/12/twitter-deletes-170000-accounts-linked-to-china-influence-campaign" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/12/twitter-deletes-170000-accounts-linked-to-china-influence-campaign</a> "Twitter deletes 170,000 accounts linked to China influence campaign"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The Chinese government later contested this decision: <a href="https://variety.com/2020/digital/asia/china-victim-wants-twitter-to-delete-attackers-1234633860/" class="bare">https://variety.com/2020/digital/asia/china-victim-wants-twitter-to-delete-attackers-1234633860/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-04-07 <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/9397v8/chinas-been-flooding-facebook-with-shady-ads-blaming-trump-for-the-coronavirus-crisis" class="bare">https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/9397v8/chinas-been-flooding-facebook-with-shady-ads-blaming-trump-for-the-coronavirus-crisis</a> "China’s Been Flooding Facebook With Shady Ads Blaming Trump for the Coronavirus Crisis"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="spy"><a class="anchor" href="#spy"></a><a class="link" href="#spy">5.16.3.2. China spy stories (中国间谍故事)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_abroad" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_abroad</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do not underestimate the CCP and its control over every Chinese companies and people. Every Chinese company and person is a potential spy.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is <a href="#evil-west">true for all countries however</a>, and <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> does not not reproach China specifically for its secret service, e.g. <a href="#snowden">Snowden (斯诺登)</a> used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#NSA_sub-contractee_as_an_employee_for_Dell">Dell</a> as an NSA front-end.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The point is just that the West should not underestimate this menace that comes from a <a href="#dictatorship">Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For university espionage in particular see: <a href="#university-espionage">University espionage (大学间谍)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some Chinese spy stories:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-03-20 Tarmo Kõuts from Estonia</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://news.err.ee/1608148489/court-sentences-estonian-marine-scientist-to-prison-for-spying-for-china" class="bare">https://news.err.ee/1608148489/court-sentences-estonian-marine-scientist-to-prison-for-spying-for-china</a> "Court sentences Estonian marine scientist to prison for spying for China"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-12-25 <a href="https://in.news.yahoo.com/detention-10-chinese-spies-afghanistan-040901520.html" class="bare">https://in.news.yahoo.com/detention-10-chinese-spies-afghanistan-040901520.html</a> "Detention of 10 Chinese spies in Afghanistan leaves Beijing red-faced" TODO better source.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-12-09 Christine Fang <a href="https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html" class="bare">https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html</a> "Exclusive: Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians". In 2015, she was fucking some politicians and infiltrating parties, but as suspicions arose, Beijing likely called her back.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-21 Baimadajie Angwang</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/09/21/nypd-cop-charged-with-acting-as-china-agent.html" class="bare">https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/09/21/nypd-cop-charged-with-acting-as-china-agent.html</a> "New York City police officer spied on fellow Tibetans for China, prosecutors charge"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08-21 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M</a> "I worked for the Chinese State Department – 中公教育党委 – offcn CCP Committee" more info at <a href="#aaron-dewitt">Aaron DeWitt (The Chinese Tea)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-01-15 Kevin Mallory</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-01-15 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46557096" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46557096</a> "Kevin Mallory: The churchgoing patriot who spied for China"</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good profile. He was first approached via LinkedIn. As a related case, Jun Wei Yeo was arrested as LinkedIn spy recruiter in 2020: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53544505" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53544505</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And those stupid Chines handlers gave him a phone that was supposed to be encrypted, but it crashed and then rebooted unencrypted, right when the FBI agents were around.</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But after the 2008 real estate crash, his fortunes changed. His house plummeted in value, and later he lost his job.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-04-04 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/how-230-000-debt-linkedin-message-led-ex-cia-officer-n990691" class="bare">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/how-230-000-debt-linkedin-message-led-ex-cia-officer-n990691</a> "How a $230,000 debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China"</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good profile, gives important points: he was 230k in debt, and "Mallory began reaching out to former CIA colleagues in an apparent effort to pump them for information. The ex-colleagues grew suspicious and contacted the CIA, prosecutors say."</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-05-18 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48319058" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48319058</a> "Kevin Mallory: Ex-CIA agent jailed for spying for China".</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The article also contains a good summary section "CIA spy operation in China: Key dates".</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-11: Wang Liqiang spy defection to Australia</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/defecting-chinese-spy-offers-information-trove-to-australian-government-20191122-p53d1l.html" class="bare">https://www.smh.com.au/national/defecting-chinese-spy-offers-information-trove-to-australian-government-20191122-p53d1l.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-11: Jerry Chun Shing Lee, naturalized American, convicted for being double agent while working at CIA after being in custody for 2 years</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-cia-officer-sentenced-19-years-conspiring-chinese-spies-n1089341" class="bare">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-cia-officer-sentenced-19-years-conspiring-chinese-spies-n1089341</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-06-05 Ron Rockwell Hansen</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44364437" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44364437</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>[[2010-dismantling-of-cia-s-network-in-china-2010]]
====== 2010 dismantling of CIA’s network in China (2010 拆除中情局在华网络)</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_China#2010" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_China#2010</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More research will be dropped at: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In September 2022, actual sample website were published by Reuters: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A Chinese sample website (currently the only known one): <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110208113503/http://activegaminginfo.com/" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/web/20110208113503/http://activegaminginfo.com/</a> It is entitled:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>活跃游戏</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which means something like "lively games".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Around 2010-2012 about 20 CIA spies in China were killed. One was shot right in the courtyard of a government building as a message to others.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After identifying some of the websites, possibly with a double agent, Iran was able to reach the rest through Google searches for similar sites.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The trouble started in when the CIA was investigating nuclear weapons in Iran in 2009.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The fact that China soon followed could indicate that Iran sold the secret to China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO do we have any such sample websites or screenshots of them? <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/167" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/167</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html" class="bare">https://news.yahoo.com/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html</a> mentions that:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A 2011 Iranian television broadcast that touted the government’s destruction of the CIA network said U.S. intelligence operatives had created websites for fake companies to recruit agents in Iran by promising them jobs, visas and education abroad. Iranians who initially thought they were responding to legitimate opportunities would end up meeting with CIA officers in places like Dubai or Istanbul for recruitment, according to the broadcast.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>therefore the websites might not have been in English.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO find that broadcast. News broke 2019-06-22[] apparently:
* <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMilJGTIvkI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMilJGTIvkI</a> "US calls for Iran to free alleged CIA spy" by euronews (in English) (2011-12-20) shows a forced confession on state television by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Mirza_Hekmati" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Mirza_Hekmati</a>. He claims to have been tortured with forced drug withdrawal. Given that Iran is in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Crescent">Golden Crescent</a>, Ciro would guess they gave him heroin, see also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_in_Iran" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_in_Iran</a> "Opium in Iran is widely available, and the country was thought to have the highest per capita number of opiate addicts in the world[1][2] at a rate of 2.8% of Iranians over age 15."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Iran claims to have captured spies working for CIA</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-05-20 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-espionage-idUSKCN18G0UM" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-espionage-idUSKCN18G0UM</a> "China killed CIA sources, hobbled U.S. spying from 2010 to 2012: NYT"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-10-02 <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html" class="bare">https://news.yahoo.com/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html</a> "The CIA’s communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran."</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="ministry-of-state-security"><a class="anchor" href="#ministry-of-state-security"></a><a class="link" href="#ministry-of-state-security">5.16.3.2.1. Ministry of State Security (MSS, Guoanbu, 国安部)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_(China)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国国家安全部" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国国家安全部</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese <a href="#snowden">counterintelligence</a> organ.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Report website launched in 2018 <a href="https://www.12339.gov.cn/" class="bare">https://www.12339.gov.cn/</a>, some coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2141910/china-launches-website-report-foreign-spies-corrupt" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2141910/china-launches-website-report-foreign-spies-corrupt</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="pla"><a class="anchor" href="#pla"></a><a class="link" href="#pla">5.16.3.2.2. People’s Liberation Army (PLA, 中国人民解放军, 解放军, People’s Oppression Army, 镇压军)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国人民解放军" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国人民解放军</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese army, and also one of the central intelligence agencies, notably on cyberattacks.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As highlighted on <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> 1:41, the PLA were really thought of as heroes of the people, partly due to Mao-era propaganda, as their name indicates. But when they stepped into Tiananmen, some of that was lost.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/PLA_soldier_breaking_bricks_on_head.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="PLA soldier breaking bricks on head" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 69. A Chinese soldier smashes bricks on a colleague’s head during joint Chinese-<a href="#india">India (伊朗)</a> anti-terrorism exercises in Kunming in 2007. <a href="http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2014-02-26/0954766058.html" class="bare">http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2014-02-26/0954766058.html</a> from <a href="#sina">Sina Corp (新浪, Weibo owner)</a> give the Chinese term "油锤贯顶". <a href="https://nastyhobbit.org/details.php?image_id=370">Source</a>. <a href="https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/military-brick-breaking-demonstrations-face-the-chop/">Better source with worse image quality</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="the-west-must-ban-the-chinese-telecommunications-software-and-hardware"><a class="anchor" href="#the-west-must-ban-the-chinese-telecommunications-software-and-hardware"></a><a class="link" href="#the-west-must-ban-the-chinese-telecommunications-software-and-hardware">5.16.3.3. The West must ban the Chinese telecommunications software and hardware (西方必须禁止中国电信软件和硬件)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They are an entry point to spying, censorship and <a href="#fake-news">Fake news (假新闻)</a>. Notable companies that should be banned:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#huawei">Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#tiktok">TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#zoom">Zoom</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#alibaba">Alibaba (阿里巴巴, Chinese Amazon clone)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reports:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-02 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-media/u-s-imposes-new-rules-on-state-owned-chinese-media-over-propaganda-concerns-idUSKBN20C2G1" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-media/u-s-imposes-new-rules-on-state-owned-chinese-media-over-propaganda-concerns-idUSKBN20C2G1</a> U.S. imposes new rules on state-owned Chinese media over propaganda concerns, the companies are: Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily Distribution Corp. and Hai Tian Development USA, Inc. See also: <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a>.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-04-03 <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/" class="bare">https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/</a> 'Zoom’s encryption is "not suited for secrets" and has surprising links to china, researchers discover"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="what-should-western-media-do-about-china"><a class="anchor" href="#what-should-western-media-do-about-china"></a><a class="link" href="#what-should-western-media-do-about-china">5.16.3.4. What should Western media do about China? (西方媒体应该怎么对待中国？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When you report something about a person, for fuck’s sake include the person’s name in the title of the article, at the very least the pinyin.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then, in the body, also add the corresponding Chinese characters on the first mention. This is how you do it: "San Xihou (三西猴)"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yes, Chinese people also have names. And yes, pinyin has infinitely more homonyms than characters.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In the body of the article, notably in photos, include the exact location of the event if applicable.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>City at the very least, but if recognizable, where withing the city.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yes, China is big! There are many different places in China.</p>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests"><a class="anchor" href="#western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests"></a><a class="link" href="#western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests">5.16.4. Western companies that comply with Chinese censorship requests (遵守中国审查要求的西方公司)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Western governments should prevent companies from complying to Chinese censorship requests, or at least impose fines and sanctions on them.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Citizens should boycott such companies and require them to be punished.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#western-companies-that-sell-censorship-technology-to-dictatorships">Western companies that sell censorship technology to dictatorships (向独裁政权出售审查技术的西方公司)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some well known companies and events:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022 <a href="https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-deletes-reference-to-xinjiang-after-backlash-in-china" class="bare">https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-deletes-reference-to-xinjiang-after-backlash-in-china</a> Intel deletes reference to Xinjiang after backlash in China</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020 <a href="#hololive">Hololive Kiryu Coco firing incident (Hololive 台湾事件, 2020)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020 Outfront Media, see: <a href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">LeBron James opposes Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (2019)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC">HSBC</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-06 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Support_for_China’s_Security_Law_for_Hong_Kong_(2020)">Support for China’s Security Law for Hong Kong (2020)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P</a>.[Bloomberg L.P.]</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-02 <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/18/mike-bloomberg-lp-nda-china/" class="bare">https://theintercept.com/2020/02/18/mike-bloomberg-lp-nda-china/</a> "When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-12 Shutterstock implements censorship for searches from China <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/08/in-wake-of-shutterstocks-chinese-censorship-american-companies-need-to-relearn-american-values/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/08/in-wake-of-shutterstocks-chinese-censorship-american-companies-need-to-relearn-american-values/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>JPMorgan</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016-11 "Sons and Daughters" corruption hiring program for chidren of government officials: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2016/11/17/jpmorgan-agrees-to-pay-264-million-fine-for-sons-and-daughters-hiring-program-in-china/#46746e305688" class="bare">https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2016/11/17/jpmorgan-agrees-to-pay-264-million-fine-for-sons-and-daughters-hiring-program-in-china/#46746e305688</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Brand_censorship_chart.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Brand censorship chart" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 70. 2019 summary of companies that kowtow to China. <a href="https://twitter.com/hoho90272496/status/1182669015937966080">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_bat.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi bat" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 71. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2019-10 carton showing several brands kowtowing to <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>, while South Park alone gives the middle finger. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/china-hongkong-us-10102019153228.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Apple.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Apple" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 72. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2017-07 showing <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> eating an Apple Inc. logo referring to the many events where Apple gave in to Chinese demands to have access to the Chinese market. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/China-Apple-cartoon-08242017103540.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WBsahU3X4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WBsahU3X4</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> comments in 2015 on how American films make a good image of China to be allowed in China by censors to increase sales.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/V4WBsahU3X4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="apple"><a class="anchor" href="#apple"></a><a class="link" href="#apple">5.16.4.1. Apple (苹果)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Summaries:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://applecensorship.com" class="bare">https://applecensorship.com</a> App Store monitoring by <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a>, source: <a href="https://github.com/greatfire/applecensorship" class="bare">https://github.com/greatfire/applecensorship</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-06-08 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/07/apple-private-relay-unavailable-in-china/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/07/apple-private-relay-unavailable-in-china/</a> Apple’s new encrypted browsing feature won’t be available in China, Saudi Arabia and more: report</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-03-01 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/01/china-roundup-apple-closes-app-store-loophole/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/01/china-roundup-apple-closes-app-store-loophole/</a> "China Roundup: Apple closes a 4-year-old App Store loophole"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-02-25 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/25/apple-censorship-requests-china-shareholder-groups-proposal" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/25/apple-censorship-requests-china-shareholder-groups-proposal</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-04-12 <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/12/18305087/congress-apple-criticism-china-communist-tiananmen-pro-democracy" class="bare">https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/12/18305087/congress-apple-criticism-china-communist-tiananmen-pro-democracy</a> "Lawmakers lash out at Apple for censoring a song about <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square protests</a>"</p>
<div id="apple-flag" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Apple_China_flag.png" loading="lazy" alt="Apple China flag" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 73. Chinese flag with Apple characteristics. An example of <a href="#flag-desecration">Flag desecration (亵渎旗帜)</a>. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/11/apple-shares-tumble-5-amidst-china-concerns/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>1999 <a href="https://www.lionsroar.com/apple-thinks-different-about-the-dalai-lama-in-china-2/" class="bare">https://www.lionsroar.com/apple-thinks-different-about-the-dalai-lama-in-china-2/</a> Apple censors <a href="#dalai-lama">Dalai Lama (达赖喇嘛)</a> for China</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="linkedin"><a class="anchor" href="#linkedin"></a><a class="link" href="#linkedin">5.16.4.2. LinkedIn (领英)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Immediately censors anything that the Chinese government asks to censor in China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>3 days after <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> put up anti-CCP messages on his LinkedIn, the account was banned in China, with a message under <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/cases/36977487" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/cases/36977487</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hi Ciro,</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Your LinkedIn profile is an integral part of how you present your professional self to the world. That’s why we believe it’s important to inform you that due to the presence of prohibited content located in the headline, background image and volunteer experience sections of your LinkedIn profile, your profile and your public activity, such as your comments and items you share with your network, will not be made viewable in China. Your profile and activity continues to remain viewable throughout the rest of the countries in which LinkedIn is available. We will work with you to minimize the impact and can review your profile’s accessibility within China if you update the headline, background image and volunteer experience sections of your profile. But the decision whether to update your profile is yours.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In February 2014, we began offering a localized version of LinkedIn in China. We believe that people everywhere can benefit from Chinese individuals connecting with each other and LinkedIn members in other parts of the world, and that the creation of economic opportunity can have a profound impact on their lives and the lives of their families and communities.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>While we strongly support freedom of expression, we recognized when we launched that we would need to adhere to the requirements of the Chinese government in order to operate in China. As a reminder, your profile will remain viewable throughout the rest of the countries in which LinkedIn is available.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Regards,</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>LinkedIn Support Team</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2021-10-14 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/14/microsoft-to-pull-linkedin-from-chinese-market/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/14/microsoft-to-pull-linkedin-from-chinese-market/</a> Microsoft to pull LinkedIn from Chinese market</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The leading Chinese clone appear to be MaiMai (脉脉):</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://maimai.cn/" class="bare">https://maimai.cn/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/maimai" class="bare">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/maimai</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>300M investment and not even an English Wikipedia page, we live on different planets: <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/脉脉" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/脉脉</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interestingly however, Ciro still received some profile views from Chinese profiles from time to time, he wonders why, do they have a permit of some sort? E.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2023-05-09 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/linkedin-layoffs/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/linkedin-layoffs/</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>LinkedIn is cutting 716 jobs and will begin phasing out its local jobs app in China. In a letter today, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslanky said the decision to shutter the standalone China app, called InCareer, was because of “fierce competition and a challenging macroeconomic climate.”</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>InCareer was launched in December 2021, a couple months after LinkedIn announced it was shutting down its main service in China. At that time, it attributed the decision to shutter LinkedIn China to “a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements.”</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-12-30 someone from 红山区公安分局 from Hongshan Public Security sub-department in Hongshan, Inner Mongolia</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-09-29 someone from 北京云中融信网络科技有限公司 <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/北京云中融信网络科技有限公司/17048165" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/北京云中融信网络科技有限公司/17048165</a>, an instant messaging services company.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-09-17 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber_Shandwick">Weber Shandwick</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.webershandwick.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-Geopolitical-Risk-Report.pdf" class="bare">https://www.webershandwick.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-Geopolitical-Risk-Report.pdf</a> 2021 REPORT ON GEOPOLITICAL RISKS TO BUSINESS REPUTATION by Weber Shandwick’s geopolitical Risk & Reputation Advisory Group</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-08-09 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/嘉伟-闫-bbbb60218/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/嘉伟-闫-bbbb60218/</a> 闫嘉伟 领英中国 - 内容审核 (Yan Jiawei), LinkedIn China, content audit based in Beijing. One of the censors mistakently viewed Ciro’s profile without premium or internal tools! Hello. Started working there June 2021, no further personal information available.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-07-29:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>custommer service person from <a href="#huawei">Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>financial consultant from Beijing</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-05-23 LinkedIn profile view from <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/circussocial/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/company/circussocial/</a> Circus Social <a href="https://www.circussocial.com/" class="bare">https://www.circussocial.com/</a>. Some of their China stuff: <a href="https://www.circussocial.com/blog/tag/china-social-media/" class="bare">https://www.circussocial.com/blog/tag/china-social-media/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-03-23 <a href="https://my.cscglobal.com/" class="bare">https://my.cscglobal.com/</a> to cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship another compliance company, previous <a href="https://cms.securimate.com" class="bare">https://cms.securimate.com</a> hits come to mind. China related articles:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200728005641/en/CSC-Becomes-First-Foreign-Owned-Company-to-Receive-Domain-Registrar-License-in-China" class="bare">https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200728005641/en/CSC-Becomes-First-Foreign-Owned-Company-to-Receive-Domain-Registrar-License-in-China</a> this company has some serious weight with Chinese regulators!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cscglobal.com/service/webinar/china-web-policies/" class="bare">https://www.cscglobal.com/service/webinar/china-web-policies/</a> talks mostly about ICP licenses</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cscglobal.com/service/webinar/china-ngo-law/" class="bare">https://www.cscglobal.com/service/webinar/china-ngo-law/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cscglobal.com/cscglobal/pdfs/DBS/CSC-Your-Brand-Secured.pdf" class="bare">https://www.cscglobal.com/cscglobal/pdfs/DBS/CSC-Your-Brand-Secured.pdf</a> features Jayce Yeo, and mentions social media management</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/@hackermaderas/the-beginning-of-one-hackers-thoroughly-referenced-evidenced-osint-investigation-of-clearview-ai-1aa2e9109492" class="bare">https://medium.com/@hackermaderas/the-beginning-of-one-hackers-thoroughly-referenced-evidenced-osint-investigation-of-clearview-ai-1aa2e9109492</a> has a technical analysis that points that CSC has links to Clearview AI, and seem to be front-companies</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#brave-new-world-books">Brave New World books passage (美丽新世界的书籍段落, 1932)</a> comes to mind.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They also have a <a href="#anonymous-account-ban">Anonymous accounts ban (2017)</a> policy for all countries:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/28422/names-allowed-on-profiles" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/28422/names-allowed-on-profiles</a> you have to use your real name</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/topics/6042/6059/430" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/topics/6042/6059/430</a> you have to use your real photo</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-09 Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian <a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/29/microsofts-linkedin-censors-us-journalist-over-china-content-makes-disturbing-offer-for-reinstatement/" class="bare">https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/29/microsofts-linkedin-censors-us-journalist-over-china-content-makes-disturbing-offer-for-reinstatement/</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1442838821339639819" class="bare">https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1442838821339639819</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<p>2021-03-11 <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/11/tech/linkedin-china-microsoft-intl-hnk/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/11/tech/linkedin-china-microsoft-intl-hnk/index.html</a> "LinkedIn suspends new sign-ups in China":</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We’re a global platform with an obligation to respect the laws that apply to us, including adhering to Chinese government regulations for our localized version of LinkedIn in China," LinkedIn added. The company declined to elaborate on which local law it was examining.</p>
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</blockquote>
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</li>
<li>
<p>2019-01-04 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2180620/linkedin-adhering-beijings-rules-censors-chinese-profile-page-us-based" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2180620/linkedin-adhering-beijings-rules-censors-chinese-profile-page-us-based</a> "LinkedIn reverses course after censoring Chinese profile page of US-based human rights activist Zhou Fengsuo", see also: <a href="#zhou-fengsuo">Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2014-06-04 <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2014/06/04/technology/linkedin-china-censorship/" class="bare">https://money.cnn.com/2014/06/04/technology/linkedin-china-censorship/</a> "LinkedIn draws fire for China censorship" mentions: "Some LinkedIn (LNKD) users have received emails from the company in recent days informing them that their posts will not be shown in mainland China."</p>
</li>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Ciro_Santilli_LinkedIn_China_ban.png" loading="lazy" alt="Ciro Santilli LinkedIn China ban" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 74. 3 days after <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> put up anti-CCP messages on his LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli</a>, the account was banned in China. They are quite efficient. <a href="#zhou-fengsuo">Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)</a> had notably <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-linkedin-zhou-fengsuo">previously achieved this</a>. Another report by a <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/linkedin-censorship-peter-humphrey">Peter Humphrey</a>.</div>
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</div>
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<h5 id="chinese-interference-in-western-media"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-interference-in-western-media"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-interference-in-western-media">5.16.4.3. Chinese interference in Western media (中国干预西方媒体)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This lists links between owners of several US media outlets and China: <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/has-china-compromised-every-major-mainstream-media-entity/" class="bare">https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/has-china-compromised-every-major-mainstream-media-entity/</a> "A Rundown Of Major U.S. Corporate Media’s Business Ties To China". No direct evidence that this has affected the news however.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>2021 Cinitalia <a href="#china-radio-international">China Radio International (CRI, 中国国际广播电台, CCP media)</a> offsohot publushing propaganda add-ons on the Italian newspaper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Giornale">Il Giornale</a></p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/comments/n9o2kp/italian_newspaper_controlled_by_chinese_news/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/comments/n9o2kp/italian_newspaper_controlled_by_chinese_news/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Sample article: 2021-05-09 <a href="https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mondo/report-che-confuta-teoria-genocidio-nello-xinjiang-1945268.html" class="bare">https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mondo/report-che-confuta-teoria-genocidio-nello-xinjiang-1945268.html</a> "Il report europeo che confuta il genocidio nello Xinjiang" (The European report that refutes the genocide in Xinjiang) about <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="china-watch"><a class="anchor" href="#china-watch"></a><a class="link" href="#china-watch">5.16.4.3.1. China watch (2011-)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Campaign by <a href="#china-daily">China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a> to add paid articles/ads that read like news in/distributed with Western newspapers. They appeared to be marked as China watch ads, but still, they should be crushed.</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-06: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post">Washington Post</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal">Wall Street Journal</a> and others figure on official fillings of newspapers paid by China Daily: <a href="https://efile.fara.gov/docs/3457-Amendment-20200601-2.pdf" class="bare">https://efile.fara.gov/docs/3457-Amendment-20200601-2.pdf</a>.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/china-propaganda-daily-washington-post-new-york-times-wall-street-journal-millions-dollars-justice-department-newspapers-paid-content/" class="bare">https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/china-propaganda-daily-washington-post-new-york-times-wall-street-journal-millions-dollars-justice-department-newspapers-paid-content/</a> summarizes:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As per the documents filed by China Daily with the Justice Department, the Communist party mouthpiece had paid over $6 million to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), $4.6 million to the Washington Post, $2,40,000 to Foreign Policy, $50,000 to the New York Times, $34,600 to The Des Moines Register and $76,000 to CQ-Roll Call.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Besides, spending $11 million in advertising on prominent US papers, China Daily shelled out an additional $7.6 million to The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle, and The Boston Globe for printing copies of its own paper. For instance, the Los Angeles Times reportedly received $657,523 for printing services. The Communist party-mouthpiece had also spent $2,65,822 on advertising on Twitter.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Washington Post is the one that had received the most attention earlier on since 2011:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post#China_Daily_advertising_supplements" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post#China_Daily_advertising_supplements</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/official-chinese-propaganda-now-online-from-the-wapo/70690/" class="bare">https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/official-chinese-propaganda-now-online-from-the-wapo/70690/</a> "Official Chinese Propaganda: Now Online from the WaPo!"</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They even had online distribution channel: <a href="http://chinawatch.washingtonpost.com/" class="bare">http://chinawatch.washingtonpost.com/</a> It is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200708133054/http://chinawatch.washingtonpost.com/">dead as of 2020-07</a>, but <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180330150602/http://chinawatch.washingtonpost.com/">was alive in 2018</a></p>
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</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph">Daily Telegraph</a>: UK Daily Telegraph stops publishing section paid for by China[piece of shit] tabloid, it comes as no surprise that they would sell out to any dictatorship</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2020-04-14 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/14/daily-telegraph-stops-publishing-section-paid-for-by-china" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/14/daily-telegraph-stops-publishing-section-paid-for-by-china</a> "Daily Telegraph stops publishing section paid for by China"</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China Daily itself claims certain partnerships: <a href="#china-daily">China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a> <a href="https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/static_e/global.html" class="bare">https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/static_e/global.html</a>:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China Daily has also developed diversified cooperation with over 40 media organizations around the world, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, etc.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="bandinchina-github-repository"><a class="anchor" href="#bandinchina-github-repository"></a><a class="link" href="#bandinchina-github-repository">5.16.4.4. bandinchina GitHub repository</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina" class="bare">https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Contains a "List of companies who have apologized to the Chinese government and implemented censorship requests".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It only lists companies that implemented censorship outside of China however (with Hong Kong, <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan</a> and Macau defined as outside of China), therefore it is basically a Taiwan flag takedown + Hong Kong / Taiwan censorship list:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina/pull/56#issuecomment-541230090" class="bare">https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina/pull/56#issuecomment-541230090</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina/pull/84" class="bare">https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina/pull/84</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other interesting GitHub repositories: <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="western-companies-that-stood-up-against-the-ccp"><a class="anchor" href="#western-companies-that-stood-up-against-the-ccp"></a><a class="link" href="#western-companies-that-stood-up-against-the-ccp">5.16.4.5. Western companies that stood up against the CCP (反抗中共的西方企业)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xinjiang-cotton">Xinjiang cotton (新疆棉花, 2021)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="western-companies-that-supported-the-ccp"><a class="anchor" href="#western-companies-that-supported-the-ccp"></a><a class="link" href="#western-companies-that-supported-the-ccp">5.16.4.5.1. Western companies that supported the CCP (支持中共的西方企业)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests">Western companies that comply with Chinese censorship requests (遵守中国审查要求的西方公司)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#western-companies-that-sell-censorship-technology-to-dictatorships">Western companies that sell censorship technology to dictatorships (向独裁政权出售审查技术的西方公司)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xinjiang-cotton">Xinjiang cotton (新疆棉花, 2021)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="entertainers-who-support-the-ccp"><a class="anchor" href="#entertainers-who-support-the-ccp"></a><a class="link" href="#entertainers-who-support-the-ccp">5.16.5. Entertainers who support the CCP (支持中共的艺人)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Western:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-05-25 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cena" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cena</a> for <a href="#one-china-policy">One China policy (一个中国)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/john-cena-very-sorry-for-saying-taiwan-is-a-country" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/john-cena-very-sorry-for-saying-taiwan-is-a-country</a> about</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/tony_zy/status/1397188279322173442" class="bare">https://twitter.com/tony_zy/status/1397188279322173442</a> Apology video with English subtitles. YouTube reupload: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjOrsMupgg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjOrsMupgg</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">LeBron James opposes Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (2019)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese who are famous in the West:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan#Political_views_and_controversy">Jackie Chan 陳港生</a> even though he is born in Hong Kong</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3T_Dd3O1UM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3T_Dd3O1UM</a> spoke against the <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/fc/21/216376/Police-chief-says-Jackie-Chan-made-him" class="bare">https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/fc/21/216376/Police-chief-says-Jackie-Chan-made-him</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Yifei#Controversy">Liu Yifei 刘亦菲</a> who starred in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulan_(2020_film)">Mulan 2020</a> Disney movie. To make matters more fun, some scenes were shot in <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a>: <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4004891" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4004891</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/disneys-mulan-star-sparks-call-for-boycott-with-hong-kong-stance" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/disneys-mulan-star-sparks-call-for-boycott-with-hong-kong-stance</a> opposed the <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a>, notably saying "What a shame for Hong Kong". The <a href="#chinese-government-media">People’s Daily</a> later quoted her: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190816162331/http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0816/c90000-9606859.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190816162331/http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0816/c90000-9606859.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese celebrities who opposed the CCP:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="entertainers-who-oppose-the-ccp"><a class="anchor" href="#entertainers-who-oppose-the-ccp"></a><a class="link" href="#entertainers-who-oppose-the-ccp">5.16.6. Entertainers who oppose the CCP (反对中共的艺人)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021 <a href="#enes-kanter-s-shoes">Enes Kanter’s shoes (埃内斯·坎特, NBA)</a> what a hero</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021 ranks China below F in a Country <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_list">tier list</a> video: <a href="https://youtu.be/x1PjAhpUjYQ?t=198" class="bare">https://youtu.be/x1PjAhpUjYQ?t=198</a>, appears to be a rip of this members-only content: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NCcFkuosfI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NCcFkuosfI</a>. Reddit entry: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ptzygj/pewdiepie_you_are_a_legend/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ptzygj/pewdiepie_you_are_a_legend/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie">PewpDiePie</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019 on <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWZavn2OvM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWZavn2OvM</a> Hong Kong vs Joker Ends Fortnite [MEME REVIEW]</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinese-interference-in-the-western-education-systems"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-interference-in-the-western-education-systems"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-interference-in-the-western-education-systems">5.17. Chinese Interference in the Western education systems (中共对西方教育体系的干预)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related about university interference:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08-04 <a href="https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spotlights-chinas-influence-ld.1638771" class="bare">https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spotlights-chinas-influence-ld.1638771</a> | <a href="https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-kostet-doktoranden-abschluss-ld.1637789" class="bare">https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-kostet-doktoranden-abschluss-ld.1637789</a> Swiss PHD under pseudonum Oliver Gerber kicked out of doctorate for criticizing China on Twitter. Real name, his Twitter, and advisors were not disclosed because his girlfriend lives in China. University name: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_St._Gallen">University of St. Gallen</a> (HSG, it specialises in business administration, economics, law, and international affairs, HSG also has among the most billionaire alumni in the world). On <a href="#r-china">r/China Reddit sub</a>: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/duplicates/oxc9qk/phd_student_in_switzerland_expelled_from_his/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/duplicates/oxc9qk/phd_student_in_switzerland_expelled_from_his/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-12-05 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28F05U" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28F05U</a> "U.S. ends exchange programs with China, calling them 'propaganda'". Only five of the programs were terminated:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Policymakers Educational China Trip Program</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>U.S.-China Friendship Program</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>U.S.-China Leadership Exchange Program</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>U.S.-China Transpacific Exchange Program</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Hong Kong Educational and Cultural Program</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06-17 <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/US-blacklists-China-s-MIT-as-tech-war-enters-new-phase" class="bare">https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/US-blacklists-China-s-MIT-as-tech-war-enters-new-phase</a> Harbin Institute of Technology denied MATLAB support for being in the entity list, apparenty since may: <a href="https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/05/commerce-department-add-two-dozen-chinese-companies-ties-wmd-and" class="bare">https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/05/commerce-department-add-two-dozen-chinese-companies-ties-wmd-and</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-05-28 <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/motion-backing-hong-kong-blocked-after-campaign-by-chinese-students-at-warwick-fsdfphr26" class="bare">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/motion-backing-hong-kong-blocked-after-campaign-by-chinese-students-at-warwick-fsdfphr26</a> "Motion backing Hong Kong blocked after campaign by Chinese students at Warwick". The article mentions that "Just under 1,000 students voted in favour of the motion. Turnout was three times higher than other votes and officials said that it was a new record for participation."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08 <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/craven-cowardice-unsw-condemned-for-deleting-posts-critical-of-beijing-20200803-p55hy5.html" class="bare">https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/craven-cowardice-unsw-condemned-for-deleting-posts-critical-of-beijing-20200803-p55hy5.html</a> "'Craven cowardice': UNSW condemned for deleting posts critical of Beijing" University of New South Wales</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-05 Drew Pavlou 柏乐志</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Queensland">University of Queensland</a>, Australia, was trying to get rid of him for anti-CCP campaign</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/24/how-a-20-year-old-student-put-the-spotlight-on-australian-universities-cosy-relationship-with-china" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/24/how-a-20-year-old-student-put-the-spotlight-on-australian-universities-cosy-relationship-with-china</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1sZefER0E" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1sZefER0E</a> <a href="#china-uncensored">China Unscripted</a> interview</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China buying pre-University educational institutions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-06-11 <a href="https://archive.ph/RkHjR" class="bare">https://archive.ph/RkHjR</a> Insider investigation reveals officials helped sell access to California public schools to Chinese elite</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-02-21 <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9282617/British-private-institutions-bought-Chinese-firms.html" class="bare">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9282617/British-private-institutions-bought-Chinese-firms.html</a> "The British schools selling out to Beijing: Not only are private institutions being bought by Chinese firms but some are giving communist-approved lessons that are a threat to free speech", gives list of 17 schools bought</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-03-24 <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/2021/03/24/chinese-buying-private-schools-should-grateful/" class="bare">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/2021/03/24/chinese-buying-private-schools-should-grateful/</a> "The Chinese are buying into our private schools and we should be grateful" what, lady, are you nuts?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-07-10 <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-buy-up-more-of-england-s-private-schools-pjr6692bq" class="bare">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-buy-up-more-of-england-s-private-schools-pjr6692bq</a> "Chinese buy up more of England’s private schools", "Chinese investors have secured another foothold in the English private school sector with the £150 million purchase of CATS colleges."</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="confucius-institute"><a class="anchor" href="#confucius-institute"></a><a class="link" href="#confucius-institute">5.17.1. Confucius institute (孔子学院)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/孔子学院" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/孔子学院</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News and reports:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-09 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49511231" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49511231</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191013185933/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49511231">archive</a>) "Confucius Institutes: The growth of China’s controversial cultural branch"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-01 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2019/01/11/u-s-universities-have-shut-down-confucius-institutes-heres-what-you-need-to-know/" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2019/01/11/u-s-universities-have-shut-down-confucius-institutes-heres-what-you-need-to-know/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190616134959/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2019/01/11/u-s-universities-have-shut-down-confucius-institutes-heres-what-you-need-to-know/">archive</a>) "Why U.S. universities are shutting down China-funded Confucius Institutes"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="university-espionage"><a class="anchor" href="#university-espionage"></a><a class="link" href="#university-espionage">5.17.2. University espionage (大学间谍)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-02-08 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/8/uk-academics-investigated-over-china-military-research-report" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/8/uk-academics-investigated-over-china-military-research-report</a> "Nearly 200 British academics at more than 12 universities in the United Kingdom are being investigated on suspicion of unwittingly helping the Chinese government build weapons of mass destruction"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06-12 <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/fifty-four-scientists-have-lost-their-jobs-result-nih-probe-foreign-ties" class="bare">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/fifty-four-scientists-have-lost-their-jobs-result-nih-probe-foreign-ties</a> "Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties" and "In 93% of those cases, the hidden funding came from a Chinese institution." and "In the vast majority of cases, Lauer reported, the person being investigated has been an Asian man in his 50s."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1262441045197049856.html" class="bare">https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1262441045197049856.html</a> List of professors around America caught selling secret research to the Chinese Communist Regime</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-11-17 Song Guo Zheng, Ohio State University</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/song-guo-zheng-md-phd-48893641/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/song-guo-zheng-md-phd-48893641/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MhjbiKIAAAAJ&hl=en" class="bare">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MhjbiKIAAAAJ&hl=en</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09 Haizhou Hu from University of Virginia: <a href="https://www.cbs19news.com/story/42560934/uva-researcher-arrested-on-federal-charges" class="bare">https://www.cbs19news.com/story/42560934/uva-researcher-arrested-on-federal-charges</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-07 Houston consulate closed due to alllegations of facilitating intellectual property theft without public proof</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53497193" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53497193</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/us-chinese-diplomat-restrictions/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/us-chinese-diplomat-restrictions/index.html</a> "US imposes new restrictions on Chinese diplomats" has been another direct effect of this most likely</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-07 Juan Tang</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/23/chinese-researcher-wanted-by-fbi-flees-to-san-francisco-consulate-as-us-china-row-deepens" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/23/chinese-researcher-wanted-by-fbi-flees-to-san-francisco-consulate-as-us-china-row-deepens</a> "Chinese researcher wanted by FBI flees to San Francisco consulate as US-China row deepens"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3094511/us-charges-four-scientists-hiding-ties-chinese-government" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3094511/us-charges-four-scientists-hiding-ties-chinese-government</a> has her PLA photos</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020 Hao Zhang: <a href="https://www.voanews.com/usa/chinese-professor-convicted-stealing-trade-secrets-china" class="bare">https://www.voanews.com/usa/chinese-professor-convicted-stealing-trade-secrets-china</a> from Avago and Skyworks</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020 Charles Lieber</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00291-2" class="bare">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00291-2</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Lieber" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Lieber</a> he had won a Wolf Prize in Chemistry</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019 Shih Yi-chi from UCLA</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yi-chi-shih-9884bb20/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/yi-chi-shih-9884bb20/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3017017/us-federal-court-finds-chinese-american-engineer-shih-yi-chi-guilty" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3017017/us-federal-court-finds-chinese-american-engineer-shih-yi-chi-guilty</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="german-high-school-coordinator-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#german-high-school-coordinator-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#german-high-school-coordinator-2020">5.17.3. Chinese student coordinator in Germany tells exchange students not to support democracy (2020, 德国学校开班会4反对民主)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>YET UNCONFIRMED VIDEO, we have to find who that person is exactly.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The video shows what seems to be Chinese a high school dorm coordinator saying that their Chinese exchange students must stay away from ideas <a href="#democracy">Democracy (民主)</a> and freedom.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And remember that "democracy" and "freedom" are two of the <a href="#core-socialist-values">Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)</a>!</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOArB434ykU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOArB434ykU</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/508">GitHub reupload</a>)</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/aOArB434ykU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First ripped from uploader’s <a href="#tiktok">Douyin</a> account named Michael_c118, who also appears to be the person on the video.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Original proeminent report on the West: 2020-10-04 <a href="https://twitter.com/SDeutschlands/status/1312682617888796673" class="bare">https://twitter.com/SDeutschlands/status/1312682617888796673</a> by "Voice From Germany 德國之音"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://m.yorkbbs.ca/forum/chat/5228712.aspx" class="bare">https://m.yorkbbs.ca/forum/chat/5228712.aspx</a> contains reported screenshots of the Douyin profile (no web interface it seems), include a clear face shot.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Video also commented at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-10-31 <a href="https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=60076&snA=5984833" class="bare">https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=60076&snA=5984833</a> from our friends from <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-10-25 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/jhx2mc/chinese_student_coordinator_in_germany_talking_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/jhx2mc/chinese_student_coordinator_in_germany_talking_to/</a> on <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-19-04 <a href="https://twitter.com/HKokbore/status/1312802503956848641" class="bare">https://twitter.com/HKokbore/status/1312802503956848641</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Key markings:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"德国学校开班会4"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"This man is a coordinator of Chinese high school students who study in Germany"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"We have to say there’s some problems in our dorm right now"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Hujo_DR/status/1312793758203748357/photo/1" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Hujo_DR/status/1312793758203748357/photo/1</a> is a screenshot of the Douyin profile showing a phone number, which looks like a Chinese number due to prefix 139: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_China#Mobile_phones" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_China#Mobile_phones</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The screnshots posted on yorkbbs link him to "北京智享德意国际教育" (Beijing Zhixiang German/Italian International Education).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Googling "北京智享德意国际教育 linkedin" leads to UNCONFIRMED a Yun Xiao <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaoyun79/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaoyun79/</a> | <a href="https://archive.vn/CzZft" class="bare">https://archive.vn/CzZft</a> which is not marked as working in the above organization, but could be the person in the video based on the profile picture (uncertain), and also works with education, thus the Google hit at his current organization (北京智晗未来教育咨询有限公司).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Searching for Google exact hits to "北京智享德意国际教育" leads to <a href="https://www.tianyancha.com/company/3283146644" class="bare">https://www.tianyancha.com/company/3283146644</a> which rejects foreign visits as of 2020-10-26, shows up on Google cache at <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AihPPyAAZr8J:https://www.tianyancha.com/company/3283146644+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu">on 2020-10-21</a> (<a href="https://archive.vn/xCfBQ">archive</a>).</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="thousand-talents-program"><a class="anchor" href="#thousand-talents-program"></a><a class="link" href="#thousand-talents-program">5.17.4. Thousand Talents Program (千人计划)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/海外高层次人才引进计划" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/海外高层次人才引进计划</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> believes that this is exactly the type of thing that poor countries need to do to get richer: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/what-poor-countries-have-to-do-to-get-richer" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/what-poor-countries-have-to-do-to-get-richer</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But we can’t allow China to do it because China is a <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="cssa"><a class="anchor" href="#cssa"></a><a class="link" href="#cssa">5.17.5. Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA, 中国学生学者联合会)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Students_and_Scholars_Association" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Students_and_Scholars_Association</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Abbreviation: CSSA.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News and reports:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-10-13 <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-13/cssa-influence-australian-universities-documents-revealed/11587454" class="bare">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-13/cssa-influence-australian-universities-documents-revealed/11587454</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191014032348/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-13/cssa-influence-australian-universities-documents-revealed/11587454">archive</a>) "Chinese Students and Scholars Association’s deep links to the embassy revealed" in Australia.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-03-07 <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches-into-american-campuses-chinese-students-scholars-association-university-communist-party/" class="bare">https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches-into-american-campuses-chinese-students-scholars-association-university-communist-party/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191012103953/https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches-into-american-campuses-chinese-students-scholars-association-university-communist-party/">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="ufwd"><a class="anchor" href="#ufwd"></a><a class="link" href="#ufwd">5.17.6. United Front Work Department (UFWD, 中共中央统一战线工作部)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Front_Work_Department" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Front_Work_Department</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中共中央统一战线工作部" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中共中央统一战线工作部</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China’s "Diaspora management" organ.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The likely organizers behind <a href="#confucius-institute">Confucius institute (孔子学院)</a>, <a href="#cssa">Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA, 中国学生学者联合会)</a>, and likely several forms of <a href="#astroturfing">Astroturfing</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="united-front"><a class="anchor" href="#united-front"></a><a class="link" href="#united-front">5.17.6.1. United Front (政治协商制度)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Front_(China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Front_(China</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="astroturfing"><a class="anchor" href="#astroturfing"></a><a class="link" href="#astroturfing">5.17.7. Astroturfing</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="soft-power"><a class="anchor" href="#soft-power"></a><a class="link" href="#soft-power">5.17.7.1. Soft power (软实力)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/软实力" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/软实力</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship"><a class="anchor" href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship"></a><a class="link" href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">5.18. What should pro-democracy Chinese living in China do about the dictatorship? 想要民主住在中国大陆的人应该干什么？</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First of all, hide and stay safe, unless you can deal the final blow. From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War">World at war, 1973</a>, ep. 16:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A dictatorship is like a snake. If you put your foot on its tail as you do it, it will just bite you and nobody will be helped. You have to strike the head.<br>
独裁就像一条蛇。 如果你在这样做的时候把脚放在它的尾巴上，它只会咬你，没有人会得到帮助。 你必须击打头部。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once that is taken care of, a few good options are:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>hide your thoughts, manipulate your enemies, infiltrate the corporate, political and military power circles, and go up the ladder</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>if you are an technological innovator, leave China and come work for the West. Don’t strengthen commie power.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Alternatively, with technology you could also try the anonymous rebellion route, but the risk of getting caught is significant, leaving the country first is likely a good idea. See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you don’t manage to do either of the above, don’t do any technological work. Go work on the fields or washing dishes. Working well for Chinese companies makes the Chinese <a href="#dictatorship">Dictatorship</a> stronger and <a href="#war">more deadly</a>. See also: <a href="#embargo">Embargoes make dictatorships stronger (禁运使独裁更强大)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And regardless: remind your kids that the commies are bastards every day.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xiao-bin">Xiao Bin (Tiananmen witness, 肖斌, 六四证人)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="lu-xun-petition" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Lu_Xun_1930_petition.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Lu Xun 1930 petition" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 75. Petition quote by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun">Lu Xun</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/鲁迅">鲁迅</a>) 1926. Original quote: "请愿虽然是无论那一国度里常有的事，不至于死的事，但我们已经知道中国是例外，除非你能将’枪林弹雨’消除。" (Petitions are a common thing in any country, it is not something that results in death. But we already know that China is an exception, unless you can avoid a "barrage of bullets"."). Visible e.g. at <a href="https://www.marxists.org/chinese/reference-books/luxun/09/016.htm" class="bare">https://www.marxists.org/chinese/reference-books/luxun/09/016.htm</a> but also at <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/54231137/answer/277760001" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/54231137/answer/277760001</a> 鲁迅的文字有多一针见血？ (How sharp is Lu Xun’s writing? that answerer dude has balls! A chenyu is used: <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/枪林弹雨/31136" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/枪林弹雨/31136</a> <a href="https://www.marxists.org/chinese/reference-books/luxun/09/016.htm">枪林弹雨</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="reply-policy"><a class="anchor" href="#reply-policy"></a><a class="link" href="#reply-policy">5.19. Ciro Santilli’s reply policy (三西猴的回答政策)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People get kind of passionate sometimes about politics. And some of them might also be just malicious <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a>, although it is generally not possible to distinguish between them.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you are not a wumao, consider this:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Ciro Santilli is one, and antagonists are millions. It is therefore not possible to reply to all antagonists.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Ciro has in the past tried to be nice to stupid people, and they gave nasty replies</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>all discussion is useless, <a href="#effective">only the keyword attack has any chance of having any effect, and even that is slim</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In order to not waste too much time on those, Ciro Santilli uses the following strategy.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If the original thread post is not very interesting, try to parse it quickly and reply once, always <a href="#better-to-do">linking to the FAQ</a>, and then unfollow the thread. This shows that you’re still alive, and takes little effort.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Always quote reply, and always write down the ID of the OP on your reply, because discussions like this lead to a large number of comment and account deletions, which could make your reply not make much sense without the context.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After the link addressing anything that they might have said, add three randomly selected images from this repository to it. This is fundamental because the average <a href="#little-pink">Little pink (小粉紅, 小紅粉, 兔友)</a> does not speak English. Therefore writing is pointless.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Meme images, however, cross the language barrier beautifully. It is even better if they have Chinese captions.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For websites that don’t accept image on comments, we just have to revert to <a href="random-links" class="bare">random-links</a> to start with.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another way to see it is that we are creating a harder to censor <a href="#instagram">Instagram</a> channel.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can think of them metaphorically as throwing hand grenades over the <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a>. Ciro strives to add the following elements in the image itself where applicable:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>English explanation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chinese explanation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>date</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>location</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Because the <a href="#censorship">CCP censors politics</a>, and the West does not, we can never "lose" a shitargument. Even if the <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> supports his country in a thread, just being in the same thread as the censored material could already be problematic for the wumao, as it is proof that they’ve seen something they should not have seen.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Therefore the only option for them is to run away.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Finally, also try to extract the email of the user from one of their repositories. When successful, Ciro takes a <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> snapshot of the repository as proof of SHA, and then forks it to <a href="https://github.com/wumaoland" class="bare">https://github.com/wumaoland</a> to possibly keep their email safe in case of account deletion. You never know when this information might be useful.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then, after replying, do your best never to read the inevitable reply again, and above all, never ever reply. An interesting reply never follows from a non-interesting original post. It is hard at first, but you will eventually get the hang of it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If the user keeps generating notifications, block them as per <a href="CONTRIBUTING.md" class="bare">CONTRIBUTING.md</a>, replying to a single person multiple times is useless.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Never block users for an initial <a href="#shitpost">shitposts</a>, just reply with a stupid joke instead. This approach creates more uncertainty and makes you look cooler. It also allows you to identify who the enemy is. Only block if the user is generating multiple notifications.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If a shitpost is made on most other social media except GitHub issues in this repository, e.g. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, immediately block the user on that website if you have the permission to do that, with a canned reply:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hi <idiot’s name>, I don’t reply to China issues here, please open an issue at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues</a> instead, cheers.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Note however that this is not possible on idiotic websites like <a href="#quora">Quora</a> where such comments may be deleted, possibly automatically, who the fuck knows, e.g. as done at: <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-walked-around-Beijing-with-a-t-shirt-that-said-freedom-of-speech-is-pretty-great/answer/Ciro-Santilli/comment/143227962" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-walked-around-Beijing-with-a-t-shirt-that-said-freedom-of-speech-is-pretty-great/answer/Ciro-Santilli/comment/143227962</a> In that case just link to sections of the FAQ, or mute people, or maybe just block all comments on the post to not waste time with new useless notifications.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is because it is not worth answering anywhere else where the information will be scattered and impossible to find later on, and especially on websites that are already blocked in China. Shitposts on Stack Overflow and other non-blocked websites are encouraged however, as they further help to get the website blocked in China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For outbursts of activity from Chinese websites, usually programming (<a href="#backlinks">v2ex, hacpai, pincong</a>), only post the following canned answer and nothing else, because cowards/people who don’t know English from the website might delete your posts, so you shouldn’t waste time there with that shit:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>大家你好</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>在我的GitHub中国FAQ repository我已经回答了好几个关于我常见的问题。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>你们要是在那儿找不到一个回答，请在那个repository开一个issue，我马上就回答。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我不要再在这个网页评论。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Finally, don’t forget the golden rule from <a href="https://biblehub.com/proverbs/26-4.htm">Proverbs 26:4</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which is now usually seen in the form <a href="https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/66460/origin-of-do-not-argue-with-idiots">of unclear attribution</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Where basically idiot == someone who creates posts that obviously aren’t teaching you any new useful thing, or that not praising you :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Alternatively, there is also the Chinese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengyu">chengyu</a> version:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>对牛弹琴</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which means:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Playing the <a href="#music">qin</a> to a cow.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which means to talk to someone who does not have intellectual conditions of understanding what you are trying to say, bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-idiom-playing-the-qin-to-a-cow_766205.html" class="bare">https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-idiom-playing-the-qin-to-a-cow_766205.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/对牛弹琴/3490" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/对牛弹琴/3490</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More <a href="#wumao">wumao</a> focused strategies at: <a href="#how-to-deal-with-wumaos">How to deal with wumaos (如何应对五毛)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/733" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/733</a> by <a href="https://github.com/newcih" class="bare">https://github.com/newcih</a> is an interesting issue. OP has managed to close and change the issue title despite being blocked. Is he raising support tickets? Or can blocked people do that now? E.g. note towards <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/733#event-5930333327" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/733#event-5930333327</a> how cirosantilli managed to reopen twice without any visible closes in the middle. They also have a Twitter BTW: <a href="https://twitter.com/newcih2020/status/1520405835679109120" class="bare">https://twitter.com/newcih2020/status/1520405835679109120</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Play_qin_to_cow.png" loading="lazy" alt="Play qin to cow" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 76. Cartoon depiction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengyu">chengyu</a> "Playing the <a href="#music">qin</a> to a cow" 《对牛弹琴》. <a href="https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/438181067.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Someone_is_wrong_on_the_Internet.png" loading="lazy" alt="Someone is wrong on the Internet" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 77. XKCD 386 "Duty Calls" and the famous "Someone is wrong on the Internet" quote. It is a waste of time to be like that. <a href="https://xkcd.com/386/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="asymmetric-information-warfare"><a class="anchor" href="#asymmetric-information-warfare"></a><a class="link" href="#asymmetric-information-warfare">5.19.1. Asymmetric information warfare (不对称信息战)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a term "invented" by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> to denote the type of <a href="#dictatorships-tend-to-work-together">democracy vs dictatorship</a> propaganda warfare that naturally emerges.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship</a> has <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a> and legions of possibly non-anonymous supporters. Although most supporters are <a href="#anonymous-account-ban">actually anonymous anyways</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the anti-censorship democracy has memes, and a few anonymous supporters, due to the <a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This concept is a mixture of the concepts of:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare">asymmetric warfare</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare">information warfare</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This phenomena can also be very clearly seen on the differences between the international propaganda of each side:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the anti-censorship democracy side, e.g. <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a>, creates "the dictatorship is bad" propaganda that is censored in the dictatorship and targeted at people people in the dictatorship</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the censorship side, e.g. <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a>, creates "the dictatorship is good" propaganda that is targeted at people people outside the dictatorship</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Pokemon_political_meme_little_pink_super_effective.png" loading="lazy" alt="Pokemon political meme little pink super effective" height="1200">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 78. <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-super-effective">It’s Super Effective!</a> meme by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> describing how he deals with <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> and <a href="#little-pink">little pinks</a>. Humour is the greatest weapon against dictators, and images help cross the language barrier. Composition CC BY-SA 2021, fair use on copyrighted individual elements.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Pokemon_political_meme_little_pink_super_effective_zh.png" loading="lazy" alt="Pokemon political meme little pink super effective zh" height="1200">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 79. Chinese translation of the above.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="ciro-santilli-blocks-wumaos"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santilli-blocks-wumaos"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santilli-blocks-wumaos">5.19.2. Ciro Santilli censors wumaos, therefore he is no different from the Chinese government (三西猴审查五毛，因此他与中国政府没有什么不同)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Those who support political <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a> deserve to be censored themselves to get a taste of their own medicine.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, unlike the Chinese government, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> does never delete messages. Only prevents more bullshit spam from the same users. This is basically an inevitable part of <a href="#asymmetric-information-warfare">Asymmetric information warfare (不对称信息战)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="china-dictatorship-reply-bot"><a class="anchor" href="#china-dictatorship-reply-bot"></a><a class="link" href="#china-dictatorship-reply-bot">5.19.3. china-dictatorship reply bot</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The bot was taken down on September 2024: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1330" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1330</a> after complaints from wumaos because GitHub forbids action reply on comment even though that was using minimal resources.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Due to the nature of <a href="#asymmetric-information-warfare">Asymmetric information warfare (不对称信息战)</a>, Ciro has created a reply bot based on <a href="#github">GitHub</a> Actions that does the above automatically, therefore handling 99% of the work, see:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="action.js" class="bare">action.js</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href=".github/workflows/issue.yml" class="bare">.github/workflows/issue.yml</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The bot works beautifully because it makes Ciro not feel the need to reply to every idiot <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> that comes along. Also Ciro can hide like a coward behind the bot by editing the bot’s comment, which is perfect. This reminded Ciro from something that was said in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul">Better Call Saul</a> S01 E01:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And they find themselves in a little room with a detective who acts like he’s their best friend.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Talk to me," he says. "Help me clear this thing up."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"You don’t need a lawyer, only guilty people need lawyers."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And, boom, hey, that’s when it all goes south.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That’s when you want someone in your corner.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Someone who will fight tooth and nail.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lawyers, we’re like health insurance.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You hope you never need it, but, man, oh, man, not having it? No.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The bot is basically Ciro’s lawyer, always loyally on his corner of the fighting ring.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is only one bug with the bot as of 2021: if a <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> with unverified email makes several comments very fast, only the first one generates the reply, see e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli/actions/runs/1097719382" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli/actions/runs/1097719382</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli/issues/52#issuecomment-892632342" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli/issues/52#issuecomment-892632342</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro is however curious how those unverified accounts can comment at all, as that seemd impossible when he last tried it with a dummy account, to be confirmed.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="who-is-behind-this-amazing-faq"><a class="anchor" href="#who-is-behind-this-amazing-faq"></a><a class="link" href="#who-is-behind-this-amazing-faq">5.20. Who is behind this amazing FAQ? (谁是这个惊人的常见问题解答的幕后推手？)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="ciro-santilli"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santilli"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santilli">5.20.1. Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Original creator of <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Ciro_Santilli.png" loading="lazy" alt="Ciro Santilli" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 80. Ciro testing his webcam for <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/348838/how-to-check-available-webcams-from-the-command-line/848390#848390">an Ask Ubuntu answer</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="wife"><a class="anchor" href="#wife"></a><a class="link" href="#wife">5.20.1.1. Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Born and raised in China: <a href="#why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much">Why does Ciro Santilli love China so much? (为什么三西猴喜欢中国那么多？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>She and her mother do <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, see also: <a href="#flg-bias">Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong just because his wife and mother-in-law do it? (三西猴是否仅仅因为他的妻子和岳母就支持法轮功？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Believes to be descendant of the brother of a recent Qing emperor, see also: <a href="#throne">Ciro Santilli’s claim to the Qing Dynasty throne (三西猴清朝皇帝觊觎)</a>.</p>
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<p>For this same reason, her father, who Ciro’s wife worships, spent around 10 years in the 50’s for being branded a counter revolutionary rightist (右派) during one of <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao’s</a> purges, possibly:</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_Suppress_Counterrevolutionaries" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_Suppress_Counterrevolutionaries</a> <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/镇压反革命运动" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/镇压反革命运动</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rightist_Campaign" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rightist_Campaign</a> <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/反右运动" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/反右运动</a></p>
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<p>It is also for this reason that many Manchu changed their names to hide their Manchu origins, which makes reconstructing their family tree much harder, as mentioned at: <a href="https://www.scmp.com/article/982136/proud-manchu-reclaims-his-rich-heritage" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/article/982136/proud-manchu-reclaims-his-rich-heritage</a> for the purposes of <a href="#throne">Ciro Santilli’s claim to the Qing Dynasty throne (三西猴清朝皇帝觊觎)</a>.</p>
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<p>Ciro’s wife:</p>
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<p>studied in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Science_and_Technology_of_China">one of the best universities of China</a></p>
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<p>met Ciro his wife when they were in possibly the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_Polytechnique">best engineering university in France</a> after she had refused opportunities to go to the USA</p>
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<p>obtained a PhD in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory">number theory</a> in one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_and_Marie_Curie_University">best mathematics universities in the world</a></p>
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<p>and is way smarter than Ciro.</p>
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<p><a href="#wumao">Wumaos</a> can say many things about her, but claiming that she is not intelligent or has no culture or would have any difficulty in obtaining a qualified worker VISA without a marriage, is a lost argument from the start, she would likely kick your butt in a raw intelligence competition.</p>
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<p>Ciro is actually the lucky one for having found her!</p>
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<p>The fake "the woman makes the man" Obama story comes to mind <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spousal-success-story/" class="bare">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spousal-success-story/</a> (Obama would never say that in public):</p>
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<p>One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn’t too luxurious. When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the President’s Secret Service if he could please speak to the First Lady in private. They obliged and Michelle had a conversation with the owner.</p>
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<p>Following this conversation President Obama asked Michelle, "Why was he so interested in talking to you?" She mentioned that in her teenage years, he had been madly in love with her. President Obama then said, "So if you had married him, you would now be the owner of this lovely restaurant," to which Michelle responded, "No. If I had married him, he would now be the President."</p>
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<p>Less "China-related" remarks at: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/ciro-santilli-s-wife" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/ciro-santilli-s-wife</a></p>
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<h3 id="how-do-different-websites-view-ciro-santilli-s-profile"><a class="anchor" href="#how-do-different-websites-view-ciro-santilli-s-profile"></a><a class="link" href="#how-do-different-websites-view-ciro-santilli-s-profile">5.21. How do different websites view Ciro Santilli’s profile? (不同的网站如何看来 Ciro Santilli 的个人资料？)</a></h3>
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<p><a href="#meant-to-be-used">Politics should not be posted in technical websites such as GitHub or Stack Overflow 不应该在技术网站例如Stack Overflow和GitHub讨论政治</a> contains a more general overview. This contains website specifics.</p>
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<h4 id="stack-overflow"><a class="anchor" href="#stack-overflow"></a><a class="link" href="#stack-overflow">5.21.1. Stack Overflow</a></h4>
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<p>Stack Overflow is where <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> started his <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a> originally in 2015 as explained at: <a href="#why-did-ciro-santilli-start-his-keyword-attack">Why did Ciro Santilli start his keyword attack? (为什么三西猴开始他的关键字攻击？)</a>.</p>
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<p>For non-programmers, Stack Overflow is by far the leading programmer question and answer forum of the Internet.</p>
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<p>A programmer’s daily job involves asking Google about 50 times a day "how to do X", and 90% of the time or more the best answer will be found on the Stack Overflow result that will be one of the top 3 results.</p>
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<p>This makes Stack Overflow a fundamental tool of every programmer’s daily jobs.</p>
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<p>The current community consensus says that keyword attacks are allowed:</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267368/are-political-avatars-and-profiles-ok" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267368/are-political-avatars-and-profiles-ok</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/299882/can-a-username-be-considered-spam" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/299882/can-a-username-be-considered-spam</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/349131/users-political-display-name-triggering-government-action-against-users-who-vie" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/349131/users-political-display-name-triggering-government-action-against-users-who-vie</a></p>
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<p>However, you can’t say "Public figure X is disgusting as a person" so <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a>s, could you please report Ciro making fun of Xi Jinping X and see what they do about it?</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361486/can-i-say-on-my-profile-that-i-find-that-an-ex-president-of-a-country-or-other" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361486/can-i-say-on-my-profile-that-i-find-that-an-ex-president-of-a-country-or-other</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286082/does-the-be-nice-policy-require-se-users-to-be-nice-to-people-who-are-not-se-u" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286082/does-the-be-nice-policy-require-se-users-to-be-nice-to-people-who-are-not-se-u</a></p>
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<p>Reposts:</p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1365409005561147397" class="bare">https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1365409005561147397</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/lt8ij5/in_stack_overflow_if_is_currently_not_allowed_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/lt8ij5/in_stack_overflow_if_is_currently_not_allowed_to/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeSpeech/comments/lt92ni/in_stack_overflow_if_is_currently_not_allowed_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeSpeech/comments/lt92ni/in_stack_overflow_if_is_currently_not_allowed_to/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lta1f8/if_a_politician_has_committed_genocide_can_i_say/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lta1f8/if_a_politician_has_committed_genocide_can_i_say/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/fucktheccp/comments/ltgdpu/leading_programmer_website_stack_overflow_does/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/fucktheccp/comments/ltgdpu/leading_programmer_website_stack_overflow_does/</a></p>
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<p>Oh, and you can’t criticize God either! <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/231334/is-it-acceptable-to-insult-god-in-a-user-profile" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/231334/is-it-acceptable-to-insult-god-in-a-user-profile</a></p>
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<p>The Chinese law doesn’t allow Ciro’s profile unfortunately: <a href="#real-username-law">Real username law (2015)</a></p>
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<p>Since you will fail through Stack Overflow moderation, please consider instead making a report on the <a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a>.</p>
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<p>Some non-political China related stuff on Stack Overflow:</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421453/i-have-found-16-809-similar-inappropriate-user-profiles-there-are-more-now" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421453/i-have-found-16-809-similar-inappropriate-user-profiles-there-are-more-now</a> Ciro had previously noticed these mass spambot accounts when searching for something</p>
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<h5 id="stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping"><a class="anchor" href="#stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping"></a><a class="link" href="#stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping">5.21.1.1. Stack Overflow forbids criticizing the character of genocidal political leaders like Xi Jinping</a></h5>
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<p>Edit: as was made clearer later on at <a href="#stack-overflow-mods-refuse-to-clarify-if-anti-ccp-imagery-is-allowed-or-not-2021">Stack Overflow mods refuse to clarify if anti-CCP imagery is allowed or not (2021)</a>, they just generally refuse to say clearly what is allowed or not.</p>
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<p>Ciro was actually quite shocked by this.</p>
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<p>He thought more people on Stack Overflow would have sided with him and favored stronger freedom of speech.</p>
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<p>But this event made him notice that people in Stack Overflow simply didn’t push back against Ciro’s anti Xi Jinping campaign because they don’t know who the fuck Xi Jinping is, or they don’t care, or they are completely hypocrite and allow criticizing Xi Jinping but not Trump.</p>
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<p>But they do know who Trump is, and "offending Trump" makes their feeble little feelings be hurt, and they must maintain their sacred "<a href="#politically-incorrect">political correctness</a>" at all costs, even when talking about politicians. Including that the cost of freedom.</p>
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<p>This therefore morally justifies the take-down attempts made by hundreds of <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a>s against Ciro’s anti Xi Jinping content.</p>
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<p>First by initiative of Stack Overflow employee <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/508266/cesar-m">Cesar Manara (Brazilian)</a>, the sentence:</p>
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<p>I think Trump is disgusting as a person</p>
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<p>was removed from Ciro’s profile and notified.</p>
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<p>In response, Ciro created a meta thread to confirm that the community agreed, and they did: <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361486/can-i-say-on-my-profile-that-i-find-that-an-ex-president-of-a-country-or-other">Can I say on my profile that I find that an (ex) president of a country or other major political public figure is “disgusting as a person”?</a> and the community agreed with the removal: it reached only 5 upvotes and 25 downvotes. Ciro’s profile at the time was linked to Trump’s ban on social media: <a href="trump-ban-is-bad.md" class="bare">trump-ban-is-bad.md</a>.</p>
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<p>Ciro then created <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361493/if-a-politician-has-committed-genocide-can-i-say-on-my-profile-they-look-like-w">If a politician has committed genocide, can I say on my profile they look like Winnie-the-Pooh to insult them because they hate that?</a> was it was also mostly downvoted, and deleted, without any answer. Archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210227034430/https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361493/if-a-politician-has-committed-genocide-can-i-say-on-my-profile-they-look-like-w" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210227034430/https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361493/if-a-politician-has-committed-genocide-can-i-say-on-my-profile-they-look-like-w</a> also reproduced at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/198#issuecomment-787047672" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/198#issuecomment-787047672</a> The deletion voters were:</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/215590/polygeo" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/215590/polygeo</a> (Australia, big Geographic Information System person, real name based on <a href="https://polygeo.com.au/elearning-videos/" class="bare">https://polygeo.com.au/elearning-videos/</a> "Graeme Browning")</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/135565/journeyman-geek" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/135565/journeyman-geek</a> (Singapore). Site elected admin at the time, which implies that his deletion cannot be undone by non-admins. TODO are they born in Singapore? If yes they might also be pro Xi Jinping, which is a clear conflict of interest with freedom of speech. But their English sounds perfect, so Ciro is not sure if it is common for Singapore natives or not.</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/140890/martijn-pieters" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/140890/martijn-pieters</a> (UK, lots of Python rep)</p>
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<p>There was no yes/no answer by anyone, because the of cowardice and hypocrisy:</p>
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<p>saying "you can" would imply you can criticize Trump</p>
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<p>saying "you can’t" would imply they support genocide</p>
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<p>So their brains just tilted, and they clicked the "delete" button as the only possible resolution. The overly speedy deletion of posts was then raised as an issue two days later for an unrelated post: <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405585/can-we-slow-down-on-the-deletes-on-meta-folks" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405585/can-we-slow-down-on-the-deletes-on-meta-folks</a></p>
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<p>Then Ciro created an answer to <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286082/does-the-be-nice-policy-require-se-users-to-be-nice-to-people-who-are-not-se-u/361497#361497">"Does the Be Nice policy require SE users to “be nice” to people who are not SE users (e.g. public figures)?"</a> which is a superset of the previous ones referred by them. That post is reproduced at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/198#issuecomment-787047242" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/198#issuecomment-787047242</a> It cites the case in which the law was tested, but it was single-handedly by journeyman-geek (from Singapore) without any justification.</p>
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<p>Ciro then finally updated his profile picture to contain <a href="#xi-pooh-photoshop">Real photo of Xi Jinping edited to look like Winnie the Pooh. Source.</a>, archive at: <a href="https://archive.vn/iV1L8" class="bare">https://archive.vn/iV1L8</a> to test the Winnie-the-Pooh case which people simply refused to answer. Let’s see show that goes. As Ciro learned however, only wumaos will continue to complain, and due to hypocrisy their complaints will be ignored.</p>
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<p>Other users who publicly went against freedom of speech in that case (in the name of "political correctness"):</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/665544/bad-coder" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/665544/bad-coder</a> ("West") replied at: <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361486/can-i-say-on-my-profile-that-i-find-that-an-ex-president-of-a-country-or-other/361495#361495" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361486/can-i-say-on-my-profile-that-i-find-that-an-ex-president-of-a-country-or-other/361495#361495</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/798831/ollie" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/798831/ollie</a> comments, ciro replies, they delete comment, comments, ciro reply, they delete comment…​ ciro gives up</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361486/can-i-say-on-my-profile-that-i-find-that-an-ex-president-of-a-country-or-other?noredirect=1#comment1206900_361486" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361486/can-i-say-on-my-profile-that-i-find-that-an-ex-president-of-a-country-or-other?noredirect=1#comment1206900_361486</a> wants to close as duplicate of uber generic <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/208551/offensive-profiles-where-to-draw-the-line/208553#208553" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/208551/offensive-profiles-where-to-draw-the-line/208553#208553</a> and says:</p>
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<p>we don’t have to host or pay directly or indirectly to support your opinion. That’s well established policy"</p>
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<p>Freedom of speech in social media is truly threatened by the <a href="#politically-incorrect">Censorship of "politically incorrect speech" (审查政治不正确言论)</a>.</p>
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<p>Related issue: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/198" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/198</a></p>
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<h5 id="stack-overflow-political-image-answer-placeholder-2021"><a class="anchor" href="#stack-overflow-political-image-answer-placeholder-2021"></a><a class="link" href="#stack-overflow-political-image-answer-placeholder-2021">5.21.1.2. Stack Overflow political image answer placeholder (2021)</a></h5>
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<p>The deleted answer was <a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/145543#145543" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/145543#145543</a></p>
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<p>It used <a href="#tank-man-cc-by-sa">Ciro Santilli’s CC By-SA Tank Man image</a>.</p>
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<p>Of course, once again, just like mentioned at <a href="#stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping">Stack Overflow forbids criticizing the character of genocidal political leaders like Xi Jinping</a>, people prefer to:</p>
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<p>feel safe and good in their fake cocoon rather than have freedom. While people are dying, right now, in <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a></p>
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<p>being fully inclusive means being inclusive to dictatorship supporters</p>
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<p>No archives unfortunately, but:</p>
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<p>reproduced at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/269" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/269</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/145543#145543" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/145543#145543</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210501090745/https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/147400#147400">archive</a>) identical politically correct one</p>
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<p>analogous to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20737061/merge-images-side-by-sidehorizontally/63575228#63575228" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20737061/merge-images-side-by-sidehorizontally/63575228#63575228</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210430195552/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20737061/merge-images-side-by-sidehorizontally/63575228#63575228">archive</a>)</p>
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<p>The full moderation team at the time can be seen publicly at <a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210126143732/https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/41100/piebie">archive</a>) and it also contains:</p>
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<p><a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/41100/piebie" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/41100/piebie</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210126143732/https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/41100/piebie">archive</a>) Real name: Pieter Biesemans, a front-end developer from Belgium: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieter-biesemans/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieter-biesemans/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/18168/curious" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/18168/curious</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210430203036/https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/18168/curious">archive</a>) Anonymous, from Canada.</p>
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<p><a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/19174/wrzlprmft" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/19174/wrzlprmft</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210430203038/https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/19174/wrzlprmft">archive</a>) Gerrit Ansmann, a brain researcher from Bonn University, Germany: <a href="https://idw-online.de/de/news646752" class="bare">https://idw-online.de/de/news646752</a></p>
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<p>Deletion message:</p>
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<p>Hello,</p>
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<p>We’re writing in reference to your Graphic Design Stack Exchange account:</p>
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<p><a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/21867/ciro-santilli%e6%96%b0%e7%96%86%e6%a3%89%e8%8a%b1trump-ban-bad" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/21867/ciro-santilli%e6%96%b0%e7%96%86%e6%a3%89%e8%8a%b1trump-ban-bad</a></p>
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<p>We think you are already aware of what we are going to say, but we are going to say it anyway. Stack Exchange is an apolitical platform, and we like to keep politics as for away from our content as possible. Our little nook on the net is about Graphic Design, which has nothing to do with politics (even though it is used in the political arena all the time).</p>
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<p>We acknowledge that politic profiles are somewhat allowed as per <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267368/are-political-avatars-and-profiles-ok" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267368/are-political-avatars-and-profiles-ok</a>, although we do question the usefulness of 'campaigning' through a Stack Exchange profile.</p>
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<p>We want to draw the line however at political content. There is no need to use images or other content that might be controversial or cause emotional distress, while another image or content would serve the same function. That is why we deleted you answer on this question.</p>
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<p>We want to welcome you on our site and encourage you to keep contributing with answers. Your other answers are fine, and judging by the amount of votes, mostly well-received by the community. You may repost the answer if you can swap out the images for more neutral ones.</p>
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<p>At the same time we want to warn you that this type of content will not be tolerated in the future and further infractions may lead to more severe consequences.</p>
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<p>Thanks for your understanding an cooperation, we wish you a pleasant experience on GDSE.</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
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<p>Graphic Design Stack Exchange Moderation Team</p>
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<p>Ciro’s reply:</p>
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<p>Hi,</p>
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<p>Is this a policy specific to graphic design website, or is it network wide, and is there an open meta question for it?</p>
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<p>The mods then changed their discourse to mention spam rules rather than only on the "people will feel bad" aspect:</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/conduct">code of conduct</a>:</p>
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<p>Be inclusive and respectful.</p>
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<p>Exposing others to images of violent and traumatic events is not respectful to those on whom those images have a strong effect. This is only acceptable if the topic of the question make this inevitable, which also suffices to warn of those who are triggered by those images: Images about violent events are to be expected in a question about such events, not in a question about concatenating two images.</p>
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<p>Rules against spam:</p>
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<p>A post should be marked as spam only if it advertises a product, service, or similar and is unsolicited or lacks disclosure.
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Unsolicited means that mentioning the product serves no purpose other than promotion. […]</p>
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<p>You were promoting a political position and including the promotional content (instead of a neutral picture) served no purpose other than promotion. It’s analogous to using a picture advertising a product as an example.</p>
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<p>OK, the spam argument would likely win.</p>
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<p>Ciro then hacked the images to his <a href="#the-world-is-perfect">"The world is perfect"</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch">kitsch</a> placeholder, and mods approved it, so here we go.</p>
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<p>Ciro was planning the following meta post, but gave up on it:</p>
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<p>Can I use political images as placeholders for questions involving images when it does not affect the validity of the answer?</p>
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<p>For example when answering the following ImageMagick question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20737061/merge-images-side-by-sidehorizontally/63575228#63575228" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20737061/merge-images-side-by-sidehorizontally/63575228#63575228</a> I used an image with political content.</p>
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<p>The choice of the placeholder was completely arbitrary, and does not affect the answer in any way.</p>
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<p>But today admins of Graphic Design Stack Exchange <a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/145543#145543" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/145543#145543</a> deleted the post saying it is not allowed on the Graphic Design website.</p>
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<p>We want to draw the line however at political content. There is no need to use images or other content that might be controversial or cause emotional distress, while another image or content would serve the same function. That is why we deleted you answer on this question.</p>
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<p>The admins mention that on profiles it is OK linking to: <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267368/are-political-avatars-and-profiles-ok" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267368/are-political-avatars-and-profiles-ok</a> but on answers it is not.</p>
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<p>So I would like to clarify if:</p>
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<p>if it applies to the entire network:</p>
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<p>Can I use images of myself, Ciro Santilli, or is that currently considered political content?</p>
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<p>At <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/57389607/895245" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/a/57389607/895245</a> I needed several images, and I had used a list of USA presidents in chronological order without much thought. Do I have to modify that answer to use another set of images?</p>
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<p>and planned answer:</p>
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<p><strong>Any images that can be used on a profile picture should also usable as a placeholder</strong></p>
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<p>When you answer a question, you should have a very wide choice of what to use as a placeholder.</p>
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<p>Politics is a perfectly legal topic, just like flowers, animals, and scenery.</p>
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<p>The "can it be used on the profile picture" test should already filter out any content that is deemed unacceptable due to legal concerns.</p>
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<p>Another issue is that it is extremely difficult and possibly unfair to classify what is political or not.</p>
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<p>Suppose that Ciro Santilli became famous enough outside of programming circles such that he starts to be considered a political subject.</p>
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<p>Would his images then start to be considered political content?</p>
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<p>But that would be discriminatory against certain people and not others.</p>
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<p>Freedom of speech is extremely valuable, and we should be very careful about restricting it.</p>
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<p>There are people literally unfairly dying, right now, because they don’t have it.</p>
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<p>Do you really want to reduce yours?</p>
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<p>The only way to prevent history from repeating itself, is to remember it.</p>
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<p>Related spam meta posts:</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/what-are-the-spam-and-rude-or-abusive-offensive-flags-and-how-do-they-wor" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/what-are-the-spam-and-rude-or-abusive-offensive-flags-and-how-do-they-wor</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260638/what-is-the-exact-definition-of-spam-for-stack-overflow" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260638/what-is-the-exact-definition-of-spam-for-stack-overflow</a></p>
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<p>Let’s see how: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/380847/is-it-possible-to-translate-words-via-terminal/1309774" class="bare">https://askubuntu.com/questions/380847/is-it-possible-to-translate-words-via-terminal/1309774</a> will do, which uses the <a href="#yue-xin">Yue Xin (岳昕)</a> letter as a translation placeholder.</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 81. "The world is perfect" by Ciro Santilli, CC By-SA 4.0 (2021). After Graphics Stack Exchange forbade the usage of political images, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> created this politically correct image to serve as a censorship placeholder, and reuploaded the answer as allowed by the moderators: <a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/147400#147400" class="bare">https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/147400#147400</a>. (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210501090745/https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/147400#147400" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210501090745/https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/147400#147400</a>.[archive]) CC BY-SA 4.0, heart attribution: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corazón.svg" class="bare">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corazón.svg</a>. <a href="#os-problemas-da-imprensa-livre">Newspaper censorship cake recipe posts during the Brazilian military dictatorship</a> and <a href="#what-is-more-obscene-sex-or-war">"What is more obscene: sex or war?"</a> and <a href="#please-enjoy-this-politically-correct-cartoon">Please enjoy this politically correct cartoon</a> come strongly to mind.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 82. "The world is perfect" as used to update Ciro Santilli’s <a href="https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side/147400#147400">deleted answer</a>. Instead of redoing the tutorial from scratch, Ciro just pasted the new image on top of the old one Stack Exchange censored: <a href="#tank-man-cc-by-sa">Ciro Santilli’s CC BY-SA Tank Man image</a>. Borders of the censored image were intentionally left over however as a reminder that Stack Exchange censors. This is a work of art.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tank_Man_drawing_censored_by_Ciro_Santilli_CC_BY_SA.png" loading="lazy" alt="Tank Man drawing censored by Ciro Santilli CC BY SA" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 83. Politically correct version of <a href="#tank-man-cc-by-sa">Ciro Santilli’s CC By-SA Tank Man image</a>. This is how <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Exchange</a> wants the world to remember <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">At one point in Richard Feynman’s talk "Los Alamos from below", he describes how external letter censorship was implemented at Los Alamos, and how he went to thoroughly test the limits of what would be censored or not.</div>
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<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/p9Tv9.png" class="bare">https://i.stack.imgur.com/p9Tv9.png</a></p>
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<h5 id="stack-overflow-mods-refuse-to-clarify-if-anti-ccp-imagery-is-allowed-or-not-2021"><a class="anchor" href="#stack-overflow-mods-refuse-to-clarify-if-anti-ccp-imagery-is-allowed-or-not-2021"></a><a class="link" href="#stack-overflow-mods-refuse-to-clarify-if-anti-ccp-imagery-is-allowed-or-not-2021">5.21.1.3. Stack Overflow mods refuse to clarify if anti-CCP imagery is allowed or not (2021)</a></h5>
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<p>This one again highlights the hypocrisy of many people in the West: we decide who is good and who is evil. The CCP is now evil, so you can criticize it, even if it shocks Chinese people. Ah, Nazism shocks us, even though it is an event from the past, so that you can’t do. You can only shock the Chinese people, not us.</p>
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<p>Or: we like human rights. But not potentially disturbing someone at work even slightly is more important.</p>
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<p>Opened a meta thread for this at: <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/366163/can-i-use-images-such-as-from-tiananmen-square-protests-to-criticise-the-chinese" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/366163/can-i-use-images-such-as-from-tiananmen-square-protests-to-criticise-the-chinese</a> (<a href="https://archive.ph/56KK2">archive</a>) where the top answer was:</p>
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<p>In response, Ciro wrote the following essay on his profile page: <a href="stack-exchange-lost-freedom-of-speech.md" class="bare">stack-exchange-lost-freedom-of-speech.md</a>.</p>
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<p>The following quote from <a href="http://cirosantilli.com/ron-maimon">Ron Maimon</a> comes to mind:</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, when you’re in a minority, the only way to correct the consensus view is to just shout it, and repeat it, until people go and look and check for themselves. The reason is that it creates an adversarial atmosphere where the people have to pick sides, <strong>and they don’t like to pick sides, they would rather have everyone be happy</strong>. So when you have to pick sides, what do you do? You either butt out, you just leave it alone, you run away. Or you sit and review the evidence until you know which side to pick.</p>
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<p>Notable people who went against in the comments:</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/295232/glorfindel" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/295232/glorfindel</a> from the Netherlands commented "As the Dutch police say "if you’re asking for attention, you get attention".". No attempt to address the question at all. Just a direct "I’m right, you’re wrong, and I’m glad you were punished".</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/282094/rob" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/282094/rob</a> argues for "anything that raises enough flags should be taken down",</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/353058/holyblackcat" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/353058/holyblackcat</a> "The mods and/or SE staff might not have clear guidelines in place yet, and I bet the last thing they want to do now is to figure out such guidelines to answer your question. If you have to ask, then I would refrain from adding any of that to your profile. Let’s keep excessive politics out of SO."</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/361484/luuklag" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/361484/luuklag</a> "Nobody limits your free speech, we don’t withhold you from going out on the street and yell whatever you want. Should SE allow everything on its platform, no. That is the same as you don’t allow everything in your own house." What is it with the Netherlands? They were invaded by Hitler, and now they don’t want to support human rights?</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/135565/journeyman-geek" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/135565/journeyman-geek</a> again from <a href="#stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping">Stack Overflow forbids criticizing the character of genocidal political leaders like Xi Jinping</a></p>
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<p>Close voters and reopen voters can be seen publicly at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210609071812/https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/366163/revisions" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210609071812/https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/366163/revisions</a></p>
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<p>First close voters:</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210506210343/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/286501/pierre-vriens" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210506210343/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/286501/pierre-vriens</a> presumably from Belgium</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210609000247/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/798831/ollie" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210609000247/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/798831/ollie</a> again from <a href="#stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping">Stack Overflow forbids criticizing the character of genocidal political leaders like Xi Jinping</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210506134050/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/336163/robert-columbia" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210506134050/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/336163/robert-columbia</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210507002405/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/154443/rory-alsop" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210507002405/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/154443/rory-alsop</a> Rory Alsop from Scotland. A LinkedIn with matching name and location: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rorya/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/rorya/</a> states:</p>
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<p>I have spent most of the last 20 years not just improving technical security in large and small organisations, but improving security and risk behaviours, awareness and culture in communities."</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210609000250/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/622284/spevacus" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210609000250/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/622284/spevacus</a> "I participate in Charcoal, a user-run group that fights spam and rude/abusive content across the network. Do you hate spam? Drop by Charcoal HQ and help us catch and destroy it!". Interesting! <a href="https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector" class="bare">https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector</a></p>
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<p>First reopen voters:</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/185080/eliah-kagan" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/185080/eliah-kagan</a> Eliah Kagan, this is an awesome Ask Ubuntu dude from New York</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/377214/sonic-the-anonymous-hedgehog" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/377214/sonic-the-anonymous-hedgehog</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/707129/xnero" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/707129/xnero</a> presumably from USA based on <a href="https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/105447/xnero" class="bare">https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/105447/xnero</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/384528/forest-distrusts-stackexchange" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/384528/forest-distrusts-stackexchange</a></p>
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<p>The interesting thing is that none of them had the courage to actually say "forbid Tiananmen", "forbid Falun Gong". But they all said "forbid not suitable for work". But they won’t clarify if "not suitable for work" includes "not suitable for work in China".</p>
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<p>On 2021-05-29 <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> added almost all images from this page to his Stack Overflow account as shown at: <a href="https://archive.ph/nZLgI" class="bare">https://archive.ph/nZLgI</a></p>
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<p>On 2021-05-29 <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> was suspended from Meta Stack Exchange for 7 days as shown at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210529081019/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/200117/ciro-santilli%e6%96%b0%e7%96%86%e6%a3%89%e8%8a%b1trump-ban-bad" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210529081019/https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/200117/ciro-santilli%e6%96%b0%e7%96%86%e6%a3%89%e8%8a%b1trump-ban-bad</a> received the following message from moderators:</p>
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<p>Hello,</p>
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<p>We’re writing in reference to your Meta Stack Exchange account:</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/200117/ciro-santilli%e6%96%b0%e7%96%86%e6%a3%89%e8%8a%b1trump-ban-bad" class="bare">https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/200117/ciro-santilli%e6%96%b0%e7%96%86%e6%a3%89%e8%8a%b1trump-ban-bad</a></p>
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<p>We note that you were previously contacted for part of your profile being offensive. It has been brought to our attention that a significant part of your profile is filled with shock pictures, nazi imagery and similar images.</p>
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<p>We’d note that people do use this site at work, and while users have some freedom over the content of their profile, there are fairly obvious lines that shouldn’t be crossed.</p>
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<p>We do not recommend that you restore the content we removed - specifically the images without checking back with us.</p>
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<p>We have temporarily suspended your account; you may return after 7 days.</p>
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<p>Regards,
Meta Stack Exchange Moderation Team</p>
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<p>As can be publicly seen at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210506210320/https://stackexchange.com/about/moderators" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210506210320/https://stackexchange.com/about/moderators</a> the list of moderators of that website at the time was:</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/59303/chrisf">ChrisF</a> from the United Kingdom</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/135565/journeyman-geek">Journeyman Geek</a> who previously also showed up at: <a href="#stack-overflow-forbids-criticizing-the-character-of-genocidal-political-leaders-like-xi-jinping">Stack Overflow forbids criticizing the character of genocidal political leaders like Xi Jinping</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/369802/tinkeringbell">Tinkeringbell</a> from the Netherlands</p>
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<p>Ciro replied:</p>
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<p>Hello,</p>
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<p>Could you clarify if the following types of images are OK or not:</p>
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<p>people imprisoned in Xinjiang concentration camps</p>
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<p>Tiananmen square protests</p>
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<p>making fun of Xi Jinping</p>
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<p>Falun Gong persecution</p>
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<p>supposing that they show no explicit gore or violence?</p>
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<p>All the above are considered highly shocking to many Chinese people, due in part to their strict censorship rules, and not suitable for the workplace in China.</p>
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<p>I have been using such images for many years to criticize what I believe are terrible events in China, and the decision so far has been that I was allowed to use them.</p>
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<p>The intent of the Nazi images is clearly to compare both regimes to criticize the Chinese Government, which I believe is following the same path as the Nazis (e.g. Concentration Camps in Xinjiang, no freedom of speech, etc.), to help prevent such abuses from happening again in the future.</p>
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<p>I just want to clearly understand the rationale of of why anti-CCP images are OK, but anti-Nazi ones aren’t, so I can follow your rules correctly and save everyone’s time in the future by correctly deciding which images are OK or not.</p>
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<p>Cheers.</p>
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<p>On their next reply, they tried to dodge a directly reply, but suggested that anti-CCP imagery is forbidden:</p>
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<p>Could you clarify if the following types of images are OK or not:</p>
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<p>Its not the 'topic' but rather the content.</p>
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<p>All the above are considered highly shocking to many Chinese people, due in part to their strict censorship rules, and not suitable for the workplace in China.</p>
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<p>Well if your intent is to shock - don’t. These are your words, not ours - and hopefully reflects a better understanding of what’s not acceptable.</p>
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<p>I just want to clearly understand the rationale of of why anti-CCP images are OK, but anti-Nazi ones aren’t, so I can follow your rules correctly and save everyone’s time in the future by correctly deciding which images are OK or not.</p>
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<p>We never said that. We gave specific examples of objectionable content. If you realise something isn’t suitable - that it is something shocking, and not suitable for the workplace, as you seem to realise, it shouldn’t be on your profile.</p>
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<p>In short, we believe you have a very clear idea, from your own response, of what’s not acceptable, and we hope you exercise better judgement in this regard in future.</p>
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<p>Ciro’s Reply:</p>
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<p>We never said that. We gave specific examples of objectionable content. If you realise something isn’t suitable - that it is something shocking, and not suitable for the workplace, as you seem to realise, it shouldn’t be on your profile.</p>
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<p>My intent is to convey extremely important information, not to shock.</p>
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<p>However, in dictatorships like China, extremely important information is forbidden for unfair reasons, and therefore shocking.</p>
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<p>We never said that. We gave specific examples of objectionable content. If you realise something isn’t suitable - that it is something shocking, and not suitable for the workplace, as you seem to realise, it shouldn’t be on your profile.</p>
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<p>You forbade any Nazi imagery clearly, including to criticize the Nazis, so that is clear and I will never again add Nazi imagery.</p>
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<p>All anti-CCP content is extremely shocking to many Chinese people (but not others). And it is not suitable for the workplace for anyone there, that is unquestionable.</p>
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<p>Therefore, from your reply, I understand that anti-CCP content is not allowed because it is not suitable for the workplace in China, as it is shocking.</p>
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<p>Is this understand correct? Can you please confirm very clearly and directly: do you forbid all anti-CCP imagery or not? And if it is just a partial ban, what is allowed and what is not more precisely?</p>
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<p>My understanding from top answers at: <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/349131/users-political-display-name-triggering-government-action-against-users-who-vie" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/349131/users-political-display-name-triggering-government-action-against-users-who-vie</a> is that such criticism of the CCP is allowed on the website, even though it is clearly not suitable for the workplace in China.</p>
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<p>Sorry to ask this further, but I need a clearer guideline so I can follow it.</p>
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<h5 id="other-openly-dissident-users-on-stack-overflow"><a class="anchor" href="#other-openly-dissident-users-on-stack-overflow"></a><a class="link" href="#other-openly-dissident-users-on-stack-overflow">5.21.1.4. Other openly dissident users on Stack Overflow (Stack Overflow 上的其他公开持不同政见的用户)</a></h5>
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<p>For non-Stack Overflow specific ones see: <a href="#chinese-dissidents">Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者)</a></p>
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<p>Query to find them: <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/312860/chinese-dissidents-by-keyword-aboutme-or-displayname" class="bare">https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/312860/chinese-dissidents-by-keyword-aboutme-or-displayname</a></p>
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<p>Notable ones only here (high rep or innovative criticism):</p>
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<p>"GNUSupporter 8964民主女神 地下教會"</p>
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<p>Real name: Vincent Tam from social media links.</p>
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<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/users/290189/gnusupporter-8964民主女神-地下教會#" class="bare">https://math.stackexchange.com/users/290189/gnusupporter-8964民主女神-地下教會#</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191209202831/https://math.stackexchange.com/users/290189/gnusupporter-8964%E6%B0%91%E4%B8%BB%E5%A5%B3%E7%A5%9E-%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E6%95%99%E6%9C%83" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20191209202831/https://math.stackexchange.com/users/290189/gnusupporter-8964%E6%B0%91%E4%B8%BB%E5%A5%B3%E7%A5%9E-%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E6%95%99%E6%9C%83</a></p>
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<p>Keyword attack inspired by me</p>
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<p>Yu Hao</p>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1009479/yu-hao" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/1009479/yu-hao</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.is/76FCb" class="bare">https://archive.is/76FCb</a></p>
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<p>"<a href="#gfw">GFW (Great Firewall of China)</a> is one of the most notorious inventions in the history of Internet. Anyone working for it should be ashamed."</p>
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<p>gotqn</p>
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<p>"Free Tibet From China Domination"</p>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1080354/gotqn" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/1080354/gotqn</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190821105901/https://stackoverflow.com/users/1080354/gotqn" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190821105901/https://stackoverflow.com/users/1080354/gotqn</a></p>
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<p>Scott 混合理论</p>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1230329/scott-混合理论" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/1230329/scott-混合理论</a></p>
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<p>The same message as Yu Hao, I wonder if it is an external thing or direct copy of Yu, but no Google hits besides them.</p>
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<p>Terry Wang</p>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1801697/terry-wang" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/1801697/terry-wang</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.is/V0aSK" class="bare">https://archive.is/V0aSK</a></p>
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<p>Lego recreation of Tankman on the profile picture: <a href="#lego-tank-man">Rough Lego (乐高) model of the Tank Man scene. A Lego Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-) can be seen at https://twitter.com/MidnightMitch/status/1412887665113018371, many people replied with that at: https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1412743232270876675. A fake Lego advertisement video has also been made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wphTAEQusLk. Source.</a></p>
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<p>Users who had <a href="#gfw">GFW</a> references but removed it:</p>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/4594532/gnimuc-key" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/4594532/gnimuc-key</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170331144256/https://stackoverflow.com/users/4594532/gnimuc" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20170331144256/https://stackoverflow.com/users/4594532/gnimuc</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/651907/jclin" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/651907/jclin</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160516065151/https://stackoverflow.com/users/651907/jclin" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160516065151/https://stackoverflow.com/users/651907/jclin</a></p>
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<p>Misc interesting stuff:</p>
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<p><location>火车站酒店小姐 (about 20 accounts with that pattern)</p>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/7040504/莆田火车站酒店小姐" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/7040504/莆田火车站酒店小姐</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428090348/https://stackoverflow.com/users/7040504/%E8%8E%86%E7%94%B0%E7%81%AB%E8%BD%A6%E7%AB%99%E9%85%92%E5%BA%97%E5%B0%8F%E5%A7%90" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190428090348/https://stackoverflow.com/users/7040504/%E8%8E%86%E7%94%B0%E7%81%AB%E8%BD%A6%E7%AB%99%E9%85%92%E5%BA%97%E5%B0%8F%E5%A7%90</a></p>
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<p>Interesting list of prostitution spam/sockpuppets? All have the exact same profile information.</p>
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<p>Hitting query due to "审查", but the usage is unrelated to the Firewall.</p>
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<p>Query to find them: <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/312863/mentioned-ciro-santilli-on-aboutme-or-displayname" class="bare">https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/312863/mentioned-ciro-santilli-on-aboutme-or-displayname</a></p>
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<h6 id="stack-overflow-anti-dissident-users"><a class="anchor" href="#stack-overflow-anti-dissident-users"></a><a class="link" href="#stack-overflow-anti-dissident-users">5.21.1.4.1. Stack Overflow anti-dissident users (Stack Overflow 反异见用户)</a></h6>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170602054631/https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408/%E8%AF%B7%E5%B0%81%E6%8E%89ciro-santilli-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%85%B1%E4%BA%A7%E5%85%9A%E4%B8%87%E5%B2%81" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20170602054631/https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408/%E8%AF%B7%E5%B0%81%E6%8E%89ciro-santilli-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%85%B1%E4%BA%A7%E5%85%9A%E4%B8%87%E5%B2%81</a></p>
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<p>username: "请封掉Ciro Santilli 中国共产党万岁"</p>
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<p>profile: "中国万岁！ 中国共产党万岁！ 法轮功，民运，台独在中国共产党的铁蹄下不过是螳臂当车！"</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200830192811/https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408/lookintoeast" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200830192811/https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408/lookintoeast</a> became a coward, renamed to "LookIntoEast"</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200910172706/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63464732/how-to-set-a-custom-image-height-for-an-image-in-asciidoctor" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200910172706/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63464732/how-to-set-a-custom-image-height-for-an-image-in-asciidoctor</a> more shitcomments "可惜啊中国一天比一天强大繁荣，中国的实力碾压你们轮子跟捏死一只蚂蚁那么简单。哈哈哈哈", Yes, the CCP is very good at <a href="#intolerance">putting old ladies in jail</a>. A great thing to be proud of.</p>
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<p>left 3 "offensive" comments and downvoted some posts. Flagged them all. Easy suspension, <a href="https://archive.ph/lBlyk">7 days</a>, 3 downvotes reversed as "Serial voting reversed":</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210706074306/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67750849/how-to-filter-by-event-type-in-chrome-devtools-profile-tab-e-g-to-see-mouse-cli?noredirect=1#comment120649535_67750849" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210706074306/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67750849/how-to-filter-by-event-type-in-chrome-devtools-profile-tab-e-g-to-see-mouse-cli?noredirect=1#comment120649535_67750849</a> 快看，你轮子老婆正被野男人按在床上疯狂X！！！ 因为你性无能！哈哈哈哈哈哈。轮子狗都是这种下场</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210706074342/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67773885/how-to-return-a-404-not-found-page-and-http-status-when-an-invalid-parameter-of/67773886?noredirect=1#comment120649386_67773886" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210706074342/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67773885/how-to-return-a-404-not-found-page-and-http-status-when-an-invalid-parameter-of/67773886?noredirect=1#comment120649386_67773886</a> 快看！你老婆这只轮子🐔，一直被不同男人X呢！那个地方被X到流脓！因为你性无能哦，所以不停被你轮子老婆戴绿帽子！</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210706074248/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67787456/what-is-the-difference-between-fallback-false-vs-true-vs-blocking-of-getstaticpa?noredirect=1#comment120649323_67787456" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210706074248/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67787456/what-is-the-difference-between-fallback-false-vs-true-vs-blocking-of-getstaticpa?noredirect=1#comment120649323_67787456</a> 轮子狗死全家！！！！！快看你妈刚被车撞死了！脑浆 一直喷！</p>
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<p>mentioned at <a href="https://v2ex.com/t/378274" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/t/378274</a> from <a href="#v2ex">V2EX (semi-censored forum)</a></p>
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<p>a questions only account, not many intelligent CCP supporters out there of course. 2020 edit mentions: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200910173714/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7152762/how-to-redirect-print-output-to-a-file-using-python" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200910173714/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7152762/how-to-redirect-print-output-to-a-file-using-python</a> mentions "How time flies. Almost 10 years ago I started to work on bioinformatics without any coding skills. Then I gave up my PhD and previous career and becomes a pure software engineer."</p>
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<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/9393161" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/9393161</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/save/https://stackoverflow.com/users/9393161/ciro-santilli-%E7%9A%84%E9%80%A0%E8%B0%A3%E6%98%AF%E5%8F%AF%E8%80%BB%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%BA" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/save/https://stackoverflow.com/users/9393161/ciro-santilli-%E7%9A%84%E9%80%A0%E8%B0%A3%E6%98%AF%E5%8F%AF%E8%80%BB%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%BA</a></p>
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<p>username: "Ciro Santilli 的造谣是可耻行为" <a href="https://web.archive.org/save/https://stackoverflow.com/users/9393161/ciro-santilli-%E7%9A%84%E9%80%A0%E8%B0%A3%E6%98%AF%E5%8F%AF%E8%80%BB%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%BA" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/save/https://stackoverflow.com/users/9393161/ciro-santilli-%E7%9A%84%E9%80%A0%E8%B0%A3%E6%98%AF%E5%8F%AF%E8%80%BB%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%BA</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/8454187" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/8454187</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>username: "Snowden Assange Wounded Knee"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>profile: "燃(ri)烧(si)您(ni)的(de)梦(ma)，Ciro Santilli. StackOverflow上的一个用户. The Oliver Stone Experience"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>explanation:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"燃烧您的梦": <a href="http://www.nq6.com/dj/1674.html" class="bare">http://www.nq6.com/dj/1674.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Wounded Knee": <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210621133747/https://stackoverflow.com/users/13740876/蔣禿賊送東北屠義士血染四一二蔡蛙魁請疫苗毒萬民跪地拜美倭" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210621133747/https://stackoverflow.com/users/13740876/蔣禿賊送東北屠義士血染四一二蔡蛙魁請疫苗毒萬民跪地拜美倭</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="github"><a class="anchor" href="#github"></a><a class="link" href="#github">5.21.2. GitHub</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>GitHub is the new <a href="#xidan-democracy-wall">Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a>! :) See also: <a href="#meant-to-be-used">Politics should not be posted in technical websites such as GitHub or Stack Overflow 不应该在技术网站例如Stack Overflow和GitHub讨论政治</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting repositories are listed at: <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>GitHub’s site policy can be seen at: <a href="https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy" class="bare">https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you believe this page violates those policies, see: <a href="#github-report">How to report a user on GitHub (GitHub上怎么举报用户？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China’s GitHub censorship history is documented at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#China</a>, some events:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-07-29 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/github-ban-sanctioned-countries/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/github-ban-sanctioned-countries/</a> "GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea". "As part of the push, Friedman said GitHub has enforced new restrictions to prevent users in sanctioned countries from accessing private repositories and GitHub Marketplace, as well as maintaining private paid organization accounts"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us" class="bare">https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us</a> protest repo against the sanctions, archived as of 2020-08</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us/issues/1010" class="bare">https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us/issues/1010</a> "Use gitee from china" recommending <a href="#gitee">Gitee</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a> contains some anti-censorship repositories</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism">Cute cat theory of digital activism (可爱猫理论)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-GitHub-com-allowed-in-China/answer/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Is-GitHub-com-allowed-in-China/answer/Ciro-Santilli</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="samizdat"><a class="anchor" href="#samizdat"></a><a class="link" href="#samizdat">5.21.2.1. Samizdat (Soviet underground propagation of censored materials, 秘密出版物, самиздат)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/秘密出版物" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/秘密出版物</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Part of the beauty of Git is that it makes it very easy for anyone to <a href="#mirrors">create a new mirror of the content</a>, thus forming a type of digital Samizdat.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro learned this term from the Bitcoin presentation by Dan Kaminsky: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain/len-sassaman-tribute#video-black-ops-of-tcp-ip-by-dan-kaminsky-2011" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain/len-sassaman-tribute#video-black-ops-of-tcp-ip-by-dan-kaminsky-2011</a> and Bitcoin has also been used in China, see <a href="#bitcoin-blockchain">Anti-CCP content in the Bitcoin blockchain (在比特币区块链的反中共内容)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="github-report"><a class="anchor" href="#github-report"></a><a class="link" href="#github-report">5.21.2.2. How to report a user on GitHub (GitHub上怎么举报用户？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Click the report abuse button on <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli">Ciro’s profile</a>, which links to: <a href="https://github.com/contact/report-abuse?report=cirosantilli+%28user%29" class="bare">https://github.com/contact/report-abuse?report=cirosantilli+%28user%29</a> or you can just contacat <a href="mailto:support@github.com">support@github.com</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you do so, please feel free to also open an issue on this repository saying why you believe the site policy has been violated.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Those issues will be marked with: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Aabuse-report+" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Aabuse-report+</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It will be fun to watch you try, and fail.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is because you do not understand how important the concept of <a href="#richer">freedom of speech is</a> in the West, and how amazing it feels when you are right, and it protects you.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The only thing that would work is if the Chinese government makes a gov-takedown on this repo: <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a>, in which case: <a href="#strategy-if-this-repo-gets-added-to-github-gov-takedowns">Strategy if this repo gets added to GitHub gov-takedowns (如果此 repo 被添加到 GitHub gov-takedowns 中的策略)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In order to get this repository in gov-takedown, your best bet is to use the <a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>admin.github.com hits to cirosantilli.com:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-05-21</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-09</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>admin.github.com hits to GitHub repository:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-05-30 6 from 1 user</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/community/community/discussions" class="bare">https://github.com/community/community/discussions</a>, previously: <a href="https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions" class="bare">https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#github-search-pollution-reports">GitHub search pollution reports (GitHub 搜索污染报告)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022 <a href="https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12641" class="bare">https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12641</a> Please shut down this repository of malicious smears/ethnic division/nothing to do with open source technology/misperception among teenagers by <a href="https://github.com/Yorksh1re" class="bare">https://github.com/Yorksh1re</a>. Deleted: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310124004/https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12641" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20220310124004/https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12641</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161</a> 如果举报github上的这种情况？ (How to report this type of circunstance on GitHub.) Question links to <a href="#evil-man">Evil man (中国男性之恶)</a>.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A few answers then started mentioning <a href="#github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08-15 <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161/answer/2062103232" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161/answer/2062103232</a> "主楼的没了，这个存在一年左右了，有人来举报吗？" (The repo the OP mentioned (<a href="#evil-man">Evil man (中国男性之恶)</a>) does not exist anymore. Did anyone report this one?). Real answer: because <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is not Chinese, you cannot arrest him like you arrested the author of <a href="#evil-man">Evil man (中国男性之恶)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-08-224 <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161/answer/2080367170" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161/answer/2080367170</a> "大家一起举报上面内容" (Let’s everybody report the above content together) with a screenshot: <a href="https://pic3.zhimg.com/v2-15efd54f1a16e17ef1ae77702b03bb88_r.jpg?source=1940ef5c" class="bare">https://pic3.zhimg.com/v2-15efd54f1a16e17ef1ae77702b03bb88_r.jpg?source=1940ef5c</a>. Ah, the beauty of it.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of the answers recommends the following message:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hello, I’d like to report a person who abused Github, this person has created multiple accounts and added some offensive repo, these repo are not related to technology and disgusting content, causing many users to search this spam repo. These contents violate the Github’s terms, I hope Github can banned this account.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Poor <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a>s. With this language/intonation, they are off to a bad start from th emessage itself. Reblogged:</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://blog.csdn.net/Twanghey/article/details/134708706" class="bare">https://blog.csdn.net/Twanghey/article/details/134708706</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://blog.csdn.net/xiaoyalian/article/details/137002309" class="bare">https://blog.csdn.net/xiaoyalian/article/details/137002309</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161/answer/2112339988" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161/answer/2112339988</a> shows how to do it with adblock plus by removing specific page elements for the search. Similar to greasefork methods mentioned at <a href="#disturbs">Keyword attack profiles disturb me (关键字攻击个人资料页打扰我)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161/answer/2101125957" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/388634161/answer/2101125957</a> does not understan what off topic means, and says that the attack is worse on <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a> and rants <a href="#meant-to-be-used">Politics should not be posted in technical websites such as GitHub or Stack Overflow 不应该在技术网站例如Stack Overflow和GitHub讨论政治</a>. Due to their limited English, they do not seem to realize that both keyword attacks are by the same person, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/How_to_report_an_user_on_GitHub.png" loading="lazy" alt="How to report an user on GitHub" height="2000">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 84. How to report an user on GitHhub.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="github-censored-subdomains"><a class="anchor" href="#github-censored-subdomains"></a><a class="link" href="#github-censored-subdomains">5.21.2.3. GitHub censored subdomains (GitHub 审查的子域)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It appears according to <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a> however that there are some important GitHub censored subdomains, notably:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com" class="bare">https://raw.githubusercontent.com</a>, from which images and other downloads are served. Therefore all images served from GitHub should be broken in China</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gist.github.com" class="bare">https://gist.github.com</a>, <a href="https://en.greatfire.org/https/gist.github.com" class="bare">https://en.greatfire.org/https/gist.github.com</a>: meh, that’s useless, just create a github.com/notes repo and dump your stuff there</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, at least for raw, <a href="#geoscreenshot">geoscreenshot</a> disagrees:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-09-30 <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200930075102/https://s3.amazonaws.com/geoscreenshot-static/d3fdb97d-2ac3-4f57-a737-6fab2997fb1a.html" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/web/20200930075102/https://s3.amazonaws.com/geoscreenshot-static/d3fdb97d-2ac3-4f57-a737-6fab2997fb1a.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-30 <a href="https://gist.github.com/" class="bare">https://gist.github.com/</a> | <a href="https://archive.vn/wip/VUNU4" class="bare">https://archive.vn/wip/VUNU4</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More information:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/146517/how-it-is-possible-that-some-pages-of-an-https-website-like-github-are-marked-as" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/146517/how-it-is-possible-that-some-pages-of-an-https-website-like-github-are-marked-as</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1310461733325148160" class="bare">https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1310461733325148160</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="github-gov-takedowns"><a class="anchor" href="#github-gov-takedowns"></a><a class="link" href="#github-gov-takedowns">5.21.2.4. GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This official GitHub repository tracks which repositories are blocked in specific countries.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>GitHub has absolute transparency about Government takedowns, which is awesome: <a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/China" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/China</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This makes that repo into a list of fun things.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2019-05 there had only been only two takedowns by China however, compared to dozens by <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a>. The Chinese commies are not big fans of transparency it seems.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2020-03, besides the <a href="#programthink">Zhao</a> takedown, all other takedowns happened in 2019, and most seem to be <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>/<a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> sponsored ways to <a href="#censorship-circumvention">climb the wall</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The message GitHub shows on the blocked countries is:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Repository unavailable in your location</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This repository is currently disabled in your location. For more details please see the takedown notice.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Here are some examples of people reacting to the blocking of <a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38</a> as per <a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/78775b09e64d85f08547287cab204b48b2491192/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/78775b09e64d85f08547287cab204b48b2491192/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md</a> from China (and likely on the entire repository, which appears to be the block granularity implemented):</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/31" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/31</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191023093618/https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/31">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/284445884/" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/284445884/</a> corresponding Google bomb at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/71" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/71</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://program-think.blogspot.com/2018/04/Zhao-at-GitHub.html?comment=1524671692761#1524671692761" class="bare">https://program-think.blogspot.com/2018/04/Zhao-at-GitHub.html?comment=1524671692761#1524671692761</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To check China only takedowns such as this, we cannot use <a href="#censorship-monitoring">Great Fire Analyzer</a>, which reports the page as accessible: the only tool <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> could find so far to capture a page from China a bit like Web Archive was: <a href="#geoscreenshot">geoscreenshot</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/GitHub_Programthink_Zhao_issue_38_China_geoscreenshot_2020_09_31.png" loading="lazy" alt="GitHub Programthink Zhao issue 38 China geoscreenshot 2020 09 31" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 85. <a href="#geoscreenshot">geoscreenshot</a> of <a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38</a> from <a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a> taken on 2020-09-31 from China. The "Repository unavailable in your location" message shows, since <a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md">this repository is in gov-takedowns/china</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="strategy-if-this-repo-gets-added-to-github-gov-takedowns"><a class="anchor" href="#strategy-if-this-repo-gets-added-to-github-gov-takedowns"></a><a class="link" href="#strategy-if-this-repo-gets-added-to-github-gov-takedowns">5.21.2.4.1. Strategy if this repo gets added to GitHub gov-takedowns (如果此 repo 被添加到 GitHub gov-takedowns 中的策略)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If this happens, we well proceed to create alternative repos <code>china-dictatorship-2</code>, <code>china-dictatorship-3</code>, etc. and it would be fun to see how that gets handled.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Edit: <a href="#china-dictatorship-chinese-web-browser-block">china-dictatorship Chinese web browser block (2021, china-dictatorship 中国浏览器审查)</a>, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> decided to create: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-2" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-2</a> even though the repository hadn’t been added to gov-takedowns.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro then later renamed it to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2</a> with an intentional typo to make the censorship noise even greater.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Can Github add an entire user to gov-takedowns? We shall find out.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro also created a separate org for it to also prevent simple username blocks: <a href="https://github.com/coding-stuffs/china-dictatorshrip" class="bare">https://github.com/coding-stuffs/china-dictatorshrip</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But remember that we also have: <a href="#mirrors">Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a>, and that this can be easily rendered as a single HTML page and uploaded to any static website host.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022-05-10 <a href="https://github.com/coding-stuffs/china-dictatorshrip" class="bare">https://github.com/coding-stuffs/china-dictatorshrip</a> and <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2/graphs/traffic" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2/graphs/traffic</a> traffic went mysteriously from 30 and 20 unique daily visitors respectively to just 1 or 2</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-05-17 renamed <a href="https://github.com/coding-stuffs/china-dictatorshrip" class="bare">https://github.com/coding-stuffs/china-dictatorshrip</a> to <a href="https://github.com/codin-stuffs/cihna-dictatorshrip" class="bare">https://github.com/codin-stuffs/cihna-dictatorshrip</a> to see if the is a URL-based browser block. Keeping <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2</a> unchanged for now as a control. 2022-05-18 immediately back to 175. Then since 05-20 fell to 30/daily as before. I wonder where the 175 came from. Maybe there is some fast-track block that does not fully block?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-05-19 renamed <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2</a> to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-3" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-3</a> to see if traffic also goes back up like coding-stuffs. Do <a href="#wumao">wumaos know their regexes</a>? Traffic immediately back to 50/60 daily.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="gov-takedowns-china"><a class="anchor" href="#gov-takedowns-china"></a><a class="link" href="#gov-takedowns-china">5.21.2.4.2. gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Skipping all <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>/<a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> repos with very few stars, mostly some <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a> skip methods, those are noise, and possibly added only to dilute the real deal.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/caef002cb19309c318ea01afb4d3cec98bcd4042/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/caef002cb19309c318ea01afb4d3cec98bcd4042/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md</a> <a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao</a>. <a href="#programthink">Zhao</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2019/2019-11-06-MPS.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2019/2019-11-06-MPS.md</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/greatfire/wiki" class="bare">https://github.com/greatfire/wiki</a> Wiki of <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a>. <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a>. Precise issue: <a href="https://github.com/greatfire/wiki/issues/166" class="bare">https://github.com/greatfire/wiki/issues/166</a> (no archives).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2019/2019-12-12-MPS.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2019/2019-12-12-MPS.md</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gfw-breaker" class="bare">https://github.com/gfw-breaker</a>, see also: <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="github-objectionable-content"><a class="anchor" href="#github-objectionable-content"></a><a class="link" href="#github-objectionable-content">5.21.2.5. GitHub "This repository may contain objectionable content" (此仓库可能包含令人反感的内容)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>GitHub has a veru little known feature called:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This repository may contain objectionable content</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO exact Chinese phrase on UI.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When GitHub admins set this on a repository, it has the following effects:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the repository cannot be seen by logged off users! Trying to do that results in a redirect. This puts such repositories at great disadvantage on search engine optimization</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the first time you visit the repository, they ask you if you want to continue</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is not a transparent mechanism, as it does not clearly state why the repository has objectionable content.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Known repositories with that enabled:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#duty-machine">duty-machine GitHub account (责任机器GitHub用户)</a> as of August 2021 <a href="https://github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine" class="bare">https://github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08-18 <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a>: redirects to login: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210818110306/https://github.com/login?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fduty-machine%2Fduty-machine" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210818110306/https://github.com/login?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fduty-machine%2Fduty-machine</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-08-18 <a href="#archive-today">archive.today (archive.is)</a>: <a href="https://archive.ph/jtX4p" class="bare">https://archive.ph/jtX4p</a> shows the actual message since it uses a logged-in user for its archives</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Yanqiu-gui/-" class="bare">https://github.com/Yanqiu-gui/-</a>. Appears to be some kind of textual softporn repo.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO: <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> once saw that message when visiting: <a href="https://github.com/Yanqiu-gui/-/issues/5" class="bare">https://github.com/Yanqiu-gui/-/issues/5</a> on 2021-05-19 for the first time, but not on the following ones.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How does that message get added exactly?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And you are forced you to login to view that repository!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Incredible, a hidden undocumented semi-hide-repo feature.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Here’s an archive: <a href="https://archive.ph/VJQdD" class="bare">https://archive.ph/VJQdD</a> That click wall also prevents archives of the repository therefore.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="github-censorship-guidelines"><a class="anchor" href="#github-censorship-guidelines"></a><a class="link" href="#github-censorship-guidelines">5.21.2.6. GitHub censorship guidelines (GitHub 审查指南)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118" class="bare">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118</a> GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard' (2015)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="gitee"><a class="anchor" href="#gitee"></a><a class="link" href="#gitee">5.21.2.7. Gitee</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For our mirror there, see: <a href="#gitee-censorship">Gitee censorship (Gitee 审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Linked to "Open Source China" (开源中国) according to TechCrunch:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The project will be carried out by a consortium led by Open Source China, the Shenzhen-based firm behind its namesake open-source community and Gitee.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/oschina" class="bare">https://github.com/oschina</a> GitHub OAuth goes through that organization</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.oschina.net/" class="bare">https://www.oschina.net/</a> their website</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At <a href="https://gitee.com/mirrors" class="bare">https://gitee.com/mirrors</a> they mirrors 21 thousand repositories as of 2021, updating them daily, with the goal of having "higher download speeds" in mainland China. Not that their speed is shit because of censorships of course.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mirrors containing Ciro’s keywords or related interesting stuff:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/alexi126/linux-kernel-module-cheat" class="bare">https://gitee.com/alexi126/linux-kernel-module-cheat</a> <a href="https://archive.vn/wip/aDWVq" class="bare">https://archive.vn/wip/aDWVq</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://toscode.gitee.com/rpbf/vim-snippets/blob/master/AUTHORS#L67" class="bare">https://toscode.gitee.com/rpbf/vim-snippets/blob/master/AUTHORS#L67</a> <a href="https://archive.vn/wip/MuuoK" class="bare">https://archive.vn/wip/MuuoK</a> "Ciro Santilli 六四事件"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>sensitive domain lists:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/aiqz/pac" class="bare">https://gitee.com/aiqz/pac</a> ans specifically <a href="https://gitee.com/aiqz/pac/blob/master/pac.txt" class="bare">https://gitee.com/aiqz/pac/blob/master/pac.txt</a> contains a proxy list with <code>||cirosantilli.com</code>, which is a decoded version of the base-64 encoded <a href="#gfwlist">gfwlist</a> normally used for <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a>. Lol.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>sensitive word lists. In <a href="#censorship">censoring</a>, we display. It is fun to see how they censor at every level, including the keyboard input method. Fear is everywhere, <a href="#newspeak">Newspeak (新语, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a> must be enforced at all costs:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/markxx/tochat/blob/dev/tochat.sql" class="bare">https://gitee.com/markxx/tochat/blob/dev/tochat.sql</a> even website project templates must come with a censored word list: <a href="https://gitee.com/markxx/tochat/blob/dev/tochat.sql#L6299" class="bare">https://gitee.com/markxx/tochat/blob/dev/tochat.sql#L6299</a> "六四事件"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/aiban_junjie_fan/sensitive_words/blob/master/words.txt" class="bare">https://gitee.com/aiban_junjie_fan/sensitive_words/blob/master/words.txt</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/bryan31/liteBanner/blob/master/src/main/resources/sensi_words.txt" class="bare">https://gitee.com/bryan31/liteBanner/blob/master/src/main/resources/sensi_words.txt</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/thinksaas/thinksaas/blob/master/install/install.sql#L138" class="bare">https://gitee.com/thinksaas/thinksaas/blob/master/install/install.sql#L138</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/guobinyong/wubixinshiji/blob/master/wubixinshiji.dict.yaml" class="bare">https://gitee.com/guobinyong/wubixinshiji/blob/master/wubixinshiji.dict.yaml</a> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_method" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_method</a> input program</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/xkinput/xklbs/blob/master/星二S词库.txt" class="bare">https://gitee.com/xkinput/xklbs/blob/master/星二S词库.txt</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/latpaw/emacs/blob/master/site-lisp/eim/cjeb.txt#L10288" class="bare">https://gitee.com/latpaw/emacs/blob/master/site-lisp/eim/cjeb.txt#L10288</a>. This interesting emacs config appears to expand e.g. <code>fclg</code> into <code>法轮功</code> on tab complete. Nice.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2021, it requires login to see:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>commit history: <a href="https://gitee.com/mirrors/luarocks-build-xmake/commit/8b18f1f62ba26944f117ed549ddaeea210fbdd6e" class="bare">https://gitee.com/mirrors/luarocks-build-xmake/commit/8b18f1f62ba26944f117ed549ddaeea210fbdd6e</a> History must be controlled, history is dangerous. See also <a href="#baidu">Baidu Baike</a>, <a href="#baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong">Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong (百度百科审查郝海东)</a>:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>files larger than 1MB: <a href="https://gitee.com/xkinput/xklbs/blob/master/星二S词库.txt" class="bare">https://gitee.com/xkinput/xklbs/blob/master/星二S词库.txt</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lol.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-11-10 <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/10/gitee_linux_foundation_china_mirror/" class="bare">https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/10/gitee_linux_foundation_china_mirror/</a> "China’s government-anointed Git operator says it will become a Linux Foundation mirror"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#huawei">Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a> open sourced is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_OS">Harmony OS</a> "IoT operating system" in Gitee: <a href="https://openharmony.gitee.com/openharmony" class="bare">https://openharmony.gitee.com/openharmony</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name of that OS is pure gold considering the Chinese origin, since "to harmonize" is often used as a way to say "to censor negative CCP information".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That URL also likely highlights Huawei’s intense influence on Gitee, the as the custom domain redirects to it: <a href="https://openharmony.gitee.com" class="bare">https://openharmony.gitee.com</a>, as opposed to what normal users can likely create <a href="https://gitee.com/openharmony" class="bare">https://gitee.com/openharmony</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08-21 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/china-is-building-its-github-alternative-gitee/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/china-is-building-its-github-alternative-gitee/</a> "China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee"</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> commented about his <a href="#gitee-censorship">Gitee censorship (Gitee 审查)</a> experiment there, it got 26 upvotes 13 downvotes, and as removed as "This post violated our policy.". There is no way to appeal that in that idiotic system. It is absed on: <a href="https://www.openweb.com/" class="bare">https://www.openweb.com/</a> It is also bugged as fuck. Sometimes says violates policy, then there’s a JavaScript update andthe comment shows.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="gitee-censorship"><a class="anchor" href="#gitee-censorship"></a><a class="link" href="#gitee-censorship">5.21.2.7.1. Gitee censorship (Gitee 审查)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After posting our <a href="#mirrors">Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a> there, it was blocked in 12 hours:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>archive immediately after creation: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200821202450if_/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200821202450if_/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>blocked archive 12 hours later: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200822111436/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200822111436/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>{"status":404,"data":null,"message":"404 Not Found"}</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://gitee.com/cirosantilli</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>archive immediately after: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200821202055/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200821202055/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>archive 12 hours later: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200822111721/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200822111721/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>{"status":403,"data":null,"message":"The user has been blocked"}</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The block email is:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>通知</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>仓库 cirosantilli/China Dictatorship 已被锁定</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>原因： 根据相关法律法规和政策，本仓库暂停访问。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other known blocked china-dictatorship forks:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gitee.com/jaime_li/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://gitee.com/jaime_li/china-dictatorship</a> no archives, can’t find another account by the same user, but got a backlink 2021-06-22</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="github-chinese-top-charts"><a class="anchor" href="#github-chinese-top-charts"></a><a class="link" href="#github-chinese-top-charts">5.21.2.8. GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts (GitHub中文排行榜)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts" class="bare">https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Automatically generated list of repos with Chinese characters in their descriptions with the most upvotes per programming language.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> appeared on the front page at one point: <a href="https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts/tree/73ef00e9f846dd380769095f08648e5e1a06596f" class="bare">https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts/tree/73ef00e9f846dd380769095f08648e5e1a06596f</a> Let’s see how long until it gets censored.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At <a href="https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts/issues/177" class="bare">https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts/issues/177</a> a <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> asked "为什么一些奇怪的项目也能进榜单？" (Why can some weird projects appear in the project list?)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also reproduced at: <a href="https://www.w3cschool.cn/article/22061212.html" class="bare">https://www.w3cschool.cn/article/22061212.html</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="zhihu"><a class="anchor" href="#zhihu"></a><a class="link" href="#zhihu">5.21.3. Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhihu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhihu</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese <a href="#quora">Quora</a> clone, but highly censored: <a href="#zhihu-censorship">Zhihu censorship (知乎审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some interesting questions not related to <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>. Ciro related questions at: <a href="#zhihu-questions-related-to-ciro-santilli">Zhihu questions related to Ciro Santilli (三西猴相关的知乎问题)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/29279520/answer/110611566" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/29279520/answer/110611566</a> "为什么有人一边支持审查制度一边还喜欢看美剧、日漫？" "Why are some people in favor of censorship, but at the same time still like to watch American series?" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200429091047/https://www.zhihu.com/question/29279520/answer/110611566">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Censorship in Zhihu</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/23376181" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/23376181</a> "你对知乎的审查系统有何意见？" "What is your view of Zhihu’s censorship system?" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200329115919/https://www.zhihu.com/question/23376181">archive</a>) "由于众所周知的原因，知乎上的文章和答案一旦涉及某些字眼，就会触发审查，其方式是让你的文字暂时仅自己可见"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/21099730" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/21099730</a> 从知乎建站以来被封禁的用户都有哪些？Since Zhihu’s founding, which accounts have been blocked on the website? (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200112103049/https://www.zhihu.com/question/21099730">archive</a>) (<a href="https://archive.is/dH9pK">archive</a>). The top answer contains a list, and a brief explanation of why some of them were banned:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Ciro Santilli: S/O 红人 (fStack Overflow celebrity)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"ww" in explanations means "big laugh" according to: <a href="https://hinative.com/zh-CN/questions/8349706" class="bare">https://hinative.com/zh-CN/questions/8349706</a> because a single "w" means a small laugh</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>several accounts are linked to one specific answer or comment</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>other accounts are classified as often commenting on <a href="#politically-sensitive">Politically sensitive (政治敏感)</a> material</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-daily">How is it like to live with Falun Gong believers? (与法轮功信徒一起生活是一种怎样的体验？)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/27659795" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/27659795</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200429084153/https://www.zhihu.com/signin?next=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zhihu.com%2Fquestion%2F27659795">blocked as of 2020-04</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150603025013/http://www.zhihu.com/question/27659795">archive from 2015</a>) 家里有人练法轮功是一种怎样的体验？ How is it like to live with Falun Gong believers?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-changed">Falun Gong is completely different in the West than it was in China (法轮功在西方与在中国完全不同)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/23988890" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/23988890</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200429084640/https://www.zhihu.com/signin?next=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zhihu.com%2Fquestion%2F23988890">blocked as of 2020-04</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160311140407/https://www.zhihu.com/question/23988890">2016-03 archive</a>) "全能神教在境外，法轮功也在境外，为什么他们不祸害境外人民、偏偏只祸害大陆人？"<a href="#eastern-lightning">Eastern Lightning</a> exists outside of the country [China], Falun Gong exists outside of the country, so why is is that they don’t harm people in those countries, but only harm people in Mainland China?"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#gay-rights">Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/370080866/answer/1046195468" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/370080866/answer/1046195468</a> "为什么中国影视作品不允许LGBT的出现？" "Why is it not allowed to show LGBT content in Chinese film and television?" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200429091622/https://www.zhihu.com/question/370080866/answer/1046195468">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong">Zhihu censorship of Hao Haidong (知乎审查郝海东)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<div class="title">The Zhihu 404 page image. When they take the posts down as of 2020, it shows the 404 page which reads "你似乎来到了没有知识存在的荒原" (you seem to have come to a wasteland about which does does not exist any knowledge), and shows this symbol. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200614114534/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro">Source</a>.</div>
<p>i mage::https://web.archive.org/web/20200614114535im_/https://static.zhihu.com/heifetz/assets/liukanshan_wire.e7247fbf.svg[height=500]</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="zhihu-censorship"><a class="anchor" href="#zhihu-censorship"></a><a class="link" href="#zhihu-censorship">5.21.4. Zhihu censorship (知乎审查)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More general censorship discussion at: <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Examples of Zhihu censorship:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#zhihu-purge">Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu purge 2019-11-03 (三西猴被知乎抹去)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong">Zhihu censorship of Hao Haidong (知乎审查郝海东)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other discussions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/How-strict-is-Zhihus-content-censorship" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/How-strict-is-Zhihus-content-censorship</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="zhihu-purge"><a class="anchor" href="#zhihu-purge"></a><a class="link" href="#zhihu-purge">5.21.4.1. Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu purge 2019-11-03 (三西猴被知乎抹去)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On this day, not only the posts made by Ciro himself were deleted: he had never asked any questions or made any Zhuanlan posts himself, only replied to those. But that content made by other users was still removed. Therefore, this is not just a simple user ban, but active censorship.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro received an email from <a href="mailto:account@mail.zhihu.com">account@mail.zhihu.com</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>您好，Ciro Santilli，很抱歉您的回答受到了牵连，您回答过的问题「github.com@cirosantilli 是谁维护的，为什么会收集邮箱地址？」因「违反互联网相关法律法规」已被删除。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>followed by Ciro’s answer to <a href="#zhihu-46957710">github.com@cirosantilli 是谁维护的，为什么会收集邮箱地址？</a>. Ciro could not login anymore, the login screen showed:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>帐号已停用，请联系：<a href="mailto:user@zhihu.com">user@zhihu.com</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So likely someone must have used the fact that this was an edgy personally information release subject issue, and then someone from Zhihu decided to purge Ciro and anyone posts that ever talked about him.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro’s blocked account:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>before deletion: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190821075907/https://www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli/activities" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190821075907/https://www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli/activities</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>after deletion (redirects to login page): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103071033/https://www.zhihu.com/signin?next=http://www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli/activities" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20191103071033/https://www.zhihu.com/signin?next=http://www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli/activities</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Random unblocked control account: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/people/lu-zhen-yu-96-65/activities" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/people/lu-zhen-yu-96-65/activities</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103070652/https://www.zhihu.com/people/lu-zhen-yu-96-65/activities">archive</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Furthermore, all questions related to Ciro, including the posts criticizing him such as <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/25600138" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/25600138</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/DkooN">archive</a>), were taken down. This made Ciro laugh: in China, you can’t even criticize that which is censored, or your post also gets taken down.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro then created an anonymous Zhihu account after this event.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interestingly however, the following answer came up later on: <a href="#zhihu-ted-chiang-answer">Answer to the Zhihu question "How do you evaluate Ted Chiang’s 'Evil Chinese Characters' essay?" "如何评价姜峯楠（Ted Chiang）在纽约客上的随笔《坏汉字》？"的回答</a> and stayed up for at least 5 months, which indicates that Zhihu did a one-off removal, and did not set up a filter for Ciro’s name.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="ciro-santillis-zhihu-ban-2018-06-25"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santillis-zhihu-ban-2018-06-25"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santillis-zhihu-ban-2018-06-25">5.21.4.1.1. Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu ban 2018-06-25</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> was banned from Zhihu on 2018-06-25 for "<a href="#politically-sensitive">Politically sensitive (政治敏感)</a>" content.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a result, since that time I will be answering Zhihu questions as issues in this repo with the <code>zhihu</code> label: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Azhihu+" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Azhihu+</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I have however never posted anything politically sensitive on Zhihu, unless my name and profile picture have reached that distinction, and therefore the ban is clearly an unfair per-person ban.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But of course, all is fair in love and war, and politics.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Posting any sensitive content on Chinese websites is a waste of time, since it only means that they will be removed and you will waste time creating a new account, I will never do that.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The only significant content I ever posted on Zhihu is the answer to: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/46957710/answer/122827944" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/46957710/answer/122827944</a> which is purely technical, and trivial replies on threads that other people have started about me. Have those people been blocked like me?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>My posts are still up and it does not appear to be possible for people to see that I have been banned, but whenever I try to take any action on the website a popup appears saying:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>由于严重违反 知乎社区管理规定 ，该帐号已被永久禁言</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This includes liking, commenting, answering, asking or trying to update my profile to say that I have been blocked.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This message also shows on my public page for everyone to see: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli/activities" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli/activities</a> but they use some JavaScript scheme complicated enough that archive.is cannot capture it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I still get notifications however, but I am unable to reply to them, especially given that all Chinese accounts, unlike mine, have no personal identifiable information due to the understandable fear Chinese citizens have of their own government, even though such accounts might be illegal in theory: <a href="#anonymous-account-ban">Anonymous accounts ban (2017)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The only action that I can take now is to report abusive comments people make to me.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Obviously, the only effect of such ban is that I will create an <a href="#anonymous-account-ban">anonymous account</a> under Tor with a second cell phone if I wish to contribute in the future, and China will have less information about my political interests than before.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The private messages the website sends while banning you are:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>知乎管理员 ：您好，根据用户举报，您的帐号发布了「<a href="#politically-sensitive">政治敏感</a>」内容，帐号已根据知乎社区规范被永久禁言。处理详情可查看社区服务中心。具体规范请查看知乎社区管理规定。 6月25日 16:37 回复 | 删除</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>知乎管理员 ：您好，根据用户举报，您的部分个人信息由于不符合知乎用户信息管理规范已被重置。用户名可以在设置页面中修改，修改后会自动进入审核等待通过；其他个人信息可以在个人主页中编辑。感谢您对知乎社区的理解和支持。 6月25日 16:37 回复 | 删除</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Those messages contain links to: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/terms2" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/terms2</a> | <a href="https://archive.is/wdXSz" class="bare">https://archive.is/wdXSz</a> and <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/19551824" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/19551824</a> | <a href="https://archive.is/BrgV2" class="bare">https://archive.is/BrgV2</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The ban came soon after I posted a link to my GitHub repo as a comment at: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/ice-employee-list-github-linkedin/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/ice-employee-list-github-linkedin/</a> maybe they are related.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="who-reported-ciro-santilli-on-zhihu"><a class="anchor" href="#who-reported-ciro-santilli-on-zhihu"></a><a class="link" href="#who-reported-ciro-santilli-on-zhihu">5.21.4.1.2. Who reported Ciro Santilli on Zhihu (谁在知乎上举报了 Ciro Santilli)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At the same time the ban happened I received a public comment from user "Eureka" <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/people/crb912/activities" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/people/crb912/activities</a> | <a href="https://archive.is/1F3t6" class="bare">https://archive.is/1F3t6</a> on this thread: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/46957710" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/46957710</a> | <a href="https://archive.is/PVOLd" class="bare">https://archive.is/PVOLd</a> saying:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>你滥用了github， 也滥用了Stackover。这个一个纯粹计算机、编程和知识分享的地方，请不要带入政治性的色彩。请不要这么做， 维护社区的非政治性、中立和技术性纯粹，是每个热爱cs的人应尽的义务。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I am unable to get a URL that shows the comment on archive.is, so I have no proof of this claim. If you trust me, then here is a screenshot: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/YCiEEax" class="bare">https://imgur.com/a/YCiEEax</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Since I expect the ban lists to be private, I find it extremely likely that this was the user who reported me, unless both were simultaneously triggered by a third event which I have not seen. So correct me if I’m wrong here.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Users with the same user id <code>crb912</code>, related "Eureka" username or same profile picture, can be found at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.weibo.com/crb912" class="bare">https://www.weibo.com/crb912</a> (unable to archive) on <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/crb912" class="bare">https://github.com/crb912</a> | <a href="https://archive.is/heGfd" class="bare">https://archive.is/heGfd</a> which suggests a possible real name</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>By Googling the email found on the GitHub repos, we find: <a href="http://www.360doc.com/content/15/0809/11/25724933_490492490.shtml" class="bare">http://www.360doc.com/content/15/0809/11/25724933_490492490.shtml</a> | <a href="https://archive.is/2UnGL" class="bare">https://archive.is/2UnGL</a> which might, at last, contain a photo of my nemesis.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>My public message to the reporter whomever he may be:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>While you have also raised issues that were raised a thousand times before, and clearly answered in the FAQ, at least you were able to take some actual action leading to an actual ban, and I respect you for that.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I hope that one day you will redirect that cunning and initiative towards taking down the root cause of the problem, which are the Chinese communist Party and their Firewall themselves.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="zhihu-questions-related-to-ciro-santilli"><a class="anchor" href="#zhihu-questions-related-to-ciro-santilli"></a><a class="link" href="#zhihu-questions-related-to-ciro-santilli">5.21.4.2. Zhihu questions related to Ciro Santilli (三西猴相关的知乎问题)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Parent section: <a href="#backlinks">Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All Zhihu posts related to Ciro Santilli were deleted following <a href="#zhihu-purge">Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu purge 2019-11-03 (三西猴被知乎抹去)</a>. Some had been deleted before.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-06-12: <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/68869259" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/68869259</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190905071450/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/68869259">archive before deletion</a>, (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103072349/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/68869259">archive after deletion</a>)) "德国极端分子黑我们大中国！犯我中华者，虽远必诛！！". Ciro wonders why the poster thought Ciro was German.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-03: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/316700162" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/316700162</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/ewxqb">archive before deletion</a>, (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103065512/https://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.zhihu.com/question/316700162">archive after deletion</a>)) "如何看待Github Trending上Ciro Santilli的众多开源项目？". Due to: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples</a> being featured on Hacker News: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19428700" class="bare">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19428700</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-11: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/302738350" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/302738350</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/lkQxS">archive before deletion</a>, (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103065759/https://www.zhihu.com/question/302738350">archive after deletion</a>)) "如何评价Ciro Santilli对Stack Overflow和GitHub的扰乱？"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-03-07: <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/25600138" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/25600138</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/DkooN">archive before deletion</a>, (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103065808/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/25600138">archive after deletion</a>)) "StackOverflow 上的一个智障用户"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-03 <a href="https://sololand.moe/2017/03/06/brain-fucked-user-on-stackoverflow" class="bare">https://sololand.moe/2017/03/06/brain-fucked-user-on-stackoverflow</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/save/https://sololand.moe/2017/03/06/brain-fucked-user-on-stackoverflow/">archive</a>) by <a href="https://github.com/brglng/" class="bare">https://github.com/brglng/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180802090918/https://github.com/brglng/">archive</a>) "StackOverflow 上的一个智障用户" contains a copy of the post by the same author.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It just makes Ciro smile whenever he thinks that their post criticizing Ciro was deleted by the CCP, and they still might support the CCP, <a href="#meant-to-be-used">Stockholm syndrome comes to mind</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2020, that website generates a constant stream of incoming traffic to the issue it links to: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/chat/issues/26" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/chat/issues/26</a>. Unfortunately brglng was a coward and removed his comments leaving the conversation a bit broken, and this was before Ciro <a href="#wayback-machine">web archived obsessively</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015-08-18: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/34775392" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/34775392</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160219094646/https://www.zhihu.com/question/34775392">archive before deletion</a>, (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103065816/https://www.zhihu.com/question/34775392">archive after deletion</a>)) "你们怎么看stackoverflow上某人故意屏蔽中国访问的事件？"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A random control question that shows that archive.org 404’s are actually deleted questions: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/316700165" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/316700165</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103065449/https://www.zhihu.com/question/316700165">archive</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mentions not yet deleted as of writing:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>google在国内被封的具体原因是什么？ What are some concrete reasons why google was blocked? <a href="https://archive.ph/bFUoL" class="bare">https://archive.ph/bFUoL</a> links to: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2/tree/master/evil-man" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-2/tree/master/evil-man</a> indicating that the main <a href="#mirrors">Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a> is blocked but that one isn’t.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/21099730" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/21099730</a> at <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="zhihu-ted-chiang-answer"><a class="anchor" href="#zhihu-ted-chiang-answer"></a><a class="link" href="#zhihu-ted-chiang-answer">5.21.4.2.1. Answer to the Zhihu question "How do you evaluate Ted Chiang’s 'Evil Chinese Characters' essay?" "如何评价姜峯楠（Ted Chiang）在纽约客上的随笔《坏汉字》？"的回答</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/47205991/answer/967940202" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/47205991/answer/967940202</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200628101940/https://www.zhihu.com/question/47205991/answer/967940202">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Contains reactions to the post: <a href="#evil-chinese-characters-by-ted-chiang">Evil Chinese Characters by Ted Chiang (坏汉字由Ted Chiang)</a>, and this answer says that even though Ciro Santilli is amazingly smart, he cannot be bothered to learn Chinese characters, quoting Ciro’s comments from: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? (三西猴会说中文吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This post was interesting because it happened after <a href="#zhihu-purge">Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu purge 2019-11-03 (三西猴被知乎抹去)</a>, which indicates that Zhihu did not setup an automated "Ciro Santilli" filter.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="zhihu-46957710"><a class="anchor" href="#zhihu-46957710"></a><a class="link" href="#zhihu-46957710">5.21.4.2.2. github.com@cirosantilli 是谁维护的，为什么会收集邮箱地址？</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/46957710" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/46957710</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/PVOLd">archive before deletion</a>, (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191103065828/https://www.zhihu.com/question/46957710">archive after deletion</a>)).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Asked in 2016-09 after Ciro published: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/all-github-commit-emails" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/all-github-commit-emails</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Deleted after <a href="#zhihu-purge">Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu purge 2019-11-03 (三西猴被知乎抹去)</a>. Ciro’s answer before deletion:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>你用的git config user.email当然是公开的：谁都会git clone就知道了。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>问题就是git repository很大，我们不会都clone.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>但是github有一个API，收集很多信息，包括邮件。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>然后，Google用了那个API给他们的https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/…​信息。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>BigQuery对程序员很容易提取信息，是我用的。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我发表邮件以后，两个东西变化了：</p>
</div>
<div class="olist arabic">
<ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>Google 把邮件从BigQuery删除</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>GitHub 更新他们的隐私声明GitHub Privacy Statement</p>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>这就是我的木比：保护人们的隐私权</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我的README.md更详细地解释。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="quora"><a class="anchor" href="#quora"></a><a class="link" href="#quora">5.21.5. Quora</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/profile/Ciro-Santilli</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Quora is <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/quora">a generally shitty website</a>, with mechanisms that allow <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> to quench freedom of speech.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Quora is a major platform for <a href="#astroturfing">Astroturfing</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ironically, as usual, is it also blocked in China:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>according to <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a>: <a href="https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.quora.com" class="bare">https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.quora.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-03 news coverage <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-banned-zhihu-over-censorship-2018-3?r=US&IR=T" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/china-banned-zhihu-over-censorship-2018-3?r=US&IR=T</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Examples of activity related to Ciro Santilli:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016 Ciro Santilli’s profile was blocked because it had Chinese keywords on both my username and credentials. Justification: "non-English".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 created one in English: Cook <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square</a> Noodle Shop, from <a href="#falun-sweden">Falun, Sweden (法轮，瑞典的城市)</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Added my Noodle shop to maps: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Tiananmen+Square+Noodle+Shop/@60.6132538,15.6687509,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x94603408e3c63fb3!8m2!3d60.6132538!4d15.6687509" class="bare">https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Tiananmen+Square+Noodle+Shop/@60.6132538,15.6687509,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x94603408e3c63fb3!8m2!3d60.6132538!4d15.6687509</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Leach websites that picked it up: <a href="https://kvalster.se/Falu/Uthyres/Lagenheter/Gammelvagen_49_1417351" class="bare">https://kvalster.se/Falu/Uthyres/Lagenheter/Gammelvagen_49_1417351</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Quora is also shitty because wumaos can downvote your answer privately regardless of reputation and make it become collapsed as "Answer may need improvement", which means it goes to the bottom and readers have to click an "expand collapsed answers" button to see it, so that very few people will ever see it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then have to appeal and wait for moderators to evaluate it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This happened for example at: <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-walked-around-Beijing-with-a-t-shirt-that-said-freedom-of-speech-is-pretty-great/answer/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-walked-around-Beijing-with-a-t-shirt-that-said-freedom-of-speech-is-pretty-great/answer/Ciro-Santilli</a> (see also <a href="#t-shirt">What happens if you wear a T-shirt with censored words in China? (如果你在中国穿一件带有审查词的 T 恤会怎样？)</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro appealed in 2020-03-10 and the answer was reinstated on day later, but by then the question was already not being suggested as much to readers, and the other wumao answers (which criticize the USA rather than answering the question about China).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>While there is some probability that the answers themselves are not wumaos, their upvoters almost certainly are and must be investigated.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other shitty aspects of Quora include:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>block <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> archives with their robots.txt, gotta use <a href="#archive-today">archive.today (archive.is)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>automatically add random topics that you don’t care about to your suggestions, with no easy way to prevent that.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>questions cannot have more than one sentence. There used to be a question body, but it was replaced with a "link for context". Ridiculous.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a result, on the few occasions that Ciro posts on Quora, all content will also be mirrored here. Ciro’s China Quora answers include:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-walked-around-Beijing-with-a-t-shirt-that-said-freedom-of-speech-is-pretty-great/answer/Ciro-Santilli">What would happen if I walked around Beijing with a t-shirt that said "freedom of speech is pretty great"?</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/PxjJA">archive</a>) see also: <a href="#t-shirt">What happens if you wear a T-shirt with censored words in China? (如果你在中国穿一件带有审查词的 T 恤会怎样？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-net-worth-of-Xi-Jinping/answer/Ciro-Santilli">What is the net worth of Xi Jinping?</a> see also: <a href="#panama-papers">Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://archive.is/WzIcg" class="bare">http://archive.is/WzIcg</a>: a Han supremacist!</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related posts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>on <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ui56th/chinese_topics_on_quora_are_manipulated_ccp/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ui56th/chinese_topics_on_quora_are_manipulated_ccp/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-03 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lv0n24/has_quora_been_overrun_with_chinese_propaganda/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lv0n24/has_quora_been_overrun_with_chinese_propaganda/</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-04 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mkfgrb/quora_is_officially_a_propaganda_network_for_the/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mkfgrb/quora_is_officially_a_propaganda_network_for_the/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="ptt"><a class="anchor" href="#ptt"></a><a class="link" href="#ptt">5.21.6. PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/批踢踢" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/批踢踢</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Popular <a href="#taiwan">Taiwanese</a> forum system and server from 1995, pre HTML, works from telnet terminal, so likely very programmer heavy, and obviously anti-CCP, as of 2020 often shows <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> ads.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s appearances on PTT:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-10-09: <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1602211516.A.3FB.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1602211516.A.3FB.html</a> 如何一秒惹怒中國人 (how to provoke a Chinese person in one second) by <a href="https://pttweb.tw/user/abc60575986/">abc60575986</a> saying "台灣是一個國家" (Taiwan is a country). Then <a href="https://pttweb.tw/user/kugwa/">kugwa</a> linked to <a href="#keyword-attack">Ciro Santilli’s Stack Overflow profile</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-01-31: <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1580484253.A.37A.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1580484253.A.37A.html</a> "stackoverflow菁英卻痛恨中國" by <a href="https://pttweb.tw/user/Eric0605/">"Eric0605 (我還有點餓)"</a> on the Gossiping board. One of the comments then links to <a href="http://cirosantilli.com" class="bare">http://cirosantilli.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-06-19 <a href="https://pttweb.tw/s/2K9zV" class="bare">https://pttweb.tw/s/2K9zV</a> "Ciro Santilli <a href="#the-709-crackdown">709大抓捕</a> 六四事件 法轮" on the Gossiping board</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016-10-03 <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Soft_Job/M.1478104872.A.916.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Soft_Job/M.1478104872.A.916.html</a> "Github也出現網軍了嗎?" (Is there an emerging wumao army on GitHub?) by gocreating on the Soft_Job board</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Archaic, fucking impossible to learn how to use. Ciro Santilli hasn’t managed yet, so if you want a reply from him, open an issue on this repo instead. Some tips:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>on the web UI rendering replies can be either likes (推 as in 推荐), dislikes (噓, hush!) or neutral (right arrow)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>per-page threads are basically flat. You can however reply to another post with a "Re:" post. One application of this seems to be to post images which might only be allowed on the thread starters, e.g.: <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1602324724.A.CA0.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1602324724.A.CA0.html</a> is a "Re:" to <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1602211516.A.3FB.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1602211516.A.3FB.html</a> It is not clear if Re: and original posts are interlinked in any way.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO: can anyone comment, without having a Taiwanese university address? This suggests no: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/1etbvb/anyone_on_pttcc_advice_suggestions/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/1etbvb/anyone_on_pttcc_advice_suggestions/</a> Also asked at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Can-you-comment-on-the-PTT-Bulletin-Board-System-at-ptt-cc-from-Taiwan-without-working-or-studying-at-a-Taiwanese-university" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Can-you-comment-on-the-PTT-Bulletin-Board-System-at-ptt-cc-from-Taiwan-without-working-or-studying-at-a-Taiwanese-university</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/92" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/92</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A source informed Ciro that now only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taiwan_University">NTU</a> alumni can have an account.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe the email requirement is the only way to prevent <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> from flooding the website.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Normal people see it on a web viewer hosted on: <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/index.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/index.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However it is fucking impossible to web archive that web interface because there is a cookie I’m 18-years-old confirmation before the first connection.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This shows how to connect for the first time: <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/index.firstbbs.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/index.firstbbs.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One attempt is:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>luit -encoding big5 telnet ptt.cc</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But the main page says:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"本站目前暫停開放新帳號註冊。" "This site is currently suspended for new account registration."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And you try <code>new</code> it says: "目前無法註冊帳號![按任意鍵繼續]" "Account cannot be registered at this time."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>OK, ptt2 went further:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>luit -encoding big5 telnet ptt2.cc</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then there is a registration process that seem to require you to prove that you work at Taiwanese university, but not sure it is mandatory to post.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But I couldn’t find Gossiping there either, which is the only board that matters, so not sure it is on this server.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="lihkg"><a class="anchor" href="#lihkg"></a><a class="link" href="#lihkg">5.21.7. LIHKG (連登, Hong Kong Reddit clone)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIHKG" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIHKG</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIHKG討論區" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIHKG討論區</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://lihkg.com" class="bare">https://lihkg.com</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a> <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> clone. Requires a Hong Kong IP or university address to login, a bit in the spirit of <a href="#ptt">PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a> to avoid <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> invasion.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If it goes down, they created: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LIHKG/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LIHKG/</a> on <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO meaning of "LI"?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> mentions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-08-24 <a href="https://lihkg.com/thread/2171918/page/1" class="bare">https://lihkg.com/thread/2171918/page/1</a> "工信部培植代碼平台取代GitHub" (The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology cultivates a code platform to replace GitHub) linking to: <a href="https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200823/AOAQRQURIRCT3D2DNPLMXUVC2M/" class="bare">https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200823/AOAQRQURIRCT3D2DNPLMXUVC2M/</a> Then 菱川六花 linked to this page on a comment. Too young, too naive, they did not know about the more specific and interesting <a href="https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> from <a href="#gitee-censorship">Gitee censorship (Gitee 审查)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-10-31 <a href="https://lihkg.com/thread/1685513/page/3" class="bare">https://lihkg.com/thread/1685513/page/3</a> "Notepad++新版代號「自由維吾爾」，GitHub網頁被灌爆，網站遭DDoS" about <a href="#notepad">Notepad++</a> "Free Uyghur" version. On page 3 comment links to Ciro’s <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a> account. Big thread with 500+ likes.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-10-05 <a href="https://lihkg.com/thread/1625310/page/1" class="bare">https://lihkg.com/thread/1625310/page/1</a> "聽講GitHub好好用" (Attending lectures on GitHub is very useful.). But likely some <a href="#slang">slang</a> for politics, because on first comment "可以好好上去發表下愛國論". Then someone links to <a href="#nine-nine-six-icu">996.ICU (2019)</a>, then to the GitHub <a href="#mirrors">mirror of this page</a>, and then to <a href="#gitee">Gitee</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-07-31 <a href="https://lihkg.com/thread/762440/page/1" class="bare">https://lihkg.com/thread/762440/page/1</a> <a href="https://archive.is/7REOi" class="bare">https://archive.is/7REOi</a>. Title: "依條友都幾屈機, 係Stack overflow撚共匪". I’m unable to understand the first sentence, but the end is something along "to play tricks on the commies". First comment (likely by OP): "佢個個人home page好多5毛留言, 唔知會唔會搞到block堆stackoverflow". The entire thread is about Ciro’s <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="hkgolden"><a class="anchor" href="#hkgolden"></a><a class="link" href="#hkgolden">5.21.7.1. HKGolden (香港高登讨论区)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKGolden" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKGolden</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/高登討論區" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/高登討論區</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="google"><a class="anchor" href="#google"></a><a class="link" href="#google">5.21.8. Google (谷歌)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related subjects:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#google-china">Google China (谷歌中国)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#google-cache">Google Cache</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="google-mirrors"><a class="anchor" href="#google-mirrors"></a><a class="link" href="#google-mirrors">5.21.8.1. Google mirrors (谷歌镜像)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A curated list on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/hmsjy2017/Google-Mirrors" class="bare">https://github.com/hmsjy2017/Google-Mirrors</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do the names mean anything? Are they owned? The fact that they are Alexa top 1000 domains is just so funny, Google redirects for China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Alexa top 1000 domains and blocked in China as per <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gdl5vtbbv0lj.com" class="bare">https://gdl5vtbbv0lj.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://au79nt5wic4x.com" class="bare">https://au79nt5wic4x.com</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other mirrors:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chacha.design/" class="bare">https://chacha.design/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://g0.nuaa.cf/" class="bare">https://g0.nuaa.cf/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://g1.liuxiongb.in/" class="bare">https://g1.liuxiongb.in/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://google.zenith.workers.dev/" class="bare">https://google.zenith.workers.dev/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://proxy.juchiahau.com/" class="bare">https://proxy.juchiahau.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://seeres.com" class="bare">https://seeres.com</a> 闭站维护中</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.muzhiso.net/" class="bare">https://www.muzhiso.net/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.sanzhima.com/" class="bare">https://www.sanzhima.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://google.independentlyreview.com/" class="bare">https://google.independentlyreview.com/</a> see also the <a href="#github">GitHub</a> one by the same creator, described at <a href="#mirrors">Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://websearches.club/" class="bare">https://websearches.club/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://g20.i-research.edu.eu.org/" class="bare">https://g20.i-research.edu.eu.org/</a> <a href="http://eu.org" class="bare">http://eu.org</a> gives away free subdomains it seems.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No HTTPS?!?! Brains?!?!</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://g.histsci.org/" class="bare">http://g.histsci.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://o.poetpalace.org/" class="bare">http://o.poetpalace.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://oneplj.com/webhp" class="bare">https://oneplj.com/webhp</a> broken HTTPS</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lists of mirrors:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cjh0613.github.io/blog/GoogleMirror.html" class="bare">https://cjh0613.github.io/blog/GoogleMirror.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="library-ac-cn"><a class="anchor" href="#library-ac-cn"></a><a class="link" href="#library-ac-cn">5.21.8.1.1. library.ac.cn</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.library.ac.cn/" class="bare">https://www.library.ac.cn/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://library.ac.cn/" class="bare">https://library.ac.cn/</a> large list of university Google/Google Scholar/Wikipedia/Twitter mirrors maintained by Chinese university students under an unified system. Each one asks for verification that you are from that university via some little known fact about the university:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://g.luciaz.me" class="bare">https://g.luciaz.me</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang_University">Zhejiang University</a> "需要验证您是否来自浙江大学". Question: "请问浙江大学内网最大的论坛中, 每天发帖量最大的版块是哪个?" (Ask your colleagues on the internal forum, what is the most popular section of the forum every day?)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://g0.njuu.cf/" class="bare">https://g0.njuu.cf/</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_University">Nanjing University</a> "需要验证您是否来自南京大学" Question: "西大楼是哪个系的?" (Which department is in the big Western building?)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://g0.library.edu.eu.org/" class="bare">https://g0.library.edu.eu.org/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website now points to: <a href="https://github.com/librarycloud/iwiki" class="bare">https://github.com/librarycloud/iwiki</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related URLs:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>several under <a href="#backlinks">Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="anti-ccp-info-sources"><a class="anchor" href="#anti-ccp-info-sources"></a><a class="link" href="#anti-ccp-info-sources">6. Anti-CCP information sources (反中共信息来源)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China</a> is what Ciro uses daily for news, see also: <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#anti-ccp-media">Anti-CCP media</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#backlinks">Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not in other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://anticommunism.miraheze.org/" class="bare">https://anticommunism.miraheze.org/</a> "反共维基" (Anti Communism Wiki) Chinese language anti-CCP Media Wiki instance hosted on <a href="https://miraheze.org" class="bare">https://miraheze.org</a>, a free Media Wiki host.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="reddit"><a class="anchor" href="#reddit"></a><a class="link" href="#reddit">6.1. Reddit</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2020, Reddit is <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s best bet at finding good anti CCP news, notably <a href="#r-china">r/China Reddit sub</a>. Unfortunately, it does require daily monitoring due to: <a href="https://ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/view-top-posts-of-previous-months-or-years-in-reddit" class="bare">https://ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/view-top-posts-of-previous-months-or-years-in-reddit</a>, you can’t just check the best events of the previous months easily.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Subs with lots of anti-commie info:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China</a> is arguably the best as of 2020, see: <a href="#r-china">r/China Reddit sub</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/memesbannedinchina/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/memesbannedinchina/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChinaMemes/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ChinaMemes/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/fucktheccp/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/fucktheccp/</a> small as of 2020 but promising</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong</a> had 3x more users than r/china as of 2020 after <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a>.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FragrantHarbour/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/FragrantHarbour/</a> another Honk Kong one, TODO vs r/HongKong.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CCP_virus/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/CCP_virus/</a> for <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/tibet/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/tibet/</a> 3k subs 2020</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChinaMemes" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ChinaMemes</a> 2.5k subs 2021-03</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/</a> (第二新S1市) modded by <a href="#chinatimeline">chinatimeline (中国时间线)</a> TODO title meaning</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottChina/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottChina/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>China Circle Jerk subs (CCJ). TODO: these appear to be <a href="#politically-incorrect">politically incorrect</a> subs, but they do seem to allow anti-commit info. As of 2020, they were either banned or private:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ2" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ2</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/</a> related to <a href="#serpentza-laowhy86">Winston Sterzel (SerpentZA) and Matthew Tye (laowhy86)</a>, but broader, e.g. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/comments/uepsnh/found_this_on_github_a_repository_that_seems_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/comments/uepsnh/found_this_on_github_a_repository_that_seems_to/</a> about this project.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china/comments/xd20dh/今日最佳ps包子帝被莉克醬猴子偷桃/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china/comments/xd20dh/今日最佳ps包子帝被莉克醬猴子偷桃/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china/comments/y4adzs/牆外的韭菜行動起來了/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china/comments/y4adzs/牆外的韭菜行動起來了/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA/comments/17heyea/默哀三分钟我们怀念他/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA/comments/17heyea/默哀三分钟我们怀念他/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/15lgroj/什么灾祸源头/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/15lgroj/什么灾祸源头/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/z5ghq3/shanghais_tankman/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/z5ghq3/shanghais_tankman/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/yixxry/2021年5月3日四川黑水一位藏族妇女正在搬运从新疆转运来的矿机她动作熟练手里捧着的电源线像一束花/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/yixxry/2021年5月3日四川黑水一位藏族妇女正在搬运从新疆转运来的矿机她动作熟练手里捧着的电源线像一束花/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/10azyqh/老大哥在看着你/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/10azyqh/老大哥在看着你/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LiberalGooseGroup" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LiberalGooseGroup</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LiberalGooseGroup/comments/z6714s/collage作品我2022年/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LiberalGooseGroup/comments/z6714s/collage作品我2022年/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Non-China specific but relevant:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam</a> as of 2020 a large part of it was China specific:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/n29kc3/upvote_this_absolute_chad_to_piss_off_the_tankies/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/n29kc3/upvote_this_absolute_chad_to_piss_off_the_tankies/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/lpqn0e/tankies_truly_are_among_the_worst_people_alive/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/lpqn0e/tankies_truly_are_among_the_worst_people_alive/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/mefx7x/a_proud_commie_tradition/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/mefx7x/a_proud_commie_tradition/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/nml4jg/john_cena_sold_out/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/nml4jg/john_cena_sold_out/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/o950d4/okay_but_next_time_itll_work_for_real/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/o950d4/okay_but_next_time_itll_work_for_real/</a> photo of Xi Jinping with text: "Yo guys, I promise, worker democracy is coming right after a few hundred years of totalitarian state capitalism with Chinese characteristics."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/nrkkqh/today_is_the_32nd_anniversary_of_the_tiananmen/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/nrkkqh/today_is_the_32nd_anniversary_of_the_tiananmen/</a> "Today is the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This is a photo of its aftermath. Death to the CCP." Night photo of dead people and bicycles on <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO review:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/</a>. Does not appear to be very China focused.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl</a> (流浪防区)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mnbpum/if_you_want_to_experience_the_censorship_and/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mnbpum/if_you_want_to_experience_the_censorship_and/</a> claims pro-CCP, but e.g. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/mn68dy/各位键委如何看待gfw/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/mn68dy/各位键委如何看待gfw/</a> has <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a> talks. It actually appears to be quite a diverse sub.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/17lmayu/轉發_防不胜防防不胜防啊经过对光猫固件分析发现更多插件/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/17lmayu/轉發_防不胜防防不胜防啊经过对光猫固件分析发现更多插件/</a></p>
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<p><a href="#backlinks">Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2024-03-25 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/1bn47e5/github_上自带大翻译的那个竟然是100的洋人那么问题来了/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/1bn47e5/github_上自带大翻译的那个竟然是100的洋人那么问题来了/</a> by user steambap, possibly the same as: <a href="https://github.com/steambap" class="bare">https://github.com/steambap</a>. Complaining about <a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022-12-06 comment on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/ze5wcd/github也在墙外了/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/ze5wcd/github也在墙外了/</a> has GitHub been blocked by the <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DoubanGoosegroup" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/DoubanGoosegroup</a> Appears anti-CCP with <a href="#backlinks">Backlink</a>: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DoubanGoosegroup/comments/ud50yd/中国主要科技与互联网公司市值变化与apple对比/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/DoubanGoosegroup/comments/ud50yd/中国主要科技与互联网公司市值变化与apple对比/</a> Main post was also laughing at the Chinese economy First charst are 流浪 like <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/浪" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/浪</a> On 2023-01-31, Ciro Santilli’s Reddit account was banned from that sub for no apparent reason</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CLTV/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/CLTV/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hanbenwei/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/hanbenwei/</a> e.g. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hanbenwei/comments/1akit4d/七五新疆暴动干了什么/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/hanbenwei/comments/1akit4d/七五新疆暴动干了什么/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="r-china"><a class="anchor" href="#r-china"></a><a class="link" href="#r-china">6.1.1. r/China Reddit sub</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That catches all the important news.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A large part of the posts has controversial material.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Has some noise of course as well, but less than other media I find.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Highly worth your feed.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reddit was banned in China in August 2018: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/965k4c/reddit_banned_in_china/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/965k4c/reddit_banned_in_china/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#tencent">Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a> will invest 150 million on Reddit in 2019: <a href="https://gizmodo.com/reddit-banned-in-china-is-reportedly-set-to-land-150-1832375439" class="bare">https://gizmodo.com/reddit-banned-in-china-is-reportedly-set-to-land-150-1832375439</a> See also: <a href="#biased-media">Biased media (偏见媒体)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="r-chonglangtv"><a class="anchor" href="#r-chonglangtv"></a><a class="link" href="#r-chonglangtv">6.1.2. r/chonglangTV Reddit sub</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>15k users 2020-03.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Banned 2022-03 for some likely very lightweight "doxxing" that had already been published everywhere. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/reddit-03042022114155.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/reddit-03042022114155.html</a> from <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a> gives more context, translation;</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The reason why chonglangTV was blocked was "disclosure of personal information". It is suspected that they have something to do with a "patriotic pink" named "Xu Hao" (徐好) who claimed to be an employee of a bank in Shanghai. "Xu Hao" claimed that he used his power to intercept multiple donations to Ukraine, and was later "opened the box" by netizens. (i.e. starting with personal information).</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other threads:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/t4ddzk/the_largest_chinese_dissident_subreddit_has_been/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/t4ddzk/the_largest_chinese_dissident_subreddit_has_been/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/takrib/what_happened_to_chonglangtv/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/takrib/what_happened_to_chonglangtv/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CLTV/comments/t4nhhm/冲浪tv被封之原因分析/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/CLTV/comments/t4nhhm/冲浪tv被封之原因分析/</a> Analysis of the reason why chonglangTV was blocked</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/44693" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/44693</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://pincong.rocks/article/39117" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/article/39117</a> proposes a regroup at <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeofChonglang/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeofChonglang/</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Overview of their culture: <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ChonglangTV" class="bare">https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ChonglangTV</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese language, pretty good content, anti-CCP samples:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-10-13 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/q7am6x/github这个仓库issue_岁静码农粉蛆暴跳如雷全被翻译成英文_效果好到爆" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/q7am6x/github这个仓库issue_岁静码农粉蛆暴跳如雷全被翻译成英文_效果好到爆</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues</a> is fun)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-03-27 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/mdlowp/ciro这人行能处/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/mdlowp/ciro这人行能处/</a> (Ciro is nice)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-02 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/lf5dy5/致那些坚持认为不会翻墙者不配看墙外东西的粉红/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/lf5dy5/致那些坚持认为不会翻墙者不配看墙外东西的粉红/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-01 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/kpulab/最双标的人/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/kpulab/最双标的人/</a> (the people with the most double standards, 双标 is a short form or 双重标准), comments how China complained when the US imposed sanctions on <a href="#huawei">Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a>, while China itself had already banned everything from the West</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/lyxlf9/不_言_而_喻一_目_了_然/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/lyxlf9/不_言_而_喻一_目_了_然/</a> has a cartoon about <a href="#jack-mas-disappearance-2021">Jack Ma’s disappearance (马云的失踪, 2021)</a>. Ciro’s actually going to steal that.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="pro-dictatorship-reddit-subs"><a class="anchor" href="#pro-dictatorship-reddit-subs"></a><a class="link" href="#pro-dictatorship-reddit-subs">6.1.3. Pro dictatorship Reddit subs</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="rsino"><a class="anchor" href="#rsino"></a><a class="link" href="#rsino">6.1.3.1. r/sino</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Any comment critical of China and mods immediately ban you, e.g. on 2020-08-21 at <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/ie0mak/china_is_building_a_github_alternative_called/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/ie0mak/china_is_building_a_github_alternative_called/</a> which is related to <a href="#gitee">Gitee</a>, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> commented:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Let’s see how long it takes them to block my repo/account: <a href="https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200821202450/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/web/20200821202450/https://gitee.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The ban message is:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You have been permanently banned from participating in r/Sino. You can still view and subscribe to r/Sino, but you won’t be able to post or comment.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Try <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/westerner/">r/westerner</a> TRASH doesn’t get by mods here. Tiananmen Square is vindicated by China’s development. Anti terror system in Xinjiang is working. End result for HK is the same since 1997, regardless of rioters. Scientology-esque FLG/Shen Yun cult show has failed for decades, if you believe their claims, it’s all of them losing badly.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dec 31 China informed WHO about mysterious pneumonia. Jan 11 Chinese reveal virus genome Jan 23 Wuhan quarantine - businessinsider/sciencemag</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You had the genome and saw the lengths China went to. Don’t blame others for failing months later.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>US accused of 'modern piracy' after diversion of masks meant for Europe - theguardian</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Democracies Are Better at Fighting Outbreaks - theatlantic XD</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The US leads in coronavirus cases, but not pandemic response - sciencemag XD</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Beliefs of founder cultleader of Falun Gong from own lectures on official falundafa site <a href="https://redd.it/42wlvf" class="bare">https://redd.it/42wlvf</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="r-genzedong"><a class="anchor" href="#r-genzedong"></a><a class="link" href="#r-genzedong">6.1.3.2. r/GenZedong</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Featuring <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/qcyocd/the_lengths_these_fucking_people_go_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/qcyocd/the_lengths_these_fucking_people_go_to/</a> "The lengths these fucking people go to." They are unable to read it seems: <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro commented linking to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/why-ciro-santilli-refers-to-himself-in-the-third-person" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/why-ciro-santilli-refers-to-himself-in-the-third-person</a> and was autobanned immediately with message:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You have been banned due to participation in anti-communist subreddits. This action was performed automatically by a bot.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hong Kong is China. Mao already freed Tibet in 1950. The Xinjiang counter-terrorism program is both effective and humane, unlike the US War on Terror which is neither. Long Live President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It appears that the word <code>cirosantilli.com</code> is itself banned?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sub description:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a Dengist subreddit in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information leading to the arrest of Hillary Rodham Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This subreddit is not ironic, we are Marxist-Leninists.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Reddit was quarantined in March 2022: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/tkurmc/breaking_news_rgenzedong_has_been_quarantined/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/tkurmc/breaking_news_rgenzedong_has_been_quarantined/</a> <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is against this quarantine BTW. We shouldn’t ban any discussion forum, at least not until we have an anonymous way to verify the nationality of people: <a href="#unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west">Unjust social media censorship in the West (西方不公正的社交媒体审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="rrussia"><a class="anchor" href="#rrussia"></a><a class="link" href="#rrussia">6.1.3.3. r/russia</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Completely pro-Putin, e.g. removed <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/russia/comments/kd21ck/cnnbellingcat_investigation_identifies_russian/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/russia/comments/kd21ck/cnnbellingcat_investigation_identifies_russian/</a> about <a href="#the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020">The poisoning of Alexei Navalny (2020)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="instagram"><a class="anchor" href="#instagram"></a><a class="link" href="#instagram">6.2. Instagram</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hongkongprotestposters/" class="bare">https://www.instagram.com/hongkongprotestposters/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="telegram"><a class="anchor" href="#telegram"></a><a class="link" href="#telegram">6.3. Telegram (TG)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://t.me/anticcpbase" class="bare">https://t.me/anticcpbase</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://t.me/ccp_unmasked" class="bare">https://t.me/ccp_unmasked</a> see also: <a href="#knowlesys">Knowlesys (乐思软件)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="twitter"><a class="anchor" href="#twitter"></a><a class="link" href="#twitter">6.4. Twitter (推特)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lists by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/i/lists/221848102" class="bare">https://twitter.com/i/lists/221848102</a> anti-ccp</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/i/lists/235201419" class="bare">https://twitter.com/i/lists/235201419</a> pro-ccp</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Particularly interesting ones:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/zaikandongxi" class="bare">https://twitter.com/zaikandongxi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>After <a href="#unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west">Trump was unfairly banned from Twitter</a>, his social media team created an amazing "Chongald Xrump" account <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">pretending ridiculously to be a CCP PR person</a>, it had really good posts.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But that amazing account was banned: <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-sneaks-back-on-twitter-by-disguising-self-as-pr-rep-for-chinese-communist-party" class="bare">https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-sneaks-back-on-twitter-by-disguising-self-as-pr-rep-for-chinese-communist-party</a> Twitter is <a href="#politically-incorrect">trying really hard</a> to beat the <a href="#censorship">CCP at its own game</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RealEmperorPooh" class="bare">https://twitter.com/RealEmperorPooh</a> 维尼大帝</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-07 <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-business-technology-3741dcfb1c2eb11f17280c9ed8c06fc4" class="bare">https://apnews.com/article/china-business-technology-3741dcfb1c2eb11f17280c9ed8c06fc4</a> "Twitter restricts account of expert who mocked China leader" Anne-Marie Brady <a href="https://twitter.com/Anne_MarieBrady" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Anne_MarieBrady</a></p>
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<p>2021-04-08: publicly supported the <a href="#milk-tea-alliance">Milk Tea Alliance (奶茶联盟)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Unfair censorship:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08-12 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/twitter-locks-account-of-india-congress-largest-opposition-party/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/twitter-locks-account-of-india-congress-largest-opposition-party/</a> Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party (Indian National Congress)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-08-10 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-mjt-twitter-suspension/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-mjt-twitter-suspension/</a> Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene temporarily for spreading vaccine misinformation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="trump-twitter-kuang-biao" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Trump_silenced_by_Twitter_by_Kuang_Biao.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Trump silenced by Twitter by Kuang Biao" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 86. Cartoon showing Donald Trump’s mouth sewn shut in a "Twitter" shape by <a href="#kuang-biao">Kuang Biao (邝飚)</a> (2021) after Trump was <a href="#unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west">banned from Twitter</a>. You know it’s bad when the artists who normally criticize the <a href="#ccp">CCP</a> start to criticize you. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a>'s <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/twitter-china-cartoon-06052020164712.html">"I can’t Tweet"</a> comes to mind, although it was about <a href="#racist-west">The West is racist against black people (西方人对黑人有种族主义)</a> instad. <a href="https://xueqiu.com/9870976009/168210673">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="the-great-translation-movement"><a class="anchor" href="#the-great-translation-movement"></a><a class="link" href="#the-great-translation-movement">6.4.1. The Great Translation Movement (大翻译运动官方推号)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/tgtm_official" class="bare">https://twitter.com/tgtm_official</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Emerged mosty translating propaganda about the <a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This type of thing is something <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> did a few times previously, e.g.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream">Little pink explains the difference between the American dream and the Chinese dream</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#little-girl-has-ho-hopes-for-school-video-2021">Little girl has ho hopes for school video (2021, 小姑娘对学校没有希望)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xinjiang-core-socialist-values">Xinjiang core socialist values</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but he just doesn’t have the knowledge/time/patience to do it as well as that Twitter channel.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="many-people-in-the-west-don-t-fully-appreciate-the-danger-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#many-people-in-the-west-don-t-fully-appreciate-the-danger-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#many-people-in-the-west-don-t-fully-appreciate-the-danger-of-china">6.4.1.1. Many people in the West don’t fully appreciate the danger of China 许多西方人没有完全意识到中国的危险</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#the-great-translation-movement">The Great Translation Movement (大翻译运动官方推号)</a> is a good movement because many people in the West do not fully appreciate the level of dictatorship in China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g. a well educated friend of Ciro once asked him circa 2020 which one he thought was worse: the terrible president of Brazil at the time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro">Jair Bolsonaro</a>, or <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is of course impossible to compare individuals in completely different situations, but how can you not point the finger to the major dictator! It is like asking who do you hate the most, <a href="#nazi">Hitler</a> or Donald Trump! That question was an eye opener.</p>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="gfwfrog"><a class="anchor" href="#gfwfrog"></a><a class="link" href="#gfwfrog">6.4.2. GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/GFWfrog" class="bare">https://twitter.com/GFWfrog</a> 墙国蛙蛤蛤</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzTs_yRgwD88hZQNvmUwzJA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzTs_yRgwD88hZQNvmUwzJA</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://t.me/s/XueXi_China" class="bare">https://t.me/s/XueXi_China</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The username is a reference to a frog that jumps over the <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or perhaps it is also a reference to <a href="#taiwan-frog">Taiwan frog (台蛙蛙)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Amazing selection of Chinese-only anti-CCP content.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="youtube"><a class="anchor" href="#youtube"></a><a class="link" href="#youtube">6.5. YouTube</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many western Pro CCP accounts: <a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#china-uncensored">China Uncensored (pro-Falun Gong media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Others:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwjvvgGX6oby5mZ3gbDe8Ug" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwjvvgGX6oby5mZ3gbDe8Ug</a> China Insights anti-CCP channel. TODO affiliation: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Ask_Politics/comments/pi8kjo/is_the_youtube_channel_china_insights_trustworthy/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/Ask_Politics/comments/pi8kjo/is_the_youtube_channel_china_insights_trustworthy/</a> suggests Falun Gong but no proof.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="winnie-the-pool"><a class="anchor" href="#winnie-the-pool"></a><a class="link" href="#winnie-the-pool">6.5.1. Winnie the Pool (乳透社·小池塘,XJP音源,习近平音源)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjGMgaDmTJtyWl4QCbHJlig" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjGMgaDmTJtyWl4QCbHJlig</a> 乳透社·小池塘Winnie the Pool. Basically a bunch of anti-Xi Jinping <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/youtube-poop">YouTube poop</a> in Chinese.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Ruters0615" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Ruters0615</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr9pkYrfp6QumE11R9A9gqQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr9pkYrfp6QumE11R9A9gqQ</a> 乳透社·小反旗 sister channel</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many of their videos use their <a href="#xi-jinping-speech-synthesizer">Xi Jinping speech synthesizer (习近平讲话模拟器)</a> system called XJP音源(习近平音源). It is mentioned in the description of videos e.g.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ruters0615/status/1227823202522427392" class="bare">https://twitter.com/ruters0615/status/1227823202522427392</a> gives some voice synthesis methods used</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#github">GitHub</a> reupload: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/xijinping-yinyuan" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/xijinping-yinyuan</a> With docker support:
* <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1260" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1260</a>
* <a href="https://github.com/veeyoung/xi-jinping-tts/releases" class="bare">https://github.com/veeyoung/xi-jinping-tts/releases</a></p>
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</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="eyectv"><a class="anchor" href="#eyectv"></a><a class="link" href="#eyectv">6.5.2. EyeCTV (眼球中央電視台)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTqPBBnP2T57kmiPQ87986g" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTqPBBnP2T57kmiPQ87986g</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/06/taiwan-china-eyectv-tough-bobas-satire-laughter/" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/06/taiwan-china-eyectv-tough-bobas-satire-laughter/</a> <a href="#taiwan">Taiwanese</a>. political satire trope, mostly news satire.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tumblr"><a class="anchor" href="#tumblr"></a><a class="link" href="#tumblr">6.6. Tumblr</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://independence-of-mind.tumblr.com/" class="bare">https://independence-of-mind.tumblr.com/</a> 独立思考社群 (Independent thought society)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="medium"><a class="anchor" href="#medium"></a><a class="link" href="#medium">6.7. Medium</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Pro-CCP:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://leohezhao.medium.com/" class="bare">https://leohezhao.medium.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="wenxuecity"><a class="anchor" href="#wenxuecity"></a><a class="link" href="#wenxuecity">6.8. Wenxuecity (文学城)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenxuecity" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenxuecity</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/文学城" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/文学城</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some US funded site for Chinese students abroad, apparently not censored e.g. <a href="https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3205740.html" class="bare">https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3205740.html</a> Blocked according to <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a>: <a href="https://en.greatfire.org/search/all/wenxuecity.com" class="bare">https://en.greatfire.org/search/all/wenxuecity.com</a>, so good sign.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#backlinks">Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)</a>, so far only because they use github images, not actual mentions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2023-11-10 <a href="https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3205740.html" class="bare">https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3205740.html</a>, a reply to <a href="https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3205590.html" class="bare">https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3205590.html</a> 习总换赛场不跟美国政客浪费时间了，直奔主题广会美国商界大佬，三番晚餐会每位$2000 (President Xi changed the venue and stopped wasting time with American politicians. He went straight to the theme meeting with American business leaders and had three dinner parties worth $2,000 each.) linking to: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/business/economy/xi-jinping-american-business-leaders-dinner.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/business/economy/xi-jinping-american-business-leaders-dinner.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2023-11-01 <a href="https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3200519.html" class="bare">https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3200519.html</a>, a reply to <a href="https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3200478.html" class="bare">https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/currentevent/3200478.html</a> 中國前60大房企股價慘跌…​房產大咖被抓留巨債！謝金河：大債時代來臨 (The share prices of China’s top 60 real estate companies plummeted…​ Real estate tycoons were caught with huge debts! Xie Jinhe: The era of big debt is coming) linking to this Facebook post: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ibbRc5qJg1fbePcg9998u91q2p8TgEUttHJSSXo2GNU5eU2epA33AQfL1Q6Rfadzl&id=100002304327218&ref=embed_post" class="bare">https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ibbRc5qJg1fbePcg9998u91q2p8TgEUttHJSSXo2GNU5eU2epA33AQfL1Q6Rfadzl&id=100002304327218&ref=embed_post</a> by <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/謝金河">謝金河</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="separatism"><a class="anchor" href="#separatism"></a><a class="link" href="#separatism">7. Separatism (分离主义, Taiwan 台湾, Xinjiang 新疆, Hong Kong 香港)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If a large number of people in a given region want to leave an country strongly or have greater autonomy, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> believes that they should be allowed to do so.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Rationale:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>if they don’t feel they are getting a good deal out of your country, it is unfair to keep them in</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>keeping them in the country forcibly implies large scale violation of human rights: mass incarceration and removing freedom of speech.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Which in turn implies terrorist backslash.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All of which are against <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s principles.</p>
</div>
<div id="luxor" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=eouBCMPtNDQ?t=1170" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=eouBCMPtNDQ?t=1170</a> "It happened in …​ Luxor" by Al Jazeera English (2011) is a short documentary about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_massacre">Luxor massacre in Egypt (1997)</a>. At this timestamp, survivor <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_E._Müller">Felix Mueller</a> whose girlfriend was killed in the attack comments that it is when people don’t have an official way to express their needs due to censorship that they are more likely to turn to terrorism to express themselves.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fASh2_RzMuE?rel=0&start=1170" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What makes Ciro the maddest is the censorship. If you are going to put people in jail, write a clear law about it, and let international reporters come to see the situation.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But why do you do something and then hide it? Maybe because you are not doing the right thing?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro also believes that although terrorists must be fought with all our strength, they must also be given some degree respect (interspersed simultaneously <a href="#sacred-cows">with humour</a>). He sometimes prefers the term "warriors" or "fighters", because their actions are largely indistinguishable from many ideological or purely greed based actions that larger nation states have done many times over and over. It is just a war, plain and simple.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The reason why they kill mostly civilians is that they don’t have the means to kill the presidents those civilians elected. An amazing scene from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Algiers">The Battle of Algiers (1966)</a> comes to mind. After the head of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War">Algerian independence</a> movement and terrorist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larbi_Ben_M%27hidi">Larbi Ben M’hidi</a> is arrested, the French military let him be interviewed by the press on 4 March 1967 <a href="https://youtu.be/uHWZkiBuKGY?t=5312" class="bare">https://youtu.be/uHWZkiBuKGY?t=5312</a> (TODO real words? Cannot find source):</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translation:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Journalist: Don’t you think that it is cowardly to use the handbags and pushchairs of your women to transport your bombs? Those bombs that make so many innocent victims? [Earlier in the movie, we saw women carriying bombs into the French areas of Algiers through those means]</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Larbi Ben M’hidi: And you, don’t you think that it is much more cowardly to drop on defenseless villages your napalm bombs that kill thousands times more? Obviously, with airplanes, it would have been much more convenient for us. Give us your bombers, and we will give you the pushchairs.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Original text:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Journalist: Ne trouvez-vous pas plutôt lâche d’utiliser les sacs et les couffins de vos femmes pour transporter vos bombes? Ces bombes qui font tant de victimes innocentes?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Larbi Ben M’hidi: Et vous, ne vous semble t-il beacoup plus lache de larguer sur des vilages sans défence vos bombes au napalme qui tuent mille fois plus d’innocents? Évidement, avec des avions, ca aurait été beaucoup plus comode pour nous. Donnez vous vos bombardiers monsieur, et on vous donnera les couffins.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#western-democracies-have-invaded-other-countries-and-crushed-separatism">Western democracies have invaded other countries and crushed separatism (西方民主国家侵略别国粉碎分裂主义)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="taiwan"><a class="anchor" href="#taiwan"></a><a class="link" href="#taiwan">7.1. Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华民国" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华民国</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you are interested in Taiwan, one important programmer forum is: <a href="#ptt">PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some interesting links:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=6aZkM_ZLvjE?t=50" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=6aZkM_ZLvjE?t=50</a> (zh) "【這就是科學｜柯文哲】EP3／從癌症治療看政治！除惡務盡→除惡「勿」盡？「與敵共存」才是生存之道！", 柯文哲, 2019-06-26. Ko Wen-je, the mayor of Taipei 台北 and a professor in medicine, applies the concept of isolation and mutation in evolution to Taiwan and China</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-03-10 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210310210519/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-10/asia-shoppers-snap-up-taiwan-pineapples-in-defiance-of-china-ban" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210310210519/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-10/asia-shoppers-snap-up-taiwan-pineapples-in-defiance-of-china-ban</a> "Shoppers in Asia Snap Up Taiwan’s Pineapples in Defiance of China’s Ban". In 2018 there were <a href="#fake-news">Fake news (假新闻)</a> about that apparently: <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3423317" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3423317</a> but now it became true.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Discussion:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/59337963" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/59337963</a> 为什么西方国家不针对台湾？ Why don’t Western countries target Taiwan [in their criticisms]? First answer: because of something called <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="taiwan-united-states-relations"><a class="anchor" href="#taiwan-united-states-relations"></a><a class="link" href="#taiwan-united-states-relations">7.1.1. Taiwan-United States relations (臺灣與美國關係史)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan–United_States_relations" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan–United_States_relations</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/臺灣與美國關係史" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/臺灣與美國關係史</a></p>
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<h5 id="one-china-policy"><a class="anchor" href="#one-china-policy"></a><a class="link" href="#one-china-policy">7.1.1.1. One China policy (一个中国)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一个中国" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一个中国</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Taiwan is not a case of <a href="#separatism">Separatism (分离主义, Taiwan 台湾, Xinjiang 新疆, Hong Kong 香港)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Taiwan is a completely separate country split due to civil war, long ago.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Almost every country, and all reasonably powerful countries, have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. They just don’t call them diplomatic relations to not piss off China so they can keep doing business.</p>
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<p>The fact that most countries in the world does officially recognize Taiwan as a country is a joke, considering that the only thing keeping it afloat is the West’s military threat.</p>
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<p><a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">The West must not</a> let China advance and take more territories. The more they take, the more they will want.</p>
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<p>The West must protect China’s neighboring countries with military support and assurance.</p>
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<p>The West must recognize Taiwan for what it is: a separate country, under threat of invasion, and in need of support.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>If China’s claim to Taiwan is valid, then Taiwan also has an equally valid claim on China.</p>
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<p>If China’s claim to Taiwan is valid, then so will its claim to any other country.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>China, if you want to claim that Taiwan is a part of you, just grow some balls and invade them already. Or just stop this stupid joke.</p>
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<p>Interesting quote from <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/taiwans-status-geopolitical-absurdity/593371/" class="bare">https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/taiwans-status-geopolitical-absurdity/593371/</a></p>
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<p>Taiwan’s Status Is a Geopolitical Absurdity</p>
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<p>And <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/02/16/americas-affirmation-of-the-one-china-policy-pleased-taiwan-too" class="bare">https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/02/16/americas-affirmation-of-the-one-china-policy-pleased-taiwan-too</a> calls the One China policy a:</p>
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<p>polite fiction</p>
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<p><a href="https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/62447/how-can-a-citizen-of-mainland-china-visit-taiwan/62466#comment178495_62466" class="bare">https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/62447/how-can-a-citizen-of-mainland-china-visit-taiwan/62466#comment178495_62466</a> hi, I want a "not VISA" to Taiwan. Thanks.</p>
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<p>A well educated Mainlander who lived outside of China once told Ciro:</p>
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<p>Taiwan should not be considered a country by China, because then it would not join back to China when China becomes a democracy, and would be used by the USA to do evil things as they did in the Middle East</p>
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<p>Ciro was shocked. He considered that person highly intelligent and not fully brainwashed! Reply:</p>
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<p>China claiming that Taiwan is a part of them only drives Taiwan closer to the West! Who wants to be part of a dictatorship unless you have been brainwashed by one?</p>
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<p>They truly believe in <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a>.</p>
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<p>The US first caved in in 1972 with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Communiqué">Shanghai Communiqué</a>.</p>
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<p>News:</p>
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<p>20201-01-10 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-09/u-s-to-end-restrictions-for-diplomats-regarding-taiwan-pompeo" class="bare">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-09/u-s-to-end-restrictions-for-diplomats-regarding-taiwan-pompeo</a> "U.S. Eases Restrictions on Contact With Taiwan in Jab at China"</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/taiwan-finalises-62-billion-purchase-of-f-16-jets-lockheed-13023336" class="bare">https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/taiwan-finalises-62-billion-purchase-of-f-16-jets-lockheed-13023336</a> "Taiwan finalises purchase of F-16 jets from Lockheed Martin". 90 jets, 8 billion USD.</p>
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<p>2020-05-26 <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3940533" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3940533</a> "Brazilian netizens fight back against CCP threats over Taiwan support"</p>
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<p>It should also be mentioned that this campaign could be being used/created by pro-Bolsanaro politicians as a way to detract focus from the COVID-19 epidemic that is reaching its deadliest phase in Brazil, e.g.: <a href="https://twitter.com/PauloMartins10/status/1265038976617984002" class="bare">https://twitter.com/PauloMartins10/status/1265038976617984002</a></p>
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<p>2020 <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a> and Taiwan:</p>
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<p>Taiwan was at a disadvantage during since it was not part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization">World Health Organization</a> and therefore could not get information as fast and influence decisions</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=fASh2_RzMuE" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=fASh2_RzMuE</a> WHO officer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Aylward">Bruce Alyward</a> pretends not to hear question from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTHK">Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)</a> about the possibility of Taiwan’s membership in the WHO during a one-to-one Skype interview, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/senior-who-adviser-appears-to-dodge-question-on-taiwans-covid-19-response">reference</a>.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fASh2_RzMuE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>2020-03-27 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-usa/u-s-increases-support-for-taiwan-in-recognition-battle-with-china-idUSKBN21E0B7" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-usa/u-s-increases-support-for-taiwan-in-recognition-battle-with-china-idUSKBN21E0B7</a> "U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law an act that requires increased U.S. support for Taiwan internationally". But he didn’t recognize it as a country. Semi bullshit.</p>
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<p>Taiwan Travel Act</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Travel_Act" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Travel_Act</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/台灣旅行法" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/台灣旅行法</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
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<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/台湾问题" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/台湾问题</a> on <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a></p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg" loading="lazy" alt="Flag of the Republic of China" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 87. The flag of Taiwan. Like most modern countries, Taiwan has one. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Taiwan_White_House.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Taiwan White House" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 88. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Office_Building">Presidential Office Building of Taiwan</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/總統府_(臺灣)">總統府_(臺灣) | 总统府 (台湾)</a>). What is that flag we see on top of the central government building of Taiwan? It appears to have a blue rectangle on the top left! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TaipeiROCPresidentialOfficeBuilding.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Countries_that_recognize_Taiwan.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Countries that recognize Taiwan" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 89. It is fun to see that some small random Latin American countries <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay–Taiwan_relations">like Paraguay</a> recognize only Taiwan and not Mainland China. Brave warriors!!! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Chinas.svg">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/TECRO_Washington.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="TECRO Washington" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 90. Washington DC TECRO. Instead of "embassies", Taiwan has <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_Economic_and_Cultural_Representative_Office">"Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Offices" (TECROs)</a> <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/臺北經濟文化代表處">(台北经济文化代表处|臺北經濟文化代表處)</a> in 2013. The just happen to issue VISAs and passports like embassies, but remember, they are not embassies. No flag you see? This is because idiotic countries don’t allow TECROs to have the Taiwan flag. In 2019 Senator Ted Cruz planned on passing a law to allow that though: <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3825086" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3825086</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taipei_Economic_and_Cultural_Representative_Office_in_the_United_States_from_VOA_(1).jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Taiwan_we_are_China_cartoon.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Taiwan we are China cartoon" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 91. 2014 cartoon by D Nguyen summarizing the Taiwan China relationship in history. Featuring: fatter and fatter <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a> on first three cartoons to the left, likely <a href="#deng-xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, 1982-1987)</a> to left on the last, and <a href="#chiang-kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石, 蔣中正)</a> to the right. TODO middle figure on last cartoon. TODO find proper attribution source, originally seen at: <a href="https://i.redd.it/xb5qr3asfns41.jpg" class="bare">https://i.redd.it/xb5qr3asfns41.jpg</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/China_Taiwan_reunification_flag.webp" loading="lazy" alt="China Taiwan reunification flag" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 92. Proposed reunification flag for Taiwan and China. <a href="https://9gag.com/gag/a9E1YVo">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/West_Taiwan_map.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="West Taiwan map" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 93. West Taiwan (西台湾), also known as Mainland Taiwan (台湾大陆), also known as China. Not to be confused with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Taiwan">Western Taiwan</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/臺灣西部">台湾西部</a>), which is a region of Taiwan. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TaiwanChina/comments/j34ftk/taiwan_number_one/">Source</a>.</div>
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<h5 id="pelosi-visits-taiwan"><a class="anchor" href="#pelosi-visits-taiwan"></a><a class="link" href="#pelosi-visits-taiwan">7.1.1.2. Pelosi visits Taiwan (佩洛西访问台湾, 2022)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> agrees with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/opinion/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-china.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/opinion/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-china.html</a> that this was a stupid move.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The USA has to support Taiwan as silently.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And we especially don’t need to do it loudly in the middle of the ongoing <a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a>, which already requires incredible Western support to Ukraine.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even Biden, which is a democrat just like Pelosi advised against it in public: <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/08/02/pelosi-defies-biden-pokes-china-with-taiwan-visit/" class="bare">https://rollcall.com/2022/08/02/pelosi-defies-biden-pokes-china-with-taiwan-visit/</a> though he coudn’t be more explicit due to separation of powers concerns apparently.</p>
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<h4 id="taiwan-number-one"><a class="anchor" href="#taiwan-number-one"></a><a class="link" href="#taiwan-number-one">7.1.2. Taiwan #1 (Taiwan Number One, 2015)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2015 meme started by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_Battle_Royale">H1Z1</a> streamer AngryPug, in which he repeatedly taunts the Chinese streamer Em0 by pretending to be Taiwanese.</p>
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<p><a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/taiwan-1" class="bare">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/taiwan-1</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3tz3jq/what_is_the_point_of_the_taiwan_1_thing/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3tz3jq/what_is_the_point_of_the_taiwan_1_thing/</a></p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=vTqZ9xrxhHk" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=vTqZ9xrxhHk</a> ANGRYPUG’s official YouTube upload of the clip "Taiwan #1" meme.</div>
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<p>See also: <a href="#photobomb">Photobombing-like attacks</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="hololive"><a class="anchor" href="#hololive"></a><a class="link" href="#hololive">7.1.3. Hololive Kiryu Coco firing incident (Hololive 台湾事件, 2020)</a></h4>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hololive_Production#2020%E2%80%93present:_Expansion" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hololive_Production#2020%E2%80%93present:_Expansion</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hololive_production" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hololive_production</a></p>
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<p>Hololive is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_YouTuber">VTuber</a> management company from Japan, a subsidiary of a company called Cover Corporation.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>When a VTubber either quits of is fired, they euphemistically often call it "graduation". But it is more like "death". The managemente company likely retains all rights to the character.</p>
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<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> didn’t know WTF a VTuber was before coming across this event, he’s too old for that. But basically is mostly some Japanese chicks that have live generated anime like virtual avatars that motion track them. They are meant to feel like real-world anime characters, as they can reply to comments to be more interactive.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hololive is the main VTuber agency. These agencies are similar in nature to modern singer agencies, and even more so to the <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/k-pop">agencies that build up Korean K-pop idols</a>. They are all trying to turn your youth into idiotic superfluous robots, the opposite of science.</p>
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<p>And this is likely exremelly popular amongst the <a href="#porn">sex-deprived young Chinese people, much like Japanese AV</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Fucking Japanese corporates, curbing freedom of speech in China. Those dudes are going to deserve it when Japan gets invaded by Xi’s <a href="#nazi">fourth Reich</a>…​</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The key event was 2020-09-28 <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4018580" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4018580</a> "Japanese VTubers banned for mentioning Taiwan during livestream":</p>
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<p>During their most recent livestreams, Hololive Japanese VTubers Kiryu Coco and Akai Haato announced the countries where they have received the most followers based on YouTube analytics. One of the countries that they highlighted was Taiwan because it accounted for seven percent of viewers and they displayed the flag of Taiwan to represent the nation.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>therefore joining the long list of <a href="#western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests">Western companies that comply with Chinese censorship requests (遵守中国审查要求的西方公司)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This event was clarified to Ciro at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/157" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/157</a> and is tracked under <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/vtuber" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/labels/vtuber</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interestingly, this led to a large number of <a href="#shitpost">I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子)</a>/spam on <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues</a>, culminating notably at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/191" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/191</a>, and many of them seemed to involve:</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixiv">Pixiv</a>, which is "a Japanese online community for artists" which likely has lots of VTubers,</p>
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<p>Japanese language, although one of the very extremely erudite and trustworthy comments at: <a href="https://boards.4channel.org/vt/thread/1403290/really-makes-you" class="bare">https://boards.4channel.org/vt/thread/1403290/really-makes-you</a> suggests that the Japanese at there is completely broken, and it is likely just a Chinese person using Google Translate</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is however hard to understand the rationale of such posts, why here on China dictatorship?</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=yWLsy9w0zTE" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=yWLsy9w0zTE</a> I’m angry about the Kiryu Coco situation…​ by Nuxanor (2020) This other VTubber, not affiliated with Hololive, is saying Hololive are bastards.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yWLsy9w0zTE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="internal-politics-of-taiwan"><a class="anchor" href="#internal-politics-of-taiwan"></a><a class="link" href="#internal-politics-of-taiwan">7.1.4. Internal politics of Taiwan (中華民國政治)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Republic_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Republic_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華民國政治" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華民國政治</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2020, there are two relevant parties:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang">"Kuomintang"</a>, which have become a bunch of pussies, and prefer to keep the ambiguous <a href="#one-china-policy">One China policy (一个中国)</a> status quo, to not get bombed, and do some commerce with China. Those people make <a href="#chiang-kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石, 蔣中正)</a> turn in his grave of shame.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party</a>, which wants independence, and was winning as of 2020</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="taiwan-independence-movement"><a class="anchor" href="#taiwan-independence-movement"></a><a class="link" href="#taiwan-independence-movement">7.1.4.1. Taiwan independence movement (台湾独立运动)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/臺灣與美國關係史" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/臺灣與美國關係史</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="chiang-kai-shek"><a class="anchor" href="#chiang-kai-shek"></a><a class="link" href="#chiang-kai-shek">7.1.5. Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石, 蔣中正)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蔣中正" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蔣中正</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="taiwan-frog"><a class="anchor" href="#taiwan-frog"></a><a class="link" href="#taiwan-frog">7.1.6. Taiwan frog (台蛙蛙)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://ptthito.com/gossiping/m-1519493262-a-5c1/" class="bare">https://ptthito.com/gossiping/m-1519493262-a-5c1/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mainland <a href="#slang">slang</a> for "Taiwanese".</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="greater-china"><a class="anchor" href="#greater-china"></a><a class="link" href="#greater-china">7.1.7. Greater China (大中华)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大中華" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大中華</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Politically ambiguous euphemism designed to not make it clear if you think Taiwan is part of China or not.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="xinjiang"><a class="anchor" href="#xinjiang"></a><a class="link" href="#xinjiang">7.2. Xinjiang (新疆)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新疆维吾尔自治区" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新疆维吾尔自治区</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Events:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021 <a href="https://uhrp.org/report/under-the-gavel-evidence-of-uyghur-owned-property-seized-and-sold-online/" class="bare">https://uhrp.org/report/under-the-gavel-evidence-of-uyghur-owned-property-seized-and-sold-online/</a> Under the Gavel: Evidence of Uyghur-owned Property Seized and Sold Online</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2014 something very serious happened in Xinjiang.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/4hmhzt/xinjiang_massacre_2014_resulted_in_30005000_deaths/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/4hmhzt/xinjiang_massacre_2014_resulted_in_30005000_deaths/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2010 Xinjiang 10 month Internet blackout</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8682145.stm" class="bare">https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8682145.stm</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2009 Ürümqi riots</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_Ürümqi_riots" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_Ürümqi_riots</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/乌鲁木齐七五事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/乌鲁木齐七五事件</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2009 Shaoguan incident</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoguan_incident" class="bare">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoguan_incident</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/旭日玩具厂群体斗殴事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/旭日玩具厂群体斗殴事件</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Terrorist attacks done by Xinjiang separatists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Chronology_of_major_events" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Chronology_of_major_events</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notable terrorist attacks:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2014 Kunming attack</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>photo of 8 bodies lined up after the attack: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/world/asia/chinese-officials-seek-to-shift-attention-from-rampage.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/world/asia/chinese-officials-seek-to-shift-attention-from-rampage.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Interestingly, <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/03/sensitive-words-attack-kunming/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/03/sensitive-words-attack-kunming/</a> points out that <a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/845642.shtml#.UxYZgeddVRG" class="bare">http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/845642.shtml#.UxYZgeddVRG</a> by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a> said that:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The public must realize that a handful of extremists are far from qualified to represent tens of millions of local residents in Xinjiang. It is not only an irrational and biased mindset to put the blame on the entire Uyghur community or the Muslim world, but the idea will also abet and aid those separatists and terrorists who are desperate to take advantage of ethnic and religious conflicts.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and yet as of the <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a>, all Xinjiang Muslims were fucked. <a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of law (法治)</a> comes to mind.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_Tohti">Ilham Tohti</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊力哈木·土赫提">伊力哈木·土赫提</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xinjiang_camp_in_camp.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xinjiang camp in camp" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 94. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper</a> 2017-04 cartoon showing that Xinjiang is like a prison inside a greater prison, which is China itself. Chinese characters read: 新疆(Xinjiang) and 中国(China). TODO source.</div>
</div>
<div id="xinjiang-chained-knives" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xinjiang_chained_butcher_knives.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xinjiang chained butcher knives" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 95. Uyghur butcher with chained knives in Xinjiang (2021). Knives at shops in Xinjiang have to remain chained, and each blade is tracked with a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.nl/china-tracks-uighur-minority-qr-code-kitchen-knives-doors-human-rights-watch-report-2018-9/">QR code</a>. A <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> question about it <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/294738809" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/294738809</a>: 为什么菜刀要用铁链子栓起来？ 来乌市快有一个月啦，我很好奇为什么所有的店里都要用铁链子把菜刀栓起来？ (Why are kitchen knifes tied up with an iron chain? It’s been almost a month since I came to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ürümqi">Urumqi</a> [capital of Xinjiang]? I am curious why all the shops have to tie up kitchen knives with iron chains?). <a href="https://youtu.be/4w3_A2vRGqE?t=279">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/CCP_terrorism_Taliban_vs_Chinese_citizens.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="CCP terrorism Taliban vs Chinese citizens" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 96. The CCP <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/18/hong-kong-police-arrest-four-students-for-advocating-terrorism">accuses and punishes its own citizens of terrorism</a>, while at the same time it <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/8/17/with-economic-assets-to-secure-china-embraces-the-taliban">supports terrorist friendly regimes like the Taliban</a>, referring to simultaneous events of 2021. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/p6pnng/standards/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="xinjiang-re-education-camps"><a class="anchor" href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps"></a><a class="link" href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">7.2.1. Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新疆再教育營" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新疆再教育營</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The keyword is <a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of law (法治)</a>: because of a few terrorists, every single Muslim was fucked even if they did not commit any crime.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Master issue: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/226" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/226</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Overview projects:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.talkaboutxinjiang.com/" class="bare">https://www.talkaboutxinjiang.com/</a> Talking about Xinjiang 我们一起来谈谈新疆</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://wokeglobaltimes.com/xinjiang" class="bare">https://wokeglobaltimes.com/xinjiang</a> Breaking Down the Xinjiang Crisis on <a href="#the-woke-global-times">The woke global times</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xinjiang-data-project">Xinjiang Data Project (新疆数据项目)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022-04 Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner for 10 months in 2018 and tells his experience: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/13/xinjiang-prisoner-hikvision-china/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/13/xinjiang-prisoner-hikvision-china/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-06 Inside Xinjiang short video series by The Telegraph. Basically the lady getting followed by police everywhere, and some destroyed mosques.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLMSzh4ZZI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLMSzh4ZZI</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w3_A2vRGqE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w3_A2vRGqE</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLMSzh4ZZI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLMSzh4ZZI</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-04-16 <a href="https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/status/1382397174684680197" class="bare">https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/status/1382397174684680197</a> "Breaking: Xinjiang’s latest 2020 Statistical Yearbook lacks ALL crucial population data"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-04 The wings of songs (歌声的翅膀, 2021) Xinjiang propaganda musical film</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2021/apr/03/wings-of-song-china-launches-idyllic-musical-set-in-xinjiang-video" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2021/apr/03/wings-of-song-china-launches-idyllic-musical-set-in-xinjiang-video</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt-FkaH5YwI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt-FkaH5YwI</a> trailer</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-03-28 <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a> invents French national "Laurene Beaumond" who refutes the situation in Xinjiang:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a> article in French: <a href="https://archive.is/USZ45" class="bare">https://archive.is/USZ45</a> by "Laurene Beaumond". The article was updated a day later: this time they remembered to say that Laurene Beaumond is a pseudonym. Article URL: <a href="https://francais.cgtn.com/n/BfJEA-cA-HAA/DcCEIA/index.html" class="bare">https://francais.cgtn.com/n/BfJEA-cA-HAA/DcCEIA/index.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>original investigation by Le Monde: <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2021/03/31/quand-la-television-chinoise-cgtn-invente-une-journaliste-francaise_6075155_3210.html" class="bare">https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2021/03/31/quand-la-television-chinoise-cgtn-invente-une-journaliste-francaise_6075155_3210.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>commentary <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/01/china-butchers-aesop-fable-in-latest-act-of-wolf-warrior-diplomacy" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/01/china-butchers-aesop-fable-in-latest-act-of-wolf-warrior-diplomacy</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-03-20 <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/03/the-nightmare-of-uyghur-families-separated-by-repression/" class="bare">https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/03/the-nightmare-of-uyghur-families-separated-by-repression/</a> "The nightmare of Uyghur families separated by repression" on <a href="#amnesty-international">Amnesty International (国际特赦组织)</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Although it is often extremely difficult, if not impossible, for Uyghurs overseas to receive information about the whereabouts of their family members, some parents have received bits and pieces of information in the form of coded words, or photos and videos, from relatives and friends that make them believe their children were taken to state-run “orphan camps” or boarding schools.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-03-01 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKCN2AT1BA" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKCN2AT1BA</a> "China counters Uighur criticism with explicit attacks on women witnesses"</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese officials have named women, disclosed what they say is private medical data and information on the women’s fertility, and accused some of having affairs and one of having a sexually transmitted disease. The officials said the information was evidence of bad character, invalidating the women’s accounts of abuse in Xinjiang.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#reddit">Reddit</a>: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lvrkoi/china_counters_uyghur_criticism_with_explicit/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lvrkoi/china_counters_uyghur_criticism_with_explicit/</a></p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-10-28 <a href="#global-times">Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)</a> <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1203861.shtml" class="bare">https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1203861.shtml</a> in response to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty">The Murder of Ssamuel Paty</a> clarifies that the best way to counter terrorism is preventive mass incarceration and brainwashing: "Eradicating extremism is a huge challenge of governance for all countries. China has proactively explored feasible ways in its Xinjiang governance and generated positive outcomes."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-10-17 (paywall) <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2020/10/17/how-xinjiangs-gulag-tears-families-apart" class="bare">https://www.economist.com/china/2020/10/17/how-xinjiangs-gulag-tears-families-apart</a> "How Xinjiang’s gulag tears families apart". "So many parents have been locked up that officials struggle to cope with the left-behind children"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-19 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3101986/china-claims-vocational-training-given-nearly-13-million-people" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3101986/china-claims-vocational-training-given-nearly-13-million-people</a> "Chinese authorities "indirectly" confirm the scale of the camps. China claims 1.3 million Xinjiang residents given 'vocational training' each year"</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The document: <a href="http://www.scio.gov.cn/zfbps/32832/Document/1687588/1687588.htm" class="bare">http://www.scio.gov.cn/zfbps/32832/Document/1687588/1687588.htm</a> also quoted on <a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a>: <a href="http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2020/0918/c1001-31865875.html" class="bare">http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2020/0918/c1001-31865875.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Official English translation: <a href="http://english.scio.gov.cn/whitepapers/2020-09/17/content_76712251.htm" class="bare">http://english.scio.gov.cn/whitepapers/2020-09/17/content_76712251.htm</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Title: 新疆的劳动就业保障 (Employment and Labor Rights in Xinjiang)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Quote:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>全疆年均培训城乡各类劳动者128.8万人次，其中，南疆地区年均培训45.14万人次。参训人员至少掌握1项就业技能，绝大多数取得了职业资格证书、职业技能等级证书或专项职业能力证书，实现稳定就业。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Google translation:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
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<p>The average annual training for all kinds of workers in urban and rural areas in Xinjiang is 1.288 million, of which 451,400 are trained in southern Xinjiang. Participants have mastered at least one employment skill, and most of them have obtained vocational qualification certificates, vocational skill level certificates or special vocational ability certificates to achieve stable employment.</p>
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<p>2020-06-17 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN23O3EW" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN23O3EW</a> "Trump signs bill pressuring China over Uighur Muslim crackdown"</p>
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<p>2019-12: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkliuqQo-g" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkliuqQo-g</a> "A Secret Look Inside a Chinese Labor Program for Uighurs | Visual Investigations" by "The New York Times" published on Dec 30, 2019. Description: "China is relocating Uighurs and other Muslim minorities to urban areas as part of a contentious labor program. The Times obtained rare footage taken inside one."</p>
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<p>2919-12: Muslim German Turkish Arsenal player <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesut_%C3%96zil">Mesut Özil</a> criticizes concentration camps on Twitter, and China stops broadcasting arsenal matches</p>
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<p>2019-11 The Xinjiang Papers: leaked cables about Xinjiang internment camps policy, some reported by the New York Times and others by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, soure yet unknown. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_papers" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_papers</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/china-war-terror-uproots-uighur-families-leaked-data-shows-200218052952415.html" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/china-war-terror-uproots-uighur-families-leaked-data-shows-200218052952415.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/" class="bare">https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/</a></p>
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<p>2020-02: more leaks containing detailed records of several citizens: <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/02/asia/xinjiang-china-karakax-document-intl-hnk/" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/02/asia/xinjiang-china-karakax-document-intl-hnk/</a></p>
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<p>2019-07-19 <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20190712-37-countries-defend-china-over-xinjiang-un-letter" class="bare">https://www.france24.com/en/20190712-37-countries-defend-china-over-xinjiang-un-letter</a> "37 countries defend China over Xinjiang in UN letter"</p>
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<p>2019-07-04 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48825090" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48825090</a> "China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families"</p>
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<p>2019-05-07 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULaJVWOr4ko" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULaJVWOr4ko</a> CNN does a few Xinjiang interviews and sends reporter to visit some of the concentration camps</p>
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<p>2019-02-24 <a href="https://fortune.com/2019/02/21/thermo-fisher-xinjiang-china-uighurs/" class="bare">https://fortune.com/2019/02/21/thermo-fisher-xinjiang-china-uighurs/</a></p>
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<p>2019-02-17 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2186547/china-data-leak-exposes-vast-hi-tech-surveillance-operation" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2186547/china-data-leak-exposes-vast-hi-tech-surveillance-operation</a> "China data leak exposes vast hi-tech surveillance operation in Xinjiang", leak by SenseNets Technology.</p>
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<p>2019-03 <a href="https://shahit.biz/eng/" class="bare">https://shahit.biz/eng/</a> database of Xinjiang victims, with precise names, location, date of birth and ID card number of victims and testimonies</p>
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<p>2018-12 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=dsd1NkCKaNg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=dsd1NkCKaNg</a> In full: 'I begged them to kill me' - ex-Xinjiang detainee Mihrigul Tursun gives testimony in the US. Observers however rightly brought up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony">Nayirah testimony</a>.</p>
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<p>2018-11 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45812419" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45812419</a> Xinjiang legalizes 're-education' camps</p>
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<p>2018-07 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eak3WRtcdko" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eak3WRtcdko</a> Sairagul Sawytbai testifies to the existence of Chinese concentration camps in Xinjiang</p>
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<p>2018-05 generic report <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/evidence-for-chinas-political-re-education-campaign-in-xinjiang/" class="bare">https://jamestown.org/program/evidence-for-chinas-political-re-education-campaign-in-xinjiang/</a></p>
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<p>2018-05 mapping internment camps with satellite imaging:</p>
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<p><a href="https://medium.com/@shawnwzhang/list-of-re-education-camps-in-xinjiang-新疆再教育集中营列表-99720372419c" class="bare">https://medium.com/@shawnwzhang/list-of-re-education-camps-in-xinjiang-新疆再教育集中营列表-99720372419c</a> List of Re-education Camps in Xinjiang 新疆再教育集中营列表 Shawn Zhang <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/8mbhad/satellite_imagery_of_xinjiang_reeducation_camps/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/8mbhad/satellite_imagery_of_xinjiang_reeducation_camps/</a></p>
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<p>2018-05 Omir Bekali’s account of Xinjiang education camps:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inmates-of-chinas-muslim-re-education-camps-tell-of-brainwashing-torture/2018/05/16/32b330e8-5850-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html?utm_term=.df8ea170b18f" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inmates-of-chinas-muslim-re-education-camps-tell-of-brainwashing-torture/2018/05/16/32b330e8-5850-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html?utm_term=.df8ea170b18f</a></p>
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<p>2017-04 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/china-xinjiang-ban-muslim-names-muhammad-jihad.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/china-xinjiang-ban-muslim-names-muhammad-jihad.html</a> "China Bans 'Muhammad' and 'Jihad' as Baby Names in Heavily Muslim Region".</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUmom_z6nQ4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUmom_z6nQ4</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/221">GitHub reupload</a>) <a href="#tiktok">TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)</a> video of a few dozen Uyghur chilren being marched on the street with large bags, presumably during a displacement. The adults organizing it are a laugh, presumably at something cute one of the children did. Video markings: "@MaD DaN", location: "伯干村" (Bogancun, a town in Xinjiang <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/rt6jaT8oEjoXo95t8">according to Google Maps</a>), rolling banner TODO confirm, understand: "诗书达理之山人刨作原声". TODO identify Chinese music being sang on background, it is not clear if it is an edit or from the footage. The echo of the speaker on the background buildings is eery. UNCONFIRMED. <a href="https://twitter.com/Uyghurian/status/1380992770823835664">Source</a>.</div>
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<p>On 2019-09-22 Drone footage of Xinjiang prisoner transfer surfaced. TODO confirm the location and that these are political prisoners rather than "normal criminals".</p>
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<p>2019-09-23 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/sep/23/footage-blindfolded-shackled-prisoners-china-video" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/sep/23/footage-blindfolded-shackled-prisoners-china-video</a> Footage shows hundreds of blindfolded and shackled prisoners in China</p>
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<p><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/chinas-detention-of-uighurs-video-of-blindfolded-and-shackled-prisoners-authentic-11815401" class="bare">https://news.sky.com/story/chinas-detention-of-uighurs-video-of-blindfolded-and-shackled-prisoners-authentic-11815401</a></p>
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<p><a href="#reddit">Reddit</a>: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/d78aog/chilling_video_of_chinese_police_transferring/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/d78aog/chilling_video_of_chinese_police_transferring/</a></p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYoeJ5U7cQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYoeJ5U7cQ</a> 2019 Drone footage of Xinjiang prisoner transfer. The prisoners are blindfolded and shackled. On the HUD of the footage we can see "dji", which was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJI">popular drone manufacturer of the period</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 100. Video still of 2019-09-23 drone footage of blindfolded Xinjiang prisoners being marched taken at time 00:30. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYoeJ5U7cQ">Source</a>.</div>
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<h5 id="xinjiang-data-project"><a class="anchor" href="#xinjiang-data-project"></a><a class="link" href="#xinjiang-data-project">7.2.1.1. Xinjiang Data Project (新疆数据项目)</a></h5>
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<p>By the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Strategic_Policy_Institute">Australian Strategic Policy Institute</a>, funded by the Australian government, which also published Also includes the <a href="#uyghurs-for-sale">Uyghurs for sale</a> report.</p>
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<h5 id="xinjiang-model-camps-for-foreign-media"><a class="anchor" href="#xinjiang-model-camps-for-foreign-media"></a><a class="link" href="#xinjiang-model-camps-for-foreign-media">7.2.1.2. Xinjiang model camps for foreign media (新疆外媒示范营)</a></h5>
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<p>Starting in 2019, China officially invited foreign journalists to some of their model camps to show how happy people were.</p>
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<p>It is hard to understand why they did this, as it just made everything worse for them, because everything was so obviously fake, and it actually allowed glimpses in some of the horrors. Why would a bunch of adults be playing games and learning useless stuff rather than be with their families working to earn money?</p>
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<p>Online commentators have compared such camps to:</p>
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<p><a href="#nazi">Nazi</a> model concentration camps which foreign people were invided to see, e.g. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-48700786">commented by the BBC itsef</a></p>
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<p>allowed a Red Cross visit in 1944</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194445/plotsummary" class="bare">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194445/plotsummary</a> 1944 Nazi propaganda film about it</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZt92quVOsg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZt92quVOsg</a> contains a soccer match scene from it</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nAfaLlqkE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nAfaLlqkE</a> shows some scenes of children eating happily</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Camp">Paradise Camp (1986)</a> is an Australian documentary about it</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenburg_concentration_camp">Sonnenburg concentration camp</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village">Potemkin village</a></p>
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<p>Examples:</p>
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<p>2018-10-24 <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1055013584806256644" class="bare">https://mobile.twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1055013584806256644</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/226">GitHub reupload</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/BSJLA">archive</a>) 2 minute video by Hu Xijin 胡锡进, editor-in-chief of the <a href="#global-times">Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)</a>, showing happy women in a concentration camp playing ping-pong and dancing in the exercise area. Notice the similarity with the Theresienstadt videos, which also show sports events.</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c</a> "Inside China’s 'thought transformation' camps - BBC News" 2019-06-18. Accompagning article: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-48667221" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-48667221</a>. China gives BBC "access" to a chosen show camp where everyone claims they are happy and willing to stay. They are however clearly adults being treated like children, taking courses and even having to sing and dance for the camera. <a href="https://youtu.be/WmId2ZP3h0c?t=486">486s</a> is also golden, when the CCP officer Zhang Zhisheng explains how they are <a href="#thoughtcrime">just preventing future crime from happening</a>. How can they be so stupid? How can they not see that this is not what the West wants to hear? Amazing dark-comedy like stuff.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 102. Man wearing traditional Xinjiang clothing and playing a traditional instrument inside a classroom setting inside a prison camp, as the CCP tries to show the world that they are happy and their culture is being respected, and only makes things worse. The man also shows on the video at: <a href="https://youtu.be/WmId2ZP3h0c?t=407" class="bare">https://youtu.be/WmId2ZP3h0c?t=407</a> made by the BBC when they got supervised access to the camps to film, nearby segment uploaded at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/169" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/169</a>. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-48700786">Source</a>.</div>
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<h5 id="forced-displacement-of-uyghurs-across-china-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#forced-displacement-of-uyghurs-across-china-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#forced-displacement-of-uyghurs-across-china-2020">7.2.1.3. Forced displacement of Uyghurs across China (2020, 维吾尔人被迫流离失所)</a></h5>
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<p>Many videos were published on <a href="#tiktok">TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)</a>, 2020-07-09 <a href="https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-uyghur-migration/" class="bare">https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-uyghur-migration/</a> "Revealed: New videos expose China’s forced migration of Uyghurs during the pandemic" has compilations of the most well known videos, with direct MP4 uploads that are easy to download.</p>
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<p><a href="#github">GitHub</a> re-uploads at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/221" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/221</a></p>
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<div class="title">Figure 103. Advertisement published by Qingdao Decai Decoration Co. claiming to supply government-sponsored Uyghur workers from Xinjiang to other provinces. Source of translation: <a href="https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale">"Uyghurs for sale" report</a>. Original website archive from 16 Jan 2020: <a href="http://archive.ph/r7T8r" class="bare">http://archive.ph/r7T8r</a>. The ad features a caricature of two dancing Uyghurs in traditional clothing. This is evidence of the CCP’s mass forced eviction and slavery of Uyghurs. Another report at 2021-04-16 <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/amp/new-evidence-of-the-strict-controls-uighurs-face-in-factories-thousands-of-miles-from-home-12276248" class="bare">https://news.sky.com/story/amp/new-evidence-of-the-strict-controls-uighurs-face-in-factories-thousands-of-miles-from-home-12276248</a> "Batches of 50 to 100 Uighur workers are being advertised on the Chinese internet" suggests that a <a href="#baidu">Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)</a> search for "劳务派遣" leads to incriminating ads, but which they fail to translate. Report lead: <a href="#vicky-xu">Vicky Xu (许秀中)</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 104. Uyghur workers at Qingdao Taekwang Shoe Manufacturing Co. Ltd (青岛泰光制鞋有限公司) in Laixi, <a href="#shandong">Shandong</a> (莱西市, <a href="#shandong">山东</a>) waving the Chinese flag, October 2019. Viewable on the pro-CCP China Ethnic Religion Net (中国民族宗教网) website: <a href="http://www.mzb.com.cn/html/report/191130765-1.htm" class="bare">http://www.mzb.com.cn/html/report/191130765-1.htm</a>, and also shown in the <a href="https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale">"Uyghurs for sale" report</a>. Company address: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/EgkbtxgjEny7EU1YA">山东省青岛市莱西市李权庄镇工业园区泰光路71号</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0JFgwATho&t=128" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0JFgwATho&t=128</a> "New footage shows Uyghurs bussed across China for forced labour in factories". At the given timestamp, contains 30 seconds of footage extracted from 3 social media posts showing Uyghurs being sent in busses to work in far way regions.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0JFgwATho" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0JFgwATho</a> New footage shows Uyghurs bussed across China for forced labour in factories by Channel 4 News (2020) contains one of the many edits made with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao">bella ciao</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/啊朋友再见">啊朋友再见</a>) background, Chinese version showing uyghurs being sent in busses to work in far away locations in China. The music fits perfectly, literal translation of the Chinese version is "Ah, friend, goodbie".</div>
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<h5 id="merdan-ghappar-s-video-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#merdan-ghappar-s-video-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#merdan-ghappar-s-video-2020">7.2.1.4. Merdan Ghappar’s Xinjiang prison video (2020, 麥爾丹·阿巴的新疆监狱视频)</a></h5>
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<p>GitHub 上传 upload: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/374" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/374</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merdan_Ghappar" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merdan_Ghappar</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/麥爾丹·阿巴" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/麥爾丹·阿巴</a></p>
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<p>Original report by the <a href="#bbc">BBC (英国广播公司, British government media)</a>:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-53816701" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-53816701</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53650246" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53650246</a></p>
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<p>Self made video shows the ex-model chained to a bed in a camp. Text messages give further details.</p>
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<p>Text messages and translation: <a href="https://medium.com/@millwarj/wear-your-mask-under-your-hood-an-account-of-prisoner-abuse-in-xinjiang-during-the-2020-3007a1f7437d" class="bare">https://medium.com/@millwarj/wear-your-mask-under-your-hood-an-account-of-prisoner-abuse-in-xinjiang-during-the-2020-3007a1f7437d</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4sWv3dEvU&list=PLQReVuWUFgXOlOOmJGRgVDtp2XqED0-8Y" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4sWv3dEvU&list=PLQReVuWUFgXOlOOmJGRgVDtp2XqED0-8Y</a> is a playlist with dozens of videos of him being cute while modelling. Appears to be mostly a <a href="#tiktok">Douyin</a> dump mostly. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUr97pK9qmU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUr97pK9qmU</a> is particularly good.</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-jY1tgL_o" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-jY1tgL_o</a> Merdan Ghappar’s video footage, terrible screen capture from the BBC original, but can’t find a better one.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYhcrXYA6tM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYhcrXYA6tM</a> Rare footage of former model held for “re-education” in China’s detention system - BBC News (2020) Reportage with more context, including previous modeling work. They’re incapable of adding the name "Merdan Ghappar" to the title or description however, what newbs.</div>
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<h5 id="xinjiang-cotton"><a class="anchor" href="#xinjiang-cotton"></a><a class="link" href="#xinjiang-cotton">7.2.1.5. Xinjiang cotton (新疆棉花, 2021)</a></h5>
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<p>Reports surfaced that <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a> people were being used to pick cotton, and boycotts followed.</p>
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<p>Companies that boycotted, subset of <a href="#western-companies-that-stood-up-against-the-ccp">Western companies that stood up against the CCP (反抗中共的西方企业)</a>:</p>
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<p>2021-03-25 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56519411" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56519411</a> "Nike, H&M face China fury over Xinjiang cotton 'concerns'", see also: <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a>.</p>
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<p>Companies that supported:</p>
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<p>2021-03-26 <a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2021/03/26/hugo-boss-tells-chinese-customers-it-will-continue-to-purchase-xinjiang-cotton-months-after-telling-us-news-outlet-it-has-never-used-it/" class="bare">https://hongkongfp.com/2021/03/26/hugo-boss-tells-chinese-customers-it-will-continue-to-purchase-xinjiang-cotton-months-after-telling-us-news-outlet-it-has-never-used-it/</a> ""Hugo Boss tells Chinese customers it will continue to purchase Xinjiang cotton, months after telling US news outlet it has never used it". People <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mdilxi/hugo_boss_tells_chinese_customers_it_will/">immediately commented</a> that Hugo Boss was the company who made <a href="#nazi">Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a> uniforms.</p>
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<p>Here’s a link to the <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> mentioned: <a href="https://weibo.com/2329770312/K7RDviZl4?from=page_1006062329770312_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=comment" class="bare">https://weibo.com/2329770312/K7RDviZl4?from=page_1006062329770312_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=comment</a> archive: <a href="https://archive.ph/tOcum" class="bare">https://archive.ph/tOcum</a></p>
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<p>Original text:</p>
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<p>Hugo Boss秉持着对生产制造高品质产品的坚持，使用来自世界各地，包括原材料源自中国各大产区的面料。多年来，我们一直尊重一个中国原则，坚决捍卫国家主权和领土完整。我们与许多优秀的中国企业建立了长期合作，并将继续保持。新疆长绒棉是世界上最好的棉花之一，我们相信优质的原料一定会实现价值。我们将会继续采购和支持新疆棉花。</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>and the Google translate:</p>
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<p>Hugo Boss adheres to the insistence on manufacturing high-quality products, using fabrics from all over the world, including raw materials from major producing areas in China. Over the years, we have always respected the one-China principle and resolutely defended national sovereignty and territorial integrity. We have established long-term cooperation with many outstanding Chinese companies and will continue to maintain them. Xinjiang long-staple cotton is one of the best cotton in the world, and we believe that high-quality raw materials will surely realize value. We will continue to purchase and support Xinjiang cotton.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Statement on Hugo Boss' website in English saying that they are ethical: <a href="https://group.hugoboss.com/fileadmin/media/pdf/sustainability/company_commitments_EN/HUGO_BOSS_Statement_on_Xinjiang.pdf" class="bare">https://group.hugoboss.com/fileadmin/media/pdf/sustainability/company_commitments_EN/HUGO_BOSS_Statement_on_Xinjiang.pdf</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210326134037/https://group.hugoboss.com/fileadmin/media/pdf/sustainability/company_commitments_EN/HUGO_BOSS_Statement_on_Xinjiang.pdf">archive</a>)</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reports:</p>
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<p>2020-12-14 reports that Uyghurs are being forced to work on the cotton industry emmerge:</p>
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<p><a href="https://cgpolicy.org/briefs/coercive-labor-in-xinjiang-labor-transfer-and-the-mobilization-of-ethnic-minorities-to-pick-cotton/" class="bare">https://cgpolicy.org/briefs/coercive-labor-in-xinjiang-labor-transfer-and-the-mobilization-of-ethnic-minorities-to-pick-cotton/</a> "Coercive Labor in Xinjiang: Labor Transfer and the Mobilization of Ethnic Minorities to Pick Cotton"</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-cotton" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-cotton</a> "China’s 'tainted' cotton"</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#blood-cotton-initiative-wuheqilin">"Blood Cotton Initiative" by wuheqilin</a> is a <a href="#holocaust-denial">Holocaust denial (犹太人大屠杀否定论)</a> cartoon claiming it is all lies.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xinjiang_cotton_vs_American_plantation_from_1908.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xinjiang cotton vs American plantation from 1908" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 105. Side-by-side comparison of black american slaves from 1908 and <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">happy Xinjiang workers</a> working in cotton collection. This was posted by the verified account of Chinese government official Hua Chunying (华春莹) on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1375015592944537605" class="bare">https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1375015592944537605</a>, archives: <a href="https://archive.ph/3PTiA" class="bare">https://archive.ph/3PTiA</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210326034948/https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1375015592944537605" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210326034948/https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1375015592944537605</a>. Pure beauty. Does she have a brain? The images read: "The cotton planter and his pickers, H. Tees, West Point, Miss[ssisipy]", <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cotton_planter_and_pickers1908.jpg">source</a>, and "Uighus people picking cotton in Xinjiang China". <a href="#holocaust-denial">Holocaust denial (犹太人大屠杀否定论)</a>, here we go.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="other-islam-countries-speak-up-for-uyghur"><a class="anchor" href="#other-islam-countries-speak-up-for-uyghur"></a><a class="link" href="#other-islam-countries-speak-up-for-uyghur">7.2.1.6. Why don’t many Islamic countries speak up for the Uyghur persecution? (为什么很多伊斯兰国家不反对维吾尔族迫害？)</a></h5>
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<p>Either because those countries:</p>
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<p>are also dictatorships and completely corrupt to the brim</p>
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<p>or because Muslim schisms make them hate split groups even more than they hate other religions doe to the <a href="#uncanny-valley">Uncanny valley (恐怖谷理论)</a> effect.</p>
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<p>Analyses:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-09-10/long-shadow-xinjiang" class="bare">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-09-10/long-shadow-xinjiang</a> "The Long Shadow of Xinjiang"</p>
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<p><a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/plight-uyghurs-why-muslims-wont-speak-their-brethren-112466" class="bare">https://nationalinterest.org/feature/plight-uyghurs-why-muslims-wont-speak-their-brethren-112466</a></p>
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<p>Related:</p>
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<p>2021-05-15 <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/competition-05142021190045.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/competition-05142021190045.html</a> "Beijing-backed Drawing Contest in Turkey Backfires as Students Submit Depictions of Xinjiang Abuses" by <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a></p>
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<p>2021-04-08 <a href="https://www.turkishminute.com/2021/04/08/chinese-wolf-warrior-met-their-match-in-turkey-with-municipal-trench-at-embassy-gate/" class="bare">https://www.turkishminute.com/2021/04/08/chinese-wolf-warrior-met-their-match-in-turkey-with-municipal-trench-at-embassy-gate/</a> "Chinese wolf-warriors meet their match in Turkey with municipal trench at embassy gate" after</p>
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<p>Turkey’s nationalist opposition has responded to a belligerent attitude from Beijing with workers from the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality digging a giant hole outside the Chinese Embassy in Ankara after the ambassador threatened the city’s mayor and an opposition leader with action over their tweets commemorating the victims of China’s violent crackdown on Uyghurs</p>
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<p>2020-11-23 "Uighur scholar arrested in Saudi Arabia at risk of deportation to China", "Activists and human rights advocates have raised concerns that Aimadoula Waili may be tortured in a ‘re-education' camp if sent back to China"</p>
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<p>2020-10-01 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CIZ9x3pIs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CIZ9x3pIs</a> "Uighurs in Exile: Arrested and deported back to China – BBC Newsnight", "Newsnight has found that Uighur people in the Middle East have been targeted by nations including Saudi Arabia"</p>
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<p>2020-07-11: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/world/asia/china-iran-trade-military-deal.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/world/asia/china-iran-trade-military-deal.html</a> "Defying U.S., China and Iran Near Trade and Military Partnership"</p>
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<p>2018: vice-president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jusuf_Kalla">Jusuf Kalla</a> said "we don’t want to intervene in the domestic affairs of another country": <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-23/muslim-governments-stayed-silent-on-chinese-minority-uyghur/10630822" class="bare">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-23/muslim-governments-stayed-silent-on-chinese-minority-uyghur/10630822</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/uk-muslim-activist-praises-jewish-community-for-speaking-out-for-uyghurs-635626" class="bare">https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/uk-muslim-activist-praises-jewish-community-for-speaking-out-for-uyghurs-635626</a> even the Jews are speaking lowder in some cases</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xinjiang_I_won.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Xinjiang I won" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 106. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2019-07 cartoon showing <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> claiming to have won the global opinion on the Xinjiang re-education camps because all other dictatorships support him, including <a href="#other-islam-countries-speak-up-for-uyghur">Islamic dictatorships</a>. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/XiJinping-uyghur-camp-cartoon-07162019155441.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=YlHPEgE3fjk" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=YlHPEgE3fjk</a> <a href="#pakistan">Pakistan (巴基斯坦)</a> Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Khan">Imran Khan</a> refuses to acknowledge <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Muslim Uyghur oppression in Xinjiang</a> during interview, cites Chinese money by HBO (2021). Correctly mentions <a href="#israel">Israel (以色列)</a> in his defense.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YlHPEgE3fjk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<h5 id="holocaust-denial"><a class="anchor" href="#holocaust-denial"></a><a class="link" href="#holocaust-denial">7.2.1.7. Holocaust denial (犹太人大屠杀否定论)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/犹太人大屠杀否定论" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/犹太人大屠杀否定论</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once again, <a href="#nazi">Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a>.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Holocaust_denial_cartoon_by_Francoise_Pichard.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Holocaust denial cartoon by Francoise Pichard" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 107. Holocaust denial cartoon by far-right cartoonist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Françoise_Pichard">Françoise Pichard</a> was a runner-up the <a href="#iran">Iranian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Holocaust_Cartoon_Competition">International Holocaust Cartoon Competition</a> of 2006, which obviously aimed at discrediting Israel. The cartoon shows two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasidic_Judaism">Hasidic Judaism</a>[Hasidic jews] and reads in French: "Qui l’a mis par terre? Faurisson. Myth des chambres a gaz" which can be translated as: "Who put it down? Faurisson. Myth of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chamber">gas chambers</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毒气室">毒气室</a>)". Farisson is a reference to famous French holocaust denier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Faurisson">Robert Faurisson</a>. The <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> is doing the same as of 2020 in <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang</a>, e.g. through works such as <a href="#blood-cotton-initiative-wuheqilin">"Blood Cotton Initiative" by wuheqilin</a>. <a href="http://iranianhistory.pbworks.com/w/page/16588754/iranianhistory6">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Holocaust_denial_cartoon_vs_Palestine.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Holocaust denial cartoon vs Palestine" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 108. Holocaust denial cartoon suggesting that the Holocaust killed much less than Israel did during the Palestinian conflict TODO confirm artist, source image address suggests Moroccan <a href="https://www.toonsmag.com/naji-benaji/">Naji Benaji</a>. Palestine is <a href="#evil-west">a tragedy</a>, also mentioned at <a href="#israel">Israel (以色列)</a>, but trying to justify its horrors by comparing it to the horrors of other countries. We must recognize and fight against injustices of all countries. One injustice cannot justify the other. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201201110526/https://cst.org.uk/news/blog/2010/10/29/a-new-low-for-scottish-palestine-solidarity-campaign">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Blood_Cotton_Initiative_by_Wuheqilin.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Blood Cotton Initiative by Wuheqilin" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 109. Blood Cotton Initiative by <a href="#wuheqilin">Wuheqilin (乌合麒麟, wumao photographer)</a>. This pro-<a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> propaganda work suggests that the <a href="#xinjiang-cotton">Xinjiang cotton (新疆棉花, 2021)</a> is a fabrication of <a href="#evil-west">Evil West</a>. It depicts Americans as wearing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> in an usual CCP reminder that <a href="#racist-west">The West is racist against black people (西方人对黑人有种族主义)</a>. It is basically a <a href="#holocaust-denial">Holocaust denial (犹太人大屠杀否定论)</a> cartoon. <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blood_Cotton_Initiative.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Blood_Cotton_Initiative_by_Wuheqilin_holocaust_denial.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Blood Cotton Initiative by Wuheqilin holocaust denial" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 110. Side-by-side comparison of <a href="#blood-cotton-initiative-wuheqilin">"Blood Cotton Initiative" by wuheqilin</a> and the <a href="#holocaust-denial-palestine">Palestine vs Israel holocaust denial cartoon</a>.</div>
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<h3 id="inner-mongolia"><a class="anchor" href="#inner-mongolia"></a><a class="link" href="#inner-mongolia">7.3. Inner mongolia (内蒙古)</a></h3>
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<p>2020-08-31 <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/language-08242020101614.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/language-08242020101614.html</a> "China 'Will End' Mongolian-Language Education Starting This Semester: Reports"</p>
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<p>2020-09-04 <a href="https://www.smhric.org/news_681.htm" class="bare">https://www.smhric.org/news_681.htm</a> "Southern Mongolia turns to police state as full-blown cultural genocide unfolds" contains images of arrest orders and the like</p>
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<p>2011 Inner Mongolia unrest</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Inner_Mongolia_unrest" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Inner_Mongolia_unrest</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011年内蒙古抗议示威事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011年内蒙古抗议示威事件</a></p>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="bingtuan"><a class="anchor" href="#bingtuan"></a><a class="link" href="#bingtuan">7.3.1. Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团, 兵团)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbNuejnP_4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbNuejnP_4</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Production_and_Construction_Corps" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Production_and_Construction_Corps</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/08/chinas-vast-strange-and-powerful-farming-militia-turns-60/" class="bare">https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/08/chinas-vast-strange-and-powerful-farming-militia-turns-60/</a></p>
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<p>Wikipedia mentions:</p>
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<p>In October 1954 the Production Division was ordered by the Mao Zedong to form People’s Liberation Army Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, tasked to "Integrate labor with violence, colonize and populate the frontier" in 1954.</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbNuejnP_4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbNuejnP_4</a> Secrets of the Tomato Industry: The Empire of Red Gold by Java Discover (2022) Has some good Bingtuan mentions.</div>
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<h3 id="tibet"><a class="anchor" href="#tibet"></a><a class="link" href="#tibet">7.4. Tibet (西藏)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Events linked to reducing the teaching of the Tibetan language in schools and replacing it with Mandarin:</p>
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<p>2020-04 <a href="https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/04/23/tibetan-language-phased-out-as-schools-switch-to-mandarin/" class="bare">https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/04/23/tibetan-language-phased-out-as-schools-switch-to-mandarin/</a></p>
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<p>2010 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Tibetan_language_protest" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Tibetan_language_protest</a></p>
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<h4 id="dalai-lama"><a class="anchor" href="#dalai-lama"></a><a class="link" href="#dalai-lama">7.4.1. Dalai Lama (达赖喇嘛)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/达赖喇嘛" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/达赖喇嘛</a></p>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="tibet-re-education-camps-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#tibet-re-education-camps-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#tibet-re-education-camps-2020">7.4.2. Tibet "re-education" camps (2020)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_camps_in_Tibet" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_camps_in_Tibet</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>2020-09-22 the <a href="#jamestown-foundation">Jamestown Foundation (USA government media)</a> reported that <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a>-style camps were started to be built in <a href="#tibet">Tibet (西藏)</a>: <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/jamestown-early-warning-brief-xinjiangs-system-of-militarized-vocational-training-comes-to-tibet/" class="bare">https://jamestown.org/program/jamestown-early-warning-brief-xinjiangs-system-of-militarized-vocational-training-comes-to-tibet/</a> and were housing half a million people.</p>
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<h4 id="tibetan-unrest-2008"><a class="anchor" href="#tibetan-unrest-2008"></a><a class="link" href="#tibetan-unrest-2008">7.4.3. 2008 Tibetan unrest (2008年西藏骚乱)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Tibetan_unrest" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Tibetan_unrest</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008年西藏骚乱" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008年西藏骚乱</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good gory photos from the event: <a href="https://file.wikileaks.org/file/tibet-protest-photos/" class="bare">https://file.wikileaks.org/file/tibet-protest-photos/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200410200709/https://file.wikileaks.org/file/tibet-protest-photos/">archive</a>)</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=B-tEi4uLM_E" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=B-tEi4uLM_E</a> "Hundreds of Tibetan protesters clash with police after anti-China protest" published by AP Archive.</div>
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</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="tibetan-unrest-1987-1989"><a class="anchor" href="#tibetan-unrest-1987-1989"></a><a class="link" href="#tibetan-unrest-1987-1989">7.4.4. 1987-1989 Tibetan unrest (1989年拉萨骚乱)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987–1989_Tibetan_unrest" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987–1989_Tibetan_unrest</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989年拉萨骚乱" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989年拉萨骚乱</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=qMZgoRuPJBg" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=qMZgoRuPJBg</a> "Troops stormed the Tibetan holy site the Jokhang Temple and beat monks"</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qMZgoRuPJBg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=3uQcGcGGepw" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=3uQcGcGGepw</a> "Latest Spate Of Violent Unrest In Lhasa And The Imposition Of Martial Law" by AP Archive</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3uQcGcGGepw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="hong-kong"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong">7.5. Hong Kong (香港)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News source: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/</a> Became larger than <code>r/china</code> during the <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is only one solution to Hong Kong’s problem:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>give inhabitants people easy VISAs to leave China, with priority to the rich/educated ones. Give them free language courses on the country of arrival, and help them find jobs</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>treat Hong Kong exactly like any other part of China, removing any special commercial treaty with the reagion, which it has enjoyed for many years</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>These have started happening seriously in response to the <a href="#hong-kong-national-security-law">Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法, 2020)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hong Kong related posts at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ahong-kong+" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ahong-kong+</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Hong Kong-Mainland China conflict</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong–Mainland_China_conflict" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong–Mainland_China_conflict</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中港矛盾" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中港矛盾</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#hong-kong-dissidents">Hong Kong dissidents (香港持不同政见者)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#lihkg">LIHKG (連登, Hong Kong Reddit clone)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hong-kong-97-snes-video-game"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong-97-snes-video-game"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong-97-snes-video-game">7.5.1. Hong Kong 97 SNES video game (香港 97 SNES 电子游戏)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_97_(video_game" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_97_(video_game</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/香港97_(遊戲" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/香港97_(遊戲</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>1995 video game realistically depicts the fight of Hong Kong against the Communist Party predicted to happen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong">at the handover</a>, featuring Bruce Lee (often represented as <a href="#entertainers-who-support-the-ccp">Jackie Chan</a>) who returned from the grave to join the fight and kick <a href="#jiang-zemin">Jiang Zemin’s</a> ass.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The dead body from the game over screen was taken from a still from a video of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War">1992 Bosnian War</a>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDWyzZyNdw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDWyzZyNdw</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The track is a sample of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Beijing_Tiananmen">"I Love Beijing Tiananmen" (我爱北京天安门)</a> Cultural Revolution song that was popular before <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> and later became an ironic protest song:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我爱北京天安门<br>
天安门上太阳升</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which means:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I love Beijing Tiananmen Square<br>
The sun rises over the Tiananmen</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Full song: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_Z2K7guKs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_Z2K7guKs</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Hong_Kong_97_cover.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Hong Kong 97 cover" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 111. Cover of the Hong Kong 97. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hong_Kong_97_cover.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_aXcH1zDEE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_aXcH1zDEE</a> The venerable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Video_Game_Nerd">Angry Video Game Nerd</a> made a review of Hong Kong 97.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/M_aXcH1zDEE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hong-kong-protests-2014"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong-protests-2014"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong-protests-2014">7.5.2. 2014 Hong Kong protests (Umbrella movement, 雨伞运动占领区)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Movement" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Movement</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/雨傘運動佔領區" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/雨傘運動佔領區</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Umbrella_movement_icon.png" loading="lazy" alt="Umbrella movement icon" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 112. A common logo used in the Umbrella movement, depicting an stylized umbrella with yellow background. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Umbrella_Revolution_icon_3.svg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Umbrella_movement_in_Admiralty_night_View_20141010.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Umbrella movement in Admiralty night View 20141010" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 113. Sea of seated protesters during the <a href="#hong-kong-protests-2014">2014 Hong Kong protests (Umbrella movement, 雨伞运动占领区)</a> gathering at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty,_Hong_Kong">Admiralty</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/金鐘">金鐘</a>) on 2014-10-10. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Umbrella_Revolution_in_Admiralty_Night_View_20141010.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hong-kong-slogan"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong-slogan"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong-slogan">7.5.3. Hong Kong slogan</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="liberate-hong-kong"><a class="anchor" href="#liberate-hong-kong"></a><a class="link" href="#liberate-hong-kong">7.5.3.1. Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times (光復香港，時代革命)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberate_Hong_Kong,_revolution_of_our_times" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberate_Hong_Kong,_revolution_of_our_times</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/光復香港，時代革命" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/光復香港，時代革命</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If is often used in salute/response form: the first person or leader says:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Liberate Hong Kong</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and the second replies:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Revolution of our times</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In mandarin:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Guang1fu4 xiang1gang3 shi2dai4 ge2ming4</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Liberate_Hong_Kong_Admiralty_2019.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Liberate Hong Kong Admiralty 2019" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 114. <a href="#liberate-hong-kong">Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times (光復香港，時代革命)</a> banner hang on 5 August 2019 at Harcourt Road in Admiralty. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:光復香港，時代革命.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hong-kong-national-security-law"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong-national-security-law"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong-national-security-law">7.5.4. Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法, 2020)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_national_security_law" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_national_security_law</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-01-06 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ff253c71-6efb-4ca7-9d6c-b5e43d9371ba" class="bare">https://www.ft.com/content/ff253c71-6efb-4ca7-9d6c-b5e43d9371ba</a> "Hong Kong police round up dozens of pro-democracy politicians"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-11-12 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-54899171" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-54899171</a> "Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers resign after China ruling"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08-30 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxuzuBXh1U" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxuzuBXh1U</a> "Chinese Police Arrest Hong Kong Activist Andy Li (李宇轩), 11 Others, for Attempting to Flee to Taiwan"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-01-4 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3116301/mainland-chinese-lawyer-who-assisted-one-hong-kong" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3116301/mainland-chinese-lawyer-who-assisted-one-hong-kong</a> "Mainland Chinese lawyer who helped one of the Hong Kong fugitives in Shenzhen threatened with loss of licence"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08-22 <a href="https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200822/QS26FF4DBFE7PG2LJJEO4NSQTQ/" class="bare">https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200822/QS26FF4DBFE7PG2LJJEO4NSQTQ/</a> they are already trying to remove sensitive materials from history textbooks</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-08-21 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-53846482" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-53846482</a> "香港通識科課本大幅度修改涉政治取向內容引發爭議" appears to give more concrete details. An English infographic at: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ig9xca/some_censorship_examples_of_the_latest_changes/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ig9xca/some_censorship_examples_of_the_latest_changes/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08-10 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-apple-daily-reports" class="bare">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-apple-daily-reports</a> "Hong Kong Media Tycoon Arrested in Latest Blow to Democracy Camp"</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#jimmy-lai">Jimmy Lai (黎智英)</a> is the founder of <a href="#apple-daily">Apple Daily (苹果日报)</a>, the flagship newspaper under Next Digital and the biggest pro-democracy paper in Hong Kong, reported that nearly 200 officers were entering their offices.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other notable arrests:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#agnes-chow">Agnes Chow (周庭)</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/10/who-are-jimmy-lai-agnes-chow-two-hong-kong-democracy-advocates-arrested-monday/" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/10/who-are-jimmy-lai-agnes-chow-two-hong-kong-democracy-advocates-arrested-monday/</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The CCP is not even pretending anymore.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2020-08-12: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/hong-kong-media-tycoon-lai-released-bail-arrest-200811173810887.html" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/hong-kong-media-tycoon-lai-released-bail-arrest-200811173810887.html</a>: they were released on bail</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08-30 <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/asia/hong-kong-security-law-election-intl-hnk/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/asia/hong-kong-security-law-election-intl-hnk/index.html</a> "Four Hong Kong student activists arrested for 'secession' over social media posts": the arrests against online freedom of speech begin <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53616583" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53616583</a> gives the names, all are abroad it seems:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Police in Hong Kong are seeking the arrest of six pro-democracy activists living in exile in Western countries, including the UK, media reports say.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The group reportedly includes former UK consulate worker Simon Cheng, well-known activist Nathan Law and US citizen Samuel Chu.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-07-08 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-china-security/china-converts-hong-kong-hotel-into-new-national-security-office-idUSKBN24903Z" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-china-security/china-converts-hong-kong-hotel-into-new-national-security-office-idUSKBN24903Z</a> "China converts Hong Kong hotel into new national security office"</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name of the hotel is Metropark Hotel (維景酒店), address: 148 Tung Lo Wan Rd, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/1uR4RntpLMFaCYpq6" class="bare">https://goo.gl/maps/1uR4RntpLMFaCYpq6</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Using hotels as a base of operations is of coures common in occupied regions, see e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peninsula_Paris">The Peninsula Paris</a> (previously Hotel Majestique), which was used by the <a href="#nazi">Gestapo</a> and figures in the movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Shadows">Army of the Shadows (1969)</a>. An important quote from that movie when a prisoner of the Nazis dies, his friend says:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All debts will be paid.<br>
Toutes les dettes se paieront.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06-29 <a href="https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/06/statement-us-secretary-commerce-wilbur-ross-revocation-hong-kong" class="bare">https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/06/statement-us-secretary-commerce-wilbur-ross-revocation-hong-kong</a> "Statement from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on Revocation of Hong Kong Special Status"</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>With the Chinese Communist Party’s imposition of new security measures on Hong Kong, the risk that sensitive U.S. technology will be diverted to the People’s Liberation Army or <a href="#ministry-of-state-security">Ministry of State Security</a> has increased, all while undermining the territory’s autonomy. Those are risks the U.S. refuses to accept and have resulted in the revocation of Hong Kong’s special status.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06-03 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/britain-could-change-immigration-rules-for-hong-kong-citizens" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/britain-could-change-immigration-rules-for-hong-kong-citizens</a> "Boris Johnson lays out visa offer to nearly 3m Hong Kong citizens"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-05-29 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52842303" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52842303</a> "UK could offer 'path to citizenship' for Hong Kong’s British passport holders"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-05-24 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/24/beijing-to-impose-hong-kong-security-laws-without-delay" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/24/beijing-to-impose-hong-kong-security-laws-without-delay</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Resources:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hkchronicles.com/" class="bare">https://hkchronicles.com/</a> Blocked on early 2021 in Hong Kong: <a href="https://hkchronicles.com/d/view/announcement-on-blockage" class="bare">https://hkchronicles.com/d/view/announcement-on-blockage</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Apple_Daily_raid.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Apple Daily raid" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 115. Over 100 police officers raid the <a href="#apple-daily">Apple Daily (苹果日报)</a> Hong Kong newspaper soon after the <a href="#hong-kong-national-security-law">Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法, 2020)</a> started. A <a href="https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-53723266">Chinese source</a>. <a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/10/scores-of-police-raid-office-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-newspaper-apple-daily/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="hong-kong-national-security-department-hotline"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong-national-security-department-hotline"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong-national-security-department-hotline">7.5.4.1. Hong kong national security department hotline</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2020-11-06 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-54835955" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-54835955</a> "Hong Kong: Snitch hotline gets more than 1,000 calls"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>An official source: <a href="https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/03_police_message/nsdrh.html" class="bare">https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/03_police_message/nsdrh.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201106164104/https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/03_police_message/nsdrh.html">archive</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The contacts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a> id: NSD62717171</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>SMS: 62717171</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Email: <a href="mailto:nsd-public@police.gov.hk">nsd-public@police.gov.hk</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related: <a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Discussion:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/jp3s8a/hong_kong_snitch_hotline_to_report_people/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/jp3s8a/hong_kong_snitch_hotline_to_report_people/</a> on <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://lihkg.com/thread/2272029/page/1" class="bare">https://lihkg.com/thread/2272029/page/1</a> on <a href="#lihkg">LIHKG (連登, Hong Kong Reddit clone)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">7.5.5. 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_anti-extradition_bill_protests" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_anti-extradition_bill_protests</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEvalUQuClE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEvalUQuClE</a> "Last Hong Kong governor Chris Patten: Gov’t defense of extradition bill 'absolute nonsense'", Hong Kong Free Press</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#blitzchung">Blitzchung</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=YhN6jipSHFI" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=YhN6jipSHFI</a> Hong Kong Yoga - Sammy J S2 (ep31) published by ABC Comedy on 2019-09-19. Very good.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YhN6jipSHFI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="glory-to-hong-kong"><a class="anchor" href="#glory-to-hong-kong"></a><a class="link" href="#glory-to-hong-kong">7.5.5.1. Glory to Hong Kong (願榮光歸香港, 2019)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_to_Hong_Kong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_to_Hong_Kong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/願榮光歸香港" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/願榮光歸香港</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1021" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1021</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The music itself is just a perfecly boring Western national anthem. <a href="#do-you-hear-the-people-sing">Do you hear the people sing (Les Miserables musical, 1980, 問誰未發聲)</a> is infinitely better.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Full takedown July 2023: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/protest-anthem-glory-to-hong-kong-starts-to-vanish-from-online-sites-as-government-seeks-ban" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/protest-anthem-glory-to-hong-kong-starts-to-vanish-from-online-sites-as-government-seeks-ban</a></p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title">Glory to Hong Kong uploaded by Ingen with English and Cantonese double subtitles.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Pe1gTPcWyds?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lyrics:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>何以 這土地 淚再流<br>
何以 令眾人 亦憤恨<br>
昂首 拒默沉 吶喊聲 響透<br>
盼自由 歸於 這裡</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>何以 這恐懼 抹不走<br>
何以 為信念 從沒退後<br>
何解 血在流 但邁進聲 響透<br>
建自由 光輝 香港</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>在晚星 墜落 徬徨午夜<br>
迷霧裡 最遠處吹來 號角聲<br>
捍自由 來齊集這裡 來全力抗對<br>
勇氣 智慧 也永不滅</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>黎明來到 要光復 這香港<br>
同行兒女 為正義 時代革命<br>
祈求 民主與自由 萬世都不朽<br>
我願榮光歸香港</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We pledge No more tears on our land<br>
In wrath, doubts dispell’d we make our stand<br>
Arise! Ye who would not be slaves again:<br>
For Hong Kong, may Freedom reign!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Though deep is the dread that lies ahead<br>
Yet still, with our faith, on we tread<br>
Let blood rage afield! Our voice grows evermore:<br>
For Hong Kong, may Glory reign!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Stars may fade, as darkness fills the air<br>
Through the mist a solitary trumpet flares:<br>
Now, to arms! For Freedom, we fight, with all might we strike!<br>
With valour, wisdom both, we stride!'</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Break now the dawn, liberate our Hong Kong<br>
In common breath: Revolution of our times!<br>
May people reign, proud and free, now and evermore<br>
Glory be to thee, Hong Kong!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>何以 這土地 淚再流<br>
何以 令眾人 亦憤恨<br>
昂首 拒默沉 吶喊聲 響透<br>
盼自由 歸於 這裡</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>何以 這恐懼 抹不走<br>
何以 為信念 從沒退後<br>
何解 血在流 但邁進聲 響透<br>
建自由 光輝 香港</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>在晚星 墜落 徬徨午夜<br>
迷霧裡 最遠處吹來 號角聲<br>
捍自由 來齊集這裡 來全力抗對<br>
勇氣 智慧 也永不滅</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>黎明來到 要光復 這香港<br>
同行兒女 為正義 時代革命<br>
祈求 民主與自由 萬世都不朽<br>
我願榮光歸香港</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We pledge No more tears on our land<br>
In wrath, doubts dispell’d we make our stand<br>
Arise! Ye who would not be slaves again:<br>
For Hong Kong, may Freedom reign!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Though deep is the dread that lies ahead<br>
Yet still, with our faith, on we tread<br>
Let blood rage afield! Our voice grows evermore:<br>
For Hong Kong, may Glory reign!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Stars may fade, as darkness fills the air<br>
Through the mist a solitary trumpet flares:<br>
Now, to arms! For Freedom, we fight, with all might we strike!<br>
With valour, wisdom both, we stride!'</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Break now the dawn, liberate our Hong Kong<br>
In common breath: Revolution of our times!<br>
May people reign, proud and free, now and evermore<br>
Glory be to thee, Hong Kong!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="do-not-split"><a class="anchor" href="#do-not-split"></a><a class="link" href="#do-not-split">7.5.5.2. Do Not Split (不割席, 2020)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Split" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Split</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/不割席" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/不割席</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019"><a class="anchor" href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019"></a><a class="link" href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">7.5.5.3. LeBron James opposes Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (2019)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/勒布朗·詹姆斯" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/勒布朗·詹姆斯</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>NBA is huge in China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On 2019-10-05 (Friday) 7:41PM Daryl Morey, NBA’s Houston Rockets manager sent a tweet with an image that read:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191005025317if_/https://twitter.com/dmorey/status/1180312072027947008" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20191005025317if_/https://twitter.com/dmorey/status/1180312072027947008</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then Daryl was a coward, removed this tweet, and apologized on 2019-10-07 (Monday) 1:18 AM <a href="https://twitter.com/dmorey/status/1181000808399114240" class="bare">https://twitter.com/dmorey/status/1181000808399114240</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/6Sdpn">archive</a>), so by then it was already deleted.</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to Rockets fans and friends of mine in China</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then TODO date the uberstar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James">LeBron James</a> (not a Houston Rockets player), a big supporter of black rights in the US, criticized this.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/dd96d002394f45a6859c280c889afcb7">LeBron’s words</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I don’t want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related video of LeBron saying similar things on interview (TODO same?): 2019-10-15 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjM43blzaRc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjM43blzaRc</a> "LeBron addresses Daryl Morey’s tweet and Lakers' trip to China | NBA on ESPN"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Led to: <a href="#sport-event-live-broadcast-image-attacks">Sport event live broadcast image attacks (体育赛事直播图片攻击)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-10-15 <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dd96d002394f45a6859c280c889afcb7" class="bare">https://apnews.com/article/dd96d002394f45a6859c280c889afcb7</a> "LeBron: Rockets' Morey 'wasn’t educated' on China tweet"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-10-07 (Monday) "Rockets' general manager’s Hong Kong comments anger China"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-10-07 Lakers vs. Heat NBA <a href="#tencent">Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a> Live Stream cancelled due to fan wearing the <a href="#taiwan">Taiwanese</a> flag</p>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/NBA_Taiwan_flag.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="NBA Taiwan flag" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 116. Fan wearing Taiwan flag in 2019-10-07 Lakers vs. Heat showing fan and text (TODO from <a href="#tencent">Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a>?) saying that the match will be cancelled. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dtrx4b/tencent_nba_live_broadcast_got_cancelled_because">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49956385" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49956385</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/07/business/houston-rockets-nba-china-daryl-morey/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/07/business/houston-rockets-nba-china-daryl-morey/index.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some good LeBron cartoons:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Christi71386739/status/1312730174497058816/photo/1" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Christi71386739/status/1312730174497058816/photo/1</a> <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2019-10-15 "You are the king"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Kneeling_by_Adam_Zyglis_NFL_Colin_Kaepernick_vs_NBA_LeBron_James.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Kneeling by Adam Zyglis NFL Colin Kaepernick vs NBA LeBron James" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 117. "Kneeling" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Zyglis">Adam Zyglis</a> (2019) compares the NFL’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kaepernick">Colin Kaepernick</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/科林·卡佩尼克">科林·卡佩尼克</a>), who kneeled during the playing of the U.S. national anthem during the 2016 season to protest against social injustice, vs NBA’s LeBron James, who instead supports China’s <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorship unconditionally</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/adamzyglis/status/1185634052008808448">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Silence_is_violence.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Silence is violence" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 118. In 2020-10-04 American billboard company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outfront_Media">Outfront Media</a> refused to post this ad by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Legal_and_Policy_Center">NLPC conservative think tank</a> critical of LeBron James' stand on Hong Kong. The ad shows the NBA superstar with a Chinese flag covering his mouth and the message "Silence is Violence." and URL <a href="http://freedom4china.com/" class="bare">http://freedom4china.com/</a>. <a href="#to-obey-is-to-betray">To obey is to betray</a> comes to mind. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/billboard-company-refuses-to-post-ad-critical-of-lebron-james-stand-on-china">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="falun-gong"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong">8. Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法轮功" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法轮功</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/610_Office" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/610_Office</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#flg-religion">Religion</a> created in the '80s by a Chinese dude called <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>With the support of the Communist Party to Qigong movements, it reached 70 million believers in 1999, at which point the commies decided they had to be shut down and banned the religion.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Li fled to the USA and lives near New York, where he continues to run the religion as of 2020.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#the-falungong-phenomenon-by-hu-ping-2003">The Falungong Phenomenon by Hu Ping (2003)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Falun_Gong_lady_silenced.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Falun Gong lady silenced" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 119. <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> believer arrested by police in Beijing <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square</a> in 2000-01-10. <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/spiritual-practice-continues-to-be-persecuted-in-china-amid-the-ccp-virus-pandemic_3296045.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="falun-gong-police-step-over-head" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Police_steps_over_Falun_Gong_believer_s_face_in_2000_at_Tiananmen.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Police steps over Falun Gong believer s face in 2000 at Tiananmen" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 120. Police steps over <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> believer’s face in 2000 at Tiananmen. This images was <a href="http://content.time.com/time/covers/asia/0,16641,20010702,00.html">on the cover of the July 2, 2001 cover of Time Magazine "Crushing Falun Gong"</a>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/anastasia-lin-miss-world-canada-falun-gong-practitioner-china-persecution">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="zone-theory" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvX7ED8UUI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvX7ED8UUI</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_%26_Eric">Tim and Eric</a>'s Zone Theory. If you want to stop <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, don’t put them in jail like the <a href="#dictatorship">dictators</a>. Do it the same way you stop dictators: with <a href="#funny">comedy</a>. Otherwise, the dictators remain in power, and <a href="#intolerance">next person in jail, will be you</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ClvX7ED8UUI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYJ1dbyDcrI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYJ1dbyDcrI</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_%26_Eric">Tim and Eric</a>'s The Universe. Basically the same as <a href="#zone-theory">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvX7ED8UUI Tim and Eric's Zone Theory. If you want to stop Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult), don’t put them in jail like the dictators. Do it the same way you stop dictators: with comedy. Otherwise, the dictators remain in power, and next person in jail, will be you.</a> but from the believer’s perspective. Source a popular mind blown meme: <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mind-blown" class="bare">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mind-blown</a></div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FYJ1dbyDcrI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div id="aarvoll-shenyun" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=IAQ14AnAsmU" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=IAQ14AnAsmU</a> YouTubber under pseudonym "Aarvoll" (TODO full real name, face shown in channel all the time) tells about his experience playing trumpet for Shen Yun in 2013 as a non-believer and Falun Gong in general. Reading the sacred books and doing Falun Gong exercises were mandatory. He also talks about <a href="#flg-organized">Falun Gong downplays the fact that it is highly organized (法轮功淡化了它高度组织化的事实)</a>. Ciro agrees/finds what he says convincing. In one interesting anecdote, he tells how although Li Hongzhi claims to be a God, he looked like an average slightly overweight dude, and had a trumpet since he used to play it, but couldn’t really play it because he hadn’t practiced in so long. He also comments on the obvious fact that Li does not speak English very well, e.g. on the Shen Yun tour bus he was there one day answering questions, and a translator was needed.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxM3POU92w" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxM3POU92w</a> <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/955900/Amazing_Cultivation_Simulator/">Amazing Cultivation Simulator</a> review by <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/ssethtzeentach">SsethTzeentach</a> (2021). Amazing Cultivation Simulator (<a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu</a>: <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/了不起的修仙模拟器/23624221">了不起的修仙模拟器</a>) is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RimWorld">Rimworld</a>-like Chinese game which was a large hit in China (<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amazing-cultivation-simulator-is-a-rimworld-style-sim-has-already-sold-700000-copies-in-china-and-now-its-getting-an-english-release/">700k sales as of 2020</a>) and then went on to be translated into English. In it, you join a Qi Gong <a href="#flg-cult">cult</a>, and level up your Qi Gong magical abilities by practicing the Gong (练功). Falun Gong basically claims the same thing, but for real life. Ciro believes that a great part of the appeal of Falun Gong is the gamification of life development, much like that video game does, see also: <a href="#promised-powers-or-knowledge">Promised Powers or Knowledge (Orange Papers, 应许的功能或知识, 橙色文件)</a>. It is also interesting to note that such Qi Gong-like are present in a more or less popular video game, which shows that such ideas are widely known in China, while they are not widely known in the West. Notably, Qi Gong ideas are widely present in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia">Wuxia</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/武侠文化(武侠" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/武侠文化(武侠</a>), lit. martial knight-errant) novels, or slightly more specifically <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianxia_(genre)">xianxia</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/修真小说">仙侠</a> lit. God knight-errant), the most popular version of Chinese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fantasy">high fantasy</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/古典奇幻">古典奇幻</a>). Another interesting point is how in the game you make the <a href="#amazing-cultivation-simulator-review-by-ssethtzeentach-2021">"small fish" cult members work long hours for free</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/wJxM3POU92w?t=259" class="bare">https://youtu.be/wJxM3POU92w?t=259</a>, as Seth brilliantly puts it: "You are running sect. […​]. A sect has outer disciples that will happily do all your mundane, tedious labour for a competitive salary of about zero dollars. They are not "slaves" as per say, we don’t use that word here, it’s more like an internship, which never ends. But […​] they can become <a href="#membership-rivalry-orange-papers">inner disciples</a>".</div>
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<p>Less good ones:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiut_qUNBI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiut_qUNBI</a> In Search of Miracle Man by Adult Swim</p>
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<h3 id="flg-important"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-important"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-important">8.1. Why is it important to discus Falun Gong’s even if you don’t believe in it? (为什么不信仰法轮功也很重要要讨论它？)</a></h3>
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<p>The main reason <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> emphasizes Falun Gong is that it shows how the CCP can mercilessly crush a 70 million strong group (according to CCPs own statistics) out of a population of 1.3B in 2000, i.e. 5% of the population, and of course not because of <a href="#flg-bias">Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong just because his wife and mother-in-law do it? (三西猴是否仅仅因为他的妻子和岳母就支持法轮功？)</a>, since Ciro is completely and totally unbiased.</p>
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<p>If that number is correct, Ciro wonders curious what you would consider an important movement?</p>
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<p>Anything much larger would take down the government and change China’s history forever.</p>
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<p>Aren’t you concerned that you or your children might be part of the next 5% purge? See also: <a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a>.</p>
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<p>OK, maybe the fact that 69 million of those 70 million were likely old ladies didn’t help much either. Tip to next <a href="#li-hongzhi">prophet</a>: make something that appeals to aspiring military officers.</p>
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<p>Let’s try to gather some well sourced footage showing huge numbers of believers on the streets:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.aparchive.com/search?query=falun%20gong&from=1&orderBy=OldestFirst#7e34a6" class="bare">https://www.aparchive.com/search?query=falun%20gong&from=1&orderBy=OldestFirst#7e34a6</a> AP Archive: could not find a good one there</p>
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<p>rehashes of Falun Gong propaganda videos with good footage:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7cz4Tkbwy8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7cz4Tkbwy8</a> contains old good footage</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRUp50XkSs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRUp50XkSs</a> Chinese with English subs, above is rehashed from this one most likely</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 121. Thousands of <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> practitioners in Guangzhou, China, 1998. <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/finding-the-balance-between-ancient-and-modern_2248694.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 122. Thousands of <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> practitioners in Liaoning Industrial Exhibition, China, likely 1998. <a href="https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2016/5/21/157091.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 123. Hundreds of <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> believers in <a href="#chengdu">Chengdu (成都市)</a>, China, 1998. <a href="https://faluninfo.net/falun-gong-the-practice/">Source</a>.</div>
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<h3 id="does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong"><a class="anchor" href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong"></a><a class="link" href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">8.2. Does Ciro Santilli believe in or practice Falun Gong? (三西猴信仰或者练法轮功吗？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism">agnostic</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/不可知论">不可知论</a>) and therefore believes that all the metaphysics that <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> says is bullshit, just like any other <a href="#flg-religion">religion</a>.</p>
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<p>Here are some things that he doesn’t like about Falun Gong for example: <a href="#things-ciro-santilli-dislikes-about-falun-gong">Things Ciro Santilli dislikes about Falun Gong (三西猴不喜欢法轮功的事情)</a>.</p>
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<p>Ciro believes Falun Gong can be split into two parts, like any other <a href="#flg-religion">religion</a>:</p>
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<p>the "self-help" "how to live well" part, including the physical exercises and meditation, which cannot be proven or disproved, like any other self-help and <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">political opinion</a></p>
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<p>the metaphysics, most notably, Li Hongzhi is a living God, and all other non verifiable things he claims like aliens, alternate dimensions, etc., see:</p>
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<p><a href="#flg-religion">Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a></p>
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<p><a href="#flg-verifiable">Falun Gong never makes any predictions that can be reasonably verified by non-believers (法轮功从不做任何非信徒可以合理验证的预言)</a></p>
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<p>Ciro thinks that FLG’s self-help part could potentially be good for you, just like many other meditative practices such as Yoga, Buddhist meditation, Tai chi, deep Catholic prayer, etc. As far as he has heard, all of it sounded good standard religious self-help: be peaceful, be good to others, etc. Like any other well managed religion, FLG does have good things to offer, see also: <a href="#christine-marie">Christine Marie’s interview</a>.</p>
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<p>However Ciro believes that the metaphysics is all complete and utter bullshit, child stories made up by Li Hongzhi, and just as real as Father Christmas or the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster">Flying Spaghetti Monster</a>.</p>
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<p>Also the "obligation to reach Salvation" is boring like for many other prophetic <a href="#flg-religion">religion</a>.</p>
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<p>From a purely strategic point of view, the metaphysics is a trade-off:</p>
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<p>some people will believe you are a freaking living God</p>
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<p>others will laugh at you and say you are a charlatan</p>
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<p>It may be argued however that Li played this card beautifully: since all Chinese power is concentrated in the CCP, any non-CCP movement dies out, so he was better off long run playing the metaphysics game. The only other choice would have been joining the CCP.</p>
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<p>To Ciro it is obvious that Falun Gong is just one of the many very similar movements that came out of the Qi Gong Boom, such as: <a href="#zhong-gong">Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a>. It just happens to be the one that survived due to better luck and strategy.</p>
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<p>The absolute truth is already known by the <a href="#li-hongzhi">prophet</a>, although he does not want to give clear evidence for reasons: <a href="#flg-verifiable">Falun Gong never makes any predictions that can be reasonably verified by non-believers (法轮功从不做任何非信徒可以合理验证的预言)</a>, and Ciro finds that utterly boring. There’s no fun in living in a world where the absolute truth has been found.</p>
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<p>For these reasons, Ciro cannot bother to read even into the self-help part: how can you read that when there is so much bullshit every other page?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro would really like to know if <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> really believes in FLG himself, or is just a complete manipulating charlatan, but unfortunately we will never know that. Just imagine if before he died he published a video saying: "it was a joke, gotcha!". Now that would be <strong>epic</strong>!</p>
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<p>Since Ciro is good-natured, it’s hard for him to believe that he doesn’t believe in anything, how can anyone be that evil? Maybe he believes in part of it, but made up some stuff to sell it better, maybe with good intentions that selling the fake part would also lead more people to see the good part?</p>
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<p>Like any other prophetic religion, FLG gives tiny evidence that you can directly feel through meditation. The energies, which Ciro believe are real feelings. And then using that entry point asks you to believe a whole lot more, that you can’t feel: <a href="#flg-verifiable">Falun Gong never makes any predictions that can be reasonably verified by non-believers (法轮功从不做任何非信徒可以合理验证的预言)</a>.</p>
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<p>This becomes especially strong when a critical mass of believers is reached, and then they start interpreting all sorts of events as miracles, and you start to believe other believers without questioning them, and a circle is formed.</p>
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<p>This post by a former believer gives what Ciro feels is a realistic account that matches Ciro’s observations: <a href="#me-and-li-by-ben-hurley-2017">Me and Li by Ben Hurley (2017)</a>.</p>
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<p>And yet, all those who love freedom, must oppose FLG ban, or be themselves enslaved by tyrants themselves: <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">Why does Ciro Santilli say that democracy is a religion just like Falun Gong? (为什么三西猴说民主就像法轮功一样是一种宗教？)</a>.</p>
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<p>In any case, at least FLG got one thing right: the commies are <a href="#ccp-evil">evil</a>, and we have to get rid of them.</p>
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<p>See also: <a href="#flg-fake">Falun Gong is fake (法轮功是假的)</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="how-much-does-ciro-santilli-know-about-falun-gong"><a class="anchor" href="#how-much-does-ciro-santilli-know-about-falun-gong"></a><a class="link" href="#how-much-does-ciro-santilli-know-about-falun-gong">8.2.1. How much does Ciro Santilli know about Falun Gong? (三西猴对法轮功有多熟悉？)</a></h4>
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<p>He hasn’t read their <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a> himself, no patience, but he has had <a href="#flg-bias">constant contact with believers</a> and so has an idea of its content.</p>
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<p>Ciro has summarized his thoughts about <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> at: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">Does Ciro Santilli believe in or practice Falun Gong? (三西猴信仰或者练法轮功吗？)</a> and <a href="#flg-religion">Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a></p>
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<h3 id="flg-religion"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-religion"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-religion">8.3. Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a></h3>
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<p>If asked if they follow a religion, most FLG believers will say "no", and <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> explicitly says that in <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>, e.g. <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz52.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz52.htm</a>:</p>
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<p>Falun Dafa is not a religion, but future generations will regard it as one.</p>
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<p>E.g. they call themselves "practitioners" or "students" (学员) or "disciples of the Great Law" (大法弟子, or mare accurately, of <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>'s Law) instead of "believers", and their peers "practitioner colleagues" (<a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/同修">同修</a>). Non believers call them derogatorily "轮子"("little wheels"), or in friendly terms "轮友" (wheel friend).</p>
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<p>And if you say you don’t believe in their FLG metaphysics bullshit, they will often reply "he does not understand".</p>
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<p>To them, it is not about belief, the truth is clear, and you just don’t see it yet.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>To this you should reply: "and you don’t understand that <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi</a> is a master manipulator dude who deceived you and millions of others".</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>But <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> strongly believes that this is just a language barrier/FLG propaganda question (see also <a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a>), and that 99.9999% of people in the West would classify FLG as a religion just like <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a> if they are told about FLG’s beliefs:</p>
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<p>absolute truth comes from an enlightened <a href="#li-hongzhi">prophet</a>, who is perfect and has superhuman abilities</p>
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<p>weekly in-person meetings (学法 "study the Fa", or more verbosely "study the law (of the universe (of <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>))"）or daily online meetings where they read from a <a href="#flg-canon">sacred book</a>, either written by the prophet, or transcribed from his presentations to disciples, including the disciples questions, much like traditional Chinese texts like <a href="#analects">Analects (论语, c. 475-200 BC)</a>, just like Christians read from the Bible over and over again.</p>
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<p>In both cases, some believers claim that sometimes even reading the same text again gives them new insight.</p>
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<p>prescribed daily meditation exercise hours, somewhat like Muslim <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah">Salah</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/礼拜_(伊斯兰教)">礼拜</a>) prayers which they call <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazhengnian">发正念 (fa1 zheng4 nian4)</a>, which means "send righteous thoughts". They seem to believe that this meditation helps external good magic things happen, so it is half meditation half prayer.</p>
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<p>Also both Salah and Falun Gong have an element physical repetitive exercise component.</p>
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<p>And for those that are often online on the Falun Gong voice forums, some nice music is played before prayer times, just like Muslim <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muezzin">Muezzins</a> (a type of priest) will do the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhan">Adhan</a> (sang call to prayer, ideally from the minarets of a mosque)</p>
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<p>longer "less mandatory" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong">Qigong-like</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/气功">气功</a>) exercises (lian4 gong1, 练功) followed by a meditation (打坐) and which they collectively call <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/修道_(道教)">修炼</a> "practice austerities". note that this term is borrowed from Taoism but possibly with different precise meaning. There are exactly 5 exercises (meditation being the fifth) some with a fun supernatural name, on <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> <a href="https://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg_2006_4.htm" class="bare">https://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg_2006_4.htm</a> "The Falun Gong Practice System":</p>
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<p>Buddha Stretching a Thousand Arms</p>
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<p>Falun Standing Stance</p>
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<p>Penetrating the Cosmic Extremes</p>
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<p>Falun Cosmic Orbit</p>
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</li>
<li>
<p>memorization of the <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>, notably <a href="#zhuan-falun">Zhuan Falun (转法轮)</a>, just like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)">Hafiz</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/哈菲茲_(稱謂)">哈菲兹</a>) in Islam</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>higher intelligent beings ("Buddhas")</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#promised-powers-or-knowledge">some believers who practice really well can also get some "supernatural powers"</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>other dimensions, which some select people with vision superpowers can see, this being one of the supernatural powers that may be developed, the "Celestial Eye" <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_21.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_21.htm</a>:</p>
<div id="flg-cross-dimensional-vision" class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A cultivator of a particular attainment level can only see the scenes on that level. He cannot see or believe the truth beyond that level. Therefore, he only believes what he has seen on his own level. When he has not gone up to such a high level of cultivation, he would think those things do not exist and are incredible.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and the "Supernormal Capability of Remote Sight" is a closely related ability: <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_22.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_22.htm</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A supernormal capability directly connected with the Celestial Eye is called the Remote Sight. Someone says that he can see scenes in Beijing, in America or scenes on the other side of the earth while sitting here.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And finally there is also the past-future vision ability "Supernormal Capability of Total Recall" <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_23.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_23.htm</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>There is another supernormal capability which has a direct relation with the Celestial Eye. It is called Total Recall. Now there are six supernormal capabilities which are generally recognized in the world. They include the Celestial Eye, Remote Sight, and Total Recall. What is Total Recall? It is a supernormal capability with which one can know a person's future and past; if the ability is great, one can know the rise and decline of a society; if the ability is even greater, one can see the Law of the change of the whole celestial body.</pre>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>aliens that look like humans are amongst us, they gave us part of our modern technology, some are evil, others not so evil. E.g. <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19980530L.html" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19980530L.html</a>:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Science, however, is not something gods imparted to humans. Instead, it was passed down to humans by alien beings inside the Three Realms, and for the purpose of controlling humankind. People’s belief in it has surpassed everything. But I tell you that precisely because of its shallowness, this science has caused the degeneration of morality in human society.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Despite this however, Falun Gong benefits from information technology enormously. For example, many (most?) believers use the Internet daily to study the Fa, and to organize their <a href="#falun-gong-media">media outlets</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>meetings in which people tell their religious testimonies ("experience sharing" TODO Chinese name, possibly just "分享修炼的美好", e.g. <a href="https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/9/29/分享修炼的美好-印尼召开修炼心得交流会（图）-316838.html">source</a>): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimony#Religion" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimony#Religion</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As Jesus put it in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2018%3A20&version=NIV">Matthew 18:20</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which highlights the critical believer mass effect of reinforced beliefs.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>an impending <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Judgment">final judgment</a>-like event, which will happen "very soon" (<a href="#flg-verifiable">unspecified date</a>), and in which the just will be rewarded</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro predict that when <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> dies, the claim will be that he went to another dimension so save us all, therefore putting this final judgment on hold, a bit like Jesus.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>non-believers are fundamentally different from believers. Although non-followers who do good things are actually doing FLG without knowing it.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>FLG has a specific terminology for non-believers, which is translated in English as <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_new_4.html">"ordinary people"</a> (常人), as opposed to Falun Gong Believers, which Li calls Falun Gong disciples (大法弟子).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Non-FLG people should therefore logically call Falun Gong believers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abnormal_psychology">abnormal people</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/異常心理學">异常人</a>) in return, much like Ciro likes to call the Chinese who call him 老外 as "老内".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Like other aspects of FLG however, this appears in other religions, e.g. my mother mentioned the funny term used by her Protestant’s group term but Ciro forgot it, and you can see it in Harry Potter as well: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggle">The Muggles</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-organized">You can support FLG by doing X and Y, it is not mandatory, but why wouldn’t you since you are saving other people?</a>. Explaining that Falun Gong is good contrary to CCP propaganda also known as "Fa-rectification" in the English translation jargon.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>alternate dimensions</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>pre-civilization: civilization is actually much older than what we believe, and was super advanced, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse">societal collapse</a> events led us to forget about it, a bit like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis">atlantis</a>.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably, this also implies that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution">theory of evolution</a> is wrong, since there existed modern humans hundred of millions of years ago (the current scientific estimates for anatomically modern humans is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human">500,000 years</a>): <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_14.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_14.htm</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Archaeologists have found in the world a kind of organism called "three-leaves insect", which came into being between 600 million and 260 million years ago, and became extinct thereafter. An American scientist found a fossil of "three-leaves insect", on which there was also a human footprint, left by a shoe he was wearing, and clearly printed on the fossil. Aren’t they joking with the historians? How could there possibly have been human beings 260 million years ago according to Darwin’s theory of evolution?</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-medication">Maybe FLG will make you healthier, but no promises, but it will make you a better person, and that’s why you should do it, but if you really really believe, you get healthier</a>. But people who seemed to be believers also die, because deep within their hearts, there was a belief problem.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#falun-gong-believes-that-the-ccp-is-literally-a-manifestation-of-real-devils">Falun Gong believes that the CCP is literally a manifestation of real devils (法轮功认为中共是真正恶魔的化身)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From this, it is obvious that Falun Gong is just a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age">New Age</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新纪元运动">新纪元运动</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism">syncretic</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/綜攝">综摄</a>) religion combining:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong">Qigong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, e.g.: the meditation, and usage of specific <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra">hand mudras</a>. TODO does Li Hongzhi suggest that he is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya#Maitreya_claimants">Maitreya</a>, just like Jesus suggested he was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants">Messiah from Judaism</a>?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>some aspects of <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and whatever other crazy things <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> believes in.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Synchronism is of course the easiest way to start a new religion, because it attempts to divert the irrational belief of people in some unprovable bullshit into a new unprovable bullshit, but that resonates more with the current political situation. This is exactly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants">what Jesus did with Judaism</a>. And it is then exactly what the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam">Islam did to Christianity</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or you could call Falun Gong a <a href="#flg-cult">cult</a>, which is nothing but a new/small religion with negative connotation, and thus meaningless.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>FLG is very similar to Scientology in Ciro’s view: a new religion that mixes elements of both old and new. And just like any other religion, <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">their practice must be allowed</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But consider this: how to classify what a religion is?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some would answer: science is what every one can perceive with their own senses.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But FLG followers claim to feel FLG energies when doing the exercises, and a few of them have the power of seeing the other dimensions.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the other hand, how many of your friends have experienced the laws of quantum field theory or general relativity in a very direct way?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And aren’t pro-democracy believers also taking actions based solely on a shared belief, possibly organized by a pro-democracy leader?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From a purely strategic point of view, the "religion" denomination would be:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>bad to FLG because the concept of freedom of religion carries considerable weight in the West. And if you are not a religion, you are more likely to be a <a href="#flg-cult">cult</a>, which carries a black mark instead.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>good for FLG because people who already have a religion would be less likely to try it out and start believing</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong’s recruitment strategy is to focus on the exercises first, and in particular its <a href="#flg-medication">health benefits</a> and then as some people start to feel things, they start introducing the metaphysics.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other new religions have also taken this "I’m not a religion approach", see e.g.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baháʼí_Faith">Baha’i</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/9qDN0COSvds?t=287" class="bare">https://youtu.be/9qDN0COSvds?t=287</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-daily">How is it like to live with Falun Gong believers? (与法轮功信徒一起生活是一种怎样的体验？)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="falun-gong-believes-that-the-ccp-is-literally-a-manifestation-of-real-devils"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong-believes-that-the-ccp-is-literally-a-manifestation-of-real-devils"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong-believes-that-the-ccp-is-literally-a-manifestation-of-real-devils">8.3.1. Falun Gong believes that the CCP is literally a manifestation of real devils (法轮功认为中共是真正恶魔的化身)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Unlike <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> which does <a href="#is-chinese-politician-x-evil">not think most CCP politicians are actually evil</a>, Falun Gong seems to believe that they literally as in they are representatives of, or evil supernatural beings themselves.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g. <a href="#jiang-zemin">Jiang Zemin (江泽民, 1989-2002)</a> is actually an evil frog in some alternate dimension, literally, not just memecally.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And those devils they are literally responsible for example for creating <a href="#covid">Covid-19</a>, which is itself a magic force which tests the evil and good: <a href="#falun-gongs-view-of-epidemics">Falun Gong’s view of epidemics (法轮功的流行病观)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And <a href="#flg-trump">Trump</a> likely represents a magical anti-devil force of the universe.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some of the most direct <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a> suggestions we could find: <a href="https://en.falundafa.org/eng/HongYin5.htm" class="bare">https://en.falundafa.org/eng/HongYin5.htm</a>:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Red Devil uses lies and money to meddle with man</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.falundafa.org/eng/articles/20060209A.html" class="bare">https://en.falundafa.org/eng/articles/20060209A.html</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All along, lowlife secret agents of the wicked CCP have been constantly gathering so-called "Falun Gong intelligence."</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong gives the CCP too much credit. The CCP are just a bunch of lazy and greedy people like you and me.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="falun-gong-preaching"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong-preaching"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong-preaching">8.3.2. Falun Gong preaching (法轮功传教)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-air_preaching">Street preaching</a> is an important aspect of Falun Gong, using stands and leaflets on the streets much like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah’s_Witnesses">Jehovah’s Witnesses</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Jargon:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.minghui.org/mh/glossary.html">讲真相</a>: "truth-telling"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>hongfa (TODO characters?)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Falun Gong organization also specifies guidelines on how to preach, although these might not be <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a>, even though if they are not, it is extremely likely that <a href="#li-hongzhi">LHZ</a> is directly involved in their specification</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong has also used <a href="#flg-telemarketing">phone call preaching</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All of this is part of their effort to "save people (救人)", i.e. convert them to Falun Gong.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> personally heavily emphasises the importance of preaching in <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> TODO link/quote, and because of this is it a de-facto religious obligation, and a major part of <a href="#making-cult-members-work-long-hours-for-free">Making cult members work long hours for free (Orange papers, 让信徒免费长时间工作, 橙色文件)</a>.</p>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Falun_Gong_street_preaching_2016_London.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Falun Gong street preaching 2016 London" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 124. Falun Gong believers preaching on the street in London in 2016. This image taken from a believer website shows a typical local regular gathering of believers on weekends, or even week days if there are enough retired believers in the group. They will put on their exercise music, and do exercises to attract more followers. Someone will also stand on their stall giving out propaganda flyers, or asking people to sign petitions for Western governments to support Falun Gong, e.g. opposing their alleged <a href="#flg-organ-harvesting">organ harvesting</a>. In the case of touristic areas with Chinese people walking around, they will also ask the Chinese tourists to <a href="#tuidang">quit the their CCP membership, possibly using a fake name</a>. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> has to say: it is very amusing to see those Chinese people trying to pretend to ignore the censored religion, when some of them are clearly curious about it, especially the younger ones who didn’t see it live. Some just get mad, and say how the CCP is so great to them. <a href="https://truthinchina.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/london-uk-practitioners-explain-the-facts-about-falun-gong-in-st-martins-place-photos/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=315&v=nD6792YoOmY" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=315&v=nD6792YoOmY</a> from <a href="#nigel-ng">Mikey Chen</a> shows a parade/preaching event in San Francisco.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="flg-telemarketing"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-telemarketing"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-telemarketing">8.3.2.1. Some Falun Gong people make phone telemarketing (一些法轮功人搞电话推销)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro Santilli has seen Falun Gong people making phone calls to people in China with to explain why FLG is with his own eyes, and therefore is sure it has happened on some scale.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Particularly during <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>, Falun Gong ramped up the telemarketing calls and some voluntary believers were making calls all day nonstop.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro does not know how the called numbers were obtained and if callees voluntarily signed up for it, but that feels extremely unlikely.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interestingly however, many of the callees seemed interesting in what they had to say, and they often had long chats, Ciro was surprised by that. Maybe they were just bored senseless due to the Corona lockdown. Or maybe <a href="#most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship">many Chinese People actually don’t like their Government</a> and the CCP is fucked.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, of course, the callers received call scripts and guidelines to makes those calls, because obviously <a href="#flg-organized">Falun Gong downplays the fact that it is highly organized (法轮功淡化了它高度组织化的事实)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro strongly disapproves of this, Just like for any product, visual ads on the street are impossible to prevent, but any kind of advertising that generates notifications on feeds, or takes people’s time, is unacceptable.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As you can easily find on <a href="#google">Google (谷歌)</a>/<a href="#baidu">Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)</a>, such calls may be reported in the <a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro has not however seen them talking about making automated phone calls.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940394/how-rampant-phone-scams-highlight-chinas-need-tighter" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940394/how-rampant-phone-scams-highlight-chinas-need-tighter</a> also mentions that Falun Gong makes telemarketing in passing without any reference.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="flg-cult"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-cult"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-cult">8.3.3. Is Falun Gong a cult? (法轮功是邪教吗？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Does <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> think Falun Gong a cult? Yes.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Is the CCP a cult? Yes: <a href="#ccp-cult">CCP cult (中共邪教)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Is <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a> a cult? Yes.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Is democracy a cult? Yes: <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">Why does Ciro Santilli say that democracy is a religion just like Falun Gong? (为什么三西猴说民主就像法轮功一样是一种宗教？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Is modern science a cult? Maybe.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Therefore, the only question that matters for all the above is the same: are they good or bad cults?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong clearly share many many many characteristics with what many people classify as a "cult", see e.g.: <a href="#orange-papers">Orange Papers (橙色文件)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> strongly believes that so does any other existing religion e.g. Christianity, and that Falun Gong is not any worse or better than those other well known religions.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro therefore believes that the only reasonable stances are to either:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>be against all religions (including Christianity and Falun Gong), and classify all of them as Cults</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>allow both Christianity and Falun Gong to exist, and support religious freedom</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but not "oppose Falun Gong" and support Christianity.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some people will say: Falun Gong is a cult because it is too new and therefore obviously fake!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So, if I tell a lie today, will it become true in a thousand years? Or a truth today become a lie? The Romans called <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a> the "Cult of Jesus"!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Try sending an email to <a href="#li-hongzhi">LHZ</a> asking him to <a href="#flg-verifiable">prove his powers to you</a> :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Others will say: Falun Gong is a cult because its prophet is still alive!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But then, worry not, because Li Hongzhi was born in 1951, and therefore will almost certainly die by 2040, unless he truly is a living God as he claims.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Now, for the really important question of weather Falun Gong is a "good" or "bad" religion, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> has seen absolutely nothing in it that is worse than any <a href="#flg-religion">other major religion</a> say, e.g., <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some possibly neutral Cult analysts analyzing if FLG is good or bad:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.icsahome.com/articles/the-prc-and-falun-gong-langone" class="bare">https://www.icsahome.com/articles/the-prc-and-falun-gong-langone</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Against:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.culteducation.com/group/1254-falun-gong.html" class="bare">https://www.culteducation.com/group/1254-falun-gong.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In the end however, since there is nothing obviously completely creepy about FLG, all such discussions are basically equivalent to <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">"is the Left better than the Right"</a>, and cannot be answered.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One interesting linguistic aspect is that "cult" normally translates in Chinese as "邪教" which means "Evil religion".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As mentioned before, Ciro does not believe that FLG is an "Evil Cult", just another "Acceptable Cult", and therefore would not use "邪教" to describe it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Amusingly, <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li</a> calls the communists Communist Evil Party (中共邪党) in cannon, well played: <a href="https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa5_2.htm" class="bare">https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa5_2.htm</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The word "Cult" is much more ambiguous in English however, and does not necessarily imply "Evil" in certain contexts, just "worship".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, People from <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s mother’s Protestant Church in Brazil, all say that they are going "to the cult" ("culto" in Portuguese) when referring to when they are going to church to pray, sing and read the Bible together, here’s a Wikipedia page in Portuguese page about it: <a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culto_(Evangelicalismo" class="bare">https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culto_(Evangelicalismo</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And obviously, the origin of the word "cult" is exactly the same as that of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cultivate#Etymology">"cultivate"</a> as in "cultivate the crops" (which is also how Falun Gong believers refer to practicing Falun Gong: "cultivation practice"). All of those come from the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cult#Etymology">Latin "colō"</a>, which means simply "to protect".</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ccp-cult"><a class="anchor" href="#ccp-cult"></a><a class="link" href="#ccp-cult">8.3.3.1. CCP cult (中共邪教)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The CCP also has many cult-like characteristics, notably <a href="#xi-jinping">"The Guru is always right"</a>, which is mentioned on <a href="#orange-papers">Orange Papers (橙色文件)</a> itself under "The Guru is always right." (highlight by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro</a>):</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Guru, his church, and his teachings are always right, and above criticism, and beyond reproach.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In some cults, the guru is dead, but the principle is the same. I use the word "guru" loosely here; in many cults the charismatic leader has the title of minister, priest, yogi, swami, prophet, or all-knowing wise man. <strong>Or even, "<a href="#mao-zedong">Chairman Mao</a>."</strong> In any case, the leader is always right.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And they also claim that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous">Alcoholics Anonymous</a> could be characterized as a cult. Very cool. What else could be powerful enough to get you off a physical addiction, than a mental addiction, right? The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Mass_(miniseries)">Midnight Mass (2021)</a> miniseries by Netflix episode 2 makes that suggestion nicely on a side by side collage at about 8 minutes. It later mentions <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Recovery">Rational Recovery (RR)</a>, which is a "non-religious" alternative to the AA.</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#mao-zedong">Mao</a> is the Father<br>
<a href="#xi-jinping">Xi</a> is the Son<br>
The CCP is the Holy Spirit</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Both Mao and Xi have produced their own sacred books which must be revered, much like <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>'s <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Xi’s: <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>illustrated version for children: <a href="#xi-jinping-thought-primary-school-textbook-2021">Xi Jinping Thought primary school textbook (2021, 习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想学生读本。小学高年级。)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Mao’s: <a href="#little-red-book">Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book, 毛主席语录, 1976)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Furthermore, both of those books are based on speeches, just like just like Li Hongzhi’s speeches become instant canon.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This devotion can also be seen in Xi’s benevolent personification: <a href="#xi-dada">Xi Dada (习大大, 2015)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is also observed by <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> itself as a response to the CCP <a href="#flg-cult">accusing Falun Gong of being an Evil Cult</a>. E.g.: <a href="https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2019/07/01/a102612683.html" class="bare">https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2019/07/01/a102612683.html</a> from <a href="#ntdtv">New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)</a>, and Falun Gong is completely right here.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">Why does Ciro Santilli say that democracy is a religion just like Falun Gong? (为什么三西猴说民主就像法轮功一样是一种宗教？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#if-you-are-against-the-ccp-then-you-are-against-china">If you are against the CCP, then you are against China (如果你反对中共，那么你就是反对中国)</a> is the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a>'s version of <a href="#the-group-is-the-only-way">Insistence that the group is THE ONLY WAY (Orange Papers, 坚持他们的团体是唯一的方式生活, 橙色文件)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>CCP in religious ceremonies:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-09 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pq6hyv/buddhism_with_chinese_characteristics/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pq6hyv/buddhism_with_chinese_characteristics/</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Jerry00107966/status/1438108277716373507" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Jerry00107966/status/1438108277716373507</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ex official Ge Yang (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/戈扬">戈扬</a>), who was in the USA when <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> broke out, and refused to return because she did not approve of the government’s reactions, and who features in <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> at several points, comments:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>共产党已同一个邪教差不多，是不可以信赖的、不可以和它靠近的。否则，多好的人，也会变坏。<br>
The Communist Party is almost the same as a cult. It cannot be trusted or approached. Otherwise, even good people will become bad.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div id="xi-halo" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_thought_halo.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping thought halo" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 125. Xi Jinping with a Halo edited in to make <a href="#ccp-cult">the obvious more obvious</a>. The texts reads <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">"习近平思想" (Xi Jinping Thought)</a>. Watermark reads "Gucci Minh @Laborwave", so presumably from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laborwavedesigns/" class="bare">https://www.instagram.com/laborwavedesigns/</a>, but I didn’t have the patience to find the picture, but it very likey comes from there, a ton of great communist memes in that account. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/77vfi8/uphold_xi_jinping_thought/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_vs_Li_Hongzhi_prophet_pictures.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping vs Li Hongzhi prophet pictures" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 126. Side-by-side comparison between devotional pictures of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> (taken from the cover of <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a>) and <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>. The stylistic resemblance is striking.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="anti-falun-gong-propaganda"><a class="anchor" href="#anti-falun-gong-propaganda"></a><a class="link" href="#anti-falun-gong-propaganda">8.3.4. Anti-Falun Gong propaganda (反法轮功宣传)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AmyMoor63373662" class="bare">https://twitter.com/AmyMoor63373662</a> Twitter account (bot?) with some really bad Anti-Falun Gong propaganda cartoons</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="orange-papers"><a class="anchor" href="#orange-papers"></a><a class="link" href="#orange-papers">8.3.4.1. Orange Papers (橙色文件)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160205090248/https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160205090248/https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Amazing website talking about Cults and many other things!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The key page of the website is the "Cult Test": <a href="https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html" class="bare">https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html</a>. This is a must read. It is basically the <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/tv-tropes">TV Tropes</a> of Cults.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Down as of 2020-04 archive:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016 "Cult Test" archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160205090248/https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160205090248/https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>latest working homepage archive from 2019: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190925201137/https://www.orange-papers.org/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190925201137/https://www.orange-papers.org/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO who is the author? Copyright says by "A. Orange". Is it the real name, or just a pun for "I ate an orange"?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Orangepapers/comments/5sh7kg/any_info_on_what_happened_to_the_orange_papers/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/Orangepapers/comments/5sh7kg/any_info_on_what_happened_to_the_orange_papers/</a> mentions the creator’s first name is "Terry", and that the website went down due to financial trouble.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Claimed interview with him on the 2013 SAFE RECOVERY podcast: <a href="https://podfanatic.com/podcast/safe-recovery/episode/orange-papers-founder-terry-talks-about-the-truth-about-aa-1" class="bare">https://podfanatic.com/podcast/safe-recovery/episode/orange-papers-founder-terry-talks-about-the-truth-about-aa-1</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The website also offered compressed archives, but Ciro could not find any of those on the Wayback Machine, although it is hard to be sure because there are many different timestamps available, the section reads:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Get this entire web site in a set of compressed packages so that you can read it later offline (and burn CDs and give copies to friends).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Archives are available in both Unix/Linux tarred-gzipped format, or Micro$uck Windoze winzip format.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Current as of 2016-12-07 (yyyy-mm-dd).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Total Size = 900 MB compressed (1.7 GB uncompressed), but no file is larger than 14 MB, to prevent file size problems with some systems, like Comcast.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Get either set; you don’t need both, as the files contained are identical.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>File names are of form:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>Orange_Papers-alpha-2016-12-07.tar.gz</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>Orange_Papers-imgs000-2011-01-01.tar.gz</code></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A mirror with many broken links and images: <a href="http://aorange1.tripod.com/" class="bare">http://aorange1.tripod.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And the website also has a Free Tibet flag at the bottom.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many of the points highlighted at are very very interesting and Ciro feels that they apply strongly to <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"Instant Community" and "Instant intimacy": you instantly join the cult family, and are very very likely to believe or at least consider anything anyone else in the cult says about their religious experiences, no matter how far-fetched, even though it is not <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Conversely, this also poses a risk for the Cult Leader, as new community ideas can spread very quickly, and if you try to fight them off, they might create a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schism">Schism</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Denigration of competing sects, cults, religions, groups, or organizations": yes, <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> does this all the time, see: <a href="#zhong-gong">Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Personal testimonies of earlier converts": see "experience sharing" at <a href="#flg-religion">Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"The group and its members are special", "Enemy-making and Devaluing the Outsider": see: "ordinary people (常人)" at <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">Does Ciro Santilli believe in or practice Falun Gong? (三西猴信仰或者练法轮功吗？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Front groups, masquerading recruiters, hidden promoters, and disguised propagandists": <a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"The Guru is always right", "You are always wrong", "No Graduates", "The Guru Is Extra-Special", "Everybody else needs the guru to boss him around, but nobody bosses the guru around", "The guru criticizes everybody else, but nobody criticizes the guru.": obviously: <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"Group-think, Suppression of Dissent, and Enforced Conformity in Thinking"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Giggly wonderfulness and starry-eyed faith: <a href="#flg-religion">notably visible during in experience sharing</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are also however some points which Ciro feels don’t apply, and Ciro praises Falun Gong for those:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"Dual Purposes": not much of that, most of their propaganda is "we are persecuted unfairly by China", not "let’s help the poor"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"The End Justifies The Means": Li has made it clear that believers must follow the laws of their countries. Cults that violate this tend to not last as long, this is the smart move for cult leaders.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And some points which Ciro feels apply which were mentioned in some other article, (or maybe in Orange Papers but he couldn’t find them, TODO find reference?)</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"No time for fun": how could you possibly spend leisure time watching television, etc. when you could be saving the world instead?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Focus on the persecution of the Cult": while obviously people who have been persecuted have the right, and almost an obligation, to look for help and share their stories, it is also clear that this is a selling point for the Cult.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Why would a nation state attack a Cult? This could give the impression that it is because there is something powerful and true in the Cult, and actually menaces this nation state.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, Falun Gong puts huge emphasis on its persecution in China, much like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr">Martyrdom</a> of the Catholic Saints is highly emphasised.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is especially interesting, because the website does not mention Falun Gong at all it seems: it really seems that all those cults are very similar.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It should also be mentioned though that these points extend to any type of human organization, e.g. <a href="#flg-religion">other religions</a>, <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">political parties</a>, job associations, etc.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="cult-speak"><a class="anchor" href="#cult-speak"></a><a class="link" href="#cult-speak">8.3.4.1.1. Cult speak (邪教话，Orange Papers, 橙色文件)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160205090248/https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html#cq_cult_speak" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160205090248/https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html#cq_cult_speak</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Cult-speak": see also "Newspeak" from <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a> and some common Falun Gong Cult-speak see: <a href="#flg-religion">Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong’s slogan is the quite direct to the point:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>法轮大法好<br>
Falun Gong is good</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is in part to fight off the mountains of anti-Falun Gong propaganda created by the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Their core values are:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Truthfulness (真, Zhēn). Self explanatory, and the opposite of the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a>. Although they sometimes violate that (unknowingly?) for the greater good of the cult, e.g. <a href="#flg-transparent">Falun Gong media is not transparent about its affiliation (法轮功媒体对其隶属关系不透明)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Compassion (善, Shàn)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Forbearance (忍, Rěn): definition according to Oxford Languages: "patient self-control, restraint and tolerance". So in other words: chill out and meditate. And don’t do drugs or anything excessive like that.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The slogan and the core values are often placed together as:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>法轮大法好。真善忍好。
Falun Gong is good. Truthfulness, compassion and forbearance are good.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="careful-control-of-your-image"><a class="anchor" href="#careful-control-of-your-image"></a><a class="link" href="#careful-control-of-your-image">8.3.4.1.2. Careful control of your image (Orange Papers, 小心控制你的形象, 橙色文件)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The cult leader is a master at controlling how people view them.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One aspect of that, is after reaching a certain critical mass of mindless followers, to limit your public appearances to situations in which you have the most control, and notably being surrounded only by your believers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Because of course: you are human, not a God, and you are going to fuck up from time to time, so why take any risks now that you are already established?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> does not announce where he is going for the most part, even though he is followed by millions: he just shows up unannounced, and local believers whisper to one another in short advance and come to see him when possible.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a result, there are almost no recordings of Li Hongzhi except from the early days when he actually had to go out and get new believers hooked himself.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What if he (brain-)farted during a presentation, like we all do from time to time? Don’t want recordings of that, do we? <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> related to those private presentations is only published after careful review of course.</p>
</div>
<div id="vissarion" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Cv5hZfOmk&t=1177" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Cv5hZfOmk&t=1177</a> Siberian Cult Leader Thinks He’s Jesus by VICE (2012) In this documentary, which VICE was allowed to visit and interview <a href="#russia">Siberian</a> prophet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vissarion">Vissarion</a> (real name Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop Серге́й Анато́льевич То́роп, AKA "The Russian Jesus"), and they note how well he controlled his appearance. Ciro also heard similar stories of <a href="#stalin">Stalin (斯大林, 1922-1952)</a> and <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a> when they would retreat from the public eye for a while. Part of appearance control generally requires you to select select <a href="#membership-rivalry-orange-papers">cult members of the inner circle</a> to act for you, so you can minimize your surface of errors. This in exchange gives them greater status in the community.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/W2Cv5hZfOmk?rel=0&start=1177" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="different-levels-of-truth"><a class="anchor" href="#different-levels-of-truth"></a><a class="link" href="#different-levels-of-truth">8.3.4.1.3. Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160205090248/https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q3.html#cq_levels_of_truth" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160205090248/https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q3.html#cq_levels_of_truth</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And closely related: "Deceptive Recruiting"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong people don’t talk freely about their funny beliefs like <a href="#flg-religion">aliens are amongst us</a> to outsiders.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Rather, they lure you in with the exercises first.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro has personally heard the following said many times: "you should not tell this to non-believers, they are not ready for this truth yet".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Conversely, <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorships</a>, just like <a href="#flg-cult">cults</a>, also have practice different levels of truth, because in the end some level of decision maker has to know the actual truth of the world:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#brave-new-world-books">Brave New World books passage (美丽新世界的书籍段落, 1932)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#internal-media-of-china">Internal media of China (内参)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#chernobyl-2019-miniseries">Chernobyl 2019 miniseries (切尔诺贝利_(迷你剧))</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some other cults that come to mind:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Philosophy_and_Economic_Science" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Philosophy_and_Economic_Science</a> just check that name. Sounds like a regular economy school, right?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="the-group-is-the-only-way"><a class="anchor" href="#the-group-is-the-only-way"></a><a class="link" href="#the-group-is-the-only-way">8.3.4.1.4. Insistence that the group is THE ONLY WAY (Orange Papers, 坚持他们的团体是唯一的方式生活, 橙色文件)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160203122607/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q1.html#cq_only_way" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160203122607/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q1.html#cq_only_way</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a>'s version: <a href="#if-you-are-against-the-ccp-then-you-are-against-china">If you are against the CCP, then you are against China (如果你反对中共，那么你就是反对中国)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="no-humour"><a class="anchor" href="#no-humour"></a><a class="link" href="#no-humour">8.3.4.1.5. No humour (Orange Papers, 不能有幽默, 橙色文件)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185341/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q2.html#cq_no_humor" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185341/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q2.html#cq_no_humor</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Basically exactly what is mentioned at <a href="#funny">Funny (搞笑)</a>. Notably:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>making fun of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> is not allowed for Chinese people</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>making fun of <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> is not allowed for <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> believers</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So we go ahead and make fun of both.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="promised-powers-or-knowledge"><a class="anchor" href="#promised-powers-or-knowledge"></a><a class="link" href="#promised-powers-or-knowledge">8.3.4.1.6. Promised Powers or Knowledge (Orange Papers, 应许的功能或知识, 橙色文件)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"Promised Powers or Knowledge": <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160114213408/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q7.html#cq_promises" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160114213408/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q7.html#cq_promises</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"It’s a con. You don’t get the promised goodies": <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160114213408/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q7.html#cq_con" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160114213408/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q7.html#cq_con</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many/most Falun Gong believers believe that:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-medication">Falun Gong has curative and general health benefits</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>you will be saved in a soon-to-come-but-that-actually-never-really-comes <a href="#flg-religion">Judgement Day like event</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>some believers who practice really well can also get some "supernatural powers" (功能), but not everyone develops them. Luckily only so many people are that manipulable to believe they have obtained superpowers!</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But of course, you are <a href="#flg-verifiable">not allowed to just show your powers to other people, and most of all not to "ordinary people"</a> of course, because "reasons"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_34.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_34.htm</a>:</p>
</div>
<div id="flg-supernatural-powers" class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What will one develop in the course of his cultivation? He will develop supernatural powers which are called supernormal capabilities for short.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you want to use them among ordinary people? You are absolutely not allowed to use them among ordinary people at will.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But in the end, since <a href="#flg-fake">everything is fake</a>, there is only one reward that you can possibly get if you are both lucky and crazy hard working: <a href="#membership-rivalry-orange-papers">some attention from the master</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#amazing-cultivation-simulator-review-by-ssethtzeentach-2021">Amazing Cultivation Simulator review by SsethTzeentach (2021) (了不起的修仙模拟器)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="making-cult-members-work-long-hours-for-free"><a class="anchor" href="#making-cult-members-work-long-hours-for-free"></a><a class="link" href="#making-cult-members-work-long-hours-for-free">8.3.4.1.7. Making cult members work long hours for free (Orange papers, 让信徒免费长时间工作, 橙色文件)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200219/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q9.html#cq_work4free" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200219/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q9.html#cq_work4free</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many Falun Gong members work long long hours for free to help spread their religion, either by:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#falun-gong-preaching">preaching on the streets by giving out leaflets or demonstrating their exercise</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>working for <a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>because spreading those are religious obligations.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But on the other hand, why wouldn’t do that if you believed that there is a <a href="#li-hongzhi">living god on our Earth which most "ordinary people" don’t know about</a>, and that you are saving people’s souls? If a religion doesn’t make you do things for it, that belief is useless. In the case of Christianity however this is possibly in part linked to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism">Evangelical</a> belief of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_gratia">salvation by grace alone</a>. Quite convenient right, you don’t really have to do anything concrete to be saved, only believe and repent.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Furthermore, a very similar mindset is present in entrepreneurs, who are often driven to do long long work for an ideal. Sometimes, e.g. in <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s case, even to make <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/ourbigbook-com">a not-for-profit</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And Ciro Santilli’s mother would spend countless hours helping the less fortunate after her retirement in activities semi-linked to her Protestant church.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So this point is not so simple to criticize.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But it is sad to watch people waste their lives <a href="#flg-fake">for something that is a lie</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="membership-rivalry-orange-papers"><a class="anchor" href="#membership-rivalry-orange-papers"></a><a class="link" href="#membership-rivalry-orange-papers">8.3.4.1.8. Membership Rivalry (Orange papers, 让信徒免费长时间工作, 橙色文件)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132516/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q7.html#cq_member_rivalry" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132516/http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q7.html#cq_member_rivalry</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>While <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> hasn’t personally witnessed any malicious internal competition in Falun Gong, this does make the more interesting point that:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Members vie with one another for the <a href="#li-hongzhi">guru</a>'s attention, and for status within the group. Everyone is trying to become part of the favored inner circle. The leader plays the members off against each other in order to maintain his hold over the cult.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and this is very true. Because since you, <a href="#flg-fake">everything is a lie</a> you <a href="#promised-powers-or-knowledge">don’t get the promised goods</a>, and the only thing that is left for you to actually get is the guru’s attention and the social status associated with it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The inner circle status mechanic is also closed related to <a href="#careful-control-of-your-image">Careful control of your image (Orange Papers, 小心控制你的形象, 橙色文件)</a>, see the <a href="#vissarion">Vissarion</a> video.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some inner circle mechanics are also well shown in <a href="#wild-wild-country-2017">Wild Wild Country (2017, 大师_(电影))</a> through Sheela.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="flg-canon"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-canon"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-canon">8.4. Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachings_of_Falun_Gong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachings_of_Falun_Gong</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It appears that Falun Gong cannon is present at: <a href="https://falundafa.org/" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The two main books are:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"China Falun Gong" (中国法轮功) AKA just "Falun Gong" published in April 1993. 2006 English translation <a href="https://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg_2006.htm" class="bare">https://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg_2006.htm</a>. Wikipedia comments:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong is an introductory book that discusses qigong, introduces the principles of the practice, and provides illustrations and explanations of the exercises.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The first edition contains one of <a href="http://qingqing.freebbs.tw/viewthread.php?tid=130###" class="bare">http://qingqing.freebbs.tw/viewthread.php?tid=130###</a></p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#zhuan-falun">Zhuan Falun (转法轮)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The initial versions of both of those texts contained versions of <a href="#li-hongzhis-hagiography">Li Hongzhi’s hagiography (李洪志的圣徒传记)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It contains <a href="#li-hongzhi">LHZ</a>'s approved texts/speech transcriptions, which are sacred.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The only sacred version is Chinese which is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_language">sacred language</a>, and of which there is only one perfect revision.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is <a href="#flg-religion">perfectly analogous</a> to the role of:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Arabic in Islam. Although Islam goes even further, and only the Arabic version can be recited in prayers. Non-Arabic-speakers have to just memorize sounds to perform Salah. <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/plight-uyghurs-why-muslims-wont-speak-their-brethren-112466" class="bare">https://nationalinterest.org/feature/plight-uyghurs-why-muslims-wont-speak-their-brethren-112466</a> suggests that this is a major reason why <a href="#other-islam-countries-speak-up-for-uyghur">Why don’t many Islamic countries speak up for the Uyghur persecution? (为什么很多伊斯兰国家不反对维吾尔族迫害？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Hebrew in Judaism</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Protestants and later the Catholic church, have moved away from such really bad strategy however, the accessibility of Christianity is seen on the entrance of many many churches which have a sign "ALL are welcome". Perhaps this is also related to the fact that Christianism was already based on translating earlier Judaic texts to Greek, so the sacred language barrier was already broken. Well played.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> heard <a href="#li-hongzhi">LHZ</a> claims the specifically chose to reincarnate in China this last time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The English translation is made by followers, and gets new revisions from time to time to reduce translation imperfections.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, the Chinese language seems to be fundamentally sacred, and there might never be a sacred English version approved by LHZ.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>LHZ is of course a de-facto God with superpowers, and can of course speak all languages, but <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=for%20reasons">for reasons</a> he didn’t just write an English translation himself.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a reasonable command to download the English cannon for grepping:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>wget -r -l inf --no-remove-listing --no-clobber --no-parent -w 2 https://en.falundafa.org/falun-dafa-books.html</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO: need to find a way to wrap lines, otherwise grep might fail on sentences.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But funnily the Canon books appear to all be copyrighted, likely "to avoid other people from modifying his sacred text", which is funny since the dude’s the voice of absolute truth of the universe, but you still gotta copyright that I guess.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Nothing else is canonical. LHZ seems to have said that there are enlightened followers, but has not specified who, so we can’t derive canon from anyone else.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably, <a href="#flg-organized">FLG media</a> such as <a href="https://www.minghui.org/" class="bare">https://www.minghui.org/</a> is believer led and thus not canonical, even though believers have very high confidence in it, and LHZ <a href="#flg-organized">directly supports it</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>CCP <a href="#ccp-cult">cult leaders</a> such as <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> and <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a> have also published their own canon books, e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Xi’s: <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Mao’s: <a href="#little-red-book">Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book, 毛主席语录, 1976)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="zhuan-falun"><a class="anchor" href="#zhuan-falun"></a><a class="link" href="#zhuan-falun">8.4.1. Zhuan Falun (转法轮)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachings_of_Falun_Gong#Zhuan_Falun,_the_main_book" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachings_of_Falun_Gong#Zhuan_Falun,_the_main_book</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/转法轮_(书" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/转法轮_(书</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The main book of <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Published in January 1995.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>1998 English version: <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_01.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_01.htm</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>According to Wikipedia:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Zhuan Falun is the main teaching and the most comprehensive work; it is an edited version of Li’s nine-lecture series, 54 of which he taught across China between 1992 and 1994.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Believers very often read from this text when they <a href="#flg-religion">"study the Fa"</a> in their gatherings. They often read one chapter per session, and can often just say "we read the Nth teaching" (第N讲, so apparently each chapter corresponds to a separate talk). Just like <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a> (and other Chinese religious traditions)!</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Zhuan_Falun.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Zhuan Falun" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 127. Front and back cover of <a href="#zhuan-falun">Zhuan Falun (转法轮)</a>, first edition (1994). It is said amongst believers that <a href="#flg-verifiable">the Lotus flower on the back of these books have magically opened progressively as time passed</a>. <a href="http://qingqing.freebbs.tw/viewthread.php?tid=165###">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 128. Side-by-side English and Chinese version of <a href="#zhuan-falun">Zhuan Falun (转法轮)</a> circa 2010s. These covers are very widespread. Note how the Chinese cover is yellow, almost golden, to indicate that it is cannon. And translations in all other languages are blue, to indicate non-canon. Also note how the drawings of mystical elements have been removed in favor an abstract presentation. This is part of <a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a>. That golden cover is a direct recall to Bhuddist scriptures have been published traditionally in some epochs in China, just Google Images for "佛经". <a href="https://hkfalundafa.org/2-如何學煉法輪功.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<h3 id="does-ciro-santilli-support-falun-gong-or-just-use-it-because-it-is-censored"><a class="anchor" href="#does-ciro-santilli-support-falun-gong-or-just-use-it-because-it-is-censored"></a><a class="link" href="#does-ciro-santilli-support-falun-gong-or-just-use-it-because-it-is-censored">8.5. Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong, or just use it because it is censored? (三西猴是支持法轮功，还是仅仅因为它被审查而使用它？)</a></h3>
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<p>Ciro Santilli doesn’t support FLG specifically, only freedom of religion. See of course: <a href="#flg-bias">Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong just because his wife and mother-in-law do it? (三西猴是否仅仅因为他的妻子和岳母就支持法轮功？)</a>.</p>
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<p>Ciro uses it in his usernames simply because it is the most banned and censored one in China today.</p>
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<p>He believe that <a href="#flg-thoughtcrime">individuals should only be put in jail for what they do, not for what they believe</a>.</p>
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<p>He considers FLG <a href="#flg-religion">a religion like any other</a>, and he is against its ban, as that of all other religions.</p>
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<p>He also believes that freedom of speech and democracy imply that FLG and other religions will exist. If you want freedom, you have to <a href="#intolerance">accept other people’s choices</a>.</p>
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<p>Otherwise, <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">democracy and communism can also be considered as religions</a>, and banned.</p>
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<p>See also: <a href="#flg-verifiable">Falun Gong never makes any predictions that can be reasonably verified by non-believers (法轮功从不做任何非信徒可以合理验证的预言)</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="flg-daily"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-daily"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-daily">8.6. How is it like to live with Falun Gong believers? (与法轮功信徒一起生活是一种怎样的体验？)</a></h3>
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<p>This will obviously vary from believer to believer, but here is <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s experience.</p>
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<p>Like any other religion that is taken seriously, they spend several hours per week doing their standard religious activities: <a href="#flg-religion">Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a>.</p>
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<p>Ciro has never seen them, or anyone we know from FLG say or do something that he consider morally incorrect because of FLG.</p>
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<p>This does not prevent <a href="#wife">his wife</a> from working normally.</p>
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<p>Ciro’s mother-in-law, who is retired, dedicates all her time to Falun Gong when she is not taking care of the house.</p>
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<p>Ciro’s mother is also religious (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism">Protestant</a>), and he gets a very similar feeling about both groups.</p>
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<p>Like other religions, Falun Gong gives them meaning in life, and Ciro admires that they pursue their belief energetically, just as he persues his beliefs energetically.</p>
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<p>Ciro much prefers that Ciro’s mother-in-law does Falun Gong, which is a noble meaningful goal, rather than watch stupid crap on television.</p>
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<p>Also, although he is <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">agnostic</a>, Ciro also lives in a similar way.</p>
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<p>Ciro’s religion is that of science and technology, and he pursue it fervently by trying to learn and teach it and spend several hours a week doing that, even when it does not give him money immediately.</p>
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<p>If Ciro pursue his meaning, why should he prevent anyone from pursuing theirs?</p>
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<p>Previously, Ciro’s wife and mother-in-law would sometimes try to persuade him to learn Falun Gong, which was annoying.</p>
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<p>But every time he told them very clearly that he knows where to download the books if I want to, and that he may never want to read them, and that his wife must either accept this fact or leave him.</p>
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<p>And they have accepted that: they think Ciro’s a good person, and they can accept that you can also be a good person even without doing Falun Gong.</p>
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<p>Ciro does feel Falun Gong makes Ciro’s mother-in-law more reluctant to use or actively search for <a href="#flg-medication">medication or treatment</a>. But he thinks it is also linked to the fact that she didn’t have a very good education or a good health system around. However, if Ciro and his wife give her something, she will take it. Ciro’s wife does not have any resistance to medication.</p>
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<p>One thing that does worry Ciro is that Ciro’s mother in law sleeps too little every night, doing one of the Falun Gong meditations late in the evening, and then waking up very early to a long series of reading and exercise sessions. But it is hard to say if she would be any different without Falun Gong, it could just be her nature.</p>
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<p>Bibliography:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/27659795" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/27659795</a> at <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
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<h3 id="flg-changed"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-changed"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-changed">8.7. Falun Gong is completely different in the West than it was in China (法轮功在西方与在中国完全不同)</a></h3>
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<p>I believe that it has changed.</p>
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<p>But isn’t that the case of every cultural religious movement that migrates to a completely new culture?</p>
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<p>Main points which may have changed:</p>
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<p>It has become more organized.</p>
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<p>But why shouldn’t they organize to defend themselves now that they have the chance without being put into prison?</p>
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<p>The CCP is highly organized and has way more resources.</p>
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<p>Less emphasis is given to the religious/mystical aspect, and more to the corporal exercises, and health aspect.</p>
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<p>This may be because people in the "West" are:</p>
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<p>are "scientific-educated" atheists who wouldn’t go for a "religion"</p>
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<p>already have other religions, which would view FLG as a taboo</p>
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<p>Also maybe only the richest and most educated believers managed to escape China, and thus the movement carried that bias outside China.</p>
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<p>If you know more ways in which it may have changed, let me know.</p>
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<p>But once again, we can know nothing for sure about the past in China because of censorship.</p>
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<p>Even if you saw something yourself, how can you be sure that it is representative?</p>
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<p>And if it has changed, now that it has changed, maybe China should unban it?</p>
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<p>See also:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/23988890" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/23988890</a> at <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
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<h3 id="falun-gong-has-been-funded-by-the-us-government-at-least-once-therefore-it-is-evil"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong-has-been-funded-by-the-us-government-at-least-once-therefore-it-is-evil"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong-has-been-funded-by-the-us-government-at-least-once-therefore-it-is-evil">8.8. Falun Gong has been funded by the US government at least once, therefore it is evil (法轮功至少被美国政府资助过一次，所以是邪恶的)</a></h3>
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<p>1.5M USD in 2010 for a FLG controlled internet freedom group <a href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8678760.stm" class="bare">https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8678760.stm</a></p>
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<p>But well, if you are going to do something anyway, and someone offers you money, why wouldn’t you take it?</p>
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<p>Taking the money does of course give a "bad impression" that someone is trying to buy influence, but does it in itself imply that you are doing something bad?</p>
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<p>But do you really think that the US government paid that to buy influence in FLG? What would they force upon that FLG group that they didn’t already want to do? Isn’t it more likely that the US government wanted them to continue doing exactly what they were doing?</p>
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<p>Every government funds groups it supports, it is an all out war I suppose. Compare that to the propaganda funds of the CCP.</p>
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<p>What about the funding of political campaigns, which vastly outnumbers 1.5M USD every year?</p>
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<h3 id="follow-the-law"><a class="anchor" href="#follow-the-law"></a><a class="link" href="#follow-the-law">8.9. Falun Gong is illegal in China, we must follow the law (法轮功在中国是非法的，我们必须遵守法律)</a></h3>
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<p>If a law is unfair, we must fight to change it.</p>
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<p>It was perfectly legal for <a href="#nazi">Nazis</a> to kill Jews. Does it make that right?</p>
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<p>But in the end, the commies don’t even bother passing or following laws, they just fuck people anyways without one: <a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of law (法治)</a>.</p>
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<p>The problem in <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorships</a> is that the people have no power at all to change the law because there is no <a href="#democracy">Democracy (民主)</a>.</p>
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<p>The excuse that "we have to do this to follow Chinese law in order to operate in China", is exactly what all <a href="#western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests">Western companies that comply with Chinese censorship requests (遵守中国审查要求的西方公司)</a> do. If Chinese law mandated killing Jews, they would likely comply.</p>
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<p>The trick though is to delegate the dirty work to Chinese branches and employees, as a way to distance themselves from the activity. This is also generally a regulatory requirement of the Chinese government however.</p>
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<h3 id="flg-fake"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-fake"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-fake">8.10. Falun Gong is fake (法轮功是假的)</a></h3>
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<p>The same can be argued about any other religion or political belief of type: it is better if we organize society in this or that way.</p>
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<p>How can you disprove their belief, when as in any other religion, every affirmation made hinges on "miracles only happen around when true believers are around" or "only true believers can perceive evidence in their hearts / minds directly". He died of cancer or <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>? Not a true believer, deep withing his heart, something was wrong. See also: <a href="#flg-verifiable">Falun Gong never makes any predictions that can be reasonably verified by non-believers (法轮功从不做任何非信徒可以合理验证的预言)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Conversely, do you understand the full sequence of experiments that imply quantum field theory? Have you seen videos of those experiments? Have you attended live demonstrations? Do you understand the construction of the experimentation apparatus? Yet, why do you believe it?</p>
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<p>Because millions of religious believers feel that they have have directly observed God/other dimensions/energies/aliens/some other religious crap through direct experience several times in their lieves, or even daily. Why then is quantum field theory correct, but their daily direct religious experience wrong?</p>
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<p>More importantly: what do you propose that should be done about it? Should we kill followers? Or is jail enough?</p>
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<p>Also do let me know when you have achieved irrefutable proof that democracy/freedom of speech are the optimal ways to organize the government: <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">Why does Ciro Santilli say that democracy is a religion just like Falun Gong? (为什么三西猴说民主就像法轮功一样是一种宗教？)</a>.</p>
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<p>See also: <a href="#flg-religion">Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a></p>
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<h4 id="flg-verifiable"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-verifiable"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-verifiable">8.10.1. Falun Gong never makes any predictions that can be reasonably verified by non-believers (法轮功从不做任何非信徒可以合理验证的预言)</a></h4>
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<p>Exactly, just like any other <a href="#flg-religion">Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a>, this is why <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">agnostic</a> and thinks Falun Gong metaphysics is bullshit.</p>
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<p>Notably, <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> explicitly forbids display of magical powers gained by believers to non-believers: <a href="#flg-supernatural-powers">[flg-supernatural-powers]</a> for "reasons". What a convenient coincidence, that prevents any verifiability!</p>
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<p>Just like in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter">Harry Potter</a>, Falun Gong believers are part of the magical <a href="#flg-religion">Hogwarts world which non-believers, The Muggles</a>, cannot access.</p>
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<p>The closest claims to observable Ciro has heard are:</p>
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<p>when pictures are taken in sacred events, notably <a href="#shen-yun">Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)</a>, sometimes you can see magic Falun energy wheels in the pictures</p>
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<p>in the homes of some followers, small magic good plants-like fungi-like things have grown</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 129. Image of the magic good small plants that grew on a <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> believer’s home. They took a photo and it published on <a href="#falun-gong-media">Minghui</a> as a 2018 Chinese New Year good wish page to <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>. They seem to identify those fungi as mini-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udumbara_(Buddhism)">udumbaras</a>, which is just a fancy name that Buddhism scriptures use to refer to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_racemosa">cluster fig flowers</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/聚果榕">优昙婆罗</a>, amongst a billion other existing phonetic transliterations) emphasising their magic properties. Here’s a 2007 from <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a>: <a href="https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/7/10/7/n1859364.htm" class="bare">https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/7/10/7/n1859364.htm</a>, and another one <a href="https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/9/5/3/n2514838.htm" class="bare">https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/9/5/3/n2514838.htm</a>, and another one from 2011: <a href="https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/11/11/25/n3440323.htm" class="bare">https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/11/11/25/n3440323.htm</a>. Only the most relevant news on that newspaper. Ciro could not find <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> mentions however. If any biologist reads this, for the love of God send me a Wikipedia page with the possible species. TODO transcribe the Chinese 吉林市大法弟子恭祝师新年快乐。（优昙婆罗花） 创世主救度众生YADA YADA。(Falun Gong practitioners from <a href="#jilin">Jilin (吉林)</a> wish The Master a happy (Chinese) New Year (udumbara Flower) The creator of the world saves all living things, …​) This type of "congratulate the Master for New Year, congratulate the Master for his birthday etc. by sending photos to <a href="#minghui">Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> for selection is common practice in the Falun Gong community. <a href="https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2018/2/17/168396p.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<p>the <a href="#flg-canon">sacred books</a> of some believers had a closed lotus flower when they were bought, and after several years, the flower opened</p>
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<p>but Ciro suspects they are not even <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a>, just believer oral culture.</p>
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<p>Of course, like every other religion, reality happens to be is constructed in a way that prevents non-believers to verify anything with their eyes in a reproducible way.</p>
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<p>Or a Jesus put it in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+4&version=NIV">Luke 4</a>:</p>
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<p>Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.</p>
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<p>"If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:</p>
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<p>"'He will command his angels concerning you,</p>
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<p>and they will lift you up in their hands,</p>
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<p>so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"</p>
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<p>Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'"</p>
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<p>Ah good old <a href="#li-hongzhi">prophets</a>, their tricks haven’t changed a bit in 2 thousand years! This is why <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> follows instead the religion of <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">science and freedom of speech</a>, because those religions instead say:</p>
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<p>Test your God. Test your God a billion times. And if your God proves wrong just once, disbelieve it.</p>
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<p>The Pontius Pilate Scene from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(film)">The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)</a> comes to mind, quotes:</p>
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<p>Pontius: It’s also said that you do miracles? Is this good magic or bad magic? Can we have some sort of demonstration?</p>
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<p>Jesus: No, I’m not a trained animal, I’m not a magician.</p>
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<p>Pontius: Well, that’s disappointing. This means that you are just another Jewish politician.</p>
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<p>and:</p>
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<p>Pontius: It’s one way to change the way that people live, but you want to change the way that they think and that they feel.</p>
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<p>Jesus: All I’m saying is the change will happen with love. Not with killing.</p>
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<p>Pontius: Either way it’s dangerous. It’s against Rome. It’s against the way the world is. In killing or loving, it’s all the same. It simply doesn’t matter how you want to change things, we don’t want them changed.</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=pXGsio9H1xs" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=pXGsio9H1xs</a> The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - Pontius Pilate Scene (5/10) | Movieclips.</div>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama">Futurama</a> also has an interesting take:</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObbVO3A3BvA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObbVO3A3BvA</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender_(Futurama)">Bender</a> meets God in Futurama S03E20 "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfellas">Godfellas</a>". In their talk, they comment on how "if as God you give them everything, they will grow dependent on you, and if you give them nothing, they will despise you". And so the best approach as a God might be "to influence things as if you weren’t there".</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="against-censorship-and-flg"><a class="anchor" href="#against-censorship-and-flg"></a><a class="link" href="#against-censorship-and-flg">8.11. Many people both are against both censorship and Falun Gong (我要民主，但是我还要禁止法轮功)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro know that, and that supporting FLG is "bad" for his public image with most Chinese, including those that are against censorship.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But <a href="#dictator-needs-gfw">without censorship, there will be democracy</a>, and with democracy FLG followers will have voting rights, and FLG will become legal.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro thinks that the situation is very similar to <a href="#flg-religion">Scientology</a> in the USA today: most people dislike it, but believe that you can believe whatever you want.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Democracy and Communism <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">can also be considered as religions and persecuted</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Isn’t it convenient when a dictatorship gets rid of those weirdos for you? But not so much when suddenly you or your family is the weirdo…​</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you are not ready to accept the beliefs of others, dictatorship is the only choice for you.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also interesting to note how Falun Gong is a good source of <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a> material.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-bias">Does Ciro Santilli support Falun Gong just because his wife and mother-in-law do it? (三西猴是否仅仅因为他的妻子和岳母就支持法轮功？)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="democracy-is-a-religion"><a class="anchor" href="#democracy-is-a-religion"></a><a class="link" href="#democracy-is-a-religion">8.11.1. Why does Ciro Santilli say that democracy is a religion just like Falun Gong? (为什么三西猴说民主就像法轮功一样是一种宗教？)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Because it also specifies irrational and fundamental aspects of how one should live, notably voting and freedom of speech.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just like the <a href="#ccp-cult">CCP cult (中共邪教)</a> has one fundamental belief: <a href="#stability">the Party is always right</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ban <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, and you have banned democracy.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Accept democracy, and you will have <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is no in-between.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="flg-stability"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-stability"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-stability">8.11.2. Falun Gong had to be banned because it was a threat to the stability of the country (法轮功必须被取缔，因为它威胁到国家的稳定)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then they link to the Taping Rebellion:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of course FLG was a threat to the stability of the country.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is, as <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> has said, a highly organized political power: <a href="#flg-political">People from movement X are only in it for political power (X运动的人只是为了政治权力)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However, <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">democracy</a> is a threat to the stability country in the exact same way:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Anything that goes against a dictatorship is a threat to the stability of the country.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Now read: <a href="#stability">If anyone disagrees with the government they must be punished to keep the stability of the country (如果有人不同意政府，他们必须受到惩罚以保持国家的稳定)</a></p>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="many-people-say-they-do-falun-gong-only-to-get-visas-to-the-usa"><a class="anchor" href="#many-people-say-they-do-falun-gong-only-to-get-visas-to-the-usa"></a><a class="link" href="#many-people-say-they-do-falun-gong-only-to-get-visas-to-the-usa">8.12. Many people say they do Falun Gong only to get VISAs to the USA (很多人说他们修炼法轮功只是为了拿到美国签证)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> heard this a few times, and I believe it has happened.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But I don’t see how this is relevant at all to this discussion:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>if they are not really FLG believers, they should be prosecuted, but this says nothing about the real FLG believers,</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>if they are, then why wouldn’t they seek a VISA, since they are in constant threat of going to jail or worse in China, and the USA law gives them that right?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample news:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/28/652218318/thousands-could-be-deported-as-government-targets-asylum-mills-clients" class="bare">https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/28/652218318/thousands-could-be-deported-as-government-targets-asylum-mills-clients</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="flg-witness"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-witness"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-witness">8.13. I have personally seen people do bad things because of Falun Gong</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Either direct suicide or <a href="#flg-medication">dying because of not taking medication</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First, I’m not saying I don’t believe you, and I’m sorry about what happened.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But your testimony is worthless unless you give the following:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>clear unique personal identification</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is because the CCP has thousands of <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> who could make fake reports.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are basically two ways to do that:</p>
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<div class="olist arabic">
<ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>your testimony is done in video form on YouTube clearly showing your face as you make it</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>links between a notable social media presence that is hard to achieve, e.g. Twitter with many followers, Stack overflow with a lot of rep, and the account</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Either of those must contain / link to information that uniquely identifies you. Generally, full name, city and date of birth is enough.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>a precise testimony that states exactly what you saw happen with your own eyes, or heard from people that are very close to you.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The testimony must include:</p>
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<div class="content">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>when the events happened</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>where they happened, in which city at the very least</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the full names of who did what</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is to:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>make it easier to verify the truth of the event</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>uniquely identify the event so we don’t count a single event multiple times</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you do provide all of the above, I add your report to a list of reports that I will maintain. This list does not exist yet because there were no valid reports yet.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Next consider this:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>are you sure that Falun Gong made the person do the bad thing, and that the person wouldn’t have done it anyway?</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Did someone from Falun Gong told the person to do it?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I bet that if you look into patients of psychiatrists, you will find more suicides than average. So should we ban psychiatry?</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>are you sure that the order came from <a href="#li-hongzhi">LHZ</a>, and that it was not just some disgruntled local leader using Falun Gong for his personal madness and doing things he did not approve?</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Branch Davidians were inspired by <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a>. So should we ban Christianity? What about the majority of Christians who have never done anything bad?</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>only statistics have any meaning, and it would require a very large number of reports to make up statistics, so you will likely be wasting your time. I will do my part and maintain a list however.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>if we ask for FLG believers to compile a list of horrors they have suffered, which they have already been doing since the start of the persecution, I bet that their list will be much longer than yours, because they are so <a href="#flg-organized">well organized</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="flg-persecution"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-persecution"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-persecution">8.14. Falun Gong does not have proof of their persecution claims (法轮功没有被迫害的证据)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How much proof do you think they would be able to get when there is no freedom of the press?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you think that forbidding a <a href="#flg-important">70 million</a> person religion could have gone smoothly?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you think the thousands of personal accounts of human rights violations that exist are all fake, and don’t indicate that many, many more have taken place but fallen under censorship?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Conversely, there is no reliable proof that FLG is bad as claimed by CCP that has been verified by international media.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="western-media-has-exaggerated-reports-on-falun-gong-for-propaganda-reasons"><a class="anchor" href="#western-media-has-exaggerated-reports-on-falun-gong-for-propaganda-reasons"></a><a class="link" href="#western-media-has-exaggerated-reports-on-falun-gong-for-propaganda-reasons">8.14.1. Western media has exaggerated reports on Falun Gong for propaganda reasons (西方媒体以宣传为由夸大法轮功报道)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Possibly true, but which reports are you talking about specifically?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All that I care about is:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>it is censored today</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>if you do it you go to jail</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>there were tens of millions of followers at the time of the ban</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which I think are undeniable.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The only question that matters is: should it be banned or not?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And as usual: <a href="#censorship-makes-no-one-trust-your-country">Censorship makes no one trust your country (审查使得沒有人相信你的国家)</a>, so which reports can we trust more?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="sun-yi-falun-gong"><a class="anchor" href="#sun-yi-falun-gong"></a><a class="link" href="#sun-yi-falun-gong">8.14.2. Sun Yi (孙毅, 2008)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Documentary about him, TODO are the producers Falun Gong believers?</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Masanjia" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Masanjia</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/求救信" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/求救信</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Masanjia re-education through labor camp where he was kept:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanjia_re-education_through_labor_camp" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanjia_re-education_through_labor_camp</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/馬三家女子勞教所" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/馬三家女子勞教所</a> TODO the Chinese page says female-only, weird</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45976946" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45976946</a> "The SOS in my Halloween decorations"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="flg-thoughtcrime"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-thoughtcrime"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-thoughtcrime">8.15. Someone from movement X did something bad, therefore the movement should be banned (X运动中的某个人做了坏事，因此该运动应该被禁止)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>By this logic, everyone should go to jail. The law should only punish individuals.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The communist party, which has had continuous power since 1949, killed millions during the <a href="#cultural-revolution">Cultural Revolution (文化大革命, 1966-1976)</a>. Surely they must be banned, no?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But the CCP has changed so much since those days, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> hears you say.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro agrees. And <a href="#flg-changed">so has Falun Gong</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: "thoughtcrime" from <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or if you like shitty movies: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)">Minority Report (2002)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div id="aum-shinrikyo-thoughtcrime" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfTJV-8rtxE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfTJV-8rtxE</a> review of the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241146/">A (1998)</a> documentary film about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo">Aum Shinrikyo</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/奥姆真理教">奥姆真理教</a>) Japanese cult that made the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack">Tokyo subway sarin attack</a> in 1995. As mentioned at <a href="#flg-cult">Is Falun Gong a cult? (法轮功是邪教吗？)</a>, Ciro Santilli does consider Falun Gong a peaceful cult, unlike Aum. But even then, Ciro is against the loss of rights of Aum members that were never convicted of any crime, and were possibly also not aware of any crimes that were committed, as shown in this documentary.</div>
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<h4 id="movement-x-tells-people-to-do-something-bad"><a class="anchor" href="#movement-x-tells-people-to-do-something-bad"></a><a class="link" href="#movement-x-tells-people-to-do-something-bad">8.15.1. Movement X tells people to do something bad, therefore the movement should be banned (运动X告诉人们做坏事，因此运动应该被禁止)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>E.g. kill.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yes, convincing someone to do something bad is as bad as doing it yourself of course, and must be forbidden.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Now proceed to prove that FLG made and will continue making people do bad things, going through:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-witness">I have personally seen people do bad things because of Falun Gong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-changed">Falun Gong is completely different in the West than it was in China (法轮功在西方与在中国完全不同)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="tiananmen-square-self-immolation-incident"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen-square-self-immolation-incident"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen-square-self-immolation-incident">8.15.1.1. Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident (天安门自焚事件, 2001)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/天安门自焚事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/天安门自焚事件</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This has been one of the major anti-Falun Gong propaganda pieces by the CCP, and one of the most refuted by Falun Gong propaganda even as of 2020.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> believes that:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>as usual from the pre-Internet age, we will never know the truth for sure, because China has <a href="#censorship">no freedom of the press</a>, and <a href="#censorship-makes-no-one-trust-your-country">no one believes anything that the Chinese government says</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>it is possible that they were Falun Gong believers. What would expect from <a href="#flg-important">banning a 70 million person religion</a>?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>it is very unlikely that they had approval or instructions from <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>. Li Hongzhi’s literature maintains that suicide is very bad for you, e.g.: from 2003 <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a> <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20030420L.html" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20030420L.html</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Question: Some people can’t give up Dafa, but also can’t let go of their humanness. On the surface they are cultivating and doing some Fa-rectification things, but they are in fact stirring up trouble and creating disturbances, with some even committing suicide or being gay. What will become of these people? Will they go to the dimension of demons? And what will happen to those who stick up for them?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Teacher: I know about all of that. Unless I have absolutely no choice I don’t want to expel them, so I’m observing and watching these things. It’s best that these people, if they want to do themselves justice, wake up quickly—​wake up quickly! If you’re determined to do that, then tell Dafa disciples about the things you’ve done, and that could help. Time is running short. I’m really worried about you. Don’t take Master’s mercy so lightly. The Fa has standards.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and from 1998 canon <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19980329L.html" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19980329L.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many people who are capable of cultivating get sucked into them, and some of them engage in suicide - it’s a mess</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>maybe people should be allowed to choose how they want to die, see also:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-medication">Falun Gong believers are less likely to take necessary medication (法轮功信徒不太可能服用必要的药物)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#honour-suicides-in-chinese-history">Honour suicides in Chinese history (中国历史上的荣誉自杀, Qu Yuan, 屈原, Wu Zixu, 伍子胥)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="honour-suicides-in-chinese-history"><a class="anchor" href="#honour-suicides-in-chinese-history"></a><a class="link" href="#honour-suicides-in-chinese-history">8.15.1.1.1. Honour suicides in Chinese history (中国历史上的荣誉自杀, Qu Yuan, 屈原, Wu Zixu, 伍子胥)</a></h6>
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<p>As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suicide_in_China&oldid=992138770#History">mentioned on Wikipedia</a>, China has a long history of suicide for altruistic/moral/honour reasons in Confucian tradition, some of which are still celebrated to this day.</p>
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<p>The <a href="#analects">Analects (论语, c. 475-200 BC)</a> paragraph <a href="#analects-translation-by-robert-eno-2015">15.9</a> says:</p>
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<p>The Master said, The gentleman who is resolute and ren does not seek to live on at the expense of ren, and there are times when he will sacrifice his life to complete ren.</p>
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<p><a href="#mencius-book">Mencius (book, 孟子 (书), c. 300 BC)</a> paragraph <a href="#mencius-translation-by-robert-eno-2016">paragraph 6A.10</a> says:</p>
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<p>I love to eat fish; I also love to eat bear paws. If I can’t have both, I will forego the fish and eat the bear paws. I love life; I also love right. If I can’t have both, I will forego life and choose to do right. Life is truly something I love, it is just that there is something else I love more, and so I can’t hold on to life by devious means. And death is truly something I hate, it is just that there is something I hate more than death, and so there are dangers I will not avoid.</p>
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<p>If a man loves nothing more than life, then won’t he use whatever means are required to hold onto it? If a man hates nothing more than death, then won’t he use whatever means are required to avoid danger? Yet there are things men won’t do in order to avoid danger and live, and from this we know that there are things men love more than life and hate more than death. It is not just worthy men who have such feelings, all men have them; worthies are simply those who do not lose them.</p>
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<p>Notable historical figures who committed suicides are are still celebrated to this day include:</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="#qu-yuan">Qu Yuan (屈原, 340-278 BC)</a></p>
</li>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zixu">Wu Zixu</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伍子胥">伍子胥</a>, ???-484 BC)</p>
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<p>These sound exactly like examples that <a href="#xi-dada">Xi Dada (习大大, 2015)</a> would want his army to keep in mind: ultimate sacrifice for the motherland.</p>
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<h6 id="qu-yuan"><a class="anchor" href="#qu-yuan"></a><a class="link" href="#qu-yuan">8.15.1.1.2. Qu Yuan (屈原, 340-278 BC)</a></h6>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu_Yuan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu_Yuan</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/屈原" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/屈原</a></p>
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<p>He is celebrated in the <a href="#dragon-boat-festival">Dragon Boat Festival (端午节, Double Fifth Festival, 重五节)</a>, the third most important festival in modern China.</p>
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<p>Held during the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.</p>
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<p>He committed suicide by drowning himself in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miluo_River">Miluo River</a>, modern <a href="#hubei">Hubei Province (湖北省)</a>, while holding a rock, after his country’s (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_(state)">Chu</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/楚国">楚国</a>)) capital was taken by the Qin enemies during the <a href="#warring-states-period">Warring States period (战国时期, 475-221 BC)</a>.</p>
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<p>He is a symbol of patriotism respected to this day.</p>
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<p>A reference to one of his poems appears e.g. at <a href="#hu-yaobang-memorial">Hu Yaobang’s memorial</a> in <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="flg-political"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-political"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-political">8.16. People from movement X are only in it for political power (X运动的人只是为了政治权力)</a></h3>
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<p>For every desire of the masses, there will be amoral representatives that will step to use that power.</p>
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<p>Still, those representatives cannot gain power if there is no backing desire from society.</p>
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<p>The only advantage of <a href="#richer">democracy</a>, is that those representatives have to pretend harder to do things for that group to retain their power.</p>
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<p>Falun Gong believers obviously have the right to do politics, just like any other person, and Ciro greatly encourages this.</p>
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<p>But Ciro does not like that Falun Gong tends to not call itself a political force, when it clearly is. But full disclosure is not a legal obligation, and many many media outlets don’t really disclose their obvious political connections. See also: <a href="#flg-transparent">Falun Gong media is not transparent about its affiliation (法轮功媒体对其隶属关系不透明)</a>.</p>
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<p>Falun Gong directly contacts Government officials, <a href="http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/a25124-European-Falun-Gong-Practitioners-held-an-Anti-torture-Exhibition-during-the-European-Union-Meeting-in-France.html#.XyHSa2OYWV4">demonstrates in front of government buildings</a> and <a href="#flg-trump">supports Trump</a>, how can that not be politics?!?! Just call it for what it is, and no one will be able to criticize you for it!</p>
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<p><a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> directly says that FLG should not be involved in politics in <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>, e.g. <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz52.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz52.htm</a>:</p>
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<p>Never get involved in politics, nor interfere with state affairs'.</p>
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<p>But at the same, he also greatly encourages <a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a>, which obviously a political influence method. As usual, everything in Falun Gong is explained in an indirect roundabout way.</p>
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<p>Other related canon mentions <a href="https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2003/3/21/33575.html" class="bare">https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2003/3/21/33575.html</a> "Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference":</p>
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<p>Question: When elections were held in our district, there were people who went to help a few congressional candidates that supported Dafa. But some people thought we shouldn’t get ourselves involved in politics, and that we shouldn’t rely on ordinary people to do things for Dafa. Is that understanding correct?</p>
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<p>Teacher: It’s correct in principle, but for this specific matter you should look at it this way. If you say Dafa disciples can’t get involved in ordinary society’s politics, I wouldn’t say that’s 100% correct. What I told you was that Dafa doesn’t get involved in politics. And a lot of our Dafa disciples work in politics, that’s their job. So if there’s a government election, should you take part in it? If you take part in it and cast your vote, well then you’ve gotten involved in politics. A Dafa disciple cultivating in the ordinary society means that you try your best to cultivate while conforming to the ordinary society, and then there won’t be a problem. You, too, are a member of the ordinary society. And the existence of the ordinary society is necessary for Dafa, for the cosmos, and for sentient beings. We can only help maintain it and can’t disrupt it. When you’re supposed to vote, just go vote, that’s not a problem. If you say that a certain Congressman is your personal friend, and you’d like to help him do something, then of course there might be things that involve elections and you’d be doing volunteer work—that doesn’t matter. But our Dafa as a whole doesn’t get involved in politics, and we can’t do anything political in the name of Dafa. For Dafa disciples, validating the Fa should be the priority, though.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The last time there was an election in Taiwan, I had a veteran practitioner call the person in charge of the Taiwan Dafa Association and make it clear to the public that Dafa Associations take no stance on elections. If an individual practitioner wants to support someone, that’s his personal business and it doesn’t represent Dafa. There were Dafa disciples supporting both of the parties. The Falun Dafa Association has no political opinion regarding any party’s election, and it doesn’t get involved. As individual practitioners you can support whoever you’d like. That’s how it works.</p>
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<p>The last paragraph is really great, as it indicates how Li’s communication works. His top tenants are known, and their word is as good as the master’s.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.falundafa.org/eng/lectures/20040412L.html" class="bare">https://en.falundafa.org/eng/lectures/20040412L.html</a> also has some good quotes:</p>
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<p>Question: During Taiwan’s presidential election, some students' human attachments got stirred up. Was it a test arranged by the old forces? What’s the right way for us to handle this?</p>
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<p>Teacher: Even if the sky were to fall, a cultivator’s righteous thoughts would stay unshaken—​that is cultivation, and that is remarkable. (Applause) A cultivator is not attached to anything in this world. Dafa disciples' cultivation takes a different form today. In cultivation you do your best out in the world to conform to ordinary society, you have normal jobs in ordinary society, and you have your families, jobs, and all that—​you are closely tied to society. With the Taiwan election, some students thought a certain person was pretty good and so they wanted to vote for him, while others thought a different person was pretty good and wanted to vote for that one. People have their own, different views, and there’s nothing wrong with that. A person’s own actions out in society don’t represent Dafa. But you can’t be attached to those things the way ordinary people are.</p>
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<p>Whoever you vote for, I can’t, as your Master, say that you’re wrong, nor do I get involved in those things. That’s because the path I ask you to take has you cultivate in ordinary society. Cultivators can only benefit a society. You cultivate in ordinary society but you don’t steer human society in one direction or another.</p>
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<p>So for each student, it’s fine for you to vote as an individual for whomever you want. It’s just that you can’t be too attached. But through the persecution against Dafa disciples in Mainland China, Dafa disciples have seen through something, and so some are thinking, "Whoever is close to the evil that’s persecuting us, I won’t vote for him." (Applause) And as your Master I have no objection to that either. (Audience laughs, applauds) Those are the students' own thoughts, and as your Master I haven’t told you who to vote for. Still less will I tell you to take any group action, and that’s not allowed. (Audience laughs)</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/ArfGyo6HQ_E?t=1175" class="bare">https://youtu.be/ArfGyo6HQ_E?t=1175</a> Ciro really liked what <a href="https://www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/religious-studies/faculty/mathew-schmalz">Doctor Matthew N. Schmalz</a> said on this VICE documentary about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyung_Jin_Moon">Hyung Jin Moon</a>'s and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_movement">Unification movement</a> ("the Moonies" split-off religion. "I think that any new religion needs a constituency. And especially for a group that is new, that is relatively small, making connections with other groups that might have similar commitments is something that can be quite productive if you are a leader of a new religion". As long as everyone plays the democracy game through democracy rules, peace tends to be maintained, and it is easier for multiple different beliefs to coexist. Falun Gong has obviously gone in this political direction, and that is a positive sign about the religion.</div>
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<h4 id="flg-trump"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-trump"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-trump">8.16.1. Falun Gong supports Donald (Trump, 法轮功支持特朗普)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> believes without non-circumstantial evidence that the huge majority of Falun Gong believers strongly supports Trump.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro feels that Falun Gong’s support of Trump is a fundamental religious issue to the group.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong seems to believe that Trump is perfect and that everything that he says is true and good. He is essentially a supernatural force of good, as well shown at: <a href="#you-are-not-alone-by-tony-chen-music">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWjFeo0BgU You Are Not Alone by Tony Chen Music (陳東音樂, 2020) is a timeless classic devotional Trump support song. by Tony who is a Falun Gong believer. This is consistent with Ciro’s understanding of FLG’s view of the world, where Falun Gong believes that the CCP is literally a manifestation of real devils (法轮功认为中共是真正恶魔的化身) ("I see the true light - You are the Chosen One to fight the Red Demon") and therefore Trump is the manifestation of a supernatural force oof Good. The Chinese version is even more open about Trump’s God-like status: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrVbX8jV_o, and contains perls such as (official translation) "I see hope - you are the Chosen One to save the world" and "Trump, Trump, you are not alone! Gods and Buddhas are here with you!". The extensive use of Trump’s slogan "Make America great again" is also in line with Falun Gong’s belief that the world was Good before, but has become Evil today. The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media) made a profile of Tony in 2018.</a>. And his opponents, e.g. Biden and the Left, are the opposite.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Like everything else concrete, it is not clear if <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> has directly supported this or not.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro feels without proof however that it is extremely likely that he has given very clear private directives to his top tenants to support Trump, notably to the heads of the key <a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a> organizations.</p>
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<p>And then this belief gets pumped endlessly through the Falun Gong media, which completely unilaterally praises and supports Trump and criticizes his opponents, so that all believers understand that this is Li Hongzhi’s desire.</p>
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<p>Edit: around 2021-05-15, this got published on <a href="#minghui">Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a>: <a href="https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2021/5/18/大纪元新唐人媒体法会讲法-425888.html" class="bare">https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2021/5/18/大纪元新唐人媒体法会讲法-425888.html</a>. It is not on <a href="#flg-canon">falundafa.org</a> yet, but is extremely likely to be uploaded later and can already be consiered canon. The title is "Fa Teachings at the <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a>/<a href="#ntdtv">New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)</a> media meeting", and it contains the first, unumbiguous support of Trump done in Canon. Although such support took a long time to come out publicly in canon, <a href="#flg-transparent">which ciro-santilli condems</a>, it was a huge positive step forward towards transparency, as it makes Falun Gong’s pre-exising but unannounced religious support for Donald trump publicly official. The key quote on Google Translate is:</p>
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<p>Everyone knows that the former president of the United States could not be re-elected, and he was taken down by improper means. I only talk about this phenomenon. Isn’t it a manifestation of the current state of society? Everyone knows that the former president wants to talk about traditions and restore traditions. What he has to do is to change the moral quality of people and society in a better direction, and to restore society to a better social state. Is he going against the current heavenly principle? Because God’s law is not working. Is he against the trend of this society? He is going against the current, and he wants to suffocate the current. If it’s a country, maybe he can do it; what about the entire human society, it’s too difficult. So, if the entire universe is like this, can it be intercepted? Unstoppable. So, those gods who took him down and those bad gods in the old universe were as timid as they had stolen things in their hearts. They knew what he was doing was good. Do not you know? all know. Although those gods are corrupt, at least he still understands these things</p>
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<p>which therefore clearly says Trump is a manifestation of supernatural forces of good, and also clearly says that the 2020 American election was in fact <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election">stolen by the Democrats as per Donald Trump’s accusations</a>.</p>
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<p>It could have been even more direct, but <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> considers this more than direct enough. A Brazillian saying comes to mind: "Para bom entendedor, meia palavra basta" (For the Connoisseur/Expert, half a word is enough). This was notably used as part of an relentless advertisement campaign when Ciro was young (certainly too young to drink) for the overly-long-named beer brand <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_Kirin">Schincariol</a>, suggesting that you could just call is "schin", e.g. to order it at a bar. Sample ad: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-UWr1RIQU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-UWr1RIQU</a>. Anyways, back to Falun Gong, when it is the word of <a href="#li-hongzhi">Living God himself</a>, even a quarter-word is enough I guess.</p>
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<p>Prior to that, the most direct public suggestion we can find that Li Hongzhi directly supported Trump was in 2020-11-08 <a href="https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/11/8/n12534746.htm" class="bare">https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/11/8/n12534746.htm</a> when the <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> published a poem by <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> which Ciro believes is clearly directly supporting Trump, since it was released just after Trump was announced to have lost the presidential elections, amidst claims of electoral fraud under investigation, which Falun Gong media fully and completely supported. The official translation can be found in <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> <a href="https://en.falundafa.org/eng/articles/20201108A.html" class="bare">https://en.falundafa.org/eng/articles/20201108A.html</a>:</p>
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<p>On the General Election</p>
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<p>In this majestic universe, the communist devil is making trouble<br>
Fraud and corruption are harming a great nation<br>
All the machinations make people only more despondent<br>
When will justice be upheld and our conscience restored?<br></p>
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<p>Hongzhi Li<br>
November 8, 2020</p>
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<p>To be completely fair, Trump has been vocal about China’s threat way before <a href="#covid">COVID</a>, and correctly so in Ciro’s opinion, and therefore is a much needed ally of the Falun Gong movement, and to anyone that opposes China’s threat, like Ciro does.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, Ciro does believe that there might be a Democrat bias to media, and that certainly <a href="#hate-speech">social media like Twitter should never ever censor any political statements as it has done for Trump</a>.</p>
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<p>And of course, so long as those pro-Trump campaigns respect the laws of the country, Falun Gong is free to do it and must not be interfered with. As if other major American media didn’t have political agendas: <a href="#usa-based-media-bias">USA-based media bias</a>.</p>
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<p>This is exactly the same, in fact, as to how <a href="#flg-religion">religious affiliation</a> has a huge impact in how the average American votes: <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-strong-a-role-does-religion-play-in-us-elections-133224" class="bare">https://theconversation.com/how-strong-a-role-does-religion-play-in-us-elections-133224</a>.</p>
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<p>It seems that Trump’s immigration policies have turned Asian Americans towards the democrat opposition however as of 2019: <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/13/18308137/asian-american-voters-immigration-democrats-donald-trump" class="bare">https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/13/18308137/asian-american-voters-immigration-democrats-donald-trump</a>.</p>
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<p>One saving point of the republicans for Asians is the opposition to university quotas instance, which many Asians feel blocks their high performing kids from top schools for less deserving students. This is suggested for example at: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/yang-asian-americans-affirmative-action/605917/" class="bare">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/yang-asian-americans-affirmative-action/605917/</a> "Opposition to affirmative action was pulling Asians toward the GOP. Then Yang’s campaign began to gather momentum."</p>
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<p>Examples:</p>
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<li>
<p>NBC News claims that the <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> has donated to Trump propaganda: $1.5 million <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121" class="bare">https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121</a></p>
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<li>
<p>after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election">2020 United States presidential election</a>, <a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a> such as <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> was one of the very few medias to not immediately dismiss <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election">Trump’s accusations of electoral fraud</a>, as baseless e.g. on 2020-12-12 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201212014230/https://www.theepochtimes.com/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201212014230/https://www.theepochtimes.com/</a> the front page read "Election outcome unclear amid legal challenges", at which point most had been shot down. And earlier their editorial had clarified <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201107223813/https://www.theepochtimes.com/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201107223813/https://www.theepochtimes.com/</a> "Why The Epoch Times Won’t Call the Presidential Race Until All Challenges Are Resolved".</p>
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<li>
<p>2020-12-16 consider this sample <a href="#ntdtv">New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)</a> screenshot of the latest videos published at the time: <a href="https://archive.vn/Sxn8m" class="bare">https://archive.vn/Sxn8m</a>, where it can be seen that about 80-90% of the videos are supporting Trump’s electoral fraud claims.</p>
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<p>While Ciro agrees that reporting such events impartially is important and has merit, the fact that so few medias took the lawsuits seriously at all is still indicative of their strong Trump support.</p>
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<p>Ciro is also extremely opposed to censorship of such viewpoints, as done by YouTube, as mentioned at <a href="#fake-news">Fake news (假新闻)</a>, when they started taking down any videos that upheld the electoral fraud viewpoint.</p>
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<p><a href="#me-and-li-by-ben-hurley-2017">Me and Li by Ben Hurley (2017)</a> says how after his conversion to Falun Gong:</p>
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<p>My social beliefs had transformed from those typical of a left-leaning family to take on a very conservative hue.</p>
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<p>Other election/politics related <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> mentions <a href="https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2019/6/2/177872.html">Fa Teaching at the 2019 New York Fa Conference</a>:</p>
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<p>Question: Misleading news is everywhere in this Internet age, and it’s often hard to tell real news from fake. In the upcoming Taiwan and U.S. general elections in 2020, will fake news cloud people’s judgment?</p>
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<p>Master: Degenerate things are common in this troubled world, and it’s hard to accomplish good things. That’s how things are in a troubled world. Many people didn’t expect Trump to be elected in the last U.S. election, but he was. Some people believe that things are supposed to go a certain way, but then they turn out otherwise. I have always said that divine beings are in control of human affairs, and that it is they who have the say. But if I speak too much about it or get into the specifics, it might negatively impact our saving people, so I won’t go into it.</p>
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<p>As usual, Hongzhi beats round the bush, as per <a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a>. Ciro feels it <a href="#flg-transparent">would be better for Falun Gong if he just publicly said that believers must support Trump</a>.</p>
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<p>One wonders how Falun Gong views Trump’s ideology of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Access_Hollywood_tape">grabbing them by the pussy</a>". But sure, that was in 2005, he must have converted to Good since.</p>
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<p>Analysis of Trumps electoral fraud claims:</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election</a></p>
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<p>2020-11-2020 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/20b114b5-5419-493b-9923-a918a2527931" class="bare">https://www.ft.com/content/20b114b5-5419-493b-9923-a918a2527931</a> "Lawsuit tracker: Donald Trump’s legal battle runs into repeated dead ends" gives the precise names of several of the cases</p>
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<p>2021-01-05 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11</a> "Trump and Republican officials have won zero out of at least 42 lawsuits they’ve filed since Election Day" gives an update on several of the cases at that date</p>
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<p>2021-03-31 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-trump-statue-idUSKBN2BN0RU" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-trump-statue-idUSKBN2BN0RU</a> "Be at peace, meditate, Trump Buddha statue designer tells former president" shows Trump Buddha statues by Hong Jinshi. This could be a huge hit with the Falun Gong community!!!</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWjFeo0BgU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWjFeo0BgU</a> You Are Not Alone by Tony Chen Music (陳東音樂, 2020) is a timeless classic devotional Trump support song. by Tony who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AZ-jCiXCpI">is a Falun Gong believer</a>. This is consistent with Ciro’s understanding of FLG’s view of the world, where <a href="#falun-gong-believes-that-the-ccp-is-literally-a-manifestation-of-real-devils">Falun Gong believes that the CCP is literally a manifestation of real devils (法轮功认为中共是真正恶魔的化身)</a> ("I see the true light - You are the Chosen One to fight the Red Demon") and therefore Trump is the manifestation of a supernatural force oof Good. The Chinese version is even more open about Trump’s God-like status: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrVbX8jV_o" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrVbX8jV_o</a>, and contains perls such as (official translation) "I see hope - you are the Chosen One to save the world" and "Trump, Trump, you are not alone! Gods and Buddhas are here with you!". The extensive use of Trump’s slogan "Make America great again" is also in line with Falun Gong’s belief that the world was Good before, but has become Evil today. <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> made a <a href="https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/18/2/1/n10105396.htm">profile of Tony in 2018</a>.</div>
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<h3 id="does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-the-allegations-of-human-rights-violations-done-to-falun-gong-believers"><a class="anchor" href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-the-allegations-of-human-rights-violations-done-to-falun-gong-believers"></a><a class="link" href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-the-allegations-of-human-rights-violations-done-to-falun-gong-believers">8.17. Does Ciro Santilli believe in the allegations of human rights violations done to Falun Gong believers?</a></h3>
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<p>Besides the obvious prohibition of their most fundamental belief, so e.g. being tortured.</p>
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<p>Let’s just focus on the evidence:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CedVnJOgwg4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CedVnJOgwg4</a> "Undercover video reveals brutal treatment of Falun Gong prisoners inside Chinese labor camps" by "FOX 11 Los Angeles" published May 21, 2019. Names mentioned: Fuquan Yin,</p>
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<h4 id="flg-organ-harvesting"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-organ-harvesting"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-organ-harvesting">8.17.1. Does Ciro Santilli believe in the allegations of organ harvesting made by Falun Gong believers?</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/對中國共產黨摘取法輪功學員及良心犯器官的指控" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/對中國共產黨摘取法輪功學員及良心犯器官的指控</a></p>
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<p>In short: Ciro believes that it has happened to many people.</p>
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<p>Long version follows.</p>
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<p>It is obviously very hard to prove and quantify it definitely, much like it was hard to prove the Holocaust: bodies were cremated, and bribes were paid.</p>
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<p>Even if we had a video showing the whole process, showing the whole money flow from the donor to the prison guard, it would still be hard to quantify it, so I do have some room for doubt in this opinion.</p>
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<p>But consider the following, which is based on what Ciro has heard.</p>
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<p>Even Chinese officials have admitted that in the past, if the body of the executed person is not claimed by family, then the organs can be extracted even without the consent of the prisoner:</p>
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<p>2014-12-04 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-30324440" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-30324440</a> "China to stop harvesting executed prisoners' organs"</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/china-still-using-executed-prisoners-organs-transplants-vatican" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/china-still-using-executed-prisoners-organs-transplants-vatican</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-the-face-of-criticism-china-has-been-cleaning-up-its-organ-transplant-industry/2017/09/14/d689444e-e1a2-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-the-face-of-criticism-china-has-been-cleaning-up-its-organ-transplant-industry/2017/09/14/d689444e-e1a2-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html</a></p>
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<p>Perhaps now that they claim that there is a large voluntary organ donor database, then this has stopped or been reduced, but let’s focus on that period when the extractions were widely done.</p>
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<p>From this, even though China does not publish execution statistics, we can imagine that a large part of the organs come from prisoners sentenced to death.</p>
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<p>Then, consider that a <a href="#flg-important">70 million</a> person religion was banned, leading to a huge influx of prisoners from that religion.</p>
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<p>FLG followers are just de-facto criminals like any other, and so extracting their organs is also de-facto legal.</p>
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<p>Also, people from that religion don’t drink alcohol, smoke or take drugs, and their organs are of good quality.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, FLG prisoners continue to not bow down to the government even in prison, e.g. by doing their <a href="#flg-religion">Falun Gong meditation</a>, which makes them clearly identifiable and dangerous to the system.</p>
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<p>Finally, add to that mix the <a href="#corruption">huge level of corruption found in dictatorships</a>.</p>
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<p>Don’t you think, then, that it is extremely likely that it has happened many times that such people have been selected to be executed earlier than others on average, due to the monetary value of their organs?</p>
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<p>Bibliography:</p>
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<p><a href="https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6" class="bare">https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191118135832/https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6">archive</a>) "Analysis of official deceased organ donation data casts doubt on the credibility of China’s organ transplant reform" by Matthew P. Robertson, Raymond L. Hinde and Jacob Lavee published at "BMC Medical Ethics" which is part of Springer Nature in 14 November 2019</p>
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<p>The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, by Ethan Gutmann, 2014</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Slaughter-Killings-Harvesting-Solution-Dissident/dp/161614940X" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/Slaughter-Killings-Harvesting-Solution-Dissident/dp/161614940X</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Gutmann#The_Slaughter:_Mass_Killings,_Organ_Harvesting,_and_China’s_Secret_Solution_to_Its_Dissident_Problem" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Gutmann#The_Slaughter:_Mass_Killings,_Organ_Harvesting,_and_China’s_Secret_Solution_to_Its_Dissident_Problem</a></p>
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<p>Related:</p>
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<p>2020-11-29 (not of prisoners) <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55097424" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55097424</a> "Chinese doctors jailed for illegal organ harvesting"</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/0Jorm1di7uA?t=700" class="bare">https://youtu.be/0Jorm1di7uA?t=700</a> Asian boss street inverview with several South Korean people asking how they see China. The only positive view is an old man who received an organ transplant from someone sentenced to death. On <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> at: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pve1lr/koreans_interviewed_about_their_views_on_china/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pve1lr/koreans_interviewed_about_their_views_on_china/</a>.</div>
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<h5 id="2018-china-tribunal"><a class="anchor" href="#2018-china-tribunal"></a><a class="link" href="#2018-china-tribunal">8.17.1.1. 2018 China Tribunal</a></h5>
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<p>2018 <a href="https://chinatribunal.com/" class="bare">https://chinatribunal.com/</a></p>
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<p>This is a mock tribunal, i.e. one without any power of law, and was of course initially lobbied/organized brought up by FLG: <a href="https://endtransplantabuse.org/" class="bare">https://endtransplantabuse.org/</a></p>
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<p>However, Ciro Santilli believes that none of the lawyers/jury members are Falun Gong believers, and that they are trying to honestly decide if there is enough evidence or not for organ harvesting in China.</p>
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<p>They also have non-FLG witnesses.</p>
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<p>Whether you believe in their partiality or not, I highly recommend watching some of what the witnesses, which I find very convincing and informative:</p>
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<p><a href="https://youtu.be/oW3IaaXWE8s?t=7225" class="bare">https://youtu.be/oW3IaaXWE8s?t=7225</a> Swedish man who spent several years in prison in China</p>
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<p>A notable precursor to mock tribunals is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Tribunal">Russel Tribunal</a>.</p>
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<p>Bibliography:</p>
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<p>Dr. Enver Tothi, has spoken openly about his organ harvesting activities in the 1990s in several tribunals in Europe</p>
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<p>2020 <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/surgeon-who-harvested-organs-slaughtered-21040274" class="bare">https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/surgeon-who-harvested-organs-slaughtered-21040274</a> "Surgeon who harvested organs of slaughtered dissident now London Uber driver"</p>
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<p>2019 in EU parliament: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n-9n897jIo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n-9n897jIo</a></p>
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<p>2017 Him speaking in : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXKMw4slHY" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXKMw4slHY</a> at Ireland’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXKMw4slHY">House of the Oireachtas</a></p>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="things-ciro-santilli-dislikes-about-falun-gong"><a class="anchor" href="#things-ciro-santilli-dislikes-about-falun-gong"></a><a class="link" href="#things-ciro-santilli-dislikes-about-falun-gong">8.18. Things Ciro Santilli dislikes about Falun Gong (三西猴不喜欢法轮功的事情)</a></h3>
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<p>But also as explaining why I don’t think it justifies the ban.</p>
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<p>This section also gives me more credibility as a balanced critic >:-)</p>
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<p><a href="#flg-religion">Falun Gong downplays the fact that they are a religion</a></p>
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<h4 id="flg-organized"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-organized"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-organized">8.18.1. Falun Gong downplays the fact that it is highly organized (法轮功淡化了它高度组织化的事实)</a></h4>
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<p>Many FLG practitioners claim that they are not at all organized, or that they have no political interest, and I truly believe that they mean it.</p>
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<p>But it is obvious from the size of the <a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a>, namely:</p>
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<p><a href="#ntdtv">New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)</a></p>
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<p><a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> newspaper</p>
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<p><a href="#shen-yun">Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)</a> dance troupe</p>
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<p>that in practice they do have are a highly organized hierarchical structure, and very likely with <a href="#li-hongzhi">LHZ</a> at the very top, e.g.:</p>
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<p>Shen Yun’s 2018 libretto says that their Artistic Director and founder is "D.F." (likely an abbreviation for Da Fa, which is an abbreviation for Falun Gong Dafa, which is a full name of Falun Gong), with a picture of LHZ on top. It also amusingly says that D.F. is a "Distinguished Professor of Music and Dance at Fei Tian College in New York", which is likely where many of Shen Yun’s dancers are trained, and therefore controlled by himself to a large extent. It’s Falun Gong’s dance-only-for-now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University">BYU</a>.</p>
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<p>LHZ mentions NDTV, Epoch Times and Shen Yun extensively on his <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>. TODO link to source, this based on unintentionally overhearing to my family members reading it.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, Falun Gong practitioners directly lobby foreign governments to take action against human rights abuses in China, e.g.:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+MOTION+P7-RC-2013-0562+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN" class="bare">https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+MOTION+P7-RC-2013-0562+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-cisco-must-be-held-accountable-aiding-chinas-human-rights-abuses" class="bare">https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-cisco-must-be-held-accountable-aiding-chinas-human-rights-abuses</a></p>
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<p>Like any other religion, they have all the right to take those actions, and it is definitely in their best interest, and perhaps in the best interest of the whole world, that they do so.</p>
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<p>The only thing that annoys me is their lack of self perception on this matter: the large majority of Western people would definitely classify them as an organized political force after having observed their activities. When they say otherwise, they are hurting their own credibility.</p>
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<h5 id="flg-transparent"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-transparent"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-transparent">8.18.1.1. Falun Gong media is not transparent about its affiliation (法轮功媒体对其隶属关系不透明)</a></h5>
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<p>Agreed, and it is a point that hurts more than helps their cause.</p>
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<p>This is very clearly put as well at "Front groups" of the <a href="#orange-papers">Orange Papers (橙色文件)</a>.</p>
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<p>But the media is not legally obliged to state their affiliation.</p>
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<p>And if that were the case, then we should force <em>all</em> newspapers to start taking polls of how many employees follow which religion and support which political party, and then put that in their print.</p>
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<p>But <a href="#xinhua">Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a> is learning well from this, e.g. <a href="#new-china-tv">New China TV</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="flg-intolerance"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-intolerance"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-intolerance">8.18.2. Falun Gong dislikes several other groups like homosexuals and some other religions (法轮功不喜欢其他几个群体，如同性恋者和其他一些宗教)</a></h4>
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<p>Like most <a href="#flg-religion">old religions</a>, related: <a href="#hate-speech">Western democracies also censor subjects such as child porn and hate speech (西方民主国家也审查儿童色情和仇恨言论等主题)</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="#flg-canon">Canon quote</a> from <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19980904L.html" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19980904L.html</a>:</p>
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<p>Question: Why is homosexuality considered immoral?</p>
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<p>Teacher: Think about it, everyone: Is homosexuality human behavior? Heaven created man and woman. What was the purpose? To procreate future generations. A man being with a man, or a woman with a woman - it doesn’t take much thought to know whether that’s right or wrong. When minor things are done incorrectly, a person is said to be wrong. When major things are done incorrectly, it’s a case of people no longer having the moral code of human beings, and then they are unworthy of being human.</p>
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<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> strongly disagrees with that view, because it is the type of thing that makes people feel bad for characteristics that they have, but cannot change.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, it is very hard to pass any kind of law that forces people not to be racist/discriminatory, because there is always the lingering question: what if they are right about a particular point?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Because clearly everyone has innate characteristics that make them better suited for certain activities than others, we when we select candidates for a job, we are basically discriminating amongst candidates.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also any such law can have the opposite effect, acting as a justification for further hate.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You and I dislike certain personality traits without any logical reason.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Democracy dislikes dictators, and it is not necessarily rational.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#gay-rights">Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<h5 id="falun-gong-on-races"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong-on-races"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong-on-races">8.18.2.1. Falun Gong on races</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> clearly classifies races as a metaphysical concept e.g. on <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19990502L.html" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19990502L.html</a>:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Strictly speaking, Indians, Egyptians, Persians, the yellow race, the white race, and the black race are the six major races of the present Earth. All the other ones are mixed races.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mixed race people seem to have some metaphysical defect/peculiarity, <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/1997L.html" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/1997L.html</a>:</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Question: What did you say last time that a person of mixed race has lost?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Teacher: He has lost the body that comes from the top down through to here. Let me put it this way: People of the yellow race have people of the yellow race up there, and people of the white race have people of the white race up there. He’s lost this thread.
<em>_</em></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>but they can still go to Heaven:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Question: Can a person of mixed race succeed in cultivation?</p>
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<p>Teacher: Whether someone can cultivate and whether he can succeed in cultivation are all up to the person himself. If a person of mixed race can persist in cultivation, he can reach Consummation just the same. When he succeeds in cultivation his Primordial Spirit will return to wherever he came from.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
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</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="flg-medication"><a class="anchor" href="#flg-medication"></a><a class="link" href="#flg-medication">8.18.3. Falun Gong believers are less likely to take necessary medication (法轮功信徒不太可能服用必要的药物)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Based on what <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> saw and heard, he does believe, without any clear statistical evidence, that it is very likely that it hs happened to in many cases that some Falun Gong believers refused to take modern medications and died of diseases that could be otherwise cured.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But consider the following:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>what matters are statistics. Maybe FLG people live longer than non FLG in average. But we will never have statistics because of censorship: <a href="https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27529/have-many-falun-gong-practitioners-forgone-medical-treatment-and-died-of-treatab" class="bare">https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27529/have-many-falun-gong-practitioners-forgone-medical-treatment-and-died-of-treatab</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>maybe people should be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation">allowed to choose how they want to die</a>, and not to take medication if they don’t want to</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation">Parks and Recreation</a> caricaturally liberal character <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Swanson">Ron Swanson</a> puts it <a href="https://youtu.be/_UlNnETAZeI?t=48">about the United States</a>:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The whole point of this country is if you wanna eat garbage, balloon up to six hundred pounds and die of a heart attack at forty three, you can! You are free to do so. To me that’s beautiful.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#freedom-with-a-capital-f">https://youtu.be/kIpaDW3RwtY?t=244 one random thing ex-KGB spy undercover in the USA Jack Barsky mentioned in this BuzzFeed Multiplayer interview stuck to his mind: "The one thing that you have here, that I believe cannot be found anywhere else in the world is called Freedom, with a capital F". If people want to die in a certain way, or believe that some bullshit will cure them, they should be allowed. Natural selection will take care of the rest.</a> also comes to mind.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>maybe the number of people killed during persecution vastly outnumbers those who died because they would not take medication</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>several <a href="#flg-religion">religions</a>, including <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a> have miraculous cure claims. My impression is that claims were mostly notable in the old times apparently, likely because people noticed that Christians were still dying of all kinds of diseases like everyone else, no matter how devout!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>maybe the main reason why communists banned Falun Gong is the political threat it posed, but that a ban was unjustified given the situation. Christian crosses are being taken down as of 2016, have they stopped taking their medications as well? See also <a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of law (法治)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>maybe many of those people would also have died soon even if they had taken medication</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>maybe not all Falun Gong believers thought that it was wise to stop taking medication. But their religion was banned anyway. Who can agree and follow all the innumerable prescriptions of any religious or legal system? See also: <a href="#flg-thoughtcrime">Someone from movement X did something bad, therefore the movement should be banned (X运动中的某个人做了坏事，因此该运动应该被禁止)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>all the following also reduce people’s lifespan:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>riding motorcycles vs. cars/buses</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>smoking</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>moving to a poor country to do charity there</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>eating fast food</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Forbidding them also has huge humanitarian costs (more expensive vehicles, creation of a black market, …​). So why not forbid them as well?</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Especially In the beginning, Falun Gong did put a lot of emphasis on its health benefits, just <a href="#zhong-gong">like all the other contemporaneous Qi Gong practices</a>, and it is likely that especially many in the first generation of believers do believe it more than others.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, the main initial public announcement of Falun Gong was at a <a href="#history-of-falun-gong">Health Exposition in Beijing</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a> itself, this is not super explicit and emphasised as far as Ciro can see. Zhuan Falun <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_74.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/zfl_74.htm</a> has a chapter entitled "On the Issue of Healing Illnesses", that contains:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Let us talk about the most common illnesses, like tumors, infections or osteoproliferation etc., found in the human body. In another space, a very deep space, there lies an evil intelligent entity.</pre>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and the general very beaty-around-the-bush suggestion that if you do master Falun Gong fully, you will be healthy. But with the usual disclaimer that "you have to become a master", and since "there are no graduates", no one is ever a master for sure, and as usual "you don’t get the promised goodies", as as mentioned at: <a href="#orange-papers">Orange Papers (橙色文件)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/mgjf.htm" class="bare">https://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/mgjf.htm</a> contains some more direct quotes that suggest that you can take medicine, but you have to try and bear the pain first, and if you can’t, it’s a sign that you haven’t practiced Falun Gong well enough:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So when you take medicine now you’re killing this sickness or the virus at the surface. Medicine can truly kill viruses at the surface. Yet a practitioner’s gong[7] is automatically destroying viruses and karma. But as soon as medicine kills the surface virus that has seeped over from other dimensions, the virus—karma—over on the other side will know, since everything is alive, and it will stop coming over. Then you feel that you’ve recovered because you took the medicine. But let me tell you that it nonetheless accumulates over there. Life after life human beings are accumulating this stuff. When the accumulation reaches a certain extent, the person becomes incurable and when he dies he’s totally destroyed. He loses his life—forever loses his life. That’s how horrifying it is. So here I’ve explained to you the relationship. It’s not that people aren’t allowed to take medicine. When an everyday person gets sick he definitely needs medical treatment.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But how do we cultivators deal with it? Aren’t we purifying your body? Like the annual rings of a tree, there is karma at the very core, and at every layer, life after life, of your body. When you practice cultivation, I keep pushing this karma outward from the center; I push, and push, and push, and push until I completely push the karma out for you. And not all of this can go through the surface of our bodies. You wouldn’t be able to bear it if all of it were to go through the surface of your body. Only a portion of it comes out through the surface. But you still feel that you’re suddenly getting sick, you find it terribly uncomfortable and painful, can’t bear it, regard yourself as an everyday person, and go take medicine. Then you can go ahead and take medicine, as we’ve never said that everyday people can’t take medicine. We only say that your enlightenment quality isn’t up to par and that you didn’t pass this test well.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro does however believe that newer generations believe in this much less, notably because the first believer generation is all basically old or dead, and soon will be entirely dead. This might also have been de-emphasised to reduce the bullshit aspects and help the international spread of Falun Gong. Not even Falun Gong believers are that blind. And this perfectly mimics the beginning of Christianism, where the first generations gave much more emphasis to miraculous cures.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#me-and-li-by-ben-hurley-2017">Me and Li by Ben Hurley (2017)</a> has an anecdote on this, which Ciro feels sounds believable:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I think it was Lynn’s* death that finally made me realise it was time to leave. I’d seen the writing on the wall about a year prior when I saw her at a yearly "Fa conference" for believers of Falun Gong, otherwise known as Falun Dafa, to exchange experiences and grow spiritually together. An executive assistant at a Queensland valuation firm, I’d gotten to know her over the years in various events as a warm and level-headed lady who had time for everyone. But I’d noticed she had developed a bulge on the side of her head and I was trying not to look at it when I talked to her. I saw, or at least I believed I saw, some pain in her smile. She was probably questioning herself over and over again what "attachments" she hadn’t let go of that were causing this sickness to spread through her body and endanger her life. I wanted to tell her to just go to a hospital, although I wasn’t at this stage resolute enough in my gradual return to logic. Another part of me feared that by looking at it I was acknowledging it — something you don’t do with illnesses in Falun Gong because Master Li Hongzhi teaches that his pupils don’t get illnesses. He can cure you but only if you don’t have any loopholes in your belief in him and his teachings. Some people with solid beliefs can actually die due to others around them having flaws in their thinking, Li says. Just thinking the wrong way is perilous when you’re a Falun Gong practitioner.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I later heard through the grapevine of Lynn’s death. The cancer went into her brain and she passed away in extreme pain, probably believing to the end that it was her fault she was in this awful predicament. In a way, I guess it was.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and more interesting anecdotes follow, see source.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And Ciro has felt this first hand with his <a href="#wife">mother-in-law</a>. Whenever she has a health worry, first she tries to hide it. But then she casually mentions it without much thought because she speaks all the time the poor lady, may she be blessed. And then, when Ciro says: OK, let’s try and treat it, even for trivial things that might have simple treatments, she immediately smiles a compassionate smile of "I’m a Falun Gong believer, I don’t need that". This makes Ciro really mad. He tries to not show it, because he thinks people should be able to choose how they die. But Li promises the powers of <a href="#flg-cross-dimensional-vision">remote, cross dimensional and past/future vision</a> to some believers, and yet, blinds some of them to the obvious fact that they are aging, and, slowly but surely, their own bodies are starting to fail, like everyone else’s will at one point.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also interesting to note how the Chinese government itself supported Falun Gong and <a href="#zhong-gong">other Qi Gong practices</a> for their health benefits, which is why they grew so large in the first place. <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> was even <a href="#history-of-falun-gong">awarded prizes and recognized as a Qi Gong master by state backed organizations in 1992 and 1993</a>. And the CCP still has a tendency to support certain non-scientific traditional practices: <a href="#support-for-non-scientific-traditional-practices">Support for non-scientific traditional practices (支持非科学的传统做法)</a>.</p>
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<div id="freedom-with-a-capital-f" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/kIpaDW3RwtY?t=244" class="bare">https://youtu.be/kIpaDW3RwtY?t=244</a> one random thing ex-KGB spy undercover in the USA Jack Barsky mentioned in this BuzzFeed Multiplayer interview stuck to his mind: "The one thing that you have here, that I believe cannot be found anywhere else in the world is called Freedom, with a capital F". If people want to die in a certain way, or believe that some bullshit will cure them, they should be allowed. Natural selection will take care of the rest.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kIpaDW3RwtY?rel=0&start=244" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#honour-suicides-in-chinese-history">Honour suicides in Chinese history (中国历史上的荣誉自杀, Qu Yuan, 屈原, Wu Zixu, 伍子胥)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="falun-gongs-view-of-epidemics"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gongs-view-of-epidemics"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gongs-view-of-epidemics">8.18.3.1. Falun Gong’s view of epidemics (法轮功的流行病观)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> has said in <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a> things that lead certain believers (including e.g. <a href="#wife">Ciro’s mother in law</a>) to believe that because they are good Falun Gong believers, that they are more safe from disease from evil people.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, in the 2003 "Fa conference" at the time of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome">SARS</a> he <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20030420L.html">said</a>:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You must have seen the epidemic that’s come along in China now, right? Hasn’t a huge epidemic arrived? To put it in human terms, it’s Heaven punishing people. What it’s targeting, we Dafa disciples know full well: it’s targeting those who don’t deserve to be saved, who are impossible to save while Dafa disciples clarify the truth, and who aren’t useful to the evil rotten spirits. This is the first round of cleansing. Heaven is punishing the evil, yet China is still lying to cover up the number of deaths, and I’ll tell you, it’s huge, and it hasn’t peaked yet.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Such beliefs have of course carried over directly to <a href="#covid">COVID-19</a>. Of course, epidemics make the moral question much more difficult, because not taking care of yourself means you can kill others besides yourself.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>An amazing quote from <a href="https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/3/20/183715.html" class="bare">https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/3/20/183715.html</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Stay Rational</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Pandemics and plagues are part of a divine plan and inevitable in the course of history.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Stay rational. Believe in God ;-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Epidemics are also likely moments where religious grow due to more people being more desperate and looking for solace that cannot be found in this shitty world.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is indeed tempting to believe that the virus magically kills only the Evil. What reality could be so fucked up where the innocent suffocate to their death? And yet, here we are.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="falun-gong-liturgical-calendar"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong-liturgical-calendar"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong-liturgical-calendar">8.18.4. Falun Gong liturgical calendar (法轮功教会年历)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Exactly like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year">other religions</a>, Falun Gong has some important dates that are celebrated to keep believers engaged. Those are:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>May 13th: <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>'s claimed birthday, although the Chinese government and some scholars disagree with that date, which suspicioiusly seems to coincide with the Buddha’s birthdate</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also known as "Dafa Day".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The international Falun Gong conference, usually called just "Fa Conference" (法会), also happens around that date in New York, the state where Li Hongzhi lives in <a href="#dragon-springs">Dragon Springs (龙泉, Falun Gong’s headquarters in New York State)</a> for the same reason, e.g. in 2019 it was on May 17 <a href="https://www.ntd.com/over-10000-share-stories-of-self-improvement-at-falun-dafa-conference_331440.html" class="bare">https://www.ntd.com/over-10000-share-stories-of-self-improvement-at-falun-dafa-conference_331440.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are other more local Fa conferences held throughout the year however also.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="li-hongzhi"><a class="anchor" href="#li-hongzhi"></a><a class="link" href="#li-hongzhi">8.18.5. Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李洪志" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李洪志</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Li Hongzhi is the creator of <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhi</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong people call him "master" (师父), which is a common traditional term used to respectfully address experienced teachers in a disciple (弟子)/teacher relation, e.g. Kung Fu or other crafts.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>However they also believe that he has many many God-like powers and is comparable figures such as Jesus and Buddha himself.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably they believe that he has superpowers, and that everything that he says is the absolute truth of the universe, see also: <a href="#flg-religion">Is Falun Gong a religion? 法轮功是一个宗教吗？</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The term "master" is also used for example in the fictional film The Master (2012), which is likely inspired in <a href="#flg-religion">Scientology</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> however prefers to call him <a href="#flg-religion">prophet</a>, since he feels LHZ is indistinguishable from <a href="#flg-religion">any other religion</a>. Guru/<a href="#flg-cult">cult leader</a> could also apply.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It’s funny that even though Falun Gong only came up recently in the 80’s, we still know relatively little about Li. One is kind of reminded of Jesus! See also <a href="#li-hongzhis-family">Li Hongzhi’s family (李洪志的家庭)</a> and <a href="#li-hongzhis-hagiography">Li Hongzhi’s hagiography (李洪志的圣徒传记)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One should note however that this is partly by design: at some point in the 90’s, Li relatively stepped away from public view. This is because once you reach a critical mass of followers, it is better to let them to the preaching for you, while you hide your obvious human defects in a corner. See also comments at <a href="#vissarion">Vissarion</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Li Hongzhi footage:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>1999-06-12 AP <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_onSZlvWSQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_onSZlvWSQ</a> USA: "CHINA: FALUN DAFA CULT POSES NO THREAT CLAIMS FOUNDER" Li Hongzhi talks to media in New York</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Li_Hongzhi.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Li Hongzhi" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 130. <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> is Falun Gong’s prophet/cult leader/living God. He’s a cute North-Westerner 东北人 like <a href="#wife">Ciro’s wife</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhi">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 131. <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> practicing one of his exercises with one of his cute prophet outfits in an extremely nice Chinese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_garden">rock garden</a> (<a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/假山/8466165">假山园林</a>), see also: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">stone garden</a>. TODO exact location and date. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Li_Hongzhi_Falun_Gong.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 132. <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li</a> in front of a light blue background (similar to <a href="#xi-jinping-portrait-blue">CCP official portraits</a>) with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography)">halo</a> suggestion around his head. <a href="https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/11/5/12/n3254555.htm">Lower quality version</a> on <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a>. <a href="https://www.epochweekly.com/144/7046pg.htm">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 133. <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li</a> going <a href="https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan">Super Saiyan</a> (<a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/超级赛亚人/6974315">超级赛亚人</a>) while casually sitting on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_lotus_in_religious_art">giant Lotus flower</a> with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography)">halo</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/圓光">圆光</a>) on his head. Text at bottom: 法轮修炼大法-李洪志 (TODO confirm 3rd and 4th characters, transates something like Falun Practices Dafa - Li Hongzhi). <a href="http://photo.minghui.org/images/master_li_pics/E_fx_1.htm">Source</a> on <a href="#minghui">Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 134. <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> really turning into a proper Buddha, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_characteristics_of_the_Buddha">physical signs</a> such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushnisha">Ushnisha</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/肉髻">肉髻</a>) on the head and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Physical_characteristics_of_the_Buddha&oldid=972021136#The_80_secondary_characteristics">"ears as longs as lotus petals"</a>. He also has a super powerful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureola">Aureola</a>. On the top right corner we see an <a href="#ntdtv">New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)</a> watermark. On the bottom left we see a few Western Catholic and Roman looking divinities, representing Falun Gong’s syncretic beliefs. The subtitle on center bottom reads in traditional Chinese: "真的有这样光辉形象" (there truly is such a glorious image) <a href="https://www.bannedbook.org/bnews/tculture/xiulian/20190123/1068931.html">Source</a> on <a href="#bannedbook">bannedbook.org (禁闻网, pro-Falun Gong media)</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 135. Side by side comparison of <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> vs <a href="https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan">Super Saiyan</a> (<a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/超级赛亚人/6974315">超级赛亚人</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goku">Goku</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball">Dragon Ball</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/孙悟空_(七龙珠)">孙悟空_(七龙珠)</a>). There is more than just visual similarity to this comparison, since Goku is based on Sun Wukong from <a href="#journey-to-the-west">Journey to the west (西游记)</a>: they have the exact same name in Japanese/Chinese, Goku is monkey like with a tail and <a href="https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Great_Ape">giant monkey form</a>, has both have an extending stick weapon (<a href="https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Pole">The Power Pole, 如意棒</a>, full Chinese name <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/如意金箍棒">如意金箍棒</a>, lit. "as [large as] one wants Golden stick). Notably, the orange color of Goku’s clothing is likely inspired from Buddhism, and so are their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureola">Aureolas</a>. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> watched Dragon Ball Z this when he was 10 years old.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 136. Dubstep <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li</a> can <a href="#flg-religion">liangong (练功)</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep">dubstep</a> speed. <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/dubstep-gifs-dubstepgifs-xUOwFY1prqgUdPuFvW">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7JK576nxm0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7JK576nxm0</a> 音乐视频：《师尊的手》<a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> music video "The master’s hand" contains some a bit of good old time <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> footage.</div>
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<h5 id="falun-gong-is-dangerous-because-li-hongzhi-has-too-much-power-over-followers"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong-is-dangerous-because-li-hongzhi-has-too-much-power-over-followers"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong-is-dangerous-because-li-hongzhi-has-too-much-power-over-followers">8.18.5.1. Falun Gong is dangerous because Li Hongzhi has too much power over followers (法轮功是危险的，因为李洪志对追随者的权力太大)</a></h5>
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<p>Ciro agrees that there is danger in every religion, and especially new religions.</p>
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<p>However the same point can be made about political parties and in particular the CCP and its chairman.</p>
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<p>Couldn’t a charismatic leader chairman gain more and more power (like Xi seems to be doing), and eventually start a war and kill millions? Or just kill some minority who is not happy about the situation.</p>
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<p>Similarly, any charismatic leader of a pro-democracy movement could become the leader of a terrorist organization.</p>
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<p>If you ever want democracy, you will have to learn to accept the beliefs of others, and only punish them when they actually break a law.</p>
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<p>Finally, LHZ was born in 1951, so he will die in 20 years, unless FLG is true and a miracle happens, and then this argument will become invalid.</p>
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<p>From what Ciro hears, LHZ has always maintained that he is the only source of truth on FLG (see also "The Guru is always right"), and therefore, so his death will very likely remove any danger once and for all.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, it also seems to Ciro that FLG is clearly anti-violence and self-harm, so Ciro wonder how many would follow a contradictory order such as killing or suicide? We have had no hint of any incitation to violence so far.</p>
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<p>It is also interesting to look into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown</a> case. When the suicide order came, most people wanted out! Without physically controlling the followers, I don’t think you can make them do much.</p>
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<p>Related: <a href="#flg-stability">Falun Gong had to be banned because it was a threat to the stability of the country (法轮功必须被取缔，因为它威胁到国家的稳定)</a>.</p>
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<h5 id="li-hongzhis-hagiography"><a class="anchor" href="#li-hongzhis-hagiography"></a><a class="link" href="#li-hongzhis-hagiography">8.18.5.2. Li Hongzhi’s hagiography (李洪志的圣徒传记)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhi</a> mentions that there are two versions of the biography:</p>
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<p>An unofficial biography appeared in the first of Li’s major publications, <a href="#flg-canon">Zhongguo Falun Gong</a>, supposedly authored by journalist Zhu Huiguang (朱慧光).</p>
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<p>The full text appears to be at available at: <a href="http://qingqing.freebbs.tw/viewthread.php?tid=130###" class="bare">http://qingqing.freebbs.tw/viewthread.php?tid=130###</a> (God bless <a href="#taiwan">Taiwanese</a> piracy, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200805093333/http://qingqing.freebbs.tw/viewthread.php?tid=130###">archive</a>)</p>
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<p><a href="#benjamin-penny-the-life-and-times-of-li-hongzhi-2003">The Life and times of Li Hongzhi by Benjamin Penny (2003)</a> gives the full title of the section + a translation (originally in pinyin, but why?!?! :-)):</p>
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<p>法輪旋轉新天地-記李洪志先生和他創立的法輪功<br>
"The wheel of the law revolves the new cosmos - on Li Hongzhi and the Falun Gong he founded".</p>
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<p>A second, official spiritual biography appeared in early editions of <a href="#flg-canon">Falun Gong’s primary text, Zhuan Falun</a>.</p>
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<p>It is shorter than the first, and is marked as authored by the "Falun Dafa Research Society’s President" (法轮功研究会会长).</p>
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<p>The Wiki quotes <a href="#benjamin-penny-the-religion-of-falun-gong-2012">The Religion of Falun Gong by Benjamin Penny (2012)</a>.</p>
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<p>Penny says that it was removed in 1999 (presumably to remove some more glaring magical bullshit help with internationalization).</p>
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<p>A possible Chinese copy might be found at: <a href="http://qingqing.freebbs.tw/viewthread.php?tid=165###" class="bare">http://qingqing.freebbs.tw/viewthread.php?tid=165###</a> inside a 1994 version of Zhuan Falun.</p>
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<p>The section is entitled "中国法轮功创始人、法轮功研究会会长 李洪志先生小传", so literally tranlated as a "profile" (小传) rather than a full biography. The index marks it as 附 (addendum), and it comes at the end of the book.</p>
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<h5 id="what-will-happen-to-falun-gong-when-li-honzhi-dies"><a class="anchor" href="#what-will-happen-to-falun-gong-when-li-honzhi-dies"></a><a class="link" href="#what-will-happen-to-falun-gong-when-li-honzhi-dies">8.18.5.3. What will happen to Falun Gong when Li Honzhi dies? (李洪志死后，法轮功会怎样？)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-Li-Hongzhi-the-founder-of-Falun-Gong-when-he-is-not-in-this-world-anymore/answer/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-Li-Hongzhi-the-founder-of-Falun-Gong-when-he-is-not-in-this-world-anymore/answer/Ciro-Santilli</a></p>
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<h5 id="let-s-make-a-mini-series-about-li-hongzhi-s-life"><a class="anchor" href="#let-s-make-a-mini-series-about-li-hongzhi-s-life"></a><a class="link" href="#let-s-make-a-mini-series-about-li-hongzhi-s-life">8.18.5.4. Let’s make a mini series about Li Hongzhi’s life (让我们制作一个关于李洪志生平的迷你系列)</a></h5>
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<p>Ciro can’t help but to imagine how Falun Gong came about in detail.</p>
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<p>Someone should write a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(novel)">"The Last Temptation of Christ"</a>.</p>
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<p>This deserves an American miniseries like Chernobyl.</p>
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<p>It would manage to piss off both FLG and the CCP, which would be amazing. It is a shame that it is so difficult to find good historical information between the infinite barrages of CCP and FLG propaganda.</p>
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<p>It could show how:</p>
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<p>Li was an ordinary dude who could liked to play the trumpet, which partially explains his focus on <a href="#falun-gong-media">Shen Yun</a> and Falun Gong musical street parades</p>
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<p>Li first heard about Qi Gong, and went to practice it under some dude. Then how he saw other people were so into it, and decided to take this opportunity to make a career out of it during the 80’s</p>
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<p>how he met his wife and had a daughter</p>
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<p>how he started to notice how people were feeling things during the exercise classes, and started suggesting more and more metaphysics to these first disciples</p>
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<p>Li could also have some metaphysical moment, like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW20LbwAmng" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW20LbwAmng</a> but at the same time, he must tell his followers some lies which he does not believe</p>
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<p>how followers started telling others things and "experience sharing" where the cycle of belief stats to take off</p>
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<p>a clear demonstration of how "A group of early adopters in Changchun became disenchanted after Li forbade his followers from charging fees for the practice at the end of 1994" showing dissent within the cult</p>
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<p>and finally, the immigration and crackdown, and how he put his fingers on those things, and the creation of media, this could be the last episode</p>
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<p>Episodes could be split along:</p>
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<p>Episode 1: pre Qi Gong, shows Childhood, workplaces, early motivations. Ends with first contact with a Qi Gong lesson</p>
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<p>Episode 2: early Falun Gong. Opens an academy. Starts without metaphysics, but grows into it. Show him knowingly lying, but also seething magic things. The first followers, and top lieutenants. Makes some management mistake, but gets away with it. Could end in a metaphysical scene, or 13 May 1992 initial public lesson. Maybe a scene of Li’s visit to <a href="#thailand">Thailand (泰国)</a> in 1983 (photo from CCP media found on Google).</p>
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<p>Episode 3: later Falun Gong in China. It grows, show in Chinese news. Power struggles, problems with early lieutenants, and new lieutenants come up. Many people practice on streets. Battle against <a href="#zhong-gong">Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a>. Near 1996, something tips Li off to the fact that the CCP is going to crack down on them, and so he announces that he will be spreading abroad full time. Check out if this was before or after the first Anti FLG newspaper article in 1996-06-17.</p>
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<p>Episode 4: preaching outside of China and emigration. American permanent residence in 1998. Watches crackdown on television. International Falun Gong media. Show him at Falun Gong New York <a href="#dragon-springs">"Dragon Springs"</a> complex</p>
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<p>Or maybe, never mind that boring post 1992 stuff which is already highly public, instead we could focus only on the more interesting pre-1992 events, and finish in 1992.</p>
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<p>So per-early FLG up to 1992, with childhood flashbacks.</p>
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<p>The tone should of course be a mixture of:</p>
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<p>personal insight of the master</p>
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<p>the love of a follower</p>
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<p>external view of their shortcomings</p>
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<p>Parts of the series could be filmed in <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a> maybe?</p>
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<p>Source material: <a href="#history-of-falun-gong">History of Falun Gong 法轮功历史</a>.</p>
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<p>Related videos:</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)">The Master (2012)</a></p>
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<p><a href="#wild-wild-country-2017">Wild Wild Country (2017, 大师_(电影))</a></p>
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<h6 id="wild-wild-country-2017"><a class="anchor" href="#wild-wild-country-2017"></a><a class="link" href="#wild-wild-country-2017">8.18.5.4.1. Wild Wild Country (2017, 大师_(电影))</a></h6>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Wild_Country" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Wild_Country</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大师_(电影" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大师_(电影</a>)</p>
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<p>Documentary about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh</a>.</p>
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<p>This shows many interesting <a href="#flg-cult">cult mechanics</a>, e.g.:</p>
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<p><a href="#membership-rivalry-orange-papers">Membership Rivalry (Orange papers, 让信徒免费长时间工作, 橙色文件)</a>: Episode 3 shows how Rajneesh implemented <a href="#careful-control-of-your-image">Careful control of your image (Orange Papers, 小心控制你的形象, 橙色文件)</a>: Sheela was the front-person, officially appointed the "secretary", and had meetings with Rajneesh every evening. This in turn gave Sheela an <a href="#membership-rivalry-orange-papers">a greatly elevated status in the community</a>.</p>
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<h6 id="xi-hongzhi-and-li-jinping"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-hongzhi-and-li-jinping"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-hongzhi-and-li-jinping">8.18.5.4.2. Xi Hongzhi and Li Jinping (习洪志和李近平)</a></h6>
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<p>In an alternate reality, Xi Hongzhi, not to be confused with <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>, is an obscure peasant trying to save his kingdom from oppression.</p>
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<p>And Li Jinping, not to be confused with <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>, is an evil Qi Gong who uses his powers to rule over his kingdom ruthlessly, ridding it of non-believers.</p>
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<p>This meme would be offensive to both <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> and <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> believers.</p>
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<p>We are entering Encyclopedia Dramatica territory here.</p>
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<h5 id="li-hongzhis-family"><a class="anchor" href="#li-hongzhis-family"></a><a class="link" href="#li-hongzhis-family">8.18.5.5. Li Hongzhi’s family (李洪志的家庭)</a></h5>
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<p>Jesus appeared to value chastity. He was born from a virgin. No sex around him at all.</p>
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<p>Buddha gave it up after his enlightenment.</p>
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<p>But Li doesn’t need that. He’s a God, right, he can both be an Enlightened God part time and still have a normal family part time.</p>
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<p>Once thing Ciro approves about Li’s approach to his family is that he seems to have stated (TODO source) that none of them are Gods like him.</p>
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<p>It is however very likely that some of his close family members will take up an even greater importance in the inner circle of power once Li dies: <a href="#what-will-happen-to-falun-gong-when-li-honzhi-dies">What will happen to Falun Gong when Li Honzhi dies? (李洪志死后，法轮功会怎样？)</a>, notably his daughter.</p>
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<p>Wife’s name: Li Rui (李瑞 according to CCP). Report saying that a follower bought a house and registered it on Li Rui’s name as a gift, but Li later returned the gift back: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB94140245836194819" class="bare">https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB94140245836194819</a> TODO house address.</p>
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<p>daughter: Li Meige (李美歌) claims born 1982-06 on <a href="#kaiwind">Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)</a> <a href="http://www.kaiwind.com/anticult/kfgc/201311/05/t20131105_1188845.shtml" class="bare">http://www.kaiwind.com/anticult/kfgc/201311/05/t20131105_1188845.shtml</a> says that she performs in <a href="#shen-yun">Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)</a> under the name "Christina Li" and even won awards. This Falun Gong sources confirm that a "Christina Li" was a Shen Yun lead dancer as of 2011, but does not confirm that she is the daughter of Li Hongzhi: <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/where-are-the-ancient-arts-of-china-part-4_1491935.html" class="bare">https://www.theepochtimes.com/where-are-the-ancient-arts-of-china-part-4_1491935.html</a> If this is true, talk about <a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a>! The article also claims that she has had other pseudonyms, including: "Annie Li" and "Li Jingjing" (李晶晶). Here are web archives of the now broken of course Shen Yun pages Kaiwand links to as evidence of her constant name changing (but no mention of her father):</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140727034323/http://dance.ntdtv.com/ct/archive/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20140727034323/http://dance.ntdtv.com/ct/archive/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121211022246/zh-cn.shenyunperformingarts.org/artists/biography/view/WG3gbBQudOg" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20121211022246/zh-cn.shenyunperformingarts.org/artists/biography/view/WG3gbBQudOg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>possibly CCP sources report that Meige married in 2017, likely near the Falun Gong Day (13th May): e.g. <a href="http://www.saibeifeng.com/kfyd/201705/16/t20170516_5219554.shtml" class="bare">http://www.saibeifeng.com/kfyd/201705/16/t20170516_5219554.shtml</a> says many felicitation posts were posted on <a href="#falun-gong-media">minghui</a>, so this is likely widely known within the Falun Gong community, but the idiots who wrote that page don’t know how to link to sources. Ciro could not find the groom’s name.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>brothers and sisters, all younger:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Li Jun (李君) older younger sister</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Li Ping (李平) younger younger sister</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#china-daily">China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a> <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hqzx/2012-10/17/content_15825454.htm" class="bare">http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hqzx/2012-10/17/content_15825454.htm</a> mentions that Li Jiguang (李继光), the second husband of one of Li Pingy died in 2012</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Notably, Li Ping’s alleged husband Sun Senlun (Natawut Smittipong, 孙森伦) is a Chinese-Thai, and allegedly wrote an account of Li Hongzhi’s family in the 1980’s: <a href="#diaries-of-being-in-thailand-with-li-hongzhi-s-family">Diaries of being in Thailand with Li Hongzhi’s family (我与李洪志一家在泰国的日子——法轮功教主妹夫的自述)</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The book also claims that they had two children Sun Baoyuan (孙宝圆) and Sun Baoman (孙宝满), which Li later managed to rename Li Baoyuan (李宝圆) and Li Baoman (李宝满).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#shen-yun">Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)</a> had dancers called with those exact same Chinese character names between 2009 and 2020, so it is very likely that it is them:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Li Baoyuan: <a href="https://zh-cn.shenyunperformingarts.org/artists/view/article/e/tQIEajYbB_s/李宝圆.html" class="bare">https://zh-cn.shenyunperformingarts.org/artists/view/article/e/tQIEajYbB_s/李宝圆.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Li Baoman: <a href="https://zh-cn.shenyunperformingarts.org/artists/view/article/e/Aw5bu_PdeNI/李宝满.html" class="bare">https://zh-cn.shenyunperformingarts.org/artists/view/article/e/Aw5bu_PdeNI/李宝满.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Li Hui (AKA Li Donghui) younger brother</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>father: Li Dan</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>mother: Lu Shuzhen. <a href="http://wap.uuhomepage.com/StaticWapPages/20161013/20161013062741097.html" class="bare">http://wap.uuhomepage.com/StaticWapPages/20161013/20161013062741097.html</a> claims that she died on 2016-08-24 in New York. TODO find a decent report.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are also claims that Li’s birth name was Li Lai (李來).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sources:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#benjamin-penny-the-religion-of-falun-gong-2012">The Religion of Falun Gong by Benjamin Penny (2012)</a> gives further family members (some of them are based only on CCP sources however):</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://kknews.cc/zh-hk/news/bbmz49.html" class="bare">https://kknews.cc/zh-hk/news/bbmz49.html</a> on <a href="#kknews">kknews (pro-CCP media)</a> claims to contain the biography of Li Hongzhi’s family (likely all according to CCP sources), including several good pictures: The photo given there for Li Jun appears on this apparently FLG source without mention of the name: <a href="https://www.epochweekly.com/b5/103/5805.htm" class="bare">https://www.epochweekly.com/b5/103/5805.htm</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Li_Hongzhi_with_wife_and_daughter.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Li Hongzhi with wife and daughter" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 137. Li Hongzhi with his wife Li Rui and daughter Li Meige presumably in the late 80’s with fishing ships in a shipyard in the background. TODO location. Likely from CCP sources, in many places with <a href="#chinese-government-media">kaiwnd</a> watermarks. <a href="http://www.toppk.net/art/2016/3/9/art_7328_304365.html">Anti-FLG source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Li_Meige_Shenyun.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Li Meige Shenyun" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 138. Photo of Christina Li from Shen Yun, which the CCP claims to be Li Meige, daughter of Li Hongzhi. That page also claims that she was awarded Bronze in the 2009 and 2010 NDT Chinese Dance Competition. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121211022246/zh-cn.shenyunperformingarts.org/artists/biography/view/WG3gbBQudOg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="diaries-of-being-in-thailand-with-li-hongzhi-s-family"><a class="anchor" href="#diaries-of-being-in-thailand-with-li-hongzhi-s-family"></a><a class="link" href="#diaries-of-being-in-thailand-with-li-hongzhi-s-family">8.18.5.6. Diaries of being in Thailand with Li Hongzhi’s family (我与李洪志一家在泰国的日子——法轮功教主妹夫的自述)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>An alleged account of Li Hongzhi’s family in the 1980’s written by his brother-in-law Sun Senlun (Natawut Smittipong, 孙森伦), who married Li Ping.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>ISBN 9789996590252: <a href="https://www.cp1897.com.hk/product_info.php?BookId=9789996590252" class="bare">https://www.cp1897.com.hk/product_info.php?BookId=9789996590252</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is reproduced likely without copyright on many CCP sources, e.g.: <a href="http://lihongzhidaqidi.blogspot.com/2013_09_27_archive.html" class="bare">http://lihongzhidaqidi.blogspot.com/2013_09_27_archive.html</a> which links to <a href="#kaiwind">Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)</a>'s HTML reproduction.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The <a href="#kaiwind">Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)</a> links are all dead now, but they are all still visible under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191230124120/http://lihongzhidaqidi.blogspot.com/2013_09_27_archive.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20191230124120/http://lihongzhidaqidi.blogspot.com/2013_09_27_archive.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is a good reading if you take everything with a grain of salt, does sound quite believable.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191230151939/http://news.kaiwind.com/features/s/201309/27/t20130927_1121750.shtml" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20191230151939/http://news.kaiwind.com/features/s/201309/27/t20130927_1121750.shtml</a> claims that Li lived in Sun’s house in Thailand from May 1991 to March 1992. And that he was baffled when Li started telling the miraculous events of his <a href="#li-hongzhis-hagiography">hagiography</a> in the 1992 public talks, how could his wife never told him about any of those amazingly important life events before that point?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO find original publishing location and date.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This appears to be an interview with Sun Senlun about the book: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js0OyNwYw5A" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js0OyNwYw5A</a> (watermarked <a href="#kaiwind">Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)</a> on top)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Semi weirdly though, <a href="https://www.cesnur.org/2001/falun_jan10.htm" class="bare">https://www.cesnur.org/2001/falun_jan10.htm</a> claims that Senlun was a coordinator of Falun Gong in Thailand as of 2001.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2020/1/16/原北京师大研究生陶渊在浙江第四监狱遭受的迫害-399012.html" class="bare">https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2020/1/16/原北京师大研究生陶渊在浙江第四监狱遭受的迫害-399012.html</a> from 2020 by <a href="#minghui">Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> claims the book slanders Li Hongzhi’s family, and that the CCP forced prisoners to read it.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="dragon-springs"><a class="anchor" href="#dragon-springs"></a><a class="link" href="#dragon-springs">8.18.5.7. Dragon Springs (龙泉, Falun Gong’s headquarters in New York State)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Li Hongzhi’s Falun Gong complex in New York state countryside, where he lives, and organizes <a href="#shen-yun">Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/4bqt18CSBmFSekw89" class="bare">https://goo.gl/maps/4bqt18CSBmFSekw89</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Started in the 2000’s in New York State with money donated by believers.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.dragonsprings.org/" class="bare">http://www.dragonsprings.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dragon-springs-falun-gong-upstate-new-york-compound-photos-2019-9" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/dragon-springs-falun-gong-upstate-new-york-compound-photos-2019-9</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1999 <a href="https://apnews.com/420a741ec19c4db3993d408747874b2d" class="bare">https://apnews.com/420a741ec19c4db3993d408747874b2d</a> "Falun Gong US compound’s neighbors fret over expansion plans"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#china-daily">China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a> <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hqzx/2012-10/17/content_15825454.htm" class="bare">http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hqzx/2012-10/17/content_15825454.htm</a> claims that <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>'s appartment in 2012 was the number 136-08 on 59th avenue, Flushing, NY. <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/seeking-master-li-1.221547" class="bare">https://www.irishtimes.com/news/seeking-master-li-1.221547</a> confirms Flushing. Also mentions key 1999 lieutenant Erping Zhang, <a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?erpingzhang" class="bare">https://www.c-span.org/person/?erpingzhang</a> confirms with photo.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="qigong-fever"><a class="anchor" href="#qigong-fever"></a><a class="link" href="#qigong-fever">8.19. Qigong fever (气功热 , 1980’s)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong_fever" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong_fever</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>AKA Qigong Boom.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/26268612" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/26268612</a> 特异功能、法功灭火、铝锅传功……80年代的气功热究竟有多疯狂？ (How crazy was the Qi Gong boom after all?) on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="zhong-gong"><a class="anchor" href="#zhong-gong"></a><a class="link" href="#zhong-gong">8.19.1. Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Gong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Gong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华养生益智功" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华养生益智功</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A very similar religion to <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, that also emerged during the <a href="#qigong-fever">Qigong fever (气功热 , 1980’s)</a> of the '80s and '90s.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Zhong Gong was the second most sucessful Qigong Boom religion after Falun Gong.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The similarity of their imagery as seen from propaganda videos is striking. To <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>, this makes Zhong Gong a perfect example of why <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">FLG metaphysics is bullshit</a>: it is obvious that both Zhong Gong and Falun Gong and many others were just random dudes who took advantage of the Qigong fever to create their religions.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Their prophet is <a href="#zhang-hongbao">Zhang Hongbao (张宏堡)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interestingly, like <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> who is from <a href="#jilin">Jilin (吉林)</a>, Hongbao is also from the Northeast of China (<a href="#heilongjiang">Heilongjian Province (黑龙江省)</a>), there must be a reason why those Qi Gong movements come from that region.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Unlike Falun Gong however, Zhong Gong failed to branch the franchise out of China, and basically died out. Hongbao also died in a car crash in 2006 which didn’t help. Li Hongzhi however played smarter, and started branching abroad full force in 1996, he likely predicted that the crackdown was inevitale.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wikipedia says it reached 34 million followers in China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hongbao also has a more spicy history it seems, with sexual allegations and open political goals <a href="#flg-political">unlike Li Hongzhi, who hid his goals better</a>. Well played, Li, well played.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> maintains in <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a> that Falun Gong is of course extremely different from all of those other extremely similar Qi Gong religions. Zhong Gong is likely not mentioned by name, but it is also likely one of the main targets. E.g. in 1998 <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a> <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19980329L.html" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/19980329L.html</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dafa can’t be obtained lightly. For example, the diversity of cults and the number of false qigongs are large these days, and they lead people astray. Many people who are capable of cultivating get sucked into them, and some of them engage in suicide - it’s a mess.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>this is a perfect example of <a href="#uncanny-valley">Uncanny valley (恐怖谷理论)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Zhong Gong videos:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX72zfEP_zs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX72zfEP_zs</a> googd Zhong Gong playlist</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYH8Y_1UmrY&t=1445" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYH8Y_1UmrY&t=1445</a> Zhong Gong people "experience sharing". It truly is exactly like Falun Gong.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GxSJK9c-A" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GxSJK9c-A</a> this appears to be positive mainstream media coverage of Zhong Gong</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ziluy_AlEI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ziluy_AlEI</a> video of Hongbao giving a lecture dated 1994 and commented "Qiling kylin Tianhua culture"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQKCtPSfdR4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQKCtPSfdR4</a> video dated January 21st, 2007 of Monks praying after his death</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvJSzeY7Chw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvJSzeY7Chw</a> contains a bunch of what appear to be extremely low quality Zhong Gong propaganda videos. It is very similar to Falun Gong’s of course.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The embassy spokesman says Chinese officials have ample evidence of sect leader Zhang Hongbao’s involvement in crimes such as rape and murder.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Zhong_Gong_lotus.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Zhong Gong lotus" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 139. Zhang Honbao, creator of <a href="#zhong-gong">Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a>, sitting on a giant flying lotus reaching Enlightenment with a halo. It looks <a href="#li-hongzhi-lotus">exactly like Falun Gong imagery</a>. But of course, Zhong Gong is just a "completely unrelated and inferior sect" according to <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>. TODO transcribe. <a href="https://blog.boxun.com/hero/201102/tianhuaren/1_1.shtml">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="zhong-gong-blue" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Zhong_gong_blue.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Zhong gong blue" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 140. The blue background, the halos, the praying hands, the master Zhang Hongbao flying above. It is just exactly like <a href="#flg-blue">Falun Gong imagery</a>. <a href="https://www.chinacourt.org/article/detail/2018/08/id/3475129.shtml">Source</a> (<a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a>)</div>
</div>
<div id="flg-blue" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Falun_Gong_sky_leaflet.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Falun Gong sky leaflet" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 141. Hungarian <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> propaganda image with woman meditating in with blue sky background for comparison with <a href="#zhong-gong-blue">similar Zhong Gong imagery</a>. <a href="https://hu.faluninfo.eu/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Zhong_Gong_vs_Falun_Gong_lotus.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Zhong Gong vs Falun Gong lotus" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 142. Side by side comparison between <a href="#zhong-gong">Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a> on the left, and <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> on the right. In <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s opinion, nothing highlights better that both are fake than the fact that they are clearly part of the same historical movement of the Qigong Boom, while at the same time affirming that the other one is fake or inferior.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="uncanny-valley"><a class="anchor" href="#uncanny-valley"></a><a class="link" href="#uncanny-valley">8.19.1.1. Uncanny valley (恐怖谷理论)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/恐怖谷理论" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/恐怖谷理论</a></p>
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<h5 id="zhang-hongbao"><a class="anchor" href="#zhang-hongbao"></a><a class="link" href="#zhang-hongbao">8.19.1.2. Zhang Hongbao (张宏堡)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Hongbao" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Hongbao</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/张宏堡" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/张宏堡</a></p>
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<p>Prophet of <a href="#zhong-gong">Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a>, just like <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> is the prophet of <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="xiang-gong"><a class="anchor" href="#xiang-gong"></a><a class="link" href="#xiang-gong">8.19.2. Xiang Gong (香功, 中国芳香智悟气功, Qigong religion)</a></h4>
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<p>This was possibly the third most popular Qi Gong of the <a href="#qigong-fever">Qigong fever (气功热 , 1980’s)</a> after <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> and <a href="#zhong-gong">Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a>. It is mentioned for example at <a href="#the-falungong-phenomenon-by-hu-ping-2003">The Falungong Phenomenon by Hu Ping (2003)</a>.</p>
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<p>Literal translation:</p>
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<p>Fragrant Gong</p>
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<p>China Fragrang Wisdom Comprehension Gong</p>
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<p>It is however so obscure that there isn’t even a wikipedia page for it anymore!</p>
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<p>The prophet’s name was Tian Ruisheng (田瑞生). He’s the old due at: <a href="https://www.sohu.com/a/270132785_100279655" class="bare">https://www.sohu.com/a/270132785_100279655</a> with little badges on his coat. He can be seen lecturing for example at: <a href="https://youtu.be/ItAUwGWSXuI?t=167" class="bare">https://youtu.be/ItAUwGWSXuI?t=167</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some mentions in English:</p>
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<p><a href="https://taijiclub.live/2020/05/09/xiang-gong-the-fragrant-mind-awakening-qigong/" class="bare">https://taijiclub.live/2020/05/09/xiang-gong-the-fragrant-mind-awakening-qigong/</a> Xiang Gong: The Fragrant Mind Awakening Qigong (2020) Interesting quote:</p>
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<pre>Basically, the origin of this qigong comes from Master Tian Ruisheng. Master Tian Ruisheng was taught this as a ill young boy by a traveling buddhist monk. He was told to practice it every day and not reveal it until 50 years later. He diligently practiced and eventually taught it after 50 years. It quickly became a popular qigong in China.</pre>
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<p>This is exactly the type of "Creation Story" that <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> invented. Notably, it is not something he just made up to take advantage of the obvious <a href="#qigong-fever">Qigong fever (气功热 , 1980’s)</a>. No, it is something that he developped his entire life, and only started teaching at that point due to a coincidence!</p>
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<p>This is notably highlighted in <a href="#diaries-of-being-in-thailand-with-li-hongzhi-s-family">Diaries of being in Thailand with Li Hongzhi’s family (我与李洪志一家在泰国的日子——法轮功教主妹夫的自述)</a>. Li’s sister just casualy never mentioned to her husband that her brother had been having mystical training for several years, until he finally announced it in the early days of <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>.</p>
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<p>In Tian’s case however, he is truly really old. This is possibly a major reason why he didn’t get as big as Falun Gong. It is terribly discriminatory, but who wants to look at an old ugly dude? Especially when he’s likely teaching stuff that is supposed to cure diseases. <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> and</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2000/05/chinese-crackdown-goes-beyond-falun-gong.aspx" class="bare">https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2000/05/chinese-crackdown-goes-beyond-falun-gong.aspx</a> Chinese Crackdown Goes Beyond Falun Gong (2000) mentions <a href="#zhong-gong">Zhong Gong (中功, 中华养生益智功, Qigong religion)</a> and <a href="#xiang-gong">Xiang Gong (香功, 中国芳香智悟气功, Qigong religion)</a>. Says it is from AP News, but I can’t find the original. But the language does look "AP-like".</p>
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<p>China’s entirely state-run media and the government have trumpeted the crackdown on Falun Gong. Thousands of practitioners have been detained since it was outlawed in July in the campaign against what the government says is an evil cult.</p>
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<p>But authorities refuse to talk about the clampdown on other qi gong organizations, and state media have all but ignored it. So far the campaign has affected at least five groups, practitioners, government sources and human rights organizations say.</p>
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<p>The other groups, even smaller, are mentioned in the article next:</p>
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<p>Cibei Gong (慈悲功, Compassion Gong). Possible Chinese name mentioned at: <a href="http://www.chinanews.com/2001-02-22/26/72398.html" class="bare">http://www.chinanews.com/2001-02-22/26/72398.html</a> 武汉侦破“法轮功”的变种慈悲功 (Wuhan investigates Falun Gong variant Cibei Gong) from a <a href="#pro-chinese-government-media">Pro-Chinese government media (pro-CCP media)</a>. The word for variant is the same as for "mutation", which brings funnily <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a> to mind.</p>
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<p>Guo Gong (国功, Country Gong). Not even the patriotic name was able to prevent crackdown!</p>
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<p>Bodhi Gong. TODO fins Chinese.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be1e20.html" class="bare">https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be1e20.html</a> also mentions some of them.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Some mentions in Chinese:</p>
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<p>on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a>:</p>
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<ul>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/76604171" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/76604171</a> 香功是什么？为什么国家要禁止习练香功？ (What is Xiang Gong? Why did the country [China] forbit practicing Xiang Gong?) by 吴庆元. Mentions the <a href="#flg-medication">Falun Gong believers are less likely to take necessary medication (法轮功信徒不太可能服用必要的药物)</a> argument, but it is from a pro-Qi Gong writter in general.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/24006657" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/24006657</a> 香功是邪教吗？ (Is Xiang Gong an Evil Cult?)</p>
</li>
</ul>
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</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.sohu.com/a/270132785_100279655" class="bare">https://www.sohu.com/a/270132785_100279655</a> 我们回顾一下80/90年代所谓的"大师" (Looking back at the so-called "Masters" of the 80s/90s) on <a href="#sohu">Sohu (搜狐, smaller Chinese Google)</a></p>
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</ul>
</div>
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<p>In other languages:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Zcgk15kkc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Zcgk15kkc</a> Treinamento Perfumado Nível 1 (Xianggong) completo (Complete Xiang Gong training, level 1 complete) by Maria Lucia Lee (2017)</p>
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<p>This is the YouTube channel of a Brazillian Xianggong parcticionner.</p>
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<p>This reminded <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> of a Qigong/Taichi course he went to for a few months when he was a young teenager in Santos, Brazil, attended almost exclusively by older ladies.</p>
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<p>Some people, even outside China, like "mystic stuff", and may start a mystic stuff practice, more or less affiliated to a certain current of mysticism.</p>
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<p>Especially since people know nothing about any of the currents, partly due to the language barrier, it often becomes a larger more dilluted current os mysticisms.</p>
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<p>The same likely applied to that course Ciro attended, but at the time he was clueless and didn’t really classify his teacher’s influences.</p>
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<p>Ciro must say however, that some of the exercises were good, and have become a permanent part of Ciro’s <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/cirodance">Cirodance</a>.</p>
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<p>The only thing Ciro rejects completely is the metaphysical bullshit: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-believe-in-or-practice-falun-gong">Does Ciro Santilli believe in or practice Falun Gong? (三西猴信仰或者练法轮功吗？)</a>.</p>
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<p>Though if something has a lot of metaphysical bullshit, it makes it hard for Ciro to practice it without thinking about the metaphysics.</p>
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<p>Maria speaks perfect Portuguese, and given the name Lee she must be a second or later generation immigrant. She’s likely from Sao Paulo. Here’s a video of her in the 70’s: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPlwdb5iIw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPlwdb5iIw</a> when she was likely in her late 30’s, already as a Qigong teacher.</p>
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<p>Mystical movements like that likely had a decent following in Brazil, especially in the 70’s linked to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie">Hippies</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/嬉皮士">嬉皮士</a>). Ciro’s mother mentioned some related stories of her friends.</p>
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<p>At <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COOnUMwHD_Q/" class="bare">https://www.instagram.com/p/COOnUMwHD_Q/</a> for example</p>
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</li>
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<h3 id="falun-gong-bibliography"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong-bibliography"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong-bibliography">8.20. Falun Gong bibliography (法轮功参考书目)</a></h3>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Chinese-government-against-Falun-Gong" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Chinese-government-against-Falun-Gong</a> on <a href="#quora">Quora</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/23988890" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/23988890</a> at <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.orange-papers" class="bare">https://www.orange-papers</a> further developed at: <a href="#flg-cult">Is Falun Gong a cult? (法轮功是邪教吗？)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<h4 id="the-falungong-phenomenon-by-hu-ping-2003"><a class="anchor" href="#the-falungong-phenomenon-by-hu-ping-2003"></a><a class="link" href="#the-falungong-phenomenon-by-hu-ping-2003">8.20.1. The Falungong Phenomenon by Hu Ping (2003)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/berkley-center/040127HuFalunGongPhenomenon.pdf" class="bare">https://s3.amazonaws.com/berkley-center/040127HuFalunGongPhenomenon.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Published on the China Rights Forum from <a href="#hric">Human Rights in China (organization, HRIC, 中国人权)</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="me-and-li-by-ben-hurley-2017"><a class="anchor" href="#me-and-li-by-ben-hurley-2017"></a><a class="link" href="#me-and-li-by-ben-hurley-2017">8.20.2. Me and Li by Ben Hurley (2017)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://medium.com/@Ben_D_Hurley/-10677166298b" class="bare">https://medium.com/@Ben_D_Hurley/-10677166298b</a> "Me and Li" by Ben Hurley published on October 23, 2017.</p>
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<p>This post by a former believer gives what <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> feels is a realistic account that matches Ciro’s observations.</p>
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<p>Interesting quotes:</p>
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<p><a href="#me-and-li-tumor">[me-and-li-tumor]</a></p>
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<p>The following echoes <a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a>:</p>
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<p>Most would find they had little in common with non-practitioners ("ordinary people" in Falun Gong parlance) but would maintain cordial relations with friends and family nonetheless, and think of various ways to explain the edge off some of Falun Gong’s less palatable teachings about aliens, how heaven views gay people, the inferiority of other religions and Master Li’s role in saving the universe.</p>
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<h4 id="history-of-falun-gong"><a class="anchor" href="#history-of-falun-gong"></a><a class="link" href="#history-of-falun-gong">8.20.3. History of Falun Gong 法轮功历史</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Falun_Gong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Falun_Gong</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法輪功歷史" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法輪功歷史</a></p>
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<p>A few non-religious non-CCP resources can be found at:</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Falun_Gong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Falun_Gong</a></p>
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<p>Sun Senjun’s accounts from the 1980’s, see: <a href="#li-hongzhis-family">Li Hongzhi’s family (李洪志的家庭)</a></p>
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</ul>
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<p>but those are very rare, because where else would the information come form, right?</p>
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<p>Some key events:</p>
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<p>1989: initial private beta courses. TODO key interesting moment.</p>
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<p>1992-05-13: initial public lecture at the 1992 International Health Exposition in Beijing, and opening main academy on No. 5 Middle School in Changchun, <a href="#jilin">Jilin (吉林)</a> (capital).</p>
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<p>TODO what did he talk about on that Beijing day. This day still celebrated in 2020 as <a href="https://en.minghui.org/cc/36/">"Falun Dafa Day"</a>, in which the major international "<a href="#orange-papers">Experience Sharing</a> Conference" happens in New York.</p>
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<p>He apparently also taught at Chaoyang Park in Changchun: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/BFwKs2xr48AMUAbx8" class="bare">https://goo.gl/maps/BFwKs2xr48AMUAbx8</a></p>
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</li>
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<h5 id="benjamin-penny-the-life-and-times-of-li-hongzhi-2003"><a class="anchor" href="#benjamin-penny-the-life-and-times-of-li-hongzhi-2003"></a><a class="link" href="#benjamin-penny-the-life-and-times-of-li-hongzhi-2003">8.20.3.1. The Life and times of Li Hongzhi by Benjamin Penny (2003)</a></h5>
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<p>Free to read at: <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20059033" class="bare">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20059033</a></p>
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<h5 id="benjamin-penny-the-religion-of-falun-gong-2012"><a class="anchor" href="#benjamin-penny-the-religion-of-falun-gong-2012"></a><a class="link" href="#benjamin-penny-the-religion-of-falun-gong-2012">8.20.3.2. The Religion of Falun Gong by Benjamin Penny (2012)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0226655016" class="bare">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0226655016</a></p>
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<p>A freely downloadable paper with a subset of the book: <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20059033.pdf" class="bare">https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20059033.pdf</a></p>
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<p>The author: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Penny" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Penny</a> is an Australian researcher, <a href="https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/penny-bdc" class="bare">https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/penny-bdc</a></p>
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<h2 id="christianity"><a class="anchor" href="#christianity"></a><a class="link" href="#christianity">9. Christianity (基督教)</a></h2>
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<p>The commies are not a fan. But as someone once told me: the commies are not a fan of a bunch of things!</p>
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<p>As mentioned at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China</a> there are only a few state approved churches under total CCP control, and the others are forbidden. For example one of them is called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Patriotic_Catholic_Association">Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association</a>! God and CCP on the same sentence. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII">Pope Pius XII</a> excommunicated people from that organization who were appointing new Bishops!</p>
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<p>2021-04-01 from <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a> <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/christians-camps-04012021081013.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/christians-camps-04012021081013.html</a> "Chinese Christians Held in Secretive Brainwashing Camps: Sources", due to report of victim under the pseudonyum Li Yuese (李约瑟) from Sichuan. No strong corroboration however unfortunately. Chinese article 2021-03-11 <a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shehui/ql2-03312021045450.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shehui/ql2-03312021045450.html</a></p>
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<p>2018-12 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzWApdCNdik" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzWApdCNdik</a> "100 Christians detained in China crackdown" published by CNN</p>
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<p>2016 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/world/asia/china-zhejiang-christians-pastor-crosses.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/world/asia/china-zhejiang-christians-pastor-crosses.html</a> pastor 14 years jail</p>
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<p>2015 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/christians-in-china-feel-full-force-of-authorities-repression/2015/12/23/7dd0ec5a-a736-11e5-b596-113f59ee069a_story.html" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/christians-in-china-feel-full-force-of-authorities-repression/2015/12/23/7dd0ec5a-a736-11e5-b596-113f59ee069a_story.html</a></p>
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<div class="title">Figure 143. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2018-09 cartoon showing Jesus and the Apostles in the Last Supper being arrested by CCP guards. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/china-crackddown-Christianity-cartoon-09072018150421.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 144. Cartoon by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Hongtu">Zhang Hongtu</a> (张宏图) showing <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a> and other communist officials at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper">Last Supper</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/最后的晚餐">最后的晚餐</a>) instead of Jesus and the Apostles. <a href="https://musicandculture.blogspot.com/2010/03/massive-last-supper-parodies-post.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 145. Permission papers filled to the brim with government <a href="#seal">stamps</a> required for the Taihu Catholic Church (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/華莊天主堂">太湖天主堂</a>) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxi">Wuxi</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/无锡市">无锡市</a>) to hold their annual Christmas <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Réveillon">Reveillon</a> reunion. This is the <a href="#ccp">CCP</a>'s version freedom of religion and freedom of assembly. Also mentioned at: <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/christmas-was-not-allowed-but-brought-china-a-lot-of-money/" class="bare">https://bitterwinter.org/christmas-was-not-allowed-but-brought-china-a-lot-of-money/</a> from <a href="#bitter-winter">Bitter Winter (寒冬)</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/ZhangZhulin/status/1342211279633719296">Source</a>. TODO original social media post from the church.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Church_demolition.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Church demolition" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 146. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lampstand_Church">Golden Lampstand Church</a> (<a href="https://www.dw.com/zh/山西临汾金灯台教堂被强拆/a-42114625">金灯台教堂</a>) church in <a href="#shanxi">Shanxi Province (山西省)</a> being demolished in January 2018. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-authorities-demolish-christian-mega-church-in-crackdown-2018-1">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/wthHB3iTC7M?t=556" class="bare">https://youtu.be/wthHB3iTC7M?t=556</a> Nazi Jew deleted scene from <a href="#life-of-brian-1979">Life of Brian (布莱恩的一生, 1979)</a>. If you want to stop <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a>, don’t put them in jail like the <a href="#dictatorship">dictators</a>. Do it the same way you stop dictators: with <a href="#funny">comedy</a>. Otherwise, the dictators remain in power, and <a href="#intolerance">next person in jail, will be you</a>. <a href="#the-secret-life-of-brian-2007">The secret Life of Brian (2007)</a> is a good documentary about it.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/tRr_1U9EvWI" class="bare">https://youtu.be/tRr_1U9EvWI</a> "How China uses intimidation, negotiation to bring Christians under its control" by CBC News: The National (2018). Talks about the Pope’s deal with the CCP. Shows some good footage of a house church with a guard in front of the door.</div>
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<h3 id="ccp-vatican-deal"><a class="anchor" href="#ccp-vatican-deal"></a><a class="link" href="#ccp-vatican-deal">9.1. CCP-Vatican deal (中共-梵蒂冈协议, 2018)</a></h3>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Holy_See_relations" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Holy_See_relations</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Holy_See_relations#September_2018_Holy_See–China_Agreement" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Holy_See_relations#September_2018_Holy_See–China_Agreement</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華人民共和國與梵蒂岡關係" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中華人民共和國與梵蒂岡關係</a></p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In January 2018, the Church was close to negotiating a deal with China that allows China to have more control over the underground churches and allows the Vatican to have more control over the appointment of bishops. While this did not amount to the establishment of formal diplomatic ties, this was seen as a huge step towards formal recognition.[21] However, Joseph Zen Ze-kiun regarded the warming of diplomatic relationships as selling out the Catholic Church in China, as the process involves the resignation of several bishops of the underground church.</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-09-17 <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/17/china-francis-vatican/" class="bare">https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/17/china-francis-vatican/</a> China Is Already Breaking Its Vatican Deal</p>
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<p>2020-11-24 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/24/pope-says-for-first-time-that-chinas-uighurs-are-persecuted" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/24/pope-says-for-first-time-that-chinas-uighurs-are-persecuted</a> "Pope says for first time that China’s Uighurs are 'persecuted'"</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 147. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2018-09 cartoon showing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis">Pope Francis</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方濟各_(教宗)">方济各教宗</a>) with a Christian cross containing the Hammer and Sickle communist symbol, in reference to one of the accords that the Vatican struck with the Chinese government. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/vatican-china-cartoon-09282018102133.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<h3 id="eastern-lightning"><a class="anchor" href="#eastern-lightning"></a><a class="link" href="#eastern-lightning">9.2. Eastern Lightning 全能神教會 (1991-)</a></h3>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Lightning" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Lightning</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/全能神教會" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/全能神教會</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>A persecuted Christian sect that believes that some Chinese woman is Jesus.</p>
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<h2 id="kaifeng-jews"><a class="anchor" href="#kaifeng-jews"></a><a class="link" href="#kaifeng-jews">10. Kaifeng Jews (开封犹太人)</a></h2>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews#Recent_repression" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews#Recent_repression</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/开封犹太人" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/开封犹太人</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<p>Even with such tiny community, the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> is still trying to pretende they never existed.</p>
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<h2 id="gay-rights"><a class="anchor" href="#gay-rights"></a><a class="link" href="#gay-rights">11. Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a></h2>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yes, gay people are also <a href="#evil-west">discriminated to different degrees in Western countries</a>, and even legally prohibited notably in the Islamic world.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>But <a href="#intolerance">like all minorities</a>, they are generally more fucked in <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorships</a>, since they can be easily crushed by majorities.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Therefore, all gay people must be against the CCP.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
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<ul>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_China</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国LGBT权益" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国LGBT权益</a></p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国同性恋史" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国同性恋史</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/各地LGBT权利" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/各地LGBT权利</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/370080866/answer/1046195468" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/370080866/answer/1046195468</a> at <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#gay-putin">Gay Putin (Гей Путин, 2017)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>2023: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-lgbt-center-shutdown-a5643c680e1faf5c8a7a7d9bdd627d6f" class="bare">https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-lgbt-center-shutdown-a5643c680e1faf5c8a7a7d9bdd627d6f</a> Beijing LGBT Center shuttered as crackdown grows in China</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-07-07 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-wechat-deletes-university-lgbt-accounts-2021-07-07/" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-wechat-deletes-university-lgbt-accounts-2021-07-07/</a> "China’s Wechat deletes university LGBT accounts" on <a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a></p>
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<li>
<p>2021-06-22 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ying_(footballer" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ying_(footballer</a>,<em>born_1993)[Li Ying] (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李影" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李影</a></em>(足球运动员)[李影]), Chinese female footbaler, comes out as lesbian</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://supchina.com/2021/06/25/chinese-soccer-stars-history-making-coming-out-moment-ruined-by-homophobic-bigots/" class="bare">https://supchina.com/2021/06/25/chinese-soccer-stars-history-making-coming-out-moment-ruined-by-homophobic-bigots/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<p>2020-08-14 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3097377/shanghai-pride-cancelled-after-11-years-blow-lgbt-community" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3097377/shanghai-pride-cancelled-after-11-years-blow-lgbt-community</a> "Shanghai Pride cancelled after 11 years in blow to China’s LGBT community". "
Organisers are 'taking a break from scheduling any future events', they say in social media message".</p>
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<p>the Tweet: <a href="https://twitter.com/ShanghaiPride/status/1293897794919510016" class="bare">https://twitter.com/ShanghaiPride/status/1293897794919510016</a> "上海骄傲节终止所有活动" (Shanhai Pride will be stopping all activities)</p>
</li>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Pride" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Pride</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-01-07 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/why-china-raising-prospect-same-sex-marriage-n1109471" class="bare">https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/why-china-raising-prospect-same-sex-marriage-n1109471</a> "Why is China raising the prospect of same-sex marriage?"</p>
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<li>
<p>2018 <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> temporary homosexual ban:</p>
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<p>2018-04-16 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/china-weibo-bans-homosexual-content-protest" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/china-weibo-bans-homosexual-content-protest</a> "China’s Weibo reverses ban on 'homosexual' content after outcry", hashtags <code>#iamgay</code> and <code>#iamgaynotapervert</code></p>
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<li>
<p>2018-04-13 <a href="https://www.whatsonweibo.com/weibos-new-online-guidelines-no-homosexuality-allowed/" class="bare">https://www.whatsonweibo.com/weibos-new-online-guidelines-no-homosexuality-allowed/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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</li>
<li>
<p>2017-07-16 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-40610679" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-40610679</a> "Chinese gay video ban sparks online backlash"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-06-30 <a href="https://www.whatsonweibo.com/new-rules-online-videos-china-no-displays-homosexuality/" class="bare">https://www.whatsonweibo.com/new-rules-online-videos-china-no-displays-homosexuality/</a> "New Rules for Online Videos in China: "No Displays of Homosexuality""</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016-03-04 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/04/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/04/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship</a> "China bans depictions of gay people on television". One of the most prominent series banned was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addicted_(web_series)">Addicted (2016, 上瘾)</a>.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Addicted_bed.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Addicted bed" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 148. Widely distributed still from the Addicted 2016 series which was banned showing a presumably gay couple lying in bed. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/04/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship">Source</a>.</div>
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</li>
</ul>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tiananmen_lesbian_kiss.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tiananmen lesbian kiss" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 149. Lesbian couple kissing in <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square</a> with Mao’s painting and confused/disgusted guards in the background who are likely about to call their superiors to ask what they should do. The photo likely surfaced in 2006 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200301224434/https://www.salon.com/2006/01/17/lesbians_china/">as mentioned</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(website)">salon.com</a> which said it came form <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing">Boing Boing</a>. It was not however picked up by any major website. Ciro actually thought this could have been ripped from some television series due to the amazing expression on the guards' faces. TODO: find the original Chinese source, translate the watermarks, and see if their identity is known. Another one can be seen at: <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1956753-fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism" class="bare">https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1956753-fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism</a> under the title "fully automated lesbians" which is a subset of "Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism". TODO origin. What is that uniform? <a href="http://www.chinatoday.com/entertain/tiananmen_kiss.htm">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Qing_Dinasty_gay_foreplay.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Qing Dinasty gay foreplay" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 150. <a href="#qing-dynasty">Qing Dynasty (清朝, 大清, 1636-1912)</a> (18th–19th c.) panel from a scroll showing two men engaging in foreplay, apparently located in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Institute">Kinsey Institute</a> as of 2005. For an ancient depiction of heterosexual sexual activity, see <a href="#jin-ping-mei">this image</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Love_play_in_China.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Lesbian_couple_Shanghai_30s.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Lesbian couple Shanghai 30s" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 151. Lesbian couple hugging in Shanghai in the 1930s. The woman on the left might have had polio based on the deformity of their right leg. TODO proper source, could not find one on Google reverse image search. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/muvkmu/a_lesbian_couple_embracing_posing_in_their_qipao/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="everyone-can-feel-that-a-profound-change-is-underway-by-li-guangman"><a class="anchor" href="#everyone-can-feel-that-a-profound-change-is-underway-by-li-guangman"></a><a class="link" href="#everyone-can-feel-that-a-profound-change-is-underway-by-li-guangman">11.1. Everyone can feel that a profound change is underway by Li Guangman (2021, 李光满《每个人都能感受到，一场深刻的变革正在进行！》)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Political essay reposted by major <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xinhua">Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a>: <a href="http://xinhuanet.com/politics/2021-08/29/c_1127807097.htm" class="bare">http://xinhuanet.com/politics/2021-08/29/c_1127807097.htm</a></p>
</li>
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<p><a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a>: <a href="http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0829/c1001-32211523.html" class="bare">http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0829/c1001-32211523.html</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The hole thing is about exerting greater state control on everything, a trend that has been observed as of August 2021, notably on the media.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The damning <a href="#gay-rights">Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a> sentence appears to be:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>彻底杜绝社会性格中的娘炮和小鲜肉现象，真正让娱乐圈、文艺圈、影视圈风正、气正</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which translates as:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Completely put an end to the phenomenon of sissies and teen idols in the social character, and truly make the entertainment, art, and film and television circles upright and upright.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>the slang keywords being:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
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<li>
<p>娘炮: sissy</p>
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<p>小鲜肉: teen idols (lit. little fresh meat)</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The author Li Guangman (李光满) was not notable enough yet to have a Wikipedia page, not even <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a>, so <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> for now: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/60685910" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/60685910</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It should be noted that the homophobia is just a tiny fraction of the essay, which is much more generally about the state taking more control over everything, including culture, and sparking fears of a second <a href="#cultural-revolution">Cultural Revolution (文化大革命, 1966-1976)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Corresponding official guidelines by the <a href="#national-radio-and-television-administration">National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA, 国家广播电影电视总局)</a> followed: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-radio-tv-body-strengthen-regulation-cultural-programmes-salaries-2021-09-02/" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-radio-tv-body-strengthen-regulation-cultural-programmes-salaries-2021-09-02/</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="womans-rights"><a class="anchor" href="#womans-rights"></a><a class="link" href="#womans-rights">12. Woman’s rights (妇女权利)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related <a href="#twitter">Twitter (推特)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/FeministChina" class="bare">https://twitter.com/FeministChina</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-09-22 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3149606/fears-china-missing-metoo-activist-and-labour-rights-campaigner" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3149606/fears-china-missing-metoo-activist-and-labour-rights-campaigner</a> Fears in China for missing #MeToo activist and labour rights campaigner.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Xueqin">Huang Xueqin</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃雪琴">黄雪琴</a>), profile <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3149606/fears-china-missing-metoo-activist-and-labour-rights-campaigner" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3149606/fears-china-missing-metoo-activist-and-labour-rights-campaigner</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-04-20 <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/19/china/china-feminists-silenced-intl-hnk-dst/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/19/china/china-feminists-silenced-intl-hnk-dst/index.html</a> "Chinese feminists are being silenced by nationalist trolls. Some are fighting back" mentions Liang Xiaomen, Xiao Meili and Zheng Churan</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="evil-man"><a class="anchor" href="#evil-man"></a><a class="link" href="#evil-man">12.1. Evil man (中国男性之恶)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/CNwoman-bot/evil-man" class="bare">https://github.com/CNwoman-bot/evil-man</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A fork from 2021-02-08 is visible at: <a href="https://github.com/wumaoland/evil-man" class="bare">https://github.com/wumaoland/evil-man</a> and tracked in-tree under this repository at: <a href="evil-man" class="bare">evil-man</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Archive of the github pages: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210225163949/https://cnwoman-bot.github.io/evil-man/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210225163949/https://cnwoman-bot.github.io/evil-man/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Question about it on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a>: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/361158296" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/361158296</a> 如何看待微博用户「索多玛-」建立的GitHub仓库「Evil Man - 中国男性之恶」？ (What do you think about the repository "Evil Man - Chinese Evil Man" created by <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> user "Sodom" (索多玛))?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related 2021 censored question about the larger phenomena it on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> <a href="http://www.zhihu.com/question/362285803" class="bare">http://www.zhihu.com/question/362285803</a> 如何评价热门女权文章《中国男性之恶》？ (What do you think about the hot essay "Evil Chinese Man"?). No archives found however. The title can be seen as a link from <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/361158296" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/361158296</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>GitHub appears to be the original source according to <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/624360.html" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/624360.html</a> from <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="metoo"><a class="anchor" href="#metoo"></a><a class="link" href="#metoo">12.2. MeToo</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement#China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement#China</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Label: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ametoo+">metoo</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Women seem to have had difficulty in expressing themselves due to <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>, unsurprisingly.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Zhou Xiaoxuan v. TV anchor Zhu Jun. Pseudonym Xianzi</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Liu Jingyao v. billionaire Liu Qiangdong</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Zou Sicong and He Qian v. Deng Fei</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/NGOMeToo/NGOMeToo.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/NGOMeToo/NGOMeToo.github.io</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="peng-shuai"><a class="anchor" href="#peng-shuai"></a><a class="link" href="#peng-shuai">12.2.1. Peng Shuai (tennis player, 2021 Zhang Gaoli sexual assual allegations, 彭帅)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Shuai#Sexual_assault_allegation_and_disappearance" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Shuai#Sexual_assault_allegation_and_disappearance</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/彭帅" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/彭帅</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/25TLW" class="bare">https://archive.ph/25TLW</a> on The New York Times</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="labour-rights"><a class="anchor" href="#labour-rights"></a><a class="link" href="#labour-rights">13. Labour rights (劳工权益)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One more case where <a href="#censorship-makes-it-harder-to-solve-social-problems">Censorship makes it harder to solve social problems (审查制度使解决社会问题变得更加困难)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They key problem seems to be that you cannot freely establish a trade union without government approval, so you not as well represented as an employee.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The same general line that applies to any organization: every movement has to be government approved.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021 Mengzhu TODO Chinese name. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/984994360/he-tried-to-organize-workers-in-chinas-gig-economy-now-he-faces-5-years-in-jail" class="bare">https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/984994360/he-tried-to-organize-workers-in-chinas-gig-economy-now-he-faces-5-years-in-jail</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-06-09 Protests held after it was announced that Nanjing University (C9 league, China’s Ivy League) would be merged with a vocational institute (much much less prestigious)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57409218" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57409218</a> Normal University’s Zhongbei College</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>scuffle videos</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7QMLGmfO8U" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7QMLGmfO8U</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmndJO9_ayk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmndJO9_ayk</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1A9n-bGPFo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1A9n-bGPFo</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-03-02 Chen Tianhe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210623101950/https://en.appledaily.com/article/EK4WOQBICNEGDFP2SSG7ZJ3PGI/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210623101950/https://en.appledaily.com/article/EK4WOQBICNEGDFP2SSG7ZJ3PGI/</a> (<a href="https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20210301/KM2MXDHHXRAQHFB4MYFU6XOFTY/">Chinese version</a>) "Chinese food delivery worker detained after campaigning for labor rights":</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese authorities have detained a worker after he advocated for fair pay and other labor rights from his former employer, the food delivery giant Ele.me.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chen Tianhe (陳天河) has not been heard from since he was detained on Feb. 25, according to mainland Chinese media reports.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020 City Dream film (城市梦) Weijun Chen’s (陈为军) lively new film documents the struggles of Wang Tiancheng, an elderly and cantakerous street vendor in Wuhan, China, whose business is threatened by the development of a new retail district.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021 <a href="http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007364" class="bare">http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007364</a> New Film Turns the Tables on China’s Infamous 'Chengguan' (城管)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>not censured in China:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/城市梦/23578924" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/城市梦/23578924</a> on <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/ent/2020-08/27/c_1126417894.htm" class="bare">http://www.xinhuanet.com/ent/2020-08/27/c_1126417894.htm</a> on <a href="#xinhua">Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="nine-nine-six-icu"><a class="anchor" href="#nine-nine-six-icu"></a><a class="link" href="#nine-nine-six-icu">13.1. 996.ICU (2019)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU" class="bare">https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Repository published in 2019-04 protesting against excessive work hours by Chinese programmers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At some point it moved its README to English.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This was not directly censored to our knowledge, but the fact that it was published on GitHub rather than Chinese social media highlights the obvious fact that Chinese programmers were weary of doing it under CCP controlled media which they do not trust.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The project name refers to:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"996": work from 9AM to 9PM 6 days a week. This is part of a wider tendency of Chinese netizens to use <a href="#internet-number-slang">Internet number slang (网络数字语言)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"ICU": <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_care_unit">Intensive Care Unit</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reached 180k stars in a week, and was the second most starred repository as of 2019-10 <a href="https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E100&s=stars&type=Repositories" class="bare">https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E100&s=stars&type=Repositories</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191023084929/https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E100&s=stars&type=Repositories">archive</a>)!!!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is therefore the best example for Chinese tech workers that <a href="#richer">freedom of speech is a good thing</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/b927sk/tencent_xiaomi_and_others_block_github_page/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/b927sk/tencent_xiaomi_and_others_block_github_page/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/b8t8cc/overworked_chinese_developers_gather_on_github_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/b8t8cc/overworked_chinese_developers_gather_on_github_to/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/formulahendry/955.WLB" class="bare">https://github.com/formulahendry/955.WLB</a> a whitelist version of 996 ICU. Good thoughts.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8wWoQ3_F00" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8wWoQ3_F00</a> The Extreme 996 Work Culture in China by VICE (2021)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/wumaoland/Chengdu-IT-company-blacklist" class="bare">https://github.com/wumaoland/Chengdu-IT-company-blacklist</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other interesting GitHub repositories: <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/996ICU.png" loading="lazy" alt="996ICU" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 152. 996.ICU logo. <a href="https://github.com/996icu">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="jasic"><a class="anchor" href="#jasic"></a><a class="link" href="#jasic">13.2. Jasic Workers Solidarity Group (佳士工人声援团, 2018)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasic_Workers_Solidarity_Group" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasic_Workers_Solidarity_Group</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#yue-xin">Yue Xin (岳昕)</a> was also involved with them.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Yue_Xin_Jasic_shirt.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Yue Xin Jasic shirt" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 153. <a href="#yue-xin">Yue Xin (岳昕)</a> with the Jasic <a href="#t-shirt">T-shirt</a>. That T-shirt is official to the movement, and can be seen worn by many other people in other photos. TODO what does their T-shirt say??? It is impossible to decode that beautiful script. Looks like: 伺伭就X刀量. And who are the people it depicts? A perfectly clean image can be seen on their Twitter: <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1033004258184941569/2pcCgIUK_400x400.jpg" class="bare">https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1033004258184941569/2pcCgIUK_400x400.jpg</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="jasic-incident"><a class="anchor" href="#jasic-incident"></a><a class="link" href="#jasic-incident">13.2.1. Jasic incident (佳士事件)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasic_incident" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasic_incident</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/佳士事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/佳士事件</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="yue-xin"><a class="anchor" href="#yue-xin"></a><a class="link" href="#yue-xin">13.3. Yue Xin (岳昕)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/sikaozhe1997/Xin-Yue" class="bare">https://github.com/sikaozhe1997/Xin-Yue</a> is a <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a> with an open letter by student activist:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Xin_(activist)">Yue Xin</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/岳昕">岳昕</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nchrd.org/2019/01/yue-xin" class="bare">https://www.nchrd.org/2019/01/yue-xin</a> on <a href="#chinese-human-rights-defenders">Chinese Human Rights Defenders (中国人权捍卫者)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#yue-xin-open-letter">岳昕-致北京大学师生和北大外国语学院的一封公开信 (An open letter to the teachers and students of Peking University and the School of Foreign Languages of Peking University by Yue Xin)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>about the events described at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200104064812/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/world/asia/china-metoo-gao-yan.html">"China’s #MeToo: How a 20-Year-Old Rape Case Became a Rallying Cry"</a> she accuses professor Shen Yang of the Peking University Chinese literature of raping student Gao Yan, ultimately leading to her suicide in 1998:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://sikaozhe1997.github.io/Xin-Yue/#/岳昕：致北京大学师生和北大外国语学院的一封公开信.md" class="bare">https://sikaozhe1997.github.io/Xin-Yue/#/岳昕：致北京大学师生和北大外国语学院的一封公开信.md</a> Chinese original</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>reproduced: at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/许章润-愤怒的人民已不再恐惧.md" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/许章润-愤怒的人民已不再恐惧.md</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/sikaozhe1997/Xin-Yue/blob/master/letter.md" class="bare">https://github.com/sikaozhe1997/Xin-Yue/blob/master/letter.md</a> in-tree translation "Yue Xin: An open letter to the students and academic staff of Peking University and the PKU School of Foreign Languages"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-04 <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/04/translation-open-letter-on-peking-university-metoo-case/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/04/translation-open-letter-on-peking-university-metoo-case/</a> "TRANSLATION: OPEN LETTER ON PKU #METOO CASE" by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This was one of the starting points of <a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The letter was also apparently embedded into the <a href="#bitcoin-blockchain">Ethereum blockchain</a> according to <a href="https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship-111795" class="bare">https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship-111795</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yue was also involved with <a href="#jasic">Jasic Workers Solidarity Group (佳士工人声援团, 2018)</a>. An all-round activist.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="yue-xin-open-letter"><a class="anchor" href="#yue-xin-open-letter"></a><a class="link" href="#yue-xin-open-letter">13.3.1. 岳昕-致北京大学师生和北大外国语学院的一封公开信 (An open letter to the teachers and students of Peking University and the School of Foreign Languages of Peking University by Yue Xin)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/岳昕-致北京大学师生和北大外国语学院的一封公开信.md" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/岳昕-致北京大学师生和北大外国语学院的一封公开信.md</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="politicians"><a class="anchor" href="#politicians"></a><a class="link" href="#politicians">14. Chinese politicians (中国政治家)</a></h2>
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<h3 id="xi-jinping"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping">14.1. Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a></h3>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/习近平" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/习近平</a></p>
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<p>Unicode Art, possible source: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ASCII_Archive/comments/ejui7b/winnie_the_pooh/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ASCII_Archive/comments/ejui7b/winnie_the_pooh/</a> brought to attention at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/231#issuecomment-949659614" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/231#issuecomment-949659614</a>:</p>
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<p>Bibliography:</p>
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<p><a href="https://evchk.wikia.org/zh/wiki/習近平" class="bare">https://evchk.wikia.org/zh/wiki/習近平</a></p>
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</ul>
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<h4 id="xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">14.1.1. Xi Jinping abolishes term limits (习近平取消国家主席任期限制, 2018-03)</a></h4>
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<p>包子露宪 <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/03/phrase-week-steamed-bun-betrays-constitution" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/03/phrase-week-steamed-bun-betrays-constitution</a> by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-term-limit-explainer.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-term-limit-explainer.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20180312/china-xi-jinping-term-limit-explainer/" class="bare">https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20180312/china-xi-jinping-term-limit-explainer/</a></p>
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</ul>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_sleep_Mao.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi sleep Mao" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 154. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> cartoon showing Xi Jinping preparing to sleep in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Mao_Zedong">Mao Zedong’s tomb</a>, meaning that Xi also wants to reach Mao’s "eternal ruler" status when he abolished term limits in 2018. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/XiJinping-Eternity-cartoon-02282018104813.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Mao_coffin.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Mao coffin" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 155. 1977 photo showing Mao’s actual glass tomb during his funeral, with famous politicians in the background. It is interesting to see that Mao <a href="https://mummipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Mao_Zedong">features on the "Fandom Mummipedia Wiki"</a>. <a href="https://apnews.com/a94a0d7a824b474fb11545e8c4481c21">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Lets_party_like_its_1793.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Lets party like its 1793" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 156. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist">The Economist</a> "Let’s party like it’s 1793" cover from May 4th – 10th 2013 depicting a painting of Xi Jinping dressed as emperor of China. The famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianlong_Empero">Qianlong Emperor</a> was in power at that time. The title is likely a joke based on the more well known <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/party-like-its-1969-woodstock-forty-years-on-1722695.html">"Let’s party like it’s 1969"</a> due to the legendary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock">Woodstock festival</a>. Party is also a play on words between the Communist Party and a night party. TODO why 1793 specifically shows another one from Sep 28, 2020 by French Magazine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Obs">l’Obs</a> entitled "L’Éternel Empire" (The Eternal Empire), using a similar picture to: <a href="#ciro-santilli-as-qing-emperor">Ciro Santilli as Qing Emperor</a>. <a href="https://www.cafeyn.co/uk/publication/l-obs-hors-serie/21640297" class="bare">https://www.cafeyn.co/uk/publication/l-obs-hors-serie/21640297</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/329929668155293696">Source</a>.</div>
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<h5 id="letter-n"><a class="anchor" href="#letter-n"></a><a class="link" href="#letter-n">14.1.1.1. Letter "N" censorship (N字母被封了, 2018)</a></h5>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/01/asia/china-letter-ban-trnd/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/01/asia/china-letter-ban-trnd/index.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.dw.com/zh/修改宪法呼之欲出-审查措施变本加厉/a-42919779" class="bare">https://www.dw.com/zh/修改宪法呼之欲出-审查措施变本加厉/a-42919779</a></p>
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</ul>
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<h4 id="panama-papers"><a class="anchor" href="#panama-papers"></a><a class="link" href="#panama-papers">14.1.2. Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/巴拿馬文件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/巴拿馬文件</a></p>
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<p>Leak of financial data implicating <a href="#corruption">many corruption scandals</a>.</p>
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<p>Most notable people implicated:</p>
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<p><a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> through his brother-in-law <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Jiagui">Deng Jiagui</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/邓家贵">邓家贵</a>).</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Qinglin">Jia Qinglin</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/贾庆林">贾庆林</a>), fourth in Chinese power from 2003 to 2013, through:</p>
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<p>Jasmine Li (李紫丹), his granddaughter</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Pak-tam">Li Pak-tam</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李伯潭">李伯潭</a>), his son-in-law</p>
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<p><a href="#li-peng">Li Peng (李鹏, 1988-1998)</a> through his daughter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Xiaolin">Li Xiaolin</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李小琳">李小琳</a>)</p>
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<p><a href="#bo-xilai">Bo Xilai (薄熙来, 2007-2012)</a> through his associate <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-bo-devillers-idUSBRE84E0HA20120515">Patrick Henri Devillers</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Yunshan">Liu Yunshan</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/刘云山">刘云山</a>), politburo 2012-2017, through his daughter-in-law Jia Liqing</p>
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<p>See also <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-net-worth-of-Xi-Jinping/answer/Ciro-Santilli">What is the net worth of Xi Jinping?</a> answer on <a href="#quora">Quora</a>.</p>
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<h5 id="foreign-citizenship-of-xi-jinping-s-family"><a class="anchor" href="#foreign-citizenship-of-xi-jinping-s-family"></a><a class="link" href="#foreign-citizenship-of-xi-jinping-s-family">14.1.2.1. Foreign citizenship of Xi Jinping’s family (习近平家族外籍人士)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="#li-hongzhi">Cult leaders</a> hate having <a href="#li-hongzhis-family">their families examined</a>. So let’s do it.</p>
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<p>TODO confirm: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/c20xf3/almost_every_members_in_president_xis_family/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/c20xf3/almost_every_members_in_president_xis_family/</a> from <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a>. Seems fake.</p>
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<p>One Redditor <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/c20xf3/almost_every_members_in_president_xis_family/ergsu6v/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">translated</a>:</p>
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<p>Xi’s eldest sis - Canadian</p>
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<p>Xi’s 2nd sis - Australian</p>
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<p>Xi’s younger bro - Australia</p>
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<p>Xi’s daughter - American. Really???</p>
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<p>Hu’s daughter - American</p>
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<p>Jiang’s grandchild - American</p>
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<p>Deng’s son - American</p>
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<p>Deng’s grandchild - American</p>
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<p>Mao’s grandchild - American</p>
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<h6 id="xi-mingze"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-mingze"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-mingze">14.1.2.1.1. Xi Mingze (Xi Jinping’s daughter, 习明泽)</a></h6>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Mingze" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Mingze</a>
<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/习明泽" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/习明泽</a></p>
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<p>Went to Harvard from 2010 to 2014 under pseudonym, apparently Xiao Muzi (小木子).</p>
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<p>The news was apparently broken in 2012 by the UK tabloid Daily Mail: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2234651/Xi-Jinping-Chinas-new-Princess—​daughter-Communist-president-studying-quietly-Harvard.html" class="bare">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2234651/Xi-Jinping-Chinas-new-Princess—​daughter-Communist-president-studying-quietly-Harvard.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-mingze-harvard-article-goes-viral-2012-11" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-mingze-harvard-article-goes-viral-2012-11</a> mentions:</p>
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<p>The Chinese elite is no doubt keen to avoid questions about how exactly Xi Jinping can afford his daughters fees. Officially, his salary is less than $13,000 a year, and Xi’s circle has been remarkably cagey about reports of his family’s true wealth before.</p>
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<p>plus 24-hour bodyguards. <a href="#panama-papers">Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016)</a> comes to mind.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/How-did-President-Xi-Jinping-send-his-daughter-to-Harvard-on-a-salary-of-well-under-20k-a-year-at-the-time" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/How-did-President-Xi-Jinping-send-his-daughter-to-Harvard-on-a-salary-of-well-under-20k-a-year-at-the-time</a> How did President Xi Jinping send his daughter to Harvard on a salary of well under $20k a year at the time?</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/How-did-Xi-Jinpings-daughter-get-into-Harvard" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/How-did-Xi-Jinpings-daughter-get-into-Harvard</a> How did Xi Jinping’s daughter get into Harvard?</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/xi-mingze-16091.php" class="bare">https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/xi-mingze-16091.php</a> says birthday June 27, 1992.</p>
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<p><a href="https://answersafrica.com/meet-xi-mingze-xi-jinpings-daughter-is-she-married-where-is-she-now.html" class="bare">https://answersafrica.com/meet-xi-mingze-xi-jinpings-daughter-is-she-married-where-is-she-now.html</a> gives some public appearances, e.g. in New York in 2018.</p>
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<h4 id="xi-jinping-memes"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping-memes"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping-memes">14.1.3. Xi Jinping memes (习近平模因)</a></h4>
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<p>Master issue: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/231" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/231</a></p>
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<p>Other images:</p>
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<p>2022 <a href="https://twitter.com/Stalingrad_Poor/status/1493620788703862784/photo/1" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Stalingrad_Poor/status/1493620788703862784/photo/1</a> good template with <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>, <a href="#putin">Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)</a> and <a href="#north-korea">Kim Jong-un</a> smkirking on the phone from when Trudeau has smashing down on <a href="#covid">anti vaccince protests</a></p>
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<p>2021 <a href="https://twitter.com/1X1G3Lr7pBe1AJR/status/1438984816267915265/photo/1" class="bare">https://twitter.com/1X1G3Lr7pBe1AJR/status/1438984816267915265/photo/1</a> with phone reserved photoshop</p>
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<p>See also: <a href="#shitpost">I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子)</a>.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_photoshopped_as_The_Joker.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping photoshopped as The Joker" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 157. <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> photoshopped as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(character)">The Joker</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小丑_(角色)">小丑</a>). Would have been perfect with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/22/ren-zhiqiang-who-called-chinese-president-a-clown-jailed-for-18-years">2020-09-22 Ren Zhiqiang - who called Chinese president a 'clown' - jailed for 18 years</a>, see also: <a href="#corruption">Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少)</a>. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/m04q0p/乌合麒麟新作一尊小丑/">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jiang_Hu.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jiang Hu" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 158. <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>, <a href="#jiang-zemin">Jiang Zemin (江泽民, 1989-2002)</a> and <a href="#hu-jintao">Hu Jintao (胡锦涛, 2002-2012)</a> photoshopped on top of a clothing advertisement (TODO original). The text reads: "江胡险恶 习以为常". TODO understand. 江胡 are the surnames of <a href="#jiang-zemin">Jiang Zemin (江泽民, 1989-2002)</a> and <a href="#hu-jintao">Hu Jintao (胡锦涛, 2002-2012)</a>. 习 is the surname of; <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>. "习以为常" is a fixed expression that means "to get accustomed to". Also asked at: <a href="https://www.mohu.rocks/question/573" class="bare">https://www.mohu.rocks/question/573</a> on <a href="#mohu">Mohu (膜乎)</a>, and explained at: <a href="https://www.secretchina.com/news/gb/2003/12/03/56236.html" class="bare">https://www.secretchina.com/news/gb/2003/12/03/56236.html</a> from <a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/BeqB38ldjIu5acT/status/1377094062063292418">Source</a></div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Biden_sanctions_vs_Xi_Jinping_tech_crackdown_2021.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Biden sanctions vs Xi Jinping tech crackdown 2021" height="700">
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<div class="title">Figure 159. Meme impliying that <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>'s 2021 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-01/china-tech-crackdown-communist-party-policy-changes-behind-1-trillion-selloff">tech crackdown</a> was much mroe destructive to the Chinese economy than <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/the-biden-administrations-china-sanctions-dilemma/">contemporary economic sanctions imposed by United States president Biden</a>. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pb5ft2/meme_xis_successive_series_of_economically/">English source</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/xijinpingqindie/status/1429480173938745348">Chinese source</a>, meme template <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeTemplatesOfficial/comments/dlla95/man_hold_man_a_knifepoint_an_then_someone_shoots/">by Joan Cornella</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 160. <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-what-she-said">That’s what she said</a> Xi Jinping meme, is a pun on words between Xi and She.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 161. Xi waiting for outgoing chief executive CY Leung, "president" of Hong Kong between 2012 and 2017, at a hotel, in 2017. The image was immediately likened to supervillain or criminal boss movies and use by <a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a> protesters, e.g. <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidJWat/status/880333206473420800" class="bare">https://twitter.com/DavidJWat/status/880333206473420800</a> likens it to a Jams Bond villain. <a href="https://qz.com/1018919/hong-kong-handover-memes-making-fun-of-chinese-president-xi-jinping-and-his-wife-cy-leung-and-others" class="bare">https://qz.com/1018919/hong-kong-handover-memes-making-fun-of-chinese-president-xi-jinping-and-his-wife-cy-leung-and-others</a></div>
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<h5 id="xi-jinping-nicknames"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping-nicknames"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping-nicknames">14.1.3.1. Xi Jinping nicknames (习近平昵称)</a></h5>
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<p>習包子: <a href="https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29230" class="bare">https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29230</a> says:</p>
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<p>Xi Jinping got his nickname as "Xi baozi 習包子" ("<a href="#buns">steamed stuffed bun Xi</a>") due to the much publicized visit he made to the famous Qìngfēng bāozi pù 庆丰包子铺 ("Qingfeng baozi shop") in Beijing. During and after his visit to the shop, media swarmed over the place and were eager to portray an image of Xi as being down to earth and close to the people. Those who dislike Xi use this nickname sarcastically against him for being a hick and for hypocritically "putting on a show" (zuòxiù 作秀).</p>
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<p>See also: <a href="#buns">Chinese buns 包子 (bao1 zi)</a>.</p>
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<p>大撒币: <a href="https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29230" class="bare">https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29230</a> says:</p>
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<p>It can be translated as "big spender," a play on the literal translation of the words sā bì 撒币 "throw money" and "stupid cunt" (shǎ bī 傻逼). The nickname takes aim at the economic aid Xi has promised to foreign countries; the moniker is so widely used on Chinese social media that the censors' repressive measures only draw more attention to it, and to the criticism embedded within it.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmnnd/adolf-xitler-banned-nicknames-for-chinas-president-exposed-in-leaked-censor-list" class="bare">https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmnnd/adolf-xitler-banned-nicknames-for-chinas-president-exposed-in-leaked-censor-list</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/小红书审查百科：习近平敏感词库" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/小红书审查百科：习近平敏感词库</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/w2qvwj/adolf_xitler_among_500_banned_nicknames_for/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/w2qvwj/adolf_xitler_among_500_banned_nicknames_for/</a></p>
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<p>习躲躲</p>
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<p>中国的新皇帝</p>
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<p>这个年很静</p>
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<p>习近平光辉形象</p>
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<p>官僚主义</p>
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<p>第一书记王沪宁</p>
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<p>《生物安全法》</p>
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<p>细颈瓶</p>
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<p>xdd</p>
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<p>XDD</p>
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<p>粪坑先生</p>
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<p>Mr Shithole</p>
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<p>屎進瓶</p>
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<p>shit侯</p>
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<p>习侯</p>
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<p>屎侯</p>
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<p>习老八</p>
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<p>shit禁评</p>
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<p>屎禁评</p>
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<p>维尼·屎(Winnie the Poo)</p>
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<p>次级乳包</p>
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<p>习三拍</p>
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<p>吸精瓶</p>
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<p>维尼史</p>
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<p>维尼写史</p>
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<p>维尼DISCO</p>
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<p>人民领袖</p>
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<p>邪大大</p>
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<p>大撒币</p>
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<p>冤大头</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>傻大头</p>
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<p>匪酋习维尼</p>
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<p>习和谐</p>
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<p>习禁评</p>
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<p>习包子</p>
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<p>我是一个足球迷</p>
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<p>人均接近八千万</p>
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<p>亲自指挥疫情</p>
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<p>疯狂宇宙</p>
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<p>维尼连任</p>
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<p>秦城监狱</p>
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<p>包子金刚腿</p>
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<p>读书单</p>
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<p>闹得欢</p>
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<p>拉清单</p>
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<p>足球外交</p>
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<p>人尽皆知的体育迷</p>
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<p>坡涛汹涌</p>
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<p>梁家河</p>
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<p>清华毕业</p>
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<p>庆丰称帝</p>
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<p>禁评封号</p>
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<p>不强自息</p>
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<p>满脸喷粪</p>
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<p>通商宽衣</p>
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<p>不同意的举手 没有 没有</p>
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<p>10号跳跳虎被维尼拉清单</p>
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<p>维尼熊给跳跳虎黄牌</p>
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<p>法外狂徒Lucy（德国）</p>
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<p>乳透社 小反旗</p>
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<p>错误执行者</p>
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<p>大海掀翻小池塘</p>
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<p>头上三尺有神明</p>
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<p>裹嘎举吸钢闸门</p>
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<p>金科律玉</p>
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<p>颐使气指</p>
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<p>岿然不动</p>
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<p>格萨尔</p>
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<p>习包子的Fa</p>
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<p>修宪</p>
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<p>游泳一千米</p>
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<p>NMSL</p>
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<p>孙笑川</p>
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<p>时间控制</p>
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<p>御板泽民</p>
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<p>祈翠</p>
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<p>习卒</p>
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<p>习二卒</p>
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<p>习卒习</p>
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<p>每日祈翠</p>
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<p>口罩大会</p>
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<p>“无罩”现身</p>
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<p>智商不重要</p>
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<p>64岁</p>
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<p>你是反贼吗</p>
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<p>习皇帝</p>
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<p>习包子</p>
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<p>朝令夕改</p>
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<p>亲自指挥</p>
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<p>百万雄师事件</p>
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<p>720事件</p>
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<p>塔西佗陷阱</p>
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<p>第22条军规</p>
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<p>中国爱非洲</p>
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<p>迈克尔·索伊</p>
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<p>毛装</p>
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<p>厕所革命</p>
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<p>大撒币</p>
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<p>超邓赶毛</p>
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<p>一带一路</p>
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<p>骑巨龙</p>
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<p>野心习</p>
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<p>习张三丰</p>
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<p>武当七侠的政治斗争</p>
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<p>指定接班人</p>
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<p>vop</p>
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<p>维尼之声</p>
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<p>Voice of Pooh</p>
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<p>纳翠党</p>
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<p>总书记来我家</p>
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<p>日子像蜜甜</p>
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<p>隔离”的金葫芦</p>
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<p>维尼大帝</p>
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<p>一天游泳一千米</p>
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<p>主席贺词</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>捐麦子</p>
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<p>大大招牌</p>
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<p>大大品牌</p>
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<p>不知名氏</p>
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<p>战“疫”金句</p>
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<p>二百五大帝</p>
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<p>皇帝梦</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>2020全面小康</p>
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<p>没有网络安全就没有国家安全</p>
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<p>“复辟”</p>
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<p>“登基”</p>
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<p>“黄袍加身”</p>
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<p>“皇帝梦”</p>
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<p>包子露宪</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>做N届的主席</p>
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<p>“登机”（与登基同音）</p>
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<p>“梦回大清”</p>
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<p>“习泽东”和“洪宪”（袁世凯的帝号）</p>
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<p>信女愿一生吃素</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>总书记来过我的家</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>习式病毒</p>
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<p>习“甩锅”</p>
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<p>大国造疫</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>大兔</p>
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<p>太祖兔</p>
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<p>国王</p>
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<p>宰相</p>
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<p>战疫国</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>甩锅侠</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>疫情蔓延</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>断崖式下跌</p>
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<p>两会期间+隐瞒</p>
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<p>形式主义防疫</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>武汉委托李克强</p>
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<p>万岁</p>
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<p>劝进</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>习语录</p>
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<p>习像章</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>梦回大清</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>主席+终身制</p>
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<p>动物庄园</p>
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<p>维尼熊</p>
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<p>平&强</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>尼哥</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>习得梁家书卷</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>阿道夫-习</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Adolf Xitler</p>
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<p>人民领袖</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>修宪连任</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>北红尾鸲</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>墙内人</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>颐指气使</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>称帝修宪</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>小学博士</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>老街</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>扛麦郎</p>
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<p>习包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>洗包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>戏包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>吸包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>喜包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>系包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>惜包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>嬉包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>袭包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>悉包皮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>嘻包皮</p>
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<p>20000T麦子</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>包包侠</p>
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<p>200吨</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>习奥赛斯库</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>恩维尔·霍习</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>仲夏夜之中国梦</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>習大佬</p>
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<p>包包大人</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>包大人</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>XD</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>V尼哥</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>野兽先辈</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>重地之战</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>人民战争</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>感恩教育</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>习家军</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>恩重如删</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>云视察</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>包帝巡游</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>视频看望</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>共哀宗</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>叩谢习恩</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>万岁来武汉</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>羽日帝</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>狙击手待命</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>皇帝亲临忠诚的武汉</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>狙击手布阵</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>视频看望</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>阳台上的哨兵</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>不敢高声语</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>恐惊天上人</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>万岁来武汉了</p>
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<p>假.."~bang！卒</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>共哀宗</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>叩谢习恩</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>万岁来武汉</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>羽日帝</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>狙击手待命</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>皇帝亲临忠诚的武汉</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>当皇帝的小丑</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>习皇的新装</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>讨习檄文</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>央视姓党</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>任大炮</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>十日文革</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>A Big Deal</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>皇帝的新衣</p>
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<p>通商宽衣</p>
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<p>孤独的毒王</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>没规划的葬礼</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>包惠帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中字头组长</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>4中组长</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习远凸</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习贼</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习王的田野上</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>SB包子</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>发皇帝梦</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>翡翠娘娘</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>親自蒞臨</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>親自視頻</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>大锅瞻遗</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁大犬</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>巴拿马文件</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>386系统驱动游戏</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中国特色射秽煮疫制度</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习公奭</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁二将</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>包子病毒</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>总统包子习</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>电脑世代586</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习背书</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习博士</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁二婚</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中国首席造梦大师</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习匪</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习匪帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>家业论</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>神明论</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>冰棒外交</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>坡涛汹涌</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>昆明湖涨潮</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>包子宪法</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>追思焦裕禄</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>红二代</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>武统时代</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>蹄防</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>口罩外交</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习一尊</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>禁评的理由</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>冲塔</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>无限连任</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>学包率</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>学包分子</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>学包积极分子</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>青年大学包</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>动森</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>动物之森</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>动物森友会</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>乳制品</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>乳包文化</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>赵弹</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>维尼梗有害</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Cicada 3301 XD</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>九评</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>退党</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>黄俄</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习包子</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习废帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>总加速师</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>倒车</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>electron8964</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习低能儿</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习犬犬</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>毛二世</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>瘟疫领主习近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>天安门合法继承人</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>东瘟疫之地统治者暨全境守护者</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>WHO的君王</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>瘟疫降生习近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Xi Factor（习近平因素）</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>抗麦套装</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁槑夶尛</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>氼兲嫑炛</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>九大诉求</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>公车上书</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>终身领导人</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>近身平A</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>世宗</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>支那毒王</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>枪毙名单</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习言乱语</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习语</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>近言</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>平话</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>包经</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>外交习语</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>终身领导人</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>近身平A</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>世宗</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>支那毒王</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>枪毙名单</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习言乱语</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习语</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>近言</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>平话</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>包经</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>外交习语</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习澳塞斯库</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁近乎</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>十一郎习近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>五毛主席</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>庆丰废物</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>半羽习近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>庆丰帝的千秋梦</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>基拉大和习近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>平平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>扛麦帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>宽衣帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>喷粪帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>清单帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>bingbang帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>法习斯</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>墨索里习</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中国离岸隐匿资产管理工作领导小组组组长</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中国拉清单工作领导小组组长</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>人类命运共同体首席架构师</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习时代</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>哲欣</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习Core</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习二胖 习三点</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习厉王</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习大</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习大乞</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习大帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习大郎</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习夶</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习奥塞斯库</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习宽衣</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习总</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习教父</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习梦思</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习梦撕</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习梦死</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习武帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习歪嘴</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习流氓</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习二坐船</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>现任匪首</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>支那精神野爹</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>头号球迷</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>夶</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>孢</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>崇祯</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>席近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>当代秦二世</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>当代秦 始皇</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>戏博士</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>截颈平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>慨撒大帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>新影帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>最后领导人</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>爱新觉罗·近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>末代皇帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>梦帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>毛二</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>毛孙</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>毛近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>毛进平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>毛魔转世</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>洗尽贫</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>独裁者</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>白猪</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>糟糕皇帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>红旗下的蛋</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>细瓶颈</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>维持会长</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>腊肉包</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>花花公子</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>袁世凯第二</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>役民五术</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>耀眼黄红黄</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>彩色熊</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>彩色哥</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>维尼挂彩</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>晚共昏君</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>字共狗</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>号屎洞</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>号尿壶公</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>小学居士</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习尿瓶</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>virus king</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>黑白翠</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>独彩者</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>裸宽包子劾心</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>赵王</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>送礼平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>鞋哥</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>食腐虫</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>崇祯帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>老歪脖子树</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>蔡英文最强助选</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>民进党 北京中南海支部书记</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>连专家也为之叹服的电脑天才</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>沼气专家</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>初二圣君</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>添宪宝宝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>戴口赵</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>书单吟诵者</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习二世胡亥</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>疯狂宇宙大帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习大林</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>近日成</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>胡志平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>阿平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>普近</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习达姆</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>卡近菲</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>禁评大帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>倒车帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>習敗敗</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>習敗北</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>猪禁评</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>宽衣撸绣单肩扛麦光腚拉碾歪脖撒币小学博士帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>倒车斯基</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>读稿机</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习正日</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习尔布特</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习条英机</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习索里尼</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>腊肉馅儿包子</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>灰习牛</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>疯狂宇宙包</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>川普的朋友or敌人</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>尊蛤讨包</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习猪头</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>背书单</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>专治各种不服</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>世界最强乞丐</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中国离岸隐匿资产管理工作领导小组组组长</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习大犬</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>西朝鲜人民自治岛</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>䒒(tiáo)菦(qín)苹(píng)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习核心</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习思想</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>东方project</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>吃赵弹</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>ChinaXi</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>亲自删评</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>亲自封号</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>赛禁评</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>集金pay</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>集金币</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>集近闭</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>shuu kinn pei</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>爱新觉罗近平</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习蛤</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>梁家河贵族</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>相信有神论的物理学博士</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习兵法</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>韦来书记</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁近猴</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>普习金</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>富平学霸刁斤干</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习进棺</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁斤山</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁斤二</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>庆丰包·勃列日涅夫</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁远山</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习猪席</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>毛二习</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>包禁评</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习总输记</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>领袖习澡水</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>核平全世界</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>彭主席（习主席走了太太接班）</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>包子兵法</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>冠子兵法</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>席子兵法</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习殡法</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习病法</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习下台</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>nmslman（习主席）</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Heil Xitler</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>那翠化</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习孢子</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>shit hole bing fa</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>粪坑兵法</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>灭共助推器</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习是春竹</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习是春绿</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习猪下台</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Corona Xi（习病毒）</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>维尼快乐组织（Winnie Happy Organization）简称WHO</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>坟头蹦迪</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习king</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习emperor</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习屎黄</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习瘟猪</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>小习微信</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁人13</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>赵人13</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>贬词包用</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>文明其精神</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>野蛮其体魄</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>野兽主席</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>亲自考察</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>亲自脱贫</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>糖尿维尼</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>维尼带货</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁人13</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>CoronaXi</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chairman Xi</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Criminal Xi "Xitler" Jinping</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习狍</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>玉习大帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>包皇</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习驴</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>赵付</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习付</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>撒币宝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>维尼警察（X）</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>维稳警察（O）</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>赵家家仆</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习太孑</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>刁后主</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习后主</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习 卡 巴 卡</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>儿童习典</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习二二（二零二零年五月二十二日开二会）</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习呆呆</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习二蛋</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>nmslese dream</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>維尼頌</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>帝皇頌</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>叼斤干</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习近砰</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>影子末帝</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>祈翠語言包</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>习习蛤蛤</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>大撒幣</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="xi-dada"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-dada"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-dada">14.1.3.1.1. Xi Dada (习大大, 2015)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Benevolent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification">personification</a> of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>. Part of the <a href="#ccp-cult">CCP cult (中共邪教)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2015-09-23 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-34338832" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-34338832</a> "Who is Xi Dada"?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That article comments on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnRo9AMT8FI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnRo9AMT8FI</a> "Who is Xi Dada?" by <a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a> (2015-09-23) in which several foreign students in China praise <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> in English. <a href="https://youtu.be/PnRo9AMT8FI?t=47" class="bare">https://youtu.be/PnRo9AMT8FI?t=47</a> notably states: "They also refer to him as <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Winnie-the-Pooh</a>". Priceless.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What does dada mean: <a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Xí-Jìnpíng-called-Xí-Dàdà" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Xí-Jìnpíng-called-Xí-Dàdà</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some other sources:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2015-03-08 <a href="https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20150308/c08xi/" class="bare">https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20150308/c08xi/</a> ""习大大"再次燃起中国人的领袖崇拜之情" (Xi Dada reignties Chinese Leader’s cult once again)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_heart.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping heart" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 162. Golden heart shaped souvenir with a picture of Xi Jinping that was sold in <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square</a> in 2018. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/26/endowing-role-endless-rule-shows-xis-imperial-ambitions/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_Mao_Zedong_sculpture_souvenirs.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping Mao Zedong sculpture souvenirs" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 163. Souvenirs sold in Beijing with the bust of Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong circa 2020. TODO: what is the shape of those souvenirs meant to evoke? <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-negative-views-on-china-spike-polls-show-11614870001?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_dada.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi dada" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 164. Xi Jinping in 2019 wearing his cute compassionate face. Do you think that such a cute cute North-Westerner 东北人 would ever to terrible things like <a href="#xinjiang">committing cultural genocide of a million people</a> or <a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">trying to become ruler for life</a>? Impossible, it must be <a href="#evil-west">American lies</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="xi-jinping-lookalikes"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping-lookalikes"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping-lookalikes">14.1.3.2. Xi Jinping lookalikes (习近平撞脸)</a></h5>
<div id="xi-jinping-bdsm-cosplay" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_sadomasochist.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi sadomasochist" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 165. 2019-05-21 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism">Sadomasochist</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/虐戀_(性學)">虐恋</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM">BDSM</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM">zh</a>, SM) <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> lookalike or photoshop in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondage_suit">bondage suit</a> (gimp suit, fetish gear) at a cosplay fair. TODO: is this a Photoshop and if yes what’s the original pic, publish dates, location/event. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> googled a lot for it, but it was beyond his skills :-( Earliest post found so far: 2019-05-21 08:49:20 GMT+1 (Imgur timestamp) going wild on <a href="#ptt">PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a>: <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1558454171.A.5C9.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/joke/M.1558454171.A.5C9.html</a> entitled "這位coser是誰啊？好眼熟。" (Who is this Cosplayer? He looks familiar.) by user "a15568". Watermark reads "I am Dasen 郭", where "郭" is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo">a common Chinese surname</a>. Notable discussion threads: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ckgs5l/xi_jinping_took_to_the_streets_to_demonstrate_his/">r/China 2019-08-01</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ke4hde/nice_pic_i_found/">r/China 2020-12-16</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/ckjf65/gee_i_am_sure_chairman_xi_will_really_appreciate/">2019-08-01</a></div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Mantou_Xi_lookalike.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Mantou Xi lookalike" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 166. 2020-01-01 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shengjian_mantou">Pan-fried dumpling</a> Xi Jinping lookalike (生煎包习近平撞脸). Furthermore, this reminded people of <a href="#xi-jinping-memes">習包子</a>. A <a href="#taiwan">Taiwanese</a> report from 2020-01-01: <a href="https://news.tvbs.com.tw/world/1257030" class="bare">https://news.tvbs.com.tw/world/1257030</a> TODO name, location. One of the many videos of him: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTt8Sjer6cc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTt8Sjer6cc</a></div>
</div>
<div id="liu-keqing-singer" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Liu_Keqing_singer_Xi_lookalike.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Liu Keqing singer Xi lookalike" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 167. 2020-05-12 Liu Keqing (刘克清) is an opera singer who had his personal videos on <a href="#tiktok">TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)</a> taken down from time to time because he looks too much like <a href="#xi-jinping">The One</a>. <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2020/05/【立此存照】只因太像习近平？歌唱家刘克清形/">China Digital Times report</a>. One of his personal vlogs reuploaded to YouTube where he shared singing techniques and thoughts: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPFKUhJdqzk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPFKUhJdqzk</a>. A video of him performing professionally in a chamber concert: 2018-11-02 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z98-Mqci4ag" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z98-Mqci4ag</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Less good ones:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2014-06-23 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-27926747/meet-the-chinese-presidential-pancake-seller" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-27926747/meet-the-chinese-presidential-pancake-seller</a> "Shao Jianhua" TODO Chinese name, name of dish he sells. Too young and not fat enough.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/8221d7F8Uzc?t=145" class="bare">https://youtu.be/8221d7F8Uzc?t=145</a> in video from Stuart Wiggin, see also: <a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI0TFWJy1Ns" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI0TFWJy1Ns</a> Random scences from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/查理·卓别林">查理·卓别林</a>) film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator">The Great Dictator</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大独裁者">大独裁者</a>), in which <a href="#nazi">Hitler</a> has a Jewish lookalike.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lI0TFWJy1Ns?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="xi-jinping-porn"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping-porn"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping-porn">14.1.3.3. Xi Jinping porn (习近平色情)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is very interested in finding this!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good Photoshops:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xi-jinping-bdsm-cosplay">Xi Jinping BDSM at cosplay fair</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1613570-xi-jinping" class="bare">https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1613570-xi-jinping</a> Xi Jinping GIF photoshop tearing his shirt off AKA "Who you calling <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">winnie</a>"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://upload.hkgolden.media/comment/1jlodt1a.hrgaikqi1gd.p3gj2baklr0.vst.gif" class="bare">https://upload.hkgolden.media/comment/1jlodt1a.hrgaikqi1gd.p3gj2baklr0.vst.gif</a> at <a href="https://forum.hkgolden.com/thread/7410636/page/1" class="bare">https://forum.hkgolden.com/thread/7410636/page/1</a> massaging a penis from over underwear</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bad Photoshops:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/mX5HQOYk3go?t=45" class="bare">https://youtu.be/mX5HQOYk3go?t=45</a> bad Photoshop of adding a Xi Jinping face to a BDSM porn actor. TODO find image</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm38084556" class="bare">https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm38084556</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://club.6parkbbs.com/bolun/index.php?app=forum&act=threadview&tid=15759443" class="bare">https://club.6parkbbs.com/bolun/index.php?app=forum&act=threadview&tid=15759443</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hentai:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/junshiwaijiao/xl2-02112016111224.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/junshiwaijiao/xl2-02112016111224.html</a> 日本漫画家报复中国不尊重版权疑似毛泽东习近平成色情主角 (Japanese cartoonist revenges China for disrespect of copyright, suspected of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping as pornographic protagonist) by <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a>. Appears to be by artist Rin Sanada (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/真田鈴">真田鈴</a>) Part of the idea is that to prevent copyright infringement, you just use something that will be forbidden in China anyways!</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>TODO how to access it in full? Work name?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://disp.cc/b/163-9f5E" class="bare">https://disp.cc/b/163-9f5E</a> screenshot used on <a href="#ptt">PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.mohu.rocks/question/id-6851" class="bare">https://www.mohu.rocks/question/id-6851</a><em>sort_key-agree_count</em>sort-ASC screenshot used in a <a href="#mohu">Mohu (膜乎)</a> thread</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good possible video bases for usage in <a href="#xi-jinping-deepfakes">Xi Jinping deepfakes (习近平的deepfakes)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cache.hkgolden.media/compress/https://i.imgur.com/tiwgkCg.gif" class="bare">https://cache.hkgolden.media/compress/https://i.imgur.com/tiwgkCg.gif</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/gay-porn-meme" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/gay-porn-meme</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="winnie-the-pooh"><a class="anchor" href="#winnie-the-pooh"></a><a class="link" href="#winnie-the-pooh">14.1.3.4. Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Got censored due to comparisons between Xi Jinping and Winnie in 2017: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh#Censorship_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh#Censorship_in_China</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Thailand has their own version: <a href="#thai-king-hamtaro">Side-by-side comparison between Thai King Vajiralongkorn and Hamtaro. This is the Thai version of Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017). It has been used by protesters as part of the 2020 Thai protests. Left photo source.</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In <a href="#xi-dada">Xi Dada (习大大, 2015)</a> we see that a <a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a> video actually interviews someone who mentions that, so the meme has had a positive connotation at least some point in the past.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-06-07: Triple A game <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077">Cyberpunk 2077</a> developer used a "Winnie the Pooh" label internally to mark game content that needed to be censored for the Chinese release as shown by a source code leak</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>More precisely, the constant was named <code>Censor_WinnieThePooh</code>, with a comment <code>// China</code>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/nua4do/cdpr_seems_to_have_used_the_name_winnie_the_pooh/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/nua4do/cdpr_seems_to_have_used_the_name_winnie_the_pooh/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gamerant.com/cyberpunk-2077-winnie-the-pooh-china-source-code-leak/" class="bare">https://gamerant.com/cyberpunk-2077-winnie-the-pooh-china-source-code-leak/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.vg247.com/2021/06/08/cyberpunk-2077-winnie-the-pooh-china-censor/" class="bare">https://www.vg247.com/2021/06/08/cyberpunk-2077-winnie-the-pooh-china-censor/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some good photoshops:</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Pooh_Obama.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Pooh Obama" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 168. Comparison image between Xi Jinping waking with then USA president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a> with a Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon still of Winnie walking with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigger">Tigger, the tiger</a>. The original photo is from <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-09/obama2c-xi-forge-rapport-in-debut-summit/4742616">Xi’s 2013 visit to the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, California</a>. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/17/oh-bother-chinese-censors-block-winnie-pooh-meme-comparing-xi/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Abe_Pooh.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Abe Pooh" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 169. Comparison image between Xi Jinping shaking hands with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe">the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe</a> and a Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon still of Winnie shaking hands with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeyore">Eeyore, the donkey</a>. The original photo is from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/world/asia/leaders-of-china-and-japan-hold-long-awaited-meeting.html">Abe’s lacklustre 2014 visit to Beijing</a>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-winnie-the-pooh-film-to-stop-comparisons-to-president-xi">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Pooh_car.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Pooh car" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 170. Comparison image between Xi Jinping on a car in a 2015 military parade and a toy Winnie-the-Pooh on a car. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 171. Real photo of Xi Jinping edited to look like Winnie the Pooh. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dcabzh/this_image_of_xi_jiping_as_winnie_the_pooh_is/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmLUYCUYT0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmLUYCUYT0</a> "Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh Dancing to Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf" by TheFakening (2020). Deep fake of several girls wearing Winnie the Pooh clothes with a Xi Jinping face. The song choice "Bat Out of Hell" is a reference to <a href="#covid">COVID</a> because one of the theories is that the disease started in bats.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kHmLUYCUYT0?rel=0&start=57" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/QjQbQlN9Ev8?t=398" class="bare">https://youtu.be/QjQbQlN9Ev8?t=398</a> The original Winnie the pooh story from 1926 became public domain in 2022: <a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/01/05/what-winnie-the-pooh-lapsing-into-the-public-domain-really-means/" class="bare">https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/01/05/what-winnie-the-pooh-lapsing-into-the-public-domain-really-means/</a>. The Red shirt depiction is from 1932 however, and some key characters like Tigger are also from later years. Stephen Colbert made a Hemingway mashup, as one of Hemingway’s work also became public domain at that same point.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MilRo8zZM8A?rel=0&start=398" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<h5 id="chrysanthemium-xi-jinping"><a class="anchor" href="#chrysanthemium-xi-jinping"></a><a class="link" href="#chrysanthemium-xi-jinping">14.1.3.5. Chrysanthemium Xi Jinping (菊花习近平, 2015)</a></h5>
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<p>Got creator Dai Jianyong (戴建勇) arrested in 2015:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-artist-who-posted-funny-image-of-president-xi-jinping-facing-five-years-in-prison-as-10282630.html" class="bare">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-artist-who-posted-funny-image-of-president-xi-jinping-facing-five-years-in-prison-as-10282630.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/05/artist-detained-after-posting-humorous-photo-of-xi-jinping/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/05/artist-detained-after-posting-humorous-photo-of-xi-jinping/</a> by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chrysanthemum_Xi_Jinping_with_black_red_liusi_added_by_Ciro_Santilli.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Chrysanthemum Xi Jinping with black red liusi added by Ciro Santilli" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 172. Chrysanthemum <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> with <a href="#tiananmen">六四</a> spice added by Ciro Santilli</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 173. Original Chrysanthemum <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> by Dai Jianyong published in 2015. <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/05/artist-detained-after-posting-humorous-photo-of-xi-jinping/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 174. Possible original Xi Jinping photo used for Chrysanthemum Xi, possibly from 2012. The light blue gradient background was used for the official photos of many Communist officials of the era. <a href="https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112111,00.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<h4 id="xi-jinping-thought"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping-thought"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping-thought">14.1.4. Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a></h4>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Added to the Constitution in preparation for <a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">eternal rule</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>'s <a href="#little-red-book">Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book, 毛主席语录, 1976)</a>. But since it is the 21st century, there’s an app for it instead called "Study (for a) Strong Country" (学习强国) designed by <a href="#alibaba">Alibaba (阿里巴巴, Chinese Amazon clone)</a>:</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuexi_Qiangguo" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuexi_Qiangguo</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/学习强国" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/学习强国</a></p>
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<p>Online video version courtesy of <a href="#xinhua">Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a>: <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/xjpsxkj/index.html" class="bare">http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/xjpsxkj/index.html</a>. Contains <a href="#ccp-cult">devotional</a> videos, not text: <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/xjpsxkj/1.html" class="bare">http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/xjpsxkj/1.html</a></p>
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<p>Notably, it consists of 14 chapters, which are called "talks" (讲), e.g. the first talk (第一讲) etc. This is exactly like <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>'s <a href="#flg-canon">Zhuan Falun</a> (and likely like other ancient Chinese religious texts).</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Much of it can be considered a type of <a href="#newspeak">Newspeak (新语, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a>.</p>
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<h5 id="the-governance-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#the-governance-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#the-governance-of-china">14.1.4.1. The Governance of China (习近平谈治国理政)</a></h5>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping The Governance of China" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 175. <a href="#ccp-cult">Devotional</a> image of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> on the cover of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Governance_of_China">The Governance of China</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/习近平谈治国理政">习近平谈治国理政</a>, 2020) book which is part of <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a>. The similarity to <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a> devotional images <a href="#li-hongzhi-lotus">is striking</a>. Related: <a href="#xi-halo">Xi Jinping with a Halo edited in to make the obvious more obvious. The texts reads "习近平思想" (Xi Jinping Thought). Watermark reads "Gucci Minh @Laborwave", so presumably from https://www.instagram.com/laborwavedesigns/, but I didn’t have the patience to find the picture, but it very likey comes from there, a ton of great communist memes in that account. Source.</a>. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Governance-China-Xi-Jinping/dp/1602204098">Source</a>.</div>
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<h5 id="youth-learning"><a class="anchor" href="#youth-learning"></a><a class="link" href="#youth-learning">14.1.4.2. Youth Learning (青年大学习)</a></h5>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/“青年大学习”行动" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/“青年大学习”行动</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>2018 movement to get children to learn <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a>.</p>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="xi-jinping-thought-primary-school-textbook-2021"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping-thought-primary-school-textbook-2021"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping-thought-primary-school-textbook-2021">14.1.4.2.1. Xi Jinping Thought primary school textbook (2021, 习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想学生读本。小学高年级。)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Contains images showing <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> as a <a href="#ccp-cult">Cult leader</a>:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
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<li>
<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/iYhJZIG/" class="bare">https://imgur.com/a/iYhJZIG/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pg83eo/xis_new_era_primary_school_textbook/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pg83eo/xis_new_era_primary_school_textbook/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/oyue40/在哪里可以下载到习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想学生读本/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/oyue40/在哪里可以下载到习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想学生读本/</a> Where it can be downloaded</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60255031/习思想渗透中小学数万名思政课骨干接受培训" class="bare">https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60255031/习思想渗透中小学数万名思政课骨干接受培训</a> an official announcement, there are versions for various ages</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.pep.com.cn/rjdt/rjdt/202107/t20210710_1969221.shtml" class="bare">https://www.pep.com.cn/rjdt/rjdt/202107/t20210710_1969221.shtml</a> a possibly official announcement</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are different versions for different ages (小学、初中、高中、中职学校)</p>
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<h5 id="two-safegards"><a class="anchor" href="#two-safegards"></a><a class="link" href="#two-safegards">14.1.4.3. Two safegards (两个维护, 2018)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/兩個維護" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/兩個維護</a></p>
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<h5 id="community-with-shared-future-for-mankind"><a class="anchor" href="#community-with-shared-future-for-mankind"></a><a class="link" href="#community-with-shared-future-for-mankind">14.1.4.4. Community with shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体)</a></h5>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_with_shared_future_for_mankind" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_with_shared_future_for_mankind</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人类命运共同体" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人类命运共同体</a></p>
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</ul>
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<h5 id="xuexi-qiangguo"><a class="anchor" href="#xuexi-qiangguo"></a><a class="link" href="#xuexi-qiangguo">14.1.4.5. Xuexi Qiangguo app (Study for a strong country app, 学习强国, xxqg, 2019)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuexi_Qiangguo" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuexi_Qiangguo</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/学习强国" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/学习强国</a></p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://www.xuexi.cn/" class="bare">https://www.xuexi.cn/</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>App made by <a href="#alibaba">Alibaba (阿里巴巴, Chinese Amazon clone)</a> for the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> to teach people <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Literally means "study for a strong country".</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of the beautiful things about that name is that is reminds one of the <a href="#slang">expression</a> "强国人" (strong country person), coined in during the 2014 during the <a href="#hong-kong-protests-2014">2014 Hong Kong protests (Umbrella movement, 雨伞运动占领区)</a> to refer ironically to Mainland Chines people, due to their exaggerated self-perceived strength and superiority, see also <a href="#wumao-2011-vs-little-pink-2021">Wumao 2011 vs little pink 2021</a>. A homonym "墙国" (wall country) is also known as a reference to the <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a>, <a href="https://archive.ph/czYEv">sample usage</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The app appears to have both content, and also tests to check that you’ve read the bullshit.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>At <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mnulkd/china_is_forcing_chinese_to_use_national/gu05o20/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mnulkd/china_is_forcing_chinese_to_use_national/gu05o20/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3</a> a <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> user explains:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many people are also forced to use the app "强国学习" in order to keep their jobs. Especially government workers. They have to study XiJinPing thought for certain amount of time each week and do exams.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is confirmed e.g. at: <a href="https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/studies/voices-middle-east-asia/voices-from-east-asia/xuexi-qiangguo-%E2%80%93-digitalization-of-chinese-propaga.html" class="bare">https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/studies/voices-middle-east-asia/voices-from-east-asia/xuexi-qiangguo-%E2%80%93-digitalization-of-chinese-propaga.html</a></p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Within the first four months of Xuexi Qiangguo’s release, it was the most downloaded app in China with over 100 million downloads, surpassing China’s most popular messaging, social media and mobile payment app, <a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a> and the <a href="#tiktok">Chinese version of TikTok, known as Douyin</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>To use the app is not exactly voluntary. The Communist Party has issued directives that requires party members to download the app and use it. Many workplaces have done the same and it has been reported that employees are required to send screenshots to document their progress on the app. If they don’t, they are at risk of a pay deduction.</p>
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<p>To put it in perspective, over 90 million Chinese are members of the Communist Party, and there are nearly 850 million internet users and almost 690 million smart phone users in China, as of 2019. It is, however, not clear whether the people who have downloaded the app genuinely are interested in learning about Xi Jinping’s political ideology, or if they feel like they must download it to show loyalty to the party.</p>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="fuck-xuexiqiangguo"><a class="anchor" href="#fuck-xuexiqiangguo"></a><a class="link" href="#fuck-xuexiqiangguo">14.1.4.5.1. Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo (Fuck学习强国)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo" class="bare">https://github.com/fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This <a href="#github">GitHub</a> repository appears to help cheat the Xuexi qiangguo, see also: <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The program’s executable file name is actually <code>./Fuck学习强国</code>, a thing of beauty.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Several video demos can be found on YouTube:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahHzi1rGDfA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahHzi1rGDfA</a> "2021@学习强国辅助之Ai强国&科技强国" by Axiom Show shows the Android App</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOic-mYcwGA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOic-mYcwGA</a> "习近平的学习强国和fuck 学习强国 | 如何从github上获取fuck xuexiqiangguo | 如何使用fuck xuexiqiangguo" by "中国人每日秀 The Chinese Daily Show" (2019)</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And there there’s an anti-repo for <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> who oppose the cheating: <a href="https://github.com/boycott-fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Boycott-Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo" class="bare">https://github.com/boycott-fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Boycott-Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo</a> It had 150 stars as of 2021, as oppoesd to 7500 of the cheating repo.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/TechXueXi/TechXueXi" class="bare">https://github.com/TechXueXi/TechXueXi</a> appears to be a "non-cheating" assistant? TODO confirm. It is at the very least more politically correct.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The repository was created by Tang Wenzheng (唐文正, <a href="#github">GitHub</a> alias <a href="https://github.com/Xmader">Xmader</a>). <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/663593.html" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/663593.html</a> According to <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/663593.html" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/663593.html</a> form <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a>, he accidentally posted with his real name on an issue once (<a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> knows that it is basically impossible not to when juggling multiple accounts simultaneously), and subsequently publicly announced his true identity. Following the name reveal, he did an AMA on <a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a> <a href="https://2047.name/t/11552" class="bare">https://2047.name/t/11552</a>, and luckily he is abroad, and does not intend to come back. Wenzheng also created the <a href="https://github.com/china-digital-times/china-digital-times.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/china-digital-times/china-digital-times.github.io</a> <a href="#github">GitHub</a> pages mirror of <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a>, further discussed in that section. At <a href="https://github.com/fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo/issues/578" class="bare">https://github.com/fuck-xuexiqiangguo/Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo/issues/578</a> on 2021-03-03, he announced that he would stop working on the project because his parents weren’t needing the APP anymore, succession wasn’t announced. A few commits followed in the next days, but presumably minimal maintenance and ramp-down.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wenzheng was also involved in a notable possible copyright dispute with <a href="https://musescore.org/en" class="bare">https://musescore.org/en</a>, a software that Ciro actually enjoyed, as shown at <a href="https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882472815" class="bare">https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882472815</a> which was then highlighted at <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/onro8q/head_of_strategy_of_muse_group_muse_score/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/onro8q/head_of_strategy_of_muse_group_muse_score/</a>. At <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210719115639if_/https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210719115639if_/https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335</a> the developer noted that this could lead to Xmader’s deportation. Some interpreted this as threat, but Ciro feels that it might be true as the developers noted that they withheld action for a while to prevent his deportation.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related projects to cheat other stupid things imposed by the CCP’s bureaucracy:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/v2018z/studyxixi" class="bare">https://github.com/v2018z/studyxixi</a> also to cheat Qiang Guo</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/838239178/tk-auto-study" class="bare">https://github.com/838239178/tk-auto-study</a> to cheat the <a href="#fujian">Fujian Province (辽宁省)</a> <a href="#youth-learning">Youth Learning (青年大学习)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a> form filling cheating:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/IanSmith123/ucas-covid19" class="bare">https://github.com/IanSmith123/ucas-covid19</a>: for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences">University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/YooKing/Wanmei_AutoCheck" class="bare">https://github.com/YooKing/Wanmei_AutoCheck</a>: for <a href="#henan">Henan Province (河南省)</a> university</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo_2021_GitHub_page_screenshot_with_stars_highlighted.png" loading="lazy" alt="Fuck XueXiQiangGuo 2021 GitHub page screenshot with stars highlighted" height="650">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 176. Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo 2021 GitHub page screenshot with stars highlighted. 7k stars on a Chinese-only repository is a lot of stars, and very unlikely to be faked. This is what you should show <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> when they that no Chinese person opposes the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="national-anti-fraud-center-app"><a class="anchor" href="#national-anti-fraud-center-app"></a><a class="link" href="#national-anti-fraud-center-app">14.1.4.5.2. National Anti-Fraud Center App (国家反诈中心APP, 2021)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>link:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/国家反诈中心_(应用程序)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/664606.html" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/664606.html</a> on <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mnulkd/china_is_forcing_chinese_to_use_national/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/mnulkd/china_is_forcing_chinese_to_use_national/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>New forced spy app for Chinese people going abroad.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="jingwang-weishi"><a class="anchor" href="#jingwang-weishi"></a><a class="link" href="#jingwang-weishi">14.1.4.5.3. Jingwang Weishi app (Clean Net Guardian app, 净网卫士)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingwang_Weishi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingwang_Weishi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/净网卫士" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/净网卫士</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="chinese-dream"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-dream"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-dream">14.1.4.6. Chinese dream (中国梦, 4000 BC -)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Dream" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Dream</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中國夢" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中國夢</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese version of the <a href="#american-dream">American dream (美国梦)</a>, which <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> insists is completely different and superior to the <a href="#american-dream">American dream (美国梦)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The names suggest, they are not real, but just dreams.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Transcript for <a href="#little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream">Little pink explains the difference between the American dream and the Chinese dream</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>美国梦是个人发财的梦<br>
讲究冒险<br>
通过个人奋斗达到所谓的成功<br>
成为有产者<br>
然后去剥削别人<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中国梦是共同富裕<br>
追求的是人民幸福<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>换句话说<br>
美国梦是个人梦<br>
是为美元的梦<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>中国梦是人民梦<br>
是为人民服务的梦<br>
这就是二者的本质区别<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>以后不要在我面前提起美国梦<br>
俗气！<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The American dream is a dream of personal wealth<br>
it focuses on risk taking<br>
to achieve so-called success through personal struggle<br>
and become a property owner<br>
and then exploit others<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese dream is common prosperity<br>
to pursue the happiness of the people<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other words<br>
the American dream is an individualistic dream<br>
it is a dream of the Dollar<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese dream is the people’s dream<br>
Is a dream of serving the people<br>
This is the essential difference between the two<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Don’t bring up the American dream in front of me in the future<br>
Cheesy!<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The essay topic of "American drema vs Chinese dream" is not novel in Communist rhetoric, e.g. <a href="https://m.aisixiang.com/data/63286.html" class="bare">https://m.aisixiang.com/data/63286.html</a> dated 2013 contains a version by sociologist <a href="https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/徐賁_(社會學家)">Ben Xu 徐贲</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some other essays:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/0527/c1001-21630362.html" class="bare">http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/0527/c1001-21630362.html</a> fro the <a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a> also dated 2013</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MilRo8zZM8A" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MilRo8zZM8A</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/228">GitHub reupload</a>) 小粉红谈中国梦与美国梦的区别 (<a href="#little-pink">Little pink (小粉紅, 小紅粉, 兔友)</a> explains the difference between the <a href="#american-dream">American dream (美国梦)</a> and the <a href="#chinese-dream">Chinese dream (中国梦, 4000 BC -)</a>). That girl should have a look at the state of <a href="#labour-rights">Labour rights (劳工权益)</a> in China in the 2020’s, where activists for better worker protection are being put into jail. Also <a href="#twitter">tweeted</a> by <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a> at: <a href="https://twitter.com/RFA_Chinese/status/1381531661804826627" class="bare">https://twitter.com/RFA_Chinese/status/1381531661804826627</a> The <a href="#seal">Seal (印章)</a> on top left reads: "进击老冯" TODO what is that? Source without subtitles: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw8TfbsNfNI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw8TfbsNfNI</a>. Ciro also reposted it at: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/msnixt/nationalistic_chinese_girl_compares_the_chinese/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/msnixt/nationalistic_chinese_girl_compares_the_chinese/</a> on <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a>. TODO try to identify it by logo of the microphone, looks something like "华浦TV" but not sure. TODO identify background music. TODO original source. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2pdB6hdxkI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2pdB6hdxkI</a> shows a slightly longer version where the interviewer asks "What is the difference between the Chinese and the American dream? Related: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/504" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/504</a> Kill the Japanese kid</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MilRo8zZM8A?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="dream-of-the-red-chamber"><a class="anchor" href="#dream-of-the-red-chamber"></a><a class="link" href="#dream-of-the-red-chamber">14.1.4.6.1. Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/红楼梦" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/红楼梦</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="american-dream"><a class="anchor" href="#american-dream"></a><a class="link" href="#american-dream">14.1.4.6.2. American dream (美国梦)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国梦" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国梦</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="nazi-dream"><a class="anchor" href="#nazi-dream"></a><a class="link" href="#nazi-dream">14.1.4.6.3. Nazi dream (纳粹梦)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Very similar to the <a href="#chinese-dream">Chinese dream (中国梦, 4000 BC -)</a>, see also <a href="#nazi">Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="xi-jinping-speech-synthesizer"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping-speech-synthesizer"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping-speech-synthesizer">14.1.5. Xi Jinping speech synthesizer (习近平讲话模拟器)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/xi-speech-synthesizer" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/xi-speech-synthesizer</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>XJP音源(习近平音源) from <a href="#winnie-the-pool">Winnie the Pool (乳透社·小池塘,XJP音源,习近平音源)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/i4eodw/我做了个习近平讲话模拟器输入一段文字可以合成习近平语音欢迎前来游玩/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/i4eodw/我做了个习近平讲话模拟器输入一段文字可以合成习近平语音欢迎前来游玩/</a> from 2020-08 announced <a href="https://dnmkrgi.github.io/xi-speech-demo/" class="bare">https://dnmkrgi.github.io/xi-speech-demo/</a> now down but presumably at <a href="https://github.com/for-memory/xi-speech-demo" class="bare">https://github.com/for-memory/xi-speech-demo</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/for-memory/xi-speech-synthesizer" class="bare">https://github.com/for-memory/xi-speech-synthesizer</a> voice synthesizer meant to replicate Xi Jinping’s speaking, mentions it is similar to <a href="https://trumped.com/" class="bare">https://trumped.com/</a> and <a href="https://rogeraabbccdd.github.io/Fadacai-Generator/#/" class="bare">https://rogeraabbccdd.github.io/Fadacai-Generator/#/</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>on <a href="#gov-takedowns-china">gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表)</a>: <a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2021/2021-01-29-BNIA.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/China/2021/2021-01-29-BNIA.md</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>this was likely taken down due to videos like this:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVibUOFQhRw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVibUOFQhRw</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/i4eodw/我做了个习近平讲话模拟器输入一段文字可以合成习近平语音欢迎前来游玩/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/i4eodw/我做了个习近平讲话模拟器输入一段文字可以合成习近平语音欢迎前来游玩/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="xi-jinping-deepfakes"><a class="anchor" href="#xi-jinping-deepfakes"></a><a class="link" href="#xi-jinping-deepfakes">14.1.6. Xi Jinping deepfakes (习近平的deepfakes)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are dozens if not hundreds of GIFs watermarked "made with reface app" on <a href="#lihkg">LIHKG (連登, Hong Kong Reddit clone)</a>, presumably made with <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=video.reface.app&hl=en_GB&gl=US" class="bare">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=video.reface.app&hl=en_GB&gl=US</a>, many also featuring <a href="#carrie-lam">Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥, 2017-)</a>. That app currently costs 20 dollars/week for the video refacing though, so it would only be viable after we have a selection ready to convert.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once you find one on Google Images, you can just click endlessly into more and more of them.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We’re just going to bulk dump them at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/231" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/231</a> for now.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Talking in English:
* <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pr27im/he_spittin_facts/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pr27im/he_spittin_facts/</a> Would you guys consider jacking off to be a sport? meme copypasta: <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-jacking-off-a-sport" class="bare">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-jacking-off-a-sport</a>
* <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INbRpclIFsE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INbRpclIFsE</a> xinging Never Gonna Give You Up (Rickrolling song) with Hong Kong protests interspersed</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diec9Cdsvg0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diec9Cdsvg0</a> Xi Jinping singing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y.M.C.A._(song)">YMCA</a> with a wide range of cute expressions.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/diec9Cdsvg0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPc3bSbKw28" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPc3bSbKw28</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/229">GitHub reupload</a>) <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> <a href="#carrie-lam">Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥, 2017-)</a> Leonardo di Caprio Kate Winslet Titanic Deepface by <a href="#gfwfrog">GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a>. 由墙国蛙蛤蛤习近平 林郑月娥 莱昂纳多迪卡普里奥 凯特温斯莱特 泰坦尼克号. <a href="https://twitter.com/GFWfrog/status/1412704989445713924">Source</a> by <a href="#gfwfrog">GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a>. This likely emeged from <a href="#lihkg">LIHKG (連登, Hong Kong Reddit clone)</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nPc3bSbKw28?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VaNnC8knew" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VaNnC8knew</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/724">GitHub reupload</a>) <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a>, <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>, <a href="#nazi">hitler</a>, <a href="#stalin">Stalin (斯大林, 1922-1952)</a> and Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and his grandson Kim Jong-un singing the popular dance-pop song <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragostea_Din_Tei">Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone (2003)</a>, AKA <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/numa-numa">Numa Numa due to a popular pre-YouTube meme</a>. Watermarked wombo.ai which refers to: <a href="https://www.wombo.ai/" class="bare">https://www.wombo.ai/</a> and appears to be specialized for singing music video deepfakes.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_VaNnC8knew?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="carrie-lam"><a class="anchor" href="#carrie-lam"></a><a class="link" href="#carrie-lam">14.2. Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥, 2017-)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Lam" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Lam</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/林鄭月娥" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/林鄭月娥</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a> puppet ruler.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="hu-jintao"><a class="anchor" href="#hu-jintao"></a><a class="link" href="#hu-jintao">14.3. Hu Jintao (胡锦涛, 2002-2012)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡锦涛" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡锦涛</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hu-jintao-gets-kicked-out"><a class="anchor" href="#hu-jintao-gets-kicked-out"></a><a class="link" href="#hu-jintao-gets-kicked-out">14.3.1. Hu Jintao gets kicked out of the 20th National Congress (胡锦涛从中共二十大被开除, 2022)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He got kicked out of the 20th <a href="#national-congress">National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党全国代表大会, 中共党代会)</a>:</p>
</div>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao#The_20th_Communist_Party_Congress" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao#The_20th_Communist_Party_Congress</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡锦涛#中共二十大" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡锦涛#中共二十大</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/76307/how-much-of-hu-jintaos-being-escorted-out-was-seen-by-chinese-at-home-was-it-l" class="bare">https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/76307/how-much-of-hu-jintaos-being-escorted-out-was-seen-by-chinese-at-home-was-it-l</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/25/hu-jintao-argued-about-official-papers-before-being-escorted-out-of-congress" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/25/hu-jintao-argued-about-official-papers-before-being-escorted-out-of-congress</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Possibly part of <a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">Xi Jinping abolishes term limits (习近平取消国家主席任期限制, 2018-03)</a>.</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 177. Still from the <a href="#hu-jintao-kicked-out-cna">Hu Jintao CNA video</a> showing the two assitants carrying Hu out by the arm, while he is passing behind Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang. This still is <a href="https://twfineart.myshopify.com/blogs/tw-fineart/18267385-the-triangle-in-visual-art">composed like a fine Renaissance painting</a>, well chosen NY Times! <a href="https://twfineart.myshopify.com/blogs/tw-fineart/18267385-the-triangle-in-visual-art">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBG2bD-TE9g" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBG2bD-TE9g</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/909">GitHub reupload</a>) <a href="#hu-jintao">Hu Jintao (胡锦涛, 2002-2012)</a> gets "the boot". To his left: Li Zhanshu, hopelessly trying to help the old man, then <a href="#wang-huning">Wang Huning (王沪宁)</a>, who is left open mouthed and trying his best not to smirk, he’s got quite a spirit. To <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>'s right, Li Keqiang, who pretends not to see anything, but is <a href="https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/shift-in-ones-seat.2172051/">shifting in his seat</a> and hoping Xi will get it over ASAP, then Li Xi. Published by Channel NewsAsia (CNA), a Singaporean news channel.</div>
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<h4 id="bo-xilai"><a class="anchor" href="#bo-xilai"></a><a class="link" href="#bo-xilai">14.3.2. Bo Xilai (薄熙来, 2007-2012)</a></h4>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/薄熙来" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/薄熙来</a></p>
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<p>Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing from 2007 to 2012, i.e. number one of this Provincial level city, which has same the importance as a <a href="#provinces-of-china">province</a>.</p>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="jiang-zemin"><a class="anchor" href="#jiang-zemin"></a><a class="link" href="#jiang-zemin">14.4. Jiang Zemin (江泽民, 1989-2002)</a></h3>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Zemin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Zemin</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/江泽民" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/江泽民</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#dictatorship">Dictator</a> from 1989 to 2002.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Jiang is often compared to a toad in a meme what is referred to as toad worship (膜蛤), further keywords: 蛤蟆</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_worship" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_worship</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/膜蛤文化" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/膜蛤文化</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Jiang has an amazing array of meme-ready funny expressions.</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>hugging Yeltsin: <a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/madison/ap-top-news/2022/11/30/former-president-jiang-zemin-who-guided-chinas-rise-dies" class="bare">https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/madison/ap-top-news/2022/11/30/former-president-jiang-zemin-who-guided-chinas-rise-dies</a></p>
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<p>Cowboy hat: <a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2449907/former-china-leader-jiang-zemin-dead-state-media" class="bare">https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2449907/former-china-leader-jiang-zemin-dead-state-media</a></p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jiang_Zemin_frog.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Jiang Zemin frog" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 178. Comparison between Jiang Zemin and a 72-feet-tall inflatable toad in a Beijing park seen in 2014 made the rounds on <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> and led to some <a href="#censorship">censorship</a>. <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/01/world/asia/toad-jiang-zemin/index.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 179. Jiang picking his nose. <a href="https://pieceofmindful.com/2013/12/12/chinese-exceptionalism/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 180. Jiang reading through comically large magnifying glass during the opening ceremony of the 19th <a href="#national-congress">National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党全国代表大会, 中共党代会)</a> in 2017. See also: <a href="#internal-media-of-china">Internal media of China (内参)</a>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/18/back-from-the-dead-chinas-internet-goes-wild-over-youthful-jiang-zemin">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jiang_Zemin_emoticons_montage.png" loading="lazy" alt="Jiang Zemin emoticons montage" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 181. More Jiang funny expressions and Photoshops from a Research Gate page! <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Jiang-as-emoticons-often-used-in-chats_fig4_325864518">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="three-represents"><a class="anchor" href="#three-represents"></a><a class="link" href="#three-represents">14.4.1. Three Represents (三个代表, 2000)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Represents" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Represents</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/“三个代表”重要思想" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/“三个代表”重要思想</a></p>
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</ul>
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<h4 id="too-young-too-naive"><a class="anchor" href="#too-young-too-naive"></a><a class="link" href="#too-young-too-naive">14.4.2. Too young, too naive</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese also love Jiang’s quote in English during an interview with Hong Kong press:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Too young, too simple, sometimes naive.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=y-JPLzj2poY" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=y-JPLzj2poY</a> Jiang Zemin saying "Too simple, sometimes naive."</div>
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<h4 id="li-keqiang"><a class="anchor" href="#li-keqiang"></a><a class="link" href="#li-keqiang">14.4.3. Li Keqiang (李克强, 2013-2023)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李克强" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李克强</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#premier">Premier of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国国务院总理)</a> from 2013 to 2023.</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Li was generally regarded as advocating economic reform and liberalization. He was described as representing the less ideological and more pragmatic and technocratic side of China’s leadership.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="title">Figure 182. <a href="#li-keqiang">Li Keqiang (李克强, 2013-2023)</a> holding the balls of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>. TODO understand meme. Some sources: 2022-09 on Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china/comments/xd20dh/今日最佳ps包子帝被莉克醬猴子偷桃/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china/comments/xd20dh/今日最佳ps包子帝被莉克醬猴子偷桃/</a> 2022-10 on <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a>: <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/50288" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/50288</a></div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Li_Keqiang_Xi_Jinping_internal_affairs.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Li Keqiang Xi Jinping internal affairs" height="900">
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<div class="title">Figure 183. <a href="#li-keqiang">Li Keqiang (李克强, 2013-2023)</a> holding the balls of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>. TODO understand meme. TODO: modifies which existing film poster? Text reads: "Internal affairs", "無間道", a reference to this 2002 Hong Kong film: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Affairs" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Affairs</a>, <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/無間道" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/無間道</a>. 2022-10 on <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a>: <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/50288" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/50288</a>, 2023-10 on Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA/comments/17heyea/默哀三分钟我们怀念他/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA/comments/17heyea/默哀三分钟我们怀念他/</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LIHKG/comments/17ivgjs/would_watch_ngl/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LIHKG/comments/17ivgjs/would_watch_ngl/</a></div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="li-peng"><a class="anchor" href="#li-peng"></a><a class="link" href="#li-peng">14.4.4. Li Peng (李鹏, 1988-1998)</a></h4>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Peng" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Peng</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李鹏" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李鹏</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of the key players on <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>For the most part of the 1990’s whe as second in command as <a href="#premier">Premier of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国国务院总理)</a> from 1988 to 1998.</p>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="deng-xiaoping"><a class="anchor" href="#deng-xiaoping"></a><a class="link" href="#deng-xiaoping">14.5. Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, 1982-1987)</a></h3>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/邓小平" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/邓小平</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/西单墙/7722234" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/西单墙/7722234</a> on <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Although his reign officially ended in 1987/1989, he remained extremely influential until his death, and was a major figure in <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> most likely.</p>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="xidan-democracy-wall"><a class="anchor" href="#xidan-democracy-wall"></a><a class="link" href="#xidan-democracy-wall">14.5.1. Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Wall" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Wall</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西单民主墙" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西单民主墙</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xidan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xidan</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/846AtqraCYg?t=799" class="bare">https://youtu.be/846AtqraCYg?t=799</a> suggests that <a href="#deng-xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, 1982-1987)</a> initially encouraged it after during/after killing the Gang of Four.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>But then, obviously, people started denouncing corruption in his government, and so Deng made it stop.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The documentary also mentions <a href="#wei-jingsheng">Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)</a> who was a notorious contributor who asked for democracy.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Xidan wall appears on <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> at around 19:00.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xidan_Wall.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xidan Wall" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 184. <a href="#xidan-democracy-wall">Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xidan_Wall,_May_1979.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=40PxfKWgBmY" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=40PxfKWgBmY</a> China: Democracy Wall Beijing Dec 1978 video only. This is one of the many footage available of the wall.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="wei-jingsheng"><a class="anchor" href="#wei-jingsheng"></a><a class="link" href="#wei-jingsheng">14.5.1.1. Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/魏京生" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/魏京生</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/魏京生/4569194" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/魏京生/4569194</a> on <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a>. Does not mention <a href="#the-fifth-modernization">The Fifth Modernization (第五个现代化, 1978)</a> as of 2022-05.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/WEI_JINGSHENG" class="bare">https://twitter.com/WEI_JINGSHENG</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Key figure on the <a href="#xidan-democracy-wall">Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a>, notable for writting <a href="#the-fifth-modernization">The Fifth Modernization (第五个现代化, 1978)</a>.</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我们要自己掌握自己的命运，不要神仙和皇帝不要相信有什么救世主，我们要做天下的主人，我们不要作独裁统治者扩张野心的现代化工具，我们要人民生活得现代化，人民的民主、自由与幸福，是我们实现现代化的唯一目的，没有这第五个现代化，一切现代化不过是一 个新的诺言。</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>We need no Gods or emperors and we don’t believe in saviors of any kind…​ we do not want to serve as mere tools of dictators with personal ambitions for carrying out modernization. We want to modernize the lives of the people. Democracy, freedom, and happiness for all are our sole objectives.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1jfOyB2Osk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1jfOyB2Osk</a> <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a> interview with <a href="#wei-jingsheng">Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)</a> (2018)</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 185. A young <a href="#wei-jingsheng">Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)</a> side by side with an image of the <a href="#xidan-democracy-wall">Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a>. Jinsheng image source: <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> 19:09. At <a href="https://twitter.com/WEI_JINGSHENG/status/1521873937851990017" class="bare">https://twitter.com/WEI_JINGSHENG/status/1521873937851990017</a> Jingsheng mentions that this image is from Qinhai <a href="#laogai">Laogai (劳改)</a> in 1985. The original photo was in Jingsheng’s sister’s possession, there are apparently no known uploads of it. <a href="http://mjlsh.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/medias/contents/3997/01.jpg">Xidan Wall image source</a>. He actually followed Ciro on Twitter some time after this interactiono. What a legend! <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/se0uw" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/se0uw</a></div>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="the-fifth-modernization"><a class="anchor" href="#the-fifth-modernization"></a><a class="link" href="#the-fifth-modernization">14.5.1.1.1. The Fifth Modernization (第五个现代化, 1978)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Modernization" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Modernization</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/第五個現代化_(魏京生" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/第五個現代化_(魏京生</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Key essay written by <a href="#wei-jingsheng">Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)</a>, originally published on the <a href="#xidan-democracy-wall">Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a>. Full chinese text at: <a href="魏京生-第五个现代化.md" class="bare">魏京生-第五个现代化.md</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not to be confused with the one of the same title made by the CCP in 2013: <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/第五个现代化_(中国共产党" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/第五个现代化_(中国共产党</a>)</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Fifth" is a reference to the fifth modernization he felt was necessary in addition to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Modernizations">four modernizations</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/四个现代化">四个现代化</a>) the government was proposing in its propaganda at the time: agriculture, industry science and defense.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Full text on Jingsheng’s apparently official website: <a href="https://weijingsheng.org/doc/cn/46.htm" class="bare">https://weijingsheng.org/doc/cn/46.htm</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most notable quote:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我们要自己掌握自己的命运，不要神仙和皇帝<br>
不要相信有什么救世主，我们要做天下的主人，我们不要作独裁统治者扩张<br>
野心的现代化工具，我们要人民生活得现代化，人民的民主、自由与幸福<br></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>We want to be the masters of our own destiny. We need no gods or emperors and we don’t believe in saviors of any kind<br>
we do not want to serve as mere tools of dictators with personal ambitions for carrying out modernization.<br>
We want to modernize the lives of the people. Democracy, freedom, and happiness for all are our sole objectives</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="mao-zedong"><a class="anchor" href="#mao-zedong"></a><a class="link" href="#mao-zedong">14.6. Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛泽东" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛泽东</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What could be a better reminder that <a href="#xi-jinping">dictatorships are dangerous</a> than the catastrophes that Mao created such as the <a href="#great-leap-forward">Great Leap Forward (大跃进, da4 yue4 jin4, 1958-1960)</a> and <a href="#cultural-revolution">Cultural Revolution (文化大革命, 1966-1976)</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/MHFrhIAj0ME?t=926" class="bare">https://youtu.be/MHFrhIAj0ME?t=926</a> "The camp was an intense and exciting place, and many of the guerrilla fighters had affairs. Sex was called undisciplined guerilla warfare". TODO Chinese.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/wumaoland/MaoZeDongAnthology" class="bare">https://github.com/wumaoland/MaoZeDongAnthology</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Mao_Zedong_in_Yanan.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Mao Zedong in Yanan" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 186. Mao Zedong in Yan’an in the 1930’s thinking deeply. This funny looking picture is meme ready and <a href="https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Chairman_Mao">much loved by Uncyclopedia</a>. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mao_Zedong_in_Yan%27an.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20221211231444im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Mao_Zedong_youth_art_sculpture_4.jpg/675px-Mao_Zedong_youth_art_sculpture_4.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="675px Mao Zedong youth art sculpture 4" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 187. Young Mao Zedong statue, Changsha, 2009. Another one of the future demolition list.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210322084100im_/https://i.redd.it/fhs2nt5fk7m61.png" loading="lazy" alt="fhs2nt5fk7m61" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 188. Mao Zedong <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lmao">LMAO</a> meme</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Mao_Zedong_statue_over_rubble.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Mao Zedong statue over rubble" height="800">
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<div class="title">Figure 189. Mao Zedong statue over rubble. TODO location/date/event. Some sources: August 2023 r/LOOK_CHINA<a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA/comments/15lgrbw/什么灾祸源头/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA/comments/15lgrbw/什么灾祸源头/</a>, August 2023 on disp.cc, possibly <a href="#ptt">PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a> related: <a href="https://disp.cc/b/ACG/gnVT" class="bare">https://disp.cc/b/ACG/gnVT</a></div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="the-private-life-of-chairman-mao"><a class="anchor" href="#the-private-life-of-chairman-mao"></a><a class="link" href="#the-private-life-of-chairman-mao">14.6.1. The Private Life of Chairman Mao (毛泽东私人医生回忆录)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Chairman_Mao" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Chairman_Mao</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛泽东私人医生回忆录" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛泽东私人医生回忆录</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李志绥" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李志绥</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="little-red-book"><a class="anchor" href="#little-red-book"></a><a class="link" href="#little-red-book">14.6.2. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book, 毛主席语录, 1976)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛主席语录" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛主席语录</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a>'s <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>. Like <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>'s, also extracted from talks, see also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#ccp-cult">CCP cult (中共邪教)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hundred-flowers-campaign"><a class="anchor" href="#hundred-flowers-campaign"></a><a class="link" href="#hundred-flowers-campaign">14.6.3. Hundred Flowers Campaign 百花齐放 (1956-1957)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百花齐放、百家争鸣" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百花齐放、百家争鸣</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some possible quotes from Mao saying that people should be able to protest, original share: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/i2z5ss/maos_propaganda_poster_saying_protest_and_strike/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/i2z5ss/maos_propaganda_poster_saying_protest_and_strike/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>允许群众示威。<br>
Citizens should be allowed to protest.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>claims from from some 毛泽东选集第五卷 (selected works from Mao Zedong) in speech from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China">8th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/shijianxingzou/status/1158421996755128323" class="bare">https://twitter.com/shijianxingzou/status/1158421996755128323</a> mentions the anthology was published in 1977.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even <a href="#kknews">kknews (pro-CCP media)</a> confirms: <a href="https://kknews.cc/zh-my/news/ql9k4ag.html" class="bare">https://kknews.cc/zh-my/news/ql9k4ag.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#liu-shihui-one-party-rule">Liu Shihui (刘士辉)</a> also comes to mind.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="great-leap-forward"><a class="anchor" href="#great-leap-forward"></a><a class="link" href="#great-leap-forward">14.6.4. Great Leap Forward (大跃进, da4 yue4 jin4, 1958-1960)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大跃进" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大跃进</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Winter_gourd.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Winter gourd" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 190. A high tower of <a href="#winter-melon">winter melons</a> "<a href="#winter-melon">冬瓜</a>上高楼" propaganda poster for the Great Leap Forward by <a href="https://chineseposters.net/artists/jinmeisheng.php">Jin Meisheng</a> published in 1959. <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Even in democracies</a>, politicians promise the fat gourds. But when there is <a href="#censorship">no free media to control their</a> lies, things can get really out of hand. <a href="http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/chn11.php">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Communist_children_catch_pokemon.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Communist children catch pokemon" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 191. Communist Children Catch Pokemon: the true meaning of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union">CCCP</a>. Edited from the original poster with a <a href="#little-red-book">Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book, 毛主席语录, 1976)</a> instead of Pokeball and no "CCCP" shown at <a href="https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/360428776411504491/" class="bare">https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/360428776411504491/</a>. By Volaran Cadires. <a href="https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/405253666454984678/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="great-chinese-famine"><a class="anchor" href="#great-chinese-famine"></a><a class="link" href="#great-chinese-famine">14.6.4.1. Great Chinese Famine (三年困难时期, 1959-1961)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/三年困难时期" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/三年困难时期</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="four-pests-campaign"><a class="anchor" href="#four-pests-campaign"></a><a class="link" href="#four-pests-campaign">14.6.4.1.1. Four Pests campaign (除四害, sparrow war, 1958-1962)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/除四害" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/除四害</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tk-njfBmDk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tk-njfBmDk</a> Why China Targeted Sparrows by Ciggy Snake (2021)</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_Tk-njfBmDk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="cultural-revolution"><a class="anchor" href="#cultural-revolution"></a><a class="link" href="#cultural-revolution">14.6.5. Cultural Revolution (文化大革命, 1966-1976)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/文化大革命" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/文化大革命</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=kXByOrRrO7c" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=kXByOrRrO7c</a> Vox 6 minute explanation with some good footage for impatient Millennials, published on Feb 14, 2020.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kXByOrRrO7c?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="revolutionary-opera"><a class="anchor" href="#revolutionary-opera"></a><a class="link" href="#revolutionary-opera">14.6.5.1. Revolutionary opera (样板戏)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_opera" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_opera</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/样板戏" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/样板戏</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="struggle-session"><a class="anchor" href="#struggle-session"></a><a class="link" href="#struggle-session">14.6.5.2. Struggle session (批斗)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/批鬥" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/批鬥</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Struggle_session_cultural_revolution_dunce_cap_luo_zicheng.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Struggle session cultural revolution dunce cap luo zicheng" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 192. <a href="#struggle-session">Struggle session (批斗)</a> Luo Zicheng (TODO Chinese), head of the work group designated by the provincial Party committee, wearing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunce#Dunce_cap">dunce cap</a> (TODO 笨蛋帽?) and surrounded by from the staff of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang">Heilongjiang</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黑龙江省">黑龙江省</a>) Daily newspaper accusing him of 'following the capitalist line' in 1966. Photo by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhensheng_(photojournalist)">Li Zhensheng</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李振盛">李振盛</a>). <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19807561">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="mao-swim"><a class="anchor" href="#mao-swim"></a><a class="link" href="#mao-swim">14.6.5.3. Mao swim across the Yangtze river (毛主席畅游长江, 1966-07-16)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛主席畅游长江" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛主席畅游长江</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a> article: <a href="https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/1999098/chairman-maos-historic-swim-glorified-china" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/1999098/chairman-maos-historic-swim-glorified-china</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mao claimed to have set a swimming record by swimming 15km in 65 minutes at the age of 72 at the <a href="#yangtze-river">Yangtze River (长江, Long River)</a> in Wuhan, or an average of 13.8 km/h.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a comparison, the Olympic swimmers of 2016 covered the lesser distance of 10 km in 113 minutes: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_–_Men%27s_marathon_10_kilometre" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_–_Men%27s_marathon_10_kilometre</a> for an average of 5.3 km/h.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>According to <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311977913_Analysis_of_the_characteristics_of_offshore_currents_in_the_Changjiang_Yangtze_River_estuarine_waters_based_on_buoy_observations">this article</a>, the maximum current speed of the Yantze is 128.5 cm/s or 4.62 km/h so even if he were swimming with the current, Mao was faster.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In <a href="#the-private-life-of-chairman-mao">The Private Life of Chairman Mao (毛泽东私人医生回忆录)</a> however, the doctor says that this was actually true, the current was enough to drag Mao’s big belly quite fast.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k1ZWoM6g8w" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k1ZWoM6g8w</a> How to swim in Wuhan’s Yangtze river Blondie in China (2019)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dictatorships would <a href="#censorship-makes-no-one-trust-your-country">never lie about obviously verifiable facts</a>, would they?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And idiots today still celebrate this event that preceded the <a href="#cultural-revolution">Cultural Revolution (文化大革命, 1966-1976)</a> which put China’s economy in shambles.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#superputin">Superputin (Супер Путин)</a> learnt from this and also showed off his swimming skills in 2009.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Mao_swim_wave.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Mao swim wave" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 193. <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1966-10_1966年毛泽东游长江2.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="wang-huning"><a class="anchor" href="#wang-huning"></a><a class="link" href="#wang-huning">14.7. Wang Huning (王沪宁)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Huning" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Huning</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/王沪宁" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/王沪宁</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Member of the <a href="#politburo">Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党中央政治局常务委员会)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Appears e.g. at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#the-culprit-of-three-dynasties">Wang Huning, The Culprit of Three Dynasties (三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#hu-jintao-gets-kicked-out">Hu Jintao gets kicked out of the 20th National Congress (胡锦涛从中共二十大被开除, 2022)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="the-culprit-of-three-dynasties"><a class="anchor" href="#the-culprit-of-three-dynasties"></a><a class="link" href="#the-culprit-of-three-dynasties">14.7.1. Wang Huning, The Culprit of Three Dynasties (三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Commentary on <a href="#wang-huning">Wang Huning (王沪宁)</a>, reproduced at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/郝雪森-三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁.adoc" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/郝雪森-三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁.adoc</a>. Copied from: <a href="https://matters.news/@halanh/三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁-bafyreifrjf5ce45fqpif4nms4x72mlrbyijs7bffqi7f7sng47fuelkhmm" class="bare">https://matters.news/@halanh/三朝罪恶元凶王沪宁-bafyreifrjf5ce45fqpif4nms4x72mlrbyijs7bffqi7f7sng47fuelkhmm</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/196" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/196</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of the texts used by <a href="#zhao-heming">Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="sport-related-events"><a class="anchor" href="#sport-related-events"></a><a class="link" href="#sport-related-events">15. Sport related events (和体育有关的事件)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020 <a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019 <a href="#lebron-james-opposes-hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">LeBron James opposes Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (2019)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="esport-events"><a class="anchor" href="#esport-events"></a><a class="link" href="#esport-events">15.1. Esport events (电子竞技事件)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-05-05 Jong-ryeol "Saebyeolbe" Park, Korean, Blizzard’s Overwatch game, made Taiwan Hongkong remarks. The backed down unfortunately: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CNpQ7dOHxl2/" class="bare">https://www.instagram.com/p/CNpQ7dOHxl2/</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://kotaku.com/chinese-overwatch-teams-threaten-boycott-of-korean-play-1846828529" class="bare">https://kotaku.com/chinese-overwatch-teams-threaten-boycott-of-korean-play-1846828529</a> Chinese Overwatch Teams Threaten Boycott Of Korean Player For Statements On Taiwan And Hong Kong</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/07/scratch-ban-in-china/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/07/scratch-ban-in-china/</a> Scratch visual programming language for children website blocked</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-04-08 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/nintendo-s-animal-crossing-becomes-new-hong-kong-protest-ground" class="bare">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/nintendo-s-animal-crossing-becomes-new-hong-kong-protest-ground</a> Animal Crossing</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#mei-with-hong-kong">Mei with Hong Kong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#taiwan-number-one">Taiwan #1 (Taiwan Number One, 2015)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="blitzchung"><a class="anchor" href="#blitzchung"></a><a class="link" href="#blitzchung">15.1.1. Blitzchung</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2019-10 Blizzard bans top Hearthstone esports player Blitzchung (Ng Wai Chung) for pro Hong Kong message in interview.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181442535962632193" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181442535962632193</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="news"><a class="anchor" href="#news"></a><a class="link" href="#news">16. News (新闻)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Trying to keep only "neutral" sources here, let me know if you spot something too biased: <a href="#biased-media">Biased media (偏见媒体)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How I find them: <a href="#anti-ccp-info-sources">Anti-CCP information sources (反中共信息来源)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="news-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#news-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#news-2020">16.1. News 2020</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-01 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3045657/china-human-rights-activist-ding-jiaxi-under-investigation" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3045657/china-human-rights-activist-ding-jiaxi-under-investigation</a> one more human rights person Ding Jiaxi. The list is endless, should we care?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="news-2019"><a class="anchor" href="#news-2019"></a><a class="link" href="#news-2019">16.2. News 2019</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-12-18 Fudan University in China removes "freedom of thought" from university charters, students protes</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-10-16 <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/" class="bare">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/</a> GitLab prevents employees from discussing politics at work, and will not veto clients. This is not confirmed, but I guess it is very likely in reply to the <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)</a> given the timing. The <a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/30656">merge request</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191017080216/https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/30656">archive</a>).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Twitter to block operations by oppressive foreign state media</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html" class="bare">https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html</a> Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/csodbt/twitter_suspends_nearly_1000_accounts_connected/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/csodbt/twitter_suspends_nearly_1000_accounts_connected/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertising_policies_on_state_media.html" class="bare">https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertising_policies_on_state_media.html</a> Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/csnsyn/twitter_policy_change_we_will_not_accept/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/csnsyn/twitter_policy_change_we_will_not_accept/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-07-12 <a href="https://www.apnews.com/a2584de07c014e4786a21bcf9f446a40" class="bare">https://www.apnews.com/a2584de07c014e4786a21bcf9f446a40</a> "37 countries rally around China at top UN human rights body"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#biased-media">(biased)</a> <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/15/c_138229200.htm" class="bare">http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/15/c_138229200.htm</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the full scanned letter: <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinPinner/status/1151868854781526016" class="bare">https://twitter.com/KevinPinner/status/1151868854781526016</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-07-02 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones</a> "Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists' phones"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-04-28 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48084019" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48084019</a> Hong Kong: Thousands protest against China extradition law</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/auqkdl/biotech_giant_thermo_fisher_stops_selling_dna/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/auqkdl/biotech_giant_thermo_fisher_stops_selling_dna/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-01 <a href="https://www.apnews.com/40f7cf4c0c6e43f18121af93f1e418f7" class="bare">https://www.apnews.com/40f7cf4c0c6e43f18121af93f1e418f7</a> Microsoft Bing <a href="https://www.bing.com/" class="bare">https://www.bing.com/</a> search engine blocked in China</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-01 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/business/china-internet-censor.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/business/china-internet-censor.html</a> interview with Beyondsoft, a company that offers censorship services</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="news-2018"><a class="anchor" href="#news-2018"></a><a class="link" href="#news-2018">16.3. News 2018</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2018-08 <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/08/google-censorship-china-blacklist/" class="bare">https://theintercept.com/2018/08/08/google-censorship-china-blacklist/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-06 <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/china-bans-online-mention-of-john-oliver-after-he-mocks-chinas-president/" class="bare">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/china-bans-online-mention-of-john-oliver-after-he-mocks-chinas-president/</a> <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6m5b3o" class="bare">https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6m5b3o</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-05 <a href="https://www.whatsonweibo.com/public-shaming-of-drug-users-in-guangdong-drug-related-crimes-in-family-painted-on-houses/" class="bare">https://www.whatsonweibo.com/public-shaming-of-drug-users-in-guangdong-drug-related-crimes-in-family-painted-on-houses/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-04 <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-lawmaking/china-makes-defaming-revolutionary-heroes-punishable-by-law-idUKKBN1HY16C" class="bare">https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-lawmaking/china-makes-defaming-revolutionary-heroes-punishable-by-law-idUKKBN1HY16C</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-04 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/congressional-leaders-urge-us-to-press-china-over-reports-of-mass-uighur-detentions/2018/04/05/9bd17c90-38b3-11e8-b57c-9445cc4dfa5e_story.html" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/congressional-leaders-urge-us-to-press-china-over-reports-of-mass-uighur-detentions/2018/04/05/9bd17c90-38b3-11e8-b57c-9445cc4dfa5e_story.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-02 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/world/asia/china-xi-jinping.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/world/asia/china-xi-jinping.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-02 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-120000-muslim-uighurs-held-in-chinese-re-education-camps-report" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-120000-muslim-uighurs-held-in-chinese-re-education-camps-report</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-01 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/19/outspoken-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-yu-wensheng-arrested" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/19/outspoken-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-yu-wensheng-arrested</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-01 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-politics/hong-kong-activist-banned-from-by-election-in-what-pro-democracy-party-calls-payback-idUSKBN1FG06P" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-politics/hong-kong-activist-banned-from-by-election-in-what-pro-democracy-party-calls-payback-idUSKBN1FG06P</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-01 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/world/asia/china-church-dynamite.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/world/asia/china-church-dynamite.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-01 <a href="https://uk.businessinsider.com/china-marriott-tweets-censorship-2018-1?r=US&IR=T" class="bare">https://uk.businessinsider.com/china-marriott-tweets-censorship-2018-1?r=US&IR=T</a> Marriott lists <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan</a> as country on the website</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-01 <a href="http://chuangcn.org/2018/01/the-mastermind/" class="bare">http://chuangcn.org/2018/01/the-mastermind/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="changsheng-bio-technology-vaccine-data-falsification-incident-2018"><a class="anchor" href="#changsheng-bio-technology-vaccine-data-falsification-incident-2018"></a><a class="link" href="#changsheng-bio-technology-vaccine-data-falsification-incident-2018">16.3.1. Changsheng Bio-Technology vaccine data falsification incident (长生生物, 2018)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changsheng_Bio-Technology" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changsheng_Bio-Technology</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/长生生物" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/长生生物</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/fuckcqcs/fuckcqcs" class="bare">https://github.com/fuckcqcs/fuckcqcs</a> on <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a> contains data from the website of Changsheng Bio-Technology relating to the incident. English readme: <a href="https://github.com/fuckcqcs/fuckcqcs/blob/master/README_EN.md" class="bare">https://github.com/fuckcqcs/fuckcqcs/blob/master/README_EN.md</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2019-02-25 <a href="https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship-111795" class="bare">https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship-111795</a> mentions that censored information about the incident was also inserted into the <a href="#bitcoin-blockchain">Ethereum blockchain</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="news-2017"><a class="anchor" href="#news-2017"></a><a class="link" href="#news-2017">16.4. News 2017</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#low-end-population">Low-end population (低端人口, 2017)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not in other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-12 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/world/asia/china-wu-gan-sentence.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/world/asia/china-wu-gan-sentence.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-11 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/7a7hf9/the_worlds_largest_academic_publisher_blocks/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/7a7hf9/the_worlds_largest_academic_publisher_blocks/</a> Springer nature pulls sensitive articles. TODO article list.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-09 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/china-whatsapp-blocked.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/china-whatsapp-blocked.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-08 <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-minority-school-language-ban-han-xinjiang-uyghur-hotan-hetian-government-communist-a7873446.html" class="bare">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-minority-school-language-ban-han-xinjiang-uyghur-hotan-hetian-government-communist-a7873446.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-07 <a href="https://qz.com/1056938/cambridge-university-press-china-quarterly-complies-with-censorship-removes-300-articles-on-topics-like-tiananmen-and-tibet-in-china/" class="bare">https://qz.com/1056938/cambridge-university-press-china-quarterly-complies-with-censorship-removes-300-articles-on-topics-like-tiananmen-and-tibet-in-china/</a> Book list: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/59970028145fd05f66868bf5?utm_content=bufferb652b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" class="bare">https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/59970028145fd05f66868bf5?utm_content=bufferb652b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</a> archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170905214500/https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/59970028145fd05f66868bf5?utm_content=bufferb652b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20170905214500/https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/59970028145fd05f66868bf5?utm_content=bufferb652b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-07 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/29/apple-removes-vpn-apps-from-the-app-store-in-china/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/29/apple-removes-vpn-apps-from-the-app-store-in-china/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-07 <a href="https://shanghaiist.com/2017/07/26/liu-xia-home-visit.php" class="bare">https://shanghaiist.com/2017/07/26/liu-xia-home-visit.php</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-06 <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/ordered-05092017155554.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/ordered-05092017155554.html</a> Uyghurs studying abroad ordered to return to China</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-06 httsp://mashable.com/2017/06/23/china-bans-livestreaming/#FJ4h.sLYQqq9</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-05 <a href="https://qz.com/989454/a-chinese-students-commencement-speech-at-the-university-of-maryland-praising-fresh-air-and-democracy-is-riling-chinas-internet/" class="bare">https://qz.com/989454/a-chinese-students-commencement-speech-at-the-university-of-maryland-praising-fresh-air-and-democracy-is-riling-chinas-internet/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-05 <a href="https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000233/at-wedding-market%2C-mothers-of-gays-and-lesbians-face-resistance" class="bare">https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000233/at-wedding-market%2C-mothers-of-gays-and-lesbians-face-resistance</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-05 <a href="https://ktar.com/story/1564381/ap-exclusive-china-lawyers-family-says-us-helped-them-flee" class="bare">https://ktar.com/story/1564381/ap-exclusive-china-lawyers-family-says-us-helped-them-flee</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-04 <a href="https://chinachange.org/2017/05/03/breaking-lawyer-chen-jiangang-with-family-and-two-friends-seized-by-armed-police-in-yunnan/" class="bare">https://chinachange.org/2017/05/03/breaking-lawyer-chen-jiangang-with-family-and-two-friends-seized-by-armed-police-in-yunnan/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-03 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-39137293" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-39137293</a> "China congress: BBC team forced to sign confession"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="news-2016"><a class="anchor" href="#news-2016"></a><a class="link" href="#news-2016">16.5. News 2016</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016-11 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/5ai1s6/chinese_citizen_arrested_after_wearing_xitler/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/5ai1s6/chinese_citizen_arrested_after_wearing_xitler/</a> <a href="https://wqw2010.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/101.html" class="bare">https://wqw2010.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/101.html</a> Possible Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kwonpyong" class="bare">https://twitter.com/kwonpyong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016-09: <a href="https://qz.com/783026/china-censorship-chinese-citizens-are-being-arrested-for-sharing-news-about-the-wukan-village-rebellion-online/" class="bare">https://qz.com/783026/china-censorship-chinese-citizens-are-being-arrested-for-sharing-news-about-the-wukan-village-rebellion-online/</a> <a href="https://qz.com/781989/foreign-journalists-are-wanted-for-3000-by-chinese-authorities-for-inciting-unrest-in-a-village/" class="bare">https://qz.com/781989/foreign-journalists-are-wanted-for-3000-by-chinese-authorities-for-inciting-unrest-in-a-village/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukan_protests" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukan_protests</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016-06 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/28/china-lady-gaga-ban-list-hostile-foreign-forces-meeting-dalai-lama" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/28/china-lady-gaga-ban-list-hostile-foreign-forces-meeting-dalai-lama</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016-06 <a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/78775b09e64d85f08547287cab204b48b2491192/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/78775b09e64d85f08547287cab204b48b2491192/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md</a> first GitHub takedown, see also: <a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/world/asia/china-britain-queen-xi-jinping.html?_r=0" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/world/asia/china-britain-queen-xi-jinping.html?_r=0</a> "Queen Elizabeth II Says Chinese Officials Were 'Very Rude' on State Visit"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://shanghaiist.com/2016/05/06/dont_eat_that_banana.php" class="bare">https://shanghaiist.com/2016/05/06/dont_eat_that_banana.php</a> Sexy banana eating forbidden</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016-04 <a href="https://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/01/26/china-threatens-sanctions-against-u-s-companies-is-this-the-future/" class="bare">https://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/01/26/china-threatens-sanctions-against-u-s-companies-is-this-the-future/</a> China economic sanctions companies that sell weapons to <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan</a> (some of those companies also sell civilian products to China)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016-04 <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-demands-shutdown-disneylife-service-887599" class="bare">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-demands-shutdown-disneylife-service-887599</a> Disney Life blocked</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016-04 <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-demands-shutdown-apples-film-886831" class="bare">http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-demands-shutdown-apples-film-886831</a> Apple iTunes and iBooks blocked</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35968855" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35968855</a> China’s '<a href="#gfw">Great Firewall</a>' blocks its creator</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/04/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/04/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship</a> gay depiction banned on television</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35496562" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35496562</a> Armani Communist - <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/xi-jinping-wants-overhaul-image-chinas-rich-kids-1961207" class="bare">https://www.ibtimes.com/xi-jinping-wants-overhaul-image-chinas-rich-kids-1961207</a> - first section of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKQ5ijFZ_j8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKQ5ijFZ_j8</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-defector-reveals-beijings-secrets/" class="bare">https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-defector-reveals-beijings-secrets/</a> Ling Wancheng defects</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://chinachange.org/2016/01/21/activist-in-xinjiang-sentenced-to-19-years-for-online-writings-and-rights-activities/" class="bare">https://chinachange.org/2016/01/21/activist-in-xinjiang-sentenced-to-19-years-for-online-writings-and-rights-activities/</a> Zhang Haitao (张海涛) faces 19 years in jail for his blog posts</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/20/technology/facebook-android-tor/" class="bare">https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/20/technology/facebook-android-tor/</a> Facebook Android app implements Tor option</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/41y6ig/hong_kong_movie_predicts_dark_future_for_city/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/41y6ig/hong_kong_movie_predicts_dark_future_for_city/</a> Honk Kong (2016) movie</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="news-2015"><a class="anchor" href="#news-2015"></a><a class="link" href="#news-2015">16.6. News 2015</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2015-11 <a href="https://technode.com/2015/11/24/surge-advanced-proxy-tool-ios-pulled-app-store/" class="bare">https://technode.com/2015/11/24/surge-advanced-proxy-tool-ios-pulled-app-store/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015-09 <a href="https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/03/in-pictures-censored-memes-search-terms-and-images-from-chinas-wwii-parade/" class="bare">https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/03/in-pictures-censored-memes-search-terms-and-images-from-chinas-wwii-parade/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/the-missing-hong-kong-booksellers-family-isnt-buying-his-televised-confession" class="bare">https://news.vice.com/article/the-missing-hong-kong-booksellers-family-isnt-buying-his-televised-confession</a> Gui Minhai, 51, from publisher Mighty Current who was going to publish a book about <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>'s love life.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020: stenced to 10 years <a href="https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/02/25/bookseller-gui-minhai-jailed-10-years-china-illegally-providing-intelligence-overseas-parties" class="bare">https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/02/25/bookseller-gui-minhai-jailed-10-years-china-illegally-providing-intelligence-overseas-parties</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Lam Wing-kee (林榮基) is another one of the detained booksellers of the Causeway Bay Books group</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Wing-kee" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Wing-kee</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHq0f_eGLhE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHq0f_eGLhE</a> 2016 interview in freedom</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://china-journal.org/2019/04/27/abducted-hong-kong-bookseller-has-fled-to-taiwan-to-avoid-extradition-to-china/" class="bare">https://china-journal.org/2019/04/27/abducted-hong-kong-bookseller-has-fled-to-taiwan-to-avoid-extradition-to-china/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#taiwan-number-one">Taiwan #1 (Taiwan Number One, 2015)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 Taiwanese beauty queen kicked out of Miss Earth pageant for refusing to change `Taiwan ROC' sash to `Chinese Taipei' <a href="https://shanghaiist.com/2015/11/23/miss-earth-ting-wen-yin.php" class="bare">https://shanghaiist.com/2015/11/23/miss-earth-ting-wen-yin.php</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/speech-enables-speech-china-takes-aim-its-coders" class="bare">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/speech-enables-speech-china-takes-aim-its-coders</a> <a href="https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks" class="bare">https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks</a> shadowsocks creator threatened</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34630829" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34630829</a> Lego refuses to sell to <a href="#ai-weiwei">Ai Weiwei (艾未未, artist)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/world/asia/china-bao-zhuoxuan-son-wang-yu-rights-lawyer-house-arrest.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/world/asia/china-bao-zhuoxuan-son-wang-yu-rights-lawyer-house-arrest.html</a> Bao Zhuoxuan 16-year old son of human rights layer in house arrest</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="news-pre-2015"><a class="anchor" href="#news-pre-2015"></a><a class="link" href="#news-pre-2015">16.7. News pre-2015</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2014 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/china-media-watchdog-bans-wordplay-puns" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/china-media-watchdog-bans-wordplay-puns</a> "China bans wordplay in attempt at pun control"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2013 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/db8b9e36-1119-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277" class="bare">https://www.ft.com/content/db8b9e36-1119-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277</a> Peter Humphrey</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2012 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuctech" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuctech</a>. One of the most blocked on Wikipedia according to: <a href="complete-gfw-rulebook-for-wikipedia-v3.0.pdf" class="bare">complete-gfw-rulebook-for-wikipedia-v3.0.pdf</a> Nutech Namibia Hu Haifeng corruption scandal 纳米比亚威视胡海峰腐败丑闻</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2011 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chinese_pro-democracy_protests" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chinese_pro-democracy_protests</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国茉莉花活动" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国茉莉花活动</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Zuoren#2009_court_case" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Zuoren#2009_court_case</a> <a href="#ai-weiwei">Ai Weiwei (艾未未, artist)</a> documentary about it: <a href="https://aiweiwei.com/documentaries/disturbing-the-peace/index.html" class="bare">https://aiweiwei.com/documentaries/disturbing-the-peace/index.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2008 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/豆腐渣工程" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/豆腐渣工程</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_Unnatural_Disaster:_The_Tears_of_Sichuan_Province" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_Unnatural_Disaster:_The_Tears_of_Sichuan_Province</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2008 Wenzhou train collision <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision#Government_response" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision#Government_response</a> <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011年甬台温铁路列车追尾事故" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011年甬台温铁路列车追尾事故</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2005 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongzhou_protests" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongzhou_protests</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/东洲事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/东洲事件</a> Dongzhou protests</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1978-1979 Beijing Spring</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Spring" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Spring</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北京之春" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北京之春</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="tiananmen"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen">17. Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/六四事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/六四事件</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Master issue with reuploads of everything: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/225" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/225</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good photo selections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2014 <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/" class="bare">https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/</a> "Photos: The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests". This is one of Ciro’s favorite photo selections.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2014 <a href="http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/" class="bare">http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190607142501/http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/">archive</a>) a few gory photos</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 <a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/tiananmen-square-massacre" class="bare">https://allthatsinteresting.com/tiananmen-square-massacre</a> "The Hidden History Of The Tiananmen Square Massacre"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019 <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures-tiananmen-square-anniversary" class="bare">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures-tiananmen-square-anniversary</a> "These Horrifying Pictures Show The Tiananmen Square Protests Like You’ve Never Seen Them"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019 <a href="https://wtop.com/media-galleries/2019/05/30-years-ago-tiananmen-square-protests/" class="bare">https://wtop.com/media-galleries/2019/05/30-years-ago-tiananmen-square-protests/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020 <a href="https://nsfw.xxx/post/tiananmen-square-masacre-photos-3394466?page=1" class="bare">https://nsfw.xxx/post/tiananmen-square-masacre-photos-3394466?page=1</a> has some decent gore. Original post: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MorbidReality/comments/h828c1/tiananmen_square_masacre_photos/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/MorbidReality/comments/h828c1/tiananmen_square_masacre_photos/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021 <a href="https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/the-making-of-icons/" class="bare">https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/the-making-of-icons/</a> by Stuart Franklin himself</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://netalert.me/june-four.html" class="bare">https://netalert.me/june-four.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>AP footage is pretty good, just do a search on the archive:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.aparchive.com/metadata/China-Student-Demonstrations/5d1cd01250c9e5e9397f20ef9f1327df" class="bare">https://www.aparchive.com/metadata/China-Student-Demonstrations/5d1cd01250c9e5e9397f20ef9f1327df</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.aparchive.com/metadata/China-Student-Demonstrations/cfc6890746010c73f9414e20906268aa" class="bare">https://www.aparchive.com/metadata/China-Student-Demonstrations/cfc6890746010c73f9414e20906268aa</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Soldiers who spoke up:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Zhang Shijun (张世军) is perhaps the most notable soldier who spoke up:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2018-06-04 RFA interview</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/flashbacks-06042018133558.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/flashbacks-06042018133558.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-06042018103250.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-06042018103250.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2009-03 published an open letter</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/03/china-detains-writer-of-critical-web-letter-to-hu/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/03/china-detains-writer-of-critical-web-letter-to-hu/</a> by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/20/tiananmen-square-china-zhang-shijun" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/20/tiananmen-square-china-zhang-shijun</a> "Zhang Shijun taken from home in middle of the night after publishing open letter to Chinese president <a href="#hu-jintao">Hu Jintao</a>"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Li Xiaoming</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/soldier-reveals-his-shame-over-tiananmen-square-massacre-30-years-on" class="bare">https://www.sbs.com.au/news/soldier-reveals-his-shame-over-tiananmen-square-massacre-30-years-on</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other interesting links:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#memo64">64memo.com (六四档案)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/june4_poetry" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/june4_poetry</a> Chinese poetry anthology about Tiananmen collected by <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinatimeline.github.io/tiananmen/" class="bare">https://chinatimeline.github.io/tiananmen/</a> from <a href="#chinatimeline">chinatimeline (中国时间线)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>！！暴行可耻！言论自由！解除报禁！耀邦不朽！</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>反对暴力！<br>
Oppose violence!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>保障人权！<br>
Guarantee human rights!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>爱国无罪！<br>
Patriotism is not a crime!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>暴行可耻！<br>
Brutality is shameful!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>言论自由！<br>
<a href="#censorship">Freedom of speech!</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>解除报禁！<br>
Abolish censorship!</p>
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<p>耀邦不朽！<br>
<a href="#hu-yaobang">Yaobang</a> lives on!</p>
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<p>Transcripted at: <a href="http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp02.html" class="bare">http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp02.html</a></p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4TZ0lB3GQM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4TZ0lB3GQM</a> Students shouting Oppose violence! and other slogans at <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> on 1989-04-22. Clip from <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> at around 42:48.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 194. Sea of protesters (广场人潮涌) in Tiananmen Square on 1989-05-04. No, not even that many people can influence dictatorships if they don’t have weapons. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/tiananmen-square-29th-anniversary-crackdown/story?id=55564966">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 195. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_Zhiqiang">Pu Zhiqiang</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/浦志强">浦志强</a>) was student demonstrator during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. His shirt reads: "Freedom of the press, freedom of association, support the '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Herald">World Economic Herald</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/世界经济导报">世界经济导报</a>)', and support just journalists." (辦報自由 結社自由 聲援世经导报 支持正义记者, fully quoted <a href="https://cinacn.blogspot.com/2001/07/28.html">here</a>) Date: 1989-05-10. Pu remained in China as a human rights layer, and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35157525">was arrested in 2014</a> for attending a private meeting commemorating the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen. <a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/tiananmen-square-massacre">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 196. Students from Beijing University stage a huge demonstration in Tiananmen Square as they start an unlimited hunger strike as the part of mass pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government. Photo taken on 1989-05-18 by Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty Images. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 197. Who said there weren’t some cute girls amongst the protesters? Photo taken on 1989-05-19 by AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 198. Happy protesters surround <a href="#pla">People’s Liberation Army (PLA, 中国人民解放军, 解放军, People’s Oppression Army, 镇压军)</a> convoy of 4,000 not so happy soldiers on 1989-05-20. Ciro can’t help but to think the <a href="#politically-incorrect">politically incorrect</a> idea that the military <a href="#uneducated-masses">look considerably younger and poorer/less uneducated than the Beijing masses</a>. <a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-06-04/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos">Source</a>.</div>
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<p>Transcript at <a href="http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp06.html" class="bare">http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp06.html</a>:</p>
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<p>男子： <a href="#pla">解放军</a>官兵们，我请求你们，我作为一个学生代表请求你们：拿出你们的正义和勇气，作一个人民的军队、人民的子弟兵，而不要为一小撮人所左右，作一小撮人的狗腿，作中华民族的罪人！<br>
Man: <a href="#pla">PLA</a> officers and soldiers, I beg you, and as a student representative, I beg you: show your justice and courage, and be a people’s army and soldiers of the people’s sons and brothers [the students protesting], instead of being dominated by a small group of people, being the henchman of a small group, becoming criminals of the Chinese nation!</p>
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<p>妇女： 你们知道吗？！我们在做什么你们知道吗？！解放军兄弟，你们是保护人民、保护学生的，你们不能来镇压他们，你们不能这样，不能这样！<br>
Woman: Do you know?! What are we doing you know?! Brothers in the People’s Liberation Army, you protect the people and students, you can’t come to suppress them, you can’t do this, you can’t do this!</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrU-h3-Sof4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrU-h3-Sof4</a> A man and a woman people plea the <a href="#pla">People’s Liberation Army (PLA, 中国人民解放军, 解放军, People’s Oppression Army, 镇压军)</a> to not attack the protesters on 1989-05-20. From <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> at around 1:39:20.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 199. A student from an art institute plasters the neck of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy">"Goddess of Democracy"</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/民主女神">民主女神</a>) statue on 1989-05-30. Replicas have of course been erected elsewhere, and when the CCP falls one day, this <em>will</em> be rebuilt, obviously. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 200. An old lady tells those rowdy overpriviledged students that they were complaining for no reason, and that in the <a href="#cultural-revolution">good old Mao days you would be lucky to get any food at all</a>, and that they should just go the fuck home on 1989-05-31 (Ciro might or might not have made up the exact content of the conversation). <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 201. A young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on 1989-06-03. AP Photo/Jeff Widener. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 202. Student sharing a coke with <a href="#pla">People’s Liberation Army (PLA, 中国人民解放军, 解放军, People’s Oppression Army, 镇压军)</a> soldiers, 1989-06-03. This photo looks excatly like something that would come out of Coca Cola’s publicity department, it is so perfect. The 2011 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_a_Coke">Share a Coke</a> campaign fits it perfectly. This 1981 photo is also of interest: <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/liu-heung-shing-coca-cola-snap-mic-intl-hnk/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/liu-heung-shing-coca-cola-snap-mic-intl-hnk/index.html</a>. <a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/g36621881/tiananmen-square-massacre-photos/?slide=14">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 203. A dissident student asks masses of sitting soldiers to go back home on 1989-06-03. Great shot composition by AP Photo/Jeff Widener. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 204. Godzilla <a href="#li-peng">Li Peng (李鹏, 1988-1998)</a> crushing the Tiananmen Square protests with his green eye laser beams. <a href="https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/File:Li_at_Tiananmen_Eyebeams.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 205. Protester covered in blood while holding an army helmet on 1989-06-04. There is also footage of that moment: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=lXJ6gHFME0w" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=lXJ6gHFME0w</a> which explains that the man claims his face was cut by a soldier by using the edge of the helmet. This other photo: <a href="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2019-06/4/12/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-02/sub-buzz-29641-1559664105-1.jpg?downsize=1600:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto" class="bare">https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2019-06/4/12/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-02/sub-buzz-29641-1559664105-1.jpg?downsize=1600:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto</a> shows the cut on his head better. There is also footage of the man shown at <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> 2:27:11. <a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-06-04/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos">Source</a>.</div>
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<p>这是一个同学的血，我没有受伤。我抬着同学的时候，那个同学脖子后面一股股的热血，我堵也堵不住，我用两块毛巾都没有堵住。他嘴里也是血，满脸都是血。<br>
This is the blood of a classmate, I am not hurt. When I was carrying my classmate, the back of the classmate’s neck was full of hot blood, and I couldn’t stop it. I didn’t stop it with two towels. There was blood in his mouth and blood all over his face.</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkqygAo1jc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkqygAo1jc</a> "This is the blood of a classmate", woman talks in interview on the ealry morning of 1989-06-04. From <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> at 2:28:41.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 206. Bodies with gun wounds at the mortuary at Shuili Hospital (水利医院太平间, Hospital of the Ministry of Water Resources of China, <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/xAy55T3sydW8X81M6">Google maps</a>, <a href="https://bkso.baidu.com/item/水利医院">Baidu</a>, <a href="https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20190531/tiananmen-square-protest-photos/">New York Times Chinese report</a>), about 8km West of Tiananmen Square. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/tiananmen-square-protest-photos.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 207. The morning after the military crackdown of the pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, workers clean their posters from bulletin boards. Resume <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a> as usual. Some related footage present at <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> part 2 at around 1:06:04 of part 2. <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures-tiananmen-square-anniversary">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 208. A Chinese couple on a bicycle take cover beneath an underpass as tanks deploy overhead in eastern Beijing on 1989-06-05 by AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing. This photo one is almost poetic. <a href="https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2021/06/04/2003758586" class="bare">https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2021/06/04/2003758586</a> contains another wider picture of the same bridge at a different time. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 209. Family members try to comfort a mother who has just learned of her son’s death after he was killed by soldiers at Tiananmen Square, June 4. TODO what’s her name? An association <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Mothers">Tiananmen Mothers</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/天安门母亲运动">天安门母亲运动</a>) was created after the events. <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/family-members-try-to-comfort-a-grief-stricken-mother-who-news-photo/640454591">Getty source</a>. <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures-tiananmen-square-anniversary">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR-qO4Y" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR-qO4Y</a> Democracy by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a> (1992). In this interesting song, the Canadian singer suggests that after events such as the fall of the Soviet Union and <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>, greater freedom and democracy would actually first come to the USA, and not to those other countries, the refrain says: "Democracy is coming to the USA" and at one point "It’s coming to America first". This is probably because when there is such an adversarial situation such as the cold war, it tends to also make democracies more like dictatorships, as they become readier and readier for war, and thus weakening civil rights, see e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a>. Related: <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a>. The song also criticizes several failures of American democracy, such as social injustice and inequality, suggesting that the newer more peaceful world would help solve them. This is a refreshing take on democracy that has gives it a <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">less religious view</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 210. Teenager making 6/4 sign with his hands in front of Tiananmen. His right hand does the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_number_gestures#From_6_to_10_in_North_China">Chinese single hand sign for the number six</a>: TODO identify him and hear, 2023-06-04: <a href="https://twitter.com/hsuanding/status/1665373962572820480" class="bare">https://twitter.com/hsuanding/status/1665373962572820480</a>, on r/LOOK_CHINA <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> 2023-06-05 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA/comments/1411u1l/昨日重现六四中华民国万岁/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LOOK_CHINA/comments/1411u1l/昨日重现六四中华民国万岁/</a></div>
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<h3 id="liubukou-massacre"><a class="anchor" href="#liubukou-massacre"></a><a class="link" href="#liubukou-massacre">17.1. Liubukou massacre (六部口惨案)</a></h3>
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<p>The source website of the photo below is by French journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Gauthier">Ursula Gauthier</a>, who explains how those photos were taken by one of the students of the group, who later asked her to take the photos abroad to publish them.</p>
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<p>The students were some of the last to leave after the crackdown, and they were trying to escape through a small street that leads into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27an_Avenue">Chang’an Avenue</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/长安街">长安街</a>) when the tanks came at high speed near Liubukou crossroads half mile West of Tiananmen square, and not all students were able evade the tanks.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/01/china.johngittings2" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/01/china.johngittings2</a> mentions that some bodies had to be scrapped-off the street.</p>
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<p>Ursula was later kicked out of China in 2015 after commenting that the CCP had ulterior motives for giving their condolences to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks">November 2015 Paris attacks</a>. Interesting fact: Ciro was actually less than 1km away from one of the Paris attacks on that night, at his home, and first learnt about what had happened when people started calling to see if he was fine.</p>
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<p>The name of the driver of the tank that overran students was reportedly discovered in 2014 as <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吳彥輝">Wu Yanhui (吴彦辉)</a>, who was aided by <a href="#operation-yellowbird">Operation Yellowbird (黄雀行动)</a>. This was based on an witness who had shouted "Remember Tank 106". The study was done by Chinese scholar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Renhua">Wu Renhua</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴仁华">吴仁华</a>).</p>
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<p>One of the injured survivors was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng">Fang Zheng</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方政">方政</a>). At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHlXF9nTYJ4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHlXF9nTYJ4</a> 方政：在六部口，坦克追杀袭击和平撤离的学生 he claims on an interview with <a href="#voa">Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)</a> that the students were peacefully evacuating.</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 211. Bodies run over by tanks by the road near Liubukou crossroads (六部口) after the Tiananmen Square Protests were crushed in the morning of 1989-06-05. <a href="http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/">Source</a>.</div>
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<h3 id="tiananmen-songs"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen-songs"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen-songs">17.2. Tiananmen Square Protests songs (六四事件歌曲)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>English:</p>
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<div class="title">"China" by Joan Baez from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_of_Dreams">Speaking of Dreams (1989) album</a>. Folk.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lpNKXuHWM5Y?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="title">"The blood is on the square" by Phillip Morgan from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Square-Philip-Morgan/dp/B001H5S7OS">1990</a>. Folk.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WpYcHQ_V3d4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="title">Same Cry (Feat. L.T.; Explicit) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Jin">MC Jin</a> from the 2004 album "The Rest Is History'. Hip hop American born Hakka Chinese.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MAZK4apK8Bg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uk0-vlpP0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uk0-vlpP0</a> "Nothing to My Name (一無所有)" by Cui Jian (崔健) from 1986, therefore around the time of <a href="#chinese-student-demonstrations-1986">1986 Chinese student demonstrations (八六学潮)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Lyrics and translation <a href="https://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandarin/cui-jian-nothing-to-my-name/" class="bare">https://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandarin/cui-jian-nothing-to-my-name/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chorus: "你合适跟我走" which translates to "When will you walk with me?" Could be talking directly to the Government.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The singer is/was very popular, the song was composed in 1986, but was very popular at the time of the protests, and became kind of a hymn.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Jian#Tiananmen_and_aftermath" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Jian#Tiananmen_and_aftermath</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_My_Name" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_My_Name</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一无所有_(歌曲" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一无所有_(歌曲</a>)</p>
<div id="nothing-to-my-name" class="videoblock">
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/m7uk0-vlpP0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8lWiWaSTtg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8lWiWaSTtg</a> History’s wound (历史的伤口) 1989-5-28 song by several <a href="#taiwan">Taiwanese</a> singers</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/历史的伤口" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/历史的伤口</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Lyrics: <a href="https://mojim.com/cny100375x11x1.htm" class="bare">https://mojim.com/cny100375x11x1.htm</a></p>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/F8lWiWaSTtg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdE4Ehte4uU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdE4Ehte4uU</a> "The square (廣場)" by Li Zhi (李志) from 2019. Slow/sad mood pop/rock.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/2/li-zhi-singer-missing-china-cracks-down-tiananmen-/" class="bare">https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/2/li-zhi-singer-missing-china-cracks-down-tiananmen-/</a> the singer disappeared from public view in June 2019 and his songs were purged from public listings</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/@sunlitmount/forbidden-songs-of-li-zhi-square-for-tiananmen-massacre-at-june-4th-1989-f22e7e2dc21a" class="bare">https://medium.com/@sunlitmount/forbidden-songs-of-li-zhi-square-for-tiananmen-massacre-at-june-4th-1989-f22e7e2dc21a</a> lyrics and translation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhi_(singer" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhi_(singer</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Cantonese</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>"The flower of freedom" (自由花) from 1989</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由花" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由花</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Lyrics: <a href="https://mojim.com/cny100293x15x4.htm" class="bare">https://mojim.com/cny100293x15x4.htm</a></p>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NPcD_2x2oW0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other good lists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/六四歌曲" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/六四歌曲</a> Wikipedia page with an infinite list of songs</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vMVrLBiW4&list=PLNRZ41lXl9e5iAXH_94DHiLPx_a9Yn711" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vMVrLBiW4&list=PLNRZ41lXl9e5iAXH_94DHiLPx_a9Yn711</a> 六四学运 歌 playlist by 杰克 .龙光复民国天下为公</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://coconuts.co/hongkong/lifestyle/from-80s-rock-to-patriotic-anthems-6-songs-associated-with-tiananmen-square/" class="bare">https://coconuts.co/hongkong/lifestyle/from-80s-rock-to-patriotic-anthems-6-songs-associated-with-tiananmen-square/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/06/04/the-last-gunshot-the-musical-legacy-of-the-1989-tiananmen-massacre/" class="bare">https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/06/04/the-last-gunshot-the-musical-legacy-of-the-1989-tiananmen-massacre/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For non-Tiananmen songs see: <a href="#anti-dictatorship-songs">Anti-dictatorship songs (反对独裁的首歌)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tank-man"><a class="anchor" href="#tank-man"></a><a class="link" href="#tank-man">17.3. Tank Man (坦克人)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/坦克人" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/坦克人</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good list of all known photos: <a href="https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/30/the-other-tank-man-photographs/" class="bare">https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/30/the-other-tank-man-photographs/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A list of Tank Man parodies can be found at: <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tank-man" class="bare">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tank-man</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO: can’t find a Tank Man ASCII art! How is that possible? Behold!</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
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<pre> |
|
|
Tank Man |
by Ciro Santilli 00 |
2021 CC-BY-SA 4.0 \\ +-|-+
\\/ /|-+o
\\--+ / /o
/|\\ |/ /oo
| / ----- /oo
| / /oo
| +-------+oo
| oo+---+ooo
00 | oo oo
\\ +-|-+
\\/ /|-+o
\\--+ / /o
/|\\ |/ /oo
| / ----- /oo
| / /oo
| +-------+oo
| oo+---+ooo
00 | oo oo
\\ +-|-+
\\/ /|-+o
\\--+ / /o
/|\\ |/ /oo
/ ----- /oo
/ /oo
+-------+oo
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oo oo
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/||\
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/\</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also posted at
* <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/183" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/183</a>
* <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/l2wqbg/ascii_art_of_tank_man_坦克人_from_tiananmen_square/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/l2wqbg/ascii_art_of_tank_man_坦克人_from_tiananmen_square/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/l2wqbg/ascii_art_of_tank_man_%E5%9D%A6%E5%85%8B%E4%BA%BA_from_tiananmen_square/gkdbe5d" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/l2wqbg/ascii_art_of_tank_man_%E5%9D%A6%E5%85%8B%E4%BA%BA_from_tiananmen_square/gkdbe5d</a> suggested a simpler one that has been in use with Chinese characters:</p>
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<div id="tank-man-emoticon" class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>占占点人</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>where:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the first three characters look like tanks (unrelated meaning)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the fourth character looks like, and actually means person</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So once a gain, <a href="#chinese-characters-are-insane">Chinese characters are insane (汉字是疯狂的)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrbwFxd1c-I" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrbwFxd1c-I</a> Michal Jackson’s Tank man performance in Munich (1997) The Cirque du Soliel "accidentally" showed Tank Man imagery for 4 seconds in a Beijing theater on a related 2013 act "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour": <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/15/world/asia/tank-man-cirque-soleil/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/15/world/asia/tank-man-cirque-soleil/index.html</a> but it was removed on future performances.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other tankman spoofs:
* <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/505" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/505</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon">Doraemon</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/哆啦A夢">机器猫</a>), a Japanese cartoon that is very popular in China, <a href="#wife">Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a> loves it. It is more commonly known in China simply as 机器猫 (mechanical cat)</p>
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<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU</a> CNN video of Tank Man: but not him leaving as other people beg him to, ridiculous, is there a full raw footage somewhere? Subset uploaded to GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/168" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/168</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk</a> shows the start of the exit. <a href="https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641" class="bare">https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641</a> shows a bit more. Some wumaos like to claim that the people taking him away indicates that the people didn’t agree with that madman. This interpretation os of course ridiculous. But the fact that you can’t easily find the full footage except from wumaos suggests that there is some Western propaganda that tries to prevent that ridiculous idea nevertheless. <a href="https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641" class="bare">https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641</a>. TODO who made the video? Who owns the rights now?</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YeFzeNAHEhU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSbx352cn8A" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSbx352cn8A</a> Several quick cuts by CBS news that give a good overview of the incident, including him being pushed away by other protesters at the end.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YeFzeNAHEhU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tank_Man.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tank Man" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 212. Arthur Tsang’s photo of Tank Man. <a href="https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/30/the-other-tank-man-photographs/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tank_Man_new_longshot_Stuart_Franklin.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tank Man new longshot Stuart Franklin" height="800">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 213. Stuart Franklin’s wider view photo of Tank Man. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tankman_new_longshot_StuartFranklin.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tank_Man_ground_level.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tank Man ground level" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 214. Terril Jones photo taken at ground level with Tank Man on background and men running away on the foreground. The photo was only published in 2009. <a href="https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/30/the-other-tank-man-photographs/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tank_Man_ducks.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tank Man ducks" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 215. Photoshop of Arthur Tsang’s photo of Tank Man with huge rubber ducks replacing the tanks. Inspired by a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSo5MqQVwCY">huge inflatable rubber duck sculpture floating in Hong Kong in 2013</a>. Watermark reads "weibo.com/weibolg" on <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a>, which is confirmed by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/04/tiananmen-square-online-search-censored">The New York Times</a>. <a href="https://petapixel.com/2013/06/05/yellow-duck-version-of-tank-man-photo-goes-viral-amidst-chinese-censorship">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="lego-tank-man" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Lego_Tank_Man.png" loading="lazy" alt="Lego Tank Man" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 216. Rough <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego">Lego</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/樂高">乐高</a>) model of the Tank Man scene. A Lego <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a> can be seen at <a href="https://twitter.com/MidnightMitch/status/1412887665113018371" class="bare">https://twitter.com/MidnightMitch/status/1412887665113018371</a>, many people replied with that at: <a href="https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1412743232270876675" class="bare">https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1412743232270876675</a>. A fake Lego advertisement video has also been made: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wphTAEQusLk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wphTAEQusLk</a>. <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1499216-tank-man">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tank_Man_FF6.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tank Man FF6" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 217. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VI">Final Fantasy VI</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/最终幻想VI">最终幻想VI</a>) battle screen style depiction of tank man by Cody Walton by it8Bit. <a href="https://www.it8bit.com/post/25860395424/unknown-rebel">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="tank-man-cc-by-sa" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tank_Man_drawing_by_Ciro_Santilli_CC_BY_SA.png" loading="lazy" alt="Tank Man drawing by Ciro Santilli CC BY SA" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 218. Tank man drawing by Ciro Santilli. The only CC BY-SA 4.0 representaion of Tank Man found on the web? And the prettiest. Created manually with GIMP. This can be very useful e.g. if you are posting <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a> answers about image processing, e.g.: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20737061/merge-images-side-by-sidehorizontally/63575228#63575228" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20737061/merge-images-side-by-sidehorizontally/63575228#63575228</a> It was of course taken down later on because it was considered spam: <a href="#stack-overflow-political-image-answer-placeholder-2021">Stack Overflow political image answer placeholder (2021)</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1429315/121059892-e2a0d380-c7b9-11eb-88f0-cacdefab548c.gif" loading="lazy" alt="121059892 e2a0d380 c7b9 11eb 88f0 cacdefab548c" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 219. Xi Jinping erasing tank man by Twatical. Easy mp4 download: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/357" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/357</a>. The character shown is "碾". TODO understand the <a href="#slang">slang</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/Twatical_/status/1357377135573401601">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chiken_nugged_and_fries_Tank_man.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Chiken nugged and fries Tank man" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 220. Chicken nugget and fries tank man. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EmKay/comments/dkd0sq/tank_man_but_chicken_nuggets_and_fries/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="tank-man-song"><a class="anchor" href="#tank-man-song"></a><a class="link" href="#tank-man-song">17.3.1. Tank Man Song by Xu Lin (坦克人歌曲，作曲家：徐琳, 2016)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This song is amazing!!!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Official tablature on Xu Lin’s blog: <a href="https://xulin1523.blogspot.com/2016/01/blog-post_26.html" class="bare">https://xulin1523.blogspot.com/2016/01/blog-post_26.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym88UOz5ZC8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym88UOz5ZC8</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/185">GitHub reupload</a>) Tank Man Song (2016) video on Xu Lin’s official YouTube channel.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ym88UOz5ZC8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>我是坦克人<br>
I am Tank Man<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>站在天安门<br>
I stand at Tiananmen<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>面对坦克车队<br>
I face the tank column<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>从容挺出身<br>
I calmly come and stand (? confirm)<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>广场人潮涌<br>
A tide of people has rushed the square<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>群情正沸腾<br>
The feelings of the people are boiling right now (正 == short of 正在?)<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>发出正义呼声<br>
The voice of justice is calling<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>结束一党专政<br>
To finish the One Party Dictatorship<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>国家人人有份<br>
Everyone has a share of the country<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>岂容他们独吞<br>
How can we put up with them taking more than their fair share? (岂容)<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>自由天赋权利<br>
Free natural rights<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>岂可葬于铁轮<br>
How can they be buried under the Iron Wheel? (TODO why Iron Wheel? <a href="https://cd.hwxnet.com/view/fkkhdjaknlgbnolg.html" class="bare">https://cd.hwxnet.com/view/fkkhdjaknlgbnolg.html</a> mentions possibly Buddhist metaphor "Cast iron wheels. According to the Buddhist legend, the torture instrument used to squeeze evil spirits in hell.")<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>谁挡了谁的路<br>
Who is standing on whose way?<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>谁是谁的敌人<br>
Who is whose enemy?<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>谁是正义一方<br>
Who is on the side of the righteous?<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>谁是历史罪人<br>
And who are the enemies of History?<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>你们的枪炮是人民造<br>
Your guns were made by the People<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>你们的俸禄是民脂民膏<br>
Your salaries were paid by the people’s taxes (民脂民膏 is a poetic way of putting it that references historical events apparently)<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>为什么枪口对着人民<br>
So why are the guns being pointed at the people?<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>犯下这罪恶天理难饶<br>
Those who commit this crime, can hardly be forgiven by the Heavenly Principles (天理 is a concept from Song Dynasty Confucianism, "heavenly principles", a type of "feudal ethics" according to Pleco and 1<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>民主是世界的必行之道<br>
Democracy is a necessary Path of the world<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>实行了民主大家都好<br>
Once democracy is implemented, everyone will be better off<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>不要做独裁的镇压工具<br>
Don’t be a tool of suppression of the Dictatorship<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>还不快停车把头调<br>
Quickly stop the tanks, and correct your point of view<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xu_Lin_with_Tank_Man_song_tablature.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xu Lin with Tank Man song tablature" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 221. Picture of Xu Lin and the tablature of this <a href="#tank-man-song">Tank Man Song (2016)</a>. <a href="https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2019/06/3.html">Source of portrait</a>, <a href="https://xulin1523.blogspot.com/2016/01/blog-post_26.html">source of tablature</a>. The video contains several images that would make for good ammo.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="xu-lin"><a class="anchor" href="#xu-lin"></a><a class="link" href="#xu-lin">17.3.1.1. Xu Lin (徐琳)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.nchrd.org/2018/10/xu-lin/" class="bare">https://www.nchrd.org/2018/10/xu-lin/</a> on <a href="#chinese-human-rights-defenders">Chinese Human Rights Defenders (中国人权捍卫者)</a> says he was arrested in 2017 for <a href="#picking-quarrels">Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)</a>, and released on September 2020 at the completion of his sentence. This dude was actually China, what a hero. <a href="https://chinachange.org/2018/07/28/guangdong-activist-xu-lin-tried-on-charges-of-stirring-up-trouble-for-writing-songs/" class="bare">https://chinachange.org/2018/07/28/guangdong-activist-xu-lin-tried-on-charges-of-stirring-up-trouble-for-writing-songs/</a> talks about his trial in 2018.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Possible official accounts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/yasenwang9" class="bare">https://mobile.twitter.com/yasenwang9</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://xulin1523.blogspot.com" class="bare">https://xulin1523.blogspot.com</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some songs:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#tank-man-song">Tank Man Song by Xu Lin (坦克人歌曲，作曲家：徐琳, 2016)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xu-lin-709">Xu Lin 709</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vZnN0EaRps" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vZnN0EaRps</a> How should I save 7M (TODO what is 7M, 2017, 我该如何挽救 7M) tribute to <a href="#liu-xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjhuBM6zsvI&t=108s" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjhuBM6zsvI&t=108s</a> Twitter Party song (2017, 推特党之歌) Appears to be a tribute to Chinese people who jump the <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxgK0t2sVGw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxgK0t2sVGw</a> tribute to the 玫瑰团队 (Rose Team), apparently a human rights group in China</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tiananmen-was-necessary"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen-was-necessary"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen-was-necessary">17.4. It is becauase the CCP put down Tiananmen that China is the wonderful place it is today? (是因为中共平定了天安门事件，中国才有今天这样美好的地方吗？)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Exact the same discussion as:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#democracy">Democracy (民主)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#stability">If anyone disagrees with the government they must be punished to keep the stability of the country (如果有人不同意政府，他们必须受到惩罚以保持国家的稳定)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#not-interested-in-politics">The Chinese masses are not interested in politics and therefore not ready to vote (中国群众对政治不感兴趣，因此不准备投票)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="protester-violence"><a class="anchor" href="#protester-violence"></a><a class="link" href="#protester-violence">17.5. CCP soldiers were killed in Tiananmen by protesters, therefore the students are wrong (中共士兵在天安门被抗议者杀害，学生错了)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is basically impossible to put things better than <a href="#tiananmen-pla-plea">Tiananmen PLA plea</a>. The soldiers should support the pople. Not the ruling dictators.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Individual deaths are all a disaster, on both sides. As perfectly put in the <a href="#tank-man-song">Tank Man Song by Xu Lin (坦克人歌曲，作曲家：徐琳, 2016)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>谁挡了谁的路<br>
Who is standing on whose way?<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>谁是谁的敌人<br>
Who is whose enemy?<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>谁是正义一方<br>
Who is on the side of the righteous?<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>谁是历史罪人<br>
And who are the enemies of History?<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Same discussion as: <a href="#violence">Would it be right to use violence to overthrow the CCP? (用暴力推翻中共正确吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tiananmen-square-protests-keywords"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen-square-protests-keywords"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen-square-protests-keywords">17.6. Tiananmen Square Protests keywords (天安门广场抗议关键词)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>六四学潮, which is also very close in form to the earlier: <a href="#chinese-student-demonstrations-1986">1986 Chinese student demonstrations (八六学潮)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://qz.com/698990/261-ways-to-refer-to-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-in-china/" class="bare">https://qz.com/698990/261-ways-to-refer-to-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-in-china/</a> 261 ways to refer to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tiananmen-leaders"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen-leaders"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen-leaders">17.7. Tiananmen square protest student leaders (六四学运学生领袖)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lists: <a href="https://qz.com/1618805/the-1989-tiananmen-student-leaders-on-chinas-most-wanted-list/" class="bare">https://qz.com/1618805/the-1989-tiananmen-student-leaders-on-chinas-most-wanted-list/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Gang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Gang</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/劉剛_(1961年)" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/劉剛_(1961年)</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Congde">Feng Congde</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/封从德">封从德</a>)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>creator <a href="#memo64">64memo.com (六四档案)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/FengCongde" class="bare">https://twitter.com/FengCongde</a>. Retweeted Ciro’s CC BY SA <a href="#tank-man">Tank Man (坦克人)</a> arts:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/cirosantilli2/status/1352936697420509184/retweets" class="bare">https://twitter.com/cirosantilli2/status/1352936697420509184/retweets</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Wu’erkaixi, dude’s from <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%27erkaixi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%27erkaixi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吾爾開希·多萊特" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吾爾開希·多萊特</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/wuerkaixi" class="bare">https://twitter.com/wuerkaixi</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="tiananmen-leaders-corrupt"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen-leaders-corrupt"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen-leaders-corrupt">17.7.1. Tiananmen student leaders went to USA and are living just fine (天安门学生领袖去了美国，生活还不错)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ah, if only <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> had brains:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>some were executed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>some went to prison and remained in China</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>some managed to escape</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>some who managed to escape became part of a American propaganda</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Does that make the entire movement wrong?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Why would they stay in China to be thrown in jail or killed, and then have a shitty job until they die?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There were <a href="#tiananmen-sea-of-protesters">a million people in Tiananmen</a>. We can see it in photos. There was huge desire for democracy.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Doesn’t the CCP invest billions annually in propaganda and <a href="#internal-censorship">Internal censorship is necessary to prevent fake USA accounts from creating harmful propaganda (内部审查是必要的，以防止虚假的美国账户制造有害宣传)</a>? Notably in paying <a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Aren’t all <a href="#corruption">top CCP people extremelly wealthy</a>, and often sending their children to study abroad, or moving abroad themselves, e.g. <a href="#xi-mingze">Xi Mingze (Xi Jinping’s daughter, 习明泽)</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Think <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a>, think.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#many-people-say-they-do-falun-gong-only-to-get-visas-to-the-usa">Many people say they do Falun Gong only to get VISAs to the USA (很多人说他们修炼法轮功只是为了拿到美国签证)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#funded-by-cia">Is Ciro Santilli’s china-dictatorship campaign funded or otherwise supported by some organization? 谁收买三西猴散布关于中国的谣言？</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="operation-yellowbird"><a class="anchor" href="#operation-yellowbird"></a><a class="link" href="#operation-yellowbird">17.7.2. Operation Yellowbird (黄雀行动)</a></h4>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="zhou-fengsuo"><a class="anchor" href="#zhou-fengsuo"></a><a class="link" href="#zhou-fengsuo">17.7.3. Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Fengsuo" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Fengsuo</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周锋锁" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周锋锁</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> started his campaign for freedom of speech in china in 2015, Zhou Fengsuo published on Twitter in 2015-05-30 when he had 36K followers at the time: <a href="https://twitter.com/ZhouFengSuo/status/604461488716144640" class="bare">https://twitter.com/ZhouFengSuo/status/604461488716144640</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/8d2lt">archive</a>) linking to Ciro Santilli’s Stack Overflow account:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The commies have messed with the wrong guy’s <a href="#ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail">mother-in-law.</a>"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>一个程序员在专业网站上发布六四和法轮功的消息，目的是触怒中共，封杀网站，从而激起程序员的反抗。因为岳母被抓半个月。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="chai-ling"><a class="anchor" href="#chai-ling"></a><a class="link" href="#chai-ling">17.7.4. Chai Ling (柴玲)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Ling" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Ling</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/柴玲" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/柴玲</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>She was cute and energetic! :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Famous anti-<a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a> speech:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAmL1D8R-4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAmL1D8R-4</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81V1bZEus5I" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81V1bZEus5I</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>人民日报，胡说八道！<br>
欺骗人民，良心何在！<br>
不是不报，时候不到！<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People’s Daily,<br>
Full of nonsense<br>
Lying to the people,<br>
Where’s your conscience?<br>
You may think you’re safe,<br>
But your time will come.<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also transcripted at: <a href="http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp04.html" class="bare">http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp04.html</a> from <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chai has some "dirt" on her as mentioned at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Ling#Controversies" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Ling#Controversies</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>she sued and lost a case where she sued <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> for defamation over a video where she willingly states bloodshed was necessary in Tiananmen to open people’s eyes, but that she couldn’t bring herself to tell her fellow students that. She requested the interview herself. This is the interview: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__ESiklA1A" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__ESiklA1A</a>. This position is notably opposed by people such as <a href="#liu-xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a>, who begged</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>her US company Jenzabar was sued for religious discrimination by ex-employee Jing Zhang in 2012 who claimed she was fired because she refused to pray, this after Chai had converted to Christinanity in 2009. TODO result.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAmL1D8R-4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAmL1D8R-4</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/197">GitHub reupload</a>) Chai Ling People’s Daily speech in Tiananmen Square protests (柴玲—六四学运—国民日报，胡说八道！). Ripped from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_Head_(TV_series)">The BBC miniseries Can’t Get You Out of My Head</a> directed by Alam Curtis (2021) It is also, and perhaps more importantly also shown at <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> at around 1:11:40. TODO find exact date. Ordering of the documentary suggests some time after May 10th.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gRAmL1D8R-4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chai_Ling_People_s_Daily_speech.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Chai Ling People s Daily speech" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 222. Still from the above video with captions. We see that she was either at the headquarters of the <a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a>, or in some other office of the organization. TODO confirm exact location.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tiananmen-square-protest-documentaries"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen-square-protest-documentaries"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen-square-protest-documentaries">17.8. Tiananmen square protest documentaries (六四事件纪录片)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The problem of most documentaries is that they are just a bunch of modern interviews with very very quick scenes interspersed.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It would be much more effective to just let the actual scenes sink in by themselves in a fuller uncommented format.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Basically, more footage.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> is by far the least worse in this aspect.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also extremelly difficult to find a good footage database! Ony a journalist would be able to find it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some good footage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>man showing bullet cases + bullet holes on windows on July: <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/news-footage/83245439?adppopup=true" class="bare">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/news-footage/83245439?adppopup=true</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the dust storm on May 31st!</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/news-footage/83245434?adppopup=true" class="bare">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/news-footage/83245434?adppopup=true</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/news-footage/83245435?adppopup=true" class="bare">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/news-footage/83245435?adppopup=true</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995"><a class="anchor" href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995"></a><a class="link" href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">17.8.1. The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_(film" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_(film</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/天安门_(纪录片" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/天安门_(纪录片</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Official website: <a href="http://tsquare.tv/" class="bare">http://tsquare.tv/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Chinese transcript: <a href="http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp00.html" class="bare">http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp00.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>English transcript: <a href="http://tsquare.tv/film/transcript.php" class="bare">http://tsquare.tv/film/transcript.php</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some highlights:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>14:00: <a href="#mao-portrait-vandalism-incident-1989">1989 Mao portrait vandalism incident (天安门毛泽东像污损案)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>19:00: <a href="#xidan-democracy-wall">Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>24:50: <a href="#wu-guoguang">Wu Guoguang (吴国光)</a> makes comments that apply well to <a href="#what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship">What should pro-democracy Chinese living in China do about the dictatorship? 想要民主住在中国大陆的人应该干什么？</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>29:00: quotes <a href="#lu-xun-petition">Lu Xun’s petition quote</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>42:48: students shout <a href="#tiananmen-oppose-violence">Tiananmen oppose violence</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1:39:22 protestears plea the <a href="#pla">People’s Liberation Army (PLA, 中国人民解放军, 解放军, People’s Oppression Army, 镇压军)</a> to stand with them</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1:46:14: <a href="#liu-xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a> mentions how some students had the delusion that they would actually be able to stand up to the army. He speaks at many other points. He is a lively, really nice guy.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1:52:09 break</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1:53:42 interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Dejian">Hou Dejian</a> talking about the importance of music in the movement. He later said that he saw no one being killed in Tiananmen. And in much later years went on to praise the <a href="#chinese-dream">Chinese dream (中国梦, 4000 BC -)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1:55:58: the hedgehog with a red scarf</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2:27:11: footage of <a href="#helmet-blood">helmet blood man</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2:28:41 (+36:32): <a href="#blood-of-a-classmate">This is the blood of a classmate</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2:37:35: man shoots "murderers", the <a href="#pla">People’s Liberation Army (PLA, 中国人民解放军, 解放军, People’s Oppression Army, 镇压军)</a> fires back</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2:53:52: <a href="#xiao-bin">Xiao Bin (Tiananmen witness, 肖斌, 六四证人)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="xiao-bin"><a class="anchor" href="#xiao-bin"></a><a class="link" href="#xiao-bin">17.8.1.1. Xiao Bin (Tiananmen witness, 肖斌, 六四证人)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A man named Xiao Bin (肖斌) told ABC News that he saw tunks crushing people, and got a 10 year sentence. <a href="#lu-xun-petition">Lu Xun’s petition quote</a> comes to mind.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Highlighted at <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> at around 2:53:52.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Transcript:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp11.html" class="bare">http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp11.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://tsquare.tv/film/transcript_end.php" class="bare">http://tsquare.tv/film/transcript_end.php</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First the reporter asks in the background, untrunscripted, with her English accent (a lot like Ciro’s):</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>你有什么反应对这个事情？<br>
What’s your reaction to the situation</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese transcript starts at:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>政府没有这样用坦克车、用装甲车，对这么多学生进行履带压<br>
Is this what the People’s Government does? Using tanks to crush people?</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but the Chinese it is missing the crucial start of the sentence! From this part alone it seems like he is starting to say the the Government did not use tanks to crush people. From hearing the words before are:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>他怎么去?代表?人的政府，</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So a more literal translation would be:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How can this Government claim to represent the people? A government doesn’t use tanks like this, doesn’t use armored vehicles like this, to advance towards so many students and crush them under the vehicle’s tracks?</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>presumably referring to events such as <a href="#liubukou-massacre">Liubukou massacre (六部口惨案)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At <a href="https://www.npr.org/2009/05/31/104731094/tiananmen-shouts-that-turned-to-silence" class="bare">https://www.npr.org/2009/05/31/104731094/tiananmen-shouts-that-turned-to-silence</a> "I sent a man to labor camp 20 years ago this week." (2009) reporter Alisa Barba who interviewed Xiao Bin reflects on the effect onhis lef</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And finally, what happened to Xiao Bin? Five years after he was sent to labor camp, a small item appeared in the Chinese news - Xiao had been paroled. He was sent home to Dalian and tracked down there by ABC staffers still working in China. Xiao was in poor health, they discovered, and he wanted help to go to America. That was the last we heard.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Asked her for the full footage at: <a href="https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1522527798832816128" class="bare">https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1522527798832816128</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.standoffattiananmen.com/2015/08/people-of-1989-xiao-bin.html" class="bare">http://www.standoffattiananmen.com/2015/08/people-of-1989-xiao-bin.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_otI5aTkWY" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_otI5aTkWY</a> <a href="#xiao-bin">Xiao Bin (Tiananmen witness, 肖斌, 六四证人)</a> clip from <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a>. Amazing supercut editing done there. Poor Xiao Bin!!</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/i_otI5aTkWY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xiao_bin_crush_students.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xiao bin crush students" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 223. Still of the above with captions.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="wu-guoguang"><a class="anchor" href="#wu-guoguang"></a><a class="link" href="#wu-guoguang">17.8.1.2. Wu Guoguang (吴国光)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Guoguang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Guoguang</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴国光" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴国光</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Featured on <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> at 24:50.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="memo64"><a class="anchor" href="#memo64"></a><a class="link" href="#memo64">17.8.2. 64memo.com (六四档案)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.64memo.com/" class="bare">https://www.64memo.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website dedicated to collecting photos of the protests and aftermath.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Says you have to login to see the gory photos, but hovering over thumbnails expands all of them, and their email service is broken as of 2020 so you can’t sign up.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="april-26-editorial"><a class="anchor" href="#april-26-editorial"></a><a class="link" href="#april-26-editorial">17.9. April 26 Editorial (四·二六社论)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_26_Editorial" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_26_Editorial</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/必须旗帜鲜明地反对动乱" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/必须旗帜鲜明地反对动乱</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tiananmen-antecedents"><a class="anchor" href="#tiananmen-antecedents"></a><a class="link" href="#tiananmen-antecedents">17.10. Tiananmen antecedents (六四的来历)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#may-fourth-movement">May Fourth Movement (五四运动, 1919)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xidan-democracy-wall">Xidan Democracy Wall (西单民主墙, 1978-1979)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="chinese-student-demonstrations-1986"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-student-demonstrations-1986"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-student-demonstrations-1986">17.10.1. 1986 Chinese student demonstrations (八六学潮)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Chinese_student_demonstrations" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Chinese_student_demonstrations</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/八六学潮" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/八六学潮</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The prelude to <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, Cui Jian (崔健) <a href="#nothing-to-my-name">"Nothing to My Name (一無所有)"</a> song was composed in 1986, and later became a <a href="#tiananmen-songs">major Tiananmen Hymn</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hu-yaobang"><a class="anchor" href="#hu-yaobang"></a><a class="link" href="#hu-yaobang">17.10.2. Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦, 1915 - 1989-04-15)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Yaobang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Yaobang</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡耀邦" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡耀邦</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/the-long-reach-of-hu-yaobang/" class="bare">https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/the-long-reach-of-hu-yaobang/</a> mentions that Hu was instrumental in rehabilitating <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>'s father, Xi Zhongxun. Without this, Xi would not be in power.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://club.6parkbbs.com/nz/index.php?app=forum&act=threadview&tid=916202" class="bare">https://club.6parkbbs.com/nz/index.php?app=forum&act=threadview&tid=916202</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="hu-yaobang-memorial" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Hu_Yaobang_memorial.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Hu Yaobang memorial" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 224. <a href="#hu-yaobang">Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦, 1915 - 1989-04-15)</a> memorial at the <a href="#monument-to-the-peoples-heroes">Monument to the People’s Heroes (人民英雄纪念碑)</a>. Hu’s mourning was the start of <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>. The central banners read left: ttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中央美术学院[中央美院]敬挽 (Condolences from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Academy_of_Fine_Arts">Central Academy of Fine Arts</a>) and right: 何处招魂 (where we conjure the spirit of the dead, a refernce to some poem: <a href="https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/1964020062838200140.html" class="bare">https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/1964020062838200140.html</a> by <a href="#qu-yuan">Qu Yuan (屈原, 340-278 BC)</a>) TODO are there any quotes showing his liberal position? If we find one let’s add to the image side-by-side. <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/hu-yaobang-death-cpc_1524059.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="mao-portrait-vandalism-incident-1989"><a class="anchor" href="#mao-portrait-vandalism-incident-1989"></a><a class="link" href="#mao-portrait-vandalism-incident-1989">17.11. 1989 Mao portrait vandalism incident (天安门毛泽东像污损案)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Mao_portrait_vandalism_incident" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Mao_portrait_vandalism_incident</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/天安门毛泽东像污损案" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/天安门毛泽东像污损案</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="monument-to-the-peoples-heroes"><a class="anchor" href="#monument-to-the-peoples-heroes"></a><a class="link" href="#monument-to-the-peoples-heroes">17.12. Monument to the People’s Heroes (人民英雄纪念碑)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_People%27s_Heroes" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_People%27s_Heroes</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人民英雄纪念碑" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人民英雄纪念碑</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="dissidents"><a class="anchor" href="#dissidents"></a><a class="link" href="#dissidents">18. Dissidents (持不同政见者)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#other-openly-dissident-users-on-stack-overflow">Other openly dissident users on Stack Overflow (Stack Overflow 上的其他公开持不同政见的用户)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not mentioned in other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>王苗森 <a href="https://www.miaosenwang.com/" class="bare">https://www.miaosenwang.com/</a>, <a href="https://x.com/dieccp1" class="bare">https://x.com/dieccp1</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@miaosenwang" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/@miaosenwang</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinese-dissidents"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-dissidents"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-dissidents">18.1. Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#tiananmen-leaders">Tiananmen square protest student leaders (六四学运学生领袖)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus">People arrested for reporting on the 2019 Corona Virus (因报道 2019 年冠状病毒而被捕的人)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#t-shirt">What happens if you wear a T-shirt with censored words in China? (如果你在中国穿一件带有审查词的 T 恤会怎样？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>from <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a> contributors: Chen Mei (陈玫), Cai Wei (蔡伟), Xiao Tang (小唐)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#fuck-xuexiqiangguo">Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo (Fuck学习强国)</a> creator Tang Wenzheng (唐文正)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#cartoonists">Cartoonists (漫画家)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#gfwfrog">GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#peng-shuai">Peng Shuai (tennis player, 2021 Zhang Gaoli sexual assual allegations, 彭帅)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#wei-jingsheng">Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#wu-guoguang">Wu Guoguang (吴国光)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xiao-bin">Xiao Bin (Tiananmen witness, 肖斌, 六四证人)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other dissidents:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Huang Xueqin (黄雪琴) from <a href="#womans-rights">Woman’s rights (妇女权利)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Gong Ping (龔平), AKA 加州老爹 CADaddy (California Daddy)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hk.appledaily.com/news/20201222/34I7BBKPKVCPNKG7XJ2II6ICQ4/" class="bare">https://hk.appledaily.com/news/20201222/34I7BBKPKVCPNKG7XJ2II6ICQ4/</a> "Chinese YouTuber forced to flee after voicing support for Hong Kong protesters"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILmu3Q7Rf8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILmu3Q7Rf8</a> 勇武者之歌 (Song of the brave)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>real chinese name from: from <a href="https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20201222/AZMBHJHIJZGADMK76Z54M6O6IE/" class="bare">https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20201222/AZMBHJHIJZGADMK76Z54M6O6IE/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>TODO Twitter handle if it wasn’t entirely deleted?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsbdz3lXyyvBz7hMDNXHT7w" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsbdz3lXyyvBz7hMDNXHT7w</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/monitor-08182020091653.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/monitor-08182020091653.html</a> "Jailed <a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a> User Says Chinese Police Monitor Overseas Accounts Too". Gao Zhigang.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Guangcheng">Chen Guangcheng</a> (陈光诚). The blind dude. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDqYMXxH09Y" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDqYMXxH09Y</a> "Chinese dissident tells story of escaping tyranny and finding hope in America" by "Fox News" (2020-08-26) supporting Trump’s reelection.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-08 Ge Yulu staring into security cameras: <a href="https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008142/watching-the-watchers" class="bare">https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008142/watching-the-watchers</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not sure if these are dissidents or not:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Wei">Zhao Wei</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙薇">赵薇</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵薇/139401" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵薇/139401</a> up 2021-08-30</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/top-chinese-star-zhao-wei-clipped-on-country-s-internet" class="bare">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/top-chinese-star-zhao-wei-clipped-on-country-s-internet</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wu</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴淖米" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴淖米</a>, SexyCyborg, "机械妖姬"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1341572058006736897" class="bare">https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1341572058006736897</a> <a href="#tank-man">Tank Man (坦克人)</a> clip. But it might be just to show that Chinese have freedom of speech? Not sure.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>wiki quote: "In November 2019, Wu was detained by Chinese authorities for an interstitial Wall Street Journal interview expose piece on Chinese censorship in an episode of Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj."</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but that is really poorly stated and links to her blog as reference: <a href="https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naomi-wu-part-3-defunding-deplatforming-and-detention-140fed4b9554" class="bare">https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naomi-wu-part-3-defunding-deplatforming-and-detention-140fed4b9554</a>. There she says she says the video was used without out of context without her permission, and that she always tries to avoid sensitive topics.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But in any case, she walks the line.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1281934477430681601" class="bare">https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1281934477430681601</a> "Naomi on a Saturday night, complaining about the lack of available FOSS anti-censorship options to help her fellow Chinese access the global Internet. FML I should pack some snacks to take with me…​" It’s hard to understand what she means.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1340495054733905922" class="bare">https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1340495054733905922</a> "I’m Cantonese, I’ve been in countless private WhatsApp and Telegram groups where these issues were openly discussed in our dialect, and countless Mainland <a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a> groups with that perspective- trust me, I know quite a lot more about this than some illiterate randos from the US."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>So either she is anti-CCP, or she is part of the most advanced <a href="#soft-power">Soft power (软实力)</a> program ever made</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="naomi-wu"><a class="anchor" href="#naomi-wu"></a><a class="link" href="#naomi-wu">18.1.1. Naomi Wu (SexyCyborg, 机械妖姬 )</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wu</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴淖米" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴淖米</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1677480809450835969" class="bare">https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1677480809450835969</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/F664U" class="bare">https://archive.ph/F664U</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg" class="bare">https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>She was shudown in 2023: <a href="https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes" class="bare">https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ok for those of you that haven’t figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren’t gentle about it- so there’s not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can’t so we’re just going to follow the new rules and that’s that.
Nothing personal if I don’t like and reply like I used to. I’ll be focusing on the store and the occasional video. Thanks for understanding, it was fun while it lasted.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Kaidi" is her <a href="#xinjiang">Uighur</a> boyfriend.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Maker_tutorial_on_configuring_a_Raspberry_Pi_2.png/800px-Maker_tutorial_on_configuring_a_Raspberry_Pi_2.png" loading="lazy" alt="800px Maker tutorial on configuring a Raspberry Pi 2" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 225. Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maker_tutorial_on_configuring_a_Raspberry_Pi_2.png" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maker_tutorial_on_configuring_a_Raspberry_Pi_2.png</a></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="lists-of-chinese-dissidents"><a class="anchor" href="#lists-of-chinese-dissidents"></a><a class="link" href="#lists-of-chinese-dissidents">18.1.2. Lists of Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者名单)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The best montage ever: <a href="#water-margin-dissidents">Water Margin Dissidents</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other lists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Wikipedia list of Chinese dissidents</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国被捕政治犯列表" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国被捕政治犯列表</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cppc1989.blogspot.com/" class="bare">https://cppc1989.blogspot.com/</a> 中國政治犯關注 China Political Prisoner Concern. Chinese blog with an infinite list of Chinese political prisoners.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>中国近年文字狱事件盘点 (List of events in which Chinese writters were persecuted for their writing) by <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeechFreedomCN" class="bare">https://twitter.com/SpeechFreedomCN</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Coverage: 2021-02-26 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/business/china-online-censorship.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/business/china-online-censorship.html</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="chinese-human-rights-defenders"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-human-rights-defenders"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-human-rights-defenders">18.1.2.1. Chinese Human Rights Defenders (中国人权捍卫者)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Human_Rights_Defenders" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Human_Rights_Defenders</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国人权捍卫者" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国人权捍卫者</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://www.nchrd.org/" class="bare">https://www.nchrd.org/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO funding.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Based in Washington DC.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="front-line-defenders"><a class="anchor" href="#front-line-defenders"></a><a class="link" href="#front-line-defenders">18.1.2.2. Front Line Defenders (前线卫士)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Line_Defenders" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Line_Defenders</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/前線衛士" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/前線衛士</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/location/china" class="bare">https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/location/china</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Based on Ireland.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="ai-weiwei"><a class="anchor" href="#ai-weiwei"></a><a class="link" href="#ai-weiwei">18.1.3. Ai Weiwei (艾未未, artist)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/艾未未" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/艾未未</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO understand: <a href="https://twitter.com/remonwangxt/status/141825341227417600" class="bare">https://twitter.com/remonwangxt/status/141825341227417600</a> by <a href="#kuang-biao">Kuang Biao (邝飚)</a> which shows Ai Weiwei morphed into a penis and balls.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-09-08 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-activist-ai-weiwei-says-credit-suisse-closing-his-foundations-bank-2021-09-07/" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-activist-ai-weiwei-says-credit-suisse-closing-his-foundations-bank-2021-09-07/</a> "Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing his foundation’s bank account" because of crimes in China, but he was apparently never convicted of any</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="xu-xiaodong"><a class="anchor" href="#xu-xiaodong"></a><a class="link" href="#xu-xiaodong">18.1.4. Xu Xiaodong (Mad Dog, 徐晓冬, martial artist)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/徐晓冬" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/徐晓冬</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>MMA fighter who beat up some kung-fu masters to prove that MMA is more effective than their traditional styles.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2019, he had 14 <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> accounts blocked (created one, got blocked, created another, got blocked, etc.). Source: <a href="https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-fight-survival/article/3047417" class="bare">https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-fight-survival/article/3047417</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Profiles and news:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-01-28 <a href="https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-fight-survival/article/3047417" class="bare">https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-fight-survival/article/3047417</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://independence-of-mind.tumblr.com/post/619590950709329921/武僧一龙被泰拳手ko中国功夫为何不能打-短史记-作者谌旭彬-2017118" class="bare">https://independence-of-mind.tumblr.com/post/619590950709329921/武僧一龙被泰拳手ko中国功夫为何不能打-短史记-作者谌旭彬-2017118</a> "武僧一龙被泰拳手KO，中国功夫为何不能打？ | 短史记" (Yi Long was KO’ed by Muai Tai. Why can’t Chinese kung fu can’t strike? A short history.)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Uphold_science.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Uphold science" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 226. Uphold science, eradicate superstition "崇尚科学 破除迷信" 1999 poster by the CCP created as an <a href="#falun-gong">anti-Falun Gong</a> propaganda likely based on a <a href="http://www.people.com.cn/GB/channel1/10/20000710/137317.html">more widely widespread slogan</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090428155413/http://www.people.com.cn/GB/channel1/10/20000710/137317.html">archive</a>). So why is Xiaodong not being supported by the CCP now that he is beating superstition back into its place? Once again, <a href="#censorship-makes-countries-poorer">Censorship makes countries poorer (审查使国家更穷)</a>. The poster features images related to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_space_program">Chinese space program</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国航天">中华人民共和国航天</a>), which is a major undertaking of the CCP and widely used propaganda point. <a href="https://chineseposters.net/themes/falun-gong.php">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Space_program_Change.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Space program Change" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 227. 1962 propaganda poster for the Chinese Space program. "Uphold science, eradicate superstition"? Nah, the moon is obviously populated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang’e">Chang’e</a> ( (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/嫦娥">嫦娥</a>), the Chinese Goddess of the moon, which is one of the names for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program">Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (中国探月工程,嫦娥工程)</a>. Other good <a href="https://chineseposters.net/themes/space-program.php">Chinese space program posters</a>. Also note the emphasis on making babies, the <a href="#one-child-policy">One-child policy (一孩政策, 1979–2015)</a> comes to mind. <a href="https://chineseposters.net/themes/falun-gong">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Reject_superstition_accept_change.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Reject superstition accept change" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 228. Reject superstition, accept Chang’e (破除迷信, 崇尚嫦娥) side-by-side.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xu_Xiaodong_taichi.gif" loading="lazy" alt="Xu Xiaodong taichi" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 229. 2017 Xu Xiaodong (MMA) Vs. Wei Lei (Tai Chi) summary GIF. <a href="https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-fight-survival/article/3047417">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBNX6GsUI1o" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBNX6GsUI1o</a> 2017 Xu Xiaodong (MMA) Vs. Wei Lei (Tai Chi) full fight.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VBNX6GsUI1o?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="software-engineer-dissidents"><a class="anchor" href="#software-engineer-dissidents"></a><a class="link" href="#software-engineer-dissidents">18.1.5. Software engineer dissidents (持不同政见者的软件工程师)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="programthink"><a class="anchor" href="#programthink"></a><a class="link" href="#programthink">18.1.5.1. Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/编程随想的博客" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/编程随想的博客</a> (there is no English page as of January 2020)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/980" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/980</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His Chinese username literally means "Random programming thoughts".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Very popular Chinese language anonymous blogger that publishes software programming tutorials and political content since 2009, often negative about the CCP, in particular <a href="#censorship">anti-censorship</a> and <a href="#brainwashed-by-usa">anti-CCP-brainwashing</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He was likely arrested in 2021 according to an anonymous report to <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a>, consistent with an abnormally long lack of posts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/667881.html" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/667881.html</a>. Contains a half censored ID photo. The last name is fully visible "马", and given name could be "勇康", "马勇康".</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/arrest-06142021121609.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/arrest-06142021121609.html</a> original <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a> report</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/blogger-06152021111534.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/blogger-06152021111534.html</a> official translation of report</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/06/translation-program-think-notorious-anonymous-chinese-blogger-feared-detained/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/06/translation-program-think-notorious-anonymous-chinese-blogger-feared-detained/</a> English report on <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His wife apparently later stated the exact arrest wast on May 10th 2021.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2023, after 2 years of arbitrary detention, he was sentenced to 7 years, full name and photo came out, he is actually called Ruan Xiaohuan (阮晓寰), previous names were just wrong:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.dw.com/zh/中国政治启蒙博主编程随想证实被判刑7年监禁/a-65106470" class="bare">https://www.dw.com/zh/中国政治启蒙博主编程随想证实被判刑7年监禁/a-65106470</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf-03222023031521.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf-03222023031521.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/11yeqkp/chinese_blogger_program_think_was_sentenced_to_7/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/11yeqkp/chinese_blogger_program_think_was_sentenced_to_7/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.change.org/p/free-ruan-xiaohuan-阮晓寰-aka-编程随想" class="bare">https://www.change.org/p/free-ruan-xiaohuan-阮晓寰-aka-编程随想</a></p>
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<p>He was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanzhou">Quanzhou</a>, <a href="#fujian">Fujian Province (辽宁省)</a> in 1977. he served as the chief engineer of the information security system of the conference during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The blogging started in 2009. His wife’s family name is Bei (贝), given name undisclosed.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.qz1z.com/themeArticle/14-29b32fe5bda846b0b73fbd8656376087" class="bare">http://www.qz1z.com/themeArticle/14-29b32fe5bda846b0b73fbd8656376087</a> is a student listing of Quanzhou No. 1 High School listing someone with the same name as the 1990 high school junior. It is the only hit we can find on the Internet. Unsurprising, since even regular people are <a href="#anonymous-account-ban">mostly anonymous online in China</a>. <a href="https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1731886110528251526" class="bare">https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1731886110528251526</a> is one of the rare Chinese sources possibly about him.</p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikinews.org/zh-hans/「編程隨想」阮晓寰案：妻子勇敢揭秘，揭開被捕背後的真相" class="bare">https://zh.wikinews.org/zh-hans/「編程隨想」阮晓寰案：妻子勇敢揭秘，揭開被捕背後的真相</a> has some further details of interest</p>
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<p>according to his wife, ms. bei, she and ruan xiaohuan met as classmates in the chemical engineering department of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/east_china_university_of_science_and_technology">east china university of science and technology</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/华东理工大学">华东理工大学</a>). ruan was obsessed with information technology and entered the network security industry after graduating from school. when he was working at <a href="https://www.venusense.com/">Venustech</a> (<a href="https://www.venustech.com.cn">启明星辰</a>), he was the chief engineer of network security for the beijing olympics; he resigned from his full-time job in 2012 to focus on open source research and development.</p>
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<p>She said that her husband was arrested but the case was a mystery, and she learned to "over the wall" in order to clarify the situation.</p>
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<p>One day, I saw a report about the disappearance of "Programming Caprice" in an Internet cafe. The time of disappearance and the total number of blog posts were consistent with Ruan’s case. Programming Caprice stopped updating for four months, which happened to be when Ruan was ill in bed. She seemed to have known each other before, so she decided that this was her husband.</p>
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<p>She also recalled that about a year before Ruan was arrested, the Internet at home was often disconnected; later, when the couple went out for a walk, Ruan often "killed the carbine" and went home to check; afterward, a neighbor told her that the police rented the house a few months ago. The upstairs room of her house.</p>
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<p>The Chinese Wikipedia also gives a bit more details:</p>
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<p>He joined a computer interest group in 1990 when he was in junior high school. Out of interest in the DOS virus he came into contact with, he wanted to figure out its internal implementation mechanism and studied by himself in the computer room of the school. Assembly language and C language [2]. In 1996, he was enrolled in the Chemical Engineering Department of Shanghai East China University of Science and Technology, but he loved computers and gave up his diploma[3][4][5]. Served as the chief engineer of the information security system of the conference[3][4].</p>
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<p><a href="https://ngocn2.org/article/2023-03-29-program-think-enemy-of-the-state/" class="bare">https://ngocn2.org/article/2023-03-29-program-think-enemy-of-the-state/</a> (chinese) contains a few more details.</p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/evanli2020/status/1412305263248384000" class="bare">https://twitter.com/evanli2020/status/1412305263248384000</a> speculates on how he was arrested.</p>
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<p>Some people started wishing he will come back on comments: <a href="https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/96" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/96</a>, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> left his at: <a href="https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/99" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/99</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://program-think.blogspot.com/" class="bare">https://program-think.blogspot.com/</a> The blog. Blocked in China with the <a href="#censorship">rest of Blogspot</a>:</p>
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<p>2020 categorized summary of the best posts of all time: <a href="https://program-think.blogspot.com/2020/01/11-years-blogging.html" class="bare">https://program-think.blogspot.com/2020/01/11-years-blogging.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/programthink" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao</a> manually curated database of maps relationships between Chinese politicians, this was the first <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedown from china</a>: <a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/36e76c34682d2b52eef405ca6f57e1b9ddde3086/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/36e76c34682d2b52eef405ca6f57e1b9ddde3086/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md</a>, which specifically points to <a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="#geoscreenshot">geoscreenshot</a>: 2020-09-30 <a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38</a> | <a href="https://archive.vn/QKCMi" class="bare">https://archive.vn/QKCMi</a></p>
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<p>The full project name is: 太子党关系网络 (network of relations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princelings">CCP princelings</a>).</p>
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<p>The project is also known as "zhao" which is another <a href="#slang">slang</a> reference to "太子党": "赵家人" (zhaojiaren == zhao family): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_family" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_family</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙家人zh" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙家人zh</a>, which is in turn a reference to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_(state" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_(state</a>) or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Zhao" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Zhao</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/programthink" class="bare">https://twitter.com/programthink</a></p>
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<p>DW coverage (Chinese): <a href="https://www.dw.com/zh/2013德国之声国际博客大赛中文提名博客揭晓/a-16716065" class="bare">https://www.dw.com/zh/2013德国之声国际博客大赛中文提名博客揭晓/a-16716065</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191202233838/https://www.dw.com/zh/2013%E5%BE%B7%E5%9B%BD%E4%B9%8B%E5%A3%B0%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E5%8D%9A%E5%AE%A2%E5%A4%A7%E8%B5%9B%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%8F%90%E5%90%8D%E5%8D%9A%E5%AE%A2%E6%8F%AD%E6%99%93/a-16716065">archive</a>)</p>
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<p>Programthink has also shown interest in <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a> as mentioned in that section.</p>
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<p>Mentions in other sections:</p>
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<p><a href="#programthink-meant-to-be-used">[programthink-meant-to-be-used]</a></p>
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<div class="title">Figure 230. Programthink uses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker">Rodin’s The Thinker sculpture</a> as its avatar, to encourage people to think for themselves rather than <a href="#censorship">blindly believe the Party</a>. Sources: <a href="https://github.com/programthink/">GitHub images</a>, . <a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/gf-03222023031521.html">real world images</a>. The other pages of the indictment can be seen at: <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLiu_USA/status/1638560342874923010" class="bare">https://twitter.com/EricLiu_USA/status/1638560342874923010</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 231. Ruan Xiaohuan in 2014 while traveling. Courtesy of his wife. <a href="https://ngocn2.org/article/2023-03-29-program-think-enemy-of-the-state/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 232. Ruan Xiaohuan’s work desk, kept unchanged since his arrest. <a href="https://ngocn2.org/article/2023-03-29-program-think-enemy-of-the-state/">Source</a>.</div>
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<h4 id="liu-xiaobo"><a class="anchor" href="#liu-xiaobo"></a><a class="link" href="#liu-xiaobo">18.1.6. Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/刘晓波" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/刘晓波</a></p>
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<p>He was abroad in the 80' as a scholar, and then he came back to china in 1989 to support <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>, then he was in and out of jail until he died in 2017.</p>
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<p>His 2020-06 <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a> <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/刘晓波/14900221" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/刘晓波/14900221</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200627130112/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%88%98%E6%99%93%E6%B3%A2/14900221" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200627130112/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%88%98%E6%99%93%E6%B3%A2/14900221</a>) casually forgot to mention that he might have won the fucking 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, but he seems to be too big to delete the entire page?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is interesting how <a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a> was fully deleted, the page was only locked. It also does not mention all the times he was in jail, notably after Tiananmen, only some of them.</p>
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<p>2017-11 Baidu did mention the Nobel prize however: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171114165644/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%88%98%E6%99%93%E6%B3%A2/14900221" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20171114165644/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%88%98%E6%99%93%E6%B3%A2/14900221</a> it was edited out later.</p>
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<p>The article also makes it very clear that his 2009 sentence was "a fair one", and that the organization he worked for in the 90', <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_for_a_Democratic_China">Federation for a Democratic China</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/民主中国阵线">民主中国阵线</a>) was funded by the CIA. Wikipedia does not mention that however, but of course, Baidu content does not need citations.</p>
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<div class="title">Figure 233. <a href="#liu-xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a> at <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> on 1989-06-02. He is the second from left, with the speaker. The background seems to be <a href="#monument-to-the-peoples-heroes">Monument to the People’s Heroes (人民英雄纪念碑)</a>, and this seems to be a still from a video, TODO identify. That monument cellebrate the <a href="#chinese-communist-revolution">Chinese Communist Revolution (1921-1949)</a>, and ironically contains images of students from <a href="#may-fourth-movement">May Fourth Movement (五四运动, 1919)</a> protesting at Tiananmen. Liu was one of the people who was begging the students to leave the square once he felt that the government would violently crack down, in order to save lives. For this is considered one of the four <a href="#junzi">Junzi (君子)</a> of Tiananmen (天安門四君). Other people in the photo from left to right: Zhou Duo (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周舵">周舵</a>). Ji Gaoxin (及高新). Some/all of the junzi felt that peaceful cooperation with the government was the only way forward. This is opposed to the views of others such as <a href="#chai-ling">Chai Ling (柴玲)</a>, who felt that the sight of blood was necessary to wake up the Chinese masses. Another photo of the four: <a href="https://hk.news.yahoo.com/天安門四君子之-周舵認為放下敵我才能推動民主-232800167.html" class="bare">https://hk.news.yahoo.com/天安門四君子之-周舵認為放下敵我才能推動民主-232800167.html</a>. The term is also a reference to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Gentlemen">Four Gentlemen</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/花中四君子">花中四君子</a>), four plants commonly depicted in Chinese traditional painting of plants. At <a href="#the-gate-of-heavenly-peace-1995">The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, 天安门纪录片)</a> 1:46:14, Liu Xiaobo mentions how some students had the delusion that they would actually be able to stand up to the army. <a href="http://www.open.com.hk/old_version/1011p39.html">Source</a></div>
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<h4 id="guo-wengui"><a class="anchor" href="#guo-wengui"></a><a class="link" href="#guo-wengui">18.1.7. Guo Wengui (郭文贵, rich dude)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/郭文贵" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/郭文贵</a></p>
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<p>Social media:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO3pO3ykAUybrjv3RBbXEHw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO3pO3ykAUybrjv3RBbXEHw</a> Chinese YouTube</p>
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<p>Profiles:</p>
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<p>2019-07-24 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3019840/chinese-fugitive-tycoon-and-member-trumps-mar-lago-also-spy" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3019840/chinese-fugitive-tycoon-and-member-trumps-mar-lago-also-spy</a> "Is Guo Wengui, Chinese fugitive tycoon and member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, also a spy?"</p>
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<h5 id="hao-haidong"><a class="anchor" href="#hao-haidong"></a><a class="link" href="#hao-haidong">18.1.7.1. Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hao_Haidong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hao_Haidong</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/郝海东" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/郝海东</a></p>
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<p>Hao is widely considered one of the best Chinese soccer players of all time, and he was the top scorer for the Chinese national team of all time as of 2020, and one of the only two Chinese to show on <a href="https://iffhs.de/showLegends/men">IFFHS Legends</a> page which as of 2020 contains only 52 players including the likes of Pelé and Maradona.</p>
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<p>He participated in the 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> (世界杯) qualifiers, and therefore also at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup">2002 FIFA World Cup proper</a> held in South Korea and Japan, which is the only World Cup China classified for as of 2020, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup">in which it failed to score a single goal</a>.</p>
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<p>On 2020-06-03, one day before <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> anniversary, Hao appeared with his wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Zhaoying">Ye Zhaoying</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/叶钊颖">叶钊颖</a>, married 2019), who was also a badmington star, on <a href="#guo-wengui">Guo Wengui (郭文贵, rich dude)</a>'s YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aN5h0RqD8&t=4496" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aN5h0RqD8&t=4496</a>, and spoke up against the CCP:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3087684/chinese-sports-couple-hao-haidong-and-ye-zhaoying-face-being-wiped" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3087684/chinese-sports-couple-hao-haidong-and-ye-zhaoying-face-being-wiped</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/9ae91df2-a6ec-11ea-898e-b21b9a83f792_story.html" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/9ae91df2-a6ec-11ea-898e-b21b9a83f792_story.html</a></p>
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<p>As a result, his son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runze_Hao">Hao Runze</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/郝潤澤">郝润泽</a>, from a previous marriage) who is also a soccer player and had nothing to do with it was also sacked from the Serbian club <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK_Radnički_Niš">Radnicki Nis</a> in which he played one week later due to pressure from China: <a href="https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3088385/hao-haidongs-son-sacked-serbian-club-radnicki-nis-after-pressure" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3088385/hao-haidongs-son-sacked-serbian-club-radnicki-nis-after-pressure</a> The wiki page says that <a href="https://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2020&mm=06&dd=09&nav_id=1693254" class="bare">https://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2020&mm=06&dd=09&nav_id=1693254</a> says the team says it was just a coincidence and that his contract had ended.</p>
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<p>The most interesting thing about all of this, is how Hao’s name was completely <a href="#internal-censorship">nuked form the Chinese Internet</a>, making this a fantastic opportunity to unambiguously document a censorship event. One is reminded of:</p>
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<p><a href="#censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union">Censorship of images in the Soviet Union (苏联对图像的审查)</a></p>
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<p><a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a> "Every record has been destroyed or falsified" quote</p>
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<p>The keyword is clear: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm">iconoclasm</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/破坏偶像主义">破坏偶像主义</a>)</p>
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<p>Some examples:</p>
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<p>Zhihu: <a href="#zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong">Zhihu censorship of Hao Haidong (知乎审查郝海东)</a></p>
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<p>Baidu Baike: <a href="#baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong">Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong (百度百科审查郝海东)</a></p>
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<p><a href="#peoples-daily">People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a></p>
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<p>2016-03-01 <a href="http://m.people.cn/%2Fn4%2F2016%2F0301%2Fc1807-6348778.html" class="bare">http://m.people.cn/%2Fn4%2F2016%2F0301%2Fc1807-6348778.html</a> 媒曝克罗地亚劲旅签郝海东之子 <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1elR0wSiJPIJ:m.people.cn/%252Fn4%252F2016%252F0301%252Fc1807-6348778.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1elR0wSiJPIJ:m.people.cn/%252Fn4%252F2016%252F0301%252Fc1807-6348778.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu</a></p>
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<p>2016-01-27 IFFHS评选世界足坛48大传奇 郝海东孙继海入围 <a href="http://fj.people.cn/n2/2016/0127/c364151-27639502.html" class="bare">http://fj.people.cn/n2/2016/0127/c364151-27639502.html</a> <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:snlknobl8UMJ:fj.people.cn/n2/2016/0127/c364151-27639502.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:snlknobl8UMJ:fj.people.cn/n2/2016/0127/c364151-27639502.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu</a></p>
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<p>2012-02-01 郝海东儿子入选国少队 被赞有天赋 <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fjs.people.cn%2Fhtml%2F2012%2F02%2F01%2F73894.html&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fjs.people.cn%2Fhtml%2F2012%2F02%2F01%2F73894.html&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1036j0j4&client=ubuntu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fjs.people.cn%2Fhtml%2F2012%2F02%2F01%2F73894.html&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fjs.people.cn%2Fhtml%2F2012%2F02%2F01%2F73894.html&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1036j0j4&client=ubuntu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8</a></p>
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<p>but they forgot to search and remove from the older versions of website, newbs:</p>
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<p>2003-03-21 <a href="http://www.people.cn/GB/channel2/507/4897/4898/4907/200303/21/142115.html" class="bare">http://www.people.cn/GB/channel2/507/4897/4898/4907/200303/21/142115.html</a> 三后卫改四后卫 申花看防郝海东不遗余力</p>
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<p>2003-03-17 <a href="http://www.people.cn/GB/channel23/853/854/200303/17/141331.html" class="bare">http://www.people.cn/GB/channel23/853/854/200303/17/141331.html</a> 僵尸王：恐郝不是恐中</p>
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<p>2001-09-14 <a href="http://www.people.cn/digest/200107/14/tt0901401.html" class="bare">http://www.people.cn/digest/200107/14/tt0901401.html</a> 甲A联赛大连队止住连胜势头</p>
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<p>2001-02-21 <a href="http://www.people.cn/digest/200102/23/tt022310.html" class="bare">http://www.people.cn/digest/200102/23/tt022310.html</a> 米卢评点中国足球四大前锋</p>
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<p>Online reactions:</p>
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<p><a href="https://pincong.rocks/article/19974" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/article/19974</a> "郝海东这个事情，让你匪进退两难" on <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a></p>
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<p>Listings of the 2002 squad:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/koreajapan2002/teams/team/43812/" class="bare">https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/koreajapan2002/teams/team/43812/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#China_PR" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#China_PR</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/china-line-up-for-a-team-photo-13-june-2002-at-the-seoul-news-photo/51528311" class="bare">https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/china-line-up-for-a-team-photo-13-june-2002-at-the-seoul-news-photo/51528311</a> is the best photo available, clearly showing Hao first on top left, and <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-china-team-line-up-before-the-fifa-2002-world-cup-news-photo/969574" class="bare">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-china-team-line-up-before-the-fifa-2002-world-cup-news-photo/969574</a> from the qualifiers with Hao on top right</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.qiuball.com/zgzq/21354.html" class="bare">http://www.qiuball.com/zgzq/21354.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191121030909/http://www.qiuball.com/zgzq/21354.html">archive</a>) Contains squad photo with Hao on top left.</p>
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<p>Google bomb at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/111" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/111</a></p>
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<p>Random info about Haidong:</p>
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<p>2017 Haidong playing foot volley with Nadal with a tennis ball for a minute: ;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEUwQdynbh8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEUwQdynbh8</a> in 2017. A photo: <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/spanish-tennis-player-rafael-nadal-attends-a-charity-match-news-photo/856091560" class="bare">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/spanish-tennis-player-rafael-nadal-attends-a-charity-match-news-photo/856091560</a> <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/spanish-tennis-player-rafael-nadal-attends-a-charity-match-news-photo/856091560" class="bare">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/spanish-tennis-player-rafael-nadal-attends-a-charity-match-news-photo/856091560</a> contains an image of the event, and Nadal holds what seems to be a soccer video game featuring Haidong on the cover.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Hao_Haidong_kick.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Hao Haidong kick" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 234. Hao Haidong (in white) playing for the China national team against the Hong Kong’s national team in a World Cup Asian zone qualifying match at Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground in 2004. Request for <a href="https://twitter.com/fjamie013">James Fridman</a> to remove Haidong from the picture in reference to <a href="#censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union">Censorship of images in the Soviet Union (苏联对图像的审查)</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1308670186640289792" class="bare">https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1308670186640289792</a>. Photo by: <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a>. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3087684/chinese-sports-couple-hao-haidong-and-ye-zhaoying-face-being-wiped">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSwRwFBNFA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSwRwFBNFA</a> Hao Haidong’s top 10 goals, all with CCTV 5 watermark :-)</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSwRwFBNFA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<h6 id="zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong"><a class="anchor" href="#zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong"></a><a class="link" href="#zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong">18.1.7.1.1. Zhihu censorship of Hao Haidong (知乎审查郝海东)</a></h6>
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<p><a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> (and the rest of the Chinese Internet) basically nuked a gazillion articles that mentioned him, including old ones that had nothing to do with his political views.</p>
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<p>Ciro estimates that very likely thousands of Zhihu posts have been removed, as of 2020-06-14 the Google query "郝海东 site:zhihu.com" had 3,970 results, and every single on Ciro clicked had been taken down.</p>
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<p>Not nuked yet as of 2020-06, but nuked after, with before-after archives:</p>
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<p>The Zhihu "Hao Haidong" topic itself <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro</a></p>
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<p>up 2020-06-06 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606161335/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200606161335/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro</a></p>
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<p>down 2020-06-14 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200614114534/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200614114534/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534</a> C罗的每次高光，都让郝海东出尽洋相</p>
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<p>up 2020-06-06 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606124255/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200606124255/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534</a></p>
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<p>down 2020-06-14 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200614094722/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200614094722/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885</a> 郝海东为什么要炮轰许家印？</p>
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<p>up 2020-06-06 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122802/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122802/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885</a></p>
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<p>down 2020-06-14 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200614092838/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200614092838/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079</a> 巅峰期的孙继海 郑智 郝海东 范志毅怎么排名？</p>
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<p>up 2020-06-06 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123634/https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123634/https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079</a></p>
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<p>down 2020-06-14 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123634/https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123634/https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079</a></p>
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<p>Older archives that were nuked before Ciro managed to archive them on 2020-06-06:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423</a></p>
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<p>up 2015-06-15 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150615113940/https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20150615113940/https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423</a></p>
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<p>down 2015-06-06 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123519/https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123519/https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423</a></p>
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<p>Nuked as per Ciro’s eyewitness on 2020-06-06 without web archive, but could be found either on Google search or Zhihu search before those engines had properly cleared, taking Google caches and web archiving them + web archiving 404’s as of 2020-06-14:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/23084831" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/23084831</a> 如何评价足球运动员高峰？他与郝海东比的水平怎么样？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23084831&client=ubuntu&hs=1uU&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23084831&client=ubuntu&hs=1uU&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/23416213" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/23416213</a> 如何评价孙继海、郝海东、范志毅 ？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SEWC3OjJEYoJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23416213&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SEWC3OjJEYoJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23416213&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/23939434" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/23939434</a> 如果巅峰期的郝海东有机会去欧洲五大联赛踢球会取得什么样的成就？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OFjOxog6jiwJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23939434&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OFjOxog6jiwJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23939434&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/27060872" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/27060872</a> 巅峰时期的范志毅、郝海东、李铁、李玮锋、孙继海、郑智 放到现在的中国足球应该出于什么水平？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/27060872&client=ubuntu&hs=fvU&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/27060872&client=ubuntu&hs=fvU&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/29833583" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/29833583</a> 如何评价郝海东认为"英国人不会踢球"？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jk7qxGW7v64J:https://www.zhihu.com/question/29833583&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jk7qxGW7v64J:https://www.zhihu.com/question/29833583&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/34155456" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/34155456</a> 如何评价郝海东？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/34155456&client=ubuntu&hs=0bp&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/34155456&client=ubuntu&hs=0bp&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/47528985" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/47528985</a> 郝海东是亚洲第一前锋吗？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/47528985&client=ubuntu&hs=IxU&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/47528985&client=ubuntu&hs=IxU&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/51867870" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/51867870</a> 我同学说郝海东不如孙兴民 我该如何说服他？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/51867870&client=ubuntu&hs=MJ&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/51867870&client=ubuntu&hs=MJ&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/52500232" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/52500232</a> 武磊和巅峰时期的郝海东比如何？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/52500232&client=ubuntu&hs=kzU&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/52500232&client=ubuntu&hs=kzU&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/62419235" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/62419235</a> 如何评价 郝海东怒斥许家印全华班:放屁!不是为了推动国足。 这一观点。？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4CCnPhViGBUJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/62419235&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4CCnPhViGBUJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/62419235&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/66555590" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/66555590</a> 郝海东是一个什么样的人？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sunDGY8ULEEJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/66555590/answer/245224350+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sunDGY8ULEEJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/66555590/answer/245224350+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/282906877" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/282906877</a> 如何看待郝海东两次评价 C 罗？</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/282934169" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/282934169</a> 怎么看郝海东再评价C罗？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XfY4ZPvzz7sJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/282934169&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XfY4ZPvzz7sJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/282934169&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/345693653" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/345693653</a> 巅峰时期的范志毅、郝海东相当于五大联赛哪些球员的实力? <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/345693653&client=ubuntu&hs=6gp&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/345693653&client=ubuntu&hs=6gp&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/384834709" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/384834709</a> 武磊的水平能超过郝海东吗？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FXIkLaGzyQoJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/384834709&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FXIkLaGzyQoJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/384834709&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/394366737" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/394366737</a> 怎样看待最近郝海东微博频繁开炮怼人？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_LbOGbsGFQkJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/394366737&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_LbOGbsGFQkJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/394366737&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/394503875" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/394503875</a> 为什么有些人黑郝海东？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GcqkvJGKCJYJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/394503875&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GcqkvJGKCJYJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/394503875&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/395225037" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/395225037</a> 如何看待郝海东说的："智慧是天生的"？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/395225037&client=ubuntu&hs=i2U&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/395225037&client=ubuntu&hs=i2U&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/128537416" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/128537416</a> C罗粉丝不好惹？郝海东深夜发文教粉丝独立思考，见证历史转折点 <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/128537416&client=ubuntu&hs=bip&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/128537416&client=ubuntu&hs=bip&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/134027258" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/134027258</a> 【球星故事】郝海东为何被称为"郝大炮"？ <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zPBVhvs9SsUJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/134027258&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zPBVhvs9SsUJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/134027258&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/138465029" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/138465029</a> 郝海东争议言论登热搜，媒体人：他逐步从大炮变成公知网红 <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z7STI_34eocJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/138465029&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z7STI_34eocJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/138465029&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/141049893" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/141049893</a> 郝海东被网友群嘲的五大原因 <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pEppZJ8K8VIJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/141049893&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pEppZJ8K8VIJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/141049893&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/145740098" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/145740098</a> 塞超主帅：郝润泽不像郝海东，他更擅长于防守 And here is an archive from 2020-06-06 saying that the article was being modified to meet some guidelines: "文章被建议修改：违反知乎社区管理规定 作者修改内容通过后，文章会重新显示。" <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122827/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/145740098" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122827/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/145740098</a></p>
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<p>Nuked answers:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854</a> 中国队 2002 世界杯为什么会出线？</p>
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<p>question up 2020-06-15 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200615140650/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854">archive</a>)</p>
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<p>2015 archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151114093037/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20151114093037/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854</a></p>
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<p>top answer from 2015 archive <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854/answer/19357252" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854/answer/19357252</a> is dead 2020-06-15 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200615142339/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854/answer/19357252" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200615142339/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854/answer/19357252</a></p>
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<p>existing answers do show Hao in videos however of course</p>
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<p>Ye also nuked:</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200618190141/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20058377" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200618190141/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20058377</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200618190052/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JF35Ecar-a8J:https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20058377&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200618190052/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JF35Ecar-a8J:https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20058377&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0</a></p>
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<h6 id="baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong"><a class="anchor" href="#baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong"></a><a class="link" href="#baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong">18.1.7.1.2. Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong (百度百科审查郝海东)</a></h6>
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<p>This served as good evidence of the obvious fact that <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a> is highly censored.</p>
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<p>Hao Haidong’s page <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512</a>:</p>
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<p>up 2020-06-06 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606060916/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200606060916/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512</a></p>
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<p>down 2020-06-14 (say "抱歉，您所访问的页面不存在…​" and redirects to home page) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200614094144/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%83%9D%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%9C/357512" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200614094144/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%83%9D%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%9C/357512</a></p>
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<p>Article about the Chinese national soccer team <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国国家男子足球队" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国国家男子足球队</a>:</p>
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<p>archive of 2020-06-02 <a href="#google-cache">Google Cache</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200615071212/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M5UlBifrUzsJ:https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E8%B6%B3%E7%90%83%E9%98%9F" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200615071212/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M5UlBifrUzsJ:https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E8%B6%B3%E7%90%83%E9%98%9F</a></p>
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<p>archive from 2019-06-24 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190624110500/https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国国家男子足球队" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190624110500/https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国国家男子足球队</a></p>
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<p>archive 2020-06-15: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200615072004/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E8%B6%B3%E7%90%83%E9%98%9F" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200615072004/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E8%B6%B3%E7%90%83%E9%98%9F</a></p>
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<p>The article used to mention Hao extensively. He was:</p>
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<p>second on the 知名人物 (famous people)</p>
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<p>was the 进球最多者 (top scorer), a category which as completely removed</p>
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<p>the list 射手榜 (top scorers?) is still there but casually starts at 宿茂臻 with 27 goals, and skips Hao which has 41</p>
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<p>an entire section about Hao was removed entitled "永远的9号——郝海东" and saying how amazing he was, including a picture</p>
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<p>Ye Zhaoying’s page <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/叶钊颖" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/叶钊颖</a>:</p>
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<p>up 2020-06-06 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200614104922/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Akp6GBnsRNhQJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fbaike.baidu.com%2Fitem%2F%E5%8F%B6%E9%92%8A%E9%A2%96" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200614104922/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Akp6GBnsRNhQJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fbaike.baidu.com%2Fitem%2F%E5%8F%B6%E9%92%8A%E9%A2%96</a></p>
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<p>down 2020-06-14 (redirects to home page) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200614105126/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8F%B6%E9%92%8A%E9%A2%96" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200614105126/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8F%B6%E9%92%8A%E9%A2%96</a></p>
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<p>Ye won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWF_World_Championships">BWF World Championships</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/世界羽毛球锦标赛">世界羽毛球锦标赛</a>), a biannual tournament organized by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton_World_Federation">Badminton World Federation</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/羽毛球世界联合会">羽毛球世界联合会</a>) that is likely the most prestigious in the world twice in 1995 and 1997, and her name had to be removed from the list of winners in Baidu <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛</a>:</p>
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<p>2017-11-26 archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171126131320/https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20171126131320/https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛</a> showing her as winner in 1995 and 1997</p>
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<p>2020-06-08 archive of <a href="#google-cache">Google Cache</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080701/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:llXWVx3NX8kJ:https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080701/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:llXWVx3NX8kJ:https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛</a> before censors nuked her</p>
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<p>2020-06-15 archive after censors nuked her: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080807/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E7%BE%BD%E6%AF%9B%E7%90%83%E9%94%A6%E6%A0%87%E8%B5%9B" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080807/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E7%BE%BD%E6%AF%9B%E7%90%83%E9%94%A6%E6%A0%87%E8%B5%9B</a>. In 1995 and 1997 it seems that one the female singles (女子单打), even though they did happen in 1993 and 1999. How curious!</p>
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<p>The fact that badminton is a single player sport is great in this case, as it just puts more emphasis on her name as opposed to Hao’s multiplayer soccer game:</p>
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<p>1995 Ye Zhaoying vs Han Jingna BWF finals: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrO5g58tSUE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrO5g58tSUE</a> Bracket: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_IBF_World_Championships" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_IBF_World_Championships</a></p>
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<p>1997 Ye Zhaoying vs Gong Zhichao BWF finals: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOi1bmZHo4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOi1bmZHo4</a> Bracket: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_IBF_World_Championships" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_IBF_World_Championships</a>. Ciro Santilli had a copy at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLO-60vHnk0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLO-60vHnk0</a> but it was taken down due to copyright.</p>
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<p>Hunan website about Gong Zhichao confirming that: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200618174728/http://www.enghunan.gov.cn/hneng/AboutHunan/HistoryCulture/Celebrities/201508/t20150807_1816328.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200618174728/http://www.enghunan.gov.cn/hneng/AboutHunan/HistoryCulture/Celebrities/201508/t20150807_1816328.html</a></p>
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<p>Hao Runze’s page <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝润泽" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝润泽</a></p>
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<p>still up 2020-06-14 but locked: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200614105842/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝润泽" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200614105842/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝润泽</a></p>
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<p>and casually forgets to mention that he is the fucking son of Haidong, which was likely edited out recently, but there is no edit history in Baidu Baike. <a href="#google-cache">Google Cache</a> was already from 2020-06-08 and missed the pre-edit. What a shame</p>
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<p>The last entry says "2020年5月31日，郝润泽在塞尔维亚超级联赛第27轮尼什工人客场挑战纳普里达克的比赛中，首秀替补出场打入一球，帮助尼什工人实现绝平。" and also casually forgets to mention that he was fired two weeks later.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Baidu_Baike_Badminton_World_Federation_censored_1995_1997_wins_by_Ye_Zhaoying_wife_of_Hao_Haidong.png" loading="lazy" alt="Baidu Baike Badminton World Federation censored 1995 1997 wins by Ye Zhaoying wife of Hao Haidong" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 235. In 2020, due to her criticizing the Chinese government together with her husband <a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a>, all mention of badminton player Ye Zhaoying (叶钊颖) removed from <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a>. In this particularly funny case, her wins from the 1995 and 1997 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWF_World_Championships">Badminton World Federation World Championships</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/世界羽毛球锦标赛">世界羽毛球锦标赛</a>) women’s singles were simply removed, as if that year the event hadn’t happend. In the neighbouring years 1993 and 1999, and every other year, they did of course happen. An <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171126131320/https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛">earlier web archive</a> shows of course that she was the winner in those years.</div>
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<h4 id="chloe-zhao"><a class="anchor" href="#chloe-zhao"></a><a class="link" href="#chloe-zhao">18.1.8. Chloe Zhao (Zhao Ting, 赵婷, 2021 Oscar winner, 获第93奥斯卡最佳电影和导演奖)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloé_Zhao" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloé_Zhao</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙婷" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙婷</a></p>
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<p>Born and raised in China, sent to study in the UK by her wealthy father Zhao Yuji 赵玉吉 at age 15 and later moved to US, but retained Chinese citizenship as far as is publicly known.</p>
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<p>In 2013 she told the magazine Filmmaker <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130814185314/https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/chloe-zhao/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20130814185314/https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/chloe-zhao/</a> (later removed from the website):</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being in a place where there are lies everywhere. You felt like you were never going to be able to get out. A lot of info I received when I was younger was not true, and I became very rebellious toward my family and my background. I went to England suddenly and relearned my history. Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real. Arm yourself with information, and then challenge that too.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO was that the only comment she ever made or is there more?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Won the 2021 Oscar (93rd) for best picture and best director on 2021-04-25 for her film Nomadland 无依之地.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And at the same time she was also working on an idiotic superhero movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film</a>) to be launched by Disney in the future, and therefore they would likely want it to be released in China, let’s see how that will go.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>On 2021-04-26 reports emerged that her win was being censored in China: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-censors-nomadland-director-chloe-zhaos-oscar-win-11619440550" class="bare">https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-censors-nomadland-director-chloe-zhaos-oscar-win-11619440550</a> Unlike <a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a> however, the order was much more specific: to censor only the fact that she won the Oscars.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2021-04-27 her <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a> page <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵婷/22214113" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵婷/22214113</a> was still up: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210427075523/https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵婷/22214113" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210427075523/https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵婷/22214113</a> let’s see how long it lasts. But the page failed to mention the minor detail that she on the Oscar. The comment section, which we’re unable to archive contained two types comments:</p>
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<li>
<p>she’s an American citizen now, not Chinese, just it wasn’t reported. But no one has any proof.</p>
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<li>
<p>she won the Oscar</p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210413095903/https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=c9fdac1dcf27bdd1280ac9e1&lemmaId=22214113&fromLemmaModule=pcBottom" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210413095903/https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=c9fdac1dcf27bdd1280ac9e1&lemmaId=22214113&fromLemmaModule=pcBottom</a> contains a prediction that she would win the Oscar based on earlier recent wins.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The page for the 93rd Oscar mysteriously does not exit however: <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/第93届奥斯卡金像奖" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/第93届奥斯卡金像奖</a> unlike that of all others: <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/第92届奥斯卡金像奖" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/第92届奥斯卡金像奖</a> (<a href="https://archive.ph/wip/gGGtn">archive</a>) We can’t find an archive either, but it is overwhelmingly likely that it was created and later deleted. As of 2021-06-21, <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/奥斯卡金像奖/739020#5" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/奥斯卡金像奖/739020#5</a> (<a href="https://archive.ph/bZFfe#5">archive</a>) contains a list of all the prizes given so far, linking to the respective per year pages, and the 93rd appears listed but mysteriously without a link.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>On <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> the topic 93rd Oscar "第93 届奥斯卡金像奖" <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/topic/21594057" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/topic/21594057</a> was deleted:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>up 2021-04-09 <a href="https://archive.ph/dZAHE" class="bare">https://archive.ph/dZAHE</a> with 13 questions</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>down 2021-04-27 <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/LYwOb" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/LYwOb</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chloe Zhao topic <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20175085/hot" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20175085/hot</a> was still up: 2021-04-27 with 8 questions: <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/CI3vz" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/CI3vz</a> but funnily that website is so shit that it still links to some deleted questions e.g.: which used to read <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/368060294" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/368060294</a> "赵婷获第93届奥斯卡最佳导演奖，有思想的女孩子最可爱" but is down <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/6eiTl" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/6eiTl</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some archived deleted threads:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
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<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/420850041" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/420850041</a> (<a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/420850041">archive</a>) 如何评价中国导演赵婷作品《无依之地》获得第 77 届威尼斯电影节最高奖金狮奖？ What do you think about Chloe Zhao’s work nomadland that won the 77th Venice Film Festival</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The page of the film is still up 2021-04-27 <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/无依之地/50656178" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/无依之地/50656178</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210413021635/https://baike.baidu.com/item/无依之地/50656178">archive</a>).</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some coverage:</p>
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<li>
<p>Chinese</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://www.dw.com/zh/赵婷如何短短数日从骄傲变辱华/a-56793491" class="bare">https://www.dw.com/zh/赵婷如何短短数日从骄傲变辱华/a-56793491</a> on <a href="#dw">Deutsche Welle (DW, 德国之声, German government media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chloe_Zhao_won_93rd_Oscar.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Chloe Zhao won 93rd Oscar" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 236. <a href="#chloe-zhao">Chloe Zhao (Zhao Ting, 赵婷, 2021 Oscar winner, 获第93奥斯卡最佳电影和导演奖)</a> holding the 2021 Oscars for best director and best film. The fact that she won was censored in China because she made one single negative comment about the CCP in 2013.</div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="cai-xia"><a class="anchor" href="#cai-xia"></a><a class="link" href="#cai-xia">18.1.9. Cai Xia (蔡霞, ex-Party teacher)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Xia" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Xia</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蔡霞" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蔡霞</a></p>
</li>
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<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Cai_Xia" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Cai_Xia</a> by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/realcaixia" class="bare">https://twitter.com/realcaixia</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Retired teacher at <a href="#central-party-school">Central Party School of the Communist Party of China (Central Party School, 中共中央党校, 中央党校))</a> living in the USA.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>She criticized <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> in private online meeting, and the audio was leaked: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEBHVsHlPeI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEBHVsHlPeI</a></p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08-02 <a href="https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/xia_chinausrelations_web-ready.pdf" class="bare">https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/xia_chinausrelations_web-ready.pdf</a> China-US Relations in the Eyes of the Chinese Communist Party, published by <a href="#hoover-institution">Hoover Institution (胡佛研究所, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08-21 <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3992140" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3992140</a> she was expelled from from the CCP, and she said she was happy.</p>
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<p>2020-06-12 <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2020/06/translation-former-party-professor-calls-ccp-a-political-zombie/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2020/06/translation-former-party-professor-calls-ccp-a-political-zombie/</a> "TRANSLATION: FORMER PARTY PROFESSOR CALLS CCP A 'POLITICAL ZOMBIE'" by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="xu-zhangrun"><a class="anchor" href="#xu-zhangrun"></a><a class="link" href="#xu-zhangrun">18.1.10. Xu Zhangrun (许章润)</a></h4>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhangrun" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhangrun</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/许章润" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/许章润</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>List of external links to essays: <a href="https://github.com/zhangrunxu/zhangrunxu.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/zhangrunxu/zhangrunxu.github.io</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other related repositories:</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/FreeXZR/Free-Xu-Zhangrun" class="bare">https://github.com/FreeXZR/Free-Xu-Zhangrun</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Key articles seem to be:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>2020 Viral Alarm: When Fury Overcomes Fear about <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a> which added him to <a href="#people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus">People arrested for reporting on the 2019 Corona Virus (因报道 2019 年冠状病毒而被捕的人)</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/许章润-愤怒的人民已不再恐惧.md" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/许章润-愤怒的人民已不再恐惧.md</a>. Text taken from: <a href="https://github.com/AngryFear/FearAndHope" class="bare">https://github.com/AngryFear/FearAndHope</a>.</p>
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<p>English translation: <a href="http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear" class="bare">http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear</a></p>
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</ul>
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<li>
<p>2019 Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes 我們當下的恐懼與期待</p>
<div class="ulist">
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<p><a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/许章润-我们当下的恐惧与期待.md" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/许章润-我们当下的恐惧与期待.md</a>. Text taken from <a href="https://hk.news.yahoo.com/許章潤-我們當下的恐懼與期待-全文-105141515.html" class="bare">https://hk.news.yahoo.com/許章潤-我們當下的恐懼與期待-全文-105141515.html</a> and converted to simplified for the <a href="#little-pink">Little pink (小粉紅, 小紅粉, 兔友)</a>s</p>
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<p>commented English translation: <a href="https://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-hopes-a-beijing-jeremiad/" class="bare">https://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-hopes-a-beijing-jeremiad/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/AngryFear/FearAndHope" class="bare">https://github.com/AngryFear/FearAndHope</a> GitHub repository with only that essay</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="vicky-xu"><a class="anchor" href="#vicky-xu"></a><a class="link" href="#vicky-xu">18.1.11. Vicky Xu (许秀中)</a></h4>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Xu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Xu</a></p>
</li>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/许秀中" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/许秀中</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/xu_xiuzhong" class="bare">https://twitter.com/xu_xiuzhong</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lead author of the <a href="#uyghurs-for-sale">Uyghurs for sale report</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Smear posts:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
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<p><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1220777.shtml" class="bare">https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1220777.shtml</a> by <a href="#global-times">Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)</a> "'Bewitched' Vicky Xu who fabricates Xinjiang story stokes anti-China sentiment in Australia: observer"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.163.com/dy/article/G36KA6P80551MFOX.html" class="bare">https://www.163.com/dy/article/G36KA6P80551MFOX.html</a> 一个售卖肉体和灵魂的人——澳大利亚反华女妖许秀中 (A person who sells body and soul - Australian anti-Chinese female demon Vicky Xu) with a Photoshopped image entitled in Chinglish: "A tipster of Vicky Xu’s private life - maintain sexual relationships with over 10 men at the same time". The real question in most men’s mind is: "where do I sign up?".</p>
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</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Praise posts:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/vicky-xu-exposing-chinas-human-rights-abuses/11954794" class="bare">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/vicky-xu-exposing-chinas-human-rights-abuses/11954794</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h4 id="howey-ou"><a class="anchor" href="#howey-ou"></a><a class="link" href="#howey-ou">18.1.12. Howey Ou (Chinese Great Thunberg, 欧泓奕, 环保活动家, 2019)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Chinese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg">Great Thunberg</a>. Environmental activist. She speaks English too.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mandatory <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> question: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/354163461" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/354163461</a> "如何看待中国首位气候活动家欧泓奕?" (What do you think about Chinese climate activist Howei Ou?)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Social media:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/howey_ou" class="bare">https://twitter.com/howey_ou</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://weibo.com/u/7305598806" class="bare">https://weibo.com/u/7305598806</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-09-25 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3103548/greta-thunberg-criticises-china-after-climate-striker-ou-hongyi" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3103548/greta-thunberg-criticises-china-after-climate-striker-ou-hongyi</a> "Greta Thunberg criticises China after climate striker Ou Hongyi held over protest" detained in Shanghai</p>
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<p>2020-06-20 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/chinas-first-climate-striker-cant-return-to-school" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/chinas-first-climate-striker-cant-return-to-school</a> "China’s first climate striker warned: give it up or you can’t go back to school"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Howey_Ou_2019.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Howey Ou 2019" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 237. Howey Ou skipped classes for a week to protest about climate change in front of the local government office in Guilin, <a href="#guangxi">Guangxi Province (广西壮族自治区, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region)</a>, in 2019. TODO transcription of posters. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3094873/howey-ou-chinas-version-greta-thunberg-pays-price-climate">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="yitang-zhang"><a class="anchor" href="#yitang-zhang"></a><a class="link" href="#yitang-zhang">18.1.13. Yitang Zhang (张益唐, M9athematician, proved the first finite prime gap in 2012)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty" class="bare">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In Kentucky, he became involved with a group interested in Chinese democracy. Its slogan was “Freedom, Democracy, Rule of Law, and Pluralism.” A member of the group, a chemist in a lab, opened a Subway franchise as a means of raising money. “Since Tom was a genius at numbers,” another member of the group told me, “he was invited to help him.” Zhang kept the books. “Sometimes, if it was busy at the store, I helped with the cash register,” Zhang told me recently. “Even I knew how to make the sandwiches, but I didn’t do it so much.” When Zhang wasn’t working, he would go to the library at the University of Kentucky and read journals in algebraic geometry and number theory.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://beijingspring.com/bj2/2010/240/201378202613.htm" class="bare">http://beijingspring.com/bj2/2010/240/201378202613.htm</a></p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>张菁：你是中国民联最老的成员，我非常荣幸今天看到这么多民联的老成员在这里，前主席徐水良也来了，这很少见。我的问题是，你对中国民主运动还有什么兴趣去关注，你对中国民联有什么寄望吗？</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>张益唐：第一，我不是民联很早的成员，不算太早，1989年那时加入的；第二，我作为一个独立知识分子，我的政治理念不会改变，也不会因为大陆不管是捧我还是怎么对我，我的基本理念不会改变。至于具体参与，因为现在我也很长时间没参与了，我想将来也没有太多机会去参与。</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Zhang Jing: You are the oldest member of the China Democracy League. I am very honored to see so many old members of the Democracy League here today. The former chairman Xu Shuiliang is also here, which is rare. My question is, do you still have any interest in China’s democratic movement? Do you have any hopes for the China Democratic League?</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Zhang Yitang: First, I am not an early member of the Democratic League, not too early. I joined in 1989; second, as an independent intellectual, my political ideas will not change, and I will not change because of the mainland. Whether you praise me or treat me in any way, my basic philosophy will not change. As for the specific participation, because I haven’t participated in it for a long time now, I don’t think there will be many opportunities to participate in the future.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The democracy group is called 中国民主团结联盟 (Chinese United Democracy Alliance).</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="university-student-dissidents-abroad"><a class="anchor" href="#university-student-dissidents-abroad"></a><a class="link" href="#university-student-dissidents-abroad">18.1.14. Chinese university student dissidents abroad (外交中国大学持不同政见者学生)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-07 Dong Wuyuan 洞物员 (alias Horror Zoo)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>TODO real name? 洞物员 is the same sound as zoo in Chinese (动物园) which matches the English alias</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/horror_zoo" class="bare">https://twitter.com/horror_zoo</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/FakeNewsOfChina" class="bare">https://twitter.com/FakeNewsOfChina</a> account run by Dong, with many funny anti-CCP images</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.voachinese.com/a/the-reach-of-the-state-07032020/5487187.html" class="bare">https://www.voachinese.com/a/the-reach-of-the-state-07032020/5487187.html</a> "党国的手伸向海外每一个角落，要你封口"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200703/AFQNIBP76SMDK7KXJIR5Q2QAXQ/" class="bare">https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200703/AFQNIBP76SMDK7KXJIR5Q2QAXQ/</a> "Police try to silence Chinese students abroad with threats to families"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200703/VR4EYZ4UHTECBUILPY5UBJILSQ/" class="bare">https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200703/VR4EYZ4UHTECBUILPY5UBJILSQ/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="opengl106"><a class="anchor" href="#opengl106"></a><a class="link" href="#opengl106">18.1.14.1. Ji Ziyue 季子越 (2020-06, opengl106, 神楽坂梓月)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Aliases: opengl106 神楽坂梓月</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Accounts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/opengl106" class="bare">https://github.com/opengl106</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>most projects are university course assignments: <a href="https://github.com/opengl106/UCAS-assignments-19" class="bare">https://github.com/opengl106/UCAS-assignments-19</a> | <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/UCAS-assignments-20" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/UCAS-assignments-20</a> and are generic computer science topics, so maybe not so specialized in bioinformatics</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/opengl106" class="bare">https://twitter.com/opengl106</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200627190104/https://twitter.com/opengl106" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200627190104/https://twitter.com/opengl106</a> apology post</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>4k followers on Twitter a the time, but small GitHub, so any other external fame source?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Media coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://tw.news.yahoo.com/陸生罵-支那廢物-事後歉-辜負祖國-155037705.html" class="bare">https://tw.news.yahoo.com/陸生罵-支那廢物-事後歉-辜負祖國-155037705.html</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>says they are a student from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences">UCAS</a> studying abroad, claims family name is 季 and male, Twitter says they are <a href="#gay-rights">non-binary/pansexual</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60201684/疑有学生在海外发辱华言论中国科学院大学发紧急声明图" class="bare">https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60201684/疑有学生在海外发辱华言论中国科学院大学发紧急声明图</a> contains real photos taken from some public account, appearing dressed as female</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the university UCAS issued a statement on this saying that would be punished</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#global-times">Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)</a> accused them of "reviling the victims of the Nanjing Massacre" <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192875.shtml" class="bare">https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192875.shtml</a> true or false?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reactions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.pincong.rocks/article/20899" class="bare">https://www.pincong.rocks/article/20899</a> <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a> "洁洁良第二？疑似中科院大学学生因推特发表「不当言论」被校方关切", commentary compares the case <a href="#tian-jialiang">Tian Jialiang (田佳良, 2018)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/403769563" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/403769563</a> "如何评价中国科学院大学硕士生季子越在社交媒体发表恨国精日言论？" on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="tian-jialiang"><a class="anchor" href="#tian-jialiang"></a><a class="link" href="#tian-jialiang">18.1.14.2. Tian Jialiang (田佳良, 2018)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/田佳良事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/田佳良事件</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Alias: 洁洁良</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="hong-kong-dissidents"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong-dissidents"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong-dissidents">18.2. Hong Kong dissidents (香港持不同政见者)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related: <a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="joshua-wong"><a class="anchor" href="#joshua-wong"></a><a class="link" href="#joshua-wong">18.2.1. Joshua Wong (黄之锋)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃之鋒" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃之鋒</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Social media:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf" class="bare">https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-09-24 arrested: <a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2020/09/24/breaking-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-on-suspicion-of-participating-in-an-unauthorised-assembly/" class="bare">https://hongkongfp.com/2020/09/24/breaking-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-on-suspicion-of-participating-in-an-unauthorised-assembly/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMl1jDjptDk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMl1jDjptDk</a> Lessons in Dissent: How One Hong Kong Schoolboy Started A Revolution by Journeyman Pictures (2019)
video::kMl1jDjptDk[youtube,height=400,width=600]</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="agnes-chow"><a class="anchor" href="#agnes-chow"></a><a class="link" href="#agnes-chow">18.2.2. Agnes Chow (周庭)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Chow" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Chow</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周庭" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周庭</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Social media:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/chowtingagnes" class="bare">https://twitter.com/chowtingagnes</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="jimmy-lai"><a class="anchor" href="#jimmy-lai"></a><a class="link" href="#jimmy-lai">18.2.3. Jimmy Lai (黎智英)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黎智英" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黎智英</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Founder of <a href="#apple-daily">Apple Daily (苹果日报)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="western-dissidents"><a class="anchor" href="#western-dissidents"></a><a class="link" href="#western-dissidents">18.3. Western anti-CCP dissidents</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For pro-CCP dissidents see: <a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="serpentza-laowhy86"><a class="anchor" href="#serpentza-laowhy86"></a><a class="link" href="#serpentza-laowhy86">18.3.1. Winston Sterzel (SerpentZA) and Matthew Tye (laowhy86)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Sterzel" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Sterzel</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The biggest China expat YouTube channels, and the also collaborated together a lot.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2019, they seem to have moved to the USA because they can’t stand harassment by the Chinese government.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Due to their balanced opinions, fluent Chinese, not being <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>, and having lived in China for such a long time, the offer what is arguably the one of best CCP criticisms.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>SerpentZA YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7mAGnY4jh4Ps8rhhh8XZg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7mAGnY4jh4Ps8rhhh8XZg</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>laowhy86 YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChvithwOECK5g_19TjldMKw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChvithwOECK5g_19TjldMKw</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>ADVChina joint YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNPa8fSXzzAZuT9859GVhg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNPa8fSXzzAZuT9859GVhg</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ</a> "How I Got my Family Out of China" published by laowhy86 on 2020-07-08.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kDV4s9c9sfQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA</a> "How I Escaped From China - The Untold Story" published by laowhy86 on 2020-07-01.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kDV4s9c9sfQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ</a> "#65 China Is Getting Worse | Laowhy86 and SerpentZA" published on 2020-04-05. SerpentZA and laowhy86 interview on "China Unscripted", a sister channel of <a href="#china-uncensored">China Uncensored (pro-Falun Gong media)</a>. This marks them clearly on the side of "openly criticizing the Chinese government".</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kDV4s9c9sfQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6PI91n2f9o" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6PI91n2f9o</a> "China Expels Foreign Press to Protect Its Lies" published on 2020-03-23 during/just after <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/b6PI91n2f9o?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpPpFzLcZg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpPpFzLcZg</a> "China’s Winnie The Pooh BAN Explained" published on 2019-10-28 discusses <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017)</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NXpPpFzLcZg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="lele-farley"><a class="anchor" href="#lele-farley"></a><a class="link" href="#lele-farley">18.3.2. LeLe Farley (乐乐法利)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyYlGTZL-HnnX_UcGkVFH7A" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyYlGTZL-HnnX_UcGkVFH7A</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="aaron-dewitt"><a class="anchor" href="#aaron-dewitt"></a><a class="link" href="#aaron-dewitt">18.3.3. Aaron DeWitt (The Chinese Tea)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Online presence:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9xhMZtll7ssDnSwFRTS_mQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9xhMZtll7ssDnSwFRTS_mQ</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkApnaIZFJw&list=PLvRF9X9O58vKO1GGejwzbLaKBPaW4WdTD" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkApnaIZFJw&list=PLvRF9X9O58vKO1GGejwzbLaKBPaW4WdTD</a> contains a playlist he forgot to delete with his own videos, including the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOh9AoAv2U" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOh9AoAv2U</a> "TikTok Hired me" URL and: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M</a> "I worked for the Chinese State Department – 中公教育党委 – offcn CCP Committee"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://thechineset.com" class="bare">https://thechineset.com</a> his online shop with anti-CCP memorabilia</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/gayshuaige" class="bare">https://www.facebook.com/gayshuaige</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheBritishHongKong/posts/httpsyoutubekfoh9aoav2u/10157024077436792/" class="bare">https://www.facebook.com/TheBritishHongKong/posts/httpsyoutubekfoh9aoav2u/10157024077436792/</a> links to</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dontlikegina" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/user/dontlikegina</a> is likely his account, as it is basically about him self advertising, and coherent with him likely being gay based on appearance in videos</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottChina/comments/j6iahm/naming_the_racist_companies_that_dont_hire_black/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottChina/comments/j6iahm/naming_the_racist_companies_that_dont_hire_black/</a> by dontlikegina points to: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGG" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGG</a> "Naming the Racist Companies that Don’t Hire Black People", see below</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/letsdewitt/" class="bare">https://www.instagram.com/letsdewitt/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Deleted some of his videos, so likely either legal trouble or intelligence request.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M</a> "I worked for the Chinese State Department – 中公教育党委 – offcn CCP Committee" (2020-08-21), previously titled "Working for the Chinese State Department" is the most eyepopping video based on its description from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20201102122911if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M&feature=youtu.be">archive</a> (video not visible, only description, likely CIA deletion request):</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interviewing potential spies for for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, on behalf of 中公教育 (offcn) - a $30B+ company, funded and managed by the Chinese Communist Party. I worked there from 2019 to 2020. I have lived in China from 2014 - 2020, speak Mandarin Chinese, and am now blacklisted by the Chinese government - a badge of honor.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>so holy fuck, Ciro actually feels this one could honestly be a <a href="#spy">CIA deletion request</a>. Unfortunately Ciro never managed to watch it before it was deleted.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>offcn is the short name for the company 中公教育党委 which literally means "Chinese Public Education Party". TODO what do they do exactly? They seem to have strong CCP party links: <a href="http://edu.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0510/c1006-29977260.html" class="bare">http://edu.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0510/c1006-29977260.html</a>, maybe they are a "corporate training" company for the CCP itself.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Discussions threads:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/ie85jr/i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department_中公教育党委/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/ie85jr/i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department_中公教育党委/</a> claims to be a self post which was later deleted "(I own this video, Taiwan is mentioned multiple times)"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://sirmax1.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/i-worked-for-the-chinese-state-department-中公教育党委-offcn-ccp-committee-via-r-wikileaks/" class="bare">https://sirmax1.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/i-worked-for-the-chinese-state-department-中公教育党委-offcn-ccp-committee-via-r-wikileaks/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LIHKG/comments/ies9jh/i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department_中公教育党委/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/LIHKG/comments/ies9jh/i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department_中公教育党委/</a> on ther <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> <a href="#lihkg">LIHKG (連登, Hong Kong Reddit clone)</a> backup</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/ieiq7m/外国人爆料i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/ieiq7m/外国人爆料i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020">We Don’t Hire Blacks by Aaron Dewitt (我们不雇用黑人, 2020)</a> is the second most eye popping one.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOh9AoAv2U" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOh9AoAv2U</a> "TikTok Hired Me in China: Exposing their Lies, Insider Leaks" is not archived at all.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc</a> "Naming the Racist Companies that Don’t Hire Black People". According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201007015433if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc&feature=youtu.be" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201007015433if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc&feature=youtu.be</a> (viewable 2020-12-31) the original title was "Spilling the Chinese Tea" and the description is:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Discussing companies that operate in America and refuse to hire black people. These companies avoid following U.S. EEO laws because they’re headquartered in mainland China, a country that does not protect people of color from racial discrimination.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The video shows a call with a black man (TODO who is that) where he talks about anti-black racism on employment in China. Nothing eye-popping, mostly references <a href="#we-dont-hire-blacks-by-aaron-dewitt-2020">We Don’t Hire Blacks by Aaron Dewitt (我们不雇用黑人, 2020)</a>. Mentions he is under NDA and cannot reveal the name of the company.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="the-woke-global-times"><a class="anchor" href="#the-woke-global-times"></a><a class="link" href="#the-woke-global-times">18.3.4. The woke global times</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/BadChinaTake" class="bare">https://twitter.com/BadChinaTake</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://wokeglobaltimes.com/" class="bare">https://wokeglobaltimes.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Anonymous anti-CCP mostly <a href="#twitter">Twitter (推特)</a> commentary about China, large part of it is making fun of right wing Americans saying stupid things about China with witty comments.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The website contains a small number of high quality analysis articles.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="media"><a class="anchor" href="#media"></a><a class="link" href="#media">19. Media (媒体)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sources of information pertinent to this repository.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#russian-state-media">Russian state media (俄罗斯官方媒体)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="commentary-media"><a class="anchor" href="#commentary-media"></a><a class="link" href="#commentary-media">19.1. Commentary media</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The following offer interesting commentary, but not to be used as primary sources:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://china-journal.org" class="bare">https://china-journal.org</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.chinafile.com" class="bare">https://www.chinafile.com</a> Some good articles. "ChinaFile is an online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society", based in New York.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.iyouport.org/" class="bare">https://www.iyouport.org/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="biased-media"><a class="anchor" href="#biased-media"></a><a class="link" href="#biased-media">19.2. Biased media (偏见媒体)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I consider the media in this section biased, and never cite it for fact-checking.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="chinese-government-media"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-government-media"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-government-media">19.2.1. Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Phoenix TV</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Television" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Television</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/凤凰卫视" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/凤凰卫视</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/cruz-seeks-to-shut-down-chinese-propaganda-station-phoenix-tv/" class="bare">https://freebeacon.com/national-security/cruz-seeks-to-shut-down-chinese-propaganda-station-phoenix-tv/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="national-radio-and-television-administration"><a class="anchor" href="#national-radio-and-television-administration"></a><a class="link" href="#national-radio-and-television-administration">19.2.2. National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA, 国家广播电影电视总局)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Radio_and_Television_Administration" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Radio_and_Television_Administration</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/國家廣播電視總局" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/國家廣播電視總局</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="xinhua"><a class="anchor" href="#xinhua"></a><a class="link" href="#xinhua">19.2.3. Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新华社" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新华社</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Links:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/" class="bare">http://www.xinhuanet.com/</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://news.cn/" class="bare">http://news.cn/</a> mirror of the above</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/PDChina" class="bare">https://twitter.com/PDChina</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="new-china-tv"><a class="anchor" href="#new-china-tv"></a><a class="link" href="#new-china-tv">19.2.3.1. New China TV</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinaViewTV" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinaViewTV</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>International propaganda by <a href="#xinhua">Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Basically as covert as Falun Gong media: <a href="#flg-transparent">Falun Gong media is not transparent about its affiliation (法轮功媒体对其隶属关系不透明)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="internal-media-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#internal-media-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#internal-media-of-china">19.2.3.2. Internal media of China (内参)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_media_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_media_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/内参" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/内参</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name for this top document is the "Big Reference" (大参考), since the 70s down to today in the 2020s.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO: there must be websites hosting some level of those, right?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At <a href="https://youtu.be/846AtqraCYg?t=615" class="bare">https://youtu.be/846AtqraCYg?t=615</a> the BBC mini-documentary series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_Head_(TV_series)">Can’t Get You Out of My Head (2021)</a> Episode 04 "But What If the People are Stupid" comments that Xinhua had 3 levels of privileged real news for people higher and higher up in the party hierarchy, and that the top one had extra large letters so that the old men who were in that category could read it. See also: <a href="#jiang-zemin-magnify">Jiang Zemin with magnifying glass</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a good example of <a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="cctv"><a class="anchor" href="#cctv"></a><a class="link" href="#cctv">19.2.3.3. China Central Television (CCTV, 中国中央电视台, 央视, CCP media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国中央电视台" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国中央电视台</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reports:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2011 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12321492" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12321492</a> "China TV 'substitutes Top Gun for air force footage'"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="cgtn"><a class="anchor" href="#cgtn"></a><a class="link" href="#cgtn">19.2.3.3.1. China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrNz-aDmcr2uuto8_DL2jg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrNz-aDmcr2uuto8_DL2jg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国环球电视网" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国环球电视网</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#cctv">China Central Television (CCTV, 中国中央电视台, 央视, CCP media)</a>'s international branch in English, China’s <a href="#voa">Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>20201-02-04: <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/04/media/cgtn-uk-license-ofcom/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/04/media/cgtn-uk-license-ofcom/index.html</a> lost UK license</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="peoples-daily"><a class="anchor" href="#peoples-daily"></a><a class="link" href="#peoples-daily">19.2.3.4. People’s Daily (人民日报, CCP media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People’s_Daily" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People’s_Daily</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人民日报" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人民日报</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="http://people.cn/" class="bare">http://people.cn/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The website has per-language and per province subdomains, e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://en.people.cn/" class="bare">http://en.people.cn/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Province subdomains</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://js.people.cn/" class="bare">http://js.people.cn/</a> Jiangsu</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://fj.people.cn/" class="bare">http://fj.people.cn/</a> Fujian</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/PDChina" class="bare">https://twitter.com/PDChina</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2020, some deleted articles show the home page instead of the article, without redirection. Some examples can be seen at: <a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But older pages just show 404.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="global-times"><a class="anchor" href="#global-times"></a><a class="link" href="#global-times">19.2.3.5. Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/环球时报" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/环球时报</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Accounts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews" class="bare">https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews</a> <a href="https://archive.is/7oshu" class="bare">https://archive.is/7oshu</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/globaltimesnews/" class="bare">https://www.facebook.com/globaltimesnews/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="china-daily"><a class="anchor" href="#china-daily"></a><a class="link" href="#china-daily">19.2.3.6. China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Daily" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Daily</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国日报" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国日报</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>English-language propaganda newspaper.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Responsible for <a href="#china-watch">China watch (2011-)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="china-radio-international"><a class="anchor" href="#china-radio-international"></a><a class="link" href="#china-radio-international">19.2.3.7. China Radio International (CRI, 中国国际广播电台, CCP media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Radio_International" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Radio_International</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国国际广播电台" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国国际广播电台</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Websites:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.cri.cn" class="bare">http://www.cri.cn</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://english.cri.cn/" class="bare">http://english.cri.cn/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Operates for example: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCRW" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCRW</a> which is mentioned at: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46557096" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46557096</a> from <a href="#spy">China spy stories (中国间谍故事)</a>. WTF, you have to obviously block them!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="pro-chinese-government-media"><a class="anchor" href="#pro-chinese-government-media"></a><a class="link" href="#pro-chinese-government-media">19.2.3.8. Pro-Chinese government media (pro-CCP media)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>These might be independent, but they are clearly pro CCP and thus cannot be trusted:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://facts.org.cn/" class="bare">http://facts.org.cn/</a> anti-religion website in English, basically an English <a href="#kaiwind">Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="guancha"><a class="anchor" href="#guancha"></a><a class="link" href="#guancha">19.2.3.8.1. Guancha News (观察者网)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/观察者网" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/观察者网</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://www.guancha.cn/" class="bare">https://www.guancha.cn/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>YouTube channel, mostly Chinese commentary videos: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJncdiH3BQUBgCroBmhsUhQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJncdiH3BQUBgCroBmhsUhQ</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ideology:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>anti-<a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>: <a href="https://www.guancha.cn/politics/2019_09_18_518339.shtml" class="bare">https://www.guancha.cn/politics/2019_09_18_518339.shtml</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="kknews"><a class="anchor" href="#kknews"></a><a class="link" href="#kknews">19.2.3.8.2. kknews (pro-CCP media)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://kknews.cc/" class="bare">https://kknews.cc/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Refers to <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> as an "Evil Cult" (邪教) <a href="https://kknews.cc/zh-mo/entertainment/lj4y9yb.html" class="bare">https://kknews.cc/zh-mo/entertainment/lj4y9yb.html</a> (<a href="http://archive.is/osBDv">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One is reminded of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan">KKK</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/63052654" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/63052654</a> kknews.cc 是什么网站？(What is the website kknews.cc?) on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a>. One of the answers links to <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1490457159.A.5CA.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1490457159.A.5CA.html</a> on <a href="#ptt">PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a>, it is hilarious. Answers suggest it is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_farm">content farm</a> that copy pastes content from other locations without concerns for copyright.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="kaiwind"><a class="anchor" href="#kaiwind"></a><a class="link" href="#kaiwind">19.2.3.8.3. Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://kaiwind.com/" class="bare">http://kaiwind.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Anti-religion, and notably, anti-<a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> website in Chinese.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It must be said however that they do contain at least some information that seems to be true/interesting.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Including open secrets that every Falun Gong believer knows about but does discuss much publicly, e.g. details of <a href="#li-hongzhis-family">Li Hongzhi’s family (李洪志的家庭)</a>, and Sun Senjun’s account.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro has no proof that this is linked to the government, but it is very likely, even the Chinese embassy website links to it:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm" class="bare">http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180414233331/http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20180414233331/http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="falun-gong-media"><a class="anchor" href="#falun-gong-media"></a><a class="link" href="#falun-gong-media">19.2.4. Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A great example of how <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> is <a href="#flg-organized">highly organized</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Likely highly de-facto controlled by <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>, and extremely <a href="#flg-transparent">lacking clear full disclosure of their affiliation</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, Li refers to Falun Gong media as "our media" in <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>, and has given many many talks in gatherings specific to those media. E.g. in the <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20090606L.html">Fa Teaching Given at the NTDTV Meeting (2009)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#making-cult-members-work-long-hours-for-free">You have really been working hard</a>. […​]</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You have your path, while human beings have their affairs. You have things that you need to do. Don’t give any concern or attention to political things or what happens between parties. Of course, our media don’t really have a choice about reporting on it, since those are probably things that ordinary people are interested in.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It could be argued that those media are not "directly" controlled by Li Hongzhi, and Ciro does believe that they were created independently of him initially.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But without doubt they are controlled by his top followers, and if Li Hongzhi ever gave directions, which Ciro has no proof he has ever done, then those media would follow.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And since Li has given such direct endorsement to it, contributing has become a de-facto religious obligation, and one which constitutes a great part of <a href="#making-cult-members-work-long-hours-for-free">Making cult members work long hours for free (Orange papers, 让信徒免费长时间工作, 橙色文件)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro believes without evidence that Li Hongzhi gives specific directives to the top tenants of those organizations from time to time when important issues arise. Ciro believes that one of such issues is the support of Donald Trump: <a href="#flg-trump">Falun Gong supports Donald (Trump, 法轮功支持特朗普)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Furthermore, Li appears to directly cite some of the main media in Canon or talk at their conferences as Canon.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One thing must be said in their favour however: they are incorruptible in their fight against the CCP.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/@Ben_D_Hurley/the-agenda-that-drives-falun-gongs-media-organisations-62201ddeff66" class="bare">https://medium.com/@Ben_D_Hurley/the-agenda-that-drives-falun-gongs-media-organisations-62201ddeff66</a>: Ben Hurley’s 2019 overview, notably hitting on <a href="#flg-transparent">transparency issues</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>List of smaller ones that didn’t deserve a section:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.secretchina.com/" class="bare">https://www.secretchina.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://fofg.org/" class="bare">https://fofg.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Hope" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Hope</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.soundofhope.org/" class="bare">https://www.soundofhope.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bayvoice.net/gb/" class="bare">https://www.bayvoice.net/gb/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://lotus-sacre.com/" class="bare">http://lotus-sacre.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://dongtaiwang.com" class="bare">http://dongtaiwang.com</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hongzhi.li/" class="bare">https://hongzhi.li/</a> nice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack">domain hack</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.qi-gong.me/" class="bare">https://www.qi-gong.me/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.zhengjian.org/" class="bare">http://www.zhengjian.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.huaglad.com/" class="bare">https://www.huaglad.com/</a> 澳洲新闻 Australian news website, links to <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> on footer: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201101122433/https://www.huaglad.com/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201101122433/https://www.huaglad.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://visiontimes.com/" class="bare">https://visiontimes.com/</a> Vison Times, Vision China Times, 看中国</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_China_Times" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_China_Times</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.visiontimes.com.au/" class="bare">https://www.visiontimes.com.au/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.secretchina.com/" class="bare">https://www.secretchina.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="epoch-media-group"><a class="anchor" href="#epoch-media-group"></a><a class="link" href="#epoch-media-group">19.2.4.1. Epoch Media Group</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At some point both <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> and <a href="#ntdtv">New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)</a>, previously "independent", were added under a single umbrella organization, known as the "Epoch Media Group".</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="epoch-times"><a class="anchor" href="#epoch-times"></a><a class="link" href="#epoch-times">19.2.4.2. The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大纪元时报" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大纪元时报</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong’s newspaper with news for "general public consumption" an no clear affiliation indication.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a>: <a href="https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa10_3.htm" class="bare">https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa10_3.htm</a> or <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20091017L.html" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20091017L.html</a> "Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting" from 2009-10-17:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are so many things you have to do. You have to do your ordinary job and do it well, you have to manage your family’s affairs, and as Dafa disciples you need to make time for Fa-study and exercises; you also need to clarify the truth, as well as participate in Dafa projects, such as The Epoch Times.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2020-11-08 <a href="https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/11/8/n12534746.htm" class="bare">https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/11/8/n12534746.htm</a> the Epoch Times published a poem by Li Hongzhi, just after Trump was announced to lose the presidential elections, see also: <a href="#flg-trump">Falun Gong supports Donald (Trump, 法轮功支持特朗普)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.epochweekly.com/" class="bare">https://www.epochweekly.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ntdtv"><a class="anchor" href="#ntdtv"></a><a class="link" href="#ntdtv">19.2.4.3. New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新唐人電視台" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新唐人電視台</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong’s newspaper with news for "general public consumption" an no clear affiliation indication.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Li speaking to New Tang conference in <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a>: <a href="https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa9_3.htm" class="bare">https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa9_3.htm</a> 在新唐人電視討論會上的講法 or <a href="https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz3_73.htm" class="bare">https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz3_73.htm</a> "Fa Teaching Given at the NTDTV Meeting" from 2009-06-06:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Things are changing rapidly as the Fa-rectification forges ahead and as Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts grow stronger. The energy emitted by NTDTV is very strong</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Fa-rectification", amazing jargon, see also "Cult-speak" from <a href="#orange-papers">Orange Papers (橙色文件)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related shows:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Laowaikanzhongguo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/user/Laowaikanzhongguo</a> Laowai kan Zhongguo 老外看中國</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDOffTheGreatWall" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDOffTheGreatWall</a> Off the Great Wall</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVWMVBg1RPrDlakdmbyTKBA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVWMVBg1RPrDlakdmbyTKBA</a> Zooming In with Simone Gao</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3HxxpOJ0WWIuZsb7FtSLWQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3HxxpOJ0WWIuZsb7FtSLWQ</a> The BL (The Beauty of Life) No clear indication, but obvious since intro video shows Falun Gong images.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYSHqbSBDD0X3NC-ze8z5xQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYSHqbSBDD0X3NC-ze8z5xQ</a> 中國禁聞 (Chinese Forbidden News). Nice name, a play of words on "新闻" (xinwen vs jinwen)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="china-uncensored"><a class="anchor" href="#china-uncensored"></a><a class="link" href="#china-uncensored">19.2.4.3.1. China Uncensored (pro-Falun Gong media)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFP46yVT-GG4o1TgXn-04Q" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFP46yVT-GG4o1TgXn-04Q</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hosted by Chris Chappell.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Syster interview podcast channel: China Unscripted: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1sZefER0E" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1sZefER0E</a> The three makers of China Uncesored appear on the videos.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Older shows had an "ndt.tv" water mark on top right, e.g. a 2013 video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmMvS3lgJBs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmMvS3lgJBs</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The video description also links to <a href="http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored" class="bare">http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored</a> which is now down, but has archives such as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130321071835/http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20130321071835/http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored</a> which suggest a redirect back to the YouTube channel:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Redirecting to…​</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZhVHPaO1ziCc9dRPrgbz2KU0aZF7CJ-" class="bare">http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZhVHPaO1ziCc9dRPrgbz2KU0aZF7CJ-</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO why did newer videos remove the water mark and clear link? Did they break links, or just to hide Falun Gong influence?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Home page gives extremely unusual importance to Falun Gong resources, e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/" class="bare">http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190426203719/http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/">archive</a>) "China Uncensored is available to watch on this website, on YouTube, on New Tang Dynasty Television"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/" class="bare">http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190512160736/http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/">archive</a>) "Chinese police illegally arrested Canadian citizen Sun Qian from her home in Beijing for practicing Falun Gong."</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website credits as of 2020:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Host Chris Chappell</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Producer Matt Gnaizda: his LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-gnaizda-6598a75/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-gnaizda-6598a75/</a> has a gap from 2009 to 2017, after having graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and worked "regular" jobs. This gap could have been when he converted to Falun Gong and started working for Falun Gong media</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mattgnaizda" class="bare">https://twitter.com/mattgnaizda</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-matt-gnaizda" class="bare">https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-matt-gnaizda</a> <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> credits him with several articles between 2005 and 2014</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Humor Ninja Shelley Zhang. She appears appears to be a professional comedy writer:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/shelzhang" class="bare">https://twitter.com/shelzhang</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelley-zhang-a5741a56/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelley-zhang-a5741a56/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://thechinagirls.wordpress.com/" class="bare">https://thechinagirls.wordpress.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-YouTube-show-China-Uncensored-funded/answer/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-YouTube-show-China-Uncensored-funded/answer/Ciro-Santilli</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-the-YouTube-channel-China-Uncensored-a-trustworthy-source-of-information-on-China" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Is-the-YouTube-channel-China-Uncensored-a-trustworthy-source-of-information-on-China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html" class="bare">https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190119083517/https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html">archive</a>) <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> highlights the channel "Why YouTube’s Most Popular Channel on China Politics Doesn’t Show in Search Suggestions"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="minghui"><a class="anchor" href="#minghui"></a><a class="link" href="#minghui">19.2.4.4. Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.minghui.org/" class="bare">https://en.minghui.org/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong’s primary "social network"/"Falun Gong"-only news/propaganda website. More Falun Gong specific than <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Literally: clear (明) wisdom (慧) network (网)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Li speaking to Minghui conference in <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a>: <a href="https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa10_1.htm" class="bare">https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa10_1.htm</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO how <a href="https://www.clearwisdom.net/" class="bare">https://www.clearwisdom.net/</a> compares?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="shen-yun"><a class="anchor" href="#shen-yun"></a><a class="link" href="#shen-yun">19.2.4.5. Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun_Performing_Arts" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun_Performing_Arts</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/神韵艺术团" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/神韵艺术团</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A good testimony from an ordinary employee from 2013: <a href="#aarvoll-shenyun">Aarvoll’s account</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Openly directly controlled by <a href="#li-hongzhi">Li Hongzhi (李洪志, LHZ, Falun Gong prophet)</a>. He features as director on librettos, e.g. the 2013 one (credited "D. F." (Da Fa) and with his photo).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Shen Yun’s headquarters are also located in/near <a href="#dragon-springs">Dragon Springs (龙泉, Falun Gong’s headquarters in New York State)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Li mentions Shen Yun in <a href="#flg-canon">canon</a>: <a href="https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa11_2.htm" class="bare">https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa11_2.htm</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On thing Ciro couldn’t help but notice is that the "CCP guards beating up Falun Gong people" scenes felt a lot like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_opera">Revolutinary operas</a> of the <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a> period in their aesthetics. Maybe this is an intentional reference.</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQ8plzWl9g" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQ8plzWl9g</a> "They tried to get me to post Chinese propaganda" by J.J. McCullough (2019) talks about Shen Yun and Falun Gong in general, and how he was offered to post anti-Shen Yun propaganda for 500 dollars.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2mQ8plzWl9g?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="jennifer-zeng"><a class="anchor" href="#jennifer-zeng"></a><a class="link" href="#jennifer-zeng">19.2.4.6. Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Zeng" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Zeng</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd" class="bare">https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2005 book: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Witnessing-History-Womans-Fight-Freedom/dp/1741144000" class="bare">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Witnessing-History-Womans-Fight-Freedom/dp/1741144000</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="bannedbook"><a class="anchor" href="#bannedbook"></a><a class="link" href="#bannedbook">19.2.4.7. bannedbook.org (禁闻网, pro-Falun Gong media)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The main Chinese name is 禁闻网 which stands for "banned news network", and is more accurate than the domain name "bannedbook" since the majority of material published appears to be recent banned articles.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Classifying this as Falun Gong media because most or possibly all of the sidebar recommended websites 推荐网站 are also Falun Gong media e.g. as of 2020-04: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200427221744/https://www.bannedbook.org/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200427221744/https://www.bannedbook.org/</a> includes <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> and <a href="https://hongzhi.li/" class="bare">https://hongzhi.li/</a>, so yeah, not much doubt.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From this we deduce that the "banned book" in the domain name originally likely referred more specifically to the banned Falun Gong sacred books: <a href="#flg-canon">Canonical Falun Gong texts (法轮功的经典著作)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once again, <a href="#flg-transparent">Falun Gong media is not transparent about its affiliation (法轮功媒体对其隶属关系不透明)</a> is in need.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO who is behind this website? They store full text copies of banned articles, e.g. <a href="https://www.bannedbook.org/bnews/baitai/20190816/1175647.html" class="bare">https://www.bannedbook.org/bnews/baitai/20190816/1175647.html</a> is a full text copy of <a href="http://yashalong.blog.caixin.com/archives/188877" class="bare">http://yashalong.blog.caixin.com/archives/188877</a> which is mentioned at: <a href="#nazi">Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="tuidang"><a class="anchor" href="#tuidang"></a><a class="link" href="#tuidang">19.2.4.8. Tuidang movement (退党, Falun Gong media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://tuidang.org/" class="bare">https://tuidang.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.tuidang.org/" class="bare">https://en.tuidang.org/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Falun Gong campaign asking Chinese people to revoke their CCP membership.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Extremely common when <a href="#falun-gong-preaching">Falun Gong preaching (法轮功传教)</a> on the streets in touristic areas where Chinese tourists will be present. Fake names will be accepted, so it is obviously just a symbolic act.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A bit less than 10% of the Chinese population are registered CCP members: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party</a>. So it is not obligatory, and there likely restrictions. But there must also be some kind of benefits involved. See also: <a href="https://daily.jstor.org/communist-party-of-china/" class="bare">https://daily.jstor.org/communist-party-of-china/</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="usa-government-media"><a class="anchor" href="#usa-government-media"></a><a class="link" href="#usa-government-media">19.2.5. USA government media (美国政府媒体)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.voa.com/" class="bare">https://www.voa.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.voachinese.com/" class="bare">https://www.voachinese.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.voacantonese.com/" class="bare">https://www.voacantonese.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Partial support:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun</a> <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ned"><a class="anchor" href="#ned"></a><a class="link" href="#ned">19.2.5.1. National Endowment for Democracy (NED)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国国家民主基金会" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国国家民主基金会</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="boxun"><a class="anchor" href="#boxun"></a><a class="link" href="#boxun">19.2.5.1.1. Boxun (博讯, USA government media)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="china-digital-times"><a class="anchor" href="#china-digital-times"></a><a class="link" href="#china-digital-times">19.2.5.1.2. China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Digital_Times" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Digital_Times</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国数字时代" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国数字时代</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ned">National Endowment for Democracy (NED)</a>-funded as mentioned e.g. at: <a href="https://www.ned.org/china-digital-times-provides-crucial-insight-and-information-about-china-and-the-covid-19/" class="bare">https://www.ned.org/china-digital-times-provides-crucial-insight-and-information-about-china-and-the-covid-19/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They have some amazing anti-<a href="#ccp">CCP</a> content, notably:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Main_Page">Grass-mud-horse Index</a>, mentioned at: <a href="#where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack">Where can I find good words for a keyword attack? (我在哪里可以找到关键字攻击的好词？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>as of 2021, their Chinese content is not well unified with the English one, and is much better, e.g.:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/chronicle-of-major-events" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/chronicle-of-major-events</a> list of major events</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A scraped mirror of CDT was created on <a href="#github">GitHub</a> pages by Tang Wenzheng from <a href="#fuck-xuexiqiangguo">Fuck-XueXiQiangGuo (Fuck学习强国)</a> is present at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://china-digital-times.github.io/?/" class="bare">https://china-digital-times.github.io/?/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/china-digital-times/china-digital-times.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/china-digital-times/china-digital-times.github.io</a> JavaScript SPA that reads data from the data repository, which is stored as JSON (JAMstack)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/china-digital-times/data/" class="bare">https://github.com/china-digital-times/data/</a> the data</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First commit Jun 30, 2019. The first article is from 2010, so maybe it did scrape everything. It appears to be automatically updated daily. The images seem to be re-uploaded to <a href="https://statically.io/" class="bare">https://statically.io/</a>, e.g. <a href="https://china-digital-times.github.io/?/id/664606" class="bare">https://china-digital-times.github.io/?/id/664606</a> contains <a href="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/china-digital-times/files/master/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png" class="bare">https://cdn.statically.io/gh/china-digital-times/files/master/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png</a> which just fetches from GitHub automatically: <a href="https://github.com/china-digital-times/files/blob/master/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png" class="bare">https://github.com/china-digital-times/files/blob/master/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png</a> while the original article <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/664606.html" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/664606.html</a> stores images locally: <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/files/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/files/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png</a>. This approach is more censorship resistant, since all images are under a single domain, so takedown would require a full statically domain takedown, which would break other things. Although CDN blocks are not unheard of, e.g. as mentioned at: <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx28EUiKEUc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx28EUiKEUc</a> "From 'fart people' to citizens on China’s internet | Xiao Qiang | TEDxLiberdade" by TEDx Talks (2014). Presentation by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Qiang">Xiao Qiang</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蕭強">萧强</a>), founder of <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a>. He was a Physicist from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Science_and_Technology_of_China">USTC</a> who went mad after <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>. <a href="#wife">Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a> also studied there and said that’s the most anti-CCP of all big Chinese universities.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MCxzMYVvHBg?rel=0&start=227" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="hric"><a class="anchor" href="#hric"></a><a class="link" href="#hric">19.2.5.1.3. Human Rights in China (organization, HRIC, 中国人权)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.hrichina.org/en" class="bare">https://www.hrichina.org/en</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.hrichina.org/chs" class="bare">https://www.hrichina.org/chs</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_in_China_(organization" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_in_China_(organization</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国人权_(组织" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国人权_(组织</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="hoover-institution"><a class="anchor" href="#hoover-institution"></a><a class="link" href="#hoover-institution">19.2.5.2. Hoover Institution (胡佛研究所, USA government media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡佛研究所" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡佛研究所</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="jamestown-foundation"><a class="anchor" href="#jamestown-foundation"></a><a class="link" href="#jamestown-foundation">19.2.5.3. Jamestown Foundation (USA government media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="bbc"><a class="anchor" href="#bbc"></a><a class="link" href="#bbc">19.2.5.4. BBC (英国广播公司, British government media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/英国广播公司" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/英国广播公司</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="dw"><a class="anchor" href="#dw"></a><a class="link" href="#dw">19.2.5.5. Deutsche Welle (DW, 德国之声, German government media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/德国之声" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/德国之声</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="anti-ccp-media"><a class="anchor" href="#anti-ccp-media"></a><a class="link" href="#anti-ccp-media">19.2.6. Anti-CCP media</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="bitter-winter"><a class="anchor" href="#bitter-winter"></a><a class="link" href="#bitter-winter">19.2.6.1. Bitter Winter (寒冬)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://bitterwinter.org/" class="bare">https://bitterwinter.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESNUR" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESNUR</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Italian-based magazine about freedom of religion.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China category: <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/category/china/news/" class="bare">https://bitterwinter.org/category/china/news/</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="human-rigts-organizations"><a class="anchor" href="#human-rigts-organizations"></a><a class="link" href="#human-rigts-organizations">19.2.6.2. Human rigts organizations</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#chinese-human-rights-defenders">Chinese Human Rights Defenders (中国人权捍卫者)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#front-line-defenders">Front Line Defenders (前线卫士)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#hric">Human Rights in China (organization, HRIC, 中国人权)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="amnesty-international"><a class="anchor" href="#amnesty-international"></a><a class="link" href="#amnesty-international">19.2.6.2.1. Amnesty International (国际特赦组织)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/國際特赦組織" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/國際特赦組織</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/" class="bare">https://www.amnesty.org/en/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>UK based, had investments from United States and European governments.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="human-rights-watch"><a class="anchor" href="#human-rights-watch"></a><a class="link" href="#human-rights-watch">19.2.6.2.2. Human Rights Watch (人权观察)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.hrw.org/" class="bare">https://www.hrw.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.hrw.org/zh-hans" class="bare">https://www.hrw.org/zh-hans</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人权观察" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人权观察</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>New York based.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="usa-based-media-bias"><a class="anchor" href="#usa-based-media-bias"></a><a class="link" href="#usa-based-media-bias">19.2.7. USA-based media bias</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2018 graph that everyone needs to see: <a href="https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/02/28/Photos/NS/MW-GE557_MediaB_20180228115701_NS.jpg" class="bare">https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/02/28/Photos/NS/MW-GE557_MediaB_20180228115701_NS.jpg</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="voa"><a class="anchor" href="#voa"></a><a class="link" href="#voa">19.2.7.1. Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国之音" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国之音</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="rfa"><a class="anchor" href="#rfa"></a><a class="link" href="#rfa">19.2.7.2. Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由亚洲电台" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由亚洲电台</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://www.rfa.org" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just because they are/were funded/founded by the CIA, it doesn’t mean that we can’t use their <a href="#rebel-pepper">amazing satirical cartoons</a> to fight <a href="#dictatorship">Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a>, right?</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="hong-kong-media"><a class="anchor" href="#hong-kong-media"></a><a class="link" href="#hong-kong-media">19.3. Hong kong media (香港媒体)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="scmp"><a class="anchor" href="#scmp"></a><a class="link" href="#scmp">19.3.1. South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/南華早報" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/南華早報</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a> based, but bought by <a href="#alibaba">Alibaba (阿里巴巴, Chinese Amazon clone)</a> in 2016, but it still continued to publish censored stuff widely, e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="apple-daily"><a class="anchor" href="#apple-daily"></a><a class="link" href="#apple-daily">19.3.2. Apple Daily (苹果日报)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Daily" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Daily</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蘋果日報_(香港" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蘋果日報_(香港</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://hk.appledaily.com/" class="bare">https://hk.appledaily.com/</a> Fully down 2021, long live <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Founded by <a href="#jimmy-lai">Jimmy Lai (黎智英)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Pro-democracy. Raided soon after <a href="#hong-kong-national-security-law">Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法, 2020)</a> started.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Forced to shutdown 2021-06: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/23/hong-kong-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/23/hong-kong-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-qyxEIuHI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-qyxEIuHI</a> Hong Kong billionaire’s last interview as a free man by BBC News (2021)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hkfp"><a class="anchor" href="#hkfp"></a><a class="link" href="#hkfp">19.3.3. Hong Kong Free Press (香港自由新聞)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Free_Press" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Free_Press</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/香港自由新聞" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/香港自由新聞</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://hongkongfp.com/" class="bare">https://hongkongfp.com/</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="media-that-we-are-not-sure-is-biased-or-not"><a class="anchor" href="#media-that-we-are-not-sure-is-biased-or-not"></a><a class="link" href="#media-that-we-are-not-sure-is-biased-or-not">19.4. Media that we are not sure is biased or not</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="caixin"><a class="anchor" href="#caixin"></a><a class="link" href="#caixin">19.4.1. Caixin (财新传媒)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caixin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caixin</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/财新传媒" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/财新传媒</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Beijing based, but does publish stuff that seems to be very sensitive:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a> Government fuckups</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35761277" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35761277</a> "China magazine Caixin defiant on censorship of article"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="videos"><a class="anchor" href="#videos"></a><a class="link" href="#videos">20. Videos (视频)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZOZrP1P_V5d7RMOKXF1PT70fcfYJpgY" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZOZrP1P_V5d7RMOKXF1PT70fcfYJpgY</a>: <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s "China Politics" playlist. It is a collection of all sensitive videos he has ever found on YouTube. Ping him if you find any he hasn’t included.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting videos that were deleted/made private since he added them:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-04-17 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190424021220/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnnHCeRH3w" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190424021220/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnnHCeRH3w</a> the Leica ad: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/19/18508009/leica-china-censored-ad-tiananmen-square-protests-weibo" class="bare">https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/19/18508009/leica-china-censored-ad-tiananmen-square-protests-weibo</a> Re-upload by <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcuLZDHLFt8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcuLZDHLFt8</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-05-18 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAEUafI_lyI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAEUafI_lyI</a> not on Web Archive, lesson learned</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="funny"><a class="anchor" href="#funny"></a><a class="link" href="#funny">21. Funny (搞笑)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Humour is the greatest weapon against <a href="#dictatorship">dictators</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#chrysanthemium-xi-jinping">Chrysanthemium Xi Jinping (菊花习近平, 2015)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Religious_Affairs_Bureau_Order_No._5" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Religious_Affairs_Bureau_Order_No._5</a> officially named "Measures on the Management of the Reincarnation of Living Buddhas" (藏传佛教活佛转世管理办法)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/3pqljx/zimbabwes_ruthless_dictator_mugabe_wins_chinas/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/3pqljx/zimbabwes_ruthless_dictator_mugabe_wins_chinas/</a> 2015 Zimbabwe dictator wins Confucius prize</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.miniharm.com/" class="bare">http://www.miniharm.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>South Park S32 E1 "Band in China" (2019), episode criticizing <a href="#censorship">Chinese censorship</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>free preview <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6DI6XuvCwE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6DI6XuvCwE</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>free episode but only for US / Canada…​ <a href="https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s23e02-band-in-china" class="bare">https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s23e02-band-in-china</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>reply from show creators to censorship <a href="https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320" class="bare">https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>BBC’s report <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49968867" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49968867</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGPZYFeUUAAYMQf?format=jpg&name=large" class="bare">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGPZYFeUUAAYMQf?format=jpg&name=large</a> "Tibet, Uyghur, Hong Kong, World" China death knocking door cartoon. TODO source, originally seen at: <a href="https://twitter.com/Lawrence_HKer/status/1181026542786203648" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Lawrence_HKer/status/1181026542786203648</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191008075035/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGPZYFeUUAAYMQf?format=jpg">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#life-of-brian-1979">Life of Brian (布莱恩的一生, 1979)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#zone-theory">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvX7ED8UUI Tim and Eric's Zone Theory. If you want to stop Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult), don’t put them in jail like the dictators. Do it the same way you stop dictators: with comedy. Otherwise, the dictators remain in power, and next person in jail, will be you.</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#weibo-logo">Weibo (新浪微博) logo vs Sauron’s eye 微博标志vs索倫魔眼 by Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的).</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#no-humour">No humour (Orange Papers, 不能有幽默, 橙色文件)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="cartoonists"><a class="anchor" href="#cartoonists"></a><a class="link" href="#cartoonists">21.1. Cartoonists (漫画家)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reasonable lists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://caglecartoons.com/?s=China" class="bare">https://caglecartoons.com/?s=China</a> The website blocks Web Archive.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other cartoonists/illustrators:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Greta Samuel</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gretasamuel.com/" class="bare">https://gretasamuel.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/samuel_greta" class="bare">https://mobile.twitter.com/samuel_greta</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://idzpodprad.pl/aktualnosci/chinczycy-groza-smiercia-polskiej-ilustratorce-pracodawca-chce-ja-zwolnic/" class="bare">https://idzpodprad.pl/aktualnosci/chinczycy-groza-smiercia-polskiej-ilustratorce-pracodawca-chce-ja-zwolnic/</a> "Chińczycy grożą śmiercią polskiej ilustratorce! Pracodawca chce ją zwolnić?¨" Google translates to: "The Chinese are threatening the death of the Polish illustrator! Employer wants to fire her?"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Rin Sanada (真田鈴) from <a href="#xi-jinping-porn">Xi Jinping porn (习近平色情)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="rebel-pepper"><a class="anchor" href="#rebel-pepper"></a><a class="link" href="#rebel-pepper">21.1.1. Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Pepper" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Pepper</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/王立銘" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/王立銘</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Real name: Wang Liming (王立铭)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Personal media:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/remonwangxt" class="bare">https://twitter.com/remonwangxt</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://rebelpeppercartoons.com/" class="bare">https://rebelpeppercartoons.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Without a doubt, the greatest anti-Communist joke cartoonist of the 2010s.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2019 he does work for <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a>, so a possible list of all cartoons of this era can be found at: <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/story_archive" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/story_archive</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His best work can be found scattered throughout this document in the relevant sections.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Rebel_pepper.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Rebel pepper" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 238. Rebel Pepper’s self portrait as a perverted pepper (the literal translation of his Chinese name "变态辣椒") used in his Sina and <a href="#tencent">Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a> accounts before those got deleted <a href="https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china_watch/2014/08/140827_china_cartoonist">according to the BBC</a>. <a href="https://ecdm.fandom.com/zh/wiki/变态辣椒">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="kuang-biao"><a class="anchor" href="#kuang-biao"></a><a class="link" href="#kuang-biao">21.1.2. Kuang Biao (邝飚)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuang_Biao" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuang_Biao</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample work:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#li-wenliang-by-kuang-biao">Li Wenliang with barbed wire mask</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#trump-twitter-kuang-biao">Trump Twitter ban cartoon</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="scarfolk-council"><a class="anchor" href="#scarfolk-council"></a><a class="link" href="#scarfolk-council">21.1.3. Scarfolk Council</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfolk" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfolk</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/" class="bare">https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/scarfolk" class="bare">https://twitter.com/scarfolk</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/richard_littler" class="bare">https://twitter.com/richard_littler</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not about China specifically, but broadly anti-dictatorship, and so much of it applies perfectly!!! With that typical British humour touch of course.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We have to translate the following into Chinese and add to the relevant sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2020/06/unknown-poster-campaign-1970s.html" class="bare">https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2020/06/unknown-poster-campaign-1970s.html</a> "Unknown Poster Campaign (1970s)", content "For more information please re-read"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2018/01/loose-tongues-public-information-1977.html" class="bare">https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2018/01/loose-tongues-public-information-1977.html</a> "Talking about the contents of this poster is illegal"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#scarfolk-public-displays-of-personal-distress-are-unpatriotic">Public displays of personal distress are unpatriotic</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#scarfolk-children-the-cause-of-crime">"Children: the cause of crime" spoof poster by Scarfolk Council (2017). Applies perfectly to Xinjiang (新疆) forced abortion accusations. The One-child policy (一孩政策, 1979–2015) also comes to mind. Source.</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#scarfolk-win-your-human-rights">Win your human rights</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2020/03/social-distancing-laws-1970.html" class="bare">https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2020/03/social-distancing-laws-1970.html</a> "Illegal to gather in groups of one". This is a reference to <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>, but it also applies perfectly to the lack of freedom of assembly in China</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.italki.com/post/question-175686" class="bare">https://www.italki.com/post/question-175686</a> 丢面子和丢脸有什么大的区别吗？ (What’s the difference between the two above.)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#scarfolk-whatever-you-do-dont">Whatever you do, don’t</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#scarfolk-children-the-cause-of-crime">Children: the cause of crime</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="scarfolk-lose-face" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Scarfolk_lose_face.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Scarfolk lose face" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 239. "Lose face" spoof poster by <a href="#scarfolk-council">Scarfolk Council</a> (2020). "Lose Face" reminds one of the popular Chinese expression "miànzi 面子" translated at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)#Chinese" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)#Chinese</a> as "face; side; reputation; self-respect; prestige, honor; social standing" and the corresponding "to lose face": (丢脸, 丢面子 <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/丢面子" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/丢面子</a> on <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a>). <a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2020/01/nhs-face-removals-1977.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="badiucao"><a class="anchor" href="#badiucao"></a><a class="link" href="#badiucao">21.1.4. Baidiucao (巴丢草)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badiucao" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badiucao</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/badiucao" class="bare">https://twitter.com/badiucao</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Has a more artistic red-black-white-yellow style.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Examples:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>brutal <a href="#winter-olympics-2022">2022 Winter Olympics in China (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会)</a> posters: <a href="https://i.redd.it/mlra40aqv5q71.jpg" class="bare">https://i.redd.it/mlra40aqv5q71.jpg</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="harry-harrison"><a class="anchor" href="#harry-harrison"></a><a class="link" href="#harry-harrison">21.1.5. Harry Harrison</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(cartoonist" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(cartoonist</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Cartoonist for <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A subset of his posts on his column "Harry’s view": <a href="https://www.scmp.com/photos/harrys-view" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/photos/harrys-view</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Selected work:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#i-need-to-talk-to-a-human-rights-lawyer">I need to talk to ahuman rights lawyer</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="paresh-nath"><a class="anchor" href="#paresh-nath"></a><a class="link" href="#paresh-nath">21.1.6. Paresh Nath</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not China only like <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a>, but does have some good China ones.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cagle.com/author/paresh-nath/" class="bare">https://www.cagle.com/author/paresh-nath/</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cagle.com/paresh-nath/2018/01/china-s-manipulation" class="bare">https://www.cagle.com/paresh-nath/2018/01/china-s-manipulation</a> "We don’t seek to conquer foreign lands", "It seeks to conquer foreign minds!"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://media.cagle.com/78/2017/03/08/192621_600.jpg" class="bare">https://media.cagle.com/78/2017/03/08/192621_600.jpg</a> "We believe in free trade and reforms"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cagle.com/paresh-nath/2014/10/honk-kong-protests" class="bare">https://www.cagle.com/paresh-nath/2014/10/honk-kong-protests</a> "Communism", "Democracy" and "Hong Kong" illustrates democracies disadvantage, that it is hard to get everyone on the same boat to fight together compared to dictatorships. This was also seen clearly on WW2 when the British government hesitated for a long time to attack while seeking peace, until Churchill stepped up.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/pareshnathtoons?lang=en" class="bare">https://twitter.com/pareshnathtoons?lang=en</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/dessinateurs/paresh/" class="bare">https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/dessinateurs/paresh/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="matsuyama-miyabi"><a class="anchor" href="#matsuyama-miyabi"></a><a class="link" href="#matsuyama-miyabi">21.1.7. Matsuyama Miyabi (松山雅)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Does he have anything besides the sexy BDSM gag ball 和諧/阿中哥哥 girl from February 2020 <a href="#covid">COVID19</a> time?</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/translator/comments/f08s9o/unknown_english_can_anyone_translate_the_words_on/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/translator/comments/f08s9o/unknown_english_can_anyone_translate_the_words_on/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://supchina.com/2020/02/14/a-third-of-china-remains-on-at-least-partial-lockdown-from-covid-19/" class="bare">https://supchina.com/2020/02/14/a-third-of-china-remains-on-at-least-partial-lockdown-from-covid-19/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="sun-xiangwen"><a class="anchor" href="#sun-xiangwen"></a><a class="link" href="#sun-xiangwen">21.1.8. Sun Xiangwen (孙向文)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/孙向文" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/孙向文</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Appears to be mostly pro-Japan stuff, can’t find any open examples, does not seem amazing.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="wumao-artists"><a class="anchor" href="#wumao-artists"></a><a class="link" href="#wumao-artists">21.1.8.1. Wumao artists (五毛艺术家)</a></h5>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="wuheqilin"><a class="anchor" href="#wuheqilin"></a><a class="link" href="#wuheqilin">21.1.8.1.1. Wuheqilin (乌合麒麟, wumao photographer)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuheqilin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuheqilin</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/乌合麒麟" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/乌合麒麟</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Publishes as public domain, so the images can be uploaded to Wikipedia. That’s something that <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> and the <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a> could learn from them.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Featured on <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a> e.g. at:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1219588.shtml" class="bare">https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1219588.shtml</a> by <a href="#global-times">Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample works:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#blood-cotton-initiative-wuheqilin">"Blood Cotton Initiative" by Wuheqilin</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="art"><a class="anchor" href="#art"></a><a class="link" href="#art">22. Art (艺术)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.yuumeiart.com/fisheye-placebo-chapters" class="bare">https://www.yuumeiart.com/fisheye-placebo-chapters</a> Fisheye Placebo by Wenqing Yan. Webcomic that talks a lot about climbing the <a href="#censorship">great wall</a>. Artist obviously pro-democracy: <a href="https://twitter.com/Yuumei_Art/status/1174394851179167744" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Yuumei_Art/status/1174394851179167744</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="dictatorships-are-bad-for-the-arts"><a class="anchor" href="#dictatorships-are-bad-for-the-arts"></a><a class="link" href="#dictatorships-are-bad-for-the-arts">22.1. Dictatorships are bad for the arts (独裁统治对艺术不好)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ermm, fear of going to jail for not kissing up to dictators well enough? Part of <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pe1abw/witcher_the_card_game_officially_released_in/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/pe1abw/witcher_the_card_game_officially_released_in/</a> Witcher the card game officially released in China, here is how it looks</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/MCxzMYVvHBg?t=227" class="bare">https://youtu.be/MCxzMYVvHBg?t=227</a> Shostakovich - How to Compose Music Despite [ R E D A C T E D ] by Tantacrul (2019) highlights how the famous Russian composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich">Dimitri Shostakovich</a> had to continually work around the <a href="#russia">Soviet Union</a>'s censorship in his compositions.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MCxzMYVvHBg?rel=0&start=227" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="porn"><a class="anchor" href="#porn"></a><a class="link" href="#porn">22.1.1. Pornography ban (色情禁令)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This will be the fall of China:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-is-pornography-banned-in-China" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Why-is-pornography-banned-in-China</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And yet, every single Chinese teenager knows very well the meaning of "AV": Adult Video, the term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_adult_videos_in_Japan">originating notably from Japan</a> (the Chinese really), which is one of the most common ways of referring to vide pornography.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Curious, right?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a> quote "The sex instinct will be eradicated." comes to mind, see that section for fuller context.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some news coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020 during <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>, while <a href="https://www.pornhub.com/press/show?id=1951">Pornhub was offering free premium subscriptions</a>, China was cracking down on porn harder than usual</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/06/internet-sex-coronavirus-no-porn-for-chinese-stuck-under-virus-lockdown/" class="bare">https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/06/internet-sex-coronavirus-no-porn-for-chinese-stuck-under-virus-lockdown/</a> FP report</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>(<a href="#chinese-government-media">biased</a>) <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/25/c_138657340.htm" class="bare">http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/25/c_138657340.htm</a> "China intensifies crackdown on pornography, illegal publications"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-01-15 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42640569" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42640569</a> "Sora Aoi: Japan’s porn star who taught a Chinese generation about sex. When Japanese actress and former porn star Sora Aoi announced her marriage online, it set off a frenzy on Chinese social media."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-06-17 <a href="https://qz.com/1001366/how-the-chinese-watch-porn-on-chinas-censored-internet/" class="bare">https://qz.com/1001366/how-the-chinese-watch-porn-on-chinas-censored-internet/</a> "Watching porn on China’s censored internet is an infinitely evolving cat-and-mouse game"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="jin-ping-mei" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jin_ping_mei.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Jin ping mei" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 240. Ming-era dynasty illustration of a scene from the novel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Ping_Mei">Jin Ping Mei</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/金瓶梅">金瓶梅</a>) where Qing Ximen (西門) and Golden Lotus (潘金蓮) are engaging in foreplay in a <a href="#yuyuan-garden">beautiful ancient Chinese house</a>. For an old depiction of homosexual male sexual activity, see: <a href="#qing-gay-scroll">this image</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:金瓶梅格子门插图2.JPG">Source</a>.</div>
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</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="tattoo"><a class="anchor" href="#tattoo"></a><a class="link" href="#tattoo">22.1.2. Tattoo television ban (刺青电视禁令, 2018)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustrick/2018/03/27/china-just-banned-tattoos-on-its-soccer-players-and-it-could-cost-them/#1ff82fa07db2" class="bare">https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustrick/2018/03/27/china-just-banned-tattoos-on-its-soccer-players-and-it-could-cost-them/#1ff82fa07db2</a> notably shows soccer players covering up their tattoos. <a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a> must have loved this!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And more generally, anything "cringey" was also banned from television in 2018-2019 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/business/china-war-on-fun-earrings-tattoos.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/business/china-war-on-fun-earrings-tattoos.html</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Men’s earrings aren’t the only objectionable material that China’s censors are blurring, covering up or cutting out. Soccer players wear long sleeves to cover their tattoos. Women in costumes at a racy video game convention have been told to raise their necklines. Rappers can rhyme only about peace and harmony.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No wonder that China basically unable to produce a lot of worthwhile art with such restrictions.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2018-03 <a href="https://supchina.com/2018/03/29/no-tattoos-at-the-2018-strawberry-music-festival-in-hangzhou/" class="bare">https://supchina.com/2018/03/29/no-tattoos-at-the-2018-strawberry-music-festival-in-hangzhou/</a> Funny pics at: <a href="https://app.myzaker.com/news/article.php?f=xiongzhang&pk=5ac0eb1877ac6465da676481" class="bare">https://app.myzaker.com/news/article.php?f=xiongzhang&pk=5ac0eb1877ac6465da676481</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-01 <a href="https://time.com/5112061/china-hip-hop-ban-tattoos-television/" class="bare">https://time.com/5112061/china-hip-hop-ban-tattoos-television/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="live-streaming"><a class="anchor" href="#live-streaming"></a><a class="link" href="#live-streaming">22.1.2.1. Live streaming (直播)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Fun is forbidden in China, all people must be good <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> loving <a href="#ccp-cult">Zealots</a>, or else:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-04-15 <a href="http://chinafilminsider.com/the-stars-who-vanished-from-chinas-live-streaming-galaxy/" class="bare">http://chinafilminsider.com/the-stars-who-vanished-from-chinas-live-streaming-galaxy/</a> "The Stars Who Vanished from China’s Live-streaming Galaxy" talks about the fall of:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Li Tianyou: "Li Tianyou’s downfall was deeply embedded in his rap lyrics and the lifestyle that he promotes in his shows. Several of his now-banned songs praised methamphetamine, calling the illicit drug "wonderful" and capable of "erasing all worries" (our translation), and describing in detail the sensation of being high on meth. Li’s livestreams also featured extravagant displays of wealth, including stacks of cash, luxury watches, and expensive sports cars."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Lu Benwei (卢本伟, alias 55kai): "As for Lu Benwei, profanity eventually became his undoing. After being accused of using cheats when live-streaming a game in November 2017, Lu vehemently defended himself on his channel, insulting the content creator who made the accusation and instigating fans to verbally abuse him."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chen Yifa: "offense stemmed from a single live-streaming session in 2016. According to a widely circulated video, Chen made joking mention of historical events such as the Nanjing Massacre and Japan’s occupation of northeast China. She also described a game character’s movement as honoring the Yasukuni"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="yang-kayli-anthem-desecration"><a class="anchor" href="#yang-kayli-anthem-desecration"></a><a class="link" href="#yang-kayli-anthem-desecration">22.1.2.1.1. Yang Kayli anthem desecration (楊凱莉, 2019)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/杨凯莉" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/杨凯莉</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yang Kaili (楊凱莉, alias 莉哥): "Yang Kaili, or "Lige," was the only one of the four banned live-streamers to have broken the <a href="http://chinafilminsider.com/the-stars-who-vanished-from-chinas-live-streaming-galaxy/">2019 live streaming law</a> mentioned at <a href="#live-streaming">Live streaming (直播)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>During a live-streaming show on Huya in October 2018, Yang was seen singing China’s <a href="#national-anthem">Chinese National Anthem (义勇军进行曲, 1978)</a>, "March of the Volunteers," in a jovial tone while waving her arms like an orchestra conductor"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So basically it was somewhat silly, but also cute and likely not intentionally rebelious at all,</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2018 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45859650" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45859650</a> Yang Kaili: China live-streamer detained for 'insulting' national anthem</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LKONlosqFM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LKONlosqFM</a> It was just a very small section, as part of the stream opening.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4LKONlosqFM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="political-essays"><a class="anchor" href="#political-essays"></a><a class="link" href="#political-essays">23. Political essays (政治论文)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This seems to be the type of writing that the CCP fears the most in their useless bureocratistic mindset.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And so it is one that we focus on.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In the following sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#zhao-heming">Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#xu-zhangrun">Xu Zhangrun (许章润)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#evil-man">Evil man (中国男性之恶)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#yue-xin">Yue Xin (岳昕)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="books"><a class="anchor" href="#books"></a><a class="link" href="#books">24. Books (书籍)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国出版物审查制度" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国出版物审查制度</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Either banned, or relevant.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For other censored material types, see: <a href="#lists-of-material-censored-in-china">Lists of material censored in China</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="nineteen-eighty-four"><a class="anchor" href="#nineteen-eighty-four"></a><a class="link" href="#nineteen-eighty-four">24.1. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一九八四" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一九八四</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Read for free from Project Gutenberg:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html" class="bare">http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200109210711/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt" class="bare">http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200413105623/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxDAqt617IxNRkpfOXpXcmtmdjA/edit" class="bare">https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxDAqt617IxNRkpfOXpXcmtmdjA/edit</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200715084328/https://doc-0c-a0-apps-viewer.googleusercontent.com/viewer/secure/pdf/3nb9bdfcv3e2h2k1cmql0ee9cvc5lole/jo8piqd0g6c4k97rk020d06ubd0uk3r6/1594802550000/drive/%2A/ACFrOgACt_p0vdGu83jon_QtAZsTfO86kyCbwfwH6Az3aMe9tdepGK8RBSxiPA8HGVE1G-rjR0g_CtLQrXmabzqPVW-19nZOxF05Uk6jMf-cyi7vBR2EflQV_y2mdESkWbJ-FiMJURaye4TrSHB5?print=true">archive</a>) Chinese translation, text says by <a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a>. It also has some images added (many from the John Hurt mentioned below), which is cool.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Programthink also has a literary critique article about it: <a href="https://program-think.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-review-1984.html" class="bare">https://program-think.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-review-1984.html</a> "书评：《一九八四》——反乌托邦的代表作" (Book commentary: "1984". A representative work about dystopia.) by <a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This book is very fun to read, and it is not very long.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>1984 has coined some amazing terms which perfectly describe aspects of dictatorships:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#thoughtcrime">Thoughtcrime (思想罪, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#newspeak">Newspeak (新语, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Quotes present in other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#nineteen-eighty-four-war-is-peace">[nineteen-eighty-four-war-is-peace]</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In Part Three, Chapter 3, O’Brien explains the end goal of their evil government system to Winston:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy—​everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—​do not forget this, Winston—​always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—​for ever.'</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On Part Two, Chapter 5, Winston explains the <a href="#censorship">erasing of the past</a> to Julia:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union">Censorship of images in the Soviet Union (苏联对图像的审查)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong">Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong (百度百科审查郝海东)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>With the advent of the Internet and <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a>, this has become a bit harder though :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is also a decent movie made released in the year, you guessed, 1984: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(1984_film" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(1984_film</a>) starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hurt">John Hurt</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=flhggnpCeHw" class="bare">https://youtube.com/watch?v=flhggnpCeHw</a> Gravity scene from the 1984 movie.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/flhggnpCeHw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ibisbill.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/nineteen-eighty-four-in-chinese/" class="bare">https://ibisbill.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/nineteen-eighty-four-in-chinese/</a> asks how much George Orwell thought about China at the time</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/zzcn0q/chinese_reading_orwells_book_1984/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/zzcn0q/chinese_reading_orwells_book_1984/</a> on <a href="#r-china">r/China Reddit sub</a>:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>My wife is reading this book for the first time and practically every page at the start she says things like, “OMG, this is just like what China does” and has said that so far it reads like a manual for how the country is run.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="law-of-gravity-1984"><a class="anchor" href="#law-of-gravity-1984"></a><a class="link" href="#law-of-gravity-1984">24.1.1. Law of Gravity passage from Nineteen Eighty-Four (《十九八十四》中的万有引力段落)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On Part Three, Chapter 4, The Law of Gravity quote perfectly illustrates the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a>'s approach to lying:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O’Brien had said, 'I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.' Winston worked it out. 'If he THINKS he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously THINK I see him do it, then the thing happens.' Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn’t really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="newspeak"><a class="anchor" href="#newspeak"></a><a class="link" href="#newspeak">24.1.2. Newspeak (新语, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新語_(一九八四" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新語_(一九八四</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also <a href="#cult-speak">Cult speak (邪教话，Orange Papers, 橙色文件)</a>. Related: <a href="#ccp-cult">CCP cult (中共邪教)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="thoughtcrime"><a class="anchor" href="#thoughtcrime"></a><a class="link" href="#thoughtcrime">24.1.3. Thoughtcrime (思想罪, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/思想罪" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/思想罪</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#thoughtcrime">Thoughtcrime (思想罪, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="brave-new-world"><a class="anchor" href="#brave-new-world"></a><a class="link" href="#brave-new-world">24.2. Brave New World (美丽新世界, 1932)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美麗新世界" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美麗新世界</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is basically a less good <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TXT veresion: ><a href="https://archive.org/stream/ost-english-brave_new_world_aldous_huxley/Brave_New_World_Aldous_Huxley_djvu.txt" class="bare">https://archive.org/stream/ost-english-brave_new_world_aldous_huxley/Brave_New_World_Aldous_Huxley_djvu.txt</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="brave-new-world-books"><a class="anchor" href="#brave-new-world-books"></a><a class="link" href="#brave-new-world-books">24.3. Brave New World books passage (美丽新世界的书籍段落, 1932)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This amazing passage from from Chapter 17 is a good example of <a href="#different-levels-of-truth">Different levels of truth (Orange Papers, 不同层次的真相, 橙色文件)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Controller, meanwhile, had crossed to the other side of the room and was unlocking a large safe set into the wall between the bookshelves. The heavy door swung open. Rummaging in the darkness within, "It’s a subject," he said, "that has always had a great interest for me." He pulled out a thick black volume. "You’ve never read this, for example."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Savage took it. "The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments" he read aloud from the title-page.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Nor this." It was a small book and had lost its cover.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"The Imitation of Christ"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Nor this." He handed out another volume.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"The Varieties of Religious Experience. By William James."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"And I’ve got plenty more," Mustapha Mond continued, resuming his seat. "A whole collection of pornographic old books. God in the safe and Ford on the shelves." He pointed with a laugh to his avowed library to the shelves of books, the rack full of reading-machine bobbins and soundtrack rolls.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"But if you know about God, why don’t you tell them?"</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="classical-chinese-books"><a class="anchor" href="#classical-chinese-books"></a><a class="link" href="#classical-chinese-books">24.4. Classical Chinese Books</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting websites:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ctext.org/" class="bare">https://ctext.org/</a>, has <a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="water-margin"><a class="anchor" href="#water-margin"></a><a class="link" href="#water-margin">24.4.1. Water Margin (水浒传)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/水浒传" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/水浒传</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/water-margin" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/water-margin</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We should make a montage with some <a href="#chinese-dissidents">Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者)</a> side by side with Water Margin characters. The analogy is just so strong!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The slogan would be 现代好汉，替天行道：向持不同政见者水浒传的致敬 (Modern day Heroes: Water Margin Homage to the dissidents)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For the image:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#wei-jingsheng">Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)</a> vs Song Jiang: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SongJiang.jpg" class="bare">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SongJiang.jpg</a>. The rebel leader. Wei Jingsheng is an early strong voice of democracy in China, so fit for a leader.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#liu-xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a> vs Lu Zhishen uprooting a tree: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lu_Zhishen_Water_Margin_2.jpg" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lu_Zhishen_Water_Margin_2.jpg</a>. Both are somewhat pacifists, Zhishen being a monk, and Xiaobo wanted people to leave the square at Tiananmen to not get killed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#liu-shihui-one-party-rule">Liu Shihui</a> vs Lin Chong just after killing Lu Qian:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yoshitoshi-Lin_Chong.jpg[]. Both brave thin dudes standing up.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#quan-ping">Quan Ping</a> vs Wu Song killing the tiger: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wu_Song_Water_Margin.jpg" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wu_Song_Water_Margin.jpg</a>. Just two strong dudes.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a> vs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Zhi_(Water_Margin)">Yang Zhi</a> killing the man at the bridge. Hao Haidong is a good choice because he is actually physically impressive. Unfortunate how the first thing that comes to mind is Gao Qiu, the evil dude!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#yue-xin">Yue Xin (岳昕)</a> vs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Erniang">Sun Erniang</a>, the image is a still from the 1998 series episode 20. Two chicks. There are only 3 women in water margin, and she is perhaps the most well known because she made mantous out of human flesh.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some others that could be used in the future:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Chen Mei and Cai Wei from <a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a>. TODO for them it would be good if we could have two closely related characters. Perhaps</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Ruan brothers: Ruan Xiao’er, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi. More notable than the Zhang brothers most likely. The problem is that they are 3.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun, the only question is if they are memorable enough. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Senkaji_Chao_wringing_out_hin_loincloth.jpg" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Senkaji_Chao_wringing_out_hin_loincloth.jpg</a> and <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utagawa_Kuniyoshi_-" class="bare">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utagawa_Kuniyoshi_-</a><em>水滸傳</em>-_張順.jpg perhaps.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/266089281" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/266089281</a> contains all images of some version, but not the 1998 series outro.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some good quotes from <a href="http://uploads.worldlibrary.net/uploads/pdf/20130423230739the_outlaws_of_the_marsh_pdf.pdf" class="bare">http://uploads.worldlibrary.net/uploads/pdf/20130423230739the_outlaws_of_the_marsh_pdf.pdf</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chapter 65:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Because the emperor has been deluded and permits corrupt officials to hold power and harm the people, they have all volunteered to help me act on Heaven’s behalf.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chapter 71: Song Jiang takes power at Liang Shan.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chapter 81:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Song Jiang and his band have Act in Heaven’s Behalf written on their banner. They never attack a government seat or harm the people. They kill only corrupt and slanderous officials.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Couldn’t find any perfect one, so I just wrote my own unfortunately:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>当贪官当权时<br>
英雄沦为土匪</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>替天行道</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>新的水浒传</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When corrupt Officials take power,<br>
the heroes must become bandits.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Doing Heaven’s Will</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The New Water Margin</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Water_Margin_tribute_to_dissidents.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Water Margin tribute to dissidents" height="1436">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 241. Montage of <a href="#chinese-dissidents">Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者)</a> intermixed with <a href="#water-margin">Water Margin (水浒传)</a> characters.</div>
</div>
<div id="water-margin-dissidents" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-OYQatYvA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-OYQatYvA</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/811">GitHub reupload</a>) Montage of <a href="#chinese-dissidents">Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者)</a> with "Wang Jin beats Gao Qiu" music from the 1998 Water Margin TV by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/P7-OYQatYvA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="journey-to-the-west"><a class="anchor" href="#journey-to-the-west"></a><a class="link" href="#journey-to-the-west">24.4.2. Journey to the west (西游记)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://cirosantilli.com/journey-to-the-west" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/journey-to-the-west</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西游记" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西游记</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="confucianism"><a class="anchor" href="#confucianism"></a><a class="link" href="#confucianism">24.4.3. Confucianism (儒家)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/儒家" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/儒家</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="junzi"><a class="anchor" href="#junzi"></a><a class="link" href="#junzi">24.4.3.1. Junzi (君子)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junzi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junzi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/君子" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/君子</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="analects"><a class="anchor" href="#analects"></a><a class="link" href="#analects">24.4.3.2. Analects (论语, c. 475-200 BC)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analects" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analects</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/论语" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/论语</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Made of 20 books, with each paragraph numbered. So e.g. 15.9 means "Boodk 15, paragraph 9".</p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="analects-translation-by-robert-eno-2015"><a class="anchor" href="#analects-translation-by-robert-eno-2015"></a><a class="link" href="#analects-translation-by-robert-eno-2015">24.4.3.2.1. Analects translation by Robert Eno (2015)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://chinatxt.sitehost.iu.edu/Analects_of_Confucius_(Eno-2015).pdf" class="bare">https://chinatxt.sitehost.iu.edu/Analects_of_Confucius_(Eno-2015).pdf</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Includes commentary.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>License: non-commercial only.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="mencius-book"><a class="anchor" href="#mencius-book"></a><a class="link" href="#mencius-book">24.4.3.3. Mencius (book, 孟子 (书), c. 300 BC)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mencius_(book)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/孟子_(書" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/孟子_(書</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="mencius-translation-by-robert-eno-2016"><a class="anchor" href="#mencius-translation-by-robert-eno-2016"></a><a class="link" href="#mencius-translation-by-robert-eno-2016">24.4.3.3.1. Mencius translation by Robert Eno (2016)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/23421/Mengzi.pdf" class="bare">https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/23421/Mengzi.pdf</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Includes commentary.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>License: non-commercial only.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="taoism"><a class="anchor" href="#taoism"></a><a class="link" href="#taoism">24.4.4. Taoism (道教)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/道教" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/道教</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="zhuangzi"><a class="anchor" href="#zhuangzi"></a><a class="link" href="#zhuangzi">24.4.4.1. Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu, 庄子, c. 300 BC)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/莊子_(書" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/莊子_(書</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_Zhou" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_Zhou</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/庄子" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/庄子</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>33 chapters. The first 7 are likely by Zhuang Zhou himself, and the rest a mishmash.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>James Legge (1891):</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ctext.org/zhuangzi" class="bare">https://ctext.org/zhuangzi</a> side by side with Chinese, one chapter per page</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="ccp"><a class="anchor" href="#ccp"></a><a class="link" href="#ccp">25. Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国共产党" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国共产党</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The CCP is a cult: <a href="#ccp-cult">CCP cult (中共邪教)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="ccp-organization-中共组织"><a class="anchor" href="#ccp-organization-中共组织"></a><a class="link" href="#ccp-organization-中共组织">25.1. CCP organization (中共组织)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国共产党组织" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国共产党组织</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/dictator-book-club-xi-jinping" class="bare">https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/dictator-book-club-xi-jinping</a> talks about <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>'s rise, but algo gives some general idea of the workings of the Holy party. But basically it is exactly the same any any corrupt court: everything is based on power relationships. When someone gives power to you, you are expected to give it back later on. <a href="#rule-of-law">Justice is completely meaningless</a> in that system. Power relationships trump any law.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>When Ciro was watching the 1998 <a href="#water-margin">Water Margin (水浒传)</a>, he was reminded of this article very strongly. In the extremely corrupt world of that novel, justice is always trumped by power, which leads to outlaws being the heroes, exactly as seen in modern China with the <a href="#chinese-dissidents">Chinese dissidents (中国持不同政见者)</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="politburo"><a class="anchor" href="#politburo"></a><a class="link" href="#politburo">25.1.1. Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党中央政治局常务委员会)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国共产党中央政治局常务委员会" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国共产党中央政治局常务委员会</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The seven top people of the party as of 2020, ranked in a specific order.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="national-people-s-congress"><a class="anchor" href="#national-people-s-congress"></a><a class="link" href="#national-people-s-congress">25.1.1.1. National People’s Congress (全国人民代表大会)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/全国人民代表大会" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/全国人民代表大会</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2018 they had the 13th congress. 2980 were elected for the next 5 years for it, and then in theory they vote to choose the <a href="#president-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china">President of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国主席)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>ttps://www.rfi.fr/cn/中国/20130315-1票反对习近平做国家主席网民竞猜是谁</p>
</div>
<div id="xi-jinping-2970" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_elected_2970_for_0_against_in_2018.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi Jinping elected 2970 for 0 against in 2018" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 242. Montage of the vote display board during the 12th (2013), 13th (2018) and 14th (2023) <a href="#national-people-s-congress">National People’s Congress (全国人民代表大会)</a> showing how <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> was elected with. 2013: 2955 for, 1 against, 3 abstentions. 2018: 2970 votes for, 0 abstentions and 0 votes against. 2023: 2952 votes for, 0 abstantions, 0 against. These elections can’t possibly be rigged, the Chinese people are in perfect harmony! The 2018 image image was used as the "democracy" image in the <a href="#core-socialist-values-by-1v9ex">Core Socialist Values montage by 1v9ex</a>. Sources: <a href="https://www.rfi.fr/cn/中国/20130315-1票反对习近平做国家主席网民竞猜是谁">2013</a>, <a href="http://m.cyol.com/content/2018-03/21/content_17039285.htm">2018</a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/10/vladimir-putin-congratulates-dear-friend-xi-jinping-winning/">2023</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="president-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#president-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#president-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china">25.1.1.1.1. President of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国主席)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国主席" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国主席</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="premier"><a class="anchor" href="#premier"></a><a class="link" href="#premier">25.1.1.1.2. Premier of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国国务院总理)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Paradoxically to its name, it is not the first, but the second in command.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国国务院总理" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国国务院总理</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="national-congress"><a class="anchor" href="#national-congress"></a><a class="link" href="#national-congress">25.1.2. National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党全国代表大会, 中共党代会)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_National_Congress_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_National_Congress_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Happens every 5 years in october/november. Sample years:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>19th: 2017</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>20th: 2022</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Leadership can be modified during those meetings, notably the <a href="#politburo">Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党中央政治局常务委员会)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Informatlly referred simply as "二十大" (Nth Big)</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="ccp-symbol"><a class="anchor" href="#ccp-symbol"></a><a class="link" href="#ccp-symbol">25.2. CCP symbol (中共标志)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#core-socialist-values">Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="national-anthem"><a class="anchor" href="#national-anthem"></a><a class="link" href="#national-anthem">25.2.1. Chinese National Anthem (义勇军进行曲, 1978)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Volunteers" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Volunteers</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/义勇军进行曲" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/义勇军进行曲</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>lyrics: 1934</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>music: 1935</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>adopted: 1949</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Because this is a revolutionary song, it contains great protest reusability, e.g. as seen in: 2022-04 <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/china-censors-national-anthem-lyrics-used-as-lockdown-protest-/6539716.html" class="bare">https://www.voanews.com/a/china-censors-national-anthem-lyrics-used-as-lockdown-protest-/6539716.html</a> China Censors <a href="#national-anthem">Chinese National Anthem (义勇军进行曲, 1978)</a> Lyrics Used as <a href="#covid">Lockdown</a> Protest in the <a href="#april-2022-shanghai-lockdown">April 2022 Shanghai lockdown</a> on <a href="#voa">Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)</a>, in which the very first verse was censored! 起来！不愿做奴隶的人们！ (Stand up! Those who refuse to be slaves!)</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Rise up! Those who refuse to be slaves!<br>
With our flesh and blood, let’s build our newest Great Wall!<br>
The Chinese Nation is at its greatest peril,<br>
Each one is forced to let out one last roar.<br>
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up!<br>
We are billions of one heart,<br>
Braving the enemies' fire, March on!<br>
Braving the enemies' fire, March on!<br>
March on! March on! On!<br></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>起来！不愿做奴隶的人们！<br>
把我们的血肉，筑成我们新的长城!<br>
中华民族到了最危险的时候，<br>
每个人被迫着发出最后的吼声。<br>
起来！起来！起来！<br>
我们万众一心，<br>
冒着敌人的炮火，前进<br>
冒着敌人的炮火，前进!<br>
前进！前进！进!<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#yang-kayli-anthem-desecration">Yang Kayli anthem desecration (楊凱莉, 2019)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is funny to note how completely Western and boring the music anthem is! Just another boring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_(music)">march</a>. The opening verse has obviously way too few characters. They didn’t bother to add anything from <a href="#music">Chinese traditional music</a>. This just makes it so clear how <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a> is just completely superficial. Do other non-Western countries do better?</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>India: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWUEKafrjN0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWUEKafrjN0</a> does a bit better. Funny how they spend half of the anthem listing which areas belong to India. Fear of <a href="#separatism">Separatism (分离主义, Taiwan 台湾, Xinjiang 新疆, Hong Kong 香港)</a> is also clearly very high in the country.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.centraltimes.org/showcase/2021/04/16/we-ranked-every-national-anthem/" class="bare">https://www.centraltimes.org/showcase/2021/04/16/we-ranked-every-national-anthem/</a> says Buthan is the worst, but they are idiots, it is one of the most traditional sounding ones!!! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxLLJG8z96g" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxLLJG8z96g</a> As a comment correctly says:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Bhutan’s Anthem is maybe difficult to enjoy because we are used to listen occidental music, with the tonal system. But, to be fair, we should to consider their culture. So, I think it’s not as bad as we could to think.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>to which Ciro Santilli tried to liked and comment but their stupid system failed:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You are absolutely right!!! It is one of the very few non-Western anthems that sound like it could have come from traditional music. Colonization was a terrible terrible thing, it destroyed even the self esteem of the colonized!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-national-anthems-sound-like-European-classical-music" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-national-anthems-sound-like-European-classical-music</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-do-all-national-anthems-seem-to-have-a-similar-Western-orchestral-style-in-common-Why-arent-they-more-varied-according-to-local-culture" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Why-do-all-national-anthems-seem-to-have-a-similar-Western-orchestral-style-in-common-Why-arent-they-more-varied-according-to-local-culture</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlKbg-1_7Bk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlKbg-1_7Bk</a> Chinese National Anthem by Charlie Cook (2017) This crazy dude plays several tunes on trumpet on one hand, while using a handgun for the beat on the other hand.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NlKbg-1_7Bk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO0PxiHzBY0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO0PxiHzBY0</a> Ceinese National Anthem.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NlKbg-1_7Bk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="flag-desecration"><a class="anchor" href="#flag-desecration"></a><a class="link" href="#flag-desecration">25.2.2. Flag desecration (亵渎旗帜)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/褻瀆旗幟" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/褻瀆旗幟</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国国旗" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国国旗</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Fuck all countries, long live humanity.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Examples:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#chinazi-flag">Chinazi flag</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#apple-flag">Apple flag</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To be fair, also done/almost done in the West. <a href="#unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west">Idiots</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/06/20/trump-says-he-wants-to-punish-flag-burning-with-a-year-in-prison/#4d00781b3404" class="bare">https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/06/20/trump-says-he-wants-to-punish-flag-burning-with-a-year-in-prison/#4d00781b3404</a> "Trump Says He Wants To Punish Flag Burning With A Year In Prison". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration#United_States" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration#United_States</a>. If this were to pass, Ciro would be very temped to upload a GIF. Flag dessacration laws are bullshit.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2017/11/09/which-country-has-the-harshest-punishments-for-disrespecting-flags-and-national" class="bare">https://www.euronews.com/2017/11/09/which-country-has-the-harshest-punishments-for-disrespecting-flags-and-national</a> The EU countries that will punish you for disrespecting their flags</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2006 USA: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Desecration_Amendment" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Desecration_Amendment</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other examples:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://memes.tw/resource/view/7460" class="bare">https://memes.tw/resource/view/7460</a> <a href="#covid">COVID</a> flag of China</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="chinese-flag-nmsl" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/China_flag_NMSL.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="China flag NMSL" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 243. Chinese flag with small stars replaced by letters NMSL (你妈死了, you mother died), a common <a href="#slang">Internet prophanity slang</a>. <a href="https://v515.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/豬共共慘黨-黨國旗：nmsl/">Source</a>. Original source likely impossible to determine.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinese-state-data-leaks"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-state-data-leaks"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-state-data-leaks">25.3. Chinese state data leaks</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="shanghai-police-database-leak-2022"><a class="anchor" href="#shanghai-police-database-leak-2022"></a><a class="link" href="#shanghai-police-database-leak-2022">25.3.1. Shanghai police database leak (上海公安數據庫泄露事件, SHGA, 1B people, 2022)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>SHGA means Shang Hai Gong An.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_police_database_leak" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_police_database_leak</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/上海公安數據庫泄露事件" class="bare">https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/上海公安數據庫泄露事件</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/10/stolen_shanghai_police_data/" class="bare">https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/10/stolen_shanghai_police_data/</a> gives domain suffix kibana.elasticsearch.aliyuncs.com Was a Kibana instance.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/07/china-leak-police-database/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/07/china-leak-police-database/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="ccp-shanghai-member-data-leak-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#ccp-shanghai-member-data-leak-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#ccp-shanghai-member-data-leak-2020">25.3.2. CCP Shanghai member data leak (中共上海党员名单泄露, 2020)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Public news: 2020-12-13. Date of extraction: 2016.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046783/Leaked-files-expose-mass-infiltration-UK-firms-Chinese-Communist-Party.html" class="bare">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046783/Leaked-files-expose-mass-infiltration-UK-firms-Chinese-Communist-Party.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After authenticating the material, with the help of data security analysts Internet 2.0, IPAC passed the database to four media organisations around the world, including The Mail on Sunday.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Security sources believe the initial data leak came from a dissident who targeted an outwardly unremarkable office block in Shanghai which housed the records.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Despite the near certainty of being executed for treason if caught, he or she probably accessed it via a server before downloading it on to a laptop and releasing it on Telegram where it was found by <a href="#ipac">IPAC</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The database was originally leaked on Telegram, the encrypted instant messaging app, and passed in September by a <a href="#chinese-dissidents">Chinese dissident</a> to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which comprises more than 150 legislators around the world who are concerned by the influence and activities of the Chinese government.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6215946537001" class="bare">https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6215946537001</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ms Markson [a journalist from The Daily Telegraph] said the data was extracted from a Shanghai server by Chinese dissidents, whistleblowers, in April 2016, who have been using it for counter-intelligence purposes.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This had likely been mentioned by <a href="#epoch-times">The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)</a> on 2020-08-19 with a half censored and out of focus Microfot Excel screenshot: <a href="https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/8/18/n12340991.htm" class="bare">https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/8/18/n12340991.htm</a> translation:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the same day, the news that the personal information of 1.95 million party members in Shanghai had been leaked was suddenly widely discussed in major overseas forums. Many comments pointed out that the relevant list appeared to be authentic.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Epoch Times reporters downloaded two Excel files containing information about CCP members of Shanghai governments, institutions, and enterprises according to the relevant links.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This list appeared on the Internet as early as a month ago. On July 21, a person named "Chief Referee" (总裁判) broke the news on Overseas Chinese Network (海外中文网爆料) that "the register of all party members in Shanghai was leaked."</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://z1.d0ea258blal.pw/pw/simple/index.php?t4922065.html" class="bare">http://z1.d0ea258blal.pw/pw/simple/index.php?t4922065.html</a> has a link to <a href="https://mega.nz/folder/hJIGhCra#EUmGEZ7RDbcvTncWCPb03w" class="bare">https://mega.nz/folder/hJIGhCra#EUmGEZ7RDbcvTncWCPb03w</a> which is down, but has a web archive <a href="https://archive.vn/euhjl" class="bare">https://archive.vn/euhjl</a> with filenames:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>上海市黃俄黨黨員信息集合第一部分.xlsx</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>上海市黃俄黨黨員信息集合第二部分.xlsx</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> was able to find convincing downloads with the following SHAs:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>SHA384 (上海市黃俄黨黨員信息集合第一部分.xlsx) = cb4108956d74f46ef39a5ae0e7039e365e79a1c45d44a0e589fb5b5272b0c8a760a3440f0551f233dba9a07d28589062</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>SHA384 (上海市黃俄黨黨員信息集合第二部分.xlsx) = 9bf5c1b42177993a0aa05c193ba28e8a08e69b965d8d5f6f04111f5a3f9aa05fca7818d7459a5605515b55de7aca7763</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>An upload was apparently available at: <a href="https://gitlab.com/shanghai-ccp-member-db/shanghai-ccp-member-db" class="bare">https://gitlab.com/shanghai-ccp-member-db/shanghai-ccp-member-db</a> but it got nuked soon after 2020-12-13 brought more visibility to it.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="policies"><a class="anchor" href="#policies"></a><a class="link" href="#policies">26. Policies (政策)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="censorship"><a class="anchor" href="#censorship"></a><a class="link" href="#censorship">26.1. Censorship (审查)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#hate-speech">Western democracies also censor subjects such as child porn and hate speech (西方民主国家也审查儿童色情和仇恨言论等主题)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#os-problemas-da-imprensa-livre">Newspaper censorship cake recipe posts during the Brazilian military dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#dictatorships-are-bad-for-the-arts">Dictatorships are bad for the arts (独裁统治对艺术不好)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#tiananmen-oppose-violence">Tiananmen oppose violence</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A fundamental quote by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal">Blaise Pascal</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/布莱兹·帕斯卡">布莱兹·帕斯卡</a>) from his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales">Lettres provinciales</a> (1656-1657):</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The war in which violence endeavours to crush truth is a strange and a long one.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>All the efforts of violence cannot weaken truth, but only serve to exalt it the more.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The light of truth can do nothing to arrest violence; nay, it serves to provoke it still more.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When force opposes force, the more powerful destroys the less; when words are opposed to words, those which are true and convincing destroy and scatter those which are vain and false; but violence and truth can do nothing against each other.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yet, let no one imagine that things are equal between them; for there is this final difference, that the course of violence is limited by the ordinance of God, who directs its workings to the glory of the truth, which it attacks; whereas truth subsists eternally, and triumphs finally over its enemies, because it is eternal, and powerful, like God Himself.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Eric_Drooker_censorship.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Eric Drooker censorship" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 244. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Drooker">Eric Drooker</a>'s "Censorship" (TODO year) has become one of the most recognizable censorship symbols as of 2020. <a href="https://www.drooker.com/illustrations">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vpPqYYyUdU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vpPqYYyUdU</a> Inside a Chinese internet censorship centre by <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a> (2019) Interview with Zhi Heng from the censorship department of the live streaming company Inke (映客), "China’s largest live-streaming app" at the time according to SCMP. <a href="https://www.inke.cn">company website</a>. Heng proudly shows how they use machine learning to help their censoring efforts, and how the managed to block live streaming based on GPS location around a manifestation once. Pure gold. That company has close CCP ties as can be seen on <a href="#china-daily">China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)</a> <a href="https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/tech/2017-02/17/content_28239744.htm" class="bare">https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/tech/2017-02/17/content_28239744.htm</a> "Inke hires 1000 supervisors to clean up live-streaming content" (2017).</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4vpPqYYyUdU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.inke.cn/" class="bare">https://www.inke.cn/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="internal-censorship"><a class="anchor" href="#internal-censorship"></a><a class="link" href="#internal-censorship">26.1.1. Internal censorship is necessary to prevent fake USA accounts from creating harmful propaganda (内部审查是必要的，以防止虚假的美国账户制造有害宣传)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国言论审查" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国言论审查</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The USA cannot create enough fake accounts to overwhelm real 1.5 billion Chinese accounts, especially considering things like forcing mobile number account verification.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese politicians are just using this fear as an excuse to stay in power: <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What if a Chinese person who really loves China and wants to improve the country disagrees with the Government?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What if this person is right, and wants to express this publicly to get support and make change happen?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Should this person just be put into jail as is done currently? Do you really think that the CCP can never do anything seriously wrong? <a href="#chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens">Chinese politicians really care about the Chinese citizens (中国政客真正关心中国公民)</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When citizens stop trying to contribute due to fear, this is known as the <a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>What if a <a href="#is-chinese-politician-x-evil">politician</a> does something bad, and <a href="#corruption">suppresses the news to protect themselves</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Without freedom of speech, who will watch over the actions of those in power? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F">Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I hear always the admonishment of my friends:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Bolt her in, constrain her!"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But who will guard the guardians? The wife plans ahead and begins with them.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>With internal censorship, leaders inevitably become <a href="#xi-jinping">Gods</a>, and soon zealous sons betray their fathers and brothers in loyalty to the leader and their fake ideal. See for example: <a href="#man-in-the-high-castle">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SymuEg6NRp0 Scene from The Man in the High Castle S04E06 in which the devoted young Thomas Smith hands himself in to be killed by the Nazis whom he worships after discovering that he has a disease, which is not acceptable in Nazi America.</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Benjamin Franklin (1755) <a href="https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century" class="bare">https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div id="man-in-the-high-castle" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SymuEg6NRp0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SymuEg6NRp0</a> Scene from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)">The Man in the High Castle</a> S04E06 in which the devoted young Thomas Smith hands himself in to be killed by the Nazis whom he worships after discovering that he has a disease, which is not acceptable in <a href="#nazi">Nazi</a> America.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SymuEg6NRp0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine">Heinrich Heine</a> (German but from the 19th century, before the Nazis) saying also comes to mind:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings<br>
他们在哪里烧书籍，他们也会烧人<br></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Do you not think that this translates well to the modern version:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Where they have deleted online posts, they will end in deleting human beings.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of_scholars">Burning of books and burying of scholars</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/焚书坑儒">焚书坑儒</a>, 212 BC) also comes to mind.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is actually easier for the USA to manipulate a dictatorship than a democracy, because then all you have to do is buy/blackmail a few key corrupt politicians instead of manipulating millions of people’s feeds.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Frog_in_well.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Frog in well" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 245. Internal censorship is so strong, that many Chinese people who leave China to live abroad continue to believe that the CCP is always right, despite having access evidence that suggests otherwise. This <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2019-08 cartoon shows frogs coming out of a big well still remain inside their own small wells made up of Chinese media such as <a href="#zhihu-purge">Zhihu</a> and CCTV. It is a reference to the Chinese proverb <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/井底之蛙">井底之蛙</a> which means that a frog in the bottom of the well can only see a very limited portion of the sky. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/biantailajiaomanhua/lj-08302019111414.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Nazi_book_burning.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Nazi book burning" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 246. <a href="#nazi">Nazis</a> burning books in Berlin in 1933. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Falun_Gong_road_roller_book_destruction.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Falun Gong road roller book destruction" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 247. <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> books being destroyed with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_roller">road roller</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/壓路機">压路机</a>) in 1999 in China. This appears to be an extremely low quality image fromte early Internet. <a href="https://youtu.be/v7cz4Tkbwy8?t=2226" class="bare">https://youtu.be/v7cz4Tkbwy8?t=2226</a> contains a 1 second cut of a video very likely taken at the same event, as the roller and background building look identical, and preceeded by another presumed book destruction where hundreds of blue books (presumably Falun Gong) are dumped into some kind type of destruction device. Both have Chinese watermarkrs, TODO identify. How far away do you think mass jailings and torture would be? One wonders why they didn’t burn the books though. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Destruction_d’ouvrages_du_Falun_Gong_lors_de_la_répression_de_1999_en_Chine.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Nazi_book_burning_vs_Falun_Gong_book_destruction.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Nazi book burning vs Falun Gong book destruction" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 248. Side-by-side comparison between <a href="#nazi">Nazi</a> book burning, and <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> book destruction with the simplified Heinrich Heine quote: "Where they burn books, they will also burn people".</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHCmiWaHUCw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHCmiWaHUCw</a> The Burning of the Books 10 May 1933 by British Pathé. Shows some good footage of book being burnt at night, followed by a Goebles speech at the same site. TODO subtitles, YouTube’s auto-generation and translation is reasonable.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kHCmiWaHUCw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="china-has-more-freedom-of-speech-than-the-usa"><a class="anchor" href="#china-has-more-freedom-of-speech-than-the-usa"></a><a class="link" href="#china-has-more-freedom-of-speech-than-the-usa">26.1.2. China has more freedom of speech than the USA! (中国比美国有更多的言论自由！)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When you hear that online, it really makes you wonder if those people believe it or are <a href="#wumao">paid to say it</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Luckily, this is easy to verify: just create an online account on a Chinese website, and start posting about censored political subjects, and wait for your account to get banned.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then create an account on an American website, and start posting about censored political subjects. The first good question is: what will you post about since no political subject is censored?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Here is one concrete and well documented example: <a href="#zhihu-purge">Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu purge 2019-11-03 (三西猴被知乎抹去)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or maybe why not <a href="#t-shirt">go out on the street in China with a T-shirt with censored words and share some photos online</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another option is to point them to the political report categories of the <a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div id="video-bbc-local-election-interview-block-2016" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HdCIW2Xtk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HdCIW2Xtk</a> 2016-10-18 BBC reporter stopped from visiting China local election independent candidate Liu Huizhen (刘惠珍) by local thugs who block him physically from nocking the door. Funny/scary stuff. The BBC returned a few days later when the thugs weren’t there: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eroTCMRn2yQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eroTCMRn2yQ</a>. Accompaging article: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37997706" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37997706</a> "China elections: Independent candidates fight for the ballot".</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/c1HdCIW2Xtk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="t-shirt"><a class="anchor" href="#t-shirt"></a><a class="link" href="#t-shirt">26.1.2.1. What happens if you wear a T-shirt with censored words in China? (如果你在中国穿一件带有审查词的 T 恤会怎样？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-walked-around-Beijing-with-a-t-shirt-that-said-freedom-of-speech-is-pretty-great/answer/Ciro-Santilli">What would happen if I walked around Beijing with a t-shirt that said "freedom of speech is pretty great"?</a> on <a href="#quora">Quora</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-traveled-to-China-wearing-a-t-shirt-that-says-fuck-communism" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-traveled-to-China-wearing-a-t-shirt-that-says-fuck-communism</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some cases where that didn’t end well for them:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2018 several members of <a href="#jasic">Jasic Workers Solidarity Group (佳士工人声援团, 2018)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 Li Xiaoling (李小玲) was arrested and released "on bail" for wearing a <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen</a> T-shirt: <a href="https://www.nchrd.org/2017/10/li-xiaoling/" class="bare">https://www.nchrd.org/2017/10/li-xiaoling/</a> on <a href="#chinese-human-rights-defenders">Chinese Human Rights Defenders (中国人权捍卫者)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1989 <a href="#pu-zhiqiang-shirt">Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) freedom of speech shirt</a> during <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2000 <a href="https://en.minghui.org/emh/articles/2000/11/8/6250.html" class="bare">https://en.minghui.org/emh/articles/2000/11/8/6250.html</a> Autralian Zhang Cuiying (张翠英) went to China to protest against Falun Gong oppression and was kept 8 months in jail there. When she returned to Australia on 2000-11-04, she wore a t-shirt saying:</p>
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<p>为了一句公道话，<br>
法轮大法是正法，<br>
为此坐牢八个月，<br>
历经艰险讨公道，<br>
头可断，血可流，<br>
浩气丹心留狱中，<br>
中国镇压法轮功，<br>
将成为千古罪人。</p>
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<p>translated as:</p>
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<p>Because of the truth I said<br>
Falun Dafa is righteous<br>
I was imprisoned for 8 months<br>
I went through the hardship just to attain the justice<br>
I am not afraid of bleeding or other sacrifice<br>
My righteous mind was shown in the prison<br>
China suppresses Falun Gong<br>
Which is unforgivable</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Quan_Ping_tshirt.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Quan Ping tshirt" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 249. In 2016 activist Quan Ping (Kwon Pyong, 权平, <a href="https://twitter.com/kwonpyong">BraveJohnny</a>) was sent to jail for wearing a <a href="#nazi">Xitler</a>/<a href="#xi-jinping-memes">習包子/大撒币</a> t-shirt in public and posting selfies online. This photo is in front of a Government building (TODO exact location, reports say he is from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin_City">Jilin City</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吉林市">吉林市</a>) in <a href="#jilin">Jilin (吉林)</a> transcription of the sign on top of building: 诚信立市 <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/工业强市">工业强市</a> 依法治…​) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-xitler-tshirt-kwon-pyong.html">New York Times coverage</a>. He was later sentenced and served 18 months in prison because of this: <a href="https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/kwon-pyong" class="bare">https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/kwon-pyong</a> on <a href="#front-line-defenders">Front Line Defenders (前线卫士)</a>. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/xi-jinping-tshirt-activist-confirmed-held-in-northeast-china-detention-center-12082016110338.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 250. In 2009 activist Liu Shihui (刘士辉) was arrested for wearing a t-shirt saying "One-party rule is a disaster" (一党独裁，遍地是灾) in 2009 in Guangzhou. This is a quote from a <a href="#chinese-government-media">Xinhua News</a> editorial <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/1946/03/【历史的先声】一党独裁，遍地是灾/">from the 1940s</a>. On the back was another quote by former president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Shaoqi">Liu Shaoqi (刘少奇)</a> "The CP [Communist Party] opposes the Kuomintang’s one-party dictatorship, but the CP will not establish a one-party dictatorship". This interesting <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> page has many other similar quotes BTW: <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59503784" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59503784</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200331202252/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59503784">archive</a>). He was later assaulted, spent 108 days in jail without a trial, and was forcefully sent back to his home town in Inner Mongolia: <a href="https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-liu-shihui" class="bare">https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-liu-shihui</a> on <a href="#front-line-defenders">Front Line Defenders (前线卫士)</a>. Quotes from the <a href="#hundred-flowers-campaign">Hundred Flowers Campaign 百花齐放 (1956-1957)</a> also come to mind. <a href="https://observers.france24.com/en/20090522-arrested-subversive-shirt">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Grandma_Wong_t_shirt.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Grandma Wong t shirt" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 251. Activist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Wong">Alexandra Wong</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/王鳳瑤">王鳳瑤</a>), AKA Grandma Wong (王婆婆) wearing a t-shirt that says in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia)">grass script</a> "生於亂世，有種責任" (Born in troubled times, have the courage to do your duty) circa 2018 in <a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a>. The transcription can <a href="https://www.hkcnews.com/article/10556/藐視法庭-梁天琦-旺角衝突-10578/【旺角衝突】王婆婆戴「光復香港」頸巾聽審-藐視法庭罪成">be found here</a>. Her scarf reads 光復香港 (Liberate Hong Kong), the first part of <a href="#liberate-hong-kong">Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times (光復香港，時代革命)</a>, and is presumably the same that she was wearing in 2018 during the trial of activist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leung">Edward Leung</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/梁天琦">梁天琦</a>) for which she was fined HK$1,000 for contempt of court. <a href="https://evchk.wikia.org/zh/wiki/生於亂世有種責任" class="bare">https://evchk.wikia.org/zh/wiki/生於亂世有種責任</a> mentions that the t-shirt sentence is a <a href="#hong-kong-protests-2014">2014 Hong Kong protests (Umbrella movement, 雨伞运动占领区)</a> protest slogan. She disappeared from August 2019 to October 2020 for <a href="#picking-quarrels">Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)</a>. This lady is the best, she’s relentless: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Wong#Arrests_and_convictions" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Wong#Arrests_and_convictions</a>. The fact that she’s old and that Asians respect old people so much plays in her favor. <a href="https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/157593/Protester-%22Grandma-Wong%E2%80%9D-was-under-house-confinement-in-Mainland,-she-says">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 252. Activist wearing a t-shirt saying "<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/國王的新衣">有个皇帝没穿衣服</a>" and the same in English: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes">The emperor has no clothes</a>" in a bookshop filled with copies of <a href="#the-governance-of-china">The Governance of China (习近平谈治国理政)</a>, therefore clearly comparing <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> to the emperor from "The Emperor’s New Clothes". TODO identity. Sources: 2022-10-18 on the ridiculous_in_china <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a>: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china/comments/y725td/墙国里无数个彭载舟出现/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ridiculous_in_china/comments/y725td/墙国里无数个彭载舟出现/</a>, on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tugouivy/status/1582288394775719936" class="bare">https://twitter.com/tugouivy/status/1582288394775719936</a>, 2022-10-19 on <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a>: <a href="https://h.pincong.rocks/2078611" class="bare">https://h.pincong.rocks/2078611</a></div>
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<h4 id="gfw"><a class="anchor" href="#gfw"></a><a class="link" href="#gfw">26.1.3. Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a></h4>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/防火长城" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/防火长城</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Golden Shield Project:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project</a></p>
</li>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/全国公安工作信息化工程" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/全国公安工作信息化工程</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<p>And so, the spirit of Internet freedom that the Chinese themselves had at the start, was crushed:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>越过长城<br>
走向世界</p>
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<p>Across the Great Wall, we can reach every corner in the world.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/yefuchs/4648713" class="bare">https://gist.github.com/yefuchs/4648713</a> "GFW Contributers" has a list of people that contributed to the GFW.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: the first International email sent from China in 1987 by <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/王运丰">Wang Yunfeng (王运丰)</a> in the Beijing-based Institute for Computer Application (ICA) of the China Ordnance Industry Corporation under the <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国机械电子工业部">Ministry of Machinery and Electronics of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国机械电子工业部)</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Zorn">Werner Zorn</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Technology">Karlsruhe Institute of Technology</a> see also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_China</a>.</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>终有一天，墙会倒塌。 然后我们会看到彼此的真实面目。<br>
One day, the wall will fall. And then we will see one another for what we really are.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<h5 id="beiqiang"><a class="anchor" href="#beiqiang"></a><a class="link" href="#beiqiang">26.1.3.1. To be walled off (被墙)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.sohu.com/a/424350505_134152" class="bare">https://www.sohu.com/a/424350505_134152</a> 什么叫被墙了？域名被墙和被污染的区别有哪些 (What is it to be walled? What’s the difference between a domain name being walled and being polluted?) on <a href="#sohu">Sohu (搜狐, smaller Chinese Google)</a></p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/359929520" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/359929520</a> 你是否还在为域名被墙了闹心？ (Are you still worried about your domain name being walled? TODO Google translate. Where is the "your" part?? Can’t understand this grammar.)</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/129812475" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/129812475</a> 域名被墙 (domain named was walled) on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<h5 id="dictator-needs-gfw"><a class="anchor" href="#dictator-needs-gfw"></a><a class="link" href="#dictator-needs-gfw">26.1.3.2. Would ending the Great Firewall truly end the dictatorship? (结束防火墙真的会结束独裁吗？)</a></h5>
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<p>Not 100% sure.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>In <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a>, for example, the Internet is relatively free, but the government controls most professional media, which is what most people end up seeing, by suing dissidents media out of business.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>But on the other hand Russia is already much freer than China.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Although I don’t like them, I can’t deny one thing: the commies are smart, and when they do something (e.g. censorship), it tends to keep them in power.</p>
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<h5 id="gfw-to-protect-from-usa"><a class="anchor" href="#gfw-to-protect-from-usa"></a><a class="link" href="#gfw-to-protect-from-usa">26.1.3.3. The Great Firewall is necessary to protect China from harmful USA propaganda and data collection (防火墙对于保护中国免受美国有害的宣传和数据收集是必要的)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> doesn’t think this is below the USA, but:</p>
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<li>
<p>without censorship, you would be much richer and stronger, and more able to defend yourselves</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>why does China also censor its own people in addition to foreign propaganda?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>maybe this fear is greatly emphasized by the Chinese government beyond truth just to help them keep control of the country by fear and maintain their own power. Can the Americans really have that much influence in your country? <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>maybe the regions that want to split from China feel like China is not giving them anything back, and they are themselves looking for allies outside of China to help them split. With democracy, people are more likely to get what they want, and there will be split parties and votes.</p>
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<p>the same argument can be used to justify any action, no matter how bad. E.g.: we must put all who criticize the government in jail, or else they will make China less united and weaker against the USA!</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#deng-xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, 1982-1987)</a> notably had this ideology, even though he explicitly recognizes that there are also <a href="#censorship-makes-countries-poorer">benefits to not having online censorship</a>:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>打开窗户，新鲜空气和苍蝇就会一起进来。</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which translates as:</p>
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<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you open the window, both fresh air and flies will enter.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="google-china"><a class="anchor" href="#google-china"></a><a class="link" href="#google-china">26.1.3.3.1. Google China (谷歌中国)</a></h6>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/谷歌中国" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/谷歌中国</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Google_funeral.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Google funeral" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 253. Faithful Google China users/employees made a funeral-like flower tribute on the company’s entry sign in Beijing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuspark">Tsinghua Science Park</a> when the company was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora">kicked/hacked out of China in the 2010 Operation Aurora</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/极光行动">极光行动</a>). This was one example of the unfair <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">joint venture technique imposed on foreign companies</a> by China. <a href="https://qz.com/1352137/why-internet-users-chose-baidu-over-google-when-it-was-in-china/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="jingjing-chacha"><a class="anchor" href="#jingjing-chacha"></a><a class="link" href="#jingjing-chacha">26.1.3.4. Jingjing and Chacha (警警察察)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingjing_and_Chacha" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingjing_and_Chacha</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Friendly looking mascots of Internet Censorship in China created by the Shenzhen Government in 2006.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/ZB8ODpw_om8?t=583" class="bare">https://youtu.be/ZB8ODpw_om8?t=583</a> "Roger Dingledine - The Tor Censorship Arms Race The Next Chapter - DEF CON 27 Conference" mentions that choosing friendly looking mascots for internet censorship is a comon practice in several dictatorships, so to suggest that they are just <a href="#evil-west">protecting citizens</a>, These show the cute UAE censorship page for example:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Iran <a href="https://business.financialpost.com/technology/canadian-software-used-to-filter-internet-in-middle-east" class="bare">https://business.financialpost.com/technology/canadian-software-used-to-filter-internet-in-middle-east</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Quatar <a href="https://rankingdigitalrights.org/2019/06/12/arab-regions-telecommunications-companies-fail-to-respect-users-digital-rights/" class="bare">https://rankingdigitalrights.org/2019/06/12/arab-regions-telecommunications-companies-fail-to-respect-users-digital-rights/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The images were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jingjing_and_Chacha&oldid=917408711">removed from Wikipedia</a> presumably due to fair use concerns, so Ciro asked how to check that at: <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/137977/how-to-check-why-a-fair-use-image-was-removed-from-wikipedia" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/137977/how-to-check-why-a-fair-use-image-was-removed-from-wikipedia</a> After understanding the case, Ciro <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jingjing_and_Chacha&oldid=936842199">reuploaded the images</a>, hopefully for good.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jingjing.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Jingjing" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 254. Jinjing (警警) is the male cop. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070825092952/http://www.e-gov.org.cn/Article/news003/2006-01-02/15229.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Chacha.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Chacha" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 255. Chacha (警警) is the female cop. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070825092952/http://www.e-gov.org.cn/Article/news003/2006-01-02/15229.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jingjing_Chacha_street.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Jingjing Chacha street" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 256. Jingjing and Chacha picture shown on the street, presumably in China. <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnvy38/jingjing-and-chacha">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jingjing_Chacha_Shenzhen_police.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Jingjing Chacha Shenzhen police" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 257. Image with Jingjing and Chacha together and explanations (深圳网络警察,Shenzhen Network Police), good for copy pasting. TODO a bit small. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/84vbut/cute_official_mascot_design_of_chinese_internet/">Source</a>..</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jingjing_Chacha_Beijing.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Jingjing Chacha Beijing" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 258. Beijing version of the Shenzhen-created Jingjing and Chacha. TODO what does it say on the images? On car "XX网络110" (XX Internet 110) so it must be the phone number of the Internet police department. At bottom right something like (联合新作, joint XX), so likely means it is a joint action between two departments. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/20477258/ns/technology_and_science-internet/t/beijing-police-launch-virtual-web-patrol/">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jingjing_Chacha_angry.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Jingjing Chacha angry" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 259. Angry Chinese cop cartoons extracted from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191209021646/http://encyclopediadramatica.rs/China">Encyclopedia Dramatica</a> with the racist subtitles removed. It is hard to be sure what is the original image that they were Photoshopped from, but they are very similar to the Beijing Jingjing and Chacha although this is not a direct copy paste of the above since several details differ. The image was uploaded in 2011 to ED. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170525180028/https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/File:Preasetoshowpapers.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Qatar_web_censorship_page.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Qatar web censorship page" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 260. The Qatar friendly censorship page likely from around 2011 sowing that China is not alone in this "cute censorship mascots" technique. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qatar_filtering_message._Qtel_network.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="western-companies-that-sell-censorship-technology-to-dictatorships"><a class="anchor" href="#western-companies-that-sell-censorship-technology-to-dictatorships"></a><a class="link" href="#western-companies-that-sell-censorship-technology-to-dictatorships">26.1.3.5. Western companies that sell censorship technology to dictatorships (向独裁政权出售审查技术的西方公司)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To China:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Oracle</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-02-18 <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/02/18/oracle-china-police-surveillance/" class="bare">https://theintercept.com/2021/02/18/oracle-china-police-surveillance/</a> "HOW ORACLE SELLS REPRESSION IN CHINA"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Cisco may have knowingly helped to build the Chinese internet censorship infrastructure in the 2000’s</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems#Censorship_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems#Censorship_in_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-dodge-responsibility-facilitating-human-rights-abuses-export" class="bare">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-dodge-responsibility-facilitating-human-rights-abuses-export</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/files/2016/01/12/113_second_amended_complaint_does_v._cisco_9.18.13.pdf" class="bare">https://www.eff.org/files/2016/01/12/113_second_amended_complaint_does_v._cisco_9.18.13.pdf</a> they had a demo with a <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> module</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/2008/05/leaked-cisco-do/" class="bare">https://www.wired.com/2008/05/leaked-cisco-do/</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal CISCO documents quote the Chinese Government saying: "The Golden Shield Project …​ Combat Falun Gong evil religion and other hostiles"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To other dictatorships:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019: IBM <a href="https://gizmodo.com/ibm-sells-face-recognition-surveillance-to-a-dictatorsh-1835101881" class="bare">https://gizmodo.com/ibm-sells-face-recognition-surveillance-to-a-dictatorsh-1835101881</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017: Amesys France for facial recognition surveillance in Egypt: <a href="https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/egypt/sale-of-surveillance-equipment-to-egypt-by-french-company-amesys" class="bare">https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/egypt/sale-of-surveillance-equipment-to-egypt-by-french-company-amesys</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2011: Netsweeper Inc. from Canada to UAE</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>claim: <a href="https://business.financialpost.com/technology/canadian-software-used-to-filter-internet-in-middle-east" class="bare">https://business.financialpost.com/technology/canadian-software-used-to-filter-internet-in-middle-east</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2009: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcepoint">Forcepoint</a>, previously Websense</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>claims on Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcepoint#Censorship" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcepoint#Censorship</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2019, the European Union was considering making stricter laws about cyber surveillance exports, to include more <a href="#dual-use-technology">Dual-use technology (军民两用技术)</a>, so <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">kudos to them</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_BRI%282016%29589832" class="bare">https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_BRI%282016%29589832</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/trade/import-and-export-rules/export-from-eu/dual-use-controls/index_en.htm" class="bare">https://ec.europa.eu/trade/import-and-export-rules/export-from-eu/dual-use-controls/index_en.htm</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/upcoming-changes-to-bring-cyber-surveillance-technology-within-eu-export-control-regime/" class="bare">https://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/upcoming-changes-to-bring-cyber-surveillance-technology-within-eu-export-control-regime/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/eu-plans-restrict-export-dual-spy-tech-171210061410639.html" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/eu-plans-restrict-export-dual-spy-tech-171210061410639.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#western-companies-that-comply-with-chinese-censorship-requests">Western companies that comply with Chinese censorship requests (遵守中国审查要求的西方公司)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Amesys.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Amesys" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 261. Cartoon showing how Amesys systems are used to suppress citizens in Egypt. Do you want the logo of your company to figure there instead? <a href="https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/egypt/sale-of-surveillance-equipment-to-egypt-by-french-company-amesys">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="fang-binxing"><a class="anchor" href="#fang-binxing"></a><a class="link" href="#fang-binxing">26.1.3.6. Fang Binxing (Father of the GFW, 方滨兴, 中国防火墙之父)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Binxing" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Binxing</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方滨兴" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方滨兴</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2016/04/07/great_firewall_architect_forced_to_use_vpn/" class="bare">https://www.theregister.com/2016/04/07/great_firewall_architect_forced_to_use_vpn/</a> China’s Great Firewall inventor forced to use VPN live on stage to dodge his own creation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220214054204im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Fang_binxing.jpg/800px-Fang_binxing.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="800px Fang binxing" height="400">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="censorship-monitoring"><a class="anchor" href="#censorship-monitoring"></a><a class="link" href="#censorship-monitoring">26.1.3.7. Censorship monitoring (审查监督)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Projects that attempt to understand how the Great Firewall works and what it blocks:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国被封锁网站列表" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国被封锁网站列表</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Garry King Harvard papers:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gking.harvard.edu/50c#" class="bare">https://gking.harvard.edu/50c#</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-Censorship-China-Allows-Government-Criticism-Silences-Collective-Expression" class="bare">https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-Censorship-China-Allows-Government-Criticism-Silences-Collective-Expression</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/randomized-experimental-study-censorship-china" class="bare">https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/randomized-experimental-study-censorship-china</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://gfw.report/" class="bare">https://gfw.report/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/" class="bare">https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/</a> from the Geneva Project of the University of Maryland. Source: <a href="https://github.com/kkevsterrr/geneva" class="bare">https://github.com/kkevsterrr/geneva</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also worth noting that as mentioned at <a href="#is-stack-overflow-blocked-in-china">Is Stack Overflow blocked in China? (Stack Overflow 在中国被封锁了吗？)</a> that websites can become non-functional if CDNs they rely on are taken down, instead of the website being taken down itself.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-03-16 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/16/signal-blocked-china-encrypted-messaging-app" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/16/signal-blocked-china-encrypted-messaging-app</a> "Signal: China appears to have blocked encrypted messaging app"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="censorship-monitoring-tools-on-github"><a class="anchor" href="#censorship-monitoring-tools-on-github"></a><a class="link" href="#censorship-monitoring-tools-on-github">26.1.3.7.1. Censorship monitoring tools on GitHub</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More interesting GitHub repositories: <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/phoeagon/gfw-sim" class="bare">https://github.com/phoeagon/gfw-sim</a> GFW emulation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship" class="bare">https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship</a> data on Censorship</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/mothran/mongol" class="bare">https://github.com/mothran/mongol</a> "A simple python tool to pinpoint the IP addresses of machines working for the Great Firewall of China."</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="greatfire"><a class="anchor" href="#greatfire"></a><a class="link" href="#greatfire">26.1.3.7.2. GreatFire (自由微博)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatFire" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatFire</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由微博" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由微博</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A group that produces tools and websites against censorship in China, central website: <a href="https://greatfire.org/" class="bare">https://greatfire.org/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Backed by <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a> and therefore USA Government.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The GreatFire Analyzer is their most important tool, it checks if websites are blocked or not in China:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.greatfire.org/analyzer" class="bare">https://en.greatfire.org/analyzer</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/analyzer" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/analyzer</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Alternatives from other providers:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.checkgfw.com/" class="bare">https://www.checkgfw.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.boce.com/wall" class="bare">https://www.boce.com/wall</a> Actually has an <a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a>!</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It also keeps a calendar of previous checks so you can see when a website started getting blocked.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of the highlighted collections is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet">Alexa</a> Top 1000 domain block analysis: <a href="https://en.greatfire.org/search/alexa-top-1000-domains" class="bare">https://en.greatfire.org/search/alexa-top-1000-domains</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Quite a few amazingly named porn ones, how could you live without them? <a href="#porn">Pornography ban (色情禁令)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chaturbate.com" class="bare">https://chaturbate.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://bongacams.com/" class="bare">https://bongacams.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And some interesting random stuff that is hard to understand why its blocked, some of them appear to be pure protectionism:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/" class="bare">https://sourceforge.net/</a> interesting! The ex-<a href="#github">GitHub</a> was blocked unlike GitHub as of 2020: <a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-SourceForge-still-relevant-to-open-source-projects/answer/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Is-SourceForge-still-relevant-to-open-source-projects/answer/Ciro-Santilli</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.homedepot.com" class="bare">https://www.homedepot.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>weirdly named <a href="#google-mirrors">Google mirrors</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.jw.org/en/" class="bare">https://www.jw.org/en/</a> Jehovah’s Witness</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.yodobashi.com/" class="bare">https://www.yodobashi.com/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodobashi_Camera" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodobashi_Camera</a> a Japanese Electronics retailer</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other tools and projects:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://freeweibo.com" class="bare">https://freeweibo.com</a> a <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> archive to overcome deleted posts</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/google-can-bring-end-censorship-10-days-heres-how" class="bare">https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/google-can-bring-end-censorship-10-days-heres-how</a> made some noise at the time</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/GreatFireChina" class="bare">https://twitter.com/GreatFireChina</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#collateral-freedom">Collateral Freedom (依附的自由)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Their repo <a href="https://github.com/greatfire/wiki" class="bare">https://github.com/greatfire/wiki</a> has been added to <a href="#gov-takedowns-china">gov-takedowns/China (由中共在国审查的库仓的GitHub官方列表)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Who is behind them:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/greatfire/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/greatfire/</a> from 2015 says "Started in 2011 by three anonymous individuals", and "Charlie Smith" is the pseudonym of the CEO.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="wayback-machine"><a class="anchor" href="#wayback-machine"></a><a class="link" href="#wayback-machine">26.1.3.7.3. Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Their Wayback Machine tool archive snapshots of webpages and allows youto browse the history of all archives:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网站时光机" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网站时光机</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>By the Internet Archive organization:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/互联网档案馆" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/互联网档案馆</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This Chrome extension helps to quickly archive pages: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak" class="bare">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But remember that if you archive too many in a very quick succession before the previous ones have been archived, even if manually through that plugin, your account/IP might get blocked, so just give a few seconds for the current archive to terminate before starting new ones.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This happened to Ciro in 2020-06-14, but then he emailed the admins as mentioned at: <a href="https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360016379432-Accounts-Tips-Troubleshooting-" class="bare">https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360016379432-Accounts-Tips-Troubleshooting-</a> and they re-enabled it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As of 2021, it annoys Ciro very much that you have to wait for a few minutes for the archived page to become visible. That’s an eternity when you are writting a text and need to link to an archive.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also extremelly annoying that they sometimes change image URLs randomly after they’ve become visible. Why is that? E.g. Ciro saw breaks between different timestamps:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220125110448im_/http://bitfossil.org/81f6d302a0ed4ffefa674834d0c4a02cdc6639f213713d48946225956fc96d85/WeAreStarStuff.jpg" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20220125110448im_/http://bitfossil.org/81f6d302a0ed4ffefa674834d0c4a02cdc6639f213713d48946225956fc96d85/WeAreStarStuff.jpg</a> was working but stopped</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220125210751if_/http://bitfossil.org/81f6d302a0ed4ffefa674834d0c4a02cdc6639f213713d48946225956fc96d85/WeAreStarStuff.jpg" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20220125210751if_/http://bitfossil.org/81f6d302a0ed4ffefa674834d0c4a02cdc6639f213713d48946225956fc96d85/WeAreStarStuff.jpg</a> was working</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and aso betweeen <code>im</code> vs <code>if</code> as in:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220125112530im_/http://bitfossil.org/86a0e565ba2698d4abc03253b9de47e88d3de4f62ee90722e6e7845a1c8e3aa7/HugPuddle.jpg" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20220125112530im_/http://bitfossil.org/86a0e565ba2698d4abc03253b9de47e88d3de4f62ee90722e6e7845a1c8e3aa7/HugPuddle.jpg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220125112531if_/http://bitfossil.org/86a0e565ba2698d4abc03253b9de47e88d3de4f62ee90722e6e7845a1c8e3aa7/HugPuddle.jpg" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20220125112531if_/http://bitfossil.org/86a0e565ba2698d4abc03253b9de47e88d3de4f62ee90722e6e7845a1c8e3aa7/HugPuddle.jpg</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>so it is just not reliable enough to use generally.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is possible to request social media pages you own to be removed from the archive in some circumstances: <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/143529/is-it-possible-to-request-to-remove-page-snapshots-from-a-personal-social-media" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/143529/is-it-possible-to-request-to-remove-page-snapshots-from-a-personal-social-media</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some website specific techniques:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>YouTube videos: they do seem to download them!</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>But as as of 2020, they seem to have some serious bugs failing with "Sorry the Wayback Machine does not have this video (<id>) archived (or not indexed yet)." on most videos: <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/149933/why-does-the-archive-org-of-most-youtube-videos-fail-with-sorry-the-wayback-mac" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/149933/why-does-the-archive-org-of-most-youtube-videos-fail-with-sorry-the-wayback-mac</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>And the interface may be very broken, possibly due to the arabic youtube interface, you might just have to click around sometimes. So the best thing is to just always use the magic direct video link: of form: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/<video-id>" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/<video-id></a>;</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>E.g. a deleted pair from <a href="#aaron-dewitt">Aaron DeWitt (The Chinese Tea)</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81mEbL8Yw8&feature=youtu.be" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81mEbL8Yw8&feature=youtu.be</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201103072718if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81mEbL8Yw8&feature=youtu.be" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201103072718if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81mEbL8Yw8&feature=youtu.be</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>It is possible to get a raw mp4 link with as mentioned at <a href="https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/391951-How-to-download-a-YouTube-video-archived-by-Wayback-Machine" class="bare">https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/391951-How-to-download-a-YouTube-video-archived-by-Wayback-Machine</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/<video-id>" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/<video-id></a>; e.g.: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/c6uFGGunRxc" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/c6uFGGunRxc</a>, the download did work on 2020-12-31. It redirects to</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Google Docs: visit the page while logged off (e.g. via browser private mode), click the print button, and then archive the resulting PDF URL</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How to search by prefix/pattern: <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/146661/how-to-search-the-internet-archives-wayback-machine-by-url-prefix-or-pattern" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/146661/how-to-search-the-internet-archives-wayback-machine-by-url-prefix-or-pattern</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How to archive with an API:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33811582/how-to-access-wayback-machine-programmatically" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33811582/how-to-access-wayback-machine-programmatically</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/151299/does-the-internet-wayback-machine-api-support-adding-a-link-to-scrape" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/151299/does-the-internet-wayback-machine-api-support-adding-a-link-to-scrape</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/23/the-wayback-machines-save-page-now-is-new-and-improved/" class="bare">https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/23/the-wayback-machines-save-page-now-is-new-and-improved/</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And, yes, of course SPN has a brand new API that you can use to automate a range of Web archiving projects. Please write to us at <a href="mailto:info@archive.org">info@archive.org</a> if you would like to learn more about the API.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No publicly documented API? Docs by email only? Ridiculous, you make me laugh.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One downside of Archive.org is that is is age restricted by some ISPs for containing adult containing, e.gn. notably mobile ISPs. Those idiots, sacrifice freedom of learning for a bit of innefective <a href="#porn">Pornography ban (色情禁令)</a> protection.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="archive-today"><a class="anchor" href="#archive-today"></a><a class="link" href="#archive-today">26.1.3.7.4. archive.today (archive.is)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://archive.is/" class="bare">http://archive.is/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.is" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.is</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Like <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> by unknown shady individuals, so less trustworthy.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>CrunchBase claims without source New York based: <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/145817/on-which-country-are-the-creators-and-servers-of-archive-today-archive-is-base" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/145817/on-which-country-are-the-creators-and-servers-of-archive-today-archive-is-base</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Does not care about robots.txt, so it sometimes works where Wayback Machine fails, so its better than nothing when it does. E.g. it is a good option for <a href="#quora">Quora</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And no, you can’t Wayback Machine archive an archive.is, they blocked the domain.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Has specific LinkedIn handling as it has a logged scrape account, e.g.: <a href="https://archive.vn/EPaEH" class="bare">https://archive.vn/EPaEH</a>. TODO find account URL.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also has specific GitHub handling, e.g. as seen at: <a href="https://github.com/TinkoffCreditSystems/invest-openapi/issues/278" class="bare">https://github.com/TinkoffCreditSystems/invest-openapi/issues/278</a> TODO what for?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Their github account was: <a href="https://github.com/volth" class="bare">https://github.com/volth</a> an archive <a href="https://archive.vn/kqftP" class="bare">https://archive.vn/kqftP</a> The account was completely deleted presumaly after GitHub noticed the anti-ToS usage: all their issues created have been deleted, not converted to ghost as happens with account deletion, and non-owners cannot delete their issues, only comments. Since he was such a large NixOS contributor, this was notice by other contributors: <a href="https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-was-this-treewide-pr-performed/11174/15" class="bare">https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-was-this-treewide-pr-performed/11174/15</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1334138105738256389" class="bare">https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1334138105738256389</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From the non-trivial contributions, they were a big NixOS contributor, and are clearly fluent Russian:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/91184" class="bare">https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/91184</a> "[staging] perlPackages: update" was merged.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/TinkoffCreditSystems/invest-openapi/issues/278" class="bare">https://github.com/TinkoffCreditSystems/invest-openapi/issues/278</a> "Инструменты "для квалифицированных инвесторов" недоступны через API" is a sample issue in fluent Russian</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>By cloning NixOS NixOS/nixpkgs we obtain an email, it uses custom domain <a href="http://volth.com/" class="bare">http://volth.com/</a> as of 2021-02-04 has a copy of the Google 404: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190913083033/http://volth.com/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190913083033/http://volth.com/</a> This is the case since 2013. In 2011 it was some other random company.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Google photo matches exactly this "Masha Rabinovich" <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/masha-rabinovich-52aa3a197/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/masha-rabinovich-52aa3a197/</a>, or is just some image of a well known person? Account marked as "Bachelor of Engineering" at the Humboldt University of Berlin.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The same photo seems to be used for all fetches: <a href="https://archive.vn/IPEEd" class="bare">https://archive.vn/IPEEd</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Googling name leads to an YouTube account whose only video is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bp1VxMwP4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bp1VxMwP4</a> | <a href="https://archive.vn/9Xq6w" class="bare">https://archive.vn/9Xq6w</a> "How to make an archive.is link with selection hashtag", so yes, the relation is almost certain.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.northkoreatech.org/2016/09/21/north-koreas-dns-files-reveal-internet-websites/" class="bare">https://www.northkoreatech.org/2016/09/21/north-koreas-dns-files-reveal-internet-websites/</a> has an archive.is related comment by an user of the same name Masha Rabinovich: September 22, 2016 at 17:55 "There are some more websites in .kp: <a href="http://archive.is/*.kp"" class="bare">http://archive.is/*.kp"</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2008 they had some interest in compilers: <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2008-11/msg00015.html" class="bare">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2008-11/msg00015.html</a> The obvious gmail email can be obtained from there. The only hit is in this creepy email list: <a href="https://api.intelx.io/file/read?type=1&systemid=989faa9e-46a1-440f-87fa-2a98b616c66d&k=7b256c65-6ebf-4bb8-a301-070bce8dec01" class="bare">https://api.intelx.io/file/read?type=1&systemid=989faa9e-46a1-440f-87fa-2a98b616c66d&k=7b256c65-6ebf-4bb8-a301-070bce8dec01</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Removing the space leads to more matches:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2012-08: <a href="https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/14768/what-is-the-evidence-of-harmful-behaviour#M3733" class="bare">https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/14768/what-is-the-evidence-of-harmful-behaviour#M3733</a> a "masharabinovich" claims the website:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Your website <a href="http://browsingprotection.f-secure.com/swp/result?x=5Jg2kWKC8d86b4F-H5cdoS8dyu04vtzGtEXhQL6COLIX0k4wrv-N*w" class="bare">http://browsingprotection.f-secure.com/swp/result?x=5Jg2kWKC8d86b4F-H5cdoS8dyu04vtzGtEXhQL6COLIX0k4wrv-N*w</a> shows that someone in your company "found evidence of harmful behaviour" on my website <a href="http://archive.is/" class="bare">http://archive.is/</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMasharabinovich" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMasharabinovich</a> shows 2012 attempts by Masha to automate wikipedia arching of dead links with archive.is. Later in 2016 archive** in 2016 archive.is is was blacklisted entirely: <a href="http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7578" class="bare">http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7578</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>possibly in 2018, Wikipedia widely adopted automatic <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> usage on all external links: <a href="http://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/" class="bare">http://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wikipedia suggests that the name Masha Rabinovich is likely of Russian Ashkenazi Jewish origin:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabinovich" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabinovich</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>so if the LinkedIn information is real, maybe they just went to study in Germany, or their ancestors migrated there.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name in Cyrillic would be "Маша рабинович", but we couldn’t find any information of interest by searching for that.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="google-cache"><a class="anchor" href="#google-cache"></a><a class="link" href="#google-cache">26.1.3.7.5. Google Cache</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en" class="bare">https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Google caches every indexed page that shows up on the search, you just have to click on the arrow and select "Cache" to see it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The advantage over <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> is that Google crawls many more pages than the Wayback Machine.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How to get the Google cache for a given URL: <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15633/how-to-modify-a-url-to-get-a-google-cached-version-of-page" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15633/how-to-modify-a-url-to-get-a-google-cached-version-of-page</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is not possible however to see old caches, therefore you have to archive the Google caches with <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> if you find anything interesting in them to not lose it:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/45306/how-do-you-view-all-the-cached-versions-of-a-web-page" class="bare">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/45306/how-do-you-view-all-the-cached-versions-of-a-web-page</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/18638126?hl=en" class="bare">https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/18638126?hl=en</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Google cache also has a text-only mode which is great for more complex webpages like those on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a>, which due to JavaScript madness keep showing and disappearing.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="geoscreenshot"><a class="anchor" href="#geoscreenshot"></a><a class="link" href="#geoscreenshot">26.1.3.7.6. geoscreenshot</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.geoscreenshot.com" class="bare">https://www.geoscreenshot.com</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Takes screenshots of the websites much like <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a>, but you can select the location.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once the screenshot is made, you can "view the HTML", and that gives an Amazon AWS link, and warns that JavaScript and CSS might/will be disabled. The screenshot does not state what the origin URL/data is, so it cannot be used as a proof. But we can <a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> archive it to make sure it remains visible. E.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-09-30 <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200930075102/https://s3.amazonaws.com/geoscreenshot-static/d3fdb97d-2ac3-4f57-a737-6fab2997fb1a.html" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/web/20200930075102/https://s3.amazonaws.com/geoscreenshot-static/d3fdb97d-2ac3-4f57-a737-6fab2997fb1a.html</a> see also <a href="#github-censored-subdomains">GitHub censored subdomains (GitHub 审查的子域)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-30 <a href="https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38" class="bare">https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38</a> | <a href="https://archive.vn/QKCMi" class="bare">https://archive.vn/QKCMi</a> see alo <a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-30 <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/</a> | <a href="https://archive.vn/bIzkH" class="bare">https://archive.vn/bIzkH</a> see alo <a href="#mirrors">Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The free trial is very limited, and you can’t share the screenshots on a public URL. See also: <a href="#censorship-monitoring">Censorship monitoring (审查监督)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="geo-targetly"><a class="anchor" href="#geo-targetly"></a><a class="link" href="#geo-targetly">26.1.3.7.7. Geo Targetly</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://geotargetly.com/" class="bare">https://geotargetly.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This one can actually share screenshots for different countries, nice: <a href="https://geotargetly.com/geo-browse?url=https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/266&country_code=CN" class="bare">https://geotargetly.com/geo-browse?url=https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/266&country_code=CN</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Small deatail: it doesn’t work, or it takes forever, either one.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="lists-of-material-censored-in-china"><a class="anchor" href="#lists-of-material-censored-in-china"></a><a class="link" href="#lists-of-material-censored-in-china">26.1.3.8. Lists of material censored in China</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For materials hosted on GitHub, see: <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For books, see: <a href="#books">Books (书籍)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Websites:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#falun-gong-media">Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)</a> contains a few:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#bannedbook">bannedbook.org (禁闻网, pro-Falun Gong media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="gfwlist"><a class="anchor" href="#gfwlist"></a><a class="link" href="#gfwlist">26.1.3.9. gfwlist</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist" class="bare">https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese people widely use this website list with browser extensions, so as to only use more expensive and risky <a href="#censorship-circumvention">Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a> traffic when accessing certain webpages.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The result is a well maintained list of interesting websites. About half of which is porn.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Get the full list with:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>base64 -d gfwlist.txt</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist/issues/3" class="bare">https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist/issues/3</a> "How to use this repo?"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist/issues/1141" class="bare">https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist/issues/1141</a> "Add categories tags to each entry"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="censorship-circumvention"><a class="anchor" href="#censorship-circumvention"></a><a class="link" href="#censorship-circumvention">26.1.3.10. Censorship circumvention (翻墙, 科学上网)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO origin of the <a href="#slang">slang</a> 科学上网 (Scientific Internet access) term?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ZGQ-inc/overthefirewall" class="bare">https://github.com/ZGQ-inc/overthefirewall</a> this seems to be a curated list of Censorship circumvention options. On GitHub Pages at: <a href="https://zgq-inc.github.io/overthefirewall/" class="bare">https://zgq-inc.github.io/overthefirewall/</a>. Mentioned at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1284" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1284</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/net4people/bbs" class="bare">https://github.com/net4people/bbs</a>. Added mention at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1265" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1265</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The BBS is an inclusive and multilingual forum for public discussion about Internet censorship circumvention. It is a place for developers and researchers to discuss and share information, techniques, and research. Feel free to write in your own language; we will translate.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.wallmama.com/" class="bare">https://www.wallmama.com/</a> 墙妈妈 is one of the top Google hits and mentions amongst others:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>VPN obviously</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>SOCKS5 (lantern, 蓝灯)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/vpncn/vpncn.github.io" class="bare">https://github.com/vpncn/vpncn.github.io</a> on <a href="#github">GitHub</a> reviews VPN services</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_(software" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_(software</a>)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蓝灯" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蓝灯</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/getlantern/lantern" class="bare">https://github.com/getlantern/lantern</a> on <a href="#github">GitHub</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>SSR (<a href="#shadowsocks">ShadowSocks</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/yinghuocho/firefly-proxy" class="bare">https://github.com/yinghuocho/firefly-proxy</a> "A proxy software to help circumventing the Great Firewall."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bypasscensorship.org" class="bare">https://www.bypasscensorship.org</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/awesome-doge/breaking-gfw-book" class="bare">https://github.com/awesome-doge/breaking-gfw-book</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/xiaoming2028/FreePAC" class="bare">https://github.com/xiaoming2028/FreePAC</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>mentioned at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/926" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/926</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is interesting to note how <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> is a good source of censorship-circumvention material, see e.g.: <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Projects:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Anankke/SSPanel-UIM" class="bare">https://github.com/Anankke/SSPanel-UIM</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/233boy/v2ray" class="bare">https://github.com/233boy/v2ray</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Loyalsoldier/v2ray-rules-dat" class="bare">https://github.com/Loyalsoldier/v2ray-rules-dat</a> | <a href="https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core" class="bare">https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core</a> Contains cirosantilli.com: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Loyalsoldier/v2ray-rules-dat/release/geosite.dat" class="bare">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Loyalsoldier/v2ray-rules-dat/release/geosite.dat</a>, victory.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core" class="bare">https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/geph-official/geph4" class="bare">https://github.com/geph-official/geph4</a> Geph (迷霧通) is a modular Internet censorship circumvention system designed specifically to deal with national filtering.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/hq450/fancyss" class="bare">https://github.com/hq450/fancyss</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Fancyss is a project providing tools to across the GFW on asuswrt/merlin/openwrt based router with software center.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/17mon/china_ip_list" class="bare">https://github.com/17mon/china_ip_list</a> somehow related to <a href="https://en.ipip.net/" class="bare">https://en.ipip.net/</a> whatever that is. Presumaby a way to bypass DNS blocks and use IPs directly.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More info:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvention" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvention</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/突破网络审查" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/突破网络审查</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="clash-for-windows"><a class="anchor" href="#clash-for-windows"></a><a class="link" href="#clash-for-windows">26.1.3.10.1. clash_for_Windows</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Presumably this proxy software <a href="https://www.clashforwindows.net/" class="bare">https://www.clashforwindows.net/</a> was being distributed on this GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/Fndroid/clash_for_windows_pkg" class="bare">https://github.com/Fndroid/clash_for_windows_pkg</a> which reached 7.2k stars was deleted circa October 2023. It is uncler if DMCA or other reason.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We’ve learnt of this via: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1122" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1122</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then it was later featured at: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/china-censorship-circumvention-tools-clash-disappear/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/china-censorship-circumvention-tools-clash-disappear/</a> The developer is this Chinese dude: <a href="https://twitter.com/fndroid" class="bare">https://twitter.com/fndroid</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some archives:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230507110718/https://github.com/Fndroid/clash_for_windows_pkg/releases" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20230507110718/https://github.com/Fndroid/clash_for_windows_pkg/releases</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231102082223/https://github.com/Fndroid/clash_for_windows_pkg" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20231102082223/https://github.com/Fndroid/clash_for_windows_pkg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/clash_for_windows_pkg" class="bare">https://archive.org/details/clash_for_windows_pkg</a> | <a href="https://github.com/cfwbackup/clash_for_windows_pkg_backup" class="bare">https://github.com/cfwbackup/clash_for_windows_pkg_backup</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="siteproxy"><a class="anchor" href="#siteproxy"></a><a class="link" href="#siteproxy">26.1.3.10.2. siteproxy</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://github.com/netptop/siteproxy" class="bare">https://github.com/netptop/siteproxy</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Demo on Heroku: <a href="https://web—​proxy.herokuapp.com/" class="bare">https://web—​proxy.herokuapp.com/</a> e.g. <a href="https://web—​proxy.herokuapp.com/https/www.youtube.com/" class="bare">https://web—​proxy.herokuapp.com/https/www.youtube.com/</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="hide-destination-ip-until-it-leave-the-country"><a class="anchor" href="#hide-destination-ip-until-it-leave-the-country"></a><a class="link" href="#hide-destination-ip-until-it-leave-the-country">26.1.3.10.3. Hide destination IP until it leave the country</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO is there any way to do use this to overcome IP blocks? You would wait until the packet leaves the country to reveal the final destination IP:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/1358/what-tools-are-available-to-identify-which-country-a-specific-ip-address-is-loca" class="bare">https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/1358/what-tools-are-available-to-identify-which-country-a-specific-ip-address-is-loca</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9802046/identifying-country-by-ip-address" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9802046/identifying-country-by-ip-address</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-location-from-an-ip-address" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-location-from-an-ip-address</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12857/is-it-trivial-to-bypass-ip-blocking" class="bare">https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12857/is-it-trivial-to-bypass-ip-blocking</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/15483/how-can-i-use-tor-in-china" class="bare">https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/15483/how-can-i-use-tor-in-china</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="ensi"><a class="anchor" href="#ensi"></a><a class="link" href="#ensi">26.1.3.10.4. TLS 1.3 ENSI</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Renamed in 2020 to <a href="#ech">TLS 1.3 ECH</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="ech"><a class="anchor" href="#ech"></a><a class="link" href="#ech">26.1.3.10.5. TLS 1.3 ECH</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni" class="bare">https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Encrypted_Client_Hello" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Encrypted_Client_Hello</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This amazing standardized feature encrypts the domain as well as the URL.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This means that censors are unable to block only certain websites via DNS blocks, which is one of the main techniques used. But they can still block by IP, no?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2020-08, it was reported that the firewall was already blocking it: <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-using-tls-1-3-and-esni/" class="bare">https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-using-tls-1-3-and-esni/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Therefore, <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">all the West has to do</a> is to force all of its websites to serve ENSI-only!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="shadowsocks"><a class="anchor" href="#shadowsocks"></a><a class="link" href="#shadowsocks">26.1.3.10.6. ShadowSocks</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowsocks" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowsocks</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/shadowsocksrr/" class="bare">https://github.com/shadowsocksrr/</a> on <a href="#github">GitHub</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="https://qz.com/1072701/meet-shadowsocks-the-underground-tool-that-chinas-coders-use-to-blast-through-the-great-firewall/" class="bare">https://qz.com/1072701/meet-shadowsocks-the-underground-tool-that-chinas-coders-use-to-blast-through-the-great-firewall/</a> "Meet Shadowsocks, the underground tool that China’s coders use to blast through the Great Firewall"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/08/circumvention-tool-deleted-after-police-visit-developer/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/08/circumvention-tool-deleted-after-police-visit-developer/</a> "Circumvention tool deleted after police visit developer" by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#issuecomment-133630294" class="bare">https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#issuecomment-133630294</a> used to contain:</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I hope one day I’ll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/Johnshall/Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules-Forever" class="bare">https://github.com/Johnshall/Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules-Forever</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>cirosantilli.com: <a href="https://github.com/Johnshall/Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules-Forever/blob/737a5e6ab6390fc0d232d8d17ae5a42b24d232b0/sr_top500_banlist.conf#L2465" class="bare">https://github.com/Johnshall/Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules-Forever/blob/737a5e6ab6390fc0d232d8d17ae5a42b24d232b0/sr_top500_banlist.conf#L2465</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO vs VPN:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/1233614/what-is-the-difference-between-shadowsocks-and-openvpn" class="bare">https://superuser.com/questions/1233614/what-is-the-difference-between-shadowsocks-and-openvpn</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://qz.com/1072701/meet-shadowsocks-the-underground-tool-that-chinas-coders-use-to-blast-through-the-great-firewall/" class="bare">https://qz.com/1072701/meet-shadowsocks-the-underground-tool-that-chinas-coders-use-to-blast-through-the-great-firewall/</a> mentions superficially that it is very similar, except that in the current ecosystem it is easier for tech-savvy users to setup their own servers. No technical differences are mentioned however</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="socks"><a class="anchor" href="#socks"></a><a class="link" href="#socks">26.1.3.10.7. SOCKS</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO vs VPN</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-socks-and-a-VPN" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-socks-and-a-VPN</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="icp-license"><a class="anchor" href="#icp-license"></a><a class="link" href="#icp-license">26.1.3.11. ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/非经营性网站备案" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/非经营性网站备案</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Part of the <a href="#internal-censorship">Internet censorship machine</a>, although it predates the GFW proper.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It can be seen at the bottom of many many many websites, it is likely mandatory to display it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you see one of those, you already know that it cannot be trusted for politics.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, <a href="https://archive.is/ePBM9">as of April 2020</a>, the <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> sidebar shows:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>京 ICP 备 13052560 号 - 1</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>where "京" indicates that the certificate was issued by the Beijing Provincial level city.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 2014, almost 15 years later, <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a> finally caught up, what a relief: <a href="#russia-mandatory-registration-of-bloggers">Mandatory registration of Russian bloggers (2014)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_tiIAk5Q8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_tiIAk5Q8</a> Missing typewriter scene from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others">The Lives of Others (2016)</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/竊聽風暴">竊聽風暴</a>). The Wikipedia page for <a href="#samizdat">Samizdat (Soviet underground propagation of censored materials, 秘密出版物, самиздат)</a> mentions that: "All Soviet-produced typewriters and printing devices were officially registered, with their typographic samples collected right at the factory and stored in the government directory." This reminded Ciro of this movie set in East Germany, in which finding a typewriter plays as big role as evidence of authorship of subversive materials. In the movie, the typewriter was not present under the floor boards as had been informed by the Leading Lady who betrayed her lover, the Leading Man, under duress. The typewriter had been previously secretly removed by a disgruntled intelligence officer who turns against the censorship and surveillance system in the middle of the film. The disgruntled officer is then fired/has his career stalled by his colleagues, who suspect him but have no direct evidence, and the Leading Man, after investigating how the machine could have disappeared, eventually discovers the identify of the officer, but ends up not meeting him, as he would not know what to say. Just another story of the horrors of the surveillance state.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xH_tiIAk5Q8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="social-media-license"><a class="anchor" href="#social-media-license"></a><a class="link" href="#social-media-license">26.1.3.11.1. Social media license</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ahh, this is a perfect excuse to delete all <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> comments!</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-02-20 <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4129352" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4129352</a> "Beginning next week, the Cyberspace Administration of China will require bloggers and influencers to have a government-approved credential before they can publish on a wide range of subjects. Some fear that only state media and official propaganda accounts will get permission. While permits have been needed since at least 2017 to write about topics such as political and military affairs, enforcement has not been widespread. The new rules expand that requirement to health, economics, education and judicial matters."</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="cac"><a class="anchor" href="#cac"></a><a class="link" href="#cac">26.1.3.12. Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC, 国家互联网信息办公室, 中央网信办)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is where the <a href="#censorship">Internet censors</a> work.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="cac-report-website"><a class="anchor" href="#cac-report-website"></a><a class="link" href="#cac-report-website">26.1.3.12.1. CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>These are official Chinese government websites that can be used to report cybercrime, including fraud and identity theft, but also political <a href="#thoughtcrime">thoughcrime</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm" class="bare">http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.12321.cn" class="bare">https://www.12321.cn</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://12377.cn" class="bare">http://12377.cn</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>12339 is more <a href="#spy">spy</a>/national security focused</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reports such as <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/china-exporting-ccp-speech-controls-to-australia-as-second-university-caught-in-row-20200805-p55irf.html" class="bare">https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/china-exporting-ccp-speech-controls-to-australia-as-second-university-caught-in-row-20200805-p55irf.html</a> highlighted that these websites has a "report harmful or garbage information" entry, which can notably be used by Chinese expats to report people who badmouth the CCP, and in particular other Chinese nationals.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Typing "国家互联网信息办公室" on Google autocompleted to "国家互联网信息办公室举报" (举报 == report), and finds <a href="http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm" class="bare">http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is clearly an official government website due to the <code>gov.cn</code> URL, and it also has an <a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of the categories of report on that page is: "网络不良与垃圾信息举报受理中心" (center for reporting harmful or garbage information, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200704135840/http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm">archive</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably, there is one separate entry for illegal activity as well (网络违法犯罪举报网站) and another one for <a href="#porn">pornography (中国扫黄打非网)</a>, so it is interesting to see that there is one specifically for "misinformation".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The harmful information page redirects to: <a href="https://www.12321.cn/" class="bare">https://www.12321.cn/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200907150310/https://www.12321.cn/">archive</a>) which has further categories.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The "report website" (举报不良网站) category links to <a href="https://www.12321.cn/web" class="bare">https://www.12321.cn/web</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200807060758/https://www.12321.cn/web">archive</a>) and then has a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary">reactonary</a> and <a href="#politically-sensitive">politically sensitive</a>" (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/反动">反动</a>及<a href="#politically-sensitive">政治敏感</a>) checkbox.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After you submit, it leads you to: <a href="https://www.12321.cn/suc" class="bare">https://www.12321.cn/suc</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200807063330/https://www.12321.cn/suc">archive</a>) in which you can optionally provide further contact details: <a href="https://www.12321.cn/reg" class="bare">https://www.12321.cn/reg</a>. This appears to be no link with the previous page, so they might just do it via IP. Registration requires both a cell phone and an email.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From the website source code (very simple, hand written, we see that it uses <a href="#baidu">Baidu Analytics</a>. The CCP obviously trusts Baidu a lot :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On 2020-09-07, <a href="#mirrors">cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship</a>'s Google Analytics had a hit coming from <a href="http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/center/web.index" class="bare">http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/center/web.index</a> ("This site can’t be reached" on Chrome). This was soon after <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> mentioned <a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a> at <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/149#issuecomment-688084645" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/149#issuecomment-688084645</a>. This is presumably the censor’s web UI to review reports. "jb" from jbcz presumably means Ju Bao (举报), the CZ Ciro couldn’t guess. Other hits:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-10-14 <a href="http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/operate.index" class="bare">http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/operate.index</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-05-18 <a href="https://jbcz.12377.cn" class="bare">https://jbcz.12377.cn</a> to <a href="https://cirosantilli.gitlab.io/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.gitlab.io/china-dictatorship</a> <a href="#mirrors">Mirrors of this page (此网页的镜像)</a>. On same day also a hit from <a href="http://123.125.45.236:9007" class="bare">http://123.125.45.236:9007</a>, that appears to be an IP in China.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-06-08 had another hit from 123.125.45.236:9007 to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/cirosantilli</a>, a page that does not exist. Must be some weird routing of theirs. This after some bytedance.feishu.cn hist.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2024: the IP 123.125.45.236 was confirmed by another dissident whose website got blocked as well</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-07-28 5 hits unique visit from <a href="http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/operate.index" class="bare">http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/operate.index</a> and <a href="http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/readonly.index" class="bare">http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/readonly.index</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-08-01 <a href="http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/operate.index" class="bare">http://jbcz.12377.cn/report/load/operate.index</a> to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/</a> and <a href="https://www.unpkg.com/china-dictatorship@0.0.74/README.html" class="bare">https://www.unpkg.com/china-dictatorship@0.0.74/README.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The toplevel <a href="http://12377.cn" class="bare">http://12377.cn</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200907235842/https://www.12377.cn/">archive</a>) is entitled "中央网信办（国家互联网信息办公室）违法和不良信息举报中心" and is another report website. It is also linked to from <a href="http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm" class="bare">http://www.cac.gov.cn/hdzx/jbzx/A091102index_1.htm</a> under different categories, so it is also official.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The first category in that page is "政治类" (political category). From there we have some awesome information.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First it links to the report guidelines (举报指南) <a href="https://www.12377.cn/jbzn.html?tab=4" class="bare">https://www.12377.cn/jbzn.html?tab=4</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200902094911/https://www.12377.cn/jbzn.html?tab=4">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>涉攻击党和国家制度及重大方针政策，攻击"<a href="#two-safegards">two safeguards,两个维护</a>"，危害国家安全、泄露国家秘密，破坏国家统一和领土完整，损害国家形象荣誉利益，破坏国家民族宗教政策、宣扬邪教，诋毁英雄烈士等内容的互联网违法和不良信息，请在此举报。</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which states:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Involved in attacking the party and state system and major policies, attacking the "<a href="#two-safegards">two safeguards</a>", endangering national security, leaking state secrets, undermining national unity and territorial integrity, damaging national image, honor and interests, undermining national and religious policies, promoting cults, and vilifying heroes. Please report illegal and harmful information on the Internet of martyrs and other content.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>so yes, attacking the party and major policies is illegal in China, big news, right? "Involved in attacking the party and state system and major policies" is then one of the categories in the report page.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Soon after the previous events in 2020-09-08, anaytics got a hit from <a href="http://openurls.com.cn/" class="bare">http://openurls.com.cn/</a> to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship</a>. The only function of that website appears to be to open a newline separated list of websites into separate tabs. Maybe a censor bulk quickly having a look at several tasks. It is basically a clone of <a href="https://www.openallurls.com/" class="bare">https://www.openallurls.com/</a> but with an <a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a> :-) The 2020-10-14 hit from <a href="http://jbcz.12377.cn" class="bare">http://jbcz.12377.cn</a> was followed by another hit from <a href="http://openurls.com.cn/" class="bare">http://openurls.com.cn/</a>, further reinforcing that this is part of their review procedure. 3 more hits on <code>/</code> and <code>/ciro-santilli</code> on 2020-02-22 after pinging a few people on <a href="https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-" class="bare">https://github.com/zaohmeing/21-</a> issues. Another hit 2021-03-19 to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com</a>, unknown cause</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Further hits from <a href="https://openurls.com.cn" class="bare">https://openurls.com.cn</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08-02 2 hits to github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-07-07 3 hits</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-06-04 4 hits from 2 users, <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> day</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-05-01 3 after resubmitting reports on 2021-04-18 to get proper screenshots of the report procedure. Another hit to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/</a> on 2021-05-13.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other report websites:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.12339.gov.cn/" class="bare">https://www.12339.gov.cn/</a> spy report website, see also: <a href="#ministry-of-state-security">Ministry of State Security (MSS, Guoanbu, 国安部)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#hong-kong-national-security-department-hotline">Hong kong national security department hotline</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#national-anti-fraud-center-app">National Anti-Fraud Center App (国家反诈中心APP, 2021)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/12321_report_procedure_april_2021.png" loading="lazy" alt="12321 report procedure april 2021" height="1948">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 262. <a href="https://www.12321.cn" class="bare">https://www.12321.cn</a> procedure to report political content as of April 2021.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/12377_report_procedure_april_2021.png" loading="lazy" alt="12377 report procedure april 2021" height="5099">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 263. <a href="https://www.12377.cn" class="bare">https://www.12377.cn</a> procedure to report political content as of April 2021.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="it-is-not-possible-to-block-a-single-page-of-an-https-website"><a class="anchor" href="#it-is-not-possible-to-block-a-single-page-of-an-https-website"></a><a class="link" href="#it-is-not-possible-to-block-a-single-page-of-an-https-website">26.1.3.13. It is not possible to block a single page of an HTTPS website (无法阻止 HTTPS 网站的单个页面)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is not possible for the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> to block only certain pages of websites that use HTTPS.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is because the connection is encrypted: the CCP can only see which domain the user is accessing, but only the website itself can see which page was requested.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So either they have to block the entire IP/domain name, or nothing.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is the basis of <a href="#keyword-attack">Screen name keyword attack (网名审查关键字攻击)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One way that the CCP works around this is <a href="#chinese-web-browser-censorship">Chinese web browser censorship (中国网页浏览器审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Known events:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-08: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/notepad-plus-plus-blocked-in-china/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/notepad-plus-plus-blocked-in-china/</a> "Text editor Notepad++ banned in China after ‘Stand With Hong Kong' update" where "banned" means "the download page where they keywords are shown is now blocked in Chinese browsers". The rest of the website is still up. So no domain block due to HTTPS, browser only action for now.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="chinese-web-browser-censorship"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-web-browser-censorship"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-web-browser-censorship">26.1.3.14. Chinese web browser censorship (中国网页浏览器审查)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This allows the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> to overcome <a href="#it-is-not-possible-to-block-a-single-page-of-an-https-website">It is not possible to block a single page of an HTTPS website (无法阻止 HTTPS 网站的单个页面)</a> for users that are using Chinese browsers.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some screenshots can be seen at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/525" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/525</a>. Mentioned browsers include:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QQ_browser">QQ browser</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_Secure_Browser">360 Secure Browser</a> from <a href="#qihoo">Qihoo 360 (奇虎360, Internet security company)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>WeChat browser from <a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>vivo</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>mi from <a href="#xiaomi">Xiaomi (小米, cell phone company)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>oppo</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Examples:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#notepad-chinese-browsers-block-2020">Notepad++ Chinese browsers block (2020)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#china-dictatorship-chinese-web-browser-block">china-dictatorship Chinese web browser block (2021, china-dictatorship 中国浏览器审查)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Asking if there is a <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a> Analyzer for it: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/issues/75" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/issues/75</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="china-dictatorship-chinese-web-browser-block"><a class="anchor" href="#china-dictatorship-chinese-web-browser-block"></a><a class="link" href="#china-dictatorship-chinese-web-browser-block">26.1.3.14.1. china-dictatorship Chinese web browser block (2021, china-dictatorship 中国浏览器审查)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Report with screenshots at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/525" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/525</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is an example of <a href="#chinese-web-browser-censorship">Chinese web browser censorship (中国网页浏览器审查)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="wumao"><a class="anchor" href="#wumao"></a><a class="link" href="#wumao">26.1.4. Wumao (五毛)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>50 Cent Party, 五毛党, Wumao Dang:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网络评论员" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网络评论员</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They can be classified as a form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare">information warfare</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/信息战">信息战</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A wise person once said:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is impossible to distinguish wumaos, <a href="#little-pink">idiots</a> and <a href="#not-chinese">brain washed</a> people. So we just call all of them wumaos.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But of course, the <a href="#ccp-cult">CCP is a cult</a> (and <a href="#democracy-is-a-religion">democracy, a religion</a>), and therefore <a href="#preconceived">any discussion is also pointless</a> in general.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To a large extent, wumao’s goals are to dilute useful conversation with shit, normally <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a> and <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">Western democracies are not perfect (西方的民主有很多缺点)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This leads to endless idiotic conversions of type:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You: Chinese friend, your house is on fire, let’s try to put the fire out!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wumao: I don’t care, your house is also on fire!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You: that’s true, that fire is also very serious, and I’m trying to put it out!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wumao: look everyone, his house is on fire! Mine isn’t!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Therefore, it is crucial to have a working algorithmic policy to handle them: <a href="#how-to-deal-with-wumaos">How to deal with wumaos (如何应对五毛)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notable wumaos <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">should be investigated by intelligence agencies</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If it is determined that they are knowingly funded by China, they should be put into jail as foreign agents.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There is a tradeoff between privacy rights and snuffing out wumaos, and it is hard to decide where to set the line. But snuffing out wumaos is important, and must be done.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If we were to give up on privacy completely, one possible rule would be: block anyone that lives in China and whose revenue therefore cannot be investigated properly by your government to determine if they are funded by the CCP.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Here are some people completely against blocking wumaos. Those silly Democrats never prepare well enough for war:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/opinion/how-to-counter-chinas-global-propaganda-offensive.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/opinion/how-to-counter-chinas-global-propaganda-offensive.html</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>it mentions the "Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016" <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2692" class="bare">https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2692</a>, which is exactly what Western countries should do</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a> definition of wumao <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/五毛/24163406" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/五毛/24163406</a> (<a href="https://archive.vn/mADIL">archive</a>)) is priceless:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>五毛，网络流行语，指收钱为某单位在网络上说好话的人</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Fifty cents, an internet buzzword, refers to people who collect money for a certain unit to say good things on the Internet</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Good". And not mention of the CCP in the article, of course.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other names:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网军" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网军</a> (online army), example: <a href="https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Soft_Job/M.1478104872.A.916.html" class="bare">https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Soft_Job/M.1478104872.A.916.html</a> "Github也出現網軍了嗎?" (Is there an emerging wumao army on GitHub?) on <a href="#ptt">PTT Bulletin Board System (Taiwanese message board, 批踢踢實業坊)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-03-12 <a href="https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1238076579466674178" class="bare">https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1238076579466674178</a> <a href="#jennifer-zeng">Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media)</a>'s publishing of purported Wumao guidelines with translation. Translated title: "<a href="#cac">CAC</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China">Cyberspace Administration of China</a>) Internal Documentation for Internet Commentators (no spreading)"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-09-27 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnnPf2OnHo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnnPf2OnHo</a> "Chinese Internet Trolls Get Paid 50 Cents For Every Comment" by <a href="#serpentza-laowhy86">laowhy86</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-04-09 <a href="https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf" class="bare">https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf</a> "How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument" by "Gary King, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/files-05202015150018.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/files-05202015150018.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015-05-20 <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/files-05202015150018.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/files-05202015150018.html</a> "Hackers Leak Files Showing Inner Workings of 'China’s 50-Cent Army'", hacker group name "Unicorn Nocturne". TODO material, silly reporters that don’t give links</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2014 emails of some Wumaos were hacked/phished and leaked at <a href="https://xiaolan.me/50-cent-party-jxgzzg.html" class="bare">https://xiaolan.me/50-cent-party-jxgzzg.html</a> (down, no web archive, but <a href="https://archive.is/BNNQe" class="bare">https://archive.is/BNNQe</a>) revealing operational details</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://qz.com/311832/hacked-emails-reveal-chinas-elaborate-and-absurd-internet-propaganda-machine/" class="bare">https://qz.com/311832/hacked-emails-reveal-chinas-elaborate-and-absurd-internet-propaganda-machine/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>毛 (mao2) is a colloquial form of 角 (jiao3) both meaning "one-tenth". Coins actually use 角. See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Coins" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Coins</a> The fourth and fifth series Wikipedia currently have a 50 cent picture:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_series_of_the_renminbi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_series_of_the_renminbi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_series_of_the_renminbi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_series_of_the_renminbi</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/8355/角-毛-10-cents-for-money-why" class="bare">https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/8355/角-毛-10-cents-for-money-why</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26832834/六元四角-vs-六块四毛钱" class="bare">https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26832834/六元四角-vs-六块四毛钱</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In other sections:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#wumao-artists">Wumao artists (五毛艺术家)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#wumao-github-repos">Wumao GitHub repos (由五毛的GitHub库)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#wumao-github-repos">Wumao GitHub repos (由五毛的GitHub库)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Wujiao.png" loading="lazy" alt="Wujiao" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 264. 50-cent coin (五角) from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_series_of_the_renminbi">fourth series of renminbi</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/第四套人民币">第四套人民币</a>, 1987-1997). This image is going to be very useful. Note the beautiful plum blossom drawings reminiscent of <a href="#chinese-traditional-painting">Chinese traditional painting (中国传统绘画)</a> which <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> loves. Note how it uses 角 (jiao3) instead of 毛 (mao2). <a href="http://www.bjzxcp.com/article-41679.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="little-pink"><a class="anchor" href="#little-pink"></a><a class="link" href="#little-pink">26.1.4.1. Little pink (小粉紅, 小紅粉, 兔友)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Pink" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Pink</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小粉紅" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小粉紅</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#slang">Slang</a> name for <a href="#stupid">brainwashed</a> <a href="#ccp">CCP</a> supporters who are not necessarily paid professional <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a>, notably young, idealistic and enthusiastic ones, <a href="#little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream">Little pink explains the difference between the American dream and the Chinese dream</a> contains a prototypical video example.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>兔友 (friend of the rabbit) is another variant referring to: <a href="#that-rabbit">That Rabbit (那兔)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-06-29 "小粉红"现象调查 (An investigation of the "Little Pink" phenomenon)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="http://www.8bb.com/zaojiao/5264.html" class="bare">http://www.8bb.com/zaojiao/5264.html</a> "小红粉小粉红是什么 家长发现孩子自称小粉红怎么办" (What is a little pink? If a parent discovers that their children call themselves little pinks, what should they do about it?). Kill them.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="wumao-2011-vs-little-pink-2021" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Wumao_2011_vs_Little_Pink_2021.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Wumao 2011 vs Little Pink 2021" height="800">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 265. Perceived comparison between <a href="#wumao">Wumao (五毛)</a> and <a href="#little-pink">Little pink (小粉紅, 小紅粉, 兔友)</a> suggesting that unpaid Little Pinks are more nationalist and extreme than the paid wumaos, which is not too surprising, considering that they do it for free. A translation is available at: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ntghfa/a_lot_changed_after_xi_jin_pooh_became_chairman/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ntghfa/a_lot_changed_after_xi_jin_pooh_became_chairman/</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/" class="bare">https://twitter.com/</a><em>Inty</em>/status/1376942681956487168[Source].</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="that-rabbit"><a class="anchor" href="#that-rabbit"></a><a class="link" href="#that-rabbit">26.1.4.1.1. That Rabbit (那兔)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#little-pink">Little pinks</a> are often symbolized by a rabbit.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The origin of this appears to be the 2011 webcomic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Hare_Affair">Year Hare Affair</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/那年那兔那些事兒">那年那兔那些事</a>, literally "That year, That rabbit, Those events), where different animals represent different countries, and the rabbit represented China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The little pink rabbit is generally called simply "那兔" (That Rabbit) derived from the Chinese title.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-01-14 <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/15322" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/15322</a> "问下小粉红为什么叫中共兔子？" (Why do Little Pinks call the CCP Rabbit)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/That_Rabbit_cute.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="That Rabbit cute" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 266. As of 2020, a particularly popular representation is this cute one wearing a <a href="#pla">People’s Liberation Army (PLA, 中国人民解放军, 解放军, People’s Oppression Army, 镇压军)</a>-hat and with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star">red star</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/紅星">红星</a>) on the chest, but in the original cartoon That Rabbit appeared to be more aggressive. <a href="#wife">Ciro Santilli’s wife (三西猴的老婆)</a> told him that <a href="#that-rabbit">That Rabbit (那兔)</a> reminded her of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashimaro">Mashimaro</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/流氓兔">流氓兔</a>), a cute Korean cartoon she used to watch when she was small. <a href="https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/757167756087837907/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="how-to-deal-with-wumaos"><a class="anchor" href="#how-to-deal-with-wumaos"></a><a class="link" href="#how-to-deal-with-wumaos">26.1.4.2. How to deal with wumaos (如何应对五毛)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Above all, never reply intelligently to wumaos. Ignore all their notifications, and ignore their profile wherever possible. And if they start generating too many notifications, block them.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#reply-policy">Ciro Santilli’s reply policy (三西猴的回答政策)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/ckhung">C.K. Hung</a>'s wumao reply strategy: <a href="https://ckhung0.blogspot.com/2017/07/50-cents-party.html" class="bare">https://ckhung0.blogspot.com/2017/07/50-cents-party.html</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>為什麼我不刪五毛的回應反而要刪你的回應? 因為你只能跟人類講道理， 沒辦法跟原始物種講道理啊!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Why I delete your posts, but I don’t delete wumao’s posts? Because it is only possible to reason with humans, it is not possible to reason with primitive animals!</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2019/08/【麻辣总局】新型敏感词武器：赵弹磁铁/" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2019/08/【麻辣总局】新型敏感词武器：赵弹磁铁/</a> by <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="where-to-find-wumaos"><a class="anchor" href="#where-to-find-wumaos"></a><a class="link" href="#where-to-find-wumaos">26.1.4.3. Where to find wumaos (哪里可以找到五毛？)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#wumao">Wumaos</a> are particularly easy to spot on <a href="#censorship-monitoring">Western websites banned in China</a> and when written in English, since there is no way that strong pro-CCP opinions would get any support in such circumstances:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#quora">Quora</a> is completely infested by wumaos as of 2020, see more information on that section</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When they write in Chinese, it is much harder to know if they are paid or not, most are just <a href="#stupid">brainwashed</a>, some places to find them:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#zhao-heming">Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="internet-water-army"><a class="anchor" href="#internet-water-army"></a><a class="link" href="#internet-water-army">26.1.4.4. Internet Water Army (网络水军, DDP, 1450)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Water_Army" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Water_Army</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/網絡打手" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/網絡打手</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Basically private <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a>, rather than <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> paid ones.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>1450 is a reference to a publicly known budget allocated to them of 14.5 million New Taiwan dollar ($485k as of 2022) in 2019: <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-does-Taiwan-1450-mean/answer/Shannon-Fu-5" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-does-Taiwan-1450-mean/answer/Shannon-Fu-5</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a>, love to criticize that, e.g. see: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-4/issues/17" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-4/issues/17</a>, it is a very thing funny to see, considering that China’s wumao system must be at least 1000x larger.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-does-Taiwan-1450-mean" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-does-Taiwan-1450-mean</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ccp-apologists"><a class="anchor" href="#ccp-apologists"></a><a class="link" href="#ccp-apologists">26.1.4.5. CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If it is ever proven that those people are directly supported by the Chinese government, their nationalities should be revoked, it is very simple.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> feels that it is unlikely however that the CCP directly pays those apologists, as that would be too risky for both parties.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Rather, Ciro believes that they are either:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>saying that the CCP is good to get more views and ad revenue from CCP supporters that want to hear it from a white (most cases)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>even bigger complete idiots who actually believe China is good (the minority)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then, when they reach a certain size, the CCP can support them indirectly, notably by featuring them in <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a> such as <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a>, e.g. as happened <a href="#nathan-rich">Nathan Rich (Hotpot King, 火锅大王)</a> at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRK1XDlZkng" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRK1XDlZkng</a>, in order to boost their views and ad revenue.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For this reason, it is very hard to stop them without quenching freedom of expression.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro’s currently recommended approach is the following: if a prominent pro-CCP YouTubber never ever criticized the CCP, and it gets featured in CCP media, treat that channel exactly as you should treat CCP media, which is by adding a notice at the bottom along the lines of:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This account supports the Chinese Government, which is a fucking murderous dictatorship.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>followed by a funny meme image that is forbidden in China, e.g. <a href="#xi-jinping-memes">Xi Jinping memes (习近平模因)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It would be amazing if we could demonetize the apologist channels only for views coming from Chinese citizens, and it would be possible without completely destroying privacy by using decentralized ring signatures as mentioned at: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/electronic-voting" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/electronic-voting</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related discussion at: <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">What should Western countries do about China? (西方国家应该怎么对待中国？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also interesting to note that many of them don’t speak a word of Chinese, or very basic Chinese. It is fine when you say "the CCP is great" as a foreigner, but if you say "the CCP is bad", then <a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>伏拉夫 (fu2 la1 fu1): Russian, says I love China in ridiculously enthusiastic tone which is despised even by the Chinese, samples: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVRdeUrk-8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVRdeUrk-8</a></p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Video by <a href="#lele-farley">LeLe Farley (乐乐法利)</a> making fun of him and <a href="#nathan-rich">Nathan Rich (Hotpot King, 火锅大王)</a>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSM2_HgXKsM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSM2_HgXKsM</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It does not feel like he is paid by the Chinese government, but rather that he is just trying to get some views.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/334923127" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/334923127</a> 如何评价俄罗斯籍中国网红伏拉夫？ on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> with 17k likes as of 2020-06.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Zeman" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Zeman</a> Carrie Lam supporter</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Living in China" by Jason Lightfoot: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/JasonLightfoot" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/user/JasonLightfoot</a> Sample video:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mjik6q7FFo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mjik6q7FFo</a> "The CCP is Wonderful! Thank you China not a government shill 谢谢你中国"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SftsZXlIKM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SftsZXlIKM</a> "British vlogger: The life of Uygurs and other minorities in China" reposted by <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a> (2021)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Andy Boreham</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>from New Zeland</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AndyBxxx" class="bare">https://twitter.com/AndyBxxx</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.shine.cn/andyboreham/" class="bare">https://www.shine.cn/andyboreham/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xqKJMchxGbI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xqKJMchxGbI</a> <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a> denial. He’s deep.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO decide:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the JaYoe Nation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/JaYoeNation" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/c/JaYoeNation</a> Sample video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smnVeGR15GI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smnVeGR15GI</a> "Chinese Government Officials Corrupted My Videos! | JaYoe Conversation"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Mexicanos en China <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQYtqm1xB2uuNZaOniCH0Q" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQYtqm1xB2uuNZaOniCH0Q</a> Sample video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a71fDVMBwP8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a71fDVMBwP8</a> "Is the CHINESE GOVERNMENT PAYING US to Make Videos: Our Trip to Shaanxi // 中国政府是否付钱给我们制作视频" <a href="https://youtu.be/a71fDVMBwP8?t=188" class="bare">https://youtu.be/a71fDVMBwP8?t=188</a> says they were sponsored for the video.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Gweilo60’s Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/gweilo60" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/gweilo60</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Eric Favreliere: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ericfavreliere/" class="bare">https://www.instagram.com/ericfavreliere/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Laoma Chris (Chris Max, 口语老炮儿马思瑞). No ultra-pro CCP content, but has some anti-US content, and significant business interest in China. Large channel, 700k+ subscribers as of April 2021:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQ-9x5c6nM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQ-9x5c6nM</a> Why Is Police Brutality So Common in the US? (2020)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Non-political (as far as we can tell) channels of interest:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCISrVZmDM4x-Rq9mmNUw7Zw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCISrVZmDM4x-Rq9mmNUw7Zw</a> Blondie in China food and travel. Speaks Chinese. TODO name.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TravelinChina" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/c/TravelinChina</a> The China Traveller. Real name: Stuart Wiggin (司徒). British, studied in Oxford, speaks Chinese. Avoids ultra-sensitive topics like <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a> and <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>, and covers positive rosy (and to some extent real) improvements in China mostly, in addition to neutral food/travel. LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwiggin" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwiggin</a> (<a href="https://archive.ph/HWoMr">archive</a>). Worked for <a href="#china-radio-international">China Radio International (CRI, 中国国际广播电台, CCP media)</a> from 2012 to 2017 and for <a href="#netease">NetEase (网易, online gaming company)</a> since 2016. Other media: <a href="https://twitter.com/wiginchina" class="bare">https://twitter.com/wiginchina</a> Sample videos:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/8221d7F8Uzc?t=145" class="bare">https://youtu.be/8221d7F8Uzc?t=145</a>: watermarked crienglish.com "到底是不是习近平？Is that a famous Asian world leader?", but takes <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> lightly by showing a <a href="#xi-jinping-lookalikes">bad Xi Jinping lookalike</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unDUEoMqYwk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unDUEoMqYwk</a> "I Train with the Troops at Tiananmen Square". Participates in a flag raising ceremony.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/KevininShanghai" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/c/KevininShanghai</a> Kevin in Shanghai. Mostly language and cultural differences.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrcDPAshreK6gXlDIrDgYjQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrcDPAshreK6gXlDIrDgYjQ</a> Katherine’s Journey to the East 阳离子东游记</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHqBIN0sZY" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHqBIN0sZY</a> "China is a fascinating country that is often portrayed by western media in an overly negative light. China isn’t perfect, but what country is? There’s much more to China than the negative news and stereotypes, and there are many reasons why I chose to live here - these are a few of the top ones."</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://wokeglobaltimes.com/tankies-and-despair" class="bare">https://wokeglobaltimes.com/tankies-and-despair</a> tankies, despair, and politics: a case study by the woke global times (2020) on <a href="#the-woke-global-times">The woke global times</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/447085848" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/447085848</a> 如何判断一个老外夸中国，是发自真心，还是财富密码？ (How to judge whether a foreigner praises China from his sincerity or the code of wealth? is about) on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Discussion/lists: <a href="#quora">Quora</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-does-there-seem-to-be-an-upsurge-in-CCP-apologists-and-apologism/answer/Ciro-Santilli" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/Why-does-there-seem-to-be-an-upsurge-in-CCP-apologists-and-apologism/answer/Ciro-Santilli</a> on <a href="#quora">Quora</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=370&v=AvN5X_pOFio" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=370&v=AvN5X_pOFio</a> "Expat YouTubers attacked for pro-China views" by <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a> (2021). TODO investigate all of those shown at the given timestamp.</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#raz-gal-or">Raz Gal-Or (高佑思, Ychina, Y-Platform, 歪果仁研究协会)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Leo (Germany) TODo</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Brian (Argentina)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Alistair Bayley (UK/Australia)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Vlad (Russia). <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a> is not part of the West.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Thomas (Germany)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Rachele (Italy)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Jason Lightfoot (UK)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Jared (Canada)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Lila (US). This is Lila Kidson, <a href="#raz-gal-or">Raz Gal-Or (高佑思, Ychina, Y-Platform, 歪果仁研究协会)</a>'s girl</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/swlh/how-china-is-influencing-youtubers-into-posting-state-propaganda-db72acf18dfa" class="bare">https://medium.com/swlh/how-china-is-influencing-youtubers-into-posting-state-propaganda-db72acf18dfa</a> "EXCLUSIVE: How China is Influencing YouTubers into Posting State Propaganda" mentions <a href="https://youtu.be/2mQ8plzWl9g?t=520" class="bare">https://youtu.be/2mQ8plzWl9g?t=520</a> "They tried to get me to post Chinese propaganda" by J.J. McCullough (2019) was approached to publish an anti-<a href="#shen-yun">Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)</a> video by what was likely a Chinese agent.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> threads:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lgkp8t/british_youtubers_paid_by_the_cpp/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/lgkp8t/british_youtubers_paid_by_the_cpp/</a> about Jason Lightfoot</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/French_Nazi_SS_poster_1942.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="French Nazi SS poster 1942" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 267. Elbow-to-elbow against the common enemy! French division of the Waffen SS (Coude a coude contre l’ennemi commun! Division française de la Waffen SS) 1942 propaganda poster for the French SS division, formally known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_Charlemagne">33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne</a>. Mentioned at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJpWB5hi3hQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJpWB5hi3hQ</a> French SS - Berlin 1945 by Mark Felton Productions (2020). <a href="https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/coude-a-coude-contre-l-ennemi-commun-division-francaise-de-la-waffen-ss#infos-principales">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HGgzK2yVX4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HGgzK2yVX4</a> The LAST White Monkey Jobs in China by <a href="#serpentza-laowhy86">laowhy86</a> (2022). An overview of CCP apologists on YouTube.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0HGgzK2yVX4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20221126071424im_/https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/219/125/88d.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="88d" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 268. In 2021, Fast and Furious actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cena">Jonn Cena</a> apologized profusely for calling <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a> a country, apology video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z88zeQ25pjQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z88zeQ25pjQ</a>. Kudos for trying to do it in Chinese though, he likely doesn’t speak however? Can’t make some basic sounds properly. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/john-cena-very-sorry-for-saying-taiwan-is-a-country" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/john-cena-very-sorry-for-saying-taiwan-is-a-country</a>. The <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-xina">John Xina</a> <a href="#mao-zedong">Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1954–1976)</a> meme followed. <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2219125-john-xina">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="tankie"><a class="anchor" href="#tankie"></a><a class="link" href="#tankie">26.1.4.5.1. Tankie</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Adapted from the cold war, this term has been widely used to describe pro-CCP western people, i.e. <a href="#ccp-apologists">CCP apologists (中共辩护士)</a>, examples:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://wokeglobaltimes.com/tankies-and-despair" class="bare">https://wokeglobaltimes.com/tankies-and-despair</a> tankies, despair, and politics: a case study by the woke global times (2020) on <a href="#the-woke-global-times">The woke global times</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/n29kc3/upvote_this_absolute_chad_to_piss_off_the_tankies/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/n29kc3/upvote_this_absolute_chad_to_piss_off_the_tankies/</a> Upvote this absolute chad to piss off the tankies at <a href="#r-genzedong">r/GenZedong</a> on <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> with an image of the 14th <a href="#dalai-lama">Dalai Lama (达赖喇嘛)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="neville-roy-singham"><a class="anchor" href="#neville-roy-singham"></a><a class="link" href="#neville-roy-singham">26.1.4.5.2. Neville Roy Singham (ThoughtWorks founder)</a></h6>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Roy_Singham" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Roy_Singham</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This dude does believe in open source. But also believe in the Chinese government! It feels like it is a case of misguided good intentions rather than corruption, which is sad. In other word, he’s the prototypical <a href="#tankie">Tankie</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/CUnqV" class="bare">https://archive.ph/CUnqV</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="nathan-rich"><a class="anchor" href="#nathan-rich"></a><a class="link" href="#nathan-rich">26.1.4.5.3. Nathan Rich (Hotpot King, 火锅大王)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Rich" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Rich</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/内森·瑞克" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/内森·瑞克</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaSlyjhR4WC7QhYuaivxb6g/videos" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaSlyjhR4WC7QhYuaivxb6g/videos</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As mentioned at: <a href="https://medium.com/swlh/how-china-is-influencing-youtubers-into-posting-state-propaganda-db72acf18dfa" class="bare">https://medium.com/swlh/how-china-is-influencing-youtubers-into-posting-state-propaganda-db72acf18dfa</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His vlogging career is inexplicably successful. He has 385,000 subscribers on his channel, a huge amount for someone with so little time and so few videos on the platform.".</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/au8az3/exscientologist_nathan_rich_is_a_convicted_felon/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/au8az3/exscientologist_nathan_rich_is_a_convicted_felon/</a> mentions another interesting very strong circumstantial evidence:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His videos feature perfect Chinese in the subtitles along with Chinese video titles, meaning that he is almost certainly having these videos produced by someone else/and or a group of people. I can guarantee that based on his pronunciation of the few Chinese words he says in the video, his Chinese ability should not be anywhere close to fluent.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample videos:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRqcA04FtmM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRqcA04FtmM</a> he says <a href="#serpentza-laowhy86">SerpentZA</a> is a fraud "because he criticizes China".</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reception:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/310502367" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/310502367</a> "如何评价 B 站 UP 主「NathanRich火锅大王」？" on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a>. TODO what is "B站UP"?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-07-05 <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a> approves: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRK1XDlZkng" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRK1XDlZkng</a> "Nathan Rich: 'Hotpot King' delivering truth about HK to the world"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2020-06-01 <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3941420" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3941420</a> "China propagandist Nathan Rich’s criminal record revealed" contains an outline of Richs criminal records, with including mugshots. Most of this was already likely known, but it gives good detail. In particular, it comments on the fact that in 2013 Beijing started to more strictly do criminal background checks for VISA applicants: <a href="https://www.china-briefing.com/news/non-criminal-record-certificate-required-for-employment-license-application-in-beijing/" class="bare">https://www.china-briefing.com/news/non-criminal-record-certificate-required-for-employment-license-application-in-beijing/</a>, and that Rich managed to get the VISA two years later nonetheless, notably including a drug trafficking charge.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>白https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/youtubers_social_commentators_anybody_interested_i_remove_youtube_user_nathan_rich_from_google_services/ characterises him as "左五无毛". While this does not seems like a specific expression, and maybe is not even accurate, learning the meaning of "左五" is of interest:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/白左" class="bare">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/白左</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/52409116" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/52409116</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/40252469" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/40252469</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/3559" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/3559</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="barrett-channel"><a class="anchor" href="#barrett-channel"></a><a class="link" href="#barrett-channel">26.1.4.5.4. Barrett Channel</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1XG7bJnYqta_ezr12WZp7w" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1XG7bJnYqta_ezr12WZp7w</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2021-09-21 <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/beijing-funds-british-youtubers-to-further-its-propaganda-war-x5gqp5fg0" class="bare">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/beijing-funds-british-youtubers-to-further-its-propaganda-war-x5gqp5fg0</a> (on <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a>: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/kto2vj/beijing_funds_british_youtubers_to_further_its/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/kto2vj/beijing_funds_british_youtubers_to_further_its/</a>) claims that:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Times has found that some of their videos were funded by <a href="#china-radio-international">China Radio International (CRI, 中国国际广播电台, CCP media)</a>, a media organisation that has been exposed as the secret owner of an international network of propaganda radio stations.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>…​</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In November they visited the Shaanxi district of China with several other foreign YouTubers who live in China and make videos supporting the government.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The trip was organised and funded by the Chinese Radio International and an official press release described the visit as "International Internet Celebrities Witnessing the Happiness of Shaanxi People".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In a candid video about the visit that was subsequently removed, Lee admitted that a trip to a mountain was cancelled so they could witness "propaganda" regarding the area’s prosperity.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He said: "It wasn’t until the second day they started talking about cutting the trip short by a day, and there was no real reason given for that." A fellow YouTuber Jayoe Nation said: "They had to fit in more propaganda."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lee replied: "They didn’t say that, did they, but that’s what happened."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Various videos from the trip show the YouTubers visiting locations in the district including a farm where Oli performed a farcical dance while holding vegetables.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Father and son British expats: Lee Barrett, the father, and Oli Barrett, the son.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>100k subs one year after. Don’t speak a word of Chinese it seems, but all videos have full bilingual translation.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Their tone is natural unlike others more exaggerated like <a href="#nathan-rich">Nathan Rich (Hotpot King, 火锅大王)</a>, so maybe they believe in the shit they say? Either that, or they are a good fake by the CCP.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample videos:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq1mCL7EQrM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq1mCL7EQrM</a> "China Doesn’t Have Free Speech!"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="daniel-dumbrill"><a class="anchor" href="#daniel-dumbrill"></a><a class="link" href="#daniel-dumbrill">26.1.4.5.5. Daniel Dumbrill</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Bl8MTbW9M9MQoPhxbarpw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Bl8MTbW9M9MQoPhxbarpw</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Daniel’s family name is telling: "<a href="#ciro-santilli-is-stupid">DUMB</a> rill", so don’t be too hard on him.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Featured on <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUjatX2p0dA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUjatX2p0dA</a> (<a href="http://archive.is/gCeIk">archive</a>) "Daniel Dumbrill: Hong Kong is far freer since its return to China" supporting <a href="#hong-kong-national-security-law">Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法, 2020)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMUA3GeScUI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMUA3GeScUI</a> "Daniel Dumbrill: I want my children to be proud of being Chinese"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample content form his channel:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gygxrdNmzUQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gygxrdNmzUQ</a> "Speaking With a Uyghur Activist About Xinjiang Abuse" interviews <a href="https://twitter.com/arslan_hidayat">Arslan Hidayat</a>, who was also interviewed by <a href="#china-uncensored">China Unscripted</a>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTUVxw7VXc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTUVxw7VXc</a> and appears to be denouncing the oppression. Video description is filled to the brim with links about how the West is using Xinjiang for fake news. TODO how can he make a video with that guy and still live in China? This suggests strongly that his videos obtain direct CCP approval.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nNZbDF75dc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nNZbDF75dc</a> "Daniel the Pro-China 'Shill'" replies to accusations of being pro-China</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At 2021-03-29 <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/37519" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/37519</a> (<a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/37519">archive</a>) from <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a> people are saying that they even if the USA is evil, the CCP is more, one commenter quoted Churchill:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If <a href="#nazi">Hitler</a> invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="nigel-ng"><a class="anchor" href="#nigel-ng"></a><a class="link" href="#nigel-ng">26.1.4.5.6. Nigel Ng (ungle-roger, mrnigelng, 罗杰叔叔)</a></h6>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Ng" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Ng</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃瑾瑜" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃瑾瑜</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2021-01-12:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2023: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-65669623" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-65669623</a> he changed his mind</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2021/01/13/uncle-roger-apologises-and-deletes-video-featuring-fellow-youtube-star-who-criticised-china/" class="bare">https://hongkongfp.com/2021/01/13/uncle-roger-apologises-and-deletes-video-featuring-fellow-youtube-star-who-criticised-china/</a> "'Uncle Roger' apologises and deletes video featuring fellow YouTube star who criticised China"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55651798" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55651798</a> "Uncle Roger comedian deletes video with China critic"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Nigel had published a collaboration video called "Uncle Roger Review UGLIEST DUMPLING EVER" with another YouTuber called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjkGXhZsu5H64fWuNQNf1Xw">Mikey Chen</a>, who unknown to Nigel, is a somewhat discreet <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> believer (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=315&v=nD6792YoOmY">source</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The video then removed solely because of Mikey’s believes expressed elsewhere. The apology on <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a>: <a href="https://weibo.com/7231497816/JCQPH5vzK" class="bare">https://weibo.com/7231497816/JCQPH5vzK</a> Excerpt:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>During the process of working with the content-creator, I wasn’t aware of his political thoughts and his past incorrect remarks about China. This is my negligence, and I will be more careful when I make content in the future.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is the original video link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_wKd5UUg4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_wKd5UUg4</a> according to this reaction video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsatmCWeVb8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsatmCWeVb8</a> No archives of the original were made unfortunately.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Nigel had 125k <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> followers at that point, and reuploads every YouTube video he posts over there with Chinese subtitles: <a href="https://weibo.com/u/7231497816" class="bare">https://weibo.com/u/7231497816</a>, extremely likely done by paid professionals.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Saying hi: <a href="https://github.com/nigeljyng/dotfiles/issues/4" class="bare">https://github.com/nigeljyng/dotfiles/issues/4</a></p>
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<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="raz-gal-or"><a class="anchor" href="#raz-gal-or"></a><a class="link" href="#raz-gal-or">26.1.4.5.7. Raz Gal-Or (高佑思, Ychina, Y-Platform, 歪果仁研究协会)</a></h6>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raz_Gal-Or" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raz_Gal-Or</a> Was being considered for deletion for non-notability: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Raz_Gal-Or" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Raz_Gal-Or</a> but it got through because there’s a bunch of <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a> that reported on him obviously. Which is a good thing as it allows us to know more about the bastard.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/高佑思" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/高佑思</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Israeli, studied at Peking University. Ychina (歪果仁研究协会) is his pro-CCP propaganda organization, based in Beijing.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Gal-Or">Amir Gal-Or</a> (高哲铭), also Israeli, is a venture capitalist based in China. So that’s the collateral for his son’s media access. Amir is an ex-Israeli Air Force. What a disgrace. Mossad is going to pay those people a visit one day. Supposing they are not already working for Mossad. Here’s the happy family: <a href="https://twitter.com/AmirGalOr/status/911491366995103744" class="bare">https://twitter.com/AmirGalOr/status/911491366995103744</a>, father and son entitled "being interviewed by my son in <a href="#cctv">China Central Television (CCTV, 中国中央电视台, 央视, CCP media)</a> headquarters .. a new era .." Here’s his TED talk on how to educate your children to support <a href="#nazi">Hitler</a> v2 do <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">holocaust v2</a>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk4ztwRvUxs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk4ztwRvUxs</a> "How to educate the next generation of global communications? | Amir Galor | TEDxYouth@Hangzhou" (2019). The <a href="#life-of-brian-nazi-jew">Nazi Jew scene from The Life of Brian</a> comes to mind very strongly.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Y-Platform had a 3.5M investment from <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a>: <a href="https://www.finsmes.com/2020/03/y-platform-completes-3-5m-series-a-funding-round.html" class="bare">https://www.finsmes.com/2020/03/y-platform-completes-3-5m-series-a-funding-round.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Media:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJcr29TmNo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJcr29TmNo</a> Ychina YouTube channel</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ychinamedia" class="bare">https://www.facebook.com/ychinamedia</a> Facebook Video channel (reposts)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/raz-gal-or-5a454866/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/raz-gal-or-5a454866/</a> reads "Founder of Y-Platform (歪果仁研究协会) - a leading online video Multi-channel Network (MCN) in China. Y-Platform manages more than 30 online influencers/channels with a total of 100+ million followers on social media networks, averaging 500 million views per month."</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdG3HsxlTD8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdG3HsxlTD8</a> Failure is the best thing I’ve experienced | Raz Galor | TEDxYouth@Hangzhou (2019). He was featured in TEDx like his father</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample posts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67pU0Ybovnc" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67pU0Ybovnc</a> What I saw in Xinjiang working as a Cotton Farmer by 歪果仁研究协会 Ychina (2021) reply video to <a href="#xinjiang-cotton">Xinjiang cotton (新疆棉花, 2021)</a>. He got access to Xinjiang. Deep links.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDYk7GSX-Q" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDYk7GSX-Q</a> SHOCKING! Is United States Gonna Take Down <a href="#wechat">WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a> Too？ by 歪果仁研究协会 Ychina (2020) At which point every single Western chat program is blocked in China.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Highlighted in <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=370&v=AvN5X_pOFio" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=370&v=AvN5X_pOFio</a> "Expat YouTubers attacked for pro-China views" by <a href="#cgtn">China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)</a> (2021)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Associates:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Lila Kidson (alias 星悦/StarHappy), appears very frequently e.g. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJcr29TmNo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJcr29TmNo</a>. According to <a href="https://thenanyan.com/2020/03/02/ychina-a-pku-international-alumni-and-student-led-media-group-fights-the-coronavirus/" class="bare">https://thenanyan.com/2020/03/02/ychina-a-pku-international-alumni-and-student-led-media-group-fights-the-coronavirus/</a> also names his associates she is "an American who studies in PKU, the vice president [of Ychina]"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K2KGgxPy2U" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K2KGgxPy2U</a> How has life CHANGED for American citizens during the Epidemic outbreak? (2020):</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Dylan Jaye (dylanjayezyl, 钟逸伦)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dylanjayezyl" class="bare">https://www.instagram.com/dylanjayezyl</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtHY3QWxjY" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtHY3QWxjY</a> "Ychina Music | “Another Day In China” RAP" (2017)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chris TODO</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRuCWyv2vo" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRuCWyv2vo</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Brian</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="jerry-goode"><a class="anchor" href="#jerry-goode"></a><a class="link" href="#jerry-goode">26.1.4.5.8. Jerry Goode (诸葛杰瑞)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTN4QPCXbI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTN4QPCXbI</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample videos:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTN4QPCXbI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTN4QPCXbI</a> Livestream - CENSORSHIP in CHINA is to Protect the People on <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqkD8JBCm-k" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqkD8JBCm-k</a> Inside a Mosque XINJIANG Urumqi! on how <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a> is great</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdfPxMcOoQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdfPxMcOoQ</a> The Truth about Larung Gang - Tibetan Buddhists! on how <a href="#tibet">Tibet (西藏)</a> is great</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH4H1qX1Dw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH4H1qX1Dw</a> CHINA Changed us! ft. Oli BARRETT from <a href="#barrett-channel">Barrett Channel</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="world-war-ii-propaganda"><a class="anchor" href="#world-war-ii-propaganda"></a><a class="link" href="#world-war-ii-propaganda">26.1.4.5.9. World war ii propaganda (二战宣传)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.history.co.uk/shows/secret-war-on-drugs/articles/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-cia" class="bare">https://www.history.co.uk/shows/secret-war-on-drugs/articles/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-cia</a> mentions some uncited ideas:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>one CIA operative drew up a plan to also have packets of extra-large condoms, labelled only "small" or "medium"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the CIA made a propaganda porn film of President Sukarno of Indonesia</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="world-war-2-radio-propaganda"><a class="anchor" href="#world-war-2-radio-propaganda"></a><a class="link" href="#world-war-2-radio-propaganda">26.1.4.5.10. World war 2 radio propaganda (二战电台宣传)</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>During WW2, lots of pro-<a href="#nazi">Nazi</a> and pro-Alllied radio propaganda was produced and transmitted to the enemy:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_propaganda">Radio propaganda</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.history.com/news/6-world-war-ii-propaganda-broadcasters" class="bare">https://www.history.com/news/6-world-war-ii-propaganda-broadcasters</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wwii/b1.html" class="bare">http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wwii/b1.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most notable pro-Nazi ones:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce</a> William Joyce (alias <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw">Lord Haw-Haw</a>)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His broadcasts opened with "Germany calling, Germany calling" and were spoken in a faked affected upper-class English accent.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They seem to be very just boring propaganda news however, no jokes.</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born British fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He took German citizenship in 1940.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Joyce was convicted of one count of high treason in 1945 and sentenced to death, with the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords both upholding his conviction. He was hanged on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-THrWu_4I" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-THrWu_4I</a> Lord Haw Haw William Joyce Final Broadcast 1945</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtUcGR0Og6c" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtUcGR0Og6c</a> AP hanging news</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Sally">Axis Sally</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Zucca">Rita Zucca</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred</a> Gillars[Mildred Gillars]. A large Hollywood production was made about her in 2021: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American</a> Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally[American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally]</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Henriot">Philippe Henriot</a> pro-Nazi in French</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Best">Robert Henry Best</a>, alias "Mr. Guess Who"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Anderson_(American_journalist)">Jane Anderson</a>, alias "The Georgia Peach"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilhelm_Kaltenbach">Frederick Wilhelm Kaltenbach</a>, alias "Lord Hee Haw"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most notable Allied ones:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefton_Delmer">Sefton Delmer</a>, who actually carried out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda">black propaganda</a> (false flag propaganda that identifies as coming from the enemy itself). Related terms:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_propaganda">White propaganda</a>: identifies its source, e.g. <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Gray propaganda: does not identify source</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_warfare">political warfare</a>. The main photo of the wiki page is Sun Tzu :-)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare">Psychologial warfare</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrT3rILfIzA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrT3rILfIzA</a> "Tokyo Rose" - WW2 Traitor or Victim? by Mark Felton Productions (2021) talks about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Rose">Tokyo Rose</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/東京玫瑰">東京玫瑰</a>), alias for several women who broadcast English propaganda for the Japanese, but most notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino">Iva Toguri D’Aquino</a>. This one was really good, she was cute and made fun of herself, and played music, the Americans actually enjoyed listening to it. Soft power at its best.</div>
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<h4 id="real-username-law"><a class="anchor" href="#real-username-law"></a><a class="link" href="#real-username-law">26.1.5. Real username law (2015)</a></h4>
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<ul>
<li>
<p>2015-03 China forces real usernames on the net, and provoking ones</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://advox.globalvoices.org/2015/04/16/new-internet-rules-in-china-target-usernames-avatars-as-subversive-tools/" class="bare">https://advox.globalvoices.org/2015/04/16/new-internet-rules-in-china-target-usernames-avatars-as-subversive-tools/</a> "New Internet Rules in China Target Usernames, Avatars as Subversive Tools"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.engadget.com/2015/02/28/china-username-policy-purge/" class="bare">https://www.engadget.com/2015/02/28/china-username-policy-purge/</a> "Chinese internet giants purge 60,000 accounts for inappropriate usernames"</p>
</li>
</ul>
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</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And guess which idiotic Western websites requires real usernames and no privacy? <a href="#quora">Quora</a> and <a href="#linkedin">LinkedIn (领英)</a>, of course: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/quora-to-oddly-named-users-papers-please/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/quora-to-oddly-named-users-papers-please/</a></p>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="anonymous-account-ban"><a class="anchor" href="#anonymous-account-ban"></a><a class="link" href="#anonymous-account-ban">26.1.5.1. Anonymous accounts ban (2017)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is interesting to note that anonymous accounts are in theory banned, almost all Chinese people still have anonymous accounts, even <a href="#little-pink">little pinks</a>, because everyone is always afraid of mistakenly saying the wrong thing, or of the payback of when the dictatorship falls.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also interesting that many of such anonymous accounts use stills of television series actors as profile pictures, and often beautiful young women. This is perhaps due to the <a href="#one-child-policy">phenomenal gender imabalance in China</a>? Anime characters are also very popular.</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/ban-08282017112633.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/ban-08282017112633.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/27/china-doubles-down-on-real-name-registration-laws-forbidding-anonymous-online-posts/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/27/china-doubles-down-on-real-name-registration-laws-forbidding-anonymous-online-posts/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/08/27/china-to-ban-anonymous-online-comments-blacklist-users/" class="bare">https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/08/27/china-to-ban-anonymous-online-comments-blacklist-users/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#linkedin">LinkedIn (领英)</a> requires you to use the real username and photo</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#anonymous-middle-fingers">Anonymous middle fingers (2021)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h4 id="journalism"><a class="anchor" href="#journalism"></a><a class="link" href="#journalism">26.1.6. Journalism (新闻业)</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="freedom-of-the-press"><a class="anchor" href="#freedom-of-the-press"></a><a class="link" href="#freedom-of-the-press">26.1.6.1. Freedom of the press (新闻自由)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新闻自由" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新闻自由</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIMsALZlvuQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIMsALZlvuQ</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/723">GitHub reupload</a>) Scene from documentary film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Same_Breath">In the Same Breath (2021)</a> showing nine Chinese television anchors saying the exact same announcement about <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>, at the exact same pace, with audios superimposed, quoting the Wuhan Police department: "武汉市公安局官方微博发布消息称关于当前武汉市肺炎疫情的情况，《八人散播谣言者被依法查处》" (Eight people were punished for spreading rumors about an unknown pneumonia). Also note how shit English that translation by the documentary is.</div>
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<p>武汉市公安局官方微博发布消息称，关于当前武汉市肺炎疫情的情况</p>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="western-journalists-in-china"><a class="anchor" href="#western-journalists-in-china"></a><a class="link" href="#western-journalists-in-china">26.1.6.2. Western journalists in China (在中国的外国记者)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-09-21 <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/matthew-carney-foreign-journalist-china-intimidation-birtles/12678610" class="bare">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/matthew-carney-foreign-journalist-china-intimidation-birtles/12678610</a> "'You will be put into detention': Former ABC bureau chief tells story of fleeing China for first time"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="#video-bbc-local-election-interview-block-2016">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HdCIW2Xtk 2016-10-18 BBC reporter stopped from visiting China local election independent candidate Liu Huizhen (刘惠珍) by local thugs who block him physically from nocking the door. Funny/scary stuff. The BBC returned a few days later when the thugs weren’t there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eroTCMRn2yQ. Accompaging article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37997706 "China elections: Independent candidates fight for the ballot".</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 Ursula Gauthier from <a href="#liubukou-massacre">Luibukou massacre</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="mass-surveillance"><a class="anchor" href="#mass-surveillance"></a><a class="link" href="#mass-surveillance">26.2. Mass surveillance (大规模监控)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大规模监控" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大规模监控</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="mass-surveillance-in-china"><a class="anchor" href="#mass-surveillance-in-china"></a><a class="link" href="#mass-surveillance-in-china">26.2.1. Mass surveillance in China (中华人民共和国大规模监控)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国大规模监控" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国大规模监控</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="title">Figure 269. Camera in front of a Chinese flag. Sources: 2023-01-13 r/China_Pulitzer <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/10azyqh/老大哥在看着你/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Pulitzer/comments/10azyqh/老大哥在看着你/</a>, 2023-01-14 on r/China <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/10bgnb9/the_big_brother_is_watching_you_老大哥在看着你/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/10bgnb9/the_big_brother_is_watching_you_老大哥在看着你/</a></div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="social-credit-system"><a class="anchor" href="#social-credit-system"></a><a class="link" href="#social-credit-system">26.3. Social Credit System (社会信用体系)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System</a></p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/社会信用体系" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/社会信用体系</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A fundamental problem with this system is highlighted e.g. in the book Human Compatible by Stuart J. Russell (2019): kindness will lose all meaning, and you will never be sure if people like you, or if they are just doing things for the social credit:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>There are several problems with [a social credit system]. First, it ignores the psychic cost of living under a system of intrusive monitoring and coercion; outward harmony masking inner misery is hardly an ideal state. Every act of kindness ceases to be an act of kindness and becomes instead an act of personal score maximization and is per ceived as such by the recipient. Or worse, the very concept of a voluntary act of kindness gradually becomes just a fading memory something people used to do. Visiting an ailing friend in hospital will, under such a system, have no more moral significance and emotional of value than stopping at a red light.</p>
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</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-06-04 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cGB8dCDf3c" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cGB8dCDf3c</a> "A Look Inside China’s Social Credit System | NBC News Now" by "NBC News"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLc2E4P87QE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLc2E4P87QE</a> Cafe Scene from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror">Black Mirror</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)">Series 3 Episode "Nosedive"</a> (2016)</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkw15LkZ_Kw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkw15LkZ_Kw</a> China’s "Social Credit System" Has Caused More Than Just Public Shaming (HBO) by VICE News (2018). <a href="https://youtu.be/Dkw15LkZ_Kw?t=238">328s</a> shows how you can donate money to the party to increase your score. This is not a hidden practice, they were filmed and everyone is showing their faces. What a brilliant idea that could never ever lead to <a href="#corruption">corruption</a>! Ciro’s jaw just dropped. How can the commies not hide this kind of shit from the West, but hide other stuff the West couldn’t care less about?</div>
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<h3 id="chinese-foreign-interference-campaigns"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-foreign-interference-campaigns"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-foreign-interference-campaigns">26.4. Chinese foreign interference campaigns (中国外国干涉运动)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#chinese-interference-in-western-media">Chinese interference in Western media (中国干预西方媒体)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#chinese-interference-in-the-western-education-systems">Chinese Interference in the Western education systems (中共对西方教育体系的干预)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#communist-bread">Communist bread (中共面包)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#operation-fox-hunt">Operation Fox Hunt</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chinese influence operations - a Machiavelli moment report by the Strategic Research Institute of France’s renowned Military College: <a href="https://www.irsem.fr/" class="bare">https://www.irsem.fr/</a> | <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qxUvLrLG4SSg8ANZnqvBfDOxUrtPmaB5/edit" class="bare">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qxUvLrLG4SSg8ANZnqvBfDOxUrtPmaB5/edit</a> by Paul Charon and Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="belt-and-road-initiative"><a class="anchor" href="#belt-and-road-initiative"></a><a class="link" href="#belt-and-road-initiative">26.4.1. Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一带一路" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一带一路</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_between_China_and_Central_and_Eastern_European_Countries" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_between_China_and_Central_and_Eastern_European_Countries</a> Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>17+1合作</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="wikimedia-infiltration"><a class="anchor" href="#wikimedia-infiltration"></a><a class="link" href="#wikimedia-infiltration">26.4.2. Wikimedia infiltration</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/14/exclusive-wikipedia-bans-7-mainland-chinese-power-users-over-infiltration-and-exploitation-in-unprecedented-clampdown/" class="bare">https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/14/exclusive-wikipedia-bans-7-mainland-chinese-power-users-over-infiltration-and-exploitation-in-unprecedented-clampdown/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2021/07/11/wikipedia-wars-how-hongkongers-and-mainland-chinese-are-battling-to-set-the-narrative/" class="bare">https://hongkongfp.com/2021/07/11/wikipedia-wars-how-hongkongers-and-mainland-chinese-are-battling-to-set-the-narrative/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="winter-olympics-2022"><a class="anchor" href="#winter-olympics-2022"></a><a class="link" href="#winter-olympics-2022">26.4.3. 2022 Winter Olympics in China (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Winter_Olympics" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Winter_Olympics</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO create side by side image with the 1936 Olympics in <a href="#nazi">Nazi Germany</a>.</p>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="communist-youth-league"><a class="anchor" href="#communist-youth-league"></a><a class="link" href="#communist-youth-league">26.5. Communist Youth League of China (中国共产主义青年团)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Youth_League_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Youth_League_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国少年先锋队" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国少年先锋队</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Had a membership of 109 million (by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_National_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China">17th National Congress</a>).</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Such state sponsored youth organizations are a hallmark of <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorships</a>, and serve both as an indoctrination device, and as a selection tool for future politicians:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#hitler-youth">Hitler Youth (希特勒青年团)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol">Komsomol</a> was the Soviet youth organization</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One may argue that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Association">the scouts</a> are <a href="https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/creator-of-taggart-reveals-the-human-stories-behind-an-unlikely-and-unsettling-alliance-on-the-eve-of-wartherell-be-no-more-murders-tv-sleuth-writer-rules-out-comeback/">a similar organization in the West</a>, but one notable difference is the scale of such dictatorship-led youth organizations.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related news:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-02-19: <a href="https://supchina.com/2020/02/19/communist-youth-league-patriotic-idols/" class="bare">https://supchina.com/2020/02/19/communist-youth-league-patriotic-idols/</a> "The Communist Youth League Thought It Was Creating Patriotic Idols. Instead, It Started A Conversation About Women’s Rights". The anime-style mascots are named Jiangshanjiao 江山娇 and Hongqiman 红旗漫.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="child-brainwashing"><a class="anchor" href="#child-brainwashing"></a><a class="link" href="#child-brainwashing">26.6. Child brainwashing (儿童洗脑)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="young-pioneers-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#young-pioneers-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#young-pioneers-of-china">26.6.1. Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pioneers_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pioneers_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国少年先锋队" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国少年先锋队</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#brainwashed-by-usa">Brainwashing</a> for kids younger than the <a href="#communist-youth-league">Communist Youth League of China (中国共产主义青年团)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other brainwashed Chinese kids:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#little-pink-american-dream-vs-chinese-dream">Little pink explains the difference between the American dream and the Chinese dream</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/11d2m1a/little_girls_lined_up_to_lecture_ccps_propaganda/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/11d2m1a/little_girls_lined_up_to_lecture_ccps_propaganda/</a> "Little girls lined up to lecture CCP’s propaganda". At some CCP memorial place. TODO location/source.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_scout_salute.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi scout salute" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 270. <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> basically <a href="#nazi">Nazi saluting</a> representatives attending the 7th National Congress of the <a href="#young-pioneers-of-china">Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队)</a> in Beijing, June 1, 2015. <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/01/c_138108706.htm">Source</a> by <a href="#xinhua">Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Hitler_youth_salute.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Hitler youth salute" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 271. <a href="#hitler-youth">Hitler Youth (希特勒青年团)</a> giving the <a href="#nazi">Nazi salute to Hitler</a> in <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/nazi-leader-adolf-hitler-smiles-while-uniformed-saxon-news-photo/3201090">1933</a>. <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/hitler-youth-and-indoctrination-1221066">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="young-pioneers-vs-hitler-youth" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_scout_salute_vs_Hitler_Youth_salute.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Xi scout salute vs Hitler Youth salute" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 272. Side-by-side comparisoin of <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> saluting the <a href="#young-pioneers-of-china">Young Pioneers of China (中国少年先锋队)</a> and Hitler saluting the <a href="#hitler-youth">Hitler Youth (希特勒青年团)</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="red-army-school"><a class="anchor" href="#red-army-school"></a><a class="link" href="#red-army-school">26.7. Red Army school (红军小学)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/asia/china-schools-propaganda-education.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/asia/china-schools-propaganda-education.html</a> "To Inspire Young Communists, China Turns to ‘Red Army’ Schools"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/红军小学/8664849" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/红军小学/8664849</a> on <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/56068614" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/56068614</a> on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> "如何评价中国的红军小学?" (What do you think about the Red Army schools?)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1081039.shtml" class="bare">https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1081039.shtml</a> on <a href="#global-times">Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)</a></p>
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</ul>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Red_army_school.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Red army school" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 273. Children dressed in clear-blue Red-army uniforms saluting <a href="#flag-desecration">the flag</a> at a <a href="#red-army-school">Red Army school (红军小学)</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beichuan_Qiang_Autonomous_County">Beichuan</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北川羌族自治县">北川</a>), <a href="#sichuan">Sichuan Province (四川省)</a>, 2015. <a href="https://correspondent.afp.com/red-army-school">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hitler-youth"><a class="anchor" href="#hitler-youth"></a><a class="link" href="#hitler-youth">26.7.1. Hitler Youth (希特勒青年团)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/希特拉青年團" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/希特拉青年團</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The <a href="#nazi">Nazi Germany</a> youth organization.</p>
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</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="one-child-policy"><a class="anchor" href="#one-child-policy"></a><a class="link" href="#one-child-policy">26.8. One-child policy (一孩政策, 1979–2015)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy</a></p>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一孩政策" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一孩政策</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://ftp.iza.org/dp3214.pdf" class="bare">http://ftp.iza.org/dp3214.pdf</a> suggests that a 1% increase in the male/female sex ratio raised violent and property crime rates by some 3%, mentioned with percentage error at <a href="https://youtu.be/DytBlcScGNk?t=1304" class="bare">https://youtu.be/DytBlcScGNk?t=1304</a></p>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Scarfolk_children_the_cause_of_crime.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Scarfolk children the cause of crime" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 274. "Children: the cause of crime" spoof poster by <a href="#scarfolk-council">Scarfolk Council</a> (2017). Applies perfectly to <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a> forced abortion accusations. The <a href="#one-child-policy">One-child policy (一孩政策, 1979–2015)</a> also comes to mind. <a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2017/05/children-cause-of-all-crime.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<h3 id="five-poisons"><a class="anchor" href="#five-poisons"></a><a class="link" href="#five-poisons">26.9. Five poisons (五毒)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Poisons" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Poisons</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/五毒大神" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/五毒大神</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>CCP version according to Wikipedia:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#tibet">Tibet (西藏)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#democracy">Democracy (民主)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is not however clear that there are any CCP sources saying that. It is mostly referred to in Falun Gong sources. Proof?</p>
</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="core-socialist-values"><a class="anchor" href="#core-socialist-values"></a><a class="link" href="#core-socialist-values">26.10. Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Socialist_Values" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Socialist_Values</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/社会主义核心价值观" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/社会主义核心价值观</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A list of 12 values the CCP claims to support, some of which are ridiculously and obviously the opposite, notably democracy and freedom.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>people in <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a> being brainwashed to it: <a href="#xinjiang-core-socialist-values">Xinjiang core socialist values</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We made a single image mocking all of them at: <a href="#core-socialist-values-collage">core socialist values collage</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>1 富强 Prosperity: <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/01/world/01china-migrants-16/01china-migrants-16-master1050.jpg" class="bare">https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/01/world/01china-migrants-16/01china-migrants-16-master1050.jpg</a> from <a href="https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20171201/china-beijing-migrants/" class="bare">https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20171201/china-beijing-migrants/</a> from <a href="#low-end-population">Low-end population (低端人口, 2017)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2 民主 Democracy: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/" class="bare">https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/</a> from <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> also shown at <a href="#tiananmen-students-sitting">Tiananmen students sitting</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>3 文明 Civility: <a href="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/WNK8eb40kU8FOyY5oNiCFwarxLM=/1200x748/media/img/photo/2014/06/tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/t21_06030443/original.jpg" class="bare">https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/WNK8eb40kU8FOyY5oNiCFwarxLM=/1200x748/media/img/photo/2014/06/tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/t21_06030443/original.jpg</a> from <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/" class="bare">https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/</a> from <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> also shown at <a href="#tiananmen-girl-strife">tiananmen-girl-strife</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>4 和谐 Harmony: <a href="https://archive.ph/MIjcT/0c972e9b131f48087bfa2ed53caee215a79e5a45" class="bare">https://archive.ph/MIjcT/0c972e9b131f48087bfa2ed53caee215a79e5a45</a> from <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/84dd7e32-cbe5-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f" class="bare">https://www.ft.com/content/84dd7e32-cbe5-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f</a> from <a href="#hong-kong-protests-2014">2014 Hong Kong protests (Umbrella movement, 雨伞运动占领区)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>5 自由 Freedom: <a href="#xinjiang-lop-county">Xinjiang Lop County</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>6 平等 Equality: <a href="#lampstand-church-demolition">Lampstand chutch demolition</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>7 公正 Justice: <a href="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0FC6/production/_96683040_0292729b-ad9f-4ea3-9d64-13c0200b74d9.jpg" class="bare">https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0FC6/production/_96683040_0292729b-ad9f-4ea3-9d64-13c0200b74d9.jpg</a> from <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40403811" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40403811</a> about <a href="#liu-xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>8 法治 Rule of law: <a href="#jingjing-chacha">Jingjing and Chacha (警警察察)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>9 爱国 Patriotism: <a href="https://twitter.com/GFWfrog/status/1409862331375423489" class="bare">https://twitter.com/GFWfrog/status/1409862331375423489</a> from <a href="#anonymous-middle-fingers">Anonymous middle fingers (2021)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>10 敬业 Dedication: <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/377446839" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/377446839</a> from <a href="#lie-flat-movement">Lie Flat movement (躺平主义)</a>. Widely shared meme, could not determine original source anything .</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>11 诚信 Integrity: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VOA-Bo_Xilai.jpg" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VOA-Bo_Xilai.jpg</a> from <a href="#bo-xilai">Bo Xilai (薄熙来, 2007-2012)</a> seems like the best bet. Someone from <a href="#panama-papers">Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016)</a>. Can’t find a photo of Deng Jiagui, he just looks corrupt. Related: <a href="#corruption">Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少)</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>12 友善 Friendship: maybe something from <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> oppression, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/anastasia-lin-miss-world-canada-falun-gong-practitioner-china-persecution" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/anastasia-lin-miss-world-canada-falun-gong-practitioner-china-persecution</a> also mentioned at <a href="#falun-gong-police-step-over-head">falun-gong-police-step-over-head</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO improve:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>法治 Rule of law</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>文明 Civility</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>公正 Justice</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>平等 Equality</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2023 Chinese students cover London’s famous Brick Lane with socialist core values graffiti <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/07/chinese-political-slogans-spark-graffiti-free-for-all-on-east-london-wall-brick-lane" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/07/chinese-political-slogans-spark-graffiti-free-for-all-on-east-london-wall-brick-lane</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Core_socialist_values_near_Jianguomen_metro_station_2021.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Core socialist values near Jianguomen metro station 2021" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 275. Core socialist values displayed on street near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianguo_Men_station">Jiaguomen metro station</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/建国门站">建国门站</a>) in Beijing on July 2021, with the most ridiculously fake ones highlighted by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/oek06g/road_decoration_in_beijing/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="core-socialist-values-collage" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Core_socialist_values.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Core socialist values" height="1000">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 276. Collage mocking each of the core socialist values by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>. Image sources given at: <a href="#core-socialist-values">Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)</a>. Composition license: CC BY-SA 4.0 2021, most individual images are only fair use however.</div>
</div>
<div id="core-socialist-values-by-1v9ex" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Core_socialist_values_by_1V9ex.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Core socialist values by 1V9ex" height="1000">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 277. Collage mocking each of the core socialist values by Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/1V9ex">1V9ex</a> (维尼十九号机.8964Ver). <a href="https://twitter.com/1V9ex/status/1517510684262617088">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO understand each image of the above:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2 Democracy: <a href="#xi-jinping-2970">Xi Jinping 2970</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>3 Civility: replay of some news about Earthquake in Japan of magnitude 7.3 on some video sharing website, possibly <a href="#bilibili">Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站, YouTube clone)</a>, with large ammounts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danmu">Danmu commentary</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/视频弹幕">弹幕</a>) superposed on the video by viewers, presumably saying that the Earthquake is a good thing. <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/522996080/answer/2398017212" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/522996080/answer/2398017212</a> on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> asks what people think about it and contains a higher resolution version of the image. Current top answer still says "it’s Japan’s fault". On the higher resolution image, we can e.g. see on top row a bunch of "好" (good)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>6 Equality</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>left half shows this image <a href="https://www.sohu.com/a/523721157_639898" class="bare">https://www.sohu.com/a/523721157_639898</a> of Chinese American skier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Gu">Eileen Gu</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/谷爱凌">谷爱凌</a>) showing a Gold medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, she might illegally hold dual citizenship</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>right half some woman who was chained and raped for years: <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/woman-chained-02022022135517.html" class="bare">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/woman-chained-02022022135517.html</a> and then there was some online censorship about her: <a href="https://archive.ph/VOKPM" class="bare">https://archive.ph/VOKPM</a>. No more specific relationship betwen them it seems.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>7 Justice: a bunch of tanks at <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>, taken from close to one of the tanks, the image can also be seen e.g. at: <a href="https://www.aboluowang.com/2016/0604/749347.html" class="bare">https://www.aboluowang.com/2016/0604/749347.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>9 Patriotism: <a href="#chinese-flag-nmsl">NMSL Chinese flag</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>10 Dedication: prisonners, possibly <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a> TODO confirm, exact image seen e.g. at: <a href="https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1516484817453568012" class="bare">https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1516484817453568012</a> by <a href="#jennifer-zeng">Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media)</a>. Added captions read: 在网上不要与人战斗他们可能在争取减刑! (Don’t fight people online (supposing <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> are people), they might be fighting for a shorter sentence). It has been used to suggest that prisonners have been forcebly uesd as <a href="#wumao">wumaos</a> in China, rather than free paid workers.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>By others:</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20240110100857if_/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDUG-GuWgAA4_af?format=jpg&name=small" loading="lazy" alt="GDUG GuWgAA4 af?format=jpg&name=small" height="800">
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<div class="title">Figure 278. Core socialist values parody by 清丝老师谈治国理政. <a href="https://x.com/woyongdehuawei/status/1744308099131871366">Source</a></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="democracy"><a class="anchor" href="#democracy"></a><a class="link" href="#democracy">26.10.1. Democracy (民主)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/民主" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/民主</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The most obviously fake of the <a href="#core-socialist-values">Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)</a> that China does not have at all.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Why democracy would be good: <a href="#richer">Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China richer? (为什么民主和言论自由能够让中国变得更加富有？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#german-high-school-coordinator-2020">Chinese student coordinator in Germany tells exchange students not to support democracy (2020, 德国学校开班会4反对民主)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="democracy-party-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#democracy-party-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#democracy-party-of-china">26.10.1.1. Democracy Party of China (中国民主党)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Party_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Party_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国民主党" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国民主党</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="rule-of-law"><a class="anchor" href="#rule-of-law"></a><a class="link" href="#rule-of-law">26.10.2. Rule of law (法治)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法治" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法治</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The commies keep saying over and over that rule of law is always observed.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Of course, some times shitty laws are passed, and we must fight those as well: <a href="#follow-the-law">Falun Gong is illegal in China, we must follow the law (法轮功在中国是非法的，我们必须遵守法律)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But many times, the commies don’t even bother setting up a bad law, they just fuck a million people and that’s it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But in reality they punish anyone who poses a political threat, even if they did nothing wrong themselves, some cases that come to mind:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a>: millions were jailed/forced to live with a spy in their homes, even though they were not terrorists themselves</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a>: what did they do wrong to other people that deserves putting them in jail? Is <a href="#flg-medication">Falun Gong believers are less likely to take necessary medication (法轮功信徒不太可能服用必要的药物)</a> enough to justify that? Are you sure that it is not a political motivation?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#the-709-crackdown">709 crackdown (2015, 中國709維權律師大抓捕事件)</a>: even lawyers who support anyone who went against the state are imprisoned. How can there be any justice when lawyers are put in jail due to their choice of clients?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06 Hao Runze, son of <a href="#hao-haidong">Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020, soccer player)</a>, lost his job because his father spoke up against the CCP. Did the CCP speak up for him, like they speak up whenever a Chinese citizen gets hurt?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably, they punish people for their general beliefs rather than specific actions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#thoughtcrime">Thoughtcrime (思想罪, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 一九八四)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#flg-thoughtcrime">Someone from movement X did something bad, therefore the movement should be banned (X运动中的某个人做了坏事，因此该运动应该被禁止)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People asking for it:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#qinghua-students-democracy-rule-of-law-2020">Qinghua students democracy rule of law 2020</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Qelbinur_Sedik_call_with_cop.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Qelbinur Sedik call with cop" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 279. On 2021-03-31, a uniformed Chinese cop called Qelbinur Sedik, who was a teacher in the <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a> who <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/confessions-of-a-xinjiang-camp-teacher/">fled China and spoke to the media what she saw</a>, to menace her through her sister, who is still in China. When he noticed that she had taken a screenshot due to a screenshot sound, he immediately took off the uniform. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56563449">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="scarfolk-whatever-you-do-dont" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Scarfolk_whatever_you_do_dont.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Scarfolk whatever you do dont" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 280. "Whatever you do, don’t" spoof poster by <a href="#scarfolk-council">Scarfolk Council</a> (2013). This applies perfectly to <a href="#stack-overflow-mods-refuse-to-clarify-if-anti-ccp-imagery-is-allowed-or-not-2021">Stack Overflow mods refuse to clarify if anti-CCP imagery is allowed or not (2021)</a> Was actually given in the answer by Journeyman Geek’s answer, and was the first time Ciro saw Scarfolk. so kudos for that. <a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-dont-campaign-and-kak-1973.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="the-709-crackdown"><a class="anchor" href="#the-709-crackdown"></a><a class="link" href="#the-709-crackdown">26.11. 709 crackdown (2015, 中國709維權律師大抓捕事件)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/709_crackdown" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/709_crackdown</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中國709維權律師大抓捕事件" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中國709維權律師大抓捕事件</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hundreds of human rights activists put into jail in quick succession. Short forms:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>709大抓捕</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>710律师劫</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>709 refers to the date when the arrests started: 09 July 2015. There were about 200 arrests.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is impossible to have <a href="#rule-of-law">Rule of law (法治)</a> when the lawyers for certain causes always go to jail.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2015</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/asia/china-crackdown-human-rights-lawyers.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/asia/china-crackdown-human-rights-lawyers.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/13/china/china-activists-arrests/" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/13/china/china-activists-arrests/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://time.com/3954935/china-arrests-lawyers-human-rights/" class="bare">https://time.com/3954935/china-arrests-lawyers-human-rights/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://program-think.blogspot.com/2015/07/weekly-share-90.html" class="bare">https://program-think.blogspot.com/2015/07/weekly-share-90.html</a> from <a href="#programthink">Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015-11-24 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOlLxL3UZL8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOlLxL3UZL8</a> "回首2015：709律师大抓捕" by <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-04 <a href="https://citizenlab.ca/2017/04/we-cant-chat-709-crackdown-discussions-blocked-on-weibo-and-wechat/" class="bare">https://citizenlab.ca/2017/04/we-cant-chat-709-crackdown-discussions-blocked-on-weibo-and-wechat/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Se also: <a href="#intolerance">Most Chinese people don’t care about the minorities (大多数中国人不关心少数民族)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/709_lawyers.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="709 lawyers" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 281. <a href="#badiucao">Baidiucao (巴丢草)</a> cartoon of about 40 of the arrested lawyers. TODO full name list. <a href="https://twitter.com/badiucao/status/884005207830544385">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/709_lawyers.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="709 lawyers" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 282. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Gan">Wu Gan</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴淦">吴淦</a>) is a human rights activist detained in 2015 around the 709 crackdown, and sentenced in 2017 for 8 years for <a href="#inciting-subversion">Inciting subversion of state power (煽动颠覆国家政权罪)</a>. In this image from 2013 he is stating a protest on the streets. By complete "accident", he had spinal injury while he was detained before trial.</div>
</div>
<div id="i-need-to-talk-to-a-human-rights-lawyer" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/I_need_to_talk_to_a_human_rights_lawyer.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="I need to talk to a human rights lawyer" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 283. "I need to talk to a human rights lawyer. Well, you’ve come to the right place." by <a href="#harry-harrison">Harry Harrison</a> (2015), presumably referring to <a href="#the-709-crackdown">709 crackdown (2015, 中國709維權律師大抓捕事件)</a>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/scmp/photos/a.10150201552699820/10153429166334820">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="scarfolk-win-your-human-rights" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Scarfolk_win_your_human_rights.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Scarfolk win your human rights" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 284. "Win your human rights" spoof poster by <a href="#scarfolk-council">Scarfolk Council</a> (2016). <a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2016/08/human-rights-lottery-advertisement-1976.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="xu-lin-709" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ixo2TyamI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ixo2TyamI</a> Secretly imprisoned human rights lawyers by <a href="#xu-lin">Xu Lin (徐琳)</a> (2017, 秘密关押的人权律师). A tribute to <a href="#the-709-crackdown">709 crackdown (2015, 中國709維權律師大抓捕事件)</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/e1ixo2TyamI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="crime-and-punishment"><a class="anchor" href="#crime-and-punishment"></a><a class="link" href="#crime-and-punishment">26.12. Crime and punishment (犯罪与惩罚)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="laogai"><a class="anchor" href="#laogai"></a><a class="link" href="#laogai">26.12.1. Laogai (劳改)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/劳动改造" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/劳动改造</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="re-education-through-labor"><a class="anchor" href="#re-education-through-labor"></a><a class="link" href="#re-education-through-labor">26.12.1.1. Re-education through labor (劳动教养)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labor" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labor</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/劳动教养" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/劳动教养</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="picking-quarrels"><a class="anchor" href="#picking-quarrels"></a><a class="link" href="#picking-quarrels">26.12.2. Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picking_quarrels_and_provoking_trouble" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picking_quarrels_and_provoking_trouble</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/寻衅滋事罪" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/寻衅滋事罪</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="inciting-subversion"><a class="anchor" href="#inciting-subversion"></a><a class="link" href="#inciting-subversion">26.12.2.1. Inciting subversion of state power (煽动颠覆国家政权罪)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciting_subversion_of_state_power" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciting_subversion_of_state_power</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/煽动颠覆国家政权罪" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/煽动颠覆国家政权罪</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also known in the West as <a href="#richer">voting</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="hurt-the-feelings-of-the-chinese-people"><a class="anchor" href="#hurt-the-feelings-of-the-chinese-people"></a><a class="link" href="#hurt-the-feelings-of-the-chinese-people">26.12.2.2. Hurt the feelings of the Chinese people (伤害中国人民的感情)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_people" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_people</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/傷害中國人民的感情" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/傷害中國人民的感情</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="politically-sensitive"><a class="anchor" href="#politically-sensitive"></a><a class="link" href="#politically-sensitive">26.12.2.3. Politically sensitive (政治敏感)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>That’s how the censors refer to stuff <a href="#censorship">censored</a> for political reasons, e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#ciro-santillis-zhihu-ban-2018-06-25">Ciro Santilli’s Zhihu ban 2018-06-25</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#cac-report-website">CAC report website (12321.cn, 12377.cn, 12339, 中央网信办举报网站)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>知乎的"政治敏感"，到底是谁的"政治敏感"呢？ (Zhihu’s "politically sensitive" is "politically sensitive" to whom?)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://jikipedia.com/definition/145472014" class="bare">https://jikipedia.com/definition/145472014</a> "政治敏感"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.hainmc.edu.cn/news/info/1018/1870.htm" class="bare">http://www.hainmc.edu.cn/news/info/1018/1870.htm</a> "习近平三招教你培养政治敏感性、预见性" (Xi Jinping’s three methods teach you to <a href="#flg-cult">cultivate</a> political sensitivity and predictability).</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This stuff could have come directly out of <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a>'s "thoughcrime" references.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the website of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Medical_University">Medical University</a>, the CCP is infiltrated everywhere.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related: <a href="#xi-jinping-thought">Xi Jinping Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想, 2017)</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Typing that on Google also suggested "People also searched for: 网络审查利弊" (What are the pros and cons of censorship?) Priceless. Bomb at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/150" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/150</a>. <a href="#dictatorship-variability">Dictatorships have greater development variability (专政具有更大的发展可变性)</a> comes to mind.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="residential-surveillance"><a class="anchor" href="#residential-surveillance"></a><a class="link" href="#residential-surveillance">26.12.2.4. Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (指定居所监视居住, RSDL)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_Surveillance_at_a_Designated_Location" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_Surveillance_at_a_Designated_Location</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/指定居所监视居住" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/指定居所监视居住</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More accurately: in prison at a secret location, and without the rights to see who you wish, not even a lawyer.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="drink-tea"><a class="anchor" href="#drink-tea"></a><a class="link" href="#drink-tea">26.12.3. Police invite to drink tea (被请喝茶)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a> <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/60504957" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/60504957</a> "被请喝茶是怎样的体验？"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a> <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/7226" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/7226</a> "请大家都来曝光下身边被请喝茶或者拘留的例子，让葱油们引以为戒，让更多的人看到土共的凶残"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="support-for-non-scientific-traditional-practices"><a class="anchor" href="#support-for-non-scientific-traditional-practices"></a><a class="link" href="#support-for-non-scientific-traditional-practices">26.13. Support for non-scientific traditional practices (支持非科学的传统做法)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is especially interesting given that one of the main propaganda reasons for banning <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a> was <a href="#flg-medication">Falun Gong believers are less likely to take necessary medication (法轮功信徒不太可能服用必要的药物)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#xu-xiaodong">Xu Xiaodong (Mad Dog, 徐晓冬, martial artist)</a> reveals support for Tai Chi</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06-03 Beijing considering censoring anti Chinese traditional medicine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/beijing-draws-up-plans-to-outlaw-criticism-of-traditional-chinese-medicine" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/beijing-draws-up-plans-to-outlaw-criticism-of-traditional-chinese-medicine</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="video-game-ban"><a class="anchor" href="#video-game-ban"></a><a class="link" href="#video-game-ban">26.14. Video game ban (电子游戏禁令, 2021)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/31/tech/china-ban-video-games-minor-intl-hnk/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/31/tech/china-ban-video-games-minor-intl-hnk/index.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/china-to-ban-kids-from-playing-online-games-for-more-than-three-hours-per-week.html" class="bare">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/china-to-ban-kids-from-playing-online-games-for-more-than-three-hours-per-week.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.dw.com/zh/中国电玩限时禁令美国家长及中国网民怎么看/a-59046586" class="bare">https://www.dw.com/zh/中国电玩限时禁令美国家长及中国网民怎么看/a-59046586</a> How american and Chinese parents see the video game restriction</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="anti-video-game-ban-tools"><a class="anchor" href="#anti-video-game-ban-tools"></a><a class="link" href="#anti-video-game-ban-tools">26.14.1. Anti video game ban tools</a></h4>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/tanenrumu/Arknights_Anti-addiction_Cheater" class="bare">https://github.com/tanenrumu/Arknights_Anti-addiction_Cheater</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/FuckAntiAddiction/BiligameAddictionNotLimited" class="bare">https://github.com/FuckAntiAddiction/BiligameAddictionNotLimited</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="central-party-school"><a class="anchor" href="#central-party-school"></a><a class="link" href="#central-party-school">26.15. Central Party School of the Communist Party of China (Central Party School, 中共中央党校, 中央党校))</a></h3>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Party_School_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Party_School_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中共中央党校" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中共中央党校</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>University to train the next dictators</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="http://www.ccps.gov.cn/" class="bare">http://www.ccps.gov.cn/</a> (Central Committee Party School).</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="chinese-companies"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-companies"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-companies">27. Chinese companies (中国公司)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="zoom"><a class="anchor" href="#zoom"></a><a class="link" href="#zoom">27.1. Zoom</a></h3>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>American company, with Chinese-born now American Citizen CEO <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan">Eric Yuan</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/袁征">袁征</a>), migrated to the US around 1997), and development teams largely China-based to reduce costs.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-12-18: China-based exec Xinjiang Jin (<a href="https://cn.nytimes.com/technology/20201221/zoom-tiananmen-square/">靳新江</a>), AKA Julian Jin, charged with sabotaging Zoom conferences, FBI issued a wanted warrant for him.</p>
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<ul>
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<p>2020-12-22 <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-zoom-violated-its-own-terms-service-access-china-s-n1252092" class="bare">https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-zoom-violated-its-own-terms-service-access-china-s-n1252092</a> summarizes a bit more details about the block</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55372493" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55372493</a> "US charges ex-Zoom employee with shutting down Tiananmen Square events"</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Zoom statement:</p>
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<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"We learned during the course of our investigation that the China-based former employee charged today violated Zoom’s policies by, among other things, attempting to circumvent certain internal access controls," it said.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It added that the employee "took actions resulting in the termination of several meetings in remembrance of Tiananmen Square and meetings involving religious and/or political activities" and "also shared or directed the sharing of a limited amount of individual user data with Chinese authorities".</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/counterintelligence/xinjiang-jin" class="bare">https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/counterintelligence/xinjiang-jin</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>(possible uncofirmed linkedin) <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-jin-953615175/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-jin-953615175/</a>: Zhejiang University, (ex?) CISCO Webex. Work start date of 1981 could be birth date to enlarge work experience, and that would reach the correct age of 39.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06-10 <a href="#zhou-fengsuo">Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)</a>'s account as blocked after a celebration of <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>, which was attended by many people from China. The account was later reinstated, Zoom said it acted on a CCP request on error, and it won’t do this for users outside of China anymore:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy/zoom-says-china-demanded-shutting-activists-accounts-over-tiananmen-event-idUSKBN23I3GP" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy/zoom-says-china-demanded-shutting-activists-accounts-over-tiananmen-event-idUSKBN23I3GP</a> "U.S. lawmakers ask Zoom to clarify China ties after it suspends accounts"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html" class="bare">https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html</a> "Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist 'to comply with local law'".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DM3ccTe70yzqCDPu9uXlCD7WmfJq-yzvKdKBH0oppc/edit" class="bare">https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DM3ccTe70yzqCDPu9uXlCD7WmfJq-yzvKdKBH0oppc/edit</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Zoom_Boris.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Zoom Boris" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 285. 2020-03-27 photo showing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson">UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson</a> using Zoom on a Cabinet meeting (a high level Government meeting) during <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a>. If you don’t properly ban risky dictatorship-linked software, it will get used at the highest levels of Government by clueless people. <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/coronairus-cabinet-talks-held-on-zoom-days-after-software-was-banned-by-ministry-of-defence-11963889">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="huawei"><a class="anchor" href="#huawei"></a><a class="link" href="#huawei">27.2. Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/华为" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/华为</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just look at the Chinese name of the company:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>华 (China)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>为 (to do something for)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>How can the West not see this?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No proof is needed. They belong to a <a href="#dictatorship">Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a>, and therefore must not be trusted. Doing so is always a risk which we should not take.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also have a look at their Wikipedia page:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ren sought to reverse engineer foreign technologies with local researchers. At a time when all of China’s telecommunications technology was imported from abroad, Ren hoped to build a domestic Chinese telecommunication company that could compete with, and ultimately replace, foreign competitors.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>During its first several years the company’s business model consisted mainly of reselling private branch exchange (PBX) switches imported from Hong Kong. Meanwhile, it was reverse-engineering imported switches and investing heavily in research and development to manufacture its own technologies. By 1990 the company had approximately 600 R&D staff and began its own independent commercialization of PBX switches targeting hotels and small enterprises.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The company’s first major breakthrough came in 1993 when it launched its C&C08 program controlled telephone switch. It was by far the most powerful switch available in China at the time. By initially deploying in small cities and rural areas and placing emphasis on service and customizability, the company gained market share and made its way into the mainstream market.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Huawei also won a key contract to build the first national telecommunications network for the People’s Liberation Army, a deal one employee described as "small in terms of our overall business, but large in terms of our relationships". In 1994, founder Ren Zhengfei had a meeting with Party general secretary Jiang Zemin, telling him that "switching equipment technology was related to national security, and that a nation that did not have its own switching equipment was like one that lacked its own military." Jiang reportedly agreed with this assessment.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Another major turning point for the company came in 1996 when the government in Beijing adopted an explicit policy of supporting domestic telecommunications manufacturers and restricting access to foreign competitors. Huawei was promoted by both the government and the military as a national champion, and established new research and development offices.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At any point the Chinese government could make a request that they cannot deny.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>List of bad things Huawei has done: <a href="https://github.com/evil-huawei/evil-huawei" class="bare">https://github.com/evil-huawei/evil-huawei</a> Mostly not political.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>List of Huawei joke:s <a href="https://github.com/HuaweiJoke/Huawei-Joke" class="bare">https://github.com/HuaweiJoke/Huawei-Joke</a> "This project is collecting jokes about Huawei company that are deleted due to censorship. You are welcome to contribute."</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some news:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-09-20 <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/huawei-s-decline-shows-why-china-will-struggle-to-dominate" class="bare">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/huawei-s-decline-shows-why-china-will-struggle-to-dominate</a> U.S. sanctions seems to have worked</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-01-13 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388</a> "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech". Related: <a href="#em_nation_type_uygur-2020">EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR (2020)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>5G 2019-2020</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>in 2020 the UK was trying hard to get kicked out of the 5 eyes in 2020 by using 5G equipment from Huawei</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06-25 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53178998" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53178998</a> "Huawei’s £1bn research centre near Cambridge approved" so despite all the 5G stuff, the UK still allows them to create a new research center in the UK…​ are they blind?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/tech/huawei-5g-uk/index.html" class="bare">https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/tech/huawei-5g-uk/index.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200129023355/https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/tech/huawei-5g-uk/index.html">archive</a>) "UK will allow Huawei to help build its 5G network despite US pressure"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-04-17 only after more than 10 thousand people died in the country during <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a> did the brits finally change their minds: <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/uk-moves-to-drop-huawei-as-5g-vendor-citing-china-coronavirus-transparency/" class="bare">https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/uk-moves-to-drop-huawei-as-5g-vendor-citing-china-coronavirus-transparency/</a> "UK moves to drop Huawei as 5G vendor, citing China coronavirus transparency"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-12 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Wanzhou">Meng Wanzhou</a> (孟晚舟), daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei (任正非) and Huawei CFO as of 2018, was arrested in Canada because the US accused her of breaking Iran sanctions</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-canadian-detainees-china-explainer/" class="bare">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-canadian-detainees-china-explainer/</a> "Why are Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor still detained in China?" in apparent retaliation, under accusation of espionage.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-09 When Meng was released, they were immediately released as well. What a coincidence!!! <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/spavor-kovrig-return-1.6189516" class="bare">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/spavor-kovrig-return-1.6189516</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-05-27 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/</a> "Canada court finds against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on double criminality; extradition trial to continue"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-11 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/29/has-huaweis-darkest-secret-just-been-exposed-by-this-new-report/#7896db9d4061" class="bare">https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/29/has-huaweis-darkest-secret-just-been-exposed-by-this-new-report/#7896db9d4061</a> "Has Huawei’s Darkest Secret Just Been Exposed By This New Surveillance Report?" Xinjiang Papers reveal the extent of Huawei’s involvement in <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/When_you_send_a_good_joke_from_your_Huawei_phone.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="When you send a good joke from your Huawei phone" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 286. When you send a good joke from your Huawei phone (你用你的华为手机发个好笑话的时候), <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> is also listening and laughing with you, girls. <a href="https://i.redd.it/nodgcqmwtcg31.jpg">Source</a>, shitty Chinese translation by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Huawei_why_does_the_whole_world_hate_me.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Huawei why does the whole world hate me" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 287. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2018-12-10 "Why does the whole world hate me" Huawei cartoon, where Huawei’s shadow shows the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle">hammer and sickle</a> to suggest that Huawei is controlled by the CCP. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/Huawei-cartoon-12102018152050.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Huawei_Statue_of_Liberty.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Huawei Statue of Liberty" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 288. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2019-03-08 showing Huawei slapping the Statue of Liberty with "The Constitution of the United States" when Huawei sued the US Government for violating the Constitution when it banned government agencies from buying Huawei equipment. This illustrates the usual dilemma where <a href="#what-should-western-countries-do-about-china">China uses Western freedom of speech as a weapon against the West itself</a>. <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/chinashuawei-03082019162541.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/China_USB_theft.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="China USB theft" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 289. Cartoon showing a huge <a href="#flag-desecration">China flag</a> branded USB sucking up Western personal and military information like a vacuum cleaner in 2019-04-29 article entitled "Britain will regret doing business with Huawei". TODO cartoon author. <a href="https://retro-blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/britain-will-regret-doing-business-with-huawei/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Huawei_5G_Trojan.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Huawei 5G Trojan" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 290. Cartoon suggesting that Huawei’s 5G is a like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse">Trojan Horse</a> being gifted to Europe. TODO: source of original non-China generic Trojan Horse background image that was edited and repurposed. <a href="https://twitter.com/DaichiWatanbe/status/1231189285325475840">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Huawei_5G_my_precious.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Huawei 5G my precious" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 291. <a href="#rebel-pepper">Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist)</a> 2019-06-22 cartoon depicting Germany, Hungary and the United Kingdom as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum">Gollum</a>s from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings">The Lord of The Rings</a> and China as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron">Sauron</a> offering a ring which reads "5G to rule them" and "Huawei" to the Gollums who are eager to obtain it. This is a reference to The Lord of the Rings backstory in which Sauron bribed and controlled the rulers of the world by giving them <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Power">rings of power</a>. Now that Ciro thinks about it, maybe this was actually Tolkien making a reference to the political situation of his time. <a href="https://twitter.com/RadioFreeAsia/status/1100504518142365698">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="bytedance"><a class="anchor" href="#bytedance"></a><a class="link" href="#bytedance">27.3. ByteDance (字节跳动, Douyin owner)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/字节跳动" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/字节跳动</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="tiktok"><a class="anchor" href="#tiktok"></a><a class="link" href="#tiktok">27.3.1. TikTok (Douyin, 抖音)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/抖音" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/抖音</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2023 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/19/tiktok-college-bans-texas-bytedance/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/19/tiktok-college-bans-texas-bytedance/</a> More universities are banning TikTok from their campus networks and devices</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-11-05 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-censor-china-critical-content-uighur-uighurs-2020-11?r=US&IR=T" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-censor-china-critical-content-uighur-uighurs-2020-11?r=US&IR=T</a> "A senior TikTok executive admitted the company used to censor content critical of China, 'specifically with regard to the Uighur situation'", related to: <a href="#xinjiang-re-education-camps">Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-07 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/23/tiktok-creator-fund-200-million-us/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/23/tiktok-creator-fund-200-million-us/</a> "TikTok unveils $200 million fund for U.S. creators": TikTok is trying to buy their stay in the West.</p>
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<li>
<p>2020-07 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/warning-apple-suddenly-catches-tiktok-secretly-spying-on-millions-of-iphone-users/#5265c8d734ef" class="bare">https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/warning-apple-suddenly-catches-tiktok-secretly-spying-on-millions-of-iphone-users/#5265c8d734ef</a> "pple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users" by reading from the clipboard</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-06 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53225720" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53225720</a> India bans TikTok after Ladakh border tensions</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-05 <a href="#liu-keqing-singer">2020-05-12 Liu Keqing (刘克清) is an opera singer who had his personal videos on TikTok (Douyin, 抖音) taken down from time to time because he looks too much like The One. China Digital Times report. One of his personal vlogs reuploaded to YouTube where he shared singing techniques and thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPFKUhJdqzk. A video of him performing professionally in a chamber concert: 2018-11-02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z98-Mqci4ag.</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-11-28 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/28/tiktok-says-sorry-to-us-teenager-blocked-after-sharing-xinjiang-videos" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/28/tiktok-says-sorry-to-us-teenager-blocked-after-sharing-xinjiang-videos</a>: "TikTok sorry for blocking teenager who disguised Xinjiang video as make-up tutorial". Subtitle: "Chinese-owned video sharing platform blocked Feroza Aziz after she posted film disguised as makeup tutorial"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-11 <a href="https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/11/25/20976964/chinese-americans-censorship-wechat-hong-kong-elections-tiktok" class="bare">https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/11/25/20976964/chinese-americans-censorship-wechat-hong-kong-elections-tiktok</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Reports:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-08 <a href="https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027" class="bare">https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027</a> photo of ByteDance top brass with CCP members in Beijing and description of their meeting. Because obviously they have strong ties with the CCP like any other Chinese company.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-03 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/fug8i1/the_chinese_tiktok_just_began_an_uninterrupted/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/fug8i1/the_chinese_tiktok_just_began_an_uninterrupted/</a> "The Chinese Tik-Tok just began an uninterrupted propaganda stream." during <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280877750245453828" class="bare">https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280877750245453828</a> "Wife trying livestreaming on Douyin. Comes over to me in the middle of a stream and puts me on camera. After about a minute, notice pops up saying that foreigners are not allowed to appear on livestreams 'without permission'."</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280881420047511552/photo/1" class="bare">https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280881420047511552/photo/1</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280882119913291776/photo/1" class="bare">https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280882119913291776/photo/1</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Douyin does not seem to have a web interface: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/269102675" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/269102675</a> "有没有抖音网页版或者抖音电脑版？"</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="toutiao"><a class="anchor" href="#toutiao"></a><a class="link" href="#toutiao">27.3.2. Toutiao (今日头条, news platform by ByteDance)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toutiao" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toutiao</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/今日头条" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/今日头条</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="baidu"><a class="anchor" href="#baidu"></a><a class="link" href="#baidu">27.4. Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The "Google of China":</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Search engine: original business and still served at the toplevel domain</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.baidu.com/" class="bare">https://www.baidu.com/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Autocomplete suggestion for "Ciro Santilli": "cirosantilli的妻子" (Ciro Santilli’s wife and Children)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Clearly and obviously censors pages with <a href="#keyword-attack">keywords</a>, e.g.:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=Ciro%20Santilli%20Stack%20Overflow">"Ciro Santilli Stack Overflow"</a> hits <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/9160762/ciro-santilli" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/9160762/ciro-santilli</a> and not <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-郝海东冠状病六四事件法轮功" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-郝海东冠状病六四事件法轮功</a> which has way greater reputation (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071610/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=Ciro%20Santilli%20Stack%20Overflow">archive</a>). For example, a much smaller account with a much more common name hits: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/763246/james-hill" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/763246/james-hill</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072446/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=james%20hill%20stack%20overflow" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072446/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=james%20hill%20stack%20overflow</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=cirosantilli%20github">"cirosantilli github"</a> does not hit <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071807/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=cirosantilli%20github">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>but there does appear to be a manual aspect to the block possibly. For example, Ciro’s top answer does hit, even though he has keywords in the page: <a href="https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies" class="bare">https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies</a> to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18875674/whats-the-difference-between-dependencies-devdependencies-and-peerdependencies" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18875674/whats-the-difference-between-dependencies-devdependencies-and-peerdependencies</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072151/https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Pages censored in China do hit outside of China at least however, e.g.: <a href="https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter" class="bare">https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter</a> first hits <a href="https://twitter.com" class="bare">https://twitter.com</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071312/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Tieba blogging</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度贴吧" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度贴吧</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://tieba.baidu.com" class="bare">https://tieba.baidu.com</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Maps</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Maps" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Maps</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度地图" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度地图</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Google Maps is not allowed to film in China for Streetview, so Baidu has its own</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Analytics</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://tongji.baidu.com/web/help/article?id=174" class="bare">https://tongji.baidu.com/web/help/article?id=174</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>百度统计代码介绍</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the <a href="#cac">Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC, 国家互联网信息办公室, 中央网信办)</a> uses their analytics as of 2020</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="baidu-baike"><a class="anchor" href="#baidu-baike"></a><a class="link" href="#baidu-baike">27.4.1. Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Baike" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Baike</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度百科" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度百科</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The leading Chinese Wikipedia clone by <a href="#baidu">Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#censorship">Censored to the brim</a> needless to say, see e.g. <a href="#baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong">Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong (百度百科审查郝海东)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Seems to not have edit history. <a href="#wayback-machine">History </a> is bad for censorship, because you never know when you might need to rewrite it ;-) See also: <a href="#nineteen-eighty-four">Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四, 1949)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also has:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>a blogging platform embedded into it called TA说, e.g.: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210413095903/https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=c9fdac1dcf27bdd1280ac9e1&lemmaId=22214113&fromLemmaModule=pcBottom" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210413095903/https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=c9fdac1dcf27bdd1280ac9e1&lemmaId=22214113&fromLemmaModule=pcBottom</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>a decent, but unarchivable, comment section: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210427075821/https://baike.baidu.com/planet/talk?lemmaId=22214113" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210427075821/https://baike.baidu.com/planet/talk?lemmaId=22214113</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="sohu"><a class="anchor" href="#sohu"></a><a class="link" href="#sohu">27.4.2. Sohu (搜狐, smaller Chinese Google)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohu</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/搜狐" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/搜狐</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Literal name translation: "search fox". The English name and domain name are not in proper pinyin, the proper pinyin is souhu.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But since there is no "so" syllable in pinyin, and the sound is correct in English, it was a good replacement.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A less successful <a href="#baidu">Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)</a>, but still considerable.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In addition to search, also has:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>blogs, e.g. <a href="https://www.sohu.com/a/270132785_100279655" class="bare">https://www.sohu.com/a/270132785_100279655</a> from <a href="#xiang-gong">Xiang Gong (香功, 中国芳香智悟气功, Qigong religion)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="alibaba"><a class="anchor" href="#alibaba"></a><a class="link" href="#alibaba">27.5. Alibaba (阿里巴巴, Chinese Amazon clone)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/阿里巴巴集团" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/阿里巴巴集团</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="jack-ma"><a class="anchor" href="#jack-ma"></a><a class="link" href="#jack-ma">27.5.1. Jack Ma (马云, Alibaba founder)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/马云" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/马云</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="jack-mas-disappearance-2021"><a class="anchor" href="#jack-mas-disappearance-2021"></a><a class="link" href="#jack-mas-disappearance-2021">27.5.1.1. Jack Ma’s disappearance (马云的失踪, 2021)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Got <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bitch%20slapped">bitchslapped</a> by <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>, 3 months disappearance:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-02-16 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210219160944/https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-blocked-jack-mas-ant-ipo-after-an-investigation-revealed-who-stood-to-gain-11613491292" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210219160944/https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-blocked-jack-mas-ant-ipo-after-an-investigation-revealed-who-stood-to-gain-11613491292</a> "China Blocked Jack Ma’s Ant IPO After Investigation Revealed Likely Beneficiaries. Well-connected Chinese power players, including some with links to political families that represent a potential challenge to President Xi". Mentioned specifically are Jiang Zhicheng</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/23/the-strange-case-of-alibabas-jack-ma-and-his-three-month-vanishing-act" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/23/the-strange-case-of-alibabas-jack-ma-and-his-three-month-vanishing-act</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jack_Ma_Winnie_the_Pooh_and_That_Rabbit_splitting_cookies.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Jack Ma Winnie the Pooh and That Rabbit splitting cookies" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 292. Cartoon of Jack Ma, <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017)</a> (representing <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>) and <a href="#that-rabbit">That Rabbit (那兔)</a> (representing the Chinese people) splitting cookies. Winnie has a huge pile, Jack has a medium pile, and That Rabbit has a tiny pile. Winnie is saying "那个资本家夺走了你的饼干！" (That capitalist stole your cookies!). The cartoon suggests that the Chinese state has a lot of money and power, extremely successful entrepreneurs have a medium power, and the common people, who are manipulated by the CCP, have basically nothing. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/lyxlf9/不_言_而_喻一_目_了_然/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="xiaomi"><a class="anchor" href="#xiaomi"></a><a class="link" href="#xiaomi">27.6. Xiaomi (小米, cell phone company)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小米集團" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小米集團</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/30/exclusive-warning-over-chinese-mobile-giant-xiaomi-recording-millions-of-peoples-private-web-and-phone-use/?sh=6cceaf311b2a" class="bare">https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/30/exclusive-warning-over-chinese-mobile-giant-xiaomi-recording-millions-of-peoples-private-web-and-phone-use/?sh=6cceaf311b2a</a> "Exclusive: Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use".</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When he looked around the Web on the device’s default Xiaomi browser, it recorded all the websites he visited, including search engine queries whether with Google or the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, and every item viewed on a news feed feature of the Xiaomi software. That tracking appeared to be happening even if he used the supposedly private “incognito” mode.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"It’s a backdoor with phone functionality," quips Gabi Cirlig about his new Xiaomi phone. He’s only half-joking.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="netease"><a class="anchor" href="#netease"></a><a class="link" href="#netease">27.7. NetEase (网易, online gaming company)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEase" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEase</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网易" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/网易</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://www.163.com/" class="bare">https://www.163.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Operates some MMORPGs in China. According to Wikipedia: "The company also owns several pig farms." That’s the most amazing thing <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> has ever heard.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tencent"><a class="anchor" href="#tencent"></a><a class="link" href="#tencent">27.8. Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/腾讯" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/腾讯</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="qq"><a class="anchor" href="#qq"></a><a class="link" href="#qq">27.8.1. QQ</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/腾讯QQ" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/腾讯QQ</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#tencent">Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a>'s chat app.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="oa-com"><a class="anchor" href="#oa-com"></a><a class="link" href="#oa-com">27.8.2. oa.com</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Tencent owns the oa.com domain since 2020 which they bought from some small early American Internet company, although they don’t announce that clearly on the main domain itself. But they have several subdomains of that being used actively.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On the original company, it stood for "Object Automation" as seen e.g. at <a href="https://archive.vn/SsvSV#selection-1123.0-1123.155" class="bare">https://archive.vn/SsvSV#selection-1123.0-1123.155</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>OA is the industry leader and pioneer in the deployment of object-based industrial automation, distributed control, and operational intelligence solutions.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://domainnamewire.com/author/kasseylee/" class="bare">https://domainnamewire.com/author/kasseylee/</a> mentions that it was sold for $609,068 in 2020, and references <a href="https://namebio.com/?s==QjN2UTN1kjM" class="bare">https://namebio.com/?s==QjN2UTN1kjM</a> which gives date, value and sale location (<a href="https://sedo.com" class="bare">https://sedo.com</a>) but not buyer and seller info. <a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2020/09/16/why-are-two-letter-domains-so-sought-after-in-china/" class="bare">https://domainnamewire.com/2020/09/16/why-are-two-letter-domains-so-sought-after-in-china/</a> says such domains are highly sought after in China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some subdomains on <a href="#archive-today">archive.today (archive.is)</a>: <a href="https://archive.vn/*.oa.com" class="bare">https://archive.vn/*.oa.com</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Subdomain selection:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022-05-16 <a href="https://isp.oa.com" class="bare">https://isp.oa.com</a> hit <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli</a> people asking about it:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://eck.ink/study/158.html" class="bare">https://eck.ink/study/158.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://machbbs.com/hostloc/297766" class="bare">http://machbbs.com/hostloc/297766</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ilns.isec.oa.com" class="bare">https://ilns.isec.oa.com</a>, which from the name is likely some kind of internal censorship/information security portal:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-08-25 <a href="http://ilnstest.isec.oa.com/" class="bare">http://ilnstest.isec.oa.com/</a> a new variant</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-07-22 4 hits one user from <a href="https://ilns.isec.oa.com" class="bare">https://ilns.isec.oa.com</a> to GitHub repository</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-06-04 4 hits from 1 user. Note that this is <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> day.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2021-05-17 <a href="https://ilns.isec.oa.com/command-manage/command-analysis/2073645" class="bare">https://ilns.isec.oa.com/command-manage/command-analysis/2073645</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-12-07 <a href="https://tapd.oa.com/markdown-style-guide/zh.html" class="bare">https://tapd.oa.com/markdown-style-guide/zh.html</a> links to: <a href="http://einverne.github.io/markdown-style-guide/zh.html" class="bare">http://einverne.github.io/markdown-style-guide/zh.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-23 <a href="http://git.code.oa.com/wegame_server/rail/blob/master/docs/web_and_web_api/web-api-specification/web-api-specification.md" class="bare">http://git.code.oa.com/wegame_server/rail/blob/master/docs/web_and_web_api/web-api-specification/web-api-specification.md</a> to /markdown-style-guide/zh.html</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-06 <a href="http://km.oa.com/articles/show/329260" class="bare">http://km.oa.com/articles/show/329260</a> to ELF hello world</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="wechat"><a class="anchor" href="#wechat"></a><a class="link" href="#wechat">27.8.3. WeChat (微信, Weixin)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/微信" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/微信</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The dominating Chinese WhatsApp clone as of 2020, with infinitely many other functionality added, notably payments.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The West should ban WeChat until one open source end to end encrypted chat app is made available in China.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="sina"><a class="anchor" href="#sina"></a><a class="link" href="#sina">27.9. Sina Corp (新浪, Weibo owner)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Corp" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Corp</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新浪" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新浪</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="weibo"><a class="anchor" href="#weibo"></a><a class="link" href="#weibo">27.9.1. Weibo (新浪微博)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/微信" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/微信</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The dominating Chinese Facebook/Twitter clone as of 2020.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"微博" (Weibo) by itself just means "microblogging" in general, but <a href="#sina">Sina Corp (新浪, Weibo owner)</a>'s is so dominant that everyone just calls it Weibo.</p>
</div>
<div id="weibo-logo" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Weibo_Sauron.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Weibo Sauron" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 293. <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> logo vs Sauron’s eye 微博标志vs索倫魔眼 by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ciro-santillis-weibo-block"><a class="anchor" href="#ciro-santillis-weibo-block"></a><a class="link" href="#ciro-santillis-weibo-block">27.9.1.1. Ciro Santilli’s Weibo block (三西猴被微博屏蔽)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Somewhere around 2021, Ciro’s Weibo was blocked: <a href="https://www.weibo.com/p/1005055601627311" class="bare">https://www.weibo.com/p/1005055601627311</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro never wrote any public posts in it, and only replied minimally to a few private messages many years before.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This clearly shows how Chinese platforms (obviously) target specific users specifically, regardless of what they did in a particular platform:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>unblocked 2021-02 <a href="https://archive.is/LUMsT" class="bare">https://archive.is/LUMsT</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>blocked 2021-06 <a href="https://archive.is/U94Me" class="bare">https://archive.is/U94Me</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The block message afte redirect is:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>该账号因被投诉违反法律法规和《微博社区公约》的相关规定，现已无法查看。</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The account is now unavailable for being complained of violating laws and regulations and the relevant provisions of the "Weibo Community Convention".</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.wakwb.com/" class="bare">https://www.wakwb.com/</a> 我爱看围脖 seems to be a Weibo mirror. TODO is it uncensored? Sample post replication: the condom post from <a href="https://www.wakwb.com/t/?containerid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%23%E6%9D%9C%E8%95%BE%E6%96%AF%E7%88%B1%E6%97%A0%E9%99%90%23&luicode=10000011&lfid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%23%E6%9D%9C%E8%95%BE%E6%96%AF%E7%88%B1%E6%97%A0%E9%99%90%23&page=2" class="bare">https://www.wakwb.com/t/?containerid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%23%E6%9D%9C%E8%95%BE%E6%96%AF%E7%88%B1%E6%97%A0%E9%99%90%23&luicode=10000011&lfid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D10%26q%3D%23%E6%9D%9C%E8%95%BE%E6%96%AF%E7%88%B1%E6%97%A0%E9%99%90%23&page=2</a> has origin at <a href="https://weibo.com/5586291457/K9Vg7ceM7?type=comment#_rnd1629010637474" class="bare">https://weibo.com/5586291457/K9Vg7ceM7?type=comment#_rnd1629010637474</a> see also <a href="#communist-bread">Communist bread (中共面包)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="bilibili"><a class="anchor" href="#bilibili"></a><a class="link" href="#bilibili">27.10. Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站, YouTube clone)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibili" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibili</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibili" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibili</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="qihoo"><a class="anchor" href="#qihoo"></a><a class="link" href="#qihoo">27.11. Qihoo 360 (奇虎360, Internet security company)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/奇虎360" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/奇虎360</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinese-censorship-companies"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-censorship-companies"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-censorship-companies">27.12. Chinese censorship companies (中国审查公司)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="dahua-technology"><a class="anchor" href="#dahua-technology"></a><a class="link" href="#dahua-technology">27.12.1. Dahua Technology (大华股份)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahua_Technology" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahua_Technology</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大华股份" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大华股份</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Facial recognition, used in <a href="#xinjiang">Xinjiang (新疆)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="em_nation_type_uygur-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#em_nation_type_uygur-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#em_nation_type_uygur-2020">27.12.1.1. EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR (2020)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/q3k/status/1322943395497680897" class="bare">https://twitter.com/q3k/status/1322943395497680897</a> highlighted a snippet of code:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre> //民族
public static class EM_NATION_TYPE extends MyStructure
{
public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 0; // 未知
public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR = 1; // 维族(新疆)
public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_OTHER = 2; // 其他
public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UNIDENTIFIED = 3; // 设备未识别
}</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>indicating that <a href="#xinjiang">Uyghurs</a> are particularly targeted for facial recognition by Dahua.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The code is present in official downloads from:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://dahuasecurity.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/soft/20200421/General_NetSDK_ChnEng_JAVA_Linux64_IS_V3.052.0000001.0.R.200407.zip" class="bare">https://dahuasecurity.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/soft/20200421/General_NetSDK_ChnEng_JAVA_Linux64_IS_V3.052.0000001.0.R.200407.zip</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/save/https://dahuasecurity.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/soft/20200421/General_NetSDK_ChnEng_JAVA_Linux64_IS_V3.052.0000001.0.R.200407.zip" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/save/https://dahuasecurity.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/soft/20200421/General_NetSDK_ChnEng_JAVA_Linux64_IS_V3.052.0000001.0.R.200407.zip</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>SHA256: f8052a5d19db090d155eae05ce5bf39177d4151ab46f7c454a1670b7b62a5d81</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>which was visible from: <a href="https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2" class="bare">https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2</a> under download name "General_NetSDK_ChnEng_JAVA_Linux64_IS_V3.052.0000001.0.R.200407" before being taken down after the reports:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>up 2020-11-03 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201103025846/https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201103025846/https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>down 2020-11-04 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201104220410/https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201104220410/https://www.dahuasecurity.com/support/downloadCenter/softwares?child=3&page=2</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The code was spotted mirrored on GitHub, likely unofficially, but it was soon taken down, archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201102065525/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaomingbo/dahua-netsdk/master/src/main/java/com/dahua/lib/NetSDKLib.java" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201102065525/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaomingbo/dahua-netsdk/master/src/main/java/com/dahua/lib/NetSDKLib.java</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> downloaded it from the official website and verified that the code in question was there.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Discussions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/jmo42m/china_makes_use_of_video_software_tailored_for/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/jmo42m/china_makes_use_of_video_software_tailored_for/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960749" class="bare">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960749</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On 2020-11-20, Dahua DMCAed <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/epps-service" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/epps-service</a> at <a href="https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-25-Dahua.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-25-Dahua.md</a> which had been forked <a href="https://github.com/gaomingbo/epps-service" class="bare">https://github.com/gaomingbo/epps-service</a> from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201102170146/https://github.com/cirosantilli/epps-service" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20201102170146/https://github.com/cirosantilli/epps-service</a> but Ciro is not sure it contains anything of particular interest, he had just forked all repos from gaomingbo. That one appeared to be just a car plate recognition sytem.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-01-13 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388</a> "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech", see also: <a href="#huawei">Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="knowlesys"><a class="anchor" href="#knowlesys"></a><a class="link" href="#knowlesys">27.12.2. Knowlesys (乐思软件)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.knowlesys.cn/" class="bare">https://www.knowlesys.cn/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.knowlesys.com/" class="bare">http://www.knowlesys.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Social_Media_as_Weapons.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Social Media as Weapons" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 294. Slide from a presentation of the Knowlesys Hong Kong social media censorship/misinformation company with words "Social Media as Weapons", "Your Enemy", leaked by the CCP_Unmasked hacker group on 2020/08/20, possible <a href="#telegram">Telegram (TG)</a> account: <a href="https://t.me/ccp_unmasked" class="bare">https://t.me/ccp_unmasked</a>. The leaks also contained data on Yunrun Big Data Service, a company based in Guangzhou, and OneSight, based in Beijing. From this hack they apparently also managed obtained passwords used by those companies to manage CCP social media, and they posted some messages about their efforst through those accounts. Western countries have also used terrorism as an excuse way to reduce privacy/start wars, but of course, things are much worse in dictatorships where there is no freedom of speech, related <a href="#evil-west">The CCP exaggerates the threat of the West to keep in power (中共夸大了西方要继续掌权的威胁)</a>. <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/dyzewz/hackers-leak-alleged-internal-files-of-chinese-social-media-monitoring-firmscv">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="zhenhua-data-leak"><a class="anchor" href="#zhenhua-data-leak"></a><a class="link" href="#zhenhua-data-leak">27.12.3. Zhenhua Data leak (深圳振华数据信息技术有限公司, 2020)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhenhua_Data_leak" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhenhua_Data_leak</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/深圳振华数据信息技术有限公司" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/深圳振华数据信息技术有限公司</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/14/zhenhua-data-full-list-leak-database-personal-details-millions-china-tech-company" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/14/zhenhua-data-full-list-leak-database-personal-details-millions-china-tech-company</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="backlinks"><a class="anchor" href="#backlinks"></a><a class="link" href="#backlinks">28. Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or to Ciro’s other online presences, due to China activity.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For Zhihu backlinks, see: <a href="#zhihu-questions-related-to-ciro-santilli">Zhihu questions related to Ciro Santilli (三西猴相关的知乎问题)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For lower profile links, see: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/wiki" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/wiki</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2025-01-14 <a href="https://x.com/Christo77309767/status/1879248319505113393" class="bare">https://x.com/Christo77309767/status/1879248319505113393</a> by user "Christopher Drake" links to the ASCII Art <a href="#tank-man">Tank Man (坦克人)</a> at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/183" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/183</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2024-12-26 <a href="https://linux.do/u/Linux.do.1/summary" class="bare">https://linux.do/u/Linux.do.1/summary</a> has username "Ciro Santilli" and a picture of Donald Trump on this Discourse-based Chinese language programming forum (<a href="https://archive.ph/l97nj">archive</a>). The instance seems to be invite only, so actual Ciro Santilli can’t create an account there unforutnately.</p>
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<p>2024-12-20 <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/KungFuKenny117/" class="bare">https://steamcommunity.com/id/KungFuKenny117/</a> has a link to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> on this amazing STEAM account (archive[<a href="https://archive.ph/wip/aPj3j" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/aPj3j</a>])</p>
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<p>2024-11-05 <a href="https://vk.com/wall720423652_487" class="bare">https://vk.com/wall720423652_487</a> user Flying Pig comments: 一个神奇的反华宣传大集合。Githjb上还有这样的工程，搞笑！ A magical collection of anti-China propaganda. There is also such a project on Githjb, funny!</p>
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<p>2024-03-25 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/1bn47e5/github_上自带大翻译的那个竟然是100的洋人那么问题来了/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/1bn47e5/github_上自带大翻译的那个竟然是100的洋人那么问题来了/</a> by user steambap, possibly the same as: <a href="https://github.com/steambap" class="bare">https://github.com/steambap</a>. Complaining about <a href="#not-chinese">Non-Chinese people should not interfere in Chinese politics (外国人不应该干预中国政治)</a></p>
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<p>2024-03-21 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/1bjvovt/无意间搜出的反华repo_作者还把老中的每条issue标题都大翻译了_墙内的请挂梯子再访问/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/1bjvovt/无意间搜出的反华repo_作者还把老中的每条issue标题都大翻译了_墙内的请挂梯子再访问/</a> "无意间搜出的反华repo 作者还把老中的每条issue标题都大翻译了 （墙内的请挂梯子再访问）" (The author of the anti-China repo I accidentally found also translated the title of every issue written by Lao Zhong (if you are in the wall, please hang up a ladder before visiting))</p>
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<p>2023-11-15 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/17vv8kh/whats_the_deal_with_these_repos_that_repeat_on/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/17vv8kh/whats_the_deal_with_these_repos_that_repeat_on/</a></p>
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<p>2023-10-30 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/comments/17jz3do/github_history_of_ccp_dictatorship/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/comments/17jz3do/github_history_of_ccp_dictatorship/</a> "Github: History of CCP Dictatorship" on the ADVChina <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a></p>
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<p>2023-08-23 <a href="https://t.me/XueXi_China/65965" class="bare">https://t.me/XueXi_China/65965</a> by <a href="#gfwfrog">GFWfrog (墙国蛙蛤蛤)</a>'s Telegram reposts anonymous submission of <a href="#github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>. Let to a bit of traffic: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1060" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1060</a></p>
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<p>建议群友去声援这个github仓库下的问答，全是粉红在骂库主 <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> 注意：一般人推荐使用小号去声援，神风特攻不要命的勇士可考虑直接实名上网，无需身份隔离，光荣就义当烈士后，我们怀念你🙏<br>
It is recommended that the group of friends go to support the Q&A under this github repository, all pink is scolding the repository owner <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> Note: Most people recommend using the trumpet to support, and kamikaze special attack can be used by brave warriors. Consider going online directly with your real name, no need for identity isolation, and we will miss you after being honored as a martyr 🙏</p>
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<p>2023-08: <a href="https://onebox.huawei.com" class="bare">https://onebox.huawei.com</a>, some <a href="#huawei">Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)</a> product to github.com.</p>
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<p>2023-06-04 (<a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a> anniversary): <a href="https://confluence.inner.youdao.com" class="bare">https://confluence.inner.youdao.com</a> to GitHub. Youdao is the <a href="#netease">NetEase (网易, online gaming company)</a> search engine.</p>
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<p>2023-04-05 received a "Government-backed attackers may be trying to steal your password" from Google on Android and gmail. Screenshot: <a href="https://cybernews.com/news/google-warns-14-000-gmail-users-government-backed-attackers-may-be-trying-to-steal-your-password/" class="bare">https://cybernews.com/news/google-warns-14-000-gmail-users-government-backed-attackers-may-be-trying-to-steal-your-password/</a> Live: <a href="https://myaccount.google.com/stateattackwarning/basic" class="bare">https://myaccount.google.com/stateattackwarning/basic</a></p>
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<p>2023-04 <a href="https://km.oa.dragonest.com" class="bare">https://km.oa.dragonest.com</a> to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-6" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-6</a>. <a href="https://global.dragonest.com/" class="bare">https://global.dragonest.com/</a> is a mobile gaming company. According to <a href="https://global.dragonest.com/Index/newsdetail/id/78.html" class="bare">https://global.dragonest.com/Index/newsdetail/id/78.html</a> <a href="#tencent">Tencent (腾讯, Tengxun, WeChat owner)</a> invested in them in 2021. <a href="#oa-com">oa.com</a> is a well known Tencent domain, and <a href="http://km.oa.com" class="bare">http://km.oa.com</a> in particular is known to exist, we’ve a had a linkback from: <a href="http://km.oa.com/articles/show/329260" class="bare">http://km.oa.com/articles/show/329260</a>, so presumably they are instances of a website that Tencent stores under several domains/severs they own.</p>
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<p>2023-03: <a href="https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/reasonator/issues/59/ciros-automation-suite-11-enzip" class="bare">https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/reasonator/issues/59/ciros-automation-suite-11-enzip</a> interesting spam. Likely autogenerated? The repository owner (not author) is has the same display name as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Manske" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Manske</a></p>
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<p>2023-03: 21 unique visits from <a href="#toutiao">Toutiao (今日头条, news platform by ByteDance)</a> nativeapp.toutiao.com to <a href="#github-com-cirosantilli-china-dictatorship">github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a>. Immediately censored no doubt.</p>
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<p>2022-12-06 comment on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/ze5wcd/github也在墙外了/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/ze5wcd/github也在墙外了/</a> has GitHub been blocked by the <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a></p>
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<p>2022-10-09 <a href="https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/threads/will-u-date-a-girl-who-lying-flat.6820106/#post-144205474" class="bare">https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/threads/will-u-date-a-girl-who-lying-flat.6820106/#post-144205474</a></p>
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<p>2022-08-01 <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/W9Wip" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/W9Wip</a> <a href="https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/87957634/this-is-it-the-culmination-of-their-grand-plan-to#p87957634" class="bare">https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/87957634/this-is-it-the-culmination-of-their-grand-plan-to#p87957634</a></p>
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<p>2022-07-20 <a href="https://support.github.com" class="bare">https://support.github.com</a> to <a href="#meant-to-be-used">Politics should not be posted in technical websites such as GitHub or Stack Overflow 不应该在技术网站例如Stack Overflow和GitHub讨论政治</a>. GitHub is on Ciro’s side.</p>
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<p>2022-05 bytedance.feishu.cn 3 people to repo <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
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<p>2022-06-03 8 links from bytedance.feishu.cn to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/cirosantilli</a> Perhaps interested in Ciro’s recent clear disclosure that he was in Cambridge in 2017? Two of them have identifiers:</p>
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<p>2022-04-29 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/comments/uepsnh/found_this_on_github_a_repository_that_seems_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ADVChina/comments/uepsnh/found_this_on_github_a_repository_that_seems_to/</a> Found this on Github, a repository that seems to be run by Chinese human rights dissidents. Lots of CCP FAQ, news, and other useful information.</p>
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<p>2022-03-14 zhttps://91ai.net/thread-983734-1-1.html from <a href="#zhao-heming">Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a></p>
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<p>2022-03-12 <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30649938" class="bare">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30649938</a> a failed Y combinator attempt. Sad. Maybe <a href="https://github.com/sturza" class="bare">https://github.com/sturza</a></p>
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<p>2022-02 <a href="https://urlsec.qq.com/check.html" class="bare">https://urlsec.qq.com/check.html</a> from <a href="#qq">QQ</a> to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli</a> "网站安全检查" (Website safety check) from <a href="https://urlsec.qq.com/check.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcirosantilli%2Fchina-dictatorship" class="bare">https://urlsec.qq.com/check.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcirosantilli%2Fchina-dictatorship</a> says "暂未发现风险" (No risks discovered at present) as of 2022-03-04, so all good.</p>
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<p>2022-01-31 <a href="https://gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/board/view/?id=aoegame&no=20186832" class="bare">https://gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/board/view/?id=aoegame&no=20186832</a> Korean forum originally about photography: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Inside" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Inside</a> Wrongly suggests that this repository is made by Chinese/Taiwanese people: <a href="#is-ciro-santilli-chinese">Is Ciro Santilli Chinese? (三西猴是中国人吗？)</a> but no patience to create an account there now</p>
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<p>2022-01-15 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220120082147/https://wirechan.org/b/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20220120082147/https://wirechan.org/b/</a> | <a href="https://archive.ph/BkjAj" class="bare">https://archive.ph/BkjAj</a> in an independent and not very popular Chan, the post basically quotes <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/288497#288497" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/288497#288497</a></p>
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<p>mood: being so autistic that you single-handedly managed to get StackOverflow blocked in China by posting <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh memes</a></p>
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<p>Ciro also has a very interesting website, with many articles arranged in a tree.</p>
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<p>Yes, go <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/ourbigbook-com">ourbigbook.com</a>, go. Then links to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/ascii-porn" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/ascii-porn</a>, which is one of the major Google hits of the website at the time, and presumably how OP learned about Ciro.</p>
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<p>Wow, that website really is something. But I like Ciro Santilli’s advice on how to learn programming.</p>
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<p>referring to: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/how-to-become-a-good-programmer" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/how-to-become-a-good-programmer</a></p>
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<p>2022-01-14 <a href="https://mg.h6ee.com" class="bare">https://mg.h6ee.com</a> to cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship redirects to a Chinese login page <a href="http://mg.h6ee.com/admin/public/login.html" class="bare">http://mg.h6ee.com/admin/public/login.html</a> with no affiliation. Suspicious stuff. Debug thingy at the bottom shows some internals, e.g. SQL query doing <code>SHOW COLUMNS FROM cmf_hook_plugin</code>.</p>
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<p>2021-12-22 <a href="https://cirosantilli-realworld-next.herokuapp.com/" class="bare">https://cirosantilli-realworld-next.herokuapp.com/</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/EVcUw" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/EVcUw</a> added two messages "这个网站也是王八操的搞得，操你妈得大傻逼。狗腿子汉奸孤儿" and "访问太频繁服务器受不了啦🏦，请使用微信搜索「沙雕APP」使用小程序体验，没有访问限制" That website has no signup verification mechanism, users can just spam it at will. Would be good to log some IPs to start with. Can’t store in a database because we are capped at 10k DB rows on the free plan.</p>
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<p>2021-12-21 <a href="https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/98165?locale=en" class="bare">https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/98165?locale=en</a> a Russian online judge: "BTW, I’m not sure if these two things are related, but HDU’s online judge system(<a href="http://acm.hdu.edu.cn" class="bare">http://acm.hdu.edu.cn</a>) was shut down in last week. The site administrator said the reason for the shutdown was that a user’s username violated Chinese law…​" to which "TwentyOneHundredOrBust" replied "this sounds like a job for ciro santilli"</p>
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<p>2021 <a href="https://hub.xn—​p8jhe.tw/search" class="bare">https://hub.xn—​p8jhe.tw/search</a> to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli</a> which redirects to <a href="https://www.library.ac.cn/ip.html?=iwikie" class="bare">https://www.library.ac.cn/ip.html?=iwikie</a> "Your IP is not allowed to visit this site. This site is only available in Mainland China." which is a mirror list as mentioned at <a href="#google-mirrors">Google mirrors (谷歌镜像)</a>. Other similar links from other times: おうか</p>
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<p>2021-11-14 <a href="https://www.chinesehongker.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=14153&extra=page%3D1&ordertype=1&mobile=2" class="bare">https://www.chinesehongker.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=14153&extra=page%3D1&ordertype=1&mobile=2</a> Appears not visible outsie of China. From <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8bAWUrdhbNYJ:https://www.chinesehongker.com/forum.php?mod%3Dviewthread%26tid%3D14153%26extra%3Dpage%253D1%26ordertype%3D1%26mobile%3D2&lr=lang_en%7Clang_zh-CN%7Clang_zh-TW&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&tbs=lr:lang_1en%7Clang_1zh-CN%7Clang_1zh-TW&strip=1&vwsrc=0">Google cache</a> (<a href="https://archive.ph/wip/Z6EGq">archive</a>). Title: 对于github上的非法项目，如何合理的消灭 Content: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli</a> 今天无意间搜到一个湾毒的github，有哪位大佬可以解决该问题吗 Just your usual <a href="#disturbs">Keyword attack profiles disturb me (关键字攻击个人资料页打扰我)</a> wumao bullshit. Edit: found viewable version at: <a href="https://www.chinesehongker.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=14153" class="bare">https://www.chinesehongker.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=14153</a> The forum claims to be part of the Honker Union hacktivist group, bring it on:</p>
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<p>2021-11-07 <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29149054" class="bare">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29149054</a> failed hacker news thread. By <a href="https://afshin.io/" class="bare">https://afshin.io/</a> Afshin Mehrabani, originally from <a href="#iran">Iran (伊朗)</a>, and then moved to Dublin.</p>
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<p>2021-11-01 <a href="https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/345613074" class="bare">https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/345613074</a> (<a href="https://archive.ph/5JRal">archive</a>). Small thread, starts talking about <a href="#r-genzedong">r/GenZedong</a>, and then someone mentions:</p>
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<p>Found this massive anti-china github page the other day, it’s huge. There did seem to be some stuff in there that seemed kind of sjw-ish a bit, can’t remember what <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a></p>
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<p>i became blind by how hard this shit glows</p>
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<p>2021-10-21 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/qcyocd/the_lengths_these_fucking_people_go_to/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/qcyocd/the_lengths_these_fucking_people_go_to/</a> from <a href="#r-genzedong">r/GenZedong</a></p>
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<p>2021-10-13 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/q7am6x/github这个仓库issue_岁静码农粉蛆暴跳如雷全被翻译成英文_效果好到爆" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/q7am6x/github这个仓库issue_岁静码农粉蛆暴跳如雷全被翻译成英文_效果好到爆</a> from <a href="#r-chonglangtv">r/chonglangTV Reddit sub</a></p>
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<p>2021-10 13 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/q7bwgc/素材库_这个repo的节目效果不错/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/q7bwgc/素材库_这个repo的节目效果不错/</a> (source material: this repo’s shows good results). Thanks.</p>
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<p>2021-08 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DoubanGoosegroup/comments/pkjyzm/有没有学理科会备份的鹅_感觉很多组都要殉我们要不要弄个github把热贴备份出来/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/DoubanGoosegroup/comments/pkjyzm/有没有学理科会备份的鹅_感觉很多组都要殉我们要不要弄个github把热贴备份出来/</a> TODO understand</p>
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<p>2021-07-15 <a href="https://weibo.com/3009149283/KoREYEIA2?type=comment#_rnd1629010985150" class="bare">https://weibo.com/3009149283/KoREYEIA2?type=comment#_rnd1629010985150</a> on <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> #反华 挂一个垃圾仓库 cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (#anti-china Found a trash repository.) Does not understand the CCP != China: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-hate-china">Does Ciro Santilli hate China? (三西猴讨厌中国吗？)</a>. Perhaps this is what triggered <a href="#ciro-santillis-weibo-block">Ciro Santilli’s Weibo block (三西猴被微博屏蔽)</a>.</p>
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<p>2021-08-13 <a href="https://www.kdocs.cn/" class="bare">https://www.kdocs.cn/</a> to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli</a>. That’s a Google Docs clone it seems. Used by the <a href="#chengdu">Chengdu (成都市)</a> government. Chinese name: 金山文档 (golden mountain documents). Also had 50 unique cloners on 11 and 12th. Is it <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a> time at last??</p>
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<p>2021-07-22 <a href="http://se.warning.360.cn/warn/" class="bare">http://se.warning.360.cn/warn/</a> to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/</a> after adding keywords to page header. This is from <a href="#qihoo">Qihoo 360 (奇虎360, Internet security company)</a>, a security/spyware company.</p>
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<p>2021-07 <a href="http://https—​github—​com—​e3919.proxy.xianning.gov.cn/topics/chinese-communist-party" class="bare">http://https—​github—​com—​e3919.proxy.xianning.gov.cn/topics/chinese-communist-party</a>, presumably viewing <a href="https://github.com/topics/chinese-communist-party" class="bare">https://github.com/topics/chinese-communist-party</a>. Saw it <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5qHGJxZncvUJ:https—​github—​com—​e3919.proxy.xianning.gov.cn/topics/chinese-communist-party+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&lr=lang_en%7Clang_zh-CN%7Clang_zh-TW&client=ubuntu">on Google cache</a>, semi viewable at <a href="https://archive.ph/wip/2qVIX" class="bare">https://archive.ph/wip/2qVIX</a>, but not rendering very well</p>
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<p>In 2022-06, we’ve received a report of <a href="https://github—​com.proxy.guilin.gov.cn/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github—​com.proxy.guilin.gov.cn/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> also working: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/pull/835" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/pull/835</a>. It appears that those links are actually publicly visible in China then.</p>
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<p>2021-05-07 <a href="https://twitter.com/dingyi/status/1390861129191071754" class="bare">https://twitter.com/dingyi/status/1390861129191071754</a> (<a href="https://archive.ph/fS1TF">archive</a>) link to github.com/china-dictatorship commenting "Github 竟然还有这种项目。。。" (I’m surprised that there’s still this kind of project on GitHub). Account had 150k followers at the time. What do they do to have so many followers? As of 2021-05-14, three days later after Ciro replied on 2021-05-11, the account had been made protected: <a href="https://archive.ph/davkj" class="bare">https://archive.ph/davkj</a> This is the <a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a>, self-<a href="#censorship">censor</a> or perish. It was later un-protected. <a href="https://newsletter.dex.group/about/" class="bare">https://newsletter.dex.group/about/</a> says their DEX is a sort of online magazine. GitHub profile: <a href="https://github.com/dingyi" class="bare">https://github.com/dingyi</a></p>
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<p>2021-04-16 <a href="https://manti.netease.com/" class="bare">https://manti.netease.com/</a> from <a href="#netease">NetEase (网易, online gaming company)</a> to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship</a> can’t find any information on it.</p>
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<p>2021-03-08 <a href="https://us3124.scholar.eu.org" class="bare">https://us3124.scholar.eu.org</a> to GitHub repo. Redirects to: <a href="https://www.library.ac.cn/ip.html?f=us3124" class="bare">https://www.library.ac.cn/ip.html?f=us3124</a> which is a 403 "Your IP is not allowed to visit this site.
This site is only available in Mainland China." The about of the blog leads to another domain: <a href="https://www.virtual.hk/author/ircli" class="bare">https://www.virtual.hk/author/ircli</a> but both seem to be mirrors. The website is a Wordpress which contain images of certain plants under a microscope, and "ircli" is the author’s username.</p>
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<p>2021-02-21 and 2020-02-22: <a href="https://developer.aliyun.com/" class="bare">https://developer.aliyun.com/</a> to <a href="https://cirosantilli.com" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com</a> and <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship</a> The china-dictatorship landing pages had tracking queries leaked: <code>?spm=.14275010.0.0.60be9dc4PsRmA</code> and <code>?spm=a2c6h.14275010.0.0.60be9dc4vwIZTP</code>. The source domain is visible publicly and entitled 开发者社区 (Developer community) for Aliyun. Who knows, maybe Jack Ma’s people are starting a full out revolt after he was put in jail! :) These tracking queries are added to every single one of their links, including outlinks, as can be seen at: <a href="https://developer.aliyun.com/article/616542" class="bare">https://developer.aliyun.com/article/616542</a> for example. Edit: noticed <a href="https://developer.aliyun.com/mirror/npm/package/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://developer.aliyun.com/mirror/npm/package/china-dictatorship</a> was removed, so that was it.</p>
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<p>2021-02-18 <a href="https://cms.securimate.com" class="bare">https://cms.securimate.com</a> securimate.com now redirects to <a href="https://steeleglobal.com" class="bare">https://steeleglobal.com</a> "Your employees and business partners are confronted with ethical decisions every day that impact your company. To create a culture of integrity, you need to empower people to make the right choices. Steele partners with the world’s largest, most respected companies to deliver compliance products and services that help organizations embrace a culture of compliance while protecting their brand." Here we go. Securimate is a Texas-based acquisition apparently: <a href="https://www.planetcompliance.com/securimate/" class="bare">https://www.planetcompliance.com/securimate/</a> Googling the company for China leads mostly to honorable anti-corruption and export compliance activity e.g. <a href="https://steeleglobal.com/managing-third-party-vendors-china/" class="bare">https://steeleglobal.com/managing-third-party-vendors-china/</a>, nothing to do with brand protection of course, who would support a dictatorship to help their brand, right?</p>
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<p>2020-09-09 <a href="https://www.xataka.com/servicios/github-inesperado-ultimo-reducto-libertad-expresion-gran-firewall-que-pone-jaque-intereses-china" class="bare">https://www.xataka.com/servicios/github-inesperado-ultimo-reducto-libertad-expresion-gran-firewall-que-pone-jaque-intereses-china</a> "Github, el inesperado último reducto de libertad de expresión ante el 'Gran Firewall' pone en jaque los intereses de China", Spanish for "Github, the unexpected last stronghold of freedom of expression before the 'Great Firewall' puts the interests of China in check" basically talking about <a href="#cute-cat-theory-of-digital-activism">Cute cat theory of digital activism (可爱猫理论)</a>. Links to <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/chenmei-caiwei-ziyou" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/chenmei-caiwei-ziyou</a> under link text "Terminus2049" which is a bit misleading, could be a link mistake, led to 15 unique clicks. Contacted author at: <a href="https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1307717620863467522" class="bare">https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1307717620863467522</a></p>
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<p>2020-08-29 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/iipjov/github有哪些反共项目/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/iipjov/github有哪些反共项目/</a> (Which anti-communist projects are there on GitHub?) <a href="#github-repositories-with-censored-information">GitHub repositories with censored information (政治敏感的GitHub库)</a> of course! User spuspended when thread was found, so couldn’t message them.</p>
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<p>2020-08-22: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ief27w/place_bets_on_how_long_this_repository_will_last/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ief27w/place_bets_on_how_long_this_repository_will_last/</a> "Place bets on how long this repository will last. (Oh btw china now has its own git system)" about <a href="#gitee">Gitee</a></p>
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<p>2020-05-23: traffic reached 3k views on that day, compared to a normal 150, but the number of individual users is the same as always. The accessed pages were only meta repo pages like "Issues", "Wiki", "Stargazers" so either of:</p>
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<p>2020-05-09: <a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/perfect_kiss/36513.html" class="bare">http://lj.rossia.org/users/perfect_kiss/36513.html</a> Google translated of about in that website: "LJ.Rossia.org (LJR) is a nonprofit project created to support freedom of speech, develop civil society and promote free exchange of views."</p>
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<p>2020-04-21: 4 hits from <a href="https://raidforums.com/" class="bare">https://raidforums.com/</a> but can’t locate it, maybe coming from their very fast temporary chat wall</p>
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<p>2019-10-31: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6595454363743981568/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6595454363743981568/</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191101094814/https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6595454363743981568/">archive</a>) "Good rundown of all the major news from China you don’t see. Notice how you don’t see anything about the Hong Kong protests anymore?"</p>
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<p>2019-10-12: <a href="https://hacpai.com/article/1570686552645" class="bare">https://hacpai.com/article/1570686552645</a> Login required, cowards. Post title: "更新 GitHub 官方 Repo 的人，竟然是个反华分子". Manual page dump after my replies with links to this FAQ: <a href="https://ia801505.us.archive.org/27/items/cirosantilli/hacpai_1570686552645.html" class="bare">https://ia801505.us.archive.org/27/items/cirosantilli/hacpai_1570686552645.html</a> OP then deleted my comments because they don’t speak English "HacPai 是个文明的社区，不会发生辱骂的现象，你有你的观点，我们有我们的观点。但抱歉，我们的水平有限，没有阅读英文的能力，还请发送有效回复，否则只能折叠处理". It is some developper website: <a href="https://hacpai.com/article/1440573175609" class="bare">https://hacpai.com/article/1440573175609</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190811205230/https://hacpai.com/article/1440573175609">archive</a>) linked to <a href="https://github.com/b3log/solo" class="bare">https://github.com/b3log/solo</a>. OP then made an useless post here: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/70" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/70</a> As of 2019-10-12, I can’t login there anymore, either because the website is shitty, or I was blocked. GitHub login just fails silently, cannot reset password. If blocked, cowards. This led me to update: <a href="#reply-policy">Ciro Santilli’s reply policy (三西猴的回答政策)</a> with the canned reply.</p>
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<p>2019-09-13 <a href="https://twitter.com/sang_what/status/1172692888766959619" class="bare">https://twitter.com/sang_what/status/1172692888766959619</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/taPpH">archive</a>) <a href="https://t.co/qag5ekL12F" class="bare">https://t.co/qag5ekL12F</a> link:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts-github-going-china-kevin-xu/</p>
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<p>2019-06: <a href="https://gking.harvard.edu/" class="bare">https://gking.harvard.edu/</a> interesting. OK, likely due to: <a href="https://gking.harvard.edu/category/research-interests/applications/information-control-by-authoritarian-governments" class="bare">https://gking.harvard.edu/category/research-interests/applications/information-control-by-authoritarian-governments</a> but no direct links found though.</p>
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<p>2019-05: someone used the FAQ to answer a question: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bt1mth/if_i_disappear_chinese_students_make_farewell/eou5a5q/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bt1mth/if_i_disappear_chinese_students_make_farewell/eou5a5q/</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190527072431/https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bt1mth/if_i_disappear_chinese_students_make_farewell/eou5a5q/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190527072431/https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bt1mth/if_i_disappear_chinese_students_make_farewell/eou5a5q/</a> "'If I disappear': Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns over labor activism"</p>
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<p>2019-04-10: <a href="https://twitter.com/jnzst/status/1115824398961913857" class="bare">https://twitter.com/jnzst/status/1115824398961913857</a> gGTYgFulPg</p>
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<p>2019-01-10: <a href="https://twitter.com/ninoseki/statuses/1083512317952704512" class="bare">https://twitter.com/ninoseki/statuses/1083512317952704512</a> | <a href="https://archive.is/vCwep" class="bare">https://archive.is/vCwep</a> 1300 followers.</p>
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<p>2018-08: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ2/comments/93klir/moron_tries_to_dismantle_chinese_government_by" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/CCJ2/comments/93klir/moron_tries_to_dismantle_chinese_government_by</a> | <a href="https://archive.is/HtYng" class="bare">https://archive.is/HtYng</a> "moron tries to dismantle chinese government by putting a few moon runes on some websites" Peak of 100 unique visitors/day from the base rate of 5</p>
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<p>led to: <a href="https://lihkg.com/thread/762440/page/1" class="bare">https://lihkg.com/thread/762440/page/1</a> <a href="#lihkg">LIHKG (連登, Hong Kong Reddit clone)</a> <a href="https://archive.is/7REOi" class="bare">https://archive.is/7REOi</a> "佢個個人home page好多5毛留言, 唔知會唔會搞到block堆stackoverflow"</p>
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<p>2018-07: <a href="http://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1531480621/l50" class="bare">http://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1531480621/l50</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180815081351/http://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1531480621/l50" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20180815081351/http://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1531480621/l50</a> "No more Xi Jinping"</p>
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<p>2018-06: <a href="https://medarc.org/pac.txt" class="bare">https://medarc.org/pac.txt</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180712094944/http://medarc.org/pac.txt" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20180712094944/http://medarc.org/pac.txt</a> puts cirosantilli.com in a blacklist containing the likes of asianpiss.com and clearwisdom.net. Awesome. Then I grepped the main one <a href="https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist" class="bare">https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist</a> with <code>while true; do git checkout HEAD~; if ! base64 -d gfwlist.txt | grep -q cirosan; then break; fi; done</code> and found that I was added in 24a6f6f29e24d1d7eb27946bf51d7a072ddb3e6d Tue Apr 24 2018. That is input data for <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autoproxy/" class="bare">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autoproxy/</a> which turns on a proxy only for certain websites. Therefore that is a definitive list of interesting stuff. I wonder how it is curated.</p>
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<p>2018-05: a few hits from <a href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net" class="bare">https://chinadigitaltimes.net</a> from <a href="#china-digital-times">China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)</a> but Google cannot find any links</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=425684" class="bare">https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=425684</a> Archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190701085047/https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=425684" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190701085047/https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=425684</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180520210006/http://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=425684&pid=3954113&page=1&extra=" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20180520210006/http://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=425684&pid=3954113&page=1&extra=</a></p>
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<p>2018-04-13: traffic peak, but no linkbacks. Many new Chinese followers, but few new stars on this repo, maybe they are afraid to star. I also blocked a user from on GitHub due to impolite post. Also possibly linked to me posting a link to the FAQ more clearly on my home page recently: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/commit/f31d1651c0e7fef587e5910ff2dc1e2aba9a5763" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/commit/f31d1651c0e7fef587e5910ff2dc1e2aba9a5763</a></p>
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<p>Someone subscribed me to a hundred GovDelivery mailing lists. This bullshit is also mentioned at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:GovLoop" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:GovLoop</a>. This is the URL you can use to subscribe someone to dozens and dozens of emails by clicking checkboxes: <a href="https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USEERE/subscriber/new" class="bare">https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USEERE/subscriber/new</a> without email verification, those idiots. I have to say, this was a good attack. I just mark everything from them as spam nowadays, and only get a few every other month.</p>
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<p>2018-03-11: got a large traffic peak (60 vs 10 average), but no linkbacks to match. Likely source: parcerier pinged me at: <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562812_288497" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562812_288497</a> and I revamped the and FAQ replied with <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562840_320914" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562840_320914</a> Someone also made: <a href="https://archive.is/jcZCA" class="bare">https://archive.is/jcZCA</a> which points to: <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562810_267723" class="bare">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china/267723#comment562810_267723</a> . This issue was opened that day as well: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/12" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/12</a></p>
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<p>2018-01: <a href="https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=cs_etds" class="bare">https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=cs_etds</a> this site appears on the reference of a PhD thesis paper haha, links to complete-gfw-rulebook-for-wikipedia-v3.0.pdf.</p>
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<p>2017-05: <a href="https://t.co/AosRq06akz" class="bare">https://t.co/AosRq06akz</a> TODO where from. "Measuring Decentralization of Chinese Censorship in Three Industry Segments" by Jeffrey Knockel. Now at Citizenlab: <a href="https://www.cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/" class="bare">https://www.cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/</a></p>
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<p>2015-09-03: (deleted) <a href="http://www.weibo.com/2014703917/Cyc1gFt7A" class="bare">http://www.weibo.com/2014703917/Cyc1gFt7A</a> on <a href="#weibo">Weibo (新浪微博)</a> This is the user: <a href="http://www.weibo.com/2014703917" class="bare">http://www.weibo.com/2014703917</a> There have also been accesses from <a href="http://weibo.cn/sinaurl" class="bare">http://weibo.cn/sinaurl</a>, but I don’t know what that means.</p>
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<p>2015-08-03: 21 visitor Facebook peak, can’t find the source</p>
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<p>2015-06-20: (deleted) <a href="https://www.plurk.com/p/l1jjn4" class="bare">https://www.plurk.com/p/l1jjn4</a> Archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150918110032/https://www.plurk.com/p/l1jjn4" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20150918110032/https://www.plurk.com/p/l1jjn4</a> "這阿豆阿的名字XDD" by <a href="https://www.plurk.com/m/u/cyuanXD" class="bare">https://www.plurk.com/m/u/cyuanXD</a></p>
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<p>2015-05-30: <a href="#zhou-fengsuo">Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)</a> linked to <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s stack overflow account!!!</p>
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<p>admin.github.com hits listed at: <a href="#github-report">How to report a user on GitHub (GitHub上怎么举报用户？)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>LinkedIn profile hits listed at: <a href="#linkedin">LinkedIn (领英)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="sogou-com-traffic"><a class="anchor" href="#sogou-com-traffic"></a><a class="link" href="#sogou-com-traffic">28.1. sogou.com traffic</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Until 2021-11, the GitHub repository <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/graphs/traffic" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/graphs/traffic</a> was getting quite a lot of traffic (500 unique hits over 14 days) from the Sogou search engine:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://m.sogou.com" class="bare">https://m.sogou.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://wap.sogou.com" class="bare">https://wap.sogou.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://sogou.com" class="bare">https://sogou.com</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Someone seems to have noticed this after <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/q7am6x/github这个仓库issue_岁静码农粉蛆暴跳如雷全被翻译成英文_效果好到爆" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/comments/q7am6x/github这个仓库issue_岁静码农粉蛆暴跳如雷全被翻译成英文_效果好到爆</a> from <a href="#r-chonglangtv">r/chonglangTV Reddit sub</a> after which they finally blocked the repo. With such measures from Chinese search engines making their engines shit, it is no wonder that Chines people are forced to use GitHub search, see also: <a href="#zhao-heming">Zhao Heming (召赫名)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="v2ex"><a class="anchor" href="#v2ex"></a><a class="link" href="#v2ex">28.2. V2EX (semi-censored forum)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/V2EX" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/V2EX</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://v2ex.com/" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Although this website appears to have some degree of freedom of speech, as of 2020, if you post something that is "unwelcome" an unclear definition or unwelcome, your IP gets immediately blocked and trying to even access the site redirects to a "403 Forbidden nginx" page.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is therefore impossible to have any political talk on that website, and they should not be trusted.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This happened when Ciro tried to reply to <a href="https://v2ex.com/t/378274" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/t/378274</a> around 2020-07-23 with:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>他放弃了https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408 | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170602054631/https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408/%E8%AF%B7%E5%B0%81%E6%8E%89ciro-santilli-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%85%B1%E4%BA%A7%E5%85%9A%E4%B8%87%E5%B2%81" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20170602054631/https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408/%E8%AF%B7%E5%B0%81%E6%8E%89ciro-santilli-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%85%B1%E4%BA%A7%E5%85%9A%E4%B8%87%E5%B2%81</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>参看我的china repository fb6c69cfec0d4e9008730c0c1a9c42c2d851e678#stack-overflow-anti-dissident-users</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and it doesn’t seem like there’s anything super sensitive in that comment.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They then tell you to contact them if you want to be restored:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>请不要发布在V2EX不被欢迎的内容，<a href="mailto:如果你觉得这是规则误判请邮件联系hello@v2ex.com">如果你觉得这是规则误判请邮件联系hello@v2ex.com</a></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but Ciro did that and there was no reply.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Later on Ciro noticed that his account was giving 400:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200511191411/https://v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20200511191411/https://v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and it had not been deleted, as he was unable to recreate an account with that username. Therefore it must be blocked.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro created cirosantilli3 in November 2023, let’s see how long it lasts. You need to wait 90 days months before being able to view sensitive posts. OMG, that website is pointless!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The forum is largely programmer dominated.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It had an <a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a> in 2016, but lost it in 2019 to move servers back to USA, which is extremely shady. <a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/v2ex.com">Blocked in China as of 2020-06</a> according to <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-07-27 <a href="https://v2ex.com/t/378274" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/t/378274</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200723082356/https://v2ex.com/t/378274">archive</a>) "stackoverflow 上的较量。。" <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200723082356/https://v2ex.com/t/378274" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/web/20200723082356/https://v2ex.com/t/378274</a> talks about <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408" class="bare">https://stackoverflow.com/users/815408</a> which is mentioned at <a href="#stack-overflow-anti-dissident-users">Stack Overflow anti-dissident users (Stack Overflow 反异见用户)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015-12-23: <a href="https://v2ex.com/t/245507" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/t/245507</a> (<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/9f7b07e915c4638d45a1b4922ba95c61e2ef87dc/webpages/v2ex-2015-12.html">Chromium CTRL-S save</a>) "搜 StackOverflow，无意间发现了这个，重点在那个评论" by <a href="https://v2ex.com/member/happypy1" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/member/happypy1</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://v2ex.com/t/214015" class="bare">http://v2ex.com/t/214015</a> TODO restricted without mobile phone confirmation, while most other threads still work. So they must have some kind of restricted posts.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015-04-10: <a href="https://v2ex.com/t/182766" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/t/182766</a> (cannot archive, login requires CAPTCHA, <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/9f7b07e915c4638d45a1b4922ba95c61e2ef87dc/webpages/v2ex-2015-04.html">Chromium CTRL-S save</a>) "Stack Overflow 上看到一个丧心病狂的程序员" by <a href="https://v2ex.com/member/cloudhunter" class="bare">https://v2ex.com/member/cloudhunter</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When Ciro later checked the above threads on 2020-12-20, he noticed that all of them had been made restricted to logged in members only, while previously only one of them had been.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>V2EX’s creator is 刘昕 (Liu Xin, alias "Livid"):</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Livid" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Livid</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/19577697" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/19577697</a> Livid（刘昕）是谁？ (Who is Livid (Liu Xin)?) on <a href="#zhihu">Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="pincong"><a class="anchor" href="#pincong"></a><a class="link" href="#pincong">28.3. Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/品葱" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/品葱</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://pincong.rocks/" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Uses a virtual currency system (游戏币): <a href="https://pincong.rocks/currency/rule/" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/currency/rule/</a> Posting articles costs 20 points, and doing stuff like replying gives you a few points.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#backlinks">Backlinks to this page (连接到这个网页的网页)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022-11-08: <a href="https://h.pincong.rocks/2083192" class="bare">https://h.pincong.rocks/2083192</a> !!!一个秘密渠道!!! A secret channel. Apparently by the same person from: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/910" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/910</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-10-30: (comment) <a href="https://www.pincong.rocks/question/id-10294__sort_key-agree_count__sort-ASC" class="bare">https://www.pincong.rocks/question/id-10294__sort_key-agree_count__sort-ASC</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191101091242/https://www.pincong.rocks/question/id-10294__sort_key-agree_count__sort-ASC">archive</a>) "怎么让大陆把 Github 墙了？" How to get GitHub blocked by the Firewall? OP apparently really wants to block it? If yes, <a href="#so-block-cost">LOL</a>. Trigerred by some 2019-10 <a href="#notepad">Notepad++</a> activity.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-04-09: <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/3383" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/3383</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190413063930/https://pincong.rocks/question/3383" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190413063930/https://pincong.rocks/question/3383</a> "【小众问题】为何 Stack Overflow 2019 开发者调查报告中，来自中国的开发者最为积极乐观？" Why are developers from China the most optimistic and optimistic in the Stack Overflow 2019 developer survey report?". Mentions Ciro Santilli’s <a href="#stack-overflow">Stack Overflow</a> in passing</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-05: <a href="https://community.riskiq.com/search/pincong.rocks" class="bare">https://community.riskiq.com/search/pincong.rocks</a> Pingong people deciding if they should ban Ciro Santilli? :-) commented there once: <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/3383" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/3383</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190810213122/https://pincong.rocks/question/3383">archive</a>) This also suggests that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiskIQ" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiskIQ</a> helps censorship in China</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s account: <a href="https://pincong.rocks/people/cirosantilli" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/people/cirosantilli</a> TODO lost password, created a new one cirosantilli2.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This website might not censor stuff, e.g.: people are using <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017)</a> avatars: <a href="https://www.pincong.rocks/people/bushiwumao" class="bare">https://www.pincong.rocks/people/bushiwumao</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200418194038/https://www.pincong.rocks/people/bushiwumao">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO is it blocked by <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a> or not? <a href="#greatfire">GreatFire (自由微博)</a> just hangs forever on it, e.g.:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/test?url=https%3A//pincong.rocks" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/test?url=https%3A//pincong.rocks</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.greatfire.org/test?url=https%3A//pincong.rocks/question/6601" class="bare">https://zh.greatfire.org/test?url=https%3A//pincong.rocks/question/6601</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#github">GitHub</a> mirror of selected threads: <a href="https://github.com/Project-Gutenberg/Pincong" class="bare">https://github.com/Project-Gutenberg/Pincong</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="mohu"><a class="anchor" href="#mohu"></a><a class="link" href="#mohu">28.3.1. Mohu (膜乎)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.mohu.rocks" class="bare">https://www.mohu.rocks</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website openly anti-CCP, e.g. the signup page has <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> jokes. Very similar appearance to <a href="#pincong">Pincong (品葱, uncensored forum)</a>, likely same engine. <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/24489" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/24489</a> asks what is their relationship "请问一下品葱和膜乎之间是什么关系？"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Backlinks to this page:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-06-03 <a href="https://www.mohu.rocks/article/2227" class="bare">https://www.mohu.rocks/article/2227</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200606065812/https://www.mohu.rocks/article/2227">archive</a>) "专门开一个帖子，以后会把从各处搜刮来的六四学潮的视频、历史、文章之类放在这" (I’m creating this post to collect all the videos, history, articles, etc. that can be found anywhere about the <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square protests</a>)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Then one of the replies by "习羊羊与灰战狼" was "<a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship</a> "提供一个很全的链接，几乎可以算是反共手册。里面的4.7是谈六四的" (Here is one very complete link, it could almost be considered an anti-CCP manual. Section 4.7 of that page is about Tiananmen.) Ciro liked the sound of that very much :-) TODO this also appears on something related to <a href="#terminus2049">Terminus2049 (端点星计划, 2049bbs)</a>: <a href="https://2047.name/e/76182458" class="bare">https://2047.name/e/76182458</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="esu-wiki"><a class="anchor" href="#esu-wiki"></a><a class="link" href="#esu-wiki">28.4. Esu Wiki (惡俗維基, politically incorrect wiki)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/惡俗維基" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/惡俗維基</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Anti-<a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a>, doxxing friendly wiki.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://esu.dog/" class="bare">https://esu.dog/</a> is the mirror working as of March 2021.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://y2wam5fshij3arfjuxirusomu73b2joql524zpre3dhvxmlqw4srcuad.onion/" class="bare">http://y2wam5fshij3arfjuxirusomu73b2joql524zpre3dhvxmlqw4srcuad.onion/</a> is a Tor Hidden service version of it working as of March 2021. It is linked to from: ttps://esu.dog/恶俗维基:透明度报告[].</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>At some point they forbade discussion of politics there, likely due to some prosecution case, and officially forked into <a href="#zhina-wiki">Zhina Wiki (支纳维基, politically incorrect wiki)</a>, where politics is encouraged, presumably under better opsec.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="zhina-wiki"><a class="anchor" href="#zhina-wiki"></a><a class="link" href="#zhina-wiki">28.4.1. Zhina Wiki (支纳维基, politically incorrect wiki)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Apparently addresses were:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://zhina.wiki/" class="bare">http://zhina.wiki/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://zhina.red/" class="bare">http://zhina.red/</a> this appears to be the one that lasted longer</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but both down as of March 2021.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>支纳 (zhina) is likely just another variant of: <a href="#shina">Shina (zhina, 支那)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dissidents, you have to learn to use Tor Onion Services!!! Doxing, even of evil people, is still normally taken down on the West, so there is no other choice!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#wayback-machine">Wayback Machine (web.archive.org, 网站时光机)</a> has excluded both of the websites for some reason:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190805183459/https://zhina.red/index.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190805183459/https://zhina.red/index.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190903104616/https://www.zhina.wiki/首页" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190903104616/https://www.zhina.wiki/首页</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but <a href="#archive-today">archive.today (archive.is)</a> hasn’t:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://archive.is/Z8RM9" class="bare">https://archive.is/Z8RM9</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://archive.is/znasL" class="bare">https://archive.is/znasL</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="anti-dictatorship-songs"><a class="anchor" href="#anti-dictatorship-songs"></a><a class="link" href="#anti-dictatorship-songs">29. Anti-dictatorship songs (反对独裁的首歌)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not necessarily in Chinese or about China specifically.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For Tiananmen songs, see: <a href="#tiananmen-songs">Tiananmen Square Protests songs (六四事件歌曲)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Brazil had a <a href="#military-dictatorship-in-brazil">dictatorship from 1964 to 1985</a>, and some amazing songs were made in Portuguese in that era. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>, who is Brazilian, just cannot stop thinking about some of them in relation to China, notably: <a href="#apesar-de-voce">Apesar de você</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="do-you-hear-the-people-sing"><a class="anchor" href="#do-you-hear-the-people-sing"></a><a class="link" href="#do-you-hear-the-people-sing">29.1. Do you hear the people sing (Les Miserables musical, 1980, 問誰未發聲)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Hear_the_People_Sing%3F" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Hear_the_People_Sing%3F</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/À_la_volonté_du_peuple" class="bare">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/À_la_volonté_du_peuple</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Hear_the_People_Sing%3F" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Hear_the_People_Sing%3F</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Cantonese version used in <a href="#hong-kong-anti-extradition-bill-protests-2019">Hong Kong</a>: <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/問誰未發聲" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/問誰未發聲</a>, literally "ask who has not spoken".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A <a href="#github">GitHub</a> reupload with <a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a> background images: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/507" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/507</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other instances:
* <a href="https://twitter.com/bys8r7kv57/status/1598298393566380032" class="bare">https://twitter.com/bys8r7kv57/status/1598298393566380032</a> during <a href="#white-paper">2022 COVID-19 protests in China (白纸运动, 白纸革命, White paper protests)</a> in Sichuan</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojoC-Kbzpo8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojoC-Kbzpo8</a> English version taken from a scene of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Misérables_(2012_film)">Les Misérables (2012)</a> film.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ojoC-Kbzpo8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxDKhH1iU8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxDKhH1iU8</a> Original French version, overlayed on top of scenes from the miniseries <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo,_ennemi_d%27État">"Victor Hugo, ennemi d’État 2018"</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dAxDKhH1iU8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It3Ny7IY7jA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It3Ny7IY7jA</a> Thousands sing 問誰未發聲 in 26th June 2019 in Hong Kong as a protest song.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/It3Ny7IY7jA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="music"><a class="anchor" href="#music"></a><a class="link" href="#music">30. Chinese Music (中国音乐)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="fart-song-ban-of-2015"><a class="anchor" href="#fart-song-ban-of-2015"></a><a class="link" href="#fart-song-ban-of-2015">30.1. Fart song ban of 2015</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/11/china-bans-fart-and-119-other-immoral-songs-with-severe-punishment-threat" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/11/china-bans-fart-and-119-other-immoral-songs-with-severe-punishment-threat</a></p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8gIvYC8DlQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8gIvYC8DlQ</a> Fart (放屁) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Chen-yue">A-Yue</a>. It sometimes feels like he takes himself seriously, which just makes things even more hilarious.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/v8gIvYC8DlQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinese-traditional-music"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-traditional-music"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-traditional-music">30.2. Chinese Traditional Music (中国传统器乐音乐)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This section is moving to: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/chinese-traditional-music" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/chinese-traditional-music</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Much like <a href="#restaurants">real Chinese food</a>, your mind will be blown.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The best approach is to start with the largest multi-artist anthologies available to get a general overview of what is there.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then, you can start Googling by instrument: <a href="#chinese-traditional-musical-instrument">Chinese traditional musical instrument (中国传统音乐乐器)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Quality indicators:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>bad:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Western instruments or modern digital effects</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>on YouTube: "relax" videos with boring generic music.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They usually have some cute landscape scenes or overly produced good looking women as the thumbnail.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good video covers will show the musicians with their instruments, or Chinese traditional painting.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>good: single instrument solo. There are some good multi-instrument and songs as well though, but harder to find.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Due to the language and political barrier, Chinese traditional music distribution is unfortunately atrocious, so learn what an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recording_Code">ISRC</a> is and don’t use BitTorrent which the Chinese call "BT".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you find album cover pictures on Google images, the ISRC should be somewhere on the back.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other good lists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-Chinese-classical-instrumental-album" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-Chinese-classical-instrumental-album</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="chinese-traditional-musical-instrument"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-traditional-musical-instrument"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-traditional-musical-instrument">30.2.1. Chinese traditional musical instrument (中国传统音乐乐器)</a></h4>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="the-ten-ancient-famous-songs"><a class="anchor" href="#the-ten-ancient-famous-songs"></a><a class="link" href="#the-ten-ancient-famous-songs">30.2.2. The ten ancient famous songs (中国古典十大名曲)</a></h4>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="music-free"><a class="anchor" href="#music-free"></a><a class="link" href="#music-free">30.3. Free music (免费音乐)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Here are the few best I’ve seen. Not enough to replace the non-free, but pretty good.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZOZrP1P_V5J2P3ogZNpya0BAuPEgyuE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZOZrP1P_V5J2P3ogZNpya0BAuPEgyuE</a> my "Chinese Traditional Music YouTube playlist with all good music videos I found on YouTube. This will give you an initial idea.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Notable longer videos</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ZKN-H7at4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ZKN-H7at4</a> 42 minute live Guqin presentation by Chen Leiji published by "Asia Society" on Jan 23, 2018, recorded in New York, January 20, 2018.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Channels</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCltmf0pqjXyLtNsF2vek_wQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCltmf0pqjXyLtNsF2vek_wQ</a> 自得琴社 Zi De Guqin Studio. Amazing production.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/yukinachang/videos" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/user/yukinachang/videos</a> "SoundofChina Guzheng" channel with a lot of guzheng content!</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Good YouTube lists</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc0CzuA35y8&list=PLXPo1Bj1TYy73e8s99pyKfFD7iHqwigfN" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc0CzuA35y8&list=PLXPo1Bj1TYy73e8s99pyKfFD7iHqwigfN</a> "Chinese" by "Ungern Sternberg"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/" class="bare">https://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/</a> several loose tracks for direct download. Not sure if legal, but has been up forever. The following sections are pretty good:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/html/traditional.html" class="bare">https://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/html/traditional.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/html/anthology.html#Dream" class="bare">https://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/html/anthology.html#Dream</a> music from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber_(1987_TV_series)link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber_(1987_TV_series)">"Dream of the Red Chamber" 1987 TV series</a>. Amazing!!! See also: <a href="#television-series">Chinese television series (中国电视剧)</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="music-not-free"><a class="anchor" href="#music-not-free"></a><a class="link" href="#music-not-free">30.4. Non-free music</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="master-of-chinese-traditional-music"><a class="anchor" href="#master-of-chinese-traditional-music"></a><a class="link" href="#master-of-chinese-traditional-music">30.4.1. Master of Chinese Traditional Music (中国民族音乐大师系列)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>20-CD anthology.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>ISRC of CD 1: CN-E01-04-450-00 / A.J6</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Amazon link of CD 1: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QZSWQS" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QZSWQS</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190817223837/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QZSWQS">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Publisher: <a href="#china-record-corporation">China Record Corporation (中国唱片总公司)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese information: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190816092018/http://www.gyhj.org/read/179301/1/1" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190816092018/http://www.gyhj.org/read/179301/1/1</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>English information with Google Translate: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190816090447/https://1337x.unblockninja.info/torrent/1254538/Master-of-Chinese-Traditional-Music-Complete-Series-20-CDs-ABEE/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190816090447/https://1337x.unblockninja.info/torrent/1254538/Master-of-Chinese-Traditional-Music-Complete-Series-20-CDs-ABEE/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>English song names properly copied from images: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190816092313/http://muzz.pro/chinese_instrumental_traditional_music_master_of_chinese_traditional_music_20_albums_2005_mp3_tracks_320_kbps-1625006.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190816092313/http://muzz.pro/chinese_instrumental_traditional_music_master_of_chinese_traditional_music_20_albums_2005_mp3_tracks_320_kbps-1625006.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A search on Amazon leads many of their albums in loose form: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=master+of+chinese+traditional+music&i=digital-music" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/s?k=master+of+chinese+traditional+music&i=digital-music</a> and you can patch together most of them by looking at the following two cover art styles:</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO golden cover vs gray cover: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QZUFQI" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QZUFQI</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190816082640/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QZUFQI">archive</a>), TODO find the precise list.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="masters-of-chinese-traditional-music-solo-appreciation"><a class="anchor" href="#masters-of-chinese-traditional-music-solo-appreciation"></a><a class="link" href="#masters-of-chinese-traditional-music-solo-appreciation">30.4.2. Masters of Chinese Traditional Music Solo Appreciation (中国民乐大师纯独奏鉴赏)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>14-CD anthology.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>ISRC: CN-A50-06-389-00 / A.J6 (seems to be for the whole anthology)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese information: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190817072026/http://keai99.com/thread-435767-1-1.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190817072026/http://keai99.com/thread-435767-1-1.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese name: 中国民乐大师纯独奏鉴赏</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Publisher: Chinese Musicians' Association | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国音乐家协会" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国音乐家协会</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="chinese-ancient-music"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-ancient-music"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-ancient-music">30.4.3. Chinese Ancient Music 中国古乐</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>ISRC of CD 1: CN-F13-03-435-00 / A.J6</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Publisher: <a href="#china-record-corporation">China Record Corporation (中国唱片总公司)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Amazon link of CD 1: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Zhong-Guo-Gu-Chinese-Primitive/dp/B000S996JO" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/Zhong-Guo-Gu-Chinese-Primitive/dp/B000S996JO</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190817224121/http://www.amazon.com/Zhong-Guo-Gu-Chinese-Primitive/dp/B000S996JO">archive</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>English tracklist and front covers: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190817221426/https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1298954" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190817221426/https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1298954</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="not-free-todo-evaluate"><a class="anchor" href="#not-free-todo-evaluate"></a><a class="link" href="#not-free-todo-evaluate">30.4.4. Not-free TODO evaluate</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Treasury Of Chinese Musical Instruments <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190817225846/https://muzz.pro/chinese_traditional_folk_treasury_of_chinese_musical_instruments_4_cd_s_2005_mp3_tracks_320_kbps-1624801.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20190817225846/https://muzz.pro/chinese_traditional_folk_treasury_of_chinese_musical_instruments_4_cd_s_2005_mp3_tracks_320_kbps-1624801.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="music-publishers"><a class="anchor" href="#music-publishers"></a><a class="link" href="#music-publishers">30.5. Music publishers</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="china-record-corporation"><a class="anchor" href="#china-record-corporation"></a><a class="link" href="#china-record-corporation">30.5.1. China Record Corporation (中国唱片总公司)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Main page: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/china-record-corporation" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/china-record-corporation</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="chinese-festivals"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-festivals"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-festivals">31. Chinese festivals (中国节日)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="dragon-boat-festival"><a class="anchor" href="#dragon-boat-festival"></a><a class="link" href="#dragon-boat-festival">31.1. Dragon Boat Festival (端午节, Double Fifth Festival, 重五节)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/端午节" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/端午节</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The third most important festival in China, after the Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Celebrates <a href="#qu-yuan">Qu Yuan (屈原, 340-278 BC)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="chinese-history"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-history"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-history">32. Chinese history (中国历史)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="post-qing-dynasty"><a class="anchor" href="#post-qing-dynasty"></a><a class="link" href="#post-qing-dynasty">32.1. Post Qing Dynasty (1912-)</a></h3>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kKmIqeYT4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kKmIqeYT4</a> The Explosions (and Collapse) of China by hoser (2022) Long story short: the situation is very risky, and could blow up due to several reasons. Mentions <a href="#overlook-human-rights-for-profit">As long as China is developing economically, it is fine to violate the human rights of a few million people (只要经济好，我不在乎人权)</a> many times.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WmId2ZP3h0c?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="chinese-communist-revolution"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-communist-revolution"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-communist-revolution">32.1.1. Chinese Communist Revolution (1921-1949)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="may-fourth-movement"><a class="anchor" href="#may-fourth-movement"></a><a class="link" href="#may-fourth-movement">32.1.1.1. May Fourth Movement (五四运动, 1919)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/五四运动" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/五四运动</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Student demonstrations at Tiananmen, therefore ironically similar to <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>. Many of the leaders of the <a href="#ccp">Chinese "Communist" Party (CCP, 中国共产党, 1949-, Cult of Mao/Xi, 毛习邪教, 10.000 year Reich)</a> came from that movement.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In the West, the date is Eclipsed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day">Star Wars Day</a> however!</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Tiananmen_1919_May_Fourth_vs_1989.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Tiananmen 1919 May Fourth vs 1989" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 295. Side-by-side comparison of Tianamen during the <a href="#may-fourth-movement">May Fourth Movement (五四运动, 1919)</a> vs Tiananmen during <a href="#tiananmen">Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)</a>. Sources: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_protestors_march_against_the_Treaty_of_Versailles_(May_4,_1919).jpg">1919</a>, [1989]</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="chinese-civil-war"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-civil-war"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-civil-war">32.1.1.2. Chinese Civil War (国共内战, 1945-1949)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/国共内战" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/国共内战</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="qing-dynasty"><a class="anchor" href="#qing-dynasty"></a><a class="link" href="#qing-dynasty">32.2. Qing Dynasty (清朝, 大清, 1636-1912)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/清朝" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/清朝</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Through his <a href="#wife">wife</a>, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> has an (incredibly weak) claim to the <a href="#throne">Qing dynasty throne</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="ming-dynasty"><a class="anchor" href="#ming-dynasty"></a><a class="link" href="#ming-dynasty">32.3. Ming Dynasty (明朝, 1368-1644)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/明朝" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/明朝</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="song-dynasty"><a class="anchor" href="#song-dynasty"></a><a class="link" href="#song-dynasty">32.4. Song Dynasty (宋朝, 960-1279)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/宋朝" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/宋朝</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="spring-and-autumn-period"><a class="anchor" href="#spring-and-autumn-period"></a><a class="link" href="#spring-and-autumn-period">32.5. Spring and Autumn period (春秋时代, 771-476 BC)</a></h3>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="warring-states-period"><a class="anchor" href="#warring-states-period"></a><a class="link" href="#warring-states-period">32.6. Warring States period (战国时期, 475-221 BC)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_period" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_period</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/战国时期" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/战国时期</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="the-best-chinese-food"><a class="anchor" href="#the-best-chinese-food"></a><a class="link" href="#the-best-chinese-food">33. The best Chinese food (中国最好的食物)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Everything under: <a href="#the-best-chinese-supermarket-food-products">The best Chinese supermarket food products (中国超市食物)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then dishes:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>水煮牛肉 shui zhu niu rou, lit. "beef cooked in water" (and a ton of chillies)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>水煮鱼 shui zhu yu, lit. lit. "fish cooked in water" (and also a ton of chillies)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/水煮鱼" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/水煮鱼</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>回锅肉 hui guo rou, lit. "meat that goes back to the pan", because you first cook it, then stir fry</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/回锅肉" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/回锅肉</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice-cooked_pork" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice-cooked_pork</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>梅菜扣肉 mei cai kou rou, lit. "steamed pork with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigan_cai">Meigan cai</a>"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/扣肉" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/扣肉</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>jian bing guo zi</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>口水鸡 kou shui ji, lit. Mouth-watering chicken</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/口水雞" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/口水雞</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Tier 2, also amazing, just not as mind blowing:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>鍋包肉 guo bao rou, lit. "meat wrapped in the pan"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/锅包肉" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/锅包肉</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_and_sour#Guo_bao_rou" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_and_sour#Guo_bao_rou</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>夫妻肺片 fu qi fei pian, lit. "husband and wife lung slices". But don’t worry, there’s no actual lung in it, but .</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/夫妻肺片" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/夫妻肺片</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqi_feipian" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqi_feipian</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#daikon-pork-rib-soup">Daikon pork rib soup (排骨萝卜汤)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>麻辣香鍋 ma la xiang guo，lit. "spicy and tongue numbing fragrant pan"</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_xiang_guo" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_xiang_guo</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/麻辣香鍋" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/麻辣香鍋</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are also many amazing pasta dishes, although many are not so clearly named, and quality variability is also very large.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="eight-cuisines-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#eight-cuisines-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#eight-cuisines-of-china">33.1. Eight Cuisines of China (八大菜系)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_regional_cuisine#Eight_Great_Traditions" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_regional_cuisine#Eight_Great_Traditions</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中國菜系#四大菜系之說" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中國菜系#四大菜系之說</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Basically:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>one for every province around Shanghai, those names that <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> can never remember which one is which:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fujian</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Jiangsu</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Anhui</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Zhejiang</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>and then some more distinct ones:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Hunan</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Sichuan</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Cantonese</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Shandong</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but these 8 are of course not all inclusive at all, e.g. some notable ones even Ciro knows about include: Beijing, Guizhou and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_Chinese_cuisine">Northeastern</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="the-best-chinese-supermarket-food-products"><a class="anchor" href="#the-best-chinese-supermarket-food-products"></a><a class="link" href="#the-best-chinese-supermarket-food-products">34. The best Chinese supermarket food products (中国超市食物)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For more daily needs, when you don’t want to spend more money and time at a restaurant, here are a few nice things you can get from your local Chinese supermarket and quickly make something good to eat.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ChinaToday_com/status/992236462841020416/photo/1" class="bare">https://twitter.com/ChinaToday_com/status/992236462841020416/photo/1</a> huge dabaicai statue (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa_cabbage">napa cabbage</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="dumplings"><a class="anchor" href="#dumplings"></a><a class="link" href="#dumplings">34.1. Dumplings (饺子, jiao3 zi)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/饺子" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/饺子</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A staple food of North-east China.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can buy them frozen on bags with about 20 for about 4 dollars.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just boil 10-15 for 10 minutes and you have a decent ready-made meal!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The perfect cooking technique includes:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>at first, before they float, stir often with chopsticks so that they won’t stick to the hot bottom of the pan, which will cause the peel to break</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>don’t ever ever ever overcook. Cook the minimum possible so that it is not raw. This also means taking the jiaozi out of the hot water as soon as they are done.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>after the dumplings rise to the surface after a few minutes, let it boil, and then put some cold water on top of the hot water. Repeat this two, three or four times until they are fully cooked. This helps the jiazi keep a strong peel.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The best way to eat them is to pour some vinegar and ready-to-eat spicy preparations like <a href="#laoganma">Lao Gan Ma crispy chilly oil 老干妈 (lao3 gan1 ma1)</a> or Ciro’s favorite, <a href="#fansaoguang">Fansaoguang (饭扫光)</a> in the bowl, and then dip them one by one.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can also drink the soup, or for cold days, actually eat the jiaozi with their soup. Ciro likes to add soy sauce and more of the above mentioned spices.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Can also be made by hand if you have the patience. <a href="#ciro-santilli-s-mother-in-law">Ciro Santilli’s mother-in-law (三西猴的岳母)</a>, being from the North East, can make them very skillfuly. Ciro’s favorite flavour is Shrimp + Egg + <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tuberosum">Chives</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/韭菜">韭菜</a>). Shrimps can be bought frozen for cheap, don’t cut them up too much!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> could basically eat those every 3-4 days and not get tired.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Jiaozi.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Jiaozi" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 296. Fresh Asia Brand (香源) product line "hand crafted water dumplings" (手工水餃) is a good brand to buy if you can get it. <a href="https://www.orientalmart.co.uk/fresh-asia-brand-dumplings-pork-and-chinese-leaf-">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQkXA1xglU8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQkXA1xglU8</a> How to Cook Frozen Dumplings (Boil) by "Yongle Kitchen" shows the cool water pouring process.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YQkXA1xglU8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="buns"><a class="anchor" href="#buns"></a><a class="link" href="#buns">34.2. Chinese buns 包子 (bao1 zi)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baozi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baozi</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/包子" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/包子</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can buy them frozen on bags with about 4 for about 4 dollars.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The best way to heat them up by far is to steam.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you don’t have a steaming pot, you can also put them on a bowl inside a regular pot with some water at the bottom, and close the lid.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#xi-jinping-memes">習包子</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="sunflower-seeds"><a class="anchor" href="#sunflower-seeds"></a><a class="link" href="#sunflower-seeds">34.3. Sunflower seeds (瓜子, gua1 zi)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guazi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guazi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/瓜子" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/瓜子</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They are roasted and prepared with some flavoring, often green tea.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They are different from most Western ones you can find, because they tend harde and smooth, and the seeds are not open.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is good because it makes you feel the flavour that was added to the skin as you break them open.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You have to learn how to open them with your front teeth.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Once you do that, you start eating them nonstop like a machine until the bag is empty.</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zh0TiEd63k" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zh0TiEd63k</a> Chinese dude eating sunflower seeds for 9 hours non-stop. That’s a good brand to get BTW: <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/洽洽食品">Chacha Food (洽洽食品)</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4Zh0TiEd63k?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Sunflower_seeds_guazi.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Sunflower seeds guazi" height="500">
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<div class="title">Figure 297. <a href="https://www.chinesefoodwiki.org/Qiaqia">Qiaqia</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/洽洽食品">洽洽</a>) sunflower seeds. TODO flavor name? The red one is the "default" flavor, and likely the best. The name of the brand is likely onomatopoeic with the sound of eating sunflower seeds. Partial transcription: "洽洽香瓜子 百煮如未香" Photo by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>, CC BY-SA 4.0 2021.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="broad-beans"><a class="anchor" href="#broad-beans"></a><a class="link" href="#broad-beans">34.4. Dried broad bean snack (干蚕豆, gan1 can2 dou4)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_faba" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_faba</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蚕豆" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蚕豆</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name of broad bean in Chinese is interesting: it literally means "silkworm bean", because the shape of the bean looks a bit like that of a silkworm cocoon.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Six_Fortune_broad_bean.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Six Fortune broad bean" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 298. <a href="https://sixfortune.com/en/">Six Fortune (六福)</a> is a good brand of <a href="#broad-beans">Dried broad bean snack (干蚕豆, gan1 can2 dou4)</a> to buy. Also they are from <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a>. <a href="https://www.tradewindsorientalshop.co.uk/acatalog/Six-Fortune-Prepared-Broad-Bean---170g.html">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="laoganma"><a class="anchor" href="#laoganma"></a><a class="link" href="#laoganma">34.5. Lao Gan Ma crispy chilly oil 老干妈 (lao3 gan1 ma1)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_Gan_Ma" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_Gan_Ma</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/老干妈" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/老干妈</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can basically add it to any stir fried dish ever if it is too bland.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The one with peanuts or black beans is also good.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just stay away from the Chicken flavoured one. <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eww">Eww</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Laoganma.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Laoganma" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 299. You can even buy Laoganma on Amazon! Photo by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>, CC BY-SA 4.0 2021.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkTQTS2RSCU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkTQTS2RSCU</a> "What is Lao Gan Ma, and can you make it at home?" by "Chinese Cooking Demystified" published on Nov 19, 2019. Explains how it comes from Guizhou province cuisine (neighbours Sichuan).</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nkTQTS2RSCU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="fansaoguang"><a class="anchor" href="#fansaoguang"></a><a class="link" href="#fansaoguang">34.6. Fansaoguang (饭扫光)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is the best thing to eat with <a href="#dumplings">Dumplings (饺子, jiao3 zi)</a> ever!!! Oily, spicy and sour.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Flavour review:
* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern</a> | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteridium_aquilinum" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteridium_aquilinum</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蕨菜" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蕨菜</a> this was the best one. Got a bit worse circa 2020
* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enokitake">Enokitake</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/金針菇">金针菇</a>) one. Others are a bit boring.
* "Preserved pickled mustard" (香辣酸菜): 2021: a bit meh. Made of Mustart <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suan_cai">suan cai</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Fan_sao_guang.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Fan sao guang" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 300. Photo of the Fansaoguang Fried <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enokitake">Enokitake</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/金針菇">金針菇</a>) flavor. This is one of the best flavours. Another really good one was Wild brake pickles (野蕨菜), but it became less good in 2020 for some reason, that was one of the <a href="#covid">major disasters</a> of that year. Photo by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>, CC BY-SA 4.0 2021.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="hot-pot"><a class="anchor" href="#hot-pot"></a><a class="link" href="#hot-pot">34.7. Hot pot 火锅 (huo3 guo1)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pot" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pot</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You just have to buy:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>a hot pot base soup</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>various kinds of frozen fish/meat balls</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>thin sliced frozen beef/lamb meat sold specifically for hot pot</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>leafy vegetables like Chinese cabbage or fresh Chinese mushrooms</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>you can also add some dry stuff like dried mushrooms or dry tofu products</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>sauces to put into a bowl and dip the cooked things in before putting them into your mouth. Could be either dedicated hot pot sauces, but sesame paste, soy sauce, vinegar and <a href="#laoganma">Lao Gan Ma crispy chilly oil 老干妈 (lao3 gan1 ma1)</a> will already be good enough</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Put the electric rice cooker or a regular pot with a portable electric heater on the dining table.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Boil the water with the soup, start with the harder to cook meaty things, and eat/add more as they become ready!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Great fun to do in winter with family and friends!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There are also dedicated hot pot restaurants, but <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is not a fun, since it feels much better to do it in the privacy of your home.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>YouTube explains it pretty well, no need for their fancy ying yang pans though, a rice cooker will do just fine:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQZcPyn-cDU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQZcPyn-cDU</a> ingredient choice</p>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UQZcPyn-cDU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqv9hNoiQEs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqv9hNoiQEs</a> shows the actual eating</p>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Fqv9hNoiQEs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="congee"><a class="anchor" href="#congee"></a><a class="link" href="#congee">34.8. Congee (粥, zhou1)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congee#China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congee#China</a> | <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/粥" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/粥</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A thick rice/cereal/bean porridge. Amazing for breakfast.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can buy them as dry air tight uncooked cereal/bean mixtures, and there are different types.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can also buy the ingredients separately of course, but it requires more effort.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you get the air-tight bag, you can also buy some extra missing ingredients to taste, notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube">jujubes</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/枣">枣</a>).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then you just boil them in a rice cooker for a few hours.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also possible to buy them ready-to-eat in cans, but those are nowhere near as good.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One particular type which is very good is: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laba_congee">Laba congee</a> (eight treasure congee, 八宝粥).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then, to eat it, you will want to add salty side dishes, all of which can be bought from the Chinese supermarket, since the congee itself is just mildly sweet and not salty at all:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>cooked <a href="#salted-duck-egg">Salted duck egg (咸鸭蛋)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Eight_treasture_congee.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Eight treasture congee" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 301. The HONOR brand (康樂, full name: Honor Products, 康樂產品) Eight treasure congee (八寶粥) is a good brand to buy if you can find it. <a href="https://www.hiyou.co/product/honor-eight-treasure-porridge/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Fermented_bean_curd_furu.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Fermented bean curd furu" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 302. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermented_bean_curd">fermented bean curd</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/腐乳">腐乳, fu3 ru3</a>) is a good thing to put on <a href="#congee">Congee (粥, zhou1)</a>. Wangzhihe (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/王致和">王致和</a>) is a good brand, <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> prefers the dark red ones instead of the white ones. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wangzhihe-Fermented-Traditional-Bean-DragonMall/dp/B00786YL72">Sample Amazon link</a>. Photo by <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>, CC BY-SA 4.0 2021.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIxbJxNRpX0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIxbJxNRpX0</a> Video showing how to make eight treasure congee from scratch by "Asian garden 2 table" published on Feb 2, 2020.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DIxbJxNRpX0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="salted-duck-egg"><a class="anchor" href="#salted-duck-egg"></a><a class="link" href="#salted-duck-egg">34.8.1. Salted duck egg (咸鸭蛋)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_duck_egg" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_duck_egg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/鹹鴨蛋" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/鹹鴨蛋</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="tea-egg"><a class="anchor" href="#tea-egg"></a><a class="link" href="#tea-egg">34.8.1.1. Tea egg (咸鸭蛋)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_egg" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_egg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/茶葉蛋" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/茶葉蛋</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is good!</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="lamian"><a class="anchor" href="#lamian"></a><a class="link" href="#lamian">34.9. Lamian (拉面)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamian" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamian</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/拉面" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/拉面</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Silk road stuff of course.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="daikon"><a class="anchor" href="#daikon"></a><a class="link" href="#daikon">34.10. Daikon (白萝卜, big long Chinese white radish)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/白蘿蔔" class="bare">https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/白蘿蔔</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ahh, one of those things that got the Japanese name in the West, so unfair.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In Japanese it is (大根, da2 gen1, lit. "big root"), you can still see the sound similarity from Mandarin.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also crazy how there’s no Mandarin Chinese wiki page for it.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="daikon-pork-rib-soup"><a class="anchor" href="#daikon-pork-rib-soup"></a><a class="link" href="#daikon-pork-rib-soup">34.10.1. Daikon pork rib soup (排骨萝卜汤)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/1001847/" class="bare">https://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/1001847/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s favorite home made dishes!!! Don’t forget to dip the meat into soy sauce at the table, since the soup is not too salty on its own.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="winter-melon"><a class="anchor" href="#winter-melon"></a><a class="link" href="#winter-melon">34.10.2. Winter melon (冬瓜)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_gourd" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_gourd</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/冬瓜" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/冬瓜</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of those unfortunate translations from the past. Wax, does it come out of someone’s ear? Gourd, WTF is a gourd?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Basically a softer <a href="#daikon">Daikon (白萝卜, big long Chinese white radish)</a>, there’s likely some better comparison to a Western vegetable, but Ciro can’t think of one right now.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good ways to eat include:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#daikon-pork-rib-soup">Daikon pork rib soup (排骨萝卜汤)</a> but with winter melon instead of daikon</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetheart_cake">sweetheart cake filling</a>. Yup, it can also be used in sweets!</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="restaurants"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants">35. The best Chinese restaurants outside of China (中国以外最好的中国饭店)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Google Maps list: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/zBkmPaU1wLP2" class="bare">https://goo.gl/maps/zBkmPaU1wLP2</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="resturants--introduction"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--introduction"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--introduction">35.1. Introduction</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most Western people do not know what real Chinese food is.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When you first see it, your mind is completely blown: there it was, one of the best foods in the world by far, and you had never tried it: only a completely watered down boring version that you get when you are not guided by Chinese people.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We must put a stop to this madness.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>After you see the light and eat the real version of a dish, then when you go to a not-real restaurant you start to think: "hey, I know what dish this was supposed to be. But it could be so much more awesome!" This makes non-real restaurants twice as bad. So beware, there is no turning back.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe we should institute a Foodie Dictatorship (美食家独裁) that prevents such fake restaurants from hiding real Chinese food???</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="resturants--rating-system"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--rating-system"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--rating-system">35.1.1. Rating system</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>tier 1: amazing, worth a trip</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>tier 2: worth it, but not exciting, so not worth a trip just for it</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>tier 3: I wouldn’t go there</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="resturants--how-to-find-good-restaurants"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--how-to-find-good-restaurants"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--how-to-find-good-restaurants">35.1.2. How to find good restaurants</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>go with Chinese food-loving friends to Chinese restaurants</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>read up Chinese restaurant recommendation websites written in Chinese by Chinese for Chinese</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>read up small shady Chinese food recommendation websites by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinophile">sinophiles like Ciro Santilli</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Big Western sites like Google Maps reviews and TripAdvisor are completely and utterly useless for this and will recommend places in which poor non-Chinese which don’t know what real Chinese food is like.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you go out on the street by yourself, you are very unlikely to find really good Chinese food since the enormous majority of Chinese restaurants are not real Chinese food.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If there are only Chinese clients inside the restaurant, it is a good indicator that it might be good. If all clients people are Western, run away.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Western people don’t know what good Chinese food is, so if you are not in a place that has a very large Chinese population, real Chinese food restaurants cannot survive, and won’t exist. This usually implies being in large cities of rich countries.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Beware of restaurant owner changes: if the menu looks a bit different, it has likely happened.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is <a href="#politically-incorrect">politically incorrect</a>, but here goes: if the place looks as if it is maintained by more recent immigrants, and looks more modern, it is more likely to be good. There are however some venerable older uncles who have cooked well their entire lives and are still fine. Things tend to water down across generations, and there was likely not enough real Chinese clientele for them to serve real Chinese food and survive in the past.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If a restaurant advertises itself as "Asian", it is less likely to be very good.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Conversely, restaurants that specialize in a single region of China are more likely to be good (bot not certainly good).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is already difficult to do the cuisine for one part of China well, imagine for multiple countries.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just beware of "Sichuan" restaurants: their cuisine is so well known even in the West that I’ve seen many not so good restaurants that describe themselves like that, even if the owners are from another region. But there are many good ones which really are from there as well.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="resturants--similar-lists"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--similar-lists"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--similar-lists">35.1.3. Similar lists</a></h4>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="resturants--how-to-order"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--how-to-order"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--how-to-order">35.1.4. How to order</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For all restaurants, ask the waiter for suggestions. Tell him that you:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>want the most typical dishes, not what the foreign locals eat, but what the Chinese eat</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>can eat spicy food, way more than any foreign local person can.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The spice level you generally want is "zhong1 la4" (medium spicy)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you can’t eat spicy, either learn or stop reading now and accept the fact that you will never eat good Chinese food.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>if the restaurant is from some region, ask for dishes from the region, and which are different from other regions.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I was once <a href="#dumplings">Dumplings (饺子, jiao3 zi)</a> (super popular dish everywhere in China which I buy frozen and eat every 3 days) in a Tibetan restaurant…​ Yes, I do believe Tibetans also eat jiaozi! :-)</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Speaking a little Chinese goes a long way towards convincing the owners that you can handle the real thing.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Only order dishes with meat. Those without are not worth the money/time. Aubergine is the exception.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="restaurants--france"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--france"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--france">35.2. France 法国</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Traiteurs are simpler restaurants that let you see pre-made foods in a glass showcase for you to choose how big your portions will be.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They are the best way to eat a cheap and balanced meal in Paris, but I have never found one that serves exceptional Chinese food, so beware.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="restaurants--france--paris"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--france--paris"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--france--paris">35.2.1. Paris 巴黎</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Paris has one of the largest Chinese communities outside of China in the whole world centered in the 14eme arrondissement, plus a lot of Chinese students with money around.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a result, you can find some of the best Chinese food in the world outside of China!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://carnetdecroute.blogspot.fr" class="bare">https://carnetdecroute.blogspot.fr</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://cnkick.net/2013/09/10/les-meilleurs-restaurants-chinois-de-paris-le-guide-cn-kick/" class="bare">http://cnkick.net/2013/09/10/les-meilleurs-restaurants-chinois-de-paris-le-guide-cn-kick/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-Chinese-restaurants-in-Paris" class="bare">https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-Chinese-restaurants-in-Paris</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.newsavour.com/restaurants/" class="bare">https://www.newsavour.com/restaurants/</a> Chinese only, Paris, website subsidiary of some larger Chinese group.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Restaurant Sichuan (川里川外)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>17 Rue le Peletier, 75009 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Xianglaxie.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2017/06</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chez Yong (Ding Ding Xiang, 鼎鼎香)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>42, rue de la Colonie, 75013 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>shui zhu niu rou</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>dishes with intestines</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>La Chine sur la langue (舌尖美味)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>163 rue Saint-Denis, 75002 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Spicy soup with Chinese charcuteries. Ma la tang.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Large dry and thin bread. Jing dong da bing. 京东大饼. <a href="http://www.nipic.com/show/1/55/7885c266f22649ae.html">Picture</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Quatre Amis (那家小馆)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>29 rue de Charenton, 75012 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="openblock">
<div class="content">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fried octopus</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Shui zhu niu rou</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Anything with intestines</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Le Céleste Gourmand (福来居, fu lai ju)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>8 Rue de la Tacherie, 75004 Paris</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>L’Orient d’Or (福源丰)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>22, Rue de trévise, 75009 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="openblock">
<div class="content">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Galettes croustillantes au canard (xiang su ya dai bing, 香酥鸭带饼)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Poisson pimentee (suan tang yu, 酸汤鱼)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Soupe aux cartilages de porc avec algues (hai dai pau gu tang, 海带排骨汤)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Hunan style.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>25 euros / person.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Carnet de Route</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>57 Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, 75009 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2016/04</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>0 d’Attente (锅先生不等位)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>55 Boulevard Saint-Marcel, 75013 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>+33 9 81 49 68 06</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d6984996-Reviews-0_d_Attente-Paris_Ile_de_France.html" class="bare">https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d6984996-Reviews-0_d_Attente-Paris_Ile_de_France.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Like style of chairs and cutlery.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ironically, the service was not particularly fast as the name indicates. Normal, but not ultra-fast as I imagined :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>lotus with rice (Nuo mi tang ou) and boeuf sechee (guo xian sheng …​) not very good, but baked fish and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigan_cai" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigan_cai</a> kaorou were great.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2016/02</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Autour du Yangtse (食尚煮意)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>12 Rue du Helder, 75009 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="openblock">
<div class="content">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Marmite de poisson et de tofu (豆花鱼)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Saliva chicken (口水鸡)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Aubergines farcies sur plaqua chauffante (铁板脆皮茄)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://www.autourduyangtse.com/" class="bare">http://www.autourduyangtse.com/</a></p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Deux Fois Plus De Piment (绝代双椒)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address: 33 Rue Saint-Sébastien, 75011 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sichuan style.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Délices de Shandong (山东小馆)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>88 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Hakka Home</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>3 Rue Voltaire, 75011 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Food from the Hakka people <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_people" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_people</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most dishes are like other good Chinese restaurants in Paris, but there were a few different ones.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Maison Dong (东馆)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>36 Rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2017/04</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Royal Tching Tao (青岛人家)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>8 Rue du Bel-Air, 75012 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Galettes croustillantes au canard. Shi zi tou.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Sweet fish （Song shu gui yu 松鼠桂鱼)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Le Pont de Yunnan (滋味云南)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>15 Rue Notre Dame de Lorette, 75009</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Great food, but we had a bad service experience: got kicked out too early, even with a reservation.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Tien Hiang (天香)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>14, rue Bichat, 75010 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Vegetarian food: most dishes are an imitation of a dish with meat.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not as good as the original meat for me, but very interesting and good for a change.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese vegetarians are rare. In theory, the origin of the food in this restaurant is Hong Kong Buddhism (Buddhist monks cannot eat meat, while other believers can.)</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Likafo (利口福酒家)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>39 Avenue de Choisy, 75013 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LIKAFO-利口福酒家-139814799396/" class="bare">https://www.facebook.com/LIKAFO-利口福酒家-139814799396/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigan_cai">Meigan cai</a> roast pork (梅菜扣肉) <a href="https://img.epochtimes.com/i6/901120923161469.jpg" class="bare">https://img.epochtimes.com/i6/901120923161469.jpg</a></p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Restaurant Sichuan (四川人家)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>31-33 Rue Descartes, 75005 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Perfect Fuqi feipian.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Huiguorou is good not my style, I prefer with leek.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2017/04</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="resturants--france--paris--tier-2"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--france--paris--tier-2"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--france--paris--tier-2">35.2.1.1. Paris tier 2</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Cheaper / simpler restaurants that are really worth it if you want not to be hungry, but not worth it if you want eat exceptional food:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Ace Boucherie</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>58 Rue Sainte-Anne, 75002 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Korean takeaway traiteur. Very good. Try calamar.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2017/06</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Ji Bai He</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>108 Rue Olivier de Serres, 75015 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Jiaozi and accompanying small dishes are great.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2016/03</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>SUCREPICE</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>5 Rue d’Arras, 75005 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>M10: Cardinal Lemoine</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Liang ban mian, but do ask "wei la, they are strong.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Noodle No 1</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>54 rue Sainte Anne, 75002 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="openblock">
<div class="content">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Soupe aux nouilles pimentées</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Noodle bar</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>31 Rue nationale, 75013 Paris, France</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chez Shen</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>39 Rue au Maire, 75003 Paris, France</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Dosanko Larmen</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>40 Rue Sainte-Anne, 75002 Paris</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Order the big portion at your own risk. :-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2017/04</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Chez Mamie (外婆家)</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>18 Rue du Grenier-Saint-Lazare, 75003 Paris,</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2017/06</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="resturants--france--marseille"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--france--marseille"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--france--marseille">35.2.2. Marseille (马赛)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Shanghai kitchen</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>14 Cours Jean Ballard, 13001 Marseille, France</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="restaurants--uk"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk">35.3. United Kingdom (英国)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibilography:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.honglingjin.co.uk/category/foods-and-restaurants-in-the-uk/chinese-restaurants" class="bare">https://www.honglingjin.co.uk/category/foods-and-restaurants-in-the-uk/chinese-restaurants</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="restaurants--uk--london"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--london"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--london">35.3.1. London 伦敦</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="restaurants--uk--london--little-wooden-hut"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--london--little-wooden-hut"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--london--little-wooden-hut">35.3.1.1. Little Wooden Hut 小木屋</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Little Newport Street
WC2H 7JJ</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2016/08</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not yet on Google maps so I don’t know the number, but the street is very small so should be easy to find.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chinese review: <a href="http://www.ukchinese.com/News/2016-05-07/15299.html" class="bare">http://www.ukchinese.com/News/2016-05-07/15299.html</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="resturants--uk--london--murger-han"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--uk--london--murger-han"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--uk--london--murger-han">35.3.1.2. Murger Han</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>8A Sackville St
Mayfair, London
W1S 3EZ</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://www.murgerhan.com/" class="bare">https://www.murgerhan.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2019/01</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Cuisine: Xi’an</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Biangbiang noodles with all extras zhongla are amazing!!! Niuroupaomo OK, but not exciting. Roujiamo not very interesting, too bland for my taste.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="resturants--uk--london--tier-2"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--uk--london--tier-2"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--uk--london--tier-2">35.3.1.3. London tier 2</a></h5>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="restaurants--uk--london--chinese-tapas-house-london"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--london--chinese-tapas-house-london"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--london--chinese-tapas-house-london">35.3.1.3.1. Chinese Tapas House</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Little Newport Street
WC2H 7JJ</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not yet on Google maps so I don’t know the number, but the street is very small so should be easy to find.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Jianbing guozi, interesting spicy fast food.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="restaurants--uk--london--rice-coming-restaurant"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--london--rice-coming-restaurant"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--london--rice-coming-restaurant">35.3.1.3.2. Rice Coming Restaurant 米齐临</a></h6>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Rice noodles are good, and small dishes authentic.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address: 10A Coptic St, Holborn, London WC1A 1NH</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2019-04</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://ricecoming.business.site/" class="bare">https://ricecoming.business.site/</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="restaurants--uk--cambridge"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge">35.3.2. Cambridge 剑桥</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="restaurants--uk--cambridge--spring-restaurant"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--spring-restaurant"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--spring-restaurant">35.3.2.1. Spring Restaurant 春天</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>66 Mill Rd
CB1 2AS</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2017/08</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Spicy chicken with pasta and potatoes.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="restaurants--uk--cambridge--seven-days"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--seven-days"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--seven-days">35.3.2.2. Seven Days 天天美食剑桥</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>66 Regent St
CB2 1DP</pre>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="resturants--uk--cambridge--72-china"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--uk--cambridge--72-china"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--uk--cambridge--72-china">35.3.2.3. @72 China</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>72 Regent St
CB2 1DP</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Douhuaniurou 豆花牛肉, kaoyu.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="resturants--uk--cambridge--golden-house"><a class="anchor" href="#resturants--uk--cambridge--golden-house"></a><a class="link" href="#resturants--uk--cambridge--golden-house">35.3.2.4. Golden House</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>12 Lensfield Rd
CB2 1EG</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Meicaikourou, luobo bing.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="restaurants--uk--cambridge--1-1-rougamo"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--1-1-rougamo"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--cambridge--1-1-rougamo">35.3.2.5. 1 + 1 Rougamo</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Tier: 2</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Address:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>84 Regent St
CB2 1DP</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2019/05</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Roujiamo very good. Also good: broad noodles, 凉皮.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="restaurants--uk--oxford"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--oxford"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--oxford">35.3.3. Oxford 牛津</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="restaurants--uk--oxford--a-taste-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--oxford--a-taste-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--oxford--a-taste-of-china">35.3.3.1. A Taste Of China 三秦百味</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Tier: 2</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/oERKCv6Q8a32" class="bare">https://goo.gl/maps/oERKCv6Q8a32</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2019/03</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Redamian good, Biangbiangmian not as interesting. Nice people working there. Two two seat tables only, mostly takeaway. Fair price.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="restaurants--uk--oxford--xi-an"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--oxford--xi-an"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--oxford--xi-an">35.3.3.2. Xi’an</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Tier: 3</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/DrDCPKWnG2M2" class="bare">https://goo.gl/maps/DrDCPKWnG2M2</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2019/03</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not real Chinese food I’m afraid. Songshuyu was not cut correctly into stripes and too much liquid sauce. Sijidou beans not dry enough, maybe need more frying. Early immigration (1968, mentioned on menu), almost no Chinese clients. Nice decoration and environment.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="restaurants--uk--sheffield"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--uk--sheffield"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--uk--sheffield">35.3.4. Sheffield 谢菲尔德</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>China Red Restaurant</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>3 Rockingham Gate, Sheffield S1 4JD, United Kingdom</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2016/06, shuizhuyu.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="restaurants--brazil"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--brazil"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--brazil">35.4. Brazil 巴西</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="restaurants--brazil--sao-paulo"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--brazil--sao-paulo"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--brazil--sao-paulo">35.4.1. Sao Paulo 圣保罗</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Chuanxiangyuan Restaurante (川香园餐馆 )</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>\R. Barão de Iguape, 47 - Liberdade, São Paulo - SP</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Eat the big fish dishes, they are worth it. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqi_feipian" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqi_feipian</a> was not very good.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Free tea was good.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Rice could be better.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Owners are actually from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin</a> , not Sichuan, as implied by the 川 in the name of the restaurant. GF told me that those big fish dishes are typical from there.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2016/01/09</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="restaurants--canada"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--canada"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--canada">35.5. Canada 加拿大</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="restaurants--canada--montreal"><a class="anchor" href="#restaurants--canada--montreal"></a><a class="link" href="#restaurants--canada--montreal">35.5.1. Montreal 加拿大蒙特利尔，</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Last checked: 2016/01</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Cuisine Szechuan</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2350 Rue Guy, Montréal, QC H3H 2M2, Canada</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Kanbai</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>1110 Rue Clark, Montréal, QC H2Z 1K3, Canada Good</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Délice oriental</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>1858 Rue Ste-Catherine O, Montréal, QC H3H 1M1</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not worth it:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Chez Chili</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>1050B rue Clark</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="museum"><a class="anchor" href="#museum"></a><a class="link" href="#museum">36. The best East Asian museums outside of China (中国以外最好的东亚博物馆)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> liked these in order of best first. Keep in mind that he is especially interested in <a href="#chinese-traditional-painting">Chinese traditional painting (中国传统绘画)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art">New York Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>, New York, United States</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-05 <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/pBR1BmqWgd2Xq7jT8" class="bare">https://photos.app.goo.gl/pBR1BmqWgd2Xq7jT8</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guimet_Museum">Guimet Museum</a>, Paris, France</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016-10-30 including Chinese Jade Temporary Exposition: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/6F3nMNqtPrGASuMv5" class="bare">https://goo.gl/photos/6F3nMNqtPrGASuMv5</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2013-02 <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/aj1vRWEcoUqdvUG58" class="bare">https://photos.app.goo.gl/aj1vRWEcoUqdvUG58</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum">British Museum</a>, London, United Kingdom. Too much porcelain, too little painting.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2016-08 <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/brGPsCmLCD2cJsWb7" class="bare">https://goo.gl/photos/brGPsCmLCD2cJsWb7</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="television-series"><a class="anchor" href="#television-series"></a><a class="link" href="#television-series">37. Chinese television series (中国电视剧)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Modern themed television series are generally crap due to <a href="#censorship">Censorship (审查)</a>, but this leads to a big focus on ancient stuff, and some of it is amazing.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A good place to start are the canonical TV adaptations of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Chinese_Novels">Four Great Classic Novels</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/四大名著">四大名著</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>1994 Three Kingdoms</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_(TV_series" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_(TV_series</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/三国演义_(电视剧" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/三国演义_(电视剧</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The best <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms">Three Kingdoms 三国</a> adaptation of all time? Mind blowing</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>there seems to exist a version with full Chinese + English subtitles: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_r3eWfTMDs&list=PLdAMXqGeRsOkXzuocRkBPhe5RhZ6RotGH&index=2" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_r3eWfTMDs&list=PLdAMXqGeRsOkXzuocRkBPhe5RhZ6RotGH&index=2</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8VWVvHjskM&list=PLIj4BzSwQ-" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8VWVvHjskM&list=PLIj4BzSwQ-</a><em>ueXTO7EBmShk1b3lEqc5b</em> official CCTV电视剧 (CCTV TV Series Channel) upload without Chinese + English subtitles on <a href="#censorship">YouTube</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>1986 <a href="#journey-to-the-west">Journey to the west (西游记)</a> by the <a href="#chinese-government-media">Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West_(1986_TV_series" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West_(1986_TV_series</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西游记_(中国中央电视台出品电视剧" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西游记_(中国中央电视台出品电视剧</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIj4BzSwQ-_sfc7l2xm1wQswAd5jqrrDS" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIj4BzSwQ-_sfc7l2xm1wQswAd5jqrrDS</a> official CCTV电视剧 upload with Chinese + English subtitles</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>1987 Dream of the Red Chamber by the CCTV</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber_(1987_TV_series" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber_(1987_TV_series</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/红楼梦_(1987年电视剧" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/红楼梦_(1987年电视剧</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qmiajb1H6E" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qmiajb1H6E</a> the soundtrack is mindblowing, see also: <a href="#music-free">Free music (免费音乐)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIj4BzSwQ-_vuHKAr64vPbDQpE0-iQGGZ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIj4BzSwQ-_vuHKAr64vPbDQpE0-iQGGZ</a> official CCTV电视剧 upload without english subtitles by the channel</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>1986 Outlaws of the Marsh by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandong_Television">Shandong Television</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/山东广播电视台">山东广播电视台</a>)</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaws_of_the_Marsh_(TV_series" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaws_of_the_Marsh_(TV_series</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/水浒_(电视剧" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/水浒_(电视剧</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnshzmF6sY4&list=PLIj4BzSwQ-_sEAJsZnbcxV7sBc51XE8Z5" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnshzmF6sY4&list=PLIj4BzSwQ-_sEAJsZnbcxV7sBc51XE8Z5</a> official CCTV电视剧 upload without english subtitles by the channel</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There must be other good adaptations for other classics mentioned at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_literature" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_literature</a>, gotta find them.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="learn-chinese"><a class="anchor" href="#learn-chinese"></a><a class="link" href="#learn-chinese">38. Tips to learn Chinese (学习中文方法建议)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To read on the net, <a href="https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen" class="bare">https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen</a>, see also: <a href="#does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese">Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? (三西猴会说中文吗？)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To overhear people and learn characters/new words Pleco: <a href="https://www.pleco.com/" class="bare">https://www.pleco.com/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It really hurts that there is no online Pleco, you have to go back and forth from cell phone to computer, is there anything as good online?</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php" class="bare">https://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php</a> extremely annoying ads and limited list sizes, but good otherwise</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://dict.naver.com/linedict/zhendict/#/cnen/home" class="bare">https://dict.naver.com/linedict/zhendict/#/cnen/home</a> LINE dict, has many web scraped examples, but no sources back to those examples. Works, but a bit clunky.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Maybe some day something will be extracted from: <a href="https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi" class="bare">https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi</a> which jas a huge JSON of character data.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When you want to learn "how to say something in Chinese", the only valid routes are:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>does it have a Wikipedia page? Go on the English one then change language</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>put an English sentence on <a href="https://translate.google.com/">Google Translate</a>, then Google for it.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If it is a common word, it will give useless dictionary results, so search instead with <code>site:bbc.com</code> or <code>site:zhihu.com</code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then find a sentence that contains the word written by a native Chinese, and understand the full sentence to confirm that it means what you want it to mean in a similar context.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Just using the Google translate directly will lead 70% to a weird/wrong/incomprehensible translation that no Chinese person would ever say.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Good Chinese content to consume to learn:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>几分钟看完: illegal 10 minute summaries of movies with clips from the movies and a narrator speaking quickly instead of movie sounds.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some have Chinese subtitles, e.g.: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFSMvtS6SYQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFSMvtS6SYQ</a> and it is great content to learn from, because it is someone telling a not too boring story in a natural and clear way, with supporting images to help with context.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinese-character-sentence-component-mnemonic-systems"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-character-sentence-component-mnemonic-systems"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-character-sentence-component-mnemonic-systems">38.1. Chinese character sentence component mnemonic systems</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Associate one word to each character/character component.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One good way to find mnemonics is to just Google for whatever random words you want to fit into a sentence. You end up learning fun things this way, and those make the best mnemonics.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then to learn a new character, break it down into components, and create a sentence or short story that includes all the component words.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#characters">Characters (汉字)</a>: our own!!!!!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://rtega.be/chmn/" class="bare">https://rtega.be/chmn/</a> CC-BY-NO-SA but not clear way to contribute to it</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Proprietary books</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0824833236" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/dp/0824833236</a> "Remembering Simplified Hanzi" by James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson from 2008. This is the classic.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9881919339" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9881919339</a> STICK by Dr. Melanie Schmidt ed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/109565960X" class="bare">https://www.amazon.com/dp/109565960X</a> "Learn Chinese Characters: Easy Mnemonics to Memorize Hanzi: 400+ Characters, 700+ Vocabulary, 1300+ Practice Questions with Solutions" by L Castelluzzo</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Japanese Kanji:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>proprietary:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/kanji-radicals-mnemonic-method/" class="bare">https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/kanji-radicals-mnemonic-method/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.wanikani.com/" class="bare">https://www.wanikani.com/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="lists-of-the-most-common-characters-and-words"><a class="anchor" href="#lists-of-the-most-common-characters-and-words"></a><a class="link" href="#lists-of-the-most-common-characters-and-words">38.2. Lists of the most common characters and words</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a good approach to tick off high frequency stuff you don’t know you don’t know:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>HSK word lists</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180211123634/http://www.hskhsk.com/word-lists.html" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20180211123634/http://www.hskhsk.com/word-lists.html</a> go in the "(frequency order)" links</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Official character lists learned by native Chinese students per age group. TODO find exact lists.</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/6000/how-many-characters-do-chinese-pupils-know-at-different-ages" class="bare">https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/6000/how-many-characters-do-chinese-pupils-know-at-different-ages</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="history"><a class="anchor" href="#history"></a><a class="link" href="#history">39. History of China (中国历史)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="han-dinasty"><a class="anchor" href="#han-dinasty"></a><a class="link" href="#han-dinasty">39.1. Han dinasty (汉朝, 202 BC - 220 AC)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_dynasty" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_dynasty</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="suwu"><a class="anchor" href="#suwu"></a><a class="link" href="#suwu">39.1.1. Suwu (苏武)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/苏武" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/苏武</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Wu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Wu</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dude was messing around with <a href="#throne">Ciro’s wife’s savage ancestors</a>. Bad move.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="geography"><a class="anchor" href="#geography"></a><a class="link" href="#geography">40. Geography of China (中国地理)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="five-great-mountains"><a class="anchor" href="#five-great-mountains"></a><a class="link" href="#five-great-mountains">40.1. Five Great Mountains (五岳)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Mountains_of_China#The_Five_Great_Mountains" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Mountains_of_China#The_Five_Great_Mountains</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/五岳" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/五岳</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="mount-tai"><a class="anchor" href="#mount-tai"></a><a class="link" href="#mount-tai">40.1.1. Mount tai (泰山, peaceful mountain, big mountain)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tai" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tai</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/泰山" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/泰山</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Not to be confused with the <a href="#taihang-mountains">Taihang Mountains (太行山)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="rivers-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#rivers-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#rivers-of-china">40.2. Rivers of China</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="yangtze-river"><a class="anchor" href="#yangtze-river"></a><a class="link" href="#yangtze-river">40.2.1. Yangtze River (长江, Long River)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/长江" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/长江</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Exits through: Shanghai.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Passes by: Chongqing, Wugan, Nanjing</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="yellow-river"><a class="anchor" href="#yellow-river"></a><a class="link" href="#yellow-river">40.2.2. Yellow River (黄河)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Exits through: <a href="#shandong">Shandong Province (山东省)</a>, south of Beijing.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="provinces-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#provinces-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#provinces-of-china">40.3. Provinces of China (中国一级行政区)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国一级行政区" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国一级行政区</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is a good province map: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20170910104718/http://cdn.topchinatravel.com/tct/pic/maps/china-map/china-tourist-map.jpg" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/web/20170910104718/http://cdn.topchinatravel.com/tct/pic/maps/china-map/china-tourist-map.jpg</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="how-to-people-look-like-in-different-provinces-of-china"><a class="anchor" href="#how-to-people-look-like-in-different-provinces-of-china"></a><a class="link" href="#how-to-people-look-like-in-different-provinces-of-china">40.3.1. How to people look like in different provinces of China?</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO failed to find an amazing post, the best ones I’ve found so far:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/45930479" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/45930479</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="gansu"><a class="anchor" href="#gansu"></a><a class="link" href="#gansu">40.3.2. Gansu Province (甘肃, gan1 su4)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/甘肃省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/甘肃省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sheepskin rafts (羊皮筏)!!!</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://lanzhou.china.org.cn/2013-11/27/content_30720242.htm" class="bare">http://lanzhou.china.org.cn/2013-11/27/content_30720242.htm</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/OYU6DJWRxc4?t=316" class="bare">https://youtu.be/OYU6DJWRxc4?t=316</a> Magical work of nature: Stone forest boosts tourism, revenues in village of Gansu, China (2018) by <a href="#xinhua">Xinhua News Agency (新华通讯社, 新华社, CCP media)</a>.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This video also makes it clear why the <a href="#yellow-river">Yellow River (黄河)</a> is called "Yellow River", it is from all that yellow desert dust dissolving into the water.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/羊皮筏" class="bare">https://baike.baidu.com/item/羊皮筏</a> on <a href="#baidu-baike">Baidu Baike (百度百科, Chinese censored Wikipedia clone)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="lanzhou"><a class="anchor" href="#lanzhou"></a><a class="link" href="#lanzhou">40.3.2.1. Lanzhou (兰州)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzhou" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzhou</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/兰州市" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/兰州市</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Well known for <a href="#lamian">Lamian (拉面)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="guangdong"><a class="anchor" href="#guangdong"></a><a class="link" href="#guangdong">40.3.3. Guangdong Province (广东省, Canton)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/广东省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/广东省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Literally: "at the East of the Expanse". TODO why expanse?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Capital: <a href="#guangzhou">Guangzhou (广州)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="guangzhou"><a class="anchor" href="#guangzhou"></a><a class="link" href="#guangzhou">40.3.3.1. Guangzhou (广州)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Capital of <a href="#guangdong">Guangdong Province (广东省, Canton)</a>, lit. "city the Expanse. 120km from <a href="#hong-kong">Hong Kong (香港)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="guangxi"><a class="anchor" href="#guangxi"></a><a class="link" href="#guangxi">40.3.4. Guangxi Province (广西壮族自治区, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/广西壮族自治区" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/广西壮族自治区</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is an "autonomous region" of the Zhuang ethnic minority.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="liaoning"><a class="anchor" href="#liaoning"></a><a class="link" href="#liaoning">40.3.5. Liaoning Province (辽宁省)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaoning" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaoning</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/辽宁省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/辽宁省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="fujian"><a class="anchor" href="#fujian"></a><a class="link" href="#fujian">40.3.6. Fujian Province (辽宁省)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Below Zhejiang. The one closest to <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/福建省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/福建省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hebei"><a class="anchor" href="#hebei"></a><a class="link" href="#hebei">40.3.7. Hebei Province (河北省)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebei" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebei</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/河北省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/河北省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name refers to it being North of the <a href="#yellow-river">Yellow River (黄河)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hubei"><a class="anchor" href="#hubei"></a><a class="link" href="#hubei">40.3.8. Hubei Province (湖北省)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubei" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubei</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/湖北省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/湖北省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name refers to it being North of the <a href="#yellow-river">Yellow River (黄河)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="hunan"><a class="anchor" href="#hunan"></a><a class="link" href="#hunan">40.3.9. Hunan Province (湖南省)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunan</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/湖南省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/湖南省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name refers to it being South of the <a href="#dongting-lake">Dongting Lake (洞庭湖)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="dongting-lake"><a class="anchor" href="#dongting-lake"></a><a class="link" href="#dongting-lake">40.3.9.1. Dongting Lake (洞庭湖)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongting_Lake" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongting_Lake</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/洞庭湖" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/洞庭湖</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="heilongjiang"><a class="anchor" href="#heilongjiang"></a><a class="link" href="#heilongjiang">40.3.10. Heilongjian Province (黑龙江省)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黑龙江" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黑龙江</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>China’s Northermost and Easternomst province.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Literaly: "Black Dragon River" province. The name refers to the massive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur">Amur river</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黑龙江">黑龙江</a>) that passes through the region.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Does not however border North Korea, only <a href="#liaoning">Liaoning Province (辽宁省)</a> and <a href="#jilin">Jilin (吉林)</a> do.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="henan"><a class="anchor" href="#henan"></a><a class="link" href="#henan">40.3.11. Henan Province (河南省)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henan</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/河南省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/河南省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name refers to it being South of the <a href="#yellow-river">Yellow River (黄河)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="jilin"><a class="anchor" href="#jilin"></a><a class="link" href="#jilin">40.3.12. Jilin (吉林)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吉林省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吉林省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The capital city is also named Jilin (Jilin City).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The origin of the name has nothing to do with a forest (林), it is a transliteration from Manchu language for "along the river".</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="shandong"><a class="anchor" href="#shandong"></a><a class="link" href="#shandong">40.3.13. Shandong Province (山东省)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandong" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandong</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/山东省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/山东省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name refers to it being East of the <a href="#taihang-mountains">Taihang Mountains (太行山)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="sichuan"><a class="anchor" href="#sichuan"></a><a class="link" href="#sichuan">40.3.14. Sichuan Province (四川省)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/四川省" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/四川省</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sichuan is located in a pocket plain in a corner of the Himalayas. Interesting geography. This amazing photo makes that pretty clear: <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:雪山下的成都市天际线_Chengdu_skyline_with_snow_capped_mountains_(cropped).jpg" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:雪山下的成都市天际线_Chengdu_skyline_with_snow_capped_mountains_(cropped).jpg</a></p>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="chengdu"><a class="anchor" href="#chengdu"></a><a class="link" href="#chengdu">40.3.14.1. Chengdu (成都市)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/成都市" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/成都市</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="taihang-mountains"><a class="anchor" href="#taihang-mountains"></a><a class="link" href="#taihang-mountains">40.3.14.2. Taihang Mountains (太行山)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taihang_Mountains" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taihang_Mountains</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/太行山" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/太行山</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="shanxi"><a class="anchor" href="#shanxi"></a><a class="link" href="#shanxi">40.3.15. Shanxi Province (山西省)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The name refers to it being West of the <a href="#taihang-mountains">Taihang Mountains (太行山)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="chinese-languages"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-languages"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-languages">41. Chinese languages (汉语)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/汉语" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/汉语</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Map_of_sinitic_languages_full-en.svg" loading="lazy" alt="Map of sinitic languages full en" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 303. Map of sinitic languages. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_sinitic_languages_full-en.svg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="cantonese"><a class="anchor" href="#cantonese"></a><a class="link" href="#cantonese">41.1. Cantonese (广东话)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Spoken in <a href="#guangdong">Guangdong Province (广东省, Canton)</a> unsurprisingly.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interintelligibility of written text with Mandarin:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/a0vkls/if_you_learn_to_read_mandarin_will_you_also_be/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/a0vkls/if_you_learn_to_read_mandarin_will_you_also_be/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They don’t have a standardized pinyin/romanization/transliteration, it is quite insane:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping</a> (<a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/香港語言學學會粵語拼音方案" class="bare">https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/香港語言學學會粵語拼音方案</a>, 粵拼) this appears to be the dominating one, at least it is on Wikipedia. So I’m in for it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_Transliteration_Scheme" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_Transliteration_Scheme</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Government_Cantonese_Romanisation" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Government_Cantonese_Romanisation</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_Pinyin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_Pinyin</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>but most schemes are quite similar it seems.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>6 tones, though average speakers themselves can’t tell the tone of each character because it is not taught in school: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cantonese-tones-explained-nicholas-angiers/" class="bare">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cantonese-tones-explained-nicholas-angiers/</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They actually have two different rising and three different level tones, which is completely insane, how can you differentiate that??</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some people count 9 due to syllables that end in p, t or k and which can only have 3 of the previous 6, but better just group those three with the corresponding of the other 6.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>No "turn around the middle" tones though. So a common notation is start point to end point:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>55 high level</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>35 mid rising</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>33 mid level</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>21 low falling</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>22 low level</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>23 low rising</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>There was also a high falling 52/53 but it merged with 55 in Hong Kong, so it is not normally noted anymore.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="chinese-cheatsheet"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-cheatsheet"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-cheatsheet">42. Chinese cheatsheet (中文备忘单)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Single author open source Pleco + "Remembering Simplified Hanzi" in a single .adoc file? Let’s go.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We’d use <a href="https://rtega.be/chmn/" class="bare">https://rtega.be/chmn/</a> as basis if it weren’t for the NO in CC-BY-NO-SA? But that NO is evil, what the heck does it even mean to gain money from something? Too restrictive.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Format will be very constant, database like. Would therefore be cool to parse it from the Asciidoctor into a proper database as a way to verify and allow third party usage.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Base mnemonic components can come more or less directly from the 214 Kangxi radicals: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One key principle is that characters and words often don’t have a well translatable meaning: the minimal always translatable unit is a sentence: <a href="#chinese-sentences">Chinese sentences</a>!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can’t fully learn a language by learning words and characters alone, you must learn sentences.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="characters"><a class="anchor" href="#characters"></a><a class="link" href="#characters">42.1. Characters (汉字)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Format:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>[[<character>]]
=== <character> (<pinyin>, <mnemonic name>)
Short forms: <<short-form>>, <<short-form>>
Mnemonic: <<mnemonic-story>>.
Words:
* <chinese-word-containing>
* <chinese-word-containing>
Characters:
* <character-containing>
* <character-containing>
Translations:
* <<english-word>>
** <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
Sentences:
* <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
Notes: <<random-text>>
Notes:
* <<random-text>>
* <<random-text>></pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>Translations</code> is only used when it is a single character word, if it goes inside a word, only the word will contain the sentence</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="top-part-of-每"><a class="anchor" href="#top-part-of-每"></a><a class="link" href="#top-part-of-每">42.1.1. Top part of 每 (, pistol)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: Can’t find the freaking Unicode. It looks like a <strong>pistol</strong>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>每 TODO each</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="top-part-of-存"><a class="anchor" href="#top-part-of-存"></a><a class="link" href="#top-part-of-存">42.1.2. Top part of 存 (, market stall)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: looks like one.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#存">存 (cun2, survive)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="龶"><a class="anchor" href="#龶"></a><a class="link" href="#龶">42.1.3. 龶 (-, crown)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the dot indicates something that stays on top of the head of a king (<a href="#王">王 (wang2, king)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#青">青 (qing1, blue)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: there is no "proper" Chinese name for this, it is just known as "the top part of <a href="#青">青 (qing1, blue)</a>" (青字頭) <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/龶" class="bare">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/龶</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="巴"><a class="anchor" href="#巴"></a><a class="link" href="#巴">42.1.4. 巴 (ba1, Brazil)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the first character of <a href="#巴西">巴西 (ba1 xi1, Brazil)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#爬">爬 (pa2, climb)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#巴西">巴西 (ba1 xi1, Brazil)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="八"><a class="anchor" href="#八"></a><a class="link" href="#八">42.1.5. 八 (ba1, eight)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 丷</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#单">单 (dan1, bill)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#六">六 (liu4, six)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="白"><a class="anchor" href="#白"></a><a class="link" href="#白">42.1.6. 白 (bai2, white)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the <strong>sun</strong> (<a href="#日">日 (ri4, sun)</a>) is so bright on that <strong>one</strong> (<a href="#一">一 (yi1, one)</a>) day, that it was almost <strong>white</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#的">的 (de, my)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="榜"><a class="anchor" href="#榜"></a><a class="link" href="#榜">42.1.7. 榜 (bang3)</a></h4>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="勹"><a class="anchor" href="#勹"></a><a class="link" href="#勹">42.1.8. 勹 (bao1, plastic wrap)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: Kangxi 20 is "wrap". So we choose plastic wrap as a specific type of wrapping that will give good mnemonics.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#勺">勺 (shao2, wrap sandwitch)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="本"><a class="anchor" href="#本"></a><a class="link" href="#本">42.1.9. 本 (ben3, potato)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>one</strong> (<a href="#一">一 (yi1, one)</a>) thing is always beloow a <strong>tree</strong> (<a href="#本">本 (ben3, potato)</a>): <strong>potato</strong> roots</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#体">体 (ti3, body)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="匕"><a class="anchor" href="#匕"></a><a class="link" href="#匕">42.1.10. 匕 (bi3, spoon)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: an ancient spoon, looks like this: <a href="https://read01.com/aAEn50x.html#.XnfZDN_niV4" class="bare">https://read01.com/aAEn50x.html#.XnfZDN_niV4</a> "古人吃饭最早不用筷子，用的是"匕"，那"匕"是什么？</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="表"><a class="anchor" href="#表"></a><a class="link" href="#表">42.1.11. 表 (biao3, watch [device])</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: imagine a soldier wearing <strong>green</strong> (<a href="#龶">龶 (-, crown)</a>) camouflage <strong>clothes</strong> (<a href="#衣">衣 (yi1, clothes)</a>), and checking his <strong>watch</strong> to know if it is time to attack</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#列表">列表 (lie4 biao3, list)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="卜"><a class="anchor" href="#卜"></a><a class="link" href="#卜">42.1.12. 卜 (bu3, magic wand)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the kangxi description is "divination". Since this is completely unrelated to common contexts of modern people, we select a wand use a magic-related object that can be easily put into fun stories: a magic wand.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#攴">攴 (pu1, to tap)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="不"><a class="anchor" href="#不"></a><a class="link" href="#不">42.1.13. 不 (bu4, not)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: unclear, possibly <strong>magic wand</strong> <a href="#卜">卜 (bu3, magic wand)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#不幸">不幸 (bu4 xing4, unlucky)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="查"><a class="anchor" href="#查"></a><a class="link" href="#查">42.1.14. 查 (cha2, check)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: every <strong>dawn</strong> <a href="#旦">旦 (dan4, dawn)</a>, men have to <strong>check</strong> if their penises are hard as <strong>wood</strong> <a href="#木">木 (mu4, wood, tree)</a>, and if so they have to stay in bed for a while longer because it is too embarrassing to walk out like that, see also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_wood" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_wood</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#审查">审查 (shen3 cha2, censor)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="车"><a class="anchor" href="#车"></a><a class="link" href="#车">42.1.15. 车 (che1, car)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#轮">轮 (lun4, wheel)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="臣"><a class="anchor" href="#臣"></a><a class="link" href="#臣">42.1.16. 臣 (chen2, minister)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#临">临 (lin2, temporary)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="彳"><a class="anchor" href="#彳"></a><a class="link" href="#彳">42.1.17. 彳 (chi4, step)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: Kangxi 60.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#很">很 (hen3, very)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="辵"><a class="anchor" href="#辵"></a><a class="link" href="#辵">42.1.18. 辵 (chuo4, walk)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: ⻌,⻍,⻎</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#运">运 (yun4, sports)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="存"><a class="anchor" href="#存"></a><a class="link" href="#存">42.1.19. 存 (cun2, survive)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the Jewish <strong>child</strong> (<a href="#子">子 (zi, child)</a>) <strong>survived</strong> from the Nazis by hiding under a <strong>market stall</strong> (<a href="#top-part-of-存">Top part of 存 (, market stall)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸存">幸运 (xing4 cun2, survive)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="寸"><a class="anchor" href="#寸"></a><a class="link" href="#寸">42.1.20. 寸 (cun4, inch)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#讨">讨 (tao3, discuss)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="大"><a class="anchor" href="#大"></a><a class="link" href="#大">42.1.21. 大 (da4, big)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#犬">犬 (quan3, dog)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="歹"><a class="anchor" href="#歹"></a><a class="link" href="#歹">42.1.22. 歹 (dai3, supervillain)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: that <strong>evening</strong> (<a href="#夕">夕 (xi1, evening)</a>), <strong>one</strong> (<a href="#一">一 (yi1, one)</a>) <strong>supervillain</strong> attacked us!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#列">列 (lie4, list)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#歹人">歹人 (dai3 ren2, villain)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="单"><a class="anchor" href="#单"></a><a class="link" href="#单">42.1.23. 单 (dan1, bill)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: that lunch <strong>bill</strong> cost as much as buying <strong>eighty</strong> (<a href="#十">十 (shi2, ten)</a> <a href="#八">八 (ba1, eight)</a>) rice <strong>fields</strong> (<a href="#田">田 (tian1, field)</a>)!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>TODO 买单</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="旦"><a class="anchor" href="#旦"></a><a class="link" href="#旦">42.1.24. 旦 (dan4, dawn)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>dawn</strong> is when the <strong>sun</strong> (<a href="#日">日 (ri4, sun)</a>) is raising over the horizon (<a href="#一">一 (yi1, one)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#但">但 (dan4, but)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#元旦">元旦 (yuan2 dan4, (Chinese) New Year’s day)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="但"><a class="anchor" href="#但"></a><a class="link" href="#但">42.1.25. 但 (dan4, but)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: I saw a <strong>person</strong> (<a href="#人">人 (ren2, person)</a>) walking at <strong>dawn</strong> (<a href="#旦">旦 (dan4, dawn)</a>). It was beautiful, <strong>but</strong> why wouldn’t they be sleeping instead?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="刀"><a class="anchor" href="#刀"></a><a class="link" href="#刀">42.1.26. 刀 (dao1, knife)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 刂,⺈</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#列">列 (lie4, list)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#尔">尔 (er3, you)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="的"><a class="anchor" href="#的"></a><a class="link" href="#的">42.1.27. 的 (de, my)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>my</strong> penis looks like a <strong>white</strong> (<a href="#白">白 (bai2, white)</a>) <strong>wrap sandwitch</strong> (<a href="#勺">勺 (shao2, wrap sandwitch)</a>)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="等"><a class="anchor" href="#等"></a><a class="link" href="#等">42.1.28. 等 (deng3, etcetera)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: TODO</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: <a href="#等等">等等 (deng3 deng3, etcetera)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="动"><a class="anchor" href="#动"></a><a class="link" href="#动">42.1.29. 动 (dong4, move)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: his <strong>superpower</strong> (<a href="#力">力 (li4, superpower)</a>) is to <strong>move</strong> fart <strong>clouds</strong> (<a href="#云">云 (yun2, cloud)</a>) with his mind</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#运动">运动 (yun4 dong4, sports)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="对"><a class="anchor" href="#对"></a><a class="link" href="#对">42.1.30. 对 (dui4, correct)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: to progress slowly, adding <strong>inch</strong> (<a href="#寸">寸 (cun4, inch)</a>) by inch, <strong>again</strong> (<a href="#又">又 (you4, again)</a>) and again, is the <strong>correct</strong> way to progress</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#树">树 (shu4, trees)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="多"><a class="anchor" href="#多"></a><a class="link" href="#多">42.1.31. 多 (duo1, many)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: one <strong>wrap sandwitch</strong> (<a href="#勺">勺 (shao2, wrap sandwitch)</a>) is fine for lunch, but two on too <strong>many</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="儿"><a class="anchor" href="#儿"></a><a class="link" href="#儿">42.1.32. 儿 (er2, son)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#元">元 (yuan2, first)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="尔"><a class="anchor" href="#尔"></a><a class="link" href="#尔">42.1.33. 尔 (er3, you)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: I’ll stab <strong>you</strong> with a <strong>small</strong> (<a href="#小">小 (xiao3, small)</a>) knife (<a href="#刀">刀 (dao1, knife)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#你">你 (ni3, thou)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="二"><a class="anchor" href="#二"></a><a class="link" href="#二">42.1.34. 二 (er4, two)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>元</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="肺"><a class="anchor" href="#肺"></a><a class="link" href="#肺">42.1.35. 肺 (fei4, lungs)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: he didn’t have two <strong>lungs</strong>, but rather one <strong>moon</strong> (<a href="#月">月 (yue4, moon)</a>) and one <strong>lung</strong> (<a href="#巿">巿 (fu2, lung)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎">肺炎 (fei4 yan2, pneumonia)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="巿"><a class="anchor" href="#巿"></a><a class="link" href="#巿">42.1.36. 巿 (fu2, lung)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: due to an infection, doctors had to dry up <strong>one</strong> (<a href="#一">一 (yi1, one)</a>) of his <strong>lung</strong> with a <strong>towel</strong> (<a href="#巾">巾 (jin1, towel)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺">肺 (fei4, lungs)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="干"><a class="anchor" href="#干"></a><a class="link" href="#干">42.1.37. 干 (gan1, dry)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸">幸 (xing4, luck)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="该"><a class="anchor" href="#该"></a><a class="link" href="#该">42.1.38. 该 (gai1, dry)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: TODO <strong>speak</strong> (<a href="#言">言 (yan2, speak, say)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>that, the afore mentioned</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等">目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作，例如武汉大学、南京大学等等 (mu4 qian2, At present, that website also cooperates with the libraries of universities in China and abroad such as Wuhan University, Nanjing University, etc.)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Here, 该网站 (that website) is referring to a specific website mentioned in previous sentences of the Zhihu answer.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="根"><a class="anchor" href="#根"></a><a class="link" href="#根">42.1.39. 根 (gen1, roots)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>roots</strong> one <strong>root</strong> (<a href="#艮">艮 (gen4, root)</a>) plus one root and lots of <strong>wood</strong> (<a href="#木">木 (mu4, wood, tree)</a>)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="艮"><a class="anchor" href="#艮"></a><a class="link" href="#艮">42.1.40. 艮 (gen4, root)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: radical of <strong>roots</strong> (<a href="#根">根 (gen1, roots)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: this is a Kangxi radical, but its English name "stopping" is just too close to the more important "stop" <a href="#止">止 (zhi3, stop)</a> and would cause confusion. So we just use the common phonetic compound <strong>roots</strong> (<a href="#根">根 (gen1, roots)</a>) as the mnemonic. It was tempting to leave "root" for <a href="#本">本 (ben3, potato)</a>, which looks perfectly like a root, but we did character first, and "potato" makes for even better mnemonics.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#根">根 (gen1, roots)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="冠"><a class="anchor" href="#冠"></a><a class="link" href="#冠">42.1.41. 冠 (guan1, corona)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: when Queen Elizabeth was crowned, the <strong>first</strong> (<a href="#元">元 (yuan2, first)</a>) thing they put a one <strong>inch</strong> (<a href="#寸">寸 (cun4, inch)</a>) <strong>hajib</strong> <a href="#冖">冖 (mi4, hajib [Muslim female head scarf])</a> on her head, and then the <strong>corona</strong> of a Christian saint saint appeared on her head</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="禾"><a class="anchor" href="#禾"></a><a class="link" href="#禾">42.1.42. 禾 (he2, grain)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: imagine <strong>one</strong> <a href="#一">一 (yi1, one)</a> <strong>grain</strong> of rice coming out of <strong>wood</strong> (<a href="#木">木 (mu4, wood, tree)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#私">私 (si1, privacy)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#和">和 (he2, harmonious)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="和"><a class="anchor" href="#和"></a><a class="link" href="#和">42.1.43. 和 (he2, harmonious)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: nothing is more <strong>harmonious</strong> than putting some <strong>grains</strong> <a href="#禾">禾 (he2, grain)</a> in your <strong>mouth</strong> <a href="#口">口 (kou3, mouth)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#私">私 (si1, privacy)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#和">和 (he2, harmonious)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="很"><a class="anchor" href="#很"></a><a class="link" href="#很">42.1.44. 很 (hen3, very)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>stepping</strong> (<a href="#彳">彳 (chi4, step)</a>) on a tree <strong>root</strong> (<a href="#艮">艮 (gen4, root)</a>) is a <strong>very</strong> bad idea, it might be a tree spirit that gets angry and eats you!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="火"><a class="anchor" href="#火"></a><a class="link" href="#火">42.1.45. 火 (huo3, fire)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 灬</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#炎">炎 (yan2, inflammation)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="几"><a class="anchor" href="#几"></a><a class="link" href="#几">42.1.46. 几 (ji3, side table)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#殳">殳 (shu1, coffee)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="交"><a class="anchor" href="#交"></a><a class="link" href="#交">42.1.47. 交 (jiao1, exchange student)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: we measured <strong>six</strong> <a href="#六">六 (liu4, six)</a> American <strong>exchange students</strong> <a href="#交">交 (jiao1, exchange student)</a> on a <strong>balance</strong> <a href="#乂">乂 (yi4, balance)</a> to see which one was heaviest. Idea comes from 交流 (exchange student).</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#性交">性交 (xing4 jiao1, sexual intercourse)</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="巾"><a class="anchor" href="#巾"></a><a class="link" href="#巾">42.1.48. 巾 (jin1, towel)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: person carrying bath towel over shoulders.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#巿">巿 (fu2, lung)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#禁">禁 (jin4, forbid)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="禁"><a class="anchor" href="#禁"></a><a class="link" href="#禁">42.1.49. 禁 (jin4, forbid)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the <strong>spirit</strong> <a href="#示">示 (shi4, spirit)</a> of the <strong>woods</strong> <a href="#林">林 (lin2, woods)</a> <strong>forbids</strong> <a href="#禁">禁 (jin4, forbid)</a> burning trees!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#禁止">禁止 (jin4 zhi3, forbidden)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#禁运">禁运 (jin4 yun4, embargo)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="口"><a class="anchor" href="#口"></a><a class="link" href="#口">42.1.50. 口 (kou3, mouth)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chars:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#台">台 (tai2, platform)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#和">和 (he2, harmonious)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#品">品 (pin3, product)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="里"><a class="anchor" href="#里"></a><a class="link" href="#里">42.1.51. 里 (li3, mile)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: his <strong>field</strong> (<a href="#田">田 (tian1, field)</a>) streched over one <strong>mile</strong> (<a href="#里">里 (li3, mile)</a>), but it consisted of barren <strong>soil</strong> (<a href="#土">土 (tu3, soil)</a>) without any plants</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#重">重 (zhong4, dumbbell)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#理">理 (li3, science)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="理"><a class="anchor" href="#理"></a><a class="link" href="#理">42.1.52. 理 (li3, science)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the <strong>king</strong> (<a href="#王">王 (wang2, king)</a>) Louis XIV was a big patron of the mectric system, which intends to improve <strong>science</strong> by removing useless units like the <strong>mile</strong> (<a href="#里">里 (li3, mile)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#物理">物理 (wu4 li3, Physics)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#理论">理论 (li3 lun4, logic)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="力"><a class="anchor" href="#力"></a><a class="link" href="#力">42.1.53. 力 (li4, superpower)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#动">动 (dong4, move)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="列"><a class="anchor" href="#列"></a><a class="link" href="#列">42.1.54. 列 (lie4, list)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: there must exist a <strong>list</strong> of <strong>supervillains</strong> (<a href="#歹">歹 (dai3, supervillain)</a>) with <strong>knives</strong> (<a href="#刀">刀 (dao1, knife)</a>) on the web? A knife-yielding supervillain <strong>list</strong>! <a href="https://techland.time.com/2010/09/03/top-ten-heroes-and-villians-with-big-knives/" class="bare">https://techland.time.com/2010/09/03/top-ten-heroes-and-villians-with-big-knives/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#列表">列表 (lie4 biao3, list)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="林"><a class="anchor" href="#林"></a><a class="link" href="#林">42.1.55. 林 (lin2, woods)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: there are lots of <strong>trees</strong> <a href="#木">木 (mu4, wood, tree)</a> in the <strong>woods</strong> <a href="#林">林 (lin2, woods)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#禁">禁 (jin4, forbid)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="临"><a class="anchor" href="#临"></a><a class="link" href="#临">42.1.56. 临 (lin2, temporary)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the simplified character was completely mutilated into a bunch of senseless traces unmemorizable traces. The traditional 臨 can be broken into: the <strong>Prime minister</strong> (<a href="#臣">臣 (chen2, minister)</a>) temporarily decided to increase production of an important <strong>product</strong> (<a href="#品">品 (pin3, product)</a>): <strong>pistols</strong> (<a href="#top-part-of-每">Top part of 每 (, pistol)</a>), until the zombie apocalypse would be over.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#临时">临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="仑"><a class="anchor" href="#仑"></a><a class="link" href="#仑">42.1.57. 仑 (lun2, logic)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory">spoon theory</a> is very logical and explains how using <strong>spoons</strong> (<a href="#匕">匕 (bi3, spoon)</a>) is a good metaphor for a <strong>person</strong>'s (<a href="#人">人 (ren2, person)</a>) energy consumption</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#论">论 (lun4, rationale)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="论"><a class="anchor" href="#论"></a><a class="link" href="#论">42.1.58. 论 (lun4, rationale)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: "<strong>rationale</strong>" the fancy way that engineers <strong>say</strong> (<a href="#言">言 (yan2, speak, say)</a>) "<strong>logic</strong>" (<a href="#仑">仑 (lun2, logic)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#理论">理论 (li3 lun4, logic)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="轮"><a class="anchor" href="#轮"></a><a class="link" href="#轮">42.1.59. 轮 (lun4, wheel)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: it is pretty <strong>logical</strong> (<a href="#仑">仑 (lun2, logic)</a>) that a <strong>car</strong> (<a href="#车">车 (che1, car)</a>) needs <strong>wheels</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>法轮功: <a href="#falun-gong">Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="没"><a class="anchor" href="#没"></a><a class="link" href="#没">42.1.60. 没 (mei2, not have)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: if you <strong>do not have</strong> any <strong>water</strong> (<a href="#水">水 (shui3, water)</a>) for your <strong>coffee</strong> (<a href="#殳">殳 (shu1, coffee)</a>), it won’t be very good</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="冖"><a class="anchor" href="#冖"></a><a class="link" href="#冖">42.1.61. 冖 (mi4, hajib [Muslim female head scarf])</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: the Wikipedia Kangxi is "cloth cover". Ciro guesses this was originally something to do with food covering. But let’s just go with hajib which will allow for easy <a href="#politically-incorrect">politically incorrect</a> mnemonics. "Crown" from <a href="#冠">冠 (guan1, corona)</a> would also be another good one, but we had already used crown for <a href="#龶">龶 (-, crown)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#冠">冠 (guan1, corona)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="宀"><a class="anchor" href="#宀"></a><a class="link" href="#宀">42.1.62. 宀 (mian2, roof)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#审">审 (shen3, inspect)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="木"><a class="anchor" href="#木"></a><a class="link" href="#木">42.1.63. 木 (mu4, wood, tree)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#根">根 (gen1, roots)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#林">林 (lin2, woods)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#木头">木头 (mu4 tou, wood, timber or log)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="疒"><a class="anchor" href="#疒"></a><a class="link" href="#疒">42.1.64. 疒 (ne4, sick)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: Kangxi 104.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#疫">疫 (yi4, epidemic)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="你"><a class="anchor" href="#你"></a><a class="link" href="#你">42.1.65. 你 (ni3, thou)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>person</strong> (<a href="#人">人 (ren2, person)</a>) <strong>you</strong> (<a href="#尔">尔 (er3, you)</a>)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="牛"><a class="anchor" href="#牛"></a><a class="link" href="#牛">42.1.66. 牛 (niu2, cow)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 牜,⺧</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#理">理 (li3, science)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="爬"><a class="anchor" href="#爬"></a><a class="link" href="#爬">42.1.67. 爬 (pa2, climb)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: you need <strong>claws</strong> (<a href="#爪">爪 (zhao3, claws)</a>) to <strong>climb</strong> (爬) <strong>Brazil</strong>'s (<a href="#巴">巴 (ba1, Brazil)</a>) tallest mountain: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_da_Neblina">Pico da Neblina</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#爬行">爬行 (pa2 xing2, crawl)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="品"><a class="anchor" href="#品"></a><a class="link" href="#品">42.1.68. 品 (pin3, product)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: you need a lot of food <strong>products</strong> to feed the three <strong>mouths</strong> (<a href="#口">口 (kou3, mouth)</a>) of three children!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>食品 TODO</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#临">临 (lin2, temporary)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="攴"><a class="anchor" href="#攴"></a><a class="link" href="#攴">42.1.69. 攴 (pu1, to tap)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 攵</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: to transform a frog into a princess, you have to <strong>tap</strong> your <strong>magic wand</strong> (<a href="#卜">卜 (bu3, magic wand)</a>) <strong>again and again</strong> (<a href="#又">又 (you4, again)</a>) on it</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#政">政 (zheng4, politics)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="千"><a class="anchor" href="#千"></a><a class="link" href="#千">42.1.70. 千 (qian2, thousand)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: a super powerful <a href="#十">十 (shi2, ten)</a> with an extra trace</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: careful to not confuse with <a href="#干">干 (gan1, dry)</a> which has a straight top.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#重">重 (zhong4, dumbbell)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="丬"><a class="anchor" href="#丬"></a><a class="link" href="#丬">42.1.71. 丬 (qiang2, split wood)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters: <a href="#状">状 (zhuang4, shape)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="青"><a class="anchor" href="#青"></a><a class="link" href="#青">42.1.72. 青 (qing1, blue)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the <strong>crown</strong> (<a href="#龶">龶 (-, crown)</a>) of the king was <strong>blue</strong> and <strong>moon-shaped</strong> (<a href="#月">月 (yue4, moon)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: it is more like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan">green-blue/Cyan</a>, see also <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/青色" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/青色</a> but let’s call it blue because it will be used in many constructs.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#清">清 (qing1, clear)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#情">情 (qing2, lust)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#青铜">青铜 (qing1 tong2, bronze)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="清"><a class="anchor" href="#清"></a><a class="link" href="#清">42.1.73. 清 (qing1, clear)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: imagine a Caribbean sea <strong>water</strong> (<a href="#水">水 (shui3, water)</a>) was is <strong>blue</strong> (<a href="#青">青 (qing1, blue)</a>) and <strong>clear</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: clear in the sense of "not dirty" and "a clear explanation". "Clear colors" use TODO 浅 as in 浅蓝.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#清">清 (qing1, clear)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="情"><a class="anchor" href="#情"></a><a class="link" href="#情">42.1.74. 情 (qing2, lust)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: in his <strong>heart</strong> (<a href="#心">心 (xin1, heart)</a>), the greatest <strong>lust</strong> was that of <strong>blue</strong> (<a href="#青">青 (qing1, blue)</a>) underwear</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#疫情">疫情 (yi4 qing2, epidemic situation)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="犬"><a class="anchor" href="#犬"></a><a class="link" href="#犬">42.1.75. 犬 (quan3, dog)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: imagine one <strong>big</strong> (<a href="#大">大 (da4, big)</a>) <strong>dog</strong> wagging its tail, the extra dot is the tail</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 犭</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#状">状 (zhuang4, shape)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="人"><a class="anchor" href="#人"></a><a class="link" href="#人">42.1.76. 人 (ren2, person)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 亻</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#仑">仑 (lun2, logic)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#歹人">歹人 (dai3 ren2, villain)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="日"><a class="anchor" href="#日"></a><a class="link" href="#日">42.1.77. 日 (ri4, sun)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#旦">旦 (dan4, dawn)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#白">白 (bai2, white)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="肉"><a class="anchor" href="#肉"></a><a class="link" href="#肉">42.1.78. 肉 (rou4, meat)</a></h4>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="勺"><a class="anchor" href="#勺"></a><a class="link" href="#勺">42.1.79. 勺 (shao2, wrap sandwitch)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: it is something that you would put inside <strong>plastic wrap</strong> (<a href="#勹">勹 (bao1, plastic wrap)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: this is one of the main words for spoon, but that mnemonic is already taken by the Kangxi <a href="#匕">匕 (bi3, spoon)</a>, so we had to go for something else.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#的">的 (de, my)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="申"><a class="anchor" href="#申"></a><a class="link" href="#申">42.1.80. 申 (shen1, God)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: TODO</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#神">神 (shen2, The Greek Gods)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="神"><a class="anchor" href="#神"></a><a class="link" href="#神">42.1.81. 神 (shen2, The Greek Gods)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>God</strong> <a href="#申">申 (shen1, God)</a> <strong>spirit</strong> (<a href="#示">示 (shi4, spirit)</a>)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="审"><a class="anchor" href="#审"></a><a class="link" href="#审">42.1.82. 审 (shen3, inspect)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: if you are going to <strong>inspect</strong> what’s making those noises on the <strong>roof</strong> (<a href="#宀">宀 (mian2, roof)</a>), you will certainly find that it was <strong>God</strong> (<a href="#申">申 (shen1, God)</a>)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="生"><a class="anchor" href="#生"></a><a class="link" href="#生">42.1.83. 生 (sheng1, be born, birth)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: as soon as the prince <strong>was born</strong> <a href="#生">生 (sheng1, be born, birth)</a>, only <strong>one</strong> (<a href="#一">一 (yi1, one)</a>) <strong>crown</strong> <a href="#龶">龶 (-, crown)</a> was put on his head, not two as expected since he was the child of the rulers of kingdoms</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#生存">生存 (sheng1 cun2, survive)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="十"><a class="anchor" href="#十"></a><a class="link" href="#十">42.1.84. 十 (shi2, ten)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#单">单 (dan1, bill)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="时"><a class="anchor" href="#时"></a><a class="link" href="#时">42.1.85. 时 (shi2, time)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: if the <strong>sun</strong> (<a href="#日">日 (ri4, sun)</a>) moves an <strong>inch</strong> (<a href="#寸">寸 (cun4, inch)</a>) in the sky, then that means that 1 minute of <strong>time</strong> has passed</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#临时">临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="使"><a class="anchor" href="#使"></a><a class="link" href="#使">42.1.86. 使 (shi3, TODO)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: TODO <a href="#人">人 (ren2, person)</a> 吏</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>make someone become some way</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#what-doesn-t-kill-me-makes-me-stronger">What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>here we see the common pattern "使 someone 更 something" meaning: "make someone become more something"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="示"><a class="anchor" href="#示"></a><a class="link" href="#示">42.1.87. 示 (shi4, spirit)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 礻</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: imagine <strong>two</strong> <a href="#二">二 (er4, two)</a> <strong>small</strong> <a href="#小">小 (xiao3, small)</a> child <strong>spirits</strong> playing with one another, maybe they died during a nuclear explosion and never noticed what happened</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#神">神 (shen2, The Greek Gods)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="水"><a class="anchor" href="#水"></a><a class="link" href="#水">42.1.88. 水 (shui3, water)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 氵,氺</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chars:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#治">治 (zhi4, cure)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="厶"><a class="anchor" href="#厶"></a><a class="link" href="#厶">42.1.89. 厶 (si1, private)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Chars:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#台">台 (tai2, platform)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#私">私 (si1, privacy)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#云">云 (yun2, cloud)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="私"><a class="anchor" href="#私"></a><a class="link" href="#私">42.1.90. 私 (si1, privacy)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>privacy</strong> is all about storing your precious <strong>grain</strong> (<a href="#禾">禾 (he2, grain)</a>) in a <strong>private</strong> (<a href="#厶">厶 (si1, private)</a>) location</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="殳"><a class="anchor" href="#殳"></a><a class="link" href="#殳">42.1.91. 殳 (shu1, coffee)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: his <strong>coffee</strong> keeps falling from the <strong>side table</strong> (<a href="#几">几 (ji3, side table)</a>) on the floor <strong>again</strong> (<a href="#又">又 (you4, again)</a>) and again</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#没">没 (mei2, not have)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#疫">疫 (yi4, epidemic)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Note: this shows what a 殳 weapon actually was: <a href="http://wenzhengwenhua.com/article-2023-1.html" class="bare">http://wenzhengwenhua.com/article-2023-1.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#青铜兵器之殳简介">青铜兵器之"殳"简介 (qing1 tong2, An introduction to the bronze weapon "shu" (殳))</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="树"><a class="anchor" href="#树"></a><a class="link" href="#树">42.1.92. 树 (shu4, trees)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: it is <strong>correct</strong> (<a href="#对">对 (dui4, correct)</a>) to say that <strong>trees</strong> (树) are made out of of <strong>wood</strong> (<a href="#木">木 (mu4, wood, tree)</a>)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="讨"><a class="anchor" href="#讨"></a><a class="link" href="#讨">42.1.93. 讨 (tao3, discuss)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: in their <strong>discussions</strong> (<a href="#讨论">讨论 (tao3 luan4, discuss)</a>), they always <strong>talked</strong> (<a href="#言">言 (yan2, speak, say)</a>) about how his penis was only one <strong>inch</strong> <a href="#寸">寸 (cun4, inch)</a> long</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#讨论">讨论 (tao3 luan4, discuss)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="台"><a class="anchor" href="#台"></a><a class="link" href="#台">42.1.94. 台 (tai2, platform)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: he was doing something <strong>private</strong> (<a href="#厶">厶 (si1, private)</a>) to her with his <strong>mouth</strong> (<a href="#口">口 (kou3, mouth)</a>) on the train <strong>platform</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#治">治 (zhi4, cure)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#台湾">台湾 (tai2 wan1, Taiwan)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="田"><a class="anchor" href="#田"></a><a class="link" href="#田">42.1.95. 田 (tian1, field)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#单">单 (dan1, bill)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="体"><a class="anchor" href="#体"></a><a class="link" href="#体">42.1.96. 体 (ti3, body)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the Irish <strong>people</strong> <a href="#人">人 (ren2, person)</a> eat so much <strong>potato</strong> (<a href="#本">本 (ben3, potato)</a>) that 90% of their <strong>bodies</strong> are made out of potato molecules</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#体重">体重 (ti3 zhong4, body weight)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="土"><a class="anchor" href="#土"></a><a class="link" href="#土">42.1.97. 土 (tu3, soil)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: the normal Kangxi translation is "earth", but we are afraid that this could be ambiguous with the "Planet Earth", so choosing soil instead</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸">幸 (xing4, luck)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="亠"><a class="anchor" href="#亠"></a><a class="link" href="#亠">42.1.98. 亠 (tou2, pan lid)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#言">言 (yan2, speak, say)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#六">六 (liu4, six)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="王"><a class="anchor" href="#王"></a><a class="link" href="#王">42.1.99. 王 (wang2, king)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#龶">龶 (-, crown)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="勿"><a class="anchor" href="#勿"></a><a class="link" href="#勿">42.1.100. 勿 (wu4, atom)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: atoms are part of <strong>matter</strong> <a href="#物">物 (wu4, matter [Physics])</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="物"><a class="anchor" href="#物"></a><a class="link" href="#物">42.1.101. 物 (wu4, matter [Physics])</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>cows</strong> (<a href="#牛">牛 (niu2, cow)</a>) are made of <strong>atoms</strong> (<a href="#勿">勿 (wu4, atom)</a>), both of which are made of <strong>matter</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#物理">物理 (wu4 li3, Physics)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="夕"><a class="anchor" href="#夕"></a><a class="link" href="#夕">42.1.102. 夕 (xi1, evening)</a></h4>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="小"><a class="anchor" href="#小"></a><a class="link" href="#小">42.1.103. 小 (xiao3, small)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: ⺌,⺍</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#尔">尔 (er3, you)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#示">示 (shi4, spirit)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="心"><a class="anchor" href="#心"></a><a class="link" href="#心">42.1.104. 心 (xin1, heart)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 忄,⺗</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: Kangxi 42.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#情">情 (qing2, lust)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="幸"><a class="anchor" href="#幸"></a><a class="link" href="#幸">42.1.105. 幸 (xing4, luck)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: you will have much better <strong>luck</strong> cycling when the <strong>soil</strong> (<a href="#土">土 (tu3, soil)</a>) is <strong>dry</strong> (<a href="#干">干 (gan1, dry)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#不幸">不幸 (bu4 xing4, unlucky)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸运">幸运 (xing4 yun4, lucky)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸存">幸运 (xing4 cun2, survive)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="性"><a class="anchor" href="#性"></a><a class="link" href="#性">42.1.106. 性 (xing4, sex)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: to <strong>give birth</strong> <a href="#生">生 (sheng1, be born, birth)</a> to a <strong>person</strong> <a href="#人">人 (ren2, person)</a> you must first have <strong>sex</strong> <a href="#性">性 (xing4, sex)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#性交">性交 (xing4 jiao1, sexual intercourse)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>suffix randomly added after adjective</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#临时性团队的组建和管理">临时性团队的组建和管理 (lin2 shi2, Forming and managing a temporary team)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>here for example, 性 modifies <a href="#临时">临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)</a>, literally "a group group (团队) of temporary nature"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="言"><a class="anchor" href="#言"></a><a class="link" href="#言">42.1.107. 言 (yan2, speak, say)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 讠</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: imagine <strong>two</strong> (<a href="#二">二 (er4, two)</a>) flying <strong>mouths</strong> (<a href="#口">口 (kou3, mouth)</a>) trying to speak, but they can’t because a plastic <strong>lid</strong> (<a href="#亠">亠 (tou2, pan lid)</a>) has been placed on them</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="炎"><a class="anchor" href="#炎"></a><a class="link" href="#炎">42.1.108. 炎 (yan2, inflammation)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: getting burnt by two <strong>fires</strong> (<a href="#火">火 (huo3, fire)</a>) tends to cause skin inflammation</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎">肺炎 (fei4 yan2, pneumonia)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="一"><a class="anchor" href="#一"></a><a class="link" href="#一">42.1.109. 一 (yi1, one)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#禾">禾 (he2, grain)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="衣"><a class="anchor" href="#衣"></a><a class="link" href="#衣">42.1.110. 衣 (yi1, clothes)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: ⻂</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: <a href="#衣服">衣服 (yi1 fu, clothes)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters: <a href="#表">表 (biao3, watch [device])</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="乂"><a class="anchor" href="#乂"></a><a class="link" href="#乂">42.1.111. 乂 (yi4, balance)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: balance. Looks like a balance, and it is the symbol of <strong>justice</strong> <a href="#义">义 (yi4, justice)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#交">交 (jiao1, exchange student)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="义"><a class="anchor" href="#义"></a><a class="link" href="#义">42.1.112. 义 (yi4, justice)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: a <strong>balance</strong> <a href="#乂">乂 (yi4, balance)</a> is the symbol of <strong>justice</strong> <a href="#义">义 (yi4, justice)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="疫"><a class="anchor" href="#疫"></a><a class="link" href="#疫">42.1.113. 疫 (yi4, epidemic)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the world’s greatest <strong>epidemic</strong> which is making people <strong>sick</strong> (<a href="#疒">疒 (ne4, sick)</a>) is <strong>coffee</strong> (<a href="#殳">殳 (shu1, coffee)</a>) drinking</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#疫情">疫情 (yi4 qing2, epidemic situation)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="又"><a class="anchor" href="#又"></a><a class="link" href="#又">42.1.114. 又 (you4, again)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#对">对 (dui4, correct)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="元"><a class="anchor" href="#元"></a><a class="link" href="#元">42.1.115. 元 (yuan2, first)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: my <strong>first</strong> <strong>son</strong> (<a href="#儿">儿 (er2, son)</a>) had <strong>two</strong> (<a href="#二">二 (er4, two)</a>) legs, but the second one had three!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="月"><a class="anchor" href="#月"></a><a class="link" href="#月">42.1.116. 月 (yue4, moon)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#青">青 (qing1, blue)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="云"><a class="anchor" href="#云"></a><a class="link" href="#云">42.1.117. 云 (yun2, cloud)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: she made <strong>two</strong> (<a href="#二">二 (er4, two)</a>) <strong>private</strong> (<a href="#厶">厶 (si1, private)</a>) farts in her home, but that produced a fart <strong>cloud</strong> that surrounded her for the rest of the week</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#动">动 (dong4, move)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#运">运 (yun4, sports)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="运"><a class="anchor" href="#运"></a><a class="link" href="#运">42.1.118. 运 (yun4, sports)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: the most watched <strong>sport</strong> in heaven is that <strong>cloud</strong> (<a href="#云">云 (yun2, cloud)</a>) speed <strong>walking</strong> (<a href="#辵">辵 (chuo4, walk)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#运动">运动 (yun4 dong4, sports)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸运">幸运 (xing4 yun4, lucky)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="爪"><a class="anchor" href="#爪"></a><a class="link" href="#爪">42.1.119. 爪 (zhao3, claws)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Short forms: 爫</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#爬">爬 (pa2, climb)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="政"><a class="anchor" href="#政"></a><a class="link" href="#政">42.1.120. 政 (zheng4, politics)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: to do <strong>politics</strong> in China, you have to <strong>tap</strong> (<a href="#攴">攴 (pu1, to tap)</a>) those <a href="#xinjiang">Uyghurs</a> on the shoulder and tell them to <strong>straighten</strong> (<a href="#正">正 (zheng4, straighten)</a>) their backs</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#政治">政治 (zheng4 zhi4, politics)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="正"><a class="anchor" href="#正"></a><a class="link" href="#正">42.1.121. 正 (zheng4, straighten)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <strong>one</strong> (<a href="#一">一 (yi1, one)</a>) <strong>stop</strong> (<a href="#止">止 (zhi3, stop)</a>) at the bone doctor is all it takes to <strong>straighten</strong> up your hurting back</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#政">政 (zheng4, politics)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="之"><a class="anchor" href="#之"></a><a class="link" href="#之">42.1.122. 之 (zhi1)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the preceding sentence modifies the following sentence</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#青铜兵器之殳简介">青铜兵器之"殳"简介 (qing1 tong2, An introduction to the bronze weapon "shu" (殳))</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>here for example "青铜兵器" describes "殳" as in "'Shu', the bronze weapon".</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#海外生存之惑">海外生存之惑 (hai3 wai4, The puzzle of surviving abroad (of China))</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/の">の</a> (no) in Japanese, as can be seen from <a href="#agnes-chow">Agnes Chow (周庭)</a>'s Japanese nickname "民主の女神".</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="止"><a class="anchor" href="#止"></a><a class="link" href="#止">42.1.123. 止 (zhi3, stop)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#正">正 (zheng4, straighten)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#禁止">禁止 (jin4 zhi3, forbidden)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="治"><a class="anchor" href="#治"></a><a class="link" href="#治">42.1.124. 治 (zhi4, cure)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: she <strong>cured</strong> him from his heat stroke with water <strong>water</strong> (<a href="#水">水 (shui3, water)</a>) right on the train <strong>platform</strong> (<a href="#台">台 (tai2, platform)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#治愈">治愈 (zhi4 yu4, recover from a disease, be cured from a disease)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#政治">政治 (zheng4 zhi4, politics)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="重"><a class="anchor" href="#重"></a><a class="link" href="#重">42.1.125. 重 (zhong4, dumbbell)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: the best exercise to get fit is to carry <strong>one thousand</strong> (<a href="#千">千 (qian2, thousand)</a>) <strong>dumbells</strong> over one thousand <strong>miles</strong> (<a href="#里">里 (li3, mile)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#体重">体重 (ti3 zhong4, body weight)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="状"><a class="anchor" href="#状"></a><a class="link" href="#状">42.1.126. 状 (zhuang4, shape)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: imagine a <strong>dog</strong> (<a href="#犬">犬 (quan3, dog)</a>) model <strong>shaped</strong> from <strong>split wood</strong> pieces (<a href="#丬">丬 (qiang2, split wood)</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>冠状病毒: <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="子"><a class="anchor" href="#子"></a><a class="link" href="#子">42.1.127. 子 (zi, child)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: Kangxi 39.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#存">存 (cun2, survive)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="english-words"><a class="anchor" href="#english-words"></a><a class="link" href="#english-words">42.2. English words</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Format:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>[[<<english-word>>]]
==== <<english-word>> (<<chinese-translation>>, <<chinese-translation>>)
* <<chinese-translation>>: <<explanation of this usage>>
* <<chinese-translation>>: <<explanation of this usage>></pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This section exists mostly to disambiguate the multiple possible Chinese translations of a given English word.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="close"><a class="anchor" href="#close"></a><a class="link" href="#close">42.2.1. Close (关, 合)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>关 TODO</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>合 TODO close a book</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="list"><a class="anchor" href="#list"></a><a class="link" href="#list">42.2.2. List (清单, 列表)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#清单">清单 (qing1 dan1, list)</a>: a small list created by one person for a particular purpose as in: <a href="#购物清单">购物清单 (gou4 wu4 qing1 dan1, shopping list)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#列表">列表 (lie4 biao3, list)</a>: an infinite list of all possible things of a given type as in: <a href="#现有王位觊觎者列表">现有王位觊觎者列表 (xian4 you3, List of current throne pretenders)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#榜">榜 (bang3)</a>: list of people. <a href="https://github.com/NodeBE4/hero" class="bare">https://github.com/NodeBE4/hero</a> 自由人的英雄榜 "List of fredom heroes"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="for-example"><a class="anchor" href="#for-example"></a><a class="link" href="#for-example">42.2.3. For example (例如)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#例如">例如 (li4 ru2, for example)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="survive"><a class="anchor" href="#survive"></a><a class="link" href="#survive">42.2.4. Survive (幸存, 生存)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸存">幸运 (xing4 cun2, survive)</a>: survive one specific catastrophe as in: <a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#生存">生存 (sheng1 cun2, survive)</a>: survive in more general terms, i.e. to earn enough food/money to live as in: <a href="#生存游戏">生存游戏 (sheng1 cun2 you2 xi4, survival game)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="unlucky"><a class="anchor" href="#unlucky"></a><a class="link" href="#unlucky">42.2.5. Unlucky (不幸)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#不幸">不幸 (bu4 xing4, unlucky)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinese-words"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-words"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-words">42.3. Chinese words</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Format:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>[[<word>]]
=== <word> (<pinyin>, <main-translation>)
Characters:
* <character-contained>
* <character-contained>
Words:
* <word-containing>
* <word-containing>
Subwords:
* <word-contained>
* <word-contained>
Translations:
* <<english-word>>
** <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
*** <<note-on-this-sentence>>
Sentences:
* <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
** <<note-on-this-sentence>>
Notes:
* <<random text>></pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>translations is useful if there are multiple possible English translations, and examples if it is more one-to-one with the <code>main-translation</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Sentences" is like "Translations", but for when the header translation is enough and there are not multiple meanings, so no need to repeat the English word again</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>mnemonics are mostly useful for proper nouns, for common nouns, it is usually obvious from the composing characters. This is why Chinese is amazing.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="巴西"><a class="anchor" href="#巴西"></a><a class="link" href="#巴西">42.3.1. 巴西 (ba1 xi1, Brazil)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#巴">巴 (ba1, Brazil)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>西</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="不幸"><a class="anchor" href="#不幸"></a><a class="link" href="#不幸">42.3.2. 不幸 (bu4 xing4, unlucky)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#不">不 (bu4, not)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸">幸 (xing4, luck)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="歹人"><a class="anchor" href="#歹人"></a><a class="link" href="#歹人">42.3.3. 歹人 (dai3 ren2, villain)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#歹">歹 (dai3, supervillain)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#人">人 (ren2, person)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="等等"><a class="anchor" href="#等等"></a><a class="link" href="#等等">42.3.4. 等等 (deng3 deng3, etcetera)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#等">等 (deng3, etcetera)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等">目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作，例如武汉大学、南京大学等等 (mu4 qian2, At present, that website also cooperates with the libraries of universities in China and abroad such as Wuhan University, Nanjing University, etc.)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="肺炎"><a class="anchor" href="#肺炎"></a><a class="link" href="#肺炎">42.3.5. 肺炎 (fei4 yan2, pneumonia)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺">肺 (fei4, lungs)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#炎">炎 (yan2, inflammation)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>This was one of the most common ways to refer to <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="冠状病毒"><a class="anchor" href="#冠状病毒"></a><a class="link" href="#冠状病毒">42.3.6. 冠状病毒 (guan1 zhuang4 bing4 du2, Corona virus)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#冠">冠 (guan1, corona)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="购物清单"><a class="anchor" href="#购物清单"></a><a class="link" href="#购物清单">42.3.7. 购物清单 (gou4 wu4 qing1 dan1, shopping list)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Subwords:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>购物 TODO</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#清单">清单 (qing1 dan1, list)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#购物清单APP即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了">购物清单APP，即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了 (gou4 wu4, With a shopping list APP, even if you are crazy about shopping you don’t need to worry anymore)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="禁止"><a class="anchor" href="#禁止"></a><a class="link" href="#禁止">42.3.8. 禁止 (jin4 zhi3, forbidden)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#禁">禁 (jin4, forbid)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#止">止 (zhi3, stop)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="禁运"><a class="anchor" href="#禁运"></a><a class="link" href="#禁运">42.3.9. 禁运 (jin4 yun4, embargo)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#禁">禁 (jin4, forbid)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#运">运 (yun4, sports)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="理论"><a class="anchor" href="#理论"></a><a class="link" href="#理论">42.3.10. 理论 (li3 lun4, logic)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#理">理 (li3, science)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#论">论 (lun4, rationale)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="临时"><a class="anchor" href="#临时"></a><a class="link" href="#临时">42.3.11. 临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#临">临 (lin2, temporary)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#时">时 (shi2, time)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#临时工">临时 (lin2 shi2 gong1, temporary work, day labour)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算">中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算 (zhong1 fan4, The backstory behind the temporary Bishop appointment agreement reached between China and the Vatican)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="临时工"><a class="anchor" href="#临时工"></a><a class="link" href="#临时工">42.3.12. 临时 (lin2 shi2 gong1, temporary work, day labour)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Subwords:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#临时">临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_labor" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_labor</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="列表"><a class="anchor" href="#列表"></a><a class="link" href="#列表">42.3.13. 列表 (lie4 biao3, list)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#list">List (清单, 列表)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#列">列 (lie4, list)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#表">表 (biao3, watch [device])</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#现有王位觊觎者列表">现有王位觊觎者列表 (xian4 you3, List of current throne pretenders)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#中国大陆网络用语列表">中国大陆网络用语列表 (zhog4 guo2, List of Mainland China Internet vocabulary)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="例如"><a class="anchor" href="#例如"></a><a class="link" href="#例如">42.3.14. 例如 (li4 ru2, for example)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#for-example">For example (例如)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等">目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作，例如武汉大学、南京大学等等 (mu4 qian2, At present, that website also cooperates with the libraries of universities in China and abroad such as Wuhan University, Nanjing University, etc.)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>例 TODO</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>如 TODO</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>vs 比如 TODO <a href="https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/17537/what-is-the-difference-between-比如-and-例如" class="bare">https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/17537/what-is-the-difference-between-比如-and-例如</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="六"><a class="anchor" href="#六"></a><a class="link" href="#六">42.3.15. 六 (liu4, six)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: we had <strong>eight</strong> <a href="#八">八 (ba1, eight)</a> <strong>pan lids</strong> <a href="#亠">亠 (tou2, pan lid)</a>, but two broke, so we have <strong>six</strong> <a href="#六">六 (liu4, six)</a> left</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#交">交 (jiao1, exchange student)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="木头"><a class="anchor" href="#木头"></a><a class="link" href="#木头">42.3.16. 木头 (mu4 tou, wood, timber or log)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#木">木 (mu4, wood, tree)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>头</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="爬行"><a class="anchor" href="#爬行"></a><a class="link" href="#爬行">42.3.17. 爬行 (pa2 xing2, crawl)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>crawl</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行">大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行 (Most babies learn to crawl between 6 and 10 months)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#爬">爬 (pa2, climb)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>行</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="清单"><a class="anchor" href="#清单"></a><a class="link" href="#清单">42.3.18. 清单 (qing1 dan1, list)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#清">清 (qing1, clear)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#单">单 (dan1, bill)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#list">List (清单, 列表)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#购物清单">购物清单 (gou4 wu4 qing1 dan1, shopping list)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="青铜"><a class="anchor" href="#青铜"></a><a class="link" href="#青铜">42.3.19. 青铜 (qing1 tong2, bronze)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#青">青 (qing1, blue)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>铜 TODO copper</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#青铜兵器之殳简介">青铜兵器之"殳"简介 (qing1 tong2, An introduction to the bronze weapon "shu" (殳))</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="审查"><a class="anchor" href="#审查"></a><a class="link" href="#审查">42.3.20. 审查 (shen3 cha2, censor)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#审">审 (shen3, inspect)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#查">查 (cha2, check)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="生存"><a class="anchor" href="#生存"></a><a class="link" href="#生存">42.3.21. 生存 (sheng1 cun2, survive)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations: <a href="#survive">Survive (幸存, 生存)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#生">生 (sheng1, be born, birth)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#存">存 (cun2, survive)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#生存游戏">生存游戏 (sheng1 cun2 you2 xi4, survival game)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积生存物资几个月了">有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积生存物资几个月了？ (you3 duo1, How many people are like me and have been actively hoarding survival supplies for several months?)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="生存游戏"><a class="anchor" href="#生存游戏"></a><a class="link" href="#生存游戏">42.3.22. 生存游戏 (sheng1 cun2 you2 xi4, survival game)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Subwords:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#生存">生存 (sheng1 cun2, survive)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>游戏 TODO</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/生存遊戲_(電子遊戲" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/生存遊戲_(電子遊戲</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="台湾"><a class="anchor" href="#台湾"></a><a class="link" href="#台湾">42.3.23. 台湾 (tai2 wan1, Taiwan)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mnemonic: <a href="#台">台 (tai2, platform)</a> 湾 TODO</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="讨论"><a class="anchor" href="#讨论"></a><a class="link" href="#讨论">42.3.24. 讨论 (tao3 luan4, discuss)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#讨">讨 (tao3, discuss)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#论">论 (lun4, rationale)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="体重"><a class="anchor" href="#体重"></a><a class="link" href="#体重">42.3.25. 体重 (ti3 zhong4, body weight)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#体">体 (ti3, body)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#重">重 (zhong4, dumbbell)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#测量体重">测量体重 (Measure body weight, to weight oneself)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="物理"><a class="anchor" href="#物理"></a><a class="link" href="#物理">42.3.26. 物理 (wu4 li3, Physics)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#物">物 (wu4, matter [Physics])</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#理">理 (li3, science)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="幸存"><a class="anchor" href="#幸存"></a><a class="link" href="#幸存">42.3.27. 幸运 (xing4 cun2, survive)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations: <a href="#survive">Survive (幸存, 生存)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸">幸 (xing4, luck)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#存">存 (cun2, survive)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>we can see that this can be used as in "to survive a specific catastrophe"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="幸运"><a class="anchor" href="#幸运"></a><a class="link" href="#幸运">42.3.28. 幸运 (xing4 yun4, lucky)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#幸">幸 (xing4, luck)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#运">运 (yun4, sports)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="性交"><a class="anchor" href="#性交"></a><a class="link" href="#性交">42.3.29. 性交 (xing4 jiao1, sexual intercourse)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#性">性 (xing4, sex)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#交">交 (jiao1, exchange student)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="衣服"><a class="anchor" href="#衣服"></a><a class="link" href="#衣服">42.3.30. 衣服 (yi1 fu, clothes)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#衣">衣 (yi1, clothes)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>服</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="疫情"><a class="anchor" href="#疫情"></a><a class="link" href="#疫情">42.3.31. 疫情 (yi4 qing2, epidemic situation)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#疫">疫 (yi4, epidemic)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#情">情 (qing2, lust)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="元旦"><a class="anchor" href="#元旦"></a><a class="link" href="#元旦">42.3.32. 元旦 (yuan2 dan4, (Chinese) New Year’s day)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#元">元 (yuan2, first)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#旦">旦 (dan4, dawn)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="运动"><a class="anchor" href="#运动"></a><a class="link" href="#运动">42.3.33. 运动 (yun4 dong4, sports)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#运">运 (yun4, sports)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#动">动 (dong4, move)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="政治"><a class="anchor" href="#政治"></a><a class="link" href="#政治">42.3.34. 政治 (zheng4 zhi4, politics)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#政">政 (zheng4, politics)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#治">治 (zhi4, cure)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="治愈"><a class="anchor" href="#治愈"></a><a class="link" href="#治愈">42.3.35. 治愈 (zhi4 yu4, recover from a disease, be cured from a disease)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Characters:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#治">治 (zhi4, cure)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>愈</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="chinese-sentences"><a class="anchor" href="#chinese-sentences"></a><a class="link" href="#chinese-sentences">42.4. Chinese sentences</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Format:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>[[<chinese-sentence>]]
==== <chinese-sentence> (<<translation>>)
Source: <<source-url>> (<<source-url-archive>>)
Context: <<context>>
Words: <<sentence-with-linked-breakdown>>
Sentences: <<example>>
Translations:
* <<english-translation-1>>
* <<english-translation-2>></pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>Sentences</code>: is mostly for when you have a smaller colloquial phrase that feels too generic for a "word", but which can also go inside a larger "super-sentence"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="测量体重"><a class="anchor" href="#测量体重"></a><a class="link" href="#测量体重">42.4.1. 测量体重 (Measure body weight, to weight oneself)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/30477989" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/30477989</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>测量 TODO</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#体重">体重 (ti3 zhong4, body weight)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sentences:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>有哪些有趣的测量体重的方法？ What are some interesting ways of measuring your weight?</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/30477989" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/30477989</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>怎么正确的测量体重？什么时候的体重是标准的？ How to correctly measure your weight? What is the time of the day at which a weight measure is considered standard?</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Source: <a href="https://jingyan.baidu.com/article/375c8e19e9727025f2a229e3.html" class="bare">https://jingyan.baidu.com/article/375c8e19e9727025f2a229e3.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行"><a class="anchor" href="#大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行"></a><a class="link" href="#大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行">42.4.2. 大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行 (Most babies learn to crawl between 6 and 10 months)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://baike.pcbaby.com.cn/qzbd/13387.html" class="bare">https://baike.pcbaby.com.cn/qzbd/13387.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180213164914/https://baike.pcbaby.com.cn/qzbd/13387.html">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: 大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会<a href="#爬行">爬行 (pa2 xing2, crawl)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人"><a class="anchor" href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人"></a><a class="link" href="#肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人">42.4.3. 肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者："我是不幸之中幸运的人" (Wuhan survivor after the pneumonia epidemic: "I am a lucky one amongst the unlucky")</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51527843" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51527843</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Context: The article is about a man who survived because he asked for help online, and netizens helped him out and he survived.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: <a href="#肺炎">肺炎 (fei4 yan2, pneumonia)</a><a href="#疫情">疫情 (yi4 qing2, epidemic situation)</a>下<a href="#的">的 (de, my)</a>武汉<a href="#幸存">幸运 (xing4 cun2, survive)</a>者："我是<a href="#不幸">不幸 (bu4 xing4, unlucky)</a>之中<a href="#幸运">幸运 (xing4 yun4, lucky)</a><a href="#的">的 (de, my)</a><a href="#人">人 (ren2, person)</a>"</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="购物清单APP即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了"><a class="anchor" href="#购物清单APP即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了"></a><a class="link" href="#购物清单APP即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了">42.4.4. 购物清单APP，即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了 (gou4 wu4, With a shopping list APP, even if you are crazy about shopping you don’t need to worry anymore)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/27498655" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/27498655</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: <a href="#购物清单">购物清单 (gou4 wu4 qing1 dan1, shopping list)</a>APP，即使<a href="#你">你 (ni3, thou)</a>是购物狂也不用再担心了</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="海外生存之惑"><a class="anchor" href="#海外生存之惑"></a><a class="link" href="#海外生存之惑">42.4.5. 海外生存之惑 (hai3 wai4, The puzzle of surviving abroad (of China))</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/ukchina/simp/uk_life/contributions/2013/04/130409_life_foreigner_britain_home.shtml?MOB" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/ukchina/simp/uk_life/contributions/2013/04/130409_life_foreigner_britain_home.shtml?MOB</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: 海外生存<a href="#之">之 (zhi1)</a>惑</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: this is the name of a 2013 series of lifestyle articles by BBC Chinese for Chinese living abroad (in the UK)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等"><a class="anchor" href="#目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等"></a><a class="link" href="#目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作例如武汉大学南京大学等等">42.4.6. 目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作，例如武汉大学、南京大学等等 (mu4 qian2, At present, that website also cooperates with the libraries of universities in China and abroad such as Wuhan University, Nanjing University, etc.)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/35931336/answer/228278520" class="bare">https://www.zhihu.com/question/35931336/answer/228278520</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200502080357/https://www.zhihu.com/question/35931336">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: 目前该网站也和国内外很多大学的图书馆有合作，<a href="#例如">例如 (li4 ru2, for example)</a>武汉大学、南京大学<a href="#等等">等等 (deng3 deng3, etcetera)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="青铜兵器之殳简介"><a class="anchor" href="#青铜兵器之殳简介"></a><a class="link" href="#青铜兵器之殳简介">42.4.7. 青铜兵器之"殳"简介 (qing1 tong2, An introduction to the bronze weapon "shu" (殳))</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="http://wenzhengwenhua.com/article-2023-1.html" class="bare">http://wenzhengwenhua.com/article-2023-1.html</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: <a href="#青铜">青铜 (qing1 tong2, bronze)</a>兵器<a href="#之">之 (zhi1)</a>"殳"简介</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="任何不能杀死你的都会使你更强大"><a class="anchor" href="#任何不能杀死你的都会使你更强大"></a><a class="link" href="#任何不能杀死你的都会使你更强大">42.4.8. 任何不能杀死你的，都会使你更强大 (ren4 he2, What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/242761276.html" class="bare">https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/242761276.html</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200525084055/https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/242761276.html">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#使">使 (shi3, TODO)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="现有王位觊觎者列表"><a class="anchor" href="#现有王位觊觎者列表"></a><a class="link" href="#现有王位觊觎者列表">42.4.9. 现有王位觊觎者列表 (xian4 you3, List of current throne pretenders)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/現有王位覬覦者列表" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/現有王位覬覦者列表</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: 现有王位觊觎者<a href="#列表">列表 (lie4 biao3, list)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积生存物资几个月了"><a class="anchor" href="#有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积生存物资几个月了"></a><a class="link" href="#有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积生存物资几个月了">42.4.10. 有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积生存物资几个月了？ (you3 duo1, How many people are like me and have been actively hoarding survival supplies for several months?)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://pincong.rocks/question/22965" class="bare">https://pincong.rocks/question/22965</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200525111018/https://pincong.rocks/question/22965">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: 有多少人像我一样已经积极囤积<a href="#生存">生存 (sheng1 cun2, survive)</a>物资几个月了</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: posted in the context of <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算"><a class="anchor" href="#中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算"></a><a class="link" href="#中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算">42.4.11. 中梵达成主教任命临时协议的背后盘算 (zhong1 fan4, The backstory behind the temporary Bishop appointment agreement reached between China and the Vatican)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-45655881" class="bare">https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-45655881</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190615000612/https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-45655881">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>中梵达成主教任命<a href="#临时">临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)</a>协议的背后盘算</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notes: <a href="#christianity">Christianity (基督教)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="中国大陆网络用语列表"><a class="anchor" href="#中国大陆网络用语列表"></a><a class="link" href="#中国大陆网络用语列表">42.4.12. 中国大陆网络用语列表 (zhog4 guo2, List of Mainland China Internet vocabulary)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国大陆网络用语列表" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国大陆网络用语列表</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: 现有王位觊觎者<a href="#列表">列表 (lie4 biao3, list)</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="临时性团队的组建和管理"><a class="anchor" href="#临时性团队的组建和管理"></a><a class="link" href="#临时性团队的组建和管理">42.4.13. 临时性团队的组建和管理 (lin2 shi2, Forming and managing a temporary team)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/81708802" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/81708802</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200525113721/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/81708802">archive</a>)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Words: <a href="#临时">临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)</a><a href="#性">性 (xing4, sex)</a>团队的组建和管理</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="english-sentences"><a class="anchor" href="#english-sentences"></a><a class="link" href="#english-sentences">42.5. English sentences</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="what-doesn-t-kill-me-makes-me-stronger"><a class="anchor" href="#what-doesn-t-kill-me-makes-me-stronger"></a><a class="link" href="#what-doesn-t-kill-me-makes-me-stronger">42.5.1. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_does_not_kill_me_makes_me_stronger" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_does_not_kill_me_makes_me_stronger</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Translations:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#任何不能杀死你的都会使你更强大">任何不能杀死你的，都会使你更强大 (ren4 he2, What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="military-dictatorship-in-brazil"><a class="anchor" href="#military-dictatorship-in-brazil"></a><a class="link" href="#military-dictatorship-in-brazil">43. Military dictatorship in Brazil (巴西军事独裁, 1964-1985)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_in_Brazil" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_in_Brazil</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27état" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27état</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964年巴西政變" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964年巴西政變</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> is Brazilian, and his parents lived through this dictatorship.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Created with the help of…​ the <a href="#united-states">United States (美国)</a>, while fighting the Cold War to prevent the spread of Communism. <a href="https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Litany_Against_Fear">Fear is the mind killer</a>, and the Cold War served as an excuse for many atrocities, notably in the <a href="#middle-east">Middle East (中东)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#united-states-involvement-in-regime-change-in-latin-america">United States involvement in regime change in Latin America</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One of Ciro’s favorite stories about the dictatorship is how cake recipes or classical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luís_de_Camões">Luís_de_Camões (1524-1580)</a> poetry were introduced in newspapers to replace news that had been <a href="#censorship">censored</a> in the last minute:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/j57exd/how-cake-became-a-form-of-resistance-under-brazils-military-dictatorship" class="bare">https://www.vice.com/en/article/j57exd/how-cake-became-a-form-of-resistance-under-brazils-military-dictatorship</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>(pt) <a href="http://www.memorialdademocracia.com.br/card/noticia-censurada-da-lugar-a-camoes" class="bare">http://www.memorialdademocracia.com.br/card/noticia-censurada-da-lugar-a-camoes</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Who would have thought that even the limiting and ancient limitations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagination">pagination</a> would have their usefulness!!! Today’s Chinese censors have it easy, as they can just remove the stuff and that damned HTML reflow automatically to fit.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXF-9GtHsek" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXF-9GtHsek</a> "These photos sparked a Cold War propaganda feud" by Vox (2021). CCP you should learn from this Brazillian magazine.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/lens/gordon-parks-on-poverty-the-most-savage-of-human-afflictions.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/lens/gordon-parks-on-poverty-the-most-savage-of-human-afflictions.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/post-war-american-art/postwar-photography/a/how-photographs-of-poverty-in-the-americas-ignited-an-international-battle-over-propaganda" class="bare">https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/post-war-american-art/postwar-photography/a/how-photographs-of-poverty-in-the-americas-ignited-an-international-battle-over-propaganda</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://artblart.com/tag/novo-recorde-americano-miseria/" class="bare">https://artblart.com/tag/novo-recorde-americano-miseria/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="apesar-de-voce" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RhKTzVVDno" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RhKTzVVDno</a> Apesar de Você (In spite of you [the Dictatorship])] by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Buarque">Chico Buarque</a> (1970) with English and Spanish subtitles. That video unfortunately mixes anti-dictatorship and anti-Bolsonaro (2020) imagery. A video with better epoch image but no English subtitles can be found at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33-bMTOlvx0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33-bMTOlvx0</a>. This is one of the many anti-Brazilian-dictatorship songs of the time, and Ciro really enjoys it. <a href="https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Chico-Buarque/Apesar-De-Voc%C3%AA/translation/english">Lyrics with translation</a>. Top quotes: "You [the dictatorship] who invented this State, who invented sin, forgot to invent forgiveness." and "Where will you hide, from the enormous euphoria [of a revolution]? How will you prohibit it when the rooster insists in singing?". Slideshows with that song have been made for several events, e.g. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOqaF3shq6o">the Syrian civil war</a>, and Ciro would like to do a China-themed one as well one day.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/33-bMTOlvx0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div id="os-problemas-da-imprensa-livre" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Os_problemas_da_imprensa_livre.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Os problemas da imprensa livre" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 304. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jornal_da_Tarde">Jornal da Tarde</a> (Afternoon Newspaper) issue entitled on top "Os problemas da imprensa livre nas Américas" (The problems of the Free Press), followed by small rectangles with coverage of several countries such as the USA, Cuba, and others, but not Brazil. The bottom half of the page however hilariously contains recipes for "Doces" (Sweets) and "Salgados" (Salted dishes, especially <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hors_d’oeuvre">Hors d’oeuvre</a>), instead of the presumed coverage about Brazil. Possibly dated 1973 based on the top of the image. <a href="http://www.memorialdademocracia.com.br/card/noticia-censurada-da-lugar-a-camoes">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/O_Estado_de_Sao_Paulo_newspaper_censorship_Lusiadas_1974.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper censorship Lusiadas 1974" height="600">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 305. 1974 edition of the nespaper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Estado_de_S._Paulo">O Estado de Sao Paulo</a> with a copy of some verses of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Lusíadas">Os Lusíadas</a> in the middle of the front page, replacing material that was censored on the last minute. Os Lusiadas was written in 1572 and the most important epic poem of the Portuguese language. It is also of course completely irrelevant to anything to do with modern politics of the 1970’s. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> believes however that a related phenomena happens in China in the early 21st century: there is an incredible number of period dramas in Chinese television and cinema. Ciro believes that this is in part because it would be much harder to offend the <a href="#censorship">CCP censors</a> with this kind of old source material. Of course, the effect is that <a href="#dictatorships-are-bad-for-the-arts">Dictatorships are bad for the arts (独裁统治对艺术不好)</a>. <a href="http://www.memorialdademocracia.com.br/card/noticia-censurada-da-lugar-a-camoes">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="india"><a class="anchor" href="#india"></a><a class="link" href="#india">44. India (伊朗)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/印度" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/印度</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="india-covid-handling-twitter-suppression-2021"><a class="anchor" href="#india-covid-handling-twitter-suppression-2021"></a><a class="link" href="#india-covid-handling-twitter-suppression-2021">44.1. India COVID handling Twitter suppression (2021)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#india">India (伊朗)</a> asked <a href="#twitter">Twitter (推特)</a> to take down some Twetts criticizing its handling of <a href="#covid">COVID</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-asks-twitter-take-down-some-tweets-critical-its-covid-19-handling-2021-04-24/" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-asks-twitter-take-down-some-tweets-critical-its-covid-19-handling-2021-04-24/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="indian-farmers-protest-censorship-2021"><a class="anchor" href="#indian-farmers-protest-censorship-2021"></a><a class="link" href="#indian-farmers-protest-censorship-2021">44.2. Indian farmers' protest censorship (2021)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farmers%27_protest" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farmers%27_protest</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020－2021年印度農民抗議" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020－2021年印度農民抗議</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-55898708" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-55898708</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Via <a href="#twitter">Twitter (推特)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/07/twitter-restricts-accounts-in-india-to-comply-with-government-legal-request/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/07/twitter-restricts-accounts-in-india-to-comply-with-government-legal-request/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a id="porkalathil-oru-poo"></a>]]
=== Porkalathil Oru Poo (2915 documentary about Tamil broadcaster Isaipriya)</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkalathil_Oru_Poo" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkalathil_Oru_Poo</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaipriya" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaipriya</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="middle-east"><a class="anchor" href="#middle-east"></a><a class="link" href="#middle-east">45. Middle East (中东)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="iran"><a class="anchor" href="#iran"></a><a class="link" href="#iran">45.1. Iran (伊朗)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊朗" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊朗</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First, never forget about the American-British <a href="#iranian-coup-1953">1953 Iranian coup d’état (TPAJAX Project, Operation Ajax, 1953年伊朗政變)</a> which took down a democracy. They deserve everything they got from it.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Now let’s criticize the Iranian dictatorships that this possibly created.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Ayatollah Tanasoli</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31164583" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31164583</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/tanasoli" class="bare">https://twitter.com/tanasoli</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="iranian-coup-1953"><a class="anchor" href="#iranian-coup-1953"></a><a class="link" href="#iranian-coup-1953">45.1.1. 1953 Iranian coup d’état (TPAJAX Project, Operation Ajax, 1953年伊朗政變)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953年伊朗政變" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953年伊朗政變</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Yes, this was a <a href="#democracy-is-not-perfect">a major fuck up of the West</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="china-iran-relations"><a class="anchor" href="#china-iran-relations"></a><a class="link" href="#china-iran-relations">45.1.2. China-Iran relations (中国－伊朗关系)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Iran_relations" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Iran_relations</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国－伊朗关系" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国－伊朗关系</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Superset: <a href="#dictatorships-tend-to-work-together">Dictatorships tend to work together (独裁政权倾向于合作)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–China_25-year_Cooperation_Program" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–China_25-year_Cooperation_Program</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国－伊朗关系" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国－伊朗关系</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-09 <a href="https://lobelog.com/is-iran-at-risk-of-becoming-a-chinese-colony/" class="bare">https://lobelog.com/is-iran-at-risk-of-becoming-a-chinese-colony/</a> Is Iran At Risk Of Becoming A Chinese Colony?</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="pakistan"><a class="anchor" href="#pakistan"></a><a class="link" href="#pakistan">45.2. Pakistan (巴基斯坦)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/巴基斯坦" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/巴基斯坦</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Pakistan has become a vassal state to China essentially, because China is an ally against their worse enemy: <a href="#india">India (伊朗)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One day, Pakistan might regret this. Supporting a neighboring dictatorship. What will happen when the <a href="#war">dictatorship starts its expansionism</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#pakistan-prime-minister-xinjiang">https://youtube.com/watch?v=YlHPEgE3fjk Pakistan (巴基斯坦) Prime Minister Imran Khan refuses to acknowledge Muslim Uyghur oppression in Xinjiang during interview, cites Chinese money by HBO (2021). Correctly mentions Israel (以色列) in his defense.</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="libya"><a class="anchor" href="#libya"></a><a class="link" href="#libya">45.3. Libya (利比亚)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/利比亚" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/利比亚</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/3J6rU3NUMM0?t=3033" class="bare">https://youtu.be/3J6rU3NUMM0?t=3033</a> HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis (2016) starting at timestamp 50:30 comments on how the United States made Colonel Gaddafi into a fictional supervillain scapegoat, to cover up for their failures in Lebanon, starting by blaming the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Rome_and_Vienna_airport_attacks">1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks</a> on Libya with great certainty, although Italian secret services said it was Syria who was behind it. Gaddafi then did not deny his involvement, and instead used that publicity to bolster his position as a "world revolutionary", including helping the <a href="#racist-west">liberation of blacks in the United States</a> through armed struggle.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 1986, the USA also accused Libya of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing">West Berlin discotheque bombing</a>, once again against European intelligence, and this time the USA decided to retaliate as internal political pressure to "do something" increased.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="the-green-book"><a class="anchor" href="#the-green-book"></a><a class="link" href="#the-green-book">45.3.1. The Green Book</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Book_(Muammar_Gaddafi" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Book_(Muammar_Gaddafi</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/綠皮書_(利比亞" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/綠皮書_(利比亞</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Gadaffi’s <a href="#little-red-book">Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book, 毛主席语录, 1976)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="north-korea"><a class="anchor" href="#north-korea"></a><a class="link" href="#north-korea">46. North Korea (朝鲜)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We don’t talk about North Korea here. What’s the point of talking about a joke nation?</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="russia"><a class="anchor" href="#russia"></a><a class="link" href="#russia">47. Russia (俄罗斯)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Russia is clearly the number 2 <a href="#dictatorship">Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！)</a> in the world by population / GDP and the <a href="https://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report">#1 nuclear arsenal</a>, so here we go.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ciro has always been curious about how Russia can be both oppressive and a appear democratic, unlike China which doesn’t even try to pretend. This is what he gathers:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>the government controls all major media. If any media says bad things against them, the government finds pretexts to create lawsuits or increase taxes against such companies. Therefore all people end up thinking that the government is good.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>just like China, <a href="#evil-west">they emphasize the threat of the foreign countries</a>, especially the US, as a justification for having an oppressive power.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the government puts pressure on any significant opposition candidate. One technique is to find some reason to put them in jail for two months, which by Russian law forbids them from participating in further elections. Only candidates that don’t really stand a chance are left as a fake opposition. But if you reach some prominence, you start taking the same risks as politicians, although you are more likely to face more brutal illegal gangster violence threats as you are less visible</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See also: <a href="#communist-youth-league">Communist Youth League of China (中国共产主义青年团)</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>While we are at it, some interesting news:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2019-12-14 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50902496" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50902496</a> "Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet". Russia’s <a href="#gfw">Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)</a> is ready?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018-04 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43752337" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43752337</a> "Russia to block Telegram app over encryption"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40635267" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40635267</a> Russia Jehovah’s Witnesses banned after they lose appeal</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/2085395/its-now-illegal-russia-share-image-putin-possibly-gay" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/2085395/its-now-illegal-russia-share-image-putin-possibly-gay</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2016 <a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kzgkv3/russians-now-need-a-passport-to-watch-pornhub" class="bare">https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kzgkv3/russians-now-need-a-passport-to-watch-pornhub</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>1995 Vladislav Listyev</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Listyev" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Listyev</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Листьев,_Владислав_Николаевич" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Листьев,_Владислав_Николаевич</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Russians have very different style to the Chinese, who are much more subtle, and just put people in jail or handicap them in several ways without killing them.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other political murders or attempts:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2015 Boris Nemtsov Немцов, Борис Ефимович <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov</a> | <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Немцов,_Борис_Ефимович" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Немцов,_Борис_Ефимович</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some other interesting political suppression lists:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Russian_assassinations">List of Soviet and Russian assassinations</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/" class="bare">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/</a> "Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other random stuff:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#seventeen-moments-of-spring">Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973, 春天的十七个瞬间, Soviet series about a Soviet spy against the Nazis, 关于苏联间谍反对纳粹的苏联系列)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="putin"><a class="anchor" href="#putin"></a><a class="link" href="#putin">47.1. Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путин,_Владимир_Владимирович" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путин,_Владимир_Владимирович</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-12-22 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/22/russias-putin-signs-bill-giving-presidents-lifetime-immunity" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/22/russias-putin-signs-bill-giving-presidents-lifetime-immunity</a> "Russia’s Putin signs bill giving ex-presidents lifetime immunity". Shit is going down.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2019-12-19: Putin proposes abolishing term limits. <a href="#xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03">Learnt from Xi</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-presidential-term-limit-russia-moscow-conference-today-a9253156.html" class="bare">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-presidential-term-limit-russia-moscow-conference-today-a9253156.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-putin-constitution/putin-says-hes-open-to-tweaking-presidential-term-limits-idUKKBN1YN1JO" class="bare">https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-putin-constitution/putin-says-hes-open-to-tweaking-presidential-term-limits-idUKKBN1YN1JO</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-03-25 vote delayed due to <a href="#covid">Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notable dissidents:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Limonov" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Limonov</a> | <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лимонов,_Эдуард_Вениаминович" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лимонов,_Эдуард_Вениаминович</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PutinIsABitch/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/PutinIsABitch/</a> is a Putin appreciation <a href="#reddit">Reddit</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/fAoMzxKkH2M?t=3628" class="bare">https://youtu.be/fAoMzxKkH2M?t=3628</a> Can’t Get You Out of My Head S01E06 "Are We Pigeon Or Are We Dancer" highlights the fact that Putin came to power without a vision, without ideals and without personality. He was clearly just put there by the corrupt oligarchs who controlled the media as an administrator who would favor corruption.</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiI5UuCiEoU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiI5UuCiEoU</a> Russian Youtuber Bashir Dokhov puts Putin portrait in a lift as an opinion poll. TODO evidence that it was not staged, e.g. address, identities of people shown. But in any case, Ciro does feel that as of 2020 Putin’s power is very precarious compared to <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> for example. E.g., whenever Ciro spoke to Russians abroad, they were all able to criticize Putin. But about on third to half of the Chinese abroad were completely brainwahsed and thought China has the best government possible. Original video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeb3MMl3lB4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeb3MMl3lB4</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BiI5UuCiEoU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9igTqTx9s" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9igTqTx9s</a> The Putin Files: Masha Gessen interview with PBS ()</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Kk9igTqTx9s?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="putler"><a class="anchor" href="#putler"></a><a class="link" href="#putler">47.1.1. Vladolf Putler (Владольф Путлер)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putler" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putler</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путлер" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путлер</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Combination os <a href="#putin">Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)</a> and Hitler. Of course the T joins just as nicely both in Russian and English.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Analogous to <a href="#nazi">Xitler</a> for <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Wikipedia also mentions the derived slogan "Путлер Капут" (Putler Kaput)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other images:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022 <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/thanhlong140896/status/1516278294312013824/photo/1" class="bare">https://mobile.twitter.com/thanhlong140896/status/1516278294312013824/photo/1</a> a guy posing on a very clean uniform on purpose for a modern photo, and then likely face swapped</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022 <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/the-time-magazine-cover-that-wasn-t-putin-hitler-picture-amid-ukraine-war-101646111380252.html" class="bare">https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/the-time-magazine-cover-that-wasn-t-putin-hitler-picture-amid-ukraine-war-101646111380252.html</a> good trio of fake Time magazine ones</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2022 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/t0n08e/this_aged_well_vladolf_putler/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/t0n08e/this_aged_well_vladolf_putler/</a> on fake Time magazine, not amazing this one, more or less horizontally half half</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/vladolfputin" class="bare">https://steamcommunity.com/id/vladolfputin</a> a very good fake Times magazine</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2015 <a href="https://g.cz/putler-putin-je-jako-hitler/" class="bare">https://g.cz/putler-putin-je-jako-hitler/</a> contains a very good side-by-side montage of real images of Putin vs Hitler</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putler.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Putler" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 306. Putler. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PutinIsABitch/comments/t1lsqa/vladof_putler/">Source</a>. Printout at a protest: <a href="https://www.paudal.com/2022/02/24/russia-vs-ukraine-ukrainian-government-places-putin-as-hitlers-student-on-twitter/" class="bare">https://www.paudal.com/2022/02/24/russia-vs-ukraine-ukrainian-government-places-putin-as-hitlers-student-on-twitter/</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="putin-s-palace"><a class="anchor" href="#putin-s-palace"></a><a class="link" href="#putin-s-palace">47.1.2. Putin’s palace (Дворец Путина, 2005-)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дворец_Путина" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дворец_Путина</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="putin-s-palace-film"><a class="anchor" href="#putin-s-palace-film"></a><a class="link" href="#putin-s-palace-film">47.1.2.1. Putin’s palace film (Дворец для Путина. История самой большой взятки, 2021)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace_(film" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace_(film</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дворец_для_Путина._История_самой_большой_взятки" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дворец_для_Путина._История_самой_большой_взятки</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>By <a href="#alexei-navalny">Alexei Navalny (Навальный, Алексей Анатольевич)</a> and allies.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=2305" class="bare">https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=2305</a> they show clearly that the <a href="#fsb">FSB</a> has a no fly zone over the palace, completely defeating any claims that is it not really owned by Putin</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=3755" class="bare">https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=3755</a> shows a hookah lounge with a pole dancing area</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=6084" class="bare">https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=6084</a> shows a small social media-like film of Putin’s bastard daughter Luiza Rozova, the closeup of her face shows she looks a lot like Putin, Another photo: <a href="https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/elizaveta-krivonogikh-vladimir-putin-secret-daughter/" class="bare">https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/elizaveta-krivonogikh-vladimir-putin-secret-daughter/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=6460" class="bare">https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=6460</a> quotes Tolstoy: <a href="https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=6460" class="bare">https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=6460</a></p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The villains who robbed the people gathered together, recruited soldiers and judges to guard their orgy, and are feasting.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO identify.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAnwilMncI</a></div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ipAnwilMncI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="putin-khuylo"><a class="anchor" href="#putin-khuylo"></a><a class="link" href="#putin-khuylo">47.1.3. Putin khuylo (Путин хуйло, 2014)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin_khuylo!" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin_khuylo!</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путин_—_хуйло!" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путин_—_хуйло!</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Literally something like "Putin is a dick".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From the start of the <a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a> in 2014.</p>
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<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Rl_idM0eI" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Rl_idM0eI</a> 60 thousand people shouting "Putin khuylo" during the a soccer match between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Dynamo_Kyiv">Dynamo Kiev</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Shakhtar_Donetsk">Shakhtar Donetsk</a> on 2014-04-16</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2_Rl_idM0eI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q54t3-3ZaE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q54t3-3ZaE</a> A cleaner version in band marching band formation (2014)</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1Q54t3-3ZaE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="putin-sponsored-poisonings"><a class="anchor" href="#putin-sponsored-poisonings"></a><a class="link" href="#putin-sponsored-poisonings">47.1.4. Putin-sponsored poisonings (Путинские отравления)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Russia apparently has a long list of poisoning political enemies: <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/06/23/inside-russias-long-history-of-poisoning-political-enemies/" class="bare">https://nypost.com/2018/06/23/inside-russias-long-history-of-poisoning-political-enemies/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020 <a href="#the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020">The poisoning of Alexei Navalny (2020)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2018 <a href="#skripal">Sergei Skripal (2018-03-04, Серге́й Ви́кторович Скрипáль)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2012 Alexander Perepilichny Перепеличный, Александр Юрьевич <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Perepilichny" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Perepilichny</a> | <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Перепеличный,_Александр_Юрьевич" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Перепеличный,_Александр_Юрьевич</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2006 <a href="#litvinenko">Alexander Litvinenko (Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович, 2006)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2004 <a href="#anna-politkovskaya">Anna Politkovskaya (Анна Политковская, 2006)</a>. But she survived. Then a bullet landed on her head in 2006. What an unlucky woman.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2004 Viktor Yushchenko Ющенко, Виктор Андреевич <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko</a> | <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ющенко,_Виктор_Андреевич" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ющенко,_Виктор_Андреевич</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services">Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services</a> (<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Токсикологическая_лаборатория_НКВД_—_НКГБ_—_МГБ">Токсикологическая лаборатория НКВД — НКГБ — МГБ</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="skripal"><a class="anchor" href="#skripal"></a><a class="link" href="#skripal">47.1.4.1. Sergei Skripal (2018-03-04, Серге́й Ви́кторович Скрипáль)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отравление_Сергея_и_Юлии_Скрипаль" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отравление_Сергея_и_Юлии_Скрипаль</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For more poisonings see: <a href="#putin-sponsored-poisonings">Putin-sponsored poisonings (Путинские отравления)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In 4 March 2018, the Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent">Novichok agent</a> (<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Новичок_(отравляющие_вещества)">Новичо́к</a>), a Soviet-era nerve agent, which was likely put on their front door knob in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury">Salisbury, UK</a>, exact address <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/oKASuLWpcSmLqL8F9">Christie Miller Road</a>! Straight out of a spy novel.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>On 30 June 2018, the man of an unlucky drug addict couple found the counterfeit expensive looking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Ricci_(brand)">Nina Ricci</a> Premier Jour perfume bottle containing the poison, and gave it to the woman who died. How unlucky can you fucking be, as if heavy drug addiction weren’t enough, you still have to deal with fucking Russian Novichok!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salisbury_Poisonings">The Salisbury Poisonings (2020)</a> tells the <a href="#bbc">BBC (英国广播公司, British government media)</a>'s view of things.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interview with his neighbour Ross Cassidy: <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/shows-interior-shots-interview-with-salisbury-residentl-news-footage/942266216" class="bare">https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/shows-interior-shots-interview-with-salisbury-residentl-news-footage/942266216</a></p>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Skripal_assassins_station.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Skripal assassins station" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 307. The assassination suspects Alexander Mishkin (Алекса́ндр Евге́ньевич Ми́шкин, alias Alexander Petrov) and Anatoliy Chepiga (Анатолий Владимирович Чепига, alias Ruslan Boshirov) in a CCTV still at Salisbury Station on 3rd March 2018 the day before the assassination. Both GRU and Alexander being a doctor, which is consistent with a poisoning assassination attempt. They later explained on an RT interview that they were visiting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral">world renowned Salisbury Cathedral</a> in their 3 day trip to the UK, and that they <a href="#gay-putin">were not gay</a>. Some Western sources interpreted this as an intentional suggestion that they are gay, which for many Russians would imply that they cannot be <a href="#fsb">FSB</a> agents. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/05/planes-trains-and-fake-names-the-trail-left-by-skripal-suspects">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Skripal_perfume.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Skripal perfume" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 308. Counterfeit Nina Ricci Premier Jour packet that contained the Novichok. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644782096/u-k-charges-2-russians-suspected-of-poison-attack-on-skripals">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8OQNyI2i0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8OQNyI2i0</a> "Full Skripal case interview with the UK’s suspects (EXCLUSIVE)" by <a href="#russia-today">Russia Today (RT, Russian state media foreign propaganda arm, 俄罗斯官方媒体)</a> with Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Not gay moment at: <a href="https://youtu.be/Ku8OQNyI2i0?t=461">461s</a>.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Ku8OQNyI2i0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="litvinenko"><a class="anchor" href="#litvinenko"></a><a class="link" href="#litvinenko">47.1.4.2. Alexander Litvinenko (Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович, 2006)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Литвиненко,_Александр_Вальтерович" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Литвиненко,_Александр_Вальтерович</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Poisoned with polonium-210, for more poisonings see: <a href="#putin-sponsored-poisonings">Putin-sponsored poisonings (Путинские отравления)</a>:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2006-10-29</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>meets with two former <a href="#fsb">FSB</a> agents Dmitry Kovtun and Andrey Lugovoy at Millenium Hotel London TODO exact address</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>eats with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Scaramella">Mario Scaramella</a> at an Itsu in London TODO exact address. <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a> believes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsu">Itsu</a> food to be the real cause of death.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2006-11-01 falls ill</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2006-11-03 admitted into hospital</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2006-11-23 dies</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2007-01-26 UK police says they had found a teapot at Millenium Hotel containing extremely high Poloninum-210 traces</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2010-12 US leaked cables show that Dmitry Kovtun left "positive traces" of radioactive polonium-210 in Germany before departing for Britain <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/11/wilileaks-cables-litvinenko-murder" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/11/wilileaks-cables-litvinenko-murder</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His 2002 book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Up_Russia">Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within</a> (<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ФСБ_взрывает_Россию">ФСБ взрывает Россию: Федеральная служба безопасности — организатор террористических актов, похищений и убийств</a>) accuses the <a href="#fsb">FSB</a> of setting up false flag bombing operations, and figures on the <a href="#federal-list-of-extremist-materials">Federal List of Extremist Materials (Федеральный список экстремистских материалов)</a>.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Litvinenko_hospital_bed.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Litvinenko hospital bed" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 309. Litvinenko in his death bed.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="anna-politkovskaya"><a class="anchor" href="#anna-politkovskaya"></a><a class="link" href="#anna-politkovskaya">47.1.4.3. Anna Politkovskaya (Анна Политковская, 2006)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>link:https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Политковская,_Анна_Степановна</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interview excerpt: <a href="https://youtu.be/fAoMzxKkH2M?t=3616" class="bare">https://youtu.be/fAoMzxKkH2M?t=3616</a></p>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="superputin"><a class="anchor" href="#superputin"></a><a class="link" href="#superputin">47.1.5. Superputin (Супер Путин)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Meme partially supported by Putin himself, showing how physically strong and <a href="#gay-putin">manly</a> the president is. A form of <a href="#ccp-cult">personality cult</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Similar to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts">Chuck Norris facts</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>"Putin does manly things" photo galleries:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-06-07 <a href="https://mashable.com/2017/08/07/the-swaggering-masculinity-of-vladimir-putin/?europe=true" class="bare">https://mashable.com/2017/08/07/the-swaggering-masculinity-of-vladimir-putin/?europe=true</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200412092201/https://mashable.com/2017/08/07/the-swaggering-masculinity-of-vladimir-putin/?europe=true">archive</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/vladimir-putin-doing-manly-things/" class="bare">https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/vladimir-putin-doing-manly-things/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-12-07 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-art-idUSKBN1E11L5" class="bare">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-art-idUSKBN1E11L5</a> 'SUPERPUTIN' exhibition gives Russian leader a pop-art make over</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putin_swim.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Putin swim" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 310. Putin swims Butterfly stroke in a Siberian lake around August 2009. The Telegraph <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200412090316/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6175324/Vladimir-Putin-gives-strong-signal-he-may-be-president-again.html">correctly interpreted this as a sign that he would be re-elected in 2012</a>. For reference <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal">Lake Baikal in Siberia has a maximum temperature of 14 °C in summer</a>. Other dictators have used similar swim tactics before, the most notable possibly being <a href="#mao-swim">Mao swim across the Yangtze river (毛主席畅游长江, 1966-07-16)</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200412090316/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6175324/Vladimir-Putin-gives-strong-signal-he-may-be-president-again.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzK32Cfcq8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzK32Cfcq8</a> "RASPUTIN - Vladimir Putin - Love The Way You Move (Funk Overload) @slocband" by Pace Audio (2016). Somewhere in the 2010’s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin_(song)">Rasputin 1978 song</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_M.">Boney M.</a> saw a <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ra-ra-rasputin">meme resurgence</a> by adapting the song to refer to Vladmir Putin instead of the original song’s originally intended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin">Grigori Rasputin</a>. This video adds amazing cute animations of Russian scientists trying to create the perfect funk dancing machine, and highlights the <a href="#superputin">Superputin (Супер Путин)</a> meme as Putin himself is the perfect dancing machine in the end.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cZzK32Cfcq8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBaSfgNJnE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBaSfgNJnE</a> Putin is number one greatest president song by Animation Domination High Def (2014). Good graphics, but the song is crap unlike the Rasputin one unfortunately. Many <a href="#gay-putin">Gay Putin (Гей Путин, 2017)</a> suggestions.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UbBaSfgNJnE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lh444CFXxs" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lh444CFXxs</a> thicc putin be walking</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8Lh444CFXxs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="putin-riding-things"><a class="anchor" href="#putin-riding-things"></a><a class="link" href="#putin-riding-things">47.1.5.1. Putin riding things (Путин верхом на вещах)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO: Photoshoppers, PLEASE</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>on the <a href="#gay-putin">Gay Putin (Гей Путин, 2017)</a> vein:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Putin riding <a href="#alexander-lukashenko">Alexander Lukashenko (Лукашенко, Александр Григорьевич)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Putin riding Medvedev, see also: <a href="#gay-putin-gay-medvedev">Gay Putin and Gay Medvedev</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Putin riding an NLAW, the anti-tank weapon that used to much effect against Russia in the <a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We just need to use some <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/gay-porn-meme">gay porn meme</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some other ones:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/nEEHt" class="bare">https://archive.ph/nEEHt</a> Putin riding a bicycle with Medvedev</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putin_horse.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Putin horse" height="500">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 311. Putin riding a horse shirtless <a href="https://nypost.com/2014/08/29/putin-its-best-not-to-mess-with-us/">near Lake Seliger in August 2009</a>. <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/worl-photo-caption-contest-shirtless-putin_n_3263512">Source</a>. There are others, e.g. here: <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/6/17/8796659/vladimir-putin-shirtless-video" class="bare">https://www.vox.com/2015/6/17/8796659/vladimir-putin-shirtless-video</a> we see putin feeding the horse in ultra high resolution. Getting cozy. We need one of Putin fucking a horse.</div>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putin_bear.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Putin bear" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 312. Putin riding a bear. <a href="https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/469429961142687422/">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putin_shark.png" loading="lazy" alt="Putin shark" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 313. Putin riding a shark. <a href="https://sharkdivers.blogspot.com/2011/05/russian-pm-putin-rides-great-white.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putin_eagle.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Putin eagle" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 314. Putin riding a giant eagle. <a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-this-picture-of-Vladimir-Putin-riding-a-bear-fake-or-real">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putin_meteor.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Putin meteor" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 315. Putin riding a meteor. <a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-this-picture-of-Vladimir-Putin-riding-a-bear-fake-or-real">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putin_dinosaur.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Putin dinosaur" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 316. Putin riding a dinosaur in a Sci-Fi planet. <a href="https://9gag.com/gag/a5K5jLG">Source</a>.</div>
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</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="night-wolves"><a class="anchor" href="#night-wolves"></a><a class="link" href="#night-wolves">47.1.5.2. Night wolves (Ночные волки)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Wolves" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Wolves</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ночные_волки" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ночные_волки</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Russian ultra-nationalist and motorcycle group supported by Putin.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Notably, they have made large incredibly cheesy Putin supported music/theatrical/stunt shows to revive Russian nationalism.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Mentioned at <a href="https://youtu.be/9Q1hZmAcE08?t=4974" class="bare">https://youtu.be/9Q1hZmAcE08?t=4974</a> "Can’t Get You Out of My Head - Part 6: Are We Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer?"</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Sample show on <a href="#russia-today">Russia Today (RT, Russian state media foreign propaganda arm, 俄罗斯官方媒体)</a>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyk1Ajq8yE" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyk1Ajq8yE</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="gay-putin"><a class="anchor" href="#gay-putin"></a><a class="link" href="#gay-putin">47.1.6. Gay Putin (Гей Путин, 2017)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Added to the <a href="#federal-list-of-extremist-materials">Federal List of Extremist Materials (Федеральный список экстремистских материалов)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Often used to stress the poor condition of <a href="#gay-rights">Gay rights (LGBT权利)</a> in Russia:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2013 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gay_propaganda_law" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gay_propaganda_law</a> Russian gay propaganda law (2013) forbids the favorable depiction of homosexuality to minors</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The meme is especially funny due to Putin’s own personality cult which portrays himself as super-masculine, see: <a href="#superputin">Superputin (Супер Путин)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Coverage:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017 <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-putin-gay-clown-memes-internet-extremism-opposition-president-kremlin-a7669486.html" class="bare">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-putin-gay-clown-memes-internet-extremism-opposition-president-kremlin-a7669486.html</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But there is a pro-Putin gay group, OMG:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gays_for_Putin!" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gays_for_Putin!</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Other images:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Vlad_Putler/photo" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Vlad_Putler/photo</a> is made to look more realistic</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Gay_Putin.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Gay Putin" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 317. The possibly Gay Putin (Гей Путин) clown image banned in 2017. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/2085395/its-now-illegal-russia-share-image-putin-possibly-gay">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div id="gay-putin-gay-medvedev" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Gay_Putin_with_Gay_Medvedev.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Gay Putin with Gay Medvedev" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 318. Gay Putin (Гей Путин) with Gay <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev">Medvedev</a> (Гей <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Медведев,_Дмитрий_Анатольевич">Медведев</a>). This image was used as a poster in the 34th Berlin Christopher Street Day parade in 2012, the German version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_parade">Gay Pride parade</a> (<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/骄傲游行">骄傲游行</a>). Some other good homoerotic real propaganda photos can be seen at: <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/09/01/436569328/just-two-russian-bros-working-out-grilling-steak-drinking-tea" class="bare">https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/09/01/436569328/just-two-russian-bros-working-out-grilling-steak-drinking-tea</a>. <a href="https://kanobu.ru/pub/398489/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Putin_Trump_kiss.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Putin Trump kiss" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 319. Possibly Gay Putin kissing possibly Gay <a href="#flg-trump">Trump</a> mural entitled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Everything_Great_Again">Make Everything Great Again</a> painted in Lithuania in 2016 by by artists Dominykas Čečkauskas and Mindaugas Bonanu. It references the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections">Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections</a>. It was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/12/vandals-censor-image-of-putin-snogging-trump-lithuania">later vandalized</a>. Now we just need a Putin <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> kiss. Trump Xi kiss <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/sierens-china-survival-of-the-fittest/a-49498499">can be found here</a>. Xi Carrie Lam kiss: <a href="https://lih.kg/siCRcoX" class="bare">https://lih.kg/siCRcoX</a>. <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/putin-will-pay-a-high-price-for-trumps-friendship/">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d7Llx4rm8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d7Llx4rm8</a> SUPER GAY PUTIN [original] by Squallido Anal Smithee (2014)</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/b1d7Llx4rm8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8xSZ9Fr4c0" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8xSZ9Fr4c0</a> What Putin thinks about gays by BBC News (2014) ahead of the Sochi Olympics. Basically he says we don’t discriminate against gays. We passed this law that prevents them from promoting themselves. But that’s mostly a anti-pedophilia law to start with, gays will be fine.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/m8xSZ9Fr4c0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="electoral-fraud-in-russian-elections"><a class="anchor" href="#electoral-fraud-in-russian-elections"></a><a class="link" href="#electoral-fraud-in-russian-elections">47.1.7. Electoral fraud in Russian elections</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Besides barring opposition from participating such as <a href="#alexei-navalny">Alexei Navalny (Навальный, Алексей Анатольевич)</a>, electoral fraud was off the charts:</p>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQlCRLCw_I" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQlCRLCw_I</a> 2019-09-12 CCTV footage of Vasily Dyachenko (Василий Дьяченко), who had reported electoral fraud concerns regional 2019 elections, getting surprise punched in the stomach at the St. Petersburg polling station 1619, while the police who is right in front of it do nothing about it. English coverage: <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-police-stand-idly-by-as-election-observer-sucker-punched/30160427.html" class="bare">https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-police-stand-idly-by-as-election-observer-sucker-punched/30160427.html</a></div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-KQlCRLCw_I?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oSeRyaFllY" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oSeRyaFllY</a> 2018-03-18 alleged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Ballot_stuffing">ballot stuffing electoral fraud</a> caught on CCTV in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3oSeRyaFllY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMEqv-NNLW4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMEqv-NNLW4</a> Мусора избили ребёнка и наблюдателей на выборах TODO find English version</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Golos (Голос) is the main independent election monitor organization in Russia:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golos_(election_monitor" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golos_(election_monitor</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Голос_(мониторинг_выборов" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Голос_(мониторинг_выборов</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="electoral-fraud-in-the-2021-russian-elections"><a class="anchor" href="#electoral-fraud-in-the-2021-russian-elections"></a><a class="link" href="#electoral-fraud-in-the-2021-russian-elections">47.1.7.1. Electoral fraud in the 2021 Russian elections</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-election-fraud/31466758.html" class="bare">https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-election-fraud/31466758.html</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="svetlana-krivonogikh"><a class="anchor" href="#svetlana-krivonogikh"></a><a class="link" href="#svetlana-krivonogikh">47.1.8. Svetlana Krivonogikh (Putin’s girlfriend)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-10-03 Pandora papers reveal hidden riches of Putin’s inner circle <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-papers-reveal-hidden-wealth-vladimir-putin-inner-circle" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-papers-reveal-hidden-wealth-vladimir-putin-inner-circle</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="putinism"><a class="anchor" href="#putinism"></a><a class="link" href="#putinism">47.1.9. Putinism (путинизм)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путинизм" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путинизм</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="silovik"><a class="anchor" href="#silovik"></a><a class="link" href="#silovik">47.1.9.1. Silovik (Силовики)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silovik" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silovik</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Силовики" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Силовики</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="putin-opposition"><a class="anchor" href="#putin-opposition"></a><a class="link" href="#putin-opposition">47.1.10. Putin opposition</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_Vladimir_Putin_in_Russia" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_Vladimir_Putin_in_Russia</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Политическая_оппозиция_в_Российской_Федерации" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Политическая_оппозиция_в_Российской_Федерации</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>List:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yegor_Zhukov">Yegor Zhukov</a>: 2020-08-31 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53972592" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53972592</a> "Yegor Zhukov: Leading Russian opposition blogger beaten up", good photo of swallen face</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>People:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#marina-ovsyannikova">Marina Ovsyannikova (Марина Овсянникова, 2022, anti war poster on live news)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="nfkrz"><a class="anchor" href="#nfkrz"></a><a class="link" href="#nfkrz">47.1.10.1. NFKRZ</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Real name: Roman Albertovich Abalin.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC19xLluI7dG093Gmw57BhHw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC19xLluI7dG093Gmw57BhHw</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>More information: <a href="https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/NFKRZ" class="bare">https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/NFKRZ</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Interesting videos:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp_S_kIowGY" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp_S_kIowGY</a> "Why You Shouldn’t Trust RT (Russia Today)" (2020). Douh!!!!!! <a href="#russia-today">Russia Today (RT, Russian state media foreign propaganda arm, 俄罗斯官方媒体)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#my-paranoia-as-a-russian-youtuber">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-hCdbsyWw0 "my paranoia as a Russian YouTuber" by NFKRZ (2020) talks about the Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a> talks about the <a href="#chilling-effect">Chilling effect (寒蝉效应)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="alexei-navalny"><a class="anchor" href="#alexei-navalny"></a><a class="link" href="#alexei-navalny">47.1.10.2. Alexei Navalny (Навальный, Алексей Анатольевич)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Навальный,_Алексей_Анатольевич" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Навальный,_Алексей_Анатольевич</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Casually barred from the 2018 presidential campaign:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Alexei_Navalny_presidential_campaign" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Alexei_Navalny_presidential_campaign</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42479909" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42479909</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Навальный,_Алексей_Анатольевич#Президентские_выборы_2018_года" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Навальный,_Алексей_Анатольевич#Президентские_выборы_2018_года</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>His Wiki page does say one thing of interest though, he has right wing tendencies which scared off liberals:</p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The BBC noted in a profile of Navalny that his endorsement of a political campaign called "Stop feeding the Caucasus" and his willingness to speak at ultra-nationalist events "have caused concern among liberals".</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This video of his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZr2NgKPiU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZr2NgKPiU</a> might have been added to the <a href="#federal-list-of-extremist-materials">Federal List of Extremist Materials (Федеральный список экстремистских материалов)</a>, wiki: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Deripaska#Navalny_video" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Deripaska#Navalny_video</a>, coverage: <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-deripaska-prikhodko-rybka-nuland-yacht/29028148.html" class="bare">https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-deripaska-prikhodko-rybka-nuland-yacht/29028148.html</a> but I can’t find where it is in the list exactly.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Related:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-navalny-nationalist-fears/25059277.html" class="bare">https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-navalny-nationalist-fears/25059277.html</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNJiO10SWw" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNJiO10SWw</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>News:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2021-04-16 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/16/russian-prosecutors-move-to-liquidate-navalnys-extremist-movement" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/16/russian-prosecutors-move-to-liquidate-navalnys-extremist-movement</a> "Russian prosecutors move to liquidate Navalny’s ‘extremist’ movement"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020">47.1.10.2.1. The poisoning of Alexei Navalny (2020)</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexei_Navalny_(2020" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexei_Navalny_(2020</a>)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отравление_Алексея_Навального" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отравление_Алексея_Навального</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For more poisonings see: <a href="#putin-sponsored-poisonings">Putin-sponsored poisonings (Путинские отравления)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The second one! The first one was in 2019, but this one is more serious, the German government said tests confirmed it unequivocally that it was Novichok, which was also recently used in <a href="#skripal">Sergei Skripal (2018-03-04, Серге́й Ви́кторович Скрипáль)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-12-28 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/28/russia-gives-navalny-ultimatum-return-immediately-or-face-jail" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/28/russia-gives-navalny-ultimatum-return-immediately-or-face-jail</a> "Russia’s ultimatum to Navalny: Return immediately or face jail
Russia’s prison service accuses Kremlin critic of violating terms of his suspended prison sentence by staying abroad"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-12-13 more news are coming:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning/" class="bare">https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning/</a> indicates the names of 8 suspects. They had phone metadata for them including geolocation. How did they get that data??? <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/164" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/164</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/navalny-poisoning-russia-made-second-assassination-attempt-report/a-55921189" class="bare">https://www.dw.com/en/navalny-poisoning-russia-made-second-assassination-attempt-report/a-55921189</a> "Navalny poisoning: Russia made second assassination attempt - report". Says British intelligence told that to The Times, paywall <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-kremlin-made-a-second-attempt-to-poison-alexei-navalny-in-botched-assassination-nh32x737j" class="bare">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-kremlin-made-a-second-attempt-to-poison-alexei-navalny-in-botched-assassination-nh32x737j</a> "Revealed: Kremlin made a second attempt to poison Alexei Navalny in botched assassination". TODO any further evidence? WTF they reveal to a paywall newspaper?</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhi6jts97I" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhi6jts97I</a> Navalny’s video accusing people who he belieaves poisoned him</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-10-18 <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexey-navalny-poisoning-putin-russia-60-minutes-2020-10-18/" class="bare">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexey-navalny-poisoning-putin-russia-60-minutes-2020-10-18/</a> 60 Minutes interview, they flew over to Germany to interview him. He looks normal.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-05 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54039710" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54039710</a> "Alexei Navalny: Trump refuses to condemn Russia over poisoning"</p>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>President Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia over the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, saying he has not seen proof.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He said the case was "tragic" but urged reporters to focus instead on China, which he said was a bigger threat to the world than Russia.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Even after Germany and NATO said it was Novichok for sure…​ He must be <a href="#putin-trump-kiss">sucking Putin’s cock</a> to have more nukes pointed against China, or maybe with some cyberhacking for the reelection campaign. Perhaps not a bad strategy, but does completely disregard human rights. Do <a href="#violence">the ends justify the means</a>?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54097162" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54097162</a> Pompeo then condemned.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>2020-09-14: laboratories in France and Sweden independently confirmed: <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/french-swedish-labs-confirm-navalny-poisoned-with-novichok/a-54918924" class="bare">https://www.dw.com/en/french-swedish-labs-confirm-navalny-poisoned-with-novichok/a-54918924</a></p>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-04 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54012278" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54012278</a> good timeline of events so far</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-09-02 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/world/europe/navalny-poison-novichok.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/world/europe/navalny-poison-novichok.html</a> "Aleksei Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says". Tests done on a military weapons facility, which the German government said was based on "unequivocal evidence".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2020-08-24 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53892900" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53892900</a> "Alexei Navalny: Putin critic 'probably poisoned' - doctors"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>He was forcibly kept in Russia for a few days to make the poison effect undetectable before they allowed him to be flown to Berlin.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Several policemen prevented family access to him while in Russia.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First doctors told family he was poisoned, but then soon after they changed their minds to some random excuse.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Poison effects consistent with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholinesterase_inhibitor">cholinesterase inhibitors</a>, but the exact substance was not identified in tests.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-politics-navalny-probe/russian-prosecutors-say-no-need-for-criminal-investigation-in-navalny-affair-idUKKBN25N14A" class="bare">https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-politics-navalny-probe/russian-prosecutors-say-no-need-for-criminal-investigation-in-navalny-affair-idUKKBN25N14A</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Navalny_hospital_sitting.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Navalny hospital sitting" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 320. Photo published on <a href="#alexei-navalny">Navalny</a>'s Twitter on 2020-09-15 of him sitting awake in a hospital bed in Germany with his family. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54163389">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="khabarovsk-krai-protests-2020"><a class="anchor" href="#khabarovsk-krai-protests-2020"></a><a class="link" href="#khabarovsk-krai-protests-2020">47.1.10.3. 2020 Khabarovsk Krai protests (Протесты в Хабаровском крае)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Khabarovsk_Krai_protests" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Khabarovsk_Krai_protests</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Протесты_в_Хабаровском_крае" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Протесты_в_Хабаровском_крае</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In support to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Furgal">Sergei Furgal</a> (<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фургал,_Сергей_Иванович">Фургал, Сергей Иванович</a>).</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="sergei-magnitsky"><a class="anchor" href="#sergei-magnitsky"></a><a class="link" href="#sergei-magnitsky">47.1.10.4. Sergei Magnitsky (Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский, 2009)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Магнитский,_Сергей_Леонидович" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Магнитский,_Сергей_Леонидович</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Lawyer of <a href="#sergei-magnitsky">Sergei Magnitsky (Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский, 2009)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="sect5">
<h6 id="bill-browder"><a class="anchor" href="#bill-browder"></a><a class="link" href="#bill-browder">47.1.10.4.1. Bill Browder</a></h6>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="freedom-of-speech-in-russia"><a class="anchor" href="#freedom-of-speech-in-russia"></a><a class="link" href="#freedom-of-speech-in-russia">47.2. Freedom of speech in Russia</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2017-07-18 <a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/18/online-and-all-fronts/russias-assault-freedom-expression" class="bare">https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/18/online-and-all-fronts/russias-assault-freedom-expression</a> "Online and On All Fronts Russia’s Assault on Freedom of Expression" from <a href="#human-rights-watch">Human Rights Watch (人权观察)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media_in_Russia" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media_in_Russia</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Natasha Sindeeva (Синдеева, Наталья Владимировна)</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMig0MZlX_Y" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMig0MZlX_Y</a> F@ck This Job trailer by Journeyman Pictures</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya_Sindeyeva" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya_Sindeyeva</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Синдеева,_Наталья_Владимировна" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Синдеева,_Наталья_Владимировна</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="roskomnadzor"><a class="anchor" href="#roskomnadzor"></a><a class="link" href="#roskomnadzor">47.2.1. Roskomnadzor (Роскомнадзор)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_of_Communications,_Information_Technology_and_Mass_Media" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_of_Communications,_Information_Technology_and_Mass_Media</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Роскомнадзор" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Роскомнадзор</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The Russian censorship body under <a href="#putin">Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)</a>. The Russian <a href="#cac">Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC, 国家互联网信息办公室, 中央网信办)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>They are the ones who make Russian takedowns on <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a>, e.g. <a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/Russia/2020" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/Russia/2020</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="federal-list-of-extremist-materials"><a class="anchor" href="#federal-list-of-extremist-materials"></a><a class="link" href="#federal-list-of-extremist-materials">47.2.2. Federal List of Extremist Materials (Федеральный список экстремистских материалов)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_List_of_Extremist_Materials" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_List_of_Extremist_Materials</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Федеральный_список_экстремистских_материалов" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Федеральный_список_экстремистских_материалов</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="#censorship-monitoring">Unlike the Chinese</a>, they have a public list, each entry had a numerical ID even. This is the best thing ever made! The dream for <a href="#keyword-attack">keyword attackers</a>!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most of it appears to be anti/<a href="#nazi">Comparisons between the CCP and Nazi Germany (纳粹德国和中共长得很想)</a>, and notably anti-anti-semitic but several items are purely political anti-freedoms.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>One wonders if the majority of the items are just fillers to hide the really juicy anti-freedom ones.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We need to make a <a href="#github">GitHub</a> mirror of all of those some day!</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The list: <a href="http://minjust.gov.ru/ru/extremist-materials" class="bare">http://minjust.gov.ru/ru/extremist-materials</a> Here’s an archive: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200817142035/http://minjust.gov.ru/ru/extremist-materials/export.csv?attach=page" class="bare">http://web.archive.org/web/20200817142035/http://minjust.gov.ru/ru/extremist-materials/export.csv?attach=page</a>. The website has a CSV for download with all entries at the bottom. Enca says the encoding is "MS-Windows code page 1251", convert to UTF-8 with:</p>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>iconv -f WINDOWS-1251 -t UTF-8//IGNORE export.csv</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><code>//IGNORE</code> is needed because their fucking CSV export has a bug and otherwise <code>iconv</code> stops at the first error.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Result at: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/039ed572f61866655fc6ea3333b199527df4f3eb/russian-federal-list-of-extremist-materials-utf8-2020-08-17.csv" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/039ed572f61866655fc6ea3333b199527df4f3eb/russian-federal-list-of-extremist-materials-utf8-2020-08-17.csv</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>From this we can grep, and then to overcome translation limits as there is no offline option yet: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/380847/is-it-possible-to-translate-words-via-terminal" class="bare">https://askubuntu.com/questions/380847/is-it-possible-to-translate-words-via-terminal</a>, dump your selection on a gist and use Google translate on the Gist.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>A website "dedicated" to bypassing censorship of the list: <a href="http://zapretno.info/" class="bare">http://zapretno.info/</a>. TODO much of that website’s content is not clearly marked as being on the list.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some notable additions:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2791: "Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within" by <a href="#litvinenko">Alexander Litvinenko (Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович, 2006)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Religion</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>1171, 1172, 1173: "What is Scientology", which likely refers to this L. Ron Hubbard book. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Scientology-L-Ron-Hubbard/dp/1573181226" class="bare">https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Scientology-L-Ron-Hubbard/dp/1573181226</a> and two other books. Coverage: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-officially-bans-scientology-books-brands-them-extremist-2012-3?r=US&IR=T" class="bare">https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-officially-bans-scientology-books-brands-them-extremist-2012-3?r=US&IR=T</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2904: Jehovah’s Witnesses website <a href="https://www.jw.org/en/" class="bare">https://www.jw.org/en/</a>. Coverage: <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/2017-report-on-international-religious-freedom/russia/" class="bare">https://www.state.gov/reports/2017-report-on-international-religious-freedom/russia/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Ukraine due to <a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2596: A. M. Byvshev’s poem "Ukrainian patriots", where he disagreed with Russian intervention in Donbass and supported military resistance by Ukrainians.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>searching for "суда" (Crimea) has dozens of hits</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Anti-<a href="#putin">Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)</a> and apparently non hate-crime:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>1000:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Leaflets with the following content: "Down with the power of the Cheka-nuty Putin and Medvedev", "Down with the power of the Cheka-nuty Putin"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Листовки следующего содержания: «Долой власть ЧК-нутых Путина и Медведева», «Долой власть ЧК-нутого Путина»</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>4071: <a href="#gay-putin">Gay Putin (Гей Путин, 2017)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>4914:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>The book "Where did Mr. Putin take Russia?" author Yu. E. Kozenkov (M., 2005 - 208 p.)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>"Книга «Куда завел Россию мистер Путин?» автор Ю.Е. Козенков (М., 2005 – 208 с.)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="list-of-journalists-killed-in-russia"><a class="anchor" href="#list-of-journalists-killed-in-russia"></a><a class="link" href="#list-of-journalists-killed-in-russia">47.2.3. List of Journalists killed in Russia (Список журналистов, убитых в России)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_журналистов,_убитых_в_России" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_журналистов,_убитых_в_России</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="russia-mandatory-registration-of-bloggers"><a class="anchor" href="#russia-mandatory-registration-of-bloggers"></a><a class="link" href="#russia-mandatory-registration-of-bloggers">47.2.4. Mandatory registration of Russian bloggers (2014)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28583669" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28583669</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bloggers with more than 3000 daily readers must register and cannot be anonymous.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The following Chinese policies come to mind:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#icp-license">ICP license 非经营性网站备案 (2000)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#anonymous-account-ban">Anonymous accounts ban (2017)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="russian-state-media"><a class="anchor" href="#russian-state-media"></a><a class="link" href="#russian-state-media">47.3. Russian state media (俄罗斯官方媒体)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="russia-today"><a class="anchor" href="#russia-today"></a><a class="link" href="#russia-today">47.3.1. Russia Today (RT, Russian state media foreign propaganda arm, 俄罗斯官方媒体)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network</a>)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="russian-government"><a class="anchor" href="#russian-government"></a><a class="link" href="#russian-government">47.4. Russian government</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="fsb"><a class="anchor" href="#fsb"></a><a class="link" href="#fsb">47.4.1. FSB</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Федеральная_служба_безопасности_Российской_Федерации" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Федеральная_служба_безопасности_Российской_Федерации</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="soviet-union"><a class="anchor" href="#soviet-union"></a><a class="link" href="#soviet-union">47.5. Soviet Union (苏联)</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union"><a class="anchor" href="#censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union"></a><a class="link" href="#censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union">47.5.1. Censorship of images in the Soviet Union (苏联对图像的审查)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union</a></p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Nikolai_Yezhov_Stalin_canal_edit.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Nikolai Yezhov Stalin canal edit" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 321. Before/after comparison of picture of Stalin with Nikolai Yezhov at the Moscow Canal censored circa 1940. Nikolai was edited out form the second picture. (Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images & AFP/GettyImages) <a href="https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Malchenko_no_Malchenko.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Malchenko no Malchenko" height="1000">
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<div class="title">Figure 322. Above: a meeting of the St. Petersburg chapter of the Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class in February 1897, including Lenin and Alexander Malchenko. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Union-de-Lucha.jpg">Source</a>. Belos: same as above, but with Alexander Malchenko edited out. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Petersburg_Union_of_Struggle_for_the_Liberation_of_the_Working_Class_-_Feb_1897_-_Altered.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="soviet-radio-jamming"><a class="anchor" href="#soviet-radio-jamming"></a><a class="link" href="#soviet-radio-jamming">47.5.2. Soviet Union radio stations (苏联苏联无线电干扰)</a></h4>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_in_the_Soviet_Union#Radio_jamming" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_in_the_Soviet_Union#Radio_jamming</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ah, the good old days <a href="#gfw">before the TCP/IP</a>, when you could just jam around a border ;-)</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="http://www.antentop.org/008/files/jamm008.pdf" class="bare">http://www.antentop.org/008/files/jamm008.pdf</a> has good images.</p>
</div>
<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Soviet_radio_jamming_vs_Jingjing.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Soviet radio jamming vs Jingjing" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 323. Soviet vertical curtain array of antennas for radio jamming in the 1960s vs Jingjing from <a href="#jingjing-chacha">Jingjing and Chacha (警警察察)</a>. <a href="http://www.antentop.org/008/files/jamm008.pdf">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="soviet-union-propaganda"><a class="anchor" href="#soviet-union-propaganda"></a><a class="link" href="#soviet-union-propaganda">47.5.3. Soviet Union propaganda (苏联宣传)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHLOGMT_kM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHLOGMT_kM</a> Animated Soviet Propaganda American Imperialist The Millionaire COLD WAR CARTOON. Tells the story of a dog that inherited a lot of money from his deceased rich owner.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="cold-warriors-writers-who-waged-the-literary-cold-war"><a class="anchor" href="#cold-warriors-writers-who-waged-the-literary-cold-war"></a><a class="link" href="#cold-warriors-writers-who-waged-the-literary-cold-war">47.5.3.1. Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White (2019)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Review: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/23/cold-warriors-writers-waged-literary-cold-war-duncan-white-review" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/23/cold-warriors-writers-waged-literary-cold-war-duncan-white-review</a> It would be good to look into the anti-Soviet ones to get some ideas from them.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="cold-war"><a class="anchor" href="#cold-war"></a><a class="link" href="#cold-war">47.5.4. Cold War (冷战)</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="realpolitik"><a class="anchor" href="#realpolitik"></a><a class="link" href="#realpolitik">47.5.4.1. Realpolitik (现实政治)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/现实政治" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/现实政治</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="agitprop"><a class="anchor" href="#agitprop"></a><a class="link" href="#agitprop">47.5.4.2. Agitprop (Агитпроп)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agitprop" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agitprop</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="stalin"><a class="anchor" href="#stalin"></a><a class="link" href="#stalin">47.6. Stalin (斯大林, 1922-1952)</a></h3>
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<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Stalin_bitch_please.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Stalin bitch please" height="600">
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<div class="title">Figure 324. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Yagami">Light Yagami</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note">Death Note</a>: "I can kill anyone by simply writing his name here". Stalin: "Bitch please". <a href="https://ifunny.co/picture/1-can-kill-anyone-by-simply-writing-his-name-here-TjXCcyuM2">Source</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2z0nrsQ8o" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2z0nrsQ8o</a> "Rasputin vs Stalin." Epic Rap Battles of History YouTube video. This is fire. <a href="https://epicrapbattlesofhistory.fandom.com/wiki/Rasputin_vs_Stalin/Rap_Meanings">Explanations</a>.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZT2z0nrsQ8o?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="mykola-semena"><a class="anchor" href="#mykola-semena"></a><a class="link" href="#mykola-semena">47.6.1. Mykola Semena (Семена Микола Михайлович, Crimea activist)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Semena" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Semena</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Семена_Микола_Михайлович" class="bare">https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Семена_Микола_Михайлович</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ukrainian, worked for <a href="#rferl">Radio Free Europe (Радио_«Свобода»)</a> previously, and published against the annexation of Ukrainian territories.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/18/online-and-all-fronts/russias-assault-freedom-expression" class="bare">https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/18/online-and-all-fronts/russias-assault-freedom-expression</a> from <a href="#human-rights-watch">Human Rights Watch (人权观察)</a> suggests that one of her articles was added to the <a href="#federal-list-of-extremist-materials">Federal List of Extremist Materials (Федеральный список экстремистских материалов)</a>, possibly "Blockade - the Necessary First Step for Liberation of Crimea", but I can’t find the entry.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="anti-russia-dictatorship-info-sources"><a class="anchor" href="#anti-russia-dictatorship-info-sources"></a><a class="link" href="#anti-russia-dictatorship-info-sources">47.7. Anti Russia dictatorship sources</a></h3>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://meduza.io/en" class="bare">https://meduza.io/en</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="rferl"><a class="anchor" href="#rferl"></a><a class="link" href="#rferl">47.7.1. Radio Free Europe (Радио_«Свобода»)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Радио_«Свобода»" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Радио_«Свобода»</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Website: <a href="https://www.rferl.org/" class="bare">https://www.rferl.org/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>USA funded sister media of the <a href="#rfa">Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media)</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="mini-russias"><a class="anchor" href="#mini-russias"></a><a class="link" href="#mini-russias">47.8. Mini-Russias</a></h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="belarus"><a class="anchor" href="#belarus"></a><a class="link" href="#belarus">47.8.1. Belarus (Белоруссия)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Белоруссия" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Белоруссия</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The dictator: <a href="#alexander-lukashenko">Alexander Lukashenko (Лукашенко, Александр Григорьевич)</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests">2020 Belarusian protests</a>.</p>
</div>
<div id="moscow-minsk-friendship-mural" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Moscow-Minsk_friendship_mural_girl_with_barbed_wire.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Moscow Minsk friendship mural girl with barbed wire" height="400">
</div>
<div class="title">Figure 325. The Moscow-Minsk friendship mural in Minsk (capital of Belarus), originally meant to show the harmonious alliance between Belarus and Russia, was defaced in 2016 by adding barbed wire amidst the flowers held and worn by the boy and girl which represent Russia and Belarus respectively, which indicates that the friendship is actually a prison for Belarus. <a href="#dictatorships-tend-to-work-together">Dictatorships tend to work together (独裁政权倾向于合作)</a> comes to mind. Photo by Aleh Larychau. Upload <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mural_Minsk-Moscow_in_Minsk_1.jpg">on Wikimedia Commons</a> deleted because of the lack of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama">Freedom of panorama in Belarus</a>. <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/21/how-the-crisis-in-belarus-is-politicising-a-new-wave-of-street-artists" class="bare">https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/21/how-the-crisis-in-belarus-is-politicising-a-new-wave-of-street-artists</a>.</div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="alexander-lukashenko"><a class="anchor" href="#alexander-lukashenko"></a><a class="link" href="#alexander-lukashenko">47.8.1.1. Alexander Lukashenko (Лукашенко, Александр Григорьевич)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>link:https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лукашенко,_Александр_Григорьевич</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="russo-ukrainian-war"><a class="anchor" href="#russo-ukrainian-war"></a><a class="link" href="#russo-ukrainian-war">47.8.2. Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Російсько-українська_війна_(з_2014)" class="bare">https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Російсько-українська_війна_(з_2014)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The situation is basically the same as that of <a href="#belarus">Belarus (Белоруссия)</a>: Russia wants buffer states/human shields between itself and its possible enemies, The West. Just like he USA did during the <a href="#cuban-missile-crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis (古巴导弹危机, 1962)</a>. It is just too important strategically for the Russians.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some things that must be said:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Ukraine is/was not a proper democracy. There was only limited freedom of speech.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>there is a some level neo-Nazi-like movement in Ukraine. Of course, this is just an excuse for Russian invasion, but it is there.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This is something the USA should recognize, and promise not to expand NATO/EU there:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHo6JXxcQM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHo6JXxcQM</a> The War in Ukraine by Glenn Greenwald (2022) Mentions how USA was very influential in Ukraine since the 2014 revolution. Another point is on the Trump election, democrats were accusing Trump of being supported by the Russians, which led it to become a taboo to talk to Russians, and strained relations between the USA and Russia.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Some other pearls:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/russia-un-claims-us-backed-biological-weapon-plot-kremlin-foreign-fighters-ukraine" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/russia-un-claims-us-backed-biological-weapon-plot-kremlin-foreign-fighters-ukraine</a> Russia claims US has biological weapons development in Ukrains…​ that’s insane, why would they develop weapons next door to Russia, where billion dollar research would be at constant risk of disruption and capture, not to mention the risk of starting world war 3!!! Resonates with United States accusations of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq though. However, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmyDGZsrQyA" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmyDGZsrQyA</a> mentions that the US knew about biological weapons research facilities in Ukraine.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Police make more than 1,700 arrests as protesters take to the streets in cities across country <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/24/we-dont-want-this-russians-react-to-the-ukraine-invasion" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/24/we-dont-want-this-russians-react-to-the-ukraine-invasion</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ</a> Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin (2018) Basically says it was a similar bullshit to what the allies did after WWI, rather than invest in the country, they were more willing to punish it, or ignore it. Notably disastrous was the enlargement of NATO in 1996 to move East including Poland, which the USA had promised not to do during discussions for the reunification of Germany in 1989. When Putin came to power, he propoesd that Russia should join the NATO or the European Union, and again he was turned down.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8X7Ng75e5gQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div id="why-is-ukraine-the-west-s-fault-by-john-mearsheimer-2015" class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4</a> Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? by John Mearsheimer (2015) Interesting points: 1) Ukraine is badly split, the East is really pro-Russia unification, and the West really pro-European. 2) The Americans didn’t like the <a href="#cuban-missile-crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis (古巴导弹危机, 1962)</a>", where an enemy power would install weapons on its borders. Ukraine is the same for the Russians. 3) The West wants Russia to be on our side against China. That is the big fight coming up. And in the Middle East. So we have to give some them some concessions. Ciro is a bit saddened by this kind of <a href="#realpolitik">Realpolitik (现实政治)</a>, which completely disregards principles, but unfortunately, especially when dealing with <a href="#dictatorship">dictatorships</a>, it is the only way perhaps, choosing the lesser of two evils.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JrMiSQAGOS4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://youtu.be/wtyA3VJQn1g?t=53" class="bare">https://youtu.be/wtyA3VJQn1g?t=53</a> French state television pre 2022 invasion interview with brainwashed Russian. The pricesless moment is when they ask if the troop buildup on Ukraine’s borders pre-2022 invasion don’t worry him. To which he answers: "it’s our side of the border, so we can do whatever we want". Ukraine, on the other hand, can’t do whatever they want, e.g. join NATO.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wtyA3VJQn1g?rel=0&start=53" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-gpIs3rcFk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-gpIs3rcFk</a> Ukraine: Invade us if you are <a href="#gay-rights">gay</a> | Russia: meme.</div>
<div class="content">
<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/U-gpIs3rcFk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="zov"><a class="anchor" href="#zov"></a><a class="link" href="#zov">47.8.2.1. ZOV by Pavel Filatyev (2022, Павел Филатьев)</a></h5>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ex soldier Pavel Filatyev (Павел Филатьев) published a 141 page critical account of his days in the war entitled "ZOV".</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>First 20kB:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="ZOV от Павла Филатьева 2022.txt" class="bare">ZOV от Павла Филатьева 2022.txt</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="ZOV by Pavel Filatyev 2022.txt" class="bare">ZOV by Pavel Filatyev 2022.txt</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Full txt reuploads:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Russian: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/master/zov.txt" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/master/zov.txt</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Google translate: <a href="https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/master/zov-en.txt" class="bare">https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/master/zov-en.txt</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO original upload URL. Western news as usual uncapable of pointing to original online sources.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/wquz45/comment/ikoqbdk/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/wquz45/comment/ikoqbdk/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3</a> comments original post at: <a href="https://sun1-89.userapi.com/c237231/u365182800/docs/d8/17fc149bb7e3/ZOV.pdf?extra=ZIlJXh0qQThxUPmlPts4syPhsVcAlbldhqz1rTEyz6NMiOQbRUhObImZzBcBmEYVZRyKDQD5mB4p6PkwU_SoENITIEyTCDhwkJURy0mFNFny2TRrnEHz38QyGoAvz7Gj4VdqFS6YJX-i" class="bare">https://sun1-89.userapi.com/c237231/u365182800/docs/d8/17fc149bb7e3/ZOV.pdf?extra=ZIlJXh0qQThxUPmlPts4syPhsVcAlbldhqz1rTEyz6NMiOQbRUhObImZzBcBmEYVZRyKDQD5mB4p6PkwU_SoENITIEyTCDhwkJURy0mFNFny2TRrnEHz38QyGoAvz7Gj4VdqFS6YJX-i</a> but that is down. Uploaded a Google translated version at: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1guApbii5AjzkaD1C_jjypxCL3hQI_iJLQQBFTC1Pfeo/edit" class="bare">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1guApbii5AjzkaD1C_jjypxCL3hQI_iJLQQBFTC1Pfeo/edit</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://gulagu.net" class="bare">https://gulagu.net</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulagu.net" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulagu.net</a> has a purported copy at: <a href="https://gulagu-net.ru/download/2595" class="bare">https://gulagu-net.ru/download/2595</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Funny to see some top Google hits in Chinese: <a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/553165607" class="bare">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/553165607</a></p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/i-dont-see-justice-in-this-war-russian-soldier-exposes-rot-at-core-of-ukraine-invasion" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/i-dont-see-justice-in-this-war-russian-soldier-exposes-rot-at-core-of-ukraine-invasion</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="marina-ovsyannikova"><a class="anchor" href="#marina-ovsyannikova"></a><a class="link" href="#marina-ovsyannikova">47.8.2.2. Marina Ovsyannikova (Марина Овсянникова, 2022, anti war poster on live news)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ovsyannikova" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ovsyannikova</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Овсянникова,_Марина" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Овсянникова,_Марина</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60749279" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60749279</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Many have suggested however that this was staged and that Marina is actually a <a href="#fsb">FSB</a> operative. She later started asking for an end to sanctions.</p>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Marina_Ovsyannikova.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Marina Ovsyannikova" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 326. Marina Ovsyannikova (Марина Овсянникова) <a href="#photobomb">showing an anti-war banner on live television news report</a> in the program Vremya on <a href="#russian-state-media">Channel One</a> on 14 March 2022, during a live broadcast related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marina_Ovsyannikova_14_March_2022_Protest.jpg">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_MG0os17XM" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_MG0os17XM</a> Marina Ovsyannikova’s photobomb and statement video glued up by The Guardian.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/D_MG0os17XM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="slava-ukraini"><a class="anchor" href="#slava-ukraini"></a><a class="link" href="#slava-ukraini">47.8.2.3. Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні!)</a></h5>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Ukraini" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Ukraini</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Слава_Украине!" class="bare">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Слава_Украине!</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Ukrainian nationalist slogan. The <a href="#liberate-hong-kong">Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times (光復香港，時代革命)</a> of Ukraine. Also follows a salute/reply pattern with the second sentence "Glory to the heroes".</p>
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<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="kazakhstan"><a class="anchor" href="#kazakhstan"></a><a class="link" href="#kazakhstan">47.8.3. Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦)</a></h4>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/哈萨克斯坦" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/哈萨克斯坦</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="videoblock">
<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9O4PU5Nnk" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9O4PU5Nnk</a> "How Much Do You Know About The Real Kazakhstan?" by Journeyman Pictures (2016) shows how Western leaders turn a blind eye to Kazakhstan’s dictator at the time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev">Nursultan Nazarbayev</a>, because they have oil and are willing to cooperate with the West on the war in Afghanistan. In 2019 he was replaced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassym-Jomart_Tokayev">Kassym-Jomart Tokayev</a>, gotta learn more about the new one. Includes interviews with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_L._Spratlen">Pamela L. Spratlen</a>, an US diplomat, where she diplomatically refuses to say anything meaningful.</div>
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<iframe loading="lazy" width="600" height="400" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/eB9O4PU5Nnk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="dictatorships-tend-to-work-together"><a class="anchor" href="#dictatorships-tend-to-work-together"></a><a class="link" href="#dictatorships-tend-to-work-together">47.9. Dictatorships tend to work together (独裁政权倾向于合作)</a></h3>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dictatorships naturally become allies.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The thing a dictatorship is afraid more than anything is of their own citizens, and therefore that they might be influenced by democracies to rebel against the oppression.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For this reason, the world basically always tumbles into a dictatorship vs democracy global war.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Also, since dictatorships don’t need to convince their people of anything, they tend to make such alliances much faster.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>But this presents a serious dilemma to dictatorships, because you can’t really trust the other dictator either, as they are just waiting to put a knife behind your back at all times.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This leads to constant tensions between allied dictatorships, e.g. <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a> vs China:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-07-02 <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3091611/why-russias-vladivostok-celebration-prompted-nationalist" class="bare">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3091611/why-russias-vladivostok-celebration-prompted-nationalist</a> "Why Russia’s Vladivostok celebration prompted a nationalist backlash in China" on <a href="#scmp">South China Morning Post (SCMP, 南华早报)</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This creates one of the most serious strategic problems faced by dictatorships. It is similar situation with organized crime.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is worth however noting that democracies themselves are not always fully aligned: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites</a></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p><a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/23/good-idea/" class="bare">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/23/good-idea/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization?<br>
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And of course, when a smaller dictatorship makes an alliance with a larger dictatorship, they basically immediately become a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_state">vassal state</a>, e.g.:</p>
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<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>China and:</p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="#iran">Iran (伊朗)</a>, see: <a href="#china-iran-relations">China-Iran relations (中国－伊朗关系)</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#pakistan">Pakistan (巴基斯坦)</a>, who is more afraid of India than China right now</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a>:</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2022 <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/30/russia-china-news-media-agreement/" class="bare">https://theintercept.com/2022/12/30/russia-china-news-media-agreement/</a> Hacked Russian files reveal propaganda agreement with China</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/101uiiu/china_this_went_viral_on_the_on_the_first_day_of/" class="bare">https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/101uiiu/china_this_went_viral_on_the_on_the_first_day_of/</a> drawing of Chinese and Russian warriors facing of a G20 monster with some racist heads</p>
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</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Africa</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0RGa99W0M" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0RGa99W0M</a> "Zambia: Under Chinese influence" by FRANCE 24 English (2021)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="#belarus">Belarus (Белоруссия)</a> and <a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a>, see: <a href="#moscow-minsk-friendship-mural">Moscow-Minsk friendship mural</a>. OK, in this case it is more like "<a href="#putin">Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)</a> setup a dictatorship on a neighbouirng country because democracy was a threat to him"</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="anti-dictatorship-alliances"><a class="anchor" href="#anti-dictatorship-alliances"></a><a class="link" href="#anti-dictatorship-alliances">47.9.1. Anti-dictatorship alliances</a></h4>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="ipac"><a class="anchor" href="#ipac"></a><a class="link" href="#ipac">47.9.1.1. Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (對華政策跨國議會聯盟, 2020)</a></h5>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ipac.global/" class="bare">https://ipac.global/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Parliamentary_Alliance_on_China" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Parliamentary_Alliance_on_China</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/對華政策跨國議會聯盟" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/對華政策跨國議會聯盟</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="spain"><a class="anchor" href="#spain"></a><a class="link" href="#spain">48. Spain (西班牙)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>hhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西班牙" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西班牙</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="tsunamidemocratic-github-takedown-2019"><a class="anchor" href="#tsunamidemocratic-github-takedown-2019"></a><a class="link" href="#tsunamidemocratic-github-takedown-2019">48.1. tsunamidemocratic GitHub takedown (2019)</a></h3>
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<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50232902" class="bare">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50232902</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/2019/2019-10-26-GuardiaCivil.md" class="bare">https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/2019/2019-10-26-GuardiaCivil.md</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO which repo was taken down exactly?</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>And so, <a href="#spain">Spain (西班牙)</a> joined the select list of countries present in <a href="#github-gov-takedowns">GitHub gov-takedowns (由其各自政府在某个国家审查的仓库的GitHub官方列表)</a>. Congratulations to them.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="thailand"><a class="anchor" href="#thailand"></a><a class="link" href="#thailand">49. Thailand (泰国)</a></h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is a crime to criticize the royal family (Lèse majesté):</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse_majesté_in_Thailand" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse_majesté_in_Thailand</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse-majesté" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse-majesté</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gilliam">Terry Gilliam</a> brilliantly says in the <a href="#the-secret-life-of-brian-2007">The secret Life of Brian (2007)</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/hdU_6jUQI9s?t=492" class="bare">https://youtu.be/hdU_6jUQI9s?t=492</a>:</p>
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<div id="sacred-cows" class="quoteblock">
<blockquote>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>I was always convinced that there is no where you should’t go. There are no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_cow_(idiom)">sacred cows</a>. And if there are, if they are really sacred, let’s see how much we puncture them and see if they still float.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Or in other words:</p>
</div>
<hr>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Vajiralongkorn, you little piece of shit, grow some balls and learn how to take an insult. A man who cannot take an insult is not a man, but a big pussy.
<em>_</em></p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Everyone who has political power must know how to be laughed at criticized, otherwise <a href="#dictatorship">dicatorship</a> follows:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2020-08-24 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/after-restricting-a-group-critical-of-thailands-monarchy-facebook-says-it-will-take-legal-action-against-the-government/" class="bare">https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/after-restricting-a-group-critical-of-thailands-monarchy-facebook-says-it-will-take-legal-action-against-the-government/</a> "After restricting a group critical of Thailand’s monarchy, Facebook says it will take legal action against the government"</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>2017-05-17 <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3578661/from-fake-tattoos-and-crop-tops-to-making-a-poodle-air-force-chief-the-king-of-thailands-maddest-moments-revealed/" class="bare">https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3578661/from-fake-tattoos-and-crop-tops-to-making-a-poodle-air-force-chief-the-king-of-thailands-maddest-moments-revealed/</a> "As Thai monarch Maha Vajiralongkorn attempts to sue Facebook over photos posted online, we look at the wacky royal’s bizarre life" TODO real? Erm, video by 60-minutes Australia: <a href="https://youtu.be/HfF3CGVwrs4?t=84" class="bare">https://youtu.be/HfF3CGVwrs4?t=84</a></p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>2015 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fufu_(dog" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fufu_(dog</a>).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Topless wife birthday celebration video: <a href="https://youtu.be/HfF3CGVwrs4?t=311" class="bare">https://youtu.be/HfF3CGVwrs4?t=311</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Dissidents:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Rap Against Dictatorship</p>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCukIPSb0N6_vRVD_5VlzqQg" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCukIPSb0N6_vRVD_5VlzqQg</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/20/rap-against-dictatorship-artist-arrested-in-thailand" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/20/rap-against-dictatorship-artist-arrested-in-thailand</a> "‘Rap Against Dictatorship' artist arrested in Thailand", artist Dechathorn Bamrungmuang arrested</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/16/rap-against-dictatorship-protests-thailand/" class="bare">https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/16/rap-against-dictatorship-protests-thailand/</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="thai-king-hamtaro" class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Side_by_side_comparison_between_Thai_king_Vajiralongkorn_and_Hamtaro.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Side by side comparison between Thai king Vajiralongkorn and Hamtaro" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 327. Side-by-side comparison between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajiralongkorn">Thai King Vajiralongkorn</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamtaro">Hamtaro</a>. This is the Thai version of <a href="#winnie-the-pooh">Xi Jinping looks like Winnie-the-Pooh (习近平长得像小熊维尼, 2017)</a>. It <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japanese-cartoon-Hamtaro-used-by-Thai-protesters-to-mock-government">has been used by protesters</a> as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Thai_protests">2020 Thai protests</a>. Left <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Thai_protests">photo source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Thai_king_prostrated_officers.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Thai king prostrated officers" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 328. Leading Thai politicians prostrate themselves before Vajiralongkorn in 2016, presumably during his ascension to the throne. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bbc-investigation-thailand-king-defamation-a7460046.html">Source</a>.</div>
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Thai_king_prostrated_wife.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Thai king prostrated wife" height="400">
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<div class="title">Figure 329. Suthida Tidjai, Vajiralongkorn’s wife, prostrated before him during their marriage in 2016 before he officially ascended to the throne. Yes, prostration is a big thing in Thailand. An older king, Rama V, had apparently even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chulalongkorn#Abolition_of_prostration">abolished this practice in 1873</a>. Clearly, <a href="#xi-jinping">Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!)</a> could learn a thing or two from a proper monarch like Vajiralongkorn. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190723095722/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/thailand-coronation-king-maha-vajiralongkorn-rama-x">Source</a>.</div>
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<div class="title">Figure 330. Thai king Vajiralongkorn wearing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_top">crop top</a> so tight that it could be called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra">bra</a>, and accompanied by one of his many girlfriends, in a shopping center in Munich. He can wear whatever the fuck wants, but to both wear that and enforce Lèse majesté? That’s the ultimate torture for the Thai people, how can you not make fun of him??? TODO date, exact location, original report. Here is one of the many reports, <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3578661/from-fake-tattoos-and-crop-tops-to-making-a-poodle-air-force-chief-the-king-of-thailands-maddest-moments-revealed/">sample report from 2017 in a British tabloid</a>.</div>
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<h3 id="milk-tea-alliance"><a class="anchor" href="#milk-tea-alliance"></a><a class="link" href="#milk-tea-alliance">49.1. Milk Tea Alliance (奶茶联盟)</a></h3>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Tea_Alliance" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Tea_Alliance</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/奶茶聯盟" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/奶茶聯盟</a></p>
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<p>News:</p>
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<p>2021-04-08 <a href="#twitter">Twitter (推特)</a> launches official support campaign for the Milk Tea Alliance: <a href="https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1379982396490010624" class="bare">https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1379982396490010624</a></p>
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<h2 id="united-states"><a class="anchor" href="#united-states"></a><a class="link" href="#united-states">50. United States (美国)</a></h2>
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<p>Major violations:</p>
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<p><a href="#israel">Israel (以色列)</a></p>
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<h3 id="afghanistan-and-iraq-wars"><a class="anchor" href="#afghanistan-and-iraq-wars"></a><a class="link" href="#afghanistan-and-iraq-wars">50.1. Afghanistan and Iraq wars</a></h3>
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<h4 id="iraq-war"><a class="anchor" href="#iraq-war"></a><a class="link" href="#iraq-war">50.1.1. Iraq War (2003-2011, 伊拉克战争)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊拉克战争" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊拉克战争</a></p>
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<p>This had purely political/strategic motivations. They had to fake intelligence in order to justify the war by saying that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and they went against the UN. A geopolitical disaster!</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_on_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_on_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/09/usa.iraq2" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/09/usa.iraq2</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War</a></p>
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<p>Katharine Gun leaked GCHQ information showing that the Americans were trying to use intelligence to pressure UN leaders to support them…​</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_(film)">Official Secrets (2019)</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War</a> 100,000 vioent deaths at the very minimum</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_and_the_Iraq_War" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_and_the_Iraq_War</a></p>
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<h4 id="guantanamo-bay"><a class="anchor" href="#guantanamo-bay"></a><a class="link" href="#guantanamo-bay">50.1.2. Guantanamo bay (关塔那摩湾拘押中心)</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/关塔那摩湾拘押中心" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/关塔那摩湾拘押中心</a></p>
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<h5 id="enhanced-interrogation-techniques"><a class="anchor" href="#enhanced-interrogation-techniques"></a><a class="link" href="#enhanced-interrogation-techniques">50.1.2.1. Enhanced interrogation techniques</a></h5>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-drawings.html" class="bare">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-drawings.html</a> "What the C.I.A.’s Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured" (2019)</p>
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<div class="title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdQTm6eQTU8" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdQTm6eQTU8</a> Ex-CIA interrogator James Mitchell supports enhanced interrogation techniques (2017) Interview by the <a href="#bbc">BBC (英国广播公司, British government media)</a>. How can someone go in front of a camera and say the they support torture? It is very very hard to comprehend. Don’t they see that this is creating more terrorists than it is apprehending? Are they that blind?</div>
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<h4 id="united-states-involvement-in-regime-change-in-latin-america"><a class="anchor" href="#united-states-involvement-in-regime-change-in-latin-america"></a><a class="link" href="#united-states-involvement-in-regime-change-in-latin-america">50.1.3. United States involvement in regime change in Latin America</a></h4>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America</a></p>
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<p><a href="#military-dictatorship-in-brazil">Military dictatorship in Brazil (巴西军事独裁, 1964-1985)</a></p>
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<h3 id="israel"><a class="anchor" href="#israel"></a><a class="link" href="#israel">50.2. Israel (以色列)</a></h3>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/以色列" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/以色列</a></p>
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<p>Israel is a military base for the <a href="#united-states">United States (美国)</a> to protect oil reserves in the Middle East.</p>
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<p>A popular and in <a href="#ciro-santilli">Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的)</a>'s view reasonable analogy of the situation is with the apartheid:</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analogy" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analogy</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/以色列与南非种族隔离的类比" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/以色列与南非种族隔离的类比</a></p>
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<p>Clearly, the best solution for the region as of 2021 would be to just give the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank">West Bank</a> to the Palestinians:</p>
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<p>As of July 2017 it has an estimated population of 2,747,943 Palestinians, and approximately 391,000 Israeli settlers,</p>
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<p>For comparison, the population os Israel in 2020 was 9 million people, 20% Arab.</p>
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<p>Just look at the map of the 2017 Oslo accords: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank</a> Clearly Palestinians are split into dozens of small islands, while Israel controls one big sea of territory around them all. It is ridiculous.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>And the settler population just keeps increasing: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png</a></p>
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<p>Basically every single country supports that resolution, except the United States due to their strategic interests, and other rich Western countries that would lose too much by fighting the US over it: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine</a>. Even human rights organizations from those countries recognize that:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/" class="bare">https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/</a></p>
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<p>2021 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/5/12/in-pictures-9" class="bare">https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/5/12/in-pictures-9</a> In Pictures: Global protests in solidarity with Palestinians</p>
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<p>2020 <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/06/29/what-americans-think-about-the-looming-israeli-annexation-and-trumps-middle-east-plan/" class="bare">https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/06/29/what-americans-think-about-the-looming-israeli-annexation-and-trumps-middle-east-plan/</a> "What Americans think about the looming Israeli annexation and Trump’s Middle East plan". Even the average American citizen (from amongst the ones that know about anything about the situation) does not agree with the current situation. But of course: <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/governments-have-lost-all-power-to-companies">Governments have lost all power to companies</a>, so nothing happens.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Europe mumbles something about "stop being naughty Israeal, I’ll make an Embargo". But these never lead anywhere, because the United States has laws that prohibit Israel embargoes, and as a result this would force removal of US investments in any European country that creates such embargo. And as mentioned at <a href="https://cirosantilli.com/having-more-than-one-natural-language-is-bad-for-the-world" class="bare">https://cirosantilli.com/having-more-than-one-natural-language-is-bad-for-the-world</a> Europe is too divided to do anything about anything compared to the United States, and so nothing ever gets done:</p>
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<p>2020 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210424063925/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/10/israel-annexation-boycott-europe-palenstinians-netanyahu/" class="bare">https://web.archive.org/web/20210424063925/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/10/israel-annexation-boycott-europe-palenstinians-netanyahu/</a> "Europeans Pushing to Boycott Israel Over Annexation Should Think Twice". This article actually supports human rights violations over economic concerns</p>
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<p>2020 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/mps-press-for-sanctions-against-israel-over-west-bank-annexations" class="bare">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/mps-press-for-sanctions-against-israel-over-west-bank-annexations</a> MPs press for sanctions against Israel over West Bank annexations.</p>
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<p>2019 <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses" class="bare">https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses</a> from <a href="#human-rights-watch">Human Rights Watch (人权观察)</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>The correct solution for this would be to actually force Israel to give the entire West Bank to Palestine, not only through sanctions, but also through military action supporting the independent West Bank state. But of course, it would never come to that. The USA needs Israel as a military base in the region. And if the USA would stop support, Israel would ally itself with China or Russia, as they’d be fucked without external support. Israeli settlers in the West Bank would then have a choice of staying under the new government, possibly obtaining Palestine citizenship, or moving back to Israel.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Bibliography:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-israel-does-not-want-sovereign-palestinian-state" class="bare">https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-israel-does-not-want-sovereign-palestinian-state</a> "Why Israel does not want a sovereign Palestinian state"</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYZjOuUnlU" class="bare">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYZjOuUnlU</a> The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history by Vox (2016)</p>
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<p><a href="https://ips-dc.org/why_the_us_supports_israel/" class="bare">https://ips-dc.org/why_the_us_supports_israel/</a></p>
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<h3 id="cuban-missile-crisis"><a class="anchor" href="#cuban-missile-crisis"></a><a class="link" href="#cuban-missile-crisis">50.3. Cuban Missile Crisis (古巴导弹危机, 1962)</a></h3>
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<li>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" class="bare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/古巴导弹危机" class="bare">https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/古巴导弹危机</a></p>
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<p>This even highlighted that even for the "supposedly freedom supporting United States", some sovereign foreign nations don’t really have full freedom to do what they like when it becomes a strategic problem for the USA, e.g. Cuba can’t just have their own missiles.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is so amazing how they then made a "naval quarantine", which is totally not a "naval blockade, which would be an act of war. One is reminded of how they totally did not "torture" people at <a href="#guantanamo-bay">Guantanamo bay (关塔那摩湾拘押中心)</a>, they only used <a href="#enhanced-interrogation-techniques">Enhanced interrogation techniques</a>.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>This has very strong parallels to how:</p>
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<p>China views <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan (Republic of China, 台湾, 中華民國)</a></p>
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<p><a href="#russia">Russia (俄罗斯)</a> views <a href="#russo-ukrainian-war">Russo-Ukrainian War (俄乌战争, Російсько-українська війна, 2014-)</a></p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>see also: <a href="#why-is-ukraine-the-west-s-fault-by-john-mearsheimer-2015">Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? by John Mearsheimer (2015)</a></p>
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<h2 id="other-sections"><a class="anchor" href="#other-sections"></a><a class="link" href="#other-sections">51. Other sections</a></h2>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>TODO migrate all into this README.</p>
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<p><a href="censorship.md">Censorship</a></p>
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<p><a href="media.md">Media</a></p>
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<p><a href="dissidents.md">Dissidents</a></p>
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<p><a href="movements.md">Movements against the Dictatorship</a></p>
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<p><a href="images/">Images</a></p>
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<p><a href="policies.md">Policies</a></p>
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<p><a href="stack-overflow.md">Stack Overflow</a></p>
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<p><a href="stack-overflow-profile.md">Stack Overflow profile</a></p>
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<p>Personal</p>
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<p><a href="communities-that-censor-politics.md">Communities that censor politics</a></p>
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