The truth is while most people in China would support or at least not openly oppose protests of continued Civid lockdowns, most will NOT support and will openly oppose protests against gov rule.
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向勇敢的上海人民致敬：上海民众聚集乌鲁木齐中路悼念乌鲁木齐火灾死难者，面对大批警察，高呼“习近平下台”“共产党下台”“要自由”。如果第二次“六四”是在上海而不是北京爆发，倒是出乎我意料。
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乌鲁木齐政府大楼前，乌鲁木齐市委副书记马志军出来与民众对话
男子：什么时候能解封？
马：解不解封没意思.....都是为了大家都安全
女子：我新冠五天就好了！封了四个多月，我他妈二十多个新冠都好了吧！
男子：三年疫情三年不解封是吧！
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“Serve the people”
Another viral post today is a quote from Xi’s dad about listen to the people’s voice
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fire has been many Chinese people's worst fear since the spring of 2020, that is, since many people's homes are forced into periodic quarantine with metal bars and barriers
from the bus in Guizhou to the fire in Urumqi
the worst thing you can imagine happened and will happen
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I can't even.....😭😭
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Student calls to 911:
12:03—whispered she's in room 112
12:10—said multiple dead
12:13—called again
12:16—says 8-9 students alive
12:19—student calls from room 111
12:21—3 shots heard on call
12:36—another call
12:43—asks for police
12:47—asks for police
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And this feels scarily familiar 文艺座谈会
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Polygamy AND polyandry 🤣
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Replying to @OffbeatChina
It should actually encourage polyandry as it has a surplus of men with no wives to make babies with..to not only help increase the population but keep the family lineage alive.... of course, this all depends on women, lots whom can barely tolerate the one husband they have..
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Might as well open up limitless children at this point. What’s the difference. People not gonna follow anyways
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Chinese gov should allow polygamy as a way to encourage people to have more kids 🤣
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There will also be at least 9 grandkids to take care of when the “only child” generations retire
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Reading recent news makes me wonder which country will have the last laugh against Covid. All countries that’ve claimed victory failed/are failing again
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Who are the Chinese people buying zongzi at Starbucks every year? I'd like to interview you morons for a piece.
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Ever wonder why so many 1st generation Chinese immigrants are against the Democrats? This 👇
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Why does CA DOE want to eliminate “gifted programs” for “high achieving students”?
Here’s what they say:
“In California in 2004-2014, 32% of Asian American students were in gifted programs, compared with 8% of White students, 4% of Black students, and 3% of Latinx students”
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The more I’ve contemplated how we discuss China’s political typology the more I’m forced to conclude we have a huge missing gap in our understanding of how authoritarian systems can function and operate when the power base they draw from civil society is broad rather than narrow.
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It’s definitely a turning point. A piece news hasn’t gotten the attention it should have twitter.com/stinson/status
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2020 had been expected to be the year that the median age in China exceeded that in America for the first time (according to UN World Population Prospects, as shown in this chart). The new census now seems likely to show that China is ageing at even faster rate.
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China is expected to report that its population dropped in 2020, back to below 1.4 billion. This, if correct, would be nearly a decade earlier than official projections for when the population was to peak.
Big scoop from Sun Yu of the
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Yao Pan Ma was collecting bottles in East Harlem on Friday when a man dressed in black approached him from behind and struck him in the back. The blow left Ma, 61, motionless on the sidewalk as his attacker repeatedly kicked him in the head. #StopAsianHate
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Here's the thing about allowing celebration of Chloe Zhao from perspective of Beijing censors: a native Chinese winning a top US award for film probing deep flaws in American society. Now try to imagine the reverse, a foreigner winning praise criticizing China. You can't.
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The fact that many of us who wrote much about China’s censorship are surprised and puzzled by the ban on Chloe Zhao is pretty telling of how fast things are going south in China
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Instead of celebrating Chloé Zhao's wins at the Oscar and making the Chinese public feeling proud, Beijing is busy censoring her -- all for a criticism she made in 2013.For as long as I've been writing about Chinese censorship and propaganda, I still can't wrap my mind around it.
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So what actually caused this? I tried to dig up the reason of why she was censored but didn’t find anything deserving
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All the social media posts mentioned Nomand Land (无依之地）are censored all over the internet, people are using "浪迹天地“、”有靠之天“ as alternative movie names to celebrate Chloe Zhao's historical win.
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It’s always really jarring to hear US foreign policy hacks accusing China of “debt trap diplomacy”, because their beloved rules-based liberal international order is a giant machine for producing debt traps. Do they really not know the first thing about the system they champion?
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This is absolutely depraved. I guess you can have some of the vaccines controlled by rich countries, but we reserve the right to strip poor nations for parts in order to maintain the global intellectual property regime. nytimes.com/2021/04/24/opi
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I thought it was about protecting innovation welp twitter.com/ryanavent/stat
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Wow. A deep East-West difference: "人之初，性本善" 《三字经》"People at birth are inherently good." vs. “None is righteous, no, not one...All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” The Holy Bible, Romans 3:10
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Chloe Zhao wins the #Oscar for best director!! She quoted the 三字经 in her acceptance speech, saying that she’s always been inspired by the phrase “人之初，性本善” to look for the good in people #Nomadland
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Can China do the same?
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Twitter agrees to block tweets critical of India government's COVID-19 response bit.ly/2S3f44I
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Would be fun to see how those who labeled Chloe Zhao a “national traitor” now say about her. Nomad land, the movie won her #Oscars2021 is NOT yet allowed to be shown in China
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Chloé Zhao on Sunday became the first woman of color, the first Chinese woman and the second woman ever to win the Oscar for directing, capping off an impressive run of honors for her work on the drama “Nomadland.” nyti.ms/3dOxbUs
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Then you will have 70%+ Asian Americans in top universities
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hot take: American universities should move to a straight-up test-scores model for admission for domestic students, with lower thresholds for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. no extracurriculars, no interviews, no admission essays
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Coming out in Shanghai:
- Dad, I like girls
- oh so you’re lesbian... it’s ok, daddy’s liberal. But is she from Shanghai?!
We really need a good translation for #intersectionality to popularise this concept in the Sinophone...
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Guess she didn’t watch The Crown
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In 2020, China's population as % of world pop finally matches its GDP as portion of global GDP: both stood at 18%.
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