#chinese politics

[troythecatfish]

[humorandwhatnot]

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[quotesfrommyreading]

The Chinese government says that its policies in Xinjiang are intended to curb terrorism and separatism, and that the camps provide instruction in Chinese language and other skills to people who might be susceptible to extremist ideas.

But the Karakax spreadsheet shows how officials have monitored minute details of daily life to find targets for detention as Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party boss in Xinjiang, ordered officials to “round up everyone who should be rounded up.”

The authorities scrutinized three generations of each detainee’s family, as well as their neighbors and friends. Officials in charge of monitoring mosques reported on how actively the residents participated in ceremonies, including the naming of children, circumcision, weddings and funerals.

The list specified whether detainees learned about religion from parents and grandparents or elsewhere. Dozens were listed as having a “heavy religious environment” at home — a designation that was often followed by a recommendation that they not be released.

The authorities also studied how many times a day detainees prayed and whether they took part in — or were even interested in — religious pilgrimages.

Outward signs of piety were also recorded. “Wore a beard from March 2011 to July 2014,” reads a description of one detainee related to several people who had been sent to camps. Officials categorized as “trustworthy” another man, the father of two detainees, who had cut off his beard and started drinking alcohol after a year of abstaining.

  —  How China Tracked Detainees and Their Families

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

The junk and the jangada: a route for academic collaboration between China and Brazil

The University of São Paulo (USP), a leader in scientific production in Latin America, and China, a global power in science and technology, share a common vision: That research and academic collaboration are the foundations for building a more equitable, sustainable, and innovative future.

This synergy takes shape at the USP-China Center, a strategic initiative of the USP President’s Office, aiming to strengthen the dialogue between the two nations, whose contributions to science and culture transcend borders.

This movement towards rapprochement takes place at a unique moment in the world’s geopolitical overlook, with territorial disputes and armed conflicts in different regions around the world and the recent victory of protectionist projects in countries with regional and global influence. In a recent article on Folha de S. Paulo Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Brazil to sail together with his country “under full sail”. But how can the Chinese junk and the Brazilian jangada sail together quickly and safely in such turbulent geopolitical seas? The way to go seems to be cooperation and multilateralism in academic relations.

China is Brazil’s main trading partner, and bilateral trade reached US$110 billion in 2024, resulting in a surplus of US$29 billion for Brazil. But the partnership between the two countries goes beyond trade and has immense potential in the academic sphere. China, a global leader in areas such as data science and engineering, finds in Brazil, with its expertise in sustainability, biodiversity, agriculture, and food safety, a partner of complementary strengths.

However, the enormous potential of the Chinese Brazilian partnership in science and technology faces substantial challenges. Language and cultural barriers still hinder academic exchange, and geographical distance imposes high costs on students’ and researchers’ mobility. In addition, the administrative centralization of Chinese institutions contrasts with the fragmentation of the Brazilian academic system, requiring coordinated efforts from both sides for more dynamic academic collaboration between the institutions of the two countries to flourish.

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[not-your-asian-fantasy]

“The Chinese government is seeking to erase memory of the Tiananmen Massacre throughout China and in Hong Kong,” said Maya Wang, acting China director at Human Rights Watch. “But 35 years on, the government has been unable to extinguish the flames of remembrance for those risking all to promote respect for democracy and human rights in China.”

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Seismologists recorded 515 aftershocks after earthquake in Tibet

Chinese seismologists have recorded more than 500 aftershocks following an earthquake in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China, Chinese Central Television reported.

The centre said in a statement:

“As of 8:00 a.m. on January 8, a total of 515 aftershocks have been recorded, including 488 aftershocks of magnitude below 3.0, 27 aftershocks of magnitude 3.0 and above, notably 24 of magnitude 3.0 to 3.9 and three of magnitude 4.0 to 4.9. The maximum aftershock of magnitude 4.4 was recorded about 18 kilometres from the epicentre of the main shock.”

The magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck at 09:05 local time in Tingri county in Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China, near the border with Nepal.

The epicentre of the tremors was 163 km from the city of Shigajie with a population of about 800,000 people, its depth was about 10 km, the US Geological Survey reported. At least 126 people died, 188 were injured and over 3,000 buildings were damaged.

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[ammg-old2]

I last saw my old professor Abduqadir Jalalidin at his Urumqi apartment in late 2016. Over home-pulled laghman noodles and a couple of bottles of Chinese liquor, we talked and laughed about everything from Uighur literature to American politics. Several years earlier, when I had defended my master’s thesis on Uighur poetry, Jalalidin, himself a famous poet, had sat across from me and asked hard questions. Now we were just friends.

It was a memorable evening, one I’ve thought about many times since learning in early 2018 that Jalalidin had been sent, along with more than a million other Uighurs, to China’s internment camps.

As with my other friends and colleagues who have disappeared into this vast, secretive gulag, months stretched into years with no word from Jalalidin. And then, late this summer, the silence broke. Even in the camps, I learned, my old professor had continued writing poetry. Other inmates had committed his new poems to memory and had managed to transmit one of them beyond the camp gates.

In this forgotten place I have no lover’s touch Each night brings darker dreams, I have no amulet My life is all I ask, I have no other thirst These silent thoughts torment, I have no way to hope

Who I once was, what I’ve become, I cannot know Who could I tell my heart’s desires, I cannot say My love, the temper of the fates I cannot guess I long to go to you, I have no strength to move

Through cracks and crevices I’ve watched the seasons change For news of you I’ve looked in vain to buds and flowers To the marrow of my bones I’ve ached to be with you What road led here, why do I have no road back home

Jalalidin’s poem is powerful testimony to a continuing catastrophe in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Since 2017, the Chinese state has swept a growing proportion of its Uighur population, along with other Muslim minorities, into an expanding system of camps, prisons and forced labor facilities. A mass sterilization campaign has targeted Uighur women, and the discovery of a multi-ton shipment of human hair from the region, most likely originating from the camps, evokes humanity’s darkest hours.

But my professor’s poem is also testimony to Uighurs’ unique use of poetry as a means of communal survival. Against overwhelming state violence, one might imagine that poetry would offer little recourse. Yet for many Uighurs — including those who risked sharing Jalalidin’s poem — poetry has a power and importance inconceivable in the American context.

[idontknowwhyimhere102]

I'm have a strong hatred for all of them.

[tuulikki]

Do you ever read a case of censorship so ludicrous that you feel like you slipped into an parody alternate universe

To evade censorship on the internet, Chinese resort to code words — so much so that academics and writers lament the deterioration of the Chinese language. Young people often use abbreviations of Pinyin, the Romanized spelling of Chinese characters, for anything that can be construed as sensitive or taboo. I’ve seen Chinese criticizing my columns about the Chinese government by saying they loved their “zf,” abbreviation for Zhengfu, or government. Even when defending the state, they knew they were venturing into treacherous terrains.

- Li Yuan

[maniacwatchestheworld]

So I decided to skim IRL Jackie Chan's Wikipedia page and just... Oh nooooooooooo! He's anti-democracy, pro-Beijing when it comes to Hong Kong politics! That's very sad for me... Quite a shame... But I guess that's just what happens when you get rich... Still, I suppose that I can respect his work and what he's done for the film industry as a whole and not like his politics at the same time. A shame for me for certain, but I guess that I can't exactly blame the man. He probably has his reasons and is ultimately just a person with his own thoughts, feelings, and opinions, even if I disagree with them. :/

But in my heart of hearts, the Jackie Chan in the cartoon version of him from Jackie Chan Adventures is pro-democracy. I can believe that in my heart. :p

(For the record, in terms of Hong Kong politics, I tend to be on the side of the people who live in an area getting to determine how they want to be led. And given the mass protest movements within the last 10 years, it seems that Hong Kong wants to maintain their democracy and be allowed to conduct their own affairs separate from the mainland and am very disappointed and angry at both China for violating the treaty that gave them Hong Kong, and for England for not enforcing their treaty. I do not think that it's a stretch to say that what China has been doing to Hong Kong is an act of colonization and I am generally against colonization. :/ I may not talk about it a lot but I DO care about politics, especially when it comes to Hong Kong.)

[troythecatfish]

[humorandwhatnot]

Chinese Irony

[quotesfrommyreading]

Fate has placed Taiwan and Ukraine in similar positions. Both have giant neighbors who once ruled them as imperial possessions. Both have undergone democratic transformations and have thus become an ideological danger to the autocrats who covet their territory. Just as Putin has made the erasure of Ukraine’s sovereignty central to his political project, Xi has vowed to unify China and Taiwan, by force if necessary. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned in October that China may be working on a “much faster timeline” for dealing—somehow—with Taiwan. U.S. military and intelligence leaders have pointed to 2027 as a potential time frame for an invasion, believing that China’s military modernization will have advanced sufficiently by then.

  —  Taiwan Wants China to Think Twice About an Invasion

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

VPs of Brazil and China call for global peace, celebrate partnerships, sign cooperation agreements

Geraldo Alckmin and Han Zheng co-chaired the Sino-Brazilian High-Level Concertation Commission (Cosban) plenary session in Beijing, China.

Brazilian Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services Geraldo Alckmin and Chinese Vice President Han Zheng co-chaired the 7th Plenary Session of the Sino-Brazilian High-Level Concertation Commission (Cosban) on June 6. Founded during President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first term, Cosban turns 12 years old in 2024, representing a high-level bilateral negotiating venue.

"At a time of great international instability, with armed conflicts taking place in various regions of the planet, Brazil-China relations remain characterized by predictability and stability," said Alckmin. According to Zheng, in light of the shifting and turbulent global landscape, "putting energy into bringing peace and development to the world” is imperative.

In addition to global issues, the two leaders emphasized the 50th anniversary of the Sino-Brazilian relationship, which will be celebrated in 2024. Economic cooperation was another point of convergence.

Alckmin welcomed current Chinese investment in Brazil and invited Chinese companies to contribute with the modernization of Brazilian infrastructure, a project President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration has been promoting through the New Growth Acceleration Program (Novo PAC). "I invite all Chinese companies to join the effort to modernize Brazil's infrastructure, which is the New PAC".

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[kneedeepincynade]

I propose a toast to Xi Jinping leader of the free world for his re-election as chairman! His leadership has led China into a glorious and shining future and now he shall lead the free world there as well!

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⚠️ XI JINPING È STATO RIELETTO PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA POPOLARE CINESE E DELLA COMMISSIONE MILITARE CENTRALE ⚠️

🇨🇳 Oggi, 10 marzo, il Compagno Xi Jinping - Segretario Generale del Partito Comunista Cinese - è stato rieletto, al 14° Congresso Nazionale del Popolo, come Presidente della Repubblica Popolare Cinese e della Commissione Militare Centrale ⭐️

🚩 Il Presidente Cinese ha prestato il Giuramento:

💬 "Mi impegno a essere fedele alla Costituzione della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, salvaguardare l'Autorità della Costituzione, adempiere ai miei obblighi legali, essere fedele al Paese e al Popolo, essere impegnato e onesto nel mio dovere, accettare la supervisione del Popolo e lavorare per un Grande Paese Socialista Moderno che sia Prospero, Forte, Democratico, Culturalmente Avanzato, Armonioso e Bello. Io, Xi Jinping, faccio questo Giuramento" 🇨🇳

💕 Dopodiché, il Presidente Cinese si è inchinato di fronte ai Delegati del Congresso e all'Emblema della Repubblica Popolare 🇨🇳

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⚠️ XI JINPING RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND THE CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION ⚠️

🇨🇳 Today, March 10, Comrade Xi Jinping - General Secretary of the Communist Party of China - was re-elected, at the 14th National People's Congress, as President of the People's Republic of China and of the Central Military Commission ⭐️

🚩 The Chinese President took the Oath:

💬 "I pledge to be faithful to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, safeguard the Authority of the Constitution, fulfill my legal obligations, be loyal to the country and the People, be committed and honest in my duty, accept the People's supervision, and work for a Great Modern Socialist Country that is Prosperous, Strong, Democratic, Culturally Advanced, Harmonious and Beautiful. I, Xi Jinping, take this Oath" 🇨🇳

💕 After that, the Chinese President bowed to the Congress Delegates and the Emblem of the People's Republic 🇨🇳

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China to launch mission to moon’s “hidden” side

China would launch a robotic spacecraft on a round trip to the back side of the moon in the coming days, Reuters reported.

The journey will be the first of three technically challenging missions paving the way for the first landing of a Chinese crew and the establishment of a base at the lunar south pole.

Since the first Chang’e mission in 2007, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, China has made great strides in lunar exploration, narrowing the technological gap with the United States and Russia.

In 2020, China brought back samples from the near side of the moon for the first time in over forty years. The mission verified that the country could safely return an unmanned spacecraft to Earth from the lunar surface.

China is expected to launch Chang’e-6 this week using the 2020 mission’s backup spacecraft and collect soil and rocks from the moon’s back side, which is permanently facing away from Earth.

With no direct line of sight to Earth, Chang’e-6 will rely on the recently launched relay satellite orbiting the moon. The same satellite will support the unmanned Chang’e-7 and 8 missions in 2026 and 2028 respectively, when China will begin exploring the south pole in search of water and building a rudimentary outpost with Russia.

China aims to send its astronauts to the moon by 2030.

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