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The Chinese government hired a firm to recruit social media influencers as part of a new digital operation amid controversies surrounding diplomatic boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, OpenSecrets’…
Bully’s Protest
In countries with the freedom to protest, protesters who hit the streets always claim victimhood and demand for justice and/or policy changes. Not everyone knows that. In August 2019 in…
Christmas Cancelled In China
This is hilarious. A North Korean report (definitely not correctly subtitled/translated) says that Christmas in China has been cancelled because Santa Claus had a fall in China and nobody dared…
Collective Punishment 连坐
连坐 Wikipedia: Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political…
Peng Shuai Withdraws Accusations
In a short video purportedly shot by a Chinese journalist for Singapore’s Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao, Peng Shuai denied that she was ever sexually assaulted and she alleged that people…
Disgraceful Xuan Wu
https://youtu.be/FMt-3usL3P8
China’s Fake Heroes & Patriots Without Principles
As I’ve always said, I have just a passing interest in martial arts. It just happened that time and again, this sport/art generates newsworthy incidents that are incredibly edifying in…
Plum Prefecture, Guangdong China
The well-known Guangdong Hakka district of 梅县 (pronounced Moiyen in Hakka meaning “Plum County”) had an urban core carved out in the centre in 1949 after the Communists took over.…
Preserved Vegetables & Special Salt
The excerpt of a document on a special kind of salt used for preserving vegetables caused a major stir on Chinese social media. It states that in the interest of…
Unfree Speech by Joshua Wong
If there is one thing common between Singaporeans and Hong Kongers, that has to be their pragmatism. But there is an important difference. Singaporeans are pragmatic in allowing a single…