Is There a Tipping Point for China and Human Rights Violations???

[visionary]

 

[Larry]

1 minute ago, visionary said:

 

 

Trump got away with similar comments for years.  

 

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U.S. has not made 'final decision' on participating in Olympics in China

 

The White House has not made a final decision on whether the United States will take part in the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, President Joe Biden’s spokeswoman said on Thursday, even as some Republicans call for a boycott.

 

Republicans who have called either for a boycott or for the Olympics to be moved out of Beijing have cited a U.S. designation made under former President Donald Trump that the Chinese government was perpetrating genocide against Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region.

 

Speaking to reporters about U.S. participation in the Beijing Olympics, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, “There hasn’t been a final decision made on that and, of course, we would look for guidance from the U.S. Olympic Committee.”

 

Psaki on Feb. 3 had signaled that the United States had no plans to boycott the Beijing Olympics, saying at the time: “We’re not currently talking about changing our posture or our plans as it relates to the Beijing Olympics.”

 

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said it had no comment on Psaki’s latest remarks, instead referring to a statement it issued on Feb. 3 opposing boycotts.

 

The USOPC’s earlier statement said, “We believe the more effective course of action is for the governments of the world and China to engage directly on human rights and geopolitical issues.”

 

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[Larry]

Pretty sure that:

 

1). The GOP doesn't give a **** about China, or anybody else, committing genocide against Muslims. In fact, they support it. 
 

2). And we participated in Olympics in Hitler's Germany. 

[No Excuses]

2 hours ago, Larry said:

Pretty sure that:

 

1). The GOP doesn't give a **** about China, or anybody else, committing genocide against Muslims. In fact, they support it. 
 

2). And we participated in Olympics in Hitler's Germany. 

Mike Pompeo was genuinely good as SoS on the issue of Uyghur persecution in China. Not all in the GOP care, but Pompeo made a series of good moves before finishing his term.

 

Source: my exposure to the Uyghur community and their interaction with our policy makers through my wife who is Uyghur, and has family back home that was/is in the camps. 

 

 

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[Larry]

That's what, 10 year's pay, in NK?

[China]

2 hours ago, Larry said:

That's what, 10 year's pay, in NK?

 

Does it matter?  And they're not the ones getting the money.  it's human trafficking.

[visionary]

 

[Larry]

7 hours ago, China said:

 

Does it matter?  And they're not the ones getting the money.  it's human trafficking.

 

 

Missed the sarcasm font?  

 

I'm not defending it.  In fact, I'm satirizing people who defend it when it happens here.  

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China sending children of exiled Uighur parents to orphanages, says Amnesty

 

China has forcibly separated Uighur families by taking young children into state orphanages, according to human rights group Amnesty International.

 

In a new report, Amnesty has called on China to release all Uighur children being held in orphanages without the consent of their families.

 

The charity spoke to parents who left children with relatives in China when they were forced to flee the country.

 

Rights groups say China has detained more than a million Uighurs.

 

The Chinese government has also faced allegations of a wide range of human rights abuses against the Uighur people and other Muslim minorities, including forced labour, forced sterilisation, sexual abuse and rape.

 

The government denies it is holding Uighurs in detention camps in the Xinjiang region in north-western China. It says the camps are "re-education" facilities being used to combat terrorism.

 

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China Tries to Counter Xinjiang Backlash With … a Musical?

 

The movie is part of Beijing’s wide-ranging new propaganda campaign to push back on sanctions and criticism of its oppression of the Uyghurs.

 

In one scene, Uyghur women are seen dancing in a rousing Bollywood style face-off with a group of Uyghur men. In another, a Kazakh man serenades a group of friends with a traditional two-stringed lute while sitting in a yurt.

 

Welcome to “The Wings of Songs,” a state-backed musical that is the latest addition to China’s propaganda campaign to defend its policies in Xinjiang. The campaign has intensified in recent weeks as Western politicians and rights groups have accused Beijing of subjecting Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang to forced labor and genocide.

 

The film, which debuted in Chinese cinemas last week, offers a glimpse of the alternate vision of Xinjiang that China’s ruling Communist Party is pushing to audiences at home and abroad. Far from being oppressed, the musical seems to say, the Uyghurs and other minorities are singing and dancing happily in colorful dress, a flashy take on a tired Chinese stereotype about the region’s minorities that Uyghur rights activists quickly denounced.

 

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On 2/26/2021 at 3:30 PM, China said:

U.S. has not made 'final decision' on participating in Olympics in China

 

The White House has not made a final decision on whether the United States will take part in the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, President Joe Biden’s spokeswoman said on Thursday, even as some Republicans call for a boycott.

 

Republicans who have called either for a boycott or for the Olympics to be moved out of Beijing have cited a U.S. designation made under former President Donald Trump that the Chinese government was perpetrating genocide against Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region.

 

Speaking to reporters about U.S. participation in the Beijing Olympics, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, “There hasn’t been a final decision made on that and, of course, we would look for guidance from the U.S. Olympic Committee.”

 

Psaki on Feb. 3 had signaled that the United States had no plans to boycott the Beijing Olympics, saying at the time: “We’re not currently talking about changing our posture or our plans as it relates to the Beijing Olympics.”

 

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said it had no comment on Psaki’s latest remarks, instead referring to a statement it issued on Feb. 3 opposing boycotts.

 

The USOPC’s earlier statement said, “We believe the more effective course of action is for the governments of the world and China to engage directly on human rights and geopolitical issues.”

 

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China warns Washington not to boycott Winter Olympics

 

hina's government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses.

 

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson rejected accusations of abuses against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region. He warned of an unspecified “robust Chinese response” to a potential Olympics boycott.

 

“The politicization of sports will damage the spirit of the Olympic Charter and the interests of athletes from all countries,” said the spokesperson, Zhao Lijian. “The international community including the U.S. Olympic Committee will not accept it.”

 

Human rights groups are protesting China’s hosting of the games, due to start in February 2022. They have urged a boycott or other measures to call attention to accusations of Chinese abuses against Uyghurs, Tibetans and residents of Hong Kong.

 

The U.S. State Department suggested an Olympic boycott was among the possibilities but a senior official said later a boycott has not been discussed. The International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee have said in the past they oppose boycotts.

 

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China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture'

 

China has launched a new app that will allow citizens to report others who criticise the ruling Chinese Communist Party or question its account of history online.

 

Released by China's cyber regulator, along with a similar hotline, the app aims to crack down on 'historical nihilists' ahead of the Party's 100th anniversary in July, the regulator said in a statement on Friday.

 

An arm of Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said the app and hotline will allow and encourage netizens to report fellow internet users who spread 'mistaken opinions' online in order to create a 'good public opinion atmosphere'.

 

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Africa could be massive battlefield in ‘inevitable’ war between the US and China as Xi stakes claim to continent

 

AFRICA could become a massive battlefield in a war between China and the United States as the President Xi Jinping stakes claim to the continent, experts warned.

 

The Communist Party is quietly expanding into the eastern part of Africa as it sets up military bases and expands its influence through infrastructure projects across in at least 11 nations.

 

 

Both sides have military bases just eight miles apart in the key strategic nation of Djibouti - which can be used to control entrance to the Red Sea and Suez Canal.

 

The US has some 29 military bases in Africa, as well as plenty more in the nearby Middle East, and China has previously boasted it wants to boost its presence on the continent to expand its power.

 

U.S. Gen. Stephen Townsend warned today said Beijing was looking to establish a large navy port capable of hosting submarines or aircraft carriers on Africa’s western coast.

 

Townsend said China has approached countries stretching from Mauritania to south of Namibia, intent on establishing a naval facility.

 

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China still trying to collect data on US citizens:

 

 As a follow up to this:

 

 

TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’

 

A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content. This includes things like “faceprints and voiceprints,” the policy explained. Reached for comment, TikTok could not confirm what product developments necessitated the addition of biometric data to its list of disclosures about the information it automatically collects from users, but said it would ask for consent in the case such data collection practices began.

 

The biometric data collection details were introduced in the newly added section, “Image and Audio Information,” found under the heading of “Information we collect automatically” in the policy.

 

This is the part of TikTok’s Privacy Policy that lists the types of data the app gathers from users, which was already fairly extensive.

 

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Leading Chinese nuclear scientist dies in fall from building

 

One of China’s leading nuclear scientists, Zhang Zhijian, has died after falling to his death from a building, Harbin Engineering University has announced.

Zhang, who was vice-president at the university, was found dead on Thursday.

In a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo, the university in the capital of Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province, said police had ruled out homicide as the cause of death after on-site investigations, without providing further details.

 

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Meanwhile...China Denies Radiation Leak at Reactor but Admits Fuel Rod Damage

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Philippines sees mysterious ships push into local waters

 

Alarming photos show that instead of standing down, China has doubled down and is “shamelessly hellbent on aggravating the situation”.

 

They shouldn’t be fishing boats. China has imposed a blanket ban. But 100 more vessels have moved into the Philippines’ Union Banks, bringing the total to 238.

 

Is this another sign of Beijing using “all means short of war” to seize control?

 

Geospatial analysis firm Simularity has released a report dissecting hundreds of satellite images taken of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in recent weeks.

 

“As of June 17, 2021, approximately 238 ships are in the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ),” the report concludes.

 

That’s at least 100 more than what was there a month ago.

 

The unidentified vessels were photographed clustered around Union Banks in the centre of the contested Spratly Islands group.

 

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CCP channel reposts video threatening to nuke Japan if it defends Taiwan

 

A video reposted by a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee in northeastern China on Sunday (July 11) threatens to "continuously use nuclear bombs" against Japan if it attempts to interfere with a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

 

On Sunday, the Baoji Municipal Committee of the CCP reposted a video to the YouTube-like platform Xigua. In the 5-minute video, created by military commentary channel "Liujun Taolue" (六军韬略), the narrator calls for nuclear attacks against Japan if it attempts to defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack, and also proposes a "Japan Exception Theory."

 

The video starts by saying that if Japan "dares to intervene with force" when China "liberates" Taiwan, the communist country will respond with an all-out war against Japan. It said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) will strike first with nuclear bombs and continue to use them until Japan surrenders unconditionally "for the second time."

 

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CHINA CAN LOCK UP A MILLION MUSLIMS IN XINJIANG AT ONCE

 

The true scale of China’s mass detention campaign in Xinjiang has long stayed secret. A new BuzzFeed News analysis has found 206 million square feet of space to detain Muslims.

This is Part 5 of a BuzzFeed News investigation. For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here. For Part 3, click here. For Part 4, click here.

 

For the first time, BuzzFeed News can reveal the full capacity of China's previously secret network of prisons and detention camps in Xinjiang: enough space to detain more than 1 million people.

 

BuzzFeed News calculated the floor areas of 347 compounds bearing the hallmarks of prisons and internment camps in the region and compared them to China’s own prison and detention construction standards, which lay out how much space is needed for each person detained or imprisoned.

 

Earlier estimates, including one extrapolated from three-year-old leaked government data, have suggested that a total of more than a million Muslims have been detained or imprisoned over the last five years, with an unknown number released during that time. Our unprecedented analysis goes further, showing that China has built space to lock up at least 1.01 million people in Xinjiang at the same time.

 

That’s enough space to detain or incarcerate more than 1 in every 25 residents of Xinjiang simultaneously — a figure seven times higher than the criminal detention capacity of the United States, the country with the highest official incarceration rate in the world.

 

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China cracks down on showbiz for ‘polluting’ society and youth, bars ‘effeminate’ behavior from screens

 

China ordered broadcasters on Thursday to shun artists with “incorrect political positions” and “effeminate” styles, and said a patriotic atmosphere needed to be cultivated, widening a crackdown on its booming entertainment industry.

 

After years of runaway growth in the world’s second largest economy, regulators have been to trying to strengthen control over Chinese society by tightening oversight over a broad swathe of industries ranging from technology to education and culture.

 

Communist Party authorities can censor anything they believe violates core socialist values and already have stringent rules on content ranging from video games to movies and music.

The latest moves reining in the entertainment industry come in the wake of a series of celebrity scandals involving tax evasion and sexual assault.

 

Two government ministries, a party agency and an industry association published fresh guidelines on Thursday, with the Party’s publicity department blasting some in the entertainment industry for their alleged bad influence on the young and for “severely polluting the social atmosphere”.

 

Penalties should be increased for actors who have engaged in illegal or unethical behavior, and agencies which condone such behaviors promptly punished, said the Party notice.

 

The ideological and moral education of children should be beefed up and they should be forbidden from joining activities of “idol” groups, the notice added, while party cadres at all levels should “deeply recognise” the importance of “moulding” future generations.

 

The NRTA, a ministry level body, said it will bolster regulation of stars’ salaries and punish tax evaders. It also said it would weed out any content in cultural programs that it deems unhealthy.

 

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On 9/2/2021 at 4:48 PM, China said:

China cracks down on showbiz for ‘polluting’ society and youth, bars ‘effeminate’ behavior from screens

 

China ordered broadcasters on Thursday to shun artists with “incorrect political positions” and “effeminate” styles, and said a patriotic atmosphere needed to be cultivated, widening a crackdown on its booming entertainment industry.

 

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K-pop crackdown: China social media giant bans BTS fan account

 

Chinese social media giant Weibo has banned a fan club of popular South Korean K-pop band BTS from posting for 60 days, saying it had raised funds illegally, days after photographs of a customised aeroplane funded by the fan club were posted online.

 

The fan club account, which had more than 1.1 million followers on Weibo, was centred around BTS member Jimin. The restrictions imposed on the account came amid China’s campaign to clean up the entertainment industry and clamp down on “irrational behaviour” exhibited by fans.

 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a “national rejuvenation” with tighter Communist Party control of business, education, culture and religion.

 

The party has since reduced children’s access to online games and is trying to discourage what it sees as unhealthy attention towards celebrities. Last week, the government banned effeminate men on TV and banned idol development shows for their “low moral values” that could be a bad influence on the youth.

 

The BTS fan account was banned from posting on Weibo after images circulated online last week of a customised aeroplane from Jeju Air with images of Jimin on it. The customised aeroplane was part of the club’s plans to celebrate his 26th birthday in October.

 

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