This quote about suppressing civil society reminds me even more of my 2 years in China, where this is absolutely what they do.
Community groups of any kind are illegal if they're not registered with the government. The closest thing to independent community organisations is informal chat groups on WeChat, and discussions on Weibo and Douyin posts. But these platforms are totally backdoored and monitored by CCP spy agencies.
@w7voa Another short story when the CCP allowed their Chinese subjects to celebrate online:
"Let's jump back to autumn 2001 when the *republican* neo-con administration of George W. Bush launched the second Iraq War for which the USA is still paying heavy financial and *reputational* cost.
On the early Chinese forums people were delirious with joy. (i.e. "permitted speech" in the PRC)
Just a year earlier in 2000 the USA had agreed to allow #China to join the #WTO... and in 1994, only a few years after the #Tiananmen massacre, the USA had handed the CCP/PRC the coveted Most Favored Nation (MFN) status.
Yet for the Chinese regime it's not enough for them to win; the USA and all other non-submissive democracies must lose.
I was still rather dismayed back in 2001, but only until I understood the policy."
NB: This is part of a post I made on Nov 7, 2024 in response to the Chinese *celebrating* the result of the most recent US presidential elections...
https://infosec.exchange/deck/@demi7en/113437167796537912
It's a little odd that the Chinese communist dictatorship never allows its subjects to celebrate when the United States or the Democratic Left succeeds in something... 
@Npars01 @eff Good point. #RightToRepair is now proven to be a necessity of #NationalSecurity for every country buying defence, intelligence, or critical infrastructure materials with any non-passive parts or any tied services from any other county.
Until they get rid of their mafia government and restore democracy and the rule of law, the #USA is now about as trustworthy a supply chain source as China under the #CCP.
Take note, #Canada. (Feel free to tag your own countries and their political discourse, other Right-to-Repair people.)
@fulelo I rarely visited McDonald's after I decided to stop eating fellow mammals, but while living in Hong Kong I learned that the franchises in China and Hong Kong were owned by Chinese Communist Party's (massive) investment group CITIC and it was easy decision for me to stop making business with them altogether. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And these days, besides the junk food aspect, the disposable waste and the whole corporation now funding trump regime I can't say I'm regretting that decision.
#TNI #TransnationalInstitute is a group that mostly releases great reports, analysis, etc, on #techgiants, #capitalism #resourcecolonialism #labor etc
But when it comes to #China, they'll somehow willingly publish pro-CCP propaganda-lite, factually dubious BS like this, romanticizing the #Mao era, regurgitating South-South solidarity talk points & of course, ignoring the #CCP's glaring similarities to Israel in its treatment of #Uyghurs #Tibetans & #HongKongers
https://www.tni.org/en/article/from-global-anti-imperialism-to-the-dandelion-fighters
A third Uyghur we read about at our protest was Kamile Wayit, who last year became one of 40 individuals listed by the European Parliament as unjustly imprisoned in China. Arrested when she was a 19-year-old student studying preschool education, she was sentenced for "advocating extremism" after sharing a video of a protest. The protest was held because 10 people had been killed by a fire in a locked Urumqi apartment building.
@andrewstroehlein The ☭
Chinese colonizer regime closing access to Tibet is *only part of the reason* the plight of the Tibetan people has been all but forgotten in the Free World.
The forgetting fully correlates — over the years and decades — with the volume of democracies' business entanglement with the CCP dictatorship.
Foreign business missions queueing up for audition at CCP's Beijing headquarters *only months* after the Tiananmen massacre of June 4th 1989.
US bi-partisan decision to grant the Chinese dictatorship the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trading priviledges in 1994 against all ethical considerations.
The entire Free World agreeing to grant the Chinese dictatorship full membership rights (to manipulate at will) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001... and what predictably happened to world trade thereafter...
Mirroring this appeasement and empowering of the CCP regime, critical media coverage of CCP's domestic and colonial repression and exploitation began vanishing from the coverage of media organizations owned by foreign billionaires and state broadcasters alike.
Notice how trump and maga has been *normalized* in much of media? Same principle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps one day after Ukraine is secure and free we might consider offering at least *moral* support for the nation that was entirely overrun and enslaved by an unrepentingly imperialist neighbour, back in 1950.
It is worth noting that one key reason putin felt emboldened to attack Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022 was that the Chinese dictatorship was allowed to avoid any real consequences for its own genocidal expansionism for all these decades.
Maybe we should try *NOT REWARDING* repressive and military-expansionst regimes and see if that works out better for humanity?
#Tibet #Ukraine #CCP #china #PRC #colonialism #imperialism #appeasement
10 March 1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Uprising_Day
"Though the Communist party has tried to re-energize the country under the banner of “Xi Jinping Thought” – which envisions a muscular future powered by hi-tech industries and a revival of Confucian traditions – many Chinese have begun to wonder about the wisdom of striving endlessly for a better future that never seems to arrive."
#ChangChe, 2025
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In 2015, two days before International Women's Day, five women in China were arrested for planning to hand out stickers to raise awareness about sexual harassment.
They were detained for 37 days and became known as "The Feminist Five"
@noelreports Read how CCP envoy Lu Shaye treats Europe:
https://mastodon.nu/@n/114116372916698251
Don't let the CCP off the hook again by simply quoting their mouthpiece in Hong Kong.
Partnering with the Chinese dictatorship is the "free world's" original sin that got us all in this current mess of global authoritarianism running amok.
@incoherentmumblings @akshatrathi not really.
#China suffered over a century of #Colonialism, #Warlordism, #CivilWar, Japan basically genociding huge parts of it's civilians in it's expansionism, Civil War and #Maoism until the #CCP got their shit together.
Same as #Somalia today and many other places that git ravaged by conflicts but stabilized.
It's just that the "P.R." China had ~70 years of uninterrupted shouting of "Sit down, you will enjoy our progress!" and having everyone who didn't agree either "reeducated" or forcibly disappeared.
@akshatrathi maybe it's because the "P.R." #China understands that they'll get shafted big time with #ClimateChange and #NaturalDesasters caused by more frequent #ExtremeWeather events...
In 2024, 1597 people were captured by the Sky Net program and forcibly repatriated to China. Sky Net is China’s overseas fugitive recovery operation which includes the notorious Operation Fox Hunt
https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/sky-net-2024-chinas-global-manhunt-continues-unabated
Safeguard Defenders have released a handbook to help the family members of people arbitrarily detained in China
"One year in the making, and compiled from our extensive research on China’s repressive detention systems and interviews with dozens of people including former detainees, Missing in China is being published as a response to the growing risk of detention for foreigners in the authoritarian country."
https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/publications/missing-china
@thejapantimes More manipulation of international trade and finance through an artificial 'SEZ'?
#WTO and 'free trade' are truly wondrous things; esp. for all autocrats and oligarchs.
@anneapplebaum @404mediaco I see #ccp #china #dprk #iran #russia be happy with all this #LLM based systems, as what can go wrong?
@1br0wn Yes, laughter is the right response, but laughter of the self-deprecating tragi-comical variety.
The ultracapitalist AI overlords built hoards of consumer/victim/citizen data.
The PRC (now national-socialist) party-state AI overlords simply lifted their (really all of ours, the people) treasures direct from the lair. No harm done, right?
But, but... this project is merely one of PRC's worldwide data siphoning tentacles... 
So, we've already been officially in the *creepy* territory for quite some time. What's the next adjective down from creepy?
PS. The "# AI" boosting bots from 'channel.org' are an annoyance.
Xi Jinping may have just pulled off the greatest troll in stock market history yesterday.
https://www.nasdaq.com/events/chinese-consulate-general-new-york-rings-closing-bell
