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Yet another one of China's elite has disappeared after criticizing Xi Jinping (www.businessinsider.com)

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A top economist has joined the growing list of China's elite to have disappeared from public life after criticizing Xi Jinping, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Zhu Hengpeng served as deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) for around a decade.

CASS is a state research think tank that reports directly to China's cabinet. Chen Daoyin, a former associate professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, described it as a "body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership."

According to the Journal, the 55-year-old disappeared shortly after remarking on China's sluggish economy and criticizing Xi's leadership in a private group on WeChat.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you want links? I can give you links.

Here you are linking to an article saying it isn't genocide: https://lemmy.world/comment/12211000

Here you are refusing to accept the genocide is happening despite a huge number of links: https://lemmy.world/comment/11959309

And as a bonus here's some trollish avoidance of admitting that the Tienanmen Square massacre happened: https://lemmy.world/comment/12256833

You do know there's a search function, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

None of those links show me "praising" a genocide. That remains a bold faced, blatant lie.

Tbh, I find that this sort of casual lying is so common in spaces like .world that nobody even seems to care. Maybe it's a neurotypical thing, where you're allowed to tell lies so long as you're lying about the out group. Frankly, when people don't even acknowledge such things as lies, I have to wonder if they're even capable of being truthful or acting in good faith.

Those "huge number of sources" I actually went through point by point. Here's a book from the 1930's called 100 Authors Against Einstein which presents "a huge number of sources" claiming that Einstein's findings regarding General Relativity were wrong. Every one of them is wrong.

Also, I'm amazed that you'd link that last one as if it makes me look bad. The person was caught in saying something wrong so they abruptly pivoted to completely unrelated topics in the most textbook example of Whataboutism that I've ever seen in my life, so obviously I refused to indulge them.

Still waiting on a link for your original claim btw.

Also btw I think your first link is to the wrong comment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Speaking of casual lying, this is what you were accused of:

From the position of your acceptance of Uyghur genocide and pretending that China is anywhere near the left, it’s astonishing you are comfortable accusing anyone else of bad faith.

You were not accused of praising a genocide even if you put that word in quotes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Neither of these links show OBJECTION accepting a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Correct. They do not accept that there is a Uyghur genocide.