IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE
IN LISTENING TO UYGHUR ACTIVIST VOICES
NAMED MITOCHONDRIA

Large crowds gathered outside the proposed site of a new Chinese “mega-embassy” in London on Saturday, as politicians and protesters expressed concerns it could be used to “control” dissidents.

Tai, 50, a carer, said: “We come from Hong Kong. We are afraid that China will use this place to look over us, against us. In Hong Kong, we have many experience of China, the CPP, controlling the freedom and democracy and against the Hong Kong people. We all face this.”

Another protester, who gave her name as Mitochondria, 20, expressed similar concerns. “It’s very possible that this building could be used for holding Chinese dissidents who are on British soil to be arrested in a non-legal way,” she said. “A mega-embassy would enable that to happen.”

She held a blue and white Uyghur flag. “The Chinese government has imperialist interest where they occupy the land of East Turkestan,” she said.

“There’s a genocide ongoing of the Uyghur people, the Muslim people in East Turkestan. They shouldn’t be oppressed. This is why I am holding the flag because we are in the same fight against the same authoritarian government.”

Fred, 29, an engineer, expressed concerns the building could be used “to catch people inside the embassy and do espionage”.

“We are the beacon of freedom in the world. It’s a shame to see this beautiful compound, our legacy, our pride, fall into a dictator’s hands.”

According to reports

It is claimed

According to Radio Free Asia (RFA)

Reports emerged

According to RFA

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Bonus: Mention of STALKER 2. Video games aren't a guide to post-apocalyptic survival.

Surprising!

Sounds like bullshit.

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The stupid tankies have failed to consider that I’ve created a nonfalsifiable scenario in my mind just now so actually it’s a bad thing when your industry is good smh. I know for years I’ve said it was a good thing to have strong industry and also have repeatedly explained how deindustrialization was bad and now I want to reindustrialize my own nation, so here’s a 15 minute video (NOT COPE!) on why good industry is bad but only for China.

Link to the video

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Let's see what this article from 2020 has to say about China successfully managing to eliminate extreme poverty:

"But the village, one of six in Gansu visited by The New York Times without government oversight, is also a testament to the considerable cost of the ruling Communist Party’s approach to poverty alleviation. That approach has relied on massive, possibly unsustainable subsidies to create jobs and build better housing.

Local cadres fanned out to identify impoverished households — defined as living on less than $1.70 a day. They handed out loans, grants and even farm animals to poor villagers. Officials visited residents weekly to check on their progress.

“We’re pretty sure China’s eradication of absolute poverty in rural areas has been successful — given the resources mobilized, we are less sure it is sustainable or cost effective,” said Martin Raiser, the World Bank country director for China."

Hm...unsustainable you say? Well it's now four years later and it seems things have only continued to get better and better. And not "cost-effective"? Well yes, if you're a capitalist parasite then spending money to lift people out of poverty probably isn't "cost-effective". But the people who no longer have to live in the same miserable conditions they endured before sure seem to think it's been pretty effective for them.

The rationale seems to be that "Ebil CCP wants to censor anti-gov't protestors while at the same time, homogenizing their national identity"

If anyone close to China can confirm or debunk it, it'd be good

On the other hand, I'm skeptical of this idea

I'm pretty sure Cantonese is still living as the lingua franca of 85 million people out of 1,500 million Chinese people worldwide.), which makes it over 5% of the population's native tongue able to speak it, mostly in the region itself, though I suppose 60 million of them might be outside China

Meanwhile, languages like Occitan in France and Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland are little to match like that, let alone fucking United States of America, with its Native American languages

In fact here's an example of this sort of shit...

I still wonder why...

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There are other parts to this, as you can tell by the title.

Edit: The lemmy.world comments are quite something, although that would belong in SRS, not here...

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At this point we need a dedicated community just for the s*n sanity going down whenever they post anything about russia or putin

New failing-new-york-times-times fake news dropped a couple days ago I haven't seen yet.

Anyone know if this is wholly made up by them? Or if there is something they actually pulled from? I mean a lie is a lie, but was some bullshit spreading over Twitter (Never calling it 'X'...) or something?

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A draft law banning speech and dressing "detrimental to the spirit of Chinese people" has sparked debate in China.

If the law comes into force, people found guilty could be fined or jailed but the proposal does not yet spell out what constitutes a violation.

Social media users and legal experts have called for more clarity to avoid excessive enforcement.

China recently released a swathe of proposed changes to its public security laws - the first reforms in decades.

The clothing law has drawn immediate reaction from the public - with many online criticising it as excessive and absurd.

The contentious clauses suggest that people who wear or force others to wear clothing and symbols that "undermine the spirit or hurt the feelings of the Chinese nation" could be detained for up to 15 days and fined up to 5,000 yuan ($680; £550).