Everything Apple says it stands for is no more when it comes to its China market. It has removed the descriptive language supporting LGBT from its rainbow wallpaper for its iPhone in China.

The anti-CCP disinfo trolls irritate me almost as much as the pro-CCP trolls these days. They make a lot of people who are unhappy with the CCP feel reluctant to support the pro-democracy movement, regarding the anti-CCP camp as a whole is no better than the CCP. Disheartening.

The new 'five antis' in China: anti-subversion, anti-hegemony, anti-separatism, anti-terrorism and anti-espionage. If you think China is bad now, it might turn unrecognizable in the coming years, and the world will have to reckon with that.

'One of the most dangerous things one can do in China' is 'to criticize Xi Jinping':
> A who called Xi a 'clown' is 'serving an 18-year prison sentence.'
> Another: 6 years for urging Xi to step down.
> 14 years for saying Xi is “just not smart enough.”

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Hello Elon Musk, did you ask Premier Li to release those people he jailed for merely using this platform you own to get information or share their thoughts?

Criticizing Xi is one of the most dangerous things one can do in China. Ironically, because references to Xi are so censored, the simplest and vaguest terms - such as 'you,' 'he,' 'that man' - have all come to be understood as allusions to Xi. My piece 👇thediplomat.com/2024/04/as-us-…

A key part of the genocide in Xinjiang is the erasure of Uyghur culture and the targeting of the people who study and preserve it. This profile of Rahile Dawut, a famous Uyghur academic, is well worth your time.
A disappearance in Xinjiang via Financial Times
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In which I argue: While China doesn’t appear to have a specific agenda to suppress content or push propaganda today...if a future conflict comes to a head, China could “really leverage TikTok in a way they’re not doing now.”
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Whatever you think of US campus protests, we shouldn't make ahistorical comparison. The political contexts can't be more different. More importantly, to hundreds of millions of people, Cultural Revolution was a very painful episode that they still can't talk about freely today.

伯克利音乐学院一中国学生，因跟踪和骚扰贴传单支持“白纸运动”的中国同学，被判入狱9个月，还将驱逐出境。法官指判决为防止类似事件再发生。
这起事件反映了美国校园受到跨国镇压的情况。大声采访了自由之家（Freedom House）中国研究部主任王亚秋，对跨国镇压问题有详细分析：youtube.com/watch?v=z3Av1m…

ByteDance has every right to speak up against the divestment bill and challenge it in court. But this moral outrage feels so fake. When has this company — who happily aids CCP censorship and propaganda in China — ever cared about freedom of expression?

There is a perfect Chinese idiom for this level of BS: 睁着眼说瞎话. Speaking 'blind' (nonsense) with eyes open, aka, lying through your teeth.

You Sunday reminder that crimes against humanity in the Uyghur region is still ongoing, and millions are still suffering unfathomable pain for merely existing.

Speaking of how CCP corrupts the rule-based international order, let’s not forget the sports world. Outrageous case where WADA, which is part of IOC, failed its basic duty to investigate doping Chinese athletes. It’s time the IOC itself to be investigated. nytimes.com/2024/04/20/wor…

China is pushing ever deeper into the Western Hemisphere as this Newsweek investigation of Antigua shows. This is highly strategic territory for the U.S. with major shipping lanes and much more. Despite the seriousness, shades of #Bond villain lair, too: newsweek.com/2024/05/03/chi…

Together with over 1000 other supporters, I'm calling on Ville de Genève to instal a permanent bust to honour #CaoShunli and all other human rights defenders detained or killed in connection with their international human rights advocacy ishr.ch/latest-updates… ISHR

These days, nothing concerning foreign countries can be discussed without triggering some crazy nationalistic backlash in China. The political environment -- at both the elite and popular levels - is so toxic that it should be a concern for the entire world.

Proposed Apple - Baidu Inc. partnership on #GenerativeAI risks further normalizing #China ’s authoritarian model of digital governance and efforts to standardize its AI technologies at the cost of global human rights. thediplomat.com/2024/04/apple-…

The cruelty exerted on little children for their parents' activism is one of the most unforgivable abuses of the CCP. Unfortunately, it is also extremely effective in silencing critics of the CCP. Read CHRD人权捍卫者's new report on collective punishment: nchrd.org/2024/04/if-i-d…

A classic example of how official Chinese photos of foreign leaders' and CEOs' encounters with Xi put him out front in a commanding posture, holding forth imperial-style w/o bothering to make eye contact with the supplicant foreign leader two steps behind, errand boy-style.