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🇨🇳Red flags
🧨Red fireworks
🎖️Red medals
🌹Red flowers
❗️"Red" propaganda rap songs

Beijing is awash in red this week as the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its centenary on July 1st

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🇨🇳 China’s carefully choreographed celebration is aimed at glorifying the party’s history and cementing loyalty in the nation of 1.4 billion people.

Will this loyalty last for another century?

@sophia_yan reports 👇🧵

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/3…
🔴 For Xi Jinping the celebration is designed to burnish his credentials as China faces challenges on the world stage

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🇨🇳China has spent decades fine-tuning its playbook on how best to snuff out dissent and rewrite history.
Now, Beijing has unleashed those tactics on Hong Kong

@sophia_yan and @niccijsmith explore in their new podcast

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/2…
📅 A year ago, life in Hong Kong was turned upside down by a sweeping new piece of legislation.

🎙️In our latest podcast, @sophia_yan and @niccijsmith tell the inside story of 12 months of crackdown by Beijing

Listen to Hong Kong Silenced⬇️
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🚔Mass arrests
📰Newspaper raids
🪧Banned protests
➡️Activists fleeing into exile

🇨🇳China has spent decades fine-tuning its playbook on how best to snuff out dissent and rewrite history.

Now, Beijing has unleashed those tactics on Hong Kong
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