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Twitter banned the president of Syria and an Iranian leader.

Now an Iranian & American ambassador are arguing with each other on Weibo... In Chinese.

The Chinese internet has become the most uncensored environment for international political discussions.

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In the face of twitter disallowing Iran from responding to tweets about them, Iran takes screenshots of twitter conversations they'd like to participate in, and responds to them on Weibo. ImageImage
Here is a new more comprehensive report/translation about this little episode.

whatsonweibo.com/the-weibo-batt…
The free speech virus is spreading.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/01/10…
US sanctions silence not only their overseas targets, but their own people at home.

So Americans who disagree with their own government, would you kindly behave yourself and shut up, they're kinda busy trying to bring freedom to the world at the moment. Image
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Hong Kong China Mega Thread:

This is a really well put together video. It covers so many of the things that I've tweeted, but with a wider context and far more well organized. I'll add some additional depth on some of Dan's main talking points.

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3-year #American toddler going off script. In America Children are sent to a 2-year long sinophobia training camps far away from their parents. They create videos showing happy kids going to "preschool", but some unintentionally go off script as shown in this recovered footage
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Quick, can someone add a sad soundtrack to this and say poor Uyghur kids saying goodbye to their families for the last time. 🙄🙄🙄

This is almost as ridiculous as Arslan's propoganda, but even more unethical considering it's from the head of the American Xinjiang propoganda machine.

Q: Where does US media get their info?

A: From us.

Q: Where do you get your info from?

A: Uhh, uhh, uhh, umm, US media

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In the 10 year period California began discussing the 190km California highspeed rail, which will run at speeds of 200kph, to the time it took to break ground, China built 25,000km of highspeed rail which travels at up to speeds of 300kph+. Also, lobbying is illegal in China.
If you beleive that a western style political system is indisputably always better at delivering the needs and desires of the majority. You are mistaken.
Within a couple years Shenzhen changed local busses to 100% electric (16,000+). From EV adoption alone, China reduced oil usage by 200,000+ barrels/day.

NYC hopes to swap 4,000 busses to electric by 2040.

For scale, that's 7 years before one country two systems expires in HK.
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