🚨 What happened to Shanghai Aurora College (上海震旦职业学院) lecturer Song Gengyi (宋庚一) and Hunan village primary school teacher Li Tiantian (李田田) shows us the horrifying reality of the snitch culture and crackdown on free speech in China.

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Especially for pregnant Li Tiantian who’s wrongfully sent to a psychiatric hospital, any anti-psychotic medication injected into her bloodstream could cause permanent damage to the developing fetal brain.

Unfortunately they’re no tennis stars and won’t get much attention.

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🇨🇳 Hu Xijin posted a video of Li Tiantian’s mom confessing her daughter had been suffering from depression since college and expressing gratitude to the government for sending her daughter to a psychiatric hospital...

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Li Tiantian’s mom “posts” a video on Douyin and shares with us how her daughter had been suffering from depression since college and how thankful she is when the government sent her daughter to a psychiatric hospital...

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👇🏻 more in-depth coverage of what happened to Song Gengyi and Li Tiantian (in Chinese) by VoA...

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🔥 A disinformation network of more than 2,000 accounts on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter continued to spread CCP propaganda in 2021.

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🚨 Users on Weibo posted a letter sent by Intel saying it’s required to ensure its supply chain didn’t employ labor or procure goods and services sourced in Xinjiang. The nationalist news site Guancha accused Intel of siding with Western governments.

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The studio of pop singer Wang Junkai (王俊凯), the brand ambassador for Intel Core, just announces through its Weibo official account that Wang is terminating all partnerships with Intel, effective immediately.

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🇨🇳 mouthpiece Hu Xijin has retired from Global Times and no longer serves as the editor-in-chief. Hu will turn 62 soon.

He would contribute to Global Times as a “special” commentator and tell us jokes from time to time.

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L: Wu Qimin (吴绮敏), Deputy Director, International Department of People’s Daily, will be the new Editor-in-Chief of Global Times.

R: Fan Zhengwei (范正伟), Deputy Director, Commentary Department of People’s Daily, will be Global Times’ President, a newly created role.

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climate change.

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He was a keynote speaker at a 🇨🇳 CGTN event in 2018 (pic below).

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