🚨 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.
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...
🚨 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.
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.
🇨🇳 consulate in NYC has hired PR firm Vippi Media to run an influence campaign that recruits prominent American social media influencers on Instagram, TikTok and Twitch to tout the Beijing Olympics and promote China-US cooperation on issues like
For US$300K, Vippi will hire 8 influencers to produce at least 24 posts about the Olympics, Beijing's history, and relations between the US and China. 20% of the content should focus on cooperation and any good things in China-US relations.
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5 members of the US House of Representatives — chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Mark Takano, Colin Allred, Elissa Slotkin, Sara Jacobs and Nancy Mace — are expected to arrive in Taiwan for a short trip focused on meetings with
🔥In Solomons Islands, protesters were angry about lack of promised development and the central government’s 2019 decision to cut ties with Taiwan and establish a formal relationship with China.
There were also riots in 2006 after general elections with much of Honiara's Chinatown razed amid rumors of Beijing's involvement in rigging the vote.
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