多維新聞: #Walmart is accused of completely delisting #Xinjiang products in its stores in #China, as per the US "Prevention of Uyghur Forced Labor Act" (in effect Dec 23). Chinese consumers are calling for a boycott 沃爾瑪被曝下架新疆產品,會員紛紛退卡抵制dwnews.com/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9…
Reports on #China's #Weibo claim that when the "Sam's Club" app is keyword searched using "#Xinjiang," relevant products do not display after being clicked on (inc. Xinjiang cantaloupe, Hotan dates, raisins, etc.) 疑似下架新疆产品?沃尔玛旗下山姆超市回应 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QDX7-zaLjOlV…
Just prior to the exposure of Sam's Club "quietly removing #Xinjiang products," an open letter from #Intel demanding that suppliers to ban labour, products and services from #Xinjiang circulated on social media in #China, drawing strong reactions...
#Intel's public statement on the 23rd said that the company "deeply regretted" the questions & concerns caused by this matter, and "apologized profoundly" for the trouble caused to its customers and partners in #China, and to the Chinese public.
Although the #Intel statement stressed its "deep respect for" and long-term cooperative relationship with #China, it had to ensure its compliance with US law. 沃尔玛下架新疆商品!或涉及阳泉...mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QEzrpf20DPvt…
#China's 环球 earlier declared #Intel's letter to be "full of calculation," an unnecessary display of innocence "forced by the extreme political ecology of the US" & emphasised the need to expand domestic chip production 英特尔“涉疆表态”充满算计和投机 opinion.huanqiu.com/article/465xn4…
#China's Foreign Ministry's Zhao Lijian: "By fabricating lies & speculation on #Xinjiang-related issues, the US's draconian laws are suppressing Xinjiang enterprises & depriving Xinjiang people of all ethnic groups of the right to profit from their labor..."
张俊华 for DW:From "world class universities" to one voice: can an intolerant CCP possibly coexist with #academicfreedom on any level? Even @HuXijin_GT recently acknowledged the need to protect "academic space" (学术空间)for inquiry 从一流大学到一种声音 p.dw.com/p/44aMQ?maca=z…
On 17 Dec., XJP presided over the 23rd meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which reviewed & approved several documents emphasising #China's need to build world-class universities with top-class disciplinary divisions...
The mtg overlapped w/news of the firing of Song Gengyi, a lecturer at Shanghai Aurora Colleage, allegedly for "causing a serious teaching incident that resulted in severely bad social impact." Song had pointed out...
立場新聞: Last night, #CUHK demolished its Goddess of Democracy statue, claiming that no organization was responsible for its maintenance; #LingnanUniversity also dismantled its Tiananmen Square Massacre relief as a legal or security risk. thestandnews.page.link/VUs7BBJ2JyDKqu…
Sixth Plenum Communiqué, 中国共产党第十九届中央委员会第六次全体会议公报 news.cn/politics/2021-…: 7 mentions of Mao (but 5 to MZD Thought), 5 mentions of DXP (but 4 to DXP Theory), only 1 mention of JZM (and 4 mentions of Three Represents), 1 of Hu Jintao (4 of Sci. Dev. Concept)
Seventeen references to Xi Jinping (and 7 to XJP's Thought-- not to the foreshortened 习近平思想 as some had conjectured)-- but to the full "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)
That said XJP Thought is hailed as nothing less than "contemporary Chinese Marxism, 21st Century Marxism, & the essence of Chinese culture and Chinese spirit. It has achieved a new leap in the sinicization of Marxism."
人民日报: New collection of 50 speeches by #China's Xi Jinping published under the title of "On Persisting with the People as Masters of the Country" (elaborating on the peoples democratic dictatorship) 习近平同志《论坚持人民当家作主》出版发行 paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2021…
人民日报 p. 2 outlines some of the included speeches, including an address by XJP on implementing the spirit of the Sixth Plenum of the 18th Party Congress (so, of the *last* Sixth Plenum): "Maintain the authority of the Party Central Committee & implement democratic centralism"
Although Xi's address at the Jan 2017 Sixth Plenum focused on Party discipline & organizational life (excerpt: xinhuanet.com/politics/2017-…), his Feb speech on implementing the *spirit* of the plenary offered a vigorous defence of the CCP's system of democratic centralism (民主集中).
The Palladium: "What is singularly remarkable about Wang Huning is that he’s managed to serve [as] court philosopher to not just one, but all three of #China’s previous top leaders palladiummag.com/2021/10/11/the…
Among the hints that the upcoming 6th Plenum in November will produce a third Resolution on Party History is that Wang Huning hasn't been seen much in public for the past several months.
N.S. Lyons describes #China's Wang Huning as someone who "much prefers the shadows to the limelight. An insomniac & workaholic, former friends & colleagues describe the bespectacled, soft-spoken political theorist as introverted & obsessively discreet." His workaholism shows
BREAKING: 立場新聞 reporting HKUST's Ching Kwan Lee resigned, after having been accused of directly participating in & supporting the #HongKongProtests, is being pressured to turn herself in #香港 兩名科大學者被指離職 李靜君:已約滿離任 成名: 仲喺科大thestandnews.page.link/jnwdM1DoLXUx4y…
#HKUST has issued a statement saying that it supports #academicfreedom but that all of its employees must strictly abide by #HongKong law; and that disciplinary charges have not been filed against her. #香港
Former #HongKong CE & Vice Chair of the Nat'l Committee of the CPCC CY Leung has demanded that she "surrender herself as soon as possible, lest the police launch an investigation" on the basis of a Sing Tao article alleging her involvement in the #HongKongProtests#香港