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31 Dec 21, 5 tweets, 2 min read
🔻 it’s gonna be 2022 in less than 45 minutes in Hong Kong... some people are still fighting on.

And they are playing Namewee’s 玻璃心... 💪
~20 cops lounging around earning extra pay at this corner
Happy New Year!
Fireworks in the distance and live on screen...
We are of course very “safe”...

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31 Dec 21
🚨 Bidding documents and contracts for over 300 Chinese government projects since the beginning of 2020 include orders for software designed to collect data on foreign targets from sources such as Twitter, Facebook and other Western social media.

1/n washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
The documents also show that agencies including state media, propaganda departments, police, military and cyber regulators are purchasing new or more sophisticated systems to gather data.

These surveillance dragnets are part of a wider drive by Beijing to refine its

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foreign propaganda efforts through big data and artificial intelligence.

They also form a network of warning systems designed to sound real-time alarms for trends that undermine Beijing’s interests.

Some of the Chinese government’s budgeting includes buying and

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24 Dec 21
🔥 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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Disinformation research group Miburo’s report on CCP-aligned disinformation actor Spamouflage [Part 1 of 6]

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Miburo’s report on CCP-aligned disinformation actor Spamouflage [Part 2 of 6]

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23 Dec 21
🚨 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.

1/n rfa.org/english/news/c…
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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22 Dec 21
🚨 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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🔥 Intel ends up apologizing on Weibo for the letter that told its suppliers not to source products or labor from Xinjiang...

“... merely an expression of compliance with US law, rather than a statement of its position on the issue...”

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18 Dec 21
🚨 A whole section of an overpass connecting Wuhuang Highway (武黄高速) and Daguang Highway (大广高速) in Ezhou (鄂州), Hubei province, China, broke off and tilted on one side suddenly at 3:36pm today Dec 18. 3 people were killed and 4 injured.

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⚠️ Vehicles fell off the bridge and people were killed / injured.

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16 Dec 21
🇨🇳 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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👇🏻 Bloomberg’s coverage of Hu Xijin’s “retirement”

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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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