Interesting results of 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer🧵

Despite some media trying hard to depict China as a depressed state that'll soon collapse, the results say the opposite.

1. China is the only country shows a growing trend that people believe they'll be better off in 5 yrs 2. Whether it's the high-income group or low-income group, Chinese people have a high degree of trust in institutions, whether it's the government, business, media, and NGOs.

Ranks the top among all surveyed countries.

China's #Shenzhou16 manned spaceship was just launched!

🧵Here I gather some cool graphs to help you understand all you want to know about this manned mission!

About the taikonauts who will carry out the mission to the China Space Station.👇 Jing was selected in the 1st batch of China's astronauts in Jan 1998.
He was in the Shenzhou-7, Shenzhou-9 & Shenzhou-11, and was the commander in the last two.
Jing will have conducted more flight missions than any other Chinese astronaut when his fourth mission began today.

Western gov't & media say Islam is banned in China, and minorities' languages like #Uyghur's r erased.

This lie can be easily debunked if you simply visit a mosque in China.

🧵I visited, found publications in Uyghur, Kazak, Arabic ...
This is China Muslim magazine in Uyghur 👇 Different editions of the Koran are available in mosques in China.

On the left is a version in both Mandarin and Arabic and on the right is the version in Arabic with annotation.

How does the CIA orchestrate color revolutions?

China released an investigation report that disclosed important details of the weapons the CIA used for cyberattacks & details of specific cybersecurity cases taking place in China & other countries.

Worth a read. 🧵 For example:
CIA divulged users' secrets through smart TVs with their attack toolkit, Weeping Angel, developed by the Embedded Devices Branch.
The toolkit can make TVs "pretend" to be switched off but in fact, they are still overhearing.

A thread 🧵on the so-called "debt-trap diplomacy."

@HusseinAskary found the accusation is inaccurate, & deliberately made to undermine the Belt and Road Initiative.
China's loans are not only small in those countries' foreign debts, and are also being used to boost productivity. 2. Two things ppl tend to misunderstand.

a). The percentage of debts.
From China is 10%, from international financial institutions is 40-60%.
b). How are the loans being used.
Loans from China are used on infrastructures that improve the country's ability to pay back.

Thanks to The New York Times @nytimes for putting my vlogs in your recent article, especially the ones I made in #Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Even though you published the article that involves me before I reply, I still would kindly offer my reply. (Thread)
Part 1: 👇 Part 2: 👇
The New York Times's 1st question:
Am I misleading people on my personal YouTube channel (which I started to use looong before I joined CGTN)?
If Chinese companies' employees need to be labelled, then shouldn't NYT employees be labelled as "corporate-funded media?"

An afforestation story in #China.
People spent 30 years transforming the sandstorm-hit, barren land in Aksu, Xinjiang, into a dense forest, a green Great Wall to protect locals from the harsh environment. #COP26

The original landscape. After 30 yrs of afforestation. It was mainly Gobi dessert in Aksu.
Land desertification & salinization was a major problem.
Yet, in 30 yrs, locals transformed it.
They built 768.6 million m² forest that includes shelterbelts, forest of economic values, like apples.
#AfforestationInChina
#COP26