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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Give me a URL I WANT THAT SHIRT!
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    google wuhan bat t-shirt and look in images, there are some much better than this one.

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    Fucking brilliant, ordered. Hoohoo do you want one? My treat.



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    ...suggesting that this "is the kind of report that triggers the anger of the Chinese people".



    'The grim reality of reporting in China that pushed me out’

    It was a reminder of the grim reality of reporting in China to the very end.

    As my family scrambled to the airport - late and unprepared from the last-minute packing - we were watched outside our home by plainclothes police, who then followed us to the airport and tailed us through check-in.

    True to form to the very end, China's propaganda machine has been at full throttle, denying I faced any risks in China, while simultaneously making those risks abundantly clear.

    "The Foreign Ministry said they are not aware that Sudworth was under any threat," the Communist Party controlled Global Times said, "except that he may be sued by individuals in Xinjiang over his slanderous reports."

    The chilling effect of such statements lies in the reality of a court system run - like the media - as an extension of the Communist Party, with the idea of an independent judiciary dismissed as "an erroneous Western notion".

    Pressure and propaganda - the reality of reporting Xinjiang
    The disinformation tactics used by China

    China's ministry of foreign affairs has continued the attacks, using the podium at its daily press briefing on Thursday to criticise what it called the BBC's "fake news".

    It played a video clip from our recent interview with Volkswagen in China over its decision to operate a car plant in Xinjiang, suggesting that this "is the kind of report that triggers the anger of the Chinese people".

    It's an unlikely claim, of course, given that the vast majority of the Chinese people cannot see any of our reporting, which has long been blocked.

    But while all of this has brought my posting to a fraught and fretful end, it is worth remembering that mine is just the latest in a long line of foreign media departures in recent years.

    And it is part of a far bigger battle that China is waging over the global space for ideas and information.
    Media becomes battleground

    "Economic freedom creates habits of liberty," former US President George W Bush once said in a speech urging China's acceptance into the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

    "And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy," he continued.

    That starry-eyed assumption - that as China grew richer it would grow freer - could still frequently be heard in news analysis and academic discussion of China when I first began working here in 2012.

    But my arrival that year coincided with a development that has come to make that prediction seem utterly naïve - the appointment of Xi Jinping to the most powerful job in the country, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
    A large screen displays Chinese President Xi Jinping attending the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC), in Beijing, China, 11 March 2021image copyrightEPA
    image captionChina's President Xi Jinping has been tightening control over society since he took office 10 years ago

    While the huge shift in global trading patterns over the years has undoubtedly changed China - unleashing a whirlwind of economic and social change - those expectations of democracy appear further away than ever.

    President Xi has used China's already rigid political system to tighten control over almost every aspect of society, and 10 years into his now open-ended tenure, it is the media landscape that has emerged as the defining battleground.

    "Document Number 9" - reportedly a high-level leak - identified early on the main targets in that fight: "Western values", including freedom of the press.

    And, as the BBC's experience shows, any foreign journalism that exposes truths about the situation in Xinjiang, questions China's handling of the coronavirus and its origins, or gives voice to opponents of its authoritarian plans for Hong Kong, is now firmly in the firing line.
    Undermining democratic debate

    But as China's propaganda attacks continue in the wake of my departure, it is also notable that foreign social media networks are being used extensively to amplify the message.

    The irony is, of course, that at the same time that the space for foreign journalism is shrinking in China, the Communist Party has been investing heavily in its media strategy overseas, taking full advantage of the easy access to a free and open media.

    Its "wolf-warrior" diplomats unleash furious tweet-storms, lambasting foreign reporting - while denying their own citizens access to those very same foreign platforms - in an intensive, co-ordinated strategy across multiple platforms, as documented by this report by researchers from the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

    State-media propagandists publish and post their content overseas without restriction, while at home, China ruthlessly shuts down independent reporting, censors foreign broadcasts and websites, and blocks foreign journalists from its own social media networks.
    A tweet from a reporter at China's Global Times

    In this context, my departure can be seen as one small part of an emerging and highly asymmetric battle for the control of ideas.

    It is not a happy prospect for the free flow of good, accurate information.

    Decreasing access will undermine our ability to understand what is really happening in China, while at the same time, it is is harnessing the power of the institutions of a free press to undermine democratic debate everywhere.
    Footprints that lead to the truth

    While there are no easy answers, and the idealism of President Bush's prediction has long since evaporated, there is some room for hope.

    Much of the information that has been revealed in recent years about the truth of what is happening in Xinjiang has - despite China's dismissal of it as "fake" - been based on its own internal documents and propaganda reports.

    Read John Sudworth's investigation into China's 'tainted' cotton
    Investigating China's hidden camps in Xinjiang

    In the running of a system of mass incarceration, a modern, digital superpower cannot help but leave footprints online, and the important journalistic effort to uncover them will continue from afar.

    I join a growing number of foreign correspondents now forced to cover the China story from Taipei, or other cities in Asia and beyond.
    John Sudworth in Xinjiang
    image captionJohn Sudworth (seen here) and his team were followed and had their footage deleted on a trip to Xinjiang in late 2020

    And of course, while depleted in number, there are brave, determined members of the foreign press corps in China who remain committed to telling the story.

    Most remarkably, within the tightening confines of the political controls, there are also the few extraordinary Chinese citizens who, at enormous personal danger, find ways round the censorship to do the most important job in journalism anywhere - telling the story of their country in their own words.

    Much of what we know about the early days of the Wuhan lockdown came from these citizen journalists, who are today paying the price for that bravery.

    I am able to leave the plain-clothes police, for the final time I hope, in the departure hall of a Beijing airport.

    In the new global battle for ideas, we should never forget that it is China's citizens who continue to face the greatest risks for telling the truth.

    '''The grim reality of reporting in China that pushed me out’ - BBC News

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    lies in the reality of a court system run - like the media - as an extension of the Communist Party, with the idea of an independent judiciary dismissed as "an erroneous Western notion".
    You may wish to review some recent/ongoing western show trials prior to casting stones yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    You may wish to review some recent/ongoing western show trials prior to casting stones yourself.
    Don't fucking silly hoohoo.

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    My only comment is OFFS!
    The U.S. Embassy in Beijing has apologized after a social media post meant to herald the lifting of some pandemic barriers between the two countries instead set off a fierce backlash after it was seen as likening Chinese students to dogs.
    The embassy’s visa section invited Chinese students to resume applying for U.S. visas Wednesday in a post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.
    It marked an easing of restrictions after former President Donald Trump prohibited most non-U.S citizens in China from entering the country after the outbreak of Covid-19.
    “Spring has come and the flowers are in bloom. Are you like this dog who can’t wait to go out and play?” said the Chinese-language post, according to Reuters. It was accompanied by an image of a small dog trying to escape over the top of a gate.
    Weibo users reacted angrily, with many feeling that the post likened Chinese students to desperate puppies.
    “Dogs in American culture basically have positive meanings, but in Chinese culture and idioms, they are mostly negative,” one user wrote, according to Reuters.
    The Global Times, an English-language newspaper run by the Communist Party's People's Daily, also cited users as saying that the post was "blatant racism."
    The post was later deleted and the embassy issued an apology.
    “"The social media post in question was meant to be lighthearted and humorous. We took it down immediately when we saw it was not received in the spirit we intended,” said an embassy spokesperson.
    U.S. embassy apologizes for asking Chinese students, 'Are you like this dog ... ?'

    They really are fucking babies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    My only comment is OFFS!

    U.S. embassy apologizes for asking Chinese students, 'Are you like this dog ... ?'

    They really are fucking babies.

    Look at the political correctness nonsense in the west. Who is the babies again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Look at the political correctness nonsense in the west. Who is the babies again?
    "Who is <sic> the babies again?"

    China, obvious to all but the China-apologists and Habitual-Whatabout-ists

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    "Who is <sic> the babies again?"
    Hurrah, our language genius (and guard) is back in town... (How we could survive without him, not understanding our poor English?)

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    I guess you could simply remain ignorant . . . it suits you.

    Hurrah, tovarish!

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    "Whatabout-
    Comparative analysis and context = muh whataboutism

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Comparative analysis and context = muh whataboutism
    That's cute . . . but wrong.

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    Chinese Tapei winning doubles badminton and dedicating it to Taiwan angers China

    Chinese Tapei winning doubles badminton and dedicating it to Taiwan angers China

    China is at the top of the medal table but wins from two countries have left the media livid and Chinese social media alive with insults.




    Chinese Tapei winning doubles badminton and dedicating it to Taiwan angers China. Picture: Lintao Zhang/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images



    “Little” Japan. “Traitor” Taiwan. Chinese nationalists are up in arms at missing out on Olympic gold to their neighbours.
    In millennia past, the Olympics was a time of truce.
    Modern participants pledge to build “a peaceful and better world through sport”. But the games have become a showcase for national pride – from the size of its fireworks to the choreography of its opening ceremonies.
    It’s also been a magnet for fascism and nationalism – and great power competition.
    And world rivalries rarely get put aside.
    Now intense nationalism whipped up by the Chinese Communist Party is spilling over to the sporting field. And the heavy censorship behind Beijing’s Great Firewall is doing nothing to stop it.
    State-controlled social media group Weibo – where references to Winnie the Pooh and emperors are banned – is surging with hashtags like #PrideOfTheYellowRace.


    And when Taiwan beat China in the men’s doubles badminton at the weekend, its athletes had to endure accusations of treason and insurrection.
    RELATED: Why Taiwan is competing as Chinese Tapei

    Chinese Tapei bagged gold while China claimed silver and Malaysia got bronze for the doubles badminton event in Tokyo. Picture: Lintao Zhang/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

    Meanwhile, China’s “netizens” – spurred on by state media – also are accusing international judges of bias when their favourite athletes fail to win.
    Gold medals are being “stolen”. Opponents are being mocked.
    The tight tally-board doesn’t help.
    China’s on top. But Japan isn’t far behind.
    Which may be why the Olympic hosts are being singled out for criticism.

    Split personality
    “We can lose to anyone but Taiwanese and Hong Kongese independentists,” has become a popular refrain on Chinese social media.
    It’s a self-defeating battle cry born of conflicting ideologies.
    The Olympic Committee won’t even call Taiwan, Taiwan. Instead, it’s “Chinese Taipei”. And an Olympic anthem is played to mark a victory instead of their own. According to committee regulations set in 1981, any name or symbol suggesting Taiwan is an independent nation is prohibited.
    Other disputed nations – such as Palestine – get their own flag and anthem. But this was the only compromise that would allow Taiwan to compete in the face of Beijing’s opposition.
    So when, on Saturday, the Taiwanese badminton team defeated China and dedicated their gold medal to “Taiwan”, there was an outcry.
    RELATED: What country is ROC at the Olympics?

    Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin of Taiwan won gold in badminton as Chinese Tapei. In a Facebook post, Lee said his gold medal was ‘dedicated to my country, Taiwan’. Picture: FacebookSource:Supplied

    It’s a self-defeating battle cry born of conflicting ideologies.
    “‘Chinese Taipei’ on your shirts,” one angry but popular Weibo post reads.
    And it’s not just Taiwan being singled out on state-controlled Chinese social media.
    Hong Kong also gets its own Olympic team because of its convoluted colonial history.
    Ultranationalist attacks have been aimed at the forcibly assimilated island for daring to compete against the mainland. And Beijing’s harsh “national security” crackdown on any sign of dissent on the once thriving open city has silenced any right of reply.
    Might is right
    There’s no love lost between Tokyo and Beijing over the 2020 Olympiad.
    Animosity over Japan’s 1931 invasion of China and World War II has been encouraged by the Communist Party. And it’s doing nothing to rein it in as the games unfold.
    Weibo and other Great Firewall social media have been boiling with militaristic references. Titles usually applied only to veterans who fought in the wars against Japan are being assigned to victorious competitors.
    “Now, not only is the Olympic spirit absent, the anti-Japanese sentiment has been awakened,” the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quotes a popular Shanghai vlogger as proclaiming. Other high-profile Chinese bloggers have accused Tokyo of turning the Olympics into a “nationalistic” showcase.
    But derogatory taunts of “little Japan” are echoing through Chinese social media after several upset wins over their reigning champions.
    Particularly in table tennis mixed doubles, and men’s artistic gymnastics.
    These sports require a keen eye from judges – and consistent rulings.

    Japan's Jun Mizutani receives his gold medal from teammate Japan's Mima Ito on the podium during the mixed doubles table tennis medal ceremony. Picture: Jung Yeon-je/AFPSource:AFP

    And that always makes them open to allegations of bias, corruption and incompetence.
    China’s fervent supporters zeroed in on one Japanese table tennis player appearing to blow on the ball in contravention of Covid rules. One Japanese player wrote: “Got tons of DM from a country telling me to Go to hell!”.
    Chinese nationalism trolls also swarmed 19-year-old gymnast Daiki Hashimoto after becoming the youngest ever winner of the men’s all-around gymnastics.

    Daiki Hashimoto of Team Japan celebrates his victory with the Japan Flag during the Men's All-Around Final at the 2020 Olympics. Picture: Laurence Griffiths/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

    Among the insults, accusations and anger were photos of atomic bombs and the devastation wrought on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The more sporting inclined raged over the size of the points penalty applied for stepping outside the boundary after a landing from a vault.
    But defeated Chinese contestant Xiao Ruoteng was gracious: “I hope everybody can continue to support Chinese athletes, support Chinese gymnastics, support Xiao Ruoteng, yes, me! But I hope everyone can avoid going overboard with attacking the athletes themselves,” he posted on his social profile.
    Climbing Olympus
    China’s Communist Party-controlled Global Times has rejected accusations Beijing is encouraging hostile behaviour.
    “Portraying China as a nationalistic country is also intended to lay the groundwork for blaming China for more heated divergence and even conflicts between Washington and Beijing in the future,” one editorial states.
    “If we take a look around the world, we’ll find it is precisely the US that has a strong nationalist complex and extreme nationalism.”
    It accuses US media of encouraging other nations to “belittle” China through the “extreme and politicised description of China’s sports practices”.
    But the hatred being displayed off-field has Japan and the Olympic Committee on the defensive.
    Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Katsunobu Kato has called for calm. “We, as the government, believe any discrimination should not be allowed,” he said. “It is also against the Tokyo Olympics’ spirits. We ask everyone to let the athletes to concentrate on their matches so they can do their best.”
    Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams told a news conference that it wasn’t the committee’s job to advise athletes individually. But he added that abuse – be it on social media or elsewhere – had “no place in sport”.
    “Such trolling … or aggression is really, really not acceptable, and we would completely go against that and support the athletes in every way,” he said.

    Tokyo Olympics: Why Taiwan is called Chinese Taipei



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    God they are such fucking whingers aren't they?

    But defeated Chinese contestant Xiao Ruoteng was gracious: “I hope everybody can continue to support Chinese athletes, support Chinese gymnastics, support Xiao Ruoteng, yes, me! But I hope everyone can avoid going overboard with attacking the athletes themselves,” he posted on his social profile.
    Oh dear, he clearly needs a bit of "re-education".

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    Saw this a few days ago but couldn’t find this thread.


    Chinese embassies, netizens fire back at Western media over biased Olympics coverage

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    Mainstream Western media organizations like CNN and Reuters have been caught unfairly targeting China during their Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage, prompting condemnation from Chinese netizens and embassies.


    The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka on Saturday criticized Reuters after it used a controversial photo of Chinese weightlifting gold winner Hou Zhihui. The photo captures the moment Hou was lifting a barbell with a struggling face.


    Reuters in a report titled "China's Hou wins 49-kg weightlifting gold" chose a photo of Hou in action, which has been widely regarded as disrespectful to the athlete. Later Saturday, Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka posted a tweet and said it showed the ugly face of Reuters.


    "Don't put politics and ideologies above sports, and call yourself an unbiased media organization. Shameless. Respect the spirit of #Olympics," the embassy posted, calling out Reuters.


    Some Western netizens argued that the photo that showed Hou while she was lifting the heavy load should not be regarded as inappropriate or ugly because it shows "nothing good in life comes easy." The embassy later made a comparison of Reuters's choice on coverage of other athletes. "Same day, same Olympics, same @Reuters, different faces. Maybe it's because everything good in life comes easier for the white westerners?'' the embassy remarked.


    The selection of the controversial photo also angered Chinese netizens. Some on Sina Weibo said it only exposes the "mean" face of Western media. "See how evil they are, not respecting Hou at all," one user said. Another Weibo user commented that the "smear and defame won't stop Chinese athletes winning honor for the country."


    Anger over foreign media reports about Chinese players' participation in the Olympics was also heightened when CNN's coverage of the first gold medal of the Olympics, which was claimed by Chinese shooter Yang Qian, was coupled with a headline saying that "Gold for China…and more COVID-19 cases."


    This was slammed by Chinese readers for mixing two apparently separate news stories into one headline - the first gold medal of this Olympics for China, and more COVID-19 cases linked to the Olympics - because such a headline easily generates the false perception that the first gold medal is China's, and so are those new COVID-19 cases.


    The headline has disappeared from CNN's homepage as of press time. The headline directed readers to the article with a head "The first day of the 2020 Olympics begins with gold for China and more COVID-19 cases." The news head did not specify what they meant by "more COVID-19 cases.''


    "Only by reading the article could readers understand that the article was not linking China to the new COVID-19 cases," some netizens commented.


    Li Chao, a Beijing resident who has been following Olympics news, told the Global Times on Sunday, "The CNN's report angers and disappoints me. I'm not sure what motives are behind such biased coverage exactly, but as Chinese, we feel the country and Chinese athletes were being treated disrespectfully."


    Earlier, Chinese netizens and embassies criticized NBC for using an incomplete map of China during its broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.


    "Using a wrong map of #China is a real lack of common sense. Politicizing sports and violating the Olympics Charter spirits will only do harm to the #Olympic Games and the relationship between the #Chinese and the #Americans," the Chinese consulate in New York said on Twitter on Saturday.


    NBC's narrator attacked China and asked the audience "not to forget Hong Kong and Xinjiang" as the Chinese Olympic team appeared during the opening ceremony.

    Chinese embassies, netizens fire back at Western media over biased Olympics coverage - Global Times
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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Chinese embassies, netizens fire back at Western media over biased Olympics coverage
    They really are pathetic.

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    The photo captures the moment Hou was lifting a barbell with a struggling face.
    Whinging about a photo of a sportsman performing in his sport.

    Utter cretins. What do they want, a photo of him licking Mr. Shithole's boot?

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    An hilarious follow up to the chinky whinging about the weighlifter photo....

    A complaint from a Chinese embassy about a western news wire’s “ugly” choice of an Olympic weightlifting photo backfired on Sunday after it emerged that
    a state-backed outlet used a similar image.

    <snip>

    Reuters used a photo of Chinese weightlifting gold winner Hou Zhihui straining to lift a barbell. However,
    state-run Xinhua, Sina and China Daily also ran similar images of Hou, though the latter replaced theirs.



    Of course it didn't stop the silly whiners continuing their pathetic blubbing.

    A Chinese netizen on Sina Weibo claimed western media were “evil” and “not respecting Hou at all,” according to state-backed Global Times. “[S]mear and defame won’t stop Chinese athletes winning honour for the country,” another said.


    Chinese embassy's complaint about western news outlet's 'ugly' Olympics photo backfires | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

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    To laugh is all that sensible, balanced people can do in response to the Mainland Chinese screeching hyperbole in the political scene too. Their ludicrous attempts to pass off puffed-up face-saving and victim-blaming as reason cause much hollow sardonic laughter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Look at the political correctness nonsense in the west. Who is the babies again?
    You still won’t be getting a visa to visit China. They will always regard you as a capitalist playboy, now that most Asian countries are closed to your poor taste and arrogant laddish, behaviour .

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    China accuses US and Canada of threatening peace after warships sail through the Taiwan Strait


    The Chinese military has condemned the United States and Canada for each sending a warship through the Taiwan Strait last week as tensions rose between Beijing and Taipei.
    Key points:

    US ships have been transiting the Taiwan Strait on a monthly basis, angering Beijing

    China sent record numbers of aircraft into Taiwan's air defence identification zone at the beginning of October

    Chinese aircraft have not entered Taiwan's territorial air space yet

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    Taiwan's defence ministry said on Sunday that three Chinese aircraft — two J-16 fighters and an anti-submarine aircraft — flew into its air defence identification zone (ADIZ) again.

    China claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, and has mounted repeated air force missions into Taiwan's ADIZ over the past year, provoking anger in Taipei.

    China sent around 150 aircraft into the zone over a four-day period beginning on October 1 in a further heightening of tensions between Beijing and Taipei that has sparked international concern.
    A Taiwanese anti-submarine helicopter flies over a French Lafayette-class frigate in this 2003 file photo.
    Taiwan and China, rivals since a 1949 civil war split, are separated by the narrow Taiwan Strait. (Reuters: Simon Kwong SK/AH/File photo)

    The US military said the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Dewey sailed through the narrow waterway that separates Taiwan from its giant neighbour China along with Canadian frigate HMCS Winnipeg on Thursday and Friday.

    "Dewey's and Winnipeg's transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the commitment of the United States and our allies and partners to a free and open Indo-Pacific," the US military said.

    China's People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Eastern Theatre Command said its forces monitored the ships and "stood guard" throughout their passage.
    China's flights into Taiwan airspace
    Taiwanese Navy personnel wear white uniforms while standing in front of a new ship

    The People's Liberation Army of China has sent warplanes into Taiwan's Air Defence Identification Zone on 199 days this year. Here's why.
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    "Taiwan is part of Chinese territory. Theatre forces always maintain a high level of alert and resolutely counter all threats and provocations," it said.

    "The United States and Canada colluded to provoke and stir up trouble … seriously jeopardising peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait," the PLA said.

    US navy ships have been transiting the strait roughly monthly, angering Beijing, which has accused Washington of stoking regional tensions.

    US allies occasionally also send ships through the strait, including Britain last month.

    While tensions across the Taiwan Strait have risen, there has been no shooting and Chinese aircraft have not entered Taiwanese air space, instead concentrating their activity in the south-western part of the ADIZ.

    While including Taiwanese territorial air space, the ADIZ encompasses a broader area that Taiwan monitors and patrols that acts to give it more time to respond to any threats.

    https://www.abc. net.au/news/2021-10-18/china-condemns-us-canada-warships-through-taiwan-strait/100546504

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Pound for pound, Chinese are probably our best, most productive migrants- and students. They are also our largest foreign investor, and export market. And just watch the growth in Chinese auto sales here continue to skyrocket. No cars are made here any more, and even the iconic Holden Commodore has been thrown on the trash heap.

    But of course they are all spies, their technology all spyware, and every investment a creeping takeover. Must be true, cus The donald said so. The China Card no longer works on the majority of the aussie population, who know that we are largely dependant on Chinese exports and investment for our cushy standard of living. Of course, for those that prefer a second or third world Australia just keep those Somali and South Sudanese immigrants coming, and tell those commies their dollars are no longer accepted. Dare ya.
    We have a bit of the same "Sour grapes" attitude here in the US also.

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    Ready for some more chinky whining? They'll probably fit up an American backpacker or something like they usually do, the fucking scumbags.

    Nov 5 (Reuters) - A spy for the Chinese Ministry of State Security has been convicted by a federal jury of plotting to steal trade secrets from several U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, the Justice Department said on Friday.
    Yanjun Xu, the first Chinese operative extradited to the United States for trial, was convicted of two counts of conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage, in addition to a count of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft and two counts of attempted theft of trade secrets.

    The ruling means Yanjun could face up to 60 years in prison total for all violations and fines totaling more than $5 million, according to a press release. He will be sentenced by a federal district court judge.
    In a statement, FBI Assistant Director Alan Kohler Jr. said the bureau was working with dozens of U.S. agencies to share information and resources to combat operations by the People's Republic of China.

    "For those who doubt the real goals of the PRC, this should be a wakeup call; they are stealing American technology to benefit their economy and military," he said.
    Going back as far as 2013, Yanjun was accused of using multiple aliases to carry out economic espionage and steal trade secrets on behalf of China. Multiple U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation, a unit of General Electric Co, were his targets, the release said.

    Chinese spy convicted of trying to steal U.S. aviation trade secrets | Reuters


    Aaaaaaaaaaaand they're off.


    SHANGHAI, Nov 8 (Reuters) - China on Monday labelled the charges against a Chinese citizen convicted in the United States of stealing trade secrets as "pure fabrication".
    The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday that Xu Yanjun had been convicted by a federal jury of plotting to steal trade secrets from several U.S. aviation and aerospace companies.

    "The allegation is pure fabrication," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters in Beijing.
    "We demand that the U.S. handle the case according to the law and in a just manner to ensure the rights and interests of the Chinese citizen."
    You have to admit it's fucking funny when the chinkies talk about a "just manner", what the fuck do they know about justice?


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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Pound for pound, Chinese are probably our best, most productive migrants- and students. They are also our largest foreign investor, and export market. And just watch the growth in Chinese auto sales here continue to skyrocket. No cars are made here any more, and even the iconic Holden Commodore has been thrown on the trash heap.

    But of course they are all spies, their technology all spyware, and every investment a creeping takeover. Must be true, cus The donald said so. The China Card no longer works on the majority of the aussie population, who know that we are largely dependant on Chinese exports and investment for our cushy standard of living. Of course, for those that prefer a second or third world Australia just keep those Somali and South Sudanese immigrants coming, and tell those commies their dollars are no longer accepted. Dare ya.
    Jeezus you are becoming a boring chinese troll. The Huawei "back door" was found by australian cyber intelligence. It is a fact. The Chinese buy from Australia because they have to. They cannot get the steel they need anywhere else. We can se how well the coal embargo went. They are now forced to buy inferior coal from Indonesia as they now have a shortage. They have been disingenuous on almost every import from australia and basically lied, from wine to food produce
    . After causing a world pandemic, they took offence at an australian request to find its origin. China thought it could make an example of australia and bring it to heel like NZ and other countries that are too afraid to criticise it. But they found out we are not all bunch of toadying sycophants like you.
    Interestingly it has not applied the same to the USA despite being called out more often by them than australia. Probably the 40 billion trade surplus with the USA just in October has shown them where their bread is buttered.
    You excuse all their pernicious intentions to control the narrative in Australia for the sake of trade. Turning a blind eye does not work.
    Could you do Australia a favour and return to your country of origin. Sadly if you were born here could you migrate to China? The rest of us would appreciate it, even the Somali and Sudanese refugees.

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    This isn't the sensitive aussie national feelings getting hurted thread hughie. Go moo somewhere else.

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