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    People on the street? Or paid actors?



    How Chinese public view Western media bias against China





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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    People on the street? Or paid actors?



    How Chinese public view Western media bias against China




    What do you expect when their very own government is forever crying about those nasty foreigners hurting their delicate Chinese feelings by having the temerity to ask questions of them and, God forbid, even criticise?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    People on the street? Or paid actors?
    Guaranteed to be state organized, because most of them wouldn't have a fucking clue what the reporter was saying.

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    Peasants?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Peasants?
    Loyal party members following orders verbatim.

    You know, like Hoohoo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    following orders verbatim.
    Orders, hardly. Unless of course RFA have sent a copy to you. Care to share them here on TD.



    Expectations that you will deliver, are below even the NaGastani performance bar.

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    'Worker Lives Matter' takes off in China with viral open-access spreadsheet


    TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Resentful over grueling work hours, Chinese office workers have banded together to mount a new campaign to combat what is known as “996 culture” — working 9am to 9pm, six days a week.


    The so-called “Worker Lives Matter” campaign asks employees to share their work schedule on an open-access spreadsheet, according to a South China Morning Post report. As of Thursday (Oct. 14), the sheet had more than 4,000 entries with contributions from employees of tech giants Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance, and has been viewed over 10 million times.


    The spreadsheet, named WorkingTime, invites contributors to log their occupation title, location, daily start and end times, lunch hours and number of work days per week. “We workers also need to live!” read a campaign declaration on the software collaboration site GitHub, per a BusinessWorld report.


    China has seen repeated public backlashes against the internet industry’s dreaded work schedule in recent years, with authorities chiming in to criticize the phenomenon. Yet little has changed.


    Meanwhile, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s (習近平) new mantra of “common prosperity,” means authorities have begun monitoring employers and their work violations. China’s Supreme People’s Court and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security put out an essay which denounced 996 and listed 10 separate cases of illegal overtime work hours, per Bloomberg.


    Chinese Labor Laws stipulate statutory working times should be eight hours per day and no more than 44 hours a week. This threshold has long been ignored by highly competitive industries like tech and finance though.


    996 culture is openly revered by founders of the China’s tech unicorns, like Jack Ma (馬雲), who once reportedly said, “To be able to work 996 is a huge bliss.”


    China’s burnt-out youth see things differently. Seeking a healthier work-life balance, resistance to overtime has become widespread, with phrases such as “laying flat” (躺平) and “feeling fish” (摸鱼) being used as terms for slacking off among exhausted employees.


    “Life is more important (than work). We hope we can work hard but at the same time live a good life,” wrote one netizen on Chinese blogging platform Zhihu.

    'Worker Lives Matter' takes off in China with viral open-access spreadsheet | Taiwan News | 2021-10-15 17:37:00

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    996 culture is openly revered by founders of the China’s tech unicorns, like Jack Ma (馬雲), who once reportedly said, “To be able to work 996 is a huge bliss.”
    I'll fucking bet it is for him.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe View Post
    I lived in China for four years, and travelled some in it.. what do ya wanna know, Sabang?
    Also, keep getting job offers to go back there.
    A slightly more nuanced version than Sarah Palin’s foreign policy credentials, by a whisker.

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    'Worker Lives Matter'
    Indeed. Funny how, when people start getting the benefit of middle class affluence, it soon gets followed by middle class aspirations. Hardly unique to China though.
    I think a true commie might ask- how did the American worker get to be so privileged up to the 60's, yet allow so much of this to be eroded by their own government?
    Time for the Proletariat to rise up Comrades- stop being treated like cannon fodder! Democracy is not a private Members club for the Bourgeoisie, and Rentiers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Rentiers
    A reader of Michael Hudson , perchance?

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    Fugitive whose desperate story won public sympathy dies as police close in

    (CNN) — A murder suspect who garnered widespread sympathy from the Chinese public has died after more than a week on the run, triggering an outpouring of sadness and outrage on social media.


    Ou Jinzhong, who was accused of killing two neighbors and injuring three others in China’s southern Fujian province, killed himself while resisting arrest on Monday, police in the city of Putian said in a statement. They said he had been found in a cave after a weeklong search.


    Hundreds of police and other search crew members had been looking for Ou in the hills, where he fled after allegedly attacking his neighbors in a seaside village in Putian on Oct. 10.


    Police said Ou, 55, attacked his neighbors with a knife amid a long-running land dispute, killing a 78-year-old man and his daughter-in-law. The man’s wife, 34-year-old grandson and 9-year-old great grandson were also injured.

    The manhunt gripped millions in China, many of whom openly hoped he would never be caught. The level of sympathy and support is highly unusual for an alleged killer in China, where murder is punishable by death.


    In the absence of initial official information, Chinese media and the public used accounts of fellow villagers, Ou’s social media posts and previous media reports to piece together an unofficial version of events.


    Many believed Ou was an ordinary man pushed to the brink of despair over a years-long housing dispute. Public sympathy surged further after reports emerged that he had saved a young boy from drowning at sea three decades ago and rescued two dolphins that were nearly stranded in 2008.


    For nearly five years, Ou and his family — including his 89-year-old mother — did not have a home, according to Ou’s Weibo posts and Chinese media reports. Instead, they lived in a tiny tin shack in a seaside village in Putian city.

    According to the posts, Ou was repeatedly prevented from building his own house due to land disputes with his neighbor. He said he repeatedly sought the intervention of police, village officials, the government and the media, but the problem remained unresolved.

    Many blamed Ou’s apparent transition from savior to murder suspect on the ills that have long plagued China’s local governance, from abuse of power to official inaction. Others see it as a reflection of the broader failure of the country’s legal and bureaucratic system, exacerbated by a besieged free press and a crippled civil society.


    As the murders gained public attention, Ou’s account on microblogging site Weibo vanished, and the local government of Pinghai county issued a bounty for Ou, offering a higher amount of cash rewards for proof of his dead body than any information leading to his arrest — triggering further public outrage.


    And on Monday evening, many were saddened by news of Ou’s death.


    “He hasn’t enjoyed (the protection) of the law his whole life,” said a top comment on Weibo. “This is the saddest news I’ve ever read,” said another.


    Others were said they were not convinced that Ou took his own life, and called for the police to release videos of the arrest.


    “He killed himself immediately after he was found?” a Weibo comment said. “The public will not be so easily convinced.”

    Fugitive who won public sympathy dies as police close in

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    I'm sure they had orders to kill him rather than let the public's hero be splashed across the media making his case against the corrupt and inept Mr. Shithole dictatorship.

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    ^ One of those surveys sabang posted suggested the Chinese people lay all blame for wrongdoing on the local governments, not the national. The former seen as corrupt and the latter a savior. This story seems no different. A local problem that doesn’t get resolved.

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    Yes, a story of local bureaucratic bumbling incompetence and corruption would have currency with Chinese folk. It's strange how the federal gov't has become a sort of Robin Hood figure to many of the populace, redressing the excesses and greed of corrupt local governments. They didn't mess around either- some pretty senior apparatchiks were marched before a firing squad and shot.

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    A murderer a hero? Silly idiots. Almost as bad as the Ned Kelly trope.

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    Their 'culture' is screwed.
    Sometimes PH, you even give 'arry a run for his money. Classic.

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    Does China’s Remaining Non-State Media Have a Future?

    New draft regulations could cripple outlets like Caixin, considered a bastion of investigative journalism scrutinizing corporate and government dealings.

    In a bid to further concentrate state control over public messaging, China released draft regulations on Friday that would ban “non-public capital” from funding “news gathering, editing and broadcasting.” The proposal is contained in the Market Access Negative List (2021), released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s main economic planning agency.

    If adopted, the Negative List would deal a significant blow to Caixin, a print and online financial news service revered for investigative journalism, including into the death toll of COVID-19 in Wuhan last year.
    Six days before the draft regulation’s release, Caixin publisher and founder Hu Shuli posted a cryptic message to Weibo interpreted by many as fighting words expressing contempt for Xi Jinping and the proposed media reform.

    Hu’s post linked to a Caixin article on the culinary preparation of swine head. Alongside the article’s title and an image of pig heads in a butcher’s shop, Hu wrote: “The sight of a pig’s head is not welcomed … Given its bad reputation, nobody wants to sit at the table with it to establish a strategic partnership.”


    Many believe Hu was alluding to the collapse of a “strategic partnership” between Xi and Vice President Wang Qishan, who in Xi’s first term headed his anti-corruption campaign. Such a partnership may also have benefited Hu and Caixin, with Wang’s support for Hu allowing her to operate freely as long as she did.
    Wang’s place in Xi’s government during his second term has been a vexed question for Xi, said former Central Party School academician turned party critic Cai Xia in an with Radio Free Asia in October last year.


    “Xi’s relationship with Wang is very subtle,” Cai said. “Xi knows that Wang is more capable than him. And in the logic of autocracy, one needs dominate all those who could pose a threat.”


    A diminished role for Wang at the Bo’ao Forum in April, as well as an investigation in October last year into his former aide Dong Hong, have suggested a turn for the worse for Wang in his standing with relation to Xi.
    “Caixin’s roots, and of Caijing before it, go back to the 1980s and the capital markets in Beijing, where Wang Qishan was a key player,” author and independent journalist Yao Bo, who is based in Kyoto.
    “Why has it been possible for Caixin to keep going for so many years? And for Hu Shuli to persist? It’s because of Wang Qishan,” according to Yao.
    Last Wednesday, another journalist belonging to Hu’s network, Luo Changping, bluntly criticized the party system by ridiculing the recently-released patriotic war blockbuster “Battle at Lake Changjin.”
    Luo, who worked with Hu as a managing editor at Caixin’s predecessor Caijing, wrote disdainfully of the Chinese army’s deployment in Korea without thermal clothing in the winter of 1950, leading to deaths by hypothermia.
    “Half a century later, compatriots have failed to reflect on this war’s contested nature,” Luo wrote. “Just look at present-day North and South Korea and the answers are all there.”
    Luo published his post to Weibo, where he had over half a million followers. The post was taken down and his account suspended by public security officials, and he was detained for “illegal speech insulting heroes and martyrs.”

    “Why would Luo Changping blurt out like this?” Toronto-based independent journalist Wen Zhao. “The despair and rage is evident. The Negative List is clearly meant to eliminate this group of media personalities.”
    The draft Negative List is comprehensive in banning “non-public” money from funding “broadcasts relating to politics, economics, the military, diplomacy, society, culture, technology, health, education, sports and other activities or events relating to governance.”
    It is not official yet but under “public consultation,” and stakeholders are invited to submit comments to the NDRC before a revised draft is approved and enacted. However, most regulations in China are passed with little modification following the “public consultation” period.


    Li Guangman, an ultra-leftist blogger, praised the proposed media reforms. Gu Yonghua, director of the Marxist Journalism Research Center at Communication University of China in Beijing, gave the official context to the legislation in an interview with Chengdu’s Red Star News.
    “News in China is guided by a Marxist perspective, uniting the party’s and the people’s spirits,” said Gu.
    “It is the voice of the party and the people, carrying the important responsibility of reflecting and spreading public opinion. It is not like the media in other countries which operates in the service of special interests,” according to Gu.

    Does China’s Remaining Non-State Media Have a Future? – The Diplomat




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    A view, from an ex UK/OZ police officer, living in China.

    With some knowledge of policing and court procedures.

    A video primarily focused on terrorism in western China. Focused on a recent NaGastan funded investigation.

    The site runs through the video, highlighting various discrepancies by the "witnesses" and the tribunal members.

    The second guy:

    "Jerry Grey, a British-Australian expat living in China, who has travelled to Xinjiang, and has a law enforcement background - joins The New Atlas to discuss the recent Uyghur Tribunal and CNN piece involving an alleged former Chinese police officer who has fled to Germany with tales of “genocide.” He also shares many other related stories making for an in-depth conversation."

    In depth questions and knowledgable replies, both regarding the topic and the legal procedures being ignored.


    Last edited by OhOh; 19-10-2021 at 10:24 PM.
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    Another well-known, paid chinky stooge.

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    1-Jerry Grey, ex-Met Police Constable, lives in China, has been to Xinjiang, bicycled through it, filmed it and wrote about it.
    ['arry- paid stooge!]


    2-Harvard University did a long term study, and concluded that over 90% of Chinese citizens were happy with their government.
    ['arry- commie propaganda!]


    3- Grenville Cross, distinguished barrister & public servant, and ex Director of Public Prosecution for HK speaks out about US sanctions against Hong Kong.
    ['arry- commie stooge!]



    It is readily apparent who the stooge is 'arry. Cringingly so.

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    Presumably you saw my post #403 above. Rifts appearing at the top, perhaps? One to keep an eye on.

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    China researchers score a quantum leap

    [Chinese] Scientists in Hefei [a Chinese city] have established the world's first integrated quantum communication network

    by Dave Makichuk October 20, 2021

    “Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”

    Niels Bohr

    In the strange world of quantum mechanics, the laws of physics as we know them are tossed out the window. In other words, reality is not exactly what we think it is.

    For example …

    Today, sensitive data is typically encrypted and then sent across fiber-optic cables and other channels together with the digital “keys” needed to decode the information.
    The data and the keys are sent as classical bits – a stream of electrical or optical pulses representing 1s and 0s. And that makes them vulnerable. Smart hackers can read and copy bits in transit without leaving a trace. Even if that cable is at the bottom of an ocean, it can be tapped into and hacked. Throughout history, the battle between encryption and decryption never ends.

    Enter quantum communication, which takes advantage of the laws of quantum physics to protect data. These laws allow particles – typically photons of light for transmitting data along optical cables – to take on a state of superposition, which means they can represent multiple combinations of 1 and 0 simultaneously. The particles are known as quantum bits, or qubits. The beauty of qubits from a cybersecurity perspective is that if a hacker tries to observe them in transit, their super-fragile quantum state “collapses” to either 1 or 0. This means a hacker can’t tamper with the qubits without leaving behind a telltale sign of the activity.

    In a giant technological step toward this end, Chinese scientists have established the world’s first integrated quantum communication network, combining over 700 optical fibers on the ground with two ground-to-satellite links to achieve quantum key distribution over a total distance of 4,600 kilometers for users across the country, Phys.Org reported.

    The team, led by Jianwei Pan, Yuao Chen, and Chengzhi Peng from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, reported in Nature their latest advances toward the global, practical application of such a network for future communications. Unlike conventional encryption, quantum communication is considered “uncrackable” and therefore the future of secure information transfer for governments, banks, power grids and other sectors.

    In the 1980s, researchers developed a theoretical method for generating secure keys using quantum mechanics. They figured out that secure keys could be encoded into the quantum properties of individual particles, and exchanged secretly back and forth. The advantage of this “quantum key distribution” (QKD) is that quantum physics dictates that the very act of observing a particle irreparably changes it. So any spies who tried to intercept the quantum key could be immediately detected by the changes in the particles.

    So far, the most common QKD technology uses optical fibers for transmissions over several hundred kilometers, with high stability but considerable channel loss. Materials in cables can absorb photons, which means they can typically travel for no more than a few tens of kilometers. In a classical network, repeaters at various points along a cable are used to amplify the signal to compensate for this.

    QKD networks have come up with a similar solution, creating “trusted nodes” at various points. The Beijing-to-Shanghai network has 32 of them, for instance. At these waystations, quantum keys are decrypted into bits and then re-encrypted in a fresh quantum state for their journey to the next node. Another major QKD technology uses the free space between satellites and ground stations for thousand-kilometer-level transmissions.

    In 2016, China launched the world’s first quantum communication satellite (QUESS, or Mozi/Micius) and achieved QKD with two ground stations 2,600km apart. In 2017, a more than 2,000km-long optical-fiber network was completed for QKD between Beijing and Shanghai.

    Using trusted relays, the ground-based fiber network and the satellite-to-ground links were integrated to serve more than 150 industrial users across China, including state and local banks, municipal power grids, and e-government websites. In essence, the achievement indicates that quantum communication technology can be used for future large-scale practical applications. Similarly, a global quantum communication network can be established if national quantum networks from different countries are combined, and if universities, institutions and companies come together to standardize related protocols.

    In the last couple of years, the team extensively tested and improved the performance of different parts of the integrated network. For instance, with an increased clock rate and more efficient QKD protocol, the satellite-to-ground QKD now has an average key generation rate of 47.8 kilobits per second, which is 40 times as high as the previous rate. The researchers have also pushed the record for ground-based QKD to beyond 500km using a new technology called twin-field QKD (TF-QKD).

    TF-QKD is a new extraordinary QKD protocol, which can overcome the fundamental rate-distance limit without quantum repeaters. Experimentally, TF-QKD has already been performed over 400km of telecom fibers, as well as more than 1,000km of free space through satellite to ground links.
    This result is possible thanks to a different way of encoding and retrieving the information in the quantum carriers used for the protocol.

    In TF-QKD the information is encoded in the phase of the optical pulses prepared by the two users that want to establish the secure communication, and the secret key is retrieved via a single photon interference measurement made by a user in the middle. Another interesting aspect of TF-QKD is that it is also Measurement Device Independent, which means that it meets the strictest standards of security."


    Sources: Phys.Org, Technology Review, Springer Professional, QCALL, University of Science and Technology of China

    China researchers score a quantum leap - Asia Times
    Credentials:

    1. Chinese news

    2. Chinese scientists research

    3. Nature—the leading international weekly journal of science, first published in 1869 and an Asian publisher.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    1-Jerry Grey, ex-Met Police Constable, lives in China, has been to Xinjiang, bicycled through it, filmed it and wrote about it.
    ['arry- paid stooge!]


    2-Harvard University did a long term study, and concluded that over 90% of Chinese citizens were happy with their government.
    ['arry- commie propaganda!]


    3- Grenville Cross, distinguished barrister & public servant, and ex Director of Public Prosecution for HK speaks out about US sanctions against Hong Kong.
    ['arry- commie stooge!]



    It is readily apparent who the stooge is 'arry. Cringingly so.
    What's embarrassing is your lack of understanding of the chinky PR machine and how far it extends. Or perhaps as a snivelling chinky sycophant, it's just your feeble attempt at trying to deny the existence of this network of paid stooges and the fake accounts that "like" them.

    Unpopular reading material for Snivelling chinky sycophants

    How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda - BBC News

    Fake accounts helping boost China's reach on Twitter, study finds | Euronews

    Fake accounts gain traction as they praise China, mock US

    Fake social media accounts are amplifying Chinese propaganda - Coda Story

    How a Chinese network of fake Facebook accounts influenced online debate on South China Sea, US politics | South China Morning Post

    https://www.propublica.org/article/h...on-coronavirus

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    Harvard Uni, Grenville Cross & Jerry Grey do not have fake accounts 'arry. And they are calling it as they see it.

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