Thread: The View, from China

Here ya go PH, don't say I do not help you out from time to time.

Badiocao is sometimes termed the Chinese banksy. He lives in Australia. And, our very own ABC has made a documentary about him, "China's Artful Dissident"-

China'''s Artful Dissident : ABC iview


And of course, the Italian city of Brescia just flipped the bird at the Chinese embassies protestations, and went ahead with Badiocao's exhibition. Rightfully so.


Not sure if that works where you are though.



This will though- Ai Weiwei, another more famous Chinese dissident artist being interviewed-





Fill yer boots. Dissident voices welcome on this thread actually, I'm sure you can do better than that militant BJP garbage.

Originally Posted by OhOh

The Chinese government protects citizens' freedom of religious belief in accordance with law.

A group of happy Uighurs enjoying "freedom of religious belief" in a chinky "holiday retreat".

The Chinese are certainly getting a lot of press lately with the missing tennis star and the duped Thai workers in Cambodia.

Duped Thai workers freed in Phnom Penh - The Cambodia Daily

Originally Posted by sabang

Well, the missing tennis star is no longer missing. She probably just went to ground for a while to avoid the press jackals, and probably not wise to raise your head above the parapet too far in Xi's China no matter who you might be- just ask Jack Ma.

No longer missing? Got a link to that as from the USA all the news is she is still gone.

Dig up some bladdy Chinese dissidentsia then PH! Who cares what bladdy ultranationalist jinglies have to say.

^ It's on oz brekkie TV this morning. So it must be true!

Originally Posted by sabang

Well, the missing tennis star is no longer missing. She probably just went to ground for a while to avoid the press jackals, and probably not wise to raise your head above the parapet too far in Xi's China no matter who you might be- just ask Jack Ma.

Of course you would accept a newly set up fake government account and some smiley pictures with cuddly toys posed under threat.

It's the classic chinky S.O.P.

No-one is buying it.

She is still missing.

Are you saying Australian TV's most watched morning show Sunrise lied to me!!?? Not the first time then.

Originally Posted by sabang

Are you saying Australian TV's most watched morning show Sunrise lied to me!!?? Not the first time then.

Maybe they used some big words.

In orrstaya? Nah.

In the face of an irrational Australia, shouldn’t China be prepared with an iron fist?: Hu Xijin

Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday replied to my warning to his threat toward China. He said, "They're words of a bully, not an international player."

I would like to respond to him again: The US, which Australia is preparing to follow when a war breaks out in the Taiwan Straits, is the world's bully, and Australia's role is like a barking dog.

Last weekend, Dutton said it would be "inconceivable" for Australia not to support the US in an action, if the latter decided to intervene militarily should a war breaks out in the Taiwan Straits. On Monday, I tweeted, "If Australian troops come to fight in the Taiwan Straits, it is unimaginable that China won't carry out a heavy attack on them and the Australian military facilities that support them. So Australia better be prepared to sacrifice for Taiwan island and the US."

Dutton is one of Australia's most radical anti-China politicians. He has been a member of parliament for 20 years and is also a well-known Australian big mouth. He has not only repeatedly attacked and smeared China, but also uttered vicious words against Australia's neighboring countries, such as Australia was "taking the trash out" by deporting criminals born in New Zealand, which caused public uproar.

In China, I am one of the outspoken people. But almost all my critical voices refute severe provocations from the outside world toward China. Chinese people generally do not stir up trouble first. But whoever provokes us must be prepared to be hit back. Over the past two years, Australian officials constantly made public statements or hinted they will send troops to join the fight once a war breaks out in the Taiwan Straits. Some of them clamor that Australian soldiers should be prepared to fight. In the face of such an irrational Australia, shouldn't China be prepared with an iron fist and to punch it hard when needed, teaching it a thorough lesson?

The author is editor-in-chief of the Global Times. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

In the face of an irrational Australia, shouldn’t China be prepared with an iron fist?: Hu Xijin - Global Times


Bigmouths Australia can do without-



What a bumpkin. What an idiot. A barking dog that has no teeth.

You like Dutton PH? Seriously? I doubt you would if you lived here, unless I got your politics quite wrong.
And he is certainly not standing up for Australia, either. Neither helping the US, and it's deliberate policy of ambiguity vis a' vis Taiwan.
He is being a big mouthed idiot. Then again, so is the chink. But the only teeth we've got, belongs to our 'big mate' (or puppy dog handler).

^ I assume that is purported to be written by the tennis player? Sounds like a woman scorned. Where did you source it? Fake, or not?

You really do have CDS. Is your Daddy in law being mean to you or something? get a grip.
But I am curious where that woman scorned letter may have been sourced. Real, or not?

The WTA and the rest of the world need independent and verifiable proof that she is safe.

Actually what the WTA and the rest of the world needs is independent and verifiable proof that her accusation is true.

Otherwise it is hearsay or liable

'Me Too'. 'He Said/ She Said'. A nice little celebrity scandal to fill the gossip rags- I mean, how many do we have at any given time. But, if she fails to turn up alive and well it becomes a whole lot more than that.

Frankly, I think several of our resident China Haters would like nothing more than to see her turn up dead.

^^ Then I look forward to your expressed relief when she turns up alive and well, as does seem to be the case.

"disappeared" by state spooks for making chinkystan look bad.

Your predictable guess, based on no evidence whatsoever. I'm not gonna bother cut n pasting the several photos and videos of her, purportedly taken in Beijing this last couple of days. Lets wait for proof instead. She certainly looks quite happy hugging her grey cat surrounded by fluffy toys at her home, and at a Beijing restaurant with her coach. But I'm afraid, does not meet the evidentiary standard of 'Proof of life' yet.

^ Yes PH, you are not in a court of law (thank goodness). OK?

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Actually what the WTA and the rest of the world needs is independent and verifiable proof that her accusation is true.

Otherwise it is hearsay or liable

Doubt any exists but likely she is telling the truth. Wouldn't be the first time a female athlete was forced into a sexual act by the powers that be.

Originally Posted by sabang

^^ Then I look forward to your expressed relief when she turns up alive and well, as does seem to be the case.

Your predictable guess, based on no evidence whatsoever. I'm not gonna bother cut n pasting the several photos and videos of her, purportedly taken in Beijing this last couple of days. Lets wait for proof instead. She certainly looks quite happy hugging her grey cat surrounded by fluffy toys at her home, and at a Beijing restaurant with her coach. But I'm afraid, does not meet the evidentiary standard of 'Proof of life' yet.

^ Yes PH, you are not in a court of law (thank goodness). OK?

Yes, no-one would suggest for a minute that an authoritarian state known for harsh punishments for dissent would possibly stage photographs under duress.

I'm sure they didn't whisper in her ear that if she failed to make it look convincing she could be facing years in prison for the it-would-be-hilarious-if-it-was-only-satirical charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".

Originally Posted by sabang

Your predictable guess, based on no evidence whatsoever.

There is "no evidence whatsoever" that anything that makes the chinky government look bad can result in jail time?

I'm sure there isn't in your chinky propaganda sites. They probably call jail "holiday family fun camp time" or something.

I wonder what the authorities are doing about her allegations of sexual assault? It is possible the allegation is false but one would have to think she would be aware of the severe consequences of bringing such an allegation in China against a high CCP official without cause. My guess is it will be buried and she will be in no uncertainty regarding the consequences of mentioning it again. Hopefully I am wrong.

There have been enough CPC apparatchiks executed for corruption to suggest otherwise. Anyway, she's alive and well and asking for her privacy to be respected. Case closed.