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newscast1 · 1 year

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China slams 'distorted' reports on Covid response, eases further curbs

China slams ‘distorted’ reports on Covid response, eases further curbs

China will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-Covid controls, that isolated the country for almost three years, as it further eases curbs amid a massive spike in infection. A health worker waits for people to take swab samples to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus inside of a compound in the Jing’an district in Shanghai. (Photo: AFP) By India Today Web Desk:…

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memenewsdotcom · 3 months

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China population drops again

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#china #coronavirus #covid #covid-19 #death #decline #growth #health #meme #memes #news #people #population

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silverwolf1249 · 1 year

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Raising Awareness: China's White Paper Protests

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So my tumblr has absolutely nothing to do about politics, but this is something hitting a little close to home and stuff like this is so important to get seen because it sure won't get the attention it needs, so I want to help increase its visibility any way I can.

I can't even begin to tell you my shock when I learned that the top 2 universities in China (Tsinghua University and Beijing University respectively) were both protesting against the CCP. That the protesting started from people all over China, and once some universities began protesting, the networking between the academic institutes made the protests quickly spread to roughly 175 universities all over China and abroad like Harvard and Caltech which have decent amounts of Chinese international students. I've even seen a few signs about the Ürümqi Fire (one of the major tipping points that started the protests) on my own university campus, which was the reason I started researching the situation.

For some background for those who might not know, the origin of using a piece of white paper to protest comes from a joke when Russia was still the Soviet Union. The general gist of the joke is that a man passes out blank fliers out to people, and gets arrested. He shows that he's only handing out white pieces of paper, but gets locked up anyway because "The fliers may be blank, but it shows your true intentions!". This, by the way, was explained to me by my dad, so it may deviate a little from the original joke. In any case, it's used to represent everything they cannot say aloud due to China's censorship.

But back to the coverage on the situation. I've been searching through most of the major english speaking news sources and read what I expected to see. Police intimidation in broad daylight, entering trains and people's own homes, and accosting people to delete any possible pictures they had from the protests and deleting all social media apps and VPNs which could help spread the word. They also recorded people's personal data, facial recognition, retinal scans, fingerprints, etc.

Several people were grabbed and arrested. There were also apparently a few journalists (including one from the BBC) who got caught trying to cover the issue and got beat up and arrested by the police before being let go after a few days. There's some other stuff as well, but overall it was mostly what I expected, but I still felt like there had to be more. I turned to my dad for some help, who's fluent in Mandarin.

With just one small search in YouTube with the phrase "白紙抗議", I got so much more new information. The phrase translates to white paper protests in traditional Chinese. This helped me find a treasure mine of recordings from a Taiwanese news channel that went further in detail and showed more first hand footage and images that was different than what I'd already seen, and so much more terrible to watch. But there were also videos and images that made me want to applaud the protestors.

Remember when I mentioned that an event called the Ürümqi Fire was a major tipping point to all the protesting? For some background information, Ürümqi is the capital city of Xinjiang, a huge region of China's north west area, and is also know as the Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The Ürümqi Fire was an event where an apartment building in the city burned down, killing at least 10 people. This wasn't even the first incident since China's zero-Covid policy, it just happened to be the event that got the ball rolling. In the english speaking media I looked into, I only saw pictures of the fire, or a silent video of it.

In the video I found? The recording also had sound, people screaming desperately for someone to help, unable to escape their locked rooms, and with no firemen coming to save them until much, much too late; all issues stemming from China's zero-Covid policy. It only gets worse from there.

Currently in english speaking media, most people only suspect more violent police suppression than just restraining people. Well, no need for any more speculations when you can watch two first hand accounts of young women being beaten by the police for not complying. The actual violence is, thankfully fully censored. Just seeing the beginning of the videos alone made my heart drop to my stomach.

But it's not all doom and gloom. These videos also held plenty of pictures of slogans graffitied by protestors all over different college campuses, and lemme tell you, people get creative under rigid censorship. I'm still not clear what some of them actually mean because I'm barely able to speak any Mandarin, there's no hope in me deciphering the word play. There was also a clip in one of them on how one student at Tsinghua University started a protest on her own, until she was surrounded by a veritable crowd of people.

I will be adding both of the videos I watched below, they both have english subtitles and can help explain more than I can. They also go into more detail other major reasons people, especially college aged people, began protesting. Most of them are unsurprisingly, covid related.

Other than that, it's just...so incredibly frustrating and heartbreaking to see what these people are up against. The White House released a statement essentially saying they won't touch the topic because of the potential fallout with China. Apple is apparently helping the CCP by limiting AirDrop time to prevent protestors spreading awareness to other people. And, let's not forget what the CCP did with the last large, public, student ran protest; the CCP sure tried their best to make sure it was erased from their history.

The protestors, the majority being people my age, have everything against them. A much like the Hong Kong protests, they don't stand a very high chance at succeeding. But they're still fighting out there for what they believe in, and have definitely left their mark in history. I have so much respect for all of them, I'm worried for all of them, and all I can do is sit here and write this post and hope more people see this and spread the word. At the very least, I want raise awareness over the situation.

*Just a reminder to watch the videos at your own risk as they contain potentially triggering content*

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(the first video is the most recent update

the second one only has english subtitles for part of the video, but they have Mandarin subtitles if you're willing to google translate, and also the first hand clips throughout the whole video are still worth to watch even if you can't fully understand what they're saying)

Some Other Sources:

*If these sources or any of my words above end up being from unreliable sources or later found to contain false information/updated information appears, don't hesitate to send asks or comments so I may edit my post/delete the links/add new or better sources.*

White House Weighs How Forcefully to Support Protesters in China

New Symbol of Protest in China Roils Censors: Blank White Papers

China Covid protests explained: why are people demonstrating and what will happen next?

Apple Limits iPhone File-Sharing Tool Used for Protests in China

How blank sheets of paper became a protest symbol in China

Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy

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jessica-marie-baumgartner · 1 year

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The "died suddenly epidemic" isn't going away. The mainstream needs to grow up and properly investigate.

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gettothestabbing · 2 years

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(Tweet) (Australian Bureau of Statistics source)

#Alex Berenson #stats #2022 #Australia #death #China virus #covid vaccines #public health #mRNA #tweets

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purple-nautilus · 2 years

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Me: oh boy let's see what's on Twitter

Twitter white people:

Me:

#I have over 3000 pictures of terrible incidents involve starvation child death and suicide #and Karen here lives in a place where she was treated like a human her whole life be like: yo china covid zero is better #I hope god burns you in hell mlady because you fucking deserve it

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catwriter · 1 year

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On the morning of the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Rabbit, as Yan’s family, including her mom, three sisters, their husbands, and their children gathered to celebrate in the family home, her mom went to rest in bed, and then died shortly after taking a video call from Yan, in what has become a winter of death for many families across China. Yan through her tears today remembered and honored her mom in this poem (translated from Chinese)

Walk away on snow

(Dedicated to my mother)

As beautiful as you are,

As proud as you are,

You are like a winter plum in stormy times,

A dazzling bloom.

When you were young,

You were so strong.

You trained hard and embraced important tasks.

In Qichang City where you grew up, everyone knew you:

The middle school and high school English and Chinese teacher.

The founder and leader of a troupe of young singers, dancers, and actors

who performed all over.

I remember long ago performing an Indian dance in your group.

The wife of a regional political leader, you were famous.

How many responsibilities did you have?

You raised four daughters and cultivated them arduously,

And in the eyes of others

They grew to be your beloved daughters,

Blossoming just like you, as beautiful flowers,

Becoming the proud words on your lips.

Many years passed, and in your twilight, you said,

“Now I want to have a good rest.”

But your reality turned against your good intentions.

Your strength waned; your body weakened.

You longed to see yourself as a strong woman,

For others to see you this way too.

But you could no longer do the things that made you proud.

Your later years passed like this.

You set your dreams for love and adventure aside and lived for your family.

Your heart remained calm and peaceful.

You laughed. You raised your daughters.

You smiled at your grandchildren, cared for them.

“My life is a little sad,” you said, “But I have no regrets.”

On New Year’s Eve of the Year of the Rabbit, 2023,

The winter snow arrived on schedule

And with it a relentless, merciless epidemic.

I anticipated your leaving.

Come on, follow me.

Walk away on snow

I must go now.

I’m looking forward to being myself in another world.

Behind your lonely back there remained a string of footprints in the snow.

In the vast starry sky

The brightest star is you.

Thou art the beautiful spirit and messenger.

You once said earthly, mortal love was tasteless,

But I want to say this:

We all love you dearly.

Maybe you don’t know

That no matter where you are,

In the past or the future,

Our deep love will always be with you.

If there is an afterlife,

I look forward to seeing you

Bloom like a rose,

Stand like a tree,

Fly like a butterfly.

If there is an afterlife

I want to be your daughter,

Or let me protect you instead!

I will find you, mama,

because I love you so much.

Your daughter, Yan Liang, January 22, 2023

#death #poem #daughters #grief #in memory #china covid

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iwrotemrtambourineman · 1 year

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I’ve taken up reading the Wikipedia “on this date” page and uhhhh planes sure do crash a whole lot, huh?

#maybe it’s just December but each date has had like way more plane crashes than expected #also today is the anniversary of both John Lennon’s death and the first confirmed COVID case in China. lots to take in

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ummnews · 2 years

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USA: FDA restricts J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine due to blood clot risk

www.UMMnews.org WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Thursday strictly limited who can receive Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to the ongoing risk of rare but serious blood clots. The Food and Drug Administration said the shot should only be given to adults who cannot receive a different vaccine or specifically request J&J’s vaccine. U.S. authorities for months have recommended that…

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memenewsdotcom · 1 year

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China reports 60,000 covid deaths

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#china #coronavirus #covid #covid-19 #death #disease #health #meme #memes #news #pandemic #virus

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cosasdelahistoria · 3 months

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#history #youtube #podcast #covid #covid19 #long covid #historia #black death #china #wuhan

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telugutimesusa · 1 year

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More than 13 thousand people in China in a week

Covid 19 is running rampant in China. A senior medical officer of the country stated that more than 13,000 people died of corona virus in various hospitals between 13th and 19th of this month. With the latest outbreak, more than 80 percent of the population has been infected with the virus, he said. This latest death toll is shocking just a week after China claimed that 60,000 people died of Covid-19 in a single month. he Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that 681 people who were admitted to hospitals with respiratory related problems died. It does not include the details of patients who died near home.

#China #Deaths #Hospitals #Covid #Coronavirus #abbott elementary #breaking news #public health

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biglisbonnews · 1 year

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China's population drops for first time since 1960s The population of mainland Chinafell by 850,000 people in 2022 to 1.41 billion, according to the statistics bureau there, with 9.56 million births and 10.41 million deaths in 2022. The pandemic and an economic downturn are identified as the causes. With the end of draconian zero-covid policies (∨ the country hiding its death toll) some 60,000 deaths a month are being reported nationwide from Covid. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/17/chinas-population-drops-for-first-time-since-1960s.html

#Post #china #covid #deaths #Rob Beschizza #Boing Boing

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jovialbasementbouquetblr · 1 year

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2022: Party Praise for Overloaded Hebei Crematorium Workers

These documents shared by Old Driver on Twitter 老司机 @h5LPyKL7TP6jjop On January 11th, Old Driver shared a brief video of a mass funeral in rural China with the comment: “Things are just as bad in the countryside as in the cities. Who knows how many people in this image are being given their final farewell? ” 农村疫情不比城里差，这场面有多少人家送葬？ Hebei: Yahoo Taiwan also put together a report about this:…

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#Beijing #China #Communist Party #COVID #cremation #deaths #epidemic #funeral home #Handan #Hebei #media #PRC #中国

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wandering-spork · 1 year

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2023 is the new 2020

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mercoglianotrueblog · 1 year

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They left a massive loss of trust in public health agencies

world #leaders're corrupt, forced us to untested vax, want WW for excuse to default on their debts

#EU #Leyen hides sms traded with #Pfizer #Bourla

#China CoV deaths only 'directly 'died of it..#EU #US seem not to do

govts #trolls to seize discourse power

https://salvatoremercogliano.blogspot.com/2022/12/they-left-massive-loss-of-trust-in.html?spref=tw

#corrupt #leaders #von der leyen #albert bourla #china #covid #deaths #govts #trolls

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