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There& #39;s a guy on here who takes footage of ordinary people doing ordinary things, sets them in China and invents a fantastical and sinister scenario. His account functions as a pretty good aggregator of fake anti-China propaganda from the past few years.
Normal video of a toddler crying in a preschool becomes "this child is crying because China stole their parents." Only one reason that kids cry for their parents at preschool/daycare of course.
This is a repost of purpose-made propaganda. Footage of a fight in a small town is intercut with footage of relatives putting the body of a child who drowned into a dry-ice box so he can be buried in his home town. There is even a Snopes article. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/300-children-found-frozen-alive/">https://www.snopes.com/fact-chec...
A tourist video of an unnamed old village becomes "China just arrested everyone here, that& #39;s why there are no people." The music is replaced and the Douyin/TikTok outro is removed to produce the desired tragic atmosphere.
Another tourist video, from a tour of what looks like a pre-revolution prison that has been converted into a museum. It seems unlikely that a secret Chinese torture prison would have English-language signs.
Couple of old women drinking becomes "China forces Muslims to drink alcohol." I assume he& #39;s counting on his English-language audience to see these people as a monolith. The Uyghur people have made wine since the Tang dynasty. https://www.decanterchina.com/en/columns/demeis-view-wine-communication-from-a-chinese-winemaker/musailaisi-the-mysterious-xinjiang-wine">https://www.decanterchina.com/en/column...
CJ Werleman, who produces very similar disinformation, frequently retweets Arslan. Last year CJ took footage from a celebration and added a sinister "Uyghur Muslims forced to drink beer and eat pork" false caption.
CJ has also made a few posts similar to Arslan& #39;s "Uyghur orphanage" videos. Again, kids napping in a daycare became the orphaned children of political prisoners via a false caption.
Arslan and many other accounts have been sharing videos of people on Douyin/TikTok using a crying filter to a sad song. It isn& #39;t part of any protest or movement, it& #39;s just a popular meme that Arslan and others added a false context to.
This is the second time Arslan and company used a Douyin trend out of context, the first time was back in August with a similar popular meme. The lack of evidence of a movement behind the meme didn& #39;t stop one Deutsche Welle writer from promoting it as one.
This is not a torture device being used on Muslims in a Chinese prison, it& #39;s a bondage device being demoed in an S&M club in Taiwan. A group of Taiwan journalists did a fact-check, managing to find the original video and speaking to the guy in the video: https://tfc-taiwan.org.tw/articles/379 ">https://tfc-taiwan.org.tw/articles/...
This is nothing to do with Uyghur people or Xi Jinping or atheism or whatever, it& #39;s high school students giving thanks for their teachers before they take their university entrance exams.
Shared widely by the human rights scammers, this story is based on a single article produced by Radio Free Asia, a US state-controlled media arm. No independent verification has been done.
Two kids doing Shaolin Kung Fu training becomes "Chinese evil imperialism in Africa." No evidence they& #39;re in Africa, I think the person who runs that account is at least a little bit racist.
The Talk to East Turkestan group even produced custom graphics for this lie.
Again, not a single thing about the viral posts about this are true.
These are not "kids in Africa" who are being "forced" to do anything at all. They are kids training at a kung fu school in Yulin in South China.
They are not "forced to learn Chinese" or "forced to sing a Communist song" or whatever. They are singing a song to help concentrate during endurance training. The original caption: "训练很辛苦, 唱歌我们是认真的" ("Training is very difficult, we sing to keep our composure")
The song they sing is "大中国," (something like "Vast China.") It& #39;s a song from the 90s about how China is a big beautiful place where everyone is part of a big family. It& #39;s only sinister in the false context given by the scammers. Full lyrics here: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/7984695">https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%...
Another video from the same kung fu academy. Tell me this isn& #39;t cool as hell.
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