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Govt is “deleting data, destroying documents, tightening controls on information and has held high-level meetings in response to leaks of classified papers on its mass detention camps for Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities.” https://apnews.com/c1d08873154907be8a3dd93562d6785c
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https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1208755307305934854?s=21 https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1208755307305934854
You don’t say. https://twitter.com/paulmozur/status/1207151583626088448?s=21 https://twitter.com/paulmozur/status/1207151583626088448
You don’t say. https://twitter.com/aparanjape/status/1210129162368761858?s=21 https://twitter.com/aparanjape/status/1210129162368761858
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“China's historical claim to [Indonesia’s Exclusive Economic Zone] on the grounds that Chinese fishermen have long been active in the waters referred to are unilateral, have no legal basis and have never been recognized by UNCLOS 1982.” https://twitter.com/kemlu_ri/status/1212278476436209670?s=21
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“[I]t is extremely difficult for a Chinese person living in the mainland to hear arguments against the government’s claims. An argument against any is an argument against the whole.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/01/chinas-angry-young-nationalists/
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“There is also disturbing evidence that the Chinese government is mobilizing overseas Chinese students to protest or disrupt events, primarily through campus chapters of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/how-defend-campus-free-speech-china/604045/
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“China appears to have been destroying traditional Uyghur cemeteries for several years as part of what critics describe as a broader, coordinated campaign. ... [T]he Chinese government didn't deny the cemetery destruction.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/02/asia/xinjiang-uyghur-graveyards-china-intl-hnk/index.html
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The Cyberspace Administration of China, its top Internet regulator, has released rules including "encouragement" of online content creators to "Propagat[e] the [Communist] Party’s theoretical line, policies, and major central decisions." http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/06/mass-line-content-control/
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"'Für jedes chinesische Unternehmen, privat oder staatlich, gilt: Wenn die chinesische Staatsführung Druck ausübt, wird man diesem nicht standhalten können.' Ob mit oder ohne Sicherheitsgesetzgebung." @SZ: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/handelspolitik-unverhohlen-1.4745977
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The Chinese Communist Party’s former one-child policy “has been blamed for a severe gender imbalance—with males still outnumbering females by more than 30 million in the 2019 figures.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251
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Two people say they were “recruited under false pretences. ... For actor Julia Hackstaff, of Vancouver, it all started with a promise of $100 for two hours of work in what she understood to be an appearance as an extra in a movie shoot.”

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5434613 
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“Beijing has responded faster to the new threat [ #coronavirus] than it did with SARS, but it still silences and punishes those who veer from the official line, with potentially damaging consequences.”— @LiYuan6 on #CoronaOutbreak https://twitter.com/LiYuan6/status/1220056852550971392
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https://twitter.com/s_rabinovitch/status/1222671627701379072?s=21 https://twitter.com/S_Rabinovitch/status/1222671627701379072
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https://twitter.com/dali_yang/status/1222570017239203841?s=21 https://twitter.com/Dali_Yang/status/1222570017239203841
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https://twitter.com/peterhotez/status/1223791506915504128?s=21 https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1223791506915504128
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H/T @julianku https://twitter.com/AndrewSErickson/status/1224012492961144835
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https://twitter.com/liyuan6/status/1225048626168131584?s=21 https://twitter.com/LiYuan6/status/1225048626168131584
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李文良,安息吧。H/T @julianku https://twitter.com/julianku/status/1225827218074619904?s=20
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https://twitter.com/business/status/1225806688135077889?s=21 https://twitter.com/business/status/1225806688135077889
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“[I]n a single breach, the [People’s Liberation Army of China] obtained sensitive personally identifiable information for nearly half of all American citizens.” From @TheJusticeDept indictment of four individuals involving @Equifax hack.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1246891/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
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China's embassy in Denmark called a cartoon "an insult to China" and demanded paper/cartoonist "publicly apologise to the Chinese people." Danish Prime Minister's response to China: "we have freedom of expression in Denmark—also to draw." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51295225
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“Chinese authorities are using high-tech surveillance and sheer manpower to keep track of identities, locations and habits of individual Uighur Muslims,” with “almost no indication” they’re “targeting potential terrorists.”

#KarakaxList
https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1229436218351476736?s=21 https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1229436218351476736
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Chinese ambassador to Sweden: "We treat our friends with fine wine, but for our enemies we have shotguns." Reflects Chinese Communist Party that "is quicker to take offence, and retaliates more harshly." Via @gadyepstein https://twitter.com/gadyepstein/status/1230571393168871424
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"Other countries, such as Japan and Taiwan, only allow most citizens to hold one nationality. The difference is that #China enforces this without the rule of law, and so can weaponise it to cancel other states’ claims." @FT's @YuanfenYang: https://www.ft.com/content/378988a4-594f-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20
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https://twitter.com/nectar_gan/status/1233449787069911040?s=21 https://twitter.com/Nectar_Gan/status/1233449787069911040
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https://twitter.com/yanzhonghuang/status/1235300037875335170?s=21 https://twitter.com/YanzhongHuang/status/1235300037875335170
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https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1238943965442908161?s=21 https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1238943965442908161
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https://twitter.com/prchovanec/status/1240687924108091393?s=21 https://twitter.com/prchovanec/status/1240687924108091393
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https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1243245741776216068?s=21 https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1243245741776216068
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Chinese Communist Party, 2 Chinese telecoms, & #Huawei propose "radical change to the way the internet works to the UN," urging it to "take a 'long-term view' and 'shoulder the responsibility of a top-down design for the future network.'" https://twitter.com/TonyTassell/status/1243904235844100100
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https://twitter.com/petersuderman/status/1244792961944170497?s=21 https://twitter.com/petersuderman/status/1244792961944170497
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https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1245809700609896450?s=21 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1245809700609896450
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“[T]he authorities have used records of private WeChat messages and other information shared on social media to identify and punish people. At least 452 people have been punished for ‘spreading rumours’ about the outbreak.” https://www.ft.com/content/760142e6-740e-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
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Former Prime Minister of Denmark @AndersFoghR: “Until now, the world’s multilateral bodies have gone along with China’s pressure that Taiwan be excluded [from WHO]. But it has come at a cost to all of us, starting in this case, to China.” https://time.com/5805629/coronavirus-taiwan/
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"Chinese officials also haven't been afraid to use harsh rhetoric to keep the Maduro government in line. In a strident March 18 Twitter thread, the Chinese Embassy in Caracas ... [said] officials should 'put on a face mask and shut up.'" https://www.axios.com/venezuela-coronavirus-aid-china-nicolas-maduro-97cde616-da30-4fb5-ab6f-17feee5a1aa7.html
In case you thought that the Chinese Communist Party's admonition to "shut up" was imagined or misconstrued. H/T @axios's @BethanyAllenEbr
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