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On Monday, @AFP reported on residents in China’s far western #Xinjiang region taking to social media to protest draconian and heavy-handed lockdown measures, particularly in the capital of Urumqi.Here’s a

ICYMI: Responding to “recent rumors,” China’s state broadcaster CCTV says it has no plans to resume airing #NBA games in the country. https://www.sixthtone.com/ht_news/1005651/cctv-nixes-return-of-nba-broadcasts-to-china See this great thread from C

Big story from @hkbeech: “New research show[s] that Beijing’s engineers appear to have directly caused the record low levels of water in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/world/asia/china-mekong-drought.html “Th

THREAD: The person Shanghai is trusting to keep the city safe from the Wuhan #coronavirus raised a few eyebrows while speaking to media today. So who is he, and what

Africans in Guangzhou are being evicted from their homes and turned away from hotels, forced onto the streets, amid rising xenophobia and concerns of a #COVID19 rebound.“It’s already a PR

THREAD about how Douyin, the Chinese version of #TikTok, is banning livestreamers for speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin. 1/ On Monday, the Guangzhou-based WeChat account Yangcheng Net (羊城网) posted an