I am not sure whether I understand your comment. Don’t you want opinionated articles to be flagged as ‘opinion’? I thought it’s a good idea as it is not a typical news article. Just let me know.

There are 10,000 foreigners wrongfully detained in the Chinese Communist Party’s Prison System, and they come from across the globe …

China is indeed doing that all over the world. In May this year, for example, the Chinese ambassador to Japan said that “Japanese people would be dragged into the fire” if they support Taiwan independence, while China’s ambassador to Australia said in January that Australia would be “pushed over the edge of an abyss” if they support Taiwan’s independence.

If such coercive tactics are criticized, the response is often blatant whataboutism.

Climate Action Tracker for China

• Policies and action: insufficient
• NDC (nationally determined contributions) target against modelled domestic pathways: highly insufficient
• NDC target against against fair share: insufficient
• Overall rating: highly insufficient

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You continue to engage in whataboutism. What a waste of time.

The renewable energy is one thing. China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and emissions are still rising.

It’s blatant whataboutism as this report is on China, and it says the country’s climate emission policy is insufficient. Just read the report.

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This is the -unfortunately expected- whataboutism.

Additional renewable energy capacities do not compensate the harm done to the climate by carbon dioxide emissions, and China’s emissioin are still rising while it is already the world’s largest emitter as the report also says.

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Here is another article on this issue: China’s Massive Detention of Foreigners

Let us not forget the people in Xinjiang who pay a harsh price for cheap Chinese EV cars. Unfortunately, forced labour and supply chain transparency wasn’t an issue here.

I wouldn’t say they ‘redesigned’ it. As the Wikipedia article reads, among others:

However, after Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, religious conflicts re-emerged, and the Shadian problem as an example shows an unreconciled discord between the CCP and Islamic religious groups in China.

In 2022, the government began renovations to remove the Arabic-style architecture from the Grand Mosque of Shadian and replace it with Chinese-style pagoda architecture. The renovations were completed in 2024.

As the linked article suggests, things are getting worse. This ‘redesign’ is pure propaganda.

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That’s by far enough here.

They have already done that, just read their Project 2025.

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These comments have nothing to do with economics.

Suppose you see such posts on social media, would you really think, “Ah, that’s a funny joke”, and laugh about it?

As the article suggests, there haven’t been too many with that sense of humor to say the least.

I don’t omit the context. They say it was intended as a joke after it backfired on social media, and the company’s apology - as the article states - is somewhat quiet (on the other hand, the Chinese government - usually not averse to censor content it deems unpleasant - apparently had no problem with it).

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Again, flip over to any other industrialized nation and you’re going to find the same media trends. You get to fixate on “China Media Bad” because you’re not getting spammed with American propaganda about Hindu nationalists or Japanese fascists. But then we are as guilty of drinking the propaganda kool-aid as any other country. And a big part of that kool-aid is the exceptionalism mentality that insists we’re clear-eyed while everyone else is being brainwashed.

What a rubbish. I live in a (Western) country where racism and nationalism and all the sh’t that it entails is much older than modern-day China, but the media isn’t controlled here. Journalists and bloggers and private persons on social media can freely write and criticize, including the government.

I wondering when you get tired here about this whataboutism. In the context of the death of a 10-year old this is even disgusting.

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I feel these are somewhat simplistic explanations (I doubt, for example, that Wogi’s college students are old enough to have experienced in person and thus be “really pissed about the horrific war crimes”, there must be a more complex issue behind).

There is, apparently, a persistent form of racism in China, namely the prejudice that the Han Chinese are more advanced than other cultures inside and outside of China. This does also, though not exclusively relate to Japan.

How the media in China have reported -or, better, how it did not report- on the incident is a sad reminder on Chinese propaganda and media control. But it also shows how this brutal killing and the Chinese state-media’s silence might be linked to decades of anti-Japanese education and cultural conditioning in China.

There is also a good video by a foreigner living in China (19 min): CHINA: RACISM: China’s Ugly, Disturbing yet Open Secret — (archived link). It’s very insightful and worth everyone’s time.

Last year, Human Rights Watch urged the Chinese government to combat anti-black racism on Chinese social media.

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He was convicted for rioting

No, just read the article. He was arrested on June 12 at a train station

wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times”, and a yellow mask printed with “FDNOL” – the shorthand for another pro-democracy slogan, “five demands, not one less”. June 12 is a date associated with protests in the city in 2019.

Your comments are fabricated, you’re posting biased quotes without providing a source. This does not contribute to a good internet culture.

This quote is not from the article. Where is it from?

And this person was wearing a t-shirt. He was convicted for wearing a t-shirt.

I’m from Europe and I’m kinda getting tired of reminding people from the US that your blind patriotism is just that…a blind spot that is used against the US citizens on every corner.

For starters, I/m from Europe, but my friends from the U.S. might not need to be reminded where they live, they know that themselves. And we are all tired of this whataboutism all over the place. There is a lot of criticism on the U.S., the surveillance there, and Clarence Thomas. The thing is that in these posts, there are no whataboutisms, no one commenting, “but in China …”.