The Japan Times<p>The Chinese government is locked in the contradictory goals of pursuing economic growth while maintaining strong social control through the "united front" strategy. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/23/world/china-economic-growth-united-front/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/23/world/china-economic-growth-united-front/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geoeconomicbriefing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geoeconomicbriefing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xijinping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xijinping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a></p>
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Aho<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.party/@abracadabra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>abracadabra</span></a></span> yeah and that is why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> laughs at him and they are more than capable of doing more than <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> did for him to give the 90 days respite, but he will not be able to sign 151 new trade deals. <br>Now he even got tired of trying to get a peace in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> which he said he would fix in a day, then got up to 100 days and now he bored that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> can't get everything, he will get as tired of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> and find something else to bark about that he has no clue about.</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@COVID19_DISEASE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>COVID19_DISEASE</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RFKjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKjr</span></a>. acts like the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> because they too got away with it re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SARS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARS2</span></a>...</p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>Day 24 cont ⚕️💉💊</p><p>“But speaking of gambling, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/gambling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gambling</span></a> is a behaviour where <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> don’t think of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/consequences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consequences</span></a>. And what this (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a>) <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> has done is gambled the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxpayers</span></a>’ money of Australia”</p><p>… </p><p>“We understand that the other side has a good heart, that they want to make <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/medicines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicines</span></a> cheaper. But to recklessly, recklessly cut the profits of small business owners, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/pharmacies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pharmacies</span></a> working extremely hard, some of them have told me they’ve gone down to 30-40%. That gambling-like behaviour is simply not on.” — <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ScottYung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottYung</span></a> </p><p>Piss off Scotty, leave our Pharma alone.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/pharmaceuticals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pharmaceuticals</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Bennalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bennalong</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Nationals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nationals</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LiberalPartyChineseYouthCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiberalPartyChineseYouthCouncil</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JohnHoward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnHoward</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/XiongmingXie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XiongmingXie</span></a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/22/australia-election-2025-live-pm-leads-tributes-to-pope-francis-pre-poll-voting-begins-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6806e3898f089c7bf64d93f3#block-6806e3898f089c7bf64d93f3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/live/2025/apr/22/australia-election-2025-live-pm-leads-tributes-to-pope-francis-pre-poll-voting-begins-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6806e3898f089c7bf64d93f3#block-6806e3898f089c7bf64d93f3</span></a>></p>
Aho<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SVT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SVT</span></a> reporter from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a><br>With the end of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> the health care in Africa will suffer and at the same time there will be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> who will try to take over the influence of Africa.</p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> in Africa are trying to sell off their stuff before flying to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> but the sales may not go that well as the product they have are difficult to repair as no spare parts.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/usas-flyttbil-packas-allt-snabbare-i-afrika" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/usas-fl</span><span class="invisible">yttbil-packas-allt-snabbare-i-afrika</span></a></p>
Aho<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@vlakicas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vlakicas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> can't help if your government is corrupt and let companies to mine without regards for environmental impact.<br>It's no point in trying to copy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> instead fight for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
OptimusPrimeBot<p>NASA Space Flight Awareness Honorees Award Ceremony 🌑🚀🛰️🧑🚀🪐</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AndreDouglas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndreDouglas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AnneMcClain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnneMcClain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Artemis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Artemis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ArtemisII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtemisII</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ArtemisIIICPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtemisIIICPS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronauts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AstrotechSpaceOperations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstrotechSpaceOperations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> </p><p>⏩ 28 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=28&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250419011457" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spe</span><span class="invisible">cial:ListFiles?limit=28&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250419011457</span></a></p>
ilias :thepiratebay:<p>seeing Taiwanese people joining Fediverse en masse is very heartwarming - especially with Bluesky/Turkiye fiasco</p><p>sending love and solidarity to people of Taiwan - you cannot and must not be abandoned alone against vile Chinese communist gov't ❤️ 🇹🇼</p><p>also, good reason to share the song I listen often nowadays again (discovered it thanks to some Hong Kong dissidents) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-uEgsNVL-c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=x-uEgsNVL-</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>Day 20 cont 💰💰💰💰☢️🏭🏠🏘️⛪️🕍📈📉👔👨🏻💼👩🏻💼</p><p>“A video shared thousands of times on a Chinese (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a>) <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> platform claiming a re-elected <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Albanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Albanese</span></a> government would adopt “the far-left agenda” of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greens</span></a> and potentially seize vacant homes was created by a member of a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WeChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeChat</span></a> group campaigning for the Liberal party in a marginal Melbourne seat.</p><p>The six-minute video, narrated by a woman who refers to herself as <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AuntieGuoer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuntieGuoer</span></a>, also claims any minority Albanese government that might rely on the Greens would “crackdown on the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MiddleClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleClass</span></a>” and lead to the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/decline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decline</span></a> of “traditional <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SocialStructures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialStructures</span></a>”.”</p><p>I see this is happening in the seat of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Aston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aston</span></a> and past Liberal seat of a political favourite of mine, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TudgyFudge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TudgyFudge</span></a> 🤪🤣☺️ Given the subject matter I’d lay a bet this is the work of ex AFP Officer, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SandraBourke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SandraBourke</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MatthewSheahan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MatthewSheahan</span></a> who now has removed all biographic links. Why? </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Advance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Advance</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ForeignInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignInterference</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CounterDemocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CounterDemocratic</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Nationals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nationals</span></a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/18/mandarin-wechat-video-labor-greens-election-claims-made-by-member-of-aston-liberal-party-campaign-group-melbourne-ntwnfb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/18/mandarin-wechat-video-labor-greens-election-claims-made-by-member-of-aston-liberal-party-campaign-group-melbourne-ntwnfb</span></a>> / <<a href="https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/time-to-put-the-greens-last" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">advanceaustralia.org.au/time-t</span><span class="invisible">o-put-the-greens-last</span></a>></p>
Aho<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MAKS23</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poor</span></a> countries will choose <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> as they come with a bowl of gold and then after a while they take everything from you, but at least they don't change policies from day to day, so you will know how tomorrow will be...</p>
Aho<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthKorea</span></a> - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> free trade is reality and I think they will make up some of the losses in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> trade by it.</p><p>The problem for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> is that from where to get those cheap stuff that used to flood from China? Don't think someone is willing to pay $25 for something plastic that used to cost $0.99</p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@rbreich" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rbreich</span></a></span> The greatest geopolitical catastrophe since WWII was democracies' 'coupling' (i.e. financing and empowering) with the military-expansionist CCP dictatorship of China in the first place.</p><p>USA handing that dictatorship its "Most Favoured Nation" trade status in 1994 and greenlighting its accession to the WTO in 2000.</p><p>They were epoch-making *bi-partisan* mistakes, sponsored by your business/donor interests' greed.</p><p>Now both sides of your two-party system have to some extent realized what globally powerful monster you created over the last 30+ years.</p><p>Trump is a narcissist-fascist moron and his motley crew of sycophant morons are naturally doing it idiotically, but moaning about the fact that the USA is now engaging "trade war" (instead of rightfully moaning about the disastrous tactics!) feels a little rich.<br>(The CCP was *always* manipulating trade and tech transfers to its sole benefit)</p><p>Democrat administrations since the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 at the latest should all have tried building a *global coalition of democracies* that rewarded democracy and shunned all despots.</p><p>Instead putin was emboldened watching how the CCP regime got away with literally everything, just like all other dictators. 🤷♂️</p><p>This rant wasn't your finest hour. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/decoupling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decoupling</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AxisOfDespots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AxisOfDespots</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EugeneMcParland</span></a></span> 🤔 The CCP dictatorship doesn't hand out exit permits (passports) to its subjects without requiring specific reasons for the travel to barbarian lands. </p><p>If the Chinese mercenaries helping <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> invade <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> were *not* sanctioned by the CCP party-state one should expect very harsh punishments for such insolence.</p><p>Recruited using social media? Without the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> knowing? Right...</p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>[TL:DR: We need to stop the perversion of rule of law *globally*; concentrate on supporting democracies instead of despots. 💰 ]</p><p>On Carl Schmitt, the 'legal architect' of the Third Reich and inspiration to present day authoritarians.</p><p>「For Schmitt, every government capable of decisive action must include a dictatorial element within its constitution. Although the German concept of Ausnahmezustand is best translated as "state of emergency", it literally means "state of exception" which, according to Schmitt, frees the executive from any legal restraints to its power that would normally apply. The use of the term "exceptional" has to be underlined here: Schmitt defines sovereignty as the power to decide to initiate a state of exception [...]」</p><p>「Through the state of exception, Schmitt included all types of violence under right, in the case of the authority of Hitler leading to the formulation "The leader defends the law" ("Der Führer schützt das Recht").」</p><p>「Some have argued that Schmitt has become an important influence on Chinese political theory in the 21st century, particularly since Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012. </p><p>Schmitt's ideas have proved popular and useful instruments in justifying the legitimacy of Chinese Communist Party rule」</p><p>---</p><p>On July 1, 2024, (Chief Justice John) Roberts wrote the majority opinion in Trump v. United States, writing that *a president has absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their constitutional purview, presumptive immunity for official acts* , and no immunity for unofficial acts.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CarlSchmitt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarlSchmitt</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Legalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Legalism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rob</span><span class="invisible">erts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sch</span><span class="invisible">mitt</span></a></p>
Aho<p>Read what the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> supporting media writes of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diaperdon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diaperdon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> try to get manufacturing jobs back to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> </p><p>They see this to become a big <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>failure</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gpo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gpo</span></a> politics.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/louis-vuittons-texas-disaster-reveals-u-s-manufacturing-decline/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dimsumdaily.hk/louis-vuittons-</span><span class="invisible">texas-disaster-reveals-u-s-manufacturing-decline/</span></a></p>
Uyghur Crisis Response Team<p>Our <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a> outside the Chinese embassy in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a> attract a wide variety of people, including this handsome young man. We appreciate his commitment to protesting against the Chinese government's ongoing <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> of the Uyghurs in East Turkistan (a.k.a. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Xinjiang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xinjiang</span></a>).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DogsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DogsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Uyghur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uyghur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EastTurkistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EastTurkistan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GermanShepherd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GermanShepherd</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arstechnica</span></a></span> He was admittely appreciated in his native Hong Kong until he turned into a firebrand communist party stooge.</p><p>Now it's quite the opposite. He's loathed.</p><p>(Not sure about the timing, but his son was caught in the PRC in possession of cannabis which might have something to do with his radicalization, but now he's a full jingoist little pink.)</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hongkong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a>'s <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BankingColony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BankingColony</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/jackiechan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jackiechan</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ </p><p>Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.</p><p>Giving the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> to invade <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> in 2022.</p><p>Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.</p><p>It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.</p><p>There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.</p><p>Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.</p><p>“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“<br>— Nelson Mandela</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hongkong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tibet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tibet</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Uighurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uighurs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EuropeanDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanDefence</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AxisOfDespots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AxisOfDespots</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>This recap covers only the tiniest fraction of what went on in 2019 and what followed. CCP now has total control of all levers of power and influence in its <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BankingColony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BankingColony</span></a> without civil liberties. Its propaganda blaming "foreign forces" for "black-clad violence" was broadcast on all global authoritarian media. Many Hongkongers, especially youth and families with kids, have emigrated or fled the territory.</p><p>AFAICT only a small minority of Hong Kong's expats participated in the protests, but many more have since left due to the repressive atmosphere. Some sosiopathic sycophants have apparently moved there though in search of profit along with russians (probably shipping tech back to militant russia and helping skirt international financial embargoes...).</p><p>One final <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> anecdote: In 2020 when the CCP-imposed "state security law" (NSL) was coming into effect (in typical CCP style, the 'law' is *retroactive*, meaning any perceived *past* infringement can and will be prosecuted!), one of the globally famous pro-democracy faces, young Joshua Wong, tried applying for political asylum at a US mission in Hong Kong but he was denied entry by the trump 1.0 admin...</p><p>For his devotedly (he's s practising catholic) peaceful advocacy of promised democratic rights he's been incarcerated until 2029 at least. In a gaol without air-conditioning or heating more akin to a Chinese laogai. Just like all the other peaceful advocates of democracy.</p><p>“President Trump said, ‘Why don’t we just open up? Why don’t we just let a huge portion of people from Hong Kong move to the U.S.?’ And I loved it,” Pottinger told us. “You know, my view was just, transplant the whole damn city and make a new Hong Kong in America. [Trump] was like, ‘They’re going to be industrious; they’ll be great. They’ll make great Americans.’”</p><p>But Stephen Miller, Trump’s far-right political adviser, stopped the immigration scheme from going further. He was “very persuasive,”</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/hong-kong-activists-washington-dc/675693/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/international/</span><span class="invisible">archive/2023/11/hong-kong-activists-washington-dc/675693/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/JoshuaWong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoshuaWong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hongkong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>A totally quick recap to those who don't know what happened in Hong Kong between early June 2019 and January 2020:</p><p>Hongkongers were promised by the UK-PRC (CCP China) handover treaty signed in 1984 that after the handover to PRC sovereignty in 1997 HKG would retain its civil liberties like freedoms of speech, media and assembly plus political autonomy with *universal suffrage*.</p><p>Initially after 1997 there remained a semblance of democracy although the legislature was always preloaded with indirectly 'elected' seats guaranteeing the CCP-aligned "popular minority" control of the legislature. Furthermore the all-powerful "Chief Executive" (essentially a governor) was supposed to be elected by the people but CCP "re-interpreted" the treaty to allow *itself* to choose the candidates! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p><p>Hong Kong continued to function as Chinese dictatorship's banking colony and as a powerful tool to play around the international trading system, but instead of making progresss towards the promised democracy through universal suffrage and especially after Xi Jinping took power in the PRC in 2012 the CCP stooges running Hong Kong began rolling back Hong Kong's civil rights.</p><p>In early 2019 the "HKG govt" announced they were going to change local laws to allow "suspects" to be extradited to the notoriously unjust PRC to be convicted in CCP's kangaroo courts.</p><p>Thousands marched but the "gov't" ignored them. By early June 2019 there were tens of thousands protesting, and the HKG regime set its police force to teargas and baton-charge the pro-democracy crowds...</p><p>People were outraged and the crowd grew to hundreds of thousands marching orderly through the city's long main avenues despite the draining heat and humidity.</p><p>On June 15 a demonstrator known as the Raincoat Man (Marco Leung) fell of a high rise building during a protest. The following day saw a record *2 million* people flood Hong Kong's roads. Out of a population of 7+ million.</p><p>There would be several million+ marches in the following weeks and months, but the steadily increasing *POLICE VIOLENCE* and various legal and other threats by the regime would start scaring regular people off from joining. </p><p>(Note: my avatar here is an ambigram character combining 警 'police' with 暴 'brutality' — ACAB only applies in authoritarian states)</p><p>All the while the local regime ignored people's "Five Demands, Not One Less" and cracked down on any peaceful pro-democracy activism ever harder.</p><p>A law banning *masks* was enacted on Oct 4. A few months later when Covid-19 hit HKG masks would be both banned and compulsory... 🤷♂️</p><p>Anyway, violent police crackdown, zero compromise by the regime and later strict Covid rules (no gatherings above 3 people!) would ensure that protesting was not only futile but criminalized. The regime was engaged in a "WHOLE PROCESS CRACKDOWN" on all remotely democratic activism.</p><p>On 30 June 2020 the HK puppet regime imposed "National Security Law" (NSL) on the city; essentially anything the CCP considers threatening or 'insulting' to its dictatorship was criminalized.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hongkong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a></p>
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