Comments by "Roger Dodger" (@rogerdodger8415) on "The Truth About BBC and Foreign YouTube Vloggers in China" video.
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IS THIS ANTI CHINA TOO?
China in the last few years without shooting a single bullet has grabbed more land than the British Empire’s “East India Company”. Tibet is conceivably China’s most certain land grab that enforced the claim on the Himalayan nation and consolidated it with its territory where after Tibet’s spiritual head, Dalai Lama and his followers were forced to flee to India during the “1959 Tibet Uprising”. Recently as per the news reports, China has illegally occupied Nepal’s land in various places. It has annexed 150 hectares and the Nepalese politicians have asserted that the expansions of their land are presently the start of the increased Chinese bellicosity along the frontier. As per the UK-based Telegraph, the Chinese purportedly started grabbing Nepali land in five frontier regions in May 2020 by assigning members of its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) over unguarded sections of the frontier. In the Russian city of Vladivostok, China is claiming ownership of the city that previously belonged to the Qing dynasty. But after China lost in the second opium war, Vladivostok was returned following an agreement it signed in 1860 that states that the city legitimately belonged to Russia. However, China often rejects any agreement that isn’t acceptable to its demands.
China has also been claiming that Central Asian nations like Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have been part of China. It is intending to intensify in establishing military underpinnings across Central Asia, which is a cause of concern. China has claimed the whole Kyrgyzstan region to be a part of China. In 1999, China pushed Kyrgyzstan to return over 1,250 square km of land. China likewise has a continuing conflict with Tajikistan that record back to 1884. China in Tajikistan has been claiming the Pamir region. China has also hugely penetrated Africa and has large unresolved problems in Hong Kong and Taiwan. As part of its ‘One China policy’, it has been claiming Taiwan and has freshly pressed a security law in Hong Kong.
Africa is seen as the principal victim of this new Chinese global abuse drive. Chinese intrusion into Africa has been portrayed as an “African land grab” and a “New scramble for Africa”. Being Africa’s biggest trading ally and creditor, China, has interests in minerals and oil and looks to be one of the more natural “neocolonialists” of African agriculture. The Chinese interest in African rhinoceros tusk, ivory, abalone and materials from other threatened species has likewise taken an important toll on preservation efforts. As per the International Food Policy Research Institute and at Johns Hopkins University, Chinese firms have claimed to have gained or settled high amounts of African farmland.
The South China Sea viewed, as one of the world’s most significant maritime trade routes is a core hub for all geographical and international economic movement, promoting yearlong trade worth trillions of dollars. China here has been aggressively involved in the ‘sea grab’ by renaming of many islands, reefs, seamounts, shoals, and ridges that has sparked furious accusations by the affected nations and worldwide revulsion. In the East China Sea, China is at loggerheads with South Korea, Japan and North Korea. With the Senkaku and Ryu Kya islands being a critical bilateral issue, China is entangled in a land wrangle with Japan. In South Korea, China claims islands in the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the whole of South Korea on a historical basis. Both also have a conflict over Socotra Rock in the East China Sea. In North Korea, China has an ongoing conflict over Mount Baekdu and the Tuman River. In the Philippines, China still claims portions of the Spratly islands despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissing China’s claims. In Vietnam and Laos, China claims large areas on historical criterion (Ming dynasty and Yuan dynasty respectively). It’s also caught up with Vietnam concerning the Paracel Islands, Macclesfield Bank, parts of the South China Sea and the Spratly Islands. A few months ago, China sank a Vietnamese fishing trawler near the Paracel Islands inviting criticism from many countries. In Indonesia, China demands fishing rights in waters near the nation’s islands. In Brunei and Malaysia, China claims the Spratly Islands. In Cambodia, China has claimed parts again on historical precedent. In Thailand, China has been eyeing the Mekong River since 2001. In Mongolia, China claims the whole country on a historical basis (Yuan Dynasty). In Singapore, parts of the South China Sea are being challenged by China and Singapore.
Through the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project and the enormous loans that have been dispensed to its all-weather friend ‘Pakistan’, China has turned Pakistan into a thrall land. The latest reports of the Chinese funded Diamer-Basha Dam in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) have become an environmental catastrophe in the making. Pakistan government is also trying to hand over the Karoonjhar Mountains and Sindh islands of Buddhoo and Bundalon for the CPEC project on the demand of the Chinese government, without taking permission of the people of Sindh or its government. Scholars and experts believe that Pakistan in the next few years is set to become a colony of China if it continues ceding its land to China. The red dragon has been at daggers drawn with India over the Ladakh boundary issue and has been attempting to change the ‘status quo’ with India that led to the loss of many Indian soldiers a few months ago. China is also staking claim to large tracts of Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state) to be a contiguous part of Tibet, due to its refusal to accept the McMohan Line as the border between the two nations. China has also been on a border dispute with Bhutan since 1986 and claims large parts of easterly Bhutan areas like Cherkip Gompa, Dho, Dungmar, Gesur etc. The 2017 Doklam issue showed how China tried to build a road in Bhutan’s territory and the Indian Army stepped in to help its ally. The port of Hambantota, that has attracted the world media attention of Sri Lankan government’s 99-year contract to the Chinese state-owned company, China Merchants Group (CMG) has been viewed by international observers as a ‘debt trap’ and ‘land grab’ by China.
In Myanmar, there have been many reports and complaints from locals related to human rights breaches, accusations of land grab and environmental destruction due to land procurement and industrial ventures by Chinese firms. Also, Myanmar has alleged that ‘China’ is arming a rebel group, the Arakan army, with advanced military technology displaying China’s aggressive character in arming insurgent groups. China through its investment ventures has likewise attempted to land grab in the Maldives that could be turned into military posts, which could destabilize the Indian Ocean region, and be pernicious to Indian defence and security. China is also making its way to the Pacific island nations of Kiribati, Solomon Islands and so on, which has brought the U.S.-China ties under considerable strain. China is also one of the main countries in acquiring land in Argentina, Latin America, and Colombia in which its stake is concentrated. China has been trying to expand its Arctic footprint and has also carried out undeclared military activities in Antarctica, by instituting a position for territorial claim, involving in minerals research.
Post-pandemic, China has been experiencing a food crisis for its huge population, slumping demand for its manufactured products and disappointment due to the fractured Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects where it has invested trillions of dollars. The Telegraph has stated that China has sought a more hawkish foreign policy under President Xi Jinping whose BRI projects beam to create trade and transport connections from the nation beyond Asia and toward Europe. Apart from the land grab, China is also trying to gain controlling stakes in firms globally. China, which is aspiring to be accepted as a modern superpower has got entangled in military and political disputes, in migration and government matters because of acquiring land and is trying to establish diplomatic connections with many countries. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, from the South China Sea to its South and Central Asian neighbors, Chinese territorial infringement has produced crevices in bilateral ties. China’s territorial grab, a conquest of brute coercion over laws, jeopardizes the vulnerability of the contemporary liberal world order.
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@Branson Zhang These are a few of the hundreds that occur here in the United States and around the world.
Ji ChaoqunEdit
Ji Chaoqun, 27, a Chinese citizen residing in Chicago, was arrested in Chicago on September 25, 2018 for allegedly acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China. Ji worked at the direction of a high-level intelligence officer in Jiangsu State Security Department (JSSD) of the Ministry of State Security (MSS) for the People's Republic of China, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Ji was tasked with providing the intelligence officer with biographical information on eight individuals for possible recruitment by the JSSD, the complaint states. The individuals included Chinese nationals who were working as engineers and scientists in the United States, some of whom were U.S. defense contractors, according to the complaint. He was formally indicted on January 24, 2019.[7][8]
Yanjun XuEdit
Yanjun Xu, also known as Qu Hui and Zhang Hui, was charged in October 2018 with conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from multiple U.S. aviation and aerospace companies. [9] Xu was arrested in Belgium in April 2018 following the filing of a criminal complaint against him in Cincinnati. [10] The United States has alleged that Xu is a deputy division director for the Ministry of State Security, and that Xu was engaged in espionage against GE Aviation. [10] Xu, a senior officer with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), is accused of seeking to steal trade secrets from leading aviation firms, top Justice Department officials said. Xu recruited experts to travel to China, often under the guise of asking them to deliver a university presentation and passing himself off as an official with the Jiangsu Science and Technology Promotion Association. Xu often exchanged information with individuals at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, one of the top engineering schools in China, which has significant influence over the country's aerospace industry, according to court documents.
Xudong YaoEdit
Xudong Yao, also known as “William Yao,” 57, is a naturalized United States Citizen wanted for his alleged involvement in the theft of proprietary information from a locomotive manufacturer in Chicago, Illinois.[11] Yao is currently at large and believed to be residing in China.[12] On November 18, 2015, Yao traveled from China to O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. At the time, he had in his possession the stolen trade secret information, including nine complete copies of the suburban Chicago company's control system source code and the systems specifications that explained how the code worked, the federal indictment states. Yao is charged with nine counts of theft of electronic files.[13]
Zhongsan LiuEdit
On September 16, 2019, Zhongsan Liu was arrested in Fort Lee, New Jersey by federal agents and charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud for his involvement in a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain U.S. visas for Chinese government employees. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman stated: “As alleged Zhongsan Liu conspired to obtain research scholar visas fraudulently for people whose actual purpose was not research but recruitment. Rather than helping to bring students to the U.S., Liu allegedly conspired to defraud this country’s visa system to advance his efforts to attract U.S. experts to China. Thanks to the FBI, this alleged abuse of the visa system has been halted.”[14] Liu was released on bail and has not entered a formal plea.[15]
Zaosong ZhengEdit
In December 2019 Zaosong Zheng, a medical student from China, was arrested at Logan Airport for stealing 21 vials of biological research and attempting to smuggle them out of the United States aboard a flight destined for China. Zheng stated that he intended to bring the vials to China to use them to conduct research in his own laboratory and publish the results under his own name.[16] Zheng is charged with making false statements, visa fraud, acting as an agent of a foreign government, conspiracy, and smuggling goods from the United States. As of March 2020, Zheng is free on $100,000 bond.[17]
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@briancousins3101 Sure it's long. Simple explanations are for simpletons. Any more complicated than echoing the party line, confuses them. Who says the Tibetan are happy watching their temples bulldozed, their monks arrested and beaten, their centuries long culture destroyed as they are abused by their new, Chinese overlords. The Communists say that this is to bring them "a better life", while they have Chinese on the mainland eating rat! With all their spending on building a third rate military (need a laugh? look at their aircraft carrier) they could be feeding their population instead of stealing fish from their neighbors and importing food from the rest of the world. Your lies and propaganda didn't work during the "great leap forward" and it's not working now.
HERE'S WHAT THE WORLD KNOWS EXCEPT USEFUL IDIOTS LIKE YOU..
Reported abuses of human rights in Tibet include restricted freedom of religion, belief, and association; arbitrary arrest; maltreatment in custody, including torture; and forced abortion and sterilization. The status of religion, mainly as it relates to figures who are both religious and political, such as the exile of the 14th Dalai Lama, is a regular object of criticism. Additionally, freedom of the press in China is absent, with Tibet's media tightly controlled by the Chinese leadership,[2] making it difficult to accurately determine the scope of human rights abuses.[3]
According to a 1992 Amnesty International report (unverified figures), judicial standards in China, including in autonomous Tibet, were not up to "international standards". The report charged the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)[4] government with keeping political prisoners and prisoners of conscience; ill-treatment of detainees, including torture, and inaction in the face of ill-treatment; the use of the death penalty; extrajudicial executions;[4][5] and forced abortion and sterilization[6][7] and even infanticide.[6] A 2020 Reuters report stated that 15 percent of Tibet's population is part of a mass labor program that human rights groups have deemed coercive.[8] Critics of the CCP say that its official aim to eliminate "the three evils of separatism, terrorism and religious extremism" is used as a pretext for human rights abuses.[9]
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@vchanpe1 So let me educate you in how things REALLY work. Workers have retirement matching plans called IRA's and SIP's, and 401K's that they invest in every payday. UNIONS take member dues and invest in the stock market as well. ONLY those that invest share in the profit of corporations. WHAT IS a Corporation except for a group of people? REGULAR PEOPLE that have taken their money and invested in a venture (to make cars, drugs, dog food, etc..) The MORE you invest, the MORE you make. OF COURSE those that are rich, get richer, but they ALSO get poorer if the corporation FAILS and investors lose money. But, no one forces you to invest in corporations. You can invest in wheat! You can invest in property. FREEDOM to invest where you want, unlike China where the Communists own all the land. You can even invest in a college education that pays "dividends" for the rest of your life. And no, there is no partnership between the corporation and government. Government sets rules and regulations, but they can not tell the corporation how to run its business or to interfere in it. UNLIKE IN CHINA where they must kow-tow to the Communist party bosses. The key thing to understand is that we have FREEDOM and CHOICE either to participate or not. In fact, you can start your OWN corporation if you think they are not fair. Remember this.. The inherent problem with Capitalism is the uneven distribution of wealth, but the inherent problem with Communism is the even distribution of misery.
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Now, as to IP theft. I'm not talking about China DEMANDING that in order to do business in China, a foreign company must be the MINORITY OWNER. The Chinese retain at a minimum 51%. Also, they are forced to turn over for inspection all information on manufacturing, business plans, patents, and trade secrets to the Communists.. JUST TO DO BUSINESS. Now, after they allow a few years of watching how things are done, the bullying, boycott s, and unlawful (at least in the civilized world) competition begins with all the stolen information that I mentioned now in their hands. Meanwhile, the intellectual property of those ON THE USA are hacked into and stolen in order to produce cheap knock offs for sale around the world, all without a penny of research and development costs, worker safety standards, fair wages, or pollution control. THAT'S how they sell cheap and destroy the other countries business. Take them to court in China is a joke. No justice for any foreigner, and in the USA the judgment is ignored as the thieving Chinese vanish and then resume under another name. Decades have passed as the USA and other countries have held out hope that the Communists would REFORM and adjust their criminal behavior, to no avail. Now the US government is finally taking action that is increasing every day. Citizens are slowly refusing to buy "made in China" Next other actions will be brought to bear against the Communists. The, whole world wants justice for their crimes.
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@vchanpe1 You have to GET THE FACTS before your lips move.
In January, the Financial Times released an astounding write-up on “[h]undreds of thousands of Taiwanese enterprises” who were leaving China due to “rising costs and trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.” According to FT analysts, the unexpected turn “reverses decades of investment” by Taiwanese firms. Last month, Delta Electronics, a major Taiwanese producer of electronic components for Apple and Tesla, told FT it planned to reduce its Chinese labor force “by 90 percent,” and that “even without the US-China conflict, China is no longer a good place for manufacturing.” Company executives cited growing wages and a high staff “turnover rate” as primary reasons.In December 2020, Asia Times said Japanese manufacturers, too, were “beat[ing] a path out of China” in a “[t]rend” that had accelerated after Tokyo gave incentives to encourage firms to leave. National security concerns about over-dependence on China in Japan’s supply chains had emerged during the coronavirus pandemic when production was disrupted by lockdowns and shortages. Billions of yen (JP¥) in subsidies have been set aside for Japanese firms who are willing to leave China for places, like, Bangladesh and South East Asia.
A June 2019 report from Nikkei Asian Review also revealed that “South Korean corporate giants . . . [were] moving production out of China” in a “Samsung-led exodus.” One source told Nikkei that the companies had “held out [that] long to avoid giving the Chinese government a bad impression, but …they [couldn’t] take it anymore.”
Finally, in February 2020, Bank of America announced the results of its survey of “equity analysts covering more than 3,000 companies globally,” which found that “[c]ompanies in two-thirds of global sectors in North America have either implemented or announced plans to pull at least a portion of their supply chains out of China, while companies in 50 percent of country-sectors in the Asia Pacific (ex-China) region [were] doing likewise.”
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@vchanpe1 Since you don't seem able to read and understand English, let me explain it to you in Chinese....
Finally, in February 2020, Bank of America announced the results of its survey of “equity analysts covering more than 3,000 companies globally,” which found that “[c]ompanies in two-thirds of global sectors in North America have either implemented or announced plans to pull at least a portion of their supply chains out of China, while companies in 50 percent of country-sectors in the Asia Pacific (ex-China) region [were] doing likewise.”. TWO THIRDS ARE LEAVING. UNDERSTAND THAT?? Does that explain "why they are still in China"??
Did you learn mathematics as a child? Two thirds have plans to leave, and that's just the North American companies. WE BUY FROM MEXICO, TAIWAN, INDIA, VIETNAM, and MALAYSIA.. We say "GOODBYE CHINA".
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@vchanpe1 YES, LET'S LOOK UP LOTS OF THINGS VICTOR CHAN..
Chinese people, by working extremely hard, lifted themselves out of poverty - in part because some of the stupidest economic policies ever created, by Chairman Mao, were abandoned in favour of versions of capitalism."
Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949, oversaw attempts to industrialise the country's peasant economy in the 1950s. His disastrous Great Leap Forward, which began in 1958, forced farmers into communes, leading to mass starvation in the countryside.
While China has made substantial work of tackling the deepest poverty first, should it be holding itself to a higher standard?
And there is widespread income inequality. Last year, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said China still had 600 million people whose monthly income was barely 1,000 yuan ($154)
He said that was not enough to rent a room in a city.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.’
-Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 22 October 1945
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Yes! Imagine why people would hate the Communists!!
The Cambodian genocide (Khmer: អំពើប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍កម្ពុជា, Âmpeu Prâlai Puchsas Kămpŭchéa) was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Communist Party of Kampuchea general secretary Pol Pot, who radically pushed Cambodia towards an entirely self-sufficient agrarian socialist society. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly a quarter of Cambodia's 1975 population (c. 7.8 million).[1][2][3]
Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge had long been supported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and CCP Chairman Mao Zedong;[4][5][6][7][8][9] it is estimated that at least 90% of the foreign aid which the Khmer Rouge received came from China, and in 1975 alone, at least US$1 billion in interest-free economic and military aid came from China.[9][10][11] After it seized power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge wanted to turn the country into an agrarian socialist republic, founded on the policies of ultra-Maoism and influenced by the Cultural Revolution.[4][6][12][13][14] Pol Pot and other Khmer Rouge officials met with Mao in Beijing in June 1975, receiving approval and advice, while high-ranking CCP officials such as CCP Politburo Standing Committee member Zhang Chunqiao later visited Cambodia to offer help.[4][6][8][15] To fulfill its goals, the Khmer Rouge emptied the cities and forced Cambodians to relocate to labor camps in the countryside, where mass executions, forced labor, physical abuse, malnutrition, and disease were rampant.[16][17] In 1976, the Khmer Rouge renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea.
The massacres ended when the Vietnamese military invaded in 1978 and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime. By January 1979, 1.5 to 2 million people had died due to the Khmer Rouge's policies, including 200,000–300,000 Chinese Cambodians, 90,000 Muslims, and 20,000 Vietnamese Cambodians.[18][19] 20,000 people passed through the Security Prison 21, one of the 196 prisons the Khmer Rouge operated,[3][20] and only seven adults survived.[21] The prisoners were taken to the Killing Fields, where they were executed (often with pickaxes, to save bullets)[22] and buried in mass graves. Abduction and indoctrination of children was widespread, and many were persuaded or forced to commit atrocities.[23] As of 2009, the Documentation Center of Cambodia has mapped 23,745 mass graves containing approximately 1.3 million suspected victims of execution. Direct execution is believed to account for up to 60% of the genocide's death toll,[24] with other victims succumbing to starvation, exhaustion, or disease.
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ONLY WONDERFUL THINGS COME FROM THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS!
I don't see any bad, do you???
Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights’ channel has published nearly 11,000 videos on YouTube totalling more than 120 million views since 2017, thousands of which feature people speaking to camera about relatives they say have disappeared without a trace in China’s Xinjiang region, where United Nations experts and rights groups estimate at least a million people have been detained in recent years.
On June 15, the channel was blocked for violating YouTube’s guidelines, according to a screenshot seen by Reuters, after 12 of its videos had been reported for breaching its “cyberbullying and harassment” policy.
The channel’s administrators had appealed against the blocking of all 12 videos between April and June, with some reinstated – but YouTube did not provide an explanation as to why others were kept out of public view, the administrators told Reuters.
‘Multiple strikes’
Following inquiries from Reuters as to why the channel was removed, YouTube restored it on June 18, explaining that it had received multiple so-called “strikes” for videos which contained people holding up ID cards to prove they were related to the missing, violating a YouTube policy which bans personally identifiable information from appearing in its content
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@Shenzhou. Yes there is. And not only is it wrong to claim a distinct peoples land, but China also claims the SEA!! It claims Russian territory, it even reigned in its treaty with Hong Kong. Now, here's the most important part. You took it by force and to this very day are beating and torturing the Tibetan monks, are trying to install a NEW illegitimate Dali Llama, and having taken your FALSE claims before an INTERNATIONAL court, have LOST and been ruled against. Did I mention that your criminal and murderous Communist Party unleashed the Corona virus that has killed MILLIONS worldwide, and continues to LIE about it? Wait! There's more.. How about the Uighurs "re-education" camps that you have set up to brainwash and punish tens of thousands of peaceful religious Chinese? You are harvesting body parts and selling them from those you torture and kill. Don't forget your support of NORTH KOREA!! A giant prison camp that tortures and kills its citizens!! You want history? How about the "great leap forward" by Mao that starved and KILLED MILLIONS OF CHINESE?
You are attempting to steal Indians land as well. The whole world hates the Communists for your crimes against humanity. Your theft of intellectual property, spying, cheating on trade, currency manipulation, and the list goes on.
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@Shenzhou. CIA AGENT?? BAHAHAHA HA!! You're hopeless! The Tibetan people choose their spiritual leader, and what do Communists have to say?? HAHAHAHA HE'S A CIA SPY!! Are you on opium? Are you hallucinating? Let me ask you... DO THE COMMUNISTS EVER LIE??
Beijing has been chipping away at Hong Kong’s freedoms since the handover, experts say. Over the years, its attempts to impose more control over the city have sparked mass protests, which have in turn led the Chinese government to crack down further.
“In the fifteen years after the handover, there was a series of official initiatives aimed at enhancing Beijing’s control in ways that would undermine both the autonomy and the rule of law,” Michael C. Davis writes in his book Making Hong Kong China.
For instance, in 2003, the Hong Kong government proposed national security legislation that would have prohibited treason, secession, sedition, and subversion against the Chinese government. In 2012, it tried to amend Hong Kong schools’ curricula to foster Chinese national identity, which many residents saw as Chinese propaganda. And in 2014, Beijing proposed a framework for universal suffrage, allowing Hong Kongers to vote for the city’s chief executive but only from a Beijing-approved short list of candidates. Protesters organized massive rallies, known as the Umbrella Movement, to call for true democracy.
In the years following the 2014 protests, Beijing and the Hong Kong government stepped up efforts to rein in dissent, including by prosecuting protest leaders, expelling several new legislators, and increasing media censorship.
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walter wayne Absolutely.. HOWEVER, it does not do so when a, question of NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY is involved. We will not be party to a court that rules OVER our already existing government. Now pay attention... When a disagreement occurs and members take their dispute before a court of ARBITRATION (GOT THAT?) And the court RULES, then the international community expects that the dispute be settled. CHINA, RESPECTS NO COURT, NO ARBITRATION, and NOTHING that doesn't place them in a clear winning position. ONLY THEN, will they agree to the compromise. FORCE is all they understand. The stronger one must prevail, at ALL COSTS. Their restraint in ANY matter is only governed by who they are unable to bully, defraud, or corrupt. WHO THE F set up and paid for the United Nations?? China BUYS influence, and corrupts nations all over the world. NUMBER ONE user of coal that pollutes our planet. NUMBER ONE abuser of human rights. A propoganda machine UNMATCHED anywhere in the world, that spreads its lies and misinformation.
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walter wayne NOW that you see the term "arbitration" and realize that over FORTY COUNTRIES do not recognize the corrupt international Court of Justice... we can take the next step... The United States enters into more than 200 treaties and other international agreements each year. The subjects of treaties span the whole spectrum of international relations: peace, trade, defense, territorial boundaries, human rights, law enforcement, environmental matters, and many others. GOT THAT?? We settle disputes by MUTUAL AGREEMENT without THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION.. CHINA settles NOTHING that doesn't give them a clear win, or one they can cheat on, and ignore the agreement. Again, FORCE is all they respect.
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@Shenzhou. THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THAT CHINA'S CLAIMS BEFORE THE COURT WERE SO LAUGHABLE that it caused a UNANIMOUS RULING AGAINST CHINA!! If China claims that the court has no jurisdiction, then why did they go before the court and argue for their make believe historic claims to the sea? It is because if they win... they say, the court has ruled!! But, when they lose, they say.. THE COURT IS FALSE!!!
FLASHPOINTS | DIPLOMACY
Interview: The South China Sea Ruling
International law expert Roncevert Ganan Almond on the recent ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

By Roncevert Ganan Almond
July 16, 2016

Credit: REUTERS/Erik De CastroADVERTISEMENT
What do you think about this ruling? Does it follow your predictions?
The unanimous ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (the “PCA” or “Tribunal”) in the dispute between the Philippines and China is a landmark decision under the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) and represents a strong rebuke of China’s expansive claims to maritime territory in the South China Sea. The PCA’s ruling serves not only as a technical legal decision, binding on the parties – China and the Philippines, but also as a broader message concerning the peaceful settlement of disputes in the South China Sea pursuant to a rules-based international order.
From a legal perspective, the Philippines won a decisive victory on almost all counts, which is not necessarily surprising, especially given the weakness of China’s maritime claims under international law. The nearly 500-page decision carefully documents Beijing’s violations of UNCLOS and highlights broader policy implications underlying its aggressive behavior in the South China Sea. One example is the PCA’s close examination of the status of maritime features within the South China Sea against the backdrop of UNCLOS’ role in protecting the “common heritage of mankind” and preserving the international community’s interests in preserving high seas freedoms in the region. Hugo Grotius would be smiling.
What are the consequences of the PCA’s ruling for China, Philippines and other countries which are involved in the South China Sea dispute?
While the Tribunal’s ruling is only legally binding on the parties, the consequences are broad and will impact all the countries involved in the South China Sea dispute. In brief, the PCA’s decision will provide a framework for viewing the behavior of claimants in the South China Sea starting with China.
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Importantly, the PCA rejected China’s historic rights and “nine-dash line” claim, finding that the maritime zones set forth in UNCLOS were controlling for the purposes of determining maritime entitlements. The treaty effectively superseded China’s historic claims. Even if a historic right could be asserted, the PCA found that there was no evidence that China had exercised “exclusive control” over the seas and resources of the South China Sea. Notably, the PCA’s conclusion is consistent with what the United States has long articulated regarding China’s “nine-dash line” claim.
It is important to note that the Philippines carefully crafted its complaint to avoid raising issues concerning sovereignty and maritime delineations. To preserve its jurisdiction in the case, the PCA also acted cautiously and did not issue any direct conclusions regarding sovereignty disputes between China and Philippines in the South China Sea, such as weighing in on rival claims over the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal. Despite this restraint, the effect of the Tribunal’s ruling is far-reaching.
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@Shenzhou. So.. what you are saying is that if the police charge you with a crime, and you are asked to come and explain, should you NOT PARTICIPATE then it means you are innocent? FIVE NATIONS come together to listen to BOTH positions and they rule that China is GUILTY on all counts, and they rule UNANIMOUSLY. Remember now, these are the same criminals that sent troops into Tibet to steal THEIR LAND as well. And don't forget, China has land disputes with India and Russia, as well!! As I've said, and I will repeat it again. China ONLY respects FORCE, and will only comply with ANY LAW when they can see a CLEAR WIN for themselves. All talk of "peaceful agreement" is just talk. They only come to an agreement when they are FORCED to agree. Even then, after signing, they cheat. The entire world knows this. Whether it's shoddy goods, spying, intellectual property theft, bullying, fraud, or MANY other crimes, the Communists just deny, deny... and smile. Only war will bring this to an end. Soon the political winds will change in the USA and the time for talk will be over. There is, ONLY two possible outcomes for the Communists 1) shame and 2) humiliation.
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@Shenzhou. Ahhh. But it IS a crime. Had you just continued negotiations and made no move to fish in their waters, to threaten ships and planes from passing through, then I'd say you were correct. However, as usual the Communists just put their gunboat diplomacy into effect, and began fishing in the other nations seas, and making radio threats that ships must ask "permission" from China to pass through. Of course when the BIG STICK of the United States, Britain, France, and Australia sailed through, the Communists had little to do but kowtow to them in order to maintain a shred of dignity. So, yes.. the DID commit a crime.. of THEFT and APPROPRIATION from their Asian neighbors. I just want to know why you refuse to bully the Americans? Lately, you are now bullying Japan, over their defense of Taiwan. Threatening to use the Atomic bomb against them should they interfere in the China land grab. Strange no threats against the Americans!! You know, to invade Taiwan means war with the United States. That's just another arbitration you refuse to acknowledge.
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@Shenzhou. LET'S READ IT TOGETHER......
This concept, as explained by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, contains four elements, the first and most essential being that “the sovereignty of the territories concerned belongs to China”. This immediately stands out as a worrying indication of China’s mindset going into any negotiations involving the South China Sea. Nothing that the Chinese government has said or done in the intervening years has assuaged concerns that it will be an unreasonable counterparty.
It is this intractability, coupled with the breath-taking ambiguity of its nine-dashed-line territorial claims, that makes it so difficult for South China Sea claimant countries like the Philippines to sit down with China.
Moreover, China’s actions speak louder than its words, and the message being conveyed is crystal clear: it will not compromise. There is thus a fundamental disconnect between the underlying principle of negotiations – finding a mutually acceptable middle-ground between competing positions – that China purportedly supports, and its increasingly assertive posture in the South China Sea, which of late has begun to approximate the behaviour of a typical neighbourhood bully.
The most notorious and visible of China’s assertions is its massive “island-building” program on a number of disputed features in the South China Sea, an effort widely perceived to be an attempt to change the status quo ahead of the tribunal ruling. China has also adopted a defensive-offensive posture that involves everything from ratcheting up the presence of ships, aircraft and even nuclear-armed submarines in the disputed area, to threatening the establishment of an Air Defense Identification Zone over the South China Sea. Its conduct of military drills – no doubt a strategic show of strength – in the days leading up to the arbitral ruling likewise emphasises the absoluteness of its position.
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@Shenzhou. HERE IS MY MAP...
The South China Sea Arbitration Award: 5 Years and Beyond
China has consistently denied the ruling, but it is already shaping legal opinion in important ways.
By Nguyen Hong Thao and Nguyen Thi Lan Huong
July 12, 2021

The Philippine team at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, before the start of the oral arguments in connection with the arbitration case against China on the dispute in the South China Sea.
On July 12, 2016, the Arbitral Tribunal instituted under Annex VII of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued a final award of significant importance on the South China Sea arbitration case (the Award). Since then, this landmark decision has inspired numerous discussions on legal issues and has been considered as providing a legal background for the maritime activities taken by various countries in the South China Sea.
The Award, with its findings, has contributed greatly to the development of the international law of the sea and advanced the legal debate on the South China Sea issues in many ways. It has served as a legal basis for all the relevant states to review their positions and policies in the South China Sea.
After a period of opting for caution and downplaying the victory that it won in the South China Sea arbitration, Manila gradually turned to confirm the value of the Award. In his speech to annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2020, President Rodrigo Duterte stated that “the Award is now part of international law, beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish or abandon.”
Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, in his statement on the fifth anniversary of the issuance of the Award, compared the ruling rendered by the Arbitral Tribunal to “the North Star that will keep us on course in the present, and that will point us back to the right direction in the future.” He said that the Philippines “firmly reject[s] attempts to undermine [the ruling], or erase it from law, history and collective memories.” He further stated that the Award was “final,” that it constituted “a milestone in the corpus of international law,” and that it offered a valuable reference source for “countries with the same problematic maritime features” as those of the Philippines.
By stipulating that the maritime features in the Spratly Island group could not generate exclusive economic zones (EEZs) or continental shelves, the Award helped minimize the areas of disputes in the South China Sea and provided a basis for the delimitation of overlapping maritime zones there.
The Award apparently provided the impetus for Malaysia’s decision on December 12, 2019 to lodge a partial submission for a continental shelf in the northern part of the South China Sea that extended beyond 200 nautical miles from its baselines with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. This submission is admissible only if it does not create overlaps between the extended continental shelf claimed by Malaysia and those claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines.
The Award has also provided a legal basis for regional and extra-regional countries to clarify their positions on the South China Sea issues. This was seen in the diplomatic note exchange from late December 2019 to January 2021, which prompted a flurry of 25 notes verbales, two letters, and one statement by 11 regional and extra-regional players on issues pertinent to the South China Sea region: Brunei (one statement), China (nine notes verbales and one letter), Malaysia (three notes), the Philippines (three notes), Vietnam (three notes), Indonesia (two notes), the United States (one letter), and Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan (one note each).
Except those of China, the diplomatic notes circulated during the recent note verbale debate contained many common points. They agreed that:
The unified and universal character of UNCLOS rendered it the most important legal instrument for tackling all matters and activities at sea.
The South China Sea Arbitral Award of July 12, 2016 presented an authoritative interpretation of international law concerning maritime claims in the region and was legally binding on all the concerned parties, including China and the Philippines.
Each high-tide feature in the Spratlys could only generate a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles.
The freedoms of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea should be respected.
The use of archipelagic baselines should be strictly limited to archipelagic states and was not permissible for the purpose of claiming maritime entitlements in the case of continental states’ outlying archipelagos.
Land reclamation or any artificial construction activities could change neither the legal regime nor the categorization of the maritime features in the South China Sea.
Historic rights claims in the South China Sea were unlawful and inconsistent with international law, particularly UNCLOS.
Additionally, the Award has significantly impacted ASEAN’s position with regard to the South China Sea disputes, given the regional grouping’s pursuit of centrality in the Indo-Pacific. Notably, the Chairman’s Statements of the 36th and the 37th ASEAN Summits, both held in 2020 under Vietnam’s chairmanship, reaffirmed the importance of upholding international law, including UNCLOS. The statements mentioned that UNCLOS provided “the basis for determining maritime entitlements, sovereign rights, jurisdiction and legitimate interests over maritime zones.” The statements also stated that UNCLOS “sets out the legal framework within which all activities in the oceans and seas must be carried out.” All this suggests that the Award has facilitated the development of a common ASEAN stance on how to resolve the South China Sea issues.
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@Shenzhou. TIBET? Tibet belong to China! Nothing to see here. We have long history. Map shows Tibet belongs to Communists. Look at smiling People!!
In His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's last meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1955, Mao drew close to him and said, "Religion is poison."

"At this," recounts His Holiness in his autobiography, Freedom in Exile, "I felt a violent burning sensation all over my face and I was suddenly very afraid. 'So,' I thought, 'you are the destroyer of the Dharma after all.'"
Mao's convictions indeed led to devastating consequences for Tibet as a Buddhist nation—including the destruction of more than 6,000 Tibetan monasteries, the disrobing and killing of thousands of monks and nuns. Estimates put the number of Tibetans tortured, starved, and executed at anywhere from 400,000 to 1.2 million. The International Commission of Jurists officially recognized these atrocities as genocide in 1961.

Today, the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, professes a deep commitment to identifying and caring for the reincarnation of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. But how can we possibly believe that the CCP intends to take care of the future of Tibetan Buddhism? There is no doubt as to what the Chinese regime's actual goal is: total control of the Tibetan people, who revere His Holiness.
Take the subject of reincarnation—believing in rebirth after death. It's a sacred tradition among Tibetan Buddhists with an over nine-hundred-year history. In 2007, the CCP issued a requirement that living Buddhas, who are reincarnated lamas, must be approved by the CCP under Order No. 5. It's an outrageous and disgraceful order, as the Dalai Lama pointed out at the time while giving assurances that clear guidelines will be issued about his reincarnation, "to leave no room for doubt and deception."
Is Order No. 5 the action of a government that truly intends to protect Tibetan Buddhism? It is not the business of any government to tell a religious group who ought to lead it. That's their call, plain and simple.
Fortunately, in 2020, the United States countered this grave injustice with the historic Tibet Support and Policy Act (TPSA). The Act commits, among other things, "to support the fundamental rights of Tibetan Buddhists to select, elect and educate their own spiritual leaders."
This landmark legislation also clearly stakes out the United States' position on the Dalai Lama's succession, which "should be left solely to the Tibetan Buddhists to decide, without interference from anyone including the Chinese government." The TPSA also made clear that those who interfere "will be denied entry into the United States."
But the passage of TPSA 2020 was not meaningful only for Tibetans. Because religious freedom is a borderless principle, the Act is a sign of hope and support to the many peoples oppressed by China, including Uighurs, Hongkongers, Southern Mongolians, Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, Taiwanese, and Chinese citizens.

But even with this positive legislation, persecution of Tibetan Buddhists, along with people of faith from every corner of the CCP's reach, continues unabated. The CCP, through committees chaired by party leaders set up in each monastery in Tibet, manages every aspect of spiritual and educational activities. Young disciples are prevented from becoming monks or nuns, thereby decimating the ranks of those who wish to preserve Buddhism. Prayer flags have been outlawed. Religious rituals and festivals, banned. And the two biggest, most historic monasteries have been demolished.
The Tibetan language itself, a key component of the preservation of the essence of Tibetan Buddhist principles, is under threat, as the CCP aggressively forces students to switch from their native language to Mandarin.
To even possess a small image of His Holiness leads to immediate and severe punishment. And the oppression of Tibet and Tibetans doesn't stop with religious persecution. Arbitrary arrest, detention and imprisonment are common.
Tibet is a police state, and has been for decades. Out of approximately 200 national entities listed by Freedom House, Tibet is ranked along with Syria as the least free. In protest against the China's relentless repressive policies, 157 Tibetans have committed the desperate act of self-immolation since 2009. Of these, 125 are known to have died. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has described the situation in Tibet as "a Hell on Earth."
Still, our will not be extinguished. The International Religious Freedom Summit of 2021, taking place in Washington on July 13-15, provides an opportunity to join hands in proclaiming that religious freedom knows no boundaries. It is an essential human right, and it is under attack in Tibet and throughout the world.
As for the CCP's attempts to select the next leader of Tibetan Buddhists, we stand with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, when he suggested that the Chinese Communist Party should first identify Mao and Deng's reincarnations. Until then, we hope many will join us at the Summit to highlight these and other religious freedom abuses, as we work together to bring an end to persecution of all faiths, all around the world.
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@Shenzhou. I LIKE YOUR EASY QUESTIONS!!
Scarborough Shoal is named after a British merchant ship, the 'Scarborough' which was wrecked on the feature on 12 September 1748.[18] A number of countries have made historic claims of the use of Scarborough Shoal. China has claimed that a 1279 Yuan dynasty map and subsequent surveys by the royal astronomer Guo Shoujing carried out during Kublai Khan's reign established that Scarborough Shoal were used since the thirteenth century by Chinese fishermen.[19][20][21] However, no such 1279 map has been released by China to the public In an article from 18 February 1980, the Beijing Review claimed that Guo Shoujing built an observatory in the Paracel Islands, not Scarborough Shoal.[22] Given that Guo's observatories were huge constructions, it is unlikely that either story is true.
During the Spanish period of the Philippines, a 1734 map was made, which named Scarborough Shoals as Panacot, a feature under complete sovereignty of Spanish Philippines.[23][24] The shoal's current name was chosen by Captain Philip D'Auvergne, whose East India Company East Indiaman Scarborough briefly grounded on one of the rocks on 12 September 1784, before sailing on to China.[14][15] As early as 1937 to 1938, the Commonwealth of the Philippines laid claim to Scarborough Shoal.[25] The Philippine government conducted an oceanographic survey in 1957, and in 1965, the Philippine flag was raised in the area.[26]
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@Shenzhou. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THE THIEVERY THAT CHINA IS INVOLVED IN...
China in the last few years without shooting a single bullet has grabbed more land than the British Empire’s “East India Company”. Tibet is conceivably China’s most certain land grab that enforced the claim on the Himalayan nation and consolidated it with its territory where after Tibet’s spiritual head, Dalai Lama and his followers were forced to flee to India during the “1959 Tibet Uprising”. Recently as per the news reports, China has illegally occupied Nepal’s land in various places. It has annexed 150 hectares and the Nepalese politicians have asserted that the expansions of their land are presently the start of the increased Chinese bellicosity along the frontier. As per the UK-based Telegraph, the Chinese purportedly started grabbing Nepali land in five frontier regions in May 2020 by assigning members of its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) over unguarded sections of the frontier. In the Russian city of Vladivostok, China is claiming ownership of the city that previously belonged to the Qing dynasty. But after China lost in the second opium war, Vladivostok was returned following an agreement it signed in 1860 that states that the city legitimately belonged to Russia. However, China often rejects any agreement that isn’t acceptable to its demands.
China has also been claiming that Central Asian nations like Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have been part of China. It is intending to intensify in establishing military underpinnings across Central Asia, which is a cause of concern. China has claimed the whole Kyrgyzstan region to be a part of China. In 1999, China pushed Kyrgyzstan to return over 1,250 square km of land. China likewise has a continuing conflict with Tajikistan that record back to 1884. China in Tajikistan has been claiming the Pamir region. China has also hugely penetrated Africa and has large unresolved problems in Hong Kong and Taiwan. As part of its ‘One China policy’, it has been claiming Taiwan and has freshly pressed a security law in Hong Kong.
Africa is seen as the principal victim of this new Chinese global abuse drive. Chinese intrusion into Africa has been portrayed as an “African land grab” and a “New scramble for Africa”. Being Africa’s biggest trading ally and creditor, China, has interests in minerals and oil and looks to be one of the more natural “neocolonialists” of African agriculture. The Chinese interest in African rhinoceros tusk, ivory, abalone and materials from other threatened species has likewise taken an important toll on preservation efforts. As per the International Food Policy Research Institute and at Johns Hopkins University, Chinese firms have claimed to have gained or settled high amounts of African farmland.
The South China Sea viewed, as one of the world’s most significant maritime trade routes is a core hub for all geographical and international economic movement, promoting yearlong trade worth trillions of dollars. China here has been aggressively involved in the ‘sea grab’ by renaming of many islands, reefs, seamounts, shoals, and ridges that has sparked furious accusations by the affected nations and worldwide revulsion. In the East China Sea, China is at loggerheads with South Korea, Japan and North Korea. With the Senkaku and Ryu Kya islands being a critical bilateral issue, China is entangled in a land wrangle with Japan. In South Korea, China claims islands in the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the whole of South Korea on a historical basis. Both also have a conflict over Socotra Rock in the East China Sea. In North Korea, China has an ongoing conflict over Mount Baekdu and the Tuman River. In the Philippines, China still claims portions of the Spratly islands despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissing China’s claims. In Vietnam and Laos, China claims large areas on historical criterion (Ming dynasty and Yuan dynasty respectively). It’s also caught up with Vietnam concerning the Paracel Islands, Macclesfield Bank, parts of the South China Sea and the Spratly Islands. A few months ago, China sank a Vietnamese fishing trawler near the Paracel Islands inviting criticism from many countries. In Indonesia, China demands fishing rights in waters near the nation’s islands. In Brunei and Malaysia, China claims the Spratly Islands. In Cambodia, China has claimed parts again on historical precedent. In Thailand, China has been eyeing the Mekong River since 2001. In Mongolia, China claims the whole country on a historical basis (Yuan Dynasty). In Singapore, parts of the South China Sea are being challenged by China and Singapore.
Through the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project and the enormous loans that have been dispensed to its all-weather friend ‘Pakistan’, China has turned Pakistan into a thrall land. The latest reports of the Chinese funded Diamer-Basha Dam in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) have become an environmental catastrophe in the making. Pakistan government is also trying to hand over the Karoonjhar Mountains and Sindh islands of Buddhoo and Bundalon for the CPEC project on the demand of the Chinese government, without taking permission of the people of Sindh or its government. Scholars and experts believe that Pakistan in the next few years is set to become a colony of China if it continues ceding its land to China. The red dragon has been at daggers drawn with India over the Ladakh boundary issue and has been attempting to change the ‘status quo’ with India that led to the loss of many Indian soldiers a few months ago. China is also staking claim to large tracts of Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state) to be a contiguous part of Tibet, due to its refusal to accept the McMohan Line as the border between the two nations. China has also been on a border dispute with Bhutan since 1986 and claims large parts of easterly Bhutan areas like Cherkip Gompa, Dho, Dungmar, Gesur etc. The 2017 Doklam issue showed how China tried to build a road in Bhutan’s territory and the Indian Army stepped in to help its ally. The port of Hambantota, that has attracted the world media attention of Sri Lankan government’s 99-year contract to the Chinese state-owned company, China Merchants Group (CMG) has been viewed by international observers as a ‘debt trap’ and ‘land grab’ by China.
In Myanmar, there have been many reports and complaints from locals related to human rights breaches, accusations of land grab and environmental destruction due to land procurement and industrial ventures by Chinese firms. Also, Myanmar has alleged that ‘China’ is arming a rebel group, the Arakan army, with advanced military technology displaying China’s aggressive character in arming insurgent groups. China through its investment ventures has likewise attempted to land grab in the Maldives that could be turned into military posts, which could destabilize the Indian Ocean region, and be pernicious to Indian defence and security. China is also making its way to the Pacific island nations of Kiribati, Solomon Islands and so on, which has brought the U.S.-China ties under considerable strain. China is also one of the main countries in acquiring land in Argentina, Latin America, and Colombia in which its stake is concentrated. China has been trying to expand its Arctic footprint and has also carried out undeclared military activities in Antarctica, by instituting a position for territorial claim, involving in minerals research.
Post-pandemic, China has been experiencing a food crisis for its huge population, slumping demand for its manufactured products and disappointment due to the fractured Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects where it has invested trillions of dollars. The Telegraph has stated that China has sought a more hawkish foreign policy under President Xi Jinping whose BRI projects beam to create trade and transport connections from the nation beyond Asia and toward Europe. Apart from the land grab, China is also trying to gain controlling stakes in firms globally. China, which is aspiring to be accepted as a modern superpower has got entangled in military and political disputes, in migration and government matters because of acquiring land and is trying to establish diplomatic connections with many countries. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, from the South China Sea to its South and Central Asian neighbors, Chinese territorial infringement has produced crevices in bilateral ties. China’s territorial grab, a conquest of brute coercion over laws, jeopardizes the vulnerability of the contemporary liberal world order.
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@Shenzhou. HOW will you lie about THIS??
A respected Chinese virologist who says she did some of the earliest research into COVID-19 last year has accused Beijing of lying about when it learned of the deadly virus and engaging in an extensive cover-up of her work, according to a new report.
In a new interview with Fox News, Dr. Li-Meng Yan says her supervisors at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, a reference laboratory for the World Health Organization, silenced her when she sounded the alarm about human-to-human transmission in December last year.
In April, Yan fled Hong Kong and escaped to America to raise awareness about the pandemic, the report said. She told Fox News she is now living in hiding in the US and fears for her life.
“The reason I came to the US is because I deliver the message of the truth of COVID,” Yan said of the virus that has so far infected 12.3 million people worldwide and killed 555,000.
Yan said her supervisors at the laboratory asked her in December to study an usual cluster of SARS-like cases coming out of mainland China.
She was approached by a scientist friend at the Centers for Disease Control in China on Dec. 31 who warned her about human-to-human transmission, which she flagged with her boss, who “just nodded.”
On Jan. 9, the WHO released a statement saying Chinese authorities informed them that this wasn’t possible, claiming the disease “does not transmit readily between people.”
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“I already know that would happen because I know the corruption among this kind of international organization like the WHO to China government, and to China Communist Party,” she said.
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@Shenzhou. WAIT WAIT LET'S GET THE WHOLE STORY ON BARCELONA... The part you left out.
Not highly specific
In coronavirus testing, scientists typically screen for more than one gene. In this case, the researchers tested for three. They had a positive result for the March 2019 sample in one of the three genes tested – the RdRp gene. They screened for two regions of this gene and both were only detected around the 39th cycle of amplification. (PCR tests become less “specific” with increasing rounds of amplification. Scientists generally use 40 to 45 rounds of amplification.)
There are several explanations for this positive result. One is that SARS-CoV-2 is present in the sewage at a very low level. Another is that the test reaction was accidentally contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratory. This sometimes happens in labs as positive samples are regularly being handled, and it can be difficult to prevent very small traces of positive sample contaminating others.
Another explanation is that there is other RNA or DNA in the sample that resembles the test target site enough for it to give a positive result at the 39th cycle of amplification.
Further tests need to be carried out to conclude that the sample contains SARS-CoV-2, and a finding of that magnitude would need to be replicated separately by independent laboratories.
Reasons to be circumspect
*A curious thing about this finding is that it disagrees with epidemiological data about the virus. The authors don’t cite reports of a spike in the number of respiratory disease cases in the local population following the date of the sampling.
Also, we know SARS-CoV-2 to be highly transmissible, at least in its current form. If this result is a true positive it suggests the virus was present in the population at a high enough incidence to be detected in an 800ml sample of sewage, but then not present at a high enough incidence to be detected for nine months, when no control measures were in place.
So, until further studies are carried out, it is best not to draw definitive conclusions*
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@Shenzhou. You always DELIGHT ME with your level of brainwashing!! You believe everything they tell you.....
The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, such as inefficient distribution of food due to the planned economy, requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques, the Four Pests Campaign that reduced bird populations (which disrupted the ecosystem), over-reporting of grain production (which was actually decreasing), and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production.[3][5][7][12][14][16] During the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference in early 1962, Liu Shaoqi, the second Chairman of the PRC, formally attributed 30% of the famine to natural disasters and 70% to man-made errors ("三分天灾, 七分人祸").[7][17][18] After the launch of Reforms and Opening Up, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially stated in June 1981 that the famine was mainly due to the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward as well as the Anti-Rightist Campaign, in addition to some natural disasters and the Sino-Soviet split.[1][2]
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@Shenzhou. SOOOO MUCH that the Communists keep hidden from you....
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China sets back search for covid origins with rejection of WHO investigation proposal

A model of the coronavirus on display at a science exhibition in Wuhan, China, on July 16. (Getty Images)
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Chinese officials on Thursday rejected a World Health Organization proposal for next steps in the search for the origins of the coronavirus, deepening questions about if and how the roots of the pandemic will be fully investigated and complicating a standoff among the WHO, China and the United States.
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After a visit to Wuhan last winter, a joint Chinese-international team concluded that the virus probably jumped naturally from an animal, determined that a market linked to early cases was not necessarily the source, and all but dismissed the possibility of a lab leak.
In the months since, the methods and findings have come under intense scrutiny, including from WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. In May, President Biden gave the U.S. intelligence community 90 days to redouble its own search and urged China to participate in a “full, transparent, evidence-based international investigation.”
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@Shenzhou. OK. I'd be delighted to explain. The Communist party maintains what is called "the great firewall of China".. THEY maintain all control of information that makes them look like the criminals that they are. That's why Google left, because they wanted to HIDE the FACTS and video that involved the massacre at Tiana men Square. This way THEY could tell the Chinese people their lies, and keep out the facts. What was a MASS demonstration for freedom, became just a small student disturbance. If the Chinese people knew what the truth was, they would have joined in the riots against communism. Now, as to your hilarious claims of "nature" being responsible for the massive flooding and a thousand people drowning in the subway, anyone with intelligence might ask questions as to WHY the government destroyed dams to release the water, flooding entire towns. I sent a video of a CHINESE HYDROLOGIST that explained how the Communists are responsible, but I know that the Chinese people will never see THAT story. Only about the "brave rescues" and "excellent government response". You don't think they tell WHO IS RESPONSIBLE do you? Blame the USA, blame terrorists, blame the Falun Gong, blame the CIA, FBI, DONALD TRUMP, But don't EVER EVER EVER blame themselves for their crimes.
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@Shenzhou. Now lets get to the heart of the discussion.. No long answers... just tell the truth.
A) Who invented the microprocessor
B) Who invented the Internet?
C) Who invented the search engine?
D) Do Chinese come to the USA to learn computer science, or Americans to China?
E) Who steal WHAT from who?
Does the USA copy and steal trade secrets from China?
F) How many American spies are caught by China? How many Chinese spies by the USA.
G) The USA landed on the moon over SIXTY YEARS AGO, the Chinese have still not walked on the moon.
H) There are American automobiles sold in China. Where is a Chinese car (they had to buy Volvo)
I) Do you deny that the Chinese aircraft carrier is a rusty bucket?
J) Do you deny that your Chinese fighter jet is a copy of an outdated American plane?
K) The American government has killed ___ Americans... The Chinese government has killed ___ MILLIONS of Chinese.
L) Why does China, refuse to allow a PROPER investigation into the criminal Wuhan virus lab
M) How do you explain that a Chinese Virologist that worked at Wuhan, testified that the virus came from the lab?
N) Do you deny that the Chinese were humiliated by the Indians in Ladack?
O) Do you deny that you are stealing fish from all the countries waters in the South China Sea?
P) Are you familiar with the term "Ghost cities"
Q) Do you know that it's the Chinese filthy bird handling that is, responsible for worldwide influenza outbreaks around the world?
R) Do you know that China continues to build new coal fired power plants every month, not only in China but around the world? Polluting air and water.
S) Do you deny that the Chinese Court system is controlled by the Communist party and that there is no justice except for the party wishes?
T) Do you deny that the great advancement in the last two decades came from cheating on trade? By copying other countries business patents and spying on their corporations?
U) Do you deny that the Chinese manipulate their currency in order to cheat at trade?
V) Do you deny that foreign news sources are kept from China in order to maintain the Communist party lies?
W) Do you deny that the communist government threatens everyone around it, from India, Tibet, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, and Australia?
X) Can you explain why China media which is controlled by the government is to believed befor EVERY NEWS ORGANIZATION in the world?
Y) Do you deny that China signed a trade deal with the Americans under Trump, and were cheating on it and failing to do what was agreed upon, from the very start?
Z) The USA has many China town where Chinese are free to live and work. Why does China have no American towns?
These are all important questions which you need to think about, before the collapse of the communist party in China.
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@Shenzhou. OH and let's see what the CHINESE themselves have to say about their reported take over of GDP leader.....
A report published by the UK-based Center for Economics and Business Research on Saturday forecast that China will overtake the US to be the world's largest economy in 2028. It believes the COVID-19 pandemic and related issues led to a situation favorable to China during the process of China-US competition.
Meanwhile, the Japan Center for Economic Research also made similar predictions on December 10.
Whether the trajectory of GDP growth of China and the US will evolve as British and Japanese think tanks predict remains to be seen. A few years ago, HSBC predicted that China's GDP could surpass that of the US in as early as 2025. But with China's economic growth slowing down, people's expectations changed.
Many Chinese people were vigilant about the faint praise when reading the news that China's GDP is likely to surpass the US' in eight years. This is a healthy mind-set. The report by the British think tank seems also to have sounded the alarm in the US and the West that China is rapidly rising, which is inciting the West to act against it.
China's GDP will overtake that of the US sooner or later. This is similar to the case of India's GDP, which is set to exceed Japan's in about a decade. This is the trend of the era. It will affect people's mind-set when considering which year will be the tipping point. But the comparison of strengths between China and the US and the global geopolitical landscape will not fundamentally change around that tipping point.
No matter whether this tipping point comes or not, China has the ability to safeguard its national security, resist US coercion calmly, and will insist on walking its own path. Even when the tipping point arrives, China will be in a strategically passive position for a long time. The US will continue to woo its allies to contain China, and may even heap more pressure on China.
Especially during the 2020s when China strives to develop its economy, the US is bound to invest a lot of energy into obstructing this process. Jeopardizing China's development will become an inherent US strategy in the future, which will add to the cost of China's development.
So first of all, we should not be led by the nose by Western predictions that China's GDP will surpass the US' GDP faster than expected. We should not easily believe China's economic growth will be smooth and underestimate the economic risks. China has a tough road ahead to walk if it wants to transform into a quality-centered economy. For instance, it is never easy to make technological breakthroughs. We should have the courage to face setbacks but remain resolute
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@Shenzhou. No, you're close in your statement, but not quite there. Here, let me illustrate. Consider these two statements. A) Let's eat, Grandma! B) Let's eat Grandma! Now do you see what a LARGE difference such a small thing like a comma can make? Your statements are the same. Close, but inaccurate. Let's take it step by step in a logical manner A) The CCP is known to lie to the entire world as well as its own people. B) I've documented that their GDP numbers are false and inflated C) Your "report" has shown to be wildly inaccurate when previously published (reach superiority by 2025) D) Assuming you are correct and they actually do have a larger GDP in the next decade, while IGNORING all the changes happening right now, they still would have the combined might of other nations allied against them on the side of the USA. E) The farmers and students might rise up and overthrow the Communists should a humiliating defeat occur over Taiwan. F) As I've indicated through numerous links to articles, there is only TWO possible outcomes for China in challenging the USA 1) shame 2) humiliation. We are all around you. Our friends and allies are all around you. People that hate and despise you over Covid are all around you. You are exceedingly lucky that the citizens of the world have not begun attacking the Chinese on the streets and schools and at their homes, all over the world. But, it will just take a spark to set off a bonfire of revenge.
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@Shenzhou. Here's more of "no concrete evidence" Torture camps become "occupational training".
China’s government has
perpetrated massive human rights abuses even as
its legal and policy reforms have smoothed the path
for hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens to rise
out of poverty and stimulated improvements in the
transparency, responsiveness, and professionalism
of Chinese governance across a range of issues.96
Among the most egregious of China’s human rights
violations is the ongoing campaign against Uyghurs
and Turkic Muslims in its Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
Region — reportedly ranging from arbitrary detention
of hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens in
indoctrination camps97 to population-reduction
measures such as forced sterilization, forced abortion,
and coercive family planning policies.98 Such practices
meet the definition of genocide under the U.N.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide, which China has ratified.99 Beijing
has denied the reports of forced birth control as
“baseless” and, amid growing international criticism,
released a white paper in September 2020 seeking to
defend the Xinjiang internment camps as “vocational
training centers.”100 Because China has not accepted
the compulsory jurisdiction of international judicial
mechanisms for individual complaints over human
rights abuses, international legal oversight is limited to
“periodic reviews” by treaty bodies and other means of
public pressure — work which can be made difficult by
Beijing’s lack of transparency and retaliation against
critics.101
Other human rights violations in China span a wide
range: repression of Tibetans and other indigenous
peoples; curbs on free expression, association, and
religion; crackdowns on dissidents, human rights
lawyers, and other reform advocates; strict limits on
labor rights; and an intrusive surveillance state with
few if any reliable legal constraints.102 Analysts are now
exploring the extent to which certain of these practices
are being exported — intentionally or otherwise — to
countries that receive Chinese investment through the
Belt and Road global infrastructure initiative.103
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@Shenzhou. HOW about China ignoring this?
Chinese Communist Party, which has ushered in the harshest crackdown on critics yet under President Xi Jinping, has largely ignored a United Nations treaty banning all forms of torture or cruel and degrading punishment, an overseas rights group said in a recent report.
"Torture and ill-treatment or cruel punishment in China remain rampant and worrisome, and authorities have continued to use many forms of torture against [rights activists]," the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said in its annual report.
While the U.N. Committee against Torture reviewed China's implementation of its treaty obligations under the Torture Convention last November, Chinese police "have largely ignored this treaty," the group said.
"The persistent use of torture is, in part, a consequence of the impunity enjoyed by torturers, including police and other state agents," it said.
Blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng, currently in the United States, described his personal experience of torture in an essay for RFA's Mandarin Service.
"The Linyi Detention Center ... echoed from dawn till dusk with the slapping and thudding sound of belts and rubber truncheons impacting on human flesh, and the cries of people being beaten up," Chen wrote in a recent blog post.
"Often, the in-house prosecutors would pass by such scenes of torture, and pretend they hadn't seen it, sharing a laugh with the prison guards in their flagrant act of breaking the law," he said.
Meanwhile, Gu Shuhua, the Canada-based wife of Chinese asylum seeker Dong Guangping, said she fears her husband may be tortured after he was detained by Thai police in Bangkok and handed back to China after being granted refugee status by the United Nations.
"All I want right now is for some news of my husband, and I hope that he hasn't been tortured," Gu told RFA in a recent interview. "I hope that he is safe and well."
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@Shenzhou. Shenzhou.. I have just discovered that even BEFORE the Communists took power and killed MANY MILLIONS of Chinese under Mao, that there already was many Chinese atrocities.
Yangzhou massacre760Yangzhou1000Thousands of Arab and Persian merchants were killed by forces under Tian Shengong
Guangzhou massacre878–879Guangzhou120,000Foreign merchants (Muslim Arabs, Muslim Persians, Zoroastrian Persians, Christians, and Jews) were killed.First Sichuan massacre1221–1264Sichuan, China2,000,000 est ]It was estimated that 2,000,000 were massacred by Mongolian army and its Chinese supples.
Second Sichuan massacre1645–1646Sichuan, China1,000,000 est.[4]There is no reliable figure, but estimated 1 million out of 3 million Sichuanese were massacred mainly by the army of Zhang Xianzhong.[4]Yangzhou massacre1645Yangzhou 300,000 (modern estimate)[5]
Dzungar genocide1755–1757Dzungar Khanate540,000[6]480,000 to 600,000 deaths. 80% of population killed
Ningpo Massacre1800sNingbo40Cantonese pirates supported by the Qing massacred 40 Portuguese pirates.
Jindandao incident1891Inner Mongolia150,000 - 500,000Ethnic tensions led a Chinese secret society, Jindandao, to revolt and kill 150,000 - 500,000 Mongols.Port Arthur massacre1894, 21 NovemberLüshunkou, Liaoning45001000–20,000
Kucheng Massacre1895, 1 AugustGutian, Fujian11
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@Shenzhou. Shenzou do you sleep well at night knowing that you support these criminals?
Head of the CCP in 1989, Zhao was a reformist leader who was purged for refusing to declare martial law and send in the military to suppress the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that year.
“I told myself that no matter what, I would not be the general secretary who mobilised the military to crack down on the students,” he later wrote in his memoirs. On May 19, 1989, Zhao even turned up in person at the square at dawn to plead with the students to leave the area. The next day, martial law was declared in Beijing and two weeks later, soldiers moved into the square and opened fire, killing hundreds, if not thousands of people.
Zhao was placed under house arrest and never appeared in public again.
His name has since been mostly erased from the Chinese news media, histories and websites.
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@Shenzhou. Does this clear it up in your mind?
On 12 July 2016, an independent arbitral tribunal established under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) published a clear and binding ruling on China’s claims vis-à-vis the Philippines in the South China Sea. China’s response at the time was to dismiss the ruling as ‘nothing more than a piece of waste paper’.
Interestingly, in the two years since then it has, in some small ways, complied with it. However, it is also clear that China’s behaviour in the South China Sea has not fundamentally changed. It is, in effect, using military force to try to extort concessions from its neighbours. That poses a threat to international peace and security.
The arbitral tribunal was asked by the Philippines to rule on 15 points, of which two were particularly significant. The first was that China’s claims to ‘historic rights’ within the entirety of the U-shaped, ‘9-dash line’ that it draws on maps of the South China Sea are mostly incompatible with the internationally-agreed UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). UNCLOS is clear: entitlements in the sea have to be within areas measured from land.
Secondly, the tribunal ruled that none of the Spratly Islands, nor an isolated reef known as Scarborough Shoal, are capable of supporting human habitation in their natural state. This means that none are entitled to an exclusive economic zone around them. The implication of these two rulings is that the vast majority of the resources in the southern part of the South China Sea belong to the coastal states: the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Nonetheless China is continuing to pressure those countries to give away their rights to the oil, gas and fish. Under the name of ‘joint development’ China is continuing to demand a share of those countries’ resources even though the tribunal clearly ruled those demands illegitimate. In May 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said publicly that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, had personally threatened him with war if the Philippines attempted to tap the large gas reserves in an area of the sea known as the Reed Bank.
The Philippines’ existing gas fields are expected to begin running out within five years, whereupon the country will face an electricity shortage. China’s military threats will have major consequences for the government in Manila. The most likely result is that the Philippines will have to build more coal-fired power stations to fill the gap.
Vietnam is in a similar position. In June 2017 and in March this year it was forced to suspend offshore oil development because of threats of military force from China. Vietnam’s oil output fell by 12% between 2014 and 2017 because Beijing’s intimidation is preventing it from developing new fields to replace those that are being depleted. This has reduced the government’s income with knock-on impacts on social and development spending.
Despite all this pressure, it is significant that none of the southeast Asian claimants have succumbed to Chinese pressure for ‘joint development’. They are continuing to assert the rights accorded to them in UNCLOS.
UNCLOS is a cornerstone of international peace and security. It was negotiated over nine years and agreed, in 1982, by almost every country in the United Nations. (The United States government signed it but the US Senate has not yet ratified it.) UNCLOS provides a neutral mechanism to allocate the world’s maritime resources but what we are seeing in the South China Sea is an effort by China to overturn it. In effect, China is deploying military might to overturn the legal rights given to the other countries.
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@Shenzhou.
7. Barge into your house to force you off the airwaves
Sun Wenguang, a prominent critic of the Chinese government, was forced off air during a live phone interview with Voice of America in early August.
The 83-year-old former economics professor had been arguing that Xi Jinping had his economic priorities wrong, when up to eight policemen barged into his home, and forced him off the line.
His last words before he got cut off were: "Let me tell you, it's illegal for you to come to my home. I have my freedom of speech!" You can listen to the audio (in Chinese, but subtitled in English) here.
The father of Dong Yaoqiong, the woman who defaced the poster of Xi, was also interrupted while live-streaming a video calling for his daughter's release.
In the recording, which can be seen here, a man purporting to be a plain-clothed police officer can seen entering the premises, demanding to take Dong's father and his friend away, and ignoring their questions about whether the man had a search warrant.
8. Trap you in your house, and detain people who come to see you.
About 11 days after Sun Wenguang, the dissident Chinese professor, was interrupted on his call, he was found locked inside his own home.
Police had detained him in his house and Sun told two journalists who went to interview him that police forced his wife to tell people he had gone traveling to avoid suspicion.
He added: "We were taken out of our residence for 10 days and stayed at four hotels. Some of the rooms had sealed windows. It was a dark jail. After we were back, they sent four security guys to sleep in our home."
The journalists, from the US government-funded Voice of America, were detained immediately after the interview. Their whereabouts are not clear at this point.
9. Forbid you from leaving the country.
Ai Weiwei, the prolific Chinese artist and avid critic of the Chinese government, was blocked from leaving China for four years.
Authorities claimed he was being investigated for various crimes, including pornography, bigamy, and the illicit exchange of foreign currency.
He was detained for 81 days and charged with tax evasion, for which his company was ordered to pay 15 million yuan ($2.4 million). His supporters claimed the tax evasion charges were fabricated.
The government took away his passport in 2011 and refused to give it back until 2015. He then immediately flew to Berlin, where he now lives.
10. Intercept your protests before they even begin.
A group of protesters had been planning a demonstration in Beijing's financial district over lost investments with the country's peer-to-peer lending platforms.
Many of those platforms had shut down due to a recent government crackdown on financial firms, causing investors to lose some tens of thousands of dollars in savings.
But the demonstration, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on a Monday in front of China's banking regulatory commission, never materialized — because police had already rounded up the protesters and sent them home.
Many demonstrators who arrived in Beijing earlier that day found police waiting for them at their bus and train stations, before sending them away.
Peter Wang, who planned to take part in the protest, told Reuters: "Once the police checked your ID cards and saw your petition materials, they knew you are here looking to protect your [financial] rights. Then they put you on a bus directly."
Becky Davis, AFP's reporter in Beijing, described seeing more than 120 buses parked nearby to take the protesters away.
Other protesters seen traveling from their home towns to Beijing to take part in the demonstration were forced to give their fingerprints and blood samples, and prevented from traveling to the capital, Reuters said.
Activists told The Globe and Mail that the police likely found out about the protest by monitoring their conversations on WeChat.
Activists say we are now seeing 'human rights violations not seen in decades' in China.
China has a long history of suppressing dissenting views and actions. But Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch, said the number of people being targeted and the extent of their punishment has worsened under Xi's rule.
"While life for peaceful critics in modern China has never been easy, there have been times of relative latitude," she told Business Insider.
"President Xi's tenure is most certainly not one of those times — not just in the numbers of people being targeted, but in the use of harsh charges and long sentences, and in the state's adoption of rights-gutting laws.
"Add to that the alarming expansion of high-tech surveillance and mass arbitrary detentions across Xinjiang, and you've got a scale of human rights violations we have not seen in decades."
The United Nations recently accused China of holding one million Uighurs in internment camps in the western province of Xinjiang. China has rejected the allegations as "completely untrue."
Does the Chinese Communist Party care that people know what's going on?
Probably not.
Richardson said: "The Chinese government and Communist Party will keep treating people however badly they want unless the price for doing so is made too high for them — clearly this calculus finally changed recently for them with respect to Liu Xia," referring to the activist's wife who was released to Beijing after eight years of house arrest.
"That's why relentless public and private interventions on behalf of those unjustly treated is critical — to keep driving up the cost of abuses many people inside and outside China find unacceptable," Richardson added.
But there's a catch, says Frances Eve, a researcher at Chinese Human Rights Defenders. While the Party has released political activists due to public pressure in the past, it has kept family members in China to make sure the activists don't speak out.
Eve told The Guardian in July: "The Chinese Communist Party has become more immune to international pressure to release activists and let them go overseas, coinciding with its growing economic clout.
"Nowadays, on the rare occasion it does allow an activist to go abroad, it's with the sinister knowledge that their immediate or extended family remains in China and can be used as an effective hostage to stifle their free speech.
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@Shenzhou. The Chinese Communist Party has long sought to suppress ideas that could undermine the sweeping authority it has over its 1.4 billion citizens — and the state can go to extreme lengths to maintain its grip.
In just the past few years, the government has attempted to muzzle critics by making them disappear without a trace, ordering people to physically barge into their houses, or locking up those close to critics as a kind of blackmail.
Even leaving China isn't always enough. The state has continued to clamp down on dissent by harassing and threatening family members who remain in the country.
1. Make you disappear.

Wang Quanzhang, a human rights lawyer who defended political activists in the past, has not been seen since he was taken into detention three years ago.
He was taken away in August 2015 alongside more than 200 lawyers, legal assistants, and activists for government questioning. Three years later, he remains the only person in that cohort who still isn't free.
Nobody has heard from him since. His lawyers, friends, and family have all tried contacting him, but have consistently been denied access, Radio Free Asia reported.
The lawyer's friends and family, and other lawyers, have tried visiting him, but to no avail. His wife, Li Wenzu, has been routinely harassed by Chinese police for protesting Wang's detention, according to the BBC.
His wife recently received a message from a friend saying that Wang was alive and "in reasonable mental and physical health," but was denied further information when she contacted authorities.
2. Physically drag you away so you can't speak to the media.

A woman was dragged away by men in plainclothes after she tried to share footage of an explosion outside the US embassy in Beijing with journalists on the ground in July.
As the woman was trying to share images of the scene with journalists, a group of men took her across, claiming it was a "family matter," according to Agence France-Presse reporter Becky Davis who witnessed it.
The woman claimed she didn't know any of the men. You can watch the whole scene unfold in this video.
China was likely trying to cover up news of the explosion. Weibo, a popular microblogging platform, reportedly wiped all posts about it in the hours following the incident, before allowing some media coverage of it later on.
While it remains unclear who the men were and why they took the woman, Davis said it is common for plainclothes police to act as family members and take people away.
3. Put your family under house arrest, even if they haven't been accused of a crime.

China has kept family members of prominent activists under house arrest to prevent them from traveling abroad and publicly protesting the regime.
In 2010 Liu Xia tried to travel to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her husband, Liu Xiaobo, a human rights activist who at the time was imprisoned for "inciting subversion" with his protests.
She wasn't allowed to go and was placed under house arrest with 24-hour surveillance. She had no access to a cell phone or computer, even though she hadn't been charged with a crime.
She was allowed to leave the house in 2017 to attend the sea burial of her husband after his death from liver cancer, before being sent to the other side of the country by authorities so she wouldn't see memorials held by supporters in Beijing.
Liu Xia was detained in her house for eight years in total. She was released to Berlin in July after a sustained lobbying effort from the German government for Liu's release.
Still, she is not completely free: she is effectively prevented from appearing in public or speaking to media for fear of reprisal from Beijing. She fears that if she does, the government will punish her brother, who remains in Beijing, her friend Tienchi Martin-Liao told The Guardian.
4. Threaten to kill your family and forbid them from leaving China
Even when dissidents leave China, they are not safe. Many Chinese expats and exiles have seen family members who remained in China pay the price for their protest.
One example is Chinese-Canadian actress Anastasia Lin, who repeatedly speaks out to criticise China's human rights record.
She told Business Insider earlier this year that her uncles and elderly grandparents had their visas to Hong Kong — a Chinese region that operates under a separate and independent rule of law — revoked in 2016.
Security agents also contacted Lin's father saying that if she continued to speak up, the family "would be persecuted like in the Cultural Revolution" — a bloody ten-year period under Mao Zedong when millions of Chinese people were persecuted, imprisoned, and tortured.
Shawn Zhang, a student in Vancouver who has criticized President Xi Jinping online, told Business Insider earlier this year that police incessantly called his parents asking them to take down his posts.
The family members of five journalists with Radio Free Asia — a US-funded media outlet — were also recently detained to stop their reporting on human rights abuses against the Uighur minority in China's Xinjiang region
5. Take down your social media posts.
Chinese tech companies routinely delete social media posts and forbid users from posting keywords used to criticize the government.
Censorship in China has soared under Xi Jinping's presidency, with thousands of censorship directives issued every year.
Posts and keywords are usually only banned for a few hours or a few days until an event or news cycle is over.
In February, popular chat and microblogging platforms WeChat and Weibo banned users from writing posts with the letter N when it was used to criticize a plan allowing Xi to rule without term limits
6. Remove your posts from the internet — and reportedly throw you in a psychiatric hospital.
In July, Dong Yaoqiong live-streamed herself pouring black ink over a poster of Xi Jinping in Shanghai, while criticizing the Communist Party's "oppressive brain control" over the country.
Hours later, she reported seeing police officers at her door and the video — which can still be seen here — was removed from her social media account.
She has not been seen in public since, although Voice of America and Radio Free Asia reported that she was being held at a psychiatric hospital in her home province of Hunan, citing local activists.
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@Shenzhou. I just don't understand.. Maybe you can help me. North Korea has free housing, free college education, free medical care, low crime, and a wonderful loved leader, but you risk your life and they shoot you if you try to leave the country. On the other hand, Oppressive, cruel, war mongering, racist, overbearing police, USA has millions risking their lives to COME here. If you do cross the line, you are given food, transportation, and money. Anyone that wants to leave is free to do so. Now, when you look for the VERY POOREST people in the USA, you find that they have better living conditions than two thirds of the world. I don't understand how you can support these criminals.
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@Shenzhou. Yes, let's take a look at Hong Kong. On mainland China the rich are very rich and the poor are very poor. In North Korea, the rich are rich and the poor are poor. Just like some work hard, save, and invest wisely, and others are lazy, spend foolishly, and never invest in anything. It's not the job of government to STEAL from the first in order to give to the second. Sure, there's a "common good" that must be paid for, but that's accomplished through a higher tax rate that scales up the more you make. If the problem with Capitalism (, as you say, is the unequal sharing of blessings, then the problem with Communism is the equal sharing of miseries! Those show houses to impress the world media, doesn't hide the fact that there's no running water. no electricity, and no food supply for the vast majority of North Korea. Again... if it's so great, then why is it a prison camp? Why shoot those desperate to leave? Does China shoot those that wish to leave? We will put those VERY SMART CHINESE that are leaving Hong Kong to work here in the USA and they will be the stone in your shoe, going forward.
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@Shenzhou. WAIT, wait... one minute you're telling me how China is overtaking the USA and the next minute that you are only a developing country! I tell you over and over... the numbers are a lie. The buildings are poor construction with no electricity or plumbing, the dams in China are collapsing, the economy is going broke, the Indians are humiliating the Chinese military at the Ladak border, and the Corona virus D mutation is ravaging the cities. You listen to the Communists, they tell you that it's all sunny skies! Homeless?? No homeless! Oh, we just had a million people getting flooded, but they're not homeless huh?? No, education is NOT for everyone. College is for the smart, not the stupid. If college is free in China, then why so many Chinese coming to the USA to attend school here?? They pay $100,000 to go to OUR schools???
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@Shenzhou. North Korea sharply stepped up trade in coal and oil products last year in defiance of UN sanctions through the apparent help of China’s shipping industry, a UN panel has said.
The annual report to the UN Security Council by sanctions experts went online on Friday and inexplicably disappeared later in the day, with the text itself noting China’s reservations about the findings.
Publishing photographs, shipping logs and submissions from member-states, the panel said that North Korea had violated the total UN prohibition on exporting coal, as well as restrictions on imports of refined petroleum.

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“The continued violation by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of commodity export bans not only flouts security council resolutions but serves to fund a revenue stream that has historically contributed to the country’s prohibited nuclear and ballistic missile programs,” the report said.
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The panel, quoting data from an unspecified country, estimated that North Korea exported 3.7m tons of coal between January and August last year, grossing around $370m.
Most coal exports were transferred from North Korean ships to Chinese barges, which often sailed up the Yangtze River to make deliveries, it said.
In a new development, North Korea has also been spotted sending coal into the ocean for pick-up on self-propelled barges that are easier to evade detection, the report said.
As North Korea’s fleet is not known to include such barges, they are likely from China, with 47 shipments from May to August last year directly reaching ports on China’s Hangzhou Bay near the economic powerhouse of Shanghai, it said.
The report said that the North also far exceeded a UN restriction on importing more than 500,000 barrels a year in refined petroleum.
Citing the United States as its source, the panel said North Korea had imported more than 3.89m barrels of refined petroleum products between January and October 2019.
China is North Korea’s primary political and economic ally and had backed UN sanctions out of frustration with Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests.
North Korea reacts to Pompeo 'insult' with threat to cut off talks
But Beijing has since called for an easing of sanctions after leader Kim Jong-un froze long-range missile and nuclear test launches following three meetings with US President Donald Trump. North Korea a has fired a series of short-range missiles off its east coast, which the South decried as “inappropriate” amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
The United States has insisted on maintaining sanctions as leverage, although Trump has voiced admiration for Kim and recently sent him a letter with a plan to revive ties, according to the two countries.
The UN panel in February released a summary of its conclusions, but the more exhaustive report was delayed.
The full report said that China as well as Russia had asked the panel for “more conclusive evidence” of its findings.
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@Shenzhou. No, I said PRIVATE OWNERSHIP of those goods and services. THEIR EXCLUSION IS an attribute of Marxism, that's been adopted by Communism. Now, I've shown you the substandard apartments that you phrase as "homes". I've shown you MILLIONS of people that have no home due to floods. Entire families crammed into small government built defective flats. I could even show you how the "definition" of homeless is different in the USA than around the world, which greatly expands the numbers. Unfinished ghost cities that have wasted untold government resources, and a lack of trust in ANY fact or figure that comes from the Communist overlords. The people of the Capitalist countries have the wealth AND the freedom to move to ANY socialist or Communist system. Very few do. In fact, we have tens of thousands coming here! WHY? Because of landlords evicting non paying tenants? No, because a luxury two bedroom apartment can be had for a fourth of average income, and a 18-2000 square foot home purchased for even less. How many Chinese in Canada and USA? Now, how many of USA and Canada living in China in the workers paradise? You work all your life you are still a peasant. In the USA you work all your life and you become rich. You work smart AND hard AND take a risk, you become a millionaire! FREE to start any business. FREE to choose to live WHERE and HOW you wish. CHOICE that leads to competition and ultimately to SUPERIOR goods and services. Not a system of government run, inefficient, corrupt central planning that responds too little and too late to the wants and needs of the people that IT IS SUPPOSE TO SERVE. Unlike in China where the wishes, hopes, and dreams of the CPC is put first. Every decision, every question, every plan is determined by the will of the ELITE in the party and not by the people that have no ability to REMOVE them from ruling unlike the Capitalist countries where elections can be held.
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@Shenzhou. Did they teach you THIS in China?
The Cambodian genocide (Khmer: អំពើប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍កម្ពុជា, Âmpeu Prâlai Puchsas Kămpŭchéa) was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Communist Party of Kampuchea general secretary Pol Pot, who radically pushed Cambodia towards an entirely self-sufficient agrarian socialist society. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly a quarter of Cambodia's 1975 population (c. 7.8 million).[1][2][3]
Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge had long been supported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and CCP Chairman Mao Zedong;[4][5][6][7][8][9] it is estimated that at least 90% of the foreign aid which the Khmer Rouge received came from China, and in 1975 alone, at least US$1 billion in interest-free economic and military aid came from China.[9][10][11] After it seized power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge wanted to turn the country into an agrarian socialist republic, founded on the policies of ultra-Maoism and influenced by the Cultural Revolution.[4][6][12][13][14] Pol Pot and other Khmer Rouge officials met with Mao in Beijing in June 1975, receiving approval and advice, while high-ranking CCP officials such as CCP Politburo Standing Committee member Zhang Chunqiao later visited Cambodia to offer help.[4][6][8][15] To fulfill its goals, the Khmer Rouge emptied the cities and forced Cambodians to relocate to labor camps in the countryside, where mass executions, forced labor, physical abuse, malnutrition, and disease were rampant.[16][17] In 1976, the Khmer Rouge renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea.
The massacres ended when the Vietnamese military invaded in 1978 and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime. By January 1979, 1.5 to 2 million people had died due to the Khmer Rouge's policies, including 200,000–300,000 Chinese Cambodians, 90,000 Muslims, and 20,000 Vietnamese Cambodians.[18][19] 20,000 people passed through the Security Prison 21, one of the 196 prisons the Khmer Rouge operated,[3][20] and only seven adults survived.[21] The prisoners were taken to the Killing Fields, where they were executed (often with pickaxes, to save bullets)[22] and buried in mass graves. Abduction and indoctrination of children was widespread, and many were persuaded or forced to commit atrocities.[23] As of 2009, the Documentation Center of Cambodia has mapped 23,745 mass graves containing approximately 1.3 million suspected victims of execution. Direct execution is believed to account for up to 60% of the genocide's death toll,[24] with other victims succumbing to starvation, exhaustion, or disease.
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@Shenzhou. Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million people starved to death in China as the result of the largest socialist experiment in history. Mao called this experiment the “Great Leap Forward,” but for China it was a disaster.
Today, China is the world’s leading export nation, ahead of the United States and Germany. Above all, never before in history have so many people escaped poverty in such a short time as in the past decades in China. According to official World Bank figures, the percentage of extremely poor people in China in 1981 stood at 88.3%. By 2015 only 0.7% of the Chinese population was living in extreme poverty. In this period, the number of poor people in China fell from 878 million to less than ten million.
The Problem With Prevailing Explanations Of China’s Success
It is widely believed that China’s success is based on a uniquely Chinese “third way,” a political and economic model that occupies the ground between capitalism and socialism. According to this interpretation, China is successful because the state continues to play an important role in the Chinese economy. But this interpretation is wrong.
In fact, China’s success provides clear evidence of the power of capitalism. Under Mao, the state had an omnipotent grip over China’s economy. What has happened over the past few decades can be summed up in a few sentences: China has progressively embraced the tenets of free-market economics, introduced private ownership, and gradually reduced the influence of the once all-powerful state over the Chinese economy. That the state still plays a major role today is simply because China is in the midst of a transformation process that began with complete state dominance of the economy.
However, as the Chinese economist Zhang Weiying stresses, China’s success in recent years has “not been because of the state, but in spite of the state.” Here are some facts:
Impressed By The Success Of Singapore
For leading Chinese politicians and economists, 1978 marked the beginning of a busy period of foreign travel to bring back valuable economic insights and apply them at home. Chinese delegations made over 20 trips to more than 50 countries including Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, Canada, France, Germany and Switzerland. The Chinese were especially impressed by the economic successes of other Asian countries. Although barely acknowledged, the economic dynamism of China’s neighboring countries in particular was seen as a role model.
On his visit to Singapore, Deng was impressed by the local economy, which was far more dynamic than the Chinese economy. Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father and long-time prime minister, remembers: “I had told Deng over dinner in 1978 in Singapore that we, the Singapore Chinese, were the descendants of illiterate landless peasants from Guandong and Fujian in South China … There was nothing that Singapore had done that China could not do, and do better. He stayed silent then. When I read that he had told the Chinese people to do better than Singapore, I knew he had taken up the challenge I quietly tossed to him that night fourteen years earlier.”
However, this newfound enthusiasm for other countries’ economic models did not lead to an instant conversion to capitalism, nor did China immediately ditch its planned economy in favor of a free-market economy. Instead, there was a slow process of transition, starting with tentative efforts to grant public enterprises greater autonomy, that took years, even decades, to mature and relied on bottom-up initiatives as much as on top-down, party-led reforms.
More Private Property, More Liberalized Markets
Long before the official ban on private farming was lifted in 1982, peasant-led initiatives to reintroduce private ownership against socialist doctrine sprang up across China. The outcome was extremely successful: people were no longer starving and agricultural productivity increased rapidly. By 1983, the process of de-collectivizing Chinese agriculture was almost complete. Mao’s great socialist experiment, which had cost so many millions of lives, was over.
Initially, the growth in private ownership across China was driven by increasing numbers of small-scale entrepreneurs setting up businesses, which were only allowed to employ a maximum of seven people. The increasing erosion of this socialist system that exclusively permitted public ownership under the management of a state-run economic planning authority was accelerated by the creation of Special Economic Areas. These were areas where the socialist economic system was suspended and capitalist experiments were permitted. The official proclamation of the market economy at the Fourteenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October 1992—a step that would have been unthinkable only a few years before—proved a milestone on the road to capitalism.
To understand the dynamics of the Chinese reforms, it is crucial to note that the extent to which they were initiated “from above” was only one part of the picture. Many contributing factors happened spontaneously – a triumph of market forces over government policy. Key institutional innovations were instigated, not in the offices of the Politburo, but by countless anonymous agents acting on a local level, and in many cases against the rules.
China’s development in recent decades demonstrates that rising economic growth—even when accompanied by rising inequality—benefits the majority of the population. Hundreds of millions of people in China are far better off today as a direct result of Deng’s motto “let some people get rich first.”
Which Path Will China Take Now?
For all the positive developments China has seen in recent decades, a lot still remains to be done. Although its economic growth was accompanied by an increase in economic freedom, there are still deficits in many areas. China has both a strong need for further reforms and great potential for further improvement and growth. Zhang—who, as well as being an astute analyst of the Chinese economy, has himself contributed significantly to its development—stresses: “China’s reform started with an all-powerful government under the planned economy. The reason China could have sustained economic growth during the process of reform was that the government managed less and the proportion of state-owned enterprises decreased, not the other way around. It was precisely the relaxation of government control that brought about market prices, sole proprietorships, town and village enterprises, private enterprises, foreign enterprises, and other non-state-owned entities.” Taken together, all of this formed the basis for China’s unprecedented economic rise.
As Zhang emphasizes, this process of transformation is far from complete: “Government control over large amounts of resources and excessive intervention into the economy are the direct cause of cronyism between officials and businessmen, are a breeding ground for official corruption, seriously corrupt commercial culture, and damage the market’s rules of the game.” Accordingly, he sees a strong need for further reforms toward marketization, reduction of government control over resources and intervention into the economy, and the establishment of a true rule-of-law society.
Whether or not China will go down that road remains to be seen. The process of reform has never been a smooth and consistent one—rather, it has been marred by frequent setbacks, especially in recent years, when instances of governmental intervention in the economy have set back the reform process. The greatest danger for China is that the Chinese themselves will start to believe what many people in the West already think—that the country has discovered a special “third way” between capitalism and socialism and that economic success has been achieved not in spite of, but because of, the great influence of the state.
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@Shenzhou. Nate Thayer recounted that "The United States has scrupulously avoided any direct involvement in aiding the Khmer Rouge", instead providing non-lethal aid to non-communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) and Armee Nationale Sihanouk (ANS) insurgents, which rarely cooperated with the Khmer Rouge on the battlefield, despite being coalition partners, and which fought with the Khmer Rouge dozens of times prior to 1987. According to Thayer, "In months spent in areas controlled by the three resistance groups and during scores of encounters with the Khmer Rouge ... I never once encountered aid given to the [non-communist resistance] in use by or in possession of the Khmer Rouge."[31]
State Department investigationEdit
Although U.S. policy was to provide support to "15,000 ineffective 'noncommunist' rebel fighters", Joel Brinkley stated that "charges made the rounds that some of the American aid, $215 million so far, was finding its way to the Khmer Rouge." A subsequent investigation led by Thomas Fingar of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) "found some leakage—including sharing of ammunition, joint defense of a bridge, and using one truck to transport both 'noncommunist' and Khmer Rouge fighters to a fight." Fingar was dismissive of his own investigators's report, which he characterized as an "epiphenomenon in a flea circus": "Isn't the larger objective here defeating the Vietnamese puppets in Phnom Penh?
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@Shenzhou. A number of countries and international bodies have imposed sanctions against North Korea. Currently, many sanctions are concerned with North Korea's nuclear weapons program and were imposed after its first nuclear test in 2006.
The United States imposed sanctions in the 1950s and tightened them further after international bombings against South Korea by North Korean agents during the 1980s, including the Rangoon bombing and the bombing of Korean Air Flight 858. In 1988, the United States added North Korea to its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Sanctions against North Korea started to ease during the 1990s when South Korea's then-liberal government pushed for engagement policies with the North. The Clinton administration signed the Agreed Framework with North Korea in 1994. However, the relaxation was short-lived; North Korea continued its nuclear program and officially withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003, causing countries to reinstate various sanctions. UN Security Council Resolutions were passed after North Korea conducted nuclear tests in 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2017. Initially, sanctions were focused on trade bans on weapons-related materials and goods but expanded to luxury goods to target the elites. Further sanctions expanded to cover financial assets, banking transactions, and general travel and trade.[1]
Supranational bodiesEdit
European UnionEdit
The European Union has imposed a series of sanctions against North Korea since 2006. These include:[2]
embargoing arms and related materials.[2]
banning the export of aviation and rocket fuel to North Korea.
banning the trade of gold, precious metals, and diamonds with the North Korean government.[2]
banning the import of minerals from North Korea, with some exemptions for coal and iron ore.
banning the export of luxury goods.[2]
restricting financial support for trade with North Korea.[2]
restricting investment and financial activities.[2]
inspecting and monitoring cargoes imported to and exported from North Korea.[2]
prohibiting certain North Korean individuals from entering the EU.[3]
On 21 September 2017, EU banned oil exports and investments in North Korea.[4]
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@Shenzhou. SO WHO IS HURTING NORTH KOREA THROUGH SANCTIONS????
The UN Security Council has passed a number of resolutions since North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006.[5]
Resolution 1718, passed in 2006, demanded that North Korea cease nuclear testing and prohibited the export of some military supplies and luxury goods to North Korea.[6][2] The UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea was established, supported by the Panel of Experts.[7][8][9]
Resolution 1874, passed after the second nuclear test in 2009, broadened the arms embargo. Member states were encouraged to inspect ships and destroy any cargo suspected of being related to the nuclear weapons program.[2][5]
Resolution 2087, passed in January 2013 after a satellite launch, strengthened previous sanctions by clarifying a state's right to seize and destroy cargo suspected of heading to or from North Korea for purposes of military research and development.[2][5]
Resolution 2094, passed in March 2013 after the third nuclear test, imposed sanctions on money transfers and aimed to shut North Korea out of the international financial system.[2][5]
Resolution 2270, passed in March 2016 after the fourth nuclear test, further strengthened existing sanctions.[10] It banned the export of gold, vanadium, titanium, and rare earth metals. The export of coal and iron were also banned, with an exemption for transactions that were purely for "livelihood purposes."[11][5]
Resolution 2321, passed in November 2016, capped North Korea's coal exports and banned exports of copper, nickel, zinc, and silver.[12][13] In February 2017, a UN panel said that 116 of 193 member states had not yet submitted a report on their implementation of these sanctions, though China had.[14]
Resolution 2371, passed in August 2017, banned all exports of coal, iron, lead, and seafood. The resolution also imposed new restrictions on North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank and prohibited any increase in the number of North Koreans working in foreign countries.[15]
Resolution 2375, passed on 11 September 2017, limited North Korean crude oil and refined petroleum product imports; banned joint ventures, textile exports, natural gas condensate and liquid imports; and banned North Korean nationals from working abroad in other countries.[16]
Resolution 2397, passed on 22 December 2017 after the launch of a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, limited North Korean crude oil and refined petroleum product imports to 500,000 barrels per year, banned the export of food, machinery and electrical equipment, called for the repatriation of all North Korean nationals earning income abroad within 24 months. The resolution also authorized member states to seize and inspect any vessel in their territorial waters found to be illicitly providing oil or other prohibited products to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[17]
United Nations agencies are restricted in the aid they can give to North Korea because of the sanctions, but they can help with nutrition, health, water, and sanitation.[18]
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Did the Vloggers learn THIS in school?
The Cambodian genocide (Khmer: អំពើប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍កម្ពុជា, Âmpeu Prâlai Puchsas Kămpŭchéa) was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Communist Party of Kampuchea general secretary Pol Pot, who radically pushed Cambodia towards an entirely self-sufficient agrarian socialist society. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly a quarter of Cambodia's 1975 population (c. 7.8 million).[1][2][3]
Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge had long been supported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and CCP Chairman Mao Zedong;[4][5][6][7][8][9] it is estimated that at least 90% of the foreign aid which the Khmer Rouge received came from China, and in 1975 alone, at least US$1 billion in interest-free economic and military aid came from China.[9][10][11] After it seized power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge wanted to turn the country into an agrarian socialist republic, founded on the policies of ultra-Maoism and influenced by the Cultural Revolution.[4][6][12][13][14] Pol Pot and other Khmer Rouge officials met with Mao in Beijing in June 1975, receiving approval and advice, while high-ranking CCP officials such as CCP Politburo Standing Committee member Zhang Chunqiao later visited Cambodia to offer help.[4][6][8][15] To fulfill its goals, the Khmer Rouge emptied the cities and forced Cambodians to relocate to labor camps in the countryside, where mass executions, forced labor, physical abuse, malnutrition, and disease were rampant.[16][17] In 1976, the Khmer Rouge renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea.
The massacres ended when the Vietnamese military invaded in 1978 and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime. By January 1979, 1.5 to 2 million people had died due to the Khmer Rouge's policies, including 200,000–300,000 Chinese Cambodians, 90,000 Muslims, and 20,000 Vietnamese Cambodians.[18][19] 20,000 people passed through the Security Prison 21, one of the 196 prisons the Khmer Rouge operated,[3][20] and only seven adults survived.[21] The prisoners were taken to the Killing Fields, where they were executed (often with pickaxes, to save bullets)[22] and buried in mass graves. Abduction and indoctrination of children was widespread, and many were persuaded or forced to commit atrocities.[23] As of 2009, the Documentation Center of Cambodia has mapped 23,745 mass graves containing approximately 1.3 million suspected victims of execution. Direct execution is believed to account for up to 60% of the genocide's death toll,[24] with other victims succumbing to starvation, exhaustion, or disease.
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@fanyang8533 All lies?? Just lies!
In His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's last meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1955, Mao drew close to him and said, "Religion is poison."

"At this," recounts His Holiness in his autobiography, Freedom in Exile, "I felt a violent burning sensation all over my face and I was suddenly very afraid. 'So,' I thought, 'you are the destroyer of the Dharma after all.'"
Mao's convictions indeed led to devastating consequences for Tibet as a Buddhist nation—including the destruction of more than 6,000 Tibetan monasteries, the disrobing and killing of thousands of monks and nuns. Estimates put the number of Tibetans tortured, starved, and executed at anywhere from 400,000 to 1.2 million. The International Commission of Jurists officially recognized these atrocities as genocide in 1961.

Today, the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, professes a deep commitment to identifying and caring for the reincarnation of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. But how can we possibly believe that the CCP intends to take care of the future of Tibetan Buddhism? There is no doubt as to what the Chinese regime's actual goal is: total control of the Tibetan people, who revere His Holiness.
Take the subject of reincarnation—believing in rebirth after death. It's a sacred tradition among Tibetan Buddhists with an over nine-hundred-year history. In 2007, the CCP issued a requirement that living Buddhas, who are reincarnated lamas, must be approved by the CCP under Order No. 5. It's an outrageous and disgraceful order, as the Dalai Lama pointed out at the time while giving assurances that clear guidelines will be issued about his reincarnation, "to leave no room for doubt and deception."
Is Order No. 5 the action of a government that truly intends to protect Tibetan Buddhism? It is not the business of any government to tell a religious group who ought to lead it. That's their call, plain and simple.
Fortunately, in 2020, the United States countered this grave injustice with the historic Tibet Support and Policy Act (TPSA). The Act commits, among other things, "to support the fundamental rights of Tibetan Buddhists to select, elect and educate their own spiritual leaders."
This landmark legislation also clearly stakes out the United States' position on the Dalai Lama's succession, which "should be left solely to the Tibetan Buddhists to decide, without interference from anyone including the Chinese government." The TPSA also made clear that those who interfere "will be denied entry into the United States."
But the passage of TPSA 2020 was not meaningful only for Tibetans. Because religious freedom is a borderless principle, the Act is a sign of hope and support to the many peoples oppressed by China, including Uighurs, Hongkongers, Southern Mongolians, Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, Taiwanese, and Chinese citizens.

But even with this positive legislation, persecution of Tibetan Buddhists, along with people of faith from every corner of the CCP's reach, continues unabated. The CCP, through committees chaired by party leaders set up in each monastery in Tibet, manages every aspect of spiritual and educational activities. Young disciples are prevented from becoming monks or nuns, thereby decimating the ranks of those who wish to preserve Buddhism. Prayer flags have been outlawed. Religious rituals and festivals, banned. And the two biggest, most historic monasteries have been demolished.
The Tibetan language itself, a key component of the preservation of the essence of Tibetan Buddhist principles, is under threat, as the CCP aggressively forces students to switch from their native language to Mandarin.
To even possess a small image of His Holiness leads to immediate and severe punishment. And the oppression of Tibet and Tibetans doesn't stop with religious persecution. Arbitrary arrest, detention and imprisonment are common.
Tibet is a police state, and has been for decades. Out of approximately 200 national entities listed by Freedom House, Tibet is ranked along with Syria as the least free. In protest against the China's relentless repressive policies, 157 Tibetans have committed the desperate act of self-immolation since 2009. Of these, 125 are known to have died. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has described the situation in Tibet as "a Hell on Earth."
Still, our will not be extinguished. The International Religious Freedom Summit of 2021, taking place in Washington on July 13-15, provides an opportunity to join hands in proclaiming that religious freedom knows no boundaries. It is an essential human right, and it is under attack in Tibet and throughout the world.
As for the CCP's attempts to select the next leader of Tibetan Buddhists, we stand with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, when he suggested that the Chinese Communist Party should first identify Mao and Deng's reincarnations. Until then, we hope many will join us at the Summit to highlight these and other religious freedom abuses, as we work together to bring an end to persecution of all faiths, all around the world.
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