Hmm, a tricky manoeuvre to persuade the world you’re a bunch of nice guys when your every instinct is to oppress and enslave.
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Trouble is, half the world don’t give a damn and the other half can’t do a shit.
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True, they aren’t great, but China is on a whole different level
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Orwellian
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You bloody whimps 
I don’t think it is necesarilly sinister. What is sinister, is that the tank man photo is the famous one, a picture China likes more than you think, as Chinese official story is that he climbed on top of the tank and then survived etc. (no one really knows what happened to him, quite possible he was slain).
In any case, imo, this is the photo people should use to remember what happened as it shows the actual reality that China desperately wants to censor:
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That’s true, and I don’t particularly like the veneration of the tank man pic as it implies that the ordinary man can stand up to the state. However, the idea that by chance, on the anniversary of the massacre, that photo disappeared from Bing is unbelievable and yet another sign of their severe censorship.
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Probably. It seems too strange to be a coincidence for sure.
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It’s a very interesting point. What you can and cannot see and hear, is now pretty much decided by a group of 20-30 year-olds who predominantly reside in Silicone Valley.
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Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International, accused Chinese authorities of creating “a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale”.
“It should shock the conscience of humanity that massive numbers of people have been subjected to brainwashing, torture and other degrading treatment in internment camps, while millions more live in fear amid a vast surveillance apparatus,” Ms Callamard said.
She also accused the UN Secretary General António Guterres of “failing to act according to his mandate”.
Mr Guterres “has not denounced the situation, he has not called for an international investigation”, Ms Callamard told the BBC. “It is incumbent on him to protect the values upon which the United Nations has been founded, and certainly not to stay silent in front of crimes against humanity,” she said.
In a 160-page report based on interviews with 55 former detainees, Amnesty said there was evidence the Chinese state had committed “at least the following crimes against humanity: imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; torture; and persecution.”
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Experts generally agree that China has detained as many as a million Uyghurs and other Muslims and imprisoned hundreds of thousands more in its crackdown in Xinjiang, which began in 2017.
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There will be no condemnation as long as it’s internal. Once they start on their neighbours the world will take notice, but it’ll be too late to do anything.
China is not an adversary, but it is a challenge to security
The irresistible rise continues…
As does the irresistible oppression
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This will soon by everyday news:
Nice tactics to point fingers to China and or Russia by our governments to divert attentions to the crap that they do.
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I think the most pernicious thing about China’s new status on the world stage, or how they wield it, is the way every business is now forced to kowtow to them. There is no end of people having to make groveling apologies to the country for saying anything that does align with China’s narrative. the latest is that Barca pulled out of a partnership deal with H&M because they became aware of criticisms of the treatment of the Uyghur H&M as a company have made, and the concern was that partnering with such an "anti-chinese company would hurt them in China.
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Spineless cunts 
As discussed elsewhere…
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Taiwan’s days are surely numbered.
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Will it be like Poland of WW II?