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* 1978-1979 Beijing Spring
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Spring
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北京之春
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xidan[Xidan (西单)] Democracy Wall
*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Wall
*** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西单民主墙
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.Xidan democracy wall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xidan_Wall,_May_1979.jpg[Source].
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[[tiananmen]]
==== Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/六四事件

Good photo selections:

* 2014 https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/ "Photos: The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests". This is one of Ciro's favorite photo selections.
* 2014 http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20190607142501/http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/[archive]) a few gory photos
* 2015 https://allthatsinteresting.com/tiananmen-square-massacre "The Hidden History Of The Tiananmen Square Massacre"
* 2019 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures-tiananmen-square-anniversary "These Horrifying Pictures Show The Tiananmen Square Protests Like You've Never Seen Them"

AP footage is pretty good, just do a search on the archive:

** https://www.aparchive.com/metadata/China-Student-Demonstrations/5d1cd01250c9e5e9397f20ef9f1327df
** https://www.aparchive.com/metadata/China-Student-Demonstrations/cfc6890746010c73f9414e20906268aa

Soldiers who spoke up:

* Zhang Shijun (张世军) is perhaps the most notable soldier who spoke up:
** 2018-06-04 RFA interview
*** https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/flashbacks-06042018133558.html
*** https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-06042018103250.html
** 2009-03 published an open letter
*** https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/03/china-detains-writer-of-critical-web-letter-to-hu/
*** https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/20/tiananmen-square-china-zhang-shijun "Zhang Shijun taken from home in middle of the night after publishing open letter to Chinese president Hu Jintao"
* Li Xiaoming
** https://www.sbs.com.au/news/soldier-reveals-his-shame-over-tiananmen-square-massacre-30-years-on

Other interesting links:

* https://www.64memo.com/ 六四档案 Website dedicated to collecting photos of the protests and aftermath. Says you have to login to see the gory photos, but hovering over thumbnails expands all of them, and their email service is broken as of 2020 so you can't sign up.
* https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/june4_poetry Chinese poetry anthology about Tiananmen collected by <<rfa>>

.Sea of protesters in Tiananmen Square on 2019-05-04. No, not even that many people can influence dictatorships if they don't have weapons. https://abcnews.go.com/International/tiananmen-square-29th-anniversary-crackdown/story?id=55564966[Source].
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[[pu-zhiqiang-shirt]]
.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_Zhiqiang[Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强)] was student demonstrator during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. His shirt reads: "Freedom of the press, freedom of association, support the 'link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Herald[World Economic Herald] (link:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/世界经济导报[世界经济导报])', and support just journalists." (辦報自由 結社自由 聲援世经导报 支持正义记者, fully quoted https://cinacn.blogspot.com/2001/07/28.html[here]) Date: 1989-05-10. Pu remained in China as a human rights layer, and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35157525[was arrested in 2014] for attending a private meeting commemorating the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen. https://allthatsinteresting.com/tiananmen-square-massacre[Source].
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.Students from Beijing University stage a huge demonstration in Tiananmen Square as they start an unlimited hunger strike as the part of mass pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government. Photo taken on 1989-05-18 by Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty Images. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/[Source].
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.Who said there weren't some cute girls amongst the protesters? Photo taken on 1989-05-19 by AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_cute_girls.jpg[height=500]

.Happy protesters surround army convoy of 4,000 not so happy soldiers on 1989-05-20. Ciro can't help but to think the politically incorrect idea that the military <<uneducated-masses,look considerably younger and poorer/less uneducated than the Beijing masses>>. https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-06-04/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_troop_truck_night.jpg[height=500]

.A young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on 1989-06-03. AP Photo/Jeff Widener. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_girl_strife.jpg[height=400]

.A student from an art institute plasters the neck of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy["Goddess of Democracy"] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国国际广播电台[中国国际广播电台]) statue on 1989-05-30. Replicas have of course been erected elsewhere, and when the CCP falls one day, this _will_ be rebuilt, obviously. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_sculpt_goddess.webp[height=600]

.An old lady tells those rowdy overpriviledged students that they were complaining for no reason, and that in the <<cultural-revolution,good old Mao days you would be lucky to get any food at all>>, and that they should just go the fuck home  on 1989-05-31 (Ciro might or might not have made up the exact content of the conversation). https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/[Source].
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.A dissident student asks masses of sitting soldiers to go back home on 1989-06-03. Great shot composition by AP Photo/Jeff Widener. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_announce_soldiers.webp[height=500]

.Godzilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Peng[Li Peng (李鹏)] crushing the Tiananmen Square protests with his green eye laser beams. https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/File:Li_at_Tiananmen_Eyebeams.jpg[Source].
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.Protester covered in blood while holding an army helmet on 1989-06-04. https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-06-04/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos[Source].
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[[liubukou]]
.Bodies run over by tanks by the road in after the Tiananmen Square Protests were crushed in the morning of 1989-06-05. The source website is by French journalist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Gauthier[Ursula Gauthier], who explains how those photos were taken by one of the students of the group, who later asked her to take the photos abroad to publish them. The students were some of the last to leave after the crackdown, and they were trying to escape through a small street that leads into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27an_Avenue[Chang'an Avenue] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/长安街[长安街]) when the tanks came at high speed near Liubukou crossroads (TODO Chinese name) half mile West of Tiananmen square, and not all students were able evade the tanks. https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/01/china.johngittings2 mentions that some bodies had to be scrapped-off the street. Ursula was later kicked out of China in 2015 after commenting that the CCP had ulterior motives for giving their condolences to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks[November 2015 Paris attacks]. Interesting fact: Ciro was actually less than 1km away from one of the Paris attacks on that night, at his home, and first learnt about what had happened when people started calling to see if he was fine. http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/[Source].
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.Bodies with gun wounds at the mortuary at Shuili Hospital (水利医院, Hospital of the Ministry of Water Resources of China, https://goo.gl/maps/xAy55T3sydW8X81M6[Google maps], https://bkso.baidu.com/item/水利医院[Baidu], https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20190531/tiananmen-square-protest-photos/[New York Times Chinese report]), about 8km West of Tiananmen Square. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/tiananmen-square-protest-photos.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_Shuili_Hospital_dead.jpg[height=500]

.A Chinese couple on a bicycle take cover beneath an underpass as tanks deploy overhead in eastern Beijing on 1989-06-05 by AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing. This photo one is almost poetic. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_bicycle_bridge.jpg[height=400]

.Family members try to comfort a mother who has just learned of her son's death after he was killed by soldiers at Tiananmen Square, June 4. TODO what's her name? An association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Mothers[Tiananmen Mothers] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/天安门母亲运动[天安门母亲运动]) was created after the events. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures-tiananmen-square-anniversary[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_crying_mother.webp[height=500]

.The morning after the military crackdown of the pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, workers clean their posters from bulletin boards. Resume <<censorship>> as usual. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures-tiananmen-square-anniversary[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_message_board_cleanup.webp[height=500]

[[tiananmen-songs]]
===== Tiananmen Square Protests songs 六四事件歌曲

English:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTWXqUPQ7I "China" by Joan Baez from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_of_Dreams[Speaking of Dreams (1989) album]. Folk.
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video::-JTWXqUPQ7I[youtube,height=400,width=600]
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OOlXJs4I8k "The blood is on the square" by Phillip Morgan from https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Square-Philip-Morgan/dp/B001H5S7OS[1990]. Folk.
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video::6OOlXJs4I8k[youtube,height=400,width=600]
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAZK4apK8Bg Same Cry (Feat. L.T.; Explicit) by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Jin[MC Jin] from the 2004 album "The Rest Is History'. Hip hop American born Hakka Chinese.

Chinese:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uk0-vlpP0 "Nothing to My Name (一無所有)" by Cui Jian (崔健) from 1986, therefore around the time of <<chinese-student-demonstrations-1986>>
** Lyrics and translation https://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandarin/cui-jian-nothing-to-my-name/
** Chorus: "你合适跟我走" which translates to "When will you walk with me?" Could be talking directly to the Government.
** The singer is/was very popular, the song was composed in 1986, but was very popular at the time of the protests, and became kind of a hymn.
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Jian#Tiananmen_and_aftermath
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_My_Name | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一无所有_(歌曲)
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[[nothing-to-my-name]]
video::m7uk0-vlpP0[youtube,height=400,width=600]
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8lWiWaSTtg History's wound (历史的伤口) 1989-5-28 song by several <<taiwan,Taiwanese>> singers
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/历史的伤口
** Lyrics: https://mojim.com/cny100375x11x1.htm
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video::F8lWiWaSTtg[youtube,height=400,width=600]
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdE4Ehte4uU "The square (廣場)" by Li Zhi (李志) from 2019. Slow/sad mood pop/rock.
** https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/2/li-zhi-singer-missing-china-cracks-down-tiananmen-/ the singer disappeared from public view in June 2019 and his songs were purged from public listings
** https://medium.com/@sunlitmount/forbidden-songs-of-li-zhi-square-for-tiananmen-massacre-at-june-4th-1989-f22e7e2dc21a lyrics and translation
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhi_(singer)

Cantonese

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_qz7LuqVU "The flower of freedom" (自由花) from 1989
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由花
** Lyrics: https://mojim.com/cny100293x15x4.htm
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video::9L_qz7LuqVU[youtube,height=400,width=600]

Other good lists:

* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/六四歌曲 Wikipedia page with an infinite list of songs
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vMVrLBiW4&list=PLNRZ41lXl9e5iAXH_94DHiLPx_a9Yn711 六四学运 歌 playlist by 杰克 .龙光复民国天下为公
* https://coconuts.co/hongkong/lifestyle/from-80s-rock-to-patriotic-anthems-6-songs-associated-with-tiananmen-square/
* https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/06/04/the-last-gunshot-the-musical-legacy-of-the-1989-tiananmen-massacre/

For non-Tiananmen songs see: <<anti-dictatorship-songs>>.

[[tank-man]]
===== Tank Man (坦克人)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/坦克人

Good list of all known photos: https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/30/the-other-tank-man-photographs/

A list of Tank Man parodies can be found at: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tank-man

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU CNN video of Tank Man:  but not showing removal, ridiculous, is there a full raw footage somewhere?
video::YeFzeNAHEhU[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSbx352cn8A Several quick cuts by CBS news that give a good overview of the incident, including him being pushed away by other protesters at the end.
video::YeFzeNAHEhU[youtube,height=400,width=600]

The <<tank-man-song,Tank Man song>> is really good:

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我是坦克人 +
站在天安门

I am tank man +
I stand at Tiananmen
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Full lyrics: https://gist.github.com/cirosantilli/698afcd05c5ad94297000f8c60b43473

[[tank-man-song]]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8A623aImt8 Tank Man song (坦克人歌曲) by Xu Lin (徐琳).
video::z8A623aImt8[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.Arthur Tsang's photo of Tank Man. https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/30/the-other-tank-man-photographs/[Source].
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.Stuart Franklin's wider view photo of Tank Man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tankman_new_longshot_StuartFranklin.jpg[Source].
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.Terril Jones photo taken at ground level with Tank Man on background and men running away on the foreground. The photo was only published in 2009. https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/30/the-other-tank-man-photographs/[Source].
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.Photoshop of Arthur Tsang's photo of Tank Man with huge rubber ducks replacing the tanks. Inspired by a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSo5MqQVwCY[huge inflatable rubber duck sculpture floating in Hong Kong in 2013]. https://petapixel.com/2013/06/05/yellow-duck-version-of-tank-man-photo-goes-viral-amidst-chinese-censorship[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tank_Man_ducks.jpg[height=600]

[[lego-tank-man]]
.Rough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego[Lego] model of the Tank Man scene. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1499216-tank-man[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Lego_Tank_Man.png[height=400]

.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VI[Final Fantasy 6] battle screen style depiction of tank man by Cody Walton by it8Bit. https://www.it8bit.com/post/25860395424/unknown-rebel[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tank_Man_FF6.jpg[height=600]

===== Tiananmen Square Protests keywords

Words:

* 六四学潮, which is also very close in form to the earlier: <<chinese-student-demonstrations-1986>>

Lists:

* https://qz.com/698990/261-ways-to-refer-to-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-in-china/ 261 ways to refer to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China

[[chinese-student-demonstrations-1986]]
===== 1986 Chinese student demonstrations 八六学潮

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Chinese_student_demonstrations
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/八六学潮

The prelude to <<tiananmen>>.

For example, Cui Jian (崔健) <<nothing-to-my-name,"Nothing to My Name (一無所有)">> song was composed in 1986, and later became a <<tiananmen-songs,major Tiananmen Hymn>>.

[[dissidents]]
== Dissidents 持不同政见者

Related sections:

* <<other-openly-dissident-users-on-stack-overflow>>

=== Chinese dissidents

Other sections:

* <<people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus>>
* <<terminus2049>> contributors: Chen Mei (陈玫), Cai Wei (蔡伟), Xiao Tang (小唐)

Other lists:

* Wikipedia list of Chinese dissidents
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国被捕政治犯列表
* https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/location/china Front Line Defenders
* https://www.nchrd.org/ Chinese Human Rights Defenders
* https://cppc1989.blogspot.com/ 中國政治犯關注 China Political Prisoner Concern. Chinese blog with an infinite list of Chinese political prisoners.

Other dissidents:

* Cai Xia (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蔡霞[蔡霞]), https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Cai_Xia
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Retired teacher at <<central-party-school>> living in the USA.
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** 2020-06-12 https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2020/06/translation-former-party-professor-calls-ccp-a-political-zombie/ "TRANSLATION: FORMER PARTY PROFESSOR CALLS CCP A 'POLITICAL ZOMBIE'"
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She criticized Xi Jinping in private online meeting, and the audio was leaked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEBHVsHlPeI
** 2020-08-21 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3992140 she was expelled from from the CCP, and she said she was happy.
* https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/monitor-08182020091653.html "Jailed WeChat User Says Chinese Police Monitor Overseas Accounts Too". Gao Zhigang.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Guangcheng[Chen Guangcheng] (陈光诚). The blind dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDqYMXxH09Y "Chinese dissident tells story of escaping tyranny and finding hope in America" by "Fox News" (2020-08-26) supporting Trump's reelection.

[[xu-xiaodong]]
==== Xu Xiaodong "Mad Dog" 徐晓冬

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/徐晓冬

MMA fighter who beat up some kung-fu masters to prove that MMA is more effective than their traditional styles.

As of 2019, he had 14 Weibo accounts blocked (created one, got blocked, created another, got blocked, etc.). Source: https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-fight-survival/article/3047417

Profiles and news:

* 2020-01-28 https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-fight-survival/article/3047417

.Uphold science, eradicate superstition "崇尚科学 破除迷信" 1999 poster by the CCP created as an <<falun-gong,anti-Falun Gong>> propaganda likely based on a http://www.people.com.cn/GB/channel1/10/20000710/137317.html[more widely widespread slogan] (https://web.archive.org/web/20090428155413/http://www.people.com.cn/GB/channel1/10/20000710/137317.html[archive]). So why is Xiaodong not being supported by the CCP now that he is beating superstition back into its place? Once again, <<censorship-makes-countries-poorer>>. The poster features images related to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_space_program[Chinese space program 中华人民共和国航天], which is a major undertaking of the CCP and widely used propaganda point. https://chineseposters.net/themes/falun-gong.php[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Uphold_science.jpg[height=600]

.1962 propaganda poster for the Chinese Space program. "Uphold science, eradicate superstition"? Nah, the moon is obviously populated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang'e[Chang'e (嫦娥)], the Chinese Goddess of the moon, which is one of the names for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program[Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (中国探月工程,嫦娥工程)]. Other good https://chineseposters.net/themes/space-program.php[Chinese space program posters]. Also note the emphasis on making babies, the <<one-child-policy>> comes to mind. https://chineseposters.net/posters/e15-824.php[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Space_program_Change.jpg[height=500]

.2017 Xu Xiaodong (MMA) Vs. Wei Lei (Tai Chi) summary GIF. https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-mma-fighter-xu-xiaodong-fight-survival/article/3047417[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Xu_Xiaodong_taichi.gif[height=400]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XwXaCbfIGw 2017 Xu Xiaodong (MMA) Vs. Wei Lei (Tai Chi) full fight.
video::0XwXaCbfIGw[youtube,height=400,width=600]

[[programthink]]
==== Programthink 编程随想

Very popular Chinese language anonymous blogger that publishes software programming tutorials and political content since 2009, often negative about the CCP, in particular <<censorship,anti-censorship>> and <<brainwashed-by-usa,anti-CCP-brainwashing>>.

* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/编程随想的博客 (there is no English page as of January 2020)
* https://program-think.blogspot.com/ The blog. Blocked in China with the <<censorship,rest of Blogspot>>:
** 2020 categorized summary of the best posts of all time: https://program-think.blogspot.com/2020/01/11-years-blogging.html
* https://github.com/programthink
** https://github.com/programthink/zhao manually curated database of maps relationships between Chinese politicians, this was the first <<github-gov-takedowns,GitHub gov-takedown from china>>: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/36e76c34682d2b52eef405ca6f57e1b9ddde3086/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md[], which specifically points to https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38[].
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<<geoscreenshot>>: 2020-09-30 https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38 | https://archive.vn/QKCMi
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The full project name is: 太子党关系网络 (network of relations of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princelings[CCP princelings]).
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The project is also known as "zhao" which is another <<slang,slang>> reference to "太子党": "赵家人" (zhaojiaren == zhao family): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_family | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙家人zh, which is in turn a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_(state) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Zhao[].
* https://twitter.com/programthink
* DW coverage (Chinese): https://www.dw.com/zh/2013德国之声国际博客大赛中文提名博客揭晓/a-16716065 (https://web.archive.org/web/20191202233838/https://www.dw.com/zh/2013%E5%BE%B7%E5%9B%BD%E4%B9%8B%E5%A3%B0%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E5%8D%9A%E5%AE%A2%E5%A4%A7%E8%B5%9B%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%8F%90%E5%90%8D%E5%8D%9A%E5%AE%A2%E6%8F%AD%E6%99%93/a-16716065[archive])
* Programthink has also shown interest in <<nineteen-eighty-four>> as mentioned in that section.

Mentions in other sections:

* <<programthink-meant-to-be-used>>

.Programthink uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker[Rodin's The Thinker sculpture] as its avatar, to encourage people to think for themselves rather than <<censorship,blindly believe the Party>>. https://github.com/programthink/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Programthink.jpg[height=400]

[[liu-xiaobo]]
==== Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波 1955-2017

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/刘晓波

He was abroad in the 80' as a scholar, and then he came back to china in 1989 to support <<tiananmen>>, then he was in and out of jail until he died in 2017.

2020-06 https://baike.baidu.com/item/刘晓波/14900221 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200627130112/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%88%98%E6%99%93%E6%B3%A2/14900221[]) casually forgot to mention that he might have won the fucking 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, but he seems to be too big to delete the entire page?

It is interesting how <<hao-haidong>> was fully deleted, the page was only locked. It also does not mention all the times he was in jail, notably after Tiananmen, only some of them.

2017-11 Baidu did mention the Nobel prize however: https://web.archive.org/web/20171114165644/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%88%98%E6%99%93%E6%B3%A2/14900221 it was edited out later.

The article also makes it very clear that his 2009 sentence was "a fair one", and that the organization he worked for in the 90', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_for_a_Democratic_China[Federation fora Democratic China] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/民主中国阵线[民主中国阵线]) was funded by the CIA. Wikipedia does not mention that however, and of course, Baidu content does not need citations.

[[guo-wengui]]
==== Guo Wengui 郭文贵

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/郭文贵

Social media:

* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO3pO3ykAUybrjv3RBbXEHw Chinese YouTube

Profiles:

* 2019-07-24 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3019840/chinese-fugitive-tycoon-and-member-trumps-mar-lago-also-spy "Is Guo Wengui, Chinese fugitive tycoon and member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago, also a spy?"

[[hao-haidong]]
===== Hao Haidong (郝海东, 2020)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hao_Haidong
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/郝海东

Hao is widely considered one of the best Chinese soccer players of all time, and he was the top scorer for the Chinese national team of all time as of 2020, and one of the only two Chinese to show on https://iffhs.de/showLegends/men[IFFHS Legends] page which as of 2020 contains only 52 players including the likes of Pelé and Maradona.

He participated in the 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup[FIFA World Cup] (世界杯) qualifiers, and therefore also at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup[2002 FIFA World Cup proper] held in South Korea and Japan, which is the only World Cup China classified for as of 2020, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup[in which it failed to score a single goal].

On 2020-06-03, one day before <<tiananmen>> anniversary, Hao appeared with his wife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Zhaoying[Ye Zhaoying] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/叶钊颖[叶钊颖], married 2019), who was also a badmington star, on <<guo-wengui>>'s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aN5h0RqD8&t=4496[], and spoke up against the CCP:

* https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3087684/chinese-sports-couple-hao-haidong-and-ye-zhaoying-face-being-wiped
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/9ae91df2-a6ec-11ea-898e-b21b9a83f792_story.html

As a result, his son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runze_Hao[Hao Runze] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/郝潤澤[郝润泽], from a previous marriage) who is also a soccer player and had nothing to do with it was also sacked from the Serbian club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK_Radnički_Niš[Radnicki Nis] in which he played one week later due to pressure from China: https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3088385/hao-haidongs-son-sacked-serbian-club-radnicki-nis-after-pressure The wiki page says that https://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2020&mm=06&dd=09&nav_id=1693254 says the team says it was just a coincidence and that his contract had ended.

The most interesting thing about all of this, is how Hao's name was completely <<internal-censorship,nuked form the Chinese Internet>>, making this a fantastic opportunity to unambiguously document a censorship event. One is reminded of:

* <<censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union>>
* <<nineteen-eighty-four>> "Every record has been destroyed or falsified" quote

Some examples:

* Zhihu: <<zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong>>
* Baidu Baike: <<baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong>>
* <<peoples-daily>>
** down as of 2020-06-14
*** 2016-03-01 http://m.people.cn/%2Fn4%2F2016%2F0301%2Fc1807-6348778.html 媒曝克罗地亚劲旅签郝海东之子 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1elR0wSiJPIJ:m.people.cn/%252Fn4%252F2016%252F0301%252Fc1807-6348778.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu
*** 2016-01-27 IFFHS评选世界足坛48大传奇 郝海东孙继海入围 http://fj.people.cn/n2/2016/0127/c364151-27639502.html https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:snlknobl8UMJ:fj.people.cn/n2/2016/0127/c364151-27639502.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu
*** 2012-02-01 郝海东儿子入选国少队 被赞有天赋 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fjs.people.cn%2Fhtml%2F2012%2F02%2F01%2F73894.html&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fjs.people.cn%2Fhtml%2F2012%2F02%2F01%2F73894.html&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1036j0j4&client=ubuntu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
** but they forgot to search and remove from the older versions of website, newbs:
*** 2003-03-21 http://www.people.cn/GB/channel2/507/4897/4898/4907/200303/21/142115.html 三后卫改四后卫 申花看防郝海东不遗余力
*** 2003-03-17 http://www.people.cn/GB/channel23/853/854/200303/17/141331.html 僵尸王：恐郝不是恐中
*** 2001-09-14 http://www.people.cn/digest/200107/14/tt0901401.html 甲A联赛大连队止住连胜势头
*** 2001-02-21 http://www.people.cn/digest/200102/23/tt022310.html 米卢评点中国足球四大前锋

Online reactions:

* https://pincong.rocks/article/19974 "郝海东这个事情，让你匪进退两难" on <<pincong>>

Listings of the 2002 squad:

* https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/koreajapan2002/teams/team/43812/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#China_PR
* https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/china-line-up-for-a-team-photo-13-june-2002-at-the-seoul-news-photo/51528311 is the best photo available, clearly showing Hao first on top left, and https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-china-team-line-up-before-the-fifa-2002-world-cup-news-photo/969574 from the qualifiers with Hao on top right
* http://www.qiuball.com/zgzq/21354.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20191121030909/http://www.qiuball.com/zgzq/21354.html[archive]) Contains squad photo with Hao on top left.

Google bomb at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/111

.Hao Haidong (in white) playing for the China national team against the Hong Kong's national team in a World Cup Asian zone qualifying match at Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground in 2004. Request for https://twitter.com/fjamie013[James Fridman] to remove Haidong from the picture in reference to <<censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union>>: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1308670186640289792[]. Photo by: <<scmp>>. https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3087684/chinese-sports-couple-hao-haidong-and-ye-zhaoying-face-being-wiped[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Hao_Haidong_kick.jpg[height=500]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSwRwFBNFA Hao Haidong's top 10 goals, all with CCTV 5 watermark :-)
video::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSwRwFBNFA[youtube,height=400,width=600]

====== Zhihu censorship of Hao Haidong

<<zhihu>> (and the rest of the Chinese Internet) basically nuked a gazillion articles that mentioned him, including old ones that had nothing to do with his political views.

Ciro estimates that very likely thousands of Zhihu posts have been removed, as of 2020-06-14 the Google query "郝海东 site:zhihu.com" had 3,970 results, and every single on Ciro clicked had been taken down.

Not nuked yet as of 2020-06, but nuked after, with before-after archives:

* The Zhihu "Hao Haidong" topic itself https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro
** up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606161335/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro
** down 2020-06-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200614114534/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20080590/intro
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534 C罗的每次高光，都让郝海东出尽洋相
** up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606124255/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534
** down 2020-06-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200614094722/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/59782534
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885 郝海东为什么要炮轰许家印？
** up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122802/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885
** down 2020-06-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200614092838/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/133206885
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079 巅峰期的孙继海 郑智 郝海东 范志毅怎么排名？
** up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123634/https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079
** down 2020-06-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123634/https://www.zhihu.com/question/64992079

Older archives that were nuked before Ciro managed to archive them on 2020-06-06:

* https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423
** up 2015-06-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20150615113940/https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423
** down 2015-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606123519/https://www.zhihu.com/question/22038423

Nuked as per Ciro's eyewitness on 2020-06-06 without web archive, but could be found either on Google search or Zhihu search before those engines had properly cleared, taking Google caches and web archiving them + web archiving 404's as of 2020-06-14:

* https://www.zhihu.com/question/23084831 如何评价足球运动员高峰？他与郝海东比的水平怎么样？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23084831&client=ubuntu&hs=1uU&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/23416213 如何评价孙继海、郝海东、范志毅 ？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SEWC3OjJEYoJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23416213&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/23939434 如果巅峰期的郝海东有机会去欧洲五大联赛踢球会取得什么样的成就？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OFjOxog6jiwJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/23939434&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/27060872 巅峰时期的范志毅、郝海东、李铁、李玮锋、孙继海、郑智 放到现在的中国足球应该出于什么水平？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/27060872&client=ubuntu&hs=fvU&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/29833583 如何评价郝海东认为“英国人不会踢球”？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jk7qxGW7v64J:https://www.zhihu.com/question/29833583&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/34155456 如何评价郝海东？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/34155456&client=ubuntu&hs=0bp&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/47528985 郝海东是亚洲第一前锋吗？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/47528985&client=ubuntu&hs=IxU&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/51867870 我同学说郝海东不如孙兴民 我该如何说服他？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/51867870&client=ubuntu&hs=MJ&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/52500232 武磊和巅峰时期的郝海东比如何？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/52500232&client=ubuntu&hs=kzU&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/62419235 如何评价 郝海东怒斥许家印全华班:放屁!不是为了推动国足。 这一观点。？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4CCnPhViGBUJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/62419235&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/66555590 郝海东是一个什么样的人？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sunDGY8ULEEJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/66555590/answer/245224350+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/282906877 如何看待郝海东两次评价 C 罗？
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/282934169 怎么看郝海东再评价C罗？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XfY4ZPvzz7sJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/282934169&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/345693653 巅峰时期的范志毅、郝海东相当于五大联赛哪些球员的实力? https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/345693653&client=ubuntu&hs=6gp&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/384834709 武磊的水平能超过郝海东吗？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FXIkLaGzyQoJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/384834709&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/394366737 怎样看待最近郝海东微博频繁开炮怼人？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_LbOGbsGFQkJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/394366737&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/394503875 为什么有些人黑郝海东？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GcqkvJGKCJYJ:https://www.zhihu.com/question/394503875&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/395225037 如何看待郝海东说的：“智慧是天生的”？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.zhihu.com/question/395225037&client=ubuntu&hs=i2U&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/128537416 C罗粉丝不好惹？郝海东深夜发文教粉丝独立思考，见证历史转折点 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/128537416&client=ubuntu&hs=bip&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/134027258 【球星故事】郝海东为何被称为“郝大炮”？ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zPBVhvs9SsUJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/134027258&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/138465029 郝海东争议言论登热搜，媒体人：他逐步从大炮变成公知网红 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z7STI_34eocJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/138465029&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/141049893 郝海东被网友群嘲的五大原因 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pEppZJ8K8VIJ:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/141049893&strip=1&vwsrc=0
* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/145740098 塞超主帅：郝润泽不像郝海东，他更擅长于防守 And here is an archive from 2020-06-06 saying that the article was being modified to meet some guidelines: "文章被建议修改：违反知乎社区管理规定 作者修改内容通过后，文章会重新显示。" https://web.archive.org/web/20200606122827/https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/145740098

Nuked answers:

* https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854  中国队 2002 世界杯为什么会出线？
** question up 2020-06-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20200615140650/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854[archive])
** 2015 archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20151114093037/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854
** top answer from 2015 archive https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854/answer/19357252 is dead 2020-06-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20200615142339/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.zhihu.com/question/19806854/answer/19357252
** existing answers do show Hao in videos however of course

Ye also nuked:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20200618190141/https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20058377
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200618190052/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JF35Ecar-a8J:https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20058377&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0

====== Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong

This served as good evidence of the obvious fact that <<baidu,Baidu>> Baike is highly censored.

Hao Haidong's page https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512[]:

* up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606060916/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512
* down 2020-06-14 (say "抱歉，您所访问的页面不存在..." and redirects to home page) https://web.archive.org/web/20200614094144/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%83%9D%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%9C/357512

Article about the Chinese national soccer team https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国国家男子足球队[]:

* archive of 2020-06-02 <<google-cache>>: https://web.archive.org/web/20200615071212/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M5UlBifrUzsJ:https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E8%B6%B3%E7%90%83%E9%98%9F
* archive from 2019-06-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20190624110500/https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国国家男子足球队
* archive 2020-06-15: https://web.archive.org/web/20200615072004/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%B7%E5%AD%90%E8%B6%B3%E7%90%83%E9%98%9F

The article used to mention Hao extensively. He was:

* second on the 知名人物 (famous people)
* was the 进球最多者 (top scorer), a category which as completely removed
* the list 射手榜 (top scorers?) is still there but casually starts at 宿茂臻 with 27 goals, and skips Hao which has 41
* an entire section about Hao was removed entitled "永远的9号——郝海东" and saying how amazing he was, including a picture

Ye Zhaoying's page https://baike.baidu.com/item/叶钊颖[]:

* up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200614104922/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Akp6GBnsRNhQJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fbaike.baidu.com%2Fitem%2F%E5%8F%B6%E9%92%8A%E9%A2%96
* down 2020-06-14 (redirects to home page) https://web.archive.org/web/20200614105126/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8F%B6%E9%92%8A%E9%A2%96

Ye won the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWF_World_Championships[BWF World Championships] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/世界羽毛球锦标赛[世界羽毛球锦标赛]), a biannual tournament that is likely the most prestigious in the world twice in 1995 and 1997, and her name had to be removed from the list of winners in Baidu https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛[]:

* 2017-11-26 archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20171126131320/https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛 showing her as winner in 1995 and 1997
* 2020-06-08 archive of <<google-cache>> https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080701/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:llXWVx3NX8kJ:https://baike.baidu.com/item/世界羽毛球锦标赛 before censors nuked her
* 2020-06-15 archive after censors nuked her: https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080807/https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E7%BE%BD%E6%AF%9B%E7%90%83%E9%94%A6%E6%A0%87%E8%B5%9B[]. In 1995 and 1997 it seems that one the female singles (女子单打), even though they did happen in 1993 and 1997. How curious!

The fact that badminton is a single player sport is great in this case, as it just puts more emphasis on her name as opposed to Hao's multiplayer soccer game:

* 1995 Ye Zhaoying vs Han Jingna BWF finals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrO5g58tSUE Bracket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_IBF_World_Championships
* 1997 Ye Zhaoying vs Gong Zhichao BWF finals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOi1bmZHo4 Bracket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_IBF_World_Championships
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Hunan website about Gong Zhichao confirming that: https://web.archive.org/web/20200618174728/http://www.enghunan.gov.cn/hneng/AboutHunan/HistoryCulture/Celebrities/201508/t20150807_1816328.html

Hao Runze's page https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝润泽

* still up 2020-06-14 but locked: https://web.archive.org/web/20200614105842/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝润泽
* and casually forgets to mention that he is the fucking son of Haidong, which was likely edited out recently, but there is no edit history in Baidu Baike. <<google-cache>> was already from 2020-06-08 and missed the pre-edit. What a shame
* The last entry says "2020年5月31日，郝润泽在塞尔维亚超级联赛第27轮尼什工人客场挑战纳普里达克的比赛中，首秀替补出场打入一球，帮助尼什工人实现绝平。" and also casually forgets to mention that he was fired two weeks later.

[[howey-ou]]
==== Howey Ou (欧泓奕, 2019)

The Chinese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg[Great Thunberg]. Environment activist. She speakes English too.

Mandatory <<zhihu>> question: https://www.zhihu.com/question/354163461 "如何看待中国首位气候活动家欧泓奕?"

Social media:

* https://twitter.com/howey_ou
* https://weibo.com/u/7305598806

News coverage:

* 2020-09-25 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3103548/greta-thunberg-criticises-china-after-climate-striker-ou-hongyi "Greta Thunberg criticises China after climate striker Ou Hongyi held over protest" detained in Shanghai 
* 2020-06-20 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/chinas-first-climate-striker-cant-return-to-school "China's first climate striker warned: give it up or you can't go back to school"

.Howey Ou skipped classes for a week to protest about climate change in front of the local government office in Guilin in 2019. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3094873/howey-ou-chinas-version-greta-thunberg-pays-price-climate[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Howey_Ou_2019.jpg[height=400]

[[zhou-fengsuo]]
==== Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Fengsuo | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周锋锁

After <<ciro-santilli>> started his campaign for freedom of speech in china in 2015, Zhou Fengsuo published on Twitter in 2015-05-30 when he had 36K followers at the time: https://twitter.com/ZhouFengSuo/status/604461488716144640 (https://archive.is/8d2lt[archive]) linking to Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow account:

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The commies have messed with the wrong guy's <<ciro-santilli-mother-in-law-jail,mother-in-law.>>"

一个程序员在专业网站上发布六四和法轮功的消息，目的是触怒中共，封杀网站，从而激起程序员的反抗。因为岳母被抓半个月。
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==== University student dissidents abroad

* 2020-07 Dong Wuyuan 洞物员 (alias Horror Zoo)
** TODO real name? 洞物员 is the same sound as zoo in Chinese (动物园) which matches the English alias
** https://twitter.com/horror_zoo
** https://twitter.com/FakeNewsOfChina account run by Dong, with many funny anti-CCP images
** https://www.voachinese.com/a/the-reach-of-the-state-07032020/5487187.html "党国的手伸向海外每一个角落，要你封口"
** https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200703/AFQNIBP76SMDK7KXJIR5Q2QAXQ/ "Police try to silence Chinese students abroad with threats to families"
** https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200703/VR4EYZ4UHTECBUILPY5UBJILSQ/

[[opengl106]]
===== Ji Ziyue 季子越 (2020-06, opengl106, 神楽坂梓月)

Aliases: opengl106 神楽坂梓月

Accounts:

* https://github.com/opengl106
** most projects are university course assignments: https://github.com/opengl106/UCAS-assignments-19 | https://github.com/cirosantilli/UCAS-assignments-20 and are generic computer science topics, so maybe not so specialized in bioinformatics
* https://twitter.com/opengl106
** https://web.archive.org/web/20200627190104/https://twitter.com/opengl106 apology post
** 4k followers on Twitter a the time, but small GitHub, so any other external fame source?

Media coverage:

* https://tw.news.yahoo.com/陸生罵-支那廢物-事後歉-辜負祖國-155037705.html
** says they are a student from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences[UCAS] studying abroad, claims family name is 季 and male, Twitter says they are <<gay-rights,non-binary/pansexual>>
* https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60201684/疑有学生在海外发辱华言论中国科学院大学发紧急声明图 contains real photos taken from some public account, appearing dressed as female
** the university UCAS issued a statement on this saying that would be punished
* <<global-times>> accused them of "reviling the victims of the Nanjing Massacre" https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192875.shtml true or false?

Reactions:

* https://www.pincong.rocks/article/20899 <<pincong>> "洁洁良第二？疑似中科院大学学生因推特发表「不当言论」被校方关切", commentary compares the case <<tian-jialiang>>
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/403769563 "如何评价中国科学院大学硕士生季子越在社交媒体发表恨国精日言论？" on <<zhihu>>

[[tian-jialiang]]
===== Tian Jialiang (田佳良, 2018)

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/田佳良事件

Alias: 洁洁良

=== Hong Kong dissidents

Related: <<hong-kong>>.

[[joshua-wong]]
==== Joshua Wong (黄之锋)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃之鋒

Social media:

* https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf

News coverage:

* 2020-09-24 arrested: https://hongkongfp.com/2020/09/24/breaking-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-on-suspicion-of-participating-in-an-unauthorised-assembly/

[[agnes-chow]]
==== Agnes Chow (周庭)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Chow
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周庭

Social media:

* https://twitter.com/chowtingagnes

[[jimmy-lai]]
==== Jimmy Lai (黎智英)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黎智英

Founder of <<apple-daily>>.

=== Western dissidents

* LeLe Farley (乐乐法利): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyYlGTZL-HnnX_UcGkVFH7A

[[serpentza-laowhy86]]
==== Winston Sterzel (SerpentZA) and Matthew Tye (laowhy86)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Sterzel

The biggest China expat YouTube channels, and the also collaborated together a lot.

As of 2019, they seem to have moved to the USA because they can't stand harassment by the Chinese government.

Due to their balanced opinions, fluent Chinese, not being <<falun-gong>>, and having lived in China for such a long time, the offer what is arguably the one of best CCP criticisms.

SerpentZA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7mAGnY4jh4Ps8rhhh8XZg

laowhy86 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChvithwOECK5g_19TjldMKw

ADVChina joint YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNPa8fSXzzAZuT9859GVhg

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ "How I Got my Family Out of China" published by laowhy86 on 2020-07-08.
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA "How I Escaped From China - The Untold Story" published by laowhy86 on 2020-07-01.
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ "#65 China Is Getting Worse | Laowhy86 and SerpentZA" published on 2020-04-05. SerpentZA and laowhy86 interview on "China Unscripted", a sister channel of <<china-uncensored>>. This marks them clearly on the side of "openly criticizing the Chinese government".
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6PI91n2f9o "China Expels Foreign Press to Protect Its Lies" published on 2020-03-23 during/just after <<corona>>.
video::b6PI91n2f9o[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpPpFzLcZg "China's Winnie The Pooh BAN Explained" published on 2019-10-28 discusses <<winnie-the-pooh>>.
video::NXpPpFzLcZg[youtube,height=400,width=600]

== Media (媒体)

Sources of information pertinent to this repository.

=== Commentary media

The following offer interesting commentary, but not to be used as primary sources:

* https://china-journal.org
* https://www.chinafile.com Some good articles. "ChinaFile is an online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society", based in New York.
* https://www.iyouport.org/

[[biased-media]]
=== Biased media (偏见媒体)

I consider the media in this section biased, and never cite it for fact-checking.

[[chinese-government-media]]
==== Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)

* Phoenix TV
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Television
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/凤凰卫视
** https://freebeacon.com/national-security/cruz-seeks-to-shut-down-chinese-propaganda-station-phoenix-tv/

[[xinhua]]
==== Xinhua News Agency (新华社, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新华社

Links:

* http://www.xinhuanet.com/
* https://twitter.com/PDChina
* https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinaViewTV "New China TV"

[[cctv]]
===== China Central Television (CCTV, 中国中央电视台, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国中央电视台

[[cgtn]]
====== China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)

* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrNz-aDmcr2uuto8_DL2jg
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国环球电视网

CCTV's international branch in English, China's <<voa>>.

[[peoples-daily]]
===== People's Daily (人民日报, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Daily
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人民日报

Website: http://people.cn/

The website has per-language and per province subdomains, e.g.:

* http://en.people.cn/
* Province subdomains
** http://js.people.cn/ Jiangsu
* http://fj.people.cn/ Fujian
* https://twitter.com/PDChina

As of 2020, some deleted articles show the home page instead of the article, without redirection. Some examples can be seen at: <<hao-haidong>>.

But older pages just show 404.

[[global-times]]
===== Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/环球时报

Accounts:

* https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews https://archive.is/7oshu
* https://www.facebook.com/globaltimesnews/

[[china-daily]]
===== China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Daily
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国日报

English-language propaganda newspaper.

Responsible for <<china-watch>>.

[[china-radio-international]]
===== China Radio International (CRI, 中国国际广播电台, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Radio_International
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国国际广播电台

Websites:

* http://www.cri.cn
* http://english.cri.cn/

Operates for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCRW which is mentioned at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46557096 from <<spy>>. WTF, you have to obviously block them!

[[pro-chinese-government-media]]
===== Pro-Chinese government media (pro-CCP media)

These might be independent, but they are clearly pro CCP and thus cannot be trusted:

* https://kknews.cc/ refers to <<falun-gong>> as an "Evil Cult" (反邪教) https://kknews.cc/zh-mo/entertainment/lj4y9yb.html (http://archive.is/osBDv[archive])
* http://facts.org.cn/ anti-religion website in English, basically an English <<kaiwind>>

[[guancha]]
====== Guancha News (观察者网)

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/观察者网

Website: https://www.guancha.cn/

YouTube channel, mostly Chinese commentary videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJncdiH3BQUBgCroBmhsUhQ

Ideology:

* anti-<<falun-gong>>: https://www.guancha.cn/politics/2019_09_18_518339.shtml

[[kaiwind]]
====== Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)

http://kaiwind.com/

Anti-religion, and notably, anti-<<falun-gong>> website in Chinese.

It must be said however that they do contain at least some information that seems to be true/interesting.

Including open secrets that every Falun Gong believer knows about but does discuss much publicly, e.g. details of <<li-hongzhis-family>>, and Sun Senjun's account.

Ciro has no proof that this is linked to the government, but it is very likely, even the Chinese embassy website links to it:

* http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20180414233331/http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm

[[falun-gong-media]]
==== Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)

A great example of how <<falun-gong>> is <<flg-organized,highly organized>>.

Likely highly controlled by <<li-hongzhi>>, and extremely lacking clear full disclosure of their affiliation, see also: "Front groups" at <<orange-papers>>.

It could be argued that those media are not "directly" controlled by Li Hongzhi, and possibly were created independently of him initially, but without doubt they are controlled by his devout followers, and if Li Hongzhi ever gave directions, which Ciro has no proof he has ever done, then those media would follow.

Furthermore, Li appears to directly cite some of the main media in Canon or talk at their conferences as Canon.

One thing must be said in their favour however: they are incorruptible in their fight against the CCP.

* https://www.secretchina.com/
* https://fofg.org/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Hope
** https://www.soundofhope.org/
** https://www.bayvoice.net/gb/
* http://lotus-sacre.com/
* http://dongtaiwang.com
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate
* https://hongzhi.li/ nice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack[domain hack]
* https://www.qi-gong.me/
* http://www.zhengjian.org/

[[epoch-times]]
===== The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大纪元时报

Falun Gong's newspaper with news for "general public consumption" an no clear affiliation indication.

In <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa10_3.htm or https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20091017L.html "Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting" from 2009-10-17:

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There are so many things you have to do. You have to do your ordinary job and do it well, you have to manage your family's affairs, and as Dafa disciples you need to make time for Fa-study and exercises; you also need to clarify the truth, as well as participate in Dafa projects, such as The Epoch Times.
____

In 2020-11-08 https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/11/8/n12534746.htm the Epoch Times published a poem by Li Hongzhi, just after Trump was announced to lose the presidential elections, see also:  <<flg-trump>>.

Related:

* https://www.epochweekly.com/

[[new-tang-dynasty-television]]
===== New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新唐人電視台

Falun Gong's newspaper with news for "general public consumption" an no clear affiliation indication.

Li speaking to New Tang conference in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa9_3.htm 在新唐人電視討論會上的講法 or https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz3_73.htm "Fa Teaching Given at the NTDTV Meeting" from 2009-06-06:

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Things are changing rapidly as the Fa-rectification forges ahead and as Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts grow stronger. The energy emitted by NTDTV is very strong
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"Fa-rectification", amazing jargon, see also "Cult-speak" from <<orange-papers>>.

Related shows:

* https://www.youtube.com/user/Laowaikanzhongguo Laowai kan Zhongguo 老外看中國
* https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDOffTheGreatWall Off the Great Wall
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVWMVBg1RPrDlakdmbyTKBA Zooming In with Simone Gao
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3HxxpOJ0WWIuZsb7FtSLWQ The BL (The Beauty of Life) No clear indication, but obvious since intro video shows Falun Gong images.

[[china-uncensored]]
====== China Uncensored (pro-Falun Gong media)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFP46yVT-GG4o1TgXn-04Q

Hosted by Chris Chappell.

Syster interview podcast channel: China Unscripted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1sZefER0E The three makers of China Uncesored appear on the videos.

Older shows had an "ndt.tv" water mark on top right, e.g. a 2013 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmMvS3lgJBs

The video description also links to http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored which is now down, but has archives such as https://web.archive.org/web/20130321071835/http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored which suggest a redirect back to the YouTube channel:

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Redirecting to...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZhVHPaO1ziCc9dRPrgbz2KU0aZF7CJ-
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TODO why did newer videos remove the water mark and clear link? Did they break links, or just to hide Falun Gong influence?

Home page gives extremely unusual importance to Falun Gong resources, e.g.:

* http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20190426203719/http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/[archive]) "China Uncensored is available to watch on this website, on YouTube, on New Tang Dynasty Television"
* http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20190512160736/http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/[archive]) "Chinese police illegally arrested Canadian citizen Sun Qian from her home in Beijing for practicing Falun Gong."

Website credits as of 2020:

* Host Chris Chappell
* Producer Matt Gnaizda: his LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-gnaizda-6598a75/ has a gap from 2009 to 2017, after having graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and worked "regular" jobs. This gap could have been when he converted to Falun Gong and started working for Falun Gong media
** https://twitter.com/mattgnaizda
** https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-matt-gnaizda <<epoch-times>> credits him with several articles between 2005 and 2014
* Humor Ninja Shelley Zhang. She appears  appears to be a professional comedy writer:
** https://twitter.com/shelzhang
** https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelley-zhang-a5741a56/
** https://thechinagirls.wordpress.com/

Related:

* https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-YouTube-show-China-Uncensored-funded/answer/Ciro-Santilli
* https://www.quora.com/Is-the-YouTube-channel-China-Uncensored-a-trustworthy-source-of-information-on-China
* https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20190119083517/https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html[archive]) <<epoch-times>> highlights the channel "Why YouTube's Most Popular Channel on China Politics Doesn't Show in Search Suggestions"

[[minghui]]
===== Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)

https://en.minghui.org/

Falun Gong's primary "social network"/"Falun Gong"-only news/propaganda website. More Falun Gong specific than <<epoch-times>>.

Literally: clear (明) wisdom (慧) network (网)

Li speaking to Minghui conference in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa10_1.htm

TODO how https://www.clearwisdom.net/ compares?

[[shen-yun]]
===== Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun_Performing_Arts
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/神韵艺术团

A good testimony from an ordinary employee from 2013: <<aarvoll-shenyun,Aarvoll's account>>.

Openly directly controlled by <<li-hongzhi>>. He features as director on librettos, e.g. the 2013 one (credited "D. F." (Da Fa) and with his photo).

Shen Yun's headquarters are also located in/near <<dragon-springs>>.

Li mentions Shen Yun in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa11_2.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQ8plzWl9g "They tried to get me to post Chinese propaganda"  by J.J. McCullough (2019) talks about Shen Yun and Falun Gong in general, and how he was offered to post anti-Shen Yun propaganda for 500 dollars.

[[jennifer-zeng]]
===== Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Zeng

https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd

2005 book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Witnessing-History-Womans-Fight-Freedom/dp/1741144000

[[bannedbook]]
===== bannedbook.org (禁闻网, pro-Falun Gong media)

The main Chinese name is 禁闻网 which stands for "banned news network", and is more accurate than the domain name "bannedbook" since the majority of material published appears to be recent banned articles.

Classifying this as Falun Gong media because most or possibly all of the sidebar recommended websites 推荐网站 are also Falun Gong media e.g. as of 2020-04: https://web.archive.org/web/20200427221744/https://www.bannedbook.org/[] includes <<epoch-times>> and https://hongzhi.li/[], so yeah, not much doubt.

From this we deduce that the "banned book" in the domain name originally likely referred more specifically to the banned Falun Gong sacred books: <<flg-canon>>.

Once again, <<flg-transparent>> is in need.

TODO who is behind this website? They store full text copies of banned articles, e.g. https://www.bannedbook.org/bnews/baitai/20190816/1175647.html is a full text copy of http://yashalong.blog.caixin.com/archives/188877 which is mentioned at: <<nazi>>.

[[tuidang]]
===== Tuidang movement (退党, Falun Gong media)

* https://tuidang.org/
* https://en.tuidang.org/

Falun Gong campaign asking Chinese people to revoke their CCP membership.

Extremelly common when <<falun-gong-preaching>> on the streets in touristic areas where Chinese tourists will be present. Fake names will be accepted, so it is obviously just a symbolic act.

A bit less than 10% of the Chinese population are registered CCP members: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party[]. So it is not obligatory, and there likely restrictions. But there must also be some kind of benefits involved. See also: https://daily.jstor.org/communist-party-of-china/

[[usa-government-media]]
==== USA government media (美国政府媒体)

** https://www.voa.com/
** https://www.voachinese.com/
** https://www.voacantonese.com/

Partial support:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯

==== USA-based media bias

2018 graph that everyone needs to see: https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/02/28/Photos/NS/MW-GE557_MediaB_20180228115701_NS.jpg

[[voa]]
===== Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国之音

[[rfa]]
===== Radio Free Asia (RFA) (自由亚洲电台, USA government media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由亚洲电台

Website: https://www.rfa.org

Just because they are/were funded/founded by the CIA, it doesn't mean that we can't use their xref:rebel-pepper[amazing satirical cartoons] to fight xref:dictatorship[], right?

[[hong-kong-media]]
=== Hong kong media (香港媒体)