One of the key points of <<xi-jinping,Xi Jinping's>> governments has been to quench corruption. And use that as an excuse to get rid of rivals while at it.
However, there is one much better solution to that: democracy and freedom of speech.
However, there is one much better solution to that: <<democracy,democracy>> and freedom of speech.
The reason is obvious: with censorship, <<chinese-politicians-really-care-about-the-chinese-citizens,corrupt politicians>> can <<internal-censorship,censor>> anything bad that they did, and so it becomes much harder to destroy corruption.
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Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
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The theme is also mentioned in <<v-for-vendetta>>, where a <<covid,viral outbreak>> is used by governments to increase their power over the people.
https://youtu.be/74Mw3N6WxG0?t=174 Cant Get You Out of My Head S01E05 Part Five The Lordly Ones also (2021, BBC) mentions that a huge propaganda machinery was created to spread the fake news that <<tiananmen>> was an evil western plot.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoBv6ibh8M The excessive fear of external country theme is also mentioned in <<v-for-vendetta>>, where a <<covid,viral outbreak>> is used by governments to increase their power over the people.
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It is a shame that most people who are ever able to do that are <<shitpost,shitposters>>, but credit where credit is due.
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==== Can I contact Ciro Santilli in Chinese? (我可以用中文联系三西猴吗？)
If you don't know English well enough, that's fine though, go for Chinese, Ciro Santilli will likely understand it: <<does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese>>.
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Meme images, however, cross the language barrier beautifully. It is even better if they have Chinese captions.
For websites that don't accept image on comments, we just have to revert to link:random-links[] to start with.
Another way to see it is that we are creating a harder to censor <<instagram>> channel.
You can think of them metaphorically as throwing hand grenades over the <<gfw>>. Ciro strives to add the following elements in the image itself where applicable:
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plus 24-hour bodyguards. <<panama-papers>> comes to mind.
* https://www.quora.com/How-did-President-Xi-Jinping-send-his-daughter-to-Harvard-on-a-salary-of-well-under-20k-a-year-at-the-time How did President Xi Jinping send his daughter to Harvard on a salary of well under $20k a year at the time?
* https://www.quora.com/How-did-Xi-Jinpings-daughter-get-into-Harvard How did Xi Jinping's daughter get into Harvard?
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/xi-mingze-16091.php says birthday June 27, 1992.
https://answersafrica.com/meet-xi-mingze-xi-jinpings-daughter-is-she-married-where-is-she-now.html gives some public appearances, e.g. in New York in 2018.
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Doesn't the CCP invest billions annually in propaganda and <<internal-censorship>>? Notably in paying <<ccp-apologists>>?
Aren't all <<corruption,top CCP people extremelly wealthy>>, and often sending their children to study abroad, or moving abroad themselves, e.g. <<xi-mingze>>?
Think <<wumao,wumaos>>, think.
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For lower profile links, see: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/wiki
* 2022-07-20 https://support.github.com to <<meant-to-be-used>>. GitHub is on Ciro's side.
* 2022-05 bytedance.feishu.cn 3 people to repo https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
* 2022-06-03 8 links from bytedance.feishu.cn to https://cirosantilli.com/cirosantilli Perhaps interested in Ciro's recent clear disclosure that he was in Cambridge in 2017? Two of them have identifiers:
