Just when you think you’ve seen all the possible bad propaganda, this is what one Chinese embassy thought made a good ‘before and after’ comparison to show China’s progress. 😳

Sigh. My kid came home from school and said they’d watched a video about Taiwan today, with a military theme. Sounds like the healthy sort of programming that children should be watching in class. Not.

All the people you’d expect to be upset about the Nobel Peace Prize going to an opponent of Maduro in Venezuela are indeed in tears today.

An under-appreciated benefit of the USB port: it bypasses the need for a plug adaptor in foreign countries. 👍🏻

Sorry, but are we meant to think staged “Messianic leader surrounded by sycophants awkwardly feigning affection and trying to touch the hem of his garments” style propaganda is good? Is that the message here?

Retired Chinese people when the local coffee shop closes: Hmm, maybe I should have bought at least one drink over the years I used to sit inside it all day for free.

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They could make the statue look like him in his final moments as a workaround.

Attention is always on Uyghurs and Tibetans, but there are 55 minorities in 🇨🇳 and many of them are seeing language decline. I know a Zhuang woman who can’t speak Zhuang and recently met several Miao people who don’t know their language. Manchu is all but extinct. Why do these never get talked about?

Yikes. A news story that exposes not one but three troubling issues: 1, toxic substances being discarded in public; 2, hospitals refusing to help people in need; 3, unregulated sales of toxic substances on the Internet. 🤦‍♂️

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Maybe displaying his body like Mao for people to file past.

A lot of people upset about the killing of Charlie Kirk are busy identifying co-conspirators based on nothing but furtive eye glances and baseball cap adjustments in the news footage. So their reaction to a murder is to help get other innocent people murdered in retaliation. Makes sense.

X is exactly how I expected it to be this morning, lol. Insults, squabbles, hypocrisy and conspiracy theories. Nothing changes.

Woke up to see that MAGA has found its Horst Wessel.

Why does everything have to involve everyone now? So a woman got mad at a guy because she didn’t get a baseball. In the old days that would have been between him and her. You don’t have to wade in.

This is your view through your sniper rifle. You get one shot before the other two are rushed to safety. Who’s your target? 😏

Kim Jong-Un is a “top leader” of the world now?

Not content with removing term limits, Xi is now pursuing immortality so he can rule forever. 😂 😱

Hard to reconcile China releasing thousands of doves in the name of peace with kids watching this at school and my kid coming home to tell me they did army drills and played rifle games at school today. Mixed messaging to say the least.

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Confirmed: My coworker’s 3 year old daughter is watching the parade at kindergarten. Sigh.

What wound you think if schools in your country cancelled classes so the kids could watch a military parade and listen to speeches by the Dear Leader? It’s happening today in China, from Grade 1 up. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if kindergartens are showing it too.

A new school year, but Xi Jinping Thought remains on the curriculum.

Buddhist scriptures are also mentioned, which surely affects the enrollment of boys in Tibetan seminaries. It seems clear there’s a policy to cut off religion at the current generation by effectively blocking religious content for minors.

I’m an atheist anyway and will be keeping my kid away from religion by choice, just find it noticeable how kids aren’t even permitted to step inside and look, which seems a step removed from 参加 (participating). From what I’ve found online it seems Uyghurs are a big target of this too.

I sense there has been a silent edict to more strictly enforce keeping children away from religion recently. Twice at different temples in different cities my kid has been told to get out of the worship halls. Not even allowed to look as a tourist. Also seen more signs like 禁止未成年人进入 or 未成年人不得参加宗教活动.

Tbf, there are plenty of transnational reserves already in the world. Brazil and Argentina both have NPs around the Iguazu Falls. China and Russia have bordering NPs that protect Amur leopards and Siberian tigers. Kenya and Tanzania have an NP and national reserve in the Serengeti. And many others.

Just been to my friend’s dad’s compound in south Jiading. Christ. I hope he doesn’t pay a management fee because no maintenance is being done. 🐈 and 🐕 shit everywhere. Paint peeling. 🌳 overgrown. 🗑️ overflowing and stinking. Potholes in the road. Paving slabs missing. The other side of Shanghai.

Spoke to two other Miao people who also can’t speak their native language. One was a woman in her 40s, the other a young man in his early 20s who couldn’t even tell me how to say ‘hello’. “My parents didn’t teach me.” I asked “Don’t you learn it at school?”, knowing the answer ofc, and he said no.

The Miao were once the most rebellious group in China, so much so that Uyghurs (!) were once sent to put down one of their uprisings. They fought the Ming and the Qing multiple times to resist forced assimilation. Clearly they have now given up on that.