China News Thread

[zhangjim]

NPC deputy to propose sex education in kindergartens, compiling Chinese textbooks to 'help break Western-dominated values'

This is a good idea, but it will be difficult to implement.
Conservatism still has great influence, and sex education is regarded as "obscene thought", which is believed to make minors "degenerate".
The attempt of sex education for minors has been carried out for many years, but parents always oppose it very strongly.
I would like to say a very unpleasant word. At present, the work of sex education for minors in China is to constantly repeat the process of "try - oppose - fail".

Considering that even the physical nudity (thigh and chest) of characters in the game is intolerable at present, I don't think sex education will be successful.

 

[supercat]

Helping whooper swans to prepare for their migration:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631294047384924162

Black-necked cranes are on the first class protection list (most endangered) in China. It's the world's only cranes that live and breed in high altitude.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631199738128203776

Protecting the endangered red-crowned cranes:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631565188305506307

A mother leopard and 2 of her cubs:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631620991116886017

 

[zhangjim]

An interesting and noteworthy message:

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In Wuxi, personal data related to COVID-19 has been destroyed under supervision, with a number of up to 1 billion.

In 2022, some unpleasant incidents of abuse of disease prevention and control management occurred, so it is obviously necessary to curb the occurrence of such incidents.
Obviously, this means the complete end of the strict disease prevention and control policy.

 

[supercat]

Saving an injured dolphin:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631998946494103553

Amur tiger breeding program:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631973580639461377

Wild elephants:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1632307912860213250

 

[luosifen]

@siegecrossbow When mountain plum farmers in Guizhou have better rail than the USA:

 

[Gogurt4ever]

Two weeks old now, but a bit of an embarrassing episode by the Foreign Ministry. A satirical tweet by Political Commentator Garland Nixon was apparently taken as literal: he talked about the "plan for the destruction of Taiwan". This was clearly satirical, as he has many tweets in the exact same format. He even made a video stating that it was satire:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1629322594112647169

. Again, the Chinese Foreign Ministry seemingly took it literally, as both Wang Wenbin and Qin Gang mentioned this "plan":

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. Global Times also ran with the story:

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Mistakes happen, but this was quite embarrassing tbh. I understand that it's probably not far removed from actual American contingency plans to blow up TSMC or w/e, but it's still stupid to (a) not detect the sarcasm, and (b) parrot what some untrustworthy radio host is saying in the first place. China's MFA, and China's English-facing news/diplomacy apparatus has a lot of room for improvement, to put it nicely.

 

[Biscuits]

Two weeks old now, but a bit of an embarrassing episode by the Foreign Ministry. A satirical tweet by Political Commentator Garland Nixon was apparently taken as literal: he talked about the "plan for the destruction of Taiwan". This was clearly satirical, as he has many tweets in the exact same format. He even made a video stating that it was satire:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1629322594112647169

. Again, the Chinese Foreign Ministry seemingly took it literally, as both Wang Wenbin and Qin Gang mentioned this "plan":

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. Global Times also ran with the story:

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Mistakes happen, but this was quite embarrassing tbh. I understand that it's probably not far removed from actual American contingency plans to blow up TSMC or w/e, but it's still stupid to (a) not detect the sarcasm, and (b) parrot what some untrustworthy radio host is saying in the first place. China's MFA, and China's English-facing news/diplomacy apparatus has a lot of room for improvement, to put it nicely.

He did not quote that person specifically?

Its more than fair that China asks America openly about their plans regarding aggression, destruction and eventually annexation of Chinese border territory, given that US has been implicated in sending weapons to hostile rebels. Its not an unreasonable question to ask at all.

 

[Gogurt4ever]

He did not quote that person specifically?

Its more than fair that China asks America openly about their plans regarding aggression, destruction and eventually annexation of Chinese border territory, given that US has been implicated in sending weapons to hostile rebels. Its not an unreasonable question to ask at all.

Wang Wenbin's comment about this quoted the exact phrasing of the tweet and was made only days after the tweet itself. Wang Wenbin also didn't ask a general question about the US maybe wanting to do this: he specifically asked what was up with this particular plan. Additionally, Both the Global Times and China Daily articles about this literally cite Garland Nixon's tweet.

 

[CMP]

Nobody will be surprised by this, but there are a ton of unacceptable double standards at play here. If China were returning the favor by arming Cuba to the teeth (US arming Taiwan), funding domestic far-right pro-white terrorism and Hawaiian separatism (US funding Tibetan rebellion in the 40s/50s and Uighur terrorism in the 2000s and 2010s), then we'd be seeing equal standards and expectations.

 

[broadsword]

Wang Wenbin's comment about this quoted the exact phrasing of the tweet and was made only days after the tweet itself. Wang Wenbin also didn't ask a general question about the US maybe wanting to do this: he specifically asked what was up with this particular plan. Additionally, Both the Global Times and China Daily articles about this literally cite Garland Nixon's tweet.

It's prudent to ask the US administration for clarification, even if Garland Nixon was a satirist, as he was using the name of Joe Biden in his quote. And nobody knows if he was being satirical this time again. So it is up to the US side to assure the Chinese AND the world as a form of diplomacy.