Somehow this feels like a psyops because it doesn't even make sense.
They could buy a ticket to Latin America but not the US?
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They could buy a ticket to Latin America but not the US?
That's what am trying to understand. I lost contact with my ex (phone was lost) since she still go back and forth to China and has family there.
i've been seeing propaganda pictures (on right wing social media posts, news sites, and broadcast media) of face-blurred children with captions of something about chinese migrant children caught trying to enter the US across the mexican border at rio grande valley. then i search for the original source with no face blur and find a video that the picture was screenshotted from. it's clearly a latin american child. i've also been seeing videos of well-dressed middle-class-looking college-aged chinese guys lined up in "san vicente, panama, MIGRANT CAMP". then i search up the location on google maps and find out it's a touristy region of rainforest reserves and national parks. my partner is also seeing propaganda pictures on xiaohongshu echoing the same message and posting the same types of suspicious "evidence".
this looks like a fresh new right-wing psyop mobilizing support from falun gong, hanjian, and green DPP types.
this looks like a fresh new right-wing psyop mobilizing support from falun gong, hanjian, and green DPP types.
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Former Party chief of Hangzhou accused of accepting bribes totaling $28 million
By Global Times Published: Apr 27, 2023 11:11 PM
Zhou Jiangyong at court in Chuzhou, East China's Anhui Province on April 27, 2023. Photo: CCTV
Zhou Jiangyong, former Party chief of Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang Province, is accused of taking advantage of his position to receive bribes, directly or through his relatives, totaling more than 193 million yuan ($28 million). The prosecutorial authority is seeking to hold Zhou criminally responsible for the crime of accepting bribery.
The People's Procuratorate in Chuzhou, East China's Anhui Province, revealed that over the past 20 years from 2001 to 2021, Zhou has been making use of his positions from a county head to Party chief of Hangzhou to provide assistance to relevant businesses and individuals in matters such as construction projects, contracting, land acquisition, among other commercial favors.
During the process, he had illegally received properties, directly or through his family, totaling more than 193 million yuan ($28 million) in equivalence.
During the trial, Zhou pleaded guilty in court. A verdict will be delivered at a later date.
Zhou was put under both disciplinary and supervisory investigations by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the National Supervisory Commission in August 2021, and was expelled from the Party and public office for violating laws and disciplines in January 2022.
The CCDI said the former official ignored the spirit of the central government, colluded with the capital, and supported disorderly expansion of capital. He also violated rules by interfering in the market economy and engaging in corrupt activities with his family members.
China has been strengthening efforts to tackle corruption and other types of disciplinary violations. China's top anti-corruption watchdog has filed 138,000 cases and punished 111,000 individuals across the country in the first quarter of the year. Among them, one official was formerly ranked at the ministerial level, and 633 were at the bureau level.
Global Times
By Global Times Published: Apr 27, 2023 11:11 PM
Zhou Jiangyong at court in Chuzhou, East China's Anhui Province on April 27, 2023. Photo: CCTV
Zhou Jiangyong, former Party chief of Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang Province, is accused of taking advantage of his position to receive bribes, directly or through his relatives, totaling more than 193 million yuan ($28 million). The prosecutorial authority is seeking to hold Zhou criminally responsible for the crime of accepting bribery.
The People's Procuratorate in Chuzhou, East China's Anhui Province, revealed that over the past 20 years from 2001 to 2021, Zhou has been making use of his positions from a county head to Party chief of Hangzhou to provide assistance to relevant businesses and individuals in matters such as construction projects, contracting, land acquisition, among other commercial favors.
During the process, he had illegally received properties, directly or through his family, totaling more than 193 million yuan ($28 million) in equivalence.
During the trial, Zhou pleaded guilty in court. A verdict will be delivered at a later date.
Zhou was put under both disciplinary and supervisory investigations by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the National Supervisory Commission in August 2021, and was expelled from the Party and public office for violating laws and disciplines in January 2022.
The CCDI said the former official ignored the spirit of the central government, colluded with the capital, and supported disorderly expansion of capital. He also violated rules by interfering in the market economy and engaging in corrupt activities with his family members.
China has been strengthening efforts to tackle corruption and other types of disciplinary violations. China's top anti-corruption watchdog has filed 138,000 cases and punished 111,000 individuals across the country in the first quarter of the year. Among them, one official was formerly ranked at the ministerial level, and 633 were at the bureau level.
Global Times
Over 400 relics associated with Cao Cao, a Chinese statesman, warlord and poet, went on display to the public for the first time in April. Unearthed from his mausoleum in Anyang, Henan.
Over the past decade, China’s once-pollution-choked skies have steadily improved, according to more than two decades of atmospheric measurements taken by NASA satellites.
Each year, air pollution is responsible for more than four million premature deaths globally — including an estimated one million in China — primarily from heart disease, lung cancer and respiratory illnesses. Fine particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less — referred to as PM2.5 — is the most concerning air pollutant.
Since 2013, PM2.5 levels have steadily declined, and in 2021, the average annual exposure was 33.3 micrograms per cubic metre (see ‘Fresh air’). That’s below the nation’s air-quality standard of 35.
In 2021, the WHO lowered its recommended annual-exposure limit for PM2.5 from 10 to 5 micrograms per cubic metre, a level that China, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Canada, exceed.
The decline in PM2.5 is the result of targeted efforts by China over the past two decades to address poor air quality. Upgrades to coal-fired power plants have had the biggest effect so far, says Qiang Zhang, an atmospheric scientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Since 2004, the Chinese government has provided subsidies to retrofit smokestacks in coal-fired power plants with filters and other equipment to remove sulfur dioxide — a molecule that reacts with other compounds in the atmosphere to form PM2.5 particles — from emissions.
In 2013, China released its air-pollution prevention and control action plan, which further tightened standards for industrial emissions, and shut down small, inefficient power generators and industrial operators.
An analysis by Zhang and his colleagues shows that these measures accounted for 81% of the reductions to PM2.5 emissions between 2013 and 2017.
Further reductions could lead to fewer heavy-pollution days — driven by industrial emissions and cold weather that prevents dispersal — when the daily PM2.5 concentration can exceed 200 micrograms per cubic metre. Last year, China’s government set a target to eliminate heavy-pollution days by 2025.
“Energy and the climate policies would definitely play more important roles in the future,” he says. These include efforts to supply more households with natural gas or electric heating systems in parts of rural China that still rely on coal and wood-fired stoves to heat their homes.
Electrical grids in rural areas are being upgraded to accommodate the increased capacity required for domestic heating, says Zhang, and the renewable-energy sector is expanding. But, “it’s still a long way to go”, before coal-fired power is replaced, he says.
Each year, air pollution is responsible for more than four million premature deaths globally — including an estimated one million in China — primarily from heart disease, lung cancer and respiratory illnesses. Fine particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less — referred to as PM2.5 — is the most concerning air pollutant.
Since 2013, PM2.5 levels have steadily declined, and in 2021, the average annual exposure was 33.3 micrograms per cubic metre (see ‘Fresh air’). That’s below the nation’s air-quality standard of 35.
In 2021, the WHO lowered its recommended annual-exposure limit for PM2.5 from 10 to 5 micrograms per cubic metre, a level that China, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Canada, exceed.
The decline in PM2.5 is the result of targeted efforts by China over the past two decades to address poor air quality. Upgrades to coal-fired power plants have had the biggest effect so far, says Qiang Zhang, an atmospheric scientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Since 2004, the Chinese government has provided subsidies to retrofit smokestacks in coal-fired power plants with filters and other equipment to remove sulfur dioxide — a molecule that reacts with other compounds in the atmosphere to form PM2.5 particles — from emissions.
In 2013, China released its air-pollution prevention and control action plan, which further tightened standards for industrial emissions, and shut down small, inefficient power generators and industrial operators.
An analysis by Zhang and his colleagues shows that these measures accounted for 81% of the reductions to PM2.5 emissions between 2013 and 2017.
Further reductions could lead to fewer heavy-pollution days — driven by industrial emissions and cold weather that prevents dispersal — when the daily PM2.5 concentration can exceed 200 micrograms per cubic metre. Last year, China’s government set a target to eliminate heavy-pollution days by 2025.
“Energy and the climate policies would definitely play more important roles in the future,” he says. These include efforts to supply more households with natural gas or electric heating systems in parts of rural China that still rely on coal and wood-fired stoves to heat their homes.
Electrical grids in rural areas are being upgraded to accommodate the increased capacity required for domestic heating, says Zhang, and the renewable-energy sector is expanding. But, “it’s still a long way to go”, before coal-fired power is replaced, he says.