Qu Weiguo, a Fudan University professor, said the new cases of “indiscriminate retaliation against society” in China had some popular features: Impoverished suspects, some with mental health issues, who believed that they had been treated unfairly and who felt they had no other way to get heard. The most effectiveContinue Reading
Taiwan’s coast guard announced on Saturday ( Nov. 16 ) that a fishing boat captain who had been imprisoned in China for more than four months has been released after having paid a fine. Five team members were aboard the ship, Da Jin Man 88, when it was seized byContinue Reading
In recent years, China has increased military repression against Taiwan, which the region’s state rejects. Beijing has even intensified its extensive geographical states in the East and South China Seas in recent months. The Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, a network of uninhabited islands that Beijing claims butContinue Reading
Despite China being North Korea’s key diplomatic and economic supporter and the South being physically allied with the US, Beijing and Seoul are significant buying lovers.  , China has called in the past for a “political negotiation” to resolve tensions on the Korean peninsula, reiterating that place after the NorthContinue Reading
Weeks later, the CAC announced a follow-up plan that would target “illegal and dangerous content” be circulated on popular online discourse programs.  ,
According to the state-owned Global Times newspaper,” It will target those who spread rumors and false information about public policies and social issues,” adding that some internet users would resort to creating” sentational conspiracy theories.”  ,
” They create dreadful personalities, build troubling stories, and level videos of horrible experience to abuse public sympathy”, the statement read.  ,
To avoid state censors, millions of Chinese internet users have found it necessary to use Mandarin puns, homophones, memes, and another cleverly deceived internet jargon to continue conversations about contentious topics.  ,
Banana fruit for instance, translates to” jin jiao pi” in Mandarin, which shares the exact word as President Xi’s title. But to avoid being detected by censors, netizens may speak to Mr Xi as” xiang jiao pis” online, in place of his proper name.  ,
Shrimp moss, or” xia tai” in Mandarin, sounds similar to saying” step down”.
The online yell for President Xi to resign is known as” Xiang jiao pi xia tai,” which can also be said using emojis.  ,
When Weibo users discuss censorship on the site,” He xie,” the terms for unity and river crab good related in Mandarin.  ,
Weibo people have substituted another seafood like fish because the characters for river crab are now banned and have had dead-end results.  ,
Some observers worry that as repression expands, especially as the Chinese government tries to become a world leader in conceptual AI.  ,
According to Maya Wang, Associate China Director at Human Rights Watch,” What you see in recent years is that the government has tightened such censorship.”
But” fully eradicating” the use of jokes and puns from the internet is very unlikely, said Ms Yew. Given the decentralized and fragmented nature of the internet, she said,” The relationship between Taiwanese citizens and state censors is a cat-and-mouse activity.”  ,
” Chinese users, 1.09 billion of them as of Dec 2023, may continue to create new emotions to escape the editors”, she added. ” The cat-and-mouse sport may just become more powerful”.
After some social media platforms and platforms announced they were complying with the condition and repressing negative information that promoted consumerism and flaunted money, a wave of suspensions hit China’s very wealthy elite online earlier in May.  ,
Google, Douyin and Xiaohongshu, China’s biggest social programs, were only a handful of companies that took a walk against “negative value-oriented information”.  ,
Weibo administrators announced it had taken behavior on users and glad that” showed of wealth and income devotion” as well as “extravagance and waste” –” cleaning up” more than 1, 000 posts of “bad value” behaviour. According to authorities, the site’s 27 records were suspended or prohibited altogether.  ,
Google Holdings, which runs the famous instant messaging program Sq, announced it had targeted records “promoting consumerism” and extravagant lifestyles – deleting more than 6, 000 pieces of content and “dealt with 36 improper accounts”.  ,
TOKYO:  , Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of Japan’s royal family and great aunt to the emperor, died aged 101 on Friday ( Nov 15 ) in a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. She had been recovering that after receiving treatment in intensive care after being hospitalized sinceContinue Reading
A wooden walkway leading to a well-known suspension bridge collapsed on Wednesday ( Nov 13 ) in Taiwan, killing an elderly tourist and injuring four others. The 3 m-high beachfront reportedly collapsed as the subjects of the popular tourist attraction in Chiayi’s Alishan Township, Fumei Suspension Bridge, gathered for aContinue Reading
NEW Challenges Police said preliminary investigations showed the culprit of Monday’s frenzy was a 62-year-old person “dissatisfied” with a marriage settlement. In other cases, a middle-aged man used a razor and weapons to kill at least 21 people in eastern Shandong province in February, and a 55-year-old person rammed aContinue Reading
” I felt like it sounded like an earthquake, the car rushed over, ( travelling at ) 70 to 80kmh, very fast”, he said.
” We were walking forward, and we did n’t expect the car to come from behind”.
Chen jumped into the shrubbery next to the track to escape, but the majority of his colleagues were in his usual position, in the middle of the party, and had no time to maneuver away from the path.
” I still do n’t understand how he rushed in”, Chen added, saying vehicles are not allowed in that area.
He claimed that there were more than 40 people of his training class present, and eleven of them had died, two of whom are still unaccounted for.
According to Chen, there were subjects of all ages and from a variety of backgrounds.
A list of the patients has not been made available by the authorities.
Since Monday night, images and videos have been circulated on social media showing that victims also include those who did n’t previously use the exercise track.
” I do n’t understand why someone would want to kill so many people”, said Chen.
The attack’s location, according to another native named Lai, was “terrifying” and “really painful.”
He had gone that because he knew his family, who was unharmed, often went to dance classes there.
Online, there have also been website appeals for more people to join the reason.
” Now, Zhuhai city’s body businesses are in need of blood. We ask that all neighbors and friends constantly respond. Please help by spreading the word. reads a blog from Xiaohongshu, a Taiwanese social media platform.
The article included a body banks address and the physical requirements for potential sponsors.
Citizens from even further away have made an effort to help out. After learning about the event, a Macao native claimed to have driven to a blood banks in Zhuhai on Tuesday morning. But on appearance, he was told that heart supplies were “enough”.  ,
” A staff at the ( blood ) bank told me that there were currently more than 100 people in the queue and that their blood supplies were sufficient”, he shared on Xiaohongshu.
According to local media reports, the National Health Commission has dispatched 11 professionals to help with the work, while more than 300 healthcare professionals from five Zhuhai hospitals are treating the sufferers.
A 62-year-old gentleman with the surname Fan has been identified as the suspect. Local authorities said on Tuesday that he rammed people exercising on the inner roads and through the sports center’s wall.