Wuhan: protests to end lockdown, special police use batons to beat residents

  Backlink: THE BL On September 3, residents of several communities in Panlong, Huangpi District, Wuhan City, the capital of China’s Hubei Province gathered at the entrance to ask the government to end the lockdown. As a result, the government dispatched many special police officers swinging batons and beating people, and many were arrested.       […]

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UN Education Agency Launches War on ‘Conspiracy Theories’

  Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES UNESCO is training and recruiting teachers as a key part of its global effort to combat what it considers problematic information and ideas. According to the Paris-based U.N. education agency, which released a major report on the subject for educators this summer, conspiracy theories cause “significant harm” and form “the backbone of […]

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US Ambassador lines up for PCR test, Chinese shout Shanghai mayor’s name

  Backlink: THE BL The U.S. ambassador lined up in Shanghai for a nucleic acid test, sparking lively discussion, with netizens wondering: Has the Shanghai mayor ever lined up for a nucleic acid test? NetEase reported that Burns took a high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai on August 31. This is his first official visit to Shanghai after […]

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Xi Jinping gave a controversial signal regarding ‘closing the country’

  Backlink: THE BL In the past few days, an article titled “The Research Group of the Chinese Academy of History: New Explorations on the Problem of “Seclusion and Lockdown” in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has become popular on the Internet. It is said that it is a signal for Xi Jinping to reverse the car […]

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Pakistan flood toll rises with 25 children among 57 more deaths

  Backlink: REUTERS The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains brought floods that have affected 33 million people and […]

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CCP censorship blacklist continues to grow, artists and writers silenced

  Backlink: THE BL The list of books and artists banned by the Chinese regime continues to grow. On Aug. 29, a media outlet reported that several schools received a new list of prohibited books sent to students’ parents. The list includes the works of the cartoonist Guo Jingxiong, the Taiwanese writer Lung Ying-tai and the writer […]

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India’s first homegrown carrier enters into service in tense Indo-Pacific

  Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA India on Friday commissioned the INS Vikrant, its first indigenous aircraft carrier, marking a milestone in its push to reduce its military’s reliance on foreign imports as tensions with China simmer. The 262-meter-long ship, which can accommodate up to 30 fighter jets, cost about 200 billion rupees ($2.5 billion) to build, […]

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Sri Lankan ousted President Rajapaksa returns home from Thailand

  Backlink: LIVE MINT Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country about two months ago during the nation’s worst-ever economic crisis situation, returned home from Thailand on Friday, according to news agency PTI. Rajapaksa fled the country on July 13 after protestors in Sri Lanka demanded his resignation and stormed the President’s House in […]

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Tech billionaire unveils plan to fund training for 3 million Taiwanese against potential Chinese invasion

  Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS UMC founder Robert Tsao labels Chinese propaganda as ‘nonsense’. Tsao, the founder of the world’s second-largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), called a press conference to show his national ID card, saying he had renounced his Singaporean citizenship for Taiwanese citizenship. He said he would stay in Taiwan to defend […]

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The South to North Water Diversion Project and the Three Gorges Project are the largest unfinished projects in China

  Backlink: THE BL On July 7, CCTV reported that the construction of the main route of the South-North Water Diversion project has begun in Danjiangkou Town, Hubei Province. This project aims to divert water from the Yangtze river from the Three Gorges Dam into the Han Jiang River – a major tributary of the Yangtze. This […]

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China Locks Down 21 Million People in Chengdu After COVID Outbreak

  Backlink: VOA NEWS   In a statement, Chengdu city officials said city residents must “stay home in principle” from 6 p.m. Thursday, while non-essential employees were asked to work from home to combat a new wave of infections. Households will be allowed to send one person per day to shop for necessities, provided they can […]

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Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved in Social Media Censorship Push: Documents

  Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, and onetime White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt, have been in touch with one or more major social media companies to try to get the companies to tighten rules on […]

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