Chinese Communist Party Megathread - Cold War 2: Electric Boogaloo

in high school we had a foreign exchange student from China, a very tall boy whose name I don't remember, but I think it started with a P. IIRC he was from an upper middle class family and lived in a city but not one of the big cities. He was very nice and played acoustic guitar, which he would carry around at break.

I was in the room working as a teacher's aide when I overheard a chat between him, another teacher, and 2 others. He said a large percentage of his generation, somewhere over 40%, won't be able to find wives because of the one-child policy. I also recall him saying he wanted to GTFO as soon as possible.

When I say I hate China, I mean the government and the shills that know the evil but go along with it because they themselves are evil. I don't hate the general populace, many of which basically can't fight against it else they or their family will be killed. As someone else pointed out, multiple generations are going to have to face that world alone without siblings, aunts and uncles, and cousins because one child. All we can hope for is for China or its government to implode one day.
 
When I say I hate China, I mean the government and the shills that know the evil but go along with it because they themselves are evil. I don't hate the general populace, many of which basically can't fight against it else they or their family will be killed. As someone else pointed out, multiple generations are going to have to face that world alone without siblings, aunts and uncles, and cousins because one child. All we can hope for is for China or its government to implode one day.
Considering the one child policy has already sowed the devastation of their replacement numbers, and pairing that with their aging population of old and infirm people, implosion is now inevitable. It's the trifecta following the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Even if they went to war with their neighbors and won every last conflict, their policies 20 years ago cannot unfuck those prospects. Russia also has a problem with a shrinking populace, but it won't blowback on them nearly as hard as China will.
 
A thought come to my mind and it's a far-fetched scenario but if and it's a big "if", president Xi the pooh really have been hit seriously by Corona-chan. Will the PCC decide to use HCQ or some guys in the PCC want to see him passing away more sooner so they could replace him asap?
 
Finally finished watching Empire of Dust, it really gives me the impression that if the Chinese wanted to, they could roll over the Congolese with tanks and build a society for themselves on African land and the locals would just ignore it and continue living in impoverished shanty towns side-by-side with the skyscrapers.
 

Chinese Police Target Muslim Minorities Using Digital Forensics: Researcher

An app developed by Chinese digital forensics giant Meiya Pico is used in the mass surveillance of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, Ningxia and Yunnan, according to an anthropologist who has spoken with a former Kazakh security officer, one among some 90,000 who now patrol the streets of Xinjiang, searching people's devices. Darren Byler, a postdoctoral researcher in anthropology at the Asian Studies Center at the University of Colorado, explained to RFA's Mandarin Service how the app is used on the ground:

Meiya Pico is a digital forensics company, which means that ... they help police, they help investigators to find data that is hidden on devices. So what they've done is they've worked with the Public Security Bureau and others to develop a system and a device that will look for data that's hidden on people's devices, that has to do with Islam or with politics, with many flagged [keywords]. So there [are] thousands and thousands of these things that they're looking for.

And they can assess someone's device very quickly. So they just plug it into your device and then it will scan it very quickly. It looks a lot like a smartphone. It has the same kind of interface as a smartphone. It's actually an Android device, but it has a cable that will attach that phone to your phone. And then basically it takes all of the information from your phone onto this device and then scans through it very quickly.

It can do a lot of things. You can even look for passwords and keys for things that are password protected on your own phone. Once it captures those passwords, then it can try to enter that application on your phone and it will search through your chat history to look at your images or look at videos, [capturing] all of these things. And in the context of Xinjiang, they're really looking for things to do with Islam for the most part, and also politics.

Your phone has to be turned on, I think, for it to work, and so they will ask you to turn on your phone. They might also have to ask you to open your phone, especially if it's an iPhone, because I think it's not always successful in opening [an] iPhone. So there are some ways they coerce you into helping them to do it. But because ... they know that you can be sent to [a re-education] camp if you refuse to cooperate. So people always just give their password to the police.

I found some evidence that they are beginning to trial these devices to send them to police departments in other places [outside of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]. For instance, they're using them in Ningxia to target Hui [Muslims]. And in some places in Yunnan, they're using them to target people. They're also using it at the borders. I haven't looked exhaustively, but at least some borders in China that when you enter China ... you can have your phone scanned with one of these devices.

Meiya Pico itself has talked about wanting to really expand along the Belt and Road [countries involved in China's international infrastructure program]. And so they've already begun that to some extent ... It definitely is happening. But that's part of what the people want to do, is they want to market their data tools to other companies, other countries.

It is important to know that Meiya is a kind of cutting edge company when it comes to digital forensics. [It] is one of the leading companies in the world.

It's considered a major national company in China ... at the forefront of technology growth in China, [which] offers these kind of technology companies a really data-rich environment because there are so many people to target. And there's so much money that's being spent to build these systems specifically for Xinjiang. So it allows them to build the capacities of these systems, to test them, to research them.

And once they have those capacities built, then they can ... adapt them for other purposes. So Xinjiang is kind of a training ground where a lot of these new technologies are being developed.

[An export ban in the] U.S. stops American companies from providing tools or services or equipment to Meiya Pico.

To the extent they are always dependent on U.S. suppliers and then they can be harmed by this. But my sense is that ... this is actually something that is showing how powerful they are as a company, that the U.S. is a threat ... that means that they are really good at what they're doing.

And I actually think that they're starting to use it as a sort of marketing strategy that they can say, look, the U.S. cares so much about us.

We need to have global regulation against this kind of technology, that protects the rights of especially vulnerable populations. [Some] people ... don't have ... civil rights protections to protect them against this kind of invasive policing.

Problem bigger than China

But the problem is bigger than just a China versus the U.S. issue, because in the U.S., the police departments are also using tools that are similar to these.

They're using tools like Clearview, which allows police departments and other companies to do image searches of people that can scrape data from people's social media, and they can track people in ways that are not that dissimilar from what Meiya Pico is doing. So really what we need is ... a global kind of cyber court or legal system that would regulate all of these companies equally and prevent them from, you know, going into people's private lives and targeting them in this way.

It's important to know that ... the things that they are looking for are not actually related to terrorism or extremism. They're just normal expressions of Islam, just things like saying, you know, peace be unto you in Arabic or having a picture of Koran or even saying the word Allah, which is just a name for God. And so we need to have regulation that prevents the kind of abuse that Meiya Pico and others are perpetrating on people.

There are not enough ... human rights and civil rights protections for people that are in marginalized positions, especially Muslim people in China, but other minorities as well. Any sexual minority or political minority, they can be targeted in similar ways. So it's really the vulnerable people, the people that are at the margins of Chinese society and any society that needs the most protection from these kinds of tools.

Baimurat, the person I wrote about, was hired to be a kind of ... assistant police, which means that he doesn't have formal training as a police officer. He actually has a degree in something else. But he knew Chinese language ... and so they hired him. And then he found that he was actually given one of these devices and would have to track people.

He and the other data police ... were supposed to target Uyghurs and Kazakhs in particular and check their phones. And then he realized that when he checked their phones and it came back with like a red sign that this person should be detained, that they were being sent to a kind of prison camp or re-education camp.

And so he saw that lots of people, even his own relatives, were being sent to these camps. And then eventually he went inside the camp and he saw what conditions were like. And he felt really terrible that he had been part of the system ... and really traumatized by it. He realized that he himself was not safe, that if he quit his job or if he didn't follow orders, that he could also be sent to the camp.

And so he really wanted to just leave the system entirely ... He managed to get back to Kazakhstan, but he's still sort of haunted by the experiences and the things that he saw. And he feels terrible that he was complicit in this system that harmed so many people. I think his life is better now than it was before. But the system is ongoing ... And he knows that many of his relatives are in the camps, and so it's a difficult thing to live with.
 

Why China's dramatic economic recovery might not add up

Beijing prompted envy, admiration and not a little resentment when it released data last week confirming that it was the first major economy to start growing again after the devastation caused by Covid-19 in the first half of the year.
China appeared to have achieved the V-shaped recovery being chased by finance ministers around the world, after pioneering mass lockdowns to contain the virus that had taken hold in Wuhan, then shutting its borders to stop it filtering back in from abroad.

With the country largely virus-free, people could return to something like normal life in offices, schools, shops and restaurants, and the government encouraged a splurge in investment across infrastructure and new manufacturing.

Government data showed growth of 4.9% between July and September, slightly lower than economists had expected, but still an astonishing achievement.
Analysts have warned, however, that apparent data manipulation, and the details of how China returned to growth – relying more on investment than consumption – raise questions about the strength and durability of the economic revival.

Nick Marro, lead analyst on global trade at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said the figures appeared to show a shuffling of some data to boost the overall GDP growth rate for the third quarter, although he cautioned there was no direct evidence of any data fabrication.
“The Chinese statistical agency is opaque about their methodology, and unless we get more details about their adjustments, we’ll never know the full story. But there does seem to be evidence of a targeted adjustment to help lift that headline figure,” he said.

“The September figures were smoothed by quietly altering the historic basis of comparison; basically, some of the numbers from September 2019 were re-apportioned into October of that year, in order to lower the comparison base. That led to a statistical distortion where the September 2020 growth figures might’ve been artificially inflated.”

The difference in growth rate was not huge, Marro said, but the manipulation suggested the economy might not be as strong as Beijing would have liked people to think. “The bigger implication is that the investment landscape might be more fragile than the official numbers suggest heading into the last quarter of 2020. That’s perhaps the bigger risk for companies to be aware of.”
Leland Miller, chief executive of the China Beige Book consultancy, which tracks the Chinese economy with data it collects itself in addition to government statistics, flagged up what he considered a far more disturbing alteration in the data.

China recorded growth of 0.8% in fixed-asset investment for the first three quarters of the year, compared with 2019, but the absolute figures for the same period showed a drop of several trillion yuan. “This is not toying at the margin. This is making 2.5 trillion yuan in fixed asset investment disappear,” he said.
The only explanation given by Chinese authorities for the discrepancy was that the data had been adjusted to reflect “results of the fourth national economic census, statistical law enforcement and regulation of statistical programmes”, so economists have no way to assess how accurate the revisions are or compare them to other data.

If fixed-asset investment had actually fallen, as the raw data suggested, while consumption was also down, overall GDP growth could be much lower than the headline figure, Miller said. “There are very big lessons here, because people think that China’s back. They’ve done a pretty good job but ... they’re not anywhere near being back to where they were before.”

Meanwhile the pandemic has pushed many western companies to reconsider their dependence on Chinese factories. And while Beijing has for several years called for a “rebalancing” of the economy to boost domestic consumption, it has struggled to make it a reality.
Other long-term challenges including debt and an ageing population have been overshadowed by coronavirus temporarily, but remain no less problematic.

“Even if growth leaps from a low base next year there are still underlying structural problems,” said George Magnus, former chief economist at UBS, and an associate at the China Centre, Oxford University.
“These include growing debt, demographics, poor productivity, a much more hostile external environment for trade, commerce and investment. All of these things are going to weigh on China’s potential for expansion and development.”
 
As someone who has to deal with alot of Chinese "students" and "travelling scholars" I will say, despite not liking the Japs we should have allowed them to rape the entire fucking country. Every Chinese "scholar" I have talked to can barely form a single fucking sentence in English, can't even do basic math, and is functionally retarded. People say the media are the people that need to be hanged in Minecraft but the staff at schools and the people who issue these obvious spies are much higher on the list in Minecraft. Fuckers will sell your grandmothers soul for a chinese cornchip.
 
As someone who has to deal with alot of Chinese "students" and "travelling scholars" I will say, despite not liking the Japs we should have allowed them to rape the entire fucking country. Every Chinese "scholar" I have talked to can barely form a single fucking sentence in English, can't even do basic math, and is functionally retarded. People say the media are the people that need to be hanged in Minecraft but the staff at schools and the people who issue these obvious spies are much higher on the list in Minecraft. Fuckers will sell your grandmothers soul for a chinese cornchip.
I think this from a massive bribery scheme going on in China. I mean, an meritocracy would send the bilingual geniuses because they want results.

...Of course, since communism doesn't run off of being the best guy in your class; we get mindless drones who were pulled from the fields to do an specialist's job.
 
Is this the thread that actually states, that Covid 19 originated in China. And Xi Plc fucked the rest of the worlds shit up?

Xi might have low-frequency mental things going on however......

UGH.

This could actually be too time consuming.
 
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