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Not that I’ve been very active here anyway, but I’m taking some time away from all social media to use my time more effectively on some educational and career goals. I finally deleted my X account so I’m not even tempted to go there and peek.
Just when you think you’ve seen all the possible bad propaganda, this is what one Chinese embassy thought made a good ‘before and after’ comparison to show China’s progress. 😳
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Just when you think you’ve seen all the possible bad propaganda, this is what one Chinese embassy thought made a good ‘before and after’ comparison to show China’s progress. 😳
All the people you’d expect to be upset about the Nobel Peace Prize going to an opponent of Maduro in Venezuela are indeed in tears today.
October 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
All the people you’d expect to be upset about the Nobel Peace Prize going to an opponent of Maduro in Venezuela are indeed in tears today.
Sorry, but are we meant to think staged “Messianic leader surrounded by sycophants awkwardly feigning affection and trying to touch the hem of his garments” style propaganda is good? Is that the message here?
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Sorry, but are we meant to think staged “Messianic leader surrounded by sycophants awkwardly feigning affection and trying to touch the hem of his garments” style propaganda is good? Is that the message here?
Attention is always on Uyghurs and Tibetans, but there are 55 minorities in 🇨🇳 and many of them are seeing language decline. I know a Zhuang woman who can’t speak Zhuang and recently met several Miao people who don’t know their language. Manchu is all but extinct. Why do these never get talked about?
September 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Attention is always on Uyghurs and Tibetans, but there are 55 minorities in 🇨🇳 and many of them are seeing language decline. I know a Zhuang woman who can’t speak Zhuang and recently met several Miao people who don’t know their language. Manchu is all but extinct. Why do these never get talked about?
This is your view through your sniper rifle. You get one shot before the other two are rushed to safety. Who’s your target? 😏
September 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is your view through your sniper rifle. You get one shot before the other two are rushed to safety. Who’s your target? 😏
What wound you think if schools in your country cancelled classes so the kids could watch a military parade and listen to speeches by the Dear Leader? It’s happening today in China, from Grade 1 up. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if kindergartens are showing it too.
September 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What wound you think if schools in your country cancelled classes so the kids could watch a military parade and listen to speeches by the Dear Leader? It’s happening today in China, from Grade 1 up. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if kindergartens are showing it too.
A new school year, but Xi Jinping Thought remains on the curriculum.
September 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A new school year, but Xi Jinping Thought remains on the curriculum.
Buddhist scriptures are also mentioned, which surely affects the enrollment of boys in Tibetan seminaries. It seems clear there’s a policy to cut off religion at the current generation by effectively blocking religious content for minors.
September 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Buddhist scriptures are also mentioned, which surely affects the enrollment of boys in Tibetan seminaries. It seems clear there’s a policy to cut off religion at the current generation by effectively blocking religious content for minors.
I’m an atheist anyway and will be keeping my kid away from religion by choice, just find it noticeable how kids aren’t even permitted to step inside and look, which seems a step removed from 参加 (participating). From what I’ve found online it seems Uyghurs are a big target of this too.
September 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’m an atheist anyway and will be keeping my kid away from religion by choice, just find it noticeable how kids aren’t even permitted to step inside and look, which seems a step removed from 参加 (participating). From what I’ve found online it seems Uyghurs are a big target of this too.
In 2012 when foreign media was regularly reporting on China’s poor air quality, China used to get upset about the negativity. It even banned a documentary about smog in 2015 called ‘Under the Dome’. Now it wants you to remember so it can make a positive comparison. Interesting to observe the shift.
August 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In 2012 when foreign media was regularly reporting on China’s poor air quality, China used to get upset about the negativity. It even banned a documentary about smog in 2015 called ‘Under the Dome’. Now it wants you to remember so it can make a positive comparison. Interesting to observe the shift.
The Laos one is about how the railway from China has helped Laos. The Brazil one he clearly filmed on holiday and covered all sorts. You can judge from this picture that China was obviously a focus.
August 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Laos one is about how the railway from China has helped Laos. The Brazil one he clearly filmed on holiday and covered all sorts. You can judge from this picture that China was obviously a focus.
I can’t think of a more cringe title than this play on ‘Seven Years in Tibet’, a film that remains banned in China. 🙈
Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I can’t think of a more cringe title than this play on ‘Seven Years in Tibet’, a film that remains banned in China. 🙈
Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
Jason Smith—comfortably one of the dumbest laowai propagandists out there—suddenly discovers he hates censorship after all. Begs the question why he goes to bat for a government that pretty much pioneered internet clampdowns then.
July 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Jason Smith—comfortably one of the dumbest laowai propagandists out there—suddenly discovers he hates censorship after all. Begs the question why he goes to bat for a government that pretty much pioneered internet clampdowns then.
Not unique to Andy, but I really loathe the popular idea that “respect is earned”. It implies one party is superior and the lesser party has to win them over. Respect is not earned, it’s given by default. We begin from a position of mutual respect. It can be lost thereafter, but we start as equals.
July 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Not unique to Andy, but I really loathe the popular idea that “respect is earned”. It implies one party is superior and the lesser party has to win them over. Respect is not earned, it’s given by default. We begin from a position of mutual respect. It can be lost thereafter, but we start as equals.
Is this diplomacy? 🤔
July 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Is this diplomacy? 🤔
Maybe, though even Chinese news is reporting on it and they aren’t following the same agenda!
July 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Maybe, though even Chinese news is reporting on it and they aren’t following the same agenda!
Am I the only one who finds it odd that major international news sites are giving headlines to this Coldplay/CEO cheating nonsense? Like … why? It’s not news. Its internet gossip that should have died within 24 hours. Is it just that it’s a story they can fill space with without needing journalists?
July 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Am I the only one who finds it odd that major international news sites are giving headlines to this Coldplay/CEO cheating nonsense? Like … why? It’s not news. Its internet gossip that should have died within 24 hours. Is it just that it’s a story they can fill space with without needing journalists?
Two of the most hardcore Party faithful, who make pro-Party content for Party media, are apparently the “bravest” kids in media. Yeah, it takes so much courage to say exactly what you’ve been approved to say. Stick it to the man! 😂
July 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Two of the most hardcore Party faithful, who make pro-Party content for Party media, are apparently the “bravest” kids in media. Yeah, it takes so much courage to say exactly what you’ve been approved to say. Stick it to the man! 😂
Btw, it wasn’t that long ago he was using “Tibet” too. It’s so transparent that he’s switched after being trained on the latest style guide (a style guide I’ve also been forced to follow in communications over the last two years).
July 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Btw, it wasn’t that long ago he was using “Tibet” too. It’s so transparent that he’s switched after being trained on the latest style guide (a style guide I’ve also been forced to follow in communications over the last two years).
Same reason he started with the “it’s CPC, not CCP” thing and now insists on calling Tibet “Xizang”—he was told to.
Interestingly, seeing that UN resolution thing there, he’s never insisted we call Inner Mongolia “Nei Menggu” or China itself “Zhongguo”. Love the consistency.
Interestingly, seeing that UN resolution thing there, he’s never insisted we call Inner Mongolia “Nei Menggu” or China itself “Zhongguo”. Love the consistency.
July 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Same reason he started with the “it’s CPC, not CCP” thing and now insists on calling Tibet “Xizang”—he was told to.
Interestingly, seeing that UN resolution thing there, he’s never insisted we call Inner Mongolia “Nei Menggu” or China itself “Zhongguo”. Love the consistency.
Interestingly, seeing that UN resolution thing there, he’s never insisted we call Inner Mongolia “Nei Menggu” or China itself “Zhongguo”. Love the consistency.
Remember when Flight MU5735 mysteriously crashed in Guangxi in 2022 and the government didn’t release its findings about the cause and the belief was the pilot crashed it deliberately and Andy B agreed and tweeted the conspiracy theory all over X? No? Weird.
July 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Remember when Flight MU5735 mysteriously crashed in Guangxi in 2022 and the government didn’t release its findings about the cause and the belief was the pilot crashed it deliberately and Andy B agreed and tweeted the conspiracy theory all over X? No? Weird.
FM spokesperson reposting a 2017 video of Xi telling the clapping sea lions around him to just work hard for a better life. The part where he told the villagers to buy fewer takeaway coffees and eat less avocado on toast was cut off.
July 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
FM spokesperson reposting a 2017 video of Xi telling the clapping sea lions around him to just work hard for a better life. The part where he told the villagers to buy fewer takeaway coffees and eat less avocado on toast was cut off.
I don’t agree with the quoted tweet—Muslims coexist with others in many places—but it’s funny Andy forgot the XJ crackdown was justified as a ‘War on Terror’ after violence by Uyghur Islamists against Han.
Schrodinger’s 🇨🇳: where Uyghurs live in harmony with Han but also don’t til they’re made to.
Schrodinger’s 🇨🇳: where Uyghurs live in harmony with Han but also don’t til they’re made to.
July 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I don’t agree with the quoted tweet—Muslims coexist with others in many places—but it’s funny Andy forgot the XJ crackdown was justified as a ‘War on Terror’ after violence by Uyghur Islamists against Han.
Schrodinger’s 🇨🇳: where Uyghurs live in harmony with Han but also don’t til they’re made to.
Schrodinger’s 🇨🇳: where Uyghurs live in harmony with Han but also don’t til they’re made to.
I hadn’t realized City News Service was related to Shanghai Daily, but now Shine.cn redirects to CNS and it seems SD may be returning to its former role as a local paper with a focus on Shanghai news and lifestyle. I wonder how the bitchier and more toxic propagandists fit into the rebrand.
July 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I hadn’t realized City News Service was related to Shanghai Daily, but now Shine.cn redirects to CNS and it seems SD may be returning to its former role as a local paper with a focus on Shanghai news and lifestyle. I wonder how the bitchier and more toxic propagandists fit into the rebrand.