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Netizen Voices: In Hu Xijin Controversy, Nationalist Netizens Turn On One of Their Own
Posted by John Chan | May 7, 2021
Last week, a Weibo post by the CCP Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, China’s top legal enforcement authority, ignited a firestorm of controversy on Chinese social media. The controversy began after the Commission’s account uploaded a post comparing the mass funeral pyres in India amid the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak with China’s recent Tianhe space station rocket launch.
One focal point of the ensuing social media storm was a public spat between two prominent outspoken Party supporters: the state-backed Global Times tabloid’s editor-in-chief Hu Xijin, and Shen Yi, a professor at Fudan University. Shen Yi had remarked that he thought the comparison of India’s funeral pyres and China’s rocket launch was “very good,” saying “the temper caused by the flirtatious whore that is India is also necessary. As for the holier-than-
Hong Kong Protesters Jailed For Airport Assault On Mainland Reporter
01/08/21 AT 5:09 AM
Three Hong Kong democracy supporters were jailed for up to five and a half years on Friday for their involvement in a protest at the city s airport where a mainland Chinese state media reporter was tied up and assaulted.
Hong Kong was rocked by seven straight months of huge and sometimes violent democracy protests in 2019 which China has since stamped out with a crackdown.
At one point, protesters converged on and blockaded the airport for two days causing travel chaos.
During the protests, some of those in the crowd turned on two people they accused of being Chinese spies or undercover police.
Reuters Mass arrests in Hong Kong and independent journalists imprisoned in Vietnam
A website dedicated to publishing first-hand accounts of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement has warned its users to prepare for large-scale internet blocks, filters, and censorship in future, in the first indication that China may be exporting its Great Firewall to the city under a draconian national security law that took effect on July 1.
The HKChronicles website started receiving reports from users based in Hong Kong that they were no longer able to access the site late on Jan. 6, the site s founder and chief editor Naomi Chan said in a statement.