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Very interested to hear your thoughts on this substack, if you have the time: https://open.substack.com/pub/amidwesterndoctor/p/the-current-protests-in-china-are?r=qsepa&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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You'd have to be more specific. The article is very long; the author might get his point across better by separating it out into multiple articles. The references to China seem to be interspersed throughout. For the most part they are not particularly accurate. Understandably he seems to basing his comments on the images portrayed by US media (social credit system, slave labor and the like), which are, of course, rather inaccurate to say the least.

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The bad cattitude article he references at the beginning is absolute garbage. It seems to rely primarily on the songpinganq Twitter account, which is one of the primary purveyors of fake news about China and guardians of the 'China Dystopia' narrative so beloved in American and Western European dissident circles.

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Wow. I honestly feel confused. The Uyghur stuff is all untrue? Organ harvesting as reported by the Epoch Times? These are sincere questions.

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Nov 29, 2022·edited Nov 30, 2022Author

It's logically impossible to prove a negative, but sources for the entire genocide narrative seem to be highly correlated with Western government agencies and a German on the US Government payroll named Adrian Zenz. The fact that "genocide" is a storyline which has a long tradition of being used again and again as a justification for waging war should also be considered. Brian Berletic at the New Atlas did a deep dive on this here: https://youtu.be/z8uuzaG7dI4.

There's also a written article here: https://newatlas.report/2021/11/03/us-economic-warfare-vs-china-adrian-zenz-xinjiang-cotton-lies.

The Uighur genocide narrative is of course just one of the "big" topics used to smear China in the West. One of the earliest was the Tiananmen "massacre". Another is of course the social credit system story. We did a deep dive into this topic here: https://austrianchina.substack.com/p/china-dystopia-psyop

As for the Epoch Times and its partner organization New Tang Dynasty, anything they publish on China should be read with great skepticism - especially the English version. The Chinese version is somewhat more careful. Like Tucker Carlson, the Epoch Times does a lot of solid work in other areas, then uses that credibility to smear China. The Epoch Times was created by the Falun Gong religious movement, which was banned in China in 1999. At the time, many fled to the US. While it's understandable that they hate the CPC, their agenda clearly trumps objective journalism. As to their "organ harvesting" narrative, aside from the lack of evidence, simple logic should give pause to believing it. Why would the Chinese government, one of the wealthiest governments in the world, bother with such a program? To make money and increase its income by 0.0000000001%? This doesn't make any sense.

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Nov 29, 2022Liked by Austrian China

ASS world - always stay scared. simple query - did that tall building have a fire suppression system as is required in western nations?

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I don't know.

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Very good, thank you very much, all makes sense from the little I have observed myself.

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