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  • Threats, fear and surveillance: Chinese students in the UK say they are scared to return home and worry for their families in China after being followed and harassed by the regime in Beijing

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  • Yeah, there are many tankies here on Lemmy.

  • UK: New guidelines may force universities to end some overseas partnerships with autocratic countries, officials say

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  • From Chinese students in Germany, a technology promise to the motherland - (2014)

    Illustrating the grip the Communist party and government try to maintain on overseas Chinese students, researchers and business people, an exchange of letters between President Xi Jinping and Chinese students in Germany has produced passionate promises from the students to serve the motherland - and deliver advanced technology backed to China, the state news media reported.

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    To at least one Western intelligence official, the exchange was a textbook exercise in ensuring a steady flow of science and technology back to China from educational institutions and companies in the West.

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  • Threats, fear and surveillance: Chinese students in the UK say they are scared to return home and worry for their families in China after being followed and harassed by the regime in Beijing

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  • That's orchestrated by the CCP. Chinese students abroad are forced to pledge loyalty to the regime and sign a document before they leave their country. At two Swedish universities cut ties with the China Scholarship Council over this practice.

    A leading British university has launched an investigation over its decision to ban an academic from teaching a “provocative” course involving China in order to protect its commercial interests.

    Currently, Universities in England could have to change or end their partnerships with countries such as China under a new system designed to protect freedom of speech.

    Just a few examples.

  • Amnesty International says "Crimean residents have suffered ten years of systematic oppression since Russia’s annexation of the region in 2014"

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  • The fight is continuing’: a decade of Russian rule has not silenced Ukrainian voices in Crimea

    Amid the shaky security situation, Russia’s crackdown on dissent in Crimea, which has been ruthless since 2014, has risen to a new level. As well as the continuing persecution of activists from the Crimean Tatar minority, traditionally largely pro-Ukrainian, Russia’s police and FSB security service have rounded up local people who post Ukrainian-language songs on their social media profiles or express pro-Ukraine views in public.

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    Crimean Smersh offers people the chance to denounce their friends and neighbours for “anti-Russian” behaviour. Users can message a secure Telegram bot to send information about such incidents. The channel then posts videos of police raids on people’s houses, and frequently adds mumbled on-camera “confessions” and “apologies” from those accused of being pro-Ukraine.

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    Olha Skrypnyk, chair of the Crimean Human Rights Group, said that the first major Russian drone attacks on Kyiv in October 2022, which were proudly broadcast on Russian television, were a wake-up call for many in Crimea who had previously believed Russia was not attacking civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

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    “I think it’s important to show the Ukrainian-minded people in Crimea that we didn’t give up on their freedom,” she said.

  • Amnesty International says "Crimean residents have suffered ten years of systematic oppression since Russia’s annexation of the region in 2014"

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  • inb4 tankies calling Amnesty International a western propaganda organisation

    That's fine. Here - unlike in Russia or China - all are free to express their own opinions. I fully support that (and thank the developers for having implemented the block feature just in case).

  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • @turkishdelight

    Chinese censors remove video showing off Tiananmen massacre medal

    In the video posted March 18 to the official account of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force on the video-sharing platform Bilibili, a woman clad in a camouflage uniform holds up a medal she said was presented to her father after he was among the troops that entered Beijing in early June 1989 to put down weeks of peaceful, student-led protests in Tiananmen Square.

    “My father is a retired soldier," she says, according to subtitles on screenshots published by several media outlets including Taiwan's Liberty Times newspaper, Radio Taiwan International, and the citizen journalist X account "Mr Li is not your teacher."

    The "Defender of the Capital" honor was handed out to soldiers and other enforcers of martial law in Beijing, which was ordered by late supreme leader Deng Xiaoping on May 20 and defied by protesters and hunger strikers, who remained on Tiananmen Square.

    The video soon started to garner comments referencing the killing of civilians by the People's Liberation Army on the night of June 3-4, 1989.

    "You're bragging about how the People's Liberation Army killed our compatriots?" said one comment, while another said the medal was fit for a "butcher," according to screenshots of the now-deleted video.

    "A 'medal of honor' won for massacring unarmed students on behalf of a dictator," wrote another.

  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • @turkishdelight @Stockente

    In addition to what @SevenOfWine said, we must note that you can openly discuss Belgian colonial history and atrocities in the public space. You can't discuss the Tiananmen Square massacre publicly in China, though, and the government in Beijing has been trying to hide this and other historical (and contemporary) atrocities committed by China for a long time now. Younger generations who didn't live through the events of 1989, for example, might not know what happened.

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  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • @Hamartia

    No one claims that democracy is perfect (or will ever be). But another major reason why it is superior to dictatorship is that, for example, you are free to report these crimes and express your opinion as you just did in your post, without any negative personal consequences for you nor your family, and your post won't be censored.

    If you write a post in China in memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, what do you think would happen?

  • AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions, researchers say

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  • @NABDad

    Yes, I know. I don't say it's all bad. It improves human decision making in a lot of things. What I meant is that it has been doing also a lot of harm in the last few years, e.g., in the U.S. where insurer UnitedHealth allegedly used an AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, or in The Netherlands and in France, just to name examples. And I'm afraid this is just the tip of the iceberg

    But I'd agree that it's not the technologies, it's the way we humans use them.

  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • @Stockente

    This place should be filled with monuments of stuff European countries did but yeah, China bad. Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, UK, nothing to see here

    This is not true, in these and practically all other European countries there are many monuments - unlike in China which has been rewriting its own history. Read more here, here, here ... you'll find more across the web.

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  • AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions, researchers say

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  • @NABDad

    I partly agree. AI has really little chance to produce anything useful if we use it the way we do now. I'm not so sure with the blockchain technology. We needed more decentralized networks in our economy and society, and blockchain is just one technology that can help here imho. It's true that the vast majority of crypto projects represents a blend of scams and get-rich-quick schemes, but there are some fine projects that do a good job imo.

  • AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions, researchers say

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  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • @Sylvartas

    There's a lot wrong with Western colonization, but this whataboutism is once again out of place.

    One difference between contemporary Europe and contemporary China is that the former consists mostly of democracies, and even though they may be imperfect democracies, there is freedom of speech.

    For example, you are free to criticise your country's history, the actual politics, or freely express your opinion on any subject you want.

    However, if you are organising candlelight vigils in the city of Hong Kong on the anniversary of the Chinese military's crushing of the 1989 protests in Beijing at Tiananmen Square, you go to jail.

    Three former organisers of Hong Kong's annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have lost their bid to overturn their conviction. A judge quashed the appeal saying there was enough evidence to uphold the decision. The trio received a four-and-a-half-month sentence last year.

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  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • @BennyHill500, there are no such things as communism or capitalism (or any other systems), there are many different variations of them.

    Tiananmen Square Massacre

    When the initial presence of the military failed to quell the protests [at Tiananmen Square], the Chinese authorities decided to increase their aggression. At 1 a.m. on June 4, Chinese soldiers and police stormed Tiananmen Square, firing live rounds into the crowd.

    Although thousands of protesters simply tried to escape, others fought back, stoning the attacking troops and setting fire to military vehicles. Reporters and Western diplomats in Beijing that day estimated that hundreds to thousands of protesters were killed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and as many as 10,000 were arrested.

    Emphasis mine.

  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • @branchial

    Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989?

    No-one knows for sure how many people were killed.

    At the end of June 1989, the Chinese government said 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel had died.

    Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to many thousands.

    In 2017, newly released UK documents revealed that a diplomatic cable from then British Ambassador to China, Sir Alan Donald, had said that 10,000 had died.

    Discussion of the events that took place in Tiananmen Square is highly sensitive in China.

    Posts relating to the massacres are regularly removed from the internet, tightly controlled by the government.

    So, for a younger generation who didn't live through the protests, there is little awareness about what happened.

  • Far-right Austrian nationalist banned from Germany after neo-Nazi meeting

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  • Elon Musk replies to post by far-right Austrian linked to Christchurch terrorist after X account restored

    The founder [Martin Sellner] of the so-called Identitarian Movement, Martin Sellner, who preaches the superiority of European ethnic groups, was banned from Twitter in 2020 under the former management along with dozens of other accounts linked to the movement amid criticism over the platform’s handling of extremist content.

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    Sellner praised Musk for restoring his X account last week, where he now has a blue tick associated with paid accounts and has 51,000 followers.

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    After Sellner posted a video related to Swiss police shutting down an event he was speaking at in the Swiss canton of Aargau and stating he had been banned from Aargau for two months, Musk replied “Is this legal?”.

    Dr Josh Roose, an expert in extremism at Deakin university, said Sellner’s account is the latest in a long line of far-right accounts, including the leader of the National Socialist Network in Australia, being allowed back on X under Musk.

  • EU president congratulates Putin on ‘landslide’ win … as Russian voting kicks off

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  • Russia election: Arrests for vandalism as ballot boxes targeted in Putin vote

    Incidents involved green dye being poured into ballot boxes, the boxes being set alight and fireworks being set off inside polling stations, state media reported.

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    BBC Verify has so far verified footage of six incidents across Russia, including a video showing a woman throwing a petrol bomb near a St Petersburg polling station.

    Other authenticated videos showed paint being poured into ballot boxes at various polling stations. In one, a woman could be seen pouring bright green liquid into a box in Moscow. Another showed a fire breaking out at a voting booth.

    Russia has also enforced the vote in occupied areas of Ukraine - in the small town of Skadovsk, Russian-appointed officials said an improvised device exploded in a rubbish bin in front of a polling station, but no one was hurt.

  • Europe will lose all credibility if Russia wins in Ukraine, warns French president Macron

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  • @bolzolol

    As if Europe or the „Western“ world in general would still have any credibility with the Gaza genocide.

    I truly feel sorry for Ukrainians as the support for the resistance was never about actual solidarity or values.

    Aren't you getting tired of this?