Category: social control

China Suspends Social Media Accounts of COVID-19 Policy Critics

BEIJING—China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the regime’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to roll back harsh anti-virus restrictions. The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations including attacks on experts, scholars, and medical workers and issued…


‘Firework Revolution’ Breaks Out in China for New Year’s Celebration

In several Chinese cities, people ignored the regime’s ban on fireworks on New Year’s Eve, leading to clashes between the police and the citizens. Some Chinese civilians are no longer taking the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mandates seriously. As civil disobedience is rare under the CCP’s dictatorial rule, some started calling their actions “the fireworks…


Doctors in China’s Countryside Face Wave of Infections With Scarce Medical Resources

China’s COVID-19 infections have rapidly spread to the countryside and small towns and concerns are mounting about the Chinese lunar new year that will fall on Jan. 22, 2023, when a large number of holiday travelers are expected as people return to their hometowns for the celebration. As hospitals in big cities are overwhelmed by…


Doctors in China Face Wave of COVID-19 Infections With Scarce Medical Resources

China’s COVID-19 infections have rapidly spread to the countryside and small towns and concerns are mounting about the Chinese lunar new year that will fall on Jan. 22, 2023, when a large number of holiday travelers are expected as people return to their hometowns for the celebration. As hospitals in big cities are overwhelmed by…


Doctors in China’s Countryside Face Wave of COVID-19 Infections With Scarce Medical Resources

China’s COVID-19 infections have rapidly spread to the countryside and small towns and concerns are mounting about the Chinese lunar new year that will fall on Jan. 22, 2023, when a large number of holiday travelers are expected as people return to their hometowns for the celebration. As hospitals in big cities are overwhelmed by…


‘Mind Dominance’: The CCP’s Disinformation War on US Social Media

News Analysis Clusters of new social media profiles emerge and interact with long-dormant accounts, seemingly exchanging viewpoints from across the American political spectrum. Some sport American flags for profile pictures; others have images of beautiful women. Almost all are anonymous, though some impersonate real people. In tweets and posts and messages they spread their views….


North Carolina Lawmakers Urge Governor to Follow Other States in Banning TikTok

Two North Carolina representatives are pressing Gov. Roy Cooper’s office to follow other states in issuing an executive order banning TikTok from government devices. State Reps. Jason Saine and Jon Hardister, both Republicans, sent a letter to the Democrat governor (pdf) insisting that Cooper remove the Chinese video app “swiftly and decisively,” deeming it to…


China’s Response to Surging COVID-19 Crisis Echoes Wuhan: Chinese Dissident

Online posts show that China’s major cities have been hit hard by the recent pandemic outbreak, following the sudden end of China’s strict COVID-19 containment measures. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients. Corpses are piled up in mortuaries. Long queues of hearses are waiting outside crematories. “After three years of stringent zero-COVID policies, the CCP has…


China Lacks ‘Zero-COVID’ Exit Plan, Refuses International Help Amid Huge Spike in Cases

As COVID infections sweep through China unchecked for weeks, the Chinese communist regime hasn’t had a plan to control the new wave of outbreak. Meanwhile, it has stopped counting infections nationwide or sharing data with the World Health Organization. The regime rejected the international community’s offer to help while downplaying the severity of the new…


China Lacks ‘Zero-COVID’ Exit Plan, Rejects International Help Amid Huge Spike in Cases

Reports of widespread COVID-19 outbreaks in China have quickly flooded social media and international media since the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) this month suddenly began lifting the draconian “zero-COVID” restrictions that had caused countless tragedies and tremendous suffering to the Chinese people for three years. As a new wave of COVID infections sweeps across China…