The China Thread

[Jacob]

Do you have a good link for this story?

Not immediately at hand. I'll be looking for it.

The source is dinner table conversation derived from Chinese internet social media, especially Chinese expat social media. The track record of my sources - in my experience - about 75% chance of being accurate, and 25% percent chance of being an inaccurate overstatement.*

I'm 100% certain that certain wetlands near my wife's hometown have are being converted to farmland - local wildlife be damned - and that other outlying areas of her town (including ones I've visited) are being converted to farmland too.

... but I'll see if I can find a more substantial source than that, and if so I'll share it.

[Jacob]

This article is pretty good I think - you'll have to use google translate (or equivalent) though: https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shehui/gt-04282023032947.html

[Hamilcar]

Jacob since you're plugged in to the discourse: Is China busy sending workers to the Russian far east? You know, just in case they need to protect Chinese-speakers on traditionally Chinese lands from a Nazi regime?

[Jacob]

Jacob since you're plugged in to the discourse: Is China busy sending workers to the Russian far east? You know, just in case they need to protect Chinese-speakers on traditionally Chinese lands from a Nazi regime?

If they are it's not something that's high profile or discussed widely to my knowledge.

[viper37]

34 years ago, absolutely nothing happened in Tiananmen Square (Official Wikipedia page for the place lists nothing for 1989).
There is however, a detailed page about the incident.

[grumbler]

34 years ago, absolutely nothing happened in Tiananmen Square (Official Wikipedia page for the place lists nothing for 1989).
There is however, a detailed page about the incident.

The TS wiki pages includes, in a summary of key events occurring in the square, "the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 after the death of Hu Yaobang, which was suppressed in a military crackdown" with a link to the wiki article "1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre."

[Jacob]

Something that I don't think many in the West really think of anymore is that the protests were nationwide. My wife remembers sitting on the back of her father's bike after school and riding by burning buildings and angry crowds in her hometown.

She's also talked about how VHS tapes were passed around and everyone (well, the grown ups) knew what happened in Beijing, seeing the reports.

On a related note, a number of the university "blank page" protestors protesting excessive covid measures have just disappeared.

[Josquius]

Nationwide as in major cities right?
Didn't they stop tianmin by bringing in rural (mongol?) army units who saw no issue smashing student skulls?