demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EugeneMcParland</span></a></span> 🤔 The CCP dictatorship doesn't hand out exit permits (passports) to its subjects without requiring specific reasons for the travel to barbarian lands. </p><p>If the Chinese mercenaries helping <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> invade <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> were *not* sanctioned by the CCP party-state one should expect very harsh punishments for such insolence.</p><p>Recruited using social media? Without the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> knowing? Right...</p>
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demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>[TL:DR: We need to stop the perversion of rule of law *globally*; concentrate on supporting democracies instead of despots. 💰 ]</p><p>On Carl Schmitt, the 'legal architect' of the Third Reich and inspiration to present day authoritarians.</p><p>「For Schmitt, every government capable of decisive action must include a dictatorial element within its constitution. Although the German concept of Ausnahmezustand is best translated as "state of emergency", it literally means "state of exception" which, according to Schmitt, frees the executive from any legal restraints to its power that would normally apply. The use of the term "exceptional" has to be underlined here: Schmitt defines sovereignty as the power to decide to initiate a state of exception [...]」</p><p>「Through the state of exception, Schmitt included all types of violence under right, in the case of the authority of Hitler leading to the formulation "The leader defends the law" ("Der Führer schützt das Recht").」</p><p>「Some have argued that Schmitt has become an important influence on Chinese political theory in the 21st century, particularly since Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012. </p><p>Schmitt's ideas have proved popular and useful instruments in justifying the legitimacy of Chinese Communist Party rule」</p><p>---</p><p>On July 1, 2024, (Chief Justice John) Roberts wrote the majority opinion in Trump v. United States, writing that *a president has absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their constitutional purview, presumptive immunity for official acts* , and no immunity for unofficial acts.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CarlSchmitt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarlSchmitt</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Legalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Legalism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rob</span><span class="invisible">erts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sch</span><span class="invisible">mitt</span></a></p>
Uyghur Crisis Response Team<p>Our <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a> outside the Chinese embassy in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a> attract a wide variety of people, including this handsome young man. We appreciate his commitment to protesting against the Chinese government's ongoing <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> of the Uyghurs in East Turkistan (a.k.a. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Xinjiang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xinjiang</span></a>).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DogsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DogsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Uyghur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uyghur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EastTurkistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EastTurkistan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GermanShepherd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GermanShepherd</span></a></p>
China Fact Chasers<p>Trains in China</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ikA99UTQE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=b_ikA99UTQE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BRICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BRICS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CMilk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CMilk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Laowhy86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Laowhy86</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mao</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xi</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arstechnica</span></a></span> He was admittely appreciated in his native Hong Kong until he turned into a firebrand communist party stooge.</p><p>Now it's quite the opposite. He's loathed.</p><p>(Not sure about the timing, but his son was caught in the PRC in possession of cannabis which might have something to do with his radicalization, but now he's a full jingoist little pink.)</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hongkong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a>'s <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BankingColony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BankingColony</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/jackiechan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jackiechan</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ </p><p>Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.</p><p>Giving the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> to invade <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> in 2022.</p><p>Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.</p><p>It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.</p><p>There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.</p><p>Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.</p><p>“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“<br>— Nelson Mandela</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hongkong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tibet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tibet</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Uighurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uighurs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EuropeanDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanDefence</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AxisOfDespots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AxisOfDespots</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>This recap covers only the tiniest fraction of what went on in 2019 and what followed. CCP now has total control of all levers of power and influence in its <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BankingColony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BankingColony</span></a> without civil liberties. Its propaganda blaming "foreign forces" for "black-clad violence" was broadcast on all global authoritarian media. Many Hongkongers, especially youth and families with kids, have emigrated or fled the territory.</p><p>AFAICT only a small minority of Hong Kong's expats participated in the protests, but many more have since left due to the repressive atmosphere. Some sosiopathic sycophants have apparently moved there though in search of profit along with russians (probably shipping tech back to militant russia and helping skirt international financial embargoes...).</p><p>One final <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> anecdote: In 2020 when the CCP-imposed "state security law" (NSL) was coming into effect (in typical CCP style, the 'law' is *retroactive*, meaning any perceived *past* infringement can and will be prosecuted!), one of the globally famous pro-democracy faces, young Joshua Wong, tried applying for political asylum at a US mission in Hong Kong but he was denied entry by the trump 1.0 admin...</p><p>For his devotedly (he's s practising catholic) peaceful advocacy of promised democratic rights he's been incarcerated until 2029 at least. In a gaol without air-conditioning or heating more akin to a Chinese laogai. Just like all the other peaceful advocates of democracy.</p><p>“President Trump said, ‘Why don’t we just open up? Why don’t we just let a huge portion of people from Hong Kong move to the U.S.?’ And I loved it,” Pottinger told us. “You know, my view was just, transplant the whole damn city and make a new Hong Kong in America. [Trump] was like, ‘They’re going to be industrious; they’ll be great. They’ll make great Americans.’”</p><p>But Stephen Miller, Trump’s far-right political adviser, stopped the immigration scheme from going further. He was “very persuasive,”</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/hong-kong-activists-washington-dc/675693/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/international/</span><span class="invisible">archive/2023/11/hong-kong-activists-washington-dc/675693/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/JoshuaWong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoshuaWong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hongkong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>A totally quick recap to those who don't know what happened in Hong Kong between early June 2019 and January 2020:</p><p>Hongkongers were promised by the UK-PRC (CCP China) handover treaty signed in 1984 that after the handover to PRC sovereignty in 1997 HKG would retain its civil liberties like freedoms of speech, media and assembly plus political autonomy with *universal suffrage*.</p><p>Initially after 1997 there remained a semblance of democracy although the legislature was always preloaded with indirectly 'elected' seats guaranteeing the CCP-aligned "popular minority" control of the legislature. Furthermore the all-powerful "Chief Executive" (essentially a governor) was supposed to be elected by the people but CCP "re-interpreted" the treaty to allow *itself* to choose the candidates! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p><p>Hong Kong continued to function as Chinese dictatorship's banking colony and as a powerful tool to play around the international trading system, but instead of making progresss towards the promised democracy through universal suffrage and especially after Xi Jinping took power in the PRC in 2012 the CCP stooges running Hong Kong began rolling back Hong Kong's civil rights.</p><p>In early 2019 the "HKG govt" announced they were going to change local laws to allow "suspects" to be extradited to the notoriously unjust PRC to be convicted in CCP's kangaroo courts.</p><p>Thousands marched but the "gov't" ignored them. By early June 2019 there were tens of thousands protesting, and the HKG regime set its police force to teargas and baton-charge the pro-democracy crowds...</p><p>People were outraged and the crowd grew to hundreds of thousands marching orderly through the city's long main avenues despite the draining heat and humidity.</p><p>On June 15 a demonstrator known as the Raincoat Man (Marco Leung) fell of a high rise building during a protest. The following day saw a record *2 million* people flood Hong Kong's roads. Out of a population of 7+ million.</p><p>There would be several million+ marches in the following weeks and months, but the steadily increasing *POLICE VIOLENCE* and various legal and other threats by the regime would start scaring regular people off from joining. </p><p>(Note: my avatar here is an ambigram character combining 警 'police' with 暴 'brutality' — ACAB only applies in authoritarian states)</p><p>All the while the local regime ignored people's "Five Demands, Not One Less" and cracked down on any peaceful pro-democracy activism ever harder.</p><p>A law banning *masks* was enacted on Oct 4. A few months later when Covid-19 hit HKG masks would be both banned and compulsory... 🤷♂️</p><p>Anyway, violent police crackdown, zero compromise by the regime and later strict Covid rules (no gatherings above 3 people!) would ensure that protesting was not only futile but criminalized. The regime was engaged in a "WHOLE PROCESS CRACKDOWN" on all remotely democratic activism.</p><p>On 30 June 2020 the HK puppet regime imposed "National Security Law" (NSL) on the city; essentially anything the CCP considers threatening or 'insulting' to its dictatorship was criminalized.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hongkong</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a></p>
China Fact Chasers<p>Serbia Is Beholden to China</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbmHoFzErXE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=xbmHoFzErXE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BRICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BRICS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CMilk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CMilk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Laowhy86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Laowhy86</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mao</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xi</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>lol </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrinceAndrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrinceAndrew</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>British Foreign Policy is a disgraced Prince writing birthday letters to a foreign tyrant.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/04/alleged-chinese-spy-helped-draft-letters-from-prince-andrew-to-xi-jinping-witness-says" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/04/alleged-chinese-spy-helped-draft-letters-from-prince-andrew-to-xi-jinping-witness-says</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrinceAndrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrinceAndrew</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XIJinping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XIJinping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a></p>
Aho<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MAKS23</span></a></span> think <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> will try it best to make the stock market in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> to collapse, then they buy the stocks for peanuts and then they own all companies in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>This quote about suppressing civil society reminds me even more of my 2 years in China, where this is absolutely what they do.</p><p>Community groups of any kind are illegal if they're not registered with the government. The closest thing to independent community organisations is informal chat groups on WeChat, and discussions on Weibo and Douyin posts. But these platforms are totally backdoored and monitored by CCP spy agencies.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/authoritianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CivilSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilSociety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hanse_mina</span></a></span> A good test of parasitism: taxation with or without representation.</p><p>🇨🇳☭ China ruled by CCP (since 1949): taxation with *NO* representation ever. (Calling for representation/democracy makes you disappear!) </p><p>🇹🇼🇳🇫 Taiwan: Taxation with democratically elected representation.</p><p>So who are the parasites really? 🧐</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PRC</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>Day five: Multi-cultural bullshit </p><p>“Chinese language <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/influencers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>influencers</span></a> who mostly post lifestyle content are interviewing election candidates on the social media app <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Rednote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rednote</span></a>, allowing politicians to bypass an apparent “shadow ban” on <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/campaigning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>campaigning</span></a> by the app and reach a disengaged but vital audience.</p><p>The interviews with influencers who usually post about food, real estate and shopping have been published on a platform that is not actively monitored by the Australian Electoral Commission due to Rednote’s scale and the commission’s resources.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ScottYung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottYung</span></a>, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> candidate for the ultra-marginal Sydney seat of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Bennelong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bennelong</span></a>, where almost one-third of residents have <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> ancestry, has featured in multiple interviews shared by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Mandarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mandarin</span></a> speaking influencers on Rednote in recent weeks.”</p><p>I note Scotty (another Scotty) highlighted himself due to State campaigning irregularities in 2019. Johhny (War crimes) Howard is all over the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Bennelong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bennelong</span></a> campaign. Howard, one step away from <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> influence campaign. Handy Andy Hastings will be in fits. </p><p>This isn’t a “Chinese thing”, this is a “Politics thing” where a multicultural background is weaponised for candidates against the rest of Australian <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Spruiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spruiking</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/campaigning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>campaigning</span></a> <<a href="https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/02/candidates-using-influencers-to-bypass-shadow-ban-on-campaigning-by-chinese-social-media-app-rednote" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/02/candidates-using-influencers-to-bypass-shadow-ban-on-campaigning-by-chinese-social-media-app-rednote</span></a>> / <<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/liberal-candidate-faces-more-questions-over-undisclosed-campaign-spending-20250331-p5lnxb.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/national/nsw/libera</span><span class="invisible">l-candidate-faces-more-questions-over-undisclosed-campaign-spending-20250331-p5lnxb.html</span></a>></p>
Aho<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mineraldeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mineraldeal</span></a> exposed</p><p>Today in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/occupied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>occupied</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> there is a theft of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraines</span></a> resources and it's a value of 12 billion USD.</p><p>Chinese companies dig up what ever they can find, no regards to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> as long as they provide <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> russia with what they need to build military infrastructure to be able to occupy more of Ukraine.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.svt.se/special/har-pagar-rysslands-mineralstold-i-ukraina/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">svt.se/special/har-pagar-ryssl</span><span class="invisible">ands-mineralstold-i-ukraina/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazirussia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazirussia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/warcrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warcrime</span></a></p>
David on Formosa<p>New report from the Global Taiwan Institute: Chinese Communist Party Covert Operations Against Taiwan</p><p><a href="https://globaltaiwan.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/OR_CCP-Covert-Operations-Against-TW.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">globaltaiwan.org/wp-content/up</span><span class="invisible">loads/2025/03/OR_CCP-Covert-Operations-Against-TW.pdf</span></a> [pdf file]</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>台灣</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>中國</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@AliceStollmeyer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AliceStollmeyer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> This might be the first time that I must politely disagree with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span>. Pacifism in itself isn't the problem here, but the absolutist version of it advocating for total surrender.</p><p>I'm a (peacetime) pacifist who believes (believed?) not only in credible *deterrence* in military terms but also in holistic *avoidance*. 👇</p><p>I have advocated against empowering dictatorships through business, normalization and appeasement (without credible actions towards democracy and human rights) since the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. First over the bonkers and near instantaneous rehabilitation of the CCP-ruled China out of sheer greed, and in the 2000's the revisionist putin regime which noted how the CCP got away with murder without consequences because *business and greed dictated policy in democracies*.</p><p>Our democracies had a pacifist way forward after the Cold War: Support developing democracies with trade and aid while targeting repressive regimes with punitive tariffs (yes the could be used for good!) and technology embargoes.</p><p>Instead of a strong global alliance of democracies we now have military-expansionist and revanchist China and Russia using all their wealth, power and guile to subvert those still-struggling democracies to the dark side. And not only that, they're trying to disrupt and fragment our once-powerful developed democracies as well! (Hello russian influence on the trump regime!)</p><p>The era of potential pacifist deterrence ended in February 2022 and we're *still funding* those hostile regimes. 🤯</p><p>(Anne's piece was posted on the fundamentally anti-democratic substack site so I steered clear 👀)</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/pacifism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pacifism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EuropeanDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanDefence</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>CCP attacking the Diaspora in the UK?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/20/mp-calls-on-home-office-minister-to-investigate-red-paint-attacks-stella-creasy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/20/mp-calls-on-home-office-minister-to-investigate-red-paint-attacks-stella-creasy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StellaCreasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StellaCreasy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a></p>
Scientific European<p>SpaceX Crew-9 Return to Earth with Astronauts of Boeing Starliner <br>SpaceX Crew-9, the nineth crew transportation flight from International Space Station (ISS) under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP)...........<br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronauts</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BoeingStarliner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoeingStarliner</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Crew9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crew9</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Internationalspacestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internationalspacestation</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ISS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISS</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SpaceXCrew9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceXCrew9</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Starliner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starliner</span></a><br>Umesh Prasad </p><p><a href="https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/sciences/space/spacex-crew-9-return-to-earth-with-astronauts-of-boeing-starliner/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificeuropean.co.uk/scien</span><span class="invisible">ces/space/spacex-crew-9-return-to-earth-with-astronauts-of-boeing-starliner/</span></a></p>
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