Questions tagged [china]
Populous eastern Asian nation which has undergone a myriad of changes over the years, but remains one of the oldest civilizations in the world.
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Is the Chinese “Sesame Credit” system a government propaganda tool?
The Sesame Credit system recently announced in China is making the rounds on social media, being touted as a tool of gamified government thought control.
For example, this privateinternetaccess.com's ...
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Did the Chinese government act to suppress news of their Covid outbreak in Wuhan before December 30, 2019?
Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese national who defected in 1997, has written a book (“What Really Happened in Wuhan”) that details how he first heard of a mysterious new virus at the time of the World Military ...
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Did Adobe Flash's EOL cause trains to stop running in China?
News website Apple Daily posted on Jan 17 a report, picked up widely on socials, that Adobe discontinuing Flash caused trains to stop running in Dalian, China: As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some ...
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Is this video about an Uighur family being forced to live with Han Chinese men genuine?
The following video was posted to a number of social media platforms:
"Uyghur women being forced to serve Han Chinese"
In the video, an Asian male is recording himself sitting on the couch. ...
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Did Brother Yun escape a maximum security prison without help?
Liu Zhenying (known as Brother Yun) is an exiled Chinese Christian evangelist.
Supposedly, he was sentenced to a maximum security prison some time ago and escaped miraculously, and "without any ...
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Can cremating bodies cause black rain?
There is speculation that the mysterious black rain that Japan had a few months ago was from China cremating bodies, and in particular, mass cremations from coronavirus victims.
7 News: Coronavirus ...
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Are the photographs of battered Indian soldiers released on Chinese social media authentic?
A while ago two Pakistani newspapers released the news that Chinese social media released the following photos of battered Indian soldiers in the Chinese hands which India never officially admitted.
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Does the Chinese Communist Party (or government) enjoy 80% to 90% popular approval in almost all their decisions?
Roland Boer who has written extensively about China, write in his 2021 Springer book Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners, p. 281:
For Xi, the people’s standpoint (lichang) ...
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Do Huawei phones delete videos/photos of anti-Covid-restrictions protests?
A highly retweeted tweet claims:
Chinese social media users report Huawei phones automatically deleting^* videos of the protests that took place in China, without notifying the owners.
* Not sure if ...
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Did Zhang Zongchang order each player in a basketball game be given their own ball?
There is a claim that Chinese warlord, Zhang Zongchang was confused by the sport of basketball:
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After seeing a basketball game for the first time, he allegedly asked "Why the hell are ...
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Were unsuspecting visitors pranked at the East Taihang Glasswalk?
The East Taihang Glasswalk is a skywalk in the mountains in China.
It purportedly had special effect that makes it appear to crack when you step into it.
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One glass bridge in China is ...
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Is China's GDP data politically manipulated?
In 2010, a World Bank economist denied that China's GDP figures were politically manipulated:
Is the data manipulated by the authorities to meet political objectives? My answer to it, at least ...
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Are Chinese trends being mislabeled as Japanese or Korean?
I'm seeing claims like this in various places on the Internet:
Some Chinese trends such as Douyin and Xiaohongshu makeup, specific styles of makeup originating from and named after Chinese social ...
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Was the Chinese ship Da Cui Yun carrying materials for building WMD?
Chinese ship carrying suspected cargo to Pakistan allowed to leave, equipment held back
DRDO confirms Chinese ship India stopped was carrying nuclear-capable equipment to Pakistan
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Did China lose a submarine (possibly a Xia class SSBN) with all hands on board in 1983-1985?
It's been claimed a video by a US submariner that the Soviet submarine K-10 collided with an unknown submarine in 1983 and this likely was a Chinese one ... because two years later the Chinese press ...
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Did BGI genetically test Uyghurs in Xinjiang?
In July of last year the U.S. Commerce Department publicly accused subsidiaries of BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute) of genetically testing Uyghurs in Xinjiang as part of a campaign of ...
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Did China destroy a Guanyin statue in Hebei province?
From Mongolia live:
It was not the Taliban who exploded the stone carvings, but the Chinese Communist Party
A 57.9-meter-tall cliff stone-carved vertical Guanyin statue in Pingshan County, ...
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Did Fauci outsource gain-of-function research to China during a US moratorium?
A Times of Israel blog writes:
Back in October 2014, the US government had placed a federal moratorium on gain-of-function (GOF) research—altering natural pathogens to make them more deadly and ...
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Is this video of harassment in an elevator staged?
The Huffington Post has reported on a video showing a man sexually harassing a woman and then getting beat up by her: http://m.huffpost.com/au/entry/9792076
It looks fake. For example the harasser ...
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Do Florida woods cockroaches (aka Palmetto bugs) commonly sell for ~US$80/kg in China?
According to this article on Yahoo news, citing a similar South China Morning Post article, Yuan Meixia bought her initial stock of 20kg of cockroaches for around US$1600:
Yuan, a pharmacy ...
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Has China been funding ethnic militias in Myanmar?
According to an article
in Mercator by Antonio Graceffo:
In Burma’s 70-plus years of civil war, China has been funding multiple ethnic resistance armies, as well as serving as the primary benefactor ...
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Are Chinese wet markets selling bat again?
I read that China banned consumption of wild life a few weeks ago.
A strict ban on the consumption and farming of wild animals is being rolled out across China in the wake of the deadly coronavirus ...
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Are HIV positive couples in China denied assisted reproduction methods?
In the following article on Xinhuanet, it is claimed that HIV carriers are not allowed access to assisted reproduction in China.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/21/c_137762633.htm
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Are Chinese authorities jailing, harassing, and torturing legal activists?
Reports suggest the authorities are not just jailing and harassing legal practitioners and their relatives, but also subjecting some of them to appalling torture.
The Economist | Champions chained: ...
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Did China say that war with the US over the South China Sea dispute is now a "reality"?
According to this article from the Daily Star, published on the 29th of January, 2017,
CHINA has declared war with the US is now a “reality” as military
commanders rallied their forces to be ...
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Did China receive blue prints of the IAI Lavi jet from Israel?
On the Internet, it is frequently found that the Chinese J-10 fighter jet evolved from the Israeli IAI Lavi project in that either China obtained the blueprints or received direct technical assistance ...
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Were masks imported to China in Jan-Feb resold to Mexico at 20-30 times the price in March?
Global News reports
In March, the masks sold to China in January and February were being sold back to Mexico at 20 to 30 times the price, according to [Jorge] Guajardo [Mexico’s former ambassador ...
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Did Pakistan ever request China to market JF-17s to Bangladesh?
Pakistan requests JF-17 sale to Bangladesh
BDMiIitary.com learnt that the Pakistani authorities have requested their Chinese partners to sell JF-17 Thunder light combat aircraft to the Bangladesh ...
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How explicit were the (putative) secret speeches by Xi Jinping to build up China's nuclear arsenal to match that of USA & Russia?
NYT journalist David Sanger says in an interview about his book that Xi Jinping gave secret speeches as soon as he came into power promising to build China's nuclear arsenal to match that of US & ...
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Are the leaked Xinjiang files (from the old NYT article), and Xinjiang Police Files proven to be legitimate?
4 years ago, the NYT published this article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html, discussing the then-recently leaked
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Is Iraq buying JF-17 Block-3 aircraft from Pakistan/China?
Is Iraq buying JF-17 aircraft?
Iraq orders 12 JF-17 fighter jets from Pakistan
In recent developments, Iraq has decided to purchase 12 JF-17 Thunder Block III fighter jets from Pakistan. According ...
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Is Pakistan or China funding and assisting terrorist insurgents in Afghanistan?
According to Amrullah Saleh, Afghan State Minister for Security Reforms:
we are fighting a terrorist group sponsored and assisted by a nuclear state sitting next to us
Afghanistan has borders with ...
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Did China steal technology from the USA to make their J-20?
The Chengdu J-20 is a Chinese fighter aircraft.
Wikipedia reports that
The combination of an integrated targeting pod with spherically situated passive-optical tracking system is reported similar ...
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Is the intentional homicide rate in China extremely low?
I've found some sources that show China has a relatively low intentional homicide rate. For example:
Wikipedia's List of countries by intentional homicide rate cites the UN Office on Drugs and crime ...
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