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Propaganda Films Attempt to Cloak Xinjiang in Disinformation
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Apr 6, 2021
The Chinese government has made painstaking efforts to obscure and distort information about its crackdown on Xinjiang’s ethnic minorities. The propaganda campaign is double-edged aimed at both Chinese citizens and the world at large. Two new state-backed films purport to dispel reporting on events in Xinjiang: the first a musical inspired by “La La Land”, the second the fourth and final episode in a documentary series on terrorism and separatism in the region. At The New York Times, Amy Qin reported on the “The Wings of Songs,”
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Journalist Vicky Xu Says CCP Targeting Her Online for Exposing Forced Labor in China
Vicky Xu, a Chinese researcher and journalist in Australia known for her reporting on the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, has blamed agents acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for releasing a video online about her in an attempt to smear her reputation.
Xu has not been accepting media interview requests but has taken to Twitter on multiple occasions recently to set the record straight and expose the CCP’s online disinformation efforts.
“It seems some are under the impression that there exists a fake sex tape of me made by the Chinese government,” she wrote on April 6.
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Nearly 700 Americans including government workers, CEOs and even Ashanti were secretly placed on a Chinese watchlist when they traveled through Shanghai s main airport, The Post has learned.
A database shared with The Post has a spreadsheet listing the names, birth dates and passport numbers of 697 US citizens, some of them children, who were flagged while passing through Pudong International Airport in 2018 and 2020.
The list has executives from fields like finance, technology and biomedicine including some from Apple, Microsoft, GE Healthcare, Pfizer and Merrill Lynch.
The name and birth date of Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, the Grammy-winning R&B singer, was also on the list, which marked her as having traveled through the airport in August 2018. A rep for the star didn t immediately comment.