Question for the stooges: is this true, and is this what they have been hinting at but not quite bringing themselves to say?

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-much-support-does-the-chinese-communist-party-really-have/

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Of course, this is not new. The CCP were pushing the same line back when they were starving millions of Chinese to death with their lies and incompetence.

Why are the Chinese people so tolerant of their leaders lies and incompetence?

Many Shanghai civilians committed suicide in desperation, while Xi said China should get a gold medal for their anti-epidemic job


https://mobile.twitter.com/DonnaWongHK/status/1512472328478752773

Karnal wrote on Apr 26^th, 2022 at 5:00pm:


Did you just make that up?

Amateur hour

After spending much of the last decade on and off in Shanghai, Mason has a pretty high threshold for chaotic Chinese bureaucracy. “Covid jail” was something else.

The incompetence was staggering.

“Nobody really knew what they were doing,” he says.

Everyone who gets Covid in Shanghai – even those with mild symptoms like Mason and his girlfriend – has to go to an offsite quarantine centre.

Shanghai’s officials are still finding almost 10,000 new cases a day, so the centres keep filling.

Most quarantine centres are much worse than where Mason and his girlfriend were summoned at almost 2am.

About 600 people were packed in the giant shed. On arrival, about 24 of the portaloos were usable. Within days, only eight were, and even those were often nearly overflowing.

There were no showers, ­although there was a hose. They saw a doctor only once during the whole nine-day stay.

People in hazmat suits – called Big Whites in China – would roam around the centre and concrete outdoor area, spraying bleach into the air.

The day began with orders shrieked over loudspeaker, starting as early as 5.30am.

“Don’t come and ask us for breakfast! … Don’t move the beds! … Don’t stand on the toilets!”

None of the staff could speak English, so Mason – fluent in Mandarin – would translate to the other foreigners.

One was an unlucky German who had been sent to the quarantine centre on the final day of a 10-week short-term contract in Shanghai.

Just after the German – who was triple vaccinated with Pfizer – joined a crowded bus to take him to the quarantine centre, he ­received a call from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. There had been a mistake. His test had actually been negative.

It was too late. Now that he was surrounded by people infected with Covid, he had to go to the quarantine centre to serve his ­sentence.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/get-me-out-of-here-chinas-expat-exodus/ne...


China is one massive, bureaucratic amateur hour of staggering incompetence. Sad, frightening and ridiculous, all at once.

Our resident CCP stooges tried to explain why there was "no need" for the Chinese people to be informed about the great Chinese famine. But this is as clear a reason as any why it is necessary. The CCP was never forced to learn a lesson. It got away with staggering incompetence that killed millions. And the lesson they learned is that it is more important to get away with such staggering incompetence than to avoid it in the first place.

The Chinese people will suffer for as long as they allow the CCP to get away with it's lies and incompetence. Thanks to covid, the whole world is now suffering the consequences.

With China’s growth rate falling after Xi came to power in 2012 from its 1980-2012 annual average of 8.9 per cent to 5.8 per cent, Chinese per capita incomes are extremely unlikely to reach one-third of those in the US before the tail end of the 2020s, much less rival living standards in China’s Asian counterparts.

But even poorer than the quantum of China’s growth has been its quality. The distribution of the gains from economic growth provides a telling case in point. In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, income inequality remained very low and reasonably stable as incomes surged, with the growth dividend being broadly spread throughout the population.

However, under communist China’s “dictatorship of the proletariat”, income inequality has soared, taking the country’s Gini coefficient (a widely used measure of inequality) from being among the world’s lowest when the reform process began to now being among the world’s highest.

And accompanying soaring inequality has been rampant corruption: according to Transparency International’s highly regarded corruption score, corruption is about as widespread in China as it is in South Africa, making it a society in which graft, patronage and cronyism pervade everyday life, quite unlike the relative probity of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Nor has Xi’s much publicised anti-corruption campaign closed that gap: Transparency International estimates that both South Korea and Taiwan, which were much less corrupt to begin with, have achieved greater improvements than China in their corruption scores since 2013, without any of the arbitrary arrests and executions that are Xi’s hallmark.

In short, the realities of China’s te regime are scarcely worth flaunting.

In its first three decades, it murdered at least 35 million people, condemning millions more to unending hardship: it is easy to show that had the regime, instead of the carnage of the Cultural Revolution, initiated its market-oriented reforms in 1965, 500 million Chinese would not have spent the bulk of their lives struggling desperately to survive.

And in the four decades after that, China’s growth fell short while the CCP forged a society more deeply marred by injustice and corruption than would ever have been acceptable in the country’s capitalist – and now robustly democratic – Asian peers.

It is those facts that Australia needs to explain, clearly and firmly, in the region and around the world. Xi and his henchmen are perfectly capable of doing their own propaganda; our role should be to speak the truths that set – and keep – nations free.

Henry Ergas
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/inequality-soars-in-xi-jinpings-proletariat-paradise/news-story/960230c42fa226533f3f31448b1eb3ab

Visit China before China visits you? Too late, m'afraid.


A human rights activist has been arrested at a pro-democracy and anti-Chinese government protest in the northwest Sydney suburb of Eastwood.

Now released, Drew Pavlou criticised what he described as the “underhanded” behaviour of NSW police and said he would defend the charges in the name of free speech, vowing to go as far as the High Court.

“We’re going to Castle it,” he said, referring to the Australian film in which a homeowner takes a matter to the High Court after a developer tries to seize their land.

Mr Pavlou said officers on Saturday said they decided to charge him for a similar protest the previous week. “It was almost like they were trying to intimidate me,” he said.

Mr Pavlou is a prominent critic of the Chinese Communist Party and was controversially suspended by the University of Queensland in 2020 over his activism. He is vying for a Queensland Senate seat in the federal election.

Mr Pavlou said he had organised a rally of about 30, mostly anti-Chinese government activists focused on Hong Kong, Uighur Muslims, and Tibet at the Eastwood community marketplace on Saturday.

They held signs with messages such as “Free Hong Kong”, “Free Tibet”, and “Down with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)”.

He said an altercation took place about 6pm, when a group of pro-Chinese government bystanders started to yell at him and his fellow protesters.

“The police pulled me aside and they said your actions are now causing fear and alarm to the public. This can escalate to violence, and there’s a threat, and so we’re directing you to move on.

“I just said, I believe in free speech and as a matter of free speech, I won’t be moving on. You’ll have to arrest me.”

Mr Pavlou says he was released on bail about midnight on the condition he would not go within one kilometre of Eastwood and Epping.

A NSW police spokesman confirmed the arrest took place in the Eastwood community marketplace about 6.30pm on Saturday evening.

“The gathering was obstructing pedestrian traffic and interfering with stall owners’ ability to conduct their business,” said the spokesman. “Police were concerned that the unauthorised assembly was causing fear and alarm among the community due to the escalating anti-social behaviour of those present.

“Police spoke with a 22-year-old man and issued him a move along direction. When the man failed to comply with that move along direction, he was arrested.”

No one else was arrested.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/antichina-activist-to-castle-it-after-ar...

Not reported by the People's ABC or SBS.

We find evidence in 71 of these reports, spread nationwide, that brain death could not have properly been declared. In these cases, the removal of the heart during organ procurement must have been the proximate cause of the donor's death. Because these organ donors could only have been prisoners, our findings strongly suggest that physicians in the People's Republic of China have participated in executions by organ removal.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajt.16969