CNN’s signal in China appeared to be censored halfway through CNN’s Will Ripley reporting on the ousting and replacement of China’s foreign minister Qin Gang after a long absence from the public view.

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    Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

    -1984

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      The leading rumour is that he was keeping a mistress who was compromised by US/UK intelligence. He was a favoured political protege of Xi, so it’d take something like that to get him disappeared.

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      Comrade Gang has merely come down with a case of outspokenness which unfortunately lead to a terminal case of lead poisoning.

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        There never was, has, or ever will be a Mr.Qin Gang.

  • @Saneless@lemmy.world
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    If China didn’t make cheap shit we’d treat them with the same relevancy as any other country you can’t think of

    Stop giving money to oppressive and evil empires

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    Oh, I’m sure that’s because they have nothing to do with it

  • alternative_factor
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    Is this all just about him having a very public affair or is there more to it? This guy is getting the Trotsky treatment over just that?

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      You’re calling 1984 anti-semitic because of Emmanuel Goldstein, aren’t you? Way to totally miss the point of why Orwell chose that name for that “character.”

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      Given that your very first piece of evidence of how CNN lies about China is them saying tiananmen square happened, and your “disproof” is just a link to a random website entirely devoted to denying the massacre happened, it’s pretty clear why you’re not exactly getting a positive response

      Edit: The second disproof is literally just the Chinese government saying it isn’t true, which isn’t exactly thorough evidence

      If you exclusively take the statements of a government as unquestionable truth, you’re going to be wrong a lot, regardless of which government you choose

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      Yes the country that censors everything, everyone, and has an entire setup to stifle information is the good guy

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