Weekly Review: China Writers’ Group work on Seek Truth From Facts, 1-7 July 2024
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2024-07-01
Kwan lays on NINE - count'em - NINE brain-boosting articles/videos just for CWG fans. I'm dying here! Kwan, are you taking speed pills? Kwan, please take a rest!
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/kwan-lays-on-nine-countem-nine-brain
2024-07-01
Patrice must be taking speed pills too. OMG, 34 - count'em - 34 posts this week to keep your article/video/interview quiver full! Have at it!
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/patrice-must-be-taking-speed-pills
2024-07-01
Have a cup of Sino-tea with me! This is how the Chinese drink tea during their workday. With photos.
2024-07-01
Ramin on Russophobia, Patrice with two truth bombs; Amarynth on pedophilia and related, Jeff on the West's organ harvesting/child trafficking cartel: the need to know.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/ramin-on-russophobia-patrice-with
2024-07-01
Thomas with a lovely poem and photo, Matt on Mormons, Peter with a triple- header and Jeff invites you to share a cup of Chinese tea, with photos to make it more fun!
https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/thomas-with-a-lovely-poem-and-photo
2024-07-02
Amarynth on the SCO, Irina on the loss of the USSR, Matt sings the Canadian national hymn and Jeff compares guns and butter.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/amarynth-on-the-sco-irina-on-the
2024-07-02
Four China-Writer guest submissions chosen just for you!
https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/four-china-writer-guest-submissions
2024-07-02
Class War Films: Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
2024-07-03
Nima R. Alkhorshid hosts Jeff J. Brown on his outstanding "Dialogue Works" Show: we cover China, Ukraine and Palestine.
https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/nima-r-alkhorshid-hosts-jeff-j-brown
2024-07-03
Godfree on Sino-diplomacy, Kwan on kaput Japan, Ramin on the White Trash Revolution and Frans reviews 50 non-fictions books covering China. Where else but China Writers' Group?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/godfree-on-sino-diplomacy-kwan-on
2024-07-03
Chinese lives: Mr. Cai, taxi driver.
https://seektruthfromfacts.org/cwg/chinese-lives-mr-cai-taxi-driver/
2024-07-04
First-time visitors to China are gobsmacked at everything they see and experience. New visa-free policy is changing hearts and minds.
2024-07-04
CWG kicking bahookie! Kwan has a two-fer, Jeff talks to a Chinese taxi driver, Frank with an oldie on Palestine and Chua on gobsmacked, first-time visitors to Sinoland.
https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/cwg-kicking-bahookie-kwan-has-a-two
2024-07-04
Four awesome CWG guest submissions: Class War Films, Jay Janson, Ray McGovern and Science.org
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/four-awesome-cwg-guest-submissions
2024-07-04
West's Big Lie Propaganda Machine puke on Xinjiang and Chinese Muslims is neck-deep across our Pale Blue Dot. Here are 11 articles/videos that pull the plug, including three by Jeff J. Brown.
2024-07-04
Eric on Dualistic Thinking and Ego, Cynthia with a historical double-header, Matt covers Sino-Russian space advances and Jeff washes away Big Lie Propaganda Machine puke.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/eric-on-dualistic-thinking-and-ego
2024-07-06
CWG has tastefully selected four disparate guest submissions just for you! Savor each morsel...
https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/cwg-has-tastefully-selected-four
2024-07-06
Frank on Trans, Pepe with a bombshell video, Matt extends you an invitation and Jeff makes a very informative reply to a comment on Seek Truth From Facts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/frank-on-trans-pepe-with-a-bombshell
2024-07-06
Ben+Billy Bob walk you through all the current headline highlights.
2024-07-07
Fun CWG Sunday: Ben+Billy's headline highlights, Godfree's NATO nub in the Pacific, Cynthia on Deep State Aaron Burr and Magus has more award-winning visuals for your social media. Download them all!
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/fun-cwg-sunday-benbillys-headline
2024-07-07
Everybody internalizes that the CIA/Mossad/Military/Banksters killed JFK, not to mention his brother, MLK, MX, Black Panthers, musicians and thousands of others.
2024-07-07
Amarynth has boots on the ground in Latin America x3 and Jeff exposes the West's psychopathy of assassinations.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/amarynth-has-boots-on-the-ground
2024-07-07
Dr. Kwan Lee takes you to 7th heaven across the globe! Read one a day this week to savor them all...
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/dr-kwan-lee-takes-you-to-7th-heaven
2024-07-07
Nima R. Alkhorshid hosts Jeff J. Brown on his excellent "Dialogue Works" Show: we cover Ukraine, Palestine and drill down on China and Taiwan. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240707
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/nima-r-alkhorshid-hosts-jeff-j-brown-b8
2024-07-07
Eric on the West's long decline, Gerald with one of Mao's most famous poems, Matt on Conan Doyle's hatred of Poe and Frans with some lovely vignettes of China. Where else but CWG?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffjbrown/p/eric-on-the-wests-long-decline-gerald
No comment on my comment, Jeff?
“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” Eric Hoffer
Here, “Seek Lies from Facts Foundation”, fact check this:
CHINA Reporters Without Borders 2024
CHINA IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST JAILER OF JOURNALISTS, WITH MORE THAN 100 CURRENTLY DETAINED.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world's largest prison for journalists, and its regime conducts a campaign of repression against journalism and the right to information worldwide.
Media landscape
Major Chinese media groups, such as Xinhua News Agency, China Central Television (CCTV), China National Radio (CNR), and newspapers China Daily, People’s Daily and the Global Times, are state-owned and directly controlled by the authorities. The Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party sends a detailed notice to all media every day that includes editorial guidelines and censored topics. The state-owned China Global Television Network (CGTN) and Radio China International (RCI) spread the regime’s propaganda all around the world.
Political context
In the eyes of the regime, the media’s function is to be the party’s mouthpiece and to impart state propaganda. Independent journalists and bloggers who dare to report “sensitive” information are often placed under surveillance, harassed, detained, and, in some cases, tortured. To receive and renew their press cards, journalists must download the Study Xi, Strengthen the Country propaganda application that can collect their personal data.
Legal framework
The constitution of the People’s Republic of China guarantees “freedom of speech [and] of the press” but the regime routinely violates the right to information, in total impunity. To further silence journalists, it accuses them of “espionage”, “subversion”, or “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, three “pocket crimes'', a term used by Chinese law experts to describe offences that are so broadly defined that they can be applied to almost any activity. Independent journalists can also be legally placed in solitary confinement for six months under “Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location” (“RSDL”) in China’s “black prisons”, where they are deprived of legal representation and may be subjected to torture.
Economic context
The industry is very profitable, but almost entirely controlled by the government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is considering passing a law to ban all private investment in the media. If passed, this law could cement existing restrictions and tighten the regime’s grip on the media as well as silence remaining independent voices.
Sociocultural context
President Xi Jinping, in power since 2012, has restored a media culture worthy of the Maoist era, in which freely accessing information has become a crime and to provide information an even greater crime. China’s state and privately owned media are under the Communist Party’s ever-tighter control, while the administration creates more and more obstacles for foreign reporters.
Safety
The Chinese regime uses surveillance, coercion, intimidation and harassment to keep independent journalists from reporting on issues it deems “sensitive”. CHINA IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST JAILER OF JOURNALISTS, WITH MORE THAN 100 CURRENTLY DETAINED.
https://rsf.org/en/country/china
FRANCE: RSF PROTESTS THE VISIT OF XI JINPING, ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING PRESS FREEDOM PREDATORS Reporters Without Borders, June 5, 2024
https://rsf.org/en/france-rsf-protests-visit-xi-jinping-one-world-s-leading-press-freedom-predators