The steep rise in infections came after years of Beijing’s ‘zero-Covid’ approach was abruptly stopped last month with little warning, and quickly overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.
— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11594391/China-admits-Covid-deaths-huge-70-Shanghais-25m-residents-infected.html
中国官员承认，该国与新冠病毒相关的死亡总数“巨大”，一位医生表示，上海2500万居民中有多达70%可能已被感染。
对于习近平来说，这是2022年罕见的亮点，这是动荡的一年，其顶点是前所未有的街头抗议活动，随后他的零新冠病毒政策突然逆转，冠状病毒感染在世界上人口最多的国家肆虐。
It was a rare highlight for Xi in 2022, a tumultuous year capped by unprecedented street protests followed by the sudden reversal of his zero-COVID policy and coronavirus infections rampaging across the world’s most populous country.
— Read on www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xi-solidified-grip-power-during-tumultuous-2022-2022-12-29/
Weibo users criticized the removal of a video of real-life stories from 2022 that captivated the public.
— Read on www.reuters.com/world/china/china-censors-covid-related-content-online-new-years-eve-prompts-reflection-by-2022-12-31/
微博用户批评删除了2022年吸引公众的现实故事视频。
A simple “Are you okay?” was enough for Stella (not her real name), 30 years old, to open the floodgates: “Five months after the Shanghai lockdown, we are still locked up in China. We don’t know if we will be able to go outside next weekend or even leave our apartment because we are still at risk of being quarantined at the slightest contact in the building. This constant uncertainty is exhausting. I want to go out, to see the world,” said the young woman, sitting on a mattress in a gym in the city center
一个简单的”你还好吗？” 就足以让30岁的斯特拉（化名）打开闸门:”上海封锁五个月后，我们仍然被关在中国。 因为还在建筑物内稍有接触就会被隔离的危险,所以不知道下周末是否可以外出,甚至可以离开公寓。 这种不断的不确定性令人精疲力竭。 我想出去看看世界。” 年轻女子坐在市中心一家健身房的床垫上说道
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/12/10/explainer-the-decline-of-hong-kongs-press-freedom-under-the-national-security-law/
Happened in Hong Kong Only in December, 2022
December 2022
The national security trial of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was adjourned on its scheduled starting date until December 13 as Hong Kong waits for Beijing to “clarify” the law as to whether overseas lawyers are allowed to appear in such cases.
Defendants charged under the national security law could be sent to mainland China for trial if they cannot find a lawyer in Hong Kong, the city’s top delegate to Beijing’s advisory body said.
US-based NGO Human Rights Watch announced it would co-host the Human Rights Press Awards after Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) cancelled the event earlier this year.
Jimmy Lai, the founder of defunct pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, was sentenced to five years and nine months in jail after being convicted of fraud.
The jailing of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai over fraud charges “has nothing to do with freedom of the press or freedom of speech,” the Hong Kong government said, following criticism from the US.
Chung Pui-kuen, a former top editor of Hong Kong news outlet Stand News facing sedition charges was granted bail after spending almost a year in custody pending trial.
The national security trial against Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai was adjourned until September 25, 2023.
Proceedings against former editors of independent outlet Stand News were “unfair” and “not transparent,” the defence argued, as the court sought to rule on whether the discovery of previously undisclosed evidence was grounds to terminate the trial.
An additional six articles published by the shuttered independent media outlet Stand News were flagged by the prosecution for potentially violating Hong Kong’s colonial-era sedition law.
2022年12月
由于香港正等待北京”澄清”有关是否允许海外律师出庭的法律，民主派媒体大亨赖智晟的国家安全审判原定于12月13日休庭。
北京咨询机构首席代表说，根据国家安全法被起诉的被告如果在香港找不到律师，将被送往中国大陆受审。
香港外国记者俱乐部(FCC)今年早些时候取消人权新闻奖后,总部设在美国的非政府组织人权观察宣布将共同主办该奖项。
已故民运小报《苹果日报》的创办人赖昌星因欺诈罪被判处五年零九个月监禁。
在受到美国批评后，香港政府表示，民主派媒体大亨赖昌星因涉嫌欺诈罪而被关进监狱”与新闻自由和言论自由无关”。
曾任香港《立报》主编的钟沛权因涉嫌煽动叛乱而被保释，此前他被拘留将近一年，等待审判。
对苹果日报创始人赖俊美的国家安全审判延期到2023年9月25日。
辩方辩称，对独立媒体《站立新闻》的前编辑提出的诉讼”不公平”和”不透明”，因为法院试图裁定发现以前未披露的证据是否是终止审判的理由。
被关闭的独立媒体Stand News发表的另外六篇文章被检方标记为可能违反香港殖民时代的煽动叛乱法。
Republican House Intelligence Committee members allege in a report that there are indications that COVID-19 could be tied to China’s biological weapons research program.
— Read on www.foxnews.com/politics/covid-origins-may-have-been-tied-chinas-bioweapons-program-gop-report
“与[情报部门]解密报告的含义相反，根据我们对各种公开和非公开信息的调查，我们得出的结论是，有迹象表明，SARS-CoV-2可能与中国的生物武器研究计划有关，并在实验室相关期间蔓延到人口中。报告摘要说:”这起事件发生在武汉病毒研究所。 他说:「集成电路未能在最新的分类评估中充分处理这些资料。 当我们试图向IC提出问题时，IC没有做出回应。”
They also issued a harsh rebuke of US intelligence agencies, whom they accused of misleading the public and ‘downplaying’ information when they suggested the virus likely had no bioweapon origins.
— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11539933/House-Republicans-suggest-link-COVID-19-China-bioweapons-program.html
Google has refused to change its search results to display China’s national anthem, rather than a protest song, when users search for Hong Kong’s national anthem, the city’s security chief said on Monday, expressing “great regret” at the decision.
— Read on www.reuters.com/technology/google-refused-hong-kong-request-over-protest-anthem-hk-official-2022-12-12/
ZERO COVID’S FAILURE IS XI’S FAILURE
Whatever happens with case counts in China now, one person owns them.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/12/zero-covids-failure-is-xi-jinpings-failure/672422/
For three years, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, fought a remorseless battle against COVID-19. He called it a “people’s war”—a national struggle to defeat an unseen foe and save lives. The contest locked families in their homes for weeks, strangled the economy, and closed the country to the world. Other governments that failed to contain the pandemic may be indifferent to death and suffering, the message was, but not the Chinese Communist Party, which cares about life above all else.
And then, poof! Xi gave up.
中国国家主席习近平连续3年与新冠肺炎展开了无情的斗争。 他称之为”人民战争”——一场为击败看不见的敌人、拯救生命而进行的民族斗争。 这场竞赛把家庭锁在家里好几个星期，扼杀了经济，使国家与世界隔绝。 其他未能控制疫情的政府也许对死亡和痛苦漠不关心，但中共并不关心，因为中共最关心的是生命。
然后，噗！ 习近平放弃了。
Explainer: The decline of Hong Kong’s press freedom under the national security law – Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
— Read on hongkongfp.com/2022/12/10/explainer-the-decline-of-hong-kongs-press-freedom-under-the-national-security-law/
China’s 55 police stations
Earlier this year, Spanish-based NGO Safeguard Defenders said China had set up 54 overseas police stations around the world, which are sometimes used to target critics of the Chinese Communist Party.German lawmaker Joana Cotar, whose request led to the information being disclosed, said it was an “outright scandal” the government only revealed the details when asked and that it “simply accepts” the stations’ existence.
— Read on www.citizen.co.za/news/news-world/china-police-stations-uncovered-germany/
中国55个派出所
今年早些时候，总部位于西班牙的非政府组织 Safeguard Defenders 表示，中国在世界各地设立了 54 个海外警察局，这些警察局有时被用来对付批评中国共产党的人。
德国立法者 Joana Cotar 的要求导致信息被披露，她说这是一个“彻头彻尾的丑闻”，政府只在被问到时才透露细节，并且“简单地接受”这些电台的存在。
Canada to review ‘disconcerting’ police radio deal with ties to China, says Trudeau
— Read on www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/canada-to-review-disconcerting-police-radio-deal-with-ties-to-china-says-trudeau
上海的年轻愤怒的抗议者面对包围他们的警察，高呼自由，高喊:”难道你不应该为人民服务吗？” 11月26日晚，数百人聚集在上海乌鲁木齐路，这是新疆省省会乌鲁木齐市一座高层住宅楼举行悼念火灾遇难者的标志性场所。
This resistance is the result of a confluence of immediate catalysts and long-term political and economic dynamics.
— Read on truthout.org/articles/anti-authoritarian-collective-action-is-happening-on-a-mass-scale-in-china/
Officials say asymptomatic and mild cases will no longer be forced into state quarantine centres.
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63855508
TikTok is a formidable tool for espionage and mass control, and the Chinese communist dictatorship could do whatever they want with it. These, in brief, are the concerns expressed by FBI director Christopher Wray while attending an event at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
— Read on www.techspot.com/news/96859-fbi-director-tiktok-could-china-best-espionage-tool.html
TikTok 是一种强大的间谍和大规模控制工具，中国共产党独裁政权可以为所欲为。 简而言之，这些是联邦调查局局长克里斯托弗·雷 (Christopher Wray) 在参加密歇根大学杰拉尔德·R·福特公共政策学院的一次活动时表达的担忧。
Several sources told DW that police in large cities like Shanghai have been randomly checking people’s phones on the street or on subways. Police have demanded people provide personal information and immediately remove apps like Telegram, Twitter or Instagram.
Others have said they were called by police and had their phones searched by authorities.
“Police warned me not to use Telegram and asked me to stop sharing information about the pandemic through the software,” said one protester with the surname Lin, who declined to be identified by his full name due to security concerns.
— Read on www.dw.com/en/china-fights-lockdown-protests-by-targeting-smartphones/a-63953000
多位消息人士告诉德国之声，上海等大城市的警察一直在街头或地铁上随机检查人们的手机。 警方要求人们提供个人信息，并立即删除 Telegram、Twitter 或 Instagram 等应用程序。
其他人则表示，他们接到了警方的电话，并被当局搜查了他们的手机。
一名姓林的抗议者说：“警察警告我不要使用 Telegram，并要求我停止通过该软件分享有关大流行的信息。”出于安全考虑，他拒绝透露全名。
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/china-lockdown-protests-smartphone-hack-8302537/
www.instagram.com/reel/ClaS0xsAaWM/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/covid-protests-escalate-china-lockdown-anger-rcna59324
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/covid-protests-escalate-china-lockdown-anger-rcna59324
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People in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Guangzhou clashed with white hazmat-suited riot police on Tuesday night, online videos showed, the latest in a string of protests that escalated over the weekend over stringent Covid-19 lockdowns.
The clashes, which follow protests in Shanghai, Beijing and elsewhere, erupted as China posts record numbers of Covid cases daily and health officials, including in the southern region around Guangzhou, announced a slight loosening of the curbs.
Mainland China’s biggest wave of civil disobedience since the 1989 Tiananmen protests comes as its economy sputters after growing at breakneck rates for decades.
That era of prosperity was fundamental for the social contract between the Communist Party and a population whose freedoms have been dramatically curtailed since President Xi Jinping took power 10 years ago…….
网络视频显示,中国制造业中心广州市民周二晚上与身穿白色防暴服的防暴警察发生冲突,这是上周末因新冠肺炎的严格封锁而升级的一系列抗议活动中的最新一幕。
继上海、北京等地示威之后,中国每天出现创纪录的新冠肺炎患者,广州周边南部地区保健当局也宣布放宽限制,从而爆发了冲突。
中国大陆自1989年天安门事件以来最大的一波民间不服从浪潮出现之际，中国大陆经济在几十年来以惊人的速度增长后出现动荡。
这个繁荣的时代对于共产党和人民之间的社会契约至关重要，因为自十年前习近平主席执政以来，他们的自由已经大大减少。
