75岁的英国公民、现已关闭的小报《苹果日报》的创始人Lai自2020年以来一直在香港坐牢，等待根据有争议的国家安全法涉嫌“与外国势力勾结”的审判。 Lai, a 75-year-old British citizen and founder of the now-shuttered tabloid Apple Daily, has been behind bars in Hong Kong since 2020, awaiting trial for alleged “collusion with foreign forces” under a controversial national security law.
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当北京试图让世界相信新疆地区已经向前迈进时，其维吾尔族居民仍在遭受苦难。As Beijing tries to convince the world that the Xinjiang region has moved on, its Uighur residents continue to suffer. 中国是二战期间纳粹和日本帝国的好学生 China is a good student of Nazi and Imperial Japan during WW2
A report OHCHR released last year concluded that since 2017, the Chinese government had committed grave rights violations against millions of Uighurs and other Turkic people in Xinjiang, abuses so systematic and widespread that they “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity”. 人权高专办去年发布的一份报告得出的结论是，自2017年以来，中国政府对新疆数百万维吾尔族和其他突厥族人实施了严重侵犯人权的行为，其侵权行为如此系统和广泛，以至于“可能构成国际罪行，特别是反人类罪”。
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中国用塑料瓶向西藏人出售西藏水是骗局 China selling water from Tibet in plastic bottles to Tibetans is scam: Report – ThePrint –
中国正在窃取西藏的地下水，并将其卖回给西藏人，西藏人之前是免费获得的。在其中一则广告中，人们看到一名年轻的西藏游牧妇女在宣传一种中国品牌的瓶装水，该瓶装水实际上来自西藏。 China is stealing Tibet’s groundwater and selling it back to Tibetans, who previously got it for free. In one of the ads, a young Tibetan nomad woman was seen promoting a Chinese brand of bottled water that is actually sourced from Tibet.
Very Chinese like behavior , 非常中国人喜欢的行为 中华民族的行动。This is the way how Chinese can living in the World now 这就是中国人现在在世界上生活的方式。
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云南抗议：清真寺关闭与安全部队发生冲突 Yunnan protest: Mosque closure sees clashes with security forces – BBC News
周六，社交媒体视频显示，纳古镇13世纪的纳家英清真寺外有人群。警察和当地人之间爆发了混战，他们被数百名武装警察所控制。云南是中国南方一个种族多样化的省份，拥有大量穆斯林人口。中国正式成为无神论者，政府表示允许宗教自由。但观察人士表示，近年来，对有组织宗教的镇压有所增加——北京正在寻求更大的控制。Social media videos showed crowds outside the 13th-century Najiaying Mosque in Nagu town on Saturday.
Scuffles broke out between police and locals, who were hemmed in by hundreds of armed officers.
Yunnan, an ethnically-diverse province in southern China, has a significant Muslim population.
China is officially atheist and the government says it allows religious freedom. But observers say there has been an increased crackdown on organised religion in recent years – with Beijing seeking greater control.
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中国维吾尔族穆斯林面临最严重的伊斯兰恐惧症Uyghur Muslims in China face worst Islamophobia
至于仇视伊斯兰教日，联合国是否会宣布印度教恐惧症、基督教恐惧症和耶路撒冷恐惧症各一天，因为它们在世界不同地区都面临不同程度的仇恨、迫害甚至灭绝？ Directus 提出质询
As for Islamophobia day, will the UN declare a day each for Hinduphobia, Christian phobia and Jeruphobia because they all face hate, persecution and even extermination in different degrees in different parts of the world? the Directus questioned
中国做出了一个明智的决定，利用伊斯兰国家巴基斯坦来对抗西方在新疆侵犯维吾尔穆斯林人权的运动。 去年9月，巴基斯坦在联合国人权理事会第51届会议上率领68个国家反对以人权为借口干涉中国内政。 他们表示，新疆、香港和西藏是中国内政，不应将人权政治化和双重标准化。
China made a clever decision to use Pakistan, an Islamic country to counter the west’s campaign against human rights violations of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. In September last year, Pakistan led 68 countries at the 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council opposing what they called interference in China’s internal affairs under the pretext of human rights. They said Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet were China’s internal affairs and there should be no politicisation of human rights and double standards.
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中国试图阻止联合国的著名维吾尔演讲者 China tries to block prominent Uighur speaker at UN | The Straits Times
China demands floor to query whether World Uighur Congress president is qualified to speak. Read more at straitstimes.com.
— Read on www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/china-tries-to-block-prominent-uighur-speaker-at-un中国周四试图阻止一名著名的维吾尔族活动家在联合国人权理事会发表讲话，他要求该机构紧急处理关于北京严重违规行为的指控。 China attempted on Thursday to block a prominent Uighur activist from speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council, where he demanded the body urgently address allegations of serious violations by Beijing.
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政府支持的网络明星宣传共产党,影响者如何用政府支持的宣传工具掩盖中国的危害人类罪 How Influencers Cover Up Crimes Against Humanity in China by government’s backed, 边缘势力:中国宣传的新面貌 Frontier influencers: the new face of China’s propaganda
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/frontier-influencers
This report explores how the Chinese party-state’s globally focused propaganda and disinformation capabilities are evolving and increasing in sophistication. Concerningly, this emerging approach by the Chinese party-state to influence international discourse on China, including obfuscating its record of human rights violations, is largely flying under the radar of US social media platforms and western policymakers.
In the broader context of attempts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to censor speech, promote disinformation and seed the internet with its preferred narratives, we focus on a small but increasingly popular set of YouTube accounts that feature mainly female China-based ethnic-minority influencers from the troubled frontier regions of Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia, hereafter referred to as ‘frontier influencers’ or ‘frontier accounts’.
Despite being blocked in China, YouTube is seen by the CCP as a key battlefield in its ideological contestation with the outside world, and YouTube’s use in foreign-facing propaganda efforts has intensified in recent years. Originally deployed on domestic video-sharing platforms to meet an internal propaganda need, frontier-influencer content has since been redirected towards global audiences on YouTube as part of the CCP’s evolving efforts to counter criticisms of China’s human rights problems and burnish the country’s image.
Alongside party-state media and foreign vloggers, these carefully vetted domestic vloggers are increasingly seen as another key part of Beijing’s external propaganda arsenal. Their use of a more personal style of communication and softer presentation is expected to be more convincing than traditional party-state media content, which is often inclined towards the more rigid and didactic. For the CCP, frontier influencers represent, in the words of one Chinese propaganda expert, ‘guerrillas or militia’ fighting on the flanks in ‘the international arena of public opinion’, while party-state media or the ‘regular army’ ‘charge, kill and advance on the frontlines’.
这份报告探讨了中国政党国家的全球宣传和虚假信息能力是如何演进和日益成熟的。 令人担忧的是，中国政党国家影响有关中国的国际讨论的新方法，包括模糊其侵犯人权记录，在很大程度上是在美国社交媒体平台和西方决策者的监视下飞行的。
在中国共产党试图审查言论、宣传虚假信息和利用其首选叙事播撒互联网的更广泛的背景下，我们关注的是一些规模虽小但日益流行的YouTube账号，这些账号主要以来自新疆边疆地区的华裔女性为特色， 西藏和内蒙古，以下简称”边疆影响者”或”边疆账户”。
YouTube虽然在中国被封锁,但被中共视为与外部意识形态角逐的核心战场,最近几年YouTube在对外宣传上的使用正在加强。 最初部署在国内视频共享平台以满足内部宣传需要，此后，作为中共对抗对中国人权问题的批评和提高国家形象不断努力的一部分，前沿影响力内容已经转向YouTube上的全球受众。
除了党国媒体和外国博客，这些经过仔细审查的国内博客越来越被视为北京对外宣传武库的另一个关键部分。 他们使用更个人化的沟通方式和更柔和的表达方式，预计会比传统的党-国媒体内容更有说服力，后者往往倾向于更僵硬和更具教育意义的内容。 用一位中国宣传专家的话说，对中共来说，边疆势力代表着”国际舆论舞台”中的”游击队或民兵”，而政党国家媒体或”正规军”则代表着”冲锋陷阵、杀阵、在前线前进”。
由HurshidemAblikim主演的短片截图(附英文字幕)
资料来源:”人权”，YouTube，2020年4月23日，在线。影响者是中国宣传的新面孔。 他们隐藏在关于小狗和化妆的博客中，秘密允许北京粉饰其危害人类的罪行。 YouTube虽然在中国被封锁,但已成为中国共产党重要的意识形态战场。 他们创造了一个全新的影响者生态系统，这些影响者遵循着党的路线。 通过这些视频，这些维吾尔族影响者将他们的祖国新疆描绘成田园诗般的繁荣景象。 然而，许多可信的报告记录了中国对维吾尔族人口持续犯下的罪行——从强奸、强迫绝育到奴役。 澳大利亚战略政策研究所的研究员Daria Impiombato和她的团队观看了其中的1700多个视频。 很快，他们发现了一个令人担忧的灰色区域，这些影响因素在其中运作。 通过在”多频道网络”或MCN工作， 这些”影响力机构”拥有国家认可的VPN网络，允许它们绕过无所不能的”中国防火墙”。 然而，这些机构与中国共产党有联系，其内容必须严格遵守中国法律。 北京的宣传机器正在试图控制叙事，不仅是在他们的边界内，而且也在你们的算法内。
Influencers are the new face of Chinese propaganda. Hidden amongst the vlogs about puppies and makeup, they clandestinely allow Beijing to whitewash its crimes against humanity. Despite being blocked in China, YouTube has become a key ideological battleground for the Chinese Communist Party. And they have created a whole new ecosystem of influencers who tow the party line. From looking at these videos, these Uygher influencers portray their homeland of Xinjiang as idyllic and prosperous. However, numerous and credible reports document China’s ongoing crimes against the Uygher population – from rape, forced sterilization to slave labor. Daria Impiombato, a Researcher at The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and her team, watched over 1,700 of these videos. Soon enough, they found a worrying grey area in which these influencers operate. Through working for ‘multi-channel networks’ or MCNs,. These “influencer agencies”, with state-approved VPN networks, allow them to circumnavigate the all-powerful “Great Firewall of China”. However, these agencies are linked to the Chinese Communist Party, and their content must strictly follow Chinese law. Beijing’s propaganda machine is attempting to control the narrative, not just within their borders, but directly within your algorithms too.
Table 1: Frontier accounts on YouTube with more than 2,000 followers
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Figure 18: A video on the Ayituna (阿依图娜) channel describing the beautiful hair of the women in the vlogger’s family
Figure 24: Screenshots of posts from the @Maryamugul Twitter account featuring frontier influencer vide
Source: ‘Xinjiang Mali’ [新疆玛丽], Twitter, 9 October 2021, online; ‘Xinjiang Mali’ [新疆玛丽], Twitter, 27 May 2021, online.
The now-suspended @LeonaBenjamin18 Twitter account shares the same name and profile picture as the currently active @Maryamugul Twitter account
Source: Twitter.
Xiaowu Brothers’ post outlining ‘detailed rules for the review of online short video content’
Source: ‘Xiaowu Brothers’ [杭州小五和她的兄弟们科技有限公司], Facebook, 30 December 2021, online.
Meta’s blog post on Xiaowu Brothers’ success story
Source: Meta for Media, 5 August 2022, online.
Xiaowu Technology joint party branch held an organisational life meeting and carried out a criticism and self-criticism session of party members
Source: ‘Jincheng Xiaowu Technology’ [晋城小五科技], Weixin, 1 April 2022, online.
Pre-roll advertisements on videos about Xinjiang cotton, appearing on the ‘Annie Guli’ and ‘Chinar girl on horseback’ YouTube accounts, and a pop-up ad on the ‘GuLi XinJiang’ account
Sources: 安妮古丽 (Annie Guli), online; 马背少女驰娜尔 (Chinar girl on horseback), online; GuLi XinJiang, online.
在习近平看来，中国及其边疆地区的形象被用来遏制国家崛起的”外国势力”的负面形象扭曲了。 塑造一个”可信、可爱、可敬”的中国边疆形象，是为中国营造一个良好的内外环境，进而促进中国的稳定、发展和全球力量。 在中国被屏蔽的平台上出现了种族边界账户，这再次表明北京愿意尝试建立其全球话语权。
党国担心，向普通中国人开放社交媒体平台和其他互动渠道，将使他们面临受西方优越的”话语权”影响的风险，并破坏中共的政治计划。 中共不但没有鼓励中国网民广泛参与外国平台，反而继续限制他们跨防火墙进行对话，表明党国不相信中国公民”讲好中国故事”，除非他们通过指定的渠道被引导和引导。
边境影响账户越来越多地被用作北京日益增长的宣传武器库的一部分。 它们被视为一种可以利用的资源，但前提是它们得到适当的利用。 目前，他们的有效性似乎主要限于全球华人侨民。 但是，随着北京继续加大对社交媒体内容制作的政治控制，并使官方言论和自我表达更加一致，这些看似真实的报道很可能会被发布到全世界。
From Xi’s point of view, the image of China and its frontier regions is distorted by negative portrayals from ‘foreign forces’ used to contain the country’s rise. Creating a ‘credible, lovable, and respectable image’ of China’s frontier regions is meant to cultivate a favourable domestic and external environment for the PRC that will, in turn, facilitate the country’s stability, development and global power. The emergence of ethnic-frontier accounts on platforms blocked in China is another sign of Beijing’s willingness to experiment in building its global voice.
The party-state is concerned that opening up access to social media platforms and other interactive channels to regular Chinese people will expose them to the risk that they’ll be influenced by the West’s superior ‘discourse power’ and undermine the CCP’s political project. Far from encouraging widespread participation of Chinese internet users on foreign platforms, the CCP has continued to restrict them from engaging in dialogue across the firewall, indicating that the party-state doesn’t trust Chinese citizens to ‘tell China’s story well’ unless they’re led and guided through designated channels.
Frontier-influencer accounts are increasingly used as an emerging part of Beijing’s growing propaganda arsenal. They’re seen as a resource to be drawn on, but only if they’re harnessed properly. At present, their effectiveness appears to be mostly limited to the global Chinese diaspora. But, as Beijing continues to ramp up political control over social media content production and bring official discourse and self-expression further into line, more of these seemingly authentic accounts are likely to be unleashed onto the world.
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西藏发言人在日内瓦联合国会议上多次被中国代表打断
www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2023/03/mil-230316-rfa02.htmlhttps://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2023/03/mil-230316-rfa02.htm
强迫孩子们学习中文
过去，中国当局关闭了为西藏游牧儿童服务的学校，认为他们的运作干扰了政府将牧民及其家人从牧地转移到乡镇的计划。
近年来，当局关闭了提供藏语课程的私立藏族学校，迫使学生转而去政府开办的学校，在那里他们用中文授课。
这些中断发生在理事会与联合国文化权利领域特别报告员Alexandra Xanthaki关于移民和文化权利报告的互动对话中。该报告确定了在保护世界各地不少于2.8亿人的文化权利方面存在的差距。
The interruptions occurred at the Council’s interactive dialogue with Alexandra Xanthaki, the U.N.’s special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, on her report on migration and cultural rights. The report identified gaps that exist in the protection of the cultural rights of no less than 280 million around the world.
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New UN rights chief opens ‘communication’ with China | Human Rights News | Al Jazeera. 新任联合国人权事务负责人开启与中国的“沟通”
Volker Türk 的第一次演讲没有达到活动人士希望在联合国报告新疆暴行后采取更强硬立场的希望。新任联合国人权事务负责人开启与中国的“沟通”
Volker Türk 的第一次演讲没有达到活动人士希望在联合国报告新疆暴行后采取更强硬立场的希望。https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/3/7/new-un-rights-chief-opens-communication-with
The new United Nations human rights chief has said his office has opened “channels of communication” to help follow up on concerns about the rights of minorities in the western Xinjiang region of China, including Uighur Muslims and Tibetans. 新任联合国人权事务负责人表示，他的办公室已经开通了“沟通渠道”，以帮助跟进对中国西部新疆地区少数民族权利的担忧，包括维吾尔族穆斯林和藏族人。
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China is erasing their culture. In exile, Uyghurs remain defiant.中国正在抹杀他们的文化。 在流亡中，维吾尔人仍然反抗。
越来越多的维吾尔侨民在伊斯坦布尔附近找到了避难所，并与他们的文化重新联系。A growing Uyghur diaspora has found refuge—and a reconnection to their culture—in the neighbourhoods of Istanbul.
中国正在抹杀他们的文化。 在流亡中，维吾尔人仍然反抗。
越来越多的维吾尔侨民在伊斯坦布尔附近找到了避难所，并与他们的文化重新联系。https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/11/china-is-erasing-their-culture-in-exile-uyghurs-remain-defiant “One day, we will raise this flag in our homeland,” Küseni says. “Are you ready?”
“Yes!” the children reply in unison, placing their right hands to their chests as the East Turkestan anthem “March of Salvation” plays. In Xinjiang that would also be illegal. Then the students crowd into an assembly hall where a carpeted stage, backed by lilac drapes and an arch of white flowers, has been arranged in front of rows of plastic chairs.
“有一天，我们将在我们的祖国升起这面旗帜，”库塞尼说。 “你准备好了吗？”
“是的！”孩子们齐声回答，右手放在胸前，唱着东突厥国歌《救世进行曲》。 在新疆，这也是非法的。 然后，学生们挤进一个会议厅，在紫丁香窗帘和白色花拱的衬托下，在一排排塑料椅子前摆放了一个铺着地毯的舞台。
