this isn't surprising tbh, and there are still people denying that this is happening at all
the CCP and their chinese supremacist followers are going around calling the escaped victims "actors".
this is what one of the victims had to say in response "They should try me, i am happy to go to court. I am ready"
Excerpts from previously unpublished documents directly linking China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province to speeches by the Chinese leadership in 2014 have been put online.
The documents – including three speeches by Chinese president Xi Jinping in April 2014 – cover security, population control and the need to punish the Uyghur population. Some are marked top secret. They were leaked to the Uyghur Tribunal – an independent people’s tribunal based in the UK.
In the documents, the highest levels of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) leadership call for Uyghur re-education and relocation to rectify an imbalance in the Uyghur and Han population in Xinjiang.
Dr Adrian Zenz, the German academic who was asked by the tribunal to authenticate the documents, said the top secret and confidential papers are significant because they show multiple links between the demands of the Chinese leadership of 2014 and what subsequently happened in Xinjiang, including mass internment in re-education camps, coercive labour transfers and optimising the ethnic population by increasing Han population shares.
Zenz alleges that the documents show the leadership’s long-term intent to commit cultural genocide with the specific purpose of safeguarding the rule of the CCP.
The documents were handed in full in digital form to the tribunal in September, but have not been published in full in order to protect the source of the leak.
Instead transcripts from some of the documents, lengthy quotations, summary and analysis have been published. The original documents were peer reviewed by Dr James Millward, professor of inter-societal history at Georgetown University Washington, and Dr David Tobin, lecturer in east Asian studies at the University of Sheffield. Some have been redacted to remove reception stamps. The leak covers 11 documents and 300 unique pages. They range from April 2014 to May 2018.
Zenz said some of the documents were drawn upon by the New York Times in a report in 2019, but that the leak also comprises previously unseen information.
In late 2016, just before the implementation of a set of unprecedented measures in Xinjiang, the leaders’ statements were handed to Xinjiang’s cadres as crucial study material, preparing them to implement the measures.
In one 2014 speech covered by the leak, Xi argues that the belt and road initiative, his signature foreign policy project, requires a stable domestic security environment. He asserts that the entire country’s national security and the achievement of China’s major goals in the 21st century will be in jeopardy if the situation in southern Xinjiang is not brought under control.
The speech was delivered weeks after Xi called for “all-out efforts” to bring to justice assailants who murdered 31 people and wounded more than 140 with knives and machetes in a bloody killing in the south-western city of Kunming on 1 March. Beijing blamed Xinjiang separatists for the attack.
In the speech Xi demands that the region engage in an all-out battle to “prevent Xinjiang’s violent terrorist activities from spreading to the rest of China”, argues that “stability across Xinjiang and even across the whole country depends on southern Xinjiang”, and calls for “a crushing blow to buy us time”.
He notes that since violent acts had already spread to other regions of China, “therefore we propose that Xinjiang is currently in … a painful period of interventionary treatment”. Religious extremists, he says, are “devils who will kill without blinking an eye”.
He also warns religious extremism is “a powerful psychedelic drug”, and calls for reform through education, as opposed to a practice of arrest and release – a reference to re-education and detention camps.
In another document, Xinjiang’s party secretary, Chen Quanguo, personally commands officials to “round up all who should be rounded up” and says the region’s vocational re-education facilities should be “unswervingly operated for a long time”.
In one of Xi’s speeches, he argues that “population proportion and population security are important foundations for long-term peace and stability”. This statement was later quoted verbatim by a senior Xinjiang official in July 2020, who then argued that southern Xinjiang’s Han population share was “too low”.
Other classified documents lament “severe imbalances in the distribution of the ethnic population” and a “severely mono-ethnic” population structure (an over-concentration of Uyghurs) in southern Xinjiang. They mandate that by 2022, 300,000 settlers (mostly Han from eastern China) are to be moved to regions in southern Xinjiang administered by the Xinjiang Construction and Production Corps, also known as “bingtuan”, a paramilitary entity, with the explicitly stated aim of increasing Han population shares in the region.
Xi himself ordered the abolishment of preferential birth control policies for ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang that had previously allowed them to have more children than the Han. He demanded that birth control policies in the Uyghur heartland were to be made “equal for all ethnic groups”.
The fresh leak was first mentioned at a special session of the UK-based tribunal on Saturday.
Government reports indicate that in February 2017, just weeks prior to the start of an internment campaign, leading cadres in prefectures and counties were subjected to an intensified study schedule of two of Xi’s speeches for at least two hours every week.
Zenz has been denounced by defenders of Beijing as a Christian fundamentalist determined to destroy Chinese communism. The Chinese government has imposed sanctions against him. It has always maintained that political, economic and religious freedoms in the Xinjiang region are “fully guaranteed”.
Zenz claims the new material shows that top Chinese leaders viewed the achievement of “stability maintenance” and related goals such as religious “de-extremification” in Xinjiang to be a matter of China’s national security, crucial to achieving primary long-term political goals.
Steve Simon tells US media that Peng’s wellbeing was ‘bigger than business’ and that ‘women need to be respected’
The Women’s Tennis Association is prepared to pull its tournaments out of China if there isn’t an adequate response to Peng Shuai’s allegation that she was sexually assaulted by China’s former vice premier, chief executive Steve Simon has told US media.
Peng, Chinese tennis star and former doubles world No.1, has not been seen in public since she accused the former high-ranking official, Zhang Gaoli, of sexual assault in a Weibo post that was deleted half an hour later. In the lengthy 2 November post, Peng alleged that Zhang had forced her into sex after inviting her to his house to play tennis with him and his wife three years ago. She also said she and Zhang had previously had an on-off consensual relationship.
Peng also said in the post that she could provide no evidence to back her allegations, but was determined to speak out.
Neither Zhang or the Chinese government have commented on Peng’s allegation and discussion of the topic has been blocked on China’s heavily censored internet.
Concern among the global tennis community and beyond has grown over Peng’s safety and whereabouts since her allegation, with the WTA calling for an investigation and the world’s top players tweeting #WhereIsPengShuai.
On Thursday Simon went further, telling US media the WTA, which has ten events scheduled in China for 2022 worth tens of millions of dollars, was willing to pull them.
“We are at a crossroads with our relationship with China and operating our business over there,” Simon told CNN in an interview.
“We’re definitely willing to pull our business and deal with all the complications that come with it because this is certainly, this is bigger than the business.
Simon said the WTA must demand justice and could not compromise. “Women need to be respected and not censored,” he said.
His comments were welcomed by current and former tennis players, including Billie Jean King.
Simon has said the WTA hasn’t been able to speak to Peng and he was very concerned for her. The threat to pull out of China followed the release of what Chinese state media claimed was an email from Peng to Simon saying everything was fine. Simon said the claim – which was accompanied by a screenshot of text – only made him more worried and he doubted it came from Peng.
China has been the focus of aggressive WTA expansion over the last decade and hosted nine tournaments in the 2019 season - the last before the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic - with a total $30.4m prize money on offer.
But it is also under increasing pressure over a number of human rights issues, and there are growing calls for a boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympic Games. The WTA’s stance over Peng, should it follow through, goes considerably further than many sporting organisations which have struggled to balance calls from fans and players to stand up against human rights abuses with their reliance on the Chinese market.
Women’s tennis greats Serena Williams and Billie Jean King on Thursday added their voices to the growing chorus of tennis players and other sporting figures calling for an independent investigation.
“This must be investigated and we must not stay silent,” American Williams wrote on social media. “Sending love to her and her family during this incredibly difficult time.“
The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA), a new body representing players set up by men’s world number one Novak Djokovic and Vasek Pospisil, said players must be prepared to take action if Peng’s safety cannot be confirmed.
“The PTPA is advocating for independent evidence confirming the safety and location of WTA player, Peng Shuai,” the body said in statement.
“We must unite and be willing to take action unless corroborated evidence is provided to the world about Peng’s wellbeing.”
The lack of care for this woman from the chinese community speaks volumes. Anything to not speak ill of your home country right??? 
i don't know why but this album give me more and more "last album before disbandment" vibe
I bought their last album and it took a while for them to send it out. The album cover was paperback (which indicates they didn't spend much on making it)
So that last album already make me feel like the end was soon for them. But this album might be the one.
i can't stand Thai dramas and their TOXIC racist tropes/casting/storylines
this is from the Channel 3 drama "mae krua kon mai" where the chinese lead Namfah Thunyaphat (left), does brownface (right) and basically does a minstrel show. If you happen to have a mydramalist account. please give it a LOW RATING. Channel 3 is considered the WORST of them all btw (in terms of racism).
there is also company called GMMTV where they cast a non-passable transgender Gag comedian to solely represent the "dark skin girl" in their dramas (Basically used to make fun of them and saying women with dark skin are masculine, "sassy", and unattractive)
if i were you i wouldn't bother watching them. Many are filled with chinese ads/product placement that are badly shoved in and the dramas highly encourage self hate and Anti-SEA rhetoric. I say watch Korean Dramas instead!
I can't stand this backstabber to Hong Kong. Shame on him and shame on anyone who supports the CCP
But it's ok for you to lump an entire nation together?
stop stalking me and go support your 5th eurasian miss universe winner in a row.
you're just salty cause i speak the truth.
Display Morei think u over-generalised.
Secret Number is popular only in Indonesia because one of their member Dita is Indonesian
Indonesia =/= SEA
There are many other SEA countries which are more invested in albums e.g. Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Malaysia.
Edit: I live in Malaysia and I can tell you that Malaysian are crazy with certain kpop groups like Blackpink and BTS. I heard Singapore is same too. So maybe the effect is not seen with all groups but most of the famous groups
thank you for not painting SEA with a broad brush. everytime international fans want to slander them, they group the entire region together when every country is completely different. They never do this with East Asian countries.
Also some of the countries aren't even into kpop as much and have other things to spend money on. I've known many who prefer to listen to their own traditional music.
lol I'm done you don't even know what an opinion is.
more like you were just mad cause i don't worship her like you want me to and wanted to nitpick at every little thing.
the fact that i even had to redirect you to an earlier post that you did not bother reading correctly says alot about YOUR intelligence.
I disagree but you do you. That doesn’t change the fact that you are a sad individual who talk shiz about a 17 year old girl and throwing big words around incorrectly.
You claim i use "big words incorrectly" yet you can't even use a small word like "bully" correctly.
You claiming nepotism is not an opinion. You don't even know how to use the word correctly.
It is an opinion. not only did she get hype from her brother's fame but her dad is an industry plant basically got all his damn kids in kpop groups. You can literally google all of their groups. Stop playing dumb..
Nobody asked to worship her but stop bullying her. Also using big smart words incorrectly makes you look stupid, not edgy. Go and unclench somewhere else.
I didn't bully anyone. Am i posting this in her direct messages??? No i am not. Posting a negative opinion on a general kpop board is not bullying.
Then why aren't you complaining about the other members if they're not good enough?
i pity you because you don't know how to read. i literally addressed that in the first sentence of my last reply. Stop being obtuse and stop nitpicking.
you should quit being so overly whiny because i don't say my opinion about her nepotism "nicely". Everything i said was VALID. Get over it.
From what I'm seeing here, it seems that you're fine with the rest of the group but just her you're not fine with. Why just her though? If there's no "worthy" lead vocal then why aren't the other members not "worthy" enough? It seems to me that you really just don't like her.
over half the group is bad at singing but they definitely did not have the same privileges as her.
and like i said before her visual is not on par with other mixed idols. She looks like she belongs on that 90's sitcom Roseanne. So she has no talent, no charm. no nothing. Just bunch of nepotism thanks to her daddy and brother. Not exactly someone i'd root for and that is my right to have that opinion. Get over it.
You have to remember that this is a survival show, not some talent show. I've virtually watched all of the Produce 101 series and I have to laugh at how every time people want to bring up the "not talented = not worthy of being in the winning group" narrative. People will vote for their favorites, whether if they're talented or not.
"You have to remember that this is a survival show, not some talent show"
well their debut song is going to sound like ass cause there is no worthy lead vocal. they just shot themselves in the foot putting her in the group.
I never watched the show, but I've seen fans here talk about how Mnet barely gave her any screentime(?) How is that being forced into people's faces?
i edited my post. I added that pre show, she was HEAVILY shoved in our faces on youtube and instagram/twitter. I've had to say "not interested" so many times because of how much she showed up in the algorithm.
the fact that she still got in the group with no screentime and no talent. Either people are stupid or something sinister was behind her getting in the group ie (cheating votes)
She was forced in our faces on social media and youtube. I can understand the criticism because there was alot of nepotism and pushing for someone with so little talent. That daddy of theirs must have more connections than i thought cause all of three of his kids were in kpop groups. Thats not a coincidence imo.
and not a single of them even hold up visually to Somi or Nancy tbh.
