State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond; parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.

… Europe was already well on their way forward

Europe and other democracies have clearly the better solutions, that’s what I say, too.

Frank Dikötter, a Dutch historian historian and China expert, wrote a great book published in 2010, “Mao’s Great Famine; The Story of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe”.

The Independent published an interview with Mr. Dikötter to speak about this book.

[The book] reveals that while this is a part of history that has been “quite forgotten” in the official memory of the People’s Republic of China, there was a “staggering degree of violence” that was, remarkably, carefully catalogued in Public Security Bureau reports, which featured among the provincial archives he [Dikötter] studied …

Frank Dikötter is the only author to have delved into the Chinese archives since they were reopened four years ago. He argued that this devastating period of history – which has until now remained hidden – has international resonance.

“[Mao’s Great Famine] ranks alongside the gulags and the Holocaust as one of the three greatest events of the 20th century… It was like [the Cambodian communist dictator] Pol Pot’s genocide multiplied 20 times over,” he said.

The policy against citizens was abhorrent:

State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond; parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.

Dikötter said the archives were already illuminating the extent of the atrocities of the period; one piece of evidence revealed that 13,000 opponents of the new regime were killed in one region alone, in just three weeks.

And this is just one book. There are many more. That all clearly say that Mao was the biggest killer in history, Under Mao’s regime, more people have died than under any other dictators, including Hitler and Stalin.

Edit: It is important to note that the sources for this book come from the Chinese archives that were reopened in the 2000s. These are documents written and published by the Chinese Communist Party.

Perhaps you didn’t see other graphs, but life expectancy in Europe started to shot up sharply, and it did so precisely in the 1950s, the founding of the European integration movement. This is because it marked the beginning of progress for all …

I am sure you find similar graphs for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and a lot of other countries. This is because it marked the begging of progress for all in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and a lot of other countries.

This shows clearly that democracy is the best form of government.

This has nothing to do, however, that Mao was the biggest killer in history, as many historians agree. Under Mao’s regime, more people have died than under any other dictators, including Hitler and Stalin.

Apart from the fact that life expectancy rose everywhere sharply since the 1850s, it has nothing to do with the fact that Mao was the biggest killer in history. This come from a lot of books and other sources. It’s a dark part of human history.

Many historians agree that Mao Zedong is the worst mass murderer in history. This person caused the deaths of 70 million people in peacetime, making him a far worse killer than Hitler or Stalin. But in China he is a hero, at least according to the official narrative.

What is a good source to inform yourself if the China-appointed so-called ‘Tibetan leader’ presides over a symposium on promoting ‘ethnic unity’ in Tibet?

What is a good source to inform yourself if the China-appointed so-called ‘Tibetan leader’ presides over a symposium on promoting ‘ethnic unity’ in Tibet?

What is a good source to inform yourself if the China-appointed so-called ‘Tibetan leader’ presides over a symposium on promoting ‘ethnic unity’ in Tibet?

Yes, this and the fact that Lula has close ties to countries like China with a totalitarian government. He frames himself as a guard of civil and human rights, but so he must also reconsider his stance to such regimes.

This is a really weird propaganda piece imo.

He has also a more than friendly relationship with China. The student protests just started after the canopy collapse at the railway station in Novi Sad, killing 16 people and inuring one more, and the subsequent corruption allegations. The railway station was renovated by a Chinese company under opaque terms. To this day, no one is held accountable for the tragedy.

Is this something like the so-called “oath to the Führer” they had in Germany 90 years ago?

These are not the first closures as the article also says, and, yes, it’s clearly genocide, @kiagam@lemmy.world.

“The first impact of the Chinese government’s school closures is that children are distanced from the Tibetan traditions and customs practiced in their homeland. Secondly, when these children enter state-run boarding schools, the entire curriculum is taught in Chinese and is under the government’s control."

“The Chinese government is doing all this out of fear. Tibetan schools and monasteries established inside Tibet aim to preserve and protect the rich Tibetan language, culture, traditions and identity. But the Chinese government views these institutions as a hindrance rather than a benefit."

The latest shutdowns follow several other closures of Tibetan educational institutions in Golog in recent years.

This is an absurdly weird comparison and given Russia’s war against Ukraine and the hybrid warfare against the rest of Europe it’s disgusting.

I am an absolutely not a religious person, but think this is a private thing and everyone should be able to believe whatever they feel is accurate.

The larger picture to me here is that this “meeny miny moe” is enough to make the Chinese Communist Party afraid. This doesn’t show much self-esteem imo. And China is suppressing all other religious groups, too.

China is one of the world’s largest bullies, supposedly the largest of all. Such an accusation from China is almost comical.

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China ‘will take advantage’ of Russia to gain foothold in High North - (October 19, 2026 - link to removepaywall.com)

China will take advantage of Russia’s dependence on it to gain a foothold in the Arctic, the head of Sweden’s military intelligence service told The Times.

Historically, Russia has seen the Arctic as its own backyard and has been reluctant to let China establish a presence. However, this appears to be changing as the cost of the war in Ukraine and western sanctions have taken their toll on the Russian economy, leaving Moscow increasingly in hock to Beijing.

Thomas Nilsson, the head of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service, known as Must, said Russia had become dependent on China to sustain its war effort with the sale of oil and gas, while also leaning on its ally for supplies of war materiel and dual-use goods such as microchips […]

Nilsson said this presented China, which declared itself a “near-Arctic” state in 2018, with an opportunity to force Russia’s hand and move its position forward in the region […]

“They [China] are building their icebreaker fleets. They are building their larger strategic submarines. I don’t think the icebreakers will go [around] the Philippines,” he said […]

The region also potentially has huge untapped resources of critical raw materials that China, Russia, the US and other powers are eyeing up. Nilsson said Russia and China had been training militarily around the Bering Strait between Kamchatka and Alaska, including common patrol flights with bombers and operations at sea with shared ships.

Although there has been no sign of any such activity in the European or American sectors of the Arctic so far, Nilsson is concerned that it may move closer to Europe. “Absolutely. It can move further towards our part of the Arctic,” he said.

These protests are mostly driven by very young people and come simultaneously in a lot of countries. I don’t think this is organic.

Taiwan probes organised crime links to China’s ‘transnational repression’ as it says says China behind attack on a comedian who mocked Xi

… Taiwan National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai ​Ming-yen said the local networks that cooperate in incidents like the comedian attack are mostly criminal ⁠gangs, or private investigation firms linked to organised crime …

Other China critics in Taiwan have also been attacked, including Hong Kong singer and activist Denise Ho. She was attacked ​in 2019 in Taipei by a masked man who threw red paint at her.

Tsai said Taiwan might need to amend its ​laws to better deal with China’s activities.

“Comprehensively curbing the Chinese communists’ transnational repression in Taiwan’s democratic and rule-of-law society is also very important, ‌and the ⁠legal framework for it has been lacking,” he added.

Taiwan’s Supreme Prosecutors Office said in a separate statement on Thursday that the public should “raise their vigilance and never assist hostile foreign forces or allow themselves to be exploited as local collaborators” …

Taiwan probes organised crime links to China’s ‘transnational repression’ as it says says China behind attack on a comedian who mocked Xi

… Taiwan National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai ​Ming-yen said the local networks that cooperate in incidents like the comedian attack are mostly criminal ⁠gangs, or private investigation firms linked to organised crime …

Other China critics in Taiwan have also been attacked, including Hong Kong singer and activist Denise Ho. She was attacked ​in 2019 in Taipei by a masked man who threw red paint at her.

Tsai said Taiwan might need to amend its ​laws to better deal with China’s activities.

“Comprehensively curbing the Chinese communists’ transnational repression in Taiwan’s democratic and rule-of-law society is also very important, ‌and the ⁠legal framework for it has been lacking,” he added.

Taiwan’s Supreme Prosecutors Office said in a separate statement on Thursday that the public should “raise their vigilance and never assist hostile foreign forces or allow themselves to be exploited as local collaborators” …

Taiwan probes organised crime links to China’s ‘transnational repression’ as it says says China behind attack on a comedian who mocked Xi

… Taiwan National Security Bureau Director-General Tsai ​Ming-yen said the local networks that cooperate in incidents like the comedian attack are mostly criminal ⁠gangs, or private investigation firms linked to organised crime …

Other China critics in Taiwan have also been attacked, including Hong Kong singer and activist Denise Ho. She was attacked ​in 2019 in Taipei by a masked man who threw red paint at her.

Tsai said Taiwan might need to amend its ​laws to better deal with China’s activities.

“Comprehensively curbing the Chinese communists’ transnational repression in Taiwan’s democratic and rule-of-law society is also very important, ‌and the ⁠legal framework for it has been lacking,” he added.

Taiwan’s Supreme Prosecutors Office said in a separate statement on Thursday that the public should “raise their vigilance and never assist hostile foreign forces or allow themselves to be exploited as local collaborators” …