MCLC: China Digital Times (March 23)

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Anne Henochowicz <anne at chinadigitaltimes.net>
Subject: China Digital Times (March 23)
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This Week on China Digital Times, March 23, 2014
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/03/week-china-digital-times-march-23-2014
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As Russia steps-up its occupation of Crimea, China’s government censors
were quick to forbid news organizations from making any connection to
China’s own sovereignty “issues.” Weibo comments linking the Crimean
referendum with Xinjiang, Taiwan, or Tibetan independence were deleted.

The recently announced plan to increase the number of daily police patrols
in large urban areas inspires Badiucao’s Daily Patrol. In it he depicts a
Uyghur girl, standing in front of a line of tanks and releasing a
heart-shaped balloon.

This week’s word of the week reminds readers to be skeptical should anyone
claim they were just out “doing push-ups,” 俯臥撐, (fǔwòchēng): (do)
push-ups. The 2008 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl resulted in the
Wang’an Riot, after police claimed the suspected perpetrator (and son of a
government official) had been off “doing push-ups.” See also death from
drinking boiled water and death by hide and seek.

This week’s Minitrues, or censorship instructions issued to the media by
government authorities, include orders to delete an article about living
conditions in North Korea, orders to halt coverage of the investigations
of Zhou Bin and his family, and from the Central Propaganda Department,
instructions that “all media must refrain from hyping or exaggerating the
referendum in Crimea.”

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