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Keep day-dreaming.
Yes, Chinese dream become reality because there is a massive industrial complex behind them. Having high speed rails and aircraft carriers were once just dreams too!

Now China is on the moon and Mars with rovers. There is literally only one other country with a rover on Mars. And only two others on the Moon.

We'll see in the coming years where our dreams will take us :)
 

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Mosques disappear as China strives to 'build a beautiful Xinjiang'
The Jiaman mosque in the city of Qira, in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, is hidden behind high walls and Communist Party propaganda signs, leaving passersby with no indication that it is home to a religious site.
In late April, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, two ethnic Uyghur women sat behind a tiny mesh grate, underneath a surveillance camera, inside the compound of what had long been the city's largest place of worship.
Reuters could not establish if the place was currently functioning as a mosque.
Within minutes of reporters arriving, four men in plain clothes showed up and took up positions around the site, locking gates to nearby residential buildings.
The men told the reporters it was illegal to take photos and to leave.
"There's no mosque here ... there has never been a mosque at this site," said one of the men in response to a question from Reuters if there was a mosque inside. He declined to identify himself.
Minarets on the building's four corners, visible in publicly available satellite images in 2019, have gone. A large blue metal box stood where the mosque's central dome had once been. It was not clear if it was a place of worship at the time the satellite images were taken.
In recent months, China has stepped up a campaign on state media and with government-arranged tours to counter the criticism of researchers, rights groups and former Xinjiang residents who say thousands of mosques have been targeted in a crackdown on the region's mostly Muslim Uyghur people.
Officials from Xinjiang and Beijing told reporters in Beijing that no religious sites had been forcibly destroyed or restricted and invited them to visit and report.
"Instead, we have taken a series of measures to protect them," Elijan Anayat, a spokesman for the Xinjiang government, said of mosques late last year.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Wednesday some mosques had been demolished, while others had been upgraded and expanded as part of rural revitalisation but Muslims could practise their religion openly at home and in mosques.
Asked about restrictions authorities put on journalists visiting the area, Hua said reporters had to try harder to "win the trust of the Chinese people" and report objectively.
Reuters visited more than two dozen mosques across seven counties in southwest and central Xinjiang on a 12-day visit during Ramadan, which ended on Thursday.
There is a contrast between Beijing's campaign to protect mosques and religious freedom and the reality on the ground. Most of the mosques that Reuters visited had been partially or completely demolished.
'Life is beautiful'
China has repeatedly said that Xinjiang faces a serious threat from separatists and religious extremists who plot attacks and stir up tension between Uyghurs who call the region home and the ethnic Han, China's largest ethic group.
A mass crackdown that includes a campaign of restrictions on religious practice and what rights groups describe as the forced political indoctrination of more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims began in earnest in 2017.
China initially denied detaining people in detention camps, but has since said they are vocational training centres and that the people have “graduated” from them.
The government says there are more than 20,000 mosques in Xinjiang but no detailed data on their status is available.
Some functioning mosques have signs saying congregants must register while citizens from outside the area, foreigners and anyone under the age of 18 are banned from going in.
Functioning mosques feature surveillance cameras and include Chinese flags and propaganda displays declaring loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.
Visiting reporters were almost always followed by plainclothes personnel and warned not to take photographs.
A Han woman, who said she had moved to the city of Hotan six years ago from central China, said Muslims who wanted to pray could do so at home.
"There are no Muslims like that here anymore," the woman said, referring to those who used to pray at the mosque. She added: "Life in Xinjiang is beautiful."
'Ethnic unity'
Some state-sanctioned mosques are shown off to visiting journalists and diplomats, like the Jiaman Mosque in Hotan.
"Everything is paid for by the party," said a Hotan official at the mosque on a visit arranged for Reuters by the city propaganda department.
The official, who went by the nickname "Ade" but declined to give his full name, said men were free to pray at the mosque five times a day, according to Islamic custom.
While reporters were there, several dozen men, most of them elderly, came to pray as dusk fell. Afterwards, they broke their fast with food provided by the local government.
The mosque, more than 170 years old, is one of four in the region earmarked as cultural relics, with funds for renovation from the central government, the Xinjiang government said.
As the mosque's leader or imam removed his shoes, Ade demonstrated a machine given by the government that shrink-wraps shoes in plastic.
"Now you don't even need to take your shoes off in the mosque, it's very convenient," he said.
Crumbling minarets
In Changji, about 40 km west of the regional capital, Urumqi, green and red minarets of the city's Xinqu Mosque lay broken below a Chinese flag flying over the deserted building's courtyard.
Reuters analysed satellite imagery of 10 mosques in Changji city and visited six of them.
A total of 31 minarets and 12 green or gold domes had been removed within a period of two months after April 2018, according to dated images.
At several mosques, Islamic architecture was replaced with Chinese-style roofing. These included Changji's Tianchi road mosque, whose gold dome and minarets were removed in 2018, according to publicly available satellite images.
The Xinjiang government did not respond to a request for comment on the state of mosques in the region.
Researchers at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute estimated in 2020, after a survey of 900 Xinjiang locations, that 16,000 mosques had been partially or completely destroyed over the previous three years.
Signs outside the Xinqu Mosque, with the crumbling minarets, said a housing development would soon be built on the site.
"For ethic unity, build a beautiful Xinjiang," a sign read.
This is after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) shipped off the native Uyghurs of Xinjiang to concentration camps with CCP indoctrination, prisons and forced labor camps and factories, and replaced them with CCP Han Chinese population moving to Xinjiang. Of course the CCP built shiny cities for its own people, after eliminating the native Uyghur population from the area.
 

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Chinese like Uighurs who remember they were once Buddhist and part of Han Empire before they were converted!


Chinese love Uighurs. Dilireba gets a skateboard for being a top choice of China's young people!

And in Rap, they are constantly voted the best in the nation!

And they are in Hip Hop!

Sorry John, I know you want them religiously radicalized and their women in Bhurkas like Saudi Arabia.
 

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Chinese like Uighurs who remember they were once Buddhist and part of Han Empire before they were converted!


Chinese love Uighurs. Dilireba gets a skateboard for being a top choice of China's young people!

And in Rap, they are constantly voted the best in the nation!

And they are in Hip Hop!

Sorry John, I know you want them religiously radicalized and their women in Bhurkas like Saudi Arabia.

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I think RFA employee has some kind of KPI, the news must have some word like "Forced" ...
 

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Unlike Chinese Communist Party(CCP) media propaganda using a few stooges, the following article shows the reality for most of the native Uyghur people in East Turkestan, unjustly occupied by China in 1949, with CCP committing cultural genocide there for several decades. CCP members invade Uyghur homes, just as the CCP military invaded East Turkestan, and became unwelcome guests. No one likes CCP and don't want them invading their lands or their homes.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/asia/china-xinjiang-ethnic-unity-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
The Chinese policy that makes Uyghurs feel like hostages in their own homes
A woman raises a toast in a photo that appears to show four friends enjoying dinner together. The reality couldn't be more different. The woman in the white ruffled shirt is Zumrat Dawut, an ethnic Uyghur from Urumqi, who fled China in 2019 to escape the alleged repression of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
Her four "guests" are Chinese government cadres who lived in her home for 10 days every month for two years before her family fled, she said.
"We must pretend that we are happy," Dawut explained from Washington DC, where she lives in exile.

Uyghur Zumrat Dawut, second from left, says she hosted four cadres during each 10-day visit -- she and her four children were assigned one person each.

Uyghur Zumrat Dawut, second from left, says she hosted four cadres during each 10-day visit -- she and her four children were assigned one person each.

China introduced its relatives policy -- part of the "ethnic unity campaign" -- in 2016, ostensibly to promote national harmony. Since then, more than 1.1 million cadres have visited the homes of 1.6 million people of different ethnic groups in Xinjiang, according to a "fact check" published by Chinese state news agency Xinhua in February.
It is part of a broader crackdown on Uyghurs and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang that the US and other nations have called "genocide," an accusation that China angrily rejects.
Rosy images of the home stay program heavily promoted in Chinese state media depict the policy as a blend of community service and education.
Videos and social media posts on official accounts show host families and cadres warmly greeting each other as "relatives," cooking meals together, and even sharing beds at night.
But, according to several people who fled the Xinjiang region, when it comes to the home stay program, the hosts are actually hostages.
Collecting information
Under the home stay policy, cadres are sent to live, work and sleep with families in Xinjiang for several days at a time, every one or two months, former residents said.
Because each person in Dawut's house was assigned an official "relative," including children, she said she had to host four officials in her home each visit. "Because my husband is a foreign national, they did not force him to pair up with a relative, but me and three of our children we all had one relative each," she said.
Dawut said her assigned cadre followed her around the house, asking questions, and taking notes that she feared could see her re-imprisoned in China's vast network of detention centers.
She was so scared her children might inadvertently say something wrong that she coached them to give the "right" answers. "If they ask you, 'does your mother pray?' Say no. 'Does your father pray? Say no. 'Do you believe in Islam? Do you have Quran? Do you have a praying rug?' Say no to them," she said.
During their visits, cadres share meals with the family and get to know the children in the household. Zumrat Dawut blurred the faces of these children before providing this image to CNN.


During their visits, cadres share meals with the family and get to know the children in the household. Zumrat Dawut blurred the faces of these children before providing this image to CNN.
The Chinese government has called Dawut an actress and a liar, labels it has given to other Uyghurs living in exile, who have shared their stories of trauma in Xinjiang.
However, their claims are backed by mounting evidence from Xinjiang, where the US estimates up to two million Muslim minorities have passed through Chinese detention centers.
In January, the US State Department accused China of genocide, saying "exhaustive documentation" had confirmed that local authorities in Xinjiang had "dramatically escalated" their campaign against minorities since "at least March 2017".
Parliaments in Canada, the Netherlands and UK reached the same conclusion.
The Chinese government insists the camps are "vocational training centers" aimed at poverty alleviation and combating religious extremism.

Leaked records expose China's Xinjiang camps

Leaked records expose China's Xinjiang camps

Rian Thum, a senior research fellow at the University of Nottingham who specializes in Uyghur history, said the home stay program is an important part of China's campaign in Xinjiang.
He said images posted to social media suggest the visits were happening as recently as this February, during Chinese New Year. "Hanging lanterns for the Chinese New Year is not something that most Uyghurs participate in. But then this entire town people had to decorate the inside of their houses along Han Chinese traditions," he said. "So this is, this is very much ongoing."
An uninvited guest
A former teacher in an internment camp, Qelbinur Sidik, said she was ordered to host her first cadre in May 2017.
The "relative" was her husband's boss at a state-owned factory, she said. Initially, he came once every three months, but by the end of that year, he stayed at her house for one week each month.
"He wanted me to sit together with him, drink wine with him. I begged him not to force me," she said from the Netherlands.
"When he was drunk, he wanted me to sleep with him."
Uyghur exile Qelbinur Sidik says she received her first order to host a cadre in May 2017.


Uyghur exile Qelbinur Sidik says she received her first order to host a cadre in May 2017.

Human Rights Watch has previously documented cases of male cadres being sent to stay at homes occupied by women and children, an arrangement that makes them vulnerable to sexual violence.
Sidik says the man hugged her, but he didn't push it any further.
She thinks that's because her husband was there, though she added that many Uyghur men had been detained, leaving women at home alone to deal with the stranger in their house.
Sharing meals and beds
In December 2017, the initiative ramped up with "Becoming a relative week," when cadres of all levels and departments were dispatched to Xinjiang to live, work and learn "with the masses," according to state media.
It promoted the program with two numerical slogans: the "four togethers" -- which are "eat together, live together, study together, work together," and the "three sends," under which cadres "send laws, send policies, send warmth."
That month, cadres took selfies with smiling families which were later posted online. One image shows two women in bed with a female host. "Communist Youth league cadres from Tekes county live with relatives in the warm room, taking a selfie before sleep," reads the caption.
A photo posted online in 2017 shows two women in bed with a female host.


A photo posted online in 2017 shows two women in bed with a female host.

In a report aired on state television in January 2018, a woman named Aymgul Hesan thanks her official guest saying: "I hope we can be 'relatives' for the rest of our lives.'"
Months later, in a separate TV report, an official named He Jingjing is filmed showing a little boy how to wash his hands.
"I taught the kids to wash their face and brush their teeth," she explains. "I brought the concept of modern life here, so they can live a better and more civilized life."
Timothy Grose, professor of China Studies and expert in ethnic policy at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, said official documents suggest cadres aren't only there to teach the locals to be "more civilized."
"When you go through official documents, it becomes ever so clear that these are actually programs for human intelligence gathering and surveillance," he said.
Grose points to a work manual for the "ethnic unity campaign" that was published by the government of Kashgar Prefecture in 2018. The manual was originally discovered online by Darren Byler, an American academic who has done extensive field work in Xinjiang.


The manual instructs cadres to preach anti-terrorism and anti-extremism laws to their host families, and also tells them how to spot potential signs of extremist activity.
In a segment titled "How do discover problems?" officials are urged to look for strangers in the house and parked cars that do not belong to the family. "Do they hang religious objects at home?" the manual reads. "Ask question of the children when playing with them, because children will not lie."
"There's a kind of ethno-racial component as the Uyghur family is seen as backward," said Byler, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado. "That's how it's described in Chinese state discourse and popular discourse."
"From the perspective of the hosts of those relatives, it was very clear that these people sent into their homes were there to monitor them, that they were spying on them, that they were making sure that they followed the rules," he added.
CNN sent written requests to the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the government of Xinjiang asking why the manual detailed instructions for surveillance of host families. CNN received no response.
Entertaining "relatives"
Nyrola Elima, an ethnic Uyghur from Xinjiang's Ghulja County, says she grew up proud of being a citizen of China. After all, she points out, her grandparents were members of the Chinese Communist Party.
But that changed in 2018, when she says her cousin disappeared into an internment camp.

Around that time, she said she was also shocked to learn her parents were hosting Chinese officials in her childhood home. "A stranger sleeping in your home. How can you feel safe about that?" Elima said from Sweden where she is a naturalized citizen.
Elima said she learned about the unwanted guests during a phone call to her mother in Xinjiang in 2018. "My mother just told me 'we have relatives at home, it's not convenient. I will contact you tomorrow,'" Elima recalled.
Elima later learned from contacts still in Xinjiang that these "relatives" were ethnic Han Chinese officials.

"I understand having Han Chinese people coming to our home as a friend, but that has to be when we invite them," Elima said. "I don't think anybody is happy with this. We don't do this in Sweden. We never did this in China either."
Thum, from the University of Nottingham, says the program is a "combined indoctrination and monitoring project."
He argues the home stays remove the last shred of privacy left in the homes of Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang. "They live in fear, under the system in which they are subject to political judgment in every aspect of their own home," Thum said.
Grose, from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, said smiling selfies with families published in Chinese state media conceal a darker truth.
"These home stays are part of this broader and very violent effort to acculturate and assimilate Uyghurs and they go hand in hand with mass incarceration," he said.
Uyghur exile Zumrat Dawut says her assigned cadre would follow her around the house.


Uyghur exile Zumrat Dawut says her assigned cadre would follow her around the house.

Dawut said if the Chinese government really wanted to promote friendship between ethnic groups, it has failed.
"All the Uyghurs are so fed up with their Chinese relatives," she said. "Two completely different ethnicities are forced to live in the same house, whether it is big or small house.
"Forced to sleep together, eat together, and forced to think alike together. It is extremely insane."
 

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Unlike Chinese Communist Party(CCP) media propaganda using a few stooges, the following article shows the reality for most of the native Uyghur people in East Turkestan, unjustly occupied by China in 1949, with CCP committing cultural genocide there for several decades. CCP members invade Uyghur homes, just as the CCP military invaded East Turkestan, and became unwelcome guests. No one likes CCP and don't want them invading their lands or their homes.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/asia/china-xinjiang-ethnic-unity-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
The Chinese policy that makes Uyghurs feel like hostages in their own homes
What kind of policy is this,
govt. officials living in your house?
China is really a draconian state for minorities.
 

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Chinese like Uighurs who remember they were once Buddhist and part of Han Empire before they were converted!
Do Chinese remember they were once free people in a democracy before they were converted to communism?

Looks like a phallus, shooting its spunk.
It shows what do they desire the most. Big... You know what 😁
 

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At times i wonder if chinese culture is limited to these bikini girls , showing their non existent "U know what" . these ladyboys band or these few singers ( tough to diff of they r male or female) with their feminine looks and mal-nutritioned girls flaunting their bare bones...and passing themselves as healthy ..

Last read, chinese culture was rich and old but perhaps Mao choose to erase everything and ensured they are chasing the "White sepoy" always...

While Indian Ayurveda and yoga have a world wide recognition, I never heard of anything coming out of china except for their usual rant of booming economy which in reality is under almost 100% debt based...and manufacturing of silicon dicks...

Aha chinese medicine.. its responsible for extinction of so many animals... from eating dicks of every animals to what not ... no doubt every average feminine china man is running after aprosdiac's to improve his potency....
 

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Yes, Chinese dream become reality because there is a massive industrial complex behind them. Having high speed rails and aircraft carriers were once just dreams too!

Now China is on the moon and Mars with rovers. There is literally only one other country with a rover on Mars. And only two others on the Moon.

We'll see in the coming years where our dreams will take us :)
Hey Dreamer,
One of your dreams just started rocking, literally
Terrified onlookers flee as Chinese skyscraper wobbles, triggering evacuation (VIDEOS)


CHEAP CHINESE AS ALWAYS. MADE IN CHINA, AS ALWAYS.
 

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Hey Dreamer,
One of your dreams just started rocking, literally
Terrified onlookers flee as Chinese skyscraper wobbles, triggering evacuation (VIDEOS)


CHEAP CHINESE AS ALWAYS. MADE IN CHINA, AS ALWAYS.
Ya'll Nibbiars that building was cometed in 2000. And in just 20 years. Damn the corrupt officials giving the free hands to the corrupt malpractice. :rage:
 

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Hey Dreamer,
One of your dreams just started rocking, literally
Terrified onlookers flee as Chinese skyscraper wobbles, triggering evacuation (VIDEOS)


CHEAP CHINESE AS ALWAYS. MADE IN CHINA, AS ALWAYS.
Wind hit the building with same frequency ... it's science ...
 

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I heard an academical theory, those nations are still f**cked by westerner, or still 50% or 100% colony of USA (culturelly or militarily); their culture and male stars are quite female oriented. Typically, you would check the those male celebrities of S.Korea, Japan and Thailand. They are sick.

At least for Bollywood, those men are real men, with muscle and strong body, like three Khan s...

Our government is begginning to deal with this trend, try to avoid those sick male stars shown on TV. We are learning the maturity of entertainment industry from S.Korea and Japan, but not such kind of shit.
Bollywood isn’t the heart and soul of India and the Khans aren’t even that good yes some of them were good back in there beginnings but now money, fame, nepotism and drugs have destroyed there true essence. Each Indian state have there own movie industry and they are far more superior to shitty Bollywood in the case of story, characters and overall creation of movies. Bollywood doesn’t represent India in any measure.
 
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Wind hit the building with same frequency ... it's science ...
Science must be discriminatory towards China as in many windy cities of the world, skyscrapers do not sway to an extent that it scares people.
Laughable, either your engineers miscalculated the maximum wind speed in the region and resulting reverberation OR you have built with sub-standard materials. You cannot explain away this one, champ.
 

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If I were portraying China as neo-western, I would have nude beaches!

Instead of Douyin (Chinese tik tok) and CPOP boybands, the first Westerners hate so much they are trying to ban and the latter Westerners hate as being "gay." lol

I post about trends in China. Everything I post -- the fashions, movies, shows, bikinis, Sanya -- are massive trends in China. You think they are "neo-Western" but they are not. They are actually Chinese or East Asian pop culture.

You see these guys -- INTO1. They are massive in China and E/SEAsia right now.
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Uniquely ours. There are no 11-member multi-national boybands in the West.
Did you say boyband? LOL, O.K. I see only one boy in this group. Two, at best.
I guess in CCP's China boys and girls must look the same - equality in appearance.
 

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