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The Chinese call this "running" (there is a Chinese character that is worded the same as run in pinyin and is used to term as escaping/leaving from China), something that has been increasing with the iron fist of the CCP coming crashing down a lot more often, especially what has happened with Shanghai.


Is there a positive/negative connotation with it? In English to "escape from a situation", the implication is that the situation was bad and you are saving yourself from it. But if you "run from a situation", it generally implies something like lack of courage.


Ah so something like Chinese Gaokao? where you spend 3 years of your life preparing for one exam? Or am I reading what you wrote wrong?


What if you put in strict identity verification and the uploader is identified but still decided to upload a NSFW or disturbing image?


Then, assuming those kinds of images are against your TOS, then you ban them. This drastically reduces the number of images of that nature that are uploaded not only by ensuring they can't do it again but also by heavily disincentivizing them from doing it in the first place.


Beyond that, if the content they post is illegal, there's a more clear path to prosecution than if the content is posted anonymously.


The news of this women is being rapidly censored and angrily discussed within Chinese circles like on Wechat, this is another twitter post on it: https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1487463235930501124

Here is an updated BBC article on this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60344484

This seems to be a human trafficking case in which the mother was trafficked, raped to have 8 children and abused for 20+ years. She was found by local vloggers being chained up in a shed, not wearing much in 0 degrees celsius weather and basically eating leftovers. Her teeth are mostly gone. There is a huge social uproar in China with the local Xuzhou government desperately trying to cover it up or putting out smokescreens as in the worst part they seem to have tolerated this or at least committed a 20-year span of negligence. The local Xuzhou government weibo has changed their public statement 4 times, each time showing conflicting details and a cover-up stance.

Chinese people who have went to the village to support this woman and to learn more have been blocked by local police and are being held.

I'm posting here in hopes that Western media, international womens' rights and anti-trafficking organizations pick this up as it is almost not broadcast on Western news yet it is such big "news" in Chinese social media and weirdly the Daily Mail was the only place that had most of the updated info as reported within Chinese social media videos.

默认就是支持


I think the hot take is that although these are best practices, not many companies actually do them.


"And the world's second largest economy now faces food uncertainties due to factors such as its deteriorating relations with the U.S. and Australia, which could drastically alter the import environment. In fact, this could be what is prodding China to boost its calorie reserves." and "Less than 20% of the world's population has managed to stockpile more than half of the globe's maize and other grains, leading to steep price increases across the planet and dropping more countries into famine." - TLDR for the whole article, also seems like lately parts of the world including China is experiencing food uncertainties:

https://www.oecd.org/newsroom/rising-uncertainties-from-covi...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/floods-coronavirus-create-mo...


Coming from a private school where many of my friends went to Ivy Leagues, a lot of them took SAT Prep, which honestly does not teach much except for how to practice for SAT so that you get a high score, also its a bit of an unfair advantage as you're basically paying for classes while others don't have the same opportunities or time.


Mandarin or this kind of standardized written Chinese was formalized by a National Commission and chosen during the Republic of China era, this is the document from 1932 now digitally stored in the archives of Taiwan, see: https://taiwanebook.ncl.edu.tw/zh-tw/book/NCCULIB-9900012902...

Even without the CCP, Mandarin would have become the national dialect and dominated Chinese speech, etc. The CCP merely continued on the work because it was so useful and the easiest route to go as there had been so much work done and a system put in place by the previous regime.

EDIT: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.gatech.edu/dist/d/987/fi...

^this link loaded better, its the same document, seems to be from Georgia Tech.

For non-Chinese readers, the document says that the dialect from Beiping (aka Beijing) should be adopted as the standard and then lists rules on pronunciation, how to pronunce using a Latin-based script, etc.


I was born to an expat family in neighbouring Bahrain, it was a similar experience. Overall, I would say it is worth it if you are poorer or looking to make money. It's a place where you can grow rich but later on your family leaves for a better place.


Zhang Gaoli is retired but censorship rules means that all news of this is pretty much censored in China


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