While the world celebrated China-born director Chloé Zhao’s historic three Oscar wins for Nomadland, including best picture, best director, and best actress at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25, China’s censors were busy trying to wipe any trace of the wins from the web. Despite extensive coverage of her historic achievement outside of China, there is ...
Ever since the coronavirus pandemic hit the planet, controversies surrounding the Chinese government’s human rights and other worrying aspects of its practices go on unabated. Now, ironically, pressure from the CCP has forced a German publisher to destroy a children’s book based on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children. The German publisher faced ...
Yuri Norstein’s 1975 Hedgehog in the Fog is one of the greatest lyrical stop-motion animated shorts to come out of Russia. The film is loaded with atmosphere and a unique soundscape, and is based on a Sergey Kozlov folktale of the same title. Kozlov, a much-loved Russian children’s writer is known for his bedtime stories, which also keep parents ...
Google’s dealings with China have always raised suspicions due to the company’s ambivalent attitude to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), behavior that appears aimed at gaining access to China’s huge market. YouTube, one of Google’s biggest subsidiaries, has employees with ties to the totalitarian Chinese regime. Tai Jinjiang has been working as a software engineer ...
John Matze, the CEO of social media platform Parler, recently lashed out against Big Tech like Twitter and Facebook, saying that the censorship activities of these platforms have been sharply increasing of late. Parler was launched in 2018 and has seen a boost in popularity after many conservative voices shifted to the platform. The new ...
Soccer midfielder Mesut Özil, who plays for Arsenal, has been left off of the club’s Europa League and Premier League squads. Özil has previously spoken against China’s persecution of the Uyghur minority and this is speculated to be the reason why he has been sidelined by the team. Punishing Mesut Özil Mikel Arteta, manager of ...
A museum in France recently decided not to go ahead with an exhibition of Mongol leader Genghis Khan. The Château des ducs de Bretagne history museum in the western city of Nantes said it was putting the exhibit about the 13th-century leader on hold for over three years. The Chinese government apparently interfered and asked ...
For a culture to develop, it is necessary that its people are free to explore the questions of free thought, speech, and belief. Putting restrictions on what people can think or feel is a surefire way to repress creativity and innovation, and stagnate the culture of a society. China is a good example of how ...
Hollywood is the capital of international movies, producing global blockbusters year after year. There is literally no major country where the influence of Hollywood movies cannot be felt. Beijing has understood the power Hollywood has. In fact, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is working toward co-opting Hollywood to promote its interests worldwide, as well as ...
Robert O’Brien, National Security Advisor, believes that the U.S. has finally woken up to the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to the American way of life thanks to the Trump administration. For decades, the conventional idea was that China would eventually become more open as time passed by, first economically and then ...
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