Back to the future, China's ideological warfare

[AdamG]

Entering the realm of Rotten Tomatoes, this looks to be a decent movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QlBzI5-kNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbrl7drJzxs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Sea

... but more to the point Beijing is establishing parity with the US among it's own people first ( then the rest of the world ) with "Look, we can do Operator Tacticool Stuff too" movies like this.

BRCC boyz better stay on their toes.

[Bill Moore]

This post could easily fit into a number of threads on China, or strategy in the 21st Century, but I'm parking it here for now.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings...-toward-china/

T

oday, China has built an unparalleled surveillance state, and it’s growing more expansive and intrusive – often with the help of U.S. technology. What they call the “Great Firewall of China” likewise grows higher, drastically restricting the free flow of information to the Chinese people.

And by 2020, China’s rulers aim to implement an Orwellian system premised on controlling virtually every facet of human life — the so-called “Social Credit Score.” In the words of that program’s official blueprint, it will “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven, while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step.”

And when it comes to religious freedom, a new wave of persecution is crashing down on Chinese Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims.

Last month, Beijing shut down one of China’s largest underground churches. Across the country, authorities are tearing down crosses, burning bibles, and imprisoning believers. And Beijing has now reached a deal with the Vatican that gives the avowedly atheist Communist Party a direct role in appointing Catholic bishops. For China’s Christians, these are desperate times.

Beijing is also cracking down on Buddhism. Over the past decade, more than 150 Tibetan Buddhist monks have lit themselves on fire to protest China’s repression of their beliefs and their culture. And in Xinjiang, the Communist Party has imprisoned as many as one million Muslim Uyghurs in government camps where they endure around-the-clock brainwashing. Survivors of the camps have described their experiences as a deliberate attempt by Beijing to strangle Uyghur culture and stamp out the Muslim faith.

As history attests though, a country that oppresses its own people rarely stops there. And Beijing also aims to extend its reach across the wider world.

The world is waking up to the threat the Communist Party of China poses.

[davidbfpo]

I have just merged in a 2018 thread, x3 posts, entitled 'Beijing versus the Christians', with 4.8k views, into this thread as they share a common theme.