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Persecution of 10 Catholic bishops in China intensified after Vatican-China deal, report says

A new report sheds light on the repression faced by 10 Catholic bishops in China who have resisted the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to exert control over religious matters since the 2018 China-Vatican agreement on the appointment of bishops.

The report, authored by Nina Shea for the Hudson Institute, documents the harrowing experiences of Vatican-approved bishops who have suffered detention without due process, surveillance, police investigations, and banishments from their dioceses for refusal to submit to the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA), a state-managed group controlled by the CCP’s United Front Work Department.

“This report shows that religious repression of the Catholic Church in China has intensified since the 2018 China-Vatican agreement on the appointment of bishops,” Shea said.

“Beijing targeted these 10 bishops after they opposed the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, which requires its members to pledge independence from the Holy See,” she added.

The Reuters report refers to the September data (read my comment on the September data above), and this is practically always lower than the data in August and particularly in July. And the September 2024 data is higher than the Sep 2023 data. As I wrote in my comment, intra-year data fluctuates. The comparison you make doesn't make sense, therefore.

Youth unemployment is rising in the long run, this is what the data shows.

This is up to you, it is the official Chinese data.

A brief update: Official Chinese youth unemployment rate for September -just released- is now 17.6% (according to the new methodology that does not include university students). It appears to follow the expected development as youth jobless figures in China tend to fluctuate over the year while reaching their peak in the summer (July and August data), when a large number of graduates enter the job market. The September data is a significant increase compared to January as well as year-on-year.

Which sources are reliable for China news in general?

It really helps of you read before posting. And don't forget to suggest sources you think are reliable.

@wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world

Where do you get your information on Tibet?

Here are some alternative sources:

Tibetan School Falls to China’s Legal Pressure (October 2024) -- (Archived)

A 2010 cultural assimilation policy mandates that all schools in Tibet use Chinese as the primary language, starting from kindergarten. [...] “The Chinese government is closing monasteries and Tibetan schools as part of a broader strategy to eradicate Tibetan language and culture.” [...] Private schools are especially targeted in “patriotic education campaigns,” making language instruction harder to monitor. Eight of the remaining 16 private Tibetan schools have been ordered to close, while the rest face allegations and administrative pressure.

Tibet boarding schools: China accused of trying to silence language (March 2024)

Over recent years, the Chinese government has closed village schools - and private ones teaching Tibetan - and expanded the use of boarding schools. These have been in operation for many decades in a number of Chinese regions that are thinly populated - but in Tibetan areas, they appear to have become the main means of education. [...] [Experts] say this kind of schooling creates psychological trauma for children who are forcibly separated from their families, who are pressured to send their children away. "The most challenging aspect of my life was missing my family," said one Tibetan teenager, who attended a boarding school for several years, until she was 10.

China shows off a Tibetan boarding school that’s part of a system some see as forced assimilation (October 2023) -- (Archived)

China has shuttered village schools across Tibet and replaced them with centralized boarding schools over the last dozen years. Many students come from remote farming villages and live at the schools. The practice is not limited to the region [...] Activists estimate 1 million Tibetan children study at such boarding schools, though the number is difficult to confirm. They say the schools are part of a broader strategy to dilute Tibetan identity and assimilate Tibetans into the majority Chinese culture.

If you still don't trust one of these sources, feel free to find others. It's easy, they are all across the web.

Addition:

TikTok Has Pushed Chinese Propaganda Ads To Millions Across Europe -- ( July 2024, updated September 2024)

According to TikTok's newly public advertising library, ads from China’s largest state media outlets touting everything from China Covid lockdowns to tourism in the troubled Xinjiang region have been broadcast to millions of the platform's European users.

TikTok Ads Paid for by Chinese Media Target European Users -- (August 2023)

Chinese media sponsored over a thousand ads on TikTok targeting European audiences. Additionally, accounts that carefully obscure their connections to China may pose further risks in coordinated information manipulation campaigns.

This are just two examples, there is much more across the web.

Addition:

TikTok Has Pushed Chinese Propaganda Ads To Millions Across Europe -- ( July 2024, updated September 2024)

According to TikTok's newly public advertising library, ads from China’s largest state media outlets touting everything from China Covid lockdowns to tourism in the troubled Xinjiang region have been broadcast to millions of the platform's European users.

TikTok Ads Paid for by Chinese Media Target European Users -- (August 2023)

Chinese media sponsored over a thousand ads on TikTok targeting European audiences. Additionally, accounts that carefully obscure their connections to China may pose further risks in coordinated information manipulation campaigns.

This are just two examples, there is much more across the web.

This is very good. We need more of this 'grassroots media'.

I am not sure whether I understand your comment. Don't you want opinionated articles to be flagged as 'opinion'? I thought it's a good idea as it is not a typical news article. Just let me know.

There are 10,000 foreigners wrongfully detained in the Chinese Communist Party's Prison System, and they come from across the globe ...

It's real ...

Forced organ harvesting and transplant tourism -- (May 2024)

China’s new Regulation on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs takes effect May 1, 2024 [...] However, experts suggest the regulatory change will not lead to transparency, bring an end to China’s transplant tourism business, or protect prisoners of conscience and ethnic groups from crimes in organ transplantation, including forced organ harvesting.

China is indeed doing that all over the world. In May this year, for example, the Chinese ambassador to Japan said that "Japanese people would be dragged into the fire" if they support Taiwan independence, while China's ambassador to Australia said in January that Australia would be “pushed over the edge of an abyss” if they support Taiwan's independence.

If such coercive tactics are criticized, the response is often blatant whataboutism.

I guess this is just an introduction into the story, but I also feel it is a bit too long. A sentence or two would have been sufficient.

Climate Action Tracker for China

• Policies and action: insufficient
• NDC (nationally determined contributions) target against modelled domestic pathways: highly insufficient
• NDC target against against fair share: insufficient
• Overall rating: highly insufficient

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Climate Action Tracker for China

• Policies and action: insufficient
• NDC (nationally determined contributions) target against modelled domestic pathways: highly insufficient
• NDC target against against fair share: insufficient
• Overall rating: highly insufficient

[Edit for clarity.]

You continue to engage in whataboutism. What a waste of time.

The renewable energy is one thing. China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and emissions are still rising.

It's blatant whataboutism as this report is on China, and it says the country's climate emission policy is insufficient. Just read the report.

@basmati@lemm.ee

This is the -unfortunately expected- whataboutism.

Additional renewable energy capacities do not compensate the harm done to the climate by carbon dioxide emissions, and China's emissioin are still rising while it is already the world's largest emitter as the report also says.