3. One of the most fascinating parts of the whole saga to me has been watching which of the many international pro-CCP influencers on X suddenly started tweeting about Mao and how he wasn't a dictator.

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2. Afaik this is the first time that the Party launched such a campaign over foreign speech that falls in the "historical nihilism" category. So far, these kinds of campaigns had only hit Chinese people inside of China. Is the boundary of international speech the CCP wants to police shifting again?

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I'm late to the party but three quick points on the Mbappé drama: 1. This kind of outrage campaign isn't organic bottom-up rage but usually CCP-organized (though of course, it often ends up being amplified organically at some point). I wrote about this here: thechinacollection.org/mareike-ohlb...

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“I can assure you that the Chinese People…” Oh absolutely fuck off into the sun.

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I would be happy to discuss forms of "democracy" (a word's meaning does not come from its etymology) beyond parliamentarianism/electoralism but I don't think they're all that interested in that

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