#prc — Public Fediverse posts
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'Wanted' #Chinese #fraudster arrested in #Pattaya
"Police arrested a 30-year-old Chinese man wanted by authorities in #China for alleged fraud and #moneylaundering.. According to the CIB, Zhang stayed in #Thailand from June 2023 to February 2024 & used it as a base while he masterminded the transfers, withdrawals & laundering of scam-related money.. He was charged with overstaying his visa & will be extradited to China"
👉 Make sure to #blacklist the #PRC bastard! #จีนเทา 😡
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3302658/wanted-chinese-fraudster-arrested-in-pattaya -
@ChrisMayLA6
The #China has long been involved in money markets without drawing too much attention to itself. It’s expansive USD$ reserve is a quiet lever they manage to use behind the scenes to temper #USD dominance. The #RenMinBi (RMB) has long been undervalued (according to most NeoLiberal economists) but is is gathering strength. As long as the #PRC doesn’t muck it up with its constant saber rattling against #Taiwan, it is in a strong position to place the RMB as an alternative #currency reserve. Time will tell… but for #XiJingPing, and the PRC, it’s a long term game. Certainly, any move of the RMB into the market puts added pressure onto the USD as the dominant global currency (And with a Magga-ist serving as the secretary of the treasury under #tRumpo, what could possibly go wrong?) -
#TAIWAN TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT #CHINA’S INFLUENCE: The Mainland Affairs Council will collaborate with schools to counter China’s influence, as many Taiwanese students participate in exchange programs with the #PRC.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/08/04/2003861892
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@IndyMediaAus
The article panders to #China ‘s #PRC foreign policy in accepting the #PRC’s claims that any territories the #PLA *invaded* — the most prominent case being the annexation of #Tibet — where historically part of modern China (the *Han* empire, another falsehood). The same illogic applied to its claims on #Taiwan.This makes TWO unbearable foreign policy errors from an Australian perspective. The other, of course, concerns Israel and its Zionist govt.
Tempted not to read the remainder of the article after this monumental error.
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Meanwhile in #China on the eve of the World #AI Cooperation conference…Bill Bishop of Sinocism notes that: “Moonshot is the latest PRC firm showing the way to building open-source AI, with the release today of Kimi K3, which from early reviews is a frontier-class model. Kimi obviously timed the release for the eve of the WAIC, and I will assume they coordinated it with the relevant organs. If it is as good as the initial reviews say it is, this could change lots of assumptions.” —From what OP has read about Kimi 3.0, it also signals the end of “cheap Chinese AI”. #ArtificialIntelligence #PRC #WAIC
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This is not good: #China exercising it’s claim of territoriality on the eastern side of the island of #Taiwan by conducting Customns inspections of commercial shipping in contravention of the #UNCLOS. This is escalation not seen since the 9-Dash-Line illegal claims (Now 10-Dash-Line) By the #PRC in the South China Sea. Not a good sign at all. How are the Nations of the region suppose to react to that ‘slap in the face’ from the PRC authorities?
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Gentlemen, we cannot allow a paper airplane gap!
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"Socialism is when capitalism!"
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2177327/socialism-is-when-capitalism
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Have they considered not being a fascist?
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2175726/have-they-considered-not-being-a-fascist
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Students protesters murdered during the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Beijing, China, 1989 (CW: Gore)
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Tiananmen Square after the first shots, Beijing, China, 1989
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How China built a hidden news network in Europe
When people talk about foreign influence operations, Russia is usually the first country that comes to mind. We picture troll factories, aggressive TV shows or conspiracy theories spreading on social media.
But a study published this June by Viginum, France’s national agency for countering foreign digital interference, describes a very different approach. At its centre is not loud propaganda, but an entire network of news portals that look like ordinary media outlets and focus mainly on how successful, innovative and essential to the world China supposedly is.
According to Viginum, the network consisted of 13 websites operated by China’s state broadcaster CGTN, or China Global Television Network. The portals published articles in English, French, Spanish and Vietnamese, presenting themselves as independent media outlets. In reality, they were part of a coordinated influence operation, which French authorities named Fawn Mianju.
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One of the best-known portals in the network was called Actu Méridien. It was a French-language website that looked just like an ordinary news outlet. The same network also included the Spanish-language Amigo News, English-language sites and Vietnamese-language publications.
The content of these sites did not focus on criticising the West. Quite the opposite. Readers were told about China’s achievements in aviation and artificial intelligence, Beijing’s leading role in the Global South, and how European countries could benefit from closer cooperation with China. One article, for example, attacked a programme by the French TV channel France 2 that covered the situation of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
This is exactly what sets Chinese influence operations apart from Russia’s. While Russian propaganda is often dominated by conflict, threat perception and confrontation, China’s goal is to build a positive image of itself. Freedom House describes this as a long-term strategy aimed at “telling China’s story well”. At its core is the image of China as a successful, trustworthy and indispensable partner.
Freedom House notes that in France, Chinese state media has for years tried to influence public opinion not only through its own channels, but also through partnerships, paid content and social media influencers. These have included both Facebook influencers and traditional media outlets that have published paid supplements from Chinese state media.
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The most interesting part of the story, however, is the role played by artificial intelligence. According to Viginum’s investigation, since late 2025 CGTN published nearly 3,000 articles, more than 2,300 of which were quickly adapted and republished on other websites in the network. This often happened less than an hour after the original story appeared.
The articles were not copied word for word. The texts were edited, shortened, adapted for different target audiences and rewritten so that they appeared to be original content. Investigators found that the texts showed unusually little natural variation in sentence length and punctuation. This is one of the signs associated with automatically generated or AI-assisted content.
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One mistake led back to CGTN
The strongest evidence linking the network to China’s state broadcaster came from an unexpected place. The administrator of one portal, Actu Méridien, left behind a login trail that led Viginum investigators to a senior project manager at CGTN Digital.
In addition, investigators found a hidden webpage on Actu Méridien’s server that had been built to resemble CGTN’s official website.
An anonymous Viginum analyst told Le Monde that the portal’s technical setup pointed to “a well-resourced actor”. The website was not running on a single server, but used a distributed architecture, professional SEO tools and several different infrastructure components.
Still, it did not become successful propaganda
Perhaps the most surprising part is that, despite the scale of the effort, the operation was not particularly successful. The network was supported by Facebook and Threads accounts, and advertising campaigns were shown to users in as many as 89 countries. Yet individual articles usually received no more than around 15,000 views.
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Influence operations no longer have to look like propaganda.
There is no need for loud voices, militant slogans or obvious fake news. A website that resembles an ordinary news portal is enough. An article about China’s green transition or technological success is enough. And so is artificial intelligence that can adapt the same message for dozens of different target audiences within minutes.
The question is no longer only whether a news story is true or false. The question is who is telling stories about the world, what kinds of stories are being told, and whether the reader even notices that the “news” in front of them was not produced in an independent newsroom, but far away in Beijing.
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Two things can be bad at once - don't make the mistake of thinking power cedes anything without a fight
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Holy fucking shit, someone call the Pentagon
https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2161580/holy-fucking-shit-someone-call-the-pentagon
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On Dbzer0, imperialism is okay if it's against someone aligned with Bad Camp(tm)!
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Chad PN vs. Cringe PRC attempts to throw their weight around
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Average atrocity denialist
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2158159/average-atrocity-denialist
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Low standards for honesty, even by state journalism standards
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Wow, socialism sure looks a lot like capitalism
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2147885/wow-socialism-sure-looks-a-lot-like-capitalism
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Wait until they learn about Taiwan
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2146613/wait-until-they-learn-about-taiwan
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@Jinjirrie
Much of what #Evans has to say is logically argued and has validity beyond his personal biases due to his unique experiences in politics and foreign affairs. However he is neither a strategic nor a military expert and , imo, he will eat the words he has to say on #China however carefully crafted. I say this for the simple reason that #Xi is just another version of #tRump not matter how you coat it, though a more powerful and disciplined example of the breed. Moreover, the #PRC is a more powerful, a longer lived and a more patient machinery than any #US administration has ever been or is likely to be in the future. China’s long story, aside from a short Western led colonisation period in modern history, has shown this to be true.This is only my own opinion of course, based on nothing but historical evidence and my limited understanding (with my own biases embedded) of the Chinese people.
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Me sorprende un poco que, respecto al ensalzamiento del franquismo en #Santoña por la mayoría del parlamento de #Cantabria, algunos hablen de la actitud del #PRC como una anomalía e incluso de un partido post-#Revilla
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"Communism is when capitalist oligarchy"
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2141052/communism-is-when-capitalist-oligarchy
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"Communism is when capitalist oligarchy"
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2141049/communism-is-when-capitalist-oligarchy
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Imperialism GOOD when not from the West
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2139523/imperialism-good-when-not-from-the-west
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"It's historically China" - definitely not an irredentist nationalist argument