#postdeconstructionist #exdeconstructionist

Immigrant to Canada...

[Prime Minister of Canada @CanadianPM]

On behalf of all Canadians, Prime Minister Carney offers his sincere condolences to all those impacted by the catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela.

Canada is preparing humanitarian assistance to support Venezuelans in the days and weeks ahead.

[Wanjun Xie @xie_wanjun]

On July 1st, the CCP will implement the "National Unity Law." This law stipulates that criticizing the government is a crime. This law applies not only to Chinese citizens but also to foreigners. For example, Japanese or American citizens who express support for Taiwan will be committing a crime; they will be arrested upon entering China, and their assets in China will be confiscated. Foreign companies and foreigners who haven't left yet, this is your last chance to escape!

[Fleming Rutledge @flemingrut]

I read a lot--more than you might think--about AI. This article makes all the points, probing the whole question of what is human, what is "creation" (as in "content creation"), and what is our relation to God's creation.
https://t.co/SjF8J4NiKy

[Young Kim @RepYoungKim]

America’s fentanyl crisis is made in China.

The CCP is subsidizing the deadly chemicals killing Americans & sees strategic value in America’s suffering.

No more. I’m working with President Trump to reauthorize fentanyl sanctions & shut down Beijing’s poison pipeline.

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

Canada signed a police cooperation agreement with China's Ministry of Public Security. The full text is classified. Beijing must approve its release before Canadians can read it. Let that sink in.

South Korea's National Police Agency has done the same, with agreements running not just at the national level but between Seoul Metropolitan Police and Beijing's Public Security Bureau, Busan and Shanghai, multiple provincial agencies paired directly with Chinese counterparts. Public petitions to cancel them passed 50,000 signatures.

Both agreements are framed as tools to fight telecom fraud and cross-border crime. Both governments insist Chinese officers have no operational authority on their soil. Both are currently led by administrations that have made warmer China ties a foreign policy priority in 2025 and 2026.

What neither government addresses: the Ministry of Public Security is the same institution that runs China's overseas harassment networks, the "Fox Hunt" operations that pressure diaspora members to return to China under threats to their families, and the transnational repression apparatus that monitors Chinese communities abroad in both countries. The MPS does not operate a clean "anti-fraud" division separate from its political control functions. It is one institution. You cooperate with all of it or none of it.

One government signed an agreement whose text requires Beijing's permission to release to its own citizens. The other signed multiple agreements at both national and municipal levels while its citizens filed 50,000 petitions against them.

Both call it routine law enforcement cooperation. Both have governments that just visited Beijing and signed strategic partnerships. That context is not irrelevant.

#Canada #SouthKorea #China #CCP #MPS #ForeignInterference #Geopolitics #NationalSecurity #TransnationalRepression #PoliceCooperation

[Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @Yaqiu]

A Chinese dissident’s worst nightmare: You escape China, only to find the CCP still making your life hell — and the interpreter for the police in your new country, the person who is supposed to help you, turns out to be a CCP shill. https://t.co/i9YJv5JrC4

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

China’s seizure and building of structures at Scarborough Shoal are acts of aggression. The international community must oppose these acts, with force if necessary.

[#postdeconstructionist #exdeconstructionist @postdeconstruc]

https://t.co/7dlqomZSt5

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

China is a surveillance state, it could have stopped the precursors at any time

The CCP uses the drugs as bargaining chips to get what it wants from the US. With complete disregard for the lives of Americans killed each year by overdoses. As soon as the US is distracted by another crisis the restrictions will end.

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

🚨BREAKING | A new @ChinaSelect investigative report is out today and the findings are troubling. Our investigation and subsequent report found that @jpmorgan, @BankofAmerica, and @MorganStanley helped Chinese companies tied to the CCP’s military apparatus and forced Uyghur labor raise BILLIONS in global capital markets.

Just months after @DeptofWar designated Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (@catl_official), the world’s largest battery maker, as a “Chinese military company,” JPMorgan and Bank of America moved forward with underwriting its Hong Kong IPO, helping the company raise billions in new capital. According to our investigation, the banks proceeded even after CATL was linked to China’s Military-Civil Fusion strategy and despite evidence connecting the company to entities tied to the PLA, China’s defense-industrial base, and forced labor in Xinjiang.

The investigation uncovered CATL partnerships and business relationships with blacklisted Chinese defense-linked entities including @Huawei, NORINCO, CETC, @CSSC_global, COMAC, @ChinaMobile_X, and @CN_Nuclear_Corp. The report also details CATL’s ownership stake in Wuhu Shipyard, a key builder of Chinese naval vessels and military equipment, as well as research partnerships tied to the PLA’s National University of Defense Technology and China’s nuclear weapons complex.

The Committee found further evidence linking CATL’s supply chain to Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)-connected entities implicated in forced labor and the Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang. According to the investigation, CATL refused to provide full supply chain audits, while banks proceeded with the deals anyway despite public evidence and internal diligence reports identifying ongoing exposure to forced labor risks.

In a separate transaction, Morgan Stanley sponsored the IPO of Zijin Gold even after its parent company and Xinjiang subsidiaries were added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. Internal documents showed the firm identified significant sanctions and national security risks and moved forward regardless.

Our investigation concluded that Wall Street’s due diligence processes prioritized deal completion over national security and human rights concerns. Policy changes are needed to stop U.S. financial institutions from bankrolling companies tied to the CCP’s military buildup and forced labor system.

More on the report here: https://t.co/XviPRM1BdF

[Joseph Wu @josephwutw]

Our ISR/intel shows that the #PRC has deployed over 100 vessels around the #1stIslandChain over the past few days, so soon after the #Beijing summit. In this part of the world, #China is the one & only PROBLEM wrecking the #StatusQuo & threatening regional peace & stability.

[Taiwan Freedom - 台灣自由 @TaiwanFreedom89]

This is Taiwan.
Taiwan is a country.

[China Uncensored @ChinaUncensored]

Don’t get distracted.

https://t.co/QMxIFGOqZY

[Aric Chen @aricchen]

🚨 CENSORED IN CHINA — but the truth is spreading. In April 2026, a Chinese blogger posted a video identifying a site in Dongguan, Guangdong Province — Zhangmutou township — as a potential mass grave linked to a state-run detention facility. The video alleged that between 1992 and 2003, thousands of people detained there may have died, gone missing, or simply vanished.

It was deleted within hours. The topic was scrubbed from Weibo, WeChat, and Douyin. Five former detainees are now speaking out — anonymously, out of fear.

Here is what they say happened inside.

🏚️ THE SYSTEM THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE

China's "custody and repatriation" (收容遣送) system allowed authorities to detain anyone without a stable job or a temporary residence permit — no trial, no lawyer, no set release date. Migrants, the poor, rural workers arriving in cities for the first time, petitioners seeking legal redress — all were vulnerable.

Once inside, detainees describe:
— Overcrowded cells holding 30+ people
— Guards confiscating and destroying identity documents
— Beatings when detainees could not produce the documents that had just been taken from them
— Forced labor: quarrying stone, building railways, construction sites
— No contact with family. No legal counsel. No timeline.

One former detainee recalled arriving in Dongguan in 1995 with a train ticket that could have proved he had just entered the city. Guards took it and destroyed it. When he couldn't produce it, they beat him. He was then sent to forced labor until a friend paid to have him released.

These are not isolated stories. Five men — independently — describe the same structure of abuse.

💀 WHO DIED, AND HOW MANY?

The blogger who posted the April 8 video estimated that between 1992 and 2003, at least several thousand people may have died, gone missing, or disappeared after passing through the Zhangmutou facility.

This figure has not been independently verified. China does not publish records from this system. Independent investigation inside China is impossible — censorship and access restrictions make it so. The CCP has never acknowledged any wrongdoing related to this facility.

What we do know: people entered. Many did not come out. No official account exists of what happened to them.

☠️ THE DEATH THAT CHANGED — AND DIDN'T CHANGE — EVERYTHING

In 2003, a 27-year-old graphic designer named Sun Zhigang (孫志剛) was detained in Guangzhou for not carrying his residence permit. He was beaten to death in custody three days later.

The case leaked online. It became one of the rare moments when Chinese public outrage broke through the censorship wall. The government, under pressure, formally abolished the custody and repatriation system.

But abolishing the name did not abolish the practice.

Rights advocates and former detainees say equivalent detention has continued under different labels ever since — "assistance stations" (救助站), psychiatric commitments, administrative holds — all operating outside the judicial system, with no right to legal counsel, no independent oversight, and no public record of who enters or leaves.

The Zhangmutou video did not expose something that ended in 2003. It exposed something that was renamed.

🔇 THE CENSORSHIP THAT FOLLOWED

Within hours of the April 8 video going live:
— It was deleted from all major Chinese platforms
— Related search terms were blocked
— Discussion was scrubbed from Weibo, WeChat, Douyin, and Bilibili
— The blogger's account was suspended

The video survived only because Chinese netizens had already copied and uploaded it to X and Telegram — platforms beyond the Great Firewall's reach.

In March 2026, a Guangzhou resident had separately launched an online petition calling for a suspension and investigation into China's organ transplant system. That petition was also rapidly suppressed.

In May 2026, Chinese authorities began officially referring to homeless people as "dispersed persons" (流散人员) — a terminology shift critics say is designed to erase the visibility of a growing social crisis rather than address it.

Deny. Rename. Censor. Repeat.

❓ THE QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN UNANSWERED

— What happened to the thousands of people who entered Zhangmutou and did not return?
— Why has the Chinese government never published records from this facility?
— Why was a petition calling for investigation into the organ transplant system suppressed within days of launch?
— If the custody and repatriation system truly ended in 2003, why do former detainees and rights advocates say equivalent systems persist today under different names?
— Who is accountable?

The CCP's answer, so far, is silence — and deletion.

The people who passed through Zhangmutou had names. They had families. They were migrants looking for work, petitioners seeking justice, people who simply didn't have the right piece of paper on the right day.

They deserved answers. Their families still do.

Share this before it disappears too.

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Note: The blogger's estimate of "thousands" of deaths is unverified. Organ harvesting allegations in this specific case remain unsubstantiated by direct evidence. Reporting reflects accounts of former detainees and are attributed accordingly. Original post by @aricchen, views are my own.

#ChinaHumanRights #SunZhigang #Dongguan #ForcedDisappearances #GreatFirewall #CCP #HumanRights #China

[Yanzhong Huang @YanzhongHuang]

One year ago, I published “America is dangerously ignorant of what’s going on in China.” This new NYT essay is its sister piece. Full essay: https://t.co/ckegzGB7sn As Beijing prepares for President Trump’s visit to China this week, I examine how growing overconfidence has taken root among the Chinese public. It stems from widespread misperceptions about American decline. 1/2

[#postdeconstructionist #exdeconstructionist @postdeconstruc]

Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data https://t.co/p5rANcI78k

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

A brief history of how the Chinese Communist Party infiltrated Canadian politics and worked to influence policymaking. The creator of this chart, who lives in Canada, chose to remain anonymous out of fear of transnational repression.

[Bethany 貝書穎 @BethanyAllenEbr]

Big news on the transnational repression beat: RightsCon, the world's biggest digital human rights conference, has been CANCELED just days before it was set to begin in Lusaka, Zambia. The government of Zambia — which signed an agreement with China on April 24 — canceled it:

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

The Chinese government is determined to steal US AI tech

US Senators are concerned that China is using insiders to steal AI technology. The threat from the PRC is not just hackers. They are very good at compromising people as well.
https://t.co/qMXmYsIKzN

[#postdeconstructionist #exdeconstructionist @postdeconstruc]

https://t.co/GQIk1dxHRz