"Ren’s essay is not only critical of the initial cover-up, but also of the party’s effort to pass off its response as a total success. He also took sharp aim at Xi’s ambition for personal power."
Those who speak should do. Only those who do should speak. Ren's money go to his head. He is precisely the kind of loudmouth billionaire who afflicts Western society.
He has neither expertise nor direct knowledge of how Coronavirus was handled and his opinions about Xi are both uninformed and irrelevant.
If he has complaints about the government or officials he, as a Party member, should raise them within the Party which, after all, is ultimately responsible.
As is is, he's simply repeating Western propaganda.
Somebody tell the CCP to give this man a raise! He's on every single newsletter, usually writes several lines, and puts a commendable effort into spelling and grammar as well. Hats off
For years people like you have been saying that China uses paid commenters (wumao) and bots to sway public opinion, but a major academic study, "Chinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo" found no evidence of a China-sponsored program to manipulate users’ opinion. In fact, it found that most bots tweeting about China are anti-China.
Here's an excerpt: "Findings are based on an analysis of 1.5 million comments on official political information posts on Weibo and 1.1 million posts using hashtags associated with China and Chinese politics on Twitter. In line with previous research, little evidence of automation was found on Weibo. In contrast, a large amount of automation was found on Twitter. However, contrary to expectations and previous news reports, no evidence was found of pro-Chinese-state automation on Twitter. Automation on Twitter was associated with anti-Chinese-state perspectives and published in simplified Mandarin, presumably aimed at diasporic Chinese and mainland users who ‘jump the wall’ to access blocked platforms.
These users come to Twitter seeking more diverse information and an online public sphere but instead they find an information environment in which a small number of anti-Chinese-state voices are attempting to use automation to dominate discourse."
"Ren’s essay is not only critical of the initial cover-up, but also of the party’s effort to pass off its response as a total success. He also took sharp aim at Xi’s ambition for personal power."
Those who speak should do. Only those who do should speak. Ren's money go to his head. He is precisely the kind of loudmouth billionaire who afflicts Western society.
He has neither expertise nor direct knowledge of how Coronavirus was handled and his opinions about Xi are both uninformed and irrelevant.
If he has complaints about the government or officials he, as a Party member, should raise them within the Party which, after all, is ultimately responsible.
As is is, he's simply repeating Western propaganda.
Somebody tell the CCP to give this man a raise! He's on every single newsletter, usually writes several lines, and puts a commendable effort into spelling and grammar as well. Hats off
For years people like you have been saying that China uses paid commenters (wumao) and bots to sway public opinion, but a major academic study, "Chinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo" found no evidence of a China-sponsored program to manipulate users’ opinion. In fact, it found that most bots tweeting about China are anti-China.
Here's an excerpt: "Findings are based on an analysis of 1.5 million comments on official political information posts on Weibo and 1.1 million posts using hashtags associated with China and Chinese politics on Twitter. In line with previous research, little evidence of automation was found on Weibo. In contrast, a large amount of automation was found on Twitter. However, contrary to expectations and previous news reports, no evidence was found of pro-Chinese-state automation on Twitter. Automation on Twitter was associated with anti-Chinese-state perspectives and published in simplified Mandarin, presumably aimed at diasporic Chinese and mainland users who ‘jump the wall’ to access blocked platforms.
These users come to Twitter seeking more diverse information and an online public sphere but instead they find an information environment in which a small number of anti-Chinese-state voices are attempting to use automation to dominate discourse."
Here's the link: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1476576.
The only people who get paid for writing about China are the journalists, editors, publishers, authors and academics who write anti-China nonsense.