demi7en 🎗🇪🇺

⚠️ The de-facto capture of Singapore would be a huge strategic win for the Chinese Communist Party, and they are making solid progress in realizing that morsel of the CCP's "china dream".

Historically Hong Kong — "CCP's banking colony" — has been CCP's main avenue of economic and foreign trade manipulation, akin to a poker swindler holding two sets of cards. Since the 2019-2020 crushing of #Hongkongers' hopes of ever gaining 'treaty-enshrined' civil or human rights, the manipulative value of HK is on a terminal decline. Capturing Singapore to act as CCP's new banking and business colony would indeed recharge CCP's ability to project power in the region and globally.

Better yet, SG would become a hostile port to the US and other countries in the alliance of democracies if and when the CCP decides to, say, invade #Taiwan.

It has been a long game decades in the making, but CCP's humongous United Front tentacles working to weaponize and 'han-chauvinize' its *subjects* in the large and highly ethnocentric Chinese diaspora are bearing bittersweet fruit.

Oh, and the inner workings of those fancy F35s must be quite fascinating.

“Xi Jinping wants to build influence among ethnic-Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, raising concerns that the Chinese Communist Party is stoking divided loyalties”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/singapore-china-news-influence-lianhe-zaobao/

#WashingtonPost #Singapore #Hongkong #Malaysia #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #PRC #china #unitedfront #UFWD #ethnonationalism #hanchauvinism #colonialism

Singapore's Chinese-language newspaper increasingly echoes China's message

In seeking to incorporate ethnic Chinese citizens of other countries into its vision, Beijing is stoking divided loyalties, critics say.

The Washington Post
Jul 25, 2023 at 4:12pmWeb
Show threaddemi7en 🎗🇪🇺Jul 25, 2023

An informative nitter🧵by the WaPo article's co-author, #ShibaniMahtani:

「When I started conceptualizing my new role as an investigative correspondent, I knew one of the stories I wanted to dig into was how & why extreme pro-Beijing narratives are hardening within parts of multicultural Singapore, my home. Here is what we found:」

「In an ecosystem where people including my friend's parents get forwarded extremely pro-CCP messages that veer on explicit Han chauvinism within this multi-racial society, Zaobao -- a respected, trusted newspaper backed by the state -- can provide a counterweight. It has not.」

https://nitter.nl/ShibaniMahtani/status/1683647052323110912

#WashingtonPost #Singapore #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #china #PRC #unitedfront #UFWD #ethnonationalism #hanchauvinism

Shibani Mahtani (@ShibaniMahtani)

When I started conceptualizing my new role as an investigative correspondent, I knew one of the stories I wanted to dig into was how & why extreme pro-Beijing narratives are hardening within parts of multicultural Singapore, my home. Here is what we found: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/singapore-china-news-influence-lianhe-zaobao/

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Show threaddemi7en 🎗🇪🇺Jul 30, 2023

☝️ Co-author Shibani Mahtani's followup 🧵⇅, with the not entirely unexpected 'diaspora han-chinese' feedback... 🤐️
https://nitter.nl/ShibaniMahtani/status/1684018926458658817

#Singapore #Malaysia #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #PRC #china #imperialism

Shibani Mahtani (@ShibaniMahtani)

Equally, when I was reporting out this piece, there were interviewees who claimed I couldn't understand the issue I was writing about as a non-Chinese Singaporean and asked if I, in fact, had Chinese friends. Good reporting comes independent of identity, led by facts & analysis

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