26.10. Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观)
A list of 12 values the CCP claims to support, some of which are ridiculously and obviously the opposite, notably democracy and freedom.
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people in Xinjiang (新疆) being brainwashed to it: Xinjiang core socialist values.
We made a single image mocking all of them at: core socialist values collage:
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1 富强 Prosperity: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/01/world/01china-migrants-16/01china-migrants-16-master1050.jpg from https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20171201/china-beijing-migrants/ from Low-end population (低端人口, 2017)
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2 民主 Democracy: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/ from Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件) also shown at Tiananmen students sitting
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3 文明 Civility: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/WNK8eb40kU8FOyY5oNiCFwarxLM=/1200x748/media/img/photo/2014/06/tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/t21_06030443/original.jpg from https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/ from Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件) also shown at tiananmen-girl-strife
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4 和谐 Harmony: https://archive.ph/MIjcT/0c972e9b131f48087bfa2ed53caee215a79e5a45 from https://www.ft.com/content/84dd7e32-cbe5-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f from 2014 Hong Kong protests (Umbrella movement, 雨伞运动占领区)
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5 自由 Freedom: Xinjiang Lop County
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6 平等 Equality: Lampstand chutch demolition
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7 公正 Justice: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0FC6/production/_96683040_0292729b-ad9f-4ea3-9d64-13c0200b74d9.jpg from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40403811 about Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)
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8 法治 Rule of law: Jingjing and Chacha (警警察察)
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9 爱国 Patriotism: https://twitter.com/GFWfrog/status/1409862331375423489 from Anonymous middle fingers (2021)
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10 敬业 Dedication: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/377446839 from Lie Flat movement (躺平主义). Widely shared meme, could not determine original source anything .
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11 诚信 Integrity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VOA-Bo_Xilai.jpg from Bo Xilai (薄熙来, 2007-2012) seems like the best bet. Someone from Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016). Can’t find a photo of Deng Jiagui, he just looks corrupt. Related: Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少).
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12 友善 Friendship: maybe something from Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult) oppression, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/anastasia-lin-miss-world-canada-falun-gong-practitioner-china-persecution also mentioned at falun-gong-police-step-over-head
TODO improve:
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法治 Rule of law
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文明 Civility
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公正 Justice
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平等 Equality
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2023 Chinese students cover London’s famous Brick Lane with socialist core values graffiti https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/07/chinese-political-slogans-spark-graffiti-free-for-all-on-east-london-wall-brick-lane
Figure 275. Core socialist values displayed on street near Jiaguomen metro station (建国门站) in Beijing on July 2021, with the most ridiculously fake ones highlighted by Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的). Source.
Figure 276. Collage mocking each of the core socialist values by Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的). Image sources given at: Core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观). Composition license: CC BY-SA 4.0 2021, most individual images are only fair use however.
TODO understand each image of the above:
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2 Democracy: Xi Jinping 2970
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3 Civility: replay of some news about Earthquake in Japan of magnitude 7.3 on some video sharing website, possibly Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站, YouTube clone), with large ammounts of Danmu commentary (弹幕) superposed on the video by viewers, presumably saying that the Earthquake is a good thing. https://www.zhihu.com/question/522996080/answer/2398017212 on Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆) asks what people think about it and contains a higher resolution version of the image. Current top answer still says "it’s Japan’s fault". On the higher resolution image, we can e.g. see on top row a bunch of "好" (good)
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6 Equality
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left half shows this image https://www.sohu.com/a/523721157_639898 of Chinese American skier Eileen Gu (谷爱凌) showing a Gold medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, she might illegally hold dual citizenship
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right half some woman who was chained and raped for years: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/woman-chained-02022022135517.html and then there was some online censorship about her: https://archive.ph/VOKPM. No more specific relationship betwen them it seems.
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7 Justice: a bunch of tanks at Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件), taken from close to one of the tanks, the image can also be seen e.g. at: https://www.aboluowang.com/2016/0604/749347.html
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9 Patriotism: NMSL Chinese flag
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10 Dedication: prisonners, possibly Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-) TODO confirm, exact image seen e.g. at: https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1516484817453568012 by Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media). Added captions read: 在网上不要与人战斗他们可能在争取减刑! (Don’t fight people online (supposing wumaos are people), they might be fighting for a shorter sentence). It has been used to suggest that prisonners have been forcebly uesd as wumaos in China, rather than free paid workers.
A list of 12 values the CCP claims to support, some of which are ridiculously and obviously the opposite, notably democracy and freedom.
Related:
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people in Xinjiang (新疆) being brainwashed to it: Xinjiang core socialist values.
We made a single image mocking all of them at: core socialist values collage:
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1 富强 Prosperity: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/01/world/01china-migrants-16/01china-migrants-16-master1050.jpg from https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20171201/china-beijing-migrants/ from Low-end population (低端人口, 2017)
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2 民主 Democracy: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/ from Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件) also shown at Tiananmen students sitting
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3 文明 Civility: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/WNK8eb40kU8FOyY5oNiCFwarxLM=/1200x748/media/img/photo/2014/06/tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/t21_06030443/original.jpg from https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos/100751/ from Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件) also shown at tiananmen-girl-strife
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4 和谐 Harmony: https://archive.ph/MIjcT/0c972e9b131f48087bfa2ed53caee215a79e5a45 from https://www.ft.com/content/84dd7e32-cbe5-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f from 2014 Hong Kong protests (Umbrella movement, 雨伞运动占领区)
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5 自由 Freedom: Xinjiang Lop County
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6 平等 Equality: Lampstand chutch demolition
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7 公正 Justice: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0FC6/production/_96683040_0292729b-ad9f-4ea3-9d64-13c0200b74d9.jpg from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40403811 about Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader)
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8 法治 Rule of law: Jingjing and Chacha (警警察察)
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9 爱国 Patriotism: https://twitter.com/GFWfrog/status/1409862331375423489 from Anonymous middle fingers (2021)
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10 敬业 Dedication: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/377446839 from Lie Flat movement (躺平主义). Widely shared meme, could not determine original source anything .
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11 诚信 Integrity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VOA-Bo_Xilai.jpg from Bo Xilai (薄熙来, 2007-2012) seems like the best bet. Someone from Panama papers (巴拿马文件, 2016). Can’t find a photo of Deng Jiagui, he just looks corrupt. Related: Democracies have less corruption than dictatorships (民主国家的腐败比独裁国家少).
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12 友善 Friendship: maybe something from Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult) oppression, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/anastasia-lin-miss-world-canada-falun-gong-practitioner-china-persecution also mentioned at falun-gong-police-step-over-head
TODO improve:
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法治 Rule of law
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文明 Civility
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公正 Justice
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平等 Equality
Related:
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2023 Chinese students cover London’s famous Brick Lane with socialist core values graffiti https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/07/chinese-political-slogans-spark-graffiti-free-for-all-on-east-london-wall-brick-lane
TODO understand each image of the above:
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2 Democracy: Xi Jinping 2970
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3 Civility: replay of some news about Earthquake in Japan of magnitude 7.3 on some video sharing website, possibly Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站, YouTube clone), with large ammounts of Danmu commentary (弹幕) superposed on the video by viewers, presumably saying that the Earthquake is a good thing. https://www.zhihu.com/question/522996080/answer/2398017212 on Zhihu (知乎, censored Quora clone, 审查 Quora 克隆) asks what people think about it and contains a higher resolution version of the image. Current top answer still says "it’s Japan’s fault". On the higher resolution image, we can e.g. see on top row a bunch of "好" (good)
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6 Equality
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left half shows this image https://www.sohu.com/a/523721157_639898 of Chinese American skier Eileen Gu (谷爱凌) showing a Gold medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, she might illegally hold dual citizenship
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right half some woman who was chained and raped for years: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/woman-chained-02022022135517.html and then there was some online censorship about her: https://archive.ph/VOKPM. No more specific relationship betwen them it seems.
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7 Justice: a bunch of tanks at Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件), taken from close to one of the tanks, the image can also be seen e.g. at: https://www.aboluowang.com/2016/0604/749347.html
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9 Patriotism: NMSL Chinese flag
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10 Dedication: prisonners, possibly Xinjiang "re-education" camps (新疆再教育營, 2017-) TODO confirm, exact image seen e.g. at: https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1516484817453568012 by Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media). Added captions read: 在网上不要与人战斗他们可能在争取减刑! (Don’t fight people online (supposing wumaos are people), they might be fighting for a shorter sentence). It has been used to suggest that prisonners have been forcebly uesd as wumaos in China, rather than free paid workers.