#NetizensVoice #Discrimination
McDonald's in China forbids "black people" from entering

While China continues to be haunted by the Wuhan pneumonia, a wave of racist discrimination against foreigners has been reported in the country.

African have been severely targeted. In a latest case, a McDonald's in Guangzhou, China forbids "black people" from entering.

As a repercussion, a corporate building in Uganda purportedly issues a ban on Chinese.

Source: Internet

Further reading:
Mistreatment for Africans in China - The Standard Procedure of Human Rights Suppression
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16120

Africans in China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16121

Africans Evicted by the Authorities for no reasons in China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19496

#African #Racism #Guangzhou #Coronavirus #McDonalds

The Chinese Government has FOOLED you!

Youtuber SerpentZA recounts some of his friends' experiences dealing with the recently intensified racism in China. State-endorsed discrimination comes in the form of segregation on flights reminiscent of Rosa Parks, being called an "American virus", evicting Africans from apartments and forcing them to leave the country on short notice, among other examples.

When China first realised that the epidemic was a crisis, the government put Wuhan on lockdown but allowed departing international flights. It "didn't care that the virus… spread to your country", only that it did not spread within its borders.

At the same time, "China banned the export of masks and vital medical supplies". Foreign products manufactured in China were hoarded locally. The government also “ordered all state-linked companies abroad to… liberate” them from foreign countries.

He calls attention to China's attempt to save face, "the appearance that something is more important than its substance [by] spending immense amounts of money and state resources on soft power". The state-run media talks about racism and xenophobia against Chinese and Asians overseas to divert attention away from the "very real racist policies" within. "If you have ever… looked at China in a positive light… it means that their manipulative ways have worked on you."

"This is only the tip of the iceberg. China does not have this thing under control."

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https://youtu.be/KQaNdTKQyLY

Further reading:
A bot network arrived in Serbia along with coronavirus
https://bit.ly/34yZeRB
Chinese government asks Wisconsin Senate for a commendation
https://bit.ly/2XAcpQL

#Coronavirus #Racism #Xenophobia #ChinesePropaganda #African #Mask #MedicalSupplies #Selfishness

#Interview
How do Africans in Taiwan view Tredros’s statement about Taiwan?

Two Africans living in Taiwan share their views on Tedros’s speech about Taiwan, and also talk about racism in Taiwan.

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https://youtu.be/usoaGwsA6iI
#Africans #Taiwan #Racism #Tedros #WHO #Pandemic

#Newspaper

Incident of the Chinese Ambassador's Fake Apology

(13 Apr) "China finally has its day of reckoning." China's counter-epidemic inspection measures have targeted African residents in Guangzhou. In the past week, this became an intercontinental diplomatic issue. Although the Chinese government emphasised that isolation measures for foreigners were non-discriminatory, expats from various African countries continually reported back home the collective discrimination they experienced. Even international students who "have not left China in the past two years" were forced into isolation. These events sparked protests from many African countries. The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives summoned the Chinese Ambassador and demanded an "official explanation". Unexpectedly, Nigerian news media took a screenshot from the meeting and titled it "The Chinese Ambassador bowed in apology". The image started trending rapidly online in Africa. However, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs tersely issued a clarification, stating that the Chinese Ambassador was merely looking down at the cell phone. "Any other interpretation of the scene does not conform with what was actually there during the meeting."

//The scene in the screenshot gives the odd impression that the Chinese Ambassador was "bowing 90 degrees while being lectured".

//the screenshot may have been "intentionally" taken out of context. Speculations included that it was a "deliberate trap" for the Nigerian government to account for public grievances.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Incident-of-the-Chinese-Ambassadors-Fake-Apology-04-18

Source: Udn Global Facebook
https://bit.ly/2zf0oWV

#ZhouPingjian #Guangzhou #Africa #Apology #Nigeria #Kenya #Ghana #Africans #Racism

#EditorialColumn #WHO #OneChinaPolicy #Apr21
WHO's One China Policy or No China Policy?

If U.S. President Trump is politicizing the coronavirus, then Director-general of the World Trade Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom is putting the blame on racism for the mass number of coronavirus deaths caused by his misdirection.

By now, countries around the world have felt the consequences after the WHO had ignored the warning sent from Hong Kong and Taiwan in December 2019. When Trump criticizes China for covering up the coronavirus crisis, according to Trump's rhetoric and style it might be more accurate to call it a 'stereotype' rather than 'racism' as China has insisted. However, Tedros' accusation of Taiwan for its 'racist' attack seemed more of a distraction to sway people from his scientific failures and administrative misconducts.

In the case of Taiwan, Yvon Pierre Loufoua, a crosstalker performer of Congolese descent living in Taiwan, spoke from his life experience that the name-calling acts described by Tedros sounded unreal to Taiwan society and culture. Yvon also saw "China's fear of Taiwan's growing international power" through Tedros' agenda to suppress Taiwan in the game of global politics by marginalizing his own ethnicity and identity.

After all, over the past few months, Tedros has demonstrated what scientific positivism is: Even when experts from Hong Kong and Taiwan ceaselessly suggested ways to stop the epidemic, Tedros insisted that no countries should close their borders with China. Moreover, it was not until March that the WHO finally called the Wuhan pneumonia a pandemic and began considering Europe as the hardest hit area outside of China. Maybe Tedros simply attaches great importance to what he considers as empirical data, as he was only willing to react after a large number of coronavirus patients died outside China.

By inference, Tedros must have had evidence to support his claims of Taiwan attacking him with racist comments and death threats--although Tedros has yet to make any details public.

Let us hope that this health expert from the WHO knows about information and cyber security---especially when some 'great and powerful' nation has perhaps been supplying intelligence analysis.

At this point, we should always remind ourselves that we live in an era of information warfare, where there are Chinese reporters posing as Hong Kong and Taiwanese reporters and asking questions at White House press conferences.

Finally, here comes the paradox: If Tedros is a follower of the 'one China' policy upheld by the WHO, he would have handled the matter like his colleague did: WHO advisor Dr. Bruce Aylward rejected Radio Television Hong Kong's (RTHK) question on Taiwan by hanging up the phone during an interview--he demonstrated how Taiwan should not even be brought up outside the China framework according to this logic. Hypothetically, if Tedros was really attacked by Taiwan, by the same policy does it mean that the Chinese government was behind it? Along the same line, should Tedros better lodge a complaint to the PRC's Foreign Ministry instead of directing it to the Taiwan government and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen?

#Taiwan #PRC #NoChinaPolicy #Racism #Tedros

Image: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19681

#Newspaper

Video: Guinea Rounds Up and arrests Chinese Citizens until all its Citizens safely Return from china.

//According to a video making rounds on social media, the Guinean government has arrested Chinese citizens risiding in the country until all its citizens safely return from china.

//This is a first of its kind from an African country given the ongoing racial attacks and harassment of Africans in china by the Chinese people.

//The Chineses government has denied these allegations despite videos showing the same.

//The current racial profilling against Africans should be a wake-up call for Africans and their leaders to come together and form a formidable force that will confront their challenges.

//African leaders unquenchable appetite to Chinese loans is their undoing. They have literally sold their soul and that of their citizens.

//Failure of African governments to make decisive response regarding attacks of Africans can lead to ordinary citizens taking matters into their own hands.

Full article: Kenyan Report, (18-Apr)

Further reading:
African Are Discriminated Against in China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19496

#China #Africans #Guinean #Racism

#Newspaper

U.S. volunteer team delivers meals and humanitarian aid to Africans quarantined and discriminated against in China

(29 Apr) Mass isolation and discrimination against Africans occurred in April in Guangzhou, China. Miley (pseudonym), an American, has set up a 300-man volunteer team to deliver meals and give humanitarian aid to these African citizens.

Miley criticized Chinese media reports for constantly denying the discrimination against Africans with their propaganda campaigns, while the racism is in fact very obvious. The Chinese government can refuse to admit one’s mistake, but they must admit that racism exists and try to stop it.

To avoid disruption to the volunteer team’s operations, Miley said she would normally avoid talking about subjects on discrimination. If the Chinese government finds out about their conversations on social media, their meal delivery service would be terminated.

Source: TVE
https://t.me/sgtve

Further reading:
African Are Discriminated Against in China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19496

#US #Africans #Guangzhou #Racism #Censorship

#Newspaper

China says it has a 'zero-tolerance policy' for racism, but discrimination towards Africans goes back decades

//A black version of the Chinese flag swept across African Twitter earlier this month, as users replaced their avatars to express their anger at the government of China.

//They were outraged not only by widespread reports of coronavirus-related discrimination against Africans in China, but also by claims on Chinese state media that the allegations were "groundless rumors."

//Posting under the hashtag #BlackChina, Dennis Kiplomo, a nurse from Kenya, tweeted: "We expect the kind of hospitality we give to Chinese here in Africa, be reciprocated in their home country."

//"We need a united Africa which will not be slaves of #BlackChina."

//The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has Asia's largest African population.

//Last month, many Africans were subject to forced coronavirus testing and arbitrary 14-day self-quarantine, regardless of their recent travel history, and scores were left homeless after being evicted by landlords and rejected by hotels under the guise of various virus containment measures.

//The incident caused a rupture in China-Africa relations, with the foreign ministries of several African nations -- and even the African Union -- demanding answers from China.

//Yet China's official response stopped short of admitting that the discrimination took place -- or apologizing for it.

//Traditionally, Beijing has portrayed racism as a Western problem.

//China's ties with Africa stretch back to the 1950s, when Beijing befriended newly independent states to position itself as a leader of the developing world and to counter US and USSR power during the Cold War era.

//Beijing talked up its shared history of oppression by white imperialists, condemned South Africa's apartheid early on and gave aid to Africa even when China was a poor country.

Anti-African protests
//The Nanjing event was not an outlier. In the city of Hangzhou, students claimed Africans were carriers of the AIDs virus in 1988, even though foreign students had to test negative for HIV before entering the country, wrote Barry Sautman in China Quarterly.

//in January 1989, about 2,000 Beijing students boycotted classes in protest against Africans dating Chinese women -- a recurrent lightning rod issue.

//Many African students left China as a result. Around the same time, China announced a reduction in interest-free loans for Africa, marking a cooling off of official relations, although ties were never broken.

Full article: CNN, (26-May)

Further reading:
McDonald's in China forbids "black people" from entering
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19497

#Racism #Chinese #African #Ties #Coronavirus

New Law in France Criticised for Harming Press Freedom, with Protest Leading to Conflicts, 20 Officers Injured and 46 Arrests

46 thousand people took to the streets of Paris, France, in protest against the new security law for damaging press freedom and offering excessive protection to the police force. The protest triggered clashes between civilians and the police. Police dispersed protestors with tear gas and water cannons while protestors threw stones, glass bottles, etc. The police said that more than 20 officers were injured and 46 arrests were made. The Prime Minister of France Jean Castex announced the establishment of an independent commission to review and redraft the new security law.

The new security law stipulated that anyone that takes photos or videos of the police maliciously are in violation of the law. Oppositions to the law criticised it as damaging to press freedom, which enables the documentation of police brutality. One of the triggers to the protest was a black music producer named Michel Zecler. Zecler was on his way to his studio on Saturday late evening (Nov 21) when he was brutally shoved into his studio and assaulted by three police officers emerging from their police vehicle, who suspected him of violating the pandemic rules requiring the wearing of face mask in public. After Zecler was severely injured and called for help, three colleagues from upstairs came to thrust the officers out of the studio. Zecler said that while he was assaulted, he heard insults of racist slurs directed at him. The whole process was captured by closed-circuit television. President of France Emmanuel Macron called the event unacceptable and shameful and had ordered the police to promptly submit a report on how to restore confidence in the police force and improve relations between the police and the public. The three officers involved have been suspended for investigation.

#France #MichelZecler #Zecler #EmmanuelMacron #Macron #PoliceBrutality #Racist #Racism #NewSecurityLaw #Protest #Paris

Source: Stand News #Nov29

https://bit.ly/2Jzito6

Africa Eye: Racism for sale

In February 2020 a shocking video began to circulate on Chinese social media. A group of African children are being instructed, by a voice off-camera, to chant phrases in Chinese. The kids repeat the words with smiles and enthusiasm — but they don't understand that what they're being told to say is " I am a black monster and my IQ is low."

The clip ignited outrage in China and beyond. But no-one ever answered some crucial questions: why was this filmed? Where was it shot? Who made it?

Source: BBC #Jun13

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-61764466

#Racism #Africa #China #Black

#Racism
Chinese man held over #racist videos and claims his aims to spread Chinese culture

Source: BBC #Jun21

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#Racism
Chinese man held over #racist videos and claims his aims to spread Chinese culture

A Chinese filmmaker wanted by Malawi as part of an investigation into allegations of racism and child exploitation has been arrested.

#LuKe was a #Malawi resident when he was exposed by #BBC #AfricaEye, which reported he had used local children to film personalised greetings videos, some of which included racist content.

These videos can be bought for up to $70 (£55) on Chinese social media and internet platforms.

Lu Ke denied making derogatory videos.

He said he made his videos in order to spread Chinese culture to the local community.
In one of the videos seen by the BBC, a group of young children is made to chant - in Chinese - "I'm a black monster. My IQ is low", clearly unaware of what they are saying.//

Read the full article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61862619

Source: BBC #Jun21

#ChineseInternet #SocialMedia #Weibo #Weixin #Africa #ChineseinAfrica