Yes, they are running out of options.

Just a question: Where have you got the data from? I assume the $54billion are the total asset. According to the data I have, Russia’s National Wealth Fund’s liquid assets - which are supposedly more relevant when it comes to defend the currency - stand at just $31bn as per November 2024. But please correct me if you think I am mistaken.

I think you don’t know who is going to read that if and when you publish that in a paper or some other media. The next teenager could be encouraged to do the same. There is no reason why you would spread garbage from some social media account further.

No, but I think you don’t know who is going to read that if and when you publish that in a paper or some other media. The next teenager could be encouraged to do the same. There is no reason why you would spread garbage from some social media account further.

I think you don’t know who is going to read that if and when you publish that in a paper or some other media. The next teenager could be encouraged to do the same. There is no reason why you would spread garbage from some social media account further.

Addition: The Chinese government mixes a range of financial and education incentives with coercive measures such as threats to families to promote intermarriage between majority Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs in the occupied Xinjiang region.

As a report from 2002 says:

In December 2021, the Uyghur Tribunal convened in London found that “Uyghur women have been coerced into marrying Han men with refusal running them the risk of imprisonment for themselves or their families […]

[As one example, there is also the so-called] “Becoming Family” (结对认亲 – jie dui renqin) program.79 Under this program, mostly Han cadres stay in Uyghur homes to monitor the conduct of families and promote assimilation.80 Many Uyghur men are absent from their households on account of having been detained. As a result, these “relatives” – including men – have sometimes slept in the family bed, with consequences including sexual harassment and rape.81 Indeed, two Uyghur survivors living outside China, Zumrat Dawut, who was detained in an internment camp, and Qelbinur Sidiq, who was forced to teach in two camps, have said that “Uyghur girls and women have been sexually assaulted in their homes” as a result of the Becoming Family policy.

Source: Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriages in East Turkistan

The Chinese government mixes a range of financial and education incentives with coercive measures such as threats to families to promote intermarriage between majority Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs in the occupied Xinjiang region.

As a report from 2002 says:

In December 2021, the Uyghur Tribunal convened in London found that “Uyghur women have been coerced into marrying Han men with refusal running them the risk of imprisonment for themselves or their families […]

[As one example, there is also the so-called] “Becoming Family” (结对认亲 – jie dui renqin) program.79 Under this program, mostly Han cadres stay in Uyghur homes to monitor the conduct of families and promote assimilation.80 Many Uyghur men are absent from their households on account of having been detained. As a result, these “relatives” – including men – have sometimes slept in the family bed, with consequences including sexual harassment and rape.81 Indeed, two Uyghur survivors living outside China, Zumrat Dawut, who was detained in an internment camp, and Qelbinur Sidiq, who was forced to teach in two camps, have said that “Uyghur girls and women have been sexually assaulted in their homes” as a result of the Becoming Family policy.

Source: Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriages in East Turkistan

I don’t know, but as a journalist I wouldn’t mention that either, just for not promoting / spreading potentially dangerous content. It’s bad enough that they see that on Tiktok.

It’s related to this:

Canada sanctions Chinese officials for human rights violations – (Dec 10, 2024)

[…] Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (People’s Republic of China) Regulations against 8 former or current senior officials involved in grave human rights violations in the country.

The sanctions announced today respond to Chinese government-led repression of ethnic and religious minorities in China, including in Xinjiang, Tibet and against those who practise Falun Gong.

[…] Canada is deeply concerned over reports that China has arbitrarily detained more than one million people in Xinjiang since 2017, many of whom were held in camps and faced psychological, physical and sexual violence.

Tibetans have also endured human rights violations at the hands of the Chinese government. This includes forced labour, arbitrary detention and restrictions on their rights to freedom of religion or belief, expression, movement and association.

[…]

Quick facts

• In July 2024, Minister Joly visited China and met with Minister Wang Yi to discuss Canada-China relations, human rights and complex global and regional security issues.

• In September 2021, Canada announced new measures to address human rights abuses in Xinjiang, China. These measures addressed the risk of goods produced from forced labour from entering Canadian and global supply chains.

• In March 2021, Canada enacted the Special Economic Measures (People’s Republic of China) Regulations and imposed sanctions against Chinese officials and a Chinese entity in response to gross and systematic human rights violations that have been committed in China.