How China is responding to the tribunal on the oppression of Uyghurs

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2021-06-11 06:00:03

China Influence Monitor is a weekly newsletter published by CEPA and Coda Story, tracking the westward footprint of China’s influence operations. In this edition: Censorship; Wolf Warrior Award; Summitry

We heard horrific testimonies of torture, abduction and abuse aired at the Uyghur tribunal in London this weekend. The party-state responded by showcasing supposedly happy relatives at a gruesome press conference. But the Global Times effort was a convoluted tweet that seemed to be arguing that Britain is a land of nonsense contradictions anyway.

50-cent trolls were also out in force with tasteless remarks mocking the supposed death of Queen Elizabeth after the British embassy in Beijing tweeted a poignant image marking the anniversary of the massacres in Tiananmen Square and other locations.

But this week’s winner is the Chinese embassy in Budapest for its press secretary’s all-too-understandable Facebook rant about protests against the proposed Fudan University campus (see below).