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Outspoken Chinese billionaire Sun Dawu sentenced to 18 years in prison for "provoking trouble"
cbs ^ | JULY 29, 2021 | HALEY OTT

Posted on 07/29/2021 4:14:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The 67-year-old pig farming magnate was reportedly detained alongside 20 of his family members and business associates over a dispute with a government-run farm. He is one of a number of high-profile corporate bosses who have been targeted by the Chinese government, the BBC said.

Sun has spoken out about politically sensitive topics and has supported prominent human rights lawyers and dissidents by paying their legal costs, the activists group Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said.

In recent pre-trial hearings, Sun reportedly denied the allegations against him but admitted to making mistakes, like posting things online, the BBC reported.

Sun's trial was "a blatant attempt to punish Sun for his support of human rights defenders," CHRD said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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To: BenLurkin

Mr Facebook ..Mr Twitter..Mr CNN..?


21 posted on 07/29/2021 4:33:02 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: wiseprince
Facebook’s Idea of freedom.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/meet-your-chinese-facebook-censors/

22 posted on 07/29/2021 4:34:13 PM PDT by Chgogal (#GulagNancy is going all Cuba on Trump Supporters.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s here in America.


23 posted on 07/29/2021 4:38:26 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Williams

China’s brief Capitalist affair is coming to an end. Lenin’s New Economic Policy which brought prosperity t the early USSR was reversed after a few years and all the capitalists were shot or exiled to slave labor in Siberia. It brings a communist nation a measure of prosperity for a while and exposes lots of Enemies of the People.


24 posted on 07/29/2021 4:45:08 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefeo)
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To: dynachrome; All
Or there is a purge coming.

A purge is underway.

Supposedly, all the top military leadership has been purged and replaced by Xi.

25 posted on 07/29/2021 4:50:32 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: entropy12
There are no Stalins out there. Even the military commanders are now woke.

Stalin was the "woke" of his era.

26 posted on 07/29/2021 4:51:16 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Tommy Revolts

Speaking of ‘woke-a-cola’:

https://newspunch.com/american-companies-nazi-germany/


27 posted on 07/29/2021 4:51:26 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Vsetko Umiera! Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: marktwain

All dictators are paranoid. Xi wants to remain in charge.


28 posted on 07/29/2021 4:51:48 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome
All dictators are paranoid. Xi wants to remain in charge.

Yes. He does not want others to do to him, what he did to others.

It is exactly what the Democrats in office are attempting to do here.

29 posted on 07/29/2021 5:04:53 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Leaning Right
Yep. Stalin shot darn near everyone who was in the revolution with him.

Because when YOU are now the government, you really don't want anyone around with experience in overthrowing governments.

30 posted on 07/29/2021 5:12:01 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Leaning Right

“Yep. Stalin shot darn near everyone who was in the revolution with him.’

It took about 15 years (early 1930s) but EVERY SINGLE BOLSHEVIK was dead by then. Stalin only wanted on Soviet history - his own. The others posed a threat as they had credibility to point out how the ‘revolution’ strayed from its original philosophy (which was even worse than what Stalin did...think more like Pol Pot).

There won’t be much fun once the Democrats have the power they need to go full-Stalin, but watching whoever ends up as top dog taking out everyone who starts accumulating a power base will be one thing to enjoy.


31 posted on 07/29/2021 5:16:20 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: entropy12

The “woke” in power don’t really believe what the tell the world. To them it is just another tool to usurp power. Make no mistake the only difference between a woke general and Stalin is their ability to put you in a boxcar. Sadly that difference may soon disappear.


32 posted on 07/29/2021 5:16:56 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: BenLurkin
Are you paying attention Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Bill Gates, and the rest of you punks who think your money makes you invincible and can play games with America and the freedoms it offers?

When we fall, per your desires, what will be waiting for you will be even worse than what this Chinese billionaire is doing now. Because you are not Chinese, and they know you will cause trouble, you irritating little schmucks. Karma will really such for you guys

33 posted on 07/29/2021 5:24:25 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: snuffy smiff
Well the covers are off.
Sen. Tom Cotton asked them why the company is "sponsoring a genocide Olympics" in China next year.
OMG, that was good.

34 posted on 07/29/2021 5:28:10 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: BenLurkin
China has such a flexible system of justice.

The authorities push, and it flexes.

35 posted on 07/29/2021 6:27:53 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Williams

#2 Already here as Pelosi will have people arrested for n ot wearing a mask. She already has political prisoners.


36 posted on 07/29/2021 6:45:09 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Tommy Revolts

Yes, it was!

I quit coke back when they nearly broke their own necks desperately trying to be the first American company back into Vietnam, circa 1978-79 (I think) I began drinking RC Cola then and never looked back.
Oh, and have you noticed their pricing lately? Unbelievable! May they go bankrupt and soon!


37 posted on 07/29/2021 7:26:24 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Vsetko Umiera! Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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