Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion
There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed by China’s People’s Liberation Army in the streets around Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s central plaza, on 4 June 1989.
The date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, and the Chinese government employs extensive and increasingly sophisticated resources to censor any discussion or acknowledgment of it inside China. Internet censors scrub even the most obscure references to the date from online spaces, and activists in China are often put under increased surveillance or sent on enforced “holidays” away from Beijing.
New research from human rights workers has found that the sensitive date also sees heightened transnational repression of Chinese government critics overseas by the government and its proxies.
Never forget says country engaged in rewriting its own history.
Which country do you think The Guardian is from?
Tell that to the hundreds of researchers who have their entire research programs and funding prospects thrown into the air, and/or outright cancelled.
This is the THIRD time the Republicans have cancelled funding to my research projects over the course of 15 years. This country isn’t conducive to stable research work.
The projects cancelled were on senior care tech with smart homes, augmented reality to help prevent falls, and air quality feedback to help people during wildfire seasons. No exactly hotbeds of controversial topics, but having my career and livelihood jerked around against and again by these assholes is enough for me to go. The lastest bend to fascism was just the nail in the coffin.
Nope. Or at least not necessarily.
The ranking that generally gets cited to that end judges universities by research output, which is generally not what you’re looking for when you’re looking for a good education – you want a university that’s good at teaching, not good at producing papers and citations. You want a professor that’s not busy producing papers, because they were hired to produce papers, you want one that actually teaches.
It’s also slanted heavily in favour of Anglo countries when it comes to looking at the “producing papers” metric alone: Pretty much all other countries produce the bulk of their papers at research institutes, which don’t show up in the list because they’re not universities. If they were included IIRC Max Planck would top the list. Granted, that’s also to a large degree because they’re absolutely massive, a large number of institutes under a common roof.
The citations metric is also slanted, because pretty much all countries will cite english papers regardless of the language of the paper being written, but all non anglo countries also produce a significant part of papers in the local language, which are much less likely to get cited.
i believe this is because american universities have access to the most resources with which to perform expensive, difficult, but rewarding research. Those resources are now being stripped away. If another country is willing to supply the necessary resources for expensive research then researchers will go there. Source - am scientist.
Used to be the best in the world.
Things only come from murikkka. The American exceptionalism is rife.
England, a country absolutely dripping with revisionism.
FFS, the royal family of their Protestant breakaway nation is German Catholic.
wtf does the religion of the tourist-attraction royal family have to do with anything in 2025? are you from the middle ages?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-royals-veto-bills
Brits have no clue how powerful their monarchy remains.
This list also highlights how selfish they are.
Marxist ideology is fragile house of cards, where each card is a lie. Without fallacies, misinformation, and outright lies, Marxism will collapse in on itself. It’s an ideology that cannot be defend on it’s own merits which is why its brainless supports will cling on to any fallacy to distract them for the reality.