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One of China’s most successful and popular Olympians, two-time gold medalist swimmer Pan Zhanle, shut down his official fan page on the regime-controlled Weibo social media site this week, prompting loud applause from state media for taking a stand against “toxic fan culture.”

China limited its remarks on Donald Trump’s conviction but allowed celebratory and mocking content on Weibo.

Lionel Messi published a groveling video on Weibo on Tuesday in which he insisted he had no “political” objections to China.

Chinese social media is flooded with comments mocking San Francisco for having “miraculously disappeared overnight” its homeless.

The international organization Human Rights Watch denounced the government of China on Wednesday for rapidly censoring any perceived anti-communist content online while “pervasive hate speech against black people” faces no such restrictions.

Italian luxury jeweler Bulgari apologized to China on Tuesday for listing Taiwan as an independent country in a drop-down menu on its website. 

Space entrepreneur, car manufacturer, and social media personality Elon Musk culminated a trip to communist China on Thursday after meeting a parade of China’s most powerful Communist Party officials, including Politburo members, and enjoying a 16-course feast in Beijing that was the toast of the state-controlled Weibo social media site.

Dwight Howard, who last played for the L.A. Lakers in 2022, has walked back his description of Taiwan as a “country” after Chinese criticism.

A top Chinese government propagandist, former Global Times editor Hu Xijin, lamented the censorship of information related to a deadly fire at a Beijing hospital this week – then rapidly deleted his social media post and replaced it with an innocuous post calling for police to investigate the incident.

Chinese Communist Party censors allowed users on its state-controlled site Weibo to comment extensively on the arrest of American former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, resulting in many cheering on the decline of the United States and predicting a civil war.

Hu Xijin, a top Chinese propagandist and former editor of the state-run Global Times, triggered a torrent of ridicule Monday for crediting the “Chinese cultural genes” of actress Michelle Yeoh for her Best Actress Academy Award.

No one, inside or outside of China, seriously believes the absurd claim from the duplicitous Communist regime that virtually no one has died during the massive wave of coronavirus infections sweeping the country.

A Chinese marathon runner named “Uncle Chen” has shocked the running world after being seen chain smoking during his races.

The Chinese Communist Party has yet to clarify with any certainty at press time the bizarre spectacle that occurred at its every-five-year Congress on Saturday, when authorities physically dragged former President Hu Jintao out of the event while the elderly man pled for dictator Xi Jinping’s intervention.

Communist Party authorities in occupied East Turkistan announced the arrests on Monday of four residents for allegedly “spreading rumors” online of residents starving under Chinese coronavirus lockdowns.

China’s temper tantrum over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) visit to Taiwan included launching 11 ballistic missiles on Thursday during “live-fire military exercises” meant to simulate a blockade of the island. 

The Chinese state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times published a story on Wednesday defending ebullient celebrations last week on Beijing-controlled social media following the news of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, insisting that “it is impossible to expect” decorum from the Chinese public given Abe’s politics.

Chinese social media reportedly blew up Friday with posts gleefully celebrating the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who annoyed the tyrants of Beijing with his staunch support for Taiwan.

China’s government-controlled social media outlet Weibo began censoring the official United Nations account and banning users from publishing comments by World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday – and reportedly censoring photos of top official – after Tedros called China’s coronavirus lockdown policy “unsustainable.”

Weibo, a Chinese microblogging platform, announced on Thursday plans to publish the IP addresses of all Weibo users both on their individual account pages and whenever they post comments, stating it was part of an effort to prevent “bad behavior” online, Reuters reported.

Sina Weibo, the heavily censored Chinese alternative to banned Twitter, appears to have banned a hashtag that quotes the Chinese national anthem to criticize coronavirus lockdowns. It also appears to have blocked searches for the lyrics to the anthem.

Videos surfacing on social media in the past week from Shanghai – and rapidly deleted on government-controlled sites like Weibo – show mounting desperation as a poorly planned coronavirus lockdown leaves the heart of China’s economy with rotting food and a lack of basic necessities.

China’s Twitter-like Weibo and WeChat social media platforms allegedly suspended accounts, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Tuesday, after expressing concern online about a suspected human trafficking case involving a Chinese woman found living in squalid conditions in eastern Jiangsu province in January — including with a chain attached to her neck to prevent her escape.

Genocide Barbie Eileen Gu, the U.S.-born skier who competed for China in the Olympics, has been getting blasted on Chinese social media for claiming the governing Communist dictatorship tolerates internet freedom.

19-year-old figure skater Zhu Yi, who was born in California but renounced her American citizenship in 2018 to compete for China, was mercilessly heckled by Chinese social media users after she fell on the ice on Sunday and finished in last place at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The heckling was so intense that Chinese government censors intervened and shut down almost a hundred accounts on Weibo, China’s heavily-controlled alternative to banned Twitter.

Fans at the Australian Open were asked to remove tee shirts with the slogan “Where is Peng Shuai?” an allusion to the continuing mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a Chinese tennis star who accused that country’s vice president of rape.

Chinese citizens on Thursday marked the second anniversary of Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang sharing a warning to fellow health workers that a SARS-type respiratory disease had begun spreading in the city, a warning for which police detained and “handled” him shortly before he allegedly died of the same disease.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), chief online regulatory agency for the Communist regime, on Tuesday imposed a half-million-dollar fine on Weibo, the Chinese microblogging site that stands in for Twitter.

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, a big sports star in China and once the top doubles player in the world, on Tuesday wrote a social media post accusing former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of forcing her to have sex.

The Chinese embassy in South Korea insisted on Wednesday that Beijing’s crackdown on “fan culture” does not target any particular foreign country. South Korean media organizations have suggested the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the crackdown because it was worried about the cultural influence of popular “K-pop” entertainers.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday relayed a mocking “warm welcome” from Chinese social media users to former U.S. President Donald Trump, inviting him to join China’s heavily-censored Weibo microblogging platform now that he has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter.

Elon Musk and his electric car company Tesla have shared full-blown praise of the Chinese Communist Party on Weibo, Breitbart News can reveal.

Users of Chinese social media platform Weibo discovered on Thursday that Beijing’s efforts to suppress commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre extend even to banning the emojis for candles and cakes, two symbols often associated with the event.

A social media account run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mocked India’s deadly coronavirus crisis on Saturday with a post deleted after public outrage in both China and India.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) cited Chinese court documents on Thursday to tell the story of Zhang Wenfang, a resident of Hubei province thrown in prison for six months last April because she wrote social media posts that included coronavirus information the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wished to suppress.

A woman identified in reports only as “Zhao” became the target of a mass persecution campaign online this week after the Chinese Communist Party announced that Chengdu, a city of 16 million people, would be going into “wartime mode” due to a Chinese coronavirus outbreak.