The safest country in the world | July incident preservative

Editor's note: The local epidemic in China intensified in late July. When Beijing was lifted from the high-risk level after a month, Urumqi, Xinjiang, began to lock down the city on the 17th. The global epidemic situation is not optimistic. Brazil, the United States, India, South Africa and other places are still at high fever, and Hong Kong has exceeded 100 new cases per day for many consecutive days. The government's high-intensity prevention and control measures have become normalized, just like the speech control, reporting bans, sexual harassment, fraud and corruption we are accustomed to... In a society where power is unfettered and control is normalized, can we get real security?

# One month after the implementation of the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law”, is Hong Kong safer?

On June 30, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China passed the " Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region " with 162 votes unanimously. At 11 o'clock that night, Xinhua News Agency published the full text. Subsequently, pro-democracy groups such as Hong Kong Demosisto, Student Movement, and Hong Kong National Front took the initiative to announce their dissolution. On July 1, the first day of the official implementation of the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law", the police arrested more than 370 demonstrators, 10 of whom were suspected of violating the law. If slogans or banners contain content such as "Hong Kong Independence" and "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times", they may be arrested under the law. Starting from the 6th, Hong Kong citizens launched a silent demonstration and held up blank papers to protest. On the 11th and 12th, the Hong Kong Democratic Party held a primary election, with more than 600,000 people participating in the voting. Protest leaders who performed outstandingly in the "anti-amendment" movement, such as Joshua Wong and Chu Hoi-dick, received high votes. The Hong Kong government and the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said they would conduct an in-depth investigation into whether the election violated the "National Security Law" and other issues. On the 28th, the HKU Council, which was supposed to be composed of people from within the university, turned out to be composed of people from outside the university (including government appointees), which ultimately led to the scholar Benny Tai, who coordinated the Democratic Party primary election, being dismissed by the University of Hong Kong with a large majority.

The implementation of the "National Security Law" is having an impact on Hong Kong's investors and multinational companies. The overseas version of TikTok has been removed from the Hong Kong market ; technology companies such as Google, Facebook (including Whatsapp), Twitter, and Telegram have said they will temporarily stop processing requests from the Hong Kong government for user data ; The New York Times will relocate some of its operations and employees to Seoul, South Korea ; HSBC, Credit Suisse, UBS and other international banks are screening Hong Kong clients for links to the pro-democracy movement , and in response to possible further sanctions by the United States against China and Hong Kong, they will also screen Hong Kong government and Chinese officials involved in promoting the Hong Kong National Security Law.

This month, China's international relations have changed. Sino-US frictions have escalated again. On the 14th, the United States officially revoked Hong Kong's special status stipulated in the Hong Kong Policy Act; on the 23rd, US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo said that the United States' nearly 50-year "engagement policy" with China has failed ; on the 24th, the Chinese Consulate in Houston was asked to close by the United States, and Tang Juan, a researcher at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, was arrested by the United States. In countermeasure, China notified the United States on the 24th to close the US Consulate in Chengdu.

In response to the conflict between the "National Security Law" and the "Sino-British Joint Declaration", on the 19th, the British Embassy in China published a "Correction on the Hong Kong Issue" on its official WeChat account. On the 22nd, the British government announced that Hong Kong people holding British National Overseas Passports (BN(O)) and their close relatives can apply for this special visa from January next year, and can apply for residency after five years of residence in the UK. China said it would consider not recognizing the passport as a valid travel document. The governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have successively announced the suspension of extradition agreements with Hong Kong, and China has subsequently retaliated. ❷

The sovereignty conflict has spread to the overseas business of Chinese companies. The British government announced that it would ban Huawei from participating in the construction of local 5G networks, and the French government will restrict the licensing of French telecom operators that use Huawei products. The United States will impose visa sanctions on some employees of Chinese technology companies such as Huawei. Due to the border conflicts between China and India in recent months, the Indian government has ordered a ban on the use of dozens of Chinese software such as the overseas version of TikTok.

On the 22nd, a report published by Comparitech, a British network security company, showed that of the 20 cities with the most CCTVs (monitors) in the world, 18 are in China. China has installed half of the world's total number of cameras, about 416 million monitors. Are people living in a superpower composed of facial recognition, sky-eye surveillance, mobile payment and Internet firewalls really safe?

# In China, no one can be convicted for speech

In July, the authorities further escalated their crackdown on dissenting voices. Ren Zhiqiang and Xu Zhangrun, who had previously spoken out boldly, were severely punished by the authorities. Xu Zhangrun was first detained by Beijing police on charges of soliciting prostitution, and then expelled from Tsinghua University; Ren Zhiqiang was expelled from the party and transferred to the procuratorate. Previously, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded on its official website regarding human rights issues related to China: "In China, no one can be punished or penalized simply for expressing opinions."

On July 6, 2020, Xu Zhangrun was detained by Beijing police on suspicion of soliciting prostitution. According to the New York Times , citing his friend Geng Xiaonan, the police raided Xu Zhangrun's residence in Beijing early that morning and took away a computer and some documents. Several friends who were interviewed anonymously said that there were about 10 police cars at the scene, and more than 20 police officers blocked the scene and entered Xu Zhangrun's home. Xu Zhangrun's old classmate Liu Suli said that on the 12th, Xu Zhangrun had returned to his home in Beijing and was currently resting at home in good health. His wife did not receive a written reason for the police to take Xu Zhangrun away. On the 15th, according to the photos provided by Xu Zhangrun to Radio Hong Kong, Tsinghua University expelled Xu Zhangrun on the grounds that he was administratively punished by the public security for soliciting prostitution and violated the relevant provisions of the " Ten Norms of Professional Conduct for College Teachers in the New Era ". On the 19th, Xu Zhangrun published an open letter to all Tsinghua alumni in English and classical Chinese (the English part was translated by Bai Jieming), thanking the alumni for their donations and saying, "As long as I am alive, I will make appeals." On the 29th, Mo Shaoping, a human rights lawyer entrusted by Xu Zhangrun, told the media that on the evening of the 28th, Xu Zhangrun formally entrusted Mo Shaoping and his partner Shang Baojun to investigate the administrative punishment imposed on him by the authorities. He called the so-called accusation of soliciting prostitution "groundless."

Xu Zhangrun is a former professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Law of Tsinghua University. In July 2018, he published an article entitled " Our Current Fears and Expectations ", proposing a number of propositions, including restoring the term system for the president and rehabilitating the "June 4th Incident". He has written a number of articles to defend reform and opening up: "Bow Your Head, the World is Boundless", "Five Battles of Liberalism", and "China is Not a Red Empire". In March of the following year, Tsinghua University suspended Xu Zhangrun's teaching and academic work . During the epidemic, Xu Zhangrun continued to write "China's Lonely Boat on the Ocean of World Civilization-Political Views and Civilizational Theory of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of the Global System", analyzing the problems of China's political system under the epidemic and calling for reform.

While Xu Zhangrun was being purged as an academic reformer, Ren Zhiqiang, as a businessman and opinion leader of the "second generation of reds", was also expelled from the party and transferred to the procuratorate. On July 23, the Beijing Xicheng District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision issued a notice stating that Ren Zhiqiang was expelled from the party for serious violations of discipline and law. The notice stated that Ren Zhiqiang "lost his ideals and beliefs, betrayed his original mission, did not maintain consistency with the Party Central Committee on major issues of principle, publicly published articles opposing the Four Cardinal Principles, vilified the image of the Party and the country, distorted the history of the Party and the military, was disloyal and dishonest to the Party, and resisted organizational review." The notice also pointed out that Ren Zhiqiang had financial problems such as using public funds to buy golf cards and reimbursing expenses that should have been paid by individuals.

Ren Zhiqiang, former deputy party secretary and chairman of Beijing Huayuan Group, was born in 1951 into a high-ranking cadre family. He was nicknamed "Cannon" for his sharp public speaking style. In February 2020, an article signed by Ren Zhiqiang, " People's lives are harmed by the virus and the serious illness of the system, " circulated on the Internet. The article criticized the Chinese government's performance during the epidemic, especially the national meeting of 170,000 people held by the central government on February 23. The article called Xi Jinping "a clown who insisted on being an emperor even if he was stripped naked," and called on the people to "wake up from the dream." The South China Morning Post later confirmed in an independent investigation that the article was indeed written by Ren Zhiqiang.

As China's freedom of speech continues to shrink, some "buffer zones" that used to protect speakers, such as university teaching or a "red-blooded" family background, are no longer effective. In an increasingly tense public opinion space, no one knows what kind of future the absolute loyalty that cannot be criticized will lead to.

#MeToo: Many questions raised, but answers still blowing in the wind

As July of 2020 begins, MeToo incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault continue to emerge. In the public welfare circle, Liu Meng has not apologized verbally or in writing even after the court ruling; the Liu Tao sexual harassment incident has not yet been investigated by an official investigation team, but an independent investigation team is needed to intervene in the investigation ; Lei Chuang may obtain formal lawyer qualifications if there is no real-name joint boycott initiated by feminists. In the democracy movement circle, Wei Jingsheng was accused of raping Liu Huaizhao many years ago , and the lawsuit is about to be heard in the United States. Internationally, Park Won-soon, the mayor of Seoul, South Korea, who is regarded as a strong contender for the future president, is suspected of committing suicide due to sexual harassment allegations . Of course, the most publicized sexual assault incident is that after Zhejiang University student Nu Moumou was sentenced to probation for rape, he was only punished by staying in school for observation. After the incident attracted widespread attention, more female victims came forward to accuse him of indecent assault . The school announced the launch of a follow-up investigation. On August 1, Zhejiang University expelled Nu Moumou from school.

The widespread and continuous MeToo movement around the world has not only greatly improved the public's awareness of sexual harassment and sexual assault, but also reflected the deep-rooted patriarchal society. In East Asian society, this patriarchy is even more obvious. In China, the MeToo movement faces the dilemma of being censored and lacks ways to promote institutional change. In particular, the allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault against the public welfare and democratic movement circles reflect the absence and misappropriation of gender issues in social justice issues. Just as Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon committed suicide, his party colleagues expressed doubts in an interview that it was difficult for them to associate their impression of a man who fought for women's rights with the sexual harassment allegations we heard.

Chinese feminist Zeng Jinyan pointed out the problem in her article : "In South Korea and China, there is such a culture: when feminist issues are helpful to the agenda of social movements and democratic movements, they will publicly express their support for women's rights. But in personal life and daily work, they never realize or achieve basic respect and equal treatment for women. Keeping silent on survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault is, to some extent, part of the torrent of violence in our living environment. Some people say that political violence is the enemy and we should not disperse internal unity."

Perhaps the road to promoting institutional changes on gender issues is still difficult, but allowing their voices to be heard is the first step towards possible change.

# “Zero tolerance” for academic fraud is still a step away from “zero”

A few years ago, Xiamen University professor Wang Nuo withdrew from the academic world in despair, which attracted widespread attention from people inside and outside the academic world, but it only caused a ripple, and then it remained stagnant. Academic fraud may be a global problem, but it is more frequent in mainland China. Since the beginning of 2009, one or two related news have appeared almost every month, which seems to imply that this problem has never been "taken seriously". According to a report by China Science Daily, in 2019, 447 English papers by Chinese scholars were retracted due to problems such as falsification of experimental data, setting a record high in the past five years.

This year, by the end of July, the number of such cases remained the same as last year, with no fewer than 211 papers suspected of fraud in July alone. On July 1, mainland media quoted the For Better Science website as reporting that 65 Chinese mathematics papers were suspected of mass fraud; on July 3, Professor Xiangdong Fu of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, reported Yang Hui, a post-80s star professor at the Shanghai Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for academic plagiarism and fraud; on July 13, Chen Lingshi, an award-winning elementary school student in Kunming who studied genes, wasconfirmed to have falsified his competition paper ; on July 14, the Wall Street Journal reported that at least 121 Chinese medical papers were suspected of fraud; on July 24, the overseas website Pubpeer revealed that 25 papers by Zhan Qimin, executive vice president of Peking University, director of Peking University Medical School, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, were suspected of fraud.

Academic fraud affects the credibility of related institutions in the future, and on the other hand, it will also cause some powerful scholars to choose to withdraw from academia. No matter from which aspect, the problem of academic fraud is harmful rather than beneficial. It cannot promote effective academic development and may also lead to "academic corruption". In the early years, some scholars proposed to learn from foreign punishment measures, and the State Council also issued the " Several Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of Scientific Research Integrity " in May 2018. The opinions pointed out that "zero tolerance" should be maintained for academic fraud, but judging from the results in recent years, it is still a "zero" away from "zero tolerance".

Later, in early February 2019, shortly after Zhai Tianlin’s academic scandal , the Ministry of Education issued the “ Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Further Standardizing and Strengthening the Management of Graduate Training ” on the matter. However, the frequent reports since then have undoubtedly told us that the effect is not obvious. The phenomenon of academic fraud has not decreased, and some groups believe that punishment is only one part of it. The optimal solution still needs to be placed on the cultivation of academic integrity. Among them, Yang Le, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, expressed this view in an interview with the media: "Guiding young people to be honest is very fundamental." The emergence of the case of Chen Lingshi, an award-winning elementary school student in Kunming who studied genes, just confirms the desirability of Yang Le's view.

# With positive energy, disasters become cute

Since June this year, southern China has suffered from heavy rains and floods. Starting from July 29, the rain belt will move northward, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are expected to enter a period of high temperature and little rainfall. In the next month, the Huaihe River, Yellow River, and Songliao River basins in northern China may experience severe flooding due to extreme heavy rains.

How serious is the disaster in the south? According to official statistics from the Ministry of Emergency Management , as of July 28, since the main flood season, floods and waterlogging disasters have affected 54.811 million people in 27 provinces (regions and cities), including Jiangxi, Anhui, and Hubei, with 158 deaths and missing, and 3.76 million people have been urgently relocated and resettled; 41,000 houses collapsed, and 368,000 houses were damaged to varying degrees; the affected area of ​​crops was 5283.3 thousand hectares; and the direct economic loss was 144.43 billion yuan. Affected by the epidemic, this year's national college entrance examination was postponed for one month. On July 7, more than 2,000 candidates in She County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province postponed the Chinese and mathematics exams due to urban waterlogging. On the second day of the college entrance examination, nearly 500 boarding students in Huangmei County, Huanggang, Hubei were trapped due to severe waterlogging on campus and could not rush to the test site.

A heart-wrenching accident also occurred on the first day of the college entrance examination. A bus in Anshun City, Guizhou Province, fell into a lake, killing 21 people including the bus driver, and injuring 16 people, including 5 students. According to the report , the bus driver Zhang Mougang was dissatisfied with the demolition of the public housing he rented and failed to apply for public rental housing. At 12:12 noon on the 7th, after drinking the white wine he bought in advance, he suddenly turned and accelerated when passing the Hongshan Reservoir Dam, crossed 5 lanes, crashed the guardrail, and rushed into the reservoir. That morning, Zhang Mougang saw with his own eyes that the public housing was about to be demolished, and called the municipal service hotline to express his dissatisfaction. The report stated that possible violations of laws and disciplines in the process of house demolition and receiving visits and complaints are still under investigation.

Domestic media have formed a series of reporting red lines for frequent disasters, with positive energy and rescue becoming keywords. Official media represented by Xinhua News Agency even "cute" disaster reports; at the same time, the right to publish information on the cause of the disaster is "controlled" by official media, and is largely limited to "spreading positive energy", while some reports of grassroots voices are "limited". When CCTV Video APP live-broadcasted the construction sites of Wuhan Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals at the end of January this year, it set up the "excavator group ranking function" and gave each device a "cute" name. When the flood spread along the Yangtze River, Xinhua News Agency's WeChat public account pushed a message titled "Report! I am the Yangtze River No. 2 Flood", which included sentences such as "If you think the No. 1 flood is more powerful than me, you are wrong", "But the Three Gorges Reservoir always prevents me from going out to play, but I finally ran out", etc. ❹, the cute reporting style and the suffering of the victims formed an ironic contrast. Some netizens criticized: "It is a shame for the media to make the disaster cute." ❺

On July 23, 2011, a high-speed train rear-end collision occurred in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province on the Ningbo-Wenzhou line, resulting in casualties. Nine years later, the accident seems to have faded from people's memory, and the "defiant" media that dared to be held accountable under the strong censorship pressure of the Central Propaganda Department at that time has also become a thing of the past. Now, an article published two days after the high-speed train accident can still be seen on the website of the State Council Information Office, saying that the period of "only reporting disaster relief but not the disaster" has ended and "journalistic professionalism has returned." Is the political censorship and interference in professional media reporting over, or is it back? You and I are witnesses to this question.

# Don't let these things rot in the corner

 In the past July, we have reported more than 100 news items, but there are also some news items that we have paid attention to but were not reported in the morning paper. They are also worth reading and thinking about. We will list these news items for readers at the end of each monthly report.

On July 10, Bloomberg reported that the Chinese government has begun to tax citizens' global income. China has begun to issue tax notices to Chinese residents working in Hong Kong, Singapore and other places, requiring them to report their 2019 income in order to pay taxes to China. It is reported that the tax standards are in line with the "Implementation Regulations of the Individual Income Tax Law of the People's Republic of China". Citizens with personal income outside China need to report and pay personal income tax to the Chinese financial department in accordance with relevant laws. The scope of personal income includes wages, royalties, franchise use, business income, property transfer and rental income, and incidental income.

On July 12, independent developer DIYGod revealed on Weibo that real estate information service platform Ziroom had broken into his house and taken photos without his consent. After the incident fermented, Ziroom’s official response: " After evaluation by Shanghai Ziroom Security Management Department, housekeepers are allowed to apply for a temporary password to conduct on-site inspections and verifications, and are required to record the entire process in accordance with the security inspection operation standards ." Netizens have sparked heated discussions on whether tenants' privacy can be violated due to security assessments.

On July 18, Wang Xiaoqi (Denghuojun), the self-media author of the popular article " In-depth Digging of the Six Major Crimes of Mengniu and Yili, the Media Dare Not Say, Then I Will Say ", posted on his official account that he was summoned by the Huacao Police Station in Minhang District, Shanghai. Shanghai lawyer Logos confirmed that the situation was true. Wang Xiaoqi was confirmed to be safe and had returned home on the same day. However, Wang Xiaoqi himself and the local police did not disclose the reason for the summons. At present, Wang Xiaoqi's official account has been permanently banned on the WeChat public platform for violating relevant regulations.

July 22 marked the first anniversary of the Changsha Funeng case. Prior to this, on July 22, 2019, the three parties involved in the case, Wu Gejianxiong, Cheng Yuan and Liu Yongze, were successively detained by the Changsha Municipal State Security Bureau on suspicion of subverting the state power, and were later detained in the detention center of the Hunan Provincial State Security Department. The three then collectively terminated the client relationship with six lawyers, which attracted the attention of outsiders. Radio Free Asia quoted the lawyer as saying : "They were interviewed by the (Changsha Municipal) Justice Bureau and pressured to not touch this case again." Later, under external pressure, the Changsha authorities sent corresponding lawyers to the three parties in the form of legal aid. It is reported that the three are members of the non-governmental organization Changsha Funeng❼ and human rights activists. The case was considered by foreign media as a blow to NGOs by the Changsha authorities. In the first anniversary of their arrest, the families of the three firmly believed that the parties' actions did not constitute a crime and appealed to the court, while the procuratorate postponed the case twice on the grounds of extending the investigation period. On July 14, the procuratorate held a pre-trial meeting on the case, but the family members were unable to obtain meeting information from the government-appointed lawyers.

On July 24, the public account Sisyphus released a statement saying that some internal members of Ginkgo Partners and the Jing’e Project had set up an independent investigation team to investigate the sexual assault case of charity star Liu Tao, and would conduct follow-up investigations on the incident as volunteers. They also announced that they would promptly release the progress of the phased investigation. However, the statement did not disclose the list of members of the independent investigation team, which was questioned by people in the charity industry for lacking a detailed and executable plan.

On July 26, Jiang Yifan, the author of the WeChat public account, wrote an article titled " Many courts are citing a non-existent provision to make judgments " and accused many courts of citing a judicial interpretation that does not really exist to make judgments. The article pointed out that the content of the judicial interpretation is consistent with the "Opinions of the Shanghai Higher People's Court on the Handling of Several Procedural Issues Involving Criminal Crimes in the Trial of Civil Dispute Cases" issued on December 18, 2007, and confirmed that it was a "remake" of various legal marketing websites on Baidu that caused the misattribution . Some legal professionals believe that this phenomenon highlights the lack of rigor and weak sense of responsibility of judicial personnel when citing laws and regulations.

On July 27, the Qingshan District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision’s official account issued a notice stating that Li Shuyao, a member of the Procuratorial Committee and a full-time prosecutor of the People’s Procuratorate of Baotou Rare Earth High-tech Industrial Development Zone, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervision investigation by the Qingshan District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Baotou City. Earlier, The Paper reported that on July 11, lawyer Xi Xiangdong reported in court that prosecutor Li Shuyao had demanded a bribe of 300,000 yuan from the defendant’s family and requested the playback of recorded evidence. Xi Xiangdong said that the recorded evidence of the prosecutor’s solicitation of bribes was provided by the defendant’s family. The defense lawyers in the entire case knew about this. When we discover such a serious problem, we must report it to the court in court and request the playback of relevant evidence.

On July 27, according to the " Shenzhen Dog Electronic Tag Implantation Management Regulations (Trial) ", Shenzhen will set a warning period before the end of September to urge dog owners to take the initiative to inject electronic chips into their dogs; starting from October, failure to inject chips will be regarded as unlicensed dog keeping; some netizens are worried about whether the technology will be further applied.

On July 28, the case of the textbook of Jinan University calling homosexuality "sexual perversion" was heard in court. Previously, in 2016, Xixi (pseudonym), a student of Jinan University, contacted the school (publisher) many times about the textbook of Guangzhou Jinan University calling homosexuality a psychological disorder, hoping to correct its content. After that, when the textbook was reprinted in 2017, there were still many "wrong" statements. Finally, Xixi, a student of Jinan University, sued Jinan University Press, JD online shopping platform Jiangsu Yuanzhou E-commerce Co., Ltd. and its Guangzhou branch in the local court. After two postponements in three years, the case was heard in Suqian, Jiangsu on July 28 this year. On the day of the trial, the three defendants did not attend and did not appoint lawyers to appear in court .

On July 28, Guangdong proposed new regulations. The " Guangdong Province Implementation Measures for the Anti-Domestic Violence Law of the People's Republic of China (Draft) " was submitted to the Standing Committee of the 13th Provincial People's Congress for the third review. The draft for review proposed that "if the victim faces a threat to personal safety, he should report the case to the public security organs." On the 29th, the bill was passed unanimously at the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, and will be implemented on October 1, 2020.

On July 30, more than a thousand people in Hubu Village, Shuangpu Town, Xihu District, Hangzhou City, became unwell after drinking contaminated tap water without knowing it. On the same day, a group of villagers gathered to protest against the garbage dump problem, and the local government subsequently sent police to control the protest site. Previously, Hangzhou Water Affairs received reports from villagers that the tap water had a strange smell. After preliminary investigation, it was confirmed that the local Shuangpu perishable waste disposal site had violated internal operations, causing sewage to enter the municipal water supply pipeline. On the 27th, Hangzhou Water Affairs carried out relevant repairs, and on the 28th, it announced that normal water quality had been restored. On the evening of the 31st, the Xihu District Government Office of Hangzhou City issued a notice : The public security department criminally detained the legal representative and on-site operators of the Shuangpu perishable waste disposal site in accordance with the law; the legal representative and deputy manager in charge of the West Lake Environmental Group were dismissed and transferred to the Commission for Discipline Inspection for investigation and handling.

On August 1, the People's Daily reported that at about 19:40 on July 30, human bone tissue was found in the Kekexili Nature Reserve. After DNA comparison, it was confirmed that it was the remains of Huang Yumeng. The police initially ruled out homicide. Previously, on July 5, Huang Yumeng, a senior female student at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, went to Golmud, Qinghai alone for a trip due to academic pressure. She lost contact with the outside world on July 9. Later, her family reported the case to the police in Golmud, Qinghai and Nanjing, Jiangsu. The police confirmed that they had filed a case for investigation. On July 25, the Blue Sky Rescue Team joined the search and rescue operation and launched a search report in the uninhabited areas of Tibet, Qinghai and Xinjiang. On July 26, the Nanjing Jiangning police issued a notice stating that after investigation, it was found that Huang Yumeng's last identity appeared at about 17:00 on the afternoon of July 13, and his identity information appeared at the Nanshan checkpoint on National Highway 109 on the Qinghai-Tibet Line.

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❶The British Embassy in China published the full text on its government website. The article explained issues such as "Britain supports Hong Kong independence" and the legitimacy and validity of the Sino-British Joint Declaration. Within two hours of its publication, the number of readers quickly exceeded 350,000, and it was immediately deleted by WeChat on the grounds of "suspected violation of relevant laws, regulations and policies." In response to the deletion of the article by WeChat, the British Embassy in China issued a "British statement on the deletion of the "Correction on the Hong Kong Issue" ".

❷In the intelligence alliance "Five Eyes Alliance" composed of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, except the United States, the other four countries have successively stated that they will suspend the extradition agreement with Hong Kong because China no longer "complies with the one country, two systems framework" and restrict the export of weapons, dual-use goods and technology to Hong Kong. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that Hong Kong will suspend the judicial assistance agreements including the extradition agreement with the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

❸Some mainland scholars believe that the term "academic corruption" is inappropriate and should be replaced by "academic misconduct" or "academic misconduct". For example, the Science and Technology Workers Ethics and Rights Working Committee of the China Association for Science and Technology once called on reporters to change "academic corruption" to "academic misconduct" or "academic misconduct". However, some scholars believe that since the bad behavior referred to by this word is far more extensive and more serious than the behavior generally referred to by "academic misconduct", it should not be simply diluted by "academic misconduct" (source Wikipedia ).

❹The original text of "Report! I am the Yangtze River No. 2 Flood" pushed on July 20 has been deleted, and the archive file can be seen.

❺The commentary article "Making disasters cute is a shame for the media" comes from the WeChat account "Dian Lin", which is now banned by WeChat for "violating the WeChat public platform operating regulations". The author also wrote " A few explanations on the article "Making Disasters Cute" "

❻For an analysis of media accountability and the Central Propaganda Department’s censorship during the “July 23 train accident”, please refer to: Gao Qing. (2013). The interaction between Chinese news practice and political rights from the Wenzhou train accident. Journal of Global Media Studies (Electronic Journal) (15), Fall 2013, pp. 19-29 .

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