Because of the social media attention on the chained woman (to which we devoted newsletters 38, 42, 44 and 46), people dug up information, after tips about a caged woman in city of Yulin in Shanxi province. Shanxi province is where Xi’an is, the city that had a harsh COVID lockdown described in our newsletters 6, 9, 13 and 18.
The story was summarised in a 1 minute 26 second video in Chinese. I am doing a rough translation here:
The caged woman in Yulin has really shocked me. The so called “husband” has a live streaming channel on a platform for two years. He described how he “picked up” the caged woman, and then tied her up to a chair for three nights and days straight, until the woman gave in.
He often displays in the live stream how he beats and insults this woman. To prevent her from running away, he built a metal cage for her. After the woman became mentally ill, she would run to the cage for safety whenever she felt threatened.
He even claimed in his video that the woman had given birth to a son and a daughter for him, and he sold his daughter. He really did say that openly in his stream.
He has 100,000 fans. Not a single one of his 100,000 fans ever reported him to the police or the platform.
We have seen that the chained woman and the caged woman have both been mentally ill, but I am sure they will be rescued. But these 100,000 fans, I hope the police will investigate everyone of them.
These 100,000 people must have the tendency to kidnap, insult and beat women and children, whether they have done it or not. These people must be psychopaths, otherwise how can they became fans? And some of them even gave him money. And they watched his stream for two years.
Twitter users commented that those platforms have insanely strict censorship, yet this channel can exist for so long with so many fans, what does it say about the censorship? And censorship in China is always disguised as cleaning up lewd content.
RFI has reported it in Chinese, the woman was “found” by the “husband” in 2009. So this is a 13 year hell for her.
It has established an investigation team on March 1st and the “husband” has been arrested.
The public security ministry has announced that from March 1st till the end of the year, they are conducting a nation wide campaign against women and children trafficking. They will investigate some leads on those women and children who are wondering without knowing where they come from, especially those who have mental illness and are deaf or mute…..
This campaign is not to reform the system and solve the issues but to shovel the scandals under the rug. There will be public reports and statistics and happy endings for propaganda, but women’s nightmare will continue, because the incentives for local government to participate in legalizing trafficking of women and children have not been eliminated.
Quickly, people already spotted the effect of this campaign:
(rough translation) — letters from the netizen
I am a volunteer to the “network of people looking for lost relatives”. I met this situation. There is this young girl. Her mom is a trafficked woman, who had her with her father. Her mother was only 17,8 year old back then and was not educated, could not read. The girl is now old enough and she wants to help her mom find her family. So she came to us. We helped her to post on social media. Then something delusional happened: the government found out. People from related government department found her and told her that she was forbidden to say that her mom was trafficked, and threatened her to delete the posts.
We volunteers of course hope she would be brave and not scared of the power. But, ordinary people without any connection is no match to the government. We think very likely she will give up.
There have been a few cases like this already. Now with the case of Fengxian county (of Xuzhou, aka the chained woman), the local governments can only think of this method to control the “risk”.
And this is not all. Remember Wuyi and Quanmei, the two brave women we talked about in newsletter 44? They were released, right? Well, according to Chinese social media, Wuyi’s family confirmed that she was re-arrested by Xuzhou police.
The control office is planning to write new rules that prevent social media from promoting popular and sensitive events. They are now soliciting public feedback.
On twitter there are many feedbacks:
Okay as long as you don’t use double standard. Stop promoting the Olympic games, so no one know it is happening.
This country only needs walking corpses. They don’t need people.
As long as we close our eyes and shut our mouths, we are the happiest.
In the full text, they even wrote “prohibit social media promoting old news related to some topics”. They can write “covering up and forgetting” in a national official document so bluntly, this is amazing.
Well, people did not decide in advance to all concentrate on one topic. When a topic becomes viral, everyone wants to get internet traffic. Who can give up this? (The commenter runs an internet company.)
“Digging holes for the daddy” is a Chinese slang out of infamous stories when a son threw his prominent dad under the bus.
It seems that the panda just dug a hole for his goose.
Well, you probably heard about the news that our dear supreme leader asked Putin to postpone the attack on Ukraine until the Olympic games are over, right?
Do you know this delay means that the ground in Ukraine starts melting? And that means mud that is really bad for military actions?
And do you know that the Russians are using Chinese military tires and those tires are a knockoff of the Michelin XZL military tire. And as any bad quality knockoff, the tires are trapping the Russian trucks in the mud.
So, does it mean that our dear supreme leader is cunningly digging holes for his goose daddy?
BTW, I was shocked to know that many Chinese think that Putin’s father is Lin Biao. Lin Biao was Mao’s right-hand man in the 60-70’s until he tried to escape to USSR in a plane and was shot down. News of that shocked the country, even then, during the height of the cultural revolution.
At the same time, more serious western commentators are analyzing the economic relation between China and Russia and concluded that Po is screwing his foster goose daddy Mr. Ping big time.
(selected tweets from the thread)
Putin tries to “diversify” his exports re-orienting them to China. But Chinese are no idiots. Re-orienting its export flows towards China, Russia comes to the one-buyer market. Chinese don’t care about “friendship” and exploit Russia, setting the prices far below break-even point.
And ofc China can’t compensate Europe as an investor. Most of Russian-Chinese investment cooperation is BS. Chinese sign whatever the non-binding agreements Putin wants, then don’t invest anything. There’s zero progress on 81 out of total 88 such projects that were agreed upon
The very idea that expanding on Chinese one-buyer market can compensate the losses on Western multi-buyers market is insane. China perfectly understand Russian neediness and will use its leverage fully. “Friendship” of a declining empire with a rising superpower is a delusion
Chinese policy towards Russia may have an element of revenge in it. Deng Xiaoping told that imperialistic powers inflicted a lot of damage on China during its weakness. Japan ofc made the most of devastation. But Russia including the USSR took the most of advantage of China
I don’t know what Xi Jinping thinks of his relations with the northern neighbour. But I won’t be surprised if he views using his leverage fully as a sort of retaliation. In the past you exploited our weakness under a BS pretext of friendship. Now, as you are weaker, we will.
Well, it is just speculations from the west. I hope the goose daddy does not see it.
