I've seen a bunch of conflicting reports regarding this. Some propaganda outlets are like "they're killing cats and dogs and people are throwing themselves out of building" but I've also heard reports from more reasonable people that they indeed fucked up some of the lockdown measures.

Does anybody have some (reliable) info? Did they resolve the supply chain issues and how many people were affected anyway?

  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    3 years ago

    They probably fucked and are struggling to deal with people's demands, but western media is obviously just making shit up too.

    https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010069/the-qualms-and-queries-of-locked-down-shanghai-residents-?source=chanel_home

    Sixth Tone is pretty reliable (owned and run by Chinese people living in Shanghai, so no western brainworms) and they've had a lot of articles like this lately about how people in Shanghai are struggling.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah that's what I thought.

      Seems like overall they handled it alright but there's definitely room for improvement. I imagine it's pretty scary there right now for a person with chronic illness or otherwise requiring regular medical attention.

    • baltic_ave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      creating an account just to say sixthtone is awful and made entirely for the consumption western libs, and everyone working there wishes they were working at some western rag

        • baltic_ave [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Sixth Tone is owned by the communist party… Honestly curious about specific issues you might have with them. They’re ‘liberal’ on issues like gender and sexuality, which in my opinion is good in a pretty conservative Chinese social landscape.

          you're misreading them completely. you're assuming the things they're silent about are where they agree with the party but it's pretty much the exact opposite. they quietly seethe about the stuff they're not allowed to touch. the gender stuff just happens to be where their leash is longest

          look up the twitter page of their former editor in chief and tell me how it's any different from any western thinktank reptile, look who the writers follow and commiserate with on twitter, look up any article and how it's laced with the same snide passive aggression and deliberate misuse of scare quotes, look for any article even vaguely resembling the tone/content of the very spot-on Mango press article someone else linked to above

          They’ll also often draw attention to labor and economic issues from a left perspective.

          western mainstream media does all sorts of coverage pretending to care about about overworked migrant workers & sweatshops. the subtext is chinanotrealsocialism, nothing more. it's not that it shouldn't be covered, it's about it being in obvious bad faith

          They’re critical of the government sometimes, but that’s just a sign of the diversity of opinion within the Party. They’re not perfect but imo they’re the best that Chinese state media has to offer on society and culture if you actually want some nuance in your reporting.

          they hate the cpc and its leadership, but theyre bourgeois libs so theyre not willing to become total pariahs over it. this isn't a 'letting pefect be the enemy of good' thing, they only seem nuanced and balanced because of how psychotic western media is

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You fell for the oldest hexbear trick: posting bad takes to make people join

        :inconceivable:

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        We are a team of writers, editors, and researchers from within China and abroad. We belong to Shanghai United Media Group

        https://www.sixthtone.com/about-us

        Shanghai United Media Group (Chinese: 上海报业集团) is a state media company of the People's Republic of China, established on October 28, 2013, through the merger of the city's two largest newspaper groups, Jiefang Daily Press Group and Wenhui–Xinmin United Press Group, to accelerate media reform and capitalize on the fast growth of Internet media. The media group is overseen by the Shanghai committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_United_Media_Group

        How nice of the CPC to give libs their own containment newspaper.

          • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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            3 years ago

            I mean okay that kinda makes sense. But it's weird so many people here hate them then, if their main criticism of the party is that it's socially regressive, which is a criticism I thought most of the people here agreed with.

            • baltic_ave [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              their main criticism is that the country is a one party leninist state and that english isn't the national language everyone learns from birth

              • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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                3 years ago

                I've only read like 3-4 of their articles so I don't really have a great grasp on what their politics are. Still, I find it weird that the Chinese Communist Party would fund a publication with such blatant anti-Chinese, anti-Communist takes so I think there must be something else going on here.

            • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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              3 years ago

              IDK reviving a genocidal war criminal using necromancy seems like a rather extreme move brah.