To the people saying this is CIA prop: Yeah it’s probably weaponized to some extent but the essence of the story is rational.

The delivery worker has in the past rallied workers and organized strikes in relation to other labor disputes, and is an important (founding?) member of an unsanctioned union-like-institution outside of the power structure of the party.

If I was a state actor, I think it’d be entirely rational to react to the delivery rider’s agit-prop video by picking up the dissident, if for nothing else than to prevent an immediate followup of organizing/direct action and for questioning.

Also this appears to not be the first time this individual has faced repercussions for non-party-affiliated labor organizing.

Support to Xiong Yan, and to the other gig employees elsewhere. I hope the CPC is trying to resolve this contention properly and are addressing the circumstances that led them to this point.

Umm ackshually… China Digital Times gets money from the National Endowment for Democracy.

https://www.ned.org/china-digital-times-provides-crucial-insight-and-information-about-china-and-the-covid-19/ https://www.ned.org/region/asia/mainland-china-2018/ There’s also more detailed documents from the NED showing where their money goes each year you can probably find online that I remember gave money to China Digital Times but I can’t be bothered to look it up if you want more sources.

This site is kinda sus I’m gonna certify it

Edit: this site is Trotskyite as fuck.

Here is them on Comrade Stalin, who saved the world from Fascism, and brought communism to its greatest peak.

The Russian Revolution was betrayed and degenerated under a counter-revolutionary bureaucracy, led by Stalin. Understanding why this happened is critical for Marxists.

Here is them on anarchists, who are heroic people fighting for communism

Marxists share anarchists’ objective of overthrowing the bourgeois state. But the anarchist understanding of power and the state is abstract, rather than scientific - and therefore limited

Once again, every criticism thrown at the CCP is revealed as counter-revolutionary concern trolling

I live and study in China. Of course there are legitimate criticisms to be made, China is not perfect, no country is. But the wording of your post gives me weird vibes: “not everything that isn’t pro-CPC is CIA”.

Yes, of course not everything that isn’t pro-CPC is CIA, but that doesn’t make Western propaganda more true. It’s like you are trying to make the point that we should be trusting of the negative things we read about China, when most of the time they are lies, and there is clearly an open war/fabrication of consent/smear campaign against the country.

If your point is that China is not a perfect socialist state, and has many contradictions due his hybrid system, then I think most of us are already aware of this, no one is so delusional to think China is perfect.