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Heute erscheint mein Buch über das Jahrhundertverbrechen Chinas gegen die Uiguren und andere ethnische Gruppen in Xinjiang: Wie der chinesische Staat dazu kam, die totalitären Methoden des 20. Jh wieder zu beleben - mit den Mitteln von heute.
Mathias Boelinger
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Mathias Boelinger
@mare_porter
Head of Investigations @dwnews. /views own/ Formerly Kyiv, Beijing. Buch: "Der Hightech-Gulag". BSKY: mareporter.bsky.social
Joined March 2009
- Replying to @mare_porterI don't know what would have happened had it really been him. The media environment in China right now is frightening.x.com/dakekang/statu… 11/11Replying to @aliceysu and @mare_porterexactly the same thing happened to me yesterday at almost precisely the same location... I got reported to the police
- Replying to @mare_porterIt started when two women approached me saying they needed to talk to me and asked me who I was. They said they were from local TV. While one of the women was talking to me the other one kept filming the whole time, which made me quite suspicious about their intentions. 2/11
- Replying to @mare_porterWhat I did not know at the time was that a manhunt was on after @robindbrant. (Neither did I know I look like him🤷♂️). There is a vicious campaign against the @BBCNews in nationalistic circles and state media. 9/11
- Replying to @mare_porterPeople had mistaken me for Robin for some time and following me around. On Weibo calls for action against me/him has been posted. (Some of them hours after the incident). 10/11
- Replying to @mare_porterThis was near 银基商城, where many shopkeepers had lost their assets when an underground market was flooded. The situation was quite tense already. Lots of people took my picture. I thought it was partly curiosity, partly plainclothes. I would learn the real reason later. 3/11
- Replying to @mare_porterSad sign of increasing anger and suspicion towards foreign media in #China. When we filmed in front of the #Zhengzhou subway crowds were recording us and calling the authorities. This post on Weibo warns residents “don’t accept interviews from foreign media, don’t be used!”
- Replying to @mare_porterThey kept pushing me yelling that I was a bad guy and that I should stop smearing China. One guy tied to snatch my phone. 7/11
- Just to give you guys an idea what environment leads to this kind of incident. This is a post by Henan's Communist Youth League asking netizens to follow around @robindbrant and report his whereabouts.
- Replying to @mare_porterThe women eventually calmed the crowd down and explained that they just wanted to help me get to know all the volunteer work that is done in the area. Eventually when convinced that I was not @robindbrant the crowd calmed down. Some even apologized. 8/11
- Inciting war from abroad: 'War influencers' are calling for violence in their native Somalia while residing in Germany. Check out this investigation by my colleagues @EstherFelden and @_MarielMueller together with @ARDKontraste
- Replying to @mare_porterOne woman we talked to was rushed away by her colleagues. Other people told us filming was forbidden without identifying themselves. 4/11
- Replying to @mare_porterThis is Alice's account of the incidentThis is @mare_porter and me in the streets of Zhengzhou yesterday. We were surrounded by an angry crowd shouting things like this is China, get out of China! I tried to de-escalate by “translating” the crowd’s message (Mathias is actually fluent in Chinese)
