Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

In a statement, Access Now says it was “told that diplomats from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were putting pressure on the Government of Zambia because Taiwanese civil society participants were planning to join us in person.”

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1512·
    21 days ago

    That island contains the true government of China and the CCP will do whatever they can to hold onto power so I don’t think they’ll be fine until one destroys the other.

    • Tolc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      78·
      21 days ago

      Its not true government, no one recognizes it and they lost the civil war fair and sqaure, its only matter of time when CPC reunifies China.

    • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
      1618·
      21 days ago

      Stupid take. By this metric the true government of the US are the confederates.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        165·
        21 days ago

        Can you point to the region where the Confederate government retreated to after the American civil war and remains in power to this day?

          • FaceDeer@fedia.io
            51·
            21 days ago

            I get what you’re implying but it’s not factually correct in this case. The Confederacy was dissolved after it lost the civil war, there’s no continuity with any of those state governments.

            • Maeve@kbin.earth
              91·
              21 days ago

              Living in the Deep South: my ass. Even Operation Paperclip was modified off what the US did with the Confederate scum: placed them in government and other positions of power and influence.

              Sherman should have burned it all and salted the earth, besides.

              • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                21 days ago

                Let’s say there is a public school. I kill the principal, build a new school, hire 30% of the old school’s teachers, and completely change the rules and curriculum.

                Is the new school the same as the old school?

                  • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    21 days ago

                    …trust me on this. Even the reconstruction and Jim Crow eras weren’t equivalent to what was going on prior to the Confederacy. I know from personal experience that the south is a shithole, but you got to give them credit where it’s due.