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Translating troublemakers

The Twitter account “The Great Translation Movement” translates commentaries from Chinese state media and posts from social media channels into English and other languages. The anonymous collective wants to show the world how brutal public opinion has become in strictly censored China. Beijing fears a loss of international reputation and accuses the authors of conducting a witch hunt against the Chinese.
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Fabian Peltsch
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When Tiziano Terzani, the former China correspondent for German news magazine Der Spiegel who died in 2004, once addressed a Chinese cadre in Mandarin, the cadre allegedly turned to his subordinates and asked, “Which traitor taught him our language?”

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