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WEBBattling History. Around the world, competing visions of history are clashing. Opposing camps fight these battles on the basis of fundamental issues of identity — who gets to belong and who gets cast aside. The events in question might be rooted in the past, but when it comes to how they are interpreted, it's really the future that is at stake.
How Chinese cottagecore swept the internet - Coda Story
WEBApr 21, 2021 · While such videos help to portray China favorably on the international stage, they also fit perfectly with the state’s domestic goals. After years of rapid urbanization and mass migration from the country to cities, Beijing’s “rural revitalization plan” is a top priority for 2021. The government wants to modernize agriculture, eliminate poverty and diversify countryside economies by ...
Switzerland’s teenage pseudoscience queen - Coda Story
WEBSep 3, 2020 · Switzerland’s teenage pseudoscience queen. ‘Esoteric star’ Christina von Dreien has made a series of worrying statements on everything from Covid-19 and 5G to European identity. As the cameras rolled, Christina von Dreien sat cross-legged on a large gray sofa, arms folded onto her knees, as if in meditation.
Pro-Beijing influencers and their rose-tinted view of life in Xinjiang
WEBAug 7, 2020 · When Jerry Grey, a British-Australian living in Guangdong, China, went on a cycling holiday to Xinjiang in the late summer of 2019, he was blown away by the region’s spectacular scenery and architecture. A particular highlight of his trip was visiting Turpan, the ancient oasis city in the east of the region, where he admired an 18th-century ...
About Coda - Coda Story
WEBAbout Coda Coda Media is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to character-driven storytelling on the roots of major global crises. The expanding geography of authoritarianism is at the intersection of all our journalistic concerns. We report on the abuse of new technologies, the manipulation of scientific facts, the rise of oligarchy, the dangers of transnational repression,
How TikTok influencers exploit ethnic divisions in Ethiopia - Coda …
WEBJun 14, 2023 · How TikTok influencers exploit ethnic divisions in Ethiopia. When Ethiopians took to the streets in February in reaction to a highly politicized rift within the country’s Orthodox Tewahedo Church, government authorities temporarily blocked social media platforms. On the outside, it may have seemed like just another blunt force measure by an ...
China’s oppression of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs: a visual history
WEBMar 11, 2020 · Two Uyghurs were killed and 120 people, mostly Uyghurs, were injured. The news was met with shock by Uyghurs thousands of miles away in Xinjiang. On July 5, a group of Uyghur students took to the streets of Urumqi, the region’s capital, to protest. Clashes between the protesters, police and Urumqi’s Han residents quickly escalated.
The global anti-vax movement: a visual history - Coda Story
WEBFeb 19, 2020 · The resurgence of measles in the United States and the UK, a polio outbreak in the Philippines, HPV-vaccine resistance in Japan — these headlines from the past year have roots in global anti-vaccine campaigns that stretch back over 200 years.. Concerned parents, religious groups, liberals and pseudoscientists alike are adapting the messaging of their anti-vax predecessors for the internet ...
Western influencers boost their careers by embracing Chinese ...
WEBBy Chen Mo. 24 September 2020. dispatch. For most of the 90s and early 2000s, the Canadian comedian Mark Rowswell was the most visible and best-recognized foreign face on China’s state broadcaster CCTV. Better known in the country as Dashan (“Big Mountain”), he performed comedy skits and hosted entertainment shows in fluent Chinese.
Putin’s Oligarchs: A year in the sanctioned lives of Russia’s richest ...
WEBMay 9, 2023 · Stunned by sanctions, Russia’s wealthiest families take drastic steps to survive. When the Russian army crossed into Ukraine in February 2022, the luxury-soaked lives of Russia’s richest men in an instant were turned upside down. Some became international pariahs — beloved sports clubs were …