She says she has seen other videos on TikTok that have been swamped
with abusive comments where the creator is appealing for likes
and positivity to help "pull them back from the wrong side of TikTok". She'd been "black
listed" by the Russians, allegedly because she supplied villagers
with food
and helped them evacuate. This was unprecedented in the post-Mao era.
irannews.ru Tory MP Sir Roger Gale, who is supporting Penny Mordaunt, says he's “more than hopeful” she will secure the backing of 100 MPs by today's 14:00 deadline. And it appears to have paid off. Li Qiang, the Shanghai party chief who oversaw the city's controversial shut down, has been elevated to premier, Xi's second in command. In 2005 I was handed a DVD smuggled out of a village called Dingzhou in Hebei province. It showed a pitched battle between local farmers and dozens of armed thugs, hired by a state-owned power company, to force them off their land.
The farmers had dug deep trenches in their fields.
The thugs attacked at dawn opening fire with shotguns and beating the farmers with steel bars. Six were killed. Over the next six months I pedalled across the mountains of Yunnan, wandered the imperial palace in Beijing, and rode a train hauled by two soot-blackened steam engines far west into the deserts of Xinjiang.
The landscapes were sublime but the poverty grinding. Everywhere I went people told me how "backward" China was compared to the West. But there were hints of change. She says she has seen other videos on TikTok that have been swamped with abusive comments where the creator is appealing for likes and positivity to help "pull them back from the wrong side of TikTok". Ms Hartley's original video, Keep Breathing, was 18 minutes long and made in 2018, with funding from various local organisations in Derby and backed by the British Film
Institute.
