An inventory of ten “forbidden” behaviors posted to (after which deleted from) the general public WeChat account of China International Affairs College (CFAU) in Beijing appeared to disclose discontent with strict pandemic controls among the many nation’s future diplomats. The record detailed the inflexible restrictions imposed on college students and the try and cease them from partaking in “inappropriate speech that distorts or negates authorities pandemic management coverage.”
College students throughout China have rebelled towards related controls. At Shanghai’s prestigious Tongji College, college students engaged in a protest artwork motion in opposition to a campus lockdown, with some college students adopting a meme essential of international ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s assertion that they need to be completely satisfied to be dwelling in China in the course of the pandemic. At Peking College, college students demanded directors “tear down the wall” that was stopping them from leaving campus (whereas permitting lecturers and workers to return and go as they happy).
Life for Chinese language diplomats is usually fairly restrictive, even in non-pandemic occasions. In Peter Martin’s ebook on the Ministry of International Affairs, he famous that the frequent follow of “doubling,” whereby diplomats are supervised by at the very least one colleague on all their sojourns, noticed one diplomat accompanied by 4 minders on his first date. The pandemic restrictions at CFAU are fairly probably extra onerous: college students want permission for any motion, even between villages, and are banned from buying abroad items because of the authorities’s persistent (and unproven) assertion that COVID will be traced to packages arriving from abroad.
CDT has translated China International Affairs College’s “Ten Forbiddens” in full:
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It’s forbidden to disregard or fail to abide by pandemic prevention work necessities as applied by higher-ups or faculty directors; to disregard orders or breach quarantine; to reply to pandemic prevention measures in a perfunctory, misleading, or disobedient method; or to deal with pandemic prevention measures as a mere formality.
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It’s forbidden to hide, lie, delay, omit, fabricate, or falsify info when reporting your or your co-residents’ journey historical past, latest contacts, well being standing, or different pandemic control-related info. It’s forbidden to refuse pandemic-related measures together with contact tracing, monitoring, quarantine, or commentary.
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Within the absence of prior authorization, it’s forbidden to publish, republish, or share nonpublic pandemic management info on Wechat (WeChat teams or WeChat moments), Weibo, QQ, Douyin, Kuaishou, BiliBili, or on different web sites, social media platforms, or social media teams. It’s likewise forbidden to manufacture, propagate, or disseminate, in any kind, false or unconfirmed pandemic-related info, or to have interaction in inappropriate speech that distorts or negates authorities pandemic management coverage.
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It’s forbidden to violate pandemic prevention necessities by organizing or attending group dinners, events, or related gatherings. It’s forbidden to arrange or attend unauthorized large-scale gatherings. Decrease using public transportation and participation in off-campus actions. Don’t enter bars, web cafés, karaoke parlors, “scripted homicide” gaming rooms, card rooms, public swimming swimming pools, saunas, steam rooms, scorching springs, or different crowded locations.
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It’s forbidden to depart at-home isolation or quarantine with out prior permission or earlier than the interval of commentary or quarantine has elapsed.
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It’s forbidden to depart or enter the varsity campus, depart or return to Beijing, depart the nation, or cross border zones (this consists of provincial, metropolis, county, city, and village borders) with out prior authorization. Journey to medium- or high-risk areas is forbidden.
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It’s forbidden to borrow or acceptable different folks’s pupil IDs, well being codes, or journey itineraries, or to refuse to undergo inspections of this documentation.
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It’s forbidden to purchase abroad items. Proceed to keep away from buying gadgets from abroad or receiving worldwide packages, and reduce using any supply providers.
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It’s forbidden to offer private interviews (together with cellphone interviews) to home or international information shops with out prior authorization. It’s forbidden to privately share info or ideas with the media, or to submit manuscripts, give interviews, or unfold irresponsible remarks to the media.
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It’s forbidden to impede native cadres, medical employees, volunteers, or different pandemic-prevention personnel from finishing up their duties. Another conduct that impedes pandemic-prevention work or violates pandemic-prevention rules is forbidden. [Chinese]
