{"id":29136,"date":"2021-04-22T01:08:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=29136"},"modified":"2021-04-22T01:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:58:37","slug":"defend-feminists-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2021\/04\/22\/29136\/","title":{"rendered":"Defend feminists in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Right wing nationalist and state attacks attempt to silence growing feminist wave \u2013 millions express solidarity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Declaration by Solidarity Against Repression in China and Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s rights activists in China are again under attack. The Chinese dictatorship (CCP) feels threatened by growing radicalization among women, part of a wider trend of radicalization in society and among young people.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks follow a similar pattern. Firstly, feminists are being viciously hounded by nationalistic pro-CCP internet trolls in a coordinated campaign. A wave of hysterical online anti-feminism is being encouraged by the state. Secondly, the social media accounts and group pages of prominent spokeswomen are being shut down. They are vilified as enemies of the state and then silenced!<\/p>\n<p>At the end of March an attack took place in a restaurant in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Two women were assaulted by a male diner after they complained about his smoking. The enraged smoker threw hot liquid over the two women who captured the attack on video and posted it on Weibo, China\u2019s equivalent of Twitter. His remark that, \u201cmen who do not smoke are not real men,\u201d didn\u2019t help his case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"nmnX6UlYIlo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u6210\u90fd\u706b\u9505\u5e97\u5973\u5b50\u529d\u90bb\u684c\u4e0d\u8981\u62bd\u70df\u88ab\u6cfc\u4e0d\u660e\u6db2\u4f53\u5b8c\u6574\u7248\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nmnX6UlYIlo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The two women were Xiao Meili and Zheng Churan, who are well known feminist activists. Zheng was one of the Feminist Five, who were arrested and detained for one month on the eve of International Women\u2019s Day (8 March) in 2015. ISA in Hong Kong organised protest actions to demand the release of the five, as part of a global defence campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Right wing trolls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xiao\u2019s post about the Chengdu restaurant assault went viral on the internet, drawing overwhelmingly supportive comments including from some official government-linked accounts. The following day the Weibo account of a prominent nationalist group launched an attack on the women, posting \u201chistoric\u201d photos of Xiao from 2014 in which she expressed solidarity with the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. The trolls claimed inaccurately that she supported \u201cHong Kong independence\u201d (that is not what the Umbrella Movement was about, but this label is used by Chinese nationalists to attack anyone who supports or shows sympathy with the democracy struggle in Hong Kong). A deluge of online attacks followed (in China this can involve 100,000s or millions of posts).<\/p>\n<p>Zheng was shown in another old photo wearing a yellow ribbon, a symbol of the Hong Kong democracy protests. She was accused of being a \u201cTaiwan independence supporter\u201d (another taboo topic under CCP rule). The two women and other feminists were subjected to violent threats and accusations like \u201cxenocentric\u201d, \u201canti-China\u201d, and \u201cCIA spy\u201d. Shortly afterwards, Xiao\u2019s Weibo account was closed down by the company, which caused celebrations by the trolling machine.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks fit a familiar pattern combining misogyny with nationalism. The right wing nationalist forces behind these trolling attacks are de facto auxiliaries of the CCP-state and enjoy its protection. Their core issues are nationalism, but also social conservatism \u2013 hence feminism is anathema. They accuse feminists of being \u201ccorrupted\u201d by foreign values. Everything is a plot by the West to destroy China. The nationalists support dictatorship, a strong China (imperialism), and Han supremacy. They incite racism against minorities like Muslims. Some of these layers are developing towards fascism. In addition to this \u201cunofficial\u201d online army, the CCP-state directly employs two million full time internet police and 20 million part timers.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 accounts of feminists and women\u2019s rights groups have since been shuttered by Weibo with the explanation that their content is \u201charmful\u201d, \u201cillegal\u201d or could \u201cincite antagonism\u201d. \u201cWe were collectively silenced by an internet-wide crackdown that hit like a tsunami,\u201d one of the women told CNN. It is clear that the CCP-state is behind this crackdown. The question is why?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29154\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29154\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/210418110659-restricted-split-05-china-feminist-silenced-intl-hnk-exlarge-169-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/210418110659-restricted-split-05-china-feminist-silenced-intl-hnk-exlarge-169-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/210418110659-restricted-split-05-china-feminist-silenced-intl-hnk-exlarge-169-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/210418110659-restricted-split-05-china-feminist-silenced-intl-hnk-exlarge-169-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/210418110659-restricted-split-05-china-feminist-silenced-intl-hnk-exlarge-169-748x420.jpg 748w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/210418110659-restricted-split-05-china-feminist-silenced-intl-hnk-exlarge-169-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/210418110659-restricted-split-05-china-feminist-silenced-intl-hnk-exlarge-169.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liang Xiaomen, left, Xiao Meili and Zheng Churan are among the many Chinese feminists attacked and silenced by nationalists trolls on social media (CNN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201c6B4T\u201d movement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a separate but connected development, more than ten feminist groups were removed from Douban, another online platform. Douban is a book and movie review site that serves as a message board for different groups of mostly young people. One of the feminist discussion groups shut down in this crackdown had 40,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>The groups targeted were mainly adherents of radical \u20186B4T\u2019 culture, still very much a fringe layer within the growing tide of Chinese feminism, which advocates a boycott or \u201cstrike\u201d from relationships with men, marriage, and having children. The \u20186B4T\u2019 movement began in South Korea \u2013 like China, a Confucian society, where capitalism is deeply patriarchal and the oppression of women assumes stark forms.<\/p>\n<p>That the message of \u20186B4T\u2019 would attract a layer of mainly young women followers in China is actually not hard to comprehend under such a hardline totalitarian capitalist regime, where no form of collective protest, organization, or politics is allowed and many sections of society feel an acute sense of powerlessness. The CCP has resurrected many patriarchal control structures that partly disappeared or were pushed into the background during the revolutionary era of the 1950s-70s, before capitalist restoration began.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s CCP views increased rights for women as an obstacle to its rule and its great power mission. This dynamic is reinforced as the Cold War with US imperialism intensifies. Rather than open up and become more democratic, and more tolerant of various protest currents, Xi\u2019s regime continues to become more and more repressive. The regime\u2019s attitude towards the nascent women\u2019s movement and feminist consciousness is conflicted. This has become a major trend reflected in the attention garnered by China\u2019s own #MeToo movement, despite the authorities\u2019 attempts to limit it. The latest example is the dismissal, on 15 April, of an associate professor at Wuhan University who sexually harassed at least 18 female students. The case has attracted nationwide attention on social media because the women stood up against their abuser and refused to let the issue be covered up.<\/p>\n<p>The regime is afraid to directly launch a sweeping crackdown with arrests and mass persecution of feminists because this would bring it into collision with a very sizeable layer of public opinion, which is dissatisfied with women\u2019s conditions today. But at the same time the CCP fears the growing support for feminism, as it fears all social processes outside its control. Even when a movement is not an organised force, as it was not in Hong Kong in 2019, once ideas enter the mass consciousness they become a threat to any ruling elite, as in this case with the Chinese dictatorship.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29162\" style=\"width: 715px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29162\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/IMG_0524-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/IMG_0524-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/IMG_0524-768x973.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/IMG_0524-696x882.jpg 696w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/IMG_0524-331x420.jpg 331w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/IMG_0524-600x760.jpg 600w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/IMG_0524.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protests in Wuhan University after the sexual harassment cases of an associate professor were exposed, and feminist were being silenced<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Population crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another key factor that explains the attacks on China\u2019s feminists is the catastrophic fall in China\u2019s birth rate, which is the lowest since 1949 and fell by a further 15 percent last year. The number of births could slip below 10 million annually in the next five years according to Dong Yuzheng, director at the Guangdong Academy of Population Development. This compares to 25 million births in 1987 (seven years after the one-child limit was imposed).<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s population is entering a phase of decline, which becomes even more troublesome for Xi Jinping in the context of historic US-China rivalry. The size of the work force in the \u201cworld\u2019s factory\u201d has fallen for eight straight years. The causes of China\u2019s demographic malaise are complex, partly a legacy of the one-child policy, which was lifted in 2016 without however reversing the decline in births. This is even more due to the punitive cost of having a child in China, with education, housing and healthcare all extremely expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Having re-adopted an out-dated Confucian outlook, Xi\u2019s regime promotes heterosexual marriage and \u201cfamily harmony\u201d as an important control unit to assure political and social \u201cstability\u201d. Accordingly, women \u2013 much like non-Han national minorities and democracy-hungry Hong Kongers \u2013 must be controlled. The CCP, when it was a revolutionary force, was militantly anti-Confucian, an ideology that stresses obedience to authority, of citizens to the government, and women to men. The restoration of brutal capitalism in China has undermined the position of women at work and school and revived even pre-capitalist reactionary ideas and social structures.<\/p>\n<p>Young people in China live high pressure, financially precarious lifestyles, with soaring household debt levels especially linked to the cost of housing. This is becoming an ever bigger disincentive to marrying and having children. According to official statistics the number getting married dropped 41 per cent to 13.9 million in 2019 from 23.8 million in 2013. The legacy of the one-child policy, and the illegal but widespread practise of gender-selective abortions, has resulted in men outnumbering women by 30 million. Trafficking of imported \u2018brides\u2019 to China from poorer countries such as Myanmar, Cambodia, and even Ukraine, now number thousands every year. In recent years the regime is also looking at more aggressive campaigns to convince women to have more babies.<\/p>\n<p>The government is planning a pension reform as part of the latest five-year plan (2021-25) which will confer \u201cequality\u201d by raising women\u2019s retirement age by five years (confiscating earned pension entitlements). Last year it adopted a new divorce law, which imposes a compulsory 30-day \u201ccooling off\u201d period \u2013 a policy widely criticised by feminists and the left. The policy makes divorce more difficult because if one party decides to back out during the 30-day period, the process must start again with a new application.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29147\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-696x428.jpg 696w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-1068x657.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-682x420.jpg 682w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo-600x369.jpg 600w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/F5-HK-demo.jpg 1121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWomen Unite!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing the blocking of the feminist platforms continues. The nationalist witch-hunt against feminism is not subsiding. Some even speculate this campaign can have another motive: That Xi\u2019s regime wants to divert attention as he tries to defuse tensions with the US (not a popular step among Chinese nationalists).<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on feminist social media accounts has attracted large-scale attention. Xianzi, a high-profile feminist who filed a sexual assault case in 2018 against a television celebrity, declared her solidarity with the sisters of Douban. The hashtag \u201cWomen Unite\u201d in protest at the closures sprang up on Weibo and was viewed 50 million times.<\/p>\n<p>The suppression of feminist groupings is also a warning that Xi\u2019s regime is moving to widen its crackdown on all potential opposition layers. This can lead to new attacks on workers\u2019 struggles, on leftist youth, ethnic minorities, investigative journalists, and others. For Xi, next year\u2019s 20th CCP Congress, and his coronation for a historic third term (he hopes for more), are the overriding priorities and his fear of social and political unrest grows even bigger. The linking together of women\u2019s struggle, and the defence of ethnic minority rights, with the building of an independent workers\u2019 movement is the key to changing the situation. Not as \u2018single issues\u2019 but as a united movement of the oppressed against capitalism, patriarchy and totalitarianism.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29172\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29172 \" src=\"http:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/image-1-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/image-1-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/image-1-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/image-1-696x418.png 696w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/image-1-700x420.png 700w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/image-1-600x360.png 600w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/image-1.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Women Unite!&#8221; hashtag sprang up on Sina Weibo. Also,\u00a0Xianzi, a high-profile feminist who filed a sexual assault case in 2018 against a television celebrity, declared her solidarity with the sisters of Douban<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Solidarity Against Repression in China and Hong Kong and International Socialist Alternative protests the attacks against feminists in China. We urge our supporters and readers to take action. Share this article widely and translate it, especially to alert the women\u2019s movement in your country. Please also show your support with pictures and videos using these placards, which you can download here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2021\/04\/SARCHK-feminists.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLACARDS PDF FORMAT<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Solidarity with feminists in China!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>End persecution and suppression of feminists on Weibo and Douban. We demand freedom of speech!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>United struggle against capitalism and dictatorship!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solidarity Against Repression in China and Hong Kong and International Socialist Alternative protests the attacks against feminists in China. We urge our supporters and readers to take action. 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