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And by Chinx I mean liberal white women. 
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It turns out that the CCP was too busy drawing up plans for their invasion of Taiwan on March 15, 2024 to actually be rigging a science fiction convention. Instead, the Hugo committee did it for free. 
One of the western Hugo admins came forward with emails (and an apology). They show that the western WorldCon committee members (not the Chinese members) made dossiers on authors (including the 2 writing this report) to see if there is anything in their works, backgrounds, or public comments that would be politically problematic in China. 4 works appeared to be eliminated from the long list for this reason.
They seethed about the Sad Puppies for "manipulating" the system (openly, while following the rules). Then they censored the Hugos because they were scared of upsetting the Chinese government, and lied about it until the emails leaked 
. You can't make this shit up. I hate liberals, but I do love President Xi and the People's Republic of China. 
On June 6, Kat Jones wrote an email to the administration group titled “Best Novel potential issues.” In the email, Jones raised concerns about the novels Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang and The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Jones wrote that Babel “has a lot about China. I haven't read it, and am not up on Chinese politics, so cannot say whether it would be viewed as ‘negatives of China'” while adding that The Daughter of Doctor Moreau talked “about importing hacienda workers from China. I have not read the book, and do not know whether this would be considered ‘negative.'”
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How do you even hold the Hugos in China? Isn't the subject of time travel verboten?
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That was more of a guidance from a film and television board, and it didn't directly say not to use it. I'm not sure that it's truly more restrictive than burger studios' or the Oscars' diversity standards. Exploitation of soft power and encouraging people to avoid stepping on any toes.
I'm not going to say the US and Chyna are literally the same, but they wouldn't actually send government thugs after a foreigner's sci-fi convention for picking the wrong books. They just bank on people being scared of them
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Hmm, I might buy that when it comes to time travel, but somehow I doubt a book mentioning Hong Kong or Taiwan in a certain light would be left alone by government officials at that convention.
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