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http://mashable.com/2017/07/21/china-spyware-xinjiang/
China has ramped up surveillance measures in Xinjiang, home to much of its Muslim minority population, according to reports from Radio Free Asia.
Authorities sent out a notice over a week ago instructing citizens to install a "surveillance app" on their phones, and are conducting spot checks in the region to ensure that residents have it.
— Delinda Tien (@TienDelinda) July 14, 2017
The notice, written in Uyghur and Chinese, was sent by WeChat to residents in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.
Android users were instructed to scan the QR code in order to install the Jingwang app that would, as authorities claimed, "automatically detect terrorist and illegal religious videos, images, e-books and electronic documents" stored in the phone. If illegal content was detected, users would be ordered to delete them.
Users who deleted, or did not install the app, would be detained for up to 10 days, according to social media users.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by RedBear on Sunday August 06 2017, @06:01AM (5 children)
Chinese |ˌCHīˈnēz|
adjective
of or relating to China or its language, culture, or people.
noun
(1) The Chinese language
Whether it is specifically Mandarin or Cantonese being referred to is unimportant in many contexts. The Chinese people aren't really separated in any practical sense by the two main languages. It's quite likely the edict was either issued in the dominant local language or in both Mandarin and Cantonese. But if that is the usual way, it would be redundant to state that explicitly all the time, thus "Chinese" is substituted. Uyghur (WEE-gurr) is mentioned because it is a very different language. The character set looks remarkably similar to Arabic, actually.
Now let's talk about the 60 or so incompatible dialects in greater India.
¯\_ʕ◔.◔ʔ_/¯ LOL. I dunno. I'm just a bear.
... Peace out. Got bear stuff to do. 彡ʕ⌐■.■ʔ
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @06:25AM (3 children)
Mandarin and Cantonese are spoken languages; Chinese is the written language.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @06:39AM (2 children)
Traditional or simplified :-) ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @07:08AM
Calligraphy or block letters?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @07:34PM
The contemptible "Taiwan independence" splittists do extreme harms to cross-Strait relations. True compatriots see this clearly. We must abandon "Taiwan independence" for the peaceful development and the integral benefit of the Chinese nation.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @12:15PM
There are some differences in written Cantonese vs written Mandarin but they are mostly quite similar and thus can be considered dialects of the same language.
However spoken Cantonese and spoken Mandarin are different enough that they should be considered separate languages. The mutual intelligibility of Cantonese vs Mandarin is probably lower than Spanish vs Italian.
Spoken varieties of Min Nan (e.g. Hokkien, Teochew) are even more different.