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Yes, witchcraft is illegal in China, as the government considers it a form of "superstition" and opposes folk religious practices with superstitious elements. Chinese law forbids witchcraft and sorcery, particularly when it is associated with harm, and punishes it alongside other harmful practices like "Ku poison" (a deadly substance). This prohibition is enforced through official regulations and is sometimes used to prosecute individuals, though historical precedents for severe punishments date back centuries.


Legal and official status:
The Chinese government officially forbids witchcraft and sorcery, often classifying it as "superstition" or an "evil cult" when it falls outside the five officially recognized religions and lacks government approval.


Historical context:
The prohibition of "black magic" or sorcery has a long history in China, with ancient laws punishing practices like harmful magic, human sacrificing, and "Ku poison".


Enforcement:
The law is enforced through official regulations that target folk religious practices with superstitious elements. Authorities may also consider it a criminal act, and recent crackdowns on activities deemed to be witchcraft or "evil cults" have occurred.


"Superstition" vs. "witchcraft":
The government's opposition to witchcraft is part of a broader effort to control folk religious practices that are not officially recognized. This includes practices like setting off firecrackers to ward off evil spirits, which can attract official attention.


Cultural and social views:
While legal prohibitions exist, belief in witchcraft is still prevalent in some rural communities in China. However, the government's legal stance against it is clear and has deep historical roots.

Belgarion wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 10:15am:


Yes. The Chinese can't punish everyone with trade barriers, or the lights will go out (again).

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LOL. Jealousy from the little pinks.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 12:16pm:




Can you post a single video of her head banging?

We are no salivating over anything. Just laughing at your jealous attempts at flinging personal insults to her.

Were you instructed to do this, or is it some kind of automatic response?

She is doing you a favour little pink. The biggest threat to the welfare of the Chinese people is the intolerance of the CCP to public criticism.

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Your own image? Is that your way of saying you made it up because she hurt your feelings by challenging your obsessive, unthinking devotion to the CCP?

What about your statement that she has suffered brain damage? More lies? I mean "your own image"?

I realise that you tend to follow the CCP's lead that the truth doesn't matter, only the the spin from the government, but you seem incapable of realising that it doesn't work outside of China where people are allowed to think for themselves.

Do you believe in witches?

freediver wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 12:45pm:



The CCP believes in witches -

witchcraft is against the law in China so they have genuine concerns about
a witch in charge in Japan.

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Can you quote them?

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So you have actual evidence that she has brain damage from head banging?

Or is this another of your CCP-style "not a lie" because you have some weird longwinded excuse for telling lies? What did you mean when you said it was "your own image," if not that you just made it up?

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So you have actual evidence that she has brain damage from head banging?

Or is this another of your CCP-style "not a lie" because you have some weird longwinded excuse for telling lies? What did you mean when you said it was "your own image," if not that you just made it up?

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 3:48pm:


I think you are confused. Where does it say that Taiwan is part of China?

freediver wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 3:52pm:


The proof of her brain dead status (mimicking brain damage) is her 'China threat' denial of China's  sovereignty over Taiwan, and promoting war over the matter in the age of MAD.

Brain-dead.   

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See above, she's brain-dead by any objective standard, for stoking war on (self-projecting)  'threat' nonsense, in the age of MAD.   

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".....referring to the then Kuomintang regime as the dominant party in the Republic of China, whose central government had retreated to Taiwan from the mainland"

I know your IQ is suspect, but the Nationalists "retreated" to Taiwan, because....Taiwan was and is part of China. 

freediver wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 4:30pm:


No, I'm claiming ALL brain-dead "freedom or death" morons are a threat to world peace.....indeed, world survival, in the age of MAD. 
She's just a particularly egregious example, with real power....

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No, it's saying the ROC retreated to Taiwan - which had been returned to China by the allies at the end of WW2.

And:

1. UN res 2758 (adopted in 1971): "There is only one government of  China"

2. Your error: the ROC kept claiming  they were the sole government of China until recently (in the 2010's) when they decided to confront reality and change their narrative.... to being the government of Taiwan. 

But the UN isn't playing along.

freediver wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 4:56pm:


If using imagery to make a case is "lying", I accept guilt as charged.

Are you a brain-dead "freedom or death" moron? 

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Was part of China in 1945, 1971 and - given Taiwan's present status as a non member state of the UN, still is - until the UN says otherwise. 

Good luck with that...


   

freediver wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 5:12pm:


Yes - guilty as charged, I already admitted it.

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By exercizing the (admittedly limited) neurons you have available  to understand different contextual usages of 'imagery' cf. 'face value' idioms.


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See the edit in my previous post. 

freediver wrote on Nov 17^th, 2025 at 10:00am:


Not my 'story": the facts are the UN said Taiwan is part of China in 1945, and again in 1971, and the UN hasn't changed its stance on that position.

The only people who have changed their story is the DDP who have given up proclaiming they are the government of China.


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google to the rescue:

An idiom is a fixed phrase whose meaning is not deducible from its individual words, while a metaphor is a direct comparison where one thing is said to be another to suggest a similarity. A metaphor can become an idiom through common usage, meaning some idioms are also metaphors, but not all idioms are metaphors.

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Yes it is.

btw, I quite liked my metaphor of (one of Macbeth's)  "toil and trouble" witches, in this case the brain-dead, heavy metal drumming PM witch,  stirring the pot to release the demons of war in the Taiwan Straits.

You? 

Sorry FD. But Taiwan does consider itself as 'China'.

Nope. The National Party of China still recognises itself as the rightful Chinese Party. Even Xi is happy for them to keep running Taiwan if they come under the banner of the Communists as a whole. Taiwan (Nationals) even claim that Mongolia is a part of China.
Personally I believe the Chinese over Lefty Media these days

Hmm? I'm posting posts, but they are not appearing, even after x3 attempts. I wonder if this one appears? Not just for this topic.

freediver wrote on Nov 17^th, 2025 at 10:56am:


Have you forgotten UN res 2758, specifically the part  noting  the Nationalist retreat to Taiwan in 1949, ie, Taiwan which had been ruled  by Nationalist China (aka ROC) since the allied victory in 1945, after which the ROC fled to Taiwan in 1949 when the PRC became the government of China? 

Of course the reason why the PRC has not been able to assert its sovereignty, despite the ROC being dismissed from the UN in 1971, is the US stance:

The United States, for example, terminated diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan to establish relations with the PRC, though it maintains unofficial relations with Taiwan.

There we have it - the 2-faced US as always, behind the scenes ...and eg the reason why Palestine still doesn't exist despite overwhelming UN support.

But Taiwan IS Chinese, with much artistic heritage of China (stolen from various places in Beijing and elsewhere during the civil war) on full display in the Taipei Museum.

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No - whatever that sentence means; whereas  your  neurons  are evidently  crippled by your "freedom or death" delusion (note: freedom is not worth a cracker if you are dead - as Trump once noted: "soldiers who die in war are losers").

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Neither; it's an image I have of a brain-damaged, head banger/head-shaking heavy metal drummer  giving herself repeated concussions.... 

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No to both questions.

Funny, or corrupt (?), how the Democrats call Trump a Nationalist with condemnation.
Yet support the Nationalists of Taiwan.
Oh well, it is the Democrats Afterall.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 16^th, 2025 at 12:03pm:


And you're a dickhead writ large.

Jasin wrote on Nov 17^th, 2025 at 11:23am:


No Jasin - it does not. It considers itself as TAIWAN & has a govt that supports that premise.

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