China: 2 YouTube vloggers 'disappear' after they mock President Xi Jinping

At least two Chinese video producers were reported ‘missing’ on Tuesday on eve of Lunar New Year over allegations of mocking Chinese leer Xi Jinping. He of popular YouTube channel Qiang Guo Wa Ha that specialized in ‘Ru Bao’ a Mandarin term that implies humour against Chinese President told state press that chairperson and manager of controversial YouTube channel disappeared last Tuesday and re was no information that could be traced back to her whereabouts. Sources of Apple Daily newspaper and Rio Free Asia disclosed, that Ru Mo Lian She h been referring to Xi as ‘Bao Zi’ which refers to a ‘steam bun’ in Mandarin, for which, she was heavily criticized. She coined term following her visit to a restaurant in Beijing where she ordered bun in December 2013. n concept of dark humour was tweaked and opted by several YouTube channels. 

Several videos, over last few years that mocked communist leer as ‘Ru Bao’ portraying him as a version of Winnie Pooh were taken down by Youtube over copyright infringement of Shanghai Hode Information Technology Co Ltd. President Xi Jinping’s regime, over last several years, has me arbitrary detention against pro-democracy activities and those that condemned his government under charges of ‘subversion of state power’. Many prominent businessmen, including Alibaba’s CEO, have mysteriously disappeared in past after y turned into critics of Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

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‘Ink girl’ video creator 'missing'

In December 2020, anor Chinese activist Dong Yaoqiong, who berated China’s communist regime and tweeted footage titled ‘ink girl’ that showed defaced Xi Jinping poster was held by Chinese authorities in Zhuzhou city in Hunan province. A supporter of Yaogiong, Ou Biaofeng, was also held by police under ministrative detention. Yaogoing’s family, that criticised Communist Party for “thought control”, accused CCP of intense surveillance and violation of human rights after his wife was restricted from freedom of movement and freedom to contact or people. Dong’s video and tweets were deleted and he h been missing since. 

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