I haven’t heard anything about this but the claim appears to be mostly true - https://spectator.com/article/has-xi-jinping-fought-off-anot...

The spectator is allegedly a reliable media source, I am not personally familiar.

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kipchak 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Given the details mentioned (9 guard deaths) the "unconfirmed reports" is probably referring to the x post[1] mentioned in the peoplenewstoday.com article. Personally word not somehow getting out of dozens of people being shot seems hard to believe, though not impossible.

[1]https://x.com/ShengXue_ca/status/2015122407736963455

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pjc50 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Spectator is 99% opinion pieces. They're not somewhere I'd go for news. It all seems a bit unconfirmed sources. Zhang being purged is confirmed on the BBC and absolutely everywhere else, along with pointing out that there's been a "clean sweep" of senior PLA staff. The street violence seems a bit less corroborated.

(by contrast, while the Daily Mail is absolutely terrible at opinion and domestic news, they seem to have some capacity left for doing overseas reporting that isn't just wire service, so if they report on overseas events you can be reasonably sure that something like that happened)

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techterrier 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is not. It's a contrarian newspaper, gives some interesting folks a platform, but mostly cranks.

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buildbot 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Is https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-spectator-usa/ Wrong here?

(I really don’t know, but it does seem that this info at least is coming from multiple places?)

	▲	techterrier 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It would be considered way on the right generally. To the right of the Telegraph, the main right wing broadsheet. It's a funny old magazine though, they really do get all sorts in there and print stuff that others wouldn't. It's entirely editorial though with huge biases. I'm glad it exists and read it often, but I'd go checking everything I read in it if I was after some facts.

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wat10000 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"According to unconfirmed reports...."

The question isn't whether to trust The Spectator, it's whether to trust this unconfirmed, unnamed source.