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   concerned

   February 9, 2022 at 4:09 am

   but a person’s status is very important…
   here the “status” is about whether a person as a wife or a mistress, etc to the outside world, difficult to translate, but not your usual status per se.

   Every time you let me go…
   should be: Every time you let/invite me stop by (or visit)…

   with all the feelings and money between us, it had nothing to do with power and wealth
   should be: feelings between us had nothing to do with money and power

   There’re quite a few other places (subtle, difficult to convey) that could use better translation. Overall this is basically a jilted lover venting (you have to watch the dramas of dynastic Chinese TV shows to appreciate it: emperor has wife/concubines, and the complicated struggles between emperor/wife/concubines).

   Two love birds, in a situation that made it impossible for them to be together (she’s not getting the title/status she thinks she deserves), can make a good TV series. The man was/is in a position of power does add intrigue (can be accused of abuse of power, etc), but nothing beats the ridiculousness of media amplification, without really understand what’s written in Peng’s post.

   Surprised at the translation quality of a site that tracks weibo, could be misleading to others for such a high profile (made to be) case.

   When anti-China becomes politically correctness in the west, obviously you could never let facts get in your way of propaganda (mainstream media has been coopted in that regard). Sad days ahead.

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   Shiloh O'Connor

   February 21, 2022 at 11:27 pm

   amazing that western media has classes this as “sexual assault” or “rape”

   when absolutely nothing like that is alleged in any of the text

   and she has explicitly said no assault occurred

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