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The former Director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China Zheng Xiaoyu was executed in an execution van on July 10, 2007.
Sources a NYT article. Any guesses as to what the article actually says?
His father has no sympathy for Zheng Xiaoyu, the State Food and Drug Administration's former chief, executed on Tuesday.
Nothing about a van or any method of execution. Anything is true when you just lie about it I guess.
If you were to give NATOpedians the benefit of the doubt (big "if"), it's possible that the NYT originally did publish an unsubstantiated claim about the method of execution and later retracted it without apology or notice. It's part of the Westoid media's MO at this point, just look at the recent Hamas r*pe allegations.
Maybe but the page revision shows this reference was added in 2024, the person editing this had access to the current version. All of the links there are shit even the old ones are not any better like this its a story by some caricature named cracker who seems to have built an entire career of being the "Chinese correspondent", citing "No First Name" Zhang telling an outline of why China might need this. No facts or anything and the only other source is surprise surprise a literal San Francisco based NGO "working to free political prisoners" lol.
This is the standard of wikipedia.
My bad. Death to NATOpedia and the NYT.
Can you imagine the bastards at the American FDA getting executed?
Or anyone from Purdue Pharma for causing the opioid crisis.
The source: a guy who looks like Adrian Zenz but wearing a mustache and Groucho Marx glasses who goes by "Schmadrian Schmenz."
Any editors here who wanna nominate this shit for deletion? 
This article stays up and they delete Big Floppa's article 
(only on the English NATOpedia, ofc)
In the spirit of not being one-sided and not jumping to conclusions I tried to look into the few sources Wikipedia (English and German) cites and this "mobile execution van" concept in general 
Most of the western articles about this either had no source for their claims 
or cited some official somewhere in China or some employee in a car company under a partial name or pseudonym. Also not a lot of concrete claims someone could check out in many of these articles, more like storytelling weirdly
But I really don't know anything about the death penalty in China and I don't speak Chinese 
so I'm stuck with reading these shitty western sources
The Amnesty report is about something entirely unrelated.
Also, fake and made up.
What’s even cooler and good-er is when the sources are completely wrong, or from a book by a Nazi.
Probe to the dark side of the moon: "China copied this."
Nazi-era execution van: "China developed this."
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someone with the time and wikipedia account do this. this shit article will get deleted if you point out that literally 75% of the 'sources' actually linked on the article are false or have literally no information (I'm looking at you NYT article about Zheng Xiaoyu) LOL.
For reference:
Most of the sources seem only to 'verify' that china executes people. Which is probably how this article has been up for so long if I had to guess, since the average person looks at the handful of sources and goes 'ah, this is true then' without realizing that the only actual linked sources are for things like "China executes 2,400 people a year" lol. (Source #2: https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1631703/infographic-capital-punishment)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46872651.amp (This is Source #6 in the article) has no mention of execution vans.
Whole article seems to stem from this 2012 Washington Post article with the image caption being 'Chinese police lead a condemned man into a special execution van to be put to death. (AFP/Getty Images)'
Now is this an 'execution' van? A prisoner transport van? Who can really say. But 
Shit wikipedia article and I bet it would be a headache to actually get deleted but it does seem like there has been one user (Causa sui) who has consistently kept an eye on the page and removed edits that have been egregiously unsourced, so I bet they would probably be in support of nuking the page.
Well, I tried to remove as much bs as possible and make things more neutral without raising any red flags for the editors of Wikipedia. Hopefully, that’s a bit better and they don’t revert it. 
I just saw your changes. Nice. I'm not asking you to do to anything more, but as it stands, it still seems unnecessary for a whole article to exist. It could very nicely fit as a single sentence here. Deletion would be ideal, but that is expecting a lot from Wikipedia admins.
I agree. I really don’t see where an execution takes place changes the fact capital punishment is legal. It’s not like there’s an article over execution facilities in the US or Russia.
However, deleting is a long bureaucratic process where you have to argue with a bunch of no-life randos. Many editors consider it bad form to delete and reword large parts of an article then nominate it for deletion. This is viewed as intentional sabotage and bad faith, even if all you do is delete the unreliable sources. This article touches on this crap.
About as real as The Punishers Battle Van but also much cooler
Is this what they drove in the 2020 riots?
Who's this "[citation needed]" guy and why does he hate China so much?!?!?!?!?!
They hate communism in general, it seems. Weird person.
I read about this when I was like 14 lol. I remember going “wow china is so evil” then a few months ago I find out a US prison had mass graves in fhe backyard.