McFly, In China you can't criticize the government.
Posted on 02/27/2018 6:10:45 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China’s war on words: Anything — be it a phrase or picture — that can be used to insult Xi has been banned
WORDS are being banned and conversations are being censored. The power shake-up in China is keeping its thought police busy.
Jamie Seidel News Corp Australia Network
February 28, 2018 12:50pm
CHINA’s new President-for-life doesn’t like criticism.
Since claiming the eternal throne of an Emperor earlier this week, he’s clamped down — hard — on any hint of dissent.
Censorship has always been a way of life under China’s one party state.
But things have just ramped up to a whole new level.
Authoritarian rule is being established.
Earlier this week the Communist Party Council announced (a day before it actually met) that the limit of two five-year presidential terms will be abolished and Xi Jinping’s guiding philosophy would be written into the constitution.
Immediately, Beijing’s censors set to work.
They’ve attacked the very words people would need to use to express discontent.
“Emperor”’
“Two term limit”.
“Control”.
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Alright, now this is starting to get out of hand.
..and when he kicks off he’ll be Xidied.
This is not receiving the coverage it deserves. It is probably not new, meaning, it did not just start happening within the last few days (although this “president for life” thing *IS* new) but China is taking a very serious and abrupt turn towards a much more repressive dictatorship. We have become very conditioned in the US to thinking of China as kind of a big panda bear ready to sell us cheap goods and with generally non-belligerent intentions. This illusion is or should be over.
“China’s war on words: Anything — be it a phrase or picture — that can be used to insult Xi has been banned”
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Why does this sound so familiar?
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https://myrightamerica.com/liberals-banned-2-words/
https://illinoisconservative.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/%E2%80%9Cliberal%E2%80%9D-banned-from-website/
https://conservativetribune.com/tucker-woman-banning-man/
http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/08/intolerant-liberal-word-cops/
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But it’s republicans that are “dictators.”
Shades of Adolph Hitler?
I saw his "welcome" message during the Closing Ceremonies of this Olympics. First thing I thought was , "This is not someone you want to cross". Guy gave me a case of the screamin' willies.
China.
Our future if we permit socialists here to disarm us.
You can thank U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the whole deluded U.S. foreign policy establishment from Kissinger down.
Many still have Marco Polo mentality. That is, they can go to China full of abundant treasure and get fabulously rich. They dismiss every caution which gets in the way of their treasure hunt. We are not living in Medieval Europe, and China is not a country so far away from home that it cannot affect you. But somehow many have been clinging to this myth. The treasure hunt has huge price tag.
They are now seeing the real China up close. I wonder what Tom Friedman can say about this. Or Jim O'Neill.
I think he looks just like Yogi Bear ,he just needs the hat
Yes just think about Comey and Meuller having that much power. (Well, Comey thought he had some, but he got canned.)
Strong gun control country - bump for later....
McFly, In China you can't criticize the government.
And never, ever refer to the nearly glorified great leader as Panda Face. No don’t do it. Stop! Think it through! I beg you!
Oh and keep in mind when you are tempted to call Xi Jumpingjack Panda Face, that the previous Emperor, Mao, murdered 76 million of your former population ... Panda Face already has his book of sayings so he will have his murder record at some point - go ahead, call him Panda Face, make his day.
True, but Chairman Xi is turning it up to 11. The Chinese Communist Party has since Mao's death and the Gang of Four, has avoided building a cult of personality around a single leader. The Party, not an individual was firmly in charge.
Now, Chairman Xi is building a cult of personality around himself. He has effectively placed himself above the Party. This is the point at which, if he was not (nominally at least) a Communist, he would have declared himself a god.
He is viewed quite favorably by Chinese citizens and his wife is a really famous and popular singer. His father was of the mold of Deng Xiaoping, went through the same hardships that Deng went through under Mao.
He will not be one to build a cult of personality as you suggest. Likely the furthest from that.
And while it may still be called the Communist Party, in reality it is one party rule. Communism has been shed. When it comes to economics, it is the capitalist party.
In short, the Chinese citizens want political stability because of what they went through in the cultural revolution. That could be driving this, exactly the opposite of what you suggest. That would be my take.
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