Posted on 05/28/2011 7:11:55 AM PDT by XuShu
This is my first post in Freerepublic. 2 days ago a big event happened in China, a man made 3 explosions in a city in central China. His house was confiscated by the government 10 years ago, and the compensation was very very low. After 10 years negotiation with the government, there was no result. And finally he decide to end the story with his own way. Here is the detailed report by BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13556366
What I'm willing to talk is about the reactions of the people all over China towards this event.
As usual, there was no report for this big event on TV of Broadcasting as well as other major media in China. But thanks to the Internet, people can easily get the news and updates. Now the government is quite nervous about the situation.
In other countries, this kind of event may be regard as a terrorism attack, but in China, on the Internet, the "terrorist" named JiangMingQi is now called "Hero of the Nation". Because he is the first one who came up to resist the government with force. And this may be a significant event in the history of China.
Chinese people are very hardworking and easy to be satisfied. There was almost no strike in China even the pay for workers are very low. But these years, with the inflation and the heavy tax, the gap between the poor and rich are becoming bigger and bigger. There is a big contradiction between the government and the people. This event may provoke others to follow. And the government have to face the fact and make some change, otherwise everything will be out of control.
I do hope this event will change the situation in China.
Good advice.
I hope that you are using a means to obscure your connectivity, such as a proxy service with browser information scrubbing.
If you would like some free advice (worth every yuan that it cost you), I would suggest that you post under a different username each time, as we have seen occasionally posters in uncomfortable circumstances do over the years.
Also, I would suggest that you don't follow any pattern in how you access Free Republic; you might want to limit both your reading and your posting to an infrequent basis, and make sure that you drop your cookies as soon as you do post.
Finally, don't create a profile page. Your English is remarkably good for someone in Red China, which is a very distinct characteristic. Adding any more information, such as that can be gleaned from a profile page, is not a good idea.
I like your FReeppage. That second sentence could go on my FReeppage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13556366
The article says that three bomb blasts in different locations went off at around the same time. So they must have had timers or some means of delaying detonation or remotely triggering them all at the same time. It seems to me it would require either a sophisticated bomb builder, or more than one person, to accomplish this. Seems unlikely that this is just a disgruntled citizen who had his home taken away by an unfair eminent domain practice.
Nothing good happens when you have inflation and the heavy tax,going to be a long hot summer here too.
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
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Welcome to FR....keep us updated with factual Chinese news. Thanks.
Hi don-o,
I’m quite safe in China. When I was surfing the internet for the bomb blast updates in Zhengzhou China, I find FreeRepublic. I think here is a place where different ideas can be shared. I’m living well in China, we are also free to talk about everything on the internet, but it will soon be deleted by the government. On this thing, our government has the best efficiency.
This is an interesting statement that you make. In America, we would say that if the government can delete what we have said, that is not freedom.
Are you saying that you expect a time when you cannot have access to the internet?
Congratulations on your very good English.
It’s true that those things are really happening in China. But not everywhere, In most of the cities, the situation is much better than you described.
Hi Bayantive,
It seems that you know a lot about China. In china, the economy is really capitalistic. That is why the our GDP is increasing so rapidly. May be I will say some details about it on my next post. And here in China, I’m quite safe. Nowadays, no one will be punished for saying something. We have the rights to say anything. I don’t know the situation about your friend, because in China, foreign business people are alway well treated. And sometimes they have even some privileges.
Sorry, I learned all my English in China and it is called Chinglish. My “free” means the access of internet here is not so limited. But we cannot use facebook and twitter without proxy.
That's interesting. What do you think of 法轮功 (Falun Gong)?
China's economy is communist in name only. The current structure is crony capitalism. The country was always run for the benefit of Party members* even during its ostensibly communist years. The advent of Dengism (as opposed to Maoism) in the late 70's, the idea that small scale enterprises were to be permitted instead of punished severely, gave budding entrepreneurs some breathing room. China's astonishing economic growth in the past several decades is the result of the liberalization of the economy, combined with limits on government-run monopolies.
Many sectors are reserved for companies run for the benefit of Party members and their spawn, but the profit margins allowed are capped, much like public utilities stateside. Take international phone service, for instance. A kleptocracy like Mexico allows Carlos Slim (the controlling shareholder of Mexico's phone company and quasi-monopoly) to charge 33 cents a minute to connect US calls to Mexican cell phones. And we're right next door to Mexico. Meanwhile, US calls to Chinese mobile phones cost 2.3 cents a minute *and* Chinese phone companies are profitable. Pemex, the Mexican state-owned oil company, is run like a jobs program for well-connected Mexican aristocrats. Pemex execs are alleged to have siphoned off huge sums of money to benefit the ruling PRI, while neglecting exploration. Back in 2008, Pemex almost lost money. In contrast, PetroChina, one of China's leading oil companies, made $20b in 2008, while selling gasoline at prices capped at lower levels than the US. Bottom line is that while the Chinese government isn't ideal, it's probably more effective and just than Mexico's.
China is capitalist in many ways, but remains a dictatorship. The severity of the repression directed at dissenters has moderated greatly from Mao's era, during which a significant number of dissenters were summarily shot while others were killed in prison (via a variety of means - starvation, exposure to the elements, beatings, et al). The repressive measures are less severe and the number of people targeted has gone down. Nonetheless, it remains a party-run state that steamrolls its critics, whether they are opponents of the party or merely dissatisfied with a particular policy.
* For instance, the large scale famines that killed tens of millions did not affect Party apparatchiks. In fact, Mao's inner circle is said to have dined like emperors.
Thanks for your understanding.
The inflation in domestic China is to some greed caused by our trade policy. We export a lot of goods to America and they pay us dollars and all the dollars are exchanged to RMB in China. At last, American people got goods and we got inflation. But the privileged people can got profits through the trade, it is the ordinary labors in China who will pay for it. The privileged people in China is richer than you can imagine.
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