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.
I do not have a lot of ideas about Falun Gong. But as I know there are still a lot of members in China. They study at home, under the ground. I don’t know the exact number and I don’t know their religionary and political stand either.
I think the top site in China is Baidu, Chinese google. But it is running much better than google in China.
And Sina Weibo is Chinese twitter. RenRen and Kaixin001 are Chinese facebook.
Thanks, it is a bit difficult to read all the posts because the English I learnt before was Britain English. Anyway I have dictionary. But the structure of FR is very special to me and I shall take some time to get familiar with it.
Chinese people are very clever. And all the materials are easy to get in China. So the government are being nervous. Hope it will push them to change.
“Crony Capitalism” is indeed a very good word. That is what I want to express.
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Free and open trade is an essential freedom. A large part of that is being able to set the price you are willing to sell something for, be it goods or labor and to decline the market if you think the price is not to your benefit.
Having to sell your labor at a below market rate to the benefit of others is slavery.
Until the goods that are traded between the US and China are priced in currencies set by free and open markets it will never be to the interest of the vast majority of either country's population to do so.
In a nutshell, you can't have free trade without free people.
Welcome to FR from the Dakotas, hope to hear more from you soon.
Demonstrations do exist in China but in the past years they are seldom reported to the public. But with the develop of Weibo(Chinese Twitter), we can got these news quickly. The bomb blast event is now being forwarded on the internet.
The number you mentioned still shocked me.
Wow, so you’ve got more people in the US believing in socialism than that in here, haha.
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