Posted on 10/06/2019 1:55:45 PM PDT by PIF
On a recent Thursday evening in August, a 40-year-old MMA gym owner in Beijing named Xu Xiaodong activated his VPN, hopped over the Chinese government’s internet firewall, and began his first-ever live YouTube broadcast. He wanted to talk about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, in which hundreds of thousands of citizens have demonstrated against mainland China’s attempts to circumvent Hong Kong’s autonomy and civil liberties. Xu looked into the camera and took a stance on the protests that few, if any, of his countrymen living on the mainland were willing to publicly take: “Hong Kong people are Chinese. I am Chinese. So I love Hong Kong,
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Xu’s livestream didn’t go unnoticed by the Chinese authorities, who had been using Chinese state media to portray the Hong Kong protestors as members of a rabid, violent mob. Four days after the livestream was posted, state security showed up at Xu’s apartment and took him in for questioning.
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Xu was unimpressed by all of this. In early 2017, he started honing in on the young Yang-style tai chi grandmaster Wei Lei, who had recently come to national attention thanks to a CCTV-4 program called Real Kung Fu, in which Wei was featured performing such feats as turning the inside of a watermelon into mush without penetrating its skin and keeping a live pigeon perched on his hand from flying away through a personal force field. Xu called Wei Lei “brainwashed” and “a dumbass.” In retaliation, Wei Lei, or one of his associates, published Xu’s personal information, including his address and phone number online. Xu, enraged, flew to the southwestern city of Chengdu, where Wei is based, walked into the tai chi master’s gym, and demanded they fight right there on the spot.
The article is about an ordinary guy in mainland China standing up against fakes in the martial arts and up as an ordinary citizen against the Central Government and the party at great risk to himself.
And actually Xi Jinping is prompting martial arts, not hating them. Its not about ‘the best’, its about improving the sport much of which was lost when Mao killed off the old timers.
Good martial artists in China, at least, do NOT ignore civilian laws. The penelties for that behavior are horrendous. You may have watched too many kung poo movies.
Just read the entire article.
Very interesting the level of dissent allowed in China.
Ah yes, the Norwegian Blue ... it’s dead.
https://youtu.be/vZw35VUBdzo
Only in population. The US is larger in land area.
I studied under a very talented man back in the early ‘70’s and he could do some amazing things ..
http://westsidenewsny.com/pastarchives/OldSite/westside/news/2001/0820/sports/tomakarate.html
Was everybody Kung Fu fighting?
That isn’t the vid I saw. It was here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/HKvigilance/status/1179888014673137664
but Twitter deleted it. When Twitter deleted something, I assume it is because it doesn’t fit the narrative I am supposed to buy.
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