Posted on 09/30/2009 9:29:09 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China takes extreme security measures for parade
Apartments on the route are evacuated, businesses are forced to close early and transit lines are suspended as China prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary. 'Are we having fun?' one critic asks.
China to parade its new and improved arsenal
By Barbara Demick
September 30, 2009 E-mail Print Share Text Size
Reporting from Beijing - This is a parade that demands state-level security. Discipline. Extreme secrecy.
Ordinary people will not be allowed anywhere near the parade route in Beijing on Thursday, when the People's Republic of China marks the 60th anniversary of its founding with a military parade.
That applies even to people who live in the neighborhood: Entire apartment buildings along the route toward Tiananmen Square are being evacuated to prevent residents from watching. Cameras and binoculars are forbidden in many locales.
As the city prepares for the parade, Beijing feels more like a city under martial law than the dynamic capital that wowed the world during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Ping!
Could they be anticipating Moose problems?
Imaging they have another ‘tank man’ blocking tank procession. That is would be a disaster.
Nobody there to sell balloons and pretzels to
It will be a quiet event, except shrieking sound of overflying warplanes and rumbles of tanks.
a reserved, friends and family event... we’ll only shut down the city for a day.
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