June 4, 2014

  • Tiananmen

     
    Tiananmen

     
    So I met this Chinese fellow in Friendster in 2011.  Li Yi has lived in China all his life -- not in Hong Kong, not in Taiwan, but in official authentic China.  He lives in the city of Nanning, site of Guangxi University, which is on the southern tip of China.  And yet he speaks English quite naturally.

     

    Hello John
    How are you? Thank you for emailing me. Do you plan to come here? Yes Guangxi university is a very famous university here in China. Do you have anything you want to know about me?
    liyi

     

    Li Yi,
    Okay, yes. Why do you speak English so fluently?
    Also, (answer optional) does the government block news about Tiananmen or Ai Weiwei? I don't want to make trouble for you.
    -john

     

    Hello John
    I studied english at Guangxi University. English is a popular subject in China now. Parents pay a lot of money to put their kids in english classes do you want to teach english here?

    It doenst matter you can talk about news here no one can see what you write. Maybe in public can cause trouble. Some news is blocked because there are a billion people here and if we have a panic maybe many people can get killed for no reason. I hope to hear from you soon. Do play games on friendster? I play Flower House. Also facebook and youtube is blocked here for reasons that i dont know
    liyi

     

    There will always be propaganda.  There will always be patiotic reasons for suppressing the truth and lying about Tiananmen.  Still, I don't understand how a billion people can tolerate having the wool pulled over their eyes.

    According to Netizen Report,

      in China, days before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, the government has blocked access to all of Google’s encrypted and unencrypted services in the country and announced a new front in its war against 'online rumors': Internet messaging apps.  Censorship monitor GreatFire.org has called this the 'strictest censorship ever deployed.'

      The Chinese government prohibits all forms of offline and online discussion on the Tiananmen protests, one of the bloodiest events in Beijing's modern history.  Estimates of the death toll range from June 4, 1989, range from a few hundred to the thousands.

     

     

     

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