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Taxis Strike, Beijing Spins

Heads up for our story on taxi strikes and Beijing's propaganda "Control 2.0".

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  • 1

    Simon:
    At this Thanksgiving weekend, let us forget all the political propaganda and enjoy the holiday.
    You are really a hard-working guy even on duty at this time, but seems your poster is one sentence only. LoL.

    Happy Thanksgiving.

  • 2

    Yes, you are still a assiduous guy, though there is only one sentence.

  • 3

    Yes, you are still an assiduous guy, though there is only one sentence

  • 4

    Yes, you are still an assiduous guy, though there is only one sentence.

  • 5

    "But will Chinese be so easily diverted?" Of course, they are. You can just read the posts here to know that they are willing to be diverted. No, they seek too be diverted. And they insist. And if the Chinese government media don't do it for them, they do it themselves.

  • 6

    John Smith is kind of a critic with sophistry and sympathy to Chinese people. But even if all the poster here agree with John S, it can not make any difference in China, but gratify his vanity only.
    So, John, stop being a hypocrite, you gotta walk the walk, say, smuggle some am*unition to the helpless Chinese people. Let's get it straight, dude, come on, that's what you really want. LoL.

  • 7

    Are we witnessing a new attempt at harmonising John Smith? Now that's something new.

  • 8

    Are there Chinese "Five-Jiao-Party(五毛党)" flourishing here?

  • 9

    "come on, that's what you really want. LoL."

    What I want is for the Chinese to be happy. If being harmonized is their way to happiness, so be it.

    Long live the harmonized Chinese society !!!

  • 10

    john2008obama: giving weapons to Chinese won't do a thing. First of all, they all want to be ruled by the CCP. They are happy that way. Why would they use weapons to do anything. Secondly, they are too timid to do anything about who rules them. Mongol, with a small (a few hundred thousand) army conguered the Hans with hundreds of million population, and an army of several hundred thousands. The manchurians did the same thing, with a lot of help from the Hans themselves, of course. Even during the 20th century, Japan toke over China with only a small army, again, with a lot of help from the locals. They didn't lift a finger to do anything about it, until some overseas Chinese toke up the arms. And these overseas Chinese were ridiculed by the Hans to no end when they tried to organized the mainland Chinese to revolt.

    Thirdly, they won't know how to use the weapons. They are no Uighur or Tibatan.

    So, your plan of sending them weapons is doomed to fail.

  • 11

    "they all want to be ruled by the CCP. They are happy that way."!!?

    I don't know why the comment I left been deleted. Here I would like to say some words once again. Of course some "want to be ruled by the CCP" and "are happy that way", because the CCP is able to supply everything they want, including money, special power, pretty girl, luxurious villa, etc.

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