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I can hardly imagine the control and censorship in China. I've been to China twice and three more in Hong Kong, in all cases as a simple tourist. I have quietly visited Shanghai, Ningbo and Guangzhou. I had the impression that countries frantic rush toward modernization (= globalization). Fewer and fewer bicycles and more and more 'cars. A proliferation of malls and fast-food western (first of all McDonald's). In any case, nothing to do with Hong Kong (in full Western and post-western). I became aware of the criticism only when I tried to update my blog ... I did not succeed. Facebook and various blog platforms are locked to prevent the passage of info. However, Google as a search engine works and I have tried things like "Fuck communism", "pig mao", "Free Tibet" ... In Shanghai prostitutes are offered continuously in the center: they are pretty girls, dressed normally, not giving the eye ... but that appeal for grace, 'cause they speak English and because' attack button ... Chinese girls are usually rather more 'timid and do not begin the conversation on their own initiative. Cell phones abound. The info also travel via SMS and a Chinese man who knows the English are various possibilities of information through the Net Now 'cause this obstinacy of a control impossible? It 'just yesterday's news of a demonstration in Beijing in the style of those who are inflamed Libya and Algeria. Immediately have taken hundreds police officers who arrested the protesters and made blocking action to mobile phones and information. Few newspapers are reporting about these events Chinese (I've read on an Arctic Repubblica.it).
For a tourist to get into western China need a visa (which in Italy you get in a few days at a cost of demanding more than 60 €), once inside you can 'turn freely, you forget you are in a free country, where the population does not vote and where this population and 'serious and credible information is denied. It is impressive, but maybe not. 1.3 billion people are a huge number and dangerous. How to hold off so many 'great? How to manage it without blowing the dissatisfied? How reassuring outside observers that will not serve 'maybe a future war to shift public attention from the huge internal contradictions (and by so much injustice)? Obviously the tourist is not interested in these things and you are on Chinese soil qaundo and 'easy to get from folkrore, colors, sounds, beautiful faces from the East, from the curiosity that stirs in those encounters, low prices and the infinite' availability of goods.
HERE a good article on "The Republic" speech on the complaint of the Web (in general, not just China)
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