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HK, Nathan Road |
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)