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Edwina Lee
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 Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:36 pm Post subject: Xinjiang is still closed |
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I'm alarmed to read that internet communication in Xinjiang is still virtually closed.
It looks to me like the riots were organised using the internet, & their security has not yet located the group which organised it.
Meanwhile, Xinjiang businesses which depended on the internet cannot talk to their customers.
2010-02-11 Trekking 1000km in China to read emails
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8506601.stm |
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chunxueping
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Why do riots have to be organize by the internet?
People are capable of doing these things by themselves. After all there wasn't an Internet when we organize the Revolution. |
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Edwina Lee
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You are right Xue Ping. Riots do not need the internet , but if the internet & mobiles are widely available, people will find them useful to organise & stoke up tempers to riot.
I think it is implausible that large scale riots in Tibet & Xinjiang occured without some form of group encouragement. |
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chunxueping
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Why? The human spirit is stronger than mere machines. |
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Edwina Lee
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| It was weak human spirit which rioted. |
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kang dàyé
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:51 pm Post subject: spirit |
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| Edwina, when people stop behaving like sheeps then they will find the spirit to fight back they wont need the internet. anyway i see 小春 is back with some spirited observation. |
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Edwina Lee
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| Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:14 am Post subject: |
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Kang,
小春 is in a far away land for the new year, so now I can say anything without a hysterical woman breathing down my keyboard 
There are a lot of angry people in Xinjiang indeed. Judging by the comments I read on China's forums, I think Xinjiang native people's anger comes from a combination of feelings of frustration, envy, & feeling left out or discriminated. Much similarity with the feelings between mainlanders & Hong Kongers.
Serious fence mending is required & it's going to take time. |
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pensggs
Joined: 24 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:19 am Post subject: A key stroke apart |
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Edwina, a contridiction. XuePing is not far away, just a keystroke away from you.
The ill feelings between Chinese tribal societies are like any other tribal fights in the whole wide world or web. A ancient survival instinct, which can be without reasons or causes.
To even attempt to explain these disputes in simple sentences are just as shallow.
Sometimes, when the environment gets too sterile, an over ripe basket of fruits, attracting buzzing 'fruity flies' and upsetting our peace, is just the trick.
Happy Tiger Year To All. |
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