{"id":776,"date":"2011-02-21T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/02\/21\/china-blocks-coverage-of-jasmine-revolution-protests-watch-and-learn-mubarak\/"},"modified":"2023-12-03T05:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T11:54:04","slug":"china-blocks-coverage-of-jasmine-revolution-protests-watch-and-learn-mubarak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/02\/china-blocks-coverage-of-jasmine-revolution-protests-watch-and-learn-mubarak\/","title":{"rendered":"China Blocks Coverage of ‘Jasmine Revolution’ Protests. Watch and Learn, Mubarak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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China blocked phone messages and Web sites to stamp out any movement toward pro-democracy revolts that have toppled two leaders in the Middle East and sparked bloody crackdowns in Libya and Bahrain. But unlike the Middle Eastern Despots, rather than stamp out all communication, they pursued a more targeted approach that has proven more effective at stamping out opposition. There is no such thing as a “good despot” but if you’re determined to do it, at least do it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Internet messages circulated over the weekend urged people to gather in 13 major cities to demand food, jobs, housing and justice in a \u201cJasmine Revolution.\u201d Today, phone messages using the phrase in Chinese, \u8309\u8389\u82b1\u9769\u547d, would not transmit on China Mobile Ltd.\u2019s network in Beijing. Sina Corp.\u2019s microblogging service, China\u2019s most-popular, returned no related content when a search for the Chinese word for \u201cLibya\u201d was entered. Similar results were seen on the microblogging services of Tencent Holdings Ltd. and NetEase.com Inc. Even the news of the unrest in the Middle East has been filtered though not stopped. China, Russia and other similar nations have learned over years of using propaganda ministries as much as brute force (most middle eastern despots favor brute force alone) how to control the dialog and target the most relevant players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 20 cities including Tianjin, Guangzhou and Chengdu stepped up security measures and universities in Shaanxi and Jiangsu kept students from leaving campuses, the South China Morning Post reported, citing the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. In Guangzhou, at least 500 uniformed police guarded the park\u2019s gates and metro exits yesterday, the paper reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The English-language version of the Global Times, a tabloid-style paper run by the People\u2019s Daily, the Communist Party\u2019s official mouthpiece, compared yesterday\u2019s protesters to \u201cbeggars in the streets — they never fade away while the rest of the country moves forward.\u201d Zhou Yongkang, China\u2019s top security official, was quoted in today\u2019s Chinese language People\u2019s Daily as urging the government to \u201cdefuse social conflicts and disputes just as they emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of China\u2019s ruling Politburo held a meeting the day after Mubarak stepped down on Feb. 11 to discuss how to control and shape news about the Arab unrest according to Boxun.com, a Chinese-language news Web site that reports on Chinese unrest and political dissent and is blocked inside of China. The participants agreed to step up control of blogs and other online forums, decreed that news outlets would halt any independent coverage of the unrest and rely on state-run Xinhua News, and stressed that the events were orchestrated behind the scenes by the U.S., Boxun said, citing a secretary present at the meeting which it didn’t identify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Via [Businessweek<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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