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They were not laughably small in comparison to other protests in China, which as I'm sure you know are extremely rare ever since the Tienanmen Square massacre i
by computerfriend 4y ago
They were not laughably small in comparison to other protests in China, which as I'm sure you know are extremely rare ever since the Tienanmen Square massacre in 1989.
> no there was no revolution in progress.
Who said there was?
- Kreutzer 4y agothere was also a labor protest at a foxconn factory last week, but it seems to have failed to capture the liberal imagination in the same way as these “white paper” protests, gee I wonder why https://www.reuters.com/technology/foxconns-zhengzhou-plant-hit-by-fresh-worker-unrest-social-media-livestreams-2022-11-23/?taid=637d9e4e19297100019086b1 https://www.reuters.com/technology/foxconns-zhengzhou-plant-...
- Kreutzer 4y ago>who said there was? Fresh off the presses, courtesy of the paper of record: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/opinion/xi-loosens-up-it-wont-be-enough.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/opinion/xi-loosens-up-it-... Some tidbits: "The government’s response, though, does not, of course, address the larger yearning for an end to autocracy." "Those brave protesters have changed China’s national policy, and their broader yearning for rights can no more be extinguished than a virus; someday the Chinese Communist leadership will have to respond to that very human aspiration."