Saturday, October 22, 2011
Et tu, China?
Much to the unease of the authorities, even the Chinese are expressing sympathy for #OCCUPY WALL STREET.
On Oct. 6, Occupy Wall Street inspired some little-noticed sympathy in Zhengzhou, a city in central China's Henan province, when hundreds of pensioners and Communist Party members gathered to express their solidarity with the movement.But the leadership is disturbed by the globalization of the discontent with the appearance of local complaints.
Photos show a small group of demonstrators, many wearing red armbands, holding a banner that reads, "Resolutely support the American People’s mighty Wall Street Revolution."
Within the last few days, state-owned media have begun to significantly downplay the movement.Like all power structures the CCP is happy when the trouble starts over there, not so much when it gets close to home.
There is currently no mention of Occupy Wall Street on the website of the New China News Agency, the state news service.
"I think the government wants to keep its distance from this event. You can take a look at CCTV; reports on this event have been scarce," said Jin Canrong, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, referring to the state broadcaster.
Censors have also begun restricting discussion of Occupy Wall Street on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter, but have stopped short of blocking it outright.
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