Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Most people have already heard western media reactions to Google leaving China proper and redirecting search traffic to its Hong Kong branch, but ChinaSMACK has translated comments from average Chinese internet users so that non-Chinese can understand how the Chinese public feels. While many of them are supportive of the government on some level, they were able to obtain many comments by those critical of the government before they could be 'harmonized' (deleted) and translated those as well. The deleted comments often complain about the wumao (50 cent party), government employees who are paid 50 cents RMB per post supporting the government, and worry that the Chinese Internet will become a Chinese LAN."

Re:What is the atmosphere inside China?

[Anonymous Coward]

>>But from my experience with mainland Chinese, they are for the most part satisfied with their government's actions.

Indeed. My wife (who is Chinese) was born and raised in Hong Kong, and so has no love for mainland China. Probably had something to do with her grandpa getting tortured during the cultural revolution...

She refuses to visit mainland China, so I went by myself. People there are actually very happy with their government, in a sort of "Yeah it's a dictatorship but everything is moving in the right direction" way. They actually like that shit gets done there. Got a shitty village in the way of the interstate? Move. No pissy little lawsuits there to slow things down. And then the interstate is done... in a tenth of the time it would take in America. They actually mocked our gridlock in America.

Anyhow, her aunt and uncle still live in China, and recently moved to mainland China. They're Christian missionaries... oh wait, that's illegal... they're Christians, and they do charity work. If anyone would hate China, it'd be them - father tortured, they could possibly be executed for being Christian... and they approve of the government. Not just "oh well, it's better than Zimbabwe", but they actually think the country is doing well, and will do even better in the future. Sure, there's a few problems, they say, but they'll be fixed in the future.

While most of the Chinese people I talked to were rather ignorant about news (nationally and internationally), pretty much all of them liked the government.

Re:Good Lord not ChinaSMACK

[djluo]

well, here is China's version of /. http://solidot.org/ [solidot.org]

BBC Take on this.

[Anonymous Coward]

The BBC has an article up which is slightly less inflammatory than this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8583006.stm

I was in a hot tub with a Chinese national and she

[BlackBloq]

I was in a hot tube with a Chinese national and she was sooooooo convinced that Taiwan is "owned" by China and she basically parroted the party line down to every illogical point. She was fresh off the boat, I would like to see her opinion after she gets to see an unfiltered reality, without paid fake people telling her a fake reality. The Chinese government even tracks its own dissidents, and plants undercover agents inside of the groups while out of country! It's like they live in the matrix! Time to unplug meatbags, don't fear the truth!

Re:Fol the love of God.

[santax]

OK in short. Germany had made a pact with Russia, to divide Poland (molotov-pact). Germany made a claim on Poland province Danzig. Poland would not give the province and Hitler invaded. At that point France and England declared war. Poland is not on the route to France, it is the route to Russia. So I don't know why they told you that they did it to get to France... They invaded France first by the Maginot line, which was heavily fortified, so Hitler declared war on Belgium, this route would lead to Paris and the collapse of France, bypassing the heavily fortified French/German border by choosing the not fortified Belgium/France border.

I hope he can FIND a nice Chinese girl

[alispguru]

Given the current generation's sex imbalance, that is.

Re:What is the atmosphere inside China?

[shutdown -p now]

North Koreans like their government too.

We don't know for sure either way, but all 3 accounts of foreign tourists in NK that I've read myself mention the bit where, if their guide was to be away / not looking, the braver locals would jump at the opportunity to start a conversation, and most questions would be of the kind "so what life really is like in SK / USA / elsewhere?" (with the implication that it surely must be better).