Why do Vietnamese like bringing up the topic of where Xi send her daughter for school? If Vietnamese government Dung could afford Harvard for his kid he would send him there too. I'm sure there are Vietcong officials who send their sons and daughters to ivy league schools in US and Europe also.
My friend, I mentioned Harvard because that is where the report originated from, especially when you guys attacked the report without acknowledging who published the research report. It was also a side fact that Xi’s daughter also attended this same institution. BTW, I don’t find anything wrong with studying abroad, I’ve sometime mentioned here that I myself study abroad. And I could only wish that I’m smart or rich enough to study in a place such as Harvard like Xi’s daughter.
But back to what I intended to say, was that I don’t find the research report unbelievable like some here wanted to argue. 488 million posts per year may sound unbelievable but it is actually not, lets make a quick break down:
-488 million posts per year = 1.33 million posts per day.
-Now as an example, lets pretend there is a PDF member who has been here for about 2 years and made about 11,000 posts which is averaged about 15 posts per day.
-1.33million/15 = nearly 90,000.
- So to get around 488 million posts per year, we would need about 90,000 people. The Harvard research report said most of those posters are civil servants working under normal government departments, agencies, etc. And China employ millions and millions of civil servants/service workers, both inside and outside China so 90,000 is just a small fraction of that. Therefore, 488 million posts per year is totally believable.
BTW, let me reiterate that I personally don’t really see anything wrong with this tactic. If they are just posting topics that are, what the article calls, “cheerleading and happy-clappy” stuff, then there is nothing wrong to it. Posting stuff about China “cultural industry”, dragon boat race, trains, western china development, etc. is not really breaking any forum rules or harming anyone. In fact, I find the tactic very ingenious and resourceful as I personally know that low level office workers such as receptionists, human resource departments, IT admins, etc. often waste most of their time in the office playing on their phones, browsing the web, chit-chat with others, etc. so its very resourceful to give them these extra tasks instead of just sitting around and wasting time.