The epic eye roll that exposed the sham of China’s biggest political gathering

[gambit]

Wait.. they say there is no free expression of individualism in China and everyone is supposed to speak in one voice, how come we have so much joking and mocking on the Chiense social media?

This is where you are wrong on understanding the idea of 'freedom of expression'.

It is about being free to express your opinions without the fear of the government going after you. Obviously, the Chinese government cannot go after everyone. But the State can certainly go after this reporter. Or this artist...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-weiwei-how-chinese-artist-became-an-enemy-of-the-state/

That eye rolling was indeed funny as hell because the question the lady in red asked was rather boring.

Next time, I would like to suggest her to ask some tough questions such as why Chinese railways derail every few weeks and why Chinese navy vessels get hit by snail pace commercial vessels so often.

Errr, wait a minute ... sorry, wrong country.

You are correct. It would be the wrong country. Because our press are not controlled by the State.

 

[gambit]

She’ll probably have to find a job in Hong Kong and then people will point to it as proof saying that shows the whole episode was a staged evil Western Media conspiracy to make the Party look bad.

At the highest level, the main job of the press is to report the news. Nothing more. Nothing about the role and duty of the press.

But the Western model of the press is different. The role and duty of the press is to be ADVERSARIAL to the State. Report the news? Fine, we will do that. But digging deeper into why certain news took place? Not so for the Chinese press.

If we read the Chinese members' responses in this thread, not one of them said Liang Xiangyi was wrong. Instead, so far all they did was insult the US, as if somehow the flaws of democracy made more palatable the sham that is the Chinese press.

Liang Xiangyi's eyeroll made her a reporter in the mold of the Western press. She indirectly gone after the Chinese government. She did it thru the State's puppet -- the other servile reporter.

The fact that so far none of the Chinese members of this forum said Liang Xiangyi was wrong means one thing -- that they know she was RIGHT. That they instinctively know that the role and duty of the press, a truly free press, is to be adversarial to the State without the need to instructed or even led to do so.

 

[sinait]

At the highest level, the main job of the press is to report the news. Nothing more. Nothing about the role and duty of the press.

But the Western model of the press is different. The role and duty of the press is to be ADVERSARIAL to the State. Report the news? Fine, we will do that. But digging deeper into why certain news took place? Not so for the Chinese press.

If we read the Chinese members' responses in this thread, not one of them said Liang Xiangyi was wrong. Instead, so far all they did was insult the US, as if somehow the flaws of democracy made more palatable the sham that is the Chinese press.

Liang Xiangyi's eyeroll made her a reporter in the mold of the Western press. She indirectly gone after the Chinese government. She did it thru the State's puppet -- the other servile reporter.

The fact that so far none of the Chinese members of this forum said Liang Xiangyi was wrong means one thing -- that they know she was RIGHT. That they instinctively know that the role and duty of the press, a truly free press, is to be adversarial to the State without the need to instructed or even led to do so.

The fact that so far none of the Chinese members of this forum said Liang Xiangyi was wrong means one thing -- that they know she was RIGHT.

Liang Xiangyi eyeroll sure is funny and entertaining.
But it is NOT RIGHT to show such condescending rudeness to another journalist in front of a live show however idiotic the other person may be.
I guess refugees from 3rd world war torn countries never learned how to be civil.
.

 

[Solomon2]

The fact that so far none of the Chinese members of this forum said Liang Xiangyi was wrong means one thing -- that they know she was RIGHT. That they instinctively know that the role and duty of the press, a truly free press, is to be adversarial to the State without the need to instructed or even led to do so.

The mainland Chinese I've met seem to have some sort of internal gauge about the acceptable limits in their culture. It is your belief that Eyeroll Girl remains within these limits?

 

[313ghazi]

Zhang, who introduced herself as the operating director of a US-based broadcaster, cheerfully asked an official a question relating to China’s “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure plan. Rather than directly asking a question, Zhang used most of her 44 seconds (video) to summarize China’s achievements in the area.

Footage of Liang rolling her eyes and turning her head backwards in apparent displeasure instantly went viral, and inspired a series of GIFs, video parodies, and other memes on China’s internet. Censors moved quickly to block people from searching Liang’s name on Weibo, China’s most popular microblogging service. A report from Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said that Liang’s media accreditation to cover the legislative meetings was revoked, citing one of her colleagues.

So
- woman in red is brown nosing during the Q&A
- Woman in blue either disapproves of brown nosing or disagrees with the statement
- This goes viral? Why - do Chinese people not have different opinions on things?
- Then the content is allegedly censored - if true this is pathetic. Only the weak need to resort to censorship like this. Of course western media tells lies about China all the time. How do we know if it truly has been censored?

 

[Götterdämmerung]

You are correct. It would be the wrong country. Because our press are not controlled by the State.

Indeed, the US media is not controlled by the state, it's controlled by the deep state: http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/operation-mockingbird/#

 

[Viet]

Really epic

Chinese censorship has no humor.

Is it true Xi Jinping has ordered her employer to fire Liang immediately?

Should she feel unsafe in China, both Vietnam and Germany welcome political refugees.

https://amp.tagesspiegel.de/politik...ird-zum-fall-fuer-chinas-zensur/21071570.html

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Really epic

Chinese censorship has no humor.

Is it true Xi Jinping has ordered her employer to fire Liang immediately?

Should she feel unsafe in China, both Vietnam and Germany welcome political refugees.

https://amp.tagesspiegel.de/politik...ird-zum-fall-fuer-chinas-zensur/21071570.html

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Und du lernst mal vernünftig Deutsch, min Jung!



And yet, China is far more advanced than filthy and backward India.

was meinst du? ist es noch nicht gut genug? ich werde vielleicht sterben, bevor ich diese scheiße Sprache völlig beherrsche.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

was meinst du? ist es noch nicht gut genug? ich werde vielleicht sterben, bevor ich diese scheiße Sprache völlig beherrsche.

Keiner zwingt dich, hier zu leben.

 

[terranMarine]

https://russia-insider.com/en/media...istle-cia-media-control-drops-dead-56/ri18544

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Keiner zwingt dich, hier zu leben.

ich habe viel Geld investiert. Wenn du mir mein Geld und meine Zeit zurückgeben kannst, gehe ich gern zurück. Jetzt ist es zu spät, meine Meinung zu ändern.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

ich habe viel Geld investiert. Wenn du mir mein Geld und meine Zeit zurückgeben kannst, gehe ich gern zurück. Jetzt ist es zu spät, meine Meinung zu ändern.

Dein Pech!

 

[yantong1980]

Really epic

Chinese censorship has no humor.

Is it true Xi Jinping has ordered her employer to fire Liang immediately?

Should she feel unsafe in China, both Vietnam and Germany welcome political refugees.

https://amp.tagesspiegel.de/politik...ird-zum-fall-fuer-chinas-zensur/21071570.html

LOL, yes Viet like you should share Germany problem with Mid-East 'refugee', every s***s that rejected from their original country should welcomed in your house, the radicals, anarchist, rebels, fake freedom fighters, corruptors, tax evaders, I truly doubt Vietnam will share your concern, remember why? Your beloved Vietnam was another communist regimes.

Gambit, there's any your super duper free-world media that openly and harshly critized your states foreign policy or try to dig-deeper into something that 'states-doesn't-want-you-to-know' stuff?

 

[beijingwalker]

What about this one? The girl is beautiful but it seems that they are having some problems..