Comments on: Clinging To Life At The 18th National Congress? We’re Here To Help http://beijingcream.com/2012/11/clinging-to-life-at-the-18th-national-congress-were-here-to-help/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: » Friday Links: All the coverage you need of the 18th National Congress, Jiang Zemin’s lingering power, and console games coming to China? Beijing Cream http://beijingcream.com/2012/11/clinging-to-life-at-the-18th-national-congress-were-here-to-help/#comment-114432 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:30:48 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=6469#comment-114432 [...] We live-tweeted it, these guys live-blogged it. [South China Morning [...]

]]> By: » Which Province Watched Hu Jintao’s Speech Yesterday With More Rapt Attention? Beijing Cream http://beijingcream.com/2012/11/clinging-to-life-at-the-18th-national-congress-were-here-to-help/#comment-113652 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:29:28 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=6469#comment-113652 [...] has a theory that the people who organize the National Congress intentionally make it as boring as possible to test the outer limits of what “watchdog” [...]

]]> By: » Pictures From The 18th National Congress Beijing Cream http://beijingcream.com/2012/11/clinging-to-life-at-the-18th-national-congress-were-here-to-help/#comment-113279 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:00:52 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=6469#comment-113279 [...] coverage so far: Clinging to life; Twitter accounts [...]

]]> By: » Everyone’s Twitter Account Is Being Hacked In China Beijing Cream http://beijingcream.com/2012/11/clinging-to-life-at-the-18th-national-congress-were-here-to-help/#comment-112244 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:29:11 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=6469#comment-112244 [...] seeking to accomplish, denying China watchers, already near-comatose after Hu Jintao’s 100-some-minute speech this morning, their little corner in the buried-behind-the-great-firewall comedy [...]

]]> By: Ander http://beijingcream.com/2012/11/clinging-to-life-at-the-18th-national-congress-were-here-to-help/#comment-112203 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:45:17 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=6469#comment-112203 I was thinking that all morning when everywhere I saw police checking IDs of passers-by, generic soldiers frozen in place – snapping their heads like malfunctioning chickens, red arm banded volunteers milling about in gossip, big outdoor screens all in red with printed yellow slogans, Innovative & Patriotic posters plastered on every other advertising board, and then the CP18 broadcast live on all the closed-circuit metro monitors.

1984 with Chinese Characteristics!

]]> By: King Tubby http://beijingcream.com/2012/11/clinging-to-life-at-the-18th-national-congress-were-here-to-help/#comment-112136 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:45:42 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=6469#comment-112136 Tremendous stuff, Mon General.

]]> By: KopyKatKiller http://beijingcream.com/2012/11/clinging-to-life-at-the-18th-national-congress-were-here-to-help/#comment-112120 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:36:49 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=6469#comment-112120 My friend who works at People’s Daily as a “filterer” had to watch that speech. She messaged me the following:
“We are watching CCTV in the office.watching Hu talking bullshit.”
“…..I’m not listening.All he is saying I can recite acyually.
I recite the words when I learned Politics
Then I recited again in university
Now I have to recite every month”

My Response: “Welcome to 1984!”
Hahahaha!

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