Sunday, February 16, 2014

"Chinese Ask Kerry to Help Tear Down a Firewall"

"A group of Chinese bloggers asked the United States to take up the cause of Internet freedom in an unusual meeting on Saturday with Secretary of State John Kerry."
One by one, the bloggers voiced concerns to Mr. Kerry, who arrived here on Friday to discuss regional issues with China’s leaders, that the ability of Chinese citizens to gain access to information was under siege and that the country’s prospects for becoming a democracy were uncertain at best.
“Will you get together with the Chinese who aspire for freedom” and help “tear down this great firewall that blocks the Internet?” asked Zhang Jialong, a reporter for Tencent Finance, a division of China’s largest social media company.
Click the NY Times for the rest of the article.

3 comments:

Shouting Thomas said...

They might be asking the wrong guy, huh?

edutcher said...

Lurch is on the Commies' side, but, of course, that isn't seared, seared, into their consciousness.

ricpic said...

O naive idealistic Chinamen, reading love of freedom in the inscrutable occidental John Kerry. How I pity you.