| The question and answer are likely planned. CCP wanted that answer out. It will reach its intended audience: upcoming generation of party leadership; young and affluent non-CCP Chinese; nationalist Chinese; law and order Chinese. I think that substantial and important subset will be satisfied with the answer. The rest are busy chasing virtual butterflies glued to their "smart assistant" (a feature, not a bug) just like their counterparts over here. And the fact of its being discussed rather diminishes that propaganda card. > It's a pretty simple equation. Why would any state have to spend so much explicit effort on making no one mention it, if there was nothing really wrong with it? > elephant in the room You mean like two modern skyscraper crumbling into dust in a handful of seconds which one must not mention in respectable society unless repeating the "party line"? Like those two elephants? Should we discuss the official fact finding efforts for additional black humor, and then revisit the "universal obedience" phenomena? > The near universal obedience seen among the population would seem very foreign to most people in the west. Which is in itself an interesting cultural question. Laughable and racist. (See "conspiracy theory" for disambiguation.) |
Are you suggesting that the US government suppresses discussion of 9/11, similar to China and Tiananmen? That's a strange opinion, I've heard lots of discussion about 9/11, there is even a museum about it.