| > she should be more polite about it My motto has always been that I should be polite to any reasonable counterparts. I have dealt with CCP members before, a lot of them high officials. Those are reasonable people. I see no reason to not be polite. But I did not suggest Zhang Zhan to be polite particularly. I suggest her keep her safe and healthy, such that she can educate the mass. You can call this absurd, but your assessment would be more convincing if you can give the evidences. One call Gahdi absurd, and see what he achieved... > She brought this on herself for not accepting the terms of a made-up agreement No, CCP put her in prison according to some law. She did hungry strike out of her own western influenced values. To call this brought her onto her self, it's a misread. I never intended to depict that kind of image. I guess it was my English doing a disservice. > she was not actually offered that's not actually mentioned in the article I mean, this is pretty much the norm in china. Political issues are always solved with some back channel. Zhang Zhan would refuse to accept such term. And she obviously decide to show her anger by hungry strike. That's separate from the fact that the government can jail her on the ground of some dubious evidences and some previously enacted laws. All in all, that's not to say one can blame herself for such suffering. That's not what I said, and not what I believe. Well, it probably was my English doing me a disservice here again. > This woman put her life on the line to do the whole world a service in a time of crisis Not sure if you have watched her video. Her video is about people and business suffering during the lockdown. Just like a lot of businesses are closed here in US, some random guy is going to post video about it. And showing great emotions about that. Viewers are moved and calling the lockdown inhuman violating human rights etc. Look, one even refuse the vaccine... Is that a service to the world. Sure. Is it extraordinary? I don't see that. I mean, it's a pandemic. Lockdown or not, no one knows how bad it would have been. And human history has no previous example of a large country like China can successfully extinguish a more than usual coronacirus before wide spreading. She of course should not be jailed for posting videos. But to say she is some kind of Nobel character who did great benefit, is just plainly baseless. > Her situation now reflects nothing more than the umbrage her government has taken with information getting out to the rest of the world about what was really happening in Wuhan You can find a lot of vlog type video on what's happened during lockdown. Nothing too terrible. Just like what we experienced last March or so... You are writing a lot of haunting words without much evidences. Don't fall for the MSM propaganda... BBC's deliberate video editing has been ridiculed on YouTube constantly. One example: BBC PSed trees to grey in order to show a gloomy scene out of nowhere... https://youtu.be/eS8EceIa1MQ |