China's Biggest Problem with Free Speech Rhetoric

This video explains the logic behind China's censorship system. References are down below. Connect with me on social media (China look & bite-sized thoughts): Ins:   / siming_lan   Twitter:   / siminglan   Blog: https://siminglan.home.blog/ References (by topic): //China’s political culture: Pines, Y. (2000) ‘The One That Pervades the All" in Ancient Chinese Political thought: The Origins of "The Great Unity" Paradigm’, T'oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 86, pp. 280-324 Lu, C., Yan, T. (2022) ‘Revisiting Chinese Political Culture: The Historical Politics Approach’, Chinese Political Science Review (2022) 7:160–180 Teets, J (2014) Civil Society under Authoritarianism The China Model, Cambridge University Press, chapter 1 Deibert, R. et al. (2008) (eds) Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, The MIT Press, Chapter 6 //Social media and its role in the Arab Spring: Pew Research Center (2012) ‘The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings’, available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/journalis... Mehdıyev, N (2020) ‘The Media and Social Networks as factors in the ‘Colour Revolutions’, Technium Social Sciences Journal, Vol.11, pp. 364-370, //Snowden reveal about ‘the Five Eyes’ The Guardian (2013) ‘GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications’, available at: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/j... More information: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... https://www.theguardian.com/technolog... //Reports of the Arab Spring (by China & US) Nixon, R. (2011) ‘U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings’, The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/wo... GT staff reporters (2021) ‘GT Investigates: US wages global colour revolutions to topple governments for the sake of American control’: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20211... //Survey of Chinese people’s opinions on government: Cunningham, E., Saich, T. & Turiel, J (2020) ‘Understanding CCP resilience: Surveying Chinese Public Opinion through Time’, available at: https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/... // Global Media landscape: Nordenstreng, K. (1974) ‘Television Traffic: A One-Way Street? A Survey and Analysis of the International Flow of Television Programme Material’: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Ipsos report of the reach of international media ranking: https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/20... Timestamps: Intro 0:00-1:53 The trigger 1:53-3:20 Why the West disagrees 3:20-4:32 China’s political culture 4:32-6:10 Why China doesn’t trust the West 6:10-9:51 China’s disadvantage 9:51-12:37 Chit chat 12:37-14:24 Tags: Chinese politics, free speech, internet censorship, orientalism, western media, Chinese society, Hong Kong, National Security Law 2020, CCP, Snowden reveal, communism, socialism with Chinese characteristics, confucianism, east asian politics, jonny harris, nathan rich, Chinese nationalism, social commentary, internet analysis, video essay, xi jinping, autocracy, authoritarian, century of humiliation, imperial china, colonialism, modern history, mao zedong, the qing dynasty, history of china, imperialism #censorship #freespeech #chinesepolitics