This is an amazing piece. To censor China's internet, the censors have to be taught the real version of Chinese history so that they know what to block. https://nyti.ms/2RtIarX pic.twitter.com/SPgZfy6zwq
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This is an amazing piece. To censor China's internet, the censors have to be taught the real version of Chinese history so that they know what to block. https://nyti.ms/2RtIarX pic.twitter.com/SPgZfy6zwq
In their defense, I doubt most Americans know what happened at Tiananmen Square. Or if they do, they think it was just a guy getting run over a tank he was standing up to.
Americans not knowing about history beyond their borders is nothing new or shocking. But these are Chinese not knowing Chinese history because their government wants to hide it.
Americans tend not to know about the more juicy bits of their history either, especially what they did to other countries since WW2. Even the true background of Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin incident are not widely known in the US.
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