As hundreds of Libyan rebel fighters entered the capital of Tripoli in their final push to bring an end to Moammar Gadhafi’s 42-year rule, media reports showed the Libyan people gathered in celebration—and Chinese celebrated along with them—though not the Chinese regime.
Despite the Chinese communist regime’s official mouthpiece Xinhua deeming the celebration a “riot” and its foreign ministry calling on Libya to “return to stability for its people to be able to lead normal lives,” the Chinese public has decided to think outside the official propaganda box and celebrate with the Libyan people, with some even hoping to overthrow their own totalitarian government.
In response to another netizen who quoted Xinhua calling the celebration a riot, netizen Extradimensional Dust said the “correct interpretation” of the words from the Communist Party’s official mouthpiece is to interpret the opposite of what is said.”
“While watching the celebration live on [Chinese media] Dragon TV, the anchor kept on repeating the Libyan people chose an alternative political system,” another netizen wrote. “I got so confused. Couldn’t she just say they at last got freedom and democracy?”
Unconvinced by the state spin, Chinese expressed their excitement for the Libyan people while enjoying their own limited freedom of speech on Sina Weibo, a microblogging service that replaced Twitter after it was banned.
“Best wishes to the Libyan people. Long live democracy! Long live freedom!” said one netizen, while others joined the cheer and marked the event “a civil victory” earned by the “outstanding Libyan people.”
Despite constant interference from people alleging to be part of China’s 50-Cent Party, people hired by the regime to post comments favorable toward the government to sway public opinion, Chinese netizens ridiculed the Communist Party for its long-term ties with dictators in the Arab world.
But the ridicule was always in veiled language.
“Seems like the Chinese regime is losing its friends,” one netizen said, while another wrote, “One could easily tell what someone is like by looking at his friends.”
Commenting on a photo of Arab leaders at the 2010 Arab-African summit, a netizen said, “From Tunisia’s ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh to Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak—seems like being China’s old friends is quite dangerous.”
“With old friends one leaving after another, it must be quite lonely to be left here,” netizen xiaolz said.
And the Chinese people, after being under the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party rule for six decades, can barely wait for their turn.
{etRelated 60623}While one netizen asked if the Chinese will have a day like this someday, another netizen said, “And the next? Who? When?” referring to Chinese communist leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, whose last names are homophones of “who” and “when” respectively.
“You know,” said netizen Fog in Mt. huang after looking at the group photo of ousted Arab leaders. “This photographer should be invited to China some time to take a commemorative photo for some of the Chinese leaders.”
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