Community | September 30, 2009 | 8 comments

China celebrates 60 years tomorrow

source: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/09/30/china-celebrates-60-years/

Image
afitzgerald
Tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

FROM THE BLOG:
Preparations have been taking place in Beijing for weeks as China gets ready to celebrate its 60th year of communist rule.

Washington Post writes up the security situation in advance of the big day: Beijing locked down ahead of national day parade

"Officials have been coy about what threats they fear but say they are not over-reacting, pointing to recent protests in the remote regions of Tibet and Xinjiang as a reminder that the country is vulnerable to security threats."

And meanwhile, the Empire State Building has generated some controversy by renting out its lights to the celebrations, attracting protests: A Red and Yellow Glow for Celebration, and for Protest

"Not everyone in New York thought this was an especially wise move, including 20 or so pro-Tibet protesters who stood outside the building’s Fifth Avenue entrance on Wednesday morning to denounce the Empire State’s collaboration with a regime that has harshly occupied Tibet for the last five decades. They carried signs bearing slogans like “Mao’s Empire State Building.”
  1. groups:
    Community,   Current Tonight,   News_Featured
  2. tags:
    News,  China,  News_Featured,  PRC,  1 more
  3.     
    |

8 comments // China celebrates 60 years tomorrow

  • samthesixth
  • rtravs
    • 0
      rtravs  

    • YEA!!! Let's hear it for a government that has killed TENS OF MILLIONS in 60 years. YEA!!!

      The Great Leap Forward! The Cultural Revolution! Millions upon millions tortured and killed!!!

      What a country! What a celebration!

      Party time in China, baby!!! Too bad Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot couldn't be there to help blow out the candles!

      Yea!!! Oh, look who just arrived! It's the GHOSTS OF TIANAMEN SQUARE...thousands of dead students and young people.

      They fought to be free and then were TORTURED AND MURDERED by this partyin' crowd!

      Oh goodness gracious--everyone makes mistakes, I guess!

      Hey China, where's the guy who stood in fron of the tanks??? Ooops!!! You tortured and killed him, too??? Yeah, baby!!!

      Cool!!! LET'S PAAARRRTYYY!!!!!

      Torture, murder and EAT CAKE!!!

      Happy 60th, KILLERS!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • bdub4u
    • 0
      bdub4u  

    • ok im not condoning human rights abuses but

      OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE
      CHINA IS THE FUTURE

      Ever notice how they can do things that we can't? like oh i dunno, allot 600 billion to renewable energy over the next decade??? these things get mucked up in our democracy and we can get em passed. Sometimes I wonder... I realize as a believer in the western cannon and human rights, self acualization, free markets, individuality, privacy, etc. I may sound blasphemous right now. But hey, how authentic is our democracy anyway?? At least China provides real economic opportunities, the poor get poorer in america by voting against their own interestes, while the Chinese have lifted 400 million ppl out of poverty!!
      THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE IN HUMAN HISTORY!!!

      Can america do that? no.

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
  • JanforGore
  • JanforGore
  • EtVoila
  • afitzgerald
more from Community:
from the community

top videos