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wikileaks

One piece from wikileaks facebook page capture the essence of the wikileaks: “America has demonized it. Chinese have blocked it. Iran called it as mischief. Russia called it ridicules. But, we the people want it saved.”

I was first aghast at how real politics is conducted behind the doors. (Alright, I was naive to think they were different. ) But later, all governments are trying to censor it. It appears more and more to me that wikileaks represents a movement to decentralize the flow of information, to counter the control of information by government and multinationals. No one doubts that this counter-act is a double-edged sword, whose consequences are yet to see.

Migrants to China’s West Bask in Prosperity – NYTimes.com

Demographics have always been a tactical element of the campaign to pacify the region. In 1949, when the Communists declared the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, there were just 300,000 Han Chinese in Xinjiang. Today, the number of Han has grown to 7.5 million, just over 40 percent of the region’s population. The percentage of Uighurs has fallen to 45 percent, or about 8.3 million.

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But any sense of bitterness has faded. “We were serving the motherland,” he said, waving off the adulation of a visitor. “The glory belongs to the party. I’m just one drop of water in the ocean.”

via Migrants to China’s West Bask in Prosperity – NYTimes.com.

I know it can be interpreted as successful brainwashing by government propaganda, but when such words are  from a 94-years old, who fought the war, left his hometown, and have helped built an oasis out of nothing, it is more than just reiteration of what the government has instilled. The soul has been tested and the words make a resounding voice in me. The kind of dedication and submission of oneself to a higher good is something my generation can hardly understand. Everyone lives for a purpose, and for him, the party is the higher purpose. He certainly fulfilled that purpose well.