China's media might have been, with few exceptions, silent regarding the ongoing Burma crisis of following the official line of the sitting Burmese regime. But the Chinese internet has been following the developments closely, reports John Kennedy at Global Voices.
In China, popular support sides with what is now baptised the Saffron Revolution, he notes:
In China, popular support sides with what is now baptised the Saffron Revolution, he notes:
While Chinese authorities remain weaselly in their diplomatic response to Myanmar's fatal clampdown on the tens of thousands of monks and citizens of Yangon who have come out to rally for an end to the military dictatorship, a number of influential Chinese bloggers have taken the radical move of going against all known truths regarding The Chinese Mind as of Sept. 17, 2007 with some throwing their weight squarely behind the Saffron Revolution and others even using this incident as an opportunity to reflect on the state of China's own democratic movement.
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