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Since our live blogging of Obama's town hall meeting with Chinese students earlier today, a few interesting things have come to light.
First of all, it seems that many of the students that were in the audience were actually shanzai plants. Turns out one of the fake students to ask Obama a question was in fact the Vice Director of Daily Affairs for the Communist Youth League at Fudan University's Graduate School, and another was in fact a teacher who just happened to look young: you can read his blog about teaching here (if you can read Chinese). Sneaky, China, sneaky.
Secondly, we found a video of Obama replying to the question about internet freedom in China and around the world. In case you had the misfortune of watching the town hall meeting pretty much anywhere besides the live stream offered by the White House, it seems like the Chinese media censored a lot of the president's response to this question. In any case, enough people in China heard it to prompt a quick response: Google China's top searches this afternoon were "What is Twitter?" and "Obama Shanghai." Pretty cool, though we do feel bad that Obama's slow thumbs keep him from Tweeting. Which only makes us question: who are we following on BarackObama @ Twitter?
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he still can use twitter like i do with this VPN
How are they a plant if you can read his blog about teaching...
Just to clarify, the town hall meeting was to meet the "future Chinese youth leaders", http://www.examiner.com/x-19673-Michelle-Obama-Examiner~y2009m11d15-Barack-Obama-town-hall-China-youth-future-leaderswatch-live, or according to People's daily, "it is a dialogue with Chinese youth"
http://www.xinhuanet.com/world/obama/. It was never claimed to be exclusively with students. So I am not sure the "sneaky" part is appropriate.
Props to Obama for making a stand against Internet censorship -- although he should've followed in the footsteps of Reagan in Berlin: "Mr. Hu, tear down this (fire)wall!"
I guess none of the expats here know what the Communist Youth League is or can read Chinese well. Communist Youth League is a student organization, it is the stage before becoming communist member, league membership expires when the person is accepted as a communist party member, or passes certain age (no longer a youth).
P.S. your link clearly indicates the person is a student (it says "list of student officers"), the Director of the Youth League is just like the Director of the Berkeley College Republicans.
It is a shame that some anti-China band-wagoners are jumping onto your piece of joke, so far I see the Economist as the major mass media, will people do some due-diligence?