The scale and massiveness of the net users in China, inside and outside among 1.4 billion people, scattered around the world, is phenomenal.
And most Western news media today don't have a clue.
Consider that Yahoo, Google, and YouTube are now the new media, combined with Ali Baba, Sinacom, Sohu, and a host of new media inside China; and Chinese netizens are savvier and madder than hell about what they are seeing in London, Paris, and San Francisco in the insults heaped upon China and its people.
This story has grown legs of their own. And among over 240 netizens, there is a new "culture shift" in the making.
June 4th, 1989 was a cable TV event; CNN trumps all media in its coverage. Then, China's youth supported the protesters.
This time around, on "Black" April, the week surrounding the Olympics torch relay happenings in London, Paris, and San Francisco, youths in China are reacting against insults heaped by the West against the Beijing Olympics games on 08/08/08.
And unlike June 4th Tienanmen, this time, China's youth are supporting their own country and society to protest against Western bias, bigotry, arrogance, in their uncivil hectoring through their "biased lenses" against China over "Tibet," "Dafur" and a host of human rights, environmental issues.
Set aside the merits, hyperbole, or the demerits of these issues, the bashing from the WEST has backfired. Instead of achieving its aim to engage China's officials to a dialogue, it has stiffened resistance not just among Chinese officialdom, but tick off the ordinary masses and youths of China.
And the Dalai Lama's gambit to ignite his "saffron revolution" inside TIBET, has ended up as a "dud" and other than in the Western world, His Holluness has no market in China or in the non-Western world. No Chinese inside or outside China belives what the Dolly said and cannot reconcile what his troops do with the "I" word.
This time, China's youths are not naively persuaded by the Western news media, least of all CNN.
On that contrary, they are madder than hell against CNN. And this time, Ted Turner is no longer in charge of CNN-Time Warner. At least in 1989, Ted Turner has more common sense than the present CNN-Time Warner management which do not have a clue.
What an irony; and what a "sea change." And the story is yet to be told.
Blogosphere is full of mobilized and energized netizens from inside and outside China. And as Yahoo.com (through its Reuters news service) reports, the scale of internet users has yet to be reported much less understood; click on:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/tc_nm/china_internet_dc
Welcome to blogosphere. Welcome to the new world of globalization and new media.
You ain't seen nuthing yet. The fat lady has not sung.
