My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
AI WEIWEIA clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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