Wang Lijun, Social Media, and China's Power Struggles
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Wang Lijun, Social Media, and China's Power Struggles
For more news and videos visit ➡ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ➡ http Add us on Facebook ➡ on.fb.me The political scandal surrounding Wang Lijun and Bo Xilai is showing a power struggle within the Chinese Communist Party. In the past, the Party's propaganda department kept a tight rein on information. But today, the Internet and social media are changing how inner Party politics play out. The scandal involving former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun is bringing to light larger power struggles within the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. And one of the biggest ways it's doing that is through social media. [Chen Zhifei, NTD Senior Analyst]: "It's really very instrumental in changing people's attitudes, in bringing news%mdashit changed the whole society." After Wang Lijun fled to the US consulate two weeks ago, he was taken to Beijing by Chinese state security officials. At first, Chinese state-run media reported that he was on a "vacation-style medical treatment," due to stress on the job. But China's social media, especially microblogs like Sina, exploded with a very different take on the situation. [Chen Zhifei, NTD Senior Analyst]: "If you go online, you could see the pictures...you could see police vehicles surrounding the compound of the American consulate in Chengdu. It's remarkable." People are getting their news through social media because it's harder to censor than traditional media. Sheer volume means that deleted or censored information can be quickly ... From: NTDTV Views: 35 1 ratings Time: 02:50 More in News & Politics
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George Gilder on "The Israel Test," Obama, the Internet...and the Gays?
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George Gilder on "The Israel Test," Obama, the Internet...and the Gays?
"What [President Barack Obama] is doing to the US energy economy couldn't be done with a nuclear bomb," says author George Gilder, who adds that if "Newt [Gingrich] wasn't such a jerk" he'd make a great president. Over the past 40 years, Gilder Gilder has been not just one of the most influential public intellectuals but one of the most perplexing. He's a utopian visionary who simultaneously predicted the rise of the World Wide Web and the liberatory power of networked computing while fretting that the erosion of traditional gender roles is destroying the country; as co-founder of The Discovery Institute, he's a major proponent of intelligent design theory as well. His 1981 best-seller, Wealth and Poverty, made such a persuasive case for what became known as supply-side economics that it became the bible of the Reagan Revolution. In it, Gilder used the work of anthropologist Marcel Mauss to argue that capitalism is a "gift economy" in which entrepreneurs create demand by offering up new goods and services, typically at a loss. Visonary volumes such as Microcosm (1989) and Life After Television (1990) anticipated the rise of the Internet as a mass medium that would replace hierarchy with "hetarchy" or distributed intelligence and power. His latest book, The Israel Test, argues that anti-Semitism and the anti-capitalist mentality are effectively the same thing and that Israel provides the best-available model of social organization, a blend of knowledge-based economy and ... From: ReasonTV Views: 5236 158 ratings Time: 21:22 More in News & Politics