Wait. How can a school admin vs public issue become a color revolution? That too in Chengdu, of all places?
Such disputes happen around the world (wherever schools exist).
incroyable
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Such disputes happen around the world (wherever schools exist).
incroyable
I dont see how the Chinese internal security agency cant find these people.
Use AI to find posts related to this incident. Then find if any people said "with the promise of 1 in xxx number getting 200 yuan as a way to inflate numbers and manufacture interest" and if they are in China arrest them and throw them to jail.
Then the people who ACCEPTED the money and reposted should also be thrown into administrative detention and warn them that another incident like themis will find them formally charged in court
Then also find out who participated into the protest and find out WHO made them "riot" (you know, similar to these HK protests...).
Investigate and charge them in court.
Seems that the Chinese State Security agency was caught sleeping at the wheel.
Don't they have AI tools to warn them if something happened that attracts a lot of attention?
The school was responsible but the protest was definitely straight out of the color revolution playbook.
Still I find it odd that they’d try something in Chengdu of all places. What failed in Hongkong has a chance of succeeding in the heartland of China?
Agitators can blend in with the protestors and start to change the overall message and tactics of the original protest. In Hong Kong, the protestors were originally against the NSL and peacefully protested, but agitators blended in with them and changed the peaceful protest to a violent pro-democracy and pro-independence color revolution. In short, a small ember can become inferno if the right conditions are met.
Yes.
@plawolf says that the protesters were Mandarin tongue.
Maybe the school had a bad reputation and history (scandals, corruption, abuse, extortion whatever) and that'd turn into general public being negative and cynical of the school.
Why a school of all places? Why Chengdu? What kind of school is this? What was the past record of the school? Had the school received bad rep in the past?
I haven't been keeping up with this news much in the last few days (until today) but I'm aware of it in the background.
The underlying issue is suicide by a high school student, he jumped off the school roof. Police have investigated this issue including viewing surveillance footage with his parents and found nothing nefarious. Seems to be mostly caused by emotional problem due to break up with girlfriend and bad relationship with his mother.
But prior to the police's final report settling the matter rumours were abound on Weibo and so on that it's a murder. Chengdu's education department were partly responsible for the situation because rather than being open and transparent about this they tried to play this matter down initially which gave opportunity for people to claim conspiracy like the principle had him killed because he took up an oversea scholarship position which the principle wanted for his own child etc.
Shortly after rumours started stirring other "odd" observance were found pointing to organised effort behind all the shit stirring:
Here is someone discussing how to spread word about this issue via paper notes. Note the Chinese entry method - this person is using bopomofo which is a defunct predecessor to pinyin, only in use in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan and some overseas Chinese.
Then people showed up in protest in front of the school gate. It was notable that they only speak mandarin and not Chengdu dialect and all the Chengdu locals do not recognise any of them. They were also photoed uniformly holding up white carnation. White carnation is almost unheard of as a symbol of mourning in China. Instead it's thought if you are photoed holding up white carnation it's easier to sell the photo to CIA handler as you having been at the event. In Chinese culture you pretty much only do wreaths to honour the dead.
Looks like MSS is on the case now. They've apparently already made arrests both among the "protestors" as well as people involved at
Beijing News.
Must be that 300 million US dollarydoos at work right here.
Just for my curious. Is the MSS is real official name? Any interesting story about them?
plawolf
Lieutenant General
New American administration with new people coming into key positions all over the place. Would not surprise me if it’s some hot head young ‘up and comer’ getting promoted to a position beyond his ability launching this op thinking they can take down ‘big bad China’ all by themselves and make themselves an urban legend overnight.