The protest movements of the Arab countries do not stop, indeed, run on the web and reach the far east Asia. The government of China fears that the Revolution broke out in the country of jasmine and blocked at an early stage the protest organized by groups of people yesterday in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and in ten other major cities.
On Saturday, Chinese President Hu Jintao, speaking to the government representatives of the regions at the opening of a seminar at the Central Party School in Beijing, has stressed the need to monitor more closely the Internet and guide public opinion. Not to mention the unrest and riots that are shaking Egypt, the Middle East, Bahrain and Libya said that although China is becoming more prosperous, it must also face an escalation of social conflicts that puts a strain on the 'the party's ability to keep everything under control.
The day after the speech of Hu Jintao, the government has blocked telephone conversations and Web sites that incite people to rise up and emulate the Revolution of jasmine. The first message appeared on Boxun. com, the site of a virtual community created by Watson Meng of China which is the first example of journalism in China and that is one of the most important alternative sources of news.
Boxun. com is able to publish a video of the small event in Beijing (see video). The appeal that was circulating on the Net is bounced through a few sites run by overseas Chinese activists escaped. The message read: "You and I are the people of China still has a dream for the future. We must act responsibly for the future of our children.
" The protesters should have been shouting the slogans "We want food," "We want a home," "We want justice," "Long live freedom" and "Long live democracy." Is required to improve the conditions of material life, then, is to respect human rights. The Chinese government has taken this very seriously attempted revolt.
The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong estimated that over 100 activists were taken away by police or placed under house arrest or simply disappeared. In a few months, probably, you will know of their detention. These disappearances are added to the lawyers put to prison last week, during a meeting to decide how to help Cheng Guangcheng, activist illegally put under house arrest after four years in prison for denouncing more than 7 thousand between sterilizations and forced abortions by the government.
China has also blocked the Twitter search for "Jasmine", and any attempt to include it in the personal pages of social networking is a message that invites us not to post inappropriate messages. The word also can not seek on various search engines. This time the Chinese Revolution of jasmine seems thwarted.
Some small glimmer of openness can be seen, however, by the authorities. Differently than usual, the organ of government, Xinhua reported that police had three people thrown in jail after a protest gathering of People's Square in Shanghai, in the heart of the city. The human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang said that it is very difficult for the Chinese government change, but what happened shows that the transformations in Chinese society and "unites and strengthens people's minds." Above all, it shows that politicians can control the dissidents, but they can not prevent people to unite in a common purpose, because these meetings are organized spontaneously and not from above.
The attempt to organize a revolution of jasmine in China, although no major consequences in the political and social points out two very important things new. First of all, shows that China is not impervious to the global trend of requests for improvement of living conditions, which invests the Arab countries: China, in short, is no longer a country in itself, open to the rest of the world's only commercially but closed socially and politically in itself.
The people reflects the changing needs of other countries and makes her own, as if the example that comes from outside gave the floodgates to make their voices heard. The other remarkable fact is the impact of the Internet in China has more than 450 million people, the wishes of citizens.
It began in 2008 with the protest of Tibetans in Lhasa, who was traveling on the Web, and still continues. If the central government will not open to the substantial reforms to the benefit not only of Tibetans, Uighurs and Falun Gong activists but also of ordinary citizens, the social stability of China will be increasingly undermined and nothing will obscure sites, break links with phone or impede the free use of social networking.
We have already seen in Nepal in April 2006, when the time is right to protest by militant groups, though severely repressed, also runs on the web has become popular revolution. At that point, nothing and no longer able to stop the winds of change. Enrica Garzilli 
On Saturday, Chinese President Hu Jintao, speaking to the government representatives of the regions at the opening of a seminar at the Central Party School in Beijing, has stressed the need to monitor more closely the Internet and guide public opinion. Not to mention the unrest and riots that are shaking Egypt, the Middle East, Bahrain and Libya said that although China is becoming more prosperous, it must also face an escalation of social conflicts that puts a strain on the 'the party's ability to keep everything under control.
The day after the speech of Hu Jintao, the government has blocked telephone conversations and Web sites that incite people to rise up and emulate the Revolution of jasmine. The first message appeared on Boxun. com, the site of a virtual community created by Watson Meng of China which is the first example of journalism in China and that is one of the most important alternative sources of news.
Boxun. com is able to publish a video of the small event in Beijing (see video). The appeal that was circulating on the Net is bounced through a few sites run by overseas Chinese activists escaped. The message read: "You and I are the people of China still has a dream for the future. We must act responsibly for the future of our children.
" The protesters should have been shouting the slogans "We want food," "We want a home," "We want justice," "Long live freedom" and "Long live democracy." Is required to improve the conditions of material life, then, is to respect human rights. The Chinese government has taken this very seriously attempted revolt.
The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong estimated that over 100 activists were taken away by police or placed under house arrest or simply disappeared. In a few months, probably, you will know of their detention. These disappearances are added to the lawyers put to prison last week, during a meeting to decide how to help Cheng Guangcheng, activist illegally put under house arrest after four years in prison for denouncing more than 7 thousand between sterilizations and forced abortions by the government.
China has also blocked the Twitter search for "Jasmine", and any attempt to include it in the personal pages of social networking is a message that invites us not to post inappropriate messages. The word also can not seek on various search engines. This time the Chinese Revolution of jasmine seems thwarted.
Some small glimmer of openness can be seen, however, by the authorities. Differently than usual, the organ of government, Xinhua reported that police had three people thrown in jail after a protest gathering of People's Square in Shanghai, in the heart of the city. The human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang said that it is very difficult for the Chinese government change, but what happened shows that the transformations in Chinese society and "unites and strengthens people's minds." Above all, it shows that politicians can control the dissidents, but they can not prevent people to unite in a common purpose, because these meetings are organized spontaneously and not from above.
The attempt to organize a revolution of jasmine in China, although no major consequences in the political and social points out two very important things new. First of all, shows that China is not impervious to the global trend of requests for improvement of living conditions, which invests the Arab countries: China, in short, is no longer a country in itself, open to the rest of the world's only commercially but closed socially and politically in itself.
The people reflects the changing needs of other countries and makes her own, as if the example that comes from outside gave the floodgates to make their voices heard. The other remarkable fact is the impact of the Internet in China has more than 450 million people, the wishes of citizens.
It began in 2008 with the protest of Tibetans in Lhasa, who was traveling on the Web, and still continues. If the central government will not open to the substantial reforms to the benefit not only of Tibetans, Uighurs and Falun Gong activists but also of ordinary citizens, the social stability of China will be increasingly undermined and nothing will obscure sites, break links with phone or impede the free use of social networking.
We have already seen in Nepal in April 2006, when the time is right to protest by militant groups, though severely repressed, also runs on the web has become popular revolution. At that point, nothing and no longer able to stop the winds of change. Enrica Garzilli
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