{"id":12425,"date":"2016-07-25T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/internet_news_ban_is_china_spring_ahead.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:31:17","slug":"internet-news-ban-is-china-spring-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/internet-news-ban-is-china-spring-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet News Ban: is China Spring Ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has helped usher in political upheaval around the world. Last month I penned a piece title <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/political\/brexit-could-be-yuuuge-for-china.html\">Brexit Could be Yuuuge for China<\/a> which tied together Brexit, Trump and a democratic China.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At some point soon, it seems inevitable that the China domino will drop. The next five to ten years is a probable window when this happens. There will likely be some sort of uprising, reformation or another Tiananmen Square type incident.<\/p>\n<p>A more democratic China is a win for global companies and global workers. Much of the activities above will hopefully moderate as a result.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These revolutions\/uprisings\/protests tend to follow one-another. In the past decade there was one in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_Iranian_presidential_election_protests\">Iran<\/a>, in the U.S .we had Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and the Tea Party. In the Middle East we&rsquo;ve had the Arab Spring and as recently as a week or so ago, Turkey had a coup &ndash; although some believe it may have been fabricated.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, the Chinese people are highly repressed and the Communist government wants to keep it that way. I surmised that Brexit will be the tipping point. I explained there is no way the Chinese authorities could keep this news from its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>I was right.<\/p>\n<p>China agrees.<\/p>\n<p>Because they have now banned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-07-25\/china-slaps-ban-on-internet-news-reporting-as-crackdown-tightens\">Internet news<\/a> and will more tightly manage the news flow to its citizens. This isn&rsquo;t just because of Brexit of course but this has to be a major factor. The government realizes the situation they are in and want to do everything they can to hold onto power.<\/p>\n<p>Still, even with a chokehold on news, can you really prevent your citizens from finding out the UK voted to exit the UK &ndash; essentially taking back their country?<\/p>\n<p>The next five to ten years seems like the window for this to happen and the most recent blockade on internet news may accelerate such action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has helped usher in political upheaval around the world. Last month I penned a piece title Brexit Could be Yuuuge for China which tied together Brexit, Trump and a democratic China. Specifically: At some point soon, it seems inevitable that the China domino will drop. The next five to ten years is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1682,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18486,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions\/18486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}