BEIJING - Now, if I wish to extend the word to a Chinese, I must ask for permission from the police. Nine forms to complete, during office hours. Uncomfortable, in case of urgent necessity, but acceptable, the power of the technocrats of the second century that suddenly awake, mysteriously besieged by an invisible enemy.
More difficult to request to speak with someone casually down the street, with three days in advance on a given match by chance. That in China you must present who will cross it, for the curiosity of the moment and submit an application to the Government on trust? And if you were caught dall'improcrastinabile desire to greet a stranger? The official foreign office in Beijing is caught by a thirst annoying while trying to explain the new measures for my safety.
On his desk in the basement of the barracks area, two floors below the office that issues the permits, it is clear of any object of work and flooded with water bottles left in half. Two agents, at his side, smile and contemplate the wall. A third operating a camera and is keen to show the zeal with which it takes the "lessons of behavior as Friend western journalists." Do not have it with me.
Are any of the hundreds of invited "for urgent" in recent hours. The officer reads the instructions on a teleprompter. Pressed: "What you call jasmine revolution in China has nothing to do and not the subject of this amiable conversation. And since we do not know what it is, I'm not allowed to talk about." The authoritarian powers, when they lose the certainty of their omnipotence, opt for the absurd.
They exhibit an efficiency unknown to democracies, but unable to dismiss the impact of simplicity, that relentless abandon their acts. There are two weeks that the country more stable and controlled the planet against the anonymous ad for a computer revolution no insurgents. It may seem strange, but more leadership ensures that no one opposes it, even over the Internet and became convinced that more can not be that way.
To respond to such unacceptable evidence, as subject to hostile forces, I spend with the police in Beijing this morning that perhaps anticipated, even in Asia, a random spring. No one dares to think the idea that the "walk for democracy", every Sunday at 14 in the heart of the most important cities, with the weeks they can collect a growing number of fans of going for a stroll in silence.
For an official who woke me up at six thirty this is the problem: it must not happen that next Sunday, while the combined annual National People's Congress and Chinese People's Consultative Conference, thousands of people are put together in a hanging same place a hundred cities in China.
Or better. Explain that if walking is equivalent to protest, then Wen Jiabao is opposed to itself. Its task is that, whatever happens, nobody talks about it. He is the doubt that he exaggerated and not correct: the authorization to call for three days, a Chinese film or photograph is compulsory only in a series of "sensitive sites".
Start reading a list of many sheets: Tiananmen Square and Wang Fujing in Beijing, Renmin Square and the Bund in Shanghai, and stops certain that the rest of China in the West appears unknown. Are you saying that, as in 1989 and while the place of tanks in the streets blue Audi move, the economic engine of the world reprecipitates, for no reason, in the curfew.
I can window shop on Jianguomennei Dajie, but not a step further. I'll have to pretend not to know a neighbor in front of the mausoleum of Mao, but will be permitted to dine with him around Lake Houhai. The question of how to behave if it is a Chinese word to turn to a stranger, stop the lesson.
"You see - the official said - are the slaves of America that want to become journalists in the news and become a revolution, get paid for pictures that they themselves alive." The thesis is that the "jasmine revolution" that would infect China with the libertarian virus infects the Mediterranean, both the academic club show in the corresponding withdrawal symptoms.
So: no reporters no insurgency. Not that I've only wrong, but just a cameraman and seized the Forbidden City? "You who live here - the official law - you should instead cooperate with the authorities to maintain order." Objection stops him. Because if the Chinese do not want rights, freedom and justice, but only money, the Internet has become inaccessible for days, hundreds of people were arrested, the country is occupied by soldiers and was even censored the video in which President Hu Jintao sings the popular song "What a beautiful jasmine flower"? And why I'm here now? Man walks into a swollen, black tracksuit on, his eyes red to the floor and a water bottle in hand.
It is the same as last Sunday I was shadowed for three hours at Wang Fujing, that day falls asleep drunk out of my house. "For a while 'time - the official smiles as I leave - will be his assistant. If you have problems, talk to him." China thinks that the stability of its contemporary dynasty can be undermined only by an external force, unleashed far.
And if you think it means he knows. 
More difficult to request to speak with someone casually down the street, with three days in advance on a given match by chance. That in China you must present who will cross it, for the curiosity of the moment and submit an application to the Government on trust? And if you were caught dall'improcrastinabile desire to greet a stranger? The official foreign office in Beijing is caught by a thirst annoying while trying to explain the new measures for my safety.
On his desk in the basement of the barracks area, two floors below the office that issues the permits, it is clear of any object of work and flooded with water bottles left in half. Two agents, at his side, smile and contemplate the wall. A third operating a camera and is keen to show the zeal with which it takes the "lessons of behavior as Friend western journalists." Do not have it with me.
Are any of the hundreds of invited "for urgent" in recent hours. The officer reads the instructions on a teleprompter. Pressed: "What you call jasmine revolution in China has nothing to do and not the subject of this amiable conversation. And since we do not know what it is, I'm not allowed to talk about." The authoritarian powers, when they lose the certainty of their omnipotence, opt for the absurd.
They exhibit an efficiency unknown to democracies, but unable to dismiss the impact of simplicity, that relentless abandon their acts. There are two weeks that the country more stable and controlled the planet against the anonymous ad for a computer revolution no insurgents. It may seem strange, but more leadership ensures that no one opposes it, even over the Internet and became convinced that more can not be that way.
To respond to such unacceptable evidence, as subject to hostile forces, I spend with the police in Beijing this morning that perhaps anticipated, even in Asia, a random spring. No one dares to think the idea that the "walk for democracy", every Sunday at 14 in the heart of the most important cities, with the weeks they can collect a growing number of fans of going for a stroll in silence.
For an official who woke me up at six thirty this is the problem: it must not happen that next Sunday, while the combined annual National People's Congress and Chinese People's Consultative Conference, thousands of people are put together in a hanging same place a hundred cities in China.
Or better. Explain that if walking is equivalent to protest, then Wen Jiabao is opposed to itself. Its task is that, whatever happens, nobody talks about it. He is the doubt that he exaggerated and not correct: the authorization to call for three days, a Chinese film or photograph is compulsory only in a series of "sensitive sites".
Start reading a list of many sheets: Tiananmen Square and Wang Fujing in Beijing, Renmin Square and the Bund in Shanghai, and stops certain that the rest of China in the West appears unknown. Are you saying that, as in 1989 and while the place of tanks in the streets blue Audi move, the economic engine of the world reprecipitates, for no reason, in the curfew.
I can window shop on Jianguomennei Dajie, but not a step further. I'll have to pretend not to know a neighbor in front of the mausoleum of Mao, but will be permitted to dine with him around Lake Houhai. The question of how to behave if it is a Chinese word to turn to a stranger, stop the lesson.
"You see - the official said - are the slaves of America that want to become journalists in the news and become a revolution, get paid for pictures that they themselves alive." The thesis is that the "jasmine revolution" that would infect China with the libertarian virus infects the Mediterranean, both the academic club show in the corresponding withdrawal symptoms.
So: no reporters no insurgency. Not that I've only wrong, but just a cameraman and seized the Forbidden City? "You who live here - the official law - you should instead cooperate with the authorities to maintain order." Objection stops him. Because if the Chinese do not want rights, freedom and justice, but only money, the Internet has become inaccessible for days, hundreds of people were arrested, the country is occupied by soldiers and was even censored the video in which President Hu Jintao sings the popular song "What a beautiful jasmine flower"? And why I'm here now? Man walks into a swollen, black tracksuit on, his eyes red to the floor and a water bottle in hand.
It is the same as last Sunday I was shadowed for three hours at Wang Fujing, that day falls asleep drunk out of my house. "For a while 'time - the official smiles as I leave - will be his assistant. If you have problems, talk to him." China thinks that the stability of its contemporary dynasty can be undermined only by an external force, unleashed far.
And if you think it means he knows.
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