Today’s Myanmar, Yesterday’s China? – Global Voices

Jacky on Global Voices translated some more bloggers’ posts about the Burma crisis, with allusions to the 1989 protests in China:

It is not easy to find similar posts on the Chinese internet now. As the 17th Party Congress is approaching, most of the Chinese web sites have tightened up their filters.

However, Chinese are good at expressing themselves implicitly.

A netizen, personating the Myanmar Daily Editorial, wrote a post A Clear-cut Stand Against The Myanmar Unrest, imitating the tones and styles of the People’s Daily Editorial. [Full text]

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