{"id":1015539,"date":"2021-11-15T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015539"},"modified":"2021-11-15T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:59:26","slug":"famous-chinese-dissident-u-s-already-in-the-authoritarian-state-you-just-dont-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/famous-chinese-dissident-u-s-already-in-the-authoritarian-state-you-just-dont-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Chinese Dissident: U.S. \u2018Already In The Authoritarian State. You Just Don\u2019t Know It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamous-chinese-dissident-u-s-already-in-the-authoritarian-state-you-just-dont-know-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015539&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/firing-line\/video\/ai-weiwei-1lcijj\/\">PBS\u2019 \u201cFiring Line\u201d<\/a> with host Margaret Hoover, Chinese activist Ai Weiwei, an artist&nbsp;who was taken into custody in the past and whose father, a poet, was persecuted during Mao Zedong\u2019s Cultural Revolution, warned, \u201cIn the United States, with today\u2019s condition, you can easily have an authoritarian. In many ways, you\u2019re already in the authoritarian state. You just don\u2019t know it,\u201d adding, \u201cMany things happening today in U.S. can be compared to Cultural Revolution in China. \u2026 Like people trying to be unified in a certain political correctness. That is very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe artist first became \u2018a nail in the eye, a spike in the flesh, gravel in the shoe\u2019 of the Chinese Communist party when he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/feb\/15\/ai-weiwei-remembering-sichuan-earthquake\">orchestrated the gathering<\/a> and publication of the names of 4,851 children who died in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Their deaths, Ai writes, were a direct consequence of corruption and the unsafe construction of school buildings,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/nov\/13\/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-by-ai-weiwei-an-assault-on-the-censors\">The Guardian<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government hit back,\u201d The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2021-11-01\/chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-on-his-memoir-his-persecution-and-why-autocracy-fears-art\">noted<\/a>, adding:<\/p>\n<p><em>When he was in Chengdu to testify on behalf of fellow activist Tan Zuoren, police barged into his hotel room and struck Ai on the head. Weeks later he was hospitalized with a severe headache, the result of intracranial bleeding that became life-threatening. Doctors had to drill through his skull to drain the blood. Police installed surveillance cameras around his compound outside Beijing, and in 2011 the government bulldozed his Shanghai studio. Soon afterward, they arrested him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hoover started her interview by noting that Ai \u201cwent from helping to create the iconic Bird\u2019s Nest Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics to becoming a captive of the Chinese government\u201d and that he had a recently published memoir entitled \u201c1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows\u201d in which he detailed not only his but also his father\u2019s exile as well as imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Ai asserted:<\/p>\n<p><em>Chinese government very sophisticated. They succeed in every way for propaganda. They believe if they keep presenting the untruthful conclusion, the history will also write that way. \u2026 At the very beginning, I do feel Internet would liberate China, because that\u2019s the first possibility for individuals like me can speak out. But very soon, Chinese government learned faster than anybody. They know how to control the Internet. They hired probably millions of Internet police, just watch every sentence. So every move, every act on the Internet would be clearly recorded and calculated. \u2026&nbsp;So it becomes so sophisticated for censoring and<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing on PBS\u2019 \u201cFiring Line\u201d with host Margaret Hoover, Chinese activist Ai Weiwei, an artist\u00a0who was taken into custody in the past and whose father, a poet, was persecuted during Mao Zedong\u2019s Cultural Revolution, warned, \u201cIn the United States, with today\u2019s condition, you can easily have an authoritarian. In many ways, you\u2019re already in the authoritarian state. You just don\u2019t know it,\u201d adding, \u201cMany things happening today in U.S. can be compared to Cultural Revolution in China. \u2026 Like people trying to be unified in a certain political correctness. That is very dangerous.\u201d\u201cThe artist first became \u2018a nail in the eye, a spike in the flesh, gravel in the shoe\u2019 of the Chinese Communist party when he\u00a0orchestrated the gathering and publication of the names of 4,851 children who died in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Their deaths, Ai writes, were a direct consequence of corruption and the unsafe construction of school buildings,\u201d The Guardian reported.\u201cThe government hit back,\u201d The Los Angeles Times noted, adding:When he was in Chengdu to testify on behalf of fellow activist Tan Zuoren, police barged into his hotel room and struck Ai on the head. Weeks later he was hospitalized with a severe headache, the result of intracranial bleeding that became life-threatening. Doctors had to drill through his skull to drain the blood. Police installed surveillance cameras around his compound outside Beijing, and in 2011 the government bulldozed his Shanghai studio. Soon afterward, they arrested him.Hoover started her interview by noting that Ai \u201cwent from helping to create the iconic Bird\u2019s Nest Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics to becoming a captive of the Chinese government\u201d and that he had a recently published memoir entitled \u201c1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows\u201d in which he detailed not only his but also his father\u2019s exile as well as imprisonment.Ai asserted:Chinese government very sophisticated. They succeed in every way for propaganda. They believe if they keep presenting the untruthful conclusion, the history will also write that way. \u2026 At the very beginning, I do feel Internet would liberate China, because that\u2019s the first possibility for individuals like me can speak out. But very soon, Chinese government learned faster than anybody. They know how to control the Internet. They hired probably millions of Internet police, just watch every sentence. So every move, every act on the Internet would be clearly recorded and calculated. \u2026\u00a0So it becomes so sophisticated for censoring and monitoring every individual. And it\u2019s beyond imagination.Asked if he saw any hopeful future possibilities for China, he answered, \u201cI don\u2019t think so. Not in a short time.\u201d He asserted, \u201cAs long as I can keep expressing myself, I\u2019m in good shape, because I can always extend my emotions and my opinions towards other people who never have a chance to speak out their mind.\u201dThe Guardian quoted Ai writing in \u201c1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows\u201d that censorship \u201cis the cruellest form of violence.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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