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    BBC Replaced

    Quote Originally Posted by Nimitz:
    To brain-wash people, want more people to support them blindly. Having met a lot of "big-china" supporters, would harass you or even hit you in any second.
    What sets a Chinese apart from an average Westerner is this: you are WRONG if you are DIFFERENT, in any way. Being different is a crime (to them), and punishable by being hit in any second. But if you look Caucasian, for example, you are basically immune because you are entitled, by virtue of your look, to be different. Looks do come with a bit of privilege, you see, and you can relax when you meet them.

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    All, before it is too late:


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    Quote Originally Posted by keieich:
    What sets a Chinese apart from an average Westerner is this: you are WRONG if you are DIFFERENT, in any way.
    Or if you work for Google...

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    Petition here (for what it's worth)

    https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition...World_Service/


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    Has there been any reaction or comment by the BBC or the UK establishment about this wholesome PRC propaganda swicheroo?

    I would have liked to see the BBC upgrading their local service to proper FM transmission - with proper stereo output and whatnot - instead, but admittedly this "folding development" was always far more likely.

    Hong Kong, Asia's World City...

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    BBC Replaced

    Yes, I know. This is an expat forum, and people look at things with expat eyes. It's understandable that expats would want the BBC (and I say "why not"?). But the media is for the masses. No matter how they look on the surface the people here (mostly) are CHINESE. I mean in the heads. 150+ years of British rule did not change a thing in their heads. The masses here deserve what they get.


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    The CCP is obsessed with control over media content and they have built a huge industry around it that is increasingly spreading its tentacles across the globe.

    Does anyone here believe they haven't fully embedded themselves in the local networks, used not only by foreign businesses (lucrative info there), foreign diplomats (and their confidential communiques) and of course all the local "subversive elements" who've refused to confess undying love for the China=CCP equation.

    Apart from personal satellite TV systems (still potentially crackable), BBC's feeble free-to-air AM transmission of the World Service has been the only independent 24h news channel, available in english to anyone and anywhere without the possibly of being tracked.


    English is still, 20 years after the handover, an official language in HK and widely used at that. Purge the english language and what is left of HK's international status?

    Interestingly the CPP didn't bother replacing the BBC relay feed with the own english-language propaganda but switched directly to pekingese.


    And oh, how the once-formidable have fallen.

    Someone from HK, an expat, sent an "absolutely-not-against-china-in-any-way" question about this switcheroo to BBC's World Have Your Say programme and... the programme was unable to get anyone from the BBC to comment!


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    Thank you, Mefisto. For your patience in taking the time to comment on something that more people should have a suspicious and critical interest in.


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    There's still another option

    BBC - Global Short Wave Frequencies