CHINA, Inc.
Wide spread suppression of free speech categorizes the upcoming June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising. Scholars, intellectuals, journalists and even foreign press have been arrested. Foreign journalists have been warned to stay away from the square s or “face grave consequences.”
The scariest part of this is the conflation of state power and corporate governance. I can imagine corporate security coming to my office and telling me to vacate the premises … but in China that would have to be the entire country.
Of course many Chinese do not care. If they are getting paid well, than why do they need free speech?