Russians are so busy. Chinese should sent troops to guard the natural gas.The most popular news is by China Daily. The headline is: “Russia is sending 3000 troops to participate in peace keeping. “
There are about 2100 comments. Let me first roughly translate a few of the most liked ones:
Russians are so busy. Chinese should sent troops to guard the natural gas.
I remember that when Wuhan had the pandemic, Kazakhstan was worried that the pandemic will affect the supply of our gas, they came to help us
Back then, the US also wanted this to happen in Xinjiang, right? So it is always right to develop ourselves.
They always wanted it, never changed.
They still want it.
Chinese and Russian have reached agreement. I give money, you give soldiers. There should be no fire in our backyards.
Does the money belong to you? You decide that we give our money?
Rich guy, you give your money.
The US dogs in the comment area here, the thieves who hate our country, take a break.
Indeed, there are dogs who worship foreigners.
Little pinkies, enough.
Little pinky is internet slang for the ultra-patriotic youth in China.
Here is the screenshot of the most recent comments on Jan 7th:
(rough translation)
This is simply version 2 of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It seems that the previous experience did not teach them enough lesson. The brutal Russians are facing a second breakup. When the heaven wants to destroy you, it first makes you crazy.
You call this peace keeping? What a lie. ---> you need to check the collective security treaty organization.
(skip one line because it is not clear what it means)
It is always right to develop yourself. The family of Nazarbayev controls too many resources of the country. If they don't reform, this will happen again.
Russians just took back Kazakhstan. When are we going to take back Taiwan?
It does not work when the president stays for life. It has to change, sooner or later.
If a country has a healthy law system, people have a happy life, who dares to stage a coup? Who will follow the storm to riot? People are angry and unsatisfied with the government, plus foreign hostile force, these will start the riot.
You can see that the most liked opinions and the most recent opinions are quite different. The most liked comments have to be “political correct”. The most recent comments have some freedom. People might not be talking about Kazakhstan any more. They might be talking about their own country.
Often, when comments are too obvious, they can be deleted later.
Teng Biao, a Chinese human rights lawyer who is currently teaching in American university, noticed that there is an alarming trend in the dissident community from China. A few months ago he commented on Twitter:
"I talked to students at the University of Chicago and CUNY about how many Chinese dissidents and intellectuals were supporting Trump, and they were confused. I said it wasn't over yet, many Chinese pro-Trump supporters were starting to support Putin. It felt like the kids' glasses were going to explode in shock."
"The Magnitsky Act was designed to sanction human rights villains and no dissident would oppose it. But how hard is it to explain this to foreigners when the dissidents turn to praise Putin, the man who got Lawyer Magnitsky killed?"
The Magnitsky Act authorizes the U.S. government to sanction those it sees as human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the U.S.
In one of his tweets, he posted screenshots of Chinese scholars praising Putin as the savior of the west.
Among these names, Bei Ming, a writer for Radio Free Asia, is very busy promoting the greatness of Putin on RFA website. On Dec 29th, she tweeted her new article:
"Putin's Ideological Resources (continued) : Solzhenitsyn and his ideological defender and successor "
Radio Free Asia is a United States government-funded private non-profit news service that broadcasts radio programs and publishes online news, information, and commentary for its audiences in Asia.
I checked their tweets, no one mentioned Kazakhstan. The silence is very notable. Maybe there will be a scholarly book on how this can happen.