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February 28, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/02/28/chinese-premier-wen-jiabao-unfazed-by-brickbats-thrown-at-him-by-anonymous-netizens/
Written by Our Correspondent
Despite some harsh criticisms and brickbats being hurled at him by anonymous netizens during an online chat, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao maintained his cool and answered the questions as best as he could.
The event, titled “I have a question to ask the Premier” was conducted yesterday jointly by the central government and Xinhua News Agency.
This is not the first time the IT-savvy Premier, who kept a Facebook, had engaged with netizens in cyberspace directly.
While PAP leaders have always cast aspersions on the credibility of netizens who choose not to reveal their identities, Premier Wen appaers to be comfortable with them.
Below are some questions posed to him (translated from Chinese):
Paris Island from Hubei province:
“Hello Premier Wen! How are you going to eradicate the rampant corruption going on in the villages??”
Handan netizen from Hebei province:
“Premier, the mayor of Handan kept changing once in a few months. How are you going to develop Handan at this rate?”
5 Chinese words from Beijing:
“I and my partner are struggling to earn enough money to support our family. Life is really too tough nowadays. Our family income is only RMB$2,000 monthly and after deducting the healthcare insurance of RMB$1,000, we have little left.”
Baihua from Shanghai:
“10 questions for you: why are there so many corrupted officials? why is the government so autocratic? why don’t we have freedom of speech? why is the system so inadequate? why are the wages of the farmers so low? …..”
Good man from Guangdong province:
“Corruption is a major problem in the country, but how come the central government has been tackling the problem, the number of corrupted officials continue to grow???”
As we can see from the above examples, the Chinese netizens minced no words and dare to challenge and even criticize Premier Wen publicly in a public forum viewed by millions of people without any fear.
What is surprising is that the Chinese media did not censor or moderate the comments to “save the face” of Premier Wen. Neither did they castigate the netizens for not showing him respect.
(A few years ago, a ST journalist rebutted Lee Kuan Yew during a live dialogue session. He was later criticized in the Straits Times for not showing “respect” to Lee.)
Premier Wen did not dismiss the complaints of Chinese netizens. He acknowledged their concerns and tried his best to answer their questions to the best of his ability.
No Singaporean will ever dare to ask such difficult, sensitive and sharp questions to their leaders whether in real life or in cyberspace out of fear of being “fixed”.
In any case, the PAP leaders seldom display that kind of empathy as demonstrated by Premier Wen.
During a recent interview with the National Geographic magazine, Lee Kuan Yew described Singaporeans as “champion grumblers”. Try telling that to the Chinese.
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February 28, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/02/28/chinese-premier-wen-jiabao-unfazed-by-brickbats-thrown-at-him-by-anonymous-netizens/
Written by Our Correspondent
Despite some harsh criticisms and brickbats being hurled at him by anonymous netizens during an online chat, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao maintained his cool and answered the questions as best as he could.
The event, titled “I have a question to ask the Premier” was conducted yesterday jointly by the central government and Xinhua News Agency.
This is not the first time the IT-savvy Premier, who kept a Facebook, had engaged with netizens in cyberspace directly.
While PAP leaders have always cast aspersions on the credibility of netizens who choose not to reveal their identities, Premier Wen appaers to be comfortable with them.
Below are some questions posed to him (translated from Chinese):
Paris Island from Hubei province:
“Hello Premier Wen! How are you going to eradicate the rampant corruption going on in the villages??”
Handan netizen from Hebei province:
“Premier, the mayor of Handan kept changing once in a few months. How are you going to develop Handan at this rate?”
5 Chinese words from Beijing:
“I and my partner are struggling to earn enough money to support our family. Life is really too tough nowadays. Our family income is only RMB$2,000 monthly and after deducting the healthcare insurance of RMB$1,000, we have little left.”
Baihua from Shanghai:
“10 questions for you: why are there so many corrupted officials? why is the government so autocratic? why don’t we have freedom of speech? why is the system so inadequate? why are the wages of the farmers so low? …..”
Good man from Guangdong province:
“Corruption is a major problem in the country, but how come the central government has been tackling the problem, the number of corrupted officials continue to grow???”
As we can see from the above examples, the Chinese netizens minced no words and dare to challenge and even criticize Premier Wen publicly in a public forum viewed by millions of people without any fear.
What is surprising is that the Chinese media did not censor or moderate the comments to “save the face” of Premier Wen. Neither did they castigate the netizens for not showing him respect.
(A few years ago, a ST journalist rebutted Lee Kuan Yew during a live dialogue session. He was later criticized in the Straits Times for not showing “respect” to Lee.)
Premier Wen did not dismiss the complaints of Chinese netizens. He acknowledged their concerns and tried his best to answer their questions to the best of his ability.
No Singaporean will ever dare to ask such difficult, sensitive and sharp questions to their leaders whether in real life or in cyberspace out of fear of being “fixed”.
In any case, the PAP leaders seldom display that kind of empathy as demonstrated by Premier Wen.
During a recent interview with the National Geographic magazine, Lee Kuan Yew described Singaporeans as “champion grumblers”. Try telling that to the Chinese.
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