These days we have observed with interest what is happening in some of the main Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shan-Ghai, Wuhan and Nanjing regarding the feelings that young students expressed through demonstrations in the streets for their already pitiful situation of being confined for almost three years by the pandemic. -¨They are already tired ¨- they say, due to this strict protocol.-
Carrying out these demonstrations in the Xi-Jinping government is already saying a lot, since it is known that the Asian leader does not like these expressions and even more so if they ask that he be relieved of his position. The shouts of ¨Xi Jinping resign¨ were recurrent in the streets, as well as the slogans ¨We do not want CPR, we want freedom¨ also adding those of ¨Open China¨.
Freedom of expression in China is not something to be projected and encouraged. In a planned economy, in a model that they call socialism with Chinese characteristics and with a controlled society, mass expressions do not happen every day, in such a way that knowing the development of these protests is a revelation that has not happened for a long time. thirty years in the lands of Greater China since the Tiananmen protests.
The proclamations have gone far and ask that the Chinese leader, who was recently re-elected by the communist party, resign and through white ballot papers, a symbol of the revolt, they request freedom, democracy and openness.
While that is happening in major Chinese cities, five major global newspapers, such as the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spigel and El País, warn that the WikiLeaks case, which dates back to November 2010, when publishing houses published by minors confidential documents on high-profile cases of global interest, affect freedom of expression because publishing says, ¨It is not a crime ¨.
You will remember dear readers of Market2.0to Julian Assange, who under audacious procedures, leaked 251,000 confidential documents from the United States Department of State that revealed cases of corruption, diplomatic scandals and espionage entanglements, an action that ultimately earned him jail after more than seven years of being asylum in the embassy of Ecuador in London.
The five international media that influence and create opinion, through an open letter addressed to the American authorities, express their concern about the continued persecution of Assange and with him, freedom of opinion.
The coup against Julián is also against the freedom to express an opinion and goes in the opposite direction to what the first amendment of the American Magna Carta proclaims.
A part of the letter from the media states: ¨Obtaining and revealing sensitive information is part of the fundamental function of journalists. If this work is criminalized our public discourse and our democracies are considerably weakened.
The cases analyzed on this occasion reveal that societies in the world are active and ready to defend their rights to dissent, pushing forward the democratic system, today, the only form of successful social coexistence.
Good journalism is the foundation of great democratic societies.
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