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Hi, welcome to China Uncensored. I m Chris Chappell. So, if you re a Chinese dissident,

and you get an invitation to tea by authorities, you can be pretty sure there s not going to

be much tea involved. s sort of like when Chinese police burst into the homes of activists

in the middle of the night to suggest they go on a vacation, and get out of Beijing for

a couple of days during politically sensitive events. Last week there were massive protests

outside the Southern Weekly, a Chinese newspaper that actually isn t state-run. The paper had

tried to run an article calling for a constitutional government, but then the local propaganda

chief Tuo Zhen took it upon himself to make a slight edit. He rewrote it to praise the

CCP. And gosh, China must really be changing because usually large protests are met with

brutality. But this time, authorities just invited everyone to tea! I mean, look at how

excited they are! It looks like they just can t wait to get into that unmarked van.

And here s a student being taken off for tea after his interview with Second German Broadcast

Network. Look, how nice! They re carrying him so he doesn t have to walk. It must have

been quite the tea party because they even invited celebrities. Taiwanese singer Annie

Yi also spoke out on behalf of Southern Weekly, and someone must have been listening because

she later said on her Weibo, which is like a Chinese Twitter, that authorities also invited

her to drink tea. That was before a bunch of her Weibo posts were mysteriously taken

down. In fact, at least 20 people have been invited to drink tea with authorities in relation

to the Southern Weekly incident alone, including famous Beijing entrepreneur Li Kaifu and property

developer Ren Zhiqiang. Tea drinking began in China 4,000 years ago, and plays a huge

role in Chinese culture. That s probably why authorities can t get enough tea parties.

In fact, to help them out, they ve recently made a new law that Internet providers and

social media sites have to register the real names of users. That way, if someone posts

something critical of the government, it s even easier to invite them to tea and discuss

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