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The Controversial Embrace: Chinese Athletes’ Photo Blocked Amidst Tensions

[Voice of Hope, October 4, 2023](Comprehensive report by our reporter Pan Xiang) During the Hangzhou Asian Games, a photo of Chinese track and field athletes Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni embracing was quickly blocked on Weibo, but instead attracted attention. Akio Yaita, director of the Taipei branch of Japan’s “Sankei Shimbun”, posted a post on Facebook on the 4th to analyze this.

Akio Yaita wrote that this photo was originally touching. It recorded two female athletes, one successfully won the championship and the other failed. The touching scene of the two hugging each other tightly after the game and cherishing each other was widely reprinted. “No Coincidentally, the numbers worn by the two people on their waists were 6 and 4 respectively. The order was the same as the date of the Tiananmen Incident on June 4, 1989, so the photo was quickly blocked.

Yaita Akio said that this is because the Chinese Communist authorities are afraid of arousing people’s association with the “June 4th Incident”. “This kind of operation of the Chinese Communist authorities, “There is no silver here, will cause topics.” The photo was disappeared, but it reminded people This effect “should be more effective than overseas pro-democracy activists writing many articles about “Don’t forget June 4th”.”

Because of this incident, Akio Yaita thought of the famous Chinese football player Hao Haidong. Hao Haidong has made countless contributions to the Chinese men’s national football team, but because Hao Haidong once criticized the Chinese Communist Party in Spain as a dictatorship, all information related to him has been deleted. In China’s national football goal scoring rankings, the first place was originally Hao Haidong, but now it is empty. But this blank space aroused the curiosity of young fans, and even attracted them to go over the wall to check overseas websites.

Akio Yaita said that there is a saying that “shooting a stone and hitting yourself in the foot” is about the Chinese Communist Party.

Editor in charge: Han Mei

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2023-10-05 05:16:53

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