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“Snowden Street” and other names people in China want to give the road outside the US embassy

28 de Junho de 2014, 3:07 , por Desconhecido - 0sem comentários ainda | No one following this article yet.
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Originally posted on Quartz:

Internet users in China are rallying to retaliate against the United States Congress, which is threatening to rename part of the street in front of the Chinese embassy after the political dissident Liu Xiaobo. The most common Chinese counter-suggestion is to name the street where the US embassy in Beijing is located after the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, but there are many more.

Congress is considering an amendment to an appropriations bill that would place China’s embassy in Washington, D.C., at No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza, after the Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning Chinese activist currently in a Chinese prison for “inciting subversion of state power.” Always ready to respond to breaches of national sovereignty and pride, users on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo responded with suggestions they thought would exact equal shame on the United States.

Here is one suggestion from Weibo, translated:

I strongly recommended renaming the street in front of the US embassy in China to “Snowden Street.” If you agree, share this post!

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Fonte: http://anisionogueira.com/2014/06/28/snowden-street-and-other-names-people-in-china-want-to-give-the-road-outside-the-us-embassy/

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