I have several Chinese friends from mainland China, and I subscribe to a newsletter feed – China Digital Times – to help me gain perspective of the world in which my friends live.
This is what I found waiting for me this morning in my mailbox.
Many Chinese are open to a relationship with Jesus Christ. Please pray for these amazing, beautiful people.
NOTE: Sina Weibo is a micro-blogging service like Twitter.
- Taiwan’s Election on Sina Weibo (Update)
- January 13, 2012 10:50 PM
As Taiwan voters went to the polls to reelect Ma Ying-jeou as president, observers on the mainland and around the world were watching keenly to see how the results will impact cross-Straits relations. The election is a big topic of conversation on Sina Weibo microblogging service; the following post is just an example of one Shanghai-based netizen’s view, which has been reposted over 20,000 times and received more than 3,000 comments: - @darkillzhou：Just now, a Taiwanese friend said to me at the end of our conversation, “I am going to vote tomorrow morning, and we will know who will be the President by the evening.” I suddenly do not know how to respond to him. Although there is no real communication barrier between us, I felt thoroughly ashamed in front of him. I could only say to him, “You guys are too backward. If we had to vote tomorrow morning, tonight we would already know who would be elected… ”
- A couple of typical comments in response to this post: “Actually the whole world knows who our next term president will be.” And “We wouldn’t just know the night before, we would know five years ahead of time.”
- http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/01/taiwans-election-on-sina-weibo
