I sent e-mail to friends in China but I do not get any
reply.
Is Western e-mail boycotted?
Are Chinese angry about these bombings?
Any recommendations?
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The Chinese have more important things to do than censor
your e-mails ! I get all my e-mails very quickly, no matter
how much sensitive stuff there is in them. If your friends
don't receive yours, it's probably because they have a lousy
Internet provider in China. Or maybe they don't want to
reply to you if you are from a NATO country, ah ah.
One last point : yes the Chinese are mad at the bombing. Is
that really surprising ? Wouldn't you be mad if someone
dropped a few missiles on your Embassy, killed your people,
and then casually dismissed it as an accident ?
...the rest of the world complains of slow Hotmail too. So
its not a China problem.
Most chinese don't care about the bombing. They believe the
more government people get killed the better. They hope the
USA will one day overthrough the PRC government and that
they then have nice shopping malls and cars which don't fit
onto their streets.
or maybe the expense! I have mails every day from China.
No recommendations I'm afraid, its up to them to make the
effort!
Many chinese are pissed about the bombings - many rational,
well-educated, chinese consider it was no accident and
dub Clinton the next Hitler; and their government have been
doing surprisingly little to stop the demonstrations.
Americans in Beijing are receiving hate-mail at work.
I have received email from people who use Hotmail as well as
Yahoo both internally and from abroad, so I have to agree
with the prior posts. I do wonder if Panyu in Post #1 ever
considered that there is probably someone (or more
likely, some people), somewhere monitoring email...a bit of
paranoia never hurt anyone. As for Nerd in Post #2, I do
hope those comments were facetious because probably 98% of
the population believes this was anything but an accident
for whatever reason or motivation. There is no shortage of
scolars from this Academy or another giving their rationale
on TV news programs, there is nightly coverage of the
"US-led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia", and CCTV runs a very
solemn remembrance daily (most conspicuously during their
English-language news program on CCTV-4) showing pictures of
the embassy on fire, the father of one of the victims crying
while holding a bloody sheet, and clips of the arrival of
the flight carrying home the injured and the remains of the
dead. Jiang Zemin's speech following the attack has been
published and the media is carrying stories of its
bestseller status...this issue isn't going away anytime soon
in the minds and hearts of a lot of Chinese people.
If you're concerned about privacy, check out www.hushmail.com
All their e-mail is sent encrypted so only the recepient can read it.
Best of al, it's the same price as Hotmail ;-)