Tweets commenting the Chinese National Day parade, shown live on TV:
- Quiet outside, can stay home working until parade starts. Pearl runs CCTV9 Live all morning, too much info.. Better ATV at 9.45, seems less.
- CCTV 9 (cctv-9.com) shows live parade streaming but site barely loads from HK. With Great Firewall blocking much, shouldn’t speed be better?
- I really had hoped for the Great Firewall working once in *my* favor by focusing bandwidth on a stream I want to see coming from China. FAIL
- I almost forgot I have Now-TV where CCTV-9 is available as a free channel: now watching parade on big projector screen
- Love or hate them, but the Chinese know how to impress the masses by engaging the masses. From clean roads to clear skies, there’s no limit.
- They use the manpower of several times the Luxembourg population just to operate/secure the Beijing parade, not even including participants.
- The only signboard I saw was a huge Toshiba behind the tanks. That’s kind of ironic.
- Beijing’s blue sky is a testament to “if there is a will, there is a way”. It would be nice if they’d always want to keep things clean(er)..
- With those tanks rolling and planes coming in, Beijing’s blue sky will be gone by the time the parade is over.
- That 5sec video clip of marine boats was supposed to be what? Would have loved to see the boats as well. Overall, bad video cutting by CCTV.
- The standard Now-TV is crap: waving blue and red flags in full screen results in a pixeled image almost beyond recognition.
- 43000 participants just for the people’s part of the parade like dancers, floats… that gives you an idea of the size of this event. Costs?
- Now CCTV-9 lost the English audio feed and switched to Chinese. Sigh..
- The “One World” float was shown so briefly that by the time I realized it was about non-Chinese they switched to a long row of military ppl.
- The Hong Kong float must have been the most boring in the entire parade. Sigh.. Funny to see Donald having the biggest camera.
- A very nice parade but a crappy TV show, big FAIL. Let’s see if the show tonight is better (~6pm start).
- With over 100’000 participants in the parade (not including security and support), that is easily 280 times or more my (tiny) home village..
- The Beijing parade numbers keep climbing: now I read 8’000 soldiers and 180’000 participants. Still not including the security, support ppl.
- When a Western country runs a military parade (such as France), it’s called a festivity. When China runs one, it’s called propaganda. Hmm ..
- @Tortue End of the day it’s propaganda everywhere but also a festivity; it is a matter of point of view (if you’re a national or foreigner).
