The Naked Emperor

The article, "The Naked Emperor," is an article about how Chinese leaders use propaganda in the cyber world to steer online conversations. The Communist party used the cyber world as a tool because in the present,  more than a 100 million people in China uses the internet, so they took this opportunity to "fool around." The first thing they attempted was to "mess around" by posting a message on Sina Weibo, China'
s twitter. Their goal was to spread propaganda through the cyber world in order to achieve support from their people. The message posted on Sina Weibo was about how one of the leaders of the party wept five times during the president's opening speech. The party thought that by posting messages like this, people would feel proud and give support to the party, but the results were the opposite of what they had expected. The people of China saw this as a joke and created a ridiculously funny version of it, for example she wept five times because of eating spicy noodle. This shows that manipulation and propaganda do not work and the people are not conceived from what the government are trying to do.

Mr. Zhu wrote in this article that: "Ordinary people like us all know the emperor is not wearing any clothes. The emperor himself knows that he is naked. he also knows that we know. And yet he stilled walked out like this." This means that the people of China knows that the Chinese government is trying to depict and portray themselves as great heroes to the people of China through the usage of manipulation, even though everybody knows that they are faking it.

This is similar to Orwell's 1984 because in the novel, the Party try to manipulate and brainwash the people of Oceania through means of media and propaganda. It is a very similar situation because in both cases, there are people who the government fail to manipulate and have a thought of their own, like Winston and the people of China. In my opinion, I think that this is a great article because it expresses the thought of a Chinese who knows that the government is trying to manipulate their people and dares to speak out to the world about the failure of the government and to humiliate them in a way.