Evan Osnos, writing in The New Yorker, reports that two years ago, in the midst of the Arab uprisings, a senior official told a meeting in Beijing that if the Chinese government “waver[ed]” in the midst of social-media-fueled global dissidence, “the state could sink into the abyss.” Recently, Osnos writes, a high-level Chinese diplomat explained the threatened expulsion of New York Times and Bloomberg journalists on the grounds that “the Times and Bloomberg were seeking nothing short of removing the Communist Party from power, and that they must not be allowed to continue.”
埃文·奥斯诺斯曾在《纽约客》撰文报导两年前阿拉伯起义期间，一名高官在北京一次会议上表示如果中国政府在社会媒体促成的全球持不同意见运动中“发生动摇”，“国家将会陷入到深渊之中。”不久前奥斯诺斯报导一名中国高级外交官在解释政府威胁驱逐纽约时报和彭博社记者的理由时说“纽约时报和彭博社只想让共产党下台，因此不能允许他们继续这样做。”