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The Umbrella Men of Tiananmen

With apologies to the BBC, CNN, Sammy Kaye, Beijing’s paramilitary police… well, everyone, really.

Somehow I didn’t think Youku would pass this one. The picture quality didn’t work too well on Yahoo. It looks slightly better on Youtube, if you’re not in China (but Youtube’s banned it for copyright violation). See Shanghaiist for links to the original videos.

UPDATE: Turns out I was wrong. I tried uploading it to Youku and they did pass it (for now). A bit sticky, but should load a little faster than Yahoo in China.

This was written by rob. Posted on Friday, June 5, 2009, at 10:32 am. Filed under China. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

3 Comments

  1. the tank man wrote:

    Ugh.
    Tanks for native chinese
    Umbrella for foreign cameramen.
    Pish !

    Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 12:52 pm | Permalink
  2. Rhodo Zeb wrote:

    Man that is absolutely brilliant. The music was great.

    Sad that these guys represent the thugs that keep order in every little corner of the country, without oversight or (much) restriction.

    Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 2:13 am | Permalink
  3. Mark wrote:

    You made it onto James Reynolds’ latest blog:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/

    Monday, June 15, 2009 at 9:58 pm | Permalink

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