Name: China Censors the Trump-Clinton Debate | China Uncensored
Uploaded: 2016-12-13T15:37:15.000Z
Duration: 5 min 2 s
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the real winner in the US presidential debate!

we witnessed the first of three US presidential debates

between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Now that I’ve mentioned Clinton and Trump,

I’m sure a portion of you have stopped watching

and are busy attacking me in the comment section below.

You've already started doing that before even watching this video.

And it’s still better than what many people in the world have.

we have a system where anyone can be president.

can debate them freely on national television,

You know how the “president” of China gets “elected?”

First, they have an internal power struggle

at the top levels of the Communist Party.

Whoever survives the purges rises to the top.

And then that group selects among themselves

who the leader of the Communist Party should be.

Then the Communist Party tells China’s rubber-stamp congress

that person gets “elected” president.

So what an embarrassing contrast for the Chinese Communist Party

to have US presidential candidates debating so freely!

the America’s presidential debate was censored in China.

China Digital Times uncovered this leaked censorship directive

saying no news service is allowed to livestream it.

“went black shortly after the debate began.”

Same goes the two biggest Chinese news websites.

And with Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter already banned in China,

you weren’t going to see it there, either.

So as more than 80 million Americans tuned in to watch the Battle Royale,

people had state-run media to tell them their opinions for them!

because your totalitarian government censored it,

My favorite state-run media Global Times assures us it was trite.

And this is just the latest in a long line of presidential censorship.

For more on that, here’s Shelley Zhang...

US President Barack Obama’s inauguration address on Tuesday

some of his comments apparently hit too close to home.

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism,

As soon as the translator said the word “communism,”

the live broadcast from China's main propaganda station,

Which didn’t happen with Monday’s debate—

the Chinese Communist Party just censored the entire thing.

And they’re still a bit worried about these debates.

people in China still figured out how to watch.

somehow was able to livestream the debate to nearly a quarter million people.

people in China are showing an interest in US elections.

Chinese state-run media has been telling people that the

Western-style democracy is dangerous and chaotic.

But China’s middle class is increasingly making their own observations—

as Chinese tourists travel to every corner of the globe,

to get around China’s Internet firewall.