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Travel outside your political tribe? Many are saying no thanks

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Jobs   来源:Education  查看:  评论:0
内容摘要:Writer and artist Kim Squirrell hopes to reopen the two red kiosks in Bridport, Dorset, to create a place for people to put pen to paper.

Writer and artist Kim Squirrell hopes to reopen the two red kiosks in Bridport, Dorset, to create a place for people to put pen to paper.

supporters that he was watching their rallies on YouTube livestream. PPP lawmakers said Yoon had urged them to consume "well-organised information on YouTube" instead of "biased" legacy media.Entwined on these YouTube channels are narratives of the opposition Democratic Party being obsequious to Beijing and trying to curry favour with Pyongyang.

Travel outside your political tribe? Many are saying no thanks

After the Democratic Party won at the polls, some of these channels claimed that Yoon was a victim of electoral interference led by China, and that North Korea sympathisers lurking among the opposition were behind the ruling party's defeat. Similar claims were echoed by Yoon when he tried to justify his short-lived martial law declaration.These narratives have found resonance in an online audience that harbours a general distrust of mainstream media and worries about South Korea's neighbours.

Travel outside your political tribe? Many are saying no thanks

"I think [the election was] totally fraudulent, because when you vote, you fold the paper, but they kept finding papers that were not folded," Kim, who gave only his surname, told the BBC at a pro-Yoon rally in January. Claims like these have not waned despite a previous Supreme Court ruling that the voting slips were not manipulated.Kim, 28, is among a contingent of young men who have become the new faces of South Korea's right-wing.

Travel outside your political tribe? Many are saying no thanks

Young Perspective, a YouTube channel with more than 800,000 subscribers run by someone who describes himself as "a young man who values freedom", often shares clips from parliamentary sessions showing PPP politicians taking down opposition members.

Another popular YouTuber is Jun Kwang-hoon, a pastor and founder of the evangelical Liberty Unification Party, who posts videos of politically loaded sermons urging his 200,000 subscribers to join pro-Yoon rallies. This is in line with the historically strong protestant support for conservatism in South Korea.On Sunday morning, Marles asserted that "what we have seen from China is the single biggest increase in military capability and build up in conventional sense, by any country since the end of the Second World War".

It is not just the size of the military build-up that concerns other countries, he told reporters."It's the fact that it is happening without strategic reassurance. It's happening without a clear strategic intent on the part of China… what we want to see is strategic transparency and strategic reassurance be provided by China, and an understanding of why it is needed to have such an extraordinary military build-up."

He cited Australia as an example of such transparency, noting that Canberra makes public its national defence strategy and defence reviews, and makes it "utterly clear" that when they build up their defences it is for Australia and Asia's security."So there is total strategic clarity and assurance that is being provided by Australia to our neighbours, to the region, to the world. That's what we would like to see," he said.

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