I'm a young person with other young people friends. One such friend grew up in Shanghai. He had never heard of the Tiananmen Square student protests (and the resulting military intervention) until he came to the US for college and someone asked him about it. Anecdotally, it seems China does a very, very, good job of controlling information through their extensive government controls. Telling Chinese people about something like that would probably surprise them greatly.

Your young friend was uninformed but that doesn't mean that most people in China don't know about the incident. You have to get something much further than that.

Meanwhile, if you went to China, I doubt anyone there could tell you what your government was keeping from you.

That's how good they are at regulating their information, and is precisely the reason why we need Wikileaks.

There's plenty that WL doesn't know that you might die never having known, and your great-grandchildren might ever only hear about in history books (and maybe not even then, depending on who the victors are).

Only if you could tell them though. As you said, China is good at controlling information.

I think the point is good overall.

Please don't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone else is.

You are the one apparently smoking something. It is common knowledge that China uses prisoners as a way to mass harvest organs.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/

I am not going to contest that, but nothing has came out to support the claim of "systematic organ harvesting in tibet". I work with surgeons who specialise in liver transplant and you usually want to position donors as close to recipients as you could to minimise transport delay, and Tibet is just too far away from where the.demand is.

You are partly right, the real ethnic group targeted for organ harvesting is Falun Gung practitioners. I have met many of them in Fremont area who had personal experiences to tell. Tibetians and Ughyurs are also targeted but for mostly low end stuff such as blood plasma or organs for experimentation.

Falun Gong is not an ethnic group, and a lot of their stories don't stand up to scrutiny.

Organ harvesting from prisoners still happen, but the extent has been greatly exaggerated.