As they always do, it's the old "state secrets" routine. As hard as it may be to imagine, I think China plays that even more than Bush and Cheney played the "we can do anything because we're protecting America" card. Close, no doubt, but Beijing wins in that race. China has stepped up it's level of creepiness lately with it's arrests of human rights attorneys and a foreign national on a business deal that went south. Much like those who created the recession and their ability to ignore their part, where are all of the "let's give China the Olympics because it will change everything" crowd?
The hundreds following amoiist on Twitter were used to his stream of messages. But they ended abruptly with two terse updates early yesterday morning.
"i have been arrested by Mawei police, SOS" he wrote. Then shortly afterwards: "Pls help me, I grasp the phone during police sleep."
His followers quickly passed on his plea to other Twitterers. But since then there has been silence from amoiist – also known as Peter Guo, or Guo Bofeng – who is apparently the latest internet user to be caught up in an inquiry that began with claims of defamation but which police now say involves "state secrecy issues".
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