埃文·奥斯诺斯曾在《纽约客》撰文报导两年前阿拉伯起义期间，一名高官在北京一次会议上表示如果中国政府在社会媒体促成的全球持不同意见运动中“发生动摇 ” ， “国家将会陷入到深渊之中。
Evan Osnos, writing in The New Yorker, reports that two years ago, in the midst of the Arab uprisings, a senior official told a meeting in Beijing that if the Chinese government “waver[ed]” in the midst of social-media-fueled global dissidence, “the state could sink into the abyss.”