It would not be the first time that the Chinese Internet, with its relatively free-wheeling commentary, were used as a window into public sentiment by officials who lack more democratic means of pulse-taking.
No sería la primera vez que el internet chino, con sus comentarios relativamente libres, sea usado por los fnuncionarios como una ventana al sentimiento público, a falta de más medios democráticos para tomar el pulso (a la opinión pública).