Ngay trong lúc thông tin Hoa Lài lan truyền, chủ tịch Hồ Cẩm Đào đã chủ trì ngay cuộc họp yêu cầu các bộ môn quản lý cộng đồng mạng cải thiện ngay phương pháp để hướng dẫn truyền thông trên mạng.
Lấy cảm hứng Hoa Lài từ cuộc xuống đường ở Tunisia, cộng đồng mạng của Trung Quốc ra lời kêu gọi nhân dân xuống đường đòi “cơm ăn chỗ ở, công bằng đạo lý” cho xã hội. Đây chính là những khẩu hiệu thông thường nhưng gây phẫn uất cao độ trong xã hội giàu nghèo phân hóa cùng cực mà do ĐCS lãnh đạo hiện nay.
Tại các thành phố Bắc Kinh, Thiên Tân, Quảng Châu, Vũ Hán, Thượng Hải… những người khơi động phong trào đã chỉ định địa điểm tập họp, thường là các quảng trường nhân dân.
Sự hẹn hò địa điểm của các mạng Hoa Lài đã tạo nên sự báo động cho cảnh sát và sự hiếu kỳ lực của lượng báo chí vào những nơi này làm sự đụng mặt của hai nhóm đã tạo nên động lực to lớn cho hình ảnh phong trào.
Hình ảnh cảnh sát vùi dập các máy chụp hình và còng tay các vị nhân sĩ trẻ tuổi đã lan truyền đến dư luận quốc tế. Cảnh sát đã bắt đi một số người đang tặng những đoá Hoa Lài nhưng không thể kiểm chứng được ai là người tổ chức.
Hệ thống trực tuyến Trung Quốc phải kiểm duyệt ngay các từ “Lai Hoa”, “Lai Lợi Hoa” (茉莉花), có nghĩa là Hoa Lài bằng tiếng Việt vì tính chất cách mạng gần đây của nó. Trong lúc đó tại quảng trường Đông Phương Hồng tại thành phố Lan Châu thuộc tỉnh Cam Túc, Thiên Phủ ở Thành Đô tỉnh Tứ Xuyên, thành phố Cáp Nhĩ Tân…lực lượng công an dày đặc để canh chừng người dân tụ tập. Sự báo động cho lực lượng công an đã mang tính toàn quốc.
Trung Quốc cũng ngăn chặn các cơ quan truyền thông trong nước nhắc đến các cuộc cách mạng Hoa Lài tại Tunisia lan sang Ai Cập và đang rung chuyển Bắc Phi và Trung Đông hiện nay.
Mạng BBC tiếng Trung cập nhật hình ảnh và mở ngay diễn đàn thảo luận chuyên đề. Một người tên là Trần Đắc Hải ở thành phố Triều Châu nêu lên ý kiến:
“Ủng hộ cách mạng Hoa Lài, hy vọng uy lực của đoá Hoa Lài có thể làm cho chính quyền này phải tiến hành ngay cải cách chính trị.”
Một người khác dưới tên là Tiểu Thị Dân ở Triết Giang thì e ngại nhưng không che dấu lòng ngưỡng mộ:
“Thật là kính ngưỡng, tiếc rằng là tôi không dám, chúng nó mạnh quá, gia đình lại cần tôi và trong lòng tôi cũng tràn đầy sợ hãi.”
Trong lúc đó các lực lượng “Ngũ Mao” cũng vào tận các diễn đàn Hoa Ngữ tự do để “dìm hàng” phong trào. Tuy nhiên, các thế lực cán bộ IT Trung Quốc và đảng Ngũ Mao không thể nào ngăn chặn hương thơm của Hoa Lài đang lan tỏa.
Hoa Lài đối với nghệ thuật và văn hóa Trung Quốc có vị trí rất độc đáo và gần gũi. Nếu sự ngăn chặn này thái quá sẽ tạo nên sự hiếu động thị trường vì các thương phẩm hương liệu, dầu thơm, đồ trang điểm rất nhiều nơi dùng Hoa Lài làm biểu tượng. Ngay cả món gạo ăn hàng ngày cũng có tên là Lai Hoa hương mễ (gạo thơm Hoa Lài). Thức uống thì có đặc phẩm trà Lài cũng rất nổi tiếng.
Nếu Hoa Lài trở thành linh hồn cách mạng tại Trung Quốc sẽ là một sự thách thức với nhà cầm quyền hiện này vì họ không dễ tìm ra biện pháp đối phó và dìm hàng như từng làm với các cuộc cách mạng màu ở Đồng Âu thời trước.
Trong lúc cuộc cách mạng Hoa Lài ở Trung Quốc đang xao động tỏa hương thì trực tuyến Việt Nam cũng có vài lời kêu gọi cho cuộc cách mạng Hoa Sen, Hoa Chuối, Hoa Dâm Bụt…Tuy nhiên, giới công dân mạng Việt Nam không có động lực hưởng ứng mạnh mẽ. Nhiều người cũng bi quan cho rằng các cuộc cách mạng màu hoa này không khiêu động con người Việt Nam đâu. “Đừng kêu gọi mà mỏi miệng”.
Về mặt khách quan mà nói thì các giới truyền thông Việt Nam cũng chưa mặn mà với các biến cố ở Trung Quốc vì nghi ngờ bản chất của phong trào. Mạng BBC Việt Ngữ tới qua sáng thứ Hai (giờ Trung Quốc, Việt Nam) mà vẫn chưa chịu loan tin. Trong lúc đó, BBC Hoa Ngữ thì nhiếp ảnh, luận đàn lên trang nhất, tin nhanh như chớp giật.
Nhưng thực sự Cách Mạng Hoa Lài đã lan tỏa đến Á Đông và đang tạo cảm hứng xuống đường cho người dân Trung Quốc.
Police officers react during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, as they follow calls for a "Jasmine Revolution," a mysterious online call which urged people to demonstrate in more than a dozen Chinese cities Sunday apparently modeled after the wave of pro-democracy protests sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Authorities detained activists, increased the number of police on the streets, disconnected some mobile phone text messaging services and censored Internet postings about the call to stage protests at 2 p.m. in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities.
The campaign did not gain much traction among ordinary citizens and the chances of overthrowing the Communist government are slim, considering Beijing’s tight controls over the media and Internet. A student-led, pro-democracy movement in 1989 was crushed by the military and hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed.
On Sunday, police took at least three people away in Beijing, one of whom tried to lay down white jasmine flowers while hundreds of people milled about the protest gathering spot, outside a McDonald’s on the capital’s busiest shopping street. In Shanghai, police led away three people near the planned protest spot after they scuffled in an apparent bid to grab the attention of passers-by.
Many activists said they didn’t know who was behind the campaign and weren’t sure what to make of the call to protest, which first circulated Saturday on the U.S.-based, Chinese-language news website Boxun.com.
The unsigned notice called for a “Jasmine revolution” — the name given to the Tunisian protest movement — and urged people “to take responsibility for the future.” Participants were urged to shout, “We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness” — a slogan that highlights common complaints among Chinese.
The call is likely to fuel anxiety among China’s authoritarian government, which is ever alert for domestic discontent and has appeared unnerved by recent protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and Libya. It has limited media reports about them, stressing the instability caused by the protests, and restricted Internet searches to keep Chinese uninformed about Middle Easterners’ grievances against their autocratic rulers.
On Saturday in a speech to national and provincial officials, President Hu Jintao ordered them to “solve prominent problems which might harm the harmony and stability of the society.”
China’s extensive filtering and monitoring of the Internet meant that most Chinese were unlikely to know about Saturday’s call to protest. Boxun.com, for example, is blocked as are Twitter and Facebook, which were instrumental in Egypt’s protest movement. Still, young tech-smart Chinese are savvy about getting around controls.
One person sitting in the McDonald’s after the brief protest in Beijing said he saw Sunday’s gathering as a dry run.
“Lots of people in here are Twitter users and came to watch like me,” said 42-year-old Hu Di. “Actually this didn’t have much organization, but it’s a chance to meet each other. It’s like preparing for the future.”
With foot traffic always heavy at the Wangfujing pedestrian mall, it was difficult to discern who showed up to protest, who came to watch and who was out shopping. Rubberneckers outnumbered any potential protesters. Many wondered if there was a celebrity in the area because of the heavy police presence and dozens of foreign reporters and news cameras.
As the crowd swelled back and forth and police urged people to move on, 25-year-old Liu Xiaobai placed a white jasmine flower on a planter in front of the McDonald’s and took some photos with his cell phone.
“I’m quite scared because they took away my phone. I just put down some white flowers, what’s wrong with that?” Liu said afterward. “I’m just a normal citizen and I just want peace.”
Security agents tried to take away Liu, but he was swarmed by journalists and eventually was seen walking away with a friend.
Two other people were taken away by police, including a shabbily dressed old man who was cursing and shouting, though it wasn’t clear if he was there because of the online call to protest.
In Shanghai, three young men were taken away from outside a Starbucks coffee shop in People’s Square by police, who refused to answer reporters’ questions about why they were detained. They trio had been shouting complaints about the government and that food prices are too high.
A couple dozen older people were drawn to the commotion and started voicing their own complaints and saying they wanted democracy and the right to vote. One woman jumped up on a roadside cement block to shout, “The government are all hooligans,” then ran off, only to return a bit later and shout again at the police and others crowded in the area before once again scampering away.
Security officials were relaxed toward the retirees and the crowd eventually drifted away.
There were no reports of protests in other cities where people were urged to gather, such as Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu.
Ahead of the planned protests, human rights groups estimated that anywhere from several dozen to more than 100 activists in cities across China were detained by police, confined to their homes or were missing. Families and friends reported the detention or harassment of several dissidents, and some activists said they were warned not to participate.
On Sunday, searches for “jasmine” were blocked on China’s largest Twitter-like microblog, and status updates with the word on popular Chinese social networking site Renren.com were met with an error message and a warning to refrain from postings with “political, sensitive … or other inappropriate content.”
A mass text messaging service from China Mobile was unavailable in Beijing on Sunday due to an upgrade, according to a customer service operator for the leading service provider, who did not know how long the suspension would last. In the past, Chinese authorities have suspended text messaging in politically tense areas to prevent organizing.
Boxun.com said its website was attacked by hackers Saturday after it posted the call to protest. A temporary site, on which users were reporting heavy police presence in several cities, was up and running Sunday. The site said in a statement it had no way of verifying the origins of the campaign.
A man, 3rd from left, is detained by police officers in front of a cinema that was a planned protest site in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man protests in front of a police station near a cinema that was a planned protest site in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man is detained by a police officer near a cinema that was a planned protest site in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man, center, is detained by police officers near a cinema that was a planned protest site in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Chinese police officers stand guard near a McDonald's restaurant which was a planned protest site for "Jasmine Revolution" in Beijing, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Liu Xiaobai explains to plain clothes police officers after they arrested him of placing a white jasmine flower on a planter in front of a McDonald's restaurant that was the planned protest site in Beijing, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A man being gets pushed down to a ground by plain clothe police officers after he refused to leave a McDonald's restaurant, a planned protest site in Beijing, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Police officers ask a journalist, lower right, to leave as he covers people gathering in front of a McDonald's restaurant which was a planned protest site in Beijing, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Plain clothes police officers detain Liu Xiaobai for placing a white jasmine flower on a planter in front of a McDonald's restaurant that was a planned protest site in Beijing, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Chinese police officers urge people and journalist to leave an area in front of a McDonald's restaurant which was a planned protest site for "Jasmine Revolution" in Beijing, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Chinese police officers stand watch near a McDonald's restaurant which was a planned protest site for "Jasmine Revolution" in Beijing, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Protesters hold pictures of jasmine during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, as they follow calls for a "Jasmine Revolution," a mysterious online call which urged people to demonstrate in more than a dozen Chinese cities Sunday apparently modeled after the wave of pro-democracy protests sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Police officers urge people to leave as they gather in front of a cinema that was a planned protest site in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man, center, confronts with police officers in front of a cinema that was a planned protest site in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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