The use of the Internet and SMS, and the semantic game of calling the protest a "stroll" (散步) rather than a "demonstration" (游行) are both tactics used successfully by the Xiamen and Shanghai demonstrators. Also similar is the middle class, NIMBY (not in my backyard) nature of the protests.
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