e27002 wrote:

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Thank you for sharing. I am sorry to hear that the event came accross
so badly in the PRC. I am surprised you were able to watch a program
giving such detail about HM's reign. Was this broadcast by a PRC
broadcastor, or was it international (CNN/MSNBC/Fox)?

It was a Hong Kong broadcaster (Phoenix TV) that is widely available
without any restrictions in mainland China. It is just like the very
many
other regional stations that broadcast across the whole of China (e.g,
a number of Beijing TV stations, Hunan TV, Shandong TV, a number of
Shanghai TV stations, Shaanxi TV, Shanxi TV, Inner Mongolia TV, etc etc)
I don't know if it was becaquse they know me, but a number of my
colleagues mentioned that they had watched it with interest, and I
didn't
tell them about it beforehand (because there's no easy way for me to
find out the broadcast schedules without an in-depth knowledge of
reading Chinese characters, which I am not too expert at yet.)

Last year, one of the national TV stations (CCTV) broadcast the whole of
the wedding of Kate and Andrew with, again, quite reasonable and
surprisingly insightful commentary (in Chinese but with interviews from
Westerners with translations into Chinese given), down to explaining the
marriage service, its religious basis, and identifying the prominent
people
attending, so this event was not as surprising as you may think. (I
must admit
the wedding broadcast was surprising to me.)

It would have been appropriate if more was made of the fact that HM is
Head of State of several countries. I know the boats, in the
Flotilla, carried flags from all over the Commonwealth. However, the
emphasis on the UK was way heavier than any other of HM's realms.

Agreed. That would have been another opportunity to have more
decoration,
tableaux, and "done up" boats in the flotilla illustrating the
different countries
that she is the Head of State of. At least adding these suggestions or
ones in
a similar vein would have marked the large procession of boats and
ships as
being much more special than it appeared.

--
David D S: UK and PR China. (Native BrEng speaker)
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