Posted in China Earthquake on May 21st, 2008
The China earthquake disaster has brought some interesting images out of China, but not usually protests. Apparently, instead of providing financial donations and relief help, Falun Gong has rejoiced in the wake of all of the loss and misery, saying that this is the Gods’ way of punishing the country.
This video, in Mandarin Chinese, shows [...]
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Posted in Chinese media on Apr 27th, 2008
When reporting the incident in Tibet last month, a CNN website photograph shows a person running in front of a Chinese military truck — but it cropped out rioters stoning it. 1 The Washington post also provided false information 2 on the issue. Then some western media choose to report only the protests during [...]
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Posted in China marketing on Apr 21st, 2008
Genocide Olympics. Tibetan protest Olympics. As the world continues to pelt rotten issues at China left and right in the race towards the Summer Games, somehow the stench is coming back at us.
Sure, I get it — the Olympics are a perfect opp for bringing to light the human rights violations within China (Tibet included) [...]
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With the recent visit by Wen Jiabao to Japan, the press is in a frenzy about Sino-Japanese relations. After all, it’s been seven years since any top-level Chinese officials set foot in the land of the rising sun, and anti-Japanese sentiment looms large as China has historically considered Japan a rival. It was only two [...]
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