I just watched the scenes of a dearly faltering PR-event by the central government in taking a selected group of foreign journalists too Tibet, in a reaction to the earlier closer of Tibet, while accusing foreign media of a bias. Fascinating stuff here including the fall-out on both sides, here in an overview of China Beat.
At least we have a decent debate at our hands, where the different sides have found each other, be it not always in a tolerant mood, to put it mildly. The difference with other debates (take for example the ludicrous attempt to call for a boycott of the Olympics) is that the different sides mostly stuck to their own arguments and ignored any opposite views. Interesting times.
Update: More here at China Beat.
5 comments:
FOns
Thursday night in Shanghai, your FT link is blocked and so is bbc again. :(
Will any government of the World have some balls to tell china to give independence to the Tibetian People.
Can we all get along!
@anonymous How would you expect any government to have balls if you prefer only to make anonymous comments. That is very easy.
There's a good solution to the Olympic-boycott dilemma, first put forward by Bernard Kouchner, foreign minister of France. Instead of canceling the sporting events and depriving the whole planet of the games, the right approach would be for athletes and politicians to stay away from the opening ceremony, which no one's interested in except the Chinese government. Sarkozy and Merkel have already said they'll do this... how many other governments are willing to go along?
It is true. I get both Chinese and US television coverage, and the two are on two very extreme ends. I am at odds over the politics of it all and its relation to the Olympics, but media bias is inevitable and it seems rather elementary and hypocritical to pin an accusation of that nature.
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