Archive for March 20th, 2008
China Slams Western Media
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Western media is biased. It doesn’t understand the situation. But please keep out, if you don’t mind! From an editorial at People’s Daily:
Probably the whole world is on tiptoes, eager to find out what’s going on in Lhasa and other Tibetan-inhabited regions in western China. While we highly appreciate the efforts of the global media […]
Taiwan Elections
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Someone asked me recently who I thought would win the upcoming election in Taiwan. I hadn’t been paying attention to it, really, but it struck me that we haven’t heard much news out of China. Since Beijing was so quiet on this one, their least favorite party - the DPP - was probably going to […]
Arthur Waldron at Commentary
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Arthur Waldron, a sharp academic, has written a poignant piece at Commentary. He understands the China game well:
The officially-expressed lack of condemnation of the latest installment in China’s decades-long destruction of Tibet is proof that the smart money figures the fix is in. Beijing will crush things without any outsiders having a chance to watch; […]