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Tibet groups plan large Canberra protest to push China for talks
Apr 11, 2008, 12:20 GMT
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Our media has been carefully selecting and elaborating not so faithful reports to ruin the Chinese government's image, a payback for keeping them away from reporting in Tibet, from which the media could have gained great profit for their news. It's actually a business between the Chinese government and the western media. But this western propaganda war against China angered greatly both the westerners and the Chinese. The westerners, fed daily by biased anti-China news think that we have to fight for freedom. The Chinese who broke the government's blockade on information and accessed the western news, are deeply hurt by the false accusations on Tibet because they know the truth in China better. Chinese internet users started calling for a boycott on French products after the violent protest in Paris. Photos of an Chinese girl on a wheelchair guarding the torch being beaten by French protesters are widespread throughout the country. Thanks to our media, this is no longer a call for better behavior of the Chinese government, but has turned into public hostility between different nations. Our media is ruining this Olympic from which we could have understood better a different civilization. The 'One World, One Dream' motto is long forgotten, replaced by the media's thirst for troubles and confrontations and the control on public thoughts. This is not democracy, it's information dictatorship.
No body can talk when they are blackmailed. This is exactly what's happening now.
I live in west, but my root is in China. I know a lie when I see it and I know a lot of things Tibetan protestors are spreading are totally lies.
The biggest losers are Tibetan protestors and US politicians, because it makes us more resolute in our own way to deal with Tibetan problem!
Anybody who brings Dalai Lama and his fellow terrorists into custody will be rewarded as the true friendship and thanks of the Chinese people.
China gets it's comeuppance. It is about time that the communist regime was called to task for their reign of terror in Tibet. Their policy of cultural genocide against the Tibetan people is not working. China is cozying up to tyrannical regimes in Africa and the middle-east for their own strategical and economical interests without regard for human rights abuses. For instance China blocks sanctions and other punitive measures against the government of Sudan which is killing thousands in Darfur. It stymies action against Iran which pursues nuclear weapons and foments terror around the world. Thankfully there are brave citizens in this world who are willing to stand up to the hypocrisy of a country like China staging the olympics. Long live freedom. Here's to a free Tibet.
Weatern media hangs on every single word Dalai Lama and his exiled government churn out and rejects everything from China. This is no freedom of speech. This is a bias, one-side support from the western media.
China gave Dalai Lama and his exiled government Autonomous rule when first officially added Tibet to the country in 1951. It wasn't until 8 years later when the failed uprising occured in 1958 that China decided to take away those powers. What Dalai Lama and his exiled government claim they want is exactly what they had. China would glad to give Tibet autonomous rule IF Dalai Lama and his exiled government are willing to corporate.
The fact is, Dalai Lama may echo the words 'Only want peace, only want autonomous rule, not indepencence', his actions show differently.
China has multiple times reached out to Dalai Lama for a peaceful resolution... In all those instances, either no resolution were made or Dalai Lama and the exiled government back up at the last minute.
How can China talk to such a two-faced person?! Forcing China to talk to Dalai Lama is like forcing U.S. to talk to Osama Bin Laden.
The mainstream American news outlets like CNN has too many interests everywhere to make them impartial and most Americans are too lazy to do their own research to see the truth.
After reading this very good opinion pulls from NY Times here:
kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/calling-china/#comment-43231
I decided to do my own research and here is a more insightful version we should have been getting but must media outlets too bias to deliver:
www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4880
www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
I came as a spectator but walk away a believer!
Many many Chinese people in SF are very angry as well.
The US media were fueling anti-Chinese campaign with the
those pro-Tibet protecters. People do not have to be very smart
to see that thanks to the information age and two-way communication
in the online media.
The western media certainly have lost a great deal of credibility
in the eyes of China. And the Chinese government should be very happy
in the end. Without being objective, the western media will certainly
lose the media war.
Well the organizers have seen their tactics have backfired, claiming
that it is not anti-Chinese. Too late, man!
Oh, here is another interesting article from one of our anti-terrorism allies. I dont know how much is true but kind of help me connect the dots and see a bigger picture behind the smoke screen.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19631.htm
God bless America!
With the keywords like 'communist', 'tibet' and 'culture', many western media and naive people have alreaday made their stories before any meaningful thinking and conversation. Look at what happened at London
and paris, those 'peaceful protester' claimed their high moral standard
with their strange bahvior.....Then look at their government, those politicans claimed their high moral standard by sending killing machines to iraq. Everyday, dozens of people are killed by their troops there and they are ok
with that because they are iraqi anyway.....As an average chinese joe, I don't agree why we should pay so much attention to a game. It is a game to watch with joys, that's all. If somebody likes to protest, pls. go ahead. If somebody does not like to buy chinese goods, pls. don't. If somebody does not want to join the game, pls don't. I don't believe that without this game, we will not be able to live a life. We will take our policies to develop tibet and make it better for tibetans as well Han and Hui peopl living there. Remember western's attack on china's 'one-child' policy many years ago....they keep attacking china in Human Rights Abuse by taking 'one-child' policy....Now after 10 years, look at what they are complaining....' food shortage' - chinese fault, 'oil shortage' - chinese fault, 'pollution' -chinese fault....come one, we have 1.4 billion people already and you assume that we don't need to eat, live and develop....No ignore those nonsenses and do what we should do.
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Mark Edward from SydneyApr 11th, 2008 - 13:22:24
We are not able to judge china over its Tibet untill we get sound knowledge about who is at the back of well organized 'Tibet protesters'. Let's read some US debate.
'San Francisco had been chosen as the only stop for the torch in North America because of its large Chinese population as it makes it way to Beijing for the opening of the summer Olympics.
In an anti-China, anti-communist rally held the night before the torch was to arrive, South African bishop Desmond Tutu called on world leaders to boycott the Beijing Olympics. Fewer than 1,000 people attended the U.N. Plaza rally, yet the corporate media provided enormous coverage. Inflated crowd numbers and carefully selected shots falsely magnified the event.
Members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation unfurled a banner that read 'Say No to the U.S.-CIA Campaign Against China.' and distributed a statement on the role of U.S. imperialism in the 'Free Tibet' movement.
While encountering some expected hostility, PSL members where able to reach individuals who supported the Olympics and were open to discussion on Tibet. PSL members discussed the fact that Tibet has been part of China for centuries and, should Washington wrench Tibet from China, it would become a pro-imperialist colony with U.S. military bases within striking distance from the rest of China.
Actor Richard Gere and multimillionaire war profiteer Richard Blum spoke at the rally, glorifying the Dalai Lama as a 'simple man of peace.' The PSL literature countered this myth, explaining that the Dalai Lama has been on the CIA payroll since fleeing Tibet in 1959. Before then, he and his army maintained a feudal system. Education and health care were virtually non-existent for the vast majority of Tibetans who worked the land. Life expectancy was 35 years.'
How do you feel about what is going on behind western people?
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