Comments on: Were CNN’s ‘Vile Insults of China’ A ‘Mistake By U.S. Authorities?’

By: Tibet » Were Cafferty’s ‘Vile Insults of China’ a ‘Mistake By U.S. Authorities?’

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:25:59 +0000

[...] The Moderate Voice wrote an interesting post today on Were Caffertyâ??s â??Vile Insults of Chinaâ?? a â??Mistake By U.S. Authorities?â??Here’s a quick excerptAfter its manipulation of riot pictures from Tibet, the Cable News Network (CNN)… [...]

By: DLS

DLS — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:51:42 +0000

Look at the problem exposed recently with Chinese manufacture of heparin. Here, for those who never heard about this event:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=heparin

China simply doesn't like being criticized, be it for tyranny in Tibet ("rejoining the big family of the Motherland," sorry), lobbing insults or missiles at Taiwan (and passing laws compelling Taiwanese to oppose independence, making any attempt to oppose reunification treason and justifying the massacre that would follow any reunification), or engaging in conflicts with its neighbors, be they from "peaceful fishing vessels" going into contested island groups, or being caught running submarines near ChineseXXXXXXXJapanese islands. (And don't forget how much land that should be India's China has helped itself to, as well as what influence China has had on the Maoists in Nepal.)

Meanwhile, the nuttier among the nuts continue to deny China is any kind of threat to anybody.

By: Slamfu

Slamfu — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:21:46 +0000

China's gov't is just mad because Cafferty called them on it. In American when the news sucks its because of good ole fashioned incompetence, not censorship. It must be really frustrating for them to see a reporter speaking freely against them and not be able to put him in jail.

By: Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Monday Highlights

Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Monday Highlights — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:35:06 +0000

[...] a land where media is controlled by state, they assume that same applies elsewhere it [...]

By: EEllis

EEllis — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:03:15 +0000

They can say whatever they want and screw china or anyone else. This is America. It is, however, cheap tabloid journalism with little regard for accuracy or nuance. Sure we get plenty of crap goods from china, as well as Mexico, Malaysia, South America, ect. We also get may high quality items from China like Sony, Apple, IBM, ect, that sell goods produced in China. It's lazy thinking to just label a county and ignore the complexity of a situation.

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:30:04 +0000

My brother is fluent in Mandarin & has traveled all over western China, which few foreigners visit---he was working for the UN org FAO as a rice pest expert and would explain how to avoid diseases affecting rice. His Australian wife accompanied him on for six months as she gathered info for an advanced degree at an Aussie U.

They wrote back that health & living conditions in these remote provinces were abysmal, abominable, and the population barely educated---even the local officials spoke poor Mandarin & had little expertise in anything except officious incompetence.

The Chinese are flooding the US with shoddy merchandise of all kinds, and a recent health epidemic in Panama was from their substituting diethylene glycol for glycerine, causing over 100 deaths in Panama alone.

My brother told me that the Chinese are intensely nationalistic and have the "Middle Kingdom attitude," which puts China above all other countries---at least in their own consciousness. He compared it with American exceptionalism, but said that the squalor and mendacious peculation he encountered on every level of Chinese society made the comparison ridiculous, totally ludicrous.

And my brother has become an Australian citizen---not even being a big fan of the USA! He does have a PhD & speaks Bahasa Malay fluently as well, and now heads a major USAID project in Indonesia. He's glad to live there rather than the PRC.