Comment: Yellow-skinned Melinda Liu who has forgotton her origin dosn't know we Chinese are always behind our government. The more you belittle our government the more we love our government and the more we support our government. The Chinese government has dwarfed all the governments in the world in taking good care of its people , safeguarding their human rights and improving their livelihood. Who else is able to feed 1/5 of the total population of the world aside the Chinese government? Who else is able to unite 56 nationalities in a country to work together? Who has led the Chinese people to have caugth up with the developed nations in such short time? Who has advandced the Chinese economy to the top three in the world? Who has sent hundreds thousands troops to save lives in the natural disaster such as the earthquake in 1976 in Tangshan, the one in 2008 in Sichuan, and the flood in 1998 and many others----countless. The anwser is known to everyone : the Chinese government. It is obvious that the Chinese government is the greatest advocate of human right for all it has done! One Child policy is not wrong. If China hadn't adopted one child policy, the oil price wouldn't be $130 a barrel now and it would be $260 per barrel. The contribution the Chinese government made to the world is beyond words. Distorting the truth when reporting only discredit youself being a human much less being a journalist.
China Feels the Heat
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China's reaction to the unrest has also tapped into an ugly strain of racism. To many Han Chinese, who have seen their prospects improve immeasurably over the past 30 years, disgruntled minorities like the Tibetans seem like backward malcontents. A Tibetan woman who sells traditional earrings and trinkets in a Beijing subway station says no one buys her jewelry any longer because no Han "wants to be mistaken for a Tibetan ... No one wants to be seen [even] speaking with Tibetans." She says Chinese commuters have cursed her every day since the protests turned bloody. She and her friends didn't dare venture outdoors for several days after March 14. "We heard [Chinese] were throwing stones and beer bottles at our women and trying to beat our children," says the vendor, who requested anonymity because she lives in Beijing illegally.
There are signs that at least some Chinese officials recognize that the regime is painting itself into a corner with its behavior. Domestic media have begun to devote more emphasis to the message that both Tibetans and Chinese suffered from the Lhasa riots, instead of focusing exclusively on Han Chinese victims. Minders who brought a group of foreign diplomats to Lhasa at the end of March emphasized the same theme. "China … should spend less time demonizing their political enemies and more time telling positive stories about how they're going to address problems in the country, how they're going to help the victims of the rioting in Tibet regardless of their ethnicity," says the Beijing-based PR consultant. "The price of globalization … [is] finding a way to balance internal and external audiences." If China wants to show it's ready to graduate, that's a lesson the regime needs to learn, fast.
With Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing and Keith Naughton and Joan Raymond in Detroit
© 2008
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