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Originally Posted by Parisyann
It's not true. The free media were not sympathetic towards the Tibetans rioters; they were trying to do their jobs! We all know this world is far from perfect.
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I don't know what you have read, but here in the US. I'll just pull one of the stories of how they re-hashed this whole incident and you can see how sympathetic they are.
Tibetan Monk Protests Turn Deadly, Dalai Lama Calls For End To Violence In Capital As Fighting Erupts Over Chinese Rule - CBS News
Notice that they only got quotes from Free Radio Asia, Free Tibet Campagain. Frankly, this is what is called 'information domination,' that if they churn out BS so many times, it turns out to be the truth.
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To put your claims into perspective, I'm sure your linking of this offending add, can only be related to the "Observation On Chinese People's Attitude" thread.
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I don't think "The whole western government* threatens to do anything, since it does not exist; otherwise I guess George W. Bush would have said he would boycott the Olympics, but you said yourself that he hasn't. Doesn't he look like a cowboy enough to be part of anything western? Some other heads of states have already talked, and some others are still talking; but I do agree with you on this: what Bush said was right!
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Actually GW Bush was the only person who said that he is going to go to the opening ceremonies. The presidential candidates, Clinton, Obama and McCain asked Bush not to go. The Leader of UK, France, Germany, Canada said that they are not going because of China's Human Rights record.
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I can understand them; I'd probably do the same. I told you, I don't think what Jack Cafferty said is important in regards to racism, especially if he was referring to the government. On the other hand, you're saying that when someone speaks on TV about governments, a remark offends Chinese people themselves then they become nationalists. Do you mean TV could be bad for Chinese? Idem; I can understand why some people in the US are *pressured* to avoid racist remarks towards African-Americans, especially by politicians.
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This is the quote that pissed off the Chinese:
Well, I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different. We're in hawk to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We also are running hundred of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart. So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years.
He later said reiterated that the quote above was aimed at the Chinese government and not the Chinese people. So according to him, who makes this 'junk' and get 'paid one dollar a month', Chinese people, and not the Chinese government. And it wasn't even a formal apology.
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I don't read French newspapers often enough to contradict your claim. I think they are basically low-quality, sorry. I can tell you that I have heard a lot on the web about the Jin Jing incident; and that I'm sorry again.
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It is not your fault, no need to apologize.
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Ok, so that makes 5 events. Then, another reason, I guess, to become nationalists. Simple algebra! You already said it's all a western media stuff. Can you break on through and ask yourself why this couldn't be a PRC stuff?
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Actually I don't read much of the PRC stuff because I lived here in the US for 25+ years. So most of the observances are based what I read from Western Media. Like what was mentioned in the cbs article above, I saw these protests from Lhasa, yet they are saying that China are the bad guys. The more I saw it, the more it remind me how the US were misled to fight in Iraq.
The Domination Effect
The PRC propaganda couldn't rally the Chinese nationals abroad. Much of protesters are Netroots and there were plenty of Chinese nationals and foreign expatriates looking at this kind of BS from this re-hashed Western Media as I did. Why wouldn't they protest?
My guess is that these Lhasa protestors wanted to be victimized in this situation (ie beat down or shot by the Chinese police.) It did not happen. Instead, the Tibetan protestors were the bad guys and this information domininance against China wasn't very effective.