Share German-Foreign-Policy.com also published a shocking article detailing backroom events leading up to the Lhasa uprising and recent Olympic torch run disruption. I begin to believe that there may be some credits in China’s claims that the uprising and torch run mess are orchestrated by the “Dalai Clique”. After all, if things covered in this [...]
Share Thanks to the effort of citizen journalists website Global Voices Online, more blog posts written by people who witnessed the riot in Lhasa have surfaced. Now the mainstream media has a duty to report “the other side of the story”. These are no propaganda. They are just ordinary records written by ordinary people. Please [...]
Share Surfing the blogosphere about the idea of “Free Tibet”, I found some well thought, well written articles that help me digest this complex issue. These are westerners who try to go beyond slogan yelling and take a deeper look of cultures. A big thank to these bloggers who help me understand the ideological “why” [...]
Share Kadfly, the respected American toursit who happened to be in Lhasa when the riot broke out, stands by his reporting despite many pro-Tibet commentators accused him for being a “Chinese spy”. My highest respect to Kadfly. Here’s his latest post: …. a huge part of the comments are directed towards the issue of whether [...]
Share The mentality of this poster who left a message on kadfly’s blog (the tourist who gave unbiased first hand reports on the Tibet riot) can explain in part why people are lumping all Chinese under one label: Another thing to think about is, that there is no such thing as innocent people (except children). [...]
Share Leung Wan To (trans; 梁文道), a prominent Hong Kong commentator and social activist famous for his long-time harsh stance against communist dictatorship, recently wrote an interesting article on the so-called “communiphobia” (恐共). Re-reading this article today, I’ve come to realization that the West can best be described as suffering from “communiphobia”, given what happened [...]
Share I have been contemplating these few days about why and when I started writing posts that sound more pro-China than if I wrote them a decade ago. I have hated China since small. Many members of my extended family went through the Cultural Revolution. Being someone who were considered rich at the time, they [...]
Share Washington Post – President Bush is avoiding public statements on the intensifying Chinese crackdown on Tibet, relying instead on private messages to the Chinese leadership, pressing Beijing to show restraint, allow U.S. observers into Tibet and have open trials of people arrested, administration officials said. The president, one senior administration official said, is counting [...]
Share See also: Global TV fabricationCTV, TorStar blasted for biased reporting on Tibet issueWe demand honesty from our ‘free’ press: activistHe may be a God, but he’s no politicianThe voices of Han Chinese in LhasaWestern Tibetophilla = escaping disgust with modernityMainstream media bias against China is live and thriving: US tourist‘There’re no innocent Chinese bystanders’: [...]
Share So, this time, the video didn’t come out from the Chinese propaganda machine. Tags: China, Dalai Lama, media bias, riot, Tibet, violence, western media
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