I disagree. I'm an American, living in the USA, of English decent, but I study chinese and have many friends who live in China. I've been aware of their feelings regarding the apparent western media bias going back to the events in Lhasa on March 14 2008.
Not only is the Chinese view not squelched, a famous CCTV-9 (Chinese news in English, which is viewable in the west, by the way, and I have a link to it on my blog) talk host named Yang has published a letter acknowledging that the west seems to have an anti-chinese bias these days and calls for changes in China that make it stronger, such as beeing up their Navy.
I talk with people all over China daily. The pro-tibetans protesters have only caused them to become more patriotic than they have ever been. This can be a bad thing [tm] if the chinese people in question happen to be hackers.
Think about it, people, before you pick up a "Free Tibet" logo for your web site.
I've been covering this for awhile now on my blog
http://teribidwell.blogspot.com/
come read some eloquent letters from chinese nationals, learn about why they are upset, and find resources to dig in and understand their perspective on western media bias.
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OH and I forgot to mention,
That petition linked to by the OP has been signed so far by
672 WAN (6,720,000) Chinese people.
I disagree. I'm an American, living in the USA, of English decent, but I study chinese and have many friends who live in China. I've been aware of their feelings regarding the apparent western media bias going back to the events in Lhasa on March 14 2008.
Come have a look: http://teribidwell.blogspot.com/
Not only is the Chinese view not squelched, a famous CCTV-9 (Chinese news in English, which is viewable in the west, by the way, and I have a link to it on my blog) talk host named Yang has published a letter acknowledging that the west seems to have an anti-chinese bias these days and calls for changes in China that make it stronger, such as beeing up their Navy.
I talk with people all over China daily. The pro-tibetans protesters have only caused them to become more patriotic than they have ever been. This can be a bad thing [tm] if the chinese people in question happen to be hackers.
Think about it, people, before you pick up a "Free Tibet" logo for your web site.
I've been covering this for awhile now on my blog http://teribidwell.blogspot.com/ come read some eloquent letters from chinese nationals, learn about why they are upset, and find resources to dig in and understand their perspective on western media bias.
I've been covering this for awhile now on my blog
http://teribidwell.blogspot.com/
Come read some eloquent letters from Chinese
nationals, learn about why they are upset,
and get some history about the issues.