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John Kamm - Blinded By the Firewall - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • The fact that the Chinese people think the world loves China helps explain why it is so difficult to persuade Beijing to address human rights and other issues. The Chinese people, after all, see no need for changes to improve the country's image. In contrast, polls have shown that Americans are aware that the United States' image overseas has been badly damaged in recent years, and there is widespread agreement that work must be done to improve that image. In China, the Communist Party controls most of the information to which people have access, and that information does not include material showing how unpopular the country has become.
  • The people in developed countries who think it was a mistake to award the Olympics to Beijing (43 percent of Americans, vs. 41 percent who told Pew it was the correct decision) are less likely to watch.
  • Three in four Chinese think the world likes China, while only one in 10 thinks foreigners don't like the country. More than 80 percent believe China takes other countries' interests into account when formulating foreign policy. Just 3 percent think China's economic growth has a negative effect on other countries. Only 1 percent knew a lot about the recall of Chinese products for quality and safety reasons. if ( show_doubleclick_ad && ( adTemplate & INLINE_ARTICLE_AD ) == INLINE_ARTICLE_AD && inlineAdGraf ) { placeAd('ARTICLE',commercialNode,20,'inline=y;',true) ; } Pew's Global Attitudes Survey of public opinion in 24 countries, released in June, makes clear that international opinion toward China is very different from what people in China think it is.
  • feng37 on 07 Aug 08
     
    The fact that the Chinese people think the world loves China helps explain why it is so difficult to persuade Beijing to address human rights and other issues. The Chinese people, after all, see no need for changes to improve the country's image. In contrast, polls have shown that Americans are aware that the United States' image overseas has been badly damaged in recent years, and there is widespread agreement that work must be done to improve that image. In China, the Communist Party controls most of the information to which people have access, and that information does not include material showing how unpopular the country has become.
arden dzx

Victim or Victor? China's Olympic Odyssey - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • Modern Chinese nationalism often veers between Mr. Coubertin's and Mr. Maurras's ideas of nationhood. Officially, the government likes to talk about friendship between peoples, and harmony and peace, while at the same time promoting an injured sense of historical Chinese victimhood at the hands of foreign powers. When demonstrations of Chinese nationalism run out of control, with or without official encouragement, the feeling of national hurt can turn to violent aggression. It has been happening of late in the U.S., among other places, when Chinese students attacked Tibetans, or indeed anyone who "offended the feelings of the Chinese people."
  • This type of official patriotism is based on a peculiarly skewed view of history. Rather than celebrate the high points of Chinese civilization, the emphasis falls entirely on suffering at the hands of foreigners. The sense of victimhood runs so deep that it is impossible for most Chinese to view themselves as aggressors. The idea that Tibetans, for example, might have some reason to see themselves as victims of the Chinese, is absurd. More than that, many Chinese genuinely believe that this type of Tibetan "propaganda" has been deliberately taken up by the Western press to inflict yet another humiliation on the Chinese people.
  • This does not mean, however, that democracy would be an automatic cure. In the unlikely event that China were suddenly to have a peaceful transformation to a liberal democracy, nationalism would not go away. No party seen to be soft on foreign powers, especially Japan and the U.S., would be. Modern Chinese history has been so bloody that the scars will take a long time to heal. Ethnic nationalism can be a kind of poison, especially when it is based on a feeling of victimhood. Political freedom should help to soothe such feelings in the long run, but this will not happen in time for the Beijing Olympics.
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  • Aggressive nationalism usually goes together with authoritarian politics. When people have no legitimate means to show dissent, vent their frustrations, express critical opinions in public, and generally take part in politics, nationalism fills the void. As long as they can control it, this suits authoritarian rulers. In China, a certain unspoken sense of guilt may also play a role. The same people who demanded democracy in 1989, when they were students, are now often among the fiercest nationalists. The educated urban elite has prospered since the Tiananmen Massacre, and when people are reminded of the political compromises this involved, resentment can flare up easily.
isaac Mao

Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China : NPR Music - 0 views

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  • When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
  • isaac Mao on 26 Jun 08
     
    Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China By Laura Sydell Listen Now [7 min 48 sec] add to playlist Chinese electronic musician B6 B6, a Shanghai-based electronic musician, explored Western music first on pirated CDs and then at music-sharing sites on the Web. Now he collaborates online with other performers. B6's studio equipment -- a jumble of keyboards, etc. Enlarge B6 works out of a home studio in a Shanghai high-rise. Above, some of his musical arsenal. Discover China's Indie Music Neocha Web site image Neocha.com With Sean Leow, B6 co-founded the music-sharing site Neocha.com, an ad-supported service that lets listeners discover music and pays musicians a share of advertising revenue. * Neocha.com * Neocha's "Next" Player Morning Edition, June 25, 2008 - Second in a three-part series. When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. It's more open today, but the Communist government still bans anything that mentions sex or violence, or that has "low class humor" - which bans an awful lot of American music. So the music most likely to come pouring out of the radio in China is syrupy ballads usually produced in Hong Kong or Taiwan. But Chinese musicians and fans are finding a whole new universe of sound on the Internet. And it's helping to create and nourish a new generation of independent artists in China. From Black-Market Discs to Napster and Beyond One of them is B6, a 27-year-old electronic musician. He lives and works on the first floor of a high-rise on the outskirts of Shanghai. He's part of China's burgeoning electronic-music scene. Growing up, the CDs B6 listened to were mostly sold on the black market. "When I was in high school, I used to listen to rock 'n' roll music," he says. "At that time, it was very difficult to get foreign or Western music." And then, in 1999, the Internet came to China - and B6 and his fr
feng37

Their Own Worst Enemy - The Atlantic (November 2008) - 0 views

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  • Why does a society that, like America, impresses most people who spend time here project such a poor image and scare people as much as it attracts them? Why do China’s leaders, who survive partly by listening to their own people, develop such tin ears when dealing with the outside world?
  • Of course, most official voices of China now have the opposite effect. Their minor, provable lies—the sky is blue, no one wants to protest—inevitably build mistrust of larger claims that are closer to being true. And those are the claims the government most wants the world to listen to: that the country is moving forward and is less repressive and more open than official actions and explanations (or lack of them) make China seem. Many Chinese who have seen the world are very canny about it, and have just the skills government spokesmen lack—for instance, understanding the root of foreign concerns and addressing them not with special pleading (“This is China…”) but on their own terms. Worldly Chinese demonstrate this every day in the businesses, universities, and nongovernmental organizations where they generally work. But the closer Chinese officials are to centers of political power, the less they know what they don’t know about the world.
feng37

Mutant Palm » Blog Archive » Chinese & Western Overreactions to Charter 08 - 0 views

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  • On the other hand, I’ve seen no one addressing the questions of actual political and bureaucratic process. What comes first? Elections in major urban centers like Shanghai, a sort of Special Democratic Zone? Loosening of Internet controls? Judiciary reform? Privatization of state media? Releasing political prisoners? Local officials already abuse existing structures, how much more will they abuse transitional processes? If you don’t want a revolution, then there has to be some sort of proposed process that the current government can work with and Chinese citizens can feel both moves reform forward and doesn’t threaten to unravel society. If you don’t say anything about how you might accomplish such a thing, but simply describe the end result in which the government becomes something unrecognizable from the existing one, you may not have explicitly called for its overthrow but you sure didn’t call for something else instead. Not to mention its difficult not to see it as just a wish list. Anybody can make a wishlist - who’s going to do the real work?
  • I think the commenter who asks whether Charter 08 is really calling for a revolution has a point, and it’s not fair to riposte “well, if this all happened it would be revolutionary”. It wouldn’t be if the changes happened gradually or in a controlled and orderly way (as they did in other countries). The party itself, after all, keeps promising political reform, and many of the people who support it so heartily do so on the assumption that it is serious about eventually keeping that promise. The people I spoke to (and quoted) did not think this was a substitute for tackling concrete real life issues, but thought it important to have a framework within which to do so.
  • Notice, also that I said a “revolution of the system of government”. Not the government, the system. The problems I’m referring to is that when the system, the way things are done, from paying your electricity bill to detemining holders of public office, changes radically, 180 degrees, then there can be terrible consequences. How should one try to avoid those consequences? How can you make the transition smoothly? These are the things that ought to be discussed, and these are the things that will persuade people that your ideals can actually be realized. That might get you a groundswell of demand for change - abstract philosophical manifestos, though, don’t cut it.
blt-fqx

北京晚报：看今日航天英雄 想当年的好城管--观点--人民网 - 0 views

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想当年的好城管 看今日航天英雄

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  • 　翟志刚、刘伯明、景海鹏三位航天英雄甫一亮相，他们的生活经历、成长过程、兴趣爱好以及个人性格特点，立即成为媒体密集报道的新闻材料，也成为公众的热议话题。　　三位英雄的共同特点是都来自农村，小时候家里都很贫穷。三四十岁以上的中国人，经历过改革开放以前生活的中国人，大都对那个时代的贫穷有着刻骨铭心的记忆。就是今天，我国农村的很多地方，农民也只是刚刚温饱，还在奔小康呢，谈不上富裕。　　我猜翟志刚很可能是新中国太空行走的第一人。三人之中，第一个出舱的人，他的概率最大。我猜测的依据是，他是三人中的指令长，大小也是个领导，危险时干部总是冲在前面是我们的传统。另外，在提到三位英雄的名字时，翟志刚一直排在第一。排名是很有讲究的一门学问，里面可以透露出许多的信息。　　翟志刚小时候和父母、5个兄姐一起，在齐齐哈尔市龙江县边缘的十道街过着清苦的生活。长他10岁的三姐翟凤兰说：“小刚小时候挺苦的，我妈那时候岁数也大了，没有奶水给他，家里也没钱买奶粉，他是喝棒子面粥长大的。”天下的事情真说不清，喝棒子面粥的孩子也能身体棒棒的，还走向太空。放在今天，万一家里有点钱，给他买了三鹿奶粉喝，又万一肾结石了，还能不能成为太空人，倒要留一个大大的问号。　　闲话少说，回到正题。为什么看英雄，想城管呢？因为我发现，英雄成长中离不开有人性的城管帮助。翟志刚的母亲为了供家里几个孩子读书，在龙江县剧院门口卖瓜子挣钱。一茶缸瓜子才卖一毛钱，翟母起早贪黑，风里来雨里去，带回家一沓沓皱巴巴的毛票，给翟志刚和兄姐们交学费。翟志刚从小就会各种农活，铲草锄地都是一把好手，而且还很会炒瓜子。“不糊、很香。”他大哥志强夸老弟好手艺。我看到这里，情不自禁地赞叹当时当地的城管，没有把翟母赶走，瓜子没收(或自己吃)。倘若遇上恶城管，翟母卖不成瓜子，兴许翟志刚就上不了学，也就一辈子当农民了。城管或许无意中的积德行善，竟也对中国航天事业有一份功劳。　　景海鹏家乡的城管也有功劳。景家住在山西省运城市杨家卓村。景海鹏的父亲为供孩子读书，每年秋天高粱成熟后，拉着平板车走一天一夜远走他乡收点高粱穗，回家坐在小西屋猫着腰扎笤帚。“一个笤帚成本不到一毛吧，但拉到市里能卖三四毛。”老景说自己每天能扎十几个，凑够了100个便拉到城里走街串巷叫卖。“父亲的腰完全是累弯的。”说起小时候的事情，景海鹏的弟弟海龙泣不成声。看来，天下城管好人多。运城市的城管也放了景老汉一马，给了他一个卖笤帚为孩子交学费的机会。　　今天，齐齐哈尔市和运城市一定会为航天英雄从自己的城市和乡村里走向太空而骄傲。他们有太多太多的理由值得高兴，其中一个理由就是这里的城管挺人性，非常善良，没有把进城卖货的农民商贩赶尽杀绝，从而让翟志刚、景海鹏的父母亲能够赚取一点微薄的学费，供孩子上学读书，成为国家和民族的英雄。我这里替两位英雄的父母亲代笔，谢谢你们，人民的好城管。
feng37

Joho the Blog » McCain models tech policy on our oh-so-successful energy policy - 0 views

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  • THE MCCAIN NEGATIVE WORDCLOUDWords Not in McCain’s Tech Policy | blog |social network | collaboration | hyperlink | democracy | google | wikipedia | open access | open source | standards | gnu | linux | | BitTorrent | anonymity | facebook | wiki | free speech | games | comcast | media concentration | media | lolcats |
  • Even if we ignore the cultural, social, and democratic aspects of the Net, even if we consider the Net to be nothing but a way to move content to “consumers” (his word), McCain still gets it wrong. There’s nothing in his policy about encouraging the free flow of ideas. Instead, when McCain thinks about ideas, he thinks about how to increase the walls around them by cracking down on “pirates” and ensuring ” fair rewards to intellectual property” (which, technically speaking, I think isn’t even English). Ideas and culture are, to John McCain, business commodities. He totally misses the dramatic and startling success of the Web in generating new value via open access to ideas and cultural products. The two candidates’ visions of the Internet could not be clearer. We can have a national LAN designed first and foremost to benefit business, and delivered to passive consumers for whom the Net is a type of cable TV. Or, we can have an Internet that is of the people, by the people, for the people. Is it going to be our Internet or theirs?
  • “Senator McCain’s technology plan doesn’t put Americans first—it is a rehash of tax breaks and giveaways to the big corporations and their lobbyists who advise the McCain campaign. This plan won’t do enough for hardworking Americans who are still waiting for competitive and affordable broadband service at their homes and businesses. It won’t do enough to ensure a free and open Internet that guarantees freedom of speech. It won’t do anything to ensure that we use technology to bring transparency to government and free Washington from the grip of lobbyists and special interests. Senator McCain’s plan would continue George Bush’s neglect of this critical sector and relegate America’s communications infrastructure to second-class status. That’s not acceptable,” said William Kennard, Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission.
feng37

RConversation: Good luck with the WaPo, Marcus! - 0 views

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  • 6. No one today goes to one spot online as the trusted information source. People don’t even go to five or six. Everyone goes to dozens, hundreds — more. A subscription scheme is therefore not workable.
  • feng37 on 08 Jul 08
     
    6. No one today goes to one spot online as the trusted information source. People don't even go to five or six. Everyone goes to dozens, hundreds - more. A subscription scheme is therefore not workable.
feng37

Cory Doctorow: Big Brother is not watching | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • Needles in a haystackThe problem of sifting through vast amounts of data was highlighted by the US 9/11 Commission, which concluded that the American intelligence community knew in advance that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were in the offing, they just didn't know they knew it. The pieces were all there for anyone who knew to look for them, needles buried in a haystack of irrelevancies. The answer in both America and Britain has been to collect more haystacks: useless, indiscriminately acquired information onpeople who've done nothing to arouse suspicion. We even inveigle our citizens to become amateur curtain-twitchers and pecksniffs, demanding that they report "suspicious" activity to the authorities.
  • feng37 on 18 Jun 08
     
    Needles in a haystack The problem of sifting through vast amounts of data was highlighted by the US 9/11 Commission, which concluded that the American intelligence community knew in advance that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were in the offing, they just didn't know they knew it. The pieces were all there for anyone who knew to look for them, needles buried in a haystack of irrelevancies. The answer in both America and Britain has been to collect more haystacks: useless, indiscriminately acquired information on people who've done nothing to arouse suspicion. We even inveigle our citizens to become amateur curtain-twitchers and pecksniffs, demanding that they report "suspicious" activity to the authorities.
evawoo

The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations - CommonDreams.org - 0 views

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  • We hear that Tibetans suffer “demographic aggression” and “cultural genocide”. But we do not hear those terms applied to Spanish and French policies toward the Basque minority. We do not hear those terms applied to the US annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898. And Diego Garcia? In 1973, not so long ago, the UK forcibly deported the entire native Chagossian population from the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. People were allowed one suitcase of clothing. Nothing else. Family pets were gassed, then cremated. Complete ethnic cleansing. Complete cultural destruction. Why? In order to build a big US air base. It has been used to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq, and soon maybe to bomb Iran and Pakistan. Diego Garcia, with nobody there but Brits and Americans, is also a perfect place for rendition, torture and other illegal actions.
  • The Chinese Context The Chinese government is responsible for the well-being and security of one-fourth of humanity. Race riots and rebellion cannot be tolerated, not even when done by Buddhist monks. Chinese Civilization was already old when the Egyptians began building pyramids. But the last 200 years have not gone well, what with two Opium Wars forcing China to import drugs, and Europeans seizing coastal ports as a step to complete colonial control, then the Boxer Rebellion, the collapse of the Manchu Dynasty, civil war, a brutal invasion and occupation by Japan, more civil war, then Communist consolidation and transformation of society, then Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Such events caused tens of millions of people to die. Thus, China’s recent history has good reasons why social order is a higher priority than individual rights. Race riots and rebellion cannot be tolerated. Considering this context, China’s treatment of its minorities has been exemplary compared to what the Western world has done to its minorities. After thousands of years of Chinese dominance, there still are more than 50 minorities in China. After a few hundred years of European dominance in North and South America, the original minority cultures have been exterminated, damaged, or diminished.
  • China’s one-child-policy seems oppressive to Westerners, but it has not applied to minorities, only to the Han Chinese. Tibetans can have as many children as they choose. If Han people have more than one child, they are punished. There is a similar preference given to minorities when it comes to admission to universities. For example, Tibetan students enter China’s elite Peking University with lower exam scores than Han Chinese students. China is not a perfect nation, but on matters of minority rights, it has been better than most Western nations. And China achieved this in the historical context of restoring itself and recovering from 200 years of continual crisis and foreign invasion.
  • evawoo on 20 Apr 08
     
    一篇还算公道的为所谓中国对西藏"种族侵略""文化清洗"做辩护的英文文章
evawoo

FT.com / Home UK / UK - China's angry youth drown out dissent - 0 views

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  • "These people have been trained in an authoritarian system. They are at the same time victims of an authoritarian system, but they also behave in an authoritarian way towards others and are incredibly self-righteous," says a Chinese politics professor who asked not to be named.
  • "We should be more tolerant and respect the right of people to disagree with us but these people do not understand such values."The term fenqinghas been used in each of the past three generations to describe very different kinds of rebel.
  • There are no indications that the contemporary fenqing are members of the sort of organised nationalist movement seen in places such as Russia, where Nashi, a pro-Kremlin youth group, has had a growing profile.Rather, "since the mid-1990s urban educated youth in China have become much more nationalistic rather than angry at the government", says David Zweig, director of the centre on China's transnational relations at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "There is a strong sense that the west, led by the US, is trying to keep China down and stop it from taking its rightful place in the world."
isaac Mao

国庆典礼背景图案表 - Wikileaks - 0 views

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共产党

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  • 国庆（黄） National Day (yellow) 国庆（红）National Day (red) 国徽 national emblem 国旗 national flag 军旗 People's Liberation Army flag 长城 Great Wall 中华人民共和国万岁 Long live the People's Republic of China 中国共产党万岁 Long live the Communist Party of China 人民万岁 Long live the Communist Party of people 听党指挥 To obey the command of the Party 服务人民 Serve the people 英勇善战 Heroic 忠诚于党 Loyal to the party 热爱人民 Love people 报效国家 Serve the country 献身使命 崇尚荣誉 和平鸽 长城 中华人民共和国万岁 中国共产党万岁 人民万岁 向人民英雄纪念碑致敬 社会主义好 思想解放 改革开放 世纪跨越 与时俱进 科学发展 社会和谐 1949 2009 祖国万岁 麦浪 社会主义好 科教兴国 牡丹花 奥运和残奥会标 万众一心众志成城 维护世界和平 各族人民大团结万岁 繁荣昌盛 江山多娇 富强民主文明和谐 时刻准备着 明天会更好 中华人民共和国万岁
feng37

Luis Villa's Blog / what the Berkman Center got right - 0 views

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  • Contrary to Harvard’s reputation that the only smart people on earth live in 02138, Berkman deeply believes that there are lots of smart people out there that aren’t at Berkman, and the instinctive response is to invite them to swing by. Hence Dave’s lunch summary. There is always someone interesting, on a weekly basis, being invited to join the discussion. (And they are discussions, not lectures, as you can see from the extensive Q&A that accompanies every lunch transcript.) And the discussions are open to everyone- you can literally walk in off the street if you want;
isaac Mao

U.N. agency eyes curbs on Internet anonymity | Politics and Law - CNET News - 0 views

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gfw

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  • A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
  • The Chinese author of the document, Huirong Tian, did not respond to repeated interview requests. Neither did Jiayong Chen of China's state-owned ZTE Corporation, the vice chairman of the Q6/17's parent group who suggested in an April 2007 meeting that it address IP traceback.
  • Another technologist, Jacob Appelbaum, one of the developers of the Tor anonymity system, also was alarmed. "The technical nature of this 'feature' is such a beast that it cannot and will not see the light of day on the Internet," Appelbaum said. "If such a system was deployed, it would be heavily abused by precisely those people that it would supposedly trace. No blackhat would ever be caught by this."
Kenyth Zeng

四一二,加油!! - 0 views

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china earthquake news report

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  • 堆着那么多尸体，到处都是血
  • 政府所谓的供应食物就是一人一碗白粥，那些惊魂未定的小孩，连一点有营养的东西都吃不上。
  • 镇子几乎不是移平就是陷落，政府部门的楼却好好的，最先倒的都是中小学教学楼，这些基本是因贪污而产生的豆腐渣工程。
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  • 最可怕的是，过些日子，人们就会把注意力转向别的事物，最后只剩下我们自己去面对。
arden dzx

A Reflection of Power | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com - 0 views

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  • When you moved into Taiwan's media market, some people saw it as a vote of no confidence against Hong Kong.You're suggesting it was an insurance policy? That was the intention. I couldn't go to the United States and say: "Can you protect me?" Nobody would care. But I knew Beijing was thinking very much about Taiwan, and that they don't want bad press there. So we built the Taiwan business as leverage. If they do anything to us, our Taiwanese readers will know what happened. And Beijing knows that [should they move against us] we will do everything we can to make them pay on Taiwan.
  • Some experts argue that China does not intend to Westernize or liberalize, but only to modernize. Do you think people in China understand what democracy is and want it?Not at this moment. But anyone who would differentiate between Westernization and modernization is just talking rubbish. Take out the western culture and what else is modern? Nothing. The technology is Western, the trendy culture is Western, all this modernization is Westernization. China is prosperous today because it deals and interacts with the West. No, democracy isn't on normal people's radars yet. China will be open to it only when the economic cycle turns down. And when that happens, China will be in chaos. How so? In other countries, when there is a recession, you have churches, temples, charities, NGOs, civic organizations, unions and other institutions reaching out to help each other. They are shock absorbers. In China, you don't have any of this. Organizations that are not governmental are not allowed. In China, you have two pillars: the market and the government. If the market fails, the government will be dragged down because there is nothing in the middle.
  • How so? In other countries, when there is a recession, you have churches, temples, charities, NGOs, civic organizations, unions and other institutions reaching out to help each other. They are shock absorbers. In China, you don't have any of this. Organizations that are not governmental are not allowed. In China, you have two pillars: the market and the government. If the market fails, the government will be dragged down because there is nothing in the middle.
isaac Mao

Now I envy people in China - 0 views

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gfw 地震

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  • Sure, there's the whole oppressive communism thing and the tragic earthquake and the pollution and the overcrowding, but Chinese people may never again have to see a Sharon Stone movie. Now, to be fair, no one here watches Sharon Stone movies, either, but we still have to see ads for them.
isaac Mao

Making Money, the How-To Way - New York Times - 0 views

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  • Learning how to turn a flashlight into a laser is not a top priority for most people. Yet Kip Kedersha’s step-by-step instructional video that teaches how to do just that has been seen online by more people (1.88 million) than live in Manhattan (about 1.6 million).
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Chinese Dismayed by Tales of Tibet Violence - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    胡哥, 这墙拆了得了 - 0 views

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    • I can read Wikipedia, but I heard from other people it's hit & miss. I had no problem with porn sites though. I always thought this censoring by Chinese government is really stupid. Today I read a excellent column on NY Times by World-is-flat author Tom Friedman, towards the end of the article, it struck a chord with me:
    • For the benefit of the China and Chinese people's future, Mr. Hu, Tear down this great fire-wall. (tear down this wall). 胡哥, 这墙拆了得了.
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