You be the judge.
The latest issue of the British-based magazine, the Economist, and its cover story, talks about an "Angry China," the snarling China with nationalistic Chinese youths and netizens rising up in defense of the country and its "coming out" party on the world stage in the hosting of the Beijing Olympics 2008.
James Miles, the only Western news reporter from the Economist who got in right about the March 14, 2008 Llasa riots apparently had not reported on the latest cover story.
First, a few weeks ago, many pundits in the biased Western news media dribbled out a cascade of misinformation in the Western world about pro-China pro-Beijing Olympics ethnic Chinese supporters being ferried by the "busloads" by Chinese Consulates in London, Paris, San Francisco, Canbrera, etc. to stage a counter-narrative "PR" campaign to oppose "Team Tibet-Shangri-la-Dalai Lama," "Team Darfur," "Team Burma," and "Team Animal-Rights," and a slew of "Mau Mau" China-bashing protesters.
Now, after the fervour demonstrated by China's youth, and intellectuals, inside and overseas in the Chinese Diaspora, in support of the Beijing Olympics 2008, have proven more than simply government machination, but a genuine mass protest against Western bashing of China and Chinaman lynching, the spin from the Economist, now is how "The recent glimpses of a snarling China should scare the country's government as much as the world."
The Western news media can't have it both ways -- Chinese masses of students, youths, intellectuals rallying in the spirit of May 4th, 1919, repudiating the WEST ? Or naive Chinese "laobaixing" being manipulated to stage a PR campaign world-wide to promote the Chinese government and the Beijing Olympics games.
Which is which ?
You be the judge. Click on the Economist cover story this week; and as a counter-point, revisit and view the full interview of Kishore Mahbubani, former Singaporean Ambassador to the United Nations, broadcast in Canadian media, tvo.org on April 28, and hosted by Canadian host, Steven Paiken, of "The Agenda".
The Economist cover story re: Angry China,: click on:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11293645&fsrc=nwlptwfree
The full interview of Kishore Mahbubani, author of "The New Asian Hemisphere, Asia Rising."
http://www.tvo.org/theagenda/video/TAWSP_Full_20080428_0_320x240_208k.swf
For more about Kishore Mahbubani, click on my earlier blog and wiki him:
http://spatiumtrientis.blogspot.com/2008/04/wise-man-from-singapore-kishore.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishore_Mahbubani
Mr. Mahbubani's own personal blogsite is being linked to Spatium Trientis; for more of his writings, click on:
http://www.mahbubani.net/
