Sunday, March 16, 2008

Not mentioning doesn't mean not happening

In the email newsletter that I got from China Daily so far, there are not even one news about Tibet demonstrations, which are the biggest ones in Himalayan region in 20 years.

Instead, there was one headline news for today, saying "China 'improving environment' for foreign journalists". In which, Xinhua news agency, the national news agency in China, concluded that China had made efforts in a " serious", "active" and "responsible" manner to carry out the current regulations to help foreign journalists to report on the August Olympics, without offering any details about the changes in the regulation.

The article at the end expressed the belief that foreign media would enjoy a better working environment with the country's further opening to the outside world.

According to the results that I searched in www. baidu.com, an equivalence of Google in China, that most comments were blaming Tibetans, by criticizing they should not aim to Han majority people and their properties, and should not try to independent from China with the secret help from Western countries. This is coincident with the tone of the Chinese government, which shows the success of the propoganda and ethnic concerns on the Tibet issue.

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