The latest episode of Chinese news management, which began shortly after the Olympic torch relay protests in Paris, has made for fascinating viewing. Now it is nearing its conclusion, I reckon the time is ripe for un petit recap.
Back on April 6, on the icy streets of London, the Olympic torch relay mayhem commenced as anticipated. Xinhua, though, appeared unsure how to [...]
How did anyone get a proper boycott campaign going ten years ago? A full on leaflet assault has never really captured revolutionary imaginations. A piece of paper thrust in the hand is treated with the kind of suspicion normally reserved for a gaunt 50-year-old man lurking behind a park bush in a trenchcoat and a pair of wellies. The receiver is [...]
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The Xinhua commentary is propaganda at its most stimulating. A wild, unruly beast of a thing, it has the power to make you cringe, chortle and cry out in disbelieving indignation all in the time it takes to read two sentences.
About a year ago, there was a concerted effort by Xinhua’s English-language news factory to up its production of [...]
I’m not planning to develop the habit of reproducing entire articles and passing them off as blog posts. And I’m not exactly sure why I’m pasting the following comment piece from the Independent in full, apart from the fact I’m fairly busy. You can read about the author Mark Steel here and a bit about his other works here, which is advised [...]
Yesterday, Xinhua released this story which highlighted a number of foreign media sources condemning the riots in Lhasa and accusing the Western media of showing the bias of a crown green bowl.
A precis: Pakistan Television said Pakistan opposed any attempts to violate “China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”, Indonesian Chinese-language newspaper Guo Ji Ri Bao accused some western [...]
It’s still going to be a few days yet before it feels acceptable to write about anything non-Tibet related. I was mulling over the possibility of tackling the reemergence of “thought liberation”, touched upon by the Economist, bellowed from the rooftops by Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang and planted in question format by a Xinhua journalist at Wen Jiabao’s parliamentary press conference this [...]
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