xtiangodloki's Comments (26)

“The only reason china can afford this is because it embraced capitalism. Those who are against communism should be happy that capitalism had worked so well for china. The irony is that capitialistic greed is what's hurting america today, the biggest cheerleader for capitalism.

The celebration for mao is a disgrace. His failed policies killed millions. The yellow and red colors doesn't necessarily represent mao though just as mao does not represent todays china. Yellow and red represent the colors on Pa Chinese flag.”

“"There is nothing that the western nations did to China that Emperors both Han and Manchu did not do to the nations within their reach"

Oh please, as if allowing Brits to sell Opium to China after losing the Opium War and the "No Chinese or Dogs" signs littered all over Shanghai were not humiliating enough. I don't see Chinese folks do the same to the conquered territories either, Tibet and Xinjiang included.

I personally find it odd that the you folks who support Tibet and Xinjiang independence would want everyone to remember the humiliation that the Chinese minorities suffered under the Hans, while at the same time justify the humiliation which the Chinese suffered under Western Caucasians.”

“I am pleasantly surprised to read this piece from HuffPo; findingobjective articles about China is quite difficult in general outside of Asia.

Mao was completely mad and driven by paranoia towards the end of his life. The cultural revolution destroyed the potential of a whole generation of young Chinese. I am still disgusted that Mao is being portrayed as a hero in China. Though many Chinese from the baby boomer generation still remember the horrors of Mao's policies most of the younger generation in China are ignorant of this.”

“"China will always seek to destabiize and, otherwise, harm the United States."

Hmm no. As China's key export nation and largest borrower, there is nothing for China to gain in destablize the US. If anything, US does a pretty good job at destablizing itself with endless spending on wars and not enough spending on basic infrastructure and healthcare.

On the other hand many other nations, US included, could benefit from destabilizing China in the short term.”

“I admit, I used facebook for a while because a high school friend who I had not spoken to for ages suddenly contacted me via FB. Before long, I had dozens of "friends" who I wasn't really friends with back in the high school days on my Friend's list. But now that I know what happened to these people, I don't need to use it any more, especially their boring daily updates :)”

“"Well not only did Polanski not get special treatment he got worse treatment due to his celebrity status."

Did he? How so and who are you to decide on this?

If there is anyone screaming slurs it would be you, dropping f-bombs in other people's comments, thank god most of them were modded.

This guy raped a child. During the trial he tried to blame the girl for seducing him although it was he who drugged her. He admitted to his crime and struck a plea deal hoping to smooth this over. When the judge changed his mind on a joke of a plea deal of 30 days (I can't believe this), he bailed and has since lived the celebrity life and is obviously looked up by many as a hero of sorts in Europe.

I am against this guy because I have a daughter of my own. I see this as setting a terrible precedence that a person who is talented and wealthy can get away with anything. So in some ways I do feel I have a chip on my shoulder, because I want to protect my own kid.

I have little idea why you would want to protect this guy other than wanting to appear elitist.”

“OMG. I thought there has to be some liberals on HP who aren't completely irrational about this, thank you.”

“Isn't the whole Pajama Media thing a conservative run blog group aimed solely at advancing conservative interests? Granted, HuffPo is a lot better but its not like there isn't a framework for them already..”

“Oh come on. Racial profiling happens all the time in all of the places.

I think Muslims have it alot worse than Blacks. Even Asians have it worse than blacks at Airports if you count who are being forced to open their luggages for the TSA to check all the time.

The issue won't be solved because it's simply too divisive, just look at the comments here. Personally I think Gate's case wasn't even that bad. There are a lot worse "driving while black" or "flying while arab" stories out there that most people came to accept because most people DO BELIEVE in racial profiling, they just don't believe in it when it happens to them. The only reason why this is such a big deal is because you have a famous black historian who happened to make a big deal out of it.”

“"Quibbling about the death toll in these riots is a rather myopic thing to do. "

It's only a myopic thing to do because it puts the Uighurs in a bad light.

"The real issues that matter are: How did things get to this point? "

Internet slacktivism FTW. At the most basic level, the Uighurs are upset about income disparity, while the Hans are complaining about affirmative action offered only to the Uighurs.

From personal experience, when I visited Shanghai I was mugged TWICE in the subways by Uighur gangs. Even after I pointed out to the police the group who robbed me, the police refused to arrest them because they were "minorities". Those who think this is a stereotype simply check the expat sites, people even made a list of the locations where the Uighur gangs usually operate in major cities.”

“The one thing which China did right this time over all of this is to to the western reporters in the day after the riot.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/malcolmmoore/100002509/urumqi-riots-signal-dark-days-ahead/

"Turning over the riots in my mind, I concede I was wrong in my last post to suggest that Rebiya Kadeer would rise in stature as a result of the riots. When I wrote the post, I had limited information and I jumped to the conclusion that the 156 victims of Sunday’s violence were Uighur.

In fact, it appears that the majority of the victims were Han Chinese, brutally killed by gangs of Uighurs roaming through the back streets of Urumqi. There are some horrific pictures circulating of rows of bloodied bodies and cyclists lying in puddles of blood with their heads bashed in.
"I apologise for running ahead of the facts, but the idea that Chinese troops had been unable to prevent the Uighurs from murdering Han Chinese honestly never occurred to me.

Now that the sequence of events is clearer, I have a lot of praise for the Chinese security operation in the city. According to Peter Foster, who is on the scene, they managed to prevent escalating situations getting out of hand several times yesterday with calm and judicious policing."

Now, for those who still claim that hundreds of Uighurs were killed by the police, care to back it up?”

“By taking this quiz you are clearly not secure enough to declare yourself truly free.”

“Hmm, no.

If you ask most wives, they would much prefer their husbands to sleep with prostitutes than to carry on a multi-year serious relationship with a mistress.”

“From the article: "Unless this pattern changes and changes fast, Western nations are going to wake up soon and find they're sharing world power with a mostly poor, economically stagnant and increasingly hostile China that still fancies itself a world superpower­."

Hoho, just because the authors of this article hope this will be the future of China won't necessarily make it true.

On the other hand, the arrogance and pretentiousness of the western "human rights" writers on China are laughable. It pretty clear that the writers don't care about what the Chinese people think or want, but what THEY want China to be because the writers' own self sense of superiority.

China is US' business partner, no more and no less. The moment a cheaper resource for outsourcing can be located the US businesses will move elsewhere. There is no love between even the closest "allies" when it comes to international politics. Looking at the history of foreign policy decisions made by Western nations, "Freedom and Democracy" are Western nations' PR tools when it comes to warmongering.”

“Alec Ash's piece is indeed excellent. I think this bit best explains the situation with the post 6-4 generation: "It’s not just that they know their futures will be better served in a stable political environment and they have more to lose than previous generations (the obvious point). It’s that the majority has an iron belief in the current administration as working successfully to give them a better life. And it was talking with students on May 4th which made it clear to me the extent to which their priorities have changed from patriotism to individual­ism."

I personally find it odd that most of the foreign journalists have not wrote much on this angle as a means to explain the apathy of the current generation regarding TAM incident. Instead, most of fthe Western media still love to play the whole "big brother is scaring the Chinese into not talking" bit. Regardless of how the Western media plays the while "freedom" or "democracy" angle, today's Chinese people only need to compare their current living standards with that of 10 or 20 years ago and their minds have already been made up as to what is good for them. Sure, there are plenty of people who think today's China is worse before, but the majority and especially the educated do not think this way.”

“Because the Chinese government doesn't know who he is?

Think for a moment, the tank man is the single most recognizable person in this whole incident, even more than the student leaders themselves. After this event the entire China was under the microscope of Western Media and student activists. If the Chinese government arrests this guy, wouldn't his relatives, friends, or anyone contact the student movement which will eventually be discovered by the Western media? Afterall, this guy is a hero to many people.”

“The army vehicle was more than burned down. The students actually killed a few soldiers. LA Times has many good pictures (including those taken by the author of this article).

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tiananmen-pictures,0,2647279.photogallery?index=16

It's interesting that most publications do not publish this picture. If you read the caption for this picture, it stated that the students killed the soldier and were kicking his corpse. Maybe the students were angry because the soldier fired and killed first, but if you were a soldier who witnessed this it would be difficult to control the situation without resorting to further violence.

Both the Chinese and the Western media tried to make this into a black and white issue. It's difficult to argue that journalists were not biased from the selection of the pictures which were published. At the end of the day, the reality is a lot more complex than what the Chinese nationalists and the China-haters would like to believe.”

“Interesting piece from today's slate on Chinese government's take on the "tank man"

"One example of the government's interpretation of events is the infamous image of a man in a white shirt blocking four Chinese tanks. At the time, the Western media pushed the "Tank Man" as a symbol of Chinese military might bearing down on its own people. Chinese television broadcast the entire video—in which the tanks try to drive around him before he finally disappears into the crowd—to show how much restraint the soldiers used."

http://www.slate.com/id/2219697/

If you read some of the comments, you would believe the tankman was either eventually ran over by the tank, or maybe caught by the secret police and executed. What's a lot more likely happened is that nothing happened to the tank man...”

“There are many good points in this article The challenge here is that the Chinese people needs to be convinced of the benefits of democracy and freedom of speech. While it's very easy to argue that freedom of speech will help reduce corruption, enforce rules of law, and generally benefit China, it's a lot more difficult to convince the Chinese people that Democracy would be better.

Finally, revolutions are defined by their leaders. It seems that Wang Dang is the only major student leader of the incident who is still dedicating his life to the cause. The others have perfected the "american dream" by working on wall street, starting their own companies, and have been allowed to do business (and presumably visit) with China. Times Asia has a pretty good article on the aftermath comparing Wang Dang with nontheless his own cousin, who went on to become a very successful businessman in China.”

“The problem here is that many Asians DID change their names to more sound more "Western" so to better assimilate. However, they never fully gave up their names which their parents gave them at birth when it comes to all official documents. For these people, their driver's license name may not match their birth certificate names.

What Brown said was extremely rude and insensitive. But depending on where she is in Texas, she will probably do even better now with the anti-immigration crowd.”

“Well, the Japanese being a fairly homogenous society is not exactly known for cultural sensitivity. I am not sure if the developers are intentionally injecting the white kill black zombie theme because they are racist.

But you did bring up an interesting observation about stereotypes in videogames. Almost all of the videogame heros are white regardless the origins of the game creators :)”

“The solution is simple: create multiple accounts.

One for relatives and people who work with you. You would want to watch what you say.

One for online "friends" and add-me groups. You can do whatever you want there.

One for "real" friends.

Yes yes, not using a real name is against facebook rules, but given the amount of harassment and stalking behavior online, it only makes sense to have multiple accounts for multiple purposes.”

“If most Chinese in China believe in their own government rather than the ever instigating western human right activists, why can't the west respect that? I for one cannot wait for democracy in China. On issues like Tibet most Chinese will certainly vote against Tibet Independence.

On the discussion about gold medal vs total medal count, the only countries which argue for total medal count as opposed to gold medal count are US and Russia. There is nothing wrong with preferring perfection especially at the highest level of competition. Even in the US when it comes to sports which people care about, like NBA or NFL, the winning team gets the bragging rights. As much as I'd like to see it, Boston did not have a parade for Patriots because the football team was the second best after losing to Giants. Did anyone in LA celebrate Laker's second place finish in NBA season after it lost to Celtics?

I am curious why is it then when it comes to the Olympics, the average Americans' attitude on winning and losing had changed.”

“Be careful there, no matter if you were born in the US, no matter how much you love America or much how much you have contributed to this country, the moment you say anything good about China you will be labeled as a "Chinese national" and "CCP mouthpiece".”

“Although I think Tibet Independence is a wasted effort, I am happy with Wen's realization at the end that in order to achieve tibetan human rights you would need to start with human rights for the Chinese people.

The ever trendy "Tibetan activists" have done a good job in the last year or so to completely alienate themselves from Chinese in China and Chinese immigrants in other Western nations. Without the help from the later group, Tibetans in Tibet will never achieve its goals. There are actually a lot of issues which both sides agree on, more free press in China for example. However, the antagonizing free-Tibet crowd and their "China vs Tibet, us vs you" attitude have erased any type of sympathy or interest from most Asian Americans. What's worse is that their actions have stirred up a nationalist sentiment in China, which will ultimately worsen the lives of Tibetans in Tibet.”