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16 avril 谈论 关于西藏 三以下宏文,未经批准擅自转载自朴素的妇女之友~~
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谈论 关于西藏 二以下宏文,未经批准擅自转载自朴素的妇女之友~~ 引用
谈论 关于西藏 一以下宏文,未经批准擅自转载自朴素的妇女之友~~ 引用
Humility and compassion, not hypocrisy and self-righteousness, is what is needed
L. Ling-chi Wang: "Humility and compassion, not hypocrisy and self-righteousness, is what is needed." (CNN) -- As the Olympic torch makes its way westward through London, Paris and San Francisco on its way to Beijing, it has been attracting well-financed, organized protests representing various single-issue groups that normally do not even work together. The Beijing Olympics is a godsend for these groups because it affords them the opportunity to disrupt the torch relay. The media, as usual, have seized the opportunity to pour fuel onto the fire. Politicians are tripping over each other in their eagerness to condemn China, to call for boycotts, and to claim the high moral ground, even though the United States has been treated as a rogue state worldwide because of our invasion of Iraq, and our unlawful detention, torture, rendition, etc. Sadly, most Americans know little about international issues and for that matter, China, as demonstrated by the conspicuous absence of information regarding historical context and complexity. Instead, the media, politicians and organized groups prefer to use only sound bites and, frequently, disinformation to perpetuate ignorance, instill fear, and incite racial hostility, or worse, hatred toward China. What they do know is this: Just about everything they use and wear daily comes from China. Even the new section of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is being made in Shanghai. What they also don't know is how Chinese in China are viewing and preparing for the Olympics in August. Not since the 10-year nightmare of the Cultural Revolution have the Chinese been more dedicated to and collectively mobilized for a national project: to host the first Olympics in China. This project aspires to engage the world and to incentivize further reform in China. More than 200 million Chinese, for example, are learning English and the torch relay will be greeted by all China's provinces and major cities before reaching Beijing. China, like many countries in the world, including the U.S., has problems. It has much to learn from the rest of the world. For example, China has yet to learn how to understand and treat its minorities -- such as Tibetans, Uighurs, Muslims, Hmongs -- as equals. In this respect, they are not that different from us. We are still learning how to treat minorities such as Native Americans, African-Americans, Latinos, Chinese-Americans and others as equals. I am not opposed to free speech and legitimate protests against China's wrongdoings. However, I am opposed to using the Olympics to demonize China and its people and disruptive, confrontational, and violent tactics. Such actions have the effect of desecrating the Olympics and humiliating and insulting the people of China. No good can come of them. Protests and confrontations along the torch route may even incite Chinese xenophobia and nationalism and result in decisions to retreat from its increased openness to and engagement with the West. If this should happen, it will be a major setback for the 1.3 billion people in China and for world peace and prosperity. L. Ling-chi Wang is professor emeritus of Asian American & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. E-mail to a friend Comments
Most people commenting here are missing the point. No one is justifying the opressive nature of the Chinese government, but I do think there's a lack of understanding between the west and China. Frankly I don't think protests like these will yield any positive results. China is on the path of becomming a great power in the world, further isolating China is not the way to bring democracy to that country, but the opposite, starting a new cold war. One of my friend was over at the Paris torch relay, she told me there are plenty, perhaps much bigger crowd of pepole there supporting the torch, and she doesn't understand why all the media focus has been focused on the protests only, with few mensioning of supporters out there. less These protests are entirely reasonable. It isn't about demonizing the Chinese people. It is about highlighting the government that oppresses its own people. The Chinese government continues to ignore the international community's expectations that it respect human rights as it evolves into a super power. less VERY WISE WORDS FROM A VERY WISE MAN. This has nothing to do with the Chinese people... it's the Chinese government that's being questioned. I do have Chinese xenophobia but that has more to do with lead in our toys and poison in our food. No one is sa ...more
Another China apologist. Historical contexts and complexity have their places, but cannot be used to justify repression and human rights abuses. The United States is by no means perfect, but its a far-cry from bein ...more
Bashing another group of people is rarely a good option, and perhaps there is an overtone of hypocrisy because of American foreign policy, but whether or not I have any moral high ground to write it, there is a differ ...more
I could not disagree more with Wang's statements. How can he compare how the U.S. deals with minorities to the way China has dealt with the Tibetans and other minorities? Being a minority myself in this United States, ...more
I couldn't agree more with this commentary. Everyone's so quick to jump on the anti-China bandwagon and completely forget that not only is Chinese culture completely different from that of the US, but the US expects C ...more
Let's be clear. China is a brutally repressive slave state whose sole purpose is to maintain its dictatorship. Their support for genocide in Sudan is utterly without excuse. There are plenty of people in the US, pr ...more
L. Ling-chi Wang might want to walk across his campus and take a class in American civics. Here in America one has the right to protest whatever they want. You don't get to choose which protests are legitimate and wh ...more
Professor Wang, Unfortunately, sir, I disagree with you. I am American and I switch on the news almost daily to see citizens of other countries protesting against American policies. I completely respect their right to protest polic ...more
Wish more people in america read Dr. wang's article.
China brutally invaded Tibet in 1959 and has methodically tried to wipe out this beautiful, ancient culture.
(CNN)China demands apology from Cafferty(CNN) -- The Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded Tuesday that CNN's Jack Cafferty apologize for remarks he made last week, in which he called the Chinese "goons and thugs" and said products manufactured in China are "junk.""Cafferty used the microphone in his hands to slander China and the Chinese people (and) seriously violated professional ethics of journalism and human conscience," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency. She said Cafferty's remarks "reflected his arrogance, ignorance and hostility towards the Chinese people, ignited indignation of Chinese (at) home and abroad and will be condemned by those who safeguard justice around the world." CNN issued a statement saying, "It was not Mr. Cafferty's nor CNN's intent to cause offense to the Chinese people, and [CNN] would apologize to anyone who has interpreted the comments in this way." In its statement issued Tuesday, CNN said Cafferty was offering his "strongly held" opinion of the Chinese government, not China's people, adding that he clarified the point Monday. The network noted that "over many years, Jack Cafferty has expressed critical comments on many governments, including the U.S. government and its leaders." Cafferty, who appears daily on CNN's "The Situation Room," made the remarks April 9 as host Wolf Blitzer was comparing today's China to that of 20 or 30 years ago. "I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different," Cafferty said. "We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We are also running hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart. "So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed," he said. "I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years." He issued a clarification of his remarks on Monday's "Situation Room," saying that by "goons and thugs," he meant the Chinese government, not the Chinese people. It was unclear whether China's Foreign Ministry was aware of the clarification when it held the Tuesday news conference. In the days following his remarks, however, the Legal Immigrant Association launched an online petition condemning his statements as "racist" and "despicable" and demanding that CNN discipline Cafferty and apologize to the Chinese people. Nearly 45,000 people had signed it as of Tuesday afternoon. In the petition, the association describes itself as "a leading organization of legal immigrants mainly comprised of people from China." According to its Web site, the nonprofit group is based in Santa Clara, California, and was founded in 2007 as an organization "dedicated to the social well-being of employment-based immigrant professionals." The state-run English-language newspaper China Daily also said in an editorial Tuesday that an apology is called for, calling Cafferty "pathetic" and noting, "it is rare for the world audience to hear such a blatant discrimination against an ethnic group of people with such a derogatory connotation." Others angered by Cafferty's remarks were urging a boycott of CNN's advertisers. CNN said Tuesday that it is "a network that reports the news in an objective and balanced fashion. However, as part of our coverage, we also employ commentators who provide robust opinions that generate debate." E-mail to a friend |
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