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In China, Anti-U.S. Sentiment Unfettered
The Washington Post ^
| Friday, September 14, 2001
| John Pomfret, Washington Post Foreign Service
Posted on 09/15/2001 9:45:00 AM PDT by piasa
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Partial post because it is the Wash Post, go to the main site for full article.
BEIJING, Sept. 13 -- While average Chinese routinely approach Americans to offer condolences for Tuesday's terrorist attacks....
The state-run press gave the disasters in New York and Washington prominent front-page play for only one day. By today, Beijing Youth News, the most popular newspaper in the capital, relegated the story to inside pages...
China's security services, usually quick to suppress the Internet when it is used for political purposes, have tolerated an avalanche of postings lauding the attacks on message boards. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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Pay good attention to the last paragraph.
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posted on
09/15/2001 9:45:00 AM PDT
by
piasa
(freepmail)
To: piasa
Ohhh can it be...China is our friend and TRADING PARTNER..
Why they are a most favored trading partner..
We have foolish leaders,just because they can be bought and sold like cheap pieces of meant they think everyone else has a price too..
China is friends with the Muslim nations...they have a common ememy.US
China figures she will straighen out thet she is the real boss later...you know how it goes "my enemies enemy is my friend"
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posted on
09/15/2001 9:50:05 AM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: Howlin, John Huang2, Travis McGee, Deb
FYI
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posted on
09/15/2001 9:54:03 AM PDT
by
piasa
To: piasa
Oh gee what about globalism and loving everybody? Well, at least the French still support us... < sarcasm >
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posted on
09/15/2001 9:56:33 AM PDT
by
Cleburne
To: piasa
"With the collapse of ______, China's government has embraced nationalism and nationalist causes in its search for new legitimacy." And it's working, not because it's the Chinese, but because those are buttons you can push in people the world over and get a reliable response. THAT's something to think about.
To: piasa
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posted on
09/15/2001 10:25:14 AM PDT
by
piasa
To: piasa
Anyone wanting to gauge the Chinese response should pay a visit to sina.com, where the largest, and probably the freest BBS in PRC is located, instead of few selected cut and paste from a smooth poster who doesn't even want you to read the whole article.
For every anti-American post at sina.com, I see a few posts expressing sympathies, even condemnation of the terrorist act. Among the ones that're indeed anti-American; which are clearly totally brainwashed by the state media on Belgrade Chinese embassy bombing and EP3 incident; most of the posts qualify their opposition to US policies with sympathies for the dead.
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posted on
09/15/2001 2:36:20 PM PDT
by
Aquatic
To: COMMUNIST APOLOGIZER, j_accuse, COMMUNIST APOLOGIZER, BLACK JADEBlack Jade
j_accuse, you and I both know that China
surely won't cause problems down at the Panama Canal,
surely not! - but, since China, as of June 16, (just 3 months ago)- was caught smuggling weapons/arms/munitions into Cuba- -there is no way that China would have already smuggled any arms or short-range missiles into Panama...correct??
Isn't that your stand on this Panama issue ie. no way China would smuggle anything, including short-range missile parts into Panama - isn't this your position j_accuse (you too jade?)?
The Panama Canal Rests In Good Hands - Thread 2
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posted on
09/15/2001 3:51:27 PM PDT
by
ChaseR
To: Aquatic
I didn't post 'just part of it' because I don't want you to read the whole article, dipwad. I posted part of it because it is a Washington Post article and we're not supposed to post complete Washington Post articles because of the injunction on FreeRepublic. I was asked to post this by a Chinese national, and it was not intended to reflect on the people over there, but on the Chinese government's manipulation of information. China's government is not entirely unified. There are factions within it who have very different goals. China's government is also involved in Pakistan, with its main highway and with obtaining military use of that big port Pakistan has on that side of India, just as with one in Burma. I suggest only caution. While we're involved with pursuing middle eastern terrorists, we need to be particularly wary of any who might take advantage of our distraction. Lerts have more fun.
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posted on
09/15/2001 7:49:31 PM PDT
by
piasa
Comment #10 Removed by Moderator
To: Black Jade
damaging my credibility...Nah - could care less -
I'm not even going to bother to ck the links you provided until you agree that it IS POSSIBLE that China has/could bring military hardware ie weapons, munitions, arms and short-range missiles to Panama. Simple as that good lady....all you have to do is agree that it IS POSSIBLE. Go.
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posted on
09/15/2001 9:10:04 PM PDT
by
ChaseR
To: COMMUNIST APOLOGIST, BLACK JADE
(sorry - it's late-I forgot to assign your credits in the Reply To box: Communist apologist/sympathizer, Black Jade. ...
...and I'm sure you'll be back to Agree, that it's possible - - you may speak now)
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posted on
09/15/2001 9:15:14 PM PDT
by
ChaseR
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
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