Hong Kong residents sided with Chinese government, calling Bush loser

Oriental Daily (Hong Kong) ^

[CodeRouge]

After the White House lawn blunder, poll shows Hong Kong residents more and more sided with Chinese government and resent US policy:

Issue #1: The White House master of ceremony announced the playing of the national anthem of the Republic of China. - 33% said that the American goverment deliberately set this up to insult China - 21% said that the American government was of poor quality - 23% said that it was an unintentional mistake - 19% said that it could be either intentional or unintentional

Issue #2: When the female FLG member disrupted Hu Jintao's speech, she was allowed to go on for almost three minutes before the secret service agents removed her. - 79% said that the American government should apologize - 9% said that the American government should not apologize

Issue #3: How should China protest against what occurred? - 43% said that China should demand an apology from the American government - 22% said that China should lodge a diplomatic protest - 6% said that China should cancel the recently signed purchase contracts - 19% said that the United States does not need to apologize

Issue #4: Do you think that the United States is a trustworthy partner? - 17% said that USA is a trustworthy partner - 62% said that USA is not a trustworthy partner

Issue #5: Will this incident affect Sino-American relationships? - 6% Serious influence - 62% Mild influence - 29% No influence

[CodeRouge]

A Hong Kong commentator (voted the best political blogger) writes (not surprisingly): "Review of some reactions to the incident on the White House lawn. The biggest loser is the Bush Administration -- was it incompetence or complicity?"

[caver]

Since the Hong Kong residents are under the Communist thumb, you bet they are going to bash Bush. They don't have freedeom of speech or freedom of the press.

[Tenacious 1]

I give up. In a communist society where the media is both edited and censored, how did they conduct the pole? I suspect they polled government officials and started the pole with, "What is your name, your wife's name and all of your children's name?"

[voletti]

Hogwash.

If HK wants to giveup its freedom to speech and to stupidity, freedom to gaffes and to human imperfections, goodluck to them.

[stevio]

What's the thing about the national anthem?

[CodeRouge]

'Republic of china' is supposed to be the official name of Taiwan, China's foe. China's official name is a Stalinist vintage: 'People's Republic of China'.

[OldFriend]

It was the correct anthem, however, the announced referred to the Republic of China rather than People's Republic of China.

There really is no excuse for the gaffe and it happened once before when we were going to get our flyers back after China forced down our surveillance plane.

The paperwork had the wrong initials for China.

It would be as tho another country referred to us as States of America rather than United States of America.

I suspect that the error in the case of the anthem was a deliberate mistake by someone in our government to embarrass our President.

[daybreakcoming]

I obviously missed something. What was the prob with playing their national anthem for them to feel insulted? Anyone know?

[stevio]

Thanks.

[Chi-townChief]

Sounds more like these fools in Hong Kong will be the biggest loser.

[StrictTime]

Issue #4: Do you think that the United States is a trustworthy partner? - 17% said that USA is a trustworthy partner - 62% said that USA is not a trustworthy partner

Back at ya, China!

[OldFriend]

Waiting for the day when we are polled as to our opinion of various overseas countries.

France

Germany

China

etc.

[longtermmemmory]

remember in 2000 when there were all those "miserable failure" google games?

I think this is all the left wing loonies from then trying to revive the search engine "miserable failure" game. This is why that rolling stoner wrote his article with specific key words which will have more hits with "failure" and bush.

[ex-NFO]

I'm not sure it wasn't just a dumb mistake. I was in port in South Korea once on a military base, on a US ship that is normally home ported in Japan. They played the Japanese national anthem in the morning, because they were so used playing it after our National anthem. It didn't go over very well...

[wolfcreek]

I doubt China's ever received an apology from anyone. Screw them ChiComs! (No apology here!)

[thebaron512]

They already know that information and remind the person that they do before giving the pole....

[OldFriend]

This happened in our White House.

I would prefer to think of it as intentional rather than stooopid.

With sailors at sea I could understand that type of mistake.

[DB]

The world is slowly building pressure to a major eruption.

It isn't going to be pretty...

[CodeRouge]

I doubt China's ever received an apology from anyone. Screw them ChiComs!

You bet. Remember April fool's day 2001? Chinese fighter bumped into US P-3E over high sea, and then demanded an apology. When they couldn't get it, they intepreter Bush's 'I am sorry to hear that' as an apology and paraded it on national TV!

[1rudeboy]

Yikes. A true definition of FUBAR.