China sends 101 more helicopters to quake-hit area for relief work

Xinhua ^ | 2008-05-15

[MARKUSPRIME]

I tire of chicom trolls. State run media lololol.

[laberphany]

Sorry, it was off-topic. And it was also an emotional reply which went too far from what I wanted to say.

[Zhang Fei]

Here's an interesting comment from a David who's probably a Chinese-speaking non-native English speaker (this could mean he's from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan or China):

It’s also good to see that most American here showed their sympathy towards China. I still remember when 911 happened, many Chinese in China hurrayed the incident,claiming that it is the starting point that US is going down. What a big difference!

This was my experience in talking to Chinese and listening to Chinese language talk radio stateside - something like 2/3 of them thought we had it coming. This result was corroborated by many Chinese-speaking foreign expats in China. And on the occasions that I ventured into China, I obtained the same spread of results. Schadenfreude might be a German word, but it may have been coined with the Chinese in mind.

[Zhang Fei]

Here's my response to another Chinese commentator:

Jane: Of course it’s the government’s fault! All is their fault. The Chinese government never got anything right. To the author of this blog, I’m sick of your articles. If this is not called propaganda, I don’t know what else is considered propaganda. Oh, yeah the CCTV.”

And you thought Western governments were especially incompetent? The reality is that they get barraged by this kind of media coverage day in and day out. It is why China’s government sets strict controls on the domestic media. If China’s media reported on the incompetence, self-dealing, corruption and imperviousness to the public’s concerns in China’s government the way the Western media reports on Western governments, the masses would be in open revolt (since they can’t really vote the Party out of power).

[badguy2200]

1,Typical propaganda of CCTV :

CCTV channel 1:” the inflation rate in mainland China is ONLY 8%,most Chinese people feel it still ACCEPTABLE.....”
CCTV channel 4:” the infaltion rate in Taiwan hit 4.0%,and Taiwanese people all feel it UNACCEPTABLE “
Double standard? funny? in fact the two pieces of news were broadcast at the same time on two different channels of CCTV.

2,Tpycal CNN style report:

a chinese guy specially wrote a funny article mocking CNN
http://i.mop.com/badguy2000/blog/2008/03/19/6283445.html
...cound you pls translate it into english....just let poor US people know how disreputable CNN is now on the impression of ordinary CHinese people..