Posted on 02/24/2020 12:41:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
China won’t be a nation of “silent lambs in the face of malicious insults and smearing”, a spokesman with the country’s foreign ministry vowed on Monday, as Beijing continued to lash out at The Wall Street Journal over a commentary it has deemed racist.
Zhao Lijian, a former senior diplomat in Pakistan, made the remarks while hosting his first press conference since being named deputy director of the Chinese foreign ministry’s information office in August.
His comments came a week after Beijing expelled three reporters with the New York-based newspaper over an opinion piece headlined “China is the real sick man of Asia”.
The opinion piece, written by Walter Russell Mead, a professor at Bard College in New York, and published on February 3, said the Covid-19 crisis was a reminder that China’s power remained brittle.
The headline triggered condemnation among Chinese internet users, saying it was derogatory and stereotyped Chinese people as disease-ridden and unclean.
The decision to revoke the reporters’ credentials was announced hours after the US declared that several Chinese media outlets were “foreign missions”, saying they were effectively under government control.
“The Journal has fudged the issue and dodged responsibility with the excuse of independence between news coverage and opinions,” Zhao said in the first face-to-face briefing since the coronavirus outbreak forced conferences to be shifted online three weeks ago.
“It is out of reason. Who is in charge of The Wall Street Journal? Who should apologise?
“The Wall Street Journal has the arrogance for abusive expression, but how come it does not have the courage to apologise?” Zhao said. “There is only one media agency called the WSJ. Since it insists on going its own way, it should bear the corresponding consequences.”
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well, maybe if you morons didn’t eat bats and sh!t
Truth hurts.
Well, what country has the vast majority of Coronavirus sick people? What country is most affected by that problem?
It’s China. China, you are currently the sickest country in the world.
Ah, that’s not half as bad as what Sonny Corleone said about the Japanese about Pearl Harbor
On pop’s birthday no less.
But they didn’t know it was pop’s birthday :)
And to this guy I respond by saying if China isn’t the real sick man of Asia why are you welding doors of apartment buildings so people cannnot escape?
READ FOR YOURSELF IF YOU FIND THE OP-ED TO BE RACIST AGAINST CHINESE:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-the-real-sick-man-of-asia-11580773677
TITLE: China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia
Its financial markets may be even more dangerous than its wildlife markets.
by Walter Russell Mead
(EXCERPT)
Epidemics also lead us to think about geopolitical and economic hypotheticals. We have seen financial markets shudder and commodity prices fall in the face of what hopefully will be a short-lived disturbance in China’s economic growth. What would happen if—perhaps in response to an epidemic, but more likely following a massive financial collapse—China’s economy were to suffer a long period of even slower growth? What would be the impact of such developments on China’s political stability, on its attitude toward the rest of the world, and to the global balance of power?
China’s financial markets are probably more dangerous in the long run than China’s wildlife markets. Given the accumulated costs of decades of state-driven lending, massive malfeasance by local officials in cahoots with local banks, a towering property bubble, and vast industrial overcapacity, China is as ripe as a country can be for a massive economic correction. Even a small initial shock could lead to a massive bonfire of the vanities as all the false values, inflated expectations and misallocated assets implode. If that comes, it is far from clear that China’s regulators and decision makers have the technical skills or the political authority to minimize the damage—especially since that would involve enormous losses to the wealth of the politically connected.
We cannot know when or even if a catastrophe of this scale will take place, but students of geopolitics and international affairs—not to mention business leaders and investors—need to bear in mind that China’s power, impressive as it is, remains brittle. A deadlier virus or a financial-market contagion could transform China’s economic and political outlook at any time.
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China and Free Speech.
Never more than a nodding acquaintance.
They do know of each other.
READ FOR YOURSELF IF YOU FIND THE OP-ED TO BE RACIST AGAINST CHINESE:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-the-real-sick-man-of-asia-11580773677
TITLE: China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia
Its financial markets may be even more dangerous than its wildlife markets.
by Walter Russell Mead
(EXCERPT)
Epidemics also lead us to think about geopolitical and economic hypotheticals. We have seen financial markets shudder and commodity prices fall in the face of what hopefully will be a short-lived disturbance in China’s economic growth. What would happen if—perhaps in response to an epidemic, but more likely following a massive financial collapse—China’s economy were to suffer a long period of even slower growth? What would be the impact of such developments on China’s political stability, on its attitude toward the rest of the world, and to the global balance of power?
China’s financial markets are probably more dangerous in the long run than China’s wildlife markets. Given the accumulated costs of decades of state-driven lending, massive malfeasance by local officials in cahoots with local banks, a towering property bubble, and vast industrial overcapacity, China is as ripe as a country can be for a massive economic correction. Even a small initial shock could lead to a massive bonfire of the vanities as all the false values, inflated expectations and misallocated assets implode. If that comes, it is far from clear that China’s regulators and decision makers have the technical skills or the political authority to minimize the damage—especially since that would involve enormous losses to the wealth of the politically connected.
We cannot know when or even if a catastrophe of this scale will take place, but students of geopolitics and international affairs—not to mention business leaders and investors—need to bear in mind that China’s power, impressive as it is, remains brittle. A deadlier virus or a financial-market contagion could transform China’s economic and political outlook at any time.
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE REST...
It is the Chinese average folks who are the victims here.
The WSJ is just calling out the political and financial elite...
as they should.
Right there is one thing that is paralyzing a proper response to this virus. No government official wants to be labeled a racist. So instead of banning all flights from Asian countries, flyers are simply screened upon arrival.
Seeing that the incubation period for the virus is 14 days (or more), that screening is essentially worthless.
RE: The WSJ is just calling out the political and financial elite...
Yep, I read the entire article and I DO NOT SEE any animosity, much less degrading remarks about Chinese in general. It’s an observation of their totalitarian, controlling system of government.
RE: Seeing that the incubation period for the virus is 14 days (or more), that screening is essentially worthless.
Recent study is it can go as much as 27 days without symptoms.
Sick man of _____________ is OK when it's talking about white people.
Xi Jinping is making a big deal about this not just for propaganda purposes. He’s also wary of domestic opponents, in and out of the Party, taking this as a portent of regime vulnerability, and making their individual moves.
Individual revolts generally don’t have a huge chance of success. But China’s history isn’t of individual revolts. It’s of one large-scale failed revolt after another, each hammering away at the resources and loyalties of the regime’s supporters, while offering opportunities for advancement at the expense of the regime. Until the regime runs out of resources and loyal supporters, at which point it is toppled and its adherents and their kin are wiped out in a bloodbath.
The potential for a new cycle of revolts followed by regime collapse is why Xi Jinping worries about this disease, the way he worries about every aspect of Chinese society that might threaten his rule. The fact that it is now acknowledged as a very big deal means that potential Chinese rivals are now measuring him for a rope. Big crises have traditionally been the equivalent of a dinner bell or the report of a starter’s gun for ambitious Chinese power contenders because they signal regime vulnerability. Xi is entering a period of potential regime collapse, and he knows it.
The Flying Tigers attacked the wrong targets.
How many in China’s “government” are Mao’s direct descendents!
Could it be an assessment of ChiCommunism rather than race?
RE: Could it be an assessment of ChiCommunism rather than race?
Yes, you are right. It is an assessment of ChiCommunism. The China Powers that be always want to conflate their party with the Chinese people.
But in 2017,like in 1981,if you travel 5 miles outside of the city center you're back in the 1700s. And in 2017 the air was far dirtier than anything I've ever seen in NYC,the LA Basin or the Ruhr Valley.
As far as I could see the majority...probably the large majority...of China's people still live like savages.
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