Wall Street Journal Shouldn’t Apologize for Article Criticizing China’s Communist Party

The Daily Signal ^ | February 27, 2020 | Kenny Xu

[Twotone]

The Wall Street Journal should stand firm in the face of China’s action last week to rescind the media credentials of three Journal reporters and order them to leave the country.

Chinese authorities said the expulsion was over the Journal’s publishing a commentary by academic Walter Russell Mead headlined “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia,” which addresses the communist nation’s economic fragility and the worldwide effects of a possible Chinese collapse.

The Chinese government claimed that use of the term “Sick Man of Asia” in the headline of the Feb. 3 article was racist toward the Chinese people.

Next, 53 employees of the Journal signed a letter demanding that the newspaper paper apologize and retract the original headline. They did this even though it is widely known that the Chinese government manipulates the media credentialing process to influence American news outlets to avoid criticism of “sensitive” topics.

[Twotone]

I think the WSJ can safely fire 53 employees. They are not part of the solution, they are part of the problem.

[A_Former_Democrat]

FIRE THOSE BASTARDS

[marron]

Its good that the 53 weak links have self-identified.

Their names should be widely publicized, so no self-respecting news organ will ever hire them.

[alloysteel]

The fact is, China IS a fragile economy, and it has been severely stressed over the past couple of months. This may or may not be a revelation the Chinese want make known to the world, but their wishes in this matter are not relevant. The rest of the world cannot afford to make errors based on misinformation about the present state of the Chinese economy.

Is China the “Sick Old Man of Asia”? That may be a very apt description, and nothing at all to apologize for simply because it was borught to the world’s attention.

[GOPJ]

The Chinese government claimed that use of the term “Sick Man of Asia” in the headline of the Feb. 3 article was racist toward the Chinese people.

Sometimes racial groups earn their bad reputations by their actions... My suggestion is if they want more respect they should stop stealing intellectual property, stop running bio-labs lacking the ethics to protect others, and stop unfair (cheating)trade practices, and stop treating their citizens like caged research animals.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The Chinese government claimed that use of the term “Sick Man of Asia” in the headline of the Feb. 3 article was racist toward the Chinese people....

They certainly know which buttons to push, don't they?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Besides, communist is not a race.

[tbw2]

To know who has the power, look at who you cannot criticize.