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Western media shenanigansPosted by Joel Martinsen, March 28, 2008 5:39 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). China still a small player in Africa: From Pambazuka News: What I find a bit reprehensible is the tendency of certain Western voices to … raising concerns about China’s attempt to get into the African market because it is a bit hypocritical for Western states to be concerned about how China is approaching Africa when they have had centuries of relations with Africa, starting with slavery and continuing to the present day with exploitation and cheating.
China is doing a great job perpetuating the domination of the Western media. Two of its most popular newspapers, the Global Times and Information Reference, derive most of their content from foreign media reports. How can you complain about Western media bias when it is one of your main sources of information? I think Chinese journalists spend most of their time hiding behind the words of the Western media, e.g. so and so said this about the PLA and this US professor said that China has many economic problems. The problem with the Chinese media is that hardly anybody voices their own personal opinion about anything, so the whole world relies on foreign reports.
With an historian’s subtle grasp of China’s 5,000-year history (the author holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Southwestern Kentucky), Mr. Chestnut gives us a clear understanding of those timeless cultural forces that continue to shape the Chinese way in business. "Business is warfare," he says, "and the Chinese literally wrote the book." In just six chapters, Chestnut succeeds in distilling the ancient wisdom of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, and the classic works of just about every other notable Tzu not into nebulous platitudes, but rather into actionable insights that you can put to work at the negotiating table, in your marketing plan, or in managing your Chinese staff.
The trial of Shanghai's former Communist Party chief, who was ousted in a sweeping corruption cleanup that began nearly two years ago, has begun in the northeastern city of Tianjin, reports said Thursday.
The Chinese began experimental weather engineering in 1958 to irrigate the country's north, where average yearly rainfall compares with that during the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and sudden windstorms blasting down from the Gobi desert have made drought and famine constant possibilities. Today, the People's Republic budgets $60 to $90 million annually for its national Weather Modification Office. As for the return on this investment, the state-run news agency Xinhua claims that between 1999 and 2007, the office rendered 470,000 square kilometers of land hail-free and created more than 250 billion tons of rain--an amount sufficient to fill the Yellow River, China's second largest, four times over. |
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Pieces like China Machete's are poignant and necessary, but are the right people reading them?