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Global Times says Egypt's future debated by the WestPosted by Alice Xin Liu on Monday, January 31, 2011 at 1:05 PM
 Global Times, January 31, 2011 The Chinese edition of today's Global Times declares that the West is trying to decide which direction Egypt is going! The sub-headline is Some people want Mubarak to go; Some people are worried the Middle East will collapse. World censorship blog aggregator Global Voices Online records the microblog censorship of the Chinese characters for Egypt (埃及) and Cairo (开罗). It emerged today that using pinyin and English were still OK. On the two different approaches, the Wall Street Journal reports:
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Comments on Global Times says Egypt's future debated by the West
Your lead is misleading. There is no implication of "dictating" in 爭论, only of debating which way Egypt will go.
Mao Kong is, of course, correct. But had the article leader stated that the West - whatever that means other than the US and its satellites - is «attempting to dictate» the direction Egypt is taking, that would have been a still more accurate analysis. When 天下大乱, those with power inevitably step in to impose their own version of order, with no particular consideration for the needs and desires of the people concerned....
Henri
Thanks Mao Kong and Henri, I've changed the lead and my apologies for not assessing 争论 properly. I think "attempting to dictate" might have worked too. Thanks.
That's a very bad translation of the title.
There is no implication of "ordering" or "dictating" at all. Alice, time to take chinese 101
Okay, you made me actually go read that whole article, well. it really didn't say anything about dictate or attempting to dictate. It just quote a bunch of different newspapers in the "west" divided (interestingly Russia belongs to the "west" for this report) about where Egypt will go, and speculates about cost and benefits to the "west" for taking either side on this. Since it can't really support a dictator on principle, but on the other hand there is real possibility of a more radical egypt and perhaps a return to the bad old day of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 wars with Israel. all in all, seems to be in line with this report from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133365414/U-S-Response-To-Egypt
http://www.npr.org/series/133370727/anti-government-protests-roil-egypt