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Posted by Eric Mu, April 17, 2008 6:02 PM
 The Beijing News
April 17, 2008 Top headline: Tongzhou Canal will receive tourists by the end of the year
An old canal that links Beijing with satellite town Tongxian (a.k.a Tongzhou) is being repaired and will be ready for tourist boat traffic by the end of the year. The boats will be replicas of old transportation barges; tourist offerings will include night cruises.
CNN vs. Foreign Ministry
China's Foreign Ministry summoned CNN representatives to lodge a solemn complaint for failing to apologize for insulting remarks about China by talk show host Jack Cafferty that CNN broadcast. The Foreign Ministry said China is enormously dissatisfied with CNN's apology on Tuesday and refuses to accept it (see China Daily story).
Other front page stories
- China's central bank lifted reserve ratio rate to 16% (see China Daily story)
- China's consumer price index or CPI of the first quarter of 2008 is 8%
- The big photo shows students learning Beijing Opera. China's Ministry of Education recently added the study of Beijing Opera to the curriculum for primary and middle school students.
Other pages: No ghetto for China
- Qi Ji (齐骥), vice minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, responding to Tsinghua University history professor Qin Hui (秦晖), said that the government will not "consider ghettos as an option".
On April 13, Qin Hui said in a forum that Chinese cities should give freedom to migrant workers to construct their own houses in designated areas and urged Shenzhen to be the first city to have a "ghetto".
Qin said if municipal authorities can not provide migrant workers with housing, at least they should allow them to build their own houses. He described the current situation as "neither welfare nor freedom" and compared it with what was in the West two hundred years ago: "Cities enjoy the service of these workers, but they don't want to take the burden of taking care of them and try to drive them away."
Also inside
- The Olympic torch arrived in Pakistan on April 16. President Pervez Musharraff and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani held the torch together for 90 seconds. The ceremony took place inside a sports stadium in Islamabad due to security concerns.
- CEO of Sohu.com, Zhang Chaoyang (张朝阳) said he supported the boycott of Carrefour and French goods. in his blog, Zhang said that he does not agree that pro-boycott is "fenqing" (angry young nationalist) while anti-boycott is rational. He wrote "Too much tolerance only indulges the irresponsible behavior of the other side [France]". Jin Jing (金晶), the disabled torchbearer who was attacked by a protester in France said the she disapproves of the boycott. "The most important thing is to let the Western public know the truth, and to change their attitudes. Boycotting Carrefour will hurt its Chinese staff too."
- Hundreds of people gathered at Wudaokou (五道口) yesterday to get a free "patriotic" T-shirt were persuaded by police to leave. The organizer said on a BBS that everyone could get a T shirt on the condition that they immediately wore it. The T-shirts bore a slogan saying "Tibet in China, Torch in Heart". The organizer also said such T-shirts will be mailed to overseas Chinese students to reinforce their patriotic activities.
- Chinese MSN users initiated a campaign of adding a red heart followed by "CHINA" to the usernames to show the Chinese people's solidarity and patriotism to the whole world.
- Some students at Beijing Science and Technology University were told that they would not be able to get the Belgian degree that they had been promised when they signed up for the course. The students had been told that they didn't have to go abroad to get the degree, but a change in Belgium's education policy was allegedly the reason that the university could not fulfill its promises.
- An article about Chi Zhiqiang (迟志强), a singer who is best known for his "prisoner's songs": Chi was sentenced to four years in jail for "abnormal sexual relationship" (namely "consensual extramarital sex") in 1983 when he was a movie actor. Reflecting on his past, Chi said he was very sympathetic to jailed ATM 'thief' Xu Ting and Edison Chen but he didn't feel bitter for being put in prison for what he did. Instead he was grateful for the chance to return to his job in a state-owned movie studio.
- A Philippinno domestic servant was sentenced to five years in jail for stealing from her employer in Beijing. She will be deported after her sentence. The Beijing Labour Bureau said no Chinese individuals are allowed to employ foreigners.
- To keep social order during the Olympic Games, owners of Sanlitun bars are required to sign a contract with the police to guarantee their bars are drug-free. Those who are found breaking the contract will be shut down
- Yesterday in Dongguan, Guangdong Provice, more than a thousand workers went on strike because their staff meals were of poor quality. They resumed work after the factory bosses apologized and promised to improve the food.
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Comments on CNN apology not accepted
Note to editors regarding "CNN [sic] apology not accepted":
this is old news; AND "Japan" is properly spelled "J-A-P-A-N" not "C-N-N".
sheesh.
Jeff Cafferty is not a host of any show. As a matter of fact, he doesn't have his own show at all. He is a commentator who have about 10 minute of TV time a day to read some emails.
Apparently, being totalitarian freaks in their own country is good enough for them; now the Chinese and their totalitarian government want to spread their supression of free speech to the rest of the world.
CNN should tell them to take their demand for an apology and shove it where the sun don't shine. If CNN caves, the Chinese will be pulling the race card every time they don't like what they watch on CNN. Damn, I'm tired of this nonsense.
Jack Cafferty does not have his own show ("The Cafferty File" is an interactive feature within Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room") , but CNN's Lou Dobbs does have his and nobody seems to mind that he always refers to the Middle Kingdom as "Communist China"
China's Foreign Ministry should tune in to Lou Dobbs once in a while and they would hear similar anti-China vitriol. In fact his show comes on right after Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room"
Lou Dobbs is a fool. So is Bill O'Reilly.
Why would the Chinese Communist Party be offended by Lou Dobbs calling China "communist"?
Boycott CNN! Boycott Carrefouur! Boycott Danwei! Boycott Sal's Famous Pizzeria!
Because "Communist China" is an old political term which implies that there are two Chinas (the other one being "Free China" which is a term popularized by the Republic of China government on Taiwan).
Usage of the term "Communist China" is thus divisive and goes against the US government's offically recognized "One China Policy"
It's similar to the term "Red China", which was popular in American media during the 60's and early 70's.
I am not aware of any other news media in America that continues to use the term "Communist China", so I believe it's exclusively a favorite of good old Lou Dobbs.
I cannot be more happier to see people are responding to this! CNN does always refer China as "Comm" or "Red", not only Lou Dobbs, but CNN in general - CNN needs to update its time, knowledge, anchors and name callings, at least be creative or something new. It is so old and boring. CNN wake up!! Don't put on a show about China before your staff do their research.
I am not offended by CNN calling "comm" China, I am offended because they don't know what kind of word they can use to define China; I am offended because they imply "Comm" is no good. I ask myself why can't they just call China CHINA? Simple.
"I am not offended by CNN calling "comm" China, I am offended because they don't know what kind of word they can use to define China; I am offended because they imply "Comm" is no good. I ask myself why can't they just call China CHINA? Simple."---ABC
Until China allows foreign media to freely broadcast in China then they have no right to require that we refer to China in any such way. It is standard practice for cable news entities to make standard how the refer to the war, how they classify countries, and even how they spell Osama Bin Laden's name (Fox and CNN spell it differently...ones says, "Osama", one says, "Usama"). It's all semantics.
Why can't everyone just call China CHINA? Well because then we would be confused with dishware...DUH!!!!!!!
In addition, implying that communism is no good as you say CNN and the like do is spot on...it is NO good.
"Why can't everyone just call China CHINA? Well because then we would be confused with dishware...DUH!!!!!!!
In addition, implying that communism is no good as you say CNN and the like do is spot on...it is NO good." ---SGT. SLAUGHTER
Do we have a name for someone who cannot separate a Country from Dishware? I don't think it is called DUH, I think it is called DUUUMB.
According to whose standard? Definitely not Chinese standard. There are lots of no goods in this world according to one standard, and we have already known what that had led us throughout history.
I don't think China has any problem with what we refer to China. There is no complain about being referred as RED and Communist. My point is that it is boring and pointless to add these words to express, I don't know what. It is like China will refer to US always as "The Imperial United States of America", which is a very old term in China. But guess what China stopped, they progress, so should we.
Regarding free press in China, China will progress till China can afford free press. We need to allow a country or a people go through their course with their speed, not ours. Do you think that press is REAL FREE in this country? We have our own limitations, no doubt, it is better than China.
There are three things that point to the fact that "Anonymous" is NOT American, or British as they claim to be by saying, "ours", or "us" etc. etc.
First: Thanks for sensing the sarcasm in my reply. Any real American and definitely someone from the UK would know I was kidding with that dish-ware comment...you didn't think I was being serious did you? Be serious.
Second: I've never been one to care for grammar and be a grammar Nazi but your grammar is atrocious and spelling suspect by using words like "till" in place of "until". Or maybe you were held back a couple of grades.
Third: You use the name "Anonymous". Why? Are you trying to impersonate an American in an attempt to make your statement credible?
Any mentioning of NAZIS in any context automatically invokes Godwin's law...
Therefore, this post is OVER.
SGT. SLAUGHTER: Just a clarification: the name "Anonymous" is automatically inserted whenever a commenter leaves the username field blank.
Also, it's not really constructive to try and guess at commenters' backgrounds based solely on a few hundred words. What does it matter, anyway?
There are three things that point to the fact that "Anonymous" is NOT American... - Posted by: SGT. SLAUGHTER | April 25, 2008 10:27 AM
• Pardon my grammar.
• Bilingual drives me crazy!
• Did you get my point?
• I am an American...
• I am very serious!
• Define REAL AMERICAN!!
"SGT. SLAUGHTER: Just a clarification: the name "Anonymous" is automatically inserted whenever a commenter leaves the username field blank.
Also, it's not really constructive to try and guess at commenters' backgrounds based solely on a few hundred words. What does it matter, anyway?"---Joel Martinsen.
Thanks for the clarification.
It is not constructive to use one's background ever as rationale for an argument's validity as many people on this site do. It is always immaterial and I was arguing against that fact.
Besides that, no arguments on this site are constructive O' Mr. Moderator. The whole idea of the internet is a waste of time. Nothing constructive about it.
"Define REAL AMERICAN!"---Anonymous
Someone who doesn't leave their comments anonymously.