Chinese media ignore White House gaffes

[steve2470]

BEIJING -- Chinese news reports made no mention Friday of the protester who interrupted President Hu Jintao's visit with President Bush or a White House announcer flubbing China's official name. But ordinary Chinese commenting on Web sites accused President Bush of insulting Hu.

"You can see from Bush's lack of respect for foreign leaders just how lacking he is in class," said a posting on a bulletin board run by the People's Daily, the main Communist Party newspaper.

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"Announcing the 'Republic of China' ... is an insult to the People's Republic and its government," said a posting on the People's Daily site.

On washeng.net, a Chinese-language Web site hosted overseas, postings accused the White House of intentionally allowing in the protester.

"This was absolutely planned and directed by America. Given America's anxiety over the war on terror, that person should have been shot otherwise," said an unsigned comment.

"The only explanation," it said, "is that this happened with the knowledge of the Secret Service."

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[Selatius]

1. The chinese government can rot in hell

They're doing more damage to the US than the Soviets ever did. They found our weakness, and our weakness is greed. They used the promise of cheap labor to get corporate robber barons to turn Benedict Arnold on the working class.

[LSparkle]

2. You are totally correct

While we went blithely on our way consuming, they've discovered a very effective way to truly win the cold war. Our love of money -- exceeding our love of country -- will be our undoing.

[madokie]

3. could it possibly be that the corporate robber barons found China

and their corporate greed is taking advantage of that, instead of the other way around. just wondering

[Virginia Dare]

4. You got it!!!!...n/t

[Selatius]

5. Looking back, they probably found each other and met mid-way

China's totalitarian oligarchy inherits our manufacturing base. The robber barons retire with their paychecks so huge that they can only be described as pornographic, and everybody else is left to fend for themselves.

Together, they found a way to cripple America and, in the end, perhaps kill it.

[madokie]

6. I may be wrong here but I see walmart as leading the charge

I think we have been crippled but I also see that with people like DUers, real patriots and good people we will come out of all this much the stronger, I probably won't live to see it but I think my sons will.

[Selatius]

7. I may sound pessimistic, but I believe China has us beat to shit

Our culture has evolved such that it encourages cutthroat competition. It glorifies it. It glorifies competition, and if doing something gives you an edge, then do it some more, such as outsourcing. It glorifies stomping on everybody else to win.

We admire rich people. We celebrate wealth in our newspapers, our tv shows, everything. We admire their Bentley's and their million-dollar mansions and their 1000 dollar Armani business suits. Wal-Mart was named by Forbes as "the most admired" corporation for its tremendous growth in terms of market share and profitability and effective (or should I say cutthroat and ruthless?) business tactics. What does that say about the degradation of values in the business world in general and in life? What does it say when people mortgage their future just to "keep up with the Joneses"? As if you need that damn SUV or that multi-grand flatpanel plasma screen television.

We are taught from the day we are born 'til the day we die to fight and struggle against each other for limited resources, not mutual cooperation. We are taught that the man who retires at the end of the day with the most things wins, and the man who retires with little of anything of material worth is considered a loser, a lazy worthless American, even if he led a happy, fulfilled life.

The Soviets couldn't beat us through guns and bombs. They found out the hard way. The Chinese, on the other hand, have found a way to beat us, and that is through corporate American greed. Corporate America has no problem with doing business with the same folks who crushed the doomed student protesters at Tiananmen Square. They did business with Nazi Germany 70 years ago. They'll continue to do business with tyrants, and the world will continue to suffer. The one great failing of WW2 is that we failed to crush fascism. It re-emerged here on our shore.

I'm sorry if I put you off with this post, but I need to vent. I'm feeling a little raw and a little pissed today. My tuition bills are killing me, and gas is eating me alive, and I'm still suffering after-shocks from Katrina down here in Mississippi. The message we're sending to the poor is "Tough shit."

[madokie]

8. don't worry about me, go ahead and get your rant out it'll make you feel

better I'm sure. It was just my two cents worth.
peace