Comments on: Nothing Quiet on Western Front: Unrest Extends to X1njiang http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html This is China Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: nanheyangrouchuan http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html#comment-1056 nanheyangrouchuan Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:12:12 +0000 http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html#comment-1056 @ Chuck The tree of liberty, on occasion, needs to be watered with the blood of tyrants. @ Chuck

The tree of liberty, on occasion, needs to be watered with the blood of tyrants.

]]> By: Josh http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html#comment-1055 Josh Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:34:38 +0000 http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html#comment-1055 @chuck If you think a "rebellion against the government" is inherently good you're nuts. You applied your values to my statement. From the perspective of T1betans, Han Chinese that have been actively encouraged to move into the region to pacify the local population ARE the government. On the picture, the left side made me think they were sending in troops to pacify the region, and so did the right side. Sounds like you're drinking the Kool Aid...and it's red. @chuck

If you think a “rebellion against the government” is inherently good you’re nuts. You applied your values to my statement. From the perspective of T1betans, Han Chinese that have been actively encouraged to move into the region to pacify the local population ARE the government.

On the picture, the left side made me think they were sending in troops to pacify the region, and so did the right side. Sounds like you’re drinking the Kool Aid…and it’s red.

]]> By: Chuck http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html#comment-1054 Chuck Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:50:10 +0000 http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html#comment-1054 about the picture on anti-CNN... you have to be kidding if you think that the two halves of the picture tell the same story. Anyway, it may have been a rebellion "against the government" as you say, but it was manifested in racial violence against han chinese. When you call it a rebellion against the government, it sounds like you're pardoning it. about the picture on anti-CNN… you have to be kidding if you think that the two halves of the picture tell the same story. Anyway, it may have been a rebellion “against the government” as you say, but it was manifested in racial violence against han chinese. When you call it a rebellion against the government, it sounds like you’re pardoning it.

]]> By: Matthew Stinson http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html#comment-1051 Matthew Stinson Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:39:53 +0000 http://cupofcha.com/2008/04/03/nothing-quiet-on-western-front-unrest-extends-to-x1ngjiang.html#comment-1051 Websites like Anti-CNN (today) and Japan Pig (during the 2004 protests) are probably spontaneous gestures by netizens -- and entirely predictable when Chinese citizens apparently have a <a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/8554" rel="nofollow">91% favorable view</a> of their country's role in the world -- so foreign media ought to stop asking silly questions like "is the government responsible?" and focus instead on criticism of the monolithic Chinese state media and the government's failure to reign in hate speech while cracking down on "subversives" like Hµ J1a. One of the things that worries me most about the stories from X1njiang is the racial backlash, which stands to be even more palpable than the anti-T1b3tan hate speech, since the average Wang already detests U1ghµr$ as "thieves" and "terrorists," so this news is quite literally adding fuel to the fire. Websites like Anti-CNN (today) and Japan Pig (during the 2004 protests) are probably spontaneous gestures by netizens — and entirely predictable when Chinese citizens apparently have a 91% favorable view of their country’s role in the world — so foreign media ought to stop asking silly questions like “is the government responsible?” and focus instead on criticism of the monolithic Chinese state media and the government’s failure to reign in hate speech while cracking down on “subversives” like Hµ J1a.

One of the things that worries me most about the stories from X1njiang is the racial backlash, which stands to be even more palpable than the anti-T1b3tan hate speech, since the average Wang already detests U1ghµr$ as “thieves” and “terrorists,” so this news is quite literally adding fuel to the fire.

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