· April, 2008

Stories about China from April, 2008

China: Boycott Carrefour

  15 April 2008

Shcd from 163.com wrote a boycott action report against Carrefour in Beijing [zh]. The action is a reaction against France's failure in guarding the Olympic torch relay in Paris.

China: Who Attack Jin Jing?

  15 April 2008

Jin Jing is one of the torch bearer attacked by a so-called Tibet Independent activist in Paris. The incident results in public outrage because Jin Jing is a disabled person. Babaxiaoqian found out that the person who attacked Jin Jing might not be Tibetan but friend of the pro-China demonstrators.

Jamaica, China: Carrying the Torch

  14 April 2008

“For many Chinese nationals, this Olympics is an event about hope–hope that China will become a better country not just economically, but as a nation progressing in all ways”: Blogging from Jamaica, ComPromise explains why she would “proudly carry the Olympic torch.”

China: Fallout from the Free Tibet protests

  13 April 2008

Anti-China protests this week sent nationalist sentiment in China up to a boiling roar. So when one young woman studying in the US was "caught" participating in a Free Tibet protest, hundreds of raging netizens hurled every insult imaginable her way.

India: Tibet, the Olympic Torch and the Dalai Lama

  11 April 2008

In this week's roundup of virtual India we look at Tibet in India. Next week the Olympic torch arrives in India. First, Indian footballer Bhaichung Bhutia pulled out, and now Supercop Kiran Bedi has pulled out. However, well-known Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will be carrying the Olympic torch writes enga....

China: A True Nightmare on April Fool's Day

  10 April 2008

In spite of the occupants' outcry, about 1000 security guards and 20 policemen escorting two diggers intruded into a commodity housing district in Chongqing, the largest of China's four provincial-level municipalities, to forcibly carried out the developer's reconstruction plan which was officially supported by the local government, causing a serious bloodshed conflict.

Jamaica, China: The Politics of Sport

  10 April 2008

“What does it say about us that we are willing to put human rights on hold just so we can have something to watch on TV for two weeks? If you ignore what China is doing in Tibet aren’t you in some way responsible?”: Jamaican Marlon James focuses the spotlight...

China: Defending National Pride

  10 April 2008

ESWN argues that the Olympic torch protest is a public relation disaster as it gives the opportunity for the China mainstream to defend national pride. He translated two Chinese reports on the torch protest.

China: CCTV PK CNN

  10 April 2008

Lyceum writes down the track record of CCTV and CNN and asks which one is more independent? [zh]

China: Demonizing?

  10 April 2008

Ran Yun-fei from my1510.com argued that nationalistic sentiment would lead to the imagination of China being demonized [zh].

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Oiwan Lam
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