EDIT: My bad – that’s what I get for posting in the middle of the night and not reading well enough. So the blogger was referring to an anti-media demonstration. In which case, after a brief internet search, yes, the Melbourne paper did not cover it.
What I wrote before was because I was under the impression it was a torch rally. My comments still stand in that regard because I -have- heard complaints of media not showing pro-China supporters at the relay.
I’m planning to add another entry to address the actual Melbourne situation, so stay tuned!
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I read this blog post by someone who lives(? Au news sources linked were labeled as “where I live”) in Australia and expressed outrage at their media. The previous entry that was alluded to was quite logical and sensible.. which is why I don’t understand this entry.
S/he may be complaining about Au reporting, but I think the complaint is universal enough to also apply to Chinese Americans.
I couldn’t read all the text in that link, but I don’t understand the outrage. I’ve seen plenty of pictures of Chinese supporters, as well as pictures where Chinese and anti-Tibet supporters are intermixed. In fact, the first pictures I saw of the SF relay was a sea of red flags lined up.
I’ve been browsing various blogs and found this video:
There are YouTube versions as well, split into 5 sections. It’s a show called Dispatches where a British crew and a Tibetan refugee go undercover in Tibet to try to find out what life is like for the Tibetans there.
Notice I said Tibetans and not Chinese. I have no doubt the Chinese who relocated with government help/money/support have it good. If they didn’t, it would have been pretty stupid of the CCP to move them there and have double the trouble.
What I found interesting about the video is when this one guy said: if a Chinese came up to them and asked them questions, they would always be very positive. Why? Because you never know if you’re talking to a spy.
So counter-intuitively, a Chinese in Tibet would actually get the opposite impression, even if you mean well and really want to decide for yourself.
