The Chinese People Respond to Tibet
My Chinese isn’t that great, but here are a few comments I found in response to the Tibetan riots on Sina. The ones that I rummaged through all tend to say the same things about using all sorts of...
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Mutant Palm: How to engage the Chinese in a productive manner For years now I’ve seen alot of Chinese netizens discussions be completely ignored or simply missed by English-speaking netizens, who too...
View ArticleRe-Starting the China Blog
I’ve been off-topic since the Olympics ended, so I guess it’s time to bring China back into this blog. But what should I write about? There’s just so much! The Financial Crisis and China’s Bailout Plan...
View ArticleIranian Protests from a Historical Perspective
It’s pretty difficult to tell whether or not such protests would be successful or not. For example, back in 1989, there were a lot of successful non-violent and violent revolutions that took place. The...
View ArticleRodney King and the Xinjiang Riots
Scores Killed in China Protests – BBC News Order partially restored in violence-plagued Urumqi, situation still tense – People’s Daily The Urumqi Mass Incident – EastSouthWestNorth Blog Quick summary:...
View ArticleDays of Rage/Anger/Unhappiness and 6.4.1989
Tunisia and Egypt got through their protests with relatively few casualties. The army wasn’t sent in to crack down or anything like that. Maybe they military weren’t willing to go in and shoot people...
View ArticleLibya and Tianamen
Interesting BBC Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12544624 Here’s a nice quote from everybody’s beloved Gaddafi: Anyone who played games with the country’s unity would be executed,...
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