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Compare their take on China.

• seanmcdirmid 10y ago
  China is one of those countries where any non-Chinese-based news about them, even just a dry reporting of facts and figures, is considered bias and "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people." They cry bias so much that it just seems like whining. There was one guy, Gordon Chang, who keeps predicting a complete collapse (not simply a crash, which is expected to happen from time to time) of the Chinese economy. Because his articles get published, the Chinese have now declared that western media has predicted a collapse of the China is imminent, when...if you search for China economic collapse, you only get Gordon Chang's articles, as well as the Chinese articles saying the western media has homogeneously predicted that. I don't know, perhaps they think western media speaks with one voice like Chinese media does, and fail to see the possibility that several viewpoints and opinions could exist. Likewise, there are many things about China, like air pollution and internet censorship, that the western media fails to convey the full negative effects of. This is mostly a technical limitation, for sure, but people still come to Beijing and are surprised how bad the air really is along with the fact that they really can't use Facebook there.