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What I mean is double standard in reporting: Does every negative article about UK talk about brexit? Does every negative article about Trump talk about his se
by paradite 8y ago
What I mean is double standard in reporting:
Does every negative article about UK talk about brexit?
Does every negative article about Trump talk about his sexist remark? (Granted, Trump might be in similar situation as China)
Does every negative article about Russia talk about annexation of Crimea?
Not that I've seen.
Edit: confusing wording.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoYes. Yes. Yes. I’m not sure what your point is here?
- paradite 8y agoI am too lazy to google, but here is the first result when searching for "russia election meddling", which does not talking about annexation of Crimea (hence proving your third "yes" wrong): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/03/trump-russia-more-election-meddling-evidence-found-says-senate-panel https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/03/trump-russia... The point is, every news article that is negative towards China will talk about all the previous negative articles about China regardless of their age or relevance.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoYour point was muddled. You asked do I read everything about Russia annexing Crimea, I replied “yes.” Not that every article about Russia was also about crimea. That isn’t true, nor is it true that every even negative article about China mentions Uighurs.
- paradite 8y agoMy bad, fixed my wording. Do send me an article that talks about something negative about Chinese government but doesn't mention Uighurs if you come across one. I would like to keep it. My contact information is pretty easy to find.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoYou don’t really need to look very far, see: https://www.wsj.com/news/types/china-news https://www.wsj.com/news/types/china-news https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/china https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/china https://www.cnn.com/china https://www.cnn.com/china https://www.economist.com/sections/china https://www.economist.com/sections/china Look at any article that is negative and not about xinjiang. Eg China lending crisis doesn’t mention Uighurs at all. I personally recommend the Economist’s recent article in Tianjin’s current building bust. I mean, I saw derelict skyscraper husks when I first visited tianjin in 1999, that’s still a think in 2018???
- paradite 8y agoI mean sure, if the article is about economics and real estate, then it is unlikely that it would include political stuff. A more charitable interpretation of my comment would be that I am referring to stories on Chinese politics (human rights, surveillance, etc).
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoThere are plenty of human rights abuses in eastern China against Hans even that get reported without mentioning Uighurs. I’m sure you can find a few those in the current stack of China articles from those sites, they make them easy to find. Eg they released Liu Xiaobao’s widow today from imprisonment for...reasons. No references to xinjiang: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-lets-widow-of-dissident-nobel-laureate-liu-xiaobo-leave-1531212157 https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-lets-widow-of-dissident-n...
- paradite 8y agoFirst, that was from last month, before the Uighur issue was blowing up, not today. Second, that was a positive followup to a negative story, not a new negative story.
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