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You have to at least admit that the reaction of the Chinese government didn't help in the matter. If the post hadn't been immediately deleted and any discussion
by ginko 5y ago
You have to at least admit that the reaction of the Chinese government didn't help in the matter. If the post hadn't been immediately deleted and any discussion censored, if the government announced an open investigation and Peng Shuai were free to talk to media then none of this would have happened.
This lack of openness of the Chinese government on issues such as these is what essentially leaves what you call sinophobic media to write about it.
- pphysch 5y agoFood for thought: when has any action of the Chinese government been cast in a good light by Western media? We start from the conclusion "China bad" and search for evidence to confirm it, while ignoring contrary evidence.
- ginko 5y agoI'm European. The news I read about the US aren't exactly feel good stories either. That's generally not what people are interested in. There are occasional short articles about some funny internet sensation or what have you but you do read about those from China as well. Like for instance when that elephant herd moved through Southern China earlier this year.
- pphysch 5y agoYou don't have to lie to paint the USA in an bad light. Socioeconomic conditions here have been in decline for half a century, and greatly accelerated in the last 13 years. Foreign policy has been failure after failure. PRC however has been on the opposite trajectory, a meteoric rise in the living conditions of the average person over just a few generations. So you do have to lie/omit to paint China in a uniformly negative light, which is what the Western media virtually always does in the past 5 years.
- barney54 5y agoWhat numbers are you looking at to say the US has been in socioeconomic decline?
- pphysch 5y agoIs that a rhetorical question? # of American adults living with their parents Average indebtedness of college graduates Unrestrained corporations causing opioid crisis, political polarization, drop in productivity...
- sudosysgen 5y agoThat's true. There was a meme not long ago showing headlines that admonished China for doing something, and then for doing the opposite. There is an element of a hermetic dogma that whatever China does is bad. That being said, the whole Peng Shuai situation is quite shady. On the whole the only really bad thing is that the post was censored, and it's reasonable to infer negative things from that.
- barney54 5y agoNo. It was also really bad that people outside China couldn’t have any contact with her for a while. That’s pretty bad too.
- sudosysgen 5y agoYes, that is true.
- miohtama 5y agoClimate change action, lifting people from poverty, so yes.