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Shanghai Diaries - Last Week



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With the first show, we caught you up on the 'normal' stuff (Tibet, Carrefour being blamed, visa headaches and growing anti-Western sentiment), but in this 'catching-up' episode, we show you how bad it's gotten. An American Volunteer is cornered by a mob, visa aquisition gets even harder, foreign students rumored to be exiled during the Games and more - all in a week's work for Shanghai.
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2 responses // Shanghai Diaries - Last Week

  • Great stuff! I shall be watching your dairies from now on - it gives some good 'on the ground' converage of the situation in Shanghai. I agree with you - the Chinese are very proud of their country (nationalistic) and don't take kindly to losing face. I have to agree from a Chinese perspective it would be frustrating to watch a lot of those western media reports and 'China bashing' mentality of the many western media who take it as a given that China is wrong to be in Tibet. Of course from nearly all Chinese peoples eyes this is basically insulting and very biased. It has been their Territory since before the British took America from the Native Indians and most come across in a similar way to Chinese telling the Americans to get out of the US. However the MOB reaction to this in China is scary and potentially explosive as you say. I hope things just settle - it has stired up a lot of nationalism and anger - I'm not sure all this anger is about this issue but it gives a focal point for Chinese to direct it in a safe way. Their government are quite happy (it seems) to let this anger at the biased western reporting to go ahead. They would have no chance protesting in this way at something like CCTV's biased reporting. A similar thing happened with the Japanese situation and anger being directed their. They are very patriotic and it is a bit of a hornet's nest that is being stoked up.

    Keep up the diary.
    Merge9
  • Merge9

    Some really good points - obviouslly, anyone would react strongly to world-wide critisism, but yeah, a 'hornets nest' is probably the best way of describing it here.

    I think this, along with the Japanese riots a while back, are some of the first times that these people can speak up and not be silenced, it's basically government-backed protests; how can you get in trouble for that, right?

    Thanks again for the support.

    Aric
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