Tibet! Tibet!

Just thought i'd comment on how the media in Hong Kong and China seems to be dealing or not dealing with the Tibet situation at the moment.

Incidentally, when Bjork did a concert in Shanghai last month she dedicated a song about independence to tibet and yelled 'tibet! tibet!' at the end and caused alot of anger and threat to not be able to return to China.

Since the protests the English language Chinese paper i get here has had lots of interesting articles and reports. They are mainly about how the Dalai Lama is an evil man, and have very different reports about the number of people dead as a result of the conflict than the BBC reports.

From Wednesday's paper; "Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang yesterday again urged the international community to see the Dalai Lama's 'true face' and offer no support for his secessionist activities."

None of the reports focus on any actual events that happened, but only on defending China. Eg, front page yesterday was about international Chinese students claiming that the western media coverage is bias. Meanwhile, when i was in mainland China last week i was watching the English channel, which spent about half an hour going through differnt foreign reports about the tibet protests and really detailed critique of all their arguments. I think the segment went on for longer, because i fell asleep.

So anyway, I think i'll continue to get my news from BBC, and my sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing propaganda from 'China Daily.'