Originally Posted by hairymarx

The current media pre-occupation with Tibet is being exploited by the US and its allies for propaganda purposes. Expect more of the same anti-Chinese propaganda as the olympic games draw closer and as the Chinese economy continues to grow in the coming years.

I find it just a little bit hypocritical to say the very least that the US junta condemns China for its human rights abuses in Tibet, whilst it simultaneously rewards its client in the Middle East, Israel, for raining bombs down on the Palestinian people. Moreover, I do not see the human rights of the Iraqi's respected in view of the fact that 1.2 million of them have died violent deaths as a direct result of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of that country, and where a further 7 million suffer serious injury and some 5 million have become displaced out of a total population of 28 million.

Perhaps it's the case that human rights abuses are only deemed to be human rights abuses if those who are doing the abusing restrict their abuse to their fellow countrymen and women? It doesn't appear to occur to the corporate media that 'we' the West are also complicit in human rights abuses. You see folks, for the media to focus a proportionate amount of attention on OUR crimes serves no useful purpose to official forms of Western power - that's the real issue at hand here.

The media conveniently portray Chinese human rights abuses as the operation of outside external forces (China) attacking and invading the sovereignty of an independent nation (Tibet). However, the reality is that Tibet is a province of China and therefore it is a physical impossibility for one country (in this case China) or any other country for that matter, to INVADE ITSELF. What we don't hear about or see on our tv screens are the thousands of Han Chinese who have had their properties and businesses destroyed by the so-called peaceful Tibetan's.

On the other hand, what we do hear and see plenty of are flag waving xenophobic 'Tibetan nationalists' in Greece and elswehere attempting to prevent the olympic torch being carried along its route. We are also expected to believe that a lone demonstrator was able to break through one of the world's greatest security cordons without the prior knowledge of the Greek authorities. I am not alone in thinking that this was a carefully controlled media stunt.

What all this anti-Chinese frenzy is really about is the attempt by the Western powers and their complicit media lackey's to underscore the potential threat the country poses as a future economic competitor to the US and its allies. I am not saying that China is perfect - far from it - but neither are the human rights of numerous other nations throughout the world - many of whom profess to call themselves 'democracies'. But that fact doesn't incur quite the wrath that China is currently experiencing, and one has to wonder why that is the case, especially at this moment in time?