Comments on: Slanted reporting won’t help the Uyghurs

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:28:38 +0000

I don’t know. But could we consider experience of foreign countries for reference?
Solved by blood would be the worst.

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:48 +0000

i hate this world

By: 马猴尔

马猴尔 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:37:46 +0000

Suppressing news which is not favorable to the government sets off a panic that people don’t know what happened and what will happen. Maybe that’s why people got irate. The resign of Lizhi perhaps could be treated as a response to such criticism. But if there are still no measures taken to warn them, more casualties will wait to be discovered.

Don’t you have part of the answer in here, in your very own comment?

I mean, both your two latest comments suggest that the government’s attitude remains as it is – static and rooted in ideology – and that the people won’t expect the government to change nor will the people force change within the government.

If you take that stasis for granted than I appreciate your point: these problems could only be solved by blood.

But what can the people do to change the government’s attitude? What can the people to outside of the government?

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:17:33 +0000

So what could we resort to, how could we heal it?

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:36:32 +0000

so shall i believe that these problems root in blood, and could only be solved by blood?

By: Joy

Joy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:25:49 +0000

It seems that the government tried their best to keep information from the public and the mess media. All we’ve got from the news was that the situation there was becoming better and better. Suppressing news which is not favorable to the government sets off a panic that people don’t know what happened and what will happen. Maybe that’s why people got irate. The resign of LiZhi perhaps could be treated as a response to such criticism. But if there are still no measures taken to warn them, more casualties will wait to be discovered.

By: 马猴尔

马猴尔 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:47:01 +0000

Well, Joy, I would agree, off course. I don’t think it’s necessary to fear criticism. If criticism is addressed constructively then you’ll create a lot of goodwill. So I believe anyway.

I think this is especially true in the case of the Chinese Communist Party, since I believe that the larger part of Chinese society still supports the party. This can be seen in the latest wave of protests and violence in Ürümqi. From what I understand it’s mostly Han Chinese taking to the street to protest against the government’s response to the July violence and its aftermath. Will the party listen to such criticism? That remains to be seen…

As for you, my dear Jenny, I can only repeat my statement above. The Chinese government and many Han Chinese mistakenly believe that resentment among ethnic minorities, especially the Tibetans and the Uyghurs, is only the result of economic underdevelopment in the autonomous regions. I don’t believe this is the (only) root of the problem.

By: 马猴尔

马猴尔 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:13:30 +0000

Hi Joy, thanks for joining the conversation. How are you doing these days?

Jenny told me you felt that I had deleted your comment, but I’m not the Chinese government :-p Your first comment needs to be approved by me – in order to stop spam from filling up my site. Since I was in Xinjiang for the last three weeks I wasn’t able to approve it any sooner.

From now on, as long as you keep using the same e-mail address, all your comments will appear straight away. And I promise I will never ever delete any one of them

Jenny and Joy, I’ll respond to the content of your comments shortly. I’ve only just arrived back in Holland one hour ago, so give me a couple of days to deal with my unread e-mail first…

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:16:12 +0000

“Xin Wen Lian Bo” is no longer the only trust-worthy resource where people get news from nowadays in China, not even dependable at all in someone’s eyes. This could to some extent show the trend. Government is losing the control of the mind. This may help for a free society, but could also give chance to those who want to transmit their own ideas in order to get benefit or cause troubles.
We would only see what we want to see, we would believe what we want to believe. It’s not wrong for the Han to say that we’ve tried our best to “help” them, but it’s also right for them to say that we are only misleading them and stealing their natural resources. It’s reasonable for Beijing to move those who live in dangerous places to new home, but also not ridiculous for someone to think it a way of “swallowing” the Uyghur culture.

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:38:58 +0000

It seems that there are reports not very responsible, however, in my view chinese government is sometimes too sensitive to criticism whether it is truth or not. It may not help to face the truth and find ways to solve the problems.
PS:I’m really sorry I can’t deal with your requirement on facebook because I can’t log in. It seems be restricted by the government.