From the December 11, 2008 edition of the South China Morning Post.
June 3-4, 1989
"Violent confrontations break out between soldiers and residents. PLA troops force protestors off the square."
"Confrontations break out" means tanks rolling into the square, over the bodies of demonstrators, and troops executing unarmed civilians. The residents sought to protect the student protestors and delay the tanks. The PLA then put the country on lockdown and the administration hunted down students and residents and either executed or incarcerated them. Thousands were murdered.
Kudos to the journos at the Post for standing up to their governors in Beijing and telling it like it was.
FOOTNOTE: The Post was also first to break the news that the tanks that would roll into Hong Kong carrying PLA troops shortly after midnight on July 1, 1997 were in fact "armoured personnel carriers." Not tanks at all. A very important distinction if you crushed by one.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Chinese dementia patients see hope in Santa - South China Morning Post exclusive
Top headline from the December 6 edition of the South China Morning Post:
A world class paper for "Asia's World City."
DEMENTIA PATIENTS LOOK TO OPERATION SANTA FOR HELP
A world class paper for "Asia's World City."
Monday, September 22, 2008
A NATION MOURNS. Apparently.
20 May 2008
In the papers today, the press is filled with absurd platitudes about mourning the dead.
“A NATION MOURNS” blares the South China Boring Most, with large font and cliché upon cliché to support the official party line.
Not since the death of Mao have so many people stood still in China to mourn at an officially designated time, we are told. This is apparently a wonder of the age.
“They will never be forgotten” says the Boring Most.
By about page 4 the dead have been forgotten and we have moved on to the reckonings that must be due to corrupt officials.
Perhaps they’ll execute them in the shiney new stadia built for the forthcoming Olympics? Assuming, that is, the stadia don’t fall down because they were built by corrupt officials using substandard materials, like the schools in Sichuan that crushed and suffocated the tiny bodies of the children of the poor.
Over on the back page, a Reuters article reveals that prostitutes in Afghanistan are often young Chinese women. They risk the obvious threats of death to make more money than they would have at home. The downside of China’s economic miracle, it seems, is mass unemployment as state industries are closed, and workers thrown to the dogs.
Or in this case, the Taliban.
The nation does not mourn this.
In the papers today, the press is filled with absurd platitudes about mourning the dead.
“A NATION MOURNS” blares the South China Boring Most, with large font and cliché upon cliché to support the official party line.
Not since the death of Mao have so many people stood still in China to mourn at an officially designated time, we are told. This is apparently a wonder of the age.
“They will never be forgotten” says the Boring Most.
By about page 4 the dead have been forgotten and we have moved on to the reckonings that must be due to corrupt officials.
Perhaps they’ll execute them in the shiney new stadia built for the forthcoming Olympics? Assuming, that is, the stadia don’t fall down because they were built by corrupt officials using substandard materials, like the schools in Sichuan that crushed and suffocated the tiny bodies of the children of the poor.
Over on the back page, a Reuters article reveals that prostitutes in Afghanistan are often young Chinese women. They risk the obvious threats of death to make more money than they would have at home. The downside of China’s economic miracle, it seems, is mass unemployment as state industries are closed, and workers thrown to the dogs.
Or in this case, the Taliban.
The nation does not mourn this.
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