because when she finds last weeks pizza and soiled tissues swept under the bed its not going to look good.
With the Beijing Olympics steadily approaching I fear this is but the beginning. Despite high hopes for 2008, the year of the rat will probably still be a pretty shit one for political and ethnic minorities in China.
The Guardian: Gunfire on the streets of Lhasa as rallies turn violent
Xinhua: Dalai-backed violence scars Lhasa
I don’t want to over analyse the media coverage of the uprising as there are plenty of extremely well qualified China-bloggers out there to would do a far better job at this than I would and it makes me feel somewhat conflicted to mention Xinhua in the same sentence as as The Guardian.
I do feel its important to note that such violent demonstrations are by no means isolated to the “Dalai-clique” (???!!)
Rioting in China Over Label on College Diplomas
Groups of students marauded around the campus, smashing cars, offices or any piece of property they felt belonged to someone in power. The front gate and a statue of the college’s founder were toppled.
China Covers Up Violent Suppression of Village Protest
The protest erupted over plans for a wind-power plant that used village lands and required significant landfill in a bay where the people have for generations made a living fishing. Before that, nearby village land had been used for the construction of a coal-fired power plant.
Sorry for the shit analogy.
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