Tag Archive for 'democracy'

Can fenqing or angry youths think for themselves?

No. This is how some people in the Western media would answer this question.

As recommended by my CIMA study materials, I started to read the Financial Times for current financial knowledge and today I came across a report titled China’s angry youth vent their feelings.

The most interesting thing I found about this report is that, Jamil Anderlini, the writer tries very hard to understand why fenqings should think and behave so in all the fuss associated with the Olympic torch relay, but arrives at an ill-informed conclusion.

Germans riot in three cities

Of course, they are protesting their government, but over what? Let me see…. They are “leftists”!

What are “leftists”? I was taught as a child that “being leftist” is being “Communist”, and is good. So, the Chinese government should now issue some kind of announcement to condemn the German governemnt’s ruthless crackdown on those peaceful protests (violent? No, I choose not to see it that way. They are provoked by the German riot police in the first place.)

Where is that stupid big-busted German chancellor Merkel? She is supposed to guard the human rights of (Tibetan and now) German protesters now.